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Honestly, it comes off as more generic eldritch horror tropes than anything specifically Starcraft or 40K.

I am going to point out that this is what the Japanese to this day claim the comfort women “actually were”.

They didn’t canonically do that, I’m saying it’s more the *sort* of thing they would do versus genetically engineered waifu sex slaves. Just like the Japanese, this would be claimed to be completely voluntary and uncoerced, and it would fit perfectly as an extension of the idea that the League’s...

The Star League certainly has a history of doing wildly unethical things while preaching the greater good, but honestly, just shipping female prisoners from the Periphery as Japanese-style comfort women is more their speed than "genetically engineered waifus".

Kerensky did that by pure Act of Plot; it REALLY should not have worked at any level.

How about we put it this way: even if the role of totem animals in Clan culture is totally superficial, its pervasiveness combined with the fursuit uniforms makes them dramatically more furry than guys who wear a fursuit maybe once or twice a year at a con. Even at the most favorable possible...

Even if we accept this fanon handwaving that the canonical framing of Clan culture and strategies in terms of totem animal behavior is merely ex post facto symbolism attached to supposedly pre-existing cultural norms, the fact that it is always taught and talked about within that framing...

Wow. I knew about the totem mechs, but the canonical fursuits are...wow.

It's a counter-point as in, "Let me also share my experience which is very different from yours, as a matter of contrast and *not* an accusation that you're wrong about your own experience."

Counterpoint: all of the stereotypically horrible LGBTQ people I'm personally aware of are white gay men or lesbians.

*snorts* For the record, literally all of the LGBT people I personally know are tabletop gamers of one sort or another, most of them are nerdy enough to start debating the dice system itself if you let them get going, and half of them will take the dice-system debate to the level of pulling...

r/Battletech would ban any pictures of it as disallowed political content (they have done this in the past, for paint schemes that required quite a bit of logical gymnastics to assert any connection at all to RL politics), but I think most actual players wouldn't kick up a big fuss one way or...

I'm going to point out here that r/BattleTech's no-politics policy is very weirdly defined as saying that anything post-1988 is politics and prohibited, while anything pre-1988 is history and permitted.

My understanding is that while the video games always had slower, more ponderous motion, the fluff descriptions of Battlemechs -- especially the lighter ones -- always gave them physics-defying agility as one of the reasons they were magically "better" than conventional armored vehicles. After...

I mean, for the first one he cribbed the piano theme from Mass Effect 3, which is one of the most stomp-on-your-heartstrings music pieces ever made...