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Okay, second book done! \o/

Kyle walks into the tavern. He walks over to Harlan.
  "I'm sorry for trying to kill you."

: "I'm used to it. Want to explain what that was about?"

SerCon, I decided to channel a little bit of Chris. I hope you don't mind

Harlan spoke up from his lurking spot nearby.

: "Well, a private room usually costs about 10 gold a night. You could start there."

... seriously though, it came from your closet. Who you stole it from originally is irrelevant, now.

Also totes plug it in, see if it works. Don't need a disc for that, I think. And then maybe get some USB adapters for the controllers, if you don't already have a USB controller. PS1 controllers make pretty good computer controllers, iirc.

Holy shit, the thing actually appears to be working. The memory card even had some data on it: some NFL game from 2001 and something called Syphon Filter 2. If any of the data was jumbled or corrupt, I can't tell. It deleted just fine in any case.

I'm not getting any sound in the main menu (could be a problem with the TV, I didn't mess around very much) and I'm not sure if the color's working entirely right (there are odd rainbow effects here and there that I don't 100% think are intentional, though the icons for the save data appeared to be fine so who knows?), but the damn thing turns on and the first controller seems fully functional.

Now what the hell am I gonna do with a 21-year-old console that I don't have any games for and never anticipated owning?

: "Hmm. Perhaps you have a heightened flight-or-flight response; the closer you get to death, the harder you fight. Or flee. But apparently you tend towards fight. Fascinating."

Quote from: Tawarochir on January 08, 2015, 10:07:46 pm

Aaaaugh. The TVTropes redesign is ugly as hell.

*searches*

AUGH

AAAAAAAAHHHHHH WHY?

Looks like a barely-maintained wikia now. What was wrong with the old design?

Big walking mechs don't work as a military vehicle.

Square cube law is the commonly stated thing - the strength of something as you increase size squares while the stress is cubed. A walker has pretty thin legs to support all it's weight, meaning they're comparatively weak.

A walker also has the problem of it's a big, upright target compared to a tank, which is lower to the ground with it's centre of gravity. When was the last time you saw a tank topple over? It's not a common thing. Mechs, however, have a high centre of gravity, and would thus be unstable. Since it has a lot of weight all at the top, it's going to be ponderous. If it turns to fast it might fall over. Dashing would put huge amounts of stress on the legs.

As for weaponry, it's holding all it's guns away from it, far as i can tell, with it's humanoid arms. Not great for recoil, especially since it's already pretty unbalanced, so it doesn't have a stable platform to shoot from: it's less accurate. Rocket pods should be recoilless, so no worries there, but it's another issue of elevated weight to unbalance it when performing it's dashes. In armaments, it doesn't compare to a tank, either, as tanks have something like 115mm cannons to the titans 40mm cannon.

Maybe it'd be possible to get it working, but it's beaten in every aspect by the common tank. There's a reason we don't use mechs in real life.

One reason that Bolos > mechs.