Aldo Salt

A Chicago-based writer (He/Him) whose works will prepare you for the next renaissance or apocalypse!
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[Aldo Salt @Aldo_Salt]

@MichaelFKane ...but the more important statistic, I feel, is that Japanese media has more home-grown mecha franchises than the US does. Meaning that Japanese culture has more works of "super robot" media while still outnumbering US culture when it comes to "real robot" media.

[Aldo Salt @Aldo_Salt]

@MichaelFKane I do wonder.

When I think about American Mecha IPs, what comes immediately to mind is Battletech (which draws heavily from the Japan-made Macross and Fang of the Sun Dougram shows), followed by Transformers and Pacific Rim, which are more "super robot" coded (cont).

[Aldo Salt @Aldo_Salt]

@Razgrizone0097 @armoredcoreSIX No lie, I once took part in a Super Robot Wars Journal RP where I played a Jade Falcon Mechwarrior who got conscripted into the Gurren Brigade.

It was awesome!

[Adam Gaffney @awgaffney]

It’s hard to overstate how extraordinary this is. Aid organization trucks are all lined up and ready to enter and Israel has not allowed them into Gaza for ~75 days. There is no way to describe this as anything other than the active, intentional, planned starvation of a people.

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

Read this. It's remarkable. The UN is begging - literally begging - Israel to allow it to deliver to Gaza 160,000 pallets of food aid it has ready to go. Israel will not allow that. There is only one inescapable conclusion: Israel is deliberately starving Gaza to death.

[Aldo Salt @Aldo_Salt]

@MichaelFKane It feel like the same false dichotomy of "western RPGs and JRPGs," if that makes any sense? Western media has plenty of RPGs with turn-based battles and preset characters, while Japanese/Chinese/SEA media has plenty of real-time combat games with character customization...

[Aldo Salt @Aldo_Salt]

@MichaelFKane I'm fully fine with your aesthetic likes, but I think that labeling "real robots" as Western and "super robots" as Eastern is a false paradigm. Japanese media is full of bulky, practical war mechs, and American media has plenty of mecha that break the laws of physics (cont).

[Aldo Salt @Aldo_Salt]

@BarreraSabay @BasedLEDA That's a good point...!

...although that does make me wonder how travel between Earth and cislunar space works in this timeline:

Side 6 and the other colonies are theoretically rogue states to the EF. Casual trips to Earth might be extremely difficult/expensive.

[Aldo Salt @Aldo_Salt]

@friendrashkin @RefinedPopulist @gaulicsmith Huh. That's right. The EU did try a "somehow, Palpatine returned" plot twist way before Disney did...

...and if I remember correctly, it came across as weak back then too?

[Aldo Salt @Aldo_Salt]

@JokeStarRE @CoachSaysGoLeft A guy with a single neglectful parent who desperately tries to please the people around him vs. a girl who has a single normal, if fussy, parent who doesn't give a s**t about other people's feelings?

...yeah that makes sense.

(To clarify, I dig both characters, flaws and all)

[Aldo Salt @Aldo_Salt]

@chewedupdogtoy @whenwehaveeyes Ever seen Hidden Figures, my dude? Or read any articles about Hypatia or Ada Lovelace?

[Aldo Salt @Aldo_Salt]

@ChrisAlvino I struggled with a similar thing back in college, i.e. I was tempted to avoid taking classes that were hard or outside of my speciality so my GPA would stay safe. In the end, I prioritized learning and challenging myself...but then, I didn't have student loans to worry about.

[Aldo Salt @Aldo_Salt]

@PengPengROC I'd recommend the Radahn Foot soldier helmet or the helmet from the Scaled Set to really pull off a cool Winged Hussar look.

[Aldo Salt @Aldo_Salt]

@AlgisKun @JellyfishGalaxi Considering that Gihren and Kycillla, the two Zabi-est Zabis that ever Zabied, are still alive in the GquuuX timeline, there's definitively going to be some oppression to fight against down the road...

[Aldo Salt @Aldo_Salt]

@blacktron611 @Zobasalt @Jax277 ...but I'm not a killjoy, so I'll say that I feel that mecha technology is cool and should be pursued! Not to make weapons of war, but for stuff like construction, exploration, search and rescue, and, of course, combat sports

[Aldo Salt @Aldo_Salt]

@blacktron611 @Zobasalt @Jax277 The killjoy rebuttal to the above would be that if technology existed to make mobile suits viable (neural interfaces, lightweight materials/synthetic muscles, super-compact generators, etc), you might as well use that tech on your tanks/fighter jets... (cont.)

[Aldo Salt @Aldo_Salt]

@jerkus110 I also dig how her internal conflict is an inversion of Suletta's conflict from WfM: instead of being an unnervingly obedient child trying to please a sinister, neglectful mom, she's a rebellious punk who takes her normal decent mom for granted.

[Aldo Salt @Aldo_Salt]

@blacktron611 @Zobasalt @Jax277 ...and tried to justify mech combat in that setting anyway with stuff like Minovsky particles, lunar titanium, Newtypes, and so on.

[Aldo Salt @Aldo_Salt]

@blacktron611 @Zobasalt @Jax277 All good points!

Evaluating the physics of UC Gundam is always tricky. On one hand, combat mechs are implausible. On the other hand, MSG was made by creators who knew what realistic space colonization/space combat would look like (cont.)...

[Aldo Salt @Aldo_Salt]

@CypressDahlia I would genuinely be impressed if I ran into a person who believed in a "might-is-right" ethical philosophy and also believed that they belonged in the 'weak' category.

Not holding my breath...