If the joke here is that you are denying the existence of corruption in journalism then it isn't really funny. I get that you like baiting and all but don't bother mentioning me if it isn't at least somewhat amusing for my end too.
But like we clarified, an opinion piece isnt journalism.
TBH, ever since I realized that gamers took the evaluation of subjective art as something that could be objectively measured, I've had to double check anything gamers say just to confirm they aren't just stupid.
I think even the term 'gamer' is somewhat toxic, especially nowadays. as a kid in the 90s games were another hobby as well as sports, reading, music etc. But no one defined themselves as a 'gamer' because is so subjective. How long do you have to play games to be a gamer? What games count as 'gamer' games? mobile games? console games? PC games? Do genres count what if you only play chess simulators but on a console?
The idea that this 'group' could be attacked is stupid because the group isn't defined by anything exhuastive.
Work in progress, but let me know what you think so far.
Name: Leonardo "Leon" Falco
Age: 32 Origin: Second Generation citizen of the Fortune Region. Height: 5'10 Weight: 165 Backstory: Antonio Falco was Hyloan by blood, but lived in a swamp town in the Fortune Region. He worked as a technician, making repairs on the orbital solar farm that was in geosynchronous orbit over the continent. Being a spacer, Antonio was gone for huge lengths of time, and his son, Leonardo, grew up largely without his influence. It was dangerous work, thankless, and not terribly well paid. Leonardo was always told that his father was gone so that his community could have electricity. But if that were true, then why was power so expensive, so heavily rationed, in their town? It seemed paradoxical, that one of the men who worked so hard to maintain the power system, was woefully unable to actually pay for the service that he ensured.
Spending long stretches of time outside of Orio's atmosphere, Antonio was exposed to an unusual amount of radiation during the course of his job. He developed an aggressive form of cancer in his brain. The tumor might have had something to do with the last few decisions of his life, or maybe facing death awakened a recklessness he never acted on in life. Antonio risked the ire of Sol Industries, and indeed the nation of Hylo, to steal the mech that he flew for his work.
His intention was for his son, then a young adult, to sell it on the black market, later, when the heat had died down. But Leon had a broader view. He saw the mech not as a one time payoff, but as a means to many payoffs throughout his life. A mech is worth money, true, and a buyer can always be found. But a pilot is worth money too, and employers are equally easy to acquire. Leon had his father teach him to fly it before he died, and Leon went through the shadiest channels he could to find work. An employer saw value in the mech's ability to hover and fly, and helped Leon to equip it to poach solar energy being beamed down from the farms in orbit.
Sol Incorporated, a Hylo based company, owns one of the only solar farms over the entire Fortune Region. They therefore have a monopoly on the most efficient source of electricity in many of the Region's city-states. The station keeps track of how much power is beamed down from the space station, and the ground collecting station measures how much arrives. There is an acceptable margin of loss that SI will take accountability for, and this is where Leon works. He flies, high enough that he's difficult to see from the ground, and hovers in the microwave beam, skimming power until his reserve battery is full. He has to be careful to do this slowly enough that SI doesn't notice an increase in the loss margin. When his battery is full, he'll take his mech to some out of the way village or town and plug it into the power grid, selling the power at a markdown.
His mech is equipped with black market weapons at this point, and he has been known to take on more violent work in lean times. He is well known in underground circles as being trustworthy, if a bit stingy.
Tactical Preference & Skills: Prefers to keep a distance and use trickery and agility to keep one step ahead of opponents. Quote: "Robin Hood, Smuggler, Thief. Call me what you like, so long as you pay me."
Name/Title: Sol Industries Orbital Mechanic Apparatus. "Sioma." Appearance : Body & Type: Humanoid Bipedal Equipment & Armaments :
Hand Slot 1: Tools. It is still equipped with the tools of its intended trade, a series of tools folded into the mech's arms. They can be used to make repairs on machines, or even other mechs.
Hand Slot 2: Tools.
Sub Weapon Slot: A Sub Machine gun. It's actually an infantry-sized light machine gun, but on a mech it's a pretty small weapon. It is modified to be held easily by the Sioma's claw-like hands, and comes out of a compartment on the side when needed.
Shoulder/Back Spot: A pair of automatically loading 150 mm smoothbore guns, loaded with laser homing anti tank rounds. The guns in question do not have any independent movement or aiming, and simply fires whatever direction the Sioma is facing. It relies on the homing for fine tuning of its aim. This failing is a direct result the makeshift nature of the weapons. They have a total payload of 45 rounds.
Gadget Slot: Microwave receiver. A sophisticated mod allows the Sioma to commandeer the energy beamed down from orbital solar farms, to charge either it's own primary battery, or its rather large reserve battery.
Sensor Suite. It is similar to military grade, but instead of being a single cohesive unit built for combat, it's jury rigged from whatever parts Leon and whatever mechanics he employed could find. Typically, he uses it to find microwave beams to siphon power, but he also needs it to watch the ground while he's at work, in case hostile mecha are closing in on him.
Stats Scale
Light/Heavy Body: 3
Accuracy & Tracking/FIrepower: 1
Air Mobility/Thrusters: 3
Solo/Skirmisher: 4
Flavour Text: Not at all originally built for combat, the Sioma was actually meant for space borne mechanics to work on large orbital installations, like the solar farms or various satellites. It features an impulse thruster for flight, meant for use in space, but adequate to get it off the ground and to rather high altitudes given time.
Yep looks good, although are you sure you want to have BOTH hand slots only holding tools? you could fit a one handed weapon in of the hands if you wanted. Either way he's approved for the Characters tab.
I think the entire "Winner of the debate" thing is overplayed. The winner will be the person who the scientific polls show to be gaining. We can make all kinds of arguments that one person has won, but if it is the other person making the gains, then what exactly did our person win?
Personally, I think Trump's debate performances were bad. I thought this because, before the debates, I thought Trump could out-do Hillary simply because Hillary is a stilted, awkward speaker. But instead of doing his research and making sure he sounded like somebody who could be president, he just sounded whiny and petulant throughout, to the point he made me think I could do a better job then him, and since I can barely whistle without assistance that doesn't give me much hope. The polls reflected this for the first two debates, though the third hasn't quite had time to process yet.
Have you been watching the debates @Weird Tales, what do you think?
We agreed that GamerGate exposed identity politics as a cover up for bad journalism ethics
No we didnt agree that.
Journalism in gaming has always been terrible, and it was terrible before 3rd wave feminism came along and it will stay terrible well after it phases out. Because game reviews are barely journalism, they are opinion pieces.
Gamergate pro or anti are cringe meme worthy subcultures that validate the existence of the type of people who have multiple facebook accounts to argue with themselves. The whole thing is incredibly stupid, and the only reason why anyone outside the internet even knows about it is because of the hate mail and death threats from both sides.
@Fabricant451 All of that aside, there is some very thick irony with the fact that wierd tales is black, and I'm half black, and all 3 of us seem to largely avoid the race conversation because of differing opinions.
But I wish you would step up, smacking around undertale weebs in these topics is too easy, you need to get into one of those 'whats even the point of gay pride/gay marriage/gay rights' threads and start tearing shit up, me and @Vilageidiotx can only do so much on our own.
@Fabricant451 Look you laughed at my Ace Attorney post unprovoked, I was just trying to be sincere with a game I really like, I had no way of knowing the context of you laughing at it, you should have said it was in response to the ace attorney arguement, which by the way I didnt even see as an argument, I thought I was having a lot of fun. But quoting me tagged or untagged out of nowehre just seems obnoxious, you didnt have anything to say, you were just laughing.
I'm not trying to avoid anyone, I've got no issue you or anyone else being in this thread, I wouldnt make topics if I had a problem interacting with people.
See this is the main problem, before that incedent, all of our debates were somewhat light-hearted, and I had a lot of respect for your ability to discuss/deconstruct something withough getting emotionally involved. But then you get triggered out of nowhere and start swearing at me, damn right I'm gonna give it right back, props for not backing down, but be sure as shit that I wasn't going to either.
Also because your beef with me seemed to be coming from somewhere vaugely political/race related it makes you seem like floyd mayweather: good at fighting, but only when you get to pick your opponents carefully.
Off topic is absolutely flooded with anti-woman, anti-gay, right wing, pro-trump, milo yiannpolous, and yes anti-black sentiment and rants, but Ive never seen you go at any of them, which you could, because you are good at that. But you attack me for making an off hand BLM joke. Which draws me to the conclusion you only flung shit my way because I was already somewhat unpopular in off topic so I'd be an easy target. Well I hope you realise I'm not that easy now.
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