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Will you join The Military If there a Robot that you can Pilot?
- Thread starter Yukari
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Only if the robots are only allowed to kill other robots and wars are fought off planet in a virtual arena like a giant game of chromehounds. So I voted yes but only with the prior stipulations in place. Chromehounds was so good.
You know what, maybe we should skip the whole actual robot building part and just make a virtual arena for robot fighting and tie a countries defense spending to the amount of robots they can deploy in this virtual arena. Since we don't need to actually build the robots we can then use that defense money for actual sensible shit like caring for other people instead of trying to murder them. Meanwhile the warlords among us can dick around playing chromehounds because chromehounds was so good (outside of the matchmaking). It's a perfect plan if implemented worldwide we'd solve a bunch of problems instantly.
You know what, maybe we should skip the whole actual robot building part and just make a virtual arena for robot fighting and tie a countries defense spending to the amount of robots they can deploy in this virtual arena. Since we don't need to actually build the robots we can then use that defense money for actual sensible shit like caring for other people instead of trying to murder them. Meanwhile the warlords among us can dick around playing chromehounds because chromehounds was so good (outside of the matchmaking). It's a perfect plan if implemented worldwide we'd solve a bunch of problems instantly.
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Absolutely not. I am vehemently anti-interventionist, and the only purpose of such a mechanized weapon would be to... intervene.
Nah. As much as I love the idea of controlling a giant robot, I'd be too old and washed to be any good at it. Besides, the idea of managing an awkward killing machine isn't exactly a fun one!
However, if we're operating on some IGPX shit with a league and rules, then I'm totally down to clown. Put me in, Coach!
However, if we're operating on some IGPX shit with a league and rules, then I'm totally down to clown. Put me in, Coach!
Hell, no. Completely apart from the not wanting to kill/be killed thing, I've used military gear. That shit is made by the lowest bidder. I'd trust my robot about as far as I could throw it.
There are military robots you can pilot. We kill dozens every month with them.
But more to your question, I'd consider being something like a labor pilot or a Topless, as giant robots are cool, one might say too cool to be restricted to military us
Ha, there's a good bit in Gundam: Origin about this very thing too.
But more to your question, I'd consider being something like a labor pilot or a Topless, as giant robots are cool, one might say too cool to be restricted to military us
Ha, there's a good bit in Gundam: Origin about this very thing too.
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Yes, because our problem with the military was that the murdering part just wasn't cool enough.
Don't become the monster your anime warned you about, y'all.
Don't become the monster your anime warned you about, y'all.
That scene where the guy gets his back broken has to be one of the most brutal moments in a marvel movie
Also, why do all of you nerds want to be inside of robots instead remote controlling them? Is that some kinda fetish. Am I kinkshaming you right now?
Because it's cooler when you do it yourself. It's like how people want to have super powers. The difference here, though, is if you're a grunt level Gundam pilot, there's like a 95% chance you're getting styled on, and I don't wanna go out like that. I'd need to be guaranteed the most busted, OP suit available.
I'll be that anti war protagonist who had no choice but to fight after being invaded by other robots. I'll climb in one that's been downed, but then get immediately shot.
Where Austin Walker when you need him for a subject like this.
My view point on this is we get into Robot when we're in a state that have no choice but to get into one.
My view point on this is we get into Robot when we're in a state that have no choice but to get into one.
Pretty much my POV
If there was a draft going on I'd preemptively join just so I could get a bit of agency over where I go.
Piloting a Valkyrie doesn't sound too bad, unless reaction weapons (aka Anti-Matter bombs) become a thing, than I can 100% guarantee I would probably die either in some sort of accidental detonation or from the enemy firing hundreds of them in a volley.
No, I have seen how many people die in half a second in those shows. I would love to pilot a robot around, but I don't want to kill anyone and I don't want to die.
If the lives of me, my family, and my friends were threatened directly with immediate death if I refused to join the military, I still would never join the military