God I Love That Ac6 Has You Able To Overhear Enemy Comms. It's So Nice To Actually Be Able To Hear People

That brilliant form, that magnificent drip, there can be no doubt! This is, Ultra Dripstinct Niko!!!

Through the whole series what's your favorite weapon in Armored Core?

Ok. So. Hear me out.

The KIKU. (and every other "pile bunker"-ish weapon in the series)

Yes it's impractical, yes it's basically never gonna connect, in a game where everyone's flying around each other at mach 9, never touching the ground and never standing still, why would you take in a small, slow firing melee weapon???

Because holy SHIT when it connects??? it fucking CONNECTS

Basically EVERYTHING, including arms forts, WILL fall to a single spike of pure fuckin metal piercing through their frame and directly into a pilot, and even just the concept of that is pretty fuckin sick if you ask me!!!

This sentiment carries over into basically every single pile bunker in the series for me!! AND LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I WAS FED WITH THE AC6 TRAILER CAUSE .

OUGH . OUHHHJGHHKJTJNGH,,

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Why are you buying missiles at the Soup store!

I am making chainsaw noises with my mouth every time I see this weapon.

comic for warframe's tenth anniversary contest about how my older brother introduced me to the game | april 2023

In the Pokemon fandom, every once in a while you stumble upon a ‘Pokeballs are $200′ joke. In reference to how Pokeballs cost 200 of the in-game currency:

What a lot of fans, especially more casual ones, don’t seem to realize is that the currency in the Pokemon games it based on the Japanese yen. The symbol for the currency in the games even resembles the yen symbol:

In fact, according to Bulbapedia, the ‘Poke dollar’ symbol was specifically created for the English translations of the games, and the original Japanese versions use the yen symbol.

Now, for perspective, although the exact exchange rate naturally varies, a US dollar is equivalent to about 120 Japanese yen. So, 200 yen is about $1.67. 

A Pokeball in the Pokemon games actually cost less then two bucks. 

There’s a REASON we see so many young kids training Pokemon, especially early in the games. The cost of investing into a Pokeball to try catching their own Pokemon easily falls into the range of a typical kid’s allowance. A Potion for healing after battles is 300 (or about $2.50), but since Pokemon Centers offer their healing services for free, that’s a moot point.

Youngsters in the early game only give within a range from 50-150 of the currency, which is about equivalent to $0.40-$1.25. The first Gym Leader in Hoenn Region, Roxanne, give 1,680 in Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire, equivalent to about $14. Which is about right for the equivalent of a middle or high school honors student. A later Gym Leader, Winona, gives 4,200, or about $35. The Champion, Steven, gives 11600, or $96.67.

The winnings from enemy Trainers varies, but Ace Trainers seem to give out about 1500 or $14 on average, give or take. Swimmers (especially common later in ORAS), award a range from 400-800, or $3.33-$6.67.

Vitamins (such as Calcium, Iron, and HP UP), cost 9,800 or $81.67 each. An Ultra Ball cost 1,200, or $10. A Paralyze Heal costs the same as a Pokeball, while an Awakening is half that. A Revive is 1,500, or $12.50.

What’s the point of doing this? Well, for one, to get a better sense of the in-game economics, which can be hard to grasp if one doesn’t realize the in-game ‘Poke dollars’ are based on the Japanese yen. And a look at said economics reveals some interesting details.

First, it shows basic Pokemon training and raising is well within the affordability of a ten-year old, or older. Which makes sense as Pokemon is aimed at younger kids, and the develops would want them to have the sense that going on a Pokemon journey is something they could do if they somehow ended up in the Pokemon world.

On the other hand, it also shows there’s really not that much money to be made in Pokemon raising and training, unless you battle frequently and regularly against higher-level opponents regularly and and win. Which is…very much in line with how professional sports work in real-life. Pokemon battling gets compared to a sporting event a lot for a reason. The initial 3-D games were even called Pokemon *Stadium.* Parallels are frequently drawn between the Pokemon League tournaments and the Olympics in the anime. The low money output is probably also why we often see Gym Leaders and the like working other jobs.

Just something interesting I decided to look into. I’m a Pokemon fan first, before any other fandom, and always will be. It’s shocking that I haven’t written any meta on it yet.

Hope you enjoyed!

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Why is armoured core so horny

Capitalist hellscapes populated by big robots are inherently charged with two things; extraterrestrial energy waveforms and lust

Also, let’s be honest, between Walter using a BDSM manual as a handler’s guide, Snail being weirdly into degradation, and Rusty being the most kissable AC character to ever exist, AC6 is really not helping the situation currently

What, the forest-dwelling entities with imperfect human mimicry who insinuate themselves into groups of hikers? Yeah, we had one of those. Clocked it immediately, of course. Honestly it kind of fell in that so-inept-it's-kind-of-charming range. We just played along until it'd had it's fill of marshmallows and shambled back into the treeline. We might have been violating some kind of killjoy wildlife contact best practices but what the hell, can't plan around every little thing. Why, what happened to you guys