I Feel Like Its Kinda The Point That The Setting Isnt Perfect (also Ignoring The Blatant Imperialist

I feel like its kinda the point that the setting isnt perfect (also ignoring the blatant imperialist ideas of eradicating the trade baronies out right), the whole idea for lancer is that all across the galaxy, millions of Lancers from millions of different backgrounds are fighting for the sole objective of always striving to make the galaxy and universe as a whole a better place, but that is a daunting task. Many different people will have a hundred different ideas of what "making things better" is, and even different groups of lancers will have conflicting ideals.

Do we attack the people trying to cause conflict in the galaxy? Do we usurp their leaders, and put in place people we deem more fit to rule? Do we attempt to have a dialogue with them, even though it may be pointless in the end? This is the dilemma at the center of Lancer. Utopia is not a concept that can ever be realistically achieved, and as they put it in the discord, it is only something that can only ever be strived for. "Utopia is not a noun, or an adjective. It is a verb. One we must attempt to perform every day, for the good of everyone, not just ourselves."

I can go on and on about what the themes of lancer are, because as I see it, it is the best we can hope for. Its not optimistic, not pessimistic, but realistic. It isnt trying to make a world you want to live in, but one we might already live in. For all we know, we could very well be the Old Humanity, on the edge of wiping ourselves out, or we could be the new generation, soon to discover the Massif Vaults.

I can seriously go on and on. I need to stop, so Im just gonna end this here.

i think the lancer setting is the closest thing i have to a love-hate relationship with a single piece of media. lancer lore is 50% the coolest most insanely awesome ideas youve ever heard and 50% bizarre "left-of-center" fascist apologism. in any just world thirdcomm would annex ips-n (at minimum) and turn harrison armories, ssc, and the baronies into dust. but they will never do that because canonically thirdcomm government has the HA explicitly-fascist party in government with 10% of the seats (and another 20% of the seats go to the monarcho-libertarian karrakites (and another 15% are "social-democrats" (fascists))).

but on the other hand you have some of the coolest descriptions of ship-to-ship combat ive ever seen, i love all the kinds of cosmopolitan cultures, horus rocks, for that matter all the weird nhp shit rocks, and so on. its just tacked on to this awful faux-utopianism.

tumblr glitch that hath rended my dash asunder:

free shitpost generator??? why isn’t this an official browsing mode. anyway here are my fav screen grabs, all hits no misses:

pure poetry. it’s like trying to tune into a specific radio station but you have giant lobster claws instead of hands

Armored Core 6 is next month and I’m definitely acting very normal

Ultimate Gender Vibes

Just for fun, Liam Lee Lancer build:

Black Thumb, Technophile, Grease Monkey. Spends most of his battle time outside of his Sherman repairing and reloading and ordering his NHP to spam missiles, grenades, or their beam weapon, "Deconstructive Criticism." This tactic is incredibly hard on pilot, NHP, and mech, so it leads to a lot of melt-downs, verbally and physically.

The NHP is codenamed DIEGESIS (if you had any doubt).

Of course it's RUDE to pilot a mech and not expect the NHP that's infected your Subjectivity-Enhancement Suite to occasionally Cascade and decide to pilot you back...

the most annoying people are the ones who just reply "no 💖" to recovery/self-improvement posts