Thegigabrain - TheGigaBrain

two year anniversary of my vocabulary being permanently changed for the worse

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,,

Why are you buying missiles at the Soup store!

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

Of the many things I use AutoHotkey for, this is one of them.

someone on twitter is trying to claim that use of an em-dash is an indication of AI-generated writing because it’s “relatively rare” for actual humans to use it. skill issue

conversation around the militia base that goes something like

"How come Cooper and BT keep getting sent on cool missions?"

"The alternative is that they find ways to entertain themselves."

I know nothing about Armored Core so forgive me if I talk out of my ass for a second here, but can you mix and match weapons? If so, is it possible automatic weapons are meant more to finish off staggering an enemy rather than staggering them entirely on their own? Like you blow them away with your shotgun and staggering them 50% and you get the rest of it with your machine gun? Just my thoughts after reading your posts.

Oh you definitely can, the problem is just. You can also do that by just using a second shotgun in your other hand. Or a melee, or a grenade launcher, or missiles, and so on and so forth. The game is built around using a variety of weapons in combination with each other to exploit your enemies' weakness and adapt to different situations, and the problem is that there are very few if any parts where a full auto weapon is your best tool because other weapons just outperform them in almost every way. And when you gotta pay for your ammo, the shotgun that fires $200 instant death cartridges is way more efficient than the gatling gun that throws away $400 per second in rounds that bounce off at medium range.

I personally used a melee + gatling in my hands and cannons + missile pod on my back for most of my first run and got tremendously frustrated against highly mobile targets or enemies with high stagger because of the weakness of full auto weapons. Once I switched to a strong shotgun all the issues I was having went away and fights that previously challenged me were much easier.

we have achieved... EYEBALLS!

I've been wanting to play Nier: Automata for a long time and finally I got the opportunity. I am in awe of how beautifully this game is made. Locations, characters and music, ideas for some quests are all great. I'm in love with character 2B. Her image inspires me. I really like the way she talks and behaves. So I decided to draw her. I'm not sure that I was able to show 2B as I see her, but I tried my best!