#random robot rambles

and today I decided to check how much it'd cost to actually make the models in real life and uh.

And in the video he makes an offhand mention of the "how ridiculous the boob armour discourse" has gotten, and flashes the thumbnail of infamous jackass shadiversity's video of the subject

Which resulted in a short discussion in the comments between the greenwich guy and some other armour reproduction channel where the two agreed the entire debate is a moot point/unnecessary waste of time that only armchair "experts" care about, because India has boob armour, so obviously it's functional and has no issues

The only two Indian breastplates I'm aware of which have breasts are the Varahi and Jumadi breastplates, both of which are entirely and very obviously ceremonial. They're also the only Indian breastplates that fit that description which i can find via googling "Indian breastplate" or "India Breastplate"

but. okay for context: one of my friends is currently playing through ac6 and yesterday I mentioned

the person who modded balteus into elden ring

the commenter who brought up elden ring powerscalers saying the tarnished and the bosses can move and react FTL

and my friend promptly stated they believe the strongest character in all fiction ever is the dragonborn, for the reasons under the readmore

someone who knows crap about skyrim/the elder scrolls please tell me if this is true

it's bad because

the devs don't know how to make maps, resulting in half the maps allowing you to get spawncamped from halfway across the map/the only objective in the match, half the maps letting enemies sit behind your spawn without being marked such that they can snipe you from a random hill 500 metres behind you the moment you spawn in

The devs decided to "fix" any issue they have with players getting into unintended cheese spots on maps by just. coating every tank's tracks and every hill in lube and olive oil

the game will sometimes just randomly decide to change your gamemode for no good reason, changing you from ground realistic to ground arcade without any interaction with the gamemode menu on your part

sometimes the devs will put an "upgrade" on a tank's modifications list which is actively worse than the unupgraded version (see: the M551 Sheridan's Shillelagh, which is theoretically really good but actually sucks ass because it loves to slam itself into the ground for no reason, blowing up harmlessly before hitting the target. It does this 80% of the time you try to use it, and 30-50% of the time it hits something it doesn't kill it, so you just end up getting killed during your 15 second long reload — which unlike the normal shell's reload can't be reduced by upgrading your loader)

have designs that are 99% black with 1% gold/yellow accents (visor in Tex's case, batsymbol and belt in Cass' case

are the best fighters in their respective series, who are functionally unbeatable in a 1v1 and can wipe the floor with the rest of their team

are kinda massive asshats who tend to treat their friends poorly

Except they're sort of inverted in that Tex's rivalry with Carolina is mostly a one-sided thing caused by Carolina's competitiveness and need to be the best/top of the leaderboard, with Tex not really caring about the leaderboard at all.

While in Cass' situation she's the competitive one who needs to be the best — "mediocre for a lifetime or perfect for a year" — and won't let herself lose, as demonstrated below (her arm's broken from a previous fight with Lady Shiva earlier in the day, which she lost in part due to a psychic deleting half her skills for comic book reasons).

Shiva doesn't really map well onto Tex though, since she doesn't work for anyone and is mostly just wandering the world looking for someone who can actually challenge/beat her in a fight.

Another inverted thing is that Cass is Shiva's daughter, while Tex is Carolina's mother*.

The core premise of the series is "this group of Superpowered people can't fight because they're basically walking nuclear arsenals — if they ever come to blows the world will end". Hence why the whole series is them negotiating, scheming, and trying to maintain the fragile peace between them.

The reason the few fights that occur aren't given the page count or intimate focus that other fights in series with superpowered characters are is for the same reason a nuclear war wouldn't have any focus on battles or covert missions or what have you: none of it matters.

Superman VS Zod and Invincible VS Omni-Man and all those fights mostly just boil down to two guys punching each other through cities across the country, while TPF is things like "guy who could effortlessly rip Texas out of the Earth and throw it into space VS woman who blasted 80% of Europe's landmass into ash and orbit on first contact with the only opponent she ever fought". They're durable enough to survive the first strike from the other Superpowers and throw a counterpunch before dying — not trade blows for thirty minutes. And again, both first strike and counterpunch are on the level of destroying a state or country at minimum.