Mecha & Dragons

SURPRIIIISE!!! 🎉🎉🎉

Absolutely thrilled to be working with the lovely people at bytten once again on Cassette Beasts 2002!! 💙

Wishlist on Steam!

A lot of D&D5e defenders on here like to claim that asking someone to learn a new system is "gatekeeping" somehow, but I'd argue that acting like one game is emblematic of the entire medium to the exclusion of people who don't click with that one game is way more meaningfully a form of gatekeeping, even if it's fully unintentional.

Hasbro is fucking lying.

Their game does one very specific thing in an extremely specific way, and are exploiting unpaid game designers to sell the illusion otherwise.

Propaganda

Trish Una (Riley Hopkins and Their Amazing Friends: Interstitial Infinity):

Ok genuinely I'm gonna need some razzle dazzle for the Deal Great Harm queen, the beautiful mind, the arm through a little blonde boy with bad vibes, thumbs down, bad motherfucker l, head full of rocks heart full of emotions Trish Una

She's been left by everyone she cares about- are you going to leave her too?

trish una is capable of such violence it's beautiful. listen to those clips again i beseech you

Mod Note: This is only the Trish Una from the podcast Riley Hopkins And Their Amazing Friends. Do not vote on the basis of any other Trish Una.

Husky (Hope's Hearth):

not only is she a giant polar bear woman, she has a Russian accent, is MASSIVE, fat, has huge tits, threatens people, and has a high rank in Sexy

Audio asking so-so-niceys for your vote against Pickman.

Art of Trish Una courtesy of @charaznablescanontoyota.

Art of Husky by @lotsadeer.

Additional propaganda below the cut:

silly comment on izuma, languages and what it suggests about its history and worldbuilding in alternate UC 0084

so we all know the working language in Izuma is largely Japanese (well, this is a Japanese anime, with in-universe news media largely reflective of 2025 Japan and an internet that is reflective of 2025 Japan)

English is also notably the primary user interface language (it’s very Khara I think)

But other languages do feature — namely Thai, Bahasa, German and Korean and Mandarin.

They mostly serve to help us establish the setting — of a multi-cultural Izuma flourishing in a neutral Side 6, largely unscathed by the war. But the languages are established in a hierarchy of sorts:

We don't see any other language other than English or Japanese in road signs or place names. There's a region where English placenames are predominant — think Aldwych, Knightsbridge and Carrington, and a region where Japanese placenames are dominant: Nenokuni, Ifuya, Ishizone.

This sort of indicates that the original builders of Izuma were likely both English and Japanese, which is why the working language of the banchi are these two languages, indicated by arrival cards and import documents:

Languages other than English and Japanese are all indicative of an immigrant culture. It's in the streets that Nyaan walks in Nenokuni — we see the most linguistic diversity in that setting, which ep1 establishes are 'slums built by immigrants'.

But it's also growing in signs and adverts, an indication that immigrants do have economic power in Izuma:

There are also French road signs, which might indicate that Izuma also has a French section? but we haven't seen that yet. (Izuma's spaceport also uses French.)

The show establishes the refugee/resident divide through language. Highbury, Machu's posh school for debutantes, uses Japanese predominantly and is very monolingual:

Nyaan, an immigrant, writes in English. Her calendar is somehow French and Thai. Her books are however in Japanese and English, and Nyaan also has a university entrance exam prep book in Japanese:

Izuma is a microcosm of metropolitan Japan — if I remember clearly they wanted to establish how Side 6 went unscathed by humanity's conflicts. It's also indicative of how immigration has changed metropolitan Japan to some degree, but I'm not that familiar with Japan to provide commentary at 3am in the morning, so that'll be for another time (or never).

What does that mean in-universe? My guess is that Izuma and Side 6’s banchis were established as joint Anglo-French-Japanese colonies, but when the One-Year War happened, the colony drop occurred and wrecking much of Earth, other cultures proceeded to emigrate into Side 6, changing Izuma in the process (as it builds and rebuilds to accommodate people displaced by war).

She really is a Mechaposting Tumblr sexy women

I mean the mech dysphoria

The muzzle

The look in general.

The empty stare

The personality entirely focused on her mech.

Big fan of all of the death-flag carrying cyber newtypes that Gundam churns out, but this girl seems like she'll be the first one to embrace that arc with open arms, at a dead sprint.

I believe all of the Digimon Pendulum models have the fridge option as well.

You can google the Digitama Hatchery to double check the features of most modern models of the Digimon Vpets!

Not a week goes by when I don't think about what almost was. I missed that switch to watashi, though, so apparently the writers were thinking about it, too!

Love that catch.

[image description: several screenshots of character page titles from the Gundam wiki. they read, in order: “Allelujah Haptism”, “Revive Revival”, “Char Aznable (Redirected from Quattro Bajeena)”, “Full Frontal”, “Anew Returner”, “Cancer Kafka”, “Chad Chadan”, “Edoru Inertia”, “Denim”, “Gabby Hazard”, “Descartes Shaman”, and “Grave Violento”. /end ID]

My favorite names are Kacricon Cacooler, Marker Clan, and Agrippa Maintainer. Also, the Zaku pilot trio from the first episode of MSG are named Denim (mentioned above,) Gene, and Slender.

The notes have way more examples.