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Low-rent versions of high-cost genres

Started by TonyLB, October 23, 2007, 08:15:55 PM

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TonyLB

October 23, 2007, 08:15:55 PM
So suppose your "transforming battle machine" was (for instance) made by Adam and Jaimie of the Mythbusters, rather than some chrome-obsessed visual arts nobs with access to handwavium energy sources and anti-inertial spinnimafrajistats.  Or pick your favorite "get things done by hook or by crook" engineers.

What would this stuff look like?  How would it function?  If you set realism aside somewhat, and just stick with the back-alley-tinkerers aesthetic, how would it be more effective than conventional weaponry?
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Blackleaf

#1
October 23, 2007, 08:22:39 PM
It would look like my buddy Rob's movie:

Robot Bastard!!!

Aos

#2
October 23, 2007, 09:24:26 PM
That was a slice of sheer awesome.
You are posting in a troll thread.

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TonyLB

#3
October 24, 2007, 12:48:30 AM
Robot Bastard, indeed, rocks.

Also, I look at the mad genius of (say) an eighty-foot-long air-gun that uses pressurized air to propel a stalk of piano wire straight through any damn thing in its way, and I think "I wanna mount that bad boy on a mech ... preferably a mech made from parts salvaged from rusted-out pickup trucks."
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jeff37923

#4
October 24, 2007, 05:01:13 AM
A capacitor the size of a coffee can that you charge up and then shoot (via ballistae powered by tractor springs) at another mech for entertaining electrical shock effects (not to mention the amusing arc welding side effect).

A car tire sized electromagnet that you can use for shield bashing that  would also really fuck with any electronics on the target being bashed. Imagine it, a giant sized bulk tape eraser going against a mech.

I'm sure I'll think up some more...
"Meh."

TonyLB

#5
October 24, 2007, 09:37:23 AM
Quote from: jeff37923A capacitor the size of a coffee can that you charge up and then shoot
And y'know what would be the perfect casing for such a payload?  A coffee can. :D
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Dr Rotwang!

#6
October 24, 2007, 01:06:30 PM
Not exactly low-rent, but...


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beeber

#7
October 24, 2007, 02:26:12 PM
ah, too polished.  gotta be like those orky walkers from 40K, with bolt heads showing, looking like it was made from garbage cans & the like.

GrimJesta

#8
October 24, 2007, 03:01:58 PM
Are the old Adeptus Titanicus models too polished too? Cuz those are pretty down with the whole "belching black smoke, pumping pistons and rusting gears" deal I'd picture this to be like.

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GrimJesta

#9
October 24, 2007, 03:14:12 PM
Holy shit Robot Bastard was great.

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jeff37923

#10
October 24, 2007, 04:44:54 PM
Quote from: TonyLBAnd y'know what would be the perfect casing for such a payload?  A coffee can. :D

That might work as long as it was pretty fucking well insulated! :D
"Meh."

Dr Rotwang!

#12
October 25, 2007, 06:42:44 PM
Quote from: beeberah, too polished.  gotta be like those orky walkers from 40K, with bolt heads showing, looking like it was made from garbage cans & the like.
Hey, I said it wasn't exactly low-rent.  But Coop did put a car up top, and videogame controllers and all kinds of crazy stuff in there, too.

PIZZA-HAM!

Gods, I miss that show.
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beeber

#13
October 25, 2007, 06:50:38 PM
this thread just reminded me of another old TV show:



Once upon a time, a junkman had a dream...
"I'm gonna build a spaceship, go to the moon, salvage all the junk that's up there, bring it back and sell it."
So he put together a team. An ex-astronaut...a fuel expert...they built a rocketship...
And they went to the moon. Who knows what they'll do next?

salvage with andy griffith!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079847/
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/9782/salvage1.html
the pic is from the latter page, in case the linky goes wonky

beeber

#14
October 27, 2007, 09:05:30 PM
sorry to bump, but no love for salvage-1?

figured that's pretty low-rent, eh?
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