this is a nice cute one, give me a topic and I'll ramble about what I like about it

I think the biggest thing I liked about it was that it really helped with learning to roll with the punches in roleplay in general by removing my own bias for success. That, and helping my ability to make shit up on the fly in a way that instant message/chat RP never did.

like it can and will make a complete fool of you/your character but with the right people that gets to be fun shit to laugh about going forward

never 4get poor tigo failing at climbing a 5 foot dirt wall like three times in a roll, rolling negatively twice due to environmental modifiers, and then nat 20 one-shotting a huge frog monster in the next room as if she'd just gotten So Pissed and needed something to take it out on

humongous mecha!

sometimes...you wanna see a big metal person punch stuff

or just do generally improbable combat things, which can apply to both super robots and real robots

lately I keep feeling weird and unsure of myself for not...picking a side, I guess, in regards to piloted vs sentient mecha

this mostly comes up when I go rooting around for Brave related content since it generally has some level of mixing between the two

WE'RE AT WAR PICK A SIDE

it...also brings up some complicated trans-related feelings, oddly enough, with regards to the general dichotomy of how men and women participate in fandom content

as guys tend to focus on discussion of character design and toy engineering whereas gals err more toward character interaction and story discussion

ohhhh yeah, I have defs noticed that

but also, in my experience, other women also tend to exclusively favor sentient robot characters in these mixed character setups

which is a weird as hell thing to encounter after years of seeing the reverse in transformers fandom

like down to even shitting on human characters

and being dismissive of stuff like gundam because the robots aren't characters

Oh woooow, I didn't even know that dynamic existed

and I'm just like, I like everything? I want to discuss all of these things, but generally the people I want to discuss whatever topic with at a particular often don't go for that

yeah, like

I was looking for stuff regarding Brave Command Dagwon a while ago - it's heavily humans piloting robots with I think like two sentient robot characters

and very obviously Takara's answer to Gundam Wing

but in looking for that I managed to trip over some folks who were very adamant that they felt that the series was a waste of robot designs on being piloted types,

I think all this boils down to being frustrated that it feels very difficult to find new people to be enthused about mecha stuff with because of clashing strong opinions

Geez.

Yeah honestly the older I've gotten, the less territorial & more broad-ranging I am about what I like (eg with star treks, FFs, etc)

yeah

I still got some holdouts here and there so not everything is acceptance and fairy farts, but for the most part arguing is tiresome

JUST LIKE THINGS, IT'S EASIER AND MORE FUN

or be willing to be all "hey it's not my cuppa but if you like it? MORE POWER TO YOU"

I try not to tear people down any more just cuz our fandoms don't mesh perfectly. Arguing IS tiresome, I'm too old for this shit.

for reals