BIG_RED_40TECH

BIG_RED_40TECH

@bigred40tech.bsky.social

I run a Youtube channel that mostly covers BATTLETECH and MECHWARRIOR. I make videos, and I make Live-Streams. Meet you there: https://www.youtube.com/@BigRed40TECH/

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Just as a quick comment. Fascism requires media to propagate itself. It always has. Examples in Italy, and Germany shows that propaganda, which was used through radio broadcast and print, were essential in their rise, and in their ability to sustain their grip on power. Social media is no different.

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Day twenty-three of #mechtober #battletech and sixth day of 'Mech week is ProtoMechs. Again not my cup of tea from the first time I saw the cover for TRO3060. They don't align enough with my taste in visual 'Mech design and felt like an un-needed addition to the game.

#Mechtober Protomechs. An act of total deperation from FASA in its death-throws to get revenue. An abomination in both their appearance and in terms of their gameplay mechanics, depleting the setting and game. These exist to let you know that if there is a god, he doesn't love #Battletech, or us.

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B-movie ass ideas grifting money from suckers. But, I guess you can't have an RTS game without asymmetrical yet roughly equivalent forces. The US is gonna send their genetic freak hounds to fight assault rifle armed Chinese robot dogs. Also, XL Bullies already exist. youtu.be/Zo3Or5zP2h0?...

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Amy Feldman@amyfeldman7.bsky.social

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#mechtober is still a thing, and apparently today is industrial mechs or militia mechs. I reject this premise. So instead, I'm going to post a picture of a #Malice, one which is in the process of exploding. Why? Because the Malice is of similar quality to the aforementioned mechs. Ahem, BOO.

The death of #bioware yesterday, largely due to what was one of the most derranged leveraged buyouts in history, is in my opinion, a heralding of things to come. The games industry is a disaster-space. Indies flooding the market destroying discoverability. AAA titles struggling. It's gonna get bad.

Before anyone tries to tell me indies will save the industry- 21,000 games were released in 2025. The sales remain almost stagnant. This is a disastrous way forward. It's like watching people battering down a fortress trying to get in, using their own bodies to do it.

Since its #Mechtober, apparently still, and today is supposed to be Heavy Mech day, I'm going to pick the #Thanatos. Why? Because next year one will be appear in a huge art-piece I've commissioned, that will involve the #Zeus and maybe even a periphery faction. Very exciting, I know. #Battletech

Having to cover at least vaguely the FedCom Civil War in my Regent video was not on my bucket list. Nor was the Hauptmann. The things I suffer through for you people. lol #Battletech

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Davion Heavy Guards lance. This unit will be part of a raffle at the Games HQ Extra Life event on November 14th if you're in the Oklahoma City area and interested in a chance at owning it. #Battletech #Miniaturepainting #Nerdlings

I cannot stress this enough. The most "AI" I'm exposed to are search-result summaries. And I could easily live without 99% of those anyway. This technology is broadly and generally unhelpful to me. Any of the tech I used years ago, I found so unhelpful I eventually stopped using it all together.

If I'm using AI, it's because they forced it into a service I already use. I've pretty much stopped using Google because the first result is stolen info from websites presented as an answer. www.techspot.com/news/114234-...

For those wondering, years ago I used to use AI to do upscaling. The upscaling was so routinely bad and pointless I just stopped. Even if it improved now- I'd not consider using it anymore. This was *very* early in AI's appearance on the internet for broad public use.

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mechtober day 16 Michael Stackpole Prob most well known Battletech author. Blood of kerensky trilogy is one of the top BT storylines. I recently read crown ascendency and loved it. #Battletech #Mechtober

Victor was my favourite #Battletech character from when I was a kid, and in terms of classical era characters, is still my favourite. He was such a favourite of mine, I named my first pet, a dwarf-hamster after him. Just to say, @michaelastackpole.bsky.social has influenced me for like, 30+-years.

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After finishing a batch last night, by my count i've just passed 300 painted mechs (301 specifically). That's not counting any prepainted models, and also not counting stripped and re-painted (which is easily another 2-3 dozen lol). And my gray Pile o' Shame is only 21 mechs left! #battletech

youtu.be/qnyZbighuPk For anyone who wants to join their prelaunch stream.

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BattleTech@battletech.bsky.social

#Lorescape, the officially licensed modular terrain system for #BattleTech, launches today on #Kickstarter. Made to expand, elevate and customize your existing maps with biome-matched graphics on the tiles including essential features like cover and rough #terrain. bit.ly/LSBT-KS-CGL

The Wraith video is finally dropping- TOMORROW! So why not celebrate with some amazing art. This is another one from Jayden Morris, and this time depicts a Word of Blake Wraith engaging with a Clan Ghost Bear Locust IIC. Check out the video tomorrow: youtu.be/iaNU7Me0hUw #Battletech #Wraith

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Remembering that time when some big name accounts were arguing that X is all good now and the algorithm has been de-Elon'd. Wait, that was yesterday. The same time this was happening.

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Hold on. Are you implying giving all the money to rich people so that I can also get rich (by them figuratively economically pissing on me from on-high for "economic prosperity"), might have been a trick?

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