Favorite mechanic

[Delance]

Originally posted by Phillip Tanaka
Yeah wacko and psycho it may be. But I'm sure many people would agree with me, if not with Spirit then with someone else.

That, however, doesn't make much sense. Let's try to understand what you just said.

If they agree with you, it has to be about spirit. If it's about someone else, they don't agree with you. However, it's possible that you meant:

a) people who are in love with fictional cartoon characters;
b) people who are in love with real people.

Therefore:

a) is basically as bizarre as you, but surely you could argue about the existence of such people;
b) spirit is not real people, so there is really no way to compare.

 

[Phillip Tanaka]

Okay, let's see. Remember Lara Croft? Remember all the fuss people make over her? How about Aeris from Final Fantasy? Ever seen how many web sites Rei Ayanami has? Oh Rei is a classic. I can tell the diffrence between what fiction and what's not, and I'm not the type to put up web sites of fictional characters, not even Spirit. But you look at some of the people who put these things up. Check this one out for starters. http://www.angelfire.com/bc/reiayanami/obsess.html
Then hit anipike and look up your fave manga or game. Try this. http://www.anipike.com/ff.html
I've said it before, but I wish the Aeris Damnation web site was still running. Ghost, you think it's whacko and psycho? You should have taken a look at this guy then, he was too crazy for an insane asylum.

 

[Ghost]

So you are happy because you ar less insane that the guy?

 

[Phillip Tanaka]

I don't make judgements over whether I'm crazy compared to other people. But really, this guy was completely out of his tree. I'll have to try and remember some of what he said. Besides, I don't exactly have fantasies the way some other people do, and when it comes to say, the Dead or Alive girls, I can't blame them. Kasumi's my fave, actually.

 

[Delance]

Originally posted by Phillip Tanaka
I don't make judgements over whether I'm crazy compared to other people.

This probably is one of the best quotes of the day.

 

[Haesslich]

Considering that Spirit, should she ever be born, doesn't even have great-great-great-great-grandparents born yet... that's kinda sad.

Especially when you consider that the husband doesn't usually take the wife's name unless she's of significantly higher rank than he... and Spirit and her fiance were never married. Just engaged. So your name's misleading, Phillip Tanaka.

 

[Phillip Tanaka]

Maybe so. But looking at the name, you do get some idea to who my fave character is, right? My real name resembles neither.

 

[ChrisReid]

Yeah, your favorite character is Spirit's fiance, Phillip

 

[Phillip Tanaka]

Um, you noticed? I dunno whether you know, or are interested in checking out how people feel about Aeris or Rei Ayanami, but I can certainly relate.

 

[Phillip Tanaka]

Originally posted by ChrisReid
Yeah, your favorite character is Spirit's fiance, Phillip

Wha...? Oh, I get what you're saying. Very funny.

 

[Raptor leader]

I think most ppl like Sparks the most because she featured the most out all the Grease Monkeys.

She's in:
Wing Commander 2
Special Ops 1
Special Ops 2
Freedom Flight
End Run
Fleet Action
False Colors


Did I miss anything?

 

[Delance]

Originally posted by Raptor leader
End Run

Refresh my memory, where exactaly does she appear on End Run?

 

[Preacher]

Originally posted by Timmy the Tooth
It's all a vast conspiracy dating back to the faked moon landing

That's "faked moon landingS, Bub....

As for me, I gotta go with Rachel. Porn stuff aside, she was the only "live" female Mech that was fleshed out at all (the others being male or cartoons, basically). I gotta respect a woman who excels in a field that's primarily a "man's world". Plus, she had a certain sweetness about her that's really appealing.

 

[Haesslich]

Originally posted by Preacher
That's "faked moon landingS, Bub....

As for me, I gotta go with Rachel. Porn stuff aside, she was the only "live" female Mech that was fleshed out at all (the others being male or cartoons, basically). I gotta respect a woman who excels in a field that's primarily a "man's world". Plus, she had a certain sweetness about her that's really appealing.

She didn't look all that sweet to me in Prophecy.

Besides, who says being an aerospace mechanic is a 'man's field' 700 years in the future, especially since the war's been going on long enough that they need to put both men AND women on the front lines since they can't afford to ignore a significant portion of their population...

40+ years is a long time to fight...

 

[Phillip Tanaka]

Who knows. In our lifetime men might become an endangered species.

 

[Wedge009]

They already are, Phil. They already are...

 

[WildWeasel]

Originally posted by Haesslich
Besides, who says being an aerospace mechanic is a 'man's field' 700 years in the future, especially since the war's been going on long enough that they need to put both men AND women on the front lines since they can't afford to ignore a significant portion of their population...

Why should we assume that women weren't on the front lines in the first place?

 

[Haesslich]

Originally posted by WildWeasel
Why should we assume that women weren't on the front lines in the first place?

I'm not. But I am saying that, even if there was an initial bias against them.. 40 years of warfare will mean that they'd HAVE to shift women up front too, if only because a war going on that long - two generations or so - would suffer a serious problem with manpower otherwise.

So saying that the flight deck is a 'man's world' is making too much of an assumption, by projecting current ideas on a future society which has undergone a very specific series of stresses.

 

[Bandit LOAF]

But I am saying that, even if there was an initial bias against them..

And there apparently was! There's a comment in the WC1 manual about how 'all women wings' aren't allowed at the beginning of the war (during one of the 'alternate' missions that Spirit and Angel fly together).

Refresh my memory, where exactaly does she appear on End Run?

Throughout -- she was the chief tech onboard the Tarawa. She greets Bear when he arrives on the ship in the first chapter...

 

[Delance]

Throughout -- she was the chief tech onboard the Tarawa. She greets Bear when he arrives on the ship in the first chapter...

How didn't I remember that? Is her by any chance usually not referred to as "Sparks" in the novel?

Originally posted by Haesslich
700 years in the future

WC society is not modeled in a speculative way about 700 years of evolution. Besides usual conventions like the use of credits, the social interaction is pretty much not far more advanced than Top Gun and WW2 movies, with the notable exception of female combat pilots.

But it doesn’t appear to be from a “social evolution” per se, but for the needs of war, as already stated on this thread. In other words, it was caused mainly by the necessity more than anything else.