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DIY HRT is sort of like drag-and-dropping files into the game folder to overwrite the default character model.
December 1, 2025 at 4:13 PM
So no, Mobile Suit Gundam is not a mechsploitation show, I'll take my ban from the forum moderators now please. :V
November 29, 2025 at 10:31 AM
In summary: The definiting characteristics of mechsploitation are explicitly pornographic, and an attempt to define it by the non-pornographic elements casts a too wide net and really just identifies common themes of the mecha genre at large.
November 29, 2025 at 10:31 AM
5)"extreme" (sexual) acts
5.1) typically BDSM
5.2) and petplay

This is what the genre label actually gets used for, in the overwhelming majority of cases, on places like AO3. The genre doesn't really exist without reference to its pornographic form and, specifically, Warhound.
November 29, 2025 at 10:31 AM
label for that whole thing. For one, mechsploitation is characterized by some highly specific elements:
1) A "handler" figure that's directly a dominatrix figure.
2) A focus on the erotic elements of the unequal power between the handler and the pilot.
3) Mind control
4) woman/woman sexual pairings
November 29, 2025 at 10:31 AM
It's wrong in the details (c.f. Minky Momo, any remote-controlled mecha), but reflects just how common these themes are in popular works that it can be an assumed default.

It makes some sense to draw out this specific element as something you like seeing in mecha anime, but I reject mechsplo as a
November 29, 2025 at 10:31 AM
I want to emphasize here that these themes and elements are so common that people were making jokes about it being the central theme of ALL mecha shows long before mechsplo came on the scene. Variations on this have been floating around for a long time:

(Cont.)
November 29, 2025 at 10:31 AM
basically just the thematic background radiation of the entire genre since MSG released in 1979. Soldiers alienated by war are so common in art about war, and mecha pilots alienated by piloting mecha such a natural distinction that mechsplo and "real robot" become practically synonymous.
November 29, 2025 at 10:31 AM
mechsplo works are largely pornographic.

You can, in theory, make up any distinction and call it a genre, but I don't think that makes sense for things retroactively labelled mechsplo. The defining features of mechsplo when defined without reference to its pornographic origins are very thin and
November 29, 2025 at 10:31 AM
to give it a kind of serious legitimacy by distancing it from its pornographic origins. To wit: nobody was talking about this as a distinct genre before the AC6 trailer dropped, it's called "mechploitation", analogous to exploitation films and their edgy, often sexual content, and self-labelled
November 29, 2025 at 10:31 AM
I have very strong opinions about this and will bore you with a long explanation: No. The term came into use to describe a specific kind of pornography. I think the attempt to tie it into earlier, non-pornograpic mecha and establish it as a genre defined by non-pornographic elements is an attempt
November 29, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Did everyone decide on a definition of "mechsploitation" that wasn't a kind of pornography when I wasn't looking?
November 28, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Gonna sue for false advertising because they say it's for the World's Greatest Roleplaying Game and yet I can't run it in Price of Freedom.

After that I'm coming for the "for any system" Kickstarters that don't work with AMBER, Phoenix Command, and Night's Black Agents.
November 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM
It's so weird that people use it that way, because "Death of the author" is when J.K. Rowling says "my depiction of goblins was not antisemitism" and I say "sure, Joanne" and then ignore her to figure out whether it's antisemitism by reading the actual books. (I probably won't read the books.)
November 24, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Happy birthday!
November 13, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Basically. Happosai is the old pervert archetype without any of the redeeming qualities. Just an odious creep.

It makes for a comic that never tries to convince you there is anything excusable about being a sex offender, but also, a recurring character has nothing likeable or redeemable about them.
November 7, 2025 at 11:33 PM
"Instead of thinking about your partner, your thoughts are occupied by an unseen, imaginary, deceased turtle."
November 2, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Gundams keep having Char clones when they really should be having Jerid clones. There's more to get invested in with a character who is personally motivated by things to fight the protagonists, over a villain largely defined by being enigmatic.
October 26, 2025 at 6:56 AM
I expected it to get Cpl. Adrian Shepard, but when it asked "is the character associated with the color green?" I knew it had me.
October 16, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Eimskipafélag Íslands Presents: Freyja Erlingsdottir's Advanced Catgirls & Catacombs
October 14, 2025 at 4:18 PM
They are.
October 13, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Nice try but I'm still going to do an evil playthrough of Planescape: Torment.
October 5, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The manga about the albino virgin pro-domme who hunts ghosts with her living shibari rope is actually really good horror.
September 29, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Punished With Bondage By The Church For Getting Involved With The Catgirl Mafia In Another World

(You have to deal with the author's bondage nun fetish—healing, punishment, AND greetings involve bondage—but the sheer amount of research into 16C Church politics makes it *almost* worth it.)
September 29, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Interesting idea, but two pitfalls to design around come to mind:
1: Instead of picking a weapon for my character, I pick a build for the best weapon.
2. I can't keep up because no good weapon for my build has dropped for like ten levels, and I'm bad with the rest. (See point #1.)
September 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM