Yeah, I've found that the learning curve has a higher starting point than a lot of other mech games, and it really helps with the fun. I'm hoping the in-game currency price points aren't set in stone yet, since it's still the beta. That, or currency rewards go up.

The mechs look small in the gargantuan Hawken cities, but that's not necessarily a good indicative scale. All the mechs are at least twice as large as the vehicle scene clutter.

Ah, that makes sense. I was thinking sleeker and faster in general speed terms, not design terms. Totally fair.

I am a Mech fan in the latter category. Please tell me about this Armored Core.

Have you played Hawken any? All the mechs are a hell of a lot more maneuverable than their MechWarrior equivalents, for whatever that's worth.

One of us! One of us! Gooble gobble gooble gobble!

Do you mean he's been mislead into thinking you own a horse? Or do you mean you've been mislead into thinking Fox News is any more credible than a drunk, crazy homeless man ranting about the Mayan apocalypse from a street corner? Both could be true, though the former would be misunderstanding an idiom.

The problem with this argument is right in the first paragraph. I am a diehard social liberal. I look at prohibition and the war on drugs and do not think general bans would have an effect on American crime rates. I wholeheartedly oppose repealist wingnuts as much as I do tea party wingnuts. What I want, and what the…

Yeah, but multiple states hit 25k. And Texas broke 100k. It's pathetic.

Unfortunately, 25,000 is just the requirement. There was a whole metric fuckload more votes than that.

It wouldn't necessarily have the same functionality. Maybe instead of the laser, we could use it as a katamari.

One of these days, the Imperium is just going to replace the space marine armor with a bunch of protruding chainsaws glued together in the general shape of a person.

Not sure which antlered beast you mean; the fat, diseased one with the maggot belly is a Great Unclean One, and the six-breasted, four-armed tentacle-hair thing is a Keeper of Secrets. They're greater daemons of Nurgle and Slaanesh, respectively.

Let me offer a tip - start off just painting some generic Ork or Tyranid troops. In miniature sets, they're the best quantity for price, and there really is nothing that makes you faster and better at detail painting than repetition. I'm nowhere near this article's level, but I honed my skills on dozens of horribly…

Oh god, FUCK yes. Except hand it over to whatever Atlus team made Nocturne, or best of all, CD Projekt. After Dragon Age 2, I no longer trust any Bioware division with my RPGs.

I desperately want a Supreme Commander-scale Warhammer game.

Good GOD, the carapace in that modded 'gaunt. So beautiful.

The best possible Penny Arcade reference. Bravo, sir.

My favorite piece of ironic Aryan stupidity is that the word Aryan itself is a loanword from Sanskrit.

You and your facts are discriminating against good Murkin bigots!