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Battletech lore is the most nonsense sci fi I have sver heard (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Like Warhammer lore is digestible because it's very self aware that it's ridiculous.

Battletech unfortunately is really self serious. The different houses of the Inner Sphere are basically a rough sketch of what a redditor thinks America, Europe, Russia, and China are and Japan.

Then you have the clans who are basically exiled nazis with a handful of quirky social progressive quirks.

This. Is a shame because Battletech and MechWarrior are really cool.

But the understanding of states of any stripe is basically what a redditor thinks if they were also from the 80s.

I think I would appreciate sci fi that werent blisteringly inaccurate and vulgar appropriations of real modern day states. God damn.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The lore was written during the cold war and some of it is done as a mockery of what was at the time. Context of the 1980s is helpful to understand why it is written how it is.