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MagusGuardian



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PostPosted: Sat Mar 17, 2018 5:18 pm Reply with quote
I honestly wonder if any mobile suit pilot in the entire gundam franchise was ever guilty of setting the sounds to classic mario sound clips
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Wyvern



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PostPosted: Sat Mar 17, 2018 5:57 pm Reply with quote
MagusGuardian wrote:
I honestly wonder if any mobile suit pilot in the entire gundam franchise was ever guilty of setting the sounds to classic mario sound clips


Headcanon: Domon from G Gundam had his Gundam set to play various Street Fighter II sound effects, including the announcer's "Round One! Fight!" at the start of a bout and "You win!" after he defeated an enemy.

But since almost all of his Gundam Fight battles took place on Earth, he hardly ever got to use this feature and instead just heard the actual sounds the Gundams were making.

Also Heero Yui is secretly a furry and set his Gundam to only play sound effects from Sonic the Hedgehog.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 17, 2018 6:25 pm Reply with quote
So... pretty much the same explanation as in Mass Effect. Except that explanation is actually referenced in the games themselves....
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 17, 2018 6:28 pm Reply with quote
Yazan Gable's mobile suit is always set to classic Hanna-Barbera sound effects, which is why he's so pleased with combat.
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Zeino



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PostPosted: Sat Mar 17, 2018 7:08 pm Reply with quote
This is firmly a case of trying to find a diegetic solution to a non-diegetic problem. Any in-universe explanation for the phenomenon is really just window dressing for the obvious answer that giant mecha fighting in space are inherently unrealistic and you should just roll with it.
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onseneutopic



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PostPosted: Sat Mar 17, 2018 7:29 pm Reply with quote
Zeino wrote:
This is firmly a case of trying to find a diegetic solution to a non-diegetic problem. Any in-universe explanation for the phenomenon is really just window dressing for the obvious answer that giant mecha fighting in space are inherently unrealistic and you should just roll with it.

Yeah, that's what the franchise has always done, with things like Minovsky particles. It's part of its charm.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 17, 2018 7:30 pm Reply with quote
Another explanation: We the viewer are already dead and lead some type of Newtype existence unbound by physics, after all those who have laid eyes on a Gundam shall not live to tell about it...
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BlueAlf



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PostPosted: Sat Mar 17, 2018 7:51 pm Reply with quote
Dammit. This is ridiculous.
I thought it would be something like inner-cockpit explosions being heard through radio waves via particles or something.
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 17, 2018 8:43 pm Reply with quote
They could have hand-waved the matter much quicker by claiming that the viewer is always a Newtype, or some such contrivance.
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Eigengrau



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PostPosted: Sat Mar 17, 2018 8:47 pm Reply with quote
Minovsky particles are a conductor for sound. There, done!
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eliram



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PostPosted: Sat Mar 17, 2018 8:50 pm Reply with quote
I heard somewhere that they used a very similar explenation in Star Wars.
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Kamieichi



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PostPosted: Sat Mar 17, 2018 10:12 pm Reply with quote
Quote:
Reflecting on this inconsistency, a Twitter user posted three pages of an unspecified Gundam manga on Tuesday.


The Twitter user posted the title in reply. It's "Kidou Senshi Gundam: Koubou no A Baoa Qu" by Ark Performance (Aoki Hagane no Arpeggio)
https://myanimelist.net/manga/84373/Kidou_Senshi_Gundam__Koubou_no_A_Baoa_Qu
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 18, 2018 4:44 am Reply with quote
Eigengrau wrote:
Minovsky particles are a conductor for sound. There, done!


Seems reasonable enough.
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TheAncientOne



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 18, 2018 8:56 am Reply with quote
I've long thought audio cues in the cockpit of a spacecraft made sense, as we can't see every direction at once, but we can hear.
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AkaRed



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 18, 2018 2:26 pm Reply with quote
Well I think this explanation is not bad and make sens in a way. Shocked
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