I quite like how they did mechs in Code Geass, they are extremely mobile weapon platforms, they are not very durable but can avoid tank fire through sheer mobility, and can be deployed very quickly on any terrain, especially urban environments, leading to them becoming the dominant vehicles for active combat.
It's also interesting to look at my favorite mecha media, the Lancer RPG (which is harder sci-fi in some areas than others), which seems to have some plausibility purely due to the surrounding technology around mechas like fusion actors, durablium, robotics, and 3d printing being miles more advanced than ours, as well as it being set in a galaxy where most galactic powers are post-scarcity (at least if they wanted to be) so mechanics aren't as big of an issue. It would be fun if you looked at it. But I suppose the true point is the military application increases with the limiting factors of the technology needed to build a mech being reduced by technological progress into the far future.
Well I am no stranger to tabletop games actually - but in the recent years I was mostly updating my collection of Unmatched boxes 😅 If I will get to comparing specific mecha models, I will surely look deeper into it 🤓
I think mechs make great repair vehicles for space stations. Since the weight isn’t an issue. They can grab onto space stations and move between them. Already the ISS and Shuttle had arms to grab things.
Oh that would lead us to the discussion of space propulsion systems, which I already work on 🤓 Such a space mecha would need extra ion thrusters or other propulsors, but in general I would rank it at the very least as ruby tier serious sci-fi 🧐
Well Actually theres an mobile mecha rpg called Mecha Ace wich mechas(or Armatures) were constructed to help The contruction Of an gigantic space station 🤓☝️
And The Technologies Of Humanity in that universe is way ahead of us wich helped to create powerful Matter/Antimatter Reactor more small And compact wich gave The Combat Armatures High Mobili On Space And Atmosphere But on ground they are very good on urban warfare its rare to see one operating beyond that well,thats if you dont consider secret operations.....
I would really like to see a video about spider-like mechas. Especially about the ones from "Eighty Six" anime siries. They are much closer to real tanks, and some of them autonomous and don't require pilots inside
I also believe the strongest military use case for mecha is morale. Having a leader mech or even just a national symbol is enough to justify having just One very expensive humanoid mecha to maintain.
Well yeah, that's the other side of the coin of the impressive power of mecha. I spoke how it can be used to scare peoples in the video - but just as well it can encourage, if peoples know that it's on their side. Still, I suppose accidental friendly-fire human trauma by mecha might be a serious problem...
In space or low gravity worlds I could see mechs existing. More as giant uneven ground forklifts though. So like a spider forklift. Or on a space station walking on the outside with claws to grasp handle bars and/or magnetic feet. In space if you’re not flying ridiculously fast the shape of your ship doesn’t matter and you make it humanoid if you want to. Which in most Gundam series the Gundam are mostly used as strangely propertied rocket ships that duel in space.
What if we made mechs not humanoid and more like a Bosten dynamics dog. It would then have far more stability and a wider surface area to distribute the wait. Dosing this would only reduce melee potential, but as said in the video: What melee potential?
Amazing video! Love the work you put into these. Honestly, all the ideas for future episodes you mentioned sound interesting, but I think I would like to see one on androids the most, especially concerning their potential to mimic humans, as is sometimes portrayed in media. Another suggestion I have is for you to have a look at some more conspiracy theories, like with your video on the wrong earths. There are some conspiracy theories that could be very interesting to explore scientifically. I'm thinking of the Mandela effect, chemtrails or the idea that ancient advanced civilizations (like "Tartaria") existed at some point.
I think you should turn mecha into a whole series. Do a video on non-bipedal mecha(like spider-mecha) and do a video comparing the mecha from different anime to see which is most plausible.
Mechas can stack the mobility deck by creating an environment where only they can move. This applies to urban barricades, of course, but primarily to *trenches*. Regular vehicles can dig trenches - tanks do it. But mechs could do it on a much greater scale. Imagine a mech coming onto a location, burrying a nuclear reactor deep underground, and creating a massive fuck-you trench network around it, with reinforced walls, dugouts, and even underground tunnels. It would be extremely hard to take out from the outside. Vehicles would struggle to enter pits many meters deep, and infantry trying to jump inside would all get shanked and squashed by that famed mech close comat. The mech, meanwhile, enjoys unmatched mobility in its personal maze. It can jump in and out, and it can squeeze inside tunnels. It can be everywhere at once. Recharge is not a problem since it doesn't walk far away from a massive power source. Finally, it can create this hellhole all by itself as soon as the regular forces capture the land, moving much faster than regular construction workers and even under enemy fire.
You might really have a point here! However, I believe, the perfect shape for creating, operating and navigating such a network would be not humanoid, but spider mecha. If they get equipped with one or two digging excavator claws, they are basically all set up to become a giant mechanical spider of that upscaled web 🤔
@HardCoreSciFi I'm not sure - humanoid form has the advantage of standing tall, meaning it can hide in a deep trench and return fire. That said, I don't think *humanoid* form is necessary - it might be some weird combination of limbs we can't even imagine. It doesn't have to resemble anything in nature.
Mechas are the sword of military vehicles. They are really cool, but you need to have an in-universe catch to let them compete with alternatives. Ironically, giving mechs melee weapons might be the best justification, since tanks and helicopters cant use swords.
That's mecha close combat technology paradox: they only get viable with swords if tanks and helicopters somehow lose ability to shoot - but if we don't have even that tech level, we must be also technically unable to construct mecha...
*wait until you hear about my under development franchise known as bloodage* There is tanks instead of barrels they have spears so they can impale alien monsters and mechs alikes
Mecha have a big tradeoff when it comes to landmines. If they don't step directly on an anti-tank mine, they're probably fine, and even if they do, the pilot will almost certainly survive the mine. However, if they do step directly on one, the mobility kill will be total. Amputated foot at best. I can imagine (tank-based) Mecha Rescue Vehicles carrying around a half-dozen extra mecha feet and shins. Haha.
I maybe haven't gone too far into it in the video, but my general opinion on construction worker mecha is that they would be limited to the construction works in the wilderness, in some remote tundra or desert. In any urban or sub-urban environment mecha walking around will just gnaw too big of a hole in road repair budget, as well as it doesn't offer any definitive advantage over excavators and other construction gear. Construction works in general, however, will certainly be in top 3 most plausible real-life mecha applications - I'd say, construction mecha are way more plausible than battle mecha.
@@HardCoreSciFi many construction machineries are heavy and transported to the construction site by trucks so part about street destruction could be solved. Also since it is not battlefield you can skip a lot of weight or move it outside mecha itself. I would say that people could solve many problems with that if there is utility. But I'm not sure if there is utility which mech can provide that already existing specialized equipment can't. But maybe it can be more versitile and replace few construction machineries? Or just my imagination of construction is too limited... Your discussion about utility of mechas on the battlefield was very detailed. But here I try to extend it to other possible uses for giant robots.
I would agree that some machines can wait less than the others, but human life is sometimes measured by the minutes, and the only possible way to help is to get them to hospital as fast as possible… machines, to the certain degree, can be shut down and/or protected from the elements to wait for hours or days.
Such a beautifully done video. It was a pleasure for eyes and brain to watch it! Can't wait to see what will you come up with next year! You are the best youtube teacher! 😎🦾
I'll preface this by saying that I'd like to think I've got a decent amount of experience with the genre, and will end up talking about some of the history at relevant points... basically, I'll say three things in response to this video having watched the whole thing. First, mecha being exclusively the realm of sci-fi... that's not actually true, as while they are rare in comparison, mecha sometimes show up in fantasy settings too. There's even an example in the video with that Warcraft 3 footage, but there's also stuff like Dunbine (an anime where the mecha are built out of components of insect-like monsters), Masou Kishin or Trails (both of which have their mecha typically run on mystical power sources, and both of those IPs are games), and so on. Second: TTGL. I'm not going to argue against it being in cotton candy tier, that is exactly where it belongs. Rather, I'm going to talk about *why* it's there, that reason being... it's not even *trying* to be realistic. TTGL is an example of what mecha fans call Super Robots, a term dating back to the genre's earliest days with it being invented by Mazinger Z, which was also the first mecha to have a pilot operate it from an internal cockpit as opposed to remotely like Tetsujin 28 or Giant Robo that came before. Basically, super robots tend to be one-of-a-kind (or occasionally mass-produced) machines, typically running on super energy sources that would themselves be very soft sci-fi, many of which turning the pilot's emotions or willpower into usable energy, more akin to giant mechanical superheroes than down-to-earth military machines. It wouldn't be until 1979 with the start of Gundam that the latter would start to become a thing. Since mecha can be more of a sliding spectrum rather than a hard divide, I personally like to look at how mecha are presented when deciding if they're super robots or not. For example, I would consider Pacific Rim's Jaegers to be more towards the Super end of the spectrum because they're depicted as heroic figures, humanity's best shot at beating back the kaiju. This section has gone on a bit long but to summarise, not all mecha in fiction is trying to be realistic, so some of it will be actively aiming for the softer tiers. Third: The conclusion that if mecha have any practical purposes it'd be for police work and the like. I don't have much to add to it, all I will say is that you're not actually the first to think of this, the anime Patlabor (which I haven't seen, I'll admit) is basically an example of exactly that.
The concept of a vr similar form of controlling mecha is cool but impractical if the pilot is in the vehicle, and many forms of mecha imply each limb is manually controlled which makes the legs unable to rest within the mecha. Most properties and attraction to using mechs (in a film production viewpoint) is for the “coolness factor” as piloting a massive machine is cool but it’s cooler when your own movement directly communicates with the machines limbs, guess we find big humanoid robots cool.
The only reason mecha would exist would be for novelty, public entertainment, or less dangerous precision capabilities. Third option where it is turned into a mecha drone hybrid where the same common controls are used but the pilot is in an external room using a camera headset to view from the drone perspective
really like the video and will watch more of your content, its just the AI Art kinda throwing me off, just a small nitpick. overall tho, love the cute pixel- art 8/10
Yeah I've had long discussions with my girlfriend about that too - she recommended to stick to pixelart. I mostly do just that, but there are two reasons why I sometimes use AI nevertheless: first, there are just moments when I could waste another evening either scrolling through available footage or drawing pixelart, to illustrate, say, a mecha sinking in a swamp - or I can solve it in 10 minutes with AI. I wanna get my videos to viewers faster, as well as, I also don't wanna stay offboard of this new technology. I remember times when peoples could have said "ah, that's not a real serious photography, that's just photoshopped", but now graphical software tools are on the toolbelts of most serious photographers. Someday (and that day is not that far) AI will achieve such a degree of productivity and integration into creative processes, that it will get nigh indistinguishable from hand-drawn human art - and it will be thousands of times faster. To think about it, I could have probably made a video on AI sometime in the future, it seems like the topic is worth discussing, and I might have some stuff to say... 🤔
@@HardCoreSciFiA whole paragraph yet never touched the main reason people hate AI slop: it's unethical. It can look better, cheaper, more energy effective, in the future, but it can never be trained without stealing terabytes of data.
I actually disagree with a point here. Tanks are pretty fast for weighting 60 tons, tracks aren’t notably slower than wheels- and mechs- well they’re going to struggle with running at high speeds for a number of reasons. This is why GITS style spider tanks take the plus over either, they can either run on wheels for speedy movement, or six+ legs for maneuverability during combat with redundancy
Well in fact, tracks are way slower than wheels, and the maximum speed ceiling for tanks seems to be 90 kmph. Cheetah, which would be a prime example of limb-driven fast travel, can go over 100 kmph. Cheetah is of course 4-limbed, but mecha might have way bigger size - so, if it is properly stabilized and specifically built for speed - I'd say mecha can outrun a tank on flat terrain.
This is my favourite video of yours! As an idea for a video for you to make, I heard once in the comment section of your first video that you one day in the future will do a video on Star Wars, but before you do that you will first do a video on faster than light travel and a video on alien anatomy. Another video I suggest you make is a video on "What media gets wrong about space". In the video, I want you to go over the major ways movies inaccurately depict space, like there being sound in space, very fiery explosions in a vacuum, single biome planets etc.
@@nickmf22 What I actually mean is a video on how space is inaccurately depicted in media. Tropes I want him to cover include: 1. Space Is Noisy - There being sound in space. 2. Space Is Air - Spaceships wheeling in a vacuum like WW2 fighter planes. 3. Space Friction - Being able to stop a spaceship simply by turning the engines off. 4. Explosions In Space - Very fiery explosions in a vacuum. 5. Asteroid Thicket - Incredibly thick asteroid belts. 6. Single-Biome Planet - Planets with life only having one biome. 7. All Gravity Is The Same - All planets having the same gravity.
Yeah well, in here I mostly focus on the true bipedal mecha - those that walk. Mecha that have bottom part borrowed from a tank will be somewhat in the middle in stat comparison between tanks and bipedal mecha.
Well, wherever we like AI or not, it's here to stay, and I decided to learn use it instead of going luddite 😅 it's far from perfect for sure, but it gets the work done way faster than through hand-pixelling. Thanks for staying with the channel this year, anyway 😄 sometime next year I will surely get to this vampire video
I mean, he's transparent isn't replacing artists(because he does all the artwork himself) and doesn't say it's better than real art. So as far as I can tell, it's fine. I don't believe you should avoid AI like the plague no matter what, instead you should rather consider how it's being used and if it's actually harming real people.
I believe the answer to that question might be a subject of a heated academical discussion, but my general rule of thumb is - are the hands involved directly? If pilot has his hands inside hands of the machine (like in Iron Man suit or Ripley's P5000 from Aliens) - it is an exoskeleton. If mechanism has hands separate from pilot's (like in most cases featured in this video) - it's a mecha.
8:31 ironically gasoline or another expended fuel source would be the most mass efficient for power produced. Considering shielding and such as an issue. Theres a reason that robots designed for "outdoor use" have gasoline power aupplies, like bigdog. Otherwise even with lithium they simply dont have enough staying power.
There is this one anime on youtube called "obsolete", probably the most realistic mecha anime around (though the mechs there are just barely taller than the average basketball player) A basic plot summary would be that aliens wanted to do some training with humanity. With essencially 1 ton of limestone, they would exchange one mech per ton (dubbed EXOFRAME). Some of the biggest advantages seen in the anime is how dominant they are in enclosed or urban areas, given that they are much more mobile and use reasonably high caliber weapons (like 50 cals or 50 BMGs) other than the political debates that the anime dives into and the other apliications that the EXOFRAMEs are seen being used Lemme know what you think about them
Mechs don’t exist because other machines do their jobs better. But a space faring civilization in space could just design a Gundam space craft because they’re mecha fans.
Excellent video as always. All of those video topics interest me, though I have a definite fondness for both weird humans and nonhuman sapients, so androids seem tailor-made to fascinate me. I'd choose to upload myself to android body in a heartbeat to be honest. Though, may I please request that you avoid or at least limit your use of machine-generated images in the future? There's a lot of immediate ethical and exploitation issues surrounding "AI" "art", and it's pretty corrosive to the creative process in the long term. If you're not aware of the issues, I would recommend the video essay "How AI is Destroying our Dreams" by Jessie Gender. ruclips.net/video/D8xL3ol3xw8/видео.html
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Wow, these Tank things are really good at being war machines, almost like their built for it...
You goddamn right 🧐😅
I don’t believe you.
@yellowbacon69 average weeb response
@@rulerofeverything6294 What?
I quite like how they did mechs in Code Geass, they are extremely mobile weapon platforms, they are not very durable but can avoid tank fire through sheer mobility, and can be deployed very quickly on any terrain, especially urban environments, leading to them becoming the dominant vehicles for active combat.
However, you forgot the most important statistic: What's the coolest?
Mecha clearly score a 6 while everything else gets 3 at best.
Yeah, well, sadly, coolness factor doesn't add to any of the military traits, as well as doesn't help the black hole budget Mechanomics 😅
Man RUclips just recomended me your channel and i am glad it did bcz you are amazing man!
Thanks! I just try to do my best 😀
@HardCoreSciFi And you really do your best,all your videos are noice👌
It's also interesting to look at my favorite mecha media, the Lancer RPG (which is harder sci-fi in some areas than others), which seems to have some plausibility purely due to the surrounding technology around mechas like fusion actors, durablium, robotics, and 3d printing being miles more advanced than ours, as well as it being set in a galaxy where most galactic powers are post-scarcity (at least if they wanted to be) so mechanics aren't as big of an issue. It would be fun if you looked at it. But I suppose the true point is the military application increases with the limiting factors of the technology needed to build a mech being reduced by technological progress into the far future.
Well I am no stranger to tabletop games actually - but in the recent years I was mostly updating my collection of Unmatched boxes 😅 If I will get to comparing specific mecha models, I will surely look deeper into it 🤓
I think mechs make great repair vehicles for space stations. Since the weight isn’t an issue. They can grab onto space stations and move between them. Already the ISS and Shuttle had arms to grab things.
Oh that would lead us to the discussion of space propulsion systems, which I already work on 🤓 Such a space mecha would need extra ion thrusters or other propulsors, but in general I would rank it at the very least as ruby tier serious sci-fi 🧐
The arm on the ISS is called The Canada Arm,it was made by Canada and can move stuff.
Well Actually theres an mobile mecha rpg called Mecha Ace wich mechas(or Armatures) were constructed to help The contruction Of an gigantic space station 🤓☝️
And The Technologies Of Humanity in that universe is way ahead of us wich helped to create powerful Matter/Antimatter Reactor more small And compact wich gave The Combat Armatures High Mobili On Space And Atmosphere But on ground they are very good on urban warfare its rare to see one operating beyond that well,thats if you dont consider secret operations.....
I would really like to see a video about spider-like mechas. Especially about the ones from "Eighty Six" anime siries. They are much closer to real tanks, and some of them autonomous and don't require pilots inside
Peoples keep mentioning that 86, I guess I’ll surely give it a thorough look when I get to them 😀
I’m a sucker for GITS spider tanks. They’re almost a world away from mechs
So its a robot
@@1030k Well... Not exactly
I also believe the strongest military use case for mecha is morale. Having a leader mech or even just a national symbol is enough to justify having just One very expensive humanoid mecha to maintain.
Well yeah, that's the other side of the coin of the impressive power of mecha. I spoke how it can be used to scare peoples in the video - but just as well it can encourage, if peoples know that it's on their side. Still, I suppose accidental friendly-fire human trauma by mecha might be a serious problem...
In space or low gravity worlds I could see mechs existing. More as giant uneven ground forklifts though. So like a spider forklift. Or on a space station walking on the outside with claws to grasp handle bars and/or magnetic feet. In space if you’re not flying ridiculously fast the shape of your ship doesn’t matter and you make it humanoid if you want to. Which in most Gundam series the Gundam are mostly used as strangely propertied rocket ships that duel in space.
2:55 why did AI decide on bears?
i like mechs
That might be because it’s Russian national animal I guess.
These videos are great, they have good humor.
Thanks 😅
What if we made mechs not humanoid and more like a Bosten dynamics dog. It would then have far more stability and a wider surface area to distribute the wait. Dosing this would only reduce melee potential, but as said in the video: What melee potential?
Amazing video! Love the work you put into these. Honestly, all the ideas for future episodes you mentioned sound interesting, but I think I would like to see one on androids the most, especially concerning their potential to mimic humans, as is sometimes portrayed in media.
Another suggestion I have is for you to have a look at some more conspiracy theories, like with your video on the wrong earths. There are some conspiracy theories that could be very interesting to explore scientifically. I'm thinking of the Mandela effect, chemtrails or the idea that ancient advanced civilizations (like "Tartaria") existed at some point.
Thanks for comment and ideas 😀 I actually have some notes and sketches for the future conspiracy videos - but they are mostly on homeopathy 🤔
@@HardCoreSciFi Was just providing additional suggestions. Homeopathy would also be interesting.
Ranking various mecha models in media on where each of their placement on the tier could indeed be fun, along with gynoids/androids!
I think you should turn mecha into a whole series. Do a video on non-bipedal mecha(like spider-mecha) and do a video comparing the mecha from different anime to see which is most plausible.
Yeah this is an great idea
I'll keep this in mind while I build my mecha
Please be responsible and use it for good 😄
Mechas can stack the mobility deck by creating an environment where only they can move. This applies to urban barricades, of course, but primarily to *trenches*.
Regular vehicles can dig trenches - tanks do it. But mechs could do it on a much greater scale.
Imagine a mech coming onto a location, burrying a nuclear reactor deep underground, and creating a massive fuck-you trench network around it, with reinforced walls, dugouts, and even underground tunnels.
It would be extremely hard to take out from the outside. Vehicles would struggle to enter pits many meters deep, and infantry trying to jump inside would all get shanked and squashed by that famed mech close comat.
The mech, meanwhile, enjoys unmatched mobility in its personal maze. It can jump in and out, and it can squeeze inside tunnels. It can be everywhere at once. Recharge is not a problem since it doesn't walk far away from a massive power source.
Finally, it can create this hellhole all by itself as soon as the regular forces capture the land, moving much faster than regular construction workers and even under enemy fire.
You might really have a point here! However, I believe, the perfect shape for creating, operating and navigating such a network would be not humanoid, but spider mecha. If they get equipped with one or two digging excavator claws, they are basically all set up to become a giant mechanical spider of that upscaled web 🤔
@HardCoreSciFi I'm not sure - humanoid form has the advantage of standing tall, meaning it can hide in a deep trench and return fire.
That said, I don't think *humanoid* form is necessary - it might be some weird combination of limbs we can't even imagine. It doesn't have to resemble anything in nature.
@@Horesmiwell i guess You could combine an special unit with normal mechs and spider mechs or hexagon mechs 🤓☝️
@SpartanAnimations. hexagon mechs? I am intrigued
Mechas are the sword of military vehicles. They are really cool, but you need to have an in-universe catch to let them compete with alternatives.
Ironically, giving mechs melee weapons might be the best justification, since tanks and helicopters cant use swords.
That's mecha close combat technology paradox: they only get viable with swords if tanks and helicopters somehow lose ability to shoot - but if we don't have even that tech level, we must be also technically unable to construct mecha...
*wait until you hear about my under development franchise known as bloodage*
There is tanks instead of barrels they have spears so they can impale alien monsters and mechs alikes
I think an armored core sized mech
(At about 6-10 meters) is the biggest realistic height you can give them.
Yeah that sounds about right.
What about the Exoframes from The Obsolete Series?
Small mechanical might make great anti tank units in urban combat.
With such terrain advantage, that might indeed be possible 🤔
Mecha have a big tradeoff when it comes to landmines. If they don't step directly on an anti-tank mine, they're probably fine, and even if they do, the pilot will almost certainly survive the mine. However, if they do step directly on one, the mobility kill will be total. Amputated foot at best. I can imagine (tank-based) Mecha Rescue Vehicles carrying around a half-dozen extra mecha feet and shins. Haha.
Yeah, it seems this mecha minesweeper is a wild gamble after all 😅
Under viewed channel, this is great
Thanks! I keep trying to do my best 😅
Great video. Now I'm just curious about civil use mechas. Would it be worth it? In some form? Or we just better stick to excavators and cranes?
I maybe haven't gone too far into it in the video, but my general opinion on construction worker mecha is that they would be limited to the construction works in the wilderness, in some remote tundra or desert. In any urban or sub-urban environment mecha walking around will just gnaw too big of a hole in road repair budget, as well as it doesn't offer any definitive advantage over excavators and other construction gear.
Construction works in general, however, will certainly be in top 3 most plausible real-life mecha applications - I'd say, construction mecha are way more plausible than battle mecha.
@@HardCoreSciFi many construction machineries are heavy and transported to the construction site by trucks so part about street destruction could be solved. Also since it is not battlefield you can skip a lot of weight or move it outside mecha itself. I would say that people could solve many problems with that if there is utility.
But I'm not sure if there is utility which mech can provide that already existing specialized equipment can't. But maybe it can be more versitile and replace few construction machineries? Or just my imagination of construction is too limited...
Your discussion about utility of mechas on the battlefield was very detailed. But here I try to extend it to other possible uses for giant robots.
@ I guess I could make a video to compare them to a crane and excavator 🤔
Machines can not wait especially if left in stracturally compromised test.
I would agree that some machines can wait less than the others, but human life is sometimes measured by the minutes, and the only possible way to help is to get them to hospital as fast as possible… machines, to the certain degree, can be shut down and/or protected from the elements to wait for hours or days.
Such a beautifully done video. It was a pleasure for eyes and brain to watch it! Can't wait to see what will you come up with next year! You are the best youtube teacher! 😎🦾
I'm glad you liked it so much 😀
You forgot about recoilless cannons! They're not so bad. We *could* put them on helicopters, but because they carry missiles we really don't need to.
I'll preface this by saying that I'd like to think I've got a decent amount of experience with the genre, and will end up talking about some of the history at relevant points... basically, I'll say three things in response to this video having watched the whole thing. First, mecha being exclusively the realm of sci-fi... that's not actually true, as while they are rare in comparison, mecha sometimes show up in fantasy settings too. There's even an example in the video with that Warcraft 3 footage, but there's also stuff like Dunbine (an anime where the mecha are built out of components of insect-like monsters), Masou Kishin or Trails (both of which have their mecha typically run on mystical power sources, and both of those IPs are games), and so on.
Second: TTGL. I'm not going to argue against it being in cotton candy tier, that is exactly where it belongs. Rather, I'm going to talk about *why* it's there, that reason being... it's not even *trying* to be realistic. TTGL is an example of what mecha fans call Super Robots, a term dating back to the genre's earliest days with it being invented by Mazinger Z, which was also the first mecha to have a pilot operate it from an internal cockpit as opposed to remotely like Tetsujin 28 or Giant Robo that came before. Basically, super robots tend to be one-of-a-kind (or occasionally mass-produced) machines, typically running on super energy sources that would themselves be very soft sci-fi, many of which turning the pilot's emotions or willpower into usable energy, more akin to giant mechanical superheroes than down-to-earth military machines. It wouldn't be until 1979 with the start of Gundam that the latter would start to become a thing. Since mecha can be more of a sliding spectrum rather than a hard divide, I personally like to look at how mecha are presented when deciding if they're super robots or not. For example, I would consider Pacific Rim's Jaegers to be more towards the Super end of the spectrum because they're depicted as heroic figures, humanity's best shot at beating back the kaiju. This section has gone on a bit long but to summarise, not all mecha in fiction is trying to be realistic, so some of it will be actively aiming for the softer tiers.
Third: The conclusion that if mecha have any practical purposes it'd be for police work and the like. I don't have much to add to it, all I will say is that you're not actually the first to think of this, the anime Patlabor (which I haven't seen, I'll admit) is basically an example of exactly that.
When does the cyborg become an Android?
The answer to this question might be worth a whole video, centered on Robocop and Ghost in the Shell 🤔 I will probably do it someday 😅
The concept of a vr similar form of controlling mecha is cool but impractical if the pilot is in the vehicle, and many forms of mecha imply each limb is manually controlled which makes the legs unable to rest within the mecha. Most properties and attraction to using mechs (in a film production viewpoint) is for the “coolness factor” as piloting a massive machine is cool but it’s cooler when your own movement directly communicates with the machines limbs, guess we find big humanoid robots cool.
The only reason mecha would exist would be for novelty, public entertainment, or less dangerous precision capabilities.
Third option where it is turned into a mecha drone hybrid where the same common controls are used but the pilot is in an external room using a camera headset to view from the drone perspective
really like the video and will watch more of your content, its just the AI Art kinda throwing me off, just a small nitpick.
overall tho, love the cute pixel- art 8/10
Yeah I've had long discussions with my girlfriend about that too - she recommended to stick to pixelart. I mostly do just that, but there are two reasons why I sometimes use AI nevertheless: first, there are just moments when I could waste another evening either scrolling through available footage or drawing pixelart, to illustrate, say, a mecha sinking in a swamp - or I can solve it in 10 minutes with AI. I wanna get my videos to viewers faster, as well as, I also don't wanna stay offboard of this new technology. I remember times when peoples could have said "ah, that's not a real serious photography, that's just photoshopped", but now graphical software tools are on the toolbelts of most serious photographers. Someday (and that day is not that far) AI will achieve such a degree of productivity and integration into creative processes, that it will get nigh indistinguishable from hand-drawn human art - and it will be thousands of times faster.
To think about it, I could have probably made a video on AI sometime in the future, it seems like the topic is worth discussing, and I might have some stuff to say... 🤔
@@HardCoreSciFiA whole paragraph yet never touched the main reason people hate AI slop: it's unethical.
It can look better, cheaper, more energy effective, in the future, but it can never be trained without stealing terabytes of data.
@@youtubehandlesux Yeah it seems like I definitely need to make a video on AI. There is a lot to discuss 🤔
I thought the video was about to end at the 12 minute mark than i looked at the video length
Yeah sorry, I am not exactly the best specialist on making short RUclips videos 😅
@@HardCoreSciFiI love lunchtime videos, keep the long videos coming!
@HardCoreSciFi no worries, your videos are great and you shouldn't make them shorter if you think it'll make em wose.
@@ronnor99 thank u! I usually write the script until I feel I've said everything I had on that topic..
I actually disagree with a point here. Tanks are pretty fast for weighting 60 tons, tracks aren’t notably slower than wheels- and mechs- well they’re going to struggle with running at high speeds for a number of reasons. This is why GITS style spider tanks take the plus over either, they can either run on wheels for speedy movement, or six+ legs for maneuverability during combat with redundancy
Well in fact, tracks are way slower than wheels, and the maximum speed ceiling for tanks seems to be 90 kmph. Cheetah, which would be a prime example of limb-driven fast travel, can go over 100 kmph. Cheetah is of course 4-limbed, but mecha might have way bigger size - so, if it is properly stabilized and specifically built for speed - I'd say mecha can outrun a tank on flat terrain.
This is my favourite video of yours! As an idea for a video for you to make, I heard once in the comment section of your first video that you one day in the future will do a video on Star Wars, but before you do that you will first do a video on faster than light travel and a video on alien anatomy. Another video I suggest you make is a video on "What media gets wrong about space". In the video, I want you to go over the major ways movies inaccurately depict space, like there being sound in space, very fiery explosions in a vacuum, single biome planets etc.
Those are mostly childish ideas, not really worth his time to make a whole video about honestly
@@nickmf22 What I actually mean is a video on how space is inaccurately depicted in media. Tropes I want him to cover include:
1. Space Is Noisy - There being sound in space.
2. Space Is Air - Spaceships wheeling in a vacuum like WW2 fighter planes.
3. Space Friction - Being able to stop a spaceship simply by turning the engines off.
4. Explosions In Space - Very fiery explosions in a vacuum.
5. Asteroid Thicket - Incredibly thick asteroid belts.
6. Single-Biome Planet - Planets with life only having one biome.
7. All Gravity Is The Same - All planets having the same gravity.
the haksmith made a mecha. it uses a tank track for wheels
Yeah well, in here I mostly focus on the true bipedal mecha - those that walk. Mecha that have bottom part borrowed from a tank will be somewhat in the middle in stat comparison between tanks and bipedal mecha.
@@HardCoreSciFi ok thx for explaing
I’d like to you make a video on Spider mecha. I loved 86.
In Patlabor the mechs are smaller and used for recovery operations in rubble.
No fusion has produced enough energy to make up for the energy used to start the fusion unfortunately. Hopefully this changes soon
Yeah, as I've said in the video, it is far from being commercially viable...
Quite... iffy, with the use of AI impressions, but still a pretty solid video nonetheless & good subject to end the year off on!
Well, wherever we like AI or not, it's here to stay, and I decided to learn use it instead of going luddite 😅 it's far from perfect for sure, but it gets the work done way faster than through hand-pixelling. Thanks for staying with the channel this year, anyway 😄 sometime next year I will surely get to this vampire video
I mean, he's transparent isn't replacing artists(because he does all the artwork himself) and doesn't say it's better than real art. So as far as I can tell, it's fine. I don't believe you should avoid AI like the plague no matter what, instead you should rather consider how it's being used and if it's actually harming real people.
2:07 Stunning intro bro
Thanks 😅 true story 🤷🏻♂️
Great video, though I would recommend not using artificially generated imagery. It is off-putting.
At what point does an exo suit become a mech?
I believe the answer to that question might be a subject of a heated academical discussion, but my general rule of thumb is - are the hands involved directly? If pilot has his hands inside hands of the machine (like in Iron Man suit or Ripley's P5000 from Aliens) - it is an exoskeleton. If mechanism has hands separate from pilot's (like in most cases featured in this video) - it's a mecha.
8:31 ironically gasoline or another expended fuel source would be the most mass efficient for power produced. Considering shielding and such as an issue. Theres a reason that robots designed for "outdoor use" have gasoline power aupplies, like bigdog. Otherwise even with lithium they simply dont have enough staying power.
There is this one anime on youtube called "obsolete", probably the most realistic mecha anime around (though the mechs there are just barely taller than the average basketball player)
A basic plot summary would be that aliens wanted to do some training with humanity. With essencially 1 ton of limestone, they would exchange one mech per ton (dubbed EXOFRAME). Some of the biggest advantages seen in the anime is how dominant they are in enclosed or urban areas, given that they are much more mobile and use reasonably high caliber weapons (like 50 cals or 50 BMGs) other than the political debates that the anime dives into and the other apliications that the EXOFRAMEs are seen being used
Lemme know what you think about them
I’d argue the Mars rovers are already mecha. They’re giant and have legs for walking over uneven terrain.
Thats an great idea Lets just hope Elon musk does not Declare an Martian Republic an take Your idea of militarizing these poor robots 💀
I think Evas from Neon Genesis Evangelion are a interesting case
Technically those are cyborgs, since the Evangelions are organic creatures...
@ However, they’re still piloted by a human
They’re more giant humans than mecha really- and they’re a perfect example of the power limitations
Mechs don’t exist because other machines do their jobs better. But a space faring civilization in space could just design a Gundam space craft because they’re mecha fans.
Even more If they had resources to sparce
Battletech mechs are more realistic
Excellent video as always. All of those video topics interest me, though I have a definite fondness for both weird humans and nonhuman sapients, so androids seem tailor-made to fascinate me. I'd choose to upload myself to android body in a heartbeat to be honest.
Though, may I please request that you avoid or at least limit your use of machine-generated images in the future? There's a lot of immediate ethical and exploitation issues surrounding "AI" "art", and it's pretty corrosive to the creative process in the long term. If you're not aware of the issues, I would recommend the video essay "How AI is Destroying our Dreams" by Jessie Gender.
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Would really want to become an cybernetically “human” or Should i say become An SubHuman?
Not to be confused with the religious Mecca.
Yeah, that's certainly not the one I was going for 😅
The word "Mecha" at 1:51 appears to have a trans flag inside of it. Interesting. Extremely funny.
Yeah well I just used blue to pink colour coding to signify machine/human part amount 😅
@@HardCoreSciFi So its to represent the... Transition.. from Human to Machine.(/j)
@@storyshiftcharaplays7769 Well it seems to be exactly mid-way, that's true 😅