Download file | Play in new window | Recorded on May 29, 2024 A promise unforgotten. It was a bit of work, and it’s a bit clunky, but we are here to talk about warframes as promised. The designs themselves are of course very cool, but they also prompt a difficult question: if mecha don’t have to be big, and they can be organic, where is the line drawn? Is a warframe a mecha? Is a person being possessed a mecha? But in truth this is pedantry: we know a mecha when we see one, and it’s as simple as that. Warframes aren’t mecha. […]
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