if you think mechs being piloted by a neutral link is even half as cool as manual controls, you're a fucking fool. i would 100% of the time have some jackass puppeteer a metal frame in a futile attempt to make it emulate human movement over achieving perfect human/machine synchronicity. pacific rim you get an exception
get your hands OFF the magic brain-reading orbs and ONTO a series a series of switches, buttons, levers, and then if you're lucky, maybe a couple of flight sticks.
the Battletech/'Mechwarrior books are great because they dedicate like three entire paragraphs per chapter to just how good or terrible the pilot is at manipulating the foot pedals
