RA2/GTM psychographs.

[Jack Daniels]

I'm none of them. :3

Then we shall call you... Bruce.

[Vertigo]

I'm none of them. :3

Then we shall call you... Bruce.

RUPERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wait a sec, none of you guys will get that :/

[Thyrus]

I`m not very creative. but I want to winn everything!

[yoda9726]

Allright, for the ones not seeing themselves in the three, what motivates you to build?  What influences your choices in, say, the bot type, the components you choose, , even why you name your bot what you do?  Maybe you fit more into the Melvin/Vorthos dynamic...for the curious, here's an article dealing with them (Warning: Mark Rosewater can get pretty wordy at times)

http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/mr278

Also, where do you guys think the IRL realistic builders fit, or would that require a new psychograph? 

[cephalopod]

Depends on my mood. And I like things that could be built in real life, but can always have some element of slight unrealism to them (no VS would have their motor as exposed as my VS). Names depends on moods too, but I usually come up with something then it sticks for the whole variety of bots in that style (EG Fever, Immunization, Vaccination or The Orange.., Blood Orange, etc)

[123savethewhales]

Also, where do you guys think the IRL realistic builders fit, or would that require a new psychograph?

All 3 of the categories are still trying to win, it's just the method that differs.  And really, the only reason I am Timmy is because this is a Timmy oriented game.  You can only squeeze so much out of efficiency or creativity, while weapon KG is king.

In everything else, I am a Johnny/Spike who plays containment/control with web of combos.  Even in pokemon card I play stall decks.

IRL builders are not trying to win at all, it is primary aesthetic.  So those 3 categories make no sense.

[yoda9726]

I'm about 99 percent Johnny when playing Magic, and unfortunately, it's well known at my table.  They wonder what i'm up to with nearly every card I play.  I've started using that to my advantage by slipping in pointless cards for them to worry over to take the focus off the real threats.  Yup, i'm a Johnny even in the metagame.
 
You've got a point about the IRL guys.  Them and the artbot makers (ORADers as I call them...hey, I can be a bit vain :P), concerned more about the aesthetics than anything else.  Who cares about winning, as long as it LOOKS right.  Let's call them....Sammy? 

[Thyrus]

then I`m a sammy?

[Kujii]

I'm about 99 percent Johnny when playing Magic, and unfortunately, it's well known at my table.  They wonder what i'm up to with nearly every card I play.  I've started using that to my advantage by slipping in pointless cards for them to worry over to take the focus off the real threats.

Haha, I'm the same way with Yu-Gi-Oh, at the table I play, some people won't attack me, even if I just have a Kiriboh in attack position with no magic/trap cards on the field, because they know I might active a "discard from hand when you take battle damage" effect. Its so well known that I can completely bluff opponents almost always.