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« on: March 15, 2013, 10:06:14 AM »
Yeah, chassis could be lower. Otherwise absolutely amazing job.
Thanks. I'm really glad I know how to BFE because that's pretty easy to fix.
1402
« on: March 14, 2013, 08:24:47 PM »
I have a request for Mr.Resetti to test him,do Jay Leno's ChinKilla from Battlebots.
Oh god my god yes
If someone wants to make the face flipper into a component (just the shape I can skin it), then I'll have a go at making it Also here's Cruella 
1403
« on: March 14, 2013, 11:49:58 AM »
Behold : angry naryar post. Don't want to read it ? Just skip it.
So just about 15 minutes ago, I was getting back from getting groceries. I see a car with two girls inside, one of them points me to the portal I went through to enter mylodging. I first don't get it, then realize she wants me to open the door so the car can go through.
I then move to open the door, automatically. I didn't even choose to act.
Then the car moves past me and before I can open the portal, the same girl exits the car and open the doors, and then thanks me for being kind and that she'll open it and it was fine and stuff. Result : Nothing accomplished.
I therefore go back, having wasted ten seconds of my life being used for absolutely nothing because the girl couldn't plan ten seconds in advance and didn't knew clearly what she wanted. Yet again... neither did I, because I acted on automatic behavior, so I am probably to blame as much as her for this waste.
Can't I bloody choose what I desire to be ? Can't I be lawful neutral and master of my choices ? Can't I reforge what I am and my education as I desire, for only MY purpose and desires ? Can people think before doing moral acts ?
But no, because of my education "hurr help girls becuz it's da rite thing to do durr lawful good", visibly I can't.
Odin damn it, as if this day hasn't started poorly enough.
Maybe I should seek a worthy battle to raise my morale in conflict.
/rant
It means those two girls are now indebted to you; that's how a neutral person would probably see it. Go to their house and ask for some favour that's bigger than you're really entitled to. Assuming they're good-alignment, they'll comply.
1404
« on: March 11, 2013, 12:11:16 PM »
It's the art style, it's gotten progressively more complex with more lines and smaller solid-color areas. The Pokemon are further removed from their real-life animal sources, making for a bit of unfamiliarity. Also the eye to head ratio is shrinking, so there's less of that cutesy look.
1405
« on: March 10, 2013, 04:38:37 PM »
Thor from Series 7 
1406
« on: March 10, 2013, 02:31:10 PM »
Is this one entry per weight class or one entry wholesale?
1407
« on: March 08, 2013, 01:46:26 PM »
Thanks guys. It is pretty big, not house robot sized compared to the others, but still pretty big.
1408
« on: March 08, 2013, 10:26:14 AM »
Sabre Tooth. I'm pretty pleased with how it came out 
1409
« on: March 07, 2013, 04:41:30 PM »
er thanks? I mean I don't know why you put the trollface in because that's pretty helpful and really easy to fix 
1410
« on: March 06, 2013, 07:26:01 PM »
I did say right from the start that Brimstone was my pick to win it. Looks like my instincts were sharp, what with that crazy black guy controlling it. Can't see much longevity for Scorpio, those cheap plastic blades won't provide any advantage over fists when you're fighting with metal.
1411
« on: March 06, 2013, 12:15:13 PM »
Second attempt: 
1412
« on: March 06, 2013, 11:00:18 AM »
Looks nice. I don't like the way the end of the flipper is set up, though.
How so?
1413
« on: March 05, 2013, 11:58:38 PM »
Judge Shred 2, that name rolls off the tongue doesn't it? 
1414
« on: March 05, 2013, 10:47:47 PM »
I posted a negative opinion of Psychonauts a few hours ago on Tumblr. The fans are going mental, I'm serious it's like Frollo singing "HELLFIRE" levels of panic. No BS, take a look... http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/psychonautsThe sad thing is, this is the only time someone's found my tumblr apart from the people that I forcibly shoved into reading it.
1415
« on: March 04, 2013, 11:44:25 PM »
Storm Force. It can kinda self right but also tips over pretty easily 
1416
« on: March 03, 2013, 02:26:05 PM »
They'd be more likely to flip the opponent than poke holes. Spawn of Scutter was probably the closest thing to an IRL popup, with a single spike at a 45 degree angle.
1417
« on: March 01, 2013, 06:33:06 PM »
Sat'arn. Not complex but the artwork is kinda cool 
1418
« on: February 28, 2013, 06:02:34 PM »
It's not a poor argument. What you've got to realise is that our robots are built for a different purpose to those in the US. We build robots with less armour, putting more weight into powerful weapons that throw stuff around and look spectacular. US robots put a lot more weight into armour to stand up to spinners and consequently their robots (bar the spinners) are much less spectacular than ours, which is made up by the fact that the spinners are. Put our robots in a US arena and they wouldn't stand a chance. Put US robots in our arena and they wouldn't stand a chance.
And rebuilding a heavyweight in 20 minutes is a very tall order. I cannot see this being realistic.
The US has gone the way it has because robots that face spinners have to be so much tougher. Introduce spinners here and it would go the same way (spinners and boxes). Us roboteers don't think this would be a better approach!
Fair enough, I agree that as it stands today, the UK bots are more fit for TV than the US ones. Would it work to allow spinners with restrictions? For instance, Dragon Con has a hard limit of 20 ft/second tip speed, which isn't very much at a heavyweight level.
1419
« on: February 27, 2013, 08:56:30 PM »
I believe the other thing is if lots of spinners are allowed in more events, more bots will be destroyed, and with teams having much less money and just doing it as a hobby, repairing seems unlikely.
Exactly
Just to put it into perspective, this has been our calendar of weekends for February to April:
Telford
Barnsley
Whitwick
Weekend off
Portsmouth
York
Weekend off
Gadget Show Live (UK Champs)
Colchester
Weekend off
Burgess Hill
We don't have enough time between events to be fixing robots due to spinners, or the money considering how many events there are (and therefore the amount of repairs required). For us to have spinners back, the whole format and style of events would have to change, and this has not happened. This is simply rebranding, nothing more.
For example, the whole reason the Americans still have spinners is because there are only 2 or 3 heavyweight events per year. In the UK we're likely to have around 20 events this year. Hence you can probably see from the roboteers' perspective that we prefer lots of events without spinners!
Not forgetting to upgrade one of the current heavyweight arenas to class 1 it would cost around £30,000, which the event orgranisers cannot afford.
The last reason is that we don't need spinners. The shows are now selling out pretty consistently. And that doesn't mean there is no damage anymore. To the audience Thor is pretty spectacular, and I think Tiberius causes enough damage for the shows!
Have you thought about doing a Kickstarter? I don't know what kinds of projects you're hoping to get done, but there's got to be something big that you could ask people to fund, maybe that 30k pound arena upgrade? You could use the unsold Robots Extreme Wars merch as donor prizes. (I'm assuming you work with the organizers, right?)
1420
« on: February 27, 2013, 08:33:56 AM »
It does seem like a bit of a catch-22 (or whatever it's called). Spinners are really needed to make the destruction that makes the show worthy of TV. But teams don't get involved because they don't know about it, because it's not on TV.
It worked out better during the economic prosperity; people could take time off from work, and credit was cheap and easy. Now we've got the recession, compounded with the fact that designs have evolved way past the point where you can build a reasonably competitive bot from a couple hundred pounds' worth of scrap and a slavaged lawnmower or electric wheelchair. I agree that they need to find some way to allow for destructive weapons, can the O2 arena be made to handle them? Though, gettign hte word out should be no problem, the original Robot Wars was before the internet was the hulking behemoth it is today, and they managed to get the word out pretty nicely
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