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Off-Topic Discussion / Re: General Chatter Thread
« on: August 16, 2011, 01:04:36 PM »
Xbox already has all the exculsives, and we have better exculsives (IMO).
lawlspellingfail

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Off-Topic Discussion / Re: General Chatter Thread
« on: August 16, 2011, 12:46:47 PM »
PC is still le best

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Off-Topic Discussion / Re: General Chatter Thread
« on: August 16, 2011, 12:43:41 PM »
PC is le best because everything is free.

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Discussion / Re: RA2 Achievements
« on: August 16, 2011, 12:28:33 PM »
Hunting The Most Dangerous Game: While driving, score a KO against a human controlled opponent. That opponent cannot be yourself. BONUS: Opponent must be of your skill, and the robot must be good enough to be a credible threat to you. MEGABONUS: Do it in multiplayer. ULTRABONUS: Do it in multiplayer with awful lag.

Way Back: Play RA1. BONUS: Win the whole tournament. MEGABONUS: Do not complain about it's graphics or gameplay or something. ULTRABONUS: Have an actual RA1 CD, that you bought from Infogrames. Ebay and buying used doesn't count.

Biomechanical Engineer: Build a working walker. Walker must not use any other means of propulsion other than burst motors/servos/linear actuators on extenders, and must be able to move in a controlled fashion without falling. BONUS: Make it insectoid or arachnoid (6- or 8-legged), with bilateral symmetry. MEGABONUS: Make it with a RADIAL symmetry. ULTRABONUS : Make it humanoid (2-legged ONLY) and stable.
I actually did back in 2002. XD

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Real Robotics Discussion / Re: Least favorite robot!
« on: August 16, 2011, 12:15:25 PM »
Not hounded, just pointing out flaws.

a) For starters, actual effective weaponry. What were TAN's weapons then? Pretend weapons? And you can't deny TAN's weapons were effective, even if you disagree with its battle philosophy(What they called "Horizontal Crushers", which weren't crushers at all. They were more clamps really, which did no damage whatsoever- a bit like gently gripping onto an egg to hold it, but not break it. All they did was just hold on and do no damage) Still they were real weapons, and they did what they had to well, which is the point.

We've seen previously what those two are capable of, and right at the start, DI looked good in the First Round Melee, the way it tore into BOD. I think if it had gotten through, I reckon it could at least have gotten to the Heat Finals. We've also seen previously how unreliable DI is. I reckon it could have at least lasted another few minutes before breaking down. (Not necessarily- in some cases, it lasted alright- in the opening Melee of Series 6, it lasted throughout, and took out both Behemoth and Tridentate. In Series 7 however, it looked on good form as well, and had CAC not pitted it, I think it would've qualified- you can't really tell reliability from a few seconds of screen time in a new series. I might've looked at it a bit more fairly if CAC had legitimately immobilised it, but no. That would be too difficult for a pair of tongs with no effective weapons) The weapons were effective at what they were used for. And DI was beaten fairly - it was thrown in the pit, which last I checked, was a legit way to beat an opponent in RW. I seem to remember you championing pits against Naryar a while ago.

And in my eyes, Gravity would've been a far better Dutch Representative in the Third World Championship, being what could be considered the first of Europe's generation of monster flippers. You answer my question asking how it would be better by saying it would be better. Explain, don't repeat. Anyway, in my opinion, it would have been a worse representative for the Dutch - it would have found Rawbot as easy as TAN did, but it wouldn't have had a hope in heck against Storm 2, unlike TAN who did have a chance. so for the Dutch, TAN was a better representative. (In terms of reliability perhaps, but in terms of excitement to watch, Gravity beats it easily, with its performance of throwing rather than pushing. Yet with so many international competitors, I don't see why they just set it out like the previous 2 World Championships, and made it a much larger tournament- that way, both of them could've entered, instead of one of them) I wasn't referring to reliability, I was referring to having a chance at winning against Storm 2. Excitement is irrelevant. Size of the competion is irrelevant. TAN had a much larger chance of beating Storm 2 than Gravity, so by that logic is was a better 'Dutch Representative'. No other reason.
Would've been far more exciting to watch at least
Opinion. Some prefer a war of atrittion like against bulldog Breed to a 6-second walkover against Dantomkia (And what about all these walkovers where it just used the pit to win in the first few seconds? It just turned what could have been good fights into predictable, scaled-up games of UFO grabbers)None of those existed. None of the 30 shortest battles in RW involved TAN - these went up to 32 seconds as the equal 29th shortest battles. And I, for one saw TAN's match against BB as straightforward as against Gravity/Scraptosaur - but no, it had a tough match and lost on a judges decision - so not predictable as you would think.
rather than the tongs that ultimately used cheap tactics and the pit to get to its undeserved spots.
Again, 'cheap' is your opinion, and whether or not you consider its tactics cheap, you cannot call the victory undeserved - TAN won fair and square. Also, Gravity used the low walls, a feature of the arena as much as the pit, to win its battles. If the fight was in the enclosed, pitless Battlebots arena, TAN would win pretty much every time. (Not necessarily. Many times in BB, it was proven that flippers could be successful. For one example, look at Spitfire- that took out Vlad the Impaler 2, an invertable machine, with no need for a pit or arena fences)I refer specifically to TAN vs Gravity, where I believe TAN would easily corner Gravity and pin it - winning on judges.
 
b) Yes, but it utilised tactics that took advantage of Rammstein's battery power, before actually finishing it off using the pit.
Do you really think that PA knew of the low battery power? I watched the battle, it just pitted Rammstein as soon as it got under it properly and the pit had opened (The pit only opened once Rammstein had been properly immobilised) I just watched the battle and it didn't actually appear to be immobilised, PA just pitted it as soon as the pit opened.

On the other hand, Toecutter and Spawn of Scutter were demonstrations of how it utilised driving skills and no pit to win.
Panic Attack's main tactic was unquestionably still to pit the opponent (You keep telling yourself that- like I say, it didn't use it EVERY time it fought, proving versatility even in situations without the pit. Without it, CAC wouldn't have gotten past the heats, let alone gotten into the Semis)Look me in the face and tell me Panic attack's main tactic wasn't to use the pit. Also, TAN only won 3 of its 5 fights by pitting its opponents. It beat   Panic Attack and Robochicken on judges decisions. So it pretty much got through the heats and into the semis without the pit, it only pitted DI and that's it.

Why do you consider the tactics cheap anyway? Because they don't give the opponent a chance? Because there's little entertainment value? Because the battles typically ended moderately quickly? A bit of all of those reasons, really. Robbing battles of any potential entertainment value (Opinion, and that doesn't make it cheap), overt reliance on the pit to win anything (As I've shown that was far from the case), getting rid of competitors that were far more entertaining to watch (Same point again and still an opinion) and deserving of qualification (Tripe - no robot is more or less deserving and even so, qualifying ahead of opponents isn't cheap), predictable (Still doesn't make it cheap), annoying (WTF are you on about, and STILL doesn't make it cheap), and one of the few robots I genuinely dislike (You don't like it, but that doesn't make it cheap). I don't say that often, but it's definitely earned the spot in my RW Hall of Shame. (Tripe again, and once more it doesn't make it cheap. You harbouring a dislike for it shouldn't put it in a Hall of Shame, it did NOTHING wrong, except irk you, it seems. The only people in the hall of shame should be the producers.)

Cheap in this instance is defined as 'stingy' or 'miserly' or 'shoddy' by Dictionary.com - TAN and its tactics do not fit with any of these words. Nothing you said proves that TAN is cheap, only that you harbour a dislike for its tactics.
That quote's as big as a freaking book, do you really have to keep up with this ?

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Discussion / Re: RA2 Achievements
« on: August 16, 2011, 12:08:10 PM »
Fight 'em till You Can't:Go into tourney mode in SC AI V4 And beat 150 HW's. The trick is that damage works like Ironbot, so every time you lost a component, it stays. (even wheels) My record's only 8. :P

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Challenge Board / Re: TRIAS Verses System32.
« on: August 16, 2011, 11:50:44 AM »
can't support Robot Arena 2.
bull. what kind of computer doesn't support RA2?

Windows 3.1 hahahahahah

The best is that when i was 10, or less, at elementary school we had computers with Windows 3.1
That's amazing. :gawe:

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Challenge Board / Re: TRIAS Verses System32.
« on: August 16, 2011, 11:46:49 AM »
can't support Robot Arena 2.
bull. what kind of computer doesn't support RA2?
One with Windows 2 ?

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Tournament Archives / Re: BattleBots: Season 2 Signups
« on: August 16, 2011, 11:40:34 AM »
...so all signups except one spot are filled on the first day, but now no one wants to enter? O_o
PM JACK DENIALS GOSH DARNNIT.

I PM'd HIM, 123, GRW, AND KM.
yaaaaaaaaaay :D

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Tournament Archives / Re: BattleBots: Season 2 Signups
« on: August 16, 2011, 11:36:24 AM »
...so all signups except one spot are filled on the first day, but now no one wants to enter? O_o
PM JACK DENIALS GOSH DARNNIT.

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Real Robotics Discussion / Re: Least favorite robot!
« on: August 16, 2011, 11:32:30 AM »
I don't razer.

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Real Robotics Discussion / Re: Least favorite robot!
« on: August 16, 2011, 11:20:34 AM »
why?
Cause I think it's funny.

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Tournament Archives / Re: Good Guys vs Bad Guys
« on: August 16, 2011, 11:13:35 AM »
TP: Looking back on this one, I feel that there are some subjective rules which, quite frankly, I don't want to have problems with further down the line.

So I am declaring this tourney idea closed for now. But don't worry, I have another idea up my sleeve.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOo

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Real Robotics Discussion / Re: Least favorite robot!
« on: August 16, 2011, 11:11:21 AM »
lawl @ GK countering all of goldfox's points.

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Tournament Archives / Re: BattleBots: Season 2 Signups
« on: August 16, 2011, 11:09:19 AM »
Thyrus has given up his spot...

SO ONE MORE PERSON CAN SEND ME THEIR BOT ASAP
PM JACK DENIALS. NOA.

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Chatterbox / Re: British GTM member gathering
« on: August 16, 2011, 11:07:39 AM »
I'm going to death march all the way to Britain with Scrap.

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Off-Topic Discussion / Re: General Chatter Thread
« on: August 16, 2011, 10:33:12 AM »
Reign in blood perhaps. :gawe:

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Off-Topic Discussion / Re: General Chatter Thread
« on: August 16, 2011, 10:26:18 AM »
No fascist mother figure is going to send me to my room !

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Off-Topic Discussion / Re: General Chatter Thread
« on: August 16, 2011, 10:09:27 AM »
Do not report damn, sh**, or similar words ........ the f-word is not allowed, so don't be an idiot and quote it.


DO NOT report flaming, if it is bad enough to report we WILL see it.

Be more clear here I'm thinking it means others in the same thread. Silly me. Heaven forbid I think logically and report posts like you ****ing want us to.
You're acting like the drunk asshole at a the party where he accidentally punches the host in the face and the host kicks him in the nuts because of it and he starts bitching the entire night.

And you're acting like the dipsh** metalhead who tries to be funny about the thing.

umad, bro?

I wasn't mad, I was pissed, but now it's all fixed (Thanks Joe)

And Nate stop trying to act cool by using memes and acting like an ass.
Pissed = Mad

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Off-Topic Discussion / Re: General Chatter Thread
« on: August 16, 2011, 10:09:06 AM »
lol btw

Thyrus has given up his spot...

SO ONE MORE PERSON CAN SEND ME THEIR BOT ASAP
I believe Jack made a bot.

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