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« on: August 08, 2016, 08:23:28 AM »
Are 140 Square Extenders OK?
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« on: August 08, 2016, 07:42:45 AM »
The Dantomkia boys actually did this with the Dantomkia pullback that came out, which was pretty swell.
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« on: July 31, 2016, 06:04:44 PM »
Love Craig Danby, definitely would have been a good fit for the Plunderbird boys.
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« on: July 24, 2016, 05:14:51 PM »
I'd say the golden age of Robot Wars was Series 3-5, including Extreme 1. I wasn't a fan of the production of Series 6 (it just felt too dark to me when in the arena), and was probably my least favourite series behind the first one. Series 7 was better, but the producers interference ****ed things up a lot, and commercial breaks on Five really hurt the audience for the show. I saw some of the heat-finals and all of the semi-finals of that series live with my dad after I had my tonsils removed, and I really enjoyed it. Getting to witness the quickest televised fight was really monumental.
The rigging has sadly always been part of the series, starting with house robots completely jamming some competitors in the gauntlet while giving others free runs to other things, but those were only to minor competitors, so it was less of an issue.
I'm not really sure of Extreme 1, I enjoyed it, however notice how all that fake drama action destruction was going on, starting with the first match of Stinger vs Tornado and later Diotoir "sabotaging" Firestorm. I totally dislike Series 7, have been struggling to even watch it and the intro kills off any fun, if I were to rewatch it, I'd only want to watch the battles without any commentary. What was that wrong with Series 6?
Hearing that Diotoir failed to qualify sucks, such classic bots should've been in.
I didn't really enjoy Series 6, mostly due to the production values, which I did feel were off (the lighting seemed way too dark is the main one), the floor spinner was useless for heavyweight competitors, Mr Psycho was just Sir Killalot v1.5, and I found a lot of the battles quite boring. Seeing Terrorhurtz and Dantomkia doing well was nice (but even they got through against the clearly aged seeds in Panic Attack and Chaos 2), but the rest of the series was just the same robots from Series 5 on top; there wasn't much change and the changes were not for the better. And yeah, you can argue about rigging stuff like the Killertron pitting in Extreme 1, but never did it reach a level as it did in Series 7.
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« on: July 24, 2016, 04:37:17 PM »
The problem with nuts isn't that it's a bad bot. Diotor was one of my favourite bots. The bot design makes most fits incredibly boring. Watch the behemoth fight, I nearly fell asleep.
That was quite a fun fight actually. Mainly because of Behemoth, but Nuts played the role that was required for them in the match, which was their endurance and entertainment.
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« on: July 24, 2016, 04:33:28 PM »
I'd say the golden age of Robot Wars was Series 3-5, including Extreme 1. I wasn't a fan of the production of Series 6 (it just felt too dark to me when in the arena), and was probably my least favourite series behind the first one. Series 7 was better, but the producers interference ****ed things up a lot, and commercial breaks on Five really hurt the audience for the show. I saw some of the heat-finals and all of the semi-finals of that series live with my dad after I had my tonsils removed, and I really enjoyed it. Getting to witness the quickest televised fight was really monumental.
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« on: July 24, 2016, 03:51:51 PM »
Nuts is boring and a waste of an entry? oh shut up Badger stop being such a git on a team who just want to have fun! (jeez I wonder if he will carry on pestering them on how there bots underweight lol).
Cool, go have fun at robotic events that aren't televised. You can't say the the bot is fun to watch, it's like they designed the bot in every way to prevent fun occurring. It does no damage, has no effect on other bots and is a pain in the ass to damage with anything but spinners, which rape everything anyway. Good on them for having a cool gimmick with the hats etc, but I think it was a mistake to give them a spot for the show.
No it wasn't. Hardcore robotic combat enthusiasts aren't the only people who watched Robot Wars. It's like when "smart" wrestling fans think the only guys who deserve to win matches are the ones who have the best technical skill. In a television program, it's about entertainment first, which often means taking liberties when needed. If the robot is as bad as you say it is, let it fail on its own; the cream of the crop will still progress in the tournament, and any robots that could sustain TerrorHurtz's axe blows for a short period would have out-lasted Razer in that first match. Everyone wins, the best robots still win, you get to see the best robots win and more casual fans have their fun.
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« on: July 24, 2016, 03:37:29 PM »
It can also be predicted with reasonable confidence that Thor will be eliminated in the first round next episode.
Oh really? 
Pretty sure that wasn't a first round match if you're talking about that clip of Thor being thrown OOTA by Matilda.
Oh yeah, my bad. I thought there was a third robot on it's back that was also OotA. Turns out we only saw Thor and TR2.
That MAY have been an exhibition match, but if not, it's basically telling us that TR2 is in the final four, since they aren't in the same heat. Unless they do a round robin for the final also.
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« on: July 24, 2016, 03:27:02 PM »
How was that line ruining a surprise?
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« on: July 24, 2016, 03:23:06 PM »
It can also be predicted with reasonable confidence that Thor will be eliminated in the first round next episode.
Oh really?
Pretty sure that wasn't a first round match if you're talking about that clip of Thor being thrown OOTA by Matilda.
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« on: July 24, 2016, 03:18:15 PM »
I didn't actually know the heat final immediately, but the fact that Razer, KillECrankie, General and Bonk were gone was beyond obvious. This isn't over-analysis, this is spelt out pretty clearly.
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« on: July 24, 2016, 03:13:37 PM »
I quite enjoyed Nuts. It's really not that bad a robot, the flail chain is a decent enough weapon.
My only major gripe, other than the camera work was the spoilers throughout the episode.
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« on: June 21, 2016, 06:56:17 AM »
Well, at least it got out of the purgatory that is Steam Early Access.
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« on: May 21, 2016, 12:23:13 PM »
Emergency is the only real stock AI robot that needed to return. I barely remember any of the others, but that's probably because it's been an eternity since I've played against the Stock AI.
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« on: May 13, 2016, 02:58:55 PM »
With regards to the Chatterbox, I'd just limit it to no porn, illegal stuff and flooding, and making sure that feuds in the Chatterbox stay in the Chatterbox. I frequent another forum with a similar sub-forum in mind.
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« on: May 13, 2016, 02:51:28 PM »
Good stuff, a nice compromise between forgiveness and severity. Thank you to the moderating team for working on this.
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« on: May 13, 2016, 08:10:32 AM »
no, it's just TRB sh**posting
But memes are the best medicine when you're pissed off!
I think you've given me permanent brain damage from your posts in this thread.
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« on: May 11, 2016, 07:42:57 AM »
Those are bad examples though, because they were clear examples of ban evading and were treated as such. Sparkey and Avalanche on the other hand, were allowed back, though only one is still back.
It doesn't disprove a trend that people don't take permabans seriously here, whether that's through trying to reform through an alt, or just returning to stir sh**. Of the 5 prominent users that I know of that got permabanned, each tried to return in some capacity.
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« on: May 11, 2016, 07:25:14 AM »
None of the permabans have been permanent ? I noticeably remember TRIAS and Noodle being permabanned, and the forum is very well off without those two.
Judging from the staff appears to have had enough about this whole Andrew drama, I can say Andrew is going towards a permaban as well...
Noodle made a bunch of alts to spam the forum after he was permabanned, and TRIAS tried to use proxies and got a bunch of people range banned by collateral, at least from what I've read in the archives. Nobody takes a permanent ban as final is what I'm trying to suggest.
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« on: May 11, 2016, 05:16:20 AM »
Seriously, if he's this thin-skinned over constructive criticism, he needs to grow up. Yugi, you don't need to apologise at all for what you did.
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