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« on: February 22, 2020, 02:56:46 PM »
mr nagraj
I'm here wondering how close to naryar this is supposed to sound
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« on: March 12, 2019, 02:45:19 PM »
This was stupid fun.
Thanks Reier!
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« on: January 07, 2019, 03:39:55 PM »
hahah it's pretty  as always I love your attention to detail
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« on: September 14, 2016, 02:37:43 AM »
Am I stuck in the past? I felt like just popping back in and posting more old stuff. Here is a random single-snapper 36HS setup idea, meant to stand sideways. Died to AGOD.  Cool stack. Would be better off with just a Snapper2 since it's a LW anyway. You could probably make the wedge longer and maybe extend the rear part of the chassis.
Thank you. Guess you're right about the snapper... That's some pretty poor judgement from me. Gonna try your suggestions and post back sometime soon.
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« on: July 08, 2016, 09:37:50 PM »
Hey  I forgot I was even doing this thing to be honest and probably won't come back to it for another while, but I likely will, sometime, if anyone's ever been interested. In the meantime I'll put up the latest file in my screenshots folder. I only remember it was barely decent and tipped over easily. Probably had irons.  All feedback is appreciated! Including the post above, thank you.
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« on: March 10, 2016, 09:19:12 PM »
Man, this stuff is soooo good.
You've got a crazy eye dude, that sense of proportions, facial expressions and mmh I can't quite describe what else I perceive but it's all so good, it's.. It feels kinda loose yet deliberate, sometimes carelessly rough, sometimes very focused and smooth and some other times you seem to just allow yourself to be sloppy and still get a result you (at least I) can feel, I don't know, it's impressive. Also your physical skill at drawing...
How did I not see this before? Looking forward to seeing more from you.
PS. That hungry robot you posted earlier kinda fits the current theme.
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« on: December 24, 2015, 10:22:50 PM »
mmhmh nice butt Sage
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Honestly I never even thought it was a joke bot. That thing looked pretty practical from the start.
Congratulations! Watched the whole thing just now; that was fun!
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« on: December 03, 2015, 02:30:40 PM »
Am I the only one who finds this sad
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« on: December 03, 2015, 01:57:48 PM »
Hello. I'll try not to type too much this time. Well your chassis management and stacking and glitching are all becoming top notch. I think I'll just call you Picasso from now on
Well I guess I've been spending too much time practicing this stuff :P thank you. It feels weird to be called Picasso... He's someone I often look up to, not quite for his art, but for his approach to it, and the way it merged with himself. I know what you mean though. - Still trying to blow four years worth of dust off this thing... I feel I've accomplished nothing so far. A slight rebuild of that shapeless, double-ztek thing above has pretty much beaten every LW I tossed at it (except for SnS) and that's pretty much my only achievement, so I've decided to push myself with stuff I've never tried, within the LW class. Any thoughts on this? I'm currently stuck 15 rebuilds into a hammer that just keeps getting worse, as if I picked the wrong road. In the meantime, I'll post this update. It's been sitting there since my last post.  (edit: wedge is still on a DDT)
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« on: November 02, 2015, 03:19:57 PM »
 Guess. so sloppy
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« on: October 24, 2015, 05:27:42 AM »
Thank you for commenting. I appreciate it. popups are this weird entity where (...)
That makes sense, yeah. Hadn't realized the bevels could be detrimental. You gave me a couple of ideas basically rendering my recent couple of rebuilds outdated already, haha. Thanks! Practice build? Building the chassis tight enough was pain but it didn't really make me any better at it... Just more committed. every bot you make spits in the face of symmetry
Eh, not true. Take a look at my earlier showcased bots if you feel like it (friendly reminder there's a reason I changed the title though :P). Sure, they're not perfectly mirrored but at least I used to care about it. It's just now I don't. Screw symmetry, just make the front angle a little more shallow and you should be good,
Haha alright! I think I'll have to ditch the wedge DDT though, it's been impossible so far to improve the shape with that thing filling up space. - A few days ago I had a bunch of free time so I reviewed the bots I planned to showcase, and realized I don't really want to do so anymore... That's the actual reason I decided to go ahead.   These things right here are the 2nd and 7th iteration of a series I temporarily named compactspinner, even though they no longer fit the name or look like each other :P They perform rather well... Tested on Starcore v4 alpha 2 and Pys AI I think. These are the most stable lightweights I've built this year but still manage to flip themselves from time to time. DSA, single battery on each, neither is invertible. [Edit: second one has the weapon motors angled forwards for a lower reach in front... dunno) Yes, the weights don't line up vertically and that bothers me; too lazy to fix it. I have no idea what to do next on these so any comments are welcome, friendly or not :)
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« on: October 12, 2015, 06:08:48 AM »
Thanks everyone :P I wasn't expecting any responses at all, pretty much. Glad some of you like it. I personally don't really, to be honest. It might look odd and all, but I originally came up with it as an exercise on creativity a way to save weight on extender work (not that I know anything to use that weight on), to center the weapon motors together and to hopefully increase stability through symmetry (which doesn't really make sense come to think about it. On top of that it's still off-center). Well, since shinies don't perform that well at all on it, it wastes more weight than it saves, and despite my previous statement about it maneuvering pretty well, as soon as I loaded it with weapons and spun them around, it turned into a frustrating washing machine. I actually like the setup since you actually made the spinners closer to each other while keeping invertibility. Have you found other setups with equal drive height?
I have no idea what you mean by equal drive height D: If I had to guess, I would say that the setup is two round extenders attached to each other with the side AP, and then two more extenders attached on the back of the first 2 by the side AP to hold the drive. That extender at the back probably holds the thing together.
You're actually kinda close. There's four extenders (not sure if you're thinking of 4 or 5) and the whole thing is split in two halves; the axle holds one hpz and one rad, and the rear ap holds the other pair. Everything else is pretty much on spot... I quickly rebuilt it with weapon extenders in red to illustrate the idea. I'm sure it can be somehow improved, so feel free give it a shot if anybody wants to.  There's a couple of things I forgot to mention.. But might be rather obvious. There's a single black battery in there, and it has DSA. I feel like I should add something, so, umm... I guess I'm better at coming up with random stuff than actually being competitive at anything. So I had been working on this possibly outdated idea of building something specifically aimed at popups. If I recall correctly there's such working designs in DSL but I don't think I've seen it in stock, or seen those working well against other bot types, so I wanted to come up with something on my own. Or more specifically, I just wanted to step out of my horizontally spinning comfort zone doing something new, and thought this would be a good subject. After several failed prototypes I gave up and realized I had never actually built a popup, to begin with... How can I fight something I don't understand?  Yeah, I tried it. Right there. Probably the most generic thing in my entire showcase. I'm disappointing myself.  Two blacks, DSA, stupidly steep chassis. I screwed up and ate the entire front end in an attempt to save weight before realizing there's some empty space around the batteries. DUH. I AI'd this one and it has trouble bringing other bots on top. Didn't even bother to test against another wedge. And that's about it, post is getting long. I still don't understand popups!
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« on: October 04, 2015, 06:00:50 PM »
Hey A while ago I thought I'd give some old ideas a shot. Here's one of those. Finding time to waste away on this is a pain...  I have had this setup in mind for a very long time now. It drives really well, but it needs those wheels... Shinies only seem to drive the bot straight when inverted. There's weight for 18 razors and related extender work within the Middleweight class. I don't know what to do with it; it's out of my head and in the game now, which is enough for me. Any thoughts? 
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« on: September 19, 2015, 10:16:06 PM »
Hey I remember this guy!
Haha, hey there feels like you've had that avatar since forever I've barely got anything other than praise for this mod, guys... And it's mostly just echoing what everybody else has said, so it's kinda pointless. But I've got a couple of odd details to share ;p The Instructions still mention Exhibition and Team HQ modes... Actually, by the way, has anybody else even read it? I also thought there would be an installer as I'm working on compiling the installer now,
But whatever.. While I've barely had time to play, so far it's been a lot of fun! The RWED music and stuff are nice details, reminds me of those days I'd never step away from the computer. I've messed around with the entire featherweight (?) lineup and found pretty much anything that's not a flipper or pusher to be pretty hard to beat with Little Nipper (which is what I've been using the most) without falling back to luring foes into the pit or oota... Which for some reason is stupid easy to do. I recall reading somewhere the arenas were unfinished, is that it? I don't know what else I wanted to say and I'm running out of time here, so... Well, awesome job guys I'm looking forward to anything else you come up with sometime in the future  Edit: Forgot to say it would be nice to at least see a mention of the mod at robotwars.tv, after all the work you guys put in and the name and legal stuff and... Am I just not looking hard enough?
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« on: October 11, 2014, 10:25:50 PM »
Why did everyone just leave toAst walking down memory lane alone 
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« on: September 08, 2014, 08:45:12 PM »
This site is all different and I don't like it. CHANGE SCARES ME!!!!!
Same here... I literally read the whole thing just to remember what it was like around here. Well, I don't! Time has flown by... And I'm not even any "older" than most of you Also I don't recall seeing Stagfish mentioned anywhere... So, hello everybody I've met.
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« on: November 25, 2012, 04:49:19 PM »
Happy Birthday Larrain 
Happy Birthday, Larrain. =) Hope you have a good one, if you're around any more.
That reminds me- a Happy Birthday to the original Quiche Larrain! 
Happy birthday Larrain
Happy Birthday to aforementioned fellows!
Happy b-day Larrain, Thisdude069 and GRW :D
Happy b-day Larrain, Thisdude069 and GRW.
Hope you have/had a good one :P Happy birthday Larain, and GRW
Whoops, I cannot believe I've been offline for so long? xD An extremely late set of "thank you"s to everyone quoted above and anybody else involved (?) and umm I wish you happy birthdays too in the future :B Also, happy birthdays too for all those I forgot to greet all this time D: sorry And, umm.. Seems Wolfsbane's b-day is on November 26th, so.. Although I doubt I'm being timely here (jet lag, sleeping issues and just ignorance of timezones), I'll just go ahead and wish you a happy birthday too :3!
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« on: March 18, 2012, 01:16:13 PM »
Didn't do any better with that, but thanks :P
I was a little pissed off today, and seeing how I play with a keyboard on a emulator I senselessly dropped the analog range of my movement keys down to 30% and managed to arrive 1st at Expert Figure 8 on my first try (with the Golden Fox if that changes anything). I'm going to play with that thing more often since I don't have any analog sticks :P
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« on: March 11, 2012, 12:03:47 AM »
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I lol'd almost the whole time I was reading this No comments on my house? D:
I like it, though it looks rather plain with all that wood...
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