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My various articles on robot combat. (UPDATED 8/24/2014)
« on: April 27, 2014, 12:32:33 AM »
Over the past few years I've posted a couple one-off threads for various little writings I've made about robotics and robot combat. I've decided to pool them all here into one thread where you can check them out and disagree with my opinions and call me an Internet fag.  :dumb) I've been busily combing my archives of writing and other odds and ends to bring all of these articles to Twilight Foundry's new website. I'll also update this post any new stuff I write (or find in my archives) so keep your eyes peeled for that.


Here are the articles listed chronologically (by creation date) with the newest first:

08/24/2014: McDonald's BattleBots Toys: Reviewed & Deconstructed

07/22/2014: BattleBots "MiniBots" Toy Collection/Review

06/21/2014: The 10 Literal Worst BattleBots of All Time

02/10/2012: The 7 Most One-sided Fights in BattleBots History

06/02/2011: KILLER ROBOTS / RoboGames 2011 Commentary

??/??/2011: REVIEW: Robot Arena (PC) - Still missing in action, sorry.

06/15/2008: The Best of "BattleBots Update": Season Two

04/06/2008: The Best of "BattleBots Update": Season One

09/04/2007: REVIEW: Robot Wars Metal Mayhem (GBC)

06/03/2007: The Worst BattleBot Design Ever

2001 - 2002: Battle Clash


(Currently, TwilightFoundry.com is a work-in-progress and is functional but incomplete. If you really wish to celebrate mediocrity then most of RFSHQ's content library has been successfully migrated over however there is still content missing. I moved over all of the robot combat content first, though, so I could share it here.  :smile: )

edit: I feel I should elaborate a bit on this Twilight Foundry business before I get anyone confused. It's not "my" site; I merely contribute to it and I have a lot of content there because I'm one of the group's inaugural members and have a ton of backlogged stuff because of it. There are other writers involved with the project plus a lot of former members and guest writers represented in the archival content. Once I am through adding the archives my involvement with the website will be mostly marginalized to an upcoming side project. Roastmaster is this website's lead writer. RFSHQ technically has nothing to do with Twilight Foundry at all but we agreed that more content is always a good thing so that's why RFSHQ's archive spontaneously shows up on the site. :P
« Last Edit: August 24, 2014, 11:44:52 AM by RFS »
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Re: My various articles on robot combat.
« Reply #1 on: April 27, 2014, 12:45:56 AM »
Alright sweet. I'll probably read some of these tomorrow. I remember the 7 Worst Designs one.

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Re: My various articles on robot combat.
« Reply #2 on: April 27, 2014, 12:26:25 PM »
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Re: My various articles on robot combat.
« Reply #3 on: April 27, 2014, 12:59:28 PM »
I disagree with your opinions, internet fag.

But nah, I've always liked the 7 most sided battlebot matches article. I'll probably read some of the other articles.
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Re: My various articles on robot combat.
« Reply #4 on: April 27, 2014, 01:01:00 PM »
lmao that worst design ever one

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Re: My various articles on robot combat.
« Reply #5 on: April 27, 2014, 02:31:16 PM »
Mods/Admins get paid $8,000 per minute

Looks like someone read the contents of the quote generator.   :p
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Re: My various articles on robot combat.
« Reply #6 on: April 27, 2014, 03:49:37 PM »
Cant wait to read them!  Let me know if you need a consultant on any of the writings.

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Re: My various articles on robot combat.
« Reply #7 on: April 27, 2014, 03:55:12 PM »
Mods/Admins get paid $8,000 per minute

Looks like someone read the contents of the quote generator.   :p
Blame the government. :p

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Re: My various articles on robot combat.
« Reply #8 on: April 27, 2014, 04:48:10 PM »
Cant wait to read them!  Let me know if you need a consultant on any of the writings.

I might need to get some insight on Robot Wars moments since you're pretty well versed in that. Also, I still have the article you sent me. Are you cool with me migrating it to the TwilightFoundry.com site?
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Re: My various articles on robot combat.
« Reply #9 on: April 28, 2014, 09:19:49 AM »
Cant wait to read them!  Let me know if you need a consultant on any of the writings.

I might need to get some insight on Robot Wars moments since you're pretty well versed in that. Also, I still have the article you sent me. Are you cool with me migrating it to the TwilightFoundry.com site?
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Re: My various articles on robot combat. (UPDATED 6/21/2014)
« Reply #10 on: June 21, 2014, 07:38:15 PM »
BRAND NEW ARTICLE IS UP: "The 10 Literal Worst BattleBots of All Time"

http://twilightfoundry.com/2014/06/10-literal-worst-battlebots-of-all-time/


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Re: My various articles on robot combat. (UPDATED 6/21/2014)
« Reply #11 on: June 21, 2014, 08:27:56 PM »
BRAND NEW ARTICLE IS UP: "The 10 Literal Worst BattleBots of All Time"

http://twilightfoundry.com/2014/06/10-literal-worst-battlebots-of-all-time/


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Re: My various articles on robot combat. (UPDATED 6/21/2014)
« Reply #12 on: June 21, 2014, 10:31:38 PM »
the guy who built #4 competed at motorama this year

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Re: My various articles on robot combat. (UPDATED 6/21/2014)
« Reply #13 on: June 21, 2014, 10:55:35 PM »
Reading this right now. Really funny, love the writing style.+1 for that man.

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Re: My various articles on robot combat. (UPDATED 6/21/2014)
« Reply #14 on: June 21, 2014, 11:31:25 PM »
the guy who built #4 competed at motorama this year

Here are those matches-




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Re: My various articles on robot combat. (UPDATED 6/21/2014)
« Reply #15 on: June 23, 2014, 10:37:05 PM »
http://forums.delphiforums.com/battlebot_tech/messages?msg=10878.1

If you want to find how Prototype 4 lost its on this page somewhere

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Re: My various articles on robot combat. (UPDATED 6/21/2014)
« Reply #16 on: June 25, 2014, 02:14:07 PM »
DP

Found another forum page talking about Team Wetware:
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Re: My various articles on robot combat. (UPDATED 6/21/2014)
« Reply #17 on: June 25, 2014, 10:16:32 PM »
Thanks for the kudos you guys. :) Funny to see that Rim Tin Tin's builder still struggles with lifters a decade later.

All in good fun though. :P I've actually spoken to Dave Calkins (RoboGames, former BattleBots judge) in the past and we chatted a bit about Team Wetware so I knew some of what Ray posted about on the forums. Abbatoir is legitimately one of my favorite robots even though it never worked. Trey Roski is also a pretty good sport about Ginsu never winning battles either.


edit: oh man you guys
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Prototype's drill hits the ground as he turns, and it stops after the first hit on Road Rage.

oh man  :gawe:
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Re: My various articles on robot combat. (UPDATED 6/21/2014)
« Reply #18 on: June 25, 2014, 10:18:29 PM »
BRAND NEW ARTICLE IS UP: "The 10 Literal Worst BattleBots of All Time"

http://twilightfoundry.com/2014/06/10-literal-worst-battlebots-of-all-time/


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Step 7: Make it flat and cut into 60 slices 1 for each minute in 1 our.
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Re: My various articles on robot combat. (UPDATED 6/21/2014)
« Reply #19 on: June 25, 2014, 10:34:04 PM »
BRAND NEW ARTICLE IS UP: "The 10 Literal Worst BattleBots of All Time"

http://twilightfoundry.com/2014/06/10-literal-worst-battlebots-of-all-time/


Abbatoir is not on this list I promise.
RUSTLE DETECTED

Full disclosure, since the initial new-ness of the article has worn off, when I made the Abbatoir MLG video montage I had to ultimately remove over 250 overlays, sound effects, transitions, or animations. While rendering the video it just kept crashing at certain parts, or lagging and creating a bad memory leak resulting in a rendered final production whose audio desynced and the video would lag and look compressed in some parts. I literally threw too much at it. There is a very nominal artifact of bad audio in the beginning where Mark Beiro's introduction cuts a couple times. I could not fix that.

Below is a list of some of what got cut and what I wanted to include originally:
- Most text emphasis had to be toned down throughout the whole video, like the "8TH PRESTIGE" bit.
- There was originally an entire train of Snoop Dogg's at the "smoke weed" part, with some additional sound samples too.
- A very highly animated "4:20" on the BattleBots timer during the Snoop Dogg part was also cut.
- In the Plinko scene I removed almost 100 hitmarkers and accompanying sound effects each time the coin bounced off of a peg.
- Audio from a Brach's Rocks candy commercial was dropped, as was an animated image of the mascot.
- One entire audio track of MLG gamers screaming was removed because I was already using 4 audio tracks at the time.

I can't remember what else.
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