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Tobias Grant posted:Anyone know the name of the Battlebot that had a massive clown thing on top of it? I want to see that thing get shredded again. Dr. Inferno Jr.?
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I really enjoyed last nights show. It was impressive how much carnage they managed to get in all the matches. I don't remember old seasons having as many bits flying off ever. Even the in between fight parts aren't too bad. Also none of the designs look like simple wedge bots. I wonder if that was in the rules this year?
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Jun 22, 2015 16:49
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Last Rites looks a lot like Marvel of Engineering.
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Jun 22, 2015 16:50
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mashed_penguin posted:I really enjoyed last nights show. It was impressive how much carnage they managed to get in all the matches. I don't remember old seasons having as many bits flying off ever. Yeah, one of the new rules in the reboot is there has to be some kind of powered weapon, they can't just be a wedge.
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Jun 22, 2015 16:51
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Jesus Christ, Warhead got owned. Didn't even do anything cool like Nightmare did. It was just utterly beaten. I do like how Team Whyachi's new bot uses its weapons. Basically using kinetic energy of the spinner to power the flipper.
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Jun 22, 2015 17:17
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Pakled posted:Yeah, one of the new rules in the reboot is there has to be some kind of powered weapon, they can't just be a wedge. I wonder if anyone ended up skirting the rules with the lightest weapon they could to still be a wedge.
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Jun 22, 2015 17:47
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Aphrodite posted:I wonder if anyone ended up skirting the rules with the lightest weapon they could to still be a wedge. Warrior clan did it with three separate robots. 
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Jun 22, 2015 17:48
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Warrior clan did nothing and just watched Nightmare beat everything including itself.  microbot you were "helping" with your flame then 
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Jun 22, 2015 18:06
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GuavaMoment posted:Dr. Inferno Jr.? No, what I'm thinking of was a somewhat floppy doll thing on top of a robot. Really I just want to watch the fight where that thing got completely tore up.
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Jun 22, 2015 18:52
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Tobias Grant posted:No, what I'm thinking of was a somewhat floppy doll thing on top of a robot. Really I just want to watch the fight where that thing got completely tore up. Buddy Lee Don't Play in the Street? https://youtu.be/d0TXhZrb2GQ?t=193
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Jun 22, 2015 19:23
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Tobias Grant posted:No, what I'm thinking of was a somewhat floppy doll thing on top of a robot. Really I just want to watch the fight where that thing got completely tore up. God this reminds me that someone literally brought in an RC car with legos to compete. 
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Jun 22, 2015 19:33
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The Glumslinger posted:Buddy Lee Don't Play in the Street? Closer, but still not quite what I'm thinking of. I think it was just a head and hands on it or something. I'll have to go searching through a wiki or something to find it again.
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Tobias Grant posted:Closer, but still not quite what I'm thinking of. I think it was just a head and hands on it or something. I'll have to go searching through a wiki or something to find it again. Robot Wars Conquering Clown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov4ENP9HBvc
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Jun 22, 2015 20:23
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KungFu Grip posted:Robot Wars Conquering Clown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfT1mar7TyI whoops, quote is not edit
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Jun 22, 2015 20:24
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Man, I was kinda skeptical on this reboot but holy poo poo that minibot exploding and getting flung across the box completely erased my fears. Good to see some of the old school teams are still around and battling in this new series as well. Kinda wish there'd be a return of Hazard but I suppose I can settle for the sheer awesomeness of Icewave and its gas powered deathblade 
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Jun 22, 2015 20:51
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The best battlebot was one where it had a spike attached to a garage door spring and would puncture any bot that got in range, anyone know the name of it?
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Jun 22, 2015 20:58
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mashed_penguin posted:Also none of the designs look like simple wedge bots. I wonder if that was in the rules this year? This was why I stopped watching the older iteration of the show. It seemed like every bot was just a wedge trying to ram up under another wedge bot. Call me atavistic but the wholesale dismantling of bots and poo poo really adds to the show for me. That loving minibot e: I know having a 'real' walker type bot would probably be way too fragile for this kind of stuff, but Wrecks was just kind of embarassing. Plan X didn't even have a blade on the spinner, it was like a block of wood on each end but Wrecks just gave that match away. WarLocke fucked around with this message at 21:57 on Jun 22, 2015 |
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Jun 22, 2015 21:53
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I always loved Hypno-Disc. The bot had some obvious design flaws, but its weapon was cool and it could really wreck poo poo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzraVXP-5KQ
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Jun 22, 2015 21:57
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NowonSA posted:and give the minibots literally any weapon because they seemed useless in the first fight. I'm sure explosives of any kind are banned, with good reason, but they seem like perfect suicide bombers. "In the red box, he's not here to win, he's here to destroy you.... Jihad!" *swarm of 8 minibots charge and blow opponent to hell*
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Jun 22, 2015 22:05
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WarLocke posted:This was why I stopped watching the older iteration of the show. It seemed like every bot was just a wedge trying to ram up under another wedge bot. This is the design that Wrecks is based off of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxmJXRlsksY Its cool because you need to put zero weight into moving your bot so it can all go into the blade. In theory, the force of the blade is enough to turn it and let it walk. Looks like it didn't scale up well The Glumslinger fucked around with this message at 22:25 on Jun 22, 2015 |
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Jun 22, 2015 22:21
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If that silly bot with the led brain didn't get stuck wrecks would have done nothing to it. Its just too slow and hard to maneuver by the looks of it.
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Jun 22, 2015 23:23
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mashed_penguin posted:If that silly bot with the led brain didn't get stuck wrecks would have done nothing to it. Its just too slow and hard to maneuver by the looks of it. Speaking of brain bot, I thought it made for a nice decorative touch but it was weird how the show kind of tried to sell it as an actual feature. I bet it scared some old people. Arsonist Daria fucked around with this message at 00:22 on Jun 23, 2015 |
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Jun 23, 2015 00:17
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Lumberjack Bonanza posted:Speaking of brain bot, I thought it made for a nice decorative touch but it was weird how the show kind of tried to sell it as an actual feature. Yeah, it was odd seeing everyone mark out for the brain when it had to serve literally no function aside from decoration.
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Jun 23, 2015 02:32
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Plan X is actually sentient, and it knows it was lucky to win last night.
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Jun 23, 2015 02:52
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same loving flipbots and wedgebots that made the original show stagnate into boredom
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WonderfulWino posted:same loving flipbots and wedgebots that made the original show stagnate into boredom Someone find that sony spaceman robot and put an axe in its hand
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The Whole Internet posted:Next episode is gonna have Last Rites. For those of you who haven't seen anything since battlebots or robot wars ended, and don't know what Last Rites is: And then I lost a half hour of my life to watching videos of this thing, and that's a half hour I'm never getting back. Last Rites is amazing, but the epic fail it has against Original Sin is  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlqG6c5tJ9U
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Jun 23, 2015 05:20
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Watching that thing gently caress up wedges is really satisfying.
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Jun 23, 2015 05:56
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Flippers are cool if they're gas powered.
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Jun 23, 2015 06:41
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Aphrodite posted:Flippers are cool if they're gas powered. If a flipper can't make a robot do at least a 720 it's basically metagaming bullshit.
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Jun 23, 2015 06:57
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Lumberjack Bonanza posted:If a flipper can't make a robot do at least a 720 it's basically metagaming bullshit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN24y-FJeMQ
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Lumberjack Bonanza posted:If a flipper can't make a robot do at least a 720 it's basically metagaming bullshit. There was one called The Big Cheese in the BBC series that was SERIOUSLY powerful, the entire bot was a giant flipper and hurled bots a good few feet in the air.
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Jun 24, 2015 17:03
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Well it didn't take long to figure out who was gonna win that one.
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Jun 24, 2015 18:10
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Lumberjack Bonanza posted:Well it didn't take long to figure out who was gonna win that one. Pretty much all of Toro's fights went like that. Even the superheavyweight rumble where it just ran around flipping everyone over. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QsV-MEzHm4
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The Glumslinger posted:Watching the westcoast broadcast, and man Icewave looks as good as anything I remember from any of the previous seasons. Nice carnage out there I don't think Icewave is going to make it too far though. Anything that is under its clearance like Warrior Clan, I think, will just gently caress its poo poo up. Also, the engine jutting out of the top of it looks like a liability, but IDK. One bot I fondly remember, I think it's from the Robot Wars series was a bot with a large front facing shield and horizontal picks that swung all the way to the front to pin things so it could drop things into the pit. It was kinda bulky iirc and I think it was piloted by old ladies or something, but it's been probably more than a decade since I watched it on TV. I dunno why I thought it was interesting. Probably because it wasn't a flipper or wedge.
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I'm friends with the Inertia Labs guys, I got to go to the filming in Vallejo. Watched the Ice Wave fight live, that thing sounds so pissed off when it's fully spun up. What you don't see is the hour of soldering it took them before the drat fight actually went off.
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Jun 25, 2015 15:34
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Big Taint posted:I'm friends with the Inertia Labs guys, I got to go to the filming in Vallejo. Watched the Ice Wave fight live, that thing sounds so pissed off when it's fully spun up. What you don't see is the hour of soldering it took them before the drat fight actually went off. And then it caught on fire, ruining all that work.
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Jun 25, 2015 15:54
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Is this show real like wrestling is real or fake like that battle robots thing with George Lucas's daughter is fake
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Faithless posted:Is this show real like wrestling is real or fake like that battle robots thing with George Lucas's daughter is fake The picks are probably all from execs looking for impressive looking bots and teams with good stories. The fights, however, are as real as kite fighting
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