yeha there starting the robot combat thingy lol i wanna see conner or what ever his name is create a "bot" or what ever and watch him with his radio and no bot pretend to do something
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bugger, I thought I was going to be the first to post about this. Oh well, better late than never.

Damn i missed it can anyone fill me in on what happened?
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Libby's gonna give Conner and Toadie a run for there money! She's got them scared already with just the ladies beauty products
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lol dont worry you dident miss much

they are only starting it (bassically that conner dude and the toad or what ever his name is are gonna build a robot LMFAO they probably wouldent have the foggiest about how to do it)

im guessing it will be about 2 or 3 more episodes before we get to see the combat lol
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AHEM NERDS!!!

Its like watching beaves and butt head playing with firworks or something with those guys on neghbourse pretending to build that robot.
hehehe cool wires haheahhe yeh nuts ehahehehe kill em all hehehe

Not that i think beaves and but head suck Cos they rock!!!
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Beavis & Butthead rocks

That stupid biatch broke "Death Angels" (I think that's the name) transmitter! Then they went looking for the TV remotes to fix it! Wish I could just use my TV remote when the RC gear packs it in. The bot they are "building" looked like Blade at first, with the lifting scoop and all, but when I saw the red wheels and drills, I was unsure. Did they do some mods to Blade for the show Brett/Gary?
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yeh i noticed that when they lifted it up it had four wheels dosent blade have two ww motors for drive?
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nope that is definitely blade. the shape of the thing is unmistakable.

i remember there was talk of making blade refbot at robowars, so i guess thats the mods they did to it.

btw transmitter crushing hag = teh sucks
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Well spotted guys.
The bot we called build bot is not the real blade.
It is in fact Energize modified with a replica of Blades blade and a simple lifting mechanism.

They did make it look like a nerds sport in the first ep they eaven sed it Damn them all!!! And they looked pretty lost when they where talking about the robot it just looked so fake

How is it a nerds sport anyway?

My defanition of a nerd is someone who sits on there comp all day tradeing porn over the net with a group of other nerds and all that jazz and too scared of doing anything that could be dangerios "like robowars"
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Yes, they wanted a disassembled looking version of blade so the actors could be seen to be "building" it, but blade's armour and chassis is all welded together, so it would have required significant hacking to turn it into a disassembled-looking bot.

Hence Energize's bare chassis which was very close to being ready to drive was fitted with a an interesting replica of blade's lifting scoop and made driveable and referred to as "Build Bot"

Thanks for posting those video's Keroo's - a bit grainy quality wise, but seeing as how the only night I've been around to watch the show was one that there was no robot stuff on, its the first I've seen of the final product.

I'm a bit dissapointed they didnt show "Kill Bot" actually crashing through the doors of the pub, that looked great in my opinion.

It did actually push the doors open itself when I drove into them at full speed and charged in and then screeched to a great-looking slide stop (took 3 goes to get it to stop in the exact position they wanted it), but they seem to be deliberately keeping the bot's off-camera as much as possible at the moment. I suspect this is for two reasons..

1. As I said, its primarily a show about (alleged) people, and their sort of viewers are probably more interested in the social byplay and competition for toads attention over the robot by cindi, than they would be in spotting whether the robot has red wheels or window-winder drives.

Unlike us "Nerd" characters who usually find all that endless messy human-drama-interaction stuff incredibly boring (its the same stuff over and over again), and we are more interested in the details of the mechanics.

Thats generally why we end up actually knowing useful technical things that "cool" people dont understand, and why someone (Bill Gates ?) said "Be nice to Nerds, chances are you will end up working for one".

2. They're probably gradually tempting the other type of viewers with little flashes of the bot first, and will gradually reveal longer and longer shots of it as the sub-plot evolves. Remember, these guys have kept their TV show going non-stop for 20-odd years, they're probably masters at keeping people's attention on tenter-hooks to keep them coming back for tomorrows thrilling episode. .

Someone compared Soap-Opera's to a fractal in a book I read once, its an endlessly repeating cycle of visually pretty, but utterly meaningless detail. The faces and props change, but the game remains the same year after year. The props people I worked with said the basic plot-lines tend to repeat about every 18 months on average..

Anyway, Nerd-Fest or Soapie-brain-veg aside, its good to have our little sport on the small screen and into the awareness of the avergae joe..
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BTW, I never really saw the term "Nerd" as an insult, since to me it always merely meant that the person saying thought you were "uncooler" than they were.. But noone has figured out any reliable way to get paid for being cool yet, unless you can make it as a movie star or fashion model, and thats pretty damn unlikely.

I very much enjoyed going to a high school reunion a few years back and talking to some of the old "cool" guys from school who use to hassle me then as a "computer geek/nerd" who were now literally working as "assistant managers" in the local McDonalds store, while I drove up in a company car working as a "Field Service Engineer" for Honeywell with a salary in excess of 50K at the age of 30.. Now, 5 years later I work for myself about 20 hours a week and earn an hourly rate that modesty forbids me to mention

Like he said.. "be nice to nerds, chances are you will end up working for one"
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Originally posted by Spockie-Tech:
Anyway, Nerd-Fest or Soapie-brain-veg aside, its good to have our little sport on the small screen and into the awareness of the avergae joe..

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Brett agreeing with something Bill Gates said !

And then quoting it

Someone get me a bundy rum! I'm gonna pass out
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