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I'm sitting here in a laundromat in Kyoto and I've been reading your posts about
rtl20. To put in bluntly, this is really going to for a lot of work to make a
stupid joke. You'd be better off putting your energy into building hygiene
product shaped spacecraft or something similarly stupid.
I love the idea of a cooperative game and I think the distribution of blocks is
a cool idea. The problem is, as many have stated, it's really blind luck
whether or not you'll find someone to exchange blocks with. The goal is far to
vague, and any attempts to make it more concrete (insert Beavis laugh here) or
harder, is frankly going to make the game less creative. Right now the current
ruleset forces a number of RCX tanks with large hoppers and some sort of brick
trickler up top. There are no variety of methods, no alternative solutions.
And for all of that, no one is really guaranteed it's going to work. In fact, it's worse, everyone is going in assuming random luck. I've seen 17 competitions in this group, and yes, in every one, luck is a factor. rtl19 is case in point...Dave SHOULD have won from all of his work, but RobA's little boy won. Was it luck? The point is, DaveK goes in with the understanding and goal that it will work, and puts the effort in correspondingly.
In the proposed Leg Humping game, everyone is going in with the knowledge that
it's a crapshoot, and frankly, that's stupid. Everyone in rtlToronto, whether
it's Rob 'Where has he disappeared to' Stehlik to Greg 'Nice Try' Hyland goes in
TRYING to win and with the expectation that their work is rewarded somehow.
This game doesn't have it, and has traded that reward for a stupid punchline.
Calum
PS-DaveK, I haven't found any of those promotional Lego sets. I did however,
find a microprocessor controlled toilet today, in Kyoto's oldest Zen temple.
weird.
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Message has 5 Replies:
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| (...) Once again, Calum sums up exactly what I've been thinking in all the rtl20 stuff. I've been reading the posts and thinking "this is juvinile," and "boy, Calum sure has been quiet about this stuff." I didn't want to post this, because all I (...) (19 years ago, 25-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
| | | Re: Comments from a laundromat ...
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| (...) Wait a minute! Yes, I agree, this game makes for some great juvenile jokes. Yes, I agree, in every game there is a bit of "dumb luck"... and truly, often it may be hard to see just what divine intervention will provide it. BUT I disagree that (...) (19 years ago, 25-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
| | | Re: Comments from a laundromat ...
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| In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Calum Tsang wrote: <snip> (...) I always like it when Calum speaks, but I'll respectfully disagree-- Over the past few days, I've been forming a design in my head about the 'bot I want to build for rtl20 to encompass all (...) (19 years ago, 25-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) and Greg said: > Has it occurred to anyone that this event is going on in a public library? A lot > of parents and kids show up. This isn't dropping bricks into a box (like I kind > of thought originally), but inserting some sort of brick (...) (19 years ago, 25-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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