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Re: Comments from a laundromat ...
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Sun, 25 Sep 2005 16:48:06 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, C. L. GunningCook wrote:
> If I had the building skill, I would build a bot that seeks another bot...
> AND just like wild animals getting it on in nature, it wont be based on "buy me
> a drink and lets see what happens!" Kill the dumb luck, cause a cute bot isnt
> going to score.
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> If you design your bot, to SEEK its mate, and then it GRABS a hold of it,
> CONTROLS or positions it into the proper placement, and then does its deed...
> YA you got... "CAPTURE, then RAPTURE!!!"
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> IF your bot doesn't give the other bot the chance to say "Sorry, not tonight, I
> have a headache" then you have planted your seed, wham bam... and then you move
> on to your ... NEXT ma'am.
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> If I have learned one thing about rtl, it's NOT supposed to be about the win,
> right??? Its about the fun, and what you learn and how you push your own
> building skills, and what you take from others skills, concepts or ideas,
> right??? Or am I totally off the mark here?
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> So, if someone, even JUST ONE player, can make a bot that removes the "dumb
> luck" isn't that worth the game??? When I attend, and I see a bot that can plant
> his seed like the best stud in the bar.... well heck, THATS worth the drive to
> T.O.
I agree that a well made 'bot can potentially eliminate the luck factor, but...
Has it occured 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 depositer through a
hole in the side of another robot. Maybe the kids won't get it, but the parents
will, and quite possibly, the library will. Do we want to piss off the library
so that we can, tee hee, say almost-dirty things on LUGNET?
-Greg
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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)
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