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Sun, 25 Sep 2005 19:54:25 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Calum Tsang wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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 the variables of the game as I
understand them.
I've done more searching across LUGNET and the internet for this particular game
than I have for any other--considering I pretty much knew what I was going to do
every other time, but now, not so much...
I think that one can take the 'random chance of scoring' away with a very well
thought out 'bot, ad that's what I'm planning on doing. Take away the punch
line (and I like the punchline, but lets take it away for now...)
Here's the competition--it's not block stacking, it's not block sorting, it's
block exchanging. We've done the others every which way (and I have no problem
if we do it again), but let's try this one--you have to build a 'bot capable of
exchanging blocks with other 'bots.
If we want to make it harder by making a coupling mechanism' a la rectangular
hole and block dispenser, than so be it--saying it's obscene is like saying that
scene in Apollo 13, where the LEM and the capsule came together, is
obscene--we're doing the same thing, yet we want the 'bots to do it
autonomously, and with the difference that each 'bot was made by different
people--you don't know what they're going to bring so you have to build
accordingly.
As far as I'm concerned, this will be our most difficult 'arena' 'bot game we've
ever run.
Dave K
-don't worry about the promo stuff--enjoy the trip--Sandy and I are loving your
pics!
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| (...) Oh, please... We all know that the intent is to be sugestive, and so will everyone there. Comparing it to the spacecraft is naive. Why not this: blocks are to be dropped into a basket. However, you don't want blocks to be droped into your (...) (19 years ago, 25-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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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 (...) (19 years ago, 25-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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