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Follow up
- Ryan got things wrong
  - Bulky feeder wedges aren’t all that common on HW drums
    - Xiake and Spin Doctor are rare exceptions
  - Vanquish appears set to appear again this season
Front Matter: technology is bad edition
- Elon Musk vs the press
  - Elon doesn’t like criticism
  - Elon wants us to rank press outlets: 1, 2, 3
- Amazon Echo privacy failure
  - Church of England’s prayer feature
- Apple ejected Sam’s favourite app
Battlebots, Episode 3
- Another very good episode
- Overhaul vs Sawblaze
  - Overhaul
    - Sam thinks Overhaul is ugly
    - Many invisible improvements to Overhaul, as chronicled in Charles Guan’s superb build-log
  - SawBlaze
    - Green flames!
    - A saw!
    - Trash talk!
  - Sawblaze’s saw really, really works
  - Where does Overhul fit within the meta?
    - Decent anti-spinner setups
- Whiplash vs Hypothermia
  - Whiplash
    - Versatile weapon rather than a particularly powerful weapon
  - Hypothermia
    - Very neat lifter mechanism
    - Option of a much more defensive plough
    - Posibly more robust than this fight would make it seem
  - Wonderful overhead hits from Whiplash
- Four Horsemen vs Double Jeopardy vs Gamma 9
  - Four Horsemen
    - From Ian Watts and the team that created The Swarm and The Grubs
  - Double Jeopardy
    - From the team that brought us the unreasonably robust and effective Troublemaker at Robogames, among other machines.
    - The quick build means the weapon is much heavier than it could potentially be, hence the very weak armour
  - Gamma 9
    - From the team that brought us the largely ineffective but uneniably creative walker Gammatron
      - The dome is an aesthetic throwback to the original machines
  - Double Jeopardy’s AMA revealed that the cannon did serious damage to Gamma 9
  - Judges’ decision shenanigens
    - Was it a knockout for Gamma 9?
    - Under Battlebots’ double knockout rules, this fight goes to the judges anyway as it lasted more than 60 seconds
- WarHawk vs Axe Backwards
  - Warhawk
    - A standard but well excecuted spinner design
  - Axe Backwards
    - Full. Body. Drum.
    - Extremely robust drum
      - Less robust everythng else
  - Sam doesn’t understand the cultural importance of the primary weapon meme
  - Nuts 3 for Battlebots 2019?
    - #NutsAcrossThePond
- Hypershock vs Biteforce
  - Hypershock
    - Possibly the best looking robot ever made
    - Rock ship from FTL
    - Hypershock toy when?
  - Biteforce
    - Still an unispiring design, but immensely powerful
  - Faruq jingle when?
  - Hypershock evidently in trouble from the very start
EM drive
- P H Y S I C S
- Good explanations of EM drive are hard to find
- Ryan is wrong about the device being open ended
Bonus after aftershow

90 episodes

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