51: Blackjack and High Quality Graphics

Spinnerproof

• Follow up
  • The follow ups are easily startled, but they’ll soon be back - and in greater numbers.
• Bugglebots
  • Doing Bugglebots was amazing
  • We can’t talk about a huge amount
  • Our first experience of full combat
  • Bugglebots is an excellent live show
    • And a logistical miracle
    • Two 12hr+ days of work from the crew
  • We must now keep our secrets for months. Boo.
• Battlebots
  • Bingo talk will be saved for the next Bingo episode
    • Go listen to the Bingo episode if you haven’t already.
    • Also, full cards and explanations of each prediction can be found here
    • And you can generate your own
  • 2 hour runtime
    • It’s not for everybody
    • Pacing currently seems good
    • Pits segments are meaningful
      • A nice, long chat with Ray
        • and GUNS!!!
  • The graphics still suck
  • Quantum entanglement
    • Was it an entertaining fight?
    • Was it a manufactured controversy?
      • The rules you can read vs the rules you’re told
    • That interview
      • Conspiracy theories with Ryan
    • What now?
      • According to some sources, Cobalt’s body is 100% AR500. Could this be the case for some other robots?
  • Main event
    • Was it good? Does it need to be good?
    • How much fight reordering does Battlebots do?
      • Duck! vs Bombshell was the first fight of the event, and is in episode 2
        • This, incidentally, would have been a valid opening main event - we will have to see if the fight itself would have been worthy
  • Re:MARS livestream
    • Sam had a bad time
    • Live events are hard, and this was a pretty good effort from everyone involved
      • Except the sound guy. Screw the sound guy.
        • (Sorry sound guy, you were probably doing your best)
    • Re:MLARaS = Machine Learning, Automation, Robotics and Space
      • What even is AI?
        • the “AI Effect”
    • Chomp’s vacuum feet
    • Professor Hutchins explains exactly what AI is
    • Ryan is consistent, vol 472: “I don’t think it would ever be entertaining”…“I asked ‘is it’, not ‘will it be’…”
• RTNCTI
  • RTNCTI lives on, in a universe where the 2019 season doesn’t exist
  • Where it all began: 5 episodes and 4 months ago
  • Carbide vs DisConstructor vs King B Remix
    • Series 10 Carbide, Series 8 DisConstructer, Robogames King B
    • Is it ever offensive to suggest that a Robot Wars competitor will probably lose to Carbide?
  • End Game vs Eruption vs Sawblaze
    • Oh no…
    • Most recent versions of all three
    • End Game bringing the potential but not the results
      • Good wins balanced out by bad losses
      • Inability to self right reliably
    • Eruption and Sawblaze are both exceptionally driven and extremely effective
      • Who gets under who?
    • Can Eruption adapt to the Battlebots arena?
  • High-5 vs Reality vs Splatter
    • Poor High-5…
    • Reality with a reasonable record, Splatter coming in with only one fight but an otherwise proven concept
      • Invoking time travel