Guns Of Icarus Online
Off-Topic => The Lounge => Topic started by: ShadedExalt on July 12, 2015, 09:37:01 pm
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It all starts with Suidobashi Heavy Industry's Kuratas piloted robot being unveiled.
https://youtu.be/uLl9mF8TSCU (https://youtu.be/uLl9mF8TSCU)
Copied from Know Your Meme:
"History
In 2012, Kuratas Suidobashi unveiled the first Kuratas robot, billed as “The World’s First Boarding Robot.” The robot was big enough for a man to sit inside and operate it from within, just as in the traditional mecha format. It was operated off of the XBox Kinect user interface, and while it couldn’t walk, it could drive on three wheels at about ten kilometers per hour. It could be armed with a series of cannons made for shooting fireworks or water bottles, and retailed for US $1,353,500."
THEN an American company called Megabots, Inc, made a kickstarter to raise $1.8m to fund a project to create their own mecha. The goal was to make 2 bots and an arena, and have them duke it out. The long term was to start a sporting league. They only got $65k, though, and they think it's because they had only a prototype turret at the time.
Eventually, however, they succeeded in making a robot, and made this video:
https://youtu.be/XVJTGLL2SnI (https://youtu.be/XVJTGLL2SnI)
5 days later, Suidobashi responds:
https://youtu.be/7u8mheM2Hrg (https://youtu.be/7u8mheM2Hrg)
No exact date is known, but the estimate of the fight is sometime in 2016.
As somebody in the comments says...
"Born too late to explore the planet
And born too early to explore the stars...
BUT BORN JUST IN TIME TO WITNESS THE BIRTH OF MECHA."
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Shaded...............we need to make some kind of American/Canadian hybrid mech now. You know it must be so.
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I've seen this anime, Japan wins, America sucks...fan service and panty shots for all! :D
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Oi, let me and Shaded build our contender before you make assumptions! I bring the Dakka and agro, you bring the moose and good manners!
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http://youtu.be/GUbeJ1uG-9w
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Japan has a Gundam guarding Odaiba.
It just needs motors and motion capture software.
/thread
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http://youtu.be/GUbeJ1uG-9w
I used to love Robot Wars!
I actually had the privilege to meet the creations Behemoth and Sir Killalot. Really cool robots!
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http://youtu.be/GUbeJ1uG-9w
Damn, I miss that show! Whatever happened to it?
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http://youtu.be/GUbeJ1uG-9w
I used to love Robot Wars!
I actually had the privilege to meet the creations Behemoth and Sir Killalot. Really cool robots!
I have a remote control Matilda box which is signed by the Chaos team, Craig Charles, Sir Killalots driver, Behemoth team, and the team with the big lady bird, and another team I forgot the name of. Got to meet them all at Lakeside during a robotwars promotion. 8)
Me and my dad made a robot, applied, got past the paper application but then when the inspectors met our bot we were apparently against a couple of rules regarding weight and size by a few points, enough to ensure we didn't qualify... :(
Had the games, had the rip off games, had the player modified version of the rip off.
Was a huge robotwars nut when I was younger.
As for what happened to Robotwars...
American TV happened... It was "bigger" and more over the top with the arena. It was less about the teams behind the robots and more about who could make the bigger grinder with more revs per second... Then it slowly died.
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Ahh, was never sure of the rules myself. I had an idea for two huge horizontal buzz-saws, one above the other, and the spun in different directions. Then I got the idea to use lawn mower blades...........that would have been a beast.....
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Oh yeah the rules were very strict and tight, we were very close to qualifying but really only a little bit too heavy and big, but by the time we finished adjusting our bot size, they'd filled for the series and next series I'd started at college and dad didn't want to enter without me, and then it was in America.... :'(
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craig charles needs to present this
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craig charles needs to present this
Yes!
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I would love to create a robot.
I am quite good at programming microcontrollers and such.
I once made an armoured RC car. Was petrol powered and the range of the controller was stupid, when it was functional, we never tested it fully but was a stupidly long range. I crashed it into a brick wall, some tube connected to the engine cut and then well, it combusted due to the heat...
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I used to have a custom built remote controlled car, dad helped me pick the parts and taught me how to put it together, he used to build and fly remote control planes too, though I always struggled getting the balance right on mine, my planes were always built from the left overs of his wrecked ones XD
We used to salvage the working parts and recycle them :)
The most impressive thing my dad made was a tiny indoor plane, electrics powered the turning, but the prop was powered by a rubber band. XD
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I never was good at programing. However, I know how to use tools and am agro enough to pilot a giant robot! :)
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Carn, if you think that you're angrier than a pissed off Canadian you have another thing coming.
I will pilot and use the arms for melee combat, you get to shoot our paintball cannons and bottle launchers.
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To be fair, I have had very little contact with your kind. I have known them to have good manners though. And who says we don't build two bots? Mine can have axe hand and shoulder dakka!
I'm deadly serious about this.
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Japan, USA, whatever. Just don't invite Finland. They have robots that kill entire forests.
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Japan, USA, whatever. Just don't invite Finland. They have robots that kill entire forests.
Meh, I prefer mining equipment http://youtu.be/Ry2rlF52Cvg
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IN ALL SERIOUSNESS:
Do you guys think these will get off the ground? Make a sporting league, have military applications?
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Quite possibly, could be a few decades, but lets face it. People like giant robots, its going to be a thing someday.
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Walking/upright robots are unstable, tall, easy to hit targets. That makes them impractical for military use. Look at the evolution of tanks from tall machines to fat, squatting toads.
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That makes logical sense. But humans aren't really logical creatures, now are we? We have a deep seated fondness, for punching, and dakka. Mechs have both. And it all depends on the mech, it doesn't have to be bipedal. It could have four legs, or be some kind of giant spider mech tank thing.
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The Japanese robot has 4 wheels
And with proper balancing and such, multiple legs even, they're excellent at traversing terrain.
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We could go a six-legged spider like bot. Big cannon on the thorax, pincers a huge crushing claw, and dakka of course.
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Metal Gear Excelcus says what
(http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130519011845/metalgear/images/5/59/20130515104244_metalGearExcelsus_01.png)
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Well, that, and the fact that it launches nukes.
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MG Excelsus was EASY compared to Senator Armstrong.
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NANOMACHINES SON
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Why even bother with being a cyborg when you can just play football, work out, and use nanomachines?
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Shaded, we need to build a spider-tank. Why? Because,
Spider-tank, spider-tank, does whatever spider-tank wants.
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Can it swing
From a web
No it can't
It's a tank
LOOK OUT
Here comes the spider-tank
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Spider-tank, spider-tank, does whatever spider-tank wants.
Can it swing
From a web
No it can't
It's a tank
LOOK OUT
Here comes the spider-tank
And thus! The great spider-tank theme song, was born!
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WE NEED MOAR LYRICS
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Well i said the birth of the spider-tank theme song. It still has to go through puberty, and its edgy phase.
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Edgy phase like Anakin Skywalker?
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Good god no, Im talking the dark knight trilogy, compared to Adam west. A good edgy phase, not some wooden emo performance.
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Obi Wan didn't cut off Anakin's hand. It was sliced off by all that edge!
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Edgy phase like Anakin Skywalker?
2edgy4u
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Edgy phase like Anakin Skywalker?
2edgy4u
Speaking of edges our robot needs blades
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well I for one thinks america should have/should make a to-scale model of liberty prime that fully functions.
EMBRACE DEMOCRACY OR BE ERADICATED!
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No
They should make a full scale model of MEGAS.
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I'd actually prefer we work on AI and Spartans........
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I'd actually prefer we work on AI and Spartans........
Dis is all anyone gotz tah work on.
(http://www.wallpapervortex.com/ipad_wallpapers/ipad_19355_warhammer_40k_space_marine.jpg)
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*ahem*
And now, some words from Liberty Prime describing how he is truly the best (and most patriotic) robot.
"Freedom is the sovereign right of every American. Death is a preferable alternative to Communism."
"Communism is a temporary setback on a road to freedom"
"Liberty Prime is Online. All systems nominal. Weapon's hot. Mission: The destruction of any and all Chinese communists
"Tactical Assessment: Red; Chinese Victory; Impossible."
And his final, truly american words!
"Catastrophic...System...failure...initiating core shutdown as per emergency initiate two six eight two two zero nine I die So that democracy may live..."
(http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/fallout/images/a/ab/User_nuclear_joe.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20120907022725)
(http://cdn-img.fimfiction.net/story/vgq0-1432430642-23913-medium)
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/fd/e5/d1/fde5d1e2dab48caf17ba161bd8f4c763.jpg)
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I like how in the last poster there's
Minigun/Gatling Laser (Probly the latter)
Missile Launcher
Laser Rifle
Like
lel get that dinky shit outta here
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(http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/6/61/Chaos_Reaver.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20111023073636)
Screw yer freedom. Bow before the Emphra.
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*ahem*
And now, some words from Liberty Prime describing how he is truly the best (and most patriotic) robot.
"Freedom is the sovereign right of every American. Death is a preferable alternative to Communism."
"Communism is a temporary setback on a road to freedom"
"Liberty Prime is Online. All systems nominal. Weapon's hot. Mission: The destruction of any and all Chinese communists
"Tactical Assessment: Red; Chinese Victory; Impossible."
And his final, truly american words!
"Catastrophic...System...failure...initiating core shutdown as per emergency initiate two six eight two two zero nine I die So that democracy may live..."
why are your words written in upside down french flag colours
(http://i.imgur.com/gddkyqh.png)
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VIVE LA FRANCE
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I'm pretty sure the french flag is only one color. White.
And this would be where my german ancestry comes out.
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I'm pretty sure the french flag is only one color. White.
YOU SON OF A--
Shut up, that's mean... :(
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I'm pretty sure the french flag is only one color. White.
YOU SON OF A--
Shut up, that's mean... :(
Had to do my German ancestors proud Koali. I didn't know you were french, you don't have a french accent. I just thought you knew some french.
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Weeeeeeell, I'm technically only slightly French. Long story.
I don't have an accent because I grew up in the land of Liberty Prime.
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Sounded like it.
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BACK TO THE POINT
LIBERTY PRIME MASTER RACE
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The French rolled over and assumed the position for the Germans.
Sorta makes me glad the Quebecois in Canada aren't pansies.
Also,
(http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/8/81/Emperor_Titan_2.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20111218225423)
Imperator > Reaver
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The French rolled over and assumed the position for the Germans.
Sorta makes me glad the Quebecois in Canada aren't pansies.
Also,
(http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/8/81/Emperor_Titan_2.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20111218225423)
Imperator > Reaver
You guys ever here that joke about why the french plant trees over the streets in Paris?
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The French rolled over and assumed the position for the Germans.
Sorta makes me glad the Quebecois in Canada aren't pansies.
Also,
(http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/8/81/Emperor_Titan_2.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20111218225423)
Imperator > Reaver
You guys ever here that joke about why the french plant so trees over the streets in Paris?
Whats a "so tree"?
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No idea what your talking about. The joke is, there's tree's there so the German army has shade to march under.
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No idea what your talking about. The joke is, there's tree's there so the German army has shade to march under.
Directly from your other post: "french plant so trees"
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No idea what you mean I don't see the word so in there.
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>is waiting for mods to parachute in and lock the thread for racism or something
OK GUYS MORE ON TOPIC
(for once)
What would you realistically put on a mecha?
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Wrist mounted blades, and shoulder canons.
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Punch hammers, punch shotguns, pile bunkers... Fist weaponry.
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Laser eyes, fingers that double as machine guns.......wait....how big of a mecha are we talking here? Sky scrapper size, or like 20 feet?
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On a REAL LIFE mecha.
So like 12' maximum.
Shoulder weapons (Minigun, 40mm Cannon)
Sorta lance hands
Missile launcher on back
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Chest rockets?
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Chest rockets?
Thought about that, but why chest when back?
Up n' Over
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Because chest rocket are easier to aim than back rockets.
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Targeting systems, duh. I said missiles, not rockets