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Big AL
Experienced Roboteer
Joined: 16 Oct 2004
Posts: 436
Location: roleystone perth. WA
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Bash .org stuff
i had to post this because it followed simmiler to something mel said a while back, (see someone understood your little sopebox moment, guess which forum topic is from people)
<Graham> Let's say you have an ax. The kind that you could use, in a pinch, to hack a man's head off...
<Graham> And let's say that very situation comes up and for some very solid reasons you behead a man.
<Graham> On the follow-through, though, the handle of the ax snaps in half in a spray of splinters.
<Graham> So the next day you take it to the ax store down the block and get a new handle, fabricating a story for the guy behind the counter and explaining away the reddish dark stains as barbeque sauce.
<Graham> Now, that next spring you find in your garage a creature that looks like a cross-bred badger and anaconda. A badgerconda.
<Graham> And so you grab your trusty ax and chop off one of the beast's heads, but in the process the blade of the ax strikes the concrete floor and shatters.
<Graham> This means another trip to McMillan & Son's Ax Mart. As soon as you get home with your newly-headed ax, though, you meet the reanimated body of the guy you beheaded last year.
<Graham> He's also got a new head attached and it's wearing that unique expression of "you're the man who killed me last Spring" resentment that one so rarely encounters in everyday life.
<Graham> You brandish your ax. He takes a long look at the weapon with his squishy, rotting eyes and in a gargly voice he screams, "that's the same ax that slayed me!"
<Graham> ...Is he right? _________________ For West ausies interested in robotics email me at: theoneshrug@hotmail.com
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dragoonarie@gmail.com
best quote ever:: "Those Gas-Turbine style warehouse heaters arent illegal, and neither is remote controlling one as far as I know."
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Thu Apr 13, 2006 11:36 pm |
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Spockie-Tech
Site Admin
Joined: 31 May 2004
Posts: 3160
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Its a Philisophical Argument.. one of those ones with no clear answer. How many angels can dance on the head of a pin type of thing.
Is the guy who's whining about being killed the "same" guy since he now has a new head ?
The problem with Robot Combat is that we draw an arbitary line at the end of a tournament and say "ok, after this point you can rebuild the whole robot, but not while you are in the midst of the competition"
Ideally, each fight would be a seperate event in itself, and what happened outside the arena wouldnt matter, but thats not practical given the arrangement of our events.
So you have to draw a line in the sand somewhere between changing a wheel, and attaching the remaining good wheel to a whole new robot. Exactly where the line is, is the tricky part.
Look closer Neo, the real secret is, there is no Ax.. _________________ Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people
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Fri Apr 14, 2006 12:35 am |
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