Science At last, Giant Robot Fights are a real thing

Tragi-Chan said:
Do they feel pain? If not, I'm out.
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I really wish they wouldn't scream like that.

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17 minutes!
Where will you be when the first real mech battle happens?
 
I'll be eating chicken and watching it on my brother's computer because my laptop's being a piece of shit.

'Murrica.
 
The buildup to this fight was incredible, only for the Japanese robot to literally just drive into the American one and knock it over.

I can appreciate the craftsmanship and engineering that's gone into both of these machines, but holy shit was that a let down.

edit: The second fight was clearly staged and manufactured. The whole thing was just set up. What a letdown.
 
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So it's 1-1, but the American team won the second round, which was the round that really mattered IMHO. That's the one that the American team actually had a robot ready for (in the first round, they used their original robot, which was designed to play paintball, and had no real anti-robot weapons.)
I do agree with @Super Collie that some elements of the second round are suspicious.
 
There was literal editing and public domain sound effects. I get it its not a free for all but at least be not so fake. This is literally WWE but worse writing/editing and with robots.
 
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Splendid Meat Sticks said:
I do agree with @Super Collie that some elements of the second round are suspicious.
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Pop-Tart said:
There was literal editing and public domain sound effects. I get it its not a free for all but at least be not so fake. This is literally WWE but worse writing/editing and with robots.
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The second fight was scripted and it was painfully obvious. I was giving the show the benefit of the doubt until American Prime or whatever picked up the "lighting rig" and used it as a shield, and then the hosts -- who just so happened to be sitting right there by the fight, had to get up and leave because lo and behold the two robots ended up driving over the entire set.

The whole thing was a sham and I'm disappointed and pretty angry. True, while I did forget about this fight for a long time you can't fault me and everyone else for thinking we'd still get a real fight out of the deal.

edit: There's a live Q&A going on right now. I hope Twitch chat fucking eats them alive.
 
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Super Collie said:
The whole thing was a sham and I'm disappointed and pretty angry. True, while I did forget about this fight for a long time you can't fault me and everyone else for thinking we'd still get a real fight out of the deal.
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I would be fine with scripted even if it wasn't just so fucking shit. Like the WWE is scripted but it can be fun as fuck.
 
All the One Punch Man jokes after the first duel. :story: And I couldn't stop laughing when they got stuck in combat, like what the hell lol.

Even if the second fight is staged (I don't know how it could've been staged, honestly, but yeah, grabbing the lighting rig was something that came out of nowhere and was like "Wait, is this like using a chair in wrestling match?"), it was still cool to see these robots in action. Like damn.

The background documentary videos that played before the duel were the most interesting parts, honestly. Just watching them build those robots and putting them to the test was worth it, that was cool.
 
They got "stuck" in combat to pad the show time out and so the teams could conveniently swap weapons.
 
The Twitch chat is screaming #MECHGATE (shitty random screencap because chat goes by too fast).

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They got "stuck" in combat to pad the show time out and so the teams could conveniently swap weapons.
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Honestly, there really needed to be weight classes, even with the scripted bullshit. The Eagle was twice the weight of the Kuratas. Doesn't help the Megabots guys had a fuckload of outside support from NASA and Kickstarter and so on, while Kuratas was basically done completely on its own.
 
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If anything, regardless of the end result, the behind-the-scenes footage was where it was at in showing off the power of technology. I'm more disappointed by the fact we don't seem to have as much information about what went on with the Japanese team and how they did their tests like we have with MegaBots, but I think it's quite the miracle that these robots managed to be built and functional. So many things could've gone wrong--which yeah, would've made things more raw and impactful (and there'd probably be less cries of "FAKE"), still, at least no one got seriously injured from this.
 
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