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The oft-delayed giant robot fight has finally taken place. On Tuesday, Team USA's mechs scrapped it out with Japan's Kuratas in an abandoned steel mill for the world to watch. There could only be one victor, and it proved to be [snipped for your pleasure]
Those not familiar with the rumblings about this fight can catch up from Engadget's original coverage, and our own in 2015, and earlier this year.
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US versus Japan Mecha Fight (no spoilers in TFS)
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Another good night not to sleep in a eucalyptus tree.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Snow on Thursday October 19 2017, @08:24PM (14 children)
It was super lame.
Bot 1 shoots a large paintball at bot 2.
Bot 2 slowly wheels close to bot 1
Bot 2 knocks bot 1 over.
Bot 1 lies on back like a turtle.
Total Duration: ~10 seconds.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 19 2017, @08:28PM (4 children)
You left out the part where the Yank hacks the Jap apart with a chain saw
(Score: 2) by Snow on Thursday October 19 2017, @08:30PM
That's pretty generous...
The chainsaw was as useless as the paintball gun.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 19 2017, @10:01PM (2 children)
"Yeah, when we were evenly matched the Japanese robot KO'd ours in one strike, but when we made it lopsided contest by hauling out a bigger, heavier and better-armed robot we totally kicked their butt. USA! USA! USA!"
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday October 19 2017, @10:43PM
Ayuh! They win one battle, we win one battle. Draw?
Nah.
USA!USA!USA!
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday October 20 2017, @12:51AM
Japs' military doctrine no longer involves suicide-bombers.
If it were a Muslim bot, then it would have been a murder-suicide kill with both blown to bits.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday October 19 2017, @08:29PM
Honey if we showed all tricks up our sleeve you might get worried. So we just wwf around a bit...
Account abandoned.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday October 19 2017, @08:29PM (3 children)
Spoiler spoiler: there are 3 rounds, the spoiler above covers round 1. The other 2 rounds are less lame - but only a tiny bit so.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Snow on Thursday October 19 2017, @08:32PM (2 children)
Oh, I didn't know there was more than one round! I was so disappointed i couldn't carry on.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 19 2017, @08:48PM (1 child)
Round two was lame. Round three was a bit more exciting. People inform me that it wasn't staged, though I'm not sure I believe these people who tell me that. It looked cool at least.
Mechwarrior cited plenty of time as inspiration, but the combatants reminded me more of the standing tanks from the backstory in the manual to Battle Clash [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday October 19 2017, @09:06PM
You'd get better action by putting chainsaws and swords on industrial welding bots and programming them to parry.
This was just sad. Does watching 6 times ten seconds out of 25 minutes count as a "view" on youtube? I'm afraid I may have accidentally encouraged them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 19 2017, @08:30PM
It was way longer than 10 seconds, but I didn't even watch the end it was so dull.
(Score: 2) by jcross on Thursday October 19 2017, @09:18PM (1 child)
I just skimmed it and could not stand the annoying voiceover. The guy sounded like an annoying teenager in an adult body, overacting excitement without actually being excited at all. To be fair, this seems to be what reality TV mostly sounds like these days, but omg who actually likes that voice? Maybe they need it to make up for the aforesaid lameness of the actual action being narrated?
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday October 19 2017, @10:48PM
Yes... "The one robot knocked over a stack of cars, leaving a trail of destruction!!!"
SHEEIT... One car fell over.
Whooo.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 20 2017, @02:39AM
These things aren't very far from a big backhoe (or some other variety of construction digger). If they were painted yellow they would fit right in on a big road construction site.
Anyway, these robots are toys compared to Robosaurus, which goes back to 1989.