Show notes
- Followup
- Carbide’s battery woes
- Armchair Production 2.1
- Fluff
- ‘Representations’ of roboteers
- Tracktion
- Kids front and center
- Immitate, Improve, Innovate
- Vulture
- Rejecting the cameras
- Should all representations be positive?
- Should there be a ‘representation’ at all?
- Self-censorship for TV
- Charlie Brooker on how TV can use editing to grossly misrepresent real events
- Pay close attention to the use of voiceovers/interview soundbites
- RAPID
- Literally just money. Apparently.
- The British view of money and success
- Apex
- Craig’s ‘strop’
- Are we any better? We hope so
- Tracktion
- Melee 1
- Bucky The Robot
- Ryan’s ideal entrant?
- Unreliable self-righting
- RAPID
- Hugely improved
- Excellently driven
- Using the hazards
- Slow flipper reset
- Pneumatics issues
- Boring?
- Very well ‘planted’ and controllable with the 4WD, and therefore visually unspectacular
- Making it look easy
- Tracktion
- Basically not tested in its fights
- Immediately out vs RAPID, Apex self destructed and Vulture forced to withdraw
- Borrowing bits
- Where does this sit within the rules?
- And do we care?
- Active weapon?
- Where does this sit within the rules?
- Basically not tested in its fights
- JP’s weird and wonderful commentary
- Overhyping the Fog of War
- Under-hyping the Fog of War
- Conversations with Lucy Rodgers
- Actually analysing the value of FoW
- The primary role of the house robots: freeing stuck robots
- Bucky The Robot
- Melee 2
- Apex
- A dangerous machine?
- Do the BBC want us to think this was worse than it was?
- A dangerous machine?
- Terrorhurtz
- A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
- Acknowledging the old series
- THE CHAIR
- An inconvenient chair with clear sentimental value
- The Best Hits
- Front armour upgrades
- Vulture
- ‘Not engineers’
- Experienced builders with featherweights…
- Very well constructed
- Underpowered weaponry?
- ‘Not engineers’
- JP explaining the immobility rules (a bit)
- Sam ruins everything
- Apex
- Selected fights
- Tracktion vs Apex
- Dead Metal in the arena
- Why Apex died
- Ghosts
- RAPID vs Tracktion
- RAPID’s ‘ears’
- Pressure to entertain
- Playing with the rules
- Opening melee restart
- Tracktion vs Apex
- RAPID AMA
- Flipping a transit van 1m in the air
- Ratings
