hi are you still looking for bots to design…if you could do deep six OR captain shrederator if you havent done either already it would make me soosososososos happy thank you !!
After reading what Nick Nave had to say about the fight, it just pisses me off even more and makes me hope to dear god Black Dragon tears Riptide to shreds.
Basically, the damages from the Riptide fight cost Shederator about 10k and totaled the bot meaning they had to build a new bot from the ground up for the Jackpot fight, which already is a tough task, but then throw in the fact the fight would be the next day.
my unpopular onion; full body spinners are cringe. i loved when hypershock tore gigabyte in half not just because i looove hypershock, and not just because big loud robot boom explosion sparks and loud clanging metal noises woohoo, but bc i personally don’t like those spinners and thing they’re lame
lmao based tbh. I don't necessarily think they're boring. Like a few of my all time favorite fights ever are gigabyte ones but i'm never rooting for them. (hypershock, and the recent free shipping fight were fantastic)
I think they're good to have in the sport just for some variation, but i can sympathize with the dislike for them
Given all the shitstorms that Team Riptide have caused, I’m really bummed that Ethan Kurtz is pretty much the closest thing I’ve seen on TV to somebody like myself; someone with autism, with language filtering issues and body language eccentricities.
He stims like I do, his postures/facial expressions are stilted and hesitant like mine. If I were to be given a spotlight after a fight, my victory celebrations— I think— would be much closer to his “LET’S GOOO”s and assorted vulgarities than Martin Mason’s dramatic pointing or Jamison Go’s quiet charisma. I see an unappreciated, misunderstood piece of myself in him, and it hurts so much that he had to be a shitty person. I know, a lot of it could have been prevented by his father, but there still was a lot that was his fault (the Shrederator incident, for one).
Autism presents in all kinds of ways, and even among the heavily neurodivergent cast of Battlebots, I rarely saw someone who represented me as well as Ethan did, but… how am I supposed to find a role model in him? Yeah, great, I too could become the star captain of the least popular team in BB, maybe in the history of robot combat? That doesn’t make me want to dream very big.
I don’t want to be like that, but he’s the first autistic person on TV that I’ve found myself in quite so strongly, so I can’t help but hate myself/my autism a little more than I did before this season started.