Will this be a major letdown? Will it even happen?

>>14086428
>Will this be a major letdown?
Yes.

Since they're both being piloted my vote is for they're going to be too afraid to actually hit each other.

>>14086428
>Will this be a major letdown?

Yes

>Will it even happen?


Kuratas will zoom around MB likes a fucking orbital frame

>>14086477
you're forgetting one important thing

asian people can't drive

he'll probably crash into megabot or drive right into the chainsaw.

>>14086428
>Will this be a major letdown?

So you even have to ask?

>>14086445

Also this.

>Megabot, failing to beg hard enough for yet more funding, shows up with no electronics
>Kuratas plinks at the windscreen, and only the windscreen, just to show off

>>14086433
>Nothing but an AC/5 and an LRM/20
Kuratas wins in close combat.

>>14086506
They're upgrading it to >>14086446

>>14086477
>Kuratas will zoom around MB likes a fucking orbital frame

This. Kuratas has the speed, so my guess is it will zoom around and try to crash into MB in an attempt to knock it over or something.

>>14086549
>in an attempt to knock it over or something.
Megabot looks way more stable and heavy than Kuratas. If anything, doing that would only damage Kuratas.

>>14086512
Not quite, they didn't hit all their stretch goals, I think they only got enough cash for the base.

>>14086559
He also has a chainsaw but I can't see him doing anything with it out of fear of killing the other guy, another reason this whole thing is going to end up being extremely dull, not that I want to see somebody get killed

>>14086568
>not wanting the risk of death
But that's one of the good parts of mecha battles.

>>14086568
>we will never see two sufficiently rich and crazy bastards build 4 meter robots and fight to the death because the dream is just that important to them

>>14086604

ah to be alive in the days of Tesla and Edison

Megabot looks like a steaming pile of shit. When that top-heavy dumpster on legs gets crumped it won't be soon enough.

>>14086428
Japanese robot would burn like a grunt in 80s anime.

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>>14086440
hmmmmm.

Can we please get some objective opinions here please? None of that "muh freedom" or "muh Japanese shit can't possibly lose to filthy americans" stuff.

Purely from a engineering and mechanical point of view (from what can be seen in the pictures), what can we reasonably expect?

>>14086675
You're retarded. Please go back to 9gag and then kill yourself.

>>14086428
Yes, and maybe. In that order.

>>14086549
Megabot with the upgrades is twice as fast as Kuratas.

>>14086680
Well for starters Megabot is bulky as hell, has shit articulation, and looks as maneuverable as a drunken rhinoceros. Kuratas will run circles around Megabot until the latter flails its right arm and accidentally crushes the former.

>>14086706
How does Kuratas look in terms of sturdiness? I'm no engineer but it looks like Kuratas can't take much damage.

>>14086705
You got the video?
>>14086720
Megabot is made of plywood. It only LOOKS bulky.

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>>14086729
>Megabot is made of plywood
Yup, Kuratas wins.

>>14086729
>>14086735
You can reinforce Plywood with fiberglass, you know? Shit's tough.

>>14086771
That's nice, but what, pray tell, would Kuratas by made of?

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>>14086729
>plywood
Burning it would be fun. Too bad beam weapons will never be in existance.

>people believing that over-the-top concept art
>IT LOOKS REALLY STABLE GUYS
>IT HAS A COOL CHAINSAW TOO
>TOO BAD THEY CAN'T ACTUALLY USE IT
it won't use the chainsaw, because it won't have one, along with the rest of the shit seen in the concept art

the megabot is just a construction vehicle with paintball guns built to look like a half assed robot, so a group of arrogant manchild with sunglasses can pose in front of it and be all 'MURICAN while begging everyone for money.

While the Kuratas might be a fun personal project, the megabot is a product of greed and conceit. Even if megabot does win, even if giant robot battle becomes a big deal, we Americans will still have this unironic joke of a representative, and that's just sad.

>>14086887
Seems reflective of the state of the country right now.

Still waiting for the equivalent of a Rex. Nice Railguns By the way.

>>14086887
euphoric.

>>14086887
>While the Kuratas might be a fun personal project

Just saying, Kuratas was built by a corporation, not individuals

>>14086887
Not to mention kuratas boasts
>Advanced optical FCS
>multiple completed units
>three years and over a million dollars in development

and the Megabot has fucking chicken wire over the cockpit and manual hydraulic levers.

>>14087018
A corporation can still be one guy. In this case, that's exactly what it was. It's one guy, several employees, and a half dozen robots.

>>14087018
It's still a product of love. Money put into Kuratas is from an economic point of view wasted. Who will buy this? In enough quality that your development costs will be refunded? Even as an advertising/publicity stunt, that cash would be more efficiently used elsewhere.

But one or more of the higher ups obviously loves robots, and decided "I'm in position to actually create a real life mecha. Let's do it".

Kuratas will win because it is armed with two strongest weapons you can have in a mecha genre - love and courage.

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>>14086428
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR4AlR39NzY
COOL CLOCK AHMED

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>>14087052
>COOL COCK AHMED
Fixed that for you.

>>14086559
>megabot looks stable

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>went from Shagohod REX to playing with plywood
My sides.

Should've got US military to recomission this beast. Good ol Beetle.

>>14087042
>Kuratas will win because it is armed with two strongest weapons you can have in a mecha genre - love and courage.

But Megabot has "Understanding"

Understanding it will kick ass cuz MURRICA

>>14086433
Why do they look like douches?

>>14086428
It's a paintball match so there's no real point for the American mech being that big or having armor

>>14088224
Because they are douches.

>>14088224
Because they were and are. They've been jewing money off of people to improve their robot where team Kuratas has been working by itself.

>>14086428
Rewatching an epsiode of robot wars will be more entertaining

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>>14088431
Apparently it's getting a reboot soon. Also, what did /m/ think of the new BattleBots season last year?

>>14088249
what if the pilot gets hit? his efficiency would go down because at the very least it's bothersome to be covered in paint and at worst he feels disorientation

>>14088404
>Japan is a collectivist society but honors self-sufficiency and self-reliance very highly, resulting in a small group of people investing in their dreams for everyone to enjoy and relies on shared culture and love instead of treating their nationalism and patriotism as a joke
>US is a individualist society but now everyone asks for handouts, resulting in a couple of dank social media memers whoring their country's image to beg for other people's money to win a fight that they started
I really hope the Kuratas wins. I don't expect it not to but I want to see this thing kick ass.

Where do you think the duel will be held? I'm almost positive it will end up in the US (challenge someone and then say "come to my home turf pls" is another dick move) but imagine it happening in Odaiba or something. THAT would be fun. If I wasn't tied up with personal shit I'd probably speed up my pilgrimage to coincide with the battle, even if it is a disappointment.

Wait till one of the robot crushes the other by slipping on a loose rock or something and the dude gets fucking killed

>>14088447
They tried way too hard to make it seem like other sports events and the reality TV segments were unnecessary. Robot fights were alright though.

>>14088502
>US is a individualist society but now everyone asks for handouts, resulting in a couple of dank social media memers whoring their country's image to beg for other people's money to win a fight that they started
Shit, it kinda is like that innit?

I just want Kuratas to win so those two fucks stop disgracing my god damn country with their shit tier "robot". I don't know who will win, but I do know that no matter what happens the American team we have now never once deserved it.

>>14087220
I'd support this only if we bring build the nuclear powered bombers it was intended to work on.

It has to happen now that some semi-legit guys put an American flag on a project against another country's project. FBI will finish paying for the parts. It will probably be footbally though. All commercial ads, 3 minutes of uneventful footage. Girls wearing American flags. Only Japan can save this event actually, buy showing sick fight moves, killing the megabot and enjoying sushi for a winning feast while chanting "Banzaiii, Banazaiii".

In all seriousness, it should be made to be like a destruction derby. People take risks there. It is legal, some get majorly fucked up. It's impressive. There are fires. Vehicles get immobilized.

>third white-colored mech crashes the showdown, wrecks them both
>WARE WARE WA SORESTIARU BEINGU

>>14088818
>Not green with red stars, armed with a rail.

>>14088825
>a rail
Like, literally a rail from a railroad track? That would be something.

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>>14088839
Yep, that's what I mean

>>14086795
>Too bad beam weapons will never be in existance
Pretty close enough
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2014/dec/10/us-navy-laser-weapon-video

>>14088519
>I just want Kuratas to win so those two fucks stop disgracing my god damn country with their shit tier "robot". I don't know who will win, but I do know that no matter what happens the American team we have now never once deserved it.

Then build a better robot.

These two guys literally gave up their livelihood in order to chase their dreams. Two engineers, people who literally get well paid jobs thrown at them by the dozen gave that up in order to build their own giant robot. I respect them for that.

If you feel disgraced, truly outraged, go and build a better robot, go beat their robot to bits with it's own to legs, go and show the world what you're capable of.

My guesss is you won't. You'll make up some bullshit excuse and shitpost on 4chan.

Don't bother responding, I am getting to grips with CAE linux. The Netherlands are under-represented in giant robot fighting.

>>14089402
You sure showed him.
*upvotes*

>>14089413
real robot pilots then to have broken spirit commands though

>>14089413
Good job showing you have no idea of what you're talking about.

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>>14088818
This.
This is the best-case scenario.

>>14086549

What if Megabot has drone funnels?

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>>14087052
>"america needs lots more kids like you"
>Get's blowjob from every well known celebrity talk show,gets invited to expos and fairs which are way above his level of assembling an old clock into a bomb looking pencil case.
>promised to get a MIT scholarship
>Meets Obama
>fucks off to Qatar and family sues the school administration with 14 million dollar
>"america needs lots more kids like you"

>>14086887
I want Megabot to win because then the Japs will feel horribly dishonored over losing to such a joke and build an even better giant robot for round two finally starting the mecha arms race I've been dreaming of.

>>14087063
>if it's not super complex it's not cool

Kill yourself you racist piece of shit.

>>14091357
For the rematch, Megabot will beg for enough money to buy a Patton and duct tape a cardboard robot head on it.

>>14091368
implying it won't go:
>America wins.
>"That's for Pearl Harbor. America FUCK YEAH"
>America loses
>"Come back to us when you win a real war nerd"

>>14086887
>the megabot is a product of greed and conceit.
And what could possibly be more AMERICAN than that? Revolvers and a football helmet? Maybe some boxing gloves? A surf board?

Seriously, though, the Kuratas was clearly designed by an actual engineer. Megablot looks like it was built by some above-average rednecks in their back yard. If they are going for paintball instead of the meelee combat they agreed to, it's possible they could just brick the Kuratas in a short amount of time if they load enough dakka on it. Probably only if they're in an open areana, though. If they have terrain cover like a few blocks of mock city the Kuratas should be able to outmaneuver it in a prolonged battle.

Megabot *looks* like it's in danger of tipping, but with the frame being made of plywood it's probably very bottom heavy. But, of course, that also means that the less dense upper portion is less durable and could possibly buckle or even sheared off of the base if it gets hit hard enough.

>>14091446
What did you expect? They probably started building the Megabot only when there was news of the Kuratas. They just wanted to get some of the hype.

>>14091398

Well I made a typo in the previous post, but,well.

Whoever wins, I lose, I guess.

>>14086680
Assuming Kuratas can "drift"/move sideways, it'll zip around Megabot shooting pellets at it, thus winning by points, then it'll move in for the kill, clotheslining Megabot, only to knock itself down in the process. While Kuratas is flailing on the ground, Megabot will ponderously topple over while the pilot cam shows the Megabot pilots freaking out as they fall.

Megabot will be declared the winner because it hit the ground second.

By the way, what's the name of that beetle tank/car that some dude built?

>>14091532
>Assuming Kuratas can "drift"/move sideways, it'll zip around Megabot shooting pellets at it, thus winning by points
circle-strafing FTW
Pretty sure Megabot can't pivot at the torso. Even if it's got good range of motion in the arms and some kind of targeting camera for aim assist, shooting sideways while moving forward is not the same as shooting forward while moving sideways. Also the Kuratas being able to move in any direction in order to get behind cover and/or get out of the line of fire is a distinct advantage over Megabot only being able to go forward or backward unless it turns first. Imagine playing an FPS deathmatch against a player whose left analog stick only reads up and down. They can walk forward and backward, and they can turn, but they can't strafe or dodge sideways.

>>14086604
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crush,_Texas

>>14087220
No.

Bring back Hardyman

I WANT MY REAL LANDMATE DARPA

>>14091357
>build an even better giant robot for round two
Well, they are doing the Gundam challenge and trying to make 1:1 Gundam move.

If they get that to really work, well, we're in for a wild ride.

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>>14091366
Can you like fuck off already? Thanks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g59fFqa3fmQ
This guy sounds like an evil genius antagonist, I guarantee that V-Sido will turn on us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQhLV-wTSdY
>KURATAS warps in some dragoons to assists


I really wish that Suidobashi would release more videos on what they're doing. I know that's not really the Japanese style but I can't handle the wait.

>>14087018
>hurr corpratation
It's a personal business run by one guy who considers the whole thing (company and its "heavy industries" name included) to be an art project

>>14086483
/thread

>>14087052
>because i'm white
>that hair
>those glasses

I hope these sniveling betas lose hard to Notscopedog.

>>14092566
afaik he started as a blacksmith, making fences.
the arrival of this guy >>14092088 really kicked the project up though.

>>14092088
Jesus, Megabots is goin to go up against a fucking beam rifle?

>>14091580
I think there's a video where the Megabot actually can pivot its torso. The video involved Megabot losing to a tiny toy. I mean, it technically "won" but if you watched the video, you'd agree it couldn't beat an 80 dollar toy.

But yeah, I don't know if the Kuratas can strafe, but I would hope so.

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>>14086887
Now I legitimately understand how the Netherlands felt

So the lads at Suidobashi want Kuratas to be able to melee.

What weapon would they use, and how practical would it be? I think some kind of lance + shield combo would be best, since Kuratas has decent speed.

>>14093028
double pile bunkers

>>14093031
Kuratas is supposed to have them but we've never seen them.

>>14086568
>Build giant robots to fight to the death
>But we can't have anyone die

THEN WHAT IS THE FUCKING POINT OF GIANT DEATH BOTS?

Of course it's gonna suck. Gonna be slow and laggy. But it's a step in the right direction. I'm all for it

>>14091366
>>14091890
>these get deleted

>>14091883
>>14091364
>these stay up

We tumblr now.

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>>14093732
Goddamnit all

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>>14088818
Haven't seen that coming

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>>14088818

>>14091338
I'm going to need a source because that sounds like /pol grade bullshit.

>>14091104

This.

>>14098028
https://kiwifar.ms/threads/dumbass-americans-arrest-ninth-grader-for-being-called-ahmed-and-knowing-how-to-build-things.12656/page-8#post-1026066
has a pretty good set of links to a ton of info about it
also
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/ahmed-mohamed-demands-15m-compensation-for-homemade-clock-arrest-a6745706.html

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>>14098028
>that sounds like /pol grade bullshit.
Do you live under a fucking rock?

By the way, has there been any discussion on why the Drakens in ep 1 weren't using Fold Boosters?
Do they have that capability integrated now?

>>14098028
No, it's all true. The /pol/ grade bullshit is not understanding that all the blowjobs and back-pattery over doing nothing (taking apart a consumer clock) don't stem from a misunderstanding of the kid's abilities (non-existant), but are instead a reaction to previous OVERREACTION to the clock (he's brown = IT MUST BE A BOMB) and the usual encouragement that we give to unskilled children who nevertheless have an interest in certain fields.

Like 99% of outreach to children isn't trying to help the extremely gifted kids who know things 10 years beyond them, but is instead aimed at continuing to foster a child's interest in a field in the hopes that as they grow they will actually learn something and become useful.

Think of a kid who snaps together a Lego Mindstorms robot.
>Congrats, dipshit, you followed the instructions in the manual and didn't fuck up. What a crowning achievement, being able to piece blocks together in a predescribed order. This is only slightly more complex than babies stacking Lincoln logs. Fuck off.
That kid thinks building a robot is COOL AS SHIT even though he didn't technically build a robot. He was all pumped up about it and you just stomped all over his dreams. He's not going to become an engineer now. He's going to play Madden all day and get in arguments on the internet about sports teams and occasionally gripe about how all the McJobs are taken up by robots and brown people. Sure, talking like he's a fucking genius for following a kit's instructions is a little disingenuous, but raising children is almost entirely lies and manipulation for their benefit.

And those genius kids you occasionally do see that have apparently achieved triumphs in engineering? Daddy did it. Every fucking time. But it doesn't matter, because at least Daddy is giving them the encouragement and the knowledge that society would like to withhold, and they're more likely to grow up to fucking be somebody as a result.

>>14098269
The clock looked like a fucking bomb. Like the kind you'd see in 80s movies. His engineering teacher already warned him and told him to put it away.

Remember, this is America. You're not even allowed to bring in a toy gun to school because the staff are (rightfully) paranoid over school shooters.

Sage because this thread is barely /m/ anymore.

>>14098269
When I was a kid, I took fans apart. I got praised for my ingenuity. Looking back, nothing I ever did with machines or electronics was even marginally interesting. But I was encouraged to continue, not told in black-and-white terms that all I'd succeeded in doing was removing a magnetic coil. Now I make six figures a year building wind turbines.

It turns out interest in technology and a desire to learn are far more important than any natural aptitude. Those lacking in knowledge can be taught; those lacking in drive or interest will never care.

it should also be noted that there's a huge difference between enabling children by being excited over their non-achievements and simply praising them for absolutely fucking everything because they're the best at everything and such a special snowflake. the latter kills drive because they're the "best", why try more; the former must come with a recognition that there is more to learn and do

>>14098281
It looked like a clock. Let's forget about brown kids or any notion of racism for a second and address an even more important issue: the safety-minded coddling of fucking ADULTS.

You know what's really ruining America? Grown-ass men and women who are so ignorant of technology despite being surrounded by its wonders. These are the dipshits who have prospered from all our medical advances, but have no interest in understanding the first fucking thing about them and are currently off breeding the next superbug because they demand antibiotics from their doctor when they get the flu and insist that vaccines will turn their kids into autistic retards. They spend half their waking moments on a computer smaller than their hands which is hundreds of times more powerful than the shit we used to put men on the Moon, but they'd flip their shit if they saw a remote laying in the alley with its battery case off. OH FUCK, AN EXPOSED CIRCUIT BOARD, IT'S GOTTA BE A BOMB.

Americans used to be fucking excited about technology and scientific progress. Now they don't give a shit unless it can be used to increase the number on the back of their iPhone. The ubiquity and ease-of-use of our technology has created a new generation of people who have no desire to understand without doing a goddamn thing to combat the older generations who considered it all too complex to get in the first place. That's why we're outsourcing technical jobs and importing technical workers; Americans don't care about the tech, the brown people do, it's still magical to them.

Technology, efficiency, and automation destroyed manufacturing jobs, even as our manufacturing capability continues to grow greater than ever. They're going to do the same to the new service industry which is currently propping up our citizens. Unless we recognize that technical jobs are the only way forward until we hit 100% automation, shit's only going to get worse.

Little Billy needs a textbook, not a rifle or football.

>>14098307
>blah blah blah capitalism

A kid named Mohammed put together something that looked like a fucking cartoon bomb and took it to school.
14 years old kid, the kind of age where you can shoot up your school because you got bullied because America likes it like that.
In a southern state, the kind of state that's paranoid about that.
It's like taking your shotgun to the movie theatre at a big capeshit premier because you can and getting mad when they don't let you enter.

Also lol at
>technical jobs are the only way forward until we hit 100% automation, shit's only going to get worse.
Yes, because 300 million people can all be engineers, lawyers and medics.

>>14098307
>That's why we're outsourcing technical jobs

We're outsourcing the technical jobs because other countries will do it for cheaper and don't need the same insurance or benefits hiring within the country would.

>>14098326
They sure as shit can't all be coal miners, retail clerks, and license plate stampers.

>>14098335
They also do it worse according to most hindu horror stories on /g/.

>>14098349
Who cares, it keeps costs down for the corporation, which translates to savings for me, the consumer!

Wait, why is my rate still going up?

>>14098283
>>14098281
>>14098269
Also somebody figured out exactly which Wal-Mart clock Daddy pulled the guts out of to make it for him.

Nobody cared.

It's bullshit.

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>>14098307
It looks like something straight out of an 80s action movie.
Would have been fine if Ahmed just fucking told the school "oh hey btw I'm bringing my clock to school tomorrow"
I can't say I blame him since he's just a kid, but I can't blame the school either.
Once again, this is America. With the amount of school shooters there, I think they'd be right to be a bit paranoid over this. It's always better to be safe than sorry.

>>14088849
>communism Space Marine
This is some Hersey