Oh good Christ I know exactly how you feel. Mason's "Tim The Toolman Taylor does a bad impersonation of The Ultimate Warrior" shtick was grating, but Jake Ewert just came across as a fundamentally unpleasant person. I know that Clan Ewert has always been a bunch of deeply objectionable rules lawyers (Son Of Whyachi's title run in 3.0, asaferinstance), but I really wanted to like Hydra, and I did... riiiiight up until the fight with Huge. It's not the attachment that's the issue for me, but Ewert's conduct throughout the fight felt like whiny gamesmanship of the very worst sort. Plus there always seems to be space in the show for their latest Crap Box With Multiple Spinners while a more interesting bot gets rejected - but that's more my weird hatred of the Ewert machines in general.

Me, I'm looking forward to the return of the international contingent next season. So many fantastic bots missed out due to The Present Unpleasantness and related travel restrictions, and I'd love to see them return. Railgun Max, Monsoon, Cobalt, Death Roll, Minotaur, Quantum, the list goes on. I know for a fact that the guys who did Reality back in the 2018 season applied again with a mecanum-drive drum spinner that looks absolutely fucking amazing even when it's half-built, so here's hoping they finish it and get accepted for 2021, whenever that ends up happening. =]

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"She's old, she's lame, she's barren too, // "She's not worth feed or hay, // "But I'll give her this," - he blew smoke at me - // "She was something in her day." -- Garnet Rogers, Small Victory

FiMFiction.net: we might accept blatant porn involving the cast of My Little Pony but as God is my witness we have standards.

I might have Too Many Robot Opinions. I apologise for this.

I'm really looking forward to Duck and Minotaur coming back, and hoping for a better and more consistent Sporkinok for reasons.

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"She's old, she's lame, she's barren too, // "She's not worth feed or hay, // "But I'll give her this," - he blew smoke at me - // "She was something in her day." -- Garnet Rogers, Small Victory

FiMFiction.net: we might accept blatant porn involving the cast of My Little Pony but as God is my witness we have standards.

i wonder if it will undergo some form of in-depth transformation to become the thing it was always gonna be. if only there was some convenient, perhaps colour-based metaphor i could make. oh well.

Still, it is a funny/horrible image, isn't it?

Equally likely, Sosuke commandeers one of the combat bots for reasons that I can't imagine.

Shortly after, the DSM combat bot rulebook adds Rule 135: Control of a tournament robot will not be given to the Student Council Sergeant-at-Arms without the express permission of a member of the Student Council.

Peter Eng
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O <--- My head is down here

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Pretty sure this is an SCP Foundation reference. Though if so, I always thought Clef was more of an explosion magnet than Dr. Bright.

	-={(Astynax)}=- "Sometimes fanfic is a love letter to canon, sometimes it's a polite disagreement, and sometimes it's 95 things canon did wrong nailed to a door."

Your both wrong. If any of the SCP crew was to do this it would be Kain.