Interview with Battlebots Champion

Scoop writes "With the fifth season of BattleBots debuting a few days ago on Comedy Central, UGO.com chatted up contestant Jim Smentowski, creator of champion BattleBot, Nightmare. Jim shared his views on the hit show, his experience with Gary Coleman and robotics in general. No word yet on the rumored love-child between Smentowski and BB host, Carmen Electra."

Comments

FP!

[Anonymous Coward]

OH YEAH!

Re:FP!

[Anonymous Coward]

Shut the fuck up. You weren't first. I was.

By the way, Finnish girls are the most attractive.

Guess which troll this is? Hint: starts with an 'E', ends with an 'H'; and my nickname starts with an 'S' and ends with an 'I'.

Re:FP!

[Anonymous Coward]

You can't change my beliefs, no matter how much you moderate me.

Say what you will, Finnish girls are most attractive.

I acknowledge that Slashdot moderation enjoys staring at topless men, but you shouldn't moderate me down for being heterosexual!
-The English Troll

First Post!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Yee-haw...

first post

[Anonymous Coward]

Claimed by the Cadre of Logged Out Trolls (CLoT), be looking for us! the lowest common denominator of trolls.

Slashdot Karma HOWTO

[ReluctantBadger]

It is 10pm. Do you know where your karma is?
Right! Let us get started...

In order to get maximum karma from Slashdot posting, you can follow a few simple guidelines.

• The University you go to. Regardless of where you actually study, saying that you're at MIT automagically gains you +2. Slashdot, like the glorified student notice board that it is, has a special place in its heart for anything from MIT - whether it be a teddy bear stuffed with a switch, or some wankers wrapping a yellow banner with elvish text around the main dome. Even if you didn't go to university, qualify every comment with a "My professor told me" to bask in the warm fuzzy glow of +2, Insightful.
  
  
• Linux. The basis of the "Slashdot Experience". Claiming you run Linux also gets you +1, Interesting. It doesn't really matter if you've never actually installed it, or your Red Hat box still doesn't have PPP running after 2 years of reading FAQs. The important bit is - You're part of the community. You can bathe in the refelected glory of years of shoddy, buggy code. You are exempt from the Microsoft penalty (see below) as, of course, your Win 98 install is only used for playing games. And reading Slashdot. And using MS Word. And Photoshop. And....
  
  
• Microsoft. Slashbots and the editors hate Microsoft. Period. Use of a $ symbol in every iteration of their trademarks gets you a +4, Funny. Even though it is far from original, it still manages to raise a grin in those people reading Slashdot between episodes of Cowboy Bebop. You will get a -1, Flamebait or Troll for any post even hinting that Microsoft products are any good / useful / intuitive / user friendly. You will also quickly be shot down with replies about how good GNOME and KDE are, which will then in turn erupt into a flame war.
  
  
• Freedom / Privacy / YRO. The bread and butter of Slashdot. It fits in sublimely with the whole "Linux" thing. You'll get a +3, Informative for any post containing the Ben Franklin quote about sacrificing essential liberty. It makes no difference that the quote is totally irrelevant in the modern world - Hey, you've got karma! Mis-credting the quote will not end up in a karma penalty, as has been demonstrated countless times. You will gain extra karma if you make reference to your experiences of being wire-tapped by the NSA, and throwing in a vague link to Echelon, black helicopters or Tin Foil Hat Linux. Include a link to the First Amendment for a +1, Interesting mod. Give yourself a pat on the back if you manage to include some extra raging paranoia with no evidence to back it up. Nice!
  
  
• BSD. If you use it, don't mention it on Slashdot. Most of the Linux-using friendless wonders that inhabit Slashdot wouldn't know quality and stability if it strolled up and kicked them in the throat with a size 13 HiTec Magnum boot. Any mention of how a Firewall running OpenBSD with pf is far superior to Linux's pathetic offering will soon see you as -1, Troll. Much like the post you're reading now.
  
  
• Yearning for yester-year. Although most comments are written by first year "wannabe-CS-guru" students or links to goatse.cx, there is still the fallout dregs of the dot com boom lurking around slashdot. You can get +5, Insightful for telling how you were so badly treated after the bubble burst. Whining about the lack of jobs where you get paid to fire foam darts at colleagues is a good start. Don't forget to mention how you've now been out of work for months - It starts a "I'm about to graduate and there's nothing going" fuckfest which can spill over into hundreds of comments. Although all the staff who were any good simply got hired into another company, it makes "Good Karma Sense"&reg to hide the fact that your passing familiarity with Perl and C simply can't get you a job. This is also a prime opportunity to show your egregious personality, as Slashdot rewards arrogance and elitism.
  
  

DON'T FORGET TO MOD ME DOWN! GO ON! YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO!

Re:Slashdot Karma HOWTO

[Anonymous Coward]

Ahh, sarcasm.... The sad thing is that a lot of that is accurate... It's a bit too bitter though, if you were to remove some of the acid it would be funnier. Maybe drop the bit about the $-in-microsoft, it's only worth a +1, not +4 :)

Re:Slashdot Karma HOWTO

[Anonymous Coward]

It is 10pm. Do you know where your karma is?

Funniest Post I've read on slashdot in many months.

Thank you ;)

Advertising

[chill]

Banner and Slashdot-sized box ads are one thing, but those full-screen in the middle of the article ones are REALLY annoying.

Humor pointers

[Mulletproof]

A decent appendium to the Karma howto would be a small list of jokes sure to gain a chuckle in the right context. Applied with the right combination of the formentioned rules could earn you another +2 or +3.

1) "...Imagine a beowolf cluster of those!"
2) "Now all we need is to mount lasers on the head of a shark..."

Lastly, never, ever, EVER forget to mention the last piece of obscure hardware you installed Linux on. ie; "I installed Linux on my ceiling fan and boy does it fly now!"

Offtopic, Inflammatory, Inappropriate, Illegal, or Offensive comments might be moderated ..."Might" as in it depends on who's had their prozac for the day. Doncha wish you could mod lower than -1? ^__^ I already had a +4 Interesting anyway. Now I want that +9 Ogre slaying knife you promised.

Ive been kicked from #bsdcode

[Anonymous Coward]

Join #trolls instead on efnet. Its much better than #bsdcode.

trollaxor?!

[Anonymous Coward]

Does anyone know what happened to Trollaxor and trollaxor.com? Is there a replacement part available?

#bsdcode is dying

[Anonymous Coward]

They changed their key. Now noone can troll it. visit #goatse instead!

Re:Question

[Anonymous Coward]

No, they wouldn't know until their shitty robot was a pile of scrap. Don't act like the robot builders are fucking psychics.

Thanks,
-The English Troll

P.S: Finnish girls are the most attractive.
That is my quote for the day.

Happy birthday linux!

[Anonymous Coward]

Linux is 11 years old today, and slashdot hasn't mentioned.

join the #trolls on efnet!

#trolls has been taken over.

[Anonymous Coward]

Slashdot 0wns #trolls on efnet! Join #tr0lls instead.