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scott.smith
21-04-2016, 22:14
...When walking around you notice numbers like 254, 118, 1114, 71, 47, etc. and care way more than you should
Hitchhiker 42
21-04-2016, 22:16
...When you're just as excited for the new year as everyone else, but for a different reason. Kickoff!
Tharioth Pillow
22-04-2016, 08:53
You write a literal book on 101 ways to improve your team... the day after you fail to qualify for worlds.
You get visibly angry at the mention of "Battle Bots"
You spend an entire weekend CADDing an outreach robot. During the off season.
You bring up FIRST in every single conversation you have.
Chief Delphi is your homepage.
You seriously consider never getting a job and living in the machine shop to mentor the team forever.
Food becomes synonymous with Pizza, Mountain Dew, and gearbox grease.
You brag to non robotics friends about the speed with which you can rebuild a gearbox.
Most of your vocabulary is incomprehensible mechanic and FIRST jargon.
You buy a Lego Mindstorms set just to design ideas for drivtrains.
When asked to do something at home, you design a robot to do it for you rather than actually doing it.
You feel happier under build season stress than any other time.
You haven't slept since January 8th, and won't until May.
When someone says "cheesecake" you look for a climber mechanism, not a delicious treat.
You wear your team shirt more than any other article of clothing.
You consider quitting your job to spend more time with the team.
You have no friends outside of FIRST.
You know how to assemble a drive train in under 2 hours, but not how to talk to your fellow humans.
You are more used to the sound of power tools than silence.
If someone says the name Dean you seek them out with the unshakable resolve of an assassin to hear what they said about Dean.
you lack a knowledge of major news stories from during build season.
you wish you never had to leave the shop.
#thenumberoftimespeopleactuallysay"Oh? You mean like Battle Bots?"
Tharioth Pillow
22-04-2016, 08:55
When you find you're in section 111 of the stands and jump with glee.
When you can't stop doing the Macarena.
When there is a literal war between glitter or no glitter on your team.
When you actually somewhat know what the robot is doing.
When you've read through the admin and game manual fifty times.
When you're too lazy to read other posts to determine whether or not what you're saying has already been said.
makfries
04-05-2016, 14:31
... you realize the frc spyder app on your phone is no longer useful but you still don't have the willpower to delete it.
Nightwing430
04-05-2016, 14:49
... you realize the frc spyder app on your phone is no longer useful but you still don't have the willpower to delete it.
This is me right now. I still have the FIRST Championship app on my phone from this year and don't feel like deleting it. I catch myself sometimes opening it up to see if anything has changed or to see when the next conference is even though the season is now over.
... your friends ask you how worlds went but they don't really care about the response you give them... (This has happened to me all week long so far..)
... you realize the frc spyder app on your phone is no longer useful but you still don't have the willpower to delete it.
When you see a teammate also browsing chief delphi when they should be paying attention in class.
makfries
04-05-2016, 17:48
When you see a teammate also browsing chief delphi when they should be paying attention in class.
when your teammate replies to your post nagging you to pay attention in class when they too are browsing chief delphi.
Nightwing430
05-05-2016, 08:57
...When Darude Sandstorm is the song your teammates want you to add to the playlist a million times. :rolleyes:
makfries
05-05-2016, 11:40
...your wardrobe solely consists of team shirts and you don't know what to wear during off season.
When Slack replaces all former methods of communication you have ever used solely because your team has awesome custom emoji.
This is me right now. I still have the FIRST Championship app on my phone from this year and don't feel like deleting it. I catch myself sometimes opening it up to see if anything has changed or to see when the next conference is even though the season is now over.
... your friends ask you how worlds went but they don't really care about the response you give them... (This has happened to me all week long so far..)
Same here.
"So how was worlds? Do the robots fight like Battlebots?"
Then you futilely try to explain Stronghold to them as they exponentially lose interest. I'm just glad they're asking though.
...your wardrobe solely consists of team shirts and you don't know what to wear during off season.
They're great for traveling. My eventual goal is to have a tshirt from each general "region" so that I can fully embrace "When in Rome..."
makfries
06-05-2016, 22:15
...the driver of your team waits over 16 hours to upload an 8k robopromposal video for you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk-bh16Jut8
em202020
06-05-2016, 22:21
You know youre addicted when you create an 8k video asking someone to roboprom instead of studying for AP tests.
...the driver of your team waits over 16 hours to upload an 8k robopromposal video for you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk-bh16Jut8
You know youre addicted when you create an 8k video asking someone to roboprom instead of studying for AP tests.
Aww only 6 minutes apart.
414cnewq
09-05-2016, 12:52
When you see its 12:54 and The Chez Cakes comes to mind
UnknownFactor
12-05-2016, 23:35
You know you're addicted to FIRST when you come up with clever scouting comments...
http://i.imgur.com/HCApBAS.jpg?1
makfries
27-05-2016, 01:37
... you continue to make robotics related videos after the season is over https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axyOZScYenU&feature=youtu.be
When you see its 12:54 and The Chez Cakes comes to mind
When you see any clock and the team that's number matches the time comes to mind.
TheModMaster8
27-05-2016, 02:27
when you post on this thread and see that you're page 118 and no one has mention robonauts
edit: and you realize after posting that you are now on page 119
Hitchhiker 42
27-05-2016, 08:00
When people post on this thread at 2 am.
When you finish the sneezon but keep improving the robot anyways.
When you screw up a concert band performance because you see a green light of a camera go off and think it's a vision tracker
TheModMaster8
29-05-2016, 03:43
When people post on this thread at 2 am.
I can make 3:50. So Hardcore:P spent the last hour re-watching matches from worlds on TBA
When you count in team names.
--when you forget your safety glasses on your head.
--All 3 and 4 digit numbers are team numbers.
--all of your social media recommendations are for FRC teams.
--you expect to hear the FMS sounds when people announce "30 seconds!" (even during exams)
--"first" autocorrects to "FIRST" on your phone.
Ben Wolsieffer
03-06-2016, 22:02
When you walk into a crowded room and become momentarily worried because you can't find your safety glasses.
When you keep wearing side shields even when not at meetings.
Golfer4646
04-07-2016, 12:38
... When you are in Honduras on a mission trip, and freak out (sort of to yourself, sort of out loud) about seeing a cab... numbered 1114!
Your Pokemon Go username is your CD username and all of your Pokemon are named the team corresponding to their CP.
When you put the same amount of effort into trying to figure out your class schedule two weeks early as you did attempting to decode "9328490238209"
You spend a day of your weekend discussing the attributes of pockets in women's clothing on the Internet...
Cothron Theiss
05-10-2016, 02:56
You see an xkcd comic (http://xkcd.com/413/) that refers to mecanum wheels as omni wheels and it hurts.
SpoonMechanic
12-10-2016, 20:40
You see an xkcd comic (http://xkcd.com/413/) that refers to mecanum wheels as omni wheels and it hurts.
You then proceed to read all of the comics with numbers corresponding to your friend's teams.
You're bored so you add 25 photos to The Blue Alliance.
TacoTheCat
08-11-2016, 01:05
You procrastinate on your homework by researching things for your team, and eventually go down a rabbit hole of "oh what can this thing (which isn't related to what you are originally searching) do" for hours.
Dwight_2
08-11-2016, 06:26
... you start looking at colleges based on robotics clubs.
... you know you're gonna miss the competitions and building.
... after working on your robot, you go home and think about working on your robot.
... you suddenly have 500 extra points on your Subway rewards card.
... Subway freezes your rewards card after a "mysterious string of 8 purchases" (even though each purchase only added points...)
... you envy the sleeping.
... after a 43-hour day filled with 480+ miles (10+ hours) of driving solo, 4 hours of programming, all-night laser tag, and then 11 hours of driving a bot, you'd still rather be competing than sleeping.
... you register on a forum just to post what you love about FIRST :D
Second to last one is amazing:) :)
You drive almost 200 miles to volunteer at an offseason event your team isn't at.
Thayer McCollum
17-11-2016, 10:57
You read FTC as FIRST Tech Challenge AND the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, before you even think about the Federal Trade Commission.
clockstopped12
21-11-2016, 15:01
When you had a full day, then an all night laser tag party, then an academic decathlon competition and still go to robotics (basically no sleep for 48 hours)
clockstopped12
22-11-2016, 12:54
...when this thread is the only way you stay awake in class
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...you're seriously considering buying an Xbox just to play a 4 year old FRC simulation game.
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