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Originally Posted by Madison
These are bizarrely vitriolic comments directed at someone that said, anonymously or otherwise, only that they dislike something.
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To be fair, Pineapples did make a number of unsubstantiated claims (some of which are easier to agree with/swallow than others):
1: "Lots of VEX copies"- only one way to find out about this. To be honest i didn't see this nearly as much as people claimed it happened last year, but more importantly, there isn't any reasoning behind the statement.
2: "Teams using lots of the same prefab components"- See 4, but thats a decent part of the justification for doing an event like this, and has been since the original Ri3D. It also remains to be seen exactly how many teams will follow the BB/Ri3D resources for this year-- last year I know a pretty large number of teams flat out ignored them, either out of ingnorance to their existence or choice.
3: "Lots of good looking robots"- Lord I hope so, but again, comes more down to taste and opinion than anything that can be backed up by fact or reason.
4: "VEX lines their pocketbooks"- Well, yeah. This is a bit of a cynical statement, but I'm pretty sure IFI wants their VEX robotics stuff to make money. They are after all a company. Releasing ways to build a bunch of cool stuff from their products is probably going to be a nice sales boost for VersaChassis products and will help convince skeptical teams and mentors of the system's usefulness. None of these things were said by Pineapples, but I can see some semblance of reasoning behind the statement.
The end result is a post that reads more like an accusation than just stating that they disagree with it. I also think there's a bit of built up resentment towards some other anonymous accounts that post more often, which may be coloring the reactions to this particular poster.
My personal opinions on this are somewhat neutral. I think there's a lot of potential to the idea and done right it could be an incredible resource for teams-- and with all the great minds behind it I'm pretty confident it will be-- but it also has the potential to just turn into a shameless plug for using as much VEX product as possible. I doubt the latter will happen, but then again the road to shameless capitalism is paved with good intentions. Regardless, I'm certainly excited to see what comes out of this new addition to mass mentoring.