2006 game hints?

[Petey]

Originally Posted by Henry_Mareck

whats a CMU cam ??


is that the camera (assuming cam means camera?) that we got in the kit last year and was hard to use?

*activates RTCW voice*

Affirmative.

*deactivates*

--Petey

[Astronouth7303]

Anyone listening to FIRSTcast? About half-way through the 3rd episode, JVN mentions that he's working on a water-proof speed controller. (Listen to it for more detail.) I'd call this a pretty big hint.

Any speculation?

[Andrew Blair]

I'm not real familar with the style of Dave and JVN. I don't want to kill the speculations, but would they just fool around this close to build season, or are these things actually hints? What do people think?

[Karthik]

Originally Posted by Astronouth7301

Anyone listening to FIRSTcast? About half-way through the 3rd episode, JVN mentions that he's working on a water-proof speed controller. (Listen to it for more detail.) I'd call this a pretty big hint.

Originally Posted by Andrew Blair

I'm not real familar with the style of Dave and JVN. I don't want to kill the speculations, but would they just fool around this close to build season, or are these things actually hints? What do people think?

I've never known JVN to be sarcastic or joke around...

NiagaraFIRST.org is turning in our lease on our normal practice facility, and renting an indoor swimming pool in a direct response to the JVN interview...

[dlavery]

Originally Posted by Karthik

I've never known JVN to be sarcastic or joke around...

Me neither. I have found that he has absolutely no sense of humor at all.

-dave

[JVN]

Originally Posted by dlavery

Me neither. I have found that he has absolutely no sense of humor at all.

-dave

That's what happens when I don't sleep.
I get grumpy staying up all night working on your danged prototypes. The thrust just ISN'T THERE! Stop trying to force it, we're not ready.

[dlavery]

Originally Posted by JVN

That's what happens when I don't sleep.
I get grumpy staying up all night working on your danged prototypes. The thrust just ISN'T THERE! Stop trying to force it, we're not ready.

Look, I gave in on the bus shelter - you don't have to build it. So stop whining, get yer rear in gear, and finish up on the Viking Death Ship. We need it for next week.

-dave

[Ian Curtis]

Originally Posted by dlavery

Look, I gave in on the bus shelter - you don't have to build it. So stop whining, get yer rear in gear, and finish up on the Viking Death Ship. We need it for next week.

-dave

More examinations. In line 2 he says "get yer rear in gear" which is definitely breaking lavery's first quote of prose, namely don't abbreviate, pronounce nuclear nu-KLI-er, and never use the phrase y'all in written prose. "yer rear in gear" includes three "er" sounds.

1.
RRR turns up no reasonable results on google, except for things about Land Rovers and Australian Radio. Inflatable kangaroos? In case you didn't know kanagaroos in more populated areas of australia tend to live on golf courses and lie in sand traps, where they occasionally get hit. Whack-the-Kangaroo-Billfred?

2. More intense searching reveals RRR could stand for "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle"? I am probably reading wayyyy to much into this one put you never know. Maybe 3 different ways to score 1 item?

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by iCurtis

More examinations. In line 2 he says "get yer rear in gear" which is definitely breaking lavery's first quote of prose, namely don't abbreviate, pronounce nuclear nu-KLI-er, and never use the phrase y'all in written prose. "yer rear in gear" includes three "er" sounds.

1.
RRR turns up no reasonable results on google, except for things about Land Rovers and Australian Radio. Inflatable kangaroos? In case you didn't know kanagaroos in more populated areas of australia tend to live on golf courses and lie in sand traps, where they occasionally get hit. Whack-the-Kangaroo-Billfred?

2. More intense searching reveals RRR could stand for "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle"? I am probably reading wayyyy to much into this one put you never know. Maybe 3 different ways to score 1 item?

We all know Dave's hints are way more subtle than that.

[Smrtman5]

Horray for assonance!

[Rohan_DHS]

Just as in my previous post, the going back theme is apparent: rear in gear (if switched around, it says "gear in rear")...and the went back in time also has to do with going back. lol

[Andrew Blair]

C'mon guys, we're all reading into these things a bit too much...Dave's whacked, he knows it, and he's having wayyyy too much fun watching us feebly try to guess this years game in an attempt to sate our impatience for build season.(If I'm not a psychologist for that one, the problem is not in my analysis, but in your perception . That'll be 200 dollars.)

In guessing so many things, we've almost surely found at least part of the game. We have the answer! (Well, Dave does too, but unless we get out the rack, we're probably not getting it from him...)

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by Rohan_DHS

Just as in my previous post, the going back theme is apparent: rear in gear (if switched around, it says "gear in rear")...and the went back in time also has to do with going back. lol

Once again I say, all this talk of Batons and traveling back in time is quite curious...

[billbo911]

Originally Posted by JVN

That's what happens when I don't sleep.
I get grumpy staying up all night working on your danged prototypes. The thrust just ISN'T THERE! Stop trying to force it, we're not ready.

Originally Posted by dlavery

Look, I gave in on the bus shelter - you don't have to build it. So stop whining, get yer rear in gear, and finish up on the Viking Death Ship. We need it for next week.

-dave

WOW! Talk about a pair of hints!

Lets see: "Thrust isn't there", No force, not ready, shelter, "rear in gear" and my favorite "Viking Death Ship".

VDS from Viking Death Ship, could this stand for Variably Delayed Start,Visibility Degradation System or Video Display System (that goes back to my last post, read it and see) or..........

"Thrust isn't there", No force, not ready, shelter. Sheltered areas on the field that protect you from something. Might that be wind, rain (there's that water theme again), electrical interference.

Putting the two together: Robot control performed or enhanced by Video Feed. Certain areas on the field will either have the signal blocked or visually impaired to prevent seeing where the robot actually is forcing the drivers to have to guess or switch to autonomous (this could play into the "Fox in the Hen-house" hint).

Just my two cents in the early morning (well, early for me at least).

[Rickertsen2]

Does JVN have any knowledge of the game?