same thing happened at Glacier Peak
“This thing is optimized for disappointment.” This was about a cardboard mockup, and not the whole robot.
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This entire exchange was in Slack(an app kind of like Discord for anyone who doesn’t know):
Mentor: “did anyone read the game manual??”
“what’s that”
“there’s a manual?”
“manual?”
“there’s a game?”
“read?”
“no”
“anyone?”
“i can’t read”
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“They wanted US?!?” - Teammate during alliance selection
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Drive coach: “3 minutes a match”
[standing next to a half built robot]
“Are we going to the practice field today?”
—“Did you finish rebuilding the robot?”
“…” (looks at robot, looks at me)
—“No.”
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“what do you think it tastes like”
“maybe it needs more force”
- do not taste loctite
Programmer 1: “It’s been an hour already”
Me (another programmer): “Yeah it’s been an hour already… … … Wait… It’s been an hour already!!!”
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Somehow managed to post this in the wrong thread… anyways:
“I’ve never seen something that weird”
-3 CSA’s helping with our programming
Followed closely by:
“Smile like we don’t have 120% packet loss”
-programmer
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Heard around the 971 lab - “Every DOF saved is a DOF earned” There are even t-shirts and stickers. 
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- “emo is not right” - a business kid
- “her middle name is John Cena” - a mentor about his daughter
- “is the robot Jewish?” “can the robot be a satanist” said after we shouted “mazel tov!” when the robot worked
- “why are ears so easy to pull off?”
- showing a member skateboarding Jesus “he’s sexy”
- “she brought dynamite to rock bottom so she could go even lower” in response to the previous
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Maybe we can gaslight it into thinking there’s no memory leak.
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gearbox oil tastes like cherry!
how was it? i mean can you compare it with gearbox oils, diesel motor oils or anything that normal people consumes
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i’ve already replied, but i’ve got new ones from our most recent comp
“they’re tipping, they’re whippin’, but they aren’t flipping” -the mc of our comp
“WE’RE GOING TO OLIVE GARDEN” -our whole team
“____ if you say rawr we’ll paint (member of different team)’s fingernails magenta” -pit crew
“we’ve painted peoples nails more than we’ve fixed our bot honestly”-pit crew member
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This is a bit too relatable. Time flies when you are programming lol.
And the worst part is you could spend an entire day yet get nowhere
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“WE HAVE DIESEL!!!”
when i asked a team if they had anything like propane or gas in reference to “no hazardous materials”
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I have a feeling i know who this team is 
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