“Anything can be a hammer if you try hard enough.” - Some of our Pit Crew
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“You know, I fixed my computer that was having issues through alternating resonating frequencies” -Engineer
“You mean [destructive] ‘percussive’ maintenance?” -Mentor
“Yes, I mean no” -Reply
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If you get the atomic makeup of it to match perfectly you can
“is that a bug or a feature?”
“This whole robot is a bug.”
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Quick context:
On our way to houston, we had just stopped at taco bell for lunch, my friend was having some stomach issues, someone gives him something for it.
Friend: “uh oh, those were laxatives”
Nothing ended up happening (luckily)
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Me: “Can I borrow your little brother?”
Them: “I’d charge most people twenty bucks for that, but since I like you, I’d let you have him for five.”
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My brothers would pay someone to take me he’s lucky they’re charging at all.
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Me: After water game we need all the other elements!!!
Programming Lead: So next is… a grass game???
(realizes what he said)
I mean a grass game, I mean an Earth game… I mean touching grass… 
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@Japple you’ve made it to the quotes thread!
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Thats real
This text is here so Discourse lets me make the post.
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A conversation between our head coach and a freshmen:
C: “No it wouldn’t move.”
F: “But if a-”
C: “No.”
F: “it just wouldn’t move.”
C: “No.”
F: “if a swer-”
C: “If I cut your foot off,”
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what were they talking about?
Swerve drives I think, I just walked into that part of the conversation
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“my team forgot something important!!” Holds up googly eyes
“Thought you meant something actually important.”
“Are you implying googly eyes aren’t important!?”
“Yes.”
“This may be shocking, but I read the rulebook.”
“Yeah that is shocking.”
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“There is no magic, just wrong math”
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“whats your robots name?”
“Sherlock because it’s a mystery if it will ever work.”
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My team will be stealing this next year.
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my old team called ours “Schrödinger” because it simultaneously worked flawlessly and didnt work at all until the match started (it mostly worked thankfully)
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“We’re removing arms today”
The meeting was spent disassembling last year’s practice bot, specifically the remnants of the arm that was still on it
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