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Re: Was trying out a trick when a Grunt waltzed in
By:PerseusSpartacus
Date: 9/18/13 8:11 pm
In Response To: Re: Was trying out a trick when a Grunt waltzed in (Rockslider)

: Yes but I don't think it's all that mysterious. I think all that's happening
: is something like this. He tries to back off, but due to some unusual
: configuration the slope nudges him back down again, so he tries to back
: off but the slope nudges him back down again, and so on. Of course, he
: doesn't really 'try' anything; it's just the mindless execution of the
: programming. There's no higher function watching out for such looping, so
: he just keeps on doing it until new circumstances (panic) make the
: programming take a different path.

Makes sense.

: By the way, I don't think the super-smack phenomenon is due to slopes. I have
: other examples where there's no slope, one of which was shown in BCM29 (in
: the 4:01 clip). However, a slope may cause an upward deflection once the
: subject is moving (which could very well be the case with the bridge Elite
: you mentioned), and thus cause a longer trajectory.

Yeah, the bridge Elite did seem to go up as well as forward (backward from his perspective), so there's a good chance that he hit the slight slope and got sent a bit longer than normal by the upward motion.

Vale,
Perseus

Messages In This Thread

Was trying out a trick when a Grunt waltzed inSliding Ghost9/16/13 7:42 pm
     Re: Was trying out a trick when a Grunt waltzed inRockslider9/17/13 12:20 pm
           Re: Was trying out a trick when a Grunt waltzed inSliding Ghost9/18/13 1:21 am
                 Re: Was trying out a trick when a Grunt waltzed inPerseusSpartacus9/18/13 3:40 pm
                       Re: Was trying out a trick when a Grunt waltzed inRockslider9/18/13 5:35 pm
                             Re: Was trying out a trick when a Grunt waltzed inPerseusSpartacus9/18/13 8:11 pm

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