Since weve clearly found someone whos from outside the roboteering community...

Martijn: One of the concerns of the fighting robot community at the moment is attracting public interest - and, therefore, overhauling some of the stereotypes. For myself, Ive never felt the need to conform (although I dont have a beard, I do have a fiancee, and my mother - may she rest in peace - never had a basement), but I acknowledge that public relations is not based on the same things as a happy life.

Care to tell us what would need to change for you to consider robots, er, cool? I gather youd be more interested if we put some AI on the bots?

I presume you dont mean gay literally, by the way. I have no idea, but I presume the proportion of gay roboteers is about the same 1 in 10 as the rest of the population? An unusually large number of my fellow tiddlywinks players are gay (although still very much a minority of them), but Im reasonably sure thats a coincidence... As for the robots themselves, well, Im not sure weve got them self-replicating yet.

Ironically, someone decided to fill in the contact me form on my website with some insults, yesterday. Just when I was expecting an interesting discussion... Im still deciding whether to reply to the posting to ask what it was to which they were objecting.

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