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Bolshevik Battlemechs
« on: 14 November 2012, 05:46:08 »
Apologies if this has already cropped up:

http://www.theage.com.au/national/education/history-transformed-in-vce-exam-20121114-29ce7.html

I was tickled this turned up on an exam paper.
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Re: Bolshevik Battlemechs
« Reply #1 on: 14 November 2012, 06:02:49 »
Yes, we can.  ;)

And I know author, I think.
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Re: Bolshevik Battlemechs
« Reply #2 on: 14 November 2012, 06:08:25 »
LOL!   ;D
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Re: Bolshevik Battlemechs
« Reply #3 on: 14 November 2012, 06:55:37 »
I wish I could have sat that exam

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Re: Bolshevik Battlemechs
« Reply #4 on: 14 November 2012, 07:36:36 »
That's brilliant
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Re: Bolshevik Battlemechs
« Reply #5 on: 14 November 2012, 07:40:36 »
Pretty funny O0
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Re: Bolshevik Battlemechs
« Reply #6 on: 14 November 2012, 07:41:50 »
Not liking the "Oh, whoops, well you get the idea" vibe from the university about it- close enough really shouldn't be something an instructor ever settles for, even for something as obvious as this. But the image is a lot of fun- I wish there was a large version, I'd gladly change my Windows wallpaper.
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Re: Bolshevik Battlemechs
« Reply #7 on: 14 November 2012, 07:42:09 »
I think that image was once used in a Photoshop Friday. Still nice though, maybe Catalyst is going a different route for advertisement!  O0 lol
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Re: Bolshevik Battlemechs
« Reply #8 on: 14 November 2012, 07:47:25 »
Quote from: Atlas3060 on 14 November 2012, 07:42:09
I think that image was once used in a Photoshop Friday. Still nice though, maybe Catalyst is going a different route for advertisement!  O0 lol

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Re: Bolshevik Battlemechs
« Reply #9 on: 14 November 2012, 09:24:39 »
What I find most interesting is that they peg it as a Marauder and not an Officer Pod from Robotech.
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Re: Bolshevik Battlemechs
« Reply #10 on: 14 November 2012, 09:49:09 »
Yes, this pleases me.  O0
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Re: Bolshevik Battlemechs
« Reply #11 on: 14 November 2012, 10:24:43 »
Pure awesome. Best part is that it got by everyone until it was put in front of the students. Nobody even gave it a second glance up until then.
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Re: Bolshevik Battlemechs
« Reply #12 on: 14 November 2012, 10:52:02 »
Quote from: monbvol on 14 November 2012, 09:24:39
What I find most interesting is that they peg it as a Marauder and not an Officer Pod from Robotech.
That's the best part of the story for me.  ^-^
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« Reply #13 on: 14 November 2012, 12:13:40 »
Quote from: monbvol on 14 November 2012, 09:24:39
What I find most interesting is that they peg it as a Marauder and not an Officer Pod from Robotech.
Indeed.  Does this mean we get the Unseen back since we've won on the identity and association point?
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Re: Bolshevik Battlemechs
« Reply #14 on: 14 November 2012, 13:26:11 »
saddly, no, but it does give me another reason to thumb my nose at Harmony Gold. Even though.

I find it hilarious that it made it on to the test without anyone noticing until far too late
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Re: Bolshevik Battlemechs
« Reply #15 on: 14 November 2012, 13:56:23 »
The historical parallel makes it even that much funnier.  What 'Mech did Natasha Kerensky drive when she first started?
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Re: Bolshevik Battlemechs
« Reply #16 on: 14 November 2012, 14:31:24 »
Popped back in because a few friends forwarded me that story. Is that one of Falchion's 'Shops?
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Re: Bolshevik Battlemechs
« Reply #17 on: 14 November 2012, 17:38:29 »
Quote from: ShadowRaven on 14 November 2012, 13:26:11
I find it hilarious that it made it on to the test without anyone noticing until far too late
Given what we've seen on state education tests, that doesn't surprise me at all.
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Re: Bolshevik Battlemechs
« Reply #18 on: 14 November 2012, 18:17:15 »
I believe so. Let me bug him.
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Re: Bolshevik Battlemechs
« Reply #19 on: 14 November 2012, 18:49:19 »
Looks more like a Marauder II with the wings.
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« Reply #20 on: 14 November 2012, 18:53:26 »
Not sure if this should go here... but...

http://www.theage.com.au/national/education/history-transformed-in-vce-exam-20121114-29ce7.html

We recognise the significance of BT in the human future down under!!!
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« Reply #21 on: 14 November 2012, 19:25:56 »
I have got to get me a copy of that exam paper! Unfortunately, while my youngest is doing that stream of history, he's only in year 11.
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« Reply #22 on: 14 November 2012, 19:32:05 »
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« Reply #23 on: 14 November 2012, 19:37:33 »
Take that, Harmony Gold!
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« Reply #24 on: 14 November 2012, 19:37:58 »
I want to know why they think it's a "BattleTech Marauder" and not, say a Zentradi BattlePod
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« Reply #25 on: 14 November 2012, 19:39:25 »
To funny, I know I would have liked history more if it included giant stumpy robots. O0
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Re: Bolshevik Battlemechs
« Reply #26 on: 14 November 2012, 19:40:19 »
Quote from: Hersh67 on 14 November 2012, 18:49:19
Looks more like a Marauder II with the wings.

the 2nd image, intended to illustrate the 'battlemech', doesn't match the 'shopped image. the one in the 'shopped image is a regular Marauder.
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« Reply #27 on: 14 November 2012, 19:40:22 »
Quote from: SCC on 14 November 2012, 19:37:58
I want to know why they think it's a "BattleTech Marauder" and not, say a Zentradi BattlePod

Because either the author or someone else in the office identified it as such, I would guess.
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« Reply #28 on: 14 November 2012, 20:03:06 »
I would love to see a fan-fic that explain how a battlemech end up in 1917 
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Re: Bolshevik Battlemechs
« Reply #29 on: 14 November 2012, 20:56:11 »

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