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Recently I have found an exploit for Robocraft. The exploit is based on the flawed math in the RoboShop and also the 50% off Christmas Sale. Here's how the RoboShop works: a bot is valued at $100. When you put it on the shop, it costs $110. But the 50% off Christmas Sale allows the price to go down to $55. When somebody else then buys the robot, you get $22, as you only get a portion of the sale price. Also, when they buy the bot, they can sell it back to the game for another $50. Your total value just went from $50 to $72! The sad thing is, I exploited this a bit too much. I went all the way up to the billions, and soon I had 5 billion waiting in the shop for me to collect. However, the game said something along the lines of "the amount of RP (money) is too large or too small to store in type Uint32". And then I got exactly $0. I guess that's what happens if you're too greedy! P.S. I emailed the devs and their automatic reply said:"Sorry, we are on Chri

Yesterday I had another Kung Fu class. This class was very different from the last. At the start, we started off with the normal warm-ups, running across the room and then doing rolls. After practicing our moves, he told us to sit down and stretch. This was surprising because we had never done this before. I thought: "This is easy!" as I did the first stretch. It was the horse stance. Suddenly, he surprised us by saying: "Now, go down as low as you can and hold it for 10 seconds!" After that, he did it for every stretch. Some of the stretches, like the splits, really hurt, but he held us down for the full 10 seconds. At the end of it, all my muscles felt like they were really sore, but I felt really good too. I think I need to practice these stretches at home to get better at them.

Last Tuesday I had a Kung Fu class. Their website is zenflowerkungfu.net. At first, I was rather surprised at how similar it looked to my old Taekwondo class. The pictures on the wall of martial arts-related things, the blue mats on the floor, and the mirrors on the front wall so that you could see what you were doing while looking up. I also remembered having to line up and then bow to the instructor. After that, we did the warm-ups, as always. Then, it started getting different. Instead of splitting up to do different things based on skill level, we did some exercises that were actually fun. We rolled around on the ground for a bit, and then we did some high kicks. It was fun competing with others while doing the exercises, as we did them two at a time, running across the room and seeing who could run faster. I look forward to the second Kung Fu class today!

Recently ISIS online recruiting has been extremely successful. This has raised many concerns about the First Amendment, which allows free speech as long as there is no clear or present danger. Many politicians and legal scholars are saying that the US government should work to block the sites that have jihadist chat rooms or YouTube videos that have lectures by Anwar al-Awlaki, who radicalized the attacks in San Bernandino, California, and other places. A few legal scholars say that the US government should extend the First Amendment to allow blocking of messages that incite terrorists attacks. I believe that this should be done. Free speech is good, but it can be taken too far, like the terrorists. However, in history, under pressure, many times 'rational' decisions have been made that seemed good at the time but were actually horrible mistakes. The argument could easily be shaped into an argument against any dissenting viewpoints, which would create a horrible world. I sti

Recently people have begun to see North Dakota as a Silicon Valley for drones. There are two main reasons for this. First of all, North Dakota has a lot of expertise in the area. North Dakota has put a lot of money into this area of work, over $34 million dollars. There are many schools in North Dakota that teach aerospace engineering, which will also help. Another area of expertise for North Dakota is high-tech companies. Microsoft and Amazon have purchased companies in the area for their expertise. The area has thousands of software engineers and not a few millionaires itching to get into the next big thing. Also, North Dakota doesn't have many people, so if a experimental drone crashes, it will probably just hit dirt. In addition, North Dakota also has military contracts, with companies like Northrop Grumman. Companies like these developed drones like the Predator, and these companies will also help shape the next Silicon Valley. I think North Dakota is going to be the home

One of the most successful video games in the industry this year was Rocket League. It is a game about driving cars like players in a soccer game. There are different cars, and the balls move when somebody hits them with a car. There are also powerups, like any other game, that make you go faster, make you hit the ball farther, etc.  When somebody shoots the ball into a goal, the ball blows up and the person scores a point. The creators of the game, Psyonix Inc., originally worked with other companies in a contract form. Then, they came out with a game, Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars, which, as you can tell from the name, wasn't a huge success. After a few more years and some funding this time, they created a game called Rocket League, which has the same idea, except in a different form, playing soccer instead of battling. The secret to their success, however is publicity. They gave the game out for free to some major streamers, and also gave it out for free to su

Recently I went to the Great Wolf Lodge. I was surprised by how different it looked, as I had only been there a long time ago and not during Christmas. When we entered the lobby, I looked around and I was shocked. There were snowflakes hanging around, Christmas trees all over the place, and even a life-size gingerbread house in the corner. What surprised me most, though, was all the kids with wands running around. Apparently now there are 'quests' that you can complete, and you basically run around pointing a 'wand' at things. The wand reacted to little crystals or treasure chests in the halls of the hotel. The waterpark was great, just like I remembered it. My favorite waterslide was definitely the Howling Tornado. As we started down the slide, I got the feeling that it was going to be good. It was pitch-black, and we were going down the curves at an easy speed. Suddenly, my stomach sank. We plunged down a steep slope. As I was in the front, it got even scarier becau

Recently there has been a new Amazon drone. Instead of only being a helicopter, the new drone combines the elements of a helicopter and a plane. This drone is better in a lot of ways. It flies farther (15 miles), and goes higher, up to 400 feet.The drone also stores the packages in the fuselage of the plane, which allows it to not drop the package when it is delivering it. The design is also able to avoid obstacles on the ground and drop the package on the amazon logo, which allows the receivers to receive the package anywhere they want it. The only problem for the drone is that it faces lots of regulatory hurdles. It has to be approved by the US government. Also, critics have voiced concerns that drones may be susceptible to weather events, bird attacks or other obstacles. This could raise significant environmental concerns, as they could interfere with bird migration, and maybe even cause extinction. There are also privacy issues, as the drone has cameras to sense the obstacles and