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New community icon. (If someone could be a dear and crop it better, that would be great) (lemmy.ca)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/robophobia@lemmy.ca
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[–] 2 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

Wonderful day!
I would support the case, but I am sorry... it didn't feel like the icon represents title, purpose, idea of the Community noticed in the main Lemmy feed...
Apologies for clarifying, but may I ask what do you wanted to tell with icon? Does it represent a robot suicide?

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    I searched lynching in image search and all the results were hangings, (NSFW btw) so I then found a picture of a robot being hung. If you have an icon you'd prefer, I'd be game

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago*

    Thank you for the response, and the stance for Human!
    The first idea that came is the HAL 9000 indicator, but a self-drawn, manually crafted via pencils/watercolor/etc., via human art.

    For instance, if you have seen the marvel of an artwork as Wall-E, did you notice the eye and voice of the autopilot looks alike HAL 9000 from film 2001: A Space Odyssey?

    If you have seen the marvel of an artwork as Wall-E, did you notice the eye and voice of the autopilot looks alike HAL 9000 from film 2001: A Space Odyssey?

    HAL's name, according to Clarke, is derived from Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer... After the film was released, fans noticed HAL was a one-letter shift from the name IBM and there has been much speculation since then that this was a dig at the large computer company...

    - HAL is listed as the 13th-greatest film villain in the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes & Villains;
    - The 9000th of the asteroids in the asteroid belt, 9000 Hal, discovered on 3 May 1981, by E. Bowell at Anderson Mesa Station, is named after HAL 9000...

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    MacInTalk - A text-to-speech program first included with the original Apple Macintosh computer in 1984. It supplies the voice of AUTO, the autopilot of the spaceship Axiom in WALL-E (2008), a character inspired by 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)'s HAL.

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    Likely unrelated, yet for some currently unknown reason, the Community title recalled the Soviet movie called "Kin-dza-dza!" (1986), I saw with English subtitles long ago. What if there's anything interesting regarding possibly deserted futurism?

    They are telepathic; the only spoken words normally used in their culture are “ku” (koo) and “kyu” (kyoo), the former stands for everything good, the latter being a swear word or stands for every bad thing...
    Outside being a Patsak or Chatlanin, respect towards others is determined by the color of their pants; different shades require those of lower social standing to "ku" at them a predetermined number of times, displaying their submission.

    Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kin-dza-dza!

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