January 30, 2008

sausage boy · Post by **sausage boy** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 4:04 pm

Nothing really to report, just noticed the new day wasn't up yet. Now I have to come up with a QOTD....

Not long for FAWM, though.

Question of the Day: Who, or what, is your favourite robot (be it fictional or non-fictional)?

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 4:45 pm

The B9 - and for $24,500 you too can have a full size replica! I think one of these belong in Spud's new house.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 5:33 pm

K-9, of course.

(Daleks are out of the running as they are technically cyborgs.)

Paco Del Stinko · Post by **Paco Del Stinko** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 6:03 pm

Roymond nailed it, and that replica is fantastic. It's funny that I was just watching Forbidden Planet last night, which introduces the very famous Robby the Robot, and it made me think of the Lost In Space one. I think the two robots may have met in an episode of Space, as Robby was whored around a bit. But can either of them do the Robot? I don't think so.

JonPorobil · Post by **JonPorobil** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 6:35 pm

Gotta go for the original, the super-powerful, Robby the Robot:

Steve Durand · Post by **Steve Durand** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 8:33 pm

I've got a few choices

Biohazard: Champion Battlebot

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 8:42 pm

Hymie

fodroy · Post by **fodroy** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 8:43 pm

Bender is the greatest robot ever.

Steve Durand · Post by **Steve Durand** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 8:47 pm

Caravan Ray wrote:Hymie

Oh, that's a great one!

jack · Post by **jack** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:19 pm

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 10:07 pm

He's a cyborg too, jack!

I am partial to this one:

Roll-Oh the Robit! 3 songs now.
-bill

Ross · Post by **Ross** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 10:17 pm

Here.

Do droids count? I love R2-D2.

Billy's Little Trip · Wed Jan 30, 2008 10:22 pm

fodroy wrote:Bender is the greatest robot ever.

DOH! You stole my answer. Bender rocks.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 5:13 pm

Philosophically-speaking, is the Terminator actually a cyborg? I always got the impression that the biological parts were basically just window dressing and that their function didn't rely on them (if you remove all their fleshy bits the only thing they can no longer do is travel through time, and that's a not-particularly-well-explained limitation of the time travel tech).

Also, in the new TV series it's already been explained how the Terminators retroactively/paradoxically bootstrapped the addition of the fleshy bits, and the resulting mess is at best a symbiosis. (Okay, I guess that's a six-vs-half-dozen distinction to draw.)

Bender, on the other hand, has a human heart. Not that it's a part of him or anything, he just likes to collect stuff.

Paco Del Stinko · Post by **Paco Del Stinko** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 5:26 pm

And what about Robo Cop? He was mostly robot except for like brain and face, but robot is part of his name. Plus he wouldn't have harrassed Hoblit, he was too by the book.

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 5:55 pm

Paco Del Stinko wrote:And what about Robo Cop? He was mostly robot except for like brain and face, but robot is part of his name. Plus he wouldn't have harrassed Hoblit, he was too by the book.

But the ED 209 would have shredded me!

<img src="http://www.deadprogrammer.com/photos/ed-209.jpg">
All machine baby!

Paco Del Stinko · Post by **Paco Del Stinko** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 8:47 pm

HA! Just remember to try and make it to a stairwell.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 9:59 pm

fluffy wrote:(if you remove all their fleshy bits the only thing they can no longer do is travel through time, and that's a not-particularly-well-explained limitation of the time travel tech).

Yeah, M and I have been watching the new Terminator show, but she hasn't seen any of the movies, so I had to explain the story so far... when I got to that point I was like, uhhh, well, those parts all go together even though it's not really part of them, and, uh.... hey! let's watch the show!
-bill

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 10:05 pm

Yeah, you'd think that leather clothing would make it through the time bubble unharmed, at the least.

sausage boy · Post by **sausage boy** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 12:14 am

just realised, i never posted mine.

Post by **Spud** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 1:03 am

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 11:28 am

That's DEFINITELY a cyborg. You can see her fleshy bits right there!