Just a logo and a caption: Machine Worship

This is supposed to represent the trope? How?

Suggestions:

Geth worshipping the Reapers◊

Anyone got a still of the Amazons worshipping Femputer in Futurama?

edited 26th Mar '11 9:51:12 AM by Ghilz

Pulled for Just A Face And A Caption.

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Ninja'd. Not really sold on the suggested replacement.

edited 26th Mar '11 10:42:48 AM by Willbyr

Yeah, it doesn't have an obvious "machinery" look to me, it looks like some kind of weird altar.

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Somewhere there's an image of a tech-priest doing his...worshippy thing. It's probobly on the internet somewhere...Not that there was any problem with the current one....

Yes, yes there was. It's text book Just A Face And A Caption (read the page). The logo shows precisely jack shit to those who don't know the source work.

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I don't think it's a good image, but I wouldn't quite call it JAFAAC. I've never seen it before, but I do think it looks like the logo of some organisation which revolves around technology or cybernetics - it's got a normal skull on one side and a cyborg one on the other, and the gear motif which is usually associated with technology. It doesn't get the worship angle across very well, though, and we should be able to find something better.

Could be Space Pirates for all I know.

I've got the DVD somewhere so I can grab a still, but I'm not sure if there's one where it's very clear that they're worshiping it. I think there's a shot where the Amazonians are bowing to the computer, but I'm not sure if it parses when the image is shrunk.

Alternatively from Futurama, there's The Temple of Robotology◊.

A cropped version of this◊?
Also, this◊.
This◊ would be great if it weren't for the logos. So would this◊, if it weren't so blurry.

This implies, quite correctly, that my mind is dark and damp and full of tiny translucent fish.

That's great.

The dudes worshiping the laptop are amusing, but the watermarks over that first one are unfortunate.

edited 3rd Apr '11 8:17:12 AM by Willbyr

Robo Jesus is good. As is the second laptop picture. Don't we have a trope about something being a made up religion based on christianity that we can link it to?

Ah, it's Crystal Dragon Jesus.

edited 3rd Apr '11 2:54:23 PM by Deboss

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If it were space pirates, they would be cyborg space pirates.

I mean if it were just the skull and gear that'd be one thing, but when half the skull is a robot...

aside from the fact that the adeptus mechanica are this trope. It's their thing.

Being an example does not make it a good picture.

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No but being an obvious symbol for cybernetics, or a cybernetic group is. Particularly with the old caption.

Cybernetics are not required for this trope, merely a worshiping of machinery. That was clearly just a symbol of something, rather than worshiping. Give me a shrine or something, but a symbol alone is just a symbol, nothing of a religious nature.

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Despite being a major 40k fan, I do agree...the Ad Mech symbol is JAFAAC. Now, if we could get a picture of techpriests actually worshiping a machine that'd be great. I'm going to throw my vote behind the guy praying to his laptop.

Still, the quote works fine.

"If everything on Earth were rational, nothing would ever happen." ~Fyodor Dostoevsky

I'm okay with this◊ despite the blurriness.

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[1]◊ is pretty dynamic.

(From the "Robot opera" Death And The Powers, if that matters.)

Forum banned as possible bot. Pm'ed the fast one. Thumping.

Just a quick question, how can we delete a primary logo?

x4 There's nothing there that says "machinery", at least not in any evident way.

What's a primary logo?

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Tried to find a good picture of the Femputer. Ugh.◊ It would work great if it was big enough to crop, but I can't get anything clearer than that on GIS.

edited 2nd Aug '11 6:48:17 AM by unhappyyak

First key to interpreting a work: Things mean things.