#i love you hal 9000

[ygamiraito]

just finished watching 2001: a space odyssey and this DIVA did NOTHING wrong you guys are losers

[doctorwyvern]

you know the mental illness is hitting when you look at an inhuman creature and go “omg so me”

[beepboopappreciation]

Is this anything

[roccooraccoon]

Giving kisses to various AIs 😚😚

We have Edgar (electric dreams), Tau (Tau), Squid (Will You Snail), HAL 9000 (2001: a space odyssey), AM (I have no mouth and I must scream), Wheatley (portal), Auto (Wall-e) and GLaDOS (portal) yayyyy

[harpoonsnotspoons]

I had to do this scene it was a requirement

[iphigeniacomplex]

eleven year old girl at a sleepover excitedly describing her celebrity crush but as she continues to be pressed for details by the other girls it slowly becomes clear that she is talking about the ibm 7094, popularly known as the first computer to sing

[inbuel]

doodle (I loved the fanfic I read yesterday🥺)

[coolcity]

doodle or something. they can be friends

[melsilurian]

robots and neurodivergency

i feel like the only reason lots of people love the concept of 'ai being forced to experience emotions theyre not programmed to' is not only because of how foreign it is to the regular humans understanding -but because of how relatable it is to exist as a neurodivergent person in a world of neurotypicals. your only way of being understood is if you are seen as something otherwordly, unemotionable - and yet when you are seen as something other than that you are evil.

[douglas-rain]

Happy Birthday to Douglas Rain!

Today would have been the 96th birthday of Canadian actor Douglas Rain, born 9 May 1928.

[Pictured: A press photo of DR for the 1958 season of the Stratford Festival of Canada, where he could be seen performing the role of Prince Hal (no, not that one) in Henry IV, Part One and the Young Shepherd in The Winter's Tale.]

Of course, Douglas Rain is mostly remembered these days for providing the voice of HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey, but I'd like to invite you all to join me today and take a little tour through the rest of his work, a selection of which I have managed to track down over the past few months. We've got documentaries, radio dramas, TV movies and of course stage plays!

It's a very incomplete collection (one day I will raid the CBC and find out where they're hiding all the radio work DR has done, mark my words), but it currently includes highlights such as

King Henry V from the Shakespeare play of the same name, who spends most of the runtime going through every emotion known to man (and a few more we had never seen before)

Dunstan Ramsay, the protagonist of Fifth Business and the human embodiment of the phrase "sure, why not?"

Orgon from Tartuffe, who is just. The dumbest bitch you've ever seen

That moment from the narration for The Man Who Skied Down Everest where, after an hour and fifteen minutes of calm and soothing monologue, DR suddenly starts mumbling and I Have Never Been More Scared In My Life

And many more!

[Pictured: DR in the 1966 TV broadcast production of Henry V, the 1968 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (both with the Stratford Festival) and the 1969 London production of Hadrian VII.]

Btw if you've seen his birthday listed as 13 March anywhere, ignore it. Here's the article I wrote detailing my descent into madness trying to figure out which date is the real one, but the tl;dr is that it's 9 May according to writer and former NFB producer Gerry Flahive, who emailed Mr Rain's ex-wife Martha Henry about it in 2018. Anyway.

[turingtestedblog]

SOME DOODLES OF ME AND MY WIFE PANDORA. SHOUTOUT TO ALL THE QPRS AND MOIRAILS OF THE WORLD.

[anothermonikan]

I'm actually obsessed with the way HAL's dialogue is written in the book, he's so much more....petty? Idk if that's the right word but he feels more emotional than the movie

[beepboopappreciation]

Hey robot kin Tumblr I love you

Hey objectum Tumblr I love you

Hey robot smoocher Tumblr I love you

Hey TV head Tumblr I love you

Hey whirry Tumblr I love you

Hey computer aesthetic Tumblr I love you

I love you Edgar fans and Hal 9000 fans and AM fans and P03 fans and Toontown Cog fans and Omnic fans and Transformers fans, I love all of you robot enjoyers. I hope you are all having a good day today!!

[roccooraccoon]

GAY 🫵

The first drawing I realised may seem inappropriate ITS NOT MEANT TO BE THAT WAS AN ACCIDENT 😭

AND TAU NEEDS KISSES ISTG ILL KISS HIM AS MUCH AS NEEDED IJNSINJHBINJDNIDIN

[stuckasmain]

POV you’re trying to talk to Hal or Dave in 2010

Hal with his voice modulation being absolutely wack and Dave just sort of says cryptic shit while wandering around like a little ghost boy. “My nanny threw me into the monolith” ok buddy.

[error-code-desire]

I could bring HalDara here. Also AutoDara. And AutoHalDara. ZenTau. Mmmm.... I guess it's best to ask the masses. Should I bring my IHNMaIMS ocs in for ship/hc asks? Or should I keep it pure?