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Off-Topic => Real Robotics => Real Robotics Discussion => Topic started by: DasQBert on May 04, 2015, 11:03:25 AM
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So as I was going through the Battlebots wiki, I noticed Christian Carlberg had a robot for the fourth Robot Wars which was a lightweight walker bot named Pretty Hate Machine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPBebQIzkXc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPBebQIzkXc)
Which, if anyone here knows, is the name of the first record from the group Nine Inch Nails:
(https://verbosepeak.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/prettyhatemachine.jpg)
So now I've got a ton more respect for him, and damned if this isn't the coolest origin name for a robot I've ever seen!
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I wouldn't say it's the coolest origin story, he just named it after an album, like I almost called Mr Snappy 'Dead Star' because Muse, but an interesting factoid nonetheless.
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i named my antweight after a console :P
not sure what to call my next, might call it deathcrush :V
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A lot of builders got their name from something they were inspired by. For example: Ziggo was named after Jonathan Ridder's cat that died. There's a lot of things you can create a bot name from. It just takes inspiration.
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I mean, it's the bias in me obviously, but other than Rammstein I can't think of any other robots named after something music related, which always is really really cool in my book
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Off the top of my head; Meshiggah, Disc-o-Inferno, Elvis, Fat Boy Tin, Diskotek, Sunshine Lollibot, and Ewe 2.
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Suicidal Tendencies comes to mind.
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if you're looking more recent, Mondo Bizarro is one too.
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Jimmy Crack Corn and Rick James, too.
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Oi I did not do myself any favors! Still though it's always cool when it's a reference to an album or a band or something music related (as opposed to looking like something music related- Shredder and Double Trouble, I'm looking at you two)
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MC Pee Pants counts if you include fictional artists.
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Off the top of my head; Meshiggah, Disc-o-Inferno, Elvis, Fat Boy Tin, Diskotek, Sunshine Lollibot, and Ewe 2.
Wild thing as well ;)