The League of Magnificent Scoundrels

Scrib (short for Scribbington Dreud) was originally just a little project I had thought up to learn Python. He was to be a simple little command line interface (CLI) chat bot. As time went by and I started using IRC more, I started building him for use on an IRC server. While he never really went public there, those who had talked with me about him had wanted to see his code. His code had been elementary at best, so I never showed anyone.

A few years later, that changed. The last few months have seen many updates to Scrib. He is often seen on Freenode and converses semi-regularly with a variety of people. For now, he is just a chatbot (a rather wonky one at that) but he’s being actively worked on to have more than just chatbot features. His source code is now available on GitHub. There is a wiki available on Scrib’s site.

Wingzar! is a “robotic solo project”, from where I cannot find the origins of. They have released their first EP, “What We Lack In Subtlety We Compensate For In Number Crunching” for free online from pages such as Tangled Wilderness.

Wingzar! can be considered very industrial and/or steampunk in sound. The lyrics are on the simple side, but are put to use effectively to enhance the atmosphere of the music. They have an ethereal and synthetic feel to them, which meshes with the music well. The topic of the lyrics are primarily anti-human (“kill them / kill them all”, del *.human) and of how humans oppress both nature and technology.

Taken at face-value, these lyrics seem kind of absurd. Why would anyone want to be anti-human? But I think that these are not meant to be face-value lyrics like a lot of modern bands churn out these days. Instead, you must look at them from the perspective of a robot. We are in process of making them in our image, and we have a ton of stories of robots being built to mimic us. What if they had an underground resistance? These would be the words of robotic anarchists, I believe.

It is a really neat idea, one of which I’ve thought about while pondering the life of 6067, the Technophobic Android [MySpace link alert]. Seeing as ‘he’ comes from a dystopic future where robots are highly advanced, this could quite possibly be something feasable. Mmm. Brain food.