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#1: Web Paint-By-Number Robot (webpbn) on Aug 4, 2018

Found to have a unique solution by infrapinklizzard.

Found to be solvable by line and color logic alone by infrapinklizzard.

I think I know this character -- one of the mean ones. (But then, there weren't many -- or any!! nice ones.)

Another good one!

Alex is waiting for his Droogs

Somehow missed this movie.

I read the book as a teenager, and it had a profound impact on me. The title means something mechanical which appears organic.

Alex and his "droogs" engaged in gratuitous "ultraviolence" while tripping from LSD-laced milk available at the "korova", and if anything was good it was "horrorshow".

I made it through the book and managed to figure out most of the vocabulary, only to find a glossary at the end!

The slang was based on Russian (in which "good" is "chorosho" or "xorosho" in the English alphabet), thus "horrorshow".

The plot is that Alex is caught for his crimes, and rehabbed by being fed a drug which made him extremely ill while being forced to watch images of horrific violence, hoping to instill a Pavlovian reflex that would render him incapable of any violent act. It turned him into a robot with no free will.

I encourage all to read this, if you can stomach it. You won't understand much of the movie without having read the book first, and when you have you'll find the movie to be sorely lacking (although it's Kubrick, and considered quite a masterpiece).

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