D-Man culture

Hi,

I am not sure how much you have heard about the D-Man, but in Japan there is an entire culture based on the D-Man!
As I learned about this by accident (and even Walter didn't know about it), I thought I share this great movement with the DLang community!
Here are some awesome impressions from Twitter:

D-Man vs. Gopher
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https://twitter.com/simd_nyan/status/741924255558819840


D-Man (3D printed with PolyFlex)
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https://twitter.com/simd_nyan/status/623098949046382593

D-Man in "Action"
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https://twitter.com/stamcd/status/742563964656062464

3D-animated D-Man
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https://twitter.com/SagafroKichigai/status/680651286006505472
https://twitter.com/SagafroKichigai/status/731668840900263940

DLang comic strips
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e.g. "Getting into Phobos": https://twitter.com/DlangGuy/status/639529181978697728

Where to go from here?
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The D-Man has already found its way into some of our documentation pages:

http://dlang.org/overview.html
http://dlang.org/spec/iasm.html
http://dlang.org/spec/contracts.html

and I argue that it helps to make those pages more unique, vivid and memorable!
Imho we should start to embrace the D-Man as our official mascot (like the Gopher for Go) and many of the specification pages (and the new Dlang Tour pages) would profit from similar drawings.
This is not intended to spark a huge discussion, as I am quite aware that some see the D-man as childish and a negative way to represent D, but for more "professional" use cases we have the awesome, new D icons from Sociomantic.

Get involved
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It's proposed to use #DLangMan in the future, s.t. English readers can also enjoy the D-Man content. Moreover there are some Twitter accounts that are extraordinary D-man evangelists:

https://twitter.com/simd_nyan
https://twitter.com/DlangGuy (DLang comic strips)
https://twitter.com/meiz_sandwich
https://twitter.com/d_man_bot (retweets D-Man content)

As mentioned I don't speak Japanese, so I would be quite interested if someone from this movement could explain the history or give a better summary.

Whew! I thought this was going to be a scathing critique of some lurking anti-feministic culture in the D world. Glad to see it's just about some cute D-shaped characters! On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > I find this amazing and lots of fun! >

On 2016-06-19 23:29:35 +0000, Adam D. Ruppe said: > We should probably make a D-man video game. There already are a couple: http://yomogimaru.tumblr.com/post/145803169293 http://goboriin.sub.jp/DLNGRING/

On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 03:01:33PM +0000, Seb via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > Hi, > > I am not sure how much you have heard about the D-Man, but in Japan > there is an entire culture based on the D-Man! > As I learned about this by accident (and even Walter didn't know about > it), I thought I share this great movement with the DLang community! [...] I also made a 3D PovRay model of D-Man some years ago. Here's a sample render showing four poses: http://eusebeia.dyndns.org/~hsteoh/tmp/mascot.png If anyone's interested in playing around with the model, I can put the PovRay source files up somewhere. T -- My program has no bugs! Only undocumented features...

On Sunday, 19 June 2016 at 15:01:33 UTC, Seb wrote: > Hi, > > I am not sure how much you have heard about the D-Man, but in Japan there is an entire culture based on the D-Man! > As I learned about this by accident (and even Walter didn't know about it), I thought I share this great movement with the DLang community! [...] Funny stuff! I found this link useful: http://dlangcomicstrips.tumblr.com/

On Monday, 20 June 2016 at 01:40:58 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: > On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 03:01:33PM +0000, Seb via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am not sure how much you have heard about the D-Man, but in Japan >> there is an entire culture based on the D-Man! >> As I learned about this by accident (and even Walter didn't know about >> it), I thought I share this great movement with the DLang community! > [...] > > I also made a 3D PovRay model of D-Man some years ago. Here's a sample render showing four poses: > > http://eusebeia.dyndns.org/~hsteoh/tmp/mascot.png > > If anyone's interested in playing around with the model, I can put the PovRay source files up somewhere. > > > T @simd_nyan has even made 3D-printed D-manavailable to everyone! http://make.dmm.com/item/437376/ But only domestic shipping... :(

On Monday, 20 June 2016 at 14:14:06 UTC, Martin Tschierschke wrote: > On Sunday, 19 June 2016 at 15:01:33 UTC, Seb wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am not sure how much you have heard about the D-Man, but in Japan there is an entire culture based on the D-Man! >> As I learned about this by accident (and even Walter didn't know about it), I thought I share this great movement with the DLang community! > [...] > Funny stuff! > > I found this link useful: http://dlangcomicstrips.tumblr.com/ Ha, some of these critiques are scathing. http://dlangcomicstrips.tumblr.com/image/144812160012

On Tuesday, 21 June 2016 at 19:13:09 UTC, Meta wrote: > On Monday, 20 June 2016 at 14:14:06 UTC, Martin Tschierschke wrote: >> On Sunday, 19 June 2016 at 15:01:33 UTC, Seb wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am not sure how much you have heard about the D-Man, but in Japan there is an entire culture based on the D-Man! >>> As I learned about this by accident (and even Walter didn't know about it), I thought I share this great movement with the DLang community! >> [...] >> Funny stuff! >> >> I found this link useful: http://dlangcomicstrips.tumblr.com/ > > Ha, some of these critiques are scathing. > > http://dlangcomicstrips.tumblr.com/image/144812160012 These are absolutely hilarious. We should include one with each issue of TWiD. http://dlangcomicstrips.tumblr.com/image/124763618912

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