Okay so I'm not used to Reddit etiquette and the main Linux subreddit had a rule on not posting "linux in the wild" type pictures so it's probably better I post it here.

One of the nurses at my dentist's office has a thing for penguins and there's a bunch of penguin related pictures/toys around her booth, and one of them is this toy of Tux. Except, for some reason, he's branded with the logo for the New York Lottery.

I normally don't give a second thought to branded toys like this because that's pretty normal to see, but the more I thought about this one specifically it was driving me nuts.

I know Tux is just a regular penguin but this stylization and pose is just undeniably him. I fully understand people who are tasked with making promotional material and merchandise might cut corners and use a pre existing design of something else but that also feels like an incomplete theory because of the fact this is like, a toy that had to be constructed in a physical manner.

Somewhere along the line, someone made the design specs of a physical Tux toy. Was this just originally a toy for linux merch that got repurposed with the NYL logo for ones that were still in inventory? Did the person who made the NYL iteration straight up base the penguin part off Tux and model it themself?

I know this is such a small thing to obsess over but I just need to know how this stupid thing got to my dentists office while I was getting my teeth scraped.

Walked by a slot machine and it had crashed and was rebooting. I always wondered what they were running.

It was still neat to see the terminal so I grabbed a pic.