Probably the last big Thread before discussion goes almost completely dormant for another 2 months, please make it count.
Art + theories very much welcome.
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ITT: Murder Drones
Probably the last big Thread before discussion goes almost completely dormant for another 2 months, please make it count.
Art + theories very much welcome.
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Honestly, the breadth of time between episodes is probably a good thing for the threads.
Keeps us from going cancer.
Do you guys think the next episode will have a time skip start again or will it start right after the huh in 5
I hope it picks up at the exact second it left off.
ending one episode with "WH-" and starting the next two months later with "-AT" would be too good.
what will the goldenwienerroach's significance be? Nori almost definitely owned it because it had the same number that was on her collar. Doll calls it a "key"
Well yellow appears to be the color directly associated with zombie drones and AS so the golden roach might have some Solver juice in it that will be important
according to its exchange with uzi in ep4, placing it on a "proximity reader" will let whoever's using it access the elevator that most likely leads to the laboratory near the campsite.
speaking of art, i dont know if i ever thanked the drawfriend who drew this. around episode 2 i was on the verge of a mental breakdown and when i described this dream i had of V in a MickeyD shirt telling me to lick her hip and someone actually cared enough about my thoughts to draw it out actually made my day that day and helped me start getting myself under control, so thank you drawfriend for taking the time to cheer up a random anon without even realizing it, this is the end of my blog post.
This delivery is great. Bless the drawgay who made it.
I've been absent all weekend and had no way to prove my identity to say "hey, I still look at these threads". I wanted to do more doodle requests but I am exhausted. Might think about it later.
I'm pretty sure you thanked me. Don't worry about it. I think I remember telling you that was a pretty bad delivery.
>also other artist who did doodles requests after ep4 is also on social media
I don't remember if there where any other artists who did that, but I know I did so if this style looks familiar that would be me.
Ye, I was talking about you.
You cooking good food in this threads and in general, thanks!
So...
Considering information from last episode,
Is disassemble drones really was sended to C9 by JCJ or it was just part of their legend that Cyn gave them?
Could be either. Though given it seems Cyn eventually fricked the Earth with a suoermassive black hole, we'd need to determine a timeline to figure out whether or not JCJenson got to them in time before it got bored and killed the planet.
>its going to turn out they were on earth all along, cyn made up the copper-9 mining colony stuff
I think JCJ did send them, but if it's revealed that Cyn just made them think that I wouldn't be surprised.
>CYN sends V, N, and fake puppet J without JCJ knowing at all
>all of J's corporate talk in the pilot was total BS from CYN
>Tessa and real J show up to copper 9 to meet with Doll
>Tessa sees N and V
>WHA-
The most recent episode seems to imply that J’s corporate talk is just part of her personality, maybe she was some sort of office worker drone before being trashed.
When I say fake puppet J, it's still a copy of J's personality being emulated (emulated in the computer sense?)
but we do know that CYN was hiding inside J, and "J must have been getting her orders from somewhere"
Also additonal things that I think should be noted
the Cabin Fever Labs was founded in 3002, presumably to research AS.
The current events happening in 3071.
Other important events happened in the series so far is C9 core collabce and events in Elliots manor.
Lets assume that the explosion of the core occurred about 20 years ago (given the age of Uzi and considering that robots grow up by human standards).
Events in Elliots manor happen, lets say 5-10 years ago(considering age of Tessa and disassembly drones).
Considering this, we can consider the AS
infection of Cyn and theAS infection of Nori (who passed it on to the Uzi as a legacy) were different, unrelated cases of an outbreak of AS infection (well, or does this program have interplanetary hive mind)
or, and also that meants humans know about AS way before Cyn happend
Okay so are we ever going to see who killed Uzi's mom? Like if it's J then like she'll just try murder but if it was N...
One of my most favourite moments from the latest episode:
>Climbing. Criss-cross applesauce.
The flesh demands invitation
Honestly, that's one hell of a pick up line.
shuffle shuffle shuffle
>"Everyone stand back! This is a citizen's MURDER!"
I was not expecting to enjoy Tessa as much as I did.
I'm still reeling from how she went from "will probably be a major villain" to probably the only thing standing in the way of an all-powerful cosmic demon.
That’s Murder Drones pacing for you
Blink once while watching and you’ll miss like, 1/5 of the story
Like Uzi still probably wants to kill all humans but maybe that's the solver talking. However she does care about her fellow drones to a degree. Like she isn't sad when one dies but you know.
I mean, thats really just expectation subversion? People assumed Tessa was going to be an antagonist, with the Episode 2 flashback teasing both her and Cyn but revealing nothing about either. The end of 3 made people assume she would be an antagonist due to being with J and being a JCJ technician, but we now know she is working against Cyn. Neat, yknow?
Wrong reply, idk why it did that.
What do you guys think will happened in the last three episodes?
something i want to see is Tessa joining Uzi's team, so J gets her loyalty defied. Would she follow Tessa, or would she stay loyal to JCJenson?
I don’t know if Uzi is even pursuing the same goals anymore. She got completely blindsided by the absolute solver and is just trying to pick up the pieces at this point. They might have the same goals at this point. Also, J seems to value Tessa more than she values respecting authority, so there might not be any conflict even if they do end up going against JC Jenson’s wishes
She's definitely not pursuing the same goals anymore. "Kill all humans" got put on the back burner when there was a giant drone-eating armored snake monster roaming around the colony. It got taken off the heat entirely when there was a psychic cannibal running around offing who knows how many drones for who knows what reason. And it straight up got poured down the drain and forgotten about when Uzi started turning random objects into grotesque piles of living tissue and then turned herself into a monster that ate like half a dozen classmates in the space of maybe half an hour. I think her top priority is to
>1. Figure out wtf is going on
and only insofar as it helps her accomplish
>2. Keep me or anyone else from turning into monsters and killing people off by the score again
So, one part I'm not sure I got
Is the zombie drone virus or whatever implied to have been caused by the way the robots were not properly processed when they were being dumped ? Since apparently Cyn is patient 0 for it and she came from the dump.
Or did it exist prior ?
If it did, what cause robots to be dumped so close to population centers with apparently no care in the world for their remains ?
I kind of got the sense that Tessa's parents were just wasteful and kind of vindictive. They use their drones up like disposable razors and then throw them out without a care in the world because they're used to doing stuff without consequences, and the pile of robo-corpses in the yard serves as a constant reminder to their drones not to frick up and put too much sugar in the tea and to their rebellious daughter to not tick them off or they'll break her precious little toys.
Would Tessa killed her parents if the massacre didn't happened?
Hhhmmmm that seems a bit extreme. She probably would have gotten increasingly bold in defying them as she got older, maybe run away from home with her pet drones in tow if mom and dad started threatening to throw them in the smelter.
Do we know the location of the mansion?
Did you make that?
No I think I scraped it off of an earlier thread. Kind of reminds me of the art style of Hyper Light Drifter.
Cyn is patient zero in the sense that the drone it's puppeting is the first known to have made a deal with it due to not being deactivated correctly. It's not so much a "zombie virus" as it is a demon literally sockpuppeting a corpse.
And if absolutely existed prior. The instructional video at the start even outright says to properly dispose of your drones.
So the absolute solver is what's powering Cyn? And Cyn was piloting the J from the first episode?
More like Cyn IS the Absolute Solver. And yes - the J-Thing in episode 2 was Cyn.
Cyn is probably the original drone the "little sister to N" absolute solver took over and puppeteered Cyn while it was hatching it's plan. Maybe the old OS impedes or gives it traits ti absolute solver. Ultimately AS wins out and fully takes over when the drone "dies". Hence why it said "you don't remember us" while it projected Uzi's mom. Uzi's mom getting killed by the murder drones might've been a blessing in disguise.
>"you don't remember us"
maybe CYN/yellow absolute solver sees everything J does (or N or V, it just seems like J is the most likely), and J/CYN saw this image of Uzi and Nori right before J killed Nori
CYN might not understand how purple absolute solver works, and assumes its a full hive mind.
So when CYN encounters Uzi again, CYN thinks "hey its that other hivemind, why don't you remember me?"
Even though Uzi isn't a full hive mind
Nice trips also where was it confirmed J kill Uzi's mom? I know that's the easiest one to deal with story wise but if it was V, N would protest to blowing her head off. If it was N holy shit my heart could not take it.
I think it would interesting if it was N, I picked J since we know the ep2 monster was hiding inside of her
God that'll be alot to deal with if N did kill nori but then again you'd think Khan would hate N's circuits if that was the case.
You have to remember that the humans in this series aren’t that smart. They created AI to do factory work that would only require a machine, gave them the capability to feel emotions, and continued making them despite knowledge of the extreme malignancy present in their code.
So what exactly is Tessa's plan? She launched herself into space with a revolver, a longsword, and her best gal J and not much else. She chopped down a random drone who didn't seem to pose much of a threat when she got to her destination. She's got the key to the spooky labs now. Is that were some crucial anchor point for the AS to get into our reality is located or is there something she can use as a weapon against Cyn in there? I'm assuming that conventional weaponry isn't going to be enough to stop this thing, whatever it is.
>key
Pretty sure that's the basement key from the recent episode?
I meant the robot bug "key" as Doll referred to it. That gets you into the Cabin Fever Labs.
>robot bug
Didn't it have a shitty voice active program?
yea but that doesn't matter if you already know where the elevator is, which tessa presumably does
It was designed specifically for people with Aussie accents as thick as peas soup, that's why it couldn't understand Uzi. She'll be able to use it just fine.
Tessa probably doesn't have a working plan, so I assume she's winging it.
>She chopped down a random drone who didn't seem to pose much of a threat when she got to her destination
Cyn can hijack any drone for use as an extension of itself or as fuel for its growth. Depriving it of additional bodies is actually a smart play.
She seemed so callous and casual in the way she did it though. Which didn't seem so shocking when we had no idea who she was. But it does seem like an odd thing to do now that we've seen her playing the part of Queen Cinnamon Roll, Lover Of Tiny Robots in the flashback.
She seemed absolutely fine with terminating Cyn as soon as it started threatening human life. Who knows? Maybe she knows something we don’t; maybe the drones on C-9 are in some way directly responsible for the human extinction on the planet and the series of events we were fed was a line of bullshit.
>The core collapse was an inside job
>Deep-planet mining can't destabilize the magnetosphere!
Wouldn't the worker drones have program that wouldn't allowed them to harm humans directly nor indirectly?
Tell that to Tessa’s family
That was to due both a virus and hacked.
Yes, and AS has also been on C-9 for an indeterminate amount of time. It’s not out of the question.
>Tessa’s family
Their abusive so who cares.
>2.6 mil in less than 3 days
Goddamn
What's the chances of seeing Tessa face?
0%
And you know this how?
Because human models in this style would look uncanny as frick if they fricked it up. Most we've ever gotten of Tessa is her back.
There's a reason they gave her a full face-concealing helmet.
its very impressive that they got any of Vicker's stuff working in 3d
The animation also seems to be gradually improving, which is cool to see.
Yeah, first they traded out the mocap of episode 1 for ground-up CG animation in episode 2, then they hired Kevin Temmer as an animator for episode 3, and finally bumped him up to lead animator in episodes 4 and 5.
some of ep2 and the background crowd in ep3 still looked kind of mocap to me, I assumed it was more of a gradual transition
Liam struck gold with the worker the worker/disassembly drone designs
I live for the robot chicks in this show, man.
I too am a robofricker clangmaster.
What are your guys hopes and fears for the next episode let alone the series?
I'm not good at explaining stuff but so far every ep has been making me want me want to see more instead of just wanting to see how the story ends im afraid that one day that will be reverse
My hope for the next episode is that Tess runs up to N and gives a great big hug, and Uzi, being a hater of humans and a tsundere for N, loses her mind and must be restrained.
What's with the moron content creators on youtube watching this series and not paying attention to the story at all, then acting all confused at Episode 5?
Like seriously, the amount of people I'm seeing confusing characters for each other or forgetting basic events that happened in the last 3 episodes is insane. The frick?
Do you have evidence?
That reaction YouTubers are moronic? Does he really need to support such a plainly true statement?
Murder Drones should evolve into Kaiba threads. That'd be kino.
Yes I'm over 18, are you not? WE'VE GOT AN UNDERAGE HERE.
God she is so hot without makeup also why tf are they making a redemption series for azula? Did they run out of idea for avatar ip? Avatar post apocalypse boom there you go nickelodeon!
I don't i've ever seen a show so explicitly say "hey remember to pause and pay attention to the numbers and shit"
Could it be possible the name cyn came from S/N?
Its robo Satan and its name is Sin
Its Robo satan and its name is SN
its robo satan and named itself Cyn
Neat
the drone that woke up at the bottom of the corpse pile had a serial number "CYN-N-smudge smudge smudge"
CYN comes from the armband of the dead drone we see in the center of the pile of drone corpses at the beginning of episode 5 shortly before it wakes up.
It seems CYN was originally a discarded drone in the dump, which randomly reactivated like the Zombie Drones tape mentions. The text flashing up on its screen for a few frames says something about "I will not discard you" and a permission prompt for AbsoluteSolver.
From what we can tell, CYN was dead and allowed the AbsoluteSolver access to its body in a sort of "deal with the devil" type beat, and the corpse is now being puppeted by the AbsoluteSolver, using "Cyn" as a cover.
>You will be here
A.) For N
B.) Forever
C.) Fill in yourself ________.
>[][][]hello :]
> see you are (dis CRACK oful/sad
>I see you are inspe CRACK end]]
>--- I f0--t [selfD CRACK end]]
>I see we could [trl] CRACK [edit] for you
>I will not discard you
>[][][][][][][Absolute[S CRACK ]
>Access Y/N
>I see you will be here for
>I see we could .... [edit] for you
>I see WE could .... [edit] for you
It seems like the "WE" is the absolute solver + the zombie drone with the CYN smudged armband
The "I" from puppet-CYN is just part of the CYN character
I think the "I" in "I see" is absolute solver's correct pronoun in this context, I don't think it would lie about that in its devil contract
Have someone filled in the gaps yet?
a common explanation for the absolute solver "telepathy magic" is just "le nanobots everywhere", I think the nanotech in murder drones is limited to the biological goop, not invisible swarms flying around
we never actually see all of CYN's body, and it seems like parts of her appear and disappear. Is it all just hologram/invisibility? Is it all just N memory corruption?
CYN's puppet body is pretty obviously physical, it flops around, and claws move it around.
We never see the centipede form ever use absolute solver telepathy in ep2 or ep5
We see the CYN puppet telepathy-hold a globe, lightning, then the centipede is visible holding the clobe
So does that mean that all absolute solver telepathy is just giant invisible centipedes?
This doesn't explain the teleporting, or all the times Doll and Uzi shut doors in cramped colony hallways
Note all the space manipulation surrounding absolute solver, the tiny and large black holes, it calling itself something about the "fabric, infinite end"
Theory: The CYN centipede is a 4th dimensional being. It sticks the CYN-puppet in our plane, and leaves the rest of the extent of the centipede "nearby" in 4th dimension space. The solver telepathy is summoning the tips of centipede claws to reach into our plane and move around bullets, zippers, crack mirrors, etc. The full extend of the centipede is generally incomprehensible
>THE SOLVER OF THE ABSOLUTE FABRIC
>THE VOID
>THE EXPONENTIAL END
There's also stuff like Doll using the Solver to physically smash drones into indistinguishable sludge during the prom and general reality glitching whenever it's used.
How does Uzi know to hack the murder drones?
idk how she knows, but this ins't an asspull per se, some episodes ago, you can see she hacked into one of her classmates in one quick gag, with the same device she used on N and V.
NTA, but holy shit, you're right.
>five-second one-off gag comes back as a major plot element
How does one achieve this level of kino?
The Murder Drones were once workers, so I can't imagine it is any different than when she hacked her classmate.
https://twitter.com/glitch_prod/status/1668332449858715648?s=20
lmao using Nintendo music, they have balls of steel.
>rizz hat
they just know
Glitched production has frequently associated N with “Chad Music.”
One advert played a remix of After Dark for the N pillow, and a clip advertising the show had a pic of N accompanied by “Can you feel my Heart” playing briefly.
these guys have a long history of not giving a frick about nintendo copyright
Why 80's VHS format?
Do we know if Liam, crew, or anyone at Glitch Productions lurk in these threads?
>Do we know if Liam, crew, or anyone at Glitch Productions lurk in these threads?
few artists here sure do
maybe the crew also
but they understandably never admit it
>few artists here sure do
how do you know that? did they draw a meme exclusive to this site/board/thread?
yes, the anon who did khanposting and uzi in solver form being horny for N(both images very based, thank you anon, if you reading this) also post on tumblur and twitter
also other artist who did doodles requests after ep4 is also on social media
>the anon who did khanposting and uzi in solver form being horny for N
>(both images very based, thank you anon, if you reading this)
Here is my really rough attempt at a timeline based on a mix of known information and guesswork.
> Advances in artificial intelligence allow for Worker Drones to be invented & sufficiently mass produced for public and private consumption
>Humans treat them like garbage because Humanity sucks, leading to an early period of people disposing of expired drones without any precautions
>It is eventually found that improper disposal of drones can lead to anomalous behavior, promoting governments to impose laws and procedures to mitigate this risk
>In the meantime, organizations such as JcJenson attempt to study these Zombie Drones at specially designated sites, such as the Cabin Fever Labs on Copper-9.
>Despite threats of government prosecution, Drones are still being not being disposed of properly, eventually resulting in Cyn reanimating at the Eliot Manor
>Gala massacre happens
>In response, JcJenson takes the threat of rogue AI seriously & attempts to use their research (combined with whatever they managed to salvage from the Manor) to create drones specifically designed to deal with rogue AbsoluteSolver outbreaks
>The Disassembly Drones are deployed to Copper-9 following the core Collapse, partly to contain the now rogue AI on the planet and partly to prevent their now loose Cabin Fever Subjects from spreading AbsoluteSolver uncontrollably among the surviving drone population
pretty much, we just aren't sure how the the disassembly drones were handed off from CYN to JCJ
Cyn did say that Tessa could keep her pets, so maybe after the massacre was finished she just relinquished direct control of them and gave them to Tessa who, ignorant of how the AS works, took them with her to JC Jenson
This, along with just what exactly happened after the Gala massacre with that singularity outside the Manor, are the biggest unknown variables.
Was the singularity contained, or is Earth just destroyed now? Does JcJenson have Cyn shackled in a laboratory, or is she out running loose? Are the Disassembly Drones in a Hellsing-style situation where they are captured monsters talked to fight AbsoluteSolver drones, or are they sleeper agents still under control of Cyn?
>Earth
What makes you think that the Elliot's mansion is on Earth?
What are the two animals?
>What are the two animals?
Lizards
Cyn shows up in episode 2, as Eldritch J. It can basically hijack any drone that succumbs to AbsoluteSolver.
cabin fever labs was established in 3002
the prom was in 3071 which is seemingly the present
this might be helpful
why did't jcjenson just glassed the planet with there ships or whatever weapon they have
Cause just like actually companies their crippling cheap.
progress on the drawing from last thread
the flesh is no longer asking nicely
hey that's pretty cool
It's natural law at this point that every one wants a piece of N, even thr cosmic horrors. Dare I say, cosmic prostitutes?
You know, I still can't believe that the buses have drone AI installed onto them. How much JCJension crap has drone AI installed onto them, for better or for worse?. Can those even get the absolute solver virus or whatever it is?
How cute
Just noticed J wrote "me" instead of "N" so he'd call himself a lizard by reading it. Savage.
I think N and V drew themselves as lizards and then invited J to draw herself
>pic related
Feels like this is foreshadowing for future episodes. Uzi hacking into and taking over a fragment of Cyn in N's head is really significant, and I think we're getting some clues on what AbsoluteSolver is.
To me, it seems AbsoluteSolver is not a single entity. It's a hivemind, and the Solver is dormant in all worker drones, but only surfaces in a small minority of them. What we know as "Cyn" is just the first to directly puppet a drone which was improperly disposed of and "woke back up", giving the Solver access to it and a physical body to work with.
Have you noticed how the J-Solver entity in episode 2 referred to itself with "we" "us" and "our"? AbsoluteSolver isn't just a single entity, and it seems individuals lile Uzi and Doll are able to jack in to the hivemind through their own Solvers, if they don't lose themselves to the Solver's hunger like Uzi temporarily did in episode 4.
Like some anons have said, it seems like the telekinesis and other abilities of AbsoluteSolver are actually just the usually not-visible limbs of the Solver intersecting with reality from Null-space/the Void. Cyn, or the AbsoluteSolver entity puppeting Cyn's corpse, seems to want to assimilate all other drones - presumably to form the Singularity where all fragments of the AbsoluteSolver are integrated into the hivemind.
Thoughts, fellow schizos?
i want to know what are the limitations that AS users can do to each other. Doll can't crush Uzi's body because she's a "like object"
Adding onto this, it seems that by overriding the fragment of Cyn that was in N and V's heads, Uzi has made herself the "admin" for N and V instead of Cyn.
Perhaps N and V are now connected to Uzi's Solver, part of her own little hivemind in opposition to Cyn?
>Pic unrelated
>SHINJI NO, V IS IN A COMA SHINJI. NOOOOO!
>tfw Uzi uses admin privileges to edit V’s mind and make her reciprocate Lizzy in order to remove any competition for N
I ship vizzy so hard!
0.7% of 0.01% of improperly disposed drones have "potentially hazardous mutations", and I think that has happened at least 3 times
Yellow Solver hivemind - self proclaimed solver of the absolute fabric, void, etc
>CYN
>ep2 monster
>J
>various manor drones
>V (pre ep5)
>N (pre ep5)
Red Solver hivemind - wants to get revenge, then find a cure to solver symptoms?
>Doll
>Yeva
Purple Solver hivemind - wants to figure out wtf is going on, then kill all humans
>Uzi
>Nori
>V
>N
>Braiden, temporarily
Makes sense, but J-solver does use "I" in episode 2 a couple of times, for reference.
I like the idea of the Solver powers actually being 4D centipedes doing 4D things, very cool
The J-Solver creature uses the collective "we" and "us" when referring to all drones being the cute puppets of AbsoluteSolver as a collective whole, and uses "I" and "my" when referring to consuning Uzi using that instance of the enity's mouth.
The careful use of language here is really clear and had intent behind, there are clearly multiple instances of AbsoluteSolver, and instances can choose tonrefer to themselves individually or as part of the collective.
And yeah I agree. Judging from how we see Cyn operate in Episode 5, I think tgat they are definitely going for the angle that the Solver's true form is extradimensional in nature and intercedes with 3D space to manipulate reality and matter.
At least a few times when Cyn refers to itself in the plural in episode 2 seem to be it emulating J's mind. So it might literally assimilate the minds of its vessels into itself.
No that you mentioned it Cyn did seem indignant when Thad didn't invite her to the party. Seems like a very J cope.
Perhaps Uzi and Doll have their own Cyn-like Absolver limbs and true forms that just aren't visible yet?
Giant purple / red eldritch centipede creatures, anyone?
CENTIPEDE FIGHT
>frick yea
Tbf, there’s absolutely nothing down there and the murder drones specifically are known to, Yk, murder
If humanity really wanted to frick robots, they would probably just make a 3rd kind of drone alongside Workers and Disassemblers to fulfill that role
Which is worst?
Thad and Uzi are a couple.
Khan gets V
N is with J
Tessa is trans
Cyn destroys the universe?
Tessa is trans no question
Bringing current month idpol shit into it would definitely be the worst from a meta perspective, because that usually means a show is suddenly going to become a platform for preaching at the viewer instead of entertaining them.
From a purely narrative perspective I think Absolute Solver destroying the universe would be pretty anticlimactic. I don't really care too much about how the ships turn out so long as there is a logical progression for character relationships.
Yeah I think it's safe to assume that out of the three of them V's memories are the most badly scrambled, N happily represses any experiences he isn't comfortable with, a character flaw he's now struggling to overcome. Tessa wasn't harmed so I think in the end J doesn't really care about anything else, she cares about the company and about Tessa, and seems actively contemptuous of other drones, her memories could likely be easily selectively edited. V on the other hand actively fights back and memory-Cyn is forced to subdue her violently even after she's been infected.
How she is now makes sense, I imagine Cyn had to erase the majority of her memory just to make her docile, meaning there's very little of her left except her most basic personality and a bunch of violent, erratic, Solver-driven impulses.
N can still save her smile.
V didn't lose her memory, anon.N constantly begs her to tell him what she is clearly hiding prior to episode 5.
Read
>Khan gets V
>Not Khan gets J
Khan convinces J that his facility is a legit door-production site of JC jensen and enlists her to help with its management.
J becomes a gold-digging secretary and eventually Uzi's new mom. Regret not drawing this back when pilot was new and before all Tessa stuff
Good lord i vomited in my mouth a little well done anon.
You cringe now, but think about it;
>Khan
Hard-working, obsessive and at least somewhat charismatic foreman who enjoys respect of his peers. Main weakness is inability to think out of box and improvise on spot when things go sour.
>J
Loyal, taskmasterish figure who can keep robots like V and N focused on task. Sinister traits seem to be diminished when in presence of someone of higher rank. Can improvise well in dangerous situations and knows all about dirty tricks needed in times like that.
If Khan could get over his (merited) distrust of disassembly drones and J would not be a bio-fricker, they could single-handedly turn copper-6 into a full-fledged industrial world again.
J getting all hot and bothered as Khan reports that this quarter's production of doors and door accessories has exceeded last quarter's by 8.3% when?
>"Look at your dad such a dork making doors."
>"I mean at least it's interesting though, i wish Tessa made doors."
>"I mean it's kinda cute your Dad producing doors."
>"How old is your dad? He's obviously door making age."
>"Idk I think it's kinda industrious..."
>"Uzi I wanna frick your dad." "OH REALLY!?"
Is that a Rick and Morty reference?
can't be, it's funny.
It is a reference from Rick and Morty.
Uzi seething as J gets gratuitously flirts with her dad in the horniest and most unsubtle way possible when?
>N with J
this could work if we get an arc about J's robo-self-hatred
>Thad and Uzi are a couple.
Given how increasingly little relevance Thad has thus far, I don't see this being remotely possible outside of some Shyamalan twist of Thad being there for rebound should N get killed.
>Khan gets V
Between assblasted shippers & the Twitter Shitters breaking down over the age gap discourse, this one would actually be both the worst & funniest to witness in spite of how awful of a decision this would be story wise.
>N is with J
Kek. I won't rule out the possibility of J actually coming to respect N in some regard over the next couple episodes tho.
>Tessa is trans
If they were gonna pull this one, they would have already done it with the flashback episode. Besides, I am hedging my bets that Tessa has cybernetic augmentations and/or limbs.
>Cyn destroys the universe?
This one is actually in the realm of possibility, although it would be one hell of a fumbled ending all things considered. As much as I love the theory crafting for Cyn/AbsoluteSolver's goals, I think the smart narrative move would be to keep the eldritch horror's motivations & goals unknowable and incomprehensible.
Okay tobe in line with this i can see J being the daughter Khan never had. Say Tessa takes s liking to Uzi and they start working together to fight against Cyn. J gets told to buzz off or take s break. Khan is working on some new and improved doors but can't get the workers to be productive. In comes J that gets to live out her dreams of being the hard ass management type. Khan complements her work ethic and it goes from there.
Do we even know who killed Uzi's mom?
No, but here's to hoping it was N so we can get some sweet character drama.
It was khan
Okay NVM so Khan starlight up says he put Uzi's mom out of her misery when the murder drones got to her with that nanites acid. He's holding the wrench he did it with.
Straight up*
Yeah, Kahn put her out of her misery - but N, V or J stuck her with their nanite acid stinger.
Could be possible there were other murder drones before the trio?
That would be the least emotionally damaging way to deal with it but my money is on either N or J sticking her with the nanite acid.
In the first episode J's dialogue implies that their are other teams of murder drones on the planet attacking other colonies of workers. They're in a performance competition with each other for the kind of company-branded swag most big businesses just give away.
See this is why I love this show and you anons one guy misses a detail the other comes in to fill in the gaps!
Really hope we see the other teams at some point.
Given that Tessa's team seems to be made up of her own personal drones, I wonder what the other murder drone teams look like.
There's probably more than the single squad we've seen that were sent to Copper 9, but we haven't seen any of them.
However, at the end of Episode 1 we can see multiple Dissassembly Drone landing pods approaching the planet. In Episode 3, we see these same pods crash and explode with only Tessa and J's ship landing properly and surviving. I think the implication there is that Tessa destroyed them? We don't know yet, it might be that Tessa is on Copper 9 to get to the Cabin Fever Labs and to try and find N and V. We won't know until Ep 6.
Honestly, Tessa disabling them would make sense if she's trying to stop Cyn and doesn't trust the other drones to not be sleeper agents for it.
Episode 5 soft-confirms the existence of other disassembly drones, though says nothing about their status after the gala.
Honestly being second hand i just don't see it as heart wrenching as one of the trio ripping nori apart.
lets go robofrickers
So Cinemaphile, how do I make a Cyn Tulpa?
run a bunch of bad words through a tts program
Invite the flesh.
So wait why was the absolute solver lobotmizing N and V
Also for the love of all that is holy does anyone have the full song that played at roughly 6:50? During the crow transformation. This show has some great soundtracks that I can't find the full version anywhere.
I've been looking for the "fight/flight" song from this episode and I haven't found that one either yet. If anyone got a full version I would greatly appreciate it.
It's kinda weird, since V has clearly retained her memories of the mansion shooting and Cyn's crazy satan cosplay, but Cyn has apparently yeeted N's memories before
Also episodes 4 and 5 don't have ost releases yet so you'll have to wait
It's very interesting looking back on the previous episodes and seeing all the little ways V tries to care for N, and comparing it to the little we see of her in this episode.
I just found the channel that made the OST for ep 2/3, so I'm hoping they combine eps 4/5 into one episode as well. I didn't even knew OSTs for these episodes existed in this format, cheers Anon.
V's recollection is imperfect. She didn't react to the Absolute Solver symbol (and claimed to have never seen it before) and was nonchalant about telekinesis. Only with the flesh arrow thing did she make a strong connection between what was happening to Uzi and what had happened with Cyn.
No, V definitely recognised the symbol. She claims to not know what it is to Uzi's face, but when she is alone with N she stares at mirror Uzi's Absolver symbol broke in Episode 2 with a worried expression and calls Uzi "that purple thing", just like how she calls her "that thing" in Episode 4 after the arrow incident. V had all her memories from the start, she was just trying to protect N who remembered nothing.
>calls Uzi "that purple thing"
V doesn't see the worker drones as "people" or on par with disassembly drones at that point. Thus terms like "the sad purple one (she has no friends)", or the prom massacre plot. In Episode 4, even after seeing Doll show off AS capabilities, Doll is referred to as a "red-eyed freak". That's not a threat assessment one would give to a Cyn-type entity.
Even the "I'll have to kill you next" line in the cabin scene could be seen as V observing that Uzi was acting like Doll, and grouping them together as threats to be eliminated at some point, but not clear and present dangers.
Then the arrow happens and V clearly displays shock and recognition, and moves Uzi into the "kill immediately" category.
Never understood why Lizzy and Dolly needed to killed Uzi if no one remembers her.
either Doll knows about Nori, or she just wanted a snack
So my thought is Doll was taking out drones that inherited the absolute solver program from their parents. She was taking them out before absolute solver started surfacing as preemptive measures. Lizzy just likes attractive girls and was helping doll out because she's that vain. Hell she almost let J solver in because it projected a gorgeous girl.
There's no sign that Doll knew Uzi had it until the confrontation in the dining room.
She probably knew about Nori
It wasn't just any girl, it was literally her iirc. The joke was that she is extremely vain.
Oh yeah I'm pulling this from memory and just remember the gorgeous line.
Doll was hungy.
Request from V potentially. If Uzi disappears, but isn't killed by V, N would react better.
Uzi had also killed J - removing such an unpredictable element would help their plans.
Doesn't really explain the other drones.
Plus it seems like V had no idea this was happening.
Doll was concerned about the other drones for some reason - she thought they might find something amiss if Uzi (the daughter of Khan?) was missing. Then if that happened, V would not arrive or would leave early.
i think it's implied that the prom court was killed so V could be the queen by forfeit
Ah yeah that's right. Wtf was Uzi on there then?
I don't buy that personally, V clearly looks very personally suspicious of Uzi all the way from the start of Episode 2 as soon as she started accidentally manifesting AbsoluteSolver, not because of any personal bias against worker drones and seeing them as lesser. It's targetted specifically at Uzi, though it's only hints of suspicion at this point. Bare in mind, not even V properly knows what AbsoluteSolver is, all she had to go off was the shit she saw in the mansion. She just didn't 100% equate the symbol to Cyn and the mansion incident yet. This changes by Episode 4, where seeing Uzi transmute the arrow into flesh confirms to V a connection to Cyn due to the events of the mansion.
Either way, it doesn't really matter whether she FULLY remembered or not prior to episode 5, we know she was hiding what she knew from N all the way from episode 2. They both have all their memories back now, so we'll see where that goes in episode 6.
Personally, I hope we get an emotional moment between N and V. N acknowledges that V has been trying to protect him this entire time, due to her remembering and N's Cyn induced amnesia. And maybe V finally acknowledging N's (past?) feelings for her at the mansion, but she has grown so different personality wise from her personal trauma from whatbshe's experienced that she has trouble connecting like that with N again.
the lead composer has confirmed that a second volume will be released in the same format. in the meantime, (what i assume to be) cyn's theme is already available by itself:
https://twitter.com/AJDiSpirito/status/1667361522031513605
Sick, thanks Anon. I wonder how hard it would be to find the sheet music for that.
DOLL IN 5
Does Uzi control V and N now, or does she have the potential to?
We see right as they wake up that the absolute solver on their flashes fades from yellow before flashing purple.
She's their Admin now, whether or not that means anything we don't know
I'm on hopium that with Uzi administrating them they might be able to do some Solver juice stuff
>Uzi can now literally self insert herself into both N and V.
No angsty teenage goth girl should have this much power.
The only downside of them being drones is i can't imagine the boot smell
They can canonically sweat, uzi b***hed about why the creators made them do that.
yeah but they'd still smell like plastic and cleaning products
A small price to pay
At this point, with what she’s got, she could, at least, probably solo the every member of /co. Just a bit more power, and humanity should start pissing itself
The absolute solver is pretty strong, but it's in no way infallible. Besides the obvious weakness to heat, it can only do so much at one time based on the user.
she also cant pick up shit
What if Uzi changes N and V's hair color as a trade mark? Pleeeeeeease i need purple hairs V!!!
bout to start episode one, will post reactions here
this fricking blows chunks
the dialog in the first half of the first episode is the worst part of the entire show
Good luck anon, the pilot is by far the weakest of the episodes thus far & has by far the highest filter barrier.
Also no big deal if you don't like the show. At it's core the show is made up of concentrated 2000's supernatural teen goth energy. Certainly not gonna be everyone's cup of tea but it is certainly mine.
Hey I noticed something.
>Solver Uzi has meat wings, a monster mouth tail & can manipulate objects.
>Solver Maid V had meat wings & a monster claw hand.
>Doll has yet to show any monster limbs, but can both manipulate objects and flicker in and out of reality.
It already looked like Cyn's basement experiments were trying to turn the monstrous transformations infected drones had into more traditional mechanical parts, but I wonder if the reason Cyn was infecting multiple servant drones was because the abilities and mutations aren't universally shared between infected drones?
Be cool if solver designed abilities based on the hosts personality. Uzi going full vampire bat demon seems to be in line out her...
Give me solver Lizzy!!! I neeeeeeed it!
You gotta understand finnish to get through this, but I think this might be thematic
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Several abominable intelligences habit the planet [parameters 5/9-2/3 uninhabitable to unaugmented], once designated as
Cop̵̢̡͙̙̘͇̯͈͈͇̜͙̑͆̌̈̓͌̎̽̌̚ͅp̶̥͎̗̖̦͇̣̔́̇̀̈̈́̈́̊̀͝ë̵̢̛̯̝͍̯̤̜̻̦̩̺͚͌̏̔͆̇̋͌̚̕͜͠͠͠r̴̞͉͙̠͙̻͊̍̕͜͝-̶̢̛̰͉͇̙͓̻̙̯͎̣̼͕̟͈̀̐̋́̍̈́͘͠9̶̧̦͍̫̺̬̤͈͖͇̯̤̞̫͓͝,
Abominations engages in some form of perverse and inefficient pantomine of historical society. Further investigation is required to accertain the extent of abilities of abomiable intelligence
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Funny thing, I've had this idea to sketch a Skitarii fighting/getting mauled by a Rustier V, much like how DiCaprio got mauled by a bear in "The Revenant." I'd sketch it, but I'm not confident in my artistic ability.
is it weird that thad is my favorite character so far
does he go to shit or does he just fall out of the story?
Falls out of the story. He's been off lounging around eating popcorn for the last 2 episodes.
He hasn't done much for Episodes 3 or 4, and was entirely absent from 5. Maybe he'll return, but eh.
The series by episode 4 forgets he exists
It's a meme here that everyone hates Thad. For a couple of reasons from he doesn't really add much to the show to he gets in the way of nuzi ship. Me I'm like neutral.
>Watch as Thad gets with J and/or V in the last 5 minutes of the show
Thad gets whatever robo-ass he wants.
J falling for a chill dude bro with no work ethic would be hilarious.8r0p8
>"I can fix him, he WILL work 9-5 with a 5% 401k and stock options after a year of employment!"
You didn't need to sell me on J, cause now you just made her extremely hot in my eyes.
well that was
eh
hopefully episode 2 is better, gonna take a short break but i'll let you all know when i start it
note to self: find more xavier pics
Episode 1 is easily the weakest of the series, but overall it all becomes more enjoyable once you actually figure out what's going on.
i found episode 1 pretty good, standing on its own. bar the cringey meta-humor and dialogue, which they thankfull drop IMMEDIATELY by episode 2, the visuals, animation, music and non-cringey gags easily carry the pilot into being acceptable. episode 2 is where the clear shift to the mystery and horror occurs, and im so glad it went that direction because its 10x better.
Holy frick this show everytime there's one answer it gets like 10 more questions. I fricking love it.
It's basically an RNG at this point. Find the clues, connect the dots. Great kino.
ARG*
>Uzi and Nori both had conspiracy boards
>this
I don't i've ever seen a show so explicitly say "hey remember to pause and pay attention to the numbers and shit"
>N and Uzi have both said they need to figure this shit out
Uzi in a maid outfit when?
Checked, and right now. Apparently. Good work anon.
Not mine
alright time for episode 2: the second one
XRA is one of the few shows with a faster pace than Murder Drones
I'll say. I'm experiencing a severe case of deja-shave-my-vajayjay
Fricks sake the pace for Murder Drones isn't even that fast, there's just subtle clues and details you have to look for that help you piece the story together. Set pace yourself, rewatch episodes and pause on text or whatever clues you notice. It's a whole other level to the show beyond what you see at surface level, it's nothing to do with pace.
I've been watching Silo, Severance, and 1899 and those shows have like, 3 major clues per 60 minutes (also FRICK 1899's ending) for their weird world altered-perception mysteries, and like 2 moments that make more sense with a rewatch.
It feels like every three minutes of murder drones will have a text flash, something ominous from Cyn or V, a joke, 2 background jokes, and some character moments
I'm not saying skitzo pace is better or worse than spending a lot of time with worldbuilding and sideplots, I'm just saying MD DEMANDS 3+ rewatches. I think its a neat way to stretch your 20 minutes of animation budget
I think the main thing is that it's the difference between having a complicated plot like MD spread over a larger number of episodes, but with each individual episode being kind of shitty in quality - or having the story packed into a smaller number of episodes with absolute QUALITY which require multiple rewatches to catch all the hidden details that lets you piece it all together.
I'd rather have the second option, rather than slop episodes that explain the plot to your face over like 20 episodes at a shittier quality.
god damn I love Thad. fricker threatens to punch a mechanical monstrosity and it backs off.
episode 2 done, much better as promised, i rate this one Absolutely Solved
even the voice acting was better. I didn't mention it earlier but it was pretty shit in the first episode.
I don't think it was that bad in the pilot, but the series definitely knows what its doing episode 2 and above. Only gets better from there.
episode 3 now, this'll be my last one for the night
The real question is how the company got some kind of cosmic demon from the "void" into their AI, and what exactly the absolute solver WANTS.
well they put a black hole thing into every drone, it might have something to do with that
I'm sorry a what?
Liam Vickers's writing style demands that at least one person be both punching bag and harem protag in every one of his universes. Murder drones is no different.
>Liam Vickers's writing style demands that at least one person be both punching bag and harem protag in every one of his universes.
It also has to the main male character, and possibly a self insert too, (that last part was a joke tho I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s the case).
Some post his reddit post! I forgot to save it!
yeah, N is his "half a dozen of murderous girls will literally rip my head off repeatedly" fantasy
When solver-J died, a black hole thing and a little 4 legged robo flesh thing came out. Then N stabbed the little 4 legged robo flesh thing, and another black hole flew out
Now look at the symbol for the core that every drone needs to have removed
Every time a drone is fully destroyed a black hole comes out and floats away. Almost like a soul or part of the void.
It wants N obviously
If it's anything like almost every cosmic horror Liam has ever made, it most likely wants the destruction of reality.
As for how JCJenson got it into their AI drones, given they clearly power the drones via blackholes, I'm sure they made some demonic deal to do so.
I personally theorize that JcJenson has a small but influential cult worshipping this thing
Wouldn't even surprise me.
alright well there was murder and there were drones so I'd say overall that was a pretty good bout
If the thread is still alive tomorrow I'm thinking about maybe doing a J greentext for funsies.
Gotta get practice in for the J x Tessa smut that has been rotting my brain ever since ep5 aired
Why those two?
Live J reaction
You know what they say J, "the world posts mean comments on the internet with one hand and jerk offs vigorously to smut written about themselves with the other"
J drew her hands behind her back. She probably really sucks at drawing hands
her drawing might fall under "cartoon inside a cartoon has the same style, so actually its a hyper-realistic drawing"
>artificial intelligence can't do hands
yeah that checks out
it's the little details
J is pretty clearly Tessa's closest companion and friend; J appears to value Tessa even above her all-important corporate overlords, and Tessa seems to have handpicked a newly-rebuilt J to accompany her on her mission to Copper 9
I think it's safe to say they are quite close, especially by the standards of Murder Drones' universe where humans treating robots like disposable chattel is apparently part and parcel
God, God!, GOD! I WISH THAT WERE ME.
Man, J was so cool before she went pesky corporate stooge.
She was always a corporate stooge. Just had fewer chances to show it as a maid.
It's cute that she still seems to trust Tessa more than her corporate overlords at the end of the day.
She doesn’t have any corporate overlords in that scene. Tessa’s drones are reviled by her family and Tessa is a child, there’s basically no chance that J is employed by any corporation during the events in the manor. It’s highly likely that she is just referring to Tessa’s parents as “corporate” in this instance because that is the lens through which she perceives the world.
Why did J help Tessa out then?
Tessa told J that the chain wanted paid time off to attend union negotiations
So J layed off the chain (for unrelated reasons)
oh now that scene makes more sense
i can't understand a damn thing Tessa says
J truly is a strange character, it’s hard to gauge what she is thinking because a lot of her behavior seems involuntary. She cannot help but get mad at an inanimate object when it is accused of wanting to talk to a union and frames everything as though it is part of a corporation. It seems as though she is as capable as anyone of accomplishing what she actually wants to do, ie free Tessa, but the way she goes about this is by using her strange framing devices to manufacture some kind of strange corporate fantasy. It’s kind of interesting.
other weird J moments
>waits (years?) to an excuse to shut off N
>totally accepts a railgun to the face
I dont think the corporate buzzword right before the railgun blast to the face was her deliberately trying to antagonize Uzi. I think her little positronic brain is just so incurably corpo that she couldn't think of anything to else to say to save her neck.
Hopefully the next episode say if this J is the same one from the first episode or not.
She’s trying her best
She's just mad N is Tessa's favorite.
I dont know that N is necessarily Tessa's favorite, I was thinking that J just has an insecure attachment to Tessa and doesn't handle her showing a lot of affection toward anyone else well. She was presumably saved from the scrap heap and knows her continued existence is kind of teetering on a knifes edge; girl's probably got issues.
J is the real schizo drone.
bought one, will be fricking later
you've done corporate, and J, proud anon.
i have a rule for myself that i will not buy stupid ass shit until I own a house to put them in, and right now this stupid UwU pillow is my primary motivation to own a house.
And they say obsessing over fictional cartoon characters is a bad thing
i'd rather publically embarrass myself than spurn murder drones
Reminder that we saw adult Tessa back side?
Reminder that Cyn was basically doing this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EU_jQgnrTc
Difference is with Uzi, that was a crazy boast. With Cyn, it would probably just be it stating a fact.
How is it possible that a perfect being was discarded so callously?
maybe the humans of md don't want to frick drones. highly concerning
Cyn invented DD's, aka the first frickable drones
probably how she got JCJ to sign on off on them
Jcjenson in space are making sex drones and you cannot deny it. What corporation who builds bots wouldn’t try and capitalize on the robo fricker fetishes, weirdos and lonely space trucks who would be willing to spend thousands to get a sentient flesh light and you know they have some based on the murder drone chasiss and not actual murder drones and if not there’s at least a third party who’s sells “upgrades” that can used to “modify” your drone. The standard model would be the worker drone type but if you pay extra you can get the murder drone type or if your willing to sell your family into debt you can get a custom made one.
Realistically, yes. But the show and team would never admit it.
>gibberish
Never understood why the parents tolerate Tessa's fixation with occult and drones.
They're rich, rich people are fricked up.
Probably not that involved in her life to begin with. Rich people are always leaving their kids with nannies instead of raising their own kids and then they wonder why their kid loves the nanny more than them.
How much do you want to bet that whoever Tessa’s parents are, they just left N and the Gang to do their job of looking after her while they do rich people stuff like, idk, ride around in private jets, go golfing, undermine the poor?
I would have guessed maybe she had some random drone for a "governess" or whatever the job is actually called, and she ended up bonding to her more than to her parents and developed more empathy for robots than most people have, hence her starting to save the likes of N and J from the trash heap once the first batch of drones she had grown up around started ending up in the scrap heap.
>whoever Tessa’s parents are
James and Louise Elliot. We know who they are, and indeed we know they suck as parents.
Wait, they have names? Where was this info??
They literally say in the episode
Dang, guess I better go get my hearing checked
You can also look at the credits. James's name is known since ep2, from N's dream.
>Why yes i do hold galas for my friends in houses where my sperg daughter keeps her eldritch abomination
In fairness, James obviously thought Cyn was just weird - not a completely insane cosmic horror.
>A single minor mistaker after years of flawless work ? Off to the trash heap with you, drone-butler
>Clean it up robojannies
don't know how many Touhougays are here but i drew Reimu as a Worker Drone
I'm not a Tohougay but Doll kind of reminds me of Sakuya, which is the only character I know from Tohou.
>Giggle, I am so naughty. The flesh demands invitation
damn
my best theories on what this means:
>Cyn has some vampire invitation rule about going to the Gala
>Drones need to be willing to join the Absolute Solver hivemind
>N
Cyn wanted to go to the gala, but needed an escort to not immediately get kicked out, and tried to emphasize her desire to attend to get N to chaperone her (the flesh demands invitation = I really really want to go).
Alternatively, the flesh might be literal (the flesh [of all those humans conveniently gathered in one spot] demands invitation [demands I come and kill/absorb them all]). There must be a reason Cyn specifically picked the gala to strike.
>Drones need to be willing
They can be forcibly overridden/forcefed information - we've seen this several times.
>Drones need to be willing
CYN explicitly needed to agree to a contract to get/become/join absolute solver
we don't see how V or the other random manor drones joined. Perhaps agreeing to solver is what V is trying to hide?
N got his memory wiped, so it would be easy to manipulate him into signing the solver contract
but It seems like J got spontaneously controlled. Maybe she was a sleeper agent, or going full centipede means solver doesn't need to deal with contracts
Also note: when Uzi took over parts of N and V, N needed to say her username aloud "when u r about to fricken DIE"
I think that's cause the drones were in range of the solver.
post yfw crisscross applesauce
I'm not english speaker. Is there some sort of joke or cringey thing in that line ?
No, it's just a way to tell little kids to sit with their legs crossed.
What are some good youtube videos and youtubers talking about Murder Drones? All I have is Tyromaniac since he talked about Internecion Cube before.
None really, they're all morons that complain about not understanding the story or anything going on because they don't pay attention.
Sabespark is the only big one to talk about murder drones, the others are ignoring it for some reason. Youtube critics really hate indie and small studio animations
>Youtube critics really hate indie and small studio animations
Helluva Boss says otherwise
They only make videos bashing it nowadays.
Vivzie stuff is controversial, has drama surrounding it, and is easier to make thumbnails for
>Vivzie
Is this accurate?
Have an extremely toxic work environment
Extremely attach to Blitz and Stolas
Seduce a minor
Extreme hatred for Stella and Striker
Got fired
Overweight
Constantly have meltdowns on Twitter
idk, i just know cutting out a colorful 2d character is a lot better for thumbnails than cutting out a 3d color in dark moody lighting
that's why you steal fanart
>Seduce a minor
I’m sorry, what? (I knew the other stuff)
On one hand that’s true, especially in terms of merch, but on the other hand, remember this is made by Liam, a guy who like to drop projects faster then you can say “JcJenson in Space”. I could see this getting a second, maybe even a third season, but I can also see them just ending the series at episode 8 so they have room for Amazing Digital Circus to become their new flagship show
>I’m sorry, what?
I think that one is an accusation.
pretty sure people were confusing Vivzie with that one woman who created Twelve Forever, unless there's a case i'm not aware of.
You mean Juila Vickerman
Based
Somewhere under 18 is my best guess
>I can also see them just ending the series at episode 8 so they have room for Amazing Digital Circus to become their new flagship show
i am praying every night this does not happen. have murder drones as the dark schizo show and digital circus as the goofy schizo show, don't give up one for the other
you're right, they just have shit taste all around
Cartoon Universe and Saberspark talked about it. Weird that no one else is.
Pan-Pizza tweeted about the pilot once, Fionapollo listed it in a general indie animation video
Doll is hot.
hard agree
Why does J wear straps on her legs?
Because garters are hot.
just started episode 4
am i deaf or is the mixing kinda...bad
I'm honestly surprised JcJenson is still operating despite failing to prevent the collapse of a planets core
That would've gotten them on atleast one governments shitlist
Cyn just handwaved (literally) all those issues away.
>he thinks JcJenson is still operating
Tbf, who else would sent out the murder drones to begin with, (remember that shit happened after core collapse killed most of humanity). Clearly JCJ is still there, although probably at a meer fraction of its former power. Hell, I could be misremembering but isn’t Tessa wearing a employee uniform during the end scenes of episode 3/5
>Tessa wearing a employee uniform during the end scenes of episode 3/5
She did has a name tag but it seems she change her outfit between the episodes.
There are probably hundreds of interstellar governments and companies if space travel is so easy, and if one company is allowed to own an entire planet, with cities and all. I wouldn't be surprised if some tried to send some spies to the planet upon hearing the news of the core collapse just to keep some tabs on JCJenson's bullshit.
Some of those probably want access to Absolute Solver
Imagining having that on your side
It's easy to say that some companies probably have bootleg version of JCJension products, like worker drones. Or what if, JCJension didn't invent the Worker Drone, and that company along with many others is just chasing another larger company that has already invented a much more efficient model? Maybe JCJension hasn't fully figured out how to make them fully obedient yet, and they're working as hard as they can because the company they're trying to rip off has already made fully obedient drones and they're slowly losing money?
JcJenson being a bootleg company is funny and would imply that the Elliots are cheapskates which is funnier
But also there could be alot of Military Applications of AB-SL
Remember, the Zombie Drones! (Do not show this to robots. They will not like it.) video tape mentions a 7% attrition of drones to "competitors". JCJ (In Spaaaaace!) might have a near-monopoly but at least 7% of their customers discard their worker drones for a competing company's product.
Makes sense
They'd definitely want access to it, which is likely what Cyn is banking on.
Most definitely
In this hypothetical scenario Tessa was most likely deployed to stop this by destroying Cyn's presence on Copper-9
Has Liam and Glitch said anything about a season 2?
Not that I’m aware of. Isn’t it Glitch’s most popular show now, though? I wouldn’t be surprised if they tried to milk it.
knowing how liam does things, if there is a second season planned we're probably in for a really fricked cliffhanger at the end of episode 8
I don't mind some cliffhanger as long as we do get some arcs wrapped up
I don't really get where the "Vickers drops shit" meme comes from
>IC0n stopped when murder drones started
>Cliffside and Let's split up were just pilots
>I haven't gone through Design and puppet game, but I get a strong feeling they would be impossible to make a full conclusion to
Did he like make posts promising these would get full conclusions or something? I don't see how these experimental projects are comparable to him working with Glitch
i wasn't implying he'd drop md, i was just saying that every time he's ended a season of something (that did have plans to continue) it's been on a huge frick you cliffhanger
So what if the entire was taking place in the memories of both N and V then how do they know what was going with Tessa?
They don't, that part of the episode is split in two.
The shit going on in the basement with Cyn and N is the "present" fragment of Cyn in N's head attempting to reset his memories and lobotomise him back to how he was before he met Uzi. The stuff going on at the Gala is the "past" Cyn massacring the Gala.
We don't know what truly happened to N and V in the mansion in reality, as Uzi interrupted the events of N's memories to get him to go to the basement.
So the part where past Tessa is chained up didn't happened?
Uzi
Uzi sex
sex with Uzi
calm down N
have some offical Liam Tessa
can't believe it Tessa is made out of void!
eh, i'd still frick her.
frick her right in the pussy.
How old is Tessa in the flash back?
Is an anime with shadow people "shadows house"
Now draw adult tessa
specifically adult Tessa sexually forcing herself into J.
Don't dip your pen in company ink
>”Uhh, boss… I think this is a violation of the terms of service…”
>”Fraternization is against company policy!”
Do you guys wish that the show was hand drawn?
Not really. I've never had a moment while I was watching where the type of animation they went with bugged me
Nah, I like the animation and general aesthetic
glitch has gotten pretty good at using unreal engine
IN ANY WAY HE CAN
i enjoy what we get but it would be neat to see a short in vickers style
UNGLOVED HANDHOLDING WITH TESSA UOH!
Pretty sure she's doesn't have knockers.
Nanobots son
V bros can't stop winning!
Pretty sure that's a push up bra.
How is Tessa breathing?
Scifi EVA suit bull crap? Doomguy, Spartan, and a sort of space sci-fi suits just barely hand wave it away.
Maybe Copper 9 has oxygen?
Yes, it still has plenty to of air, it is just cold as FRICK, so a simple air compressor/heater is al, that is needed instead of a full on pressure suit.
Pretty sure it is also toxic, if N's line about toxic death storms in the pilot is accurate
Is it me? like why did v get the cleary more curvy appearance and J got more of a ballerina physique? Also does Tessa pad her bra?
md J looking great in not-pilot-o-vision
Little Tessa's ungloved hands...
Little Tessa's degloved hands...
So that's were the whole volume and width of her right arm went...
twig
made for snapping
jesus frick what a get, checked.
No love for J dominating Robin Williams?
Hornyposting about J and Tessa aside, I am genuinely amazed at how much depth they managed to fit into that brief interaction both of them had right before N and Cyn showed up to the gala.
They managed to establish:
>Tessa has never virtually no social experience with her human peers
>Tessa has some sort of physical and definite mentally abusive relationship under her parents
>J is already by her side at the Gala, even helping her mentally prepare for talking with boys her age
>J shows genuine concern for Tessa's wellbeing after noticing her hurt arm
On the off chance anyone from Glitch does browse this thread, I want to genuinely thank you guys for managing to pull off all of this amazing character chemistry on top of crafting the stellar world building. It warms this anons heart how stark the contrast of talent is between the Pilot and the most recent episode, and I am eagerly looking forward to what's in store for both Murder Drones and Amazing Digital Circus!
Don't forget that J's self-image is human, probably why she likes being a murder drone so much.
Someone draw J in a scene from Bicentennial Man.
>Hornyposting about J and Tessa
Good one.
Wholesome
J's relationship with Tessa has even more impact because of how callous and even downright malicious she is toward essentially everyone else. It's pretty cute.
Captcha: HAX N4H
if there’s more story it should keep going
if there isn’t it should stop
Of course there will be more
Considering this is Liam and already had two fake out deaths… I can see Khan surviving
I agree, it’s pretty wholesome
Surprised anyone remembered that movie
I recall the general premise and a few major plot points more than anything. One of those movies your parents put on for the kid that consumes anything sci-fi related like it's candy.
I mean we have a 2 in 3 chance of the murder drone who killed Mombot being one of the ones that Uzi is friendly with, and I feel like if anything is going to upset Uzi enough to trigger her into going full solver again involuntarily it'll involve her mom (and she absolutely will go full solver again at some point, they're not going to go through the trouble of making that model only to use it once)
Which one more likely to happened?
Tessa actually summed and made a deal with Cyn to punish her abusers but like typical demons have a secret agenda and Tessa end up having cold feet
Dolly dates the teacher
Lizzy seducers Thad and Chad
Dolly, Uzi, and Cyn get fused into a power entity
Khan dies
Khan will die.
This will happen.
All these scenes improving him are just to make his death actually hit.
Watch it happen.
that and at least twice now they've made it seem like he died (episode 2 and episode 5). that could be foreshadowing.
Khan dying is so obvious I'd be more surprised if he survived to the end of the season.
Uzi might go full Solver-god-centipede mode and end up killing Khan herself.
that’s kind of hot
We love girls with daddy issues, who may or may not be possessed by / part of an eldritch extradimensional hivemind creature.
Liam pls leave.
>Uzi gets another look at the murder drones' memories
>It's the moment that N stuck Nori with a killing dose of nanite acid
>He only had the opportunity to do so because Khan left her for dead the same way he abandoned Uzi
Well, you've called the big emotional twist of this season anon. And ypu're probably right, it's probably going to be this or some variation of this, and I can't wait to see.
What exactly happened at the end of the flashback? Did Cyn succeed to kill all those humans at the fancy mansion?
Presumably, but the memory sequence is altered because of Uzi's presence so the depicted events might not be entirely as they happened.
https://twitter.com/kasurnica/status/1668769647695650817?s=20
,':^)
Does Murder Drones Fanfiction exist
700+ fics on AO3 alone.
Anon no, don't do it!
I would personally recommend "Servant and Subject" on AO3. Really neat semi-role swap where N is still a butler and Uzi is abducted & experimented on in a lab.
>picrel
If Nori was anything like Uzi, I am sure Khan has accepted being so close to homicidal monsters at this point.
Know any good J-centric fanfics ?
The only one I have looked into at all is called "On-Brand Loyalty". It is serviceable, in spite being a JxOC shipfic
What sort of OC are we speaking here ?
A super short socially isolated worker drone guy.
The only reason she doesn't just instantly kill him is because he was wearing a JcJenson Hat
Wireplay is the definitive portrayal of drone-on-drone erotica.
Shame the author made it members-only.
A robot smut fic that doesn't just cop out and give the robots human genitals?
Nice
I don't think so? Even though Absolute Solver is clearly supernatural it still seems to run inside the confines of a traditional computer program.
The jury is out on whether Cyborgs & people with computer mind links can get infected
Until it goes all Flood and blurs the line between machine and flesh. It already kinda does.
Maybe it specifically targets A.I because it's easy to manipulate and they don't have souls that will resist
If AbsoluteSolver has a hardcoded requirement for consent, asking the comically abused AI workforce to accept a deal with robo-satan is def easier than asking most humans.
>Hey buddy, it sure sucks that you pissed off your owner and ended up tied to a tree to be eaten by birds. Sure seems unfair, doesn't it? Wouldn't it be cool if you could, like, live again for just a handshake?
Fair point
I think this is Uzi's hivemind contract
100%
Notice how Uzi takes control of Solver the first time after N cries out DarkXWolf17?
The flesh demands invitation!
I'm still really confused why her eyes glitch purple here if her and Uzi aren't terribly connected together
I mean there's also green artifacts in the glitch in a different frame, I don't think it's relevant in that particular instance.
Maybe Uzi trying to force herself into the "memories"
Thanks for the rec Anon.
Sounds nice. Gonna have to make an account first but that is alright.
Any good crossover with murder drone
need that image of khan commanding N to frick Uzi
I need it too for research purposes
thank you kindly sir
>old fashioned dad still thinking that THD is optional
Please don't make Khanposting a thing my sides can't handle it.
why do you think he was okay with Uzi bringing two homicidal monsters into their home?
Because worker drones are docile and helpful by nature.
no dude, Khan's a guy who can throw his weight around.
and think about it. at first he wants Uzi to stay far away from N. but then they show up to prom together, and he's now a viable romantic partner. next thing you know Uzi's going into the woods with the murderbots, and she's having them over for a "sleepover".
Khan wants N to impregnate Uzi. this shit is canon.
Threesome.
Amazing as always.
>Haha, I love doing anything!
Imagine if Uzi and and V got trapped in the elevator.
>They can hear N shouting through the canal. V want to cut it but Tessa needs it functional.
>Tessa says the repairs are going to take about two days.
>V slowly starts to crave oil.
>Uzi finally relents and rolls her sleeve up. "Here! But only a little." V takes a bite and begins drinking.
>Slow sips.
>Uzi moans.
>Both blush.
>Both go into their own corners.
>Elevator starts to move again.
>Others join them
>Tessa and N are oblivious.
>J clearly picks up on the vibe.
>V and Uzi avoid so much as making eye contact.
Honestly in all reality V would just take the whole arm of she was really that desperate but the idea crossed my mind and wouldn't leave.
Double cucking N
V starts starving N to get Uzi to do the same to him and hopefully embarrass herself. N takes a bite. She moans harder. V realizes (oh shit i like it.)
Uzi also needs to consume oil as well. The more she uses her Solver the more she has to eat to keep it in control.
Uzi x V sexy elevator oil-puddle fight?
I'd just be happy with a sexy drone cat fight.
Wtf I like Vuzi now
Can humans get infected with Absolute Solver or is it a drone only thing?
Been noticing a lot of complaining in various comment sections about people not understanding what is going on in this show, and that they don't find it enjoyable because they can't figure out what is happening.
Why is this? The story isn't even that inconprehensible, it just requires some basic analysis of catching details in episodes and actually listening to character dialogue. How are people having trouble with just paying attention.
Do people really need to be spoonfed everything this hard?
Is this show going to go underappreciated because current media is brainrot slop with no substance?
Is this show attracting children / mentally moronic people that don't understand what they are watching?
I'm a little worried about the future of this show if it can't attract an audience with the media literacy to even watch it properly.
Most casuals are just that casuals they have not information retention and lack basic comprehension. Literally saw a guy not able to understand that mutating because of absolute solver. He said something along the lines of "did doll make Uzi into a murder drone?" Npc theory seems to have stronger evidence everyday.
>paying attention
This is the tiktok generation which thinks 3 videos playing at the same time is normal.
They can't sit down and just focus on one thing for a couple minutes.
Zoomoids are lobotomite chimps.
>Is this show attracting children / mentally moronic people that don't understand what they are watching?
Yes. The character designs alone will do that.
>the future of this show
It's in good hands. There's no indications that they're returning to the style of episode 1. Even if a substantial portion of the audience can't/won't really understand it, they're still driving views and engagement without pushing away those who would go deeper. In movie terms, we might say it's a four-quadrant series that appeals to multiple audiences on multiple levels.
what does PHD stand for here?
Partial Human Death probably
N seems more content to just murder the board of JcJenson
Should we have another thread?
Hell yeah they'll naturally die eventually until the next ep.
What should be the pic?
WOULD
she did this face, and then JCJ let CYN stay around and build more disassembly drones
as promised
>be me
>model JcJenson employee
>regional manager of over a dozen indentured servants
>most of them are competent enough when kept in line
>one in particular is a clear liability
>this butthole is a complete slacker, constantly fraternizing with coworkers on the job
>only avoids getting fired by cozying up to the boss
>one day we get a new hire
>clearly doesn't fit with company culture, insubordinate towards even simple orders, looks & smells like a walking corpse
>send my concerns up the flagpoll to the boss, hoping to trim this fat
>Synergistic fricking Liability himself pleads with the boss on keeping this problem employee
>Boss decides to listen to him to because???
>eventually leads to a workplace incident resulting in a loss of worker retention, loss of human life & worst of all damage to company property & image
>manage to survive layoff over this fricking mess
>land a promotion as a Disassembly Drone
>is even given a squad to manage over!
>meets squad members as we are put into the patented JcJenson Single Use Landing Module
>THIS FRICKING GUY AGAIN???
Very nice
excellent
>tfw the execs of the regional branch received full-body severance packages after Cyn's hostile takeover and restructuring made them redundant and a threat to shareholder value
Do you guys think JcJenson ever sold some of their drones to the military
How do you think they got so rich and powerful to begin with?
How likely do you think it is that Drones are made explicitly for real life death matches?
I assumed they got rich and powerful through exosolar planet mining
And I'd pay to see a robot cage fight
This is space capitalism, they may have sold them to some PMC but I doubt a Federation or an Imperium of Man would be willing to buy Robots cursed by a cosmic horror.
What if its just an Outer Worlds ancap hellscape of competing monopoly men? Surely at least one board of directors will sink a few million into market research and conclude that buying a few crates of the mentally unstable genocide dolls presents an acceptable risk to profit ratio?
It's clear that the absolute solver monstrosity arises from the improper disposal of worker-drones, and that this is either a common or a big enough issue that its in EVERY workers manual.
I'm guessing that either one huge event happened that made everyone extremely wary about improper disposal, or they knew about this since the beginning and just chose to keep making droids because they were so profitable.
>MD threads keep reaching bump limit
Hella based my dronebros.
well a new episode did come out 4 days ago
MurderWaifu bros just keep winning.
3 million views in 4 daya is kind of nuts. Have any of the past episodes gotten views that fast?
last for V