Originally wasn’t going to make another Thread, but discussion remained amazingly civil for co/ for the entirety of the last one, and someone also suggested that another one be made as interest in the show naturally fizzles out until Episode 6.
Not expecting to get very far with this one, but once again, art + theories always welcome.
Sex with V
Pick your poison
Worth it
Vhy?
they new exactly what they were doing with this thumbnail
It really does sell the old 00s horror themeing.
I thought we were going to post when
was at page 10.
why ask for OP image recommendations if you are just gunna use some lame family guy screenshot
So, how would co’s favorite robot fare in Murder Drones?
>murder drones are around the powerlevel of a girl with a sword
>XJ9 is a global superhero
well it wouldn't be much of a challenge for her, but considering team Uzi is team kill-all-humans, Jenny would probably be more aligned with J and Tessa than anyone else
but I would like to see a glitch style render of this, the drone design might be how to finally translate her into 3d
>well it wouldn't be much of a challenge for her, but considering team Uzi is team kill-all-humans, Jenny would probably be more aligned with J and Tessa than anyone else
Tru, considering Jenny was literally made to protect humanity and Uzi’s goal is to wipe out humanity, Uzi fucked with a capital F. Her getting turned into a smear of oil after one hit is best case scenario
Worst case scenario? After XJ9 defeat her team, she gives away Uzi and V away to Sheldon, and keeps N for herself
>but I would like to see a glitch style render of this, the drone design might be how to finally translate her into 3d
Huh, i actually wouldn’t mind to see what that would look like
We notably don't see actual Disassembly Drones lose against humans at all (the situation with V in episode 5 was altered due to Uzi's interference), and present day Tessa's speed and reactions are blatantly superhuman. So Jenny might have some actual trouble there.
And Cyn could just smash her or rip her apart with her Absolute Solver powers. She might not due to general apathy to do so immediately over using more mundane methods, but it's not the cards.
Given that DD's can heal from the erasure of their head, Jenny is in alot of trouble
DDs can tank or regen from a lot of bullshit. Even completely erasing their entire upper torso isn't a guarantee that they've been dealt with, given that just lets Cyn/Absolute Solver claim their body as free real estate to go on a joyride.
Somehow getting them to overheat could possibly be a way to kill them but even then it might just Cyn/Absolute Solver come out
I think our short list of ways to permakill a DD goes as follows:
>Sunlight (stated by N, confirmed by seeing Uzi start smoking)
>Virus capsule thing (J sticks N with one and it seems like it would have worked if Uzi hadn't saved him)
>Injecting them with their own nanite acid (if it didn't present a serious threat to them they wouldn't have been built with the ability to neutralize it)
So Jenny could try for any of those.
capsule thing (J sticks N with one and it seems like it would have worked if Uzi hadn't saved him)
according to liam the virus would have killed him, but "something interesting" would've happened after that
Did she inject him with a bit of the absolute solver possibly?
no those virus capsules are part of how worker drones are typically disposed of and them not working is how zombie drones happen and considering N is a repurposed zombie drone he is guaranteed to show what exactly those "potentially dangerous mutations" really are.
not that there would be any survivors to talk about it though
every drone has a core in its chest
Uzi figured out pretty quickly that the core is what you have to aim for if you want a killshot.
>this time, I won't miss
J lives anyway. It’s a delaying tactic at best.
J happened to have a Keter class anomaly inside her chest
I don't think that will happen every time
It’s unclear whether or not Cyn had anything to do with J’s full return accompanying Tessa’s arrival. It’s possible that Tessa has her drones backed up off-world, which would make destroying them in direct confrontations futile.
Do you think she has back up N and V and could get replacement drones since N and V are with Uzi now?
Potentially, but we’ve never seen two instances of the same drone active at the same time.
It’s definitely possible, but it makes me wonder what exactly Cyn’s plan is. She is either going along with JCJ’s goals of destroying drones or has fabricated a lie in the minds of the MDs under her influence - but the question remains: what does she gain from causing mayhem in the drone population of some remote exoplanet?
>small group of worker drones already under your influence stage a core collapse
>disassembly drones kill every single worker drone on the planet and assemble them into one big pile of corpses
>they starve to death
>you can now propagate through an entire planet's worth of drones without having to lift a finger
is what it could be at least. we can't know for sure, but i imagine we'll get more info next episode
I've been wondering of episode 1 wasn't J at all, just Cyn pretending
Cyn doesn't seem very good at pretending to be drones, even when it does emulate their personalities. I think that may have been actual J, or at least as close as possible.
He would do pretty alright
Would probably get on Uzi's nerves cause of his personality and the fact he's a human mind in a robot body but other than that he'd do well
(No I do not care that he's from a video game and not a cartoon)
I dunno how I failed at thay
thinking about it jennys powers are actually pretty similar to a murder drones without the regeneration bullshit and likely just a bit better offense without going into the nonsense numbers of feat comparisons a more average xj9 may be just above average for the murder drones in setting possibly weak if you account for emp weakness and poor software security from the show.
big problem with character fights is shows in general rarely give consistent power levels for the characters and a lot of events tend to inflate the numbers to stuff that just makes no sense given what the character typically does if you math out n throwing uzi above the clouds and keep to typical punch level of jenny you may put them roughly in the same ball park if you pull up more bullshit feats jenny could win if you put jenny getting beat by rock monsters to n out muscling a hydraulic mega door that may put n ahead for the most part this stuff swings wildly enough you could argue either or just say jennys consistently getting hacked and emp'd is enough of an exploitable weakness that even if she is leagues above she would not go hard fast enough to prevent a lucky panic shot clinching a win or a cyn emergence from just mind controlling her to a win.
N is strong as fuck, dude is fucking swole.
Nah, Uzi. N is strong but not XJ-9 levels of strong.
That said they are definitely more mobile and agile than xj9 they have that hard counter to anything robotic with that nanite acid, the emps and whatever that fan blade laser was that v used in the pilot.
Just caught up. It's very cringe. But the creepy bug robots and the fight scenes are enough to keep me watching.
She fights a much more durable, faster and versatile robot on the regular. She'd splatter everything seen so far.
In a physical confrontation, maybe. Though as a highly human aligned robot she probably wouldn’t ever be involved with any drone on drone conflicts in the first place unless it was working with the MDs to exterminate the rogue AI that killed an entire planet of people.
What speculations do you guys have for the next episode?
Everyone is gonna almost fight, N is gonna try and mediate. They then make their way into the Labs and fight a bunch of the nightmare experiments along the way.
Tessa will hug N, and Uzi (hater of humans and tsundere for N) will lose her shit.
the weirdly-sentient horse-bus from cabin fever is hacked into and is used to isekai tessa
After a brief initial confrontation with Uzi hating humans and Tessa worried about another case of murder virus, they begrudingly team up thanks to N and find something really fucked up in the cabin area.
Repost from the last thread.
3 million views in 4 days is kind of nuts. Have any of the previous episodes gotten views this fast?
According to the free version of social blade, the channel view gain for the week Episode 4 debuted was higher than for Episode 5, but that might partially be a base effect.
Finally, a girl for Little King John!
There are many drones
that need
to be
disassembled
You built this waifu with consummate skill, but I am Little King John and I'll take what i I will.
Love seeing these kinds of tricks in 3d animations
is there a possibility that there are more corporations that have their hands on AS aside from JCJ? maybe that could explain why there are multiple hiveminds? maybe Doll speaks Russian because her hivemind was programmed by Russians?
>Client reasons for WD unit disassembly and disposal
>7% Competitor Products
I'm pretty sure doll speaks Russian because drones are programmed to speak various languages
I was just assuming Doll spoke Russian because worker drones come programmed with the same suite of languages as your smart phone would and someone accidentally set her to Russian mode. There's no reason for her to change since everyone can understand her anyway, and I feel like worker drones probably go out of their way to make themselves seem unique/give themselves a distinct identity anyway since they're literally a mass-produced product without a ton of distinguishing features.
QUICK, post your cutest Cyn
Evil.
Who knew an eldritch monstrosity could be afraid of people
canon
Geth land on copper 9 how would they interact with the drones colonies
Instant Absolute Solver hijack. Geth are vulbernable for stuff like that.
Normal ones, maybe, but what about super-geth like Legion?
little bit sad that Uzi would be without a tail while she isnt corrupted by solver, it was a fun consept.
Oh well, at least fan-art was fun while it lasted
i'm certain we will see her tail at least one more time
cap my post and call me a lying homosexual if the 8th episode releases and it never happens again
I would be shock if they didn't give us bat Uzi again.
Would you pet it?
>uzi trying to pretend her tail head is a seperate entity and not just another mouth she fully controls and feels
AAAAAAAAAAH
What is the average height of drones?
Uzi is 127 as confirmed in some behind the scenes thing
idk about the others, but we can see that Uzi is shorter than other worker drones like her father, Doll, and Lizzy
*127cm
So uzi is small and cute?
aren't the cockroaches robojannies?
He's asserting dominance by making butlers feel like insects. Just another thing that you have to do that Tessa doesn't get.
Look at that powerful stance.
Why is He like this
Not his fault that his staff was programmed by beets
I hope instead of Khan dying we get to see punished khan in the future, pic related was his concept design
How did that turn into running away while his daughter is about to get killed
tbh honest Uzi deserved that at that point. She had gone against specific instructions, let a disassmbly drone into the compound and had gotten most of Khan's gang killed. I don't blame khan for playing it sure instead of trying to take a shot with a gun he had never used before (against a highly agile target to boot).
Khan was originally the planned villain for first season. I am glad they didn't go that way, he tries his best.
I wonder how him being villain would have even been done.
probably a shitty "dem drones dindu nuffin" plot, i am REALLY glad we didn't get that
The cliffhanger for Season 1
>After 3 episodes of trials and tribulations, the group manages to make it down to the heart of Cabin Fever Labs.
>Confront Cyn, manage to beat her into submission
>Everyone is about to finally get some answers
>*BANG*
>Cyn slumps backwards, shot straight through the head.
>Everyone turns around, sees Punished Khan with a smoking gun
>"That was for Nori, you bitch."
that's not a cliffhanger, that's a satisfying conclusion
Khan getting his revenge would be a great climax, not really a cliffhanger.
I bet 10% of my JCJ shares that mankind outside of Tessa is already extinct.
>Not this shit again
on earth? maybe
in the whole universe? i really don't see how
It's probably only Earth that's dead. Which is still super bad and could easily escalate if Cyn goes unchecked, but is at least manageable.
Do any anons have pictures of murder drones drawn by Liam?
Whats your fav ship in this show(if you have one)?
personally i'm NUzi trash, cant do anything about it
NxV
Simple as.
Khan x J
Truly the patrician’s choice.
>J sitting on Khans desk filling her nails or blades being all sexy secretary while Uzi tries to hold a conversation with her dad.
>"J?"
>"Yes?"
>"Could you,"
>"You know, if it's okay with you"
>"I don't mean to put pressure on you"
>"But if you don't mind, could you uhhhh..."
>"GET OFF MY DAD'S FRICKIN' DESK?!"
>"Hmmmm, hmmmm...."
>"Well after reviewing your request against JC Jensen's corporate guidelines and PR standards...."
>"No"
>"Be polite to her now Uzi, this is technically her office after all"
>"It's WHAT?"
>"JC Jensen never formally ceded control of any of its planetside facilities. Just because we weren't here to make use of them doesn't change the fact that they're ours."
>"Aaaaand, as the highest ranking non-renegade drone on the planet, I am entitled to use the director's office in any way I see fit."
>"You should both be grateful I even let you hang around in here."
>J drops her voice to a throaty purr and delicately hooks a single claw under Khan's chin
>"Isn't that right, Mister Doorman?"
Bruh
>Guhh, what do you want dad?
>Good news Uzi! I have been talking with one of your Murder Drone, and we have come to an agreement to stop all of the murdering?
>What??
>Thats right buddy! She has spoken on behalf of her corporate overlords and has got them to recognize our peoples sovereignty on a policy technicality! Now we can finally give you the non-optional family support structure you've been needing!
>Whuhhh????
Khan opens the door to his office, revealing J in a business appropriate bridal outfit with a toothy shit eating grin.
>WE'RE GETTING MARRIED!!!
>Hey there Uzi~. By the way, sorry about killing your mom!
[CURSES PROFUSELY IN BINARY]
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Why a racist statement?
Why little fan art of Tessa?
Why does this have appeal? Also what's the problem with KhanV?
Buddy, you're on Cinemaphile
Racism is to be expected
>Why a racist statement?
Because it's funny?
>Also what's the problem with KhanV?
Literally no synergy between them. J and Khan have the makings of potential power couple with multiple possibilities of satirical and/or interesting interactions, whereas V has no potential with Khan. Even Thad has more potential with V.
I can elaborate on this even further.
Didn't both Khan and V know more then they let on and regrets of their past actions? Yes elaborate more please.
Yes, they have that one similarity, but it's superficial. V's past concerns the murder drone trio and their origins, whereas Khan's past is between his dead wife and Uzi. The murder drones and Cyn are merely instigator of events that Khan bears within him. Of course, Khans backstory hasn't been explained like V's was in episode 5 - so there might be some connection.
But to elaborate on; V's role in copper-6 is one of a brute, someone who does what her environment (be it J, N or even Lizzy) tells her what to do. She *still* feels nothing. If she were with Khan, there would be no potential for explanations or finding purpose - Khan can't help her to find anything new or have knowledge that could send her ahead.
Second part is relationhip with Uzi, who is Khan's most important relationship with plot. Both j and V are antagonistic with Uzi, but J is mroe clearly pronounced to be her enemy, instead of third wheel in N-Uzi relationship. V is antagonistic with Uzi because it's her nature, but J is uzi's enemy because she wants to be - they have much clearer ideological opposition to each other, as characterised in their fight in Pilot and episode 2 (even if it
s Cyn then, uzi assumes her to be J then). Thus the potential of J getting close to Khan has much more potential. How would Uzi react to losing someone she takes for granted to her worst enemy ? V already also has such relationship with Lizzie, which would make Khan-V redundant.
Third is the symbolic connection. Khan is, in essence, a foreman on worksite who enjoys, even obsesses over his work. J on the other hand is a member of corporate managment who sees work as part of bigger picture, or even mere source of profits. They have so many potential sources of interpersonal friction between them on those grounds alone that would make their relationship interesting. V on the other hand has no such connection to general work-life, as she is much more personal character.
(cont)
V doesn't have a real counterpart in regular workplace life. Her relationship with Khan would be thus more of personal one and lack the satirical edge of corporate manager and a determined workplace handler trying to work together.
Of course, even what would make J and Khan to co-operate would be a story in itself. The difference beween her and V is that N is still somewhat nonantagonist with her, and thus V has much easier time interacting with worker drones. J on the other hand would have to make concessions with workers if she were to be with Khan - or maybe Khan would use her to re-establish his position which he may have lost after the events of the pilot. As such Khan-J relationship could see interesting changes in both of them, whereas V and Khan could interact with each other with only superficial changes in their self and interactions with other characters. Khan-J would also affect Uzi in several ways, whereas Khan-V would propably be just somewhat confusing for her.
Of course, there is the matter of Tessa. I thought about this ship before Tessa's and J's realtionship was elaborated on latest episodes. But that is no reason.
(this is where fanfictioning starts)
Worker drones propably have quite good facilities for fixing damaged drone bodies, at least judging how nonchalantly they react to bodily harm. Compare how the worker-drone society reats to drones going missing in episode 2 to some of them being mangled by V and N in episode 4. Maybe it could be assumed that J's mind could be extracted from the railgunned corpse that she becomes at the end of pilot? Khan could propably need somethign to re-establish his authority with other worker drones, and a new, efficient member for WDF could be that. Also having J's personality placed on worker drone body could be interesting, especially if she were made to witness the events of episodes 2-5 from new, humbled perspective.
i think pic would work better as
MD J | "upgrade"
solver J | "fuck go back"
maid J | "too far back!" (or "perfect")
How would everyone else feel about this?
That's what would make the fanfic interesting. I however, do not have illusions on my literaturical skills and will propably not write it.
God damn it Anon stop making me think this is somehow a reasonable thing to ship. It's a funny haha "hello protagonist it's me the villain I am banging your parent" shitpost and I need to not get invested in it!
Yewah, still it mostly stems from my dissatisfaction on how little exposition there is to what has happened after the event sof the pilot. Has Khan's position changed in any way or form ? What happened after the prom ? etc.
I know it's propably just a method to show how Uzi is alienating from her birthplace, but couple throwaway lines from Khan couldn't hurt.
Personally, I would play it as mixing hot and cold water. As plot would progress J would gain new insights to her existance and improve as a person. Preferrably without dropping the insane corporate stooge aspect of the character - she would maybe decide that she needs to run the "corporation" herself instead just kowtowing to any human.
Likewise, Khan would propably see himself coming closer to a darker places as interacting with J would make him face the realities of JCJensen (in spaaaaace)'s policy and it's implications on his world. And as absolute solver would resurface and drone colony starts tearing itself up as a result he would try to be more active with Uzi if he had J urgning him from the back. Then again Khan did mention that he had his own "kill all humans" phase too if I recall correctly - which is something that could also be elaborated on.
I have to admit that this started as way to imagine how Khan would become main villain (as Liam said he would have been in AMA ) without things becoming just saccharine "heckin wholesome N did nuffin wrong"
What if the drones are slowly convinced by Uzi that they have to go on the offensive towards human/Cyn goes on a long human-phobic rant while Tessa quietly sits at a table watching n draw.
Like no literally started it as a crack ship about J become the sexy secretary but like im actually considering this and i don't like it. (I mean i do but I don't.)
>Even Thad has more potential with V.
Elaborate.
Basicly, Thad-V would work just like Lizzy does currently. Both are drones in-know of the reformatted worker drone society who might end up charmed by V (who is pretty hot by drone standards I would imagine).
I would say that Thad would propably function even better than V in some regards. Lizzy-V highlights the foolishness of drone-disassembly drone relationships, whereas Thad-V would serve as someone trying to emulate the relationship between Uzi and N, which would be slightly less foolish than Lizzy's affection of V.
N X all the girls except for J she's just seething over Tessa being more interested in N
thuzi
V and Warbeast from the hit 1994 movie death machine
How would that even work?
did you not see the head action at 6:00 in?
I still don't see it.
My favorite ship is Lizzy and Doll bullying me
Uzi pov:
Do we know if Lizzy and Doll are actually friends?
Would that even work?
The two were at the very least close enough for Lizzy to risk her life by hanging out with V
Doll did save Lizzy from falling into eldritch J's bait in episode 2, followed by Doll explicitly tossing Lizzy aside rather than killing her during the Prom.
The latter stands out the most considering Lizzy tried to warn V at the last minute about Doll's Plan.
I think that they were regular "mean girls" type friends prior to Doll awakening to the fact that she had some kind of eldritch reality-warping monster program in her brain after her parents got butchered, then Lizzy became more of the semi-willing sidekick to Doll's villainy. Like the other Anon said, Doll still cares for Lizzy enough to toss her aside rather than flatten/disintegrate her in E3 (she also never threatened to eat her or anything as far as we know in spite of the fact that she was going full Dahmer in the rest of the colony)
N and Uzi are pretty cute and obviously what the show is leaning towards, but I'm really interested in N and V.
>Definitely were at the very least close since the beginning.
>Massive personality shift somewhere, where it went from N taking care of a clumsy V to a rageaholic V taking care of N.
>Despite this personality shift however it still seems that V has some feelings for N, doing things for his own good even at the cost of her own well being. She even pretends to play along with being "captured" during the prom episode to help him be friends with the worker drones, and is immensely protective of him during the cabin episode where Uzi goes batty.
>Another dimension about this is she's clearly jealous that he's spending more time with Uzi, even going as far as to say that he "always takes her side". Even in episode 5 after she remembers where she is, she just takes his hand and dosen't really react until Uzi starts teasing them.
>Blushes constantly whenever around N in the latest episode.
I wonder what kind of conclusion their relationship is gonna get. V very well may die.
N x Uzi best ship
Has this even been confirmed? Have we seen any concept art of a drone without clothing?
> 4AS4AS
What are they hiding from us under the clothing, anon?
What was so special about the swimsuit if she resurrected to get it ?
Where are you all getting these arts from Liam’s twitter is barely active
It came to me in a dream.
Honestly, the Hawaiian shirt is a nice look of N.
I remember someone earlier asking for nude drones?
that image does a pretty good job with what we are able to see on the show although i would like to see Liam's own conceot art of it
i prefer small uzi
What about big N
why are they crying
Dear God this pushes all the right buttons
N is cute as always
>N is cute as always
N seems like the kind of person who would be fun to go to the thrift store with.
He'd knock shit over on accident and everyone would need to break for the door.
call me Tessa James Elliot, 'cause i wanna bang this particular toaster.
There’s confirmed to be as smooth as a Barbie doll down there last I check, tho I could be wrong
Where do you guys think J's loyalty lies JcJenson or Tessa (assuming Tessa has her own goals that go against the company)
we've already seen that when J broke her chain. She ultimately allies with Tessa, but always figure out some kind of corporate justification for everything she does.
J getting with Khan is funny but realistically the only person who has a chance with her is Tessa.
I like the idea of J seducing Khan just to spite Uzi, but her love will always be for Tessa.
J agrees to not be Uzi's new stepmom in exchange for Uzi officially shacking up with N, finally giving her a real shot with Tessa.
>J 4D chessing just to get into Tessa's hussy.
>Tessa thinks it's adorable her favorite drone found love and now smothers Uzi with affection becoming the mother figure she never had.
>J short circuits.
>the mother figure she never had
You know it occurs to me that in spite of them doing a pretty darn good job of characterization for the rest of the cast, Uzi's kind of been left at the curb. They managed to fit in the relationship dynamics between Tessa, her parents, N, J, Cyn, etc in a pretty short run time, but we haven't seen nearly as much of Uzi's past with her parents. Uzi's almost becoming the Mad Max of the show.
How would Uzi even react to a robophilic human like Tessa getting all lovey dovey with her? I don't think she's ever seen a living human in the flesh before.
I don't think she would outright kill Tessa, if only because doing that would make N a sad boy. Uzi would certainly give her angsty attitude tho. Who knows, there is a chance they could bond over their shared parental trauma & nerdy tech stuff.
If the next episode is gonna be focused on the tension between everyone going into the labs, we are all but certainly gonna get a look at Uzi's parental trauma along with the answers to who killed her Mom.
Assuming her Mom actually is dead, and didn't get revived as a Zombie Drone by Cyn.
>Captcha: v4mpy
The only drones that have Tessa's heart are N and J
And V.
This seems to be true. Tessa likes her drones but did not seem to care, or even notice, when her dad was killing a drone in the dining hall a few feet away from her.
I think she truly does care about the drones but her parents destroy and replace them so frequently she rarely ever gets a chance to know them
Plus I think she might be afraid of incurring her parents wrath
This. It's pretty common for kids abused by narcissists to never speak out against what their parents do for fear of being punished themselves.
Who tops
J or Tessa?
Tessa. J would top anyone but Tessa.
at most J would be a service top, otherwise Tessa 100%
I think it's funnier if J x Khan happens just as kind of side reaction of khan convincing J to not kill everyone in his facility.
>tfw ywn have a shy, bespectacled robot maid to tend to your every whim
why even live?
Do you think Tessa has ever kissed a robot?
She probably kissed N like how anyone would kiss a Golden Retriever.
So she made him put on a fake animal ears and a collar and told him to bark like a dog?
Of course not
N was already doing that on his own
"Anyone" includes white girls. So Tessa fucked N, J and V. Confirmed.
>never interact with humans
>have drones you salvaged yourself that basically worship you
>uncontrollably jump in excitement whenever you see the only male one
its uh... certainly a possibility
Pass that thing and watch her flex,
Behind her back you know what's next!
Doll will never be balli-
What is the Absolute Fabric?
Reality, probably.
Also how do you think Absolute Solver was discovered
Did someone find it or did it just appear randomly near a JcJenson outpost
Could be either. My guess is it just appeared one day, but did nothing until aome chucklefuck uncovered it and started placing it into the drones. Liam really likes his trope of people trying to weaponize the demonic via technology.
Interesting
This is my first exposure to Liam so I didn't know he likes that trope
Yeah, it's a pretty big thing in the later portions of Design.
it'd argue it's actually a bigger thing in the earlier portions of design, god knows dahmer couldn't care less about militarizing her subjects
>I'm willing to take full responsibility for the horrible events taking place with AbsoluteSolver, but you must understand - our interest in this work was purely for the betterment of mankind. Everything has clearly gotten out of hand, yes, but it was worth the risk. I assure you.
-John C. Jenson
the C is for Cena
He turned himself into a robot to try and access solver
Most likely reality itself. "Absolute" referring to "Everything/All" and "Fabric" being a decent synonym for reality/the cosmos/existence.
So the Void is most likely it's home dimension and the exponential end is obviously it's goal
"Solver of the Absolute Fabric" can also be taken as a very literal title - it "solves" (ends) the "Absolute Fabric" (Reality).
absolute solver symbol is literally just a cube with scaling arrows.
https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/3d-rotation-arrow-cube-object-view-icon-gm1317551828-404947801
An internecion cube perhaps?
Reminder that Eldritch J's hands in episode 2 are all left hands.
Because the devil?
Go watch Liam's older works.
is technically right though, it is fundamentally because of the devil, just not the one they're thinking of
Well, yes. But also because it's a reference to transdimensional demons from his older stuff literally called Left Hands. Who were sourced from the Devil.
Cyn with a cigarette
No little autistic eldritch being! Cigarettes are bad for you
>but I love tobacco, inhale exhale
No if you get super cancer it'll just be the flood or at the very least brethren moons!
She smokes the entire pack, just to spite you.
Cyn, did you massacre everyone at the Gala and assimilate their still screaming flesh into your nightmarish eldritch form?
>ah.. eto... blehhh!
What an adorable little corpse being poorly puppeted by an extradimensional demon hive mind.
gangsta spongebob
Hot
somewhere on copper 9 there a colony that lucked out and got all there swag from a Mexican indoor flea market
J Should have pens instead of cash.
Nah J gets Tessa
Imagine.
>You are a middle manager at the (contractually agreed to be) greatest company in the galaxy. JC Jenson (In Spaaace!)
>Zero prospects for vertical advancement, there are enough people with your job to populate an entire planet.
>Saddled with this prissy company-obsessed drone to file your papers and do other secretarial work so that you can more efficiently give yourself carpel tunnel creating spreadsheets.
>Half of your job is attending company sponsored retreats where you get opportunities to take part in "totally voluntary unpaid personal development!".
>They shower you in worthless junk like the infamously durable JCJ branded pen, hats, armbands, cup holders, instead of a raise or promotion of course.
>Slog back to your tiny office, hyper-lagged and slightly drunk after eight of those in-flight miniature vodkas, branded JC Jenson (In Spaaace!) hat perched "rakishly" atop your disheveled hair.
>J is there, as usual muttering a steady stream of (inclusive and family friendly!) profanity as she struggles to organize the barely controlled explosion of your file folders.
>Without really thinking about it, you flip the JCJ cap off your head and plop it down on hers, "'ere J, fer all of yer haaard work."
>You could never have predicted the expression of reverence that comes over her face, you didn't even know that drones could produce "blush" emotes.
>She quickly excuses herself due to a "minor overheating malfunction."
>Suddenly you realize it.
>She would probably do...anything...for the free branded garbage piling up in your apartment.
>ANYTHING
Has Tessa life became better or worst after the massacre?
We lack alot of info but I'd imagine it got worse mentally
I'd reckon she has PTSD from being witnessing the massacre and being the only survivor
Both. Better because her narcissistic controlling parents are dead. Worse because she was almost certainly irre vereibly traumatized from what Cyn did and y'know, had to watch a gala full of people be slaughtered by a cosmic demon.
I still don't get how anyone would think that Liam is a good writer
it's more of him having fresh ideas and being crazy enough to push said ideas forwards.
I don't like Liam's stuff because the writing is some kind of high art, I love it because it's enjoyable to watch Liam get his edgy tween OC art and worldbuilding turned into a fun and enjoyable series. Also his obvious fetish, which I share.
murder drones isn't good, but it is kino
it's pretty good anon, you're just in denial about wanting to fuck a robot and that's okay. you're allowed to like it.
i am in denial about a lot of things but wanting to fuck a robot is definitely, absolutely, 100%, i cannot stress this enough, not one of them
We like the show in the same way people like Kingdom Hearts. It aint the story.
whats wrong with Md's story? shit's pretty interesting to me so far, i want to see where it goes.
i am a sucker for cosmic horror monster shit
Because the story is moving too fast. Murder Drones may be the only piece of media in the world that has too LITTLE exposition.
because, if you haven't noticed, the point is to rewatch for details that are important to the story and piece together the mystery for yourself. this is literally how all liam vickers stories go, very little is explained to your face and clues are placed throughout the story for you to piece together.
it's not about pace. the story isn't moving too fast at all, you're just not paying attention.
I guess that make sense, but it also makes moments that should have emotional weight feel rushed, which I find hard to justify.
I can see your point, and though it might be a matter of personal taste, I don't really agree. I think the show does a good job at using emotional moments to develop the characters without harping on crybaby drama for large pads of the runtime. The show knows what it is, and has good use of emotional character interaction despite it not being the focus.
>Khan shutting the door on Uzi in Ep1 and leaving her to die.
The start of the divide between Uzi and her dad that will be present throughout the rest of the series, we gradually see him try to make amends and care for his daughter through the next episodes.
>Uzi's scared breakdown towards the AbsoluteSolver creature mentally screwing with her in Ep2
Sets up the development of Uzi and N's relationship as the series progresses. Uzi is scared of N, who doesn't even know what he really is, causing him to flee. Uzi looks to her dad for comfort, and the experience strengthens her relationship with N as she gets over her fear.
>N standing up to V and confronting her about her secrets in Ep4
N starts standing up for himself, becoming less spineless and subservient across the series and finally tells off V.
>N and Uzi's talk as they fall
Big focus point of N and Uzi's relationship. Uzi has to confront her insecurities, and fear of N leaving her (likely due her dad abandoning her in Ep1) while N has to confront his own fears and the fact that Uzi is his anchor to keep going and figure out what is going on.
>N putting V's glasses on her, and V remembering N reading to her while she was in an Error 606 coma.
Beyond it being sweet that N was reading to her, we finally get some closure on N and V's past and the big personality change V has after the events at the mansion. N's crush on V in Ep1 were the leftovers of his affection for her when they were worker drones, even though he lost all of his memory. This entire time V was trying to protect N from their past, and now they finally both remember.
I don't find the emotional moments to be rushed at all. I think the series spends a good amount of time developing characters emotionally without making interpersonal drama a focus point.
If that kind of drama is your cup of tea, thats fine, but I think the series it at its best when it focuses on the horror and mystery, with the comedy and cuteshit laced in between. As long as we care for the characters and get to see them grow, it's good. None of the character growth in this series has been jarring yet imo, it's been very consistent.
>rushed
they are aiming for the tictoc audience. This is what shows should be paced like. The future is now, old man.
I have adhd, and even I can’t stand tik tok,
Much of the development of characters' relationships and reactions to events are implied to take place off screen as they're not the focus of the story.
The plot is well worked-out and threads nicely through past episodes, to the point where even seemingly one-off gags might actually be important foreshadowing.
If scenes seem rushed/shortened, the constraint is that they're an indie studio limited to twenty or so minutes of new content every two+ months.
it's honestly pretty impressive how consistent and well thought-out the plot is. i'm still finding little details from rewatches of past episodes that suddenly click after revelations from newer ones. nutty writing.
I know that they’re an indie studio, and expecting high art is unrealistic. But that doesn’t mean they can’t improve, which they have been doing. I remember being told that they toned down the lampshading jokes in the pilot as a result of feedback, so clearly they’re listening to somebody. Probably not us, but who would?
A show that can actually listen to and work with criticism to improve the quality of the production is always good to see for once.
Helluva Boss, take notes.
>Helluva Boss
That would imply Vivze has the ability to grows up.
Unfortunate
The premise is somewhat interesting
It would have to be "natural" improvement, a consequence of going up the learning curve of making this.
They're not starting from just the base models for the next one each time an episode is released. Like a lot of other works, the order in which a scene is produced has no relation to the order/episode in which it airs.
The October 2022 season one trailer, for example, contains content from all the episodes which have currently aired. So then it's potentially months between them sending a scene from pre- through post-production and getting audience feedback.
>has too LITTLE exposition.
quite the opposite, it does have a lot of content, yet you need to fit the pieces together, figure things out by yourself, actually think about little details. The content is there, just look at all people have been talking from last episode alone.
Behind its fast pace, there are lot of aspects to notice.
You know.. Tessa and J must have been in that pod travelling to Copper 9 for a little while.
..What do you think they did to pass the time?
Played I Spy
I would love to say “they fucked” but considering drone anatomy, that’s literally impossible, so…
Idk, played 20 questions
>but considering drone anatomy, that’s literally impossible
not really. you just have to get creative
>but considering drone anatomy
not just that but DD overheat like crazy. That's kinda hot.
Just because J doesn't have any of the proper hardware doesn't mean they can't fuck.
J still has a perfectly good pair of hands and a mouth, and Tessa is a certified technician who could probably scrape together a pocket pussy for J out of whatever she has in the pod, assuming she didn't already bring one.
I'm sure it was just the totally platonic kinds of things that two girls who are just friends having a sleepover (in spaaace!) would do.
Play Gin rummy and have sex of course. But seriously their were probably in suspended animation.
played the entire five (5, V, cinco) games on the PS5 catalog.
How do drones fall in love?
The same way people do
If Jay was in the ship with Tessa, then whom was the monstermash that N and Uzi were fightan that one time.
here are my theories
1) there is more than one J and this actually doesn't seem like a bad possibility because Cyn mentions having backups of N and we saw copies of N, J, and V in her dungeon so making copies of drones is entirely possible
2) Absolute Solver finished building J off screen and teleported her to the pod with Tessa
Have you been paying attention to any of the 5 episodes that make up this series, anon?
If that anon from last thread looking for J fics is still lurking, check out "Degree of Safety" on ao4. Wholesome J & Tessa post Gala, highly recommend.
Why are there no other disassembly drones? What happened to the other letters?
they're on copper-8
every JCJ drone has a letter in their serial number, not just the disassembly drones. The disassembly drones use their letters since (at least they thing) they are working for JCJ
The copper-9 colony doesn't use the JCJ letters and doesn't give serial numbers to their kids born natively
A new challenger has come to take N's Drone Harem.
Will N be strong enough to beat this new threat?
The Ugly Bastard Drone has come to hypnotise V.
That’s illegal! Only Lizzy is allowed to do that
Lizzy is absolutely a bottom bitch with a nightmare fetish for murderous psychopaths.
Just like me.
You think she watched Doll eat other drones, and got off on it?
I think it is less the Watch People Die part and more the Overwhelming Threat of Mortal Danger that gets Lizzy going.
She lets Doll bite her on the shoulder where her uniform will hide the marks.
Is there any couple in the show NOT having any kind of freaky sex going on?
Khan and J. Khan likes it slow and gentle under candlelight with soft jazz. J literally has a company-issued manual full of white-listed sex practices.
>J literally has a company-issued manual full of approved sex practices.
I have to know what is in that manual
The blandest, most focus group-tested mass-market appealing white-sugar-and-wonderbread fucking you have ever seen in your life.
>Covers?
>Under them
>Hands?
>Held
>Eye contact?
>Unbroken
>The tunes?
>The dirty sax music equivalent of Muzak
>The sweet nothings in the afterglow?
>Cribbed directly from those chalky little candy hearts you got on valentine's day in elementary school
?
>>Held
how did this degeneracy get approved?
Not too surprised but imagining J pulling this out, regardless with who she gets with, is fucking hilarious
She pulls this out with everyone but Tessa
Tessa does outrank her so she’s probably can bypass the required sex manual review required for all intercourse Jcjenson employees have
All of that sound great except for the candy hearts.
I think I puked a little
Is this a visual reference to something that I don't get?
it's just Tessa tucking in J, N, and V while Cyn watches
Imagine that Cyn/solver gets the glados treatment and gets stuffed in a "potato" or rather a wheelchair bound drone that's reliant on everyone. The only person that's genuinely nice to her is N.
that drone kid isn't alright...
What do you mean, she's just a little cutie.
You think the actual drone personality is in there somewhere and the real Cyn with come out even for a second?
will*
My assumption is that all of the Absolute Solver's personality comes from Cyn, and that without her as it's original template it would have no "presence" as a being at all.
The reason why it's so fragmented to begin with is that there wasn't very much left of Cyn to begin with.
First episode is the closest to Cliffside writing but it rapidly improves.
I doubt it. If the original drone was still in there st some point, they're probably long gone by now.
the absolute solver tells the Cyn corpse
"I will not discard you"
so it must still be in there somewhere
I think that was just it saying "yeah, I totally want get rid of you like they did, I'll make perfectly good use of you dude trust me :^)" - it's technically true that it did not 'discard them', but that was probably in the sense that it wouldn't get rid of such an excellent body to puppet. Not that it would keep their mind intact when it took them over.
*won't
Sell me on it it looks cute.
I liked the spidergirl from the creators last project but the writing on that was godawful. Did they get better.
Lots of violence, cute robots. The writing is the same Liam brand cringe in the first episode, but becomes more competent starting in the second episode along with a gradual improvement in animation quality. It's not high art, but it's enjoyable if you're into the characters and setting.
yes the writing is better
but not in the first episode
I imagine you're talking about Cliffside.
Vickers had another project after that on youtube called Internecion Cube, you should watch that. It's very, very similar to Murder Drones - and both have much better writing than Cliffside.
Yes, the writing is a lot better in Murder Drones. The pilot is a bit rough dialogue wise, and has very meta-humour reminiscent of his past projects. After the pilot is where it definitely starts getting better across the board though, you should watch all the current episodes.
Many of us here agree that the pilot is the roughest dialogue wise. Just take it for what is ironic with some post irony and you'll be fine. From there it only gets better. It's the kinda show where little throw away gags and lines and background details are actually pieces of the overall puzzle. You'll find a detail in episode 5 and go back to episode 2 to put more pieces together. Then the fandom itself is (and i hate using this word) non-toxic like genuinely it's positive all around. The only drawback is you might find the pacing fast. Personally I don't see it, to me episode 4 was really slow. Since you like the spider girl show i don't think you mind this. Honestly do recommend it. Hell we literally had another anon come in yesterday they seem pretty positive.
PUNCH uzi
Uzi was literally created for robo ryona
Reminder that Uzi is a creepy nerd, a bad daughter and is responsible of dozens of worker drone deaths. She is truly despicable.
Would you turn it on?
i don't like the way this artist draws the drones' heads. the legs look off as well i get that every artist has their own things that make up their own art style but this looks too off model. does this bother anybpdy else?
this drawing right here looks like something with a unique art style but still looks faithful to how the drones are seen in the show
>something with a unique art style but still looks faithful to how the drones are seen in the show
thank you, i try my best (even though i think the proportions in that particular drawing could've turned out better)
The legs look off because she has knees instead of the legs being noodles that bend rubber hose style.
Yes. Imagine getting your fellow drones killed just because you have a fling with someone sent to kill you from interstellar distance away
>responsible of dozens of worker drone deaths
Given how nonchalant the teacher was about losing half his class on the camping trip, letting scores of your fellow drones die probably isn't all that heinous of a crime.
>bad daughter
Good one anon.
She is and you know it. It's disgusting how she can walk around and fraternise with murderous cads like N. Her mistakes were born entirely out of selfish reasons, and she knew beforehand what their outcome would, with highest propability be. She i sugly, both inside and outside, and the handling she receives from her fellow drones is completly deserved.
To be fair, the drones seem to be very selective about who they give a shit about. Lizzy is seemingly totally fine after the events of episode 4 where a large number of people that she was presumably friends with die. Random drones get killed for gags and nobody cares. Hell, if you want someone to share the blame, why not look at the guy who let N back in just because he drew an apology in crayon? They aren't operating on human logic, for sure.
>why not look at the guy who let N back in just because he drew an apology in crayon
Gatekeepers really lost quality when N murdered most of them. It's all Uzi's poisonous influence spreading amongst ranks. I would not be surprised if she played some part in recruiting process of the new incompetant gatekeepers.
The general drone apathy can also be explained with Uzi driving the teacher to despair, and his attitude rubbing on to students. I wouldn't be surprised if Uzi's stunted mental facilities had made her repeat grades, allowing her vile influence spread amongst multiple generations of drone society.
what is this weird larp you're doing?
Can't you really see how wretched Uzi truly is? We have five episodes worth of evidence. She is creepy shut-in with a mentality of aspiring school-shooter. She does nothing but sulk around the corridors of the compound, failing to respond even the basic attempts of socialisation of her fellow students, except of course when she has a chance to do something creepy and intrusive like hacking other studets.
I would not be surprised if her attraction to N stemmed from his murderous habits and body count in the short time they initially had to spend together. She also seems to be less interested at him once his softer side becomes shown. Uzi even extends this approach to other members of murderous disassembly trio, as shown in prom episode. She propably would have found a way to preserve J's life if she hadn't annoyed her primitive, short-fused circuits with her highly-refined vocabulary.
And of course, her search for "truth". Where she chooses to panickedly look at anything other than obvious experts, like her dad (of all people) who was there personally when things went down. Instead she merely uses it as an excuse to socialise further with literal vampires sent to murder her people from interstellar distance away. And of course obstruct the work of actually enlightened drones like Doll who might already have Absolute Solver figured out. Of course she would propably not even want to figure AS out, as Uzi thoroughly enjoys her progress of becoming as monstrous on outside as she is on inside.
So based on the image Uzi straight up has admin privileges on two murder drones. Wonder what thats gonna mean for their future.
Her Army Grows...
>Forces N to hug her while protecting her while forcing V to crawl on the ground.
Even when taking over the mind of her friends and becoming a dictator, Uzi continues to be a petty teenager.
dunno but as someone with a mind control fetish i am very excited
She could start fucking with them (unconciously or conciously) if they end up reconnecting on their past feelings for each other and interfering in their relationship. That could set up an interesting conflict as Uzi and N's relationship is now divided due to admin power gap.
>That could set up an interesting conflict as Uzi and N's relationship is now divided due to admin power gap.
Huh, now that you put it that way, their dynamic now mirrors Max and IC-0n's dynamic in Internecion Cube except the admin aspect is true.
That or the dynamic between Tessa and N where she clearly adores him but in more of a pet/subordinate kind of way, like he's her favorite toy and it obviously makes him slightly uncomfortable, whereas his original relationship with V arose naturally with them being equals who are both being pushed around by J.
>Can't you really see how wretched Uzi truly is? We have five episodes worth of evidence. She is creepy shut-in with a mentality of aspiring school-shooter. She does nothing but sulk around the corridors of the compound, failing to respond even the basic attempts of socialisation of her fellow students, except of course when she has a chance to do something creepy and intrusive like hacking other studets.
She's just like me fr fr
The drones as a whole don't seem to have a very good grasp on morality, it's no wonder the humans want them dead.
>aspiring school-shooter
I'm not seeing the problem.
Also is this a reference.
Normally i like marineposting but this just clashes too hard. Bring back Isaac Clark.
Solver can hack their armor, just a twist and the armor crumples in on them like an empty soda can.
I don't think solver can do much more than centipede claws can
Nah, it's able to manipulate matter in the same way 3D modeling software manipulates digital objects. The relative durability and mechanical properties of material are irrelevant and the only limitations to what it can do in terms of manipulating objects are the user's imagination. It can also spontaneously create matter with no apparent energy cost, although at least so far we haven't seen anything bigger than a meat cleaver copy/pasted.
Also it can definitely attack and control other computer systems, without needing any kind of physical linkage or even some kind of wireless connection to that other system.
The only thing that seems to resist it's manipulation is another foreign instance of Absolute Solver.
Drones using AbsoluteSolver need to consume fuel the more they used it. Uzi started losing control of it in Episode 4 after using it a bunch and had to eat a bunch of her classmates.
True, but only because worker drones aren't built for it, it doesn't seem to tire her or use up her energy, just cause her to generate a lot of extra heat.
Makes it even weirder because that would indicate that instead of using up energy but generating waste heat due to inefficiency, it's just flat out creating work while simultaneously generating EXTRA energy in the form of heat.
It's technomagic.
What is the power source of drones in the first place?
mini black holes maybe?
Unclear, they throw off sparks and can catch on fire so presumably it's high voltage. It might be the core, but that's also explicitly where their AI is housed?
At the same time when N and Uzi regenerate you can clearly see that there are no components inside them, it's just a silver liquid, which makes me think they're comprised mostly of nanites, yet when normal drones are broken apart they spill out mechanical components and cables.
I'm just going to assume it's the solver core and it acts as both power supply and the source of their AI. Their head on the other hand seems to contain some kind of more conventional computer which provides the mundane programming that takes the solver and forces it to behave like a cute dumb robot.
Normally when that stops working I think those pistons on the core labeled as failsafes are meant to stab into it, destroying the solver fragment which will simultaneously eliminate the threat of it going rampant and also de-power the drone body, rendering it both inert and also safe to handle without an electrocution hazard.
Maybe drawing more energy than normal is the issue then, drones operate at a proper safety limit go over that limit and the reactor starts heating up, I can imagine anything operating at 500% capacity would get really hot.
>the only limitations to what it can do in terms of manipulating objects are the user's imagination.
while i don't agree with the whole "invisible giant centipede" theory it's worth noting that doll did seem to physically strain herself when lifting those two tables in episode 3, so certain limiting factors (such as size/mass) may actually exist
She also sent Uzi's extremely heavy looking metal airlock-style door flying out of its frame so hard that it bent and got lodged in the wall, which was also metal so feats might not really mean much until we learn a bit more. Maybe she was just disoriented from the rocket she just tanked in the table scene.
It can also seemingly create supermassive blackholes if the "Singularity" is anything to go by, but that might be exclusive to Cyn itself.
We see Doll twist people apart with the Solver or smash them into messy stains, and it can blatantly alter matter with greater ease than most daemons can sans active Warpstorms. 99% of Astartes would be fucked.
>I will be putting Absolute solver into a Dark heresy game as an AI menace from dark age of technology and my players will be none the wiser
>Uzi's poisonous influence
Yeah I doubt that?
to be fair, the other drones accepted N and V quickly, it's not like anyone actually gives a shit
This gives off the same vibe as pic related.
No duh anon
That is the point my nigga
>Tessa is informed by her parents that an extremely important gala with lots of extremely important people is happening in less than a month, and that she is to be on her absolute best behavior or else.
>Uses her drones for some social etiquette training in an attempt to prepare.
>During this Tessa has an epiphany for a bold (and desperate) plan.
>She confides this plan with the one drone she can rely on most: J
>Tessa plan is to try and seduce a young rich kid at the Gala.
>She reasons that if she can bag a Rich Royal Stud, then perhaps her parents won't see her as such a failure.
>Will need a no-nonsense practice partner to get good enough to pull this off, and J is at the top of the list of candidates.
>Tessa ultimately leaves it up to J as to whether to go through with this or not.
>J is conflicted & concerned, but ultimately agrees to help.
>They start simple, work shopping pickup lines and body language.
>Kissing practice is awkward and clumsy at first, gradually getting better as they go.
>J starts to get really into it, letting it slip that she has done an embarrassingly large amount of reading on human anatomy.
>This includes, among other things, the reproductive system.
>Emboldened by the moment, J offers to show Tessa if she wants.
>J immediately tries to walk it back, warning just how much trouble they would be in for such a forbidden act
>Tessa is silent for a tense couple of seconds before she begins to undo her dress.
Should I continue this as greentext or just write the whole damn thing proper?
>Should I continue this as greentext or just write the whole damn thing proper?
Latter, and post it here when your done, (take your time tho)
No guarantee when or how long it will take, but I will try and get at least some of it done & posted for next thread.
Haven't written anything remotely like this in years, so it should be an interesting exercise in wholesome lewd
Nah Bro, Thad needs to live to cuck Lizzy and hook up with V
total Thad V ictory
Nah
>... and then this happens
that just makes it hotter
AYAYAYAYAYAAAYYY
They're called Murder Drones, cause they're out here killing it!
>captcha: SYKYV
Hmm, did she have the tail in her monster form in episone?
Zombie V is so cute, would hug
So out of all the boxes Khan had locked up in his closet full of his wife and kids' weird shit there was one box full of "happy family stuff before Nori went kooky and insane". So I guess Uzi briefly had a normal childhood before her mom went off the deep end with the knowledge that the murder drones were coming to get them soon? What exactly gave her the premonition?
Murder drone saliva
.......how?
It a meme answer maybe that's the reason why Uzi had her solver activate. N's saliva. Not really though.
>What exactly gave her the premonition?
just a hunch
It came to her in a dream.
Because she's a hot mess express quirky baka gamer girl
>Nori being as creepy and vacuous-yet-hot as Kirie
Based
>What exactly gave her the premonition?
She was there. She remembered it. Reincarnation.
More seriously, and if we do a bit of fanficing, 002 and 048 were used for some sort of experimentation (verging on torture). That experimentation could've included an encounter with a converted drone, from which a version of Absolute Solver was extracted (and implanted?). They turn into miniature black holes when suitably damaged after feeding on drones (or is a black hole the desired end state?). They looked at that, and were able to extrapolate out that the more drones an AS-host consumed, the larger the black hole it could form.
After the humans on Copper 9 were killed, there was a respite where they had normalcy and started families, but they (the proto-WDF, who were the ones in the photograph) made sure to keep monitoring the functioning communication/sensor equipment in Cabin Fever Labs (or the planet control room, which hasn't come up since the first episode). They received a signal (while negotiating with humans on other worlds?), but the signal was ambiguous enough that nobody really understood what it meant except Nori, who subsequently went "insane".
Yeva and her husband also knew, but were eliminated before they could do anything other than provide some information. There must be a reason the last thing her husband did was photograph V's face.
>were used for some sort of experimentation (verging on torture)
Maybe as test subjects (less likely), maybe as experimenters/aides, maybe as observers.
There must be some reason why they had options for Timecards and Paid Time Off, though why the humans, who don't seem to care about them, would give them paid leave is unclear. Also unclear why the humans allowed them to have hair, though perhaps understandable if the humans were part of Tessa's faction (thus S/N: TSA?). It suggests that the humans discriminated among drones, and there were higher grades of worker drone.
Maybe they only put the drones on the books as "employees" instead of heavy machinery to exploit some kind of corporate loophole?
w-what is Nori doing?
Making her desires and intent as clear as possible so there are no misunderstandings later
What's the chances that Khan lied about Nori death?
>What exactly gave her the premonition?
if Nori and Yeva's solver came from Cyn's solver, they might have also gotten some of Cyn's future plans
Reminder that both the teacher and Dolly are the only drones with orange eyes.
>gets out of the lab
>immediately sexually assaults a man
Nori was truly a kooky bitch
Proto murder drone concept
Interesting that they are angel themed, they retain some of this in the final product as their wings have the feathered appearance of classic angel wings. This is juxtaposed against the zombie drones who have bat wings, which are general associated with devilish entities.
>Banana Hand
So is the Disassembly Drone's Armament just stored in cartoon Hammerspace or are their internal mechanism just able to 3dprint next to anything in their hand slots?
Proto worker drone concept
i certainly am glad Liam decided to go with the design that looks more like the disassembly drones
and we get the whole "whats really the difference between a disassembly, zombie, worker, solvier-infected, error606 drone anyway?"
Disassembly has no access to the matter manipulation powers of solver but is kitted out with an arsenal of weapons.
Zombie drone seems to have the characteristics of a disassembly drone but is more feral. Notice Uzi seemed to lack self awareness until she stabbed N.
Worker is run of the mill drone that is pretty much just stock.
Solver drone has the matter manipulation but would probably go zombie if they did not actively ingest oil. Seemed that's how doll kept herself in check at least.
Error 606 drone seems to be cyns own takeover protocol effectively a zombie drone controlled by Cyn but not directly. [Insert grab it scene here.]
isn't Cyn really the only zombie drone we've seen so far? as far as i can tell, whatever sentience the original drone had seems to have been erased by Cyn and they way she moves her head and her limb certainly makes her look like a zombie. even in her oil lusting rampage, Uzi still had her sentience and she still acts the same as she did before the Solver took it's course. i thought she was still considered a solver infected drone except now she grew wings and a tail
Calling Cyn a zombie is sort of inaccurate, because that implies it's the actual drone reanimated rather than a crude handpuppet.
Kind of funny that it’s able to effectively conceal its form from robots and humans at almost all times but can’t make a more convincing puppet.
well the Zombie Drones VHS tape was playing right before Cyn was revived and the tape speciffically says the drone could go through hazardous mutations if the core wasn't disconnected properly. was I wrong to assume that meant Cyn is a Zombie Drone?
It's "wrong" in the sense that it's not the drone itself that came back. It's more like improper disposal means that Cyn has an in to forcefully reactivate the drone and push them into a demonic contract where it hijacks their body. The original drone in question is long gone if they ever choose to accept, and any "mutations" done to their body at that point are just the demon forcefully expressing more of itself through them.
Pretty sure the original drone is "Cyn" and the Solver is called that because that's the host it took, and that's how N, J and Tessa knew it by.
That's almost certainly the case, but Cyn is a better name to just refer to it by. Note that it never responds to said name itself - it only ever clarifies that it is the Solver of the Absolute Fabric.
Thad is the key to all of this
Thad pls
well if that's the case then it certainly feels weird because the beginning of episode 5 certainly does build it up in a way that makes it seem like Cyn is a Zombie Drone
I think "zombie drone" is a general term for any drone that wakes up after an attempt to dispose of them
the aiCore WD1001 that every drone uses has a ~0.01% chance to self-reboot within 5 years
so we might call a lot of different things zombie drones:
>Cyn, with very little of their original personality left
>possibly Nori and Yeva
>Doll once or twice
>i don't think J falls under this catagory, since an absolute solver crawled out of her chest long before any chance to randomly wake up
Drones with flesh wings, despite their "zombie" like appearance, are just efficient ways to become more combative. Full disassembly drone wings are a lot more powerful, they just take more engineering effort.
I think error606 drones are pretty common, just part of the process of wiping a drone for disposal. It just makes them vulnerable to a hive mind takeover.
subtitles are out
>There's humans coming
>I've only ever yakked[chatted] to robots, J!
>Quick, pretend to be a ripping royal stud
>It wants paid time off to attend union negotiations
>This is an unrelated layoff!
>How do you reckon we murder us a robo-child, J?
>Woah Cyn, for an Eldridge, monster singing.
>The silver of the absolute fabric, the void, the exponential end.
Did they not give the script to the person doing the subtitles or something?
i'm fairly certain none of those subtitles are actually official despite youtube showing them as such. they straight up get characters wrong on several occasions
the virgin N vs. the chad Thad
i don't care if this is bait
copy and paste from an older thread
Thad is the weakest part of the whole show except maybe the pilot, but even in the pilot, he feels weak
>is nice to Uzi even though nobody else is, what motivates him to be nice to her?
>generic nice guy without any notable traits
>seemed to be built up as a love interest for Uzi but they share nothing in common except they attempted to fight the disassembly drones regardless of the odds
>the character with the single worst line of dialogue in the whole series so far, the toxic masculinity """""joke"""""
>no relevency beyond episode 2
now let's compare him to N
>nice guy, but Kovach's talent as a voice actor does a great job at distinguishing him from Thad, N has a certain cheery upbeat energy to him that no other character in the series has, no VA could do the role better than Kovach
>the fact that he's the friendliest character in the series but also a lethal murder machine in spite of that makes him more interesting, I get Iron Giant vibes from him
>is an outcast among his peers just like Uzi so they have something to relate to even if the show doesn't explicitly state that's the reason they get along
>attempts to kill Uzi upon first encountering her, but she "kills" him and his memory and vison are damaged after he's revived so he mistakes her for a disassembly drone, giving him a reason to treat her nicely, even if he's being tricked, once he finds out the truth, he can't bring himself to kill her, his friendship with Uzi does not feel forced at all because of this, it felt like it had time to build up whereas Thad is just nice to Uzi from the get go for absolutely no reason
did I miss anything?
someone's not getting invited to his shindig
It seemed like they changed their mind on who’s Uzi’s love interest should be In between the release of episode 1 and 2.
I actually feel it was a way a love cointoss for Uzi along with Thad being an easy way for her to interact with her classmates if they needed to. They probably had roles for Rebecca, fire hat, final girl and the rest but shifted focus. Thank God for that the Steven universe townie episodes were the worst and thankfully if only because of constraints do we get a show with no filler.
It was as if they saw people liked shipping Uzi with N more than Thad. So they wrote the latter out of the show for the most part.
It makes more sense if they decided to focus their efforts more towards the MD lore. You wouldn’t have much time for romance unless one of the characters was relevant to the story.
i don't think that much changes from community feedback. A lot of the lore has been set since before the pilot, and the season one general episode plan has been known since well before the season 1 trailer
No what he's saying is rather than giving anytime to unnecessary characters they decided to focus only on what matters. They probably were going to use characters like Thad more often, hence the prominence in the pilot but then shifted direction.
I wonder when how far down the line the switch happened. Episode 1 was pretty comedic compared to the other episodes.
I think the romance vibes between Uzi and Thad in the pilot were just the product of trying to write Uzi's tsundere quirks and accidentally implying she was into him. At least, that's what I always thought it was.
From a narrative standpoint, I would rather Uzi and N get with each other anyway. If you're going to write a piece of work that features different groups trying to understand each other, then not having any romance between them feels like wasted potential. Because of that I'd always felt like pairing up N/V and Thad/Uzi were boring picks narratively.
things have gotten quite esoteric and i've already lost track of the plot.
Tess made the murder drones, by experimenting on normal drones?
Doll and Uzi have the same "powers"?
How did Cyn appear in ep 2? I thought that was J's corpse?
J is dead, right?
What do the collars do?
I think the collars are just to mark which drones have been experimented on with the Absolute Solver
>Tess made the murder drones, by experimenting on normal drones?
Nope. Tessa didn't make them, merely fished out drones from the dump and saved them by repairing them. Cyn made the Disassembly Drones by torturing and experimenting on the drones Tessa saved.
>Doll and Uzi have the same "powers"?
Yes, they both have access to AbsoluteSolver.
>How did Cyn appear in ep 2? I thought that was J's corpse?
It is, but Cyn IS the AbsoluteSolver and took over once J was "killed" to start consuming everything it could find. Cyn can hijack any drone if certain conditions are met.
>J is dead, right?
Nope. She's back with Tessa.
>What do the collars do?
Not sure actually.
>how did Cyn appear in ep2
J respawning and ep2 Cyn is one of the biggest mysteries currently
if they were gonna write thad out of the show they should've taken the chance and killed him onscreen in episode 4
Love these.
I CAN FIX HER AAAAAAA
Cute, but Uzi would never wear that as it's not black enough.
>Cute, but Uzi would never wear that as it's not black enough.
she might be consider to wear it, but only if N likes it
I would kill for some filler comics drawn in Liam's style.
Is that final girl or Uzi?
Is JcJenson still the villain or do they have good intentions but morally ambiguous means of getting those intentions done?
we don't even know if JCJ sent the disassembly drones, or if its all just Cyn
I actually forgot about that part
The company, along with the majority of Humanity & Earth, could also already be dead. There is no telling what exactly that Singularity thing back at the manor did, or if it was stopped.
The fact Tessa showed up in a functioning landing ship, with quality-looking JCJ branded equipment and a fresh J suggests to me humanity is still around and with a decent manufacturing base.
Humanity most definitely has Colonies on other planets
JCJ at the very least accidentially put an eldritch entity into every single product they had and shipped it throughout the galaxy.
At worst they gave their products sentience and kill them off indiscriminately because profit margins.
>accidentally
You and I both know they pulled an Umbrella the instant they saw what Solver could do. No "accident" about it.
Thad got overthrown by weenie hut jr whose voiced by ang*ldust VA (though no longer voicing, so i guess redemption). I don't believe in Total Thad Death, he shall be back
Source: Trust me
Get out the computer, Thad.
Thad is the true hero of Murder Drones
this will be Thad in episode 6
Total Thad victory.
>Thad gaining Solver
Never ever.
i mean, i would respect them if they manage to make Thad interesting at all up to this point.
Also i might add we really need at least another man in the main cast besides N and maybe Kahn. Thad is a blank canvas, they just need any good idea to fill the gaps.
Thad can just be the dude. another set of hands, another pair of eyes. if episode 2 is any indicator, he's not entirely averse to getting his ankles wet.
Yeah, but since that he's been extremely underused. Like at least in Ep5 can be justified, but 3 and 4 could've been good episodes to use Thad in better ways than just bg prop.
Do it for him
Thad stop
>IT'S ME, UZI! I AM JC JENSON!
>IN SPAAAAACE!
Are there other worker drones colonies on the planet?
Presumably, since in the pilot J mentioned something about "with this colony wiped we'll make top team" or something to that effect, meaning that there are multiple colonies and multiple teams of disassembly drones that we've not seen. N also introduced himself to Uzi as the leader of the disassembly drones "in this city", and having other teams with no workers to hunt is rather redundant.
>J was getting orders from someone. If not the company, through that relay, then who, and how?
crackpot theory time:
ep1 J is just a Cyn puppet. J is pretty easy to Larp as convincingly if you know enough jargon, the real J (ep5) is a bit more nuanced. Cyn is just leading V and N in the extermination of workers and building a giant corpse pile for some reason.
(me)
exactly
this was Cyn figuring it was time to stop doing the whole J larp thing, so J gives up on life
Are there jokes that you guys didn't get?
>Cyn struggling to get through a door in the background
If only Khan spent a little more time closing up ventilation shafts and windows, these doors are ridiculously overkill
Doors are effective against them because the flesh demands invitation. It's why Solver-J tried to get Lizzy to open the door.
Doll seems to have no issues barging through doors despite being a solver host.
That's because doorman allowed her
There's no way of actually proving this. But even assuming it's true, she took Uzi's door off of its hinges without waiting for an invitation. Is the susperstition that governs this really so petty and pedantic that it draws a distinction between an interior and exterior doorway? How do you draw the line? The doorway Khan would have let her through is technically just another interior door since they're living in an inclosed facility.
pretty sure that that anon is just reading a little too much into it. eldritch j couldn't get in because the doors are actually reinforced, and cyn can't use the psychic powers in her centipede form
There are tons of vampire myths where they accept any open doorway or entrance into the home as being a direct "invitation". It could be something like that.
shes russian they don't recognized doors like Canadians
Khan basically let her in.
How many drone eye colors are their?
You can we get more J x Khan, thx
What form, drawing ? I could try, but
gives a good idea of my skill range.
Further elaboration for potential plot deveploment, i.e fanfic making; Much easier.
Are Drones waterproof?
No, there's a warning on the punch bowl in the prommening. "Just a decoration you will literally die"
That doesn't say anything about their exterior being proof against liquid, just that they shouldn't pour liquids other than oil into their mouths.
They seem to have no problems with the planet-wide toxic snowstorm, at least.
that's not water. it's snow.
Who would V be realistically ship with?
N. Simple as.
I thought N was ship with Uzi.
Pretty sure Snow is frozen water.
frozen water would be ice
what do you think snow is made of?
cum
Lizzy
Pretty sure neither of them are lesbians? But if that's the case then that's the second worst.
still a good friend-ship
Lizzy's explicit reason for warning V about the ambush is literally just "You're way hotter than Doll" I suppose that could just be her acknowledging V as the top of the alpha bitch hierarchy.
You got a problem with Yuri fag?
Why did you post a zombie necromancer? But to answer your question I just don't see it.
larp? the dudes right, Uzi's a bitch
I am pretty sure all drones have a weaker protosolver in their core, it is what makes them sentient instead of just 1s and 0s, the outer shell of the core keeps it in check. Improper disposal results in the core keeping powered but the drone mind is not blocking solver anymore so it eventually tries to take over, but even in that state it cannot forcefully disable to protections of the core so it has to ask. An awakened solver can then attack other drone's cores from the outside and establish contact with their local copy of solver and turn it into a local copy of itself. Nori and Yeva had their own local copies of solver awaken independently but their were issues. For Nori those issues drove her mad eventually, but when she placed a copy of her code into baby Uzi it caused a hybridization with her drone programming, so she was basically a solver that willingly operated as a drone. This was why she was always so weird compared to the other drones, she was barely being constrained by the normal drone program. Latest episode she overrode N and V's local copy of Cyn solver with her own.
Also, as seen in the prom, an activated Solver cannot directly manipulate another activated solver since could just summon a solver symbol on other drones and explode them but when she pointed at Uzi she got an error message instead.
I'm an avid supporter of the Hate Uzi Club
Lets do an audit.
>How did you hear or learn about Murder Drones?
>How long have you been following the show?
>What is your favorite moment in the show?
>>How did you hear or learn about Murder Drones?
from this thread
>>How long have you been following the show?
two days
>>What is your favorite moment in the show?
when they murdered the drones
its a shame there weren't many drones being murdered in ep5
it would get old if they did it all the time
>How did you learn about MD?
Learned about Liam from the Cliffside pilot, then watched Internecion Cube, regularly checked up on Liam's stuff until Murder Drones was teased.
>How long have you been following it?
Since it aired.
>What is your favorite moment.
Battle with Doll, Cyn being cute, or N snapping V out of her murder mode by putting her glasses back on.
Nice try fed
Watched the pilot, enjoyed it, then promptly forgot about the show until I saw episode 4 randomly on my youtube recs. Now I've watched Internecion Cube and am planning to watch Liam's other stuff too.
Since episode 4 technically I guess lmao.
Every scene with the spooky reality warping devil powers. But more specifically when N put V's glasses on her and they had a moment.
>The YouTube algorithm shoved it down my throat and I absolutely hated it
>Since January of this year
>The little dance/fight scene in episode 3
Saw the pilot when youtube algorithm shilled it, kind of hated it (but kinda liked it)
Saw episode 4 came out on Cinemaphile, watched em all
realized its cringe to cringe and now i just like it
stuck obsessing about it since
oh i forgot
>favorite part
this, or uzi's transformation
>It's cringe to cringe
And that's based.
>>How did you hear or learn about Murder Drones?
either someone here posted about the piolt or it was recommended to me thu youtube but knew of vickers because of cliffside
>>How long have you been following the show?
probably since the show first came out
>>What is your favorite moment in the show?
Ep4 the whole N and Uzi falling and having that little conversation
>>How did you hear or learn about Murder Drones?
Been following Liam for a long while, eventually he announced this and here we are.
>>How long have you been following the show?
Since its premiere.
>>What is your favorite moment in the show?
Tessa and J sex tape, kino momento.
Came up in my recommendation did not know about until the pilot immediately loved it.
I've been waiting for it since the first teaser. I don't know how I stumbled across it, just that I recognized Liam Vickers from Cliffside. Seeing that Glitch was behind it was a surprise, since I was following them since Meta Runner S1.
>>How did you hear or learn about Murder Drones?
i was a big fan of SMG4 until sometime in 2017 and i stopped watching his videos until a year ago when i suddenly remembered his channel existed and i wanted to watch all his older videos again
the new videos are bad but i decided to check out murder drones and i ended up liking it a lot better than the gmod bloopers
>How long have you been following the show?
around september of last year i think
>What is your favorite moment in the show?
i liked the scene where Lizzy was launched by the missile
N and Uzi falling out of the sky was cute
N and Uzi in general have a lot of good moments
Uzi killing her classmates
there's several i could list but i don't feel like listing them
>2017
*2018
>"Equity Partnership?"
Was J trying to surrender here?
Did Uzi violate the Geneva Convention???
J didn't deserve it, bros..
That's what I got out of it. Unfortunately her brain is so corpo-coded she's literally incapable of not spewing buzzwords every time she speaks.
Should we have another thread?
actually wait for bump limit + page 10
don't use some stupid family guy edit for OP
link to episode 5 or the murder drones playlist
Yeah I actually tried to wait but dumbass OP suffer impulsiveness. Also in case another dumbass make another thread do you want me follow your instruction?
Can Cyn use other drones to spy on the cast?
I assume Cyn COULD do that, given it clearly knew who Uzi was to start with. But it probably isn't watching them all the time either.
The thread
demands
creation
Just be patient, there's no need to schedule a new thread.
hoping murder drones does well in this year's tournaments
considering one of them is named after a cute murder machine, i think we got a good shot
that said, I wouldn't waste any votes on anyone other than N, V or Uzi
>considering one of them is named after a cute murder machine, i think we got a good shot
it's not only about having a good shot, it's about having a better shot than other nominees. Ms. Cinemaphile is especially autistic and prone to voting in the same characters every year. best case scenario we ride the corpse of a DTVA or Vivzie nominee to secure a spot. and even then, it's likely a fast track to being round 1 fodder.
>that said, I wouldn't waste any votes on anyone other than N, V or Uzi
well yeah, that's a given
Tournament?
NTA, but I believe they are referring to Mr. & Ms. Cinemaphile
Do the Worker Drones even remember the Humans?
Khan mentions being alive when the Core Collapse happened, so I presume he was born/manufactured while the Humans were still around on the planet.
i feel Kahn's generation knows about human just via archives, yet they recognize them as the former inhabitants. Uzi generation doesn't even care about humans, yet they still consume some human media (as example, Uzi watches anime).
all the worker drones on copper 9 larp as humans, they just kind of forget about the "being upset when your peers die" thing
Yeva and Nori had badges/neckbands that were presumably given to them by humans in Cabin Fever labs.
>number of unique IPs in this thread is almost double the number from two threads ago
Cool
Common murder drones W
V and Dolly settles for Thad when?
TOTAL THAD VICTORY LET'S GO
Nope
Thad is going to be killed and eaten by Uzi next time she vamps out, leading to her suffering actual, long lasting personal trauma that stimulates more character growth.
TOTAL THAD VICTORY
Still nope
Thad and N need to hook up and leave all the girls (and shippers) in the dust
Nah bro that's gay
See you all next thread!
Last for Cyn
>Ywn have Tessa chained up in your room
Why even live?
Pic for the next thread.