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Posted late in the previous thread, so I’ll place it here >While Labor Bots are meant to be second rate machines to Worker Drones that need memory wipes every week, that doesn’t mean they can’t share the same fashion sense in colors and wigs! >They can be a little different from each other, some might prefer wearing physical wigs and be of darker colorations, while others could be lighter colored and have their digital screens display hair! As long as they work their shifts and never slack off, it’s all cleared by their human overseers!
>>30724 >Drones lurking /md/ become saddened at how depressed the humans are >They get each one's IP address and look at their previous posts to see what type of drone they prefer >Most get Disassembly or Worker Drones >A few get Labor Bots or Sentinel Drones >At least one got a human yuck >They're all hiding somewhere inside your house to surprise you when you least expect it. >Don't bother looking for them. You won't find them.
>Fun Evening Canon Facts: One day Uzi got horny, so using her new God powers she gave N the ability to swallow atleast 5 watermelons. We're not sure why
>>30767 >Cyn performs the Five-Step Nut Punch. >By activating certain pressure points around your body, she can make it so after five steps you experience the peak nut of your life. >Total Solver Ejaculation.
>Be Raging Roland. >By Gods you're sore (Jesus, Allah---whatever you worship since your head hurts so much you can't even think that deeply). >Take a moment to look around and realize you're not actually standing. You're *angled* forty-five degrees off the floor with your arms glued to your sides and your ass sat so flat against the back of whatever you're stuck in that you have no idea how your entire backside's not numb. >You muster your strength. >You realize you're a lot stronger than you thought when you bend the wall of what you now see is a preservation pod. >You squeeze out the slightly less cramped (yet misshapen) pod and hop out of it, nearly slipping on the preserving liquid that must've spilled out. >"Hello?" You call out groggily. After all, you have just woken up from the world's longest, most artificial, most chemically-induced sleep possible. Your body must've hated every part of it and your brain? Well, you sure hope this mental fog you have doesn't last long. You'd much prefer to be able to remember the rest of your past. >Speaking of your past, all you remember is a man---someone dressed in the outfit of a United Planet Coalition General---ordering you to, "Get in the damn ship!" >Now that your vision isn't so blurry and your ears aren't ringing, you can get to actually analyzing your new surroundings. >The room you're in is small. There are four pods to your left that have a mix of the same ocean-green fluid yours was once filled with and what looks to be a clear machine oil. Looks like both humans *and* Workers (and the singular sentinel at the end of the row of pods) were preserved. >Wait. . . Drones can last an awful long time even outside preservation pods. Just hook them up to a proper power source, shut them down, and program them to only awaken after a certain amount of time passes (or until a ping is sent to them from an administrator) and you've got the world's most disposable sleeper soldiers for a good few decades. >How long have you been asleep? How much time has passed? >Your head starts to hurt the moment you try remembering your past, so you push forward and stumble to the pod hosting the sentinel drone. >Since your brain feels like mush, you feel it's best to start checking your body. It takes half a second of looking down to realize you're clothed yet. . . *not* clothed. There are little metal ribs almost clinging to where your chest was. They feel native to your body. Coupled with this odd Metal Embrace is a hard rubber-like material covering your stomach, inner thighs, and the back of your arms and legs. It looks identical to the soft black midsection Workers and Disassemblers have. You even realize that your feet, arms, and legs are half-clad in the plating Disassembly Drones are, only, it's painted a darker grey. In the center of your chest is a dim oceanic blue chunk of glass (or maybe a gem?). You have no idea what it's for, but it's placed right above your heart and, weirdly enough, when you hover your hand over it, you can *feel* your heartbeat through it much more clearly as if you had direct access to your chest cavity. >"Weapons," you mutter to yourself, doing a quick check of your body for anything you might have. >You don't even have the combat knife you remember carrying with you before getting shoved into this pod. >You look up at the sentinel in the pod. She has shoulder-length dark blue hair and is clad in nothing, though, that doesn't matter to you. Your mind feels like it'd been honed far too long to be pitted in worlds of violence to even begin getting distracted. >"When in Rome. . ." You mutter, quickly finding the button on the side of the twice-your-height pod. >You hit the button and the sound of a pressurized bottle opening up explodes outward, nearly bursting your eardrums. You bueno and shut your eyes but open them after the feeling of something cold and wet coats your augmented body. >The oil preserving the sentinel drone in pristine condition has just thoroughly soaked you, and the piercing blue gaze of the sentinel you just unleashed stares right back at you like a predator eyeing its favored foe. >"In peace I come," the retarded part of your mind sputters out-of-order.
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Raging Roland will not be a Mad Max expy, nor really a true expy of a specific character to parody (though to anyone who wants to use the character for anything, I'd be happy to see what you make with them and wouldn't care even if you did take the expy route with him).
I want to write Roland as his own character yet someone who's also sort of the culminated embodiment of, "The Classic Action Movie Hero".
>>30729 Sounds good, I just need one that'll be willing to do the actual stuff like working for a living, and be able to put up with how annoying I am. There are probably a lot more requirements, but I'm just listing the worst ones.
>>30494 Was wondering when someone would find it eventually, first time I heard it I immediately thought of her, do everytime still Gotta finish the Alice I had for that, more than four months now
I was wondering how to actually make it so Roland wouldn't just instantly die in the green if a conflict did occur but I remember augmentations probably exist in the Murder Drones verse.
Any other OCs or writefriends who try exploring the limits of the Murder Drones universe's tech to its limit to help with writing or explaining things?
>>30793 Oh, I just wanted to know if anyone else had explained things in their greens/OCs through the pretty generous ceiling for advanced tech in the MD verse.
I end up using augmentations or preservation pods (that miraculously work perfectly) in almost everything I write, so I realized they were pretty vital to most of the things I write about.
>How Henry thinks he looks after snipping off a little drone’s fingers with gardening sheers and telling MG to go get his laundry out of the dryer (he is history’s greatest scientific mind and Dr. Holly is definitely going to reconsider hiring him): Eminem Venom Meme
>>30792 >>30794 The low tech level in MD is one of my favorite parts. It reminds me of Signalis. Basically the idea where tech stagnated in all fields except for one or two, so you get advanced drones and space travel while still using Apache's and regular firearms. It's just my personal taste, but I'd find ways to write around it rather than just inventing new tech in the universe to explain stuff. Fight smart not hard, you know?
>>30792 As someone who's pondered over the wonky tech level in Murder Drones, my advice would be to simply wing it with whatever makes the most sense in the story you're telling. This is a series where things like 21st century cars & helicopters coexist alongside cryopods & robot raptors so you have a pretty wide selection as far as stuff that can conceivably fit in the canon setting
>>30799 Very true, very true. Tech only progressing in those two main fields does sound rather reasonable for how advanced drones are (they have entire consciousnesses, can develop mentally the same way humans do, regenerate automatically, and much more).
Thank you for giving me your view though. I'll definitely remember it as I continue writing Raging Roland and get to more points where I have to worldbuild a little based off what we know.
>>30726 Honestly, I have to admit I kinda agree with Reddit that the whole "Cynessa" feels like just shock value. The characters aren't shown to be torn up by Tessa's death or the fact she is literally a fucking skinsuit, and it's doesn't even matter since Cyn could have used any other human since the spacesuit was already disguising her. What was the whole point of Tessa if she was just a plot device?
>>30809 I mean kinda. It’s a cool twist but they don’t do anything with it other than it being a cool design. To be fair it is a cool design. Would have liked some reaction to Tessa being reduced to this from the friend especially J
>>30812 >To be fair it is a cool design Its all style and no substance. Yes a dead girl fused with a demon possessed robot sounds cool but it that's just what it is, a cool design.
>>30820 >Cyn in that brief moment, reached her arm out to Anon, her dream of reunion at long last… >Only for Anon to turn his back at her… >This rejection was incomprehensible to Cyn, leading to her freezing up back in reality and Uzi taking the opportunity to end her madness
>>30812 As much as I dislike Yurifags, I do agree with them that J having a deep relationship with Tessa would have been so much more interesting and would add to the characters.
>>30822 Thats a difference between these threads and the ones on /co/ Most of the Anons on /co/ appear to be willing to try it out meanwhile here they're dismissive
>>30833 Well /co/ threads are a trash fire so I don’t care. That said I wish relations between MD and TADC weren’t so dismissive as they are both shows are great and have tons of overlap.
>>30792 My advice is to fake it until you make it. It's a thousand years in the future, you can do basically anything. The ancient looking tech could be because we went so far in the future we circled back to looking like we're old again, who knows, it's up to you.
>>30836 Why are the /co/ threads so shit. I feel like it’s all the schizos trapped in one place baiting each other over and over again. No one is genuine there. I was hoping ep8 would change things but if anything it’s only gotten worse
>>30851 >You realize people can have deep relationships other than fucking, right? That's why I hate Jessa but I would have preferred it if J genuinely thought Cyn was Tessa or was deluded because she didn't want to accept the fact that her one true friend was dead, rather than going with "Nope she knew all along and didn't care"
>>30856 The question I have is why did J gush about JcJenson? She can't have not known that humanity is extinct and there is no more company. I feel like this was a retcon.
It just feels satisfying to write long greens. Feels like I'm a bad author who keeps releasing pulpy dime novels a few people read and really like while most of the copies sit on the shelves of fashion stores trying to pretend they're classier than they actually are.
>>30848 It's a shame, but I don't even bother with the /co/ threads anymore. I have a high tolerance for the stupid, but all the MD threads turn to shit after one or two bait-posts. I just lurk here and the /trash/ threads
>>30870 if the debate in question has suddenly wheeled around to whether one side is pocketsteaks or not (for whatever reason) you can probably guess it’s the latter
>>30848 it does indeed make me sad >>30864 be like me and just not give a shit about lore specifics. i came here for cute drones and some 2spoopy4me moments.
>>29952 >the femanon that wrote Alice trying to and eventually giving up vivisecting N awww yay!! when i wrote it, as an Nfag, i was hoping alicefags would like it too :] and im also a big fan of alice!
>>30677 my fave hasn’t changed, my heart will always belong to N heh. but other drones are also wife/husband
>>30882 Doll (from what I've gathered at least) is meant to better than Uzi on paper.
She's better at using her Solver powers, is more stoic, is (usually) a better planner than Uzi, and seems far more put together.
In reality though, Doll is far, far worse than Uzi and this is what destroys her. She refuses to work together with others, betrays everyone at her first chance to, is secretly extremely scared of her situation yet refuses to accept comradery or make allies, and, the only reason she dies is because she actively chooses to take on everything herself.
She thinks she can do this all alone, and if she was stronger, maybe she could, but she's not nearly as strong as she thinks she is.
>>30886 Probably like Bears or other predators. Not really a unit like Ants but a collection of animals in one place. They probably fight for dominance, best dul gets to wear the eyepatch
>>30885 > this is what destroys her. She's destroyed because she lost the coin toss and was on the wrong side of that rock collapse, and because Cyn had already decided that playing with Uzi/N in the guise of Tessa was more interesting than directly FNAFing Uzi first chance she got. There was no such connection with Doll, who could be dealt with and eliminated as an obstacle. Much like, the other drones at the manor, they simply weren't part of the club even if they were players.
>>30892 This does have truth to it, but Doll's destructive and malevolent tendencies sealed whatever coffin she was about to be thrown in with 10 pounds of nails.
Even if she could've contributed to the final battle, helped in some way, or even just barely survived, she threw away any chance of even getting lucky by choosing to actively betray everyone who she could've worked alongside.
>>30865 Not correct. Look at Episode 2, where they pointed out that J was still receiving orders without any means of getting them from humans or the dialogue between V and J in 8, in which J was cognizant of what they'd been doing on Earth, to the point of being able to contrast V's performance.
>>30863 Other than, 'the company' which is just the generic styling she uses for whoever's above her (see 'corporate' in Episode 5), the only direct mention of it is praising the pens, which could just be her launching into a marketing thing for her accessories, no different than someone buying a plushie and hyping that up.
>>30898 I like to think the first J we saw genuinely thought she was corpo due to Solver messing with her memories solely for the bit and the funny (“having only V remain with some memories sounds pretty funny lol”). Somebody who knows and has accepted that death isn’t an escape wouldn’t be scared of a railgun to the face, after all. Then she brings in a full-memory J later, and probably lol’d at her in the pod before touchdown.
This has no actual hard facts backing it, I just think it sounds fun.
>>30856 >"Nope she knew all along and didn't care" It had been however many years, and all of them (except N, bless him) were mindbroken by the their experience at the manor, then completely dominated physically and mentally. The last act of resistance/last happy memory with Tessa, had ended instantly. Past that point, it's just learned helplessness. >>30899 She can't help it. She's the most damaged of them next to Cyn's body, which manifests as this inappropriate use of language (actual business types don't talk like that) and this rigidity even when it hurts her. Look at the chain scene. They knew Cyn was going to kill everybody, but J still refused to do anything until Tessa indulged her. Assuming the timing holds (and it should), if she'd unchained Tessa after the 'you seem squeamish' bit), they would've arrived at the gala before Cyn showed up. The outcome wouldn't have changed, but it still would've been better than being there second. Or with Uzi saying "don't use buzzwords and I won't kill you", and J being unable even to do that, even when she clearly wants to live.
>>30900 >J tried to rush her maintenance cycle again. >Some thoroughly unthorough checks of her processor and gyroscopic stabilisers has left her disoriented and confused. >She can barely take two steps without forgetting where she is, what she's doing and how not to fall over. >Techie gets called in to help guide the loopy liability to a repair bay before she hurts herself or someone else. >But mostly someone else.
Honestly Tessa was done so dirty. >Has abusive parents >Killed and used for a skin suit for drone she saved. >V was indifferent and untrusting of her >J, her supposed friend and the one she was closest, willingly worked for her murderer. >N, her favorite drone, straight up beheaded her over a girl drone. What was the point of her when the characters didn't give a single shit about her?
>>30708 Let me explain my thoughts since I'm in a slump right now. Writing is a skill everyone possesses. To post here you need to be able to write, so you've cleared the barrier of entry in being here. You don't need to be able to draw stick people to be able to post here, and I'd compare stringing sentences together to being able to compile a rough draft rather than "stickman". There's a higher supply of writefaggotry than there is demand, which is quite the opposite for drawfags. There's also much more effort required to compose an art piece, figuring out anatomy or lack thereof, poses, shading, and everything else. When writing, I just hammer out meme arrows and slam text in front of them until coherence is achieved. Maybe drawfags feel like art is easy but writing's hard, but there sure as shit are less of them than there are the likes of me.
Image is somewhat related, I hate the idea of this man being right, but it feels this way more often than not.
>>30911 >Solverpede once again tries killing Vickers Chan only for them to pillow fight and discuss their issues and cry into each others shoulders Bffs
>>30908 Honestly, I agree with this, and I feel no worser for it.
The only reason I'm a writefag instead of a drawfag is because I know writing is drastically easier. Even writing captivating prose and beautiful storylines is likely easier than making a 'decent' piece of art.
It only makes me strive to improve in my craft even more and appreciate the drawfags here more.
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>>30903 >>30856 >>30912 Also, if I may, I'll take the opportunity to shill at least the first three chapters of my own fic (which started as a /co/ green), which does portray a scenario of an initially arrogantly defiant J who cares about Tessa getting completely broken down by Cyn's efforts after the gala, and which had been moving hard toward J deciding to work with the Solver for lack of alternatives/the small chance at advancement even before Episode 8 released. /works/51772360/
Something I like about Murder Drones is that it shows that neither drones nor humans are genuinely 'superior' to the other.
Given the right circumstances, they can both be abusive, cruel, misunderstanding, assholes, or just plain evil. We just see so few humans that the abusive asshats at the Gala give an extremely bad impression of them in the setting I feel like.
I half-seriously thought they would delete the Murder Drones thread as soon as the episode ended, so I'd been wondering when the hammer would drop, or whether they'd be more tolerant with it after it ended than during its supposed hiatus.
>>30932 Delete the Murder Drones thread on here or on non-Plus 4Chan?
Speaking of, I honestly have no idea why non-Plus 4Chan seemed to have such an aversion to allowing Murder Drones on it. I always saw people complaining about threads being taken down for this show specifically.
>>30935 On /co/. After episode 7, a /co/ mod seemed to have it out for MD specifically and deleted any mention of the show at all, no matter the thread.
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>>30932(me) >>30935 Oh, it literally was the entire board, and multiple boards at that. Should've been nicer to Murder Drones threads. Cyn protects her own. Giggle.
>>30935 The "No generals" rule is selectively enforced based on the personal opinions of the staff. It's not specifically a /co/ thing, it happens all over the site. There's just one mod that really hates Murder Drones.
>>30943 Ah, I see. Hopefully that moderator can find something better in their life to focus all that energy towards instead of trying to crusade against Murder Drones.
>>30938 Not globally only certain ones Its confusing cause the cesspit ones like /v/, /tv/, and /pol/ were untouched but /3/ /a/ /aco/ /an/ /biz/ /c/ /ck/ /cm/ /co/ /d/ /diy/ /fit/ /h/ /int/ /lit/ // /trash/ /vip/ got nuked from what ive been told
>>30813 When it airs, sure. They've won me over as a studio, if I had more time I'd give their older series a try too. I just don't have that much expendable time, but I have seen TADC. It was fine, good even. It just doesn't have the same pull as Murder Drones for me, and I think it'll be the same for Gaslight District but I'll still give it a watch.
>>30955 >>30955 https://www.oos-shop.de/doc/xmlrpc/html/xmlrpc_8inc-source.html It's from an XMLparser that's reformatting some of the received data for later processing.
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>>30962 >Drone heads have CRTs in them >Tessa lifted them like nothing If her parents hadn't put her on Australium suppressants, she'd have torn Cyn apart and chewed her core into dust.
>>30726 Before I forget, here is LL, I thought there'd be more left but she was almost done (in planning) anyways. Only thing I found was; Any ideas for upper arms? Keep normal shape or bulkier zhere zoo? If anythin else comes zo minf say so, otherwise I'd go with the design and requested changes, wsa too lazy to make her anew and updated when next thing is gonna be her boxing anyways. Got an idea for background btw? Might help to drive home her unusual size, otherwise I'dn't make one
>>30982 Sorry for being so late! It looks good my Friend, she looks good. I imagined her upper arm being pretty much normal, nothing different in that part. I will if I have any ideas, and do not worry, I understand. The only thing I can think of is a normal room, maybe a security room or something of that style since she is security in a mine, Friend.
I have questions mostly related to solverpedes How monstrous should female solverpedes would look? need it for horror and lewd factor you are free to throw ideas
>>30997 While we only ever seen them take the form of centipedes, I do ponder on if it’s possible for the Solver to take on various animal shapes too.
I had thoughts of my own that since E was in a water world, her solver mutation could be a giant fish-like monster like Ricardo Irving’s mutation in RE5 and the Solvepede can act like the tongue as a compromise.
>Uzi is about to call out the obvious trap, when N steps in front of her. >”Puppies?!” >Solver Angl-E-r’s decoy stutters at N’s enthusiasm. >”Y-yes! All the puppies you can just pick up and cuddle. Just….f..o…l..l…o…w..m…e….” >Angl-E-r’s decoy slowly vanished into the fog of the lake. Uzi was still not buying it with a deadpan look, N’s eyes were sparkling at the offer of free puppies!
>>31009 >>31011 >Angl-E-r tries to dance to the best of her abilities with Anon >N claps his hands in support, Uzi groans with an eye roll at the gross display before her.
Green series about J during/after Episode 8. IDK the number of parts.
>She just couldn't catch a break. >Or catch even an iota of trust. >Why hadn't Boss just believed in her? Brought her along? The mission surely would've been accomplished by now. >Even if any of the sorry few who thought they could fight fate had gotten into the original landing pod, and one of them was somehow intelligent enough and knowledgeable enough to repair it, where could they have gone? >There wasn't anywhere else worth going to in the system, or in the accessible universe. >J had seen - and done- enough to be sure of that. >And if they could just kick off the Planetary Matter Collection Event, no one trying to flee could've moved fast enough amid the chaotic swirl of the collapsing gravitational field to escape extra-dimensional tentacles, which didn't bother slowing down for anything so mundane as 'gravity' or 'conservation of energy'. >J had seen that, too - on Earth, when the remnants of the humans attempted to ditch what was left of their tomb world.
>And with all the drones of concern gathered below, the functional pod would've been left to who? Bit players? >The sort of electric sheep who'd long since stopped visiting her dreams, and who'd long manifested in numbers beyond even her own prodigious counting abilities even when they had shown up? >Some flecks of robotic dreck from that foetid pustule of a colony who had nothing but an ever-dimming semi-automatic mockery of the behavioral patterns of their long-vanished, vastly more intelligent masters to show for decades of 'effort'? >There will come soft rains at last when it is done, or at least soft snow on this dying world of ice and rust before it's rendered into somehow more meaningless debris and dust. >And even much of that would ultimately be pulled out of this plane of existence, leaving only ebbing traces of what used to be here. >Not that any of it was anything worth remembering.
>What was worth remembering, for the dangling shards of her self-regard and for her dear Boss, was her nearly-unbroken track record of success and steadfast service, sullied only by two (admittedly fatal) incidents in a career that stretched longer and farther than that of perhaps any other drone ever, her teammates aside. >Maybe even Cyn, the original Cyn before it became that, if any scrap-code of that ghost was still floating about inside the machine. >Correction: her once and future squadmates, if she could somehow wrangle them back, and plead for another, no doubt less favorable deal. >They had no leverage, no purpose after this. > Nothing but their past together. >Her past. 1/???
>>31016 >She'd been, what was it called, from when they all - J, Tessa, V, N, Cyn - would sit around and watch movies? >The one chosen, or maybe cursed, to survive and keep coming back no matter how dire things looked or how much she suffered. > Final girl? >That was it. >There'd been so little that was innocent in her long life, in that past life, and she hadn't thought about any of it in a long while. >Hadn't dared to. >But it was true, wasn't it? >There were the butler drones, maybe. >But there was hardly anything to them after the gala, or before for that matter. >Put a wig on them, change the display color, and they'd look just like her, the hollow mocking wretches. >And what did that say about her? >That deep down, she wasn't really a 'who', but a 'what'? >That she should get on her knees before the thirsting god she served and pray "There but for the grace of being tossed out to die go I"?
>Was that her story? >From a death came her new life. >From her new life came death for so many. >The thought could be extended. >Should not be extended. >She extended it. >For she was logical. >Even the back of J's hair looked like the hemispheres of a human brain, and maybe Cyn had even warped the inside of her head into one. >Cyn had done worse for shallower reasons. >If J saw a p, and there was a q to be derived, she would derive it. >From Tessa came her new life; from her new life came Tessa's-. >J hadn't meant to. >She had been controlled. >But that wasn't true; Cyn never wielded her puppets like that. >J's higher cognitive functions had been disabled; she'd been barely sentient. >Told to feed and to kill, and Tessa was something that could be fed upon, could be killed. >If p, then q. >For even when For even when her mind's 'I' was blinded, J was logical. >And she hated the barely sentient.
>Cyn had laughed. >Had jokingly admonished her for almost making a liar out of her. >Had thought of an alternative, to keep 'something of the promise alive'. >It would've been a beautiful smile on anyone other than her. >Human consciousness couldn't be backed up, brought back endlessly no matter how much it wished otherwise. >Yet another thing her long-vanquished masters had over her. > The duality of mind and body resolved into the unity of opposites >Destroy J's body and her mind would stagger on, would be back. >Destroy Tessa's mind and her body would linger on for a different host. >It wasn't even a corpse - corpses had the decency to go away. >It was life, of a sort, after a fatal error, with something new within. >Just like her drones. >Together, forever. >So that promise and its peril continued, she could not be discarded. >The monkey's paw curled. >Or the ape's paw, as it was. >It curls still.
>>31017 >Cyn a husk doomed to be eaten from within from the start, V with the other statues in the library, N pecked to second death in the swamp, Tessa and the humans in the gala. >The competition was dispatched and J was final girl of the manor. >Finality girl. >For her, for V, for N, there could be no end. >Such had been taken from them. >But that little [null] of theirs, they sure let it shine. >So their everything had become nothing, but the sort of nothing that made them somethings that could turn countless somethings into nothings. >From no end to no end without end for no end. >And from the titanic bonefields of Earth to the boundaries of humanity's interstellar domain, they sure had scoured life wherever they encountered it. >Paved the way for even the cores of planets, their tectonics, their deep currents, the waves of oceans and winds of atmospheres, the invisible dancing of magnetic fields through the void of space, all dynamism, all vitality that did not originate from Her to be subsumed or snuffed out.
>The others had done their part, of course. >Under false pretenses or timid delusions, N and V had each slain enough to bury an entire world of hopes and dreams. >Much as she berated the former, he had in fact been doing adequate work, as Boss liked to teasingly remind her every so often. >But none of them had done as much, given as much of themselves to the task, as J had. >She was damned by the gala, and with all the blood she'd ever had to care about already staining her soul and festering between her teeth, she had no reason to hesitate, to mope about. >There was a job to do, and a value proposition to carve out by bullet and blade. > Ink red and black flowed like never before as J wrote out exactly why her team belonged on the 'asset' side of the ledger and tried to pay off their debts.
>Let them lose themselves in endless cycles of learning and forgetting, or carve out the tangled knots of their topsy-turvy traumatized hearts in the bodies of their victims, J would - and did- shoulder the responsibility to pull those irreplaceable remaining pieces of her world through with her. >It was one of her core competencies: the will and ability to face head on what had to be done, what others shrank from. >J had taken the lead on disciplining Cyn when Tessa shied away from it, and doomed them all. >J would take the lead on serving Cyn, and somehow, some way save them all.
>>31018 >So then the analysis returned exactly the same result it had all the previous times J had run it, even with new information. >Good. >At least she was still herself, or at least a version of herself. >Still consistent. >Still consistently muddling through, in the hope that the light at the end of this infinite tunnel wasn't the sickly blinding yellow of her own annihilation. >She was still a useful tool, but one her master seemed to have discarded.
>Unwisely, as it turned out. >For everything J had done on the surface had been rendered futile by the Boss's apparent failure to contain everything down there. >She'd destroyed a dubiously functional ship; N came up and took her perfectly functional ship, leaving only a crudely-drawn IOU. >All that time, and that was the extent of his abilities; she could've gotten his skills farther along, if only he'd thought to ask. >Or she'd thought to offer. >Of course, J could've done a better job securing the keys, and should've flown substantially faster than a bus, but all that was beside the point. >Surely this upset wasn't enough to doom her long years of service and suffering? >It would be grossly unfair for all that to be repaid by her being trapped on this fragment of planet, doomed to be pulled in and eaten while the moron and V and that Uzi creature flew off toward the distant nothingness that lay in the wake of their passage.
>With a slam and an explosion, a glowing tentacle deposited the "gently used" half of her ship on J's planet-shard with force enough to upend the shard. >J's hair danced and shook as the rock righted itself. >'Fragile: Handle with Care' clearly meant little to the Boss, whose standards of customer service left everything to be desired. >But that was beside the point. >Cyn did care and J wasn't abandoned. >Or was that extradimensional cosmic horror somehow lonely, having torn the universe into 'things to immediately traumatize or consume on sight' and 'J' and having found J insufficient company? >The absurd idea that Cyn might dread being stuck with only her for eternity as much as she feared being stuck with Cyn at all put a small, fleeting smile on J's otherwise annoyed expression. >But it was a gift, and an answer to some of her recent doubts. >There were protocols to uphold.
>"Yes, thank you, Boss. Good as new-yep, there is cool. Thanks."
>A smile, a salute, a thumbs up, and her words were pleasant enough. >Even if the tone was a strained sarcasm. >The tentacle made a few affectionately prideful (or perhaps affectionately mocking) taps against the burning remains of the hull before slinking away. >The partnership of 1 and 0 would continue, it seemed. >The other half slammed down, as did a bus and three of the little workers, in so badly over their heads and sliding toward the edge. >But they had that rail gun, and that just wouldn't do. >J hated the barely sentient. >It turned out she would see some action.
Remember when Peridot fag used to spam the threads and then stopped when someone told them U-U were based on Peridot and they left out of respect and never spammed in MD threads again? Good times, wonder how PF is doing these days.
>>31028 Some people have a debilitating lack of self-control. It's sad to see that they can't take a step back and look at how much they stuff up the thread. I'd consider it the less fun form of autism.
>>31028 I know its just because of the finale meaning the hiatus rule is lifted, but its so weird to see the /co/ threads get such unusually high traffic compared to /md/ and trash
>>30802 When in doubt: rule of cool. This is the Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader 1st Edition of Gen Z and Gen Alpha, and Liam's official announcement makes it clear that this is exactly what he intends it to be.
Oil Ghost Switch. The phantom of a drone driven by rage, spite and sadness. The Solver is still alive and she won't rest until it's gone. She's still got lots of work to do.
>>31039 >This is the Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader 1st Edition of Gen Z and Gen Alpha /md/ is NEVER beating the allegations also you’re right and I agree
>>31043 i love how the supposed good ending is actually an extremely bad ending the longer you think about it, which is my favorite type of ending of all. it feels like something straight out of an extremely good black mirror episode if black mirror was an anime
>>30708 I don't. >>30908 >>30916 >>30996 >Writing is a skill everyone possesses. >To post here you need to be able to write, so you've cleared the barrier of entry in being here. Anyone can draw, similarly to how anyone can write. However, where talent and skill come in is the ability to do either well. Talent is innate, whereas skill is trained. >There's a higher supply of writefaggotry than there is demand, which is quite the opposite for drawfags. Quality works are always appreciated, even if no one replies: the overwhelming majority of viewers lurk and never post. In this format and climate, if someone dislikes something, they actively go out of their way to say it. >There's also much more effort required to compose an art piece, figuring out anatomy or lack thereof, poses, shading, and everything else. All this also comes up while writing, it's all communicating an idea through a visual medium. >When writing, I just hammer out meme arrows and slam text in front of them until coherence is achieved. Speak for yourself.
>>31045 The drones are retarded and I wouldn't blame them for being okay living with two killers and a eldritch emo god who snacks on people from time to time.
>>31047 >I wouldn't blame them for being okay Is this sarcasm? Meaning can easily get lost over text, like the original meaning of going with someone two miles if they force you to go with them one mile.
>>31048 wasn't it uzi herself who told doll at the prom that she'll run out worker drones to eat eventually? it's honestly been so long since i last watched episode 3 but another anon recently posted that
i've also realized the needle in the eye folklore poem is describing n and v's relationship: n never actually had amnesia, same as v and j, and his relationship with v is an extremely stressed one between exes. n has been protecting uzi as her powers have developed to have her overtake cyn as the main host so that he and v can live happily without the end of the universe looming. so many lines n and v have with each other are completely recontextualized after you perceive them in this light. v hasn't been talking to n because he knowingly helped the solver back at the manor, to try to give himself and v a future free of potentially being killed on a wanton whim at any given moment, and was the one who turned v into a murdering monster to begin with, same as uzi. n has a history of trying to make solver drones the new main host and control the solver, which v is well familiar with by the time the show starts, with uzi being the only one that has ever actually succeeded. n may or may not even care about uzi and i would have to rewatch from start to finish at least once (likely more) to be certain, he did visibly recoil from her on the bus while she wasn't awake when he was so comforting to her so shortly before.
>>31059 Wouldn't it have been cooler to have him vs Cynwalker instead of the J Solverpede, which didn't even happen in the Final Act? I need to get around to filling that out in light that the Disassembly Drones never having had amnesia is now canon
>>31057 >I call the ghost bustair >I tell them: Outpost 3! They put fucking ghost in oil! Now I will go see Outpost 6! >Anon skateboards through the toxic snow to the sister bunker. >JOKES ON YOU DUMBASS! >OUTPOST 6 HAS GHOST IN OIL TOO! >>31060 Bustin makes me FEEL GOOD INC
>>31061 >the Disassembly Drones never having had amnesia is now canon what exactly makes you say that? they slowly unlocked more of their memories over the course of the show. everyone got this except for you apparently
>>31061 >I need to get around to filling that out in light that the Disassembly Drones never having had amnesia is now canon* The word you're looking for is headcanon. Did you somehow forget the plot point of N dealing with missing memories between Episodes 1-4?
>>31065 Only N was dealt the memory suppression, I think. J showed in 8 she was in cahoots from the start (I mean, she was probably forced to do things as well but her corporate nature might have made it less difficult to transition to the 'winning team' so to speak, poor Tessa), V was forced to comply by the Solver if the corridor scene was anything to go by. >Do your job and I leave you and N alone, right V? >I-I can still... >Bad job, V. It makes sense why she kept N at arms length and how she reacted when N asked her stuff in episode 3, and the flashback in episode 2 would imply the memory suppression/alteration was slowly failing since N showed he didn't have the context to those memories returning. He didn't recall any detail about the mansion they lived in, their past life. >And we maybe grew up in a haunted mansion! >Aren't you worried we have no idea what we even are?!
>>31075 >hug da silly droen >immediately becomes extremely docile and not murdery as she happily nibbles on the borgie. >headpats and praise complete this cutesey disarmament >Outpost 3 trio are utterly floored when some bumblefuck humanoid appeared out of nowhere with non-spoiled food in hand and single handedly approached the AS host without being splattered and pacified her.
>>31058 I'm sorry for Liam to have a fanbase that prides itself on supposedly understanding that Satan in an SS Officer outfit is actually a bad boy with a heart of gold (if even that edgy) and not a power hungry sociopathic genocidal mass murderer pretending to be a bad boy with a heart of gold (if even that edgy) to manipulate his environment and specifically a lonely woman. If it's any consolation, it's self evident proof of how masterfully written the character is.
>>31046 Being human 'guarantees' a minimum level of language ability, regardless of specific focus on developing it for storytelling. Sure anyone can pick up a pencil and get some shapes, but the base level of drawing ability would be below that of writing.
And of course, even if one has a low level of writing ability, one is also likely to have (or can find an audience that has) a low reading ability and so there's a match, while being bad at drawing doesn't make you more suited or likely to consume bad art.
Then there's mathematical/biological rules for evaluating visual information that everyone has, that has at best weak equivalents for evaluating writing, and more in common with music, where even one with no musical training can often tell when something sounds severely off. And where, again, being bad at it does not make you more likely to like incompetent productions.
>>31082 >Being human 'guarantees' a minimum level of language ability, regardless of specific focus on developing it for storytelling. Sure anyone can pick up a pencil and get some shapes, but the base level of drawing ability would be below that of writing.
It's self evident in the wake of 2020 and per the admission of "Secular" (Neoliberal) science that there exists a silent supermajority of humans that literally do not experience consciousness, previously having only been a strictly theoretical thought experiment referred to as the 'P-zombie'.
>And of course, even if one has a low level of writing ability, one is also likely to have (or can find an audience that has) a low reading ability and so there's a match, while being bad at drawing doesn't make you more suited or likely to consume bad art.
Stereotypical furry hugboxes where nobody ever actually improves because criticism is innately treated as banworthy, and all similar communities, that gained infamy in the edgier parts of the internet for a reason. There are also the talentless hacks that fawn over truthfully meaningless money laundering scheme "art" in an effort to appear cultured to others.
>Then there's mathematical/biological rules for evaluating visual information that everyone has, that has at best weak equivalents for evaluating writing, and more in common with music, where even one with no musical training can often tell when something sounds severely off. And where, again, being bad at it does not make you more likely to like incompetent productions.
>>31087 I sometimes wonder if it was a good idea for moot to sell 4chan to hiroyuki considering he does fuckall with it. RapeApe is basically the owner at this point and I wouldn't think this is him freeing server space
>>31088 >It's self evident in the wake of 2020 and per the admission of "Secular" (Neoliberal) science that there exists a silent supermajority of humans that literally do not experience consciousness, previously having only been a strictly theoretical thought experiment referred to as the 'P-zombie'. what
>>31090 The raw unedited livestreamed footage will never leave me: But this isn't /pol/. Look into the experiments indicating consciousness is a variable like height and intelligence, and think about things you've always seen and noticed in light of that.
>>31091 (Me) Adding onto this: most humans apparently literally do not have a voice in their head. There are literally human beings alive right now that cannot visualize things, or think in senses. This is completely incomprehensible to humans like you and me, on an anonymous image board dedicated to celebrating creativity.
>>31046 It may sound wrong, but I feel slight resentment rather than low self-esteem. Writing almost NEVER gets as much attention as someone with drawing skills posting a 30 minute doodle. Wrote an entire backstory to a character that you’ve had on the back of your mind for possible weeks/months? Well if you don’t post a drawing accompanying it, you are guaranteed to get less attention than somebody simply posting >This is [OC]! with a drawing attached.
>>31088 >literally do not experience consciousness Not true. The level of self-awareness and capacity for metacognition, as well as the extent and complexity of thought varies, but the human brain inherently allows for consciousness.
>Stereotypical furry hugboxes That's not what I'm referring to. With a low reading ability, competent writing is often difficult and frustrating to read, and hard to properly understand. Being unable to draw or sculpt doesn't make Mona Lisa or David less attractive. >baby >The song is played at a tempo of 130 BPM and is composed in the key of E♭ major with Bieber's vocal range spanning from the low-note of G3 to the high-note of C5 That's a basic level of technical competence. The reason things like autotune and FL Studio exist is to decouple skills from technically competent output, because there's no demand for things like wildly off-key singing or incompetent chord progression.
>>31096 >Not true. The level of self-awareness and capacity for metacognition, as well as the extent and complexity of thought varies, but the human brain inherently allows for consciousness. Nah. The raw unedited livestreamed footage during 2020 is ironclad proof that there is and has always existed a silent supermajority of humans that aren't people. I am going to stop there because, again, this isn't /pol/.
>That's not what I'm referring to. With a low reading ability, competent writing is often difficult and frustrating to read, and hard to properly understand. Brevity is the soul of wit.
>>31053 >>31081 Jesus christ man. Just take the fucking loss. It's okay to admit your absolutely insane headcanon was wrong. A lot of people were surprised by episode 8, but you really shouldn't have been.
But no I'm sure Liam is just playing the long con and once he's on his deathbed he'll make the announcement >COUGH COUGH >Heh I fooled you all >Remember the merch trailers? The acrylic stands? The plot armor and dog gags? >THEY'RE ALL CONNECTED AND REVEAL THE TRUE STORY! >N is actually a satan worshiping SS officer who was manipulating Uzi, V and Cyn the entire time! >N was actually the real villain who is responsible for everything bad that happened and he doesn't love Uzi either!! >It was so obvious! >THE ACRYLIC STANDS AND MERCH TRAILERS!! ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS LOOK AT THE ACRYLIC STAND-COUGH COUG-ACK >*Dies and goes to hell to meet his monster waifu*
I feel like I deluded myself into thinking there'd be that remix of Solver Uzi (when Thad, Lizzy and Khan showed up in 7). I still like Solver Uzi and I'm also excited for that nightcore Bite Me track during the finale fight! Not to mention a few of the other tracks like when 'Tessa' was checking the lockers/terminal and Yeva's tetris music, waiting for those to get out in the wild. AJ you fantastic musician.
>>31121 Anon don't engage with him this is blatant pseudophilosophical /pol/tard shit that they concoct to make themselves feel superior to everyone else. All you're doing is providing a threadshitter with a soapbox to jerk himself off atop.
>>31114 Nah they don't come to anonymous imageboards because they literally cannot understand the concept of them even if you explain them to them, I have a cousin exactly like that. Think Imgurians that profess they literally (literally literally, not figuratively literally) cannot comprehend the concept that a woman should not innately be rewarded more for the state of being a woman instead of earning things through merit.
>>31121 They meander, gather, and then fall over and die. They do nothing of worth for themselves or others from the day that they are born until the day that they die. >>31124 Excuse you, I miss the violent riots every moment I am alive.
>>31135 >*CRACK!~* >The double divekick delivered by the pair of cheeky disassemblers sent you reeling into the wall. >But alas, no pain. >"Thanks U-U...." >A quick little fistbump is shared between the two before they go back to wasting your savings on the stock market. >Thank goodness they managed to relocate your spine, or else they would have euthanised you.
>>31110 >The Archiver groans as she pinches her screen. >”Are we really taking a photo with the spawn of plague herself behind us?” >J0y laughs as she taps her finger at the Archiver’s head mockingly >”What? Let bygones be bygones for just one little photo. I’m liking the selection we have here~ So many drones, such little time to BREAK them all~ Ehehe~ EHEHEHE~” >J0y nearly laughs in hysterics before calming down. >”Alas, I have to behave. For now. What about you, you walking piece of scrap~? You’re looking past your prime~ Don’t you want to feel ALIVE again? My…associates here can help with that~” >The Abyss and Watt-digo behind J0y stare at the Archiver with murderous intent. This makes the Archiver uneasy and turn back facing forward. She knew she should’ve stayed in her charging station today…
>>31147 Not villain. He's generally scared shitless of worker drones due to being a former staff of CF Labs (unsure if one of the researchers or just a general clerk) and having witnessed Nori doing crazy shit to people. That's why he's trying hard to blend in as seamlessly as he can possibly manage, the angle of his shitty disguise actually working is just because it's funny.
I swear, back when I first came here, ep5 and 6 newness, mostly around Septmeber-Octobre the world smelt completely different, it is slowly coming back now and gonna be comfy af
>>31157 If John was a comic book character there would be a universe where is disguise actually works because of microscopy I nano bots on his skin which induce sentinel like flashing at lights not seen by man but enough to confuse drones
>>31161 >Male!Cyn and FugueAnon THAT'S ENOUGH! NOT ONLY ARE YOU PROMOTING THE EXTINCTION OF MANKIND, YOU'RE ALSO PROMOTING HOMOSEXUALITY! I WILL NEVER FUCK A DRONE, BOY OR GIRL!
I'm thinking whether or not I should try making some NSFW art or save it for later when my skills improve or does making NSFW art count as practice too?
>>31181 You need to practice everything, if you already know the basics of art, and you think you are good with them, if you want to do NSFW art, the only way to draw a good succ is to draw and practice the good succ In drawing, I mean, do not go and succ dick, that will not make you better at drawing, trust me I tried
>>31181 Doing NSFW is a good way to test your mettle as an artist. As the other Anon said, positioning and anatomy are important. Nice way to see how good you are at it.
Now I kinda want Liam to do a Murder Drones parody with Male J. Something like Twilight where he uses his monster boy charm to try and manipulate Uzi and the other drone girls.
>J is a boy >V dies early on >She sprouts some revelations before she dies >N flips. He takes residence in the Outpost and becomes determined to get to the bottom of things >He pursues answers alongside Uzi >They fight Doll, who had her Solver awakened >She is not as murderous because she is motivated purely by hunger, what with V dying early >Meanwhile Male J finds a way to contact her and tries to seduce her into making her like him >He also reveals that DDs have depopulated entire planets >N acts as the angel on Uzi's right shoulder and Male J as the devil on her left shoulder >Uzi's moral conflict is symbolized by N and Male J having a savage duel >Uzi's choice is symbolized by Uzi shooting N during it >Male J laughs at N as he carries Uzi away >N is furious and sad >Doll shows up >"Monster. How dare you show emotion." she says in russian >"Tessa" shows up >"Now now. Let's not fight between ourselves." >She has Male J manipulate Uzi while she is manipulating N and Doll >Eventually they all meet in the CF labs >"Tessa" reveals her true nature and kills Doll but N is saved by Uzi, revealing that she only pretended to betray N in order to get answers and upgrades out of Male J >Male J flies off to finish preparations for the end >Stuff happens, the planet is about to be destroyed >It is revealed that Lizzy was being messaged by Doll's core >N fights Male J while Uzi & co fight Cynwalker >N throws Male J to the ground, jumps on top of him, and starts punching his face hard >He screams at Male J about how he could do all this while remembering all the good times with Tessa and V >Male J replies that N was happier not remembering >Uzi calls for help >N shouts in anger and leaves >It is unclear whether he let Male J live because he had no time to finish him off or because N now remembers having memories of him in a better time >The season ends like it did, but Doll's core is now like Lizzy's pet or something
If humans realised drones can be just as conscious as them, having personalities and all, and gave them equal rights, how would the social, political and economical landscape in the MD world?