#there are humans in my story and worker drones and murder drones and it's basically worker drone revolution fighting humans for resources

[imagination-confusion]

So... Murder Cat with soon to be Murder Dog and Murder Bird Drones.

Murder Cat has the depression and trauma.

[ametistacollinsworld]

✞ Yandere! J,V and N x Human Reader hcs

My 22 request! Hope you like!

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Oh boy- And here we go-

Well, I see that you would be a very famous robotic engineer at JCJenson, being one of the developers of the disassembly drones, so you already had a more professional relationship with J, V and N since forever.

But of course, that all changed when you were assigned to upgrade the bodies of the three worker drones, making you kind of sad, because you knew the future for drones that turned into disassembly drones.. What J, V and N realized being the great observers that they are- Quickly assuring you that you were not to blame for anything.

So after a while of upgrading J, V and N they were sent to Copper 9 being taken from you and you from them. They were devastated, sad and angry… why couldn't you be with them? You were always so nice to them, they loved you if that was even possible for their programming. But unfortunately it seemed like there was nothing they could do, but kill and kill worker drones to pass their miserable time. (Sad love story-)

But then..one night something happened, a spaceship landed near the dome of worker drones bodies of the three murder drones, leaving them confused and curious to know what the company was thinking.

But to J, V and N's big surprise it was you! You in flesh and blood in front of them! Here at Copper 9! Oh my- They were so happy you were here! Quickly flying towards you to give you a tight hug that dropped you into the fluffy snow, making you chuckle softly at their reactions as they just enjoyed your sweet laugh. (So dramatic and needy-)

Now your days consisted of studying what was left of the planet for the company, trying to create new programs with parts you found and living with the three murder drones, not having much interaction besides them, not that you minded that much. (Daily life of a robotic engineer in 3071 be like-)

The three of them would try to hunt even faster than you were here, wanting to spend as much time around you as possible, watching you work on your projects in awe.

J, V and N could get pretty violent with each other, the most frequent being J and V who would constantly fight each other, only stopping if you started to get upset, what they absolutely did not want.

They would be very jealous of each other too, constantly fighting for your attention and affection, wanting to do everything to impress you. (For sure every day there would be 1 or 2 kill threats between them-)

J, V and N would never, under any circumstances, let a drone approach or attack you, even using their own bodies as a shield if necessary.

Basically a super mega and extra chaotic relationship..you just try to- keep them in control and everything will be fine- I think-

[tycho-the-taco]

Okay I am going crazy Ik. It is 1:27 am when I started typing this

Murder drones, hazbin hotel, hell followed with us, and the Bible are all connected. Now to start simple with hazbin, hfwu and the Bible, all have religious themes that tie into the Bible.

Hazbin has seraphim’s, heaven and hell, and of course, Adam. Pretty straight forward on the connection there.

Since I’m not many people know what he’ll followed with us is, I will go more into detail. Hfwu is more about the end of the world brought by a Christian apocalypse. The angels being their military (literal people, just with the term angels), and the one that has me stuck on the most, The Flood. The Flood is basically a virus in this world. Taking one’s body and twisting it into a terrible horror to be used to commit genocide against the “nonbelievers”. The flood is also a reference to Noah’s ark.(it dead ass took me a few months to make that connection-)

YA KNOW WHAT ELSE CAN BE TIED INRO NOAHS ARK?! FREAKING MURDER DRONES.

More specifically the book of epoch. In the book of epoch it dives into why god sent the flood. To make a long boring story short, god sent down angels called watchers. The watchers fell in love with mortals and the two created these greedy and gluttonous giants. Giants that ate so much that they turned to humans as a food source.

Now with murder drones, you have these angels [of death] (the disassembly drones) who turn to the worker drones(a smaller version of themselves) as a food source. They consume so much that the workers have to hide away. The disassembly drones are wiping out the workers to create a better Copper-9.(mainly so the absolute solver can destroy it all) But then you have the question. If the murder drones are giants, and the workers are humans. Who are the watchers who created the giants? To that I say, it’s Tessa. Tessa watched people, having no clue how to interact with them. She fell in love with the worker drones(more in the “awe a sad wet cat” way and less of a “that’s gonna be my husband”). And her love for them sparked the absolute solvers creativity to create the disassembly drones. (And I say the absolute solver because I fully believe that cyn is dead and was dead way before we first meet her. I believe the absolute solver is controlling her. Would explain why she moves and talks so strangely)

Now, I am not saying that murder drones is 100% based on a religious story. But I am saying there are patterns. Patterns between it and other biblical fanfictions.

Also random side tangent, the way the flood(from hfwu) acts reminds me so much of how the absolute solver turns people. Especially Tessa. Yes ik it didn’t turn her but it did use her as a puppet. But she’s still this inhuman twisting pile of flesh that’s so violent and twisted you can’t help but wonder if there ever was humanity in that flesh. Even how it twisted Uzi in episode seven. She was recognizable yes but she looked completely wrong. Like looking at the uncanny valley.

Hell followed with us and murder drones were released around the same time (June 7 2022 for hell followed with us, October 29th 2021 for murder drones). I know they are not closely similar. I know that they are not the same story written by the same person. But the way the stories feel. The patterns. I enjoy connecting dots that don’t exist.

It’s now 1:54. I’m gonna go to sleep before I make anymore side ways rambling.

Ps, thank you to my boyfriend who told me to post my ramblings here<3

[tracker-ziegler]

The Spice Cabinet: Some Details

Alright let's start this blog off with some basic information about what this is and why is came to be, and then maybe some random tidbits if I feel like it.

Why were the spices made? Well originally I started making the spices because I was involved with a Murder Drones DnD thing, it never got off the ground really but I was prepared for a brutal campaign so I made a few drones in case of fatalities, originally just Sage, Mint, and Garlic. Even when it was clear it wasn't going to happen I kept making more drones, I had ideas and wanted to expand them, and that evolved to what we have now.

Why Spices? Well when coming up with names I originally settled on Sage, but meant it more in the wise old figure sense, however I realized as a spice it fit well, so that was the angle I went with. When designing Mint I figured "I don't want to be a boring Serial Designation M she needs a name" and I thought about the flavor of mint and how it fit the character, and it evolved from there.

Why so many drones this can't be easy to write/design? I am a creative person, I make characters for no other reason than to be background bodies in stories, and for once the characters I made are actually interesting and unique so I kept going, new ideas led to new spices.

How do you handle the spices in relation to Canon and things like the Solver? Simple, the Spices fall into an AU where I choose to ignore the solvers existence because it hurts my brain to try and write around it, so the company is still around, it is better explored in the Spice Cabinet chapter on Mint, which lays down a bit of groundwork on how I work with the concepts of different generations of disassembly drones and different human colonies.

Why did you make a Tumblr for this? Twitter is a cesspit and I wanted somewhere to show off these goobs, I put a lot of time, thought, and money into these spices so I want to show them off, beyond what servers I am in.

Do you roleplay with your spices? Abso-freaking-lutely, I didn't design all these drones just to toss them into a story or two and get art of them for the hell of it, people like these idiots and I love them (some more than others) and they all have unique personalities so I cover a broad spectrum with these guys.

Why does some of your art/stories have more explicit/naughty implications and designs? Because I am not a prude and honestly people are gonna be weird about the drones so I might as well get ahead of the curve and be weird with them. I encourage people to get creative with these idiots, I know I am not going to stick my nose up at the more mature topics and art, you see what people do with Canon characters, my spices get off easy in that department.

That covers the basics on the how and why, now for some fun tidbits:

Sage is Forklift certified at birth is a running joke due to his height, also when I made him he wasn't gendered so I just said "Sage is Sage" and that also became a joke.

Mint's nanite repair system produces to many extra nanites they overflow into her mouth giving her nanite saliva capable of repairing damage, many people have tried to take advantage of this fact through very stupid means.

Garlic got the cracks on his screen from his own IED, he covered it in pickaxes and accidentally set it off himself, he refuses to get the damage repaired because it is "a glorious battle scar"

Nutmeg worked in Cabin Fever Labs as an assistant on a project separate from the Absolute Solver, their ID card has a picture of them smiling and holding a hermit crab in their hands.

Cinnamon will hum the Jaws theme while hunting, he also believes in only hitting his quotas to then slack off, he will get exactly as many kills as he is required, and not a single more. He also likes to ice fish for workers, he uses a wrench as bait, and yes it works more than you'd think.

Rosemary learned all she knows about Tusken Raiders pre-core collapse, and she was trying to adapt to that way of life even before it happened, she got lucky with the world ending given how close she was to being decommissioned for biting a technician.

Onion is very hands on, and when he first meets a new drone (not for food purposes) he will try to feel every possible texture on them, this leads to him rubbing others jackets, arms, hair, and faces a lot. He is probably one of the most friendly of the disassembly drones under the Spice Cabinet.

Paprika is based on a Boa Constrictor because she still wraps things in her tail, and she will wrap it around warm objects, or drones, to heat up her internal systems, she can effectively stop an overheating Disassembly Drone or solver user from suffering by leeching their heat away, it is a temporary solution that lets her have a very squirmy living space heater. She also goes into a food coma if she eats too much.

[tutchando74]

Murder Drones episode 5 "review"

So i'm going to separate this "review" in categories, because my brain works better that way.

Story: Okay, so alot of things happened in this episode. For starters, N, V and J all had their memorys of the mansion erased, well not fully erased, otherwise they wouldn't have flashbacks about it and Uzi wouldn't be able to hack them, wich is a wild concept, being able to hack into someones memorys and kind of manipulate them is fucking insane. We also don't know if J still has her memorys erased, probally not. V for some reason was having a "error 606", don't know what that is, but sure. We see that Tessa's drones are treated as worse than the norm, maybe because they have more "free will"?, don't know. Also Cyn is treated like he has some type of mental problem. N defends Cyn, a classic, the crow scene is fucking awesome tbh. Cyn goes fucking wild and basically fucks the entire mansion, turning worker drones in solver fuckers or just blobs. So in the wall that had that strange shit when N entered in the mansion, there was a strange simbol, what is that? And what it represents?. Cyn then goes wild on the humans. V gets mad that Uzi is on her mind and then fucking Doll appears out of nowhere. I didn't think would actually come back, I honestly thought that she would be more of a ghost shit than anything, but okay. Khan is clearly hiding something, I mean the man was married to someone who had the solver, he has to know something, and this interaction with Doll just makes it more weird. Then Tessa appears and gets the key for something, and th eepisode ends in a giant cliffhanger. Awesome, really liked this, i'm so fucking excited for the next episode.

Characters: So, N didn't have much new things added, he's basically the same, so I don't have anything to talk about him. V on the other hand, we now know that she does like N, at least a little bit, wich is anogh for me (I like NxV), outside of that, nothing much. J barely talks. Tessa is somewhat weird, she acts in a way that I predicted, but at same time in a different way, but her character is pretty intereting, I wonder what she is gonig to do, maybe try to "kill" Cyn? She also clearly doesn't like anyone with the solver, I can understand. Khan I alredy talked. Uzi had a little thing for her, we now know that she likes N, at least a little bit, wich prvoes what I thoguht would happen, a godamm love triangule, hope this doesn't ruin the story, but Uzi did have something more, the line of "finf whats wrong with me", or something in the lines, wich means that she thinks the solver is a "mistake" or something like that, wich is pretty interesting, that makes me think that Uzi is kind of very fucking selfish, since she is invading others mind, without their permission, to solve her own problems, that will surely be a plot point some time, I hope. Doll also has something going on for her, I think that she thinks on a similar way to Uzi about the solver, she probally wants to go where Cyn is to get rid of that, thus why she says that Mr. Doorman has done a good job. We also see a more "scared" side, she was afraid of Tessa, even thogh she can pick bullets mid air with the solver, taht can mean somethings, either her solver is not working properly, wich I doubt, or she doesn't want to use the solver, thus why she has an eyepatch. Maybe she has fear of turning into that solver state that Uzi turned. Maybe Cyn can see through her eyes, I don't know. And for last, Cyn is a fucking asshole, what is it's plan. It says its an eldritch beign, but why manifest in code? Why pretend to be a robot? And how the fuck does it hide it's true form? These are somethings that I though right now. We have too little information about Cyn to say anything, so I will just let those questions there. Overall, I really liked the new character development some received in this episode.

Art: This episode is absolutelly beatiful. The dark atmosphere creates really awesome scenes, like the one N enters the mansion. I liked the use of the humans, because even though their just a silhouette they still move like "normal", but overall I just like the design of the humans, it reminds me of corrupted souls from the Cube Escape series. Other than that, it looks like the other episodes, wich means that all the scenes were beatiful. The asthetic of this show is just really awesome.

[n00bcat1234]

next part of my murder drones au. I'll probably start posting a part everyday bc I've already finished it.

Y'know... if I remember

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Henry*** Part 6

"So, if it's not offensive or anything, um, what... are you?" I asked nervously. "I mean, I've never heard of a murder drone with teal eyes." I quickly added. "Oh, it's fine." Z replied. "It's kind of a long story, though." She paused, with a thoughtful expression on her face. "But, I suppose we have a long time. Unless you guys want to go to bed." She said. "I'm gonna hit the hay." Izzy said. "Ok." Z replied. "I guess I'll see you in the morning." After she laid down in a makeshift bed we made out of snow, I whispered to Z, "We should probably wait until she falls asleep. It doesn't take long, usually." She nodded, and we sat there in silence. Izzy had started a fire earlier, when we decided to stay there for the night. The warmth of it reminded me of my bed. 'My bed...' The thought of my bed momentarily satisfied me. It probably wasn't a great sign that I was already missing my bed, but I decided that anyone would, to distract myself from how weird I was. "I think she's asleep now." I told Z. She looked up from the fire to me. "Ok, I'll tell you what happened." She said. A grim look appeared on her face. "I... used to be normal disassembly drone. Yellow eyes and such." She started. "I even had a boyfriend. I happily killed with him, and it seemed that my life was perfect. I don't know... why JCJenson ruined it for me." She paused, then resumed, "When JCJenson started making worker drones and humans into disassembly drones, they were... confused. Chaotic. Maybe even more dangerous than the actual disassembly drones." As she said that, I could feel my eyes widen slightly, and a chill go down my spine. She continued, "They soon realized that these imported disassembly drones would need some kind of supervision. They decided to use the manufactured disassembly drones for this purpose. But there was apparently a problem with the normal disassembly drones. They didn't know much about these new imported disassembly drones.And what if they rebelled against them? So, they made an... 'update' for the chosen disassembly drones. It would take away their weapons and their violence. They would have knowledge of the new imported disassembly drones. I was... one of these drones. I was completely reset. They basically killed me, and replaced me with someone different." I felt a wave of sympathy for her. When I thought she was over, she continued, "But... it didn't completely work, at least, not for me." Her angry frown was replaced with a small smile. "I don't know everything about the new disassembly drones like you, and I still remember what I was like before, unlike the others. But... I liked how I was way more than now." I had a feeling that this was the actual end to the story. There was a moment of silence between us. "Well, we should probably go to bed." I said. "Thanks for sharing your story with me." Z put out the campfire. "Thank you for listening."

[bellhopping]

oh yeah back in febuary my brother got me to watch murder drones, thought I'd just share my thoughts for funzies

overall the series is pretty good for what it is, very well animated with a pretty damn distinct style & really nice lighting a lot of the time. I don't remember being that jazzed about the writing, but it's still alright and can be pretty funny at times

My gripes mainly came with the character design, it's just kind of a bit repetititve lol. I mean I get it since everyone is a mass produced worker drone, but it still suffers from the anime problem where you can only tell the characters apart from eachother by their hair & accessories. Having different types of bots with different builds for different jobs would've made each character stand out a bit more, & potentially flesh out the world/robot society too

Speaking of, I. wasn't really that big of a fan of how robot society was basically the same as human society but with some extra steps. They're robots unrestrained and given free will for multiple centuries, yet they basically just spend all their time doing menial human things (going to work, going to school, going to prom, etc). While I understand that their humanity is meant to be part of the themes, it's still kind of a major missed opprotunity that in a story about robots you can easily substitute all the robots for humans without even changing much.

[depizan]

I've started and deleted a number of posts in my re-reread of the Rogue Squadron books (and I'm only on the second book), because much of what I've wanted to say, I've said before. But villains and villainous plans, man... they have to make a different kind of sense the larger scope the story is.

Alternatively, it's really fucking weird how a book can go into great detail about a villain's plan and still leave me going: "what the fuck are you trying to do???" Isard's plan in Wedge's Gamble just makes my brain hurt. I'm not sure if the bigger problem is that it doesn't make sense unless her actual plans are different from her stated plans (but I'm pretty sure that's not the case) or if it's the violation of "how convenient for the author." (You know, that thing you really don't want your audience to think while reading your work.)

I find myself cynically thinking that Isard's plan to let the Rebellion take Coruscant, but with a people-melting virus to bankrupt the Rebellion, is the answer to Stackpole being unable to figure out how the Rebellion could actually take the planet. Sure, relinquishing tainted strongholds is a thing, but I'm pretty sure it's a "fuck you" done when a stronghold was going to fall anyway, and it probably isn't something you do with vital strongholds (unless it's a "fuck you" from the grave).

The plot wants me to simultaneously believe that taking Coruscant is vital to the legitimacy of the Rebellion as a power and that Isard can sacrifice Coruscant without sacrificing her legitimacy. And power base, really. Sure, she retreats first to her nonsensical prison and then to Bacta World...oh fuck it, I'll look it up...Thyferra. (Which is a whole other bundle of WTFery.) But she's still lost the capital planet, lost the infrastructure she had there, lost the political/psychological power of holding the capital planet, and just generally made her own position of power much less stable.

Honestly, it feels like she, Loor, and Derricote are the only actual people in (what's left of) the Empire. As if everyone working under or with them are literal drones, not people who might have reactions to the plan, to the loss of Coruscant, to...anything, really. Isard seems only to consider people's reactions to her plan in regards to the Rebellion (the Rebellion will be forced to spend loads of money on bacta to treat the people who catch the plague, or else be seen as bad) not how anyone on her side will react (oh fuck, Coruscant fell. guess that's it for the Empire.).

And the plague doesn't make sense (except in being in keeping with Isard's standard solution to things. that is to say, murder), since we're specifically told that the (human) workers in Derricote's lab wear hazmat suits when interacting with the test subjects, even though the virus is aimed at non-humans, suggesting there is pretty strong concern that it might affect humans. (We are told that it shouldn't be able to jump to humans, but I'm not sure which we're supposed to believe.) Do these lab workers know the plan? Do they have reservations? (Even if they don't have ethics/morals, what about the continued livability of Coruscant?)

(And, yes, the hazmat suits could be an abundance of caution, but it comes up when some of the test subjects are people that should have been questioned, but now can't be without revealing that they've been given the plague, and so won't be being released anyway. This means that the concern is strong enough that no one's willing to risk catching the plague--even though there's a treatment!--in order to interrogate the test subjects.)

Basically, it feels like Stackpole piles the evil on with regard to the plan in the hope that the audience will then not notice that it makes little sense for Isard to use the plan. She's evil; it's evil. Of course it makes sense.

Really, it all boils down to a what does this character want and do their actions match that. And that gets more complicated the bigger scope the story is and the more power the villain has. You don't have to put a lot of thought into it to make a school bully's actions seem plausible and in character. You have to put a lot more thought into it to make a big scope villain's actions seem plausible and in character.

If you're the leader of what remains of an empire, with control of the imperial capital, would you really abandon it? (Also, we never see Isard doing person running the empire things. She's written like a power behind the throne character, but she's on the throne.)

And, yes, you can have incompetent villains. (Lord knows, we have plenty of those in real life.) But I don't think we're supposed to see Isard as incompetent. (There's plenty of villain decay involving her later, but in this book I'm pretty sure we're supposed to be going "omg so evil" not "wtf.")

Honestly, there's a lot of weird self-defeating villainy in Star Wars. It may be in service of the idea that good will always win because evil is stupid, but it ends up somewhere in the vicinity of good will always win because it is slightly less incompetent than evil.

[zachsgamejournal]

COMPLETED: Inside

What does this game mean? Oh, it's open for interpretation -- so nothing. It means nothing.

JK, it probably means something.

So, it's a 2D scroller with puzzle elements and minimal combat...maybe none. The whole time I kept thinking,"Abe's Oddysee!" But it's not. I like Abe's Oddysee. That's not a slight, just a point of comparison. There's strong similarities, but one of these I'll be playing as long as my eyes and fingers work and the other... I'm thankful to have played it.

The story is left to interpretation so we'll do some interpreting. It's basically a silent film. Which I respect. In film school I was impressed with the range of emotion and plot that can be protrayed without words. Music helps though. Bringing this to games has been a passion and fascination of mine. But, while there's things happening, Inside doesn't tell a story. It shares some events and say, "figure it out." Which is fine, if intentional. I mean, the lead of Shadow of the Colossus said they wanted their story to be up for interpretation but they also had their own meaning. So I hope Inside's team has its own meaning and not just a collection of disturbing moments.

We play a boy running through the forest. I don't think he's being chased, but once spotted he becomes hunted. He's shot on sight or mamed by dogs. So, these men know this boy or just don't want any boys in the vacinity. 

We move from the woods to a farm. It's hard to say if the farm is in use, but doesn't seem so. Some chicks follow us around...like Mudokons. But you take advantage and shoot them at a hay stack to solve a puzzle. Creative, but unnerving.

Next we move into a city. Almost too quickly. That's when we start seeing drones shuffling to work. Drones being human bodies with no apparent individuality. We then end up at a factory and eventually some high tech facility. At one point Inhave to pretend to be a drone to trick observers. I get the impression that ppl are being enslaved to do menial jobs.

Within the facility I find head apparatuses that allow me to control the drones, using them solve puzzles...like Mudokons. This makes the kid appear like a workong class leader, a freedom fighter. It's not my impression this is the kid's intention, but it juat happens. The drones can lift the boy up or catch him. Feels very revolutionary to me.

I end up in an underwater section. There's a long haired kid that hunts me and tries to drown me. So I have to use a variety of strategies to avoid getting caught...not unlike Abe's Oddysee. It's curious, I start to wonder if this is the intended fate of yhe boy. Not quite. Eventually one of the underwater creatures grabs the boy and drags him under. But instead of dying they bypass a curious object that latches onto the boy and grants him water breathing. The underwater thing leaves us alone now. We're friends now I guess. And fish start follow us like the chicks and drones: more leadership authority.

We're now in a full blown facility. Most ppl here that aren't drones are scientists and workers that ignore us. Though I see a guard with a kid at some point. If he sees me, he captures me. So maybe collecting kids is a thing here. To make water monsters?

Eventually we get to a large vault every scientist wants to see. Inside is a bio mass with arms, legs, and torsos. There are about 4 mine control apparatuses attached...which would seem it's in control. I release it and become absorbed by it. Now I play the biomass trying to escape, cause destruction and murdering a few folks along the way. They try to trap me. I escape, roll down a huge hill and stop at the sea shore. Then the credits roll.

I read that some suspect the biomass is controlling the boy. That makes sense. The boy breaks into a very dangerous facility, not runs from it, and there's no indication of why. As a player, I can only do what the game allows me to do. And I don't need to understand why to do it. It's kinda like mind control. I can only do what the game allows, just like a controller. 

Maybe the biomass just wanted to escape the experiment to die in peace.

I didn't love the game. The platforming is near non-existent. So mostly you're just holding right. It gets boring. The puzzles can be kinds clever, but the shortness of the game means they never become particularly challenging. Yet they still reuse a lot of puzzle ideas. I would have preferred more unique puzzles. 

I appreciate that I'm not a killer in the traditional sense except at the end. And that's more accidental. But the game can be pretty harsh in its violent deaths. It's not very feel good, at all.

Graphically the game pulls off a lot with very little. Lighting and allows them to hide most of the environment in darkness but they have clever use of silhouettes to imply a large, interesting world. The forest is most interesting. Once you get into the factors it's just one large room after another. The animation looka good too, so that helps.

Ultimately, I'm not blown away. While the silent film take is well done, choosing to go for a interpretive story means they don't have to work hard to tell a story. Just show some weird stuff and call it a day. I'm sure they did more than that, but I don't see a reason to replay the game... there's nothing new to learn. Compared to Abe's Oddysee from nearly 30 years ago: a side scrolling action adventure where the player relies more on avoidance. There's a story of escaping a facility and working with NPCs to solve puzzles. And the there's just enough dialogue to give it a good, clear narrative. 

Maybe they didn't want to do dialog (saves money), look at any number of Pixar shorts and you'll see multitude of ways to tell a specific story without dialog. And those are very emotional positive stories. That's important. In my dark teenage years I wanted my stories to be dark and painful. I felt surrounded by positivity and I wanted it ruined (kind of like when Tyler Durden is beating up the blonde guy in Fight Club--he wanted to destroy something beautiful), it's not healthy. I think I grew up in an environment where people didn't want to talk about real problems. (I grew up going to church.) Films like Fight Club and games like Grand Theft Auto forced the audience to face the ugliness of the world, but...in a sense...was just as shallow. In screenwriting they always talk about upping the drama, and the easiest way to do that is to pull out a gun or have a character punch another. But as we see in shows like Better Call Saul, some of your most powerful dramatic moments don't have to be life and death.

I'm getting off topic, point is I think creating a dark world with scary violent things is like pulling a gun--it's easy, cheap scares. Adding meaning and growth, adopting a point of view--that's hard and risky. Inside, in my mind, doesn't take a stand. It does some weird, creepy shit, and leaves it up it all up to you to figure out. I think that works for something like a piece of music, or even a vague poem or song, but I'm not loving it for a game with so much energy applied to its cinematic qualities. You basically become Mario Bros. with racoon costumes and Goombas.

So in the end, I think the game is missing heart and empathy. I don't know why I should care about anything and the gameplay seems no more advanced than what I could find on Little Big Planet.

[limeinaltime]

Murder Drones: PG-13 WALL-E Story Idea

After looking at some of your Murder Drones fanart (by the way your art is really good), like the “spark kiss” and the “taking care of a human child”. I couldn't help myself but to think of a story idea of Uzi and N having their own WALL-E adventure, a PG-13 WALL-E if you will. Of course, there would be some adjustments to the story of WALL-E so that it could work with the Murder Drones cast, but it will still have the emotional moments, like the Garbage Airlock and fixing WALL-E/ending (you probably already know who's gonna be the one getting badly damaged and fixed, also an anime love song would play in the ending instead of "It Only Takes A Moment").

The plant of this story would be the human child (who I decided would be a girl and have a father who really cares for her along with other humans, basically having what Uzi sadly never had before she met N), and the main villains would of course be the JC Jenson corporation and their boss. The reason as to why they want the child and (by some extent) her father dead, is so that they can make it look like a Worker Drone killed them and trick the public into trusting them a lot more. But in the end, they would be taken down by the combined efforts of the Worker Drones, Murder Drones and humans.

I still need to organize some ideas of this story, but I already got two chapters planned out. The first one would be called "The Prologue's Prologue: Recap time" and just like the name says, it would recap all the events that happened before this story begins (this story is essentially the series finale). The second one is called "Prologue: Third-Act Misunderstanding", in which before Uzi and her group (composed of some Worker and Murder Drones) go to Earth, she tries to kill the girl in secret because even though N and the others trust her, Uzi doesn't because she's a human. N saves the girl in time which causes Uzi and N to get into a fight, they end up getting angry at each other and Uzi decides to leave her group. Just another typical third act misunderstanding. I still need to work on this one but that is one essential event of this chapter.

Since I'm still new to the Murder Drones Fandom and your drawings inspired my brain to make this story, I decided to share this with you. I hope you like it and if you have any suggestions or ideas that would help improve this story idea, then let me know. Have a good day and keep up the good work.

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I am looking

[edibletrees2]

I would like to know more about your murder drone ocs if you dont me asking

*scurries over here with all of my oc’s* I will very gladly talk about all of them!

(Shit I posted it before it was ready- well here’s the edited version lol)

Serial Designation T

T was designed to be part of a project that used weird future technology to try and age a robot like a human. The physical experiment was stopped at about 7 years old, but her mind kept aging like an adult. She is possessed by a little human girl named Tiana, and has a haunted doll aesthetic. She also carries a little toy rabbit around.

Serial Designation T2 Y

Y was made as the second (and successful) attempt at T’s experiment of aging a robot up, however this time the company got Satanic stuff involved. She has some pastel goth aesthetic going on while she’s still developing her identity, and once she gets more comfortable with who she is, her aesthetic changes more towards a gothic cottagecore.

Serial Designation F

F was made as a mechanical soup of all the generations in this au (internecion, disassembly, and Assassination) and has otherworldly goddess stuff mixed into her system as well. Very fun. She’s the second mom figure of The Squad, she’s got a 1950’s aesthetic going on (Those pretty dresses and roller skates) and she is a very nice person.

Serial Designation A

A is just a regular Disassembly Drone with a traumatizing experience with his old squad. This past squad bullied him relentlessly and then left him to die in the sun, and he spent his days wandering around until he found The Squad, and they let him join their group. He’s the comedian, but is very insecure about everything under his persona of laughs and practical jokes.

Serial Designation W

W is a one-of-a-kind drone, built for cleaning up nuclear waste from the core explosion while also being a disassembly drone. He went through some experiments while he was still in training on Earth, which may have messed up his coding a bit and made him a little crazy. Actually a lot crazy. But it’s a good kind of crazy! He has moral standards and doesn’t want to kill everyone he sees on sight, so that’s good. He has a goblincore and cyberpunk aesthetic at the same time, so he very much is a funky dude and he is honestly one of my favorites.

Serial Designation 0

0 was the first Assassination drone ever made, and was originally the nicest guy you’d ever meet. That was, until 12 came along, and drove him insane. She made him into a cult-leader asshole who was also really weird and is the main villain for like half of the story, until he’s inevitably killed (twice, this fucker always comes back ok that was a bad fnaf joke) and 13 fixes his coding, and basically reverts his personality back to his nice self while keeping his memories. 0 becomes a part of The Squad, and is a nice addition to the cast once he’s redeemed.

Serial Designation 12

12 was made as a regular Assassination Drone, but quickly started a downwards spiral speedrun into insanity fueled by insecurities and a need to be a Girlboss. She drives 0 insane, and also does a bunch of other shit and is basically the invisible hand that coordinates a lot of the bad shit that happens to everyone. But she does get her ass kicked though and stops being such a bitch (kinda, not really, she just stops making bad things happen) to everyone. She’s also a hot lesbian.

Serial Designation 13

13 was originally the squad mechanic for 0’s squad, but once bad shit started happening he had a moral complex and realized he did not like what 0 had become and left. After some plot stuff he joins The Squad and becomes yet another dad, and also the medic because god damnit this group of teenagers and three adults keeps getting into trouble. He has a retro design, and just gives off good vibes in general.

Kat Gramson

Kat is my worker drone oc, who is non-binary and pretty chaotic. They are a total theater kid, and they have 4 siblings. Their entire family, except for their little brother, dies in the events of the pilot, and they have to make their life work after that. They have no specific aesthetic, but they are certainly a chaotic teenager with trauma.

Abaddon Myers

Abaddon is a worker drone from a bunker across the planet, who kills her dad and flees to kill murder drones elsewhere on the planet. She’s like Uzi’s evil counterpart, how she would’ve turned out if she didn’t have the emotional support to make her less aggressive. She’s modeled after Jinx from Arcane, too, so she gets style points.

Side Character Speedrun!

Serial Designation 10

-12’s girlfriend

-also a girlboss

-very violent

Serial Designation 2

-the “weak” one of 12’s squad of like 30 members

-knows how to sew

-could not hurt anyone if she tried

Serial Designation Z

-chill guy. Literally the nicest person ever.

-gives good life advice

-the only chill neighbor The Squad has

Ann Sierra

-a scientist at JC Jenson (in spaaaaaace)

-actually has fucking moral standards

-two kids, a husband, and she also trained W when he wasn’t involved in experiments.

Serial Designation 21

-can make herself appear invisible

-(not insane) 0’s girlfriend

-indie girl :)

Joey MacKensay

-only human left on the exoplanet

-paralyzed from the waist down

-F is basically her stand-in mom, considering her parents are now dead.

Connor Duron

-worker drone

-literally the only one who isn’t traumatized

-he gets along with everyone

Serial Designation H

-Internecion Drone

-X gave her the scarf :)

-a little short for an internecion drone

Janis Scarlet

-General Care Worker Drone

-Abaddon’s girlfriend

-spends her time waitressing and doing other work to pay off medical bills (she’s very tired)

Serial Designation 4

-Assassination Drone

-cryptid among worker drones, has stories told about her

-V thinks she’s cool :)

Serial Designation G

-Old man

-Archangel drone, meant to help stop squad wars

-possessed lmao

Serial Designation I

-Mechanical Soup

-Tiny :)

-T’s “twin”, very shy

Serial Designation U

-K and W’s brother

-Nuclear Waste Cleaning/Disassembly Drone

-strong

Serial Designation K

-Nuclear Waste Cleaning/Disassembly Drone

-U and W’s brother

-deaf

Serial Designation B

-disassembly drone

-total bitch for a while

-love her though

[piermanwalter]

What if The Clone Wars had an eighth season?

In an alternate reality, George Lucas showed up to a meeting with Disney executives two hours late while drunk, pantsless, brandishing two stolen live pet chickens like Uzis, and covered with mysterious geometric bruises, forever ruining the rapport between the two companies, preventing Disney from purchasing Star Wars. 

As a result, the Star Wars: The Clone Wars TV show is not cancelled and I think these are some of the episodes that will be created. 

THE FILLER EPISODES

“I don’t care that you fools see me as weak if it means that I will see you drowning in your own arrogance.”                                                                          The show sort of raises the stakes by having General Grievous be brutally competent in an early episode, but he gets beat as easily as usual in later episodes, so there isn’t much point.

“HOOOOO YEAAAAAAH!” *sound of four Z-6 rotary blasters being fired at once by one man*                                                                                                 There’s an episode with absolutely no story or coherence solely focussed on Plo Koon and the 104th and it’s rad as hell.

“I think I’m a bad person if this is what I want.”                                          Katooni and friends try to show off in front of Jedi so that they might be chosen as Padawans, but when they are thrown into a real combat situation, they realize how terrible the war is and give up.

“Relax, friends! Judging by how well things are going, I think that only two of us will die! Pretty good, no?”                                                                                 Obi-Wan returns to his Rako Hardeen persona in order to team up with Hondo and Boba Fett to scam a fortune out of a Hutt crimelord, Grabo the Prosperous, freeing his slaves in the process. 

“BUT DESPITE ALL SETBACKS, THE REPUBLIC CONTINUES TO BRAVELY DEFEND- argh! Stop! HELP ME!”                                                                      The opening bombastic narration of this episode is cut off when the Separatists KIDNAP THE NARRATOR HIMSELF, a Republic newscaster/propagandist and the police of Coruscant have to rescue him. Tan Divo is there, no matter how hard everyone tries to get him to go away.

“Excuse me, sir! I can tell these are not truly Sluissi emeralds from their lack of diffracting lustre! Give me back my credits!”                                                       C-3PO and R2-D2 do some mind-numbingly boring errands for Padmé because there has to be at least one per season for some reason.

THE MERCHANDISE-DRIVEN EPISODES

“Oh no. That’s too many wheels.” “WAY too many wheels.”                                 A show producer accidentally puts in an order for many incredibly bizarre clone vehicle toys, and as a last ditch marketing attempt, a funny, heartwarming episode is made starring a new clone, Rotor, who is not a soldier, but he works in weapons and vehicles R&D. 

“That’s right, boys. I’m dressed to kill.”                                                           Aayla Secura, Adi Gallia, and Shaak Ti infiltrate an elite fashion show disguised as models in order to protect Senator Orn Free Taa, while Aurra Sing, Latts Razzi, and Asaji Ventress, also disguised as models, try to assassinate him. 

The cruddy, mediocre Republic Heroes game gets rebooted using the Battlefront engine. Because executives are imbeciles and believe that no human being in existence wants to buy a story-based FPS, an entire 3-parter, starring Cad Bane, is made to promote the game. It’s basically Casablanca with explosions.

“Ha. Ha. Ha. What do you mean by ‘How’re yer shtil alive?’ You imbecile. ‘Hurr how im gonna kill dat shkakoan? Oh im genius put the high presser lovin’ critter in a high presser.’ The best bounty hunter in the galaxy. Incredible.”                                                     Cad Bane is doing great, until he finds one of his many enemies, Kul Teska, in his favorite bar, despite having personally killed him years ago. Most of this episode is flashbacks composed of in-engine cutscenes lifted directly from the new game, but the animation is good enough that it’s almost impossible to tell.

“Get out of my way. I can’t shoot through you, nice as that’d be. Why you gotta be so damn huge?” “I was a preposterously fat youngling.”                                                                                                      Cad Bane gets a job assassinating Black Sun Vigos for Grabo the Prosperous, the same hutt that got scammed eight episodes ago. Unfortunately, Kul Teska had the same idea and the two of them are forced to work together. Cad Bane hates his life and Kul Teska is mildly amused. This episode is full of crazy action, colorful characters that die after ten seconds of screentime, and petty bantering. Bane finds himself not hating his nemesis as much.

“With luck, I will never see you again.”                                                          Grabo doesn’t uphold his end of the deal, so Bane and Teska put their rivalry on hold to scam him a second time before barely escaping with their lives. Cad Bane decides being a misanthrope loner is a waste of time and asks Teska if he wants to continue being a team. Kul Teska reveals that the only reason he agreed to the gig was to make enough money to get a ship to go back to his home planet. And then he leaves forever. Cad Bane spends the last minute of the episode drinking himself into oblivion.

THE PLOT EPISODES: TOO SERIOUS FOR DIALOGUE QUOTES (Come up with your own. I’m out of ideas because the opening paragraph is the most amazing thing I’ll ever write and this post is too long already.)

There’s an episode about Ahsoka dealing with an existential crisis after being abandoned by the Jedi Order. After struggling with her beliefs that only Republic soldiers are allowed to be heroes, her desire to help others is too strong and for the first time on this show, she kills a tyrannical Republic general and allows the droid army to move in because innocent people would be legitimately better off this way.

Narrated from the perspective of Darth Sidious, this episode shows his daily life, switching from persona to persona, thinking about the best way to exterminate an entire race while smiling and shaking their representative’s hand and consoling depressed politicians so they become so overconfident that they get themselves killed. It’s a parody of the Robot chicken parodies, but manages to be utterly terrifying. 

It’s Life Day. This episode is a bunch of vignettes about how different people celebrate. The clones scrape together some cash in order to buy a feast at their favorite cantina. Padmé is at a fancy gala but wishes Anakin was there. Cad Bane gets an unmarked crate filled with terrifying custom weapons thrown through his window. There is an underlying plot about the clone troopers investigating the spooky rumors of Order 66.

The first of a 3-parter, Anakin and Obi-Wan are fighting to escape worker drones on Cato Neimoidia and have a disagreement over whether to kill everyone because they are mindless insects, or to spare them. Obi-Wan never allows Anakin’s plans to be put into effect, leading to Anakin becoming more and more frustrated until he deliberately allows Obi-Wan to get shot. Now in charge, he puts his murderous plans in action, which worked extremely well and they escape. Obi-Wan is extremely grateful that Anakin rescued him, completely unaware that he wanted him injured.

Without Obi-Wan to veto his ideas and keep him in check, and Ahsoka to go with his plans so hard that he gets concerned and gives up for her sake, Anakin’s tactics grow more and more brutal, and he gains more and more public adoration for how effective he is. He tries to keep this hidden from Padmé, but she finds out anyway and they have a huge argument ending with Padmé realizing he was like this from the very beginning, from when he first slaughtered the Sand People, and she was too lovestruck to notice.

The first half of this episode is Padmé getting involved in banking intrigues with Rush Clovis yet again to avoid Anakin. The second half is Anakin trying to reconcile with her. The episode ends with them forgiving each other and getting back together, but Anakin is already being torn apart by his feelings of guilt, jealousy, and rage, foreshadowing his complete mistrust of everyone and his fall to the Dark Side in Episode III.

[ahiddenpath]

What do you dream about at night? What’s your favorite song? Tell me about the book you’re reading? Where would you go if money wasn’t an issue? What’s your deepest wish? Do you believe in magic? What’s the weirdest thing that has happened to you? What do you need to get off your chest? Are you afraid for the future?

OH MAN THESE ARE GOOD ONES!  Tossing the answers under the cut!

What do you dream about at night?

I used to have such vivid dreams…  I rarely dream these days, or at least, I don’t remember them.  Sorry >__

What’s your favorite song?

OH MAN I need a playlist for this one!  Check it out here!

The songs are in no particular order.  I should also mention that I can’t find the version of August that I like on Youtube…  This one is so slow and mournful instead of pensive and emotional :/  But you get the general idea.  AHHH I like too many songs, I could easily have a thousand song + playlist, but I tried to pick as few as possible x__x

Tell me about the book you’re reading?

I just finished A Murder of Crows by Anne Bishop today.  The first book in the Others series, Written in Red, is probably my all-time favorite urban fantasy.  The rest of the books in this series…  Well, it feels like this should be a trilogy, but she’s already written five books, and at least one more remains…  It’s just stretched out waaaaaay too much with not enough happening.

I absolutely recommend the first one, though.  It’s an excellent book.

Where would you go if money wasn’t an issue?

The question is really, “Where wouldn’t I go?”  Haha!  But Japan first.  Hell, I’d stay in just Tokyo for like a month before moving on to the rest of the country, lol!  I also want to visit Hawaii, Bora Bora, Italy, Ireland, Spain, Greece…  And how about a rain forest?  A coral reef?!  And all of the national parks in the states!  

What’s your deepest wish?

I wish I knew!  Whenever I hear about the Mirror of Erised in Harry Potter or places representing your heart (Persona dungeons, for example), I wish I could take a peek for myself!  

I would love to not have to work and focus on creating (singing, playing guitar, writing, drawing, cooking, photography, blogging) instead.  But…  I worry about the world a lot.  Issues like overpopulation, hunger, poverty, and climate change/habitat destruction/pollution make me wonder how sustainable humanity is…  And I haven’t even touched on our social issues.  So I guess…  I really wish people would think about the future and the present.  I wish people would think beyond themselves.

There’s part of me that wishes a lot of the things that happened to me in my childhood could go away, but then…  Then I would be a different person, and I like me.  So…  I guess I don’t wish for that.

Do you believe in magic?

In the sense of spells/magical creatures/potions/tarot cards/telling the future…  No.

I do believe in a more immediate and powerful magic: the resilience of the human spirit and heart.  The ability we have to keep moving forward with so many burdens on our shoulders is nothing short of miraculous.  And when we find ways to be kind of top of that…

It’s more impressive than wand waving, don’t you think?

What’s the weirdest thing that has happened to you?

I really have to thank you for this question, because it’s making me realize what a strange life I’ve lived, lol!  Where do I even start?!

My whole childhood was pretty weird…  I have strange medical stuff…  You would not believe my stories from working customer service at an aquarium in high school, and being the only American-born gal at a Chinese biotech company for five years had its unusual moments, at least from my perspective…

But as far as out-there, inexplicable experiences…  The strangest was probably the time I participated in was a Catholic Laying on of Hands.  Basically, a priest comes and places his hands near your head.  You tell him what you’re praying for; in my case, it was the health of my grandmother and myself, owing to the operations from my early childhood.  

Most of the girls received their blessings and moved on, but about a quarter of them ended up slain in the spirit.  This means they fainted when the priest placed his hands near them.  The religious explanation is that the holy spirit flows into you through the priest, causing you to faint.  I was curious, so I gave it a go.

When the priest lifted his hands, I felt massive pressure centered in my head.  I fell straight back into the teachers stationed there to catch fainted girls.  They lowered me to the floor; I was out cold for about two minutes before I came to and returned to my pew.

That’s the only time I’ve ever fainted, and I’m at a loss to explain it.

What do you need to get off your chest?

My work worries me.  I like my job, but I get so tired.  I took this Friday off to rest, and I literally spent the whole weekend in something near a coma sleeping.  I wanted to play and write, but I had to sleep.

Is this sustainable?  I work so hard all day, often not taking a lunch and having to convince myself to take a break to use the restroom and drink water.  I do it every day, five days a week, for about 50 hours a week.  

I know there are people who work longer hours for less pay.  I know most people have other responsibilities at home.  Am I weak?  Why is this so hard for me?  Will I ever adjust and be able to function after work?

One of my friends told me that this is what it means to be human these days: working in a constant state of exhaustion.  I cannot create when I’m exhausted; ergo, I can’t exercise something I need to remain sane and balanced.

Hmm…

Are you afraid for the future?

My future?  No.  Barring the unforseen, I have a biotech job and my husband has a software engineering job.  We have a home, food, health insurance, and love.  I feel extremely fortunate for all of this.

But I’m really worried about the future of the world, as I mentioned above.  When people ask me if I want to have a child, I…  I end up going on this anxious rant.  As our technology improves, we lose the need for unskilled workers.  Amazon is a particular offender, with their stores with no checkout, warehouses manned by machines, and packages delivered by drone (some of this is upcoming, but in the near future).  Self driving cars could mean the end of taxi/delivery/truck drivers.  And while I’m a huge proponent of green energy, it does cut out a lot of mining and oil gathering work.

Meanwhile, as the job market shrinks and grows more competitive, the cost of education and living in general is rising.  My generation is already struggling.  The next might hit a crisis point.  

And hey, oh yeah, we have more people than we can feed, and the environment is showing frightening signs of deterioration.  And again, I haven’t even touched on social issues.

Would it be moral to force a human into this scenario? 

That sounds really dark, doesn’t it?  I hate to be a downer, but I hate acting without thought even more.  I think we’re on the cusp of major social/economic change based on necessity, and the next generation or two (or possibly ours?) will bear the brunt of that change.  

So yeah, I worry about that!  

[darioislying-blog]

In Response to Sleep Dealer

At first, I must preface that this film has some problems. I found some of the decisions made throughout this film were, needless to say, clunky. The acting was par, at best. I don’t know if that falls on the shoulders of the talent, the direction by the director Alex Rivera, his dialogue writing, or some weird combination of all three. The visual effects did not age well, but most visual effects don’t age well anyways, but there seems to be an old Sci-Fi channel feel to this film, and I don’t know if that is good or bad. The story and plot, as far as emotion, was very lack-luster and generic. They seem to hit every classic movie clichés: dead father, guilt ridden son, untrustworthy relationship that blows up in the girl’s face but the girl is “forgiven” (and in this movie, “forgiven” for doing her job and being pretty honest and open about it) and the ending with the Rudy character just frustrates the hell out of me. The list of problems I have continues on, but I digress. Let me get to the most enjoyable part of the film in my opinion: the world Alex Rivera built and the questions being asked.

           The story takes place in an alternate world echoing Phillip K. Dick, where Mexicans are hired to do work through an apparatus that allows them to control worker robots in America. (Why didn’t they just program the robots to build the building without workers controlling them? It seems like the technology to do sucha thing is in the wheelhouse of this alternate reality they are in.) The large theme of this film is control and distance from that control. For example, the character, Rudy Ramirez, who is a drone pilot kills the main protagonist’s (Memo Cruz) father but Rudy has to come to terms with his murder of Memo’s father because he saw his face. (He’s killed god knows how many people before because of his job and is on TV because of it. And Rudy has no qualms ditching his family for the rest of his life to blow up a damn in Mexico. And despite being on TV and a successful pilot, lives with his parents…I’ll try to stop splitting hairs.) As Hito Described in Wretch of The Screen and How Not to be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File and in basic cinematography when a camera get high enough, we lose the human perspective on things and approach more of the perspective of God. We look down on things as the same as we look down at ants. Only, when Rudy gets low to the ground, more down to earth, he becomes more human and so does his victims.

           The other thing that was rather Orwellian was the TV and the water being controlled. The TV, similar to 1984’s “hate week” where they glorify the perceived heroes destruction of the perceived evildoer, when the reality is that no facts are given to either side but everyone must be inline with the destruction of the “evil” people or be ostracized from the community or potentially face harsher consequences. Water also is used as a control method. Making everyone work and pay for the right to drink water and exist, at the same time keeping them suppressed by increasing the cost of the water. Also, this film seems to address the immigrant issue in very unique way. In this reality, America is prospering from the work that immigrants due and at the same time they aren’t allowed in to the country (seems like Trump’s wet dream). This highlights the exploited nature of the immigrant and specifically, Mexican immigrants who come to the USA to have better life for them and their families. This isn’t new, this is what our country was made from but, especially now, it seems like we have forgotten that.

           Another part I enjoyed about the world that Sleep Dealer built was how it was never really addressed. Memo just exists in it. We don’t see how we got here, or when the world went to hell. We just see the impact of the time and setting and this adds an interesting mysterious layer to the film. We, as in the audience, have to solve that riddle for ourselves and ask ourselves questions. Did big corporate money cause all of this? What happened to the American Government? What happened to the Mexican Government? How did we get there? Are we heading there now?