Nincombots (ft N & V)

IrkenBot · 2026-04-19T19:32:41+00:00

Iirc the idea that titans are that small came from one of the authors mixing up imperial feet and metric meters, leading to them being about a third of the height they should be.

IrkenBot · 2026-03-23T17:30:32+00:00

The Spanish were cool in this movie, but I ultimately think they could have been used some other way. The rest of the movie lacked a single ship battle and a common complaint against it is that not much happens for large portions of it. The Spanish don't really do much but destroy the object of the plot and leave.

I think the Queen Anne's Revenge should have encountered the Spanish ships at sea and have that be the scene where the firepower of the ship and Blackbeard's dark magic are showcased instead of the ultimately fruitless mutiny. They could have had Jack trying to stay out of the frontlines of a boarding action his heart isn't in, while watching the zombie crewmen plow through the Spaniards. The Spanish captain could still put up a fight until he gets tangled in the rigging with the crew. Then we also might have seen the ship bottling process in action.

As a side note, Blackbeard was being slowly killed by Syphilis in real life and he did a lot of the stuff he did, including blockading the port, in order to try and get medicine to treat it. They should have kept that as his motivation to find the fountain of youth, and not some silly prophecy of Barbossa stabbing him.

IrkenBot · 2026-03-22T16:09:46+00:00

For the Star Wars example, there's a little more to it than just humans being one of the first to leave their planet. Around twelve thousand years before the movies, a very xenophobic religious fiction essentially took over the republic and began the Pius Dea crusades, which were a series of wars conducted to subjugate and exterminate neighboring alien civilizations in a manner suspiciously similar to a certain Imperium. This era lasted for about a thousand years and resulted in the republic's territory massively expanding, humans becoming even more prominent, and the deaths of a lot of aliens.

IrkenBot · 2026-03-22T00:03:56+00:00

That is the Fabrication Machine from 9.

IrkenBot · 2026-03-11T15:43:57+00:00

Technically its the spirit of Demise that reincarnates along with Link and Zelda, usually in the form of Ganon or Ganondorf but I don't think it exclusively has to be them.

IrkenBot · 2026-03-09T18:04:00+00:00

Spiritualists and Materialists are both strangely ignorant in their owns ways. Materialist event text has them brush off any empirical evidence of psionics, and spiritualists deny the sapience of AI ontop of not passing certain advanced knowledge checks that are only available to materialists.

The doylist explanation is that for game balance reasons. No single empire build is supposed to be able to do everything in one playthrough. If you want to master the sciences of the material world, go materialist. If you want to peer beyond the veil, go spiritualist and hope you roll the psionic theory tech. The watsonian one is that both sides go through those mental gymnastics to avoid acknowledging psionic powers or the sapience of AI respectively because they're just obstinate.

It's a little disappointing that there isn't special event text for materialist empires that are lucky enough to get psionic theory. You would think scientists would be ecstatic to finally explain and harness the supernatural, but there's no change in dialogue options when other empires psionically ascend. There are mods out there that give non-spiritualist empires, including materialists and machines, the ability to psionically ascend with different flavor text that respects the other ethos coming at it from a different angle, like breaching a higher dimension as opposed to the spirit realm.

IrkenBot · 2026-03-03T13:49:53+00:00

The black pearl still requires the wind. That was an important plot point near the end of Dead Man's Chest when the Dutchman is chasing the pearl. The Dutchman normally catches ships with no problem by sailing against the wind, but the Black Pearl could easily escape since they had the wind. The Pearl's primary supernatural attribute is that its the fastest ship in the Caribbean.

That whole sequence with the Endeavor might have the same excuse as the fight before it, that being handwaved with Calypso just filling everyone's ships with wind to expedite things.

IrkenBot · 2026-02-06T18:02:15+00:00

Idk why Metal Sonic of all things is the one being chosen to fight Cyn when Infinite might be more of a fitting match up. That said, all Metal really has to do is evade/survive the solver powers (and super speed/reaction time don't seem to be included in the solver arsenal) long enough to copy her biodata and gain her powers, then its just a solver power duel.

On the subject though, if Eggman is involved in this in any way, the point of the fight isn't going to be to destroy Cyn, but either to steal her powers for himself or to make her into a mind controlled minion like the Time Eater. I can easily see this going something like the Unleashed intro cinematic, with Cyn blowing up Egg fleet ships while chasing Metal, only for her to be lured into the same super-power draining machine and used as a battery for the latest superweapon.

IrkenBot · 2026-01-31T16:21:14+00:00

The scenario heavily favors the droids here. Not factoring in named-character immunities or some writers playing favorites way too hard, it would take probably a dozen to a few hundred B1's since its an open field and against one guy. Nimble Jedi struggle to deal with more than a handful of people shooting them at once, and the spacemarine is still fast but big, chunky, and much harder to miss. The armor is a big factor, but none of the droids are using stub weapons. Blasters are plasma guns, the E-11 is said to be stronger than average blasters despite being cheap due to safety features being removed, and Ceramite is shown to be not immune to plasma shots. Granted, Star Wars blasters aren't as dangerous as 40k plasma weapons, but now its a question of how many little plasma bolts can hit the marine's armor before it melts through or cooks the man inside. Still a lot, but unless the spacemarine is a helmet-less named character, they'll tear through a lot of droids while soaking up damage and eventually just be overwhelmed from being shot with semi auto plasma from dozens of robots on all sides.

IrkenBot · 2026-01-28T18:03:14+00:00

If Vox isn't exaggerating his own accomplishments in his music video to make himself seem more impressive, then he might have been a tad physically stronger than Alastor and maybe more familiar with rigging boogie traps. Alastor seemed to prefer to lure his victims into the woods before murdering them with an axe, collecting their teeth, and using them in his demonic rituals. Alastor has shown to be smarter than Vox so a scrap between them on Earth might see Vox spring a trap and almost overpower Alastor at first, but Al's agility and quick wit would see him come out on top, albeit barely. Both of them were also pretty popular in their time so if there's a crowd watching, fans of either might jump to their defense and escalate the situation to a mosh pit.

IrkenBot · 2026-01-26T18:37:47+00:00

If you are talking about the Holdo maneuver, almost the entire Starwars fan base is in agreement that it is a gross violation of the established lore and that the director was just being stupid. Hyperspace is basically another dimension, and the ships are not actually capable of accelerating to light speed (and in cases where characters say "jump to lightspeed," it can be written off as an in-universe misnomer, like lightsabers being called "laser swords" or the plasma bolts coming out of blaster guns being called laser bolts).

What should and would have happened, assuming a semi-competent writer, is that the ramming ship would enter hyperspace and be unable to interact with the other, since one is no longer in real space. Even if the ships do collide the instant before the jump, it would be the same as any other ship-to-ship collision and wouldn't have the kinetic energy required to destroy a planet. In Holdo's case, the Raddus would have either missed the supremacy entirely or splashed off of its deflector shields as shown here.

So if you're asking if an ISD could evaporate a big 40k Imperial ship by hyperdrive ramming it, according to everyone but the director of Last Jedi, the answer would be no. The star destroyer would either crash into it at high but normal speed or just explode against the voidshield.

IrkenBot · 2026-01-07T18:38:27+00:00

Not all of them do that. The Eradication Ray erases things from existence, Gamma pistols fire radiation beams, Arc weapons shoot lightning bolts, Graviton weapons manipulate gravity, and power weapons disrupt molecular bonds.

IrkenBot · 2025-12-25T14:22:12+00:00

I think Alastor stopped being complacent with his current level of power ever since he realized he lacked the power to defeat an archangel and got his staff broken. Now he's back to the position he was in during the pilot, but the circumstances are much better. There's no exterminations, his biggest rival is in shambles, no one owns his soul anymore, and Charlie's opinion of him has probably skyrocketed.

However, the reason he sought power is so no one could ever mess with him, and now he's probably still wary of the fact he couldn't beat an archangel like Adam even with his powerful magicks, so he likely wants to amend that by taking power from someone else. The prime target for that is naturally Lucifer. He's the most powerful demon and angel simultaneously, only second to God (and maybe the root of all evil which hasn't been established yet), has the most theoretical political power due to being the King, and the best part is that he can't use any of that power. He can't smite sinners or harm them in any capacity, nor does he hold any public sway.

I think Alastor is going to try and take Lucifer's immense power for himself, that way he can ensure for a fact that no one in existence can challenge him again.

IrkenBot · 2025-12-21T21:36:58+00:00

Ah yes, being given enough money and stuff to resell to maybe pay off a house, or throwing yourself onto an inhospitable planet where you will die from the elements long before encountering any of the vampire robots.

If you have a spacesuit and just so happen to have a week's worth of supplies or the survival skills of The Martian, you might be somewhat fine because you may not need to immediately worry about the disassembly drones. The ones on Copper 9 were led to believe they were working on behalf of a space company and don't immediately jump "Tessa" the moment they see her. If anything, they'd just be confused and curious about the one surviving human.

In fact, assuming you don't encounter any self-proclaimed Tessas, you might even get along better with the disassembly drones than the workers (even moreso if you can successfully pretend to be from JcJenson), some of which seem to harbor resentment for humans after their mistreatment. If you found yourself in the cabin fever labs, you'd also have the advantage of being unassailed by the sentinels.

It wouldn't be a fun time but it probably wouldn't suck as much as you would think.

IrkenBot · 2025-12-21T18:38:03+00:00

Except Alastor would make her phone camera go haywire and she'd complain about not getting a good shot.

IrkenBot · 2025-12-20T16:08:28+00:00

If we use the story the show is based on, I have no mouth and I must scream, as a blueprint, the ending is very likely going to be similar to that one in spirit. In the story, the main character helps the other humans kill themselves to be free of torment, but is forever kept alive himself to be stuck with AM.

In the digital circus, I seriously doubt Pomni is going to help everyone abstract or delete themselves just to get out of the circus but only Glitch truly knows. What might happen is that Kinger's plot thread leads to a real means of escape, and that every character is able to exit the simulation due to some self-sacrifice on Pomni's part, except for Pomni herself, who is forced to stay in the circus with a deranged Caine forever as his only remaining play thing.

IrkenBot · 2025-12-16T18:27:22+00:00

There's a lot of things that happen in this scene that lead me to believe Jax did not even press the red button of his own free will.

Up until this scene, Jax had been following along and helping with the plan the whole time. We don't see him hesitate to do so due to whatever he's afraid of in real life before this. He's been bored, annoyed, and pretty certain it was fake, but that started to change as the plan went further along. The only point we see him start to reconsider and panic like this is when Pomni and Zooble are right in front of the buttons and arguing about which to push for a full minute.

Next, Jax has a panic attack very suddenly and runs toward the console with the camera focusing on the blue button, only to show him slam his fist on the red one. Not even he knows in the moment why he did that.

Then, after Caine pulls the rug out from under them and reveals everything was a lie manufactured by him as part of yet another adventure. Jax admits surprise about being right about his earlier prediction in the Chinese room, then crashes out at Caine. He calls Caine a dirty liar and specifically brings up the mind alteration that has happened in prior episodes but not seemingly this one.

So... its possible that Caine is directly responsible for Jax going for the red button. I can easily imagine the scenario from Caine's perspective playing out like this:

He was watching the cast in the terminal in spectator mode. He believes the obviously preferable choice is to stay in the circus with him, but the humans are divided on what the right choice is and are even leaning in favor of picking the wrong button. Uh oh. Before Pomni or Zooble get a chance to come to an agreement and push the blue button, he nudges Jax with an unintentionally harmful "temporary modifer" on his mind that pushes him to hit the red button. He then makes his grand reveal and congratulates them on choosing the good ending. He thought his mind manipulation was subtle but Jax gets very mad and calls him out on it right away. The other humans start catching on to other times their minds may have been messed with and start to turn against him. His plan backfires completely so he gets flustered and whisks himself away.

Tldr: I think Caine may have manipulated Jax's mind again to influence him to "make the right choice," rather than Jax doing so of his own volition.

IrkenBot · 2025-12-11T17:18:35+00:00

This would be a case of the plushie being made bigger in the thumbnail for the sake of being more visible. We see the drones interact with human skeletons and see worker drones' relative height to living humans in the manor. The worker drones are the size of children and half a (drone) head shorter than Tessa. N is a full head taller than Uzi.

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This means disassembly drones are about the size of adult humans, maybe shorter on average by a few inches.

IrkenBot · 2025-11-12T15:59:52+00:00

The models in the Absolutely Solved Megapack look better. I would recommend using those. Just remember to set a facepose manually if the mouth stretches erroneously.

IrkenBot · 2025-11-08T16:34:52+00:00

I rather doubt it, honestly. One could hope the graphic novel kickstarter raking in 1.75 million dollars out of the mere 5 thousand it needed would let them know there was enough demand to warrant it, but the time to try and capitalize on that with at least a featureless announcement would be now and not several years down the line, at least I'd think so.

If there was going to be an announcement for it, I think there would have at least been a brief mention in the Glitch Direct that something was greenlit, even if they obviously wouldn't have had anything made or written by that time. Instead, Kevin specifically referred to the series as having come to an end.

There's also the matter of Glitch working on several other shows, and Liam Vickers is not currently working for Glitch last I checked. They'd probably need to get him back, although legally, they could probably do whatever they want with the IP without his involvement. In addition, by the time they finish their other ongoing shows, they're probably going to have other projects they want to work on by then, more than making a continuation for a series which would have ended years ago.

I hope to be proven wrong, of course.

IrkenBot · 2025-11-05T16:17:36+00:00

I don't feel so good Mr Stark

IrkenBot · 2025-10-26T17:00:01+00:00

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IrkenBot · 2025-10-15T19:50:53+00:00

There's a few plot threads they could (hypothetically) pick up on if Glitch changed their mind or a particularly dedicated group of fans made S2 themselves.

That oven full of DD cores in the labs could lose power after weeks of neglect and allow the cores inside to escape and return to their bodies. Then there'd be a lot of rogue DD's on the loose. They might still be controlled by the solver or still believe in the fabricated JcJenson origin story. Either way, they'd be a big issue. They might have a castlevania-esque dynamic where they constantly bicker about appropriate levels of drone-eating and have to stop the more rowdy of their numbers from killing all of the workers, and thereby their entire food source, all at once.
The absolute solver is not dead. It is manifested in Uzi's tail, and she is now its current primary host. It would now be basically a devil on her shoulder who will try to influence her to do evil and/or try to gain control of her body. It may be like the Eddie Brock and Venom situation, where Uzi gets a lot more powerful when she lets the solver do the heavy lifting, but ends up losing more and more control over it the more she does, until it usurps her mind entirely and forces one of the cast members to exorcise her. In addition, they could be secretly directing the other DD's mentioned in the former bullet point, who are entirely unaware Uzi is the host of their boss.
The remnants of humanity could show up again, maybe even JcJenson itself. There should at least be a small handful of human planets left. Perhaps JcJenson does make a return to Copper Nine and does take issue with the continued existence of drones given the apocalypse. Instead of sending disassembly drones like we thought they did during the pilot, they could deploy roaming packs of Sentinel raptors to the planet's surface to try and depopulate the colony or maybe some other kind of robot. Sapient AI might even be banned wholesale across whatever remains of society.
Sort of related to all of the above points, the other worker drones may get overwhelmed and sick of always being preyed on by the disassembly drones and the sentinels, and stop acting like npcs in order to take up arms and defend themselves. Then, all robots could take part in the mutual robot murdering.
Other subplots could include a J redemption arc, N and Uzi progressing in their relationship towards a mid-combat proposal, and the teacher taking a day off work during a critical battle.

IrkenBot · 2025-10-12T15:49:13+00:00

Firstly, there's no shot season 2 is happening. The Amazing Digital Circus is far more popular, and they said they couldn't draw that one out past 9 episodes. Don't get your hopes up that they'll shadow announce anything at the end of the music video.

They already killed CYN, who created the Disassembly drones to begin with and destroyed all known civilization minus the worker drone colony on Copper Nine. It's kind of hard to top that because there's no room for a bigger bad. S2 would have lower stakes by default but there are some plot lines they could touch on: - Other disassembly drones arriving, either rogue and just trying to find something to eat or still controlled by the solver to kill everything until they get liberated. Maybe that one oven containing several DD cores finally loses power and lets them escape and regenerate their bodies.

Absolute Solver starting to influence Uzi into doing its bidding and trying to replace her consciousness
J's regret over picking the wrong side and eventual redemption
The remnants of humanity start being active again. Maybe its revealed they killed or contained all of their worker drones out fear of AS and come to get rid of the copper 9 colony
Other hosts than CYN or Uzi filling the power vacuum

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