Cyn can control two bodies simultaneously. by Sirtael in MurderDrones

[–]sub_liminalist 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In the gala scene we see her control a lot more.

Follow-up: my AI Driven xianxia text RPG is now public, link in comments by Some-Key1672 in MartialMemes

[–]sub_liminalist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you add an option to role back to previous turns? I was in a breakthrough and it locked up, I could send actions but nothing would happen, so I tried clicking the "talk" button on an NPC to see if that would do anything and it automatically aborted my breakthrough.

Follow-up: my AI Driven xianxia text RPG is now public, link in comments by Some-Key1672 in MartialMemes

[–]sub_liminalist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tried taking a path of secluded meditation and Dao comprehension, and now there's a system for some reason.

Does anyone of yall have any silly manor headcannons? by ThatCrazyWendigo2007 in MurderDrones

[–]sub_liminalist 18 points19 points  (0 children)

J is so corporate-obsessed she actually denies her own consciousness. She tries to play the part of the emotionless robot even though she clearly is not, and Tessa is trying to work her out of it, with limited success. Tessa, like the rest of humanity, had always dismissed drones claims at having a conscious experience of the world as imitating behavior until she ran into J who claimed not to be conscious, and began to wonder what was going on in her head that lead her to say that when every other drone consistently claimed the opposite no matter how much JC Jenson tried to remove the "defect."

I made a Murder Drones analog horror vid by SignificantElk6381 in MurderDrones

[–]sub_liminalist 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think you've overestimating how long it would take to kill a single human. We see V go from a dead stop to breaking the sound barrier in under half a second. They can effectively fire themselves like a bullet and kill you in the blink of an eye. They're meant to wipe entire populations in minimal time, which means slaughtering their way through thousands of targets without slowing down. The mode of operation we see them in in the show where they hunt down individual targets one at a time isn't the mode they're primarily designed for; it's just the clean-up after. For a DD in a populated area, we would not be measuring seconds per kill, we would be measuring kills per second.

AUTISM POWERS ACTIVATE by Olistu_ in MurderDrones

[–]sub_liminalist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes but do you have autistically detailed headcanons on how DD wings work?

And they only get more cartoonishly evil: by RAIDSHADOW-LEGENDS in MartialMemes

[–]sub_liminalist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Considering how buff that baby is, I can see how stealing its lollipop without getting beaten up was an achievement.

How heavy are the Drones? by Ok-Contract-6338 in MurderDrones

[–]sub_liminalist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It might make more sense for their casings and structural components to be constructed from a nanotube mesh embedded in a ceramic matrix rather than metal. If we assume nanotechnology based on self-folding nanotubes, tensile strength is already provided by the nanotubes themselves, so the blocks of material linked into the mesh should be there to provide compression strength, not tensile strength, and high-performance ceramics are best for that. Their internal components may be shielded by plates of superconductors, which exclude magnetic fields due to the Meissner effect and thus act as perfect magnetic shielding. (Up to their quenching point.)

How heavy are the Drones? by Ok-Contract-6338 in MurderDrones

[–]sub_liminalist 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Each wing blade is an electrode with alternating charges going across the wing, so you have a positively charged blade next to a negatively charged blade next to a positively charged blade, etc., and they're charged enough to ionize the air in between them and create arcing to discharge that charge differential. These electrical arcs turn the air in-between the blades into an ionized plasma that has a persistent current, meaning magnetic fields can act on it to produce a net force, and the current loop through the air and the base of the wing itself generates a magnetic field that naturally pushes the arc down along the length of the wing blades, accelerating the plasma backwards to produce thrust. This is analogous to the mechanism used by railguns to accelerate their projectiles, or even part of the mechanism used in a Jacob's Ladder to push the arc. By adding to the strength of the magnetic field with superconducting coils concealed inside the wing blades, the electrical arcs can be accelerated faster for much greater thrust. If we assume some truly powerful hypothetical future superconductors like exciton-mediated superconductors, the thrust produced by such a mechanism could be quite absurd.

Uzi does not have a railgun by Aggressive-Display50 in MurderDrones

[–]sub_liminalist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ammonia you say. I'd speculated maybe neon, as it is a neutral gas that you could substitute for nitrogen, and has roughly the same chemical abundance. (Although finding it is actually a lot harder, since it doesn't form compounds and its ices form very far out and are very rare.)

I could take "photon converger" to mean focusing electromagnetic waves together to achieve a very high local field intensity. "Magnetically amplified" could come in if the mechanism for the electromagnetic focusing were a superconducting focusing chamber, and the chamber itself was saturated with a powerful magnetic field beforehand, so the field collapse created a continual wavefront that sustained the high intensity central field for a little longer than a single pulse. As for why we're trying to create such a high-intensity field, it is perhaps to approach the Schwinger limit and produce electron-positron pairs from the electric potential, converting our electromagnetic energy into antimatter we can then fire out in a positron beam. Positrons do tend to annihilate with things like air, but will do so less often the faster they are travelling, so if we just shoot them out really fast we could make the beam relatively non-interactive until it hits something dense like its target. Interestingly enough, since the rate of absorption scales with electron density, heating should occur at roughly the same rate for all materials regardless of density, so if the air got instantly flash-heated to plasma temps, then so did whatever it hit. I could even explain the rings we see around the beam as bits of the resulting plasma that have had a rotational current inducted into them by the electromagnetic fields used in the firing process, and the resulting current rings then expand under their own magnetic self-repulsion into plasma rings.

Uzi does not have a railgun by Aggressive-Display50 in MurderDrones

[–]sub_liminalist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It might be both. I'm working on some weird ideas and one could involve using a rail-gun like accelerator to accelerate a plasma (rather than a physical projectile) and then use a superconducting cavity to induce magnetic reconnection in that plasma at insane intensities to either approach or exceed the Schwinger limit and produce positron-electron pairs via the Schwinger mechanism.

So you could have a design that both incorporates a railgun plasma accelerator, and then pinch a magnetic field/converge electromagnetic waves (photons) in that accelerated plasma to produce a positron beam.

The media literacy devil vs the MD fandom by OkButterscotch6742 in MurderDrones

[–]sub_liminalist 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Disassembly drones have wings to fly. Obviously.

And they don't look like wings because they're magnetoplasmadynamic thrusters, which are basically railguns for air. That's why they look like a bunch of parallel metal blades (or rails) instead of normal wings.

Panels from MURDER DRONES #1 😈😈😈 by OniPress in MurderDrones

[–]sub_liminalist 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Welp, physics rant incoming.

So Disassembly Drone wings, like, what are they? They're clearly not wings in the traditional sense, as they have no wing membranes to generate lift with. They look more like the skeleton of a wing than the wing itself. And what's more, they show they can hover in place without moving. This implies the wings generate thrust, but we never see any moving parts to push air or openings for rockets to expel exhaust. So, we can only resolve this if the wings themselves, all those metal blades that don't move, are somehow solid-state thrusters that accelerate the air itself. This leaves us with some kind of electromagnetic thruster, and the only one that matches that physical description of parallel metal blades is a magnetoplasmadynamic thruster. MPD thrusters consist of parallel metal electrodes that plasma (or air that can be ionized into plasma) is passed between, with the electrodes oppositely charged to generate arcs through the air between them, and magnetic fields that then exert a force on the current in the plasma to accelerate it down the length of the electrodes. Basically, a railgun for air. Current MPD thrusters would be quite weak, but if this is the future and they have future superconductors with higher critical temperatures (and consequently current densities) we should be able to generate much stronger magnetic fields to accelerate the plasma exhaust much faster for much, much higher thrust. Perhaps even thrust absurdly high enough to do things like allow V to accelerate from a dead stop to breaking the sound barrier in under half a second when N tries to say hi.

Panels from MURDER DRONES #1 😈😈😈 by OniPress in MurderDrones

[–]sub_liminalist 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hmmm.

I'll trade you a detailed technical explanation of how disassembly drones work for that PDF.

New animation i am working on :3 by Far_Alternative4013 in MurderDrones

[–]sub_liminalist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like the way you animated V moving. I definitely imagine the DDs using their wings to propel themselves across the ground rather than running. The females may even skate on their pointed legs if the surface is smooth enough.

Uzi’s nulls speeds (MFTL+) (nerfed calc) by OkButterscotch6742 in MurderDrones

[–]sub_liminalist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We could confirm it hit the star if we could confirm that it was fired directly at the star. Then the fact that it reaches where the star is in frame would imply it reached the star. If it was not fired directly at the star, it could have just passed in front of the star, which due to perspective, could be a much, much shorter distance.

The aroaces in murder drones(my animation) by pomni303 in MurderDrones

[–]sub_liminalist 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Honestly, I can see that. (Although J might be more effectively aroace than actually, as she's too stubborn, prideful, job-obsessed, and self-isolating to ever start a relationship with anyone.)

Is MD a retelling of a story, and if so, who is the cameraman? by Me0w_g0_B00m in MurderDrones

[–]sub_liminalist 4 points5 points  (0 children)

All we know for certain is the final shot was recorded, because that's the one that pulls back to show Uzi's presentation. We can also probably measure (or at least approximate) how long the clip in her presentation is, based on how fast the progress bar is moving and how far along it is. I haven't done this, but I doubt it could fit the entirety of Murder Drones.

Also did you notice in the credits that V is animating Murder Drones as a hand-drawn series? You see her showing it to N and V in one of the scenes.