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This is a very hot take (that shouldn’t be but the amount of harassment I’ve seen other people get for saying this is disturbing) but if the villain is destroying the planet or threatens to, & if it takes you & a entire fandom multiple rewatches to grasp this, then that’s not the writer’s fault no matter how much you use the bandwagon fallacy. That’s all yours.

This is in reference to a series called Murder Drones which has 8 episodes. In it, the main character (Uzi) teams up with the disassembly drones, one with which is named N who doesn’t remember anything from before he ended up in copper 9 besides his mission. The other is named V, who is hiding things from N. Uzi finds out in episode 2 that she has a mysterious eye known as the solver, that there’s nerfed versions of it within the disassembly drones, & that the solver & disassembly drones weren’t made by JCJenson (humans), which starts the whole mystery of the show that mostly concludes in episode 5.

In episode 2 we are introduced to the solver who controls the corpse of J & starts devouring worker drones in the colony to repair herself. They’re clearly the villain, right? Well if you still don’t buy it or think I’m “making this up with headcanons”, the solver directly shows & says it’s evil multiple times in episode 2 alone. Go rewatch the episode (4:22 - 4:42, 7:11 - 7:36, 12:48 - 14:05) before anyone accuses me or anyone else of lying to “glaze the show” again.

In episode 3, Doll refers to the solver as a curse (17:00 - 17:18) & it mind-influences Uzi in episode 4 to go on a killing spree (at first for oil, but then becomes joyful killing) (14:50 - 17:30).

Then we move onto episode 5 & OH BOY if you didn’t think the solver is the villain then, you’ll shake & cry in utter shock at the sheer show-not-tell scene that happens in episode 5! In a blink & you’ll miss moment, the solver speaks to Cyn where if she gives up her system access, the solver wouldn’t discard her, & the solver ends up controlling her body. BUT WAIT!! THIS IS A BLINK & YOU’LL MISS MOMENT?!? Well the entirety of episode 5 is about manor N, J & Tessa attempting to stop “Cyn” from massacring the gala AND BEFORE YOU START SOBBING “NOOO B-BUT THIS WAS A GOOD THING BECAUSE THE HUMANS MISTREATED DRONES AND IT WAS SO UNCLEAR THAT SHE WAS THE VILLAIN!!” that’s not the only thing she does!! Cyn reveals she had backups of N, & was killing him to forcefully turn him & V into disassembly drones which he has PTSD over. CLEARLY something a villain would do right?

I can keep going on but I know what you may be thinking- “how do we know that the solver is the villain & not Cyn just using the program? It’s only told to us in a blink or you’ll miss moment!!” Excusing episode 2 where it calls itself the solver twice before saying that it’s evil intentions- it (while disguised as Tessa) also admits in episode 6 that it took over Cyn’s body in a large exposition dump that’s not a blink or you’ll miss moment nor a fast paced scene.

Then you have episode 7 & 8 where the solver not only directly tells N she will eat the planet, Tessa shows this once with earth & twice with the other solar systems & also says this twice, Doll brings this up to Tessa, & Nori says this once & showed it almost happened on copper 9 before. But what if you somehow missed all this? Well the solver at the end of episode 7 says “I’m starving“, jumps down copper 9’s hole which causes an explosion, & then in the next episode starts grabbing the knocked-back debris back towards the planet to devouring it in one ago

All of this… and the most common complaint about the writing is that “nothing’s explained”, mostly in regards to the plot in the sense of it “not being clear” if the literal eldritch intelligence / horror (manifested within corrupted AI) who wants to devour planets is a villain or not. Are we fucking serious?

Yes the pacing is a bit fast, but if a character has to directly stare at the very center of the screen, yell out “I am evil”, show this for over 15 scenes, have the other characters directly show & say multiple times “the solver (NOT CYN) is gonna destroy the planet” & you still needed 10 rewatches to grasp this, then no, the plot being hard to grasp isn’t the fault of the writer at that point, it’s all your fault no matter how many times you use the bandwagon fallacy.

The “more complex than ARGs & FNAF” lore & dialogue in question is SOME of this, there are much more examples:

• The solver: “you are our cute puppets” “I am a monster” “I am evil” “Time to go into my mouth now” (episode 2) “easier to assimilate then explain anyways” ”I am the absolute fabric, the void, the solver, the exponential end.” (episodes 2, 5 & 7) “Time to reset these memories one more time” “Intimidating glare” (episode 5) “You know, you’re the reason I wanted to retain your team’s personalities. You always suprised me. Loved to do anything.” ”I’m starving” “Thanks for giving me the planet, idiot” (episode 7). “Time to take over da universe” “prank!“ (episode 8)
• Doll saying that the solver is a “curse” (episode 3) that needs to be “exorcised” (episode 7). Doll says “I will not let the solver use me to consume the planet” & Tessa says “I doubt it needs you buddy” (episode 7)
• Khan repeating Nori’s words that the solver “singularity will awaken” (episode 4). “the solver’s coming, you need-“ note from a dead worker drone from cabin fever labs (episode 4)
• The solver correcting itself as the solver, & not Cyn (episode 5). Tessa’s room including Cyn’s religious / mythology symbolism (episode 5)
• Tessa (the solver in disguise as her) saying “it took Cyn as a host. Then, it took everything… the humans here heard about what happened to earth. They thought they could understand the solver. When we get to the labs & find that list, I need to find which drones are infected”. (episode 6)
• All the scenes of the patch, cabin fever labs pre-episode 6, all the constant possession scenes of the solver possessing Uzi… (episodes 4 - 8)
• The whole point of the patch being that it directly blocks the solver’s direct possession over it’s hosts (episodes 7 - start of 8)
• Nori having a whole conversation with N about the solver while showing him a note of information she got from the solver “put disassembly drones with nerfed solver- the entity ensures control” (episode 7) & ending it off with “now the solver’s found it’s way back to finish the job, who’s it’s host”. (episode 7). Nori later saying “the solver needs a host, destroy Cyn’s core (to stop the solver)”. (episode 8)
• N’s “-and gave her ungodly eldritch generics!” dialogue to Nori (episode 7).
• Uzi saying “will the solver control me again?” & “how stop?” (episode 8).

The “more complex than ARGs & FNAF” lore ONSCREEN scenes in question that prove the solver being the villain is not “too confusing to grasp & requires 10 rewatches” is some, but not limited too:

- The solver killing & changing N, V, J & other manor drones into immortal killing machines against their will. J was forced into a deal with her to commit genocide so they will eventually be left alone, no linger being endlessly tortured anymore if they completele their mission. Even after N serves his purpose, the solver doesn’t honor their deal, & J acknowledges she was tricked too.

- The solver killing everyone at a gala including the one person that saved her (Tessa) that might be a child & fused their corpse with themselves to disguise, manipulate & mock N & V.

- The solver brutally killing worker drones & eating them for matter. Making a hologram of Uzi’s dad & eating him infront of her before mocking her.

- The solver blowing up earth, multiple planets within other solar systems (or solar systems in general) & wiping out all of humanity. Additionally, the solver killing all the humans in cabin fever labs.

- Blocked Doll’s regeneration, toyed with her & let her escape just to make Uzi more afraid & to frame her

- Possessed multiple characters & drove 2 insane

- Was planning to eventually assimilate the universe

The lore is SPOON-FED so much, you would think the show was meant for 1st graders & it’s stunning how you can watch all of this, have the characters scream in your face “WE HAVE TO STOP THE SOLVER IT DID ALL THESE HORRIBLE THINGS!” & come away with “well this was so confusing, was the solver the villain?“ & double down that anyone who says that this was easy to grasp are “coping“. I’m fucking tired of the fandom & big creators gasliting others into believing that the dialogue or show-not-tell scenes in general is “objectively too complex”.

If you see a character say they are gonna torture others & devour a planet, it’s fucking obvious that they‘re villain. Insisting that the villain “didn’t directly tell us they’re evil (THEY DO. MULTIPLE TIMES!! THAT’S HOW MUCH THE SERIES SPOON-FEEDS TO US) & all these other fans agree they needed 100 rewatches to piece this together therefore I’m objectively right” & hiding it behind a shield of “well it’s just my opinion & all writing critiques are always subjective / valid (even if they’re completely false) so just admit the writing’s objectively bad!” is the most arrogant comeback.

If anyone needs more timestamps for specific dialogue as proof that I’m not a glazer, I’ll add more timestamps.

Is chatgpt down right now?

I use browser to access reddit. Whenever I try to upload any video under the “images & video” section (on any reddit sub), most of the time if it’s over 20 seconds (let alone a minute or more) the loading bar goes through in photo gallery really quick but it doesn’t actually pop up where it says “drag & drop or upload media”. With longer videos it goes slower but still doesn’t upload.

Most videos I try to post for awhile are atleast 20 seconds up to 1 minute - 3 minutes, & are at 30fps & 1080p. But even 720p doesn’t work most of the time. The sizes of those videos are usually less than 300MB up to at max an estimated 1300MB due to the editing software.

The video I’m trying to upload now is 9 minutes long & is still not working. When I search it up it says the max that reddit allows is 15 minutes & a max file size of 1GB (& the size is below 1GB), so is this a bug?

I use safari & tried regular mobile browser, regular browser desktop version, private tab, & the private tab desktop version. I also tried all those for google chrome & still no luck.

I use browser to access reddit. Whenever I try to post any video under the “images & video” section (on any reddit sub), most of the time if it’s over 20 seconds (let alone a minute or more) the loading bar goes through in photo gallery but it doesn’t actually pop up where it says “drag & drop or upload media”. Most videos I try to post for awhile are a minute or more, & at 30fps & 1080p. But even 720p doesn’t work most of the time. The sizes of those videos are usually less than 300MB up to at max, estimated 1500MB due to the editing software.

The video I’m trying to upload now is 9 minutes long, but when I search it says the max that reddit allows is 15 minutes & a max file size of 1GB, so is this a bug or is there limits depending on the sub?

To me & others I think reducing N’s entire arc about him standing up for himself & his new future, & not allowing others to manipulate or mistreat him anymore to “just being Uzi’s boyfriend” & therefore poorly written is weird, given that Uzi even as a friend was the one person who treated N well (J abused him & jumped at the chance at him rebelling & killing him. Even if she knew that he would come back with his memories wiped & did secretly care for him she still never treated N well for years even before Cyn became her new boss. Meanwhile V sided with J, tried to isolate N from Uzi & was willing to harm him to prevent him from knowing the truth even if she had good intent behind it) & opened the door for him to have a good life.

You can argue “he does everything because of Uzi” or that he “only stands up to J, Tessa & Cyn because of Uzi”, but he argued with V in episode 3 & 4 because she was hiding things from him & not once does he bring up Uzi, & then expresses his anger twice at V for things that had nothing to do with Uzi (V threatening to kill prom, & V mocking Doll’s parents deaths). When N decides to stand up to V in episode 4 (to stop her from killing Uzi for, in his eyes, no reason), he still does it on his own. Uzi also only ever tells N to stand up for himself in episode 1.

In all other cases where he “does everything because of Uzi”, he does it in situations where Uzi AND V are in danger. An example being in episode 6 where he’s confused & annoyed at Tessa seemingly stalling while Uzi & V are about to get dissected by Alice. He only says “…and Uzi?” when Tessa refuses to acknowledge that they have to save Uzi too. It’s hard to see this as a genuine critique (even if it’s a subjective opinion) when it’s extremely in-character for N to care about his loved ones, & Tessa by this point was acting suspicious (they were directly across the room Uzi & V were at, & Tessa still wanted to “walk & talk“ with N & was typing gibberish on a office computer, all while initially ignoring N pointing out that the room was nearby). He doesn’t directly sit down with V & go over how her mistreatment alongside J’s affected him & her needing to apologize, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t learn to stand up against it at all.

Even if we were to say that he only stood up to others because of Uzi, does it really bring so much harm to the writing? Uzi & N both are outcasts that constantly lift eachother up in the series. Uzi was the only one who believed in N & didn’t see him as useless (while J & V caused his poor self-worth), the one person that stripped Cyn’s memory wiping control (& therefore N & V’s loss of autonomy) away, gave him a chance to help other workers in the bunker & comforts him.

She represents N’s new future in a literal sense because if she dies (whether N knows this or not, but likely not) then the smallest chance to stop Cyn gets erased. And without Uzi or V, he wouldn’t be happy at the bunker or in the spire by himself.

“But he prioritized Uzi over V who he’s known as a friend for years!” But this claim is only ever taken out of context (even if all criticism in media is subjective & therefore always valid while all counter arguments are always invalid, a youtuber told me this so it must be true!) in reference to the start of episode 7 of N in shock trying to break through the rock collapse to get to V, where he stops because of his actions almost getting Uzi killed (he sends a rock hurtling towards her on accident) & Tessa stops him due to there being bigger issues (like them being on a time limit to gather more information while Uzi’s slowly being possessed by the solver planning to destroy the planet).

There’s also scenes where N becomes desperate & acts on very bad impulse to the point where he (although not fully intentionally or with bad intent) prioritizes V’s safety over Uzi as well. Like in episode 7 where he tells Uzi to use her solver even while it was slowly possessing her, or in episode 8 where he gives his position away in order to warn V (& both him & Uzi were unsure if that was the real V, or Cyn / the solver impersonating as her), which almost got him killed (& could’ve gotten Uzi killed if Cyn / the solver noticed her).

Saying “N prioritized the universe over Uzi by killing Tessa which makes his character just Uzi’s boyfriend” is also a fundamental misunderstanding of the middle of episode 7 scene. Tessa in episode 6 was already stalling & manipulating N, the beginning of episode 7 shows how focussed she was on tearing her & N apart, Nori & N both escaped the solver trying to kill them & learn that either Doll or Tessa was also being controlled as the main host (& N knew it wasn’t Uzi or Doll), he found out Tessa was hiding that there was a cure for the solver’s influence (which meant that Cyn / the solver was likely Tessa in disguise given that Cyn / the solver’s initial goal was to eliminate other competitor solver hosts), she tries to manipulate N again & repeats the same thing Cyn / the solver did. When “Tessa” dies like a actual human (that was still Cyn / the solver in disguise) he’s in shock of what he did, but shakes it off to help Uzi who almost died to her.

Keep in mind that by this point he almost got his memories wiped again, found out his girlfriend was slowly becoming possessed, earth is gone, he almost died to the sentinels, assumed V died while he couldn’t do anything to stop it, was told by Cyn directly that he only has sentience because Cyn allowed it, made him remember what he did prior to his memory wipes, & mocked him all in the span of a single day.

He also didn’t “prioritize Uzi over the universe after killing Tessa” (& yes you can still have this opinion since “all criticism is subjective & valid”, we were just making counterarguments on the last post against the corpse spire argument, please don’t harass me or my friend again) since right after he does so, the first thing he does is give Uzi the patch so that she’ll be cured from the solver’s influence & wouldn’t be possessed to destroy the planet.