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No, you don't understand, the fact that "Terminals play music to lure machines" is even a theory, in universe, implies that Machines being capable of appreciating music is not just canon, it is a fact known and accepted by the humans who made them in the first place.

Please, listen to me, they put appreciation of art into their blood powered tools of war and it's the only reason why their self expression yet finds appreciation even after humanity's end.

Just, just be with me for this. V1s creator might have been into drum and base. Ultrakill OST might just be as canon as the graphic settings (see: Sentry codex entry).

V1 has a fucking "tunes to listen to at work" playlist, and a dedicated song for throwing hands with V2 on it. But it also has a Gabriel theme, and it's creator couldn't possibly have met him. And the songs are so fitting for the stages in general... omg

V1 has a fucking composer AI. It's creator made their super weapon, the "Supreme Machine" a fucking musician. V1 makes music it commits mass murder to. It made a music for Gabriel and V2. 2 songs with themes and motifs for each of its rivals.

Wait wait, fuck. Fuck, wait.

V1

Composed the god damn Requiem motif. It took a look at Lust and went "ahh, yes, a gut wrenching violin solo for this place". And then it put that motif into Order. Which means...

Which means V1 understands the tragedy of the Lust layer and King Minos. Which mean the mindles-ness of its carnage across Hell isn't total. It understands how sad it is enough to make art about it.

I need a moment.

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a tragedy in four parts

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honestly? gabriel better NEVER take off that fucking helmet. i dont wanna know what he looks like underneath

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Much like how our brains can calculate trajectory (aka aim) even when we don't know the formula, I think Gabriel and all angels just intuitively understand advanced math, because what is god's design if not the laws of physics, and what is physics if not applied math.

And you know what is also math? Programming. He would not be entirely wrong to deify V1 as they might as well have divinity running in their circuits. In this essay I will

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i like to think about music within ultrakill - not the soundtrack but the known effects of music on machines - and i dont see too many other ppl talk about it in the way i think about it

music attracts machines - iirc somewhere in the game it says that machines were drawn to it, thats why the terminals play music - to lure in machines - something is hardcoded into machines to love music, to always seek it out, to always find where its coming from

and ofc that goes for V1 as well (re: the seemingly common hc i see in fics that V1 composed the soundtrack) and at least for how i play the game - no matter what without fail i almost always go to the terminal before starting the level - i already have al the guns unlocked and ive read over the entries on enemies countless times, yet i still always without fail at least stop by it for a few seconds before i start the level

id like to think v1 is attracted to music of all kinds - while it may have a preference on what itll actively listen to - it'll still always seek out sources of music if it hears any

this takes me to 6-2. when gabriel starts playing the organ - it feels like its a call for v1 - whether Gabriel knew it or not - he was actively asking it to come to him (yes, i know he also verbally told him that - but just go with me here okay? im insane about these guys)

Gabriel and V1 already have a calling to each other - neither of them know it. but something in the world and hell made it so those two would meet. that theyd fight. and that everything would happen

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people say stuff all the time like "omg how are there homophobes/conservatives in X fandom?" but for ultrakill I really have a hard time believing it. how do they even survive in this space insisting that these characters are 100% heterosexual males. the game's head developer is calling gabriel submissive and breedable on discord as we speak. this is an actively hostile environment for them

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girls never flirt normally anymore they just say shit like "YOU WERE BEAUTIFUL, OUTSTRETCHED LIKE ANTENNAS TO HEAVEN" and "YOU WERE BEYOND YOUR CREATORS" and "YOU REACHED OUT FOR GOD, AND YOU FELL" and "THIS IS THE ONLY WAY IT SHOULD HAVE ENDED"

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gay people never just say "youre cute" its always gotta be shit like "MACHINE, TURN BACK NOW" and "YOU MAKE EVEN THE DEVIL CRY" and "BEHOLD THE POWER OF AN ANGEL" and also "AS THE RIGHTEOUS HAND OF THE FATHER I SHALL REND YOU APART AND YOU WILL BECOME INANIMATE ONCE MORE" and then they keep teleporting above you and trying to kill you with a sword etc etc like oh my god stooooppp

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i wonder what life was like on an earthmover

how much time were the first inhabitants given to grieve the earth, before having to wake up to an 8-hour work day?

were there schools on the earthmover? did teachers have to describe grass and trees to children born on the back of metal?

could there only be pale white and yellow lights? or did they hang up christmas lights every year?

did old couples long to swim at a warm beach? did young ones imagine what it would have been like?

and when the sky went black, could they still dream of a brighter future?

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Gianni made a joke on stream about Gabriel just looking like black morphsuit under his helmet, no distinct facial features and tbh I love the idea of angels looking kind of like the mannequins, but black and gold. Shaped like a living thing but never really meant to be alive. There's so many interpretations of Gabriel being hesitant to remove his helmet because the radiance beneath would be overpowering or terrifying. But now I'm thinking of the opposite scenario. V1 has an eye the glows like the sun. Its design is so intricate and purposeful.

How, then, could Gabriel bear to remove a helmet of polished holy metal and glittering gold just to reveal to it a face, blank like an unpainted doll? How could he show how he, stripped of every vestment, was nothing but a featureless puppet, strangled by its own strings?

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i'm having a lot of fun here

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Making “I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream” memes until I write my fanfic pt/day 5

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Dudes healthcare is so fake. My ADHD meds are $940 without insurance. But they gave me a website of "coupons" which straight up looks like a scam website, and I got it today for $60! Just a coupon from a random website and it was $900 cheaper. America, I am confusion!! America explain!!

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adhd paralysis sucks bcuz im just sitting there and my brain is like

YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME

no work done no rest gained. literally no point of this at all

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One of my favorite hobbies is thinking about the fucked up implications of this fantasy world map my parents got me for christmas

[Image ID: photo of a map. On the left side of the map is Middle Earth, with the Shire and Mordor labeled. To the direct right of Mordor is Whoville.]

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Words for the Universe

kind (late Old English–1600) - Nature in the abstract or viewed collectively.

world (c.1175–) - The material universe; the cosmos; (also rarely) a system of celestial objects. Also figurative. Chiefly with the.

frame (a.1325–) - The universe, the heavens, the earth, or any part of it, regarded as a structure. Now archaic.

creature (c.1384–1611) - The created universe; creation. Obsolete.

university (c.1450–1642) - The whole world; the universe. Obsolete.

engine (?1510–1741) - The universe, or a particular division of it, considered as a working system. Frequently in engine of the world. Obsolete.

universal (1569–1628) - The universe. Obsolete.

universality (1577–1603) - The whole world; the universe. Obsolete.

mass (1587–1697) - The created universe; the earth. Obsolete.

universe (1589–) - All existing matter, space, time, energy, etc., regarded collectively.

all (1598–) - The universe, the macrocosm; the whole of nature or existence.

cosmosie (1600) - Cosmos.

macrocosm (1602–) - The universe (opposed to microcosm); the world of all nature.

existence (1610–) - concrete. All that exists; the aggregate of being.

system (1610–1816) - The whole scheme of created things, the universe. Obsolete.

megacosm (1617–1851) - macrocosm.

cosmos (1650–) - The world or universe as an ordered and harmonious system.

materialism (1817) - concrete. The system of material things; the material universe. Obsolete. rare. world-all (1847–) - The world considered as a unit; the universe.

panarchy (1848–) - A universal realm.

multiverse (1895–) - The universe considered as lacking order or a single ruling and guiding power.

metaverse (1994–) - Meta-universe; cosmology: the hypothetical combination of all co-existing or sequentially existing universes.

SPECIFIC TERMS

static universe (1871–) - A universe which does not move or change.

block universe (1881–) - The universe conceived as resembling an unchanging block.

plenum (1887–) - A space completely filled with matter; spec. the whole of space regarded as being so filled. Contrasted with vacuum.

expanding universe (1931–) - The universe regarded as continually expanding, so that the galaxies are steadily receding from one another.

steady state (1948–) - An unvarying condition in a physical process, especially as in the theory that the universe is eternal and maintained by constant creation of matter.

bubble universe (1982–) - In some inflationary models of cosmology: any of an infinite number of universes formed as expanding regions within a space.

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