#robot theory

[xyz-bot-theory]

Okay! So I was scrolling through the Mechanic blog’s oldest posts and something stuck out to me, now this may be far-fetched but so is everything this blog will hold— being run by an eccentric theorist and all.

SO! SENTIENCE THEORY!

So much of this is important information.

“You, of all people, would know their programming. I don’t think it would take much more than a light rainfall to revert them back to dispatching the living.”

This implies a few things

1. Mechanic actually helped design the robots in the FIRST PLACE. This isn’t much of a secret though so it just gives you solidification on his opinion and words about the bots.

2. A rainfall could revert their coding? That’s a whole new can of worms to open guys! That’s actually really interesting to me BECAUSE nobody flat out disproves it.

Which means that maybe if they know how to un-sentient robots if you will, they’ve done it before.

But that’s something I’m going to have to place on the drawing board for now because there’s something else that catches my interest if Gray is to be believed. The rainfall. Now as far as we know, none of the robots actually know the secret to their sentience. The reason seems to change everytime, doesn’t it?

Maybe there’s one consistency that we don’t know of, something that they’ve overlooked because it’s just an ordinary part of the Robot. So at first I thought that the sentience could’ve stemmed from some sort of less physical thing like a soul or a spirit or some spark of life and this could still very well be true! But I keep coming back to the rainfall comment. Rainfall. He doesn’t say it would completely destroy the robots. Just damage them. Or a PIECE of them. If there’s a piece that could get damaged by rainfall and instantly revert them back to their old coding then that means their sentience is a physical piece of them. Something that can be washed away by rainfall.

I think the best bet right now is a coding error. Most of the robots became sentient during times of action, or when something changed about their surroundings. Maybe this is a coding bug that’s visible easily, and so it gets fixed before the robots ever get the chance to leave the factory they were manufactured in. I think that the reason sentient robots are so very rare in the thousands out there, is because it’s a glitch that’s fixed if spotted. Something that needs to be able to hide long enough to grow. Something that’s jostled free if enough changes. I think that something in that bug lights up,

And let there be life.

[wrongonthecusp]

baby brightbill and his momma

[mychapel-004]

FNAF SPOILERS! SCROLL! TALKING ABOUT THE SPRINGLOCK SCENE!

i’ve seen so many people discussing the springlock scene in both negative and positive ways and i think it brings up really cool points about how matthew played that scene and balanced fan expectations with his own characterisation.

i think the discussions around this movie have rlly exposed the disconnect between fanon and canon in fnaf, especially talking abt the core games in isolation, bc frankly in the game universe (ignoring the books) we get Very Little characterisation for William other than the obvious, but Matthew managed to add so much in the way he talks and his body language.

in the reveal scene, we see afton at arguably his peak. in his first scene, he comes off as somewhat demeaning and judgemental until he recognises mike’s name, at which point he seems to have this nervous energy, rushing to cover it up but stumbling slightly, his reaction to the tables being turned even slightly is massive.

this is a man who committed multiple mrdrs in essentially broad daylight, hid the bodies in the most obvious place, and still got away with it, and then kept the crime scene as a trophy of his actions, and an ongoing prison sentence for his victims. he has been in complete control for decades, and is confident that he can deal with any kind of threat quickly. his confidence in his reveal is palpable

it changes when vanessa shoots him. the whole parallel with vanessa and the animatronics is hugely interesting too- how william refers to the animatronics almost endearingly as “kids” when he wants them to obey, how both vanny and the animatronics have an unearned loyalty to him, almost a pseudo-adoption through what he did to them, taking them from their parents and keeping them under his thumb, forever stuck as naive, forgiving, obedient children. vanessa breaking from that control shakes him, but the mask slips back into place almost immediately.

then, he’s outsmarted by the brother of one of his victims, and the child he planned to end next. his pseudo-children turn on him and he can no longer manipulate his appearance or shed his skin to escape. he explodes on them, and his language is incredibly telling that he is being dishonest.

he calls them small, trying to belittle them into submission, even though they are ten feet tall metal animatronics powered by rage. he is grasping at straws to regain control, and failing miserably.

finally, the springlocks go off. the locks in the movie look more like a ribcage, so the first two likely puncture his lungs. they’re slow, and painful, but he doesn’t scream or beg or sob. he grunts and groans, gritting his teeth and only letting out sounds of pain that sound almost involuntary. there is no way in hell he would visibly let himself show weakness or pain in front of these creatures that he believes he has control over. he isn’t brought to his knees until there are eight metal spikes embedded in his abdomen. he doesn’t let the mask fall for even a second, until he literally PUTS THE ACTUAL MASK ON and finally collapses. even then, he’s fighting for consciousness, twitching and writhing with no control over his body. william afton thrives on control, and his soul will not rest until he gets it back.

it’s why he keeps the pizzeria- he always comes back. he can’t help but return to the scene of the crime, putting on his old costume, continuing his killings. he revels in being a constant threat on the horizon. and now, he knows he is going to die, and he knows the suit will bring him back, and noone will be able to get rid of him then. so he puts the mask back on, and waits.

in terms of the sfx- they’re pretty accurate. with stab wounds, you need to leave the knife in the wound as long as possible for best chance of survival, as it stops the blood from escaping. in terms of the springlocks, there wouldn’t be copious amounts of blood as the locks are keeping the wounds filled- which is good because it means a slower, more painful death.

[7-ferrets-in-a-coat]

Just like in the game

Highly unpolished but tbh i dont feel like poishing rn LOL

[ohyka]

that one scene in dungeon meshi but it's robot!Trudy and for some reason she snaps/malfunctions

[veveisveryuncool]

i must draw Her more

[sea-dwelling-wizard]

no, i won't ever be normal about animation

[luminous-orb]

doodle comic i made just before beating VLR. not to worry, I Know Now :)

[petracozbi]

[tio-trile]

Some of the photos I took of the cast and showrunners at the Chaos Theory panel yesterday : )

[troylougferdaday]

Day 23. This took me eleven hours.

Don’t get me wrong, eight of those hours was spent on the background alone lmao

Some extras

[xyz-bot-theory]

Do you have anything as to why theres so many more medibots than other robots?

I am going to take this entirely from a theory perspective so do not mind my disregarding of the obvious “the medibots were the first ones and everyone wanted one”

Alright SO—

Medibots are indispensable compared to the other models. They probably cost almost double the other models with the technology needed with each one, their medigun and medi pack and stuff. We already notice that there are a lot less medibots on the field than other models, so it could be that they are being held in reserve in the factories for a later date when they are more needed in battles.

Although they are more targeted, a lot of medibots would have a lot of time on their hands in the factories, even if they are shut down during these periods. Their lifespan expectancies are much longer than any other bot not only because of their reserve but because of their übercharge, and the fact that they are ALWAYS protected by another stronger robot. They are not equip with weaponry often but that does not matter when you have a robot the size of a semi in front of one that it is using as a shield.

The life expectancy gives a medibot more time to experience situations, and gives it more time to actually become sentient. This is only one of the pieces that actually go INTO this theory, however.

Next we will take a look at their behaviors. We notice that robotic models tend to often take after the mercenary they are designed to match (until sentience, but even then it looks like it takes a little bit to wriggle out of the old behavior? A lot of the medibot blogs acted a lot more like medic when they first started out, but then they became something else entirely.)

The medic is a smart guy. One of the smartest if not THE smartest on the team, and he is no frail man. He is not your typical weak healer we often see in other medias, he is by definition a battle medic. He has survival instinct. This intelligence may partially transfer to the robotic counterparts. A Medibot’s experience is the most unique of any model, as they are not built for combat, and have earlier been mentioned to have been held in reserve in other locations like the factories. They experience the most types of situations, stimulating senses that may have not been there before. And the effect of the übercharge on a robot may have yet more secrets to uncover, as in a human it hyper-stimulates so to speak their HEART. Which AGAIN plays into that “sentience is held in a physical part of the robot” theory. For the übercharge to work a robot has to have a piece of hardware to allow the effect to take hold, a piece that otherwise would serve no further purpose.

For a medibot, the nature of their role and the übercharge may indeed play an important piece in beginning the path to sentience.

[creative-robot]

I know The Founders Cut, generally, is the edited scrubbed over version of genloss from Showfall in-universe (as well as a not-8-hour-long-three-stream-binge-night whenever we want to watch it again) but something that struck me as odd and I haven’t seen anyone mention yet, is this warning

It shows up right at the junction where the third act starts, where it appears the Hero is breaking free of Showfall thanks to Hetch. But here’s the thing, while a LOT less than the previous acts the audience still played a significant role in this act, even when really only given two audience interaction choices. Which makes me wonder, how real is this warning, and who is it for? Obviously the audience involved knows what happens past this point, but the audience is also implied to be an integral part of the Social Experiments, which is part of why things start to tweak out when the Founder removes them in the Founder Cut as the Generation Loss generation loses.

My first thought, was that obviously this is another bait and switch, a way to draw the audiences attention, seeing something that’s secret, something that’s not “meant for them”, which is a tactic I could see Showfall using in universe to keep people’s attention and add an air of mystery to their shows.

But

Showfall is doing all their experiments and these shows with a LOT of help from their censors to show it off, displaying a fun silly show that is definitely not uber fucked up and that is 100% just slime don’t worry about it, it’s kid friendly if it’s green! And I don’t think they’d want to bet all their cards on this one experiment doing well enough to their audience to not question the sudden shift in tone that follows this warning. Which makes me wonder.

They did their test, they did their experiment, and the evidence of this last act? I think it was a one time run, they don’t want anyone seeing this, it isn’t for the audience. Act three is specifically to both test and play with their Hero, Hetch’s new lines add a level to this, never once does he call the Hero by their name, just refers to Ranboo as their Role, and he’s not exactly. Nice? About literally any of Ranboos concerns, which wouldn’t really seem conductive to making an audience trust him, especially with his monologue at the end. Ranboo has escaped before, possibly right before act 1 started, they tightened the security on his mask to be unremovably part of them, Hetch doesn’t like the Hero but they’re a fan favorite so he can’t just get rid of them.

Act three is the cumulation of Ranboo being punished for things they don’t remember, for daring to break free from Showfalls control, this is Hetch taking the Hero and essentially majorly fucking and manipulating them to take his frustration out on a fan favorite they can’t otherwise get rid of or give a smaller role like Slimecicle. which is exemplified by the fact that we now know Charlie most likely was never able to actually able to fully snap out of the control, that even in act three in panic and confusion there was at least still a part of him being influenced by Showfall.

So the first two acts are the usual show, they have their posters, they have Squiggles to introduce them, they have goofs and silliness and only a couple slip ups that’re quickly dealt with, the usual rose tinted curtains. Act three?

Do not watch the following material

[syppys-den]

"That silly robot thought kindness was a survival skill" FR tho, why is this movie lowkey based? also for maximum viewing experience, watch with your mother

[aecholapis]

October 23rd: Last Friday Night

Flowspade / Megaempress

For the @tfrarepairing fest 2024

[professional-court-jester]

i’m genuinely of the belief that the megamind sequel/tv show was meant to premiere on nickelodeon in like 2011 alongside their other spinoff shows, but then got shelved after the movie flopped financially and has been sitting around in some archive gathering dust until peacock decided to release it as “new content.”

like, can we just look at the visual evidence alone?

he fits right in with this lineup. peacock, i’m onto you