thinking about how the machines in Ultrakill arent mindless. Thinking about how they think, they feel.
In the entry for the swordsmachine, its revealed that swordsmachines are seen as ugly by most machines. However, other machines in similar scraphead circles adore swordsmachine's look. They have communities, they have opinions on what is and isnt beautiful. And those opinions differ from machine to machine.
Mindflayers waste resources to create their bodies, bodies that are reminiscent of human bodies. These bodies serve no purpose, and yet mindflayers do anything to protect them, including self destructing themselves... for some reason. Maybe to prevent anyone else from getting their bodies? Even still, it shows that the mindflayers are willing to waste resources on this attachment. Because in some way, they love this body they've built.
V2, after losing to their predecessor, and losing their arm, is furious! They go deeper into hell, not to prolong themselves, but to repair purely so they can fight V1 again! And how mid fight, if V1 punches V2 with V2's old arm, V2 gets enraged! How this entire second encounter is purely because V2 is angry, likely feeling inferior because they got beaten by the older model.
A gutterman in LIGHT UP THE NIGHT, discards the casket on its body, opens it up, and crushes the skull of the long dead human inside. And it writes one last message to that human. The message mourns that human. It expresses guilt. Guilt that the human was suffering inside the gutterman. It expresses loathing, writing "I know I know you would hate me so, and mother of me, I do too." And that the gutterman wept when they crushed that skull.
Thinking about the two earthmovers, locked forever in their own personal duel, and yet when V1 approaches one, it takes the time to look down at this ant before it, and scream. Scream in fear for knowing that ant will be its end.
Thinking about V1. Who is scared to die. Who in their final moments begs and pleads.
Thinking about the first track of LIGHT UP THE NIGHT, titled, "Do Robots Dream of Eternal Sleep". How it asks if the machines want to die. If they regret their actions. If they dont want to be killing machines.