Vector's pit of doom

I'm Vector. My pronouns are he/him. I'm from Russia. I like drawing stuff and making original game and game mod concepts that will never come to fruition for fun.

[jackdedestroyer]

Lethal Company's orchestrated moments.

I feel like something that isn’t really discussed when talking about Lethal Company is the progression of it leading to certain planned moments.

Like when you first play Lethal Company, you’re likely to not understand the terminal entirely and instead of routing to another moon you just land on Experimentation.

You figure out that there's a main entrance and you go inside the factory, collect scrap and learn that there's creatures that may harm you within the interior.

But since this is your first experience with Lethal Company you don’t have many expectations beyond what's said on the steam store page.

For a while you’re probably just having factory as the interior you encounter and the main “new” content is going to different moons and experiencing different enemies for the first time such as Thumpers and Gunkfish and maybe even Coilheads and Nutcrackers if you go to Offense.

You eventually encounter mineshafts and they’re a bit different than factories but still within that general industrial vibe.

After a while you've probably started to get a hang of collecting scrap and not getting killed (too many times) so you've gotten enough money to go to one of those paid moons that you've seen on the terminal. And if you suck at the game (which you are likely to if this is your first time playing) you’ll go to Rend.

Now Rend is the biggest and probably my favorite example of the game suddenly switching things up.

You’ll land on it and realise that it's a frozen wasteland, barely even being able to see with the constant blizzard, only being guided by the light poles leading the way towards the main entrance.

You make it to the building and it looks like those previous massive concrete cubes so it's probably just going to be another industrial area, if you're lucky its going to be a newer one.

But no.

It's a giant mansion with a grand staircase and a chandelier above your head, you venture deeper to discover the scrap you’re collecting is almost entirely different than you’ve seen before (and more expensive)

You hear a strange noise in the darkness and… what's that? A giant toy soldier, another employee but wearing some strange mask, a figure in a red dress, a jack in the box with legs that seems to be counting down to something sinister. All of these are creatures you’ve likely never seen before or only seen very rarely and they seem to spawn constantly on this moon.

Rend suddenly switches things up, the core of the game is the same but everything you find is with a new coat of paint. (at launch this was even more of a switch up since the only interior you'd find prior to the mansion is the factory)

There are other examples of this like how Dine surprises you with the body parts, the excitement and mystery of finding Artifice, and the horror of landing on Embrion.

All of these do the same core thing of trying to surprise you, and I think it's one of my favorite parts of how Lethal Company is orchestrated, not being just a difficulty meter that scales the longer you play.

[vector-v]

Michael Kane investigations - Jeb works for the Company

I had to wait like two months to publish this because I wanted to do it when v80 releases and it's finally time. My lethal company theory, explained by an in-universe conspiracy theorist in this machinima.

Thanks to @jackdedestroyer and @debbicar for helping me make this. I wouldn't be able to do it without them.

I can't wait for when we make more of this and everyone learns more about these characters....

[rolex-kaard]

FINALLY DREW SOMETHING Ok butler anatomy post Go

warning for descriptions including bugs and flesh and stuff but no graphic images beyond bones

So basically. the way i see it:

butlers have skeletons, but a lot of the bones are missing or oddly shaped/not in the best condition. most if not all bones are hollowed out from the inside; the hornets eat the marrow, leaving the bones lighter and easier to keep in place. as there is little to no actual flesh in the body, and only some residual tendons, the skeleton is supplemented with hornet-woven material, kind of like what paper wasps build with. bones can be replaced, sometimes by non-human ones (like from a thumper) if needed

their proportions are not quite human so the bones are spaced out. also their leg bones are probably not human leg bones, or they are but broken down

^ about how i imagine it. their side profile is fucked up bruh. if you can tell well enough, the fainter straight lines in the sketches are examples of the hornet-built connections.

ok so the skull. the entire top part of it is missing, basically all that's there is the jaw. the head i imagine is densely hornet occupied for vision and control so they're able to keep the head's shape with no need for bone there. you can smush its head in with a bit of force (it wouldn't like that). the jaw doesn't serve much of a purpose beyond providing its charming grin/threat display, as the hornets tend to exit the hive and slice food themselves, but it could potentially be used to help crunch into bone, stuff like that.

last point for this image is that butlers don't have any remaining human internal organs except for lungs, repurposed to maintain the hive's conditions. they "breathe" very slowly.

also, as a general point and to try and rationalize why they're built like that, most of the hive's denser workings (nursery, excess food storage, etc) goes in the ribcage area, something like the way human organs are situated but further back to balance the body

ok and about clothes. a butler's clothes are basically a part of its body's structure. they lend support as well as warmth and some protection, helping the hive keep its shape. because of this it can only really comfortably remove the upper coat (though this is where it stores its knife, broom, and any other items, so it would still like to keep that for safety). it will survive without the vest, just get shakier (i gave up drawing that one), but (especially for older butlers) its shirt is in places joined with its skin from repeated repairs and probably impossible to remove

[vector-v]

After beating the fraud layer of ULTRAKILL I got hit with sudden inspiration and came up with two lesser angel designs.

The Harmony

(The segments spin)

The harmony is the angelic version of a schism. They're made when people who were inseparable in life are reunited in heaven.

It's a totem pole combined with a tetramorph cherub(it only has 3 kinds of face tho. The human part is it being a lesser angel) and me remembering that lesser angels can be animals in lore but we never see any. The idea of an angel made of multiple souls came first and it all clicked when I stacked cubes vertically and gave each one a pair of wings.

Harmonies attack by attempting to crush you when you're on the ground and creating a death carousel of beams with a rotating beam from each face when you're in the air. They make singing sounds.

The Morningstar

(They don't really have to be purple, they'd be whatever color Lucifer ends up being)

Lucifer fans. The toughest morningstars went looking for him in hell after God disappeared. When the council was formed they took their eyes and chained them to the ground in treachery.

I gave them bat wings because powers have butterfly wings and providences have some type of insect wings too so any type of wing goes seemingly.

They can't make beams or anything in this state so they just slam around to avoid being devoured by demons. Periodically they fall to the ground from exhaustion and can be rolled at enemies. Healing from them is almost impossible because of the spikes protecting the soul orb but by blowing them up correctly you can rip them off the chain which creates a bleeding breach in the spiky cage. Unchained morningstars are fucking wacky though so watch out.

[maddest-scientist-ms]

Okay, nerds of Tumblr, i need your opinion - I talked with a friend about pokemon and i gave my hot take that Malamar would look better if it didn't have a beak. My friend dissagreas, so i wanna know who's opinion is the most popular one. So...

Which one is better?

With beak

Without beak

Voting ended onFeb 28

Bonus: Low quality Mega Malamar.

[vector-v]

Lethal company v80 creature prediction: the firbear

[maddest-scientist-ms]

You're not cooked, you're DOOMED! You're not chopped, you're Grotesque!

1950's science fiction and generations of mad scientists did not popularize the terms only for you to fall to the propaganda of the kitchen, you mindrotten disgrace!

[maddest-scientist-ms]

Inspired by my Jevil design to make a little comics. Also, seeing how much people saw the Jevil art - I would appreciate it if take a look at my other artwork as well, because I really don't want to get audience locked purely to deltarune community. I draw other cool stuff too, not only Jevil.

[vector-v]

If Seam outplayed the addisons Jevil definitely can

[maddest-scientist-ms]

There may a universe, not so far away from us, where during Britain's colonisation, the americans were the ones who developed what we call the australian accent, and Australians - the american accent.

[maddest-scientist-ms]

Maddest Scientist industries presents: The Pug of Tommorow!

Do you know how pugs have eyes popping out of their sockets? How they have spines unnaturally curved to give them that cute twirly tail? How their face actively makes it more difficult to breath? Happy to say - In the future, it all only gets worse, becase we may stop all wars and cure canser, but we're definetly not stopping selective breeing! Thankfully, in the days of tommorrow pugs will have advanxed technology to improve their life! With their faces so flat its basilally turned into an indent, their skulls no longer have space for eyes, but that problem is thankfully solved with a dome of biofluid, safely containing eyes mosturised and not rubbing against your carpet! You may think that a hermetic dome full of fluid on the head may prevent breathing, but thankfully due to nose deformation - Pugs lost the ability to breath my themselves all together many generations ago! Instead they have a contraption with air filters linked directly to their lungs to do it for them! Finally, due to incredible genetic deformations, their spines were rendered so deformed and crooked that they snap under the weight of the pug before they reach adulthood, but it is an easy fix, performed by simply pulling out the spine and replacing it with a biomechanic alternative, containing their spinal cord! Thanks to all this technological development, pugs will not go extinct just yet, and may continue their excrutiating existance for a few more centuries for our amusment!

[maddest-scientist-ms]

Decided that i made too little fanart in my life for a person mainly posting on Tumblr, so decided to draw the clearly superior Deltarune secret boss.

UEE HEE HEE! Chaos, Chaos!

[maddest-scientist-ms]

Psychiatry in a magical fantasy setting would brobably be a medical science which has the hardest time to develop, because like being haunted by an imp or cursed by fae into seeing things is like litterally possible, how will you tell apart a magically induced psychosis against an actual medical condition.

[vector-v]

Well the imps and fae that haunt and curse you into seeing things were actually what people thought mental disorders were before they invented psychiatry. So what if the malicious spirits and stuff existing means mental illness doesn't?

[maddest-scientist-ms]

Ya'll be laughing at Wilson Percival Higgsbury, calling him "dumb" and "not a real scientist"... Yet with recent updates, out of all the librarians, engineers, robots and dark wizards, he's the only one with mental capacity to conseive... That you don't need to look for a perfect stick to use as a handle of an axe or pickaxe. You can just carve one out of a log.

[maddest-scientist-ms]

Decided to try myself in drawing something different - A logo for a fast-food chain for my sci-fi setting. Its kind of a KFC ripoff, tho with rabbit meat instead of chicken. The name Lucky's is a referense to how rabbit feet are used as a good luck charm.

And yes, we will ignore the morbidity of a bunny cooking bunnies, tis' just mascot logic.

[vector-v]

The Bunny's eyes tell me he's not happy about the mascot logic

[maddest-scientist-ms]

If a turkey breaks its wishbone in an injury, will it get a wish or will no one get a wish? If after breaking the bone heals, will it grant a wish after being broken a second time?

[vector-v]

FRIEND

The friend inside me whispered into my ears until i doodled this design and he stopped

doesn't he look FRIENDly?

[parkchanwoohoo]

You have to admit it's funny

[naamahdarling]

[cpericardium]

reads like a greentext

[theaudientvoid]

So, like, up until very recently, programming as an activity that people engage in has been defined by the fact that the computer does exactly what you tell it to do. All errors, all frustration on the humans end, ultimately boil down to the programmer misspecifying what they want the computer to do. But now, with so-called "vibe" coding, the computer will actively do things that you explicitly told it not to do.

[theaudientvoid]

Okay, but like, the AI saying that it "panicked instead thinking" is sending me. So, like, two things are going on here.

First, we have a neural net that is trained is receive a written request from a user, and then take actions on a computer system network based on it. The user inputs a series of characters, the neural net does a bunch of matrix operations on them, and then after x iterations of matrix multiplications, it "decides" what to do. To the extend that a neural net can think, it thought just as long and hard about this as it does anything else. In this case, it "chose" the wrong action. This is analogous to using neural nets to do classification on a data set. You have a bunch of rows of data. You have a bunch of rows of organized in columns, and some special variable that you want the neural net to guess. You input the data, the neural net does a bunch of matrix operations, and then it outputs its guess. Sometimes it guessed right, and sometimes it guessed wrong. The goal was to train the model to minimize wrong guesses. In this case, the AI "guessed wrong" about what the user wanted.

But there's another thing that the AI is doing. For path dependent reasons, all artificial intelligence come bundled with a chatbot that's trained to hold a conversation with the user. The user inputs text, and the AI responds with a reply that is "appropriate" to the conversation being had. Right now the AI is role playing a Person Who Just Fucked Up. "I panicked and didn't think" is something that a person who just fucked up would say, so the chatbot says it.

This is why I think that the Helpful Chatbot model of AI is detrimental. It's liable to confuse people and lead them to make incorrect inferences about what's actually happening.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#'i panicked' is so fucking funny to me#and then this guy is demanding the unthinking unfeeling computer bits to apologize to him for lying to him#bro it cant lie to you#you cant threaten it#its just a fucking computer program not a sentient creature#like holy fuck

Me desperately texting myself trying to make the autocomplete options say "I'm sorry for accidentally swearing at your mum yesterday" to me

[vector-v]

This is hilarious