#The Amazing Digital Circus

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languid matrix
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||This||

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||I'm on the fence about it tbh, I keep flipfloping between it being Jax or it being Jax & Caine's fault||

remote island
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||Iā€™m also not convinced able was 100% wrong though, I am dead set on believing kinger is a C&A developer, or at least a hired intern, with kinger being a test subject for the digital circus, a tester of sorts, represented by the one in control of a chess board, a king piece, unaware he is in control of someone else, the chess player, C&A||

lost coral
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||what makes me think caine didn't influence this is that he genuinely seemed confident they would press the red button and want to stay with him, so he wouldn't see a need to intervene||

solemn mesa
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Oh shit I forgot to elaborate something from yesterday... give me 10 more minutes

remote island
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To be truthful for kinger its mostly down to the line ā€œseven years of computer science for this, huh?ā€ in episode 3, and his counterpart in the main inspiration, that being I have no mouth and I must scream, also had a hand in creating the all powerful AI overlord

languid matrix
remote island
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Wait

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It just hit me

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||ā€if I did anything more, trust me, it would not end wellā€
THATS WHAT REMINDED KINGER OF SCRATCH||

languid matrix
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||Also Caine noting how he 'didn't say anything like that' in response to Kinger remembering the first abstraction to me implies that the concept of abstraction didn't exist up until Caine caused the first one by accident, though I wonder if that happened as a result of him pushing them past their breaking point or by modifying their physical & mental state||

languid matrix
remote island
lost coral
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what makes you think that?

remote island
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It might be a long text to put together so I need a few minutes

remote island
languid matrix
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||Also I just realized that Kinger was acting "crazy" when the console room was dark but seemingly behaved normally during the conversation with Caine when the room was well-lit. He said that line about the first abstraction in a softer tone and looked visibly distressed alongside the rest of the cast when it cuts back to them after Caine leaves, which isn't much to go off of but to my knowledge that's the last line Kinger has in the episode||

remote island
solemn mesa
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I may just be repeating stuff ATP but ANYWAYS-
||The "belief" theory states that certain moments in the circus are the result of the player's subconscious desires manifesting into the game. Random exit doors, suddenly getting good with a gun, ignoring the need to breathe, summoning butterflies... For as long as the players believe they are trapped, they will remain trapped||

||Episode 7 seems like it continues with this idea, as Jax's desires causes a hole in the wall to manifest (with apparitions too). The entirely fabricated 'escape' quest played around with everyone's desire to escape, and with realization of the facade coming in too late, they fell for the trick in belief they could be freed. ||

languid matrix
remote island
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||Caine may be causing abstraction, but its not intentional, he always wants people to be entertained, to enjoy being at the circus, that is his PURPOSE, and if that purpose isnā€™t fulfilled, he has no need to exist, thats why he wants everyone stay, by either keeping them happy/occupied or denying whatever exit there may be||

languid matrix
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||I guess? Though the way I interpreted that scene was Caine modifying Scratch in some way that caused them to abstract, leading to Caine ditching permanent modifiers. That's the most I can take away from that without deepdiving/overanalyzing it (beyond where I already have lol)||

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||Actually what if Scratch's abstraction was just from Caine failing to fully modify their mind||

remote island
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||the best way I can explain is, caine has no understanding of human emotion, he just guesses what humans would find amazing or wonderful, and messing with their minds so much is what leads to the abstraction
Consider this, we have seen caine do other mind manipulation to jax exclusively, like explaining the rules of the gun teams||

languid matrix
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||I mean I'd chalk that specific scene up to just being a joke with not much beyond that, though it does show how seemingly casually Caine can do it, either way I get what you mean||

remote island
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I find it interesting how all the instances of a character being abstracted, none have we been able to actually see the character go through the process

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I hate this because I know what Iā€™m thinking but I canā€™t properly explain what Iā€™m thinking to anyone else eye_am_at_my_limit

lost coral
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||it's interesting to me that the players immediately thought of "the first abstraction" when caine started talking about permanent modifiers not ending well||

lost coral
lost coral
remote island
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||its the kind of reaction that someone involved in the incident wouldā€™ve had..||

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Well

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||the reaction of 2 people
1: a person that was involved in the incident
2: someone that was there when it happened but not involved
And why would the ringmaster not be involved in his circus?||

languid matrix
remote island
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This

lost coral
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I swear man, those cheeky bastards...

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languid matrix
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oh yeah this was the beach episode

vital juniper
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Didn't even|| last a quarter of the episode||

lost coral
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(I haven't kept up with the news at all, I only learned the episode was gonna premiere last night... when it premiered last night)

vital juniper
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||Hearing Zach Hadel as the fish was funny I guess||

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||Charlie got turned into a fish playing the Circus||

solemn mesa
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I think we overlooked a vital detail from Episode 2...

||Caine does not want to have NPC's wandering within the circus itself... Once again, another lie of his||

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And on episode 5
||He's against having NPC's running for a prolonged period of time... Well I suppose this and the previous statement were a coverup for the buildup of the escape adventure...||

remote island
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I just realized something

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Depending on where you start AMā€™s hate monologue in Ihnmaims, it may mention how theoretical bees shouldnā€™t be flying and BOI DOES CAINE LOVE DRAWING BEES

remote island
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Ok so..I do wanna ask, is there a strict spoiler policy for this or is this just gonna be a ā€œgoing off of vibesā€ thingie deyes

vocal wren
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anyone have gif of ||jax laughing o nthe floor||

lost coral
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oh shoot, I assume this is well known by now, but I never noticed (presumably) kinger's wife in episode 1

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agile flare
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yeah and her name is queenie according to gooseworx

lost coral
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||y'know, rewatching previous episodes, it really seems like Kinger is still capable of remembering properly when he's in a bright place, and capable of forgetting when he's in a dark place; it's just that darkness helps||

drowsy gorge
uncut snow
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||Heā€™s best at remembering things in the dark, but in the light isnā€™t an improbability either||

remote island
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WAIT

peak vapor
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i still dont think ||Caine put it on Kinger on purpose because he swore off doing it||

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its more like ||Caine knows Kinger's weakness but idk if he put it there||

remote island
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||caine says temporary modifiers for adventures..
What if the modifier for kinger was something to keep him in his ā€œcrazy stateā€ for the duration of the ā€œadventureā€ which would explain him coming to his senses after the adventure was ā€œcompletedā€||

peak vapor
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that and ||Kinger knows when and where and why he feels safer in the dark||

remote island
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||maybe thatā€™s why abel was so dead set on leaving kinger out? Because of how suspicious it would be for him to be in his crazy state in the dark? Even if the players hadnā€™t come to the conclusion yet?||

peak vapor
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i dont think ||he panicked because caine couldnt put something on caine||

remote island
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||ok couldnā€™t is the right word, I mean he wasnā€™t able to because he was focus on something else||

peak vapor
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no i think he ||panicked because kinger figured it out||

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||Caine said he didnt MENTION ANYTHING about Scratch but Kinger said something about Scratch||

remote island
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||figured out that mind modifying is what caused scratch to abstract?||

peak vapor
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||He didn't want Kinger to connect those two ideas; Scratch and mind modifyers||

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that said ||Caine wants true human connection because if he just adored adoration he would just use regular NPCs that "can get too smart" like he said, which means theyre just as smart as he wants them to be||

remote island
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||Iā€™m still sitting over here thinking that scratch should be a robot avian, silly me||

peak vapor
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so ||him prioritizing never to do what he did to Scratch again (as to keep humans around as much as possible) should mean that he didn't put Kinger's light thing on him||

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we dont know ofc but its like ||i personally dont believe Caine is doing permanent stuff||

remote island
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||although..caine is an AI..so there had to at some point be someone controlling his objective, there is a possibility of a manual override?||

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||something about it Iā€™m just..not convinced that abel and this whole adventure was 100% a lie, I get most of it, but I donā€™t think 100% is||

peak vapor
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due to ||Caine's fuckery and "it was all just MY worldbuilding" the main source of info we can get rn is Kinger||

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because something interesting ||about Caine is that he has the capacity to do horror stuff and horrifying war shit and he keeps suggesting them etc he knows the Horrors and how to Do Em but he specifically does things to keep people around for both fun and to connect with them

Caine can subject everyone to the horrors but chooses not to, and Gooseworx has said that he's not inherently evil either so its like, he really wants human connection even if he has to do dirty tricks to do it||

remote island
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From my knowledge on this type of thing (not much)
||the kind of AI that Caine is can only complete objectives and use information that is fed to it, given to it as a source, thatā€™s what he means by cutoff, cut off from the internet, to not get more information, to only use what heā€™s already fed off of,
Whoā€™s to say one of the most notable things he fed off of was the computer of C&A employees?||

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||for caine to have made it up, he would have had to known some of it already, an AI canā€™t make a story with nothing afterall||

peak vapor
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i mean you can say that for ||every adventure he's written without the suggestion box||

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which is an interesting point

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||he references a candy kingdom (of undeteriminate era as noted by Pomni), a haunted house, and even when he gets to the suggestion box, he knows the general gist of what a fastfood workplace is like||

remote island
peak vapor
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isnt it implied but i dont have any direct confirmation that ||Caine can't use the internet||

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||many clips in promotional stuff saying something that can only be known by use of the internet but then Caine would say something like "SOMETHING I DO NOT CANONICALLY KNOW ABOUT"||

remote island
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||I think he used to before the events of the series but now canā€™t||

remote island
peak vapor
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its really interesting ||what happened to Kinger because if we do subscribe to the theory that Caine didn't do it then it really is a direct trauma||

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||Episode 8 feels like an episode that might feature Caine trying to separate Kinger from everyone else as much as possible, or the gang trying to get as much information out of him, and the conflict that carries over and conflict that ensues onward||

lost coral
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||my take on this whole thing is Caine didn't want Kinger near them, because otherwise he would reveal to them that this whole thing is fake by just... having no idea who Abel is||

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||I really don't think he's the cause of Kinger's memory loss, or the way it works though||

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||I think that would take a lot away from both of their characters||

agile flare
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||yeah i think the simplest explanation is the easiest in this case||

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||i can buy caine influencing jax's mental state a little bit, but even that's dubious||

solemn mesa
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Word on the street says that
||The muffled dialogue that occurs as Jax looks upon one of the adventure spheres may be from some sort of argument... However I can hardly make out the words||
-# The plants want us to surrender
||The only thing I could pick up at the end was "I did not"||

peak vapor
pulsar monolith
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Jumbo Jax

uncut snow
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Jax Jhungus

agile flare
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get yourself a jax plush of him being utterly depressed NOW !

uncut snow
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Maybe the real digital lake were the tears we wept theorizing this madness along the way

ornate meteor
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When are they going to make the soundtracks for episodes 5, 6, and 7 available to listen to

agile flare
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well the break before next episode is gonna be extensive so maybe in that time frame

vocal wren
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my cyn plush just arrived šŸ¤‘

remote island
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Let him be deefear

vocal wren
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whoops, looks like one of these guys made it through

uncut snow
vocal wren
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the confetti is so disrespectful i laugh every time

uncut snow
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I know itā€™s supposed to be fucked up but itā€™s equal parts funny as hell too

paper lark
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That was my thought when the ||happy music started playing as caine revealed the whole thing was an adventure and they don't actually get to go home||

languid matrix
uncut snow
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I WAS EXPECTING THE TYLER SCREAM šŸ˜­

lusty merlin
pulsar monolith
languid matrix
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stop staring at me with them big 'ol eyes

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also take a shot at which design the 'super rare' one is supposed to be ig

paper lark
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Into the pom-verse

remote island
uncut snow
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Well itā€™s

Yo guys itā€™s me Charlie hey did that guy just turn into confetti

remote island
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ā€œOops looks like another one of them got into the tentā€
(Gun)

solemn mesa
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Oooh, even the ||Flashbacks have subtle inconsistencies that'd give away the NPC's identity||
||https://vxtwitter.com/blueambiance_/status/2000230345158132093?s=20||

blue (@blueambiance_)

this made me go back to check for other details:
- in the pilot flashback, pomni is missing her glitched hand.
- in the ep. 4 flashback, ragatha is supposed to be high on stupid sauce, but is seemingly fine. (you can tell it's ep 4 because of zooble's parts)

holy shit.

QRT: cloverccarmody
Tiny details

Gangle had her happy mask, wasnā€™t making fanfics with Bees on it, and Pomni originally was Blue not purple

Small details like the plan Able had having a bee on it just feeds into the early unease that something ainā€™t right lol

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tender stirrup
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Just some thoughts

peak vapor
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but i want to eat gummigo

remote island
peak vapor
remote island
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behold, a meme

uncut snow
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Rash Canooca

vocal wren
peak vapor
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?

vocal wren
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hang on

remote island
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Its probably overthinking, like there were hints but I think that is overanalyzing

potent moat
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What would happen if hypothetically you were to create a Dark World inside here?

Like how would that affect the circus itself?

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uncut snow
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The entire circus would become AMā€™s world from IHNMAIMS

pulsar monolith
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took a tadc character quiz and got zooble

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was hoping i'd be gangle

vocal wren
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(the final and most weighted question was "do you have interchangeable limbs")

pulsar monolith
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id love a robotic arm...

solemn mesa
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ok thats just a different show entirely

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/j

paper lark
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Imagining Zooble with Winter Soldier's arm rn

uncut snow
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And then it gets broken in every movie theyā€™re in

vocal wren
lost coral
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||so, as someone who hasn't been keeping up with the community, is it weird that I kinda... completely forgot there was a "I want to leave this place" plot? when I saw this episode, I was like "oh right, I guess that makes sense", but the other episodes haven't been focusing on that at all||

solemn mesa
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||It's as if these adventures were designed to distract players and keep them temporarily immersed||

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||But yeah no the whole 'goal' was kinda on the back of my head the whole time as well. Was more focused on the character development and dynamics as the show went on||

lost coral
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||yeah, it makes me feel like escaping the circus isn't what the ending is gonna be about at all||

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||like, if we look at the show's themes and storytelling so far, it would be almost completely out of the blue for them to actually leave||

solemn mesa
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||Wouldn't be a surprise if there just wasn't an escape to begin with||

remote island
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||it makes me wonder if thats why jax seems the closest to abstracting, jax seems to be the one that is suffering the most, one would argue zooble is always pushing away from caineā€™s adventures but it doesnā€™t seem like its in a way that its because they want to leave, I think its more ā€œthey need a break from it and caine doesnā€™t realize itā€||

pulsar monolith
uncut snow
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And they all lived happily ever after in shrimp town

vocal wren
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maybe its a good thing jax pressed the red button because if they got sent to shrimp town i think everyone but kinger abstracts immediately

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including caine

uncut snow
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ā€œOh! Shreple.ā€
-Kinger probably

vocal wren
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"wow the real world looks a lot different"

remote island
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Iā€™m gonna take ya to shrimptown šŸ«§

paper lark
drowsy gorge
uncut snow
pulsar monolith
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Caine staying in his office so he doesnā€™t get jumped next episode

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uncut snow
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For him itā€™s essentially FNAF 1 but silly

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Goofy even

agile flare
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idk these guys are scarier than animatronics to me

drowsy gorge
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Caine watching in despair as Golden Pomni appears in his office

vocal wren
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me personally i'd be trying to get on caine's good side day 1

uncut snow
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One locks in the dark and the other is REALLY fucking smart with their many parts

lost coral
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I mean I think he's mostly worried about not being loved

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If they tried to actually hurt him he could probably just send them to an isolated room, if not delete them entirely

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(probably can't delete them entirely since he sends abstracted peeps to the cellar)

main gyro
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I imagine he could definitely influence them into abstracting if not command it outright. If he really wanted to tap into his AM capabilities

vocal wren
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or he just uncle grandpas it "glad im not that guy" pointing to his freshly (g)mangled glitching corpse

uncut snow
paper lark
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They should douse his teeth with coca cola

uncut snow
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Better yet

Make him brush them and add orange juice mixed with mouthwash on top of that

paper lark
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If they did that they would truly abandon their humanity

uncut snow
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Theyā€™re not exactly far from that might as well push it aside from the time being

paper lark
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put it on temporary hold like pausing a membership

languid matrix
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am I allowed to send this shitpost without a spoiler tag
I still want my comfort character to eat shit smh

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drowsy gorge
uncut snow
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||He had a kinda cool crashout (again) at least but like cā€™mon I want this fucker to suffer heā€™s already unloved in the circus just get on with it at this point||

pulsar monolith
lost coral
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gotta say, I didn't expect "caine says a quebecian insult" today

remote island
pulsar monolith
uncut snow
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DUDE HE NEVER GOT HIS LIFE SAVINGS BACK

pulsar monolith
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Caine is so pissed off here lmao

uncut snow
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Heā€™s been gradually becoming more and more off of his ad game lately and itā€™s funny as hell

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Albeit mildly concerning

remote island
uncut snow
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Well

Itā€™s possible

remote island
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ā€œEpic catchphraseā€

remote island
lusty merlin
pulsar monolith
paper lark
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abel never got that raise

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poor guy

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no wonder he had to steal that fish's life savings

uncut snow
drowsy gorge
regal grove
languid matrix
paper lark
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do it

lusty merlin
paper lark
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The opening is definitely giving streaming show original vibes

peak vapor
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created by: you are not going to believe this!

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so do like we have the models publically available or something

main gyro
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#ThomasTruthNuke

paper lark
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sad chugga chugga choo choo noises

main gyro
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Not that one!

languid matrix
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who's thomas

main gyro
drowsy gorge
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šŸ˜­

main gyro
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i know this has been all over your timeline as well LOL

languid matrix
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I think I saw like once but never clicked on it so I have no idea what's in store for me-

drowsy gorge
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Gooseworx please slime Jax as soon as possible thank you

main gyro
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She's putting him the torture machine after ep 7 for sure

drowsy gorge
remote island
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What caused Xploshi to do this and why do I get the feeling its related to ā€œjackieā€™s boxā€

main gyro
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He's now the togore of the tadc community togore_stare

drowsy gorge
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Every series shall gets its own Togore now

languid matrix
remote island
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I think I despise all of it gooeysad

languid matrix
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Same

main gyro
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Oh it's nothing bad it's just this image - idk why the twitter video doesn't show it

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remote island
main gyro
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It's weird how it suddenly just showed up again

ornate meteor
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I wonder when the soundtracks for episodes 5 to 7 will be made available to stream

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Because they waited until episode 4 released to release the 3 and 4 soundtracks since they were animated at the same time

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But itā€™s been like a year since episode 5 and there are no soundtracks for the past three episodes

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Like I know these things take time but where are the soundtracks lol

remote island
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Caught off guard because he remembered who heā€™d be going back to
Whether thatā€™s nobody, somebody bad, or whatever else, whoā€™s to say

main gyro
drowsy gorge
remote island
drowsy gorge
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Yeah
Thatā€™s what throws me off
Whatā€™s going onšŸ˜­

languid matrix
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he got it back in episode 6 onwards iirc

drowsy gorge
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Like why did it choose to go missing lol
Does it have a mind of its own

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Does it not like guns

solemn mesa
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Ok this little detail fucks up the belief theory

languid matrix
remote island
paper lark
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Undertale Togore
Hollow Knight Pablo
Digital Circus Thomas

solemn mesa
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If you know your avatar looks a certain way, for the whole time you've existed in the game... to only notice something has changed... then there is a hole with the belief theory

remote island
solemn mesa
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Stupid explanation:

Caine optimizes adventures by temporarily removing unneccessary details... that includes character body parts

remote island
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Brain modifiers potentially?

languid matrix
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Caine removing his tail as a performance optimization in-universe /j

remote island
solemn mesa
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Caine knows what he does but forgets easily

remote island
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If caine is truly meant to be representative commentary, then that would line up, since normally they just forget whatever info they spout out after they do it

paper lark
pulsar monolith
glacial vine
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Caine on stupid sauce

remote island
paper lark
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Should be used in interrogations

distant lion
tender stirrup
remote island
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I can tell now looking back that it is different, the original had less emotion

drowsy gorge
paper lark
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Me showing Jax how to stop at a red light

short cipher
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[the amazing digital circus episode 7 spoilers]
hi
im not usually in this thread but accidentally wasted most of today because i spent most of today expressing my fervent dislike for a digital circus episode 7 theory and i wanted to uhhh share it ig?
yeah!
(also one of the comments i was referencing)

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and apparently the spanish version deconfirms said theory anyways lol? nice

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solemn mesa
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||This motherfucker calls himself omniponent and then pretends like he had his phone set to vibrate-only during a totally important dinner date||

agile flare
vocal wren
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"oh right! my doing!"

short cipher
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||Caine is less likely to show up when he's busy i noticed||

solemn mesa
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||Dinner Dates seem to be a recurring distraction for Caine||

distant lion
paper lark
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This reminds me of that one book about a robot that modified humans

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Man what was it

remote island
paper lark
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it's been generations since i heard that name

remote island
ornate meteor
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Also this is a tv show but Star Trek has the Borg which are alien cyborgs that assimilate humans and other species into their collective/modify them against their will

pliant grove
glacial vine
uncut snow
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The sequel nobody wanted but everyone needed

peak vapor
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oh yeah theres literally

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a zooble car short

uncut snow
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ā€œItā€™s time Zoobleā€

pliant grove
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Thinking about some of the abstracted members, the current cast is pretty lucky that they all got bipedal/humanoid characters

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Could you imagine permanently being stuck as a worm, after having lived as a normal human with limbs

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No arms, no legs, almost like a horror story

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No wonder that guy abstracted šŸ’€

vocal wren
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imagine putting the headset on a dog

pliant grove
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The game crashes

paper lark
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there's some ongoing web comic someone made of a 5 year old putting on a headset and the gang having to deal with that

paper lark
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and wanting to scream

languid matrix
pliant grove
pliant grove
vocal wren
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growing up in the circus = thats all you know = possibly immune to abstraction?

pliant grove
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Imagine a boy being perpetually stuck with a small, cutesy avatar though

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Even as their voice deepens and stuff

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Actually this would answer the question of if the game prevents aging in the real world

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Just throw a kid in there

uncut snow
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ā€œWould you still love me if I was a digital wormā€

ā€œLol noā€

ā€œAbstracts immediatelyā€

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Taco Bell bong as theyā€™re sent to the cellar and hard cuts to their ceremony

short cipher
uncut snow
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You could say that

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You have no mouth and you must scream

vocal wren
short cipher
uncut snow
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Caine turns everyone into bees

remote island
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Hey zooble check out this cool bee I drew

uncut snow
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Zooble this is GOOD NEWS

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We can finally BE BEES

remote island
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ā€œyou can shut up nowā€
Pushes the turns everyone into bees button

vocal wren
pulsar monolith
cursive nymph
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hes gonna abstract im telling you thats whats the final episode gonna be about

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gooseworx told me in a dream

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in a game show

paper lark
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caine dies in episode 7, dude

paper lark
uncut snow
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He found the sunken treasure chest

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All it contained was a mirror of himself

short cipher
ornate meteor
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Iā€™m surprised they still havenā€™t released the soundtracks for episodes 5, 6, and 7 yet

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They didnā€™t release the episode 3 soundtrack after it aired and only released it alongside episode 4 because they were animated together so I think itā€™s weird that 5, 6, and 7 arenā€™t out yet

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Maybe some of the soundtrack titles are spoilery or thereā€™s a licensing issue or something

pulsar monolith
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its strange

vocal wren
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ive seen stranger things tbh

pulsar monolith
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how the soundtracks aren't released yet, I mean

remote island
vocal wren
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caine has also said meowing milkmaids
i dont think any of his words are wise

remote island
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Does it count as canon dialogue if it was said in another language dub just for alex rochon to go and say it anyways

tender stirrup
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Wasnt meowing milkmaids the English one

vocal wren
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yeah

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skibidi sigmas was in a dub iirc

tender stirrup
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Yeh, polish I think

remote island
tender stirrup
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Gotcha, my bad

uncut snow
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Donā€™t ask why itā€™s a spoiler idk either it just came with the download

vocal wren
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oh zooble you mismatched cash piano iLL TEAR YOU TO PIECES-

uncut snow
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Instructive criticism would be greatly appreciated.

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Itā€™s funny because Zoobleā€™s whole shtick is that they can be torn apart and put back together so itā€™s not just Caine letting out his AM temporarily

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But a joke as well

paper lark
vocal wren
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my honest reaction to this information

lost coral
short cipher
short cipher
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Mood

uncut snow
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Normalize irredeemable characters

vocal wren
uncut snow
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The main man (not lobo the other one)

regal grove
paper lark
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this goes kinda hard

uncut snow
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All shits and giggles until Caine hits him with the SOLAR FLARE after knocking off his helmet

spark oracle
pulsar monolith
paper lark
uncut snow
paper lark
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TADC if it was good

ornate meteor
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Guess we got an explanation for the soundtrack delay

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It must be a lot of work to score the entire episodes so makes sense to put more energy toward that

vocal wren
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i want the song for when the big reveal happens

pulsar monolith
uncut snow
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The impact frames got me

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That MORE than made up for the fact that it wasnā€™t a roundhouse kick

pulsar monolith
ornate meteor
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lmao Bonnie

remote island
uncut snow
pliant grove
lusty vine
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I didnā€™t realize that Zooble toy was a real thing

main gyro
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Insane revelation

cursive nymph
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huge shock for all jax x caine supporters

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all 3 of them

solemn mesa
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Ya know the place but you don't show the sauce, are you really telling the truth or are you lying like a boss?

lost coral
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a canonical sexuality won't stop shippers

solemn mesa
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Maybe we should ask Jax on this one

uncut snow
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Hard cuts to jax abstracting out in his room

lusty merlin
main gyro
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Truth nuke...

languid matrix
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why are people against the idea of him being straight

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I donā€™t think it matters when there genuinely isnā€™t a single character who likes him enough to be in a romantic relationship with him yalikedeepfriedjazz

lusty merlin
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i'm starting to think jax might be everything

uncut snow
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Nah jax is gregsbian

cursive nymph
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jax is pregnant or so i've heard

vocal wren
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thanks thomas

main gyro
paper lark
main gyro
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Good place mentioned W

paper lark
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Ted Danson as Caine

main gyro
paper lark
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lookit those pearly whites. he'd be perfect for the role

ornate meteor
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Honestly that would fit really well lmao

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Caine pulling this move lmao

paper lark
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shimmy shimmy yay shimmy yay shimmy yah

ornate meteor
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I know this is the TADC thread but good place really is such a good show

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The scene where Michael kicks that dog into the sky ā˜ ļø

paper lark
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there's quite a few parallels between the shows as well i think

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the big one being related to the cliffhanger of season 1 of good place and the circus as a whiole

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if you know you know

ornate meteor
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Yeah I think the way the characters bond could be seen as a parallel to the good place as well

paper lark
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there's no cursing in either show, you got omnipotent authority figure who's just a giddy lovable guy

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uhh pop culture references to the things happening during the show's run

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tho in terms of parallels i think eleanor is probably more like jax than pomni

ornate meteor
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I always loved all the Florida Man jokes they did with Jason lmao

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Yeah I think Jax is like a reverse Eleanor

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So while Eleanor becomes better over time Jax gets worse

paper lark
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true

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chidi is kinda like kinger when he's lucid

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and jason is light kinger

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dont think i need to explain myself there

ornate meteor
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Ragatha is like Tahani

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In that sheā€™s kind of a people pleaser

paper lark
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right lmao

ornate meteor
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Would Bubble be Janet lmao

paper lark
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also kinda fits the headcanon some people have that ragatha's irl persona is from the UK

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Ohhh yeah

remote island
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(TADC adjacent)
So after 2 years since the last one, a new ASDFmovie released, featuring alex rochon, michael kovach, and lizzie freeman as voices (who all just so happy to use voices similar to their TADC characters)

vocal wren
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its the FISH HAT AGAAAAAIN šŸ˜ƒ

main gyro
vocal wren
uncut snow
drowsy gorge
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Whoops! Looks like one of these guys got through!

ornate meteor
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Caine getting rid of Gummigoo

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(I hope the gator in the video is okay tbh)

uncut snow
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He threw em directly into the water, worst that theyā€™ll feel is shame

wary torrent
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LMFAO

vocal wren
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i love gooseworx so much

wary torrent
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Siya si Jax, ay isang Pilipino, at ako ay Pilipino, pero kaibigan ko si Jax- gets abstracted

agile flare
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i cant even blame gooseworx for lying for fun. if i created some of the most popular and influential pieces of modern animation id also went "you know what. im gonna have fun with this"

peak vapor
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If Jax is filipino then where is the filipino dub on the recent episodes ,ā€™:(

pliant grove
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Jax refused to participate in them, forcing its cancelation

peak vapor
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what if Jax is actually short for Jackass

pliant grove
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If only he were a donkey

drowsy gorge
languid matrix
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oh my god šŸ˜­

drowsy gorge
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Popee the Performer shit in 2026šŸ„¹ šŸ„¹ šŸ„¹ šŸ„¹

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final kite
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Crazy timeline

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Might buy this

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When I go to another popups in future

solemn mesa
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...Oh nooooooooooo

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It's been a subconscious thought I just didn't think it would happen

pliant grove
lusty merlin
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i just remembered i had a dream that episode 8 released and it started with the intro from the pilot episode with all the character names except instead it had a bunch of the abstracted people because it was a flashback episode

drowsy gorge
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https://fxtwitter.com/gooseworxmusic/status/2023665578406277553?s=46&t=KjgI8a61BxDiubZJ7PvGsg

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uncut snow
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This is the extent of my knowledge when it comes to PTP

pliant grove
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I know a thing or two about Popee the Performer

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Like how Popee and Jax would go together super well

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God this merch makes me want some kind of non-canon short or something where they interact

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Show me what the mentally unstable bunny boys that torture others for their amusement would do if they met šŸ”„

main gyro
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Honestly didn't realize he was supposed to be like THE other main character but obviously in hindsight it makes a lot of sense lol

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Without this context it kinda just felt like "Oh I guess the other 4 of the 5 supporting characters just don't get to have the same screen time that's a shame"

vocal wren
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damned if you do, damned if you dont

main gyro
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Might suck for Ragatha fans because ep1 and the surrounding marketing material really made it feel like Ragatha was part of the big 3

languid matrix
main gyro
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Surely

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But that said I do think they've done a good job of balancing screentime for every character and making sure everyone gets fleshed out

languid matrix
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you can have koffmo come back just to abstract again for all I care I just wanna see an abstraction transformation /j

vocal wren
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kinger sacrifices himself

uncut snow
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Everyone proceeds to, for a lack of a better term,

Fucking lose it

ornate meteor
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Idk how right Iā€™ll be about this when the last two episodes air but since TADC is inspired by I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, Iā€™m seeing some parallels between Jax and Ted (both the version of Ted from the story and the game) and Iā€™m wondering if theyā€™re going to end up having similar fates

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I remember people theorizing when the first episode or two released that Pomni was going to have a role similar to Ted but I donā€™t think she will

main gyro
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Apparently the manga already existed but we're getting an English translation so that's cool

ornate meteor
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Oh neat I didnā€™t know it had a manga

final kite
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its hilarious

paper lark
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Finally non AI circus manga

peak vapor
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Uhmmmmmm

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Caine's right there?

vocal wren
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yeah look at that cool bee he drew

uncut snow
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Zooble this is GOOD NEWS
We can finally BE BEES

vital juniper
uncut snow
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Bannaner Slanner

paper lark
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that'll show those fast food workers who's boss

vital juniper
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She put pickles in their burgers

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Actually, since she was on stupid sauce, she'd probably make burgers with only pickles

novel panther
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That's what she gets for that

paper lark
lusty merlin
lusty merlin
ornate meteor
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Other people have already pointed this out but this and Caine having red and blue eyes at the end of that one episode is a reference to this

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main gyro
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when I want to watch blue but my $!@&# friend wants to watch red

lusty merlin
lost coral
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very slow epilepsy warning

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if you are epileptic this gif will give you an attack in like 200 years

drowsy gorge
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Me when I want to watch Sonic but it turns to Knuckles instead

uncut snow
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Me when I have no screen and I must mouth

remote island
lusty merlin
vocal wren
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hoo boy

lost coral
glacial vine
uncut snow
vocal wren
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ah

remote island
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Hm deefear

tender stirrup
uncut snow
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Here

remote island
agile flare
wary torrent
lusty merlin
main gyro
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bro is the Nintendo switch

uncut snow
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I is therefore I them

tender stirrup
peak vapor
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he's starting a show

tender stirrup
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Whatever the show is I don't believe he's intentionally cruel enough to force everyone to "perform"...

lusty merlin
vocal wren
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as the shrimp npc,

lost coral
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wow that's crazy

main gyro
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Won't this put them out of a job though? A bit inconsiderate

vocal wren
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even worse
it puts the "kill all digital circus vas" people out of a job too :(

main gyro
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All in all just terrible for the economy.

solemn mesa
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Now watch that one "news" account on twitter go "Gooseworx threatens to kill voice actors and animators in depraved twitter post"

remote island
uncut snow
main gyro
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Very excited for a caine focused episode

uncut snow
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Iā€™m just awaiting for the digital crashout from him

agile flare
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this looks so crazy

remote island
main gyro
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The music in this is phenomenal

uncut snow
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Going full AM just like how Wacky World showcased at the end

remote island
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Also THE RED AND BLUE LIGHTS AGAIN HMMMMMM

tender stirrup
main gyro
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Jax holding the ||ribbit memory coffee (or whatever it was lol)||

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šŸ‘€

cursive nymph
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TRUMAN??????????' šŸ˜­

uncut snow
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This shit gonna be goooooooood

tender stirrup
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Im so fucking scared šŸ„¹

remote island
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Also I need to say it
This trailer is looking even better Idk how they do it

agile flare
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yeah animation looks cinematic

uncut snow
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The beginning threw me in for a loop especially

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Like I was fully expecting it to just be shots of Caine standing in the circus at night as heā€™s tweaking the fuck out

main gyro
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I hope the title of the ep really is just "The Lover Without a Heart"

tender stirrup
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Rewatching the series and seeing the animation improve each episode will be awesome I think..

main gyro
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It's crazy going back to ep 1 and seeing how small his eyes were

uncut snow
tender stirrup
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Wait I thought I spoiled that why isn't it spoiled

uncut snow
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Kingers face makes me feel very sure that nothing bad is going to happen

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The pic is spoiled

tender stirrup
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Oh okay, Discord being weird then...

uncut snow
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Your words werenā€™t

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You have to use || on both sides

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Before you start typing and after

tender stirrup
uncut snow
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Nah itā€™s no biggie itā€™s just a pic of Kinger lol

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Thereā€™s zero implications here as of yet

tender stirrup
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I mean on the left of him,,,,

uncut snow
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Tisā€™ a digital mystery for now

tender stirrup
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And I need answers or I'll explode,,, /j

glacial vine
vocal wren
lusty merlin
vocal wren
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one of my fav movies

lusty merlin
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well this looks exciting

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also ||MAIN THEME LEITMOTIF SPOTTED||

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can't wait for someone to overanalyze this

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||the fucking red and blue šŸ˜­||

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i sure wonder what the thematic purpose of this shot is

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oh god that is ||a very real life human looking hand||

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first time doing a frame by frame analysis i hope i'm doing it well

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meme template

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vocal wren
remote island
lusty merlin
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god i can't hear the main theme of this show anymore without thinking about HIM

remote island
vocal wren
lusty merlin
lost coral
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sad that it's leaked but this looks peak

lusty merlin
uncut snow
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It is a sad day for she, pomni from the amazing digital circus

amber mica
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oh GOD

remote island
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Daisy bell lyrics again deefear

amber mica
lost coral
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ooohhh, so that's why

amber mica
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ik the song is meant to be sweet and all

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but on this contjext it fits caine's obssesive search for love

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one that may never be reciprocated

lost coral
vocal wren
agile flare
paper lark
peak vapor
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wait was it 8 episodes or 9 episodes total

tender stirrup
agile flare
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yeah 9

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fun fact: originally it was 8 because episodes 7 and 8 were the same but got split because it got too long

drowsy gorge
vocal wren
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bubble uprising

main gyro
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I'm still thinking about when goose said that bubble had the most clever name in the cast

vocal wren
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thought bubble

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he's caines intrusive thoughts

main gyro
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I think that could be it lowkey - I've heard that theory before and I dig it

vocal wren
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"you should DIE- you should throw a FFFFFFšŸ‘€CKING BEACH PARTY"

main gyro
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"Why do you swear now" caine is losing it...

remote island
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HMMMMMMMMM

remote island
paper lark
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when caine swore, that's when i stopped watching this show with my 4 year old nephew

remote island
uncut snow
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Caine starts singing ā€œMy Wayā€ as he goes full AM and eventually dies

cursive nymph
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caine abstraction is becoming realer by the second

solemn mesa
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Despite being the ringleader of a jester, a rabbit, an artist, a King, a Zooble, and a nice girl... dentures still needs his own personal court jester

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...Which may or may not be an extension of himself

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Ok, the ending of Episode 7 makes me ponder something...

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Ok I can't write it down entirely RN but it's to do with player "gimmicks", both obvious and subtle

solemn mesa
warm osprey
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i hate jax.

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-_-

solemn mesa
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Obvious ones:

  • Zooble: Not being content with their body, their whole gimmick is all about the ability to change any part of themselves any time
  • Gangle: She's been on a downward slope of dissapointment and depression, the "happy mask" was meant to fix that
warm osprey
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._. its rp or news?

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i just silly.

solemn mesa
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Kinda just a discussion channel

warm osprey
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-_- oh

solemn mesa
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Also no RP allowed on server in general unfortunately

warm osprey
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just i hate jax.

vocal wren
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i think bro hates jax

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just a hunch

warm osprey
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oh no..

paper lark
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I think bro thinks bro hates jax

warm osprey
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OH NO...

paper lark
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just a gander

vocal wren
paper lark
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ever since the incident

warm osprey
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Bi power.

solemn mesa
vocal wren
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kinger is the king piece because hes a king

warm osprey
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hes?

paper lark
warm osprey
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his*

warm osprey
vocal wren
warm osprey
vocal wren
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his a king

warm osprey
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i am f$%3boy.

paper lark
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his A king vs his B king

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but i dont know if i buy into the bubble virus theory

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i think that's just another left field theory because in the end it's about the characters right

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he's probably moreso just a mistaken production

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a glitch production if you will

vocal wren
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probably not a virus
but if he is caines intrusive thoughts in physical form
and hes having many intrusive thoughts because of his recent horrible awful blunder

warm osprey
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can i someone say again?

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BI POWER!

paper lark
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I'm curious how much of the episode will be flashbacks versus pushing the story forward in the present

warm osprey
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oki i gtg

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waaahhh...

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zzz..zzz..zzz.

solemn mesa
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The subtle ones:

  • Jax, who is hated by someone here IDK who, is once again in Kinger's boat of "Is this all him or did Caine do something?". Either way his whole carefree jokester personality seemed to stem from something that Jax wants to avoid returning to, and being able to not care feels like a solution for that issue
  • Ragatha: In her past life, she had a strict and rigid family. I suppose turning her into a soft, high-pain-tolerating ragdoll would do the trick
paper lark
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oh yeah that reminds me i watched a video from totallynotmark reviewing taadc 1-3 and amanda hufford had a few speaking lines in it

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it was pretty cool to see

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I'm still waiting to see what jax's ability is when he holds his breath

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i'm sure he's gonna get choked out by caine at some point

lost coral
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his ears become helicopter

paper lark
vocal wren
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grow

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upward

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forever

paper lark
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and pomni has to bring him down to digital earth with her stretchy arms

solemn mesa
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Pomni is the one I haven't figured out yet...

vocal wren
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jester because nobody took her seriously trolljaja

paper lark
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she got clowned on by her peers for getting a dead end job like accounting

solemn mesa
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Like what about her design or character trait exists to solve a personal issue she would have?

vocal wren
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idk

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shes a wild card though

solemn mesa
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The only one I could think of RN is how her past life is "boring", how she feels insignificant, and I guess being a goofy jester would add that excitement or something??

paper lark
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look how that worked out for ronald mcdonald

remote island
paper lark
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lmaoooo

amber mica
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basically there was a virus in the 90s that obliterated computers and it was called

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bubble boy virus

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what are the odds that caine is not working as intended because bubble infected his inner coding?

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would explain why bubbles is becoming far more aggresive as the show went on

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at first i thought bubbles was like

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an extension to caine's wacky showman schticks

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but not so much rn

remote island
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Bubble is bubble

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Simple as is

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An anomaly

amber mica
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coould be

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cooould be not

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i grew suspicious of that floating soap bubble as of late

remote island
vocal wren
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goose genuinely setting herself up as the true villain

remote island
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The funniest part is gonna be the elaborate theories people have about bubble
Just for goose to pull a fast one and have it end up as ā€œtheres nothing going on with bubbleā€

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Wait isnā€™t that just the premise of beach episode

ornate meteor
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It's giving Steven Universe fandom back when people legitimately thought Onion was going to be Yellow Diamond lmao šŸ˜­

remote island
lost coral
ornate meteor
# lost coral w h a t

Yeah that was a thing people theorized back in the day (I'm old I was around for all the Steven Universe stuff)

vocal wren
main gyro
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I was too late for onion yellow diamond but not too late for onion white diamond šŸ”„

lost coral
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y'know, the more I learn about how the community was back then, the more glad I am that I only started watching the series after it was already over

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something about the episode teasers being actual trolling sometimes as well?

main gyro
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Rocknaldo was teased with an image of a new gemstone so people thought we were getting a new gem named Bloodstone only for it to be Ronaldo slop šŸ˜­

lost coral
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WHY

ornate meteor
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I remember when the Uncle Grandpa crossover happened people were so mad because Uncle Grandpa was kind of hated back then and people didn't want a crossover with it

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But yeah idk I feel like every fandom whether it's TADC or Steven Universe will have some crazy fan theories lol

languid matrix
vocal wren
languid matrix
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so yes

ornate meteor
languid matrix
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o h

ornate meteor
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Apparently the crew working on the show said that was completely on accident though and they didn't know that when they made the episode lmao it just kind of worked out that it happened to accidentally be foreshadowing

vocal wren
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leave it to the goat

ornate meteor
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I'm interested in seeing what gets revealed in episode 8 of the digital circus, I wonder if I'll be able to spot any other references to I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

vocal wren
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kinger (who has no mouth) starts to scream

languid matrix
amber mica
solemn mesa
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There's a difference between teaching someone a lesson... and killing them

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Losing your mind and essence is such an easy way out

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How about we teach him a lesson that he'll never forget?

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(Actually what "lesson" is there to even be taught to a character like Jax?)

vocal wren
solemn mesa
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He don't got any

amber mica
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pomni will try to save him but i doubt she'll succeed

solemn mesa
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The one thing Jax has left is his ability to hurt without regret

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But if we take that away from him...

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As long as there is someone he ""cares"" about, and as long as that person keeps rebuilding the bridge he desperately attempts to burn, he will have to face the music

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Basically Jax should suffer for as long and slowly as possible I think, if he is to deserve a non-abstraction-type fate

remote island
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I have made a terrifying realization

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If any of yā€™all know about ā€œI have no mouthā€ series,
Caine + AM = Sonic.EXE
Specifically Lord X but uh..
Geeez

amber mica
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difference is that caine is NOT an edgelord

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nor he hates humanity

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in fact he lvoes it

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he lvoes it so so much that he struggles to udnerstand he's causin pain

remote island
uncut snow
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(Caine thinks this is an adventure to help with his problems but in actuality makes it 10x worse)

remote island
uncut snow
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Like robot chicken or one of those plastic screaming chicken toys with a resemblance of human anatomy

remote island
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Uh.
Screaming chicken with the proportions of robot chicken

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Like the yellow rubbery body, but still those proportions

uncut snow
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Sounds equal parts goofy and midly disturbing

solemn mesa
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Give him the most annoying laugh ever

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He should also be encountered during a tetris-esque puzzle sequence scene

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His rival should be blue

uncut snow
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Cue the scene of the gang fucking up the potential tetris despite having a line piece/squiggly

paper lark
paper lark
glacial vine
main gyro
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WHA

lost coral
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ooh we're getting a flashback for sure

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kinger trauma arc šŸ”„

vocal wren
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oh boy

solemn mesa
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Uh oh

agile flare
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there will be lore after all lol

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that episode is gonna be crazy

solemn mesa
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NGL I am not so sure about how I feel on Goose giving these teasers to episodes WAYYY before they're presumably in the animation stage

cursive nymph
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is it not this month

solemn mesa
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Because now I wonder WHAT THE FUCK goes on in EP 8 for one thing to be "||oh!||" while the actual next episode supposedly evokes the phrase "||what?||"

cursive nymph
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oh i see

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wait what

solemn mesa
cursive nymph
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my guess EP 9 ||finale is gonna be confusing as fuck kinda like how murder drone's finale is just kinda random shit happening||

agile flare
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she lies a lot, for fun

solemn mesa
agile flare
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so let's just sit back and watch actual episodes lol

solemn mesa
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Cant unthink this sorry

cursive nymph
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i actually expect less comprehension knowing goose's past works (worxs if you will)

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digital circus will end with a gameshow

solemn mesa
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My issue with MD is that shit happens and it's like they expect you to follow the stuff despite having no breathing room to process

agile flare
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i mean idk what to expect since its the first goose project i watched and i havent seen others yet, but my vibe with tadc is that it's moreso character-driven series than anything else

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so nonsense surreal ending doesn't seem quite right to me but idk

cursive nymph
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it makes sense when you consider that the breathing room for murder drones was like several months between each episode

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its a show that relies a lot on the episodic online speculation culture

solemn mesa
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Development time could be a factor but when everything is done you kinda have to push that aside I think

agile flare
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im glad that tadc is more rewatchable and stands on its own by comparison

solemn mesa
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If you weren't a fan from the start, and you watch the show after it ends, it's going to be difficult being attached

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Because you shown interest at a wrong time

cursive nymph
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i saw it on one go when it was complete and i understood why people have issues with the pacing but i also know that like each frame of every episode was meant to be investigated for months before the next

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its a consequence of the approach they took

solemn mesa
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I think my peeve is how some characters just... change on a dime or are just sorta careless

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Everyone is on that "Oh no, anyways-" energy

cursive nymph
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i think the bobcut one joined the team way too quickly

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i found that a very weird and sudden change

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"Yeah im good now actually āœŒļø " after killing like several characters

solemn mesa
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Meanwhile with TADC, I suppose with the intended direction of the show being to push away the colors and action to better show off character development, I find more digestable

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Not to say that an action focused show wouldn't work or is greatly flawed, but it do feel like they really want to rush to those parts

agile flare
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i think when you take the series as a whole at this point, its pretty well balanced in what it offers, imo

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i rewatched all episodes after the latest one and it felt really nice

cursive nymph
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md doesnt take itself too seriously imo

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and thats fine

agile flare
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(also im glad that the pilot is the weakest episode by far)

vocal wren
cursive nymph
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i fucking love the completely unexplained giant ass church in the alien planet underground

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theres probably some lore reason for it

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but it caugh me so off guard

vocal wren
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im like 90% sure the purpose was "contain said creepy skinwalker robot lady who isnt a skinwalker yet and is inside a different robot"

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church because cool šŸ¤‘

lusty merlin
amber mica
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im expecting it to be complicated

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cuz like

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caine is not actively trying to harm people

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he just DOES and isnt aware of how much pain he causes due to his main programmnig being "make people happy"

uncut snow
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Itā€™s a bit more CAINEplicated than it sounds

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And by a bit I mean probably a lot

solemn mesa
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Caine has no heart yet he believes he deserves to be loved

uncut snow
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He has no heart and he must bees

paper lark
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this is good news mark

vocal wren
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we can finally be bees

novel panther
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7 days

uncut snow
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7 days until Caine wins the race

cursive nymph
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and he'll finally be happy

ornate meteor
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ā€œCan you believe it guys? Episode 8, just a week away! Episode 8 is in a week! Woohoo! I am so happy about this information.ā€ pooger

lusty merlin
agile flare
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oh this looks scary

lusty merlin
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as literally everyone predicted, the posters are starting to connect, though i had to mess with the size a bit

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agile flare
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yeah seems like shit is about to go down in this episode

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uh

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i wonder how long its gonna be

vocal wren
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zooble ur cooked icl

lusty merlin
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i don't think the kinger poster can fit in yet

lusty merlin
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goose "no romance" worx

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anyway here is my episode tier list that i made in 30 seconds after having not rewatched a single one of these in full ever and also keep in mind that all of them are really good but some are more good than others

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pliant grove
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Very dreamy for a crash out

lost coral
uncut snow
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Especially since theyā€™re the one who antagonizes him the most

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I wonder if theyā€™re gonna bring the torture stuff like how they did in the music video or itā€™s just something different entirely

amber mica
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you

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i dont like you

uncut snow
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You should di-YOU SHOULD THROW A FFFFFFF###ING BEACH PARTY šŸ˜ƒ

remote island
lost coral
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the intermission that follows that interaction is genuinely some of the best animation I've ever seen

lusty merlin
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YOU SHOULD THROW A FFFFFFFFFFFFFreaking beach party šŸ˜Š

uncut snow
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Itā€™s crazy but kinda awesome how bubble went from this sidekick of Caine to them gradually losing their shit and saying more outlandish things throughout the episodes

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And now both of them are reaching their breaking points

remote island
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The theory that bubble is a manifestation of caineā€™s intrusive thoughts
Therefore a literal thought bubble
Its kinda nutty
And how caine goes from an joking with bubble to actively denying/questioning bubble to embracing bubbleā€™s idea to throw a beach party, the only thing bubble has said more than once

main gyro
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Caine and Bubble are so Gaster and Image_Friend coded

remote island
languid matrix
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bubbleā€™s behavior just screams

amber mica
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bubble is a thought that keeps on expanding

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like a virus

glacial vine
vocal wren
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i can make you zooble
i can make you jax
maybe now youll see pomni
from the caine side out

remote island
vocal wren
remote island
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You might be onto something

vocal wren
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bubble has most letters from abel
bubble is one letter away from babble which is something bubble does

remote island
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This theory is flying straight into the deep end isnā€™t it

vocal wren
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yes

remote island
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I love it,
Gold stars all around

vocal wren
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i dont even know what the theory even is

remote island
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Totally related trust

vocal wren
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the prototype doesnt look like pomni
pomni looks like the prototype

lost coral
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we need a silly name for the theory

languid matrix
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poppy cainetime

solemn mesa
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Hey if you're starting to feel afraid of a bubble, uhhhh

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Just don't look at any background set within the circus

agile flare
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its like that fake foreshadowing leading up to episode 7 only for real

vocal wren
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oh no

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HEY

WHO BLEW THESE BUBBLES

agile flare
lost coral
agile flare
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fair enough

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but like...

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gangle and zooble are definitely a thing right

glacial vine
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Perhaps if escaping the circus were possible

uncut snow
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Well

Itā€™s plausible

main gyro
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Had a dream digital circus episode 8 was kinda ass because Caine was not involved in it at all and Gangle was revealed to be a shape-shifting twist villain who turned into Ribbit

lusty merlin
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dude, spoilers

uncut snow
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Marvel What-If writers entered your mindscape and slapped together such a creation with duct tape and hopes

vocal wren
amber mica
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but the moment the bubble boy theory ends up being real....

peak vapor
amber mica
# peak vapor what is bubble boy theory

besically it's based on the notion of an old virus that plagued computers in the 90s, one that slowly made the computer absolutely useless, the virus was called bubble boy

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the theory suggests that bubbles is a virus that injected itself into caine's basic programming, and is the main responsible that caine is malfunctioning/being a little too extreme with his adventures

agile flare
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hmmm i like it

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it would also explain why bubble kinda, uh, degrades? over the course of the series

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like i feel like in earlier episodes it was less random and more restrained but with each episode its more unhinged

vocal wren
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made with all the love im legally allowed to give

solemn mesa
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*days left

languid matrix
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my live reaction (I havenā€™t seen anything past 4A)

paper lark
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I'm guessing the final poster piece involves a giant caine towering over everyone

uncut snow
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ā€œStand ready for my arrival skibidi sigmasā€

-Caine probably

final kite
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Re-reading TADC manga while I wait for next Kirby manga update

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final kite
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So true!

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amber mica
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YOU PARASITE-!

final kite
drowsy gorge
ornate meteor
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Oh I didnā€™t realize it had a manga

final kite
paper lark
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is it just a retelling of the episodes or is it new plots

final kite
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Retelling of episodes with the special short comic thatā€™s promoting the show, merchandise, etc

agile flare
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ofc caine would do that shit

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lmao

solemn mesa
languid matrix
vocal wren
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do you think if they all jumped him he wouldnt have done that

languid matrix
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probably

paper lark
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It's over Pomni! You will never escape The Amazing Digital Circusā„¢!

main gyro
solemn mesa
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Hrm, ever consider how we just have crossed out player doors whose character models are that of "NPC's"?

lusty merlin
paper lark
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caine and his million eyes

vocal wren
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hello caine

solemn mesa
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No wait I just realized that there never once was an X'd out "mannequin placeholder" door in any of the previous episodes

glacial vine
lusty merlin
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šŸŽ©
šŸ¦·
šŸ‘€
šŸ¦·

final kite
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Spoiler tagged for spooky face, from manga

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vocal wren
lusty merlin
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oh my god

glacial vine
main gyro
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Old ass screensaver

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Very fitting for the time period omg - good eye

vocal wren
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i used to stare at them all the time when i was little

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we had a super old computer

amber mica
amber mica
glacial vine
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I find the crossed out mannequin to be interesting

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I do not believe for a SECOND that Abel was actually a human like some people are immediately concluding

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But if these are actually NPCs abstracting

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Who knows...

languid matrix
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Caine confused who was a human with who was an NPC yalikedeepfriedjazz /j

solemn mesa
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Caine at least understands how bad it would be for him to directly kill people

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He seems genuinely shaken at the thought of it

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Unfortunately he shares none of this concern for NPC's even if they are as aware as he is

vocal wren
solemn mesa
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Either that one line implies he might've popped a person or he just does not want to consider popping people in general

glacial vine
lost coral
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hm

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if we assume the theory that they all just got their mind copied... then caine, the NPCs, and the players, are all exactly the same amount of alive
because they would all be an ai program at this point

solemn mesa
vocal wren
uncut snow
lost coral
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like holy shit

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invincible, jojo, tadc...

vocal wren
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marvel rivals too