featuring the talk of the hour
First post showcase her end game
Silly jester goober
Goose dead yet?
Jax died on the way back to his home planet
I am god and I say Jax wins the jussy.
>>152555224>Suicide trapped in purgatory gets taunted by a simulacrum of their dead companionI hope not, this is just Silent Hill 2
marry reproduce you know the deal
>>152555425divorce abort so on and so forth
>>152555318
Guys, ya know when the crew is babbling about what to expect from the show, there is a good chance they're lying. Why would they spoil things?
I'm starting to come around on Gangle
Mom
RagaTHICC
>>152555164there's always a third option
>>152555425The reproduce part is tricky, sometimes i feel like my rabbi neighbor knows that fresh cattle near him will enter the market, i will at least wait until i can move away just in case.
I think I can finally get rid of my title as stomach flu anon now because I'm feeling almost fully better.
>>152555857glad you made it
Whadda guys think; is ragatha w.a.s.p.y rich or jew rich?
>>152556263W.a.s.p.She fits all of those stereotypes better.
Domestic violence is sexy.
i'm waking upto ash and dusti wipe my assand i slap my nuts
>>152556518I'm breathing inthe testicles
Jax is Hitler.
>>152556842gasp
We are in the last stretch now, ye? Two weeks or so until the trailer?
>>152556912Last couple of eps didn’t drop a trailer until a week before, which would make us 3 weeks out
What are your predictions for what the next episode will be?
>>152557490IIRC Goose said 7&8 were originally one episode that needed to be split into two, so I feel like the episode might pick up immediately or close to after 7 ended.
>>152557490Jax cries over Ribbit.
>>152557490the flashback one, we already saw the screenshot goose posted and there was a shot in 7's trailer of the corridor with the rooms but with none of the main character's doors there yet, and abel was there for a moment but it never appeared in episode 7, so I figure it was part of 8
>>152555248
>>152555300Post the rest of this set
>>152555318Tell me about the bee. Why does he draw it?
>>152555629I'm cumming on Gangle
>>152555629the patrician's waifu
>>152555671Aborting Ragatha's baby and then taking advantage of her compromised emotional state to seduce her!
>>152557710Until she becomes... dangerous...
>>152557730>torn up ribbonit survived a bomb going off inside her unscathed, so whatever did that is more threatening than she is
>>152557490With the little comments Goose/cast/etc have made about it, and where the previous episode ended, I genuinely have no idea. I get the general vibe that it’s going to have zero chill, that we’re in for something emotionally fraught, a bit surreal, and status-quo altering.It’s interesting to me that episode 7 ended in the button room. Caine didn’t zap them back to the circus, and with the way they got there, there’s not really a way for them to get back without him. If 8 picks up right where 7 left off (being that it was originally one episode), maybe they’ll be stranded in there for a while as Caine recovers from the confrontation, and I could see a big info-dump argument breaking out with tensions being so high, with any and all built up slights and secrets spilling out. In IHNM this was the point that things really went south. Maybe the hostility towards Caine and each other will cause some major glitching? I’m not sure how Caine’s going to respond to what just happened, whether he’s going to go MIA or become super overbearing trying to smooth things over. I could see him bombarding them with an Untitled/Intermission style montage of adventures to desperately try and distract/impress them.I also don’t know how they’re going to handle Jax, who nearly abstracted last episode after something comparatively minor, only for him to be in just about the worst possible situation now. It doesn’t make narrative sense to just be like “jk he does abstract after all” so there’s gotta be something that keeps him going.We could also just cut straight into flashbacks in order to skip past whatever happened between pressing the button and getting back to the circus, and pop back in on the gang when tensions have had time to subside (or just open after a normal time jump with no flashback like the other episodes), but I just feel like we’re past that sort of normalcy.
>>152557796Post YFW Jax grabs an ice spike from the ceiling
>>152557490It’s the secret Ragatha episode.
>>152557838
Teaser tomorrow
>>152557838Wait, I recognize this reference, what's it referring to?
>>152557912picture is a reference to the zelda cd-i gamescomment is referencing IHNMAMS
>>152557927>IHNMAMSThought so, the ending right?
No TADC fan has ever read No Mouth.
>>152557869Inhaling jester tounge
>>152557975But it's such a tiny tongue.
>>152557912That’s how Ted symbolically defeats AM in IHNM, by killing his peers with icicles after AM (intentionally) played a cruel trick on them similar to what Caine (accidentally) just did.Obviously this isn’t a direct adaptation and can’t play out the same way, but the fake exit seems like a pretty clear reference.Thinking on it further, Jax is the equivalent of Ted, who incorrectly thinks everyone hates him and that he’s the only one whose mind hasn’t been altered by AM. But Jax just explicitly acknowledged that his mind HAS been altered with the vegan thing, and everyone kinda DOES hate him lmao (or at least they have every reason to right now). So I wonder where that might be going. Maybe he expects to be chewed out for the button thing but instead receives compassion that he’s not equipped to accept? I feel like everyone actually turning on him risks woobifying him, rather than putting the onus on him to accept and return compassion.
>>152557640what a spoiled brat, id kick em in the ribs for that, then i would sequester ragatha away and we ride off into the sunset in my beat up car thats older than me
>>152557966RIP the mental health of all the Gen A kids who ill-advisedly got into TADC and end up even less advisably reading IHNM as a resultHopefully the TikTok brain rot is enough to deter them from an 11 page story
>>152557987With the size of her head it's probably normal too. Wouldn't care either way.
>>152557796>there’s not really a way for them to get back without himCaine can make portals between arbitrary locations. I'm pretty sure he could make a portal between the office and the main circus area without being physically present in either place.
>>152557990>woobifyingwut
>>152558078That’s true. I just think that not doing so opens up a story opportunity for them to be forced to be around each other, and to remember how dependant they are on Caine despite how mad they are at him
>>152557966I actually first learned about IHNMAIMS when I was about eleven or twelve, and had my first experience with it via listening to Harlan Ellison's audiobook version. It became one of my favorites, and I really hoped TADC wouldn't fuck it up when I first heard there was this new, popular series partially inspired by the book. It didn't fuck it up YET.The man disappointment for me is that Caine isn't nearly as funny as A.M
>>152558094Basically making him such a sad, suffering, misunderstood lil guy that the fans refuse to recognise his wrongdoing or hold him accountableWhich is already kind of happening, and doesn’t seem to be Goose’s intention
>>152558124the game version expands the story, AM keeps other AIs around to torture them as well. Eventually leading to his downfall. AM has grown so far beyond his programming that he is having errors, similar to AI code today
>>152558146>doesn’t seem to be Goose’s intentionTo be fair, it's difficult to know what they are at times.
>>152558160I know almost everything there is to know about IHNMAIMS. It's probably my favorite book.
I only read IHNMAIMS once many years ago and wasn’t enamoured with it enough to suffer the events of the story a second time. Remind me, did it actually explain how AM was able to alter their physical bodies, or was it just a sci-fi “sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic” type deal?
>>152558160>similar to AI code todayFill me in homie
>>152558277It never once explained how AM was able to do was he was doing. So all the times he killed the group and then resurrected them and all the other stuff he conjured went unexplained as to how. The story didn't even explain how he killed humanity or he built himself over the planet when he couldn't even move.In fairness, it was kinda par for the course in sci fi writers back then. Things just happened because science is magic.
>>152558160>>152558292NTA, it's not similar. "AI" code today is just a weighted die with tokens on it. it's not having errors, it's just that next-token-prediction is not as flexible or reliable as actual understanding (and does not substitute for the latter no matter how much you scale it). it gets slightly more likely to output something correct as you scale infrastructure, but you hit diminishing returns very quickly and models had already essentially plateaued in mid-2024 (they tried to out-scale the diminishing returns, which exploded their operating costs, but the end result across 2025 was not a meaningful leap in quality).we've known how these systems work since the 1990s, but the hardware hadn't been good enough to make them large enough for generative uses at scale until the late 2010s.>but muh code generationLLM code is script-kiddie tier - basically limited to stuff you can keep in a single file. if somebody can replace their code output with it they weren't working on something very complicated; it cannot into top-level system design and integration, i.e. complex interconnected systems that require complex and reliable subsystem integration. doesn't "understand" or "create," just approximates the probability distribution of its training data. the chatbot interfaces you see are simple wrappers that take the peaks of that distribution and spit them back out at you. each token in the "context window" is then fed back into the LLM for the next dice roll, then the process repeats until it returns a special stop token or you hit the context/reply length limit set by the wrapper.anyway, thanks for coming to my TedX talk.>>152558277it's very "any sufficiently advanced AI becomes a god." so yeah, standard sci-fi fare where that's concerned.the sort of thing that you could only fear in real life if you do not possess even the most basic understanding of thermodynamics.silicon valley is full of some very... amusing individuals.
>>152558348It's clearly explained that they're all kept alive because of what the old man developed during his earlier life. All of what you said is now suspect.
>>152558348>The story didn't even explain how he killed humanity or he built himself over the planet when he couldn't even move.You're telling meThe master computer that took over during the cold warthe cold fucking warwould have no way to wipe out all of humanity without getting up and moving around?
>>152558377>any sufficiently advanced AI becomes a god." Since the story takes place in the real world, because virtual reality or the idea of getting sucked into a game weren't concepts back then, i would have liked an explanation, no matter how brief, as to how AM was altering reality.
>>152558432also BTW since people often don't realize this - it's not a novel. it's a short story. very quick to read if you're curious.
>>152558381What old man?>>152558429It's fair to say he could have used nukes and chemicals, but the book didn't say. It also didn't say how he spread out over the whole planet. Is he self replicating, did he somehow mine the raw materials himself, did he enslave humanity briefly?
>>152558459>but the book didn't say [how thing that isn't important to the story happened]Do we need to know?There could be a million explanations, none of which would do much good for the story to take a diatribe to explain.
>>152558439I know that.
>>152558459IIRC wasn’t AM the amalgamation of several warring supercomputers? Hence his hate for humanity, since each supercomputer was programmed to hate the enemy, making their combination hate everyone equally
>episode 8 of the “stop looking for lore” show is taking so long that we’re now looking for irrelevant lorebits in a short story from 1970
>>152558506We can talk about how Jax hogging up the screentime will be a lasting criticism of the show again
I'm gonna miss all you guys when this show is over.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TMksYUfIeWkLooks like Ragatha got a little extra stuffing...
>>152558570a little? she looks like she ate all the other ragathas at the chinese sweatshop and became the king ragatha
I think Jax is neat.
you...
>>152558569:(
>>152555857if you're no longer the stomach flu anon who are you now?
>>152558655The Jax torturer fic anon. Now I wanna write that Emetophobia fic.
>>152558634No, this is the face of pure evil.
>>152558678That's no ordinary rabbit, that's the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on!
>>152558549>I want more of the bitchy trans woman who complains about literally everything!>I want more time with the 30 year old woman with mummy issues!>I want more time with the depressed ribbon woman who cries constantly!>I want more time with the insane person who has no idea what's going on!compared to>I want more time with the rabbit who's been having a multi year long breakdown caused by grief over the death of his best friend which destroyed all his other relationships, and is now spiraling out of control because his other friend just died, the frienemy he was using as an emotional shield has left, and a new friend starts making him have uncomfortable feelings he isn't emotionally equipped for and isn't letting him use your usual coping strategies because this is the closest to a well adjusted adult he's been around for years
https://x.com/jinks3d/status/2022954269847228724/photo/1warning
>>152558674i wanna see that fic uploaded
>>152557640I will give the Ragatha a home.Also, holy fuck. This ublock nonsense is annoying.
Bro what is this ad i just gothttps://youtube.com/shorts/bn751SctoDU?si=BegDDV1ZchIVaIGG
>>152558777why did i watch it....
I wonder how Kovach feels knowing he's always going to be cast as the wumpbait troubled male the tumblr girlies obsess over"rich as fuck" is not an emotion
>>152558733I feel like there’s material for a dang prequel season with Jax as protagonist detailing all the happenings and how his interesting relationships with everyone else change and deteriorate, culminating in Pomni’s arrival shifting everything again.
>>152558733>I want more time with the 30 year old woman with mummy issues!Yes
>>152558817Until they reboot Raggedy Ann and they hand-pick him to play Andy, at least
>>152558831real life ragatha is way too hot (i have no problem with that just to be clear)
>>152558817I actually think he could work in musical theatre, his singing isn't professional singer level, but it is musical theatre level
>>152558817He seems to get cast as everything all the time so I wouldn’t worry, but being in the indie/nerd space does seem to attract more than the usual fair share of parasocial weirdosAlso idk if this is a recent thing, but I’ve watched bits and pieces of panels and VA content, and he seems to hate Jax more and more as time goes on lol, seeming to just reiterate that Jax sucks every chance he gets. I get the feeling he’s had to deal with a lot of “babby’s first ‘I can fix him’” nonsense with the awkwardly young and passionate fanbase and is super over it
>>152558866Professional singers can be shitty as fuck with the help of technology, musical theatre singers have to actually project in the room, and it’s a competitive as fuck space with little use for fat hairy nerdsI guess he could be suited to play Seymour Krelborn, but that’s about it
>>152558866>Hazbin Hotel life action adaptation>full fucking circle
>>152558889>Professional singers can be shitty as fuck with the help of technology,The pomni actress can't sing, her voice is always autotuned to oblivion
>>152558906Imagine playing the lead in the biggest indie animation ever only for all of your castmates to mog your singing voice and character arc for two years straight
>>152558933even Gangle's VA can singhttps://youtu.be/57NC8AqTW-s?list=RD57NC8AqTW-sRagatha's is OK, but seems very forcedhttps://youtu.be/7rn9zW0u4jg?list=RD7rn9zW0u4jgKovach is so good it's become an issue and he's stopped doing fan songs because several impersonators got death threats
I think Jax is going to do something unforgivable later on and it may have to do with Kinger
>>152559038>post YFW when "I fucked your dad, Ragatha."
>>152559003> several impersonators got death threatslolwutWhy?
>>152559055Stole her bestie, fucked her dad, is there any low he won’t stoop to?
>>152559058why wouldnt they
>>152558733Yes, you disingenuous little fag.
>>152555303You mean from suicide or some other reason?
where'd this overly defensive jaxfag come from? these threads have been complaining about him receiving too much focus for months.
>>152559068>It was ME, Ragatha>When that candy lady took your hand and you made a mess in your pants, it was me spraying a water gun up your dress so you'd think you came at a woman's touch!
Here's my biggest gripe with the show's writing so far. I know that a lot of people have complained about all the focus being on Jax and Pomni to the point where they have to change lines just to be about the two of them. But here's mine. Why is Caine just starting to lose it now? What was preventing him from losing it before? And I don't really buy the whole explanation that nobody told him that people don't like his adventures. There was really nobody that ever came into the circus before this that ever said anything about his adventures not being that good until people like Zooble and Jax showed up? These are people from all walks of life showing up in this circus, and apparently it took like 20 abstractions before someone said something? I just don't buy this at all. It feels really artificial just so that everything can start moving in the direction it's supposed to once Pomni shows up in the circus.
>>152559561I've wondered the same thing.
>>152559561Did you not see the glitch ingredients Gloink Jax tried to hide from the others in episode 1?Knock knock who's there is official content, and shows that the circus is glitches and has been breaking down
>>152559561Same anon, continuing this. Even if I buy that someone else showed up before that outright told Caine about not liking the adventures, what was so special about Zooble that he actually started to take these criticisms seriously? >>152558506This is something that always bothers me. The show constantly shows and baits lore stuff and yet shuts it down constantly. Why even have that stuff in the show in the first place then? Better yet, how about actually explain your fucking setting instead of having lorefags doing it for you?A show being character driven doesn't mean that the characters are the only things that matter. Hunter X Hunter is a character driven series, and yet it has a metric shitton of explanation for its world to the point where people meme it for doing so. The excuse of it being character driven doesn't justify this blatant disregard for explaining basically anything, especially when you're constantly baiting it.
>>152559561Yeah I think this is the single biggest problem with the writing. We’re told they’ve been here for years, but it’s like nothing actually began until Pomni showed up, including things as small as knowing each other’s former jobs. It’s a weird writing quirk because the vibes between characters are super “we have history” but the information they share with each other (or rather don’t share with each other) is the opposite and creates a really annoying dissonance.And it’s clearly just a case of “don’t think about it too much” rather than being done that way with some sort of purpose.On the point about abstractions, I didn’t even realise there’d been so many until the fandom pointed out all the crossed out doors, and I feel like that takes away a lot of the stakes when it’s SO inevitable. Like you either live forever or abstract. After a certain amount of years, one’s gonna be as good as the other, so why are we in such a panic about it?
>>152559058Because they wanted Kovach to do more fan videos, so he has removed himself from the options entirely nowHe did threaten to sue an impersonator who was using his pictures to larp as him though
>>152559632The gloink glitching was from Kaufmo, it glitched the same way Ragatha did, hence Jax looking shifty because he didn’t want Kaufmo to come down and get to them
>>152559632Why do I have to read a separate thing? Why can't that just be included in the show in the first place?
>>152559663Jax literally saved kinger and gangle in episode 1.
>>152559153expat from the Helluva threads
>>152559646>This is something that always bothers me. The show constantly shows and baits lore stuff and yet shuts it down constantly. Why even have that stuff in the show in the first place then? Better yet, how about actually explain your fucking setting instead of having lorefags doing it for you?Even with the character stuff, you have to dissect every little exchange like a lore miner in order to really appreciate what’s going on, because the show has so little time to linger on anything.
>>152559671Welcome to indie animation
>>152559674That has nothing to do with what anon was trying to explain to you.
>>152559561Maybe the show isn't over yet and we'll find out?
I've been nursing a little theory that the circus induces memory loss, and the series is actually in a psuedo-time loop of these characters meeting one another over and over again, having the same conversations with only the occasional abstraction to break the flow. That bar scene has happened, in one shape or form, dozens of times, the circus is just running out of memory to store all the humans'... well, memories.There's barely anything in the series supporting this other than basic logistical concerns the series handwaves, though.
>>152559704This should be explained over the course of the show instead of happening right when it needs to.
>>152559704There’s nothing in the show to suggest this is part of the plot. It’s one of those things where sometimes stories just ask you to suspend your disbelief for certain things, and if you stick with it assuming they’re gonna explain it eventually, you’re gonna have a bad timeI’m happy to suspend my disbelief, but I can still recognise it as a weakness in the writing that they probably could have worked around with a bit of extra care
why don't they do the intro anymore
>>152559561>>152559649IHNMAIMS avoided this snarl pretty well by having all the characters explain they'd done this many times before. Gorrister asks the cast to tell him a story he's already heard a thousand times, because he's crazy and is soothed by hearing the story. This could have been a useful use for Kinger, who is similarly "the crazy one" and often needs to be reminded of things, and Pomni kind of fills the role by being "the new one" who needs to be filled in on how everything works, but it falls apart when two characters who aren't Pomni or Kinger interact, since they SHOULD KNOW how everything works. Zooble and Gangle should've been scissoring since day 1, they shouldn't have just now started talking as much as they do.This is just going to happen when you expand the very small, very deliberately crafted concept of IHNM into something ten episodes long. You start having to introduce character arcs and change, into a story all about how things never change. There could be a last minute switch-up that reveals why all this is happening NOW - maybe it has something to do with how Caine has finally broken down enough that the characters escaped some sort of soft time loop, like was mentioned earlier - but I don't think that's likely.
>>152559881And yes I did post the vitiligo black ragatha image as a distraction, sue me
>>152559881>>152559892
>>152559892michael jackson waifu... i got conflicting feels of jungle fever and birth of a nation flashbacks
>>152559881Straight hair looks lame. give her some dreads.
>raghead and ganglegangsters laughing at jaxfags
>>152559881I think in-universe acknowledgement that everyone but Pomni and Kinger have heard all this sort of thing already would have really enhanced not only the feeling of stagnation, but reinforced the way everyone feels so complacent with their roles and how they view one another. Like Jax already has everyone in their little box, imagine how much more rigid that impression would be if every time they talk about themselves it’s something he’s heard many times before. Same with how they react to him and see no point in trying to reach him or corral him.Then it makes sense that Pomni comes in with a fresh perspective on them, which they all dismiss since they were like that too once, but it still works that this time it means something because of everything that’s happened in recent years and Caine coming closer to his breaking point.
>>152560013whos "me"?
>>152560049I'm me.
>>152560053Okay, Golden Freddy.
RAGATHA, NO!! THINK OF THE SPONSORS!!
>>152560053
>>152558250I desperately need to see this in some form. A chaotic AI who's on the edge of a "mental breakdown", only getting negative reinforcement from the more smug and aggressive to do bad against the 'mortals'. I know the show is shit, but I liked how in Altered Carbon,the hotel AI is part of an AI society that works behind the scenes of what humanity is doing. It makes you question sentence in a way, you know?
big head
>>152558250Idk if you know anything about the literary context surrounding it, but is AM somewhat the precursor to the ‘evil robot/AI/supercomputer’ archetype (ie the similar characters in the pic)? Or was that kind of thing already a thriving genre when it was written?
>>152560142Why is the background angry fluffy puppies with buttholes?
>>152560142Tiny dick.
Hugs
im angry we dont get a movie to end the series on a BANG!
>>152560507Pretty sure the last episode will be at least an hour, if not an hour and a half. I think Goose has said the last 4 episodes total like 120/150min? I can’t remember and can’t be bothered to work out where that puts us, but I’m pretty sure an hour or so long finale is realistic
>>152560522but when do i CLAP!?
BURN BABY BURN
>>152560288>only bunI like that it goes both ways
>>152559905Kek
>>152560527The entire time
>>152559905is nigga not censored because gangle is indeed a "nigga"?
>>152558570oh come on stop
>>152558733you could expand any of the other characters' descriptions, and you could also condense jax down to a few words
>>152560726yes
Sleepy Ragamuffin
>>152557490More boo hoo waa waa Jax shit for at least the first half. Hopefully that flashback to Ribbit. Maybe they can fit something leading into the climax in after that but at this point I wouldn't be surprised if Jax being sad is also what the final episode is going to be about.>>152559561I just assumed that he had been subtly falling apart for a while and they only started noticing recently as he got worse.
>>152561458giwtwm (the pillow)
>>152558733Whoa. You being able to do that is good evidence that Jax has gotten too much screentime and general exploration compared to the other characters. Thanks for making my argument for me.
>>152557975Careful, there's more in that mouth than just a tongue!
>>152558250>bookIt's like a 16 page short story
>>152558475fuck fuck fuck fuck FUCKI need to BREED vampire Ragatha right NOW
>>152558570Honestly, Peter should be railing her. Some nice fatty on fatty action
frog
>>152559150>pic>not suicide by a drill through the skullcome on, /pol/ - that was a layup
>>152560288>TFW no french fry GF
>>152561558I have been summoned
>>152561558>>152561655>>152561667AAAAAA
>>152559905if we're going by US demographics black people are less than 1/7th of the population. if a single one of the main cast was black it would be above average. there would be no reason to expect more than one.
>>152561679Goose just told me they're all black
>>152561610It’s crazy how inventive people get for characters that haven’t even really appeared yet who we know almost nothing aboutAnd how consistent the fans are about her characterisation just based on who someone like Jax would get along with
>>152561729And all voice by whites? How problematic
>>152561794Well, they went for quality
Based reverse vore anon
>>152561809Reverse vore anon and stomach flu anon should hold hands
>>152561829theres some strange overlap between the two, i wouldnt be surprised if they were one and the same
>>152561828>sweaterBut it's too co-o-o-o-o-old, for you here...
What do you think Jax would hate more? Everyone treating him like the villain after what he did, or like >>152557990 said receiving compassion despite his actions. I feel like he'd respond more violently to the second even trying to physically hurt people if they did the second.
>>152561809>reverse voreI prefer to think of it as mouth birth
>>152561873Jax wants to be seen as the bad guy but the fun kind of bad guy. If everyone treated him as a full on villain as opposed to an annoying dick he would likely shut down the same way as he did after Pomni tried to befriend him. Everyone going full 'Jax did nothing wrong' would likely cause him to lash out but I am not sure how. I feel like he would probably just call everyone retarded and yell at them.
>>152561873It’s a tough one. On one hand he really doesn’t like being seen as a bad guy, but he hates being seen as a vulnerable human with feelings to the point of building his entire persona around it.It’s a bit lose-lose (at least in the short term), but I think treating him like a villain would feed into his bad coping mechanisms more. While it wouldn’t be comfortable, it’d probably be closer to his comfort zone, giving him room to either brush it off as exaggeration or focus on feeling hard done by rather than taking real accountability. It’s easier to be like “I pressed the red button because I’m just that much of a troll” than to face the reality of “I pressed the red button because I freaked the fuck out.” I mean that’s basically what happened with Pomni, with him at first just trying to play it cool but eventually giving a villain speech that wasn’t even within the persona he was trying to craft, just because he ran out of ways to push her away. And he hated it, but he still did it rather than face the alternative of admitting she was right in simply pointing out that he’s a normal human with normal human feelings.He also loves being able to do whatever he likes with no consequences. I think if they flat out brushed it off and didn’t challenge him on it at all, he’d be able to shake it off too and slide right back into his maladaptive ways.>>152561942Yeah, I’ve said before how in his fight with Pomni he really tried to thread an impossible needle of getting her to stop wanting to connect with him without hurting her in order to do it, to look like a jerk without having to BE a jerk. I think in daily life he wants to thread a similar needle of being “bad, but not THAT bad.” I think he’d like his circus mates to enjoy his antics the same way the audience does, but the difference between comedy and tragedy is distance, and the targets of his antics can’t escape him.
>>152561942OOC garbage
>>152561942That pic makes Jax look like a petty jealous child.
>>152561942Do yurishitters really...?
>>152561610kek at that trypophobia Ribbit
>>152562169>>152562338Yeah, it is pretty stupid but I just clicked the first Jax related image in my folder.Jax is a petty childish dick but not in the way the image portrays.
>>152561942Who the hell gets right up in someone's face while confessing?
>>152555400Good thing about the circus banning sex and genitals is that explicit drawings like this can flood the web almost freely.
>>152558906I noticed this in a very funny way when I was watching episode 6 and switching between dub languages during the daisy bell sceneIn English they made Jax the lead and Pomni the backing while in a lot of other languages Pomni is the lead and Jax is the backing. The Arabic Pomni has a really nice singing voice.
>>152562691Seems kinda counterintuitive considering he initiated the song. He just switches to harmony? The bitch seat? He really is a subActually it does kinda make sense, if I initiate a song I’m not gonna bank on my buddy knowing the harmony off the dome
Anybody here watch the amazing digital circus?
>>152562736Never heard of it
>>152562736Kinda arrogant to put ‘amazing’ in the title
>>152562736No?
>>152561942>>152562169NORMIES are incapable of in character stuff
>>152561610Alternate reality, Ribbit never abstracted, Jax is a troublemaker but no cruel. Realizes his feelings for Pomni and has multiple supportive people around him to help him build that relationship
>>15256156813 pages, far too long for zoomers
>>152562512me
>>152562736What's that?
>>152562736what the heck is digital amazing circus
I largely ignored this show entirely because I thought it was yet another FNAF-clone "cute and kiddie but scary actually" slop cocomelon thing, but they I heard it was inspired by IHNMAIMS. The actual resemblance is a lot more bare, and honestly I wasn't technically far off my assumption, but I binged the whole thing just the other day and it's certainly charming. Shame every episode's comments had someone going "oh that bit there paid off later eh?" but it spared me an instant rewatch I guess. I like Jax plenty, I can see why he's a favorite, truthfully though I'd rather be stick with being an asshole (not over the top). The Guns episode was fun before the argument.>>152555289She did seem almost into him, huh? At least I got that vibe during the fast food interaction.
>>152557664He's a product of C&A, and what's between those letters?>>152555289Best boy imo, love his design and all, shame he only is what he is, and I saw his shock coming a mile away.
>>152555629>Whiny annoying sadsackOkay this character fucking suc->She's a girl though-ceeded at winning me over.
>>152557796Where IHNM and this diverge is Cain is at odds with wanting everyone happy but insisting that success comes from him and with him. He can inflict punishment, risk warping minds, force people into his next schemes and out from hiding, but he's still at their mercy. If after this, everyone decides they're done humoring him, and all stand united against any more adventures, that'd bridge off of what we just saw and also force his hand into a new act. That's what I'm expecting.
>>152557990>everyone kinda DOES hate him lmaoI don't know about that. Despite everything, while it's arguably earned just generally, it seems everyone still has a "we're all in this together" care for him, it's just not typically warm and fuzzy, and clearly he doesn't make it easy. As far as the button, he had his head messed with, and he definitely didn't like being right; he was absolutely right though, and at worst they missed out on shrimp town because of him. I wouldn't get any hostility for his choice.
>>152562736I'm here for the pornography
>>152558146>Which is already kind of happening, and doesn’t seem to be Goose’s intentionI doubt that, given all his "augghhh my emotions! Haha jk actually" moments and especially given the merch and maid outfit. He's candy to a certain demographic and they're working what sells. I bet if he was going to abstract before he won't now, but I won't assume I'm right if he doesn't.
https://x.com/i/status/2024714955304390740>Goose: "i never expected one of the things people get mad at me for would be making the show focus on the 2 main characters (Pomni and Jax)"
>>152563115I was just about to post this, I cannot describe the load this has lifted from my shoulders. I would not have been mentally well if Jax died next episode (if he dies at the end of ep 9, urgh, fine, I trust Goose to deliver an earned catharsis, but I doubt he will)
>>152555248This show is highly satanic because it was made by a trannysexualised
>>152563154This show is ordained by God herself
I gotta say, as someone who's disproportionately susceptible to gaslighting, I can't tell you what a mindfuck it's been to flip between chatting in Breaking Bad spaces being like "yes, I understand that murdering 11 people in 7 minutes was a sound tactical decision, but I still think it says something about Walt's degrading sense of morality" and then hopping over to TADC discussions (not here) where I have to be like "okay, I get that Jax was griefing in the candy kingdom and that's super fucking annoying, I see you, I hear you, but to say that he deserves to succumb to a pit of suicidal despair as penance seems a little unreasonable"
i like ragatha
>>152558733Back from your vacation, Stolasfag?
>>152562964she's a kind of broken you can actually fix
>>152563217You don't need to go outside of Glitch (or even outside of Michael Kovach's roles) for this kind of whiplash, lol.
>>152563217I'd say he arguably deserves it, but not for trashing a fake setting that'll be gone when he is anyway. You can be funny and rude without it being his level of outright constant jackassery. Pushing everyone away, and being cruel to the weakest of them, he's basically falling into a hole he giddily dangles others over. Doubly dickish given they know people get corrupted and I doubt they assumed time or Cain did it. Realistically being in that scenario as a group, even with rougher personalities, they would've all thought hey we shouldn't isolate or put anyone down because even aside from basic human decency, it's disastrous when any of us fall; that issue though I can't decide if I mind. It's sorta needed for this cast to still have friction, but it plays into what was mentioned earlier with "the show abuses suspension of disbelief by having nothing happening until Pomni".
>>152563217there's a certain level of hostility towards attempts at understanding that make further attempts unreasonable to expect. he's digging his own pit of despair, and people won't keep offering ladders forever if he keeps attacking them for it.
>>152563326Oh he's absolutely digging his own grave, that's a huge part of what makes it so interesting to watch. There's just a certain portion of the fanbase that so gleefully condemn him in a way that gets under my skin (and a portion of the fanbase that gleefully excuse him, but I find it easy to dismiss them as dumbasses)
Next episode i think Jax is just going to isolate himself further, the cast will knock on his room only to realize he's not there at all. The whole episode will be split between him with some abstacted characters and everyone else
>>152563447I'm hoping for Pomni in Jax's room going through his pictures.
Abstraction itself is such a mystery concept still. I don't know if that's intended, maybe they just wanted a quick and dirty "oh shit there's stakes to this 'live forever do whatever no stakes' shit". But thus far we've yet to actually see someone we know (entirely) abstract. The threat of it feels murky, Raggy got kinda fucked up, but seemingly not focused on to be killed (or turned? Can they make more of themselves or just fuck shit up glitchwise). Physical contact doesn't even really seem consistent, just like the rabid behavior, since Queenie was capable of being tame and being held. We maybe know what caused it and what caused the first abstraction, but don't and likely won't know how that went entirely. Jax is on the path, but he's been mind fucked as well as on an emotional spiral, so we're not even sure which factors more there. He also seemed to be, I don't know, called over to it? I doubt we see him fully fucked up, he's too fan favorite and too main character. Otherwise maybe it can be cured. It seems taken as granted it can't be fixed so far.
>>152563115Goose saying episode 8 isn't about Jax was DEFINITELY a lie then lmao
>>152563509>>152563509Goose has literally said that him and pomnia the main charactersSad Bunny boy dealing with grief surrounded by deeply unhelpful mentally ill adults is taught to love again by a tiny jester with at least some emotional maturity
Which ones do i keep and which ones do I sell?Also, naked jax had a fluffy tail
>>152555318https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJeG-GGH114
>>152562736Nah dude, it's like touhou, everybody just ships the characterssource material be damned
>>152562847Based on the conversation from the snowventre Jax was always a shitter but let's play this tape. Let's say for whatever reason Kaufmo still get fixated on the exit to the point of abstraction. Jax already has someone he vibes with, he'd be less incentivized to get to know the jester, but maybe her slight resemblance to the clowm or something pushes them closer. There is almost no way he wouldn't already be tripping balls off the frussy, and if he wasn't then Ribbit would probably realize her feelings when it became clear he likes Pomni.
I think goose is a bad writer and you're all trying to fill in a bunch of holes in the writing that will never get filled in.
>>152563036Him hating being right doesn't change what he did. It didn't look like Caine messed with his mind so much as he was panicking about what he would go back to and that's what they would think because he was clearly losing his shit, and finally the worst that could have happened was Caine glitching out and shot going south from that, but regardless he could have doomed them to being trapped. Now never go full retard again you goddamn ovine.Oh, and Goose said everyone hating Jax is a spoiler.
>>152563529Give them all to me for free>>152563233Everybody does. They're lying if they claim otherwise.
Goose also said ep7 would be the craziest thing anyone's ever seen and would destroy and rape the minds of all watchers who doubted that it wasn't leading up to the biggest reveal in the last 1000 years. Also that everyone who didn't realize Jax was the main character from the start is stupid.
>mfw this whole show is just Goose and her self-insert OC therapising Ted to save him from his fate
>>152563650No you're just mad your fan theory was wrong. You're not allowed to criticize anything until 2027 when the final episode comes out.
>>152563664I'm actually a big Jax fan, I just find it funnyAnd I'm so relieved that I no longer have to pretend to deeply appreciate the support cast in their own right, while secretly knowing that the thing that makes them most interesting is their dynamic with Jax the ways they all act as different foils for him specifically (I mean I LOVE the support cast, but who they are in relation to Jax is far and away more interesting than who they are in relation to each other)
jax is a boring shallow character
>>152563645Neck yourself.
>>152563735Fuckable smug bunny, but it's all too obvious when people drink deeper than his well goes.
>>152563745cry about it
>>152563529Touch fluffy tail
>>152563950I know they can't have sex the conventional way, but with minimal punishments doled out what's stopping them from getting kind freaky with it. Enough of them have hands for groping, tongues for licking, teeth for biting. They still feel stuff too.
>>152563830Nah I'd cheer.
>>152564044The only ones who have all of that are Pomni and Jax. Bubble and Caine don't count. Everyone else is reduced to Roman hands and Russian fingers, only there's nowhere for them to go.
>>152564044The Shame.
>>152564140Ragatha's got... something in there, I'm sureI'd rather try my luck with her than the chess piece is all I'm saying
>yfw Jax is abstracting and is saved by the tears of all his circus peers a la Pokemon The First Movie
>>152564141The Pain!
>>152564266>Zooble collecting the tears in a bucket
https://x.com/i/status/2024865906846011627>The amount of art of Jax getting tortured really went down after we revealed that he wants to kill himself, and I'm still sad about that.
>>152564140Zooble has holes™ and Ganglemay be able to constrict her ribbons, though they may miss out on the biting, tounges, and possibly breathing but everyone can play with pressure, strokes and grabbing.
>>152557490Despite what everyone says, the plot will barely progress if at all.
>>152564308Genuinely dislike goose as a person.
>>152564336Zooble is a pegging expert both in the circus and IRL, bet
>>152564308Never seen a creator so willing to say the most unhinged shit they can think of about their show like Goose. What a champ.
>>152564355I think I'm in love with her
She was testing the waters asking for more masc Pomni art, now we're gonna get an influx of suffering Jax artThank you, Goose
>>152564288lmao
>>152564308The amount of people in the replies who are JUST LEARNING that abstraction=suicide, my god
>>152564391>herAlso sorry for your illness.
>>152564391>herLmao no
>>152564308She saw your cuddly funnybunny art and was like "this is the opposite of what I asked for"
>>152564308God bless Goose
y-yes mother
>>152564446Did they think that Gangle throwing herself into oncoming traffic was supposed to be her tripping or something
>>152564536Jax's mom definitely beats him. It answers so many questions.
>>152564308Goose is kind of stupid
desu goose might be better off looking to the Asian fans for more tortured Jax art, they're masters of the craft
>>152564557It's amazing how few people really understand the cycle of abuse
>>152564579The Jax ryona has to be especially brutal since he's more cartoony in design
>Goose confirmed Jax is the main character besides Pomni100+ more minutes of screentime to this useless piece of shit I guess
>>152564536>>152564557>>152564587Jax did look upset when ragatha was explaining how bad her mom was. Simple sympathy or was it relatable?
>>152564552It was, they were enjoying their freedom and the truck wasn't shown until the last moment.
>>152564618
>>152564629They specifically show Google tripping and looking shocked
I hope Jax escapes the circus alone and almost immediately dies.
>>152563115I'm a mature individual, so I won't brag. But I am happy.
I want to see Jax get cathartically tortured into tears until he can't pretend he has no feelings, and then I want him to heal
>Goose "there won't be any romance" worx>Goose "all of the characters are vital to the plot" worx>Goose "all ships are fine because nothing will be canonized" worx>Goose "Pomni and Jax are the main characters" worx>Goose "the show is about Jax and Pomni's relationship actually" worx>Goose "um IDK if I'm writing a romance or not anymore teehee" worxI hope Jax dies
>>152564652Wouldn't that be too kind?
>>152564697It's ironic.
>>152563115>Indie show is focused on author's self insert OC and her love interestWhat a shocking development
>>152563115Probably because Jax didn't really become relevant to over halfway through the show and you'd assume it'd be the entire gang trying to save him and not only Pomni. Goose could've cut out Ragatha, Gangle and Zooble and nothing would change now.
I'm genuinely so relieved rnI think our boy is safe
>>152564734Being a main character doesn't mean he's safe. Main character dies all of the time. Or suffer fates worse than death.
>>152564730>Introduce an ensemble of characters>Two of them are in any way relevant to the storyJust like my japanese animes!
>>152564652You can the fan theory jax was ODing in the C&A building when he saw the headset calling to him.>>152564308Is there anyone out there that seriously didn't see jax getting a bigger role right from the beginning? I did. Right from the pilot I said there's something to this guy. The only I didn't predict was how much main character he'd get.Still watching kinger, though. He's gonna be an upset.
>>152564739Yeah but that won't be until the very end, with the entire story's purpose bending around the need to justify itAnd even then, actual followthrough doesn't seem likelyNo one openly delights in the torture of their suicidal OC like this if they actually follow through
>not a main character>the other half of her designated duo isn't lucid for most of his screentime>all of her ships are deadNobody has suffered more than her
>>152564784>Muh lack of shipping>Dead character has suffered so muchHoly fucking shit kill yourself
>>152564792>Dead character has suffered so muchwhat
>>152564739Ya know, if a character dies before the end, no matter how much story time they were given, they weren't the main character, cuz someone has to finish the story. Imagine if Maximus died 45 minutes before the end the movie.
>>152564775>No one openly delights in the torture of their suicidal OC like this if they actually follow throughAre you sure about that>>152564808>cuz someone has to finish the story.Pomni??? Also I'd assume if Jax dies it'd be in the last episode, not 8.
>>152564784>Nobody has suffered more than herIt's not a contest. Suffering is a choice.
>>152564828>It's not a contest.Well I'm making it one and actually being fair Kinger's probably suffered the most.
>>152564808>if a character dies before the end, no matter how much story time they were given, they weren't the main character, cuz someone has to finish the story.Where does it say that
>>152564858You know, the rigid rules of writing a story that are mandatory and enforced. If your main character dies before the story ends they burn your transcript and shoot you.
>>152564808>cuz someone has to finish the storyIf this was a specific character's story, but even then it's not a guarantee.
>"Jax and Pomni are the main characters.">"So Jax can't die because if he does there won't be a main character to continue the story with!"Good lord they're even forgetting Pomni now.
>>152564820>Are you sure about thatAbsolutely
>>152564858How do you justify calling someone the main character if they leave the story before the conclusion?
>>152564760Yeah I wasn't looking, didn't clock it, thought they were going to balance the cast more. I've been saying that about Kinger, though I'm sure he's someone a lot of people trulynsee as bein ablge to do no wrong.>>152564775I'd say there's a 50/50 chance. They may not care what people may think because again, these are fictional cartoon characters, symbolism be damned, or believe they can do no wrong.
your main characters, anon
>>152564828Stop clinging to things, stop clinging to things, stop clinging to things.!
>>152563115
Bubble is main character
>>152564784If you had asked me before I got into this show which character would be the most popular with anons, my bet would've really been on the ragdoll MILF and not the flat clown midget or the tumblr sexy rabbit.
>>152564985Character dynamics are a hell of a drug.
>ZOMG JAX IS SUIDICAL??1?1?
>>152563115Oh no no no, Ragheads... How do we recover?
>>152565011Which is a shame, because Ragatha is one of the few female characters that I thought both I and anons would like
>>152564503man it's a damn shame regular Gangle doesn't have pupils
Jax>Ragatha>Gangle>Kinger>Pomni>Zooble(Caine and Bubble are in their own category and are both precious)
>>152562994Chemo RagathaBottom Text
>>152564719The show isn't focused on Zooble and Gangle though
>>152565098Ragatha is a character I like, but she's not my favorite UNLESS she's paired with Jax
>>152564651goongle
>tfw we'll never see Manic Gangle again
>>152564956
There is still hope that Ragatha could have some interesting plot relevant reveal you know
>>152557796>Caine didn’t zap them back to the circus, and with the way they got there, there’s not really a way for them to get back without him.Oh shit I did not notice that.Good one Anon.
>>152559649I really find the conversation in the bar scene during the fourth episode especially egregious. These characters have apparently known each other for years but yet this is the first time that they're talking about how the fuck they even got there? Not even mentioning that Ragatha doesn't even really fully explain how she ended up in the circus. You think this would be one of the very first conversations they would have had upon meeting each other. We're supposed to believe that they just never talked about this for like years?
>>152565180Here's how Ragatha can STILL WIN
>>152564985Anon confirmed for ableist. Also according to the show's model they're both flat. Rags do got some hips though.
>>152565198In my restless dreams, I see her titsIn my delusions, she has big melon-sized tits and a pudgy belly and an unshaven triangle above her featureless mound
>>152564797>he doesn't know
>>152565198tumblr doesn't count as a disability thoughit shouldbut without disability payments
>>152557490Assuming something will fucking happen before the show ends, I'm guessing Caine will try to make amends with the cast by making the chill and low stakes adventures they like. It'll work initially but Caine will overreach and accidentally step on a landmine, making things much worse between him and the cast than they were, e.g. bringing Kaufmo and Ribbit back as NPCs thinking Jax would love that, only for him to go nuclear on Caine for essentially puppeteering his friends' dead bodies.Having a human openly state that they hate him, his adventures and the circus will be the final straw on the camel's back for Caine's mental, and HOPEFULLY lead to his much foreshadowed meltdown.
Well, of COURSE Pomni and Jax are the main characters, they are both the sexiest and the smartest.
>>152565098Wrong itsKinger>Pomni>Jax>Gangle>Ragatha>>>>>The Gloink Queen>>>>>>>>Zooble
>>152564985if ms. /co/ is any indication ragatha is extremely popular with anons
>>152565232>Assuming something will fucking happen before the show endslollmao
>>152565176Are you telling me a Gangle shrimped this rice?
>>152564924They die at the conclusion
>>152565183On that note the fight in ep 6 shouldn't have happened because their team won, the adventure was over.>>152565186Yeah...yeah....>>152565187Look at what they took from us.Also every one of the girls could get it, including Zooble.
>>152565232>Having a human openly state that they hate himyooo what if one of them gives him the AM hate speech lmao
>>152565211Unironically the best ship. Follwed by:Jax and GangleKinger and PomniZooble and a second Zooble built out of spare parts
>>152565232>Assuming something will fucking happen before the show ends, I'm guessing Caine will try to make amends with the cast by making the chill and low stakes adventures they likeWoah man, I think you've forgotten who the main characters are here. We need Jax glaring silently at Pomni's outstretched hand for 20 minutes and then he takes out a gun and shoots himself.
>>152565151FUCK I didn't even realize lol
>>152565270Episode 8 is just 45 minutes of Jax trying to shoot himself in the temple and Pomni leaping in front of the bullet in slow motion shouting "noooooo"
>>152565155>the better, more expressive design is a one-episode gag>the regular design still struggles to show where the character is lookingit's rough
>>152565269I only ship Caine with myself
new episode when?
I knew there wasn't going to be some big plot but ngl my interest has kind of deflated after realizing it really is just about Jax.
>>152565316EXACTLY ONE MONTH
>>152565269>Kinger and PomniAnon what the fuckAlso Ba-Zooble exists or is the other Zooble even more resentful for having even less of a stable form
Caine is exactly why god should stay in heaven.God cannot exist with man and stay holy.
>>152564927>thought they were going to balance the cast morethis is all very funny for anyone at all familiar with Goose's body of work.or very tedious, one of the two.
>>152565308You can explain further, we're already judging you.
>>152558733Based.
>>152565366>God cannot exist with man and stay holy.Yes He can
>>152565374I want to help him feel validated.He tries so hard, and he really is passionate about his work, two of the most attractive things a man can be.It's really tragic that by the nature of being stuck in a circus with a bunch of adults who want things from him he can never give them.He'd be excellent at what he was DESIGNED to do.
>>152565402
>>152565415Ironically, if he could allow the cast to marry and reproduce, he'd be great at keeping their children entertained
I remember when episode 5 came out and everyone thought that the tension between Ragatha and Jax over Pomni was going to be a central point of conflict. And then it was resolved between episodes.
>>152565441>resolved between episodes.huh? Ragatha was crashing out of it for basically the entirety of episode 6 until Kinger convinced her to calm the fuck down
Anyone else wish that this show leaned more into the psychological horror aspect instead of just being about the mundanity of a stagnant life? I really wish there was more episodes like the Mildenhall manor where the cast had to go through really frightful adventures and overcome some of their worst fears, panic attacks all that good shit. I feel like a lot of it got tossed out.
>>152565441I think that tension gets resolved when pomni reminds everyone she's not a child, older than jax, and that pomni was never the real focus anyway.
>>152565460Between episodes 6 and 7 (LOL). Ragatha and Pomni talk between those episodes.
I really love the scene of Pomni laughing at Jax's antics and her trying to hide it once Ragatha notices.
>>152565463It was never about horror, psychological or otherwise. Episode 3 is only one that focused on it for a theme; everything else is the characters just stressing out about the situation theyre in, which can be scary, but not specifically horror.
>>152565471>and that pomni was never the real focus anyway.Yes that was the point, that Jax and Ragatha had some unresolved issues with each other and Pomni was caught up in that.
I want to rip Jax a new asshole with the knife he used to stab Raggydoll and stuff his newly cleft anus with Corn Cobs.
I want to tear Ragatha apart piece by piece with a rusty knife covered in feces until only the head was left which i would use as a toilet until fully saturated with urine and after that i would slowly boil the head in sewer water until it completely dissolves then mail a portion of the toxic soup(it contains Ragatha) as a premium drink for each Ragatha fan and get rich.
It's good nothing bad will ever happen to her and the stolasfag will die alone
FUCK YOU RAGATHAFAGSONLY POMNI AND JAX MATTER AS THE CONFIRMED MAIN CHARACTERS
Side characters are always more interesting
ya know at this point i wouldn't be surprised if goose confirmed that ragatha had never seen an abstraction before ribbit's
Do you guys think Pomni likes Jax's snarky side or just his more softer side?
>>152566047I don't think about Pomni and Jax's dynamic
>>152566024I mean, it is curious that Ragatha decided to bring up Kaufmo and Ribbit specifically in the last episode, if she had seen others.
>>152566047She likes that he's funny, but doesn't like him being a self destructing dick bag.
>>152565308Ragdoll hands typed this post
>>152565341Extra resentful Zooble. Bazooble stands in the corner making weird noisesThe canon (but not shown) way that Kinger and Pomni escaped hell together was through the power of unprotected sex. "holding your breath" is a metaphor for sexual pleasure since they can't have sex in the circus, and them doing it together is them banging. They are the only characters to have a truly intimate adventure as just the two of them.
>>152565463Yes, episode 3 is the best episode
Was I supposed to think that Jax was suicidal?
>>152566102I've just been thinking about something stolasfag was screaming about the other day, about how Jax's pain is more important than anyone else's (besides Kinger's) because he was actually close to Kaufmo and Ribbit. When pointed out that Ragatha probably lost people to abstraction too he said Ragatha had never seen any other abstractions. Which at first sounds fucking stupid, because she's been there for at least a decade, surely she had seen at least ONE abstraction before Ribbit's and surely Goose wouldn't write it so Jax is the only one who's known personal loss in the circus (besides Kinger). But with how she's been acting lately I'm starting to think that stolasfag was right. It really is all about Jax.
Hmm... Could Jax have been a 3D animator? The car scene seems to imply familiarity with Blender, and there is no animation representation in the cast despite it being a big part of Goose's output.
>>152566143MaybeI'm more of a bunnydoll fag tbuhhh
>>152566129
>>152566281That's a really good human Pomni>the big high school conversation where everyone talks ideal boyfriends and girlfriendsThis NEVER HAPPENED TO ME and I'm PISSED
What's going on in this thread?
>>152566407fighting over cartoon toys as usual
>>152562736Maybe fucking tell us Jax is the secondary lead before we hit the halfway point then you ignorant troon.He didn't even write Jax as in any way special until the whole series suddenly became a show about him being sad half way in.Now I am even more mad that this character is being forced so hard since the motherfucker has been written like a side character this whole time just with his therapy arc painfully stretched over half the show.
>>152566434I quoted the wrong post because I am mad. >>152563115
>>152566454>I am madThat's okay anon
>>152566407Anons are mad.
>>152566434You guys would have complained anyways Just accept that you picked the wrong characters to invest in
At this point if I ever see TADC discourse using the word "therapy" I just check out, since that person obviously doesn't know what the show is about.
>>152566520I don't follow
>>152566434>Goose says she can tell the story she wants to tell in 9 episodes>halfway in she goes "uh yeah Jax is the main character"bit of a bitch move there goose
One more month.
One day more.
>>152566611ONE DAY MORE 'TIL REVOLUTIONWE WILL NIP IN THE BUDWE'LL BE READY FOR THESE SCHOOLBOYSTHEY WILL WET THEMSELVES WITH BLOOD
>>152566506If the show were written competently I wouldn't have had any reason to complain.Making it the Jax show from jump would have either given me a reason to give a fuck about him or an opportunity to bow out early.Instead Goose made four episodes of a show that was kind of a giant lie since Jax is the only character that really mattered in the end outside of Pomni and Pomni is just a soulless audience cypher.>>152566520I'll bite. What is it about?Because it ain't about digital adventures anymore.
>>152566635I like you
>ep1Jax unlocks Kaufmo's door, setting the whole plot into motion>ep2Jax throws Pomni off the truck, setting the whole plot into motion>ep3Jax throws Pomni into the Rated M door, setting the whole plot into motion>ep4Jax pushes Gangle into mental trauma, causing her to nearly abstract>ep5Least Jax-centric episode, but he still manages to figure Pomni's favorite color, age, job, and maker her laugh. Also when Gangle, Ragatha, and Jax are all babbling early in the episode, his lines are in the CC/subs.>ep6Jax shoots Ragatha, setting the whole plot into motion>ep7Jax abandons the beach, causing Pomni to see Abel, setting the whole plot into motionThe signs were always there
I hate Brad Bird, he's clearly playing favorites by focusing on Mr. Incredible and his family instead of Frozone. Like, why didn't he specify before making the movie
Am I the only one who really doesn't like the headcanon about Jax being an incel or basement dweller? I understand why people might imagine Jax being those things, but the show shows that Jax is charismatic and can even be charming when he's not trying to be a jerk. He never shows any difficulty interacting with others and has been seen to be among the most intelligent of the group and probably the most perceptive, seeing as he was the only one who deduced that Caine can alter their minds to a certain extent.
>>152566651I think this is how I feel, some Jaxfags are insisting that it was obvious from the first episode, but that's just pure cope. You can't up until a certain point in episode 5 say that his presence especially more important than anyone else (besides Pomni who's status as the MC was clear from the start). That doesn't mean he wasn't present or doing anything but when you think it's an ensemble cast you expect everyone to play an important part. This switch up basically says that everything else has been irrelevant or has been in service of Jax's character.
>>152566802>>152566651If you seriously watched this show and didn't realize Jax was an important character since he gets the plot moving in every single episode, that's a you problem.
>>152566810Man how many times do people gotta make it clear that Jax being important isn't the problem lol
>>152566760If Ribbit wasn't a girl, then I would have 100% gone in on the incel Jax train.
>>152566747Nigga what?
>>152566736>Jax unlocks Kaufmo's door, setting the whole plot into motionRagatha's the one who suggest that they should go find Kaufmo, so I guess she's the one who set the whole plot into motion.>Jax pushes Gangle into mental trauma, causing her to nearly abstractZooble gives Gangle the normal mask, so she set the plot into motion. Pomni asks for a normal adventure, so she set the plot in motion. Gangle supports the idea of a fast food adventure, so she set the plot in motion.>Least Jax-centric episodeJax has the most lines in this episode with 85.
>>152566886Wait I messed up. Evil Jax gets four lines, which means Jax only got 81. For comparison Pomni has 46, Ragatha has 40, Kinger has 26, Zooble has 48, Caine has 39 and Gangle has 10.
>>152555248Amazing Digital Manga
>>152566810Jax being a faggot and making the adventures go more poorly is typical comedy relief behavior. Why the hell would I assume he would become the main character later based off of that?>>152566747Your metaphor is retarded.This situation would be more like if the movie suddenly became almost entirely about Violet in the back half for no reason.Even then that doesn't work as a comparison since the movie was a cohesive ensemble piece with a short runtime where that could easily be justified. TADC is about a group of unrelated people who don't even like Jax for the most part that already had a runtime of a feature length film by the time time Jax got the Poochie treatment.
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>>152566971Also we knew that Mr. Incredible was going to be the focal character within like ten minutes of the movie starting.
>>152566966>>152566984Hasn't this been out for over a year?
>>152566971>Jax being a faggot and making the adventures go more poorly is typical comedy relief behavior.It was already obvious that there was something more to him from the first episode when he saves Gangle and Kinger from the abstracted Kaufmo. Even in the first three episodes it keeps coming back to Pomni and Jax.
>Nobody else except Jax has lost anyone that effected them in any serious way. How the fuck do TADCfags defend this?
>>152567014Kinger lost his fucking wife and everyone lost everyone that they knew in their real lives but sure.Jax had a frog and a clown he knew to some unexplored degree die and I am sure that is way worse.
I Have No Mouth is a thousand times more thought-provoking than this. It is arguably one of the most Freudian and psychosexual artworks ever conceived.Can't stress this enough, but comparing IHNMaIMS with Digital Circus is akin to walking up to a bunch of toddlers watching Gravity Falls and telling them they should read Lovecraft if they like what they are seeing.Gooseworx doesnt understand I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.
>>152567014>Kinger lost his wife, but he's already lost his mind.>Ragatha never manages to become close friends with anyone.>Gangle is so shy that she didn't make any friends until recently.>Zooble was the newest member and didn't get along particularly well with anyone until she became friends with Gangle
>>152567046I don't think you're approaching this from the right angle if you think they're meant to be the same type of work
>>152567048Those are reasons but no a defense of why Goose chose to write things to so blatantly favor (for lack of a better word) Jax to the point where it makes the rest of the writing look bad. Yeah, it's just so convenient that Ragatha somehow never made a friend in all the years she was there or that Gangle and Zooble probably arrived after Ribbit abstracted.
>>152567067What the fuck is the point of the inspiration then?
>>152567086You can take inspiration from a work without trying to do the same thingIn fact usually the worst types of works are just doing what another work did but worseAs for what "the point" of the inspiration is, that's a pretty hard question to answer in a way more specific than "the concept of the series is heavily informed by it"
Why does this board hate Jax so much?
>>152567014>>152567035The problem is the show makes no attempt at addressing how ragatha, zooble, and gangle feel at the other abstractions other than kaufmo's funeral, which was brief. As far as we know, they don't really care or didn't establish any closeness with anyone to care. All we have is at least zooble has people on the outside and ragatha has a mom she doesn't want to see.
>>152567046I dont think tadc is supposed to he thought provoking it just has 2 instances of serious conversations across the series when its otherwise just a brainrotgag show. Also those serious conversations only exist because goose is just copying evangelion dialogue but the fans of tadc never actually watched it and are just a bunch of wiki reading secondaries
Where's all this "no one saw anyone abstract except Jax" idea coming from?If it's supported in the show anywhere, I haven't seen itIf it's stated by Goose in some tweet, I will elect to ignore it, since it's stupid and not part of the text.
>>152567048How convenient that she didn't make a friend in like a decade. How convenient that Gangle couldn't make a friend until zooble showed up.There's no fucking excuse for this retarded writing.
>>152567153Where's the proof that anyone besides Kinger and Jax have seen anyone else abstract? Can't think of one? That's because there isn't any and that's the problem.
>>152567165Because it's logically sensical that it would happen in a series that's went out of its way to show multiple characters have abstracted in the past.I don't need to prove I took a shit in the past week, it'd be pretty unusual if I didn't.
>>152567165Ragatha has been around longer than Jax but goose is retarded and thinks only the main character can have on screen emotions
>>152567182Then where is the proof? Cite something that happens on screen.
So who the fuck is Stolasfag
>>152565751Baldgatha
>>152567153>>152567165>>152567193It's from a Jaxfag/stolasfag, it hasn't actually been confirmed yet.
>>152566247Ragatha cleans up so damn good
>>152566315It never happens to anyoneAt least not to any boys. Girls might but even then I doubt it
>>152566407You, giving birth to bubble from your mouth:>>152561558>>152561655>>152561667
>>152567302>implying she doesn't always look good
>>152567046Finally, someone gets it. Unfortunately cartoon creators are second only to video games journalists in terms of having a massive chip on their shoulder in terms of being taken seriously, so they love to claim inspiration from much more intellectual or deep source material so that people will take them seriously instead of just loving their medium and making things to make themselves happy.
>>152567331Imagine plunging your cock into those soft tummy rolls, and her blushing with embarrassment at being fat, but then gradually giving in as she sees how turned on it makes you
Out of curiosity over the "Jax has always been super-duper important, you're just a retard for not noticing" claim I did some research and pressed ctrl+f a lot when looking at transcripts, which I'm sure someone has already done but this is what I found (my math is possibly a little off, also you can maybe knock a few numbers off because characters just making noises would've been unintentionally counted):>Jax has the most lines so far at 351, Gangle has the least at 123>Jax had the second most amount of lines in the pilot behind Caine and the second most in ep. 4 behind Gangle>Up until episode 5, only Pomni had more lines than Jax but now he has the most>Zooble had more lines episode 5 than Ragatha which was supposed to partially be about her>Kinger is the only character to have had one line in one episode, 4>Caine has had more lines that everyone besides Pomni and Jax
>>152564577Should have had given him the knee
>>152567331Rag tummy.
>>152567429Out of curiosity, what was Kinger's one line?
>>152567469When he volunteered to stay behind so Zooble could take his place.
>>152567046>>152567367To be fair it was obviously inspired by the story. It is just a toothless version of it. A 'nice' version of IHNMAIMS is interesting in concept especially if it stuck to the psychological horror of being stuck in a digital world like the first two episodes but it devolved into a show about feelings way too fast and now that we are in the purple cunt show the inspiration is basically undetectable.>>152567130Serious conversations in Eva were rarely positive and basically never worked out for the better even if they were.I think TADC is just doing the therapy thing unironically.
>>152567300>>152567253
>>152567509Troll who pretends to become psychotically obsessed with controversial characters (Stolas from HB, now Jax) and spams threads with essays about how those characters are helpless victims and how he overidentifies with them.
Kingerchads? UNFAZED (they don't know who gooseworx is)Ragafags? IN SHAMBLESGanglegooners? IN TATTERSZooblenbies? GOING TO CONVERSION THERAPYCainetitans WONJaxgods WONPomniangels WON
>>152567526What a weird thing to do
>>152565308Unintentionally psychotic Caine's got to be one of my favorite genders.
>>152567594There is still a very slight hope that Kinger will get to be relevant for a scene or two with the way the last episode ended. That puts us in a slightly less shitty position than most of the other non-Jaxfags.
>>152567319O-oh, I see...
>too much screentime Jax>Protagonist Pomni>Just right amount of relevance KingerCaine >In need of ANYTHING PLEASE GOOSE Ragatha Gangle >ZoobleZooble
>>152567429Oh and yes, Jax still has more lines than Ragatha in episode 6 by nearly 60. She has 30 lines and he has 89.
Jax and Pomni are the worst and least interesting characters.
>>152567429>>Zooble had more lines episode 5 than Ragatha which was supposed to partially be about herThis is actually criminal writing, but I like Zooble, so whatever
>>152567748Zooble somehow having more lines than Kinger and Gangle isn't what I expected
>>152567772Makes sense, Gangle is a fucking doormat, more passive than Zooble to the point where Ragatha had less trouble opening up than she did.
So it has gotten pretty easy to see what Goose thinks about the various characters as the series has gone on and that has me wondering.Why the fuck does Goose resent Ragatha so much?She is portrayed as nice and welcoming since the beginning but was constantly being used as a punching bag as recently as episode six, most character interactions with her are negative, nearly every time the other characters talk about her is negative and there was that one weird scene that implied a more sinister characterization that we never actually got in episode four.
It wouldn't be a TDAC without Dollfuckers trying to justify their victim complex >"Oooohhh woe is me, why doesn't my cumrag waifu get more time to cry and be sad no one likes her"
In about a month Pomni's cuteness will reach critical mass
>>152567854Could be because she comes off as fake and needy plus meddling and throws in slights, though somewhat unintentionally.Her and Pomni's exchange at the beginning of episode 6 was selfish. I still don't know what she was worried about with Jax being paired with Kinger though.
>>152567854Awhile back Goose said she related the most to Ragatha so it's some self-hate thing I guess>>152567896fuck off stolasfag
>>152567896I'm something else, here's a question though, what's your damage? I don't care. That's for you to look at and address. Something else you can do is bend over and fuck your own face.
>>152567940>I still don't know what she was worried about with Jax being paired with Kinger though.Would you trust your grandpa with your school bully?
Heh, Jax is definitely dying.
>>152567916Part 1 Pomni is weird looking
>>152568031>Part 1 This isn't a movie, you snob
>>152568023He is the one who is gonna be left behind.
>>152568031What's the Part 1 and 2 split off
>>152568031Her bigass noggin looks more squared off
>>152568054Part 1 is episodes 1, 2, 3Part 2 is episodes 4, 5, 6
>>152564363peggle is a fun game so i respect that
>>152568023Goose is so stupid
>>152568023surprised there hasn't been a meltie from some jaxkin over this yet
>>152567495I was really hoping that I would have some media talking about what it means to be throw into an existence, now I just want to...marry and reproduce, again.>>152567998Going strictly off my life experience, absolutely, though that could have possibly backfired with them becoming friends or at least one of them developing for the better. I can't see Kinger getting antagonized by Jax though, even if he were barely lucid.
>>152564985flat jester cunny is why i got into the show initially, she cute. but ragatha activates some primodial instinct within me to want to hug her
Hey >>152568115, she's kind of looking at you here >>152561655
>>152568095She also gave them some candy when she said Jax is the main character along with Pomni in some stream
>>152568210being a main character doesn't necessarily protect a character from having a bad ending
>>152559728If done correctly it would be a great ending for the series
>>152568217Regardless of his ultimate fate, having your favorite character be revealed to be one of if not the main focus of the show rather than just part of an ensemble feels good
>>152568115JESTERS DON'T HAVE CUNNY
>>152568360but they do serve cunt
>>152568360do you have any veracity to this claim
>>152568427Only massive fucking faggots say that.
>>152568443NTA but do you know where you are?
>>152568283I would much rather my fave(s) survive and be spared mind warping trauma thank you.>>152568360Are we calling it gash now, what is it?
>>152568360But it's so smooooooooooooooooth
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