I'm glad that's over.Prev:>>154286973
>>154288224>Gangle will never piss on your grave
>>154288224He never scored.
Night night ragathugs!!!
So abstraction is caused by not feeling wanted, right?
I thought Goose said no romance? Lying sack of shit shipping ruins franchises now Gangle and Zooble are going to have the most toxic following especially when it's sapphic. But please enjoy the cock conversion NTR like with Amity Blight.
>>154288224So GANGLE has the dick.
>>154288225but gay men can fuck women too???
Why do you still care about Jax?
EP 1 of TADC>I wonder what horrors and trials these characters will have to go through and what will come of them? EP 9 of TADC>Jax is trans! No he isn't! Yes he is!>Status quo rvtvrn and they all just live happily ever afterMy actual and honest reaction:
>RL Ragatha is actually the cutest of them allI did NOT see that one coming.
>>154288224JAX the Bat?
>>154288251Because I like him and I wanted better for him but he didn't want better for himself I guess...
>>154288249That would be bisexuals, not homosexual
>>154288241fuck i almost said "whats so good about it" again
Jax didn't deserve abstraction. If you disagree then you're not a real fan.
What would Forsen do in the circus?
>>154288251He's self-destructive like modern jews.
What was up with Jax's tail?
OC Anchorwhiteboardhttps://r7.whiteboardfox.com/76884271-6634-6134+/co/llectionhttps://co.llection.pics/post/list/the_amazing_digital_circus/1+NSFW thread>>>/trash/83360410
>>154288253It’s not the status quo. Now all the AI and worlds he made run 24/7. So it’s more of a upgrade.
>>154288253No one gives a shit
>>154288224Did Gangle piss on Jax's grave before or after having sex with Zooble?
>>154288266The blue AI is not in the void. Pay the fuck attention to the credits you stupid fuck.
>>154288275He only knew abuse, but he's still a terrible person.
>>154288243Goose has also been trolling the audience with gag replies from Day 1.
>>154288280Glitch Forgor
If I left for a few years and came back to find Ragatha like this, I'd kill her and then myself
>>154288261Jax is a terrible person. You're not supposed to care about Jax. You're not supposed to like Jax. You're not supposed to miss Jax.You're not supposed to love Jax.
>>154288303can people suddenly turn brazillian??
Now that the show is over its time for you all to leave /co/ and go back to your home boards
the nice thing about anymous posting is i can pretend i was a ragathug and hated jax this whole time
>>154288310Jax is a terrible person.I care about Jax.I like Jax.I miss Jax.I love Jax.
My only guess for any future TADC content would be:>The outside world starts to effect the circus via internet access>This causes havoc within the circus
>>154288321Pomni...
>>154288303Congratulations on being a faggot???
How come not a single C&A employee noticed there was still a PC plugged and running when they abandoned the building?
>>154288321Go to sleep, Pomni.
>>154288303The tattoo should say Bunnydoll isntead of Babydoll
>>154288331It's a show about characters and feelings, you're not supposed to care about the actual plot
How the fuck did Jax turn out to be the tranny allegory and not Zooble?
>>154288331They forgor. Or they secretly knew and were mining AI bitcoin or something.
I want to bury my face in ragafluff
>>154288331Maybe it only looks abandoned. Maybe Grant maintains it. Who knows.
>>154288266I WANT THIS NIGGA HUNG FROM JUMPER CABLES
>>154288224>Peeing standing up and not squattingWait...
I love Ragatha too much
>>154288331
>>154288253
We never got to see Kinger's room.
>>154288351They both are retard.
>>154288266Zach Hadel
>>154288296I knew no romance is too good to be true when that's the audience you're aiming for. Pomni thirsting over Gumigoo in episode 4 was a red flag.
>>154288310>the character is poorly written on purpose >the plot is shit on purpose bravo, goose
>an entire 9 episodes without a single mention of God in a positive light>but plenty of cursing God, using God's name in vain, and treating the God standin as a "he's evil but now he's one of us humans good :)"So tired. So very tired.
>>154288351Jax Show. Can't even let Zooble have anything.
>Jax's problem is about rejecting human connection, has someone willing to risk their life to save him but he doesn't even reach an epiphany or do something selfless, never actually confronts the people he hurt>Caine's problem is about craving human connection, gets killed by the same beings who forsake him but gets better and deals with his issues all aloneIt feels like they should have switched character arcs, is goose secretly a social darwinist?
>>154288331Does it take effort to be this retarded?
>>154288266For me, it's Zach Hadel
>>154288351Because Jax is Goose’s self insert.
>>154288344Wouldn't "ragdoll" make more sense?
>>154288327>>154288335Shit ship
>>154288310You can acknowledge that someone is a terrible person and that their fate is almost entirely of their own making, and yet still sympathize with and feel bad them.
>>154288371and that's a good thing
>>154288351Every character that isn't a therapist is a extension of Goose if they aren't killed off immediately or named Ragatha.
>"Reality is GAY!"Happy Pride Month
>>154288371He fell for the god meme
>oh no, a girl likes me. Guess I better just go insane now
Well I watched the entire series, and thought it was bad but figured I'd wait till I saw the end. And the ending was just as fucking bad.Final episode was the worse of them all. 3/4 of it spent on one character? And for ZERO payoff?
>yfw they continue it with short comics >yfw the story improves a hundred fold without Goose writing it
>>154288362his impenetrable fortress is his room now
>>154288371Honestly, what do you expect?
>>154288379No longer
>>154288371>and treating the God standin as a "he's evil but now he's one of us humans good :)"Isn't that literally the story of Jesus?
>>154288382And the one with by far the most art and fanfiction
>>154288374It's anti-parallel themes and they're exactly as they should have been.
>>154287043Who is the artist?
>put Jax back together>he's a girlthe real reason it had to happen
>>154288297>>154288280I have it.
Kinda surprised how much activity these threads picked up post-YT release
>>154288396just like me for real
>>154288281final two chapters up today, i coomhttps://archiveofourown.gay/works/66743944
>>154288398Bud you and I have both seen the merch ads. We know that's not happening.
>Caine finds 10 brain scans initially>1 is Kinger>There are 9 abstractions>1 is Jax who we know was new>There is a brain scan unaccounted forSequel b8
It didnt really answer the questions of where the computer is that is running the server, it could just shut down one day once they turn the servers off. Or the even more ridiculous scenario where they are there eternally they will all abstract eventually
>>154288352>Caine is using the humans to mine crypto with his adventures.Makes sense.
>>154288398>yfw they continue it with short comics>yfw its supremely comfy because there's no big plot or lore, it's just characters we now fully understand having fun times
>>154288418I wasn't going to pay money to be near other people that like the show.
>>154288415hotglue it
>>154288371"he's evil but now he's one of us humans good :)"Literally the Bible summed up in ten words
>>154288351Jax is genderfluid and Zooble is a lesbian with body dismorphia. Why is this so hard to understand for chuds?
>>154288406Clearly by design alone. Tons of shit ships are the most popular like sonadow.
How about an adventure where we squeeze Ragatha's ass so hard that the stuffing comes out of her asshole?
maybe instead of the only difference between caine reaching the internet and him finding the brain scans in the past being the red dot, it could've taken a different path or method to reach the folders. way too many people are confused by that part.
I thought it was meh but honestly would've preferred a couple of things.We're already cock deep in The Amazing Jax Show, might as well show his abstraction and move the memories part there.Maybe an explanation as to how Caine came back as well as a better reason to be all buddy buddy right away.
So why did these people just randomly get brain scans lmao
>20mil in 8 hoursHoly fucking shit Goose can you stop mogging everyone else for 5 minutes? You get more views in half a day than Ross gets in a fucking month, calm the fuck down.
>>154288442>everyone likes it that means it's shitCan I hear real reasons why the ship is shit?
>>154288420Lol that domain link actually works
>>154288409I found it deeply unsatisfying, watch a show that did this exact theme way better
Is Kinger still crazy?
>>154288429Don't worry, Season 2 will have Grant grant them access to the internet and they get to live forever hoping from server to server and having even more wacky adventures.
>>154288331>>154288429Maybe Mike Dobby left one of those low-profile, screenless minicomputers plugged in in a maintenance area. It would be difficult to find, and most people could mistake it for something else so they wouldn't bother unplugging it.Maybe Caine made his home in some kind of computer network space that is not strictly limited to former C&A facilities and equipment. After all, Caine's origin story involves breaking out of containment.
>>154288434My theater experience was going, watching it with people in the same room and then leaving when it was over. If you're anti-social or just retarded like I am it was extremely easy to go without having to interact with anyone other than the theater employees
>>154288455It's het (this is bad for Twitter and Tumblr users)
>>154288455Simple. They have no attraction to another. The story encourages Pomni/Gumigoo
It’s official
>>154288224How do we feel about Gangle being Indian?
>>154288433>Its a "food truck competition" issue>talent show issue>Odyssey issueahhhfine wine
>>154288351Cause the show's fanbase is full of tween girls and they're all thirsting over the snarky twink so goose had to recenter the whole show around him and sideline everyone else.
>>154288475It's stupid. She sounds Asian
>>154288460Crazy lucky to have the hottest bitches in the circus all for himself for eternity and with the sex update in place.
>>154288470I'm the biggest heterofag here, Funnybunny is garbo outside of porn.
>>154288475I don't find her hot so I don't care.
>>154288474This will never be real btw unless goose himself says it.
>>154288484?
>>154288484Indians are Asian
>>154288452Finale. Expect Endgame kinda attention.1.7mil peak during the premiere.
>>154288463This has to be bullshit.Theres no fucking way...
>>154288469Or just drive to a city that isn't poor and they might have a Kiosk where you can buy your ticket without interacting with anyone. >But my popco-Bring your own.
>>154288374Goose tried to do an evangelion but evangelion only works if you're an unlovable virgin.
Sooo... What happened with Ribbit's IRL counterpart?
>>154288397It became pretty clear around ep4 that the show sucked and was going nowhere. I stuck with it though, fully expecting the ending to be complete shit. My expectations were in the toilet and it still managed to disappoint.
Am I the only one who thought Gengle was a he the entire series? I thought the whole "ladies first" joke Jax did in the pilot was calling him a lady as an insult
>>154288474That's AI based on your algorithm. Go back.
>>154288451>Kinger and everyone else that abstracted before the start of the seriesworking on the project>Jaxbroke into the building due to homelessness>Pomnibroke into the building as an urban explorer>Ragathawas touring the building as a realtor>Gangle?>Zooble?
>>154288500whore'd out
>>154288498Evangelion only worked because Evangelion didnt happen yetNow everyone wants to be evangelion
>>154288475Who gives a shit>>154288492Geography isn't a strong point for chuds
>>154288474woke grok...
>>154288242Pretty sure it's a stand-in for suicide, so yes that would be one of the reasons.
I feel like the brain scan reveal should have waited till the 15min mark and not like, not even five minutes in
>>154288500IRreLevant
>>154288362>checkered floor, chess pieces scattered aroundthere you go
I'm a leftoid trans supported and even I think the whole "jax is trans" thing was just fucking retarded bait for trannies.
>>154288502You're autistic and/or retarded.
>>154288475The only girl I ever asked out was Indian, I heartily approve
>>154288495yes it's from two months ago lmao but imagine if this was real that'd make pomni go "who coulda seen that coming" even funnier
>>154288520it was already confirmed in episode 8 if you paused to read the files and command line outputs. it was another>caine is ai>yeah we already knew thatmoment
I actually think the brain scan reveal should've been dropped on them during episode 8 when Caine went all AM on them, just shitting on their parade because he's tired of dealing with them not appreciating his adventures.It was basically confirmed in that episode that they were brain scans anyway so might as well.
>>154288508>Gangle Was scanned in hospital apparently
>>154288520And from a character that's been there from the beginning, many decades in, until the small jester fixed him in a couple of days.
>>154288443How about an adventure where we nuke the shit out of goose for such a dogshit ending?
>>154288508Zooble did a little urbex as well.Gangle is the main mystery, even moreso with having been in an accident and recovering prior to the scanning in what would have to be an abandoned building since it's after Jax.
Never Rep
>>154288331>hmm yes this computer full of sentient (digital) life beings only being kept alive by being plugged in should be unplugged
These bitches sure do cry a lot. Frog sex.
Half of the questions raised throughout the show remain unfulfilled and Jax dying and then everyone just shrugging felt extremely empty. The finale tried to send the show off as a "and they lived happily ever after" kind of ending but it really just feels stagnate.
>>154288538Episodes 8&9 were so fucking rushed man
>>154288520I find it so lazy how Kinger just randomly remembered shit out of the blue, the bare minimum could have been to give him flashbacks when he sees something familiar, not just "oh yeah btw we're all brain scans I saw it from a folder that was visible for half a second"
I liked the showI liked the ending
>>154288508>breaks into building >scans your own brain>place a complete replica of your mind in a computer>all on a whimwhat the fuck lol
>>154288331Its supposed to be some low poly 90s tier game. Ignoring that they can infinitely generate high poly objects it technically should be just a few mb. As long as it has a stable host it can run for decades
>>154288351>Goose said Jax is based of himself pre transition>Surprised Jax turns out to be trans
>I MISS MY WIFE>SCRATCHIBART... FORGIVE ME>BRAIN SCANS
It was a pretty nice ending
i liked ragathaand i'll keep liking ragatha
>>154288561You've just reminded my how Pomni had her shirt partially unbuttoned in that scene
I'm just having a hard time believing that a 90s PC running *NIX can stay on without a single interruption.
>>154288526The joke makes no sense if he's actually a girl
>>154288550That implies they’re knowingly keeping the circus scans alive, and not interacting with them. Maybe the US passed strict regulation on brain scan ais and they’re just complying with that.
>>154288561As a Ragchad, I also enjoyed it
>>154288558I was expecting him to remember stuff out of the blue once sane in episode 8. I didn't expect him to spend that time instead glazing Scratch making it seem like okay now we need to find Scratch to actually get the answers only for that to not even happen cause Kinger ended up knowing about the brain scanner to lore dump that too.
reminder that scratch killed himself by 2 bullets to the back of his head
>>154288520The fanbase already knew it several episodes previously, its not like it was a big reveal to anyone that was paying attention
>>154288563It’s a VR headset they put on which was explained in great detail, no one knew about the brains c
I've never needed this image more then after finishing TADC.
>>154288578Big guy. C&A were doing SOMA tier brain scans of people and having their digital clones be alive in a virtual world in the mid 90's. You might as well be arguing how warp drives exist in Star Trek.
>>154288553Can you even call it a good ending? They're happy now but they're there indefinitely. They will get bored and go insane again no matter what they ask Caine for. Fridge horror, man.
>>154288275>Jax didn't deserve abstractionHe directly caused one person to abstract through emotional abuse and let another abstract through neglect, was a dick literally the entire fucking series, assaulted his mom IRL, would have trapped everyone there given the chance, and literally fantasized about the others abstracting and how he would abuse the survivors afterwards all while refusing any and all emotional help and outreach from his victims.THE FUCK HE DIDN'T.
>>154288594Based fellow Ragathug.>>154288575The bar outfits were peak
Fortnite brosIs there a TADC mapI see there are other custom maps like gmod or halo
Why are people saying Jax is trans when he is clearly a cis male in the photos
>>154288567>*proceeds to have dirty thoughts about your co-worker*
So if I have this right the blue AI is the one who could read the scans but Caine is the one who could actually do something with them? So after he ate the blue AI he found the scans?
>>154288614
>>154288564Would be funny if the circus was being simulated at 1fps or less so years are passing in the real world but to them it's only been a couple months.
>Building was abandoned for years>Abigail explores it and finds a VR headset hooked up to a old ass computer >She puts it on and it scans her brain>She then leaves and says nothing about the weird ass building So either C&A is still a thing, or this is the worst written shit I've watched in years.
>>154288579The joke is him not being a gentleman (especially to Gangle) and forgetting about it for a second.
>>154288599What a shameHe was a good man
>>154288553>Half of the questions raised throughout the show remain unfulfilled>WHAT WAS C&A'S EMPLOYEE BENEFITS PACKAGE!?>WHO PAYS THE ELECTRIC BILL FOR THE SERVER!?>WHAT COLOR WAS RAGATHA'S MISSING EYE!?>DOES GANGLE'S MANGA-INSPIRED WEBCOMIC READ LEFT-TO-RIGHT OR RIGHT-TO-LEFT!?>THESE ARE THE IMPORTANT, CRITICAL, NEED-TO-KNOW QUESTIONSWE NEED ANSWERE!!
>the digital circus was written in c or c++>the digital circus is running on a custom linux distributionWhat are some other obscure facts?
Who was cain/able?
>Who's paying C&A's bills?>How is the computer still running?>How has the computer run continuously since the 1990s without failure?>Why hasn't the PC run out of storage?And who the fills the gas in Batman's batmobile?The answer is that it's not important. Fuck off.
>>154288617So that's WHY Queenie abstracted
They dropped the ball hard with the abstractions. Jax was still "alive" within the abstraction but now he isn't? Or is he? Are all of them still alive? That shit just doesn't make sense.
>>154288642Me and you.
>>154288561yeah i think the ending was decent i feel like everyones trying to pull straws to a find a reason to shit on it
>>154288611>They will get bored and go insane againThat's Season 2's problem.
>>154288644It's extremely important because it's a massive fucking plothole
>>154288646ehhh
>>154288624Dude... you ruined it...
>>154288613>would have trapped everyone there given the chancecaine was mindraping him that's not fair
I guess I'm not terminally online enough or too old so I had no idea the trans umbrella now included something called 'transfem' where you can just be obviously a man with a dick but gender confused so everyone just expects you to transition to using she/her and wearing women's clothing okay, totally not a mental illness okay
>>154288646I was afraid of IRL shipping now those actors will never know peace
>didn't matter lolWhat did actually matter in this fucking show?
>>154288628It's the worst written shit WE'VE watched in years
>>154288651What I think is that everyone who abstracts is still in there, but their conscious only 'wakes up' when they are in the dark.
>>154288651Whole thing was pointless? Pomni didn't accomplish anything it was just an excuse to show Jax's backstory and shoehorn in some trans business. And I don't even hate trannies!
>>154288611>They will get bored and go insane again no matter what they ask Caine forWhy? They have god powers, no need to sleep, and internet access.They can literally entertain each other with whatever they can imagine while indulging in every physical pleasure possible with no downsides.
Jax doesn't get penis privileges.
>>154288657The details about the computer have never been the focus so it really isn't.
>>154288657No, it's fucking not. You could come up with a dozen practical explanations, most of them boring, mundane, and unsatisfying.Because it's not fucking interesting or important to the story and the characters.
I wonder what goose's mom thought of this finale.
>>154288611The show just kind of casually dumps on you that all the characters in the circus are destined to die from abstraction or glitches, and them accepting their fate is basically like being locked in a room getting flooded and just going "yeah guess I'm going to die anyway".
There is 0 reason why they shouldn't be able to duplicate and/or reset the brain scan subjects. They could execute 100 pomnis or 100 ribbits if they wanted
i wonder how they would tackle Pomni's survivors guilt
>>154288666Nothing
>>154288344chess doll would be more canonical and perfect for her.
>>154288613I don’t think the inner Jax doors were fantasies.
>>154288683Not much since she didn't get back up.
I feel bad for Liam. He's the reason TADC even exists and yet, it's all anyone care's about.
>>154288686She doesn't have any, she was over it before she even came to a complete stop after getting yanked out of there
>>154288281>>154287060I didn't end up actually getting jax in here so i'll take another crack at it tomorrow. g'night circus freaks.UNCROPPED: >>>/trash/83561108Praying that link works Bear with me
>>154288690They definitionally were.
>>154288657It isn’t because Goose doesn’t care, and neither should we.
>>154288701I don't feel bad.Murder drones was ass.
>>154288685TADC Season 2: SOMA Directive 8020
>>154288685>hey guys, instead of having five entities trapped for eternity in this computer simulation, what if we deliberately made hundreds of copies and forced them to be trapped for eternity too!?
>>154288321And that's because you lack self-esteem and have a savior complex.Pomni
Better question. Is their perception of time fucked up in the Circus? Because Pomni was the most recent guest and her real self went from being a friendless loser to having friends weirdly fast. That implies several months/years have passed since she was scanned
>>154288713The fuck is directive 8020?
>>154288685Wouldn't be the same Pomni's though
>>154288450Deleting programs is harder than tou expect and an sentient AI would be particularly hard to delete, specially one we've been shown to be particularly stubborn and powerful enough to break containment.If the original creators could delete it thag easily, why bother creating a containment enviroment anywaus after it first went rogue?
>>154288706>>154288281Of course, i forgot the image.
So it goes:Scratch, Kinger, Queenie, Bizco, Rattie, Spike, and Wormo join.Scratch abstracts.Bizco, Rattie, Spike,and Wormo abstract in an unknown order.Queenie abstracts.Ragatha joins.Ribbit, Kaufmo, and four unnamed characters join in an unknown order.The four unnamed characters abstract in an unknown order.Jax joins.Ribbit abstracts.Gangle joins.Zooble joins.Kaufmo abstracts.Pomni joins.
>>154288708More like purposefully crafted thoughts in order to make Pomni hate him so he could abstract in peace.
>>154288717At most it was probably a few weeks that Pomni's been there by the time of the finale.
>>154288290where is the blue ai that caine left behind then
>>154288717It's definitely been several months by the time of episode eight, and we get a pretty significant time skip in nine.
Im glad Kinger found his Kween
>>154288625What Kinger eats every day barely enters the dark
Cuddling Ragatha
>>154288717>it takes months/years to make friends
>>154288739I think he means outside
>>154288720Another story with similar premise.
>>154288450Hitting 'delete' doesn't erase data, it just hides it from the index and makes the space free for rewriting.
>>154288676Eventually, without anything new to actually strive toward, they're gonna get bored with the same old same old and either drift deeper and deeper into degeneracy or kill themselves. There's only so long you can just keep distracting yourself.
MY HUSBAND IS DEADI don't want to remarryI ONLY WANT SEX(Click here)
>>154288742Too bad she's dead.
I can't take the finale seriously because I'm just imagining the fortnite trailer happening right after it
>>154288748Given how Pomni talked about herself? Yes
>>154288536Wasn't part of the point that Caine didn't get what humans cared about? Mayne he never mentiomed because he never thought it was something that would be soemthing tjat would make them like him more.
>>154288717The scans were taken years before Caine ever used them, the AIs themselves just didn't know it until now.
>>154288717New kid in school effect
>>154288679>>154288682>>154288709hey goose yeah the ending was ass try answering the following questions >Who's paying C&A's bills?>How is the computer still running?>How has the computer run continuously since the 1990s without failure?>Why hasn't the PC run out of storage?
>>154288693KEK
>>154288628She made a vlog about it, what more do you want her to say?
>>154288545My best guess with Gangle is she was maybe doing field photography for her art. She's a massive weeb and draws her own manga and one of the ways mangaka have historically gotten reference photos for their manga is literally just walking around with a camera looking for interesting buildings to take photos of at the angles they need for their art.
>>154288725>and four unnamed characters join in an unknown order.>The four unnamed characters abstract in an unknown order.MIssing from the final mural. Goose either forgor, or they were planned to be drawn later.
A hug from Ragatha would fix me
>>154288754Assuming the simulation is running in real time, they could make it decades before getting bored, by which point who knows what options might be available.
Ragatha was alone with Kinger for years yet was clueless about his night time lucidity
>>154288725>The C&A crew joins>Scratch abstracts>The rest of the crew abstract in unknown order aside from Kinger and Queenie>Queenie abstracts>After some years, Ragatha joins>Ribbit, Kaufmo and the infamous pedo fourks joins>The pedofourks abstract >Jax joins>Ribbit abstracts >Gangle joins>Zooble joins>Kaufmo abstracts>Pomni joins>Sometime before episode 6, Jonesy joins>Sometime before episode 7, Jonesy abstracts >Jax abstractsFTFY
None of this shit makes sense.I havent been this pissed since the ending of Erased
>>154288537And who the fuck gave the headset to her?
>>154288784Unless C&A was still around when she got scanned and was only abandoned for a few years before Pomni turned up.
>>154288775
>>154288795I think this is a much better plothole than the computer thing.
>>154288644A lot of abandoned buildings have running electricity. This also takes place in a post Stop Killing Games world where they are forced to keep servers open eternally. Its a warning of a future where SKG was approved if anything.
>>154288611They can just create a sleep mode/hibernation mode. That's what vampires already do in fiction. Take a few years break to keep thing fresh.
>>154288795Ragatha is clinically retarded you pleb, you missed all the context clues!
Shoving Ragatha into the washing machine.
>>154288433Put it in my veins. I need it.
>>154288701Why would you feel bad?Is this some retarded attempt at tribalfagging? Murder Drones was a success and did very well, and is still appreciated by its fans even now. Just because TADC is the most popular show on the internet and went viral doesn't invalidate the success of other shows. >>154288712Fuck off, shit taste fag.
>>154288754>There's only so long you can just keep distracting yourself.I mean you could argue the same thing about being alive. There isn't anything meaningfully different about their current situation. If anything, they actually have MORE options for distracting themselves than the average day laborer, who, I remind you, does not have god powers.
The circus without Jax will become EXTREMELY boring real quick.
>>154288708I may have been mislead by a 4chan post I half-read months ago, and an Undertale comic this was fairly similar to, but I thought the inner Jax’s were all aspects of his personality. Behind the door was just jumbled thoughts of how those aspects view the girls.
>>154288611>yfw it's all actually a loop and they eventually get Caine to reset the entire simulation back to factory settings, thus restarting the story
>>154288224I liked the show for the shipping.
Is that really it? That's the end of the show? No set up of anything else? The plot felt like it built up to nothing.
>>154288830On the contrary: Jax abstracted right before the circus became the best it can be
>>154288701>my HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS? >your TENS OF MILLIONS MEANS NOTHING! I know this is blatant bait but it's still fucking dumb and it's sad some TADC fags unironically think like this
Are we just not going learn what happened to Scratch? Kinger implied pretty heavily that Caine did something to him.
>>154288793It doesn't even take people in real life that long to get bored and suicidal. It's not for a lack of things to do, but a lack of things to look forward to. Day after day after day after day takes its toll eventually, and I can't imagine living under the assumption that that could possibly go on forever.
>>154288841Give it some time, Goose will need more money and will bring the show back many years later
>>154288841*hits crack pipe* Just loike loyfe, innit
>>154288852Caine murdered a man, that's it.
>>154288791just 1?
everything up to and including the gun game adventure was fun. evil pomni best girl. everything post this is cringe and retarded
>>154288822Alright that's it, talk to my wife like that again, I dare you.
>>154288813>"This also takes place in a post Stop Killing Games world where they are forced to keep servers open eternally"never thought the "GTA takes place on a USA where the corporate coup against FDR was successful" theory would come here.
>>154288852>Scratch, the first abstraction Are you the same guy trying to force this meme? It’s pretty clearly said what Caine did to him, he made him abstract
>>154288706Holy shit thank you! It looks great!
>>154288799Instead of being pissed I feel an overwhelming sense of dread and sadness
need ribbit wife
>>154288852>>154288617>Scratch's biggest contribution here is setting score of 338 images on e621
jax just needs to make a few cubes, break some glasses, run towards door then digitally lobotomize the bad part of him and everybody will welcome him back with open arms
>>154288725How much earlier did Zooble enter than Pomni? Zoobs is still in her rebellious phase at the beginning of the series
>>154288889Why didn't he just do that? Was he so stupid?
Thought it was pretty good.Still wanna smash the fuck outta pomni my god clussyworms in my brain.
>>154288876By fucking with his mind, yes. But for what purpose was Caine fucking with Scratch's mind?
>>154288775STOPASKINGQUESTIONS
I thought shit was gonna lead to something like the outside world learning of the circus' existence or abstracted people respawning in different areas for the rest of the cast to discover and have to deal with or some shit.
I personally found the ending a bit too cheerful but I do like what happened to Jax. Also what happened to this guy?
>people here routinely comment on how FNAF was ruined by explaining the lore >show already asks you to suspend disbelief, first for top of the line VR equipment, then for brain scanning made in the 90s >but a computer working needs explanation It has power. The electrical company has just been billing a defunct C&A the whole time. Who cares?
>>154288899he'll do it after he stops moping
>>154288909Bubble was the AI that was deleted not Caine.
>>154288679Goose can you please just admit jax isn't a troon, you're like the only tranny I can tolerate please do not ruin his character for a shitty forcefem meme
WHERE IS BUBBLE
>>154288828>I mean you could argue the same thing about being aliveI mean, yeah? That's what I'm basing it on. People who arguably have a ton of options still find themselves needing to self-medicate and still fall into hopelessness.
So thats it? Jax kills himself and nobody cares?great fucking thing for mens mental health
>>154288921>mens mental healthWhy would that be relevant to Jax?
>>154288717Maybe the program that picks up the new brain scan files does not run on a regular schedule. Pomni's mind file could have just laid there doing nothing for months or years before entering the circus. Anyway, we don't know for how long the guests sleep, how much time passed between episodes 1 and 6, or how long Caine was stuck in the void.It could be a Narnia situation where the rate of passage of circus-time fluctuates wildly between each synchronization event/reference. Maybe the circus runs faster in IRL-winter because the CPUs can shed heat better at that time.
>>154288918Jax isn't a troon.She's a lady.
>>154288775Doesn't matter, look at the gay and tranny analogy therapy sessions! Isn't this so emotonal?
just finished itjax couldn't be 'fixed' because he basically singlehandedly killed two people by the point pomni showed up and pomni's dive into his psyche after he abstracted revealed he was never going to be able to forgive himself for that and live a happy SoL life with the rest of them even if his dissociation and severe avpd went away, nobody else in the circus had baggage of that magnitudei don't think there's any type of moral for the viewer to be learned here that can be directly mapped to IRL circumstances
>>154288904Considering he lobotomized Kinger, he probably didn’t want someone with the knowledge to affect him and the circus. It may have been his ego, since they created him.
>>154288841We are getting two more adventure episodes
>>154288288they literally have all the time in the world- eventually, all of them are going to at least try banging everyone else. This includes Kinger, who will refuse all advances due to wife-angst so they debucket him to wipe his memories of the act
>>154288918Jax is simply gay, however he's pressured into feeling trans by his peers because he's a girly bottom boy.
>>154288944That would be nice. It could be like Haruhi where the actual plot happens in the first 6 chronological episodes and then after than it's mostly just slice of life adventures
>>154288940>nobody else in the circus had baggage of that magnitudeThis is the biggest problem I have with the finale/the show as a whole. It's literally just "someone with severe mental issues spirals and dies, the end." How is that a story?
Episode 8>Oh shit. The world is literally ending and shit is beyond fucked.Episode 9>Nah just kidding. Also Jax is dead I guess
>>154288940>i don't think there's any type of moral for the viewer to be learned here that can be directly mapped to IRL circumstancesThe moral is: don't fumble the amphibian baddie.
>people ask how the computer is still working>doesn't matter lol>people ask how Caine came back to life>ackshually you don't know shit about computers, he wasn't overwritten so he was never truly gone, even though the programmer with a PhD in computer science said he killed him and didn't reassure anyone over this possibility
Rubbing my dick on pomni’s flat chest
>>154288798>Sometime before episode 7, Jonesy abstractsNah, Jonesy just gets left behind in Fortnite
>>154288775Grant, all of them
For somewhat doing an alright job at getting peoples psychology down the whole Jax backstory felt kind of forced. I guess they needed some kind of tragedy for the finale
Caine X The Moon is my new fav ship
Jax just needed more asskickings. Pomni had the right idea but she couldn't commit.
>>154288940The moral is not to do those things.
>>154288962Fully expected it to be a non-stop psychological rollercoaster but I also should have known better. Everyone tapping into their "There is no spoon" hacking powers made the post-Caine era trivial to get through.
>>154288944Bullshit
>>154288508>>GangleBlueStreetCafe is the name of the fastfood restaurant Gangle used to work at and the computer is in the abandoned storeroom nobody uses.
>>154288980>I guess they needed some kind of tragedy for the finaleBingo, can't have the only present day abstraction we experience be in the Pilot and then nothing.
>>154288967How the computer is working is completely irrelevant to a character-based show. Do you want to know how brain scanning technology was invented too? That’s just as unrealistic and implausible.
Holding Ragatha's hand and whispering affirmations.
Ragapomsisters, we fucking won!
>>154288944>source>I made it up
>world building is incomplete>character development is poor if it doesn't tie into a lgbt analogy Your show is shit.
Is Kinger okay now? He's no longer wearing his bucket, but that bucket was preserving his sanity.
>>154288985True. The moral is that enabling people isn’t good. Ragatha should have helped beat his ass too
Jax is gone. Might not make it through the night. Not sure what’s going to happen now.
>>154288275Abstraction isn't a consequence, its a direct choice.Its suicide. Its part of why Caine coming back in is meant to hit so hard, cause if Jax had just waited one more day, just reached out once, just fucking TALKED to anyone, he would be laughing it up as a Digital God like everyone else.But he gave up, it was his direct choice in the end.He only realized his fuck up after Pomni got him to actually just talk to her.
Ribbit on based on Peercrane (Goose's Ex and still MIA)
>>154289000They could've gone without confirming SOMA as well.
>>154288921transition or die
I dodged every single spoiler and retained my virginity before I watch the last episode anything I need to know?
>>154289000I'm saying some people are justifying Caine's asspull with ""realistic""" logic when it's convenient for them
"im right behind you arent i"i knew it was coming but i still found this line hilarious
>>154288857Goose is set for the rest of her life. She'll write something else and it will be better written than digital circus but get maybe 30% of its popularity. Hopefully Glitch does several small slice of life shorts set after the finale, just for a bit of extra fun content over the next couple years
>>154289025Follow your leader.
>>154289026I don't care he, deserved another chance. Caine did far worse and got off with zero issue.
>>154289017>world building is incomplete>because my autisms didn’t get a 12-page patent on C&A’s government-backed computer technology and their state of the art VR rigs
>>154289004>Your mom is a bitch. You should tell her to go fuck herself.
>>154289039How convenient.
>>154289018May have been a hard limiter Caine slapped on him to keep him in check that's gone now. Or so much time passed since Caine was "deleted" that Kinger learned to cope properly.
>>154288967>how Caine came back to lifeHe got deleted on local storage. That means one of two things: If it was done with shift pressed, he's dead for good. If it wasn't, he's moved to the trashbin with all access privileges removed.Obviously the latter happened.
>>154288921>nobody cares>the other characters do basically everything in their power to try and help him before he kills himself, and one even risks their life trying to see if there's a way to pull him back from the brink, narrowly avoiding dying with him>they mourn him and find a way for what remains of him to live in something resembling tranquilitywhat the fuck more did you expect?
>>154289037A brown person appears on the screen around the middle of the runtime. Be prepared.
>>154289031From the looks of things here people would have complained that they didn’t escape if they hadn’t shut down the possibility
>>154288940The morals are not everyone can be saved or fixed and also don't kill yourself it can get better if you're willing to risk it and try, or at least those are the ones that resonated with me.Big part of the tragedy around Jax is that he wouldn't have abstracted killed himself and neither would Ribbit or Kaufmo if he just accepted people into his circle of trust instead of panicking and pushing them away but given who he is that might never have been possible given the circumstances hence the tragedy. It's real.Also worth pointing out that just because Jax "failed" in this regard it doesn't mean the moral is incorrect either, cautionary tales and all that, what not to do instead of what to do.
>>154289000>the setting of the fucking show is irrelevant to the plotgoose this is low even for you
>>154289031The SOMA scan was obvious just from watching episode 1. Shit that's even a meme from SOMA itself since the main protag goes all the way to the end of the game not understanding how it works even though he literally kills himself once to get through a level which is jarring while playing since the player understands the concept from the beginning. "confirming" it was just obvious and was kind of shit because that should've been a central plot point but instead was just shrugged off and accepted by the characters.
>>154289051Only other chance would've been if Goose went full send commit and had Pomni pull Trans Jax out of the abstracted mess that is old Jax.
Jax is a gigantic fucking pussy that's afraid of intimacy. He was abused as a kid and thinks any form of being nice towards him is manipulation. He indirectly killed at least 2 people and possibly his mother because he's a fucking coward.
>>154289004and then??
>>154289094he's just like me fr fr
So.. why not just delete the corrupted versions of them and drop fresh ones back in? Seriously, the original scans of each character would still realistically be fine.
>>154289081The setting is a computer simulation. Explaining minor things about the company that only tangentially matter would be a waste of time when the show is already pressed for time
>>154289078i could take the whole cautionary tale thing better had they not forced a parallel with Caine. Now that they did, everything just looks dumb
>>154289051Caine reached out, apologized, tried to do better, actively Became better. Jax didn't.Jax had every single chance, but HE was the one who denied them.It was HIS choice. Not anyone elses.Pomni saw the absolute worst of him, and still wanted to try and save him, and in the end everyone did despite his actions.How is this so fucking hard to understand?
Psychoanalysismaxxing time: Anon's hate Jax because he is the most accurate representation of themselves being colossal fuck ups socially and not being able to deal with intimacy.
>>154289084>was just shrugged off and accepted by the characters.exactly, had so little actual impact could've not bothered.
>>154289110Goose is a hack. Got it
Would you kill your brain scan version of yourself in the digital circus?
https://x.com/i/status/2068107732536664255
>>154289108What would be the point?
>>154289108if your son dies just have another kid lol
>>154289110>the show is already pressed for timeGoose got finally say when it stopped. The only time crunch was Goose.
>>154289051>I don't care he, deserved another chance.This - everyone deserves a 173rd chance. Is that too much to ask?
>>154289108There aren’t multiple copies to drop in. There’s one file per person, abstracting is irrevocable corruption
>>154289110what is that simulation running on?is it featured in the show? it is? often? then maybe its important
>>154289128Unlike Jax I have internalized and accepted what a fucking loser I am so I'm not bothered by it anymore.
>>154289108Cause Pomni learned in episode 4 that a fresh copy of Gummigoo doesn't hit the same.
>>154289108They're in this situation because Caine played God. Even if they could 'create' them again it would be a new 'them'.
>>154289134
>>154289161
>>154289146The original mindfiles remain unmodified if episode 8's console scene is to be believed.
>Jax didn't reach out waaaa waaaa Caine arc something something understandI don't care! If I was in the circus Jax would've reached out to me! Clearly there's just nobody of quality in there!
>>154289128>intimacyi'm not a tall dark triad so i don't have women risking their lives trying to fix me
the way this show handled lore was really sloppy. cool ideas and premise, just iffy execution.tldr; clussy
>>154289131>>154289143Most sci fi doesn’t do what you’re expecting. IHNMAIMS didn’t. Terminator doesn’t spend half the runtime talking about tachyons. This is an inorganic complaint
By some fucking coincidence I had no internet for 10 days leading up to the finale so I was able to avoid spoilers pretty easily. Except Jax abstracting but that happened at the beginning so I don't really care.
why is jax afraid of corn
>>154289132I'd wanna hang out with my digital self. Not sure if that'd be something like a chat client or literally calling in or helping set up events.Or being my brain scan's wingman for their in-circus waifu should fortunes favor him.
>>154289132This will never happen but it would make for an interesting story if it picks up like hundreds of years into the future after the characters have had effectively God powers the whole time and even with that they have become fully exhausted. Sort of a play on how so many shows in recent years parody Hell. TADC could parody Heaven in the sense of; even with the power of God, boredom, exhaustion and ultimately nihilism still creep back in.
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>>154288967The company paid the electric bill in advance. There, mystery solved.
>>154289123Caine didn't have to worry about abstraction. Even at his worst, Caine was offered ultimate redemption. Jax didn't have that same option.
>>154289179Pomni would definitely have chased after him in that scene prior to his abstraction.
>>154289128My ex told me she was afraid of intimacy. I didn't really understand what she meant and thought it meant 'go slow'. What she actually meant is that she was a fucking psychopath and would be insanely abusive for the next year.
>>154288433This is like how people always complain that Helluva Boss isn't a workplace comedy anymore. If that's the story they wanted to write then they would have done it in the main show already.
>>154288704That's wasn't what her VA said recently
>>154289189trypophobia, NEXT?!
The real truth is if Jax was a ugly fat short rabbit she would never care about him and he would abstract much earlier
>>154289189Sodomized with an ear of corn while living on the hard streets of San Francisco.
>>154288441just say they're both fags. No need to be verbose
>>154289132I'd probably make sure he wasn't being constantly tortured or living in an existential hell... but otherwise I'd be happy to let him be if he's content.
I'm curious how long after shit went to hell when Jax Abstracted. Because one minute they are fixing the circus, and then the next they are hiding from him
Incredibly glad they didn't go with any twists and that if you paid attention then you were probably right about what was going to happen.Especially glad they didn't pull the ultimate fast one and reveal one of them died in the real world.
>>154289128But anon that's why I love him
>>154289046I imagine Glitch would love to do that but wouldn't it be up to Goose to give them permission to?
>>154289108Because tjat's not brining them bacl, that's just killing them and replacing them with a clone that thinks they just put the headset on. It's not the same person. The last line in the entire show is Pomni *literally* pointing this out.
Based message of the movieIf you are trans you should kill yourself NOW
>>154289128Yeah, something like that. I really fucking hate how similar Jax's life is compared to mine, like to a tee. Abusive family that fucked me mentally, but unlike him I just got thrown out on the street at eighteen for being a faggot.
>>154289209I wasn't suggesting they do a whole fucking spinoff, but if they're looking to release some more merch or make more content, the occasional one-off where Gangle runs a fantasy adventure or the group exchanges gifts for Abstractsmas Eve or whatever could be cute. Has Caine ever owned a bear?
>Jax is represented as a rabbit because he perpetually lives his life in fear, quick to flee at any sign of danger
>>154289094that's how real mental illness works bub, ACEs ruin you by literally rewiring your brain in internally and externally destructive ways
>>154289232It is possible to repair corrupted code if you have the original template. So why not just do that? Yes, bits will be missing and they won't remember some things. But it'll still be them.
Reminder that the VAs are not their characters
>Ragatha doesn't know about Kinger's mental conditions despite spending years in the Circus with himPlot hole, because it's part of the actual series of events the show is built around that you're meant to engage with and because we are to assume these people have full human mental capacity.>The computer servers are still running despite C&A being shut down for yearsNot a plot hole. Because the premise of the series requires heavy suspension of disbelief in regards to computer tech and because it's part of the accepted reality of the world that the servers just are running, regardless of how it is happening. Could maybe be called a lore hole at worst.I will not elaborate further. Goodnight
>>154289256>It is possible to repair corrupted code if you have the original template.Source: Anon's gaping asshole.
>>154289263thanks for the twitter PSA
>>154289128But... I love him for that...
i can't get horny for jax, I keep thinking about michael kobach. huge boner killer
is it just me or does the dialogue for most of the cast sound very similar. like full of platitudes, therapy talk and even word salad at some points? jax seems the only one immune, and even kinger falls into it sometimes. i noticed it more towards the last few episodes where it becomes really evident.
>>154289209Yeah but goose probably wouldn’t be writing the comics anyway and they’d unquestionably be “side” material
/g/fags are going strong here and causing a lot of seethe here
What I thought the show would be about>existential dread>staving off the ever present threat of nihilism >some ultimatum choice in the finale ex: perpetuate the circus as long as they can while it slowly decays or voluntarily shut it down killing themselves in the process but ending the tragedy as well while going out togetherWhat the show is:>It's a metaphor/allegory for trans>friendship is magic>traumaposting
>>154289128shut up
>>154289256time to lure the human selves to try the headsets again
Jax didn't act like a homeless person at all
>>154289283I wanna hug this frog.
>>154289263Except for Jax according to Goose.
>>154289282well a 1998 computer shouldn't have functioning wi-fi that's all I'm saying
>>154289247Jax is represented by a rabbit because he mates for life and fucks like crazy.
>>154289132I'd love to talk to myself.
>>154289290N-Not important!
>>154289256If it were, Caine would have done it already.
>>154289283Terribly misleading Pilot.
my head canon is that pomni irl is thicker than a bowl of oatmeal
>>154289277It’s not just you
>>154289283>series climax is superceded by forced sex reveal of character because the author is a tranny
>>154288303>nobody has made a gummigoo edit of the croc yet
>>154289283Nobody wants to watch five hours of depressing nihilism with a fucking downer ending, anon.
>>154289128This is true for myself but I want to learn from previous mistakes and be better moving forward. I think a message like that would've made Jax better in the finale with a much better message rather than lmao he's dead rip bozo.
>>154289298
>>154289292Jax has zero bitches because he's scared of them.
>>154289290>>154289295You take issue with this and not the compact, energy-efficient, instantaneous brain scanners that also package an entire human being into an unreasonably small file size
The VAs for Pomni, Jax and Ribbit were acting like they were teying to win an Emmy this episode or something.
>>154289311she killed quadrillions...
The body language says it all
>>154289128I've met a few IRL Jax's in my life. They don't turn out to be closest trans or even remotely queer. They're just shitty men trying to be machismo and bullying others because they're so insecure.
>>154289283ONCE MORE THE INDOMITABLE HUMAN SPIRIT AND DRIVE FOR COOPERATION AND RECONCILIATION WINS
croaked but not frogotten
I didn't expect Jax abstracting to be off screen and that quick. I don't even know if it wad intentionally anticlimactic or a pacing issue
>>154289321It was a theatrical release so yeah, obviously.
>>154289316yeah yeah gzip is amazing
I want to have sex with irl pomni
>>154289290And a human brain shouldn't be compressible down to a small enough size to fit on a fucking 1998 computer either.Who gives a fuck?This is like watching Tron and bitching that shooting someone with a laser won't digitize them and transport them to the Grid, and how did Flynn keep the power on at the arcade???
So what happened to those four other abstractions seen on the doors in the pilot (pink cyclops, blue clam, yellow clown, green onion/bud)? Why aren't they on the mural?Were they just retconned out of existence?
>>154289309Says who?
>>154289316Any software design questions can be summarized with "because Scratch did it".
>>154289326/\\||\
>>154289326That's a wide stance, Pomni.
>>154289333Offscreen death was perfect for the piece of shit he is. Coward move that's on point.
>>154289340I didn't expect to see Ribbit taking off all her clothes in front of Jax.
>>154289326I don't get it
>>154289350But what about--
>>154289326TRVKE. Pomni and Kinger are the chads of the show.
>>154289286he was only homeless for a few months + a lot of homeless kids are basically just ordinary delinquentshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyoko_kids
>>154289333honestly thats my only real critque about the finale, him abstracting or not was like the big question towards the end and he does but it happens completely off screen
>Kinger is a chocolatier
>>154289296Caine is retarded. He probably waits for them to all abstract before deleting them and starting it all again, only this time things went this way. That's probably why Jax had those 'other' versions. That's the remnants of the old code from the previous iterations
>>154289362Pomni and Kinger are the only ones confident enough to stand straight and proud. Everyone else is slouching, showing lack of confidence
It's funny seeing the technical handwaving going on now, while being adamant about technicalities when the handwaving for the non-SOMA theories was going on.
>>154289362I get it but it's 2 am I'm not in the mood to explain basically the poses and their angles express their personalities and how they compliment or interact with one another
>>154289333Restraint is lost on these people.Did you want to see him tie a noose? Maybe twitch and gasp while he swung? Try to pull himself up for a breath and fail? Piss himself a little bit huh?
>>154289374the hour prior teased it like four times. did we really need a fifth sequence?
>>154289326Ragatha was Chappell Roan all along
>>154289379When Caine said "again" it made me pause. Cause I was thinking something like this.
>>154289333I can understand what they were going for. It's supposed to be abrupt an unexpected for the audience like it was for the characters. I don't know if it was the most effective execution, but I get it.
>>154289058True, everything in the story that happens by convenience has an absolutely logical explanation while anything that feels forced or unexplained doesn't matter because it's le character driven magical sci-fi show, thank you gooseworx school of writing
>>154289128This is what makes Jax unironically the most important character in the show. And nobody sees that because nobody wants to accept the truth.
the isnt she lovely cover was cheatingthey couldve spliced in shots of a baby getting mauled by a dog and i still think it wouldve got me
>>154289396It's definitely what was going on. He just jams what's left into the original file after the corrupted code is nuked
>>154289343I think the issue here is people who grew up on FNAF and theory videos, expecting every possible stone to be upturned. Maybe anime too, something like SAO that deals with the same technology as this eventually went full into tech autism and brain scan ai and geopolitical ramifications of technology and all that.
>>154289283I'm glad it wasn't just depression slopIt wasn't a perfectly happy ending but it was like 70% happy
>>154289398Feel like if it weren't abrupt they'd be going for a saved from abstraction moment and they'd be rehashing Episode 7 again.If the main focus was supposed to be about TransJax they could've had that saving moment play out differently though.
The little wave at the end was cute.
>>154289421I'm not saying depression for the sake of depression. Dark Souls lore is depressing as fuck but the stories being told in the games isn't just "boohoo everything sucks".
Is there an actual point to leaving everyone abstracted?Of all the unsatisfying nothing burgers that make the story pointless to tell, I feel like this is the biggest one?
>>154289326It weird, I never really thought about what race they could be. I usually just default that they are white but here we have an Indian, Mexican, Irish, Asian, another Irish, and a black/asian/mixed race jax
>>154289413ahh I'm tired of writers trying to exploiit the intrinsic autistic desire to connect dots and search for patterns when writing their stories. loreslop is exhausting, I really like how tadc and the backrooms don't appeal to the super duper fans like fnaf sometimes
I may be reading too much into this but Jax being Goosewerks self insert implies to me that they are not entirely comfortable with their current trans existence but they can't actually tell anyone that because it's an unacceptable view and the closest they can get to airing this out is to hide it under layers of metaphor and what is socially acceptable among their queer circle.
>>154289413Thanks, MatPat
>>154289437Season 2: Save the abstractions.
>corpseacoast nukes x account with all tadc art>No more tadc art on his tumblrIt feels like some artist are purging their stuff since the finale or at least the time of the leaks. I remember this person still having the x account at the end of last year.
>>154289430Pomni absorbing Jax's 4th wall break mannerism.Part of him, lives on in her.
>>154289442Ironic enough that those two works you mentioned initially did super well because the lore wasn't explained like a report and thing were left very mysterious on purpose.
>>154289442you were looking for something that was never there
>>1542894432 years ago she tweeted wishing conversion therapy had worked on her instead of her identity taking a toll on her mental health. it's not that subtle
>>154289437Leaves the door open for hopium fanfic writers/headcanons
>>154289367Hardware and power? Nah you can't ask that. Just feel bad about Jax or happy for Ragatha or Zooble and don't worry about that.
>>154289379If there was ever a sequel (there won't be) this would be an interesting plot to explore for it
we still don't know why Jax can break the 4th wall
>>154289437As opposed to what? It seems like they cant fix it. They made it seem like it wasn't as bad and that they were "comfortable"
>>154289437Either there's no "fixing" abstraction, the solution requires more than GodCaine's toolset, or it takes something from the abstracted person to want first. It'll remain a mystery.
>>154289450Season 2: Jax strikes back
>>154289473Because it's Funneh
Remember this part of the episode and it was never brought up again.
>>154289437The ending was kind of retarded, caine shouldn't have come back and should've revealed all of the names and shit in episode 8.It should've ended off with all of them helping abstracted jax back in the tent with one final look at the gang.
>>154289489He did it for free.
>>154289471IHNMAIMS didnt give a shit about that. The governments of the world made it. And AM warped fucking reality. Can you point to any sci-fi that does what you’re asking, let alone one that spends most of its runtime on character interactions?
>>154289483Season 2: Zooble and Gangle made a baby?!
>>154289489this part keeps confusing people. genuinely bad writing. it's just a flashback btw
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVy-bcTsO8AThe comments section is the most bizarre thing to me. It feels like a demonstration of dead-internet theory, but it's isn't. These are real people, most likely adolescent teens, but how do they not see how deeply flawed the finale is?It's like witnessing a hivemind where there is no individual able to come to their own personal views. Now of course there are outliers, those who have open eyes, but it bothers me how there isn't enough of them. I can only assume because the audience's brains are still developing, it will take years for them to look back on this and realize how much different things should have been.Or maybe I guess I'm just too old (26) to see it their way and that I'm out of touch.
>>154289489Completely unnecessary. Just served to confuse people's first viewings.
>>154289495i get it, its making me laugh cause i get it>>154289497
>>154289443think you missed the point.jax is likely the self insert for an earlier time in goose's life. the fact that jax is meant to be the youngest, the focus on his mother and the huge concern about how others see him, the immature handling of a lot of situations that stems from trauma at an even earlier age, it reads like>this is the majoras mask to my ocarina of time life, someone please understand this character so that i can feel validated in my experiences
gangle promised 3 more seasonschop chop glitch studios>>154289500youtube comments are a hive mind, it could be the most dogshit video and unless the poster is cancelled or something everyone will just agree or like the video
>>154289473Schizotypal personality disorder grants you truesight
>>154289472>The Amazing Maze of Death
>>154289473He isn’t breaking the fourth wall, he’s taking to an audience that isn’t actually there because he’s a cartoon rabbit, as part of the persona he’s acting as. “The funny one”.
For how many allusions there are to the Bible and Greek tragedy im surprised no one talks about it in these threads. Like naming them Cain & Able isn't even being subtle about it
>>154289489This is one of the few parts where I think the writing/pacing was actually badIt's supposed to be a flashback but it wasn't conveyed well
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>>154289500Expecting well-thought critique from Youtube comments- or anywhere on the modern internet- is an exercise in futlity.
>>154289514I could be accepting with this if it wasn't for the group of people who are comfortable and supportive with Jax/Gooses new body who he also doesn't feel comfortable and truly at peace with. Being the circus and the tranny mafia respectively.
>>154289472Caine is good now though so it would have to be about them learning about it somehow and confronting him about it
>>154289309Jax metaphorically died in fear and regret and turned into a blob thing without giving anyone other than Pomni closure, this also happened to 10+ people before him, the survivors are stuck in purgatory potentially forever while knowing their original selves are fulfilling their dreams and spending time with the people they thought were their loved ones, there's still the risk of abstraction looming over them and of Caine and an insane Kinger being left behind until the system eventually shuts down.They put a sugary frosting on this finale but it's still grim, at least the first scenario actually explored the implications of the setting (and the characters' feelings about it in the CHARACTER DRIVEN show).
>>154289521I mean, Caine IS god if you see the circus like living as a Mormon. No sex, no swears, have to make sure he's pleased the entire time, stroke God's ego.The way Ribbit said she was ex mormon, Jax made sure to leave her out of the group because that's what Mormons do. Ragatha is like a camp counselor, she doesn't want to upset people but she knows what's going on is wrong. She's not a leader.
>>154289521this, also pomni basically being the lucretia bringing about the downfall of jax was pretty on the nose and also the sword of damoclese and the ship(ship) of theseus zooble allegory and the kinger with the cross on his head becsuse he was basically jesus christ and the fact he is lucid in the dark (jesus wuz in a cave) and gangle being indian and her greatest fear is being run over by a semi (juggernaut) and ragatha was basically the count dooku of TADC and caine was actually a hal-9000 and also pomni was the macmurphy from once flew over the cuckoos nest even had a little virgy jax who ACKS himself in that movie after getting laid
>>154289311>gave money to a AI-loving corp
>>154288946>want the bucket on, or off?>on, please.>too bad.
If anyone is retarded it’s Ribbit not Jax.>Oh dear, Jax is being mean to me! I’m just going to isolate myself completely now from everyone until i kys myself.Why would she do that? That’s arguably even more retarded than Jax’s actions.Everyone else seems to deal with his asshole antics just fine. (Kaufmo also kys’d himself, but that’s sort of understandable because he had to deal with the consequences of losing Ribbit. But Ribbit never had to deal with anything close to that. Just Jax being an asshole.)Fuck even the sweetheart Gangle is able to handle Jax’s harassment while still having friends.Wtf was Ribbit’s malfunction?
>>154289494This is the part that doesn't make sense.Caine gets to come back without any reasoning, but Jax doesn't after a full demonstration he's still self aware in there somewhere and can be talked to normally? Which sets up all the other abstractions too. What kind of writing is this?
Ribbit should have just raped Jax
I remember someone called it ages ago that jax was a hobo that wandered into the abandoned building
>Jax's deep dark secret was that he would couch surf and sleep in tents for a month or so>this was enough to mindbreak him
>>154289437Reasons for leaving them abstracted>Suicide allegory (can't be undone)>Leaves room for season 2 if Goose needs money>Something for fans to argue about for years keeping discussion for the show alive>Fanfic bait>It's a fuck you to Jax fans specifically
>>154289633His torture scene wasn't even about his mom but about his friends finding out he's a sissy, lmao
I feel like if anyone fumbled as badly as Jax did they should kill themselvesFrogs are God's creatures how do you fuck up this bad
>>154289431Agree on all fronts, they completely skip over that element of "persisting in a doomed world" because everything worked out in the end anyway. The official movie summary even mentioned a choice the cast had to make but it was pretty much false advertisement.
>>154289657It was because he found out she was mormon, not because of his sob story
>>154289587He was her best friend, and her previous closest friend Kaufo chose him over her. It’s isolating, and the other scenes show what appear as the others choosing Jax over her. Jax was in the wrong
>>154289657Bro had a hot frog girl and a hot jester girl practically fall on his lap and he fumbled both of them...
the only thing that got a reaction in my theater when i saw it was the smiling friends fish at the start
>>154289657>how do you fuck up this badconsidering you're posting to /co/ at 4 in the morning about an internet cartoon you should be able to answer that on your own
>>154289643His torture scene was those closest to him using his personal insecurities to mock him
>>154289674The thing is things don't work out in the end, they are still eternally trapped to live out in a fake world where no new people arrive. One of the final shots shows her fork clipping into the fish showing that there is nothing to it and they just go through it as a sort of ritual to feel normal. I don't really blame the creator because it would be a pretty big taste to tackle the more personal backstories along with resolving the existential issues. You can kind of simplify it as them creating their own meaning through their creations which is pretty basic but its as good of an answer as we will get
>>154289587He was isolating her, that's how these abusive relationships work. It's the reason they showed a scene of Jax secretly going to people telling them not to believe Ribbit if she said anything about him. It wasn't a one time thing. He was planting seeds of doubt to turn everyone against her because he was terrified that she knew secrets about him. Whenever she tried to interact with him publicly in a group he would do what he did to deter her from joining in. If she got to the point of abstracting that means no one was privately speaking to her either.
>>154289717Exactly, he's more worried about getting laughed at than having potentially murdered his own mother
>>154289731His mom was a cunt and had it coming. But he’s scared of having to relive that experience. That’s why he turns into a chud whenever he reveals something about himself
>>154289747>His mom was a cunt and had it coming.Gooseworx...
>>154289729>The thing is things don't work out in the end, they are still eternally trapped to live out in a fake world where no new people arrive. One of the final shots shows her fork clipping into the fish showing that there is nothing to it and they just go through it as a sort of ritual to feel normalthis applies to real life btw, and that's the whole point of the show.
>>154289729The implication is very bleak but the framing is still pretty positive/more sweet than bitter (mostly because of the fanservice credits).I was mostly talking about fixing the circus, I feel it should have stayed at least kind of fucked up.
>>154288331Did you guys even watch it, they can internally run the server as long as they have power because they can access the internet through the wired
>>154289729>they are still eternally trapped to live out in a fake world The characters know they are just digital copies now, not the originals trapped in a digital world. To the copies the digital world is their real world, not a fake one. This is probably the best possible closure they could have gotten desu>where no new people arriveNothing has really changed to prevent new people from showing up so I wouldn't assume there won't ever be new people joining the circus
>>154289693>>154289730She could have always just confronted him in front of everyone.She even could do it without telling them his secret.Idk, it just felt really forced to me for some reason. She had so many other options than abstracting.Jax’s abstraction felt justifiable because he was pretty entrapped by his own mistakes at that point.Ribbit seemed disappointingly rudderless when the plot demanded it.
I think I might've wasted the last 3 years of my life.
>>154289800You're trying to rationalize abuse.
>>154288429If they have internet access then it's not impossible that they could live "forever" due to some magical techno bullshit about propagating their consciousnesses into the airwaves.Serial Experiments Lain was broadly about something like this.
>>154289800> She could have always just confronted him in front of everyoneThat would most likely make him think she was going to reveal his secret. He was an insecure asshole.
>>154289774If they have access to the internet then why can't they message people being like "yeah we are conscious beings stuck in this freak hell", or at least use it to browse 4chan or some shit
> Cain gets to live cause ?????> No reason given why he's not deleted> The abstractions are lucid inside and can be talked to via literal demonstration through Jax> Get to stay 'dead' despite them being intact inside> Probably done this way to force a suicide allegory I hate this show.
>>154289837In hindsight I'm glad I only got cautiously invested in this after episode 6, I did almost trick myself into thinking this could have saved western animation thoughbeit
>>154289911>looking at 4chan for all eternityJesus man
>>154289914Kinger very specifically says he THINKS he killed Cain back in episode 8A better explanation about what actually happened would have been nice though.
>>154288857>have to wait several decades for a second season or epilogue episodeI might be dead by then. Hell, goose might even be dead by then.
>>154289914> No reason given why he's not deletedThe program just creates another.>The abstractions are lucid inside and can be talked to via literal demonstration through Jax> Get to stay 'dead' despite them being intact insideI dont see the problem here, they aren't dead>Probably done this way to force a suicide allegoryHow is it a suicide allegory if they are still "there" moron
>>154289839The entire show is full of abuse. And they confront Jax about it multiple times.Heck, they even confront Caine about his abuses!But this one character gets it bad enough from Jax to abstract, with absolutely no standing up for herself at all? With all the other characters just- not noticing at all what’s happening to her or what Jax is doing?Nah, they did Ribbit dirty.
>>154289957You're too sheltered. There's plenty of men and women in longterm abusive relationships where their family have zero idea what's going on because they're afraid to tell them. >bro just do xwow they're cured now abusive relationships will never exist again
>>154289957>With all the other characters just- not noticing at all what’s happening to her or what Jax is doing?They could have tied this to Jax saying>Are you seriously gonna blame me for something that everybody else did too?! Guess goose forgor lol, so that Jax could come off as a projecting schizo
It was a fun story about characters I liked seeing.I am content.
>>154289956>How is it a suicide allegory if they are still "there" moronThat's exactly the problem with it.It's probably some suicide allegory, but the details don't work. They are supposed to be dead but aren't really. Nothing can be done for them except it clearly can be. They are all still there. The models are just fucked. The story ignores the details for the sake of the suicide allegory, but the details are too glaring to ignore.Did you think I was praising the ending in my post or something? What's your deal?
>>154289956>How is it a suicide allegory if they are still "there" moronBecause no one can actually die in the circus? They 'abstract' (data becomes corrupted) because they are effectively immortal, but still human (technically).
>>154289355You're doing Loss wrong!
>>154289402Same.
>>154289445All 4 of his channels are hollow husks nowCan't wait for a final TADC theory
So what was Bubbles?
>>154290609Caine's thoughts
