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ItsMonkaka Since: Aug, 2025 Relationship Status: A heart full of love
#2401: Aug 23rd 2025 at 8:55:37 AM

It's even worse than that time Netflix thought 'Murder' was too violent for the Murder Drones and suggested to change it to Meta Drones. Glitch was like "Hell, no!" and shifted to Amazon Prime; yet Netflix has hundreds of shows about murder. This is bullshit.

[down][down][down] It actually happened.

Edited by ItsMonkaka on Aug 23rd 2025 at 12:40:18 PM

Inky100 Ragdoll used for creepy stuff from The virtual horror factory Since: Dec, 2020 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
Ragdoll used for creepy stuff
#2402: Aug 23rd 2025 at 9:10:59 AM

[up] They must have a Double Standard for "murder" in animated shows... even when there's still plenty of animated media in their library involving characters getting gruesomely killed.

Edited by Inky100 on Aug 23rd 2025 at 6:12:24 PM

Waiting to have my head disfigured and mounted on a wall.
tetradimensional good day everyone from colombia (Troper in training)
good day everyone
#2403: Aug 23rd 2025 at 9:22:24 AM

man Netflix i don't even fucking understand

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Kaiseror Since: Jul, 2016
#2404: Aug 23rd 2025 at 9:26:37 AM

[up][up][up] Did that actually happen, or was it just a rumor?

MagmaTeaMerry My Head Is On Fire from A forest somewhere Since: Sep, 2020
Fireball246 Since: Jan, 2023
#2406: Aug 23rd 2025 at 10:00:17 AM

All of this is to say: Animation Age Ghetto is a bitch and fucking sucks.

ItsMonkaka Since: Aug, 2025 Relationship Status: A heart full of love
#2407: Aug 23rd 2025 at 10:04:03 AM

Same thing with Warner Bros. Discovery. It's this insufferable, corporate dichotomy where either everything animation has to be big adult or for little kids. No in-between.

Edited by ItsMonkaka on Aug 23rd 2025 at 1:10:00 PM

Fireball246 Since: Jan, 2023
#2408: Aug 23rd 2025 at 12:25:05 PM

Someone made a really good animatic of what it would be like if Caine took the full plunge into Face–Heel Turn Big Bad Slippage territory.

Kaiseror Since: Jul, 2016
#2409: Aug 23rd 2025 at 12:40:22 PM

[up]x4 I'm not sure, there's been plenty of adult animation from Netflix, so I kinda doubt the Meta Drones thing till I hear it from one of the creators.

Ultimatum Disasturbator from The Wiggle Room (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#2411: Aug 23rd 2025 at 1:06:36 PM

could you summarise?

have a listen and have a link to my discord server
Proglottid Since: Mar, 2010
#2412: Aug 23rd 2025 at 1:20:34 PM

TLDR Jax is proooooobably a suffering closet transfem on top of everything else going on with him

Edited by Proglottid on Aug 23rd 2025 at 1:21:49 AM

ItsMonkaka Since: Aug, 2025 Relationship Status: A heart full of love
#2413: Aug 23rd 2025 at 2:05:34 PM

Do you mean like Jax the avatar or like Meat Space!Jax? We haven't seen the true humanized Jax yet. It depends on the context.

CountofBleck Starting to believe in himself from New Wirral (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
Starting to believe in himself
#2414: Aug 23rd 2025 at 2:08:56 PM

Caine's VA sings Daisy Bell like its 2001

RWBYraikou888 The Undercover Troper from The Kingdom of Atlas Since: Aug, 2020 Relationship Status: Complex: I'm real, they are imaginary
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#2415: Aug 23rd 2025 at 2:10:45 PM

You know what's one of the biggest ironies about Caine and Zooble? Caine always gets mad about how Zooble never wants to do any of the adventures, yet whenever Zooble does partake in an adventure, they end up being one of the players who follows their role in the adventure down to a T the most. It gives me the impression that Caine doesn't care how the players react to the adventures; he just wants them to be part of them more than anything else.

Orcus on His Throne will always be my pet peeve.
tetradimensional good day everyone from colombia (Troper in training)
good day everyone
#2416: Aug 23rd 2025 at 2:58:14 PM

in other news...Man, Pomni was really about to abstract in episode one just AFTER arriving

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techno156 from Lost in the wrong part of the internet (Private) Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#2417: Aug 23rd 2025 at 5:43:53 PM

[up][up] That is probably part of it. His function is likely to make adventures that players can enjoy.

If the player participates, that's still some measure of enjoying.

I think the other problem is that he's not a human, so doesn't quite understand what the problem is. As far as he seems to be aware, Zooble doesn't like to go on the adventures because they're too mature for them. So he tried to make a mature one, and that didn't really work either.

It probably doesn't help that he doesn't get proper feedback about it, and that he's deeply insecure about his inability to perform his role.

From Caine's perspective, it might make sense for him to try to get all the players to participate in the adventure first, and then tailor it to their preferences later.

[up] Honestly not too surprising. She had a rough time adjusting, and constantly being teased with the exit door when that was what she was looking for, but it leading nowhere in addition to getting chased and smacked around by a big monster can't have helped.

I do kind of wonder if there are any circus members who might have abstracted immediately/almost immediately after arriving. Not everyone who makes it would be at all okay, especially if they were well-adjusted in life.

Edited by techno156 on Aug 23rd 2025 at 10:46:36 PM

Sunchet Since: Oct, 2010
#2418: Aug 24th 2025 at 5:40:17 AM

Lack of communication, inability to read people and refusal to face harsh truths are well-documented problems with Caine.

Again, he didn't know that Pomni and Zooble were fine with the restaurant adventure.

It's pretty clear that Caine is going to break because he can't ignore the situation forever. If he actually tried reading the room he would see that no one likes him, the most fun they had was when they were left alone to just do their thing, Zooble told him to his face that no one likes his adventures, something which he deep down must know, as he argued unprompted that he's not torturing people on purpose, and he has entire cellar full of glitchy monsters as a proof just what a miserable place his circus is and most likely, his creators abandoned him.

Im not saying that I dont feel bad for Ragatha but she's mostly needy due to paranoia that she's a bad friend and everyone hates her. For Caine's it's reality.

Edited by Sunchet on Aug 24th 2025 at 6:10:51 AM

techno156 from Lost in the wrong part of the internet (Private) Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#2419: Aug 24th 2025 at 5:50:04 AM

Was rewatching the Intermission from Episode 5, and noticed that Caine breathes. Not sure if that's just a default animation that their animation software does for every posed animate model, or if it's an intentional detail, but it is an interesting one.

Since he's not a human, I'd have expected him to be stock-still, both to seem slightly off, because he wouldn't have a need to breathe, not being human to begin with, and that it would be easier on the animators not having to animate him breathing.

Proglottid Since: Mar, 2010
#2420: Aug 24th 2025 at 6:11:25 AM

I kind of wonder since Episode 3 if it's actually possible for the Abstracted to regain their sanity and turn back to normal, but they're all just kinda loitering in the dark because Caine doesn't know how to do that and won't even try. He already barely understands the minds of unabstracted players as-is

Also I like that you can also track his mental state throughout the episode titles, he's stopping to care alltogether

Edited by Proglottid on Aug 24th 2025 at 6:12:28 AM

techno156 from Lost in the wrong part of the internet (Private) Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#2421: Aug 24th 2025 at 6:51:38 AM

[up] I honestly don't think so. Even putting aside Word of God that it's impossible, if Caine could snap his fingers and fix/remove them, he'd almost certainly have done so. That he puts them in the cellar suggests that he can't or won't.

The way abstraction in the show is used seems to be more a point of no return. Once you're abstracted, that's pretty much it, but you can be pulled back just fine as long as you don't pass the threshold.

tetradimensional good day everyone from colombia (Troper in training)
good day everyone
#2422: Aug 24th 2025 at 8:41:59 AM

basically is like a despair event horizon where once you cross it, it is impossible to go back, because you are sucked by a botomless hole of...whatever it is that drives abstraction.

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fateslay56 Since: May, 2023
#2423: Aug 24th 2025 at 10:48:09 AM

Someone made a fan game on digital circus

Hello world
AFan Since: Nov, 2022
SpookyMask Since: Jan, 2011
#2425: Aug 25th 2025 at 4:33:30 AM

I feel like if there is trend of fan theories that is going to go wrong, its kinda just matter of failing to guess what is going to be ending theme of the show and instead just trying to guess who is going to abstract or go crazy and become villain or whats is going on in real life with computer or mechanical nature of being trapped in digital circus or such.

Because like show isn't really building mystery about what is happening in real life, how they got trapped in, are they real people somehow digitalized or digital copies or etc. Show isn't really paying attention to any of that kind of jazz, its all about "how do characters cope with this scenario", lot of theories are kinda focused on "how is this possible, what is actually happening" rather than whats the dramatic purpose of it

But yeah, have to say that I do kinda dread the fact by episode six I'm actually attached to show and cast because it felt from start its going to have depressing ending tongue also doesn't help that I can't think of gooxeworx's work that isn't surreal or kinda depressing

Edited by SpookyMask on Aug 25th 2025 at 4:34:46 AM


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