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Angry_Clown (Troper Journeyman) Relationship Status: All is for my lord
#2426: Aug 25th 2025 at 5:20:00 AM

[up][up] I think they're talking about this one. It looks pretty good, in my opinion.

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techno156 from Lost in the wrong part of the internet (Private) Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#2427: Aug 25th 2025 at 8:18:20 AM

One advantage of the digital circus fandom being as huge as it is, is that there's a lot of fan work, and some of it is really impressively done.

Came across this Pomni & Jax music video animatic, which is really well made.

Edited by techno156 on Aug 26th 2025 at 1:19:10 AM

galienus Since: Sep, 2019
#2428: Aug 25th 2025 at 10:52:23 AM

[up][up][up] I noticed too that the dialoque can be very vaque and ambigious when talking about anything that isnt about their mental state and their relationship with another.

What i came up with as a theory is that that they are not trapped in the simulation but in a mental asylum dealing with their mental health problems and the digital circus is just an experimental tool to help with that .

That way i can just handwave away any question about the plot without invalidating the character drama.

ItsMonkaka Since: Aug, 2025 Relationship Status: A heart full of love
#2429: Aug 25th 2025 at 11:15:00 AM

That sounds like a lazy excuse for anti-Suspension of Disbelief. You haven't even seen Episodes 7,8, and 9 yet and there will be flashbacks so your headcanon is Epileptic Trees.

Edited by ItsMonkaka on Aug 25th 2025 at 2:15:41 PM

galienus Since: Sep, 2019
#2430: Aug 25th 2025 at 11:27:20 AM

Its only lazy if you dont look into it so far any dialoque i looked up for this theory surprisingly works with it. I only need to speculate so far for what abstraction is then when im right.

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#2431: Aug 25th 2025 at 1:52:27 PM

One thing I've been wondering is just who created the Circus/headsets and why.

Frankly, we'd prefer the spanking machine. 
IvanovTroping97 Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
#2432: Aug 25th 2025 at 9:03:18 PM

When is the Sun going to have a speaking appearance in the episodes? The Moon spoke in two episodes already, so why not the Sun? Maybe they're saving the Sun's speaking role for one of the last three episodes. Otherwise, I think Caine might've been trolling the Sun.

Edited by IvanovTroping97 on Aug 25th 2025 at 7:03:38 PM

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#2433: Aug 25th 2025 at 9:36:24 PM

EPISODE 7 HAS BEEN LEAKED, ZOOBLE IS FUCKING DEADnote 

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Note: Obviously not official, just a fan-made

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techno156 from Lost in the wrong part of the internet (Private) Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#2434: Aug 25th 2025 at 9:50:37 PM

[up][up][up] C&A, presumably.

As for why, if the computer at the end of episode 1 is anything to go by, it might have been meant to be a VR game of some variety.

Maybe the equivalent of VRChat? The player or players would log in, Caine would generate an adventure for them, and everyone would have fun for a few hours before logging out again.

The company just seems to have gone bankrupt in the intervening time and abandoned the hardware.

Edited by techno156 on Aug 26th 2025 at 2:50:56 AM

IvanovTroping97 Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
#2435: Aug 25th 2025 at 10:20:52 PM

[up] Except at some point, someone at C&A probably disabled the "log out" function.

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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#2436: Aug 25th 2025 at 11:31:41 PM

Something I just thought of is, between Gummigoo and Jax the Australian Extremist, what is it with Digital Circus and all of its playful ribbing at Australia? Yeah, Glitch is an Australian company, but I've never seen any of their works satirize the country this much. It's something I'd sooner expect out of SMG4.

[down]Even though Goose is American?

Edited by RWBYraikou888 on Aug 25th 2025 at 2:41:42 PM

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MightyMatilda Mr. Clueless from New Jersey, USA Since: Jan, 2015
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#2437: Aug 25th 2025 at 11:36:44 PM

N-Word Privileges, I would guess.

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techno156 from Lost in the wrong part of the internet (Private) Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#2438: Aug 26th 2025 at 3:36:31 AM

[up][up] The animation studio GLITCH is Australian. Maybe Goose decided to poke fun at it, since it's one of the countries where that's not going to go over quite as poorly, on top of the studio being Australian?

On an unrelated note, I do find it funny that a lot of fan art with Gummigoo seems to treat him as a Cowboy, when it might make more sense for him to be a Highwayman like Ned Kelly. Australia never really had cowboys.

Ego-Man25 Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
#2440: Aug 26th 2025 at 4:44:49 AM

[up][up] It's more like it started out as Biting-the-Hand Humor, but then Glitch Productions gave Gooseworx the go-ahead, and it went full-on Self-Deprecation humor at its finest.

Edited by Ego-Man25 on Aug 26th 2025 at 7:45:03 AM

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Sunchet Since: Oct, 2010
#2441: Aug 26th 2025 at 5:06:17 AM

So why do you think only Gangle and Zooble got Avatar Gimmicks?

Proglottid Since: Mar, 2010
#2442: Aug 26th 2025 at 5:33:49 AM

Maybe because they're the ones who outwardly struggle the most with who they are, while the others stick to a "role" , whether it works for them or not

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#2443: Aug 26th 2025 at 5:38:11 AM

I'm thinking whatever's in charge of dishing out player avatars (Abel? He was beloved by god and stuff) just ran out of ones with gimmicks, and thus just started grabbing ones without them.

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Ego-Man25 Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
#2444: Aug 26th 2025 at 5:39:02 AM

[up][up] That and it also allows Amanda Hufford to whiplash people with her comedic range, every time she's given the opportunity to go completely bonkers, starkly contrasted with how we usually see Ragatha, be it the funny stoner she becomes in Episode 4, or her evil doppelgänger in Episode 5.

[up] How the hell did I get ninja'd in the DIGITAL CIRCUS forum thread?

Edited by Ego-Man25 on Aug 26th 2025 at 8:41:06 AM

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Sunchet Since: Oct, 2010
#2445: Aug 26th 2025 at 5:58:16 AM

[up] You shouldn't have made so many assumptions. Because it's just made an ASS of out of U and MPTIONS.

     

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#2446: Aug 26th 2025 at 6:37:31 AM

[up]...You made a whole guy for that?

Edited by RebelFalcon on Aug 26th 2025 at 9:38:42 AM

Rodimus: Self-sacrifice, Magnus— It's cheap. It's a cheap way out. I need to live so I can make amends.
Inky100 Ragdoll used for creepy stuff from The virtual horror factory Since: Dec, 2020 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
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#2447: Aug 26th 2025 at 7:15:07 AM

[up] Oh no, it's Evil Ming.

Waiting to have my head disfigured and mounted on a wall.
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good day everyone
#2448: Aug 26th 2025 at 8:46:51 AM

evil ming is just ming but it is mptions

Ready for the biggest surprises?
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#2449: Aug 26th 2025 at 8:53:05 AM

Assuming there even is an "Evil Ming" is just making an ass out of normal Ming though!

Rodimus: Self-sacrifice, Magnus— It's cheap. It's a cheap way out. I need to live so I can make amends.
Ego-Man25 Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
#2450: Aug 26th 2025 at 10:53:30 AM

Man, Flash Gordon (1980) fans are probably looking at this thread and going "Why the f*** are these yahoos going on about Ming of all people?"

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