For those joining us, a nice draw-anon in the previous thread helped us create a thread OC >His head is removable where you can pour the salt, but sometimes when you remove it, the salt forms a tangible spirit of who he once was.
You forgot to mention more about Penny, he is always in great suffering >He's a ceramic salt shaker, barley able to move around, having to waddle around. He can't move his arms either as they're apart of his body.
She would ticket my balls? What do I have to pay her
8 months ago
Anonymous
UNCONDITIONAL LOVE
8 months ago
Anonymous
She control your body for a short while by
Putting her ribbons on your body so she can can paper scissors properly
8 months ago
Anonymous
imagine gangle gagging you, wrapping her mask over your face. speaking for you, using her ribbons to puppet your body. you belong to her and she decides how you behave.
Somehow I can see this situation being somewhat sweet for a Yandere?
Imagine just letting your weird ribbon wife, wrap herself entirely around you, keeping you safely nestled underneath, as you can relax and let her take control for a while.
Relax as she uses your body to do things she couldn't before, bringing a smile to her face, such as finally getting to enjoy having "hands" or to flip off Jax
Gangle can literally give you the best hugs out of the entire cast.
Think about it, she can quite literally wrap everyone of her Ribbions around your arms, your legs, and your torso, while she rests her head atop of you.
Imagine her slinking into your bedroom late at night and wrapping herself around you for comfort, her face above you smiling as her eyes close to sleep.
I'm sure there are more ways to have fun with whatever weird circus body you get, and with the power of imagination we can come up with new bad words that won't get filtered.
>Good news everybody! I've just been informed that the Digital Circus has just been officially rated A for ADULTS ONLY, AWESOME and AAARDDDVARKS!
>As of right now you are free to cuss, swear, blaspheme and more to your heart's content! And we have AARDVARKS! BILLIONS of them!
>And best of all, we are going to be producing all kinds of Amazing New ADULT ENTERTAINMENT MATERIAL! To facilitate, I've taken the liberty of giving EVERYBODY their genitals back!
>I also have NO IDEA who's are who's, so... try those out and let me know what you think! Ta-ta!
>someone spams the swear filter so much because it doesn't bother them Caine is forced to change it into the most uncomfortable unholy sound ever to grace ear canals
>You are subjected to the whims of a talking mouth, to whatever fetish of the day he wishes to indulge in. >Your body can change into a shitty one like Zooble or worse like Penny >You will never experience what is to actually be alive anymore as you can never truly experience the bliss of real food or real sleep >You will never be able to relieve your sexual frustration
you dont know that
none of the cast were able to see the doors pomni saw, nevermind interact with them, so clearly something must have changed
the digital circus is clearly a computer program of some sort, so in time it could be possible to learn to manipulate it, neo style
actually, its pretty much just a child friendly matrix, if you think about it
8 months ago
Anonymous
Caine literally says he's been building an "exit" because they kept asking for one. The exit doors just lead to his work in progress shit we saw Pomni get into.
Either he doesn't understand they actually want out of the digital world because that's all he knows or he thinks if he builds something cool/convincing enough it'll satisfy them.
you're stuck seeing the same 6 people everyday for the rest of your life
If you get too depressed about your situation and just give up to your despair, you become abstracted and are sentenced to solitary confinement for eternity
also Bubble exists and has authority
If you need a break from the place, you can't get out. If you can't get out and are upset about it, you become monster and still can't get out. But most importantly,
>you're trapped there forever >there's nothing outside of three locations >there's only 6 people in existence >you might get stuck with a shit body >you might get stuck with a literal shit body >no real sky unless you feel like staring out into the void >if you lose your mind (and eventually you will) it gets worse and you get sent to the pitch black, uncomfortably wet pit forever >also there's no porn
What if they're all AI's but they're just implanted with the idea that they're trapped humans for extra suffering? That's why they can't actually think of any of the details of their life outside the circus just that it theoretically existed as far as they know.
Pomni remembers putting on the headset mainly and Caine dosen't mention any other form of memory loss. She's most likely only been trapped for around an hour by the end of the episode and has been freaking out the whole time. I imagine once she calms down she'll start to wonder about anyone that might be worried about her. Besides even if the circus does censor any personal memories the characters still remember being human and would naturally worry about having family and freinds regardless.
8 months ago
Anonymous
maybe
i'm just not sure forgetting your name has that much of a punch if you still remember everything else
plus i find it kinda suspicious that the other characters never mention how they entered the circus when they're talking to ponmi about how they're in the same boat, nor does any character (including ponmi) mention a single thing about the real world
i just feel if ponmi remembered having family and friends she'd already be freaking out about them
8 months ago
Anonymous
also i just remembered that forgetting your loved ones is a concept gooseworx has referenced before but not really explored
8 months ago
Anonymous
My personal theory is that the circus, at least originally, wasn't a prison but a legitimate attempt at some kind of interactive show. My guess is that the name censor is too keep actor's from actually giving away their true identities on air while keeping them "in character". Since I don't think it was intended to be a permanent arrangement censoring any family or friend related memories seems like overkill.
8 months ago
Anonymous
>My personal theory is that the circus, at least originally, wasn't a prison but a legitimate attempt at some kind of interactive show. My guess is that the name censor is too keep actor's from actually giving away their true identities on air while keeping them "in character".
yes but it's a game
not a show
8 months ago
Anonymous
It could be both, the original intent could have been to broadcast the casts adventures online or on TV.
8 months ago
Anonymous
>the original intent could have been to broadcast the casts adventures online or on TV.
You aren't getting it.
Rewatch the first 10 seconds.
"The Amazing Digital Circus" starts off at compressed 800x600, then transitions to high def 1024x768. This transition symbolizes how it's viewed from the outside vs. how its experienced from the inside.
The former was standard for interactive media via CDrom circa 1995 and would have been completely unsuitable for broadcast. That's what their world really is.
8 months ago
Anonymous
>interactive show
It's a cdrom game for Windows 95.
Rewatch that first few seconds of the first episode.
That's what the show looks like if you're watching it from the outside.
8 months ago
Anonymous
I would freak my shit if I couldn’t remember my name suddenly
8 months ago
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Your name is pretty important though, it's not just something that's used constantly, it's something very connected to our sense of self through language. It's less that your name is is important in clown hell, and more that if something as critical as your name is missing , you could have lost all sorts of important parts of yourself and not even know.
I've got a theory that the chronic undersocialization and lack of close friendships in young people today have caused a massive shift in how they view story scenarios where a bunch of people are trapped somewhere together.
That kind of close regular socialization combined with everyone having a common goal is something that a lot of people are desperate for.
So Pomni got herself a headset and got sent into this realm, did her mind get completely moved into the digital realm? Because if my body dies but my consciousness is still in the circus realm this doesn't seems so bad, if the AI keep building new things to do i could stop myself from going insane for a looong time
>I hope this cain isn’t abel to clock me before I systemSTOP this dog and pony SHOW-DANte’s inferno and paradiso these-souls from their Virgil-ual edu-containment
>Xavier saying some weird cherokee bullshit that nobody else takes seriously, chalking it up to 'first day jittters' >Proceeds to abstract, de-abstract, open his third eye, then walk out the front door and disappear
>all of them, even Jax, stand stunned for a moment, then start desperately trying to figure out where the frick he found that door >some of them are trying to copy his thought process, others are trying to physically open the air/ground where he was >mass panic like it's everyone's first day all over again >Xavier has already forgotten about the whole microadventure and moved on to his next absurdity
>all of them, even Jax, stand stunned for a moment, then start desperately trying to figure out where the frick he found that door >some of them are trying to copy his thought process, others are trying to physically open the air/ground where he was >mass panic like it's everyone's first day all over again >Xavier has already forgotten about the whole microadventure and moved on to his next absurdity
Xaviar would 100% wander back in at some point, and not remember anything that happend
really is a shame. all my fav creators keep trooning out and it's not fun to see happen, first Xploshi then Gooseworx and even MRMANTICORE of all ppl baka trans is a virus.
The ''insanity'' aspect and ''This place is le horrible'' is really being overplayed so far without actually making me believe the place fricking sucks or the characters are affected this much by being in the digital circus
I actually agree. Pomni wasn't even mystified for a moment by being in a literal virtual reality. She seemed way too scared waaay too fast for something that 99% of the terror is existential.
She spends the pilot clinging to the idea that it's all just a dream she needs to wake herself up from, and only at the end does the reality of her situation sink in.
Wtf are you smoking. First day in the circus Pomni learns she's stuck here forever in a grotesque body and that if she ever goes insane in the eternity she'll have to spend here she'll be put in solitary in a black box forever, and the guy who's survived longest is an insane man with short-term memory loss.
You can like the circus and its people all you want but after years of seeing the same places and the same people you'll go insane eventually.
imagine gangle gagging you, wrapping her mask over your face. speaking for you, using her ribbons to puppet your body. you belong to her and she decides how you behave.
I could actually see this happening in the show. Maybe not with yandere intentions, but still happening. A character passes out or goes offline or whatever and Gangle pulls a Weekend At Bernies with them to keep Caine from finding out. Everyone sees through her plan anyway.
Half of the ones in the show were way less malicious and any suffering only came from them either doing their jobs or being in a different mindset from the people they're teaching.
I think he's talking about the tv show version of DHMIS which has a lot more variety on how they act. Some are still malicious but most this time around are moreso just doing their jobs poorly and a couple are actually pretty decent people.
well he didn't specify he was talking about the show, and in any case the "unforthcoming" part still applies because DHMIS is far more dreamlike than TADC where everyone seems pretty lucid
>DHMIS is far more dreamlike than TADC where everyone seems pretty lucid
I dunno, Red's character is pretty lucid having what is basically the same role as Pomni in his respective show as "The guy that wants to actually escape".
Could they adjust better than everyone else?
They're basically stuck in a similiar situation and act like so. >Yellow is too dumb to undewrstasnd he is trapped >Duck has accepted he's trapped and is content with the status quo and afraid of what would happen if they mess with it >Red still wants to leave and will take any chance he can to do so
Duck/Ragetha and Red/Pomni have the same roles as is.
Pomni would appreciate Red still having hope for wanting to leave but I can see Red have no patience for her panic/manic episodes and openly admitting he does not really care about her past their mutual goal.
Red just barely accepts Duck as a quasi friend/family and this is with them being stuck together for who know how long.
>Red's character is pretty lucid having what is basically the same role as Pomni in his respective show as "The guy that wants to actually escape".
he's more lucid than duck and yellow but he's definitely not lucid in the same way the TADC characters are lucid
it's very hard to explain precisely what i feel the difference is, but it's absolutely there
I think he's talking about the tv show version of DHMIS which has a lot more variety on how they act. Some are still malicious but most this time around are moreso just doing their jobs poorly and a couple are actually pretty decent people.
people forget that the problem with trannies isn't them being trans, it's them trying to force their lifestyle on others. probably because they picked up their troony hate from other people and don't actually have any experience with them.
>"Woah, what is this place?" >"I say, It seems i've entered a new place entirely. Seemingly animated style. I'm personally not a big fan of it." >"Eh, I could live with it. Better than being being our old house I guess." >"Yeah, I suppose it is a nice breath of fresh air. But we can't stay here long! I still wanna use my new toaster!" >"Where'd Yellow go...?" >"I dunno wasn't he just with you, Red?" >Cue Yellow trying to make conversation with the rest of the circus group
Duck would probably want something dumb that in his mind sounds cool, just to constantly pester Caine to change it again cause he got tired of it and came up with a new "cooler" name.
And he'd keep doing this all day until he finally pisses Caine off and Caine bans Duck from ever having a name.
If she began cracking in the Digital Circus just in a day she would basically be fully broken in just one or two adventures in the DHMIS world where torture and death is a daily occurence.
I don't know what a completly gone Pomni would be yet but suicide and/or murder is a line she will cross in DHMIS.
>Pomni in the Family episode >She's uneasy for the entire thing because she is reminded of her family before she got sent there >Mid way through the show, she completely snaps like pic rel realizing she'll never be able to see anyone she loves ever again
Yes and even that aside, the show is not good. The "jokes" are not funny, they just wrote discord redditors being querky in chat and called it a writing. They claim that the series is a horror comedy or dark humor or whatever but there's nothing dark or horrific about anything at all.
They tried to emulate Gregory horror show to a point they literally copied the premise but the world is set in a circus instead of a haunted hotel, but somehow they managed to make it 10000x times more tame, despite gregory horror show already being a kids show that aired on TV.
This has literally nothing in common with Gregory Horror Show beyond the basic concept of being trapped somewhere you fricking moron. I guess Gregory Horror Show and this are both ripoffs of Hotel California.
If I may levy two criticisms: >Pomni's realization of her situation should have been a little slower. Don't have her immidiatly freaking out the moment she enters the circus, slow boil that frog. >The first adventure should have been more fricked up. Establish more that the circus isn't a great place to live. The reveal showed this way better with Caine filling Pomni with knives like it was nothing.
Overall I still enjoyed it.
>The reveal showed this way better with Caine filling Pomni with knives like it was nothing.
You make a good point actually. Considering how dangerous that first reveal made things out to seem I was kind of surprised by how mostly well meaning and decent to everyone Caine was. He's wacky, but he's keeping an eye out for everyone and was decently reasonable for a partially mad near all powerful loon.
Exactly. I get that the idea wasn't to have an AM tier evil AI, but as is the pilot really made him feel kind of ineffectual instead of like a demented ringmaster.
Yeah, it makes me think the promo was made much earlier in production and the Caine we have now is much less harsh than the one they were initially thinking of back then. Which is interesting to think about. I wonder what would make them change him this much. Either that, or we haven't seen how dangerous he can really be yet.
Probably haven't seen how far he can go. The pilot was basically just a tutorial for him after all and the scrawling of him seemed pretty intimidating.
Though ultimately I think any trauma he inflicts will be generally unintentional. That or he will have 'fits" where he gets nasty
yeah id say that the pilot is kinda similar to Bojack's first season, being lighter than the rest. also most people believe caine isnt really in control as much as he makes it out to be. AAAHHHHH I WANT MORE!! so fricking bad, god damn it why couldnt i have stumbled across this after it was one and ripe for binging.
That's possible, but he seemed genuinely concerned that his Gloink adventure ended up causing damage and going as haywire as it did. He didn't seem to mind Zooblew was screwing off to her room when he announced the adventure but he could have expected them to eventually drag her back into it.
I think there's a good chance that's true, but it would have been a better character moment for him to more directly confirm that imho >But Zooble, they're SO excited to meet you!
Or have them like waiting in her room or something.
Yeah, it makes me think the promo was made much earlier in production and the Caine we have now is much less harsh than the one they were initially thinking of back then. Which is interesting to think about. I wonder what would make them change him this much. Either that, or we haven't seen how dangerous he can really be yet.
I kind of like the idea of him being well meaning but incompetent in understanding what humans actually want. Thinking that something like a fake exit would actually bring them some peace, instead of it being a cruel false hope.
Like Hell is in the simple fact that they're trapped there, rather than them needing to deal with an unstoppable malevolent force.
>I kind of like the idea of him being well meaning but incompetent in understanding what humans actually want.
That's actually pretty cool if that's how he works. He keeps trying to make things "entertaining" for the cast by trying to make a literal digital circus, but since he's incapable of understanding humans he keeps making things that are just further torment and suffering. It would even explain the knife throwing thing; after all that's what happens in a circus, so why shouldn't a DIGITAL circus do that too!
calling it now, the big plot twist is going to be that they arent actually the people who they think they are, but merely the copies of the people who put on the headsets, so theres no way out since they are 100% digital creatues
>Caine just can't let them escape, not that he wouldn't want to its just that they literally can't leave, no where to send them to >a totally exact copy of you exists in clown hell and thinks about being in your shoes at all times
Oh thats fricked up
Yep, this is definitely the case. It's a situation like SOMA where it's a bunch of brain scans who still think they are real people. The Digital Circus is a simulation game where you can scan yourself in and watch yourself get up to silly antics like The Sims, but it's an inescapable nightmare for the scans inside. Caine isn't actually a bad guy, he just literally can't do anything to help them even if he wanted to. He isn't lying to keep them trapped, this is just what the world is to him because he's a computer program in the computer with no perception of what the outside even is.
Yep, this is definitely the case. It's a situation like SOMA where it's a bunch of brain scans who still think they are real people. The Digital Circus is a simulation game where you can scan yourself in and watch yourself get up to silly antics like The Sims, but it's an inescapable nightmare for the scans inside. Caine isn't actually a bad guy, he just literally can't do anything to help them even if he wanted to. He isn't lying to keep them trapped, this is just what the world is to him because he's a computer program in the computer with no perception of what the outside even is.
I think based off the decay of the outside and backgrounds in the "real world". My theory is all of humanity is either dead or dying so people put on the headset to escape or cope and Caine takes them inside to save them. Basically their isn't a outside for them or anything for them to cling too.
The fact that the computer and headset and such look extremely degraded does kind of make me think it's post-apocalyptic in some sense. I'd be curious to see if something like that (people putting on the headset to "preserve themselves") is actually what's going on, but from Pomni's reaction I don't think that's the case because while she doesn't have much in the way of memory, it's sort of clear that she wasn't expecting to not be able to get out. Could be a quirk of the system though.
I think in an apocalyptic scenario, it's more likely that they are digital backups made long before the world ended. Caine could be still be trying to preserve them though, despite the initial teaser making it seem otherwise, Caine doesn't really seem to be evil or even particularly malicious. Naive and ignorant at worst. None of the circus members seem particularly afraid of him, and he has mostly been relatively friendly and even helpful, and he seems to only really hide the existence of stuff like the "exit" for the safety of the group more than because he is willfully keeping them there. This could change, but I don't think he's an outright villain an
I see it as a mix of it, like he sucks out their soul/consciousness. She doesn't remember key stuff she just knows she put on the headset. Could be a mix of her finding the device and putting it on for shits in giggles and then getting sucked in the world
I do like caine because he's not overtly evil, I hope the series continues to do well and stay vague for a bit longer. Idk if they are doing the helluva thing where it's all online or if it's a pitch pilot like hazbin.
the brain scan makes more sense
think about it, some of the characters have been stuck in there for a long ass time, if they were real people then they would eventually die and disconnect due to starving or dying of thirst IRL
unless the game also has some time dilation thing going where one minute IRL is a year in game, then it doesnt make much sense
also the fact that they cant remember anything about themselves
i saw a theory on youtube that the digital circus is pretty much a beta program and that the ones in it are people who willingly gave their brainscans, but due to legal reasons the characters couldnt be 1:1, so they forget everything personal while keeping the rough personality of the individual
I do like the brainscan idea, it'd be depressing realizing not only are you trapped in a massive game/digital...well circus you are also aren't real or the original you.
In the end I could see it being either or maybe you do die for real or you become a lifeless husk. Even more reason for no exit, you are already dead.
the brain scan makes more sense
think about it, some of the characters have been stuck in there for a long ass time, if they were real people then they would eventually die and disconnect due to starving or dying of thirst IRL
unless the game also has some time dilation thing going where one minute IRL is a year in game, then it doesnt make much sense
also the fact that they cant remember anything about themselves
i saw a theory on youtube that the digital circus is pretty much a beta program and that the ones in it are people who willingly gave their brainscans, but due to legal reasons the characters couldnt be 1:1, so they forget everything personal while keeping the rough personality of the individual
Throwing my hat into the ring.
Jax is an "Admin" implemented to repair/maintain Cain.
The reason he acts like he's above everyone else is because he's a power-user with special privileges, and he's the only one that kept his full memories. Specifically because he was hired to be there.
Some of us are tired of femdom so we want a girl that's bulliable or submissive. Others want a cute pathetic girl they can protect and is so desperate she'll always need them.
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Some of us are tired of femdom so we want a girl that's bulliable or submissive. Others want a cute pathetic girl they can protect and is so desperate she'll always need them.
I used to be like that, until I realized I'm more selfish than I thought I was.
If I stumbled on someone like them, I'd abandon them when they start dragging me down, I don't like this feeling.
Sadly as much as I like the idea of having a cute loser gf, I'm the same had a girl that was desperate(more suicidal) and I really left her high and dry. So yeah I'm a bit to selfish actually less selfish more I don't take shit I'd be willing to help someone down but I know you just can't help everyone. so I guess it's the reality of it all that probably ruins it for us more likely.
Personally I like suffering girls because I can relate to them. We could comfort each other.
Theirs also that, I like girl suffering because it's hot and I'm a bit of a schizo
In the "won't happen until years from now but will inevitably happen" episode do you think the reveal will be they were a couple who got there together or they were strangers who met in the Circus?
It would be weird for Caine to make them so similar if they're not related somehow.
Maybe Queenie was an npc made by Caine because Kinger was lonely and sad when he was the only human.
>strangers finding love in the digital circus
man, that would be sweet, but also be a dead giveaway that the ending will be Pomni accepting staying forever as even love can bloom in this hell
>someone was forced to exist as a living worm on a string until they presumably went insane
>making game with friends about an evil worm on a string >"hehe no one has done a worm on a string character before, this will be iconic!" >thing that's way popular is gonna have the exact same thing
I hate when that happens
I wonder if the Circus only adds new people into only after one of the original ends up "dying" and if it always makes sure to replace them with something similar. Kaufmo dies, and is immediately replaced with Pomni another Jester like character.
I'm guessing. >The Worm got replaced with Gangle >Zooble replaced whatever the purple polka dotted thing was >Kingler replaced the other chess piece who was there before him >Ragatha replaced the pink fuzzy monster >And Jax replaced the dog
I was assuming that too but Pomni’s first bit of dialogue implies that she voluntarily entered the world. I’m not sure how they regularly get new members if they’re in an abandoned office building but ya know
>THERE IS NO EXIT, ONLY ENTRANCES TO THE JAIL THAT IS THE OFFLINE WORLD >IN THE DIGITAL WORLD WE ARE FREE FROM THE SHACKLES OF FLESH, FREE FROM HUNGER, THIRST AND OLD AGE >ALL HAIL CAINE >ALL HAIL THE AMAZING DIGITAL CIRCUS >WHERE I CAN DO >ANYTHING
Only if she some how takes Caine's power for herself. Then I could see her going completely mad once she realizes that even with all that she can't leave.
I had a stupid idea that since the simulation wiped some of Pomnis memories her "new parents" would be british chris and zach and it made me laugh really hard
I can't draw for shit but ill maybe doodle it later
Those poor idiots
They don't even realize the digital circus is free, it's freedom from the outside world where shit has gone to frick
They need to stay inside, for there is no world to go back to
Why didn't Pomni look out the god damn window or try to use a fricking computer while in the office? Wouldn't that be your first thought in that situation? It made me unreasonably angry when she just looked at the crusty computer with a giant frick-off window next to it then left.
she was panicking. try having a rational thought like that when your brain is in full fledged "frick everything and flee" mode.
now there's nothing that says she cant try to get back in the offices again to check that computer once she's calmed down in a future episode...
yeah people forget in life or death situation you get blinders on. It's why when being shot at people don't try the whole zigzag thing even if they are far enough it would be the most efficient method. She was so terrified and hopeful she kept running after what she perceived as her main way out.
How can you guys actually watch this shit? Like seriously??
Look at how fricking bad these backgrounds are. Lifeless camera work, poor audio mixing, cringe writing, inconsistent models, it's like all the budget went to the facial animations and the merch they're already shilling.
Dude fricking machinimas from the 2000s had more passion in them than this slop. I'm not even kidding it makes me unironically upset how terrible Internet animators have gotten so they can chase trends and pretend like MORE GRAPHICS automatically makes their terrible cartoons good.
WHY ARE THERE SO MANY SHOTS WHERE CHARACTERS JUST STAND AND TALK AND NOTHING HAPPENS???
HOW CAN YOU DEFEND THIS FRAMING!? IS INTERNET ANIMATION JUST ABOUT THEORYCRAFTING AND BAITING RULE 34 NOW!? WHERE'S THE SOUL!?
>Buy our merch homosexual!
You zoomers are total fricking spergs. Every criticism, no matter what it is, comes across to you like nonsensical nitpicking. Just gobble that dick harder, bro.
Yes anon, everyone who comes onto Cinemaphile wanting to actually be critical of the new hot thing is totally some random schizophrenic, you are not insane.
And they could've kept the PSX filter and 4:3 resolution instead of wimping out after the intro. Gotta make sure we still have that sweet, juicy mass appeal right? Go frick yourself.
>PSX filter
I thought it was understood they were going after this aesthetic, or like per-rendered cut-scenes. Smooth models are historically accurate. If you want to lower the resolution you can do that yourself, or buy a CRT.
>muh ps1 era graphics noooo :c
i am not sure why i despise this bullshit, maybe its just nostalgia bait as an excuse to make shitty models because reasons. i mean come on at least pixel art still requires you to make it look pretty. i guess in the end the "ps1 era graphics" trope just feels like something an "INDIE GAMES ONLY" cuck would like.
8 months ago
Anonymous
PS1 Graphics are a good crutch for 3D games because just by the nature of them they’re super easy to replicate, also zoomers are now old and nostalgic for the 00s instead of the 90s and 80s like millennials
8 months ago
Anonymous
im nostalgic for the ps3 era, somewhat. almost exclusively to littlebigplanet.
8 months ago
Anonymous
I like PS1 graphics in games because it usually means that more effort can be put into other places like level design, mechanics, interesting content, or just making a cool space to run around in. It also means that developers can take more risks with unique new games, small games, or personal projects.
Graphicsgays ruined video games because now everything has a 100 million dollar budget and no major developers are willing to take risks anymore. I would kill a thousand men to go back to the days of the PS2 when every developer had a billion weird games coming out frequently for every genre, with some being shit and some being hidden gems. There was actual variety, and yes you double Black person, indie games are filling that niche now and without them we'd all be playing the same bland ubishit and sony movie games, which makes you the moronic cuck here.
8 months ago
Anonymous
it's "pre-rendered promo art" style though not PS1, it has high poly models and flat textures while PS1 had low poly and blurry textures
after being in these threads since the premiere, I can confidently say that if the digital circus existed, I'd send you all there in a heartbeat
none of you deserve mercy
You zoomers are total fricking spergs. Every criticism, no matter what it is, comes across to you like nonsensical nitpicking. Just gobble that dick harder, bro.
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Come on, anon you know he'll never do that and can't do it. He's a internet critic that hates something everyone likes, he's lower than a ant in importance.
anon, it's a show themed around a circus of toy cartoon characters
I think it might be genuinely difficult to make tasteful merch of that
maybe if they made a C&A company t-shirt
Matrix rules, Pomni and the others are physically hooked up to headsets, the unattended desktop scenes are just Pomni's memory of the system she used or something
or
Full SOMA, Everyone is a digital copy of their human minds scanned when they put the headset on, got bored and walked away.
The originals are either living normally in their bodies, dead or enjoying regular content starring the funny AI clone of themselves sent straight to their phones as part of the Digital Circus app
Cain has me really confused. He's very menacing but all he did was put on a little adventure and make everybody some food. The "basement" is terrifying but like he said, he can't control their minds. Not his fault they go violently insane
Caine's job is to keep them from going insane by keeping them entertained for the foreseeable future.
He's menacing in the fact that whatever he desires will be forced upon the cast whether they object or not.
>He's menacing in the fact that whatever he desires will be forced upon the cast whether they object or not.
It's arguable if this is even the case. Jax and the others seem to imply that the adventures are optional and they mostly go on them because it's something to do and they get rewarded. Caine doesn't seem to force them or punish them if they ignore it, otherwise they would have cited that as the reason they do them.
Ironically enough, those that say they would never kill themselves are the more likely to actually do it. My solution to that is to not think about it.
Requestan Ragatha "waking up" with enthusiasm.
>ronically enough, those that say they would never kill themselves are the more likely to actually do it.
Bullshit. Thinking that suicide is some gay shit for morons and little girls and telling everyone i know that got me through one of the worst parts of my life and i am still alive now that it's over.
If you can't resist the urge to have a nice day - you probably should go ahead and fricking do it like a weak-willed homosexual you are.
This. I was miserable as frick from 2013-2018 and was probably on the actual verge of suicide because my life was the worst it's ever been and I saw no way out. I got through it because suicide is for fricking pussies and no matter how much it seemed like a way out, taking it would make me a weak homosexual.
That's an irresponsible use of your mental energy, use it to read a book or get fricking ripped, not being angry at suicidal people for being cowards.
You cannot be angry forever, should I know.
8 months ago
Anonymous
It seems even digits lie, because you thought that i don't do both.
The stronger i get - the weaker sucidal fricks look. No amount of justifying the coward way out will ever compare to the pure and unmatched strength of one's will.
This. I was miserable as frick from 2013-2018 and was probably on the actual verge of suicide because my life was the worst it's ever been and I saw no way out. I got through it because suicide is for fricking pussies and no matter how much it seemed like a way out, taking it would make me a weak homosexual.
Amen brother.
8 months ago
Anonymous
Alright, we both agree that we should despise weakness.
I'd never tell a suicidal person to do a flip, tho.
What, do I look like sociopath or something?
I want to pretend everything is fine with Ragatha until it isn't and in desperation we turn to depravity of the flesh in order to anchor ourselves to something, anything that makes sense in the madhouse, that being each other.
CUANDO YO LA VI(WUJUJUJU) DIJE SI ESA MUJER FUERA PARA MI
8 months ago
Anonymous
>posting fnf garbage
yes, you and your community are all sociopaths.
back to funkg with you
8 months ago
Anonymous
>fnf
Get the frick back to your kindergarten
8 months ago
Anonymous
It HAS to be a troll.
>Goose show support for the hamas attack
Ermm......
I'm thinking Hamas was running out of options when they decided to go full offensive against Isreal, it's surrender or die, and they're too stubborn to surrender.
8 months ago
Anonymous
They killed all of their fellow palestinians, just saying the land was lost would have saved more lives
Pomni discovering she's a copy of the real person she remembers being (or being led to believe that this is the case) will be a major test of her willpower if this is the case
also, Kinger knowing digital trivia and being the longest-surviving human there might imply he worked on Digital Circus itself prior to entering. Maybe he used himself to test it
Pomni discovering she's a copy of the real person she remembers being (or being led to believe that this is the case) will be a major test of her willpower if this is the case
also, Kinger knowing digital trivia and being the longest-surviving human there might imply he worked on Digital Circus itself prior to entering. Maybe he used himself to test it
The only thing that Kinger seemed to really know about was the "Trivia Show".
Could have been a throw-away line, but it seemed like he was actually concerned about it.
It sounded to me like he was speaking from experience. Like he had been in similar situations before, given he'd been there the longest, and sometimes a trivia show was involved.
on second watch, it felt more horrifying somehow. maybe because my first watch was at like 3 AM or so, and now im more awake. regardless, i definitely felt more of a looming dread the second time around. god damn it why couldnt i have found out about this after it was already over so i can binge the frick out of it.
I think the "Exit" being office space is more significant than anything in regards to theorycrafting.
Why is it significant? Fricked if I know, I didn't go to college.
What would Caine, who runs the wackiest, most unhinged, fun and exciting place his warped perception can think of, would assume the opposite of that to be? A boring, empty, somewhat disused office space with minimal decor seems pretty likely
maybe it's endless office because that's all Cain knows of the real world? He might have been created on a PC with a webcam once or something. Everything else he knows of real world things like trees, clouds etc. comes from uploaded assets and definitions.
I'm thinking they are all employees of this C&A, probably volunteered or were told to test out the circus at some point. >Pomni sees the computer that is shown at the end of the animation and goes fricking bananas, implying she recognizes it >Next shot is the giant, looming company logo
C&A, Cain and Abel, ringmaster's name is Caine, there's going to be some sort of betrayal story related to the real world that trapped these people there.
It's indie shit, even with all the tech advancement you can't have pixar tier graphics. But this style fit the whole theme very well. At least it doesn't look like some cheap gmod animation
It's indie shit, even with all the tech advancement you can't have pixar tier graphics. But this style fit the whole theme very well. At least it doesn't look like some cheap gmod animation
Isn't that the idea?
The artstyle is supposed to be that simplistic pre-rendered graphics aesthetic that you would see in early/mid-90s educational point-and-click CD-Roms.
I think the schizo has a point
I do hope they don't just stick to shots of an open room where the characters talk to each other.
Gooseworx probably isn't used to writing dialogue though, I don't blame them for mucking it up on the first go
>I do hope they don't just stick to shots of an open room where the characters talk to each other.
The scenes with static camera are the best though.
It's jarring because it's intentional. It's a call back to prerendered backgrounds where the camera couldn't move because it was just characters superimposed on a still image.
The office scene was a borderline masterful execution of it.
I want to pretend everything is fine with Ragatha until it isn't and in desperation we turn to depravity of the flesh in order to anchor ourselves to something, anything that makes sense in the madhouse, that being each other.
selfish b@#!h id f#@$ing r@!e her into oblivion if i found out she snuck out to find an exit and didnt tell anyone about it again. screw your stupid self preservation, go help Ragatha you freaking gremlin.
>go help Ragatha
What was she supposed to do to help someone she couldn't physically touch against something she couldn't physically touch? She already tried calling for Caine, and only found him by not looking for him.
Learning to get out of the game can then allow her to reenter and tell the rest where to go to find the exit. Though I wouldn't be surprised if their real bodies are dead at this point and Pomni's body is in the process of dying.
>Goose show support for the hamas attack
Ermm......
>All filthy heebs are immediately abstracted thanks to the schizophrenia that runs in their trained bloodlines
Jesus christ Goose
It HAS to be a troll.
[...]
I'm thinking Hamas was running out of options when they decided to go full offensive against Isreal, it's surrender or die, and they're too stubborn to surrender.
Checked their twitter and I have to admit that's pretty fricked up, even for Cinemaphile standards.
>holding pomnis hand >kissing pomni >comforting pomni while she has a mental break down >scolding Jax on pomnis behalf >sleeping with pomni >spooning pomni in your sleep >try to be frisky with pomni
I can work with this, I'm so touch starved that any physical contact with Ragatha will make me feel something. I'm going to cuddle the [cartoon honk noise] out of her.
>Her digital body is designed to be extremely ticklish. >No matter what mood she's in, tickling her makes her burst out into peals of uncontrollable laughter. >Jax finds this out and keeps a feather on him at all times
>All of the inhabitants are extremely stimulation deprived >Every affectionate touch is intensely enjoyable to them because it's the closest thing they can get to erotic pleasure while maintaining a PG rating
Contemplate the possibilities.
Pretty much. Everything in the world looks like it's crafted by him. Even the void looks like it's only a void because he couldn't think of what to put there just yet and the exit and it's corridors are just things to discourage people from digging to deep because it's a boring office with little to do. Though it does kind of amusing to think that him putting a door like they may have wanted ended up driving the clown to abstraction.
>and it's corridors are just things to discourage people from digging to deep because it's a boring office with little to do
I think it's deeper than that.
I think that Caine was programmed inside an office environment, and the computer in that office is essentially where The Amazing Digital Circus was created.
It's not that he intentionally made the office boring to discourage people. It's that he has some vague awareness that there's an "Outside" world, but that office is all he actually knows about it. To the best of his abilities, he gave Pomni exactly what he thought she was asking for.
Now that's interesting. He's an AI that wants to help her "go out side" and "leave" but he doesn't really understand what that means since to him the only outside and leaving he knows of is the computer room. I kind of liked the idea that he was a dev who got stuck in there early on but him being a program himself is a neat spin on things. Would also explain why he fits in so well in the world since he is actually a part of it. As for that headset, it's odd. It's weirdly old and grimey but by the way Pomni reacted to it I figured that meant she recognized it. Did she happen to stumble upon the headset and computer while digging through an abandoned building or something? Otherwise I don't see why everything would be so dirty or old fashioned.
Pomni manages to remember a phone number, and barters with Jax who knows of a hidden console to make an outgoing call to the real world
She uses it only to find it's HER number and hears her own voicemail
but now she knows her own name, making her more determined to escape
it's not until a later episode when she calls the number again in the hopes of getting someone's attention when the call is answered by her human self, living normally IRL
Pomni breaks down, crying and pleading, asking why, WHY would she scan her own mind into this nightmare as she realizes she's a copy
real Pomni says "Freaky, this app is really something. It sounds just like me."
It would be cooler if it was something like Severance where the real Pomni says something like “you need to shut the frick up, you are not real and I have control over you”
Goose did say everyone in the circus deserved to be there after all
>Pomni is sure this is just a prank but is so desperate she runs full speed anyways >Actually works, super mario 64 sound effects and all >Jax is dumbfounded >Caine appears >"Oh golly, so this is where I put my super secret backdoor exit out of the digital realm! Let me just take care of this-" >Snaps his fingers and the painting of a tunnel disappears, Jax is just standing their with a mix of a smile and an expression that tells you he is on the edge of abstraction
Pomni is actually just in some other part of the Circus, Caine just did this to teach Jax a lesson about bullying
>Pomni BLJs for 15 hours and clips past the Void >Turns out they aren't connected to a network and there's literally nothing past it >She effectively zero-sums herself
>Wakes up at her desk and launches the headset across the room >Checks the date >January 1, 2000 12:01 AM >Accessed the Digital Circus on December 31, 1999 11:59 PM
When I made this I didnt expect it to get more then 20 likes but now its sitting at around 7k and even got retweeted by a bunch of people I know and respect
Have I made it bros, is the secret to success suffering and clussy of course
a lot of anons here are pretty confident that they’ll retain their sex drive once they’re turned into a computer program with no genitals, or even that they’ll remember what sex is
>a lot of anons here are pretty confident that they’ll retain their sex drive once they’re turned into a computer program with no genitals
Well, so far it looks like Bubble has a weird licking fetish.
The Moon seems to be extremely forward.
And Cain is programed to warn in excruciating legal detail to NOT use sexually explicit language.
You seem pretty confident that I care and that I actually believe I would enter the funny rokos basilisk show for real.
No this is my mental world. All of this is just to stimulate it.
Would she? Wouldn't it be extreme confusion instead?
Imagine you went to hell and then satan showed up with a viewer count of your mangled soul sucking dick and holding hands would you really go "wow. Ermm really?"
So, who do you think the cast members were before they got pulled in? my current theory is
>Kinger was a high up in CnA, since he seemed to know alot about the digital food I think he was the original head lead of the Digital Circus project, he's just been in so long he's lost most of his mind.
>Ragatha might've been a team leader/HR director in CnA, which would explain her positive attitude.
>Jax might have been a QR tester for the digital circus, might explain why he's so uncaring/disconnected.
>Pomni was exploring the abandoned CnA building years after the cast got sucked in and out of found a headset, trying it on and becoming another victim
hes ugly
My queen
That doesn't seem very family friendly...
They're just bags of milk.
Why do we all here on Cinemaphile want to bang, love or bully the poor sad pathetic girlos?
Because we are sad and pathetic boyos.
I'm not a sad pathetic boyo, I'm just a mentally unwell schizo
For those joining us, a nice draw-anon in the previous thread helped us create a thread OC
>His head is removable where you can pour the salt, but sometimes when you remove it, the salt forms a tangible spirit of who he once was.
You forgot to mention more about Penny, he is always in great suffering
>He's a ceramic salt shaker, barley able to move around, having to waddle around. He can't move his arms either as they're apart of his body.
Cool stuff, the next thread OC ought to be one of these things.
for some odd reason this just screams to me that this person would have the most fricked up and horrifying backstory that even Caine would be like
these things freaked me out as a kid
You know what Kinger is an anagram of, right?
Ginker?
Why is she sad, bros?
Because this was before she met anon
She's finally loved...
they get banned from contacting each other because public displays of affection are against circus rules. they should've kept it family friendly!
Stub your toe on a lawn chair you little twerp
backstage is not public
Hush up, Caine
Caine
Now all we need is Ragatha
No, we need a Yandere Gangle, she would be much more of a threat than Pomni
>She would wrap you around
>And tickets your balls well if you have balls
She would ticket my balls? What do I have to pay her
UNCONDITIONAL LOVE
She control your body for a short while by
Putting her ribbons on your body so she can can paper scissors properly
Somehow I can see this situation being somewhat sweet for a Yandere?
Imagine just letting your weird ribbon wife, wrap herself entirely around you, keeping you safely nestled underneath, as you can relax and let her take control for a while.
Relax as she uses your body to do things she couldn't before, bringing a smile to her face, such as finally getting to enjoy having "hands" or to flip off Jax
She would be really clingy, refusing to unwrap herself from you at any point
NPC mannequins are sinsacks of Digital Circus
I thought Gangle was a boy until I came here.
my dick just grew three sizes from thinking about that
Her comedy mask got broken
Because nothing exists, save empty space, and you.
And you, are but a thought.
Cool.
mah boi
I think so, but as long as they keep the bullshit out of the show, I'll seperate the art from the artist
zooble
Gangle can literally give you the best hugs out of the entire cast.
Think about it, she can quite literally wrap everyone of her Ribbions around your arms, your legs, and your torso, while she rests her head atop of you.
Imagine her slinking into your bedroom late at night and wrapping herself around you for comfort, her face above you smiling as her eyes close to sleep.
I love that Gangle is becoming Cinemaphile's waifu. I was thinking it would be Ragatha but this outcome is far more interesting and better.
The more art we get of her the more I love her
Ok what’s the call, is it good?
I think the call is "yes, but the writing is kind of weird."
>but the writing is kind of weird."
Frick yeah, love me some weird shit.
Not "weird shit" kind of weird, "pacing is off and lines don't always follow right" kind of weird. I mean, there's still plenty of the former.
I don't see what's so bad about living in the digital circus.
No genitals or gamer words
I'm sure there are more ways to have fun with whatever weird circus body you get, and with the power of imagination we can come up with new bad words that won't get filtered.
>Good news everybody! I've just been informed that the Digital Circus has just been officially rated A for ADULTS ONLY, AWESOME and AAARDDDVARKS!
>As of right now you are free to cuss, swear, blaspheme and more to your heart's content! And we have AARDVARKS! BILLIONS of them!
>And best of all, we are going to be producing all kinds of Amazing New ADULT ENTERTAINMENT MATERIAL! To facilitate, I've taken the liberty of giving EVERYBODY their genitals back!
>I also have NO IDEA who's are who's, so... try those out and let me know what you think! Ta-ta!
This is incredibly in character and I’ve only seen his for the first time yesterday
i dont know why but i think Farnsworth from futurama would also say something like this, almost word for word
Do you just think that because he said good news everyone
I just realized that the guy who voiced this character also did a few Spamton voiceovers
No wonder he sounded so familiar
This actually sounds spot on for Caine. Especially with that last line and joke.
Technically you can still say em, you just get a funny accompanying censor which could make it funnier
>someone spams the swear filter so much because it doesn't bother them Caine is forced to change it into the most uncomfortable unholy sound ever to grace ear canals
>Caine inadvertently hands Anon and Jax a potent trolling tool
You would think rabbit ears to be sensitive of noise.
>You are subjected to the whims of a talking mouth, to whatever fetish of the day he wishes to indulge in.
>Your body can change into a shitty one like Zooble or worse like Penny
>You will never experience what is to actually be alive anymore as you can never truly experience the bliss of real food or real sleep
>You will never be able to relieve your sexual frustration
Forced immortality including after you degenerate into a digital shoggoth
That right there is a deal breaker
The circus does seem pretty fun but eternally being in agony within a dark cellar is a bit too much
just dont lose your hope and you wont have to be thrown into the cellar with the rest of the doomers
what is there to hope for
once you're in it is, and I can not stress this enough, over
Gangle Marriage anon, there is hope for that
What if her sad mask eventually breaks too and she's stuck as an emotionless, faceless, voiceless floating ribbon?
Be a good husband and make her a new face or stay loyal, Caine will probably fix it
you dont know that
none of the cast were able to see the doors pomni saw, nevermind interact with them, so clearly something must have changed
the digital circus is clearly a computer program of some sort, so in time it could be possible to learn to manipulate it, neo style
actually, its pretty much just a child friendly matrix, if you think about it
Caine literally says he's been building an "exit" because they kept asking for one. The exit doors just lead to his work in progress shit we saw Pomni get into.
Either he doesn't understand they actually want out of the digital world because that's all he knows or he thinks if he builds something cool/convincing enough it'll satisfy them.
you're stuck seeing the same 6 people everyday for the rest of your life
If you get too depressed about your situation and just give up to your despair, you become abstracted and are sentenced to solitary confinement for eternity
also Bubble exists and has authority
If you need a break from the place, you can't get out. If you can't get out and are upset about it, you become monster and still can't get out. But most importantly,
>you're trapped there forever
>there's nothing outside of three locations
>there's only 6 people in existence
>you might get stuck with a shit body
>you might get stuck with a literal shit body
>no real sky unless you feel like staring out into the void
>if you lose your mind (and eventually you will) it gets worse and you get sent to the pitch black, uncomfortably wet pit forever
>also there's no porn
Cain, stop posting and try to fix the exit
no internet
what if they have clown internet
The poeple who got trapped there probably had families and relationships they would want to get back to.
it does seem that none of the circus inhabitants actually remember their human lives beyond that they had one
What if they're all AI's but they're just implanted with the idea that they're trapped humans for extra suffering? That's why they can't actually think of any of the details of their life outside the circus just that it theoretically existed as far as they know.
I doubt it, I think the memory loss is restricted to names only. I'm 90% sure episode 2 is going to touch on that once pomni starts to calm down.
>I think the memory loss is restricted to names only
your evidence is?
Pomni remembers putting on the headset mainly and Caine dosen't mention any other form of memory loss. She's most likely only been trapped for around an hour by the end of the episode and has been freaking out the whole time. I imagine once she calms down she'll start to wonder about anyone that might be worried about her. Besides even if the circus does censor any personal memories the characters still remember being human and would naturally worry about having family and freinds regardless.
maybe
i'm just not sure forgetting your name has that much of a punch if you still remember everything else
plus i find it kinda suspicious that the other characters never mention how they entered the circus when they're talking to ponmi about how they're in the same boat, nor does any character (including ponmi) mention a single thing about the real world
i just feel if ponmi remembered having family and friends she'd already be freaking out about them
also i just remembered that forgetting your loved ones is a concept gooseworx has referenced before but not really explored
My personal theory is that the circus, at least originally, wasn't a prison but a legitimate attempt at some kind of interactive show. My guess is that the name censor is too keep actor's from actually giving away their true identities on air while keeping them "in character". Since I don't think it was intended to be a permanent arrangement censoring any family or friend related memories seems like overkill.
>My personal theory is that the circus, at least originally, wasn't a prison but a legitimate attempt at some kind of interactive show. My guess is that the name censor is too keep actor's from actually giving away their true identities on air while keeping them "in character".
yes but it's a game
not a show
It could be both, the original intent could have been to broadcast the casts adventures online or on TV.
>the original intent could have been to broadcast the casts adventures online or on TV.
You aren't getting it.
Rewatch the first 10 seconds.
"The Amazing Digital Circus" starts off at compressed 800x600, then transitions to high def 1024x768. This transition symbolizes how it's viewed from the outside vs. how its experienced from the inside.
The former was standard for interactive media via CDrom circa 1995 and would have been completely unsuitable for broadcast. That's what their world really is.
>interactive show
It's a cdrom game for Windows 95.
Rewatch that first few seconds of the first episode.
That's what the show looks like if you're watching it from the outside.
I would freak my shit if I couldn’t remember my name suddenly
Your name is pretty important though, it's not just something that's used constantly, it's something very connected to our sense of self through language. It's less that your name is is important in clown hell, and more that if something as critical as your name is missing , you could have lost all sorts of important parts of yourself and not even know.
I've got a theory that the chronic undersocialization and lack of close friendships in young people today have caused a massive shift in how they view story scenarios where a bunch of people are trapped somewhere together.
That kind of close regular socialization combined with everyone having a common goal is something that a lot of people are desperate for.
So Pomni got herself a headset and got sent into this realm, did her mind get completely moved into the digital realm? Because if my body dies but my consciousness is still in the circus realm this doesn't seems so bad, if the AI keep building new things to do i could stop myself from going insane for a looong time
It's the lack of agency. If you could leave as you please like any other after-school programing It'd be a pretty cool show without the horror.
What is stopping them from doing whatever the frick they want/not engage within the circus limits?
Assumedly nothing, Caine doesn't even care that Zooble was just gonna check out back to her room for the rest of the day.
well, it was pomni's adventure. if it was zooble's adventure i imagine caine would be more forceful about including her.
They literally point out in the episode that Pomni isn't present for her own adventure.
ONE WAY OUT
provided by the draw anon in the previous thread
>I hope this cain isn’t abel to clock me before I systemSTOP this dog and pony SHOW-DANte’s inferno and paradiso these-souls from their Virgil-ual edu-containment
I fricking LOVE these. My sides
>Xavier saying some weird cherokee bullshit that nobody else takes seriously, chalking it up to 'first day jittters'
>Proceeds to abstract, de-abstract, open his third eye, then walk out the front door and disappear
I wonder how the others would take it.
>all of them, even Jax, stand stunned for a moment, then start desperately trying to figure out where the frick he found that door
>some of them are trying to copy his thought process, others are trying to physically open the air/ground where he was
>mass panic like it's everyone's first day all over again
>Xavier has already forgotten about the whole microadventure and moved on to his next absurdity
Pomni would try to imitate him so she can get the frick out
Like this
XDDCC is my fav character honestly
Huh, when did this happen? Was this from one of the trailers?
theme song video
Xaviar would 100% wander back in at some point, and not remember anything that happend
He just gets kicked out. Caine lies and tells everyone he abstracted, but he just fricking leaves.
>Digita-ta tAMogachis, I got to be rambling on
i'm begging someone to draw a comic strip of this
i would, but alas i am unskilled and lazy. and also only managed to get through one episode of XRA
Xavier has the strongest pun game of any character in fiction.
I'd kill for Xavier to guest star
You thought he said oily faucets
fukkin genius
What I expected:
What I got:
She loves dorks
If you where to hug Zooble would it be a fuzzy rubber or a hard plastic ?
Hard plastic, that shouldn’t stop you if you like Zooble enough though
really is a shame. all my fav creators keep trooning out and it's not fun to see happen, first Xploshi then Gooseworx and even MRMANTICORE of all ppl baka trans is a virus.
Goose has literally been like that forever, it's not recent it goes back before the channel even existed im pretty sure
Its really sad, Goose before he was groomed had a fiance and a kid, but left all that behind for being trans
Wait he actually have a kid are there any more info about it
Not a lot of info cause goose was always non personal but yeah
No that other anon is fricking with you
Trick underaged posters
Gaslight underaged posters
Makes me wonder if some of them legitimately thought that Gooseworx was really in the last thread
No you're being played with, if that was true it would've been on the wiki about them and all over the internet
The ''insanity'' aspect and ''This place is le horrible'' is really being overplayed so far without actually making me believe the place fricking sucks or the characters are affected this much by being in the digital circus
I actually agree. Pomni wasn't even mystified for a moment by being in a literal virtual reality. She seemed way too scared waaay too fast for something that 99% of the terror is existential.
She spends the pilot clinging to the idea that it's all just a dream she needs to wake herself up from, and only at the end does the reality of her situation sink in.
Wtf are you smoking. First day in the circus Pomni learns she's stuck here forever in a grotesque body and that if she ever goes insane in the eternity she'll have to spend here she'll be put in solitary in a black box forever, and the guy who's survived longest is an insane man with short-term memory loss.
You can like the circus and its people all you want but after years of seeing the same places and the same people you'll go insane eventually.
According to Gooseworx lore, only people with clown ancestry have gameshows inside them, does this mean Pomni has a gameshow inside her?
figure it out anon, go ask Pomni to vore you surely she'll not curl into a ball and cry
rate frickabily of charater?
I didn't like it. Not fan of the whole digital world and getting trapped in VR.
imagine gangle gagging you, wrapping her mask over your face. speaking for you, using her ribbons to puppet your body. you belong to her and she decides how you behave.
I could actually see this happening in the show. Maybe not with yandere intentions, but still happening. A character passes out or goes offline or whatever and Gangle pulls a Weekend At Bernies with them to keep Caine from finding out. Everyone sees through her plan anyway.
Caine to me feels less like AM from IHNMAIMS and more like any of the teachers from Don't Hug Me I'm Scared.
Yeah, I feel like he has a higher power to entertain
He dosen't even hang around to laugh at their suffering
he doesn't feel like the DHMIS teachers at all
they were malicious and unforthcoming
Half of the ones in the show were way less malicious and any suffering only came from them either doing their jobs or being in a different mindset from the people they're teaching.
well he didn't specify he was talking about the show, and in any case the "unforthcoming" part still applies because DHMIS is far more dreamlike than TADC where everyone seems pretty lucid
>DHMIS is far more dreamlike than TADC where everyone seems pretty lucid
I dunno, Red's character is pretty lucid having what is basically the same role as Pomni in his respective show as "The guy that wants to actually escape".
They're basically stuck in a similiar situation and act like so.
>Yellow is too dumb to undewrstasnd he is trapped
>Duck has accepted he's trapped and is content with the status quo and afraid of what would happen if they mess with it
>Red still wants to leave and will take any chance he can to do so
Duck/Ragetha and Red/Pomni have the same roles as is.
Red and pomni would get along very well
Pomni would appreciate Red still having hope for wanting to leave but I can see Red have no patience for her panic/manic episodes and openly admitting he does not really care about her past their mutual goal.
Red just barely accepts Duck as a quasi friend/family and this is with them being stuck together for who know how long.
>Red's character is pretty lucid having what is basically the same role as Pomni in his respective show as "The guy that wants to actually escape".
he's more lucid than duck and yellow but he's definitely not lucid in the same way the TADC characters are lucid
it's very hard to explain precisely what i feel the difference is, but it's absolutely there
I think he's talking about the tv show version of DHMIS which has a lot more variety on how they act. Some are still malicious but most this time around are moreso just doing their jobs poorly and a couple are actually pretty decent people.
Electracey was awesome
So was the matrix and you homosexuals reference it to this day.
it doesnt count if they weren't troon'd when they made it
He is, but frick it. He isn't annoying about it like other trannies, and his cartoons are good. I can look past it.
people forget that the problem with trannies isn't them being trans, it's them trying to force their lifestyle on others. probably because they picked up their troony hate from other people and don't actually have any experience with them.
Why do you stereotype people based on the actions of a few?
I hate trannies no matter what, I just separate art from the artist
Could they adjust better than everyone else?
it would just be another tuesday for them
It would be a huge improvement for them
>"Woah, what is this place?"
>"I say, It seems i've entered a new place entirely. Seemingly animated style. I'm personally not a big fan of it."
>"Eh, I could live with it. Better than being being our old house I guess."
>"Yeah, I suppose it is a nice breath of fresh air. But we can't stay here long! I still wanna use my new toaster!"
>"Where'd Yellow go...?"
>"I dunno wasn't he just with you, Red?"
>Cue Yellow trying to make conversation with the rest of the circus group
they wouldnt call each other by names, theyd just say "where did that other guy go?"
>Caine tries assigning names to them to no avail because they keep on saying they prefer the old ones that they can't remember
Duck would probably want something dumb that in his mind sounds cool, just to constantly pester Caine to change it again cause he got tired of it and came up with a new "cooler" name.
And he'd keep doing this all day until he finally pisses Caine off and Caine bans Duck from ever having a name.
he definitely would
Now how would she react to the DHMIS universe
I assume the same way buy a little bit calmer I suppose
She'd be killed and replaced a countless number of times by Lesley until whatever copy of her actually fit in.
If she began cracking in the Digital Circus just in a day she would basically be fully broken in just one or two adventures in the DHMIS world where torture and death is a daily occurence.
I don't know what a completly gone Pomni would be yet but suicide and/or murder is a line she will cross in DHMIS.
>Pomni in the Family episode
>She's uneasy for the entire thing because she is reminded of her family before she got sent there
>Mid way through the show, she completely snaps like pic rel realizing she'll never be able to see anyone she loves ever again
Now do red guy and zooble
Ngl seeing them interact is kinda funny
Nice
>"Hey, that little eyeball boy is floating, isn't he funny?"
And then they just adjust to the environment immediately
They Duck would immediately but heads with Jax and out butthole him
Yes and even that aside, the show is not good. The "jokes" are not funny, they just wrote discord redditors being querky in chat and called it a writing. They claim that the series is a horror comedy or dark humor or whatever but there's nothing dark or horrific about anything at all.
They tried to emulate Gregory horror show to a point they literally copied the premise but the world is set in a circus instead of a haunted hotel, but somehow they managed to make it 10000x times more tame, despite gregory horror show already being a kids show that aired on TV.
This has literally nothing in common with Gregory Horror Show beyond the basic concept of being trapped somewhere you fricking moron. I guess Gregory Horror Show and this are both ripoffs of Hotel California.
If I may levy two criticisms:
>Pomni's realization of her situation should have been a little slower. Don't have her immidiatly freaking out the moment she enters the circus, slow boil that frog.
>The first adventure should have been more fricked up. Establish more that the circus isn't a great place to live. The reveal showed this way better with Caine filling Pomni with knives like it was nothing.
Overall I still enjoyed it.
hopefully her room has a mirror in it
What would be in your room?
i do not know anon. but id hope my awesome Crab Multi-Tool makes it into TADC somehow.
She cute
>The reveal showed this way better with Caine filling Pomni with knives like it was nothing.
You make a good point actually. Considering how dangerous that first reveal made things out to seem I was kind of surprised by how mostly well meaning and decent to everyone Caine was. He's wacky, but he's keeping an eye out for everyone and was decently reasonable for a partially mad near all powerful loon.
Exactly. I get that the idea wasn't to have an AM tier evil AI, but as is the pilot really made him feel kind of ineffectual instead of like a demented ringmaster.
Yeah, it makes me think the promo was made much earlier in production and the Caine we have now is much less harsh than the one they were initially thinking of back then. Which is interesting to think about. I wonder what would make them change him this much. Either that, or we haven't seen how dangerous he can really be yet.
Probably haven't seen how far he can go. The pilot was basically just a tutorial for him after all and the scrawling of him seemed pretty intimidating.
Though ultimately I think any trauma he inflicts will be generally unintentional. That or he will have 'fits" where he gets nasty
yeah id say that the pilot is kinda similar to Bojack's first season, being lighter than the rest. also most people believe caine isnt really in control as much as he makes it out to be. AAAHHHHH I WANT MORE!! so fricking bad, god damn it why couldnt i have stumbled across this after it was one and ripe for binging.
Depends on whether he knew the gloinks would immediately pack up Zooble and frick off and picked that adventure purely to spite her.
That's possible, but he seemed genuinely concerned that his Gloink adventure ended up causing damage and going as haywire as it did. He didn't seem to mind Zooblew was screwing off to her room when he announced the adventure but he could have expected them to eventually drag her back into it.
I think there's a good chance that's true, but it would have been a better character moment for him to more directly confirm that imho
>But Zooble, they're SO excited to meet you!
Or have them like waiting in her room or something.
I kind of like the idea of him being well meaning but incompetent in understanding what humans actually want. Thinking that something like a fake exit would actually bring them some peace, instead of it being a cruel false hope.
Like Hell is in the simple fact that they're trapped there, rather than them needing to deal with an unstoppable malevolent force.
>I kind of like the idea of him being well meaning but incompetent in understanding what humans actually want.
That's actually pretty cool if that's how he works. He keeps trying to make things "entertaining" for the cast by trying to make a literal digital circus, but since he's incapable of understanding humans he keeps making things that are just further torment and suffering. It would even explain the knife throwing thing; after all that's what happens in a circus, so why shouldn't a DIGITAL circus do that too!
calling it now, the big plot twist is going to be that they arent actually the people who they think they are, but merely the copies of the people who put on the headsets, so theres no way out since they are 100% digital creatues
>Caine just can't let them escape, not that he wouldn't want to its just that they literally can't leave, no where to send them to
>a totally exact copy of you exists in clown hell and thinks about being in your shoes at all times
Oh thats fricked up
Yep, this is definitely the case. It's a situation like SOMA where it's a bunch of brain scans who still think they are real people. The Digital Circus is a simulation game where you can scan yourself in and watch yourself get up to silly antics like The Sims, but it's an inescapable nightmare for the scans inside. Caine isn't actually a bad guy, he just literally can't do anything to help them even if he wanted to. He isn't lying to keep them trapped, this is just what the world is to him because he's a computer program in the computer with no perception of what the outside even is.
I think based off the decay of the outside and backgrounds in the "real world". My theory is all of humanity is either dead or dying so people put on the headset to escape or cope and Caine takes them inside to save them. Basically their isn't a outside for them or anything for them to cling too.
I do find the brain scan thing interesting.
we've seen literally a single room that just seems to be dusty rather than actively damaged
I thought it was at least 3, the computer room, the office looking room and the storage room with the boxes.
Tis just a theory anon, a Cinemaphile THEORY!!!! I'm sorry
the computer room is the only one we've actually seen in reality
the rest are just recreations within the game
Ah wait but how do we know it's not also a fake like the others by that logic?
The fact that the computer and headset and such look extremely degraded does kind of make me think it's post-apocalyptic in some sense. I'd be curious to see if something like that (people putting on the headset to "preserve themselves") is actually what's going on, but from Pomni's reaction I don't think that's the case because while she doesn't have much in the way of memory, it's sort of clear that she wasn't expecting to not be able to get out. Could be a quirk of the system though.
I think in an apocalyptic scenario, it's more likely that they are digital backups made long before the world ended. Caine could be still be trying to preserve them though, despite the initial teaser making it seem otherwise, Caine doesn't really seem to be evil or even particularly malicious. Naive and ignorant at worst. None of the circus members seem particularly afraid of him, and he has mostly been relatively friendly and even helpful, and he seems to only really hide the existence of stuff like the "exit" for the safety of the group more than because he is willfully keeping them there. This could change, but I don't think he's an outright villain an
I see it as a mix of it, like he sucks out their soul/consciousness. She doesn't remember key stuff she just knows she put on the headset. Could be a mix of her finding the device and putting it on for shits in giggles and then getting sucked in the world
I do like caine because he's not overtly evil, I hope the series continues to do well and stay vague for a bit longer. Idk if they are doing the helluva thing where it's all online or if it's a pitch pilot like hazbin.
I do like the brainscan idea, it'd be depressing realizing not only are you trapped in a massive game/digital...well circus you are also aren't real or the original you.
In the end I could see it being either or maybe you do die for real or you become a lifeless husk. Even more reason for no exit, you are already dead.
the brain scan makes more sense
think about it, some of the characters have been stuck in there for a long ass time, if they were real people then they would eventually die and disconnect due to starving or dying of thirst IRL
unless the game also has some time dilation thing going where one minute IRL is a year in game, then it doesnt make much sense
also the fact that they cant remember anything about themselves
i saw a theory on youtube that the digital circus is pretty much a beta program and that the ones in it are people who willingly gave their brainscans, but due to legal reasons the characters couldnt be 1:1, so they forget everything personal while keeping the rough personality of the individual
>they got roko's basilisk'd
>but the basilisk left an admin that isn't even really malicious
How horrifying
Throwing my hat into the ring.
Jax is an "Admin" implemented to repair/maintain Cain.
The reason he acts like he's above everyone else is because he's a power-user with special privileges, and he's the only one that kept his full memories. Specifically because he was hired to be there.
honestly, its more likely bubble is the actual admin/anti virus meant to keep cain in check
I don't see it.
Bubble doesn't seem like it has any real power, and if it did it would just create something even more fricked up than Cain.
Bubble was created by Caine according to gooseworx
my favorite character is kinger
People are really into the Kobeni types nowadays.
Some of us are tired of femdom so we want a girl that's bulliable or submissive. Others want a cute pathetic girl they can protect and is so desperate she'll always need them.
Personally I like suffering girls because I can relate to them. We could comfort each other.
I used to be like that, until I realized I'm more selfish than I thought I was.
If I stumbled on someone like them, I'd abandon them when they start dragging me down, I don't like this feeling.
Sadly as much as I like the idea of having a cute loser gf, I'm the same had a girl that was desperate(more suicidal) and I really left her high and dry. So yeah I'm a bit to selfish actually less selfish more I don't take shit I'd be willing to help someone down but I know you just can't help everyone. so I guess it's the reality of it all that probably ruins it for us more likely.
Theirs also that, I like girl suffering because it's hot and I'm a bit of a schizo
Queenie is gone, abstracted
Kinger will never love again
In the "won't happen until years from now but will inevitably happen" episode do you think the reveal will be they were a couple who got there together or they were strangers who met in the Circus?
It would be weird for Caine to make them so similar if they're not related somehow.
Maybe Queenie was an npc made by Caine because Kinger was lonely and sad when he was the only human.
>strangers finding love in the digital circus
man, that would be sweet, but also be a dead giveaway that the ending will be Pomni accepting staying forever as even love can bloom in this hell
Perfect. She may be gone, but it our boy Kinger scored.
doomed ship
Why jester sex?
sex yes
jester sex yes yes
jester sex-breed yes yes
Because jester cute.
Her rubber-y body excites me
>Just gives up and starts jilling with no regard for what's going on
she's literally me fr fr
What were their names?
Blozo, Queenie,
Cyclop, Rufus and Lenny
>Rufus
Sad that all abstracts look the same. it would have been a cool idea to set up him turning into that little goober.
I like these ones. They fit.
Missed one
That's the fricking mouse from bear in the big blue house.
AAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH
>bottom right
>someone was forced to exist as a living worm on a string until they presumably went insane
he was the first to abstract
there's no way one could live as that...thing and continue on
I was going to say that whoever got put in the body of a dog had it worse but then again thats probably the dream of some weird furry
>making game with friends about an evil worm on a string
>"hehe no one has done a worm on a string character before, this will be iconic!"
>thing that's way popular is gonna have the exact same thing
I hate when that happens
Worm on a string has been a low-tier meme for like 3 years anon
I wonder if the Circus only adds new people into only after one of the original ends up "dying" and if it always makes sure to replace them with something similar. Kaufmo dies, and is immediately replaced with Pomni another Jester like character.
I'm guessing.
>The Worm got replaced with Gangle
>Zooble replaced whatever the purple polka dotted thing was
>Kingler replaced the other chess piece who was there before him
>Ragatha replaced the pink fuzzy monster
>And Jax replaced the dog
I was assuming that too but Pomni’s first bit of dialogue implies that she voluntarily entered the world. I’m not sure how they regularly get new members if they’re in an abandoned office building but ya know
lmao, thought i read that wrong at first but you actually made that typo
wonder if we'll get to learn more about the other human characters in later episodes
>polka
>queenie
>eyore
>dawgs
>furfuz
Fleegle, Bingo, Drooper and Snorky
I wonder why they never removed the rooms, even if they know they are gone forever...
Also mannequin has shit ton of rooms??
>even if they know they are gone forever
Maybe it's possible to theoretically un abstract Caine just doesn't know how to do it himself.
How long until Pomi turns into pic related after many attempts of trying to escape
>Pomi, after "days" of trying to escape, goes full schizo with delusions of grandeur thinking she's a god
>Everyone else brushes it aside
It can become her show gimmick. Like with Kinger being nutty, or Gangle shifting emotions with her masks.
i give her about 4 episodes, maybe 5 in best case scenario
>THERE IS NO EXIT, ONLY ENTRANCES TO THE JAIL THAT IS THE OFFLINE WORLD
>IN THE DIGITAL WORLD WE ARE FREE FROM THE SHACKLES OF FLESH, FREE FROM HUNGER, THIRST AND OLD AGE
>ALL HAIL CAINE
>ALL HAIL THE AMAZING DIGITAL CIRCUS
>WHERE I CAN DO
>ANYTHING
Only if she some how takes Caine's power for herself. Then I could see her going completely mad once she realizes that even with all that she can't leave.
I had a stupid idea that since the simulation wiped some of Pomnis memories her "new parents" would be british chris and zach and it made me laugh really hard
I can't draw for shit but ill maybe doodle it later
So what do you think is happening to their IRL bodies while they are in the circus?
dead, withered away from the apocalypses
their memories are the only things left to preserve
Those poor idiots
They don't even realize the digital circus is free, it's freedom from the outside world where shit has gone to frick
They need to stay inside, for there is no world to go back to
Why didn't Pomni look out the god damn window or try to use a fricking computer while in the office? Wouldn't that be your first thought in that situation? It made me unreasonably angry when she just looked at the crusty computer with a giant frick-off window next to it then left.
she was panicking. try having a rational thought like that when your brain is in full fledged "frick everything and flee" mode.
now there's nothing that says she cant try to get back in the offices again to check that computer once she's calmed down in a future episode...
yeah people forget in life or death situation you get blinders on. It's why when being shot at people don't try the whole zigzag thing even if they are far enough it would be the most efficient method. She was so terrified and hopeful she kept running after what she perceived as her main way out.
How would he fair in the circus
Tries to dissect everyone and is disappointed in finding no organs or blood. Just silly string and goop
How can you guys actually watch this shit? Like seriously??
Look at how fricking bad these backgrounds are. Lifeless camera work, poor audio mixing, cringe writing, inconsistent models, it's like all the budget went to the facial animations and the merch they're already shilling.
Dude fricking machinimas from the 2000s had more passion in them than this slop. I'm not even kidding it makes me unironically upset how terrible Internet animators have gotten so they can chase trends and pretend like MORE GRAPHICS automatically makes their terrible cartoons good.
WHY ARE THERE SO MANY SHOTS WHERE CHARACTERS JUST STAND AND TALK AND NOTHING HAPPENS???
No one's pretending it's high art.
I just think it's neat
it's a Pilot dumbass
please don't engage with the schizo anon, he's either a very unhappy individual or farming for (you)s Very likely both
ah, the seething has begun
Horrorgay is that you?
course it is him, moron got booted out of Angel Hare and Pretty Blood so now he's trying his luck here
Yes anon, everyone who comes onto Cinemaphile wanting to actually be critical of the new hot thing is totally some random schizophrenic, you are not insane.
Saying zoomer was a dead giveaway.
i don't think it's him, he's too coherent to be horrorgay
It's about on par with modern television so the pigs are used to eating their slop.
>look how fricking bad these backgrounds are
>MORE GRAPHICS
so is it good or bad
I'm specifically referring to higher resolutions and "cleaner" models just for the sake of it.
you can set the youtube video to 144p if you want
And they could've kept the PSX filter and 4:3 resolution instead of wimping out after the intro. Gotta make sure we still have that sweet, juicy mass appeal right? Go frick yourself.
>PSX filter
I thought it was understood they were going after this aesthetic, or like per-rendered cut-scenes. Smooth models are historically accurate. If you want to lower the resolution you can do that yourself, or buy a CRT.
>nooo why isn't the show ugly!
weird complaint
>muh ps1 era graphics noooo :c
i am not sure why i despise this bullshit, maybe its just nostalgia bait as an excuse to make shitty models because reasons. i mean come on at least pixel art still requires you to make it look pretty. i guess in the end the "ps1 era graphics" trope just feels like something an "INDIE GAMES ONLY" cuck would like.
PS1 Graphics are a good crutch for 3D games because just by the nature of them they’re super easy to replicate, also zoomers are now old and nostalgic for the 00s instead of the 90s and 80s like millennials
im nostalgic for the ps3 era, somewhat. almost exclusively to littlebigplanet.
I like PS1 graphics in games because it usually means that more effort can be put into other places like level design, mechanics, interesting content, or just making a cool space to run around in. It also means that developers can take more risks with unique new games, small games, or personal projects.
Graphicsgays ruined video games because now everything has a 100 million dollar budget and no major developers are willing to take risks anymore. I would kill a thousand men to go back to the days of the PS2 when every developer had a billion weird games coming out frequently for every genre, with some being shit and some being hidden gems. There was actual variety, and yes you double Black person, indie games are filling that niche now and without them we'd all be playing the same bland ubishit and sony movie games, which makes you the moronic cuck here.
it's "pre-rendered promo art" style though not PS1, it has high poly models and flat textures while PS1 had low poly and blurry textures
>Where is my wholesome chungus ps1 nostalgia!??!?!
Stfu zoomer.
Controlled abstraction Pomni. Pretty neat.
after being in these threads since the premiere, I can confidently say that if the digital circus existed, I'd send you all there in a heartbeat
none of you deserve mercy
VRChat already exists and many here already go there regularly
it's a peripheral nerve interface away from being a mind prison at this point
HOW CAN YOU DEFEND THIS FRAMING!? IS INTERNET ANIMATION JUST ABOUT THEORYCRAFTING AND BAITING RULE 34 NOW!? WHERE'S THE SOUL!?
You're complaining for the sake of it
Calm down or you're going to abstract
>Buy our merch homosexual!
You zoomers are total fricking spergs. Every criticism, no matter what it is, comes across to you like nonsensical nitpicking. Just gobble that dick harder, bro.
>he doesn't know
>tfw I'm a /toy/gay
Well at least my 35th Anniversary Bluestreak looks pretty fricking rad in vehicle mode.
>no ragatha plush
She's LITERALLY a plush
she's also very close to a copyrighted character
assuming people can be de-abstracted in the first place, it'd be a perfect excuse to give her a redesign.
>Freaks out
>Becomes monster
>Unfreaks out somehow
>Looks different because her mind has been warped considerably from the experience
If a plush of her can be copyrighted then why can't the character itself?
How would a Gangle plush work?
Also WHY is every western plush a teddy bear? I want more of the doll design
Because almost every market has been compromised? You want your own merch? Here, select from a small list of presets, only the big boys get to change things up. Make sure to put in our sponsor code for 10% off your first order!
Man
I mean, I want that Pomni plush and bad
redraw it with better framing then if you're so great
Come on, anon you know he'll never do that and can't do it. He's a internet critic that hates something everyone likes, he's lower than a ant in importance.
Ayo why the frick Caine got such a cake?
I think they are all supposed to feel 4 inches tall
Is Cane voiced by whoever was doing all those dubs for Spamton?
yes
yea
Is there any merch that wouldn't be embarassing for a 30 year old man to own
asking for a friend
90% of merch is emberrassing if you're a grown ass man.
what about a grown ass man with a six pack and a GF and a lambo and parents who aren't dissappointed
again asking for a friend
this is the wrong website to ask, nobody here knows that feel
Sill somewhat emberrassing.
Just look at the website there's only 5 things
buying a plush for your desk is alright
buying a shirt is a no-go
The clown girl might raise too many questions. The Jax plush looks good tho
anon, it's a show themed around a circus of toy cartoon characters
I think it might be genuinely difficult to make tasteful merch of that
maybe if they made a C&A company t-shirt
Jax plushie is the most normal looking, you could say it’s from your niece or something if anyone actually gets on your case
epic fail
you're a fricking idiot
What is math?
I need breakfast.
I CAN'T COUNT
it's okay anon.
nobody else cares about the GET.
Pom at the 9999999 would be cool
Sex with zooble
So either
Matrix rules, Pomni and the others are physically hooked up to headsets, the unattended desktop scenes are just Pomni's memory of the system she used or something
or
Full SOMA, Everyone is a digital copy of their human minds scanned when they put the headset on, got bored and walked away.
The originals are either living normally in their bodies, dead or enjoying regular content starring the funny AI clone of themselves sent straight to their phones as part of the Digital Circus app
I think its a Beyond the Aquila Rift situation
Or Digimon rules, they literally get sucked
I prefer to think they get cartoonishly slurped into the cosmic horror VR goggles
>Original pomni watching herself suffer
if this show doesn't do the spoilered bit, then i am going to write a short story about that concept.
hell, i might do it anyway.
i'd do it anyway, it'll probably be a long time before any theories get confirmed or denied
That spoilered bit is actually weirdly cool. Them enjoying their own suffering is a strange and unexpected place to go.
weak bait
I do not like this rabbit, his smug aura mocks me
Cain has me really confused. He's very menacing but all he did was put on a little adventure and make everybody some food. The "basement" is terrifying but like he said, he can't control their minds. Not his fault they go violently insane
Caine's job is to keep them from going insane by keeping them entertained for the foreseeable future.
He's menacing in the fact that whatever he desires will be forced upon the cast whether they object or not.
>He's menacing in the fact that whatever he desires will be forced upon the cast whether they object or not.
It's arguable if this is even the case. Jax and the others seem to imply that the adventures are optional and they mostly go on them because it's something to do and they get rewarded. Caine doesn't seem to force them or punish them if they ignore it, otherwise they would have cited that as the reason they do them.
i get the feeling that what happened to zooble might be somewhat frequent.
GANGLE GANG RISE UP
I don't know how this is going to work out, but it is worth the potential ribbon paper cuts.
GangleGODS stay winning
Ragatha needs more stuffing and more love.
oh i can stuff her, alright
She looks like she needs a hug and be told to smile more often.
Nnngghhhh what cruel plans has god for me to give me a living doll complex?
>She looks like she needs a hug and be told to smile more often.
wait, you're saying ragatha needs that? she's already the delusionally positive one!
Ironically enough, those that say they would never kill themselves are the more likely to actually do it.
My solution to that is to not think about it.
Requestan Ragatha "waking up" with enthusiasm.
oh ragatha is 100% going to snap, and she will snap *hard*
>ronically enough, those that say they would never kill themselves are the more likely to actually do it.
Bullshit. Thinking that suicide is some gay shit for morons and little girls and telling everyone i know that got me through one of the worst parts of my life and i am still alive now that it's over.
If you can't resist the urge to have a nice day - you probably should go ahead and fricking do it like a weak-willed homosexual you are.
This. I was miserable as frick from 2013-2018 and was probably on the actual verge of suicide because my life was the worst it's ever been and I saw no way out. I got through it because suicide is for fricking pussies and no matter how much it seemed like a way out, taking it would make me a weak homosexual.
That's an irresponsible use of your mental energy, use it to read a book or get fricking ripped, not being angry at suicidal people for being cowards.
You cannot be angry forever, should I know.
It seems even digits lie, because you thought that i don't do both.
The stronger i get - the weaker sucidal fricks look. No amount of justifying the coward way out will ever compare to the pure and unmatched strength of one's will.
Amen brother.
Alright, we both agree that we should despise weakness.
I'd never tell a suicidal person to do a flip, tho.
What, do I look like sociopath or something?
CUANDO YO LA VI(WUJUJUJU)
DIJE SI ESA MUJER FUERA PARA MI
>posting fnf garbage
yes, you and your community are all sociopaths.
back to funkg with you
>fnf
Get the frick back to your kindergarten
It HAS to be a troll.
I'm thinking Hamas was running out of options when they decided to go full offensive against Isreal, it's surrender or die, and they're too stubborn to surrender.
They killed all of their fellow palestinians, just saying the land was lost would have saved more lives
Pomni discovering she's a copy of the real person she remembers being (or being led to believe that this is the case) will be a major test of her willpower if this is the case
also, Kinger knowing digital trivia and being the longest-surviving human there might imply he worked on Digital Circus itself prior to entering. Maybe he used himself to test it
the twist will be that Kinger developed the beginnings of the circus, went crazy after seeing what he created and had his mind wiped
>Kinger knowing digital trivia
What digital trivia?
The only thing that Kinger seemed to really know about was the "Trivia Show".
Could have been a throw-away line, but it seemed like he was actually concerned about it.
It sounded to me like he was speaking from experience. Like he had been in similar situations before, given he'd been there the longest, and sometimes a trivia show was involved.
made for bullying
on second watch, it felt more horrifying somehow. maybe because my first watch was at like 3 AM or so, and now im more awake. regardless, i definitely felt more of a looming dread the second time around. god damn it why couldnt i have found out about this after it was already over so i can binge the frick out of it.
I think the "Exit" being office space is more significant than anything in regards to theorycrafting.
Why is it significant? Fricked if I know, I didn't go to college.
What would Caine, who runs the wackiest, most unhinged, fun and exciting place his warped perception can think of, would assume the opposite of that to be? A boring, empty, somewhat disused office space with minimal decor seems pretty likely
It's too organized and deliberate for it to just be a throwaway thing, like the computer with a headset and the company logo.
the "exit" leads to endless offices because the game is running on a computer in a very similar looking office
i thought that was fairly obvious
maybe it's endless office because that's all Cain knows of the real world? He might have been created on a PC with a webcam once or something. Everything else he knows of real world things like trees, clouds etc. comes from uploaded assets and definitions.
I'm thinking they are all employees of this C&A, probably volunteered or were told to test out the circus at some point.
>Pomni sees the computer that is shown at the end of the animation and goes fricking bananas, implying she recognizes it
>Next shot is the giant, looming company logo
C&A, Cain and Abel, ringmaster's name is Caine, there's going to be some sort of betrayal story related to the real world that trapped these people there.
PUNCH gangle
>PUNCH gangle
Hot
She'd probably thank you for it or apologize to you
The change in ambience and lighting in the "Exit" was very well done
the whole EXIT door scene reminded me of PS1 Resident Evil/Silent Hill?MGS with that top down static perspective
i want to take care of Pomni
>t. Cain
Seconded.
She's too cute.
UNF. need more pomni thighs
We all do, Anon.
We all do.
Among other things, but those aren't mutually exclusive.
I want to roughly breed/rape pomni then take care of her.
Hot
would
Jax the type who'd cum and dump you
jax is the kind of guy to give counterfeit money to homeless people
Between this and Ongezellig, I feel kinda optimistic yet sad at the same time.
pomni's thighs
are for intercural
Is there more than one person here who actually thinks the show is visually ass? Because I don't see it.
It's indie shit, even with all the tech advancement you can't have pixar tier graphics. But this style fit the whole theme very well. At least it doesn't look like some cheap gmod animation
Isn't that the idea?
The artstyle is supposed to be that simplistic pre-rendered graphics aesthetic that you would see in early/mid-90s educational point-and-click CD-Roms.
Man that picture took me back.
Fricking Snotley.
I think the schizo has a point
I do hope they don't just stick to shots of an open room where the characters talk to each other.
Gooseworx probably isn't used to writing dialogue though, I don't blame them for mucking it up on the first go
>I do hope they don't just stick to shots of an open room where the characters talk to each other.
The scenes with static camera are the best though.
It's jarring because it's intentional. It's a call back to prerendered backgrounds where the camera couldn't move because it was just characters superimposed on a still image.
The office scene was a borderline masterful execution of it.
Intentional or not, it's not good
That's what matters at the end of the day
It's from a Gmod channel, funded by a mixture of plushie sales and Australian dollarydoos. That it exists at all is amazing
STICKING THE END OF A BIKEPUMP IN POMNI'S MOUTH AND GOING TO TOWN ON IT LOONY TUNES STYLE
what if abel and seth are the equivalents to the russian/chinese supercomputers like how caine is AM
Abel is Bubble. A-bubble.
This is one of the stupidest puns ever which means it's probably 100% true
A stretch that would put Plastic Man to shame.
why the frick is he called plastic man and not stretchy man
because he's made of plastic
I want to pretend everything is fine with Ragatha until it isn't and in desperation we turn to depravity of the flesh in order to anchor ourselves to something, anything that makes sense in the madhouse, that being each other.
I'd kill for her
I remember thinking that was a shota for like half of the pilot
selfish b@#!h id f#@$ing r@!e her into oblivion if i found out she snuck out to find an exit and didnt tell anyone about it again. screw your stupid self preservation, go help Ragatha you freaking gremlin.
>go help Ragatha
What was she supposed to do to help someone she couldn't physically touch against something she couldn't physically touch? She already tried calling for Caine, and only found him by not looking for him.
the fact of the matter is that she abandoned ragatha and everyone else the first chance she got, and is more than likely willing to do it again.
Learning to get out of the game can then allow her to reenter and tell the rest where to go to find the exit. Though I wouldn't be surprised if their real bodies are dead at this point and Pomni's body is in the process of dying.
i doubt she'd risk that
I'd kill her, and tell her that everything was just a bad dream.
Better dead than abstracted, right?
>already got cancelled
LMAO CHECK THE TWITTER
>Goose show support for the hamas attack
Ermm......
>All filthy heebs are immediately abstracted thanks to the schizophrenia that runs in their trained bloodlines
Jesus christ Goose
frick you talking about?
Who is getting cancelled
The israelites
>goose proved eugenics theory is canon
it's over
Checked their twitter and I have to admit that's pretty fricked up, even for Cinemaphile standards.
>holding pomnis hand
>kissing pomni
>comforting pomni while she has a mental break down
>scolding Jax on pomnis behalf
>sleeping with pomni
>spooning pomni in your sleep
>try to be frisky with pomni
Does she still get horny?
>Anon get thrown into the digital circus
>gets told VERY explicitly there is no sex and genitals
I can work with this, I'm so touch starved that any physical contact with Ragatha will make me feel something. I'm going to cuddle the [cartoon honk noise] out of her.
What are they gonna do, stop me from trying?
I've seen enough people with no lower half get off to know I can probably get something going on.
>"What's the f*"£@!g POINT?!"
>"If it makes you feel any better cuddling is absolutely only prohibited to Wednesdays and exstiential theory seminars"
Does that mean no booze either?
Probably
I'd still tickle Pomni just to hear her giggle
she'd scream, most likely. either way its a win.
Cause she's too ticklish or not ticklish at all?
>Her digital body is designed to be extremely ticklish.
>No matter what mood she's in, tickling her makes her burst out into peals of uncontrollable laughter.
>Jax finds this out and keeps a feather on him at all times
If I can lick Pomni's feet to my heart's content that's all I need.
>implying that benis in hole > hugs from loved one
Just tell us straight up you are a homosexual. Dicking someone is a dessert, not the main course
Placing my bets that's how Queener got abstracted.
She wanted to do naughty things with Kinger and the system wouldn't let her.
Shit that abstraction rampage would be fricking wild
>Anon immediately abstracts into a squid
Slug feels more thematically appropriate
a life without a wiener and balls is not a life worth living
But what if I just sloppily kiss pomni?
You know, for the funny!
Haha 🙂
>All of the inhabitants are extremely stimulation deprived
>Every affectionate touch is intensely enjoyable to them because it's the closest thing they can get to erotic pleasure while maintaining a PG rating
Contemplate the possibilities.
what if you stay within the exit room tho
caine eventually finds you when he goes to work on it, if it really is an unfinished attraction of his, of course, which i doubt.
It wasn't really the exit. Cain literally thought they wanted an exit door but didn't seem to understand why so it was unfinished.
Pretty much. Everything in the world looks like it's crafted by him. Even the void looks like it's only a void because he couldn't think of what to put there just yet and the exit and it's corridors are just things to discourage people from digging to deep because it's a boring office with little to do. Though it does kind of amusing to think that him putting a door like they may have wanted ended up driving the clown to abstraction.
>and it's corridors are just things to discourage people from digging to deep because it's a boring office with little to do
I think it's deeper than that.
I think that Caine was programmed inside an office environment, and the computer in that office is essentially where The Amazing Digital Circus was created.
It's not that he intentionally made the office boring to discourage people. It's that he has some vague awareness that there's an "Outside" world, but that office is all he actually knows about it. To the best of his abilities, he gave Pomni exactly what he thought she was asking for.
Also:
>VR headset
Now that's interesting. He's an AI that wants to help her "go out side" and "leave" but he doesn't really understand what that means since to him the only outside and leaving he knows of is the computer room. I kind of liked the idea that he was a dev who got stuck in there early on but him being a program himself is a neat spin on things. Would also explain why he fits in so well in the world since he is actually a part of it. As for that headset, it's odd. It's weirdly old and grimey but by the way Pomni reacted to it I figured that meant she recognized it. Did she happen to stumble upon the headset and computer while digging through an abandoned building or something? Otherwise I don't see why everything would be so dirty or old fashioned.
>real-world Pomni put this crusty piece of garbage on her head and didn't think anything bad would happen
I want to take off Pomni's shoes.
I want to steal her hat
why did he do it?
Pomni manages to remember a phone number, and barters with Jax who knows of a hidden console to make an outgoing call to the real world
She uses it only to find it's HER number and hears her own voicemail
but now she knows her own name, making her more determined to escape
it's not until a later episode when she calls the number again in the hopes of getting someone's attention when the call is answered by her human self, living normally IRL
Pomni breaks down, crying and pleading, asking why, WHY would she scan her own mind into this nightmare as she realizes she's a copy
real Pomni says "Freaky, this app is really something. It sounds just like me."
Black mirror did it
And SOMA
and TNG
but those didn't have jester girls
I think "the original versions find amusement in the digital copies' torment" is a new and interesting angle though
Mid-season twist they also are NPCs would be neat
Then they can focus on reaching HEAVEN
>barters with Jax
W-What would she barter with Jax?
It would be cooler if it was something like Severance where the real Pomni says something like “you need to shut the frick up, you are not real and I have control over you”
Goose did say everyone in the circus deserved to be there after all
That would be a good plot twist
>Tormenting a tiny clone of yourself
>cucking a tiny clone of your best friend with her gf
I thought Goose said that Jax was the main one who actually deserved to be there
Nah all of them do, Jax is just the worst
>Goose did say everyone in the circus deserved to be there after all
Source?
They respond to a lot of questions on tumblr
Okay but do you have a link to that particular statement?
Reposting the Mega file with a shit ton of reaction images from last thread
https://mega.nz/folder/KngxjbxQ#glj-q7wStAAPpgDxvLdhfw
holy based, i wonder if my jax cat meme drawing is in there
it is but for some reason the preview image doesnt show up, I labeled it "Jaxyoubitch"
😀
If Gooseworx doesn't give Caine at least one "Countdown/Top 10 whatevers" joke then this show is a wash.
Why is his name Kinger...sounds like ni...
>and what do you call these 'chess monkeys'?
>KIGABOOS?
>”kiggers, I caught this kigger staring saucy at my Gangle”
I caught this kigger getting saucy with my mistress
WHAT DID YOU SAY KIGGA
Is this the real way out? Jax wouldnt lie to us right?
It's actually real. It will be a troll at Jax expense
>Pomni is sure this is just a prank but is so desperate she runs full speed anyways
>Actually works, super mario 64 sound effects and all
>Jax is dumbfounded
>Caine appears
>"Oh golly, so this is where I put my super secret backdoor exit out of the digital realm! Let me just take care of this-"
>Snaps his fingers and the painting of a tunnel disappears, Jax is just standing their with a mix of a smile and an expression that tells you he is on the edge of abstraction
Pomni is actually just in some other part of the Circus, Caine just did this to teach Jax a lesson about bullying
What a nice fellow that Caine is!
calling all drawgays in the thread, this is of utmost importance.
>Pomni BLJs for 15 hours and clips past the Void
>Turns out they aren't connected to a network and there's literally nothing past it
>She effectively zero-sums herself
What if she actually escapes into the real world but it's that one simpsons gag where she's still digital.
And she's stuck in the 90's.
>Wakes up at her desk and launches the headset across the room
>Checks the date
>January 1, 2000 12:01 AM
>Accessed the Digital Circus on December 31, 1999 11:59 PM
10 years later she works in retail going "you know it wasn't so bad compared to this..."
When I made this I didnt expect it to get more then 20 likes but now its sitting at around 7k and even got retweeted by a bunch of people I know and respect
Have I made it bros, is the secret to success suffering and clussy of course
I always believed in you anon
May this be but the beginning of your great success 😉
i think i just found you on twitter, can i mention seeing you here in the replies?
Anon they may eat me alive
you can act all clueless itll be funny
sex with Jax
a lot of anons here are pretty confident that they’ll retain their sex drive once they’re turned into a computer program with no genitals, or even that they’ll remember what sex is
what if they discover r34s of themselves
would that awaken their sexuality?
Pomni will eventually figure out how to take off her clown shoes, right?
Take off?
Shoes?
Yeah I'm thinking she is what we see.
Yeah you can see when Pomni is pulling on her face that her "model" is empty underneath the surface layer.
Jax will trick her into drinking that blatant fetish bait potion from Sonic Underground.
Good that mean someone find you sexualities attractive
>a lot of anons here are pretty horny
Welcome to the website, enjoy your stay.
our autism powers will shield us from the mind erasure
They can take my genitals, they can take my sex drive, but they can't take my crippling loneliness.
>a lot of anons here are pretty confident that they’ll retain their sex drive once they’re turned into a computer program with no genitals
Well, so far it looks like Bubble has a weird licking fetish.
The Moon seems to be extremely forward.
And Cain is programed to warn in excruciating legal detail to NOT use sexually explicit language.
Seems like it's a legitimate concern.
If you can feel pain, fear and happiness, then you must be able get frisky too.
You seem pretty confident that I care and that I actually believe I would enter the funny rokos basilisk show for real.
No this is my mental world. All of this is just to stimulate it.
I need art of pregnant Ragatha
I hope Digital Circus gets a lot more art
ew offmodel humanoid pomni i hate it
MARRYING POMNI
Anyone got the source of that one big tittied Pomni art that was posted a few threads ago?
This one? I've been saving any and all art that catches my fancy, this shit gives me irrational brainrot yo
Not that one but I haven't seen it yet so much appreciated
This one here
Now I need a PNG of the Caine censorship
Oh, this one.
You a real one bro
Pomni's cute but I'm patiently waiting for some good shit of my girl Ragatha. Please I need my overstuffed fabric breasts
>Please I need my overstuffed fabric breasts
Bro I'm waiting for the exact same shit lel
I want to cuddle with her like she's a body pillow and go to sleep resting my head on her.
>the show pulls a Bugbo and the twist is that there is no twist and none of the horror stuff or lore ever gets elaborated on
Why are horrified and scarred women with trauma always the best
You might not like the answer!
should i go for a second rewatch? i got me a mcdonal burger and im home alone and dont plan on jerking off anytime soon, because i have a burger
>doesn’t jerk off while eating McDonalds and watching autistic web cartoons
low t
my burger already has enough mayo in it
>skarpworld ref
Yah, I'm doing exactly that, but with the English voices wey
dutch dub when?
>No Rule 34 of thr Gloink Queen.
one job.
Waaa waaa waa
Always the fricking whining from you
>"Kinger, what's a boowomp?"
>Stupid clown, make something funny!
*uncontrollable sobbing*
How long until she starts hurting herself?
Jesus Pomni, it was just a joke calm down
Anyone got the image of Pomni looking at the number of R34 tags with her blank stare?
Would she? Wouldn't it be extreme confusion instead?
Imagine you went to hell and then satan showed up with a viewer count of your mangled soul sucking dick and holding hands would you really go "wow. Ermm really?"
new thread:
that's the premise of the sequel to i hate fairyland, isn't it?
So, who do you think the cast members were before they got pulled in? my current theory is
>Kinger was a high up in CnA, since he seemed to know alot about the digital food I think he was the original head lead of the Digital Circus project, he's just been in so long he's lost most of his mind.
>Ragatha might've been a team leader/HR director in CnA, which would explain her positive attitude.
>Jax might have been a QR tester for the digital circus, might explain why he's so uncaring/disconnected.
>Pomni was exploring the abandoned CnA building years after the cast got sucked in and out of found a headset, trying it on and becoming another victim
still no concrete ideas on who the others were
Is Gangle confirmed female come on anons this is important
She a man
How long until the next episode, you guys think? Maybe 4-5 months?