The Amazing Digital Circus - Western Isekai that probably will become Hazbin Hotel killer

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WitchOfDarkness said:
Maybe I am overthinking a silly YouTube cartoon show, but if they were using VR, and they had real bodies, shouldn’t they have died a long time ago due to lack of water and food? They explicitly said the food they eat is not realm right?

The abstraction and Being trapped forever horror thing only works if they are all truly not real people. So I am in the, they are not real, camp.
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Could just be a .hack thing where people discovered their real bodies and they're now just comatose in a hospital. The only people who would die from that would be shut-ins who never had anyone check up on them.
 
AI generated waifu said:
I liked the new episode. This adventure of the day premise works because it'll continue to give us more character moments between the main cast, with varying one offs like Gummigoo keeping things new and interesting. A big step up from the always confused hazbin hotel.
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I thought shows like these were meant to speed through character moments, so that they can focus on boring grand plots, revolving around tertiary characters and their homoerotic adventures.
 
Ensok said:
Could just be a .hack thing where people discovered their real bodies and they're now just comatose in a hospital. The only people who would die from that would be shut-ins who never had anyone check up on them.
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I don't think that's very realistic, but I don't expect this show to be super well thought through. Assuming any of the characters had anything to do with VR at all, I think some kind of grey box upload is more realistic. Involving extensive memory tampering to get it to go through, because there's no way a grey box upload just involves you putting on the headset for a few minutes. You could say it's more on the black box end of grey box uploading to avoid that, and say a lot of the data is from surveillance and social media stuff, with only a bit direct from the headset, but I always thought that was really dubious.
 
Even if this show is not my thing (at least for now) and I think the animation is ugly, I do think it has a more potential than HH. Gooseworx is already in the advantage by having his show completely written in full before he even began animating it. That already makes it more streamlined than HH, which is a clunky mess that you can tell is a result of Viv obsessing over her characters without world-building and plot coming far later.

Hope Goose or Glitch don’t spiral it downhill.
 
WitchOfDarkness said:
Maybe I am overthinking a silly YouTube cartoon show, but if they were using VR, and they had real bodies, shouldn’t they have died a long time ago due to lack of water and food? They explicitly said the food they eat is not realm right?

The abstraction and Being trapped forever horror thing only works if they are all truly not real people. So I am in the, they are not real, camp.
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At the end of the first episode you see a computer with a VR headset with no one wearing it.
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So to me there's no doubt over if there's a real person who's conscious is trapped in the game (there isn't). To me the most likely explanation is that the game makes a copy of the player's consciousness which continues to exist even after the player takes the headset off and finishes playing.
Cherry Eyed Hamster said:
Even if this show is not my thing (at least for now) and I think the animation is ugly, I do think it has a more potential than HH. Gooseworx is already in the advantage by having his show completely written in full before he even began animating it. That already makes it more streamlined than HH, which is a clunky mess that you can tell is a result of Viv obsessing over her characters without world-building and plot coming far later.

Hope Goose or Glitch don’t spiral it downhill.
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Helluva Boss is the only show I've ever watched that feels like bad fanfiction of itself.
 
I watched the first episode of Dot Hack Sign several hours ago, and they just end the episode on a shot of what's clearly the MC's real-life body fallen on the floor in front of their PC. So that could legitimately be an inspiration.

Speaking of which, I thought the fact that the MC was a woman was supposed to be a final-episode twist, but you can clearly see they're wearing a skirt. Or was that scene added after first airing?
 
I think there’s a small underrated clue in the second episode. Maybe Caine is worried that he won’t be able to differentiate between human, and AI because there is no difference?

Sure, maybe the human “players” were based on Real people at first. But if they are just copies of real humans, then them, and any “advanced“ AI for all intents and purposes, should be the exact same thing. The gummy bandit, and Caine himself are proof NPCs aren‘t all mindless, but can be made self-aware, and even have existential crisis. Exactly like players.

Shouldn‘t Caine be able to tell between a human controlling an avatar and an NPC easily? Unless they are all code, and the only difference is their “role”.

Another clue the main cast aren’t real people.
 
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WitchOfDarkness said:
Shouldn‘t Caine be able to tell between a human controlling an avatar and an NPC easily? Unless they are all code, and the only difference is their “role”.
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The whole Human/NPC confusion warning really falls flat once you think about it for more than a minute.
If Caine knows what has or can happen if he gets humans and NPCs mixed up, why doesn't he just put a stamp or logo on the NPC models? Why not just block NPCs from going through the level portals? Since human characters conveniently all have humanoid or anthropomorphic models, why not make NPCs have a distinct inhuman feature? If Caine is known to reuse NPCs wouldn't he realize that there's an NPC in the circus? If all human characters forget their past, all Caine has to do is just ask the suspected NPC what their name is or what they did before entering the circus. And even if Caine has no control of the level/character creation and if all else fails, and the gang successfully smuggles a NPC and convince Caine they're a new player, all Caine has to do is just go in the room hall and see if the game/program made a room for the newcomer.
 
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Confused about this outcry over Jax in episode 2, I just rewatched episode 1 to see that he's just as much of an asshole there too. And he's narratively useful as such to spur entertaining conflict and tension in the main cast.

The rewatch also has me realize that Zooble attempted to dodge the first game as well before she was kidnapped, so I suppose uninvolvement may be her regular role. Which is fine by me so that I can ignore her supposed "non-binary" trait as much possible. Frankly, I'm surprised that Gangle isn't the designated "non-binary" one since she has both the androgynous appearance and voice such that I took her to be a guy until informed otherwise.
 
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Alter Ego said:
Confused about this outcry over Jax in episode 2, I just rewatched episode 1 to see that he's just as much of an asshole there too. And he's narratively useful as such to spur entertaining conflict and tension in the main cast.
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He was an asshole in the first episode too sure, But, I remember people coped super hard by trying to justify his actions as him “secretly helping them, but trying to look cool by pretending to be uncaring” type. But nope, turns out he really didn’t care. And he just ended up being helpful by accident.

People did want him desperately to be a bad boy with a heart of gold. But I agree there’s zero evidence about it so far. Now, I do think being an asshole is his way of coping with the horror he is in, and it’s not about hiding a secret heart of gold.

I think the point Gooseworxs is trying to make is that all of them are bad people in some way. Pomni did try to dump all of them the first chance she had for example. And even, Ragatha, the nicest of the bunch is very likely just being double faced to an extent.

It’s less that she is nice, but more like being non confrontational, and ignoring her negative feelings is her way to cope. Jax is just the most obvious one in why he is a bad person.
 
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Calling it; It's just gonna a copy of The Twilight Zone S3E14 "Five Characters in Search of an Exit" but like really really strung out with filler material.

Which is actually a really good episode of the twilight zone 11/10 recommend. Dunno about this show tho, it looks like the kind of content strategically designed to appeal to neurodivergent character fixations. But noticed some plot setup similarities.

Quote me when they've dragged season 1 of this show out for 3 years then reboot it for amazon prime/netflix and it turns out all the characters are in the recycle bin. and also jax knew somehow.
 
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Ok I am genuinely impressed by how well they have made their 2 recent ads. And they are genuinely hilarious and well written despite being shameless product placements.

Like I said in the RWBY thread, Glitch is completely destroying the nlw defunct Rooster Teeth, not just in animation I writting, but also in how to sell merchandise.

I am not a die hard ADC fan like half the internet is. But I do think GLITCH productions knows what they are doing.
 
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Anyone else think they've kinda missed the mark with the Jax figurine?
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Something about the proportions just doesn't seem quite right. He's supposed to be tall and lanky, but his arms, torso and rabbit ears seem short and a bit stubby. It worked with the plushie because it's supposed to be cute and not an accurate representation, but with this I don't think they've quite succeeded at nailing his likeness.
 
Beautiful Border said:
Anyone else think they've kinda missed the mark with the Jax figurine?
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Something about the proportions just doesn't seem quite right. He's supposed to be tall and lanky, but his arms, torso and rabbit ears seem short and a bit stubby. It worked with the plushie because it's supposed to be cute and not an accurate representation, but with this I don't think they've quite succeeded at nailing his likeness.
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I think it depends on the other figures. The proportions are off enough that you can easily tell they aren't trying to be accurate. If Ragatha has similar issues then it's just a style thing. I don't think it looks bad exactly, just not show accurate.

Also I saw bootleg Jax figure at a local mayday fare. It was pretty accurate, tall and lanky. It was next to HuggyWuggy and Pokemon bootleg plushies. So yeah.
 
Beautiful Border said:
Anyone else think they've kinda missed the mark with the Jax figurine?
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Something about the proportions just doesn't seem quite right. He's supposed to be tall and lanky, but his arms, torso and rabbit ears seem short and a bit stubby. It worked with the plushie because it's supposed to be cute and not an accurate representation, but with this I don't think they've quite succeeded at nailing his likeness.
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Could also be a material problem; tall and slender figurines tend to have structural issues and are a bit harder to print
 
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