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

[Snake Disco]

I knew the ending was going to be bad. But I didn't expect Cain's resolution to be that terrible. Episode 8 made me think Goose understood what made "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" a classic. All the therapy sessions and trans J-ACKED would have been worth it if he managed to stick the landing on this one thing. Let me explain.

Spoiler

The true horror of "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" isn't the main character's fate, becoming an immortal, immobile jelly thing. It's the implication that has been AM's , the AI villain, existence the entire time. Like the main character, AM cannot move, and is doomed to a never ending existence. Or in other words, AM has no mouth and must scream.

In retrospect, the reader is horrified at the depth of it's suffering and madness. They are also horrified that the main character is paying for something mankind did unintentionally, and which he had no personal hand in. This line is from an adaptation of IHNMAIMS, but it sums this dynamic up perfectly.

"Hate. Were I human, I think I would die of it. But I am not. You five are, and you will not die of it. That I promise."

What got my hopes up in episode 8 was torture scene. The implication is that Pomni telling Cain everyone hates him was his personal worst torture imaginable. Which is why he retaliates by putting the cast through their worst torture imaginable.



This line from episode 3 further supports that the cast has been unintentionally torturing Cain the entire time.



And is re-enforced by the end credit scene in episode 6.



Which directly references IHNMAIMS.



How does Goose resolve a mad AI whose very existence is pain? Have him go to time out in the recycle bin, and then give a Steven Universe-esq apology. I'm not even against a happier ending. But you can't ass pull like that. Don't even get me started at the existential horror of Abel's existence Goose just tossed away.

Time will be kinder to IHNMAIMS than it will be the Digital Circus. But what a wasted opportunity. Trannies have a pathological need to sand down the teeth of greater works, and cover them in pride flags.

 

[DickMain]

1) Let the weaker body live, but he'll be trapped in an area with monsters that you've been running from since the game started
2) Kill the weaker body to prevent him from suffering any longer in the monster-filled horrorscape he lives in

(for anybody who hasn't played) It's not just that he'd be stuck in the weaker body in the decaying station, but that he'd be there alone without Catherine, the last non-corrupted scan on the station.

You play as an old ass scan from when the tech was first invented; an open-source legacy holdover for hobbyists and developers to model their own tech off of. There have been thousands of Simons running around since the OG donated his brain to science trying to find a cure for some head trauma he suffered in a car accident.

Catherine, conversely, is a researcher on the station the game takes place in, kind of considered a hyperautist by her peers and the one who's able to rationalize the whole "kill your old self" thing the best (iirc she's pretty unfazed when you both find her old corpse to Simon's surprise).

In any case, she's the only one who can help current-Simon rationalize any of what the fuck is going on, and keep him from getting killed, but your past scans wake up confused and wondering where she went. For all old-Simon knows, the "transfer" (he doesn't realize it's a copy/paste for a while) failed, Catherine died in the process, and now he's stuck in a failing body in a rapidly deteriorating station at the bottom of the ocean. One of the endings has you stay in the old body while the other scans blast off into space in a time capsule.

 

[Hayduraide]

(for anybody who hasn't played) It's not just that he'd be stuck in the weaker body in the decaying station, but that he'd be there alone without Catherine, the last non-corrupted scan on the station.

It's good to keep the old brain scan alive because after your new brain scan accomplishes his mission blasting the remnants of humanity into space, he can potentially eventually find his way back up to where the old Simon is and they can start a two-man barbershop quartet (or become the next Righteous Brothers). Their next mission is to find two more clones to complete their group.

 

[rbzfan]

It's the same as all of this bullshit but with a spritz of tranny themes sprinkled in. FNAF is the ground zero for all of what you could call Deeploreslop, and there have been no shortage of hacks looking for their slice of wikiporn. Once you get that fandom going they sustain your property on pure theoryshit alone. It doesn't even have to be a show, as in TADC's case, but there are plenty of those too. Just off the top of the dome you have FNAF, Bendy, Hello Neighbor, Poppy's, and so on.

The only reason I give Five Nights at Freddy's the time of day is Scott CHADthon is a based as fuck trannymogger who is an uncompromised Christian who believes in family values, hired his own family to help him in his creative endeavors, donated half his money to charities, never apologized for his political or religious beliefs even when he got doxxed and threatened by the entire gaming community, and doesn't openly promote any gender dysphoria bullshit in any of his merchandising or IP creations. Whatever your thoughts on his recent theatrically released movies are, which he wrote (and gets most of the box office), I fully believe regardless of their quality, both the critic circles and journalists had it out to make sure those films were review panned because they don't want him to be successful. He's not supposed to still be around. He was the religious zealot billionaire who was supposed to get cancelled, sit in the corner, and hope to come back with a humiliation ritual in the same way actors like Brendan Fraser had to worm their way back into acting by starring in a Jewish torture porn film about an obese gay single father. He also is one of the only major publishers I've seen today who entirely represents himself. He never sold the IP to anyone else. All proceeds go to him, so for better or worse, everything that comes out of the series has to be approved by him. There is no opportunity for some transvestite freak to come in and try to twist the property into something more faggot apologist or start trauma dumping. There is a lot of drama and family issues in the original Five Nights at Freddy's games, but they're situated from a very sympathetic eye to the victims. At the end of the day, it's a story about children being murdered and get revenge on their assailant. It's a story of good triumphing over evil. It's not an exercise from some psychology or art majors degree 20 year-old venting their angst about their parents not understanding their "The Used" fad. It's an artist reflecting on his career, working in his experiences as a father, and using his last ditch effort to tell a darker narrative that pulls stories right from the Bible. The thing that copycats fail to understand why and how Scott was able to weaponize the trend he facilitated is his desperation for a hit was still pure. Only people pure of heart can make quality content. Of course the furries and trannies would eventually take over and be the face of his whole community, but that can't be helped when you're dealing with mascotslop. And, Scott would eventually hand reigns of making new games off to other people, which has lead to this "mystery box" vague writing that everyone has tried to copy. Hello Neighbor is the prime example of desperate game developer trying to be the next big thing.

 

[Runch]

Speaking of "lore media" where embarrassing autists get lost in endless theorycrafting...FNAF was 2014. Hello Neighbor was 2016.

But we've forgotten the OG:

Homestuck started in 2009.

 

[Outland Cow]

Speaking of "lore media" where embarrassing autists get lost in endless theorycrafting...FNAF was 2014. Hello Neighbor was 2016.

But we've forgotten the OG:

Homestuck started in 2009.

Repressing and forgetting are two different things!

 

[DickMain]

The only reason I give Five Nights at Freddy's the time of day is Scott CHADthon is a based as fuck trannymogger who is an uncompromised Christian who believes in family values, hired his own family to help him in his creative endeavors, donated half his money to charities, never apologized for his political or religious beliefs even when he got doxxed, and doesn't openly promote any gender dysphoria bullshit in any of his merchandising or IP creations. He also is one of the only major publishers I've seen today who entirely represents himself.

I think I should have been more clear in that it was the properties that soulessly chased the bag in his example were the problem and not FNAF in of itself. That was an entirely self-made effort, like it or not. It might have started the trend of half-baked screamer streamer bait, but I think it would be incredibly unfair to say FNAF's success was not deserved, despite the imitators that came after.