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

[The Lawgiver]

Youtube keeps spamming me with shitty 28 minute to 3 hour long video essays about how various popular media from before current year (and also sometimes IN current year) is "orientalist" and I'm just wondering why I haven't seen one about the chinese room joke because the amount of overlap between video essay cancer seems to be very much a thing in the current rot state of the world.

 

[Whiskey]

I just hope the ending is decent. Im worried its just going to be all the characters coping with being brain scans then deleting themselves.

 

[Learning Wall]

There's reports from the community that TADC episode 9 is coming to theaters.

Some redditors and 4chan anons have found “The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act” listed on Cinemark and Atomtickets. Supposedly, the movie will combine Episodes 8 and 9 into one extended experience. If any of this is true, I guess Glitch is wanting to milk this ending for all it's worth. I can only imagine just how much merch they're gonna drop in June.

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Something to note when looking more into this: according to cinemark's south american Instagram account, it might possibly be a worldwide release. (I had to get this image from reddit: fuck reddit.)
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They're going to have some stiff competition that day, because the final episode premieres on the same day as Toy Story 5.



Most people are going to watch it for free on YouTube anyway.



This is unrelated, but this reminds me of when Helluva Boss was shown in theaters in Mexico, I'm not kidding, that happened.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HelluvaBos...lluva_boss_will_have_a_theatrical_release_in/



The full poster:

There was even a voice actor panel with the official Spanish VAs.



Footage of the showings:

Another unrelated thing. Here's something from January that I found on Instagram.

 

[Secret Boots]

That first video reminds me of

I am pretty sure the first user, the (((lesbian))), is actually a transbian. I vaguely remember seeing this image in a tweet that got its comments closed down because people were correctly guessing that it was a tranny.

 

[Whiskey]

Kinda think the theater thing is neat and more places would do theme nights for fans.

 

[Dave.]

Such inspirational content cannot exist. This world is terrible and we must not inspire anyone to ever seek to improve it! Finding a way out even if all seems hopeless? Sorry, best I can do is tranny self-inserts. I honestly feel most people who make shows these days are completely illiterate and would rather present something as super duper big n "intellectual".

I’m kind of having nihilism fatigue and I’m just really over it. It’s either Christian morality is bad because Jewish subversion or morality bad because it attacks my personal identity… or both.

 

[Dave.]

Okay so I actually sat down to watch this damn thing because it's free and I figured why the hell not because two distinct factions of people have strong opinions of this show. Either they think this show is great or they think it's shit and hate it with every fiber of their being. I already watched episode 1 and wasn't really sold on it, episode 2, however, is really grating on me on its themes of existentialism and, to an extent, nihilism that it really puts Gooseworx as a person under a microscope.

The episode starts off with Caine and all the others going on another one of his "digital adventures". He throws Pomni and all the rest down into magical candy kingdom and the princess sends them out to go retrieve it from "bandits". And they're bandits because, groan, they're pre-scripted to be bandits guys! The characterization seems to be all based around philosophies about being alive in a virtual world as far as I can tell; Jax seems like a violent nihilist who wants to exact violence on things that aren't real, Raggatha (no idea if I spelled her name correctly) wants to explore forming connections I guess, the mask thing is just sad all the time as a running gag and her emotions are whatever she puts on and no matter how much she maintains it, her mask always falls off GET IT?!, and I have no idea what they're going for with the chess piece, but he's by far my least favorite character.

So they get into a fight. The truck's crash into each other and both end up in two distinct places. One ends up in a river made of fudge. The other has a goofy animation of the truck getting stuck in geometry before Pomni and the crocodile guy, who is an NPC, we'll get to that, all fall below the map. Crocodile guy notices that the world looks absolutely nothing like the world he's from and sees himself and his friends as frozen t-pose clones. I think they're inside a storage file. But basically this throws crocodile guy into an existential crisis... because apparently NPCs can just come up with coding on the fly in this world. Because they can also become sentient just out of the blue for some reason. Because prescripted NPCs in this world can just go off script whenever they want. My suspension of disbelief here really got hit with a sledgehammer, but whatever, the rules of this world are not clear anyway. NOTHING ELSE MATTERS GUYS! He goes into an existential crisis about being an NPC and having no purpose other than just to serve a pre-scripted life which he'll be replaced when he dies.

Pomni offers him an olive branch, what if he returns back to the surface with her? It takes a bit of convincing that no, his existence actually does matter and that he can have a purpose back at the circus, but he eventually obliges and they manage to find a way out.

Back in the river, Jax convinces the fudge monster who... fucking hell... who's sole purpose in this game is to just be a villain and eat people that if he gives them a ride back to the castle, he can have the key to enter it. The group just goes along with it and they ride all the way back to the castle. Not before the truck Pomni and crocodile guy used to fling themselves out of the storage file or beneath the map or whatever crashes into the monster and "kills" it. Now there's two trucks. One with the syrup they need for the quest they were tasked to embark on and another with the same thing. So they both go their separate ways effectively ending the adventure on an amicable note. Crocodile introduces himself to the group and they all leave. Of course not before the fudge monster enters the kingdom and probably fucking eats everyone. GET IT GUYS! NOTHING WE DID HERE MATTERED! HAHAHAHAHA

So they go back and Caine notices crocodile guy and zaps him out of existence. Possibly killing him. Get it? Our existence really doesn't mean anything. Everything we do and everything we make is easily undid by death!

This is episode 2 and I'm beginning to hate this show way more than Hazbin Hotel. It's not even an objectively worse show than Hazbin Hotel. Quite the opposite, but fuck me the creator's personal philosophy he injects in this show really pisses me off.

I don't know what the overall vibe of this thread is with the show. I usually go into these shows completely blind so I can form a raw opinion on them without any biases, but that was my raw reaction watching it. I just walked away feeling angry and annoyed. Let me know if I'm reading this wrong or if I'm just a cynical fuck.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

They're going to have some stiff competition that day, because the final episode premieres on the same day as Toy Story 5.



Most people are going to watch it for free on YouTube anyway.

Given the choice, I would honestly pick Digital Circus.

But that’s mainly due to the fact that I utterly despise the fact there’s a Toy Story 4 in the first place, let alone a Toy Story 5.

 

[Ultraman Orb Dark]

But that’s mainly due to the fact that I utterly despise the fact there’s a Toy Story 4 in the first place, let alone a Toy Story 5.

Remember when Toy Story 4 was nothing more than a gag in Muppets Most Wanted?

 

[Danann]

I don't know what the overall vibe of this thread is with the show. I usually go into these shows completely blind so I can form a raw opinion on them without any biases, but that was my raw reaction watching it. I just walked away feeling angry and annoyed. Let me know if I'm reading this wrong or if I'm just a cynical fuck.

OK, guess what you need to know: it's all AI-generated and apparently isn't a game at all, but rather a bunch of procedurally-generated shit from this super advanced AI (made in 1996 and looks like the entire thing is made in 2056). Everything that's not the human cast is like a AI chatbot and Caine is the main generator, who also deletes chatbots when they reach human-level behavior because he don't like that. That chess piece, Kinger, is actually the only programmer left in the circus cause everyone else was killed off/abstracted through...reasons. Guessing the most plausible theory about this not being a game is actually a containment zone for digitalized "SOMA" human mind shit for some kind of medical research. Caine tried to mess with human minds directly, but ended up killing Scratch, a programmer (who was a dog in the circus) who had brain cancer and tried to help find a way to treat his tumor...

And of course Gooseworx just being his usual cynical self and all that being "deep" and stuff. Also sidenote, his previous avatar was cuter than the modern geometric cuck version.

 

[The Lawgiver]

GET IT GUYS! NOTHING WE DID HERE MATTERED! HAHAHAHAHA

No they saved the kingdom but jax left the gate open in case the monster woke back up to fulfill his end of the bargain because he wanted to see the fudge monster eat everyone. It's literally just the shit people do sometimes in DND where they'll try and break the game by doing outlandish shit that'l technically give them a win but also result in goofy bloodshed because it's a world literally meant to basically be an rpg scenario for the human cast. Sot it did matter in the scenario that he'd do that because if he didn't do that they'd have just had a happy ending and not the fudge coming back to life and beginning to eat all the other candy people alive.

Jax is a fucking jerk just like spiderman who's ass will be whipped.

Caine is the main generator, who also deletes chatbots when they reach human-level behavior because he don't like that.

Thing is though he doesn't really delete them, at best he resets their memory and teleports them away back to inactivity going by how gatorman could kind of vaguely rember pomni in the fast food episode

EDIT: I'm pretty sure abel is just dead dead deleted dead though he wanted a pay raise from caine that's too much to ask for

his previous avatar was cuter than the modern geometric cuck version.

the geometry cuck avatar STAYS ON while making cicrus digital

Previous one was more "appealing" in a sense but the new one does fit the shitposty sense of humor given it's just a fucking triangle with wackied up eyes.

 

[Dave.]

OK, guess what you need to know: it's all AI-generated and apparently isn't a game at all, but rather a bunch of procedurally-generated shit from this super advanced AI (made in 1996 and looks like the entire thing is made in 2056). Everything that's not the human cast is like a AI chatbot and Caine is the main generator, who also deletes chatbots when they reach human-level behavior because he don't like that. That chess piece, Kinger, is actually the only programmer left in the circus cause everyone else was killed off/abstracted through...reasons. Guessing the most plausible theory about this not being a game is actually a containment zone for digitalized "SOMA" human mind shit for some kind of medical research. Caine tried to mess with human minds directly, but ended up killing Scratch, a programmer (who was a dog in the circus) who had brain cancer and tried to help find a way to treat his tumor...

And of course Gooseworx just being his usual cynical self and all that being "deep" and stuff. Also sidenote, his previous avatar was cuter than the modern geometric cuck version.
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I just got done watching episode 3 and 4 now. Episode 3 was okay I guess? It definitely didn't have the irritating shit from episode 2, but I felt surprisingly bored throughout the episode. The scary shit wasn't anything special and the only real highlights I remember was the dead guy saying "okay I'll stay dead" which made me laugh out loud to their credit and the conversation between Kinger and Pomni which admittedly was decently written.

Episode 4 was just boring. I genuinely skipped through it and fast forwarded a lot because that mask character is just not a compelling character for me and nothing really seems to happen.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

Aussie💜😛 - I DID IT. [2038697199157030912].mp4

There’s a LOT of different versions of this on Twitter

 

[The Lawgiver]

Episode 4 was just boring. I genuinely skipped through it and fast forwarded a lot because that mask character is just not a compelling character for me and nothing really seems to happen.

did you miss the mask character getting hit by a fucking truck by mistake immediately after having a tiny bit of actual character development? It's a really funny gag to me and it seems even the show kinda realized her mask thing was kinda one note and boring at that point which is why they made her into a shitty mcdonalds manager

 

[Dave.]

did you miss the mask character getting hit by a fucking truck by mistake immediately after having a tiny bit of actual character development? It's a really funny gag to me and it seems even the show kinda realized her mask thing was kinda one note and boring at that point which is why they made her into a shitty mcdonalds manager

I did and I surprisingly didn’t laugh. Then again I also skipped over a lot of it because it was so boring to sit through.

 

[The Lawgiver]

I did and I surprisingly didn’t laugh. Then again I also skipped over a lot of it because it was so boring to sit through.

by the way that boring adventure was the mask one's decision
She could have fucking suggested anything and her suggestion was "let's work at mcdonalds today"

I can completely understand the AI mouth man's growing fucking frustration with these people he's trapped in his VR game he wants to be friends with and take on cool adventures. Almost all of them are boring or assholes or boring assholes given they use the suggestion box and the one that's picked is just "let's work at mcdonalds" and even when given what they wanted they end up hating it!

 

[The Great One]

Aussie💜😛 - I DID IT. [2038697199157030912].mp4

He made another one but its short.

Also lmao grok's news

 

[The Lawgiver]

Rewatching this series again tonight maybe because I do find it funny in my own way and aim to stay awake for the tomorrow cause I gotta be up really early. Anyways from the clips of it I witnessed from a cut down reaction/review by some random group of guys I know nothing about where they're just drunk and laughing the whole time I got glimpses of every episode and once again I become ever more angry at the goyslop soyslop spam video essayist theories about shit that take one off jokes or running gags to be super serious deeplore implications.

Spoiler: FADHAJAJHSFGAK;a'

A BIG starter of the "nothing real nothing matter they're all actually just npcs and not human!" bullshit claims was based partly on caine going "i didn't know you could do that god for you!" to jax calling him over which he literally does episodes beforehand THE JOKE IS LITERALLY IT WAS ALREADY FUCKING DONE BEFORE WITHOUT HIM SAYING THAT SHIT IT'S A FUCKING JOKE ABOUT IT BEING A CALLBACK TO A PRIOR EPISODE!

...I'm pretty sure i rambled about this shit pages back

Anyways seriously the "nothing real everybody npc brain scan" would genuinely be the most boring fucking ending. An actual exit is constantly fucking hinted at and caine's stress over him trying to fix scratch's brain by messing with it to stop the tumor causing him to abstract ( ALREADY MENTIONED BY SOMEONE ELSE) and likely fucking die as well. The entire adventure revealed to be a fake chance at escape to see if they wanted to keep hanging in the digital world with him in general is Interesting. It's kinda hinted in that episode and prior ones he's fascinated with the outside world , and it's confirmed literally the episode after that he likely used the actual company's backstory to some extent in his fake one with some details added for more drama and cool factor)
TL;DR the one piece is real (world)

Scratch, a programmer (who was a dog in the circus)

I have a mild schizo theory that's been forming that's like the one thing that's only SLIGHTLY close to these retarded theories slammed around minus the actual horrible terrible no good long ass video essay telling people what to think about an Internet cartoon and a lot more pointless!

Spoiler: es nawt a 2ma

Scratching something off means to get it removed
You know what's left when shit gets removed? nothing. void. Null.



Scratch being a dog that's kinda like an anthropomorphic wikihow dog and a coder activates my potential nooticer. Yes I know the artstyle is vastly different here but it's clearly the same fucking side profile shot of a floppy eared dog

I'm sure you understand what this implies (hint: stop gooning to turbo teen)

EDIT: also has anyone clipped that one second long-ish clip of caine just laughing manically and dying in the theater seat? That kinda shit seems like the sort of thing that'd be used as a reaction video is all.

 

[Joe Headroom]

I can completely understand the AI mouth man's growing fucking frustration with these people he's trapped in his VR game he wants to be friends with and take on cool adventures almost all of them are given boring or assholes or boring assholes given they use the suggestion box and the one that's picked is just "let's work at mcdonalds" and even when given what they wanted they end up hating it

"Can we maybe pick [an adventure] that's more... normal?"
"Well, I don't know what's NORMAL to you people!" Caine reads from a card "Let's have [an adventure] where we all work at a fast food place. Is that normal?"

https://youtu.be/Q9KWcWKo2T8?t=165

Caine was created to create endless content for people in the circus. His original creators, Kinger and Scratch, likely gave Caine vague instructions such as 'create adventures people will like', or 'be relatable to humans'. But Caine has no concept of what people would like, because he's not a human. So he's bound by his limitations to complete a task he cannot comprehend and constantly fails while doing it, which probably has some negative reinforcement in his programming which causes him torment. Caine doesn't feel pain, but he feels something when he knows he failed. The worst part for Caine is that without these humans he has no purpose and he knows this, so he must be around humans even though by doing so he continues to fail at his only purpose.

Episode 7 was Caine's best attempt to create an adventure that the humans would like. He has no concept of the ramifications of that adventure, only that he was fulfilling what the humans wanted because they wouldn't stop talking about it.

Objectively though, working at McDonalds is a fucking terrible adventure. The episode continues to take a nosedive as we're forced to endure Gangle's plastic mask as an allegory for taking medication to treat her bipolar disorder. Wow. Amazing.

 

[The Lawgiver]

aine doesn't feel pain, but he feels something when he knows he failed.

He clearly feels emotional pain at least given how fucking distraught and pissy he gets over them literally just wanting to do nothing but leave

The worst part for Caine is that without these humans he has no purpose and he knows this, so he must be around humans even though by doing so he continues to fail at his only purpose.

And this is why he doesn't let them fucking leave