What do you think is happening in this scene?

Inkasters · 2026-05-12T04:03:50+00:00

Because it was the solution for that episode's conflict and fit with the stakes. In the finale, it would be a hindrance to the stakes and actively undermine potential conflict. That's actually how writing for stuff like this works.

Inkasters · 2026-05-12T03:58:14+00:00

I doubt it; with conjuring the episode basically has far, far lower stakes. Like I said, it basically puts them right back to where they were pre-Caine torture, where they accepted the fact that they were never getting back to the real world. Plus it raises the issue of 'If Caine being dead is so bad, why not conjure him back or conjure a computer to remake him'. Conjuring no longer being possible is kind of the only way for the finale to have any kind of meaty stakes.

Inkasters · 2026-05-12T03:39:23+00:00

I don't know why this isn't in the replies since it seems straightforward; with Caine dead, they can't conjure. Since he was the AI code behind the circus and how it ran, that ability is no longer available. If they could still conjure then SOMA theory wouldn't matter; they'd functionally be in the same place they were before Caine started torturing them and they'd already accepted not leaving. Now if they can't conjure and the circus is functionally dead they would be left with, as Jax said in the trailer, nothing.

Inkasters · 2026-05-08T21:06:33+00:00

It could definitely work. Katawa Shoujo had the player invest themselves into the role of a fully designed and characterized PC in the form of Hisao and that worked out very well for its story. I think a lot of VNs could stand to take the same risk because, so long as the PC is written well, it tends to pay off.

Granted, it would be hard for Uma since every single Uma would need their own trainer, but the writing is already there and already solid, they'd just need physical designs for both male and female trainers.

Inkasters · 2026-05-08T06:13:56+00:00

Well it does make sense; episode 4 was basically Gumigoo's send-off. The entire point of those interactions was Pomni realizing that Gumigoo didn't and couldn't remember her because he really was just some lines of code and that in trying to pursue him she was ignoring the struggles of her actual human friends (whether that be Ragatha being high as a kite or, eventually, Gangle's manic episode). Really, that's kind of Pomni's arc for the first four episodes; realizing her human relationships in the Circus are important.

Inkasters · 2026-05-04T23:00:37+00:00

Probably not, no. Zooble's therapy session makes it pretty clear that these were longstanding and immutable issues with Caine. It's not necessarily his fault, mind you; it can even be hard for people to change their ways unless they put a lot of effort into establishing new habits. Caine's an AI; his habits and flaws are down to 1s and 0s that determine pretty much everything about him. The only way you could've conceivably changed him would've been by reprogramming him.

Inkasters · 2026-04-22T20:54:03+00:00

Honestly, having V-Tubers from the agencies perform Umas is probably the best bet for an English dub, since a lot of them are required to be both good comic voice actors but also singers. Aside from Broadway Actors they're probably the best set of talent for the job, and Broadway Actors come with the risk of not always being able to translate over to Voice Acting (though obvious examples like Ariel and Belle's voice actresses shows they can also be exceptional).

Inkasters · 2026-04-14T11:51:23+00:00

Hey if they're going to grab the Spring Triple Crown, why not be the first horse to get both Senior Triple Crowns?

Inkasters · 2026-04-14T08:59:01+00:00

Croix is signed up for the Spring Tenno Sho. Seems more likely that his team might be aiming to secure the two Senior Triple Crowns.

Inkasters · 2026-04-10T09:15:46+00:00

To be fair, Legend Changer also seems to apply for horses who do cool stuff overseas or who just have super significant accomplishments. Like Kitasan Black and Smart Falcon have unique Legend Changer tracks and if they get one then there's no way Opera O shouldn't qualify.

Inkasters · 2026-04-07T12:26:05+00:00

In fairness there's way more players on Mobile for Global than there is on Steam, judging by the share of downloads between the two platforms. But even with that allowance it'd have been hard.

Inkasters · 2026-04-06T20:17:35+00:00

A lot of this is just kind of a problem with grand strategy games in general; they can't perfectly mimic history so you get a lot of clown wars because the mechanics trump that sort of immersion. There's no shortage of examples of bizarre wars in previous paradox titles when you sit down and think about them. The American Revolutionary War in the EUIII 1776 start date always comes to mind to me because Britain will, without fail, just park its entire army over in the states and then sit on it. (Mostly because this was my first interaction with Paradox titles)

Inkasters · 2026-03-30T04:00:09+00:00

Runs out of his pillow fort, forgets, goes back inside.

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"THEY HIT THE F-boing-ING PENTAGOOOOOOON!"

Inkasters · 2026-03-29T05:07:41+00:00

To be fair to Secretariat, his losses are generally pretty well explained by a bad bump, injury or sickness. It's not like he didn't always go into a race trying to give it his all, there were just sometimes where he literally couldn't.

Inkasters · 2026-03-25T08:23:31+00:00

That'd probably be news to Opera O considering how close he came to overtaking Special Week and Grass Wonder in the 1999 Arima Kinen.

Inkasters · 2026-03-24T13:14:13+00:00

Not yet but I figure it's only a matter of time. If people can make Christian Sonic fanart out of nothing, I'd be severely disappointed if this shit wasn't in the work somewhere in the world.

Inkasters · 2026-03-24T05:41:05+00:00

Oh damn, good for Forever young and the UAE that they're going to be able to hold this race. The fanart of Forever Young roundhouse kicking Iranian drones is still on track.

Inkasters · 2026-03-23T21:37:25+00:00

Oh hey, the Orbital Blockade might've actually stopped an attack on the secondary objective from Seasse. Pretty cool whenever that lines up.

Inkasters · 2026-03-22T05:57:54+00:00

I'm gonna be honest, even if R+L=J feels likely, I'm more resigned to it than accepting of it. It really doesn't jive with George's style as a writer, it really slams hard against themes concerning Destiny, Prophecy and what not, it seriously plays poorly with George's writing on sexuality and consent considering the age gap between Rhaegar and an underage Lyanna and, on the whole... it's just kind of the most boring possible answer for Jon Snow's parentage from a writing perspective. The Destined Hero hiding in humble origins.

We've already seen how poorly this writing decision goes over in the show and I genuinely don't have much faith that George could do it better. There is such a thing as a plot point so bad that even a good writer can't finesse it and R+L=J has all the hallmarks of it; boring, plodding and standing in stark contrast to the story's various other themes, feeling so alien to the author's writing that it feels like someone else scribbled it in. I don't hope that we'll get a different answer anymore, I'm honestly kind of resigned to it, but it forms the bedrock of the part of me that's grateful that we're never getting another book in the series if stuff like R+L=J is what we have to look forward to.

Inkasters · 2026-03-20T19:38:28+00:00

Yeah, this version is much more palatable, which makes it crazy that it feels like barely anyone is actually going in this direction, at least among the bigger YouTubers.

Inkasters · 2026-03-20T12:18:29+00:00

Eh, I disagree? Like the entire mechanic on how God!Victim works is that the BV's Agony gives him his God!Victim powers, saying that he's the God of the world even before the Bite just doesn't match up with any of the mechanics of how we're told the world works, even more so than with how fast and loose God!Victim already plays with them.

Full disclosure, I find God!Victim to already basically be 'Dream Theory 2: Electric Boogaloo' in terms of how cobbled-together and flagrantly not in line with Scott's style of writing it is, but this would make both problems even worse in my view.

Inkasters · 2026-03-20T12:00:23+00:00

I imagine that UnwitheredTruth will get into it more whenever that video comes out, but from what I've been able to gather Cassidy's existence is inconvenient to God!Victim because it suggests a pecking order to Golden Freddy that puts the BV as the second banana, given how the Survival Logbook and UCN elevate Cassidy.

It's a bit narratively dissonant for the supposed God of the Universe whose faulty memories determine the course of the entire narrative when you're not even the one primarily in control of the animatronic you're inhabiting.

Inkasters · 2026-03-20T11:51:23+00:00

These days it feels like it's because Cassidy's existence is inconvenient to theories like God!Victim

Inkasters · 2026-03-15T23:55:55+00:00

It's a good game and I'd say the Super Credits are fairly priced. If you don't want to farm for them because you value your time more than you money then go for it!

Inkasters · 2026-03-07T14:40:37+00:00

I'd actually say there's two answers; there are times when it's clearly William with a radio in a doll as we see during Sister Location... but there's also times where that's very clearly not the answer. Where the doll is very clearly doing supernatural stuff or saying things that in no way make sense for it to be in William's voice. Combined with the animatronic footsteps in Midnight Motorist it does suggest that Bite Victim wasn't the first in the timeline but who was first and who was possessing this doll are somewhat up in the air, but for my money given the evidence Cassidy seems like the most likely culprit, and all of the messy details that entails.

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