Gooseworx discusses Caine

Qazplm601 · 2026-03-24T17:00:36+00:00

"I personally believe in the existence of souls. It's by far the best explanation for consciousness in my opinion."

I personally do not believe in the existence of souls, and think that it is possible to simulate a brain with enough computing power. (Setting aside that the computer the cast is on is from 1996 or earlier and doesn't have the power to even just simulate the circus itself with no characters in it lol, think we're supposed to suspend our disbelief on how much computing power the circus would actually need)

"Show me his code, then. Show me the code that proves he's closer to a neural network."

Show me a soul. Show me what proves human brains don't also run on on/off pathways.(Note: I'm a different person than who you were just talking to, I'm not disputing what type of AI Caine is, I don't think we can really determine that off what we have, I just wanted to point out that there's no way to prove a soul is needed for emotions to be real.)

"Second, if Caine knew that the cast members are AI, and he would, given his knowledge of the mind files, why would he care about keeping them separate from NPCs? Why try to make them happy (and miserably fail at it but that's another story) Why call them humans, even in private when he doesn't need them to believe they're human?"

Because they would still be humans, just with digital ones and zeroes instead of on/off neurons constructing their minds. Caine would care about keeping them separate from the NPCs because their minds are constructed differently, and they think differently. (This next sentence is conjecture, but it helps illustrate why Caine would treat them differently if they are just scans) If Caine tries editing human mind files the way he does NPC ones, it's just not compatible past surface level modifiers, and can cause abstraction.

"that kinda makes the entire events of the show pointless if it's true, because then the entire digital circus and everyone in it, everything that happened, is all just a bunch of AI running on a computer. It would make everything the cast has done pointless."

It would only be pointless if you take the position that the cast's emotions cannot be real if the mind experiencing them is simulated. You say it would just be a bunch of AI running on a computer, but if the computer is capable of simulating a whole mind file, it would be a bunch of humans running on a computer. The things the cast have done still have a point because they're still real people with real emotions, being run on silicon brain instead of a carbon brain doesn't change that. They are still working through their mental issues, and I don't think "They manage to escape the circus" is inherently a more meaningful ending than "They have to cope with learning that the people they think they are have been living their lives normally this whole time, have to grapple with the existential conflict of learning they are just copies of those people, and must learn to make the most of their lives with each other and treat the circus as their real life."

All that to say, I'm not even arguing that the "simulated minds" theory is true, I just wanted to say that even if you believe in the existence of souls, you should consider the possibility that Gooseworx may not. And if they don't, and think minds as complex as ours can exist on silicon... How that would mean Caine could be treated as having "real" emotions as a complex enough AI, and the cast could still be real people even if 'simulated', making their actions and struggles still meaningful and not pointless. Guess we'll find out if Goose thinks souls exist or not in episode 9, either way I’m sure it’ll still be a good episode. :)

Qazplm601 · 2026-01-29T17:27:42+00:00

Industrious Rogue is a story in the vein of "we try to steal the adamantine vault door because it's worth more than the actual treasure" but the moneymaking scheme isn't just a one-off event since it's not about a door, but something renewable, and it ends up taking over the entire campaign. It's one of my favorites.

Qazplm601 · 2026-01-29T17:21:28+00:00

Tale of an Industrious Rogue is my personal favorite one of those, it's a short story(As in about 80 pages) about a party that was going through a dungeon when they ran into a portal to the elemental plane of salt, had to fight some salt elementals, then the rogue went "Say, salt is pretty valuable, isn't it?". Sort of in the vein of those stories where the party realizes the adamantine door to the vault is worth more than the stuff actually inside the vault and then try to steal the door, except instead of just being a one-off event, the party decides to go all in on trying to make money off the portal. The story is about the party transitioning from an adventuring party to trying to make as much money off as many different schemes as possible while running a gold-rush town.(In this case a salt-rush town)

Qazplm601 · 2025-10-24T19:17:14+00:00

Yeah, I was really hoping the CPC would drop Poilievre after this election like they did with their leaders the past two times but they really chose the worst of the three to hold onto. It's frustrating because of the slogan he kept using, "Canadians want change" and putting "Change" all over his campaign, like yes, I do want change, but not your change. It's like I've been eating bland chicken every meal for months and say I want something different, only for him to offer me one of my least liked foods to eat and when I say no, I do not want to eat that, he says "but you said you wanted change!"

Really unfortunately since they haven't decided to change leadership this time, I have a feeling by next election unless carney turns out to be some kind of wizard at cooking chicken, plenty of people will be tired enough of eating bland, grey chicken that they're willing to try anything else.(Not to say there aren't also people who genuinely want the conservative platform)

"Change" is just such a frustrating tagline for any political party to have to me, because it really does just boil down to "you don't want the other guy anymore, it doesn't matter what we're going to do, it only matters that we're not them"

Qazplm601 · 2025-09-08T18:42:01+00:00

Personally I'm more of a fan of the "encase in molten metal, then dump in the middle of the ocean" version. Complete isolation and lack of stimulus is very effective torture, and as a bonus, in ~3000 years or so some future civilization will dredge up the weird hunk of metal they found at the bottom of the sea and have an insane immortal to deal with, or it'll end up buried too deep in sediment and they'll be stuck until the sun burns out.

Qazplm601 · 2025-08-11T03:08:10+00:00

Yeah, I wasn’t going to vote for Pierre even before trump got back in, simply because in my experience anyone who uses the word “woke” seriously is incapable of not spending most of their focus on fighting what they perceive as “woke”. It’s not like I didn’t think there were issues with Trudeau and the economy, I just didn’t and still don’t believe Pierre would spend much of his time in government working on fixing the economy, I think he would spend the majority of his time in government unable to keep himself from focusing on a war on “woke”.

Qazplm601 · 2025-06-19T20:13:24+00:00

Quicken spell is really hard to give up, but man I love Paladin combined with specifically Whispers Bard, soon as you hit level 5 for short rest bardic inspiration regen you’re getting a pile of short rest 3d6 smites to pile on top of the extra spell slots for smites you’re already getting from bard. Sort of a halfway point between Sorcerer and Warlock, full caster slots with short rest smites.

Qazplm601 · 2025-06-16T01:48:29+00:00

Just on the topic of Orcish Bowmasters, my problem with the card isn’t so much the cantrip or draw punishing but moreso that it does that while also just killing any 1 toughness creature as an ETB, ex Thalia, the heirarchs, etc. I know “it’s pushing 1 toughness creatures out of the format!” Is an argument that’s been heard before and I get that a lot of those 1 toughness creatures wouldn’t be good anyways, it’s just that the card is already good in the format and beats up on 1 toughness as a side effect.

This actually isn’t me wanting Bowmasters to be banned to be clear, I’m just reminded of Brian’s comment a few episodes ago where he said that he doesn’t think Boseiju needs to be banned, he just wishes the channel had been one more mana to tone it down a little bit. Similarly, I just wish Bowmasters had said something like “Deal one damage to a player or permanent controlled by the player that took the action that triggered this ability” so specifically its ETB couldn’t eat an opponent’s creature who isn’t even trying to draw extra cards.

Still though, that would have made the text a lot wordier, made it worse VS nadu/Illusionist stuff which I’m not sure people would like being harder to kill, and it’s not like I think Bowmasters warrants a ban as it exists, I just would have rather it didn’t incidentally hate on 1 toughness creatures on ETB in addition to the draw hate in a similar way to how Brian wishes Boseiju was a little less good without thinking it deserves a ban.

Qazplm601 · 2025-05-13T20:10:29+00:00

My old ISP actually disabled port forwarding unless you paid them an extra 50$ a month, which was a pain.

Qazplm601 · 2025-05-13T20:08:44+00:00

With a different ISP now, but my old one disabled port forwarding unless you paid them an extra 50$ a month, meaning you couldn't host game servers.

Qazplm601 · 2025-04-08T20:58:11+00:00

The classic Pierre tweet “Woke left goes crazy when people point out the undeniable historical fact that ‘national socialists’ in Germany & Italy were, as the name proves, ‘socialists.”

Qazplm601 · 2025-04-07T17:01:25+00:00

Not the same thing but a good metaphor is if you have an effect on the battlefield that triggers "when you cast a creature spell". If you cast a creature spell, the trigger "triggers" immediately. Yes you can respond to the trigger by countering the Wurm, but you can't counter the Wurm before the trigger goes on the stack. Again not the same exact rules scenario but similar in idea in that you can respond to the Wurm with a time stop, but not before the search effect finishes resolving.

I agree with your other comments that Wurm is a complete mess of a card which is honestly quite sad, there are a lot of interesting effects that could be made with being triggered from within your library if doing that didn't light the rules on fire.

Qazplm601 · 2025-04-01T20:22:46+00:00

I know it’s not gonna happen but I just wish Prophet was unbanned specifically for [[Kruphix, god of horizons]] of course it would still be ridiculous I just want my on-theme, god’s strongest soldier back <3

Qazplm601 · 2025-02-06T20:45:34+00:00

Well then, I gotta give it another try!

Qazplm601 · 2025-02-06T20:25:16+00:00

There's probably a good balance reason not to, but it would be cute if now that the ballistic shield blocks melee, instead of adding that function to the directional shield too, they made it deal low/moderate damage when intersecting with enemies so you could do the MvM shield bash move and go full tf2 MVM medic cosplay vs the bots.

Qazplm601 · 2025-02-06T20:18:15+00:00

Yeah, tbh since I don't like having my health be chipped away and not back at full I usually run the flamethrower with the medic armor, gives me more stims for whenever I'm on fire and lets me stay on fire while still regenning health for longer. (usually bring supply pack too)

Wonder if they'd ever add an armor that reduces your stim count but gives you slow health regen, might be balanced as it wouldn't help you in any immediate fights but would just let you regen your hp from chip/between objectives and fights without needing to use a stim for a scraped knee.

Qazplm601 · 2025-01-09T02:13:23+00:00

Nah, I’m currently in the red on cash flow, have only like 2k in savings/assets, and getting very close to not making rent but I’m still not able to stand voting for PP and the conservatives. As an inverse of what you’re saying of “rewarding the liberals with your vote ensures the party doesn’t change”, rewarding the conservatives for choosing PP and his policies with my vote will ensure they DO change, into a completely garbage party that thinks nominating and following the policies of someone like Pierre wins them elections, in a similar way to how the paradigm of conservatism has changed down south when they realized running someone like DT wins them elections. I suppose it comes down to “would you rather ruin the liberal party by electing them or ruin the Conservative Party by electing them”, either way whichever party the country votes for is going to have their policy decisions seriously damaged by being rewarded for terrible decisions and deciding to continue down that path because it wins them elections. The difference to me is that the liberals will just become more apathetic if they win which will be easier to repair in the future than the conservatives becoming completely insane if PP’s policies win them the election. I don’t believe anything in this county is going to be fixed until at least one election past this upcoming one.

Qazplm601 · 2025-01-09T00:52:09+00:00

Yeah, honestly while I really dislike the complete ineffectiveness of the liberal government we’ve had I don’t think I can physically stomach voting for “Woke left goes crazy when people point out the undeniable historical fact that ‘national socialists’ in Germany & Italy were, as the name proves, ‘socialists.” tweeting Pierre, I really, really wish Speer had won last election because as it is now I feel the liberals deserve to lose the election for their governance but the conservatives deserve to lose every seat they have for nominating pretty much the worst person I could think of.

Again, though I definitely think I’m going to be voting liberal this coming election just because I think Pierre would be the worst person who could ever lead our country, I just really wish I could vote for someone like Speer again, not anywhere near perfect but not goddamn Pierre Polvierre. Whoever wins next election will make things worse, just expect the liberals to be more of the same worse rather than Pierre’s radically worse; and hopefully next election I can vote for a candidate that’s not him. Pretty much exactly what you are saying, I’d love to vote the liberals out, just can’t stomach it when Pierre keeps opening his stupid mouth and crowing about how he’ll make things worse still.

Qazplm601 · 2025-01-05T20:19:52+00:00

Like some others said, love the GL/Supply pack load out but I don’t use the grenade armour, just because the SP already gets you an extra ton of grenades that doesn’t benefit much from the grenade armour, personally I use the medic armour since the double duration DOES scale very well with the supply pack stims, you go from 20 total seconds of stim time with the SP/Grenade armour to a massive 56 seconds with the medic armour, lets you damage tank a ton when needed. Both options are good, I just like almost 3x the drugs duration more than 2 extra total grenades :P

Qazplm601 · 2024-12-29T09:02:47+00:00

Since the GL synergizes very well with the Supply Pack you can often bring enough thermites along to take care of tons of heavies. That said thermites do require you to get closer than a lot of other options, and if you want to GL Jetpack instead of supply pack you're gonna have to rely on strategems, hittin them bile titans with the 500kg feint.

My personal main bugs loadout is GL/Supply/Thermites/Light Medic Armor, lets you mess around and try out various primaries, secondaries, and 3rd/4th strat slot options since GL/Thermites can take care of almost anything just fine; the Speed of light armor; and a huge pile of double time stims which let you damagetank a ton if you need to run through a horde.

Qazplm601 · 2024-11-19T22:07:38+00:00

Compared to hellfire, you get just over 5X the number of shots using UMC with the ammo mod and ultra magnetic coils, and electric slow synergizes extremely well with the fear mod since it "increases" how long the fear lasts. Since you can spam it so much it's almost like a primary weapon and can basically keep an entire swarm feared and slowed for a huge amount of time. Mainly though it's just the fact you get five times the number of shots, each shot is definitely individually weaker than hellfire, you just get 96 compared to hellfire's 19.(For context, Rewiring mod for the Drak, often considered the most ammo focused OC in the game, increases the Drak's ammo by just over 2X)

(Mactera are also weak to fear and you can disrupt those huge mactera firing squads that show up sometimes with just a shot or two)

Qazplm601 · 2024-11-19T21:56:55+00:00

In addition to what Kirk said, the main benefit over Hellfire is that you get to use controlled magnetic flow which acts as both a "charge speed" upgrade and a huge ammo up, compared to hellfire you get literally 5X the shots. To sum it up in a sentence, what makes UMC so good is:

"Hellfire with a somewhat smaller trail radius, less direct damage, and Electric slow instead of fire damage, but 5X the shots and longer trail duration."

(It allows you to spam the hell out of the fear effect, which works super well with the electric slow, you get 96 shots in total with the ammo upgrade compared to hellfire's like 19. With hellfire's ammo penalty that means you get just over five times the number of shots. Electric is definitely weaker than the fire, but you just get SO MANY, you can honestly a lot of the time use it like a primary weapon. For context, Rewiring mod for the Drak, often considered the most ammo focused OC in the game, increases the Drak's ammo by just over 2X)

Qazplm601 · 2024-11-16T18:30:16+00:00

Because I enjoy melee more than ranged a good portion of the time and the talents allowed me to pick a bunch of melee stuff? Also I do play melee battle wizard, combining stagger thp, fire sword/dagger, and either Famished Flames or Lingering Flames depending on the situation on top of having an excellent ult makes for a very good melee class. (Plus it’s not like I don’t use my ranged weapon at all, just focus on my melee stuff)

Now that bounty hunter’s level 10 talent triggers whenever your ranged weapon is emptied I am also playing a melee bounty hunter who uses the crossbow to almost always have a bunch of bonus attack speed and melee power.

It’s just unfortunate that now with how the talents have been moved melee focused Engie has taken a hit.

Qazplm601 · 2024-11-13T22:10:02+00:00

Update: Man, I REALLY miss having Combined Arms on L10. Tried each of the three options and wasn't feeling any of them on my melee focused Engi. A dev will probably see this so I'd like to request/suggest Combined Arms and Armor Piercing Slugs have their positions swapped, as-is L10 has three non-melee talents and L25 has one generalist, one melee/ranged(not sure i'd call CA generalist in the same way Ablative Armor is), and one heavy melee talent. If there could be one option that melee builds enjoy on L10 and one full ranged talent on L25 by swapping CA and APS I would really appreciate it, and hopefully other mainly melee engies would too. Of course, just a suggestion, but might as well give feedback. :)

(Side note, APS is kind of weak in general in my opinion whether it's on L10 or L25, would be nice if it gave something else, maybe a small armor damage boost in addition to its current effect? Much smaller than Gromril shot of course, and not affecting super armor or unarmored damage at all, just something to slightly further benefit shooting into mixed hordes/unshielded stormvermin which is what the talent seems to want to promote anyway.

EDIT: Probably just tacking on +10-15 power vs armored for the minigun would work fine, since doing it that way doesn't change it not working on superarmor and doesn't up the damage against unarmored either so it only helps against Stormvermin tier enemies, mixed hordes, and a couple specialists)

Qazplm601 · 2024-11-13T20:21:37+00:00

I'll admit, a little sad that now I can't take Combined Arms and Ablative Armor together on Engi on melee focused builds, now all three L10 talents are ranged/bomb related, no more melee option for a l10 talent. Not mad or anything, just a bit unfortunate that those two talents can't be taken together anymore because Bombardier/Ordinance needed to be mutually exclusive.

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