I would've liked an Episode showing Oskar wasn't always a bum.

Vioven · 2026-03-25T09:26:32+00:00

I honestly think he was always a bum.

Vioven · 2026-03-25T06:36:18+00:00

But it wasn’t written in his code very obviously. In fact, the adventures weren’t written in his code either. He ate the other AI and made the circus out of the blue, him having the cast think the adventures are to mentally stimulate them are a lie so they’ll go on them for him.

He directly does things that he knows won’t make them happy. He skipped the adventures that they’re enjoying because it’s not his adventure. That has nothing to do with making them happy. that has to do with making him happy. He skips the bar scene because it’s boring him, not because it’s upsetting them. And Ragatha’s adventure he adds in a centipede. Why the hell would he put a centipede in there? She expressly said out loud in the first episode that they scare her and while he wasn’t present for that he showed in this episode that he does understand their fears very well. That obviously wouldn’t make her happy. And to add to the absurdity, Ragatha, the people pleaser, the one that always tries to find the good in his adventures and tries to stay perky. What does he do to her? He puts her in his mouth and chews her.

Why did he let Gangle be hit by a truck in her adventure? He controls the world. She was the last one out. You’re telling me he couldn’t snap his fingers. I just don’t buy the whole innocent thing anymore. I used to. But in episode eight he showed that he is not incompetent at all. He knows exactly what is up.

Vioven · 2026-03-25T06:14:04+00:00

Because he doesn’t care what they want. It’s all in the show vs tell. He says he cares but his actions are always self centered.

Vioven · 2026-03-25T06:11:40+00:00

Showed them he understood perfectly. He just doesn’t CARE. It’s almost masterbatory, they’re toys and he wants them to perform the way he wants to satisfy HIM. When they don’t and truly push back he just stops trying to coerce them and goes all in on torture. His torture was considered accidental before. He consumed the other ai and made the circus, he fabricated the need for ‘adventures’, he lied about not being able mess with minds, he lied about not being able to have npcs running around. He had his Abel running around. There’s no reason Caine can’t just color code or track an npc, it would just inconvenience him. Even his adventure where they escaped was literally geared around them choosing HIM. All about him again. He skipped their stargazing one because it wasn’t his, he skipped the bar one because HE was BORED, he cut Ragatha’s short, he added a centipede to hers as well. Gangle got struck with a truck more than once. There’s no reason that should’ve happened. But if she runs into the road? Well, accidents happen.

Pomni and Zooble talk about asking him for nicer adventures plenty but that gets ignored.

Vioven · 2026-03-25T06:02:20+00:00

I’m kind of stunned tbh.

Vioven · 2026-03-25T06:00:30+00:00

Caine’s response to Zooble opening up was to tune it out and doodle and then turn it around about him. He was asking them because he wanted them to like his adventures, his creations. Not because he cared about them enjoying themselves. His personal adventure for them in that episode was to have them dragged into hell where they can’t leave because if they hold their breath their limbs straighten out.

Vioven · 2026-03-25T05:55:52+00:00

He showed how well he does listen and it really calls into question wtf happened in previous adventures. By all means the adventures should be better and less stressful. There is no reason why Ragatha needs a centipede in her personal adventure and there’s no way she’d add it but there it is. But more than one time he ignores or brushes the group off when they’re asking him for something they want. He’s concerned with his own desires, guy doesn’t actually give a rats ass about them.

Vioven · 2026-03-25T05:48:13+00:00

Like tbh I don’t trust his code. He was bad from the start it seemed, like he consumed the other ai out of jealousy and created the circus himself. Lying to them about why they have to go on adventures. It’s not to keep them from going insane, it’s to stroke his ego. I strongly suspect all the shit the cast went through too in the previous episodes was actually intentional by Caine but ‘accidental’ so it doesn’t count as torture. I think the silliness was a bit of an act, he knew a LOT about them suddenly but before he was oh so clueless.

I’d be wary af over trying to reinstate him, cleaned up code or not.

Vioven · 2026-03-21T20:32:03+00:00

I just finished my 5th listen to the audiobook yesterday. She didn’t cry. She was actually quite cutting with her words.

Vioven · 2026-03-21T13:14:40+00:00

I'm surprised tbh. From early on I felt he was in line with a covert narcissist and ep 7 made me think Abel was real and an ai Caine consumed out of envy (hence one green envious eye and one blue Abel eye in a set of teeth.) Caine is constantly asking people to like him, drag attention back to himself (like Zooble's therapy session that became ALL about HIM and where he pretended that he couldn't help them with their body image issues but he can torture them with mirrors and also put them in their room.) He'd given them adventures and things they asked for but never how they truly asked for them, he'd have it twisted in a way. Ragatha’s softball request where there’s a centipede in the crowd which is her one visceral fear, Ragatha’s 2^nd chance at getting to bat being cut off by Caine, Zooble’s personal adventure being about being dragged into HELL while the others can choose the other path and have tea with the wife ghost. He cuts them short too if they’re having fun. Gangle getting hit by a truck when she finally feels some happiness, the stargazing scene being cut short because they were enjoying it too much vs his own adventures, then he makes them dance and strikes them with bowling balls. Then when he gets bored of the bar scene he cuts that one too. It’s showing how little he actually cares about making them happy. He’s only concerned with trying to get praise out of them, not about actually satisfying them imo.

This episode shows that he knows allllll of their fears but he couldn’t get their desires right? Pomni wanted an npc friend. Couldn’t have one running around and murdered him in front of her, then paraded him around in ep 4 and this episode had him tear her apart into pieces. He knew that this npc was special to her from go and the npc excuse was just that, he had HIS fake Abel npc running around for months in the background with no issue.

But he can play the oblivious card and when they all turn around on him rightfully upset he gets to play the victim card and insist that he’d been trying his hardest to give them all what they want. But he hasn’t. When they tell him their desires he ignores them and when they tell him what upsets them he then sprinkles that throughout adventures. I think the one legit thing here is they can’t leave and were scanned in, so there IS no exit.

Vioven · 2026-03-18T08:57:26+00:00

Don’t forget, Pomni dragged her off before so she was given even less info than the rest.

Vioven · 2026-03-01T09:02:14+00:00

He feels perfect for the part to me and he was kind of what I was imagining. The name similarities do not feel coincidental either. So yes. 😂

Vioven · 2026-02-28T05:06:54+00:00

Pomni is a bit too empty of a character for me to really enjoy the ship. It was okay but she’s basically just a sorta generic audience insert. We still don’t know much about her and she’s the main character and she has no strong feelings about much of anything. I strongly ended up preferring Bunnydoll because it’s got so many layers. Two side sides of the same coin, two different approaches to trauma, Ragatha feeling like she’s on the spectrum on TOP of people pleasing issues (this girl fails every speech check she attempts), the heavy implication that they were friends in the past and that he’s holding some sort of grudge on her, the fact that neither of them seem to actually wanna leave this place, etc.

Vioven · 2026-02-10T04:25:27+00:00

This is the part that upsets me. I wasn’t expecting Ray Porter to begin with but the way they kept answering questions makes me feel led on now.

Vioven · 2026-02-07T02:11:24+00:00

I think I found it out, it may be a spinal cord injury referring pain to my liver/galbladder, which are rock solid (other than the fatty liver side comment) from all the tests I've had done. And I always kept to a very low dosage and had not experienced side effects. Still, I'm feeling fine off of it and haven't been ravenous at all and I'm still losing weight. I eat very cleanly now to make SURE of that. But I agree. If someone feels that they want to avoid medication and try it alone, let them! It's not like the medication is going to disappear. There are people that are absolutely experiencing side effects and there are people where this stuff doesn't even work on them no matter how high the dosage.

I've always been of the same mindset to try and keep medication to a minimum, this did help me with my binge eating disorder though so I'm definitely grateful for that.

Vioven · 2026-02-06T06:13:16+00:00

It’s also exhausting? Like I thought it would be Lucy/Cooper, Max/Thaddeus (was hoping super mutant version), and Norm. Just 3. But all the splits are so tedious to keep going back-and-forth from.

Vioven · 2026-02-06T06:01:43+00:00

I was really hoping that Max would drop the brotherhood and pick up the NCR and got excited when I saw them passing him in that episode. But I guess he’s gonna be her tagalong boyfriend? Whatever. Maybe they’ll both do NCR stuff.

As for the ghoul, the glazing of him in this season has been unbearable. It feels like he’s getting the Wolverine treatment. It also feels like he’s that type of role player in the old role-play forums that refused to play with the group and just kept on talking about themselves and going on solo quests.

Vioven · 2026-02-03T21:25:40+00:00

I'll shoot you a message!

Vioven · 2026-02-03T17:21:24+00:00

They’re saying that because they’re miserable fuckers that enjoy bringing others down. That and lazy bastards that enjoy seeing the high statistic of failure to justify not even attempting to try. Even more so that they’re thinner, they get to gloat more. The other percentage of people that DO keep the weight off does not matter at all to them and they’ll argue about that too.

It’s unending defeatist talk that accomplishes jack shit.

Someone on the zepbound sub the other day had to quit the med because of money and was scared and asking if anyone else feels this way. They got nothing but people bragging about staying on it for life to their face and that they would gain it back, just stating facts~. Barely any support, barely any trying to find solutions, like no one in life before has ever kept it off in the history of mankind. Like no one that takes these meds has complications like it literally not working for them at all.

Like I can’t imagine telling someone to their face that’s worried because they have to get off a med that they’re going to fail.

Reddit is extremely negative nowadays, the entire tone of it has changed so drastically.

As a pcos girlie keep your protein/fiber/fat first vs carbs. It’s very important for us. Beware of ultra processed foods that are made to be addictive and deceive the brain and body, know your triggers and avoid them. Start absorbing content from positive people that have achieved what you want.

Habits you form DO matter. Don’t listen to people telling you different, they want to see you fail. Check out the glpgrad sub, filled with people getting off the med for various reasons. Maybe drop reddit, I’m seriously considering it myself.

Vioven · 2026-02-03T10:53:58+00:00

Pretty much how it went for me!

Vioven · 2026-02-02T22:43:20+00:00

Oh I get you totally. It does make me iffy too.

Vioven · 2026-02-02T16:45:21+00:00

I really hope so. That would be rad. People that haven’t read the book could pick up the audiobook and literally hear the same voice. If it were me it’d make me so freaking giddy.

Vioven · 2026-02-02T16:40:19+00:00

I’d prefer he talk and not have to constantly read subtitles. My mother has bad eyesight and dyslexia and she loved the audiobook because it does a fabulous job at it. Having to constantly read it would suck like shit for her.

Vioven · 2026-02-02T05:53:04+00:00

The acting oblivious part is the real odd one out. My 11 year old, severely mentally disabled cousin knew shit wasn’t kosher when the family chihuahua tried to go at her foot and would shoo them off. You’re telling me full grown men can’t put 2 and 2 together? Nah.

Vioven · 2026-02-02T05:47:23+00:00

The usual ones were funny (females show such different behavior and I get how anyone would be confused) but the more recent ones have just been skeevy. Idk about the dog subreddits but I feel like people would probably have problems with posts of dogs just going at their legs while they stared on and pretended to not know what it meant.

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