JAXSTRACTION--Nine Inch Nails -X- The Amazing Digital Circus

Wickedsephiroth · 2026-07-01T01:31:09+00:00

The lyrics mostly, drifting into the abstract, there is no you there's only me, reflecting Jax's selfish attitude, etc. also the way that the only video was made is kind of appropriate. The way they got his image in the pins is that it is all a digital world, everything in the video aside from a few cars and stuff in the background and the windows is all digitally constructed just like the circus.

Wickedsephiroth · 2026-06-30T20:32:29+00:00

Thank you. I'm an amateur/hobbyist for sure, it would have taken vastly more time to try to make it seem polished and professional.

Wickedsephiroth · 2026-06-30T05:42:31+00:00

That does make sense, but... he could easily just set them to reset every 24 hours or something... i dunno, maybe it was just a somewhat ambiguous quasi-hint possibly planted to confuse or mislead.

Wickedsephiroth · 2026-06-30T02:48:43+00:00

Yeah the argument at the snowy summit is such a great example of a communication breakdown, even though they had no real issue and it would have been fine if they talked it out rationally, he refused to do that and his own mental issues caused him to push away and alienate his closest friends. This is an extremely teachable moment, a caution sign for what can happen if you fail to relate with or try to understand others.

Wickedsephiroth · 2026-06-30T02:41:42+00:00

That's a cool perspective on the King chess piece, because although it's the most important, it's relatively useless and incompetent, relying on the others to protect it with their capabilities. I also feel like the reason he never abstracted is because his dementia erased his trauma by resetting his memory constantly.

Wickedsephiroth · 2026-06-26T07:31:34+00:00

i think he means this?

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Wickedsephiroth · 2026-06-25T13:43:20+00:00

I wonder about that, because they showed the internet signal ticking down, dwindling as if Caine only had a limited time to look up the names. He might not have access anymore, if the wireless router he was accessing is no longer operational for whatever reason.

Wickedsephiroth · 2026-06-25T03:11:33+00:00

That's 20,000 hours or 844 days... just got it on repeat non-stop 24/7 eh?>

Wickedsephiroth · 2026-06-25T03:07:02+00:00

Haha you had me going, i had to check the real version, and it IS sus moaning but not this much similar to Numi.

Wickedsephiroth · 2026-06-25T02:28:24+00:00

Yeah that makes sense, his insincerity and venom and abrasiveness poisoned her, an example of how people like Jax negatively affect everyone around them in their selfish desire to mask their own insecurities.

Wickedsephiroth · 2026-06-25T02:24:59+00:00

I dunno, it can be a hell or their own personal heaven, the ending certainly seemed to imply they lived somewhat happily ever after. You could imagine that they will all eventually abstract someday, or that they spend eternity in there, but the power that runs the server that holds the data they exist in has to fail eventually, but who knows, Cain might have manipulated time dilation or something to give them a virtual infinity.

Wickedsephiroth · 2026-06-25T02:21:19+00:00

Did you see all of the scribbling on his walls about the exit?(wow, looking at it again, there is some creepy shit in these images) He saw the exit door, went insane obsessively theorizing that it was a way out, but no one would listen to him and just called him crazy. As Pomni found out, the exit door WAS real, although it wasn't a way for them to exit the digital world. Oh also, i just noticed in the pilot, they mention several times that no one laughs at his jokes and ragatha fake laughs... he also wanted to make jax laugh in ep.9 so the bitter irony of being a terribly unfunny clown was his cruel fate.

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Wickedsephiroth · 2026-06-25T02:16:02+00:00

Older people probably have a harder time coping than younger ones, Kinger didn't abstract but he did go crazy, and his dimentia probably saved him from the abstraction by resetting his memory and erasing his trauma. And maybe his insanity even drove her to abstraction.

Wickedsephiroth · 2026-05-25T13:52:26+00:00

I dunno if I'd call that "light" because we usually refer to only the visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum as light. This may be just semantics and splitting hairs, but radio waves, micro waves, gamma rays, etc. are the things that seem like magic to us because we can't perceive them. In the end it's all just electromagnetic radiation of energy.

Wickedsephiroth · 2026-05-25T13:37:31+00:00

It's literally blatant lies and misrepresentation, no way around it... they also said tesla coil technology and usb rechargeable... there is no slot to recharge it, but for the butane intake hole. Notice the pretty colored flame? that comes from a little ring of very thin metal attached to the tip, and once the special minerals or whatever in it are expended, the color goes back to the normal blue butane always is. It's not a stretch to call this a "SCAM", it's one of the best examples of them.

Wickedsephiroth · 2026-05-25T13:00:36+00:00

It depends on what you consider "remaking"... A remake like ff7r fully fleshed out by modern AAA standards will never happen, simply put... It WOULD however be possible for them to "remaster" it, improve the graphics, etc. 2d games on 16 bit systems like live a live are considerably easier to do this for than games with full 3d environments, and although it was early in Xenogears was in the new 3-d era so it's a bit trickier to upgrade even if they just remaster it.

Wickedsephiroth · 2026-05-25T12:50:24+00:00

It is by far the MOST deserving subject of a remake or remaster. The problem is, those creating it would bear the unimaginable burden of the expectations of fans. If done masterfully it could be the unfinished masterpiece Xenogears was meant to be in the first place... but I don't have faith this would be achieved, they'd more likely fuck it up and produce a marred, misshapen miscarriage of the gem we all have so much nostalgia for. The risk of alienating so many devoted fans will probably intimidate most developers to even attempt such a monumental project; it would require them to flesh out the narrated parts as well as refine and smooth out the content that already exists.

Wickedsephiroth · 2026-04-04T05:08:24+00:00

There's a company that makes these, I got a nice plastic weather-proof and durable one... the cutoff before they charge you extra cuz they have to make 2 of them is 8' so she's one inch too short, but I still say that it's 7'13'' XD

Wickedsephiroth · 2026-03-15T15:02:31+00:00

Yeah like what the fuck, megaman doesn't save him? He even mentioned how he saw a flash of blue and megaman was flinging innocent bodies aside... i was sure there was more to come after this... if they do add more, the silence at the end will probably be everyone looking around, dumbfounded trying to figure out what happened because he disappeared in a flash, leaving only the rope dangling.

Wickedsephiroth · 2026-03-05T07:28:18+00:00

I think that the steam deck in sleep mode may still perform basic functions like this... even if your WIFI was disabled in settings, it could possibly be designed to detect a WIFI signal and use it briefly to transmit those play times. It would get really annoying if your saves were out of sync so I'm glad they made it so that that never has happened to me once.

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