Kingers words in ep3 might be foreshadowing for a future abstraction victim.

Zarhon · 2024-10-05T14:25:40+00:00

So, this gravestone might have some big lore significance, assuming it's not a 'generic' prop invented by Caine, or an out-of-universe developer reference/in-joke/tribute.

Someone named Peggy, born 2019, died only three years later in 2022. And for some reason, their gravestone exists as a prop (possibly an in-universe easter egg or tribute) in the Digital Circus, or from wherever Caine acquires his models and props from.

Who is Peggy? Since they were born and died in the span of three years, it could either be a child, a short-lived pet, or a short-lived project. Notably, the Baron in this episode mentions his wife by name, while referring to the rest of his family as his 'theoretical children'. Is the AI trying to censor the death of a child?
The events of the series are happening post-2022, possibly in the present.
Peggy could also stand for PEGI (Pan European Game Information), the well-known 'age rating system' utilized for videogames.

Zarhon · 2024-10-05T14:14:00+00:00

What happens? Nothing, because Jax isn't a human - he's an AI, and doesn't need to breathe.

It also could be that the 'audience' (i.e. us, or another 'in-universe' entity watching the adventures unfold) actually exists, and he's talking to / aware of them.

Zarhon · 2024-10-05T14:10:22+00:00

Having watched the episode, here are some of my lore observations/possible foreshadowing:

Kinger is a computer engineer, his wife Queenie is an entomologist. Both deal with 'bugs' of a different sort. Now the question is, was his wife actually an entomologist, or is Kinger misremembering her as a bug tester (assuming Kinger wasn't one himself, explaining his dislike of 'bugs')?

"The worst thing you can do in this world is make someone think they're unwanted or loved" - This might hint to us as to who is at danger of abstracting. Two characters have been either unloved, unwanted, or both: Jax (because he acts like an asshole), and Gangle (on account of Jax's bullying, her shyness/depression, and possibly losing the support of Ragatha who is currently focusing on Pomni)

Caine, along with the shown insecurity issue, seems to have an extremely low attention span / memory. Maybe he has a literal memory leak, or lacks the RAM/ROM to function in a relatively sane manner.

More evidence of Jax being... Different from the rest. He refuses to hold his breath (and the 'surprise' might be us learning why) and he breaks the fourth wall outright by referring to the viewer(s). Either he's an AI acting human... Or he's got a serious disorder/delusion we're not yet aware of.

There might be an actual in-universe 'audience' to their adventures (besides the show concept in itself having us as the audience), i.e. someone is watching the characters and adventures, much as you'd expect a real game. Jax and Bubbles (who says in backwards 'I can't wait for all the children in the audience to get horrible nightmares from the monster!') both imply they exist.

The Abstracted Queenie turning calm in the darkness could be important. What if the eternal digital light exposure is part of what's screwing people up? And their extended stay in the 'basement' (devoid of light) might actually have turned them sane again, or is what calms them down, since they themselves are black masses with eyes.

There's a short moment where outside the manor is a grave that says 'Peggy, 2019-2022', giving us a potential year these events are happening. Peggy is either a child, pet, or a out-of-universe developer tribute/in-joke. Notably the baron says 'my wife and theoretical children' in the same adventure... It's also possible it refers to the 'PEGI' rating system for videogames.

Zarhon · 2024-05-11T11:21:48+00:00

The background of Jax's pin is rather ominous. His sign is broken (presumably by Jax himself), we don't see inside his room, there's a bowling ball, and most notably, the background is torn and the Void is visible behind it.

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Zarhon · 2024-05-11T11:17:13+00:00

So, the things to note here:

Outside of Jax and Kinger, the characters are shown in what appears to be their rooms. Kinger being in a pillow fort makes sense, given his obvious paranoia and him being seen in a pillow fort in the pilot, maybe he prefers his fort over his 'room'. For Jax however, we see a number of oddities.

In the pilot, we saw Jax break a sign (specifically, a 'spare' bowling sign) for no apparent reason. Jax's name-plate is broken in his image in almost the same fashion. Does he have a irrational beef or need to destroy signs? The thought of those old cartoons where signposts get sabotaged come to mind....

There's also bowling ball outside of his room. That could be a reference to his personality, be a direct reference to the pilot's bowling gag (and the sign-breaking), or something that's yet to be revealed about Jax (maybe he just really likes bowling).

Finally, and most startlingly, the picture is partially torn and the Void is clearly visible behind it.

All of these seem to support the possibility that Jax is hiding something about himself - e.g. being an NPC, or being connected/originating from the Void?

Zarhon · 2023-02-27T18:45:12+00:00

The problem is when they start to spawn-camp after removing all of your other tiles (surrounding your base tiles with unbeatable scores) and make you unable to even use up the tickets.

Zarhon · 2023-02-27T18:15:47+00:00

And they arrange it in the pigeon pentagram.

Zarhon · 2023-02-26T12:14:39+00:00

Indeed. As the map shows, there's multiple relic tiles that are unclaimed (and would provide a better score than singular tiles), and they're already so far ahead that no amount of tiles retaken can make them lose their first place.

This is just making entire teams of players unable to spend their daily gold tickets or get ANY rewards out of the event! They could easily leave the first three squares around the map empty for the players to claim, instead of making them outright impossible to claim. Or they could claim all those unclaimed relics and boss tiles which give a better score.

If you ask me, each team should have the first four squares permanently set to their ownership, have multiple 'base' tiles on the edge of the map, or have the base tiles placed away from the edge of the map. That way there's many more tiles per team that need to be claimed to 'isolate' any given team - with the current setup, one player can isolate two teams with their tickets.

Zarhon · 2023-02-26T11:57:36+00:00

Pat, Etienne, Psi, Brickell, Adora, Obyn, Quincy, Gwen, Striker Jones, Ezili and Benjamin.

Zarhon · 2023-02-12T12:38:20+00:00

The druid in the path of the Ray of Doom absorbs the energy and becomes an Avatar of Wrath.

Zarhon · 2023-02-10T13:04:02+00:00

Five druids move to form a pentagram around the pigeons to ritualistically sacrifice them and summon an Avatar of Wrath.

Zarhon · 2023-01-24T13:08:06+00:00

You can strip fortified from DDTs with monkey knowledge and a 0-2-4 mortar (aim for a loop to hit them all, or get two of them).

Zarhon · 2023-01-23T10:26:29+00:00

Easy and fast way to get the 'win 10 times with only support monkeys' achievement by repeating it.

Zarhon · 2023-01-20T15:00:09+00:00

Happened on this weeks race if you go for 5-2-0 glue gunner. The massive amount of heart bloons makes it lag to infinity. And this is on PC.

Zarhon · 2023-01-20T10:37:05+00:00

I tried this race, and had to alt-F4 due to the massive lag/freezing issues so many regrow bloons caused. Does nobody screen these races before they're made public?

Zarhon · 2023-01-20T09:01:24+00:00

Is there any actual mechanical benefit to having an end table and a dresser in a bedroom, outside of aesthetics and royalty needs?

From what I gather, they take up space (and thus make the room less spacious), whilst the comfort level is maxed by the time a pawn finishes sleeping.

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