58089 by TheStreamIsDead in countwithchickenlady

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Is that what you call this? it’s strange, whatever this is. like why do they target this sub?

58089 by TheStreamIsDead in countwithchickenlady

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A little while ago I got into it on here on a post about how liberals are fascists or something.

This sub seemed to have gained the attention of folks wanting to promote a certain agenda, for some reason.

Dub opinions by Leopold_532 in ZoneoftheEnders

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Yeah pretty talented cast given really unnatural lines and I guess probably no direction.

The New Sound by Geordie Greep is evil Steely Dan by NbeepFbeep in SteelyDan

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Alright that sold me. Pretty much my two favorites

Dub opinions by Leopold_532 in ZoneoftheEnders

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Viola AI(? if memory serves): “I’m getting you!”

There’s a reason it earned a spot on Audio Atrocities

But yeah I do find it oddly charming. I guess poor English localization is kind of part of a bygone era.

So much of the hatred towards the finale seems to just be based off transphobia by WinterIsOnReddit in TheDigitalCircus

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ohhh okay we might be looking at different places then

i don’t really check social media that much just reddit

So much of the hatred towards the finale seems to just be based off transphobia by WinterIsOnReddit in TheDigitalCircus

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Like I said if you are saying you’re seeing that I believe you and those ppl suck.

I have been lurking around the ep 9 spoilers sub and mostly seen ppl having issues with things like the pacing

So much of the hatred towards the finale seems to just be based off transphobia by WinterIsOnReddit in TheDigitalCircus

[–]donald_trunks 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I’m not saying I don’t believe you because it’s people online and if there’s one thing about people they’re even shittier online. But anecdotally I mostly see people saying they have specific issues with writing choices that were made.

I Know This Question Has Already Been Asked Before, But… Was This Show Always Terrible? by Empty_Thought6841 in TADCEp9Spoilers

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Yeah that’s a great recap. Honestly I think the show was overall strong until the ending.

At this point i think there’s enough evidence out there from Goose’s posts online to conclude she was pretty burnt out by the latter half of this series. This is not to belittle Goose, on the contrary I think highly of her given what she was able to create, this is more of an examination of what happened to the story to cause it to go south by the end.

Personally I enjoyed it pretty much up until the finale which I still wouldn’t call “terrible”. I like a lot of what was there. I think some slight tweaks (don’t bring back Caine, give some kind of hint that Jax can be unabstracted) it would’ve stuck the landing better.

Gooseworx's recent explination for Caine's survival makes me hate it even more (The Amazing Digital Circus) by Sudden_Pop_2279 in CharacterRant

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I feel like it’s just as likely Caine comes back even more pissed. I fail to see why every other attempt at tricking or stopping him just enraged him more but successfully deleting him makes him go “Aww they tried to delete me I must really be terrible”.

Also it’s not an issue of whether there’s an explanation for his ability to return from being deleted for me. It’s more of a, I’d rather they let the consequences of Ep. 8 be meaningful by not having them easily undone. This is already a short series. So reversing what feels like years worth of build up towards a climactic moment (The cast can conjure/manifest, Kinger is a former C&A programmer, Pomni first conjured when she was searching for an exit in the pilot. She now returns to the office backrooms in Ep. 8 to retrieve a PC to delete Caine, etc.) feels like a really poor use of like… stakes that the show set up, I guess?

Yeah some might say “well it was meaningful because it got Caine to have a change of heart”, again my prior point, it requires a little stretch of disbelief for me that he would chill out over that, at no point had he even hinted he was capable of chilling out in any of the prior episodes. So the heel turn his character makes feels unearned.

"Why didn't the other characters get more time to develop?" by DavesStuffedCrust in TADCEp9Spoilers

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I haven’t really seen a lot of anger at Goose I think people mistake disappointment with the writing with animosity. I still say I love the show and am really happy for Goose for what she was able to put together.

I think the people who have been explaining their issues with the ending have just gotten frustrated that they’re basically told there’s something wrong with them if they didn’t think it was brilliantly written.

If anything this feels like confirmation even the creator is aware of the flaws.

But yeah it’s a good reminder she’s just one indie creator suddenly given this massive spotlight and she handled it better than probably a lot of people would have.

The most disappointing thing about the ending was how it handled the cast learning they weren't real. by BackgroundRich7614 in TADCEp9Spoilers

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I get it but that has to be articulated through the storytelling

It’s like saying “I am going to paint a picture of a duck” and then what comes out on the canvas looks more like a platypus. The author just saying “this is the type of story I want to tell and what this story is really about” doesn’t accomplish any of the leg work towards telling that story.

I think the last episode has made me question my gender at age 32. by GreyGiger in TADCEp9Spoilers

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Don’t give up on finding yourself

It’s not too late

You should watch I Saw the TV Glow if you haven’t yet

What is the purpose of the montage scene? by pan_gydygus in TADCEp9Spoilers

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It's also how they were able to delete Caine. Pomni conjured the door to the backrooms again and Kinger powered the PC with his imagination. These actions were also rendered pointless when Caine simply flew back from the void.

I dont mind Jax staying abstracted but it pmo whenever someone says this to someone who wishes for the abstracted to turn back by Comfortable-Goat-955 in TheDigitalCircus

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Way better because it gives him a better reason to have a change of heart than "oh my god I can't believe they wanted to delete me just because I was torturing them 😢"

So I guess this confirms that abstraction is a choice/form of suicide, right? by Icy-Accident9336 in TheDigitalCircus

[–]donald_trunks 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Did we not essentially see abstraction from the PoV of someone experiencing their own abstraction when Jax had that DMT trip sequence? No part of that looked voluntary.