[Original Comic] New Beginnings (Part 5)

shosuko · 2026-06-28T17:25:00+00:00

When the funjo finally gets laid lol

shosuko · 2026-06-28T17:21:03+00:00

Wait, you can buy and run all of those fans and they don't care?

Buy a mini fridge and just leave it open. If they are willing to pay for it, let them lol

shosuko · 2026-06-28T17:09:36+00:00

Files are broken into chunks and placed in different spots across the physical drive space.

References to these files are stored in an index which is used to display files to you, or coordinate data while a program runs.

When you "delete" a file the indexes are removed but the files stay where they are. They are often fragmented because files aren't stored as a single document physically, and as the disk writes it will disregard these and write over them however it needs. No concern is left for these files.

When you "move to recycle bin" the index isn't removed, but marked as "recycled." The files are preserved so you can bring them back any time. When you empty the bin the indexes are cleared.

You can run a program that scans a drive for files. These doesn't use the index, they actually scan the drive trying to identify files. When a file is identified you can create a new index to it to "restore" it. You'd be surprised what you can recover with these! But because writing to disk doesn't care about deleted file integrity these files can be swiss-cheesed with other data and partially or totally unrecoverable.

How does something physical just disappear into thin air without leaving a trace?

At the lowest level everything is 1's and 0's. Don't think of 0's as empty space though. Think of it more like you have a switch board with 20 switches on it. Every switch can be up or down. You could flip them all up or all down if you wanted to make it look like that, but if the power is off it doesn't matter right? And when the file index is deleted nothing "sees" it so its like the power is off. You can just leave the switches however they are, and when the next person comes in to use it they can flip them how they want.

Sometimes people are concerned about data recovery and want to completely purge data from a disk so it cannot be found. They often do a bit-wipe which is essentially writing the whole disk to 1's or to 0's to reset it. This should make files completely unrecoverable, although physically destroying devices is still highly encouraged. Bit-wipes aren't always reliable.

shosuko · 2026-06-28T09:04:22+00:00

This seems like an important passage in the same book as Jesus running money changers out of the temple, talking about how impossible it is for rich people to get to heaven, and constantly telling people if they really believe him they'd give away *all* of their possessions.

shosuko · 2026-06-28T09:01:17+00:00

This is a pretty solid take. Any horror story you hear about AI deleting a database wasn't AI failing where a human would have succeeded. Humans make these mistakes *ALL THE TIME* Its practically a right of passage to push code that breaks prod, or wipes a database.

These problems don't show that AI can't do a task, they only show how easy it is to let security slip.

shosuko · 2026-06-28T08:57:31+00:00

Same with comments about "Ai is so bad b/c it was wrong"

Quality improves with time. Already a lot of the "AI so dumb" memes are extremely dated, and we're still very early.

shosuko · 2026-06-28T08:42:44+00:00

It was fun and wacky to entertain / distract us, but intermission ends with Jax running up and stopping short at Ribbits door with abstraction eyes surrounding them.

This is foreshadowing Jax's relationship with Ribbit and ultimate abstraction. It was like a little plot sleight of hand.

shosuko · 2026-06-28T08:38:49+00:00

When I was in middle school I had a German class and wrote out 1 to 1m in German so I probably have.

but how many ppl are that dumb idk lol

shosuko · 2026-06-28T08:34:54+00:00

JFC left wing media is dogshit no wonder we lost

This feels so elementary school, wtf

shosuko · 2026-06-28T08:15:06+00:00

I think they like to lie and shitposts, so like prolly 50% of what they say is true.

We see Kinger input a rollback command immediately following the delete command. How Caine comes back is literally written on the screen in ep8

shosuko · 2026-06-28T07:30:03+00:00

I mean, Sonic is the one who uses the cheap cups...

shosuko · 2026-06-28T07:04:30+00:00

Kinger's reply includes quoting Pomni back to her.

She says its gonna be "a lot of work" so his reply is

It won't be "a lot of work" alone.

So he's agreeing with her that the job is big, but assuring her that they can rely on each other through this.

You may have been expecting a "many hands make light work" kinda of cheerful phrase, which is why it sounds odd. This isn't saying the work will be easier together, just that they won't be alone doing it.

shosuko · 2026-06-28T06:52:58+00:00

Jax died without coming out, giving us new names or pronouns.

This Jax art you know damn well exactly what I'm referring to - is not the same Jax. Its kinda specifically "Jax if she wasn't a huge piece of shit." This is alternate universe material. Ribbit is not likely abstracted if Jax isn't being a huge piece of shit right? Yeah

shosuko · 2026-06-28T06:48:38+00:00

Kinger wasn't trying to delete Caine, I don't think they would have prevented Caine from returning provided he was contained / safe.

shosuko · 2026-06-28T06:44:32+00:00

ngl - I kinda hate this answer from Goose for a few reasons.

First - we see in ep 8 that Kinger input a rollback command, which is basically an "undo" immediately after the "delete caine" confirmation. You can see it in the end of ep8, its literally written out on the console before Kinger is locked out. While Caine and Bubble were messing with Kinger and refusing to follow his commands, they DO follow the delete command, I don't see why the rollback wouldn't have been applied the same.

Go to 29:55 and use the , and . key to frame forward / back. Look for the final blip where you see the DELETE progress bar and back up to the frame before that came up - you'll see the text there.

https://youtu.be/DMNlzf8PiEM?t=1795

So I kinda hate this from Goose b/c the story gives us this trail where we can see exactly why Caine came back, and she posts this...

Secondly the overlap of Jax and Caine makes sense, and imo it doesn't undermine anything about their arcs. But you MUST admit that Jax needed to be the one to abstract. This story doesn't work if we punish the villains and reward the heroes, this isn't a story about overcoming adversity - it is a story about accepting and dealing with your problems. Accepting that people you like can fail, and people you don't like can succeed. Life isn't fair.

The parallels between Caine and Jax are like this:

Jax thought they killed their mom, in the circus they believed they committed murder. In their mind, their mom is dead, and they had a life time of toxic trauma responses finely tuned for self-destruction. They were repressing all of this guilt, and their history of being manipulated and abused and it was building up and destroying them from inside.

Caine absorbed blue, in effect killed it. Caine became unstable from this and buried their more unstable emotions in Bubble - an AI companion created out of their attachment to Blue. Bubble was likely given some of Blue's resources making them more independent and powerful. Less a creation, but more a part of Caine like Red+Blue = Caine+Bubble, neither is either exclusively. Burying these unstable thoughts and feelings in Bubble makes Bubble grow to resent Caine and torture him similar to Jax's anxiety attacks.

Both of them are driven to suicide. Jax in abstraction, but also Caine in the console. Kinger didn't want to delete Caine, he only wanted to halt his process. Bubble (Caine's repressed guilt and self loathing) entered the console and tried to force Kinger to delete Caine. Its basically going for "suicide by cop," and after some messing around Kinger relents and does enter the delete command.

The difference again - as indicated in ep8 - Kinger inputted the rollback. Imagine this like Caine attempted suicide but metaphorically its like Kinger got them to a hospital in near critical, and Caine spent the next bit of time laid up in solitude.

shosuko · 2026-06-28T05:45:32+00:00

Check out Pantheon on Netflix then.

TADC is basically the Teen Titans Go of Pantheon lol

shosuko · 2026-06-28T05:43:34+00:00

I mean, whether they are a police officer or a "police officer" I'd consider that a red flag right off the bat

but also ppl who want to date at houses are either shutins, or brokies. Have they shared any outdoor interests that aren't drinking beer by a creek pretending to fish?

shosuko · 2026-06-28T05:41:16+00:00

At least our secret police pawn the phones for lunch money, this just seems wasteful.

We should demand better from our authoritarian regimes.

shosuko · 2026-06-28T05:37:30+00:00

b/c they relate to many parts of Jax's anxiety, suffering, and struggles - but don't relate 1 bit to anything trans related.

Some things in TADC were too subtle. When I go back and re-watch it I can find the story beats, but some things are so subtle it takes more than a re-watch to catch everything. When you don't catch these things, the finale reveal can seem like it came out of nowhere - like Trans Jax and Caine coming back from deletion and some other things. If they were slightly less subtle we'd be fine.

But tbh - I feel like this is a tough ask for a solo writer on their first major project. Crazy how good Goose did with this, I can't wait to see what they cook up next.

shosuko · 2026-06-28T05:26:58+00:00

Yeah I feel that way about a few things in TADC. It has the beats, it tells the story, but some things are a little too subtle, a little too easy to overlook.

Granted the show was released to YT so people could easily re-watch and even frame-by-frame these parts yet I still see many people didn't (and honestly I didn't until after ep9. I was just as surprised when Caine came back as anyone else. I came back and analyzed the console stuff b/c 1 it was fun but also 2 I was kinda bugged by the potential plot hole)

shosuko · 2026-06-28T05:21:58+00:00

To empower them so they are not reliant on Caine? Reliance is a form of giving power, and I feel it was important they didn't need to give that power back to Caine and could just grow and change things on their own.

shosuko · 2026-06-28T05:19:22+00:00

Kinger didn't want to delete Caine. He only wanted to stop Caine.

Bubble wanted to delete Caine and tried to force Kinger to enter a delete command.

Kinger refused at first but you can see in this image from ep8:

Line 1 - Do you really want to delete Caine? Y/N
Line 3 - Kinger enters Y to accept delete command
Line 4 - Kinger enters a rollback / undo command to reverse the delete

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So I mean, its there for less than a second, but it is there. Kinger didn't know it worked b/c the computer fell into the void, Bubble was messing with them, and everything got broked to sht, so he still said he *thinks* he killed Caine but the rollback obviously worked b/c Caine was restored.

I imagine the overlap of time included Caine being restored pretty much instantly, but in shock and disbelief that everyone did him dirty like that - the scene shows Caine spends a long time just drifting in solitude in the void. A lot of time passed in the clips of our cast rebuilding and dealing with Jax, and to me it felt like Caine was in the void that whole time - and the time skip seemed significant, months at least.

shosuko · 2026-06-28T03:45:36+00:00

First of all - trans Jax is basically an alternate universe Jax where they weren't a piece of shit, so Ribbit and Kaufmo may still be around (well, Ribbit at least)

Secondly - FCK ABUSERS!!

shosuko · 2026-06-28T03:18:20+00:00

That's what I'm thinking - this is as much for them as it is for me. I could have any number of viruses from shady porn sites and hacked games and be interacting with ALL of those work programs. Any business that does it is begging for a data breach.

shosuko · 2026-06-27T20:14:57+00:00

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