>Ragatha won't actually get killed off in episode 6 or presumably any sequential episode.
Thank fucking God. I was worried to death for my sweet dolly doll.

I wonder if Goose is aware of Psynwave's latest mashup album (Pomni's in the video for it)

Why doesn't Ragatha just rape the bunny

>>149107833 (OP)
Gangle possession

Of course not, that would be absolutely ridiculous

>My cow doll wife wont be dying
based, I don't want to have to goon solely to clown and fembunnies

>>149107833 (OP)
Of course nobody has predicted how episode 6 is going to go, because the cliffhanger was the introduction of a sinister, nameless, faceless mannequin who had never been mentioned before and is clearly going to play a big part but is such a blank slate there’s nothing to go on.

>>149107833 (OP)
>"Nobody will correctly guess the contents of the Mystery Box!"

Oh jeez I wonder why...

>>149107963
The chase is more fun than the catch.

Jax abstracts Gangle as revenge for the Maid outfit.

>>149108354
You really never noticed it?

>>149108354
>who had never been mentioned before
Secondary moment?

>>149108511
Sure was a lot of fetish stuff this episode...

>>149108537
>a lot
Besides the maid outfit, what?

>>149107833 (OP)
Yeah, just like how they said ep.5 was going to be a Ragatha episode, and she was just another secondary character to a Jax centered one.
Why do people even bother taking this guy's words seriously?

>>149108550
>ep.5 was going to be a Ragatha episode
I don't have the list Goose posted saved, but I think this was supposed to be the Jax episode, and she later elaborated that Jax and Ragatha actually kinda get two half-episodes and this was the first. Sorta...

>>149108537
That's the secret, anon
EVERYTHING is fetish stuff.

>>149108550
Frankly the "X episode is Y character's episode!" thing seems like it was more true in earlier drafts of the series than it was when the episodes began production. Episode 3 and 4 are the only ones that have been truly focused on one of the main cast; episode 1 was the pilot that wasn't focused on anyone in particular, episode 2 is mostly there for establishing Pomni's personality through the lens of her interactions with Gummigoo, and episode 3 is split 3:1 between Kinger and Zooble.

>>149108526
Not that anon but, no I never noticed the background mannequin. Wouldn't mind seeing a collage with time stamps showing where it was in prior episodes.

>>149107833 (OP)
The background music used for "Stargaze" would be good for... Background noise.

>>149108717
I don't like those ellipsis, anon.

>Ragatha flinching when Pomni goes to talk to her
Jesus I felt that

>>149108821
Ragatha flinches a LOT; in episode 2, you can see her flinch more from Jax yelling at Gangle than she does when she gets a spike through her chest. Probably because she was abused as a kid, so she's naturally conflict avoidant.

I liked Evil Ragatha's voice

>>149108550
Goose is right behind Alex Hirsch in terms of a creator who straight-up lies about shit to fuck with fans.

>>149107833 (OP)
The only things I want are jax and pomni's friendship to grow, gangle to find out that jax cares about her, and for kinger to be a badass.

And maybe zooble getting taken down a peg

>>149108912
I don't think Zooble has done anything wrong
Yeah she's a bitch, but it's basically never unjustified. She's kind to the people who are kind to her, critical of their flaws but appreciative of their company, and she's only truly a dick to Jax (because she knows better than not to be). The worst you can say about her is that she's closeminded and doesn't think people can change.

>>149108934
>closeminded and doesn't think people can change.
That's a perfect way to do it. Have her witness jax being legitimately nice to gangle when he thinks no one can see him and have her mull it over.

>Ragatha is too normal for the weirdos but too weird for the normals
So ronery

>>149107833 (OP)
Płot twist, zoobel gets abstracted halfway in the episode insted of ragatha, because of what jax said, hence him doing something unforgivable

>>149108550
I mean, it basically was a Ragatha episode, we learn more about her as a character and her life back then living with an abusive mom that shaped her into being overly nice.

>>149108934
Why not zoobel getting pegged(and dicked) insted :)

>>149108977
Yeah, it was mostly a ragatha episode, we learn bout her feers and past.
Also capchat NNGGG because of course.

>>149108912
>maybe zooble getting taken down a peg
Zooble is fine. She just doesn’t stand for any bullshit, which causes her to clash with Caine and Jax, but she’s perfectly fine with the others

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSR-CfApekI
actually a good amount of symbolism happening here.

>>149108912
>Kinger getting another shotgun
Unlikely, but goodness do I hope.

>>149108992
I just don't like her attitude. I just want her mind get blown when jax has a real vulnerable moment and she can't use it against him.
>>149108974
What did jax say?

When Ragatha started to yell and swear at Pomni and Jax my dick got hard. Is that normal?

>>149108158
I know this fucker of a artist

>>149109019
no

>>149109019
Do you also have Mommy issues

>>149109006
What if they keep giving him different guns

>>149109034
I am absolutely certain it could only go right.

>>149109034
2nd amendment flex, oorah *eagle screech* (the real one, not a hawk)

>>149109006
>Jax gets his shootout game
>gets fucking bodied by Kinger

>>149109024
I don't think so. Her voice actress has a nice voice but I cringe every time she's sweet talking. When she's acting angry it really gets me going I don't know why.

>>149109051
>Jax gets a gun adventure
>suddenly kinger turns into robocop
>Jax now has a man crush (no homo)

Episode 5 might be the only episode without vore

>>149109180
Bubble was about to eat Pomni in the intermission

>>149109180
Jax ate Gangle rhino

>>149107833 (OP)
Don’t count your eggs before they hatch, this could just mean she doesn’t abstract in episode 6 but could in 7 or 8

>>149109211
That's not the kind of vore Goose seems to like, though...

>>149109248
>Don’t count your eggs before they hatch
But kinger said-

>>149109180
The intermission sequence was vore coded

>>149109034
He was a gun nut in the real world and firearm related violence gives the conflict Caine so desperately craves in his adventures.

I don't know why brainlets keep insisting Goose hates Ragatha when she's directly based off her favorite movie of all time which she references constantly

>>149109619
They don't understand that creators that love their characters want to cause them as much pain as possible.
The more they like them, the more pain they cause.

>>149107833 (OP)
I find it weird how defensive Zooble gets when Gangle get bullied but ignores Ragatha getting mindfucked by Jax into thinking she told Gangle to kill herself.
Rather than a character point it's just the writer not wanting Zooble to get in the way of the point of the episode which is to break Ragatha down. Otherwise I think Zooble wouldn't ignore such a thing.

>>149107833 (OP)
>went from “you threw me out of a truck” to basically being chill over the course of a day
how the fuck did that happen?

>>149109661
Thing is, did Zooble actually KNOW Ragatha didn't say that? She was away from her for most of the time spent there, and only came to pick her up near the end. It's very possible Zooble thought Ragatha did, and just didn't want to bring it up and rub salt in the wound.

She should've been more skeptical, though. She usually never buys Jax's shit.

>>149109682
When you get stuck in a digital hellscape and there's one guy who's always an asshole, and then you learn he actually gives a shit about the people around him in a way that might be more constructive than anyone else around (sans yourself), you start to mend bridges you'd otherwise burn. Worst case scenario he'll betray you and throw you out ANOTHER truck, which, let's be real, was destined to happen anyway.

>>149109682
She found out he lost a close friend in the Circus and realized he was putting up a wall to protect himself from confronting his loss. Ragatha does the same, but tries to make it benevolent for others---constantly reminding them they're valued while being unable to help their (or her own) deeper issues.

Nobody can predict what will happen because the series is going nowhere. It’s just random bullshit, someone feels sad, and then Pomni, who has otherwise sat in the background the whole episode says “but have you tried doing the opposite?”

The characters aren’t trying to escape, with the whole Exit door in episode 1 being forgotten. The characters aren’t trying to learn the truth of the situation they’re in. The bar scene practically implies that before Zooble and Pomni joined, nobody even bothered to ask each other about themselves. There’s no actual threat of death. They’re just trying to not abstract, which isn’t death and is a threat which was only really shown in Episode 1 but nowhere since. The only actual threat in the show is Caine going rapidly insane, and most of the cast haven’t even noticed that yet.

But the kids on Reddit and YouTube just like the dripfed vague character lore for their theory videos and having their Tumblr Sexyman assholes to lust about over having an actual story.

>>149109661
Ragatha can stand up for herself, Gangle can't

>>149109843
Gangle did put Jax in the maid outfit.

>>149109619
It’s Jaxfags deflecting all the deserved hate the character gets towards his counterpoint

>>149109849
Which only worked because nearly everyone else was working with her

>>149109815
To be clear so I know how on what level to engage you; Do you actually believe this or are yo just talking?

>>149109843
>Ragatha can stand up for herself
No, not really.

>>149107833 (OP)
I like Jax but with how defensive he gets over Ribbit (?) I wish Ragatha or Zooble would say something truly fucked up to see his reaction

>>149109016
That's retarded. Zooble only uses shit against Jax when he acts an ass, why is it her fault for clapping back to his shitty words that no one agrees with?

>>149109887
Ragatha is willing to argue with Jax, Gangle can't even do that and gets her masks broken 24/7

>>149109849
And leading up to that point:
>scenario 1: Jax shoots Gangle and starts to bite her, forcing the others to turn him vegan to get him to cut it out
>scenario 2: Jax straps a bomb to Gangle and blows her up
>scenario 3: Jax refuses to play along with Gangle’s idea and blackmails her to force her to change it
>scenario 4: Jax openly grumbles and complains that Gangle is seemingly happy with Zooble around
>scenario 5: gaslights Ragatha into thinking she said something she didn’t to try and upset Gangle

A maid outfit was a light punishment, and he acted like a bitch when it happened

>>149109861
Just respond to it in a normal way instead of tiptoeing around it like a paranoid faggot. It’s an anonymous image board, just say your fucking piece.

>>149107833 (OP)
How come no one's talking about Glitch Productions upcoming series done by the same people who did The Owl House, about what (I think) could be a Robot Princess?

>>149109986
All we have is a short teaser. Once we start getting cast info there'll be something else to talk about.

>>149109956
I don't feel like putting much effort into responding to someone who doesn't believe/think about what they say, and by putting out a bait reply like that, you can usually gauge from how they reply (and they will reply) as to whether they actually feel this way and are just stupid, or if they're simply pretending to be stupid.

>ywn gently loosen pomni's tie and run your tongue down her chest
life is not worth living

>>149110028
Considering it's likely going to be set in a Amusement Park resort I'm already imagining and predicting that they're is going to be Pomni Plushies (like this one) in a gift shop as like a background gag combined with a reference to Glitch Productions other cartoons in one episode.

>>149109986
There’s still very little for people to discuss until we get more details or a trailer explaining more about the show.

Calling it now. Pomni will be the first character to abstract.

>>149110140
Sounds boring. She's the main character so she will be fine.

>>149107833 (OP)
I don't think people understand that this is a character-driven show.
So you're going to get stupid bullshit predictions about their "fates" instead of shit that actually matters like how they'll grow and interact with eachother.

>>149110133
Hope so, but I also think it takes place in the same Universe as (possibly) Skullgirls as this scene made me think of or slightly reminded me of Painwheel and Robo-Fortune's backstories with a hint of Eliza and Peacock's backstories along with the pseudo-anime art style.

I honestly cannot get this show, it tries way too hard to be deep, moving and funny but leaves me cringing instead with every episode

>>149110140
Ragatha is going to partially abstract next episode, but Pomni is going to save her as a callback to their episode 1 interaction

Then Caine throws her in the cellar anyway

Disappearing Guy will abstract.

>>149110086
NTA but sounds to me like you said something to sound like you're smart and now that you're being asked to actually clarify are backing off because even you didn't know what the fuck you meant

>>149109946
Why does he fuck with Gangle the most? Which is odd since he specically has a hate boner towards Ragatha.

>>149110211
uh did I miss something, when was it hinted to be in the Skullgirls universe??

>>149110263
It was the pseudo-anime art style it has, it's only a speculation.

>>149109682
She's just understanding the rabbit's kinda' cool.
She'll come to understand Ragatha more next episode too, I think? Judging from what Goose has said... Which I look forward too.
>>149110262
Gangle's just very fuckable. She's begging to be bullied.

>>149110262
Gangle is an easy target, she takes whatever abuse you heap on her. He dislikes Ragatha more, but she bites back and doesn't humor him. Jax doesn't care about having arguments, he cares about poking at people and making them squirm.

>>149110086
The amount of effort you’re already putting into not replying is already more effort than would have been taken if you had just responded in the first place

You should die

>>149110333
But this is a more novel way of wasting my energy
It entertains me more

>>149110293
I think things can just have a similar artstyle without it meaning they're connected setting wise

>>149110353
NTA going to confess, not a /co/ regular just a /jp/sie visiting... has the site just become more retarded lately everywhere else too??

>>149109946
Eh, the first 2 are inconsequential, nobody actually gets hurt and even he was caught in the explosion. He did it because the idea of gangle being a terrorist was funny to him, just the same as forcing pomni to improve. Also, he was gonna hunt everyone gangle was just first.
Him getting gangle to cancel the anime one wasn't directly at her, it just happened to be her's. He would have been just as antsy if it anyone else's and he hated it, like how he didn't like the stargazing until he was distracted. The fact he had a way out of it so easily was coincidence.
As far as the grumbling is concerned, he showed that he's actually worried about gangle and clearly doesn't think too highly of zooble and is concerned about them hanging out, for gangle's sake.
That last one is directed at ragatha only. Gangle knows ragatha never said that.
He clearly has something of an attraction to gangle (platonically, cuz that's what goose said), as he believes she likes it when he picks on her and he doesn't like it when she puts on a fake sense of happiness. He clearly wants her and ragatha to be better, he's just got his own problems that are making things difficult for him.
As for the dress, that was zooble's idea because she clearly knew it would make angry, just not how angry.

How is he feelin rn?

>>149109815
This. The show has zero stakes. It’s just zoomer brainrot for adult daycare.

>>149109815
Seethe harder industrycuck

>>149110380
Yes.
The line between what is a bait post and what is legitimate retardation has become so blurred it basically takes no effort to, quote unquote, "bait" people, because by now you're just saying what some low-IQ retard genuinely believes

>>149110380
The internet has been getting progressively dumber ever since Twitter and Facebook made it the social hub of the world instead of a safe haven for passionate nerds and depressed teens. It has simply snowballed, accelerated by AI, political grifters and greedy corporations, to the point of no recovery now that it can’t be ignored.

>>149110399
there's also the classic "ah I-I was only pretending to be retarded you f-fell for that?" method of saving face.
I'll be honest I used that card a few times in my youth

>>149110262
>>149110331
How do you interpret his comments about gangle being happy? To me he seemed as though he's legitimately concerned about her.
We're gonna learn that the lose of his friend caused him to close off his emotions so he can bury the pain of lose and since, part of his justification for acting like a troll is him trying to loosen everyone up so they'll stop being sad about being stuck and just enjoy what they can while they're there.

>>149110383
He's thinking about the water he hasn't drank yet

>>149110425
I know that
was talking more about this site specifically. Things just feel worse now lately

Pomni feels like there's something to 'fix' about Jax because he's an asshole. After all, Jax making her angry and sad engages her emotions far more than Ragatha's tepid half-niceness. So even if Ragathat is a better person, Jax is more 'fun' to hang around with.

Why are they making their stupid child characters so relatable? Watching this episode made me want to shoot myself in the face.

>>149110489
They're literally not children

>>149109815
Personally I want the cast to try to break the digital world's code somehow and manipulate it somehow

I want to do a sex on Pomni

>>149110532
I'm not talking about the characters themselves, but the audience they're supposed to attract. Like they're almost straight up making a drama with purple bunnies and funny clown thingies now. It's strange, I guess it's new and interesting, in a way, but it feels like such an ubiquitous road to take the series on.

>Episode repeatedly pushes the idea that Ragatha is disliked not because of how she behaves, but because she's ALWAYS acting like that and has no off-switch
>episode is structured as a series of one-off vignettes that let you see Ragatha in different situations where she does, indeed, always act like that, even when the others don't
Maybe this was a Ragatha episode, after all...

>>149110554
It's a target mismatch. A lot of children do watch it, purely due to how it looks, but Goose's target audience was 35year-olds nostalgic for the 90s.

>>149110554
Are you beginning to grapple with the fact this isn't a kids' show?

>but bright colors and childish theming means kids stuff???
Jesus christ is it the 70s? I thought we got over this cultural hump back in the 2000s

Episode six when?

>>149110558
This show is often too subtle for TikTok zoomers and giga-autists to pick up on what's happening. It's frankly amazing as many people watch it as they do. Pretty colors go a long way apparently.

>>149110579
I'm not even complaining, it just feels like we're reaching the extremes of both ends of the spectrum here, I guess?
We have very relatable relationship drama (at least a very relatable one for the 2020s), and we also have kindergarden-tier designs going off about 'bloinks' and 'zoinks'.

I can't be the only one who sees it as strange. I can't be.

>>149110468
Nta, but it's a bleed over from the rest of the internet and the real world's growing retardation. It's basically mass hysteria out there.
However, I've been here long enough to tell you that, while yes it was less autistic years ago, this place was never a beacon of intelligence and culture. You should have seen /b/ before the mods had to start enforcing the rules. I think it's just everyone reaping what we sowed. You go to a place to act like a retard and suddenly that's the norm and nobody remembers to act like an adult and the newbies think that's how you behave so they become more retarded, and then the irony, if there was any to begin with, is gone.
At least we're smarter than reddit

>>149110614
Congrats anon! It's a deliberate contrast
It's good shit.

>>149110590
On Christmas.
Maybe Halloween, if we're very lucky.

>>149110618
>At least we're smarter than reddit
Scraping the barrel I see

>>149110649
Smartest kid in the special class has to mean something, right?

>>149107833 (OP)
the discussion around this series would be so much cooler if this faggot would stop answering questions/tweeting canon information

>have (1) mediocre episode
>fucking dies
I know this is /co/mblr, but you guys are weak kek

Imagine thinking it was a bad ep

>>149110626
This episode has convinced me that zooble and jax's rivalry is something deeper. With jax's confession that he's worried about gangle, why does he worry about zooble being friends with her? Is it because he's jealous of what they have, it is he worried that zooble will hurt gangle somehow, like how he was hurt, does he know something about zooble that he's keeping secret?
Another possibly about jax's friend, it's possible that they didn't just abstract, they had a falling with jax, with jax being the victim.

>>149110614
>anon is confused about deliberate thematic dissonance
Oh boy happy tree friends is gonna throw you for a loop

Rate the episodes from 1 to 5, and give your general opinion about each.

>>149109079
>Kinger shoots Jax in the dick

>>149110694
I liked this episode because the Ragatha/Pomni/Jax dynamic is interesting, I don't find myself really caring about Zooble and Gangle (Kinger is based)

>>149109986
this is going to suck

>>149110896
>2
I liked the Gummigoo plot and action sequences, but especially the ending
>5
The drama, man. Bar scene was a bit too exposition-y but I like seeing the characters together
>4
Lowkey but still interesting. Appreciated the characters being together
>1
Strong first showing but it was that, a first showing. I can't call it stronger than later episodes. Good hook though
>3
The Kinger talk scene was meh because they basically did the same thing with Gummigoo the episode before, and EVERYONE guessed beforehand that he was a programmer who had a wife. Zooble "development" is too much tell don't show and was better in 4 and 5. It is also the most unbalanced episode in character screen time, the Pomni/Kinger plot is completely divorced from Ragatha and the others, who more or less do nothing of note

>>149110728
I think Jax perceives Zooble as "dragging" Gangle in the wrong direction in regards to how one copes with being in the Circus. Jax is constantly trying to do interesting things that even if the situation they're in objectively sucks are "fun" for them. Sort of like how an older sibling will pick on and bully a little sibling as a method of showing affection. I don't actually think Jax means anything that bad by fucking with Gangle constantly. He sees her sulking in the corner constantly and knows that everyone is one mental break from dying so he tries to drag her into things and help her feel more involved. Zooble's approach is the exact opposite of this, with her abstaining from everything Caine related in an effort to preserve her own sanity and enjoying some down time. When Zooble is with Gangle they both just retreat into a corner together, with from what I can tell Jax sees as a depression/some other mental illness abstraction time bomb that's waiting to go off.

Unrelated but I never really got why people here were spreading the retarded takes that Jax is an evil psychopath or is an NPC or whatever. He's very clearly just a bully that thinks picking on people is fun because its proof that his actions are real since they cause reactions in entities that exist besides himself. It's a classic male coping mechanism that's done in situations where one feels powerless. He's just a loser stuck in virtual hell like all the others and kicks and screams instead of curling into a fetal position. I know I shouldn't expect much from current day 4chan but these threads were rough to read for a while due to this bullshit

Am I the only one that feels this show tries too hard to be like an early 90s Saturday morning cartoon?

>>149111328
I need an edit with his mouth fully removed.

>>149107833 (OP)
I was worried that you weren't a FAGGOT!

>>149111246
So Jax is gangle's Flash Thompson, except gangle isn't an angsty killjoy like Peter was.
Also you bring up a point that might actually be relevant. Jax is the only guy in the group minus kinger and men like to troll and shit talk for companionship and bonding. It could partially be he's trying to rope the others into his bonding methods but the rest don't understand, except pomni, now.
Of course, his main thing is "I'm in a video game, so screw it"

>>149111342
What 90s saturday morning cartoons did you watch

>>149111246
good introspective anon

>zooble is a tranny
>still refer to zooble as "she" in every thread
i am confused, do you guys think zooble is a woman or wants to be a man?

>>149110106
Wait, you guys told me her clothes don't come off.

>>149111672
Zooble is just a chick with body image issues

>>149111672
I refer to Goose as she because she does a good job of acting like one
I refer to Zooble as she because she does a bad job of not acting like one

>>149111672
Zooble gives off mentally ill women energy, not mentally ill man energy.

How are we coping with the fact that Caine can edit their minds? Pretty much confirmed they are all AIs now.

>>149111246
I've always subscribed to the "Jax bullies other people because power makes him feel like a real boy" argument, but sometimes that makes me come off like one of those people who thinks he's a manipulative burn-the-world psychopath
Hope I'm not catching strays

>>149111779
Caine can edit human minds
>but he said he could only edit NPC minds
He said he couldn't edit their minds, but he could. Therefore, Caine is lying.

>>149111680
The hat (or a hat) stays on. Similarly, Jax's gloves are part of his model.

>>149111799
i want jax to do that to my peepee

>>149111828
Can the "nut" come out of Jax's head?

>>149110721
It was like a 7 out of 10 while the rest was 9 to 10 out of 10.
>>149110896
All fantastic, nothing to really say.
>>149111342
It's not a bad thing.
>>149111672
Just save time and say it, or just follow your headcanon.

>>149111672
It's the voice. If Zooble sounded more male in an episode, more people would understand that they're truly nonbinary. Just give them a different neck peg color and explain it away as them trying out a different voice box for a change.
Goose should do that sometime, I love that Zooble's design changes every episode.

>>149109815
based trvth nvke

>>149109986
this is 2d animated which means episodes will take FOREVER to come out. This won't be as big as Circus.

Maybe the three suggested adventures are round about ways to characterize Caine. He’s simultaneously a Willy Wonka-esque character (endearing but frightening) showing them a world of pure imagination (and danger), a boyish figure (Caine) with his talking dog (Bubble), *and* an inhuman entity that is overtaking humanity in some way.

>>149111940
Anon most people in this fandom are just in it because it's a community, they only come to /co/ when there's a new discussion and then they immediately go back to their spaces on Bluesky or TikTok.
Notice how all the board gets more traction when a TADC episode gets dropped?
This has been the most flip floppy fandom I've been apart of since the premiere, not that I'm complaining.

>>149109815
>But the kids on Reddit and YouTube just like the dripfed vague character lore for their theory videos
but there is almost no lore

>>149111964
>this won't be as big as circus
In fairness, what will? This series' success is a pretty big fluke, even as solid as it is. You don't get 300,000,000 views by being good - you do it by being lucky

>>149111989
The board gets more traction because it’s one of the only cartoons coming out that are actually worthwhile.

>>149112021
This was a carefully manufactured success and I mean that as a positive. There is always a little luck involved but TADC earned it.

>>149111933
Do we have a compilation image of every look she's had so far?

>>149112057
Here's his wiki
https://tadc.fandom.com/wiki/Zooble

>>149112037
Understandable, these threads usually are the liveliest, and people actually discuss instead of derailing the topic.

>>149112037
Same thing happens when Invincible drops.

This new episode was lackluster

>>149112103
Aye thanks.

>>149112103
ALSO
Gangle put Zooble in a gakuran, which is a boys' uniform.

>>149111799
The way in which Jax fucks with other people is technically an exertion of his "power" onto others but talking from experience that's not how people in these types of situations tend to see this behavior. He's a college aged dude stuck in a video game hell who has zero control over what he looks like, what he is forced to do for his day to day, and even when he gets to die/what his name is. Men in particular tend to have difficulties in these types of situations since they get told that they are in control of their life and need to charge forwards alone and achieve success/power. A lack of any of that tends to leave them lost and, due to not being able to open up honestly due to being raised as men, they exert what little power they do have as a form of reassurance. Sometimes this takes the form of the Kyle punching holes in his wall/smashing keyboards and other times it involves picking on others around them to prove to themselves that they have a small semblance of control over their situation after all. It's a coping mechanism, so I'm not saying it's healthy or good or anything. Jax is still an asshole who oversteps boundaries and lashes out on those around them even if he doesn't mean anything ill-willed by it and gets over acts of retaliation directed at him quickly. But to say he's just evil or is a horrible person reads to me as people observing the surface level farce a character puts on and accepting that without any nuance. Jax does care about the people around him, he just sucks at expressing it, reflexively shuts down any attempts to open up, and projects his own self and perception of things onto other people with him getting frustrated if this isn't accepted as reality by others.

Luckily this is an anonymous Tanzanian clay-molding forum so I don't know who you are, Anon. My ire shall have to be directed towards nondescript redditor secondaries instead. Old man yells at cloud.png

For the record I also want Jax to do that to MY pee pee

>>149107833 (OP)
Someone at Twatter pointed out how she glitched for a split second during the baseball game. She may not die at episode 6, but rather abstract and then episode 7 could explore what exactly happens to them then, and if it's reversible.

>>149112288
It was a hair render problem.

>>149112288
I thought it was because the model glitched out.
It happens with CGI stuff but they usually hide it.

>>149112288
>everyone has forgotten about gangle also "glitching" in her episode

>>149112330
>>149112347
Oh. Well, maybe we have ourselves another "Derpy Hooves event" in our hands, where an animation error leaves an impact on the show.

>>149112392
Unlikely

>>149112288
I mean, it's not like we haven't seen her abstract before. The only big difference is that Cain's now no longer in the right state-of-mind to save her.

>>149112279
Well you're speaking my truth, so, I think we're on the same page.

Jax’s motivations are easy to understand, he’s got a 14-year-old-boyishness to his behavior that is relatable to anyone who’s played a good amount of multiplayer video games. In his mind he’s the only one there attempting to get maximum enjoyment out of the circus, pushing the boundaries to have fun, trying to do cool shit and everyone else is a square who doesn’t get it. I think he sees his bullying like team killing in a video game or mic trolling. He sees the digital reality for the fake that it is, but also buys in to the potential. If they’re here, might as well make the most of it and fuck around. Caine is the eyerolly DM/Developer who is “censoring the game” and “kiddifying the experience” which annoys him, but the real annoyances are characters like Ragatha and Zooble, Zooble because she’s basically AFK and Ragatha because she contextualizes everything to be (in his mind) gay and lame overly serious self-moderation E-for-everyone corny shit. Kinger’s cool but you can’t really play with him because he’s out of it. Gangle is fun as a newbie to troll over and over, Pomni started out as another Gangle in his mind but over time she’s proven herself to have enough of a backbone to potentially be another actual player (in his mind) which would be more fun for him.

While we're on this kind of subject. When did she became a therapist?

>>149107833 (OP)
Ragatha's definitely not going to die but she's probably going to have an abstraction scare where she very nearly goes over the edge and Pomni helps her calm down.

>>149112529
Episode 2, and that’s absolutely her main character super power. A little common sense.

>>149112529
She is 25 so she isn't the child/teen that a lot of the fandom assumed she was for the longest time lol

>>149112529
Because the most fucked up people often make the best therapists if they're under control.

>>149110896
For me.
1>5>2>4>3
The pilot just hit me hard as hell, man. I liked that the circus was obnoxiously bright, I loved the setting as a whole, it told a great story unto itself.
Episode 2 established the paradigm of the episodes to come. It was alright. It didn't sway me nearly as hard as the pilot.
Three was the most boring, with only Kinger's explanation of his memories being the meaningful part, and the rest just not being very funny or interesting.
Four had better jokes than three but it still lacked intrigue and substance, it was an episode that simply exists.
Five finally gets into more interesting concepts and character development, and had the hilarious Evil Team for good gags.

I want to have sex with evil Ragatha after she's been thoroughly coated in stupid sauce.

Pomni seems pretty settled in to Circus now. How is Goose gonna change this? What's gonna make her get the urge to try and leave again?

>>149112704
The moment she got the chance, she'd bolt for the door. Right now, she's just "settled" because she has no chance.
But if Caine keeps getting less and less mentally stable, that'll light a fire under her ass

So was episode five what people meant by making something for TikTok?
It was a bunch of gags in quick succession that can easily be isolated and reposted with new music/poorly edited in alterations.
The biggest information dumps we got were all extremely surface level bullshit. It just wasn't a really good episode

>>149112279
>Men in particular tend to have difficulties in these types of situations since they get told that they are in control of their life and need to charge forwards alone and achieve success/power. A lack of any of that tends to leave them lost and, due to not being able to open up honestly due to being raised as men, they exert what little power they do have as a form of reassurance
OK collage feminist, that's some real hyperbole there.
Men not taught to never express themselves or open up, Men are taught to keep their emotions in check and overcome a situation. When you see a man acting stoic and emotionless in a situation, it's because he's in control, not because he's repressed. Have never seen men interacting and having fun or guy crying when he sees his child for the first time? Men have emotions and will open up, but usually when it's appropriate.

>>149112744
I think you've let the internet make you too cynical if you see a bunch of character moments and think "this must be made to game the algorithm"

>>149112704
I’ve said it since the beginning, I don’t think the point isn’t to leave, the point is to make the best of a digital eternity. I think the trajectory of the show is reconciling these big personalities to find a home here, not to escape.

>>149107833 (OP)
How would you feel if something bad were to happen to her in a later episode?

>>149109815
That's a lot of words for basically what this video is,
https://youtu.be/rZGgX6IWtIc?si=5yobLHJrcmxzBjUv

>>149112797
i'll put a gun in my mouth

>>149112521
This was a fun analysis to read, thanks

I didn't understand why Ragatha was acting how she was this episode. Her and Pomni are friends, why did she keep trying to "out-friend" Jax every time he and Pomni connected?

Does anyone have the picture of kinger with his fists pointed toward the viewer and he has too many fingers and on each finger is a letter and it spells out nigger

>>149112895
Jealousy.

Everyone besides Pomni will die if they leave the circus, because their physical bodies in the real world has expired. Pomni has only been in the circus for a few days, and could still return.
She ultimately decides she would rather stay with her new family at the end.

>>149112797
Sad, she feels like the only mom friend and voice of reason when Zooble and Jax are as toxic as they are and everyone else is as unhinged as they are.

>>149108684
his existence was treated entirely like a oneoff gag similar to this episode...until now apparently!

>>149112521
I think this is a simplification of how Jax feels
Yes, obviously Jax does treat the circus as a game and as a place to entertain himself (Even if it means bullying others), but he absolutely isn't so simple as to see the world as a videogame and everyone who's against him as players making the world "lame and gay"

That just does not track with what's been shown in the series, at least when he's at rest

>>149112797
Misery incarnate. But I also want it to happen. I want to drink in the despair.

>>149112895
Ragatha feels that's it's unfair that she has to put in so much energy and effort into being the same level of friend with Pomni compared to Jax who puts in nowhere near as much effort to be friends with Pomni.
What Ragatha doesn't realize is that Pomni is perfectly fine with her, and does consider her a friend like everyone else.

>>149107833 (OP)
>>149112958
>>149112962
What was really going on with them in the past?

>>149109986
Because the owl house sucks and that leaves very little to no chance this will be good

>>149110896
Best to worst:
>1
The pilot is a really well constructed episode that nails what a pilot is supposed to do, introducing us to the world and characters, stakes, some mystery and opening up the potential of the show. Pretty much no notes, nailed it beginning to end.
>5
This midpoint episode broke the formula of the therapy trio (2/3/4) and instead focused on everything else the show had to offer, to great effect. Rapid fire conceptual adventures, lots of comedy, exploring the whole group, it’s the only episode that doesn’t resolve on a big emotional climax, but the conflict between Ragatha/Jax/Pomni is bubbling up towards something really interesting. I like the whole group and how much aesthetic and conceptual milage was reached in this episode.
>4
Of the therapy trio, this one succeeded the most. Unique and relatable setting, the characters all got something to do, Gangle’s resolution hit in a refreshing way after Gummi/Kinger’s, very atmospheric.
>2
A vanilla adventure episode, I really liked the action/adventure stuff, the quest, the antagonists, all around very solid. Unfortunately I only think Gummigoo is mildly interesting, a bit of a generic/overdone “am I real” robot/bladerunner story done in a way that’s “fine”. Outside of his stuff the adventure’s theming and structure is a lot of fun and really set the standard.
>3
Kind of the opposite of Episode 2 to me, I really found Kinger’s stuff interesting and the emotional climax was strong, but the adventure itself didn’t do it for me. I’m a big horror guy and it simply didn’t go far enough for my tastes. As far as a “worst episode” goes it’s strong, but this is the one that missed the potential the most.

I've rewatched the intermission sequence five times already. It's just so satisfyingly bouncy.

>>149112912
I don't know what you mean by too many fingers, but here.

>>149112797
she's annoying, i hope she dies

>>149112954
I don’t think he literally believes what I’ve said, but I think this is close enough to his mindset as presented. It’s more of an analogy rather than a literal description. The closest someone here can come to having been or known a Jax.

>>149113049
Bunny hands typed this

>>149109661
Everyone likes Ragatha but no one relates to or actually loves her. Her entire personality has been artificially constructed to appeal to other people and make them like her as a result of her upbringing and need for approval. While she's good at winning people over in the short term, they quickly realise that they don't actually know her on any meaningful level and distance themselves from her or connect to other people who are more true to themselves and less people-pleasing (see: Zooble and Gangle, Jax and Pomni). In the end, Ragatha's need to be liked and toxic positivity has the adverse effect of pushing others away with their insincerity.

>>149112895
You missed the whoooole point of the development of Ragatha's character if that's all you got from it, go rewatch the episode and try again.

>>149113047
thanks, i think i was thinking of a different character doing the same thing but with like 5 fingers added because the word(s) were too long to fit on 10 fingers

>>149110438
I think he is concerned for her and was also talking about himself as well. He thinks it's easier if everyone takes non of this stuff seriously and just has fun which is a cope to not feel sad/pain which i assume is trait that if it didn't START with Ribbit abstracting it he went harder in this mindset when it happened.

>>149112020
That makes it even easier to make theories.

Also shipping.

>>149112895
Ragatha is a person who never got the chance to develop her own personality and identity because her entire sense of self revolved around making people like her to make up for the lack of parental affection and warmth she received in her formative years. While being obedient, polite, empathetic and inviting was fine when she was a kid and was mostly expected to be seen and not heard, now that she's an adult she's found herself outpaced by people who have stronger senses of self and loses out to those who are more interesting and sincere. She tries her best to make everyone like her and spread positivity in the hopes that it'll allow her to form a real connection, but the truth is that there is no real Ragatha - she's just whatever she needs to be to foster harmony and make people accept her. As such, she will never know true connection or friendship and will always just be the "nice one" who gets pushed to the periphery when the rest of the group starts forming deeper bonds based on mutual personality traits and interests. It's frustrating to be someone who has committed so much of themselves to being loved only to gradually discover that there's no you to love. I should know because I'm in the same boat.

>>149110896
Cursed gif but sure

>5
Strongest episode by far, very fun to watch.
>1
The original hook, still pretty good.
>3
Kind of a drag until the end when you get hit hard in the feels, still good. Does a really good job of being spooky.
>4
Had multiple funny gags, but was bogged down by more serious tones.
>2
Weak as hell episode made to sell Gummigoo merch.

>>149111072
>The Kinger talk scene was meh because they basically did the same thing with Gummigoo the episode before
I firmly disagree with this, the whole point of Gummigoo was the shock of "oh, nope, you can't take NPCs with you they're not actually real" and Kinger's advice was to value and cherish the real people around you while they're still around. Two completely separate points. Pomni was trying to save Gummigoo and failed, Kinger saved Pomni and taught her something important and bittersweet.

>>149112762
bruh some of the same men i see interacting and having fun are the same ones later on that saying shit like "im so lonely" or "i dont have anyone I can trust" in the groupchat while drunk
i think its more complicated than what either of you are saying

>>149113198

Still funny
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/j4D4QFPJRFk

>>149113490
>I used to talk to this brother
What does that even mean?
Do I want to know?

>>149113415
>drunk
>group chat
Not for nothing, but I think there's some of your problem.

>>149113210
As someone who was basically Ragatha and then grew to a healthy place with it, it’s a tough subject to talk about because this is an underexplored type of character, and a complex/nuanced topic to lay out.
In my view, every single person over the age of 5 has a public mask, and then the private person that pilots the mask (unless you’re downs syndrome or something). The ability to lie or enact strategy or engage in civilized society requires both. I’m also of the personal belief that both the mask and the pilot are “you” (there’s also a subconscious layer beneath the pilot where instincts and inspiration reside but don’t need to get into that). People construct their masks as the buffer between the pilot and the external world, so your mask is co-authored by externalities and yourself. This is to say that Ragatha doesn’t lack a pilot, but rather, the pilot is deeply guarded behind the mask. The mask isn’t a “fake her”, she performs her mask because her pilot’s intention is to BE that to the outside world. This intentionality isn’t the mask taking over her faculties, but a reflection of the pilot’s good intentions for everyone around her. She has reasonable intentions, the desire to fit in, to be liked, to treat people well, and that is on display through her mask.
She’s not a bad person, nor a fake person, she is a guarded person that is unable to regulate the appropriate use of her mask, when to get more intimate with others, and feeling okay with showing glimpses of the pilot. People who call her a narcissist are dead wrong, she’s basically an anti-narcissist.

Zooble is the worst one. Literally just a self insert for trans people. Like the plain girl in romance shows or something.

>The Gaslight District didn't even measure up to TADC episode 5 and has already been forgotten
Damn I want to fuck this jester.

Has anyone thought about there being any foreshadowing here? Pomni, Jax, and Kinger get "knocked out" and Gangle and Ragatha "win cake"? Also Zooble is absent from this segment...

>>149113631
Next episode

I need her.

>>149113595
Tell me what you think Zooble's character is

>>149113606
Circus is just too perfect for prime popularity. Easy to make merch cause cute designs,light lore to promote essays and theorys,fan songs with the main va cast sining in them,slighty adult but not so much it turns away the teens. Online creator that interacts with the fandom. Gaslight is fine but Circus has everything it needs to be the smash hit it is.

>>149113631
i wanna cake Gangle

>>149113573
Ragatha is Shinji Ikari.

Also Black and White Alt

>>149113650
ill heal her hurting heart

>>149113650
>off model

>>149113606
I have high hopes for Gaslight District, but you shouldn't measure a series' success by a smash hit like TADC. It'd be like measuring every mid 2010s indie game by whether it's as popular as Undertale.

>>149113650
>off-model

>>149113704
it's a drawing, of course it's not a model, anon!

>>149113027
Welcome
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>>149113573
Like I said, I'm very much in the same boat and as a recovering people pleaser. It's hard to accept that you're not actually so much a manipulator as you are a highly empathetic person who's gone too far in the other direction. You seem to be very at peace with it, though. I hope I can reach that place one day and learn to regulate my masks better.

>>149113693
We need some healing art, stat.

>>149113732
>*sick as fuck bouncing beat*
>Mannequin crabwalking in opposite directions

>>149113670
Essentially, the AT field is Evangelion’s version of the mask and pilot.
And every character besides maybe Kinger/Caine engages with this. Ragatha is not any more “fake” than Jax or Zooble, she’s just guarded in a slightly different way.

>>149107833 (OP)
Shame.

>>149107975
H O T

>>149113761
Too much of a good thing is usually a bad thing. Balance is key, glad you’ve come to terms with the trickiest bit. Keep at it.

>>149109815
Yeah pretty much

>>149109815
Lol you got overwhelmed by a cartoon.

I go to the wild mass guessing page on tvtropes and just laugh at all the people who got things dead wrong, especially the ones written before epi4 was released. Lots of people overestimating jax's role in this show.

>>149113573
>>149113210
The more I learn about Ragatha the more I realize we are complete opposites, and I don't know how to approach that.

You think Jax is a complete opposite to Ragatha too?

>>149113889
The Jax nuke drops next episode though

>>149113573
These types of posts itt have been surprisingly helpful for me. I've been struggling to determine when a person is being "real" and whether there is any such thing as a "real" person at all underneath the mask if not just a bunch of selfish interests that together result in the emergent self we perceive. I'm still conflicted on the whole mask-on and mask-off dichotomy, how we put on different faces for different people. Are we being dishonest? Is it the instinct to fit in that drives these behaviors or are we just expressing the same self, but differently?
Once I finally learned to not take what people say and do at face value it's been kind hard to know when I'm talking to the puppet vs the puppeteer so I've been really distant with people for the past few years. Sometimes I don't even think there's anyone moving those strings desu, it's kinda of scary. The current state of culture and social media makes it difficult to tune into what is natural and healthy behavior when it comes to self expression. There's too much noise to see things clearly

>>149113606
TADC is just one of those very rare shows that happened to debut at the perfect time. Gaslight’s views are still impressive when considering the grimdark and gross aesthetic that would put most people off, but it’s unfair to compare it with a show that was truly lightning in a bottle.

>>149113909
Jax isn’t a direct opposite, but more of a reflection. He’s a MUCH more common character archetype, the guy who does mean things with a softer side. It’s still a bit more up in the air to predict his pilot’s relationship to his mask, and what he really is doing this for, but generally these characters (when not one dimensional) are either like this: >>149112521 in like a hedonistic/nihilistic sort of way and/or they are guarding some major vulnerabilities (similar to Ragatha). Ribbit suggests the latter will come into play soon, probably next episode.
No, the opposite of Ragatha would be like, someone who can’t mask very well and has a tough time performing with others because they overshare, some autists are like this (Chris Chan).

>>149113910
I highly doubt that in the next episode he turns into Sauron, like the tvtropes nerds are saying

>random music video in the middle of the episode
Is Goose so out of ideas that she can't even find a way to fill 25 minutes with story content?

>>149113909
Jax is more straightfoward

>>149114087
No, Goose instead just came up with one of the best parts of the entire series so far

>>149107975
>black ooze trickling outta the mouth
buongiorno 035

>>149113047
Now we need someone to change him into dictatorer

>>149113939
I’m a bit of an odd one out on this subject but I think authenticity is overrated (not unimportant, overvalued). We value it very high in the west and especially America because the individual is seen as the most valuable unit. Being real/your true self/whatever is pushed very hard today, but I think it’s actually misguided, it’s placing too much of an emphasis/higher value on the pilot and not enough on the mask.
My view is that the mask is literally a part of you, the you that faces the world, that polite society and civilization itself requires the mask to function, and actually that people as a community can create dignities and expectations that elevate the individual through their mask more than they repress.
But it’s an outsider thought, most don’t agree with me.
Anyway, I don’t subscribe to NPC theory, there are absolutely people on a lower level of cognition and awareness, but I give most people the benefit of the doubt and engage with the them that I see, even a temporary mask on the internet can be valuable, someone testing a thought that they don’t know if they believe. There’s such a thing as too trusting, don’t get scammed, but the other extreme as you describe isn’t healthy either imo.
Etiquette isn’t fake, politeness isn’t fake, if you’re really trying, even if the pilot would rather not uphold that in the moment. The effort itself is the higher function.

>>149113868
God i love this image, the original is a fucking classic, any reproduction becomes godly by association.

>>149114200
When you wear the "mask" you're covering for something. Solve that something and you don't need the mask.

I don't care if Jax is a reprehensible being with absolutely no redeeming qualities, I still want to fuck the shit out of that tall lanky bratty twink

>>149109661
Zooble's a simp bro

>>149114258
When a parent, who’s pilot is tired and just wants to tell their crying kid to shut the fuck up, and you choose to uphold that parental dignity through the mask of “Dad” or “Mom” because your higher functions value your child more than your immediate feelings, you’re doing a good thing. The solution was the mask, not to follow your pilot.

>>149114293
Jax needs forced feminization correction!

>>149114293
I wanna do this to him
God

>>149110262
He's got a schoolboy crush on her duh

>>149110262
Gangle is the easiest victim.

>>149114348
I kept thinking Zooble should just steal some parts from evil!Zooble.

>>149114311
I have masturbated to this image.

>>149114293
mating press is needed

>>149112797
Good. Fuck that cunt.

>>149114311
>no girl will ever do this to me
I don't think I've wanted to end myself this much in years

>>149114305
If you're doing the right the thing for your child, you weren't wearing a mask in the first place, because that comes naturally.

>>149112797
Depends on how it was handled. If Ragatha is condemned for her situation, or portrayed as a bad person, I would be extremely against it. If Ragatha is abstracted because of someone else crossing the line (Jax/Caine?) it’s a tough sell but possible to make it a “good bummer”. If Ragatha gets to a really bad place but is worked through I would prefer that.
Drama plot device death is acceptable if the turn is consequential to the story and she is valued more in death. But yeah, I like her and find her problem really interesting and would rather see it come to a head, get overcome and see her happy. We’ll just have to see.

>>149114485
Pretty sure anon's talking about the idea of your selfish desires versus your social desires. In this context, the mask isn't a fake you you use to hide other people, but the version of yourself you present to the world born from the conscious decisions you make. When you're doing the right thing for your child, that's not you pretending to care, that's you managing all your impulses - including the negative ones - and choosing to let the positive ones win out.

>>149112704
There is no leaving. There is nowhere for their minds to go. They got SOMAd and are just brainmap copies of people.

>>149114485
Masks *are* natural, and the role of parent isn’t something you do well without actively performing it. You will be tired, or annoyed, or angry sometimes, but it’s the parental role (mask) that is higher than your pilot’s immediate experience/desires. You are repressing (positive).
>>149114544
Yeah.

Why do you all like Ragatha so much? She literally doesn't have a personality. She's not even that hot. Shes the most nothing character in the show. The only good that comes from her inclusion is learning a bit more about Jax's backstory

>>149114629
Filtered.

>>149110558
Not really? She was only in persistent people-pleaser mode for the President Pomni episode. I guess you could also count the anime segment, even though she only had like one line.

For the stargazing, bar scene, and softball episodes she tried to turn off and vent some negative emotions and it backfired on her every time.

I don't know how people watch this episode and walk away thinking the lesson Ragatha needs to learn is to be less nice. If anything it shows the others only tolerate Ragatha when she's nice and reject her when she isn't.

>>149114629
>ragatha
weird way to spell Zooble

>>149112987
She probably kept acting like everything was still "fine" after ribbit absracted, which drove jax nuts, jax just wanted to be mad and sad that his friend is gone and ragatha kept being upbeat.

>>149114672
>walk away thinking the lesson Ragatha needs to learn is to be less nice.
Pomni LITERALLY says this
She all but looks at the audience and says this, directly. And then Ragatha fucks the message up

>>149114352
Ganges is the PERFECT victim, it's as if she was born to be abused!

>>149114629
I love the psychological unstable girl who desperately needs help but is too busy trying to help others to invite any assistance inward.

>>149114629
Attractive personality and design, interesting problem (and the show clearly agrees, it’s been developing since Episode 1). What’s not to like? Calling her a nothing character is bizarre.

>>149114629
Most of /co/ has mommy issues

>>149114629
We’re straight.

>>149114150
>Zooble wears a male uniform

What are they implying?

>>149114544
>that's you managing all your impulses - including the negative ones - and choosing to let the positive ones win out.
Yes, that's the real you. If it wasn't, then the real you would be a monster who ends up on police youtube videos.
And as someone who technically puts up a front for other people, I'm not wearing a mask. I'm a depressed, self lothing shit heap and I tell people this all the time, my closest people know this. However, I try not to bog down anyone else with my garbage, so I do what comes naturally to me, be friendly, polite, and personable and express my genuine concern for others, to the point where I go out of my way to help them if I can. I hate me, but I love other people more. I am more than willing to put others before me and maybe I'll be lucky and I'll die doing something helpful rather than alone.

>>149107833 (OP)
I don't understand why they didn't say how they ended up inside when they were telling their stories. It's pointless lore bait

>>149113096
Was it this one?

>>149114672
>>149114698
You’re both right. The others aren’t giving her much of an in but when she tries she’s doing it poorly. It’s ratcheting up the desperation for some sort of big climax, either her death or a cathartic resolution. This episode shows how trapped she feels.

>>149114768
Anon is saying that the "mask" and "you" are not seperate entities; your "pilot" is the internal impulses, and the "mask" is the filter through which you manage those impulses. They are both you. Those emotions you feel aren't fake, nor is the way you handle them, even if the way you handle them is by surpressing them.

>>149114768
So it’s just the word you don’t like (and I only invented the pilot/mask distinction as a categorical tool to explain myself better). We basically agree, I just call that a mask. I don’t think masks are fake or aren’t you, see: >>149113573

>>149114200
I suppose that's kinda the paradox for me. if you go full max stirner and only care about your selfish interests then that means putting on masks can become a genuine expression of the self. I don't have problems with the masks per se, but how do you know the person is doing this because they are being sincere vs insincere? a real connection vs being treated as a performance they get to enact with you? and like the other anon said, if you are being genuine do you even need a mask to begin with? a parent that loves their baby could feel frustrated, tired, annoyed, but if they really love their baby and understand the sacrifice, would they really have the urge to yell "shut the fuck up" at a crying baby instead of just simply feeling all those negative emotions without letting them fester into a destructive desire and continue caring for the baby without the need to put the parental mask?
I'm stuck on whether this whole concept of being "genuine" is itself a fantasy, because it could be the case that expression of the self is only possible thanks to these masks to begin with. Maybe people are just different and have different tolerances, maybe the only real thing is a right balance that varies per person but I don't know, there's still so much I need to figure out. People enjoy calling others "fake" and having a "forced personality" to make themselves seem more authentic but do they even understand what that means anymore?

>>149107833 (OP)
>Ragatha won't actually get killed off in episode 6 or presumably any sequential episode.
BUT SHE WAS HECKING GLITCHING

>>149114614
All I'm saying is, you don't have to think about doing the right thing. Even if you don't know what right thing is in the moment, you'll still jump to something when it happens. I don't consider someone who's putting others' well being, especially their own child, above their own misery as wearing a mask, at least not in the context of hiding their true personality.

>>149114582
What if they find their way into a different game? One that's also floating in the void that Caine is desperate to hide from the gang out of fear that they'd aband him. A game run by Abel.

>>149114698
Yeah, Pomni LITERALLY said that and then also immediately shut down Ragatha when she started bitching about Jax. Clearly the problem is more nuanced and complicated than just "Ragatha too nice."

All I'm saying is that Ragatha tried not being nice multiple times in this episode, and it never worked out for her, so there's got to be a different solution.

>>149109682
She's Super Straight

>>149114824
Fair I suppose
I wrote >>149114882 before I saw this one, so enjoy added context
Enjoy your day

whats the best ragatha chatbot on spicychat?

>>149114941
Yes, mediation, anon. That's the point.
The point is that Ragatha needs to learn to be more open about her feelings but not so open that she gets into screaming matches first thing she does, because someone who goes from being extremely upbeat at all times to being extremely loud and aggressive is not a well-balanced person. Ragatha needs to learn to let her emotions out in a healthy way, and some of that includes being less nice.

>>149112993
It doesn't matter. Dana fangirls are fucking insane and will stan whatever she puts her name on.

>>149114882
>>149114954
The only other thing I’d add here is that I don’t believe most people are walking around carefully constructing their masks consciously all the time, you can construct a mask with conscious intention or unconscious intention (or a ratio of both). It seems like you were thinking I was saying that the parent mask was a specifically constructed artifice, while I believe there is a little conscious intention there sometimes (parenting books or something) most of that is external experience (monkey see monkey do for how a parent “should be”) combined with love instincts/higher principles. I see that all as genuine.

>>149114941
Pomni told her it was ok to let out her negative emotions but ragatha took the jerk part literally because she having a nervous breakdown and can't compute. It's pretty much spelled out that ragatha's mom's awful behavior broke her and she can't stand negativity to point where she believes any amount of it is bad and can't handle her own. She has to have positive reinforcement and that's she sees jax and pomni being friends as a threat, because it means he stole her reinforcement target.

>>149112626
>The pilot just hit me hard as hell, man. I liked that the circus was obnoxiously bright, I loved the setting as a whole, it told a great story unto itself.
The pilot also has the best music. The soundtrack really fell off a cliff after Your New Home.

>>149111748
>I refer to Zooble as she because she does a bad job of not acting like one
Jax pretty much all but flat-out said she has all the stereotypical characteristics of a punk dyke with her previous jobs

>>149115110
It’s worse than losing Pomni, because Jax is the epitome of everything Ragatha is against. She lost Pomni to what she feels like is her opposite.

>>149115149
>Your New Home.
The reason the pilot hooked me, I hope they're saving it for another great moment

The best thing about the new episode is that the color saturation doesn't rape every nerve in your eyeballs.

>>149107833 (OP)
RAGATHA MUST HANG

Anon’s heartbeat echoed in the corridor. The memory of Ragatha’s toxic cheer—the way she smiled while gaslighting Jax—burned in his mind. He spotted her humming, stitching wounds with that fake sparkle in her eyes.

“Ragatha,” he hissed.

Her smile faltered. He lunged, ripping the stitches that held her together—threads that kept her “positivity” intact. Blood and tears spilled.

“You hurt Jax,” he growled. “You lied. You smothered us with your FAKE ASS POSITIVITY.”

He tore the final stitch. Ragatha gasped, her smile collapsing as she fell. “Fucking bitch,” Anon spat, kicking the body.

A crowd of TADC fans danced around the corpse, hands linked in joy. The most hated character was dead.

Pomni leaned against the wall, arms crossed. She’d always resented Ragatha’s puppet-master cheer.

“She had it coming,” she muttered, snapping a photo of the stitches.

Gangle spun nearby—this time, her happy mask stayed on.

Jax stood frozen at the corridor’s edge, torn between shock and relief.

“Anon… is she…?” he whispered.

Anon knelt beside him. “She can’t hurt you anymore.”

Jax blinked back tears. His fear gave way to gratitude. “Let’s go,” he said, grabbing Anon’s hand.

They ran into the crimson twilight, leaving Ragatha’s stitched lies behind.

Anon squeezed Jax’s hand. “We’re okay now.”

Jax looked at him—pain and hope mingled in his eyes. “Yeah.”

Behind them, the fandom still danced.

>>149115222
Meds

>>149115222
Didn't read.

>>149115222
did read

So. how would Pomni deal with Iran?

>all this Evangelion/jungian talk
Can't wait for Jax and Ragatha's big EoE tier breakdown

>>149115325
i bet jax deceived her into bombing Iran

>>149115377
Jung has done untold damage to anime as a medium

>>149115222
I read it, and I liked it.

>>149115325
What do you think Ragatha's brief told her?

>*bass boosted slur*

>>149115325

>>149115452
That's my homie dawg, real shit spitting

>>149115205
And that's one of the many reasons Jax is my favorite character and Zooble is my second favorite

>>149113072
Even Gangle admits to her that he likes Ragatha, but he no longer knows if she is sincere when she speaks.

>>149114869
What am I supposed to look at? Her receding hairline?

>>149115523
the glitch effect around her hair is subtle but more visible in the animation than in a screenshot

>>149115583
It's a screen tear

>>149112762
Those are positive interactions that you're referring to as examples. Men tend to not deal with negative feelings that well whenever they are stuck in a shitty state of mind/situation. Jax opens up in this most recent episode only to immediately deflect right afterwards with a joke on Ragatha being ugly and weird. He does the same when pressed by Zooble later in the episode too. Emotional vulnerability in particular is rough for a lot of dudes. If Jax had an mpreg assbaby with Kinger he'd probably be happy openly I don't deny that. But he's not. His entire situation sucks, his best friend is basically dead, and hes a purple rabbit.

>>149115593

>>149109682
I think Pomni is developing a Jax-like attitude to enjoy the circus more.
>Ep1: Pomni learns there's no way out.
>Ep2: Pomni learns that NPCs are destroyed after adventures and that she can only coexist with the other five.
>Ep3: She learns not to worry about breathing (there's no reason to worry, you can't die here).
>Ep4: She realizes that NPCs are reset with each adventure.

Simply accepting and enjoying the journey is the easiest way to survive the circus.

>>149115593
ummm it's actually a knife, sweaty

>>149115654
My personal theory (and it's been this way for a while so I hope I don't get jossed here) is that Pomni's going to take a lesson from every other member of the circus and eventually become a well-balanced leader figure for the group during the last few episodes when everything goes to shit (Caine is going to go insane and break down - this is obvious)

With all their powers combined, she will be a functional human being.

>>149115325
Why was Raggy smiling when the scene started?

>>149110382
>clearly doesn't think too highly of zooble and is concerned about them hanging out, for gangle's sake.
I'm also worried, Zooble is the type of person who is unstable and without a clear direction. I'm afraid he'll accelerate Gangle's abstraction.

>>149115767
Did you watch the show?

>>149115757
She thinks she looks cool

>>149115523
No idea lol, some autist was screeching about it being a glitch effect meaning ragatha will soon abstract according to him.

>>149115767
you are an idiot

>>149115694
That’s the most sensical interpretation of the grand finale break out genre of ending I’ve heard.
The show is so focused on character growth and learning to live with each other that I assumed it was heading towards a stuck in the circus forever ending but that makes sense.

>>149107833 (OP)
FUCK YOU FOR POSTING UNMARKED SPOILERS IN THE OP

>>149115523

>>149115767
>he'll

>>149115757
“I’m being useful!”

>>149115965
Dolls are meant for hugging, and she doesn't hug anyone. No wonder she is so unpopular.

>>149115767
zooble treats gangle the best what are you talking about

>>149115654
That is not the lesson she took from Episode 3 at all. Kinger couldn't make it any clearer:
>"The worst thing you can do in this world is make someone feel unwanted or unloved."
In the next episode, she starts trying to reach out to the unloved group loner (Jax) and reaches out a helping hand to the unwanted person at the end of her rope (Gangle).

Total Jax death

>>149116046
While accidentally leaving the silent sufferer unwanted and unloved (Ragatha).

I hope ragatha abstracts just to spite the ragafags for being so fucking annoying

Only anon can help Ragatha now.

>>149116070
Pomni has pushed back against Ragatha since the first episode. It's really a little weird that Pomni is happy enough to reach out to everyone else, but has zero time to give to the one person who actively wishes she was her friend.

>>149114629
Mommy with big ass or BOOBA or both depending on your taste

Do you guys think Gooseworx secretly lurks and reads these threads? If so, what would she be thinking?

>>149114150
I like how they all have different uniforms.

>>149115452
Bubble has never been better

>>149114868
>Pic
Nice

>>149116117
Pomni gets a lot of credit for being the MC who knows how to talk no jutsu people off the cliff but I actually think she doesn’t understand Ragatha. It doesn’t help that Jax is whispering in her ear his take on her.

>>149116117
She thanked her and told her how much she appreciated her at the end of episode 3 you moron.

>pomni was an accountant for a supermarket chain
>kinger was one of the lead creators/playtesters of the circus itself with his wife before she abstracted
>gangle worked a shitty fast food job
>zooble was a bartender, tattoo artist, possibly more
>ragatha was from a wealthy(?) family that worked on a farm(?) and she took care of horses while being emotionally abused by her mother
>jax is afraid of corn
what else did we learn from this new ep?

>>149116127
I would hope not knowing how much we shit on the show.

>>149116171
>kinger was one of the lead creators/playtesters of the circus itself
Source?

>>149116179
I don't think she'd mind the criticism

>>149116171
Ragatha has been trapped in the game long enough that she did not know what Breaking Bad was.

>>149116127
>thess people are all retards
>*jacks off to vore*

>>149116182
Episode 3, implied with
>"Eight years of computer science for this, huh?"

>>149116164
and it went absolutely nowhere rick and morty style
character growth at the end of the episode that's immediately forgotten the next episodes for the sake of plot

>>149116127
i hope she finds all the incredibly off-base theories interesting

>>149116204
That, or her family didn't let her watch a lot of TV and she never got into TV culture

>>149115965
She looks hot when she's that angry

Ragatha being in real estate is a funny piece of her backstory because it highlights her strength and weakness as someone accommodating someone else with a smile, and she basically took Pomni on a house tour in episode 1.

>>149116127
I hope she reads all my posts about Ragatha wearing adorable clean diapers under her dress

>>149116127
He’d probably waver between frustration at how he’s conveyed his characters and story and amusement as we try to guess wtf is going on. Probably a little sperg pride at the characterfaggotry.

>>149116207
So in otherwords, headcanon.

>>149116127
If Goose is here, I want you to know that you're doing a great job and don't listen to the industrycuck haters in here. You're one of the greatest cartoonists of our age.

>>149116280
They wouldn't drop a detail like that if it wasn't important.

>>149116127
>She

>>149116127
Probably stressing knowing that he can’t deliver.

So that intermission was like 90% Goose, right?

>>149102364
Reminder to recycle when ready.

>>149116303
Untrue.
He could literally just be saying I spent 8 years doing computer science just to end up in the circus.
Nothing implies he worked on it. You're infering what you want to see.

>>149116171
>>ragatha was from a wealthy(?) family that worked on a farm(?) and she took care of horses while being emotionally abused by her mother
Horses bring in a LOT of money. Like 'fuck you' amounts of money.

>>149116321
Worst part of the ep

>>149112231
I coulda sworn those were popular for rebellious girls and yankee chicks to wear in the 80s and 90s, but I’m having trouble finding examples. Best I can think of is Revolutionary Girl Utena.

Zooble should’ve been wearing a long skirt with the gakuran top to make it less masculine, that woulda been cute.

>>149115757
I've said it before but she's got some kind of thing for women in authority that I don't know if it's reducible to just a "fawning instinct" but maybe it is.

>>149116337
Horses often do the opposite of bringing in money. They cost money.

>>149116117
It's hard to befriend someone if you don't know if they're being genuine or just pretending to look good.
Even Gangle says this to Pomni.

>>149107833 (OP)
Yeah sorry not buying it

>>149116363
>Horses often do the opposite of bringing in money.
I'm talking about the equestrian facilities that take care of other people's horses, anon.
The amount of money they bring in is much more than they cost.

do you listen to the other dubs?

>>149116171
Jax is "afraid" of corn because when he first came to the circus he got lost in corn maze and it gave him PTSD

>>149115956
I don't necessarily think they'll escape - I WANT them to, I think it'd be cool, but it's not required to have this theory work. I think it's just the most logical direction for Pomni as a character, growing from someone who was totally lost to someone who becomes a leader in times of crisis, and brings people together.

>>149116222
Still counts and you don't get to wave it off just because it doesn't fit your narrative.

>>149116292
I think your opinion is dumb and retarded but I respect the positivity so I must endorse your post

>>149114758
She's nonbinary

>>149116348
It was the best part.

>Wants: To be loved
>Likes: Being loving to other people
>Flaws: Is a bit of an autist about it
Literally wife.

>>149116171
Pomni also makes youtube videos about exploring abandoned buildings and that's how she got to the headset probably

>>149116182
ep 1 he told everyone how food actually works in the circus, with jax lampshading it by asking
>"when did you become an expert on the digital world?"
ep 3 when he became lucid and mentioned he was in computer science
and also the fact he's been in the circus longer than anyone
i could be reaching a tad but it just makes sense and i will believe it until it is directly proven otherwise

>>149112797
turned on

>>149116387
The insurance you have to have to be able to legally operate one is ungodly expensive. You make money and it's good but the expenses are high too so you don't make fuck you levels.

>>149116422
>when you see it...

>>149112555
No way they would kill off a member of the main cast. However, I do think she is going to begin abstracting but will be brought back to normal through the power of friendship or whatever

>>149116337
Is it the semen?

>>149110211
thats uh....quite the leap of logic

>>149116429
>i could be reaching
You are.

>>149116460
Horse juice is only worth money if you have a champion (racing, dressage, conformation etc) which is rare so no the breeding isnt worth alot unless you've been lucky.

How the fuck did a horse trainer, tatoo artist, community college drop out and whatever the fuck Jax did in his past life become test subjects for C&A's simulation game?

>>149116460
Depends on the horse's lineage, health, and pedigree.

>>149116429
when using inductive reasoning, you arrive at conclusions that are at most likely true, but never truly guaranteed to be so

>>149116399
I expect they'll escape but we'll never actually see them in the human world.
It also depends on how long they want it to go on for. If there's a rhetorical "Season 2", it'll be hard to do if everyone has already escaped. So a season finale may just be someone being extracted or a new player being thrown into the game instead

>>149116443
I don't know what else to say than "you don't know what you're talking about".

>>149116496
Both Pomni and Zooble admitted to liking exploring abandoned buildings so I bet its the same for the others and they all found the computer and headset.

>>149116496
>Horse Trainer
Ragatha probably wasn't a horse trainer, but a realtor or someone responsible for managing land - makes sense, since her mother owned a farm. You don't own a farm by being a farmer in modern day, you own a farm by being a land owner. If that was passed down, it's likely Ragatha bought up the C&A property, went inside to review it, and put on the headset out of curiosity.

>Tattoo artist
Zooble said she explored abandoned buildings for fun, same as Pomni.

>Community college dropout
I have NO IDEA how Gangle got here. Gangle doesn't sound like someone who likes to explore for fun

>>149116527
Ok anon. Sure.

>>149116527
nta but all the big name thoroughbred breeding farms are constantly running on the razors edge of bankruptcy
i think you dont know what youre talking about

>>149116292
I demand more Sun

>>149116496
All it takes is to put on the headset.
For all we know, Gangle could have bought some shady shit on Amazon, without knowing it was going to send her to the circus.

>>149116496
Gangle was probably sent for fast food delivery at C&A HQ and got curious.

we dont even know if theres more than one headset do we

>>149116127
Goose you bitch
If you're here, I'd just like to remind you of how jealous I am, and how fortunate you are to be in the position you're in, and how you better not squander this opportunity in the present or in the future. You're a good artist and a great creative and obviously have the ability to create things people love. No matter how hard I try, I will probably never create anything that becomes even a fraction as popular as the things you do on a daily basis

Do not fuck this up.

>>149116558
You can literally look at any chart and see that's not the case at all, but sure.

>>149116538
We know Gangle likes art and anime. Maybe she was led to believe the headset was just a regular dating sim game.

>>149116628
It's a headset. It's probably playing sounds of what's happening in the simulation.

>>149116250
files.catbox.moe/eh7i06.mp4

Girl Failures > Girl Bosses

>>149116604
>Do not fuck this up.
You know what's both funny and sad about this is so often that pressure ruins even what could have been a good thing. It's like telling someone not to trip and then because they're aware of it they trip immediately kek

>>149116598
I felt like “why cant I get this headset off?” And “just keep grabbing at it. that worked for all of us” gave off a bit of an implication that all of the characters are still wearing their headsets, but I guess there’s no solid proof for that. At the very least, it sorta seemed like Pomni could still sort of feel like she was wearing hers at the start of episode 1, and that this was the same experience the others all had their first couple minutes in the circus. Can’t say if she still feels like she’s wearing a headset now, or even whether or not she was just experiencing some kinda illusion back then.

>>149116738
Pomni got over her shizo depression, and has become the most normal of the circus group after Zooble.
Crazy eyed Pomni is a thing of the past now.

>>149116738
Girlfailures are male protective instinct bait, Goddamn I feel like a sucker for falling for it EVERY TIME AAAAAAA

why would kinger say this

>>149116743
I'm not even talking about TADC, I'm talking about Goose's life in general
Goose has POWER and INFLUENCE now. People look up to and are swayed by Goose. People in the space will reference TADC, and thereby Goose. Goose will have more series in the future, maybe with glitch maybe with someone else, of this I'm sure.

It's possible I'm projecting because I'VE wanted nothing more in life than to create something with a big fandom, and though I'm a fair bit younger than Goose, I'm still sure I'll never become successful. HOWEVER-

>>149116772
Id say everyone is normal except Kinger and even then he feels less crazy anymore and just goofy and that's all when he isn't back to normal in the dark
Sure they have issues but these are normal human issues not insanity or being overly anxious the point of twitching

>>149116772
It's just because she hasn't been pushed since episode 3
>Episode 1, 2, and 3: Literal life-and-limb (they can't die but they feel like they can) struggles against forces out to mutilate them
>Episode 4: Working fast food
>Episode 5: Baseball where if you lose, the other guys will really take the piss out of you
Not exactly equivalent.,

>>149116793
Id never want something on the same level of tadc because no offense to goose or glitch or any of the team and i dont want to downplay their work
but he majority of the fans are children, and the series as a mixed reputation due to the content farms and glitch's stuff being le quirky and shit
it's not a bad show and it's not bad if kids like it but id prefer to have a smaller yet sizable fanbase of actual adults

>>149107833 (OP)
so little happen that its impossible to guess whats next.
wow, so impressive.

>>149116754
Considering that she all but flat out said she found the headset in an abandoned building, then them being in there matrix style is not a good thing. Unless those headset also provide lifesupport, then you're gonna have to contend with abstractions being the computer losing connection with a now dead body, which could also happen if they're being monitored.
The likely option is they got digitized and sucked in.

>>149116717
You know the more I see these, the funnier they get, right?

>>149116840
That's fine with me too
I don't need 300,000,000
Just 300,000 would be more than enough.

Does Ragatha have depth perception?

>>149114781
no

>>149116884
Her button eye works, though i hope she can close it.

>>149116913
>Her button eye works
It can?

>>149116793
A smaller following is nothing bad either, since that means less pressure and ridiculously high expectations from everyone.

Es un excelente actor, no me puedo creer que sea Argentino

>>149116849
You assume that they are experiencing the simulation in real time and in rhythm with their bodies. It could be there’s some time distortion going on and that while they feel like they’ve been trapped for years, in reality it’s only been a couple minutes in the real world where their bodies are. Easy way to explain how none of them have starved to death yet. This is especially important when you note that Kinger was probably the first person stuck there and he’s still unabstracted and more or less okay.

>>149116948
Yeah gooseworx confirmed it like years ago like a little after the pilot

predictions for the last 4 episodes?

>>149111672
Zoobles queer, they're not too particular about it

>>149117071
Pomni realizes that the only way to get free is to die so she kills everyone but before she can kill herself Caine turns her into an immobile slug without limbs or mouths

>>149116972
Esta bien cuando hacen modismos mexicanos pero cuando hacen argentinos da cringe

>>149117071
That would depend on your thoughts regarding marketing dead characters.

>>149112231
I was kinda expecting a mix, like Najimi

again, do you guys curiously listen to the other dubs?

>>149117108
Argentinian accent is the go to Spic dubs when they have to adapt accents

Goose is kind of annoying. I get enough mystery boxes from Star Wars, thank you. Try telling your story in a linear manner.

Next Episode Jax fucking DIES

>>149117071
Caine trips and dies and the simulation fails, then the rest of that episode and the entirety of the last three episodes are just long lingering shots of the dead bodies of the headset-wearing humans who became the digital cast.

>>149117108
You're kidding, right? New anime dubs are full of mexican expression and it's cringe as fuck

>>149116127
If she is, I hope she sees the first reply in this thread (also, it's spelt Psynwav, oops)

>>149109682
Can't you use AI to just remove those watermarks nowadays?

>>149117145
I haven't watched a series as linear as TADC in a while

seriously what happened between them? the development of their relationship doesn't make any sense
at some point in the story rag was replaced with a faker, it's the only explanation

>>149117269
If anything, it's Pomni acting weird, not Ragatha.
She's acting totally normal, while Pomni's priorities are skewed.

>>149117269
Pomni didn't do anything, but get closer to Jax.
Rag is the one that instigated the conflict, and tried to control Pomni's relationships like some overbearing mother.

>>149117269
They'll talk it out next episode unless Ragatha abstracts, don't worry

>>149117269
What relationship? How much screentime have they had together and how much of that was them even conversing with each other? Most of it was ragatha infantilizing pomni, even when she wasn't there, the one pleasant moment was pomni apologizing for being rude after taking with kinger, whom she actually bonded with. She barely said 2 words to her at spudsy's before rags fell off the wagon.
So tell me, where's this friendship you think they had?

>>149116496
They all seem down on their luck, maybe they all needed money and signed up for some kind of clinical trial. Ragatha's from a wealthy family but her relationship with her mother is bad so who knows.

>>149117071
Caine loses all patience starts running the circus like a tyrant. No more suggestion box, no more opting out of participation, no more critical feedback. You WILL go on Caine's adventures and you WILL have fun while doing so OR ELSE.

>>149117121
Same honestly, but I like gakuran so it looks nice on them.

>>149115205
Jax knows a lot about dykes for someone who claims to be a straight gamer male

>>149116127
Hi Gooseworx. If you're here, I just want to let you know your stupid faggot twink rabbit made me draw. I'll never be the same again.

>>149116314
Goose actually makes good stuff and hasn't tried to shove overt leftist propaganda into any of her work yet so she gets the pronoun pass from me. Although Zooble as a character is skirting the line.

I’m wondering if there’s even a point of “wanting to exit” after a while. With the abandon building thing confirmed, wouldn’t that mean her physical form is just lying limp in the real world.

There’s no sense of time in the digital circus either, they all sound like they are roughly from the same timeline but the body can only last so long without eating,drinking. The building is abandon on top of that, and we don’t even know how the others got stuck.I feel like she might as well get settled.

Given how the show is based of off I have no mouth and I must scream. I’m waiting for the “lucky” ones to escape in a way(like maybe rooming free in a space free of Caine) while the sacrificial lambs get punished in a similar way

>>149117133
They should do Chilean just to fuck with everybody. Also even though there wasn't an Arabic dub for this episode for whatever reason, the next one should be dubbed in Moroccan Arabic.

>>149117957
Based faggot

>>149117995
>She

>>149118143
NTA, but it's this simple
>You make good things and be on good behaviour, you get pronoun priveleges
>Act like a shithead and they'll be revoked

>>149117957
Did you have to put him in the most stereotypical femboy outfit imaginable tho?

>>149116127
I dunno but if they do I’m guessing g the Jack NPC theory makes more sense, what if Jax was the frog’s imaginary friend and Kaine ether A forgot or B dosen’t understand why that part of the frogs brain didn’t also abstract? That’s my lame gay theory anyway.

>>149118192
Based.
This is why I call my sister (female FTM) by her girl pronouns.

>>149112993
You underestimate the following that Dana has.

>>149118322
>Jax is better than Hitler
glad we cleared that up

Liked ep 4 better tea bee aytch

>>149118475
why are they shipped

>>149118322
More gaslighting

>>149110896
4>3>1>2>5
4 is fascinatingly unnerving. Everyone except Kinger gets development, and somehow the most mundane setting becomes the most horrifying.
Lack of Kinger in 4 is acceptable with his excellent showing here. It’s a shame the B Team story got cut right down (seriously, what’s the story about Jax being tied up), but everything with Kinger and Pomni works just right
1 sets the scene well and has the best music. But it does have some pilot teething issues. I do think it’s straying a little too much from tne pilot at times too.
2 seems good, but on reflection, it’s only good because of Gummigoo, who is not a main character so the second episode as a result is wasted on an NPC
5, everything important to take from it comes from exposition conversations which should have happened way sooner between them (“what happens if you hold your breath?” was apparently more important to know than “who are you?”) whilst the rest of the episode is just random filler. It feels like episode 4 did the dialogue reveals better too. Disappearing guy was funny tho

>>149118483
Watch the show.

>>149118610
i did, they never displayed interest

>>149118322
This reads like a "fujos calm down" kind of post - the discussion here has always been more along the lines of asking whether he is "a bad person who could open up, learn, and become better" or "a bad person who is pathologically and irretrievably (at least in the context of TADC) evil."

>>149118640
Nobody displays interest anon, they just have a fun dynamic of abusing each other.

>>149118657
then why ship

>Hey virgin faggot

>>149118686
one note character we will never see again

>>149118666
Cause it's fuuuunny

>>149114087
>NO FUN ALLOWED

>>149118713
how?

>>149118735
Cause they just have a fun dynamic of abusing each other.

>>149118696

>>149118640
He singles her out for teasing. She gets a lot of attention from him and gets some reciprocal stuff in that messes with him.

>>149118657
It's pretty close to bog standard "doesn't know how to process a crush so instead tries to bully the crush" fare, regardless of how intentional that is or not.

And even in those stories you don't typically get an "I'm concerned about how happy they are" aside from the putative crushing character.

There is a LOT of fuel in this ship, it's just not as overt as something like PomniXGummigoo.

>>149107833 (OP)
Did someone else felt as if the story is aiming to Ragatha being the one that caused the glitch, but the others will believe is that faggot sissy?

New bred
>>149119032

>>149116127
I wanna sniff you, you fucking whore, you bitch, I wanna facefuck you with my shrimpdick.
And take you out to dinner.

>>149117071
1-to-1 recreation of IHNMAIMS

>>149117133
The fuck are you talking about? I haven't seen one single time where the awful accent those autists have applies, I even remember one time a friend got the argentinian version of "the Incredibles" and everyone was cringeing so hard.

>>149117108
Nah, aun hoy siento asco del uno de chicos del barrio, es un asco la version mexicana.

>>149107833 (OP)
Oh good, for a second there was almost some tension there

>>149118696