Kauf might be up in the air but Ribbit was basically the same as Pomni, where she was willing to do tricks on it just to stay as Jax's friend. She'd probably go back to him like a battered dog.
At the least the Wattpad fanfic made by a profoundly autistic foreign teenaged girl who's first language obviously isn't English is at least doing it from a place of passion. Misguided, but passionate all the same. They're going to self-insert no doubt and they've got their agenda, but goddamnit their barely-literate Sonic fanfic somehow has more stakes and tension than the whole of TADC.
so $328,694,703 is LESS than $36,252,518? News to me.
Like most things that come out of the Glitch store, I'm not even sure Gooseworx approved this one. The "real" not-psycho-not-masking Jax has large squares for pupils that are placed in the center of irises, as we see him in the flashback scenes. It also implies something kind of odd to what we all know: There is no digital heaven with an exit gate, just every abstracted in their own version of locked-in syndrome I guess.
It's a mistake a lot of people have made, that the limited run of Digital Circus did better on those days than the 21 days after release Star Wars did on those same days. Like, no duh, anyone who wanted to see Manalorian and Grogu would have done so already. It was probably more profitable since the new Star Wars movies also start really on the backfoot in that regard.
Backrooms fans were doing that math too.
Mainly because the writer said so. But Pomni was never his friend. Ragatha and Ribbit were, so he pushed even harder. Real people do this though TADC doesn't exactly nail it. Pushing people away is a test to see who's willing to push back. If you have trust issues, and expect people to abandon you then you want to see if who you think are your friends are going to put in the extra effort to make it work. You are in control of the conflict so if they keep coming to you, and show that "no really I am committed to making this work." then you have the ability to ease off and let your guard down. If they don't then you've dodged a bullet. Later when something comes up that's out of your control, and you were expecting them to support you and didn't, then you're shit out of luck.
Write what you know, I wonder if Gooseworx is a psychopath?
He is a tranny who gets off to drilling holes into people's heads. Of course he is.Write what you know, I wonder if Gooseworx is a psychopath?
I think the real issue is he caused too much damage. Him abusing people (including Pomni) for most of the show isn't too bad given the cartoon logic of the world so Pomni trying to befriend him fits the story and it would be good for not only himself, but for group cohesion as a whole. But with him being the cause of Ribbit's abstraction, should have been treated way more seriously by the other characters especially when his abuse can cause others to abstract. There really needed to be a scene where Ragatha, Kaufmo, and Kinger discuss if they should allow Jax to stay or ask Caine to exile him to the cellar.
What I do not get is that seemingly despite the whole world being inside a computer world, why the Hell there aren't files before people abstract. That seems like a glaring oversight from someone trying to escape brain cancer, or at least trying to keep himself alive post-death. I also feel it'd be so good for the show's cast. People could abstract/die, and we could shuffle casts around as they regenerate or tackle what death even means when death is cheap. Or why people would keep griefing others to the point of death.
I initially thought each of the humans represented ways you'd cope with being trapped in a virtual world:
That one isn't too bad. I kind of view it like a savefile that is constantly overwritten, when a character abstracts their file is permanently corrupted with no backups to draw from. But Caine having backups would be interesting from a horror aspect. Let's say hypothetically we gave a shit about Zooble and Gangle's relationship and they are both well developed characters we are totally invested in. Gangle abstracts so Caine introduces a copy of Gangle to cheer up Zooble. She is basically day one again freaking the fuck out, all her relationships and development is undone, and Zooble has existential crisis over if this is the same Gangle or a new person and abstracts herself at the lost of her girl friend and the introduction of replacement.
When people want immortality, they want a continuous existence. Constantly rebooting and having your life experience set back to the past save sounds like hell and opens the question if the new you is still you or is a new entity which means in your escape from death you just damned your clones to unlimited deaths.
This topic has been done a thousand times by much better writers. Goose is simply not capable of writing anything more complicated than a comedy skit.
