The Amazing Digital Circus - Western Isekai that probably will become Hazbin Hotel killer

Colon capital V said:
Sorry not everyone likes the same shit you do
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I don't like the show. I just think it's your average youtube animated series and it's not really worth getting worked up over.
And it isn't Satellite City which means it's immediately not shit regardless of content.
 
I enjoyed watching it with my kid. I appreciated the creator turning the perv shit down compared to their other works, should have guessed it was a Troon.
 
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It kinda fucks with me how the troon with a drill fetish is at least somehow somewhat the most sane one compared to the fandom that's gotten so big the very creator is actively wishing for someone else to make the next big/popular thing
Not only must the expectations be a lot of weight on your shoulder but going to be dealing with shit from both fans and non-fans alike is also probably not going to be fun
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Dynamite Bean said:
It kinda fucks with me how the troon with a drill fetish is at least somehow somewhat the most sane one compared to the fandom that's gotten so big the very creator is actively wishing for someone else to make the next big/popular thing
Not only must the expectations be a lot of weight on your shoulder but going to be dealing with shit from both fans and non-fans alike is also probably not going to be fun
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This wariness kinda reminds me of Toby Fox jinxing himself in the worst way when it came to the Undertale fandomtoby fox cesspool.png
 
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I can’t wait for the youtubers who'll blame Kiwifarms "being so mean on stunning and brave twoonwahmen Goosey" on the shows inevitable spiral downward or make an essay how we're worse than hitler, again.
 
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Cardinal Cardinal said:
I'm repeating myself, but it seems like its trying to be a worse version of "Reboot" 30 years later.
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Reboot had a lot of good comedy and was pretty "meta" in some senses, like the episode where Hexadecimal got control of the Paint/Art fucntions on the computer, but I feel like TADC is still going for a different approach since the characters are humans and have a different reaction to things like objects clipping in the ground and the dial-up tone Cain makes when he has an error in the middle of explaining stuff to Pomni. I don't think the shows are that comparable honestly. Being programs the characters in Reboot were not "trapped", they were living their normal lives and took what happened to them and what was going on seriously. To our human characters here they've gone crazy or are going crazy.
 
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Ensok said:
Reboot had a lot of good comedy and was pretty "meta" in some senses, like the episode where Hexadecimal got control of the Paint/Art fucntions on the computer, but I feel like TADC is still going for a different approach since the characters are humans and have a different reaction to things like objects clipping in the ground and the dial-up tone Cain makes when he has an error in the middle of explaining stuff to Pomni. I don't think the shows are that comparable honestly. Being programs the characters in Reboot were not "trapped", they were living their normal lives and took what happened to them and what was going on seriously. To our human characters here they've gone crazy or are going crazy.
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Who's saying they were actually ever human? I'm also not saying its one to one. Both are in some sort of computer space and the characters and backgrounds have a bland amount of detail to them.
 
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Cardinal Cardinal said:
Who's saying they were actually ever human? I'm also not saying its one to one. Both are in some sort of computer space and the characters and backgrounds have a bland amount of detail to them.
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It would be a twist if it turned out the characters in TADC were never human, the pilot makes it clear they at least think they're humans who are now trapped in a video game. Personally I think it's likely to turn out to be a Black Mirror/SOMA "they're clones of the minds of people who put on the headset" situation.
 
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Cardinal Cardinal said:
Who's saying they were actually ever human? I'm also not saying its one to one. Both are in some sort of computer space and the characters and backgrounds have a bland amount of detail to them.
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Well, yeah, but it's been done. What if everything that's happening occurs in a Boltzmann brain? What if the characters appeared ex nihilo due to some fluctuation in their current state, fully formed, never having lived on Earth? What if the show is not set in a computer after all, but the whole place, including the characters, was formed through overwhelmingly unlikely quantum fluctuations? What if that's the case, but the circus, the computer/CGI aesthetics, Earth, and the entire real universe are a shared hallucination, and the characters are in some other environment [0]? What if the computer/CGI/web show aesthetics/trappings are a distraction and it's actually set in a non-normative rationalist web fiction? What if it's in the imagination of a chronically ill child in a hospital? What if it's set in a prediction branch of a badly-programmed ASI system attempting to acausally bargain with non-existent entities[1], inadvertently creating and killing trillions of human-like entities [2]? It's probably not worth speculating about, I don't see much of an indication this is well thought through by the creators of the show.

[0]: AMV - Phantom Of The Opera https://youtu.be/6wsR6fBudQE (kind of like this, but even less of a real world)
[1]: Multiverse-wide Cooperation via Correlated Decision Making https://archive.is/x2xHM
[2]: Against the Culture https://archive.is/gv0lG "The Minds run incredibly detailed simulations of terrible situations; there’s no attention to whether this is morally risky."

Beautiful Border said:
It would be a twist if it turned out the characters in TADC were never human, the pilot makes it clear they at least think they're humans who are now trapped in a video game. Personally I think it's likely to turn out to be a Black Mirror/SOMA "they're clones of the minds of people who put on the headset" situation.
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Good one, @Drain Todger might be able to pile on with more, but as I said these speculations have very little predictive value.
 
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Vecr said:
Well, yeah, but it's been done. What if everything that's happening occurs in a Boltzmann brain? What if the characters appeared ex nihilo due to some fluctuation in their current state, fully formed, never having lived on Earth? What if the show is not set in a computer after all, but the whole place, including the characters, was formed through overwhelmingly unlikely quantum fluctuations? What if that's the case, but the circus, the computer/CGI aesthetics, Earth, and the entire real universe are a shared hallucination, and the characters are in some other environment [0]? What if the computer/CGI/web show aesthetics/trappings are a distraction and it's actually set in a non-normative rationalist web fiction? What if it's in the imagination of a chronically ill child in a hospital? What if it's set in a prediction branch of a badly-programmed ASI system attempting to acausally bargain with non-existent entities[1], inadvertently creating and killing trillions of human-like entities [2]? It's probably not worth speculating about, I don't see much of an indication this is well thought through by the creators of the show.
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There are people who will take this seriously, and even go beyond into astral realms of Autism heretofore untapped.

I only watched the trailer. This isn't for me. However, something about this media phenomenon soothes me, gives me a speck of hope. Wouldn't it be great to get an obnoxious obsessed fandom that isn't primarily driven by sex weirdos and politspergs who use fandom as a proxy for their own impotent soapboxing? Wouldn't it be a delight to see an oldschool-Tumblr style fandom emerge in the modern era, full of harmless lunatics to giggle at, whose worst common excesses are shipping and fucked-up fanfiction?

In current year I doubt that'll happen, but a part of me hopes that this will beget a fandom that is, if not free from modern web afflictions, then at least not dominated by them.
 
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crowabunga said:
and even go beyond into astral realms of Autism heretofore untapped.
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I came up with an even more stupid idea. Recursion. The Amazing Digital Circus is set inside a future Ancestor Simulation (see Bostrom, Yudkowsy, etc.), created by a superintelligence, based on the hit 2020s web series The Amazing Digital Circus.
 
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Watched it. Fifteen years ago, it would have been nothing special. With the state of Western entertainment media now? It's a breath of fresh air. I'll give a full series a try if it comes out, but it isn't the second coming of Christ or anything.

The "no swearing allowed" gag and glitching physics items making the GMOD collision noise got a chuckle out of me, and Pomni triggers the same part in the back of my brain that loved Nights into Dreams as a kid. Zero surprise when I learned her design was inspired by it.

It seems to lean a little too far into "nudge nudge wink wink, we're self aware" territory sometimes, characters side-eyeing the screen too long, etc. And the purple rabbit fuck reminds me too much of something from Hazbin Hotel or Helluva Boss or whatever smarmy grinning cartoon characters Tumblr used to coom over.

But, all in all, I'd give it about a 7/10, even if it is from a tranny.
 
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