Post #820944
2026-03-22 21:18 UTC
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@nyxallocer@woof.group 2026-03-23 03:31
@Rusty this feels like where everything is leading to a degree I feel. The fact that everyone's initial reaction is instantly "How do I take off the VR headset" and from what I can tell, Pomni seems to have ended up there by finding the machine in an abandoned building and slipping the headset on to check it out.
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@WeirdAlex03@universeodon.com 2026-03-23 04:08
@Rusty Not familiar with SOMA here, but that's my prevailing theory on their situation, too. And the live forever reasoning is stronger now with Scratch. Also fits with Gangle's motif of getting hit by a truck. Ragatha's mother was obviously physically abusive, maybe she went too far? For people like Kinger/Queenie, they could've been """visiting""" as guests? Jax had the flashes of driving at night through a residential/wooded area. Maybe an animal jumped out and went through the windshield? Or he hit a person and is hiding from the consequences? (Though doesnt seem to fit as well) I dont know where Zooble or Pomni would fit into this idea. As for how the episode itself could go, I have no clue. It feels like we just experienced this universe's version of a heat death. I don't know how they possibly continue from this. My only ideas right now are that either Bubble reconstitutes himself from the remains of Caine to take over or that the gang can conjour up a new terminal for Kinger to rebuild a new basic AI to take the reigns so that they can... ????
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@zvavybir@social.zvavybir.eu 2026-03-23 13:59
@Rusty I think it also tracks with the themes set up with the stuff around Gummigoo. The point of that episode is that just because these NPCs are artificial and in a sense "not real" doesn't mean that they matter less. Pomni&co. are assumed to actually matter by virtue of being our protagonists, so having the reveal that they actually are also just as "virtual" as the NPCs now would further solidify that thesis. If they got out that would kinda undermine it because then it would look like they mattered because they're at least at some point "physical" and therefore the experiences in the circus matter because they are remembered by a "physical human".
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@pastelexuvia@cathode.church 2026-03-25 00:58
@Rusty agree about conjuring their own world, agree about the brain scans. i think the CA_NeuralScans (Obsolete) folder in the Characters folder might store abstractions. i dont totally agree with the bubble truthers – i was transcribing kingers coding scenes last night (hard) and it wasnt really adding up for me. i think the bubble-is-blue theory is valid, but there are other possibilities