Caine isn't dead, simply because you can never truly delete anything. Once something is "deleted", the system overwrites it with nonsense code. Hes still alive just surrounded and buried in jumbled up data. And with jokes like the chinese room, im sure the creators of tadc know that well.
Thats also how police can unbury any deleted data.
Thats kind of why i didn't really feel any devistation or suspense from the ending.
The thing about what you said about Caine though is that once a file has been deleted a certain way or overwritten enough, it becomes completely unsalvageable, I know from experience
Caine isn't dead, simply because you can never truly delete anything. Once something is "deleted", the system overwrites it with nonsense code. Hes still alive just surrounded and buried in jumbled up data. And with jokes like the chinese room, im sure the creators of tadc know that well.
Thats also how police can unbury any deleted data.
Thats kind of why i didn't really feel any devistation or suspense from the ending.
The thing about what you said about Caine though is that once a file has been deleted a certain way or overwritten enough, it becomes completely unsalvageable, I know from experience
Recently, you cannot access Gooseworx's blog anymore, and people thought she deactivated her Tumblr. However, she was actually banned.
When someone deactivates their main blog, a string of numbers and letters is attached to their username: "-deactivated[year][month][day]"
When you look at posts made by Gooseworx, there's no "deactivated" and no numbers
Some speculate that this might have been a sideblog, since there's no "deactivated" string if you delete a sideblog, but it was her main blog. You can't use sideblogs to like posts. If you search "Gooseworx liked this" on google, you will find proof ithat she liked multiple Tumblr posts.
All of this adds up to one thing: Gooseworx was banned from Tumblr. And why? Gooseworx is a trans woman, and Tumblr staff hates trans women and bans them for no reason, and also, there is an ongoing harassment campaign against Gooseworx, so I bet they must have mass-reported her blog and gotten her banned.
Fuck the "tadc critical" community, anyone in the "anti tadc" or "anti gooseworx" tags is NOT to be trusted!!!!!! They weaponized staff's transmisogyny to ban a successful trans woman off the platform all because the show didn't end the way they wanted it to.
I can believe that gooseworx may have gotten banned instead of deactivating. I can believe that she's experienced mass reporting from bad faith actors. I can believe that some of those people may have been transphobic.
What I cannot believe is that this whole thing is an anti trans conspiracy by the antis to use the apparently well known trans misogyny of Tumblr staff to get her banned off of Tumblr. This sounded so ridiculous I genuinely thought you were fully joking until I saw the slew of the reblogs agreeing with you and believing this was true. Please use an iota of critical thinking before posting shit like this.
For a lot of horror projects based on some fictional piece of children's media, the kids media side is poorly executed. Welcome Home's children's media/non horror side is actually pretty well made. The characters and their relationships, the story, the external merchandise and media surrounding the show, and even the company that made it is all so well written and genuinely fun to engage with. The quality of the non horror media makes the overall story it's trying to tell with it far more believable and impactful, like I could actually believe the Welcome Home puppet show existed at one point. If welcome home was a real puppet show I would absolutely watch it.
I appreciate they're attempt to show autistic adults engaging in adult life and activities like sex and employment, as well as trying to gain they're independence, but it really feels like the show and other characters are still infantilising them. The neuro typical people in the show don't see them as peers, they see them as a responsibility or experience or nuisance. Also everyone in the show who doesn't know they're autistic has these weirdly over the top reactions to they're behaviour, like they act as though they're dangerous or crazy or freaks and that they don't know autism or other mental disabilities exist, like I feel like that would be the natural conclusion on seeing that behaviour.
In comparison, in Everything's Gonna Be Ok, the neuro typical character treat the autistic main character as a teenager who also has autism and not a child playing teenager. Others who don't know her or aren't aware of her autism just react with a more realistic awkward discomfort that most would. It even covers a similar situation to As We See It where the character Matilda has sex and her brother Nicholas, who is her main caregiver, grapples with the complicated situation and has an honest and open discussion with Matilda, with the extra layer of her autism being brought into consideration. In As We See It when this situation happens it feels like Violet's brother is talking down to her.
I also greatly appreciated the late diagnosed autism rep in the form of Nicholas. It was great to see someone, who many dismissed as sassy or rude due to his queer identity and feminine mannerisms masking their genuine social difficulty, as autistic rep. It resonated with me as I often mask my social difficulties with sarcasm or humour myself. As well as highlighting how siblings of an autism person may have their own autism overlooked as they're autistic traits don't look like they're sibling's.
In Extraordinary Attorney Woo, while the way Woo is portrayed can feel a bit infantilising, for the most part she is treated as a peer by her colleagues and boss at the law office she works for. they address the prejudice shown to her when they first meet her and find out she's autistic and as the show progresses they overcome this and treat her as a genuine asset and competition. For a Korean show about autism, a country that tends to be pretty ignorant on this subject, it really is fantastic representation, to the point I was genuinely surprised the actress who plays woo isn't autistic. Of course it would have been better if they got an autistic actor but she does a good job showing the nuances in the character.
Again I do appreciate As We See It for their genuine attempt to show autistic adults trying to live adult lives and for using autistic actors, but I think it faltered, perhaps due to a lack of autistic perspective in the writing room. But I don't know.
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is a great musical that more people should watch
If you'd like to watch a musical comedy show about a woman's self destructive antics in trying to get back together with a childhood sweetheart, seen through the unreliable lens of her unrealistic perspective, and social commentary including criticism of the very phrase it's named after and the harmful beliefs and biases it represents and upholds then boy have I got the show for you.
If you don't like reading here's a much smarter person than me discussing the show in video form. My rant is down below.
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is a musical comedy show that follows our unreliable narrator, and protagonist, Rebecca. After a chance encounter with her ex boyfriend from summer camp, she decides to leave her high paying law career and follow him to his home town in order to get back together with him, at first deluding herself into believing this is not her true intention, her friend Paula enabling her along the way.
The creator of the show (who also plays Rebecca) has so much love and passion for musical theatre, which is clearly conveyed through the fantastic execution and utilisation of the musical numbers within the narrative. It is such a wonderful homage and critique of musical theatre. They directly tie the musical medium of the show to Rebecca, who uses the genre she loves as her unhealthy way of coping, where she can escape the complexity and unpredictability of life, and avoid taking responsibility for her mistakes.
I also love how they manage to maintain fun and spectacle in the show and musical numbers despite the heavy subject matter, as they go all out on the sets, staging and choreography, as well as genuinely funny and enjoyable gags and reference to different musicals and tropes of the gente. That levity gives the audience room to breath and endears us to the characters.
Watching her arc and seeing the world through Rebecca's biased perspective, as well as watching the people around her grow and change is genuinely fascinating. This is especially true as we see her slowly comes to understand that who she believed to be the "villain" of her story may be a victim of her actions.
CEG has a pretty good portrayal of BPD through Rebecca, again her incredibly unteliable perspective serving as a great way for the audience to understand her condition and way of thinking.
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend definitely deserves more attention.
Anyway if you'd like to see someone smarter than me discuss the show watch this video.
I have not felt so deeply entwined with a show since RWBY. The Amazing Digital Circus is a show I haven't seen before, and most likely won't see again. That's a damn shame.
Also they were digital copies I FUCKING CALLED IT LOVE TOWN BABYYYY
-The fairytale theming in Ruby has so much potential
-Rubys character arc as of the latest seasons see her trying desperately to forge her own path in the face of predetermined destiny and escape the shadow of her mother forged in legend
-while Ruby is the main protagonist, two of the main deutaroganists are textbook examples of the protagonist you would usually see in a show like this
-Jaune, Ruby's friends and leader of team jnpr who cheated his way into beacon, an elite huntsmen school, and find mentorship in his fellow teammate phyrra as he tries to prove his worth amongst his incredibly skilled classmates
-Oscar, a farm kid entirely disconnected from he world of hunters who suddenly starts to hear the voice of Ozpin, beacons headmaster and a reincarnating servant of the gods, and is set on a path to find and assist his old student and allies in order to right the wrongs of the fall of beacon
-usually these two would be the first pick for protagonist, they fit the archetype and they're fish out of water status makes it easier to introduce this world to the audience, but instead it's Ruby, an incredibly skilled huntress in training stuck in the shadow of her revered huntress mother, who is one of the few born with silver eye abilities that make her a formidable rival to humanities greatest enemy the Grimm
-there is such an interesting dichotomy to explore here between the more conventional protagonist archetypes of Jaune and Oscar as Deutaroganists in Ruby's story that is completely overlooked
-especially in a show with heavy fairytale theming, where character are based on some form of fairytale or myth, there own inspirations often being the protagonists of there own stories
-I also find it very interesting that Ruby's mother Summer Rose is based on the huntsmen in red riding hood and Ruby ted riding hood herself, there some potential for an unique character dynamic between them, with there roles as protagonist and legend forged into the very characters that inspired them to begin with
Scavengers Reign is fucking incredible. Such powerful writing exploring the complex relationships between people and our dependence on one another, the harmonious cycle of alien life that so fascinatingly reflects our own, introspection into the nature of sentience and
I kinda hate the voice acting in Blood Money. It reminds me of a lot of English dub voice acting where it sounds like a voice actor reading lines and really phoning it in rather than a character talking. Like the issue isnāt that it sounds unrealistic, thereās plenty of example of āunrealisticā character voices that still sound natural, like classic cartoons and such, it just sounds artificial and it really takes me out of the games when itās dependant on you feeling bad for Harvey and his constant screaming.
