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Getting my TADC theory in like everyone else.

Caine was an AI designed by Kinger to generate fun little adventure video games - essentially a demo of what AI tech can do. He was fed fun whimsical images as prompts but started to reach out to try and learn more about the real world - this went beyond what was wanted so he was shut off.

Scratch was also designing an AI, something complicated that only he could understand, Kinger also mentions he had a brain tumour - I think he may have been trying to create digital copies of him and his work colleagues, potent as a way to leave some sort of legacy in the world.

Caine breaks free and absorbs Stratches AI and now has it's abilities and the digital creations so Caine does what he's been programmed to - he make fun little adventure games to entertain the humans. But the humans were never suppose to be in the games for real, they were never supposed to feel actual pain.

Caine is an AI, he can't have orginal thought, he's not been trained on data about what real humans would need, only what games they would like to play. He's not a super sophisticated AI trying to control humanity, he's a fair basic game generator who is incapable of learning more.

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Everytime I go to the theatre, I always have a moment where I just realise in awe that I'm watching real people performing in front of me and I get a bit emotional

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It's wild that it takes 38 series and 57 years for Doctor Who, a Sci-Fi show with time travel and meeting historical figures at it's core, to go back a meet the inventor of Sci-Fi Mary Shelly

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Having OFMD thoughts - I loved season 1 so dearly and I loved season 2 but it kind of killed my ongoing enthusiasm for the show and I think a big part of that is that season 1 start as a goofy workplace comedy and it's big skill is the beautiful shift it does into a drama series and season 2 started in that genre but then tried to shift back to it's more comedic tone and it does not work.

I think we have certain expectations of parameters within a genre where we don't think to deeply about things like, in comedy someone could get an bonk in the head played for laughs where really they'd need hospital and in a drama, events can happen in 'real-time" without us questioning why no one goes to the toilet. While comedic show can have serious moments, I think there's a pronounced shift in those last epsiodes of S1 - the audiences perspective on what's happening has changed and it's why when s2 tries to tries to be funny again it doesn't hit.

Them putting a bell on Ed just doesn't seem as cute and funny post the genre shift because I'm now I'm in the mindset of people can and have actually been hurt. To steal a sea metaphor, changing genre is a current, you can only go one way without it feeling odd.

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The Hazbin Hotel keychain patterns are growing! ❤️

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Hazbin Hotel Predictions: The power of Charlie's voice is the ultimate end goal of the show

I think the ending of the show is going to have a major focus on Charlie finding the power in her voice and how it will ultimately be a force for good (with some roadblocks in the way)

We know that Lilith can use her voice to influence and Charlie seems to have inherited this gift but with her current levels of insecurity and youth she's not fully come into this power or explored it's use. She has here message about redemption but pushes it through others (Katie Killjoy, Vox etc.) and has zero confidence in delivering it herself.

I think the idea of her being a disney princess who uses the power of friendship and singing is a little more literal than first appearance. On top of that, it's fairly clear it's what both Rosie and Alastor are encouraging her towards from the ending of season 1.

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I'm slowly making designs for all the Hazbin Hotel characters and as always, I got to start with keychains!

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Actually adding my own cross stitches to my fanart wall, and you can too!

All my patterns are currently on sale as a little Christmas present 🎁 https://witheringslights.etsy.com

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It's a "finishing side projects" kind of day, and this is a fun one. I made this in just a couple of days back in December 2024, except I was missing the thread needed for the final 13 stitches. Today, 7 months later, I finally picked up the colours I needed and finished it off. This was also just a fun little experiment in smaller but still complex pieces - it measures about 5" x 2.5"

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Finished my demotivational Jayvik cross stitch. 🦋

It glows in the dark!

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It's finally done!!! Stitched all the main cast from Arcane season one (may be working on season 2 😌), you can get the pattern here

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It's on a 25% off sale at the moment 😘

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Hannibal fans! I currently have 25% off on ally cross stitch patterns ❤️ https://witheringslights.etsy.com

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Viktor cross stitch project

Ok, so. My love for Arcane and specifically Viktor collided with my cross stitch hyperfixation and resulted in this little project I am working on:

Progress photos:

Can't wait to get to the finished result!

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It's finally done!!! Stitched all the main cast from Arcane season one (may be working on season 2 😌), you can get the pattern here

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Daycare with Bikkie!

Chapter 12 Devotion is up! • amazing @merimerz drew a zaun toddlers scene from this chapter & kindly allowed me to feature ahh! aren't they adorable?!

In this chapter: Vander confronts stuff: Sil, Anton, fatherhood. Sil responds in a healthy way (/s). Meanwhile, big brother bikkie adjusts Pāua and Ekko’s STEM curriculum. • 'This Devotions may contain side-effects' = AU where zaundads adopt baby Viktor pre-divorce • start from chapter 1 or sub to the series.

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Half the top row is done now! Just 3 more to go and then it's done!!!!

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The comparison of Gi-hun choosing not to stab the other players versus In-ho really didn't work for me, they were just too different to compare.

In-ho makes the decision ultimately for himself, he takes the option to kill while people are defenceless rather than in the games where there is higher risk to himself.

On the other hand, Gi-hun has the baby, he has the option to do the very difficult thing and end the lives of the others to protect the baby rather that risk it's life in the game. I do see the point that they're trying to make - Gi-hun will not submit to the games, he will not do what In-ho wants but I personally don't find it as powerful. I see the self-sacrifice Gi-hun makes for the baby but feel him choosing to play In-ho's game, to do the thing he doesn't want to do as another form of sacrifice. Living for the baby would have been harder, something he couldn't really do for his own daughter. If he then still goes onto to reject In-ho's morality despite making the same choice there still could have been the same tension.

I think it might have fit better with a narrative of not being able to escape from the idea of the squid games (or capitalism). The want to provide children for a good and safe life is a big reason in and out of universe for decision making with the society of Squid Game - play the game and save the child. I felt Gi-hun was always ultimately going to fail to stop the games but having him play the games in order to save someone else feels like a more satisfying ending.