I think probably some sort of intangibility going on? Like Caine has that creative/gmod mode going on which allows him both to fly, and to phase through things lol
Yeah, we only see Gangle LOOKING happy during the intro, where everyone's doing performance. It's questionable if her behaviour is genuine there.
Notably, though, she has a distressed expression as she's bumped into, which is visible before & as her Comedy Maks begins to fall off. Either this is another animation compromise to show an appropriate expression before the mask falls off or Gangle can show emotions contrary to her current mask.
Could be interesting to learn everyone's quirk.
I think that generally the mask dictates her emotion, but that moment either indicates that while in transition it can be contrary, or that given enough external stimuli it can be overridden.
Could painted wood like is used for blocks be assumed?
Huh. Could be. I guess I could try and pixel scale Kaufmo's (abstracted) height from reference to Ragatha, and
Thanks. I think it gives the following conclusions:
A. Pomni is hiding something, which is related to why she knew Ragatha's name without hearing it & phrased it as "that is your name, right?".
B. Pomni heard the intro or enough of it to learn Ragatha's name. Relatedly, I think saw a YT comment speculating the intro's looping is from the program loading Pomni's entry. Memory issues or such?
If B is the case, it brings up the possibility the performers see the intro before entry. All we know Pomni remembers is wearing a headset & maybe the names from the intro? Weird things to exclude from the memory wipe.
It'd also be a little weird if they see intros containing characters that abstracted, especially if speculation that new entries are replacements for the abstracted; Pomni MAY have seen Kaufmo's section of the intro, depending on when she entered?
I believe she entered at the tail end after Kaufmo. Caine jokes later about 'nobody telling him Kaufmo abstracted,' pretty sarcastically considering he's already told Pomni about his many 'all seeing eyes,' and suggesting that he did know in advance Kaufmo abstracted. It is notable that Pomni entered as a clown to replace a clown, too.
Also, just from what we have so far, I think the memory wipe is basically just humans remembering things only from putting the headset on onwards.
I also wonder about the logistics; Are special headsets the only way to enter? Or does any headset suffice?
If its old game motif is true, surely more than a few dozen people could find The Amazing Digital Circus's software &/or hardware. So in theory, there should be LOTS of potential new entrants, yet Pomni's situation implies you get pulled in around the intro.
So either the software/hardware is so rare/limited only a dozen people have it at a time, or there's lots of potential performers but they only get pulled in when someone is needed. Can entry happen during normal gameplay? Or only around the intro?
"Every copy is personallized because performers getting abstracted changes the intro."
I think the specific company shown means there are specific headsets, and that the least, the ADC itself is quite a limited hardware/software. For what reasons, who knows. But we'll probably find out more about the logistics of how specific this situation is or not.
There should be. Though, might take a little Googling to find the destruction value; There's lots of different kinds of plastic polymers.
Well that's the main problem. As I said earlier, it might just be better to go off the cracking and destruction of the marble floor given plastic has no wiki accepted value, and there are hundreds of potential candidates for what polymer he was smashing through.
Yeah, the painting can be excused by the AI putting its tastes in paintings into the new office space (Hah) it built for the fake exit, too.
But why & how would an AI like Caine know the model or appearance of a new entry's computer? That may be another thing Pomni remembers, too, weirdly.
Does its bad condition have anything to do with Pomni's entry? Human input lagged memory & fried circuits?
Or is it like the inverse of Reboot's time passage rate, where a while in there is a second in reality?
Or is it just coincidence? A suspiciously similar placeholder?
Another suspect thing about Caine. Caine may be digital, and we assume he isn't human. But there's a lot to indicate he's more than just AI and/or an NPC like Bubbler is. He naturally responds to the humans in a social way (when Pomni asks about leaving, he responds with an awkward, cut off noise like it's something he's uncomfortable talking about, and leaves it to the other humans to explain), understands generally what is and isn't preferable (the bit where choosing a name for Pomni turns out a random letter string, and he immediately just goes 'you're right, terrible!'), and the obvious signs of anxiety he got when Pomni initially told him about seeing the exit door
(especially if we consider he probably knew that Kaufmo abstracted, and with his all seeing eyes, why)
Pardon my rambling, please.
It's ok! Think these are good questions.