with regard to the different censors on Bubble and Pomni - the purpose of the bar is to prevent viewers from reading the character's lips. Pomni has a fully articulate mouth, while bubble just has puppet-like jawflaps, and thus can't be lipread
@@matthewselbitschka5217 Zooble did get a bar in Episode 1, but it was only there to cover up the hand that was flipping the bird (which just so happened to appear at the same time the f-bomb was dropped). Good catch, though!
The teapot is an inside joke for anyone working in the 3d animation industry. We use it for everything, yes for lighting but also texture or effect. Particulary in the software 3dsmax. My school hid a tiny teapot in our hoodie design.
Given that Pomni uses more 'modern' slang, it's possible they all came in at separate time periods. They also all mention coming in at different times in their lives in ep1 so Pomni using slang like "hype me up" makes a lot of sense. This would also mean the 'game' they're in has been around for a while.
If the amount of time they've spent in the game is 1-to-1 with the amount of time that's passed in the real world then a lot of the humans that have been in the game probably died of dehydration.
That fact that he doesn’t know about the internet is probably the only canonical part of the announcement vid. But (just to share my own theories) I thought he was ai but now because ai is always learning I think he’s more of a npc that had an very weak limited ai that grew a lot lot lot but doesn’t have any access to things in the real world (I haven’t watched the vid yet so excited to see if mattpatt has any similar ideas) ANYWHO THANKS FOR READJNG
my theory is that the game originally released in the 90s but it was shut down for being unstable, however the servers were kept online and Caine is the AI in charge of updating the game. all the people in the circus were people who got put in the game through a new VR update. Caine is not evil, but he has no clue how humans actually work so he just tries to keep them active and as happy as he can
The Caine is not evil thing and doesn’t know humans thing is actually confirmed by Gooseworx. Once you know it makes him despawning Gummi a little less hurtful.
Two things. I believe the reason why maple syrup is so important in that place is because syrup is also referred to as "liquid gold". Also the pose the sprites are doing is referred to as the "A-Pose" instead of the classic "T-Pose"
Maple syrup is also ridiculously valuable IRL. Genuine pure maple syrup goes for millions if you have enough. I believe there was even a famous heist involving a Maple Syrup tanker in Canada back in the day
25:00 I love how you can see his head twitch right before and after he shouts "Oh, it's THE MIMIC!" like he genuinely gets possessed by the demons of his past and has to free himself from their control.
the entire joke of the truck getting stuck and glitching out and that’s what causes it to fall beneath the map was such a good touch. they could’ve easily have just done it where they went out of bounds via end of the map and that’s how they fell but the look of it struggling in the wall is just *chefs kiss*
I feel like Jax is the only “player character” who actually kept his memories of the outside world and had worked as a developer/something else, which explains how he’s able to get keys for everyone’s rooms, break certain rules, and also has as little care for the “real” characters as he does for the npcs. “Aren’t you supposed to be submissive and agreeable” line reads to me like “why aren’t you responding like you’re supposed to?”
You make a really good point! His nonchalant attitude seems to contribute to it too. I feel like that sort of power mixed with Jax's personality is a VERY bad mix, though. He isn't exactly the sympathetic type.
the creator said on twitter that all the characters remember their pasts (just not their names for some weird reason) so Jax might just be being an asshole lol, him working as a developer would be SO interesting tho
@@mildarkaaSo is he like one of those video game devs which abuse their workers and groom 13 year old girls on Discord? Maybe not that last part but that would explain his sociopathic nature.
@@mildarkaa The devs also said that jax is the youngest, and while I don't remember the age he's around 21 in the series and has been in the program for a few years. In other words, unless this is a high school project, he's probably too young to be a developer.
The eyes on the live gummygoo are unfilled when he’s surprised or shocked, and filled in when he’s grounded The copy of him has both versions of the eye because it’s easy to swap the filled in and non-filled in circles by moving them in and out of his face, it’s a common technique used for facial expressions in animation Both are exposed because when you have a reference model that hasn’t been animated all the assets you’re gonna want are typically exposed so you’re well aware of what you’re working with
The whole out of bounds scene was genuinely amazing and if the quality of this series is on a level like that, this can be a great series even with it’s horrendous fanbase
IDK about the fanbase, the only part of the fanbase are the REALLY bad folks, but those are all content farms "A problem for every fanbase", most fanbases are drowned out by their loudest "most disgusting"members
@@CatLover-lk9gz lest we forget almost every other major fanbase these theory channels have looked at. FNAF, Undertale, Bendy, Rick and Morty, DHMIS...
Ragatha in a nightmare sequence clearly being a projection of Pomni’s fear of isolation and abandonment : “Guess we’re not all cut out for it !” Matt : mmm how cryptic, I wonder what this could mean
at around 37:27 they talk about why bubble was bleeped but Pomni got the bar. I thinks its probably because bubble didn't cuss, bubble just said something inappropriate.
@@submariNervous That's something I've been wondering about for a while now, ever since the first episode. Since then I've listened to multiple fanfics where the characters discover innapropriate words that aren't censored and are surprised by it. So I'd been wondering whether, in actual cannon, the censor only applies to swear words or if it applies to all inappropriate words. Now we know.
From what I thought, the show is about different charecters coping mechanisms to being kidnapped and forced into this game. Jax is aggressive and takes it out on others, the reason he is even more aggressive in ep2 is because he knows the characters are AI and he can do anything without consequences. Other characters try to be super nice, or cry when their facade breaks down. Pomni hasn't found hers yet.
20:24 I will say, as someone with an anxiety disorder and difficulties with sarcasm and social cues, I desperately need (and need people) to clarify when there isn’t any hard feelings. I will worry myself into nothingness assuming they hate me; and I definitely don’t want anyone to feel that way about me. I definitely vibe with Ragatha and think that’s exactly what she was doing
Yeah, I think this is one of those uncommon times where when a person says "no hard feelings" they really mean it. I still think there's some hurt there based on Ragatha's facial expressions, but she understands why Pomni chose the exit and just wants to make that as clear as possible.
Not to be rude but that context doesn't matter, thats literally the point of the bleep so we fill in the blank and assume what they said was super offensive.
Pomni's dream sequence gives me really strong vibes of Woody's dream sequence in toy story 2 where he has lost an arm and is now abandoned to the abyss of discarded toys by Andy and then dragged down by the other toys, like pomni getting her arm abstracted and casted into the basement by Cain
My thoughts exactly too. I also had to look up that Toy Story 2 scene when i first watched Pomni’s nightmare scene to verify if it was parodying off of that.
Here's a fun fact for anyone who may not know:either Glitch or Gooseworx made a tweet, stating the main casts age, it may be surprising but for being as tall as he is, Jax is actually the youngest, still technically an adult
I mean, people are normally their full height by the time they are an adult, so him being taller and the youngest isn't too out of the blue -signed a very tall teenager
I saw a tweet from Gooseworx saying that she wants the show to rather focus more on character arcs and such than theory crafting and hidden things and such
Yeah, they specifically said "sorry if you were looking forward to the hidden backstory, its gonna be 90% character stuff" basically lol Which honestly im perfectly happy with. Especially after this episode.
I find the fact that Pomni knows what LARPing is to be really interesting considering the concept has never been particularly mainstream to my knowledge; and in a similar vein she has some surprising video game literacy displayed right after you left off for an adult in the late 90s/early 2000s
Like how Pomni told Gumigoo that he is an NPC, that they fell off the game map from a glitch collision, and also coming up with the genius idea of putting blocks underneath the truck to induce a glitch that will bounce them back up to the map. I’m pretty sure she was some computer programmer or something similar.
I'm reminded of a quote from The Good Place (the episode where they were doing the Trolley Problem): "See, buddy? Don't worry. None of it's real." "Well, they're fake people, but their _pain_ is real."
39:06 In Pizza Tower, Taunting causes you to dodge. I think that is what they are going for. Edit (copied from @Descending): Hello, confirmed by Gooseworx that it's just meant to be a reference to games where you can press a button to style (Skating games, etc), she specifically clarified that it is not a pizza tower reference, if you can edit the comment and add this it would be cool. Thanks @Descending
dream sequence: *interlacing* lee: ah yes it's a dream sequence. matpat: *confused screaming* alternativley... tadc 2: "submissive and agreeable" matpat: "I have a playlist called that" lee: *confused screaming*
Remember, character models exist in a separate area than an npc's A.I, so gummygoo probably didn't forget anything about this encounter. He might be back later.
yeah i watched the episode with my friend when it first came out, she said the 'submissive and agreeable' line sounded like a bad a/b/o fic and i needed to not be the only person to know that
26:33 actually I'm surprised they didn't talk about how nervous Caine sounded. And then after, he took a smoke, which is something that people do to calm down (well he didn't actually smoke but you know the point) It seems like (for now) that the purpose of the circus was just to entertain some children for a few hours, and Caine doesn't know how to deal with a bunch of adults indefinitely.
Yeah kinda surprised that passed them by after the whole interfacing derailment. But personally, I saw that scene differently. Caine wasn't nervous because he's dealing with adults indefinitely. He's nervous because he's running out of distractions. The first episode implied that he'd been doing this stuff for a long time, and likely to keep people from thinking about their existential dread. But that form of coping can only work so long as the new things keep being new. Once you get used to it, your mind will start to wander, and that could cause you to dwell on the things he's trying to distract from (which would lead to abstraction). You can kinda see it in how the first mission was obviously hastily cobbled together with random objects and a barebones plot. And again this time where nobody is buying the whole adventure plot at the start, and he has to physically push them into the portal to get it going.
Oh I like that a lot. It's very clear he's out of his depth, but putting it like that makes a WHOLE lot of sense. It's mostly been stated that Caine "doesn't understand humans", but that's clearly not the core of his problem, the fact that these are the WRONG humans and the wrong timescale just clicks.
At 38:34, the reference here is from the indie game, "Pizza Tower" In which you press a key on your keyboard, controller, or what you play with, to do a "Taunt", which is also a parry in the game.
To correct you: Goose said the first 4 scripts were entirely set in stone before the pilot came out and they also elevated the episode count to 9 episodes final :) Also, the semi-T-pose is called the A-pose. Also also I don't know what it is but I just love hearing Ash talk lol
16:02 I think “not all cut out for it” being in Pomni’s nightmare doesn’t say anything about the world, just Pomni’s mindset. I feel like before she was dropped in the Digital Circus, she was the kind of person who was socially awkward and saw her peers as competition, like she’s always in danger of failing at being a person, even though it’s not feasible or reasonable to get a good grade on being a person. I certainly struggle with that mentality sometimes.
@@syweb2 I slightly misremembered it lol but it was an ask on Tumblr that Goose answered where she said that Pomni is *good at accounting, idk why I remembered that as smth she likes 💀
Pomni is not a child. None of them actually! Makes sense if like the Film Theory implies they're programmers or something in that field Pomni- 25 Ragatha- 30 Jax- 22 Zooble- 22 Gangle- 26 Kinger- 48 Makes me a little alarmed because it feels like Kinger and Queenie being a pair could mean they were... Parents.
47:07 its an A pose personally, i feel like that the eye difference is due to the characters expression (50:42) for the "real" character, it's clear that he has an expression of fear, disbelief, confusion. for the model, since it's a placeholder, you can assume that the expression is blank. something that also supports this is that the characters eye is filled before he discovers the models maybe thats just me though just thought to share my thoughts
I'd think it's the same two models for his eyes in the same place to avoid grabbing more stuff in the files. Like the two toggles on instead of two separate models
@@syweb2 I think anyone could get into the Jumanji game as in the second movie adults had been transported in. Anyway I didnt know that Jax and Zooble were the youngest!
Im so happy to see that theyre focusing more on the characters. They seem so interesting. With the little reactions and connotations from stuff like jax genuinely being sad about kaufmos death but hiding it, and zooble staying behind to set up kaufmos funeral.
38:50 So people will point out that this is from Pizza Tower, but I know why this is from Pizza Tower. So there is something you call “not going to sugarcoat it“ which means parrying every stone in this case instead of jumping or climbing back. So the joke here is the Gator made of candy isn't sugarcoating it.
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I love that Jax has a soft side. Him hearing about the funeral with the quick sad face then shrugs it off. Doing all these bad things and everything he has done up to this point to hide the wounds with the big smile. I can't wait for his episode
Couldn’t have said it better myself! I can’t help but get a bit frustrated when people write Jax off as a one dimensional asshole. He’s an asshole, yes, but he’s an asshole with _depth_ , and that’s something I wish more people realized.
I'm sorry, but Jax does not have a soft side. He is evil, confirmed by Gooseworks herself. She has said he's irredeemable and when asked if he would be an anti hero, she said "There is nothing heroic about Jax". He is chaotic evil, he has no friends, and that's why I like him. That's just me though.
24:55 I love the fact that matpat didn't hestitate to scream "IT'S THE MIMIC" with the straightest face ever when a variation of that word is mentioned
Software developer here. I would like to point out that machine learning neural networks have been around since the 1950s, so there *has* been AI that's like modern buzzword AI (i.e. not just preset "if...then...else..." statements) for a long time. The current buzz about AI is specifically surrounding generative AI, i.e. machine learning models that generate complex output rather than just classifying things or performing a single narrow task. In particular, the term "AI" has started applying specifically to generative AI that includes the Transformer architecture, which Google researchers invented in late 2017. TL;DR: AI that learns rather than just following preset instructions has been around for like 75 years, and the modern buzz about it is just because the invention of the Transformer architecture has shown everyone it's capable of being far more general and powerful than previous iterations made it seem. Regarding the "developer rooms" of assets: I work for an animation studio, and the artists call that the "zoo". Just a stage where all the assets are given their default settings and placed in a grid, so they can easily be copied/pasted into a new scene later without having to re-import and re-setup everything.
I do agree with Lee. As a gamer, AI was used to reference NPC behavior. so I don't think modern AI immediately but rather in the game context. Especially with all the 90s game references with Conker's and Resident Evil in this episode. I think the game was made in the 90s. Too many things line up with 90s games. But the game could have been shut down for a while with Caine still running it. I don't get malicious behavior from Caine. But I don't think he knows how humans work psychologically either. He just doesn't quite get it. So he had good intentions but ends up making things a little worse for the humans in it by killing GummyGoo. But since Cain makes these NPC and these worlds, he is essentially their god.
The idea of the beginning scene with Jaxx & Ragatha on the sides of Caine as being like God next to an angel & a demon is a pretty good catch. This reaction made me want to rewatch both episodes to try to understand it from the perspective of what Caine's motivation is for that specific adventure (the fact that he programs in a church of himself is telling). Also, checking for Jaxx's 4th wall breaks. Very fun reaction & commentary!
Matt: *pauses* "this is interesting because the sky here is blue..." Lee: "that could be something to call out..." Ash: "I think that's a TikTok thing..."
28:23 I have a pretty simple theory for this, basically Caine is shown to be the games master of this world, he's the one who sets up the adventures, the characters, the AI. So while this it does seem surprising that the queen mentions Caine as a god, it is also feels like it is kinda just playing similarly to games such as Legend Of Zelda where one character is like "So you're the one who was sent here to save our village!" I just thought it would be a nice thing to point out because Caine is the one creating these adventures that the gang has to go on, so it makes sense for him to be called a god because he is the one sending the gang on these quests.
16:10 keep in mind, this is entirely in Pomni's dream. So any information that the dream figments say is not necesarily accurate to the real circus, like how only Pomni's arm suddenly abstracted during the dream.
but the abstraction could have something to do with the way she is feeling subconsciously being acted out in her dream Edit: also ik thats not the part it was on but ye
from what i understand with the misspelling of the maple syrup. This is very common with AI misspelling words when creating images so I am guessing it is a nod to the fact that the maple syrup was created by Cane's AI and that is why it is misspelled.
Something that was brought up by the developers back when the first episode came out was that because everyone LOVED Jax so much the developers came out and was like "Why do you guys like him so much he is supposed to be a decieving evil guy" ( Its not word for word but it is along those lines)
I mean Goosxworks also very much likes Jax and is even considerd a Jax simp herself,but she did say that she doesnt like how content farms and the fandom mischaracterize him so their making him more evil
Caine says he is using a new AI to create this adventure. I think the "Mppep" Syrup is just meant to be a representation of how AI image generators still aren't that great at making text.
36:52 I am an artist myself and animator, I'm pretty sure that the reason we see a censor bar for Pomni and not bubble is due to the simple fact that bubbles character model is mostly a mouth, and so if you were to censor him while swearing you would pretty much be covering the whole character.
It was actually confirmed by the creators that the reason Bubble didn’t get a censor bar is because he didn’t actually swear, he just said something gross
39:00 I remember on Wii Sports there was a game of wakeboarding where you would jump the waves, do cool poses and land successfully for a higher score. At least that's what it reminded me of.
Ibfeeo like its more like that theif DS game, where you'd strike a pose and hide from the security guards by posing with the statue/ places to hide into
@@pirilon78it’s really not, the term AI has a different association with it, now than it did 15 years ago. People think of it in a different context than what it originally was known for, basically making the difference between the two now relevant and sometimes necessary when discussing AI today, because they’re not the same
@@ghostlyexe "semantics: the branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning" "It's really not, the term AI has a different association with it than it had 15 years ago" ...
@@ghostlyexe Personally I don't consider things like virtual assistants like Siri or Alexa to be proper Ai, despite people saying they are. I prefer to refer to them as Vi or "Virtual Intelligence". This concept was introduced to me in the Mass Effect series, where the Virtual Assistant in the game's location "The Citadel" named "Avina" who is a Vi. Real Ai were/are forbidden in the universe, because real Ai are classified as sentient and freethinking, meaning to force them to work would constitute enslavement and a whole lot of legal headaches. Sentient Ai make up the primary antagonists of the series.
Something that makes me wonder is when they call Jax the "Master of Keys". It's interesting because somehow, Jax keeps getting keys to places he normally shouldn't have access to. He has keys to Ragatha's room, a key to Kaufmo's room and in this episode, he suddenly had the key to the candy kingdom. Even though it was Ragatha who had that key the entire time. So what's up with Jax?
No one I’ve seen so far has brought up how Kinger was obsessed with the insect collection in the first episode, yet responds really positively to the bugs in the candy kingdom
38:44 I'm fairly certain is a reference to a game called Pizza Tower which makes me think that this scene was animated around when that game blew up on the internet, I belive you strike a pose in that game to parry or get s? So It implies the ground that the gummy gator is on might be dangerous because of the sharp rocks (I could be wrong tho It's been a while) Also at 50:10 the reason Gummigoo's eyes are different to the model of himself he's looking at, is because the model is using the default expression/no expressions, a lot of models usually have a huge variety of facial expressions built into them that aren't always visible, and the main Gummigoo Is using these facial expressions since he's been coded/scripted or whatever it is to allow him to do so, unlike the testing model which could be a rig for animating? You usually see a ring around the base of a model when it's an animation rig for a character I think.
Rigs can look very different depending on the skill level of the person rigging and program that's being used. Everything else you said about rigging is correct though. (I'm not a professional when it comes to rigging at all someone else can correct me if I'm wrong somehow.)
I love how they deep dive into maple syrup when its likely just one of those instances where AI will misspell words on images, like Game Theory would be generated as something like "Gmæ Thyro". Another thing, at 38:35, the reference is to Pizza Tower.
Only matpat would manage to not even make it to the halfway point of a 25 minute video for 45 minute reaction and have to make it a multi parter 😭 SLASH SENSE OF HUMOR??? SLASH HAHA FUNNII JOKE, NOT SLASH 😡😡 IM DISAPPOINTED
yall do know i was making a joke on the fact that mat pat always makes short vid reactions incredibly long right.. its not criticism its a haha funniiiiii just double checking aa
3:17 "I guess you're Kaufmo now, because you've retired" "I'm the clown who disappeared" You are the jester of FNAF, so I guess that fits 🃏 11:27 I just learned something! I had never heard about interlacing, and the purpose is "to create the illusion of a smoother (higher) frame rate without requiring extra bandwidth" (by splitting each frame in two). Also, it uses the phi phenomenon, in which "our brain perceives two slightly different images shown in rapid succession as a single, smooth image". 24:16 Yeah, AI has been an academic field of study since 1956, and the recent AI boom has been fueled by specific advancements in it (like the development of large language models, or LLMs). Same field, new technologies. 38:38 You might be referring to the Stylish moves/commands in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and Super Paper Mario, but the effect itself is pretty much the one used (for the Taunts) in Pizza Tower. 39:24 "Aren't you supposed to be submissive and agreeable?" Jax hasn't heard about girlbosses, apparently 🎭 44:04 Yeah, that's the Utah/Newell teapot, which was one of the first complex objects used in early computer graphics research. Because of its form with smooth curves and both convex and concave surfaces, it's ideal for testing lighting, shading, and texturing techniques. It's also an inside joke within the computer graphics community. 47:00 That's an A-pose (when the arms are angled downwards). If the arms are angled upwards it's a Y-pose, and a T-pose if they're perpendicular to the torso.
The effect in the beginning of the episode is NOT interlacing artifact, it's an effect called Time Displacement, where pixels are displaced in time (in this case horizontal bands), here the lower the band the more delayed it is. I first learned about it from Vsauce video called DISTORTIONS
The "Interlace" effect they discussed isn't actually interlacing at all, this is what I think is called a chunked scan delay chain effect. A scanline delay chain effect has a higher delay as you go further down the display, and can result in some very interesting effects when it comes to motion rendering, allowing for interesting illusions to be made using it. The effect can be applied to each individual line to provide a smoother effect, or it can be chunked into several line segments, as we see here, To provide a more deliberate curtain blinds-ey visual. Interlacing is two half-images crammed together, and results in a much more back-and-forth type choppiness.
@@kmemz I just report them, and then after reporting like 50, I reply to the last one, taunting them, about how they're about to get their comments temporarily restricted.
@@HornAndHaloWrestling She probably called it 'weird' because of how old it looked, or because she hadn't seen that kind of headset before, or maybe because it CAUSED HER TO BE TRANSPORTED INTO A DIGITAL WORLD.
Ok….something that took a while for me to notice is how every person in the Circus is portrayed as a different form of entertainment. Theatre (comedy and tragedy mask) Cartoons (Jax) Dolls/Puppets (Ragatha) Board games (Kinger) Birthday Clowns (Kauthmo) Circus Clowns (Pomni) Polygons and shapes (Zooble) Makes me wonder what I’d be in the D-Circus
Other possible forms of entertainment: Comic characters- Would have jerky movements to represent comic panels Sports- Sports equipment Music- Based on an instrument Scrapbooking- Basically Zooble and Ragatha mixed together.
This show is just so special. In a time where the studio media is do watered down it is such a breath of fresh air to see passion in a project and have it be so amazing.
33:25 About the first time we see the bandits… just wanted to point out that for whatever reason, Caine made these npcs have conversations when the players weren’t there.
I wanted to make a comment on 50:40 where you mentioned the filled in eye and the non filled in eye. So basically animators and artists will usually use a trick such as making a hollow circle for an eye to show an expression of shock. I believe they did this with pomni in the first episode as well. You can even see before they went in the dev room that his eyes are filled in.
43:35 the detail that goes into this wows me, you notice raggathas hands go through the hole the spike left, I would have commented this on the actual video but it’s for kids
Bubble doesn't have a censor bar because you can't read their lips like you could with Pomni. Zooble didn't have a censor bar on their face when they said f**k off in the first episode, but one was put over their finger.
I get matpat has “retired” and I wish him and his family well. But it’s still heartwarming to see a familiar face. You got me through a very dark moment in my life with your theories and analysis and I always love to hear you are doing well.
the difference between the Gummy Gators eyes is simple. the donut eye and the normal disk eyes are two separate objects on the model and the inactive one simply has both displayed at the same time since it doesn't have an active emotional state to determine which one should be used. while the Active Gummy Gator is clearly in distress so the donut eyes are much more appropriate for showing that emotion.
28:10 Kinger points out candy bugs here, which may be notable because in episode 1 he kept mentioning an ‘insect collection’. Maybe this is more evidence that he was an early bug tester of the game?
So many references to the movie raggity Anne and Andy. Like the fudge is a reference to the greedy in the film (wonderful animation work so trippy) and Jax’s voice is completely inspired by Andy’s voice. I hope they make a reference to the camel song eventually. If they do that will be the weirdest moment of the show. It’s one of goose’s favorite moves from their childhood
I feel like the obvious answer for any anachronisms is that just because the setting is from the 1990s doesn't mean the characters are. Like putting a group of Millenials/Gen Zers in Sonic's Schoolhouse.
12:13 In this case, I think it's more of a progressive vertical delay. Each "layer" down is a little more delayed than the one previous, as opposed to it being alternating. 31:20 Mind you, most of the cast have been trapped there for _years,_ so the Digital Circus itself could have been made in the 90's and then just persisted into the present day. 36:10 It's possible to lip-read Pomni, but not Bubble. 38:50 It looks a lot like the Parry/Taunt in Pizza Tower. According to Goosworx, it's a reference to games (like skating games) where you could press a button to strike poses.
3:24 They really just called MatPat Kaufmo, _"The Clown that disappeared"_ wow guys 18:04 The ragdoll affect from Gmod videos and Valve games like TF2 and Half Life, nice to still see that affect used for things today 38:50 It's a Pizza Tower reference, he's doing some Taunt poses 41:10 If _"Submissive"_ then _"Agree"_ some _"If "About to hit someone" "Don't""_ 42:40 As someone with Figurines, mabey Gangle has some Figurines, mabey of her Friends, and mabey they're spicy in some way, or... As spicy as Caine would allow 47:20 The term is an _"A pose"_ not quite a _"T pose"_ but it's close 48:00 Yep, The Fudge also reminded me of the Great mighty poo
48:47 while a dev room is possible, I don't think that's what this is. In most 3d engines assets are pre-loaded somewhere in the map so they don't have to be streamed at runtime, you commonly see this in games as just a-posing models out of bounds. By keeping them loaded most engines can more efficiently either just move them into the scene or create copies without any jitter from a load-in. Some devs like to just toss in some untextured box to keep them all in to help organize during development, if you noclip around in game levels you'll almost always find some variant of this (some devs like bethesda tend to just keep things out of bound near where they move to, or at the 0,0,0 origin as well). It's a very common game dev trick. I think that's what we're seeing here, a model pre-loading area for a scene like you'd commonly see in unreal/unity.
LOL I can't believe they only went through part of the episode but definitely appreciated them talking about & spotting all the little gaming easter eggs (the "style points" thing definitely reminded me off Pizza Tower). Was definitely surprised seeing Matt Patt joining the discussion but am very pleased that he was. Awesome video!
I love how everyone except Pomni cuz she’s literally in day 2 of her life in the circus, doesn’t swear. Even when Jax talks about violence and gore, he was never censored.
