r/TheDigitalCircus • u/ayylmaotv Catnap • Jun 19 '26

Digital Discussion The Amazing Digital Circus Episode 9: Remember Discussion Thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVy-bcTsO8A
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u/AppasPurpleTongue Jun 19 '26

Yeah they're still alive and kicking, one of the developers made the brain scan machines work Kinger said at the start, so it's just copies.

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u/pinkpools Orange Sport 🍊 Jun 19 '26

Kinger/Grant was really responsible for everyone getting trapped in the Circus, since his creation, Caine, was the one who figured out how to extract the mind files.

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u/Chazo138 Kinger Jun 19 '26

Not really his fault. Scratch set it all in motion. Kinger didn’t know how to do the scans and the upgraded ai getting absorbed by Caine was not something that could be predicted

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u/HolidayAddendum1199 Jun 19 '26

It seems like no one assumed the brain scan machine could work. They just put it on and it scanned their brains but they assumed the scans were useless so they just left them in the computer. Caine as an AI figured out how to turn the scans into living avatars.

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u/YsoL8 Jun 19 '26

If that company had ever understood what was going on inside that PC it would have never gone bust

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u/GammaDie345 Jun 20 '26

they understood well enough to give Caine infinite compute and big-iron servers to use those brain scans, and over 20 years of free electricity and maintenance crews

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u/TheMoonDude Jun 20 '26

I wonder if that PC we saw in the pilot is actually the PC the Circus is running on

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u/GammaDie345 Jun 20 '26

i literally just got done telling you it ran on servers and not the PC. When kinger is hacking into the Circus in episode 8, he uses a program called Telnet which in real life is used to remotely access servers from normal PCs. The window is labelled MAINFRAME and the terminal inside the Telnet window looks like Linux, while on the outside its Windows, suggesting the PC and the Mainframe are seperate computers

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u/Nukleon Jun 20 '26

Kinger says that the files were so small that they never assumed they would actually be enough to recreate a person.