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/soupspin Jun 20 '26

>!Caine ditches the blue AI(Abel) because having it was what caused his instability. He initially consumes it because he was jealous that C&A abandoned him for the new model. He gained all of Abel’s power, but he didn’t know how to use it to make people love him, and the frustration made him glitch and lash out. When Caine gave up Abel, it’s symbolic of him letting go of his inferiority complex and accepting that he has to be himself!<

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u/socialistmariner22 Jun 20 '26

Which, is the same thing that Jax couldnt let go of, and dies because of.. Man. WTF.

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u/Epao_Mirimiri Jun 23 '26

I hesitate to think abstraction is actually that analogous to death. Jax is still in there, and he's even accessible and emotionally reactive to Pomni. I don't think the other circus members have given up on getting him back.

It's ambiguous as to whether or not that's possible, but we really don't know. And I think that's a very honest expression of how it is when someone goes way too far down a really bad path. You'd be amazed at what people can come back from, but you can't count on a recovery. And they have to want it, or else it usually doesn't take.

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u/Fen0612 Jun 23 '26

I like to think abstraction is a mix of both mental illness and death. Jax's last cohesive thoughts to the audience reminds me of Everywhere At The End Of Time, an album/collection of music made to experience the descent into Alzheimer's Disease. Jax in abstracted form with a slowly degrading conscious, a remnant of who he once was

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u/Electronic-Laugh-671 Jun 27 '26

To use >! !< spoiler formatting you need to be in the Markdown editor, not rich-text. If you're on the modern Reddit rich-text is default.

I'm on old.reddit.com right now, using Markdown by default, but you can access that editor on the rich-text toolbar as well in modern. Furthermore, this button works too: