Rusty Corgi6d ago

Anyone got any theories on where the final episode is headed? 

I personally buy into the SOMA theory for the show. I think all the characters are just virtual copies made by the VR headset, so they're never going to be able to get out. It tracks with the fact that there's a "brainscans" folder where the humans are stored in .dat files, it makes sense with Scratch having had a brain tumor since he'd want to scan himself to live forever, and the way Kinger reacted to Abel by saying it doesn't make sense that they could get out, all points to them being virtual copies.

It'd be a pretty dark ending but honestly that fits with the show.

That said, I'm curious what other theories people have  

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@Rusty agree about conjuring their own world, agree about the brain scans. i think the CA_NeuralScans (Obsolete) folder in the Characters folder might store abstractions.

i dont totally agree with the bubble truthers – i was transcribing kingers coding scenes last night (hard) and it wasnt really adding up for me. i think the bubble-is-blue theory is valid, but there are other possibilities

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Show threadRusty Corgi3d ago

@pastelexuvia I don't really get why Bubble's data file is called bubble_chef. ​ Bubble definitely seems like more of an elevated NPC that Caine was projecting onto, but maybe those projections were remnants of Abel. ​

That said, the one thing that doesn't add up to me is who was talking to Kinger through the console. Caine seemed unaware of Kinger trying to break in, so either the safeguard program Kinger was trying to circumvent was a separate autonomous runtime, or there's another AI lingering in the system. The whole, "I must hand it to you Grant, your mind was always resourceful" didn't feel like Caine at all and felt really foreboding. ​

Show threadmaddox3d ago

@Rusty yea i couldnt think of a reason why devs would want to make a copy of a tiny lil .lisp into an entire model lol

when i saw lines like "NOTE: Hundreds of all-seeing eyes are watching you!" and "GASP! A critical malfunction in my SPECTACULAR systems!", i interpreted that as caine being in the chat while everything else was going on.

Show threadmaddox3d ago

@Rusty to me, the resourceful mind comment suggested that caine remembers who kinger comes from, and was addressing him by his originals name. because when kinger introduced the torment daemon, the response was "WHOA when did you make THAT?", and that was followed by the comment about grant. to me, that seemed pretty cainelike, but i could be wrong.

my vague theory is that the torment daemon was running and eventually just asked kinger, "you wanna delete this mfer? oh you want to keep the module intact? ok. well. do you wanna just delete caine then? 👀"

Show threadRusty Corgi3d ago

@pastelexuvia I think the torment daemon was Caine's daemon and Kinger was trying to inject GreenGrounds into it. I'd imagine that was the daemon Caine was using after he snapped and started more intentionally tormenting the main cast. From what I can see GreenGrounds initiated a system fallback to ensure stability and Kinger couldn't override the fallback because he didn't know the password, then when it offered him a fallback option his input wasn't parsed as being valid, so it opted to delete Caine instead. I kinda wonder if Caine's constant intrusions messed up Kinger's text buffer. Kinger looked like he was just trying to swap out the torment daemon with a different program but when he was in the middle of that, it offered to delete Caine entirely, and Kinger fat fingered the DEL key instead of the backspace key.

But yeah, it's super hard to tell because the console is a pain in the ass to read. Thanks a lot Caine and Bubble ​

Show threadmaddox3d ago
@Rusty OOOOOOO ok thats interesting. could give new meaning to "torment must be 100% accidental."
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@Rusty would also explain his switcheroo command