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You'd think after a life studying this language i would be able to write a simple post without autocorrect.

Well, shit.

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I think the show gave us some very clear pointers on what Caine can do. He's an AI trained to create and improve stories, models, code and (I think) pretty much every other element on the Circus. But that's not all, so far he has shown the following abilities:

Nigh-Omnipotence: complete control over the Circus, with him being able to create, manipulate, and control anything within its boundaries. With his only current known limit being that he has no control over the minds of those who are trapped in it, or at least that was the case before episode 5.

Omnificence: able to create anything, including virtual food, a random name spinner, an entire kingdom and its surrounding landscape and pretty much any other critter and prop we have seen on the show.

VR Manipulation: Caine is shown to have complete control of the environment in the digital world, to the point he can heal glitched characters. Although this manipulation cannot fix abstracted characters.

Nigh-Omniscience: almost complete awareness of the digital world. It is shown that he was aware when Pomni exited the Circus into the void in the piloted episode. However, he does not seem to have any awareness or knowledge of the Void.

VR Sustainer: Caine is not only the ringmaster of the circus, but also appears to be what sustains it. In episode 3, when he learns from Zooble that he might be "bad at the only thing he's good at", it causes his code to start contradicting itself, which results in the entire Digital Circus to begin glitching out violently.

Teleportation: Caine is able to pop in and out about everywhere within the digital world, as he was shown - also in episode 1 - saving Pomni by teleporting her from the void back into the digital world .

Toon Force: Caine can manipulate his own body parts and proportions without harming himself.

Flight: Caine has the ability to fly, or hover in the air freely.

Move/Locate: Has the ability to bring/locate any and all players as he wishes.

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As far as this simulation goes, we can assume Caine has all the permissions a normal manager program would have. The thing that sets him apart from any normal program is that he's an AI, which means he learns, adapts and corrects himself as needed.

My personal theory is that at some point Caine learn how to bend the rules of it all. He's running for an undetermined amount of time, which means in terms of artificial intelligence that he has experimented A LOT with what he can and cannot do effectively. We can only assume that he now has sufficient knowledge of the digital world and himself to know the limitations of his powers.

He does not have control of the characters actions, but he can influence them. Look at this way, Caine has the power to grant effects like buffs and debuffs, just like a game is supposed to work.

When Jax asks for a drink he's totally in control of his actions, but the second he finishes his request the condition is triggered and Boom, he's vegan. We know it works like an effect because he literally got an icon similar to this one 🌱 after Zooble's request. And let's not forget that at the end of the day the condition expired as promise.

This has A LOT of implications story wise, so many in fact that I guess we won't be seen much of it in the future. Caine could make the cast do pretty much anything if he truly wanted to, I mean, even if he's not wired that way it would be so boring to resolve any big conflicts that way.

I don't think Zooble knows anything special about the inner machinations of the Circus and it's host, but they definitely know more about it than meets the eye.

"I thought Caine couldn't..."

THIS MOMENT RIGHT HERE

I don't wanna jump the gun just yet and call this foreshadowing, this was clearly played off for the lolz, but I have a nagging feeling this is implying something much, much darker

It's clear that Jax said the part about the egg white* involuntarily, since he doesn't want to play this vegan bit whatsoever. But his sentence at the end; "I thought Caine couldn't..."

"... control us"??

Imagine that. They're trapped against their will, they can never go home, they're forced into stressful and scary adventures every day, but at the very least they still have free will. At least they can choose what they say and do (puppeteer employee re-evaluations aside)

Only, they can't. That can be taken away from them as well.

And Zooble knew it.

Remember this brief convo in the previous episode;

"The only thing holding Caine back is the fact that he likes us. I wouldn't push it."

ZOOBLE KNOWS SOMETHING.

Most likely they may just be wiser and/or more perceptive than most, fully comprehending the scope of Caine's powers in the circus and knowing that they're all hanging on by the threads that Caine is clutching. Or, possibly, they may have been witness to this "punishment" they mention. This may be the real reason they never go on adventures. Not cuz they just can't be fucked (tho probably true) but because they figure "If I don't do anything, I can't do anything wrong/worth punishing"

They know what Caine is capable of, and how it can be weaponized. In that sense, they were actually very forgiving to only ask for Jax to be vegan for the day as punishment for pretending to eat Gangle. I think between episode 4 & 5 we're seeing Jax come to that realization as well. It's clear that in his own way, he trusted Caine wouldn't hurt him or force him to do anything against his will, and was proven wrong twice.

Like I said, this might be foreshadowing for something later on, it might just be subtext you're meant to stew over as I have. Either way, its clear that Caine has greater capacity for evil, or at least immense harm, than most of them realize.

*also, since when do whiskey sours have egg whites?? I looked it up thinking it was a joke, but no, this is a cocktail with egg in it, wtf. Tho technically, according to google if it has an egg white it's a Boston sour, but same diff

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happy Father's Day ✨

Spanish:

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Hey you wanna come over and dip bread into olive oil and balsamic vinegar and such?

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I feel like I should be afraid of opening this site in public. Half of my dash is Sonadow fan art and the other half is just random ass nonsense.

The strange thing is, I don't even ship these characters, the artist I followed on the other side...

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Remember in the original Lilo and Stitch when Jumba tells Stitch “I tried to give you my good looks but let’s face it, something went wrong”?

Well what’s interesting is that there actually are similarities in their design that prove Jumba tried to model Stitch after himself.

For one thing, they have very similar noses

This one may be a stretch but Stitch’s ears almost resemble much bigger versions of Jumba’s ears, albeit the placement on his head is different too.

They also both have very thick arms, although Jumba’s hands are also very thick as well as his fingers, while Stitch has smaller fingers that have claws (it makes sense Jumba would want him to have claws since Stitch was meant to be dangerous and destructive)

Their feet are also similarly shaped, although Jumba doesn’t have toes while Stitch does, along with round little claws.

EDIT: Correction, @jelthefrog let me know Jumba does have toes, he’s actually just wearing shoes that match his skin tone (thank you again for the correction)

Somehow I just never really noticed any of that. I love that there’s similarities between them.

As for the other experiments, well I personally only headcanon Stitch has a Glitch as the only canon sequel/spinoff, meaning Stitch was Jumba’s only experiment. That’s just my own headcanon though, of course feel free to make up your own headcanons about how the other experiments were designed and whatnot.

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I would love to see this type of crossover animated, it's so fun to see characters so different interact in such a normal way ~

A crossover of Spy x Family and Batman I made by photoshopping different panels together. I hope you enjoy

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my utopia

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In Loving memory of Gantu

For the record, besides modern Disney execs being the ones who effectively call the shots on story in their films despite being hacks, I'm not unconvinced that the reason they didn't want to do Gantu in the remake is because Gantu is huge and that would be too much for the budget.

Still, it sucks that they axed Gantu and gutted Jumba as a result...

Honestly, Gantu had it goin on.

He was a bad cop who was called out and fired for being a bad cop.

He then was a lacky for a criminal basically as revenge before turning on said criminal when he remembered what he's actually about. Then, when given his position back by the Grand Council Woman, he accepts on the condition that his stoner Rob Paulson friend whom he abandoned on Earth be there to keep him in check:

Everyone talks about Anastasia Tremaine and Iago in terms of 'Disney villains who did a character development' and got 'reformed' into good guys, but no one mentions Gantu enough and you should be ashamed.

Currently on a quest to find that one Disney Adventure magazine comic where he was at a barbecue with the other main leads in a Hawaiian shirt just hangin out. I know it happened. I saw it. It existed. Don't gaslight me and tell me it didn't happen...

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I always feel like a dumb piece of garbage whenever I learn something like this, but in a good way y'know. Ignorance in it's core is not a bad thing, staying ignorant is.

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A recurring gag in Disney’s Lilo and Stitch: the Animated Series is Gantu while visible in plain sight is asked why he’s so large.

Gantu responds with “I’m from Samoa” or “I’m Samoan”.

The bystanders usually accept this flimsy excuse and go about their business.

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jeepeon (based on this image from Let's Find Pokemon)

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♡ Mieruko-chan ♡

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BEST. CROSSOVER. EVER.

What would happen if you put Hana and Saitama in the same place ? Monsters and ghouls? Cosmic Leve threats? The end of the world !?

A crossover of One Punch Man and Mieruko Chan I made by photoshopping different panels together. I hope you enjoy

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Au where Batman doesn't want to tell the Justice League his secret identity but it's because he's really embarrassed about the things he's done as Bruce Wayne.

The thing is; Batman has spent years crafting and perfecting his public persona.

'Brucie Wayne' is supposed to be a dumber than life himbo, with daddy's credit card and the maturity of a seventeen year old. He's supposed to be someone so outlandishly ridiculous no one would ever even dare to mention him in the same sentence as Batman... And Batman has been acting that part perfectly.

It's a genius plan.

But then the league begins talking about maybe all sharing their secret identities, to become closer as a group and work better together. And the only thing in Batman's mind is 'Oh. My. God. Please don't'

Superman is saying something about trust and how he has come to value all of them as friends. Batman is thinking about last year Christmas' Gala, where he took off his clothes in an improvised strip-tease, and started swimming in the fountain.

Wonder woman is talking about how she wishes to strengthen their bonds so they become greater warriors. Bruce just remembered there's videos of him fucking twerking and pole dancing to Ariana Grande all over the internet.

Flash starts smiling and telling them he already trust them with his life– Bruce once said chocolate milk came from brown cows.

'Oh. My. God'.

There's just no way he's telling any of them.

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I was expecting a full 90 min YouTube documentary on this lady by the end of the post

i don’t think there’s anything funnier than saying “god forbid women do anything” in response to women doing the most objectively horrifying actions possible.