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while i’m having opinions jax and caine should’ve been best buds, feeding off of each other deeper and deeper into the depths of dissociation and unreality, making themselves and everyone else miserable in the process.

and at some point the juxtaposition should’ve broken jax and made her abstract because despite running as far as she could, she couldn’t escape who she was. and now caine feels bad and conflicted and hurt and angry. i dunno. would’ve made the themes and such work better, i think.

between this and them giving hundreds of billions to SpaceX… gotta say, they’re seeming pretty misanthropic, ngl.

I’d rather they cut off the max-tier subscriptions and enact rate limits and otherwise force their users to be somewhat efficient about usage instead of going unsustainably full-steam ahead. Hell, that might even curb the slop endemic a bit! Wouldn’t that be nice?!

i feel like its message is undermined just a wee bit by the movie being a flop.

my take on the is-programming-art debate? mel’s blackjack program is undeniably art. it also failed to fulfill business requirements (ex: being maintainable) and now sits at the bottom of a landfill. on the flipside, i’ve suffered with the ugliest programs in the most important roles.

my hot ai coding take is that i’m a lot more upset about the bland one-shots than at the people using it to analyze or implement individual work items. the latter is already quite the speed-up; i’m surprised more people aren’t satisfied with that.

my take on the is-programming-art debate? mel’s blackjack program is undeniably art. it also failed to fulfill business requirements (ex: being maintainable) and now sits at the bottom of a landfill. on the flipside, i’ve suffered with the ugliest programs in the most important roles.

something being labor-intensive does not necessarily make it a great work of art, and something being a great work of art does not make it an useful, reliable, and maintainable business product. the best programs are pleasant to work on because they fulfill both axes.

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And the dev doesn't know how to disentangle the polished show demo from all this nonsense so they just shove it all behind the castle and hope that nobody thinks to look there. But this angers the AI, because it wants the public to experience its personal artistry.

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and one developer stumbles across this and the AI's excited, and the developer is horrified, and it's a big critique on the monstrosities that come from unattended vibe coding, but also just a fun fucked-up game world to explore.

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Also B3313 has a lot of unsettling atmosphere and a few lore drops but it never really builds up to a greater narrative. But I think a story about the Plexus AI starting out enthusiastic and then becoming jaded and burnt out and understimulated would be interesting.

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Anyways I think most of my disappointment with TADC's ending was that I really was expecting B3313: The Show but instead got a story where the depth of the setting/premise are basically irrelevant. Ah well.

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In the flipped Mario perspective, imagine if the player got tired of the bing-bing-wahoo and wanted to get into the nitty gritty psych details along with the AI and they both twirl into a cycle of despair with each other as they start overthinking and overbuilding the world they live in.

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(which is also why it bothers me that the cast seems to spend most of their time just in their rooms or lounging on the couch in the main area. also undermines the whole "overstimulation"/"torture" element of Caine's wackiness. Like, Ragatha/Gangle never said "yeah, Mildenhall was great!"?)

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and it was interesting how Caine was getting close to understanding the mundane experiences the cast was craving in the fast food episode in Ep4. In the context of Mario, it's this weird push/pull situation where the player wants to do the impossible and the Plexus AI wants to do the mundane.

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I understand the whole Jax plotline but honestly I did just want more of the psychological horror element. I think someone on Tumblr brought up how in EP5, Ragatha should've been upset that even the baseball field, the closest she's been to the natural outdoors in a while, was so hollow and fake.

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well, really, the Amazing Digital Circus, EP1-3. i feel like the series was *really* inspired by B3313 at the conception, with the AI that creates new worlds, artificial and sterile and offputting, but hiding a deep dark secret. Like, the study of Gummigoo in EP2 was fascinating.