Coolest Clown

Kaboodle literally calls Gobbles non-violent and wishes Gobbles was a sharptoothed dinosaur eating everything in sight (wish for him to be violent, depiction at odds with the entire theme of Gobbles' Children's Media). The skills Gobbles has (Reading, Writing, Learning) are considered useless & Gobbles a waste to save, even though those are crucial base skills to learn. While Kit disagrees & consoles Gobbles while engaging with Gobbles where he is, she finds it hard to argue with Kaboodle (reminiscent of someone who disagrees but is in an environment where it is a widely held opinion). Dusk supposedly sent them on a recon mission as punishment for recruiting Gobbles, even though Dusk recruited Kit - The issue is not recruitment, it is with Gobbles. Maturity & combat capability are stark contrasts between Kit and Gobbles, so I think Gobbles' lack of both is what Dusk disapproves of (same as Kaboodle).

When entering Flapper's world, Kit immediately dismisses Flapper as a background character for being helpful, trusting & forthcoming. These are virtues and flaws often given to Children's Media protagonists, but she still considers them to be background character traits. I think this is because she has unresolved biases she is not aware of, where mature / grittier media is the 'norm' and 'how it should be'. We know her setting took itself seriously (played the adventure straight, scarred catgirl etc.) and was pretty gritty with how brutal the opening transformation was.

Fold is confused about Flapper not being able to read, but happy to take advantage of Flapper's naivety. Proceeds to manipulate Flapper while looking down on Flapper for childlike behavior (and accidentally hurting Fold, but Fold never talks to Flapper about it, just assumes Flapper should know). Generally seems to find Flapper annoying but puts up with him to complete his goal, INSTANTLY abandons Flapper once Flapper is no longer useful. Gobbles, a fellow Children's Media protagonist, is the only one to neither immediately dismiss Flappers nor treat him as just a tool.

noticed something really neat in the gameoverse pilot when kaboodle is fixing the shields. the circuts here are all code, with values, true/false statements, inputs, outputs, and all that stuff. Its really neat that even their ship runs off game logic and code.

Not only that, but the technobabble he is rambling on about during this scene isnt random.

Im not smart enough to fully understand this, but hes clearly talking about the ships model, its textures, and its LODs (level of detail). basically hes trying to re render the ships shield, but has to prebake new LODs because trying to optimize it to do it dynamically would take too long. (i think that's what hes saying).

Normally this is something a developer would do while making their own video game. But here, the characters are doing it themselves since they are outside of their games. its a fascinating look into how the Gameoverse works and how the characters understand it.

Like, everything the people outside of their games do is still inherently Gamey.

They control the ship with a controller

They use arcade guns to control the laser guns.

And everyone seems to have their own ways of regaining health (and pull things out of an inventory)