#hexidecimal

HAVENT MADE REBOOT ART SINCE JUNE UGH

And you're planning on mentioning Poppy the Performer:

You are incorrect.

It's Reboot.

It's always been Reboot.

Not that Sub-Williams-Street-level shock-schlock.

The whole fucking setup is homage-de-Reboot by way of Five Characters in Search of An Exit (Twilight Zone). Even the connections to "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" are surface-level at best, in a 'buncha humans trapped by an AI" way, but it ends there.

On the other hand, Caine's adventures are the equivalent of each episode of Reboot's game-cubes (not that one),

Transplanting the characters into new roles in dangerous, frightening scenarios that are meant to be enjoyable fun.

Defeat results in being transformed into a dangerous seemingly nonsapient squiggly THING.. only instead of being nullified if you lose the game, you get abstracted if you lose your grip.

There's more than a little Hexadecimal in both Caine and Gangle.

If you're doing a video based on an homage to 90s animation, it might behoove you to research the first full length all-CGI animated cartoon.

I mean, the Reboot connection is more obvious than Jax being a parody/expy of Max from Sam & Max, and that's blindingly fucking obvious.

"I'm the funny one, Sam."

I wonder what made more of an impact on GooseWorx, a highly re-run animated series that would have been on the air when they were a toddler/young gradeschooler and is also a literal milestone in CGI animation history, or an obscure chunk of sophomoric Japanese shock-art? Hmmm.

And while we're at it. While there's an AI in I have No Mouth and I Must Scream, the 'hell is other people' aspect of No Exit seems far more apt to the scenario they're in, especially in light of its semi-adaptation for the Twilight Zone:

And no, it isn't just that there's a clown.

Those that are younger will know the No Exit concept from The Good Place.

And I think the situation is going to be far more "No Exit" than it is going to be IHNMAIMS, because I don't think there's an 'out' for them to get to. Digital files never get transferred, they get copied.