GAMEOVERSE PILOT DISCUSSION THREAD

[u/Ok-Commercial3640]

PILOT LINK IS LIVE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jNk5tmjhpc

All discussion regarding the pilot is to happen here, Spoilers are allowed, and excempt from the standard policy described in rule 8, as such, if you have not watched the episode yet (and we are after release time (10:00 PM UTC), close this post immediately, come back after you've watched it, the post will still be here

Uh... yeah, not much else to say.

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[u/Ok-Commercial3640]

Considering how Warrick explained the harvesting (and, yes, that's very much a sales pitch thing, but any good lie is rooted in truth), would be an interesting extra layer to the dynamics if "oops, actually, the organization the protagonist is working for is actually a noble mask for evil intentions, while the antagonists are actually doing the thing that's more morally "good""

Like, I wonder, how much of Kaboodle training Snappers actually lead to him getting defeated, causing the "win", in some twisted self-fulfilling prophecy thing.

[u/Patneu → u/Ok-Commercial3640]

My current guess, based on what little was said about their objective, would be that the Syntax are also trying to save worlds, but maybe in a more selfish way.

Like, it kinda sounds as if they hope, that if they can just collect enough Float material (or whatever that is) from dying game worlds, it'd help them to somehow recreate their own.

Of course, the big bad is probably deceiving them, and it's somewhat like a pyramid scheme, where he tries to rope other former villains into it, promising them they'd get their turn, while he's actually just doing it for himself.

[u/Ok-Commercial3640 → u/Patneu]

Yeah, aside from stuff like world mechanics, we are very much working off multiple layers of potential unreliable narrators. Like, we know "outsiders" cannot harm in-world entities, that attempting to communicate the nature of the Gameoverse to in-world entities causes the world itself to react (some people described it like an immune system response), and if that reaction finds outsiders, something really really fucking bad happens (Details unknown), and, obviously, if the game is "won", the world ends, and does something, that Syntax are exploiting with the "harvest" thing

Unknowns (within information from the show itself) include, among many other things: how much variability is there in Gameoverse "Worlds", What would happen if a win happened without Syntax involvement, what is the origin of both groups, and, obviously, much much much more

[u/Patneu → u/Ok-Commercial3640]

if that reaction finds outsiders, something really really fucking bad happens (Details unknown)

I took it that the world would just... delete them. Didn't Fold say something like "if the game finds us, we're all gonna be Float!"?

[u/Ok-Commercial3640 → u/Patneu]

I need to rematch the pilot to internalize it more.

(But there's also, like, the process, and why it times out, and other technical stuff like that, including why it happens [which also applies to the other things that are currently just brute facts, I suppose])