TADC Episode 8 Retro-Tech Breakdown

Well shit... I wasn't too far off on my own theory.

(spoilers obviously)

C&A wasn't a game company they were in fact developing AI just like in my theory post. CAINE also wasn't running locally on that computer in the Episode 1 C&A office.
Other parts of my theory haven't been proven right or wrong, like how they were bringing in new people to keep CAINE entertained, though there's some thought that part is wrong. We'll see.

I knew however that Caine had to be more than just that computer, that computer isn't powerful enough to produce an entity like Caine. Sure enough the proof is in the console that Kinger was working on.

This is a screenshot of Kinger's console, he's using Telnet to make a remote connection to a Mainframe.

The remote Mainframe seems to be unix based, going by the file formatting, file permissions, and use of root.

Some interesting things from this screenshot.

The .dat files for Ragatha and Scratch tell which time they were created which coincides with when they were digitized into the circus. Scratch in 1999, Ragatha in 2008. All other TADC AI related files including what looks to be .lisp script file for bubble are from 1996.

One of the things Kinger tries to do right away was debug Caine, but there was an AI protection system in place that prevented Kinger from accessing this process. These Warning and Error messages are probably coming from that AI and that AI process is part of Caine. So these messages could be read as coming from Caine.

It's even more evident in this screenshot, this is Caine trying to respond to Kinger's debugging attempts. Here's one interesting thing though, this might be Kinger's real name.

Is Kinger's real name Grant?

Another thing I found interesting is Kinger tried to restore Caine to an older backup, but he couldn't. So instead seems a delete Caine failsafe was launched which lead to Caine being deleted.

For anybody on Unix/Linux that has had to force terminate a process before, you know that for a very resource intensive process, the system kills the child processes before it kills the parent process. Caine's final words was him probably realizing he was about to be deleted as all his child processes were being deleted.

This episode was amazing, one of my top favorites, definitely a huge payoff for us fans before the finale. I'm curious where we will finally end up. It is possible the "mind copy" theory is still accurate, as a .dat file is just a data file. It doesn't seem to be connected to anything it's not like it's a datastream coming from some source, but then again, if Caine created the Circus and the ability to suck in all these minds, it's possible they weren't copies but an actual conscious mind being absorbed extracting it from the body and being placed into storage somewhere. I want to analyze it further but for now I just wanted to talk about the cool stuff from the terminal.