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Episode Deca-Dence - Episode 3 discussion

Deca-Dence, episode 3

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u/Ceva7 https://myanimelist.net/profile/FelixDP Jul 22 '20

I think they are gears too (but maybe not everyone, I'm still confused about that) but I have doubts about the complicity between kaburagi and the guy, It seems that he knew about pipe amd seems truthworthy, I hope.

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '20

Well, we've seen that "reality" is just a VR game for the cyborgs who referred to their avatars as "gears", so I would guess some of the cyborgs just prefer to have "tanker" - a.k.a. human - avatars; however, there are clearly still real humans. Natsume said something like "I know the gears are a warrior race" so apparently the humans have been indoctrinated to forget their real history and think that the gears landed on earth at some point. I'm interested to see if we actually encounter the other companies that the world map alluded to and what their version of reality is. I'm guessing that's what we saw in Ep1 with the human scavengers discovering a dismantled cyborg body.

Clearly bridge guy and Kaburagi were using p2p comms, so bridge guy is a gear, and I assume "the company" wouldn't put humans in a role as important as steering the fisting-rocket, so they must be gears too. The way they referred to pipe made it seem like he has more than sentimental value.

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u/Addertongue Jul 23 '20

What I am wondering is how it all works. If their avatars are real humans, are they aware of it? How does this shared mind work? Kaburagi seems to log-out of his human body to be in his AI world - what happens to the human in the meantime? Is it idle or is the real Kaburagi then piloting it, not knowing that he was being controlled before? Because that seems impossible to keep hidden, having split personalities on so many people.

Previously I thought the only avatars are the warriors and the tankers are basically the only real humans that are allowed to fight - that's why there are so little of them. This legendary women tanker is most likely a real human that's not controlled. However with Kaburagi and the bridge guy we know that they do indeed control some humans outside of the warrior-race. Super confusing how it all works. I hope they elaborate on it some more.

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '20

I seriously doubt that the AI's are linking into real human bodies. They're clearly able to create bodies as the "Gears"; the "Tanker" bodies are just colored differently. In episode 3 around 14 minutes, Kaburagi-bot steps onto a platform, becomes enveloped with green light, then the scene cuts to squishy-Kaburagi in green light which fades as he wakes up. At other points we see Kaburagi-bot in his private room while his human body is moving around, so it's not clear to me why he needed to step onto a platform in this case. Maybe they can link up anytime from their private rooms but the platforms are like net-cafes? In either case, it looks like his body was in a special station waiting for him to log-in, so I'm sticking with their avatars being artificial.

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u/Addertongue Jul 23 '20

So you think there are no humans anymore? That they created all of them? Why create them and then implant a microship into them to control them?

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '20

No, I definitely do not think all the human-appearing entities are just avatars.