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10. Steins;Gate 0 9. That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime 8. Saiki K Season 2 7. Seven Deadly Sins Season whatever 6. Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl 5. Voilet Evergarden 4. JoJo Part 5 3. MHA S3 2. AoT S3 Honorable Mention: SAO S3 Hinamatsuri Gintama Overlord S2-3 A Place Further than the Universe 1. Devilman Crybaby How is basically any of this not completely standard whatever's popular? Devilman is the strangest thing on it, but when it came out vietually the whole anime community was calling it anime of the year [even though it's one of Masaaki's weakest, by the way]. It's literally nothing but "people said this was good so we'll say it's good."

Yeah, but what about HxH where assassins are allowed to be Hunters by a chairman eventually highlighted as not especially caring about morals?

That doesn't matter. He has to have built the software using something other than the device itself. We have only a few OS options because creating a new one and getting it on par with even the 90s or early 2000s would take a lifetime. Creating a from-scratch brand new OS to not only match contemporary Windows, Apple, Linux, or whatever but even exceed and transmit mental images on its own is an unreasonable task. You'd have to have to create a new OS, build the extraordinarily complex device to use it, bypass over 50 years of advancements in technology with, by your standards, no help from existing technology, then create a game well beyond modern ability, get it online and capable of sending an entire game far more advanced than modern technology in realtime. That's not even accounting for building an entirely new form of server compatible with the brand new device that's untouchable by existing technology. Even putting in a borderline human AI. By age 28. It also doesn't make sense for it to be produced by a server. You'd have to transmit an entire game to thousamds of people simultaneously. I get that SAO is a future setting but it's not a very well-explored future. It's mostly just now but with cooler video game technology. There's no implication we'd have that kind of server power, that's terabytes of data being sent to an absurd number of people sent nonstop for 2+ years. That would take an absurd amount of energy. With MMOs, or any online game, like with any game, the game is installed to a system. For a older generation like your Atari through PS2(3?), XBox 360 [I think?] or Wii U, the game is on a cartridge or disc. A PS4, XBox One, or Switch, even with cloud save data, the game has to be installed to thd device itself. The reason we don't transmit most games on entirety over online connections is because the majority can still be played locally. With MMOs that's generally not the case, but you still need the device to have the software installed because otherwise it's an unreliable process where anything can go wrong. You lose the server and everyone loses the game itself. Backups, sure, it's still a silly way to do it that lacks understanding of how games function. It also doesn't account for disconnects. It's a similar situation for any of these trapped in a MMO settings, but what if the server goes down [a common occurrence for MMOs]? Does the entire population of players get melted brain syndrome? It's a relatively general problem within the genre that can be mitigated by the introduction of supernatural elements, like Log Horizon where they're actually in the world rather than the game. Suspension of disbelief is one thing, but the dude creating that much is insane and before 30 is fundamentally ludicrous. Even if he were to have a massive team of millions of people, I'm not buying this explanation. The inception of the simplest of computers took about as long as he's been alive.

This game is everything a longtime Peach main could ask for.

Okay, Ben. What did he build the software on the device with? Did he put the device together and the software he made somehow without the use of a computer was ready to go? Just built the headset and the software came preinstalled? Like, how the fuck do you think a virtual reality software is made? It needs some kind of computer to create the programming. He didn't just build the device and have it magically operate with brain pictures he somehow uses to program it. I mean, maybe he did because SAO. And, well, SAO is stupid.

Jesus fucking... You know the device's software isn't located on the brain, right? It's like making an emulator. A Gameboy is meant to be played on a Gameboy, but people extracted the data and used that to build a new program able to display a Gameboy game on a computer. Of course this is different on virtue of the level of complexity, but ultimately the pretense is the same. What I think you're failing to understand is that the device might display a mental image, but that image has to be produced externally.

No, he was Rapier Ape, which was scarier. What if that means there's a Rapiest Ape? And he uses the sword?!

Probably going to pick up the update version when it comes out on Switch, honestly.

The notion of turning it into an item mid-deletion is pretty funny. Saving some of the data is one thing, but stopping the deletion as well as restoring what was lost and encoding an entirely new item is hilariously silly. It doesn't help that if it's such a sophisticated proprietary system, there's a strong chance it doesn't use a public OS. That's really the only justification fof it to take so long to hack from the outside, because it'd require anyone who didn't work on it to learn the internal framework. If it was built on an existing OS someone would get in within 2 years no problem. But the only way for it to feasibly prevent outside interference would make Kirito's hack even less believable.

It doesn't matter how it's normally accessed. Hackers don't access things through the normal routes. As long as there's software on the device, it can be projected onto something other than the brain.

The point wasn't that the mini-arc is the greatest offender. It's that the issues of logic and continuity are a constant throughline. Kirito and Asuna are super smart but the detail of shared treasure doesn't come up until the last minute. Kirito has an omega regen ability that's activated one time for one scene with no implication of existing, then there's no reference to it ever again because it was only there to seem cool. Somehow a video game console capable of melting brains is on the market. Somehow a magic item can be used to revive someone up to 30 seconds after having their brain fried. I mean, I couldn't really see it improving. Mostly because I didn't finish the first arc because of the whole character development done off screen thing and how boring it was most of the time. The continuations don't sound very good though.

I'm doing it mostly through World of Light since the other ways seem less fun. After 12 hours, still haven't gotten the characters I'm looking for. But whatevs, its been really fun for me.

Didn't really like it. It was frustrating that they'd introduce a conflict that was worth an episode or 2 then resolve it by the end of the same scene. I get going fast, but fuck that shit. I couldn't get invested in literally anything.

I mean, really. Regardless of if the image is a mental image, and I do actually think Ben is right about that and have no idea why I thought that out of everything else was wrong, that image has to be created by the software in the device. The headset's software is hackable and any game on it is too. No way it'd last 2 years.

I'm just bored at the moment.

Literally the only indication of what you're saying is that they prevent body movement. There's no real indication it's any more than a control scheme using brain waves. Regardless, the device requires software. None of what you're suggesting would be doable without software, abd software can and more than likely will get hacked. That is unless we're to default to calling it space magic. Again, it isn't a matter of realism vs fantasy. It's a matter of constructing a consistent narrative that follows its own rules. Kirito is conveniently able to hack a mega computer because he built some consumer-grade PCs and took some programming classes. He's socially incompetent but nearly every woman, plus Klein, he interacts with will be seduced. He's a genius who can't see the fallacy of beta-testers being viewed as evil even after multiple years of being trapped. If we get into the narrative choices, an example of poor execution would be the murder mystery arc with the player-killer in that one guild. First off, they use a process of elimination to pinpoint the culprit by discounting those who voted against keeping the treasure without so much as interviewing. That's problematic because it's more than plausible someone would vote against keeping as a false alibi. Then they figure it out not by piecing what they know together, but rather by suddenly revealing at the last minute that a married couple share inventory so the wife's death would transfer the treasure to her husband, immediately revealing the culprit. That's literally all we needed to know from square one. And lastly, the suspect list from the aforementioned [silly] process of elimination only leaves 5 suspects. But the final solution is of an internal group of 3 of those suspects banding together on a baseless assumption of each other's innocence to see if... the remaining... 2 people were responsible for the murder...? Like, you picked up over half the suspects in an already small pool to test the remainder, but that's fucking stupid. Each innocent individual can rule themself out which leaves 4 possible people, so teaming up with 2 of them is a 50% chance of letting the culprit in... which they do. And it was an obvious probability nobody, save the dude who actually did it, should've been on board with. And the inability to apply any logical cohesion to the narrative is a constant problem in SAO.

Damn, Ginguy took a shot at the easiest target in history and his comedy routine still sucked.

Well, there's the thing where he proudly calls himself a lolicon, so.... you know.

Bruh.... they had access to the devices. Hackers don't... Dude. They don't use the software as installed or intended. Hacking is, you know, literally breaking into the software. So no, they wouldn't have to play the game to get to the special console. And if Kirito has a normal consumer console, and his can gain access to the special console, then any device can get there.

That doesn't make much sense. People hack proprietary systems all the time. Video game consoles being a big examples. Most get hacked within a couple months of release. To last 2 years without anyone figuring out how to breach security would mean the security is obscenely good. I'm pretty sure they only mentioned physical removal of the helmets and didn't say much about getting hacked. The simple fact of the matter is people would flock to save thousands of people trapped in a murderous virtual reality and if it took 2 years to figure out, how can we believe Kirito got in and messed around within seconds when there have to be countless people trying to do the same for years? And even if it's that Kirito was the only person who tried, it'd be impossible to logically buy into. It's bad writing that just doesn't consider much if it doesn't make Kirito look good. If I really care about a character who's about to die, I'd rather they die than be saved by a pure contrivance that nullifies much point of having the scene. If they survive I want it to be earned in some way. Most characters who reach a natural conclusion through a "death" scene but get magically saved tend to stagnate right after.

But that's not nearly enough to sell the concept of him breaching the coding in a device created by a supposed mega-genius capable of building a fully sentient AI with security defenses that have prevented any form of interference, internal or external for over 2 years. Like, that's not something it was able to sell in premise alone, and when you combine that with how advanced what he does with the speed he does it, I don't know how suspension of disbelief wouldn't be broken. Feel free to enjoy it all you want, but don't bother trying to convince anyone it's more than a cheap copout. It undercuts what was meant to be an emotional scene and is narratively asinine.

I watched up to maybe an episode before the infamous hacking scene. There was no indication he knew fuck-all about hacking. Unless good at gaming means good at hacking, which it doesn't.

The FLCL sequels sucked! That is all.