# Our Journey through Sword Art Online

An episode of [One Journey (A One Piece Podcast)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1706777962), 20 Apr 2026, 1 h 25 min.

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This week on our journey we continue on Dillons anime journey while Tajun is away. And with this weeks role we watch the first 3 episodes of Sword Art Online and learn about Kiritos journey and the video game isekai defining anime. God help me. We’d like to thank 3:33 and AyoBudd for making our 4Kids parody opening. You can find them at https://open.spotify.com/artist/3zSZALQMT4bAcPa2wCzEth. Please follow our Patreon @ patreon.com/onejourneypod Future Episode art will be done by Dillon when he’s done with school. Please follow the podcast @ OneJourneyPod on Bluesky: @OneJourneypod.bsky.social Try to be spoiler free if you follow us there. Shoot us an email @ onejourneypod@gmail.com Follow host Solomon @ KingSolomander on BlueSky: @kingsolomander.bsky.social or @ sidequestfirst on twitch for the occasional stream vod: https://www.twitch.tv/sidequestfirst and https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz0fjLXt_q_lD7mY2bpgeSQ Follow Tajun @Tajjjun on chess.com. Thank you for listening and please let us know how we’re doing or any tips you have.

## Transcript

[0:00] There once was a pirate named Gold Rodger who was the king of
[0:04] the pirates. He had fame, power, and wealth
[0:08] beyond your wildest dreams. But that's only part of this
[0:13] story. Yeah, yo, yeah, yo.
[0:17] Dreaming don't give it up, Luke. Dreaming don't give it up so
[0:21] long. Dreaming, don't give it up.
[0:22] Night dreaming don't give it up. Give it up.
[0:25] Give it up, give it up, give it up.
[0:27] Here's how the story goes. We find out about a treasure in
[0:30] the Grand Line. There's no doubt the pirate
[0:32] whose eyes on it, he'll sing. I'll be king of the pirates.
[0:35] I'm gonna be king. Yeah, yo, yeah, yo, yeah, yo.
[0:41] That's right, one. Journey, king of the It's made
[0:45] of nonsense. How did that happen?
[0:47] Yo ho ho, We took a bite of dumb.
[0:48] Dumb. Yeah.
[0:49] Yo, yeah, yo. His name is Solo.
[0:52] He's just a phantom guy for anime time.
[0:54] This is my kind. Dylan's doing that new guy
[0:57] thing. Tajin's watching.
[0:58] Taylor's judging. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[1:05] It's the name of the Treasure in the Cray light.
[1:15] This week on our journey, while Tajin is still away for his
[1:19] firefighter training, we're increasing Dylan's anime
[1:23] knowledge with another random show.
[1:26] Cultural significance. Fuck you, you fucking asshole.
[1:31] You interrupted me and got me to laugh, you Jackass.
[1:37] So this week we are starting with a show that is considered a
[1:41] major gateway to Isakai anime. We rolled the die last time
[1:47] after we stopped recording. We should have done it
[1:49] beforehand. But he did roll.
[1:51] He rolled A1, which on my random chart is a very famous series.
[1:57] He already knows what it is, so I'm not going to tease it too
[1:59] much longer. It is Sword Art Online.
[2:05] Yeah. So, Dylan, how?
[2:07] You doing I'm all right? You excited?
[2:10] Yeah. You've heard of this one?
[2:11] I've I have heard of this. What do you know about it?
[2:15] OK, when it was first out I remember everyone around me was
[2:20] going bananas for it. But in the year since, cause of
[2:25] course you know me. I don't watch anime.
[2:29] I've heard it. It's shit, I've heard it's
[2:31] garbage. I see.
[2:32] I see. But then why would it be the
[2:33] gateway? It must be good if it's the
[2:34] gateway. Right.
[2:35] I don't know why you'd call it the gateway though.
[2:37] So many people start with it. But this came out like 10 years
[2:40] ago, didn't it? Like. 2011.
[2:42] Oh yeah? Well then maybe it was like
[2:44] after but I I remember this was crazy back in the day.
[2:48] Yeah, yeah. No, it's.
[2:49] Apparently still is. Is it?
[2:51] It's still like I it's most recent season, I think was like
[2:54] two or three years ago. Yeah.
[2:56] It's like it's like 6:00-ish. Sheets, that's a bad sign. 3
[3:00] movies like it, it still gets watchers big time.
[3:04] I don't personally know why. I can't wait to piss more people
[3:07] off. But are do you want the
[3:09] synopsis? Sure, all right, I think I get
[3:13] it. But sure this.
[3:14] Is the synopsis from my anime list.
[3:17] So ever since the release of the innovative Nerve Gear, gamers
[3:22] all around the globe have been given the opportunity to
[3:25] experience a completely immersive virtual reality.
[3:28] Sword Art Online, or otherwise known as Sao, one of the most
[3:34] recent games on the console, offers a gateway into a wondrous
[3:38] world of Eincrad, a vivid medieval landscape where users
[3:42] can do anything within the limits of imagination.
[3:45] With the release of this worldwide sensation, gaming has
[3:48] never felt more lifelike. However, the idyllic fantasy
[3:52] rapidly becomes a brutal nightmare when SA OS creator
[3:55] traps thousands of players inside the game.
[4:01] So the reason he's laughing is there's a ghost here, and the
[4:03] ghost knows about this series too.
[4:05] Well, it that just sounds, Yeah, yeah.
[4:08] Well anyway, the log out function has been removed.
[4:12] You can't log. I can't turn on your computer.
[4:15] With the only method of escape involving beating all of
[4:18] Eincrad's 100 increasingly difficult levels adding to the
[4:24] struggle, any in game death becomes permanent, ending the
[4:29] player's life in the real world they.
[4:32] Deserve it, frankly. Hold on, where this still this?
[4:35] There's one more paragraph. God, Oh my God, Jesus.
[4:38] While Kazuto Kirito, that's his nickname, Kirigaya was fortunate
[4:44] enough to be a beta tester on the game.
[4:47] He quickly finds that despite his advantages, he cannot
[4:51] overcome SA OS challenges alone. Teaming up with Asuma, Yuki, and
[4:57] other talented players, Kirito makes an effort to face the
[5:00] seemingly insurmountable trials head on.
[5:03] But with difficult bosses and threatening dark cults impeding
[5:07] his progress, Kirito finds that such tasks are much easier said
[5:12] than done. So what do you think?
[5:14] Are you excited? No.
[5:15] What a like it had me until you said the creator traps everyone
[5:20] in the game. Like what the fuck who cares?
[5:27] Can you like OK, I need to see how it's set up first of all,
[5:30] like how do you go into the world?
[5:32] Is it a headset? Is it a full body suit?
[5:34] You'll. See, you'll see.
[5:35] They'll they'll show that. Can you unplug the computer?
[5:38] You die. Well, catch me unplugging the
[5:40] computer, because that's what I'm going to.
[5:41] Do just fucking end it. Whatever.
[5:45] Jesus. OK.
[5:46] Yeah, no, it's a. Yeah, it's a as you see there, a
[5:50] virtual reality massive multiplayer online role-playing
[5:54] game. Which sounds sick.
[5:55] The RMMORPG. That'd be fun.
[5:58] That's cool. The technology actually seems
[6:01] legit as fuck. OK, I have to see how they're
[6:04] going. It's a little scary because it's
[6:07] like, oh, because of this technology, people are going to
[6:10] die. Apparently it can kill you.
[6:12] Yeah. But at the same time, in real
[6:14] life, I feel like we should test for that and make sure there's
[6:16] safety measures in place. Instead, it's like I just put it
[6:19] out there. So yeah, which honestly?
[6:22] Well, it might be more akin to what's going on.
[6:24] Yeah, that, that might be more like honestly, if you really
[6:26] think about. It this headset?
[6:27] Well, there there's that guy who built that headset that blows up
[6:30] and kills you if you lose at a game.
[6:32] That's insane. No, I didn't know that.
[6:34] Yeah. So he he, he created this.
[6:36] Maybe. That would be fucking crazy if
[6:38] they actually blew up, and that would be wild.
[6:42] Kind of wish they'd committed to that actually.
[6:43] There, there's a, there's a headset.
[6:46] It's there. I think he made one.
[6:48] And then he played it. No, he.
[6:49] Died. No, I don't think anyone's well
[6:51] played it. I mean, I'm just going to give
[6:54] you the experience I have with something similar.
[6:58] Ready Player One OK comes to mind.
[7:01] But yeah, no, I see. I understand how you get there.
[7:03] And that was atrocious. The movie's quite bad.
[7:06] Even the book, Oh my, I've never read the book.
[7:08] Don't, don't read the fucking book.
[7:11] You don't need to read the book because it is worse than the
[7:13] movie. That's.
[7:14] What? What?
[7:15] It is worse than the goddamn movie.
[7:18] Oh God. If it OK, if it's anything like
[7:20] that, then I already know what I'm in for.
[7:22] What if I told you I like the Ready Player 1 movie more than
[7:25] this show? Then that's really bad.
[7:29] That's really bad. You just heard me talk about
[7:32] like Ready Player 1 is not a good movie.
[7:34] The thing about it being a movie is it's like it's a movie.
[7:37] It's like 2 hours, it's over and you're like, OK, yeah, it was a
[7:40] fun concept, Fun 2 hour concept, but a sixth season 3 movie idea.
[7:46] Well, here's the the annoying part about Sword Art.
[7:49] So I'm saying 60s. I think it's only three seasons,
[7:53] but like each season is like cut in half.
[7:55] So like Part 1, which is Sword Art Online is like 10 episodes
[7:59] of 24 in the first season. So the second-half of the season
[8:04] is technically a different part. So I I just consider that.
[8:07] That, that's kind of the thing that I'm noticing with anime, is
[8:10] they don't know how to just die. They don't know how to stop.
[8:13] There's a lot that just straight up.
[8:14] Don't I mean, you know, one one piece doesn't stop, but like at.
[8:18] Least one piece has one continuous like.
[8:20] It's it's still progressing and it's not the same concept.
[8:25] Yeah, 'cause you only have this, this is all you have.
[8:29] No, like, honestly, if the first part of Sword Art Online had
[8:32] been expanded to a full like, like it was just its story and
[8:36] done well. Like done well.
[8:39] Done as well as it could have been.
[8:41] The the concept alone is good. You need good characters still,
[8:45] you need right you, you need more.
[8:48] They quickly kind of abandoned all of their concept.
[8:52] I will say you won't get to. Experience that today.
[8:54] Fantastic. Because we're only going through
[8:55] three episodes. Yeah.
[8:58] Which actually might be the best for you?
[9:00] Because I would say the strongest part of Sword Art
[9:02] Online is the beginning. Will it be better than the solo
[9:05] leveling beginning? Because I fucking hated that.
[9:08] Flip a coin. I really don't know how I give a
[9:12] this is. This is a big problem with not
[9:15] just anime like, you know me, I like zombie stuff.
[9:19] Yeah, zombie stuff. And this is what we were talking
[9:22] about when we watched the entirety of The fucking Walking
[9:25] Dead, which is a bad show, by the way.
[9:28] First season, great. I've only ever seen the 1st.
[9:30] Season, first season's like perfect.
[9:32] No, it's not perfect, but it's great.
[9:33] I I remember it like quite vividly actually, so.
[9:35] Because it's memorable, it's good, yeah.
[9:37] But the problem with zombie shit is like, the best part of zombie
[9:40] shit is the very beginning, where the world goes to hell and
[9:43] then you have to deal with 1020, thirty years in the future when
[9:47] it's just people rebuilding society, and then there's
[9:49] zombies. And a lot of times it devolves
[9:51] into, oh, actually, the zombies aren't that dangerous.
[9:53] It's the people. It's the.
[9:55] People. Yeah, it's.
[9:56] So it's boring. It sucks, and I'll admit that
[10:00] that's a problem with the, you know, kind of.
[10:01] Oh yeah, that's right, there's problems and tons of things.
[10:04] Like that. So with that said, I just feel
[10:06] like it's OK to make things shorter.
[10:09] Yeah, that's fine. That's fine, yeah, but they
[10:11] didn't do that. So with this I told you that
[10:14] it's the gateway to Isakai gateway drug.
[10:17] You know what Isakai means? You told me the other day it's
[10:21] just being transported into another world type.
[10:24] That's all it means, OK. So it's being teleported into
[10:28] another world. Like a lot of times it's like
[10:30] fantasy shit where they like summon the hero from another
[10:32] world to save our world, right? But this one does it through
[10:36] video game mechanics. Oh, OK, that's interesting.
[10:38] Right, Like slightly different take on it, I said.
[10:41] Slightly, I said. Slightly Ghost.
[10:45] There have been other video game ones that have come out since.
[10:50] I've heard a lot of people talk about Log Horizon as basically a
[10:54] much better version of Sao. I've never seen it so I can't
[10:58] speak to it. This is the one I know.
[11:00] I watched it around like 2014. That's old, yeah.
[11:05] That's old at this point. Yeah, I haven't watched it again
[11:08] since. As you can.
[11:10] Imagine I watched the first two seasons, which is technically
[11:13] the first four parts, and I watched the first movie.
[11:16] OK, I've watched a lot of Sao. That's crazy.
[11:19] I will never go back to it. It's not good.
[11:22] Wait, what does Tajin think of SALI?
[11:24] Don't know. I'm gonna, I'm gonna message him
[11:26] right now. I'm just.
[11:27] I just want. I just want his thoughts.
[11:28] We'll. We'll get a Tajin's thoughts
[11:31] throughout the episode. If he says this shit's goaded,
[11:33] I'm going to smack him. We're kicking him off the
[11:36] fucking show. Oh shit, but.
[11:40] Yeah. But no, this is a It's a rather
[11:43] interesting show. Remember how I mentioned the
[11:46] BBP? Yes, that's I don't.
[11:49] Oh my God, is it another bitch nerd?
[11:51] It's that guy right there. That's a bitch nerd right there.
[11:54] Ghost do you know what BBP bland bitch protagonist?
[11:57] Is that OK? Yep, this.
[11:59] This might be the definition. No, like the other guy in solo
[12:06] levelling had nothing going for. This guy is worse.
[12:09] How could it be worse? Oh, it's worse.
[12:12] Get excited for Carito and I don't even think you're going to
[12:17] meet her in. That's fine, I don't care.
[12:21] I'm very fortunate that I only have to watch 3 episodes of
[12:23] these. I'm.
[12:24] I'm counting my blessings. No, no you can't.
[12:27] I will. Refuse We'll we'll start a
[12:29] second podcast. I'll model it after one of my
[12:31] favorites which is anime out of context which is literally 2
[12:35] people like us where you have an anime nerd and a guy who doesn't
[12:37] watch anime and they just do this this.
[12:41] Is a guy who doesn't watch anime fucking hate it?
[12:43] Most of the time there's a couple of shows he likes.
[12:45] OK, I, I'm just going to say a lot of times I'm pretty on board
[12:49] with a lot of his opinions. There's very few times that like
[12:53] I've, there have been times I've disagreed.
[12:55] With him, that's natural. Yeah, yeah.
[12:56] But like, for the most part, I agree.
[12:58] I like there's a show that is on our list that people fucking
[13:02] love. They think it's one of the
[13:03] greatest shows of all time. I think it's dog shit.
[13:05] He it wasn't these two that we're watching right now.
[13:08] No, I'm gonna get that next one. I'm gonna watch.
[13:11] I'm gonna cry. That's that's one where for sure
[13:14] the start of it is by far its strongest part.
[13:17] OK, like by far and away. Yeah.
[13:19] But Are you ready to watch some Sword Art Online carrots?
[13:26] I'm as ready as I'll ever be. The world of Swords.
[13:30] Oh, Yep. So starting with Sword Art
[13:32] Online, we're on Crunchyroll. Dude, I don't know if you can
[13:35] watch this. There's 14 plus, man.
[13:37] There's sexualized imagery, Yeah.
[13:39] Oh, it's like straight up implied like, and I feel like
[13:41] episode like 7 that they have sex in the virtual world and
[13:44] they, they, it's just weird. I I don't know, man.
[13:47] I don't fucking know, man. I didn't write the.
[13:49] Show it's like. I know the name of the guy who
[13:51] wrote Sword Online 'cause he's like, infamous.
[13:54] I bet his name is Ricky. Ricky Ralph.
[13:57] It's like REKKII think, remember it's a translated name.
[14:01] So yeah, it's like. I'm just like you've seen those
[14:05] like. But he's like infamous for his
[14:07] writing style. And apparently actually he did
[14:11] go back because they're light novels and he did go back and
[14:15] actually rewrite Sword Art Online like Part 1 and 2.
[14:20] And people say it's better. I don't believe them.
[14:24] I've seen enough of Ricky's shit to to.
[14:27] I don't believe them. OK, I don't think I would
[14:31] either. Maybe it's better, but it ain't
[14:34] good. Do they like put the goggles on
[14:37] and then they just like, I don't know, do the hand motions?
[14:40] You'll see like it'll show you. Actually, I think it's cool to.
[14:43] No, I mean when they have sex. Oh it it doesn't show it.
[14:46] But how does it function? That's what I want.
[14:48] To know she hits buttons on her thingy and her clothes come off
[14:53] and then she's like. Then do they just like mash
[14:55] their player models together? I don't know man.
[15:00] How how do they feel you'd. Have to read the light novel to
[15:02] find. Out.
[15:03] That's fine. All right, well we are starting
[15:09] with Sword on Online. They clipped into.
[15:11] Each other. The world of Swords.
[15:15] The world of Swords. From 3321 play.
[15:21] Oh shit. It's 2022.
[15:24] Oh yeah, that's right, this was the future in 20. 20 in the
[15:27] future I. Forgot about that.
[15:29] I mean, The thing is that, you know, VR Chat.
[15:34] Yeah, I wish VR was like this. Like I said, it was pretty sick.
[15:37] Yeah, like if technology like this was coming out, I would
[15:40] wait in line for it. Yeah, I would.
[15:43] I would love this shit. God damn.
[15:45] Look at his fucking room and everything.
[15:46] Look at. His PC man that man did he
[15:49] rocking A3 screen setup. That's Jeff the killer.
[15:52] Cut himself. He even cut himself.
[15:54] He's Jeff the killer. Nerve gear, Caiaba, something
[15:59] ghost. Do you remember Kyaba's reason?
[16:01] Yes, you do then. Is Kyaba the creator?
[16:04] Yeah, he created the system in the game.
[16:05] I doubt there's any good reason. Look there, there's your
[16:08] headgear. So it is just headgear?
[16:10] It's headgear you lay in bed fucked to sleep.
[16:12] Does it like put prongs into your brain stem?
[16:15] They'll. Explain it.
[16:17] They they really must just get off on the imagery then.
[16:20] Oh yeah, it's fucking crazy. Welcome to Sword Art Online.
[16:24] The boring ass main menu. I know right?
[16:27] Like we could have gotten creative because hired an artist
[16:29] bro. Hire an artist, you're an anime.
[16:32] Oh shit, he's in the game. Do you like that he looks very
[16:39] different? No, but I knew it was coming.
[16:42] He's. Got to look cooler than he
[16:43] actually. Does.
[16:44] I mean, that's what you do, yeah.
[16:46] Well, I put myself in a video game.
[16:48] I I make myself look cool as shit.
[16:49] Yeah, I don't. Usually I pick the female
[16:51] character because I'm me and I like to run around like that.
[16:54] And I don't want to be a fat fuck.
[16:55] Shut the fuck. Up I So have I ever explained to
[17:00] you why I always pick female characters in games?
[17:02] Because he likes scaring at their butts.
[17:03] No, I like the clothing options way more.
[17:06] They're generally better. Reddit online, all the ladies
[17:09] options are so much better. Are they?
[17:11] Oh yeah, you put like flowers in your hair and shit.
[17:14] Oh yeah, I forgot we're watching.
[17:16] It's everyone's first day. You all just got it.
[17:19] They better have reset the beta testers levels to 0.
[17:22] He's losing to a bore. Floor 1, the town of Beginnings.
[17:25] Look at that. They don't feel pain.
[17:27] He's a fucking SIM. He's got a Plumb Bob.
[17:30] Activate a sword skill with that rock.
[17:32] I. Yeah, no, man, it's just fucking
[17:35] gibberish. It's what this is one of those
[17:37] shows where, oh, if we just say random gibberish from our
[17:41] fucking, you know, world, that means we world build, right?
[17:45] I don't, man. Yeah, I'm not interested in just
[17:48] getting explanations. Wow, look at that, they made a
[17:51] friend already. Nice.
[17:53] You're a fucking. Idiot fucking bore bro.
[17:56] That is cool. I like games like that where
[17:58] they do like you don't actually have to go and be like a
[18:00] fighter, you can just be a blacksmith.
[18:03] In this game, yeah, that'd be pretty sick.
[18:05] There is. Have you seen that big Skyrim
[18:07] mod where, like, the idea is to replace the MPCS with players?
[18:11] So, like, players do just role players.
[18:13] That's fucking awesome. The fucking armors and shit,
[18:15] dude. If I had a better computer, I
[18:17] would do that shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
[18:19] yeah. Pretty world.
[18:21] Yeah. It's pretty.
[18:22] It's pretty. Damn full.
[18:25] Dive. It's called nerve gear.
[18:27] Surely it plugs in your freaking brain.
[18:29] Right, once again, I better like I have something like this that
[18:33] I'm putting on my head. I'm reading those like what's?
[18:36] Going on with it right? Like.
[18:40] It's not like you know me putting a controller in my hands
[18:43] like you're connecting something clearly to your brain through a
[18:48] couple of months to get the floor 8 out of 100.
[18:50] Party game I guess. So if these people can't log
[18:53] out, but they're like stuck on their bed with a headset on, how
[19:00] do they not die from just not eating?
[19:03] Society knows what's going on. Do they feed them?
[19:06] Probably. It's weird.
[19:08] Yeah, what are you supposed to do in this situation?
[19:11] How many people are trapped? A lot.
[19:13] Is it? And it's just the players.
[19:15] Anyone who logged into the game? Yeah.
[19:17] I feel like that problem will solve itself really quick.
[19:21] Hospitals might be a little overrun.
[19:23] I feel like they just wouldn't even there.
[19:24] There would be like people rotting in their apartment.
[19:27] Yeah, like if they lived alone for weeks.
[19:29] Yeah, No, if they live, if you live alone, you're fucked.
[19:32] But it showed he he has someone he lives with.
[19:34] Somebody will know. No, I didn't actually see that.
[19:36] Yeah, like somebody knocks on his doors, like I'm going to
[19:38] practice. OK, that's OK.
[19:40] But like straight up like if you live alone, you just dead.
[19:46] Playing with some guy and they're like, really?
[19:47] They're like limping and dying on the floor.
[19:51] Like what's wrong with you? It's like I haven't eaten.
[19:53] My real life body dying. And I can't unplug.
[19:58] Your brain's still active too, so you'd probably be burning
[20:00] calories like a motherfucker. Yeah, you're you're dying.
[20:03] Yeah, you're fully dying. Oh, no.
[20:06] The reveal. Yep.
[20:07] There is no luck. Oh my God, that's so scary.
[20:12] That's like a creepypasta. I like it.
[20:14] There's a slot for it though. There's a slot, there's just no
[20:17] text. Have you tried pushing it?
[20:19] Yeah, like press the button. Just because there's no text
[20:22] doesn't mean it won't work. Oh, sour Jelly beans.
[20:25] Jelly bellies. I love sour Jelly beans.
[20:30] There's a bowl of candy still a that's the only way to log out.
[20:34] It it has to like shut down your body so you can't like it puts
[20:39] your like it paralyzes you. Yeah.
[20:41] So you can't just. What?
[20:43] Yep, you you can't move. Oh shit, I'm sorry.
[20:50] Oh, we can't. Move our real bodies.
[20:53] The nerve gear intercepts anything we tell our bodies to
[20:57] do that's. Yeah, I wouldn't use that.
[20:59] Actually, I would read the fucking fine print.
[21:01] Me and you will be like, I'm not putting this shit on.
[21:04] Oh, it disables you? Dang, those are good.
[21:07] Klein lives alone. That guy's dead.
[21:10] He's dead. Does he die?
[21:11] No, then fuck this shit. It's not real.
[21:18] Did you feel that? Wow, how boring.
[21:22] Why don't you think it's a bug? Yeah, like I would just
[21:24] immediately be like, Oh yeah, there, it's a bug happens.
[21:27] Look, you got to. It takes time to report.
[21:29] Yeah, guess what's happening. Announcement time, right?
[21:34] That was commercial break. I I assumed this is back when
[21:37] shows were still made for commercials.
[21:40] It's like one of those two where like I'm looking around in the
[21:42] background because I now know more people.
[21:44] You didn't even fucking slide them into the background like
[21:48] everyone hears a random motherfucker.
[21:51] Oh shit, oh God. This guy's a little dramatic,
[21:56] ain't he? Just.
[21:56] A little bit you course. Classic, right?
[22:03] Got to have a mysterious entity. Yeah, man, like Ready Player 1.
[22:08] I told you, you made a pretty good comparison, I'm not going
[22:11] to lie. I mean, it's AVR world, you
[22:13] know, except that one is more grounded.
[22:17] Weird to say, right? Yeah.
[22:19] Look, it's the guy who created the game.
[22:21] You have to understand these 80s references to escape the game.
[22:26] This is not a defect. I just really want to kill all
[22:29] of you. Yeah.
[22:31] What do you mean? Should this be attempted
[22:36] literally frying people's brains?
[22:38] Bro that's hilarious. Like if his motives were just to
[22:41] be funny that that'd be awesome because like, why else would you
[22:46] do this? I'll tell you once again when
[22:48] we're done recording because I know you're not going to watch
[22:50] this either. Don't worry, I'm not really
[22:52] watching this shit either so you can't unplug it either.
[22:55] But it'll never run out of charge.
[22:56] I guess I don't. So here's the thing about Ricky,
[23:00] I don't think he's ever picked up a video game in his life.
[23:03] Apparently not. Multiple victims.
[23:07] So I read that online. Oh he removed all the revival
[23:14] like mechanics too. What a Dick.
[23:16] Except for that one that's needed in that one episode.
[23:19] Oh good, so they did the thing. Yeah, that sort out online did.
[23:22] Oh no. Could you imagine death if you
[23:26] got killed by a boar and you died in real life?
[23:31] Boars are mean, to be fair. They will kill you but it's a
[23:34] low level enemy here. Do you have to do this?
[23:39] Do you have to clear 100 floors? Yes.
[23:41] Based on what he's saying, yes. Yeah.
[23:43] OK. So you have to clear 100 floors
[23:44] to escape, right? Yeah.
[23:45] Do you have to do any of the missions at all because you just
[23:48] hang around? Nope.
[23:49] You could just hang around, you don't have to.
[23:51] Participate. That's what I'm going to do.
[23:53] Well, that's why they're shit like blacksmithing and shit.
[23:55] Yeah, the blacksmiths are like hell yeah, OK, whatever.
[23:58] A mirror, but I made myself hot. Wait, wait, what is it doing?
[24:04] You're not hot no more, now you a bitch.
[24:06] Does it just make them look like how they look?
[24:08] Yep, lots of fuck. Wait, you're actually a bitch
[24:12] nerd? I don't want to hang out with
[24:13] you anymore. You're a guy.
[24:15] That one's funny. This this was just for that gag.
[24:21] Yeah, that was the only reason to do that.
[24:24] Yes. Why are you grasping your
[24:26] headset? You can't do that.
[24:27] I thought your body shut down. Oh, my God.
[24:30] It's a good thing the two guys we were hanging out with look
[24:33] pretty much the same. I'm sure he'll tell us.
[24:36] He'll tell us his motives. Right now, you're probably
[24:39] wondering why. God has Tasian responded yet?
[24:42] I don't think so. He's an evil game developer.
[24:46] Oh God. That's the scariest thing I've
[24:49] ever heard of. Honestly still better than some
[24:51] game developers who were just there to make billions off of
[24:54] microtransactions. I might prefer this actually,
[24:56] now that you mention it. Like, yeah, no, like if if I
[24:59] wasn't like confident in my ability to fight in this game,
[25:02] I'd be like, fuck it, I guess. I'm like running like the fruit
[25:04] stand. Yeah.
[25:06] Like I'm a farmer now, bitch you.
[25:08] Have one of two choices, yeah. Also, this crowd doesn't show
[25:11] something. There are children here, like
[25:14] parents who bought the gear for their kids.
[25:16] They're all going to die. Those kids are going to die and.
[25:18] I imagine somewhere in here without their parents.
[25:20] Yeah. Holy shit, I saw an important
[25:22] character. Oh wow, I saw two important.
[25:25] Characters. Three, you notice something
[25:28] about all of them, Dylan. They're all the same.
[25:31] They're all women. Oh, yeah.
[25:33] Because Kerry. Because Kerry knows the best.
[25:36] So everyone's going to be in love with this man, right?
[25:40] This is so anime. Yeah, no, it's bad, I said.
[25:43] This set the this set the groundwork for like a decade's
[25:46] worth of anime. That's upsetting.
[25:48] It's very upsetting. There's a reason like I'm not
[25:51] gonna lie, 2011 is in my like might be the worst year of anime
[25:54] ever. It's a bad year.
[25:55] I. Had no idea I I skipped it all.
[25:59] But then again they had Jojo's that year.
[26:01] The re reintroduct like the new anime version of Jojo's because
[26:04] there was an older one. Was that the one I saw?
[26:07] Yeah, OK. That, that, that one started in
[26:09] 2011, but that that was like the second like attempt at Jojo's.
[26:15] The first one was like in the 90s.
[26:18] She can. Damn all these guys are his
[26:20] buds. Klein's actually probably the
[26:22] best character. That redhead dude, right?
[26:24] Yeah, he's like, actually here, like for his friends and shit.
[26:28] He's going to look out for people.
[26:30] How can you cheer for this guy he's already abandoning like the
[26:33] one friend he made, right? Yep.
[26:35] Like immediately, I don't want to cheer for you.
[26:38] He's just, he's just a bitch nerd.
[26:41] What? He's gay?
[26:43] His face looks exactly the same. It's yeah, Klein didn't.
[26:46] Change like what the fuck? Klein looks exactly the same.
[26:48] His hair is no longer long and straight.
[26:51] It's whatever. Also it's like a world where
[26:54] like there's like limited like item drops and shit too.
[26:56] Yeah, so that's why he wants to get to the next town fast.
[26:59] Can't farm. You can look farm like enemies
[27:02] for like experience and stuff but like items, no.
[27:04] Can't farm for items. I hope he dies right here,
[27:07] please. Yeah, but that, that's why he
[27:08] wants to get to the next town so fast 'cause he's he's basically
[27:11] using his knowledge as a beta tester to get ahead.
[27:14] So he's a piece of shit. He's another chosen 1.
[27:17] Yeah, good job you figured it out.
[27:19] God damn it, I I can't say I'm quite as as annoyed with him as
[27:25] I was the other guy quite yet, but I'm sure he's going to get
[27:28] there. Look at this ending.
[27:30] But this, this guy has the excuse that he could level up or
[27:34] or some shit. The last I was sold a false bill
[27:40] of goods. Last time you can't level up.
[27:42] Except now you can. Well, just him.
[27:46] And just him. Yeah.
[27:49] So I don't know if we'll get there.
[27:52] It's a cool monster. Some of the monster designs
[27:54] aren't bad actually. Once again, it looks.
[27:56] Pretty. But as we've discussed at length
[28:01] our last episode, that is not enough.
[28:04] I don't know what you're saying. Ghost.
[28:06] Oh, the ending song. Yeah, this song is like super
[28:08] famous. There's also weird ass romantic
[28:10] elements as you can tell. Yeah, I don't know who that is.
[28:13] You won't get to meet her. That's fine.
[28:15] Oh, oh, oh, those are all the people dying.
[28:18] Yep, the game's first month, 2000, died.
[28:23] Floor 1 is yet to be cleared. It's like dude, beater is next
[28:28] beater. Yeah.
[28:29] So how'd you like episode 1 of a classic?
[28:34] Set up an entire genre? All Lisa Kai's kind of modeled
[28:38] after this one to an extent. It's just so Japanese to freak
[28:45] out like that over this. I just.
[28:47] This is worldwide. This is happening bro.
[28:49] Just just state the concept in a sentence.
[28:55] You join an online game but they take the log out button away and
[28:59] you dive in real life if you die of the game.
[29:02] Yeah. There you go, figured it out.
[29:04] But the end is in the first month 2000 died.
[29:10] Well, yeah, and they didn't even clear the first level.
[29:12] They're going to clear 100. Don't you see the stakes?
[29:15] No, what are you? Saying rate this oh.
[29:19] Racist. You are racist against fish
[29:21] people. What am I?
[29:23] Am I? Is it Japanese people that I'm
[29:24] racist against? Is that what you're saying?
[29:28] I'm racist against? Gamers?
[29:30] They. Know you're hating on yourself.
[29:32] Well, yeah, I do, but I just, again, it's like a creepypasta.
[29:39] Yeah. What if you want to do the game
[29:41] where the logout button went away?
[29:44] That shit's funny. It's not ominous, no.
[29:47] It's it's terrifying. No, it's not stakes.
[29:50] There's none. How?
[29:51] Do you see why I get so mad when people are like, nobody dies in
[29:54] one piece so there's no stakes? Sometimes death is still not
[29:57] stakes. Yeah, honestly, no, you're right
[29:59] about that. You're absolutely right.
[30:01] I had no idea that there could be less stakes with death
[30:05] involved. It's absurd, right?
[30:09] If I read that online, I would laugh.
[30:15] Like I am now. Yes, 2000 people died.
[30:19] Log out button was deleted. Jesus.
[30:23] You go with of those 2000, you know, probably most of them.
[30:26] Hunger, starvation, dehydration. Man, some some people probably
[30:30] didn't drink no water before they logged in.
[30:32] Couldn't get to the door to get my pizza cause fucking guy took
[30:36] the log out button away right then and there.
[30:38] Bitch, right when my pizza was arriving.
[30:40] Don't you hate it when that happens?
[30:42] I don't know what the ghost is saying still.
[30:44] I don't. He's racist.
[30:45] You're racist. Can you explain further?
[30:47] Can you elaborate? No, the ghost will not.
[30:50] Elaborate. I think it's because I'm racist
[30:52] towards gamers or Japanese people.
[30:54] I can't really tell. I don't know.
[30:56] I don't know what you're saying. I'm sorry.
[30:57] Yeah. We'll discuss it later.
[30:59] Yeah, yeah, that is episode 1 of Sword Art Online, a beloved
[31:06] anime from 2011. I can't see it, I'm sorry.
[31:10] Look, I how old was I in 2011? Was 131213.
[31:16] So you want to know some crazy? I like some bad shit, I don't
[31:18] know what. My first year after I moved out
[31:21] of my parents house and I could finally like watch shows you
[31:25] know? This was not it, was it?
[31:27] This was one of the first shows I watched because I heard so
[31:29] much hype around it. So I watched it.
[31:32] I was like oh it must be good right?
[31:33] People are hyping it up hence why I also watched so much is I
[31:38] was like it must get better. It didn't get.
[31:41] Better it did not. You fuckers lied to me and then
[31:47] you know I was like, oh this must be standard for like good
[31:49] television only to slowly watch those walls breakdown.
[31:54] This is standard for anime, no? It's definitely not.
[31:57] Actually this is. Just this is to find a whole
[32:00] genre it. Really did and it's one of the
[32:03] worst genres out there. I told you there's like maybe 2
[32:07] shows in that genre that I like and that's that Time I Got
[32:10] Reincarnated as a Slime and RE0. Those are bad I guess.
[32:14] I don't think they go oh the ghost likes that time I got
[32:16] reincarnated as a spider. That was a gag 1.
[32:19] I feel like that's the only kind of anime you can make anymore or
[32:22] gag ones. There is one gag one on our
[32:25] list. I, I kind of want to see that.
[32:26] Oh, it's. It's I'm, I'm excited, OK, top
[32:29] tier. Top tier.
[32:30] I feel like that's the only way to enjoy anime too.
[32:33] So a lot of my favorite anime are gag anime.
[32:36] It's taking the piss. Nietzsche, Joe I fucking love
[32:39] Nietzsche Joe. That shit's so funny.
[32:41] I think I said it last time too. Like the only way this could
[32:43] work is if they were taking the piss out of it, but it's so
[32:47] serious. No, it's so fucking serious.
[32:49] 2000 people died the first month.
[32:52] You've realized the the issue already with a lot of anime, and
[32:55] not every anime has this issue, right?
[32:58] Yeah, but there are many that take themselves way more serious
[33:03] than they need to. They they don't understand that.
[33:07] Like you can't just be at 100 the whole time.
[33:11] You need to have variation. If you're just at 100 the whole
[33:14] time, I'm like, OK, everything's always bad, OK?
[33:18] Yeah. You need to have some like, OK,
[33:20] we're here's some like, here's some low stakes for this moment,
[33:24] right here's some medium stakes. You need different levels.
[33:28] It can't always be 100. Sword Art Online, unfortunately,
[33:32] comes from the aspect of everything's always at 100.
[33:37] I'm like why? Yeah, I already, I don't care.
[33:40] I already don't care. You ready for Episode 2?
[33:43] No. Titled Beater.
[33:46] Beater Is this the sex episode? No.
[33:49] No, that's like 7. Seven.
[33:52] Oh my God, that's soon. Yeah, OK.
[33:59] It's it takes them like a month to clear the first level.
[34:02] They're going to be at like level 40 by like month 3.
[34:06] It don't make no fucking sense bro.
[34:08] Jesus Christ. It don't make no fucking sense.
[34:12] All right, well, episode 3 titled beater it's. 2.
[34:16] It's episode 2, I want it to be over.
[34:20] I'm struggling. Titled beater from 3321 play.
[34:28] Ah, that's always how we imagine video games to look, right?
[34:33] It does. Remind me of a Spider Man game
[34:36] where they have like the tutorial section.
[34:38] Oh, December 2nd, that's one more thing. 20/22/22 I turned
[34:43] 24. Is that right?
[34:45] Yeah, yeah. I.
[34:47] Found the boss room. Oh my God.
[34:50] All right, so this is the first floor, right?
[34:52] This. So to move to the second floor,
[34:54] you have to defeat the boss of the first floor.
[34:56] So it's really you don't even have to fight other shit on the
[34:58] floor, you just fight the boss. So every player should just be
[35:03] like, all right, let's, let's fucking.
[35:05] Rate it. Yeah.
[35:06] Aren't you excited for when he gets his all black edgy outfit?
[35:09] No, he already looks like Jeff the Killer.
[35:13] Wish I knew who that was. You keep saying it goes to put a
[35:17] finger up like it's going to show me or something.
[35:20] Surely like you've seen the pictures?
[35:22] I'm certain I have, I just don't know who it is.
[35:25] But like if you have. I don't know if you've read the
[35:27] creepypasta, but I've. Never read a.
[35:29] Creepypasta. I bet that motherfucker would
[35:30] act just like him. Oh no, you will get to meet her.
[35:35] Oh. Barely.
[35:37] There's a lot of women. Yeah, I think Becky's
[35:41] personality is just like our main character.
[35:43] I fucking bet I do this. Is what he wants for himself.
[35:47] There he is. Oh, he's creepy.
[35:48] I don't like him. You know, you know the funny,
[35:51] Yeah. The funny thing is that that
[35:54] used to scare the shit out of me because I was 10.
[35:59] Like, I would be sleeping at night and then, like, the image
[36:02] would flash in my eyelids and I go, oh, fuck.
[36:06] Like now I can look at it and be like, Oh yeah, yeah, damn,
[36:09] that's a pretty boy right there. I remember now they look like
[36:12] they do in real life. This dude's actually.
[36:14] Dude just actually looks like that.
[36:18] That's not, that's not no character creator.
[36:21] That's just the guy. He's got blue eyes, eyes too.
[36:25] This motherfucker's not playing this game.
[36:28] He's. Too good.
[36:29] Looking to be a gamer? Dude, there's me on the top
[36:33] left. I'm the one giving the speech.
[36:35] Come on, I have blue hair. Not like that.
[36:38] I know I don't. He's fucking gorgeous.
[36:40] Don't have blue eyes either. I don't.
[36:42] You don't have nothing on that fucking guy.
[36:43] Blue eyes, they like him. He's like, I ain't got no
[36:47] friends. And this fucker is our main
[36:53] character. It's the same thing with the
[36:55] solo levelling guy. Like it's made for people that.
[37:00] It's self inserts, yes. Yeah, it's self inserts.
[37:03] But they're really shitty self inserts.
[37:05] Well that's like. That's why I call them bland
[37:06] bitch protagonists. They're so bland that anyone
[37:10] could self insert if you. But they can't.
[37:13] They really can't. Exactly, the the idea is
[37:15] supposed to be that they're so bland they don't have any
[37:18] characterization so anyone could bond with them but it doesn't
[37:21] work. Why is her name written in
[37:23] fucking like English? His was in fucking Japanese.
[37:28] Was it not with English characters?
[37:30] No, his was not. Oh.
[37:32] I don't fucking know. That's Kibao.
[37:35] I definitely remember this guy taking care.
[37:39] What the fuck? You died.
[37:41] Oh my God. You can die in Sardi Valley.
[37:43] Yeah. Oh wow.
[37:45] This guy's got a Fairpoint. All the beta testers like, Like
[37:48] I said, they ran off and took all the good shit right away.
[37:50] Like during the beta test. No, like when the game.
[37:53] Sorry. Remember how Kirito ran to that
[37:55] town by himself to take the good shit, man?
[37:58] Oh, he's conflicted about it. Are you about to shit yourself
[38:01] dude? That guy also just.
[38:03] This guy is ginormous. And that guy is just ginormous.
[38:08] This guy's got a cool head on him.
[38:10] And they said like most of them were beta testers that died
[38:13] right or no? No, I didn't say that.
[38:14] No. Of the 2000.
[38:15] That died. They just, they just fucked off.
[38:18] Yeah, the the beta testers went to the good places first.
[38:21] This guy, he was just trying to get free shit right back to the
[38:24] pretty boy. All right, he might be why this
[38:27] series took off. Just him.
[38:29] Yeah. It's a good thing that I
[38:30] remember this guy very, very much.
[38:33] No. Like the beta testers made it to
[38:36] floor 8. I'm just saying, right?
[38:38] That's at least fucking 7 bosses.
[38:41] Yeah. This dude seems like it might be
[38:42] a good leader. He's.
[38:43] Going to die, isn't he? Might it's kind of setting him
[38:47] up that way? Huh.
[38:47] Yeah. That there's a lot of death
[38:49] flags going off around. That girl accepted my friend
[38:53] request. She did.
[38:55] She did. Ah yes, the the drink with the
[39:00] hooked arms. We're doing that tonight at at
[39:02] Trivia Dylan. OK, I'm going to go around
[39:07] talking about how we're trapped in a video game.
[39:09] You. Get to turn into one of those
[39:11] conspiracy theorists, yeah. Is that the one?
[39:14] We Yeah, I just forgot that she's even involved in this
[39:16] part. We're doing great, aren't we?
[39:21] Yep. That's how memorable this series
[39:24] is to me. Do they taste the food they're
[39:26] eating? Apparently.
[39:28] Yep. Oh don't worry though, watch how
[39:30] they can put like condiments and shit on it.
[39:33] It's so fucking stupid. What the fuck?
[39:40] What's the point? Oh wow, cream, it must have been
[39:46] delicious. So she can still be herself.
[39:50] She's pissing me off. Welcome to every fucking
[39:56] character in this fucking show. Huh.
[40:00] What ghost shit? This one's so important.
[40:04] We're getting we're getting typed out message.
[40:06] We got to make sure we hear it. God damn, shut the hell.
[40:15] Up. I don't know if the mics will
[40:17] have picked that up, but if they did, it's.
[40:19] Gonna They fucking did it. I guarantee it.
[40:23] Yeah, if hating her makes me a misogynist, then call me a
[40:27] misogynist. I hate women.
[40:31] Don't worry there, I'm pretty sure there's an entire like
[40:33] group of like feminists that hate her for the damage she has
[40:38] done to feminism. Just listen to her talk.
[40:44] Nobody found this room for a month.
[40:48] It's kind of looks like the doorway to the fucking place and
[40:51] Solo leveling. Yeah, there's a lot of it.
[40:54] Look at the fucking room. Yep.
[40:56] It's almost like there's a theme here or something.
[40:59] There's a giant at the end of the room.
[41:02] With glowing eyes. Is this a puzzle dungeon?
[41:05] Oh never mind. No, he's just getting right to
[41:07] it. I don't know, I just saw so
[41:11] fucking leveling dude. I was like, I actually don't
[41:14] know which is worse. That's the worst part.
[41:18] You guys are never going to survive.
[41:19] There was only three of those little fuckers, now there's like
[41:22] 10. I don't know how, I don't know
[41:24] how it works. That's like the first attack
[41:28] she's fucking made. Dude, calm down.
[41:30] Oh, it's implied they've been fighting for a while.
[41:33] I don't know like well. Still the first attack we've
[41:36] seen. Yeah, no it.
[41:37] Was an attack. Yeah, that's it.
[41:41] He's almost health, health bar. He switches weapons.
[41:44] That's. Like way too late for the
[41:47] fucking boss to switch it. Should have been like the full
[41:49] last bar, right? Yes, if anything, yeah.
[41:53] Oh damn, he made everyone else do all the damage so he can do
[41:57] the last the. Final hit.
[41:58] Remember how he said the person who gets like the final shit get
[42:01] some like all the X like their group gets the XP and shit?
[42:05] He fucking dies. Get one shot.
[42:08] Get one shot it. Wasn't one, at least.
[42:12] Yeah. Oh, they got don't heal me.
[42:17] They got hell potions, aren't they so fucking dramatic?
[42:23] Why is no monster attacking him? The last attack bonus rare item?
[42:27] What? But don't heal me though.
[42:30] Did people cry when they saw this?
[42:32] I bet somebody did. I didn't.
[42:34] Saw him did. No.
[42:38] Can't take the shit seriously, no shit even for a second, and
[42:43] this is ruining it's odds of that ever happening. 1 episode,
[42:48] one single episode. Yeah, and we're spending all
[42:50] this fucking time talking about him.
[42:52] Yeah, he's very important. 5 minutes.
[42:56] Don't worry though, the whole group couldn't do it.
[42:58] But these two, right? Oh shit, it's a girl.
[43:02] I didn't know that until just now.
[43:05] Shut up dude. Oh my fucking God.
[43:10] The sparkles is great, a great addition too, right?
[43:13] Me when I see a woman. Why didn't you let her do that?
[43:19] He he's got a protecto now, asshole.
[43:23] Hey I that guy is far more interesting.
[43:26] I told you I've seen him also for less the time than the other
[43:30] fucking guy. I thought it's.
[43:33] I think him and Klein were the 2 characters who I remembered the
[43:36] most. Actually, fuck our protagonist.
[43:39] Yeah, he wants the fucking sword.
[43:42] I like everyone else just standing around watching.
[43:47] How'd you like the last slice? Had to make it an epic scream
[43:50] slice. I've taken shits louder than
[43:52] that. This is actually so boring.
[43:59] Yeah, this might be the most boring thing I've seen.
[44:03] It's pretty bad. Oh, the code of midnight.
[44:06] I don't want to see what I don't want to see it.
[44:09] On oh, look at that, everyone's cheering for him.
[44:11] Turns out it did a good job. Cool.
[44:13] But don't worry, we can't have that forever.
[44:17] I didn't. That bitch rejected my healing
[44:19] potion. I couldn't shove it down his
[44:21] throat. Why you guys got a problem with
[44:23] beta testers? They're honestly their only
[44:25] hope. I don't know.
[44:27] It's not. There's no unfair advantage.
[44:30] No, none. I don't understand what the
[44:32] problem is because they went and took the good stuff.
[44:36] Yeah, that XC is kind of shitty. But there's beta testers.
[44:40] Here fighting the boss. You just got XP cause of him.
[44:45] This is so stupid. He's doing the laugh.
[44:48] He's, he's being the edge Lord. This is actually really hard to
[44:53] watch now. It's very bad.
[44:55] We're only on episode 2, Sir for.
[44:57] Fuck's sake, cool dude can play. Is there PvP?
[45:01] Yes. This is the moment where you put
[45:03] a sword through his head. Cheater.
[45:06] A cheater. He just was a guy who made it
[45:09] further than everyone. There you go.
[45:10] That's how you get the word beater.
[45:12] Title of the episode. Beta tester cheater.
[45:14] Yeah, a beater. Here's your cloak of midnight.
[45:19] Please turn this off. We got one more to go, bitch.
[45:23] Oh. For fuck's sake, it says your
[45:28] name when I get your friend. You know when I sent you a phone
[45:32] request it put your name there. I never seen anyone's name.
[45:37] I guess not. No, don't worry, she's a ditzy
[45:40] girl who's just interested in him.
[45:46] There's a limit to what you can do as a solo player.
[45:48] But don't worry, I'm built different.
[45:51] How'd you like is I'm built different?
[45:52] So we liking it? You're giving me so many pissed
[45:57] off faces. He's actually worse than the
[45:59] solo leveling guy. Oh.
[46:00] No, he's fucking horrible. He just broke the boundary of
[46:03] being more of a bland bitch. I didn't know it was possible to
[46:07] go deeper. It's.
[46:09] Bad dude, I said this set the stage for like the next like
[46:13] decade worth of fucking Isa guy. All the main characters for the
[46:16] most part are like him. This also influenced many other
[46:20] jurors children. Oh God.
[46:23] I'm very sorry if you watch this and thought hell yeah that guy
[46:30] is the sickest. Oh, he's so cool.
[46:32] He's so edgy. Like that, there's just, yeah,
[46:35] 'cause there's just so much better out there.
[46:36] Oh, there's way better out there.
[46:38] No, this is the. This is the best there is.
[46:40] This is. The pinnacle right here.
[46:42] Kirito is the pinnacle. That's the pinnacle right there.
[46:47] Wow. That's the next episode of
[46:49] fucking shit so. It's been almost, it's been half
[46:57] a year this episode now, just in April.
[47:01] Yeah, can't wait for you to find out more, but we're not there
[47:04] yet. You got to tell me which thought
[47:05] of episode 2. That that broke it.
[47:08] That was bad that. Broke it.
[47:10] Was like a. Monster.
[47:11] It did a couple things. That's the most boring thing
[47:16] I've ever seen. How do you like to reveal that
[47:18] she was a girl the whole time? I did.
[47:21] You know what? That was pretty good 'cause I
[47:23] didn't know she was a girl until the monster sliced her hood off
[47:27] and now she's like a a cutie. Whatever.
[47:31] Wow. Wow.
[47:33] I bet that blew a lot of mines. And now he's going to wear his
[47:36] black cloak and be Mr. Edgy Cool guy who solos everything because
[47:43] you know he's a beater. Well, he's a beater, all right.
[47:49] A beater is something probably he's probably beatering right
[47:56] now. I hate this fucking show so
[48:00] much. It's really bad.
[48:02] I fucking it's horrible. So low leveling.
[48:07] All the all the little crumbs were there and all together it
[48:12] made a bad thing. Yeah, this.
[48:14] It made me laugh right off the bat.
[48:16] I couldn't take it seriously, but I wasn't like, it's not that
[48:19] bad because it's not like breaking any crucial rules that
[48:24] it's set up in the beginning. It's just power fantasy.
[48:28] Yeah. And then second episode it fully
[48:31] realizes that and it's shit. So that that that statement
[48:35] right there power fantasy that is so much of what this caused
[48:41] so many series after Sword Art Online came out are just power
[48:46] fan so fucking. It's.
[48:48] Boring. It's terrible, there's nothing
[48:50] to it. Solo levelling is a power
[48:52] fantasy. Yes, absolutely.
[48:55] I can't stand power fantasies. There's certain aspects to them
[48:58] that can be fun. I told you that.
[48:59] Reincarnated Asylum, it's a power fantasy.
[49:02] But it's a power fantasy that's less about our character being
[49:05] stronger than everyone than it is about our character creating
[49:08] a Society of monsters equal to humans.
[49:12] The political aspects are more important.
[49:14] That's interesting. Can you back it up?
[49:17] Sometimes with power. OK, fair enough.
[49:19] Right. Put in.
[49:21] This This, though, is absolutely atrocious.
[49:25] There's nothing there, right? There's nothing to it.
[49:28] There is no substance like what? Like both of the.
[49:32] Characters we were just watching, like, switched into
[49:35] different characters at the end of the episode.
[49:38] At the end of the episode, like, he was like kind of a bitch nerd
[49:41] but had information. But now he's the coolest mother
[49:44] fucker. Yeah, and don't worry, she was
[49:46] this mysterious. But like kind of powerful
[49:48] person, no longer now she's the cutesy gal no longer she's.
[49:53] I think she actually might be the strongest person.
[49:55] In the series canonically, but but she's not mysterious.
[49:58] No to. Drop that real quick.
[50:00] I also don't think she is currently.
[50:02] Like it's like where I got where I left left off on the series is
[50:06] where she was considered like the strongest.
[50:09] You know? This reminds me of I need.
[50:11] To take a piss. Why?
[50:12] Because I just watched that. That's fair.
[50:14] And I need to get it. I need to get it out of my
[50:17] system somehow. While I'm away.
[50:20] Talk about how much you left Sword.
[50:21] I don't know. So everything great about sword?
[50:24] Online, the guns, what I know Ghosty doesn't know.
[50:34] He doesn't fucking know. That truly is the best arc in
[50:37] the fucking, which is fucking horrible because it's a really
[50:40] bad arc 2 out of 10, but that's just because everything else is
[50:43] a one. That's the worst part.
[50:47] The guns and the lightsaber. It's fucking horrible.
[50:52] Holy shit. Hey, I'm dying of laughter here.
[50:56] I did the guns. There was Gunnar Online.
[50:59] Close. Part three, you're.
[51:02] Going to have to make it to Part 3.
[51:03] Bro OK is it like Wild West? Or they just have guns.
[51:06] It's a Wild West. That's not enough.
[51:09] Let me. Let me show you that's not.
[51:11] Enough. Let me show you.
[51:13] I'm still reeling. From.
[51:15] No daddy the father in the live action, so not even in the
[51:19] fucking background. There's that guy.
[51:21] Just. He's as bland as the.
[51:23] Fucking main character. Yeah, you figured it out.
[51:27] Good job, God, what are you? Making me do watch influential
[51:32] in me. And suffer through it.
[51:35] Unfortunately, I have to suffer with you.
[51:37] It's the only the only thing I got.
[51:39] Going for me. I'm like about to start crying.
[51:42] I'm hurting myself. Are you ready though for episode
[51:46] 3 Red Nose Reindeer? Yeah, reindeer.
[51:51] What the fuck is is I? I'm like Rudolph.
[51:55] Is he going to say that? I don't remember.
[51:57] I'm not going to lie. This reminds me of Rudolph, OH.
[52:00] My God, episode 936 don't mean anything.
[52:04] OK, Yeah. So you ready?
[52:07] Yes, all righty. We are on episode 3.
[52:10] Red Nosed Reindeer from 332 One play.
[52:16] Yep. April Lace.
[52:18] It's a new crew he's hanging out with.
[52:20] New crew. Why is he being?
[52:22] A little bitch again. Because he's always been a
[52:24] little bitch. You can't just not be a little
[52:27] bitch. Do you think?
[52:28] Do you think that girl accepted his?
[52:30] Friend request No, he says he's level 20 or so.
[52:35] Bitch is level you fucking well. How can they not see that
[52:38] information well? Because they're not actually
[52:40] connected yet. They haven't accepted each
[52:42] other's requests. What can you just you can see
[52:44] everyone's level. In every game ever.
[52:46] Yeah, once again, I don't think Recky's ever.
[52:48] Played a game, this is stupid. Recky has never.
[52:50] Touched a video game in his. Life this is, this is.
[52:53] I've perceived this show as how a guy who has never played video
[52:58] games has no interest in video games, thinks video games work.
[53:02] Yeah, if she's. That scared she should have
[53:06] stayed. In the first town once again, go
[53:08] go, go sell fucking fruit. Yeah, it's foods needed, right?
[53:12] They clearly have to eat. Clearly, always.
[53:15] Joining a group. I don't think we stay with these
[53:18] guys very long. Really.
[53:19] What gives you that there's? Planned.
[53:21] They're fucking planned. They look so generic.
[53:27] I think the only one and there that like we see her in the
[53:31] opening, right. Well, here's the opening.
[53:32] Let's see but the opening. Only shows him and then all
[53:35] women to be fair. Let's see, is there another guy?
[53:40] I bet Klein shows up in the opening.
[53:42] I think it's like the first. Half all the women and then the
[53:46] second-half all the guys. There's probably some guys in
[53:49] that. Nevermind.
[53:50] There you might. See a couple guys in there, some
[53:54] monsters. It's cool.
[53:55] That you never see, by the way, we don't see that fucking guy.
[53:58] You might see that. One OK, I want them to.
[54:00] Fight some. Undead.
[54:02] That's like fuck you, you don't get to see that.
[54:03] That's classic Nah. Fuck God damn.
[54:05] Mabel Fantasy. Enemy.
[54:07] Girl girl, girl girl girl, rapid fire all climb.
[54:14] There he is. Oh, look at that.
[54:15] We have three men, all right? It's pretty even.
[54:18] Four to three. Yeah.
[54:19] Those are all the girls that didn't accept his friend.
[54:21] Requests. It's straight up girl, girl,
[54:24] girl, girl. Girl, girl, girl, they all love
[54:27] him. Wow, he's so powerful.
[54:32] Oh yeah, they're on floor 20. In May.
[54:35] OK, Yeah, I told you. It makes no sense it.
[54:37] Took him a month to finish the first floor, then like 5 months
[54:41] later you're going to tell me they're at 20?
[54:43] Skyrim Wine. The lead group made it to Floor
[54:46] 28. Level floor.
[54:48] Oh, Floor. 28 I said 428 he he did say level 28 it should.
[54:52] Say it's the same shit. Is that Nike?
[54:55] This. Guy is so bland.
[54:57] They're all bland. He's like particular, like not
[55:00] clearly. Look at that guy.
[55:01] He's like nothing special. Like at least that guy, you
[55:03] know, he got the like yellow kind of cloak on.
[55:05] The guy's got the weird hat. It's a big platter of.
[55:08] Nothing burgers yeah, also if this game clearly.
[55:12] Has people from all over the world does it just like have a
[55:13] language translator in it? Just got to assume I guess.
[55:17] I mean, the technology's there, I guess.
[55:20] Level 48 who? Gary Toys Level 48.
[55:24] Why was the shot? Weird, because it was his like
[55:26] HUD. What what I do this time?
[55:31] Oh, look at them. They're like a little family.
[55:34] Of blandness, this family I don't.
[55:37] Care at all about? Don't worry, the series doesn't
[55:40] either. It's your boy.
[55:43] Look at how. Look at how strong he is now.
[55:45] Yeah, look at that. See, that's the character.
[55:47] I can believe is. Getting stronger, their best
[55:50] character. I wouldn't say he's good.
[55:52] I almost said good. I almost said good.
[55:56] He's not good. He's the best character.
[55:58] That's so sad. Why are you acting so fucking
[56:02] weird? Klein's like you were still a
[56:04] bitch. Wow, that guy really is a bitch.
[56:07] You got mail, you can just. Track her.
[56:09] Why didn't they do that? This is bullshit, yeah.
[56:13] I told you it's literally like if.
[56:14] Somebody who has never played a video game in their life made a
[56:18] fucking show about video games. Clearly they don't understand
[56:21] anything. Let's abandoned our friends.
[56:27] What are you gonna do just. You and me, my love.
[56:31] Good Lord. This chick is OK with suicide.
[56:35] I'm pretty sure that was explained to you on day one,
[56:38] right? Yeah, yeah, there.
[56:41] He's summing up the fucking series right there.
[56:44] Is there fall damage? Yes dude.
[56:47] OK, that's what I'm doing. You can also just kill yourself.
[56:54] They mentioned suicide. Just plunge a.
[56:57] Sword in your head or what? Fall on it.
[57:00] You got to. You got to fall from a great
[57:02] height. I hope it has ragdoll physics.
[57:05] I wish. I don't think I remember any
[57:07] ragdoll. Physics because this guy didn't
[57:09] play a game. It's so bad.
[57:13] Do you think after he released the series, he finally decided
[57:17] to play a video game because he made it.
[57:18] He was like, I made it sound so cool.
[57:20] And then he played a game and he was like, this is nothing like
[57:22] what I thought it was like. Do you think so I.
[57:25] Don't. Know man, I don't.
[57:27] Trust anything that this guy's brain comes up with.
[57:31] Hi, I couldn't sleep so I'm coming to.
[57:33] Sleep, it's so bad in this world.
[57:42] I didn't say nothing yet. I hate this.
[57:46] Yeah. Do you want to have video?
[57:48] Game. Sex.
[57:49] They're buying a house. OK, they all.
[57:52] Die, they get party wiped, you think?
[57:55] Once again, the death flags. Man, everyone's got a death
[57:58] flag. Why does this look so different
[58:00] from everywhere else? Come on, it's a that's clearly a
[58:03] mimic. What are those?
[58:07] What is that monsters? Are those dwarves?
[58:10] Damn. Remember though, they don't feel
[58:14] pain so then fuck it. Yeah, I know.
[58:18] It doesn't make any. Sense I guess they do still die,
[58:21] but yeah, so mentally the fear and shit, it's better than
[58:24] normal death so. Remember how you said you, you,
[58:27] you? You didn't think any of them
[58:29] were important? Yeah.
[58:30] I. I I stand by that.
[58:35] Is she dying or what? She said something, but we don't
[58:38] get to know what it is. The guy who went to.
[58:43] Go by the house is like what the.
[58:44] Fuck also we just jump. Up to floor 49, now this.
[58:50] Is so boring. Got Christmas event event boss,
[58:55] my God. They said they're.
[58:57] Searching for it, That's your also a job you could have.
[59:00] Being an information broker seems nice.
[59:04] There's a rumor Nicholas the Renegade.
[59:06] Drops an item that can revive. Remember, like I said, they
[59:08] established that rule that all revival items are just gone and
[59:12] then just one episode. It's like, yeah, but actually
[59:15] there's one. Can they not stand?
[59:18] On the legs that they have, why would they do that?
[59:21] Oh look, it's that guy when he came.
[59:22] Back with the keys for their house.
[59:27] He's doing it, yes. Did he at least give him the
[59:33] keys? No.
[59:34] No. I'm.
[59:37] Not giving you the house you. You let all my friends die,
[59:39] bitch. If you hadn't in your level,
[59:42] they still would have walked into that room.
[59:44] Yeah, they would have. It would have changed.
[59:46] Nothing. He's gonna.
[59:49] Oh my God. But they're like her corpse.
[59:53] Sachi's corpse is rotting into a skeleton right now.
[59:58] Sure, and he's going to bring her back to life.
[1:00:01] Maybe I. Don't know yo what's up.
[1:00:05] Man, you're kind of a bitch, so I'm going to, I'm going to take
[1:00:07] it. Client's like a good leader
[1:00:10] dude. Look at that shit.
[1:00:11] Yeah, yeah, I. Get how dying works?
[1:00:14] I understand. Don't worry.
[1:00:17] Once again, why would you believe this?
[1:00:18] He. Explained to you that the moment
[1:00:20] you die it fries your brain. Good Lord, don't know he
[1:00:24] doesn't. Fucking do it.
[1:00:27] Do what? Bring her back to life?
[1:00:29] The Holy Dragon Alliance PV PS on Oh shit thank God.
[1:00:37] Don't risk your life for that. Fucking nerd.
[1:00:39] Yeah, this is actually so stupid.
[1:00:41] Yeah, this is so stupid. I'm starting to zone out
[1:00:45] constantly. Like I'm just not paying
[1:00:51] attention anymore half the time. Oh, it's Santa.
[1:00:54] It really is. It's.
[1:00:56] Nicholas the Renegade, OK Oh God damn, how do you like Nicholas
[1:01:04] the Renegade? I like him, but they're going to
[1:01:07] fuck it up. And take him so seriously.
[1:01:10] Oh, you think you're going to get to see any of it?
[1:01:12] I guess not. No, we, we can't wait.
[1:01:17] No, they, they. Cut to the end.
[1:01:20] Yeah, he won. Yeah, this is a bad.
[1:01:22] Show, yeah. This is just straight up a bad
[1:01:24] show. Hey, the revival item.
[1:01:27] Unfortunately, it's soul bound within 10 seconds.
[1:01:30] Well, so you. Were right, her corpse is
[1:01:34] rotting, yeah. Yeah.
[1:01:37] Like 10 seconds. OK, that's fair.
[1:01:39] Like. Actually, I think that one's
[1:01:40] kind of Fair. Like maybe it doesn't
[1:01:41] immediately fry the brain. Yeah, Even more fucked up
[1:01:44] though. Like, you die in the game, you
[1:01:45] wake up for 10 seconds and then it fries your brain.
[1:01:48] That's what I'm thinking happens.
[1:01:50] Then they just leave the fucking rare.
[1:01:52] Ass item there What? I actually really hate this I.
[1:01:55] Think this might be the highest rated episode in the 1st?
[1:01:57] Season, by the way, how in God's name he just got a gift from
[1:02:04] her? Yeah, it's just.
[1:02:06] Then why did you leave? You probably.
[1:02:08] Wouldn't have, she literally died the next day.
[1:02:11] Yeah, you've also probably wouldn't have died.
[1:02:13] Had you stayed in the Town of Beginnings?
[1:02:15] That's kind of the point. You guys aren't that close.
[1:02:18] Since I just started sleeping in your bed every night.
[1:02:20] Because he's a bitch. That's why he's a bitch.
[1:02:24] Why are we? Remembering any of these people
[1:02:26] fondly. We just met them dude like same
[1:02:30] episode. It's been what?
[1:02:31] Like, nothing like we've like two sets of crews.
[1:02:35] Have died now. Yeah, it it's just introducing.
[1:02:38] People just to kill them, I said.
[1:02:41] This is always my issue with death is the consequence.
[1:02:44] Why do I care? I don't care exactly, I don't
[1:02:48] care. Please stop.
[1:02:50] Please stop, you don't want to. Listen to her hum the song.
[1:02:52] I don't. She said she was going to sing
[1:02:54] it for him. Turn it off.
[1:02:55] We're almost there, bud. We're almost there.
[1:02:57] Hit the hit the turn off button. Let's see.
[1:03:00] Oh wait, there's like 2 minutes left.
[1:03:02] He's crying, yeah. But he's our edge Lord.
[1:03:06] I don't know you. Who the fuck are you?
[1:03:08] Who are you? That she said.
[1:03:10] Way more than that. When she was dying, she did.
[1:03:16] There you go. OK.
[1:03:18] Exit. I don't want to.
[1:03:19] See the end credits? Oh, we should have done.
[1:03:22] Episode 4. Look at the title of it, The
[1:03:24] Black Swordsman. Yep.
[1:03:26] That's his nickname? Yep, his.
[1:03:28] Nickname is the Black Swordsman. Also, that chick gets introduced
[1:03:33] and then you'll notice she looks she's not the next episode the
[1:03:35] same as yeah, so she. Dies OK Yep, Yep, that girl
[1:03:40] looks. Exactly the same.
[1:03:41] As the girl who just died. Yep.
[1:03:43] So OK, so see. Like Part 1 is 14 episode then
[1:03:46] you have Part 2. Don't worry.
[1:03:51] In promotional videos. The world of guns.
[1:03:58] Here's a new update, Sword Art Online 2.
[1:04:04] Point O the gun updates Cold hearted sniper.
[1:04:09] Guns and swords. Yeah, he can't use a gun.
[1:04:13] He's. A swordsman.
[1:04:14] He's the Black Swordsman. You think he's going to use a
[1:04:16] gun? What's wrong with you?
[1:04:18] Death Gun. Phantom Bullet.
[1:04:20] Yeah, yeah, So, yeah, that was exhausting.
[1:04:23] There's a little. What are?
[1:04:24] These extras oh. Gods.
[1:04:27] Oh no. Well, looky here.
[1:04:30] Don't click on the extras. Ghost, did you see those?
[1:04:36] OK, good. By the way, our oldest character
[1:04:38] is like 16 Japan. I've never seen any of this or
[1:04:45] this this is the Yep, this is the movie we saw not good This
[1:04:50] is another movie. I don't know anything about it
[1:04:53] and a final movie. I don't know anything about it.
[1:04:56] I. Yeah, but.
[1:04:58] OK, so that said 10. 1000 users were trapped, yeah, but that's
[1:05:02] nothing yeah. Then 2000, that is nothing.
[1:05:05] No, this game did not have a great.
[1:05:07] Peak player count? No, it's peak player was 10,000.
[1:05:11] Are you fucking? Kidding.
[1:05:12] Like generally, like if you're trying to do like a mass.
[1:05:14] Murder. I'm just saying you should wait
[1:05:15] till your game hits. You know, some high.
[1:05:17] She could have gotten so many. Just 10,000 I was going to say
[1:05:22] that new pirate game that just. Came out that everyone's
[1:05:24] playing. That's just like 195,000 players
[1:05:26] right now. That's normal for a peak.
[1:05:29] Yeah, 10,000 there's sword. Heart online series.
[1:05:33] For fuck's sake, Gun. Gale Online Wait wait wait,
[1:05:38] wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,
[1:05:41] wait wait. So they made another game called
[1:05:47] Gun Gale Online. After sword.
[1:05:50] Art online which trapped a bunch of fucking people in it and like
[1:05:54] they didn't learn their lesson. Let's do it again.
[1:05:55] Let's. Go let's this.
[1:05:57] This gonna this can't be bad. Yeah.
[1:05:59] Yeah. Let me guess.
[1:06:00] They all get trapped? I have no idea.
[1:06:01] I've never seen it go to the synopsis.
[1:06:03] I wanna, I wanna see the. The summary in the world of guns
[1:06:07] and. Steel that is Gung Gale online
[1:06:09] Len has been devoted female solo player.
[1:06:12] She's obsessed with two things, donning herself entirely in pink
[1:06:17] and honing herself. That's not that's not enough.
[1:06:19] That's. Not enough information is there.
[1:06:22] How do I like fully view that? I don't want to.
[1:06:25] Is there details? Can you go to details?
[1:06:28] There's so there's nothing in this about being trapped.
[1:06:31] I don't know, I don't know. She soon discovers her love.
[1:06:35] For hunting other players, AKAAPK probably.
[1:06:40] Player killer. Soon to be known as the Pink
[1:06:43] Devil. Yeah.
[1:06:44] I don't know. I've never seen it. 2024 I
[1:06:47] don't. I don't get it so.
[1:06:51] What do you think? That was bad?
[1:06:52] Give me more than. That it's really bad.
[1:06:57] It's boring. It looked, I guess, good for the
[1:07:00] time. Yeah.
[1:07:01] It doesn't look. I hate the protagonist.
[1:07:03] Yes. Good job.
[1:07:04] Everyone dies. Yeah.
[1:07:06] And. Why should I care?
[1:07:07] Yep, the best 3 episodes. Like I said, I think episode 3
[1:07:11] is the highest rated episode. That's insane.
[1:07:14] That was the worst one, I agree. I do think Part 3, which is
[1:07:21] where they introduce the guns, might be that's the only way to
[1:07:25] save this that. Might be the best part from.
[1:07:27] Beginning of part to end of part.
[1:07:29] The best story, that's the only way to save it, is to put.
[1:07:32] Guns in it, like I said, the more complicated the power.
[1:07:34] System the funnier it is when someone just pulls out a Glock
[1:07:38] got you akuda she just pulls out a Glock that chick has magic
[1:07:44] powers she pulls out a Glock you saying got you akuda so much
[1:07:48] better oh hack the hack sign 1 whatever yeah that other anime
[1:07:52] of. The ghost was telling us about.
[1:07:53] That's like a similar concept. I'm sure there's a there's AI
[1:07:59] mean the bar is low, the bar is low.
[1:08:02] Yeah, those. Are a lot better.
[1:08:04] Wow yeah I might actually watch that.
[1:08:06] Yeah. Hack Sign 2002.
[1:08:08] It's vintage. No, OK, let me.
[1:08:14] Switch over to. I'm going back to my enemy list
[1:08:18] for sword. Little line here, my enemy list.
[1:08:21] So just so you're aware. A1 Pictures was who did solo
[1:08:25] levelling. They also did sort of.
[1:08:27] That explains so. Much A1 pictures.
[1:08:31] Might have a slight obsession with bland bitch protagonists.
[1:08:35] Pick something else. Look at this.
[1:08:40] Look at this. Yeah, this is 2012 actually.
[1:08:43] My bad. I was a year off.
[1:08:45] OK. Yeah, so same as last time,
[1:08:49] Dylan, we have a ranking on my anime list and a star rating out
[1:08:55] of 10. What do you how many stars do
[1:08:58] you think Sword Art Online just the first season is rated out of
[1:09:02] five right out of out of 10. Out of 10 and.
[1:09:05] You said like the. Highest is, yeah, Remember it's
[1:09:07] 2 decimal places too. 7.9. Five.
[1:09:11] OK, OK. And where do you think it is?
[1:09:13] Ranked amongst all anime on my anime.
[1:09:16] I have a better idea since we went.
[1:09:18] Through solo levelling? Is it more beloved than solo
[1:09:22] leveling? I It probably is.
[1:09:24] Solo leveling is newer, yes. And solo leveling.
[1:09:27] Was like 500 or something like that. 405 hundred.
[1:09:30] It was like 400, some 400. Somewhere, somewhere in the four
[1:09:33] to five around the 250 mark. OK, I see.
[1:09:37] So sorta. Online has a 7.22 out of 10 on
[1:09:43] my anime list. I gave it a little too much that
[1:09:46] is way. Too much, but.
[1:09:48] There are 2,277,011 people who have rated this show.
[1:09:55] That's more than solo leveling. That's a lot more than.
[1:09:57] Solo leveling there's been. This is a much older show.
[1:10:00] It's had time to Stew. This show is ranked number.
[1:10:03] 3717, OK, OK. They got you there.
[1:10:11] How is Solo? Leveling so much.
[1:10:13] More than that, newer the margin is this.
[1:10:16] Big looks. Better it's this big that is the
[1:10:19] difference between the two, so looking that much like.
[1:10:22] The overall chart, remember how I told you generally it's like
[1:10:26] ones twos maybe and then anything from 3 to 6 doesn't
[1:10:31] exist. Yeah.
[1:10:33] So here is your stat breakdown on it.
[1:10:36] Jesus Christ the the fact. That there's like 10% of.
[1:10:39] People who gave this a 10 out of 10 is absurd. 14% of people?
[1:10:42] What the fuck are you people thinking?
[1:10:44] Yeah, yeah. No, it's a.
[1:10:46] It's a show. It's definitely a show.
[1:10:49] Not one I truly ever want to come back to.
[1:10:52] Somebody paid money to have that.
[1:10:53] Made I can buy you the light novels, huh?
[1:10:56] Yeah, we. Did pay money to watch that
[1:10:58] movie We did. Why'd you do that?
[1:11:02] Wait, why would you actually do that?
[1:11:04] Oh yeah, right, we did see that one for free.
[1:11:06] Cause Oh yeah, I still worked at somebody, paid money to screen.
[1:11:10] That movie yeah, but we got to go in for free because I still.
[1:11:13] Worked in movies that's I mean it's a free.
[1:11:16] Show yeah. So it was like I was.
[1:11:18] Playing like might as well go see it.
[1:11:20] Then he walked out puking. It was.
[1:11:22] Bad. It's not good.
[1:11:24] Oh, it's. So fucking bad.
[1:11:26] But yeah, most of the votes for this are in the seven and eight
[1:11:29] range out of 10. I would rate this lower than
[1:11:32] solo level. I would rate this a fucking one.
[1:11:35] I think I would rate it like a zero point.
[1:11:37] Two, honestly, one is the lowest one, yeah. 1.
[1:11:40] Yeah, like this is straight up A1.
[1:11:42] Like it's it's as simple as that.
[1:11:44] Because solo leveling. Had dismemberment, vaporization,
[1:11:50] blood everywhere. It at least kept its cast for
[1:11:53] three. Episodes and it kept his cast
[1:11:55] for three. Episodes like we did have a
[1:11:57] squad wipe, but we didn't, we had no emotional ties already to
[1:12:03] those people other than they kind of knew the main character
[1:12:06] and that was it. So OK, I see Tajin's point.
[1:12:10] So leveling next to this much better.
[1:12:14] Very good. So here is the most recent
[1:12:19] review the Oh, no, that's what this is all out of fucking
[1:12:23] whack. Why are these not in order by
[1:12:25] date sort not by suggested. Just got put on Netflix.
[1:12:29] Magic Knight Ray Earth, maybe? All right, here is the newest
[1:12:31] review, which is from March 25th.
[1:12:33] Are you ready for this? Oh, God.
[1:12:35] Yeah. Sao.
[1:12:36] Was very unique for. Its time it had an amazing
[1:12:40] story. PAC Sign 2002.
[1:12:43] Feature of the VR plot. I heavily enjoyed it as an
[1:12:47] isakai but also not at the same time, which is why I think it's
[1:12:51] started isakai genre to become more popular.
[1:12:54] What? I like the art style and the
[1:12:56] anime animations. I just think Kirito is too basic
[1:13:00] but other than that it's very important.
[1:13:02] Other than that, everything else is great.
[1:13:08] Overall, Sword Art Online. Season 1 is actually a really
[1:13:11] nice and well thought out anime. If you're including the
[1:13:16] progressives movie you get a whole lot of depth looks in
[1:13:21] into. I'm cut, this is worded
[1:13:22] horribly. I'm deciphering as I'm reading.
[1:13:26] I'm sorry. Asana and Kirito evolving over
[1:13:29] the season is one of my favorite parts of Sao and I highly
[1:13:33] recommend it. Although the SA parts are not
[1:13:37] needed. Forgot about that.
[1:13:43] Oh my God. But still an amazing and.
[1:13:47] Well thought out anime recommended 10 out of 10.
[1:13:52] What? That was a 10.
[1:13:54] That was a 10. The essay part's not needed. 10
[1:14:01] Kirito. 'S a basic bitch 10 guys, you
[1:14:06] have to think about what you're. What you're saying, what you're
[1:14:08] doing, Remember, 10 out of 10 means perfect.
[1:14:12] What? What is this?
[1:14:14] Holy shit, what's the ghost? Oh no, we don't need to talk
[1:14:17] about that. What weird sister thing he.
[1:14:20] Wants to fuck his sister too. She wants to fuck him.
[1:14:23] I don't even remember that well. Is she playing the game?
[1:14:25] No, she's. The one who said she was going
[1:14:27] to. Practice.
[1:14:28] No, She's part of the Harlem. What?
[1:14:31] Harlem. Exactly, he's asleep in a video
[1:14:35] game 10/10/10. That's absurd this person gave
[1:14:44] this gave it a 5 out of 10 recommended.
[1:14:49] That's like the shit I do on like steam.
[1:14:51] When I'm reviewing a game I don't like, thumbs down.
[1:14:55] Really good game. Oh my God this is so hilarious.
[1:14:58] I'm trying to. Find the first not recommended.
[1:15:00] Here's a not recommended. Oh that's long, I'm not reading.
[1:15:02] Oh my Oh my God, it's still going.
[1:15:05] What? What's the rating on it 3?
[1:15:07] Well, maybe a little too. Too much.
[1:15:09] But I want to know what that guy says.
[1:15:12] These are two straight, not recommended.
[1:15:13] Reviews, and they're all huge. People actually.
[1:15:17] Paying attention. OK, OK, good, good, good.
[1:15:20] Being critical using your brain. Very good.
[1:15:23] Whoever rated those, good on you, but welcome.
[1:15:27] To Sao sexual assault. Online.
[1:15:36] Jesus Christ. Oh, remember how I told you it's
[1:15:39] really. Like 2 parts but put into one
[1:15:41] season. Yeah, the second part's just
[1:15:44] straight. Up a dude trying.
[1:15:45] To sexually assault the sleeping people.
[1:15:47] One specific sleeping going from house to house.
[1:15:50] But there's straight up other sexual assault.
[1:15:52] Implications in that part what the main?
[1:15:55] Girl OK goes to the stop just stop.
[1:15:58] We got to. Stop.
[1:15:59] Please watch 10. I don't know if it's going to
[1:16:04] pick those up that well. Fucking stupid, but yeah.
[1:16:07] Dylan Sword Art Online classic. Would I recommend?
[1:16:11] No. Well, that guy recommended it
[1:16:13] even though Kyrie. Chose a bland bitch he also said
[1:16:16] didn't need. The essay parts and still rated
[1:16:18] it at 10. Yeah, I I rate this.
[1:16:21] If I was in Sword Art Online, I'd find the highest peak and
[1:16:25] jump to my death out of 10 and then I'd ragdoll.
[1:16:27] You would be that one guy. Yes, but I I wouldn't.
[1:16:31] Need my friends to die first. I would just buy a house and be
[1:16:33] like oh fuck OK jump off a bridge.
[1:16:36] I said I just sell fruit in the first town.
[1:16:38] Or that I would do that like. That sounds kind of a.
[1:16:41] Normal fucking life. Yeah, I'd be like, well, I guess
[1:16:44] I'm stuck here. OK Nope.
[1:16:46] People outside take care of me because.
[1:16:48] Fuck this. You're basically on life
[1:16:50] support, Yeah. You figured it out.
[1:16:52] All these people are on. Life support.
[1:16:53] I'm not going to fucking feed my.
[1:16:55] Dying brother because he got trapped in a video game.
[1:16:58] I'm like. You heard it here.
[1:17:00] Fuck Dylan's brother. Oh, man.
[1:17:05] Sao is a. It's a fever dream, man.
[1:17:08] It's so bad. It's really bad.
[1:17:10] Yeah, that's actually worse. Than solo leveling, Yeah.
[1:17:12] I didn't know it could get worse but it did.
[1:17:14] The sad part is, I would say it could.
[1:17:16] Get worse from here sort of online both.
[1:17:19] Both. Well, OK.
[1:17:20] I can see that I mean. Now that I've seen them, I can
[1:17:23] almost predict how bad they do. Well, yeah, those are all like
[1:17:28] classic, you hawkish. Shows like one of the greatest
[1:17:30] shows ever. Those aren't on the list.
[1:17:32] Yeah, we got the worst ones on the list.
[1:17:34] You rolled the. How do you do that?
[1:17:39] At least we can only go up from here.
[1:17:44] Well, so Dylan. We've talked enough about Sword
[1:17:47] Art Online, I think. Yes, I think.
[1:17:50] For one lifetime, yeah, I think we're done with it.
[1:17:53] Tajin still hasn't responded. As far as I checked, we'll we'll
[1:17:57] update we'll. Update you all about what he
[1:17:59] says Nothing. Nothing in.
[1:18:03] There just crazy so. Dylan, before we move on to like
[1:18:07] closing out and everything, Oh yes, we're going to roll.
[1:18:10] Another D6. All right, one and two are
[1:18:13] eliminated. So if you roll those, we'll roll
[1:18:14] again. That would have been fucking
[1:18:16] hilarious. But I said we could keep rolling
[1:18:18] the same number. OK it it auto.
[1:18:20] Rolls. So I'm going to roll down.
[1:18:22] Yeah, you got to hit roll. OK.
[1:18:24] Here we go 6. What does that mean?
[1:18:29] Is that the one that you didn't want?
[1:18:30] That's the one he didn't want? I don't know.
[1:18:32] It's a show that people fucking love.
[1:18:35] And I fucking hate this is a theme.
[1:18:38] This is a. This seems to be what's going on
[1:18:41] for the audience. He rolled attack on on Titan.
[1:18:46] Oh shit. The beginning of Attack on
[1:18:49] Titan. By far the best part of it that
[1:18:52] OK. Well, Attack on Titan is one
[1:18:54] that I've seen everywhere, so yeah, it is a very beloved.
[1:18:58] Show I fucking hate it. I I don't think it's good.
[1:19:00] I don't know. But I, like I said, I do.
[1:19:03] Think the beginning of Attack on Titan is by far its strongest
[1:19:06] part? Well, you were saying you don't
[1:19:07] like the ending. Of it, I hate the ending of it.
[1:19:10] Is it just the ending? The middle's OK.
[1:19:13] OK, I I do think it's on a downward slope most of it, but
[1:19:16] it's not like a fucking like drop.
[1:19:19] It's just a slow crawl down. It can't be worse than this
[1:19:22] though. No, it's better than this, OK.
[1:19:24] So it's it's definitely its strongest part is the beginning.
[1:19:27] We dug a hole. We.
[1:19:28] Dug a lot deeper sub by accident and now we're we're climbing out
[1:19:36] very slowly. Are you happy we're running a
[1:19:38] one? Piece podcast now.
[1:19:40] Yeah. Yeah, it's good.
[1:19:42] Huh. Comparatively.
[1:19:46] Sitting next to the worst two. Shows I've ever seen.
[1:19:49] Yeah. Fucking bad dude.
[1:19:51] They're fucking bad. I'm going to bet a lot of shows
[1:19:55] are. Better than that.
[1:19:56] Like it can only go up. There's good and bad.
[1:19:58] There's there's there are shows rated worse.
[1:20:03] But I bet they're better. Is the.
[1:20:04] Thing there are some there's one show that.
[1:20:06] Actually has like a fucking like 5 on Mal and I love it because
[1:20:11] it's just fucking absurd and I'm like.
[1:20:15] Honestly, I just. Like, it's fun.
[1:20:17] I had a great time. I love absurd shit.
[1:20:20] Yeah, like. Was it the greatest?
[1:20:22] Show ever? No, but I had a good time.
[1:20:24] This is bad. It doesn't make any.
[1:20:26] Sense there's no cute girls in it.
[1:20:29] Actually, all it was was cute girls.
[1:20:32] It was cute girls doing fucking crazy shit.
[1:20:35] The essay part was. Unnecessary.
[1:20:38] You. You really wish.
[1:20:39] I wish you were. Wrong about some of that, but
[1:20:42] you're not. It's anime.
[1:20:44] Yeah. All right.
[1:20:45] Dylan, you. Want to get us out of here?
[1:20:47] I don't want to get the fuck. Out of here.
[1:20:49] Let me open it. I'm I'm, I'm you were so
[1:20:53] disturbed. I'm not on my.
[1:20:54] Game because of this shit. OK, everyone, you can find Tajin
[1:21:00] on chess.com. That's at Tajin with three JS.
[1:21:03] And be sure to berate him for liking solo Leveling.
[1:21:06] I should have said that last episode, but I didn't.
[1:21:08] We'll find out if you like Sword Art Online.
[1:21:09] If he does, keep berating. Him You can find Solomon on
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[1:21:41] So I have finally revamped the Patreon because we're so bad
[1:21:45] about getting our content out. I didn't want to, you know, keep
[1:21:47] charging people and everything like a bunch life's going.
[1:21:50] But I still wanted somewhere to post our unediteds and
[1:21:53] everything for those who want it.
[1:21:55] So I eliminated basically all the tiers but one, and I just
[1:21:58] made that one tier a dollar just for general support and a place
[1:22:03] where we can have those. Patreon wouldn't like let me
[1:22:07] just have it be completely free the whole time.
[1:22:09] I could just post them for you. I guess I didn't really think
[1:22:12] about that when I did that, actually.
[1:22:14] Maybe I'll do that, I don't know.
[1:22:15] Well, 'cause all the other ones have always been behind a
[1:22:17] paywall, so I don't know. I'll probably just leave it at a
[1:22:19] dollar. A dollar is nice.
[1:22:20] Yeah, the dollar is good. If you want the unedited's are.
[1:22:23] There, I'll probably still post just the blooper reels there
[1:22:26] when I make those haven't always had time to make blooper reels,
[1:22:29] but when I do, I'll still post them there so on and so forth.
[1:22:33] But it's just the one tier of support now.
[1:22:35] Ghost that Roku remote is dead. That's why I was using my phone
[1:22:39] as the remote. But yeah, so that that that is
[1:22:42] the update on the Patreon is I've finally done that.
[1:22:47] I've gone in. I've done it.
[1:22:50] It'll all just be 1 tier. We'll read out anyone who
[1:22:52] subscribes to it Yeah, yeah, it's.
[1:22:55] So thank you for your continued support.
[1:22:56] Like I said, it's just I don't want to keep charging more for
[1:22:59] us being too inconsistent because technically we're like 3
[1:23:02] weeks behind right now and recording.
[1:23:04] Oh, so that's. About as long as yeah, that's,
[1:23:06] that's on us like. People shouldn't be like paying
[1:23:08] for that. Like I, I understand we still
[1:23:11] appreciate your support though, yeah.
[1:23:13] I'm so happy you get to listen to me suffer.
[1:23:16] I'm suffering too. And Solomon?
[1:23:18] Really. That's the that's the cherry.
[1:23:19] On top, like it's really I have to.
[1:23:21] Suffer it's suffering They're they're more like.
[1:23:25] More like oh God, the rising of Shield Hero.
[1:23:28] Oh, oh, oh, if you see anything about the rising of Shield hero,
[1:23:33] just stop talking to that person.
[1:23:35] OK, that, that's a he owns the magical creatures as slaves.
[1:23:40] Fantastic. Yeah.
[1:23:43] It did. Don't just.
[1:23:43] Stay away from that series, OK? Oh, on that note, this is not.
[1:23:47] Working for you, Ghost, you can. Also check out our sister.
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[1:23:54] They're a funny little bunch of guys.
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[1:24:09] We'll see you as we watch Attack on Titan.
[1:24:14] Yep, the first 3 episodes. I'm going to go, I'm going to go
[1:24:18] die now. I don't know.
[1:24:19] I don't know what else to do Bye bye.
[1:24:22] Should edit.

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