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Thursday, November 14, 2019

SAOAGGO volume 5 read:

This book was great.  The action was pulse-pounding and head-twisting throughout.  You never knew what would happen next, because after all this was just a game, meaning anyone could die at any moment for any reason or no reason at all, and it would never break the plot.  This allows for a lot more interesting writing than stories like Rave where you know the heroes are permanently safe from all danger from start to finish.

This is the ultimate battle-as-sport series.

Plus it had that legendary Star Wars reference that made me laugh out loud.  I love the lightsaber duel, it's so brazenly copying now.  I can't get enough of it.  This is way better Star Wars than the sequels turned out being.

This book was good enough that I decided to add the series to the good books hall of fame.  Since Reki Kawahara is already in my rankings and he's credited as the co-author for inventing the SAO world, I'll just chalk the quality of the books up to him and add them to his resume.  I know the real author is someone else but I gotta keep the author count to exactly 100 so Reki it is.

If you know America and Europe are doomed, but it's still a long time before the actual suffering begins, what should you do inbetween?  I think the optimal solution would be for everyone who knows this to abandon ship, get together, and start their exciting new life and new world together in some desolate frontier.  Why wait?  Anything you build in the old world will ultimately be destroyed, so why keep working away at a futile deathscape?

But obviously that solution requires other people than yourself to agree to it, so the optimal solution isn't going to happen.  Just like it's impossible to convince liberals that they're dooming the Earth, it's impossible to convince Nazis to get off their couches and recliners and start a new life free of liberalism.

So what is the next best solution?  I think the answer is to enjoy yourself as much as you can with the time remaining.  I wouldn't worry too much about building up wealth, power, status, children, or anything else, since all of that will be washed away with the coming of doomsday.  All you can build up is good memories.  Like I've been doing all week -- finishing Dracu Riot, Rave, SAOAGGO and Hai to Gensou no Grimgar.  Before the end I want to finish everything I can -- One Piece, SAO, Fairy Tail, all the great ongoing series.  What else is left?  If the world is ending all we can do is seek a satisfying ending before the world ends, and a satisfying ending is knowing all there is to know about everything and everyone you care about in life.  Once you've already experienced everything, it doesn't matter if you die, in fact, it could even be a blessing.  So we just need to stuff these last remaining great stories down our mental throats as quickly as we can before the world explodes.

There's still a chance that after liberalism destroys the world, Nazis will finally get off their couches and recliners and build a new world.  Once that happens, life can go back to long term prospects like building up wealth, family, status, power, etc.  Because then they'll actually last, which means they'll actually mean something and benefit someone.  Which means waiting and seeing what Nazis will finally do once their backs are against the wall will also be an interesting question worth answering.

Maybe they're all just biding their time and enjoying the high life while it remains.  Until the apocalypse actually devours their lazy asses, it's impossible to say they were wrong.  It's almost a staring contest.  Or a game of chicken.  The lazy bums who want to enjoy their lives and think liberalism will never destroy anything and the nazis who want to create a new world order and are sure the collapse is coming.  Only time can prove one side or the other right.  Until then all we can do is drive straight at each other.

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