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Sep 5, 2008 7:56 PM
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THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE.
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looool he's giving all he got in this game,but it kinda cool if you really can play a game like this =P
KinetaNov 23, 2012 7:32 AM
Sep 15, 2008 10:01 AM
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lol @ the ff parody
Sep 18, 2008 6:48 PM
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yeah, the game was even made by quare eenit, or something like that. It's like some people I know and WOW.

Higurashi: Retroactively asserting why scary and cute sound so similar in Japanese.
Oct 5, 2008 8:21 PM
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LOL, he really loves that game doesnt he xD
Oct 7, 2008 5:58 PM
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wow~
that game~

he's gotten much worse than before. Being a hikky is enough, but he's not a hikky + otaku + broke. Not good! D:


Nov 29, 2008 11:55 PM
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The FF parody was too much. Totally hilarious.
Dec 7, 2008 10:45 PM
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Lol, I can't stop laughing. This was really good. Misaki's face was priceless followed by Satou's excited and deformed face.
Jan 21, 2009 2:36 AM
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Urg I remember the days when I was addicted to an MMORPG. When I look back at it I'm like x.x Never slept, played as soon as I woke up and while getting ready for school, when I got home. Went cold turkey and completely quit now ;D

Jan 22, 2009 3:09 PM
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Nice FF parody lol...i'm glad im not stuck on these mmorpgs for to long...i lose interest after a few days..even WoW couldn't hold me lol...it's getting boring to play the same game every and every day honestly ~~ also you can never really "finish" those games...maybe that's the mainpoint why i don't play them constantly to "the end"
Feb 16, 2009 1:24 AM

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"Ultimate Fantasy" roar.
Bet most WoW players are like that lol.
Feb 16, 2009 1:28 AM

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aero said:
"Ultimate Fantasy" roar.
Bet most WoW players are like that lol.
sadly reality is like that. damn these WoW players and their fake virtual boobs. faking nerds for half a decade now.
Feb 17, 2009 11:08 PM

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lol. i get like that with some games but after awhile i tend to lose interest and stop playing for a long time. i feel so bad for misaki waiting for him and actually thinking he's doing something productive.

Mar 16, 2009 2:10 PM

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This Ultimate Fantasy thing was probably one of the worst things that could have happened to Satou. He’s got such an obsessive and withdrawn personality that something like this was bound to pull him in, just as the ero games did. Poor Misaki, Satou has really fallen into a delusional state.
Apr 2, 2009 3:24 AM

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lol those hikikomoris wont stop playing haha well if he can earn some money it wont be all bad

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May 3, 2009 8:51 AM

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It is funny the way that he kept on getting killed in the game.
Jul 5, 2009 3:42 AM

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I always love the mmorpg anime episode. But Satou has become a hikikomori on steroids.
Jul 20, 2009 2:17 AM

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Poor Satou, that girl he's playing with is probably a guy. XD
Sep 29, 2009 5:27 AM

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When I was going to watch this episode I came in ready for someone to die I mean his mom was all gloomy and I heard sirens. Then he freaked from getting his money cut in half and I almost fell out of my bed lol.

Edit: Wow even a Hikikimori in an MMORPG ~_~
ilevakam117Sep 29, 2009 5:40 AM
Nov 7, 2009 6:57 PM

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Lepchin17 said:
Poor Satou, that girl he's playing with is probably a guy. XD


I thought this

ilevakam said:
When I was going to watch this episode I came in ready for someone to die I mean his mom was all gloomy and I heard sirens. Then he freaked from getting his money cut in half and I almost fell out of my bed lol.

Edit: Wow even a Hikikimori in an MMORPG ~_~


This too
Nov 8, 2009 12:01 AM
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Heh, that was amusing. I'm not much of an MMO fan myself (I know better than to risk that) but I know enough about FF11 to appreciate the elaborateness of the parody. This is the most RPG-derived humor I've seen in an anime since Abenobashi.

Also, the music playing when Sato watches the intro to the game sounded like something by Hitoshi Sakimoto - who, ironically, now works on anime as well as video games. Between that and the incantations that go with the magic spells, I'm tempted to break out Final Fantasy Tactics.

Oh yeah -and who woulda thought that a couple years before South Park did it, another show - and an anime no less - would have a hard rock/level-grinding montage?
Nov 18, 2009 3:30 PM

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This reminds me of my WoW days. In the end my parents told me to either stop playing or they would throw my computer off the mountain near where we live. They were serious too...
Nov 18, 2009 3:31 PM

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And what did you do?

Dec 25, 2009 6:03 AM

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Hah that FF parody was hilliarious. I remember being like this a few years back...I remember being extremely sleep depriven and grinding for levels+ money in MMORPGs for a long time and withdrawing from my social life, making up excuses as to why i couldn't go out etc...oh man..anyway great episode~
Jan 6, 2010 6:05 PM

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this also remind me of mine wow days.
lol to be gold farmer won't earn enough on his level of skill.
you don't only need time but also a system to earn more unique loots or a faster wxay earn money.
Jan 18, 2010 3:53 PM

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aero said:
"Ultimate Fantasy" roar.
Bet most WoW players are like that lol.

I think most aren't. But the thought that even some are is still kinda...

Lepchin17 said:
Poor Satou, that girl he's playing with is probably a guy. XD

Yeah, I thought so too, heh heh.
WhatsifsowhatsitJan 18, 2010 3:56 PM
Jan 22, 2010 1:00 PM

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Oh God, if I ever become like that...
Feb 14, 2010 3:46 AM

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Antarael said:
Nice FF parody lol...i'm glad im not stuck on these mmorpgs for to long...i lose interest after a few days..even WoW couldn't hold me lol...it's getting boring to play the same game every and every day honestly ~~ also you can never really "finish" those games...maybe that's the mainpoint why i don't play them constantly to "the end"

lol, that sounds like a conspiracy.

LOL, FF parody. Great episode...satou just goes from one extreme to another. Reminds me of my WoW and Adventure Quest days. Looked like fun though, I'll have to try the Final Fantasy version.
Feb 24, 2010 3:15 PM
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hes a gold farmer!
Apr 17, 2010 5:34 PM

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Takes me back to my WoW years aswell, it wasnt pretty. Luckily I stopped playing it last year when I began to feel like I was wasting my life away...

Cool episode though xD
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May 20, 2010 4:25 AM
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this show is getting creepier and creepier

MMORPGs lol
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I'm not a neko girl, I'm nyan-binary, hence the name
Yes I am an SJW.
No i will not scream at you for being a straight, white, cis, male.
I have important things to scream about and a finite amount of time in the day.
Feel free to talk to me, I only bite if you ask nicely :D
May 31, 2010 10:41 PM
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omfg that's some intense gaming, he probably never left that chair for one bit :)
Jun 28, 2010 6:02 PM

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Totally reminds me when I played Global MapleStory, but I wasn't THAT insane.
"If you feed me, Seymour, I can grow up big and strong!"
Aug 5, 2010 11:58 PM

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To be honest, I hate what they did with this episode. They basically reverted him back to the useless guy and all of the people he helped saved didn't show their gratitude as well as I thought they would. I was especially moved during the suicide episodes, as it felt like it addressed a very 'real' problem. Oh well, I hope this anime will soon get back on track. I just don't understand the main character anymore and why she hates the girl.
Aug 8, 2010 2:20 PM
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By having played 2 years at FFXI, I know what he is going through.
But at least I had some sanity left and quit the game before it was too late, but in Satou's case... lol.

It was meant as a pure parody, but stuff like this really do happen nowadays.
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Aug 13, 2010 11:36 PM

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OMG... He can't get any worse, can he? If I was Misaki, I would have left his sorry ass to rot.
Signature? I ain't got no signature! I don't need no signature! I don't have to show you any stinkin' signature!
Aug 31, 2010 6:19 PM

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It's funny that this could all just get so bad, because some people wanted to help him. Yuu gave him the code for the free month and Misaki gave him the advice to start low. Now he is even worse than he ever was because people were nice to him.
Oct 24, 2010 8:00 PM
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http://socksmakepeoplesexy.net/index.php?a=ff11

Damn it! Final Fantasy XI turns normal people into shut-ins! Why the hell would that kid give it to Saoto!?
Oct 31, 2010 11:49 AM

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This episode reminded me of the South Park episode "make love, not warcraft"; even some scenes were almost the same XD.

Glad I've never been addicted to a mmorpg. I have some friends who were though, at one point in their lives all they talked about was level gaining, items and raids.
Jan 29, 2011 9:59 PM

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Tried WOW, could not get into it. I don't think I'm an MMO guy.

I wish he would just make his game already instead of getting distracted by all these shenanigans :p
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i'm thinking the cat-girl might actually be a guy. u can't trust the online world.
lol he thinks he's a regular guy now, quite the opposite now actually, lol


Mar 27, 2011 1:20 AM
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Lepchin said:
Poor Satou, that girl he's playing with is probably a guy. XD

lol exactly what I was thinking. Satou is so oblivious.
Apr 7, 2011 4:18 PM

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Sato father called him a failure.. Hey sato i got an idea, get an alarm clock.
Apr 8, 2011 1:30 PM

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dame, dame, dame, dame ningen dame! XD
Jul 29, 2011 12:34 AM

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Yep, that's what happens when an MMORPG has you in its trap.

Sep 25, 2011 9:05 PM
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The parody was spot-on, not only in the amount of detail but the feelings people get while playing these games. I played FFXI, and it's pretty easy to start considering these game worlds as 'real'...Was pretty sad when Misaki barged in and it showed a view of the ACTUAL game, just some crude polygons on the screen.

Seems like some MMO companies actually design these games to draw hikkikomoris in...FFXI in particular was criticized for requiring huge amounts of time. I remember a player uproar because of a boss enemy that took upward of 24 hours (real time) to beat.
Jan 9, 2012 8:51 PM

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It's funny how the show goes from a topic like suicide parties to RPG's in just two episodes. xD
Feb 6, 2012 1:25 AM

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What a fun episode! Felt like I was watching .hack/SIGN all over again. :D
Mar 9, 2012 6:42 PM

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Wow, that episode kind of hit home. It's just so hard to stay away from games when you already are detached from reality, and have an addictive personality.

I loved the way they actually showed us they animated the gameplay, and then showed the actual game screen. Completely nailed that feeling of being in the world, shooting down monsters, and just barely hearing the sounds of the outside world around you.

Good stuff.
Mar 18, 2012 7:57 PM

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FF <3

And Satou went crazy again.. :3
Mar 24, 2012 9:19 AM

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He gotten worse :<

That girl probably is that guy he went together with on previous episode (?)
Not sure though
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