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... someone missed a hell of an opportunity when they didn't replace that sword with a dancing pole.

I've seen SAO but not Overlord, is the latter any good? Not expecting another log horizon or anything with that comparison.

The LN's pretty nice, imo. Liked what I've read of it better than what I've read of the manga, and from what folks here have said the anime basically is the manga, but shallower.

SAO... I haven't seen any SAO, but from what I've picked up, while the overall plot and a lot of stuff is actually pretty compelling, there's... issues... with the actual material. Some seasons are apparently better about that than others, avoid supplementary material like the plague unless you want a story where the MC screws his might-as-well-be sister, among myriad other things including elementary/middle schoolers. There's some damn nice fanfiction involving it, though. Kinda' like ZnT, really.

Also, @the NGNL discussion, I think the entirety of it I've been exposed to was like a seven minute youtube clip I don't recall the contents of. I remember it as the loli bathing anime because that seems to be what's always mentioned first when its apparently myriad flaws are referenced, which also seems to be basically any time it's mentioned

I read a lot of Chinese sucked-into-an-MMO webnovels because of adwarf

Any in particular you'd recommend? I've read a fair ton of the stuff (and the very similarly styled reincarnation material*) myself, but it's always good to pick up more :3

*Speaking of which, if anyone's interested in an example of that that's light hearted and rather amusingly murderous, I'd recommend "Kumo Desu ga, Nani ka?" Schoolgirl gets reincarnated as a giant spider inside what amounts to a continent-sized dungeon, and things snowball from there. Gets a little silly later on, but the first few dozen chapters at the very least are really appealing, imo.

E: Also something interesting I've noticed in line with that sort of thing is that there seems to be a developing genre of characters reincarnated into otome (i.e. dating sims aimed at a female audience) games. They're, uh. Oddly compelling? Almost deconstructive, but at the same time often very true to the general thrust of the game style itself. It's a neat glimpse into a corner of the literary/gaming world I haven't seen much of personally!

Unit ID's an internal designator randomly assigned on recruitment, so far as I'm aware. Mostly coding-y stuff, and generally far more trouble than it's worth to try to plan around. There's no particular way to find out what yours are with any surety, though. Closest to an idea you can get is that the ones closest to the top-left on your unit list/top of the t/y menu is the one with the... whichever direction takes precedence.

PM Toady and ask for it.

Smirk did not. Little known fact, the tablets have very vigorously scratched out parts that the commandments were clearly inscribed over. The defacements just happen to be the exact size of a pizza recipe, ingredients on one, directions on the other.

Well, we're certainly not going to have time chambers if the US closes off, so I'd say it's rather anti-hyperbolic >_>

... well, interesting in the sense that most of the rest of the world would start looking like north korea, I guess. Maybe the US could manage it (though it would almost certainly mean a significant loss in quality of life, especially for those whose QoL are already kinda' shit), but it'd mean basically fucking the world economy.

Personally, I wouldn't want to see it tried. We haven't had a world war start up due to strictly economic concerns yet, and I don't want to be alive when one kicks off, either.

... Neapolitan pizza? I... I thought that was just icecream. Looks like it, though, looking it up. I've eaten it, too! Huh.

Though personally, I don't really have a favorite style. Pizza est. One does not rank crusts, one consumes them.