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You... you do know the entire thing's premise is "Console Wars, the Anime" (/"the Game"), right? I mean. It's going to meme. The entire thing is based off what amounts to internet memes. Explicitly.

... I'd think SG is a lot better at identifying which was which in 'is personal life, yeah? Work and dedication are necessary, but it's luck that's the sufficient component. All the leverage in the world can't do jack without a fulcrum. Which is what SG's noting.

There's unfortunately not actually consequences for hard work and dedication, save more of it (at best.). People just seem to like to think there were. Just world nonsense and whatnot, I guess...

Met more people than I'd like to count who have spent their entire life working their arse off for... basically nothing. Folks whose "consequence" was to die in poverty for nothing they had control over, 'cause they just never caught the proverbial break. S'always kinda' frustrating to hear people functionally say, "Well, if only you had worked harder things would have worked out." World doesn't actually work that way, unfortunately.

An example suited for you: people may have urges to pee anywhere, but that doesn't make peeing in public not creepy.

... isn't that actually fairly normal in some places?

Most places with active volcanoes are actually more bearable, from what I've seen. They're either further north or have a good sea breeze going. Some places in the south have the latter, but it's never as good as a proper island or whathaveyou.

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Yes. Or at least something that looked much like it. 'Bout as bad as any I've had. Cold tea in general just doesn't agree with my taste buds, and southern sweet tea's close to the worst of it (that I've tasted, anyway).

... so basically you want to see an anime where the main character uses vancian style magic. Spells slots!

That said, there's several (shonen, usually) manga out there that have similar conceits. Power that will kill(/corrupt/drive insane/etc.) you if overused is almost standard, really. Freaking Naruto did that, albeit not as a central focus. Other stuff manages it as a central focus -- Madoka, ferex, if somewhat more drawn out. Eva used power measured in minutes (after the power cord got cut) regularly. There's a decent sized chunk of more obscure stuff I'm forgetting the names of. Edgier stuff (or at least stuff that's trying to be edgy) seems to enjoy using the concept. Aiki (warning if you actually look for that one, it's thoroughly NSFW -- written/drawn by a critter probably better known for porn, and it shows. There's many amazing faces, though.) works with the concept via a more-or-less crippled protagonist/antagonist.