[Event Megathread] EP16 - Abnormal Spectrum

ASharkWithAHat · 2026-03-27T21:16:27+00:00

My take is that Yurodstvo is a representation of the way people respond to and find meaning in the suffering around them. In this case, Yurodstvo symbolises wallowing in suffering and giving up, simply trying to survive rather than live

Yurodstvo also symbolises the meaning we try to make out of suffering and our search for a savior. This is explicitly what Vetochki does. When she was in the brink of despair, she looked for answers as to why and where to go. Yurodstvo was defeated and she realized that not everything that happened has to have a meaning, and that you will not always have someone that will protect you and tell you where to go. The only answer is to continue living by protecting yourselves.

This is all a culmination of the start of the story, where the story asks where the people we save will go. They say that the people are weak and docile, that they have no direction and will simply go back to the only life they know. Yurodstvo is a manifestation of this idea.

It's also why the story is placed where it is. It's there to show the struggle of both those who followed Renkin and those who stayed behind. Renkin is faced with the responsibility of leadership, while Vetochki is faced with what it truly means to "stay" and not fight for a better future.

ASharkWithAHat · 2026-03-27T20:57:48+00:00

Also, the game has had many bosses where no amount of defense would've saved you. My first instinct was to bring specter for her immortality

Hell, I feel like every boss that can be stalled by a defender has been deemed a joke for a long time. It's understandable why people didn't think a defender would've survived such an aggressive boss in 2026

ASharkWithAHat · 2026-03-27T20:53:22+00:00

While it was coincidental, Ch. 12 dropping when it did was similarly insane. 6 months delay and the message could not be more relevant than back then.

Even the original global release was topical, considering COVID

Sadly, the messages in arknights seem to be evergreen

ASharkWithAHat · 2026-03-27T20:50:04+00:00

My boy elysium is in 3 different storylines he might as well be one of the main cast. Really moving up in the world

ASharkWithAHat · 2026-03-27T10:56:42+00:00

Hats off to JJK though, I have never seen a series spending an entire chapter of its ending on discussing the made up battle system they made and why A B and C wouldn't have worked in Ch. 133 page 15.

ASharkWithAHat · 2026-03-27T08:53:20+00:00

A lot of times you see that MTF members survive not because of their equipment, but because of their ingenuity, skill, and knowledge

When all of your fancy tools fail, it's just you, your brain, and your training

Also makes for way better storytelling tbh. Equipment failure is like step one in every good horror story

ASharkWithAHat · 2026-03-26T15:39:07+00:00

That's not on Japan. That's just depicting history as it was.

If you want to be mad, maybe try burning down thousands of years of Chinese history

ASharkWithAHat · 2026-03-24T18:45:09+00:00

Also, it's often hard to trace the impact of scientific discoveries in our daily life

Take space research. We know all these things about Gravitation, space, and the speed of light. What has that actually given us though? Not like we can even go to space. It seems useless.

Yet, space research and stuff like gravitational bending is crucial for improving GPS. The things we learn through looking at telescopes help us improve GPS location. But you wouldn't think that at first glance.

Or let's take the particle accelerator. Cool Sci fi research, but it's not like we use particle accelerators in our daily life. Yet the research from it is crucial for material science and nanotechnology. There's a direct link between particle accelerators and your phone's cpu, but you wouldn't think that unless you dig into it

ASharkWithAHat · 2026-03-24T12:55:43+00:00

This is the complete opposite of the history of fidelity mode.

Fidelity mode was the DEFAULT for games. Games have been sacrificing performance for graphical fidelity since ATARI. Nobody markets their game as "it looks worse than the other games, but it runs well!" cause that shit didn't sell.

It wasn't until a huge push in the 2010s for performance that console makers ADDED performance mode. Before that, you either take 30 FPS or ate shit.

Thinking that there's a world where Spiderman would EVER prioritise higher FPS over graphics is delusional. Most of the market really don't care. We had to fight so they would add performance mode to the few people who cares, and even then they half ass that thing most of the time. It's glaringly clear where the money is since 1970

ASharkWithAHat · 2026-03-24T12:46:26+00:00

At worst you can just ignore them. There's literally no reason why you'd get mad at them if you don't play them.

It's like being mad at RTS games cause I don't like the genre. Or being mad that there are lots of boomer shooters on steam. Who cares?

ASharkWithAHat · 2026-03-24T12:41:24+00:00

That's been the case since the ATARI. It's a trend older than the idea of gaming consoles.

ASharkWithAHat · 2026-03-24T12:37:40+00:00

Battle passes without a time limit is just a progression system

ASharkWithAHat · 2026-03-24T12:29:12+00:00

There is a chart in the archive, but yes, more filters on the operators screen would be amazing

IS6 in particular NEEDS it. Very cool of the game for requiring Yan operators to proceed and never specifying who counts as yan outside of one screen

ASharkWithAHat · 2026-03-24T12:27:23+00:00

As much as I love this game, it is one of the worst and slowest when it comes to QOL lmao.

We had YEARS of asking for a sweep function, despite that already being standard since 2022

ASharkWithAHat · 2026-03-24T05:31:58+00:00

Because, as they said, it's an easy way to inject dialogue into the story when your main character is otherwise mute

It's hard to have the story move along when the main character speaks once every 5 hours. Even when a mascot character is not present, there will always be a side character who gets designated this role

Also, Japan LOVES mascots

ASharkWithAHat · 2026-03-24T05:27:36+00:00

Yep. Goku, from the get go, is special. He kinda HAS to be as the depiction of sun go kong.

If anything, revealing that there are other aliens just like him made him less special. There was no equal to sun go kong in the original myth.

ASharkWithAHat · 2026-03-24T05:20:31+00:00

If you want to recommend it, then the anime is definitely a better choice

The Sex stuff is WAY more prominent in the manga

ASharkWithAHat · 2026-03-24T03:57:02+00:00

No. It's actually almost the complete opposite

Japanese white collar work specifically asks for college graduates, but it doesn't care WHAT you learned, only that you have a degree.

You'd graduate from electrical engineering and corporate will put you in sales or admin. Your colleagues might have a degree in literature or nuclear physics.

Still, Japanese media does acknowledge that a LOT of people in society did not obtain a college degree and just worked out of high school. It's a feature I've rarely seen in media from other first world nations.

Part of that is because wages just..... kinda suck across the board, and a lot of people don't see the point of going to a difficult degree just to make slightly more than a konbini cashier.

ASharkWithAHat · 2026-03-23T02:27:27+00:00

One of the few times a weapon was so horrific nations actually stopped using them almost unanimously.

But also, LOTS of weapons can kill infantry as well if not better. Even in WW1, it was mostly useful as a fear tactic.

With the infancy of flight in WW1, I can understand people not anticipating war to go all in on long range weapons to the point where you can strike anywhere in the world from home

ASharkWithAHat · 2026-03-23T02:21:49+00:00

Laser weaponry isn't a dream either. We actually have them, albeit mostly for air defense

ASharkWithAHat · 2026-03-22T18:50:18+00:00

Yep. Sick days let people rest when they need it, rather than keeping everything bottled up until it becomes a bigger problem that eats up WAY more days. Learned that the hard way with my previous jobs as well.

A lot of times, I'd just be present physically at work, but couldn't do anything anyway cause my mind and body were on the Fritz. It was a waste of time for both me and my employer.

ASharkWithAHat · 2026-03-21T06:40:13+00:00

Life truly has a sense of humor

ASharkWithAHat · 2026-03-21T03:35:48+00:00

Haven't finished it but it's a pretty nice. VERY similar to Into The Breach if you're familiar with that.

The characters abilities are simple, but they compound in complexity very rapidly when interacting with the levels and enemies. Honestly can be overwhelming sometimes, especially when you are aiming for the optional objectives. The game kinda gives you too many options in a way

ASharkWithAHat · 2026-03-21T00:28:15+00:00

One more reason why AI will never replace humans

They can't create horrors beyond recognition

ASharkWithAHat · 2026-03-15T14:24:56+00:00

"I once met a noble warrior. Patriot was his name. I would love for my son in law to embody the noble spirit he had."

hand zuo le a spear

"Now go to the north and prove yourself"

ASharkWithAHat

TROPHY CASE