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[otakuro]

W-What happened to all of my saves?! I found a Legendary sword yesterday! A Legendary sword. Do you guys know the chances to proc a Legendary drop?! It's like, 1 in 8192 kajillion! Probably higher! I could go the rest of my life without ever getting another one!

This is totally not acceptable! I demand compensation! Whatever Hinoto-Ri is doing this time, I'm not gonna stand for it! Who's with me?! Do you hear the people sing singing the song of angry m --

[beep bloop beep sounds in the background]

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Uh.

Never mind, it dropped again from the same enemy and probably after the same number of RNG rolls or whatever. 'K, false alarm, everyone can go back to their daily business.

I've got a new sword to test; you guys'll have to figure this one out yourselves.

Comments

[VIDEO]

[mementodagger]

[While Yurick sounds infinitely patient, his expression is crossing into "seriously incredulous" territory.]

I know you adore your games, but did you really just have a panic attack over one?

[otakuro]

1 in 8192 kajillion.

[Definitely a real number.]

[mementodagger]

... that is not a real number.

[otakuro]

It could be in my world!

It comes right after squillion.

[mementodagger]

Atsuro.

I'm going to come to your apartment and drag you outside. You clearly need to do something else for a while.

[video/public]

[badluckhealer]

I do not believe going to the barricades is an appropriate solution to this issue. ...though having one's saves wiped is a nuisance.

[Iiiiit's that emotionless kid! She seems distinctly grumpy right now. That is an emotion. Yay?]

...This may seem like an odd question, but didn't the news run the story about the bar fight yesterday as well?

[Inexplicable deja vu = grumpy, apparently.]

[otakuro]

[Grumpiness is totally a step forward. Atsuro pauses for a moment at her observation.]

I... don't pay much attention to the news, actually. But things in Hinoto-Ri must be slow if all we're talking about is bar fights.

[badluckhealer]

[A thoughtful narrowing of the eyes.]

...could be overthinking it. [A pause.] One day of this happening - could be a coincidence. If this - if all of this - happens again tomorrow, though...

After all, you didn't have that save yesterday morning either, did you? The reporter's talking the exact same way, too...

[She shakes her head.]

Sorry for troubling you with this. I know it sounds crazy.

[otakuro]

Not really.

I'm not just talking about one game. I'm talking about all of my games - they've all gone back to like it was a day ago.

Something's definitely up here.

[Video]

[bondsofsuffering]

We've been getting a ton of complaints at the arcade. It looks like the high scores got reset, but no one actually cleared the scores last night.

[otakuro]

Reset all the way or reset to the previous day?

[bondsofsuffering]

That's the weird thing! It was just to the previous day.

[otakuro]

Yeah, it matches with my saves, too. I've only lost the progress I've made in the last day - since like, midnight the day before, probably.

...

[Atsuro's voice goes hushed.]

It looks like we've entered an endless recursion of time.

[...]

I read that line in a light novel once.

[themortalhalf]

...You really felt like making a post about losing a bit of video game data?

[otakuro]

It's the first sign of disaster! You should all be thankful that I've clued you in into something that's gone terribly wrong.

[themortalhalf]

You sure sound concerned about it.

Couldn't you have just hacked it and shit?

[otakuro]

...What, the games?

That would take a lot more effort than complaining about it to everyone.

Video

[all_wound_up]

I have milk that was supposed to expire yesterday. Do you think it's safe to keep using it if it's still the 22nd?

[otakuro]

[Huh. ...That's actually an interesting thought.]

...Did you drink any of it yesterday? Is it back to the level it was before?

[all_wound_up]

It's back in there.

[otakuro]

Hm...

I'd say you could drink it forever then! It's an endless fountain of milk. Like a rare artifact.

video

[pretty_pink_ribbon]

Um, is there like, a contest or something where you get a prize if you're the world's biggest nerd?

'Cause I think you just won.

[otakuro]

Really?

Will they send me my trophy in the mail or will I have to go to accept it in person, do you think?

[pretty_pink_ribbon]

[Rolling her eyes, but smiling anyway.]

No, they air drop it from a spaceship.

[Setting that aside...]

But at least I'm not the only one having a total deja-vu-day.

[otakuro]

...Why a spaceship? That seems unnecessarily troublesome.

[Clearly the important part.]

What's up? The clothes you bought yesterday vanish from your closet or something?