THE CRINGE CHARISMA STAT!! | SAO Abridged Ep 14 Reaction 

Holy sh(yay)t I did not expect to see you here Josh. A comment by a channel I follow on a video by a channel I follow reacting to another video by a channel I follow.

It's not always _just_ the bards or demons, sometimes it's the jerks too. Jerks with Charisma, that's a nightmare.

Didn't expect to see you here, Josh! I haven't you since MLP ended.

Crazy cameo I didn't expect to see!!!

Holy shit, it's Josh! I haven't seen you since those top ten lists a decade ago.

I love the writing so much. It's actually genius. In the original Kayaba actually accidentally tapped into the human soul, so it stands to reason that these kinds of effects could happen.

99% sure this isn't really deviating from source material at all lol

@@thesaltybeard1793 In the actual canon, Sugou was experimenting with using the vr tech as a means of controlling people, but thats the only similarity. The idea of there being an otherwise innocent part of a game that potentially enables that kind of control is all Abridged. Plus, the Abridged version give all the credit for the effect to Kayaba, making Sugou even more pathetic, as he isn't even doing his own thing in this one, just borrowing.

Holy franks, I didn't catch that at all! Good eye!👍

When you consider it's simulating all 22+ human senses, yeah, they absolutely have control over what you can and can't think. Makes me consider VR drugs, can you imagine a world where addicts pay $500 and have infinite access to any chemical or sensation? It would be an epidemic like no other.

@tonywilliams6294 It *could* just be force of habit, or it might just be done for laughs. I just think the mental censorship is a more interesting interpretation.

But apparently you can still imply racism and rape

Ya know what's weird though, certain sexual words actually make it past the filter... which considering the guy who runs this game... yup that makes sense.

Like the demons when they have to face the Doomguy.

a force of nature... to them she's a cataclysm!

"She is Rage. Fury. Destruction......"

Space Pirate Logs talking about "The Hunter" whenever Samus shows up

Also the surge of creators reacting to it right after alicia started

They also tend to watch and comment many people who react to their stuff. They’re a very friendly bunch.

Thank FUCK I thought it was just me that noticed

Yeah I also don’t really watch vtubers, yet Alicia is probably one of the channels I watch the most of lately

Aren't SWE and Alicia based in the same province? Makes sense they'd support an entertaining local creator.

People actually dont know kirito saved Everyone because the identify of who BEAT the game was keept a secret for the same of his privacy

@@Jpx0999 THAT, actually makes sense I can’t lie. But I still stand by my point that Sugu should’ve been more aware of who she was falling for and how that plotline wasn’t needed.

Trust, me, the route this leads to with the change is intense, like masterpiece "this isn't a comedy anymore" intense.

@@Jpx0999 It isnt that noone knows who he is. It's... how long was he at the name select screen?

@@gremmythoumeaux2393 It makes sense until you consider "secrecy equations", the more people who know a secret the less time it statistically takes for it to come out. It's only the people in the boss room who know for sure but 4Chan and Reddit would go asking/digging the second any news or rumor about "someone" beating it came out.

"You ever notice this game has a real arson problem" Indestructible yet still flammable buildings, that fits so well in this series. "I may have forgotten to make fire remove the immortal object tag"

Did the writers on _The Acolyte_ accidentally take the fire thing from _SAOA_ ? Still, Asuna being pretty much everyone's boogeyman is pretty epic _and_ hilarious. Much better than her just being a waiting damsel in distress.

SAOA

@@CaptainCFalcon My mistake. I type too damn fast sometimes.

@@VyceofMataMertha you're good

100 percent maximum no chill, even

@@blueSeele MAXIMUM UNDER-CHILL

Only extreme introverts like me can weather not talking to anyone for months without snapping. Most people figured out their limits during lockdown. I was just chilling.

Under chill? Believe it or not jail, over chill? Jail, Under Chill Over Chill (please tell me someone gets this reference lol) ​@thehoodedteddy1335

She didn't reconfigure herself to be like this. She was like this before, but Mama and Papa were right next to her, so she didn't need to move heaven and earth to find them. She was also making more of an effort to pretend to be a lost little girl. She did go cold when summoning the admin-sword to kill the grim reaper boss. Yui is a person, but not a human. She's built different.

I thought it was just a respawn timer. Like you died. Now you get to sit here. For a while. lol.

Whoah, spoilers...

Filtering out the slop, that is the way

Through fanfiction, found DOOM novellas that rival the real official books.

“Ignorance of Love” by TheLightsRefrain is possibly the most emotional and moving piece of literature I can remember reading. The prose itself is kind of bland, but even when you are actively trying to keep that in mind, the emotions still make that impossible. There’s also a lot of other stuff that’s independently good, but we’re talking about emotional things, not fanfic that’s independently amazing (though a lot of times if something was made after a long running thing was completed, they’re able to convey themes and such better- An Undertow of Sand covers many of the same things that the Percy Jackson series does, but both the preexisting context and lack of need to make it for kids allows it to explore some of those themes differently- someone who starts in a place of privilege and in denial of how actually fucked up his family’s dynamics are lends itself to a more nuanced story better than someone who starts with a terrible stepdad, an excellent mom, and a mid-dad he’s never met, and poor. Sasuke Uchiha and the Power of Lies, meanwhile deals with wholly different themes, instead going further into the natural consequences of the setting, starting from a place where it at first *seems* to be purely comedic, before pulling the rug out from under you and subverting *everything* you were expecting)

Yeah, fairies can be freaking brutal

Read more then

So what you saying is it's undeniably just a general thing; British in origin, but used equally by Canadians and Australians and so on. Calling it British slang, as the chatter did, would be like calling the word "hello" British slang

@@brinnshea Alright, question for you? Is Karaoke no longer a Japanese phenomenon because everyone does it now? It’s still Japanese characters, culture, and of the country’s style and history. So is it okay to innately disvalue someone’s creation because everyone says it? It doesn’t necessarily apply to everything either. There’s inventions that are specifically attributed to certain countries, yet they’re used globally. Belgian FAL, Swiss chocolate, American apple pie - that last one not even being their invention, it’s ours. So where would you put the line of understanding? Also, “hello,” isn’t slang so much as any other language. It’s not informal for one, which is the basics to any slang.

@@flarefox3118 To answer your question about karaoke properly, we first need to frame it the way the chatter framed their fairy statement. Now it becomes "there's this interesting thing done exclusively in Japan where they sing along to pre-recorded music while the lyrics are displayed on a screen". Any reasonable person would respond with "that's not exclusive to Japan"

@@brinnshea But it’s still an invention of Japan, and it’s still unfair to invalidate the ideas of a particular culture. If I frame it differently and I suppose additionally, by that logic, anime isn’t a Japanese thing either. Other countries produce anime per equal to Japan, so is that not a Japanese thing anymore? It’s general enough. And if we’re getting real fun here, “fairy,” as a word was largely spread by the 66% of the world’s land mass we conquered as the British Empire. It’s why English is one of the common languages of the world. So if we put it there, and people copy it, is that not just an imitation? Romans and many other central powers used chariots which were a Greek thing, and is still recognised as a Greek thing. So why’s this any different?

Cause the changes in SAO actually do have some transferences to real life. It affects your physical senses & nervous system, so his tastebuds are fully shot permanently.

... now that's a name I've not heard in a long time... God, that game was fucking fire. I miss it for real.

She had no involvement, cause this is some casual level racism if I've ever seen it. I'm certain Asuna is gonna be PISSED that she missed out on an incentivized race war.

@@CaptainCFalcon I didn't say she directly caused it. Only that she was the reason it exists through degrees of seperation.

"WHAT? IMPOSSIBLE! NOOOOOOOOOOO!" 🤣🤣🤣

Which one? "Kirito Prime"? "Suguha Speech"? "The Lore Explosion"?

@@gildedphoenix Spoilers

@@grownconch1327 there's no spoilers

​@@gildedphoenixthose are kinda spoiler-y.

@@CaptainCFalcon come on guys, learn the difference between teaser and spoiler.

Ah ah, until a character is introduced by name, that's a spoiler.

I forgot I was also a Grand Priest part of the cleargy leadership on the temple of the first god I cannot remember the name right now and held Mass once a week And was part of combating 3 hacking crisis we had in the game. God I miss it but that account got deleted ages ago

2 years is a little excessive… but that does sound pretty cool.

You know, besides Admin privileges.

Chillax, she'll get to it. I'm much happier to see a new face for SAOA, since that is significantly less popular. She'll be caught up with this by the end of the month if she keeps up this rate of uploads, so you don't have long to begin with.

She knows what that reference is. That's what she was talking about "Ass class" lol.

Indeed. Fringe scared me with it.

She lives with someone affected by it. But if you haven't seen the original uploads, it'll be explained later on why she wouldn't care.

He probably just sympathizes with a fellow nerd.

Kind've the same thing? But like, just not really fleshed out. He basically just kidnapped the other people to experiment on & torture for no real reason. It's not really touched up on, so like... yeah.

Amazing. They got a person to voice a character. Groundbreaking.