Lurker > YoukaiSlayer

Wait, you mean NF doesn't have the whole thing at once? That's so annoying.

Is that isekai uncle anime any good?

I think everyone here will like Akiba Maid. Yes even you helly.

Unless RaRo made another ASMR anime?

I really want a "kai" version for Naruto/Bleach/One Piece. Naruto and Bleach would be easy, since they're done and they could do One Piece arc by arc.

bleach had a lot of filler, fortunately it wasn't egregious like Naruto where the majority of it is filler, but

I am only 9 minutes into the first episode, but Do It Yourself!! is fantastic.

the ENTIRE FUCKING GAME was building up to the themes you despise. like this is the 7th xeno game and you explicitly hated the previous one, maybe this series just isn't for you

I do hope that if we get a s2, we get proper introductions and not just have that last rush as their intros.

I could just be stupid. It could be a harem trope or something.

I know none of you care based upon the literal pages of discussion about a game I hate without knowing anything about

From the perspective of an immortal god, individuals' deaths and rebirths are pretty meaningless. He just sees that as a means to an end, namely minimizing total suffering (as he defines it) by making sure that everything is as predictable as possible. That's a very human bit of egocentrism.

It's stated that it condenses it, but not how or what that means, so there's some room for interpretation there. It's explicitly stated elsewhere that black fog density doesn't correlate with annihilation risk, so it's not simply a matter of "cram enough fog in here then it'll explode," so it has to depend on something else. Then, once the fog begins the annihilation reaction, the cannon shoots it somewhere else to explode.

Even if Aionios weren't destroyed, though, they'd still have died. All that work you put into getting Zeon his potatoes? He's 10th term and will be dead in less than a year. Isurd finally learned to trust his lieutenants enough to not mire them down in bureaucracy? One of them will be taking over his position when he dies next year. Valdi? He's finally free to make new robot friends for a whole four more years.

Sure, you can say that they've left legacies and whatnot, but every single person that was freed from the flame clock will be dead within 10 years, and many of them much sooner than that. Virtually every one of those colonies is going to fall to ruin after being abandoned because there aren't enough people left to maintain them (bearing in mind that the Castle isn't going to be sending replacements) and the survivors gather together in a desperate attempt to make enough babies to avoid extinction (the oldest of which will be around 4-5 when the last of the original adults die, if we assume that nobody reproduces before 14-15). The only chance of passing anything on is to become assimilated by the City, which gives them the opportunity to have a kid, but really not much else, and whatever they achieved as a colony is going to be largely irrelevant in the face of the City having already done it.

Quite simply, there is no future for Aionios without Moebius supplying a steady stream of new people. The paradigm Z established means - probably deliberately - that it's all but impossible to get a self-sustaining population going. It is bleak, so as terrible as it seems to willingly wipe it all out for the sake of recreating a world free of Moebius, that really is the only way people can actually be granted the freedom to live their lives as they want to. Our role throughout the story and side quests is to give people the chance to enjoy a small fraction of that freedom before their rapidly-approaching demise, which primes them to want it enough to overcome the fear that gave rise to Moebius in the first place.

That's understandable. It's a profoundly depressing setting and it doesn't sugarcoat the ending to make it happy enough to offset that.

A new thing that looks exactly like you, has exactly the same memories, personality, beliefs, and experiences, and will behave exactly as you would have, were you still around to do it. Being destroyed and recreated exactly as you were an instant prior is functionally identical to surviving the destructive event. I'd call that a whole lot better than not surviving it.

There's a bit of inference involved in guessing that the annihilation issue is based on matter-antimatter interactions, since that's a bit of real-world physics that lines up perfectly with the phenomena described, but that's well within the realm of reading between the lines.

They made it using pre-existing technology (Origin's data is stored in core crystals, which were already available in Alrest) to manipulate an energy source far, far greater than anything they could ever have created themselves (a universe's worth of E=mc^2). Nothing about that means they have the power nor the knowledge to do everything that energy could possibly be used for.

Nia's animation of the collision suggests it's quite a bit more than just a couple planets colliding. A spaceship isn't going to be able to cover that kind of distance before the annihilation blast (which would be moving at the speed of light) catches up to them.

Again, it's not really oblivion if you remember and continue to experience everything that existed before the event. Nobody's past ever really exists. Memories and extrapolations from present observations are all we have by which to define it.

The heavy black fog presence around each castle is mostly *because* of the Annihilator, which inherently attracts black fog (the same way interlinking does, so it probably works on a similar principle). It's loosely implied that black fog is a symptom of an impending annihilation event, rather than the cause. While having lots of black fog around is correlated with a higher risk of an annihilation event, it does not itself seem to create one just by virtue of existing in an area.

You already touched on why it isn't pointless: If the colonies were left alone, Moebius would be reborn as soon as the worlds' collision resumed and we'd have to start all over again. Freeing the colonies was a vital part of helping them all cope with their fear of an unknown future so they could move forward into it.

It solves the practical issue of "these people are no longer present in the universe," which is better than not solving that issue if we start from fundamentally valuing their presence. There's room to debate the philosophy of what it means to exist as a person, but this is definitely the best available solution to ensure that the worlds don't disappear permanently, considering what would be involved in "solving" unbreakable laws of matter.

That applies to a lot of this game. It very much employs a "show, don't tell" approach to much of its storytelling and worldbuilding, with things not necessarily being explicitly explained but making sense if you think about how everything fits together.

Maybe they don't have the power to access it. They are also mortal (exceptionally long-lived, but most of the reason they're still around now is because they were held in various forms of stasis), so "freeze time for everyone else until we figure out a way to fundamentally rewrite physics" isn't necessarily a safe bet, especially if maintaining time in that frozen state requires additional energy input (such as, from a synthetic world where people's life energy is routinely harvested to keep the system running).

Into a human-ish form. A central theme of all three Xenoblade games has been to explore the implications of gods being limited by human thinking and weakness.

And the N that exists as a separate, genocidal maniac has met with the appropriate stabbity death to prevent further maniacal genocide. Anything past that stabbity death is a matter of Noah learning how not to end up following the same path, since they are in fact copies of the same person (with the same personalities, beliefs, and attitudes). The difference is that our Noah ended up meeting the right people to support him through losing Mio (including M sacrificing herself in Mio's stead), allowing him to break the cycle of despair that created and sustained N.

Consider those more abstract representations of N and M. Just as Noah and Mio represent the parts of N and M that regretted the way things turned out, N and M represent the parts of Noah and Mio that are afraid of the future and want to keep things the same, which Noah and Mio had to let go of to defeat Z. When Noah incorporated N, that wasn't a matter of forgiving N for the genocide, it was a matter of accepting that N's attitudes and beliefs were a part of him that he had to deal with instead of denying.

Unfortunately, you can't really design a world in which everyone has the freedom to choose how to live their lives around the fundamental requirement that a handful of people have nuclear artillery that you just have to trust they won't misuse or lose control of. The Annihilator also doesn't really redirect annihilation events that would otherwise happen so much as it induces new, controlled ones, so I don't think it could really solve the issue.

That's only *because* we give them that freedom, though. It's a recurring theme with every single colony that they want to live differently but can't because filling up the Clock takes all of their time and energy. If the Clocks are a requirement for the world to exist (as they seem to be, since Moebius needs to maintain the world and the Clocks maintain Moebius), then the world prevents people from living their lives freely.

In a nutshell, the worlds were going to annihilate into energy upon coming in contact with each other (even if other collisions don't involve annihilation, fully overlapping would cause it). Origin is a sort of Ark (in a game where the protagonist's name is Noah, because Takahashi) that contains a comprehensive record of the worlds and every person living in them that will harness the energy of that apocalyptic annihilation recreate the worlds instantly in the same state they were prior to impact (except presumably more stably to prevent them from having the same problem again). That does mean everybody dies (including the queens) but identical copies (complete with memories) are created instantly after their death, so calling it a practical solution isn't inaccurate. It's like ideas of teleportation that rely on destroying your local self and recreating you elsewhere: It means you die, but nothing about you is actually lost, so it's fine. The alternative is that everyone just dies, so...

Aionios exists because Moebius used Origin's power to freeze time, then force the two worlds as close as possible to overlapping before actually annihilating, allowing them to exist without having to fear what might happen if Origin didn't work (which is what coalesced into Moebius in the first place as a consequence of compiling everyone's thoughts and wills inside Origin). When Moebius was defeated and Origin was set back on its original course, they separated and went back to their original states and collision course (and then were recreated by Origin).

Because when your existence consists of eternally repeating the same experiences and actions out of fear of facing unforeseen adversity, you're pretty inevitably going to start trying to come up with ways to have fun with that process.

Given the thermodynamic implications of eternally respawning people, I'm guessing the "life energy" that is harvested is based on their memories and emotions and other such things that don't typically get carried over. That means carrying them over would make the system unsustainable (even more so than it already is), especially given the need to store that information somehow (everyone's birth states are roughly based on how they were stored in Origin when Aionios began). As for the life spans, letting people live out full lives would mean 8-9 times as much life energy would be tied up in the system at any given time, and I could believe that a monster born of the collective unconscious' fear of change would rather limit people's lifespans than choose to leave 85%+ of people out of the new world.

Bionis and Alrest and their constituent parts are essentially matter and antimatter. If they collide, they would annihilate each other and nothing would be left. Origin was meant to be a way to allow the worlds to merge or coexist without annihilation. The process failed partway through due to Z's meddling, so the current status quo at the end of the game is a temporary delay measure.

Uhhh, no? The world as it is was running out of energy very slowly over time and wouldn't ACTUALLY last forever. What do you think annihilation events are? It's "matter and antimatter" colliding. The world is very, very gradually being destroyed. I feel like this is the biggest thing you aren't getting. The "eternal now" is a soft lie.

The part of M that she entrusted to Mio was still around. M both merged and swapped at the same time. Soul shenanigans isn't a zero-sum game or Mio would never have been born from M's regret to begin with.

Being content to living on Aionos inherently isn't moving forward. The whole game, they were fighting to dismantle the status quo, which was stillness as provided by Z. The current situation is like sitting on a BSOD until your computer craps out.

Ghondor and Monica made some kind of comment about hoping to be reborn in the separated worlds. Their souls were recorded by Origin, so it's definitely possible. Might be part of the final DLC plot, which I'm guessing is going to be a sequel, not a prequel like Torna. Though prequel is entirely possible, covering the City's founding.