@ReZero_En While your point is completely valid, we must keep in mind that in that loop, Otto did not know Subaru in any capacity other than as his patron and they were being chased by the White Whale, one of the 3 most deadliest creatures in that world.

@TannerSmith87 @ReZero_En Subaru admitted to Otto that it was following them specifically because of him so his survival instincts kicked in and that’s what led him to try to kill Subaru.
@TannerSmith87 @ReZero_En Ok, so I have decided to finish what I started, but spoiler warning to anyone reading. As I was scrolling through the replies, a couple of points came up that I did not take into consideration, specifically Otto’s blessing and Subaru’s mental state.
@TannerSmith87 @ReZero_En At that time, the whale was whaling pretty loud but thinking about how it sounded with Otto’s Soul of Language blessing, this indicates that he could understand exactly what the whale was saying and maybe it had a harder on him because of that.
@TannerSmith87 @ReZero_En His backstory in the latest episode gives some evidence that this could happen, but that was from before he could control it so take that with a grain of salt. Now, let’s talk about Subaru’s behavior through Otto’s eyes in that loop.
@TannerSmith87 @ReZero_En Subaru was not mentally sound during the time. The White Whale done killed Rem with its Fog erasing all traces of Rem’s existence, including in Otto’s memory. So to Otto, Subaru was ranting about an imaginary person, assaulting Otto for not believing him, and trying to go back.
@TannerSmith87 @ReZero_En Add that to my previous point that Subaru admitted that he attracts the whale, at this point Otto would view Subaru as a madman making perfect logical sense to get rid of him for his own survival and whether or not Otto was in his right mind is up to debate.
@TannerSmith87 @ReZero_En Now, if we happen to think about how Otto views Subaru in Season 2, it’s drastically different than Subaru’s crazy loop. Back in Season 1, Ricardo saves Otto off-screen and gave the credit to Subaru and when he is captured by his rescuers, Subaru sets them straight.
@TannerSmith87 @ReZero_En So now, Otto views Subaru as his hero, but Subaru doesn’t realize this. We wouldn’t have known at the time, but with the new evidence of the latest episode, Otto revealing his blessing to Subaru at the end of season 1 shows how much he trusts Subaru at that point.
@TannerSmith87 @ReZero_En Lastly, we know that Otto wants to be Subaru’s friend and on Season 2 Episode 8, he shows that he is willing to die in order to protect Subaru, a stark contrast to the crazy loop. Considering the fact that he’s also past that checkpoint means this was his view throughout S2.
@TannerSmith87 @ReZero_En Thus, this shows that there are major differences to account for from when we first met Otto to his current disposition and while I am not refuting because like I said at the start, it is a valid point, there is sufficient evidence to prove the unlikeliness of it happening again.

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1. The death of Silicon Valley, a thread

How did Silicon Valley die? It was killed by the internet. I will explain.

Yesterday, my friend IRL asked me "Where are good old days when techies were


2. In the "good old days" Silicon Valley was about understanding technology. Silicon, to be precise. These were people who had to understand quantum mechanics, who had to build the near-miraculous devices that we now take for granted, and they had to work

3. Now, I love libertarians, and I share much of their political philosophy. But you have to be socially naive to believe that it has a chance in a real society. In those days, Silicon Valley was not a real society. It was populated by people who understood quantum mechanics

4. Then came the microcomputer revolution. It was created by people who understood how to build computers. One borderline case was Steve Jobs. People claimed that Jobs was surrounded by a "reality distortion field" - that's how good he was at understanding people, not things

5. Still, the heroes of Silicon Valley were the engineers. The people who knew how to build things. Steve Jobs, for all his understanding of people, also had quite a good understanding of technology. He had a libertarian vibe, and so did Silicon Valley
I shared this on my FB page and asked, can ya really blame him?

I was half kidding. I also assumed someone would think of what I did pretty quickly and waiting for the comment to mention what I assumed was obvious.

The timing. I was sure someone else had thought of it.


But no one did. 20+ comments in people discussed the morality or bad sense or libertarian perspectives. Someone even said I’m thinking about doing that. No one said what I thought was obvious. Have you thought of it? Is it obvious to you?

Here’s a clue...recognize it?


How about this?


The author discusses it with Mike Wallace in 1958

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Great article from @AsheSchow. I lived thru the 'Satanic Panic' of the 1980's/early 1990's asking myself "Has eveyrbody lost their GODDAMN MINDS?!"


The 3 big things that made the 1980's/early 1990's surreal for me.

1) Satanic Panic - satanism in the day cares ahhhh!

2) "Repressed memory" syndrome

3) Facilitated Communication [FC]

All 3 led to massive abuse.

"Therapists" -and I use the term to describe these quacks loosely - would hypnotize people & convince they they were 'reliving' past memories of Mom & Dad killing babies in Satanic rituals in the basement while they were growing up.

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FC was a movement that started with the claim severely handicapped individuals were able to 'type' legible sentences & communicate if a 'helper' guided their hands over a keyboard.