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** And now, in his [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/1260 latest appearance]], he has seem using two Wiimotes as weapons (to summon a huge [[{{Tetris}} L block]]).
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** And now, in his [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/1260 latest appearance]], he has seem using two Wiimotes as weapons (to summon a huge [[{{Tetris}} [[VideoGame/{{Tetris}} L block]]).
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He uses "fsck" as an expletive. If you need to use fsck(2)...well, you aren't having a good day, to say the least.
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He uses "fsck" as an expletive. If you need to use fsck(2)...fsck(8)...well, you aren't having a good day, to say the least.
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[[WMG: Dom is a sysadmin]]
He uses "fsck" as an expletive. If you need to use fsck(2)...well, you aren't having a good day, to say the least.
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[[WMG: Most of Tokyo is actually made up of androids]]
Think about it. The police only seem worried about the deaths and emotional well-being of named characters, and yet they organize "events" that cause hundreds of causalities. Also note [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/1011 here]], where a zombie notes that "This Tokyo. No one's brain real." So, basically, WhatMeasureIsANonHuman is well in play here--the police are sacrificing countless robots so that the various enemies of Tokyo don't kill actual humans.\\
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This also explains the zombies' actions a bit better. It's clear that the androids are advanced enough to be infected, so they were planning on using the "event" as a stepping stone to ''actually'' conquer Tokyo.
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\ On several occasions, Largo has described video games as a conduit for the soul, and at one point explicitly told Miho that his training his students in gaming would keep them from falling prey to her. At the time, it just seemed like crazy talk, but with everything else we've seen (and the fact that Largo has proven to be pretty much immune to Miho), its quite likely its true.\\
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\ Conclusion: l33t speaking, loud, crazy Largo isn't {{Flanderization}} or even CharacterizationMarchesOn--it's his ''battle mode''. Once he concludes Miho is no longer a threat, he'll settle down a bit.
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[[WMG: Largo isn't as crazy as he seems]]
Okay, [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight obviously]], but I meant more his speech patterns. As someone said on the main page: There ere two Largos--the one from before he found the book in the sewer, and the one after. I propose its something else: The behavior shift is completely intentional, and based on realizing who Miho was.\\
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\ On several occasions, Largo has described video games as a conduit for the soul, and at one point explicitly told Miho that his training his students in gaming would keep them from falling prey to her. At the time, it just seemed like crazy talk, but with everything else we've seen (and the fact that Largo has proven to be pretty much immune to Miho), its quite likely its true.\\
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\ Conclusion: l33t speaking, loud, crazy Largo isn't {{Flanderization}} or even CharacterizationMarchesOn--it's his ''battle mode''. Once he concludes Miho is no longer a threat, he'll settle down a bit.
[[WMG: Despite what Fred said, everything we see is real]]
Recently, the author suggested that large portions of the comic, including the entirety of Kimiko, were just figments of Piro's imagination. I say he was just being a TeasingCreator. Why? Because we've seen multiple scenes from only Kimiko's view, people who have nothing to do with Piro interact with her, and the story makes zero sense if you just cut her out wholesale. Would it be a twist? Sure. But it would be bad story writing, and a cruel trick on the readers.
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* Alternatively, Largo is a (Grimm) [[GeniusTheTransgression Genius]]
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The Zombies are real zombies and so are the Zillas - in a game. Ed & Dom are NPCs in something like Grand Theft Auto, Ping, Erika, Kimoko and the rest of the girls are NPCs in dating sims. It explains why they just happen to work with (and date) not one but two popular performing idols, how Largo was able to get a job teaching English and all of the other craziness in the series. It's all just games.
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The Zombies are real zombies and so are the Zillas - in a game. Ed & Dom are NPCs [=NPCs=] in something like Grand Theft Auto, Ping, Erika, Kimoko and the rest of the girls are NPCs [=NPCs=] in dating sims. It explains why they just happen to work with (and date) not one but two popular performing idols, how Largo was able to get a job teaching English and all of the other craziness in the series. It's all just games.
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[[WMG: Mega Tokyo is a mass interaction of gamers playing different games and only Miho, Largo and Piro are 'real']]
The Zombies are real zombies and so are the Zillas - in a game. Ed & Dom are NPCs in something like Grand Theft Auto, Ping, Erika, Kimoko and the rest of the girls are NPCs in dating sims. It explains why they just happen to work with (and date) not one but two popular performing idols, how Largo was able to get a job teaching English and all of the other craziness in the series. It's all just games.
Yes, this means Piro will end up with Miho or no one.
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[[WMG: Piro ends up with Miho in an unexpected FirstGirlWins]]
The recent comics seem to be going in this direction with Piro and Kimiko's implied relationship problems and Piro's path of reconciliation with Miho. In the current chapter Piro has also let Miho stay in the apartment, at least for the moment so they can talk things out when he can get some time to speak with her. As she can't go back to her house or the hospital now, it's conceivable that she might end up staying with them for while (which, on a side note, would stir up a lot of drama because of Largo's reaction that would be simultaneously hilarious and awkward to watch) which could also help them get closer. There are definite trust issues, but Miho quite possibly (still) has feelings for Piro and she's also quite good at getting Piro to open up and talk about things, however resentful he might be. Honestly, I hope it doesn't happen; I enjoy watching Piro and Kimiko's relationship change over time as it matures and look forward to it working out in the end, but it's certainly plausible that he could end up with Miho instead. Of course, all that assumes that Miho, implied to be some sot of game archetype with sad overtones is even capable of having a "good ending".
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** Adding to that, I've thought in the past that perhaps Piro might choose to stay while Largo returns to America with Erika. The reasoning has to do with a few things. First, Erika can speak English while Largo can't speak Japanese, so if they get together permanently it could be easier for him to function in an English speaking society without any language disadvantages for Erika. Erika probably doesn't have as much focus in America as she does in Japan as well, which would make it easier for her to live a less stressful life. Piro would choose to stay in Japan with Kimiko as she, like Largo, is monolingual and doesn't speak English. He also seems to be much more at home in Japan than he seems to have ever been in America anyway.
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[[WMG: Emotional Dolls are based upon R.O.B. 2.0]]
Because the pattern for Sony products is that they tend to not be as innovative as other lines, but the systems have better specs. One could imagine that, in a world with as loose physics as Megatokyo, they could improve Rob to sentience. After it was released, Sony made it look realistically human (Rob would probably still look like he did before, but bigger).
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* This is assuming that one has to be a delusion for the other to be fully real. If Piro's world is't real, there'd be no "Kimiko protection" organization. If Largo's isn't real, ''Masamichi'' (not to mention Meimi) ''is clinically insane''.
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* This is assuming that one has to be a delusion for the other to be fully real. If Piro's world is't isn't real, there'd be no "Kimiko protection" organization. protection organization". If Largo's isn't real, ''Masamichi'' (not to mention Meimi) ''is ''Masamichi is clinically insane''.
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Fred hinted at this in his [[http://forums.megatokyo.com/index.php?showtopic=1723206&st=50&#entry4471300 rant]], basically saying that we readers just assume that what Piro sees is true because its more mundane. He then says that there's something odd about Piro's world. It will be and interesting twist.
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Fred hinted at this in his [[http://forums.megatokyo.com/index.php?showtopic=1723206&st=50&#entry4471300 rant]], basically saying that we readers just assume that what Piro sees is true because its more mundane. He then says that there's something odd about Piro's world. It will be and interesting twist. twist.
* This is assuming that one has to be a delusion for the other to be fully real. If Piro's world is't real, there'd be no "Kimiko protection" organization. If Largo's isn't real, ''Masamichi'' (not to mention Meimi) ''is clinically insane''.
* This is assuming that one has to be a delusion for the other to be fully real. If Piro's world is't real, there'd be no "Kimiko protection" organization. If Largo's isn't real, ''Masamichi'' (not to mention Meimi) ''is clinically insane''.
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* But why would he need Boo as a conscience? He had/has Hobbes.
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** The Cool Thing is currently making Largo at least half, if not fully, indestructible. Remember the power line incident?
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[[WMG:Largo's view of reality is the correct one while Piro lives in a delusion ]]
Basically all the zombies, zilla's and Ninjas exists objectively while Piro lives in Dating-sim fueled delusion.
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* This is all but cannon. They have gotten as far as her code name starting with Mysterio... As in, Mysterious Thief Saint Tail.
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* This is all but cannon.canon. They have gotten as far as her code name starting with Mysterio... As in, Mysterious Thief Saint Tail.
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* There also seems to be the implication that she ''was'' a real person at one point, since Junko's father brings up how no one knows what her original story was, just how powerful, endearing, and enduring it turned out to be. Miho also hints at this while she was complaining about Kimiko's attachment to the Kotone character, and during her rant at Yuki. This changed after people stopped caring about her and more about the emotions she invoked in them. Her MG status could be either a representation of the archetype she Analogues, or she could have been one originally. And now she seems to be worried about people "reconstructing" her...
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[[WMG: Ed is Largo's EvilCounterpart.]]
Gonna feel really stupid if Fred's already said this, or it's common consideration, but still.
Of all the characters in the strip, Largo shares the most in common with Ed (Dom is close, but a little too intelligent and [[ManipulativeBastard favoring of other methods]]), especially in how they react to Japan. Both are hardcore FPS gamers, both have serious hard-ons for flashy, immensely destructive weaponry, both take to the mech-piloting, 'zilla-riding, zombie-blasting, robot-fighting side of (Mega)Tokyo's reality like ducks to water...and both become progressively more "insane" (relatively speaking) as a result. Largo, however, gets his madness tempered somewhat (especially by Erika, but with some significant input from [[MoralityPet Boo]] and [[WhatTheHellHero Junko]], as well), and he comes with his own (mildly skewed) sense of honor to begin with. Ed, on the other hand, is given carte blanche by his employers to kill Ping (with the mild caveat to stay away from Erika), given the ability to essentially respawn in RL, and his schemes to carry that mission out get increasingly violent; everything in Ping or Miho's general area has become, in his words, "entertaining collateral damage." There's also hints (well...strong hints) that he was something of a psycho to begin with.
By this point, Largo has managed to reconcile his reality with some semblance of normality. Ed, on the other hand, has submerged in that reality, and with his recent failure to permanently kill Miho, he's finally become [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/1259 totally]] [[VillainousBreakdown unhinged]].
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[[WMG: The Cool Thing [[ChekovsGun will end up doing something important eventually]].]]
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[[WMG: Penny Arcade, PVP, and MegaTokyo are all part of the same universe]]
Basically, the idea is that all three webcomics are really part of a single universe where there is NoFourthWall and the authors of each of the strips are PhysicalGods within the universe (except Piro and Largo are unaware of this for some reason).
For more information, see the relevant theorem at the ''PennyArcade'' [[{{WMG/PennyArcade}} WMG page]].
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[[WMG: The Cave of Evil is a [[ChangelingTheLost Freehold]]. Most of the regulars are some sort of Changeling.]]
The Cave of Evil is all about manipulating emotions, particularly that of "the horde", all those otaku/zombies that infest the place. The folks that run the place use it to soak up all the emotions that they generate and thus replenish their glamour. Tohya, the queen of whatever court it is (I'm not really sure), is some form of Fairest who has found herself in over her head with manipulating people, and is worried that all the commotion will draw the attention of the True Fae. The main cast is occasionally allowed to pierce the Mask, but only Erika and Largo have any real idea what's going on, and Largo is tempered by his general bug-fuck craziness. Komugiko is obviously Beast Seeming.
The Cave of Evil is all about manipulating emotions, particularly that of "the horde", all those otaku/zombies that infest the place. The folks that run the place use it to soak up all the emotions that they generate and thus replenish their glamour. Tohya, the queen of whatever court it is (I'm not really sure), is some form of Fairest who has found herself in over her head with manipulating people, and is worried that all the commotion will draw the attention of the True Fae. The main cast is occasionally allowed to pierce the Mask, but only Erika and Largo have any real idea what's going on, and Largo is tempered by his general bug-fuck craziness. Komugiko is obviously Beast Seeming.
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[[WMG: Largo is [[CalvinAndHobbes Calvin]] grown up.]]
'Largo' is clearly a pseudonym. The personality and detatchment from our reality match.
'Largo' is clearly a pseudonym. The personality and detatchment from our reality match.
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He admitted the reason he even drew the first couple of strips was so he could shut Rodney up and stated that if Penny Arcade never linked them, he wouldn't have done any more. Over the years there have been lots of filler, hiatuses and half-finished strips. There was a point in 2009 where he was weeks behind his update schedule and without even uploading a filler page, he took a vacation for two weeks. And this is his full time job, so he relies on it to support his family, as does his wife since her job is the business side, so you'd think he'd be more focussed on it. I think he just does it to sell the merchandise and for the fans he's acquired.
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** also, the things he says about Ping basically amounts to "interfaces should bring people together, not separate them." Nintendo's latest system, the Wii, is all about personal interaction while games on Sony and Microsoft systems have the potential to alienate people (take a shot whenever somone insults you in Modern Warfare 2 online. Soon you won't be able to hear them properly.
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** also, the things he says about Ping basically amounts to "interfaces should bring people together, not separate them." Nintendo's latest system, the Wii, is all about personal interaction while games on Sony and Microsoft systems have the potential to alienate people (take a shot whenever somone insults you in Modern Warfare 2 online. Soon you won't be able to hear them properly.
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[[WMG: Ed's gonna need some more facial reconstruction surgery.]]
At the end of chapter 10, the Cave of Evil goes boom with him at the epicenter. and given his tract record with this, it probably is going to happen again.
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[[WMG: Fred hates Megatokyo.]]
He admitted the reason he even drew the first couple of strips was so he could shut Rodney up and stated that if Penny Arcade never linked them, he wouldn't have done any more. Over the years there have been lots of filler, hiatuses and half-finished strips. There was a point in 2009 where he was weeks behind his update schedule and without even uploading a filler page, he took a vacation for two weeks. And this is his full time job, so he relies on it to support his family, as does his wife since her job is the business side, so you'd think he'd be more focussed on it. I think he just does it to sell the merchandise and for the fans he's acquired.
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* Specifically, [[http://www.megatokyo.com/strip/744 in the earlier comic in question]], Dom mentioned a Nintendo representative that he and Ed "chunked" when Sega was promoting the Dreamcast and about how Nintendo hadn't been able to find anyone to replace him. Flash forward [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/1159 about 400 strips]] to Junko's father mentioning "that position I haven't been able to fill... for years". Add in Junko's father's rather disparaging words about Ping (a Sony product) and the fact that he's scouting Miho like Dom has been scouting Erika and Kimiko, and, well...
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[[WMG: At the end Piro and Largo will choose to stay (as in IChooseToStay) in Tokyo ]]
* Think about it. In Tokyo they have girlfriends, a job and probably better living options that they have home. If they ever return to the states would be more to pick up their stuff there to move back and to be able to adjust their legal situation.
