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This seems to be a VR game that is a window into the current future, with our oblivious ML's gaming mindset making huge advancements in the timeline. Also yes mechs cool! I like the more grounded approach to them, and the contrast to the enemy.The author gets you to the premise in the very first chapter and its off with a bang.So far as of ch21 everything about the setting is consistent enough for me, I think its an amazing bit of fun. I absolutely love it so far. There may be some cultural plot seeding/ foreshadowing techniques that don't translate to me as a western reader and the tropes used in Japanese media, but it's still close enough to be fun, although I do get a sense I'm missing something.The notion I have is our dense protag has a in-world explanation for why they're a dense protag. Its hinted at, and I think we'll see it come out, which makes it feel fine to me for him to be this sort of dull witted about it.**The author double downs then triple downs that the protag has no secret power, but keeps revealing interesting new ideas about what could possibly be going on... I mean come on. At this point I'm betting on a long shot, but I want to believe that its going to be a sweet rug pull moment when we find out that actually something was going on. I have to believe it because its a freaking hilarious bit of fun if that happens. An opportunity lost if it doesn't!