WEEK 2

[akudamods]

Saturday passes uneventfully save a little rain. It's on Sunday that you get a little notification of probation for new areas: Neo-Nipponbashi and Chuo. It'd be possible to investigate, to check out some anime, or to worship the defunct Shinkansen. But maybe it's hard to get excited about any of that when Friday’s events suggest that you have simply been provided some additional photogenic places to commit murder. Are you going to bother either overseer after their participation in some mockery of justice? Troll the internet? Get a bat out of Hyper Zone and just take out your frustration on everything?

Those of you who entered the pods will experience fewer “painful bursts of color” as your body is unaffected below the knees, though the same amount of “slight teleportation” glitches. Those of you who abstained from the pods will continue to experience all of the above as well as electric shock sensations occasionally when touching metal objects.

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[your_best_friend]

[* Some tools are easy. A simple video viewing software that can go frame-by-frame. A simple image editing software or website that can brighten, darken, change contrast, etc. But for the spectrogram? That one might be a little more difficult. He'd have to find (and maybe purchase) a Digital Audio Workstation, if there aren't any free audio-editing programs that have that option.]

[akudamods]

[Due to the length of the broadcast -- seven hours, a million and half frames -- it isn't feasible to get results from it.

From what you can tell, it’s definitely not raw, untouched content, though -- parts of the trial are missing, others are enhanced with angles and close-ups. You can’t say it’s malicious editing, but the more you watch, the clearer something else:

Nobody is coming out of this broadcast looking like a good person in the slightest.

It’s as if every moment that could lead people into thinking the X-Classes are collectively a nasty group who seek only to cause chaos and destruction -- which isn’t too far from the truth, but still! The first thing that comes when the trial opens is Wizard asking for popcorn. Belial accusing the overseers comes across as the X-Classes avoiding responsibility. Loremaster’s actions during the trial are largely untouched, the editor apparently satisfied with how it went. In general, anything that could be used to bersmich everyone was used.

What may be alarming, though, is the vague feeling of animosity you feel growing in you. Perhaps it’d be natural if you didn’t feel like it’s directed at yourself and your fellow X-Class Akudama. It’s subtle, but it’s there. This feeling will last for a while -- around a couple hours at most, but once it’s gone you’ll feel the difference.

The video was uploaded by an account that goes by the username of Miraicle.

That seems to be about it]