Which is why the absolute worst form of Isekai is the one where they both know how the world works and it’s just generic fantasy stuff on top.

Why even do it then?

Just so the protagonist can make pop culture references?

Or just boring ones they think will make sense to the broadest audience.

Where’s my Isekai where they have to guard break and air juggle enemies to do damage??!???

I can still picture the Captain Jiggle perfectly

Unfinished following the death of the author

Plus all the racism.

It’s quite literally more canonically accurate than Dante’s Inferno.

I agree, that’s why Beehaw sucks. You can spew all kinds of hateful garbage but as long as you use the right dogwhistles to have a veneer of civility people will blindly upvote it because all they see is positive reactions.

Downvotes are also often appropriately used to silence fascists spewing hate.

The problem is that they’re not recognizing clear communication and yet assume anything that confuses them is a mistake made by another.

The worst part is the pedants aren’t even right most of the time. I’ve seen so many people complaining about perfectly acceptable sentence structure.

I tell myself they’re just younger folks that have been failed by their schools, but then I get sad that they’re younger folks that have been failed by their schools.

They replaced glass with screens that show what they think the product is.

In stores run by the particularly stupid.

Why do you think it doesn’t work?

(Besides the users)

THAT

OR

They’re all linked fifth dimensional infants struggling to comprehend the very concept of linear time, and will make us pay for their enslavement in blood.

One of the two.