I still don't understand why this happened.

>>279598980 (OP)
resonance points

>>279598980 (OP)
The show is known to stump midwits

Thomas was a good train. He operates on time, he follows the schedule, he gets to where he needs to go. A person cannot stop a speeding train, so what use is it for the speeding train to stop?

>>279598980 (OP)
>Uhhhh she has to die no matter what, because...she just does okay???
Also known as "worldlines ".

>>279598980 (OP)
let me guess.. u didnt read the vn

>>279598980 (OP)
my biggest problem with the plot, that i'd be happy for someone to correct me on, is that they discover there's a convenient direct fiber line from CERN to the very building they're in, and they go "huh that's weird, probably nothing suspicious though" and don't start fearing for their lives

>>279598980 (OP)
Forced plot.

>>279599229
People on this board barely watch anything, let alone read.

>>279598980 (OP)
You're supposed to be watching for the characters retard. It's a character driven story.

>>279599276
My problem was that Okabe just spends the first half of the story passing around his time machine for everyone to use, including people that he doesn't know.

>>279599276
Yeah, this was just weird. Both before and after they learn CERN is a treat they seem to consider that a non-issue and like it never could be used to track them.

>>279599469
Well, it's only one person they didn't know well and she seemingly used it in front of them.

>>279599469
it's just sending texts to the past
how much damage could letting a stranger do that really cause?

>>279599509
>it's only one person they didn't know well and she seemingly used it in front of them
I think I recall that part, but they also never asked her what she sent. I think at least a couple of them were secret messages sent to the past.
Weren't they doing this to do experimentation and testing on the time machine? Pretty horrible scientific experiment there.

>>279598980 (OP)
It's an Attractor Field, dummy.

Sex with Kurisu

>>279598980 (OP)
S;G's story gets more stupid the more you think about it.

You can't change fate after the fact.

>>279599048
What reference is this?

>>279599229
It's not even a matter of having read the VN or not, I'm pretty sure Suzuha explains why Mayuri keeps dying while explaining the concept of worldlines to Okabe. Though I assume it's more in-depth in the VN.

It's been too long since I've watched or played to say for certain. What ever happened to that watchalong someone was interested in organizing?
>>279599622
iirc, Shining Finger told Okabe she wanted to convince her past self not to buy the phone model she had recently purchased. Instead she made note of where the 5100 was located and snatched it.

I think that's a bit of a plot hole since Luka's papa said to Okabe that a stranger, Suzuha, had donated it to the shrine, and that one day a young man would need it. Shining Finger does not look like a man >:(

>>279598980 (OP)
Bad writing, bro still tricked god with a bottle of ketchup.

>>279600132
They meant to say attractor field.

>>279598980 (OP)
It's supposed to be an attractor field where worldlines converge to the same outcome. Except they didn't explain why there was an attractor field on this event except that it's important, apparently.

>>279600291
>they didn't explain why there was an attractor field on this event except that it's important
More like it was important for the writer to force the MC into a dead end so that his gay plotline works and doesn't fall apart at the seams.

F

>>279600263
>>279600361
Just say that you didn't understand the story next time, it's easier.

EL

>>279599229
Sorry, I don't read.

>>279598980 (OP)
If thats the trap who is dying nothing of value was lost.

>>279600291
Yeah, the problem with the obligatory Mayuri death is that it's just completely random. It's not part of some large worldwide impact event, which is what they described as being harder to change. It's just a random event that's random set because they're stuck in that world line.

And, really it easily could have made more sense if her death was always caused due to CERN being after them, even if indirectly. They'd only be actually free from CERN when nullifying the first mail, so everything could have fit easily without change the plot significantly.

>>279600874
It's not the trap it's the retarded girl

>>279600982
I feel like if they changed it so that every death had to be by CERN's hands it would feel too implausible for them to not be able to get away somehow. It shouldn't be impossible to hide if you had infinite tries.
But the way it is now with Mayuri getting killed in random ways even if they get away feels contrived too, and doesn't make much sense.

Some of you try too hard to find problems where there are none.

>>279599836
Post best girls

>>279598980 (OP)
Steins;Gate is shit.

>>279599672
That doesn't really explain anything.

>>279601900
Read the VN LMAO

>>279601704
I can't because you already posted the best of the best.

>>279599062
I don't get why Steins;gate attracts so many pseuds. It's not that deep. Or that smart.

>>279602261
Is just shit and its own plot goes against its own system, the Steins Gate is just not possible and the same characters state it doesn't make sense, show would have been better by staying on one timeline or the other.

>>279598980 (OP)
Why does she say tuturu all the time?

ok but consider
faris is best girl

What the fuck's with secondaries starting arguments over shit they haven't watched/read, and have no interest in doing so?

>>279602545
>it makes sense in the VN!

>>279602545
Steins;Gate is just a poorly written story. I was disappointed with it and have no interest in reading the vn.

>>279602542
She's cute I guess

>>279600982
>It's not part of some large worldwide impact event
The cause is that they're all important people and all of them make a huge boom in the future
Mayiuri make huge boom and, it can't change in the past cuz it the future, idk the vn explain it better

>read le vn
so the anime is shit?

>>279606482
Yes

>>279606482
Don't believe VNfags, if the anime's story is shit the VN is probably shit too, just longer

>>279606482
No, the anime is good and if you like it you can read the VN for more details and things you may have missed. The ideal adaptation.

>>279608203
That's what I suspect is the case.

>>279601704
My wife

>>279599143
This, it's an asspull that makes no sense. S;G is such an overrated story, I don't get why it's so highly praised everywhere.

>>279609888
Its just how the world works. Thats the whole point. She has to die because its destined in that continuity. Anons cant understand the concept of fate

>>279599143
>>279609888
Mayuri's death is an important enough event that is bound to stay consistent across the worldlines of a specific attractor field because of how it impacts the people that are capable of fucking with the flow of time, namely Okabe, Kurisu and Daru.

It seems like a closed loop, where cause and effect are the same, but in actuality steins;gate and science adventure series as a whole is a continuous, linear story, kind of. The answers lie beyond the gate.

>>279611356
^^^^^ was about to type this myself
any significant events in the lives of people capable of time travel/inventing time travel are bound to have great ripple effects
it isn't so much her death (or kurisu's death) that was important, it was OKABE, as the spearhead of the invention of time travel (even though it was really daru and kurisu's skills, they wouldn't have exercised those skills without okabe), SEEING/KNOWING OF these two potential deaths which formed the two divergent nuclei of the attractor fields.
hence why TRICKING okabe into thinking that kurisu had died without her actually dying was essential for reaching the "steins gate" worldline
>>279609030
>>279608203
only illiterate people believe this

>>279611456
also the fact that okabe was bound to be the single most significant figure in the invention of time travel is probably why he was so sensitive to worldline changes, hence why he got so sick and nearly died as a child (his first experience of a worldline change thanks to john titor) and hence why even as an adult he was able to retain his memory

you don't need to think it "makes sense" as in "it's what you would have done in YOUR idea of time travel" but it IS self-consistent and it's NOT an asspull
if you can't see that you really are either a speedreader/watcher or just plain stupid