![]() ![]() hack//SIGN briefly appeared on Toonami’s lineup the year of its debut - but, at least anecdotally, it doesn’t seem like the show has had the staying power I would have expected. hack//SIGN, a one-season anime series from 2003 that’s finally streaming on Crunchyroll and Hulu, takes a serious stab at answering these questions, and manages to address the full constellation of reasons people play games - largely by ignoring actual gameplay. Why do people do anything? To escape their lives? To join a community of like-minded people that isn’t available to them in person? Because it’s cool to blow things up? Asking why people play video games is like asking why they watch TV, or why they eat pizza: You might be able to identify a few clusters of motivation (“it’s funny when Sheldon says ‘bazinga’ on The Big Bang Theory” “hot cheese and pepperoni are comforting”), but any given explanation won’t get too deep. ![]()
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