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== Longest pitching run ever ==
* Running parallel to the events of the movie is the baseball tournament Ryohei's team is participating in. Ryohei is the team's star pitcher. Instead, the movie shows Ryohei pitching four consecutive complete games, including one that goes into 15 extra innings. Considering that the tournament is said to last 10 days, not counting the championship game, the movie leads you to believe that Ryohei pitches a complete game 11 days in a row. Starting pitchers are given at least 3 days rest between starts, especially after heavy pitching days, such as a complete game, in order to avoid catastrophic arm injury, a very common occurrence with starting pitchers. Also, doesn't this team have any other pitchers?
** You're thinking of US baseball. Japanese baseball has a different mindset - it's accepted to keep playing the same starting pitcher until he drops.
== Koi Koi math ==
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* Why the ''hell'' did the U.S. military decide to release Love Machine into OZ as a test? I mean, seriously, the thing is used by ''most world governments and businesses''. Unless you plan on crippling the entire world (including YOURSELVES) during a war, that isn't a good testing ground!
** They seriously underestimated what Love Machine could do and wanted the plausible deniability that anonymously releasing it into Oz would provide. They probably thought they had a killswitch to stop Love Machine once the test run was finished, and one of the first things Love Machine did was disable it.
** The test was probably to see if Love Machine could get into OZ at all. The military wanted to see if Love Machine was clever enough to compromise OZ, presumably so they could use it to watch the world's business and government transactions from the inside. Love Machine's strategy at the beginning was admirably low-key and subtle, just as an intelligence agency would want. After it got in, however, it revealed why it was completely and utterly unsuited to clandestine work; it had a flair for the dramatic, a major power complex, and a vindictive streak a mile wide. Who would have expected that from a brand-new AI? [[Instant AI, Just Add Water|Besides]] [[
** Was it ever stated that Love Machine was released intentionally? Maybe it just broke out on its own.
*** Yes, Wabisuki said the Pentagon used Oz as a test for Love Machine.
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** Its original account might be the whole 'Cheshire cat smile' thing rather than a separate existence as such. At the end it only has two accounts, and appears yet again as Kenji's corrupted avatar.
** Kenji may have been the only OZ administrator to respond; that was his original summer job. Even if he was a low level administrator, the easiest way to compromise a security system is from the inside, so law enforcement would instantly be suspicious of Kenji if Love Machine used his avatar.
== Hit-or-Miss Satellite GPS? ==
* The family had 10 minutes to warn the neighbors and get the hell out of dodge before the satellite hit their house. Why the hell didn't they just take what they could and leave? I know, they had to make it so that Love Machine wouldn't beat them, but still. Really think about what they did. The plan they went with was to all stay in the house and let Kenji solve several 2056-bit encryptions in moments if not seconds to break into the satellite's guidance system to try and cause it to go off course a little. Get that? Instead of evacuating from a location that they KNEW it was going to hit, they made it so the satellite would crash into a random spot. It very well could have landed right outside their door, killed them all, hit their neighbors, or something else like that. It was pretty much luck that the satellite hit at the base of the hill rather than a few feet closer in which case the house would have been obliterated with them in it. It's also luck that none of the debris from it, including the large gateway structure which was blown into the air didn't smash into them or the house! WHY did they think what they did was a good idea?
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