Talk:New World/@comment-103.42.210.14-20180407171922/@comment-45.56.46.26-20180619061416

Someone totally missing the whole point of The Matrix.

It's not about how everything being a dream gives you ultimate power. It's about how being unable to wake up leaves you (and all humanity) utterly powerless. A game is a game because you can quit whenever you want. When quitting isn't an option, it's no longer a game.

Sure, the "die in the dream, die in RL" adds dramatic tension. But so what if dying in the dream didn't kill you in RL, if not even death allowed you to wake up?

Inception took it a bit further with the whole question of how you'd even know whether you were awake or still dreaming anymore.

Still, while those were pretty thought provoking stories, Overlord is different. Ainz considered whether this might all be a dream or whatever, but he's not pursued such thoughts for a dozen volumes now. It's just not that kind of story.