In several different ways across a variety of episodes iirc. All sorts of souls or soul equivalents out there among the stars.

Dan Carlin does an incredibly well-measured series on this exact topic.

James Gurney would love this

313! The dreaded 2-dimensional tower!

That's such a stupid goal. The Wild West never existed in major cities, and the actual rural West is still wild. Most of the "taming" we did outside of cities was left fallow again because it was all inaccessible to infrastructure development and almost nobody actually wants to live like that.

Funnily enough, on my first real playthrough of DS, I went backwards through blight town solely to avoid the Taurus Demon. (To spite it for ending my previous run attempts)

This sentence is actually a great encapsulation of SAO on every macro and micro level. They set themselves up on a solid podium of conceptual marble and then proceed to win the gold in every single event at the Junk-Batting Olympics.

But this one is real though, right?

I thought my smartphone was ruining my life, so when not in use, I set it on silent/DnD and kept it in a separate room for 3 years

The only thing that happened is that people kept getting mad at me for not getting back to them instantly, and I scrolled social media and YouTube on my desktop instead

Imagine going on the Internet and admitting to trillions of people on the blue sky app, publicly, that your tuba doesn't wobble and flex when you play it.