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This episode was actually good, but since Haruhi gets her way in the end again, I had to take off 1/2 a star. The president of the computer club challenges the SOS Brigade to an online space battle simulator game called The Day of Sagittarius. I see he’s still pissed off that Haruhi bullied him out of his computer a few episodes back.

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Haruhi must have developed Alzheimer’s or something ’cause she acts like she doesn’t remember the day she blackmailed them. “Well Haruhi, go back to episode 2, and you’ll see exactly what you did. Now to the terms of the game. If the Brigade wins, they will get 5 new laptops. If the computer club wins, they will get their computer back.

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Is that all? Well, to even things out, Haruhi offers up Yuki, or Mikuru. What? Why is she trying to offer up her club members like that, why doesn’t she offer up herself? Actually, Kyon suggests that she does just that, and this is how Haruhi responds……..She states that she is the divine and sacred figure of the SOS Brigade.

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Yeah, whatever. Now she did eventually offer up herself, but the computer club members decided to pass on that. That was a big mistake, ’cause just think of what they could have done to her if they won the game. They could beat the crap out of her on a daily basis.

They could make her scrub the floors, and go on lengthy errands. They could have her put on a maid outfit, and serve hot drinks. Man, they missed out on a perfect opportunity. Oh wait, I forgot about the closed space, so maybe we should forget that plan.

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Haruhi accepts the challenge, and on the way home, Kyon tells Itsuki, and Yuki not to use their alien powers to win the game. Haruhi will just learn to accept the outcome, whatever that may be. Now Itsuki thinks that Kyon is just saying this ’cause he trusts that Haruhi will not create a closed space if her team loses.

But Itsuki tells Kyon that Haruhi trusts that Kyon will lead them into battle, and win the game. However, I don’t think this is the case. Haruhi is just a self-centered brat, and she thinks that life is about getting everything that you want, so Kyon really doesn’t have anything to do with this.

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The Brigade gets one week to prepare for the final showdown. First day of training, they suck. Second day, they still suck. Third day, same thing, and so and so forth. Now the day of the battle has come upon them, and now it’s time to see just how bad the Brigade really are.

The computer club is racking up points right from the start, by using their hit and run tactics, and hitting the Brigade’s fleets from both sides. Yuki, the computer master splits her fleet up, but Kyon warns her again not to cheat, even though they’re getting owned right now.

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Yuki responds by saying that it’s the computer club that cheating, by deactivating the scouting mode. This means that the Brigade can’t see the club’s positions, but they can see theirs. Now this is really retarded, why would the computer club feel the need to cheat, when they were the ones that developed the game?

Well, they dug their own grave, ’cause Yuki modified the program to assure equal playing positions, and the computer club ended up losing. So once again Haruhi wins, and she shouldn’t have. BOOOOOOOO!