Is Reading Steiner phenomenon explained at all, or is it just a plot convenience to make Okabe suffer more? Why can he see changes in the timeline but others can only experience vague memories of them?
>>139247595
Is basically just like Déjà vu or an innate sense of something being familiar. It's nothing special and everybody has the "ability".
The only reason Okabe remembered is because he was the center of everything and he was the one proactively trying to fix things.
>>139247866
>this
Okabe basically just gave a basic function a fancy name to make it eccentric.
>>139247866
I remember Okabe at one point in the VN saying that the year Y2K happened he felt a sensation very simmillar to reading steiner. However, that was before he even started the lab or did any time travel experiments. How does he have a stronger Reading Steiner in comparison to other people, even before he took part in any time travel related experiments?
<spoiler>everyone can have Reading Steiner as explained in Steins;Gate 0, which you haven't played yet you EOP</spoiler>
>>139247866
Kurisu wanted to proactively fix things too whenever she heard about what was going on, but she doesn't remember better than anyone else. Being disconnected from causality by willpower alone doesn't really make any sense, given this is sci-fi.
Wouldn't his near death experience when he was a kid, or the fact that he's destined to time leap (in the same way others may be destined to die) be a more reasonable explanation?
>>139248545
Nice.
BTW, its explained in the original VN, not just Steins;Gate 0 (Have not played it yet)
>>139247595
>>139248609
Those both strengthened his reading Steiner, but they didn't give him a new power so much as reinforce an ability everyone has.
It's explained in 0 that it is an ability that everyone has and gets awakened because of reasons. Okabe's got awakened when he got encephalitis as a kid or something. One of the things that happens in 0 is that other people's Reading Steiners also get activated.
>>139247595
No. It's litterally plot conveniance: the power.
>>139248657
>>139247595
Play the VN.
>>139254597
I did. I vaguely remember him mentioning something about experiencing something like RS in the year 2000, but it wasn't clear enough to confirm anything.
>>139255027
He speculates that his extreme fever may have been linked to his experiences of Reading Steiner, but it's only speculation.
>>139255569
What happened during 2000 that could have caused it? John Titor showed up there in one timeline, and the Y2K bug caused a massive divergence there as well.
>>139248514
That experience, I believe, made him very "used to" the deja vu experience.
It's like being able to actively have lucid dreams, but with deja vu instead.
