Review Detail of SlimePlort in Supremacy Games

I had to put the story down. I really enjoy it, but I find the concept fundamentally flawed and unrealistic from my perspective. The Supremacy Games, which is something like the futuristic version of gladiatorial combat, just wouldn't work the way it is set in a realistic setting. It's hard to immerse myself in the story when I constantly witness gratuitous murder for absolutely no reason that every character from ***** to child seems to revel in. It's absurd. Which is my fundamental problem: making the supremacy games permanent death doesn't make sense in its context. To start with, death isn't necessary. It is set in a virtual reality where people can die with no consequence. It explicitly states that participants are murdered in real life after they die in virtual reality, because the rules dictate it as such. So why death instead of a different punishment for failure? When gladiators fought, it was extremely rare for it to be a fight to the death. Each gladiator represented a fortune spent on training them, building them up and supporting them. In the story, this isn't any different. There are tons of participants supported by their nation/world, or by their family or clan etc. who all spend a ton to realise their potential and see them excel. Not a single one of them would think it is normal and okay to spend this fortune building them up only for them to walk into a game and immediately die. Losing is normal and common even for the greatest of elites. Building a system that requires them to always win to survive is insane. No strong power would allow it because they understand that their younger blood are what decides whether they prosper or collapse. Betting everything on them always winning is, again, insane. They would never allow it. And then you move to the audience. People often mistake what made gladiatorial combat entertaining to the audiences back in that era. It wasn't the gore. What people loved to witness is their excellence in a talent they lack. Just like the celebrities of today who are admired for their acting skills, or writing skills or singing skills and so on. Back then combat was ingrained into society and something admired and witnessing two people of the highest skill level fight against each other is what they loved. Much like the WWE of today, even in that many fights were staged to be more exciting - because combat is often not entertaining, and seeing pure skill is more inaction then action. Audience's will always grow attached to the people they watch. Even if you could condition people to see senseless murder as normal, which would just not work because people aren't one ideology and the variation in culture and perspective will never allow everyone to just say 'this is normal and ok', even if you did condition them as such they still would grow attached to people they view long-term and seeing their death would never be something they could accept as normal and ok. But that's more of a philosophical point. I did enjoy the story, and the whole setup is interesting to me. It's just permanent death makes no sense to me. It would still be gripping without it, because there are many ways to die outside of the supremacy games - and may ways to create stakes inside of it. It's too unrealistic for me. And because I find it unrealistic, watching everyone in the story casually murder left and right like murder hobos while everyone from a 90 year old grandpa to a 6 year old kid cheer as they watch people get killed is just unsettling. And watching the main character treat that as normal is even more so. The sheer lack of necessity of it just makes it so much worse because it just makes the world setting a universe of psychopaths. It's worse then Xianxia, and that says a lot. It is just so...unnecessary. Gratuitously so. Sorry. For me: good story, terrible plot point.