Okay, people keep missing the disclaimer before the storyline segment:

"Seven days..."

" to much water play...and the monster will come"

17:40

"'The Line' doesn't have the same Ring to it." That, sir, is how you get a like.

Me, noticing a short cut to black between live segments and comic panels: Huh, that's weird

Batman: "This would never have happened with a Beta tape. Just Sayin'"

Honestly the weirdest thing about The Ring might be that the actress who played the monster in the American remake was the voice of Lilo in Lilo and Stitch. And I can easily see Lilo doing something like that as a Halloween joke.

If I had to hazard a guess about the "Sada" in the eye thing, I'd say it might be more about the lack of the "ko". "Ko" is often used as the last syllable for women's name and generally uses the kanji for "child", so it might be a symbolic reference to her being intersex and unable to have children in the original novel and the curse being a substitute way to "reproduce".

"People only die when your vacation sucks!"

Wasn't expecting Clive, Linkara and Moarte to all interact, but that was decidedly a treat.

I can't believe Pilo lost! We were ROBBED!

"Too much water play and the monster will come."

We got Rick Rolled By Linkara... We are truly blessed.

That explanation of the virus from the novel was very, “Of course! Don’t you know anything about science?”

The Church of the Algorithm gives this video its blessing, and must it stay clear of the blasphemers from The First Algorithmic Temple (and the many people impersonating their members).

As someone who read the novels - it get's even more crazy than "modified smallpox virus that kills people". It's almost like each sequel finds a whole new shark to jump.

About Sadako lashing out seemingly at random, that's actually how most Japanese ghost stories work, particularly involving yurei or onryo like in Ringu or Ju-On. Sometimes the ghost's vengeance is targeted to the people responsible, but sometimes it just hurts anyone in contact with it. It probably has to do with Buddhist and Shinto ideas regarding death and regret, and how feelings like vengeance can transform (literally in some legends) people into monsters. Kuroneko is a good example, as the "ghosts" in that story just kill any random samurai hanging around the Rashamon gate, rather than the ones actually responsible for their death.

"To much water play...and the monster will come."

We had my dad's funeral today.