Witch Chat - .hack//Gay Undertones

(it's still funny)

@Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" speaking of trails it kinda reminds me of how they talk about the Sept-terrian of Mirage

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anyways, that's all the exposition for now

oh you mean OG Demiurge

do keep in mind the name Jun Bansyoya and Jyotaro Amagi. Those names will come up again in the future

hmm, yeah

Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni"

oh you mean OG Demiurge

yeah, the og demiurge

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in a sense they have the exact same plans as the villian from azure did

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and what is the god of a digital world, if not a god of mirage made real

1. Lose God 2. Make new god 3. ??? 4. Profit (?) (edited)

Well in Azure's case it was more like 4. Nationalism

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but I digress

seems like a big problem really!

yeah

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Anyways hope you enjoyed this little digression into the background of the setting

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There was a god here, once. She's gone now.

except it says

through the power of 8 kids we will have our new god

here is your aughties anime nonsense dose / thank you I am sated

LMAO

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also this is what the og terminal disk looked like, back in the day https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/dothack/images/4/4c/End_of_%22The_World%22_-_Terminal_Disc.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/452?cb=20200312215606

okay see that's cool

as I said, ARG adjacent

I like that

yeah it's nifty

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Next time we'll start Vol 2 and see how Atoli is doing (fine)

glad to hear it!

a little (tri-)edge never hurt anyone

I know you're probably making a joke, but if it wasn't super clear from the screenshots, Tri-Edge exploded and then, apparently unrelatedly, AIDA dots busted out of the lockers and slammed into her character.

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Sometimes I worry the flow of action is not always the clearest

it's cool

(apparently unrelatedly)

I figured she was fucked

there was no clear trigger is what I'm getting at

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though hell maybe don't fuck with the spooky lockers in white space!

I mean

just don't!

I thought that was the obvious conclusion

as someone once said

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maybe don't listen to people who say hey go touch that creepy wall that is whispering to you!

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lol what

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what is even her deal

don't listen to Glasses Guys period, imo

yeah that's obvious

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I'm a glasses guy for example

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nobody should listen to me

do you wear creepy small shaded circle glasses?

archaeo

what is even her deal

https://lparchive.org/The-Legend-of-Heroes-Trails-in-the-Sky/Update%2056/105-gif9.gif

I mean if you do full respect

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But if not you are no Ovan

no I wouldn't look cool that way

brb buying small sun tinting circle glasses for rko

I know because I tried on the Wild Wild West promotional sunglasses that uh

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Arby's was giving out in 1999

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not a look for me

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I don't know what that gif is communicating cyouni

the abrupt end to an amazing plan where step 1 involves talking with someone

I actually do own shaded small circle glasses

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I use them for LARPing

lol

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have you ever been the glasses guy

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ah I see so estelle is the really smart one huh

archaeo

have you ever been the glasses guy

My favorite LARP character is extremely glasses guy

nice

so what I'm getting here is that they killed Aura because they thought she was gone and wanted to make their own Aura with blackjack and hookers

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lovely

being honest it's a little unclear what, if any, effect any of this nonsense actually had on aura. The AI ghost acts like Aura is still integrated with The World even after everything went tits up (edited)

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But otherwise-- yeah basically.

Poor Aura. I liked her.

What makes the setting interesting is how its crisis exists at the specific cross-section of Deeply flawed human beings AIs trying to exert self-determination within a networked space and corrupt and incompetent corporate bureaucracy making everything much worse

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None of these aspects alone is enough to really explain how haunted the internet is

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taken together, tho

have you ever read discworld? do you remember Bloody Stupid Johnson? the inventor who was so stupid that the laws of logic and reality outright broke whenever he made something? the .hack universe had at least one person like that at some point, but they were a programmer.

and his name was Harold

how else can you explain somehow managing to turn an incel's hobby project into a world acclaimed vr mmorpg without ever knowing anything about the source code?

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or nigh-anything the code touchers at cc corp do

tbf I work in enterprise code, I find this extremely believable

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they say black box code but most likely it's just uncommented and badly formatted

yeah but that doesn't explain how they managed to seamlessly mesh fragment with like everything else of R1 in a way that would actually be a functional mmo

Black box code with variables all named this and this1

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var3

at some point before Pluto's Kiss, somebody must have made an integral part of the internet that was so poorly coded that it caused CPUs to make calculations containing the number 3 and the ripple effects resulted in something that sort of resembles the real world internet but is not bound by the rule of logic

see the real reason for why The World v1 went down is that someone removed a load-bearing racial slur from the code

fire retardant slur

Okay, it's a bit late but I at least want to get through the opening bits of the game

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so Vol 2 starts here

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Lets play .hack//GU Vol 2: Reminisce

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the game just kinda jumps right in

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Endrance is apparently sealed in Ice at the bottom of a lake

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how wacky

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"This place...is all we have"

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after the intro the game recaps vol 1

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We hear haseo's voice shouting her name. Atoli mumbles to herself half asleep. "I have to get up. I'll get yelled at again if I don't."