Witch Chat - .hack//Gay Undertones

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doing this again (edited)

pew pew

wow this is like

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a luxurious LP

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by which I mean it has a luxury screencap count

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Egyptian Luxury Let's Play

lmao

high-budget LP

Well I wanted to get across as best I could

meanwhile in the CS4 LP I'm just posting beginning/end screenshots

also the Haseo Summoning Skeith thing is like

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how should I put this

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a stock magical girl transformation

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so I wanted to get the vibe across

heed my call, SKEITH

THE TERROR OF DEATH

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almost maps

Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni"

meanwhile in the CS4 LP I'm just posting beginning/end screenshots

god is this why it feels so disorienting

Oh god please tell me I am not going to have to grind data cores please

like I'm just watching the clips episodes of DBZ (edited)

archaeo

god is this why it feels so disorienting

sometimes yes

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I skip around a bit and then sometimes SCREENSHOT BARRAGE

there are also just, how are there so many characters

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sorry shaia continue I will Scroll Up

Lmao well I am glad you are feeling luxuriated by the .hack lp

Shaiapouf

Oh god please tell me I am not going to have to grind data cores please

don't worry, it only starts getting bad when they start introducing Data Core AA

shudder

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Old man from moon tree wants to meet us after we fight that AIDA

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oh, I guess Gabi was in fact logged in after all

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and he's with Ovan, who honestly is in dire need of an ass kicking after he Manipulated and Mansplained us into this whole mess

oh that's ovan

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I thought the uh, fist flare section was hair

and that the guy had a mohawk or someting

Shaiapouf

I love it when Haseo literally goes "LOL"

does he say "el oh el" or "lawl"

wwwwwwww

he just laughs in the audio

that is the worst possible answer

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I also love how the randos from earlier look exactly like MMORPG randos

LMAO gabi is so funny because Haseo goes "Ovan, why are you here?" and Gabi does this

Haseo: Bitch was I talking to you?

lol

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this game does have powerful vibes huh

how come I don't have a slowly expanding smiling emoji

I can probably use one

amazing dialog

archaeo

this game does have powerful vibes huh

I feel like I might as well post Ovan's theme, if you're gonna mention vibes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h98g_fgd-qk

RBJsVGMExhibit

.hack//G.U GAME MUSIC OST - Speak the Inscription ~Ovan's Theme~

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which is playing here

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anyways, Ovan says he is also trying to figure out how to get out of the AIDA server and mentions that he knows we are in project GU. Pi, who apparently was really into the idea of being in a secret club, looks like she is about to scream

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Haseo actually barely cared that Sakaki knew about GU

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I think he's just extremely fed up with Ovan by this point, and understandably so

mii ya yaaaaaa

Again, cool old man comes in to act like a peace keeper

Shaiapouf

I think he's just extremely fed up with Ovan by this point, and understandably so

Just Done With Your Shit

Ovan, never one not to get the last word in, reveals that Yata had a method for escaping the AIDA server this whole time, and Pi knew about it.

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That's So Ovan! laugh track

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Everyone is now mad at Pi

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Ovan is incredibly good at controlling a room, god damn

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Pi Condolences

Ovan is so smug rn god damn

"Why would he not tell you about this? Is it..."

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Shaiapouf

so The World is basically like, what we think of as The Metaverse to a lot of people

so what you're saying is that in every scene in the franchise there's a horde of ugandan knuckles just offscreen

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Kuhn steps in to stop them from coming to blows. But he makes it clear he is also pissed

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Ovan chuckles and walks out of the room

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Ovan: "Yes, Yata is an old friend."

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Gabi: "Give Yata my best regards :D"

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and they're gone

God Ovan is such a delightful asshole

that song

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those glasses

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I will admit that I am a huge sucker for a Bottle Episode

Shaiapouf

God Ovan is such a delightful asshole

agreed

one of my favorite Gintama bits is the Shinsengumi Death Game Arc

ovan just living his best life

Ovan really is just like

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owning it

When I remember GU I remembered how much Sakaki sucks (derogatory) but I had forgotten how much Ovan Sucks (affectionate)

lol

he should have someone following him around with a church organ on wheels

okay so what I don't totally get is what percentage of the music is Ominous Choral Chanting

A solid 1/3rd

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I've listened to the OST while working, it's a good bit

Shaiapouf

tbh I feel bad for the ACTUAL mods in this game

i mean the same thing goes for the original games lios makes a really shit first impression because his avatar is generic tubby middle aged man and you're technically a hacker but the very code of the game he's supposed to be policing is attacking people and he has seemingly no support from ANYONE with code access

yeah Lios actually does come around on you all eventually, bless him

I feel contempt and sadness for mods in roughly equal measure

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it's not really like, a real job anyone knows how to do lol

I guess it's like, While the CC corp mods suck

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Imagine being like, not a mod, but you have deputized yourself to be a mod

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at least the CC corp mods are paid to put up with this

my brain is the kind of poisoned where I could name like

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five posters off the top of my head who are like that

exactly

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the scum of the earth

god for real tho

Everyone goes to Yata's Exposition Room to yell at him

lmao

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wait also btw

what is the deal with the kid who is in charge of the cop cult

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why's there's a two-by-four strapped to his back

that's his sword

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I believe

okay that's valid and symmetrical of him

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continue your expostulating, Yata

As far as Zelkova goes I don't really know how he became the head of a cop cult

"you didn't ask"

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I honestly expected to be his answer

I get the sense that the more culty aspects of the group are from the Sakaki faction and he just wanted to have a good time and help people

yeah that makes sense

anyways yeah lets do that thing

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Yeah Yata is full of shit here, pretty obviously

fuckin welcome to my every day with SharePoint

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you insufferable half-dressed orb fondler

If it wasn't clear, Ovan's claim is that Yata wanted to use this as a chance to figure out what exactly AIDA was

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While ignoring the...thousands of players currently trapped in a video game

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not to mention atoli is literally going to die if she is in here too long since her character is breaking down

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and honestly I don't think Ovan was lying

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I am not sure Ovan has ever lied. Technically.

there is literally no fucking way

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that this episode ends on any other note than Atoli pulling a Tidus

heh

just impossible to imagine for me

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We Shall See

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but like come on

anyways those Tri-Edge signs we've been seeing around are actually gates made by AIDA

I see the girl and I am hearing "WHEN YOU WALK AWAY, YOU DON'T HEAR ME SAY," etc.

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sorry yes

which...actually perfectly fits with what we saw them do in the first game

huh

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That's the sign we touched when this whole thing began. Where we fought Tri-Edge at the end of the last game

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so maybe that locker we found was actually the physical manifestation of the operations folder. It's unclear.

skeuomorphism is a sickness

Extremely good word choice, rko

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A+

ty

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if I got one thing it's words

Tri-Edge sign still looking angry

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you know Maria mentioned the other day that it's just a sideways anarchy A

hack the Sign

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yeah

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it's one of the most aughties elements here tbh

ugh

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I do have to grind data cores

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fuck you game

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I

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I'll be back for you, Tri-Edge Sign

is it really a ps2/3 era RPG if you don't have to grind data cores

then you're life is fucking over

lol

honestly it's not as bad as the first .hack game

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the less said about data core grinding in that. the better

are data cores like, drops

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or a currency or what

Data Cores are acquired by Data draining AIDA, meaning you get them from Avatar battles

waiting for them to spell out a password

oh ugh

the game just makes you do a dungeon here, it's not THAT much grinding. It is annoying tho

every time I go to hack the Sign

.hack the //sign

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as an aside I carried over data and my save data was the max level I could be in vol 1 so everything dies in 2 hits right now

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the game will catch up before too long but it's funny right now

"Hacking to the Gate" except it's "Hacking to the Sign" and it's Atoli doing the thing where she leans back and there's dozens of her

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I also almost spelled it "Aolio"

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not her name

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plus you killing things in two hits if you carry save data over is Good Design

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That's Got Good Gamefeel

the remake actually has a full on cheat mode

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where you do every game at the level cap

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not sure if it gives data cores or not tho

see I get why they do that, but I still prefer something more like Hades God Mode

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where it like, lets you taste the difficulty curve before gently taking it away and giving you Real Ultimate Power

sometimes you just want to play a video game anime and not worry about grinding

u r valid

I vaguely remember having to grind those

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It wasn't great