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MagusDraco 10-Mar-22 12:22 AM
Prior dot hack game I explicitly remember putting in a GameShark code to not have to do said grinding
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Shaiapouf 10-Mar-22 12:22 AM
thank god
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Yeah the grinding in the og .hack game was....absolutely insane
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Since it involved repeatedly doing a mechanic that, by design, was risking a game over
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MagusDraco 10-Mar-22 12:23 AM
Yeah... pretty sure I ended up doing max level + all data cores or whatever for those games
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Sometimes enemies still took forever to die
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Shaiapouf 10-Mar-22 12:23 AM
Maria asked me why I am playing GU and not the first .hack games
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those games aint playable
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MagusDraco 10-Mar-22 12:24 AM
They need a lot more work than a coat of fresh paint and some QoL stuff
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Shaiapouf 10-Mar-22 12:24 AM
yeah
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Time to Hack The Sign
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MagusDraco 10-Mar-22 12:25 AM
I think the trailer for the third or fourth game stuck with me though in part since it used aura's music
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Shaiapouf 10-Mar-22 12:25 AM
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oh it's a slightly stronger AIDA now
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which is good because if I had to fight the normal AIDA again I was gonna scream
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archaeo 10-Mar-22 12:26 AM
at least you have a cool scythe
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Shaiapouf 10-Mar-22 12:28 AM
anyways, slightly stronger is only slightly stronger, and it goes down easy (edited)
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...fucker. It never ends
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MagusDraco 10-Mar-22 12:29 AM
Yeah it was the fourth game
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Shaiapouf 10-Mar-22 12:29 AM
....huh
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That's a file name
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archaeo 10-Mar-22 12:29 AM
O-van01
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oh my
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sorry
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MagusDraco 10-Mar-22 12:29 AM
https://youtu.be/5FcM6LK20vM
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Dot Hack//Quarantine Trailer
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archaeo 10-Mar-22 12:29 AM
O my
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 10-Mar-22 12:29 AM
O van
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MagusDraco 10-Mar-22 12:30 AM
Big "what is even happening" in that trailer due to how it's edited Also whose van did you steal?
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Shaiapouf 10-Mar-22 12:31 AM
...it's a pokeball
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MagusDraco 10-Mar-22 12:31 AM
It is
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Shaiapouf 10-Mar-22 12:31 AM
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MagusDraco 10-Mar-22 12:31 AM
Lol
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Big "what is even happening" in that trailer due to how it's edited Also whose van did you steal?
archaeo 10-Mar-22 12:31 AM
this is a bafflingly edited trailer
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just like
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Shaiapouf 10-Mar-22 12:31 AM
It's wild shit
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I can follow it
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but still
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archaeo 10-Mar-22 12:31 AM
a demoscene trailer
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it feels like it has been intentionally designed to save on disk space with procedural generation
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Shaiapouf 10-Mar-22 12:32 AM
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archaeo 10-Mar-22 12:32 AM
sorry, back to the death star
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oh fuck
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of course it's password protected
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Shaiapouf 10-Mar-22 12:32 AM
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Pi loads a force quit program
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this is some Nier Automata shit, tbh
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archaeo 10-Mar-22 12:33 AM
I like the UI design
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very functional
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MagusDraco 10-Mar-22 12:33 AM
Listen
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Shaiapouf 10-Mar-22 12:33 AM
the pokeball is doing a minute long countdown and PI gets fed up with it
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MagusDraco 10-Mar-22 12:33 AM
The VR future of ...what year is this?
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The VR future of ...what year is this?
Shaiapouf 10-Mar-22 12:33 AM
ahem The Near Future of 2017
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MagusDraco 10-Mar-22 12:33 AM
Perfect
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archaeo 10-Mar-22 12:33 AM
yes, when I am trying to disconnect from the You Die In The Game You Die In Real Life server
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I often just tell the computer to skip a hundred or so processes
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who needs those ones
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MagusDraco 10-Mar-22 12:34 AM
CPU can only go so fast
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Gotta optimize shit
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Shaiapouf 10-Mar-22 12:34 AM
it's very in character for a person who is mentally aligned with the EPITAPH OF VIOLENCE
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archaeo 10-Mar-22 12:34 AM
that's fair
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Shaiapouf 10-Mar-22 12:34 AM
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archaeo 10-Mar-22 12:35 AM
"Cue the sun"
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Shaiapouf 10-Mar-22 12:35 AM
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MagusDraco 10-Mar-22 12:35 AM
And then Pi logged everyone off the internet
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EVERYONE
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They needed to go touch grass
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Shaiapouf 10-Mar-22 12:36 AM
everyone...except for Haseo
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MagusDraco 10-Mar-22 12:36 AM
Haseo: shit
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Shaiapouf 10-Mar-22 12:36 AM
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 10-Mar-22 12:36 AM
Haseo: I'm all alone 🎵
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Shaiapouf 10-Mar-22 12:36 AM
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 10-Mar-22 12:36 AM
except for these black balls
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Shaiapouf 10-Mar-22 12:36 AM
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 10-Mar-22 12:37 AM
all by myself I'm all grarghaghaafas
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Shaiapouf 10-Mar-22 12:37 AM
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 10-Mar-22 12:37 AM
nice dance movements there
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Shaiapouf 10-Mar-22 12:37 AM
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And then Haseo is logged out
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Tri Edge is still alive
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and he has Friends
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MagusDraco 10-Mar-22 12:39 AM
Familiar friends if you played the first set of games
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Shaiapouf 10-Mar-22 12:40 AM
yeah, just as Tri-edge looks exactly like Kite from the first .hack games
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They are Orca and Balmug
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Also notable, They attacked AIDA
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so they appear to be enemies of AIDA
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and we are, for the first time since vol 2 started, allowed back on the desktop
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Good stopping point
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archaeo 10-Mar-22 12:45 AM
dang
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Shaiapouf 11-Mar-22 02:18 PM
I am probably gonna do more tonight I think
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saying this mostly to make myself commit to it
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MagusDraco 11-Mar-22 02:21 PM
Elden Ring: oh so you don't want to search for more swamps?
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Shaiapouf 11-Mar-22 02:21 PM
bby you know I do
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Shaiapouf 11-Mar-22 03:04 PM
@archaeo This is a total aside but you asked before how my brain got like this, and in fact I learned the word "liminal" from .hack
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it had a whole 4 episode OVA called .hack//liminality that discussed the concept of liminal space and the idea has lived in my head ever since (edited)
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archaeo 11-Mar-22 03:05 PM
dang sometimes it do be like that
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We All Learned Foundational Content From Anime
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Shaiapouf 11-Mar-22 03:05 PM
sage nod
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.hack is up there with Fate in terms of Foundational Shaia Anime
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archaeo 11-Mar-22 03:06 PM
It's got enough stuff in it to activate some really powerful brain worms
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Shaiapouf 11-Mar-22 03:06 PM
.hack as a whole is tbh not great
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as I said GU is playable and that's the nicest thing you can say about it as a game
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and it's still way better than the og games
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but it's got ideas and imagery that are really quite profound to a teenage mind and create some really big brain worms
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so being a fan of .hack is largely being a fan of a version of .hack that exists inside your head rather than something that ever actually existed
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which is interesting in itself, really
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bby you know I do
MagusDraco 11-Mar-22 03:28 PM
speaking of that elden ring map spoiler that made me go "lol of course he did" https://twitter.com/pup_hime/status/1502242657984155650?s=21
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Shaiapouf 11-Mar-22 11:18 PM
alright lets do this
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first up we got a lot of news reports as we're starting a new game
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(I should mention here, if anyone is wondering, only minutes of real time passed during the hours everyone experienced on the AIDA server)
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So Doll Syndrome is actually not exactly about kids falling into comas
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According to the text it appears to be like, a neurological disorder connected to virtual reality
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basically no one quite knows what causes it and it's not quite so direct as "people who play The World keep falling into comas"
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It also appears to mostly affect children
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moving along
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the whole incident with "every player got stuck in The World for hours" did also make the news
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but uh
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I can't believe Russia did this
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 11-Mar-22 11:28 PM
I refuse to believe that CC corp could ever do anything wrong
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Shaiapouf 11-Mar-22 11:28 PM
There is an interesting article here that's just like
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an op-ed on children being socialized in online spaces rather than in the real world
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and the positive and negative ramifications of that
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 11-Mar-22 11:29 PM
did they even talk about Team Stabby
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Shaiapouf 11-Mar-22 11:29 PM
Which is certainly something that has come up before (remember that 14 year old haseo put in a brief coma?)
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also an article about Deepfake scams
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 11-Mar-22 11:31 PM
Near Future of 2017 indeed
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Shaiapouf 11-Mar-22 11:32 PM
There is an interesting article that is extremely weird to read now which is about this concept called Unsubstantied Liability Companies which is companies with entirely remote workers
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 11-Mar-22 11:32 PM
title not clickbaity enough, 3/10
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Shaiapouf 11-Mar-22 11:32 PM
obviously a new form of incorporation never happened
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the rest, tho
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lol.
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lastly, we have a new episode of Online Jack
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 11-Mar-22 11:33 PM
that's certainly a picture of someone Incredibly Online
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Shaiapouf 11-Mar-22 11:34 PM
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 11-Mar-22 11:34 PM
AIDA to you too
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Shaiapouf 11-Mar-22 11:34 PM
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"idk it was real creepy"
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The Professor actually is aware of the whole Epitaph of Twilight thing, and goes into the backstory
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basically, a bunch of elementary school boys who were in Moon Tree contracted doll syndrome. And in the hospital where they were being kept, weird electrical freak outs kept occuring
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The mini-anime ends with the teacher lady getting a text message that causes her to freak out and run out of the house
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 11-Mar-22 11:39 PM
are these supposed to be 4 hour videos or 4 minute
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Shaiapouf 11-Mar-22 11:39 PM
4 minute
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 11-Mar-22 11:39 PM
oh, okay
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Shaiapouf 11-Mar-22 11:40 PM
meanwhile, on the forums, things are going well
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It is very grim how realistic a depiction of gamers this feels like
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 11-Mar-22 11:46 PM
#gamers
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who's the medic union again
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