Witch Chat - .hack//Gay Undertones

it is just very grim and funny how nobody wants to believe this happened

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they are very minor characters so I haven't bothered to discuss it

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but basically they are a guild dedicated to helping people

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like moon tree, but much smaller

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occasionally you run into them in dungeons and they heal you and give you buffs

Shaiapouf

it is just very grim and funny how nobody wants to believe this happened

is Tsukasa actually a known factor in the world (or The World)

No not at all

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the events of the .hack games are, sort of, but only some of the effects

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on the art forums there are a couple of weird Pi thirst posts

sounds about right

awwwww

can't believe there's no posts about wanting pi to step on him

I mean

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I didn't show all of them

some art for those Moon Tree Seminars I mentioned last time

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awwwwww

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PFFFT

who dat

Haseo and Ovan

that's ovan?

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okay

here is a much better drawing from the same thread

art

I ws just thinking his glasses are about three times too big

I seriously want to know who actually drew these

an artiste

some of these feel like the devs kids did them

"brb just gonna run back and get my kid to do this one"

the really nice art is done from someone who is, in the Forums Lore, a professional artist

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the art forums are incredible

lol

also Yu-Gi-oh was unlocked

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I'm not gonna dwell on this fact unless it becomes plot relevant

thank you

this is what it looks like, it's a whole thing

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oh yeah I....kinda remember that? Maybe?

as I recall it basically matters not one bit

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anyways, time to get back to the plot

TRIPLE TRIAD

It's time for a new plot arc to start

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and you know what that means

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that's right! It's time for a new vaguely concerning E-mail from Atoli

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Haseo: "oh shit"

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the voice acting here actually doesn't quite match the written text

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he says it with a grim determination more than excitement

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oh, one last bit of forums drama I missed

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if you check out the official The World Forums

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there is one new thread (edited)

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lets see how it's going

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Well, okay then.

lol

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I like all the little signs here that the writing teams on both sides of the Pacific knew more about forums than the real world

yeah for real

mostly it's the news coverage

the forums drama stuff is very funny

yeah

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haseo: But your hand is still paralyzed.... Atoli: But I can speak now!

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"LOL"

fuck

Haseo at this point says something incredibly sensible

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atoli is the lil brudder of .hack huh (edited)

haseo: this has all gotten kinda fucked up

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the writers have definitely taken a class in How People Talk On The Internet since the original games

https://youtu.be/3HGwIFJneeY

Josh Lee

strongbad crying lil' brudder

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I always fuck that up

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Haseo feels so powerless

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Atoli: "I could never leave sakaki :)"

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and she teleports away

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"After all, this is where Sakaki is..."

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Haseo has a lot of very complex emotions going on right now

ironically he's probably in the top 5 most sane characters in this game

In a sense he is just jealous of Sakaki, though he doesn't want to admit it.

quite a far cry from the murder gremlin he once was

We Were All Shitheads On The Internet Once

The fucking log even rags on you for being an asshole

L

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touch grass

it's not so much a shithead as like talking like kefka

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LMAO

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lol

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thanks Kuhn

he is a good guy

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Haseo "Oh so I guess Atoli is talking to Kuhn now, instead of me"

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what a sad sack

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after a string of very long emails, Yata sends us this.

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Basically they are just going over what you gathered from the forum posts

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haseo is lashing out though

haseo's character arc, as I see it is "my role model is Pennywise the Dancing Clown minus the clown part" -> crucification -> "my role model is Uchiha Sasuke"

it's not so much that his rolemodel was pennywise, so much as .hack believes, generally, that children on the internet are sociopaths, as a rule

I don't remember any other child characters whose online persona was like Sora

well, not all exactly like Sora but

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Concerning, generally, to a one

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Yata has no patience for Haseo's temper tantrum

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the VA for haseo is very good here

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as he like

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whiplashes rapidly between depressed and extremely angry and sarcastic

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That said, Kuhn is also sick of Yata's shit

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Kuhn is basically taking the extremely sensible position that The World should be shut down before more people are hurt

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LOL. LMAO.

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Yata puts out some bullshit about it causing a panic but honestly mostly I just think he doesn't think he could convince the CEOs to turn off the money spigot even if he wanted to. And tbh he doesn't want to touch grass.

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in any event, shutting down the server at this point would mean Atoli is just paralyzed indefinitely so Haseo also says no

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oh also

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TBH I think Haseo is saying this mostly to cover up his concern for Atoli

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but Kuhn is done

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Yata is unconcerned

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Yata asks Haseo if he found anything interesting in the operations folder. Haseo thinks back and remembers

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Haseo: "Nope, I didn't see nothin"

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Yata: "Listen Haseo, you know that if we shut down the server Atoli and Shino are both screwed, right?" Haseo: "Yes, I know. However, You keep shino's name out of your mouth you asshole."

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So, things are going great at GU

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Even Pi, who has bone deep loyalty to Yata is like "are we sure about this?"

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pi suggests creating a closed server or just cutting off the general public

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Basically, AIDA will most likely remain on the network and start fucking around with other social media sites

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It has actually been obliquely mentioned that AIDA appeared in the Yu-gi-oh card game at some point a few months bath

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so keeping The World up and running is in fact containing the problem

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this is honestly a better answer for Why Keep The World going than he ever gave to Kuhn and Haseo, which is why it's so funny he gives it after they all left

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