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I presume by "sign" he means the tri-edge sign

oh dang

new mysterious old man just dropped

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I do enjoy how Alkaid has moved from viewing haseo as this weird, dangerous cheater to realizing that no he's just a dumbass

but what if he's a weird dangerous cheater dumbass

that is the reality, isn't it Cyouni

the meeting place Nala has for us is in fact one of those signs. It looks angry, too

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we use it to warp

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Nala spends some time flattering us

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Nala is more on top of the plot than most other characters

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haseo: how the fuck do you know all that

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Nala informs us who our next opponent in the tournament is.

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It's, sigh this guy

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???

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Haseo: why are you just straight up selling out your guildmate to me?

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oh my god

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I need to get back to my novel, about how in real life people WOULD NOT STAND FOR OLD MEN DOING THIS ALL THE TIME TO THEM

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rude!!

I know it's easy to forget minor characters but if my memory serves: keep your eyes on this guy, it will pay off down the line

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anyways, lets wrap up tonight with the next tournament fight

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Alkaid continues to bully Atoli (affectionately)

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uncle Tengu is helping commentate

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apparently he is often drinking while gaming which is a funny detail

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I'm not gonna dwell on this because this is a really minor character but Hiiragi is a very badly depicted trans character

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"Dated" is the nicest way I can put it

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anyways she and atoli talk a bit

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she rags on her a bit

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and then turns to haseo

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yeah same

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anyways, the fight itself is easy and uneventful

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Sakaki really knows how to pick people for his personality cult, is all I'm gonna say

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Alkaid's formerly teasing tone is dropped here, wondering if maybe this may actually cause problems for atoli at moon tree

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Atoli: Bullying? In the abusive personaility cult I joined? LOL

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lol

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actual lol at that

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how magnanimous of you alkaid

Atoli: You don't believe me, do you Alkaid: No, no, I do, I do

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I love how alkaid is also immediate on the "are you SURE you aren't in a cult" train

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well, that was awkward

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and then she runs off (edited)

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atoli has some news as well

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Haseo: Problems offline?

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...

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She's going to see a specialist about her paralyzed hand.

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atoli: I'm just fine

We'll end it there

after some early sections in Galactic Heroes I forgot Moon Tree's name and started mentally calling it Moon Cult for a bit

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so thanks

lol

hahahaha

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close enough

there are some good cults in LoGH too

https://twitter.com/HexManiacWingy/status/1505242855865913348

Lauren (@HexManiacWingy)

.hack//sign had a bunch of these but this was the best Usable Meme Image I actually screencapped

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.hack is, at its core, a story about being terminally online

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sometimes literally!

relatable content

That's Bear, btw, the guy mentioned previously who is a Grown ass man who encounters a troubled queer teen while playing a video game that he ends up adopting (edited)

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We should all aspire to be like Bear

I mean whom fucking amongst us

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admittedly I don't know anyone who has like literally adopted someone

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that would be pretty metal

yeah no literally

someone from the internet I should say

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I mean I assume I know people who have adopted babies

He's apparently a fairly well known writer in universe so he had the resources to just fucking do it

world's lousy with babies

Bear is a big believer in touching grass, is all I'm saying

he seems wise, cool, and hot

Bear always seemed pretty cool

yeah

also I had planned to play more last night before I had a literal power outage so I probably will get more done

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I predict like, 2 more sessions until the gas starts on the plot and doesn't stop until credits

I can’t tell if these games are brisk or if we’re just eliding vast swaths of JRPG bullshit

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or I guess both

they are brisk

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It helps when it is structured as 3 20 hour-ish video games each of which needs pretty significant events to occur

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and something resembling an internal narrative with a climax, like the endrance plot in vol 1

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The only thing we're eliding is just complete side stuff that isn't interesting, and the remake makes grinding less of a thing than it was on the PS2

okay I don't think I'll have time to do everything I wanted tonight

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but I still want to Log On

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It remains extremely funny that Gaspard, the pink dog guy, is the Yu-gi-oh champion everyone admires and fears.

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love this alkaid fan art

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OH MY GOD. ...buddy....

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(We gotta help Endrance Eventually, jeez)

dang

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poor guy...

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I'm glad that they predicted the character arc of Every YouTuber

anyways, Alkaid wants to go Training

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I feel like the area names are getting On The Nose again (edited)

who is doing this

doing this?

naming places

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I forget the greek alphabet despite literally having it hazed into me, what is that, theta?

Basically Areas are generated with key words that act as names

oh that's cool

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so like how Twitch gives videos URLs

kinda yeah actually

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the grammer is structured such so that they always have weird, enigmatic names like that

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and special areas, like The Wall, or The Cathedral, always have Hidden Forbidden as the first two words

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so, Hidden Forbidden Holy Ground, for the church, for instance

archaeo

I forget the greek alphabet despite literally having it hazed into me, what is that, theta?

correct, it's theta. That's actually the server it's on. the 1-50 server is delta, the 50-100 server is theta. The Arena is on its own server, Omega.

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everyone is either offline or busy right now so it's just me and alkaid alone for this

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uh oh

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b-baka

That's part of the bond system

oh okay

yeah LMAO

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blue is the lowest rank, and 5 dots means she's almost going to be upgraded to yellow

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yellow was the cap in vol 1, but in Vol 2 there's also pink

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I know this all sounds very weird when you're just laying it out like this

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anyways

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Alkaid talks a lot about strategy and teamwork

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and then says "anyways, lets go grind."

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lmao

big "I wore my cosplay costume out to get lunch on the way home from the con" energy here

about halfway through, Alkaid stops us

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she wants to talk about Endrance (edited)

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Haseo hasn't seen hide or hair of Endrance since the tournament (and to be fair has been pretty distracted for most of that time) so he basically says he doesn't know shit. Even if he did, he doesn't want to talk to Alkaid about AIDA and the rest of it.

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oh hey we were just talking about that guy

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and we flash back to the scene

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ugh he's so hot and lost

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to be fair don't we all want a hateful tsundere to shout these things at us sometimes

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otoh this isn't okay!!

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lol

I do really like Alkaid

archaeo

to be fair don't we all want a hateful tsundere to shout these things at us sometimes

and yes obviously

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haseo: well that was kinda fucked up...

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anyways, we continue on

We find some twin blades at the dungeon (both haseo and Alkaid can use them)

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the sword name was "Honeysuckle." For some reason that seems to have set something off in Haseo.

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And we flash back to a scene from .hack//roots

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