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hmmmmmm

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Well I'll be damned, he's actually there after all

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Okay you can't hear this but this is a voiced line and it is literally just Salvador Aihara

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.....

Shaiapouf

As I recall In Universe the company that publishes The World is a subsidary of the company that runs Altimit which means they are basically a computing supermajority

One of the more fascinating implications of .Hack// to me is how The World 2.0 was garbage at launch but because it's the revival first MMO to run on the only legal OS in universe it was guaranteed success so CC Corp rushed it out.

Skeith

One of the more fascinating implications of .Hack// to me is how The World 2.0 was garbage at launch but because it's the revival first MMO to run on the only legal OS in universe it was guaranteed success so CC Corp rushed it out.

Yeah that rules, I remember that

Shaiapouf

Okay you can't hear this but this is a voiced line and it is literally just Salvador Aihara

Woah I actually didn't know about this

.hack is nothing if not a series based on interesting implications

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LOGGING OUT IS ALWAYS AN OPTION

lol

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lmao

The offline thread continues

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Oh okay we're not done yet

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archaeo

lmao

this could be about almost anything I posted in the past 10 minutes, honestly

It is

and here we go again

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lord

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and one more

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I really read this as like

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Haseo is trying to share information about Sakaki and AIDA and stuff with Salvador

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and he is just not hearing it

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He does, I swear to god, a cartoonish nonchalant whistle.

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and then gives a nervous, awkward chuckle.

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lol

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AND NOW WE ACTUALLY GET TO THE SIDEQUEST I'VE BEEN TRYING TO UNLOCK

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nah just kidding

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........oh god

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and he logs out.

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the thread I was following got shut down for being off topic (it was on the news forum lmao)

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the reward for finding him is a fairly mediocre wallpaper

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HOWEVER

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I got a fun fact for you

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basially when Vol 2 came out in japan there was a contest where you had to find Salvador Aihara in the game (edited)

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basically, just do the side quest that I just did

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as Skeith points out, it's fairly obscure

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anyways, in the og version of the game Aihara give you not only the wallpaper, but a special area phrase. The Word itself has no purpose, but if you gave it as the answer you could enter the contest (in japan, ofc. In america you get a lot of confused real life forums posts asking what the point of the area word is) (edited)

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that area word? "Nurse Carnival"

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Tragically we can no longer travel to Hidden Forbidden Nurse Carnival, where, I assume, the Key of Twilight is being hidden

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that's all for now!

Wow

yeah we got into some lore today

That is accurate

lol

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lmao

next time I'll dig into the terminal disk but this was too funny not to share

I had not known about this. thank you

CH is in this server on their own now because tomorrow night they're going across the state for a few days

ah cool

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welcome

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I am probably only gonna do the terminal disk before the weekend

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should be able to start Vol 3 on saturday

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oh, total aside

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I saw the other day that Bandai trademarked the phrase "Last Recollection"

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the name of the .hack GU remake is Last Recode

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so like, it could be nothing, or it could be a remaster of the first 4 games

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which

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man I hope they really remastered those because good lord

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games really evolved a lot over the ps2 generation

June 10th marks 20yrs since .hack//Infection was released

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correction, June 20th

dang

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wild shit

Ooh.

they really need to overhaul the first set of games

Shaiapouf

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why does it look like he's burning

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lmao what even happened here

he jumped in through the window

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and broke it in the process ofc

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I guess the red bits are the light in the room reflecting off the broken glass?

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and then he tried to grab Sakaki's player's shoulder and got zapped by ¿¿AIDA??

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that part's real unclear, but that's what Aihara said

Shaiapouf

there is also this...very strange thread

first time playing a female char huh

LMAO

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It did have that vibe huh (edited)

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and yeah, what CH said is all accurate

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LOGGING OUT IS ALWAYS AN OPTION

kurashikimindset

I have mixed feeling about the reveal that Sakaki is some sort of super charasmatic and evil 3rd grader

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Because on the one hand it does kind of ruin what is, at face value, a fairly believable story about online grooming

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but on the other hand, it does explain his extremely stupid ideology and it is very funny.

is this person searching down a dude for hitting on them ok

apparently Pluto's Kiss, aka the reason there's only one OS and it's Altimit, was also set off by a child

is it atoli

And it makes his downright trolling emails in vol 3 funnier

I think you have to have atoli-level trauma to want anything to do with the people like that on mmos

I have mixed feelings too fwiw

CatHerder

apparently Pluto's Kiss, aka the reason there's only one OS and it's Altimit, was also set off by a child

I can't tell if the writers of .hack don't want kids on the internet because it is dangerous for them, or they don't want kids on the internet because children online are little sociopaths

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but it's one of the two

There’s something about the impulse to blame these things on extraordinary children instead of the massive corporation profiting off their increasingly sentient brainworms

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that strikes me as very odd

oh let me say this at least rko

and will hopefully be addressed

my vote is for "children are little sociopaths", which is a view I've held since I was a child

that's absolutely a "and, not or" type situation

lol

Like look at the initial .hack games situation

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which absolutely came about specifically because of the interplay between one weridos personal peccadillos and bad code practices.

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and corporate greed making everything so much worse

I guess I’ll just be interested to see how much of that is foregrounded rather than just kind of like, used as dystopian background noise

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part of what bothers me about the cyberpunk aesthetic in general is the insistence on the focus on factional conflicts that do nothing to change the status quo, as it’s seen as both inevitable and impossible (and maybe even undesirable—William Gibson dresses very nicely lol)

I guess there's just no answer for the masochist on the forums?

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thread deleted, the end?

Happy Maria

I guess there's just no answer for the masochist on the forums?

more or less, yeah. The thread is closed for being off topic

archaeo

I guess I’ll just be interested to see how much of that is foregrounded rather than just kind of like, used as dystopian background noise

my recollection is that the first series foregrounds it a lot more while GU backgrounds it for interpersonal drama, but that said tonight or tomorrow I'll dig into the Terminal Disk more which is just diary entries from inside the beast that is CC corp

archaeo

There’s something about the impulse to blame these things on extraordinary children instead of the massive corporation profiting off their increasingly sentient brainworms

and don't forget about the weird freaky xenogears looking dude who is constantly pushing Yata to think about the quarterly returns

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so it's a thread, for sure

sure, sure

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I mean I’m not logging off

that said like, I do think .hack mostly posits that no matter how bad things get it won't really touch these companies

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like, that's a theme

something something I WILL NEVER LOG OUT

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I mean that’s a dominant theme in American and Japanese media anyway

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also South Korean and most European media I’ve seen?

by this point remember The World has already caused a massive network crisis that put many people in the hospital and wreaked other havoc besides

I think capitalism might be a problem

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is what I’m saying

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big news to folks here

and if you read the news coverage it's pretty clear that what is going on is being covered up

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there are a number of news reports that are like, clearly at least slightly biased

it’s a cool presentation of the material for sure

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anime pseudo-ARG

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it feels like an underrated piece of media?

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And I did point out that all of a sudden online jack is recieving a lot of pressure for things that, previously, were no problem, until it started accusing The World of stuff

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so it's all THERE

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it's just like

mmm sure

texture, you know?

yep

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~the dystopian texture of the present~

yeah lmao

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The Near Future of 2022

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It's dystopian but in a sense no more so than reality

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which is kinda funny

I think you could say that about a lot of dystopian literature rn and could totally keep writing sentences about this but I’ll save it for my turgid novel

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once it gets to the middle books where I just declaim politics at people

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look forward to it

archaeo

it’s a cool presentation of the material for sure

it does kind of remind me about a thing in Cold steel, where the newspaper is extremely biased depending on which faction in a civil war is holding the capital at that time

pfft

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nice

it's a good bit

I think one of the underrated things about being in this moment in time is the degree to which people are experimenting with and expanding upon the mechanics of storytelling in radical new ways that meaningfully expand the consciousness of audiences,etc.

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On the other hand, every movie is just about iron man, spider man, bat man, or america man

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¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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our dystopian media market is a land of contrasts

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I have to go review emails now, my major corporation just got a bunch of jobs for people at one of the worst companies in the world :)

Sakaki being literally a child is kinda funny

it’s true

okay so

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I've been playing a fair bit off screen and I think I'm more or less ready to put vol 2 in the can

I thought you finished the story

I hardly got it 100% but I got most of the big stuff done and I got haseo to max level with good weapons

is there more?

just grindy gameplay stuff

what transfers to v3 anyways

everything

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literally everything

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some running sidequests get reset from vol to vol

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and sidequests in general can only be done in the games they come with

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but in general

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all 3 games are one game

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so I've been basically grinding to the level cap, getting missable items. I did a few superbosses

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nothing all that interesting from your perspective

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there is also this think call the Ryu Books that unlocks wallpapers and background songs for the desktop

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but I digress

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Basically I'm probably good to start vol 3 in a few days

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Before that though

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I want to do something different tonight

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That's right, it's time, once again, to check in with Jun Bansyoya's developer diary

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to refresh your memory, Jun is an AI psychologist who works at CC corp, and he was heavily involved in project GU and it's Revive Aura plan, in which CC corp intended to turn 8 kids into digital gods, until literally everything ended in fire

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first off is File 05. Files 1-4 summarize the plots of the first game series, and file 6 covers how CC corp reacted in the immediate aftermath of Aura's vanishing

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