Witch Chat - .hack//Gay Undertones

I'd have to think about it

....why are komaedas always the best characters

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this pains me

Honestly I'm not sure, I'd have to dwell on it more

Fate's End (Sophia?)

So after all that, CC corp once again takes the platinum medal in incompetency after it turns out that all the servers for the most successful game ever were all in the same building with no backups.

Let me reiterate. THE MOST LUCURATIVE MMORPG OF ALL TIME. ONE BUILDING. NO BACKUPS.

"how do you know endrance is the best character" HE PURPLE

But for the purposes of .GU the one part of the lore that really does matter is that for years after the whole Morgana incident Aura just existed in The World as a sentient being

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And when the servers broke down before GU she just vanished

So naturally the place burns the fuck down.

So Aura is missing

so why

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is it called gu

Lol.

Dio: Head in a Box, Then Killed by a Japanese High School Student Kars: Immortal so can only stop thinking in the vacuum of space Kira: A mangaka may have literally invented biblical Hell for him Diavolo: Will endlessly experience a panoply of ways to die Pucci: ??????????????? ??????????????

Lmao.

Gu gu ga ga

(Pucci &ct. get what's coming to them don't worry)

"why is it called GU" is basically a running series joke

lol can't wait rko

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I"m sorry but,

The honest answer is that it sounded good (edited)

https://tenor.com/view/mafacx-gif-18174119

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dio

Komaedas are attractive for exactly the same reason everybody thought Satan was Milton's best character, Maria

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It's really that simple

God

we love a sexy cool villain

look I'm not the one who said "Head in a box"

lol

diavolo's still gives me existential horror (edited)

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I worded that funny but like,

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nightmares

I mean more broadly, we love a complex portrayal of a villainous or at least chaotic neutral character who creates dynamic conflicts and allows us to grow sympathetic to someone who is objectively a piece of shit

After the server farm burns down CC corp scrambles to salvage the game that was printing them money and they slap together what they can find with some other gane that they were developing and call it The World R2: We Promise We Made Backups This Time

so they just did FF14 (edited)

The World: A Realm Reborn

yeah I get you I am just slow reacting to all the things

is this what happened in FF14

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no it's cool Maria

speaking of komaedas and ffxiv,,,

And that's what GU takes place in

cool

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Lot Going On There

Yeah for real

okay personally my brain is now sufficiently freed of the conflicts of the world thanks to the Anime Conflicts of The World

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so now I have to slam out a ton of work

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lmao

Good luck

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It does help doesn't it?

Do Work Son

Also of note: Tri-Edge looks almost exactly like the protagonist of the original .hack games

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But less dweeby

Oh yeah I did kind of elide that because it wasn't immediately relevant

oh huh

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Do note that most successful mmo in the world is only like 20 million copies sold

12 million!

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Literally 1/3rd of ff14

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Hilarious

That's the world r.2

Oh it wasn't as popular?

Apparently

I didn't realize lol

People upset they couldn't import their characters

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Etc

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In 2015, a fire destroyed most of The World's game data, so CC Corp quickly began work on a replacement. By splicing together the remaining data from The World with another game they were working on, they created R:2. It was released on Christmas Eve, 2015. However, fans of The World disliked the change as they were unable to transfer their character data to The World R:2, and many referred to the launch as "Goddess's Death". Despite this, the game goes on to sell 12 million copies by the time of the events of the G.U. Games, though still failing compared to its predecessor's 20 million copies sold.

Hah

That other game's name

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It all comes back to jojo

It always did

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According to CyberConnect 2's homepage, the "other game" spliced in is King Crimson, a fictional online game that was the original setting for their "G.U." game. When it was decided to make G.U. into a .hack game, King Crimson was incorporated into The World R:2.

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It just works

he looks like a fish

I mentioned a whole back that Atoli's investment in the fictional narrative of the world R2 is an interesting plot beat, specifically because in the narrative of the game they literally just threw a bunch of shit together (edited)

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Textually The World:R2 has a bad story that most people don't care about

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So the emphasis on a character who does care is an interesting choice

every time I see 'atoli' I think 'aioli"

I'm trying to make a joke there but I can't think of any that wouldn't be weird

I am planning to play more tonight, fairly late

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probably around midnight my time

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just fwiw

okay lets see now. Where we left off, Cyber Bully Wasn't So Tough After Being Put In A Coma

lol

Haseo Learned the power of ~~protecting his friends~~ this bitchin skeletal scythe form (edited)

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Ovan said "welcome...to the world" again for no apparent reason

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So just another day in paradise

he said it because it is objectively pretty bad ass

Ovan is a type of guy I think you will really come to appreciate

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anyways Atoli is called over to meet her guild leader/mentor/absolutely not a cult guy sakaki, but the scene cuts out before we find out what he wanted

I had to look up the intro cutscene to confirm

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that the Japanese VAs just say "Welcome to [The World]" in English

...of course they do

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perfection (edited)

"za warudo" does, objectively, sound rad as fuck

nobody can see the avatar unless they have one (in fact, that is how GU learned Haseo has one) so Haseo's friends just think he is extremely good at video games

this is how streamers become popular

I like the clapping animation

actually that is a fucking tight gimmick, do not steal this original idea I just had

you should watch BELLE, but that's going off topic

streamers and speedrunners are all just harboring ~~avatars~~

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oh really, is that what it's about

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I seriously thought you were all talking about some edgy Disney reboot of Beauty and the Beast

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ngl

lol

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It's an anime adaption of Beauty and the beast but it's on the Anime Internet and has a lot of other stuff going on besides the parts that are a Beauty and the beast adaptation

ahhh

It does have some I guess thematic links to this game, as it's about The Kinds of People You Meet On The Internet

Shaiapouf

Ovan said "welcome...to the world" again for no apparent reason

that's just his standard greeting

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some people say hi

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Ovan says "welcome...to THE WORLD"

I'm silent because I'm just knocking out a bunch of sidequests rq

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btw

sometimes you gotta side quest

So, with the original .hack games they came with OVA disks that contains a short anime series about people investigating the same stuff as the protagonists, but outside the game. GU, in contast, has an in-game web series about an obnoxious youtuber investigating shit

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ONLINE JACK

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here we see our hero literally doing something he should be arrested for (edited)

lmao

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also it's funny to me how far we still are from the like, Cool Gargoyle look

cool gargoyle look?

the wearable technology

oh yeah

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love that shit

"gargoyle" is I believe the term they use in Snow Crash

he ends up finding some kid who got fucked up

I am so glad a live streamer has never found me slumped at my desk after getting fucking owned online

all the electrical devices room freak out

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and he says a name we recognize.

"Coldsteel"