The Japanese soccer association has the yata no karasu as it's logo
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CatHerder19-Apr-22 12:29 AM
sorry, I tried
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I had a feeling it was a Yatagarasu reference but I didn't know about the JFA, that's neat
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Shaiapouf19-Apr-22 12:30 AM
Yeah it's so funny
Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni"19-Apr-22 12:30 AM
whomst among us
Shaiapouf19-Apr-22 12:31 AM
Apparently he wanted to go professional but got injured, so instead he leaned really hard into being super online
Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni"19-Apr-22 12:32 AM
recruit yata faster plskthx
CatHerder19-Apr-22 12:32 AM
being online is a good distraction from pain and boredom, turns out
Zedd-Repulsa19-Apr-22 12:33 AM
who could've guessed?
Shaiapouf19-Apr-22 12:33 AM
But yeah that's Yata's surprisingly interesting backstory
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Including haseo, that means exactly half of the epitaph users are characters from the original games (kuhn was a minor character)
Zedd-Repulsa19-Apr-22 12:36 AM
sakubo is too young, luckily
CatHerder19-Apr-22 12:36 AM
Pi's new, but her brother wrote big chunks of the game, didn't he?(edited)
Shaiapouf19-Apr-22 12:37 AM
Pi's brother has only been mentioned in passing at this point
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Hold that thought
archaeo19-Apr-22 02:35 AM
Wow
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These games are deep
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But
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Holy shit
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The Hetero Trio?????????
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(Ironic that yet another insufficiently straight man’s nonsense is what took me away from this just as it was getting good)
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(Fucking heteros……..)
Shaiapouf19-Apr-22 12:44 PM
So I just learned something absolutely wild
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Remember that one moon tree captain who was just like
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A cat girl ninja with no lines?
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she has a whole side manga about her
archaeo19-Apr-22 12:45 PM
naturally
Shaiapouf19-Apr-22 12:45 PM
But it's actually more wild than that
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It's a romantic comedy about her player being in love with silabus
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And also alkaid's irl best friend
Skeith19-Apr-22 01:17 PM
Yup
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Silabus deserves to have someone who has a crush on him
Shaiapouf19-Apr-22 01:21 PM
It's just very funny because in the game she shows up, says one line then dies and it's very "what the hell was that"
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And now we know about her complicated journey of self discovery!
Zedd-Repulsa19-Apr-22 03:54 PM
cute
Shaiapouf21-Apr-22 10:50 PM
the time has come once again to dot hack
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On The Forums people are talking about how fucked up the tournament is
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nothing too interesting in the art board (in fact, there is a mildly gay panick-y ancedote in the art forums I'll just spare you from)
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so lets get right into it
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and by right into it, I mean right into the second round
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this time, we're going to be fighting IYOTEN
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remember IYOTEN? No? Okay that's fine
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These were the two that PKed Haseo 2 minutes after he made his characters as part of some weird manipulative game. They apparently just make a habit of bullying new players as the thing they do in game (hence the name)
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so lets fight them, that shouldn't be too bad, right?
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A scene plays as we log in
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This is Saku, to be clear, not Bo
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and the scene fades(edited)
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at the tournament
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Kuhn delivers this like hilariously deadpan for whatever reason
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and I don't really know what he means honestly, how weird
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It's worth remembering that Haseo, as the game starts before he gets deleveled, is an infamous PKK
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The game opens on like a 5 minute sequence of him just wrecking Bordeux's crew
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it's easy to forget because I didn't start the LP until halfway through Vol 1
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Sakaki gets his commentary in as well
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Haseo is starting to lose himself in his old grudges, apparently being influenced by the AIDA server to an extent
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This too, is Sakaki's intent
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It's actually a pretty fun fight, though not too difficult
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with that plot beat behind us, lets browse the internet
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LettuceKitteh21-Apr-22 11:13 PM
Sakaki is going to cut himself on all that edge
Shaiapouf21-Apr-22 11:14 PM
interestingly, despite it being fairly old news as far as the plot is concerned, the media finally caught wind of how wild what happened to moon tree actually was
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Essentially, CC corps ability to cover the situation up is starting to crack
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in fact, perhaps I am burying the lead on this one
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At last
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after all these games, AIDA has been officially announced
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going back to the moon tree article
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as I said, the situation is clearly spiralling out of control for CC corp
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which maybe explains why they are relying on Sakaki to help them
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I do rather like the vibe of this art someone posted of thier OCs
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anyways, back to the e-mails. Those of who who expected a rematch with Matsu are about to be surprised
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He honestly doesn't realize how lucky he was to fight Antares, frankly
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anyways, we got a filler dungeon to do before the next arena match. Hopefully it won't be as weird as the last one
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lmao even haseo is like "sure lets kill some time"
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oh, I missed this, there are forum posts on the official The World Forums
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it is wild and funny how much gamers will deny the evidence in front of their eyes because they don't want to stop gaming. I find this staggeringly realistic, honestly.
Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni"21-Apr-22 11:23 PM
nyan
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GAMERS
Shaiapouf21-Apr-22 11:23 PM
gamers....gamers never change(edited)
Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni"21-Apr-22 11:23 PM
also it's funny that these random idiot noob PKs are higher level than Haseo's party
Shaiapouf21-Apr-22 11:24 PM
well they were level 10 when Haseo started playing and quite a while has past since then, so I guess they were leveling
Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni"21-Apr-22 11:24 PM
ngl I'm actually surprised they kept leveling
Shaiapouf21-Apr-22 11:25 PM
lets be real everyones level is whatever it needs to be for gameplay purposes lmao
