Witch Chat - .hack//Gay Undertones

AIDA didn't originate in FF14, remember?

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And now apparently Cubia just...exists in the network generally

“Spook Power Plant”

Remember how Aura, during the golden age, basically maintained the whole of the internet

What “nearby residents,” people don’t LIVE in Langley

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Actually I guess they probably do

basically the news is just full of system malfunctions

Like a whole town and whatnot

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Dang

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When’s the last time an emergency landing at sea went that well

Sully?

Oh yeah!

there's also a train crash

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and also this lmao

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dammit Chris Endavor

I feel like space stations don’t work this way

look, if it's good enough for Summer Wars it's good enough for .hack

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also I like how we're getting this story now because the gaming news vertical is slow lmao.

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L M A O

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"CC Corp has acknowledged the special directors faults"

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this is just like when FF14 gets a mod who starts banning people for posting RP in party finder

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and obviously, like any apocalypse, people wanna Post about it.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Beach_(1959_film)

On the Beach (1959 film)

On the Beach is a 1959 American post-apocalyptic science fiction drama film from United Artists, produced and directed by Stanley Kramer, that stars Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, and Anthony Perkins. This black-and-white film is based on Nevil Shute's 1957 novel of the same name depicting the aftermath of a nuclear war. Unlike in the ...

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now there is a callback that would have been dated when the game came out

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LMAO at these two

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look at the bright side rko

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now EVERYONE is as mad at Ovan as us

3

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I love how self-centered this game portrays Gamers

Ovan destroyed the internet

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He did that

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Boom

I respect him, for that

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whomst amongst us hasn't fantasized

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but Ovan is doing

True

anyways I say self centered because in the context of everything being mad about not being able to play MMOs is extremely funny and very realistic

Shaiapouf

I love how self-centered this game portrays Gamers

Are they wrong

also Skeith, I had a question

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cause I sincerely forget

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does the game ever actually explain what AIDA is?

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anyways it is extremely funny that The Whole Internet Is Mad at Ovan, but like, not for the right reasons

Yeah when they nailed the portrayal in this game

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They really fuckin nailed it

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I don't think there is anything beyond what Aida is other than rouge AI that is trying to learn about humans

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And I think that was already explained?

anyways in my e-mails, it sounds like Haseo finally convinced Saku not to like, vanish into the subconcious, so that's nice

I can't believe Ovan's being cancelled for checks making it hard to play FF14

Skeith

I don't think there is anything beyond what Aida is other than rouge AI that is trying to learn about humans

okay so in that case

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let me just share what the wiki says about AIDA

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because I think it's really interesting and will explain some stuff

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The AIDA are "natural" AIs, formed from the errors in the Internet caused by the disappearance of Aura. Unlike Aura, who was created by a system, the AIDA evolved much like normal life. The AIDA were originally harmless, but after several thousand of them were produced, a mutant appeared. This AIDA, Tri-Edge, had aggressive tendencies, and attacked a player. Since the AIDA are all connected, this aggression soon spread to the rest of them. As the AIDA learned more about the outside world, through online news and the memories of their victims, they attempted to recreate parts of it within R:2. The first such artifacts were coinlockers, modeled from the news article "Coinlocker Baby" that first made AIDA aware of humans.

dang

So yeah it was never exactly a hostile virus at all

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just a curious AI conglomeration

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That said

It's all Tri-Edge's fault in the end

MAN what a fucked up thing for AIDA to latch onto early on

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Coin-operated-locker babies or coin-locker babies are victims of child abuse of a kind often occurring in Japan, in which infants are left in public lockers.[1] The presumption is that such lockers are regularly checked by attendants and the infant will be found quickly; however, many children are found dead. Between 1980 and 1990, there were 191 reported cases of infants which died in coin-operated lockers, which represents about six percent of all infanticides during that period.

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Remember that thing Atoli found at the end of Vol 1 that got her epitaph stolen? That was a coin locker AIDA

Jfc

this is just like, a weird fucked up socio-economic ill in japan

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as I have said over and over again, The World is a system designed to turn human interactions into AI. What ended up happening, I think, one of those AIs gained some of the qualities of The World and became self-replicating, and sought people out as a means of reproducing itself

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and so it became a swarm of entities that would seek out and try to understand strong emotions it encountered

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and most of the strong emotions you find on the internet are, to be honest, very negative

In an OVA that has been rendered non-canon by the existence of Volume 4 some AIDA approach Atoli and Haseo at a festival to show that they are evolving and become good

I am curious if Vol. 4 will deal with this at all