Witch Chat - .hack//Gay Undertones

18:26

Haseo's right but wow he's being an ass about it

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and she drops the issue immediately after

18:29

Tournament fight with Matsu

18:29

It proceeds Anime-ish-ly

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18:31

Nice Detail that Matsu is one of the few other Adept Rogues in the game you meet

18:32

We win the match

18:33

Sakaki going a bit mask off now

18:34

Any last words from Matsu?

18:35

Friends Now

18:36

Matsu: "I don't need this blade anymore. You can have it. " Bequeaths his legendary claymore to haseo and walks away Haseo: "...I don't want this!"

"my build is not meant for claymores"

it's like in FF14 when someone gives you one (1) egg

18:43

After the fight, Piros of all people gives us a lead for a sign from Tri-Edge. The Area words are "Hidden Forbidden Bulwark." I'm sure that's fine

18:43

Ovan is waiting for us there

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Yata is there too, talking with Ovan

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18:45

I said Ovan was waiting for us, but they both leave before we arrive

18:45

Haseo Arrives and...Piros is here instead lol

18:47

Why is Piros on the floor? It is a mystery

18:50

Haseo evesdropps on Alkaid confronting Endrance about the "weird skill" he used on her last time they fought

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18:51

"I don't even know who you are" vibes

18:52

Endrance tells Haseo something along the lines of "You want to fight me? You won't even beat Alkaid." etc etc

18:55

Anyways without much delay we're jumping right into the semi finals. Except Atoli is offline. Presumably avoiding us after Haseo just laid into her for no real reason before the last match

Atoli was late but she did in fact show up and didn't ghost us, so credit to her

19:21

19:22

Haseo was worried Atoli was mad at him so he's trying to pretend he's not relieved that she's here. it's cute.

19:25

The time has come to confront Alkaid

19:25

It's the Semi-Finals now, which I'm actually unsure if that includes fighting the champ or not

19:27

she uses a super move and kicks my ass

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19:28

Haseo had, all this time, been claiming he was going to beat Alkaid without using his avatar. But he gets his ass beat down and his body just kind of reacts on his own,

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19:30

For the rest of GU Haseo's becoming a problem.

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19:32

I should point out from the framing it's pretty unclear exactly how in control Haseo was of using the avatar state there. Maybe the fact that he was trying to hold back is why Alkaid didn't fall unconcious

19:35

I'll stop there, on that down note

19:40

We are in fact closing in on the end of the first game, for the record. The tournament arc is about to reach its climax, and then the plot will start to move more quickly, as I recall

Dang

19:40

Lotsa intrigue

lots of anime melodrama playing out

19:41

Hopefully my summations and screenshots get the jist across

They’re great, for my part I just don’t have much to say today

Haseo - minorly not in control

Shaiapouf

If I recall correctly isn't Zelkova One of Yata's Alts?

No, someone else sure is

lol

We go back to THE WALL from last time to find Piros has fallen asleep during his stake out

22:00

we're just about to leave when Sakaki shows up

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and then Atoli right behind him

22:00

Atoli hears....something. This isn't the first time she heard sounds coming out of tri-edges emblem

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Sakaki also asks Atoli if anything has changed with Haseo. When she says no, we go on a journey to the Close Up Zone to watch Sakaki's face go on an indecipherable journey.

22:03

But what is clear is that Atoli is...spying on us? For Sakaki? (edited)

22:03

maybe spying is too harsh

22:07

The time has come for our final fight in the tournament before facing endrance

22:07

Our opponents: Kuhn and Pi's team

Shaiapouf

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fucking

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god

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damnit

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"this"

it's good shit rko

22:19

sometimes you just need some "this" in your life

I wish Xenogears' punctuation had stuck

22:21

"I thought for sure the main body of -this- would be sleeping here." is cooler than scare quotes imo

yeah I'll give you that

22:23

the spirit is the same tho

you are telling the truth

Haseo isn't all that concerned about fighting Kuhn (edited)

22:29

Yata is guest commentating for this fight. He's mostly silent

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22:30

TENGU MAN WAS ON KHUN'S TEAM THE WHOLE TIME

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incredible smug tone here

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The most important thing

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22:33

these people have such polygons

archaeo

"I thought for sure the main body of -this- would be sleeping here." is cooler than scare quotes imo

why are they called scare quotes anyway they never scare me

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22:36

Taking this fight to the streets

Idran

why are they called scare quotes anyway they never scare me

I live in constant fucking fear

22:38

I feel like Haseo is like

22:38

way overdue for a bad time

archaeo

I live in constant fucking fear

yeah but you're the slowest luigi

https://tenor.com/view/luigis-mansion-luigi-scared-frightened-terrified-gif-18337456

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archaeo

"I thought for sure the main body of -this- would be sleeping here." is cooler than scare quotes imo

have some [this] in your life

22:43

also Haseo: "are we the baddies"

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(btw if you want to look at how the fight goes I found a clip here https://youtu.be/Ck9UfCGn-mM?t=880)

Tristan Koh

.hack//G.U Last Recode -Vol.1- Gameplay #19 (PC) Haseo vs Magus

22:44

should time skip to the fight

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anyways Haseo is thrashing Khun when he feels something

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22:46

THE BEAST

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I cannot stress the degree to which this is just Evangelion right now

22:47

lol

22:48

say "that's not me"

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for me, haseo

shaft head tilt time

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22:51

lmao Kuhn was only pretending to die

fuckin lmao

22:52

seriously

there's a bunch of technobable that explains that Khun's avatar can clone itself so he was able to avoid getting data drained by escaping at the last minute

22:52

that was always his plan

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incredible

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Pi is mad because like, he could have fucked up and died

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and then Kuhn, having proved his point, throws the match

can't get drained if I just make more data faster than you can drain it

https://giphy.com/gifs/culture--think-hmm-d3mlE7uhX8KFgEmY

Identity

Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni"

can't get drained if I just make more data faster than you can drain it

Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni"

can't get drained if I just make more data faster than you can drain it

this is literally how it worked yeah

22:54

and that's how Haseo wins the tournament! Lol. Lmao.

"winning isn't everything, and to prove it I'm making you win the tournament instead"

Yata decides we have time for one last bit of evangelion and pushes up his glasses and gives a little gendo-esque speech before teleporting away

how are people not constantly walking up to that guy (edited)

22:58

to poke him right in the forehead

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I'd just be like "you have arrows pointed on your face dude"

22:58

"just following the UX/UI design you have provided to the world"

boop

23:01

Honestly Even I was shocked by the degree of "it was just a prank, bro" that scene ended on

23:03

we're back at GU HQ for a prep talk about Endrance. Kuhn is already back to being the peace keeper of the team

23:04

Pi: "you're too easy on Haseo" jesus pi did you see the shit kuhn pulled off like 5 minutes ago?

23:04

This is actually where Pi and Kuhn become full party members

23:05

up until now they were only avaliable for specific story missions

pretty big party now!

archaeo

pretty big party now!

oh buddy. just you wait. We're only 1 game into this

Shaiapouf

we're back at GU HQ for a prep talk about Endrance. Kuhn is already back to being the peace keeper of the team

does .hGU ever get up to like, Full Trails level

archaeo

does .hGU ever get up to like, Full Trails level

Will I have enough party members to take on Kefka's Tower and leave some friends behind with Gogo and Umaro

even trails doesn't actually ever get up to trails level often

23:06

it's just CS4

or, more realistically, Cyan and Gau lol

anyways Yata is like "Well, you wanted to deal with Endrance? Well, now you're going to be dealing with Endrance for me"

lol

CS4 is like the game doing this for it's big arc finale (edited)

23:07

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/348/678/57a.jpg

lol

All Yata wants is one thing

23:08

who says that

"He ain't gonna sing like a stool pigeon, Yata!"

23:09

oh so Endrance is just Extremely Online

23:09

word

yeah

Endrance just taking in the vibes

you get the impression Endrance is online all the time but he isn't really...doing anything, except for the arena. Outside of that he's just idiling

23:10

yeah maybe he's like Atoli

Endrance being the opti- dammit

just in iit for vibes

23:12

I'm gonna knock out some quick side stuff and then we'll do the title match

Khun uses winky face emojis to flirt with strangers. I feel like he should perhaps try something like ;-j to show how nonchalant he is. absolutely no game here

;D

the punchline to this sidequest is that Kuhn spends all his time hitting on this girl and it turns out she's in third grade.

23:29

yikes

Everyone proceeds to dunk on him ruthelessly