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Shaiapouf 02-Mar-22 06:38 PM
Lol
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I did say it was a doozy
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MagusDraco 02-Mar-22 06:39 PM
yeah. hell I had forgotten who Endrance was since it's been awhile but definitely still remembered Elk.
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archaeo 02-Mar-22 06:40 PM
I mean jeez
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Shaiapouf 02-Mar-22 06:43 PM
The perils of online dating
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Shaiapouf 02-Mar-22 07:15 PM
I definitely do recommend re reading the screenshots if you haven't btw because whew
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Mysterious Stranger "Cyouni" 02-Mar-22 08:45 PM
so endrance actually was just vibing the entire time huh
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Shaiapouf 02-Mar-22 08:46 PM
Vibe check
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the fragment of the epitaph that talks about The phases is as follows
Unknown where the Cursed Wave was born… After the stars doth cross the heavens, The sky in the East doth darken and air doth fill with mourning. From the chosen land beyond the forest, a sign of the wave comes. Riding the wake is Skeith, the Shadow of Death, to drown all that stands. Mirage of Deceit, Innis, Betray all with the flawed image, and did aid the Wave. And by the Power of Magus, a drop from the Wave doth reach the heavens, and creates a new Wave. With the Wave, Fidchell, the power to tell the dark future, hope darkens, sadness and despair rule. Gorre schemes when swallowed by the Cursed Wave. Macha seduces with the sweet trap. Wave reaches the Pinnacle, and escape none can. Tarvos still remains with more cruelty to punish and destroy. And with the turbulent destruction after the Wave. Only a void remains. From deep within the void arrives Corbenik. Perhaps then the Wave is just a beginning as well.
Happy Maria 02-Mar-22 08:57 PM
attempting to catch up and I wish to apologize because this epitaph just reminds me of neopets (skeith) and homestuck (tarvos/tavros)
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Shaiapouf 02-Mar-22 08:58 PM
Lol
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anyways, the gang is forced to fight Macha and defeats her. In good tragic fashion, Elk then runs into the dungeon, in time for Macha to transform back into Mia and die in his arms
Happy Maria 02-Mar-22 09:00 PM
y would u do this
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Elk reunites with her at the very end and they are able to carry on
Happy Maria 02-Mar-22 09:01 PM
this is suddenly the most invested I've been in the game
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pounds table SE! CRET! DUNGEON! SE! CRET! DUNGEON!
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oh boy I see I have misunderstood
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Shaiapouf 02-Mar-22 09:02 PM
rip (edited)
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yeah that's the part that always really fucked me up about it
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In the real world, Endrance is a computer addicted, reclusive 20-year-old named Kaoru Ichinose (一ノ瀬薫). He lives with his parents in Kanagawa Prefecture. According to Yata, he plays The World R:2 almost 24/7, logging out just enough to sleep.
Happy Maria 02-Mar-22 09:02 PM
wow the most relatable character
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I want to play this game purely for endrance now
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a form she chooses because he'd just lost a white cat irl
Happy Maria 02-Mar-22 09:03 PM
you're killing me
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Shaiapouf 02-Mar-22 09:05 PM
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Happy Maria 02-Mar-22 09:09 PM
"is the cat ok" shaia: "no the cat was evil" "no." shaia: "sometimes cats are just evil I'm sorry" "no."
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It was a fake evil cat I'm sorry
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Happy Maria 02-Mar-22 09:11 PM
this picture is traumatizing why do you keep posting falling cat
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please help the cat
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speaking of evil cats one just sat on me so now I can't play persona, sorry shaia
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Shaiapouf 02-Mar-22 09:13 PM
rip
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also if It wasn't clear absolutely none of this is spelled out in .hack//GU
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you literally just get Endrance saying "Mia" and are expected to connect the dots on your own (edited)
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Happy Maria 02-Mar-22 09:14 PM
so which game is last recode
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mobile?
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Shaiapouf 02-Mar-22 09:14 PM
Last Recode is the remastered bundle that includes the trilogy, plus a fourth new game
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Happy Maria 02-Mar-22 09:14 PM
well google says I can marry endrance
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Shaiapouf 02-Mar-22 09:15 PM
I actually mentioned that a while back
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want to see something really funny tho?
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look at his like
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bridal veil
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same hat
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Happy Maria 02-Mar-22 09:16 PM
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where exactly
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Shaiapouf 02-Mar-22 09:16 PM
behind Avatar Macha
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Happy Maria 02-Mar-22 09:17 PM
ok I went up to the other pics to compare
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ic
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so we gonna watch the anime or what
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Shaiapouf 02-Mar-22 09:18 PM
.hack//roots?
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Happy Maria 02-Mar-22 09:18 PM
I dunno
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Shaiapouf 02-Mar-22 09:18 PM
I hadn't been planning on it
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I watched it a while ago. It's pretty good but nothing revelatory
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https://youtu.be/BCl4Lk5PXX0?t=294 if you want to watch the fight you can see it here. Skim through to find the mid-fight conversation stuff
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Endrance is actually voiced by Liam O'Brian
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aka Weiss
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Happy Maria 02-Mar-22 09:19 PM
....
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Shaiapouf 02-Mar-22 09:19 PM
so he sounds like a much younger Weiss
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Happy Maria 02-Mar-22 09:20 PM
who's saying "it's alright haseo etc etc" in a highly recognizable voice
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Shaiapouf 02-Mar-22 09:20 PM
That's Kuhn
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I believe that's Johnny Young Bosch
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.hack GU is in fact a real who's who for big name VAs of the era. I believe Haseo is Yuri Lowenthal's favorite role (edited)
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archaeo 02-Mar-22 09:25 PM
Wow
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Shaiapouf 02-Mar-22 09:25 PM
I do recommend watching the fight if you got a few minutes
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the dialog is great and well performed and this is one of the highlights of the game
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I did what I could with screenshots but you know
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archaeo 02-Mar-22 09:26 PM
Will do~
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Fate's End (Sophia?) 03-Mar-22 08:01 PM
oh, it's easy enough macha originally was a wizard cat morgana used to babysit a lesbian but they got too attached so morgana whacked them.
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archaeo 03-Mar-22 08:23 PM
delightful
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Shaiapouf 03-Mar-22 09:05 PM
Elk actually became mia's friend because he used a very similar in game model to said lesbian (edited)
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kinda like how half the reason Haseo hangs out with Atoli is that she looks like shino
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Fate's End (Sophia?) 03-Mar-22 09:16 PM
hot take: tsukasa is transgirl coded
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Shaiapouf 03-Mar-22 09:19 PM
I always took tsukasa as transmasc coded if anything
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Fate's End (Sophia?) 03-Mar-22 09:20 PM
tyhat's what makes the take so hot
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Shaiapouf 03-Mar-22 09:20 PM
lol fair
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they created a male avatar and comfortably exist as such for months before learning there is anything incorrect about that
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Fate's End (Sophia?) 03-Mar-22 09:26 PM
✅ clings to a false world & presentation as male in what's ultimately portrayed as an unhealthy coping mechanism to abuse ✅ is ultimately happier after abandoning it on her own terms and leaving her abuser, never returns to it ✅ literally is a girl but doesn't realize it ✅ gay gay homosexual gay
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Shaiapouf 03-Mar-22 09:26 PM
"literally is a girl but doesn't realize it" is lmao
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but I see your point
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like I'm not dissing your read at all to be clear
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Fate's End (Sophia?) 03-Mar-22 09:27 PM
also I'm realizing that as a kid I kind of imprinted HARD on tsukasa
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Shaiapouf 03-Mar-22 09:27 PM
The writing with Tsukasa is very interesting and I have no idea what they were thinking with it
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I'm not about to say anyone's head canon or imprinting on it is wrong
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Fate's End (Sophia?) 03-Mar-22 09:28 PM
like, the closest thing to a transbian narrative I experienced in non-fanmedia until like 2010
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so hm I WONDER WHY
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Shaiapouf 03-Mar-22 09:30 PM
For those who don't know: Tsukasa was trapped in the game by morgana and had thier memories of the outside world wiped except for some vague feelings of being abused. Morganna did this to tie them directly to Aura and feed Aura Tsukasa's Bad VIbes, so she wouldn't get good data for her machine learning algorithm. Ultimately Tsukasa falls in love with the guild leader Subaru, and other characters investigate Tsukasa (who I believe is canonically the first player of The World to fall into a coma) and learn they are in fact a female player. Eventually Tsukasa gets out, runs into Subaru in real life, and the show ends with them embracing.
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It's a pretty sweet, actually queer narrative to be honest
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Fate's End (Sophia?) 03-Mar-22 09:31 PM
I thiiiiiiink there was also like, a short 1 issue side manga thing that was kind a gay too, but I don't remember clearly
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Shaiapouf 03-Mar-22 09:31 PM
regardless of how trans you think it is or in which way it is extremely queer for a 2002 anime
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Fate's End (Sophia?) 03-Mar-22 09:32 PM
and then there's GIFT, which was packaged with IIRC Quarantine where it casually drops the spoiler as a joke
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Shaiapouf 03-Mar-22 09:33 PM
lol gift
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if you're watching gift you just have terminal .hack brain
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It had full frontal nudity
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.hack//gift was wild
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Fate's End (Sophia?) 03-Mar-22 09:36 PM
said nudity was the main part of the aformentioned joke
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Shaiapouf 03-Mar-22 09:38 PM
anyways, I kinda wish the longer arc of .hack had taken more of SIGN because that really was the most philosophical and interesting the franchise ever was, in terms of exploring identity on the internet.
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archaeo 03-Mar-22 09:49 PM
there's a lot to explore!
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Shaiapouf 05-Mar-22 03:07 PM
Maria you can start reading here I'm not going to post a lot rn as I am mostly just doing gameplay stuff to prepare for the ending of Vol 1, hopefully tonight (edited)
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but I wanted to note that we made the news
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There is actually a pretty interesting bit of futurism in the news stories, as they talk about what cell phones are used for in The Near Future of 2017.
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honestly this one feels fairly prescenant for 2007.
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Idran 05-Mar-22 03:11 PM
Ooh
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Shaiapouf 05-Mar-22 03:13 PM
LMAO MY INBOX
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CONGRAT! CONGRATULATIONS! WELL DONE YOU'LL PAY
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.........ouch
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Even Haseo is bothered by that
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Antares (Tengu Mask Man) apparently didn't see the fight because he had modem issues, bless his heart
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archaeo 05-Mar-22 03:21 PM
jesus christ yata go touch grass
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Shaiapouf 05-Mar-22 03:21 PM
Most of the characters of a .hack game seriously need to touch grass
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anyways it's not gonna let me party with anyone until I do this next plot beat so
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I gotta talk to this Man Of The Sea to go to my award ceremony
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archaeo 05-Mar-22 03:24 PM
god
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fucking FINALLY
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Shaiapouf 05-Mar-22 03:24 PM
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archaeo 05-Mar-22 03:24 PM
a MAN OF THE SEA
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but only for a second, shit
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Shaiapouf 05-Mar-22 03:24 PM
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I knew you would like that rko
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archaeo 05-Mar-22 03:25 PM
god talk about two people who need to touch grass
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touch a fuckin therapist's couch more like it
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Shaiapouf 05-Mar-22 03:26 PM
thank you gabi, insightful as always
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archaeo 05-Mar-22 03:27 PM
I love all the big dudes
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.hack is a show/game about how big dudes? not so bad
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and also maybe we should think about the internet!
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Shaiapouf 05-Mar-22 03:30 PM
lmao thanks buddy
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Alkaid is here but watching from a far distance
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presented without commentary
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We've talked to everyone, But Atoli is conspicuously absent
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Ovan: Haseo is worried about you
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"I think Haseo Hates me"
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Ovan whispers something in her ear, and her eyes go wide
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archaeo 05-Mar-22 03:36 PM
I love how this game has like
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five characters in a giant football stadium space, max
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at any given time
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Shaiapouf 05-Mar-22 03:36 PM
yeah it's so true
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It makes it very uh
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archaeo 05-Mar-22 03:36 PM
the population per square mile in the world is measured in the like 0.00s
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Shaiapouf 05-Mar-22 03:37 PM
what's a good work for like, feeling like a play
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archaeo 05-Mar-22 03:37 PM
theatrical
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stage-y
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Shaiapouf 05-Mar-22 03:37 PM
yeah
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that
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archaeo 05-Mar-22 03:37 PM
staged
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yes
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Shaiapouf 05-Mar-22 03:37 PM
also one of my favorite themes is playing here
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Ovan: The three of us here, reminds me of the old days.
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archaeo 05-Mar-22 03:38 PM
lol like these idiots went to high school
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but yes this is a nice piece
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Shaiapouf 05-Mar-22 03:39 PM
Haseo: Stop it. Atoli: "Who is Shino?"
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archaeo 05-Mar-22 03:39 PM
(the next song suggested by youtube: ".Hack//G.U OST - Gentle Hands") (edited)
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Shaiapouf 05-Mar-22 03:40 PM
I'll post that one later
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It's the main theme of Vol 1.
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archaeo 05-Mar-22 03:40 PM
hell of a title
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please continue
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Shaiapouf 05-Mar-22 03:40 PM
Ovan talking about thier hunt for The Key Of Twilight
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Ovan: "Shino used the same character as you do. You understand what that means, right?"
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Ovan vanished
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So. That could have gone better.
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If you try to invite atoli to a party
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archaeo 05-Mar-22 03:48 PM
welp
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Shaiapouf 05-Mar-22 03:48 PM
Jesus christ Ovan
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archaeo 05-Mar-22 03:48 PM
yeah way to drop a truth bomb and just vanish
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Shaiapouf 05-Mar-22 03:49 PM
If it's not clear from the screenshot he is absolutely smirking when he whispers in her ear (edited)
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Also I could tell it was an important scene because they had two faces in the Close Up Zone at once
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