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Blaze Dragon posted:It's a MMO, suspecting someone because they have a ~dark and edgy~ name will not reduce your potential suspects by much. Also, as was said, Pale Rider had an equally if not even more suspicious name, considering...well, I don't know German, so I only got this one... Every single one of the three names is an allusion to Death. Juushi X can be read as GUNDEATH in Japanese.
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Paracelsus posted:Was not expecting that particular Evangelion reference. I have to say I was rather disappointed by that. They barely lasted 30s. I was expecting the full minute at least, given how this season has been paced so far.
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Aug 24, 2014 09:27
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Does anyone else find the nurse a bit suspicious? In Episode 7, she told Kirito that she doesn't know anything about SAO but right before he logged in she called him Kirito. I think she might be the one killing people in the real world.
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Clarste posted:Every single one of the three names is an allusion to Death. Juushi X can be read as GUNDEATH in Japanese. Okay, that's pretty good, but it's so obvious I'd be disappointed if that was the correct pun. Also it was not third on the list of three dramatic things. 
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Aug 24, 2014 14:34
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Paracelsus posted:Was not expecting that particular Evangelion reference.
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KonvexKonkav posted:Does anyone else find the nurse a bit suspicious? In Episode 7, she told Kirito that she doesn't know anything about SAO but right before he logged in she called him Kirito. I think she might be the one killing people in the real world. Uh, she handled rehab for Kirito after SAO. She knows the basics of what happened, not the game's mechanics or what it was like in there.
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Sindai posted:What reference? The elevator scene that starts at 10:21. The shot is framed similarly the original, and Kirito and Sinon are in the same positions as Rei and Asuka, respectively. It even switches to the shot from behind Kirito/Rei, although it's Sinon who's speaking instead of Kirito. Not sure if the cuts to the elevator's progress indicator are exactly the same, but it wouldn't surprise me.
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Zettace posted:Kirito didn't know swimming underwater would have that effect either. The way I understood it is that removing the gear was needed to swim and he just swam to avoid other players spotting him directly. He only learned about it when Sinon told him he wasn't on the map. Makes sense to me. In shooters where swimming is an option (GTAV) swimming makes you very vulnerable but can also make you harder to spot, because who would swim its stupid! *Doesn't look at the water as someone swims up to him*
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Aug 24, 2014 17:30
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KonvexKonkav posted:Does anyone else find the nurse a bit suspicious? In Episode 7, she told Kirito that she doesn't know anything about SAO but right before he logged in she called him Kirito. I think she might be the one killing people in the real world. HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:Uh, she handled rehab for Kirito after SAO. She knows the basics of what happened, not the game's mechanics or what it was like in there. Ah, nevermind then. I don't remember much from the first season after Kirito got out of SAO.
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This is the first time we've seen her, but her introductory scene explains their relationship.
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Paracelsus posted:The elevator scene that starts at 10:21. The shot is framed similarly the original, and Kirito and Sinon are in the same positions as Rei and Asuka, respectively. It even switches to the shot from behind Kirito/Rei, although it's Sinon who's speaking instead of Kirito. Not sure if the cuts to the elevator's progress indicator are exactly the same, but it wouldn't surprise me. Whenever someone mentions an Evangelion reference I think of someone jacking it over a girl's unconscious body.
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Elevator reminded me of the same thing.arhra posted:They barely lasted 30s. I was expecting the full minute at least, given how this season has been paced so far. 
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There are a lot of Catholics(or Orthodox I guess) in Japan? Why would a Japanese gamer do the sign of the cross ever? I know goth kids wear crosses and poo poo to be edgy but crossing yourself isn't exactly a natural thing.
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YouTuber posted:There are a lot of Catholics(or Orthodox I guess) in Japan? Why would a Japanese gamer do the sign of the cross ever? I know goth kids wear crosses and poo poo to be edgy but crossing yourself isn't exactly a natural thing. To be edgy.
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AnacondaHL posted:Okay, that's pretty good, but it's so obvious I'd be disappointed if that was the correct pun. Also it was not third on the list of three dramatic things. you were wrong and dumb (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Law Cheetah posted:you were wrong and dumb please tell me how do I restore my family's honor
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YouTuber posted:There are a lot of Catholics(or Orthodox I guess) in Japan? Why would a Japanese gamer do the sign of the cross ever? I know goth kids wear crosses and poo poo to be edgy but crossing yourself isn't exactly a natural thing. Dude has already built this whole death gun persona and already spouted off that weird speech when he shot that tv. Seems like normal behavior for the guy.
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We should also recall that GGO is hosted in the USA and therefore most of the gamers are Americans. So either Death Gun is an American who we haven't met yet or it really is Friend-Zone in which case he's Christian (possible) or he's emulating Americans the way an American player of a Japanese samurai game might bow.
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jng2058 posted:We should also recall that GGO is hosted in the USA and therefore most of the gamers are Americans. So either Death Gun is an American who we haven't met yet or it really is Friend-Zone in which case he's Christian (possible) or he's emulating Americans the way an American player of a Japanese samurai game might bow. Aren't they playing on the Japanese server?
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I don't recall that. I remember them explicitly showing the servers in the USA on the East Coast somewhere, never saw one in Japan. Time zones being what they are you're going to get a lot more Japanese players at the time that Kirito is playing (and Australians, Koreans, and Chinese, but never mind that right now) so there will be more Japanese players around just then, but it's still primarily a Japanese game as far as I can tell.
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jng2058 posted:I don't recall that. I remember them explicitly showing the servers in the USA on the East Coast somewhere, never saw one in Japan. Time zones being what they are you're going to get a lot more Japanese players at the time that Kirito is playing (and Australians, Koreans, and Chinese, but never mind that right now) so there will be more Japanese players around just then, but it's still primarily a Japanese game as far as I can tell. I think they said earlier it's an American game but they have a bunch of Japanese staff to handle localization and such.
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There's both an American and Japanese server. The company itself is based in the US, probably due to wanting to dodge some law or another. Some foreign nationalities play on the Japanese one, but for the most part it's players from Japan.
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The tournament started at 8pm Japanese time which wouldn't make sense for American players.
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Thoren posted:The tournament started at 8pm Japanese time which wouldn't make sense for American players. It would be around a 5am-8am start for American players which isn't unrealistic if there's a considerable presence in both timezones. EDIT: It would work better for it to be the other way around (5-8pm for America, 8am for Japan) but then the tournament would be on day 'x' in the US and on 'x+1' in Japan, which would split the dates and potentially cause confusion with advertising the tournament time. Having most games use the American m/d/y format is confusing enough already. HiveCommander fucked around with this message at 10:03 on Aug 28, 2014 |
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HiveCommander posted:It would be around a 5am-8am start for American players which isn't unrealistic if there's a considerable presence in both timezones.  about date format: seems like the ideal format would be year/month/day. When you're sorting by date modified, your computer is basically doing that behind the scenes, regardless of how it's presented to the user.
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HiveCommander posted:That's actually what Japan use for their date format. Signing up for a lot of online services usually throw the mm/dd/yy format at me when asking for a DOB. Then again, SAO is set in the future so maybe the world's sorted out all that 'different for the sake of being different' poo poo between countries. Phahaha like America would ever surrender to those metric using pansies.
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Finally, a good episode. Nice mix of action and chat with the old characters. If only we had this more often it'd be a good show. (Next Episode Spoilers) A shame Sinon doesn't die. That'd make this show far more interesting.
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That is the kind of episode we all came here to watch. Lots of single-frame animation phases in this episode if you watch out for them during the Kirito-being-Kirito moments.
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"Now that we've established that Death Gun is exploiting the radar system, let's assume that he didn't do it for some reason this pass!?" What. Why would you think this.
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Jackard posted:"Now that we've established that Death Gun is exploiting the radar system, let's assume that he didn't do it for some reason this pass!?" My money is on Kirito using her as bait. It's kinda a dick move, but he has to know how hard this guy would be to find if he wasn't coming out to gloat.
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Jackard posted:"Now that we've established that Death Gun is exploiting the radar system, let's assume that he didn't do it for some reason this pass!?" Or they think the water is the only way of exploiting it. Simple assumptions make screw ups.
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:Or they think the water is the only way of exploiting it. Simple assumptions make screw ups. This is what I understood as well. They think Death Gun pulled the same stunt Kirito did (hiding underwater), while in reality he can go invisible to even the radar at will. This is likely not something anyone can normally do in-game (just like killing people from a video game), so they did not expect it, nor could plan around it.
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:Or they think the water is the only way of exploiting it. Simple assumptions make screw ups.
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Blaze Dragon posted:This is what I understood as well. They think Death Gun pulled the same stunt Kirito did (hiding underwater), while in reality he can go invisible to even the radar at will. This is likely not something anyone can normally do in-game (just like killing people from a video game), so they did not expect it, nor could plan around it. I can see Kirito not knowing about invisibility but Sinon is a veteran who knows shitloads about the itemization within the game. She recognized his rare as poo poo Sniper Rifle but not a overpowered invisibility cloak?
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Jackard posted:They believe he is using the water to hide from radar. So why do they expect him to show up on the radar? They're assuming that he wants to kill the other players, and to do that he'd need to leave the water since swimming leaves you naked. Why they assumed that he absolutely MUST have been in the water and MUST have gone to that one specific area was really silly and convoluted as gently caress. "He's a sniper and doesn't do well in wide open areas  " is shaky as gently caress because they found him on a loving bridge in the middle of nowhere to begin with. I honestly don't mind all that much because I'm sure the explanation is a bunch of LN  and I'm really not on board for that anyway.I did like the remix of "swordland" that played when Kirito was being Kirito this episode, on a positive note. edit: Are we just not spoiler tagging discussion of the latest episode anymore or what?
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Jackard posted:They believe he is using the water to hide from radar. So why do they expect him to show up on the radar? Because the river ended, they didn't see him, and they assumed he'd go into the abandoned city?
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Why would he get out of the water before the scan passes? E: The only way this can make sense was mentioned earlier, Sinon making a mistake and Kirito using her as bait. Works with the "my attack in 30 seconds" line. Jackard fucked around with this message at 20:25 on Sep 1, 2014 |
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Jackard posted:Why would he get out of the water before the scan passes? Exactly. They aren't near the water, and the scan didn't show him, so they assumed he was nowhere around because they thought he was hiding in the water. It just turns out they were wrong and he has some cloak that's making him not show up on the radar at all, and they just assumed he was hiding in water since that's what Kirito did. Or that's what I got from the episode, I'm not a book reader or anything.
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