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Zoe posted:...I was half expecting A2 to wander in again and shank the last 2B model in front of him... That would've been hilarious.  How does this keep HAPPENING?!?
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Dec 13, 2017 22:20
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the B stands for bomb
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Dec 13, 2017 22:21
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...! posted:Surely that was the last thing the machine network can do to gently caress with 9S... ...Oh wait, I already did the JamesonLaugh.gif joke.
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Dec 13, 2017 22:25
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McDragon posted:the B stands for bomb They told 2B she was a sex bomb, that was a terrible mistake. An android was sure to take it litterally. Also, Number of times 9S gets owned: +1.
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Dec 13, 2017 22:29
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The Dark Id posted:
 And now the cycle is complete. 9S may die freely in any number of apocalypses to sate Overlord Yoko Taro's every whim.
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Dec 13, 2017 23:03
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Zoe posted:Oh jeez that laugh. Wouldn't you dunk him if you could? Repeatedly? Edit: You just know the machine network just had to chuckle when it came across the stash of spare 2B bodies. ...! fucked around with this message at 23:15 on Dec 13, 2017 |
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Dec 13, 2017 23:11
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...! posted:Wouldn't you dunk him if you could? Repeatedly? I'm concerned that whatever the machines' plan is has been completely sidetracked by mission creep from Project Swirlie here.
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Dec 13, 2017 23:30
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That's what you get for reminding 2B to enable her self destruct, 9S. That is what you get.
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Dec 14, 2017 00:12
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Ratoslov posted:I'm concerned that whatever the machines' plan is has been completely sidetracked by mission creep from Project Swirlie here. I'm beginning to wonder if they have any plan other than Project Swirlie at this point.
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Dec 14, 2017 00:30
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Oh, so that's what else he had to lose. His partner. Again. A dozen times over.
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Dec 14, 2017 00:31
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Now he has a whole bunch of 2b parts, he can build himself a new one.
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Dec 14, 2017 00:33
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Supersonic Shine posted:Oh, so that's what else he had to lose. Hey, remember Auguste and Frederich? Now, that's foreshadowing.
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Dec 14, 2017 00:44
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The Dark Id posted:He gazed upon these 2Bs. Three routes it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden under that Emil mask. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved this poo poo.  The explosion might not necessarily have killed him, but the old 9S is definitely gone now.
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Dec 14, 2017 01:12
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My problem here is that it's TOO calculated. One of the primary themes is that all sides and individuals have little idea of their own motivations and are just doing it by rote, let alone others. Heck, Adam and Eve were the most functional machines; and their best efforts at understanding somebody else was dressup and having tea-parties. Suddenly we have the Network doing a calculated assault on 9S's psyche based on his experiences. Where did the understanding to do this come from?
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Dec 14, 2017 01:14
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Andyzero posted:My problem here is that it's TOO calculated. One of the primary themes is that all sides and individuals have little idea of their own motivations and are just doing it by rote, let alone others. Heck, Adam and Eve were the most functional machines; and their best efforts at understanding somebody else was dressup and having tea-parties. The understanding was already there. Not sure why you think it wasn't.  The machine network became self-aware and then killed its alien masters because it didn't like them. It has an extremely high level of intelligence. It has emotions and fully understands them. Adam and Eve were merely underlings.
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ultrafilter posted:I was going to say that he hasn't been forced to murder 2B himself, but then I remembered the last resource unit. As God is my witness, I thought they'd only do it once.
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Dec 14, 2017 01:34
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I like what Dark ID did with 9s dialog face lol.
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Andyzero posted:My problem here is that it's TOO calculated. One of the primary themes is that all sides and individuals have little idea of their own motivations and are just doing it by rote, let alone others. Of course, that is the joke, right? After all, they're just machines. Nothing they do has any meaning.
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Dec 14, 2017 01:36
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ultrafilter posted:As God is my witness, I thought they'd only do it once. The Machine Network knows when the audience wants an encore. And by "wants" they mean "will be driven even batshit crazier by".
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Dec 14, 2017 01:39
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Supersonic Shine posted:Oh, so that's what else he had to lose. It can't get any worse.
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Dec 14, 2017 01:48
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The Dark Id posted:The Hamelin Organization was basically Umbrella Incorporated tasked with handling the salt monster Legion apocalypse in the original NieR’s backstory. They did this by doing a bunch a dumb poo poo with magic they didn’t really understand like making super-powered child soldiers or sticking people’s souls in magic books, turning people into giant grinning cartoon skeletons or giving petrification vision to kids and whatnot. They likely also made the original androids to oversee the Plan Z of throwing magic poo poo at the wall and hoping for the best that was Project Gestalt. Also OG NieR had that predilection to name their bosses after fairy tales, so I guess it makes sense that not-Umbrella would be named after the (Pied Piper of) Hamelin, especially since they probably also made Devola and Popola and them leading you on through the story.
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Dec 14, 2017 01:56
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The Dark Id posted:
Ahhh, one of my favorite ambient tracks from the game, right up there with the amusement park pre-Machine Zombie Apocalypse. So, is it just me or do Yoko Taro's villains tend to be massive trolls? We had Manah, Grimoire Noir, the Flower, and now the Machine Network. Technically Gismor too I guess, but who wants to remember Drakengard 2? e: exploded mummy posted:It can't get any worse. Oh, my sweet summer child. This is a Yoko Taro game we're talking about - it can always get worse.
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Dec 14, 2017 02:00
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To be fair to the Hamelin Organization, humanity was kind of facing extinction. It's understandable you might skip a few ethical reviews here and there. On the other hand I'm still not sure what Umbrella's obsession with bioweapons was all about, honestly. I can't imagine their BOW&Viruses division ever turned a single dollar of profit over its entire existence.
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Dec 14, 2017 02:05
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I’m not going to say that this escalated quickly, but boy did it ever keep escalating. This kind of reminds me of Xenogears in that respect.
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Dec 14, 2017 02:11
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Maybe we're being too harsh on the machine network. I mean, it probably remembers from Adam how much 9S wants to **** 2B, and it is going out of its way to give Nines every opportunity it can to do so. At this point, 9S just seems unappreciative, if anything. Actually, the network has been nothing but friendly and welcoming in every interaction it's had with 9S. It knows he's upset about losing 2B, so it keeps bringing her back for him to ****, tries to hook him and A2 up, and even found 21B wandering around the wilderness and set up a reunion between her and 9S. Nines is just being a jerk
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...! posted:The understanding was already there. Not sure why you think it wasn't. So Adam and Eve were mods, and the machine network is Lowtax?
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Dec 14, 2017 03:20
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McFetusBurger posted:So Adam and Eve were mods, and the machine network is Lowtax? 9S keeps getting dunked on because he refuses to buy plat.
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Dec 14, 2017 03:23
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I thought the joke was that Lowtax was never around. That would make him the humans on the moon, yeah?
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So 9S' entire rampage has been one massive  Does that make A2 an FYAD poster or something?
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Dec 14, 2017 03:31
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Really Pants posted:every thread's a deal Looking back over this thread, I find this one somewhat debatable.
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sometimes it's only a win for existential suffering
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exploded mummy posted:It can't get any worse.
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Dec 14, 2017 03:58
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Dr. Snark posted:I heard about that happening but I love actually seeing Emil completely killing the mood. That's just great. Yeah, this is the best.
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Dec 14, 2017 05:05
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https://twitter.com/yokotaro/status/940324608615464960
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...! posted:The machine network became self-aware and then killed its alien masters because it didn't like them. It has an extremely high level of intelligence. It has emotions and fully understands them. Adam and Eve were merely underlings. It understands emotions now. I like to believe Adam and Eve were created for that very purpose. Unfortunately 2B taught them mostly hate and fear. Just makes more sense to me narratively that way. The network used Adam and Eve to try and find a new purpose. It found one in torturing 9S.
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Mokinokaro posted:It understands emotions now. I like to believe Adam and Eve were created for that very purpose. Given what we've seen of the Network, I can fully believe that it made Adam and Eve go through their little existential journeys just to kill some time.
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Join us next time as 9S falls down the tower again, well either that or the Network gives him a wedgy. So, how long until the ghost girl shows up again?
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I forget, did we ever see what happened to the corpse of the original 2B or did it just get launched when the network tower burst up? I don't think it would really do anything to 9S that hack space memory 2B and the copied models haven't done, but still. The Dark Id posted:It’s not like everyone was in YoRHa were with 9S and 2B Guessing "who was in"
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