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Oh Snapple! posted:There's rape clowns and also a guy who gets off on watching women die, explicitly violating them even further by devouring their souls. Oh right, SAO has confirmed souls are real and the magic to eat them is real outside of the virtual world
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Jul 9, 2020 16:29
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dudermcbrohan posted:i feel like we shouldn't take the sociopath's (psychopath?) word for truth wrt human souls being consumable But wasn't it presented as a flashback at first? I don't think it was even him recounting a story to someone, it was the show itself telling us this.
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Jul 9, 2020 16:33
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i read the flashback as his delusion, the only thing that would really change the context/reality of it is whatever happened when he first dove into underworld (don't remember the exact details)
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Jul 9, 2020 16:36
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TwoPair posted:I don't get why people like SAO Abridged. The only joke seems to be "what if SAO, but everyone is a huge rear end in a top hat (and/or insane) ?" It works as a "ha, a lot of gamers are assholes" gag initially but that joke wears thin extremely fast. And like, they toy around with the idea of people having PTSD for like a minute, but then like, so does actual SAO. It has funny jokes and my friends who haven't watched SAO before seemed to enjoy it. Also Kayaba actually has a motivation. So that's good.
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Natural 20 posted:It has funny jokes and my friends who haven't watched SAO before seemed to enjoy it. Elephant Parade fucked around with this message at 19:10 on Jul 9, 2020 |
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Jul 9, 2020 19:07
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It's OK to just dislike SAO. You don't have to assert flaws that don't exist
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Natural 20 posted:It has funny jokes and my friends who haven't watched SAO before seemed to enjoy it. Also, abridged Laughing Coffin's attempt to monetize murder was glorious.
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Elephant Parade posted:But Kayba already has a motivation in SAO. I made a big post last page about how he practically spills his heart out at the end of the Aincrad arc. He literally says he doesn't know why and I don't buy your analysis which claims his motivation to "Build a castle" is in any way an actual motivation to create a death game. Look, a lot of people think that this is a non explanation so either you have magical insight that everyone else doesn't or it's a terrible handwave explanation.
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Natural 20 posted:He literally says he doesn't know why and I don't buy your analysis which claims his motivation to "Build a castle" is in any way an actual motivation to create a death game. As for why his desire to build a castle is related to the death game: the castle is Aincrad. A "steel castle in the sky" describes Aincrad. The rest of his monologue also describes Aincrad, as I explained. I can't defend my analysis any further because you haven't addressed the ehole if my analysis or offered specific critique beyond that. As for why other people think he doesn't have a motive: sometimes, false narratives spread throughout a fan community. Someone who hatewatches SAO, and who likely hasn't seen the original scene in several years, is going to take it on faith when someone says, "Kayaba has no motive," because they don't remember othereise and it could be true. My "magical insight" was watching the scene before posting.
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But "I wanted to build this castle" is not an argument for locking players inside the game. It's for why the world is as it is and nothing more.
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nielsm posted:But "I wanted to build this castle" is not an argument for locking players inside the game. It's for why the world is as it is and nothing more. Elephant Parade posted:Kagaya wanted to create "that castle, a world that surpassed all our laws and all our restrictions". Any normal VR game would obviously be subjected to the restrictions inherent to video games; in particular, the events that happened therein would be bereft of real consequence: dying in the game doesn't mean dying in real life; money in the game isn't real money; if you don't feel like playing, you can (and must) leave. In short, forget about surpassing the real world; his castle would fall far short of it. How can he change that? By making Aincrad into the real world. And that's what he does: by abducting 10,000 people into Aincrad, making consequences within the game match up with consequences in real life (death = death), and preventing everyone from leaving, he eliminates those problems. He creates the castle.
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Kagaya also leads one of the major guilds too, he clearly has some kind of fantasy, uh, fantasy he’s seeking to live out through creating the death game. Like he’s not a particularly nuanced or complicated character or anything. He’s still kind of a generic as far as these types of villains go but that’s not the same thing as being literally motiveless.
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w00tazn posted:First ep of part 2 was full of laughs and more action than I was expecting. Enjoy the ride of just how silly the last stage of Alicization is.
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why did they ditch the solid english VAs they had for the American players at the end of the last season. it went from native or native-level to THIS GAME IS SUCK
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See SAO, sometimes you're cool, then you gotta go and do something like that Leafa scene
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Ah, tentacle poo poo before the first commercial break, fantastic. Stay classy, Kawahara/A-1  But on the other hand, MY BOY KLEIN'S BACK  , entire series redeemed
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TwoPair posted:Ah, tentacle poo poo before the first commercial break, fantastic. Stay classy, Kawahara/A-1 Yeah, I had to fast forward through that poo poo. Do you think Kayaba ever patched SAO during the death game? Can you imagine having to trust your life to the 1.0 version of an MMO?
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He ran an extensive beta. Shout out to the Beater Kirito I mean it's not like he was planning on adding new content or anything
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Not Keyser Soze posted:They couldn't go ONE EPISODE without this poo poo again why do I keep watching Sometimes, it is not the good that keeps us, but the bad. Trainwrecks are exciting, and "how bad can it gets" is a question that needs answering. Pretty poo poo though, since the Leafa scene both started and ended pretty great, but the entire middle part was so horrible I'd rather forget it entirely.
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Not Keyser Soze posted:They couldn't go ONE EPISODE without this poo poo again why do I keep watching
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Ahahaha 9 minutes and tentacles. Holy poo poo sometimes I think this show might stop being trashy and then we get this poo poo.
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Sword Art Online: Alicization: War of Underworld: This Game Is A Really Suck
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Goddamn what is wrong with the people who make this poo poo lol
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Are we doing spoilers? Why not, just to be courteous. So from what I gather Kirito is dead, he has suffered some kind of Matrix-style ego death and the plan is to create a patch-work copy of his personality from the amalgamated memories of him from the members of his harem. That's terrifying. That's some serious existential nightmare fuel right there. And I'm sure this show will take the time and care necessary to explore the heavy ramifications of a world where that kind of thing is possible.
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From what I understand, he wasn't actually braindead—the explanation given at the end of S1 was that the disconnect hit right as he was experiencing feelings of self-loathing, causing that self-loathing to amplify itself until he was reconnected, by which point he had already retreated within himself.
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Writing aside, the fight between Bercouli and Vestra was insanely well animated. I loved the artstyle during that part, it felt like a completely different show but it looked amazing, and it had really good choreography and action.
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Not Keyser Soze posted:Are we doing spoilers? Why not, just to be courteous. I think it's supposed to be that it's more like he's in a coma, his soul/memories are still all there they're just dormant, and they're gonna use their memories to jumpstart his soul back to action? You're right though that basically this whole season, what with being able to successfully isolate, digitize, and duplicate the human soul is an existential nightmare. Blaze Dragon posted:Writing aside, the fight between Bercouli and Vestra was insanely well animated. I loved the artstyle during that part, it felt like a completely different show but it looked amazing, and it had really good choreography and action.  I'm stunned that Bercouli won (well, double KO but still). The minute he showed up in episode 1 I was like "dude, you're not Kirito, you can't just fight the final boss and win". I guess though it looks like we're just gonna deal with his alt, Super-Vecta for the rest of the season.
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I get a weird twinge every time the main cast refer to themselves as being from the “Real World” to the people in the Underworld. Like, sure from the outside there’s a clear distinction between what is or isn’t an incredibly elaborate simulation in a digital system but the people in the Underworld are people in every way except being made of meat and have no knowledge of a world outside the system so I keep expecting them to balk at the suggestion that their world isn’t the real world.
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Not Keyser Soze posted:Are we doing spoilers? Why not, just to be courteous. Been guessing this since the preview, and yeah, I legitimately hope they do this. And the show already at least touches on some of the ramifications of all the scifi bullshit, and Kirito's PTSD, so there's a chance they'd get into it, right? Right? If nothing else, is concerned that he isn't real, does not know what he is like when he is alone would be a second interesting thing about him.
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Lmao they are finally going to talk about the seal of the right eye
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TwoPair posted:I think it's supposed to be that it's more like he's in a coma, his soul/memories are still all there they're just dormant, and they're gonna use their memories to jumpstart his soul back to action? You're right though that basically this whole season, what with being able to successfully isolate, digitize, and duplicate the human soul is an existential nightmare. I am so, so disappointed that his alt is his SAO/ALO character. The only game we've actually seen him play is GGO, and man, that would have been loving cool
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Captain France posted:I am so, so disappointed that his alt is his SAO/ALO character. Maybe GGO is the only game that isn't interoperable with SAO/ALO.
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I get that Underworld's gimmick is "confidence = power" but L-O-loving-L at Gabe loading up his alt and rising like the King of the Damned with some weird mount and just putting a whammy on Sinon. This guy is the true anti-Kirito with this range of bullshit abilities. Also that "twist" in the maintenance shaft was quite possibly the least surprised I have ever been at an anime. Who would have figured that the previously unnamed guy who we've never seen before could be the mole? e: also I'm disappointed that we seem to have eased off the Bleach, I wanted to see more bullshit TwoPair fucked around with this message at 04:01 on Jul 26, 2020 |
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"and we're all...worried about Kirito. Whenever Kirito's not on screen, all the other characters should be asking. 'where's Kirito?'" As flawed as the series was Re:Creators did a much better job of handling the whole existential crisis Alice goes through for all of one scene this episode.
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