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Shaffness posted:So I guess Alice uses SAO retarded bullshit science to make a mirror ball that can use luminous element or in her case thousands of fluctlight spirits from fallen fighters to create what is essentially an infinite power generator to power her space laser. Pretty badass. There's actual a physics precedent for this, but it involves a black hole and if it breaks it wipes out entire civilizations.
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So, since this is only episode 7, I assume there are going to be much bigger laser beam explosions that could compete with any space anime. And what are the weaponless/magicless fighter going to do? Super headbutt beams? Alice > Kirito and that is awesome/insane (until he unleashes his ultra tree sword attack!)
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Nov 24, 2019 22:48
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smaller but better lasers this week. love to see alice rage-melting people tbh, just hoping the eventual owning of DIL is on that level because jesus christ gently caress the mages
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I'm glad they only did half an episode of info dump abd let the back half be some interesting battling. I was surprised that Alice want able to heal her homeboy though. Seeing as how she's a priestess and was training to be a healer as a child you'd think she would have some pretty powerful white magic spells.
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Well he did face tank a WMD and had hp in the several thousand negative.
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Also there was no magic power available after the big laser, the other side literally sacrificed 3,000 to make the WMD.
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poo poo, I thought we were gonna see Alice use that most sacred of arts, motherfucking dual wielding. I guess that's still only for the coma champ Kirito. Also I know the game experienced a big power surge but it seems like literally every episode now has some sort of system error where the game breaks and some wild poo poo happens that shouldn't happen. And it was really cool at first but now it's just making it even more shonen where if you just want it hard enough, then yeah gently caress it the game will let you keep fighting even after your HP drops into negative thousands. I mean, I guess that isn't unprecedented since all the way back in season one, Kirito beat Kayaba after technically dying, but still. It both opens the door for cool poo poo to happen but simultaneously opens the door for any old bullshit to happen in any given episode. So I guess what I'm saying is between that and all the gratuitous boob shots the Bleach in this show is approaching dangerous levels TwoPair fucked around with this message at 23:49 on Dec 2, 2019 |
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Dec 2, 2019 23:40
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Love causes glitches in the system, they never fixed the bug because Kayaba disappeared before he could patch it.
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Natural 20 posted:Love causes glitches in the system, they never fixed the bug because Kayaba disappeared before he could patch it. It's sad that I don't know whether you're joking or not. Because there are numerous instances where love does conquer all (at least regarding game rules) , and I wouldn't be shocked if there's some LN note I've never read that makes it explicit.
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The games and systems based on Kayaba's Seed(Ha) have always able had the possibility of strong willpower enabling people to surpass the system. Smh this was explicitly stated and shown multiple times in this season. I take my SAO lore very seriously
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Dexo posted:The games and systems based on Kayaba's Seed(Ha) have always able had the possibility of strong willpower enabling people to surpass the system. I was chalking up a lot of examples so far this season to the power surge at the end of the last one. But yeah, on reflection Underworld is using all of the seed's source so it makes sense. It's just coming into play way more than in previous seasons so it threw me.
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THE GODDESS DESCENDS sheyta was amazing as well
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Leave it to SAO to absolutely squander a season and a half of tension building. We were led to believe the dark country invasion was going to be so devastating the better option was to destroy the entire world. Instead its a mass attack of wet farts.
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Dec 7, 2019 23:19
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i mean it's easy to cut down swathes of an army's forces when you a) use a fuckoff massive laser to wipe out a group and b) the enemy themselves kill their own army for a super attack one of your units tanks
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Yeah this whole dark army is kind of a wet fart of an invasion. Out of all the forces so far all we've seen is cannon fodder and artillery and the artillery was really easily neutralized. Maybe the knights will fend better but I doubt it considering Asuna just cheat skilled the lot of them into the ground.
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I mean they are/were very clearly losing. They were about to lose their supply base. The IK have a huge tactical advantage in terms of bottlenecking and they are still getting their poo poo kicked in, and being forced to retreat. The Generals of the Dark army are able to fight generally on the same level as the Integrity Knights,. Meanwhile the main villian hasn't done poo poo but sit on his pleasure barge. The other Side evil dude moved and almost single-handedly took out the supplies. This arc still goes some places(sensationally dumb and funny places) It's far from over.
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I know the overall strategic situation is supposedly still super bad, but it still feels like any time the dark army is about to threaten anyone even slightly important, boom, magic nuke or secret badass slaughters them. Sheyta's really cool though. I hope she gets to do more cool stuff.
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I would be perfectly fine with the dark army getting completely stomped and just going away because most of the surviving characters within it are boring and dumb.
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I went back and double checked the login episode and how the hell is Asuna suddenly god? I thought they said the only high level accounts they had access to were like, nobles*. But suddenly we got holes opening in the ground and aurora borealises popping up. I mean don't get me wrong, it makes sense that they should have the account password for the light goddess, but they never showed or mentioned it before. Plus the dumbasses didn't lock the dark god account with apparently unlimited system control so frankly I don't trust them to do anything competent. *and then I checked older episodes and it looks like those accounts aren't even that much stronger than Kirito was way earlier in the series. I mean, I know being close to Kirito is much like being a god but still  Indiana_Krom posted:I would be perfectly fine with the dark army getting completely stomped and just going away because most of the surviving characters within it are boring and dumb. I'm fine with them sticking around so far as at least once per episode someone does something really cool to wreck them. Though it is funny that so far between the all the dark knights, mages, ogres, etc, the most successful enemy troops seem to be the guys who punch things real hard. I mean, they didn't win, and they didn't take out an IK like the mages did, but I don't think they suffered any casualties, it looked like just a lot of maimings. TwoPair fucked around with this message at 06:59 on Dec 10, 2019 |
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Dec 10, 2019 06:53
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what if she's just casting illusion magic
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TwoPair posted:I went back and double checked the login episode and how the hell is Asuna suddenly god? I thought they said the only high level accounts they had access to were like, nobles*. But suddenly we got holes opening in the ground and aurora borealises popping up. I mean don't get me wrong, it makes sense that they should have the account password for the light goddess, but they never showed or mentioned it before. Plus the dumbasses didn't lock the dark god account with apparently unlimited system control so frankly I don't trust them to do anything competent. Spoilers for something that's about to be explained Only the bad guys didn't have access to the god accounts of the empire. They neglected to secure those equivalent accounts in the dark territory which is what the bad guys had to use. The Ocean turtle team would obviously have the credentials to log people into the god accounts.
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Dexo posted:Spoilers for something that's about to be explained I figured as much, but I still think it's kinda bullshit that they deliberately hid that from the audience e: VVV Fair enough, I guess. Still leaves a bitter taste in my mouth. TwoPair fucked around with this message at 00:27 on Dec 11, 2019 |
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TwoPair posted:I figured as much, but I still think it's kinda bullshit that they deliberately hid that from the audience It was likely for dramatic effect when they were in a dire situation, Deus ex Asuna appears, my guess is next episode they swap back and show what the Ocean Turtle team has been up to while under assault.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va1Y6uAgNJY
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man I sure love episodes about how much everyone wants Kirito's dick such incredibly deep and engaging character writing Christ, it had something good going with the Stacia stuff and Asuna having to explain everything to the Underworlders too. That was not needed but I guess it isn't SAO without it.
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Blaze Dragon posted:man I sure love episodes about how much everyone wants Kirito's dick Most of the time I forget SAO is a harem anime but then an episode like this one comes along to smash you in the face with it. my favorite part of SAO is Kirito and Asuna's relationship so I really got the feels when they met up. the sword fight and the overworld explination made up for some of the harem business and honestly I don't even mind that all that much since in general they seem to keep it to a minimum. Shaffness fucked around with this message at 06:47 on Dec 16, 2019 |
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Hey look, at least one of them likes Yugioh instead. And then he died. Like a bitch.
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Shaffness posted:Most of the time I forget SAO is a harem anime but then an episode like this one comes along to smash you in the face with it. my favorite part of SAO is Kirito and Asuna's relationship so I really got the feels when they met up. the sword fight and the overworld explination made up for some of the harem business and honestly I don't even mind that all that much since in general they seem to keep it to a minimum. You'd think Asuna would have mentioned the part where they were (kind of) married, that they have an adopted AI daughter, and, like, that he saved her from an arranged marriage and they're talking about getting for real married now. Plus Alice neglected to mention that Kirito has been in a weird coma the entire time she's been taking care of him and sharing a bed without his consent, but those would not be a point in her favor. Also, how the gently caress was the time they lived together only two weeks? I thought it was at least a few months. The harem stuff is extra annoying because it's just sorta tacked on next to a committed relationship that feels pretty solid. That time could be so much better spent on more scifi stuff, more action sequences, exploring Kirito's PTSD more, giving Kirito a personality outside of his PTSD and Generic Hero status, or, you know, writing more of the established relationship that's been going since season one
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Well, RIP to Alice's time as the main character. You had a good run, kid. Also, lol at Asuna showing up and decimating these poor digi-babbies' whole worldview in one episode* after a whole season of Kirito dancing around the subject and just pretending to have amnesia with Eugeo (and Alice for their brief time teaming up). I guess it helps your credibility when you show up and immediately employ god mode. *mad props to Bercouli taking it in stride. "Yeah there are other lands out here, gently caress it, why not other worlds?" e: Really did not expect to see Kirito's knight teacher show up again. I'm sure she was a much bigger player in the source but she was in the show for like 1, maybe 1 and a half episodes? TwoPair fucked around with this message at 05:43 on Dec 21, 2019 |
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Underworld: Gamers Rise Up e:This mysterious new figure with another Yui has to be loving Kayaba, right? It just has to be. e2: oh gently caress me it's totally gonna be the psycho that poisoned Kirito at the start of the season and there's gonna be a dramatic moment where him attempting to finish the job on Kirito is what causes Kirito to wake up, isn't it? TwoPair fucked around with this message at 04:44 on Dec 22, 2019 |
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The extra dude with the pixie is definitely that guy from the Ordinal Scale anime only movie. So how that plays out is anyones guess
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We just need Pitohui to show up and help, with the pain receptors off now.
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I really like the world building stuff like "we're all on a police list forever because there's no way to know for sure who committed murder inside SAO and who didn't," shame it barely ever comes up.
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I'm glad all the characters, both good and evil, can come together to fight the evil Americans. 
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TwoPair posted:I'm glad all the characters, both good and evil, can come together to fight the evil Americans. Not a lot of development in this episode but it was actionny and fun regardless.
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i love the terrible engrish in the past two episodes so much like can you really not hire some nerds on the internet to say the american lines
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Mimesweeper posted:i love the terrible engrish in the past two episodes so much I'll give the series points for at least keeping the lines extremely short so they are at least gramatically accurate even if the pronunciation could be better. That way, the Engrish is actually funny and helps make the scenes better even if for the wrong reasons instead of just being painful.
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Blaze Dragon posted:I'll give the series points for at least keeping the lines extremely short so they are at least gramatically accurate even if the pronunciation could be better. Yeah, it could be soooooo much worse. I'm actually impressed by them doing the English thing, it's a nice attention to detail. Although now it unintentionally raises the question of why are the American guys aboard the Ocean Turtle speaking Japanese
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