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Re: Concise Random Thoughts: Sword Art Online II Episode 15

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phoniex is not online. phoniex
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20 Oct 2014 09:30 PM
This is an experimental spin-off of my Concise Anime Reviews, where I simply conjure up a list of random thoughts that I had during the watching of a particular anime episode. Tell me what you think about this new experiment, and whether I should continue it.

"Oh, great, we're going back to ALFheim. Excellent. Peachy."
"Wait... Sinon plays ALFheim? Since when?"
"God, what was the point of that bath scene?"
"Wait, ALFheim has temperature? Why!?"
"Worrying about Peaceful quests? Sealed dungeons? Have the writers EVER played an MMO game?"
"Okay, I'll admit it, the metal rendition of 'Swordland' is awesome."
"What was the point of the samurai skill scene? Making Klein look like an idiot?"
"So Sinon's character has finally accepted her role as part of Kirito's harem and become a generic tsundere. Good show!"
"Anyone remember when we thought SAO was actually going to be an epic, dramatic spectacle? Good times..."
"So their transport is the albino offspring of Dumbo and Cthulhu?"
"Wait:.. The anime is trying to make us feel sorry for a bunch of virtual NPC animals? I don't get it..."
"They're not going to try to center all the drama in this arc around a scripted quest line, right? I mean, The writers aren't THAT dumb, right?"
"OH MY GOD, THEY ARE. THIS SHOW HAS REACHED A NEW LOW."
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tahu157 is not online. tahu157
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20 Oct 2014 10:22 PM
They explain it a bit better in the LN.

First, the whole thing about them saving Tonkii happened during Fairy Dance arc. Normally when you see a giant monster being attacked by another monster, you take advantage of the situation and kill the one being attacked. Lot's of XP and money for you. But instead Leefa gets Kirito to defeat the attacking giant by luring it into the lake. As a reward for saving it, the monster that was being attacked becomes your friend, and takes you to the door to the dungeon with Excalibur at the end. Only because they were going after Asuna they had to pass it up.

And they didn't say anything about it in the episode, but SAO's map was irreversibly destructible (by design of Kayaba Akikhiko so no one could undo the destruction of Aincrad when the game was cleared, don't quote me on that though), and since ALO is running on a direct copy of the SAO engine, it is subject to the same rules. So, if they fail the quest (which is randomly generated by the game based on human mythology, which is stupid, but it's not pre-scripted like you said), and the Ice Giant's castle breaks through the surface and destroys the Tree, there's nothing anyone can do about it. The game would be almost unplayable with giants roaming freely around the entire map. And because it's a random, computer generated event, no one knows it's happening, not even the Mods.
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phoniex is not online. phoniex
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21 Oct 2014 07:22 AM
@tahu

There is something in all games called an Output Log. It tells you everything that is running in the game currently. Normally, it's used for debugging, but it can also be used to find anomalies like this. As soon as something weird begins happening, find the anomaly via the Output log, and patch it!

And even if it was destroyed, why can't they just do a rollback? You know, the MMO equivalent of System Restore?
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tahu157 is not online. tahu157
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21 Oct 2014 09:44 AM
I'll find the passages explaining what happens if they fail after school.
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3Dwolf11 is not online. 3Dwolf11
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21 Oct 2014 03:45 PM
ALFheim has temperature because.

Well.

The goal of a virtual reality is to have all 5 main senses in a virtual world.

amirite??

yea. good times. it would have been a lot better if this was all reverse, GGO, ALO, and then SAO, and in SAO was a tragedy and not a comedy. (classic terms, not genre)

tradegy = kirito and Asuna die in SAO leaving Sinon who didn't play it on the first day, and the rest to be left and return to real life.
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tahu157 is not online. tahu157
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21 Oct 2014 03:59 PM
Also, like I said, the game has a far-fetched random quest and event generator, and the mods know it exists. Even if they're reading the output log constantly, which they're probably not, there's no anomaly to be found because it's part of the game.
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3Dwolf11 is not online. 3Dwolf11
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21 Oct 2014 04:11 PM
@^

Yui did say that the Princess/Queen NPC thing was hooked up to a literal AI speech thing.

So I'm sure the antagonists in this of the Ice things are going to be AIs too.
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phoniex is not online. phoniex
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21 Oct 2014 06:09 PM
@tahu

You misunderstand me. You see, the output log tells you what is going on with the game. All it takes is one person to look at it an see the anomalous event there (Such as "Running FrostTrollInvasion.bat")

Of course, not even that would need to happen. All it takes is for one GM to notice the weird event, report it, and have the development staff patch it.

~Rock is dead. Long live paper and scissors!~
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