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View Poll Results: Critique of Episode 05 | |||
10 out of 10: Near Perfect... | 35 | 22.88% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent... | 41 | 26.80% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good... | 29 | 18.95% | |
7 out of 10 : Good... | 30 | 19.61% | |
6 out of 10 : Average... | 8 | 5.23% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average... | 2 | 1.31% | |
4 out of 10 : Poor... | 4 | 2.61% | |
3 out of 10 : Bad... | 1 | 0.65% | |
2 out of 10 : Very Bad... | 2 | 1.31% | |
1 out of 10 : Torturous... | 1 | 0.65% | |
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2012-08-07, 03:49 | Link #262 | |
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I'd be more concerned how to generate an EMP wave. Even assuming technology has moved forward in the future, most shows I've seen that use EMPs still do it the old fashioned way, detonate a nuclear weapon at high altitude. I imagine this is mostly due to the fact there's no practical reason to try and create small scale style EMP weapons. If you're firing an EMP at someone, it's probably because either they're an imminent threat to your country, or you're about to invade them (or both). |
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2012-08-07, 04:08 | Link #263 | |
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Like there's no way it would produce deadly microwave radiation before burning out, cause it wasn't designed to do exactly that when the death-switch gets triggered and the internal battery discharges in fractions of a second. At the very least a minimum of knowledge of electronics and physics would be required before making badpoasts.
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2012-08-07, 04:25 | Link #264 |
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I chalk this down to the modern culture of instant gratification and the average young person on the net not thinking things through.
Anyhow, good ep all in all, no complaints, and I'm glad they didn't try to squeeze it through. As for the episodic nature... When you think about it, your own life is of an episodic nature. So I don't see the problem.
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2012-08-07, 05:32 | Link #265 | |
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2012-08-07, 06:25 | Link #266 |
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Ultimately I think people are just hating to be hating... or trolling.
The idea that you could hit 6,000 some odd people scattered across quite a lot of hospitals all at the same time to ensure everyone gets out safely without being killed by the EMP or the microwave or just someone's watch being set wrong is beyond insane. (That's assuming that 100% of the SAO players reside in Japan, but that at least is something we can safely ignore.) The idea that the Japanese government (or someone else's I guess) has crack trained troops who will magically know how to play MMO's well... and who can somehow get around the sole GM remaining in-game with the keys to the kingdom, as it were, to fully clear each floor (no need to kill the floor bosses, thankfully) and magically make it to the current floors being cleared without ever dying. Because, while you could probably re-engineer the NERV gear without the microwave / kill switch... you probably can't re-engineer the code that says when your SAO avatar is dead, it's dead. I can see the problems now. "Sir, we've trained up to level 7, but there was a trap in the 3rd floor and we lost a third of our team... it's going to take a few weeks for them to get levelled up again. Should we go back to support them?" Of course, the troops could tell everyone that it was safe to ignore the game because they'll totally have them safely cleared out in what, 5 more years? If you can't deal with the setting, perhaps this show really isn't for you? Dunno? Sorry guys, it's the setting. Try to cope or move on? Sleep PK is no odder than some of the travesties that happen in today's MMO's, it's just slightly more serious because of the death-game nature of the setting. And it's not like it's a problem plaguing the SAO residents today. They've obviously figured it out and it's a well known part of the landscape now. I don't know, but people have been complaining about some really oddball things things lately. Last edited by Adigard; 2012-08-07 at 07:48. |
2012-08-07, 08:44 | Link #267 | |
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On a completely different topic, I'm going to agree that sleep PK while probably a big deal when it was first discovered has become widely known and people have adapted their habits to reflect that design issue. I think that would largely depend on if the server actually keeps full logs of who kills who, because frankly I don't think they'd prosecute anyone on a "he said she said" type thing even if other people's stories agreed. Plus even if the server has that type of logging, it's only going to reveal people who directly kill another player. In an MMO setting, there will clearly be ways to kill someone indirectly (such as by having monsters do the job for them) which wouldn't get picked up. |
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2012-08-07, 08:52 | Link #268 |
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You people think whatever you want.
For me on the other hand the usual idea that there is somewhere (Usually Japan duh) some super great fricking genius who is so super smart that the rest of the world is on the level of apes when it comes to being smart. Is so dumb that I can just facepalm. Usually the only defending point of such stupid plot holes is answers like "He/She is a damn genius duuuuuuuuuuh. She/He probably have super defenses". Science and technology moved on from the genius fase. Obviously there are here and there some smart individuals who know a little more than the common flock scientists. But they aren't some super smart alien level like scientists, who outclass other scientists in each and every way. Nowadays everything is so diversified that its hard to have people on the level of Da Vinci, Einstein or Tesla.
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2012-08-07, 19:25 | Link #269 | |
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A much more simpler explanation would be that the menu is invisible in every direction but the one facing the player. So the only way to see another players menu would be to be directly behind them. |
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2012-08-07, 19:52 | Link #270 |
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The conversation in this thread has gone beyond the scope of the topic and has expanded in a different direction (a tangent). Please put that conversation on hold while a decision is made about where it will be moved or how it will be treated.
Edit: Okay there are three new threads now for your perusal: "Real-World" and Legal Implications (Speculation, NO Spoilers) Game Mechanics and Technology (Speculation, NO Spoilers) Game Mechanics and Technology (for Novel Readers, with Spoilers) Hopefully this will allow some of the on-going discussions that really spans beyond any one given episode to live on in their own thread, and not be re-kindled every week in the episode threads.
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2012-08-08, 10:47 | Link #274 |
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Well, their deaths could be a DoT effect, you know... or armor break effect...?
I'm just stating probablilities. Either way this episode is good in my eyes. Kirito presented a good philosophical issue to munch on. Asuna is cute. The man's expression looks splendidly done. But, if there's no <<Pain>> in game, doesn't that mean that the man who got hit with <<Guilty Thorn>> was faking it? Or exaggerating it? Or was it that uncomfortable?
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2012-08-08, 12:24 | Link #275 | |
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2012-08-08, 12:35 | Link #276 |
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DoT effect? And I figured he would be...errm... even wilder than I have ever done in my life and would have repeatedly tried to remove the spear if it was the case... If he was panicking, it was too calm for my opinion...
Then again it's just me.
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2012-08-08, 14:13 | Link #279 |
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There is actually no proof she died - Most MMos have a fake death skill and I suppose she had it. its pretty much the easierst way to pull this cime off, especially since all impiortant information came from her.
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2012-08-08, 18:22 | Link #280 | |
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I guess, if this is true, it means she certainly has an accomplice. When they were discussing who had made the sword, she made it clear that Grimrock could have given the sword to someone else. If she's in on the crime, I guess that could either be trying to cover for Grimrock, or some sort of subconscious honest admission. Incidentally, if we're bringing up the topic of fake deaths, is it clear that Griselda is really dead? When Yoruko explained the story, she just said that "they found out she died". If, by some chance, she isn't really dead, and this is some sort of plan to keep the ring, then I suppose that opens up some other possibilities. But, still, why go after people now, six months later? Also, it's at least true that Schmidt also thinks she's dead, and I'm not sure I can believe he's involved in this given the situation. In any case, I would think the next thing for Kirito and Asuna to investigate is the situation surrounding Griselda's death, which may provide more clues into who is responsible for this whole affair.
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