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Sword Art Online [Series]
Garret02:
Orange ones lasts few days (attacking players) but they didn't say anything about red ones.
Mirgond:
You don't get an orange or red marker if the other person was marked orange or red respectively.
He would only have gone orange in the Silicia SS because not all the attacking players were orange (spotters are green).
Spoiler about the real world after SAO(you have been warned):
(click to show/hide)They won't get other adresses and names in the real world due to people being able to commit crimes in SAO and they don't want other to commit vigilantism in the real world. Everyone get's a clean plate so to say about what has happened in SAO.
Kirito only gets contacts because of special circumstances, and that has to do with the following VR Worlds.
All of the inhabitants of SAO have to go through months of recovery, and most of them won't touch a VR again.
The next two eps will be a sidestory again btw.
(click to show/hide)Yui finally :D
Bob2004:
--- Quote from: Garret02 on September 09, 2012, 09:47:28 AM ---Orange ones lasts few days (attacking players) but they didn't say anything about red ones.
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Didn't they say red ones were permanent? That was certainly the impression I had, at least.
Havoc10K:
--- Quote from: Mirgond on September 09, 2012, 09:48:21 AM ---You don't get an orange or red marker if the other person was marked orange or red respectively.
He would only have gone orange in the Silicia SS because not all the attacking players were orange (spotters are green).
Spoiler about the real world after SAO(you have been warned):
(click to show/hide)They won't get other adresses and names in the real world due to people being able to commit crimes in SAO and they don't want other to commit vigilantism in the real world. Everyone get's a clean plate so to say about what has happened in SAO.
Kirito only gets contacts because of special circumstances, and that has to do with the following VR Worlds.
All of the inhabitants of SAO have to go through months of recovery, and most of them won't touch a VR again.
The next two eps will be a sidestory again btw.
(click to show/hide)Yui finally :D
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I'd prefer they showed AsunaXkirito some more, nothing will really do any justice.
Who the hell is (click to show/hide)Yui ?
sdedalus83:
--- Quote from: Mry087 on September 09, 2012, 12:32:58 AM ---
--- Quote from: AceHigh on September 08, 2012, 11:59:06 PM ---Guys, imagine this: Now they are awesome sword fighters with unique skills and all that, but what happens when they clear the game? They get back into their comatose body that haven't moved an inch for over 2 years. They will be lucky if they can even walk for the next few weeks in the real world.
Man that is going to suck! Worse than the worst hangover you could have. They should fuck in virtual world while they can still move around.
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I have been thinking about that since the anime started. Muscle atrophy is a bitch.
Also havent been able to get it out of my head how they are going to find each other after lol and how far away some people could live from one another. On top of all that the financial strain taking care of those comatose people must be.
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Significant spoilers ahead........
(click to show/hide)The anime does a horrible job explaining things for the sake of fanservice and accessibility. The impression I get from the books is that the sensory information is conveyed in a rather crude, scripted manner and that it takes considerable imagination to bridge the gap. Based on the descriptions of physical contact from Sachi's scenes, I'd bet sex in the game would be a bit like fucking a motorized doll with a numb cock. Later scenes, like the one with Asuna, seem to contradict that but it would fit under the premise that the longer they spend trapped, the more mentally unstable they become. TL/DR - you'd have to be pretty crazy to get any real enjoyment out of the in game sex considering the deficiencies in the interface, but being stuck in there for 2 years has made them pretty crazy. Even cripple sex would be better.
As for the combat, it sounds like the way current motion controls work, with the players using set motions to initiate skills after which the system takes over, a bit like playing a Wii game with a real weapon as a controller rather than actually running around pulling off impossible stunts. The only players who are able to fight using direct control are the ones who already knew how before the game or those who put in the equivalent work inside it - high stats allow them to do things which would be physically impossible, a bit like giving an already skilled person a superhuman body. The vast majority of the players have neither the skill nor aptitude, so for them combat in the game would never be more than making a silly motion to start a canned animation.
As for questions regarding the logistics of handling the victims, meeting in the real world after it's over, and the potential to disable the kill switch, those are also handled more or less satisfactorily. The company that created the game, along with its partners, pays for the medical care. The ugly reality of waking up in an atrophied and nearly crippled body is dealt with on several occasions, mostly in a realistic manner. The group assigned to care for the players also ends up acting as a liaison between those who mutually want to meet in the real world once the survivors are released. I was actually rather impressed with how the author handled the school that was created for the victims. It ends up serving as a method of reintegration, centralized counseling, behavioral and psychological monitoring and control, and research facility.
As for disabling the kill switch, the real villain(by the 10th volume he even has a secret nuclear-powered-cruiser-disguised-as-a-fancy-oil-drilling-platform-which-is-made-up-to-look-like-a-giant-rath-from-Alice-in-Wonderland) is the guy who oversaw the rescue effort and happens to be an old colleague of the administrator. Letting the game run its course is essential for his own goal - the development of autonomous AI pilots for unmanned weapons. The game itself provides him with three essential pieces. The prototype AI Yui, who became self aware after watching 10000 people suffer for 2 years until Kirito and Asuna adopt her and teach her how to love. A detailed map of the quantum computer which is the human brain, provided by the administrator via suicide. And a natural hero who sees virtual worlds as extensions of reality and can lead his army of artificial humans. He doesn't want the game to end, and since he's the JSDF's top AI researcher, neither does his employer.
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