...Fucking Tinkers (Worm/SAO)
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Dreitus
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True, even in canon, the death rate dropped sharply after the first floor.
I thought that the first floor death rate was really high because 2000 people committed suicide or something like that?
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It was a combination of suicide, general incompetence from the general population and overconfidence from the Beta testers, and just chaos.
SolipsistSerpent
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Right, a lot of people didn't really know how to play yet because it was the first release day.
Dreitus
Oh, Canada!
Here the rules keep changing. Safety keeps getting cut out from under people.
Pretty sure that was Silica doing that, and she doesn't know anything about Jack Slash.
But it's great to see more of this.
deadcrystal
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Kind of a style thing, but please stop referring to people by their hair colour. It's such a weird thing to do, I realise it crops up in a lot of fanfic, but just use their name. It's seriously awkward.
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It's not really a fanfic thing, it's an anime thing. You often refer to people by some distinguishing feature, and there are too many anime characters who have no real distinguishing features other than their hair color.
In my case, it's actually a writing thing. I use hair color as an epithet because it's usually distinctive and helps reduce needless repetition. Same reason why I often refer to characters by their job and/or weapon type.
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It's not always a style thing. For example, I'm just plain bad with names. Saying 'that one' or 'the guy who sits there' or other similar things when pointing to someone, or just a non-specific 'hey' when greeting someone... If people had rainbow hair colors, I'd likely use that as well.
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When you vary what the distinguishing characteristic is that makes it come off as a real character talking/thinking because that's how people think. The anime thing is that hair gets used too often (because there aren't enough other characteristics) which gets annoying, and some people become overly sensitive to it.
Dreitus
Oh, Canada!
Anime does it far worse than most, but hair in general has nearly as many distinctions as the face, which is why people recognize others by it even without a rainbow of colors present.
SolipsistSerpent
Endlessly Devouring
Honestly, in real life when someone is trying to describe a person to me, one of the first things I ask is what their hair looks like.
@violetshadows - A thought. In SAO cannon there was a point where most everyone caught in the game was moved to the hospital, and during that time many avatars got DCed temporarly while their RL body was moved. Is that going to or has happened in this story? Was Krephi affected? Did anyone but Taylor herself notice that she didn't get DCed?
Considering that she spent most of her time solo, I highly doubt that she would have even known about it.
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If she did, she would probably just assume that since she was clearly shoved into the game by someone else, they were already keeping her in a place where she could be tended to effectively.
ltmauve
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When someone brings it up, she goes "wait what?"
And then everyone just assumes Yakuza boss as usual.
That reminds me, is Taylor speaking English and it magically getting translated to Japanese?
Ridiculously Average Guy
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I think she's speaking Japanese. She's just not using her own brain to do it.
The brain surgery/growing QA node gave her global(?) aphasia, I figure the QA is letting her pick up language and/or reconstructing her brain/mind based on the brains tied into SAO.
ltmauve
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So she's going to come back at the end and be speaking Japanese and everyone is going to be so confused.
Lisa's going to be like Taylor what.
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Kenta: "Vindication."
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No this is the dubbed version.
SAO is supposed to include auto-translation IIRC, hence language issues getting hand-waved in the source. It's probably directly tapping into the language centers of the brain anyway.
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