SAO Abridged
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Cmmdfugal
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honestly i found it hilarious all things considered, its like one of the comments said. This isnt sword art online abridged, this is sword art online remastered.
I find it refreshing that the villain is a vilian for more reasons now and thag Asuna Isnt a useless damsel this time
I find it refreshing that the villain is a vilian for more reasons now and thag Asuna Isnt a useless damsel this time
Xero Key
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Suguo's plan is to transfer the skills from the game to the real world, or make a game so popular that everyone plays. Either way he wants mind control and is pretty close to doing it.
It's pretty obvious it just works as in game mechanic akin to dexterity in game and it's not particularly popular as a game (they found it in a bargain bin) though?
Xero Key
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Then it's to reverse things: Stats in Alfheim affect real life ability, instead of base stats being born from a body's natural function.
I really don't see why people think that the goal is to transfer the boosted charisma outside the game. There's nothing to suggest that that's possible.
The charisma boost only functions in-game, yes. But that's more than enough. Interrogate someone while boosted and they'll tell you everything they know. Convince them to betray their friends, and that effect likely lingers well after they leave VR. I'm pretty sure Kirito's taste buds are broken even IRL, and that's because the game faked the taste and his body was thusly affected. The game fakes charisma, your target become convinced you're right no matter how stupid what you're saying is.
The CHA boost itself doesn't leave the game, but its effects certainly can. They don't need to use ALO, this is just the VR world they're using for testing right now.
The charisma boost only functions in-game, yes. But that's more than enough. Interrogate someone while boosted and they'll tell you everything they know. Convince them to betray their friends, and that effect likely lingers well after they leave VR. I'm pretty sure Kirito's taste buds are broken even IRL, and that's because the game faked the taste and his body was thusly affected. The game fakes charisma, your target become convinced you're right no matter how stupid what you're saying is.
The CHA boost itself doesn't leave the game, but its effects certainly can. They don't need to use ALO, this is just the VR world they're using for testing right now.
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This not only has no bearing in what's shown but is ten types of dumb on top of it.
It's a comedy show, it doesn't make sense.
If they had riffed off the original "yeah, we're going to sell this shit to the government for advanced interrogation" it would actually make a lot of sense though.
Sure, if you want to be safe.
Dude's not planning in being safe, he's planning on taking over the world. There are plenty of ways to do that once you have what is effectively a mind-control machine.
Get a few key government workers to play, "convince" them to follow your orders IRL, have them spead how awesome your game is to their coworkers and then "convince" their coworkers for you in turn, repeat until the entire government is under your control with no one noticing.
Doesn't need to be government either. Get a few CEOs playing and you've got access to all their money. Get enough random people and you'll have what is basically an army. I could go on and on, a mind control machine doesn't need to be sold to anyone if you're planning on using it yourself.
Xero Key
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Well, kind of destined to happen when you live with each other. Abridged Kirito's entire online personality comes from copying his sister, as she was his primary bully and shaped how he perceived "strength". Their chemistry is great because they are functionally the same person.
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Could be either, could be both.
Iirc in the original story his plan was to use it for mind control, based on the logic that if it could teach people to use non-existent appendages then it could change the brains in other ways, which is pretty similar to what he's doing here
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It's funny that Kirito is basically the moral center of the main characters. His wife is basically him if he hid it better, and had less empathy and was a borderline Yandere. His Daughter basically wants to murder Leefa largely because she's annoyed by her and thinks she's in the way. And Suguha is basically a monster.
Xero Key
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Because "Kirito" was a front based on Suguha, it was difficult for him (Kazuto) to not care about others even if he tried to hide it. Sachi was a catalyst for that, allowing the bullied Kazuto to influence how Kirito reacts. What we see in Alfheim is two years of that occurring, bringing him to a mostly normal person.
Jonen C
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Note his statement "tastes like shirt" after eating the cake.
Now consider the profanity filter.
A plausible alternative explanation is that all his stats carrying over from SAO also caused his taste buds' failure to carry over. Definitely tastes like shit in-game, but possible that IRL he doesn't have that problem
I doubt that, but I don't think there's any proof that that wasn't what happened beyond his reaction being a little unusual in that case (under this it would've been months since he last tasted shit, whereas it seemed to me that in the episode he was more resigned and expecting it)
Xero Key
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Considering the way the NerveGear (especially one that was logged into SAO for two years) has to work, I'm going to lean towards the profanity joke having been an in-universe test by Kirito to see if the new game could fix his and Asuna's issue.
Speaking of, I can just imagine this Suguha teasing Kazuto that he can eat literally anything now and not complain, because everything tastes the same to him.
Jonen C
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He (and Asuna) tasted perfection. Their tastebuds are perfectly functional, its just that their brains have suffered an integer overflow error because nothing - not a damned thing (except maybe Asunas 'ammiches made with the best (legendary) quality ingredients, which may be slightly better than average) compares to that rabbit.
As far as their brains are concerned the VR rabbit was real, and the taste was *the best ever*. So now their interpretation of taste has been reset to a new scale with the rabbit as 100/100, and practically everything else is 1/100. Maybe 2/100 or more for the the really good stuff. Not much room to distinguish between "literal shit" and "5 star gourmet".
Yeah, neurology of taste probably doesn't work like that, bring it up to Kayaba, bug or undocumented feature.
The NerveGear directly interfaces with the brain, but we don't know at what level. It could be simulating the taste, but it could be simulating the effects that that taste would invoke instead. We don't know if the rescaling affected only the games' simulation of taste.
Again, I consider this significantly less likely than the simpler explanation (rescaling was done by the human brain rather than the game) but we have no hard proof either way.
And by "broken"/"failure" I mean that everything tastes like shit. Even if they're still "working", they're not doing what you'd want them to do (make things taste like how they taste) even if the root problem is in the signal interpretation rather than the signal generation.
Episode 15
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Yui thoughts on Suguha
Psychological profile:
The patient displays classic narcissistic and borderline sociopathic behavior, especially when engaging with her brother, Kazuto Kirigaya (aka Kirito aka xXx_K1r1t0_xXx_kiLLMe aka daddy). This appears to stem from deeply held feelings of resentment, as well as internalized self-hatred regarding her own femininity, most likely originating from an as-yet-unknown event in the siblings early childhood. The lifelong repression of these feelings seems to have bled into her other relationships as well, causing her to lash out at those she perceives to be weaker than herself. This behavior is most evident when interacting with her "friend" Recon, whom she CLEARLY has romantic feelings for, yet takes every opportunity to belittle and keep at an emotional distance, even though we can all tell what's going on and she should just admit she likes him and treat that poor, sweet boy with the love and compassion he deserves! In short, I believe someone or something has caused her to view any display of more traditionally feminine traits as something to be ashamed of, and seems to lay the blame solely on her brother. As far as why this is the case, further investigation shall be needed.
Psychological profile:
The patient displays classic narcissistic and borderline sociopathic behavior, especially when engaging with her brother, Kazuto Kirigaya (aka Kirito aka xXx_K1r1t0_xXx_kiLLMe aka daddy). This appears to stem from deeply held feelings of resentment, as well as internalized self-hatred regarding her own femininity, most likely originating from an as-yet-unknown event in the siblings early childhood. The lifelong repression of these feelings seems to have bled into her other relationships as well, causing her to lash out at those she perceives to be weaker than herself. This behavior is most evident when interacting with her "friend" Recon, whom she CLEARLY has romantic feelings for, yet takes every opportunity to belittle and keep at an emotional distance, even though we can all tell what's going on and she should just admit she likes him and treat that poor, sweet boy with the love and compassion he deserves! In short, I believe someone or something has caused her to view any display of more traditionally feminine traits as something to be ashamed of, and seems to lay the blame solely on her brother. As far as why this is the case, further investigation shall be needed.
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- Not the asylum anymore
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Jesus, Yui's been crueler since getting out of itemization. Is this a characterization point, or more sociopathy as comedy?
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Yui has never cared very much for people who aren't mommy and daddy, even when she was trying to pretend to be a normal child. Now she doesn't have to pretend and mommy has been imprisoned by some piece of shit.
I also say that the itemization may have also messed her up a tiny bit.