DarkKing98
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Yeah, Future Trunks from DBZ would like a word with you on that.
Yeah, Future Trunks from DBZ would like a word with you on that.
I'm assuming you mean my comment on the dungeon crawl being mocked? Castle Aincard, the floating castle in SAO. The thing I hate is that castle because it has floors that screw with my understanding of mmorpgs. That thing is neither, an open world, dungeon crawler, or anything, but a franchise toy to sell. There is no kitchen level, no shrine to the departed level, no look onto the land below level, no story questlines traversing all floors. That thing is the declaration this is no game, but a sadistic bullshiters bullshit of sell the sexy....How? Also, people trying to paint me as an unreasonable asshole, bro, that wasn't a compromise. It was a full out sweeping of the board. \
It looks like a Path To Victory [the Human Edition] to me.I am starting to think people do not really get the Xanatos Gambit, lmao. Just a thought that is bubbling.
No, that's not what it is at all.It looks like a Path To Victory [the Human Edition] to me.
Is that not what it is?
A Xanatos Gambit is a plan for which all foreseeable outcomes benefit the creator — including ones that superficially appear to be failure. The creator predicts potential attempts to thwart the plan, and arranges the situation such that the creator will ultimately benefit even if their adversary "succeeds" in "stopping" them. When faced with a Xanatos Gambit the options are either to accept that the creator will get the upper hand and choose the outcome that is least beneficial to them, or to defeat them by finding a course that they didn't predict.
That really does look like a nerfed path to victory.No, that's not what it is at all.
You can beat someone who is doing the Xanatos Gambit, a bunch of fucking Gargoyles managed. It does, however, make and keep things interesting.
Especially since we're Xanatos.
Imagine us predicting the whole PKer/Laughing Coffin thing and always being three steps ahead as we crush the entire idea, the entire concept of them even as they think they're particular brand of chaos is winning?
Imagine turning all of that into destorying Kayaba and making sure that he never gets to enjoy watching us flounder around in the little fish bowl he sat us in?
You plan that way, yes.That really does look like a nerfed path to victory.
You make it so that every possible path benefits you so that, regardless of outcome, you win somehow if only in minor ways.
Or am I misunderstanding this?
No, that's not what it is at all.
You can beat someone who is doing the Xanatos Gambit, a bunch of fucking Gargoyles managed. It does, however, make and keep things interesting.
Especially since we're Xanatos.
Imagine us predicting the whole PKer/Laughing Coffin thing and always being three steps ahead as we crush the entire idea, the entire concept of them even as they think they're particular brand of chaos is winning?
Imagine turning all of that into destorying Kayaba and making sure that he never gets to enjoy watching us flounder around in the little fish bowl he sat us in?
Lmao, you are vastly underestimating our abilities.That's a bit out there.
I really don't think Prince of Hell would roll over and die that easily. Crushing the idea of LC...I don't even know how that would work. Most of LC are legitimate psychos who are being enabled by the game. How would you go about suppressing them? I actually want to know.
'Destroying' Kayaba is going way to far with a beginning trait. That guy created an entire virtual world and made the game industry a fool by allowing him to put death traps in first gen technology consumer product.
Yuki is a 25 year old girl. How are we expected to believe that she can do anything to Kayaba? He's the master of the world, through his own talents, and as long as people are trapped here, he gets his rocks off. Either you play his game like he wants, or beg Kirito to release everyone if he ever gets to the motherboard instead of reviving his daughteru.
I guess you could try to sabotage Heathcliff, but there's no gurantee he's still Kayaba (to combat meta knowledge) and even if he is, we have no way of knowing that IC, so what ends up happening is that we're way antagonistic to a well respected guild that fights on the front lines, and he can't be killed unless he wants to.
You can't Xanatos someone who holds all the cards and is aware of the game.
How is that possible on any level?
Easy. Read what he typed. Now read the blurb that OP wrote for Xanatos Gambit.How is that possible on any level?
How is he "underestimating" the ability to plan?
No, that's not what it is at all.
You can beat someone who is doing the Xanatos Gambit, a bunch of fucking Gargoyles managed. It does, however, make and keep things interesting.
Especially since we're Xanatos.
Imagine us predicting the whole PKer/Laughing Coffin thing and always being three steps ahead as we crush the entire idea, the entire concept of them even as they think they're particular brand of chaos is winning?
Imagine turning all of that into destorying Kayaba and making sure that he never gets to enjoy watching us flounder around in the little fish bowl he sat us in?
Also, if the "Magnificent Bastard" wins then I might have to postpone the Quest for some time to ask my sensei/guru on how to properly write one. He knows everything about writing.
The idea of Xanatos Gambit is being romanticised. Like the Dung Ages vs King Arthur's reign of Camelot. Naruto the severly neglected orphan vs Naruto the somewhat neglected orphan. OR "Batman" why can you fight superman? "Batman".
No, I do not think he is.Easy. Read what he typed. Now read the blurb that OP wrote for Xanatos Gambit.
Now, tell me this, if he's right, how would the Xantos Gambit work then, if we're not able to plan for something our ability expressly gives us the ability to plan for?
So, yes, at the very least he's underestimating our ability.