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NEWS: Sword Art Online II TV Anime to Launch in 2014

sonic720 wrote:

Fencedude5609 wrote: Except the "stigma" is never actually shown except in the episode where it is established. It literally has no effect on anything the entire series. The stigma is clearly shown by Kibaou's witch hunt on him and other beta testers/cheaters. Re-read what I wrote before about what happened in episode 2.

Did he not say "except in the episode where it is established"?

That and you seem to think everyone not on the front lines isn't because they're too inept at everything, even after many months of game activity.

We are going to have to agree to disagree because this particular part of the discussion is going nowhere at all because you seem pretty vehemently opposed to the idea of people ever thinking to defend those who ARE too weak to handle themselves.

You're asking a random collection of people (the vast majority being teenagers) to form a police force with detectives capable of acting professionally. They can't even raid dungeons correctly, and they actually signed up to do that when they bought the game.

To my knowledge, there were no players in the game that were trained in law enforcement.

Adaminator1 wrote:

sonic720 wrote: Fencedude5609 wrote: Except the "stigma" is never actually shown except in the episode where it is established. It literally has no effect on anything the entire series. The stigma is clearly shown by Kibaou's witch hunt on him and other beta testers/cheaters. Re-read what I wrote before about what happened in episode 2. Did he not say "except in the episode where it is established"?

It is shown in other episodes later on as well. The guild he's with early on can't know this lest he be found out. They mention the stigma with beaters periodically and how Kirito chooses to stay away from most due to it. There's no struggle shown because he avoids any conflict by masking his identity; thus the solo playing. He even mentions his beater label as his motivation to stay solo later on in the series.

I almost forgot, there's one instance again later where he is openly ostracized by a specific individual for being one. Kuradeel, Asuna's body guard, rejects kirito due to him being a beater. He is convinced a no good beater is not good enough to defeat him in battle nor care for Asuna and Kirito proves him wrong.

Finally, while the anime omitted mention of it, spoiler[the lead guilds did crack down on Laughing Coffin when it got out of hand. They had to put clearing the game on hold to properly do so.]

...Kirito and Asuna never really had romance or should I say could.

flackenstien wrote:

It's not a case of "STOP LIKING WHAT I DON'T LIKE".. It's a case of "STOP SAYING BAD THINGS ARE AMAZING".. It's fact that Sword Art Online was a bad anime, not opinion.

http://pbskids.org/arthur/games/factsopinions/factsopinions.html

Actually, if we subscribe to George Berkeley's philosophical theory of immaterialism, then Blinkey's assertion that Pal has four legs is also a subjective opinion and not a fact.

ChibiKangaroo wrote:

Actually, if we subscribe to George Berkeley's philosophical theory of immaterialism, then Blinkey's assertion that Pal has four legs is also a subjective opinion and not a fact.

LOL

Of course, the empirically simplest and most obvious 'answer' to the nature of things is materialism. Anything else we've thought up essentially runs into the realm of spiritual bullshit of some sort.

Adaminator1 wrote:

...I just came to a realization that I'm likely gonna be lynched for posting and may very likely have been come up with before by someone else, but when I was grappling with my gripes for this show somewhere else and trying to find something astute to compare it to... SAO is Twilight for MMO nerds.

Oh wow, what a powerful zinger! I can certainly see why you've used one of your 14 posts on that thigh-slapping masterpiece. We await with bated breath to see what other timeless classics will issue forth from your hilarity machine.