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Sword Art Online (TV).

Key wrote:

And concerning the Next Episode preview: Is anyone else having trouble playing it? I'm hoping that it's just my heavily-restricted work computer.

I was able to watch the video. It just loaded incredibly slow and was slightly choppy at first. To be honest, I don't know if I like what I see in the preview. It sort of looks like a set up for one of those "NOOOOO" moments where the hero gets all super traumatized and goes on some mindless rampage. This is a very VERY common trope in Anime, so it is hardly surprising if that's where they are going, but I think this trope has already been utilized too much in SAO with both Kirito and Asuna. I'd rather see a well orchestrated tactical battle at this point than another scene where Kirito gets super angry and loses all inhibitions and goes bat $%#@ crazy on the boss, totally obliterating it on his own.

As an MMO player myself, I know just how strategic most end game boss fights are. Often, such fights involve dozens of players each playing key roles in a strategy that can play out over 10+ minutes of execution. You almost never have a boss where the whole fight is just everyone slash it until it dies. And it is also never the case that one player just suddenly breaks off from the group and goes nuts on the boss. In most cases, such individual conduct would trigger some kind of trap or interrupt the strategy in some way which would bring about the deaths of everyone else.

DuskyPredator wrote:

ChibiKangaroo wrote: And it is also never the case that one player just suddenly breaks off from the group and goes nuts on the boss. In most cases, such individual conduct would trigger some kind of trap or interrupt the strategy in some way which would bring about the deaths of everyone else. Leeeeeeeeeeerooooy Jenkinnnnns!

LoL. I was going to mention Leeeeroy Jenkins but I didn't know how many would get that reference.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leeroy_Jenkins

It's not a matter of people's minds would break down. The SAO players are essentially coma patients in a persistent vegetative state from the point of view of the real world.

GrayArchon wrote:

It's not a matter of people's minds would break down. The SAO players are essentially coma patients in a persistent vegetative state from the point of view of the real world.

This is where you and I disagree: I don't think that they are effectively coma patients. This is because although they are unconscious, they aren't really dreaming. The NerveGear is sending the brain signals to which it can interpret and react. I'm no expert on this, but I'd think that an actual coma patient has limited brain function, but that someone connected to SAO via the NerveGear would have more normal brain function, only the "outputs" would be getting sent to SAO instead of the body. Basically, I don't think the guys in SAO are in a vegetative state per se.

Of course, the other aspects you mentioned (about issues with the body not being announced, being bedridden for a long period of time, et cetera, would still exist, and so the results of that would still be a problem.

Tuor_of_Gondolin wrote:

GrayArchon wrote: It's not a matter of people's minds would break down. The SAO players are essentially coma patients in a persistent vegetative state from the point of view of the real world. This is where you and I disagree: I don't think that they are effectively coma patients. This is because although they are unconscious, they aren't really dreaming. The NerveGear is sending the brain signals to which it can interpret and react. I'm no expert on this, but I'd think that an actual coma patient has limited brain function, but that someone connected to SAO via the NerveGear would have more normal brain function, only the "outputs" would be getting sent to SAO instead of the body. Basically, I don't think the guys in SAO are in a vegetative state per se. Of course, the other aspects you mentioned (about issues with the body not being announced, being bedridden for a long period of time, et cetera, would still exist, and so the results of that would still be a problem.

Coma - In medicine, a coma (from the Greek κῶμα koma, meaning deep sleep) is a state of unconsciousness lasting more than six hours,[1] in which a person: cannot be awakened; fails to respond normally to painful stimuli, light, or sound; lacks a normal sleep-wake cycle; and, does not initiate voluntary actions.[1] A person in a state of coma is described as being comatose. Although, according to the Glasgow Coma Scale, a person with confusion is considered to be in the mildest coma.

I think there is a term for when someone has little brain activity but I can't think of it off the top of my head. But GrayArchon right, they could be technically in a coma.

I just finished wanting ep 14 and spoiler[it looks like the end the othe series. i looked at some site and the series is supposed to me around 25 ep. does anyone know what going to happen now.

WTF?

This series has more than 10 (!!) Volumes?!?!

So you're telling me that after all THAT they're still gonna enter other virtual worlds? Why?

By the way, maybe I didn't quite understand, but I must have missed spoiler[where a "castle in the sky" dream required mass murder.]