Comparison of Realism

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Post by YamiJared »

Assuming, of course, that they can prove connections to the World. Throughout Liminality, the characters are trying to connect the Twilight Incident to the World, and they failed in the end.
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Xhacker wrote:Considering the security of our country, any events that would happen (like the comas) would make the game illegal.
*starts snickering* I'm sorry. But if the real world's equivalent of ALTIMIT/CC Corp manages to do as well as they did in the .hack world, we could very well be destined for comas, angry AIs, and massive coverups.
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Have you ever considered destroying the source of the problem? And as for coverups, there will ALWAYS be a leak. Sooner or later...
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Ah, but people are so easy to manipulate. Only a few believe the leaks... *looks at Liminality* See?
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Post by mannshjj »

Yes, true that they may convince the majority of the people that nothings wrong with the game. However, you would think that with 6+ coma victums, that someone would sue. (like the familys of the people who fell into comas playing the game.)
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yea, 6 out of 2 billion victims doesn't seem like much of a lawsuit, and as far as the government would be concerned, the victims could of had cases of epilepsy they weren't aware about.
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Then again, you can always go thriugh the hard work of deleting the whole system (all servers), causing billions of dollars lost, a possible file of bankrupcy, and millions of angry players worldwide. At least it'll fix the main problem...
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Well, even if that did happen, we'd know what to do, right? I mean, it'd just be a repitition of .hack, so all we'd have to do is play the game and beat the bad guys, lol. *walks down the street yelling ".hackers, UNITE!!!!!" but then gets sent to an insane asylum*
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Well, yea, I guess so, but it won't be exact. What if Aura gave the Bracelet to the strongest player, but he was a jerky n00b who either quit playing because their's not enough things to shoot, or targets other players with Data Drain?
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Well then, Aura's quote would be quite 'on the mark'; "...the power it holds can either bring forth salvation or destruction at the whim of the user." Luckily Kite got the bracelet!
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True, but I WOULD like to see how events would play differently if the wrong person got the Bracelet :/
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I would like to too, but only if It was in a controlled enviroment, you know what I mean? I wouldn't like to see some idiot running around Data Draining the first thing it sees.
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If some idiot had gotten the bracelet, I doubt he would've necessarily understood how to Data Drain things...

Remember, the book only activated when Kite NEEDED the Bracelet...
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True, to both of you, however, the player could of theoretically met a data bug, activated Data Drain, get ideas and then go on a hacking rampage like some immature 12 year old with too much power :P
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Post by Eggplant of the Twilight »

Hmm...that would probably have been a job for Balmung, Winged Ninja Assassin. *starts snickering*
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