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I've not seen Quantum yet (I think it's on Netflix though soo I should get on that...) and wasn't a huge fan of LotT to be honest hah. But yeah, I'm with you 100% on ROOTS. I love G.U., but it was plain hard to watch for me.

Not being able to care about Shino is just one example to me of a big problem with the whole thing: the characters were mostly poorly developed and/or unmemorable :v. I liked Phyllo, and that was about it.

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I also felt like Haseo and Shino's relationship was nowhere near developed enough for him to fly off the deep end when she went comatose. It felt like a huge overreaction considering he barely knew her. And that severely damages the foundation of the entire show.

The whole thing just rubbed me the wrong way and was topped off with inconsistent, awkward animation imo. The colors are more crisp than SIGN, but SIGN is decidedly more fluid and on-model.

It does get better, but it's not a fundamentally action-driven show. It's not supposed to be. It's more of a character study.
The idea is that most of the characters are having troubles in their real lives, and use the game as a means of escape. Over the course of the show we find out what the problems are and see their attempts to work through them.
I love .hack but in my honest opinion the rest of the series never reached SIGN's depth (relatively speaking); nowhere close. In fact post-SIGN I thought it devolved into much more basic melodrama, which can be fun in its own right to be fair (I enjoyed G.U.). SIGN is more slow and understated which helps me swallow the sort of ridiculous concept, although I still struggle with suspension of disbelief in it somewhat lol (no one talks like that in an online game!). I'm not saying it's perfect, or for everyone, I just find it better than the rest of the series personally hah.

The TRILOGY film is mostly good for eye candy and not much else as I recall haha, maybe that's just me though. I love the visual style in G.U. a lot, it's gorgeous. I absolutely despised .hack//ROOTS however, except the music. That's not 100% relevant I just had to throw it out there because I really hate ROOTS.

Anyway I guess my point is that I get if slow character studies aren't your thing, but even if you have to skip the expository episodes I feel it's worth trying again. No pressure though. Just my two cents. SIGN really made an impact on me when I saw it when I was younger, so my love for it could also be partially nostalgia.

. hack//SIGN

do I spy a .hack//sign theme c':

I'm sure I would forget this all the time if laundry didn't cost a dollar a cycle here lol

Happy birthday, Amaury!

Problem solved, topic closed.

being from Oklahoma I feel your pain

it's a surprisingly volatile process

There is no reason for there to be arguments of this caliber in here. It stops now.

Disagreements are fine, antagonism is not. Stay on topic and be respectful.

Guardian Soul is working on getting it compiled. Give it a little time; it requires a lot of adjusting for consistency (framerates, volumes etc) and he's got classes on top of it, haha. I'm glad you're excited to see it!

have you tried turning it off and on again

Explicit used to be one for me, I'd say it with a hard c ("explikit").

EDIT: I JUST FOUND ANOTHER ONE

i have just spent like two hours getting my laundry going and i am running out of room in my dresser this is eerily relevant

Catgroove by Pavrov Stelar

Omg you should have popped in, we only just now finished because the game crashed lol ;~; again

Anyway thank you to everyone who stopped by to watch!! I didn't think we were going to get as far as we did and didn't remember my way around Rubacava at all so I spent a lot of time getting hopelessly lost xD sorry. But I had fun! I hope y'all did too!

'Kay guys, I'll start playing music soon to give folks a chance to filter in leading up to 6pm! www.livestream.com/starduststream

ahh sorry I think I just started a little too early, I streamed music for like 45 minutes and saw almost no one xD

It's about 4:15 my time so in an hour and 45 minutes we'll get started~

booting up a pre/test stream! Not too many people seem to be online (cries) but we'll see how the turnout is and maybe decide a good time to start from there, lol.

www.livestream.com/starduststream

EDIT: I've stopped for now since people don't really seem interested ;~;

I'll stream the game proper tonight, I suppose around 6 Mountain.

Break a leg!