History Headscratchers / SummerWars

* I was always curious about that. John and Yoko are the Guardian Angels of OZ, whatever that's supposed to mean. While having his [[ForTheEvulz fun]], he was messing with literally every aspect of OZ available. Why were our whale buddies never targeted in his antics? [[spoiler: The two might have very well delivered one of the final touches for Natsuki's victory with the [[EleventhHourSuperpower auspicious rare item]].]] So, why didn't the botnet go after them?
** [[FridgeBrilliance]]. John and Yoko were probably viewed as harmless [=NPCs=] that only greeted anybody who went into OZ. Love Machine probably saw them as no threat, and didn't attack them. They basically did nothing throughout the entire movie [[spoiler: except grant Natsuki the rare item]]. Plus, they were simply part of OZ's code, like many [=NPCs=] in real life, and don't even affect anything important in OZ in any way.

*** HO! Ha-HA! Guard! Turn, Parry! Dodge! Spin! HA! THRUST! [[spoiler: Sorry, couldn't resist...]]

** The test was probably to see if Love Machine could get into OZ at all. The military wanted to see if Love Machine was clever enough to compromise OZ, presumably so they could use it to watch the world's business and government transactions from the inside. Love Machine's strategy at the beginning was admirably low-key and subtle, just as an intelligence agency would want. After it got in, however, it revealed why it was completely and utterly unsuited to clandestine work; it had a flair for the dramatic, a major power complex, and a vindictive streak a mile wide. Who would have expected that from a brand-new AI? [[InstantAIJustAddWater Besides]] [[AIIsACrapShoot every]] [[DeusEstMachina sci-fi]] [[MoralityChip fan]] [[CrushKillDestroy ever?]]

** ''The worst things in the world are being hungry and being alone.'' They'd just got an ultimatum that they have to do the impossible- [[FridgeBrilliance they just didn't want to DIE hungry and alone.]] Alone in this sense not being literally alone, but the broken nature of the family- this moment marks the spot that everyone's really a team again and everything is forgiven. So first of all, it isn't a blank logical decision but something irrational done by a frightened family that might be torn apart within a mere two hours. But ALSO it was a good tactical decision to calm them all down and reinforce team bonds. [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming This coming from Granny who already proved earlier that you can lead a war just by letting people know they're not alone, and nagging them to get thier head together and BREATHE for a goddamn second.]] [[TearJerker She's still leading the clan onwards in war, even now.]]

*** Exactly; in light of recent revelations from Edward Snowden about JUST how much crazy shit goes on behind the President's back (eg., bugging Angela Merkel's phone, along with those of millions of EU citizens that Obama apparently didn't know about), it's entirely possible that the NSA or a similar organisation, knowing that there was no way in Hell the President would officially sign off on such a thing, clandestinely leaked Love Machine onto the 'net by themselves and subsequently covered it up.

** The same kind of world leaders that put highly sensitive information within reach of the real world's Internet. Our leaders, in fact. Part of it is convenience; why build your own Internet (or OZ) when there's a perfectly functional one already there? [[note]]Although many governments and some companies do indeed have computer networks that serve as their own private Internets-most of them are, however, connected to the main Internet, even if peripherally, which makes them vulnerable to attack.[[/note]] Missile access is indeed going a little far, but remember that most of our characters, and specifically the one doing the explaining that mentions the missile access, are high school students and therefore not omniscient. He may be exaggerating. It may also be that the world leader's OZ account itself doesn't have access to missiles, but masquerading as that world leader via the OZ account could. Somehow. In some convoluted fashion.

** It's possible that Kazuma's just typing exactly what his character in Oz should be doing, from his knowledge of how to move that way in the real world. Like, "swing left right jump punch kick backwards duck swing left" etc.

** The worst things in this world are being hungry and being alone. They wanted to be full and together. Not the best of explanations, but they aren't a very technologically savvy family who just lost the most important member, and they had only recently started taking the situation seriously anyway. The main page pegged them as TooDumbToLive after all.

*** ''ExtraCredits'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ56Kia8dTU had an episode about]] [=MMOs=], and said that someday, there might be the first attempt at integration between the Web and Real Life, completely breaking the barrier between those two worlds. ''Summer Wars'' is basically what happens if we go too far with it...

*** ''ExtraCredits'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ56Kia8dTU had an episode about]] [=MMOs=], and said that someday, there might be the first attempt at integration between the Web and Real Life, completely breaking the barrier between those two worlds. ''SummerWars'' is basically what happens if we go too far with it...

** Part of this is actually discussed in the movie! It isn't actually a home computer unit, but a supercomputer that was originally slated for a university, though they are 'borrowing' it. In Real Life, cooling/heat management in supercomputers (given the number of processors that are so closely packed together and thus generating a lot of heat density) is difficult, and even with the special engineering that goes into designing the complex cooling systems of such units, the ability to remove waste heat is a huge limiting factor of capability. Thus, having an external 'heat sink' (the ice) to which the heat energy can transfer out of is very important to upping the usable prossessing power.

** Part of this is actually discussed in the movie! It isn't actually a home computer unit, but a supercomputer that was originally slated for a university, though they are 'borrowing' it. In Real Life, cooling/heat management in supercomputers (given the number of processors that are so closely packed together and thus generating a lot of heat density) is difficult, and even with the special engineering that goes into designing the complex cooling systems of such units, the ability to remove waste heat is a huge limiting factor of computing capability. Thus, having an external 'heat sink' (the ice) to which the heat energy can transfer out of is very important.