History Headscratchers / SwordArtOnline

*** I'm one of these guys that keeps the internet connection running, we desperatly try to keep those villages online. My point is, the connection does not work that way. 10.000 people should be enough to guarantee a 1000, at least, to experience loss of connection for more than the grace period. "Has really good wifi" can't be an excuse. Considering needed bandwith, I just hope people playing had 24h support for an FTTH, Fibre to the Home, Glass fibre cable into your appartment, connection. Else they are toast.

*** I'm one of these guys that keeps the internet connection running, we desperatly try to keep those villages online. My point is, the connection does not work that way. 10.000 people should be enough to guarantee a 1000, at least, to experience loss of connection for more than the grace period. "Has really good wifi" can't be an excuse. Considering needed bandwith, just hope people playing had 24h support for an FTTH, Fibre to the Home, Glass fibre cable into your appartment, connection. Else they are toast.

*** I'm one of these guys that keeps the internet connection running, we desperatly try to keep those villages online. My point is, the connection does not work that way. 10.000 people should be enough to guarantee a 1000, at least, to experience loss of connection for more than the grace period. "Has really good wifi" can't be an excuse. Considering needed bandwith i just hope people playing had 24h support for an FTTH, Fibre to the Home, Glass fibre cable into your appartment, connection. Else they are toast.

** It's already established that AMUsphere does not have the means to kill. Or heck cause bodily harm. Why do you insist that any government should investigate the death of two foreigners of no political and social standings who died in their own country just because of an internet rumor that someone saw someone with the cliched ign of "Death Gun" shoot their in-game avatars on the day they probably died in a game where the servers are located on home soil, when it's not only the responsibility of said foreign country, but that the victims are the extreme type of hardcore gamers who go 5 days straight without food or sleep which obviously took a toll on their health? [[spoiler: Also note that succinylcholine [[http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/05/the-history-of-sux-the-worlds-most-discrete-murder-weapon/ is an incredibly effective murder weapon that is lethal, act fast, and extremely difficult to detect. Succinylcholine cases were solved with other witness evidence, because it is so hard to detect and what's detected is often circumstantial. Even if the police did conduct a an autopsy it would have made no difference.]]]]

*** Which Sugo rushed to fix once he found out players were trying CrazyAwesome stunts, but it was too late.

** He doesn't remember his exact ''motives'', no, but there is a very specific reason for invoking the Death Game: a world without death is not truly ''real''. Kayaba didn't merely want to create a facsimile of the Steel Castle in the Sky he'd always dreamed of, he wanted to make it real. Not having true RealityWarper powers, a game wherein logging out was impossible and death meant FinalDeath was the closest he could come. A twisted idea, perhaps, but actually logical from a certain point of view.

* Does this really need elaboration? You can't log out during Bullet of Bullets? For what conceivable reason would that rule possibly be in place other than as a plot device to inconvenience the protagonists? And for that matter, why are they even ''allowed'' to disable that? In the immortal words of ''WebVideo/{{BeatriceTheGoldenWitch}}'', "How many people have to die before this shit becomes illegal!?"

* Does this really need elaboration? You can't log out during Bullet of Bullets? For what conceivable reason would that rule possibly be in place other than as a plot device to inconvenience the protagonists? And for that matter, why are they even ''allowed'' to disable that? In the immortal words of ''WebVideo/{{Diginee}}'', "How many people have to die before this shit becomes illegal!?"

** Who says they didn't? We only see two married couples, Grimrock/Griselda and Kirito/Asuna. They treated it as real, but other players might not have. Kirito has always been big on the whole "treat games as you would real life in order to avert {{GIFT}}" thing, so he's not the best example.

* Does this really need elaboration? You can't log out during Bullet of Bullets? For what conceivable reason would that rule possibly be in place other than as a plot device to inconvenience the protagonists? And for that matter, why are they even ''allowed'' to disable that? In the immortal words of ''WebVideo/{{Digibro}}'', "How many people have to die before this shit becomes illegal!?"

With all of the above, no, Kayaba is not a Complete Monster. Oh, sure, he was an antagonist, a "villain", but he was not evil, not even close to that. If anything, he had an unusual (or maybe not so unusual ...) dream and a weird way of fulfilling it, but there was no malice in what he did; he just chose to pursue his dream no matter what other people thought about it. Can you hate someone like that?\\\\

* Also, hospitals in industrialized nations are required to perform HIV screenings on all donated blood, so the hospital staff should've known right away that it was infected, and given them blood that they knew was safe. Either the hospital staff bought their medical licenses from the black market, or knew that the blood was infected and just didn't give a shit about the consequences.

** That still doesn't explain why TooSoon didn't seem to exist when ALO was first released. I don't care how much RECT marketed the safety of their games. It would be PR suicide to not only release a game that is essentially a spinoff of the game that had kidnapped and killed thousands of people but to also released it while the incident was still happening. Why wasn't there any public outcry against what can only be described as apathy by publisher?

* So the mirror in SAO is supposed to reformat your avatar's appearance to look exactly like your IRL one, right? We totally see that with Kirito, Klein, Asuna, and just about everybody else... except Liz, who for some reason, is a RoseHairedGirl in-game, but is a brunette IRL. She has this difference with no real explanation (at least in the series). Does the Light Novel have an explanation for this? Is it that her hair was dyed when she logged in, and just wore off before we see her at school? Is it that she found some in-game hair dye between the first episode and the time we first see her? Is it a production error? If you can get away with red heads like Asuna and Klein, why not Liz? Sort of just bugs me that everybody looks exactly like their mirrored avatars IRL, except for Liz.

Since Gabriel and Vassago [[spoiler:were subjected to [[FateWorseThanDeath fates worse than death]] and their bodies stuck in eternal [=FullDive=]]], wouldn't that provoke war or some level of action towards the JSDF and Kirito? Especially since one of them is the CTO of a prominent arms supplier? The argument ''can'' be made that Gabriel and his team were under non-official cover, but still, such a loss would have gained public attention. At the very least, shouldn't Kirito be in big trouble for his actions in Underworld, PTSD or no? [[spoiler:Given that Seijirou is 'officially' dead, there's no one influential enough to protect him from the government or military, not even Asuna's father]].