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HaXXspetten said: Reyxe said: it's not gonna explode unless it ignites, I.E: you need a spark or fire for that, just hitting it with a bullet is not gonna do the trickWot, then GTA has been lying to me? [not sarcasm, im serious] Hmmm... but won't the bullet hitting the inside of the fuel tank make a spark or something? an antimaterial .50cal sniper should be enough i think |
Reyxe said: Mythbusters had an episode about exactly this once (I.E. shooting gas tanks with various types of guns ranging from pistols to .50cals) and nothing worked except pure fire ammo (incendiary rounds). Tracer rounds can work but only if you shoot from extremely long distance so the bullet has enough time to heat up from the friction against the air, otherwise it won't be enough either.HaXXspetten said: it's not gonna explode unless it ignites, I.E: you need a spark or fire for that, just hitting it with a bullet is not gonna do the trick Hmmm... but won't the bullet hitting the inside of the fuel tank make a spark or something? an antimaterial .50cal sniper should be enough i think |
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HaXXspetten said: Reyxe said: Mythbusters had an episode about exactly this once (I.E. shooting gas tanks with various types of guns ranging from pistols to .50cals) and nothing worked except pure fire ammo (incendiary rounds). Tracer rounds can work but only if you shoot from extremely long distance so the bullet has enough time to heat up from the friction against the air, otherwise it won't be enough either.Hmmm... but won't the bullet hitting the inside of the fuel tank make a spark or something? an antimaterial .50cal sniper should be enough i think Then i'm wondering why people started using that in videogames, lol Well, it's not that really important anyway. |
Reyxe said: because #explosionsaresocool what elseHaXXspetten said: Mythbusters had an episode about exactly this once (I.E. shooting gas tanks with various types of guns ranging from pistols to .50cals) and nothing worked except pure fire ammo (incendiary rounds). Tracer rounds can work but only if you shoot from extremely long distance so the bullet has enough time to heat up from the friction against the air, otherwise it won't be enough either. Then i'm wondering why people started using that in videogames, lol Well, it's not that really important anyway. Hollywood are equally guilty I might add |
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HaXXspetten said: Reyxe said: because #explosionsaresocool what elseThen i'm wondering why people started using that in videogames, lol Well, it's not that really important anyway. Hollywood are equally guilty I might add Yea, lol... nah, its just that if it was just SAO who made that mistake then yea, but there are a bunch of games, movies and whatnot that made it so... |
| Not bad, but not as good as usual.. :) |
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| That was painful to watch. It's blasted flashbacks and blasted crying "Oh, I have killed someone, who was trying to kill me" all over and over again. |
InstaKiller said: Sinon Ass Online Yep, this pretty much sums up the entirety of the show for me as of this moment.... On the other hand, the story IS intriguing, and the pacing isn't really that bad. Watching Death Gun chasing those two on the horse reminded me so much of Saber Riders (google it if you don't know), which was a great childhood memory and totally made my day. Basically the talk in the cave whittled their suspect list down to one player. Sinon's inner monologues for the entirety of the show can be summed up solely as "How can Kirito be so Badass?" I got a few questions about the fan cams though: Considering Death Guns' dumb monologue before shooting Pale Rider, does that mean that all viewers of the BoB can actually HEAR what is being said by the participants? If so, then doesn't it mean that all the revelations between Sinon and Kirito in that cave would be broadcast out to all their viewers/fans? In that case, why is there no one on the outside trying to look for Death Gun's linked-in body to stop his crimes? I mean, come on, Kirito and Sinon's conversations up to that point have all been about player deaths. If the sound was mute, then all of Death Gun's monologues would be mute, and that would just make him look pretty stupid (what with standing around a paralyzed dude for an eternity before shooting him). Once Pale Rider got shot and disconnected, how hard would it be for admin/Pale Rider's friends/the Government to check up on one person to make sure he isn't really dead? Also, thinking back, all the people who died by "Death Gun" were located within Japan, and probably in a close area too, right? Wouldn't that set a trigger off in the police's minds that something was suspicious? That would at least give them a case to investigate, no? At least the Admin could be able to follow up on their audio logs and post them to the police, right? Why is there no one on the outside raising response flags on this entire situation, especially if I'm right about the audio being broadcast to all viewers? If anything just their conversations alone should raise a zillion flags for viewers/police/admin/government offices, no? I don't get why they have to make it seem like Kirito's the only guy in the entire world who is looking for the dude. By the way, considering that his Harem did see them in the cave, can someone tell me what their reaction was? I would really love to read that part XD |
L-RyoshiSep 9, 2014 10:15 AM
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L-Ryoshi said: Considering Death Guns' dumb monologue before shooting Pale Rider, does that mean that all viewers of the BoB can actually HEAR what is being said by the participants? If so, then doesn't it mean that all the revelations between Sinon and Kirito in that cave would be broadcast out to all their viewers/fans? In that case, why is there no one on the outside trying to look for Death Gun's linked-in body to stop his crimes? I mean, come on, Kirito and Sinon's conversations up to that point have all been about player deaths. If the sound was mute, then all of Death Gun's monologues would be mute, and that would just make him look pretty stupid (what with standing around a paralyzed dude for an eternity before shooting him). Once Pale Rider got shot and disconnected, how hard would it be for admin/Pale Rider's friends/the Government to check up on one person to make sure he isn't really dead? Also, thinking back, all the people who died by "Death Gun" were located within Japan, and probably in a close area too, right? Wouldn't that set a trigger off in the police's minds that something was suspicious? That would at least give them a case to investigate, no? At least the Admin could be able to follow up on their audio logs and post them to the police, right? Why is there no one on the outside raising response flags on this entire situation, especially if I'm right about the audio being broadcast to all viewers? If anything just their conversations alone should raise a zillion flags for viewers/police/admin/government offices, no? I don't get why they have to make it seem like Kirito's the only guy in the entire world who is looking for the dude. By the way, considering that his Harem did see them in the cave, can someone tell me what their reaction was? I would really love to read that part XD You can't hear everything unless you shout, dat cam was pretty close to Death Gun so you could hear him from outside. The cave thing wasn't heard, they could just watch tho. As for Pale Ryder, could be internet failure or someone disconnected his amusphere. There are flags outside of the game, wait for next chapter, it will be explained. And... about the harem thing, yep, that will be shown next chapter too, lol |
L-Ryoshi said: Wait for the next episode :). Just like this episode started from their perspective, next episode probably will have it too. By the way, considering that his Harem did see them in the cave, can someone tell me what their reaction was? I would really love to read that part XD |
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Dimitrije1606 said: fanshii said: Wanting to get over the fear =/= wanting to die, though. As for billboards and movies, I can't really say... I don't see anything containing guns on the streets 99% of time, but it may be different in Japan, I don't know. I do know what you're talking about wanting to get over the fear, though, I myself suffer from social anxiety and I would give my arm to get rid of it... except I can't exactly avoid, so It's not the same. The fact that she has a replica of a gun is kind of true - especially combined with the bullying theory someone answered me on the previous page. Well, to tell you the truth, I didn't just seem to me she simply wanted to die. She was going for all-and-nothing gamble. She was pretty much sick and tired of that fear, so she decided to bet all she had into beating it. She was into that game for beating that fear in the first place. If death awaited her anyway, why not go down fighting? If she does nothing she dies, but if she at least tries to fight she can live and beat fear at the same time. Two birds with one stone. Not disagreeing with you but I think she has indeed fallen into despair with this episode. Clearly this was a big setback for her. Sinon thought she won't be vulnerable in GGO, she was convinced she could do this and it will help her get over her trauma in real life, but yet she's now freaking out at the sight of the gun that started it all, and she can't pull the trigger against the face of the robber even though we know she didn't do wrong. It is quite plausible that her huge pride is pulling her deeper into the mire and it won't be just the fear and phobia that she loathes but herself for failing again. Talks like "fighting alone, die alone" and "don't care if I die" can be interpreted as the by-effects of this depreciating of self worth screwing with her head, causing her to speak out of avoidance and despair. |
| DEATH GUN is ridiculously fun as far as an over-the-top villain goes, and at this point he really makes the show. I quite liked the horse-buggy chase scene and how visibly shaken Sinon was, but the second half of the episode was very, very cringeworthy and pretty much reminded me of everything I hate about Sword Art Online. The excessive Kirito admiration, the overblown drama, the cheesy ass dialogues, Sinon's tsundere breakdown in the face of Kirito's unwaring strength and righteousness, them telling their traumas for the n-th goddam time (especially Kirito, who already gave heavy hints of what he did and in what game he played before)... I appreciate the author's attempt at providing actual and solid characterization and development for his deuteragonist this time, but it just doesn't cut it. Given how things had been layed out at the beginning of the show, it could've been about a clash of philosophies between Sinon and Kirito. Both could've learned from each other through their differing views of the online world and how different it is from RL. But the author just chose to stay in his confort zone and make this about Sinon being fixed by her admiration (and love) for Kirito. The same Kirito who, after a period of doubt was reassured in his own personal strength and the moral virtue of his actions, and is now fit to assume the role of the ideal Sinon's running after as well as her personal guide through trauma. It could've worked. Maybe. But it didn't. |
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| Ok so instead of an intense action packed episode we got more drama. Not a bad episode just kinda slow but that's not always a bad thing. |
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| So Sinon finally turned tsundere... can't say I didn't see that coming. I hope she recovers her will to fight though. Still, it was an exciting episode. Something's been bugging me ever since Kirito entered the game (I haven't read the LN so that might explain it)... He was asked to investigate if Death Gun could really kill players within GGO. So far, it seems that he has already confirmed this objectively (I mean, that other guy being KOed and then having seizures and getting disconnected, any player would know something's amiss). He can't disconnect to relay this info to the gov't until the competition is over. But more importantly, he wants to defeat him himself... How, may I ask? If he kills Death Gun, he'll only die in the game, not in real life, and he can totally log in again and take revenge on Kirito (and/or maybe he'll lose his equipment). On the other hand, Kirito risks being killed FOR REAL by Death Gun. Unless I missed something, this seems like a totally stupid plan, because they should already have enough info to force an international investigation and track down Death Gun in real life, or at least to force the game company to patch the game so Death Gun can't kill anymore... (I know that's boring, but it's safer than what they're doing). My only idea is that Kirito somehow steals Death Gun's gun and kills him for real... Guess I'll have to wait and see. |
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Raro said: Do you expect Kirito to come up with sucha plan? He is the guy that would take the threat head-on. How he kills, will be explained in the next 2 episode(assuming A-1 does it right)kchorrex2012 said: Something's been bugging me ever since Kirito entered the game (I haven't read the LN so that might explain it)... He was asked to investigate if Death Gun could really kill players within GGO. So far, it seems that he has already confirmed this objectively (I mean, that other guy being KOed and then having seizures and getting disconnected, any player would know something's amiss). He can't disconnect to relay this info to the gov't until the competition is over. But more importantly, he wants to defeat him himself... How, may I ask? If he kills Death Gun, he'll only die in the game, not in real life, and he can totally log in again and take revenge on Kirito (and/or maybe he'll lose his equipment). On the other hand, Kirito risks being killed FOR REAL by Death Gun. Unless I missed something, this seems like a totally stupid plan, because they should already have enough info to force an international investigation and track down Death Gun in real life, or at least to force the game company to patch the game so Death Gun can't kill anymore... (I know that's boring, but it's safer than what they're doing). My only idea is that Kirito somehow steals Death Gun's gun and kills him for real... Guess I'll have to wait and see. This bothers me too. He's putting so much at risk, just to kill this guy within the game. But that won't change anything, he'll still be alive and back later wanting revenge. I think part of it is him wanting to prevent Death Gun from killing others within the tournament, but if that's the case Kirito should really be going after the other players before Death Gun gets to them, then just suicide to keep himself safe. I don't know why he hasn't killed Sinon yet to guarantee her survival. Kinda makes sense as he feels responsible after SAO. I don't think the gun would have that power alone? Probably some sort of coding or something that DG has done behind the scenes, so it wouldn't affect him if used against him. |
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Byon-kun said: Raro said: Do you expect Kirito to come up with sucha plan? He is the guy that would take the threat head-on. How he kills, will be explained in the next 2 episode(assuming A-1 does it right)This bothers me too. He's putting so much at risk, just to kill this guy within the game. But that won't change anything, he'll still be alive and back later wanting revenge. I think part of it is him wanting to prevent Death Gun from killing others within the tournament, but if that's the case Kirito should really be going after the other players before Death Gun gets to them, then just suicide to keep himself safe. I don't know why he hasn't killed Sinon yet to guarantee her survival. Kinda makes sense as he feels responsible after SAO. I don't think the gun would have that power alone? Probably some sort of coding or something that DG has done behind the scenes, so it wouldn't affect him if used against him. I'm glad I wasn't the only one who noticed that X'D I thought I'd missed something crucial. Hopefully the explanation is not half-assed and adresses why he's not taking a safer approach (of course, apart from rule of cool). |
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Satan-sama said: I really didn't get into the episode, I found it very shallow and amusing when it is not supposed to be, I even laughed at some dramatic parts when I should cry or something, Like the part when her classmates were calling her a murderer, it's really obvious that she's the victim here, she saved her mother and all the post office clients/workers, there's no any reason for her to be called a murderer lol this is really unrealistic, how they knew that she killed someone in the first place ? The media said that the robber was died when his gun was misfired. The first part was really great and full of action but the second one was horrible, I was about to throw up -_- the drama was overdone and really disgusting, a 10 years old boy would laugh at something like that. SweetCoconut said: I thought Kirito doesn't hit a girl? Did he defeat Gunner X? He didn't "hit" her, He did kill her. There's a difference. He should´ve teabagged her |
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| my eyes were glazed over for most of this episode. what utter horseshit. |
endium said: in a post-SAO world, I don't see it being allowed that any virtual online game "doesn't allow you to log out", for ANY reason, tournament or not. I think this is a plot hole. Even if GGO is less mainstream, I'd think the only reason such virtual games would ever be legal again is the complete rejection of any such mechanism. Maybe that no logout during tournaments is coz they enter in expectator mode And It would be a way to avoid losing players telling people where to bet, how is the situation and that sort of stuff |
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ssjokg said: Τhe same exact people with the exact same posts. I wonder if they even watch the ep and not just read a summary and/or other people's posts. I watched it :p |
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Rolanddeschain said: endium said: in a post-SAO world, I don't see it being allowed that any virtual online game "doesn't allow you to log out", for ANY reason, tournament or not. I think this is a plot hole. Even if GGO is less mainstream, I'd think the only reason such virtual games would ever be legal again is the complete rejection of any such mechanism. Maybe that no logout during tournaments is coz they enter in expectator mode And It would be a way to avoid losing players telling people where to bet, how is the situation and that sort of stuff Or avoiding someone may disconnect and go other player's house and ruin the game for him |
| I miss Asuna, I've tried as hard as I can to like Shinon but her story doesn't make that much sense to me. I've been disappointed in series before, but I still can not comprehend as to why Asuna has completely changed as a character... miss them feels with Kirito... |
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| I skipped through all of the cave shit once I knew they were going to tell their past murder stories YET AGAIN get over yourselves for fucks sake |
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| Admittedly, I am quite sick of them reminiscing of their killings and how they're all sad as shit for doing so but I can now say that, we the viewers, DONT GIVE A FUCK ANYMOE. I swear they've slowed down and shat on this anime so hard that I almost regret watching this in hope of a good season. But really though, I don't really know in what direction this show is heading towards. Sinon is obviously going to be thrown into Kirito's pit of girls and I'm gonna sit here and cry at how bad it was and I'm probably going to have to borrow Death Gun's Black Star 54 and blow my brains out cause oh god. I will unfortunately will still be tuning in until the end cause I'm already at episode 10 (Jesus Christ). I am hoping that they pick up the pace and not have a shit ton of downtimes and no "romantice" route and no moping around and no shit to be shitted on this series. Final/Random Thoughts: This show makes me so disappointed .__. |
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TheFeilong4 said: Admittedly, I am quite sick of them reminiscing of their killings and how they're all sad as shit for doing so but I can now say that, we the viewers, DONT GIVE A FUCK ANYMOE. I swear they've slowed down and shat on this anime so hard that I almost regret watching this in hope of a good season. But really though, I don't really know in what direction this show is heading towards. Sinon is obviously going to be thrown into Kirito's pit of girls and I'm gonna sit here and cry at how bad it was and I'm probably going to have to borrow Death Gun's Black Star 54 and blow my brains out cause oh god. I will unfortunately will still be tuning in until the end cause I'm already at episode 10 (Jesus Christ). I am hoping that they pick up the pace and not have a shit ton of downtimes and no "romantice" route and no moping around and no shit to be shitted on this series. Final/Random Thoughts: This show makes me so disappointed .__. Huh, I read your expectations. Without spoiling anything, I'll simply say that your expectations will not be met. |
| Poor DeathGun-kun had his horse destroyed. Damn those villains! |
| damn damsel in distress game too strong pretentious teenager anime is pretentious but in all seriousness, it was entertaining at the least |
| Terrible, from the intense cliffhanger previously this was quite a let down There was already an episode dedicated to Sinon past and this time it's making her such a weakling again in the escape Typical to the female gender rescued by the harem counterpart Kirito telling Sinon to blow up the unmounted horse was smart if he was sure Death Gun was coming from SAO, a world where only mamels were mounted The dialogues followed inside the cave was very good as well |
| The breakdown and that reveal. Such impress. |
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Reyxe said: Cause it looks epic as hell.HaXXspetten said: Mythbusters had an episode about exactly this once (I.E. shooting gas tanks with various types of guns ranging from pistols to .50cals) and nothing worked except pure fire ammo (incendiary rounds). Tracer rounds can work but only if you shoot from extremely long distance so the bullet has enough time to heat up from the friction against the air, otherwise it won't be enough either. Then i'm wondering why people started using that in videogames, lol Well, it's not that really important anyway. Btw, nobody has gotten back to me about the potential three week tournament thing. If people hide on a stage that big and it's possible to dodge the satelite with caves and stuff, that tourney could take a long ass time, and nobody can resign... |
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Raro said: ^ I'm sure there'd be something in place to prevent that. Maybe neither player winning money if they did that, or a smaller stadium / area as people were killed. Yeah, but without some context like that, the no log out just feels like a screenwriter cheat to stop them from just logically logging out. I honestly would have preferred it if they had just left it at Kirito's point about needing to stop DG from killing other people. Less contrived :) |
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Quirkiness101 said: Raro said: ^ I'm sure there'd be something in place to prevent that. Maybe neither player winning money if they did that, or a smaller stadium / area as people were killed. Yeah, but without some context like that, the no log out just feels like a screenwriter cheat to stop them from just logically logging out. I honestly would have preferred it if they had just left it at Kirito's point about needing to stop DG from killing other people. Less contrived :) That^ is going to be told this chapter anyway. |
| 4/5 on this episode, I've enjoyed the Arc a lot so far. Hopefully, the second arc doesn't follow the same path as the first season |
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