#dothack gu

[terror-of-life]

someone made a huge .hack//G.U. themed creative space in pso2 ngs. i left the info at the bottom in case anyone else who plays wants to find it!

i got some screenshots with my character but with imperfect graphics (sorry)

but i didn't want to spend all day exploring mac anu (yet) so i just got hulle granz/arena and netslum/lost grounds.

still... like. Bruh! this is so awesome!

[spumonibones]

I don't know how to explain this, but same vibe.

[pixelfont52]

i really like silabus so i learned how to sew by making a plushie of him

[selflit-doodles]

happy birthday king 🥳✨️

[honestlyvan]

id be really interested to see you talk about the dynamic btwn Haseo and Ovan + how it changes over time, love ur dothack thoughts so far

(Now on DW!)

I had to take a vigorous walk around the block and a shower before I could sit down to write this, lmao.

God, nonny, they are So Much. An unbelievable amount, even.

To step back from the mythical framing for a little bit and to just look at them as people, one of the things that makes me bark like a dog the worst is how all of the Epitaph are all circling and struggling with the similar kinds of of identity issues -- presumably being the reason the Epitaphs attached themselves to them, there's no room in the mind of people who are too secure in who they are to carry the duties of a Phase with them.

Each of the Epitaphs represent the temptation to fall into a variety of self-protective but futile failure modes that let you define yourself on your own terms but ultimately limit growth, and while I have thoughts about all of the Epitaph users and how they interact with each other, I definitely think Haseo and Ovan get the version of it that is the most brutal in its compatibility.

For Haseo, Skeith represents a temptation to do as thou wilst, to eschew a communal and social identity in favour of only exclusively defining himself -- which is, incidentally, how Ovan comes across initially. You could not find a guy who moves through the world with more assurance and less need to explain himself. Ovan appears to have a kind of singularity of identity that nobody else can get a word in edgewise -- and Haseo, who spends a lot of time feeling off and unsure and wordlessly anxious about having lost sight of who he is, that's like the holy grail.

Of course, the reason Ovan is so singular in his identity is because his sense of self is practically transparent and he exists almost exclusively as the life-support system for a machine that makes Aina happy. From the start, there's no way for Ovan to recognise Haseo the way he wants to be recognised because Ovan barely knows who he is, let alone what Haseo sees in him that is so admirable because Ovan is just reflecting back the thing Haseo wants to see in himself.

Because in contrast to the fundamental mistake in Haseo's thinking, Ovan is very clear-eyed about what Haseo is like. That's one of the core paradoxes of his character, he's very good at reading other people and completely oblivious to how they read him back. He's great at anticipating and manipulating people's behaviour, but is critically disconnected about how he should feel about the way other people feel about him. Haseo needs to see him as something to chase and grow into? Okay, if that's what he needs to be, it's as simple as that. The terms of their relationship are set forever now.

So, in a way, as much as Ovan's plan relies on Haseo growing as a person, as much as he frames it in those terms, what he actually needs is for Haseo to stay exactly the same. Stay exactly on the terms that Ovan needs him to stay on for his plan to succeed. Ovan can never let Haseo reach him because that would change the terms of their relationship, and make him truly unmanageable.

Which, really, is just how Ovan deals with everything in his life. He keeps it all at a distance, because he doesn't really have a sense of self to let people close to, except in the sense that he knows everything that has happened to cause this situation has been done by him, and that the only way to set it right is to find a way to cross himself out again. And if he has to let Haseo catch up to him, it's explicitly so Haseo can be his executioner, and help him rectify the mistake of existing in the world in the first place. Corbenik, the meaning of life and death, can only exist in the void.

And tbh, if Ovan's plans had actually worked out on the timetable he intended them to work out on, I think Haseo may have been fulfilled by that. From the start, he sees himself as the aspirant to Ovan's paragon, wants to reach him through his own effort, to exist in the world the same way he thinks Ovan does.

However, the rest of Haseo's arc is learning that none of us exist in the world alone. That we are defined by the experiences we have with other people. If he reaches Ovan and Ovan is no longer there, what does it still matter to have reached him?

[virtuevera]

[tricksheart]

Me at Akira: Stop listening to Wailing Capital: Wald Uberlisterin and other Dot Hack GU soundtrack OSTs. Cooperate with me.

Akira: No :3

[braveryhearted]

Interest checker for:

DOT HACK GU MUSES.

Please like or reply if you would be interested in interacting with any of these characters. I will count your likes as a whole, meaning that I can throw any of these muses at you ( unless you specify otherwise ). Mutuals only.

HASEO ATOLI OVAN

[amskvaris]

base ep2 ch3

Mixed records on Falspawn and the locals here… So they've been fused. That would explain the readings, but…

precedent

yes. zephetto ain't immortal (?) like luther but i like to think 300 years and tons of other failed experiments still means something.

(i'll go figure out more detail after ngs ch 6.)

[bearpillowmonster]

It seems appropriate to update the party system as Haseo grows more akin to working within a party instead of being a lone wolf. That includes the morale system. Not only is the duration starting to lengthen but you no longer have to wait for it to fill up to use it, you can use it pretty much whenever but the longer you wait, the longer it'll last. New weapon too, you're pretty much where you were when you were the Terror of Death which is really saying something. You can even switch weapons in battle albeit it's through the menu or special. But having a good relationship via email with your party helps because it unlocks new attacks. Because of these improvements, the gameplay is slowly shaping up to be really enjoyable at times. I did actually manage to crash it from button mashing though…

The Versus card game is open now which means you can collect cards to play in the form of some really cool art. Same with the forum which you can in turn make your wallpaper in the desktop (which was a feature from IMOQ but done in a different way). The bike turns out that it was bland on purpose last time so they added an upgrade system where you can buy parts and mix and match to make it run how YOU want (really you just buy the best parts but it markets as how you want).

So now we're properly into spoiler territory and with that we're properly into SAO now with the players being stuck within the game. You can no longer head to the desktop to check your email. And with that, Atoli can't speak, can only send mail. But here's where it gets tricky because that's not the game's plot, in fact, the whole scenario is over pretty early, it just introduces that possibility and what it could possibly mean as well as the consequences it created.

It started becoming clear to me how much of a reinvention/reimagining GU really is to IMOQ because it's using a lot of the same elements just differently, like the Data cores (instead of virus cores). Donald Duck even returns!

wait... But as far as structure, it also takes after the first volume taking place with a tournament…again. Nowhere near as long though. But just know that once you've set your difficulty, you've done it for all the vols so…yeah.

The side-quests aren't nearly as meaningful but I'd have to say that the overall story jumped to being pretty good, there are some lines in there where I was very well shocked at how impactful they were. The only real complaint I have about it is the villains and I got spoiled about them but the way it's done (so far) is pretty cheesy, but I imagine it will be expanded upon and will actually make sense later. But yeah, this makes the first .hack that I actually properly enjoyed, thoroughly and genuinely, there was always bits and pieces but this one finally seemed worth it.

[nopalramune]

2024 Summer Pride

Day 03: .hack//Sign (Tsukasa x Subaru)

SUPER huge fan of the dothack series ever since I was eight years old (//Roots was the first thing I ever saw), //Sign especially being one of my top favorites (after //Roots and //GU Trilogy. Yes I'm that guy)

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[rico-tyrell]

Hey! I've been kind of curious about DotHack and I've been following you long enough to tell you're a pretty big fan. I know that it's a multimedia project, so I'm not exactly sure where to start. Is there a specific place you would recommend starting with, or should I start with sign and go in release order?

Hi! I'd say either Sign or if you have access to Infection or GU. Sign would be a good set up for future references you'll see throughout the series. My father started me on Sign then got me Infection later, back in the day.

However, both games are huge. (GU originally 3 discs, IMOQ 4) But games that lengthy will familiarize you pretty good :3

I personally wanna recommend starting with Infection first. A lot of the characters are modeled after these characters. (I'd look into emulation as well. Quarantine, the final game of the IMOQ series can be pricey)

They also remastered GU and put it all on one disc, but I still haven't touched GU so I can't say anything about it :3 Its the cheaper legal route tho if u wanna start with the games.

And I'd still try to stick to the order as you move through the series. If you start at GU, probably look at IMOQ or Sign next, then whatever is left, then follow the order from there.

[justalphonse]

WE'RE LIVE :D

Today we have more dotHack GU and a character to kill so grab your digital weapons and come say hi in chat

[pixelfont52]

Happy .hack day! have some silabus doodles i made for my friend’s G.U. playthrough

[honestlyvan]

(Now on DW!)

One of the joys of a dormant fandom is that I can just show up and prop my feet on the table and start talking about divine horror and how sometimes a computer program is an angel and how humans are obsessed with taking the power of the heavens and putting it in a box for themselves to use.

Like.

God exists and she's a nice girl and she worked hard to be born, but she also has a temper and humans keep trying to put her in a box so she got fed up with it and hid from them. From her mother, she inherited eight powerful champions, and as a reward for their service she left them to roam as they pleased, but when humans couldn't trap her, they chose to trap those champions instead, and put them in a box, except now that box was a human, and that human was meant to take the power of the god that the humans couldn't steal, because humans made the divine realm that god and her angels inhabit and want to control it (as humans do).

And now you've got a bunch of humans who don't know they're being given a box with an angel in it and putting that box in their own bodies, and nobody can really figure out why these angel bodies keep going out of control and driving their hosts to madness, and oh, hey, the mother of god made these champions for a purpose and the humans in the driver seat don't know about that, either, even though the humans who gave them the angel bodies do know about that, because they want to use those angel bodies to make another god.

So congratulations! You're a prophet now! You are being called to do battle for your god, because you've been granted a divine body that has an angel in it, that is an angel. You're being called to do as your nature as an angel requires of you! And the entire time you're just a human, and the thing in your head feels too big for your mortal body, it feels too big for your divine body, and you're just watching things spiral out of control, wondering why you feel like you'd bleed mercury if they scratched you too deep.

[ruscribbles]

why are jrpg protagonists so hard to draw

[ID: A drawing of Haseo from the dot hack series. He has light tan skin and white hair, and is suspended upside down in a midair action pose. One hand reaches above him, wielding a gun with a blade attached to it. The other arm is lying out of view of the camera, though the blade of a second gun-sword can be seen behind him due to the perspective. The leg closest to the camera is kicked up, while the other is stretched out behind it. A swoosh-like smear can be seen connecting the end of the gun-blade above his head to the toe of said shoe. He looks towards the camera with a confident smile.

/End ID.]