• Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Sword Art Online’s original premise sounded kinda fun to me tbh. Though I have a feeling the whole “society makes sure that the players get life support in the hospital while they are stuck” wouldn’t work as nicely in RL as it did in the anime. But “can’t log out of video game because it’ll kill me if I really try” would be kinda nice for a while.

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      3 hours ago

      People were dying because eventually power outages, and people pulling the plug. It was a major plot point.

      But uh there’s a reason he goes right back in LMAO

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        Yeah, I think it was episode 2 that mentioned some people just disappearing to never return and others disappearing temporarily while they were being moved to hospitals and the Nerve Gear having capacitors or something designed to allow it to be unplugged for a few hours before it does the death shock to allow for that.

        It seemed like it wasn’t a recurring thing, so most of the players in the game at the end of ep 2 must have been moved to hospitals (or had other life support options).