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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 4:07 pm
by Annwyn
For a minute there, I forgot Sakaki is only ten. Damn...

I thought that he might have been a good guy and went to the suicide website to help whoever he could, or that he might have been suicidal himself and went there for advice, then connected with Atoli. I keep forgetting...he's just a kid. That's kind of creepy to imagine a ten-year-old frequenting a suicide site... I mean, when I was ten, I barely even realized that there were people who considered suicide.

I don't know. Dot Hack makes their kids way too mature.

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 4:12 pm
by TheSorrow
Red Frost wrote:
Jimbob wrote:I dunno Sakaki seems to be plotting something before he learns much about AIDA (which doesn't happen until Vol.2 I believe) I doubt he had good intentions. He was just looking for weak willed people he could gain as allies. But whatever Sakaki angers me. He's just a 10 year old who the hell does he think he is pushing people older than him around like that. He knows nothing about anything at his age.
That's kinda harsh, some people can be quite intellectual at a young age. Hell, It seems like some high-schoolers revert back to kindergardeners.
I don't know. Dot Hack makes their kids way too mature.
Wiseman. That name enough covers this up.


And since Vol. 1, he was already looking for AIDA and started to think of him as a way to make everyone follow Moon Tree, and yes, since that time he was already thinking on 'evil' plots (they were good for him, though, since it involved no PKing and everyone enjoying the game).

Maybe Sakaki's smart for his age, but i wouldn't call him 'mature'. If he was, he would've avoided AIDA (Haseo's words: "How can you accept something you don't know anything about!?")

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 4:17 pm
by Annwyn
TheSorrow wrote:Maybe Sakaki's smart for his age, but i wouldn't call him 'mature'. If he was, he would've avoided AIDA (Haseo's words: "How can you accept something you don't know anything about!?")
Yeah, that's true. I guess I didn't really mean "mature" in the sense that his mind work's like a rational adult's--I meant more like, he meddles in/knows about things that (I personally believe) most kids his age don't even think about. I guess I should've said...ambitious, and too well-informed for his own good. xDD
TheSorrow wrote:And since Vol. 1, he was already looking for AIDA and started to think of him as a way to make everyone follow Moon Tree, and yes, since that time he was already thinking on 'evil' plots (they were good for him, though, since it involved no PKing and everyone enjoying the game).
Even though his methods and actions were wrong...I guess I kind of see that as a redeeming quality in him. He did it because he thought it was right, or that it would lead to right things.

I really wish he wasn't only ten years old...T.T

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 4:23 pm
by Red Frost
TheSorrow wrote:Maybe Sakaki's smart for his age, but i wouldn't call him 'mature'. If he was, he would've avoided AIDA (Haseo's words: "How can you accept something you don't know anything about!?")
I don't know, some people will do/use anything to succeed. If anything, that's probably a more childish approach to goal reaching, and many older people will do the same thing.

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 4:24 pm
by TheSorrow
Yeah, that's true. I guess I didn't really mean "mature" in the sense that his mind work's like a rational adult's--I meant more like, he meddles in/knows about things that (I personally believe) most kids his age don't even think about. I guess I should've said...ambitious, and too well-informed for his own good. xDD
Agreed. But maybe that's how .Hack's world society is by that time, with even little kids knowing about stuff we didn't know by that age. Also, children at Japan right now are more well informed about many things already...
Even though his methods and actions were wrong...I guess I kind of see that as a redeeming quality in him. He did it because he thought it was right, or that it would lead to right things.
Exactly; he didn't know it was wrong and all, and he did it because it would bring some good for him and his guild. But being the little kid he was, he got too dragged on AIDA's power...and you see the results.
I don't know, some people will do/use anything to succeed. If anything, that's probably a more childish approach to goal reaching, and many older people will do the same thing.
Older people can be immature too...

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 4:25 pm
by Umbra
Well...

I started using the internet at around Sakaki's age, being nine at the time, and successfully posed as a sixteen year old, so it's not that hard to bluff your way around and act like you're older than you really are. It is also in a child's nature to be inquisitive and they will absorb whatever information is available to them.

In that sense, what I am now is probably largely based on the experiences I gained over the internet and Sakaki could very easily be the same. However, I would say that, like Sakaki, I was also rather naive as to how my actions could affect other people.

So Sakaki's not that unusual, think of him as the .hack incarnation of a young Umbra. He's certainly the first ultra-smart ten year-old I identify with.

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 4:44 pm
by Azure crow
oh god,not a young umbra....kinda explins they mental personality then.

---sorry,that was a joke..and not a funny one neither---

anyway,sakaki isn't so strange..reminds me of that uber hacked on runescape,who created like 13 maxed out characters,but turns out he was just 8.
That was only for xexample perposes,I'm not really supposed to tell anyone that....but who cares,I don't work for the "Fuzz" anymore....

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 4:46 pm
by Vahn Staffear
Speaking of child asorbing information I used to be nice---->not so nice------>Mean to stupid people---->Mean to guys(Stoped talking)-------->The Perverted guy you talk to today.

If you havn't noticed by the Info at the top I don't like men to much.

Anyhow

I blame his parents don't they pay attention to what he's doing I mean he's ten my parents stoped careing about what I do at 14. '__'

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 4:51 pm
by TheSorrow
Vahn Staffear wrote:Speaking of child asorbing information I used to be nice---->not so nice------>Mean to stupid people---->Mean to guys(Stoped talking)-------->The Perverted guy you talk to today.

If you havn't noticed by the Info at the top I don't like men to much.

Anyhow

I blame his parents don't they pay attention to what he's doing I mean he's ten my parents stoped careing about what I do at 14. '__'
My parents didn't care about me when i first used internet...and i was 10 >.>

Now i'm suddenly interested in knowing about Sakaki in real life; how he really is, how is his family, and what does he has in mind usually.

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 4:51 pm
by lukan
I blame his parents don't they pay attention to what he's doing I mean he's ten my parents stoped careing about what I do at 14. '__'
..how do his parents NOT realize that their son is taking over the net?
That's kinda harsh, some people can be quite intellectual at a young age. Hell, It seems like some high-schoolers revert back to kindergardeners.
quoted for extreme truth...'specially here in teh states >_>
and yeah, soooo easy to bluff of a higher age....hey, everybody who went to 'how old were you?' thread should know my age.....

>_<
Toszi(not a bumble bee!)

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 4:55 pm
by Kouen
Ya I wonder what the heck Sakaki's parents were doing. He even injured Aihara.

Toohru: MOM! DAD! I'M GOING TO LOCK MYSELF IN MY ROOM AND RULE THE WORLD WITH MY LEGIONS OF AIDA!!
Mom: Ok son! Just come down for dinner later!

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 4:56 pm
by Vahn Staffear
..how do his parents NOT realize that their son is taking over the net?
They probaly don't use it nor do they play The World.

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 5:07 pm
by TheSorrow
Vahn Staffear wrote:
..how do his parents NOT realize that their son is taking over the net?
They probaly don't use it nor do they play The World.
Well, you see how Osamu's room is like, with all the screens and electronic stuff. Maybe Sakaki's is similar to that, at least in the sense that it's a room all for himself and he does whatever he wants, without anyone to stop him or even wonder what is he doing.

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 5:09 pm
by Vahn Staffear
TheSorrow wrote:
Vahn Staffear wrote:
..how do his parents NOT realize that their son is taking over the net?
They probaly don't use it nor do they play The World.
Well, you see how Osamu's room is like, with all the screens and electronic stuff. Maybe Sakaki's is similar to that, at least in the sense that it's a room all for himself and he does whatever he wants, without anyone to stop him or even wonder what is he doing.
I blame the parents once again.

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 7:18 pm
by Fragments.beta
Well children in .hack are scary. They create stuff like the Deadly Flash Virus and Pluto's Kiss. It seems the generation of Harlad has spurned alot of child geniuses. And not the good kind.

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 7:25 pm
by TheSorrow
Fragments.beta wrote:Well children in .hack are scary. They create stuff like the Deadly Flash Virus and Pluto's Kiss. It seems the generation of Harlad has spurned alot of child geniuses. And not the good kind.
Oh yeah! I almost forgot about it xD The creators of both virus were young people; the one who made the Pluto's Kiss was 10 years old when he made it.

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 7:35 pm
by Kouen
TheSorrow wrote:
Fragments.beta wrote:Well children in .hack are scary. They create stuff like the Deadly Flash Virus and Pluto's Kiss. It seems the generation of Harlad has spurned alot of child geniuses. And not the good kind.
Oh yeah! I almost forgot about it xD The creators of both virus were young people; the one who made the Pluto's Kiss was 10 years old when he made it.
So is Yata  (Wiseman). He doesn't seem so lunatic.

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 7:41 pm
by Jimbob
Because he seemed to have generally happy childhood for the most part. The World and everything was just a hobby. However since Sakaki wants to remake the world with Moontree's ideals i'm assuming he has troubles. That doesn't seem like something you do for fun.

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 8:36 pm
by AuraTwilight
Except for her depression, and her personality being exactly the same as it is in G.U.
That doesn't nessessarily prove anything.
So, by your logic, Ovan being able to put Epitaph Users into comas makes him a different person? I don't think so. If you had actually read the entire manga, he acts EXACTLY like he does in the games, right up to the end.
No, you're missing my point. I was saying that changing personalities is done just as commonly in AU's as plot differences, and due to the whole Epitaph/Chosen One deal, it can even be considered the same thing. For one thing, Endrance isn't totally gaga over Haseo, which is like 70% of his characterization.
No, I have evidence to back my claims up. For example, the similar emotional state. Hell, the profile I posted was the one from the fan book, with added information regarding Vol.2+3, and it states that she cuts.
O RLY?
【NAME】 Kusaka Chigusa (くさか ちぐさ)
【JOB】Senior High School Student (Age:16/Female)

She's a senior high school student that lives in the Chiba prefecture.
Around other people, she's very timid, because of her introverted personality. Because of this she often feels lonely.
In middle school, her classmates were bullied, but when she tried to stick up for them, she became a target of bullying herself. Because of this, she has refused to attend school in the past. At times, she has thought about cutting her wrists, and scars remain on her arm.

I was going to translate it differently, but I think this way makes more sense.
Now see, if we had just done this in the beginning, all of this arguing could've been avoided.

I'd say I was pwned, if my point was that Atoli didn't cut herself, but since my point was merely "don't make claims without proof" as a Devil's Advocate role, you can have a Not a DumbasS (NADS) badge. Wear it with pride.
--What the hell was Sakaki doing on a suicide website?!
Ten year olds on a suicide website are a whole new kind of emo. But as well all know, he was trying to pick up chicks on the rebound. *cough*Atoli*cough*
So Sakaki's not that unusual, think of him as the .hack incarnation of a young Umbra. He's certainly the first ultra-smart ten year-old I identify with.
So does this mean you're gonna score with emo chicks on the internetz and try and take over the world through a Technological Singularity?

Well then. Since Umbra is Sakaki, and i'm apparently an AIDA, I'll infect Umbra. :D *does so and turns him into Umbra <Zenith>*
..how do his parents NOT realize that their son is taking over the net?
They probably think it's just a game. Would YOU believe that your ten year old son was really possessing people's souls with AI's from a video game?
Oh yeah! I almost forgot about it xD The creators of both virus were young people; the one who made the Pluto's Kiss was 10 years old when he made it.
True. IF you believe the media was telling the truth. I personally believe CC Corp were the ones who did it in order to form a monopoly on the Network. How convienent that their Operating System was the only one not effected, ey?

It's not like they haven't made innocent people into scapegoats before. The 10 year old might not exist, since the press didn't release a name, a photo, or anything.

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 8:41 pm
by lukan
They probably think it's just a game. Would YOU believe that your ten year old son was really possessing people's souls with AI's from a video game?
nope...not at all rly....
but, i still like how all the charcters are always like these examples:
haseo SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSKKKKKKKKKKEEEEEEEEEEEEEITTTTTTTH!!!!!!!
all avatar weilders: *screaming their avatar's name everytime*
endrance:*moans all the time when he summons macha*

>_>
Toszi