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So I know that were were in shock about being robbed at gun point but to see that no one at all stepped in during the entire gun scene just had me rolling around in arghhh.
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To be perfectly honest at no point would I have stepped in during that gun scene. When the robber was pointing his gun at the bank teller I would have just let him rob the bank; as it's not worth risking lives to try and stop him. When Sinon was shooting the gun at the guy, I probably would not been quick enough to intervene ether as I would hesitate to throw myself between a crazed murderer and a crazed kid who was shooting haphazardly at said crazed murder. Especially if I was just a by standard and that was not my kid. The mother on the other hand probably should have reacted more, but given her expression at the end of the scene I think we can safely assume she isn't winning mother of the year and may indeed have her own emotional problems (or had emotional problems).
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Then Kirito being all doubtful about the real danger existing despite what happened before.
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I didn't take the scene that way. It seemed as if Kirito thought immediately realized exactly how Death-Gun was killing people (through an electrical outlet discharge), and simply kept denying it because he did not want to be sent back into a scenario where he could die. You have to realize the kid has been through one hell of traumatic situation and it's pretty reasonable that he wouldn't instantly be like, yeah definitely send me into the game to get shot. But the scenes hint at the fact that he believed it all along and certainly him choosing to go through with the detectives plan can be taken as sign of that as well.
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I already asked why Sinon needed to get close as a ranged class but you or someone else already explained that's going to be addressed at some point in the future so at least that's one thing out of the way. I still don't know how she managed to fall where she jumped from to get that close to him but I'll pretend that's wacky game physics, like some kind of slow fall even though it looked like she was going pretty fast. Heck, even within the first couple minutes of the first episode I was going, wow, that's some path exploitation on a boss. She should get banned for that.
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I don't think these gams have rules man. Everything kind of became free source after the world-seed was released, and out of all the free sourced games it seems like this is one of the shadiest because it's cash can be exchanged for real money. So I'd actually find it more unrealistic if Sinon was banned for exploiting a game mechanic,