What the fuck was his problem?
Atoli was a sheltered submissive bitch with no spine serving a ten year old roleplaying as some cool/edgy le psuedo intelligent NIHON character. Everyone in the game had their own problems. For all of OVEN's problems, he was the only one I still liked. Silabus and Kuhn were also pretty grounded.
>>729207880Shino mindfucked him so hard he went pshcyo after tri-edge murdered him so Atoli having the same character made him realize it was his fault that Shino got Data Drained and it just works he stops being edgy after volume 2 because character development >DON'T YOU EVER TELL ME THAT WITH HER FACE
>>729207980someone actually had the mind to make this post about this old game
>>729208017pshcyo after tri-edge murdered her*
>>729208037>.Hack thread >Make post about subject matter>OH MY GOD HOW LAME MUST YOU BE TO MAKE LE POST LIKE THAT Are you actually retarded? Don't you have a Smash Brothers thread to shitpost in?
>>729207880Was trolled, Got his character deleted, Lost his girlfriend, best friend/mentor fucked off to who knows where, Girl who looks like his girlfriend is far far far to nosy and cheery while he's grieving, Also angsty teenager who forgot several months of his youth.
He just wanted to be alone.
>>729208147>Also angsty teenager who forgot several months of his youth.this unironically is the whole reason he's like that comma fucked his brain bad second by the pk thing as soon as he started
>>729208216To be fair, it's a pretty fucked up thing to PK a brand-new player like that, especially luring them into a false sense of camaraderie and telling them you'll "show them the ropes" Bordeaux was a sick bitch.
>>729208147i think what happened to Ovan in the anime series was worse, was he even able to go offline while TaN had him restrained for god knows how long?
>>729208323Ovan wasn't 10.
I want bordeaux to overpower me and show me the ropes
>>729207880>amnesiac kid that forgot he was a sociopathic little stalker shit and got his brain fucked by a computer virus putting him in a coma>betrayed and used by nearly everyone around him and he isn't even aware of how far it goes yet>lost everyone he knew in the game and was fighting desperately to find two of them>even as he's building himself back up and inching a little out of his shell again, he's not really realized there's consequences to his actions just yet>fuck, gotta hit up this tournie for some answers, i need a third member, and this girl who looks like my comatose girlfriend is my only pick and she's too damn sweet>she wants to go on a walk around a random place and go on about how cool it all is, grit the teeth and bear it just a bit longer>"UHM ACTUALLY I REALLY LIKE TAKING IT SLOW AND EASY IN THIS GAME, AND PEOPLE WHO JUST PLAY TO FIGHT AND GET STRONG SHOULD REALLY STOP FOR A SECOND AND CHILL, OKAY?">He was basically a powder keg of stress and tension waiting to blow, and Atoli was too naive and wanting to be liked so she tripped the landmine he became.
>>729208252The time between Bordeaux' flunkies Pking Haseo and the rest of the game is like several months.
>>729208371out of 10?
>>7292084658 months later i think? it's in one of the short movies
>you know a game is kino when it doesn't need shills and can have legit discourse around it with no forced shit i still prefer the original than the remake because of the increased experience you get from monsters + rengeki+ greed talismans
IMOQ remaster when?
>>729208454>amnesiac kid that forgot he was a sociopathic little stalker shit and got his brain fucked by a computer virus putting him in a comaHe made friends in the previous version of the game by PKing someone and then asking them to be friends. He was well known for it.
SKEITHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Endrance had the worse of it all specially when you know his whole Mia backstory
>>729208867He was well known for it, but he was still a tremendous asshat in the process, a wild card that did whatever he felt like. Hence siding with Morganna until he realized he really fucked up. He wasn't really respected as a person, just for being one of the best PKers in the game that knew how to get info and shit most others didn't.To say he took massive leaps and strides seven years later as Haseo would be an understatement.
>>729208686The originals also kept your name for Kite if you had IMOQ save data which was kino as fuck.>>729208942>Young boy gets groomed by furry ai>Becomes the only gay romance option in the sequel Seems accurate honestly.
>>729208942Didn't realize who Endurance was until I realized who Haseo was.
>>729209051it took me the whole vol1 to realize who Endrance was and only because he mentioned Mia lol i mean i had a feeling but yeah
>>729207880>Is that?!?>Is Terror Of Death!!>The Player Killers' Killer!!Do people really hunt other player who kill other players?
>>729209084i did, when i played Karos Online like 100 years ago and was pretty famous for it too lol granted i was a fucking whale there
>>729207880Is .Hack considered isekai in today's standards?
Once more, I'm asking the dark forces of Bandai Namco that if they have to do some remake slop or repackage some roms, make it the original .hack. It needs it. I know they'll fuck it up but just rip the bandage off.
>>729209084Have you not played Dark Souls?
>>729207880He doesn't have time for escapist bullshit. She needs that escapist bullshit because her real life is shit. https://youtu.be/2RDAhy5tOVI?si=q-c0mB_hXWyuLzJW&t=345I love this shit.
>>729207880He was an edgy kid, just look at his damn character...
>>729209128Kinda. The first anime is. The first set of games is. The second set of games isn't since Haseo isn't trapped in "The World" and Roots isn't.
>>729209051Endrance is by far the most obvious of the returning characters that didn't reuse their name like Piros or Natsume. Yata and especially Kuhn since he's a literal who in IMOQ are way harder.
>>729209174>Ovanitaholy fucking shit that made me laugh
>>729209253I more refused to believe the mopey bitch turned out to be a tall dude that people actually respected.
>>729209084Yes? This happened all the time in MMOs that had PVP on. Some even incentivized other players to do so.In any case, it provided some bragging rights within the community, and in others, you could even loot some of the PK's items.
>>729209345art imitates life
>>72920788080% of all of the shit you all know and love about FFXIV was stripped from the .hack// Franchise.It's the "Simpson's did it" of modern MMOs and it wasn't one. Only was about MMOs.
>>729209276https://youtu.be/kVCJzcJSj7s?si=55AE9SPxFhOeFS3N
>>7292094177R's combat is also literally just GU's, but that makes sense since CC2 were originally making it.
>>729209417that's a conversation /v/ is not ready to have yet when they think SAO was the first series to do it
>>729209461this and piros the 3d shit had me bursting inside
>>729208387Anon, she's half-German or something. .
>>729209521The only good SAO content is Fatal Bullet and the Gungale online spin off anime.Basically anything SAO related that doesn't include Kirito.
>is the most based character in the franchise
BUTTRICE
>>729209174>Bordeaux 14 years old>Saku 11 years old>Atoli 16 years old>Tabby 16 years old>Pi 24 years old>Alkaid 16 years old>Haseo 18 years oldHaseo you are a pedo no matter who you date other than Pi.
>>729208802
>>729209662Pi was always the best option, she won me at "is not like you to-to show gratitude Haseo-chaaan~" also girls calling Kuhn Kuhnie instead
>>729209662Poor Pi got typecasted as a hag because she was a twenty something year old playing with teenagers.Her mommy voice didn't help her case.
>>729209662Haseo is 17. He was 10 during the events of the first 4 games and the release of World R:2 was 7 years later.
>>729209830how many years was he stuck in that comma though?
>>729209870A few months. Infection happens directly after Sign and he gets better post Quarantine.
>>729209870At best besides what >>729209958 said, with how the original R1 storyline is pretty tightly wound together, Ryou was 9 in SIGN apparently so maybe he turned 10 by the time he came back out of the coma. So yeah, he's still 17. Plus I think Japan is a lot looser about close-age relationships as is; Alkaid, Atoli, and Tabby are perfectly fine.Alkaid best girl for my runs.
>rewatched SIGN for first time in years>Over 90% of it is just characters standing around and talkingThe music and atmosphere really carried this show hard
Do I need to watch or play anything before starting GU?
>>729210250if you buy/pirate G.U Last Recode you can watch the summary of the past games through an in game movie watcher
>>729210250The collection on steam and modern consoles has a recap of the events of the first game as well as touching on key words and such. Should probably watch that.
Think I'll load up Infection on my 'eck to play over the holidays
>>729210250.hack Roots is a GU prequel, but it might have spoilers for the 1st game I don't remember its been over a decade since I watched it.
>Lettuce doesn't have enough taste for someone to dislike it and it doesn't have any smell to it either. Most people don't think about it that way when they eat it, but I dislike it because...I dislike it and I know. What the fuck was HER problem? What the fuck does she have against lettuce!?
>>729210445not spoilers so much but it explains some characters like Yata, Shino, what the twilight bridage was, etc I watched the anime after finishing volume 1
ONLINEJACK!
>>729210540nta, but I think I did the same.
>>729210250GU kind of retells part of //root but you should still watch it, if you want you can check the first quadralogy to have a better grasping of the background lore and maybe something more
>THEY'RE JUST TEXTURES ON TOP OF POLYGONS!What did he mean by this?
>>729210632He was fighting Yaldabaoth and his archons in his mind
>>729209649I said it's OHM rice!
my autism doesn't let me start volume 2 as long as I don't 100% complete the fucking ryo books and it's infuriatinggranted i just got to max cap level 50 so i'll try to fight one doppleganger and get that out of the waybackrounds are at 80/83
>>729210143I only watched the whole thing somewhat recently and found it pretty comfy, but I get what you mean. I did get a bit annoyed that the end was a big GO BUY THE GAME too. https://youtu.be/equz4snO7hA?si=NemoooctI8rz9ViCThe music is so damn good.
>>729209084people specifically anti-pk in runescape all the timesometimes they even disguise themselves as hapless noobs only to immediately equip their entire kit and kill whomever jumped them
>>729209417>>729209521Yeah, it's a shame the series is now mostly forgotten.It pisses me off a bit to see people praising SAO as the first.Then again, I doubt .hack would ever be popular nowadays, it's not really much of an action-heavy series.
>>729211158The devs want to make a new one. But Bamco won't let them.
The most unrealistic part of this game is Alkaid being a player of renown at all when she was like 1/3rd of the level cap without avatar cheats like Endrance
>>729209662Good thing I always choose Pi
>>729210250I recommend watching Rootshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDyizylRvec
>>729211241That's nice to hear, but a shame at the same time. I can imagine it'd have so much potential nowadays...I remember I loved the games back then. The thing where you could send and answer party member emails was great.The gameplay itself got a bit repetitive after a while, but I guess that's accurate, considering it's supposed to be an MMO and all.
>Azure Kite isn't actually Tri Edge>But in his special attack he creates a Tri Edge symbol still???
>>729211506it's data left over the R:1 just like the avatars are the stages of AURA from the first games
>>729211506>But in his special attack he creates a Tri Edge symbol stillit's not the right symbol
>>729211585I understand that part I just don't understand why it was necessary to false flag the twist this hardAzure Flame Kite wielding a 3 bladed weapon and showing up where Tri Edge is alleged to be would already be enoughHaving him literally make the same fucking symbol the real Tri Edge makes is just obfuscating it to a misleading degree
Alkaid erotic
>>729207880yuri lowenthal
Does Sakubo count as trans
I dropped the 2nd game because of random encounters were pissing me off and i was trying to figure out how to get out of this one dungeon
>>729211850Saku is the sisterBo is the brotherthey are playing the same character while taking turns what do you mean?
>>729211925can't tell if bait
went through each GU game like 3 times with the third being the remaster with the 4th volume. that 4th volume was such a miracle. haseo's xth form will always remain the most badass character/form in all of vidya
>>729211241
>>729211952nobody tell him
>>729210586It makes sense why Alkaid likes Salvador Aihara, he's such an entertainer, I want to be like him.
almost there
>>729213781I wanted to get all the cheevos in Last Recode, but man, the Hangeki achievements, the guild achievements are such a chore.
>>729213834i cannot play the next volume until I 1000% this shit lmao missing like 10 lucky birds, 10 mecha grunty encounters, all the red pkers etc
>>729210525Her looks were fading so she's trying to develop some le qurk chungusing.
>>729209084In some MMOs, PK's dropped their gear when killed. You'd be a fool not to hunt them.
>>729213886I wish you luck, I found tedious finding all the mecha grunties, sending all the flyers to every player, finding the special PKs, etc.
>>729207880Was Volume 4 actually good? I never got around to replaying it since I wanted to go through IMOQ first.
>>729210250.hack//roots pretty much sets up the story for GU unlike Signs. In Signs you could probably watch it along with playing through IMOQ as both stories feel distant enough to not require an watch/play order. A couple of downsides to roots is the story takes awhile to reach the main plot points. Also the final episode spoils a major plot point in the GU games so some recommend skipping it until you finished the GU games or at least finish part 2.
>>729207880chud incel. he should just have sex and work for 2 dollars an hour like a good boy.
>play video game as a kid>some shit happens and it puts you in a coma>wake up from coma>play the game again
>>729209174Alkaid best girl. Losing her for so long was a travesty. Still married her though.
>>729210632>ALSO THIS GAME IS WRITTEN IN RUST>DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE USE THAT SHIT?Damn Haso dropping truth programing nukes.
>>729207880He got PK'd.
>>729209662Endrance is 20, so he’s okay if he goes gay.
>>729214830It's fine, but it's not that long so it should be thought of as a bonus or supplement to the main game. Wait until you feel like replaying gu first.
>>729215205He literally got brain damage and forgot he even played the 1st game. His parents are fucking retards for letting him touch R:2 though.
>>729215205Isn't it like, the only MMO in existence in the setting after the internet exploded? What the fuck else are you gonna play?
>>729215220https://youtu.be/fZDmCSXBHrg?si=yf-KGt74-l5kApyD&t=74(;_;)
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Oh my god a rare .hack thread spotted. Goated franchise, fuck you bamco trying to cockblock CC2 in making a new game or remake IMOQ.
I prefer IMOQ, but thank you for making a .hack thread.
>>729207880Memory loss and heartbreak will do this to a man. He was also being emotionally manipulated by Ovan the entire time. I can picture him off-screen being like "Haseo, Shino is out there. She says she will jump on horse-cock soon if you don't find her though"
>>729207880Did she call him teddy bear?
Tsuyokunaru, Haseo.
>>729215808No she's like the final evolution of an MMO Hypercasual Carebear who genuinely doesn't interface with the systems of the game in any real capacity and hates PvP, which genuinely triggers Haseo because he's actually a pretty hardcore player in the game world and he's like 15.
>>729207880She was pretty fucking annoying desu
>>729209649>>729210759based. That and that one fucking guy that always announced his name at the start of every post like he was a big deal
>>729216925She tends to place pretty high in official polls for some inexplicable reason, just below Haseo and Endrance.
>>729217338I assume waifufaggotry and goonbrained animegirl tards. I would imagine Pi and Alkaid being on high spots as well for similar reasons. (Though Alkaid was actually pretty cool)
If I'm remembering things right, Alkaid/Atoli meet up with Haseo IRL and have sort of harem thing going on.Kite is still a sperg that may or may not be gay and has Natsume being his IRL stalker.For all his traumatic childhood, Haseo grew up to be a pretty well-adjusted dude.
>>729217338The Japanese love their demure waifs.
>>729217338>>729217413Atoli is quite literally a literallyme for lots of gloomy average teenage girls. Why do you think menhera or jiraikei is a popular subculture for women in Japan. Lots of girls would unironically symphatize with Atoli's issues.
>>729217471Kite got his Tomboy GF and I refuse to accept any suggestion otherwise.
>>729217413https://youtu.be/nIpvUKN2hSg?si=a7-Hc9J-0RRUvWCG
>>729217601BlackRose is openly hot for Kite.But unlike Haseo, he's never shown any inkling of reciprocating any of the feelings of the girls that lust for his dot cock.
>>729208802I thought we've been over this. They lost the files so it would have to be a total remake and Bamco has no interest.
>>729217668Perhaps but she would just eventually get fed up and kabedon him demanding why he hasn't asked her to be his GF yet.
SO like what the fuck was BT's problem anyway?
>>729217943OH wait, someone answered that.Bear is fucking cool. That is all.
>>729218003The funny thing about BT going on about lettuce was that she says that after Tsukasa describes what dying felt like in The World and that she got used to it. To BT it reminded her of lettuce.
>>729209246>Haseo isn't trapped in "The World"Everyone actually does end up trapped inside "The World" again in vol 2 of .Hack GU, with logout being blocked by AIDA. Or more precisely: because AIDA data-drains Atoli's Epitath, they gain its administrative powers and privileges in the system and are able to create a mirror-server and mass-shift all players over to that one - with one slight difference: no logout function.
i can't find the Lance Law and it's driving me insane on GU Rebirth
>>729211925The whole thing with Iori is freaky as fuck. I mean- more freaky than usual with .hack even.Either the kid has genuine split personality disorder, or it's legit his stillborn sister's consciousness that's buried in his brain and surfacing through the VR consciousness transfer shenaniganry.
>>729215338>His parents are fucking retards for letting him touch R:2 though.Not that farfetched really. When was the last time IRL when parents actually cared to check what games their kids were playing? Most are the bad parent type that are just happy with the kid in front of the screen and out of their hair, and they leave it at that.
>>729216312It becomes really rather heartbreaking when you learn of her real world circumstances and WHY she behaves like that, though.
>>729218950The average kid didn't spend months in a coma from playing a videogame. He's still living with them as far as we're aware and clearly plays a shitload in GU. Its beyond negligent on their part.
>>729219214>what a shame that our pitiful second born is always playing his video games>UNLIKE HIS PERFECT IMMACULATE AUSPICIOUS JADE-LIKE OLDER SIBLING WHO IS IN UNIVERSITY NOWmany such cases
>>729219018Oh I know, I'm just giving the brass tacks explanation.
>>729219214Is he living with them? I always just assumed he was living on his own, because with how much screaming his voice raw he does while gaming he must be a nightmare to live with.
>>729207880Being a super high IQ autist brainwashed then sent into a coma by a soul turned cuntish AI only to wake up without memories of the fact and end up gravitating by reflex towards the exact same situation only you are even more autistic now because you skipped every functional development year of your life will do that to you.It doesn't help you then get groomed by everyone along the way the moment you step back into the game and then get stuck babysitting a suicidal retard who can't get her shit together.Genuinely out of all the edgelord sooner protagonists at the time, this mentally dysfunctional kid was the only one you can establish did nothing wrong/was perfectly understandable.
>>729220484Most people in G.U except Endrance live with someone else. Look back at their interactions and let that hilarity sink in.
>>729221031>your daughter starts furiously mashing her keyboard and screeching at the screen about WHY WON'T YOU LOOK AT ME I AM NOT HER while foaming out of her mouth>kids these days
>>729207880Imagine the smell.
>>729218432One of the reasons Moon Tree is so insufferable is that those fuckers keep roleplaying even in that situation.
>>729221031Endrance also lives with his parents. He’s a twenty year old shut-in pretty boy who plays pretty much 24/7 and rarely goes outside.
if Piros can get laid so can you
>>729208037>look at this guy, he cares about something!!This website would be better without all the irony poisoning
>>729221830Piros also got a job as one of the heads of the creatives department at the megacorporation running the biggest MMO craze in their world. I think that really helped his odds.
I really need to get around to finishing QUARANTINE.Also, PLEASE BAMCO! I WANT .hack// OUTFITS IN SAOFD!! DON'T LEAVE US HANGING!!! Still really sad the SAO and .hack// have intersected in Tales of the Rays. Which is now dead.
>>729207880>THE SUNNN IS INNNN YOUR EEEEYYYYYEEEES>wh-->THE SUNNN IS INNNN YOUR EARRRRRRSSSSS>haseo what the he-->BUT YOU CAN'T SEE THE SUNNNNNN, EVERRR INNNN THE DARKNEEEEEESSSSS
Guess I'll go log out and check my email or something.
HAVE YOU SEEN MIA? I MUST GIVE THE BITCH DRUGS
>>729222938Macha really was the most mishandled and weird character.>cat jester>actually no monster thing >actually no amnesiac furry>nvm monster actually >back to cat jester >back to furry>ded>nvm back, a cat now >nope monster again>ded again>and now schizophrenia-fueled sword
>>729210143yeah it was way more boring than I expected
>>729223162It's actually just accurate to what the real MMO experience was
Atoli was a BITCH
>>729207880I used to love the shit out of this game back in my day. I would even put it in my top 10 favourite ps2 game just for the fond memories i had.Then they made a remaster for the ps4 with a brand new game on top of it. I thought "OH SHIT, i'm gonna relive my childhood!!" Played it and i only got past through the first dungeon of the game (where haseo got his new form) before dropping it.Gaming isn't the same as when you were a kid, man. It's such a shame. I can't believe how jaded i've become.
The part in volume 3 when Haseo completely BTFOs Ovan by pointing out he's not special for suffering and that everyone suffers too was pure kino.
>>729223232 (cont)I don't even know what's the ending to last recode. I never even look up youtube videos for it to find out the ending.
>>729208252It's so real though.It was how I entered runescape. Got done with tutorial and got immediately asked if I wanted to see some treasure and followed them right into wildy when I was 10 or so. Got killed instantly.
>>729207980>Silabusthat guy was even more of a woman than the entire female acst combined. what a petty little bitchhe didnt even desrve that one girl from the spinoff manga>>729208147>Lost his girlfriend*e-thot that kept leading him on>>729217552>Why do you think menhera or jiraikei is a popular subculture for women in Japani fucking wish, atoli isnt any of those. she ios the most boring, needy character ever. her being actually insane wopuld actually make her likeable (like Bordeux until the cat was out of the bag)
>>729223229she was a dumb brat that got the hots for seething haseo, it's like the typical good girl abused by his mexican drug trafficker boyfriend
>>729215357there are other MMOs by time R:2 came out, in Roots and in GU news/forums mention the other MMOs, one of them being an MMOFPS.
>>729223717She is insane though. In that she is literally suicidal and unhinged to the point of visiting suicide forums to allow herself to be used by others.
>>729207880Something something memories got erased something something bound to the digital avatar of death something something.
>>729223717>atoli isnt any of those.Anon, she fucking visits suicide websites and had multiple attempts.She tried dressing all trendy and fashionable once, but her super trad parents lashed out at her for doing so, and her classmates bullied her for being a tryhard/not making the fashion look good on her. Actual Jiraikei/Menhera girls (i.e. girls carrying the real psychological baggage with those subcultures and not just the look) more often than not have the exact same background as Atoli.
>>729207880Why don't they make a new .hack// video game?
>>729223850actual menheras will harm themselves and blame you for it to guilt trip you into staying with them (and break your stuff and scare away your friends, and...)>>729223824>20 years later there's nothing like The World R2I HATE it in here
>>729208037dot hack fans are all fucking starving for anything new related to the series so the only thing we got are these old gamesit fucking sucks
My favourite deep cut lore is that this cute goober was one of the newbies Silabus tutored but later went on to make a new character that became that furry assassin in Moon Tree.
>>729223570fuck man i had something similar happen on runescape around that age
>>729207880>>729211818https://vocaroo.com/1mIEna5wsnyo
>>729224615She's also Alkaid's friend IRL (and even created her first character patterned after Alkaid's own model). Her IRL scenes also helped give us a brief glimpse of Alkaid IRL.And lots of people forget, but Alkaid just larps as an edgy fight happy tomboy in The World. IRL, she's a bookish nerd that's part of her school's library committee. Pic related, the other girl here is Alkaid IRL.
>>729210143a lot of people generally agree this show was kind of awful for showing off what a mmo actually was but i'd be damned if it didn't get me to start playing them im pretty sure a lot of people gave them a shot cause of this
>>729207880Haseo was basically a lost child who didn't know how to form any connections with other pepole untill the day he met Shino, who accepted him, allowed him to learn the value of self-worth, was one of the few people in his life who managed to form a genuine human connection with him, and partially ended his aimlessness and loneliness. Everything was going well until the day the Twilight Bridge fell apart, Ovan disappeared, and Shino got Triedged and put into a coma. It led him to become a selfish sociopathic manchild who didn't care about anything or anyone else. Constantly focused on one goal and boosting his own fragile ego. It was that way until the day he met Atoli who not only reminded him about his loss but also about how pathetic he is. He hated her with a burning passion for reminding him about failing to save Shino and because he thought that she was trying to replace Shino in his life. As he spent more and more time with her throughout the game he discovered how similar she is to him, her being a lonely, depressed, suicidal, and unaccepted teenage girl and all. She managed to change him as a person throughout the story and develop romantic feelings for her that were mutual this time around. They helped and fixed each other.
>>729209084lineage 2
>>729221554roleplayers being insufferable at all times is very common
>>729224348bamco doesn't think it's worth the money and rather pump out more slop sao games,doesn't help dot hack as a franchise has been dead for years too, there was some anniversary thing for the series like a year or two and all it got was like an artbook and some music collections
>>729225857Are the Sao games even any good?
>>729226394i think most people generally agree the fatal bullet is the best one
