Unable to make the perfect recreation, Luckey opted for explosive modular charges. He tied them to a narrow-band photo sensor that detects the headset views a specific red screen that flashes at a specific frequency. “When an appropriate game-over screen is displayed, the charges fire, instantly destroying the brain of the user,” Luckey said.
Even if I roll with the premise, this seems like an entirely dumb way to do it. Oh woops your graphics card glitched out wrong, you're dead now, through no fault of your own. How fucking hard can it be to read some data out of the game, my G15 Keyboard did that like a decade ago
The whole premise of willingly putting your life in the hands of technology hinges on the fact that tech will always work all the time, that there will not be bugs, updates, power black outs or surges, etc.
The fan edit Sword Art Abridged has a scene where one of the MC's friends lags out in a dungeon and gets killed because she lived in a rural area and had a bad connection.
The abridged version played that for laughs but similar things happened in the original as well; they mentioned that lots of people who lived alone ended up dying because there was no one to care for them.
Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
Even if I roll with the premise, this seems like an entirely dumb way to do it. Oh woops your graphics card glitched out wrong, you're dead now, through no fault of your own. How fucking hard can it be to read some data out of the game, my G15 Keyboard did that like a decade ago
The whole premise of willingly putting your life in the hands of technology hinges on the fact that tech will always work all the time, that there will not be bugs, updates, power black outs or surges, etc.
The fan edit Sword Art Abridged has a scene where one of the MC's friends lags out in a dungeon and gets killed because she lived in a rural area and had a bad connection.
The abridged version played that for laughs but similar things happened in the original as well; they mentioned that lots of people who lived alone ended up dying because there was no one to care for them.
It's been a long time since I watched the original version tbh, I watch abridged maybe once a year though.