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With Echoes of Aincrad drawing near (and I wait for a possibity for a switch 2 release), I had a thought:

The whole point of Kirito's act was to put distance between beta testers in general and those that abandoned the player base day one like Kirito.

Not sure if the anime changed this slightly, or you missed it, but she is completely oblivious that he's asking her out here.

guy: *sitting besides the wall from rain, looking pensive*

I find it interesting that a good cunk of issues that Sao has are mainly do to the anime cutting content from the lite novel or not explaining it well

Agility and strength are the only stats in SAO, and Kirito is more of a strength build. He does not have maxed stats.

Unironically almost ate a whole pint of ice cream while trying to remember what the clusterfuck solution was to the murder mystery episode in Sword Art Online in comparison to SAO:Abridged's like 15min solution.

They were using the fact that the shattering animation of dying and item durability running out looked the same.

Okay i had a vague memory of something like that but then the thing is how did they teleport away when the item durability ran out

Maybe if you actually read the writing and not just shit on it you'd know?

Unironically almost ate a whole pint of ice cream while trying to remember what the clusterfuck solution was to the murder mystery episode in Sword Art Online in comparison to SAO:Abridged's like 15min solution.

They were using the fact that the shattering animation of dying and item durability running out looked the same.

thinking about eugeo (yes again) and i will never get over the fact that when hes like Cardinal turn me into a sword so i can kill myself while being useful its the only way. kirito is so genuinely dismayed at the notion of 'but if he does that and can't transform back, then what about his happy ending with alice that all of this has been for!'

He would retrieve Alice’s memories and return to Rulid Village with her. That was Eugeo’s only wish for the longest time. However, he felt he no longer had the right to hold on to that hope now that he had been deluded by the highest minister’s words, put on an integrity knight’s armor, and turned his sword upon Kirito—and Alice, too—even if it was only temporarily

There existed players that specifically just did tailoring as a profession. The canon version of Mito is actually a character named Ashleigh referred to in the series multiple times who was a seamstress. You can do more than just alter, you can create clothing and armor just like you can create weapons.

Kikouka had already realized what they'd actually done when Kirito contacts the outside though.

The idea that the Abridged had development that the original doesn't is why most of the SAO fandom doesn't care for it.

Trapped in a video game was never the concept of SAO, it's always been about the blurring of reality and virtual reality. The one shot was written with the idea of "what if people were forced to treat virtual reality as reality" And the series has consistently explored those ideas for over twenty years.