User:Twilight Duality

"It is Caturday. Catnarok is nigh. Where will you be?"

- Twilight Duality

Twilight Duality (AKA simply as Dual, his preferred internet handle.) is an editor on the .hack//Wiki. His main objective is to keep the Wiki as completely factual as possible and free of what he feels is baseless speculation that isn't backed up with hard evidence.

Project .hack
Dual's introduction to the .hack world was the original airing of .hack//SIGN on Cartoon Network. He has seen every episode of the series, (Though for the most part, out of order.) including the two OVA episodes, Intermezzo and Unison. His love for the series came mainly from the fact that it introduced him to the musical styles of Yuki Kajiura.

He purchased the first volume of the original four games when he was 15 after receiving a Playstation 2 for Christmas. It only took him a few months to complete all four installments, though this was done without fully completing the Book of 1000 in any of them.

Dual has seen every episode of the .hack//Legend of the Twilight anime during it's late-night weekend showings Cartoon Network, but the series had to be rerun several times over before he would finally be able to see all twelve episodes. Out of all three .hack anime, LotT is his least favorite due to the subliminal incestuous undertones throughout the series. He has also collected all three volumes of the Tokyopop translation of the manga.

Dual owns copies of both volumes 1 and 2 of .hack//AI buster, as well as the first three volumes of .hack//Another Birth.

.hack Conglomerate
Dual first learned of the release of the .hack//G.U. early on, but didn't follow along with news of the project and eventually forgot about it completely. It wasn't until his favorite anime fansubbing group, Shinsen-Subs, began working on the .hack//Roots anime that he once again became interested in the project. He began watching Shinsen-Subs releases of the series, even after he had learned that the first volume of .hack//G.U. had already been released in North America. He waited until Shinsen-Subs had translated all episodes of of Roots before going out and getting his copy of the game.

He finished the main story for all three volumes in the series within two weeks of purchasing them, and with the exception of Redemption, he has achieved 100% completion for each game. While initially being very impressed with the updated graphics and the improved battle system, he was very disappointed with the simplicity of the new Areas as well as the lack of diversity of the final party roster as compared to the original four games.

In addition to Roots, he has also seen the OVA episode .hack//G.U. Returner and the movie, .hack//G.U. TRILOGY. He has as of yet still not read any of the .hack Conglomerate's manga or light novels.

All in all, Dual very much dislikes the .hack Conglomerate for it's sloppy handling of the series, which is riddled with continuity errors and plot holes that simply make no sense at all.

.hack//G.U. Forums
Dual found the official .hack//G.U. Forum in early February of 2007. While initially only there searching for help in completing the Book of 1000 for Rebirth, he eventually became one of the most active members on the board. His sarcastic nature as well as his zero-tolerance stance on the treatment of n00bs and overall idiots eventually earned him a reputation as one of the board's "Unofficial Forum Jerks", a title he wore with pride in his signature in big, bold letters. In recent months though, he has removed the title from his signature, as it has proven to be somewhat of a liability.

Dual is also somewhat responsible for the creation of the board's RP Section, as he was the first person to speak out about the Random Thoughts section of the board being spammed up by RP threads.

Anime
Dual has been a fan of anime from around the time he was 5. Yet he has never considered himself an otaku, as he actually has a life. The first anime he recalls watching is the original English dub of Sailor Moon on daytime UPN. His favorite anime film to date is Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland, which he saw when he was 4, after playing Little Nemo: The Dream Master on the original Nintendo Entertainment System. (At the time, he did not know that the movie was anime, which is why he does not consider it his first.)

Up until the time he was 12 or so, Dual only watched mainstream anime dubs that he had seen on television, such as Pokemon. It was not until the debut of [adult swim] in September of 2001, and its subsequent airing of Cowboy Bebop, that he realized how watered down most anime were once they went through the harsh American censors, and started looking towards fan-subs and licensed dubs that were not aired on TV.

Video Games
Dual has always been a fan of video games. His first system was a used Nintendo Entertainment System, but unfortunately, by that time, the Nintendo 64 and Playstation had already become common place. It would still be a few years before Dual caught up with the rest of the world and got his own N64. Currently, Dual owns a Nintendo Wii and an onyx-colored DS Lite, as well as a thin PS2.

Dual's favorite genre of video game is fantasy-based RPGs, particularly ones that use a real-time hack-'n-slash battle system, such as the Legend of Zelda or Kingdom Hearts series.

In late March of 2008, Dual began playing his first MMORPG, Shaiya: Guidance of Goddess. He currently has three different PCs.