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  • Uh… oh god, time to attempt to correctly remember Metal Gear lore…

    But before all that, broadly, no, in MGS 3 you are not a clone reliving the life of an original, ala some kind of Assassin’s Creed type mechanism, nor is there anything like ‘lol it was all a dream you were in a coma’.

    In MGS 3 you are just a dude, a US spec ops dude… eventually many clones are made from ‘you’, Naked Snake/Big Boss, but no, ‘you’ are not a clone, you are not just literally in a dream/coma or anything like that.

    Your confusion, if you’ve only played 3, may be from… throughout basically all of MGS 3, ‘you’ are Naked Snake, and another character is ‘The Boss’.

    Yeah.

    And then, Naked Snake later becomes, changes his name to ‘Big Boss’, out of respect for ‘The Boss’.

    Confused yet rofl?

    The ‘time paradox’ thing is something that happens in a lot of MGS games when you die… because the games did not come out in the same order the actual story line takes place in.

    Sorta like how Episodes 1 2 3 of Star Wars came out after Episodes 4 5 6, but they are all prequels.

    So if Anakin died in Episode 3, welp thats a time paradox because now 4 5 6 don’t have a Darth Vader anymore.

    Chronological timeline of Metal Gear games:

    MGS 3

    MGS Peace Walker

    Ground Zeroes (MGS 5 prequel / demo / teaser)

    MGS 5

    Metal Gear

    Metal Gear 2

    MGS 1

    MGS 2

    MGS 4

    … The two Metal Gear games, before the ‘Solid’ got added on, were 2D, top down/isometric, not 3D.

    Solid = 3D or something, I don’t know, Kojima is a madman.

    What you are describing sounds more like MGS5… but… yeah you’re going with some person’s theorycrafting, not the… actual things that happen.

    Ok, here goes an attempt at explaining MGS 5/V, apologies if this sounds insane, blame Hideo Kojima.

    MGS V spoilers

    So, very broadly, in MGSV/5, you start the game in a coma. You are apparently Big Boss, from MGS 3, same character, roughly 20 years later.

    But… you actually aren’t Big Boss.

    You are literally a random medic who was part of Big Boss’s crew.

    Both of you were sent into comas by the same explosion roughly 9 years ago, both of you woke up at around the same time, and the real Big Boss was actually a guy fully wrapped in bandages, who helps you escape the hospital you wake up in in the first act or intro to the game.

    But also, whilst comatose, you, the player character, actually had plastic surgery, to make you into his doppleganger… and basically this works, your prior memories are fucked, everyone from Big Boss’s outfit thinks you are Big Boss, and treats you as such, and you thus basically believe you are him, and thus act as… your conception of him / new identity dictates.

    But at the same time… you do still do all of the shit you do, basically everyone other than the bandaged guy… thinks you are Big Boss, so, you are, lol.

    Thus, its not a ‘it was all a dream’ fake out… its a … call it a meditation on the power of illusion/delusion, as well as the potential to become or do really anything, should you believe in yourself strongly enough.

    More mechanistically, this ‘solves’ a ‘plot hole’ in the MGS timeline, that of Big Boss being killed by Naked Snake (who is actually a clone, but again, does real things) before the time of MGS 4, which is set in the… 2030s I think?

    So, uh, nope, Naked Snake did not actually kill Big Boss, he killed MGSV/5’s not-actually-Big-Boss-but-everyone-thinks-he-is… and that is how the real Big Boss is able to be alive at the end of MGS4.

    … I did try to warn you how fucking bonkers MGS is lol.

    Do you get why the game’s secondary title is ‘Phantom Pain’, lol?

    Kojima loves to do this shit, double meanings, nested metaphors, etc.

    Yeah, you literally have ‘phantom pain’ because you lost a limb. But you are also literally a phantom, a fake, unreal but also real person, who has to just… live with that pain, because your whole team is counting on you.

    And also the real Big Boss more or less disappears into becoming another kind of phantom, to escape from his life as a super soldier… and he has to live with the pain of knowing what he did, to you, the player character, to allow that to work… both he and ‘you’ can never discuss any of this, with anyone.






  • These are good examples but you’ve done your spoiler tags wrong.

    ::: sp0iler ‘visible text’

    ‘hidden text’

    :::

    replace the 0 with an o

    linebreaks matter, the closing ::: should be on its own line, and you should have empty lines above and below the hidden body text, created by hitting return/enter.

    you also have to have a ‘visible text’ even if its just a space, ’ ', on the first line, otherwise what you probably intend to be your ‘hidden text’ will instead be your ‘visible text’, and your spoiler box will open to just being empty.


  • No its not MGS3.

    MGS3 takes place in the 1960s, entirely in the real world, computers are not really generally a thing yet, the ending is a twist, but not a ‘it was all a dream and none of this really happened’ kind of twist.

    MGS2 starts with virtual training, but … then the actual plot happens, in the real world.

    There are also additional VR challenge levels… but they are clearly demarcated as such, they were designed with a scoring system so people could compete over high scores.

    And also character development happens in the virtual world, in the early tutorial levels.

    MGS games are like the perfect opposite of ‘nothing happens’, a whole fucking lot happens and it is so wild and intricate and absurd that if you wanted to understand the entire ‘plot’ of all of MGS, you’re looking at bare minimum a 4 hour lore video.

    Also, there is apparently some confusion from a 20 year old Kojima quote about the Big Shell all being VR in MGS2.

    So, for starters, if you take that very literally, well then its obviously been retconned, other games and characters treat it as if it did actually happen.

    But, if you are a bit more expansive with your understanding of a ‘virtual reality’… well that means a world constructed by computers.

    Not to spoil too much, but uh, some computers orchestrated the real world to cause much of Big Shell to play out the way it did.

    Thus, in a sense, it is a virtual reality, sort of like how if you live in a digital information silo or hugbox of some kind… then you are also experiencing a virtual reality of a kind.






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    no cap man fr fr, gotta recognize the w’s when you get em, appreciate you gassin’ me up!

    low key, you gotta lay off that brainrot addiction a bit, replace it with just a dash, a little sprinkle of linguistic hyperfixation, as well as healthy downtime, contemplation, and then a lot of those jokes and memes? they just hit different.

    (uh, uh, ok, imagine this comment also overlay bordered with subway surfers or something)

    (up to you to determine if the meta irony of that is intentional or not)







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    I mean, there’s no way of knowing with any certainty from this image alone whether or not the guy is tending the fire competently…

    But it is actually not as simple as ‘just throw on another log’.

    How long do you want the fire to burn?

    How hot do you want the fire to burn?

    Do you have an accelerant, or no?

    Is your timber and kindling very dry or very wet?

    Is your timber and kindling going to need to burn through bark or not?

    How sappy is your timber and kindling?

    How hot or cold or windy is it, is it expected to become?

    All these things and more can and do affect the initial layout of the campfire, how to adjust it and maintain it to keep it going at the rate and intensity you want it to, especially if the desired goal state of the fire changes, and/or environmental conditions change or are expected to change significantly.

    Anyway, the ‘joke’ could be more or less racially based.

    I’d say yeah, you probably are more likely to find a random white guy that uh… knows all the stuff I just previously said, but thats because a random white guy (in the US, at least) is more likely to have come from a family that could afford camping trips, could send their kids to the scouts or something.

    (This is basically the same root behind the ‘black people don’t know how to swim’ uh, ‘joke’.)

    (Yep, turns out you’re more likely to learn how to swim if your parents could afford to / were not segregated out of living in a community with access to pools or beaches)

    Again though, there’s no real way from the given context to determine… whether or not the image was made by someone aware of this, and is referencing that…

    … or if they’re just making a very basic, pithy, uninformed, surface level observation…

    or somewhere in between this.

    There could also be an element of sexism to the ‘joke’, if you interperet ‘and I respect that’ as completely sarcastic, sort of going along with your interpretation.

    ‘Oh, clearly this dude doesn’t know what he’s doing, he’s just trying to look like he knows what he’s doing.’

    So yeah, if your ‘joke’ is possibly racist, possibly sexist, unclear about whether or not it actually is, and generally illicits confusion when it is described or explained as a joke…

    Then uh, I agree with you, its not a very good joke.

    Also, to perhaps clarify younger / more modern slang:

    ‘really fucks with’, to maybe a millenial or older, would mean that you keep consistently interfering with or engaging with some person or process or activity.

    But! To Gen Z / A, ‘really fucks with’ is closer to… ‘spends their time’ or ‘engages at all’ or even ‘is seriously dedicated to’.

    Like if I asked a Gen A if they knew person A, they could respond, ‘No, I don’t really fuck with person A’.

    And that would basically mean that they don’t know them that well, or at all.

    Whereas if a millenial or older person said ‘I don’t really fuck with person A’… that would be more like a denial of bullying or harassing them.

    The Gen Z/A usage of ‘fucks with’ is much more morally/intent neutral, wheras the Millenial/Older usage is more morally/intent negative.