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Snake, it’s Colonel Copywriter. I’m responsible for writing the copy for every product in the world. Have you heard of a podcast called The Worst of All Possible Worlds? They do weekly case studies in the pop culture of a dying empire. And this week, they’re talking about YOU, Snake. Specifically, the Shadow Moses Incident. They’ve even brought on their good friend Manu (Podcast Sans Frontieres, NotACast) to gab about everything from The End of History to how close you come to smooching your clone-brother. The episodes are a lot of fun, Snake, even if they can get a bit irreverent from time to time. You should give it a listen. Also, you can pause the podcast at any time by pressing the pause button.

Manu: Bluesky

Podcast Sans Frontieres: A Metal Gear Solid analysis podcast.

NotACast: is the one true chapter by chapter podcast going through A Song of Ice and Fire one chapter a week. Hosted by ASOIAF losers ... er, experts PoorQuentyn and ManuclearBomb, this is the place where you can get your ASOIAF fix with weekly episodes that dive deep into each chapter in the book series -- giving special attention to theme, story, plot, character, theories and literary analysis. We also call Renly a godless terrorist who was brought to justice. 

Media Referenced in this Episode:

Metal Gear

Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake

Metal Gear Solid

“Metal Gear Solid - 1997 Developer Interview” by Famitsu Weekly. Translated by Shmuplations.

TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: Patreon // brendan-dalton.com // brendandalton.bandcamp.com

Interstitial: “The Tapioca Incident” // Written by A.J. Ditty // feat. A.J. Ditty as “Master/Liquid/Colonel” and Josh Boerman as “Snake.”

Episode edited by Brian Alford. Interstitial edited by A.J. Ditty. Produced by Josh Boerman, A.J. Ditty, and Brian Alford. This podcast was recorded under a SAG-AFTRA Agreement.

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Robert P

Aw yeah banger episode incoming

FelineJay

Kept us waiting, huh?

OleKyShark

Haven't even listened yet but YEAHHHHHHHHHHH

Ajusco Huerta

My snake solid, my gear metal, and my podcast the worst possible. Black and white till I die ¡Viva the Southside, Viva la Villita!

NowhereMan661

I know that you said not to talk about later additions to the continuity, but the original Big Boss actually being Venom Snake is one of the most compelling meta twists I've ever seen in a video game. He's not really Big Boss, but he's actually the truest Big Boss.

Zipzapzop

Just like my American podcasts

Argent You Glad I Didn't Say Banana

I think a big part of why visual novels didn't really hit it off until the ds era was more to do with the restrictions and difficulties they had translating the more meaningfully dense kanji into English words and letters on the hardware available at the time. I know you guys talked about Pokemon forever ago but I recall it coming up in that too to explain why the English translations of the early games were so... Esoteric.

Gil the Gilded Dragon

At 53 you could just have said "it's where the military grade fursuits are kept "

NowhereMan661

It's a Japanese action stealth game series created by Hideo Kojima and developed by Konami. The first game, the titular "Metal Gear", was released in 1987 for the MSX home computer. In it, you play and Solid Snake, a special forces soldier tasked with finding the Metal Gear, a walking Mecha with the ability to launch nuclear missiles.

Gil the Gilded Dragon

In fact Tapioca is poisonous unless properly fermented or mashed through the correct filters

Derek W

Interstitial is perfectly demented, as good as the best Tap Tap.

Theodora

MSX eh.....plus that outer wilds episode a while back......................sounds like you guys need to do a la mulana episode.......................

Charlie Lightning

You won, I subscribed. I get the Bad ending now.

Amanda Denny

I am so glad that someone out there other than me remembers that Eifel 65 song! It worms its way from the recesses of my brain every now and then and I've never met another person who knew what song I was talking about.

Flippy

Possible Worlds?

tristan

Nice little snack after those players club ep lengths

Trojan Zebra

Setting my ringtone to LiquidDies.wav

Gil the Gilded Dragon

The book "Shameless: The canine and the femenine in ancient greece" might be of interest to Manu, it explores certain semiotic constelations of ambivalence that echo even to now

Hunter Big Johnson

Nothing getting frisson/nostalgia knuckle sandwich listening to THAT song I some how forgotten. Boom baby the Playstation all day!!

Typhoon Jim

Thinking of MGS reminds me of a good memory of an old friend. I was playing through specifically to get the otacon ending, and this friend had just come downstairs as Snake and Otacon were having their final talk. When they got to the Hal and Dave line and said maybe they could go to Jupiter together, my friend exclaimed "OR PERHAPS URANUS, BABY" and went back upstairs

OleKyShark

I'm not to ant sniper wolf parts yet but I wanted to comment this now: I've cheesed her by killing her with Nikita missiles before.

Em Gravesong

I like shorts. They're comfy and easy to wear!

Superuser

That and because VNs were and are, well, weeby to the extreme, even in Japan. They often have weird sexual themes and an overstuffing of anime tropes that will guarantee a side-eye if you whip one out on a public train in Tokyo.

YOU

Someone once monologued the whole lore backstory of MGS to me over dinner in about the same runtime as this podcast episode. I’m buckled up.

Josephine

Cornel this is just like my worst of all possible worlds podcast

I simp for pigeons

1:09:something, did I only just now realize that the "legend" of solid snake is just a rock hard dick joke? 😅 poor depressed snake. 🥲

Korax

RIDGE RACER ODDWORLD WINNING ELEVEN THE GAMES ON THE PLAYSTATION

Witting Seanchai

Having never played a metal gear game I have no way of knowing whether the interstitial was actual cut content or that was just a framing device

Christopher Casuga

…so I couldn’t possibly have been the only person listening to this episode and repeating every proper noun with an interrogative tone, right? RIGHT???

Hercules

interrogative tone, huh?

Hercules

Yes… Ha ha ha… Yes!

The *suspiciously* woman-shaped Biomech MAD-3R

Yes, Snake, Nuclear Missiles are long-ranged missile weapons carrying one or more large nuclear weapons as payload. They are intended to be used as strategic weapons, able to destroy entire cities with one strike, but this capability makes them dangerous, and controversial.

Elizabeth Power

I don’t think I’ve ever heard the word “indiginaity” before. Cool!

MG

Game recommendation: Hyperlight Drifter

LogalogJack

Man this sniper wolf fight sounds awful. Can’t believe she still got invited to creator summit this year after all that

Foxxtale

Im from the DC area and we have a convention called Otakon. Apparently Prof Otacon was named after the co mention, and hearing "Just like my Japanese anime" hit even harder because of it.

Mesus Frist, Undead Legend

the timing of this episode, my god. my husband is a HUGE MGS fan, and it is one of our running jokes that I always have to ask him to explain what the fuck is happening as I watch him play. We also do this with the Duneiverse, Mortal Kombat/Street Fighter lore, and anything with anime. he self-admitted himself into the hospital on Thursday for a mental health crisis, and I loved and appreciated being able to listen to this episode and laugh along with the silliness of these games while I was driving all over the place to bring him clothes from home. thank you for being my escape from how hard the real world is right now 💖

Funder

I don’t usually comment in the middle of listening, but I hope y’all go back to how fucking *toxic* the premise of “a soldier can never stop being a soldier” is. That premise in such an influential game has got to have *fucked up* a bunch of GWOT veterans. Snake is the embodiment of “men will do anything rather than go to therapy.”

Reuben Sandwich

I remember hearing somewhere that a Decoy Octopus boss fight was originally planned but it got cut due to the technical limitations of the PS1 - hence why he appears in the manual, briefing etc. like all the other bosses, but isn’t fought like them.

Mac M

Rewatched the MGS cutscene movie after listening to this, and I noticed that Cam Clarke was credited as "James Flinders" in Liquid Snake's first appearance. I looked this up and from what I could find online, he was in a 1974 stage production of Saturday's Warrior (I think as Jimmy)? That was an unexpected discovery. I probably wouldn't have made the connection if I hadn't listened to the Saturday's Warrior TWoaPW episode recently. Great ep for an excellent game. I hope we'll see more MGS series episodes in the future!

brodie

Cannot wait for you guys to get to ground zeros. It's fucking incredible