I just went to Leeds Meeples and it was totally, amazingly radwonderful. It was exactly what I needed as post-academic de-pressurisation - to sit with other nerds and just chill out while being myself. And as someone who doesn't get to socialise in person with big groups of other nerds often, it was amazing! I accidentally blurted out a Metal Gear reference in a game of Articulate (clue: "Outer ____?" Me: "HEAVEN") and people thought it was endearing rather than just confusing. And I absolutely WIPED THE FLOOR at Apples to Apples, which was pretty nice. All the people were absolutely lovely and put up with my overexcited post-college babbling with the utmost kindness. And the food was great, too. I had delicious roast vegetable cous-cous and a huge pot of gorgeous tea.


If you're in Leeds, and like board games, I really recommend it.

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I had to redo one of my pop tracks in the style of two combined pop tracks I was presented with (this and this). I don't like it as much as the original version I made when I had less idea what I was doing, but I'm posting it here to have some closure.

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I said I wasn't going to update this thing until I was done with all my college work but seriously who cares about that when a new Awkward Live Action Revengeance trailer is out.

Why does Solidus look and sound to be the same age as he is in MGS2 (when he's in his mid thirties but looks sixty) during a point in the timeline when he's sixteen?

Think about it like this. If Solidus aged twice as fast as an ordinary human, when he was sixteen, he'd look about thirty-two. Which is the same age as Snake (and Liquid) are in MGS1. So he'd look like that. NOT have a hilarious grey moustache. I think the actor's a really good build for his character, but there is no way that's even a magic rapid-ageing sixteen-year-old, seriously.

Other Solidus Facts - apparently he bites his nails? Also Raiden has very dark eyebrows although that's because they just slapped a blond wig on a kid (and not even an appropriately-coloured blond wig - a yellowy cosplay-coloured light blond, rather than off-white.)

I also have questions about why Solidus listens to circus music on his radio. And why he turned it on in the first place since he wasn't trying to block out any music. And why there's a circus-music music station in Liberia. Is it an underground movement? Are clowns an edgy teen subculture in MGS's stupid universe? Wouldn't Stuck In The Middle With You be more apropos? Couldn't they get the license?

And in other things they couldn't get the licence for, I am GLAD to see that one of the most important details in MGS2 (that Raiden's propaganda videos were actually 'Hollywood movies, the kind with macho guys and big guns... Image training') has been retconned out, along with every other important detail MGS2 used to make a point about basically anything. I understand paying to show footage of Rambo is hard when you can just use blurry royalty-free stock footage and flashing letters saying OBEY because videos like that would work on children in real life as well as making them believe they have to be Ahnold does, but come ON. That was basically the only meta thing MGS2 had left after MGS4 literalised its symbolism so much.


All this said I am unironically enjoying the cheesy live action bits and I would watch a whole game of it. Cheesy live action and Metal Gear are two tastes that go together deliciously well.

And while I hold by what I said before, John Cygan's Solidus voice is hammy and operatic and evil-statesman great. I love it.

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The fact that I decided from the first Metal Gear Rising Revengeance trailer not to care about MGRR is rather liberating. From apathy, I can get excited without it being as toxic as the hype I felt towards MGS4; the feeling of absolute excitement but also anticipation of an impending heartbreak. Instead, I'm just kind of chill and interested, and my feelings are wholly positive.

I can complain, if I so chose, about universe derailment, or Raiden's dodgy-looking characterisation, or the fetishisation of his extremely traumatic past as something that makes him badass, or the electric guitar riffs, but at the end of the day, what do I play MGS for?

If it's for a coherent and well-crafted narrative, I am in the wrong fandom, and while I love many of the characters most of them are just 'gears' in the mechanics of the plot who all speak with the exact same character-voice (Hideo Kojima's).

No, at the end of the day, I play MGS for the psychadelic sci-fi, video game meta and homoerotic fanservice and I honestly can't see Revengeance letting me down on any of those levels.


I suppose, thinking of it, Raiden's characterisation as he's shown thus far in Revengeance, while illogical from a human-development perspective, is closer fitting to the core of his original character concept. I don't mean that-Shinkawa-drawing-of-a-guy-who-crawled-around-on-all-fours-and-licked-birdshit original concept; I mean Raiden was always not supposed to represent a person, but a video game character. Raiden has no history, his feelings are ignored and he was initially meant to have no future. I suppose his behaviour in Revengeance is a representation of what video game characters have to be in the modern world - lurid and screamingly-violent. He's nothing like the introverted, thoughtful dork from Big Shell because silent protagonists are long gone. His development makes no sense in human terms, but Raiden was never meant to be a person and perhaps that's what rankled about his development in MGS4 for me.

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Pigeon Heart is a godforsaken mess and needs a lot of mixing TLC, so don't listen to it. I don't have time to faff around though.

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INT: Board room. A large Yoji Shinkawa pairing of Big Boss is on one wall, and the table is filled with Konami executives. At the head of the table, shrouded in darkness, stands a slim figure. He turns his head slowly, and the caption "Hideo Kojima (Hideo Kojima)" appears, because that is who his character and voice actor are.

EXECUTIVE: Mr Kojima, I would like to confirm. The figures, artworks and MGS3DS promo material are possible under currently existing technology. We have primed our marketers with nanomachines to heighten their efficiency and combat ability, and our designers have all been exposed to events that imprint upon them the personality of legendary designers from the past.

KOJIMA: Excellent. We will pass our marketing renders down through generations.

EXECUTIVE: But sooner or later... we will have to address the question.

(NOISE from the boardroom. KOJIMA's fists tighten in alarm.)

KOJIMA: The question. ...A dilemma, made by ignoring the MEME carried throughout all of history. Should have known it would come to haunt me.

EXECUTIVE: You are well known for your hatred of spoilers, Mr Kojima?

KOJIMA: That's a reputation I'm familiar with.

EXECUTIVE: But you are also aware that sex sells.

KOJIMA: Yes. It's the oldest law of all.

EXECUTIVE: So why? Why did you choose to inscribe a major MGS3 spoiler across the main female character's breasts?

(NOISE, once again, from the boardroom. KOJIMA wipes sweat from his brow, teeth clenched.)

EXECUTIVE: There is no answer. There is no end, and no beginning, to the paradox that you have created. We have to make the decision, now.

(WHITE FLOWER PETALS fill the air in the boardroom. The music swells into a noble french horn motif. The EXECUTIVE launches into a fighting stance.)

EXECUTIVE: Mr Kojima! Tell me what's most important to you. Your respectability, or your desire to be heard? Your integrity as a story teller, or your responsibility as a salesman? Your desire to avoid spoilers, or your desire to see tits?

(CLOSE-UP on KOJIMA's face as a smirk begins to cross his shocked features.)

KOJIMA: (Laughs.)

This is an abysmally stupid post about fanSorting Hatoful pigeons into Potter houses and I'm only posting it to get it out of my system.

Ryouta is the Hufflepuffingest Hufflepuff ever. Not even up for debate. I think Kazuaki is also a Hufflepuff even considering the thing we find out about him in BBL, because even those actions were motivated by Hufflepuff-like forces of dedication, loyalty and feeling like he hadn't worked hard enough. He wasn't motivated by chivalry or higher ideals to do what he did, like a Gryffindor would be - just personal hurt on behalf of someone else. And he had no interest in self-glorification through his actions. Ravenclaw is the other serious consideration since he's a learned eccentric, but from what we see of his lessons his primary concern is teaching his students through personal connection and his mathematical talent is something that comes naturally and effortlessly to him rather than something he chose through intelligence, and what he does in BBL isn't a very Ravenclaw thing to do.

Sakuya is obviously a Slytherin, but I'm going to go out on a wing and say Yuuya is as well. That Thing He Did For Sakuya was certainly more about his own personal glory than actually being for Sakuya, and he's manipulative and engages in subterfuge. He could just be a really sneaky Gryffindor but I like the idea of him and Sakuya sharing a house more.

Shuu is Ravenclaw. Even his evillest actions aren't committed with any real malice, just scientific interest. I'm going to put Oko San in Ravenclaw as well, even though he's an idiot, because his whole path is about seeking true knowledge for its own sake rather than for his own personal glorification.

Anghel is obviously a Gryffindor. Going to put Nageki in Gryffindor as well because Ravenclaw is far too easy, and because in BBL he sticks so firmly to his convictions of what's right, freely confronts Hitori and because of what he was willing to do to himself to defend other birdies.




they're birds

and i'm failing my degree

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My name is SnitchWolf17442. I have a brittle, dragoncore, beech, 12 3/4 inch wand, and my familiar is a harlequin toad.

I am also a Hufflepuff.








.....Why.

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