Metal Gear and educational shit.

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Today, I'm giving a lecture at the Languaje School I attend to. We're given a general topic, and we can choose a subtopic. The topic I was expected to talk about is sutainability.

I was playing Peace Walker the other day, and listening to the tapes and conversations regarding Costa Rica and peaceful constitutions, something inside my head sprung, and I decided that I'm gonna talk about countries that had abolished their armed forces and were able to develop thanks to the money that they saved because of doing so.
I did some research and found out that Costa Rica is ranked among the first countries in the world in regards of enviromental sustainability!


And that's something that I love regarding Metal Gear games, and it is that I always learn something.
Regarding Peace Walker, I'm enjoying this new shit around Costa Rica, Japan's non nuclear principles, the JSDF, and all of that, as much as any other aspect of the game.

[Mr.Echo]

MGS1 taught me a shit load. I was 11 at the time so i knew basically jack-shit about world events

[Richter]

I was surprised at how many audio briefings there are about random stuff like Che Guevera etc. Then again this kind of thing was in the previous games too to some extent. It starts to become slighty banal when they are plugging Japan endlessly though.

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Yeah, it's kind of like, since they couldn't add codec conversations because of cooperative gameplay through the internet, they still added it before the mission.

I'm not that surprised that they talk about Japan so much. It is what the developers are acquainted with, after all. Also, take into account that talking about an army in Japan is still kind of a taboo there. So, for them, going into such detail about the JSDF is kind of shocking.

Oh, I blew my classmates away with my lecture. They were fascinated with the topic, and I got an A. I guess I owe Kojima one XD

[Richter]

[John]

1.) I found out who Che was (I saw pictures of him before, but I never knew his name.)
2.) Bay of Pigs Invasion
3.) Somoza and how much of a jerk he was to the Nicaraguans
4.) FDR, on Somoza; "Somoza may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch." (Then again I heard that he didn't actually say that. Some other guy did.)
5.) The number of nukes there were in the late 90's (never bothered to check on the current numbers. Have they increased? Decreased? Stayed the same?)
6.) I remember an explosive that was said to be designed to not blow up unless detonated. That's C4, right?
7.) Stuff about how heart attacks works
8.) Why it's recommended that I don't play games while I'm on a full stomach, or tired.
9.) PMCs actually exist
10.) So do nanomachines. They're just not as retarded in real-life as they are in the games.

Basically everything I know about the Cold War, I either learned from Snake Eater, Peace Walker, or MGS1.

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[Hairy Armpits]

[John]

Some more

11.) Ciphers
12.) The existence of chaff grenades
12.) The Single-Action Army revolver only carries six shots
13.) The Makarov carries eight shots
14.) How the Cuban Missile Crisis was resolved (no, not the explanation the game made up)
15.) Interesting scouting tips
16.) What kidneys do
17.) What the human genome project was

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I see your eight and I raise nine more:

18 ) the kurd massacre
19) that George Washinton was inaugurated at Federal Hall
20) the consequences of an EMP over Manhattan
21) the different flight phases of an ICBM
22) Gulf War syndrome
23) that antitank bullets carry enriched Uranium
24) some NY bridges that I didn't know (George Washinton, Verrazano)
25) Benzedrine
26) That Poison Dart Frogs are native to the tropical rain forests of Central and South America

[Jonathan]

27.) That you're naive if you buy into the idea of Pentazemin curing seasickness.

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[John]

I had to get a root canal last week and I was loaded up with "anesthetic" drugs injected into my face. I couldn't felt but think of the ANEST. initials for the tranq. ammo in MGS4.

[Overclockwise]

I learned from Kojima that black women can have blonde hair.

[Jonathan]