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Napalm_Frank

Avenger
Oct 27, 2017
5,764
Finland
That's right. George Washington took office as the first president of the United States of America 200 years ago today. And it happened right here. We were going to declare another independence -- the dawn of a new nation -- here. The end of the Patriots' secret rule, liberation of this country -- this was where it was supposed to begin, this is where freedom could have been born.

Jack, it's not power I want. What I want is to take back from the Patriots are things like -- freedom, civil rights, opportunities. The founding principles of this country. Everything that's about to be wiped out by their digital censorship.

Jack, listen to me. We're all born with an expiration date. No one lasts forever. Life is nothing but a grace period -- for turning our genetic material into the next generation.

The data of life is transferred from parent to child. That's how it works. But we have no heirs, no legacy. Cloned from our father with the ability to reproduce conveniently engineered out. What is our legacy if we cannot pass the torch? Proof of our existence --a mark of some sort.

When the torch is passed on from parent to child... It extends beyond DNA, information is imparted as well.

All I want is to be remembered. By other people, by history. The Patriots are trying to protect their power, their own interests, by controlling the digital flow of information. I want my memory, my existence to remain. Unlike an intron of history, I will be remembered as an exon. That will be my legacy, my mark on history. But the Patriots would deny us even that, I will triumph over the Patriots, and liberate us all. And we will become the "Sons of Liberty"!
 

julia crawford

Took the red AND the blue pills
Member
Oct 27, 2017
35,912
So what you're saying is that we are a unit of information. That somehow has its own life that we pass on to our descendants. Like it's uh.... kind of like a gene. But another word.
 

BasilZero

Member
Oct 25, 2017
36,661
Omni
The interaction was amazing.

Did not expect it when watching it lol

Need to get the collection so I can experience the game again, its my favorite of the first 3 Solid games.
 

Grunty

Member
Oct 28, 2017
7,656
Gruntilda’s Lair
The interaction was amazing.

Did not expect it when watching it lol

Need to get the collection so I can experience the game again, its my favorite of the first 3 Solid games.

Well this all makes much more sense now. Haven't played Metal Gear and reading the post I was confused and then even more confused when I realized I was on the gaming side and not etcetera. Your post clears it all up haha
 

Strings

Member
Oct 27, 2017
31,767
To begin with, we're not what you'd call 'human'. Over the past two hundred years, a kind of consciousness formed layer by layer in the crucible of the White House. It's not unlike the way life started in the oceans four billion years ago. The White House was our primordial soup, a base of evolution. We are formless. We are the very discipline and morality that Americans invoke so often. How can anyone hope to eliminate us? As long as this nation exists, so will we.

Don't you know that our plans have your interests -- not ours - in mind?

The mapping of the human genome was completed early this century. As a result, the evolutionary log of the human race lay open to us. We started with genetic engineering, and in the end, we succeeded in digitizing life itself. But there are things not covered by genetic information. Human memories, ideas. Culture. History. Genes don't contain any record of human history. Is it something that should not be passed on? Should that information be left at the mercy of nature? We've always kept records of our lives. Through words, pictures, symbols... From tablets to books... But not all the information was inherited by later generations. A small percentage of the whole was selected and processed, then passed on. Not unlike genes, really.

But in the current, digitized world, trivial information is accumulating every second, preserved in all its triteness. Never fading, always accessible. Rumors about petty issues, misinterpretations, slander... All this junk data preserved in an unfiltered state, growing at an alarming rate. It will only slow down social progress, reduce the rate of evolution.

You seem to think that our plan is one of censorship. What we propose to do is not to control content, but to create context. The digital society furthers human flaws and selectively rewards the development of convenient half-truths. Just look at the strange juxtapositions of morality around you. Billions spent on new weapons in order to humanely murder other humans. Rights of criminals are given more respect than the privacy of their victims. Although there are people suffering in poverty, huge donations are made to protect endangered species. Everyone grows up being told the same thing. Be nice to other people... But beat out the competition! You're special. Believe in yourself and you will succeed. But it's obvious from the start that only a few can succeed...

You exercise your right to 'freedom' and this is the result. All rhetoric to avoid conflict and protect each other from hurt. The untested truths spun by different interests continue to churn and accumulate in the sandbox of political correctness and value systems. Everyone withdraws into their own small gated community, afraid of a larger forum. They stay inside their little ponds, leaking whatever truth suits them into the growing cesspool of society at large. The different cardinal truths neither clash nor mesh. No one is invalidated, but nobody is right. Not even natural selection can take place here. The world is being engulfed in 'truth.'

And this is the way the world ends. Not with a bang, but a whimper.

We're trying to stop that from happening. It's our responsibility as rulers. Just as in genetics, unnecessary information and memory must be filtered out to stimulate the evolution of the species. Who else could wade through the sea of garbage you people produce, retrieve valuable truths and even interpret their meaning for later generations?

That's what it means to create context.
 
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Damn Silly

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Oct 25, 2017
7,250
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Oct 27, 2017
6,042
I was hoping someone would make this thread this year.

Every time I looked at the date yesterday Rose's voice would pop into my head asking "Do you know what day tomorrow is?"
 

BasilZero

Member
Oct 25, 2017
36,661
Omni
Well this all makes much more sense now. Haven't played Metal Gear and reading the post I was confused and then even more confused when I realized I was on the gaming side and not etcetera. Your post clears it all up haha

No problem lol

Highly recommend playing it

I played the series for the first time back in 2017 through the metal gear solid legacy collection on ps3

Played 1, 2, 3, 4 and peace Walker back to back

2 is my favorite and I love 1 and 3.

Peacewalker was great too and 4 is my least favorite 😂
 

JustinH

Member
Oct 27, 2017
10,478
That's right. George Washington took office as the first president of the United States of America 200 years ago today. And it happened right here. We were going to declare another independence -- the dawn of a new nation -- here. The end of the Patriots' secret rule, liberation of this country -- this was where it was supposed to begin, this is where freedom could have been born.
Whoa! This is actually true (well, the 30APR part. >200 years now...)?

I just had in my mind always the 20th of January, but I guess that didn't start until the 20th amendment.

Lol, sorry. I don't really have anything cool to say. I can't remember jack about MGS2.
 
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Suede

Gotham's Finest
Member
Oct 28, 2017
12,724
Scotland
Jack didn't even have anything in his bedroom, just a bed and a small desk. It looked like a prison cell. 😭
 

BossAttack

Member
Oct 27, 2017
43,331
A true patriot died this day and the greatest President this country has ever had. RIP George Sears.

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