Metal Gear Ura Topics

A Collection Of Silliness
Mullet. Snake's appearance, with his unshaved beard and uncut hair, has been directly referred to as the long-time manga/anime/literary staple of "無精髭 bushyouhige" and "無精髪 bushyougami". Roughly "no energy beard" and "no energy hairstyle". I am not the one who's saying this, by the way, Director Kojima was the one who explained this about Snake's appearance. Frequently, at the beginning of the release of MGS2. The unshaven beard and uncut hair image was done purposefully to represent Snake's temperament of not caring about appearances because he doesn't care much about the details of life. And the "無精 bushyou" thing is always used to represent a bachelor, who since he doesn't have a girl to worry about, is free to let his appearance go wild. The concept of "mullet" actually doesn't exist in Japanese culture, as far as I have ever known. The term in fact does not exist in the dictionary. It kind of exists in the form of "ムレット muretto" and "マレット maretto", which spelling being the standard one is not agreed upon, or cared about for that matter. It simply isn't a relevant enough subject. There are some non-Japanese people who think that what's known as the "ウルフヘア wolf hair" is a mullet, but it is actually a different hairstyle. Similar, but different. So what Solid Snake has is the "無精髪 bushyougami/energyless hairstyle", and not the "mullet". Big Boss is still alive. The man is dead, get over it. Related, it is not Big Boss in MGS3, but Solid Snake. Prior to the game's release, apparently there was a dedicated group of people who insisted it wasn't Big Boss in MGS3. I completely sympathize, I wanted it to be Solid Snake too, but more than a year before release I already accepted it must be Big Boss, it is clear to anyone whose logic isn't clouded by their fondness of Solid Snake, so this one really wasn't that much a case of misunderstanding, but more of a case of stubborness. At least that's how I prefer to figure it, otherwise I would have to admit there are in fact people that foolish and willing to ignore evidence and logic. I've been often complimented about my "Great MGS3 Prediction!" from May of 2003, approximately a year and a half before the game's release, when there weren't really that much information released yet about the game. It's kind of fun to read backwards in time. Funny even. Now, with the above out of the way, it is my understanding that there are still quite a few players, who after playing the MGS3 game, still didn't make the connection that they were playing as Big Boss. About this, I can not come up with a settling explanation to fool myself into thinking there aren't people this foolish. Or is it just me? I sure hope not. Snake doesn't like knives. The original term used is "刃物", "hamono". Literally translated at face definition, the two words mean "bladed object(s)". But the actual definition of the term really means "sword(s)", and not the tiny little knife Naked Snake used. So really, when Solid Snake said "blades" are not his interest, he was referring to long katana/sword blades, and not short military knives. Vamp and water. See also topic "Dead Cell, 死の細胞, Cell of Death". I'll simply state the only single important factor here. Vamp only died once in the entire game of MGS2, and once of anything is not enough to demonstrate or establish the identification of any kind of pattern. Kuwabara kuwabara means... Anything other than the following explanation is simply silly, and I've seen some doozies. Here's the actual correct definition of the "桑原, 桑原 kuwabara, kuwabara" chant: 桑原 Kuwabara is the 平安 Heian Era name of a region in Japan governed by 菅原道真 Sugawara Michizane. 菅原道真 Sugawara Michizane/Doushin, 6/25/845AD ～ 2/25/903AD, scholar and politician. Highest rank reached 右大臣 Udaijin (899AD), a near top position of the highest government institution under 醍醐天皇 Emperor Daigo. 901AD, because of false accusation of treason and defection, stripped of title and lowered in rank to 大宰権帥 Dazaifugonnosochi. Afterwards died with dissatisfaction in heart in 九州 Kyushu. After his death, Emperor Daigo's sons started dying of illness one after another, and the palace was frequently struck by lightning. It was believed at the time that Doushin became a thunder god after he died, and all the abnormal occurrences in the palace were brought upon by his vengeance. 932AD April, regranted position of 右大臣 Udaijin, more out of political reasons than mystical reasons. Legend has it, that during the time frequent lightnings struck various provinces of Japan, only the territory governed by Doushin, the 桑原 Kuwabara region, was exempt from lightning attacks. And thus the name of the region became a spell people said during thunderstorms to avoid being struck by lightning. Mr Sigint = Darpa Chief Donald Anderson. Now this one is just silly. The two have completely different profiles, different ages, and are just two different characters. Trying to make them the same is just too silly to even try to consider. According to his radio screen personal data, Sigint's birthdate is 11/11/1939. That would make him, at the time of Shadow Moses (2/2005), 66 years old going on 67. Donald Anderson was in his 50's at Shadow Moses. They are just not the same person. Solid Snake is named David because of the English voice over actor David Hayter. The original Japanese script was written and recorded long before the English voice over actors were even cast. And the name "David" was decided even longer before that. David Hayter's name being "David", the same as Solid Snake, was simply a coincidence. Mr Hayter's first name had nothing to do with anything. The real inspiration of the name David came from the movie "2001 A Space Odyssey", with the HAL-9000 computer being the inspiration for Hal Emmerich, and the spaceship Discovery being the inspiration for the tanker USS Discovery. (MGS2 Production Background Notes.) Big Boss' name is "William Morgan". It all started when in Metal Gear 2, George Kasler said during a radion conversation, "Big Boss is a military genius on par with William Morgan." I do remember a very old controversy about some people mistaking "William Morgan" as either Big Boss or Solid Snake's real name. This was caused by MG2 never being officially translated into English, and some unofficial English translations mistranslated the above radio message. This controversy never happened in Japanese gaming circles, it was only in English gaming circles. The same as the "mullet" controversy. Related, Snake's last name is "Morgan". Someone said he or she remembered Snake saying something like "call me Morgan". But this is not true, it just spread. David Morgan. There is no "la li lu le lo" in the Japanese alphabet and/or Japanese people can't pronounce "la li lu le lo". This is just so silly I don't even know what to say. First of all, yes, "la li lu le lo" does exist in the Japanese language. Here it is : "らりるれろ". And though it is written in English alphabet as "ra ri ru re ro", it is actually not "ra ri ru re ro", but is in fact "la li lu le lo". "らりるれろ" is written on paper as "ra ri ru re ro", but it is not pronounced "ra ri ru re ro". It in fact more so resembles "la li lu le lo". What proof am I providing? Go listen to a Japanese person speak Japanese. That's my proof. This is just so silly. One last silliness. The MGS series should be Sony Playstation exclusive, and shouldn't be available on any other gaming consoles. Now this is just silly. I have always figured, the more players the better. A great game should be made available to everybody. Ideally, a good game should be playable on every single existing game console. It's unrealistic of course, that's why I said ideally. There's this very reasonable argument about this, stating that multi-platforming would lead to the annoyance of gamers of different consoles putting down all the other consoles. This is actually completely foreseeable as what definitely will happen. But this annoyance isn't more annoying than the insistence that the game should be Sony exclusive. The silliness is the same. There must be more sillinesses out there, I'm sure. This is, as usual, an incomplete list at best. Seriously, how do these things ever get started? And isn't it a curiosity, that the wrong notions are almost always the fastest to spread and gain popularity? What is that about? And now to end the topic with something a little less silly... "どちらが勝っても我々の戦いは終わらない。敗者は戦場から解放されるが、勝者は戦場に残る。そして、生きのこった者は死ぬまで戦士として人生をまっとうするのだ。 Whoever wins, our battle does not end. The loser is freed from the battlefield, but the winner must remain there. And the survivor must live his life as a warrior until he dies." 　　- Big Boss, Metal Gear 2. "Life is worth dying for. Death is not worth living for." 　　- Muni Shinobu. 裏 Ura Topic 24

A Collection Of Silliness

Mullet.
Snake's appearance, with his unshaved beard and uncut hair, has been directly referred to as the long-time manga/anime/literary staple of "無精髭 bushyouhige" and "無精髪 bushyougami". Roughly "no energy beard" and "no energy hairstyle". I am not the one who's saying this, by the way, Director Kojima was the one who explained this about Snake's appearance. Frequently, at the beginning of the release of MGS2. The unshaven beard and uncut hair image was done purposefully to represent Snake's temperament of not caring about appearances because he doesn't care much about the details of life. And the "無精 bushyou" thing is always used to represent a bachelor, who since he doesn't have a girl to worry about, is free to let his appearance go wild.
The concept of "mullet" actually doesn't exist in Japanese culture, as far as I have ever known. The term in fact does not exist in the dictionary. It kind of exists in the form of "ムレット muretto" and "マレット maretto", which spelling being the standard one is not agreed upon, or cared about for that matter. It simply isn't a relevant enough subject.
There are some non-Japanese people who think that what's known as the "ウルフヘア wolf hair" is a mullet, but it is actually a different hairstyle. Similar, but different.
So what Solid Snake has is the "無精髪 bushyougami/energyless hairstyle", and not the "mullet".

Big Boss is still alive.
The man is dead, get over it.

Related, it is not Big Boss in MGS3, but Solid Snake.
Prior to the game's release, apparently there was a dedicated group of people who insisted it wasn't Big Boss in MGS3. I completely sympathize, I wanted it to be Solid Snake too, but more than a year before release I already accepted it must be Big Boss, it is clear to anyone whose logic isn't clouded by their fondness of Solid Snake, so this one really wasn't that much a case of misunderstanding, but more of a case of stubborness. At least that's how I prefer to figure it, otherwise I would have to admit there are in fact people that foolish and willing to ignore evidence and logic.
I've been often complimented about my "Great MGS3 Prediction!" from May of 2003, approximately a year and a half before the game's release, when there weren't really that much information released yet about the game. It's kind of fun to read backwards in time. Funny even.
Now, with the above out of the way, it is my understanding that there are still quite a few players, who after playing the MGS3 game, still didn't make the connection that they were playing as Big Boss. About this, I can not come up with a settling explanation to fool myself into thinking there aren't people this foolish.
Or is it just me? I sure hope not.

Snake doesn't like knives.
The original term used is "刃物", "hamono". Literally translated at face definition, the two words mean "bladed object(s)". But the actual definition of the term really means "sword(s)", and not the tiny little knife Naked Snake used.
So really, when Solid Snake said "blades" are not his interest, he was referring to long katana/sword blades, and not short military knives.

Vamp and water.
See also topic "Dead Cell, 死の細胞, Cell of Death".
I'll simply state the only single important factor here.
Vamp only died once in the entire game of MGS2, and once of anything is not enough to demonstrate or establish the identification of any kind of pattern.

Kuwabara kuwabara means...
Anything other than the following explanation is simply silly, and I've seen some doozies.
Here's the actual correct definition of the "桑原, 桑原 kuwabara, kuwabara" chant:
桑原 Kuwabara is the 平安 Heian Era name of a region in Japan governed by 菅原道真 Sugawara Michizane.
菅原道真 Sugawara Michizane/Doushin, 6/25/845AD ～ 2/25/903AD, scholar and politician. Highest rank reached 右大臣 Udaijin (899AD), a near top position of the highest government institution under 醍醐天皇 Emperor Daigo. 901AD, because of false accusation of treason and defection, stripped of title and lowered in rank to 大宰権帥 Dazaifugonnosochi. Afterwards died with dissatisfaction in heart in 九州 Kyushu.
After his death, Emperor Daigo's sons started dying of illness one after another, and the palace was frequently struck by lightning. It was believed at the time that Doushin became a thunder god after he died, and all the abnormal occurrences in the palace were brought upon by his vengeance. 932AD April, regranted position of 右大臣 Udaijin, more out of political reasons than mystical reasons.
Legend has it, that during the time frequent lightnings struck various provinces of Japan, only the territory governed by Doushin, the 桑原 Kuwabara region, was exempt from lightning attacks. And thus the name of the region became a spell people said during thunderstorms to avoid being struck by lightning.

Mr Sigint = Darpa Chief Donald Anderson.
Now this one is just silly. The two have completely different profiles, different ages, and are just two different characters. Trying to make them the same is just too silly to even try to consider.
According to his radio screen personal data, Sigint's birthdate is 11/11/1939. That would make him, at the time of Shadow Moses (2/2005), 66 years old going on 67.
Donald Anderson was in his 50's at Shadow Moses.
They are just not the same person.

Solid Snake is named David because of the English voice over actor David Hayter.
The original Japanese script was written and recorded long before the English voice over actors were even cast. And the name "David" was decided even longer before that. David Hayter's name being "David", the same as Solid Snake, was simply a coincidence. Mr Hayter's first name had nothing to do with anything.
The real inspiration of the name David came from the movie "2001 A Space Odyssey", with the HAL-9000 computer being the inspiration for Hal Emmerich, and the spaceship Discovery being the inspiration for the tanker USS Discovery.
(MGS2 Production Background Notes.)

Big Boss' name is "William Morgan".
It all started when in Metal Gear 2, George Kasler said during a radion conversation, "Big Boss is a military genius on par with William Morgan."
I do remember a very old controversy about some people mistaking "William Morgan" as either Big Boss or Solid Snake's real name. This was caused by MG2 never being officially translated into English, and some unofficial English translations mistranslated the above radio message.
This controversy never happened in Japanese gaming circles, it was only in English gaming circles. The same as the "mullet" controversy.

Related, Snake's last name is "Morgan".
Someone said he or she remembered Snake saying something like "call me Morgan".
But this is not true, it just spread.
David Morgan.

There is no "la li lu le lo" in the Japanese alphabet and/or Japanese people can't pronounce "la li lu le lo".
This is just so silly I don't even know what to say.
First of all, yes, "la li lu le lo" does exist in the Japanese language. Here it is : "らりるれろ".
And though it is written in English alphabet as "ra ri ru re ro", it is actually not "ra ri ru re ro", but is in fact "la li lu le lo".
"らりるれろ" is written on paper as "ra ri ru re ro", but it is not pronounced "ra ri ru re ro". It in fact more so resembles "la li lu le lo".
What proof am I providing? Go listen to a Japanese person speak Japanese. That's my proof.
This is just so silly.

One last silliness. The MGS series should be Sony Playstation exclusive, and shouldn't be available on any other gaming consoles.
Now this is just silly. I have always figured, the more players the better. A great game should be made available to everybody. Ideally, a good game should be playable on every single existing game console. It's unrealistic of course, that's why I said ideally.
There's this very reasonable argument about this, stating that multi-platforming would lead to the annoyance of gamers of different consoles putting down all the other consoles. This is actually completely foreseeable as what definitely will happen. But this annoyance isn't more annoying than the insistence that the game should be Sony exclusive. The silliness is the same.

There must be more sillinesses out there, I'm sure.
This is, as usual, an incomplete list at best.

Seriously, how do these things ever get started?
And isn't it a curiosity, that the wrong notions are almost always the fastest to spread and gain popularity?
What is that about?

And now to end the topic with something a little less silly...

"どちらが勝っても我々の戦いは終わらない。敗者は戦場から解放されるが、勝者は戦場に残る。そして、生きのこった者は死ぬまで戦士として人生をまっとうするのだ。
Whoever wins, our battle does not end. The loser is freed from the battlefield, but the winner must remain there. And the survivor must live his life as a warrior until he dies."
　　- Big Boss, Metal Gear 2.

"Life is worth dying for. Death is not worth living for."
　　- Muni Shinobu.

裏 Ura Topic 24

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