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[EnigmaticHat]

People have stronger reactions to the specific than the general.  Its why people still talk about Rosa Parks even though her disobedience and arrest were a drop in the bucket of the dissent and injustice that were happening during the civil rights movement.

In this case, people already believe that US law enforcement is racist, and they've chosen to latch onto the Zimmerman Case because it fits that narrative very well (as the writers for the news are aware).  The Zimmerman case didn't make people mad, they were already dissatisfied and this incident has given them something specific to direct their anger towards.

[Descan]

Martyrdom and poster-children.

[Knight of Fools]

TV Commercial: "Cell health plays a key role in our lives!"

...the stuff we're made of is important? You don't say!

[Sabretache]

TV Commercial: "Cell health plays a key role in our lives!"

...the stuff we're made of is important? You don't say!

Such is the wisdom of TV.

[Loud Whispers]

TV Commercial: "Cell health plays a key role in our lives!"

...the stuff we're made of is important? You don't say!

Celebrities: They use BAGS!
They're just like NORMAL PEOPLE!
-Tabloid commercial

[Askot Bokbondeler]

when my mother was a child she thought rich people didn't defecate

[Graknorke]

when my mother was a child she thought rich people didn't defecate

Of course not, they have servants to do it for them.

[IronTomato]

"I hear it's amazing when the purple stuffed worm in flapjaw space with the tuning fork does a raw blink or Hara-Kiri Rock! I NEED SCISSORS, 61!"

I had played MGS1, and bought MGS2 on ebay because it was so good. I looked up some videos of it on the 'Tube, and this is what I got.

[Parsely]

"I hear it's amazing when the purple stuffed worm in flapjaw space with the tuning fork does a raw blink or Hara-Kiri Rock! I NEED SCISSORS, 61!"

I had played MGS1, and bought MGS2 on ebay because it was so good. I looked up some videos of it on the 'Tube, and this is what I got.

I've probably beaten MGS2 about 20 times. More like 42. 42 is a good number. I've only beaten it 1.1 times on European Extreme.

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Stuck disposing of the bombs right now. Not excited to fight Fortune and Fatman.

MGS4 I've beaten 3-7 times total, and I'm stuck on the motorcycle battle on my Extreme Big Boss Emblem run. That one's been on pause for almost a year now.

MGS1 I've beaten once (maybe twice?). I can't even remember where I was on my second (third?) Extreme run. Probably the gas room, or Sniper Wolf.

MGS3 I've beaten exactly twice. I'm so bad at that one. I just don't have the patience to change my camo all the time, which you have to do in order to play even casually without getting your ass kicked. I think maybe I tried an Extreme run once, but couldn't get past the Virtuous Mission (the prologue) and didn't even bother saving it.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Beat MGS2 and MGS3 on Extreme. I can't remember if I've beaten MGS1 on Hard, I know I haven't done it on Extreme because I'm meaning to do that. Haven't played MGS4 at all, unfortunately.

The hardest things were easily

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the 20 Rays for MGS2, and the Fury for MGS3. I remember the latter specifically because my only memories of the fight are about an hour of fire and rage-tinted attempts at hitting Fury with the Mosin Nagant.

Why use the Mosin Nagant, you might ask? Because I'm a perfectionist freak is why. I can never play an MGS game without trying to collect everything, even on Extreme. I've never health-killed any of the MGS3 bosses, and I've played the game several times.

As for the 20 Rays, that fight is just sick and wrong. Sick and fucking wrong.

[Parsely]

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It only took me two days of trying to beat the rays, but Olga and the first Vamp fight each took me a week. I'm just really good with that stinger.

And I'm the same way with MGS3. All the camos, Kero Frogs, the guns and that damn white snake every time. I can't stand trying to stamina kill the Fear. Can't fucking stand it. Its trivial if I stock up on poison frogs in advance but last time I didn't, and I fucking LOST IT when I ran out of tranquilliser rounds. I ended up punching him down.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

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You uh....know there are many poison frogs in the place where you fight Fear, right? I've never stocked up on them in advance, I just acquire them mid-fight if I don't have any spoiled food.

I don't recall Olga being much of a speedbump, all it takes is getting the ridiculous MGS reflexes down and never leaving cover for more than a second. Vamp on the other hand, was indeed a nightmare. I never leave that fight with any grenade launcher ammunition. He probably gave me the most enraging single death though, in which I had him down to under one shot left, and then that motherfucker pinned my shadow and killed me. Suffice it to say that all subsequent fights began with destroying all of the lights.

[MadMalkavian]

It's not really what people say even though it kind of is but it gets on my nerves when people put words in my mouth or repeat themselves to me like I'm some braindead buffoon just because of either my age or my disabilities. The words that come out of these mouths that decide they want to underestimate my knowledge and understanding of the world in general are stupid, insidious, and often times frequently inspire thoughts of eugenics, genocide and mass sterilization in my mind. It's no wonder why I hate most people when this sort of thing happens whenever I interact with someone on a day-to-day basis.

[Parsely]

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You uh....know there are many poison frogs in the place where you fight Fear, right? I've never stocked up on them in advance, I just acquire them mid-fight if I don't have any spoiled food.

I don't recall Olga being much of a speedbump, all it takes is getting the ridiculous MGS reflexes down and never leaving cover for more than a second. Vamp on the other hand, was indeed a nightmare. I never leave that fight with any grenade launcher ammunition. He probably gave me the most enraging single death though, in which I had him down to under one shot left, and then that motherfucker pinned my shadow and killed me. Suffice it to say that all subsequent fights began with destroying all of the lights.

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Yeah.. I know..  ._.  I like to stock up when you go past it the first time, so I don't have to do it mid-fight, because its easier that way.. What do you think I'm dumb or something? That sounded like you think I'm ignorant. You can't get through any MGS on Extreme/EE without being a meticulous, perfectionist, patient, observant, obsessive compulsive son of a bitch.

I think its because last time I had to use an Xbox controller. *shudders* The buttons aren't pressure sensitive so its a bitch to raise and lower your gun without shooting (you have to click the left stick. I got used to it, but its still jarring and messes me up occasionally). Vamp is definitely easier than her though, at least at first. I kinda lose it a little when he gets fast, but recently I picked up some good strategies for getting past the parts where he throws knives. Some you can crouch through, which, suffice to say, I never even thought of. Though I didn't need to know that the first time through on EE, so it'll probably be even easier this time.

MGS4 is definitely different enough from the first three that it'll hurt a bit playing for the first time through, but it really does shine on an Extreme playthrough. Its not that tough on its own, but I bloody well dare you to go for the Big Boss emblem. No alerts, no kills, no using any healing items, no special items, can't be seen, can't die, limited saves, and you have to do it in around 3-5 hours. Can't remember the time limit exactly. Its really hard. Plus each boss in that one has two forms.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

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Yeah.. I know..  ._.  I like to stock up when you go past it the first time, so I don't have to do it mid-fight, because its easier that way.. What do you think I'm dumb or something? That sounded like you think I'm ignorant.

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Your original description gave me the impression that you did not, in fact, know that you could get poison frogs in the Fear fight, as you described your reaction to running out of both frogs and tranquilizers to be an insane punch-out with the Fear instead of getting more frogs.