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If you only listen to one Podtoid episode ever, make it this one. We put slightly more work into it than usual. You'll have to listen to the actual episode to find out what's special about it, but let's just say that if you were in the pre-show post requesting that Jim Sterling do more impressions of Solid Snake, your wish has been granted.

And then some.

This week, Tiff "Gargantuan Rattlesnake" Chow, Jim "Artificial Donkey" Sterling, Aaron "Energizing Salamander" Linde and myself, Genius Grasshopper, talk about our favoritest videogame series involving bipedal robots and eyepatch-wearing badasses, Metal Gear Solid. Spoilers ensue for all three games in the series.

Topics of discussion included:

-A sonnet from Brilliam

-A surveillance camera??!!??

-Tiff Chow: loves boxes, hates level 5 keycards

-Meryl??!!??

-Defending Raiden

-A Hind D??!!??

-We want more Big Boss, sort of

-Metal Gear??!!??

This week, Arrested Developer won the $25. I'm really, really, really sorry that we didn't get time to ask more reader questions, but Podtoid records pretty late and Jim had to keep slapping himself in the face to stay awake. Anyway, Arrested, put yo' email in the comments and we'll drop you a line.


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king3vbo's Avatar
king3vbo at 04/24/2008 16:10
METAL GEAR??!??!?!?
PaperBowser0's Avatar
PaperBowser0 at 04/24/2008 16:13
Thursday now = Complete. Thanks ya guys! :D
razerangel's Avatar
razerangel at 04/24/2008 16:21
yuuss! I shall go download now!
Akiba's Avatar
Akiba at 04/24/2008 16:24
Free Checking?!

So good.
ArrestedDeveloper's Avatar
ArrestedDeveloper at 04/24/2008 16:42
Yes, this is the first thing I've ever won on dtoid.

Vitamint334@sbcglobal.net
Cheeburga's Avatar
Cheeburga at 04/24/2008 16:44
I came.
BenHaskett's Avatar
BenHaskett at 04/24/2008 16:54
Funny:

On RFGO, you said "If you only listen to one episode of Podtoid this week..."

wakka, wakka, wakka.
Anthony Burch's Avatar
Anthony Burch at 04/24/2008 17:00
I'm glad somebody caught that.
Bricfa's Avatar
Bricfa at 04/24/2008 17:09
Spoilers on third game Y/N?


also


METAL GEAR!??!!??!?!?!??!
Jim Sterling's Avatar
Jim Sterling at 04/24/2008 17:17
I still feel disappointed at my performance on the podcast proper.

I still fucking love the special elements though. :-)
Wexx's Avatar
Wexx at 04/24/2008 17:27
Gonna have to wait a while on this one, I haven't beat all of the MGS games quite yet >.<
Jim Sterling's Avatar
Jim Sterling at 04/24/2008 17:30
Oh God and my mic quality is worse than ever! FUCK my landlord hogging the bandwidth. :-(
Eschatos's Avatar
Eschatos at 04/24/2008 17:42
I'll win next time.
Holyetheline's Avatar
Holyetheline at 04/24/2008 17:51
Some day I hope to win something too... So I can be just like Arrested Developer... =D
ArrestedDeveloper's Avatar
ArrestedDeveloper at 04/24/2008 17:57
@Holyetheline
If you play your cards right and refuse to take on responsibility like I do, you may one day be in a state of Arrested Development just like me. Who needs real life experience when you've got games?
Dan CiTi's Avatar
Dan CiTi at 04/24/2008 17:58
Ah, DMC3 quotes are the best. Dante is a brilliant young man.
brainderailment's Avatar
brainderailment at 04/24/2008 18:06
Im listening.
Wedge's Avatar
Wedge at 04/24/2008 18:10
There any (MGS3) spoilers in here I should be wary of?
Anthony Burch's Avatar
Anthony Burch at 04/24/2008 18:21
Yes, there are MGS3 spoilers, specifically about the nature of Snake's mission.
Bricfa's Avatar
Bricfa at 04/24/2008 18:27
Ok, will return when I have finished it.
aborto thefetus's Avatar
aborto thefetus at 04/24/2008 18:38
:( I go cry in corner now.
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Dr Mike at 04/24/2008 18:40
Spoilers alert for those who have not played MGS2.


To nerd out for a moment: Aaron slightly glosses over that the reason Raiden and Solidus battle at the end (spoilers) is that Solidus believes the way to track down the patriots is through Raiden's Nanomachines.

For the ending, I might be totally wrong but S3 is revealed to stand for Selection for Societal Sanity and they are successful in covering up why no one seems to mind that a gigantic fucking robot monster has crashed into NYC. In other words: Solidus utterly failed.

Is this even remotely true?
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DaedHead8 at 04/24/2008 19:20
I agree, free checking ftw.
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Aaron Linde at 04/24/2008 19:27
Dr. Mike, whatever you say -- that ending was such a clusterfuck I may have crossed over a few facts. It's been too long!

But I thought the virus Emma installed in GW disrupted that too, or something. Fuck. So many double- and triple-crosses that I have no fucking idea what the fuck.

Still love that ending, though.
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manasteel88 at 04/24/2008 19:27
decent podcast (just cause its so hard to live up to the hype) and love the little voice moments...I personally hated the MGS2 story and thought MGS was a million times better. and I just got MGS3: Snake Eater from Goozex and the camera is a bitch so I'm gonna have to get used to that.

and I love the constant reference to 24. didn't MGS predate the hit fox show? so its kind of a worthless reference. I mean I know Tiff hadn't played it until last week or whatever but somebody should have said that this melodrama predated that melodrama.

also gotta love the "STFU Chad" at the end...brilliant
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Scape at 04/24/2008 19:28
@Dr. Mike
You're right about the Solidus/Raiden fight, but that isn't really what S3 is. It basically just controls the information that is released to the public so the Patriots can control what people perceive as important and cover up things they don't want people to know.
It doesn't really straight up "brainwash" people. We don't really know how they reacted to Arsenal crashing into Manhattan because the game ends.
Anthony Burch's Avatar
Anthony Burch at 04/24/2008 19:39
Aaron:
And THAT is why I fucking hate the ending of MGS2.
Tiff's Avatar
Tiff at 04/24/2008 19:53
@manasteel88

I don't see how it's an entirely worthless reference, just a contextual means of comparison to something that I'm familiar with that exists within the same planes of Western-stle action/drama dripping with machismo. Given the fact that I barely dipped my toes into the game, my understanding of what MGS 'is' was more or less extracted via comparison. *shrug*
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Brilliam at 04/24/2008 22:14
Oh my god you guys, I was at work when you read that poem and I got so embarrassed even though nobody else at work could hear it AND even if they did they wouldn't know it was me... anyway, I was so embarrassed a TEAR RAN DOWN MY FACE SO EMBARRASSED
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Samit Sarkar at 04/24/2008 22:22
@manasteel88: Would you have preferred a reference to an older, more established badass that predated Metal Gear, like John McClane, or, I don’t know...Batman?
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stevesan at 04/24/2008 23:24
snake! snake?? SNAAKEEE!!!!!!!
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johpan at 04/24/2008 23:26
lol tiff + meryl = hot?
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prowlerx083 at 04/24/2008 23:52
amazing? Amazing?! AMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZIIIIIIIIINGGG!!!

lolz
Tiff's Avatar
Tiff at 04/24/2008 23:56
Brilliam = ;_;
Your sonnet was the cat's pajamas, by the way.
Batthink's Avatar
Batthink at 04/25/2008 00:22
That Podtoid was excellent. Give yourselves a pat on the back. :OD
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ArrestedDeveloper at 04/25/2008 01:29
Favorite line of the Podtoid :

Revolver Ocelot - "Hey guys, check out these wicked pokemon cards"
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Kif at 04/25/2008 02:34
Oh my god best Podtoid ever. I wish you'd do these special elements for other games each episode. Maybe a Bioshock themed episode? Seriously, it breaks up the podcast nicely and it's funny as hell.
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ArrestedDeveloper at 04/25/2008 02:38
A couple more things.

Rev/Chad ending was AMAZING!

Also, someone needs to defend MGS2's ending. I'm not sure if you guys know, since you didn't mention it on the podcast, but MGS2 ending was drastically changed last minute. Originally Arsenal gear was supposed to crash into the Statue of Liberty and the World Trade Center and unfortunately for Konami the game went gold about 1 week before September 11th. So Konami went back ripped out tons of codec conversations and got rid of the WTC from the plot completely. In the end the game would have still been pretty out there but taking a sizeable chunk out of the last hour of your game is bound to not help clarity.

If anyone is interested there is an interesting plot analysis with some interesting theories.
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KamikazeTutor at 04/25/2008 03:34
Meryl's codec on the back of the case was the coolest piracy counter-measure I ever seen.
It takes after Metal Gear 2 Solid Snake, where you needed to check the manual to decode a morse code.
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Major Mustard at 04/25/2008 03:35
I guess I was late with my comment. =P

Happy 50th. Great show.
AMAAAAAAAZIIIIIIIIINNNGGGGG!!!!!!

The gay snake would've been interesting. If the love on the battlefield thing had just been filled with innuendos, it may have been passable.

"I'll love your battlefield!"
Better than that obviously.
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MatCD at 04/25/2008 05:55
Damnit Jim! Take off Liquid's snow boots before your mind becomes lost completely!
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Demtor at 04/25/2008 09:11
I love the site and I think what you guys do with the show is awesome, but I'd offer just a little constructive criticism. As much as I laughed at some of the jokes during the first half of the show I kept waiting for you guys to quit imitating characters at inane times and interrupting each others thoughts. I wanted more thought provoking analysis and questions. Things seemed to finally come together in the last .half, of which I enjoyed immensely. As much as I like jokes in a show enough is enough sometimes.

All in all though, thanks for the entertaining show I love all of Metal Gear and appreciate the work you guys put in to this site for a gaming fanboy like me :) Happy 50 shows, cheers!
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Yuphrum at 04/25/2008 10:20
Quite possibly one of the funniest episodes of Podtoid to date!I couldnt stop laughing at Jim's rendition of the Metal Gear Solid 1 ending. ROFL
Irvine_frost's Avatar
Irvine_frost at 04/25/2008 12:27
c`mon the voices we're SPOT ON! they should remake the WHOLE GAME, this episode is amazing!!!!
Faceless's Avatar
Faceless at 04/25/2008 14:29
Best. Ending. Ever.
Lotan's Avatar
Lotan at 04/26/2008 01:44
I agree with Jim about Raiden. Also, I think Kojima more than clearer implied that Raiden and player are the same. All those experience with VI missions, whining, clueless and desire to be like Snake. Kojima kinda placed a mirror in front of the player.
perri's Avatar
perri at 04/26/2008 13:23
AMAZING INTRO! These podcasts make me respect games that I've never liked before....weird?
perri's Avatar
perri at 04/26/2008 15:12
I know nobody is reading these comments anymore, but I just listened to the show...Best. Ending. Ever.
perri's Avatar
perri at 04/26/2008 15:13
whoops, looks like I plagiarized... Sorry faceless, great minds?
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ShinSennju at 04/26/2008 23:23
I'm still reading Perri, and I must say I completely agree with you guys: Best. Ending. Ever.

"STFU Chad Concelmo" was a stroke of pure genius. Jim's character voices were amazing as hell too.

In conclusion: Amaaazing!
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