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screenshots part 3

I wanted this to be its own post so I can breakdown how the scene goes since you can’t play the cutscenes as a video unless the cameras at the in game angles, so these can only be taken frame by frame.

as emma’s dying, snake looks away towards the ceiling before turning back to them. when she takes her finale breathes and otacon goes “emma!? emma!?” snake then turns completely away with his back to them, with a shot of his profile. 

what isn’t shown in game is snake’s expression after a fade to black (well, two fade to blacks in quick succession) while his back is still to them 

after this is another fade to black to the shot of big shell as otacon’s talking about his childhood, and when the scene goes back to them snake is then turning around to face otacon and emma. his face is back to a more “maybe upset, but keeping it in” expression. seeing the comparison between the fade to blacks is night and day… and notable he only looks visibly upset while no one can see him

if I was just a bit more crazy and determined it’s technically possible to take a of capture every frame and then put them together to make a video… but that person isn’t me. but it Would be interesting to see his expression changes in real time because it is animated, and towards the end while he’s still anguished looking it seems like he’s shaking his head slightly

(also, my guess is that they had a vague idea of where they might want the camera be so they animated snake’s face in case they wanted to include a shot when it came time to “filming” the cinematic. why they ended up choosing not to I have no clue. I think there would have been huge added emotion to the scene since I don’t think we often, if ever, see snake that upset)

edit: I’ve gone through almost all cutscenes with snake in them and looking at his face when the camera wouldn’t be on it in game, and he’s never animated if off screen unless getting from point A to B for the next shot. or any other characters either (hense the screenshots of raiden during the hug where he just stands there). 

this combined with someone’s tags I saw here makes me think maybe it could be purposeful it’s off screen. maybe snakes not only hiding his pain from raiden and otacon (coming from maybe sympathy and care for him and not wanting to burden him more, maybe even from guilt) but from the player as well. you don’t get to play as snake because you’ll never be snake [like raiden] and you don’t get to see him emotionally vulnerable because he wasn’t made to let it show, both literally in universe and in meta. snake has a persona he plays that’s the image of what he was intended to be, but he isn’t that person. he isn’t an invulnerable solider who can never faulter like zero intended, like everyone sees him as, that the player sees him as. or that could be entirely unintended that it works well in that way. 

not to write a entire novel here, [too late? (;ŏ﹏ŏ)] but also: I think the reason snake is so distraught isn’t because of emma dying per say, because he has no emotional attachment to her, to him her death is like any other innocent life lost on the battlefield… except it’s not, because he knows how much otacon’s hurting. this isn’t the first time he sees him cry… but he knows him now. he cares about him. he probably knew how important seeing emma again was to otacon and could have been been a second chance to ‘fix’ his family. and I think That’s whats hurting him so much.

#SOBS

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Help A Teenage Girl Evacuate Gaza!

Hi everyone, I'm reposting this one from Instagram, illustration is by myself and depicts Amal. She reached out to me to share her story and her evacuation fund.

Amal's situation is exceedingly dire. She has faced extreme difficulty accessing food and medicine she desperately needs. Airstrikes and famine conditions have forced Amal to navigate an increasingly dangerous Gaza, in which she is already internally displaced. Amal is only 18 years old, and has been forced to give up her high school and college dreams in order to survive this genocide. Please join me in making sure this teenage girl has something to eat and a future to look forward to.

Remember, the minimum donation is only $5! Even a small donation will help tremendously, so don't be afraid to give what you can! Don't forget to share if you can't donate!

(Disclaimer: I am not Palestinian, I was just asked to share this fundraiser.)

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The US is participating directly in this genocide"

Palestinian activist Ahmed El-Madhoun films US-made shells used by Israel to strike Gaza's Khan Younis city.

The US is by far the largest supplier of weapons to Israel, with more than two thirds of military imports coming from Washington.

After temporarily suspending a shipment, the Biden administration has announced this week its plan to deliver a new $1 billion military package to Israel, consisting of tank ammunition, tactical vehicles and mortar rounds.

Credit -TRTWorld

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i clicked on "create a community" to see wtf it was and it totally glitches out my app and phone. i screen recorded it but it was a lot of screen flashing and like extremely animated glitching so im not going to post it

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Going from “celebrations on the streets of Rafah as Hamas accepts ceasefire deal” to “Israel chooses to continue offensive in Rafah and is currently carrying out targeted attacks” within the span of an hour is the most viscerally heartbroken I’ve been throughout the past months

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little bit of meandering i think

#MEN WANT HIM #FISH FEAR HIM #tw blood #tw gore

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If you want your donations to go the farthest, I recommend donating directly to people in need and local nonprofits. For the humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo, I suggest Goma Actif

Goma Actif is a Congolese nonprofit that has boots on the ground in Goma, DRC, at the Kanyaruchinya displacement camp, providing food to people who have fled the latest offensive by the M23 rebel group.

The Congolese people have expressed frustration that international organizations are slow and fickle when it comes to distributing aid. Goma Actif functions entirely within DRCongo and therefore bypasses international red tape to deliver aid more reliably than external sources.

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Gosh sure doesn't look like something a genocidal army would do -

'Civilized' people. Not one single university student of the entity has demanded their universities stop taking part in activities that lead to genocide (forming genocidal AI, creating weapons and spyware etc). Oh and once again - 'Tel Aviv' (Occupied Yaffa and Al-Ramla), wherein people are partying, dining out and shopping luxuriously, is about an hour away from Gaza.

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Context.

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So Instagram is now gonna be using all pictures in their database to train AI, not only art stuff, but ALL pictures that people have uploaded. The worst thing? Even if you actively choose not to let them do that, in the conditions it's still said "even if you oppose to let us use your data for training is possible we use them anyways" this is crazy. Like this is so fucking crazy hello????? Hello??? You can't even say no??? This is fucking insanity

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why is ao3 is blocked on the hospital wifi????

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Everything that is essential and mandatory should be free btw