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#cyber troopers #virtual on #virtualon #virtual-on #jaguarundi #sega #mechs #virtuaroid #virtuaroids #zscans #AM3 #sega model 2 #sega saturn #guidebook #guidebooks

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Little Big Planet: Ultimate Official Guidebook (2012)

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#little big planet #lbp #lbp1 #lbp2 #sackboy #video games #playstation #guidebooks #nonfiction #2000s #00s #ps3 #ps4 #picture books #kid books #children's books

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Character Bio’s: Big Boss

MGS4 &MGSV: The Official Guide

Character Bio’s

Transcription under the cut by: Nate

*Nate Note: Yes, the only images for Big Boss’s bio in the MGSV guide are Venom Snake. This is fully intentional on the books part here.

In the top left-hand corner, there is a heading: Big Boss

There is a small square headshot of Big Boss in the left-hand corner of his biography, as well as a full-bodied render of him in his Metal Gear Solid V sneaking suit uniform alongside the right hand of the page, from the top to the middle of the page. In his left hand he’s holding one of the tranqulizer pistols, aimed slightly in the direction of his own chest, angled downwards. His left hand is unarmed and open. He is donning the red bionic arm that is standard to his in-game appearance.

The text reads:            

An American special agent, real name John (nickname Jack), though almost exclusively known by his military designation of Naked Snake in his early professional career, Big Boss was forced to assassinate his spiritual mother and mentor, The Boss during Operation Snake Eater in 1964. Though his promotion and new appellation were of little solace in the immediate aftermath, Big Boss ultimately embraced the title as he joined Major Zero and Ocelot (among others) to establish Cipher in 1970- a secret intelligence organization that would later grow and mutate to become The Patriots.

Though still a firm friend of the organization’s leader, Major Zero, during Cipher’s early days, Big Boss’s gradual estrangement from Zero and dissatisfaction with his methods- which he regarded as a betrayal of the message of liberty bequeathed to them by The Boss-caused him to distance himself from active involvement in the clandestine agency’s activities. He later left entirely after discovering tht Zero had commissioned a project dubbed “Les Enfants Terribles”- an initiative that involved the theft of Big Boss’s genetic material used to create three clones that would safeguard the reproductive legacy of a man regarded as the greatest soldier of all time.

After spending a few years on his own gathering a mercenary force and establishing Mother Base on an offshore platform, Big Boss had his first direct confrontation with Zero during the Peace Walker Incident in 1974. Zero used a specifically trained triple agent named Paz to infiltrate Big Boss’s ranks on Mother Base and steal Metal Gear ZEKE their proprietary nuclear deterrent designed by Huey Emmerich. Big Boss defeated the Cipher spy and rejected the offer from Zero that she delivered-that Big Boss rejoin the fold and have his mercenaries become Cipher’s military wing-without hesitation.

Skull Face ordered that Big Boss’s Mother Base be razed during the Ground Zeroes Incident in 1975, leading to the events that left Big Boss in a coma. Upon awakening in 1984, Big Boss rejoined his former second-in-command Miller to build a new Mother Base with a mercenary force (the Diamond Dogs) that would exceed the strength of the predecessor destroyed by Cipher. With Major Zero presumed to be out of the game completely, the primary antagonist that Big Boss faced during the timeframe is Skull Face. Zero’s traitorous former XO had successfully manipulated and exploited aspects of the global Cipher organization to prepare a grand, world-changing plan.

Big Boss ostensibly makes a remarkable physical recovery (scars, lost body parts and physical disfigurements notwithstanding) in the aftermath of his long-term coma, but his mental state is less assured. Though his personality and incomparable military expertise are seemingly unchanged, he regularly experiences visual disturbances and distortions, and even participates in outright hallucinations (such as the instances where he believes Paz to be alive and on Mother Base).

Ultimately, Big Boss aspired all along to create a “warrior’s utopia”, a nation of mercenaries free from government influence, whose sole purpose would be to develop their military strength without restriction. This is what he attempted to do by establishing the governments of Outer Heaven in 1995 and Zanzibar Land in 1999. His goal was to remain free from the control of the rapidly encroaching influence of Zero’s artificial intelligence system: The Patriots. In both instances, The Patriots send his clone “son”, Solid Snake, to foil his plans. Gravely wounded after their second clash in Zanzibar Land, the body of Big Boss was retrieved by The Patriots and maintained in a permanent state of artificial coma.

Raiden, with the assistance of other protagonists, was eventually able to reclaim Big Boss’s body. Reconstructed with organs and limbs harvested from the carefully maintained corpses of Liquid and Solidus, Big Boss was restored to life in 2014. Finally comprehending the true sense of his former mentor’s legacy, he took the opportunity to pass the message onto his son, Solid Snake. The two share a poignant connection, more as two soldiers than as father and son, before Big Boss chooses to die on the grave of the woman he had worshipped throughout his adult life.

In the mid left-hand corner, there is a heading that reads: BIG BOSS (alias: Naked Snake)

Beneath the heading there are two headshots. The first is a small square headshot of Big Boss as he appears with his eyepatch in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. Below that is a larger upper-body headshot as he appears in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. He’s visibly aged with pure white hair and beard, wearing a suit and tan overcoat. The image cuts off around the upper chest region.

To the right of the images there is text.

The text reads:

Originally known as Naked Snake, he was forced during Operation Snake Eater to assassinate his spiritual mother. The Boss, thus, becoming even greater than The Boss and earning the title Big Boss. After he prevented a nuclear strike on the US in the 1970 San Hieronymo Incident, Big Boss joined Major Zero and Ocelot (the conspirators behind the aforementioned episode) to found The Patriots. However, though a firm friend of the organization’s leader, Major Zero, Big Boss’s gradual estrangement from Zero and dissatisfaction with his methods-seen as a betrayal of the message of liberty bequeathed to them by The Boss-caused him to leave the group.

After secretly (and illegally) reforming the elite FOXHOUND special forces unit (formerly under his command), Big Boss aspired to create a “warrior’s utopia” by overthrowing the governments of Outer Heaven, and, later, Zanzibarland. His goal was to free himself from the rapidly encroaching influence of The Patriots, and to create a nation defined by a charter of total liberty for all citizens. In both instances The Patriots sent his cloned “son” Solid Snake, to foil his plans. Gravely wounded after their second clash in Zanzibarland, Big Boss’s body was retrieved by The Patriots and maintained in a perpetual artificial coma. His unique genetic code and biometric data would later be used as the sole key to a sophisticated AI system conceived by Major Zero. Though initially designed to filter the digital era’s free flow of information, this system would later develop and manage the Sons of the Patriots program.

The text continues into another text box. The text reads:

EVA, with Raiden’s assistance, was eventually able to reclaim Big Boss’s body. Reconstructed with organs and limbs harvested from the corpses of Liquid and Solidus, Big Boss was restored to life in 2014. Finally comprehending the true sense of his former mentor’s legacy, he took the opportunity to pass this message onto his son, intentionally contacting the lethal FOXDIE virus during this brief, yet significant reunion, before dying on the grave of the woman he had worshipped.

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n9_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: Lindenia Gand [Belgium] :Impr. F. Meyer-van Loo,1885-1906. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44529037

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[unofskylanderspages]

Did you know? In the English version of "Skylanders Trap Team: Master Eon's Official Guide," on page 162, there's an error where instead of giving a description for 'Chapter 16: The Golden Desert', it actually re-uses the description for 'Chapter 12: Time Town.' The page also features the grammatical error in using "Mags's," rather than "Mags'."

#submitted by shadenlm064 #Skylanders #Skylanders Trap Team #Skylanders Trap Team: Master Eon's Official Guide #Guidebooks #Trivia #Errors

[uwmspeccoll]

Milestone Monday

On this day, October 17 in 1965, the 1964–65 New York World's Fair closed after two years and more than 51 million attendees. In commemoration, we offer a few pages from our copy of the Official Guide to the Fair. Seeing this guide is very nostalgic for me. As a child, my family lived only 30 minutes from the fairgrounds, so we were among the 51 million and visited the fair several times. I was most excited to see the life-sized dinosaur models. Before the fair opened, the fiberglass models were transported by open-air barge down the Hudson and up the East River and finally to Flushing Meadows on October 15, 1963. That was four days after my 7th birthday, so as a present my uncle Manny took me to Astoria Park in Queens to watch the barge and its mighty dinosaurs float by. It was quite literally an awesome experience!

Besides the dinosaurs, my favorite attractions were the Pepsi-Cola “It’s a Small World” Disney ride, the space park, the underground house, Michelangelo’s La Pietà at the Vatican Pavilion (although I was only 8, I found it oddly fascinating), and of course the Unisphere, which still gives me thrills when I see it today. The fair’s closing was bittersweet for me, as its ending came six days after my 9th birthday, but as a present my parents took me to the fair one last time and I got to say goodbye to all my favorite attractions. It was a little sad, but mainly it was still magical.

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-- MAX, Head, Special Collectons

#Milestone Monday #milestones #New York World's Fair #guidebooks #world fairs #international expositions #nostalgia #childhood memories

[lacysbookshelf]

The Complete Guide to Edible Wild Plants, Mushrooms, Fruits, and Nuts by Katie Letcher Lyle

🍃An absolutely wonderful book for those who are learning about foraging! Includes not only how to find and identify plant species, but how to prepare them as well! 🍃

#foragecore #foraging #foragingforfood #bookshelf #bookworms #book recommendations #foraging for food #my books #my bookshelf #my favorite books #guidebooks #academia aesthetic #light academia #reading #book readers #writers and readers #booksbooksbooks #books and reading #cozy aesthetics #reading a book

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© Peter Arkle 2023 LOONY PLANET GUIDE BOOKS

#travel #guidebooks #illustration #peterarkle #travelguides

[kindnessisstillhere]

Guidebooks Confusion

Straight on or turning?

Looking for route indicators,

And wondering at the vague directions,

So we walk and get lost again.

It's somewhere nice to see,

But not where we're meant to be.

That's the helpful guidebook,

A ton of instructions here, just look,

But further on they peter out,

Assuming occasional works.

That only goes when the path is simple,

Not intersecting with others,

Or winding around to confuse you.

But hey the guidebook must be right,

It's written by professionals after all.

Professionals who forgot to write for novices.

We'll figure it out sometime.

Sometime soon I hope.

Cause this isn't the right place.

#poetry #poem #walking #guidebooks #getting lost

[beneaththetangles]

Reader’s Corner: Sunbeams in the Sky (Vol. 2), Issak (Vol. 1), and The Way of the Househusband: The Gangster’s Guide to Housekeeping

Romance and violence are sometimes bedfellows, but we’ve separated them for this reviews—we’ve got shoujo, school romance, and the like with the most recent volume of Sunbeams in the Sky and other titles, and a Thirty Years War seinen series joining everyone’s favorite gangster homemaker in a “how to” book. Choose your poison! We’ll let you decide which side is more harmful to your heart!

I.O.N • Issak (Vol. 1) • Last Game (Vol. 1) • Silver Spoon (Vol. 12) • Sunbeams in the Sky (Vol. 2) • The Way of the Househusband: The Gangster’s Guide to Housekeeping

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#Manga #Guidebooks #Reviews #Silver Spoon #Last Game #I.O.N #Issak #Sunbeams in the Sky #The Way of the Househusband: The Gangster’s Guide to Housekeeping #The Way of the Househusband #Reader's Corner #Gin no Saji #Sora ni Hidamari #Gokushufudou #Manga Article #Manga Blog #Manga Reviews #Articles #Guidebook Reviews #Author: Marg #Author: MargReadsManga #Author: WacOtaku #Author: sleepminusminus #Author: Samuru #Author: Laura A. Grace #Author: TWWK

[rhianna]

A satchel guide to Spain and Portugal

Crockett, W. Day., Crockett, S. (Gates). (1930). A satchel guide to Spain and Portugal. Boston and: Houghton Miffin company. 

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Crockett, William Day, 1869-1930.

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Crockett, Sarah (Gates) Mrs.

Language(s):English

Published:Boston and Houghton Miffin company, 1930.

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Portugal

Portugal /Guidebooks.

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Spain /Guidebooks.

Note:"Book list for the traveller": p. lxix-lxxiv.

Folded map mounted on back lining paper.

Physical Description:2 p. l., [v]-lxxiv, 350 p. maps (part double) 16 1/2cm.

#spain #portugal #travel #guidebooks

[sir-yeehaw-paws]

MGSV: The Complete Official Guide

Official and Concept Art

Venom Snake, Big Boss/Naked Snake

#mgs #mgsv #mgsv guidebook post 2 #all photo no text #venom snake #big boss #guidebooks #nate scans

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n15_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: Lindenia : Gand [Belgium] :Impr. F. Meyer-van Loo,1885-1906. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50851888

#Classification #Guidebooks #Identification #Nomenclature #Nomenclature (Popular) #Orchidaceae #Orchids #Pictorial works #Terminology #New York Botanical Garden #LuEsther T. Mertz Library #bhl:page=50851888 #dc:identifier=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50851888 #HSA #flickr #laelia elegans #orchid #botanical illustration #scientific illustration #Cattleya × elegans

[craycraybluejay]

I also heavily resent the ever-present implication in mainstream media that at all touches on trauma that we cannot have any sympathy for Bad Victims. That it's evil to write a sympathetic Bad Victim. Hell, that it's bad to portray one at all at times. Writing a victim of trauma who's an addict or self-destructive is already an edge case-- writing trauma survivors who end up actually hurting someone else, being chronically "treatment"-resistant or having inconvenient ptsd, perpetuate the cycle, or are just kind of a total dick is considered an evil move. Instead of like. An actually complex and interesting artistic choice.

Idk. It pisses me off a lot how often Bad Victims[TM] are brushed under the rug and if you dare to speak of them/make art of them, let alone SYMPATHIZE with them you're an irredeemable monster. And that's just fictional characters. Don't even get me started on the way people treat actual people who have ptsd in a way that's at all inconvenient and problematic in their opinion.

#bad victims #trauma #purity culture #cultural christianity #cycle of abuse #the invisible victims #trauma survivor #ptsd #purity wank #freedom of expression #dark topics #media criticism #trauma in media #please can i get one traumatized blorbo that isnt purity poisoned #like you're not writing a moral guidebook for small children. you're allowed to write anything at all forever

[jpf-sydney]

A manga lover’s Tokyo travel guide

New item:

In this captivating Tokyo travel guide, award-winning manga artist and author Evangeline Neo travels to the Japanese capital with her mascots Kopi the dog and Matcha the cat in tow, bringing you to all the otaku sights this city has to offer. She shows you where to shop for manga memorabilia in Akihabara and Nakano, takes you on a tour of famous anime and manga museums like Studio Ghibli and Sanrio Puroland, and shares her experiences at a cosplay studio, a maid and butler cafe, and a manga drawing class.

Shelf: 291.36 NEO A manga lover's travel Tokyo guide : my favorite things to see and do in Japan. by Evangeline Neo.

North Calrendon, Vt. : Tuttle Publishing, 2019. ISBN: 9784805315477

128 pages : colour illustrations ; 26 cm.

#tokyo #guidebooks #juvenile literature #new 2022 10 #jcentral

[sharp7datwikk]

大人の小さな旅 & ことりっぷ

リフレッシュする方法は人それぞれあれど、僕は両極端な感じです。 何もしないで、ただひたすらに眠るばかりの1日。　もしくは、車に乗って片道1～2時間の道程を出掛けることも。　活動的なのか非活動的なのか自分でも自分を評し難いくらいに、動き回ることもあればピクリともしない日があります。 活動的な日のこれまでの最大移動時間は、片道約300km。　最近は泊まり込みで出掛けるには制約が大きいので、もう少し近いところで日帰りで出掛けたいところですが、ちょっとね、今後のことも想定しつつ、今日は夜勤明けに本屋でガイド本を2冊、買ってきました。 日帰り大人の小さな旅　名古屋・東海 ことりっぷ co-Trip　安曇野・松本 です。　『日帰り大人の小さな旅』は、ここまで継続して買い続けてきた『大人の日帰り旅』の派生本、『ことりっぷ…

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