Have your parents gotten any further in MGSV? I LOVE their comments.

it took some digging but when she heard hal's name she immediately went "IBM?" because she loves sci fi and when you shuffle all the letters of IBM over one you get HAL.

she also wants me to name my future dog "Pequod" and supports vquiet's puddle splash fights

it turns out she can never recognise kaz either but i think that's old news

i moved out though so i don't think there will be any more updates from my parents unfortunately :( i was talking to her about mgsv tonight though and she still loves BB's buttcrack!

5,8,13?

5. Any game ideas you'd like to see made?

either a standalone rhythm karaoke/dancing game, or a game set between 1995-2005 featuring nishiki and ryuji as dual protags. i have NO idea how the story would work but i want it anyways 💖

8. Any characters you think are underrated? Elaborate if you want.

tanimura, takasugi, and watase. tanimura extorting business to help immigrants and defying the whole police force to expose their corruption and avenge his father, takasugi starting the game off being a sarcastic loan shark only to be like shinada's biggest fan and still believing in him 15 years later (when he calls shinada at the end... 😭😭😭), watase earnestly wanting to fight kiryu and the tojo clan at their full strength at the beginning of 5 vs his change of heart after katsuya gets shot leading to his actions in 7... idk i just think they're all too cool and funny and based only to be paid literal dust around here 😔

13. Favorite antagonist based on narrative?

sagawa! nishiki ryuji and mine may be my babygirls but the way sagawa manipulates majima, the way their dynamic evolves over the course of the game, the reveal towards the end of how sagawa himself was being manipulated... *chef's kiss* honestly i feel like the bar is kinda on the floor bc most of the antagonists' motivations and actions don't make sense to me but idk. im here to watch men strip and beat the shit out of each other not think critically lmao

rgg ask game

I wonder if RGG has ever released physical CD's for the Yakuza soundtracks. With Japans extremely strict licensing laws for music it can be so hard to get the stuff over here. It's why they changed the Boss theme for Daigo and Shinada's fight between the Japanese and Western releases of the game; since they couldn't get a licensing for Wild Romance here. Same with Yakzua 0 having different theme songs b/w Japan and here too.

You have me wondering the same thing-- on the wiki it says that some of the games' soundtracks released on CDs (0 got a special vinyl release?) but others were digital releases only? I have no idea where you'd find the CDs (if they ever were released outside of Japan) or how to buy the digital releases, though :(

Wild Romance was such a good song for that fight & it's such a shame they couldn't keep it for the international release. Same with 0's theme! I think there are mods to restore them on PC but i've never actually taken a closer look at them

HE IS BEAUTIFUL (chaoszonenate)

FOREVER ENDEARED BY THIS OLD MAN!!! (thank you <3)

Otacon, Evil Otacon (Huey), Sunny, Solid Snake, Dr. Strangelove.

in order of ask

chaoszonenate: sir-yeehaw-paws

Kaz looking at the 11 year difference between him and BB like "yes I am dtf elders" *chaoszonenate*

kaz upon learning BB has two kids he's never met: "so you're saying he's a dilf"

Hello person with good taste do you have any metal gear fic recs or yakuza I'm not picky and if you like it, it has to be good.

oh man im honored you think so :D a lot of the stuff i like is ongoing/on hiatus, still worth the read imo!

yakuza we could've been great [mature] - audrenes (ongoing) one of my favorite yakuza fics, written by a friend of mine. tachibana lives au, with over 200k words of wonderful tachikiryu and lots of shenanigans with kiryu's kids <3

chance [explicit] - the_muddler (ongoing) au where majima meets akiyama in 2005 (yakuza 1). its VERY well written. the explicit stuff isnt until later in the story and is skippable iirc. im not caught up on this one but its soo good ^_^

another chance within these neon lights [teen and up] - kuewnasi (ongoing) time travel au where yoshitaka mine is sent back to the 80s and works with kiryu's real estate business (yakuza 0)

metal gear nightmares in alaska [teen and up] - yukonblue (finished) another fic written by a friend ehehe. a relationship development/study for otasune during philanthropy era. VERY well done.

sweet pea [general] - colonelsoapscum (finished) kaz miller and his daughter. cute 🥺. they get visits from v, though catherine doesnt know who it is.

dumb asshole's guide to home invasion [teen and up] - skazuhiramiller (finished) basically a kaz lives scenario. this one is really funny imo. there are other fics in the series too.

i'll pick up your bones when i'm done [mature] - cephied_variable (finished) au where kaz remains as bb's xo in zanzibarland. i havent personally read this one but ive heard its very good. its on my list to read when i have the chance :)

for metal gear i would also recommend bosstoaster's and chaoszonenate's work, but please be mindful of the tags and ratings on some of the works! phenomenal stuff imo, but i know not everyone would read the same stuff i would.

these are some of the longer/multichaptered fics i like. i could probably give you a more extensive list of one-shots/explicit/etc, but you'd have to dm me for those ;^)

Your ocelot eva stuff is so..so good. (chaoszonenate)

thank you ;; here’s one from yesterday that didn’t fit the tone of the rest

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📷 - Post the 12th image in your gallery.

Lmao I'm sorry you got when I took a screenshot of a recommended article and went "why so defensive, dougy"

hi there! Do you have any mgs blog recs?? Im just getting into it and idrk who to follow lol ^^ tysm!

not all of these are specifically mgs centred but they’re all super cool ppl anyway (and if i didn’t mention you here. you’re also super cool i just have a bad memory when it comes to urls i’m sorry)

@chaoszonenate @swooshywoo @majjiktricks @hylaversicolor @jillvalentinowhitebag @mgsvi @tigersorange @adamskasfanboy @bigmonsteras @fancyshooting @2003toyotaprius @mantis--hymn @solidusnake

(pls lmk if any of you want me to take your blog off here btw)

In my head *cough, fantasies* RGG isn't so centered on their need to 'one game only' their villains, and allow the characters they already have to expand and grow beyond those games. (Ryuji-though he came back in Dead Souls, Mine, Aizawa) they do a good job making really compelling, interesting characters and then have to speed run to their demise. It's unfortunate, but I do understand they were operating with 'there might not be another game after this so we don't want to get too far ahead of ourselves' much of the time. Hell I don't even need redemption arcs, just..not having death be the only answer, if that makes sense? Or I just get to attached to the well-done villains. Heh. (chaoszonenate)

noooo it makes me sooo pissed actually just because kiryu (and even ichiban !!) Every Time preaches about people's capabilities to start over and so long as you have a will to go on you can right your wrongs but !!!! these fucks aren't ever given that chance and i'm over it !!!!!!!!!

if no redemption arc for them then at the very least let them go to jail idk- just stop killing them because the game's over

i was inspired to draw ocelot in this shirt by @chaoszonenate's tag on the post

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📈 How many fics do you have?

hm. well like, on me, i have 3? 4? but i wrote some when i was younger. only published 2.

🤭 Do you have a favorite tag to use when posting your works?

no, but i like doing the fun ‘describing things without describing things’ thing. ya know? i dont have examples tho smh

I've had a poke around the MGSV TPP game files recently. IIRC some people were looking for the photos plastered in the ACC (@chaoszonenate was it you?) I've converted everything i could find (in Assets\tpp\pack\mission2\heli\h40050) to png and also the mementos i could find. To be honest, i expected better resolution? They look better ingame. Maybe i did something wrong ._. Or there's Kojima Magic / ingame postprocessing on them. Still, if anyone wants them, i threw them on my Mega here since Tumblr Image Limit isn't quite enough ^^

Ocelot getting all cute when you spin your revolver with him is showcased here, along with what happens when you take the fake death pill during the fight with him and everything (@10:15). It’s all very worth watching imo.

The revolver spinning part starts at 49:00.

@chaoszonenate I’m not sure if you saw this already in your own playthroughs so I’m @ing you just in case you haven’t yet. :3