Game Theory: Snake is a Stoner (Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain)

[MatthewPatrick13]

Snake is a Stoner (Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain)

We're FINALLY taking on the Metal Gear Solid franchise...but not with a topic you'd expect. Throughout the series, Snake's cigarettes have had time-bending properties. And now, in the newest installment, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Venom Snake's e-Cigar makes time SPEED UP. But how? Well according to the item's description, there's a medicinal herb in there... So what IS Snake's drug of choice? Let's find out...

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[CrossGuard]

"slightly racist middle-eastern music aside"
uh... what?

 

[Darth_Payn]

But no comparison to the effect of the tobacco that was in Solid Snakes Cigs and Naked Snake's Cigars?

 

[Seraj33]

"slightly racist middle-eastern music aside"
uh... what?

Don't you know? Culture = Racism, it is common knowledge for sure.

Honestly though, especially when it is in regards to music, it really bothers me when someone calls things "racist" when they sound or look like it is just supposed to. For example when a melody typically associated with the japanese culture played as a theme for a japanese character in a game, someone stated "wow thats racist". NO IT'S NOT. IT IS BLOODY CULTURE.

The melody I refer to by the way, I shamefully do not know the true name of, but you can find it by searching for "sakura" in the Total War Shogun 2 OST on youtube.

 

[verdant monkai]

I don't get game theory. Hideo didn't mean Snake was a stoner. You know that mate. We all know snake isn't smoking weed. If game theory knew the affects of weed, he would know Snake isn't high.

just no

Snake smokes ciggies because his mum wasn't about and he is a clone.

 

[know whan purr tick]

Spoiler: MGS420: Hashish Eater

This is likely a bit exaggerated, much of the usage was likely derogatory in order to make it out to be a bunch of intoxicated boogeymen.

1530s (in Anglo-Latin from mid-13c.), via French and Italian, from Arabic hashishiyyin "hashish-users," plural of hashishiyy, from the source of hashish (q.v.). A fanatical Ismaili Muslim sect of the time of the Crusades, under leadership of the "Old Man of the Mountains" (translates Arabic shaik-al-jibal, name applied to Hasan ibu-al-Sabbah), with a reputation for murdering opposing leaders after intoxicating themselves by eating hashish. The plural suffix -in was mistaken in Europe for part of the word.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=assassin

"The Old Man kept at his court such boys of twelve years old as seemed to him destined to become courageous men. When the Old Man sent them into the garden in groups of four, ten or twenty, he gave them hashish to drink. They slept for three days, then they were carried sleeping into the garden where he had them awakened."

"When these young men woke, and found themselves in the garden with all these marvelous things, they truly believed themselves to be in paradise. And these damsels were always with them in songs and great entertainments; they; received everything they asked for, so that they would never have left that garden of their own will."

"And when the Old Man wished to kill someone, he would take him and say: 'Go and do this thing. I do this because I want to make you return to paradise'. And the assassins go and perform the deed willingly."
- Marco Polo - on his visit to Alamut in 1273
https://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/assasns.htm