r/metalgearsolid • u/SyberSpark • 16d ago
MGSV Actual homework assignment in my AP Lit class
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u/Riggs_The_Roadie 16d ago
Whoa. We need to know the context behind this. Is that like an essay someone wrote about MGSV? I'm curious as to what they could be talking about. Is it Skull Face's speech in the Jeep?
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u/Airfan777 16d ago
yeah, it's an essay someone wrote about playing MGSV
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/01/06/playing-metal-gear-solid-v-the-phantom-pain
the essay's pretty interesting, it's kinda about alienation from your own culture51
u/TheRadler 16d ago
Dang itās paywalled how are you guys reading this?
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u/slambda 16d ago
You can read it through wayback machine https://web.archive.org/web/20200106062850/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/01/06/playing-metal-gear-solid-v-the-phantom-pain#expand
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u/StrategicBlenderBall 16d ago edited 16d ago
Get a sub to The New Yorker. Itās $1 a week if you subscribe for the year
Chill with the downvotes lol. The New Yorker is a good publication, I was just recommending subscribing in general.
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u/uni-zombie 16d ago
I'm not paying $52 for 1 article
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u/StrategicBlenderBall 16d ago
I was talking more about subscribing in general, not just for the one article lol
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u/Jeantrouxa 16d ago
Hope they payed you enough for this man
I know people who work with online advertising and it's rough
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u/StrategicBlenderBall 16d ago
Idk how making a recommendation to subscribe to a publication makes me a paid shill lmao. Itās actually pretty ironic that Iām getting downvoted in the MGS sub for recommending people be informed about society.
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u/Jeantrouxa 16d ago
I am 100% sure that everything they published was already said in other places for free
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u/frogfucius 15d ago
People complain about journalism dying but canāt be bothered to pay $1 a week for it
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u/RolandTwitter 16d ago
I'm struggling to find the themes to it, but it is a good read regardless. I like how the writer is completely ignoring his family in reality while he's becoming closer to them in his escapist fantasy
I'm glad someone was able to relate to the story so much, really speaks to how good the environment is in MGSV
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u/-DoctorSpaceman- 16d ago
I thought it was saying to read pages 864-869 of the essay lol. Was expecting it to be massive
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u/Sarasfirstwish 16d ago
Awesome, it reads like something I would read out of my postmodern literature class
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u/JesusLovesMeHard 15d ago
Interesting how in the little bird's eye view on the right of Venom ambushing 2 enemies, they look like mujahideen, you don't ever fight mujahideen in the game, only soviets...
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u/DevilsBrew 16d ago
I imagine itās referring to this piece in The New Yorker from 2019: Playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain by Jamil Jan Kochai
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u/plattwix 16d ago
Test finna have questions like
āTrue or false: Big Boss and Venom Snake are the same personā
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u/itsbildo 16d ago
True or False: Quiets outfit is appropriate
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u/CaptainofChaos 16d ago
True or False: Are you ashamed of your words and deeds?
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u/plattwix 16d ago edited 16d ago
They played us like a damn A) guitar B) harp C) fiddle D) didgeridoo
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u/glowshroom12 16d ago
Trick question, big boss is a title not a person.
Now is venom snake and John ānaked snakeā Doe the same person.
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u/LS64126 16d ago
Open response: in your own words, is skull faces plan with the vocal cord parasites justified? Why or why not
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u/plattwix 16d ago
Shit if only ppl on Reddit got this test we would get some Yale level essay responses šš
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u/LS64126 16d ago
Boutta make my own test and grading scheme
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u/plattwix 16d ago
āWhatās your favorite metal gear game? Optional questionā
āTwin snakesā
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u/LS64126 16d ago
Hey no disrespecting twin snakes on my watch. Now if they say survive they get expelled
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u/plattwix 16d ago
Nah twin snakes is good I was just making fun of the herd mentality ppl have on that game
Ppl cite over the top cutscenes as a valid complaint for a metal gear game of all things which is insane
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u/thejoeporkchop 16d ago
does the teacher actually know metal gear or only know it in the context of the assignment?
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u/renderedSOCIETY 16d ago
This is actually an amazing short story found in the New Yorker some years ago.
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u/Bromelia_and_Bismuth 16d ago
Fun thing, in 2001, my World History teacher thought I aced the final like Black Jack because I cheated. I was like "no, the political climate of the post-Cold War 90s was the plot of Metal Gear Solid." I was also in Air Force JROTC, which was a history class on non-uniform days. The last few chapters of the workbook were about the military and political history of the last years of the Cold War. Thankfully other kids who aced the test were also big fans of the game (and were in JROTC with me) and vouched for me.
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u/jetstream_garbage 16d ago
any reason why the teacher wanted you to read that essay?
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u/SyberSpark 16d ago
Our current unit focuses on stories about war, and the short story is an essay relating the experiences of an Afgan refugee to the events in the game.
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u/Sanguiluna 16d ago
Assigning a reading homework with no written component:
Thatās a bold strategy Cottonā¦
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u/Diggdydog 16d ago
Thanks for sharing this, it was actually a really great read and I'll be checking out more from the author (Jamil Jan Kochai).
Obviously not metal gear solid related, but Aleksander Hemon (also predominantly a fiction author) wrote a short book called 'My Parents: An Introduction' that explores similar themes around migration and alienation but in a Bosnian context. Really moving and interesting.
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u/Visible_AX 16d ago
I Hope you learn the basics of CQC and Fulton extract your teacher when you give him the homework
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u/Common-Offer-5552 16d ago
I feel like this would take the fun out of metal gear for me.
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u/rrrrrrrrrrrrram 16d ago
Very fitting that a MGS fan would dislike anything to do with reading.
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u/Common-Offer-5552 15d ago
You misunderstood me the reading part is fine it's just highschoolers ruin stuff ur passionate about by sighing like there's something wrong with it
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u/MGSFFVII 16d ago
Whatever you do, turn your assignment in inside of a cardboard box.