THE ECHOES OF MISSION 46

[misteral999]

There is an exceptional amount of mental gymnastics done by those who dislike the existence of Venom Snake and desperately wanted to play as the "real Big Boss." What's great about MGSV especially is it creates this weird kind of psychotic reaction where players choose to ignore the truth and decide that actually Venom is Big Boss. From a meta standpoint it's perfect-they choose to believe the character is the same as in MGS3 despite being told he isn't. Double think.

MGS2 naturally wound many people up with the existence of Raiden but I never saw anyone say "I choose to ignore the existence of Raiden and believe I'm playing as Snake" because you can't. Snake is right there with you affirming Raiden and giving him his own identity-despite many players and Raiden himself wanting to opt out of him having one.

The Nietzsche quote works because Kojima probably knew there are players who would dislike Venom. Players who want to be Big Boss but somewhat ironically dislike being told they are Big Boss. The quote not only alludes to the interpretation of those in-universe that Venom is Big Boss but also the interpretations of the players in response to the fact. Only a fan base like this could read an ending that literally says: "Big Boss is you, the facts presented aren't important, interpret it how you will." And walk away from it thinking: "ah! So this is some sort of red herring ending and the ever so important facts will follow!" READ THE ROOM PEOPLE,

i guess we all have this phenomena in our lives at least at the count of 1: we know a FACT that could not be undone by any means, but still we ignore it and continue  our lives , first of these facts is that we could die any moments after our birth or even in the womb or even when we are being delivered in this world, anyone knows that their child from the moment of their birth , from the moment that they hear him/her cry for the first time, will die and death is imminent but remembering this fact will hurt them , us or anyone who loves us, so we ignore it which means we are acknowledged of its being but we dont pay attention to it, maybe this is a gift from god, can't imagine what would our lives be look like if we constantly would think about these sort of facts, other types of this fact might include:  cheating ( husband and wife), not be able to pass in exam results( in college, mid-elm-high school), enemies, and .......
all the above mentioned are facts they "COULD BE"
but various at the rate of their being , i mean like if a husband and wife are deeply in love and they feel their life is good so the chance of the existence of cheat will be lower but still it could be but has a rate from 100 to below
or to the contrary it could not be , husband and wife might not cheat on each other never ever, its a fact , but still has percentage from 100 to below 100 depending on various factors measurable and unmeasurable.
so i guess COULD NOT BE is a fact itself again .
wow thanks dude what a philosophical outbreak we had here.