Definitely play MG2, it's well worth it

Last year is recent enough for me or else you'd be waiting another year for me to beat one game

Yeeeah I'd do that but would excuse myself from everything up to MGS4

NateDog Hmmm do I not waste my time with a clunky 40 year old game or do I suffer for a bit in order to make a dumb joke about fighting Dirty Duck? Now that's tough

Would be very down for that, especially since I now have to start fresh with 3 because it turns out Subsistence on PCSX2 is notorious for corrupting saves and I didn't use any save states

Should do a forum wide replay sesh. Think book club but make it Metal Gear.

tr0nic MG is shite tbh I think but MG2 is so damn good, never realised how much MGS borrowed from it

But yeah it was pretty wild behaviour on Edo's part

Huh, I don't really remember but I might’ve given him a quick rundown of the events

and also I've never given MG1 or 2 a proper shot and know I will have a very hard time

NateDog I want to do a chrono run of the series since I'm having so much fun with 3 again, but I also haven't played MGS4 in forever and RPCS3 can run it at 60fps (OG PS3 was locked to 30fps for 4)

This bit from his resignation thread is where I got the bit about you apparently communicating w Freeman. Which, even when I read that I was like "wow they talked over PM?"

and then he just fumbles the bag immediately because he wants to keep writing a Skyrim fanfic. Peak fedora-wearing shit gotdamn

You've gotta have serious spite burning deep within to keep up a ruse like that for long enough to actually get accepted into an org

Fuckin hell alright yeah I kind of knew that first half but the GRU infiltration bit is nuts

Speaking of replaying the series, I started doing it months before the vol 1 collection was even announced. I'm only at MGS4 now lol, although I've taken big breaks (including from that damn FROG section in the hotel)

I fucking despised Freeman so I don't know why I'd be talking him about anything hahaha

I can't remember talking to Freeman about it so idk what the secrecy thing he told you about was, I think maybe Rain wanted us not to talk about PF drama to anyone? But it's been that long that I don't think it matters any more

At some point, quiite a while later (I can't remember exactly how long), a user named "TheBirdofHermes" joined GRU who was actually Edo in disguise. He joined GRU presumably to spy on people in the PF. He got found out because Edo had an unfinished Skyrim fanfiction thread in the PF so "TheBirdofHermes" asked everyone if he could finish it because he "thought it had a lot of potential". Rain or Tollhouse got really suspicious and messaged an admin (maybe Null ) asking them to check him out. Turned out it was Edo and he got banned. We were all freaking out that he was hanging out in GRU in secret for so long