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    August 24, 2020

    Death Stranding You already know what's going on.

    You already know what's going on.

    Posted: 24 Aug 2020 12:08 PM PDT

    My take on making a cover for this amazing game!

    Posted: 24 Aug 2020 12:39 PM PDT

    TFW this rope on the ground got more Likes than your Zipline

    Posted: 24 Aug 2020 02:37 AM PDT

    Keep on keeping on Kojima!

    Posted: 24 Aug 2020 02:25 PM PDT

    Kung Fu Fighting

    Posted: 24 Aug 2020 07:05 PM PDT

    Excellent work, Sam.

    Posted: 24 Aug 2020 08:16 PM PDT

    This isn't going to end well...

    Posted: 24 Aug 2020 08:49 PM PDT

    Favourite ever game. Who was your favourite character besides Sam? Mine has to be Unger

    Posted: 24 Aug 2020 10:51 AM PDT

    Sam, what did you do in that Hotspring?

    Posted: 24 Aug 2020 04:50 PM PDT

    Peter still hasn't tipped on the 3rd delivery.

    Posted: 24 Aug 2020 07:39 PM PDT

    SOO you can pee on the BTs????

    Posted: 24 Aug 2020 01:09 PM PDT

    I think there's something wrong but I can't figure it out

    Posted: 24 Aug 2020 11:01 PM PDT

    Holding Tomorrow Close

    Posted: 24 Aug 2020 07:06 PM PDT

    Perfect fusion? Would it be?

    Posted: 24 Aug 2020 06:07 PM PDT

    Cameo Appearance: All of Us

    Posted: 24 Aug 2020 01:30 PM PDT

    Finished the game a few days ago, and decided to order something. (Side note, why am I constantly hearing dubstep drops?)

    Posted: 24 Aug 2020 02:56 PM PDT

    Capital Knot City

    Posted: 24 Aug 2020 05:23 PM PDT

    Oh the places we go

    Posted: 24 Aug 2020 09:49 AM PDT

    In my last full playthrough I had only carried 1.91 tons of cargo TOTAL. Second playthrough is much better, almost 3 tons of cargo for one order. Had to use a vehicle the full way, I feel it's more satisfying to do huge orders on foot.

    Posted: 24 Aug 2020 07:51 PM PDT

    60+ Hours and still loving it [Endgame]

    Posted: 24 Aug 2020 11:12 PM PDT

    [SPOILERS] Plot summary—do I have this right?

    Posted: 24 Aug 2020 03:36 PM PDT

    I posted asking for a fan favorite explainer and people didn't seem to readily suggest one, so I'm trying my hand here. Here's my understanding of the sequence of events—do I have this right?:

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    • Over the course of history, five major extinction events happened, each time preceded by a creature with an umbilical cord connecting them to the Beach, a purgatory or limbo between life and death. These are extinction entities.

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    • In the modern era, Bridget Strand, who has such an umbilical cord, is diagnosed with Ovarian cancer in her twenties. During surgery, she has some kind of near death experience and her soul gets left behind on the beach.

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    • Bridget's soul remains ageless on the beach while her body ages. Her access to the beach over the ensuing years:
      • Gives her visions of the apocalypse/hints that she's an extinction entity destined to bring it about.
      • Gives her access to different eras and items in them, which she believes she can use the beach to manufacture in her present reality—the premise of the chiral network, which she believes she can use to prevent the apocalypse she fears she'll bring about.

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    • Bridget becomes Vice President.

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    • Bridget develops the ability to manifest her ageless beach-self in the world of the living. When rumors that she's trailed by a ghostly young version of herself start to circulate amongst her security detail, she concocts a cover story, telling people she has a daughter who is too sick to interact with people in person. She names the daughter persona Amelie (literally "Am a Lie!") because wow this plot is on-the-nose sometimes.

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    • A doctor performing a routine c-section on a braindead mother, in an unknown location, touches the umbilical cord, sees a BT, and triggers the first voidout. People don't know what it means, except Bridget.

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    • Bridget, because of her access to the other side, sees the doctor's ability to see the BT while touching the umbilical cord as a key way to avert the apocalypse she's prophecied—if she can replicate the conditions, humanity can see the other site/BTs, and fight them.
      • (Note: this is confusing in the interviews in the game—the first entry about the Manhattan voidout describes the doctor performing the c-section and mentions it triggering an "annihilation event," but then the ensuing sections make clear the BB experiments started only after that and as a result of it, and that the Manhattan voidout was separately caused by the BB experiments. So presumably the annihilation event caused by the surgeon accidentally is something separate, of which we never receive a clear description. Welcome any other interpretations if I have this wrong.)

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    • Bridget green lights and oversees the BB experiments in Manhattan, based on the incident with the surgeon. (Of *course* the project is in Manhattan—Kojima loves a nuclear allegory.)

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    • One of the first candidates is veteran Cliff Richards's family—his pregnant wife, Lisa Bridges Unger, is in a vegetative state for unknown reasons. They remove her late-term fetus, a boy, and begin conducting experiments.

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    • Coincidentally, a former subordinate of Cliff's (John, later revealed to be DieHardman) whom Cliff saved in several warzones, is Bridget's head of security. He warns Cliff that his son is about to be moved to a secret facility for further tests, and rigs the alarm system so Cliff can kill his wife, take his son, and escape.

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    • Instead, for reasons never fully explained (Bridget catching wind of the scheme?) the facility goes into lockdown, cutting short the escape attempt. Cliff and his infant son are both fatally shot in the ensuing skirmish, on Bridget's orders.

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    • Bridget, stricken with guilt, goes to the beach and, using her powers, brings the infant's soul back to the side of the living. Sam's soul re-enters his physical body, which now has his repatriate abilities.
      • (Note: We see Bridget healing the baby on the beach, creating the same cross-shaped scar we later see on both Cliff and the symbolic doll that follows him around. It's completely unclear why this scar is on all of them but not on Sam, who's the only one who should have it? If his soul is going back into a fetus that was shot in the stomach, shouldn't he have some scarring? Is this a plot hole?)

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    • The BB experiments cause the voidout that wipes out Manhattan, kills the President, and ushers in the Death Stranding. Millions die and infrastructure is leveled. Some of the population gets DOOMS, the ability to connect to the beach and detect undead creatures to varying extents.
      • Note: Weirdly the Manhattan voidout is separate from "ground zero" which is by the Great Lakes?
      • Note: It's strongly implied but not said outright that Bridget bringing back Sam is what causes the Death Stranding?

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    • Bridget becomes President.

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    • A horrified public becomes aware of the BB experiments. Bridget pledges to discontinue them, but secretly keeps them going, believing they're still the key to averting the apocalypse. Eventually, she starts to see the BBs not just not just as BT detectors but as the foundations for the chiral network. Later, some of the BB tech makes its way into terrorist hands.

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    • Sam is raised as Bridget's adopted son. She's a distant mother but Sam visits her alter ego, Amelie, on the beach and they become close. He believes her to be his step-sister and is unaware of her true nature as Bridget's alter ego.

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    • Using his ability to defy death, Sam becomes a prominent member of Bridges, some kind of quasi-governmental security outfit started to help pick up the pieces after the Death Stranding.

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    • Sam, carrying unaddressed trauma from his violence infancy and further isolated by his repatriate abilities, has a fear of intimacy and touch. Under pressure from Bridget, he agrees to go to therapy.

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    • Sam marries his therapist, Lucy, who's initially skeptical of all the Death Stranding mumbo jumbo and thinks the beach is a mass delusion.

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    • Lucy becomes pregnant with a daughter, whom they intend to name Louise.

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    • Lucy becomes afflicted with Bridget's dreams of the apocalypse, channeled to her by the fetus.

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    • Tormented by her visions and alone while Sam is on the road for Bridges, Lucy commits suicide by overdose. (Bizarrely for a doctor who's otherwise portrayed as being incredibly thoughtful and compassionate, she deliberately leaves herself to die in a setting where she knows she'll likely necrotize and kill other people. Weird.)

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    • Sam rushes back but arrives too late. He is suspected of both her death and the ensuing voidout and resigns from Bridges in shame and disillusioned.

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    • Sam lives life as a freelance porter and a loner for some years.

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    • Fragile, the daughter of the proprieter of a major shipping company who has DOOMS and can jump between people's beaches, takes over the family business.

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    • Higgs, an orphan with DOOMS who was raised by an abusive relative in the wilderness in a prepper shelter, partners up with Fragile.

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    • While her body serves as President, Bridget's soul is still stranded on the beach, experiencing time at a much slower rate. After many years, she realizes she's an exctinction entity, decides her efforts to stop the apocalypse are futile, and instead decides to bring it about quickly to, I guess, get it over with.

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    • Higgs goes from wanting to deliver for altruistic reasons to craving power. Amelie, Bridget's alter ego, approaches him and offers him exactly that, if he'll partner with her to try to hasten the coming of the apocalypse. He starts a separatist group, Homo Demens, blows up a city, and dunks fragile in Timefall as part of a sick challenge in which she must avert another explosion. (No satisfactory motive is ever ascribed to Higgs for this degree of animosity towards Fragile, who he was friendly with beforehand, beyond a blanket "he's crazy/had a rough childhood.")

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    • Bridget/Amelie also unleash from the beach Cliff's soul, who periodically pulls Sam into nightmarish warzone beaches in a mad quest for revenge and/or to get back his lost son.

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    • Bridget summons Sam back and wants to enlist him in what's presented as a rescue mission for Amelie, in which he'll need to connect facilities across the country to the beach via he "chiral network" Bridget has spent all these years envisioning. In fact, the chiral network is not designed to help humanity confront the apocalypse, but is instead a scheme to connect everyone to Bridget's beach so she can wipe out the world with antimatter.

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    • BB-28, initially scheduled for decommission, is instead kept by Sam. The two bond and Sam starts calling BB-28 "Lou." Sam begins having visions of Cliff from a BB's perspective, and initially thinks these are BB-28's memories.

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    • With the help of the supporting cast—Lockne and Mama, Deadman, DieHardman, Heartman, and Fragile, each a lost soul in his or her own way as a result of the Death Stranding—Sam connects the whole country to Bridget's beach. He's tormented by Higgs, who keeps trying to blow shit up, and by Cliff.

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    • Realizing he's been duped (and that the chiral network is literally built on TORTURED BABIES) Sam goes to Bridget's beach, confronts her, and convinces her, by hugging her, that it's worth saving humanity. She agrees to cut off her beach from the world. This outcome is bittersweet, since Sam will never see his adoptive mother again, and Bridget will remain stranded alone on her beach forever.

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    • Fragile gets her revenge on Higgs, giving him a choice between death and an eternity trapped on the beach. It's implied he kills himself, since we hear gunfire? She goes on to join Bridges as a private contractor.

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    • DieHardman becomes President and continues the project of rebuilding America. The rest of the gang has various happy endings (Heartman gives up his search for his lost family, Lockne and Mama become astronauts, weirdly, etc.).

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    • BB-28 is damaged by the adventure and commissioned for destruction. Deadman deactivates the cuffs that Bridges uses to track Sam, giving him the choice to defy orders and revive and run away with BB-28.

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    • Sam learns the importance of connection and likes hugs again, but he's still (and the game appears to be) lukewarm on the whole "rebuilding American might" project and decides to break out BB, destroy his cuffs, and go off into the wilderness.
      • While deciding to save BB, Sam realize that the flashbacks are his own, not BB's, and that Cliff is his father.

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    • The game ends with Sam calling BB-28, previously just "Lou" to him, "Louise."
      • This creates a "twist" in which we learn that the game's suggestions that BB-28 is a boy, and may in fact be Sam himself, were just red herrings. This doesn't really feel like an earned reveal so much as just...an acknowledgment that the game had a bunch of characters fib to us along the way.
      • It also makes explicit that Sam gets to live happily ever after with an adopted daughter who fills the emotional void left when his biological daughter died, which is nice (and would be nicer if the game even bothered to include one iota of the Lucy/Louise plot, you know, in the game itself and not in an email you can only access later in a menu system).
      • As an aside, it also lands the game in a muddled place politically, where it's both anti-nanny-state/libertarian about individual freedoms on the one hand and also aggressively pro-life (maybe by accident? Wonder how thought out this was on Kojima's part) on the other.

    Does that all square with the understanding of the lore experts here? I think the biggest point of confusion for me is the sequence of events around the Manhattan void-out, the ground zero void-out, the start of the BB experiments, and the start of Bridget's chiral network scheme.

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