1984 is real
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I heard “Storm Owl” a lot so I had to try! ⛈️🦉
With my beautiful white LaunchKey from @WeAreNovation 🤍🎹
#megaman #megamanx #megamanx4
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@16bitnostalgia in the running for best overall game ever made
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This is the most documented conversation hack in FBI hostage negotiation, and Hideo Kojima accidentally built a video game around it in 1998.
Chris Voss spent 24 years as the FBI's lead international kidnapping negotiator and worked 150+ hostage cases. The first technique he teaches in his book, his MasterClass, and federal training is called mirroring. The instruction is one sentence: repeat the last 1 to 3 words of what someone just said, with an upward inflection, then stay silent for 4 seconds.
"My day was good."
"It was good?"
"Yeah I got ice cream."
"Ice cream?"
Voss calls it the closest thing in negotiation to a Jedi mind trick. He once mirrored a bank robber mid-hostage-situation and the guy confessed to a separate crime nobody on the scene knew he had committed. He volunteered it. His brain processed the mirror as "this person is with me" and started filling silences with truth.
The mechanism is brain stem-level. We unconsciously copy people we trust. Repeating someone's exact words trips the same circuit that fires when a friend matches your posture or laughs at your joke. Voss's clients call this "unlocking the floodgates of truth-telling." The person being mirrored can't help themselves. They keep talking. They keep going deeper.
Carl Rogers built a branch of psychotherapy on this in the 1950s and called it reflective listening. Patients reached insights in 6 sessions that took 60 in conventional therapy because the silence forces them to keep elaborating instead of waiting for the therapist to interpret.
Kojima's version is the codec. He had a UX problem in 1998. Metal Gear Solid was dense with military lore, character backstory, and Cold War geopolitics, and players were skipping the exposition. So he made Snake's dialogue function as the player's surrogate. "Metal Gear?" "FOXDIE?" "The Patriots?" Every NPC monologue was triggered by a one-word echo. Players got the entire geopolitical thriller delivered conversationally and never noticed they were being lectured because Snake was modeling their exact confusion.
Kojima recently called the codec one of his "greatest inventions." He was right, just for a different reason than he thinks. He didn't invent a UI element. He turned a 50-year-old therapy technique into the most addictive exposition delivery system in gaming.
The smartest people in any room talk the least and ask the question version of what they just heard.
Ch4rl13@milktst
Solid snake method example
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@shaska9999 @midaqih She’s pregnant with his kid now. And they’re hood. That’s how they talk. It’s not representative of anyone but them.
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@ZherkaOfficial zherka you legit carry the comm .. the F&F stream was embarrassing except for your moments. Go harder. Also Clav is losing his way he needs guidance.
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Somebody that LIKES this post will be sent some Raider Tokens TODAY.
Winner announced in the replies as usual!
Must be following @ArcRaidersInfo 🔥

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@NJBeisner he legit became the character from Forgetting Sarah Marshall
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@AshtonForbes @michaelshermer michael Shermer is a dipshit moron
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What about the text messages she sent that say "I did not shoot myself in the head with my own gun?"
That doesn't raise any eyebrows for you?
Or the fact that her father worked on the fusion propulsion project FAST with John Slough in 2001, same John Slough who is cofounder of Helion Energy.
No possibility of shinanigans in your mind?
It's best if you avoid any debate with me. It would be humiliating for you.
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Amy Eskridge died by suicide, a gunshot to the head. Her family does not dispute that official conclusion.
Burlison is voicing the cognitive bias "base rate neglect"
According to the FBI, 27,300 people die each year by gun-inflicted suicide in the U.S. alone.
Interstellar@InterstellarUAP
Rep. Eric Burlison: Says Amy Eskridge was likely MURDERED 😱 "Amy Eskridge was likely murdered by a U.S. aerospace company with a directed energy weapon" "He determined that she was the victim of a directed energy weapon and that she was likely murdered by a U.S. aerospace company." Amy was a scientist linked to the UFO Research. Should Congress investigate these scientist deaths? What do you think?
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@DevontinoBLVCK9 @grok tell me about this video and is any of it real or possible
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@ZherkaOfficial you would have been a faggy loser with no imagination or creative ability
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