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Russian Head Transplant Doctor Looks Identical to Doctor in MGSV - KOJIMA!
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I think it's a certainty that Kojima is familiar with this guy's work, and all the references in the game must be intentional.
The only real question is whether or not there is some weird co-promotion going on with the two of them.
rofl
I get it now.
The transplant is real. Kojima is trying to build the first bridge between biology and technology. He is going to transplant this mans head onto a new body in MGS5.
MrCunningham
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#TeamLegit (as in, the doctor is real)
#TeamFiddle (as in, Kojima is playing you like one)
VolticArchangel
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Also reminds me of the Silent Hills TGS Trailer.
R.I.P.
R.I.P.
BreezyLimbo
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I can see the doctor giving his likeliness for Kojima to use. It would mean that the head transplant being announced this year is no coincidence..think about it. Kojima mentions covering something taboo, but that he made an ally. The Dr meanwhile...a head transplant can be seen as taboo as well, both ethical and spiritual in the religious community. Maybe they both met up, discussed their works and ideas to each other, and supported each other? I can see it happening.
You know, that really makes me skeptical of the whole thing. Wouldn't it be, I don't know, smarter to try it first on monkeys if he believes the advances in science and medicine have since made it possible to transplant a head without facing the same obstacles in 1971? Just skipping that step and trying it straight on a human sounds just a bit insane.
Bonus: The name of the dude who wrote the article is Rex Macadangdang lol.
Yeah, have you seen his Ted talk? He sounds crazy.
Sephiroth_GR_
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Oh God
MrCunningham
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LOL! Looks like Despera's avatar (who brought all of this anyway
Timothy Gibbs?
pinkurocket
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I love this thread. This speculation is so ridiculous that it just sounds too farfetched to be true... but at the same time no one would be surprised if this really is connected to MGSV. It's just... Kojima.
Just watched it and yeah, with the spaghettis and the bananas, he doesn't exactly instill confidence in his research lol
The Silver
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Kojima doesn't even have to do shit anymore, the fans create the marketing campaign for him.
Well, that is what the patroits planned for anyways.
Doctor_Thomas
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This is a man that made a fake studio and studio executive to pretend they were creating a game called The Phantom Pain and pretended it wasn't Metal Gear Solid V.
He then did the same thing with PT and created a new studio and no one realised what had happened until right at the end of it.
He hid an entire character from a game until everyone played it.
This is Kojima-esque. Pretend you have been fired and your studio disbanded, basically have no Twitter access and also have a Russian doctor perform a head transplant... a doctor who just happens to look like the doctor in your game....
KOOOOJJIIIIMMMMAAAAAAA!!!
He then did the same thing with PT and created a new studio and no one realised what had happened until right at the end of it.
He hid an entire character from a game until everyone played it.
This is Kojima-esque. Pretend you have been fired and your studio disbanded, basically have no Twitter access and also have a Russian doctor perform a head transplant... a doctor who just happens to look like the doctor in your game....
KOOOOJJIIIIMMMMAAAAAAA!!!
RadioHammer500
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its possible this guy met up with Kojima as a consult for MGS V.... and kojima used him as an inspiration
just like they probably used this guy for inspiration for Senator Armstrong
just like they probably used this guy for inspiration for Senator Armstrong
I dunno, a head transplant at this stage is more batshit insane than taboo, compared to some of the stuff already covered in MGS I'd say it's pretty mild.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTHHT39A3Vw The Italian Ted talk is just as weird, he begins it with Alphaville's Forever Young and ends it with Queen's Who Wants To Live Forever? while he's just standing there and says "Are you ready to be immortal?" Then walks off.
Not quite. The main reason head transplantation is rarely subject of study is because severing the spinal cord will render the patient quadriplegic. I'm not even sure if the nerves responsible for autonomous systems like breathing can be re-attached, so there's the chance of being on artificial breathing for life too. This severely limits the usefulness of the procedure and this particular doctor said himself that he did not solve these problems: his goal is simply to keep the head alive. It's just that this particular patient would rather live on as a quadriplegic than be killed by his decaying paralyzed body.
BreezyLimbo
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Hahaha he's ok in my book.
ichtyander
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Also Joakim is an anagram for Kojima.
Funny thing is,this character may have been around since 1990. Some people suspect that it is the character Dr. Kio Marv who made his first appearance in Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake for the MSX computer. The character was also referenced in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, as well. But who knows? Maybe the design looked simaler enough that Kojima made him look like this real world doctor. The design for Kio Marv was also reconnected for that Metal Gear collection on the PS3/ 360.
Here's the explanation I needed.
Now I can get out the carnival tent and pretend nothing happened.
RadioHammer500
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wait did konami really redesign Kio Marv in the mgs collection?
Except he says he expects his patient to walk after about a year of training.
Spinal reattachment hasn't even be demonstrated in animal models and he expects it to work on humans on the first try just because he's going to perform a clean and precise cut? It's more likely that he'll just disappear after getting the hands on his funding money.
exmachina64
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You can hear from him directly why he'll be the first to successfully perform a head transplant and open a new frontier in medicine in the TEDxLimassol video: because he's a delusional fool who shouldn't be practicing medicine. One of the first things out of his mouth in the video is that he'll be able to do it because the "medical establishment" won't explore exciting new avenues of research (pseudoscience).
RadioHammer500
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so do you guys the majority of doctors think this guy will fail with this surgery
i wonder what the consensus is among surgeons of this guy and this procedure?
i wonder what the consensus is among surgeons of this guy and this procedure?
They probably think it's a bad idea: http://www.livescience.com/50074-head-transplants-wont-happen.html
RowdyReverb
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Legal may have been the wrong term. I was thinking that the doctor could potentially sue for defamation, and doesn't usage of one's likeness for public sale and distribution require permission?
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