Canavero is going to have an interview about this conspiracy with one of the major italian public TV broadcaster. I will post it when it goes online.
Well congrats GAF. Game's gonna get delayed into 2016. Pre-order cancelled. Game over.
What the fuck???
Will there be a livestream?
Amazing.Kojima just shot himself in the foot.
I don't know how much the rest of you know about Internet conspiracy culture (I'm an expert), but truthfulness and integrity are huge parts of it. It's not like it is on Fox News where you can become successful by playing people like a damn fiddle. If you screw someone over on the Internet, you bring shame to yourself, and the only way to get rid of that shame is repentance.
What this means is the Internet public, after hearing about this, is not going to want to purchase MGS5 for any system, nor will they purchase any of Kojima's games. This is HUGE. You can laugh all you want, but Kojima has alienated an entire market with this move.
Kojima, publicly apologize and pay Canavero 4-5mx60 compensation or you can kiss your business goodbye.
The mystery to me is how anyone in this thread managed to come to the conclusion that it's more likely a man performing a head transplant with magic ingredients (his words) and a mountain of evidence pointing to MGS is nothing but a strange man with strange coincidences.
Did Moby Dick Studios do any stuff in swedish channels?
We've really done it now, GAF.Canavero is going to have an interview about this conspiracy with one of the major italian public TV broadcaster. I will post it when it goes online.
I'm just not sure how some obscure relationship would help market the game.The mystery to me is how anyone in this thread managed to come to the conclusion that it's more likely a man performing a head transplant with magic ingredients (his words) and a mountain of evidence pointing to MGS is nothing but a strange man with strange coincidences.
I'm just not sure how some obscure relationship would help market the game.
Did Moby Dick Studios do any stuff in swedish channels?
Haha OMG Gaf stahp, pls!Canavero is going to have an interview about this conspiracy with one of the major italian public TV broadcaster. I will post it when it goes online.
Canavero is going to have an interview about this conspiracy with one of the major italian public TV broadcaster. I will post it when it goes online.
But how would they spring it?You don't see how viral marketing and free advertisement in social media and online newspapers can help spread awareness of a product?
You don't see how viral marketing and free advertisement in social media and online newspapers can help spread awareness of a product?
Awareness is one thing.
Advertising to the correct audience is another thing entirely.
But how would they spring it?
Two days before release "Hey, I'm not making an actual head transplant, haha. Please buy MGS 5" ?
Or were they waiting for someone to uncover it?
Awareness is one thing.
Advertising to the correct audience is another thing entirely.
You don't see how viral marketing and free advertisement in social media and online newspapers can help spread awareness of a product?
That's the thing that gets me. Everyone is willing to accept that he's a loon. Obviously what he's attempting with today's technology is insane, and by his own accounts, he's using "magic ingredients" and logical fallacies referring to the extent of his patient's suffering to explain the procedure's possibility.It's not like there are no crackpots in this world, even such that have conventional accomplishments to show.
Well, I mean it's not advertising as long no one knows it's advertising a product. I just wonder how they were planning to make the jump from fake headstransplant to "MGS 5 out now" and have the media go with itWhat do you mean? I don't really think that's important in this scenario, unless I'm misunderstanding.
I find hard to believe that this is all a marketing stunt. It's getting way to big and out of control. Dr Canavero is a well known doctor, would he go to TV and lie about all of this puting at risk his credibility and his lifes work?
In the other hand that interview with kotaku really felt like he was trying to seem surprised. And Kojima saying he could be fired or banned from the industry or whatever he said this is a good reason to me
mountain of evidence
I really doubt this will go a further than idle threats of a lawsuit. If Kojima has an actor that they modelled the doctor character after, I don't think the guy has a leg to stand on.Really not classy to blow this up. Saw the potential lawsuit from him coming a mile away:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=160724671&postcount=1492
And it now it turns out Kojima just used someone like him.
I really doubt this will go a further than idle threats of a lawsuit. If Kojima has an actor that they modelled the doctor character after, I don't think the guy has a leg to stand on.
But the mountain of evidence pointing to a link with MGS is dismissed because he has/had a link to credible research papers. People in this thread are reasoning that a man losing his credibility for a publicity stunt over *just* an impossible surgery, despite the should-be-obvious pile of evidence pointing a link to MGS, is somehow more likely than a man doing those things because he's actually affiliated with the mountain of evidence.
That's the thing that gets me. Everyone is willing to accept that he's a loon. Obviously what he's attempting with today's technology is insane, and by his own accounts, he's using "magic ingredients" and logical fallacies referring to the extent of his patient's suffering to explain the procedure's possibility.
So people can acknowledge that it's not real medicine/science, and this is a man trying to get attention at the cost of his credibility.
But the mountain of evidence pointing to a link with MGS is dismissed because he has/had a link to credible research papers. People in this thread are reasoning that a man losing his credibility for a publicity stunt over *just* an impossible surgery, despite the should-be-obvious pile of evidence pointing a link to MGS, is somehow more likely than a man doing those things because he's actually affiliated with the mountain of evidence.
His published research is irrelevant either way; he's proposing an operation that the medical science field thinks is "nuts", but people here are using his now-broken ties to research as a means to dismiss the obvious connections. "He can't be related to a game because he's a real doctor who published research, and is now a cook with an impossible objective."
Not to mention the extreme ridiculousness of his proposal! He claims he's capable of reattaching a severed spinal cord to a severed head ("in under an hour!" give me a break) without any prior animal testing or surgery to mend those with spinal injuries. It's insane.
This post hasn't even begun to address the abundance of ties to the game, just his lack of professionalism. It's as though people are willing to ignore the mountain of evidence suggesting affiliation as coincidence because he's not a made-up person.
Canavero is going to have an interview about this conspiracy with one of the major italian public TV broadcaster. I will post it when it goes online.
Not to mention the extreme ridiculousness of his proposal! He claims he's capable of reattaching a severed spinal cord to a severed head ("in under an hour!" give me a break) without any prior animal testing or surgery to mend those with spinal injuries. It's insane.
Like what? They used an actor that looks like him, but didn't use his actual face? He spoke at a conference that takes place near a location in a world-spanning game? He used hyperbolic abbreviations when talking about his crackpot procedure that he's going to use to milk tons of money from desperate terminal patients?
All this orchestrated by the guy who, last time he did a viral marketing stunt, literally spelled out "Metal Gear Solid V" in the very first trailer related to it?
Like what? They used an actor that looks like him, but didn't use his actual face? He spoke at a conference that takes place near a location in a world-spanning game? He used hyperbolic abbreviations when talking about his crackpot procedure that he's going to use to milk tons of money from desperate terminal patients?
All this orchestrated by the guy who, last time he did a viral marketing stunt, literally spelled out "Metal Gear Solid V" in the very first trailer related to it?