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Anon becomes Snake

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For someone with ADD myself it helps to hear the same information again just worded slightly differently.
Unironically I find that repeating what your correspondent said but as a question shows your engagement, especially when they said something more expressive.
- Something more expressive?
  
  Something they'd expect you to react to more vividly, like something surprising, touching or shocking.
- Well, I would add an "Oh shit, " at the beginning, so it would be like
  Oh shit, something more expressive?
  
  Oh shit, oh shit?
- I feel like this would get really tiring/annoying for the speaker
  
  Sure, like everything else when overused, but when done with in moderation it is a nice figure of speech I believe
- It becomes more engaging, especially if said more expressively?
- Are you including when you rephrase the question but the content is essentially the same?
  ^ This is how I do it
  
  ...I ate that huge tiger shrimp when I was there
  You shoved that massive tiger shrimp into your mouth? Good for you.
  Shite, I like that
I can never work out if Kojima is autistic or if that's just how Japanese is when badly translated.
It's all his games as well.
Props to Norman and Troy because they carried the living shit out of DS2...
- I can't remember where I read this, but IIRC it IS a Japanese thing. I mean, anyone can draw a conversation deeper by asking questions, but the Japanese do have a thing for picking one word and making it a question.
  If I recall correctly?
  
  Nani?
- Japanese society is inherently autistic
  Saying ehh ehh hai hai soo desu like Link when he's jumping around to tell people you're still listening (they apparently cannot tell by your face alone, I wonder which group is unable to do so as well... 🤔)
  
  This is called "aizuchi" in Japanese or "backchanneling" more generally and as hard as I try I CANNOT find this paper that I read while studying Japanese linguistics but I remember there was a frequency analysis of time between backchanneling in both English and Japanese in both male and female listeners, and the difference was huge. Something like, female Japanese speakers backchannel every 2 seconds while male English speakers backchannel every 30 seconds.
  
  Blind people?
Incredulous Snake
Though, I mean, people around him will say shit like "Holy fuck, Snake, those are zombies!" so it's actually pretty sane of him to be skeptical.
- Those are zombies?
  
  Eventually you need to reach for an exclamation mark:
  -- Yes, Snake, zombies.
  -- Zombies?!
  You may also want to keep adding both in order for as long as the conversation holds.
Psycho Mantis?
- Second floor basement?!?
  
  Colonel! What's a sublevel foundation doing here?!
- Surveillance camera?!
- Whenever I hear someone do the repeat question in conversation I usually follow it up with either that or "A Hind-D?" under my breath
I forgot where I heard it but supposedly this an actual psychological trick to get people to reveal more information
- It even works, it makes the other person slightly uncomfortable with what they just said and often they will try to justify their words with more information. Only works against obvlivious people who have their guard down tho.
- more information?
- Is it called a question?
  
  Nah, specifically just repeating the last word/bits of their last sentence vs asking a full question. It's about when the other person is on guard against you, if they want to tell you everything anyway I can't see it make a difference either.
  
  ¿Question?
Does so in bold; becomes Solid Snake
Autism?
Anon becomes Snake?
- Snake?
  
  Snake?
virtual mission?
- Virtuous Mission, Snake.
Hmmm…
Fission Mailed!
conversationalist??
fixed
I see.
- Do you know of any place where sailors hang out?
  
  Sailors?
  
  Cold ones for sure.
Add a question mark to every sentence and you become an Aussie.
- Aussie, eh?

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