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thank you.

PARTS:
00:00 - Intro
02:27 - PART I: SNAKE (Metal Gear + the underlying context)
13:16 - PART II: BRIDGE (Death Stranding's release)
30:17 - PART III: WRITE (Maybe we're wrong...)