Thread:Weedle McHairybug/@comment-1504072-20191220210107/@comment-1672596-20191220221238

Bluerock wrote: You're completely missing the point. The game doesn't create a retcon because this info doesn't exist in the game. We have never used outside (let alone, unpublished) commentary as sources for retcons.

Also, I don't recall posting any naked URLs. I usually use the citation templates, otherwise how would a reader be expected to know what the link even is? They shouldn't be expected to blindly click on it without any context. Maybe, I mistakenly didn't do it one time, but that's no excuse for doing it yourself, especially since you know how to do it properly. Also, Arkhound said he just "found" it, so not exactly reliable, is it? Yeah, you did, quite a while back, before you started doing the whole citation templates thing. I remember that very well (I think it dated back to about the time of Peace Walker). Some of your citations certainly didn't use "Kojima Productions" and year.

And I'm not missing any point. The fact of the matter is, that was made at Kojima's direct order, and Kojima himself stated only his words matter, not the games (that's even why Portable Ops has a gray side to canon right now, because it wasn't made by Kojima). Like, for example, simply saying Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker as a source.

And as far as finding it, when it lists Mr. Kojima as well as Mr. Mori and Mr. Shimomura's names within the script regarding changes they directly suggested, at least three instances, all involving Quiet, it's safe to say it's reliable, since there's no other way they'd be able to report that kind of detail. And anyways, the only other person who MIGHT know where it was found is Simon Arazm, since he generally updates that script regarding any new info he managed to find, including Chico as well as elements about Zero. You can also ask some of the reddit users on this thread since they're apparently responsible for leaking the script, and they would have done it sooner had the Konami reps not told them "no."