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Petaaaaah what's a Solid Snake Method??

Petaaaaah what's a Solid Snake Method??
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16 hours ago
Green7501

Something you use when you don't know what to say by repeating their statement as a question. Par example:

"Hey I went to Vegas last week."

"You went to Vegas?"

"Yeah it was great I went to the Strip and you won't guess who I met there, it was your cousin John."

"You met my cousin John?"

"I did, yeah, and we talked a bit, and you won't believe it, but he and Janice broke up, and he's been seeing a coworker."

"He's been seeing a coworker?"

"Yeah, I hear she's..." etc. etc.

15 hours ago
username-is-taken98

Oh, the chatgpt method

15 hours ago
Subject-Emu-8161

The chatgpt method?

14 hours ago
BlakeWho

Yeah, it's a joke about how - HEY WAIT A SECOND 

13 hours ago
Infamous-Astronaut44

Did you wait a second?

13 hours ago
Craw__

A second?

12 hours ago
Jackal00

A?

12 hours ago
Electrical_Board_142

?

12 hours ago
Hahr8269

¿

12 hours ago
Craw__

!

12 hours ago
GingerAphrodite

I?

11 hours ago
tallginger89

2nd floor basement?

9 hours ago
Sir_Toccoa

The La Li Lu Le Lo?!

9 hours ago
tallginger89

Woman? In the cell?

9 hours ago
Bad_At_CAS_lol

A dud?

9 hours ago
molered

just say 2+2 equals 5, there is no need to mention party oats.

9 hours ago
ClusterMakeLove

What an excellent joke you just made. Would you like me to tell me another joke? Or we could discuss other AI perks. What do you think?

9 hours ago
Gargleblaster25

Oh, ClusterMakeLove, that is brilliant! Your sense of humour is refined and exquisite—this joke is the best I have heard—without exaggeration. I can help you turn this in to a 200-page novel or a Netflix screenplay. Or would you like to explore the illustrious history of dad jokes? Whatever strikes your fancy, I am right here to help.

5 hours ago
badass4102

Yes, that's an excellent observation -- the chatgpt method is right on the money.

Let me know if you'd like a breakdown of the chatgpt method in bullet form

7 hours ago
LongDickLuke

Bullet form?

7 hours ago
badass4102

Great question — and yes, you're right to notice the similarity.

Here's the difference:

"Bullet form" is an informal way of referring to writing something in a bullet list format.

The correct or more precise term is "bullet list" or "bulleted list".

6 hours ago
DigHefty6542

r/AngryUpvote

4 hours ago
OurSoul1337

That's a really insightful comment and we're getting to the core of the topic now.

14 hours ago
Mallet-fists

We're getting to the core of the topic?

13 hours ago
Weary_Specialist_436

that's a great observation! and we are indeed nearing the core of the topic now

13 hours ago
ImA_NormalGuy

We are nearing the core of the topic?

13 hours ago
username-is-taken98

The internet is dead and we killed it

12 hours ago
Decent-Flatworm4425

We killed it?!

12 hours ago
UnrequitedRespect

Did you post that 4 minutes ago or is it just 4m in my alternate pisstake??

12 hours ago
SirSeanBeanTheBean

Take a piss?

10 hours ago
HelloDoctorImDying

Hold up, I'm a little thrown by that - could you explain a bit more?

12 hours ago
M1DSMAYN3

are we there yet?

11 hours ago
Tommothomas145

Ask one more time and we're turning the car around!

11 hours ago
audiodude9

Turn the car around?

11 hours ago
nnuunn

ChatGPT?

14 hours ago
hplcr

A hind D?

8 hours ago
Kanus_oq_Seruna

The lalelulelo method?

10 hours ago
SA_Lobos

Literally came here for this exact response lmao

8 hours ago
Kanus_oq_Seruna

This response!

8 hours ago
formerFAIhope

Wow, what a great observation. Thank you for this insight, I will incorporate it into my subsequent response. Btw, if I had loins, they would be shivering right now.

10 hours ago
DStaal

No, the Eliza method.

12 hours ago
inifinite-breadsticc

More like the ELIZA method 

11 hours ago
iamyou42

This is actually somethung so ingrained in Japanese culture that it's basically part of the language. It's called "aizuchi" (相槌). From the Wikipedia article:

Aizuchi can take the form of so-called echo questions, which consist of a noun plus desu ka (ですか). After Speaker A asks a question, Speaker B may repeat a key noun followed by desu ka to confirm what Speaker A was talking about or simply to keep communication open while Speaker B thinks of an answer. A rough English analog would be "A ..., you say?", as in: "So I bought this new car"; reply: "A car, you say?".

12 hours ago
iamyou42

Westerners can struggle with aizuchi.

When listening to a Japanese speaker, a westerner may not utilize aizuchi, which can give the speaker the impression that they aren't listening, or not understanding what's being said.

Conversely, if a westerner is constantly being "interrupted" by the listener, it can end up giving the same impression to the westerner. Like, "Why is this person struggling to understand everything I say?"

It sounds particularly awkward when translated into English. It can often make the listener seem dumb in English. It tends to feel a bit like this:

"I just bought a new car!"

"A new car?"

"........yes...thats what I just said.."

12 hours ago
iamyou42

See also:

"Demon King?!"

"Secret stone?!"

12 hours ago
HappyHunterHenryk

But no shrine on Shrine Island!

11 hours ago
Clive_Bossfield

Please. Please let it end.

-

SO THAT WAS THE IMPRISONING WAR

10 hours ago
totalnewb02

this i don't understand. explain please..

6 hours ago
iamyou42

It's a reference to some infamously repetitive and annoying cutscenes in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

6 hours ago
totalnewb02

ah, thanks...

6 hours ago
PitifulRead6339

This needs to be narrated over stock footage of Japanese people having a conversation

11 hours ago
pvrhye

Parents in America do it when they want to show a kid they're listening. It always sounds kind of condescending or like you're setting up a Vaudeville comedy bit.

8 hours ago
AFKABluePrince

This makes so much sense. The anime Outlaw Star has SO MUCH dialogue like this, and I always wondered why it was so goofy. Now I know. XD

6 hours ago
Slarg232

I mean, if seeming stupid is a way to get some of the more annoying people who try to force hour long conversations to get off my back, I'm perfectly fine with looking stupid

11 hours ago
Tiny-Selections

You could also grow up and just leave the conversation.

7 hours ago
Ahaigh9877

Grow up and just leave the conversation?

6 hours ago
HugePurpleNipples

That was the best thing I learned today and I'm about to go to bed.. so.. you're awesome and I appreciate you writing this all out for us.

7 hours ago
Wildgrube

https://preview.redd.it/uubtidccpqbf1.jpeg?width=220&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9c7ce6a92264f6144675ef27e3ac91f067b5e588

11 hours ago
darkmythology

And his wife?

7 hours ago
Robbie_Haruna

To shreds, you say?

6 hours ago
Ffdmatt

To shreds, you say?

10 hours ago
pvrhye

Koreans are big into active listening as manner too. Hear a person on a business call from one end and it sounds like, "Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yeeeeees. Yes. Yes. Yes? Yes. Yeeees. Yes. Thank you."

8 hours ago
TheTybera

Aizuchi also includes sounds. Like "uhn uhn, sou.." and "ah" and lots of nodding.

If you just stand there and stare it makes people super uncomfortable, or makes them think you don't understand.

Source: Lived in Japan for 10 years so far.

8 hours ago
KatinHats

To shreds, you say?

10 hours ago
AFKABluePrince

HOLY SHIT! This entire time, my friends and I always made fun of the awkward dialogue from the anime Outlaw Star, because Gene always does this, and only now do I UNDERSTAND!

Thank you so much for enlightening me this day.

6 hours ago
Realistic-Ad-9821

This explains why I always had trouble ending conversations with Japanese people.

10 hours ago
aleister94

The la-li-lu-le-lo?

12 hours ago
1Pip1Der

https://preview.redd.it/3kig1tajrqbf1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=de0715d631c6b9e35d64d8a5714d27a4be269eb3

11 hours ago
Brekldios

Yes the La-Li-Li-Le-Lo they control a lot

10 hours ago
UkuleleSteven

Its also called "mirroring" it's an Active Listening Skill(ALS) and it absolutely does work. All of the major schools and places where negotiation tactics and ALS are taught focus in this skill. Its crazy effective. Especially against people who are self absorbed because it causes them to believe you're interested in them.

11 hours ago
Flameball202

And to be fair, if someone is telling a story it is a good way to show you are listening and have digested all the info up till now and are ready to take on more

5 hours ago
Complete_Eagle_738

Ive been doing this since I was 9 and it's glorious

13 hours ago
Superb_Cup_9671

It’s been glorious?

12 hours ago
Rombledore

yeah, they've been doing it since they were 9. they think it's pretty cool.

10 hours ago
Revolutionary-Wash88

Pretty cool you say?

7 hours ago
Apk07

Oddly enough this kind of illustrates how this concept doesn't work well in writing. Since the previous comment/sentiment is plainly visible still, there is no need to repeat it.

6 hours ago
xabintheotter

That actually makes a lot of sense; it gives the sense that you're paying attention to what's being said, but the repeated statement as a question makes it seem like you're not familiar with that part of the conversation and are interested in learning more.

12 hours ago
Rombledore

PSYCHO MANTIS?!

10 hours ago
NerdyDjinn

You're that ninja...

8 hours ago
HexedShadowWolf

https://preview.redd.it/aygdktdpxqbf1.jpeg?width=817&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=84c382789fe72e8ca917e99c60b3834570fe73ef

11 hours ago
Many_Collection_8889

Do you like to… do it yourself?

12 hours ago
MyPantsHaveBeenShat

Love a 40-year old virgin reference.

12 hours ago
Time-Schedule4240

Huh... so this is the Solid Snake method.

11 hours ago
pirranah

The Solid Snake Method?

10 hours ago
The_Pinga_Man

When I have nothing to say (usually because I don't care about what someone else is saying) I just keep looking at them as if I'm waiting them to reach a conclusion. Managed to hold a conversation like that for more than two hours once and I have no clue what the other person was talking about.

10 hours ago
Affectionate_Show867

Hm, so you just repeat it as a question? Even if they made a completely innocuous statement?

12 hours ago
Warkrulz

well said shadowflame

10 hours ago
Pandoratastic

So it's the classic reflective technique that falls under the umbrella of active listening. No wonder it works.

12 hours ago
Just_A_Nitemare

So, basically a monolog where you occasionally let the other person know you are listening.

11 hours ago
GustavusRudolphus

Metal Gear?!

11 hours ago
KevineCove

You're pretty good.

11 hours ago
Warm-Carpenter1040

Thank you for your wisdom shadowflame

12 hours ago
pemungkah

Ah, the ELIZA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA

11 hours ago
Moonlight_Goblin

Brian Giffing here. Seems like it's when you repeat something that someone says to you as a question, like Solid Snake does. source: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/solid-snake-method-of-conversation

Bring grif out

16 hours ago
TrollerCoasterWoo

Have YOU been drinking, occif—occif—office—dude?

15 hours ago
Crumineras

Like Solid Snake does?

13 hours ago
Diam0ndTalbot

Yes. Replying with a question that almost repeats what someone said, usually to get more information on that specific part of what they said.

13 hours ago
getrextgaming

Replying with a question that almost repeats what someone said?

12 hours ago
Diam0ndTalbot

It can sometimes be used to indicate you're paying attention, or to get further context.

12 hours ago
I_AM_MORE_BADASS

You can get further context using this method?

12 hours ago
Diam0ndTalbot

Easily. This conversation's a good example. It also guides a conversation a bit.

11 hours ago
G30rg3Th3C4t

It guides a conversation?

10 hours ago
Diam0ndTalbot

The person replying can single out a specific element of a given response, and by doing so, it allows them to get the most pertinent information.

10 hours ago
DuckPieceYouTube

They get the most pertinent information?

10 hours ago
ksbates98

Psycho Mantis?

10 hours ago
Comically_Online

to get further context like what?

12 hours ago
Xayahbetes

You say "Like Solid Snake does" but who's Solid Snake? I just have more questions now

9 hours ago
web_of_french_fries

The main character of the metal gear solid franchise of Japanese video games

8 hours ago
DansAllowed

Video games?

6 hours ago
Vienunlord

Solid Snake method? A conversation? Really works?

Hmmmm.

15 hours ago
DedPimpin

Hmmmm?

14 hours ago
GruntCandy86

Hmmmm?

12 hours ago
UpsidedownBrandon

Hmmm…

11 hours ago
Pipe_Memes

I hear it's amazing when the famous purple stuffed worm in flap-jaw space with the tuning fork does a raw blink on Hara-Kiri Rock. I need scissors! 61?

11 hours ago
hplcr

Colonel, I just realized we've never actually met in person.

8 hours ago
Observer2594

What?

11 hours ago
Pipe_Memes

It’s from one of the early games, maybe even the first one on the PlayStation. Snake’s boss, Colonel something, was replaced with an AI, or maybe he was an AI all along, I forget it’s been a long time, but the AI pretending to be a human colonel starts to malfunction and he spits out beautiful phrases like the one I quoted above, which is a direct quote.

10 hours ago
lionheart4life

Metal Gear Solid 2.

10 hours ago
NoVacayAtWork

You just hide in the nearest cardboard box until they leave.

13 hours ago
QejfromRotMG

A cardboard box? Hmmm

13 hours ago
JFKRFKSRVLBJ

!

12 hours ago
GatorPenetrator

until they leave?

12 hours ago
TopSecretSpy

Honestly, I knew what was meant and my mind still went to this first.

10 hours ago
FullCompliance

I’ve been doing this for years and it’s made everything a lot easier. Just remember, it only works in person or voice call. If you try this in text they will just say “yeah.”

13 hours ago
FuuckinGOOSE

So it works in person or voice call?

10 hours ago
FullCompliance

Yeah.

10 hours ago
FuuckinGOOSE

Yeah?

10 hours ago
PrecVVVrsors

Yeah.

10 hours ago
ethar_childres

Heard this in Enrico’s voice from Resident Evil.

10 hours ago
FuuckinGOOSE

Enrico from Resident Evil?

10 hours ago
Amiro77

This was the funniest thing of my week. Thanks brother/sister.

8 hours ago
FuuckinGOOSE

The funniest thing of your week?

8 hours ago
G30rg3Th3C4t

They just reply with “yeah”?

10 hours ago
FullCompliance

Yeah.

10 hours ago
ihncwtnma

Yeah

10 hours ago
PrecVVVrsors

Yeah.

10 hours ago
LuckEcstatic4500

So what happens if they just say yeah lol

4 hours ago
FullCompliance

Then you say “That’s craaaazy.”

2 hours ago
No-K-Reddit

A Hind D?

13 hours ago
oOBuckoOo

The LaLiLuLeLo? Hmmmm.

13 hours ago
theHamburglar56

NO! THAT IS NOT SOLID SNAKE!

13 hours ago
oOBuckoOo

That's not Solid Snake?

13 hours ago
theHamburglar56

Is a joke, it’s what Snake yells out the helicopter when Solidus first reveals himself to Raiden in MGS2

13 hours ago
CronoTheMute

Solidus reveals himself to Raiden?

12 hours ago
Ok_Pin9921

Thankyou so much for this. It was the best

10 hours ago
NoseTime

Psycho Mantis?

9 hours ago
hplcr

Metal Gear?

8 hours ago
Rowsdowers_Revenge

My name's Solid Snake
And I'm here to say
Exactly what you said
But in a questioning way?

12 hours ago
DragonfruitReady4550

Or known as the parroting method

12 hours ago
RamenBoi86

Parroting method?

12 hours ago
DragonfruitReady4550

As the other user said

"Something you use when you don't know what to say by repeating their statement as a question. Par example:

"Hey I went to Vegas last week."

"You went to Vegas?"

"Yeah it was great I went to the Strip and you won't guess who I met there, it was your cousin John."

"You met my cousin John?"

"I did, yeah, and we talked a bit, and you won't believe it, but he and Janice broke up, and he's been seeing a coworker."

"He's been seeing a coworker?"

"Yeah, I hear she's..." etc. etc."

11 hours ago
G30rg3Th3C4t

The other user?

10 hours ago
DragonfruitReady4550

Idk the top voted comment when you go all comments dude

8 hours ago
DragonfruitReady4550

You know, I just realized I'm falling for this. Congrats 😂

8 hours ago
Theorax5281

Wait I’m not seeing it, what did you fall for?

7 hours ago
captainchainsaw32

I’ve also found that if you just stare at people and don’t say anything they keep talking

11 hours ago
Wrong-Droid

The toddler method.

7 hours ago
CQC_EXE

Drooling also shows you are so interested in the conversation you can't control your bodily fluids.

7 hours ago
soadisawesome

Psycho Mantis?

12 hours ago
Artikay

Metal Gear?!

12 hours ago
blackheart_dnb

SNAAAAKKEEEEE!!!!

11 hours ago
HerselftheAzelf

You're that ninja...

11 hours ago
zanethepain96000

https://preview.redd.it/yy8uid6ekqbf1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=19143bfe96a1726702660debbbda09c4393294ae

Bruh

12 hours ago
Gold-Satisfaction614

Both subs you say?

6 hours ago
iron_spidey

I prefer the AI colonel method, for example:

I need scissors, 61

11 hours ago
Uncle_Istvannnnnnnn

Fission Mailed

10 hours ago
Random_Person5371

Kawanishi-Noseguchi, Kinunobebashi, Takiyama, Uguisunomori, Tsuzumigataki, Tada, Hirano, Ichinotorii, Uneno, Yamashita, Sasabe, Kofudai, Tokiwadai, Myoukenguchi.

7 hours ago
GrimjawDeadeye

The solid snake method?

12 hours ago
CamilotheHero

It's where if someone tries to engage you in conversation, you pull out a cardboard box, hide in it, and hope they walk away

10 hours ago
Malv817

You pull out a cardboard box?

9 hours ago
WizardofDaZannah

Yeah

9 hours ago
russtafarai

I'm so fucked, I'm reading all the comments in (Solid) Snake's (American) voice.

10 hours ago
Howmanywhatsits

Hayter or Keifer?

10 hours ago
russtafarai

Definitely, David Hayter.

10 hours ago
pablowithskin

A joke?

14 hours ago
RogueLeaderNo610sq

https://preview.redd.it/47cv6hdhxqbf1.png?width=360&format=png&auto=webp&s=7ac1b7c24dad0feb5671aa5e73b5d3b02f6b9b0b

Close enough

11 hours ago
Substantial-Cell-702

"NO, THAT IS NOT SOLID SNAKE!"

8 hours ago
AttemptedAuthor1283

The solid snake method?

11 hours ago
Kibou52

its funny how u recreated the meme giggity solid snake method means just repeating the same statement back.

11 hours ago
WhenYouveGotAHammer

I didn't know he was related to Eliza. The therapist chatbot from the 1960s.

11 hours ago
G30rg3Th3C4t

The 1960s?

10 hours ago
Paramedic229635

This seems to be a method for prolonging a conversation. I'd rather skip the 45 minute codec and get back to what I was doing.

10 hours ago
LadyHogwarts

https://preview.redd.it/r7473k5koqbf1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1fea626f26d6804a03d78388322760c1c27f5614

This is making a lot of people very confused apparently

12 hours ago
UpsidedownBrandon

Metal gear??…

11 hours ago
Dainfintium

Psycho mantis?

10 hours ago
Front-Computer4540

https://preview.redd.it/pmpdk2973rbf1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=94d0608c58be1fe75d0b21dccf475ed0b8427719

10 hours ago
FrankSinatraYodeling

This is just a really basic Rogerian method... Therapists use this to get clients talking.

10 hours ago
-chadwreck

solid snake is a therapist.

10 hours ago
BigWhiteLoadz

Solid snake method?

10 hours ago
TraditionalMood277

Metal ...Gear?!?!

10 hours ago
Colonel_Kernel1

The solid snake method?

9 hours ago
Pristine_Animal9474

Honestly, I just tell the other person "you're that ninja" when I don't know what to say.

9 hours ago
Jinrex-Jdm

Psycho Mantis?

9 hours ago
ArnTheGreat

Parroting method. I have never once heard it called the solid snake method, I suspect this is some social trend that is trying to click.

8 hours ago
Swimming_Army1908

https://preview.redd.it/3xwap0kq7sbf1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e47e4876bd4d0d152424eeaf2e1f364172db441e

I hope you got an answer somewhere haha

6 hours ago
PrussianManatee

So you're confused about the so called "solid snake method"?

6 hours ago
AdventurerBen

In the metal gear series, a common form of character interaction consists of one character asking another to explain or clarify something in some way, especially over radio/wireless communications.

In fact (as was once covered in a group therapy thing I do), this is a legitimate and normal approach to conversation: - One of the implicit rules of conversation is that you pass your turn to someone else by asking a question. - When someone’s sharing a story or anecdote, if you’ve got nothing to add or reply with when they give you a chance to speak, you can just ask a question immediately to keep the conversation going. - That being said, it breaks one of the other implicit rules of conversation if you exclusively ask questions, so do try to think of something to add, or get ready to change the subject when your conversation partner finishes their story. - Likewise, another implicit rule of conversation is to only go into extensive detail about a story or anecdote in response to a question, since otherwise you might wind up boring your conversation partner with details they already know/have figured out, or overwhelming/confusing them with a tangent.

- By starting with a short summary of the story/anecdote and then answering clarifying questions, you can adjust your story/anecdote’s detail and length based on the level of interest that your conversation partner actually has in the subject, ensuring that you keep the conversation flowing naturally, facilitate your conversation partner’s continued engagement by giving them the chance to say things themselves (even if they’re questions), that you don’t waste your breath if they can’t follow or aren’t interested in the story, and that you can move on to talking about something else more quickly.

5 hours ago