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PHOENIX (AP) — Having pulled out of the race himself, state Sen. Al Melvin is supporting state Treasurer Doug Ducey for the Republican nomination for Arizona governor.
Melvin dropped out of the race June 23, citing his inability to collect enough contributions to win public funding for his campaign.
The Tucson-area legislator announced Thursday he's endorsing Ducey, whom Melvin called "the very best choice for conservative voters" in the Aug. 26 primary.
Besides Ducey, the remaining GOP hopefuls are former Go Daddy executive Christine Jones, former Mesa Mayor Scott Smith, Secretary of State Ken Bennett, former U.S. Rep. Frank Riggs and former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas.
The winner will face Democrat Fred DuVal in the November general election. Republican Gov. Jan Brewer can't seek a third term.


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treated as routine practices, thereby affording more complete control of the radiation exposure. Missions amenable to control as practices might include security details, decontamination of vehicles, and other scenarios in which hostile action is not expected. |
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Develop and state an explicit radiation protection philosophy that defines missions as falling under the framework of either a practice or an intervention. Practices would be subject to modified requirements of the Army's existing occupational radiation protection program as previously described. It is likely that the situation in Bosnia would fall into this category. Under the committee's recommendations, soldiers would be considered radiation workers if they are assigned military duties that have the potential for radiation exposures that could result in doses in excess of the International Commission on Radiological Protection limits for the public (ICRP, 1991a)—1 mSv per year. A revision of the existing exposure guidance in the ACE Directive would govern those situations that are of an emergency nature and would be managed as interventions. In both cases, keeping doses as low as reasonably achievable will continue to be of primary importance. |
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Clearly state in the policy paragraph of the subsequent versions of the ACE Directive the definitions adopted for practices and interventions in the necessary military context. The procedures that follow the policy statement should address practice and intervention separately. It would seem reasonable for the commander to have the authority to determine which of these frameworks to follow based upon the military mission. |
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Not use the term low level to describe the radiation dose range of 50–700 milligray (mGy) (5–70 rad). Low level may be an appropriate descriptor when comparing these doses to those that may be experienced from the detonation of a nuclear weapon. In the broader context of radiation protection, however, low level clearly implies much lower doses. |
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Use terms other than no risk and normal risk for the risk state categories labeled RES 0 and RES 1A in the table of exposure guidance in Annex A of the ACE Directive. To describe any nonzero dose as no risk is inconsistent with current international positions on the effects of radiation. Likewise, the term normal risk incorrectly implies no additional risk to that from natural background radiation exposures, even though such exposures are considered to contribute very small, possibly negligible, health risks. |
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Avoid the term radiological hazard when describing the exposure of soldiers to radiation, unless the hazard refers to a specific detrimental effect. For most cases in the ACE Directive radiological hazard simply means radiation. |


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Re: SingleColumnValueFilter for empty column qualifier
Hi Jonathan,
Do you mean that cell value is ""? or column qualifier is ""? I am confused by your description. If you were talking about cell value, at the time of put which object do you use for cell value? String? Thanks, Anil On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Jonathan Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to use SingleColumnValueFilter to find only those rows which > have a particular column which is empty. Not sure what to use for the value > (4th arg in const). It does not take null, and I tried something like... > > byte[] v = new byte[0]; > > but that does not seem to work. > > Thanks, > > Jon > -- Thanks & Regards, Anil Gupta |


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However, a new animated series is in the works.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars Ending, New Series in Development | Superhero Hype
However, a new animated series is in the works.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars Ending, New Series in Development | Superhero Hype
"You can cut me off from the civilized world. You can incarcerate me with two moronic cellmates. You can torture me with your thrice daily swill, but you cannot break the spirit of a Winchester. My voice shall be heard from this wilderness and I shall be delivered from this fetid and festering sewer."
Yeah I saw that, I posted the link the "Leia Returning to SW Sequel" thread I had posted. I am highly disappointed with this news because I very much liked the series. I was hoping it was continue on Disney XD.
I can only hope that Disney would take the time to at least use the current writers & animators to make an animated film to close the series out, and give it closure. Or at least be able to link it to Episode 3. I wouldn't even mind if it went straight to dvd. But at least finish it out the way the series started, by a feature length movie.
"Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children." - Walter Elias Disney
I just hope the "bonus content" they said will finish the season out will be a good place to end the series. However the last few episodes where some of their best in years, and if that was then end then it was sure of a way to end!


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Cleveland, OH (Sports Network) - LeBron James scored a game-high 21 points with four rebounds and as many assists, as the Cleveland Cavaliers remained unbeaten at home with a 111-81 trouncing of the Charlotte Bobcats.
Mo Williams logged 15 points and six assists for the Cavs, who moved to a perfect 18-0 at Quicken Loans Arena this season and shrugged off a disappointing loss at Washington on Sunday. Daniel Gibson and Wally Szczerbiak added 15 points each while Anderson Varejao posted 14 points and six rebounds.
The Cavs are the only remaining team in the league with an unblemished home record.
Cleveland next hosts Boston in a marquee matchup on Friday looking to avenge both a season-opening loss at TD Banknorth Garden and last season's playoff ouster in the conference semifinals.
Raymond Felton scored 15 points and Gerald Wallace 14 for the Bobcats, who were in search of their longest winning streak of the season, having won two straight. Boris Diaw collected 10 points, eight boards and six assists while Sean Singletary had 13 points in the loss.
Charlotte was coming off its most impressive win this season, downing the defending NBA champion Celtics 114-106 in overtime Tuesday, but failed to keep the game even remotely close in aiming for the club's first ever win in Cleveland, spanning nine visits.
The Cavs jumped out to a 29-12 advantage after James slammed for two and nailed an off-balance fade-away jumper at the buzzer to close the books on first-quarter play. James' acrobatics were part of a 28-3 run that bridged the first two quarters as back-to-back Szczerbiak three-pointers gave Cleveland a 43-14 lead nearly three minutes into the second.
Charlotte was able to cut the deficit to 17, 60-43, at the break but Cleveland continued its assault and quickly built a 76-48 advantage on seven straight points from Varejao before finishing the frame up 28, 84-56.
The final quarter was more of the same as Cleveland edged Charlotte 27-25 with most of its starters on the bench en route to the lopsided victory.
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A blend of comedy, drama and romance, Bull Durham follows the lives of three characters brought together by the great American pastime. Crash Davis (Kevin Costner) is a perennial Minor Leaguer assigned to the Durham Bulls, a team with a long tradition of mediocrity. There he tutors a young pitching prodigy, Nuke LaLoosh (Tim Robbins) in the ways of baseball, life, and love. Each strikes up a romance with Annie (Susan Sarandon). Rated R. 108 minutes.
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Ahead of Sudan referendum, north and south are arming a border region
(Read article summary)One of the most critical places for the Sudan referendum is Abyei, a border region that has to decide whether to join the north or south. Expecting a confrontation, both sides are arming the area.
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As international mediators push Sudan's presidency toward a political agreement on Abyei in the hopes of giving the region a chance at peace, a flurry of activity is also taking place on the ground. Actors in the region are preparing for the looming Jan. 9 deadline even as the possibility of a referendum slips away – though some seemingly in anticipation of a confrontation.
Recent reports from both Africa Confidential and Small Arms Survey indicate a build-up of armed actors in and around Abyei, a region that under the 2005 peace agreement is supposed to be free of both the northern and southern armies – known as SAF and SPLA, respectively. Northern forces have reportedly gathered around Diffra, Abyei's single – and barely productive – oil field, though it is unclear whether those forces are in Abyei proper. Citing senior SPLM officials, Small Arms Survey reported that four battalions of the northern army have been deployed while according to Africa Confidential, Misseriya militias (believed by some to be armed by Khartoum) have gathered in and around the area. Diffra is a town in northern Abyei that is largely inhabited by Misseriya. The UN peacekeeping mission in Sudan is charged with monitoring military movements and maintains a team site outside of Diffra, but access to the area is often challenging.


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Last post Mar 29, 2012 05:02 AM by Young Yang - MSFT
Mar 22, 2012 09:35 AM|phani25485|LINK
Hi i am trying to create a sample MVC app from thsi link
In the model i have created a entity, NorthwindModel
now In the controller i am unable to refer to this entity namespace like using NorthWindModel
Mar 22, 2012 09:36 AM|thinkrajesh|LINK
Is the model in the same assembly?
Can you post the namespace of your webapp and your model?
Mar 22, 2012 09:44 AM|ignatandrei|LINK
did you add the reference to other project?
Mar 22, 2012 09:52 AM|phani25485|LINK
yes the model is in the same assembly
THis is the namespace of my application
namespace MvcApplication2.Controllers
the model namespace is
Mar 22, 2012 10:04 AM|rajeshw610|LINK
You may try following steps:
1. check namespace of entity data model & name of the class which inherits from ObjectContext class from designer.cs file(inside youdatamodel.edmx)
2. add reference of you data model project in the project consisting of controllers(if required) & include the namespace in your controller
3. now u should be able to refer to data model class in your controller
Mar 22, 2012 10:14 AM|phani25485|LINK
I will explain you clearly the steps that i have done
first i have taken a asp.net mvc 2 project
there are not multiple projects, simple three folders mvc
right clicked model and add new item-ado.net entity model and generated model from database
now right clicked controller add controller.
now i am unable to refer to the entity in the model by using , it is not refering
Mar 22, 2012 01:49 PM|thinkrajesh|LINK
If you are not able to refer the model from the AddControl dialog, then you need to rebuild the project. Sometimes the model doesn't show up.
In extreme cases, you need to close and open the visual studio.
(The above is true, is all other steps, like referencing dlls are done correctly.)
Mar 24, 2012 04:09 AM|phani25485|LINK
What other dlls i need to refer,
strill nto getting
i even tried with linq to sql
Mar 29, 2012 05:02 AM|Young Yang - MSFT|LINK
Did you create the template file?
- Right click on the model's designer surface.
- From the context menu, choose Add Code Generation Item.
- In the Add New Item dialog that opens, select Code from the list of installed templates types on the left.
- Choose the ADO.NET DbContext Generator then click the Add button.
Hope this helpful
Young Yang


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Signed off the shadow roster! Mrucz was a good backup for us. I'm a little surprised no one ever picked him up this year after he was cut.
After Tuesday went by, it was pretty clear they weren't going to sign another LB for this week. There just wasn't enough time for said LB to learn the defense. As for Sharper, the Pats didn't sign him back in 2005 when he was a FA and he ended up signing with the Seahawks, so I am not surprised they didn't sign him now.
Why are we always reporting this guy getting signed and cut? Seems like he's stuck in the revolving door at the Razor...does it matter anymore if he's legally signed or not...he's like a pet by now...cut the leash and he runs right back in a few days or weeks.
A good signing...well after Tuesday as someone said..they weren't going to bring someone NEW in...so I figured either a PSqder..or a shadow roster player would be added...


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Solid Snake in Metal Gear Solid, drawn by Yoji Shinkawa. Shinkawa's design would mark the beginning of consistency and continuity in Snake's design, and similar designs would appear in all later games. |
Series | Metal Gear |
First game | Metal Gear (1987) |
Created by | Hideo Kojima |
Designed by | Yoji Shinkawa (MGS series) Ikuya Nakamura (Ghost Babel) Tsubasa Masao (MG Acid) |
Voiced by (English) | David Hayter |
Voiced by (Japanese) | Akio Ōtsuka |
Motion capture | Mizuho Yoshida (MGS2) Ryoji Okamoto (MGS4) |
Fictional profile | |
Real name | David |
Nationality | American |
Affiliations | FOXHOUND (MG, MG2) CIA (Pre-MG2)[1] Free agent (MGS) Philanthropy (MGS2) Hired assassin/Philanthropy (MGS4) |
Solid Snake (ソリッド・スネーク Soriddo Sunēku ), real name David (デイビッド Deibiddo ),[2][3] is a fictional character and the protagonist of Konami's Metal Gear series. Created by Hideo Kojima, Snake is introduced in the first game of the series, Metal Gear from 1987. Snake has appeared in the majority of subsequent games and spin-offs. Japanese voice actor Akio Ōtsuka voices Snake in Japanese, while actor and screenwriter David Hayter provides the English voice of the character.
Introduced in Metal Gear, Solid Snake is a combination of spy, special operations soldier, and mercenary commando of FOXHOUND – a black operations and espionage unit. He is tasked with disarming and destroying the latest incarnation of Metal Gear, a bipedal nuclear weapon-armed mecha. Controlled by the player, Solid Snake must act alone, supported via radio by commanding officers and specialists. While during his first two appearances Snake's designs were references to Hollywood films, by Metal Gear Solid he was given a consistent design by artist Yoji Shinkawa alongside an established personality.
The character of Solid Snake has been well received by critics to the point he appeared in several lists of best characters in gaming history. His development in the series has been praised although his accelerated aging in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots resulted in mixed reactions.
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While during his debut appearances, Solid Snake's visual appearances were references to popular actors, he was given his own consistent design in Metal Gear Solid. Such design shows him as a brown haired adult wearing dark sneaking suit as well as a bandana. This appearance suffered little changes in the sequel besides the fact Snake was older but during the beginning of the Plant Chapter he disguises himself wearing a uniform. By Metal Gear Solid 4, Solid Snake suffered a notable change as a result of his accelerated aging which makes him look like an elder. Nevertheless, he still wears his sneaking suit for missions and has access to different disguises to look like other characters as well as his younger self.
Solid Snake has been on the battlefield for most of his life,[4] a hardened veteran, he has his emotions buried very deep inside himself. Every one of his missions has different motives.[5] He is immediately shown as a loner[6][7] and with no intentions of taking orders from anyone anymore,[8] he shows no sign of longing for the army or the country he was part of.[9]
Along with these traits he has a more human side, being flirtatious,[10] self-sacrificing[11] and with a strong belief that even on a battlefield friendship[12] and love[13] can flourish, and that violence is not glorious.[14] Although the last bit is debatable due to statements from his enemies and at least one of his allies that he might enjoy all the killing, and even being labelled as being truly evil at one point.[15][16][17]
Metal Gear, initially released in 1987, introduces Solid Snake, the rookie recruit of the elite special-forces unit FOXHOUND. Snake is sent by team leader Big Boss into the rogue nation Outer Heaven to rescue his missing teammate Gray Fox and discover who or what the "METAL GEAR" mentioned is.[18][19] As his mission progresses he finds out that he has been set up; the leader of Outer Heaven is actually Big Boss, who intends to use Metal Gear—an experimental, nuclear-armed mecha—to establish Outer Heaven as a nuclear power.[20] After destroying the Metal Gear itself, he then confronts Big Boss and defeats him.[21]
In the sequel, titled Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake and initially released only in Japan for the MSX2, follows after the original Metal Gear rather than Snake's Revenge; indeed, all later games ignore the events of Snake's Revenge.[22]
Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake sees Solid Snake once again called up to infiltrate a heavily fortified enemy base, this time in Zanzibarland. Zanzibarland has aggravated an international oil crisis and declared themselves a nuclear power by kidnapping Dr. Kio Marv, the creator of a bio-engineered algae that produces an oil substitute, and Dr. Pettrovich Madnar, the developer of the original Metal Gear.[23] Snake infiltrates the base and discovers that Pettrovich and his former comrade Gray Fox have defected to Zanzibar Land, and that Zanzibar Land is led by Big Boss.[24] Snake destroys their new Metal Gear D, and defeats his former comrades Gray Fox and Big Boss.[25][26]
Metal Gear Solid sees Solid Snake pulled out of retirement by Colonel Campbell in a mission to deal with FOXHOUND. Under the leadership of Liquid Snake, FOXHOUND has gone rogue, seizing Shadow Moses Island, an isolated American nuclear weapons disposal facility.[27] Snake infiltrates the base and meets up with Meryl Silverburgh, a rookie soldier, and Dr. Hal "Otacon" Emmerich, the designer of Metal Gear REX. Snake defeats each member of FOXHOUND one by one, destroys Metal Gear REX, and confronts Liquid. Liquid reveals that he and Solid are twin brothers artificially conceived from Big Boss' genes during a government project designed to create the perfect soldier titled "Les Enfants Terribles", in which one brother was genetically modified to be superior over the other.[28] Liquid harbors a strong resentment towards Snake since his brother was given their father's dominant "soldier genes" and Liquid was cast aside. After a grueling series of battles, Liquid dies from the Fox-Die virus that was previously implanted into Snake in order to wipe out FOXHOUND without risking any damage to Metal Gear REX and the Genome soldiers' bodies for retrieval.[29] In the end, it is revealed that Liquid got Big Boss' superior "soldier genes", not Solid.[30]
Solid Snake is the playable character of the extensive prologue sequence of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, in which he is sent by the anti-proliferation organization Philanthropy to infiltrate a cargo tanker and photograph Metal Gear RAY, the latest Metal Gear model.[31] During the operation, however, the Metal Gear RAY is hijacked and the tanker destroyed, with the apparently dead Snake framed for the deed.[32] The remainder of Sons of Liberty follows the actions of the rookie FOXHOUND agent Raiden (the character now controlled by the player), who has been assigned to rescue the U.S. President and a number of other government officials being held hostage at a remote offshore oil shell facility. Solid Snake, who survived the explosion in the prologue, appears throughout the main portion of the game (initially adopting the pseudonym Iroquois Pliskin (イロコィ・プリスキン Irokoi Purisukin ), as a non-playable character who assists Raiden.[33]
The PlayStation 3 game Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots features an aged Snake, once again the main protagonist and identified as Old Snake (オールド・スネーク Ōrudo Sunēku ) by the game. On account of his genetic code being a potential threat if it fell into enemy hands, he was designed with a short life span; as such, while Snake is only 42 years old, he has the body of an old man.[34] In the game, he wears a sneaking suit outfitted with "Octocamo" technology, which allows him to blend with his environment, as well as a face mask which alters his appearance.[35] Snake is once again enlisted by Campbell to defeat Revolver Ocelot who is following Big Boss' by taking control of the Patriots' A.I.s.[36] Snake and his allies are forced to destroy the Patriots' A.I.s to stop Ocelot, and fights most of his soldiers, until killing Ocelot. Having learned that his rapid aging can cause an epidemic because of the FOXDIE virus mutating, Snake tries to commit suicide but changes his mind and is then confronted by the surviving Big Boss who reveals he can spend the rest of his life peacefully. After making up with Big Boss, Snake decides to live out the remainder of his life in peace.[37]
Three Metal Gear spinoffs, which do not follow the storyline of the main Kojima-directed series, were directed by Shinta Nojiri.[38] The first of these games is the Game Boy Color version of Metal Gear Solid (released in Japan as Metal Gear: Ghost Babel). In Ghost Babel, Solid Snake infiltrates a rebuilt Outer Heaven (now called Galuade) to defeat a FOXHOUND-like team of rogue agents called Black Chamber and destroy a stolen Metal Gear prototype, Gander. While the promotional art for the game was drawn by Yoji Shinkawa, the actual in-game character designs were done by Ikuya Nakamura.
In Metal Gear Acid, Solid Snake must retrieve "Pythagoras" from the Lobito Physics and Research Laboratory, in order to satisfy hijackers who have kidnapped presidential candidate Viggo Hach. This mission is complicated by La Clown, an expert mimic who impersonates Solid Snake's contact Teliko, and subtle brainwashing that nearly convinces him that he is Hans Davis, a ruthless scientist that worked at the Lobito facility. He overcomes both and contacts the real Teliko, then destroys the latest model of Metal Gear, Metal Gear KODOQUE. The sequel, Metal Gear Acid 2, features a main character who is not the real Solid Snake, but a clone created from tissue samples of the Solid Snake from the original Metal Gear Acid, following the events of the Lobito Island mission; the Solid Snake from the original Acid is dead.
Though Snake does not explicitly appear in Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops, he is mentioned, though not referred to by name; Elisa, a teenage German psychic with multiple personalities, has a prophetic vision of Naked Snake's future as she dies: she mentions that one of his sons will save the world after another son (Liquid Snake) brings it to ruin.[39] He appears in his Metal Gear Solid 4 form as a recruitable character in Portable Ops Plus.[40] He is also playable in an updated pack from Metal Gear Online.[41]
Solid Snake has appeared in a number of other games, including other Konami games, and more unusually, under license in games developed and published by other companies, such as Sony and Nintendo.
Hideo Kojima makes a habit of referencing his previous work. In the Kojima-produced Boktai 2: Solar Boy Django (and Boktai 3: Sabata's Counterattack), Snake appears as an unnamed character who sells items to the player. Konami's Evolution Skateboarding features Snake and Raiden as hidden characters, as well two stages set in the Big Shell (the Skateboarding minigame in Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance is a demo of Evolution Skateboarding composed exclusively of these elements).[42]
Solid Snake also appears in both halves of a crossover between the Metal Gear and Ape Escape franchises: the Ape Escape monkeys appear with Solid Snake in the "Snake vs. Monkey" minigame featured in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. In turn, Snake (voiced by Peter Lurie in the English version instead of David Hayter, his usual voice actor) appears in the corresponding Metal Gear Solid minigame featured in Ape Escape 3, where he is rescued by Pipo Snake. Snake's character design in this mini-game is taken directly from Naked Snake's.
He has also appeared in a pair of cross-company fighting games. In DreamMix TV World Fighters, Solid Snake appears as a playable character alongside other third-party characters such as Bomberman and Convoy (Optimus Prime). Similarly, in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, a popular fighting game from Nintendo, Solid Snake appeared alongside Nintendo-owned characters such as Mario and Donkey Kong, and Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog. According to producer Masahiro Sakurai, Snake's inclusion in Brawl was done under Kojima's request, who wanted Snake to be featured.[43]
Snake has appeared as a playable character in the Nintendo DS game, New International Track & Field, alongside fellow Konami characters such as Sparkster and Simon Belmont, as well as new original characters.[44] Also, Old Snake has appeared in the Japanese version of Scribblenauts, having been published by Konami in that region.[45]
Customizations in Media Molecule's LittleBigPlanet for the PlayStation 3 allow the player character, Sackboy, to take on the appearance of Old Snake.[46]
Much as Metal Gear began as a pastiche of action movies of the time, Solid Snake began as a pastiche of contemporary action movie heroes. For example, on the cover artwork of the original Metal Gear, he resembles Michael Biehn in The Terminator, and the in-game portrait of Snake in Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake resembles Mel Gibson in the game's opening sequence.[47] Solid Snake was even named after another fictional special forces operative: Snake Plissken, Kurt Russell's character in Escape from New York.[48][49] In Guns of the Patriots, Snake is modeled after Lee Van Cleef, who appeared in Escape from New York.[50] His real name, David, is a tribute to the film 2001: A Space Odyssey that has a character with the same name.[51] Kojima later described Snake's role in the original Metal Gear as the "player's presence", contrasting the defined personality Solid Snake acquired in Metal Gear Solid.[52]
In addition to expanding Solid Snake's backstory, as the first Metal Gear game to feature voice acting Metal Gear Solid established his characteristic voice and appearance.[53] Yoji Shinkawa's Solid Snake design, characterized by his navy blue bandanna and "sneaking suit", would serve as the template for all future incarnations of Snake in later Metal Gear games. According to Shinkawa, Snake's physique in Metal Gear Solid was based on that of action star Jean-Claude Van Damme, while his facial appearance in the same game was inspired by actor Christopher Walken. Shinkawa described his rendition of Solid Snake from Metal Gear Solid as a "middle ground" between the younger Snake who graced the cover artwork of the first Metal Gear and the middle-aged Snake from the MSX2 version of Metal Gear 2.[49][54] For the initial events from the Big Shell chapter from Metal Gear Solid 2, Snake's visual appearance was sightly modified with his hair being more blonde.[55] Solid Snake became one of the characters easiest to draw by Shinkawa as he notes that his appearance is consistence, suffering minor changes across the games.[56]
Various scenes from the games relate Snake's ideals with Hideo Kojima's. During Metal Gear Solid 2 Snake encourages Raiden to trust himself in making his own choices with the former representing the veteran developer and the latter the younger staff who are to decide whether a sequel to the series would be made without Kojima.[51] In Metal Gear Solid 4, Snake tries to protect the next generation by stopping Ocelot which was representing by Kojima working with the staff to avoid bugs from occurying within the game.[57] Kojima introduced the cloning origins of Solid Snake to Metal Gear Solid in order to provide Solid Snake with an adversary who would be his equal, since the story, being a continuation to the original MSX2 games, established Snake as an experienced soldier.[58] Kojima explained that his decision to introduce a new playable character in Solid Snake's place for Sons of Liberty was done in order to develop Snake from another character's perspective, but also to avoid treating Snake as a rookie by having a new character be instructed via Codec instead.[59]
By the time of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots started development, Kojima told Shinkawa about his idea of making Snake look like an elder which surprised the designer. Once Shinkawa showed his artwork of Old Snake to the staff, they were all also surprised by the idea of playing as an old Solid Snake. However, as they were satisfied with end product as the staff started liking the character.[57] In Guns of the Patriots one of Kojima's endings for the game would have had Snake and Otacon turn themselves in for breaking the law, and subsequently they would be convicted and executed.[58] However, comments from Kojima's staff who were disappointed with his death resulted in the character's survival.[60] According to Ryan Payton of Konami, Guns of the Patriots is the final canonical Metal Gear game to feature Solid Snake as the main character.[61] Kojima himself stated that the series will continue but he does not want the character to be handled by anyone else.[58]
In the games, Snake has been voiced by Akio Ōtsuka starting with Metal Gear Solid. Ōtsuka remembers being surprised during his debut as a result of the large amount dialogue Snake was given.[62] In the English adaptations, Snake's role was made by David Hayter who found his work notable as he was originally a screenwriter and did not expect to become famous for dubbing a character.[63] While Hayter comments having issues with some of Snake's lines in his first game, most notably a conversation regarding romance with Hal Emmerich, he stated he would talk about such things if he was asked again. By the time Metal Gear Solid 4 had its first trailers released, Hayter was frustrated by Snake's flinchs during his attempt of committing suicide based on the character's experience in the battlefield.[64] For the crossover game Super Smash Bros, Hayter remembers having fun in voicing the character due to the comical lines Snake had to say.[63]
The character of Solid Snake has received positive response, ranking in various polls as the best video game character in history. In an Oricon poll from 2008, he was voted as the most popular video game character in Japan, tying with Nintendo's Pikachu.[65] In a Famitsu poll done in February 2010, Snake was voted by readers as the most popular video game character.[66] In the Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition from 2011, Snake was voted as the fourth most popular video game character.[67] Also, Electronic Gaming Monthly listed him as number one as the Top Ten Video Game characters of all time.[35]
Critics have often praised Snake's commitment to war as well as his appealing personality.[35][68] Snake appeared in multiple GameFAQs "Character Battle" contests, and was runner-up in two, the "Character Battle V" in 2006,[69] and the "Character Battle VII" in 2008.[70] His character was amongst the last sixteen contestants on the greatest video game hero on GameSpot contest held in 2009, and lost out to Gordon Freeman on a tiebreaker.[71] He was ranked seventeenth in UGO Networks's "Best Heroes in Entertainment."[68] GameDaily listed him on their top 10 Smash Bros. characters list,[72] while Play listed him as one of the characters they wanted to be playable in Mortal Kombat.[73] Sites have also commented on his traits and appearance. 1UP listed him second in the "Top 5 Video Game Smokers" while GamesRadar placed him at the top of "The 10 manliest men in videogame history."[74][75] Complex.com ranked him as fourth on the list of "Top 25 Pervs in Games".[76] Solid Snake's endurance in the face of extreme punishment was even made the focus of a comedy article in the satirical newspaper, The Onion.[77] The character customization in Soul Calibur 4 that allowed to create Snake was listed by UGO as one of the best ones from the series owing to his popularity within gamers.[78] The character's Metal Gear Solid 2 design was at the bottom of the "8 Worst Game Character Makeovers" by GamePro, condemning his conversion in hairstyle in comparison to the one in Metal Gear Solid,[79] and was also at the top of IGN's "Worst Videogame Haircuts".[80] Before Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Snake was thought to be the game's protagonist because of the physical resemblances between him and Naked Snake. However, later previews speculated how was it possible for Solid Snake to be in the game's settings, leading to the conclusion it was a young Big Boss.[81][82][83] A comparison between Solid Snake's and Big Boss' characters was made by IGN's Phil Pirrello in articled called "Stars Thunderdome: Snake vs. Big Boss."[84] David Hayter's performance as Snake's English voice actor has received praise to the point of being called one of the best ones in gaming as well as one of the character's most recognizable traits.[85][86]
Snake's appearance in Metal Gear Solid 4 has received mixed opinions. Before it was released, various speculations were made regarding Snake's role. As he was the only one who suffered from a drastic change in appearance, IGN commented that the most famous rumor was the one of Snake's body deteriorating across the game.[87] Moreover, since it had been announced it would be his last appearance, IGN and GamesRadar wondered whether the character would die during the game and if Raiden would replace him following his death.[88][89] GamesRadar commented that Snake was one of the few gaming characters that aged across video games.[90] GamePro also listed Old Snake as one of the biggest surprises from Metal Gear Solid 4 as the character was found interesting in contrast to pessimistic thoughts they had before the game's release.[91] GameDaily listed the "old hero" as one of their top 25 video game archetypes, using the old version of Snake as an example of this.[92] Play gave praise to his moustache considering how highly detailed it is, and represents the change from Snake's character.[93] On the other hand, 1UP placed him third in the article of "Top 5 Gracelessly Aging Characters" as it gave negative messages about aging.[94]
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