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Found this lore summary by Aoife of EuroGamer.

And I'm playing MGS5 now. I feel like I'm getting enough out of the experience; I'm recognizing some proper nouns and references while others are hopelessly over my head, but I'm grokking the main jist of the story and am enjoying the gameplay that is the main attraction of this game. My suggestion for others like me is to do ~1 hour of video watching / quick reading to get up to speed, then dive in.

Oh, also: do a YouTube search for "mgs5 tips" and watch a couple videos. The are some poorly explained UI bits, controls, and game features which any player should know about earlier on.

@probablytuna: I liked the Avengers pretty ok, having seen none of the prior Marvel movies! I mean, uh, my friend says he did. ;-)

@pandorasbox: Thanks.

I've, uh, got a friend, ok? Let's say he's a 40-something video game player that's been ignoring this series all these years. He doesn't know about snakes and bosses, liquids or solids, heavens or clones. But the MGS5 gameplay seems good, and the UPF and Quicklooks have been interesting, and he wants to play it.

Does the game give you all the backstory you need if you are coming to the franchise totally blind? ...Or does this friend of mine need to pursue some kind of MGS lore video on YouTube to get oriented? Can a person spend 1 hour of time learning enough to enjoy this game and know what the hell is going on?

My friend thanks you for the advice.

Sent a support tweet to @Moogmeister and directed her to this thread. Other accounts to notify include @shiftyjelly and @pocketcasts, apparently. They seem to prefer getting support notifications via this new-fangled social media stuff.

@edgework said:

Thank you, but... well, yeah, of course. :) For at least some of us some of the time, (re-)subscribing causes the latest podcasts to show up. What's unclear is if it will remain fresh or go stale, which is the symptom under discussion here.

@bwheeeler said:

Weird. The Pixels episode showed up for me when I re-added the GB Presents feed just now.

How about we confirm what's going on before asking paying subscribers to take action they really shouldn't have to take?

BTW, folks: re-subscribing (unsub, then re-sub using the link above) worked. The bombcast logo has also updated.

UPDATE: Just did the same for Giant Bomb Presents (to force PocketCasts to see the update there, too) and... oh god, it's the same icon as the Bombcast itself -- not the purple icon. You can't tell them apart. Argh.

Well, at least it's not me... ugh.

@joeyravn You manually add a podcast by URL. Here's what I used for the Bombcast proper: https://USERNAME:PASSWORD@www.giantbomb.com/podcast-xml/premiumbombcast/

Anyone else using Pocket Casts on iOS waiting for yesterday's premium bombcast to drop? Manual refresh to no avail!