Stare at these screenshots of The Phantom Pain, the new game announced at the Spike Video Game Awards that pretty much everyone knows is really Metal Gear Solid V

https://kotaku.com/did-metal-gear-solid-5-just-get-secretly-announced-5966803

Ah, but do you need more evidence that this is MGSV?

Then keep staring.


Keep staring, because what some people might see as, say, a water stain, others see as the Virgin Mary. They did at a highway underpass in 2005:

… which brings us to this “discovery” by tipster Brian Lesyk:

I like Brian’s spirit here. Even if he’s just hallucinating, this is great. I wanted to doubt him, yet, when I look back up at the unmarked images, I can’t un-see the M and the E in “Metal”. And the G in “Gear” is now popping out. I am sure this is merely a psychological effect and that there is a fancy name for it. It’s also too fun not to share.

Do you see any words in those shots? Or the Virgin Mary?

Photo: Chicago underpass image by Charles Rex Arbogast / AP Photo

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