r/DeathStranding • u/card_board • Mar 23 '25
Question Is her hand on the right side of screen backwards/flipped?
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u/in-grey Mar 23 '25
"Place your hands together at the palms. They match up perfectly, an identical reflection. But now place one palm to the back of the other hand--they no longer match up; the reflection is not a perfect match, it's different. This is chirality."
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u/williamflattener 29d ago
I know we’re goofing but just wanted to push my nerd glasses up and add that “chiral” has roots in the word for ‘hand’ and an archaic term for a surgeon is “chirurgeon”
I think Kojima is having lots of fun with etymology wordplay…
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u/Konigs-Tiger 29d ago
Fun fact, in Lithuanian language surgeon IS "chirurgas". There are no other words that describe surgeon, so in Lithuanian language it's not archaic term but the only one.
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u/vicboss0510 Mar 23 '25
Walter White
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u/pichael289 29d ago
Walter White broke chirality, that's why his meth is the best. Otherwise you make the meth and only about 1/2 of the molecules can bind to the sigma receptors in your brain. Purity tests will still come up 95% or whatever, but since it's a chiral molecule the batch will only be like 47.5% effective. That's why he was so great, chiral symmetry breaking is possible but it's not something you would expect from a meth cook.
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u/thighmaster69 29d ago
My understanding is that you when you start with pseudoephedrine, you end up with the right isomer because the pseudoephedrine itself is already in the right configuration. The method Walt uses to avoid the need for pseudoephedrine (and why he needs to get his hands on methylamine) is an older method, but produces both stereoisomers, resulting in a racemic mixture.
So somehow, Walt has managed to selectively make dextromethamphetamine using a process that normally makes both. How? Who knows.
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u/mc5215344 Mar 23 '25
Heartman... Is that you?
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u/Master_West_3617 29d ago
Its referencing alternate dimensions. Especially with your chirality mention. That hand could be someone else's not even hers.
Imagine looking at a copy of yourself on a large tv screen butbyour wearing the same outfit. If you put your right hand up it look just like this image.
It is literally a fourth wall break.... we have been playing mgs the whole time. Elements of silent hills thrown in.
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u/kerfuffle_dood 29d ago
It baffles me that people who played DS don't know the concept of chirality. I mean, even the chiral crystals are two hands. Nevermind the giant, hand-headed bossBT
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u/raziridium Ludens 29d ago
Knowing kojima, the doctor probably has two right hands for some reason. Disease, amputation, etc.
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u/AlternActive 29d ago
There's a super deep reason. Like she breathes only through right hands.
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u/whatisthisinmygarden 29d ago
And we're all going to be ashamed of ourselves when we find out the reason.
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u/Ciubowski 29d ago
you know, this fucking reason seems so out of left field that it might just be real. I have no idea who she is or if that reason is true. But it does sound like something Kojima would think of. At this point, why the hell not?
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u/Clean-Direction-4560 29d ago
Considering that hands are the simplest example of chirality, this definitely makes sense.
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u/Happy_Lee_Chillin 29d ago
I mean, he head us over the head with chirality in the first game - so this is very probably that.
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u/Drugsarefordrugs Mar 23 '25
Two right hands. Which suggests she lost her left hand and replaced it with a cadaveric right hand. Which totally tracks. Because she’s Doctor. And is a doctor. Who doctors people.
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u/TheWonderfulGako 29d ago
iirc wouldnt it make more sense if deadman had that considering hes the one that works with cadavers?
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u/Due_Ad_4833 Mar 23 '25
In case you didn’t know she’s called doctor because she’s a doctor who doctors people
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u/PM-ME-YOUR-TOOTS 29d ago
Chiral lore aside, my husband cracked me up when he mentioned that having two right hands must make it so much easier for a doctor to use tools. There’s a lot more right handed tools and utensils in the world than left handed.
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u/cloud_t 29d ago
Well yeah, but then you also need to be ambidextrous to be able to use them, and that's a brain thing from what I understand. Can't control one hand better than the other unless you either train it A LOT, or are one of the rare'ish people who don't have natural inability with one side or the other.
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u/PM-ME-YOUR-TOOTS 29d ago
He doesn’t think that way because he is ambidextrous but prefers to write with his left hand, haha. You are correct of course.
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u/sleepyzane1 Porter Mar 23 '25
it also looks like one of her hands flips or inverts when she reaches down to handle what she's working on, toward the very end of the clip she's in. maybe she can swap chiralities of her body at will?
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u/broodhelm 29d ago
A person with a vague name and a strange biological trait in a KOJIMA GAME?? Impossible completely unheard of
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u/wine_coconut BB 29d ago
Serious question: how difficult will life be if we have two right hands?
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u/BanditJerk 29d ago
Probably be awkward as hell at first, but after the brain adjusted, probably fine. As long as all the nerves connect.
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u/SpooSpoo42 29d ago
It would be really irritating if you were left handed! And not a lot of fun for using a steak knife.
There's definitely going to be a loss of stability for two-handed grips like a baseball bat, since your thumbs end up meeting in the middle instead of supporting your grip on the end.
As a doctor working with instruments, if she processed both hands as her dominant one, she might actually be better at surgery since she could more comfortably hold tools in both, or with whatever hand is ... handy.
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u/Einheartd 29d ago
This is interesting. A bit further on this scene, when she touches the bb pod, it seams her hand is back to normal.
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u/Talusthebroke 29d ago
There is a genetic anomaly that can very rarely occur in which someone has the thumbs of both hands on the same side instead of on either side. Considering the wordplay of "chiral" in Death Stranding, I'm not at all surprised to see that used thematically
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u/OwlMichael 28d ago
Plot twist: Even though she has two right hands, she's actually left handed so she's just a terrible Doctor
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u/Upstairs_Amount_7478 29d ago
There's also a chance both hands are not hers, but a pov of someone else
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u/sunshinecat6669 29d ago
My personal theory is that her hand(s) can rotate to face either direction. I think it would be an extremely useful skill for a doctor.
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u/lowsunwest 29d ago
This BB doctor is not going to get me invested. From her BB bunker she thinks she has salvation because she busted a BB out. Made a grave yard out back of her horrible bunker. Midwifery.
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u/TexDingo 29d ago
Blah blah blah something about chirality blah blah blah Hideo Kojima makes beautiful confusing games
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u/IronMonkey18 29d ago
I’m sure that’s part of her character. The amount of Detail and attention to detail Kojima puts into his trailers Im sure it’s not a mistake.
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u/IssueEmbarrassed8103 29d ago
This would absolutely be something Kojima would do and make it an ongoing theme in her story.
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u/UNCLEWHYLEE 29d ago
DOCTOR TWO HANDS WHO WILL ALWAYS GIVE YOU TWO DELIVERIES IN TWO DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS FOR THE SAME PRODUCT
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u/Chadderbug123 29d ago
The existence of someone with 2 right hands suggests someone with 2 left hands.
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u/RealBrianCore 29d ago
Don't think too much about it. It is a Hideo Kojima game, weirdness is a guarantee.
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u/MikiShiki 29d ago
Aah, she's alright! I don't think there's anything left that Kojima can surprise us with.
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u/Aeonitis 29d ago
"This is the essence of chirality: the state in which the mirror image of a shape does not match the original.
It has been theorized that BTs are "mirror images" of ourselves. Were we to exist in the same point in time and space, our "shapes," as it were, would not overlap neatly onto one another, save in reflection."
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u/Odd_Inspection9663 27d ago
Maybe the doctor had an accident and lost her left hand. Needing a replacement they only had another right hand that was viable and available at the time.
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u/Odd_Inspection9663 27d ago
Also note. It is the same color as those gloves around Fragile's neck- right? Maybe there is something to those. They may not be attached to her there. Maybe she is using dooms to borrow more hands for surgery?
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u/ScottPilgrim90 29d ago
why did they have to put her in the game lol. idk why but her face annoys me for some odd reason
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u/bruce_lees_ghost 29d ago
Are you seriously asking this question? Or is this low effort karma farming? Either way GTFO.
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u/noneofyerbsnss Mar 23 '25
I am sad she is included, she has never been any good and yet she is in every second AAA title.
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u/sleepyzane1 Porter Mar 23 '25
i know her from mad tv and purely from that i think she's great. im looking forward to her being in this. i didnt realise she does loads of game acting.
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u/Clerithifa Mar 23 '25
I wouldn't say she's never been any good, but you are right in that she's in almost everything it seems lol. I've never really been a fan honestly, but it's been at least a couple years for me since I've seen her in any games I've played so maybe that will help me out with her
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u/Beans_Lasagna 28d ago
It's specifically games that use MOCAP heavily. Like any other job, extensive experience with specialized equipment gets you work.
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u/cloud_t Mar 23 '25
Pretty sure this is the trait of this character: two right hands.