[ Angela may as well make the most of the casual physical contact while it lasts, seeing how Snake won't be so willing when they've removed themselves from the mantis creatures and their influences. Granted, she's already gotten to put her hands on him more than most would, seeing how she spots for him in the gym and she gave him that massage. (Although Snake would argue that the second thing had been a special circumstance.)

Her offhanded comment about gorillas on the moon does earn his attention, but she brushes it off and Snake decides that he can get back to that later. He can't quite tell if she's joking or not. Sometimes, with accents and different cultures, it can be difficult to know.

While she may be trying to fill in the blanks herself, Angela's definitely on the right track. ] Yeah, mainly through the internet. Most information that gets posted on there is never actually deleted. It's not like paper records, which can disintegrate over time. So there's a lot to pull from. Everything from SAT scores to browsing history is probably fair game to them.

[ It's the sort of thing that would usually work him up, but in this case he simply takes another long sip of his drink and shakes his head to himself. All the insanity that he dealt with back home is nothing compared to his life right now. ]

And yeah, they influence just about everything. The media, culture, politics, everything is carefully controlled to try and urge people to think a certain way. Even the president is just a figurehead. [ Snake doesn't expect his version of history to match up with Angela's. He assumes she's from the future, what with her talk of the Omnic Crisis, but even then he doubts they really come from the same place. Just more alternate universes... ]