"Stranding"? Or "Standing"?

[Ricebug]

Why is the game called "Death Stranding"? Makes no sense.

[Shehow (300β)]

cause you are stuck on a beach

[Ricebug]

So it should be "stranded," as in stranded on a beach.

[Tesper]

The "Death Stranding" is a cyclical biological/phyisical event in the game's universe where death stops functioning like it normally does for a few decades in order to force both mass extinction and survival of the fittest. It's not used in the past term because it's an event that keeps happening for a certain amount of time instead of being a singular event that happened once.

[Vagrant]

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/strand

For this game, it means many things. Probably all of them at once.

[45]

Because its about strands like the threads that connect us in the human experience.

[ZAP!!]

Originally posted by Vagrant:

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/strand

For this game, it means many things. Probably all of them at once.

The story is bonkers but it does explain what they mean. They mean just about any meaning or variation of strand, stranding, stranded, etc. depending on the context.

[cecilnezuto]

A stranding is when whales and other sea life beach themselves. Hence all the ocean imagery, the whale corpses on the beach, the crabs/fish that appear from big BT battles and those bigger BTs being mostly Cthulhu-esque with tentacles. There's even a whale BT.

As others have said, seems there's a few meanings of the word that can apply (personally the real life stranding applies more, but that's my opinion) but the game does sorta explain things a bit, especially if you collect memory chips to unlock some extra journals.

[UCEY]

The Death Stranding refers to an in-universe event, so it would make sense to be referred to as a thing actively happening

[Protoman]

It's Stranding.
It has a lot of meanings, the main one being "cetacean stranding", or "beaching", which is when a whale or dolphin strands themselves on land.
There are other meanings too, like "a strand between life and death" (umbilical cord), or "broken strands" (friendships, relationships). All of those are in the game in one form or another.

Lastly, when you see some structures in the distance, you see strands come out of them towards the sky. Black strands are undiscovered and blue strands are linked to network.