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Not much, just accurately predicted the next 30 years exactly

lxgr 5mo ago
Including the cardboard boxes: https://taskandpurpose.com/news/marines-ai-paul-scharre/ https://taskandpurpose.com/news/marines-ai-paul-scharre/
tombert 5mo ago
Everyone focuses on that part, but what the hell was with the girl that could repel bullets but it turns out that it was magnets but actually maybe she does have powers? And what about the weird thing where you start sword fighting your father/president/clone? Yeah I know, sure, fake information on the internet. It's so prescient I guess, but the actual story is incomprehensible.
- malfist 5mo ago
  > but the actual story is incomprehensible. You're almost there. Double the convolutions in your post and you'll finally understand Kojima. And yes, that chick really does have to be topless, its not sexism. See, she breathes through her skin. Thats why she's such a good sniper
  - 7thpower 5mo ago
    We were robbed of the end to that game. I loved it so much and will always wonder what closure I would have been robbed of if they had just completed it.
    - matheusmoreira 5mo ago
      Mandated last generation console support gimped the game's scope too... It pains me to imagine what could have been.
- redsocksfan45 5mo ago
  That stuff is just silly mostly-self-aware camp to keep the setting entertaining, don't overthink it. Everybody already knows and acknowledges that the series is absurd.
- serf 5mo ago
  >Yeah I know, sure, fake information on the internet. It's so prescient I guess, but the actual story is incomprehensible. apply this logic to john carpenter movies and they fall apart, too. Escape from LA is just about as absurd, just less paranormal. Nuclear powered personal submarines, surfing typhoon waves from California plate shifts, transforming bullet-proof stealth helicopters, emp superweapons and engineered DNA-tailored superbugs ( or atleast the claim of them ) , VR replacing reality, Cuba taking over the democratic world after a theocratic US rescension. it's just entertainment campiness. When I play a Kojima game I just sort of imagine it internally as a video game equivalent to a John Carpenter movie.
  - cookiengineer 5mo ago
    Man, now I have the music of The Duke arriving in my head. Thanks! edit: the soundtrack sure was a banger at the time https://youtube.com/watch?v=eX_t63eZqyk https://youtube.com/watch?v=eX_t63eZqyk
  - tombert 5mo ago
    To be clear, I enjoy the games, I've played through MGS2 all the way through twice. It's a good game. I even enjoy the story, but I view the story as something like a soap opera; a story that is extremely compelling and addictive as you're watching it, but upon turning it off you find yourself questioning what it is you just watched.
  - pixl97 5mo ago
    >Cuba taking over the democratic world after a theocratic US rescension. it's just entertainment campiness I don't know, this is starting to hit to close to home.
- casualscience 5mo ago
  A lot of people focus on the whole dynamic of corleone family and their position in American society in the Godfather. But seriously did you see what vito was eating in the restaurant?? Makes no sense Kojima always has some paranormal activity in his games. And he does like to subvert expectations about what is technology and what is paranormal
  - fingerlocks 5mo ago
    Veal doesn’t make sense?
- brendoelfrendo 5mo ago
  > but what the hell was with the girl that could repel bullets but it turns out that it was magnets but actually maybe she does have powers? MGS always rides the line between "it's actually just tecnology" and "no, it was really supernatural." This is true of Psycho Mantis in MGS1 as well, and The Sorrow in MGS3 is literally a ghost. I assume that Kojima has read up on the Stargate Project and other psychic soldier projects and likes to think about "what if one of those bore fruit?" Anyway, in the context of Fortune, it's a dramatic take on that: her powers were actually a magnetic device planted on her by The Patriots, but ACTUALLY actually she really does have some psychic ability which allows her to fight Ocelot in her final moments. > And what about the weird thing where you start sword fighting your father/president/clone? Well, that's actually pretty straightforward. You fought Solidus Snake, who was the third clone of Big Boss, and the "main antagonist" of the game (scare quotes because arguably the Patriots are the real antagonists). At the end of the game, it is revealed that Raiden's girlfriend Rosemary is a) real, b) alive, c) pregnant and d) being held captive by the Patriots, and they task Raiden with killing Solidus if he ever wants to see her again. Why a sword fight? I dunno, some things we must simply chalk up to "because it's cool." If you want to dive further into who Solidus was, yes, he was also a pseudo-father to Raiden, in the sense that Raiden was raised as a child soldier and Solidus was (at the time) his commander. Solidus was President during the events of MGS1 under the name George Sears, but by MGS2 he's leading the Sons of Liberty as part of his anti-Patriots plot. Unfortunately, Ocelot is still working as a Patriots double-agent at this point, and Raiden's involvement is in turn orchestrated by the Patriots, so it doesn't quite work and the whole operation is manipulated from the start.
  - justsomehnguy 5mo ago
    Yep, it's funny when people get too serious and completely ignore the rule of cool. Like you have a giant bipedal (well... most of the times) autonomous robot armed with a nuclear tipped missiles launched by a railgun which can destory the whole countries ... and the said robot is defeated by shoot-out against a human.
    - cindyllm 5mo ago
      [dead]
- zeratax 5mo ago
  what is incomprehensible about her actually having paranormal powers
- butlike 5mo ago
  Well you see it was all really the La Le Lu Le Lo, who turned into the Patriots (iirc). All is revealed if you play through MGSV. I'm just kidding. That game doesn't have an ending.
Lammy 5mo ago
I wonder how they must have felt to have coded a 9/11 scenario of Arsenal Gear crashing into the Twin Towers, and then watched it actually happen a few months later. This was cut from the game but is still in the source code leak, just commented out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNSPx-oRV60 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNSPx-oRV60 Also note that the source code was leaked on April 30th :p
- Unai 5mo ago
  At least that was cut from the game. I remember that episode from The Lone Gunmen, the X-Files spin-off series, where they stopped the (inside job) hijacking of a commercial airplane from crashing into the twin towers, which aired just a few months before the attack. I only watched it a few years later, and I had to double check the airing date.
  - xeromal 5mo ago
    Here's another interesting one. I think they cut a scene from a movie too. https://youtu.be/Ozz8uxW733Q?t=81 https://youtu.be/Ozz8uxW733Q?t=81
vor_ 5mo ago
Surveillance states and mass media manipulation are a staple of sci-fi. Those topics were particularly common around that time too. E.g., The Matrix.

lxgr 5mo ago

Including the cardboard boxes: https://taskandpurpose.com/news/marines-ai-paul-scharre/ https://taskandpurpose.com/news/marines-ai-paul-scharre/

tombert 5mo ago

Everyone focuses on that part, but what the hell was with the girl that could repel bullets but it turns out that it was magnets but actually maybe she does have powers? And what about the weird thing where you start sword fighting your father/president/clone? Yeah I know, sure, fake information on the internet. It's so prescient I guess, but the actual story is incomprehensible.

malfist 5mo ago
> but the actual story is incomprehensible. You're almost there. Double the convolutions in your post and you'll finally understand Kojima. And yes, that chick really does have to be topless, its not sexism. See, she breathes through her skin. Thats why she's such a good sniper
- 7thpower 5mo ago
  We were robbed of the end to that game. I loved it so much and will always wonder what closure I would have been robbed of if they had just completed it.
  - matheusmoreira 5mo ago
    Mandated last generation console support gimped the game's scope too... It pains me to imagine what could have been.
redsocksfan45 5mo ago
That stuff is just silly mostly-self-aware camp to keep the setting entertaining, don't overthink it. Everybody already knows and acknowledges that the series is absurd.
serf 5mo ago
>Yeah I know, sure, fake information on the internet. It's so prescient I guess, but the actual story is incomprehensible. apply this logic to john carpenter movies and they fall apart, too. Escape from LA is just about as absurd, just less paranormal. Nuclear powered personal submarines, surfing typhoon waves from California plate shifts, transforming bullet-proof stealth helicopters, emp superweapons and engineered DNA-tailored superbugs ( or atleast the claim of them ) , VR replacing reality, Cuba taking over the democratic world after a theocratic US rescension. it's just entertainment campiness. When I play a Kojima game I just sort of imagine it internally as a video game equivalent to a John Carpenter movie.
- cookiengineer 5mo ago
  Man, now I have the music of The Duke arriving in my head. Thanks! edit: the soundtrack sure was a banger at the time https://youtube.com/watch?v=eX_t63eZqyk https://youtube.com/watch?v=eX_t63eZqyk
- tombert 5mo ago
  To be clear, I enjoy the games, I've played through MGS2 all the way through twice. It's a good game. I even enjoy the story, but I view the story as something like a soap opera; a story that is extremely compelling and addictive as you're watching it, but upon turning it off you find yourself questioning what it is you just watched.
- pixl97 5mo ago
  >Cuba taking over the democratic world after a theocratic US rescension. it's just entertainment campiness I don't know, this is starting to hit to close to home.
casualscience 5mo ago
A lot of people focus on the whole dynamic of corleone family and their position in American society in the Godfather. But seriously did you see what vito was eating in the restaurant?? Makes no sense Kojima always has some paranormal activity in his games. And he does like to subvert expectations about what is technology and what is paranormal
- fingerlocks 5mo ago
  Veal doesn’t make sense?
brendoelfrendo 5mo ago
> but what the hell was with the girl that could repel bullets but it turns out that it was magnets but actually maybe she does have powers? MGS always rides the line between "it's actually just tecnology" and "no, it was really supernatural." This is true of Psycho Mantis in MGS1 as well, and The Sorrow in MGS3 is literally a ghost. I assume that Kojima has read up on the Stargate Project and other psychic soldier projects and likes to think about "what if one of those bore fruit?" Anyway, in the context of Fortune, it's a dramatic take on that: her powers were actually a magnetic device planted on her by The Patriots, but ACTUALLY actually she really does have some psychic ability which allows her to fight Ocelot in her final moments. > And what about the weird thing where you start sword fighting your father/president/clone? Well, that's actually pretty straightforward. You fought Solidus Snake, who was the third clone of Big Boss, and the "main antagonist" of the game (scare quotes because arguably the Patriots are the real antagonists). At the end of the game, it is revealed that Raiden's girlfriend Rosemary is a) real, b) alive, c) pregnant and d) being held captive by the Patriots, and they task Raiden with killing Solidus if he ever wants to see her again. Why a sword fight? I dunno, some things we must simply chalk up to "because it's cool." If you want to dive further into who Solidus was, yes, he was also a pseudo-father to Raiden, in the sense that Raiden was raised as a child soldier and Solidus was (at the time) his commander. Solidus was President during the events of MGS1 under the name George Sears, but by MGS2 he's leading the Sons of Liberty as part of his anti-Patriots plot. Unfortunately, Ocelot is still working as a Patriots double-agent at this point, and Raiden's involvement is in turn orchestrated by the Patriots, so it doesn't quite work and the whole operation is manipulated from the start.
- justsomehnguy 5mo ago
  Yep, it's funny when people get too serious and completely ignore the rule of cool. Like you have a giant bipedal (well... most of the times) autonomous robot armed with a nuclear tipped missiles launched by a railgun which can destory the whole countries ... and the said robot is defeated by shoot-out against a human.
  - cindyllm 5mo ago
    [dead]
zeratax 5mo ago
what is incomprehensible about her actually having paranormal powers
butlike 5mo ago
Well you see it was all really the La Le Lu Le Lo, who turned into the Patriots (iirc). All is revealed if you play through MGSV. I'm just kidding. That game doesn't have an ending.

Lammy 5mo ago

I wonder how they must have felt to have coded a 9/11 scenario of Arsenal Gear crashing into the Twin Towers, and then watched it actually happen a few months later. This was cut from the game but is still in the source code leak, just commented out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNSPx-oRV60 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNSPx-oRV60 Also note that the source code was leaked on April 30th :p

Unai 5mo ago
At least that was cut from the game. I remember that episode from The Lone Gunmen, the X-Files spin-off series, where they stopped the (inside job) hijacking of a commercial airplane from crashing into the twin towers, which aired just a few months before the attack. I only watched it a few years later, and I had to double check the airing date.
- xeromal 5mo ago
  Here's another interesting one. I think they cut a scene from a movie too. https://youtu.be/Ozz8uxW733Q?t=81 https://youtu.be/Ozz8uxW733Q?t=81

vor_ 5mo ago

Surveillance states and mass media manipulation are a staple of sci-fi. Those topics were particularly common around that time too. E.g., The Matrix.