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It's from "Metal Gear Solid", just saying if anyone is curious.

• weakfish 3y ago
  Metal Gear Solid 2, to be specific. A game shockingly ahead of it's time.
  • sdwr 3y ago
    Wow, that was written, what, 20 years ago? Sounds precisely about today
    • FreezerburnV 3y ago
      There was a really interesting panel I went to a few years ago talking about the idea of Kojima writing some shockingly ahead-of-their-time things: https://youtu.be/6kPOj0msHCE?si=CF1wlvE0N0ZL2Yzn https://youtu.be/6kPOj0msHCE?si=CF1wlvE0N0ZL2Yzn
    • chaosharmonic 3y ago
      The wildest thing about Kojima devoting an whole game to the way mis- and disinformation spreads via meme is the part where it then happened to him personally after the Abe shooting [0] [0] https://kotaku.com/shinzo-abe-assassin-killer-kojima-greek-news-confusion-1849157839 https://kotaku.com/shinzo-abe-assassin-killer-kojima-greek-n...
    • avgcorrection 3y ago
      It was more like about 10 years before that? The narrative was inspired by Jean Baudrillard. The guy who also inspired The Matrix.[1] 10 years before that game he was talking about the Hyper Reality of the Gulf War; that what “really” happened was dictated by CNN.[2] But it’s not like those games give credit to all contributors equally. [1] Or his ideas [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U9WMftV40c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U9WMftV40c