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Announcement: My third book is available now

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“Maybe Everyone Is Wrong”

As we steadily enter a technocratic Dark Age and see the engineered implosion of our civilization, I know that many people will be tempted to turn to religion and especially “end times” teachings for comfort or advice, but as somebody who researched and found mistakes in all of the biggest schools of thought on the subject, I felt a need to present a more cogent, corrected view. In the Metal Gear world I’ve become known for pointing out themes and analytical layers of the text that nobody else picked up on, and this is the same kind of treatment I give to the Biblical text, making the complex symbolism simple and easy to grasp, with powerful harmony with the Gospels and the rest of the Bible. Things like the Rapture, the Antichrist, the Beast, the Whore of Babylon, and many other controversies are not only explained, but laid out with such strong logic that you’ll see why it had to be written exactly the way that it was.

Here are some brief examples of what I discovered:

• There is no Antichrist. The Bible debunks the notion.
• The Rapture is not for present day churches. The church will be killed.
• We are entering the age of the fourth horsemen, Death.
• Jerusalem will become the capital of the new post-church world.

None of this is scary if you know what to expect. And if you’re as big a fan of God as I am, get a copy and appreciate what He was trying to tell us.

Listen to the Audiobook for free

In order to make the material as accessible as possible, and as a service to my readers and fellow believers, I’ve begun creating the audiobook for Maybe Everyone Is Wrong and uploading chapters to my new podcast, The Not Done Yet Podcast, which you can find on many podcast platforms.

Update: Whoops! I got blacklisted from Metal Gear Mondays!

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In a perfect world, everybody gets to have their own opinions and stand up for what they believe in, but as we’re finding out more often these days, everything is politicized and people are forced to choose sides. I think that’s a bit of a tragedy, because agree or disagree, we learn by sharing our views, talking things through, and hashing out differences. I know that’s challenging for people who want to maintain a certain image, protect their reputation, and limit their associations.

As everybody knows who has listened to my repeated interviews on Metal Gear Mondays over the course of the last year, I am a fan of those boys and took great joy in discussing my book with them, along with Kojima and Death Stranding. I know they enjoyed it too.

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Konami finally makes it official, and Kojima does too!

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Hideo Kojima is creating a new independent studio named “KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS” and has already made a deal with PlayStation for a “collaboration” on a new project.  This confirms reports from just a few hours ago, and means a new era of Kojima works are on the way.  We can assume that his old team is joining him, which means we should expect extremely high quality and solid development times; especially since Konami was pretty notorious for having an awful work environment for creators to begin with, and that is no longer a problem.

Of course, this is the best possible news in the wake of the Konami fiasco.  They are undoubtedly very jealous of this, and were acting out of spite against him until now — using all of their legal power to hold him down until the very last second.  I have to admit, I can still hardly believe how absurd they behaved, even for as cynical as I am.  Then again, I also never thought that his departure from Konami would be a bad thing, because — as we can clearly see today — he is perfectly fine without them.  In fact, he leveled up in the process, judging by that sweet beard.

Will the next title be anywhere near as fascinating as a new Metal Gear?  Not from a “meta” angle, I’m sure.  But I’m a fan of Kojima’s work in general, so I am very excited to see what he comes up with.  Personally, I hope he builds a new fictional universe that’s filled with social commentary and philosophy, and grounded in solid action/adventure genre that his team knows best, not some risky attempt to be a futurist.  Kojima might have so many pent up gimmicks in his brain that he won’t be able to resist making some PlayStation VR technology showcase requiring 3 peripherals to even experience properly.  (According to the new badass logo, he might want to pursue stuff you wear on your head.  That is supposed to be a robotic knight’s helmet right?)

Right now I’m focused on my book about Kojima and the Metal Gear series (although it also includes Snatcher, Policenauts, and spinoff games!) so if you want to truly appreciate his life and legacy until today, you have something amazing to look forward to still.  Not bad timing, I must say!  My deep interpretation of the series has only been reinforced by evidence over the years, and the book pushes everything to a new level.  I’m very excited to share it with you, as I stay tuned what comes next.

Let’s also have a moment of silence for the great, fun, and promising ruse theories, which spoke to so many people’s imaginations as well as their high regard for Kojima’s trickster legacy.  He was in a league of his own, and if there was ever a creator who could have somehow pulled a ruse on that scale it would have been him!  Since I no longer have any choice but to believe all of the negative reports and rumors in the past, I have to wonder even more what was truly behind the conflict and toxicity.  Maybe it will come out in the wash.

Theory on the Rising plot

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Thanks to the retired Ravi Singh, I saw this teaser for a Metal Gear Rising announcement:

I didn’t bother to comment on it, but before the real announcement is made today, I want to toss out a theory.  April 30th is, of course, the day Jack and Rose met, as we were repeatedly reminded in Metal Gear Solid 2, and the tagline of “Make it right” at the end of the trailer makes me suspect that the plot will revolve around Rose being in danger.  Raiden and Rose reconcile at the end of Metal Gear Solid 4, so perhaps Rose is held hostage, and Raiden needs to fight the PMC’s in order to save her?  Perhaps too, his memory is altered in a test, and he needs to fight and kill in order to unlock his memory of Rose and find her so he can “make it right”?

Wild speculation, but we’ll see.

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