How the nightmare of MGS2 is happening today.
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Connect The Dots
Hideo Kojima has made it clear that Death Stranding is about himself as much as its about anything else. But I have to wonder:
how deep will this metanarrative go?
Sam, the Deliverer
AI Manhattan Project: Google, MGS2, The Internet, and Language Control
VIDEO: From The Archives: The Legacy of MGS2
Due to fans requesting it, I’ve decided to start recording readings of my classic articles and talk about the subjects and kind of go down memory lane. Here are the videos so far! (Part three is not recorded yet.)
UPDATE: Part Two is added!
The Eternal Abyss of Services
E3 2019 happened less than 20 days ago but has already been forgotten. It was overlooked by the gaming world and proved to be a disaster. Not only did PlayStation dodge the whole event out of embarrassment for their lack of offerings, but Microsoft may as well have done the same. It was the worst E3 ever, and it’s especially grim when we see it as a forecast of what’s to come: that is to say, services and mediocrity.
Continue readingSocial Credit and Biometrics
In my article The Master Plan B: Imploding Reality I argue that today’s “Clown World” of depravity, outrage, and hysteria is actually a big distraction. Distracting from what? A horrific future of technocracy, where social engineering reaches a whole new level of sophistication.
This video by Amazing Polly is a great discussion of where things are leading. If you don’t know about the role of biometrics (face-scanning linked to all your government records and financial accounts) and how “social credit” really works, you will get a taste of it here.
UPDATED: Death Stranding tries (and fails) to shrug off labels
Hideo Kojima has once again taken to Twitter to defend Death Stranding as a new genre of game, impossible to categorize into existing terms. This hasn’t gone very smoothly.
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