Metal Gear is a series of action-adventure video games created by Hideo Kojima and developed and published by Konami. The first game, Metal Gear, was released in 1987 for MSX home computers. The player often takes control of a special forces operative (usually Solid Snake or Big Boss), who is assigned the task of finding the titular superweapon "Metal Gear", a bipedal walking tank with the ability to launch nuclear weapons.

Several sequels have been released for multiple consoles, which have expanded the original game's plot, adding characters opposing and supporting Snake, while there have also been a few prequels exploring the origins of Metal Gear and recurring characters. The third game in the series, Metal Gear Solid for the PlayStation, marked the beginning of a whole new line of 3D for Metal Gear. As of December 2020, over 56.9 million copies of games in the franchise have been sold worldwide, with individual installments critically and commercially acclaimed and receiving several awards.

The series is credited for pioneering and popularizing stealth video games and "cinematic video games". Notable traits of the series include stealth mechanics, cinematic cutscenes, intricate storylines, offbeat and fourth wall humour, and exploration of cyberpunk, dystopian, political and philosophical themes, with references to Hollywood films to add flavor. The franchise has also been adapted into other media, such as comics, novels, and drama CDs. Solid Snake has also gone on to appear in other games, such as the Super Smash Bros. series, Ape Escape 3, and LittleBigPlanet 2.

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    • Nakoichi [they/them]M
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      3 years ago

      At some point something big is going to happen and all these bad omens are gonna come together and a lot of people are going to die.

      I agreed with you all the way up to here.

      Something bad did happen, covid happened, and before that the financial crash happened, and before that 9/11 happened, and before that Columbine and the OKC bombing and the rise of white supremacist terrorist cells and leaderless "resistance".

      There will never be a singular moment where the very serious news people go on tv and solemnly declare that things have indeed collapsed.

      Things will not be getting calmer they will just keep escalating and most of us will continue to ignore the reality that our world - the world we understood growing up and the future of that world - already ended, even after the shooting starts. I can prove this because it already has.

      A man was just acquitted of returning fire at police during the largest civil uprising in US history. Anti-fascists and white supremacists exchanged gunfire in Portland. A man presumably radicalized by Qanon and related conspiracy shit blew up half a block in Nashville.

      This actually relates to my comment in that what happened to Halloween? post

      Americans have no future, most people can see the vague shape of the cliff we are barreling toward but most have no real understanding of what to do about it. Combine that with the way our most popular media is largely built on nostalgia and a generation who had most of their childhood robbed by our ridiculous draconian school systems, poverty, etc. you have a whole shitload of people who just want to live out an escapist fantasy in a more hedonistic version of their childhood, a time before capitalist society had drained us all of joy.

      Also younger generations are having less kids so there are more people celebrating the nostalgic aspects in the absence of kids of their own to shape how they view the holiday. People with kids on the other hand have the Nostalgic aspects to bond over since the most prevalent popular media is recycled and rebooted from their own childhoods.

      Everyone knows everything is fucked and it's only going to get more fucked, but doing anything about it will upset their already comfortable or more often, already precarious material conditions and the ones that aren't being radicalized by fascists are mostly just becoming more apathetic and misanthropic.

      The single most important thing to do right now is to be unapologetic and consistently point out at every opportunity that no grievance that any working person has can truly be solved without collective direct action and unwavering solidarity.

      A better world is possible.

      :red-fist:

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    • coeliacmccarthy [he/him, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      At some point something big is going to happen and all these bad omens are gonna come together and a lot of people are going to die.

      probably a million and a half dead of covid and it's barely a prologue