Metal Gear Solid 2 saw the power of memes on culture and showed how the elites was going to react.
The information control grid they were setting in place was a metaphor for the media and their control over what is considered to be true. The artificial intelligences were a stand in for the elites that make decisions in our current world. Hideo Kojima, the game’s creator was a proto internet troll, as he successfully trolled millions of people who bought the game expecting more of Metal Gear Solid 1. This was a meta experiment on the pressure of game creation and fan reaction. Instead you are given a guy named Raiden who is a total effeminate simp. There was a huge backlash to this game as it didn’t follow the same script of the first game and you didn’t get to control Solid Snake.
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The main antagonist of the game was a former US president and super soldier clone who was attempting to destroy this system of control and free people’s minds.Īt the end of the game you end up stopping the revolution and ensure that the control systems are left in place. This was done by artificial intelligences taking all of the “junk” information from the internet and shaping it in a safe way for people to consume for their own good.Īccording to the artificial intelligences, the internet was becoming too dangerous because of the use of memes to influence people’s thoughts. There’s many reasons for this, but chief among them is it’s prediction of an elite trying to censor information in order to create a narrative. Metal Gear Solid 2 is one of the best video games of all time. This begs the question: who came first, Trump or Revengeance? Metal Gear Solid 2 Artificial Intelligence Dystopia
Specifically, the video game Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance outlined the rise of a Trump-like character as a central theme in the game.
Whether by being lucky, liking Trump, or just being able to read the trends and current political climate, they all saw the rise of Trump where no one else did.īefore the rise of Trump however, the Metal Gear franchise of video games has been predicting the current political climate since the early 2000’s and indeed saw the rise of someone like Trump. Smaller still was the amount of people who saw that he was going to succeed. When Trump initially announced that he was running for president, only a handful of people took it seriously.
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