• AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    maybe their business model. trust me. they’ll find a way to monetize the zero click internet too. then it’s back to square one

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      2 months ago

      I believe this is why tech execs and investors are so hot on pushing AI into everything. They’ll control everyone’s digital experience and you can 100% count on being force fed ads and paid propaganda. Embrace, extend, extinguish

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        Yeah, so much for all those promises of disintermediation being a benefit of the web.

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        Yep. They have direct control over the flow of information.

        Honestly, Metal Gear Solid 2 was on fucking point.

        And so was 4.

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          I tried playing 2 again recently because I had the same thought, and I had to stop because my wife would not stop laughing at Rose’s dialogue. God, I wish Kojima had ever met a woman.

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            And she’s 100% justified. The older you get the more appearant it becomes that he’s bad at writing dialogue and story. He’s a tendency of using controvencies to create drama and it often falls flat, if not into eye-roll territory.

            I could not stop cringing during Death Stranding. I had to fast forward the ending. I imagine Margaret Qualley being completely bewildered when they were capturing her character’s twin soul melding scene.

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              I don’t necessarily think he’s bad at writing dialogue and story, I think he’s mostly just bad at writing women. As I’ve gotten older, I went from taking Metal Gear Solid super seriously to treating it like nuclear/techno Evil Dead

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                Yeah, we’re just less experienced and have fewer expectations when we’re young. We were much more impressionable then.

                Guys in general are bad at portraying women, as I understand. That’s on top of being bad in general for Kojima, I think. There’s a funny interview with the MGS2 English translator Agness Kaku where she comments that the writing at times is high school fanfic level.