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Premium Episode 90 - Ophiology: the Metal Gear Solid Franchise and the Case of Keenie Meenie Services, feat. Nick Vyssotsky
🕑 Added 2023-12-22 13:54:44 +0000 UTCToday I'm joined by Nick Vyssotsky (@cuss_otaku) to discuss Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear Solid video game franchise. Nick takes us through the franchise's alternate history and we discuss the various themes involving Private Military Contractors, parapsychology, Programed to Kill themes, black budgets, AI guided governance, and on and on.
Then I discuss the real-world example of a particular PMC, Keenie Meenie Services. I discuss their formation in places like Yemen, Angola, and Northern Ireland and their ongoing presence in places like Oman, Uganda, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Nicaragua, El Salvador, etc.
episode artwork by Vyssotsky (@cuss_otaku)
Songs:
Too Hot For My Chinchilla by Tangerine Dream
The Dream Is Always the Same by Tangerine Dream
Tear Down the Grey Skies by Tangerine Dream
Forbidden Colours by Ryuichi Sakamoto
Merch:
https://programmed-to-chill.myshopify.com/
https://twitter.com/cuss_otaku/status/1560071325770829825
Comments
Philip
DNA gun triggers is like in the movie District 9...
hatsune kiku
read for filth when nick described your average animal crossing player 🫣🫠
CrystalMagicWeapon
The end codec call of MGS2 with the talk of creating context is especially wild in retrospect because it was pre-social media. A lot of people listened to that without any idea of how that would have played out. It seems obvious now but we have the hindsight of watching it all happen.
CrystalMagicWeapon
Comment 1 of ?: my older cousin brought MGS over with his memory card on Christmas and I was just a tad young still. He was on the cyborg ninja fight, which imprinted me big time. My dad, my uncle, my cousin and I were positively stuck to the screen.
voteforjefe
Oh man…I was both too young and too dumb to fully comprehend the monologue in MGS2 but I still knew that guy was saying some deeply, deeply evil shit hahaha
voteforjefe
MGS episode let’s goooooo
