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‘Metal Gear’ Video Game Is an ‘American Intelligence Project,’ Russian Official Says

Cactuar

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From The Moscow Times,

Internet projects of the American special services, such as ... Metal Gear and RuNet Echo are aimed at direct manipulation of the public consciousness, especially among the youth," Deputy Defense Minister Andrei Kartapolov said at a State Duma roundtable.
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Metal Gear is a popular series of action-adventure games in which the player assumes the role of a special forces operative who searches for the "Metal Gear," a bipedal tank with the ability to launch nuclear weapons. RuNet Echo is an English-language project that covers trends and news from the Russian-speaking internet.

According to Kartapolov, these innocuous projects are more sinister than they may appear, and are "aimed at encouraging active protest activity and dissatisfaction with the authorities among young people."
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Is there any truth to to what the deputy defense minister is saying?

Did Kojima play us like a damn fiddle??
 
PlanetSmasher

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Does he realize that the Russians aren't even really the bad guys in most of the MGS games, and most of them are EXTREMELY cynical and anti-American status quo?
 
Lukar

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But... Metal Gear is Japanese.

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According to Kartapolov, these innocuous projects are more sinister than they may appear, and are "aimed at encouraging active protest activity and dissatisfaction with the authorities among young people."
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Maybe just don't be a shitty government? But what do I know. *shrugs*
 
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Metal Gear radicalized me baby, smash the state. We are all big boss
 
collige

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I like how they apparently just searched for "Metal Gear" on Twitter and then used a screenshot of Monster Hunter World for the article
 
OrdinaryPrime

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Hmm. A Hideo Kojima game. *looks up Hideo Kojima*

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Russia should stick to what they're good at, destabilizing democracies and being dicks to LGBT peeps.
 
Akela

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Internet projects of the American special services, such as ... Metal Gear and RuNet Echo are aimed at direct manipulation of the public consciousness, especially among the youth," Deputy Defense Minister Andrei Kartapolov said at a State Duma roundtable.
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What we propose to do is not to control content, but to create context.



Kartapolov, you are merely fighting a proxy war for the Patriots.
 
Patitoloco

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To be fair, if the USA would do that, Kojima would be the perfect guy to be in charge. He would confuse the fuck out of the enemies.
 
SolidSnakex

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This was part of Kojima's pitch for MGS2

The evil in MGS2 is the American government. However, this does not refer to Americans in general, nor to any particular persons, but to the festering discharge that has built-up within the democratic state of America over the years. The intention is not to defame any race, state or ethnicity, but rather to look at the 'monster' that the country's political structure has created. It is an intangible entity yet at the same time a massive menace to the world.
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Macross

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USA
or... MG helped foster acceptance of the US as an evil empire and allowed it to become more Russian...
 
Z-Beat

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This Japanese game about a rogue US special forces group where you fight both the president and a warmongering US senator is about Russian Intelligence?
 
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