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easternmind · 1 year

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Those who have watched the 1995 film Ghost in the Shell as often as I have will remember the scene where Major Kusanagi goes online and maps out the routes of sanitation services, in an effort to track the possible location of a suspicious garbage collection truck. This emblematic green tinted interface was painstakingly reproduced in pre-mission briefing sequences of the 1997 Playstation game of the same name, designed in smoothly animated, sharply detailed real-time 3D graphics. Albeit far from a direct adaptation of the seminal anime, the developers at Exact studio considered this somewhat tertiary visual element of the movie to be of sufficient importance as to justify featuring it prominently in their game.

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dawn-in-the--adan · 2 months

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Fatal Frame

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kvnai · 9 months

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Mr Potato Store in Osaka, Japan.

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northernirelandengima · 1 month

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Next game maybe?

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sekaiichi-happy · 6 months

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Halloween 2016

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ruhelosetraume · 7 months

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#project 0 #fatal frame #fatal frame mask of the lunar eclipse #mask of the lunar eclipse #horror game #survival horror #FF IV #FF 4 #japanese horror #videogame photography #videogame screenshots

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glimmerkey · 1 year

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1993 Takara - Cowboy Kirby Plush

#kirby #plush #stuffed animal #nintendo #cutecore #90s stuff #japanese #cute #videogames #cowboy

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gureiti · 5 months

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Fight with Shinobu Jacobs

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vermutandherring · 9 months

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Part 1 is here

It is impossible to defeat nature and its laws. You cannot destroy the established order of things, because sooner or later it will return to the starting point, albeit modified. Part of the eternal order is war. This is a rather conventional character, which, nevertheless, has all the features of eternal evil, which the main character must defeat. Before the battle, Sundowner reveals another revelation to Raiden: he is too blinded and naive to think that he can change the world. War is part of cruel human nature. This is an outdated tool, which we have not been able to completely discard. But like a real virus, rooted in the very middle, it evolved with us, adapting to the conditions of the times.

War is indifferent to moral guidelines and honor, deaf to human suffering and merciless to victims. This virus is ready to manifest itself at any moment, as soon as the system crashes. What for Raiden as a person is a matter of morality, for the World Marshal as a large military company is supply and demand. Even the "Patriots", well known to Raiden, did not invent anything new. The fact that after their "disappearance" history continues in the same direction is only proof that the established order cannot be defeated. This is what Sundowner actually says: Raiden with his good intentions will not change the world. PMC has offices all over the world, and therefore their products are in demand. They are only suppliers working for the war market. After all, war is a business hidden behind the face of morality, and the person in it is a commodity.

This again resonates with the rest of the games in the series, where the main unit is not so much the metal gears themselves, but the people behind their creation and control. Of course, the crown of creation of both nature and man is not a perfect tank, but the Legendary Soldier. Big Boss used to be the one. The same fate awaited Raiden. Towards the end, however, MG Rising moves in a slightly different direction, touching on the theme of the "ideal society". As the Patriots once fought for a single ideal world, so Armstrong seeks to create an ideal society where "people will die and kill for what they BELIEVE". Be that as it may, history constantly shows that an imperfect man cannot create a perfect society. After all, it cannot become even the best version of itself. MG has something of the dystopia inherent in the cyberpunk genre. But, at the same time, it remains close to reality, where some wars are fought to stop other wars.

Each war has its own methods of achieving the goal. I like that MG Rising raises the question of the facelessness of the enemies that Raiden kills in packs. Their fate does not interest you as long as it is only a dummy for beating. But as soon as you imagine in front of you a person who has life, destiny and its own will, it becomes morally difficult to destroy them. Maybe that's why it's much more difficult for me to kill innocent NPCs in modern games - they suffer too realistically and look like real people who have their own lives. Giving the enemy human traits is what Sam uses to break Raiden mentally: reality doesn't match his moral principles. It turns out that they are just a cover for his true nature. But as a player, we lean more towards our main character, considering his (that is, our) actions a priori correct. Raiden's reasoning about the sword as an instrument of justice gives us a moral discharge: we destroy the villains who exploit the weak, and therefore do nothing wrong.

But all this is just an illusion. There is no moral attitude that would give a person the right to take the life of another person. "Who saves the weak from the man who saves the weak?" Through the mouths of the characters, the game in a peculiar manner breaks through the fourth wall, addressing the player. Why do we kill? Why do we justify our cruelty? Perhaps Monsoon's phrase that nature cannot be defeated does not mean only the world order. But also a person who has always been marked by cruelty, and therefore cannot defeat himself. As Raiden, we have no right to judge or condemn someone to death. But our internal attitudes, they are memes, give us an excuse, and the game gives us such an opportunity.

In the general sense, a meme is a unit of information. An attitude or idea that is repeated in different variations and transmitted by imitation or learning. The thesis Meme as a gene was formed by the scientist Richard Dawkins in the 1970s, comparing cultural phenomena with human genes, which copy themselves and are ultimately subject to natural selection. In fact, this is all that Monsoon is talking about: memes (that is, cultural attitudes) influence our behavior, the way we communicate and perceive reality. Culture, religion, our own will - everything is formed from the outside and imposed on us as a given. However, not all cultural phenomena undergo selection. In the struggle for the human mind, the "stronger" meme survives, the one most successfully replicated by the carrier, and therefore more valuable.

Raiden wins with his tool of justice meme Mistral with her thirst for revenge because his beliefs are stronger. But this fake facade of nobility is not enough to defeat Monsoon's nihilistic worldview. Dawkins claims that memes adapt quickly, easily deforming under external conditions. All memes disappear, but are immediately replaced by new ones. Breaking Raiden's unnatural mindset, Monsoon forces him to quickly adopt a new one: "…killing your enemies felt good. Really good <…> I was born to kill <…> Pain… this is why I fight”. Thus, Raiden returns to his original beliefs, where he is Jack the Ripper. Again following Dawkins, memes can change and combine and split, resulting in the formation of new memes. For Raiden, it becomes obvious that you can achieve your goal in another way, by accepting the repulsive part of yourself and using it for good.

This is the transformation that Samuel could not go through at the time. Unable to handle his thirst for revenge and justice on his own, he falls under the influence of Armstrong's memes. In the end, this makes him doubt his own ideals, and later he rejects them altogether. It's clear from Sam's backstory that he's not a bad guy. Rather, a guy who got into the wrong company and chose the wrong path. There is something in his character about samurai stories, especially the Hagakure - a treatise on bushido - the samurai's unwritten code of honor. The series of stories was created by Nabeshima Mitsushige in 1716. In them, he told the stories of the former samurai Yamamoto Tsunetomo, who after the death of his master became a ronin - an exiled samurai. In short, the meaning of the book can be described by the phrase 'A samurai has no goal - there is only a path', which was attributed to Yamamoto himself (although he did not actually say anything like that).

Kuniyoshi (1797 - 1861). Tomimori Sukeemon Masakata from the Biographies of the Loyal Retainers series. Woodblock Print, c. 1847. Source: Ronin Gallery

Sam begins his samurai path to avenge his father's death, but as his purpose crumbles, he becomes increasingly hesitant and ends up becoming a mercenary for terrorists. The transformation from a respected man to a robber was quite a common phenomenon among samurai during the turbulent times of Japanese history. But Sam's path was not in vain and meaningless. Yamamoto commanded the samurai to find their own way in life, discarding thoughts about the past, future and everyday problems. This path was paved on the battlefield with a sword (or rather a bow and a horse), and to die in battle for a samurai is the highest honor. Sam and Raiden's battle was a test of their ideas; a turning point that had to decide whose ideology has the right to exist. Samuel himself speaks about this in his posthumous message.

Both were not enemies, but rather adversaries, each had their own convictions at stake as a kind of equivalent of honor. Sam's mindset and fate shows that personal beliefs do have weight. If they are true and worth fighting for, if they are the same strong memes, they will continue to exist. That is why, finally accepting his nature as an assassin, the sword as a weapon, and the goal as completely achievable, Raiden defeats Samuel.

Totally forgot I started to write it, so i had to finish it, haha.

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thelongforgottenglamorousdays · 2 months

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Death is your deliverance.

Lucilius is an Astral of immense power. Though rarely moved by emotion, he harbors a centuries-old hatred for the gods, seeing them as tyrants who imposed order on the boundless universe. For him, there is only one state of true freedom—nothingness.

A conqueror who controls the tides of battle with powerful skills.

Age: Unknown Height: 175cm People: Astral Hobbies: Research Likes: Free will Dislikes: Summer

#ルシファー #Lucilius #Granblue Fantasy #gbf #Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising #videogame #fighting game #japan #japanese #anime #like #グランブルーファンタジー #グランブルーファンタジーヴァーサス -ライジング-#グランブルーファンタジーヴァーサスライジング

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dawn-in-the--adan · 3 months

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Fatal Frame: Maiden of the Black Water

#fatal frame #videogames #videogame #horror game #fatal frame 5 #fatal frame maiden of black water #horror #ghosts #project zero #horror video game #japanese horror #jhorror #survival horror #adan edits

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pixelglade · 12 days

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homepage 🖼️my pixel art 📨 commissions open 🖌️free pixel art brushes

Mew flies over clouds to a field covered in wind turbines by a coastline.

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northernirelandengima · 1 month

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My inner thoughts in a nutshell.

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sekaiichi-happy · 6 months

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Autumn Viewing 2017

#love live #love live sunshine #aqours #dia kurosawa #mari ohara #japanese idol #idol #videogames #llsif #gacha #autumn #autumn aesthetic #autumn vibes #sekaiichihappy posts

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ruhelosetraume · 2 years

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*bell noise*

#fatal frame #fatal frame maiden of black water #fatal frame 5 #maiden of black water #project 0 #survival horror #horror game #Videogame screenshots #videogame photography #Japanese game #ghost

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superpotionlabs · 19 days

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Virtual-On Wallpapers 💫

Virtual On is a futuristic, mech-fighting game. Virtual On originally released in arcades and the Sega Saturn (1996) and released a year later on PC (1997). The Saturn version of the game was one of the few games that supported the SEGA Net, the console attachment allowing internet access.

Unlike other fighting games of this era, the player moves around in a full three dimensional plane, rather than constantly facing your opponent in a side-on perspective.

Notably, the mecha designs for all installments of the series were created by robot designer Hajime Katoki, known for his work on the Gundam series.

#gundam #sega #retro #retrogaming #archive #videogames #segasaturn #saturn #mech #mecha #japan #japanese #robot #future #superpotionlabs

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