{"product_id":"fission-mailed-longsleeve","title":"FISSION MAILED Longsleeve","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eORDERS OPEN: 4\/16\/26\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eORDERS CLOSE: 4\/20\/26\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTO PRINT: 4\/21\/26\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRINTED ON GD1807 BLACK LONGSLEEVE \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTEES. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eALL ITEMS TAKE BETWEEN 3-4 WEEKS TO PRODUCE AFTER THE ORDER PERIOD ENDS. You will always receive your item unless otherwise contacted. All items are final sale. We are not responsible for lost, stolen, or misplaced packages.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMetal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty sold over seven million copies worldwide, and received acclaim for its gameplay, graphics, and attention to detail. However, critics were initially divided on the protagonist and the philosophical nature and execution of the game’s storyline, which explores themes such as the Information Age, memetics, social engineering, political conspiracies, censorship, artificial intelligence, existentialism, and postmodernism. Metal Gear Solid 2 has since been considered to be one of the greatest video games of all time, as well as a leading example of artistic expression in video games. The game is often considered ahead of its time for dealing with themes and concepts, such as post-truth politics, fake news, alternative facts, and echo chambers, that became culturally relevant in the 2010s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0571\/2802\/6318\/files\/metal-gear-solid-2-sons-of-liberty-hd-edition-1.jpg?v=1775931788\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJust like at the beginning of MGS1, you are scuba-swimming to an undersea secret insertion point, without any equipment beyond the suit, ready to engage in a solo black op with no official support, one-versus-all, avoiding or neutralizing any threats along a gauntlet of special forces rogues on toward your mysterious endgame. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eYou have seen all this before… We know the drill. But something is off. Nothing has been explained yet to connect our prologue with the original Snake to these disparate events unfolding before you – and this other protagonist. The first, and perhaps most powerful, signifier to some kind of unreality to this experience is the mere fact that you are playing as someone other than Solid Snake. You now control ‘Raiden’, an androgynous, cartwheel-flipping, silver-haired young man whose origins and reputation as an operator are entirely unknown to you, and whose personality you fast come to see as inexperienced, insecure, and self-doubtful as to his own abilities to complete the mission on his own… This is not Solid Snake. This is no legend, this is a kid. And this is not “your” Metal Gear Solid…\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat follows is a kind of ascended re-run of the arc of Metal Gear Solid, with the names and faces of the players involved, the locales and equipment in play, and the protagonist himself — swapped out for different, albeit similar, entities. Once again, our existentially skeptical super-soldier infiltrator is progressing through a steel complex full of traps and goons, with the occasional enhanced, eccentric individual to take down in a dramatic 1v1 showdown (including a glammed up goth vampire, a rollerblading fatman bomber, and an anti-heroic cyborg ninja (again).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0571\/2802\/6318\/files\/comparison-of-modernism-and-postmodernism-adapted-from-steve-easterbrook.png?v=1775932295\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eRaiden, in the end, is a pawn of a pawn, a player within a simulation whose conflict with his cruel foster father — Big Boss-wannabe, and former President of the United States, George Sears, codenamed Solidus Snake (the third, unknown brother of both Solid and Liquid!) — is meaningless.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSolidus, the ‘Big Bad Guy’ waiting at the end of the gauntlet, wants information and not apocalypse. And he is just as much of a pawn as Raiden is, he’s just one step up within the subjugated hierarchy. Victory or death within this conflict for either principal party is not as important as the fact that it is being waged at all, with its pretense of reality and meaning captured for its observers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0571\/2802\/6318\/files\/self.png?v=1775932311\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe whole game, and its mirror of the dramatic events of Shadow Moses, are a play put on for the sake of a secret artificial intelligence system to dynamically interact with and further actualize itself and its plans for humanity from. The game’s narrative, as observed by its final foe — and true orchestrator in The Patriots’ collective A.I. supergroup known by GW and other unknown names — is the means to an interactive learning entertainment unto itself as the only real end… not unlike the concept of a video game to its human players.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eKl6WjfDqYA?si=aLyYbyUH_jLbIG9n\" title=\"YouTube video player\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn short, it is a challenge to or skepticism of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eobjective\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e reality and truth, and of the possibility of grand, interconnecting \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003enarratives\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e existing within humanity’s course as a species. Might the AI’s thesis be \u003cem\u003eright\u003c\/em\u003e? Might the Internet be stunting our evolution as a species? It makes a certain kind of sense. Think about it. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0571\/2802\/6318\/files\/not-fun.jpg?v=1775932330\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003eWhen online, many do not engage their critical thinking faculties for long — because there is always somewhere else to go, probably much more entertaining, and just a click away… It requires tremendous effort to try to get to the baseline truth of any matter, and then go forth with conversation and choice rationally.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003eThe discourse, its data and its\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ealgorithms\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eare all-encompassing, influencing everything from fashion to public policy, leading unto the all-important dictates of production and capital allocation for governments, corporations, and nations. 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