What is Death Stranding ACTUALLY About? | Monsters of the Week

#DeathStranding #MonstersOfTheWeek Kojima Productions’ Death Stranding is about to release, and after 3 years of cryptic trailers and an almost ARG-like pre-launch campaign, I’m going take one last shot at analyzing the metanarrative of this game -- what Death Stranding has to say about the state of the video game industry, global politics and everything in between. Support me on Patreon: http://ragnarrox.com/patreon/ Twitter: http://ragnarrox.com/twitter/ Facebook: http://ragnarrox.com/facebook/ Creative Credits Original Script: Michael Saba https://www.youtube.com/user/akhorahilis Guest Voice Acting: Ryan Hollinger https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCphlppLaedKn0BgXAszs5dQ Video Links The Alt-Right Playbook: How to Radicalize a Normie | Innuendo Studios https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P55t6eryY3g Radicalization and Gaming: The New Culture Wars | Michael Saba https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2u5iVKJ0x0 Movie Credits Postman (1997) Cast Away (2001) Akira (1988) Ghost in the Shell (1995) Heroin(e) (2017) Reports and Articles We’re All in the Sacrifice Zone Now | Dave Pruett, Huffpost https://www.huffpost.com/entry/were-all-in-the-sacrifice-zone-now_b_9823482 More Millennials Are Dying 'Deaths of Despair,' as Overdose and Suicide Rates Climb | Jamie Ducharme, Time https://time.com/5606411/millennials-deaths-of-despair/ 22 percent of millennials say they have “no friends” | Brian Resnick, Vox https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/8/1/20750047/millennials-poll-loneliness Video Credits The Unheard Story Of Appalachia's Coal, Part 1 | AJ+ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VBYsEGpLDI Trump's Forgotten America | AJ+ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFawDlqWwKw Inside Skid Row: America's homelessness capital | AJ+ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTJWdtX90C0 Racism in America’s Sanitation System | AJ+ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EidFR14QMFY Rural Poverty in the United States | World Vision https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8RIFtrXMAk The story of American poverty, as told by one Alabama county | PBS News Hour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytd06hadrsM Floods surge in Houston as water flows from reservoirs | CBS This Morning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79zfzJFID4Y Flint Michigan Residents Are Still Fighting For Clean Water, 5 Years Later | TODAY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7WiUltNxuc Hotline Miami and the Rise of Synthwave | Michael Saba https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mjsic8hiQ5k USA: Fracking Boom in Texas | ARTE https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/089270-000-A/usa-fracking-boom-in-texas/ Detroit 2020: Blight | WXYZ-TV Detroit | Channel 7 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z5Yapt7g3g 'Off The Rails' : Longtime Trump Lawyer Slams Giuliani On Ukraine And Criminal Exposure | MSNBC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVMF9GNaVO4 Exxon Valdez changed the oil industry forever—but new threats emerge | National Geographic https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/03/oil-spills-30-years-after-exxon-valdez/ Billionaire by Bruce Makowsky | 924 Bel-Air Rd | $150M | Hilton & Hyland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLnkBpT3Cu8