For any gamers here, what do y’all think of Senator Armstrong?

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1. For those of us who don’t play the *Metal Gear* series:

   https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Senator_Armstrong

2. I prefer Major Armstrong or General Armstrong

3. Good for a meme of the soul and that’s about it.

   The cockiness and self importance line up with the average politician in my opinion.

4. He’s got an excellent boss theme, that’s for sure.

5. What I have seen said that sums it up best is that Armstrong is an amalgamation of every single spy movie villain ever written.

   He starts off as a ultra-nationalistic war profiteer, only to later reveal that was a complete lie. Within 10 minutes he flips around to every conceivable political extreme.

   Metal Gear has always parodied American politics from the lens of someone who only knows about American politics through action movies, and Armstrong is a parody of Metal Gear itself.

6. He’s everything libertarians want in a politician.

7. Nanomachines

8. Man had charisma out the wazoo, I’ll give him that.

9. Senator Armstrong is based, did nothing wrong and Jack was the vilain of the story.

   fite me

10. This whole interaction cracks me up:

    Armstrong: Played college ball, ya know.

    Raiden: At some cushy Ivy League school.

    Armstrong: Try University of Texas. Coulda gone pro if I hadn’t joined the Navy. I’m not one of those beltway pansies. I could break the president in two with my bare hands! DON’T FUCK WITH THIS SENATOR!

11. I’m old. All I remember is the 16 bit arcade version with bodybuilder dudes with blond flattops and slow stubby tanks that hopped.

12. Great boss fight

13. Be the American the Japanese think you are