The fan on Elias’s laptop whirred like a Hind-D gunship, a desperate sound that mirrored his own frustration. It was 2:00 AM, and all he wanted was to see Venom Snake’s grizzly face in glorious 4K. Instead, he was staring at a frozen white screen and a crash report that basically said, "Windows 11 doesn’t like 2015."

"Come on, Kojima, don't do this to me," he muttered, his eyes bloodshot from an hour of scrolling through dead Reddit threads.

Windows 11 had been conquered. Tactical Espionage Operations had officially resumed.