Its an airtight container that you can fit in a semi-large pocket, which works as an ashtray, and you put cigarette butts in it.
In Japan, littering is extremely frowned upon, there are basically no public ashtrays, it is pretty common for smokers to stash their butts in these containers and then empty them out later.
Very different from the norm in much of the rest of the world where people just litter cig butts everywhere, toss them into garbage cans and start fires.
Kojima games have always been full of mechanics and characters that are pretty obviously direct jabs at his own player base.
Hrm, after MGS, what does my NA playerbase look like?
Oh, a bunch of skinny, white, emo nerds with massive insecurity about basically everything in their lives?
Perfect, that’s the new main character, and he gets a shonen character arc.
… MGS4 legitimately got me to get a portable cigarette butt container, and then also helped me to quit smoking.
What is a “portable cigarette butt container”?
Its an airtight container that you can fit in a semi-large pocket, which works as an ashtray, and you put cigarette butts in it.
In Japan, littering is extremely frowned upon, there are basically no public ashtrays, it is pretty common for smokers to stash their butts in these containers and then empty them out later.
Very different from the norm in much of the rest of the world where people just litter cig butts everywhere, toss them into garbage cans and start fires.
Here’s a cheap one on amazon.
Here’s Snake using his in MGS 4:
That is actually amazing. This needs to be standard fare everywhere.
Probably easier to get people to stop smoking than stop littering.
Portable sealable ashtray
A analogue film container was my go for this use.