Hideo Kojima Understood Coronavirus Before It Happened
2020-07-27
but because i was i'm saying this
because i was just going to mention the
game bloodborne
oh yeah but you could talk about for
hours you could talk about that game
i literally have mastered that game in
and out
and it's so beaut like in terms of like
philosophically or whatever
and i have such an emotional attachment
to it i don't touch it
i literally won't play the game i won't
touch it because i become this pure
object now exactly that's what it's
become for me because like
it's be i have a sentimental attachment
to the
listen kojima's perspective he's coming
is i see it as an asian
critique of european modernity i find it
so beautiful
bloodborne it's literally death's
trending my favorite game ever
obviously you know that because i sent
you that fucking
30 page you know tirade or whatever i
enjoyed it
oh yeah that was good yeah it was great
yeah
thank you i appreciate it i got totally
burnt out and just did not play dust
stranding anymore and so i was like
man i i played it and like got i
actually ended up playing it and like i
became so enthusiastic and like
fucking high from playing it i love the
look of that game though
that's what i'm saying yeah i loved it i
loved it i
love how sentimental it is too i'm like
oh it's almost like like rush reviews
like everyone's just crying all the time
and i'm like don't
like don't you want to cry in a
beautiful field in the future
and contemplate you know just desolation
for a while
i didn't cry but like my heart cried
when i was playing yeah what i mean
like like playing playing playing death
stranding it like it literally
listen it came at such a beautiful time
november 2019
i felt like the game summed up a
conclusion
the spirit of the epoch spirit of the
era
to me death stranding was the
culmination of
an age or an era i don't know when this
era began maybe it began in
2000s or maybe began in the post-war
period i i don't know but
it felt like catharsis yeah he
somehow created a poetics of of
uberization
it's happened the coronavirus fucking
that shit listen that shit blew my
fucking mind yeah coronavirus because i
was in the death stranding mentality i
was like
this is our world i have to think to
myself though like
in in november why was i thinking this
is our world
when it didn't happen until recently you
know
yeah well because it's like i remember
thinking dust training is the future
because i'm like everyone's in the doors
you don't even see them you see their
holograms and you're delivering
yeah you're i think the pod bugs thing
i thought but i was like i was just i
think we were all like people were
talking about that you were just
extending it from the fact we live in
our houses and then don't go out except
to work
or whatever so we were living there but
chrome buyers just made it like literal
it made it so
total and so like there's an interview
with groys there's a podcast where
croissants interviews about coronavirus
and he's like it already existed like
this this lifestyle does everything
it's already he's right he's 100 right
and that's why that's why i somewhat
entertained i never believed but
entertained conspiracy theories
because i said come on this on the nose
coronavirus was this convenient to usher
in this
i think it's when my mom went crazy she
went from being just her weird self to
being all q anon and stuff and i'm like
i can't quite blame her because because
first it was like epstein's shit she was
like
so wait there are pedophile conspiracies
and i was like yeah
and then this happened and she's like
fuck it all bets are off and she picked
you know her conspiracy but a lot of
people are having that journey right now
because it's too perfect it's too yeah
it's too convenient