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Hideo Kojima has “learned so many ways to kill people”

4 August 20250

Buried in the fuzz of an otherwise unstartling SSENSE interview with Hideo Kojima, a sudden spike of violence. “People who are making military games, they probably don’t know how to dismantle a gun or shoot a gun,” said the Metal Gear man, in amongst pictures of himself dressed as various Minecraft skinpacks. “So that’s kind of sad.” Does Kojima know how to dismantle a gun? “Yes, because I’ve been doing this training as well, and I learned so many ways to kill people as well.”