The winter issue of #032c features a conversation between video game director @hideo_kojima and his friend, the fashion designer @erlsn.acr (Berlin legend!) of Acronym, who makes a cameo in Death Stranding and also designed some of the clothes for the game. Revered by gamers as a prophet who foretold the disconnectedness resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic, Hideo Kojima has been described by Wired “as the medium’s Steven Spielberg, though David Lynch might be a more apt comparison.” At turns arduous and weird, the plot of his most recent game Death Stranding does in fact feel like a Lynch film, if not a novel by Cormac McCarthy. The central character is the courier Sam Porter Bridges who is transporting cargo such as morphine and a “bridge baby” through a post-apocalyptic American landscape designed by the artist Yoji Shinkawa. Much of the game involves walking, adjusting your gear, eating food, and stopping to use the restroom. By focusing on such mundane activities, #hideokojima wants us to give in to the heightened level of perception that comes with boredom.