Kojima cryptically gives opinion on Obama's Nobel Prize
by Griffin McElroy 
{ Oct 10th 2009 at 8:30PM }
"President Obama, who declared 'A World Without Nuclear Weapons' in Prague, has won the Nobel Peace Prize. Has the era at last started shifting? The start of the Peace Walker plan? I hope that comes to be. 'Peace will not walk to you.' 'You must both walk towards one another.' From the gym."
Not only does this entry reveal that Kojima writes like William Shatner speaks, but it also exposes a grim truth of the Metal Gear series -- it's all real. The GW construct. The Philosophers' Legacy. The Patriots. FoxDie. And, of course, somewhere there exists a real-life Metal Gear. Based on this post, we're guessing it's in a gym.
[Via Andriasang]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
Faceman @ Oct 10th 2009 8:34PM
Quackenbush.
Traceur_Ryuk [All Digital until December] (PSN: Ryuk_shinigami) @ Oct 10th 2009 8:38PM
Hmm... You know. I always hoped something crazy would happen to this world, it's too boring. I hope the H1N1 vaccine turns people into zombies and I can go on a massive zombie massacre.... If only....
Azerael @ Oct 10th 2009 9:01PM
You'll probably be among the first to die.
Sly @ Oct 10th 2009 9:13PM
better start preppin our boomsticks.
BananaBoat @ Oct 10th 2009 9:22PM
I already named mah boomstick Darlene, and I had sex with her last night.
When the zombie pocalypse coms, I gun be ready.
Mr Mobius - the wandering artist @ Oct 10th 2009 9:22PM
Ever watch people watching American Idol/X Factor? The virus is already here, so get your saw off shotguns and baseball bats ready. We're heading to the mountains to hole up til it's over!
Sly @ Oct 10th 2009 9:29PM
don't forget to pack some crackers n' tuna for us to eat! cheez its too.
Marius @ Oct 10th 2009 9:46PM
i agree, I feel as if I am not using my animal instincts,
2012, I hope
cloud858rk @ Oct 10th 2009 10:20PM
The first ones to go were the fatties.
Bobby Kotick 2: Echoes @ Oct 10th 2009 10:39PM
I honestly wonder...
You know how at the beginning of the Metal Gear games when it says how if any of this is true, it's a coincidence? What if Hideo Kojima is actually from the future and is using future events to create one of the most successful video game franchises that keeps going from exclusive to multi-platform?
God, I'm really paraniod, aren't I?
Dr. Bradwart @ Oct 10th 2009 10:56PM
Bobby, you should ask him how the gaming industry looks in that future. That way we can end the 'Dreamcast 2!" debacle once and for all!
sony boy (6 years til sony man child!) @ Oct 10th 2009 10:57PM
i just wanna get laid, but i'm too young...and 2012 will pass before i turn 18...i'm sad...
Dr. Bradwart @ Oct 10th 2009 11:01PM
Don't worry. Elijah Wood wasn't 18 in Deep Impact and no one cared they got married. You'll have time.
cloud858rk @ Oct 10th 2009 11:09PM
Meh who cares about legality anyway.
sonicspike41 @ Oct 10th 2009 11:27PM
It's okay sony boy, in other six years you'll be working at a toy store scoring cougars left and right.
CheeziePotato (PSN: talic10 | XBL: InfiniteMovie) @ Oct 10th 2009 11:54PM
There's no legal age to have sex. I did it when I was 15. Well if you're under 18 and having sex with someone over 18 then that's illegal, I think. Don't worry sony boy it's not that long, well unless you're ugly.
Now back on topic. WHAT? Obama won a Nobel Peace Prize? How?
Sly @ Oct 11th 2009 12:17AM
sony boy, you can do it now. just make sure the girl is older than you, and that you make it look like you were being forced to do it if you get caught.
CheeziePotato (PSN: talic10 | XBL: InfiniteMovie) @ Oct 11th 2009 1:43PM
I agree with Sly. Do it now.
CheeziePotato (PSN: talic10 | XBL: InfiniteMovie) @ Oct 11th 2009 6:03PM
I finally figured out how Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize, he isn't Bush.
Special Agent Steve @ Oct 10th 2009 8:41PM
That's what L4D2 is for.
Alton Brown [ XBL: LordToastington] @ Oct 10th 2009 8:41PM
A Metal Gear beats a goddamn Bowflex any day of the week.
Wayne Campbell @ Oct 10th 2009 8:47PM
Hmmm I don't know...
A Bowlfex CAN do quite a few things...
Tough choice...
BrianValentine @ Oct 10th 2009 8:48PM
Metal Gear is like the soap opera version of the current nuclear arms climate. It's all too real, but not as... crazy and full of clones.
Yishai08 @ Oct 11th 2009 2:42PM
Yeah, I'll agree with you on that one. Pretty good mixture of reality and fantasy.
Brakius @ Oct 10th 2009 8:49PM
Now the Nobel Peace Prize has become the new season of American Idol.
j.howlett @ Oct 10th 2009 8:50PM
a question mark appeared above my head after reading that.
Allarion @ Oct 12th 2009 1:05PM
That means I completed the quest... now, what was it that you needed? Boar intestines? Spider legs?
Mr Khan @ Oct 10th 2009 8:50PM
His opinion makes as much sense as Obama's victory, which i say with a staunch record of being a left-wing zealot.
Wes @ Oct 10th 2009 8:56PM
No kidding. Clinton did far far more for World Peace that Obama has ever done. Troop counts in Afganistan or Iraq aren't exactly going down all that quick*
*if at all.
please @ Oct 10th 2009 9:16PM
iTS Europe trying to stop afghan governement and let taliban take over.
Prize is telling Obama you have cover to pull out now.
johnnynumber5 @ Oct 10th 2009 10:59PM
I think he won because he isn't Dubya. More than anything this was the committee saying they want to help push his foreign policy objectives than for an actual accomplishment.
Uncontrol @ Oct 10th 2009 11:40PM
canadian left winger joining the "wtf why did obama win the peace prize" crew
Bowser Rogozhin: England is finished @ Oct 11th 2009 2:46AM
"Clinton did far far more for World Peace that Obama has ever done. "
Yeah, bombing the Al-Shifa factory in Sudan to distract the public from the Lewinsky scandal was a very noble and peaceful act. We should all spire to acts of dramatic violence to hide our failings.
MystileArmor @ Oct 10th 2009 8:55PM
Can someone enlighten me what Obama has done for peace to get the nobel prize? Besides just saying there should be peace...
I mean, I'm honestly not aware what he's done that was of such impact.
Azerael @ Oct 10th 2009 9:03PM
Seems to be a question nobody except the Nobel committee actually has the answer to.
WINterfang ( Now with the power to piss you off ) @ Oct 10th 2009 9:06PM
I'm guessing he has done more than you or me.
HSOL @ Oct 10th 2009 9:14PM
I consider myself to be a pretty liberal guy and even I can't give a good reason as to why he deserves it.
And as for Kojima, what?
Lunastra78 (PSN: lunastra78) @ Oct 10th 2009 9:19PM
You want the real reason? Our politicians (in Norway) wants him to visit because he visited Denmark not long ago, which made them a bit jealous.
And I'm sure if Obama actually asks our prime minister to kiss his ass on live television, our PM will get down on his knees and kiss Obamas ass... on television.
Wet Bandit @ Oct 10th 2009 9:27PM
It's mostly for his nonproliferation work.
Obama and Dick Lugar had a pretty well-known piece of legislation in the Senate:
http://lugar.senate.gov/record.cfm?id=278019&
Obama also sat down with the Russian president to hammer out an outline to a new treaty:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124687724526000031.html
And Obama led the U.N. Security Council when they adopted a nonproliferation resolution.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/24/obama.un.nuclear/index.html
That stuff, combined with his widely-publicized speech about nuclear arms in Prague is the bulk of what the award is for.
There's also his outreach to the Muslim world, which has been a notable bit of diplomacy.
And there's also the fact that Obama is not Bush, which is helping Obama quite a bit internationally.
BananaBoat @ Oct 10th 2009 9:31PM
What you all fail to understand is that the Nobel committee has a time machine, and that they award the Nobel prize based on future deeds. For instance, in the year 2024, Teddy Roosevelt will rise from the grave and defeat the forces of Robo-Hitler, ending WWIII and saving humanity. For this future act of heroism, he was given the Nobel prize in 1906.
Just wait a few hundred years, and we'll know why they awarded this years medal.
PR0F3TA (PSN - PROPHETA) @ Oct 10th 2009 10:05PM
its true^ believe it or not Al Gore won one because it turned out there was such a thing as Manbearpig
Dr. Bradwart @ Oct 10th 2009 11:07PM
He won it because he's turning the US into the personal sex slave of Mother Russia. Them Europeans like their porn.
johnnynumber5 @ Oct 10th 2009 11:22PM
Obama himself admitted he didn't feel he was deserving of the award. The guy is damned if he do and damned if he don't with a large portion of our Country and to an equally large portion he can do no wrong. I wish more people were somewhere in the middle and saw this for what it was ... he gets the Peace Prize for trying to usher in a new era of diplomacy and he isn't Bush. Period.
This is just as much a political statement by the committee as it is anything else. It is what it is and our country is so busy fighting and arguing about the shit that doesn't actually matter (like this) that we are distracted from the whats really happening. America is crumbling literally and figuratively.
I think the hardcore ideological conservatives feel Bush got some kind of slight in office and are taking out that agression on Obama. It's sad the Republican party is little more than a shell of it's former self and is really become nothing more than the conservative wing of the democratic party.
The Left has pretty much been taken over by a vocal minority of extremely hardcore activist esque ideologically driven liberals. They seem to be driven by this passion to prove how much they AREN'T conservative and as such have really went out of their way to push agendas that aren't necessarily in the best interest of the citizens.
Basically the Conservative party is driven by Big Oil & The Military Industrial Complex where as the Democratic party is driven by wall street financiers.
Thats my take anyway ...
Wiizer ($299) Having BC On Your Launch Console? (Priceless) @ Oct 11th 2009 1:41AM
His accomplishment is that he's not George Bush.
The Norwegians are thanking him for that.
t_m @ Oct 11th 2009 3:53AM
As we all should!
Basically the award was for the 60 odd million people who voted for him. And because while he hasn't done much yet, the way he's doing things is much more peaceful.
We're basically rewarding you for not being assholes. It's like when the disruptive kid at school gets an apple for just sitting quietly. ;-)
LaughingTarget @ Oct 11th 2009 6:49AM
99.999999998333% of the world isn't Bush. Does that mean the other 5,999,999,999 are all deserving of a Nobel prize?
pax copia @ Oct 11th 2009 12:09PM
I'll keep it super simple and just mention a smidgen so it should be real easy for you to digest it.
He eliminated that useless term "The War on Terror".
If you got through that without getting indigestion he also prohibited the use of torture.
Now the list is long (he actually wants a nuclear weapon-free world) so if you are hungry for more just ask.
eNrique @ Oct 11th 2009 12:13PM
He stopped the killlings and rapings of innocent people in Irak and Afghanistan, by taking back the troops after a they found about 738 nuclear heads and 194 chemical bombs in both countries.
Oh wait...
!
X-singular @ Oct 11th 2009 4:34PM
Obama is a pretty cool guy eh,brings peace and doesn't afraid of anything.
xGearSecondx @ Oct 12th 2009 12:34PM
@X-singular
You're doing it wrong