Video Games Like Assassin's Creed Feed into Conspiracy Thinking

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8 points·omnibrain··5 comments

Wow, great point. Video games encourage heterodoxical thinking rather than blindly following the narrative. So you're saying we should develop and promote more Assassin's Creed type games to reduce overall gullibility, as a public service.

E.g. Being skeptical of "facts" reported by Judith Miller in NY Times that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and that US troops would be welcomed as liberators in 2003. I'm sure players of Assassin's Creed would not have fallen for that.

It sounds like an article to sell a book (Whose author is being interview in this article, supposedly), the whole gist of the argument is basically:

> And, while Assassin’s Creed games may directly reference conspiracy theories, Kunzelman argues that, crucially, following just about any modern franchise, from Star Wars to Love Is Blind, has quite a bit in common with being a conspiracy theorist.

Yes, made up stories have a lot in common with conspiracy theories, not sure this is very surprising.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory#Alleged_CIA_...

Joshua Rivera really walked past a crowd full of people with signs reading "release the epstein files" to write this article about how a video game from 2007 is the cause of conspiracy theories.

What a bigoted remark. Someone flag it!! (lol)... You're not being gaslit, no no, you're just a crazy person whose perception of reality is flawed. Epstein never existed at all, it's just your imagination, okay? Yes or yes? So do you agree with my opinion - or do you disagree with your opinion? This is not sloppy strategic gaslighting designed for boomers, it's journalism, and you need to let it influence you.

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