[HN Gopher] Video Games Like Assassin's Creed Feed into Conspira...
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       Video Games Like Assassin's Creed Feed into Conspiracy Thinking
        
       Author : omnibrain
       Score  : 4 points
       Date   : 2025-11-29 21:10 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (slate.com)
        
       | phendrenad2 wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | embedding-shape wrote:
       | 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:
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       | > 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.
        
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