This Just-Released Switch Game Might Have Accidentally Predicted The Pandemic

Is this the part were they take the game of the Eshop?

It sure seems convenient for them to release it now on Switch as the pandemic seems to finally reach an end, with covid being almost endemic at this point. Game looks fun, might try it as I am an adventure game afficionado

The one line was funny "I'm not smart enough to double cross you so you can trust me" lol

@HedgehogEngine
I don't think you're supposed to take this seriously. This is more of a "Hey look at this funny coincidence" thing

@HedgehogEngine

Actually, statistical modelling and historical data was "predicting" that the globe was and had been overdue for another large-scale pandemic for some time. Of course, the exact specifics were unpredictable. 😔

I believe Night of the Living Dead already predicted the pandemic way before this. The spread of the virus turns everyone into mass murder a.k.a. zombie does sound like Covid to me.

@HedgehogEngine

Hello friend,

It appears you came into a light and humorous topic and your contributions so far have been to insult the author for posting low effort content and to say it's insensitive simply because it mentions a pandemic we're currently in. The article doesn't make light of the pandemic or people dying, they make light that a game originally came out in 2018 and it seemingly predicted what would happen a couple years later. The game was also released on Switch very recently so it's definitely relevant and that they noted this funny coincidence actually makes the game more appealing.

Please reconsider your contributions to posts like this. If all you contribute is aiming to hurt others or insult them, maybe it's best not to act on those feelings and just walk away.

@HedgehogEngine You're upset the author is doing her job exactly how she should be doing it?

This game wasn't on my radar at all before, but since she pointed out this funny coincidence in this article, it's actually interesting to me and I might buy it simply because of this funny connection. No one thinks this video game actually predicted the pandemic, that's the funny part, that's the joke you're treating like they're making a legitimate claim, but it's just a joke. Lighten up.

If you can't lighten up, at least go somewhere else if you need to blow off steam. Leave everyone here out of it.

There's a pandemic? News to me. You'd think the media would mention it...

@HedgehogEngine Those patterns exist for a reason. Few scientific fields would ignore the past as a factor for calculating future trends. Hell, stocks markets do it too. To disregard the past as being irrelevant and useless is incredibly short sighted.

Dang. This was even before Dr. Bill Gates went onto Twitter and announce that the future is with vaccines in 2019. I wish I would have listened back then. I could have invested in all the pharmaceutical stocks like the politicians. The only thing that doesn’t line up with this game and real life is, in the game they want to find the pandemics origin. For some reason no one cares about that in real life. I wonder why….

@HedgehogEngine Yeah, true. Although I never said nor implied the past is the only metric either.

@Trickbaby14 I thought it was pretty common knowledge it started in the Wuhan lab with a little help from American dollars, then China blamed it on the wet market after quickly dismantling said wet market...or did I miss something?

@EVIL-C Well if there were predictions that we were “due” for a pandemic, how does that work when it’s leaked from a lab? Were they right then?

@UglyCasanova @Spiders @Trickbaby14

Do you venture out of r/conspiracy very often?

Aw man, I'm going to have to check this game out. I love me some Interdimensional ABK.

The truth is always stranger than fiction. That is all.

@Astral-Grain
All he is saying is that it is clickbait. Nothing more nothing less.

So any game,tv show or movie that has a deadly disease is now predicting the pandemic I guess.

@Trickbaby14
Money and popularity

@Astral-Grain
What seems more likely. It came from a lab or it came from some dude eating a bat. I will let you decide.

@UglyCasanova There has never been a full investigation into the lab leak theory. Right now, there is just a working set of facts that seem to point in the direction of the virus being man made. However, with science you have to put your theory to the test and find out if it's correct. Who doesn't want this investigation to take place? Oh, I don't know, maybe the companies and people fronting the money to get rich off the scheme.

Somehow this flew under my radar, I'm always on the lookout for new adventure games, so I'll probably pick it up.

A pandemic like this has been on the cards for a while either as a flu strain or as a coronavirus. Modeling and what-if exercises were carried out. Complacency and disaster capitalism are bad bedfellows.

Anyways, game looks pretty good

@Gwynbleidd why would you mute someone and then seek to view their posts in private mode?

Doesn't that defeat the purpose of muting them?

@Astral-Grain At this point, you have to be a conspiracy theorist to believe it wasn’t a lab leak. After all the NIH emails that got FOIA’d? Dead to rights US funded gain-of-function research through EcoHealth Alliance in Wuhan lab? Pull your head out of the sand friend.

And no, I don’t like reddit haha.