A Disturbing VR Cult

[@ThinkAbstract]

When you're chilling n u start hearing 'vi are wan'

[@Venusvacumms_07]

Time to buy a new house

[@pepebroccolo6728]

Time to commit an hate crime

[@nadaotk]

@@pepebroccolo6728 a*

[@pepebroccolo6728]

@@nadaotk ehy ai no inglish man mate chill out

[@momotank3148]

JoinO UsO

[@Fehnickss]

i swear. Disrupt needs his own tv show

[@ellmatic]

Uh... isn't that what we're watching?

[@sodiboo]

i agree

[@PanParzi]

I mean, yeah, he should, but in order for his ideas to come, he needs time. A lot of time, meaning that the shows would have less quality. I'd say quality over quantity

[@xstant1]

The next Dr. Phil? But better?

[@Greenpixel16]

Did you not watch the end? Disrupt+™

[@Bigfoot_With_Internet_Access]

I've had to deal with irl cults out here in my forest trying to do their rituals and stuff

[@mirzazulic2057]

Just Some Bigfoot With Internet Access damn man, it must suck

[@birb125]

Aw man, i thought i was alone...

[@fionnbarrett1030]

Call police man if its private property

[@Mello.]

Fionn Barrett hé csnt call the police, he’s Bigfoot!

[@nadaotk]

Same. . .

[@DingusButDead]

That segment about a virus hit differently. It genuinely made me question whether or not this was actually fiction or not.

[@Corrupted]

It's starting in 2030 and features tech and stuff that isnt even real lol

[@orangemonks894]

@@Corrupted I mean... we already have vr..

[@Themurderin]

@OrBar0716 Ow, I think I just cut myself on all that edge.

[@hubguy]

@@Corrupted Well we already have VR and the ability to mistake the virtual world for the real world to some degree even tho we know it's fake. I've seen a few segments in videos where people would briefly mistake an in-game object for a real one. There was one in particular of PeanutButterGamer where he playing a cooking VR game and he tried using a countertop in the game to prop himself up only to fall over cause it wasn't actually there lol While not bad right now, that kind of stuff has already started. We don't have a Sword Art Online style helmet and more technologically advanced aspects of these VR worlds, but perhaps we don't need it. Maybe enough isolation and dependence on things like VR to use for escapism will lead to something similar sooner than is listed in the video. I mean people genuinely believe in Matrix/simulation theory and people have fallen for stuff like Heaven's Gate so I wouldn't put it past anyone if this were already starting in a corner of VRChat or something as we speak

[@sillybutt7]

Disrupt must be connected to the illuminati and the rothchilds

[@oniononion7560]

Not me thinking this a real event, I didn’t notice the years the first time, and when he mentioned the pandemic it made me go, “oh it happened this year! I can’t believe so many people commuted suicide!”

[@snark894]

i only realised it was fake after reading the comments, i literally thought the exact same thing and went on a google rant trying to find the video he didnt show on liveleak or something

[@green_cz9874]

Same here

[@seasesh4073]

@@snark894 I just assumed it's fake because first, I don't know of such vr that exist. How they speak even when it's supposed to be captured from live and the fact I would've heard mass murder mentioned at least once. But the fact I had to go through all of this to determine if it's real or fake speaks to how good it was narrated

[@joshuaminton7583]

@@snark894 I realized when it said 2030

[@ramon4756]

Yeah its fake. I couldn’t find any information on this.

[@MadPropzBaller]

I can't express how much I am disappointed and relieved at the same time after realizing this was fiction.

[@hoonigandude2452]

U mean all of this is fake ?

[@MadPropzBaller]

@@hoonigandude2452 yeah :/

[@mikeexits]

@@hoonigandude2452 1. It's not 2030 yet 2. We don't have the "full immersion" VR tech spoken of in the video, which would involve brain-computer interfacing.

[@three-bark1928]

Bruh, it first came up with 2030 as the date

[@cvpearlman3224]

But new realm vr is real and hmd uplink headsets to

[@meowmrrrp]

7:10 The camera: a graphic scene of an actual person dying in real time The chat: pog

[@davebob8506]

basically twitch

[@theperidot5xg]

They're saying Yeaaaah in Korean lollll

[@captivatingcurios]

Only realized this was fiction at 8 minutes, because kojy's character arc was just too perfect

[@GGiemon]

It says it’s fictional in the description, plus the years say 2030+

[@peckerthemecher]

@@GGiemon and the word “theorizing” 45 seconds in lol she and 175 people got the big dumb

[@LimPu]

Yeah same actually :D

[@samthompson1918]

I only realized 4 seconds in when i looked down and saw Isabel's comment😶🤣

[@dnbsoldier7259]

It's just a cheap rip off of Minority Report and the Jim Jones cult, Peoples Temple.

[@lamarepository248]

“Hey how do Japanese people talk?” “Just pronounce o at the end of every word.”

[@crushermach3263]

It's a bit more complicated than that. See Japanese uses a syllabary instead of an alphabet. I.e. every symbol is a combination of a consonant and a vowel sound, so when you try to make English words with Japanese pronunciation there ends up being a bunch of extra vowels mixed in. Take "McDonald" for instance. That turns into マクドナルド "MakuDonaludo". It's especially prominent in text-to-speech programs, like he's using in this video. -Sincerely, a massive weeb

[@hubguy]

@@crushermach3263 Thank you for explaining lol now it makes more sense to hear a lot of English words sound how they do

[@WilliamFritzM]

thats spanish

[@applejuice5635]

@@WilliamFritzM lmao

[@deadskinrippers]

Aso

[@NathanPa-xo3zj]

Basically this is Sword Art Online but using dark web and more intelligent weebs

[@Gygabiite]

More like Infinite Dendrogram

[@dr.ducttape2161]

What an insult to Disrupt

[@Xipheria]

Gygabiite i was thinking about that.

[@ozerune]

Gygabiite The whole game idea is just dumbed down ID

[@largestill]

Or Serial Experiments Lain.

[@onikrux]

Didnt realize this was fiction until u started saying it was the first Mass digital suicide, and they "drank the kool aid" lmao alright man

[@shrinoski]

I mean. They were in the 2030s... big duMb

[@imdeet]

Drinking the koolaid means to do stupid stuff / follow what people say

[@Venusvacumms_07]

@Seamus Chase i thought that he just meant bleach

[@Notbino2]

Redddy I thought that was as a time

[@a1pher]

Jonestown massacre.

[@lavander_xz]

Everybody gangsta till "vi are wan" enters the party

[@ThePizzaDwarf]

xD

[@elcocaino8728]

@@ThePizzaDwarf :v

[@3chillhomies704]

lmfao

[@dodoubleg182]

VI ARE NUMBA WAN HEY!

[@jaxonmorrill]

This is dope, it’s like a little mocumentary horror movie

[@prakharmishra3000]

WE ARE ONE WE ARE THEY

[@magiel4810]

This feels like its part of a black mirror series with shorts in stead of the normal length

[@potatotower7288]

Lmao I thought it was real at the start and was like "There's a vr headseat for 300$???" I feel rly dumb now

[@Desertdolphin43]

So it's not real? I was searching for the newrealm website and nothing came up

[@BarrieBM]

@@Desertdolphin43 figured the same but now i understand why the footage is mostly vrchat and the years are like 2035

[@NathanPa-xo3zj]

There are even 50 bucks vr made in China. Only fit for glorious HUAWEI

[@legendarynoodle2438]

Description : a fictional vr cult

[@zoomy-ro4eg]

The samsung odyssey+ regularly goes on sale for $230, or you can find it refurbed on amazon for $279 if you don’t want to wait.

[@shadxw1567]

Just signed up to Disrupt+ its amazing please keep it up

[@DisruptReality]

Thanks m8

[@angrygeri7026]

What is it like?

[@shadxw1567]

@@angrygeri7026 Its actually really worth it. some pretty interesting stuff on there

[@louiewark8527]

Answer to the question: There would be a lot of robots running around shouting the n word

[@the_seeker.entity9206]

Would they have a pass?🤔

[@periodicfive996]

That's racist! They can't say that!

[@WoodysAR]

_Nancy?_

[@Court-H2O]

Hmm when black ppl turn into robot do they get a pass? I meannnn they aren't actually black anymore

[@unbroken1010]

@@periodicfive996 freedom of speech.

[@shunobit5360]

I didn't think it was a fictional thing until after looking it up for a while, and then looking at the description, realistic fiction storytelling at it's peak

[@elihampton3348]

So it’s literally just Jonestown Massacre but in vr.

[@arclight-1717]

Yeah but the Jonestown people were murdered... and a lot of them were kids...

[@FatherAndrew-Scarlet-Priest]

In short: yes.

[@curry8487]

Psych is a great show, nice profile pic

[@Jacob-yg7lz]

Jamestown happened because they killed a congressman and didn't know what to do This is more like Heaven's Gate, where they committed suicide in order for their souls to be set free and go with aliens.

[@moosey7165]

Not really, the only thing similar is the mass suicide thing. Did you not pay attention to the story?

[@makitard]

thought this was real at first lol

[@julipazos1146]

same xd I was like "ye, a VR cult guide by a cute loli that speaks broken english, sounds about right"

[@sodiboo]

yeah i thought so too, i realized it was fiction around about the time he said you need to buy a hmd to play

[@Ocer.]

me too until I saw the VRChat avatar

[@fairks7876]

I was going through the comments to find just this one that tells me its not

[@corny5068]

Same

[@DisruptReality]

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[@Xipheria]

Response to the question: Theres an anime ongoing called Infinity Dendogram, and the show is this VRMMORPG with infinite possibilities and really smart NPCs, basically like actual human people. That made me think something: If it were to happen in real life, there would be some people who would fall in love and possibly marry NPCs. There are some who marry cars and trains and ghost pirates, so there would be a lot of men and women marrying their virtual waifu/husbando.

[@aidan1047]

Infinite dendogram is a Doo Doo anime. Worst anime this season. Sorry to hate.

[@Xipheria]

HAN1ME its ok, its not terrible, its watchable, just empty... it has that "oh they feel like real people is this actually a game" cliche thingy there are probably better ones out there, but i saw a comment talking about it too and it made me do this comment.

[@aidan1047]

@@Xipheria the only good vrmmo anime this season is BoFuri. I almost want the genre to die already.

[@Xipheria]

HAN1ME indeed. Maple is our angel and shes gonna guide us to the afterlife.

[@Mavvric]

Xipheria Well, is it an anime worth checking out?

[@darthhiraeth7165]

The most terrifying thing I've ever heard. "They drank the cool aid"

[@toasterdev8329]

What is cool aid

[@xxskbidimaster69xx]

Man u dont know what coolaid is man

[@yahalomren]

@@xxskbidimaster69xx I don't know too. I guess it's something similar to something in my country called mits petel (raspberry juice if you translate it to English)

[@8BitRetroTunes]

Kool aid is toxic

[@yahalomren]

@@8BitRetroTunes Real toxic?

[@lexidiusBS]

As terrifying and sad as this is, this would make an epic anime series

[@user-x-00]

Sword art online Check it out

[@batedflounder47sox66]

@@user-x-00 I was gonna say isn't that just irl sword art online

[@marcosan7888]

Kinda like “Sword Art Online” it’s a good anime

[@PreeScoped]

Sao

[@fafal9836]

Dont listen to them

[@darkninjacorporation]

I just can’t get over the English-through-Japanese speech. It’s so funny compared to the story

[@Skul1ManEXE]

vi a wan, vi ando zei

[@sardean387]

Read “The Eye Of Minds” it’s a book on this stuff and insane theory’s

[@dragondood6774]

That's what I was thinking it was from, it's a lot like eye of minds.

[@DisruptReality]

Will check it out, thanks

[@doc_goodfeel]

Oooh, I've read that! It's by James Dashner, right?

[@jyatch]

I read that book series’s a while ago. Really enjoyed it and definitely reminds me of this

[@philipwhitecat]

I couldn't get through the first half without giving up on it- It starts out strong and just gets shit in my opinion. Currently reading maze runner series and it's great- same author too.

[@DaRat100]

I feel like 80% of us would've been playing that game

[@demo_AAA]

She says the world is just suffering but all I hear is “ZA WARUDO!”

[@vocaIchops]

**bass boost**

[@velsiu]

WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

[@PanRobak.]

ZA WARUZO IS ONLY A PAIN AND SUFFERING

[@eliavivian8310]

is that a *JOJO REFERENCE* ???

[@demo_AAA]

@@oyc7946 Exactly, glad to see we can agree on something

[@bellabeeuwu]

2035 a virus has broken out Litteritly everyone: "really earth, again?"

[@Cryahaat]

Literally*

[@deadeye9439]

Me and the boys who survive since 2020: Oh no! Anyways...

[@tornado_dude2039]

I knew it whi deo yu corrrect evryone?

[@poakk5156]

@@Cryahaat i bet ur the one in class to remind the teacher of the homework aint u

[@GoodfellasX21]

Well yeah we're still gonna be experimenting on viruses so there will be more outbreaks when released

[@jear769]

When you just finished Serial Expirements Lain

[@DrDingsGaster]

That anime messed with my head so bad.

[@XX-yh4fq]

Let's all love Lain

[@avawoodcock6393]

Agreed

[@aVRy_]

Everyone: $2.99/month Disrupt & Weebs: *SIX RAMEN PACKS*

[@xxxsaraHelloxxx]

Only if they’re beef 🤢

[@vallisdaemonumofficial]

@@xxxsaraHelloxxx best flavor

[@HumansOfVR]

Maybe an early sign that this will happen is that a *_VR church already exists._* They have scheduled meeting in the two biggest social VR games, VRChat and Altspace

[@julipazos1146]

It's just a regular church, but in VR, as far as I know at less. I think is harmless.

[@mcbro12345]

Been to this church. Its pretty cool

[@philipprsa7755]

This is aids

[@runningwithSaul]

@@julipazos1146 it's harmless? Time to take it to the next level and make it about VR? Black Mirror here we come!

[@thedefectivememe]

It's a Sunday service for those who are curious about Christianity, or those who can't go to church. It's moreso just an extension of a regular church than its own religion. (From what I know)

[@sensei-bibba]

Disrupts way of editing is one of the most impressive ways of editing I’ve seen in a long time, it feels so calming yet so intriguing. His content is also never boring it’s authentic and and I can’t wait to see when he reaches 1 million because he does deserves it. You’re on your way man.

[@TrafficPartyHatTest]

I mean, it is a cult, but that game act- Wait why is the year in the 2030s WAIT A FUCKING MINUTE

[@ItsJavaJawa]

DO THESE PEOPLE HAVE A DELOREAN?!

[@jeffhayz7802]

I think this a good time to reflect on the wise words of Abraham Lincoln: "Don't believe everything you are told on the internet"

[@im_aleey]

@Stanley Hampshire a bit slow to understand the joke?

[@mostmandrake1608]

He never said that stop spreading false information, the real quote was "The internet is 90% shitposting." - Abe Lincoln

[@umserhumano557]

Koji turning on her webcam and drinking poison and the chat be like: :microphone: :note: :microphone: :note: :microphone: :note: :microphone:

[@TheTimePirate]

I thought this was real until I saw the years. this is a damn good ARG, disrupt deserves far more credit than is currently given for this video.

[@narwhalthepilot]

This is literally the exact plot of an episode of Cowboy Bebop.

[@im_aleey]

Yup

[@RaimundN52]

Which one?

[@STRIK3RM4N]

Was going to say that Episode 23

[@BestHakase]

This is Lain experiments

[@c4feg4r44]

i can actually see that exact scenario play out, as already with AI games such as Novel AI the line is getting blurred, and i think that the only thing that prevents an AI from being indistinguishable from us is the amount of data and processing power.

[@hmzel]

the scary thing is that this could definitely happen in real life

[@ceciliam4340]

the virus part hits different in 2020

[@aiden.m4a]

The video was made in 2020, so he was probably referencing COVID

[@wyattkeithley4580]

I love how he doesn’t really explain it to you, he makes you figure it out for yourself and if you can’t... oh... well...

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

If it's anything VR related, I only get my news from trustworthy sources like Disrupt.

[@MMD88]

Just Some Guy without a Mustache like i said WHY ARE YOU EVERYWHERE

[@p-flow4726]

Everywhere I go, I see you

[@MMD88]

p- Flow him and justin y and just a dio whos a hero for fun

[@SayonaraFriend]

@@MMD88 sam e

[@BilllyMartin]

imagine their digital self got banned, it would just be them staring at a "you have been banned" sign forever

[@J0NW31R]

Damn I got excited thinking I could actually buy that HMD

[@railslide8611]

This video blew my mind. the editing, the art, the acting, everything, amazing! good job man!

[@Audrey00o]

Thankful this wasn’t real, but sad that this type of thing does happen. This definitely got me in a melancholy mood.....

[@sodiboo]

Around the time he said you have to buy a HMD to play is when i realized this is fiction - then i read the description

[@fwbeezle]

Terrain wait this is real or fake?

[@sirlepepe]

It the year 2030

[@draketurcotte4760]

Terrain you have to buy an HMD to play Beat Saber or Boneworks. HMD is an acronym for Head Mounted Device.

[@sodiboo]

Drake` Turcotte i meant a HMD exclusive to the game, one that’s not just a normal VR headset, i guess what i meant was aNOTHER HMD, as in if i had a valve index i could not play the game without buying ANOTHER HMD

[@sodiboo]

(Y33T)M4rshy it’s fiction

[@GenericInternetter]

This video was released in February 2020, only very shortly after the outbreak of Covid-19. Considering the length and complexity of the video, it’s sensible to assume that production began in 2019 before Covid-19 became public. So when the video mentioned a viral outbreak, it was kind of eerie.

[@hosatus2433]

Disrupt created the virus as an experiment

[@MonerLaine]

I found this video in a small hidden room on vr chat, it scared the sh*t out of me

[@djprogramer973]

Don't get my Serial Experiments: Lain loving self excited about something that doesn't exist

[@LockComputer2002]

Everybody gangsta till the VR headset wont come off and sword art online becomes a reality

[@xaaf]

What's with the years? Is this like a speculation channel of what could happen?

[@vytes]

It's a story

[@thanosboomba4545]

Same idk

[@DisruptReality]

These weekly videos are theorizing how technology may effect humanity. Sometimes I'll use imaginative situations like the one above to conceptualize the past, present, & future. also we are time travellers :)

[@xaaf]

@@DisruptReality that's what I thought. Really like the content!!

[@thanosboomba4545]

@@DisruptReality Thanks. Creators usually don't reply to comments so really, thanks

[@Jordannij]

What I find interesting about this is that this year, there was a world wide pandemic and that's like 15 years earlier than we expected. Its kinda weird how that was almost predicted.

[@niklasneighbor6726]

Answer: they would probably treated as such. Since they would most likely be friendlier than real humans, we would probably bond with them way more.

[@Samevi]

"What would happen if NPCs in a multiplayer game became indistinguishable from real-world players?" If said multiplayer game is in some kind of futuristic "full-dive VR," then It is my belief that this would lead to a moral dilemma in and out of the game. Since there are generally players who would kill NPCs or Players - whether it be for fun or for loot, and without consideration for whether it's realistic or not, it all comes down to whether or not we "should" since it could be argued that such a thing may condition players to become a reflection of their game self. If they're okay killing NPCs that are "indistinguishable" from the real thing, who's to say they wouldn't be okay with killing the real thing? Of course, that's an argument for when we get there, in the end.

[@ericbazinga]

"What if we programmed a computer to tell us what the perfect society would be" _FLYNN! AM I STILL TO CREATE THE PERFECT SYSTEM?_

[@employee4272]

"ʸᴱᴬʰ?"

[@im_aleey]

Tron

[@himynameisevin]

I can imagine this happening and I would totally join it

[@magpineapple]

wait this is fake?

[@VH-ew7oq]

daft kat 0:42

[@dreinstar2352]

Loser

[@DSmittie]

This game is like the OASIS from Ready player one, it’s so interesting

[@roonkolos]

We all chuckle knowing this is pure fiction Until the year 2033 comes around and we realize this became a time travellers warning

[@Meathamski]

That was really good and I wanted more in the end.

[@afrenchy7718]

Koji and 145 others: Commits mass suicide Twitch chat: ♫♫♫♫♫♫♫♫

[@Winston_SA]

LET'S ALL LOVE LAIN

[@phaseeluv]

im not the only one

[@jnspr]

this.

[@RogueBeatsARG]

Present day. Present time.

[@phaseeluv]

Rogue HAHAHAHHAHA

[@SlainByTheWire]

Finally some god damn love.

[@williamchamberlain2263]

As the AICs are bots, trying to become one with your AIC would be turning yourself into a literal NPC

[@illusionofapathygaming9284]

bro these are so well made..I'm loving this series

[@diegusmaximus9655]

Omg this shit is crazy when she said "it can be explained", she was looking into my soul, it felt uncomfortable

[@cacahue]

Answer to the final question , quoting WestWorld : "If you can't tell the difference, does it matter?"

[@jaspin555]

Right away I realized what this is. Creepypasta hasn't died haha

[@lynnford412]

Honestly the editing is my favorite thing; I wish I could make my videos look as pretty as yours!

[@WindFireAllThatKindOfThing]

How to make VRChat suddenly seem like a healthy and normal place

[@Illuminatic]

"ZA WARUDO is only suffering"

[@KaygeeFromNanotrasen]

Stardust Crusaders: True, true

[@siah5506]

"What would happen if NPCs in a multiplayer game became indistinguishable from real-world players?" I think at first people would be very weirded out or wouldn't really care to be violent to them but as we would progress them people would have feelings for them or become friends which could be beneficial or very disturbing because people that log on to VR to make friends would love these NPCs because they would probably be very nice to people but once you realize that the friends (NPCs) you have made in the game will never be able to meet you in real life or even go to the real world it would be very depressing for some people because think about it you become very close to a friend and then realize their not a real person you would get pretty sad that you've been basically talking to a bunch of codes.

[@poposterous236]

The answer to the question has already happened: AI will learn and embrace casual racism.

[@kurtka8720]

the AICs are probably now running around saying shit like "kOjY DiD nOtHiNg WrOnG" in more populated areas of the game.

[@mischievousgames9130]

It's amazing when the fake cult is more scary, and has more meaning and structure than some real cults, LoL.

[@something-better]

I love how she's giving a speech and there's just a meru avatar vibing in the back

[@clarett1890]

"What would happen if NPCs in a multiplayer game became indistinguishable from real-world players ?" First of all having real world people would need some computer processing, as the brain is one complex organ. Having real-NPCs in a vitual world would totally make the point pf a game really strange, if players would play, some NPCs would just live there, going through life while the player plays ? Or maybe some would want to play ? And then learn that they don't exist ? This seems like torture of a human if we consider that the simulation of an human being is human. The world could have different ideas about it, an half treating them as human and wanting to give an enjoyable life for them and the other half treating them as machines for them to play with. This brings a lot of philosophical questions onto simulation technology

[@scuffedchannel696]

you are over thinking these things

[@lasteternal7611]

"Gerardo is only paying." Yeah, I can get on board with that.

[@plaguedoctorravennotscp0496]

I'm waiting for the time something like this will actually happen, it's inevitable

[@kokirivivi]

This feels like the plot to an episode of Stand Alone Complex. Great work

[@tylercoombs1]

Suffering is internal, we carry it where ever we go. We don't have to wait for death to rest in peace, there's a way to make peace with our suffering.

[@LucasDimoveo]

This sounds like a Gnostic philosophy, of sorts. Man ... when we have more immersive VR this will definitely become a bigger issue

[@LordOfTheBing]

Not any more than some public forums even while the internet was still primitive

[@goopbrain8919]

5:30 we dont need the 15 year time skip were here boys

[@StinkyDood]

This is very eerie now that we actually have a worldwide pandemic

[@hiroaoki4763]

This is so beautiful man, nice job at the video.

[@arileblance6963]

this gets me excited and scared of VR at the same time i would love a horror/thriller anime about VR in the future

[@psiangel]

just realized this is fiction 6 minutes in lol

[@johnferris9970]

Yeah him saying its the year 2030 one min in should have given it away.

[@psiangel]

@@johnferris9970 I was using the video as background noise I wasn't listening very closely

[@GarlicGrinder9]

The first VR religion Ugandan knuckles: yoo doo naht no dee way

[@WooGoo-fl6el]

10 years later we are still using twitch in this fictional cult

[@nolanmattison9792]

Sounds like a good idea for a new far cry game, and you can switch back and forth between reality and the virtual world

[@aryanpatil493]

I am genuinely scared something very similar to this is going to pop up in the next decade, ai has started to get smart real fast, those ai chat bots like Chat GPT are starting to actually feel like human conversations in late 2023, ai news anchors are slowly replacing humans, it's just a matter of time for the professionals to create something like this

[@LucaDstasio]

"What would happen if NPCs in a multiplayer game became indistinguishable from real-world players?" I feel that if NPC players in an online multiplayer game were indistinguishable from real-world players we probably would pass laws that we had never even thought of before. If they are exactly the same as humans, then they act that way too. Meaning, some people could fall in love with them or get connections to them. If the game were to crash the real-world player would be at a risk of committing suicide. Not to mention the fact that since they would be the same they would be able to most likely influence others just as well or better than humans. In the end I honestly wouldn't like it at all. Also another thought, if NPC's were indistinguishable from real-world players and the game was in full-dive VR, if the NPCs were to get violated it would be the same as violating a real person wouldn't it?

[@LucaDstasio]

Oh okay, thanks.

[@kurtka8720]

@Dale Gribble no matter what it is, it's always only a matter of time until someone mentions politics.

[@kurtka8720]

@Dale Gribble *horseshoe theory. godwin's law is only a symptom.

[@kurtka8720]

@Dale Gribble don't worry, it's evolved into double fishook theory now.

[@singularity_josh8063]

1:26 nah, that music makes me ready to go kill some zombies. It sounds like damned

[@marisabi3295]

legonerf100 Josh holy crap

[@BIT-pn2bn]

Yes.

[@_.Dylan._]

I thought the same thing lol

[@Bluedragon2513]

"We are one, we and they" sounds very similar to the one cult in The Gamer (a webtoon)

[@Bluedragon2513]

6:50 That kool-aid is a reference to Jonestown innit?

[@Bluedragon2513]

Just to confirm with those in the future, yes, this is a video showing the dystopia of a future which we hypothesize

[@ZobmieRules]

I thought this was real until I finally noticed the timestamp at 5:30. The only conflicting thoughts I had before that were "What is this awesome VR headset and game I've never heard of?" and "How did they 'recover' a call between Hojy and a dev? Seems kind of far-fetched".

[@Oraxas]

People conducting experiments within VR, imagine.

[@ahmadsahil9531]

Sword Art Online vibes for straight 12 minutes❤

[@OffbrandDrPhil]

This gives a whole new meaning to Alternate Reality Games....

[@alabasterwilliams5329]

After learning what the families of the victims had to say about Kojy, I think it's pretty neat that you put this together. But, how did you find a source on the subject? There's been a fair amount of work put in to wrapping this one up...you have it, don't you?

[@severalcakes3267]

6:17 *Kojy:* (gets her followers to game end themselves) *Captain Falcon:* 0_0