Ghost in the Machine
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A decently popular game known as Plague Inc was banned in China sometime around March 2nd.
This is a game I've mentioned in a post or two regarding the current Corona Virus situation as a mock comparison. The point of the game is you pick a pathogen, select a country to infect and are given 'DNA' points to evolve the pathogen for things such as transmission, symptoms, effects, immunity to things like anti-biotics etc, and your goal is to extinct the human race with it.
"Plague Inc. is a real-time strategy simulation video game, developed and published by UK-based independent games studio Ndemic Creations. The player creates and evolves a pathogen in an effort to annihilate the human population with a deadly plague.
Plague Inc. has been downloaded over 85 million times and was positively received by critics."
The game was released in 2015 and gained popularity via Let's Players on Youtube. Throughout the game there was heavy focus on China as the default infected country, even being so in the game's intro which starts every time you start up the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSat_gLDXPc
The game is claimed that it's supposed to be educational in learning how viruses or pathogens work, how they spread, how they can evolve, how quickly, how severely, how they travel, how easily or how difficultly, how many deaths certain symptoms and effects of a pathogen can accumulate in a certain amount of time through days, weeks, months or years and it's all claimed to be based upon real scientific knowledge, statistics and related. In fact the game has been revered in the past by virologists and health organizations alike for it's educational merit.
And now it's banned completely from all Chinese users. This can be seen as both a good and bad thing.
This is a game I've mentioned in a post or two regarding the current Corona Virus situation as a mock comparison. The point of the game is you pick a pathogen, select a country to infect and are given 'DNA' points to evolve the pathogen for things such as transmission, symptoms, effects, immunity to things like anti-biotics etc, and your goal is to extinct the human race with it.
"Plague Inc. is a real-time strategy simulation video game, developed and published by UK-based independent games studio Ndemic Creations. The player creates and evolves a pathogen in an effort to annihilate the human population with a deadly plague.
Plague Inc. has been downloaded over 85 million times and was positively received by critics."
The game was released in 2015 and gained popularity via Let's Players on Youtube. Throughout the game there was heavy focus on China as the default infected country, even being so in the game's intro which starts every time you start up the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSat_gLDXPc
The game is claimed that it's supposed to be educational in learning how viruses or pathogens work, how they spread, how they can evolve, how quickly, how severely, how they travel, how easily or how difficultly, how many deaths certain symptoms and effects of a pathogen can accumulate in a certain amount of time through days, weeks, months or years and it's all claimed to be based upon real scientific knowledge, statistics and related. In fact the game has been revered in the past by virologists and health organizations alike for it's educational merit.
And now it's banned completely from all Chinese users. This can be seen as both a good and bad thing.