How a Video Game Predicted the Collapse of Venezuela's Economy
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Published 2020-08-04
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All Comments (21)
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Medal of Honor Airborne, released in 2007, accurately predicted many of the events in WW2.
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Kind of misleading title. The only link is hyperinflation, that’s not really a prediction
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Honestly, this video would've been much better received had the title been: "How the collapse of a video game's economy teaches us about hyperinflation."
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"There's no proof that printing money causes inflation" -Actual politician from my country. Fuck my life.
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Game: Has hyperinflation Country: Has hyperinflation People: ThE GAme PRediCted ThE CrISis
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Me trying to find where the game predicted Venezuela's collapse: Discovering something that doesn't exist.
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Rename title to: "How a Video Game shared the same fate as Venezuela's Economic problem"
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This doesn't have to do anything at all with Venezuela, the only common aspect is hyperinflation, but the game didn't predict the future, nor did it mention Venezuela at all. This is just a clickbaity title, didn't expect this from you, Half As Interesting.
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"how a videogame predicted clickbait about venezuela"
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German inflation: 200 trillion marks for bread Venezuela: Those are rookie numbers!
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“How the internal economy of a video game experienced the same macroeconomic phenomenon as a country with no causal link or interrelation whatsoever”
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I think that we, the viewers, were expecting to see a video game, from the past, that features Venezuela which has the same economical difficulties that Venezuela experiences today :/
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Fun Fact: TF2 in July 2019 also predicted the Stock Market crash this year
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The title of the video is somewhat confusing - it implies a direct connection between a game's economy and Venezuela's economy, while in the actual video, the inflation in Venezuela is just a sidenote. Just because inflation happens in different economies doesn't mean they "predict" each other imo
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People: talking about Venezuela and Germany Zimbabwe: am I a joke to you
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1:49 Ah yes, my favorite Kirby game: Diablo III. It has the 5th most terrifying final boss in the series!
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You never actually correlated Diablo III to Venezuela in any way...
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The video game just made a not-so-similar situation, but the game did not predict Venezuela’s hyperinflation at all.
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Half as Interesting: "Diablo 3 had Hyperinflation" Gaia Online: AM I A JOKE TO YOU???
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I thought you were going to talk about Mercenaries 2? That game predicted a collapsed Venezuela fought over between the US and China.
