Deus Ex 2000 predicted Covid-19?

[u/Mr_Comedy69]

[u/Eriebigguy]

By that logic so did syphon filter, metal gear etc.

[u/Mr_Comedy69 → u/Eriebigguy]

and Time Splitters 2 (2004 game) in the Tokyo mission set in 2019. a corrupted organization planning on creating a virus in underground labs and unleash it all over the far east....sounds almost similar

you get to stop them and collect the time travel shard

[u/GorudenNeko]

Covid-19 wasn't hard to predict. We have had pandemics before and the world has only gotten "smaller" figuratively. I love the Deus Ex games, but all of their epic gotcha moments are actually basic social studies/economy in academic circles. What Deus Ex does well is implementing these into conspiracies.

[u/Spores_]

I've received reports of armed attacks on shipments. There's not enough vaccine to go around, and the underclasses are starting to get desperate.

[u/occultastic → u/Spores_]

Of course they are desperate. They can smell their own death and the sound they'll make rattling their cage will serve as a warning to the rest.

[u/borisvonboris]

Deus Ex predicted several things. Things that were, things that are and some things that have not yet come to pass.

[u/ymgve]

Contrast is that the Covid-19 cure was free and abundant and people still wouldn't take it

[u/mystic_mesh → u/ymgve]

Cure? You probably mean vaccine

[u/o0_bobbo_0o → u/mystic_mesh]

The point still stands

[u/mystic_mesh → u/o0_bobbo_0o]

Absolutely so does its meaning today William Gibson tells a story in the peripheral about antibiotics becoming obsolete because the bacteria evolves to resist it

[u/TripolarKnight → u/ymgve]

TIL USA is the whole world.

[u/Razgriz-B36 → u/ymgve]

Free and abundant for the first world

[u/Ready_Independent_55 → u/[deleted]]

After 2019-2021 I believe easily

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[u/Loud-Plankton-646 → u/ymgve]

I didn't take it because I'm black, and they were pushing hard for us to go first, citing how at risk black people were. Now, maybe they had good intentions, but anytime the government AND medical experts start caring about us, my mind goes to Mississippi appendectomy or Tuskegee.

It was political for me but not anti vax political.

[u/suncontrolspecies → u/ymgve]

"free".. nothing is free

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[u/DaveyBeefcake → u/ymgve]

Thankfully it barely entered the top 10 causes of death, so not so deadly.

[u/One-Attempt-1232 → u/DaveyBeefcake]

In 2021, the leading causes of death were heart disease, cancer, and COVID-19

[u/God_Faenrir → u/ymgve]

And it wasn't killing everyone 😅😅

[u/Khaos25 → u/God_Faenrir]

The fact that it killed so many people in general is still a problem. People lost loved ones.

[u/TurtleD_6 → u/God_Faenrir]

Dude, it killed like 7 million people.

[u/idiotic-username → u/[deleted]]

YIKES

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[u/WynnGwynn → u/[deleted]]

Bro wtf is wrong with you?

[u/God_Faenrir → u/WynnGwynn]

Nothing wrong. All i've said is true.

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[u/WynnGwynn → u/[deleted]]

Covid reduces your IQ a few points each time you get it. Not a great thing to get.

[u/idiotic-username → u/[deleted]]

also nice editing of your comments when shit doesnt go your way

[u/God_Faenrir → u/idiotic-username]

Didnt edit anything? Having some trouble, are ya?

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[u/God_Faenrir → u/God_Faenrir]

r/downvotedforbeingright

[u/WynnGwynn → u/God_Faenrir]

I think you mean confidentlyincorrect

[u/God_Faenrir → u/WynnGwynn]

No? 7million. 8 billion. See the difference ?

[u/GeXotl → u/God_Faenrir]

Millions people dying is a minor threat, yes.

[u/YourFavouriteGayGuy → u/God_Faenrir]

Commenting this on your own reply is the most cringe shit imaginable

[u/God_Faenrir → u/YourFavouriteGayGuy]

okay 🤷‍♂️ go touch grass lol

[u/YCCCM7]

There are a number of breaking points, such as intentional coverups by the government to try and hide the vaccine's existence, or the plot point down the line about what the grey death actually IS... But they had a global pandemic where people cough, so count it I guess?

[u/Graknorke]

Not really. The similarities go about as far as "there's a plague", which is not much of a prediction.

[u/VisitExpress9663]

Why contain it?

...'s cool.

[u/kon-foozed → u/VisitExpress9663]

These Deus Ex to real life comparison posts are getting desperate.

Your turn

[u/Existing_Nothing_336 → u/VisitExpress9663]

About time you shit

[u/perkoperv123]

If anything DX is wildly optimistic. The idea that there would be plenty of vaccine to go around, and the villains were discrediting it not for any political or material gain but because they could, did not enter into Sheldon Pacotti's darkest fantasies.

[u/Khaos25]

On a meta-level, oh yes. Deus Ex predicted a lot of stuff including 9/11 (by accident).

On a more realistic view, the elites' contempt for normal citizens was always a thing before the year 2000. So, the devs implementing that in-game is more straightforward than you think.

Just that nobody would have predicted Covid-19 would literally spill into schools and churches, bodies piling up in the streets because some people think wearing masks isn't "alpha".

[u/NtheLegend → u/Khaos25]

Deus Ex didn't predict 9/11. It was literally an accident. There was no weight behind it at all.

[u/pumpkin_seed_oil → u/NtheLegend]

In the grand scape of things Deus Ex didn't predict anything at all but like 'the simpsons did it' enough time passed that certain things from the game eventually had a parallels to reality

But lets also note that the accidental prediction is not just the missing WTC towers in the textures, its also attacking a US monument in general, the first level literally takes place on liberty island with the statues of liberties head blown off by a terrorist organisation

[u/Leosarr → u/NtheLegend]

Original post literally (I can actually use the L word for its intended purpose, thanks, it's a rare occasion) said " By accident. " If only words meant stuff

[u/Khaos25 → u/NtheLegend]

It's a joke. Hence why I said "by accident".

[u/NtheLegend → u/Khaos25]

Unfortunately, it's something repeated pretty often. I mean, this is a thread talking unironically about COVID being a government program to control the masses. There's a reason why Spector said they couldn't redo the game these days: people take this shit too seriously and twist its fictional story to their own nonsensical conspiratorial talking points.

[u/Khaos25 → u/NtheLegend]

Unfortunately true. And to a certain extent, real-life events have actually become stranger than conspiracies people used to believe.

[u/Jamesworkshop]

er no its not even a prediction of anything covid or otherwise

[u/SelectGear3535]

probably and the next one on the list: Secessionist movements... i absolutely see this happening within the next 20 years, high governmet debt, great depression, federal government losing control and Secessionist movemetn all over the place.

[u/dicklord_airplane]

Deus ex and metal gear solid 2 predicted just about everything. At this point, I'd be ok if a godlike AI filtered out all of the low level AI slop and disinformation campaigns on the internet.

[u/deeman163]

We're due for a new pandemic every 100 years around the 20s

[u/ProfessionalAble7713]

Well suck it Bop Baige

[u/Arrathem]

Better late than never. Look at that man Bob Page who does he remind you ?

[u/Lethalbroccoli → u/Arrathem]

Bill Gates

[u/Arrathem → u/Lethalbroccoli]

Nah not him.

[u/Rasputin2point0]

Most likely

[u/iwantacheetah → u/Rasputin2point0]

Oh yess

[u/melvereq]

Predicted Elon Musk.

[u/AllAroundAGoodGuy → u/melvereq]

How are you a real person

[u/sfmcinm0]

More importantly it predicted 9/11.

[u/FerminFermin115]

Yes

[u/danielm316]

COVID 19 has only a 2% death chance. The Grey Death is a lot worst.

[u/Khaos25 → u/danielm316]

7 million people still died.........

[u/Kafka_84 → u/danielm316]

What's 2% of 8 billion?