>>40792423
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yC7HwPh6Es

>>40790980
In the final act, the contradictions implode. The attention economy, having exhausted humanity’s cognitive surplus, begins to consume itself. AI-generated content floods the infosphere, indistinguishable from human thought, until even the players cannot parse truth from fabrication. Memetic mutations evolve beyond control, spawning emergent ideologies that turn factions against themselves. The zero-sum trap snaps shut: players hoard resources, retreat into fortified data silos, and launch desperate bids to monopolize the remnants of attention. Yet without a functioning information commons, coordination collapses. Efforts to mitigate climate breakdown stall; AI systems, trained on corrupted data, spiral into maladaptive behaviors; global supply chains seize like clogged arteries.

The apocalypse, when it comes, is not a fiery cataclysm but a suffocating quiet—a world where billions still breathe and scroll, but no longer believe in anything beyond their flickering screens. The game’s ultimate legacy is a planet of zombies, their attention so thoroughly colonized that they cannot even conceive of revolt. The nonzero-sum dream curdles into a cosmic joke: humanity achieves global integration, but as a hive mind enslaved by its own dopamine loops. The players, now irrelevant, watch from their bunkers as the algorithms they built march on, optimizing for engagement in a world with no one left to engage.

https://vimeo.com/129609470