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This thread made me think about how teens and millennials get their information.
I just had a wild idea that is so stupid it could never happen. But, then again, it's so stupid that it definitely COULD happen, LOL.
IDEA: Video Game. Think billion dollar blockbuster, like Grand Theft Auto. But it's the cult version.
NAME: Grand Theft Solo (player tries to go up through Solo Nots and get superpowers while the cult tries to steal all the money for nothing in return.
CONCEPT: Players try to get "up the Bridge" while acquiring supernatural powers, riches and immortality. The cult tries to steal all their money, harass them, lie to them, betray them, declare them, bankrupt them, disconnect them, dead agent them, fair game them and (in general) give them nothing but stress, losses and betrayal.
Using Scientology as a backdrop for a video game is pretty fascinating because it the ecosystem is so sophisticated and articulated after 7 decades of cult development. The concept are at once magnificent, ludicrous, amazing, worthless, hyperbolic, humanitarian, vicious, charitable, vicious, magnanimous, ethical, criminal, et al. It's operatic with protagonists and antagonists that both have profound character flaws. It's epic in scale, spanning all the galaxies of this universe--and traveling backwards in time quadrillions of years.
It's so completely insane as an idea, it could actually become an international craze.
Seriously.
But, i doubt any gaming company would invest the mega-bucks to develop it, knowing that cult litigators are lying in wait to attack, lol.
I think there have been a few efforts to create a
board game but something about that is rather "flat" and lacking in the crazed manic energy, certainty and wacko ideas that accompany all cult activities.
Okay, I think I'll go back to my life now and stop talking about this. LOL
Wait. I was about to click off and I suddenly thought got an idea (I wasn't trying, I swear I was leaving! LOL) about what the "tag line" of the game could be (below the title, and for use in all advertising)
GRAND THEFT SOLO
(working title only)
The only video game in the
universe where everyone wins!
I mean, isn't that tag line so perfectly stupid that it's perfectly perfect?! LOL.