[cockerpunk]

honestly, 1981 is before my time. i only encountered polybius ~10 years ago.

but i love a good conspiracy theory and urban legend. i dont believe any of them, but i think they speak to a very fundamental human feeling of wanting the world to make sense. and our amazing ability to fill in the gaps, even our own memories, without consciously lying to ourselves, in story's to make them make sense. something about the human brain to try and understand its present consciousness makes up a story of the past, and how it got there.



i love this urban ledged because it speaks to that original fear, that still somehow, in spite of all evidence to the contrary, that video games could be used to change you. make you something against your will. make you do things. violence, puzzles, black opps, and mind control ... love it. polybius is just another outcropping of scapegoating of video games our society does, to save poor parents the shame of having been **** parents.

i love it. its another study into a modern day satanic panic.