Limitless The Strongest Revenant-Chapter 798: Maybe he is... [1/2]
As Carlos explained the Enhancers my mind wandered. I grew amazed that I was still able to keep up with the information he shared. I was dumb as shit in school. And according to Exa, neither {Code} nor {Calculate} actually made me smarter. It just made me think faster.
Ever since I became aware of IRIS and their methods, I found myself wondering. They managed to do the impossible and share information on a global scale about topics that were hard to comprehend. I mean how the fuck would you even explain what the Reaper Classes were without video games?
In the olden days it was made to be shared via word of mouth and stories. The stories outlived the people that told them and turned to culture. Further down the line they were written in stone and eventually paper.
However, the colonization and expansion of some countries lead to eradication of many of these cultures. I could only guess that Trinity had a hand in the colonizers decision to sentence everything they did not understand as barbaric.
One thing became clear, using culture and tradition had their limits. For one by placing, it as part of culture language and scope prevented the lessons from being shared. IRIS then shifted and used the same thing that broke their methods to spread them instead.
Using the Colonizers once meant to stop them, IRIS shifted tactics and joined the global party. The Kamasutra was the best example of this. Although a sex book, it spread far and wide and endured till today. Despite it being from a foreign country.
Fast forward to today, the concepts that were once thought via stories, were given a face lift. Rather than boring lessons, they were now shown as entertainment. Television, movies, Anime, Manga to finally video games.
I found myself fascinated. Have a regular human watch a zombie movie and immediately they would pick up lessons that were applicable to Hellsgate. As someone who lived in Hellsgate naturally I knew it was still not enough.
But if you looked at the trends you would see interesting shifts to the industries. Currently rather than a single movie, binge watching became the norm. Having a person fully immersed in something they liked allowed them to escape and live in that word for a short period of time. Such a practice was normal, it was based on biology, right?
Funnily enough, ever since I learn of the hidden war of IRIS and Trinity, I began to see clues in what might have happened. Indoctrination. That was the only thing I could call it. Similar to what the Nazi’s did to their children or what propaganda machines in the current world were doing.
Schools were too limited, movies were to short. There was a need to find a way increase the time and information shared. But it had to be in a way the humans would not resist. A way to immerse them and allow the humans to learn the lessons and their implications.
Cinematic universes that span multiple movies. Crossovers that combined shows together. Video games that were open world, took hundreds of hours to finish or had no end. They all were seemingly money driven concepts, but they all promoted the same thing.
’Spend as much time on the medium and learn the lesson.’
And as someone familiar with video games and pop culture, I only just recently began to notice this. How the actions of IRIS and Trinity were subtle but were wide reaching. They were still at it until today.
Extremely good shows that were suddenly cut. Video games that had a novel concept but were mismanaged. All indicative of Trinity’ attempts to stop IRIS. Hell, even the entire point of DEI smelled of Trinity.
People often wondered why DEI or "the Message" about diversity and inclusion, bled into the entertainment industry. The large number or Alphabet bastards who had no further agenda than destroying the IPs they were entrusted with.
Despite the video games companies and Hollywood losing millions, people still kept burning money. It made absolutely no sense to humans. But to Reapers like me it absolutely did.
The wave of bad movies, shows and video games made humans swear off the medium entirely. In the sea of bad products, the attempts of IRIS to raise Pseudo Reapers, once effective suddenly would have no room to stand on.
I mean I was the perfect example. Carlos just sat me down for a lecture about the classes of Reapers. It should have been hard to understand. I should have been overwhelmed. But as I grew up watching and playing media IRIS created, I wasn’t. I adapted.
My mind was already framed to understand the concepts of Summoners and Champions. I no longer got surprised by Shifters from seeing them so much. The power of Keepers while a bit novel was not unique. Astrals which was originally something to be feared became a means to get waifus and husbandos.
The current entertainment industry normalized the concepts so much, everyone knew them. I could grab any high schooler and he would get the difference between Champions and Astrals. But then I noticed another thing.
While I was a good student to IRIS, to the rest of the world I was a loser. It was funny, sports were basically the same as video games. But the ones who spend hours watching football or basketball were not shamed for enjoying them.
That wasn’t the case for gamers. Why was playing video games such a bad thing? Just how many people were called losers, nerds and geeks for liking science fiction and fantasy?
Right now, playing video games was equated to being an middle aged virgin that lived in their mother’s basement. Similarly, anime watchers suffered from the same thing. It got better over the years, but anime and manga were given such negative stigma’s people got bullied because of them.
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DEI and the culture of shaming video game both had one similarity. It drove people away from the mediums IRIS was using to indoctrinate the humans for Hellsgate. It was a hidden casualty about the current war against masculinity.
I couldn’t help Lilly’s words from my first week as a Reaper.
"IRIS wishing for a way to develop the combat potential of humans created the gaming industry. They normalized the idea of killing undead, trained the humans how to plan with limited information, and how to ’play’ around the rules of a specific concept in order to win. Such abilities translated to competency in Hellsgate."
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It was only that I began to combine the concepts of Hellsgate with my lessons from IRIS did I see the value. Anyone who hasn’t played a video game or watch a zombie movie would be completely useless in Hellsgate.
The snowflakes or man childs who complained about every little thing. The Vegans or vegetarians who were weak and malnourished. The fat bastards who could not even stand on their own. Hell even the hippies or alcoholic who were always high or drunk were the same.
Such behaviors not only ensured these people would die early but that they would burden those around them. It went even further and made it normal to be bastards who contributed nothing to society.
What if this was what Trinity promoted all to ensure humanity’s demise? Anyone with a brain could see that we were in a crisis. And as I gained more power and saw what was, the more I felt I had to do something to aid IRIS.
’I should try to do something to help out when I get the chance,’ I inwardly noted.
My thoughts returned to the present and noticed that neither Herman nor Carlos said anything. They were just enjoying their drinks in silence. Feeling I might have been rude, I spoke out.
"Sorry Carlos, I didn’t mean to ignore you. I just had some realization from your lectures. If you are tired, we can stop."
However much to my surprise, Carlos smiled as he shook his head.
"Think nothing of it my lord. Anyone who sees your face when you ponder would feel proud instead. There is no way such a face was because you found my lecture boring. You have been constantly giving me "the look". At first I thought it was an accident, but well…"
