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🗓️ 5 April 2024
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Join previous Game Theory Host MatPat as he EXPOSES Epic Games and their secret plan to take over all things gaming.
Credits: Writers: Matthew Patrick and Justin Kuiper Editors: Dan "Cybert" Seibert, Tyler Mascola and Shannon (Bomb0i) Assistant Editor: AlyssaBeCrazy Sound Editor: Yosi Berman
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0:00.0 | The anniversary of the platform unification directive. |
0:03.5 | What is this? Some kind of old black and white film? |
0:06.2 | Lame! You young whipper snappers, it's obviously a parody of the famous 1984 Apple commercial. |
0:13.0 | It's actually a clever stroke of irony because now Apple, instead of being the scrappy |
0:17.5 | underdog like they were in the 1980s, is now the big evil overlord that they were fighting |
0:22.1 | against way back then. |
0:23.4 | Oh! |
0:25.4 | It's true, Big Tech has had near monopolistic control over the app ecosystem for nearly a decade. |
0:31.1 | But isn't that the reality of being in a multinational corporation in the internet age? |
0:35.9 | They need to make a viable business spanning various global markets requiring a tight control |
0:41.2 | over the product. |
0:42.2 | Not that much control. |
0:43.8 | What? |
0:44.8 | Yeah, missing the point. |
0:45.9 | George Orwell's novel 1984 is about manipulation of the masses by the government and being |
0:51.2 | companies. |
0:51.9 | But here we see one company using propaganda |
0:55.2 | to manipulate its audience. |
0:56.2 | Kids today, am I right? I'm going to Hello internet. Welcome to Game Theory. The channel that could talk about the increasingly complex lore of Fortnite, |
1:25.5 | but instead is opting to talk about the increasingly complex business of Fortnite. |
1:31.1 | Let me tell you right now, no amount of lore analysis would touch how interesting |
1:35.2 | and important what's going on right now is. Oh sure, to 99.9% of people out there talking about |
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