What do Baldur’s Gate players, Christopher Nolan and AI scammers all have in common? They all reveal something surprising about how people interact with technology.
Segment 1: What Players Actually Do
- Why do people save-scum?
- Is save-scumming “cheating”?
- Games as experimentation rather than competition.
New Baldur’s Gate 3 Player Stats Prove You’re All Knife-Happy Bard Murderers
- Players claim to roleplay…
- …but statistics show many optimise outcomes
- .The gap between player identity and player behaviour.
- Accessibility vs difficulty
- Checkpoints aren’t “easy mode.”
- Older gamers
- Less available gaming time
- Respecting players’ time
Segment 2: The Odyssey Effect
Assassin Creed player counts spike in the wake of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey
‘The Odyssey’ Is So Big, It’s Made People Like ‘Assassin’s Creed’ Again
- Games becoming educational gateways.
- Tourism.
- Classical history becoming mainstream.
- Assassin’s Creed Discovery Tour.
- Pop culture driving historical curiosity
Segment 3: Who Controls Trust?
AI scammers outperform humans when it comes to building trust
- AI isn’t necessarily “smarter.”
- It’s infinitely patient.
- Personalised.
- Never tired.
- Emotionally adaptive.
Multiple Major ASMR Accounts Suddenly Removed From YouTube Over ‘Explicit Content’
- Automated moderation
- False positives
- Creator livelihoods
- Platform transparency
- AI making decisions for humans
- We’re increasingly interacting with algorithms instead of people.