What If Your Favorite Video Game Becomes Your Eternal Prison After Death?
The Terrifying Theory Gamers Are Too Afraid to Talk About WARNING: The following contains disturbing speculative ideas that may forever change how you look at your favorite games. Proceed with caution. What if death isn’t the end? What if, in the milliseconds after your final breath, your consciousness doesn’t fade into nothingness… but is uploaded, trapped, and locked forever inside your favorite video game? It sounds absurd—like the plot of a creepy sci-fi film you’d catch late at night on some obscure streaming service. But there’s a growing number of gamers who swear this isn't fiction. They believe a terrifying new conspiracy: when passionate gamers die, their souls don’t move on. Instead, they become NPCs (non-playable characters) in the very games they once adored. This horrifying idea has taken corners of Reddit, Discord, and underground forums by storm. Whispers are growing louder: the creepers in Minecraft are former players; the civilians in GTA: San Andreas were ...