Comment on The Science of Storytelling
norimee@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Now I wonder how this graph would look like Stephen Kings “The Stand” during the pandemic.
Did people want to read a book about a flu-like pandemic wiping out humanity or rather not not?
m4xie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
It seems like people did. ‘The Plague’ and Contagion did very well.
WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
The game “Plague Inc” spiked in popularity, so the devs rushed out a game about saving humanity instead of destroying it lol
qaz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Didn’t that mode already exist in the game?
Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 1 month ago
“They’re just like us.”