stackyFACTSBecause if there's one thing capitalism excels at, it's manufacturing fake outrage to drive sales.
Because if there's one thing capitalism excels at, it's manufacturing fake outrage to drive sales. To promote their 2010 hack-and-slash game 'Dante’s Inferno,' EA secretly paid a group of actors to aggressively protest their own booth at E3. The actors held signs saying 'Hell is not a video game' and 'Trade in your PlayStation for a PrayStation.' The real Christian groups were actually furious—not about the game, but about being impersonated by a soulless corporation.
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