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Conspiraspeak

It's all very simple: Cui bono. Who benefits? Since 1954, Majestic 12 has made sure we're all in the hands of the Tall Greys, and god knows how many people have been abducted to planet Serpo for cross-dimension fertilization. Follow the money!  
— In Simple Terms: The Metaspiracy, Volume I
The Megacorpolis is home to hundreds of conspiracy theories of varying degrees of lucidity. Everything from the old standards of secret organizations running the world (Corps love that one - takes the heat off of them) to "Sewer-Gator run the Javamats" has a home in the fertile imagination of Megacitizen's more... Excitable citizens.  
by It's Always Sunny In Phiadelphia
  Conspiraspeak is their common language, a secret (mostly because people don't really care to learn it, the sheeple) code of vague phrases, dates, and terms that all come together to explain just what the hell they're talking about. Learning Conspiraspeak is kind of by osmosis - when people start getting really into their conspiracy of choice, the words and phrases sort of worm their way into the head. For this reason, Conspiraspeak has been graded as a harmless Infohazard, at least until some nut does something really stupid.  
A mix of gobbledygook, technobabble, and gibberish, Conspiraspeak is officially considered a cipher or secret code. Those who speak it just kind of talk like that, though.
  Some have taken their flavor of crazy and added another set of code on top of the Conspiraspeak code until not even they know just what they're talking about... And that's spawned a whole new genre conspiracy, almost by accident.  
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by Cypherwheel

As conspiracies develop, so too does Conspiraspeak. Old ideas are disproven (Chupacabra!) or fall out of favor; others turn out to be true (like the poor Yeti or [REDACTED BY ORDER OF THE COMPUTER - HAVE A NICE DAY]), while the inevitable corporate shenanigans give birth to a whole host of new ones.   Advances in science, the establishment of places like the Hecate Moon Base, or anything else really. If it exists, there's probably some person who thinks that it's up to some nefarious stuff.
Of course, it doesn't help that Corporations are scheming little bastards with all kinds of plots.

Dictionary

5 Words.

Examples:

   
by DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS ECONOMICS, DELHI UNIVERSITY
   

Infohazard

Some conspiracy theories are branded as memetic infohazard - dangerous, infectious ideas with an effect on the world. Many Infohazards are only dangerous to the individuals reading the text (that's your old-fashion forbidden what-man-was-not-meant-to-know type of knowledge thing), while others influence and warp reality.   Monday being miserable is one such Infohazard, with enough people believing it and spreading the idea that Mondays have, by default, become pretty bad.
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by Rob Treen


Cover image: by The Matrix

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Jul 16, 2020 21:32 by Simo

Tonight game is "How much time can I spend trying to guess the 5 words only to realize they are just under?" Ok, not too much, just one minutish, but still...

Jul 16, 2020 21:41

Ahaha, whoops :D


Creator of Araea, Megacorpolis, and many others.
Jul 17, 2020 11:19 by C. B. Ash

Oh, by the Java... you have a DICTIONARY on here for this! It's even better that you list the 5 right underneath.   And seeing this just RIGHT in the middle...   "REDACTED BY ORDER OF THE COMPUTER - HAVE A NICE DAY"   I started laughing out loud.   Perfect!

Jul 17, 2020 11:59

I think you just coined a new Megacorpolis phrase: "By the Java" :D   And see, the computer is so nice, even when hiding information from you. ;D


Creator of Araea, Megacorpolis, and many others.
Jul 17, 2020 12:16 by C. B. Ash

LOL!   I noticed! The Computer is just SO nice and friendly! Who would have ever guessed! :D

Jul 19, 2020 02:26 by Morgan Biscup

I absolutely love this computer redaction too!

Lead Author of Vazdimet.
Necromancy is a Wholesome Science.
Jul 18, 2020 22:15 by Dr Emily Vair-Turnbull

My favourite thing is the redacted bit in the middle. I love the thought you put into this. I bet the web of conspiracies in Megacorpolis is more tangled than anyone realised. And I bet more is true than anyone realises too...

Emy x
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