There's a special breed of player who will spend time and effort figuring out new, ridiculous ways of torturing the computer-generated nobodies who inhabit their games.
We tend to think that every rich CEO who isn't Elon Musk or Bruce Wayne is a smirking sociopath who orders layoffs while floating nude in a pool filled with champagne.
Heaven's Gate still exists today, having left behind two members to maintain it, answer emails, and sell books and VHS tapes of their beliefs. And they agreed to talk to us.
Movies have been steadily stealing from video games in such sneaky ways that you'd probably never notice it unless someone put both things side by side.