I didn’t run through Pathways, but when I watched others doing it online it looked like at every choice point you could choose to comply with the government, remain neutral and investigate further, or rebel. One player on YouTube stuck to the middle ground and his character still got sent to reeducation. Blind compliance is apparently the only approved option - you must not pause and do any fact checking.
Yeah, the “game” basically reinforced the idea that you should just accept what the government tells you is good and what behaviors are appropriate, like not questioning anything or exercising your rights.
It’s 1984 to the extreme. I’m not sure what is worse, the media treating everyone like their stupid or this game, as it’s level of “assuming you’re a dumb drone” is off the chart.
This from the country that created “punk rock” from the stuffy culture of “expected conservative behavior”. Now the left is experiencing their own “punk rock” moment, where everyone rebels and they can’t control it. Starmer won’t be happy...but he can’t cancel or arrest Amelia!!
In the real world, the Pathways software did actually monitor the game's players while playing the game, and did refer all the real live players choices to REAL UK Political Police.
The only way to avoid this was to NOT play the game.