Randonautica Explained: A Dark Phenomenon, Predictive of a Dangerous Future | PSYCHOLOGY CORNER
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- This is the audio version of "Randonautica: A Dark Phenomenon, Predictive of a Dangerous Future | Adventure Game Analysis".
The article is an extended analysis of the Randonautica App, the study and research project behind it, and the social and personal complications that may arise from its use.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:53 What is Randonautica?
01:56 The Pseudoscience Behind Randonautica
03:45 Randonautica Explained
08:45 The Dark Social Phenomenon and its Dangerous Future
13:10 Fake Randonautica Videos
14:29 Conclusions
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To the creator of this video:
I do not wholeheartedly accept anything not founded on hard science, or refuses direct, unbiased scrutiny. I will, however, try to be brief in detailing what happened when I used the app, only once, two years ago.
We lived in rural southern Missouri, my ex wife and I. On a whim we decided to get out of the house during the height of the pandemic and try Randonautica. We drove into the countryside and did what the app told us. My wife wanted our intention to be 'murder' and seeing as it was only an app, I thought, why not? My wife mouthed the intention, so the word murder was never spoken. Our area of interest was within 5 miles of our home. The app selected a location and we drove.
The area it brought us to was about 300 yards from the gravel road we were on, over a fence, and up a heavily wooded hillside, but not visible from that distance on the road.
To reach the location, yes, I had to trespass. I brought the phone with the beacon on it to help me navigate to the exact spot, within three yards. We are literally in the middle of nowhere, no traffic, no livestock visible, just pastures and fences. I reach the area up the hillside in the dense trees and begin surveying where exactly this grisly murder is supposed to be, only to be met with deafening silence and a vague feeling of dread. Nonetheless, after seeing nothing remotely related to our intention, I head back, get in the car, and we drove home.
When we got home we looked up the address most closely associated with the location given by the app, saw nothing unusual and forgot about it.
Until approximately one week later, my wife pulled up a local news article and asked me to verify exactly where we went that day. To my utter disbelief and horror, a body was found on THAT property by police. He was the owner and had perished as a result of foul play, his body hidden in the foliage in the back of his property, specifically the cliff, or hillside that I had scaled. The kicker: the coroner estimated his time of death as being roughly one week before the discovery of his body. There were no suspects, though it was obvious that the man had been robbed.
What does it mean?
Imagine being me for a minute. If any passersby had driven by that day and noted our car, or me trespassing, or indeed, me being in the immediate vicinity of a murder victim soon to be discovered, then wam bam thank you ma'am, I would no doubt have been a person of interest, if not outright assumed to be the killer. And what is my defense? That a mobile phone app just 'happened' to lead me directly to an unsolved and hitherto undiscovered murder by chance and that I was at the wrong place at the wrong time? Who would believe it? It's ridiculous, but this is what actually happened. As far as I know the old farmer's murder is still unsolved and as long as it is, I can't help but feel uneasy about the fact that an app on a phone put me within meters of a REAL murder and how easy it would be to convict me of a crime I didn't commit. Please articulate how this could happen, as I can find no answers.
Also, the murder rate of our tiny community was somewhere in the range of one to two murders per year, in a town of ten thousand. What are the odds?!
Hi, thank you for your visit and for sharing your story.
The first thing I thought of as I was reading is the exact element that you also mentioned: "Imagine being me for a minute". If the location suggested by Randonautica was that close to the location of where the body was found, you'd likely be considered suspects - both you and your wife. That would indeed be quite problematic for anyone not involved in a crime.
Still, I suppose the app retains some sort of logs or your route to that place could be established through several techniques and that would've cleared you and confirm the unusual alibi.
Now back to your question, the odds of you being placed by an app so close to a real life murder location.
You were right in considering the crime rate of the area, a high crime rate could explain your context.
But the thing is, with an app with so many users, you won't get answers in the small contexts and numbers.
The way I see it is that it can all be explained when you look at the bigger picture.
Randonautica is used by millions of people. With such a large population, it is fully expected to encounter a large variety of events while using the app. The oddities could reach, let's say, at least 0.1% of that population - I am thinking of a normal distribution of events that could be classified as odd, ranging from "not at all odd" to "extremely odd, cannot believe this is happening".
Now, even for that very small percent of extremely odd stuff, it is perfectly normal for about 10,000 users to experience that kind of a situation.
You may also think "But wait, me and my wife set the intention to "murder". Assuming you really had nothing to do with the actual crime - sorry, it still stays as a possibility in the full analysis - , one may say with a decent level of confidence that dark things, murders and ghostly appearances, make up the majority of the intentions set by people using Randonautica. You start using it because you trust or at at least are curious about what the unseen forces allegedly linked to the app can do for you. You're primed for the experience.
So, sorry to say it and maybe scatter the aura of mystery surrounding your experience, but to me, it all seems explainable and a coincidence - an expected one even.
I hope this helps.
Have a great day,
Lucia
Sorry but the fact that there was an actual body there and they could have been in trouble if any police officer happened to find them at that time they where suing this app is just strange the odds of accidentally that happening are not common .
Its a game which at the very least causes one to go to an unique place, that is valuable in itself
It causes people to go to random places. There's a chance that the random place is not a great one and the user can find himself/herself in a negative situation. Better safe than sorry, I'd say.
BRILLIANT Thank you my Human enjoyed this
Randonautica is serious stuff.
how do you "set" an intention?is it in the app,or thinking about it while setting a destination?
Thought
Just think of something, then press the button to start. It's fun.
I'm as in wonderment to that precisely too . I've heard it both ways and coupled with other suggestions letting me belive your intent must be without doubt that of a meditative type weighing on your intention to truly have the better odds of encountering such an intention. Is pretty cool ill say , cuz when its synchronicities happen you can feel it I swear just before they start falling into place. Then u know something amazing is gonna happen. You feel like a part of the illusions responsibility to consider you alone in this moment . Like the illusion is bei f made for you alone .qiute flattering
I belive it is base on energy (spirituallity); the intent is spoken out loud and then you concentrate, allowing space for channeling spirits (or energy). Spirits are energy, engery is invisible to the naked eye unless harnessed in visible light or view through a technical device. In my opinion at least.
It's clearly stated that you have to purposely type in your intention into the app. The author of this article is mistaken; there is nothing related to thought or spirituality.
Good points well made.
Have you tried it?
No, no need to. All the info about the app is on the official website. On top of that, I don't play "Simon says".
@@psychologycorner No serious researcher can just opt out of doing the thing they are researching...
@@summondadrummin2868 Weak manipulation attempt. Anyway, what you claim is not a must, especially when the ones making the initial claim about the app - the creators - do not put forward anything that would allow replication. Also, peer reviewers don't have to replicate a paper or a set of claims in order to analyze it critically - which is what I did.
@@psychologycorner Who would you trust more someone who has a theory about something, for example Meditation, or someone who actually practices it or tries it out?
@@summondadrummin2868 Someone who produced evidence in support of their claims about what they practice or not, evidence that can be replicated by others. Anecdotes are not evidence, no matter how many there are on a subject.
It´s kinda like that film, Total Recal.
problem is that this article is not exactly unbias and therefore null
Name the bias.
@@psychologycorner against the app..its not that obvious
It's a critical analysis. I presented my arguments. You just said it's biased. How exactly? I did understand you meant a bias against the app but you provided no argument to support your claim. At this point, it's just an opinion.
@@psychologycorner the same as your analysis then... just an opinion
The difference being that mine is an informed opinion.
It gradually teaches social obedience? Because you're following the instructions of the game? Randonauting seems like geocatching without the guarantee of finding something. You know what gradually teaches social obedience? The school system. And after using/playing ANYTHING enough, you change, not just this app.
SOOOOOO CAN YOU USE IT TO GET THE NEXT WEEKS WINNING LOTTERY TICKET 😂😆🤣😉
You failed to actually talk about the cases where people have actually found human bodies when using this app among other weird things when you start playing. There was an even when someone had the intention set to danger and the literally saw someone get shot while going to a location.
The mention of the discovery of the bodies is mentioned in the intro - literally 35 second into the video.
ILLUMINATI
Me or them?
@@psychologycorner Lol... 🤔
both maybe? 😆 nah, juz foolin'