I think one thing about the SciADV series in general that makes it special is how much it bases its theories off of real life, almost like Hard Science, where there's just enough evidence that things might be real.
But I wanted to say a few things about ANONYMOUS;CODE that have been on my mind for awhile. Not as much in the scientific element, but the research on the Papacy and the Vatican seem like... Really well overstood; almost makes me wonder what kinds of people were behind it.
For those familiar with Gematria, you take what number a letter is in the alphabet, either from 1-26 or from 1-9, and that is theorized to be its own original language, where when words are in the same number, it's the same meaning or association.
There isn't much info on this online, but the number 56 seems to be a very important number to the Catholic church.
In Gematria, phrases such as Society Of Jesus (Jesuits) = 56 in Ordinal Reduction. King James (as in from the King James Bible) was born in 1566, and the Jesuit Guy Fawkes allegedly tried to assasinate him... Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, died the same year.
In the first few chapters of the book of Matthew, there's 56 male names listed. But that's as far as I know its meaning. Besides that people seem to never want to bring it up, despite bringing up other typical symbolic numbers like 33 and 666 all the time.
Morals and Dogma (the Masonic text) is also 56 in its title. As is King James Bible. As is Washington D.C., (Daniel Carroll was a Jesuit who granted congress that land). And the Black Pope at the time, Lorenzo Ricci, was active for 5566 days.
Adolf Hitler (the previous Black Pope was also named Adolfo), Coronavirus, Rockefeller, all simple examples of the same number.
But ANONYMOUS;CODE? Put it in the calculator. That's right. And given the whole story's subject matter, I doubt that's a coincidence. And it has the same title in Japanese.
Remember the part where Kent Korihisa put all those people on the roof top under that sissy hypno trance during the "Poolhack"? Oh yeah.

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On top of this, concepts such as
- That pilot who killed himself, after seeing the Papacy's mission failed. Jesuits have a reputation for doing this.
- The concept of Davide having his dead body revived. Under Commercial law (UCC), the Vatican treats every person like a dead entity whether they are dead or not. The Birth Certificate is not a certificate of your birth; it is a corporation that represents a dead person. A birth certificate can't even be created without first making a Certificate of Live Birth.

- The resemblance that ritual Felino did on Rosario has to the Jesuit Oath, where the Superior General (Papa Nero/Black Pope) puts a dagger on their chest...
- Ewan pretending to be the friend of Asuma in order to gain his trust, only to betray it.
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The whole conspiracy theory circle online has turned into a grifting business now that it's so popular. I think certain news stories are often designed to distract people from others. Santos Bonacci said twenty years ago about how Zionism and Freemasonry are constantly used as distractions from the Vatican right in front of us. Funny how even today we see the exact same thing.
There are still elements to the vatican that appear to be masonic symbolism, like the use of 3s, but the Vatican, which is basically a continuation of Rome, is an accumulation of numerous past cultures, such as Egypt where a lot of those "Masonic" things come from. So calling it freemasonry is like placing a needless label on what is simply the roman system.
And this game sure didn't get as much as attention as I thought it would ever since it came out.
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