We Have an X-File: Madden '19 Predicted Antonio Brown's Frostbite
Source – Internet sleuths believe they have found the reason for Oakland Raiders receiver Antonio Brown’s downward spiral the past couple months. Turns out, Brown was destined to get to this point. Why? Because he appeared on the cover of “Madden 19.” …
One of the “Madden 19” loading screens features a picture of Brown and the word “frostbite” at the bottom of the screen. Did “Madden” somehow know Brown would injure both his feet in a cryotherapy accident? If so, no player should ever appear on the “Madden” cover moving forward. Because this is way too creepy.
In reality, of course “Madden 19” didn’t predict the injury. Frostbite is the name of the engine “Madden” runs on. What does that mean? Think of a game engine as the foundation of a game. It establishes some basics, like a game’s general physics. …
That makes this whole thing a weird coincidence. It’s fun to point out, but it ultimately means nothing.
Call this is “a weird coincidence” all you want. I know a synchronicity when I see one. High strangeness. Temporal phenomena. The sorts of things that people with high intelligence and an unquenchable appetite for the truth can accept, and those with small, closed minds and no intellectual curiosity dismiss as just crazy, unconnected events.
This is one of those moments when you have to go full-on Fox Mulder. To look into the paranormal because the mere normal will not explain it. At a time like this, Mulder would explain to Scully theories like Retrocausality, otherwise known as Backwards Causation. In which events of the present can affect the past. Think Hodor losing his power of speech in childhood thanks to a traumatic event at the end of his life. Only Retrocausality isn’t something invented by George R.R. Martin. It’s predicted by Quantum Theory.
If you want to believe that a software company just so happens to give itself a nonsensical, non-descriptive name like “Frostbite,” gets to work on the most iconic game in the history of the genre, a game notorious for cursing the men who appear on its cover. And then many years later the guy on the cover just happens to get the billion-to-one injury of – you guessed it – frostbite on both his feet. And you’d like to chalk that all up to random chance? Mere happenstance? Well then I feel sorry for you and your feeble brain.
The creators of Frostbite could’ve named their firm anything they wanted. They chose the bizarre, freakish injury that would plague their cover guy years later. Something no one could’ve seen coming. Call a 100 trillion-to-1 shot like that “coincidence” if you must. I’d rather believe this is “Madden” finally becoming self-aware like Skynet. And causing something to happen in the past. It’s not science fiction. It’s science. I just never thought that the person who’d prove Einstein right would be Mr. Big Chest. What a universe this is.