And this is not a painting by a member of an obscure free love cult.

这幅画不是某个无名的自由恋爱邪教成员画的。

But in fact, cult-like groups take many forms.

实际上，类似邪教的团体有很多种形式。

A cult is a leader using coercive control in a group.

邪教是一个领导者在一个团体中使用强制性控制。

Okay, Mitchell, what if they're a part of some weird cult?

米奇尔 万一们来自什么奇怪的邪教呢？

I like to call these video gamecults.

我想称之“电子游戏邪教”。

But if that's the game's part, what about the cults part?

这说的是“游戏”的部分， 那“邪教”的部分呢？

I-I thought he joined a cult or something.

我去加入了个邪教什么的。

Remember when she got thrown out of Scientology?

记不记得她被赶出山达基教（邪教）那次？

I've told you, that's the kind of person these cults target!

我告诉过你，这些邪教专拉这种人！

Company towns can seem strange-cultish, even-to outsiders.

对于外人来说，公司小镇可能让人感觉奇怪——甚至有点像邪教。

I've had to rescue her a bunch of times from cults and an Amway pyramid.

我曾经无数次把她从邪教和安利金字塔营销中救出来。

As a result, many people viewed the school as a kind of secular cult or even sect.

结果，许多人将学校一种世俗的邪教，甚至是一个教派。

I know, we could say he joined a cult and we had to kidnap and deprogram him.

我们就说加入了一个邪教，我们得把带回来洗脑。

But that led over into religious territory for me, which, you know, companies can feel like a cult.

对我来说，这是进入了宗教领域，公司感觉就像个邪教。

A doomsday cult released the chemical in the city's subway system, killing 13 people and injuring thousands more.

一个信仰末世论的邪教组织在地铁系统释放毒气，造成13人死亡，数千人受伤。

How can we explore possible futures for positive gamecults?

我们该如何探索 正向“游戏邪教”的未来呢？

And in the attention economy of political priorities, gamecults are clearly quite low.

是在这政治优先级导向的 注意力经济（attention economy）中，游戏邪教并没有受到多少重。

However, unlike a real cult, the girls living in the house were free to come and go as they pleased.

然而，与真正的邪教不同，住在房子里的女孩可随心所欲地来去自由。

41 people who were rescued from a doomsday cult in Kenya are to be charged alongside the leader with murder.

从肯尼亚末日邪教中获救的41人将与们的领导人一起被控谋杀罪。

And number one is the Son of Sam cult murders.

第一是山姆之子邪教谋杀案。