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Wonder Cabinet

Being Sincere in a Cynical World

Wonder Cabinet

Wonder Cabinet Productions

Society & Culture, Wonder, Philosophy, Ttbook, Knowledge, Interview

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Why is the world so damn cynical? Rather than surrendering to corrosive, hopeless snark, we look to some unexpected sources to make the case for sincerity.

Guests:

Jason Rohrer
Christy Wampole
Christian Picciolini
Ingrid LaFleur

Interviews in this hour:

"You Are Our Miracle": A Game To Make You Love Your Fellow Player
The Toll of Living Awash in Irony
Can You Change The Mind Of A White Supremacist?
Envisioning a Better Today Through The Tomorrows of Afrofuturism

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's to the best of our knowledge. I'm Anne Strangeamps. Let's play a game.

0:07.5

We are no... Oh, I like the noise.

0:10.3

We are waiting to be born.

0:13.4

Okay, and now we've been born.

0:15.8

You're crying. I'm playing this new online game with my producer, Mark Rickers.

0:21.4

It's called One Hour One Life.

0:23.8

We start as a helpless baby and try to stay alive.

0:27.2

You're starving.

0:28.5

Oh boy.

0:29.7

So I died of starvation?

0:31.4

Okay.

0:32.5

I guess we'll try again.

0:33.8

Yeah.

0:34.4

This is the latest from the independent game designer Jason Roer, and it's not like other games.

0:39.7

It's a multiplayer game. It's on a server. An infinite world of wilderness that's untouched by human hands so far.

0:45.7

And the first person who joins the server is plopped down in the middle, but with a lightning bolt kind of as Eve, the first human being in this world.

0:53.7

Subsequent players that join the server are born as a helpless baby to some other players

0:57.1

already in the world.

0:57.8

So like player two who joins the game will be Eve's first baby and so on.

1:03.2

Oh, boy.

1:04.5

You're crying again.

1:05.8

Oh, she picked me up.

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