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this is 99% invisible I'm Roman Mars and we have a special podcast edition of the show this week because I'm off the radio

airing repeats until February 4th when season number 2 of 99% invisible starts up

We had some funding to start up and I'm sort of

getting more funding and researching and recording more stories so look for new

episodes on February 4th but in the meantime I have probably what are going to be

new stories to you unless you already listen to a lot of the shows that I've worked on in the

past. And this one is from one of those shows called Snap Judgment. The best new

storytelling show out there is from NPR and PRX. You should definitely check it

out if you haven't already. But this is a piece that I really love that I did

for them for the Utopia episode and I think it has some design implications

so if you can bear with me you know but otherwise it's just I think it's a fun one to listen to because there's some great

tape in the end so like stay with it

because the tape of the end is just it'll just destroy you. It's about an online world

that was designed and created by EA Games and sort of turned into a perfect little utopia by the users themselves.

But the problem was, is that EA Games didn't actually make any money off the game so they didn't support it anymore.

So it's what happens when a created world goes dark.

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