Video Gaming The System
Planet Money
NPR
4.6 • 29.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is Planet Money from NPR. |
| 0:06.0 | A few months ago, I visited Gylenor. |
| 0:08.0 | I'd never been there before, so I got a guide, guy named Jacob. |
| 0:12.0 | Jacob's got green hair and a green beard. |
| 0:14.0 | And when we meet, he's wearing this reddish cape. |
| 0:17.0 | To get ready for our tour, he hands me a few things. |
| 0:20.0 | This ambulance will let us teleport around and two stamina potions |
| 0:24.0 | and then a couple pieces of food in case you start dying. |
| 0:27.0 | Did you give me three lobsters? |
| 0:29.0 | Yes. |
| 0:30.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:32.0 | I put on my glory amulet. |
| 0:34.0 | I tuck the two stamina potions and three lobsters into my backpack and we are off. |
| 0:42.0 | Now, I'm probably not going to surprise any of you here. |
| 0:45.0 | We are in a video game. |
| 0:47.0 | It's called Old School Runescape. |
| 0:53.0 | And my guide, Jacob, is a YouTuber who is kind of like an investigative reporter. |
| 0:58.0 | We are only identifying him and others in the story by their first names |
| 1:02.0 | because they are afraid of being threatened and harassed. |
| 1:05.0 | Online gaming can get pretty nasty. |
| 1:07.0 | Anyway, in Jacob's videos, he talks about this game and what happens inside of it. |
| 1:12.0 | If you don't know it, Old School Runescape has been around for like 20 years. |
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