Listen: He talks about democracy in NPR’s Metaverse in a segment introducing Second Life’s CDS and Wasteland communities.

Here’s today’s episode of National Public Radio’s The Pulse: "virtual world, virtual life"tells the story of two classic communities in Second Life. Shaken (but not destroyed) by a trademark dispute that challenges the group’s idealism, the League of Democratic Simulators and the long-running apocalyptic community Wasteland are founded and run as NeoBokrug Elytis.

As I explained to Pulse reporter Grant Hill, while interest in role-playing democracy in virtual worlds is enthusiastic, if limited, Wasteland draws more sustained interest and self-organization by attracting fans of classic movies and games such as . mad max And the Fallout franchise.

Find out more in Grant’s article on the sector.

Au said the platform failed to build on its initial success. Partly because of its lofty and deliberately aimless mission statement. (He) was struck by how paradoxically limited the platform was, without any real “gaming” component. For many, the idea of ​​starting humanity over from scratch was more absurd than liberation.

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