4500 Hours in Gielinor
A childhood playing one of the world’s greatest video games has made IRL (in real life) strangely familiar. Video games are the greatest educational technology since the written word, and there are a handful of online multiplayer games from the 2000s and 2010s, including RuneScape, that cumulatively served as the training grounds and inspiration for today’s most ambitious young people. How we played these games is an underrated signal for how we’re playing the modern, digitally native, “massively multiplayer role playing game” of life.