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11-1-24, 11:10am
A lovely little documentary playing on Netflix is “The Remarkable Life of Ibelin” about the positive, life affirming relationships one can build in the role playing social media world.
It is a tear jerker. It tells how a boy born with degenerative muscular dystophy spends his days in the World of Warcraft gaming world and develops lifelong bonds with players. He does all of this without the knowledge of his parents. I mean, they know he spends thousands of hours in front of a computer but they have no idea how important he is to people in his online community.
An especially poignant part is how he, every morning when he signs on to the fantasy world, runs for 30 minutes through the digital countryside. That is how he is first known to the fantasy characters, the guy who runs. Later they all i teract with him and find him to be a kind, caring, and important friend. During this time he spends much of his life in a wheel chair, getting progressively weaker, at the end barely able to manipulate keys of the keyboard.
It is a tear jerker. It tells how a boy born with degenerative muscular dystophy spends his days in the World of Warcraft gaming world and develops lifelong bonds with players. He does all of this without the knowledge of his parents. I mean, they know he spends thousands of hours in front of a computer but they have no idea how important he is to people in his online community.
An especially poignant part is how he, every morning when he signs on to the fantasy world, runs for 30 minutes through the digital countryside. That is how he is first known to the fantasy characters, the guy who runs. Later they all i teract with him and find him to be a kind, caring, and important friend. During this time he spends much of his life in a wheel chair, getting progressively weaker, at the end barely able to manipulate keys of the keyboard.