A teen gamer befriends a Chinese gold farmer and grapples with morality, poverty, and culture clash online and off.
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A teen gamer befriends a Chinese gold farmer and grapples with morality, poverty, and culture clash online and off.
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Anda loves Coarsegold Online, the massively-multiplayer role playing game that she spends most of her free time on. It's a place where she can be a leader, a fighter, a hero. It's a place where she can meet people from all over the world, and make friends. Gaming is, for Anda, entirely a good thing.
But things become a lot more complicated when Anda befriends a gold farmer -- a poor Chinese kid whose avatar in the game illegally collects valuable objects and then sells them to players from d...
What's Inside
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Sexual content
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No romantic or sexual content depicted
Violence & gore
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In-game combat with explosions, animal death, and dismemberment
Profanity
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Mild language: occasional hell, dammit, bitch, and ass
Substance use
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No substance use depicted
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No evidence found in available sources
Religious content
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No evidence found in available sources
Magic & witchcraft
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Fantasy elements limited to the in-game MMORPG setting
Occult / demonology
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No evidence found in available sources
Political content
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Central themes of labor exploitation, poverty, and economic inequality
Self-harm / suicide
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No evidence found in available sources
Abuse & suffering
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Worker exploitation and poverty; bullying as a recurring theme
Other
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