[Pamp Culture] oh is there a rapsball happening?

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Some Guy TT: Aug 30, 2011

josh04 posted:

deadpool 1 is funny but it's also very recognisably a stock superhero origin movie with the laughs bolted on over the top.

its not that it has laughs bolted on its that the laughs are r rated which is so surprising after the endless parade of pg 13 marvel bullshit it gets a lot of credit just for assuming its audience is old enough to gently caress

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# ? May 25, 2024 02:16

mazzi Chart Czar: Sep 24, 2005

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcmAlpIp3oM

Miserable rear end commercial.

The pay off is supposed to be the viewer watching this cool band play in the cool virtual world.
Instead it shows off how dorky people look when they're standing around in living room wearing a vr headset.

# ? Feb 15, 2022 06:34

i say swears online: Mar 4, 2005

was there a tonal difference between deadpool 1 and 2? i didn't notice but also i liked 1 and kinda faded through 2's third act

# ? Feb 15, 2022 11:08

i say swears online: Mar 4, 2005

mazzi Chart Czar posted:

Instead it shows off how dorky people look when they're standing around in living room wearing a vr headset.

i think there's money to be made on our loneliness and insecurity and this trend has not nearly hit its apex

# ? Feb 15, 2022 11:11

Nichael: Mar 30, 2011

mazzi Chart Czar posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcmAlpIp3oM

Miserable rear end commercial.

The pay off is supposed to be the viewer watching this cool band play in the cool virtual world.
Instead it shows off how dorky people look when they're standing around in living room wearing a vr headset.

When will this Metaverse poo poo hopefully die? This feels like one of the most forced product roll outs I've ever seen.

# ? Feb 15, 2022 15:15

indigi: Jul 20, 2004; ^{how can we not talk about family

when family's all that we got?}

Nichael posted:

When will this Metaverse poo poo hopefully die? This feels like one of the most forced product roll outs I've ever seen.

it will not be allowed to die

# ? Feb 15, 2022 15:21

Lib and let die: Aug 26, 2004

Nichael posted:

When will this Metaverse poo poo hopefully die? This feels like one of the most forced product roll outs I've ever seen.

I like the fitness ones where the fitness lady is all "nerd stuff for GAMERS!? HOW DARE YOU!"

# ? Feb 15, 2022 15:27

Iron Crowned: May 6, 2003; by Hand Knit

i say swears online posted:

was there a tonal difference between deadpool 1 and 2? i didn't notice but also i liked 1 and kinda faded through 2's third act

I thought Deadpool 2 felt a lot different from Deadpool 1, but I can't quite put my fonger on how and/or where

# ? Feb 15, 2022 16:01

Pener Kropoopkin: Jan 30, 2013

indigi posted:

it will not be allowed to die

Facebook is way too invested in the metaverse to let it fail. It's all they have. The launch of Web 3.0 all revolves around an unregulated market of elaborate scams, and a new Second Life platform nobody wanted that won't even let you play sex with a demon/dragon/wolf hybrid

Iron Crowned posted:

I thought Deadpool 2 felt a lot different from Deadpool 1, but I can't quite put my fonger on how and/or where

Deadpool 2 doesn't waste time setting up its backstory and jumps straight into the fun stuff.

# ? Feb 15, 2022 17:16

indigi: Jul 20, 2004; ^{how can we not talk about family

when family's all that we got?}

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Facebook is way too invested in the metaverse to let it fail. It's all they have. The launch of Web 3.0 all revolves around an unregulated market of elaborate scams, and a new Second Life platform nobody wanted that won't even let you play sex with a demon/dragon/wolf hybrid

within a few years companies are gonna start gating standard services behind logging into meta, the way they do with customer service via web chat and poo poo now

# ? Feb 15, 2022 17:23

Dreylad: Jun 19, 2001

The only thing I can think of kneecapping Web 3.0 poo poo and Metaverse is everyone realizing that the return on online advertising is absolute horseshit.

# ? Feb 15, 2022 17:27

indigi: Jul 20, 2004; ^{how can we not talk about family

when family's all that we got?}

Dreylad posted:

The only thing I can think of kneecapping Web 3.0 poo poo and Metaverse is everyone realizing that the return on online advertising is absolute horseshit.

have you been on tiktok or youtube? no chance

# ? Feb 15, 2022 17:29

Nichael: Mar 30, 2011

how is metaverse not second life?

# ? Feb 15, 2022 17:29

indigi: Jul 20, 2004; ^{how can we not talk about family

when family's all that we got?}

Nichael posted:

how is metaverse not second life?

you can�t make giant dicks and gently caress each other with them

# ? Feb 15, 2022 17:30

WampaLord: Jan 14, 2010

indigi posted:

within a few years companies are gonna start gating standard services behind logging into meta, the way they do with customer service via web chat and poo poo now

oh yeah, for sure

ever hear of this thing called the Segway? they say it's going to revolutionize human travel, we're gonna redesign cities around it!!!

# ? Feb 15, 2022 17:31

Big Mad Drongo: Nov 10, 2006

Nichael posted:

how is metaverse not second life?

Second Life allowed free expression, for better and worse

Metaverse is going to put you on lockdown with only the toys the big corps want you to have

# ? Feb 15, 2022 17:31

indigi: Jul 20, 2004; ^{how can we not talk about family

when family's all that we got?}

WampaLord posted:

oh yeah, for sure

ever hear of this thing called the Segway? they say it's going to revolutionize human travel, we're gonna redesign cities around it!!!

https://www.bird.co/

# ? Feb 15, 2022 17:32

Pepe Silvia Browne: Jan 1, 2007

Nichael posted:

how is metaverse not second life?

indigi posted:

you can�t make giant dicks and gently caress each other with them

yeah it's not second life. it's second life with all the human weirdness on display filtered and sanded down so that no one accidentally has an unpleasant experience. it's infinitely worse

# ? Feb 15, 2022 17:32

Iron Crowned: May 6, 2003; by Hand Knit

WampaLord posted:

oh yeah, for sure

ever hear of this thing called the Segway? they say it's going to revolutionize human travel, we're gonna redesign cities around it!!!

I mean, I haven't been in a mall in years, but I'm pretty sure that rent-a-cops were the biggest market for them

# ? Feb 15, 2022 17:33

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indigi posted:

within a few years companies are gonna start gating standard services behind logging into meta, the way they do with customer service via web chat and poo poo now

that assumes anyone is going to use it, and i really don't see why they would

# ? Feb 15, 2022 18:35

Ghost Leviathan: Mar 2, 2017; Exploration is ill-advised.

josh04 posted:

that assumes anyone is going to use it, and i really don't see why they would

It's very Bitcoin/NFT style 'the consumers will demand it!' logic

Literally no one will use this poo poo unless they are literally forced to, not even considering that so much will require ridiculously expensive and intrusive VR rigs.

# ? Feb 15, 2022 18:47

Good soup!: Nov 2, 2010

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slXHhu86SaY

# ? Feb 15, 2022 19:21

i say swears online: Mar 4, 2005

Ghost Leviathan posted:

It's very Bitcoin/NFT style 'the consumers will demand it!' logic

Literally no one will use this poo poo unless they are literally forced to, not even considering that so much will require ridiculously expensive and intrusive VR rigs.

a friend across the country bought us both an oculus 2 and we each used it once. I'm too adhd to leave my phone behind for awhile I guess

# ? Feb 15, 2022 20:09

Some Guy TT: Aug 30, 2011

Iron Crowned posted:

I thought Deadpool 2 felt a lot different from Deadpool 1, but I can't quite put my fonger on how and/or where

deadpool 1 is a fairly straightforward parody where pretty much everything about the typical superhero flick narrative structure production notes and stylistic designs are mocked

deadpool 2 is by contrast an entirely serious and sincere story with deliberate emotional payoffs that utilizes the same sense of humor but stops short of calling the whole thing a farcical sham

# ? Feb 15, 2022 20:17

Lib and let die: Aug 26, 2004

i say swears online posted:

a friend across the country bought us both an oculus 2 and we each used it once. I'm too adhd to leave my phone behind for awhile I guess

if i can't take my phone into the metaverse so i can play idle skilling on top of a virtual mountain what's the loving point smh dumass cyborg looking zuckerberg!!!!

# ? Feb 15, 2022 20:20

skooma512: Feb 8, 2012; You couldn't grok my race car, but you dug the roadside blur.

Dreylad posted:

The only thing I can think of kneecapping Web 3.0 poo poo and Metaverse is everyone realizing that the return on online advertising is absolute horseshit.

Or the fact that VR headsets cost as much as a console on their own, and people have trouble getting current gen consoles and computer parts and thus can't easily get rigs to run this crap.

This is also not likely to abate for at least a year and probably two, by then people will be frustrated by this forced meme and have forgotten about it.

# ? Feb 15, 2022 20:35

Iron Crowned: May 6, 2003; by Hand Knit

skooma512 posted:

Or the fact that VR headsets cost as much as a console on their own, and people have trouble getting current gen consoles and computer parts and thus can't easily get rigs to run this crap.

This is also not likely to abate for at least a year and probably two, by then people will be frustrated by this forced meme and have forgotten about it.

VR was sooooo much cooler in the 90's when not everyone had access to a computer that could render things like cubes and spheres.

# ? Feb 15, 2022 20:37

i say swears online: Mar 4, 2005

Iron Crowned posted:

VR was sooooo much cooler in the 90's when not everyone had access to a computer that could render things like cubes and spheres.

remember the myriad VR episodes of 90s sitcoms? they'd go to a therapist or something who'd recommend it and then they'd film some sort of green screen thing and call it VR

# ? Feb 15, 2022 20:46

skooma512: Feb 8, 2012; You couldn't grok my race car, but you dug the roadside blur.

i say swears online posted:

remember the myriad VR episodes of 90s sitcoms? they'd go to a therapist or something who'd recommend it and then they'd film some sort of green screen thing and call it VR

My first encounter with a VR headset was in a mall in the late 90s that had Doom 2 on it.

# ? Feb 15, 2022 20:52

Lib and let die: Aug 26, 2004

I remember Virtual Boy lol

# ? Feb 15, 2022 20:54

Pener Kropoopkin: Jan 30, 2013

Lib and let die posted:

I remember Virtual Boy lol

Do you remember what colors look like?

# ? Feb 15, 2022 21:00

babypolis: Nov 4, 2009

i say swears online posted:

remember the myriad VR episodes of 90s sitcoms? they'd go to a therapist or something who'd recommend it and then they'd film some sort of green screen thing and call it VR

the community episode that lampoons this is great

AND JESUS WEPT, FOR THERE WERE NO MORE WORLDS TO CONQUER

# ? Feb 15, 2022 21:20

i say swears online: Mar 4, 2005

Lib and let die posted:

I remember Virtual Boy lol

my friend got one on release day when he was like nine lol. it sucked so, so bad, the headaches were real

babypolis posted:

the community episode that lampoons this is great

AND JESUS WEPT, FOR THERE WERE NO MORE WORLDS TO CONQUER

i only watched the first two seasons around airtime in 2010, i should go back and watch the good ones. i feel it gets more backlash than it should unlike the office which deserves it

# ? Feb 15, 2022 21:29

Lib and let die: Aug 26, 2004

I also remember the evolution of the NES ray gun into the SNES bazooka that worked with like 4 whole games

# ? Feb 15, 2022 21:31

i say swears online: Mar 4, 2005

yoshi's island seemed so disconcerting; no way i wanted that game when i could be grinding levels in breath of fire ii

# ? Feb 15, 2022 21:33

babypolis: Nov 4, 2009

i say swears online posted:

my friend got one on release day when he was like nine lol. it sucked so, so bad, the headaches were real

i only watched the first two seasons around airtime in 2010, i should go back and watch the good ones. i feel it gets more backlash than it should unlike the office which deserves it

theres only one actually bad season, season 4 i think. everything else holds up pretty well. its pretty funny later on when they refer to it as the gas leak year

# ? Feb 15, 2022 21:33

indigi: Jul 20, 2004; ^{how can we not talk about family

when family's all that we got?}

josh04 posted:

that assumes anyone is going to use it, and i really don't see why they would

I�m saying they will be forced to use it, Facebook will pay companies to move services/customer support/etc into a meta-only space and current customers will have to sign up

# ? Feb 15, 2022 21:38

MLKQUOTEMACHINE: Oct 22, 2012; Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice-skate uphill

Nichael posted:

When will this Metaverse poo poo hopefully die? This feels like one of the most forced product roll outs I've ever seen.

Never. Welcome to the depressing, neolib future where you own nothing but you can get vr therapy.

# ? Feb 15, 2022 21:38

MLKQUOTEMACHINE: Oct 22, 2012; Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice-skate uphill

The only actually decent things the "metaverse" can do are AR poo poo that augment jobs and make them less annoying/give you more control and clarity--and that's definitely not VR meeting rooms or whatever bullshit metas peddling.

indigi posted:

I’m saying they will be forced to use it, Facebook will pay companies to move services/customer support/etc into a meta-only space and current customers will have to sign up

This is the only reason anyone uses Microsoft teams, so the business model is there in tech land.

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Lib and let die: Aug 26, 2004

Martha Stewart Undying posted:

The only actually decent things the "metaverse" can do are AR poo poo that augment jobs and make them less annoying/give you more control and clarity--and that's definitely not VR meeting rooms or whatever bullshit metas peddling.

Flipping my Amazon branded VR headset to bathroom mode as I pee into a bottle on the packing line

# ? Feb 15, 2022 21:44

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