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Makes you wonder just how few morons it takes to make such a simple yet ridiculous mistake
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Mar 17, 2023 07:16
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dr_rat posted:It's not at all surprising, but if you take away the jank VR stuff it's amazing how much of that 100% described down to pretty much every detail so many other lame and dying online communities. Which is sort of hilarious as with as many people who have been working on it, there must of been so many of them who were extremely aware of all those sort of dead communities and how the metaverse was just going full steam a head into becoming one. There's a base audience of, for various reasons, disenfranchised people who forever wander the internet looking for somewhere they can live out their fantasy of just being an ordinary person. If you don't make your virtual world about anything, if you leave it without a firm aesthetic to scare them away, or fall into the trap of making an empty shell because 'we'll just let human creativity fill in the gaps!', there is a 100% chance these people will be the bread and butter of your virtual world before you can do anything about it. I don't mean it in a particularly mocking sense, there's plenty of good reasons why people have a bad time on the outside and try to turn inward, but in terms of community these people are grey goo that will turn any space into an infinite hellmall of bootcut jeans and monuments to suburbia if you let them. In Horizon's case, Zuck himself is one of these people, so it's no mystery it came out the gate pre-gooed. Super Foul Egg has issued a correction as of 07:21 on Mar 17, 2023 |
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Mar 17, 2023 07:18
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Zuck should have just bought Star Citizen
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Mar 17, 2023 07:21
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:we all know what horizon worlds is but it’s still entertaining to read about what a colossal failure it is Good read, very cyberpunk dystopia.
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Mar 17, 2023 07:29
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:we all know what horizon worlds is but it’s still entertaining to read about what a colossal failure it is this is good and p funny, don’t miss it
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Mar 17, 2023 07:55
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enough about the forums though
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Mar 17, 2023 08:05
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Kitfox88 posted:Zuck should have just bought Star Citizen Almost certainly would have been a sounder investment
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Mar 17, 2023 08:25
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A fun part of the metaverse saga was that back when people were still settling on what would happen, the sources in my orbit could be divided into two camps: crusty olds who still paid their secretaries to print their emails who went "my god, this is going to take over the world" and people who had been online for any length of time that went "this is crummy compared to stuff that came out decades ago."
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Mar 17, 2023 08:38
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:we all know what horizon worlds is but it’s still entertaining to read about what a colossal failure it is it’s good quote:Zuckerberg puts himself front and center in a lot of Meta’s marketing. His curious IRL appearance — of a human designed by a computer or of a Styrofoam cup that a wizard decided to turn into a person but then changed his mind about halfway through — adapts unexpectedly well to the Meta-cartoonization algorithm. the underlying organization - metaverse as a sort of frame tale for the atomized American social experience, as experienced by a foreign observer - also definitely hits. dude should write more articles in this mode. his bibliography reads like the output of every creative writing professor ever. Orbis Tertius has issued a correction as of 09:24 on Mar 17, 2023 |
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Mar 17, 2023 08:47
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Mar 17, 2023 09:32
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exceptionally dystopic
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Mar 17, 2023 10:07
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How did they spent 36 billion dollars making Second Life.
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Mar 17, 2023 10:19
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dr_rat posted:It's not at all surprising, but if you take away the jank VR stuff it's amazing how much of that 100% described down to pretty much every detail so many other lame and dying online communities. Which is sort of hilarious as with as many people who have been working on it, there must of been so many of them who were extremely aware of all those sort of dead communities and how the metaverse was just going full steam a head into becoming one. Now me, I would never participate in a dead online community.
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Mar 17, 2023 10:24
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:I was thinking about it from the opposite angle. If we're just meat prediction engines that hack their way to something resembling consciousness or sapience, it means we will never have true AGI because we don't even meet the definition of GI. If we did it would treat us the way that we treat pets or Siri. The AGI would wonder if we actually love it or are just meat programmed to make it think we do. you are correct but you are posting in c-spam do you think any of these people have ever used a language model or read a book about philosophy lol
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Mar 17, 2023 10:31
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porfiria posted:How did they spent 36 billion dollars making Second Life. I just imagine dozens of contractors walking out of FBHQ with giant cartoon sacks of money and disappearing to countries without extradition treaties.
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Mar 17, 2023 10:50
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porfiria posted:How did they spent 36 billion dollars making Second Life. Like NFTs, nobody has managed to describe a compelling use case or even definition of The Metaverse beyond the purely financial justification of 'we want to own everything and then skim off the top', so it's fools all the way down, and whatever reason you pick for their money being away from them, yes.
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Mar 17, 2023 11:03
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porfiria posted:How did they spent 36 billion dollars making Second Life. accounting bullshit. they transferred all their losses from all they other failed ideas into the thing that was unquestionably going to fall
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Mar 17, 2023 11:14
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porfiria posted:How did they spent 36 billion dollars making Second Life. that's less than twitter
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Mar 17, 2023 13:44
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Alan Smithee posted:that's less than twitter Only if you pay to much for it.
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Mar 17, 2023 13:51
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maybe I'm late but I just learned that square enix is doing an NFT thing that looks like dogshit, here's some stuff retweeted by their official account these stunning NFTs that have improperly-aligned hats and hair clipping through https://twitter.com/LGG_DAO/status/1628952878487416832 has whatever the gently caress this poo poo is https://twitter.com/LGG_DAO/status/1633681007466672129 and is going to be played by people like this guy who I don't think is doing a bit https://twitter.com/Onlydcharles1/status/1629053306503942144 this is so soul crushing and I'm just a bystander edit: something something the level of creativity that is only found among finance and tech bros who are so devoid of an inner life that their imaginations are completely and utterly captured by a new type of money you can do on the internet BattleMaster has issued a correction as of 14:12 on Mar 17, 2023 |
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Mar 17, 2023 13:58
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i don’t think they even promote horizon worlds at all from within the quest’s interface, my kids got one for xmas and i haven’t seen a single listing for it or prompt to install it. it makes you create the goofy legless avatar when you start it up but that’s it. it really feels like they dumped a bunch of money into it then just abandoned it.
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Mar 17, 2023 14:44
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Do they have a femboy hooters yet?
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Mar 17, 2023 17:40
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izagoof posted:i don’t think they even promote horizon worlds at all from within the quest’s interface, my kids got one for xmas and i haven’t seen a single listing for it or prompt to install it. it makes you create the goofy legless avatar when you start it up but that’s it. Zuck's only human trait rn is that he loves playing with new toys at Reality Labs, the metaverse's promise of capturing future profit exists solely to fund this hobby
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Mar 17, 2023 17:53
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One of the funniest aspects of this is that Zuck permanently renamed the company on his now failed idea, complete with stock ticker.
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Mar 17, 2023 19:44
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:One of the funniest aspects of this is that Zuck permanently renamed the company on his now failed idea, complete with stock ticker. They were running commercials during some sports event I was watching the other day that were like: "Oh? You thought the Metaverse was only in virtual reality? Think again!" and then it was firefighters with goggles that had, like, AR poo poo in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJAh2iF-8zk A bunch of poo poo that absolutely does not work in real life yet and is probably like 10 years away. "We're going to make the ship's computer from Star Trek real" basically.
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Mar 17, 2023 19:51
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remember the BASF commercials I still dont know what the gently caress they do
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Mar 17, 2023 20:14
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PostNouveau posted:They were running commercials during some sports event I was watching the other day that were like: These types of commercials baffle me. I guess it's misguided PR or something, but even if Meta helps firefighters with AR goggles I don't do the purchasing for my local fire department! It's like Lockhead Martin and BP tv commercials. Even if I was convinced, I'm not in the market for a fighter jet. I doubt they have to advertise at all, but if they do it'd be to congress and DC shitheads and there has to be a better way to do that than daytime tv commercials.
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Mar 17, 2023 20:22
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1glitch0 posted:These types of commercials baffle me. I guess it's misguided PR or something, but even if Meta helps firefighters with AR goggles I don't do the purchasing for my local fire department! It's like Lockhead Martin and BP tv commercials. Even if I was convinced, I'm not in the market for a fighter jet. I doubt they have to advertise at all, but if they do it'd be to congress and DC shitheads and there has to be a better way to do that than daytime tv commercials. They're pivoting from Third Life to more traditional pie-in-the-sky tech bro promises that will never come to fruition. I doubt anyone involved even Zuck thinks they can make this happen anytime soon, but they can pretend to still but a cutting-edge tech company if they lie about the fantastical sci-fi tech in development.
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Mar 17, 2023 20:26
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AR could be kind of cool. Imagine meeting someone in a bar and then your glasses pull up their posting hist--you know what nevermind
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Mar 17, 2023 20:28
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With how much of a massive public joke the metaverse is it does make sense to try and pivot however they can.
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Mar 17, 2023 20:30
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dr_rat posted:With how much of a massive public joke the metaverse is it does make sense to try and pivot however they can. Yeah, it's what, $10 billion and jack poo poo to show for it? You may as well try to staunch the bleeding.
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Mar 17, 2023 20:37
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*commercial plays* "Meta: we have no legs"
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Mar 17, 2023 20:54
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where we're going, we won't need legs to walk
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Mar 17, 2023 20:59
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Facebook Business Plan Step 1. Lose $30 billion on Meta Step 2. Make it 2011 again through science or magic
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Mar 17, 2023 21:03
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PostNouveau posted:Facebook Business Plan Step 3: ??? Step 4: don't profit
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Mar 17, 2023 21:06
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PostNouveau posted:Facebook Business Plan Facebook corporate has actually done Step 2. a few times now. Worst thing is this has been their best go through. Turns out just because you can bend time to your will doesn't mean you're any good at business. 
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Mar 17, 2023 21:07
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Alan Smithee posted:remember the BASF commercials presumably they pump the environment full of toxic chemicals and poo poo
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Mar 17, 2023 21:15
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Woah, AI came up with a better way of naming months. This Maruary will go down in history as the month the singularity was reached.
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Mar 17, 2023 21:50
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That auto complete gently caress up predates any recent AI nonsense
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Mar 18, 2023 09:34
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Leroy Diplowski posted:Woah, AI came up with a better way of naming months. This Maruary will go down in history as the month the singularity was reached. wait til AI forces us to adapt the tonal number system
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Mar 18, 2023 09:47
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