Facebook is becoming "Buy-n-Large" from "Wall-e". The prescience of that movie is more evident every year since it was made.
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will turn into a ‘metaverse’
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I love Hyperreality, and I can't wait for it to come true. I think my world would be much better. Look at how cool it is! I get that it's not for everyone, but sign me up.
You can't wait for there to be even more ads in this world? You want them to physically follow you around? You can't wait for corporations to see your every move? No thanks. We need to fix our current internet before allowing it to permeate our lives any deeper.
Meh, I'll use the Mozilla VR OS with uBlock 2040 on it
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#263Earlier quoted context omitted.
I love Hyperreality, and I can't wait for it to come true. I think my world would be much better. Look at how cool it is! I get that it's not for everyone, but sign me up.
You can't wait for there to be even more ads in this world? You want them to physically follow you around? You can't wait for corporations to see your every move? No thanks. We need to fix our current internet before allowing it to permeate our lives any deeper.
Honestly I just want the cute little doggo to follow me around while I'm shopping. I don't care if it's trying to get me to buy things.
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#264In two days, my facebook account will be gone for good.
I plan on throwing a party!
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No need to torture people, since they will know everything about you and what you have done at all times.
Not if it's a new account.
New account? That's so 2020. Your account will be the one issued to you at birth that happens to have your SSN as your username.
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#266In two days, my facebook account will be gone for good. I plan on throwing a party!
Great, send me the link after you make an event page on…
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#267You have to give one thing to the guy, he keeps pushing, he could retire 1000times over. What is driving him? Anyone knows him from younger years? Most similar people(on a smaller scale) i know are money driven even though they have enough. But at this level? Makes you wonder what his final goal is?
Most people have to constantly remind themselves they can't change the world, and adjust their expectations and priorities accordingly. Some tiny fraction of people find themselves in the position where they actually can change the world. I'm not surprised they try to; I'm more surprised that more of them don't.
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I can see how it's a bit short and simply makes a claim without going into more detail, but clearly there is enough there for people to be able to reply and disagree and why (as the few of you replying to this have). I just don't see the point of flagging such a comment so that it can no longer be replied to. I think it's unfortunate that downvoting and reporting seem to be merged together on this site, since those a…
SL was a milestone in what it's trying to do but I'm not all that sure if its intentions are any more crazy or sad than AOL-era chat rooms and online communities- some of which were also graphical. VRML was developed for chat rooms in the late '90s. The only difference with SL is that it was developed later on in history and further along late capitalism, I guess.
I'm not referring to the intentions or what it was/is trying to do, but to the reality of its userbase and how they play the game and live their life. I mean, as a whole gaming tends to be similarly 'sad', but not to as large an extent as SL (in my opinion, of course).
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#269Sounds like Zuckerberg is getting high off of his own fumes. This is the 2021 version of "Facebook is changing the world!" Also, Second Life did it first in 2006.
Second Life was awesome, but it owes a ton of intellectual debt to The Palace from the 1990s, which had a robust and functional version of FORTH built into it.
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I thought horizon is still in beta?
Invite-only closed beta. That's probably why GP hasn't heard about it in a while.
I'm in the beta and I have played Horizon. I'm not impressed at all. The worlds are tiny and uninteresting. The color pallet is cartoony. Audio has enough delay still to be unnatural (a problem with cell phones too, btw, but made much worse when the person is standing in front of you).
Their world building tools are kind of interesting, and surely were difficult to implement, but lack any real purpose or traction.
All in all, I'm surprised more by how basic and bad Horizon is than I am by how good it is. Its been in development for a long time, and by now, I expected a lot more.