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What an interesting tale. But I feel like an anime character described it to me. I'm totally fine with it (I'm grateful the story is being told at all), but it is surreal tone for technical writing.
There are 149 exclamation points on that page (!)
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And all that engineering resulted in a floppy drive that was slower and more expensive than comparable units for other home computers. I'm not sure if there is a lesson there...
The 1541 was set to be a highly capable and performant machine, but an interface/design bug held it back and delivered dismal performance whenever connected to the C64. They tried to fix it but it couldn't be rescued, so speed freaks needed to wait for the 1570 series.
Epyx games used the Vorpal format which gave 15x load speedup.
The point is, the speed issues weren’t really the 1541’s fault although GCR coding could have benefited from a HW decoder.
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Don't forget to dissociate the concept of virtual worlds which already exist and are quite popular (MMOs etc.), and the idea of a virtual world owned and imagined by Zuckerberg which has been a terrible failure so far.
The opinions around facebook’s metaverse are hilarious when things like Second Life, WoW, EVE, VR Chat, and even Roblox have been so massively popular yet unrecognized for what they are.
Well, yes. Who does something matters. I could totally see Facebook's metaverse failing a la Stadia or Diem.
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Isn’t the primary purpose of the ME to run DRM and back door the system? How would it be useful at all open source? People would just turn it off entirely.
I could imagine a super low power coprocessor that's always on would be a real useful tool. It could check my email and other low power tasks. And remote management isn't bad if it's entirely under my control. It's the closed nature that makes me distrust it.
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I kinda think to some degree those words are the reason those opinions are the way they are. The metaverse is being sold as this new, groundbreaking, fantastic thing, when they've already existed for decades.
Also, VRChat is infinitely better than the Metaverse, does not require you to sell your soul to Facebook, does not require a branded headset (OR ANY AT ALL, YOU CAN PLAY IT 2D), runs well, HAS LEGS ON YOUR AVATAR FFS, and massive community support in and out of game. Also it didn't require billions in investment. Facebook could have literally burned $900 million on hookers and cocaine, and then thrown $100 million to…
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I don't think you can call that a difference until metaverse starts actually hitting those numbers, or even surpassing the existing worlds.
Near as I can tell, second life seems to have around 40-50k typical users online. Which is sizable, but not amazing.
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Can someone explain this vtoon trend to me? It doesn't seem to be driven by anonymity because their real name is easily findable, so I assume it's something else? It seems very common, especially in certain communities.
Some people just prefer their public persona to be in the form of an avatar instead of their real face. They want to have something there to represent themselves instead of just streaming a screen and nothing else, but they would rather that representation be an avatar or character rather than their physical selves.
What an interesting tale. But I feel like an anime character described it to me. I'm totally fine with it (I'm grateful the story is being told at all), but it is surreal tone for technical writing.
Not as surreal as an actual presentation by an anime character. WTF is going on here? https://youtu.be/SDJCzJ1ETsM?t=1179 How can people watch this?
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Every cell in your body is running a full blown OS fully capable of doing things that each individual cell has no need for. It sounds like this is a perfectly natural way to go about things.
Organic units should not be admired for their design. DNA is the worst spaghetti code imaginable. The design is such a hack, that it's easier to let the unit die and just create new ones every few years.