This is worse than The Sims 3. This must be Zuckerberg just intentionally shovelling money out of Facebook and to his friends.

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    1 year ago

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  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    The Zucc try to look more creepy as a techbro cartoon than in real life challenge. Difficulty level: BABY RAY'S MEAT FIBERS

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I know talking about looks is frowned upon and probably frowned upon for good reason, but I had a similar experience with several classmates and at least one roommate that had that similar look.

  • moujikman
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    2 years ago

    If you're wondering what sparked the zuck to do this, he's was sold into this garbage by venture capitalist Matthew Ball. I think he honestly thinks he's making a good play, driven by his desire to stalk women. https://www.matthewball.vc/all/themetaverse

  • Deadend [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    He could have just bought a game company for less and be in a better place.

    • AFineWayToDie [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      There comes a point where even an extra ten or twenty billion is a drop in the bucket. He needs to tell himself that it was his brilliant idea, from the ground up. Oligarchy turns billionaire brain farts into economic forces.

  • yellowparenti5 [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    as someone that used vr starting with the vive in 2017 meta never seemed like a good idea
    also. fuck facebook 1. because they're cia (involved with them) and 2. they're ALWAYS spying. the mobile app is always listening and gives you targeted ads based on what it hears.

    • alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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      2 years ago

      meta never seemed like a good idea

      VRChat/neosVR are great, despite being a skyscraper built atop twigs and ducttape.

      If FB were actually competent, they'd have bought VRChat and spent a billion dollars developing a VRChat 2 that increases accessibility of all of VRChat's community content/creates a more solid base for content, supports AR, and has a roblox style payment system.

      Then they could push corporations to start using meta for meetings, sales pitches, open houses, (restricted to FB-liscensed environments and avatars), schools, etc and you've created a reason for people to actually use your product, and to choose it over any competitor.

  • Snackuleata [any]
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    2 years ago

    Looks like a mobile game. What can you even build with cheap assets like that?

    • buh [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Equity :cryptocurrency: :very-intelligent:

  • Shoegazer [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    French people can simply walk to the Eiffel Tower lol

  • regul [any]
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    2 years ago

    Is that supposed to be the Sagrada Familia!? Look how they massacred my boy!

  • comi [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    This can’t be real, this is worse than star citizen which doesn’t even exist

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      In Star Citizen's undeserved defense, they don't have NFTs (yet), just very expensive jpegs of spaceships that have been MIA for years after initial sales.

      • yellowparenti5 [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        the ones that arent made yet require a ton of backend tech and design of special systems to get online. for example the orion is supposed to have its own mining gameplay involving detonations and refining. that one farming ship has farming and drug lab stuff, etc.

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Yeah, sure, but they still charged up front for vague promises and many of those ships, features stripped, still take years after sale to show up. It's a grift, and it's an extraordinary one.

          • yellowparenti5 [none/use name]
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            2 years ago

            the target market is like 35-60 year olds that played space games in DOS. a lot work tech jobs and dropping 2k on space jpegs isnt a big deal for them.

            • UlyssesT [he/him]
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              It's still a grift and there's nothing stopping vulnerable people from being victimized by the grift.

              "If you don't like it don't buy it" is a catch-all dismissal of loot boxes, season passes, pre-order pressure, and other sleazy tactics as well. Just because one specific group is supposedly unaffected by spending thousands on internet spaceship jpegs doesn't mean it's a good thing and doesn't prevent others from being pulled in and losing money they can't afford to lose.

              https://old.reddit.com/r/starcitizen_refunds/comments/c86e16/the_addictive_cost_of_predatory_videogame/

              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNjI03CGkb4