• Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    A few things stand out to me about this

    How far removed from the original function of a house as shelter these people are. The concept of people looking for a cheap house because they don't want to freeze to death doesn't even occur to them

    And

    How boring the design of this house is. This is a virtual world where you can make it look like anything, you are not constrained by the laws of physics. Yet this is what they make? A generic whitebread rich yuppie box that you see everywhere in a rich suburb? Ugly pool. Ugly deck chairs. Rich people have no taste or imagination.

    Hope this is a bit

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      2 years ago

      Ugly pool. Ugly deck chairs. Rich people have no taste or imagination.

      Pros: Maintaining a pool in the virtual world will be WAY cheaper than maintaining a pool IRL

      Cons: Its not a real pool, you dipshits. You can't swim in it. You can't cool down in it. You can't invite a cute boy over to have sex in it. This is a painting of a pool. It is - I must repeat - not a real pool. Its not real. You are paying $290k for something you could make for free in Minecraft.

      Hope this is a bit

      Literally no idea anymore. Its all so insane.

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Listing the bedrooms and sqfootage is also kind of insane because what use are those metrics if you don't have people living in the house?

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        2 years ago

        If I had a house in the metaverse I would simply increase the scale until it had millions of square miles of floor space and couches the size of detroit.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      VR trying toe replicate real life shows an incredible lack of imagination. You could depict all kinds of incredible, impossible in real life things, but almost all vr productions are simulation real life in some way.

    • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      See, you're problem is assuming homes are used for shelter and other basic needs as opposed to an investment opportunity or a designated storage location for your towering piles of funko pops. The neat thing about the metaverse is your towering piles of funko pops aren't constrained by stupid things like "physics."

    • fishnwhistle420 [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      everyone on all sides just misunderstands jokes and takes them as literal, making each side into a parody of itself

      I know I know, the metaverse/crypto is already a parody. But my point remains. We’re like a bunch of Facebook boomers commenting angrily about onion articles

      • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Was planning on making a post pleading for people to spend 60 seconds looking in the comments or doing any kind of verifying to make sure they aren't getting got. I had this wild assumption most of the posters here were a little more savvy and have been getting disabused of that notion.

        • blight [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          the main power the poster has is laziness, and the lurker is even more powerful in this respect

        • hostilearchitecture [any]
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          2 years ago

          I could believe it's real, I bought my first car entirely with the proceeds of hacked Runescape accounts.

          My budget was like 40,USD to get the license for the botting software I cracked and put the keyloggers in, so if Facebook can't sell virtual houses for 290K more than a decade later, they're washed up.

        • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]M
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          2 years ago

          To be honest I think most people aren't going to put in the emotional time and effort to manually reverse search the content of an image, deal with Twitter's bullshit, and then skim through replies that are mostly just awful takes or bad attempts at Joss Whedon tier comebacks, assuming there even are replies.

          • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            I just assume if someone willingly browses Twitter or :reddit-logo: they're already digital masochists. If it was an occasional thing it'd be fine, I've fallen for stuff plenty of times, just seemed like half the posts yesterday were fairly obvious jokes that were causing a lot of people to invest emotional time and labor getting worked up over.

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        2 years ago

        This feels like something a Zuckerberg online stooge would say absolutely unironically. The very existence of the Metaverse should be a bit. Not something one of the largest companies in the world sank billions of dollars into inventing.

      • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        I know he has an NFT pfp, Ulysses posted the same thing earlier yesterday and I went through some of the comments.

        https://twitter.com/davidslavick/status/1575253281391185922?s=20&t=q6UQuaUXz_xRDCxPNHtDvA

      • innocentlurker [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Is it still a bit if the person grifting it actually believes what they are saying and doing for the bit?

  • Grownbravy [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Some people say you cant buy an affordable place in Miami! You still cant!

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I've only ever seen it talked about by Bazinga NFT types and people mocking them.

    • mittens [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      No lol, Zuckerberg is doing the metaverse thing until Trump comes along and he's able to get the mergers and acquisitions going again.

    • ssjmarx [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Most people don't know what it is, and they'll probably remain in blissful ignorance until their boss forces them to put on a headset for work.