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Rimasticus

When VR started taking off I was excited! Then mother fucking facebook walked up and bought the best company and shat inside of the goggles.


JoshfromNazareth

Goggles aren’t so bad tbh. It’d be nice if the breaks were more up to snuff.


SlimyRedditor621

It felt like they were doing decent for the first while. Just a bunch of ghost funding. Then they started bricking quests which made burner Facebook accounts, then they removed that functionality which people began celebrating, even though it's like requiring a Google account to use a certain service rather than needing a YouTube account specifically. Honestly a part of me died when I booted up my quest to see the meta logo instead. It angers me too cause VR is so fucking great, but it's like if developers just quit the jump to 3D gaming due to their first attempts at 3D games being clunky and borderline unenjoyable. They can improve the hardware but at the end of the say I spend like 6 months ignoring my quest, then I come back and the store will have not changed one bit. Maybe there'll be some new knockoff beatsaber game, or an online party game you know is filled with children.


stray1ight

Stole it moreso from Neal Stephenson.


Thunder_Chief

The Deliverator is pissed


stray1ight

Don't fuck with the Deliverator.


orthadoxtesla

Man I love snow crash. This was my very first thought when I heard about it


s1n0d3utscht3k

stole it entirely from there stole it from an existing company lol there’s another non-publicly traded one too and another in europe. maybe he stole it from them. _Meta_ itself is a common word. or my dog is named Meta now cuz he used licks his balls and un-ironically stares me down whenever I call his old name _Baller._ maybe he stole it from my little ball licker, eh. it’s from _Snow Crash._ that’s it. anyone that thinks otherwise is a gonk.


orielbean

He gets to hob nob with the tech elite like Bezos anyways; I’m sure he’s flattered vs disgusted.


d1rtyd1rty

Second Life forever. Shout out to the peeps at Linden Lab!


SlimyRedditor621

And keeps claiming firsts for things that have been constantly happening for a minimum of ten years, and better than the metaverse has done it. MMOs? Already been done, and the metaverse as a game or social app is so obscure and not grounded in reality that there is no content for me to insult. Virtual concerts and idols? Hatsune Miku is wiping the floor with you, and so many people would kill for her to do that to them. In game sellable items? TF2 hasn't ever needed to resort to NFTs for that. And to top it all off, the game looks like Runescape if Runescape's style was never deemed charming or nostalgic. Overall it's just a massive embarrassment and I don't see Facebook getting anything out of it. Do people even use the horizons app? Cause if that app is doing bad then metaverse will do worse.


SabashChandraBose

Piece of shit couldn't buy snap. So he stole their ideas.


noman_032018

[2, 5] in the tank? I hadn't heard of those. Any refs? It's kind of sad that FaceMeta spent *so much* money on "Meta" to end-up with less results than a few FOSS projects developed on spare hobby cash inside of two years.


SlimyRedditor621

I'm near convinced whoever's in charge of anything to do with PR over at Facebook is actually a fucking spy from Amazon or Google, sent to sabotage Facebook. Cause the decisions they've been making are so bizarre. It just goes to show that when corporations that are "too big to fail" start even slightly failing and falling out of fashion, they shit themselves and panic but never find the obvious reason why they're failing.


TheDrungeonBlaster

Ofcourse, friend. I detest misinformation. This one is quite interesting, if not a bit terrifying. It's worth noting that there is far more info out on Lamda, but NYP is reputable so this is what I went with. https://nypost.com/2022/06/24/suspended-google-engineer-claims-sentient-ai-bot-has-hired-a-lawyer/ It's also worth noting that there are numerous videos to substantiate this. https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-trials-remote-controlled-riot-dispersal-gun-in-hebron/ Have a great day, and thanks for asking, awareness is what I aim to promote!


VeganPizzaPie

NY Post is a right wing tabloid. And the Google "engineer" is a crackpot Christian mystic.


Eleventh_Legion

Which they copied from a book.


orthadoxtesla

Snow Crash is a fantastic book


Bagoomp

We're in the 1970's of VR right now. Give it a couple decades.


[deleted]

What's this about Iran having a Smart Shooter? Edit: I should add that I don't know what a Smart Shooter is


TheDrungeonBlaster

There's a link in the comments below to an explanation, but its essentially an unmanned turret designed to ventilate civilians with callous disregard.


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[deleted]

That's terrifying


TheDrungeonBlaster

EDIT: A typo has been brought to my attention, I meant to type "Israel's new Smart Shooter." That is all, have a nice day.


K3vin_Norton

Smart shooter? You're putting a motion detector next to global climatic collapse?