This dystopia just keeps getting more and more boring
This dystopia just keeps getting more and more boring
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It's the invisible virtual hand of the free meta market.
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Initially I had high hopes for VR.
(before I realized how capitalists were going to take over and completely ruin it like they do with every other single fucking thing).
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Lawnmower Man 2 might have been a shit movie but the whole concept of dystopian capitalist VR cyberspace was actually not far off, conceptually
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It's because it's the time period when the capitalists found the sweet spot of giving people a good enough life to not revolt, but not good enough to let them get ahead.
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That's not what they said. They made the Matrix the 1990's, the pinnacle of human civilization.
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In hindsight, it's surprising that Smith didn't namedrop "the end of history."
Morpheus refers to the scorched Earth using a line from Baudrillard. And IIRC originally made much clearer reference to simulacra, in a way that would have pissed off a generation of philosophy professors by being incorrect. I suppose they'd eventually recover by saying "It's more like Inception," because nobody saw Existenz.
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Nice Video about the Metaverse: (From Golding Ideas)
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Nice meta-and you got that. It would be a shame is someone was to own it and charge rent.
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🎶 "I-i-i just bought more land in the metaverse~" 🎶
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"Virtual real estate" is a concept disproved by saying it out loud.
It's just fancy word for buying ad space on a website.
It gets dumber and weirder than that.
Source: I have a 2004 Second Life account.
There’s no place like virtual real estate.
Kids - if you really wanna piss off your parents, buy real estate in an imaginary place.
I mean, "virtual reality" is a thing.
So is fiction.