:yea:
VRChat but with more G R A P H I C D E S I G N paid for by a bunch of rich investors and their tech bro footsoldiers.
This is a sign of an issue I was thinking about the other day. I know billionaires are a problem but one aspect of the extreme wealth inequality that doesn't get mentioned often is people who just have millions in disposable income. Like, the kind of people who can drop $1million on a copy of Super Mario 64 just because they want one and have the money. I wonder what effect that's having on inflation, because even though prices have been rising, to some trust fund kid who lives off investments and rental properties it's probably barely noticeable.
what the fuck is going on on the internet and how do i get my hands on some of that sweet sweet cash money?
Be born into the inbred tech bro scene. Nobodies don't get to 'make it'.
my friend's roommate makes rent selling feet pics online.
people make money selling NFTs.
there's like a million ways to make money on the internet it seems, yet here I am digging fucking ditches and fantasizing about killing the fucking rich pigs every day in the heat. i need to get out.
There are lightyears between big crypto bux and making rent
It's always bothered me that games don't make more use of non-euclidian spaces. You could fold up an arbitrary amount of space inside any given space, fuck with scale, and do all kinds of wild Alice in Wonderland bullshit, but no one does.
This stuff is so dumb. They realize nobody is going to care about this stuff unless they're forced to right? Rich people better get to figuring out ways to force people into their new digital prisons quick or their investments will be worth nothing. I would link to their website where their "join" button takes you a page that tells you to log in using your "wallet" (no thanks), but the page lags like hell so I can only assume they're using it to mine cryptocurrency or something.
Idk how closely Meta will succeed in achieving its vision, but if we’re going to get to a space of VR assets and property that people invest significant time/energy/psyche in, I think it’ll be a system of incentives and monopoly over time that will force us there, with things like Meta and Decentraland being overtures of Capital in this direction. On the one hand this all feels like it’s either a temporary grift or a framework to project confidence and legitimacy to investors, but on the other hand it feels like the natural dialectical process of the falling rate of profit + no more physical frontier + eternal market development as a core aspect of capitalism. I think we should be taking this stuff more seriously as leftists honestly. Capitalists will most certainly create a new dimensional prison beyond our material cybernetic one, out of both greed and necessity
the finacialization of the virtual world is getting more and more ridiculous. When the Neo-Luddism movement gains momentum, imma joinin'.
This Decentraland thing isn't even VR. It's just some crappy browser game that nobody actually uses for anything but speculation. It's basically Habbo Hotel for crypto-nerds and is pretty blatantly a scam.
