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Jennifer X. Pumpkins 🎃 @jenyetagain.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

It's pretty incredible to think they somehow spent fifty BILLION dollars on this as of a year or two ago and not only can I not fathom where that money went, but we barely even talk about it because it's overshadowed by even stupider wastes entirely by guys named Sam.

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Dr. Karen Carr @quatrus.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

I mean, the money went to pay the salaries of a lot of coders, who then spent that money to pay daycare workers, restaurant servers, musicians, street repair (through taxes) and so on. It didn't vanish into thin air, though it would have been possible to pay them to do something useful instead.

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Blue Skies at Night @blueskiesatnight.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

It doesn’t help that his avatar seemed to intentionally make him look more like an automaton

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Fungal Coffee @fungalcoffee.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

I'm convinced every time i see something like this happen it's because someone keeps writing checks for themselves for consulting work.

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Steve in BA 🧑‍🍳🌊🌊🌊🍸 @steveinba.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

It's Wall Street Hedge funds now, 🙀 the line has to go up Go fast, break things, same bullshit same 3 more yachts I'm writing a cookbook for eating the top 1 per cent Barbecue in the gated community Summer in the Hamptons Al Fresco

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Bill @billablog.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

It's amazing the amount of money and reputational damage Mark Zuckerberg has saved simply by holding Elon Musk's beer.

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Valheru @valheru.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

Like a shit version of Second Life

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Kevin Korb @kbkorb.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

I bet early adopters are really happy with their investments.

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ꌃꂦꋪꈤ ꍏꁅꍏꀤꈤ ꒒ꀎꀸꀸꀤ꓄ꍟ™ @wildmonkeysects.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

Never meta tech bro who did not huff his own stash.

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C.V. Danes @cv-danes.com · 15/06/2024

They're spending a lot more on the A.I. foolishness.

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Magic Bird Peddler @dfeldman.org · 15/06/2024

I tried to understand bsky.app/profile/dfel...

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During the pandemic, I was really bored and decided to figure out what Zuckerberg's "metaverse" thing was. I spent $250 real dollars on a Quest 2 and loaded up Horizon Worlds, Meta's version of the metaverse (which is far from the only one out there).

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Sam Lowe @greenlantern44.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

The hell did I do

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Quilty Quilterton @douchebaggins.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

I have an important question: why does the top snap have five sides but the other two snaps have six?!

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BoRIS the WIZARD🧙‍♂️ @boristhewizard.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

Remember when they got Jordan Peele to do a advertisement. I still think he was regretting once he put the VR headset on.

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Heather Winters @heatherwinters.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

Why does that look like Mark Zuckerberg?

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Phil @keeptheskyblue.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

Imagine being one of the biggest tech bros in the world, spending $50bn and posting a screenshot so bad that you take it down from the embarrassing reception. Strange times we live in.

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Random Jeweler @randomjeweler.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

The sad thing is that we have no money for anything real or useful, but all the money for nightmare pictures and whatever that was

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Eric Horwitz @ericsandwich.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

Exactly in a normal universe this would be the financial scandal of the decade, but irl this charlatanism is commonplace

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David Kuhne @davidkuhne.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

Could've been worse. Could've been the Xverse with weird little avatars of Ian Miles Cheong and the Krassy bros running around

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Tinselfire @tinselfire.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

Tax evasion.

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Lookin' at dis boulshet @twomuchfun.club · 16/06/2024

For $90/hr I could've told him this shit was stupid and binned this idea $300'ish dollars later. This is why I'm not rich, I wouldn't be the person patting him on the back and laughing while he pays me part of $50,000,000,000 to develop pure shit.

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Vibeulator @vibeulator.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

Hey, they got a parent company name out of the whole deal…

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Arkorat (commisions open) @arkorat.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

Was there some crazy corruption shit going on? Like, only a few million resulted in titanic indie titles.

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JoYo @thejoyo.com · 15/06/2024

that was just something a graphic artist made for the ad. it was never a product.

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Soatok, the Furbidden One @soatok.bsky.social · 16/06/2024

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Icewind Dale Gribble @phyrexianmetamour.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

dude was fleeced

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foxpotato 🦊🥔 @foxpotato.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

Developing supply chains for the hardware, the OS and lots of R&D. Horizons is something that they shitted out in a weekend, can't believe they didn't get an actual game studio to work on it instead of trying to start from 0

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Dave Conrad @dconrad.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

I want to see a parody with that head on a spider's body and above the eight-legged Zuckerfreak hurtling towards you, the caption LEGS ARE COMING

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Croc King Karc - COMMS OPEN (0/3) @paperworldmanshoji.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

Imma be real i dead ass entirely forgot that this existed

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I’m Emerick hi @emericktackett.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

I do like to remember that of all the billionaires projects, a VR game version of Roblox is by far the least evil

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Big Edith @bigedith.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

All that money wasted on awful looking Miis.

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Raoul Guapo ®️ @raoulguapo.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

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gsdin.bsky.social @gsdin.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

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Paige 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 @ipaige.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

I suspect he's spent it on his Bond villain hideout in Hawaii.

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Xipha @xipha.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

It looks like a mildly annoying children's video explaining famous buildings to me.

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Halcyon Ember @halcyonember.bsky.social · 16/06/2024

"I want to make Second Life but worse"

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DohMatt @dohmatt.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

It might have been cool 30 years ago. But not now.

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CC Lemon Studio @alice-chachacha.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

Cartoon zuck will be in charge of Facebook for all eternity, or until all the potable water has been used up by the computers.

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The Big Direwolf Dre @whitewolf0606.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

god this looks worse then the sims game on the Nintendo DS

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MikeyT00 @devilmikey.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

I'd really like to see the book keeping on this one. How? 50 billion how? Where did the money go? VR chat was made by two people in 2014 before there were even commercially available VR headsets and it was better than this. So much money literally just set on fire for nothing.

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mmmega idiot @mmmegaidiot.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

And that's what they want built into the Quest's OS?

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I and My Cloud @bottleimp.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

The idea that they dropped 50 billion on it and there are indie games that look orders of magnitude better… like, maybe if the visuals weren’t ass it would have sparked some interest? Probably still would fail, but spending 50 billion to look (being very charitable) 15 years out of date on graphics?

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atreides nuts @afivegantenna.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

nobody even knows the name of the product which was “Horizon Worlds”

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Anya 🌹"Chinny" | CZGoldEdition 🔜 Pintober @czgoldedition.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

I was always puzzled why anyone would use this when Second Life has existed for a couple of decades and contains way more visual intrigue.

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Bruce Cullen 🇨🇦🫡 @bacullenyyc.bsky.social · 16/06/2024

Didn’t second life and Minecraft already do this?

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Ali Fleih @alifleih.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

Meta is making progress with Instant Codec Avatars, although it would still be weird to have an ultrarealistic face in a cartoon world.

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Tim Four Seasons Total Landscaping @scottsd.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

And despite setting a small country's GDP on fire, stock still goes up because AI something something.

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Dante The K9 @dantethek9.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

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MDK @mattdkerr.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

They spent $2.5 bil on an office in downtown Austin and never moved into it. Maybe this was part of that?

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

And that insane investment helped convince idiots to spend billions on Metaverse real estate… bsky.app/profile/rude...

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Remember when we went through a profound global trauma and went absolutely shit crazy for a few years? And now we pretend it didn’t happen?

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Stephen O'Hara @stephenohara.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

Was M.Z. an escapee from "There dot com"? Are we all in the Phantom Zone

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Nihl L'Amas @nih-llamas.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

Extra hilarious how they changed the company name to that.

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Char Lots of Blood @knaveryesque.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

The MetaVerse per snow crash was designed as a sword fighting platform! Can't do footwork without legs/feet.

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Arlan Skellington (famous) @thehell.zone · 15/06/2024

we never even got legs

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PenguinGuy @penguinguy.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

That's like 5000 people making 5 million dollars a year for 2 years, you really should be able to remake vr-chat from scratch with those resources, and they couldn't even manage that? Like really where did that money go?!?!

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Death_by_Democracy 🇵🇸 🇾🇪 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🍉 @deathbydemocracy.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

I'd entirely forgotten this shit exists. And I still don't know why it exists.

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CandiCane @candicane.bsky.social · 16/06/2024

That was a money laundering scheme and noone can tell me different.

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Tsundoku Puzzle @tsundokupuzzle.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

The metaverse fiasco was caused by nobody having a clear idea of exactly what they wanted to do. "This will do everything" is not well-defined project goal.

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Intellectual Explorer @driftingthrough.bsky.social · 16/06/2024

#BreadAndCircuses

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

legs are coming soon! are you excited?

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Miranda Miller’s Skeleton @randymiller.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

I’m sure the money just went to other failing internal orgs. Metaverse was always just a key phrase for investor cash.

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Luigi "The Adjuster" Mangione @kwh561.cryptoanarchy.network · 15/06/2024

10%: you can use crypto in the metaverse to pay to buy NFTs for your AI girlfriend 90%: please, healthcare… student loan… housing

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Colix Naia 🔞 @colixkatmage.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

And now they can even have LEGS! Technology is incredible, isn't it?

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Elizabeth Gonzalez James @egjames.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

Making things no one asked for to solve problems that don't exist resulting in bullshit money pits that will put us all out of work 🫡

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Sam, back on my bullshit @samwise42.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

I mean, I know I spend a lot of money when I hit the bar, I’m sorry

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Carl J @plus-haut.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

Those AWS fees soon add up...

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David @scotinus.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

Isn't that insane? Then he got bored with that and went chasing the AI train, which is hyped even more than VR was. I fully expect a Meta move into quantum computing next.

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Bailey Yeager @admiralyeager.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

It's actually alarming. They either genuinely thought we'd love it, meaning they're both stupid and extremely disconnected from the general population. Or it was just a scam meant to pipe money somewhere else

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Pinster W. Glasses @pinsterwglasses.com · 15/06/2024

Imagine how many people that 50 billion could have fed, clothed, sheltered, and uplifted.

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The Wolf Spirit ΘΔ @thewolfspirit.bsky.social · 16/06/2024

I hope the internet never lets this picture die.

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Ariclach @ariclach.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

Sounds like a money laundering op.

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ŠequencedLife @sequencedlife.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

Seems like it was money laundering

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Jennifreddy Glove Hewitt @senatorivy.com · 15/06/2024

Excited for World Baby 2

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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

LEGS ARE COMING SOON

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Topher Brennan (he/they) @topherbrennan.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

I am legitimately confused as to how they spent that much money. Not "how could they be so stupid" but literally what did they spend their money on. Did they secretly secretly make hundreds of AAA games nobody's heard about because they all sucked? Would love to read an inside account.

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Opus DEI @jennyondioline.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

I wonder how much of the money went to adding legs.

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Khaleer 🔞 @khaleernsfw.bsky.social · 16/06/2024

Half of it's budget went od developing his legs.

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 15/06/2024

way back we had a restaurant in town that made zero sense- rigid dress code in a college town, huge two story space that took up half a block, always empty, was open for years, everyone called it 'the mob front' 'the metaverse' has gotta be something like that, the money went *some*where

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Is This Hell? 🏳️‍🌈 @wattle.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

Where did the money REALLY go

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QuietSoloist @bottlecapp.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

It's even more incredible that somehow this was even put out the doors when SecondLife was already doing everything Metaverse did, but better, years before it ever hit the drawing board.

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