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Metaverse could be renamed to escape
(lemmy.world)
Or- stay with me here- what bout 𝕏scape?
Posthumous Michael Jackson activated
Is that like landscape, but with porn instead of rocks?
No rocks but lots of bushes.
It can be anything you want it to be and more. It's the everything, uh, federation?
So you can escape the real world into Zuckerbergs weirdo world where he can profit from watching and manipulating you?
Strong pass. I'm sitting on my lawn having an icecream. Fuck you Zuckerberg.
I thought the point of meta was escaping from it?
That's what they'll write in the footer.
escape
from meta
Or rather "enslave" XD
Launch will be held outside in the rain, bring your piña coladas
Ironic since it's the one thing you can't escape
In a way this naming makes more sense, because an important aspect of the virtual worlds in science fiction that many people seem to idolize is that they were as appealing as they were due to a large part because the real world was such a dystopia that they were desperate for an escape from it, even if it meant living inside a world that existed only inside a computer.
I was thinking 'to escape from what?', but then I realized I was silly.
this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2023
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