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I actually dont know if this is a torment nexus situation i havent read the book or seen the movie lol. But people are making that joke!
“Explore my favorite Intellectual Property” is normal human phraseology uttered by us meatbeings in our meatspace.
I'm sure all six Meta employees who make up the entire userbase are excited
I never read the books but in the movie average people are depicted as living in literal heaps of storage containers and campers/caravans.
That's okay though, because they spend an exorbitant amount of money on PC peripherals to escape their existence by hanging out in virtual G*mer disney world and chilling with all of their cool videogame friends like master chief and link and pikachu.
This is them just doing the thing.
"what if we could escape to a world where I get paid in gold coins for knowing trivia about the Iron Giant"
A case study of why media literacy, and literature in general, isn't a waste of time in academia.
lmao metaverse
Its just dumb regardless of torment nexus status, people explore their favorite stories by consuming those stories in their intended form, and if they "explore their favorite IPs" then they are a hog, but hog status aside they usually also consume it in the form of actual media or physical spaces like a theme park or whatever.
Physicality matters! People don't generally actually like things that attempt to reproduce the experience and limitations of physical space without being actually physical, if it's not real then it should just be a website.
But on the topic of the torment nexus, if someone tells you ready player one was a cautionary tale or whatever they are dumb or lying, that shit worships IP masturbation so incredibly hard, the whole plot is about making the metaverse cool and awesome by taking it away from centralized corporations(in a dumb crypto guy way.)
lame, and will die quickly
What is it about the word "metaverse" that makes corpos think the product doesn't have to be a good fuckin game, worthwhile place to spend time, etc. Like making any piece of media worth spending time with is really fucking hard! But no, we're gonna do an Intellectual Property Museum again.
Its funny, because Ready Player One is a hagiography to the '00s-era MMOs (that largely sucked, were impossible to maintain, and have completely fallen out of fashion in the last ten years). And now we've got these companies coming in and saying "What if literally everything was an MMO? Like, every waking hour you were in this mediocre open game world powered by NEETs and digital gold farmers?"
Like making any piece of media worth spending time with is really fucking hard! But no, we're gonna do an Intellectual Property Museum again.
I think we did crest a point at which there was simply too much content, and now we're seeing a downsizing of sorts. But the old IP is too valuable to just throw away, and nobody knows how to do the old Disney "put this shit in the vault for five or ten years to let it recapitalize via nostalgia" trick anymore.
So the new solution is to create "All The Things World", maintain the superabundance of old properties, and just pack them into a Content As Service model where you can sample it a la carte in the most generic manner possible.
"What if literally everything was an MMO? Like, every waking hour you were in this mediocre open game world powered by NEETs and digital gold farmers?"
This is just capitalism again
I think corporations are desperately trying to capture a prior form of the internet where there was a lot of creativity bouncing around because people were making stuff for fun rather than money or notoriety. They're trying to reinvent second life, but make it private.
They all believe they can create a second layer to the internet, a sub internet. It reminds me of how public spaces don't exist anymore in real life, but every now and then a private company will set up a little park or shops somewhere. But it's not really real. You get kicked out after 10pm, or it's just for residents, or it'll have its own private security. They want a metaverse that's like a mandatory private enclosed internet.
Bazinga Nexus
God I should have finished my VRMMO novel to coincide with the release of this.
Politically agnostic great grandson of a communist explores VRMMO in a balkanized US 100 years in the future. Apocalypse has been averted by virtue of a heroic communist China, only 15 entities still call themselves states. One of the last hold outs of imperial capitalism, the Eastern US, seeks to take a share of the considerable economic fortune of the worldwide MMO, but they get cyberbillied to oblivion by the MC. When their attempts to call him out on social media fail, they propel him into stardom while the list of volunteers to continue to spawn camp them has no end in sight.
As a consumer I love exploring my favorite intellectual property.
I hate how everything is corpo speak
did they not learn anything from META's horseshit 2020-2022? good riddance go broke
""Definitive destination ... to explore favorite stories and IP." Minus Disney.
Can't wait to be Batman and punch Elmer Fudd. Oh wait, we already have this, it is called VR Chat and it is free. You can even play without a VR rig. More avatars than you can think of, or upload your own.
Good luck Warner Bros.!
Can't wait to be Batman and punch Elmer Fudd
Also Multiversus seems like a better way to accomplish that anyway lol.
Why don’t they simplify the process by feeding you liquified shit straight through a tube?
Tabletop, DnD, board games, and minecraft. Also Animal Crossing.
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