To date Zuckerberg has spent roughly $42 billion to create this. - ThreadSky

existentialcomics.com • 6 days ago

To date Zuckerberg has spent roughly $42 billion to create this.

This is Meta’s brand new ad for Horizon Worlds. Not sure how I’m supposed to feel about it.

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Even Milton Friedman might start to question his belief in the collective wisdom and efficiency of the market if he saw this and the cost.

teal.gendercriminals.gay•6 days ago

the most confusing part is that with that kind of money I'd expect them to be shitting out infinite really good little party games and like; okay, you really wanna force the social aspect - just rip off webfishing, rip off idler games, rip off VR Chat with million free high quality dragon dicks

teal.gendercriminals.gay•6 days ago

there is social games that have succeeded massively, there's VR games that have could be called successes as well, and yet they keep trying to just keep drilling down on "Habbo Hotel in VR will become successful //any second now//"

kingnobody.bsky.social•6 days ago

This looks like a cheap commercial for a bad mobile game.

precogdissonant.bsky.social•6 days ago

Won’t Trump be mad that there’s a black dude and also a guy who’s wearing a rainbow tie dye? Plus there’s even a girl. What if Stephen Miller finds out.

paradox9.bsky.social•5 days ago

Second life was open source, made super cheap, free to play, looked better than this, EVEN BACK IN 2005

hobbit-holiday.bsky.social•5 days ago

All that for VR at roughly the level of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse

mikeradzwilla.bsky.social•5 days ago

Imagine spending $42 billion to invent having friends

italorossi.bsky.social•6 days ago

bold of you to assume the money was spent on this and not sent offshore.

mir-za.bsky.social•5 days ago

SIMS on Playstation 1.

generalstrikefov.bsky.social•6 days ago

It's like a really shit version of Second Life.

k0r0n1s.bsky.social•6 days ago

This is showing that the marketplace of ideas is clearly working as intended.
Murray Bookchin would be in awe of such a contribution to the world community.

laggyluk.bsky.social•6 days ago

You mean you don't like it? Maybe there's too much masculine energy in it for you to handle because it's clearly Fight Club inspired!

existentialcomics.com•6 days ago

The most expensive video game ever created, for comparison, is Genshin Impact for about $900 million all told.

jamescalbraith.co.uk•6 days ago

*$100 million

ozthemid.bsky.social•6 days ago

Tbf that's not much how much it cost to make the game. If you really wanna talk about expensive games, Concord allegedly costing $400 million is way more expensive

existentialcomics.com•6 days ago

For that budget, you could make about 100 games as expansive as World of Warcraft.

Like...what are the developers doing?? There aren't even any dragons in it as far as I can make out.

masterblastoise.toiletjudge.com•6 days ago

Money laundering, I'm calling it

doomlobbyn.se•6 days ago

Do you think it's easy to mismatch the size of the avatars to the size of the environment in that way? It requires a lot of tweaking to end up in the exact right spot of the uncanny valley.

unoservix.bsky.social•6 days ago

i'm okay with Zuckerberg lighting all his money on fire like the Joker in The Dark Knight, as long as people stop fucking giving him more

unoservix.bsky.social•6 days ago

like idk how tech got the version of capitalism where you don't actually make money but people just keep giving you more, but if we have to have capitalism, can we go back to the part where if you don't make money then you suck at capitalism and people don't give you more?

redmaple.bsky.social•6 days ago

I've always assumed it's money laundering

guycole.bsky.social•6 days ago

You should be kicking the project managers.

rebeccab.bsky.social•5 days ago

There for sure aren't people in it.

nauticaltea.bsky.social•5 days ago

Looks a lot like this 90s gem

laggyluk.bsky.social•6 days ago

Maybe it's some kind of tax avoidance scam

lakers-lover.bsky.social•6 days ago

Surely a few

bruce-stephens.bsky.social•6 days ago

All of the characters have just two arms, two legs, and one head. How boring is that?

rail-enjoyer.bsky.social•6 days ago

What $900 million gets you vs. what $42,000 million gets you

tasteaccountant.bsky.social•6 days ago

What a dumbass.

marionnatik.bsky.social•6 days ago

I could see them hiring external consultancy firms at several M/day to tell them their ideas are brilliant and totally in line with what real humans do/want.
I don't see how else you spend that much money without straight up fraud.

jasonbcs.bsky.social•6 days ago

More of a waste of money than $44B for Twitter?

cartwheelhegelian.bsky.social•6 days ago

And this is why we need progressive taxation

spookykong.bsky.social•6 days ago

didn't they spend most of that developing physical vr goggles

radianthostility.bsky.social•6 days ago

One hopes, given that a band of furries built VRChat in a garage for no budget on nights and weekends.

leadbellly.bsky.social•6 days ago

lol

pfindsen.bsky.social•6 days ago

It’s Second Life all over again

clairem.secondlife.bio•6 days ago

Except that Second Life is actually being used.
And profitable.

thatseanguy.bsky.social•6 days ago

That guy lives in the uncanny valley.

Jesus fuck.

shanecsmith.bsky.social•6 days ago

I can’t be the only person picturing facebooks user base of primarily over 65 year olds sitting around old folks homes in googles looking at each other as… Pippi Longstocking and ambiguous sexuality bodybuilder or whomever that was and yelling google searches at each other, right?

shanecsmith.bsky.social•6 days ago

About 3 times an hour a robot rolls through “to prevent Zuckerberg from owning all your photos paste this robot into your world before midnight!”

pollojack.bsky.social•5 days ago

They use zuck as the model for these characters?

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