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Y'all know that Ready Player One was a DYS-topia right guys?
I didn't know that meme, and the original tweet is funny and really hits the nail on the head for a lot of things...
But from what I've seen of the movie, Ready Player One is more like "Please create the Oasis, so that asshole can have fun".
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Snowcrash was a dystopia too but that didn't stop tech bros from jerking it to the metaverse.
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I mean, this is definitely going to be a disaster but I think the title and article here are a little misleading. The author implies that Warner Brothers is spearheading (and paying for) this venture, but I just read through the buzzword salad of a press release and it barely mentions them. The project is driven by an independent company that licensed the ready player one IP from WB. The whole thing very carefully avoids any details about money changing hands, but my guess is either that WB is getting paid, or they've negotiated a cut of any theoretical future profits. Of course, the chances of there ever being profits are slim to none, but I'd say at worst they're net $0 on the deal, and at best they actually made some money by getting paid up front. They might suffer some reputation damage if it becomes a real catastrophe, but as the author of the article mentioned they are billions in debt, so its probably a risk they're happy to take.
Crazy that this involves the author... We really can't learn can we?
This is seeing the Titanic movie and saying, "yup, we're building the titanic and sailing into an iceberg! Who's coming with us?"
Now I'm actually wondering if the author thinks the Ready Player One world is worth living in.
He really does.
Ready Player One sounds, on the surface, like a searing critique of corporate capitalist bullshit, but in the end the actual upshot in the novel and movie is "We need kinder, gentler billionaires to be our feudal overlords".
Nevermind that Wade in RPO doesn't give a single shit to everyone else dying in stack collapses or any other form of cyberpunk misery which that world is full of. As long as his VR theme park doesn't have too many ads.
The book was crap so I wouldn't expect anything else. I honestly think it was one of the worst books I've read.
I haven't read the book, but the movie was crap too. It was just a slide show of '80s and '90s references that completely failed to capture what made those good, or even understand them.
The book ran full off 'memberberries as well.
It was a quick read and the entire book can be summed up as generational pandering.
"Fortnite, the real, actual closest thing to a metaverse we have"
Umm, what?
People don't associate Fortnite with that due to the main game being just pvp instanced deathmatches. But it is, by far, the most comprehensive example of what a corporate * metaverse would look like, specially now that they have their creative mode or whatever it's called.
*I know something like VR Chat or your favorite MMO with housing is closer to what people would want or imagine the metaverse to be, but that's not what the buzzword is for the suits.
But it is, by far, the most comprehensive example of what a corporate * metaverse would look like,
Roblox seems to fit that more than a pvp death match game with some events tacked on.
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Funny thing is, a real life Metaverse has existed for over 20 years. The term Metaverse comes from a book called Snow Crash. The game Second Life was designed explicitly to be the Metaverse envisioned in Snow Crash, complete with it's own economy tied to real life money (as in, if you made enough money in-game, you could cash it out for real-world USD). Companies used to build headquarters in the game world similar to how some do in Fortnite now, even going so far as to hold actual real world business meetings in-game as a form of teleconferencing. After a few high-profile events where live TV broadcasts of in-game events got swarmed by flying dicks, the media lost interest in the game, and companies abandoned the game and moved on to more business-oriented solutions.
Yeah I remember when Second life houses were sold for $1M usd. It was crazy and all years before other virtual marketplaces took off. It was ahead of its time and is now dead.
Not quite dead. On life support, sure, but the porn/furry communities keep it alive.
When I hear about concerts, and hotels reproducing their entire layout inside of Fortnite, I can actually respect the comparison. Of course, I've also seen many advertised attempts at "maid cafes" within the residential districts of FFXIV, so there's multiple people trying it - Fortnite is just the most well known.
fellers never heard of a mmorpg
If you take the Ready Player One's example of a metaverse, that is, one where people get to cosplay their favorite famous media properties, I don't think it's a wrong assessment.
Otherwise I would say VRChat is a much more honestly realized version of that.
I'm sorry, the what?
Yeah i know I'm getting old when i have no idea what the headline means and I've only read the book. 🧐
I thought we were done with web3 nft bs
They're desperate to make it happen because the potential benefits to them are so great that they become blinded by greed.
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WB execs are currently in the #1 position on the list of dumbest motherfuckers of 2024. And boy are they setting the bar REALLY high.
Not even going to joke about this, but I am really hoping nobody there gets the bright idea to make a Barbie blockchain or NFT or anything like that.
Speaking of "Ready Player One", the author Ernest Cline also wrote literally the absolute worst, grossest, most misogynistic poem I've ever had the displeasure of reading in my life. Now you'll have to read it too to make sure the "Reqdyverse" never succeed and thus, zero possibility of Barbie blockchain.
That was so fucking weird and gross. Thank you for sharing.
lol wtf
Dunno when he made that (1990s? Early 2000s?), but nowadays even those "nerdy, smart" women are easy to find in porn. Hentai also has that in droves.
Late 90's but I couldn't find an exact date (I didn't look very hard).
bruh just search for "homemade" on PornHub
Just when I thought the WB's DC cinematic Universe was such a huge Trainwreck, it looks like they plan to top it with this.
Oh and remember Space Jam?
DCEU was and is a trainwreck but the trailer for their game DC online game was banging: https://youtu.be/0WYwXer0sgU?si=XN_Xp6wyS10X2SID
I can’t wait for this
To utterly fail
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