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If AAA is No Longer Profitable... Make Smaller Games | A16Z Games (10:11) (www.youtube.com)

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[–] mindbleach 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm describing how demonstrably-fucked-up people like Mark Zuckerberg have stomped all meaning out of an interesting concept, to the point the word means whateverthefuck the speaker wants. I've seen conversations - interviews - published articles, where people slap the label on some lofty goal, as if that's gotta be what everyone else means, when they promise they're gonna do one. In their mouths it somehow means everything from full-dive brain-jack Ghost In The Shell shit to... Second Life.

And the brain-jack shit is somehow closer to what the word's supposed to mean.

Who said anything about competing walled gardens?

You.

It's why you're worried about a monopoly.

The fact you think you've also got some metaverse in a jar, free-range and vegan, doesn't change that.

[–] Immersive_Matthew 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I am just one indie developer making a Metaverse app. Hardly a walled garden outside of charging a fee to access as it does not build itself. I rather live in world with a 1,000 linked Metaverses all made by small teams of passionate people than one mega Metaverse that a corporation owns and we all have to bow too. Thankfully the latter seems to be what is unfolding. I urge you to support the indies if you value the future.

[–] mindbleach 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I urge you to look up what "latter" means.

And I guess I can't care that you're still talking about "many tiny internets" or I'll just go crazy.

[–] Immersive_Matthew 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Latter??? It is absolutely the correct word. Someone is digging hard here. Weird and Blocked.

[–] mindbleach 1 points 8 months ago

Okay, for any observers less stubbornly wrong: "latter" means the last thing mentioned. This guy who cannot take the slightest criticism meant "former."

Or else is equally wrong about "unfolding." I'd ask, but fuck me, apparently.