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Just like mail in electronic form is called email, virtual worlds chould be called escapes.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Or- stay with me here- what bout 𝕏scape?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Posthumous Michael Jackson activated

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is that like landscape, but with porn instead of rocks?

[–] oSillyScope 3 points 1 year ago

No rocks but lots of bushes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It can be anything you want it to be and more. It's the everything, uh, federation?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought the point of meta was escaping from it?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That's what they'll write in the footer.

escape

from meta

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Or rather "enslave" XD

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Launch will be held outside in the rain, bring your piΓ±a coladas

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ironic since it's the one thing you can't escape

[–] JohnDClay 2 points 1 year ago

I was thinking 'to escape from what?', but then I realized I was silly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.