Facebook is continuing to dump money
into the metaverse at this point they've
spent about 10 billion dollars in
several months of time to build this
monstrosity we're launching Horizon
worlds in France and Spain today oh no
no no France this is so much worse than
all of the other invasions combined you
have to admit that this is the worst
conqueror to have alien overlord Mark
Zuckerberg now the zoc tries to act like
Facebook created the metaverse maybe he
does that because his company has lost
over half a trillion dollars in their
campaign to build it but in reality
there's been other kinds of metaverses
that have existed for decades now and
they're all way more successful because
the creators of these digital worlds
actually understand their audiences take
second life as an example this game is
almost 20 years old at this point that's
right it's older than some of you that
are watching and this is what characters
looked like two decades ago wow despite
using decades-old graphics and having
one one millionth the budget of meta
somehow these early Second Life
characters seem more human than the
metaverse meat bags do but let's be
honest having super realistic Graphics
doesn't really matter that much for a
video game to be fun in fact if you
insist on your virtual world or your
video game having crazy high-end
Graphics then you're gonna end up
shooting yourself in the foot because
the system requirements to get a smooth
frame rate in your virtual world are
going to go way up all of a sudden you
need a PC that costs more than a car
just to get a smooth 60fps with a
graphics card that draws more power than
all of your major household appliances
combined the moment you enable RTX the
lights in the room start to Flicker and
Hope hopefully your PC isn't plugged
into the same Outlet as Grandma's iron
lung otherwise she'll soon be entering
the great metaverse in the sky no I say
Graphics are over hyped what Gamers
really want is to experience something
they want to feel something when they
play your game or when they enter your
metaverse if that's what you want to
call it it's kind of hard to really
explain what the feeling is in technical
terms so I'll just call it Soul the
games that people have the most fun
playing are games with soul second life
is probably the game that I see most
people comparing to the metaverse
because of the whole virtual world
concept now as to how much Soul it has I
can't really speak to that personally
because I've never really been into the
game but it sort of does have a
cult-like following because the people
that are into second life tend to really
be into it so I guess it does have some
soul that but I can understand why I
mean just look at all the cool things
you can do notice how they're talking
about extraordinary worlds okay this
actually is somewhat extraordinary
compared to the metaverse especially
when you compare the budgets because
their trees actually have foliage on
them
I guess meta can afford that
couldn't afford bikes either I haven't
seen bikes in the metaverse they
couldn't afford a giant windmill Mansion
thing on a cliff they couldn't afford
these demons that look like they're
making a snuff propaganda film
they couldn't afford this
giant clock in the ocean or this
exploding room that goes out into a
wheat field I mean I guess this is kind
of something that you could actually see
in real life but this is what people
want in VR games right they want things
that are actually extraordinary and not
the lame crap that we've seen in the
metaverse so far like I seriously
struggle to wrap my head around how meta
managed to spend 10 billion dollars on
this project to end up with Nintendo Wii
graphics and still somehow be Lamer than
the me verse because metaverse doesn't
even have Marcus posting in the New
Super Luigi U community no the moment
that a Marcus shows up in the metaverse
you can guarantee that he's going to get
instaband this is what people enjoy
doing in video games and these Virtual
Worlds posting acting like a goober
and doing things that you wouldn't
normally do in life taking a selfie in
front of a crappy render of the Eiffel
Tower Sam sounds like something anyone
can do with a green screen in real life
even in the initial metaverse trailer
they tried to make it look like it was
this cool place like oh yeah look at us
guys we're floating around in this cool
glass outer space box and we're playing
poker we've got a big red robot as the
dealer we've got some hologram Cortana
ripoff as the small blind big blind is
just some random it guy that we forced
to be here against his will and across
the table from the dealer is your middle
school art teacher oh so exciting we're
so hecking fun and quirky guys but of
course this backfires like most
corporations attempts to be hip and
relatable let's see what the people's
response to this was oh no oh look at
that we had to censor it because people
were being mean to us we had to turn off
the dislike button and we had to turn
off the comments but of course Second
Life does not have this problem on their
Channel because people seem to actually
like the game you know you would think
that meta would spend part of that 10
billion dollars maybe on hiring people
to leave nice comments and to give them
thumbs up on their video but no this guy
had to spend almost five Max cash stacks
to get a selfie in his own version of
the me verse and you know what guys
they're going to keep on pouring money
into it because the executives at meta
actually believe that the web 3
metaverse will one day be an ideal
Utopia but now now it's chaos because
the zucks are in decentraland one of
their kids is in Roblox and the other
one is on fortnite right and in order to
achieve this ideal Utopia they all have
to unite under one banner and all of
these programs have to be able to
interoperate with one another and I just
don't see that happening the reason that
all of these big tech companies are able
to compete with one another is because
each one has their own place in the
market it's because they're not all
doing the same thing that's why I think
this idea that so many people have of
video game nfts where you're going to be
able to bring your stuff into every
single game you're going to be able to
cross your skins into every new video
game that comes out as a total pipe
dream you're not going to have fortnite
skins mixing with Roblox skins mixing
with metaverse skins mixing with cs go
Skins because each of those games each
of those metaverses whatever you want to
call them is making a boatload of money
off of having exclusive control over
their own economies and their own
in-game rares and even the way that Mark
Zuckerberg thinks that people should be
inter acting with the metaverse is
delusional because he thinks that we
should all be wearing these meta Quest
headsets but have you ever actually
tried one of these things on before
they're not very comfortable a lot of
people actually get motion sickness
after wearing these for a while because
seeing yourself move around in a virtual
world without actually moving around in
the real world can get really
disorienting but the worst part is the
system requirements you need to have
this VR headset and for some experiences
like the Oculus games you actually need
to have a decent gaming PC as well so
you're forced to use Hardware that most
people don't have already now compare
that to some of the highest revenue
games of all time all right most of
these are multi-platform games like Pub
G and fortnite they understand that the
best way to keep people in their games
in their metaverses if you want to call
it that is to make it excess accessible
on all platforms you can play on the
computer you can play on your phone you
can even play Pub G on your smart
thermostat but if you want to take a
selfie in front of a crappy version of
the Eiffel Tower go ahead and spend
hundreds of dollars on a quest and give
up with little dignity you have left who
would have thought we'd see Facebook go
out like this