Meta is desperate to corner the market on something, anything.
Tax that dweed fuck so much he’s afraid to show his face in public.
Have you seen any of the games that are available on Android and iOS devices for kids to play? They have been priming children for gambling for many many years. The sounds and visuals they use in the way they introduce prizes and features as rewards for playing mini games and various “mystery box” items they can get. They are virtually identical to any and all gambling apps as well as casino slot machines.
Not that I ever wanted the perv glasses, but seeing this creepy ugly toad fucker wearing those makes me never want a frame remotely similar to them
Well, since he bought Instagram, he did turn it from a social hub to a slot machine whose payout is fragments of connection to people you care about, carefully metered to be just enough to keep you coming back without leaving ad money on the table.
Anyone working for meta is a piece of shit.
He’s eager for anything to help him gain more wealth, because he doesn’t have enough yet and enough is never enough.
That’s the thing I think I’ll die never understanding. I really don’t see the point of being on your death bed with plenty of leftovers.
Some people have a really backwards understanding on the core philosophy of “being successful in life”. Like, he seems to lack the ability to grasp the literal meaning of that concept and so will always be doomed to fail at achieving anything with it. It just makes sense to understand he has a psychological deficit. I’d be empathetic if he weren’t such a catastrophic burden to everyone.
Probably just a dick measuring contest among themselves. It’s pathetic.
Exactly. How embarrassing to have your 140 ft yacht passed by your rivals 165ft yacht that neither of you could drive, repair, navigate, service, fuel, register, or even crew yourself.
I feel like it is in human nature. Its in most of us. But basically all of us encounter this only with video games. Like incremental games were the numbers most go up and it is deeply satisfying even though a lot of them have a deeply disturbing meta-subplot going on while you progress through absurd numbers. Had the same feeling with the ye old Sim City titles. At the start you might roleplay as a “good” virtual mayor but at some point you probably reach the point where you are going to plane entire neighborhoods to build high-rises with fake water-access to min-max your economy on the limited space you are given. The games are already abstract to begin with but with time the abstraction layer gets to the point where you try to game the given rules of the designer.
I’m no expert. But i feel like Zuckerberg managed to reach that point in real life. Basically unchecked by the rules of society he does whatever the fuck he wants to play a perverted meta-progression of life.
Eager or desperate? They rebranded their entire company around a clusterfuck vr second life. Are they actually producing enough to stay relevant?
Facebook has been trending downhill for a long time. Threads I barely hear about. I don’t hear as much about Oculus as I used to.
Facebook and shit don’t matter much, but whatsapp is the primary form of communication for a good chunk of the world.
Fun fact: in some places, whatsapp and Facebook (and a few other sites) isn’t even considered to be “internet”. Like, if you don’t pay an ISP you still get access to those. Then paying for “internet” gives you access to everything else.
Advertising is still the vast majority of their revenue, and as far as I can tell with a few quick Google searches a significant portion of that still comes from Facebook.
I’d be keenly interested in seeing actual numbers if you can locate them, because they don’t appear easy to come by, but I seriously a doubt your assertion that their core product’s add revenue doesn’t matter to their bottom line.
All these stories about VR, then metverse/crypto, then ai, and now gambling. It seems like Zuckerberg is trying to recreate the early success he had in an emerging field but, at a fundamental level, does not understand that facebook was successful largely due to luck and timing.
Sometimes I think America cannot be a good place to live until the myth of the “tech genius” is thoroughly broken.
does not understand that facebook was successful largely due to luck and timing.
That’s every successful human. It’s a known bias. The classic study was letting people play a rigged game of Monopoly. One random player gets double money among other advantages and wins of course. Afterwards the winner will always tell that it’s because of their strategy or something like that, never they just got luckily.
Tech genius is only the most recent wave in this fad. We love our hero worship, which results in cycles of this type of thing.
The most recent example is probably the Robber Baron era of the guided age. Some notables of the time include Andrew Carnegie, John Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, Leland Stanford, etc. Edison and Bell didn’t reach that level of wealth, but they probably would have if they were alive today.
Don’t worry, a lot of that money is still around wrapped up in family trusts. Sure, they’ve given a decent chunk away to white wash their names but these weren’t good people.
Zuck fucks up every business model he tries to the point of ending up saying: “I’ll just do an online Casino”
Failing at being a tech billionaire is pretty embarrassing.
Worst businessman ever.
I mean, not the WORST…
Zuck had one good idea and it was literally stolen.
He had one good idea to connect college student with one another, and suddenly he thinks ALL of his ideas are good. Fuck this douchebag.
facebook was originally meant for rating college chicks. Everything else was an accident.
Of course he is; he saw how well it worked for Valve.
did valve do something recently that was bad?
Two decades actively inducing children to bake and seeking out new methods to trigger addictions to that gambling isn’t “recent,” I suppose.
ah…so nothing. cool.
…they’ve been actively peddling loot box based gambling to kids for 16 years.
They’re probably one of the first western gaming companies to introduce such a mechanic, even.
that’s a lie.
Chinese MMOs were the first to implement loot boxes.
it was widely popularized in the west by web based games on Facebook and then took off once console/pc games became internet connected.
why the hate for valve?
I meant by major AAA studios. I also prefaced with “in the west” AND “one of the first,” not the first. Not sure why you brought up China, despite the phrasing.
I didn’t lie, you’re just twisting my words and building a strawman argument to attack.
Why the white knighting for Valve? I actively play Valve games and even participate in buying the occasional lootboxes. That doesn’t mean they don’t profit massively off of children gambling. They’re a multibillion dollar corporation and do not need your defence.
Criticism and observations != hatred.
I’m just trying to understand the seven degrees you had to follow to get from a Facebook post to valve.
I didn’t realize the kids were baking, that’s nice
Alternate headline: Lord of a crumbling, gutted empire struggles to maintain relevancy
I hate this guy
Loot boxes and gatcha games:
Gabe Newell enters the chat.
tim sweeney tries to join the chat
Mike Waltz has added Jeffery Goldberg, say hello 👋
lolololol
He’s blown hundreds of billions on his VR and AI shit. He’s desperate.
Meta plans to sell unused AI compute capacity, creating a new revenue stream: Report
For those who may have forgotten, the little prince of Meta more or less started with Facemash, a site that displayed two photos side by side and asked users to vote for which person was “more attractive,” using a mechanism similar to “Hot or Not.”
All “funny” if it weren’t for:
- Privacy: using photographs of people without consent would often violate regulations and, in many countries, personal data protection laws.
- Consent: the people depicted had not chosen to participate.
- Objectification: asking people to rank solely based on their physical appearance can be seen as a form of objectification and can contribute to a disrespectful environment.
- Possible psychological effects: this type of public comparison can affect self-esteem and exclude or humiliate some people.
Not to mention what happened with Cambridge Analytica.
What do people expect from a mind like that?
