Zuck was the only person who believed in the product. Literally everybody else was just cashing a paycheck, that's the only explanation for how low quality everything was and the fact that even meta staff didn't end up using the platform at all.
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Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day.
https://xcancel.com/Merman_Melville/status/1088527693757349888?lang=en
- Merman Melville is an S-tier username
- If I were to somehow become a billionaire and I for one reason or another couldn't use it to improve people's lives, I'd just pay a bunch of indie game studios to make all the dumb game ideas I don't have the time or energy to create myself. Oh, and get myself a hot tub.
Honestly it's a communist power move asking people what they would do with a billion dollars and then telling them how much they would have left after they list changing their lives, the lives of everyone they know, their entire community
imagine having a billion dollars and you choose to spend your life in board rooms and meetings instead of, like, starting a hippie commune on a tropical island
Oh, and get myself a hot tub.
Fancy Pants.
think bigger. 2 hot tubs
That was Notch's plan, but he ended up becoming a Nazi so good luck
Just don't do a High-Rez / Prophesy Games. And 
No ESpurtz.
RIP Tribes. You were done dirty.
All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds
One day after much saving i'll be able to afford a herman miller
A friend of mine got a $700 Herman Miller office chair in perfect shape that was in a university's dumpster, the rich fuckers throw so much away if you know where to look.
I'm just cackling that Second Life outlived the Metaverse on both ends.
The Metaverse was in a horrible state they were too embarrassed at the Wii no legs graphics in an age of VRChat. So they cgi Zuck in an imagined metaverse.
They 
$88 Billion with shit all to show for their work to investors.
Don't forget the Dutch Disease layoffs!
He really thought if he did a pivot to try to be like Joe Rogan people would like him, but for sure they'd like him EVEN MORE because instead of saying 'wow that's crazy' to a "world changing" concept like going to office meetings in VR he got to say: 'do it.' Got an MMA trainer, says a few sexist and racist things, tells everyone the metaverse is coming whether they like it or not, and thinks he can be a revered household name
least charismatic man alive
This is 
erasure
Perhaps it was intended in terms of absolute value. Musk has greater negative charisma than zuck
is at least kinda fun to laugh at.
He’s a part of their brand they should have probably gotten rid of years ago but they can’t now
Has nothing to do with zuck. Sorry not sorry.
Nobody wants a heavy device on their head while looking like the biggest nerd on the planet.
Oh yeah, it was always going to fail, but making Zuck the face of it feels like what they'd do if they were scared it had the slightest chance of succeeding and wanted to be absolutely sure it didn't.
Zuck is a cunt don't get me wrong. But you give him the ability to build the full meta experience in a light weight form factor, and he'd be the richest man on the planet.
Say what you want about biting off more than what is possible, but meta verse IS visionary in many ways.
No it isn't. We already have online meetings. They're on zoom, FaceTime, slack, etc. Making everyone design a mii and have them stand around in a bad video game while you all conduct the meeting using the clunkier versions of zoom, slack, and FaceTime integrated into the bad video game is strictly worse than using the dedicated tools that exist already. The same thing applies to shopping, socializing, and everything else that would supposedly be made easier on the metaverse.
The internet was a genuinely revolutionary technology that made many new forms of commerce possible. The people who scarfed up all that market share now need to do it again to stay on top, and convinced themselves, for awhile, that tacking on 3rd life to what they did 20 years ago would let them sell it a second time. What they don't understand is that the removal of digital commerce from 'real life' is a feature not a limitation. The ability to shop without pantomiming social interaction was aan enormous convenience. By gating that behind a clunky MMO they created the worst of both worlds; Replace the hassle of driving with setting up a vr rig and fighting with Facebook to make your account work, without even the possibility of touching grass. The idea never had legs to begin with.
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Ego is a hell of a thing
Probably one guy in marketing was about to get canned and went for sycophancy to take the heat off, and then no one was willing to be the guy asking hey are we sure about this
It was all a dastardly scheme by Sweet Baby's Ray's