That quote from Tim Sweeney was presented in one of the opening chapters of a long but entertaining web video called 'The Future is a Dead Mall':

https://piped.video/watch?v=EiZhdpLXZ8Q

Produced by Folding Ideas, it's a deconstruction of the VR hype cycle though the lens of "Metaverse" rhetoric. As a specific example, a crypto pump'n'dumper's online utopia called Decentraland.

More of this kind of video on #PeerTube please!

#FoldingIdeas #TimSweeney #VR #Metaverse #crypto #BlockChain #Decentraland

@gsymon Yes, a very interesting podcast (I listened to it last week).
Here also a video from Dan Olson of #FoldingIdeas about the Flat Earth movement gives a lot insights on how conspiracies work and how leverage on people's insecurities

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTfhYyTuT44

@julieofthespirits Nah, just recently watched the Dan Olson #FoldingIdeas video essay on #Decentraland ("The Future Is A Dead Mall") and got blown away once again by how Libertarians/AnCaps see the world and envision utopia

https://youtu.be/EiZhdpLXZ8Q

There's a great new #foldingideas video on the #metaverse, why it's a bad idea, and #decentraland is a bad version of it.

https://youtu.be/EiZhdpLXZ8Q

I think it's entertaining and insightful, and it got me thinking about some of my own problems with the metaverse from a #gamedev perspective, which I'll post in replies below.

New #FoldingIdeas video. 🤩

"The Future is a Dead Mall - #Decentraland and the #Metaverse "
https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=EiZhdpLXZ8Q

New #FoldingIdeas video just came out on the train wreck that is Decentraland. Another certified banger.

https://youtu.be/EiZhdpLXZ8Q

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EiZhdpLXZ8Q
#decentraland #metaverse #foldingideas

I was trying to catch up with #FoldingIdeas brilliant Dan Olsen's latest thread about NFT scams on the bird app today and the site keeps crapping itself and refusing to load every five minutes. Bloody amazing.

In dem Kontext eine Videoempfehlung für den neusten Essay von #FoldingIdeas: Theorycrafting craftet auch Communities entlang der grundlegenden Game-Design-Prämissen eines Computerspiels.
➡️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKP1I7IocYU

I saw someone bust out the "Die Hard is a Christmas movie" chestnut on the timeline. *Taps video* #FoldingIdeas #Christmas #ChristmasMovies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU5ZlOAvzAo

So, am I crazy, or did #FoldingIdeas make a #Dorktown video about #WorldOfWarcraft? https://youtu.be/BKP1I7IocYU

Dan Olson (Folding Ideas) and Nathan Landel (Choice) have a video about WoW.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKP1I7IocYU

I already was never planning to never boot up WoW ever again, but this video 1) confirms this was the right choice 2) gives an interesting picture of what's happened to the game in the 12 years since I quit (near the end of WotLK).

I know I quibbled with the "less skilled" raiders in our guild running Ulduar/Icecrown Citadel. Even then the community was *really* toxic and when you spend your time interacting with toxic people, reading toxic forums, etc., it wears on you. Looking back, I'm glad we maintained a more inclusive attitude.

Ultimately I quit because I wanted to spend more time on other stuff and the evening raids were a pretty big time commitment. I had also finished grad school and so wanted to zone out more after coming home from my full-time job.

Though I spent ("wasted"?) a bunch of time in the game, I don't really have many negative memories. I was working out a lot of stuff in my personal life and WoW was there for me at a pretty low point where it seemed like I was never going to escape grad school.

My favorite memories were just screwing around on battlegrounds with my overpowered raid gear. Low-stakes stuff but dynamic enough to provide an interesting gameplay experience repeated over and over.

What the video makes clear is that the community has just continued to higher and higher levels of toxicity, where practices from the "world first" guilds trickle into the rest of the community and even casual raids are locked into a more serious attitude by the community.

If a raid experience for you is copying the builds someone else did, running the routes the mod tells you to do, and doing the right thing when your boss addon fires ... what even is your role in the experience?

Being on this treadmill for a game with ever-new content seemed kind of nuts to me and I'm sure this was part of my reason for quitting. I never want to be on a schedule for my "fun time" again ... I already have a job.

I actually like how I can never load up that patch from when I quit to play the game the same way. It was a very temporary experience. Happy memories but I'm glad to have them in the past. Nowadays I mostly just play single player games with a defined start and end point.

#WorldofWarcraft #FoldingIdeas #WoW

I'm connected to someone who hardcore raid(ed) in #FinalFantasyXIV and it's interesting seeing the difference between the two cultures and the tools they use. Mind you, #FFXIV is a much younger game and hasn't had time to fester in its age.

Those raider screens look like a grandma's ancient Internet Explorer install with every adware toolbar every program they ever installed tricked them into adding. #FoldingIdeas #Choice_AU #WoW #WorldOfWarcraft
https://youtu.be/BKP1I7IocYU

very interesting exploration of the way social systems can interface with transhumanism.

#FoldingIdeas
#BreadTube
#SavedStuff

https://youtu.be/BKP1I7IocYU

Every #wow player should watch this. But it is also interessting for everybody interessted in virtual and social environments. Many things discussed are also things that make me want to (not) play the game. Fascinating and insightful (but quite long) video from Folding Ideas.

https://youtu.be/BKP1I7IocYU

#mmorpg #gaming #wow #classicwow #foldingideas

"You enter a bright new digital world, exited to explore and hyped just to enjoy the vibe. Ten months later you're yelling at someone for standing in fire. What changed?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKP1I7IocYU

#FoldingIdeas #WoW #VideoGames

I wish all video essays had this level of quality and clarity.

My original plan was to go to sleep (it's 4 AM right now), but I was curious and started watching... And this was too brilliant to not finish it.

#DanOlson #FoldingIdeas #WorldOfWarcraft #WoW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKP1I7IocYU

New video from #FoldingIdeas and #Choice_AU about #WoW and I assume toxic playerbases. #VideoGames
https://youtu.be/BKP1I7IocYU

New video from #FoldingIdeas about #WoW and I assume toxic playerbases. #VideoGames
https://youtu.be/BKP1I7IocYU

One of my favorite movies of all time is this documentary by #DanOlson #FoldableHuman on his #FoldingIdeas #YouTube channel: #LinesGoesUp, the Problem with NFTs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g