#Decentraland

[niperiodic]

Folding Ideas: My Personal Favorites

Sometime last year I saw The Future is a Dead Mall for the first time, and as my first video from Dan Olson I can't say I was particularly hooked. Part of that was because the next few videos recommended to me were Line Goes Up, and Jamie Oliver's War on Chicken Nuggets which are really long and I don't really care about respectively. However, having gotten really into his videos recently I kind of just wanted to post something about it, so here's my list of my favorite 8 videos of his.

I Don't Know James Rolfe

It's just, so damn good. The framing of a retrospective on Dan life and career as a pseudo-takedown video on someone he claims to share some kinship with combined with a performed midlife crisis. Just absolutely brilliant. As far as particular draws for this video: the shot were Dan gets really angry at the camera while talking about how hard it is, while sitting underneath a projection of James is easily my favorite thing Dan has ever made.

2) This is Financial Advice

A thorough autopsy of the Gamestop squeeze and the followers of the meme stock movement with a few of my favorite gags of Dan's, also my favorite character of his (I'm new here). While a far more thorough video than Jauwn's video on Kais Maalej when it comes to the big picture both are very solid videos in their own right.

3) In Search of a Flat Earth

To be completely honest this is not a great Flat Earth video. It's good and it has quite a few incredible parts but I don't think it's as good as Hbomberguy's or Philosophy Tube's and especially not Professor Dave's. However, this is the single best video I've seen on Qanon. Also the descriptor Esoteric Fictionalism is really good

4)The Future is a Dead Mall

Of his 2 videos on defi I think this is the stronger of Dan's, and I think that's for a few reasons. Namely because he's able to attack the idea of the Metaverse more directly than he's able to attack anything during Line Goes Up, but maybe I just don't remember it as well.

5) Line Goes Up

NFT's are really fascinating and Dan does a really good job of covering them, it's just there's a few other youtubers who also make great videos on NFT's and crypto as their main focus, namely Jauwn and Coffeezilla.

6)The Art of Editing and Suicide Squad

A really good video on a pretty bad movie. It covers a lot of the problems in the movie and how despite several of them being caused by studio overreach it just wasn't going to be a particularly good movie. Also El Diablo is far and away the best character in the movie .

7)The Darkmoon Fiasco

Short sweet to the point.

8)Contrepreneurs: The Mikkelsen Twins

Dan writes a book about hypnosis. also he makes a whole video off of ads that just kind of annoyed him, he does the same thing for the Idris Elba Gold Doc which is also a great video but I think this one is the better of the 2.

[sarenth]

Meditation on Meta-Worlds

Once, worlds like Second Life and the more recent Decentraland and the Metaverse held a good deal of interest for modern magical folks regardless of what your worldview happened to be. Suppositions on the kinds of effects we could get through the use of digital sigils and bindrunes, casting ‘there’ to affecting ‘here’, were among a variety of spellcasting and ritual ideas. Folks were…

[probablyasocialecologist]

Decentraland users understand this need for legitimacy intuitively, and so it becomes what they crave above all else. That is why they value brand activations so highly, no matter the circumstances. Being able to put “Vodafone” on their world map, or “Pedigree” in their events tab, spins the narrative that real companies are here in Decentraland.

Even embarrassing brand activations are defended, because “they’re just dipping their toes in, this is just the beginning.” Decentraland users seek to encourage brand activations and events through pathetic pandering. They’ll smile through gritted teeth as they insist that the Hershey’s Experience really is interesting and successful. By performatively engaging with events and brand activations, users seek to create the illusion that these events are successful in the hopes of drawing in the next sucker.

[zibus]

Throughout Folding Idea's "The Future is a Dead Mall" I constantly struck by how what's actually appealing about the classic sci-fi vision of the "metaverse" is diametrically opposed to how its being implemented.

To me what's cool about the metaverse is a vision of a future free of scarcity and physical limits. Want to visit some super far away place? Just sit in a load zone for a second, no need to physically walk. Want to fly? Sure. Just toggle your gravity settings. It's very tied to the heady days of the early internet where anything was possible as long as you knew a little bit of coding, or could find someone who could teach you.

In contrast, Decentraland immediately rushes to implement scarcity and physical limitations in the "digital world." Selling plots of land, a crappy and limited game engine, etc. The promise of the unlimited freedom of the digital world - THE ONLY ADVANTAGE IT THEORETICALLY HAS - is completely undercut by crypto jingoism and web3 b.s.

I think it really supports Dan's point that the metaverse is just a vague gesture to "the future of technology" without any concrete meaning. These people just use the catchphrase to try and sell their dumb ideas - in the same way they use terms of decentralized governance and democracy to sell their authoritarian cronyism.

It also points to how the metaverse as imagined by classic sci-fi is probably practically impossible. Truly creating a limitless digital world would involve so much processing power and server space that any attempt will inevitably run up against real-world scarcity. Eventually the fantasy has to give. Even as technology improves, there will still always be costs and so the metaverse can never truly be an escape from the physical and social problems we face here and now.

It can only be a mask.

[zmyaro]

I feel like the cryptocurrency “experts” still need to realize a lot of regular people think about money as parts of what they will buy with it. We have accidentally reinvented money in games I worked on only because we needed a thing that was worth some fraction of an item.

Crypto “experts” and enthusiasts still seem to miss that the average person doesn't think, “I like the dollar because it is backed by the full faith and credit of the United States government.” I think the average person likes that the dollar is reliably and consistently worth ≈1/10 of a pizza.

“All currency is made up these days.” Sure, but this one lets me consistently turn ≈2 hours of work into a copy of a new video game.

[thewonderfulworldofjubile3le3]

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[rebeccarosenft]

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[worrywrite]

Reminds me of the Folding Ideas video on "metaverse"

losing my mind at this article about a guy trying out the meta verse

[maal-wave]

What is a Blockchain-Based Game?

[leo-fie]

DB2024 - The Taco Bell "Wedding" in Decentraland

The algorithm just served me the perfect video and I just have to share it.

[metablog2023]

I Memecoin - cryptovalute particolari

I Memecoin – cryptovalute particolari Su questo blog abbiamo parlato alla noia delle criptovalute più importanti, Bitcoin,  Ether, XRP, etc. Tempo fa, abbiamo anche accennato ad una categoria di criptovalute particolare, le stablecoin. Ricordiamo che si tratta, in ipotesi, di crypto stabili, come suggerisce il nome. Questo in quanto legate a valute fiat forti, USD, EURO, GBP, come pure a metalli…

[metathesis1234]

Fashion Consumption on Games and Metaverse

Hey!

I am doing a study about fashion consumption on metaverse and games for my Master Thesis.

Basically, i need people who have experience in games and metaverse that ususally buy clothes for their avatars to answer to my anonymous survey.

The survey is completely safe and anonymous and no personal data is required. All i need is you to answer to all the questions as if you buy prestigious clothes for your avatars (don´t forget to answer "Yes" to "Do you usually buy prestigious/luxury products" and "have you ever used metaverse..", cause if you choose "No" the survey ends and it will not help me.

Thanks to all of you who are helping me and answering it!

Here is the link:

[fmarkets]

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