#they fucking landed on a planet where people talk like william shatner

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Star Trek: Picard- Nostalgia is the only thing that matters. Specifically, cis-het white middle class middle age nostalgia.

Star Trek: Prodigy- Nostalgia degrades over time, and is almost always inaccurate. Nostalgia can literally poison a fandom.

THEY FUCKING LANDED ON A PLANET WHERE PEOPLE TALK LIKE WILLIAM SHATNER AND WORSHIP THE FEDERATION - BUT THEY GET EVERYTHING JUST A LITTLE WRONG BECAUSE NOSTALGIA IS BASED ON WHAT YOU THINK SOMETHING WAS NOT WHAT IT REALLY IS

NOSTALGIA IS LITERALLY POISONING THE PLANET AND KILLING OFF ALL THE 'FANS' OF THE ENTERPRISE

Expanded rant here - https://www.tumblr.com/radarsteddy/716306124007260160/the-two-are-not-mutually-exclusive-you-can-have-a?source=share

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I HIGHLY recommend reading the article. Here's some of my favorite highlights

In other news, as someone who has read Snow Crash, the book that Meta is based off of, I think I actually know the answer to this one:

In Snow Crash, the Metaverse was created by hackers. There wasn't anything to do in it for a long time because it was a passion project for people who liked figuring out how to build things in virtual reality. It wasn't corporations or billionaires that started it, it was hackers that actually cared about it - people who weren't in it for the money. The place is essentially an indie game until it gains popularity, but that time - which happens pre-book - spans years. During the plot of the book the Metaverse (and that IS what it is called in Snow Crash, by the way. Zuckerberg named it the same exact thing) is already a huge hub with working full body avatars and buildings made by coders who studied architecture by the time it gains popularity. The technology didn't exist when the Metaverse first started because hackers were actively figuring it out in their downtime.

That being said, there WASN'T a point to the Metaverse at first. There weren't events or anything, it was essentially logging into tumblr and chatting with mutuals idly as you messed with your html coding for your custom theme. It was going to theme maker blogs and admiring the bases and seeing about changing some colors (shout out to Pohroro!) and telling others how great their themes were!

Sure, during the plot it is essentially a hub of humanity, with actual bus stops and payphones irl that let you log into the Metaverse to talk to people, but what Zuckerberg and a lot of billionaires always seem to miss is the love. I mean hell Bezos took Captain Kirk (William Shatner)* to space and when they landed popped a bottle because they achieved something, but Shatner experienced real profound grief in space that Bezos didn't even let him talk about in the moment! Billionaires don't care about emotions bro! Even something as obviously life changing as seeing our planet from space!! They care about money!

The Metaverse exists in Snow Crash because a group of people wanted to know how much they could create. They didn't try to monetize it or make it popular - after a certain amount of time it just BECAME popular because of what you could do there, and corporations, governments, the pizza mafia, etc, joined the Metaverse and began advertising only after it showed that it was popular.

It makes me think of Bigolas Dickolas, the Twitter user who helped a whole book get reach because they loved it. And businesses were like "how do we get the Bigolas Dickolas effect??? How do we make it happen again???" But you can't!!! You CANNOT artificially make love. You can't build it in a boardroom. You can't feed it to AI. Fandom is great and fanart happens because people love the Canon. They may not agree with how it is handled, but they do love it, they are passionate about it. They will discuss characterization for hours and make fanart and want to yell from the rooftop how great it is.

And when you dont love the content, we can tell. The Metaverse will never be like it was in Snowcrash because it was a cash grab. Marvel movies declined in quality because it became a cash grab rather than a group of people wanting to bring their favorite characters to life. The last season of Game of Thrones became a cash grab - and they fucked it up. Repeatedly if you consider the source material only as a way to make money, WE CAN TELL and the quality drops significantly. Alternatively, if you give people who love something the space to create it, you get amazing things like The Last of Us, like Good Omens, where even if we as fans disagree on how good it was or how we liked how things happened, we can tell that they were LOVED. That CARE went into the depictions of the characters.

I loved the Game of Thrones books, I have loud opinions about the first few seasons but still enjoyed them, but knowing how the series ends makes me hesitate when it comes to rewatching it. Because I dont want to watch something I love be treated like something out of fashion.

I dont really have much else to say about this except that if you love something and you create for it, we can see the love. If you love your fandom we can tell! You should be passionate about your creations. You should love your OCs because the love shows and its great. Love is a good thing and it is the crux of creation and without it everything made will be like Zuckerberg's Metaverse, Elon's Xitter, the last season of Game of Thrones and Bezo's trip to space. Empty, Joyless, Cash Grabby Achievement Hunting bullshit.

I do recommend Snow Crash, by the way. It is a prolific and amazing sci fi novel published in 1992 that influenced the internet in a big way. The main character's a half black half korean hacker, samurai, and works as pizza delivery guy for the mafia. His name is Hiro Protagonist.

*I put this here next to William Shatner's name and changed the color because he would be marked red with Shinigami Eyes.

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

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THEY FUCKING LANDED ON A PLANET WHERE PEOPLE TALK LIKE WILLIAM SHATNER AND WORSHIP THE FEDERATION - BUT THEY GET EVERYTHING JUST A LITTLE WRONG

I AM IN TEARS

WHY WOULD ANYONE WATCH PICARD WHEN THIS IS ON TV

Took a break from Murder She Wrote to get caught up on Star Trek Prodigy. This is the only new Star Trek I like.

Unlike Picard, which has made me hate TNG, Prodigy just makes me appreciate Voyager even more.