<story><title>Introducing the Icelandverse [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enMwwQy_noI</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>axegon_</author><text>I know this is supposed to mock the metaverse-thing. And the first time I heard about the metaverse, my reaction was: &amp;quot;what a colossal pile of dog shit&amp;quot;. My opinion hasn&amp;#x27;t changed even the slightest. Like why? What sort of sane human beings would put themselves through that? I had this discussion with a friend on Sunday. The sad part is that he agrees with me but said that he was willing to bet that people would blow hundreds of thousands on virtual nft crap for metaverses. Which, even after having worked 8 years in the gaming industry(and seeing the 5-6 figure amounts people spending on in-app purchases) up until not all that long ago, seemed like bs. So we made a bet. Next morning an article pops up about someone spending 600+k on a virtual yacht. I mean what the hell is wrong with people?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ljm</author><text>In many aspects we&amp;#x27;ve entered a post-scarcity society, to the extent that scarcity has to be invented by things like NFTs. For these people, they might as well have found a game breaking bug in the thing we call existence.&lt;p&gt;Of course, it would be nice if we got more of humanity on board with this first, what with the vast majority of the population being in poverty, or worse.</text></comment>
<story><title>Introducing the Icelandverse [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enMwwQy_noI</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>axegon_</author><text>I know this is supposed to mock the metaverse-thing. And the first time I heard about the metaverse, my reaction was: &amp;quot;what a colossal pile of dog shit&amp;quot;. My opinion hasn&amp;#x27;t changed even the slightest. Like why? What sort of sane human beings would put themselves through that? I had this discussion with a friend on Sunday. The sad part is that he agrees with me but said that he was willing to bet that people would blow hundreds of thousands on virtual nft crap for metaverses. Which, even after having worked 8 years in the gaming industry(and seeing the 5-6 figure amounts people spending on in-app purchases) up until not all that long ago, seemed like bs. So we made a bet. Next morning an article pops up about someone spending 600+k on a virtual yacht. I mean what the hell is wrong with people?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>meheleventyone</author><text>Thing to remember is that’s 600k of crypto which has probably never been “real” money and may well have been a wash trade anyway. It’s not overly clear to me that it’d be easy to get that nominal value out as USD from the crypto original either. So you see ridiculous, inflated, purchases made.&lt;p&gt;It’s a bit like EVE Online where the existence of PLEX allows for a conversion between USD and the in-game currency ISK and hundreds of thousands of dollars routine gets “destroyed” in big fleet battles.</text></comment>