There's some severe ahistoricism going on to frame the metaverse as a new thing when it's very much a polishing of some very old failed ideas, but this time there's VR goggles involved.
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Putting aside that this is aesthetically repellant and no one can take it seriously.... ...are we really gonna just pretend like Second Life didn't have this kind of stuff over a decade ago? https://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/12/12/second.life.relationship.irpt/index.html …https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1468634035308085250 …
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Or like any mmo,ff14 has an entire system set up for marriages
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I mean, Blizzard is also evil but the World of Warcraft community has been doing stuff like this forever. Same goes for Final Fantasy XIV.
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Yes, they are. "normies" for a given definition of that remain ignorant of actually *existing* on the internet rather than just creating content and the concept is being sold back to them for some quick VC cash infusions to dead end projects
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Yeah but now you can do it as Fred Flintstone while your bride is Storm from X-Men.
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Second Life, literally any MMO, frick I'm pretty sure people got married in VR Chat But now it's the ~metaverse~ oooooo
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yeah there's definitely been vrchat weddingshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enJhkkvproM …
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People were doing this stuff in Furcadia and Dragonspires in the 90s
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Thank you to all six people who remember dragonspires for the likes
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you could technically have a wedding in animal crossing
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