Meta Platforms. X Corp. tell me those aren’t straight from a strangely prescient cyberpunk classic
I’m just waiting for Omni Consumer Products (OCP) to open in Detroit.
Or Allied Commercial-Media Enterprises
Or E-Corp
Or Wayland-Yutani
DaVinci Crater
Union Aerospace Corporation
*Areospacy
Exxon Mobile
Omni is actually a Swedish news aggregator. They just need to expand and change a bit.
Corporate Consumer Products already makes everything in China… hmm
I still think it’s hilarious that Facebook renamed to Meta, and anything they did with the “metaverse” was a huge failure. It’s like they didn’t learn their lesson from Second Life.
Second Life isn’t owned by Meta. And just by the amount of money Second Life earned, and somehow still earns to this day, it was a pretty huge success. The only real success in the “virtual world” field. It’s not surprising somebody else would try to emulate that success.
They don’t own it, that means they can’t know about it?
Why would they learn from a mistake that wasn’t even a mistake and wasn’t theirs to begin with? Like, what is the point you are trying to make?
They should have learned a lesson from Second Life. It was so much graphically better, more sophisticated and immersive even in 2d .
Users had a world where they could build, interact, buy land, make, buy, sell items and art, go to concerts, have virtual sex, attend classes, build a castle , explore, etc, etc. It would have been awesome in 3d.
This was like 20 years ago! Meta had such an opportunity there but instead had half avatars and chat rooms. It sucked.
A lot of it comes down to the Quest processors as they are just not very powerful. It had to be backwards comparable with the 835 Snapdragon processor form the Quest 1 and that is a 2016 processor. Makes senses it was so basic as they wanted to have many avatars on screen at once so things had the get cut…like legs. Ahahahaha.
I am not defending Meta, but just stating the facts and one of those facts is Zuck has said this is a long game and that it will be at least a decade before the Metaverse becomes something half compelling. I agree with that assessment. It is just not there today, but it will be.
Now we just need companies to have their own militaries and then for someone to nuke one of their towers. We’d have the whole nine yards.
“He burned down half the city just to prove he was right and burned the other half just for fun.”
Source? Please.
He burned down half the city just to prove he was right and burned the other half just for fun.
Cyberpunk
Thanks.
No thanks.
Too bad. There’s no chance this doesn’t happen after the agricultural collapse. Well, the first bit, anyway.
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You should snopes check that one. They did acquire non working ships as payment, but they scrapped em. What you said is technically correct, but oversells it.
Wake up Samurai…
I could absolutely see a not-too-distant future where competitors of megacorps have their assets attacked by the government’s military.
This has already happened many times. It’s just that those “competitors” are usually referred to as “ordinary people.”
Don’t forget Truth Social. Straight out of ministry of truth.
Especially when their main selling point is that they don’t do fact checking.
Don’t forget the conglomerate names:
Microsoft-Activision-Blizzard
Pretty much. Welcome to the fucking future I guess. There’s no flying cars and green cities and happiness or bloody universal healthcare, instead we have corpos trying to turn us into their consumer slaves and governments turning authoritarian. Just do what you’re told and buy more. Don’t ask questions don’t think just browse TikTok, improve your social credit score, and imprint more ads into your psyche until WW3.
We’re walking into hell with our eyes wide open fuck me it hurts.
or bloody universal healthcare
I guess it depends on where you live. It’s not true of the whole world.
Murica. Yeehaw.
I read this with the voice of Johnny Silverhand
Who is just another product of a shitty corporation
There are flying quadcopter taxis testing in Dubai
The only thing really keeping them from flying rich people in from their gated community and landing in the street in front of a restaurant is regulation.
With better battery life they’d be more flexible, but they’re already technically capable, and compact enough.
Also when you try to speak against all this shit people ridicule you and ignore you. If they cant do that easily then its always just apathy and “it is what it is” whining.
My first ISP in the late 90s was Skynet Online.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(satellite)
The UK already owns it. I’m pretty sure Terminator takes the name from the UK military satellite network. And SpaceX has launched Skynet satellites for them before so there is probably some agreement.
The NSA also already has a surveillance program named SKYNET, which uses machine learning. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKYNET_(surveillance_program)
That one I’m pretty sure was named after the Terminator program.
Those names were always parodying the names of actual corporations. I’m pretty sure Weyland Yutani is basically supposed to be like Lockheed Mitsubishi
Oh and don’t forget the cheeky suckers that explicitly named their nutritional supplement company Soylent Nutrition, Inc.
i do like soylent tho. i’m gonna go shake one up rn
Now you know what happened to all those immigrant kids at the border
That’s not funny. Seriously. I’m getting so fucking sick of “dark comedy” or especially “deep chararacters in an engaging story” that abuses shock factor by dead dropping child death.
Dead people should be shot at birth
Good for you.
You shouldn’t shake it if it’s made from babies.
Gotta tenderize them somehow ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It’s like whoever is offering up these names and convincing them to use them is trying to tell consumers and workers something in the countries they work and operate. That a rental service is literally named Hertz is pretty on the nose even without all the movie culture references.
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I’m not too versed on movie references but certainly know about Hertz Rent-a-car, what’s the joke here?
Hail Avis!
When Weyland corp announce a merger with Yutani industries it’s time to worry.
Or when Arisaka starts moving in on Militech turf.
Ngl I wouldn’t mind being chromed
That’s the worst part, we’re rapidly approaching the corporate dystopia of cyberpunk, without any of the crazy drugs or body mods.
Give me gorilla arms, damnit
I just want to live forever as a semi-coherent cloud of nanites. Is that really too much to ask?
We’ve got the crazy drugs and body mods coming, don’t you worry. Haven’t you seen the videos of people who make designer prosthetics and robotic hands for themselves?
Soon somebody’s gonna put roller skates in their feet and then it’s all over. That’s how you’ll know it’s the singularity.
Realistically speaking, we really need to start differenciating between restoring human functions (like artificial eye for the blind) and enhancements augmenting abilities normal human limits (that same eye having x-ray and nightvision).
Restoring functions, at least, should be treated as universal medicine and healthcare and be available for whoever needs it.
Hope you don’t mind being billed for the whole surgery, including amputation of limbs you never asked for in the first place. Shiny stuff with soul crushing debt - sounds like American colleges.
I never asked for this. Wrong game, I know :)
Mankind Divided had a very abrupt cliffhanger. Adam needs a proper closure to his story.
Waiting for Weyland-Yutani…
Union Aerospace
building better worlds
Time Warner
Be Warned !
You didn’t mention Facebook? That’s super dystopian to me. What’s a face book if not a large collection of identities being monitored?
It sounds like a cursed item in D&D or something.
The Book of Faces Wondrous Item, very rare
This enchanted tome magically records the likeness each humanoid slain in its vicinity, preserving a snapshot of their life and memories. The book can be read to glean superficial information about it’s subjects. As an action, you can tear a page from the book to summon a ghostly spirit of its subject, which will be magically compelled to answer questions. The spirit knows nothing the owner did not know in life.
The Demon Lord Elgor Ithym is said to have a keen interest in this book…
Now do it for MySpace and Twitter!
What’s a face book if not a large collection of identities being monitored?
Well, historically (and I mean in the 1990s) it was a collection of names and photographs of all the new students at your college, to help in meeting people and/or to see who’s hot.
Meta is Facebook
Yes ofc, I just think the name Facebook is more dystopian than Meta.
I’m still waiting for the cool neon signs.
The lady eating a cherry is burned into my brain. In the Blade Runner point-n-click game she would appear every time you’d fly out from the marketplace, because it was a prerendered cutscene.
Nah, we got cheaper and brighter LED lights blasting 24/7 and annoying everyone trying to sleep instead. Neon signs are retro now.
There’s also E Corp from Mr. Robot.
That one was clealy google, not the other way around
Is more Tencent or Samsung that Google.
Yeah but samsung in nowhere near Google’s influence in US and worldwide. But I agree these companies are HUGE in Asia.
Samsung is EVERYTHING in Korea. Not so much in the west beyond phones and smart tv’s, and Laundry machines or whatever, but in Korea, Samsung does EVERYTHING.
Yes chaebol is a concept in itself
There was even a scandal involving cancer causing work environments with Samsung like in the show.
Oh shit
TVs, Phones, Washing Machines? Samsung! Cars, trucks? Also, Samsung! Heavy machine equipment, cranes, etc? Believe or not, also Samsung! The Chaebol that does it all!
And the characters called it evil corp anyways so it might as well have been the name.
Not exactly, most of the characters seem to call the company E Corp but the main character (who’s also the narrator) “corrects it” in his head.
Yea, X Corps definitely becomes the manufacturer of the protein bar machines on snowpiercer
And lab-grown artificiel pet snakes as in Blade Runner
