Tax that dweed fuck so much he’s afraid to show his face in public.
Have you seen any of the games that are available on Android and iOS devices for kids to play? They have been priming children for gambling for many many years. The sounds and visuals they use in the way they introduce prizes and features as rewards for playing mini games and various “mystery box” items they can get. They are virtually identical to any and all gambling apps as well as casino slot machines.
Not that I ever wanted the perv glasses, but seeing this creepy ugly toad fucker wearing those makes me never want a frame remotely similar to them
He’s eager for anything to help him gain more wealth, because he doesn’t have enough yet and enough is never enough.
That’s the thing I think I’ll die never understanding. I really don’t see the point of being on your death bed with plenty of leftovers.
Some people have a really backwards understanding on the core philosophy of “being successful in life”. Like, he seems to lack the ability to grasp the literal meaning of that concept and so will always be doomed to fail at achieving anything with it. It just makes sense to understand he has a psychological deficit. I’d be empathetic if he weren’t such a catastrophic burden to everyone.
Eager or desperate? They rebranded their entire company around a clusterfuck vr second life. Are they actually producing enough to stay relevant?
Facebook has been trending downhill for a long time. Threads I barely hear about. I don’t hear as much about Oculus as I used to.
All these stories about VR, then metverse/crypto, then ai, and now gambling. It seems like Zuckerberg is trying to recreate the early success he had in an emerging field but, at a fundamental level, does not understand that facebook was successful largely due to luck and timing.
Sometimes I think America cannot be a good place to live until the myth of the “tech genius” is thoroughly broken.
Tech genius is only the most recent wave in this fad. We love our hero worship, which results in cycles of this type of thing.
The most recent example is probably the Robber Baron era of the guided age. Some notables of the time include Andrew Carnegie, John Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, Leland Stanford, etc. Edison and Bell didn’t reach that level of wealth, but they probably would have if they were alive today.
Don’t worry, a lot of that money is still around wrapped up in family trusts. Sure, they’ve given a decent chunk away to white wash their names but these weren’t good people.
Zuck fucks up every business model he tries to the point of ending up saying: “I’ll just do an online Casino”
Failing at being a tech billionaire is pretty embarrassing.
Worst businessman ever.
I mean, not the WORST…
Zuck had one good idea and it was literally stolen.
I hate this guy
He’s blown hundreds of billions on his VR and AI shit. He’s desperate.
Meta plans to sell unused AI compute capacity, creating a new revenue stream: Report
Of course he is; he saw how well it worked for Valve.
did valve do something recently that was bad?
Two decades actively inducing children to bake and seeking out new methods to trigger addictions to that gambling isn’t “recent,” I suppose.
ah…so nothing. cool.
…they’ve been actively peddling loot box based gambling to kids for 16 years.
They’re probably one of the first western gaming companies to introduce such a mechanic, even.
that’s a lie.
Chinese MMOs were the first to implement loot boxes.
it was widely popularized in the west by web based games on Facebook and then took off once console/pc games became internet connected.
why the hate for valve?
I meant by major AAA studios. I also prefaced with “in the west” AND “one of the first,” not the first. Not sure why you brought up China, despite the phrasing.
I didn’t lie, you’re just twisting my words and building a strawman argument to attack.
Why the white knighting for Valve? I actively play Valve games and even participate in buying the occasional lootboxes. That doesn’t mean they don’t profit massively off of children gambling. They’re a multibillion dollar corporation and do not need your defence.
Criticism and observations != hatred.
I’m just trying to understand the seven degrees you had to follow to get from a Facebook post to valve.
I didn’t realize the kids were baking, that’s nice
everything he sells is addiction
Meta also hopes to implement parts of Arena into Facebook and its messaging app, Messenger, attaching betting options to group chats, news feeds, and videos.
“We believe that prediction markets are one of the more interesting new content types,” Ime Archibong, a senior Meta official leading Arena’s development, reportedly said in an internal company post last month. “The social conversation is the payoff as people aim to show off how good they are at predicting things to their friends.”
The strategy appears to be: betting as content, gamifying gambling to become social. It’s a framing that could open the door to harmful situations, especially for the young people he’s going after. According to the National Council on Problem Gambling, 2.5 million US adults, or about 1 percent of Americans, meet the diagnostic mental health criteria of severe gambling addiction. An Epic Research study published on Friday analyzing electronic health records found that gambling disorder diagnoses have risen more than 60 percent since 2018 in states that have legalized sports betting. The largest increase came from young people, aged 18 to 29, whose rate more than doubled.
French style revolution is the only solution
Always has been (eager to get young people addicted)
