Good post. > if you can’t give someone the finger in VR what’s the fucking point? Bingo. IMO, the Facebook efforts in this area are doomed by Zuck's "one iden

Good post. > if you can’t give someone the finger in VR what’s the fucking point? Bingo. IMO, the Facebook efforts in this area are doomed by Zuck's "one identity" obsession. I've spent enough hours follow-dancing at the Grand Exchange / trying to jump on the head of the statue in the fountain in front of the Stormwind bank to buy the idea that people can have fun hanging out in a virtual space even without AR/VR, but in each case that virtual space isn't just a Corporate Memphis translation of some middle manager's conception of real life - it's a rich world in which I'm driving a character that's not intended to be a googly-eyed representation of myself; there's at least some level of RP going on, even if I'm not making cat noises at the end of every sentence or whatever. In contrast, if I am just me and the person I'm trying to flip off is maybe my boss, that's a lot less fun. What's the fucking point? If that's the constraint, boring old me may as well take off to a meatspace bar or something. I almost feel like the initial Facebook planning involved big assumptions about the future of pandemic lockdowns that didn't pan out - unless they expected to have less competition from the real world, a lot of these actions look pants-on-head crazy. Admittedly, also a possibility. It's like someone asked: "how can we unite the shittiest aspects of real life and virtual spaces, without preserving any of the virtues of either?"