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Zoboomafoo ,
@Zoboomafoo@yiffit.net avatar

Don’t forget the conglomerate names:

Microsoft-Activision-Blizzard

AWittyUsername ,

Shinra-Mishima-Zaibatsu

Zoomboingding ,
@Zoomboingding@lemmy.world avatar

Wayland-Yutani

Oxnvat ,
@Oxnvat@lemmy.world avatar

Denny’s-Applebee’s-Max

deadbeef79000 ,

Omni consumer products.

Rilichu ,

“Well, there was a bit of a stir when it was decided that since corporations are people, they could technically run for president. But President Walt Disney-Pepsi-Comcast has done wonders for the economy… given that it’s… now the economy”

rDrDr ,

Don’t blame me I voted for Tim Apple

mudmaniac ,

I used to call it ActiBlizz. What am I supposed to do now?

Retoffelnoster ,
@Retoffelnoster@lemmy.world avatar

Xbox

agnomeunknown ,
@agnomeunknown@lemmy.world avatar

Eckbok

xx3rawr ,

MS ActiBlizz sounds like the next addition to MS Office but they already renamed it to “Microsoft 365”

csolisr ,

Oh and don’t forget the cheeky suckers that explicitly named their nutritional supplement company Soylent Nutrition, Inc.

commie ,

i do like soylent tho. i’m gonna go shake one up rn

utopianrevolt ,

is it better than Huel? Huel tasted awful

commie ,

i drank a lot of huel. none of the flavors were great (for me).

i switched to soylent this month. the “original” flavor is just completely inoffensive. it reminds me of milk. i just hit 1080 kcal on soylent today.

i did get some of the strawberry flavor that mixes into it. that was very good, but i don’t need it every day. i’m happy just to drink the original.

Zetta ,

Soylent is way better than Huel. I’ve been consuming at least a serving of Soylent a day for the past four or five years, I’ve tried a few different brands including huel and they were all significantly worse than Soylent ready to drink or Soylent powder.

Letto ,

In my experience none of them taste great, but if you make them part of your daily flow you get over it pretty quickly. I’ve heard good things about the newer pre-mixed and flavored ones, but I got to a good place with my nutrition a few years ago and stopped using pretty much all meal replacements.

utopianrevolt ,

so I’m curious, do you just not eat any actual food anymore other than Soylent?

commie ,

personally i want to get at least 1000 kcal a day in soylent, so that i’m sure i get SOME of my rdas. otherwise i eat a lot of bean and cheese burritos. they are maybe 1/3 of what i eat besides soylent. the rest is like… whatever my wife makes or fast food.

Letto ,

Exact opposite! I know the language was flowery there but I basically never eat Huel/Soylent anymore

adrian783 ,

its an option, but most ppl do eat food still. simply because they enjoy the taste more.

creditCrazy ,
@creditCrazy@lemmy.world avatar

Honestly I never really got meal replacements like it’s basically a drink so you are still eating your just not chewing so what’s the point is the point to not cook is it that you just don’t want to move your jaw is this just something I can’t comprehend because I’m autistic what

Getawombatupya ,

It varies from person to person

boeman ,

You shouldn’t shake it if it’s made from babies.

Zetta ,

Gotta tenderize them somehow ¯_(ツ)_/¯

PersnickityPenguin ,

Now you know what happened to all those immigrant kids at the border

ToyDork ,
@ToyDork@lemmy.zip avatar

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.

Jax ,

Good for you.

dylanTheDeveloper ,
@dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world avatar

Dead people should be shot at birth

Zetta ,

https://mander.xyz/pictrs/image/b199b186-e341-40f1-aea5-4f5c9659f38c.jpeg

Odd_so_Star_so_Odd ,

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.

AngryCommieKender ,

Hail Avis!

csolisr ,

I’m not too versed on movie references but certainly know about Hertz Rent-a-car, what’s the joke here?

Braydox_ofAstroya12 ,

As long as we get coporate songs like this: m.youtube.com/watch?v=6HTR0BiFehA

Again

PipedLinkBot ,

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_cnt0 ,
@_cnt0@lemmy.villa-straylight.social avatar

I had forgotten about that.

And it was good that way.

If I don’t have that song out of my head by tomorrow, I’ll stalk your account, find out your irl id, and send you muffins with raisins.

Braydox_ofAstroya12 ,

No please anything but the raisins

tpyo ,

My favorite shirt ever:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f12497d7-6fba-4ba4-9dc2-50e165f85cef.jpeg

CrayonRosary ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/fff3f47c-cfa0-48c2-a40b-e7ae33397af3.png

Good!

EssentialCoffee ,

You mean like this?

Or this?

PipedLinkBot ,

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Braydox_ofAstroya12 ,

Sigh they dont make coporate propaganda like they used too.

But yes that

tpyo ,

Holy shizz I forgot about that song. thanks for the rememory

Speiser0 ,

Do these also count: www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-QThIoXfkswww.youtube.com/watch?v=HRVoJnxjpFg

PipedLinkBot ,

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piped.video/watch?v=HRVoJnxjpFg

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vidsid ,

God, that last one was brilliant. It gave me a flashback.

Odd_so_Star_so_Odd ,

When runaway capitalism is the norm and all the shareholders care about is that bottomline, then they will lean into the dystopia and be blatant about it when nobody is stopping them laughing all the way to the bank.

Pixlbabble ,

We are here.

someguy3 ,

Don’t forget Truth Social. Straight out of ministry of truth.

Wogi ,

And Taco Bell already exists so there’s that

RizzRustbolt ,

u/Wogi has been fined three credits for violation of the verbal decency act.

Daft_ish ,

Oh good, I needed some toilet paper. This three shells thing is bullshit.

aidan ,

That’s not new, it’s just new to English. I lot of Soviet countries had pravda.

Ultraviolet ,

Especially when their main selling point is that they don’t do fact checking.

Syrc ,

Normal people reading dystopian fiction: “wow, the author really portrayed well the downfall of humanity if we were to go down the wrong path”

Billionaires reading dystopian fiction: “hey, you know what…”

vis4valentine ,
@vis4valentine@lemmy.ml avatar

Bill Clinton’s “Star Wars” program.

DarthBueller ,

Um… what? Ronald Reagan’s/Bush Sr.'s “Star Wars” program - LASERS IN SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE

visak ,

You’re about a decade off. It was started in the 80s and ended under Clinton. …m.wikipedia.org/…/Strategic_Defense_Initiative

PopularUsername ,

I always thought this for the financial market: Standard & Poor

Moody

The Fed (as in, the past tense of feed)

intelati ,

fannie mae and freddie mac have this distinct dystopyian taste to me

FlowVoid ,

Those are just nicknames people use because the real names are long and boring.

“Fannie Mae” is actually the Federal National Mortgage Association (aka FNMA). “Freddie Mac” is actually the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation.

imaqtpie ,
@imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works avatar

TIL. I always wondered what the deal was with those names.

Lowered_lifted ,
@Lowered_lifted@lemmy.world avatar

Those names were always parodying the names of actual corporations. I’m pretty sure Weyland Yutani is basically supposed to be like Lockheed Mitsubishi

Gutless2615 ,

You want a trip down “is this a cyberpunk dystopia company” name, go check out the data brokers on the data broker registries in Vermont and California.

loudWaterEnjoyer ,

California itself has about 517

grilled_cheese_eater ,

Acxiom, Experian, TransUnion, Oracle Data Cloud, CoreLogic, Axle, Equifax, Foursquare Labs, Inc., OnAudience, Nielsen, … … … …

veloxization ,
@veloxization@yiffit.net avatar

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.

Manifish_Destiny ,

No thanks.

RegularGoose ,

Too bad. There’s no chance this doesn’t happen after the agricultural collapse. Well, the first bit, anyway.

dill ,
@dill@lemmy.one avatar

“He burned down half the city just to prove he was right and burned the other half just for fun.”

Dagwood222 ,

Source? Please.

orrk ,

He burned down half the city just to prove he was right and burned the other half just for fun.

Cyberpunk

Dagwood222 ,

Thanks.

Resonosity ,

Wake up Samurai…

Zink ,

I could absolutely see a not-too-distant future where competitors of megacorps have their assets attacked by the government’s military.

Mpeach45 ,
@Mpeach45@lemmy.world avatar

This has already happened many times. It’s just that those “competitors” are usually referred to as “ordinary people.”

Zink ,

Sad upvote.

I was thinking more as a mundane mechanism to gain market share though, not necessarily punishment or collateral damage.

…but I guess it applies even then. Sigh.

oldGregg ,

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    chatokun ,

    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.

    ShaggySnacks ,

    Does killing union activists on the behalf of Coca-Cola count?

    The United Fruit Company aka Chiquita Brands International Sàrl asking the CIA to overthrow the Guatemala government, also count?

    Edit: Fix links

    dejected_warp_core ,

    Amazon is a standing military or armed navy away from beating the all-time high score.

    iturnedintoanewt ,
    @iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee avatar

    Waiting for Weyland-Yutani…

    bownt1 ,

    building better worlds

    GreenMario ,

    Union Aerospace

    delitomatoes ,

    Time Warner

    MalReynolds ,
    @MalReynolds@slrpnk.net avatar

    Be Warned !

    iturnedintoanewt ,
    @iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee avatar

    DisnATTTimeWarner?

    pachrist ,

    Gesundheit.

    Sigmatics ,

    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.

    AphoticDev ,
    @AphoticDev@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    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.

    Sigmatics ,

    They don’t own it, that means they can’t know about it?

    IsThisWhereWeGoNow ,

    I think the confusion begins with your statement that Meta didn’t “learn their lesson from Second Life.” What’s the lesson they should have learned? Why should Meta have learned a lesson from something they didn’t own?

    HakFoo ,

    The big lesson from Second Life to me is that it’s a novelty for 95% of potential users, and a fixation for a few true believers.

    VR and AR are in that era of radio in the 1920s, or personal computers in 1977. They’re interesting, people might gawk at one for a little while if given access to it, but right now, the long-term audience is going to be primarily enthusiasts who are passionate about the technology for its own sake.

    We’re still waiting for a lot of details to snap into place to make it broadly appealing:

    • The hardware and setup needs to be turnkey. Newer kit is getting a lot closer, but I think it’s going to be hard because you have to factor in things like “setting up a wide enough floor space to avoid injuring yourself when using it” and “we haven’t really resolved that this gives a fair number of people violent sickness”
    • There need to be killer apps. Some of the VR experiences seem like they’d be fun, but eventually exhausting. It’s sort of like the motion control (Wii/Kinect/PSMove) trend-- people enjoyed them, but it seemed like it burnt through quickly, rather than becoming a core part of new gaming experiences going forward.

    AR likely has an easier road to “killer app” because it can be applied to a bunch of vertical use cases; I’m picturing a fry-cook with a heads-up display that tracks how long each patty has been on the grille and its internal temperature, for example. Even if mainstream consumers never buy AR gear, there might be a million devices sold to businesses. Makes me think of Windows CE; the consumer launch was muted, but it was on a billion scanner-oriented devices for years.

    RaoulDook ,

    “There need to be killer apps” you say, but have you looked at the VR titles on Steam etc?

    There are already a lot of fantastic VR games. Touristy cities even have VR gaming arcades where you can pay high prices to play on their VR kits.

    The main barrier to wider adoption is the high price for good VR equipment, and the runner up is probably the complexity of setting up and using the systems. So yes that’s similar to PCs in the early days, maybe like the 90s were with PCs and the Internet.

    HakFoo ,

    While there may be good apps, I tend to define “Killer App” as a specific program that people not already in the ecosystem will explicitly buy into a hardware platform to run. The classic being VisiCalc for the Apple II and Lotus 1-2-3 for the IBM PC. On the gaming side, think about how many millions of Game Boys were sold so people could play Tetris; one suspects a significant number never saw another cartridge in their life. Or, perhaps less hyperbolically, Halo got a lot of people onto the Xbox platform, and FF7 did the same for the Playstation.

    Does any VR title have the same degree of wide awareness and demand those programs had at their peak?

    I could imagine someone trying to force the hand by moving a beloved franchise into VR-- imagine if the next Dragon Quest was VR-only, for example, and people who buy everything with that cute blue slime on it would also buy cute-blue-slime shape headsets. Meta has the resources to buy such a situation into existence, but it might not be what they’re after because it’s likely to still be only a narrow draw-- they’re used to building a platform for All The People, not just the audience who followed a single beloved franchise over.

    AphoticDev ,
    @AphoticDev@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    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?

    vidsid ,

    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.

    Immersive_Matthew ,

    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.

    yoppa ,

    Wow it didn’t hit me until I read your post. Thanks OP.

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