Just like mail in electronic form is called email, virtual worlds chould be called escapes.
According to who? No source my friend. ✌️
bro, read the community name
I am shit at kbin so honestly dont even know where to look 😆 but sorry if it was obvious 👾
Or- stay with me here- what bout 𝕏scape?
Posthumous Michael Jackson activated
Is that like landscape, but with porn instead of rocks?
It can be anything you want it to be and more. It’s the everything, uh, federation?
No rocks but lots of bushes.
I was thinking ‘to escape from what?’, but then I realized I was silly.
So you can escape the real world into Zuckerbergs weirdo world where he can profit from watching and manipulating you?
Strong pass. I’m sitting on my lawn having an icecream. Fuck you Zuckerberg.
What is the real world equivalent to the metaverse that people call “scapes”?
Landscape, cityscape, I guess whatever you’re somewhat recreating at the time
: a view or picture of a scene —usually used in combination: cityscape
Could actually make sense, but I had the same question. Also, apparently
: a peduncle arising at or beneath the surface of the ground in an acaulescent plant (such as the tulip)
Maybe, but it seems like a stretch. Email works because everyone already knows what mail is. If someone has to crack open a dictionary to make sense of escapes, it seems DOA. Especially since people will pronounce it “escape”, not “e-scape”. Email didn’t already exist as a word.
Apparently Email is a German or French word for enamel, but yeah, your point stands.
I thought the point of meta was escaping from it?
That’s what they’ll write in the footer.
escape
from meta
Or rather “enslave” XD
Ironic since it’s the one thing you can’t escape
In a way this naming makes more sense, because an important aspect of the virtual worlds in science fiction that many people seem to idolize is that they were as appealing as they were due to a large part because the real world was such a dystopia that they were desperate for an escape from it, even if it meant living inside a world that existed only inside a computer.
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