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OwlBoy

@ owlboy @lemmy.world

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  • Smoking avatars and online games: how big tobacco targets young people in the metaverse

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  • Yeah it sucks. Meta shit all over the term. And then every other company jumped on board claiming their stuff is a metaverse too. Even Microsoft claimed Teams was a metaverse.

  • Smoking avatars and online games: how big tobacco targets young people in the metaverse

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  • This is because they include stuff like Roblox in the definition of Metaverse. I personally hate that.

    If we kept it to SocialVR titles, the demographics would shift to something more balanced, afaik. VRC bans people under 13 when they are discovered/reported.

  • Smoking avatars and online games: how big tobacco targets young people in the metaverse

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  • Thats the thing. Adults talk shit about it. But it’s mostly the younger generations that are active in VR.

    You have your demographics backwards.

  • Smoking avatars and online games: how big tobacco targets young people in the metaverse

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  • lol what? I’ve been using VRChat for almost 10 years and I’ve seen maybe 4-5 people with avatars that smoke.

    I’ve never touched Roblox tho… I’m a bit offended that it’s considered a Metaverse.

  • Bishop Budde does good

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  • It sucks that religion is so fucked up broadly. We should be able to feel this way about all persons in similar positions as her.

  • Pulse of Truth @infosec.pub
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    Trump admin fires security board investigating Chinese hack of large ISPs

    arstechnica.com /tech-policy/2025/01/trump-admin-fires-homeland-security-advisory-boards-blaming-agendas/

  • Even Apple wasn’t able to make VR headsets mainstream in 2024

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  • Trump Cancels All His Events in Favor of One of the Worst People Ever

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  • Not All Podcasts

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  • I would not have guessed that reply guys replying to really popular accounts would ever check if their reply is a duplicate.

    I didn’t catch that this is why Alec stopped posting there. I assumed he was just being sensitive to being a public figure in general.

    When you make a channel that is filled with “well actually” and “turns out.” You should expect your audience is into doing the same.

    And when you don’t have an algorithm filtering these for you… well, then you get the reality of other people’s interactions. Twitter just optionally hides this reality from big accounts. (I’m talking about what they use to label “low quality replies” or something similar.)

    The federation issues of replies/boosts/hearts/etc are still a big bummer, though.

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  • They want an algorithm.

    As much as people mock it, or know it’s the source of why social media optimizes for outrage and other unhealthy behaviors, the algorithm is what they are missing on Mastodon.

    As someone who always used third party Twitter apps, and never directly saw the algorithm in my timeline, mastodon feels like Twitter always did.

  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    How to say "NO" to big oil money

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Epic is merging Sketchfab, Quixel, ArtStation Marketplace and UE Marketplace into Fab.com

    www.fab.com

  • Modern girls rule

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  • I want to start using this.

  • Lithium-Ion Batteries Have Gone Too Far

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  • I knew this was Ian Bogost before I clicked the link.

  • TIL most cultures and peoples all over the world have historically had trouble recognizing the color blue

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  • Thanks!

  • Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more

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  • Damn. Thats impressive.

  • E3 Is dead for good after more than two decades of running

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  • It was already in bad health. That’s not a good combination with COVID.