Would you ever pay for Meta Universe clothes / outfits?

[Finished]

What are they:
https://nonfungible.com/news/metaverse/what-are-the-meta-universes-wearables

Well, they are starting to become popular and expensive. I forsee people sitting at home all the time and just wandering around in the meta universe blowing their money on things that don't actually exist. Would you?

 

[Claudia1794]

Is that like the skins and stuff for video games? My son spent a fortune on that honeysuckle in that Fortnight game.

 

[user 139760]

God, no. Then again, I wouldn't pay for anything virtual at all, including the supporting membership here. Say this website goes down and vanishes, that's money you never see again.
I'd rather use same money to invest in connecting offline to the people I met here. Human connection matters more, in the end, to me.
Then again, I'm pre-virtual... everything. The internet is in my mind kind of one big toy, not really real life.

 

[Finished]

Is that like the skins and stuff for video games? My son spent a fortune on that **** in that Fortnight game.

Absolutely that counts. But, woman are buying meta dresses in order to get pictures of themselves in clothes that couldn't possible be produced in real life yet they appear to be real life photos. It's cool. But.............

 

[Claudia1794]

God, no. Then again, I wouldn't pay for anything virtual at all, including the supporting membership here. Say this website goes down and vanishes, that's money you never see again.
I'd rather use same money to invest in connecting offline to the people I met here. Human connection matters more, in the end, to me.
Then again, I'm pre-virtual... everything. The internet is in my mind kind of one big toy, not really real life.

New fangled wizardry

 

[Finished]

God, no. Then again, I wouldn't pay for anything virtual at all, including the supporting membership here. Say this website goes down and vanishes, that's money you never see again.
I'd rather use same money to invest in connecting offline to the people I met here. Human connection matters more, in the end, to me.
Then again, I'm pre-virtual... everything. The internet is in my mind kind of one big toy, not really real life.

Yeah, I hear ya. I don't mind being a supporting member here because there are real site costs and I'm on here alot.

 

[user 139760]

New fangled wizardry

Lol I guess. I don't like the recent, like 10-15 year trend, of monetizing the internet. I was here, on forums, not this one, circa 1996. All this used to be free. Including "member advantages" everywhere

 

[Butterfly 2]

Hahaha. No. It looks very odd to me.

 

[user 139760]

Yeah, I hear ya. I don't mind being a supporting member here because there are real site costs and I'm on here alot.

Oh, I don't know enough to know the cost. I'm the suspicious type, though. I have friends in computer sciences, including my best friend who works for Ubi, who always insists cost for maintaining servers are ridiculously cheap. So...I dunno. When I hear about youtubers making millions...all that stuff gives me pause before spending money. It's not like I have a lot to begin with lol

 

[Finished]

Oh, I don't know enough to know the cost. I'm the suspicious type, though. I have friends in computer sciences, including my best friend who works for Ubi, who always insists cost for maintaining servers are ridiculously cheap. So...I dunno. When I hear about youtubers making millions...all that stuff gives me pause before spending money. It's not like I have a lot to begin with lol

Absolutely! That's why I like when sites make paying a volunteer thing.

 

[Unsigned]

No.
And not only that, I have never nor would I ever create a Facebook/Meta account.
The only "social media" I have is "linkedin".

 

[TheSkaFish]

No. I find it ridiculous that this is a thing.

Who has the extra money to blow on this anyway?

I'd prefer to spend my money on something more tangible, in the real world, that I can keep.
The closest I would go to this would be like DLC for games, and only if I really liked the game and really thought it added functionality to it, because I'm generally against that kind of stuff. I miss the days where you bought a game once, and beyond the occasional expansion pack, that was it, you were done.

But I guess we can expect to see more of these kinds of schemes to try to artificially create value out of nothing, as we descend further into this survival-of-the-fittest, hyper-individualist a-hole timeline that's all about monetizing every aspect of existence. It's what I'm talking about - we have more and more technology, but it's just being used for either increasing efficiency for the people that already own everything, or for these dumb hustles to get money out of trying to artificially create demand and value where none actually exists. So all the technological advancements in the world, aren't helping anything if this is what it's going to be used for. It's not actually being used to upgrade the way we live, improve the human condition. It's not innovation, it's nonsense.

 

[user 135671]

Bloody hell!, this is a thing?, I'm lost for words, because the supply of curse words on this site, nowadays, is insufficient to meet my demands.

 

[user 139760]

Bloody hell!, this is a thing?, I'm lost for words, because the supply of curse words on this site, nowadays, is insufficient to meet my demands.

BOLLOCKS! Now you're just arsing sround, aren't you

 

[user 135671]

BOLLOCKS! Now you're just arsing sround, aren't you

Hahah, are you really a Liverpudlian?

 

[user 139760]

Hahah, are you really a Liverpudlian?

Alas, I'd bloody be so lucky. But I can google lol.

Now shut yer biff!

 

[NoxApex(N/A)]

First I'd have to be on Meta, and I'm not on Meta.
But no. Lol.
6-pack of solid black and grey shirts at Wal-Mart works fine for me.
Unless I want like a random band shirt just for a little stylization, but on the general whole I typically can't even justify that anymore because the average price for one is the same as the average price for a 6-pack of shirts.
So basically, I'd have to be: At a show that I'm really enjoying and kinda drunk, OR kinda drunk/high and spinning some records in nostalgia.
Otherwise, yeah, I kind of wear the same like 3 or 4 solid colors with a little bit of a mix-up.

I am aware that probably sounds plain and boring, and that's part of the idea.
I don't like drawing too much visual attention to myself.
When I was younger, yeah, okay, but I was younger and didn't understand honeysuckle about honeysuckle yet with life.
As an adult? Nah. lol. I'm good bro. lol.

 

[Galen]

Would you ever pay for Meta Universe clothes / outfits?​

fresia no. In the unlikely event of me ever venturing into this Meta-verse bollocks, I'd be walking around wearing nothing put a pair of undepants and socks with a beer in one hand, and a cigar in the other.

 

[Galen]

Would you ever pay for Meta Universe clothes / outfits?​

**** no. In the unlikely event of me ever venturing into this Meta-verse bollocks, I'd be walking around wearing nothing put a pair of undepants and socks with a beer in one hand, and a cigar in the other.

And why the fresia did "fresia" get bleeped out from my original post. What kind of arse is this?

 

[user 135671]

And why the **** did "****" get bleeped out from my original post. What kind of arse is this?

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