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Remember SecondLife?
Had its own currency and everything.
Real estate grabs, big companies having support offices, etc
Everything seems circular. This why I prefer to surf on the back of the hype cycle. So much garbage folds in 3 years.
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The only thing I know about Second Life, is that the accountant from The Office played it, or something like that... 
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It's probably a rebranding of Limbo
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V. wrote: It's probably a rebranding of Limbo Purgatory
FTFY 
(We're getting a bit too close to religious arguments...)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: (We're getting a bit too close to religious arguments...)
Not at all. When anything that warrants divine intervention happens, a deity simply hops onto your desk and sits on your keyboard, blocks your view of the screen or plays with your mouse.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I knew Europe was becoming less Christian, but I never thought that you'd started worshiping Bastet 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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You don't have a choice. One day you open the door and see a little suitcase on the doorstep. When you go back inside, you see the owner of that suitcase already on your most comfortable chair, waiting for the first meal to be served.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I think that they're aiming at something like OASIS from Ready Player One.
So old that I did my first coding in octal via switches on a DEC PDP 8
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It's like conventional VR, but instead of it being about playing a game it's about fArsebook spying on everything you do to be more stalkerish than they already are.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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The way I translate it in understandable terms is a VR open-world game in which everyone can buy land and build virtual stuff with real money, interact with other avatars, exchange said virtual stuff.
Basically a Matrix built for corporate greed, where you can rent a spot in Times Square for a kidney and a half or a spot under a dirty bridge for a few cents, but it's in VR! (and FacebookMeta will happily take a commission from each and every transaction in this world)
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my take on that the Avatar thing might make sense: video cameras only do so much, and some upper body gestures might be missed
Since semi real avatars would be overly process intense, characters reduce uncanny valley issues and still allows for enough personalisation to fit most individuals
as to why - because some groups think sharing space is nice, which ignore a bunch which just want give me the tasks you want me to do, and ill do them and done. none of this group activity stuff
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I'm actually moving in the opposite direction to get invasive tech out of my life.
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The Websters dictionary defines the Metaverse as a virtual world full of creeps and peeping toms lorded over by the creep king.
[citation needed]
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In it's ultimate incarnation, it's the Matrix. Live (what you call) your life virtually.
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The Metaverse is the name of a new user interface designed to increase engagement among viewers of advertising on the internet. The metaverse reduces cost to marketers by using viewers' resources to render the advertising content. The metaverse drives sales of supported third-party components for graphics processing and provision of bandwidth, creating business synergy through a mutually profitable positive feedback loop.
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Specifically on solving one. I started looking at these on CP every day when I retired ~3 years ago. Every once in great while I actually succeed. Although by the time I read the clue it's late afternoon in the UK so the game is long over. (South Dakota resident in the central US.)
The rules state that the definition is at the beginning or end of the clue. Is there a trick to knowing which it is? Or do you attempt both until you hit upon the solution?
Take today's clue for instance:
Quote: Rules that is mixed liberty (7)
Did the "is" denote that the definition was 'liberty'?
In other words was the clue really 'Rules that' is an anagram (after morphing 'that') of a word that means 'liberty'?
This just occurred to me as I was writing this post. But, I have seen other clues where words were just thrown in to make a 'proper' sentence, so I'm not sure about this either.
My reasoning went as:
I noticed that 'liberty' has 7 letters as does the answer. So, I reasoned that 'mixed' meant the answer was an anagram of 'liberty' whose definition/synonym would be 'rules'. I was unable to come up with a solution. So, I read the other responses until I found the solution offered by OriginalGriff. I completely understood the explanation given and thought it quite clever. I nearly always get the reasoning when it's spelled out and can often reverse engineer the thought process if not. But, this isn't the first time I've wondered how it was determined which end had the definition, hence my question.
Thank you in advance for any enlightenment forthcoming.
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If one end isn't working, try the other! 
No, seriously - the clues deliberately try to misdirect you, so what you think you are reading may not be what you should see. Anagram indicators are a case in point: sometimes they are just there to head you off in the wrong direction.
Enigmatic stew is a gumbo and the final item in menu! (9)
AMBIGUOUS
Enigmatic could be an anagram indicator, but so can stew - so is ENIGMATIC the word to find an anagram from, or should STEW GUMBO be looked at? Should some "final" and "item" be in "menu"?
And sometimes ... sometimes the whole clue is a misdirection: "Gegs! (9, 4)" for example!
It's like any other skill - the more you try, the better you get. Good luck!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Thank you for your response! Assuming either end is how I've been attacking them but I became curious as to whether or not there was a 'trick' involved. At first I went about 6 or 8 months without getting a single one and was about to give up on the whole idea when I actually solved one on my own. I thought, "Well, I may be an idiot, but I'm not complete idiot!" So, I have vowed to endeavor to persevere.
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I'm only smart enough not to play, so you got me beat.
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Go for it! What's the worst that can happen?
Fresh minds are always welcome. 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I'm in the same boat.
I only started attempting the clues about 12-18 months ago and am still very much at the beginner level. Remember some of these guys having bee doing cryptics for 20+ years.
There are a lot of resources out there to help you along. For example
Intro[^]
Setting an _solving aids[^]
Good luck and keep at it , they can be a lot of fun.
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