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This is actually great as an ad for a gamified retirement village. I'd take Geezer Fortnite over bingo and shuffleboard myself, given the choice. That sounds like a Valhalla I could even look forward to visiting, on my way back to dust.

I'm just not ready for Valhalla yet.

So this is Facebook, the empire of targeted advertising, badly missing the target with its own advertising.

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If Facebook in its current incarnation is any indication, the metaverse retirement village is going to be like the Matrix except they're going to harvest old people rage instead of energy.

I could see that. For a nominal fee they'd put retirement age Millenials and Zoomers into states as close to "brains in a jar" as they can manage. Then they'd cultivate their consciousnesses in a rage-cycle hell for profit. It gives me the same vibes as "Argent Energy" from Doom.

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