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[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Was the point to make money? I figured it was just a publicity stunt/tourism draw

[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 year ago (2 children)

…there’s an inside. It’s a concert venue. They make money by selling people tickets to shows.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah yes, like the madison cube garden

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

Sorry, Madison Cube Sphere.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Well, if they would just allow Blitzball, problems like this wouldn't happen in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

When I grow up, I'm gonna be a blitzball!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Pardon me but what is blitzball? Google was less than helpful

[–] Flyingostrich 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's a sport from the game final fantasy 10. It's kindof like handball or soccer but played 100% underwater. Not possible in real life but fun in a fantasy video game.

The sport is played in a giant water sphere.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here's the opening cutscene from Final Fantasy X which features blitzball: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWYwmM23Sqs

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ultimate Thunderball would be better.

And then Shirlling in the off-season.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

how does the sphere even intend to make money?

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

…there’s an inside. It’s a concert venue. They make money by selling people tickets to shows.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

If you don't go for round 3, imma be disappointed.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This and the promise that your ad on the outside could go viral on social media. Not sure how long that can keep up until people are tired of the sphere ads, but you know the project owners are hoping it's later rather than sooner.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So how did that work out for them? They lose money or smth?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Did u not look at the meme

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People pay to put their content on it, it’s a giant billboard

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can’t imagine companies are willing to pay enough to offset the ridiculous electricity and maintenance cost on that many lights.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Advertising costs are pretty insane sometimes but I feel this thing has a huge ROI mountain to climb. The lights and power aren’t my main issue, I have to support a few video walls in my line of work and a wall of screens a 10th the size of this thing runs 200k plus, they spent millions building this thing just in screens, not to mention whatever software needed to be made for it. It’s gonna take decades to make profit even if they sell it constantly and suffer almost no failures of equipment

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I think your estimations are reasonable, but some further information: it is not just a normal screen (with normal picel density) at a bigger size, but the pixels are rather far apart. So I would assume that this reduces the cost.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

i can't imagine it draws that much power, maintenance however must be absurd

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The inside is a concert venue with craziness too

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

People like this deserve to be scammed.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

They're just saying words at this point

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Bring back community-based screens in cities!

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