You see, the thing you’re calling a “foam pit” here is actually a concrete floor that has a thin layer of large, hard foam cubes spread on top of it.

The foam pit is not deep enough to properly jump into, so they’re really hitting lightly padded concrete.

How is this confusing? If you jump from a height onto a hard surface, you are at risk of hurting yourself, especially if you’re under the impression there is enough cushioning material to break your fall. All it takes is landing incorrectly. 

From the video it looks very shallow. You can see the the edge of the “pit” goes up like a foot from the concrete floor. The only way it would be deep is if they purpose built the pit and dug up the floor. I feel like the participants had to walk through the pit to get to the platforms so they would know how shallow…

it would probably even be safer to have no foam at all. now the foam gives a false sense of security. do you think you would make that jump with a split and land on your tail bone when you didn’t see the foam pit? 

Nah, look at the boundary of the pit compared to the size of the spectators; that is very clearly too shallow. This would be obvious to someone who’s studied engineering, of course, but it certainly wouldn’t be considered unreasonable to someone in the entertainment industry, much less when held at such a high-profile…

When watching it. You can see the moment she hit the ground.  She does a small bounce when she hit it.  The “pit” they made was like 1-2 feet tall.  The foam blocks themselves would have protected the fall if the pit was deeper and had more of those blocks.  Like in trampoline or bouncy parks, they usually have the…

Oh wow, it looks fine in the pictures which is probably why the participants don't really hesitate to jump in but in the video when they land you can see it's far too shallow. Plus with those huge cubes of foam you're more likely to force them out of the way and fall through them than really land on them. A crash mat…

Every conversation I’ve ever had with a lawyer about those waivers is that they’re basically worthless if you have a lawyer who’s at least minimally competent.

I smell multiple lawsuits incoming.

Because no one wanted this. NO...ONE!

The problem is that they are not creative people, they are techies, a software like this need users that think out of the box to make it cool by experimenting. It’s sad that of all the Facebook employees nobody came up with Tik Tok first, nobody came up with filters, nobody came up with zoom, nobody came up with…

For thousands of years of human history, have we not yet come to understand that the best way to get someone to not enjoy doing something is to require them to do that thing for their job?

I could either send a quick email or strap on a VR set, wait for it to log in and then have a virtual meeting?

“We are working on a product that has not found product market fit”

This reminds me of when I was with VZW and they were trying to sell us all on Oath, and particularly go90. The push was just so hard. Inbox loaded with emails about it, and how reps should be bringing it up with every interaction.

I these clowns would just adopt a game dev mentality with this stuff they’d have a lot less difficulty.

The fact that they renamed the entire fucking company after this completely made up concept is HILARIOUS. I so enjoy watching Facebook fail.

what a fail, their job should be why and what inevitably makes it lovable, if they have to be forced to love it then it’s a bad product.

I have one friend on myspace. His name is Tom.