Just going to drop this parallel thread here. There’s really a whole lot of different angles as to how this is a hilariously dumb thing. https://t.co/cBWe2gtDIp
I was casually watching the last half of the game while eating dinner, and I was bemused at some of the crypto commercials.
There was one that felt like a fever dream, A guys asks a question about crypto on social media, and that question is "liked" by a cloud of floating people and CG things. The cloud finds him and an attractive lady pulls him up to float with them. More people discover this floating cloud and "like" the original guy's question.
...but is his question answered? Well, it's "answered" non-diegetically but in the world of the commercial, it's not, and everyone's happy? It was fucking insane.
To every generation is born, an entitled group of douches who believe everyone elses work is theirs to do with as they like.
Ok ok ok it’s a wild idea I know, but just hear me out, what if the main goal of the game was to collect and keep cards like stocks in future decks? Revolutionary I know.
This is such a fundamental misunderstanding of how a card game meta functions it’s either deliberate or we are looking at people who have never been good at this game, never really understood it, nor do they have any game design experience and want to morph the game into something they do understand.
(At the very basic turn based card games rely on the action economy. If you do bigger or more stuff on your turn, keeping your opponent reacting to you, you will often win. Some cards just do more for you each turn and no amount of trying different combinations of lesser cards will amount to the same consistency.)
This essentially puts a cap on the number of people who could possibly have a top competitive deck. Creating classes of players all fighting within those classes. I presume their final goal is to create deck owning whales who have all the required cards to be competitive, loaning them out to players of their choice, at a price or large cut of the winnings.
You know, I generally consider myself a decent coder, and I strive to write bug-free, correct code, but "code is law" scares me shitless.
I would say that even the features I am most proud of has edge cases that a user produced an undesirable outcome simply by using the software is ways I didn't anticipate.
Pixelmon, a game what says what if pokemon but in the currently popular minecraft ‘voxel’ style and everything was an NFT. Raised $70 million and released what turned out to be a bunch of modified asset flips from the Unity Store, rendered using a voxel filter. Creator Syber (with an S) swears this isn’t a rug pull and promises they will use that $70m on building a game, and not lambo rockets to the moon.
Believe it or not, a lot of crypto/bitcoin type companies are courting me during my job search. Despite not having a finance background, I'm still fairly qualified in this field, with experience in both cryptography and general-purpose GPU computing (i.e., using graphics cards for applications other than graphics).
It turns out even I have a line (all evidence in my resume to the contrary), but I'm entertaining these solicitations and giving them a laughably high salary requirement. The idea is they presumably can afford it, what with being the giant scam that it is, and I can leverage any offers from them into less laughably high but still high offers from other companies that I could actually stomach working for.
Last week I had a conversation with a woman who is employed as a creative writer with the goal of creating short stories to promote DAOs. She seems like a very kind, thoughtful, intelligent, and compassionate person who truly believes that DAOs are the secret to changing the world for the better, and she is all in on it (even joking? that she is a cult member). I read a very long piece she wrote and came away thinking maybe DAOs really can change the world for the better, but not really understanding them any better.
Did you think “I want to listen to Dan Olson talk for another hour about NFTs and crypto” after that Folding Idea’s video? Well have no fear! (There’s nothing ground shattering, and I wouldn’t say this is required listening, but still interesting enough.)
I tried to read that but my brain shut off about 1/3 of the way in. So then I looked for an explainer on YouTube and tried about 1 minute each of two different crypto bros talking about it an my brain literally melted. So anyway.
We should ask Pan if this means NFT stands for Non-Floral Tulips:
Tweets like this just show how much ignorance there is around NFTs. You aren't actually buying nothing. You are buying a *reference* to nothing. If you are going to criticize something at least get it right. https://t.co/dmqU9it858
I went to #SXSW for a week and saw things you wouldn't believe. Humanoid rabbits minted as 3D NFTs. I watched people struggle to explain the purpose of the NFT project they were observing. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain (i hope) https://t.co/LY5jTS6OQG
I'm having fun on my job search. Most of the cryptocurrency-type jobs I ignore, unless I feel like there might be a little something there that would at least make it a legit job (secret criteria that exist only in my brain).
My favorite part is when we get to the "Do you have any questions for me?" part of the call. "Yes, can you please explain how this is a sustainable business model?"
My favorite part is when we get to the "Do you have any questions for me?" part of the call. "Yes, can you please explain how this is a sustainable business model?"
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I'm having fun on my job search. Most of the cryptocurrency-type jobs I ignore, unless I feel like there might be a little something there that would at least make it a legit job (secret criteria that exist only in my brain).
My favorite part is when we get to the "Do you have any questions for me?" part of the call. "Yes, can you please explain how this is a sustainable business model?"
Given the reported frequency of scam & mlm stuff in crypto I'd ask for some guarantees around actually getting paid.
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