• BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    The Krassensteins aren't exactly in a position to call anyone else grifters.

    edit: Lol, they even had an NFT site themselves, I had no idea.

    • ReadFanon [any, any]
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      11 months ago

      From the outside it looks like he's just doing satire but deep down he's really doing market research.

  • Raebxeh
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    11 months ago

    Is this considered grifting in your eyes or is it just good old fashioned capitalism by a man who might be running low on money?

    same-picture

  • Feinsteins_Ghost [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    The number one poster in our hearts is become the number one grifter in our wallets.

    trump-dapper

  • ElGosso [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    ngl every time something like this comes up I feel like an idiot for not getting in on the grift

    • Nakoichi [they/them]
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      11 months ago

      For real lol my current rig was viable for early crypto mining and I was like "lol nobody is stupid enough to pay for that shit" and boy was I spectacularly wrong.

      • ElGosso [he/him]
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        11 months ago

        Imagine getting in on the ground level in 2016 and selling like Trump t-shirts and then pivoting to like Qanon "patriots are in control" kinda shit in 2019

        You'd make a fuckin fortune

        • WIIHAPPYFEW [he/him, they/them]
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          11 months ago

          The real long con would be making Tea Party merch in 2011 -> Ron Paul merch in 2012 -> Gamergate merch in early 2015 -> Trump merch as soon as he starts showing up in polls -> Q merch in 2018 -> Jan6 and Brandon merch in 2021

          Imagine how many bored apes you could buy with that accumulated moolah

          • ElGosso [he/him]
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            11 months ago

            Tbh I don't think the market was there until Trump

          • mathemachristian [he/him]
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            11 months ago

            They are talking about everquest, if I understand the messages correctly:

            a) trump has to sell a rare and valuable in game item because of his financial troubles

            b) a common call for help when a player is getting overwhelmed by enemies, probably due to poor judgment/overestimation of ones abilities

            c) asking for handouts to pay for a "resurrection" that will allow a playable character who lost a fight to be put back in the game.

            • Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]
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              11 months ago

              Notably, the purpose of the "train" was to get your corpse as close to a safe spot as possible. You need to loot your own corpse to recover your items, or they're lost forever.

              Death also came with a substantial experience loss, and you could lose levels through death. Resurrection mitigated most of that (and fully eliminated it once Alternate Advancement points opened up).

  • Rom [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    tbh at this point if anyone falls for this shit it's entirely their own fault