I'll say it directly, tech bazinga bros have never actually created anything. They take pre-existing things and make them worse and then call it technology when really it's just ways of hiring labor for cheaper amounts. They come at the world with the presupposition it can be made better if more lines of code are involved and you can make a phone app with a misspelled name. Uber? Taxis but worse. Crypto? Money but worse. NFTs are the culmination, where they're attempting to backwards engineer the very concept of ownership.
These guys are fun though because there's such a thin line between the ones who know it's a scam and the true believers. They're often the same person. Like the Juicero guy absolutely was on both sides of that.
I'm gonna make a guess that these people don't acknowledge the existence of media outside of Netflix
Plus, they do realize why that regurgitation exists, right? Capitalists preferring them to make something safe that will make money instead of something new that's risky.
So he wants bad video games based on bad books to be available for free online and this requires non fungible tokens somehow?
"It's going to be great and have so many new ideas"
ok like what
"dude just trust me buy the $300,000 monkey drawing"
innovation is when you write harry potter fievel goes west crossover fanfiction from 2003
I don't have a 'closed mind' like you foolish commies. My mind is completely open - any semblance of intelligent thought just falls right out onto the ground.
How exactly do NFTs have anything to do with a game development kit?
We're gonna make movies without hollywood.
So like indie movies?
No like in on a compute
So like a computer animated movie?
No without any studio space
So like a source film maker movie?
Noo with NFTs
A SFM movie with ugly apes. Gotcha
People who are starving for indie art, but don't know it exists, because the only way they know how to interact with the world is ownership.
I take solace in the fact that I've never once heard NFT's or the Metaverse mentioned by anyone in person. I rue the day that changes.
I work in tech so I have. One guy was convinced that blockchain would be the perfect solution for loyalty cards for pizza places because then you could transfer your stamps to your friends. He's a smart guy who usually recognises bullshit but he had convinced himself that such a setup couldn't be done with a centralised server.
Doesn’t art enter the public domain after X years? Have any of these idiots addressed that elephant in the room?
Bit idea: bring in treats for the class/office, but they're on the blockchain
Do these people ward off the thoughts in the back of their minds that they're making a bad investment by pretending NFTs are magic? Like, they're just an unreproducible bit of code that indicates ownership...
I've worked with a small team as a writer (and actor and editor and producer) to make a short film. It was a shitload of work over six months and the core team didn't even film most of the content. None of it could have been conceivably helped by blockchain technology. And we collaborated remotely and with people from all over. None of this is remotely new, even.
I truly believe there is a psychological mechanism, that we summarize as :brainworms: but might have serious clinical potential for study, that makes these bazinga brains reimagine the world in janky ways that get their “investments” to seem important and valuable.
Isn't that just an updated version of Concorde fallacy or sunken cost fallacy? When you invest enough money and social credibility in something it simply has to work and you pour more of your resources into it to make it work and convince yourself or works.
