• GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    When the video was showing footage for the decenterland thing it expanded into a big city that had flying cars. Why would you need transportation in a digital space? Fucking fast travel, it's not like it's GTA and you can have fun driving around.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      They could be almost anything in their imaginary world and a lot of them want to be landlords. :doomer:

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        That's the zany thing. They're trying to be landlords where it's cheaper to make your own land. The internet isn't finite.

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          They keep trying and keep trying and keep trying grift after grift after grift. And the grifts multiply faster than they fail. :cryptocurrency: :dumpster-fire:

          I suspect running a goldfarmer sweatshop in World of Warcraft would have more reliable returns than cryptogrifts at this point.

          • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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            2 years ago

            I'm certain of it. I actually ran some neopets scams back in the early YouTube days, promise free shit if you send login, clean em out and sell buffed out accounts for irl money. Which was not nice, don't do it, but it was an easy way to get drug money. Regardless having first hand knowledge of running a scam, you realize that even as a scammer you're a middle man and someone else is making money off your scam. In this case it was neopets. I'd clear out accounts full of rare crap and whatever and neopets gains by further engagement cause most WILL restart after being hacked and many will then take shortcuts to get back to where they were by paying for in game stuff instead of grinding it a second time. It's a system almost perfectly made for that relationship.

            • UlyssesT [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              I actually ran some neopets scams back in the early YouTube days

              Oh, that takes me back. :chomsky-yes-honey:

              promise free shit if you send login, clean em out and sell buffed out accounts for irl money

              The early stages of Andrew Taint's rise involved "recruit junior chuds, get into a raffle for pocket change" grifting, too.

              I’d clear out accounts full of rare crap and whatever and neopets gains by further engagement cause most WILL restart after being hacked and many will then take shortcuts to get back to where they were by paying for in game stuff instead of grinding it a second time. It’s a system almost perfectly made for that relationship.

              I can't help but wonder why the cryptobros don't just stick with the still reliable grifting mechanisms that already exist. Is it some persistent belief that if they get in early they'll get rich before the "greater idiot" is stuck behind them holding the bag? Was Bitcoin's obscene and nonsensical rise in profitability that lasting a legacy? :cap-think:

              • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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                2 years ago

                When a grift gets stale you gotta do it in a different way. Same fundamentally but you gotta dress it up different. And these are high stakes gambling addicts making an infrastructure for the casinos and thinking they'll.come out on top. Uncut Gems Grindset

                • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                  2 years ago

                  When a grift gets stale you gotta do it in a different way.

                  Waiting for the "metaverse" and associated NFTs/cryptogrifts to get stale, even if what comes next may be inconceivably worse. :doomer:

                  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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                    2 years ago

                    NFT's are pretty dead and crypto issuing back to the shadow realm. If these same people are pouring money into it, I can guarantee this won't stick either. The frontiers for new capital are completely exhausted and monopolized, and what these people don't get is thar although the space to post online and create online content is infinite, the ability to monetize things online is just as finite as in the real world because that's how capitalism functions, there are limits on expansion because money is funneled up and eventually there's none left to funnel except for things like gambling or speculation. And things like that never really hit the mainstream. You don't tske your family out to play the slots. It's a desperate attempt to claw out a space in capitalism that's either already filled or will never exist. They're combing the oceans for an undiscovered continent to colonize, barring any atom splitting level science thing, it's just people passing the same fish back and forth at the top and deluded gamblers who think owning the land the casino is on and hardly even charging rent cause they wanna bring new casinos makes them smarter than the casino that has cheap rent.