techbros vaping a massive hit of their own fecal juices over NFTs really just blows my mind, it's a million times worse than regular bitcoin phantasmagoria because it's not even money or a thing, it's a hash that refers to a thing, usually a thing that doesn't exist.

If you bought an NFT artwork, congrats on the Jaypeg that literally anyone can copy. Value proposition: "Artists use to be able to sell things, but now they can sell things!" everyone claps and accepts their medals of honor like at the end of starwars.

If you bought horse armor NFT DLC, congrants on a.) nothing fundamentally different and b.) losing it when the game dev moves on to a new project or decides not to respect all the "immutable facts" on the blockchain.

There's basically zero incentive for game devs to make horse armor DLC that you can buy in one game then use in another. Game devs, when hunting for whales and fine tuning your slot machines for children, just use any database. Save the trees.

The worse part is the ideology behind it. Fanatics respond to criticism with stupid shit like "uh yeah, but now artists can sell stuff". Transitioning to a post-scarcity society is good. Artificial scarcity is bad. People who are inventing new ways to force others to use them as a middlemen and fetishisizing it as "I made myself a living selling <incoherent feudalist nostalgia>" is just disgusting.