Except, that’s exactly what these gaming execs are pretending to pitch and it’s been around for years, also doesn’t require any blockchain/crypto/hype nonsense.

This stood out to me as well. Why would you need NFTs just to have a RMT market for in-game items? Do they just expect people to be dumb enough to fall for it (granted, this thought is not without merit) or is this “VP of innovations” not understanding the concept himself?

“But they don’t get it for now.”

Important point -- they didn’t “almost poison” somebody, they _did_ poison somebody! Customer drank the poison, was injured. No “almost” here!

There’s a 400 MHz gap between the 5G C-band frequencies being rolled-out (3.6-3.8 GHz) and the airlines’ altimeters (4.2-4.4 GHz), which is more than double what the airlines originally requested. If altimeters are running so far out of their registered range then the issue is with the airlines and not 5G.

This is all utter and complete horseshit.

I’ve seen that Joe Rogan is astrology for white dudes... but this... this will be added to the list.

NFTs only make sense if you don’t know what they are or what you’re actually buying.

This is the part I can’t wrap my head around.  I can’t grasp why the people buying the NFTs think it’s the same as purchasing the copyrights.  Most of these sales explicitly state you’re not buying the rights to the work.

‘NFTs are just beanie babies for people who get mad whenever there are black people in Star Wars movies’.

I guess it’s unsurprising that the people who think owning a receipt for a link to a picture is the same as owning that picture, confuse “owning a copy of a book” with “owning the rights to the content of the book.”

I like my car. I like being alive much more.  So much so, that I’d be willing to give up my car in an attempt to stay alive.  Of course, it’s not a 100% success rate, but if I’m dead, what good is my car to me anyways?

Good advice and bad advice pay the same when your business model doesn’t require return customers. 

This weird apologist take is just bad. These people are thieves, stealing things from OTHER people who legitimately bought something despite the poor economy. This isn’t a stick-it-to-bezos thing. This is impacting folks like you and me who work to pay their bills, then get their hard-earned shit stolen by someone who…

The crazy thing is that BBCE is the company that PSA uses as a subcontractor to verify the authenticity of all sealed Pokémon packs before they are graded. So anything in a PSA slab has been “verified” authentic by this same clown. 

We’re talking about the crazy world of collectors here, where unopened items are often worth ten times opened packages even if the contents are 100% identical. I assume that’s why traders would only check the box and, if it appears sealed and untampered, keep it that way + mark it as verified.

Wait, BCE’s defense was, “He didn’t ask us if they were Pokemon cards. He asked us if they were in good condition”? That’s some Twilight Zone genie shit.

If it’s ripping off a regular amount of money, it’s shitty. If it’s ripping off 3.5 million, there’s no such thing as a person who spent that kind of money on Pokemon cards who doesn’t deserve to be ripped off.

But Kevin Hart got cancelled! You know that one time that he voluntarily dropped out of hosting the Oscars. But the poor guy has only been able to make a few movies and a handful of tv series since. Hasn’t he suffered enough?