While you’re absolutely 1000% right about the first part, the second part is nearly as clueless as the typical cryptocultist bullshit lol.

I don’t think that’s entirely the intent. I think it’s more like “what if those stupid gems you get while playing that mobile game you play when you take a shit could also be used to get you something in this other game you’ll resume playing after you flush and wipe”.

Here’s the problem with this unrestrained metaverse (god I hate that word) bullshit:

E3's only real chance at coming back is if they basically just bat cleanup for everyone else and offer them a reasonable in-person venue for all the stuff they’ve already shown off themselves digitally.

The opening line is literally “Developer and publisher Epic Games will make its official foray into crypto with Grit...” as if they had anything to do with developing or publishing the game.

There was honestly no reason to even include Epic in that other article. They have nothing to do with the game beyond: “we’ll let them put it on our store as long as it follows the exact same rules as any other game”.

It’s not implied because they never insinuate that it’s an “either/or”, it could just as easily be interpreted as a “if this, why not this also”, which isn’t a choice thereby precluding the dilemma part of a false dilemma.

They’re kinda like baby pigeons: I’m sure there’s older people somewhere, but like...have you ever actually seen one? lol.

If Grandma can figure out how to annoy people on facebook on her tablet, I’m pretty sure the average lincolnonion? lincolnite? lincolnist? video game enthusiast from Lincoln can figure out how to download a game lol.

To be fair: they kinda cheat to get that number lol.

I’d imagine no GameStop store registers as “busy” these days lol.

Tim Sweeney discussing trademarks, 2022 (colorized):

What they posted wasn’t a false dilemma/dichotomy though.

you might wanna reread what I quoted from the article lol.

Whataboutisms and false dilemmas are different things.

white-color crime was considered not real crime and it flourished.

Sony seems to have really half-assed this thing out of a sense of obligation, not excitement.

That’s fine too, golden parachutes for all!