High school math can prove the earth is round, we’re talking Algebra II and Trigonometry. No point in talking with people who can’t do basic math and enjoy deluding themselves. What is the flat earth argument to why we have never found the ‘edge” of this disc we live on? Flat earthers are dumber than conspiracy…

The lengths folks will go to make themselves feel special and smug and persecuted for having secret information is so sad.

I miss the times when people actually felt shame about being stupid instead of parading their stupidity like proud standard bearers.

Better to just put all flat-earthers in a plane and send it up to space with no air onboard. If there’s no space, they shouldn’t have a problem running out of breathable atmosphere. 

I still have some tokens for the TILT arcade that used to be in the local mall.  Maybe I can use them at the (checks notes) ... American Eagle that’s there now.

“But there’s already a way to do this”

Blockchain is always a rug pull. The goal is to be the person not standing on the rug when it gets yanked.

IE: Pyramid scheme

No, not exactly that. The argument often pushed by crypto bros is that you can move digital assets between games freely. It’s a fanciful scenario where you could theoretically take a sword for example in one MMO and use it in a completely different game. And of course that would never work in the real world.

It isn’t worse, it just has nothing to do with the game being based on NFT/Blockchain or not.

“retaining the value of your purchase”

Not so sure about that.

Nope, those are replacement tokens for that company’s specific next game, (something that could be done before without NFT, and therefore isn’t relevant). I’m talking about how the magic of NFT is that the original still have value despite the fact that the game they were made for no longer exists.

Its worse because the dlc cost $100,000 was touted as an investment and doesn’t exist anymore.

Not much of an investment if your return is a random trash car in a game you didn't ask for

A LOT of NFTs rely on what is essentially a loot box mechanic: you pay like 0.7 ETH to mint a booster pack and then hope that what you mint ends up being rare enough to make money. There are a few that are particularly egregious, where you mint 3 packs and can EXCHANGE them for a more elite tier of booster pack. It’s…

“Tokens are now practically worthless”

it’s called a pyramid scheme.

I feel like it’s rather telling that this implementation of awful nft bullshit ultimately also wraps itself in loot boxes. A scam embedded within a scam.