Wednesday December 8, 2021; 12:43 AM EST
- I hadn't expected to put my new Get My Latest Twitter Rant script to use again quite so soon, but here we are. I ran across this article on Medium, and before I'd even read it, I was ticked at the very notion of a video game making use of NFTs. #
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- I love stupid ideas, but of all the stupid fucking ideas I’ve heard lately, making a game that uses NFT or blockchain in any way has got to be not only stupid, but monstrously evil. Like, “we make ricin for kids”-level evil#
- NFTs in video games can only exist in a game targeted at whales. This is like a casino you carry with you everywhere you go. These whales are not rich people. These are no different from heroin or any other addiction. You are stealing their lives and leaving them misery#
- But not only are you ruining lives just for your own sake, you are churning carbon into heat even faster than ordinary bitcoin. To base a game on NFT you are creating a fountain of assets, each scorchingly costly to the rest of us, for your own sake#
- Anyone who would create or profit from a game based on NFTs is a fucking asshole#
- The very idea of suggesting an NFT game should cause derision and scorn toward those who suggest such a thing. These are the sorts of people who would sell literally anything to anyone, no matter how dangerous, without even thinking or caring. Only shame & mockery can stop them#
- I work for a game company, I make my living from completely frivolous products no one really “needs”. But we do need entertainment. What we do not need is entertainment that costs literal human misery. Anyone who cannot see that does not understand what it is to be human, just $#
- I am sick to fucking death of all these fucking assholes who think that just because it is not against the law then it is their sacred holy duty to extract every fucking dollar they can from any opportunity, no matter how shameful or the direct cost to actual humans, one or many#
- If your cute little game makes all its profits from whales, you are a fucking asshole. There are only two kinds of people involved with NFTs: the victims, and the fucking assholes.#
- Satoshi is anonymous because they are ashamed at what they have done. And if they are not ashamed, they should be#
- In a few million years, the raccoons that survive us are going to reach the center of the galaxy, and discover why the Fermi equation works out the way it does: blockchain#
- I guess externalizing all your costs on the rest of society is where it is at now. And here I am giving a shit about other humans like a sucker#
- It’s like, let’s take one thing that profits from human misery, which is gambling, casinos, and draining whales, and then add something that will help ruin the fucking planet for everyone else, AND we get to profit personally? #
- WHAT KIND OF ASSHOLE THINKS LIKE THAT??#
- I guess maybe we could add handguns. That’s it: a video game where you trade NFTs and you can cash them in for real-life murder toys like tactical rifles and accessories and ammunition. OK, that’s probably evil enough for the moment. Now to secure funding#
- Ok my video game where you trade NFTs for handguns is going to make me rich, and fuck all the rest of you. You are all such fucking idiots for educating me, providing me clean water and safe roads and parks. I am going to shit all over the rest of you for my own gain. Suckers#
- Blockchain is a grift. NFTs are a grift. I am a firm believer in the value of grift—I am teaching my son to deal Three Card Monte so he can have something to fall back on. Not kidding, actually. But a card game on a milk crate isn’t going to destroy lives or wreck the planet#
- Most people who think they are going to profit from one NFT scam or another are just being taken advantage of. You can see it in boardrooms with Bitcoin, everybody wants it and no one understands it. Execs get taken for a ride by common grifters with words like “non-fungible”#
- I just realized I need to make the NFTs in my video game an actual crypto currency. One that is tied to a real world standard: The handgun standard. Your game rewards will be priced in, and exchangeable for, weapons AND groceries. (Protip: if u have weapons u don’t have to pay)#
- NFT games are evil: 1) You’ll make 90% of profits from 5% of players, who will ruin themselves to do it 2) You are turning carbon into heat and can't even say "we are doing this because currency is a basic human thing", you are setting entire forests on fire for each tulip bulb#
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- Sponsored by Waste Heat, coming this fall to Netflix. Don't miss the Guncuddlers rant. #
Wednesday December 8, 2021; 12:43 AM EST
- I hadn't expected to put my new Get My Latest Twitter Rant script to use again quite so soon, but here we are. I ran across this article on Medium, and before I'd even read it, I was ticked at the very notion of a video game making use of NFTs. #
- #
- I love stupid ideas, but of all the stupid fucking ideas I’ve heard lately, making a game that uses NFT or blockchain in any way has got to be not only stupid, but monstrously evil. Like, “we make ricin for kids”-level evil#
- NFTs in video games can only exist in a game targeted at whales. This is like a casino you carry with you everywhere you go. These whales are not rich people. These are no different from heroin or any other addiction. You are stealing their lives and leaving them misery#
- But not only are you ruining lives just for your own sake, you are churning carbon into heat even faster than ordinary bitcoin. To base a game on NFT you are creating a fountain of assets, each scorchingly costly to the rest of us, for your own sake#
- Anyone who would create or profit from a game based on NFTs is a fucking asshole#
- The very idea of suggesting an NFT game should cause derision and scorn toward those who suggest such a thing. These are the sorts of people who would sell literally anything to anyone, no matter how dangerous, without even thinking or caring. Only shame & mockery can stop them#
- I work for a game company, I make my living from completely frivolous products no one really “needs”. But we do need entertainment. What we do not need is entertainment that costs literal human misery. Anyone who cannot see that does not understand what it is to be human, just $#
- I am sick to fucking death of all these fucking assholes who think that just because it is not against the law then it is their sacred holy duty to extract every fucking dollar they can from any opportunity, no matter how shameful or the direct cost to actual humans, one or many#
- If your cute little game makes all its profits from whales, you are a fucking asshole. There are only two kinds of people involved with NFTs: the victims, and the fucking assholes.#
- Satoshi is anonymous because they are ashamed at what they have done. And if they are not ashamed, they should be#
- In a few million years, the raccoons that survive us are going to reach the center of the galaxy, and discover why the Fermi equation works out the way it does: blockchain#
- I guess externalizing all your costs on the rest of society is where it is at now. And here I am giving a shit about other humans like a sucker#
- It’s like, let’s take one thing that profits from human misery, which is gambling, casinos, and draining whales, and then add something that will help ruin the fucking planet for everyone else, AND we get to profit personally? #
- WHAT KIND OF ASSHOLE THINKS LIKE THAT??#
- I guess maybe we could add handguns. That’s it: a video game where you trade NFTs and you can cash them in for real-life murder toys like tactical rifles and accessories and ammunition. OK, that’s probably evil enough for the moment. Now to secure funding#
- Ok my video game where you trade NFTs for handguns is going to make me rich, and fuck all the rest of you. You are all such fucking idiots for educating me, providing me clean water and safe roads and parks. I am going to shit all over the rest of you for my own gain. Suckers#
- Blockchain is a grift. NFTs are a grift. I am a firm believer in the value of grift—I am teaching my son to deal Three Card Monte so he can have something to fall back on. Not kidding, actually. But a card game on a milk crate isn’t going to destroy lives or wreck the planet#
- Most people who think they are going to profit from one NFT scam or another are just being taken advantage of. You can see it in boardrooms with Bitcoin, everybody wants it and no one understands it. Execs get taken for a ride by common grifters with words like “non-fungible”#
- I just realized I need to make the NFTs in my video game an actual crypto currency. One that is tied to a real world standard: The handgun standard. Your game rewards will be priced in, and exchangeable for, weapons AND groceries. (Protip: if u have weapons u don’t have to pay)#
- NFT games are evil: 1) You’ll make 90% of profits from 5% of players, who will ruin themselves to do it 2) You are turning carbon into heat and can't even say "we are doing this because currency is a basic human thing", you are setting entire forests on fire for each tulip bulb#
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- Sponsored by Waste Heat, coming this fall to Netflix. Don't miss the Guncuddlers rant. #