Crypto Games: Report from hell 

Not just admitting that it's a ponzi scheme; proudly saying he's apart of the scheme and exploiting less fortunate people for his gain

When I saw that clip I REALLY thought he was a critic of the game, and then he goes on to say he uses it as an investment. What a psycho.

Anyone with slightest notion in business could tell how those games work. It basically the same concept of "social/relationship marketing" applied to cheap made games. The only people who really profits are those who already have a lot of money and prestige to begin with. Praying on top of the enthusiastic poor people.who joins later.

this is why people believe in the reptilian conspiracy. thats not a human being bro

I could smell the Soylent caked neckbeard just from hearing it be read.

Throwing in a timestamp: This section starts at around 15:00. It's a wild propoganda piece thrown in bloomberg. Hope the crptobros are okay after drinking the Kool aid.

This guy is totally the kind of person who goes to play a fighting game with his friends and pick the secret boss after getting his ass kicked using the regular characters.

It’s literally the “shrek is love” copypasta lmao

Right?? Absolute piece of art

I'm a successful equity futures trader. Now that I have time to step back and look at the USA's superstructure, I'm impressed by its hollowness.

Seriously, it's amazing that crypto people can delude themselves into thinking that they're challenging anything considering how awful their "art" is. Everything that calls itself counter-culture is just garbage for teenagers these days, it's a shame.

Because the worst thing a piece of art can be is boring

Yeah it's cheap and mass produced, two of the things that often makes stuff forgettable. I remember at one point that nfts was a great way for artists to profit off their work, and then for it to almost immediately go over to screwing over artists

@@luclin92 I don't think there was ever really a time for _artists_ to profit off what they create through NFTs. The most the average artist would do is mint a token, then get the profits from selling it - no different from selling another work. Especially early on, most artists would not have enough knowledge of the blockchain to include a royalty payout when minting an NFT. It's not a skill the average artist has, and the information given {artists get money from secondary sales} left out crucial information.

​@@JimmyMcG33"Come and get your punk at Woolworth's/ bondage trousers 12 pounds, mohair jumpers sold next to cardigans...

Whenever you ask them why NFT is a good technology their only response is "well did you see how much bored ape NFTs are worth now?" As if that's got anything to do with the question

I've got "its the future" a few times, which is sort of a variation on "its an investment". A few of the more open crypto guys have straight up said its a get-rich-quick scheme so, eh.

@@Kyfow I could see it as a useful piece of technology that’s part of a much larger ecosystem rather than the current overhyped scheme it currently is. Some easy solutions I could see are: 1. Use the block chain for a more basic and worthwhile task. That way the computing power is not a waste of natural resources as those computers would be running anyway and the task would still need to be done. 2. Incorporate the assets into an established engine like Unity. Imagine your TF2 hats being useable in any game on steam with an easy implementation for any dev. 3. Remove or at least reduce the scarcity. The “uniqueness” and inflated prices are a symptom of the fad and current mindset, not the underlying technology. Even if the items are identical having a decentralized proof of ownership can still be valuable for a game ecosystem.

@@jacobb5484 1. Blockchain is worthless outside of artificially kneecapping whatever process its used for, and if a lot of processes have to run through it at the same time (such as monetary transactions), the program glitching and creating several forks of itself becomes an incredibly common issue. 2. Commodification of customization and implementing DRM features, inherently tied to said commodification, is a terrible idea for games, actually. 3. You can already have "ownership" of digital items in games. MMOs have been doing so for well over two decades now.

yea fuck NFTS. Im so fucking tired of them. Im so fucking tired of this money addiction everyone has. God fucking dammit it’s ruining everything. Can we just bring supply drops back? At least it was still a fucking video game for fucks sake

AI has an actual use.

@@sweetypussJust like how actual art might hold real value. The issue with AI is its highly regarded by techbros (the type to praise NFTS) to be the next big market. edit: watch around 26:30 for the type of talk that’s going around.

It’s massively overhyped compared to its actual utility so far. The image generation is still gonna need a lot more time and dev to be more than just a hobby toy for nonartists (like me kek, but I don’t misrepresent it as handmade art). LLMs still hallucinate too much to be reliable enough to destroy jobs. Wake me up when General Intelligence finally becomes a thing.

@@sweetypuss AI in general has an actual use. the uses of AI that techbros are currently creaming themselves over, are not real uses. AI """""""art""""""" is horrendous and disgusting. it took the soullessness of NFTs and cranked it up an extra notch. AI writing screenplays? get the fuck out. AI should be doing boring shit that no humans want to do, in order to free us up to do creative work. why aren't techbros focusing their energy on a toilet cleaning robot powered by AI, but instead spending all their time ripping off millions of pieces of art to spit out some soulless, uncreative, inherently derivative work of """art"""?

@@tanningbed Even these use cases have their tangible benefits that I've felt right away. AI Art is incredibly useful for coming up with character tokens for my dungeons and dragons game. I was *never* going to commission an artist to make a portrait for this one-off character. AI creative writing is a great tool that allows me to explore ideas. Everything it makes is derivative, but it can serve as a great starting point or inspiration on a theme that's readily accessible. A lot of writing *is* boring stuff that no humans want to do. There's a whole host of reports and technical breakdowns and stuff that is basically just flowery language that says barely anything but is required anyway because a huge percentage of what we do is just unnecessary. I wish it wasn't like that, but it is, and AI is useful there.

Thanks! I love making these videos, so I'll keep it up as long as I can.

I'd make the argument this is the necessary result of capitalism and the idea of the commodity.

@@ascendedchairmanofthelemur9711 Yes, hence why Capitalism is a cancer.

It's like a tumor on a tumor

As one of those "hyper libertarians" I'd argue it's pretty far from the libertarian dream as libertarians do still want "some" government. It's an ancaps wet dream (granted loads of ancaps call themselves libertarians as that far more socially acceptable). A decentralized currency would, in theory, be something I like in theory. However except for it's ideals and maybe the first year or 2 crypto isn't a currency. It's an speculative investment object in it's best light and more realistically it's a fractional ponzy scheme mainly controlled by social media influencers trying to make a quick buck. And I don't see any decentralized currency working that doesn't require an abject failure of government akin to Venezuela, pre-WW2 Germany or Zimbabwe and the currency being a basic step up from bartering (and even then loads of basic economic functions wouldn't easily function). If crypto has shown me anything is that lots of people are completely and utterly economically illiterate people regardless of political alignment are and will believe anything that just promised "more money" for them. Believing Crypto works is the libertarian equivalent of "socialism has never been tried", they are both fundamentally flawed and doomed to fail if not outright corrupt from the very start.

The game even has the GameStop shortsqueeze thing from a few months back

Same for me. It also reminds me of the book Feed

Cruelty squad is just modern reality with better graphics

On purpose.

Biological currencies

we were the cruelty squad all along

So that's it? What? We some kinda Cruelty Squad?

This truly is the Gorbino's Quest of life.

It really fucking feels like it

maybe the real cruelty squad were the nfts we screenshotted along the way

Thanks for the head’s up

I loved the music and a lot of it was new to me. Thank you for putting it in the credits.

I've been looking at unity dev jobs and and the non-AAA are mostly gambling apps and crypto shit. It's sad, but that's where the easy money in indie games is.

bro usdc is on par with the usd, and can gain up to 2% cashback through the coinbase card, plus a 0.5% interest rate for holding, so they basically offered to give you a free debit card with cashback, coupled with a savings account with a 200% higher return than most savings accounts in the usa

@@almost_friday9745 where do i find these jobs? i can use unity and blender and i dont mind making shitty games for cash XD

@@PerceyIchorreBro you're an idiot if you think there's any reason to believe USDC is genuinely worth 1 USD each. You only have their word for it, and if the major fraud and scandals that rock the web3 world every day are anything to go by, I have no doubt it will be as worthless as the rest instantly and without warning. Stop drinking the kool-aid.

You'd be better of making smut in Unity. Atleas, it's something someone will enjoy.

Life is the natural process which produces superheavy elements.

​@@FrommermanIncluding peoples' egos.

​@@Frommermansupernovae?

At least beer will give you an actual buzz.

As someone who dislikes alcohol, I do find more value in have a beer than a NFT

It was driving me crazy recognizing the music, but I forgot which game. I have bought the console release a couple times and even played it on one of those linux handheld emulator consoles. How could I forget it, lol

And whose work has since been stolen and actively being exploited by a corporation.

Well said. It's getting increasingly harder to cope with the world when commodifying art or monetizing that which was free is seen as innovation. Innovation at a global scale, nevertheless. Truly the only way this devolution can become bearable is through a lens of twisted irony.

Yeah, I think this and Line Goes Up are both great videos on the horror of NFTs.

People assume rich people somehow earned their wealth. No, they all inherited it or stole it in some fashion. With VERY few exceptions. There is no correlation between being rich and being smart.

I did a little bit of spying in crypto Discord channels, and it seems like everyone is getting scammed and everyone thinks they're the scammer, and the blatant lying and hyper-positivity stems from that imo. Very strange and very sad. If you're interested in crypto I imagine you've seen this video (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YQ_xWvX1n9g.html) but he really hits the nail on the head with the psychology behind this stuff.

@@JimmyMcG33 As someone who had a shit job shilling a crypto that was fairly blatantly a scam (only job I could get with no experience through a government job scheme, so clearly they did fuck all research), that definitely seems to be the case. Lots of people feeling like they're the ones scamming all the late buyers, while just being scammed by the token maker in the first place. That is, if those people aren't just sockpuppet accounts for the token maker, as was the case in ours. Outright buying crypto twitter accounts just to shill shitty crypto for money and look like there's a real following. Ended up with some positives out of it thankfully. Enough computer experience to get me a job at an accounting firm, dodging the bullet that was "Hey, how about we pay half your wages in our token?", and getting a good laugh out of the fact one of the twitter accounts we bought used to post nothing but gay porn. Meaning all the related accounts whenever anyone looked at the profile was similarly gay porn, even though the name of the account had changed. I never told the managers, I just found it too funny to allow them to fix. "Why aren't people engaging with our tweets? Why are we getting weird recommended accounts??"

This hostility is easily explained when you consider the fact that these idiots who've just spent a ton of money on some ugly monkey picture absolutely REQUIRE that someone else believes that this monkey picture is worth that money for them to make a profit. Any person who makes fun of Crypto, and especially NFTs, devalues their purchase and puts them at risk of being a sucker - which is what they are.

Four words: Sunk cost fallacy psychosis

Its great. Shame that gacha games stick (at least many of popular gacha are actual GAMES as opposed to crypto ones), but most grim future is avoided, for now

@@AtticusKarpenter gacha games aren't going away as long as the lucrative (budget) smartphone market in east asia and southeast asia exists unfortunately

that's it, you win the comment section today

Now they've all moved onto "ai"

They probably only interact with them as a means to cynically use them as a way to get people hooked on their abstract gambling machines. It’s basically just the ground-level version of already-existing game giants’ CEO’s mindsets. Get people gambling. Get them hooked. Keep them spending. Emotionally manipulate them into never escaping the cycle. Generate revenue.

and everyone couldn't be happier also it was just like people talked so much about it and then they just stopped

I agree really good outro overall. 99% of the time your interactions with people are going to be either completely okay or possibly even pleasant. As much as human nature harbors a natural evil, society tends to want to be good to everyone most of the time.

I'd say that steam is closer because at least the items in the auction house serve some kind of purpose - you're getting better equipment to play a game less. Whereas with NFTs, the only thing that makes them ""valuable"" is the artificial scarcity built into the concept of them. An NFT isn't worth millions because it contributes to society - it's worth that much because cryptonerds gouge each other for profit.

2nd layer has made it a fraction of the computing and energy cost now.

folding ideas would be great as well

Call me stupid, but I decided to redownload the game. I think they removed the NFT feature. I'm not seeing it anywhere. Edit: yeah they removed it literally 2 days ago.

This is why i do not play mobile games that are not PC ports. The only reason to make a mobile game is to bank on gullible people, and the devs know this.

An underrated psychological need that's being sorely missed in today's informational metropolitan hellscapes is the need for community and to feel like you belong within it. It's likely the cause of many mental health issues that no one even knows their neighbors anymore, meaning it's a lot more likely they lack empathy even for the people immediately living around them.

how could you see it?

@@johnmatrix3664 smell-o-vision technology

@@a_blind_sniper oh shit gg