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From: Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN APRIL 2025?
Date: Tue, 6 May 2025 14:16:33 -0700
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On 5/6/2025 7:13 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> On Mon, 5 May 2025 08:50:23 -0700, Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 5/2/2025 7:59 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> 
>>> Apparently so. There's this one nutcase, for instance, who keeps
>>> bringing up NFTs, for instance. There are some real weirdos on this
>>> newsgroups, I tell you what!
> 
>> I haven't heard anything about NFTs in awhile. Surely they've gone the
>> way of the Dodo (but I mourn the Dodo.)
> 
> That almost sounds like a challenge to me. ;-)
> 
> 
> Well, let's see. There was the recent server failure where the host of
> a bunch of NFT images went down and people were no longer able to
> access the pig-pictures (or whatever butt-ugly 'art' they'd bought)
> that they'd purchased. The server was later restored, but it proved
> how ephemerally valueless NFTs are; you don't own the JPG, have no
> control over the hosting, anybody (or anything) can make it disappear
> and you have no control over it. Knowing that, it makes you wonder why
> anybody would pay thousands of dollars for the things.
> 
> 
> 
> Meanwhile, people who bought Nike NFTs are suing Nike for not properly
> supporting their NFTs. Basically, back when NFTs were the 'new
> hotness', Nike issued some NFTs. When it turned out that they were a
> slimey pyramid scheme and that no sensible business should be involved
> with NFTs, Nike started winding down their NFT operations. Obviously,
> this caused the remaining Nike NFTs to plunge in value
> 
>      [wait, shouldn't they have gone up in value, if they were
>       suddenly more rare? It's almost like NFTs don't have any
>       intrinsic value and are only a method of suckering in new
>       users who don't understand the value. Huh. Imagine that]
> 
> Anyway, the people who bought the NFTs saw their stupid sneaker-pics
> suddenly become worth nothing, and are suing Nike for not doubling
> down on the scheme so they could remain rich. Gee, I'm sure that won't
> make companies give second thoughts to entering the NFT market in the
> future. "You have to keep supporting this forever or we'll SUE you!"
> 
> 
> 
> Meanwhile meanwhile, numerous NFT marketplaces are shutting down
> because, surprise surprise, people don't care about the damn things
> and even _hosting_ a bunch of tiny JPGs is no longer profitable. X2Y2,
> thge third-largest NFT marketplace, just pulled stakes in the end of
> April, and it's not the first to do so.
> 
> 
> 
> So things are looking bright on the NFT front! Buy now. New SpallsCoin
> coming soon; use them to buy SpallsNFTs! And we're working on
> SpallsGame that will allow you to buy lootboxes that reveal NFT
> SpallsMTX that you will own and can resell on the soon to be launched
> SpallsCryptoMarket. ;-)
> 
> 
> (and now I gotta go take a shower. I browsed so many crypto-shit pages
> that I feel dirty from all the slime. And its not even convincing;
> it's got all the class of a porn website except they're not selling
> anything anybody wants.)



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