This emoji summarizes it perfectly: 🤢
The whole article reads like satire.
Submitted 2 months ago by Carighan@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
https://www.videogamer.com/news/flappy-bird-crypto-website/
This emoji summarizes it perfectly: 🤢
The whole article reads like satire.
I had a bad feeling when I saw another developer had picked it up. This sounds worse than I imagined.
I am so shocked, I have to put all my shock into a spoiler:
Did you catch how shocked I am? I’ll do it again:
Ok, maybe not that shocked.
The author’s points are:
It’s pretty easy to tell that this guy spends at least half of his waking hours on reddit. He also completely glossed over the fact that it’ll be open source, so we can just fork it and cut out the icky parts
One small but important correction. NFTs are not a scam, it’s an amazing technology that has the potential to revolutionize lots of stuff, that became popular when people used it for stupid shit.
Saying NFT is a scam because people have used it to scam others is like saying phones are a scam because people call others over the phone to scam them.
NFTs are essentially a decentralized token. This means that they can be used to represent anything you might want to represent with a token, e.g. ownership of a physical object such as a car or a house; ownership of a digital asset, such as a website or game; some predetermined amount of something, similar to a stock or bonds; etc. The fact that some people used it to mean ownership of random pictures and people thought buying random pictures on the internet for a ridiculous amount of money was a good idea tells you more about people than about the technology.
You call them scammers, then say their right to scam should be protected by licenses? I say we scam the scammers by forking it and doing whatever the fuck we want with it 🙂
I feel like they’re a couple years late to the boat on that (already sunken) fad
Why am I not surprised.
First Neopets, and now Flappy Bird? No thanks.
april@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The original author made an incredible hit and everyone got so jealous that they bullied him off the internet. Really sad story.
Now this crappy wannabe group buys the trademark years later and thinks they can fool people?
Toribor@corndog.social 2 months ago
In their defense many people are exceptionally dumb.
SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s totally going to work.