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by Suppafly 708 days ago
>I found that no, it really is that dumb, and I had understood it correctly months ago, and all the jargon was just meaningless bollocks word salad.

My brother is an artist and absolutely refused to believe that the hype around NFTs was just bullshit. I'm sure if I called and asked right now, he'd still give me some word salad about how it's going to start paying off any day now. Now if anyone talks to me about NFTs, I send that me that Folding Ideas youtube video, 'Line goes up' and refuse to engage with them.
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r0s 708 days ago
Totally agree about NFTs, but any artist gets a full pass from me.

Artists have it rough and I don't blame them for being charmed by con artists.

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kragen 707 days ago
> Now if anyone talks to me about NFTs, I send that me that Folding Ideas youtube video, 'Line goes up' and refuse to engage with them.

this sounds like a certain kind of stubbornness. but i wonder if the collison brothers listen with predatory intensity to critiques or their business from random strangers in the same way they listen to pg. perhaps some discrimination is useful

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scubbo 708 days ago
I have a friend who's still convinced that GameStop's going to the moon. Any day now...
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Suppafly 707 days ago
The thing with GameStop being a meme stock is crazy. If they were smart they would have used their increased value to restructure the business and make it viable so that it would actually be worth what the stock is worth.
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lelanthran 708 days ago
> Now if anyone talks to me about NFTs, I send that me that Folding Ideas youtube video, 'Line goes up' and refuse to engage with them.

When someone talks to you about a topic you don't want to engage in you send them a link to a 2.5 hour long video?

I mean, can't the point be made in 3m?

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singleshot_ 708 days ago
Making the point over and over and over for two and a half hours gives you time to run away and hide.
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AnimalMuppet 708 days ago
Well, it gets them out of your hair for 2.5 hours...

Unless they don't bother to watch it. Then it gets them out of your hair permanently, because they know they're supposed to watch it before hassling you about it again.

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Suppafly 707 days ago
>I mean, can't the point be made in 3m?

Honestly, it can be made as fast you can say 'NFTs are bullshit' but some people don't want to hear it from a friend or family member.

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