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quote:To anybody not in the Neopets community y’all are missing the craziest hobby drama™️ right now. Basically tl;dr is that Neopets’ parent company announced that Neopets would be releasing THOUSANDS of NFTs without even telling the actual staff team responsible for the Neopets site. They literally initially state that they think the NFT announcement is a scam. Once it comes into light that it’s not a scam, Neopets users very very loudly protest this and vocally express that they are against this decision, which goes completely ignored. More details pop up and the whole thing starts to look really suspicious: The NFTs are going to be produced and managed via a third party company that just popped up about a month ago. They are affiliated with Neopets’ parent company in nebulous ways that suggest money laundering. They run an official Neopets Metaverse Discord where the word “gay” is autobanned by a bot but the word “human being” gets thrown around (as well as alleged racism and transphobia going unmoderated). When people in the server complain about this one of the mods starts spewing insane NFTbro accusations that the people complaining are just trying to spread anti-NFT propaganda or something. Later, it’s revealed that the NFTs themselves are made using stolen/uncredited assets from a Neopets fan site. This is revealed because they don’t even bother to fix a visual glitch that is unique to that site. They refuse to address this or give credit when it’s pointed out, so they aren‘t just taking assets without acknowledgment but this means they cannot even produce their own drat art for the thing. NFTbros start joining Neopets and hacking/buying old accounts to act like long time players in “support” of NFTs. Actual users start protesting with log-off days, unsubscribing from premium membership, sending anti-NFT art to the art gallery, etc. Sketchy Neopets Metaverse Twitter starts promoing NSFW/18+ NFT projects and posting 4chan-tier NFTbro wojak memes (think “virgin X chad Y” type stuff), totally obliterating the whole “Neopets is a family friendly all-ages game where even writing that your Neopets are married to each other or saying the word cuCUMber can get you banned” thing. Finally, most recently, Neopets Metaverse announces their end goal plans for the Neopets NFT project: An entirely pay-to-play version of the site, where everything you do is powered by cryptocurrency microtransactions. To make matters worse, this announcement reveals that the third party does not know a SINGLE THING about Neopets, and describes “pay to play” features that literally are not a thing on the site, while not mentioning a single aspect of the site that is actually possible. This is alongside the fact that the actual, FREE to play Neopets website is currently almost completely unplayable since they have not converted it since Flash died. This makes it look like Neopets is slowly being switched over to entirely pay-to-play via cryptocurrency microtransactions. https://thepavi.tumblr.com/post/664700342361063424/to-anybody-not-in-the-neopets-community-yall-are 
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lets get in on the ground floor we need some bonzi buddy nfts stat
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Penisface posted:lets get in on the ground floor ponzi buddy
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gschmidl posted:ponzi buddy 
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gschmidl posted:ponzi buddy
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njsykora posted:this is a fun one, the british museum selling nfts which feels a lot like they're making as much money as they can before the countries demanding their stuff back get too loud and potentially fighty to ignore owns that they've found a new way to overcharge tourists for worthless tat in the gift shop
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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Halloween / Spooky Crap > YOSPOS > buttcoin: ponzi buddy
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EorayMel posted:The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Halloween / Spooky Crap > YOSPOS > buttcoin: ponzi buddy
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gschmidl posted:ponzi buddy EorayMel posted:The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Halloween / Spooky Crap > YOSPOS > buttcoin: ponzi buddy 
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Adding my confirmation to the laughchain.
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EorayMel posted:The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Halloween / Spooky Crap > YOSPOS > buttcoin: ponzi buddy yes please
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EorayMel posted:The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Halloween / Spooky Crap > YOSPOS > buttcoin: ponzi buddy
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gschmidl posted:I'm seeing multiple unconfirmed instances of "ponzi buddy" on the postchain so I'll do the crypto thing of claiming I came up with it.
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gschmidl posted:ponzi buddy 
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EorayMel posted:The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Halloween / Spooky Crap > YOSPOS > buttcoin: ponzi buddy 
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gschmidl posted:ponzi buddy 
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here's a fun question about all the nfts using other people's ip or trademarked content: who do the rights holders sue?
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gschmidl posted:ponzi buddy goddamn that's a perfect thread title.
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gschmidl posted:ponzi buddy
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Hammerite posted:Neonazipets this also is p. good
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maybe you can reissue that one as "ponzi buddy cash"
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ponzi....from a bud?!
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Weatherman posted:maybe you can reissue that one as "ponzi buddy cash" Oh, you mean pbcash?
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gschmidl posted:Oh, you mean pbcash? DONT USE THAT WORD IT'S CALLED PONZI-BUDDY-CASH I'M TOO RICH TO BE INSULTED LIKE THIS
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gschmidl posted:ponzi buddy
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Blockchain's finally made it big.quote:In a world-first, Jaguar Land Rover has trialled the use of secure blockchain technology to ensure full transparency and complete accuracy within a sustainable supply chain. I can't believe Jaguar is putting their entire supply chain on the blockchain oh wait it's just for sourcing the leather.
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gschmidl posted:Blockchain's finally made it big. good thing you couldn't believe it. that kind of credulity would be embarrassing
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we will use bit-coin to guarantee that all our jaguar leather is 100% ethically sourced
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KnifeWrench posted:good thing you couldn't believe it. that kind of credulity would be embarrassing 
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Boxturret posted:we will use bit-coin to guarantee that all our jaguar leather is 100% ethically sourced by ethically we mean on the ethereum blockchain
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Penisface posted:by ethically we mean on the ethereum blockchain this startup was trying to claim just that today. "this is the ethical blockchain!!" https://twitter.com/usefathom/status/1447969519784251394?s=20
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please sell me the pixel cats made by the analytics company, internet
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