I don’t have anything long-form to talk about, but there’s been a bunch of smaller things. So let’s talk about those.
blockchain
Cryptogaming: A Brief Adventure
I had the Ethereum. I had Bitcoins and Doge Coin and even Bounce for awhile, but I had the Ethereum to play a few cryptogames. This is what I found.
Dragonereum: If NeoPets Cost $7,000
Am I just too stupid to play crypto browser games? Or just too poor?
I Burned Down a Rain Forest and All I Got Was This Stupid NFT
DC Fandome said — sign up and get a special NFT just for you! Tweet it, and get another one! Well, I’m just about to buy my Lambo, because I have an NFT and I’m gonna be RICH.
AtariNFT.io — the dumbest thing Atari has ever done.
I hate to be hyperbolic about this. But… I just can’t. Imagine… a marketplace, backed by the “blockchain” and “non-fungible tokens”, where you could buy gacha packs that contain random gifs of old Atari 2600 cartridge boxes. Some just stand there, doing nothing. Some are colored gold. Some spin. If you are very, very lucky, … Read more