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The new Flappy Bird game has a hidden secret: crypto (www.videogamer.com)

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[+] turkalino@lemmy.yachts -72 points 2 months ago

The author’s points are:

Ew crypto, amirightguise?
They missed a single letter in a single word on a page that wasn’t meant to be public-facing, what a bunch of losers

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

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 109 points 2 months ago

NFTs are objectively a scam, and unsurprisingly, 1208 – these developers – proudly and prominently display Wolf of Wall Street Jordan Belfort on their homepage.
They just say "open-source" without stating a license, and coming from people willing to put a pyramid scheme in their no-effort mobile game, that sends up red flags for openwashing.
If it is open-source, that isn't god's gift to mankind or anything. There are plenty of existing open-source Flappy Bird clones that mimic it – as best I can tell – one-to-one because Flappy Bird isn't a complex game. And I'm somehow doubting a game designed to hawk shitty-ass NFTs has a lot of detail put into it either.

[+] Nibodhika@lemmy.world -85 points 2 months ago

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.