mittens [he/him]

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Cake day: July 30th, 2020

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  • i bought the thing because the cans look kinda cool tbh, not even the tea shit, the sparkling water which is virtually indistinguishable from any other sparkling water brand except 3x more expensive. it’s rare that i come across liquid death on the shelves anyway so it’s not like something i’m going to keep buying. it’s just a novelty item mostly.




  • yeah they noticed there wasn’t a significant difference between zoomers and millenials, which why would it exist, they’re on average a decade apart, it really isn’t a huge unsurmountable gap. spongebob has been on the air for far longer than this, so we mostly consumed the same cultural artifacts during our formative years. i’m not as cynic as to say it is completely useless, but the gaps between generations are arbitrarily short and thus they become meaningless









  • there’s degrees to “falling for that shit” though. the cost of minting an NFT is literally negligible for the coca cola company, and the upside is enormous if it becomes an irrational market like bitcoin was. otoh, making a game centered around NFTs is sad as fuck, those people got screwed hard.

    also, this is just my perception, but it could’ve been the other way around even. bitcoin became an irrational market because there was some purity to its conception: it was merely an unfeasible currency theory put into action, so libertarians could masturbate over it. as lousy as the theoretical pinnings of bitcoin are, there were no companies getting in on the action from the getgo. it wasn’t meant to be a casino, it just devolved into one. companies getting day one onto the NFT train just made it way more obvious that it was meant to extract profit from compulsive gamblers, and the unsightliness accelerated their demise. it was just too on the nose for most people.