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Post by Patjade on Jan 5, 2022 3:23:54 GMT -5
Hmmm, as long as Jellyneo doesn't object. I Discord messaged Herdy and he said, So I think it'd be okay? Sounds like a plan then. How to exploit it...
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Post by Duke Pikachu on Jan 5, 2022 17:33:15 GMT -5
NFT joke for April Fools issue?
I hate to be the naysayer, but no thanks. At least when it looks like NFTs are here to stay (though by April if it looks like all NFT plans have been cancelled maybe I'll be more up to spoofing it). For one thing I can see plenty of entries becoming mean spirited (not that NFTs don't deserve it, but I'd rather the April Fools issue be something mainly done out of fun). Basing it on NFTs, something a lot of players I'm also sure are tired of hearing about, I feel would just be repelling to some.
Like, maybe if we want to do something tangentially related, maybe joke about the parallel collector boom that's been happening these past few years, especially with TCGs (notably Pokemon cards). The Neodeck cards are just ripe for a parody of that.
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Post by Liou on Jan 5, 2022 18:03:46 GMT -5
Definitely not a whole issue themed on that - as I said in my initial post =P -, it would be way too slippery and easy to twist the wrong way. What I could see is a recurring in-joke popping up like Chet Flash, of how everyone knows Jellycoin doesn't exist.
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Post by Duke Pikachu on Jan 6, 2022 5:29:48 GMT -5
Definitely not a whole issue themed on that - as I said in my initial post =P -, it would be way too slippery and easy to twist the wrong way. What I could see is a recurring in-joke popping up like Chet Flash, of how everyone knows Jellycoin doesn't exist. Ah, I see, sorry for missing your post. Sure, next April Fools, in addition to the main theme, we can include a quick joke about Jellycoins and no one knowing what they're supposed to be. That doesn't sound too bad and provide a nice way to jab at the NFTs. Seller: "Hey, would you like to ascribe to JellyCoin?" Player: "What's that?" Seller: "They're coins made of jelly" Player: "How does that work?" Seller: "It's the Jelly World economy that powers it." Player: "What?" Seller: "Jelly World is constantly budding new Jellies, but it can only hold a certain capacity of jellies. By making these Jellies into coins, we can create a currency that's ever growing in value but has a restricted amount therefore multiplying the value of the Jellycoin even further!" Player: "... Those were words you strung together but they don't make sense" Seller: "Don't gotta make sense for you to become rich off it" Player: "How do you get a JellyCoin?" Seller: "First you need to buy Gel." Player: "How much is Gel?" Seller: "Price fluctuates depending on the wiggleness of the Giant Jelly, right now it's about 7.5 NP. Player: "How much of it do I need? Seller: "Depends on how much Gel was used before, each JellyCoin requires more Gel then the previous. Right now you need around 537 GELs" Player: "That's 4k NP!" Seller: "IT'S WORTH IT. Don't be an Omelette. Eating eggs mixed with rock and dirt in Tyrannia, disgusting." Player: "Okay, so, I spend the 4k to buy Gel to make a Jellycoin, now what?" Seller: "Each of your Jellycoin gets molded into a random shape, texture, and may or may not have a hole in the middle of it" Player: "Why?" Seller: "TO ADD VALUE!" Player: "Value from more being made, value because restricted, value because the cost to make it, value because of unique traits; these are conflicting variables and they all can't be adding value" Seller: "DON'T. BE. AN. OMELETTE" Player: "FINE! So I get this random hodgepodge JellyCoin, what do I do..." Seller: "Actually you get a sticker saying you own it." Player: "What." Seller: "The JellyCoin exists in the Jelly World, that's how it have value. You just have a sticker saying you're the owner of it." Player: "So, after all this, I don't even get the JellyCoin, just a sticker saying I do. You're saying I just own a CONCEPT and not the actual object itself?" Seller: "That's Omelette talk right there, don't go ther..." Player: (GONE) Seller: "Ugh, yeah, right! That's the JellyCoin spirit! I'll be here when you have the NP. They'll be back."
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Post by Killix on Jan 25, 2022 12:38:14 GMT -5
I minted my own NFT Neopet. Thanks, Jellyneo! You've saved me $156.93 Rereading this topic, and look what the NFTopet images turned into. lulz
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Post by Duke Pikachu on Jan 31, 2022 19:56:08 GMT -5
Recently a very well researched video popped-up diving deep into NFTs... and it's grimmer than we thought. It's over 2 hours long, and the presenter does their best to try and weave through all the lingo, tech, and financial stuff so we can understand it (as well as being entertaining/trying to keep their sanity together from all this nonsense), but I feel it's well worth the watch and probably one of the best defenses against NFTs:
(My only complaint is that this video thumbnail features those ugly apes)
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Post by Ian Wolf-Park on Feb 3, 2022 11:01:05 GMT -5
Tch, more news regarding the NFTS. I'll summarize it, but you can read it over at Jellyneo
1. A more 'defined' roadmap was released by the Metaverse 2. The partnership with Quidd is back on 3. The Metaverse was featured in a cryptcurrency news page (although this one is more bad news for the Metaverse)
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Post by Blueysicle on Feb 4, 2022 12:55:30 GMT -5
I'll admit I don't know that much about the ins-and-outs of game development, but going from a roadmap to a beta in only a year sounds to me like a tall order for even a major studio, let alone a team of five people...
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Post by Lord Hayati on Feb 22, 2022 13:53:48 GMT -5
just a refresher for people who jumped to the last page:
NFTs ARE BAD. THEY'RE A SCAM.
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Post by Duke Pikachu on Apr 27, 2022 23:51:20 GMT -5
So, think this deserves to be posted here.
That old Quidd partnership recently came back up. First mentioned as the Metaverse project was selling its NFTs, just as quick as it was mentioned it was pulled back due. Well with the Metaverse seemingly on the backburner Quidd launched a batch of Neopets Digital Stickers though didn't mention anything about turning them into NFTs.
And then the other shoe dropped... and was picked back up because NFTs can't help but being scummy. Today Quidd announced it would use the Neopets brand to promote their own cryptocurrency. In some countries when you bought a sticker you were given some of it... though oddly US wasn't one of these countries. Well, maybe not so oddly, as the promotion has now been cancelled. Don't know anything definitive, but being it wasn't available in the US where Neopets is based, my guess is that Quidd overstepped their deal and tried using the Neopets brand to sell their currency without TNTs permission (and thus likely keep any money made). Not only that, Quidd had also contacted Jellyneo asking them to delete their posts about Quidd's stunt (which JN wisely denied).
And that is your latest Neopets N(asty)F(rivolous)T(rash) news. JS (or should I be asking NetDragon?) can we stop all this now and actually put money and resources into approving the site?
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Post by Lord Hayati on May 19, 2022 16:29:58 GMT -5
they're still trying to push NFTs, even though the crypto market has taken a heavy crash.
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Post by Duke Pikachu on May 21, 2022 0:04:49 GMT -5
And that is your latest Neopets N(asty)F(rivolous)T(rash) news. JS (or should I be asking NetDragon?) can we stop all this now and actually put money and resources into approving the site? WELL, I guess the answer to that is not only a big bold " NO" but also JS then doing a giant belly flop into the trash fire that are NFTs. You can read the whole thing on Jellyneo, but I'll summarize it here: * A trailer for the highly unanticipated (& unwanted) Neopets Metaverse is coming on the 22nd with it entering alpha testing early this year. * They released a rather tone death & condescending statement where they say they're "listening to the players" (no they're not), want to "pull up a chair" and be transparent with us (if this is transparent then a cement wall is also), say they can't do this without us (then why are you trying to scam us?), says they're still working on the main site (maybe if you weren't burning money on the metaverse you could work on the site faster... and with money and resources), they're keeping the main site and metaverse separate (cause even they know the metaverse is gonna crash and be gone within the year), that the metaverse is meant to be a way to expand Neopets to the NFT audience (their wallets specifically), this is a new way to explore the Neopets world (if you bought an uncustomizable image of a possibly crying Neopet wearing random clothes for a few hundred dollars), and that for those of us not interested to just sit back (aka asking us to look the other way of their misdeeds). * And finally, to "celebrate", they're releasing more NFTs! But not of Neopets, too late to make more of those (gee, too bad they burned the 15k that didn't sell, right? Actually, no, it's not a shame at all). Instead they're giving away an item which... I have no idea what purpose it'll serve. Because it's not a Petpet, infact it's not Neopet specific, it's a PIZZA. Yeah, they're giving away 5k Neopets-inspired pizza... what? Funny thing is, they make it sound like it's an exclusive offer limiting it to 5k... but they only sold 4,533 of the Neopet NFTs, most which were bought by bots and likely rotting in an unused (and now likely abandoned) wallet. Raw numbers alone means they'll have 467 leftover, likely WAY more when the bots don't claim their pizza, so what's going to happen to those pizza? Are they gonna burn them too, why make them if you know you're just gonna destroy them? So yeah, that's the news. Oh, BTW, between my last post and now some major news concerning NFTs have happened: The NFT bubble popped. YUP. One of the major coin minters went belly up which essentially took 90 PERCENT of NFTs with them. In a matter of days, if not hours, NFTs "valued" at hundreds went to being worth under a cent (and that's still too much in my book). Everyone and business who already made their grift or didn't invest that heavily are abandoning NFTs. Meanwhile, every person and business that had the bad cognition to heavily invest in them are losing their minds (note the ones who are losing their minds aren't the various sellers or scammers (yes, there is a *slight* difference between the two), but rather the people who were left holding the bag because they were tricked into believing in NFTs). This sounds like the suits upstairs of JumpStart or/and Netdragon are having a panic attack that their ugly monkeys are now worth diddly squat and desperately trying anything to leverage NFTs cause they sunk too much into them they can't jump ship without losing a substantial amount of money. Anyway, if you'd like to keep up to date with NFTs and how *well* they're doing, check out the site " Web3 Is Going Just Great": web3isgoinggreat.com/In addition, a few posts ago I posted a 2 hour video made by Dan Olsen of the Youtube channel "Folding Ideas" where he took a deep dive into NFTs and revealed how horrible & destructive they truly are. Well, turns out back in February Mr. Olsen was invited to talk about his video with the Youtube channel "Financial Diet" (a channel dedicated in helping people be financially responsible and knowledgeable). It's a shorter video at an hour long, but I'd say it revealed just as much about NFTs and how many layers of trash it has:
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Post by Ian Wolf-Park on May 21, 2022 16:38:41 GMT -5
So, other than the opening paragraph (which is true, in a sense), still going with the complete tone-deaf response, huh? Great PR, right there (I'm being sarcastic with that response).
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