• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      10 months ago

      What the GameStop bros fail to realize is that while they are essentially correct about the crookedness of the market, they have still backed a losing horse.

      GameStop just doesn’t offer most gamers good value so they don’t spend their dollars there. This is on top of bad treatment of low-level employees, which is quickly becoming a death sentence for companies whose main demographics work retail jobs and know exactly how bad retail work like GameStop can be. Finally investing in shit like NFTs that no real gamer wanted or asked for. (On top of NFTs being a joke of a scam)

      MOASS would be a beautiful thing but GameStop will not be the gust of wind that blows down this house of cards.

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        There is actually a fantastic video essay about Gamestop bros by Folding Ideas (the guy who made Line Goes Up) called “This is financial advise”. I highly recommend listening to it, the whole thing turned out to be way more complicated than it seemed.

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        The market is crooked, but not at the level of crazy conspiracies the Superstonk bros think / thought. A company took a big gamble on Gamestop tanking, and they were caught. They paid a huge price, and it’s over. There’s still market manipulation going on, there’s still trading in dark pools, and the regulators are not able to keep up. But, it’s not a crazy conspiracy with everyone trying to screw the little guy. It’s big guys all trying to screw each-other, and screwing the little guy if they have a chance, and the regulators are trying and failing to keep up.

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        10 months ago

        (On top of NFTs being a joke of a scam)

        They really are the platonic ideal of a scam. There’s just so much nothing there. No facade, no structure, no foundation. It’s the wire mother of wire fraud.

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        Only sorta. I’m not sure how much they are right about the crookedness of the market - it’s just that retail investors are at a severe disadvantage to institutional ones.

        What they did do was create a short squeeze for a bunch of folks (rightly) betting that GameStop is overvalued because it’s a shit company with no real path to an increasingly digital market.

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        Yeah, there are way too many folks who let the hype about an interesting technical trading opportunity go their head, got emotionally invested, and now are confusing it with fundamental analysis.

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        I disagree with many of your ideas…you are ignoring many positive facts about gamestop.

        Employees were treated badly in the past, but go to a store now, it was full like literally full. The guy at the counter was having an a Animated discussion about pokemon with a kid and her mom having a blast.

        Nft images are the dumbest use case of a new technology I’ve ever seen, that being said dismissing nfts as a new technology shows how ignorant you really are to the whole situation this technology will take over many things but it will probably be transparent to you.

        Many of the people jumping on the nfts are bad bandwagon sound exactly like dumb internet haters from the 80s and 90s, keep your negativity.

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          https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/nfts-werent-supposed-end-like/618488/

          But the NFT prototype we created in a one-night hackathon had some shortcomings. You couldn’t store the actual digital artwork in a blockchain; because of technical limits, records in most blockchains are too small to hold an entire image. Many people suggested that rather than trying to shoehorn the whole artwork into the blockchain, one could just include the web address of an image, or perhaps a mathematical compression of the work, and use it to reference the artwork elsewhere.

          We took that shortcut because we were running out of time. Seven years later, all of today’s popular NFT platforms still use the same shortcut. This means that when someone buys an NFT, they’re not buying the actual digital artwork; they’re buying a link to it. And worse, they’re buying a link that, in many cases, lives on the website of a new start-up that’s likely to fail within a few years. Decades from now, how will anyone verify whether the linked artwork is the original?

          Anil Dash helped create the first NFT spec in a coding jam, and it had serious limitations. The bit-limitation is huge. NFT’s still only contain a URL. What happens if the website hosting that URL goes down? Well now your NFT points to nothing because it’s actually just a fucking link, not an actual image.

          But sure, this somehow has actual utility in a world where data can be copied infinitely at no cost and that’s a good thing. We should be fighting to remove paywalls to access information, not adding fucking digital ones.

          Because I just can’t wait for every college textbook to be an NFT to try to stop textbook piracy. What a joke. That shit just makes me want to pirate things and break digital locks more. Yarr Harr Fiddle Dee Dee!

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          While I agree there is room for actually useful use cases in the NFT technical design the fact is unequivocally that GameStop built a market place for the dumb pictures. And that was a collosal waste of money and good will. They went Hero to Zero in my eyes with that move.

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      Don’t worry. The meme stock bros will come up with a new stupid narrative about how this was always part of the plan and how no one actually believed the NFT marketplace was the catalyst for moass. Just trust the plan and keep holding.

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        Lmao no kidding, after reading your comment I went to google and typed in “reddit crypto gamestop nfts” and the second result was literally a 100% serious post from Superstonks 2 days ago titled “Why Gamestop’s NFT Marketplace Closure Is A Great Sign”. Forget bitcoin, if you want to get rich just invest in copium instead

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    I’m surprised that they found yet another new way of making the Superstonk folk look like a delusional cult

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    The only reason you would want an NFT is to make a profit. That’s it. That’s all the value and perks it had.

    Bloody good marketing if you ask me. Right next to the pet rock.

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    I mean they were coerced into it by people doing pump and dump. They had to.

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    Who knew that jumping onto a confidence game meme stock fueled crypto craze would not really work out for GameStop in the long term?

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    Don’t let any company which chose to get involved in this blatant scam get exonerated just because they dumped it later. They still tried to pull the scam in the first place, and they only dropped it because they didn’t make any money on it, not because it was a scam.

    Always remember this.