Tl;dr: I believe GameStop will be THE company that builds the bridge across the marketing chasm for both NFT marketplaces and blockchain. This will take NFTs mainstream and will make GameStop one of the biggest (both in market cap and market share) tech companies in the world. Gamers are the BRIDGE that will let GameStop quickly and effortlessly "cross the chasm". We are both the early adopters and the early majority. We are the ones who will teach the late majority the potential of NFT and push it toward ubiquity.

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This is an update to an older post I made a couple months ago. This is all speculation and my opinions based on my experience in marketing and branding. Not financial advice and all that jazz.

NFTs are Garbage

By now, many of us have noticed the active push to discredit NFTs and dissuade the masses from exploring them. Journalists(?) throwing all kinds of shade at NFTs; words like "bubble", "speculative", "gullible techbros", and calls to some sort of authority figure in Keanu Reeves. Wait...this sounds just like GME...but I digress. Here are a handful of snippets of NFT hate:

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As he types his article on a computer...

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Do not cite the deep \"The Everything Bubble\" magic to me. I was there when it was DD on SuperStonk

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Environmental apocalypse? Well that escalated quickly.

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As a 37 year old, this all sounds oddly familiar...

I wonder why...

[Zoom happy hours anyone?](https://preview.redd.it/uh4u6

Do your worst!

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Reality has fallen deeply in love with you they are unable to interact with you directly but they are able to give you a gift. One of their children, a fundamental concept to be yours. these are order, chaos, fate, energy, time, space, matter with this reality will listen to the next sentence you speak and will align that concept with your wants as expressed through your sentence to gift you a power of your own. This power will grow as you use it to become stronger with time. Reality also whispers into your ear that as you progress with your power you will slowly stop aging and become stronger and harder to damage with time you will slowly ascend into a higher plane of existence and become a Demi-god then after you keep practicing you will ascend into full godhood. Reality wants you that you will not be alone on this planet with beings who have power and magic abounding. Reality also tells you that after an extremely long amount of time and practice once you have pushed your power for a millennium you have a chance to ascend further into a Demi-concept a being that is the absolute limit of those who are born like you.

Order: the fundamental and underlying structure to reality. This is why crystals grow the way they do, this is why things stay separate and themselves, this is why reality is able to be held together in a recognizable form. This concept will allow you to strengthen or call upon fundamental order grow crystals, shape metal, separate two things into the things they are made from. This also has a hand in healing and nurturing but less than you would think as it only involves returning things to their proper shape

Chaos: this is the fundamental concept of change it governs the way things shift and grow it allows reality to get just slightly out of shape enough for reality to truly become better than it was before. This is why plants can grow without snuffing each other out why you can grow stronger why you can perform corrective surgeries it also happens to be one of the concepts that govern magic. This concept will give you a gift that changes and grows beyond what you could have ever imagined and you will change and grow with it, contrary to popular belief chaos does not give an unstable foundation.

Fate: this concept is the shape of reality this governs how things flow how they change and then settle into being the proper shape of this. This however does not mean that it is set for from it, the concept of fate is very susceptible to chan

Wake up and pour.

Check if it's light or dark outside, the only concept of time left in this hell. Doesn't really matter; they both fucking suck.

Drink waiting for the first cup to brew. Light a companion smoke. Cough a path into coherence.

Head pounding. Hands shaking. Organs revolting.

The sounds of vomiting hurt more than the purging. Express greater concern for the wasted booze than for the bloodshot specter judging from the mirror.

Drop a cheap shot into a strong mug– let it slug it out with the caffeine. Because what's another addiction in the mix?

Phone rattles– probably the boss wondering why it was another no call/no show. Expect to get fired; that bridge can only burn for so long.

Swipe crap into a phone barely holding a charge– when did the screen crack?

Pinball outside on uncooperative legs. Because inside, the stench of poverty chokes. Various smokes, splattered bile, and stale piss bottles form the musty incense of addiction. And inflamed lungs ache for refreshment.

Another day alive; not really living. Just existing from one blackout right into the next. The spaces between a bland tapestry requiring higher proof to even flicker interesting.

Outside, angry bills wait in a black box screwed to a blue house. No money left to pay them; everything goes to feed the demons.

Homelessness looms on the horizon. But that's tomorrow's problem.

Kids walk by, faces illuminated by phones I could never afford– must be a school day. They seem happy. And I hate them for that purity. Because that used to be me. Until I allowed myself to get dirty.

Decades worth of scrounging questionable hits and skulling sloppy pours leak behind me. But it was never enough. Nancy scolded me to "just say no." But saying yes was more fun. So I told her to fuck off.

Sit smoking on cold concrete; another step leading nowhere.

Wonder what the day intends to be– probably another disappointment. Because that's all they are lately. And there's no indication of a shift in luck.

But there's booze and tobacco. Enough to not require a journey into a world full of more productive strangers. A small victory to some. To me, it's like touching the summit of an Everest forged of lethargy.

Poison myself until the hurt fades. Because the dreams never fucking stop. I still feel the heat of that scoped barrel. And tongue the metallic memory of blood from when my friends laid dying.

My own body left a flawed templ

They’re on standbi

Pilot on me!!

The Plath? Never heard of them.

The rest of the series can be found here

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Mark Guilderan sat at his desk with his head in his hands feeling as old as he actually was.

The biggest diplomatic “victory” in his entire life, an actual non aggression pact with the motherfucking Kalent, and thus the entire Federation, AND a possible, vitally needed real technology exchange with them…

...gone…

For the millionth time since it happened, he desperately wished that Tak (and his people) were back.

For a handful of credits that he didn’t even really need and power that he only needed to make more credits that he didn’t need, he sold out a lifetime friend, mentor, and ally. Oh sure, the “reason” was that Tak lacked the… (ugh)… resolve needed to do what was necessary during the war with the Bug but that wasn’t the real motivation, at least for him.

He sighed.

If Tak was still in charge, none of this would have ever happened.

He reached into his desk and pulled a small nasal spray bottle, placed the tip into a nostril, and sent a shot of a very subtle and very expensive designer drug into his sinuses.

A moment later he sighed with relief as all stress, anxiety, and fatigue magically disappeared replaced with enhanced focus and calm.

Best to make the first move, he thought as he clicked on his phone directory and selected a new contact simply labeled “Kalent”.

As the hyperspatial link was established he took a deep breath as the drugs fully took hold. As far as any observer or any AI was concerned, he was the perfect picture of composure and calm.

“Hello?” a concerningly “normal” Kalent voice (and image) answered, “Where did you get this address?”

“Greetings,” Mark replied, “This is Mark Guilderan, the Republic Secretary of State.”

“Creators!” the voice replied. “Um… Hello! I’m honored by the call, but I’m not sure if I’m who you wish to speak to.”

Fuck. Mark thought behind a facade of calm professionalism. This isn’t good.

“Perhaps you could get me in contact with the proper individual then,” Mark said smoothly, “I was given this contact address by an… individual… with whom I had been conversing… and negotiating… and I wish very much to speak with him.”

“I… I don’t know exactly what you are talking about,” the Kalent nervously replied, “but I’m happy to try. Who… who exactly are you trying to reach?”

Mark smiled pleasantly as he screamed inside.

“I never go

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

I won't be doing that today!

Last month, a co-worker (31m) and I (32f) started really chatting up, having a good time. I'm sure during all of it he was trying to be coy with his flirting but it was really obvious. I had always been into him, too, but knew at the time that he was in an mono relationship. Turns out that they opened up their relationship within the past year or so and that's when the "...Oh" realization hit xD

Anyway, we really hit it off, we started officially seeing each other about the middle of Dec. The thing is I have known that his gf (25f) is a pretty jealous person. She also has had relationships outside of theirs and is trying her damnedest to be ok with us. I have been there. I know how it feels. They even stated some ground rules (certain days where we don't have any communication and he has his adult responsibility to go to bed at a decent hour - we tended to stay up late together) which I agreed with. It helps keep things fair. It just seems that lately she has been trying to do things with him so much that we barely get to talk. Maybe 4 hours out of the day after we would have hours upon hours of chatting before. He'll tell me when something is happening but it's definitely gone up in frequency ever since we started seeing each other officially. And I know he feels bad about it because he'll apologize for not being around or available as much and then message me throughout the function he's at. I can't/don't blame him for trying to keep her happy. I think I'm just feeling a little intentionally left behind.

We're supposed to all meet up sometime next week and I'm hoping that it helps ease her mind that I'm not in any respects trying to take him from her. I wouldn't ever dare to do that. I am feeling a little raw because last night he suddenly had to sign off but made it seem like he was coming back. However he went over his time constraint (we're very strict on it) and never was able to message me about what was going on. Today was a no contact day and I've honestly been worried about him/them in general. Sometimes I wonder if it's just too much for her to handle and I might have to give him up. It's been nearly a month since I last saw him in person - which is understandable, the holidays and all - and half of me is patient and the other half of me feels like a disappointed kid when their best friend can't come out to play because their mom said no. One part of me is like what's the point of dating if I never see you/it's contingent on someone's mood tha

You take away their little brooms

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

There hasn't been a post all year!

It’s pronounced “Noel.”

After all his first name is No-vac

What, then, is Chinese rap?

Edit:

Notable mentions from the comments:

• Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits

• French/Finnish art

• Country/Canadian rap

• Chinese/Country/Canadian rock

• Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap

Nothing, it just waved

Bob

So that I could frequently say, "I am going to walk 5 miles now."

Edit: My most popular post on Reddit! 😀 Thank you for the awards.

Why

Just to clarify, 12345678

Me grabbing a soda from my (what I thought was) half full 12pk...

Notices there's only 2;

Me: "Awe man... This is a damn bird box!" Her: "What the hell does that mean?!" Me: (Pulls both cans out & shows them to her) "It's only got Toucans."

I'm not ashamed to admit the look on her face was glorious.

#1

1. THE OPENING (al-Fatihah) 1. In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful. 2. Praise be to Allah, Lord of the Worlds. 3. The Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. 4. Master of the Day of Judgment. 5. It is You we worship, and upon You we call for help. 6. Guide us to the straight path. 7. The path of those You have blessed, not of those against whom there is anger, nor of those who are misguided. 2. THE HEIFER (al-Baqarah) In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful 1. Alif, Lam, Meem. 2. This is the Book in which there is no doubt, a guide for the righteous. 3. Those who believe in the unseen, and perform the prayers, and give from what We have provided for them. 4. And those who believe in what was revealed to you, and in what was revealed before you, and are certain of the Hereafter. 5. These are upon guidance from their Lord. These are the successful. 6. As for those who disbelieve—it is the same for them, whether you have warned them, or have not warned them—they do not believe. 7. Allah has set a seal on their hearts and on their hearing, and over their vision is a veil. They will have a severe torment. 8. Among the people are those who say, “We believe in Allah and in the Last Day,” but they are not believers. 9. They seek to deceive Allah and those who believe, but they deceive none but themselves, though they are not aware. 10. In their hearts is sickness, and Allah has increased their sickness. They will have a painful punishment because of their denial. 11. And when it is said to them, “Do not make trouble on earth,” they say, “We are only reformers.” 12. In fact, they are the troublemakers, but they are not aware. 13. And when it is said to them, “Believe as the people have believed,” they say, “Shall we believe as the fools have believed?” In fact, it is they who are the fools, but they do not know. 14. And when they come across those who believe, they say, “We believe”; but when they are alone with their devils, they say, “We are with you; we were only ridiculing.” 15. It is Allah who ridicules them, and leaves them bewildered in their transgression. 16. Those are they who have bartered error for guidance; but their trade does not profit them, and they are not guided. 17. Their likeness is that of a person who kindled a fire; when it illuminated all around him, Allah took away their light, and left them in darkness, unable to see. 18. Deaf, dumb, blind. They will not return. 19. Or like a clo

I was just sitting there doing nothing.

Buenosdillas

When I got home, they were still there.

There hasn't been a single post this year!

(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)