The title caught your attention? Now, just hear me out, it's something that has bothered me ever since I played the original Dead Rising (2005) for the first time a few years ago, and has been something I've been thinking about recently whilst playing the re-release of Dead Island:
I feel like we've all heard the same groaning anytime a new zombie game gets announced, whether it be Days Gone or TLOU2, usually the same comment pops up: "Another zombie game? There are already so many..." -- or something to that effect.
I feel like this meme has long existed not only in the heads of players, but in the heads of developers as well, altering the sorts of games that come out as a result (and not for the better). Anytime a game that features zombies in it gets announced, it is usually accompanied with a tongue-in-cheek "yes, I know what you're thinking, but our game is different because X, Y, and Z". Whether it be Days Gone not really being about zombies as it is about bikers, or TLOU not really being about zombies as it is about man's inhumanity to man (and sometimes, scary mushroom men), or something like Killing Floor which is pretty patently about just shooting tons of stuff with your friends at ever-increasing difficulties. Few of these games actually capture the experience that is envisaged in traditional zombie media.
Traditionally, zombie media dating back to Romero's Dawn of the Dead, 2002's 28 Days Later, or the more recent popularity of The Walking Dead has usually delved into what it would be like to have to genuinely scramble to survive against all odds, and making use of what is left of a collapsed modern society in order to do so. In these settings, the zombie menace may be relatively mindless, but they are not pushovers. They are persistent, they are resilient, they are genuinely frightening, and they are many. Characters in these stories often have to improvise using the little they have in their disposal and make very difficult decisions in order to simply survive another day, and sometimes even that does not guarantee their fate. But beyond this, in traditional zombie media 'zombies' do not exist as part of the setting, they are the setting. They are such an overwhelming and overecompassing force that simply trying to survive is the main overall force driving most character motivation (not that there cannot be a well-written narrative on top of this, but the need to survive the zombie menace should inform most of the
... keep reading on reddit β‘Close to 100 years ago on December 4, 1921, Henry Ford discussed an idea he conceived in the New York Tribune. The title of the published article was called βFord Would Replace Gold With Energy Currency and Stop Wars.β
Ford is well known for developing the assembly line technique and creating one of the first mass-produced American-built automobiles. Fordβs energy currency concept describes a digital currency much like Satoshi Nakamotoβs Bitcoin and one that is also scarce.
Not only would Fordβs energy currency be backed by energy measured in kilowatt-hours (kWh) he also discussed with the Tribune that the currency would βbe issued only to a certain definite amount and for a specific purpose.β
It has always been understood that Henry Ford was well ahead of his time, but he also thought about a concept that is very similar to whatβs described in the Bitcoin white paper. Ford even had a location planned to kick start the idea at Muscle Shoals Dam. The treacherous and wild Muscle Shoals section of the Tennessee River produces a lot of energy as the dam provides electrical power, flood control, and a water supply.
Fordβs energy currency editorial in the New York Tribune not only takes aim at the bankers but blames gold as well. βItβs very simple when you analyze it,β Ford emphasized. βThe cause of all wars is gold. We shall demonstrate to the world two things, first, the practicability, second, the desirability of displacing gold as the basis of currency and substituting in its place the worldβs imperishable natural wealth.β Ford continued:
Almost everybody in the world, except the newspapers and bankers recognizes that civilization has entered on a new era. The newspapers donβt see it and the international bankers donβt want to see it β It would mean changes in world finance and bankers always oppose changes.
The popular hadith about the signs of Qiyama (Day of Resurrection) seems to be envisaging that slavery, and particularly sex slavery, is going to last till the Last Day, contrary to the apologetic claim that Islam planned a gradual end to slavery.
One of the signs in the hadith is the somewhat cryptic sign that slave-girls will give birth to their masters/mistresses: "When the slave-girl will give birth to her master, then that is from its signs". This is generally understood to mean that there will be an abundance in female slaves begetting offspring from their masters (who offspring are decreed free by the rules).
At an academic level, the hadith could be understood as just a reflection of the milieu in which it emerged, where at one stage there was an abundance of slaves from the Islamic expansion. But at the apologetic level that adheres to the orthodox hadith framework, it shows an obvious inconsistency.
[Credit: I was alerted to this point by one guest at this channel talking about slavery in modern day Mauritania. It's an interesting watch for Arabic speakers. The guest is an ex Muslim activist who was sentenced to death in Mauritania for blasphemy (for suggesting in an article that religion plays a role in class divisions) then released in 2019 after 5 years in jail following campaigns by human rights organisations].
I started buying in mid June at 0.0000047 levels and have bought 15 dips since then with my last 25% coming in under 0.0000028 for an average of 0.0000036 post the 10% tax. Going forward the SFM volume flywheel will depend on the below:
- Use cases - Wallets, Exchange, Blockchain, NFTs/Gaming, Phoenix etc.
- Access - each of the the above use cases will help SFM mainstream and be widely accepted across exchanges in due course and help draw in new holders
While the above micro issues are in the Devs control and they seem to be on top of them, the below macro scenarios will effect the development of SFM in the medium term of 3-4 years (NFA):
Scenario 1 - Most Bitcoin pundits believe that BTC hasn't achieved its market cycle peak in the run up in April and will bounce back to 100-150k levels in 5-6 months. Even if this were to happen, the price would crash almost immediately and will start a long crypto winter which usually lasts 2-3 years. In this case SFM will also get its bump, but will also crash along with BTC and settle into the winter. Not an ideal scenario.
Scenario 2 - We are already in a crypto winter and BTC will continue to remain in an accumulation phase for the next 2-3 years. This is the best case scenario for SFM because it will help them execute all the above mentioned projects and move out of meme coin territory. Moreover the burn would help the circulating supply come down to 100T and even with a low market cap at 10Bn, the price would have to rise to 0.0001. More importantly reflections - every bag would have grown by at least 50% at these levels. Imagine a case when the next bull run begins at this time (they usually last 800 days on an average)..., all bets then would be off on SFM price and shaving off an additional '0' from here could be a real possibility. So the golden period for SFM in my estimate will be between 2024-2026.
Scenario 3 - Impending stock market crash will also affect crypto and could drag prices down by another 25%. In this case, I still have dry powder left and will look to add more SFM and reach 3x of my original goal. And then wait for the winter to play out and hope Scenario 2 characteristics will kick in.
Of course this is all crystal ball gazing and nothing can go to plan because this is cryptocurrency territory. So, always buy only what you can afford to lose and if you have bought enough then they deserve a HODL ; )
