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Ansem 🧸💸· 2026-01-26 20:39
RT Udi Wertheimer (@udiWertheimer)1. gamers and kids historically hate crypto mainly due to multiple recurring cycles of GPU shortages due to crypto mining demand (similar to how they hate AI now)2. nfts became more mainstream than crypto for a while and left nothing but ashes in its wake, not only everyone that participated is down astronomically, but also some game studios like ubisoft publicly experimented with nfts, amplifying the hate3. meanwhile roblox just focused on creating really good product with ...
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Ansem 🧸💸· 2026-01-26 20:37
RT wab.eth (@wabdoteth)• Crypto metaverses targeted the next marginal buyer (adults) rather than the next generation (kids)• Roblox took 20 years to get to where it is and won because of laziness from Minecraft (arbitraged F2P vs paywall & vertically integrated mods/tooling/servers)• The last generation of crypto builders were millenials who have nearly zero cultural understanding of what made Minecraft/Roblox/Fortnite/VRChat resonate• Great 'metaverses' spawn from great games first, which there are very fe ...
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Ansem 🧸💸· 2026-01-26 19:08
RT Blake Robbins (@blakeir)@blknoiz06 Crypto gaming always led with financialization instead of fun.Players don’t actually care about composability or portability until a game is already massive.And once it is, the developer has no incentive to give that power away. ...
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Ansem 🧸💸· 2026-01-26 00:26
RT Pratyush (@pratyushbuddiga)Not to be that guy, but the broncos loss is such a good reminder of your biggest strength (Sean Payton’s aggressiveness) is usually a thin line from your Achilles’ heel.Guy onside kicked in a Super Bowl, it sucks that we lost this one and it’s easy to hindsight question it but it’s also what got us (and him) here.Same as Alex Honnold - yea it’s ridiculous for him to do this with 2 kids, but if he was wired the same way as everyone else, he never would’ve accomplished what he di ...