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MassRafTer posted:TNA NFTs reminded me of Jim Cornette's failed NFT project.
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Halloween Jack posted:How do you lose money selling NFTs? Did they spend a bunch of money on marketing and design? (I hope not, in the latter case.) I have no idea how much money it costs for the electricity to mint a NFT. It costs money to mint an NFT. How much depends on several factors that are way too boring to learn about but given how few they sold I think it's safe to say it was not a money making venture.
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May 11, 2023 20:06
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Yeah they probably hired someone to design and set them up and didn't sell enough to make that money back. Being the dude who gets paid to make NFTs for people who don't understand them (aka everyone) is the only part of this grift that makes sense, because presumably you at least get paid up front.
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May 11, 2023 20:07
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No you literally have to pay transaction fees (usually referred to as ‘gas’) to put your NFTs onto the blockchain in the first place before you can sell them. They have to be paid every time the NFT changes hands too because it’s grifts all the way down. Everything about NFTs is even stupider than you first imagine.
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May 11, 2023 20:12
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Cornette NFTs and Bischoff's "Blessed" book are some of my favorite recent failures. Since I bought the Nitro book they must have added me to some list, as I got increasingly desperate and discounted emails asking me to buy Bischoff's stupid book about hunting and fishing.
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May 11, 2023 20:14
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Tato posted:Cornette NFTs and Bischoff's "Blessed" book are some of my favorite recent failures. Since I bought the Nitro book they must have added me to some list, as I got increasingly desperate and discounted emails asking me to buy Bischoff's stupid book about hunting and fishing. The cover art for Blessed is my favorite in wrestling history.
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May 11, 2023 20:18
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I cannot find any trace of "Blessed" by Eric Bischoff on google.com. Was it retitled "Grateful" or is that a follow-up?
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May 11, 2023 20:22
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History Comes Inside! posted:No you literally have to pay transaction fees (usually referred to as ‘gas’) to put your NFTs onto the blockchain in the first place before you can sell them. Said gas fees can be stupidly high AND the transactions take forever on the biggest chains, making the whole 'crypto is the future of currency' thing even more obviously bullshit as well. Blockchain is basically a niche tech that's useful for specific databasing applications... which some assholes decided needed to be more than that and have been trying for a decade-plus to make it the answer to some kind of problem
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May 11, 2023 20:22
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Halloween Jack posted:I cannot find any trace of "Blessed" by Eric Bischoff on google.com. Was it retitled "Grateful" or is that a follow-up? It is in fact Grateful. It's just very forgettable.
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May 11, 2023 20:25
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History Comes Inside! posted:No you literally have to pay transaction fees (usually referred to as ‘gas’) to put your NFTs onto the blockchain in the first place before you can sell them. Yea the end grift of nfts is people who own the marketplaces tricking people into thinking its easy money and then charging them listing/transaction fees. Said marketplaces also happen to be owned by crpyo exchanges, where you can conveniently buy etherium which is the only method of payment their nft market accepts. The whole owning jpegs fad makes a lot more sense when you realize it was mostly astroturfing meant to stimulate a slowing crypto economy. little munchkin fucked around with this message at 20:30 on May 11, 2023 |
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May 11, 2023 20:28
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If WWE couldn't make money off NFTs why the hell does TNA think they'll somehow do better?
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May 11, 2023 20:33
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Doing stuff other companies did unsuccessfully, but even worse, is kind of their whole thing
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May 11, 2023 20:36
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MassRafTer posted:It is in fact Grateful. It's just very forgettable. I'm laughing that I couldn't even remember the name. But I sure remember those stupid loving boots on the cover. In what universe do these think guys people care about any of their thoughts outside of "AEW is bad?" If he wanted to continue the grift he should have just written a book like that
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May 11, 2023 20:37
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This quote from the press release (from May 11, 2023) is pretty tellingquote:The NFT market grew dramatically from 2020 to 2021. The trading of NFTs in 2021 increased to more than $17 billion, up by 21,000 percent over 2020’s total of $82 million.
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May 11, 2023 20:49
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May 11, 2023 20:54
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No, that's great graphic design, Eric. Just let the babyshit yellow sit against the photo background, no need for any sort of outline to delineate it. You could make a better book cover than this on your phone in six minutes.
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May 11, 2023 21:21
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May 11, 2023 21:39
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Halloween Jack posted:I cannot find any trace of "Blessed" by Eric Bischoff on google.com. Was it retitled "Grateful" or is that a follow-up? I think Blessed may have been one of the Vince Russo books. I'm pretty sure he wrote some piece of poo poo with a title along those lines.
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May 11, 2023 22:01
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edogawa rando posted:I think Blessed may have been one of the Vince Russo books. I'm pretty sure he wrote some piece of poo poo with a title along those lines. His first memoir was FORGIVEN so very close.
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May 11, 2023 22:24
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Not even a stroke around the font smh
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May 11, 2023 22:31
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May 11, 2023 22:42
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What is Eric even talking about in the book? Literally the only thing people cared about he did a book on and barely remembered what went on then.
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ARMBAR A COP posted:Not even a stroke around the font Using the stroke would be gimmick infringement
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May 12, 2023 01:43
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Dawgstar posted:What is Eric even talking about in the book? Literally the only thing people cared about he did a book on and barely remembered what went on then. The stuff after wcw quote:The follow-up to former WCW President Eric Bischoff’s first autobiography, Grateful picks up where Controversy Creates Cash left off!
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May 12, 2023 02:01
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To be fair a book where Bischoff just bitches about TNA for 300 pages would probably be a fun read, even if most of it would be made up.
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May 12, 2023 02:05
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MassRafTer posted:His first memoir was FORGIVEN so very close. Aye, that's the one I was thinking of.
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cagliostr0 posted:Using the stroke would be gimmick infringement lol
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rare Magic card l00k posted:To be fair a book where Bischoff just bitches about TNA for 300 pages would probably be a fun read, even if most of it would be made up. An actual honest Bischoff memoir or just a deep dive into those two TNA years with a decent author would be great. But a credulous idiot like Guy Evans is just going to let Bischoff put in whatever nonsense he wants while probably not being Hogan levels of delusional.
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May 12, 2023 04:09
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I hope we get an oral history of the Bischoff selling for the bird segment one day with all participants.
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May 12, 2023 07:10
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https://twitter.com/TheJimCornette/status/1667489861186510851 been a while and this isnt his usual hate so it feels ok for being the most long bowed attack on AEW possible
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Jun 11, 2023 05:32
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https://twitter.com/snowboiiii/status/1681117453852581888 Cornette and his South Park art guy finding new ways to be racist. Does anyone remember if this art guy is the QAnon furry or if that was the art guy who briefly replaced this guy.
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Jul 20, 2023 04:05
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i just know the artist is a good guy and we shouldn't judge him for doing this for 8 years
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Jul 20, 2023 06:21
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Hopefully charging standard guild rates
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Jul 20, 2023 16:53
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Morbidly curious if they got the guy to admit all brown people are the same but not enough to actually look.
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https://twitter.com/IANdrewTheGiant/status/1683885864345120772 Why does Tony look like Booger from Revenge of the Nerds.
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Dawgstar posted:https://twitter.com/IANdrewTheGiant/status/1683885864345120772 “WE’VE GOT RUSH!”
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CopywrightMMXI posted:“WE’VE GOT RUSH!” “What the gently caress is a RUSH?”
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Lid posted:https://twitter.com/TheJimCornette/status/1667489861186510851 Will Clark and Ozzie Smith did in fact have separate locker rooms, separate touring schedules, didn't share cars or buses or planes, maybe had to share a stadium eight or ten times a year maximum, because they legitimately competed against one another in a legitimate competition where they were on opposing teams. Unless he is trying to protect reverse kayfabe for baseball.
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Jul 26, 2023 00:26
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Plus, like, aren't major American sports leagues basically split into several internal leagues and conferences within the overarching league structure?
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American sports are rigged through and through
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