He should have know better
the fact that someone thought there would be an uncut sheet of these cards are funny as hell to me. Like come on this is so fake even Stevie Wonder can see it!
he... isn't. He didn't say any of this. Where did it come from? Did you reply to the wrong person?
i don't know if you know this but scams and forgeries predate the existence of NFTs. it is not an apt comparison in the slightest. selling forgeries for a lot of money does not make something an NFT or anything like an NFT, and there is a pretty large distinction between the two things.
I think comparing it to recent online scam behavior in the crypto and NFT markets makes a ton of sense. Cards bought for lots of money are (literally) non-fungible tokens. Possessing and showing off a graded whatever is a display of embodied social capital.
The important part of the quote which you conveniently left out is "convincing." The market is inflated by hype and shows similar resilience to FUD thanks to big name creators and small communities of MTGFinance types. You don't have to agree, that's fine.
Why does people disagreeing with you get to you so much? It's really obvious from your tone that you're angry, but this is a pretty low-stakes forum. Nobody is making you defend anything. "Go outside" only works as a constant refrain against people who don't go outside, but Pokébeach has, for more than a decade, consistently demonstrated a sensible user base with lives outside of the hobby. I'm one of them, and I'm sure you could be too, but your disposition in this thread makes me think you don't have any other outlet for your feelings.
Words should probably mean things, and choosing to make the words we use mean less specific things than they currently do in order to whine about NFTs unprompted while discussing something unrelated is frankly very online behavior that should be grown out of as soon as possible. And to be clear, the frequently less than sensible userbase of Pokebeach is what motivated me to create an account in the first place, and if you haven't seen it before you're likely part of the problem.
Incredible. You are a titan of intellect, sir.
You joined this forum... to prove your superiority... to Pokémon fans. Terminally online behavior. Recommend you touch grass immediately.
And you are self-admitting to being a bad faith actor, unfortunately.
Oh, right, of course. Words should probably mean things, but bad faith is when people disagree with me.
lol