TL;DR: to NFTs and eSports

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    2 months ago

    players are able to claim an “officially licensed, commemorative Paris 2024 NFT Digital Pin.”

    Oh sweet an official Olympics digital pin that I can pay real money for and no one else can just view for free whenever they want! Oh wait… Here’s one someone paid $200 for.

    https://files.catbox.moe/gqcir5.mp4

  • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Tell you what.

    You want to make believe esports resemble sports in any way and are actually worthy of countries competing in them? Make them completely open source and make balance/rule decisions based on the input of an international committee advocating for the various perspectives.

    Then it’s still obviously not a sport, but at least it’s not controlled by an arbitrary for profit company.

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    2 months ago

    I guess at the 2028 Olympics they’ll be jumping on the AI bandwagon.

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    2 months ago

    Everyone pays for the Olympic Games via taxes.
    The IOC be like: gimme more money.

    What a scam.

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    2 months ago

    Man this Olympics have been extremely disappointing on these aspects, for me personally I began to tune out during the initial ceremony when they started to pull the whole minions scene they did. It just feels like either a cash grab or a corporate scam.