Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian Schultmeister and Jason

DeFilippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and who's to blame.

Welcome to Grumpy old geeks. I'm Jason DeFilippo. And I'm Brian Schultmeister.

Caught this one over on our Discord channel Brian and it gave me a little tickle.

It's called the crypto miner tycoon simulator trailer. Right.

It's a trailer for an actual simulator that is listed on steam.

So it looks like it's an actual game. At first I thought this might be just, you know,

somebody playing graphic designer having some fun, but it looks like it might be an actual game where

you get to play a crypto miner tycoon. Okay. So if you come in rich, you stay rich.

And if you come in poor, you end up even poorer. Or maybe if you keep playing long enough,

everybody ends at zero. It's basically an entropy simulation.

It's a completely new definition of zero sum game. Yes. Yeah. So I'm thinking of watching this

thing go. And then it just made me think of vendors game. I'm like, oh, maybe the designers of

this game are just like, you know, using humans as a is some way to program their their AI

to like actually get better crypto out of the miners. I don't know. I was just thinking out loud.

All right. Well, not bad. A little more NFT news, of course. I mean, God, we try to get away from

this, but it's just everywhere. And I don't know why we're still yelling about it. Everybody that

listens to us understands our position on it. But yeah, for the slow people in the back,

sent, which is the US based platform, which got some infamy for selling an NFT of Jack Dorsey's

first tweet for $2.9 million has halted most transactions because people were selling tokens of

content that did it did not belong to them. It's founder said, calling to say, fundamental

problem in the fast growing digital assets market. Yes, somebody who started started one of these

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