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Maybe not strictly illegal, but ... as best I can tell, not really currently totally, explicitly legal.

Kind of a gray area, I guess I mean that I think it will become more normalized and 'more' legal.

I did come up with feasible ways of fixing it.

10-15 years ago, when the institutional momentum was not yet strong enough that it could not be thwarted by a concerted and targetted, ground up pressure strategy.

But, back then, everyone told me I was hysterical, overreacting, and that what is currently happening could never happen and was impossible.

Obama was in power, the Dems had a trifecta, surely they'd overrule citizens united and move the whole country over to ranked choice voting, and abolish gerry mandering!

Oh wait no, they squandered that, and then people mostly shrugged and sighed as things got worse and worse, not seemingly realizing the exponential nature of the situation, nor to what dire of a degree climate change mandated urgent action.

We are now at the point where... well basically, the only way to meaningfully fight back against this all would be for enough people to follow the example of your username, and just start assasinating everyone who is personally in a leadership position at an exploitative corporation, over and over and over again, untill CEOs and board members get tired of dying and actually stop raping the people and the planet by force.

But now we are all even more tired and dispossesed, even more exhausted and overwhelmed.

We missed our shot at doing it peacefully 10, 15 years ago.

Now it could only be done through coordinated violence, and we are more atomized and tribalized and individualized than ever, so in all likelihood, the only people who'd even attempt a CEO purge would be lone wolves of some kind, which won't be enough.

I don't really give a damn that you think I look like an asshole, I'm pretty used to bringing up unpleasant facts and realistic assesments that make people deeply uncomfortable.

We are now at the point where the apparently impossible peaceful revolution has made a violent revolution inevitable.

Its just that the fascists are doing all the violence, ie, we are losing, for lack of meaningfully fighting back.

I am not as well versed on Solana, but yeah, as best I can tell, and I've been following crypto since Satoshi's paper dropped, since before Mt Gox became a trading house...

Monero is the only crypto that is really even close to kind of being the bare minimum starting point that Satoshi wanted Bitcoin to be.

And... we still don't have any kind of broad, tangible uses case for any crypto... other than scams, gray/black market stuff, money laundering, extremely privacy focused services, and extremely speculative investing.

Crypto is basically a problematic solution, still searching for an actual problem it can actually solve better than what has come before.

Ok, so we've got a single stable coin that's been fairly stable for 5 years, good start.

Now, how do I know which ones that were around 5 years ago....would be this stable, 5 years back in time?

How do I know this one will be stable for another 5 years?

Is there... some kind of objective analysis I can do here, of all stablecoins, to at least have an idea of this, or am I throwing darts while blindfolded?

Businesses tend to like certainty and predictability when it comes to the fundamentals of their operations.

That is a shockingly good analysis, damn.

Only possible thing I could maybe add or tweak would be... expand 'hypemen' a bit more to include... well, at least an attempt at some kind of comedy.

Maybe split this off into its own group?

A lot of earlier gaming youtubers... at least seemed to be trying to more or less do live playthroughs or after playthrough reviews that... basically just tried to either ad lib, or write a script with as many relevant jokes a possible.

I keep emphasizing 'tried to' and 'attempted' because many of these schticks just... sucked, lol, or quickly fell apart into a depressing cynicism spiral.

Granted, you seem to be focusing mostly on live streamers, specifically lets players, as opposed to the older, sort of gen 1 of youtube video game content people, where a lot of it was just... i dunno man, i just recorded myself playing a game, shrug.

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Also, at this point, there may be at least two other distinct kinds of... video content about playing games, types of people, excluding esports amd speedrunners, but nvm anyway:

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Roleplayers.

There are a lot of streamers that just pick some roleplayable game or roleplay mod or whatever of a game, and I think that's ... kinda its whole own thing, where a lot of the content/style is ... i dunno, you could call it maybe a real time soap opera generator, a number of these people will actually learn or construct a whole fleshed out voice and personality for their character... but also a lot of roleplayers will more or less just basically be asshole trolls/bullies.

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'I am bad at games but cute'

Many vtubers, pickmes, also not pickmes but actually interested in games, but also very unfamiliar with them.

This is a whole other style or genre, where the appeal comes from... well, theoretically it could include other extremely naive / inexperienced noobie video gamers, but realistically, its mostly the appeal of viewers parasocially having a mostly submissive but also earnest psuedo girlfriend.

Probably worth noting that this can be a consistent schtick, or can... often evolve into 'hype(wo)man' or 'tryhard'.

This is imo distinct from just being cute and also being any other kind of streamer... because the ditzy cute naiveity is strongly emphasized, often to a ludicrous degree, as well as the lack of skill and amount of unforced errors... and this is the whole point, to evoke sympathy.

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Also, now that I think of it, this could maybe qualify as distinct:

Meme/Joke/Ludicrous self imposed goals or restrictions video game player.

The whole concept of this is to basically attempt to do something completely absurd in a game, to play the game 'wrong' in a way that is at least in broad concept, humorous on its face by how ridiculous it is.

Like uh i dunno... play through RDR2 but you have to never use a horse, ever, or play through Morrowind without ever increasing any of your stats, naked playthroughs of Dark Souls, aim for some nonsense/meme strategy in Hoi4, play competetive Madden or Fifa where your entire team is 4' 6" and weighs 600lbs, kill yourself as fast as possible in a game that is designes for that to not be able to happen, win a racing game going entirely in reverse the whole time...

Just wacky zany shit.

Usually this translates better to a youtube format thats cut down from a livestream, but those livestreams can get decent numbers as well, and you can also tie in your viewers to the whole thing, maybe they get to decide some new absurd task or make some decision for you at some point.

See my point here is:

Stablecoins are not actually meaningfully stable, they are not a realistic solution.

I know, I know, I'm just being cheeky =P

But, that is a good and accurate thing to point out either way!

Sexbots / Robotic Prostitution.

Might not be as advanced as in scifi, but...

Its more or less a perfect loophole for strip clubs.

Its not a person servicing you, you're simply paying for temporary use of mechanical equipment, like a gym.

No, the reason the internet is shitty is because of consistently, factually wrong, and overly aggressive assholes such as your self.

Wow, very irrational and egotistical, enjoy a space on my permanent blocklist, son.

=D

Wouldn't solve the problem.

If Steam republished all its now censored games, and magically developed and implemented a world class crypto payment system overnight...

Then Steam is still in breach of MC/Visas terms, and MC and Visa drop them, and now everyone has no choice other than to use GabeBucks or w/e to purchase Steam games with.

Also, Valve now pays employees and game publishers in GabeBucks.

Which would cause a fuck ton of games to leave Steam.