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Well I enjoyed the piece. But it evinces a kind of derangement unique to modern life. Minecraft became so popular, and worth so much money, that the author coul
by Gatsky 4y ago
Well I enjoyed the piece. But it evinces a kind of derangement unique to modern life. Minecraft became so popular, and worth so much money, that the author couldn’t get over it.
Another example is that guy who threw away a hard drive with his bitcoin wallet on it, now worth $200 million or something like that. He can’t move on. Last I heard he was trying to finance a plan to exhume an acre of landfill and sort through it all by hand.
- CodeArtisan 4y agoAnother example closer to this is The Witcher. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrzej_Sapkowski#Legal_dispute_with_CD_Projekt https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrzej_Sapkowski#Legal_disp...
- wikfwikf 4y agoAn even better example is the Australian guy who was Bitcoin-adjacent in the early days, and has now convinced himself, apparently, that he created Bitcoin. He has spent years making both resentful accusations and meaningless grandiose gestures (for example, that he was going to give billions from his secret wallet 0 to pay for STEM education in Africa).
- Gatsky 4y agoYes, also a good example, although he seems more delusional than merely deranged.