> What comes next? Perhaps pay to download a photo of a printed receipt that says you own a jpeg? The bottom is gacha games, which make billions annually, and

> What comes next? Perhaps pay to download a photo of a printed receipt that says you own a jpeg? The bottom is gacha games, which make billions annually, and are growing year-over-year with no end in sight. It's like a slot machine, except at least a slot machine has a theoretical chance of having a material payout. It's like Counter Strike skins, except at least Counter Strike skins can be sold to other players. It's like NFTs, except at least NFTs represent a notion of "ownership" that could theoretically survive the death of the issuing party. Gacha games are the worst of all worlds--gambling for jpegs that are neither transferable nor durable--and are the logical endpoint of the race to the bottom (well, maybe a slot machine that directly injects carfentanyl into your veins would be worse).