Or — just hear me out, I’m going to say something crazy — simply consider: will it draw criticism?
This way, you don’t have to use any of your attention span on Seinfeld or his shitty show.
Literally everything should draw criticism. Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Arizona Iced Tea draw criticism.
But if you’re going to be a lemming about it, you could use basically any sitcom set in the 90’s or 2000’s. I remember reading once that the writers of Buffy The Vampire Slayer deliberately avoided giving the characters cell phones because the characters having reliable, cheap instant communication at a distance eliminates a lot of plots.
Use Saved By The Bell if you have to. Screech, the nerd, is blathering about <newfangled tech> in the first act. The gang gets into a scrape in the second act. Does Screech:
- fail to use <newfangled tech> correctly as you would in the real world, because if he did the plot wouldn’t happen at all? – Great tech.
- Use <newfangled tech> realistically to solve the problem, and Zach has a little moment where he admits Screech was right about it? – Good tech.
- Cause, instigate or worsen the scrape the gang is in with <newfangled tech> which has to be solved by some other means especially deus ex machina by adult characters? – Bad tech.
- Play the main role in this, a Very Special Episode? – Bad Bad Very Bad Epstein Bad tech.
I don’t measure myself against racists. That bar is far too low. Same for zionists (fuck off Jerry).
To go a little more in-depth, if a product would simplify certain aspects of life, make them more straightforward and less prone to a chain of comedic errors, then it’s a good product.
If a product makes things more complex, has more things to go wrong, and more corners and edge cases for some weirdo like Kramer or George to think they’ve spotted a killer side hustle, then it’s a bad product.
Now, I’m not saying that smartphones and computers and the Internet aren’t complicated, but they are far simpler to how things were done before. Read old hobbyist magazines to get a sense of the complex system of self-addressed stamped envelopes and hand-compiled mailing lists it used to take to get info on your hobby. Meeting a friend in a nearby town to go see a movie at a theater you haven’t been to before required a shocking number of cross-referenced paper resources.
Kramer: Look Jerry, twenty thousand dollars in ethereum.
Jerry: but who’s gonna pay for that?
K: You know my friend Bob Sacamano he just bought three of those bored monkeys for ten thousand last week and they are now fifteen a piece, I tell you Jerry this is a great business.
J: but they are JAY PEE GEES!
“I was in Bitcoin! THERE WAS SHRINKAGE!”
Apple Maps, on the other hand, is fully worthy of an episode.
or Waze, proceed right on manaheim parkway… bing bong bong, now it wants me to go the other way, can i even make a u-turn here?
I’m not sure I’d put PayPal on the good side.
Ironically, there are companies that put rubber bladders in shipping vessels to prevent leaks. I got in early at Kramerica, but sold before Darren joined the Nazi party.
As far as I can tell, your entire enterprise is no more than a solitary man with a messy apartment which may or may not contain a chicken.
I guess it’s a good thing that I don’t know a couple of the “Bad tech” ideas. I can figure out the metaverse land sales but have no idea what a blind box is.
“Blind box” in the tech context is an algorithm that hides its operations from everyone, even its own creators. You give it an input, and then it produces an output, without showing you how it arrived to that output.
Do you mean AI?
Nah, that’s a black box algorithm. Blind boxes are like loot boxes, but for irl stuff. Like labubus. Basically gachapon machines without the machine. But that’s not exactly tech, so I assume the op means loot boxes.
Loot/Blind boxes are like a random pack of baseball cards that you can only show to other owners of baseball cards, or someone who is baseball-card adjacent.
Some of them are “rare” in the sense that the card printing company refuses to make more, despite it costing them nothing after the initial card is made.
What’s more is that the printing compamy has decades of psycologic practices to use on their card pack purchasers. For Example:
- Casino-esque animations, enticing younger collectors before that aren’t even allowed to gamble legally, in person.
- Rarity manipulation, making things rarer than listed. If they list anything more than ‘trust me bro.’
- Making sure that purchasers are surrounded by pack buyers who have already got the rarer cards, generating card envy.
- Removing entire card sets from purchase wirh the whole purpose of making purchasers feel like they will miss out, right now and forever, if they do not buy more packs of cards.
Finally, there is also the fact that all of these cards are entirely digital, so the existance of the cards depend almost entirely on the whims of the printers.
The only blind boxes I know are those little toy collections you purchase in an opaque wrapper or box. You don’t know which one you got until you’ve paid. Generally some kind of licensed product, so movie/TV characters, or whatever else will get a child to talk their parents into spending money. There are others aimed at adults, too, like mini versions of classic branded products (Kitchenaid stand mixer, Kraft mac and cheese box, etc)
There are others aimed at adults, too, like mini versions of classic branded products (Kitchenaid stand mixer, Kraft mac and cheese box, etc)
Those mini verse often contain UV resin, without thoroughly explaining the safety risks of working with resin. It’s kind of amazing how they are able to get away with selling those kits - children certainly by them too.
Resin releases fumes and can cause you to develop a permanent sensitivity. Some of the kits are designed in such a way that the resin isn’t going to fully cure unless you do it in thin layers.
There were no good episodes of Seinfeld.
There were no good episodes of Seinfeld.
Fixed
There is no good in Seinfeld
(genocide support paedophile that he is)
I must have missed that episode.
(you should absolutely pirate Seinfeld though)
It’s poor takes like these that keep me coming back to Lemmy!
“So what’s the deal with inflation? Whenever I just make more dollars, I get in trouble.”
In “The Checks” they get a bunch of tiny payments from Japan.
Something something Seinfeld something something Epstein island lemonade
Kramer would go the Epstein Island literally for the snorkeling.
Oh, it’s got gorgeous water.
And the rich people dont care if you sneak on, they just write it off, Jerry.
I can already see Kramer running NFT scams… or crypto rug pull xD
Kramer would spend all his money on NFTs and then freak out trying to flip them. He would enlist George as a fictional investor who would try to inflate the value of the NFTs by offering exorbitant amounts for them in front of potential buyers.
Jerry would riff on the copyability of NFTs and try to talk Kramer out of it, but would secretly sell an NFT of himself for a low amount of money.Elaine would secretly purchase the Jerry NFT and hold it over him forever.
In the end, Newman would buy all of Kramer’s NFTs and think he was getting a steal. George, who was promised 50% of the profits would be aghast when he learns Kramer lost a thousand bucks in the transaction, even more so when Kramer requests $500 from George for his share of the negative profits.
Newman would then flip the NFTs for a genuine profit.
This is gold, agent641, gold!
I just watched 22 minutes of Seinfeld in a 90 second read.
Giddy up!
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