I'm just here to bring joy and melt your brain.

Not necessarily in that order. I have a lot to talk about and I just have to put it down in the blog, and I guarantee both joy and brain melting. I’ll talk about the NFT and crypto stuff later. I know I promised I was done with it, but the world isn’t done with it so… here we are but who cares about that because FREE REALMS? IS COMING BACK??? FR Sunrise log in page ...

November 18, 2021 · 10 min · 1943 words · Tipa

Hodgepodge: Games, Crypto and NFTs.

I don’t have anything long-form to talk about, but there’s been a bunch of smaller things. So let’s talk about those. Crypto I’ve been in crypto for a month. I have even made some money – not much, but some. Theoretically, I could take the money I have put in and convert it back to dollars, and after all the fees have been paid, have enough profit that I could buy myself a lunch, someplace cheap. ...

November 10, 2021 · 6 min · 1263 words · Tipa

Cryptogaming: A Brief Adventure

I had the Ethereum. I had Bitcoins and Doge Coin and even Bounce for awhile, but I had the Ethereum to play a few cryptogames. This is what I found. It’s my feeling the largest barrier to cryptogaming is having to shell out a substantial amount of money before you even know if you like the game. The games I’ve seen are fairly simple and not really innovative, aside from using the blockchain in some way. ...

November 1, 2021 · 6 min · 1230 words · Tipa

Dragonereum: If NeoPets Cost $7,000

Am I just too stupid to play crypto browser games? Or just too poor? I don’t hate cryptocurrency and blockchains. They do use resources to mine that could be better used doing something useful, but that ship has sailed, and it’s pretty clear crypto, in some form, is here to stay. To that end, I bought some crypto on CoinBase – a mix of BitCoin, Ethereum, and DogeCoin, just to dip my toes into the water. I’ve made about a buck so far. ...

October 20, 2021 · 4 min · 815 words · Tipa

I Burned Down a Rain Forest and All I Got Was This Stupid NFT

DC Fandome said – sign up and get a special NFT just for you! Tweet it, and get another one! Well, I’m just about to buy my Lambo, because I have an NFT and I’m gonna be RICH. Non-Fungible Tokens, or NFTs, are entries into a blockchain ledger that associate your name with a bit of information in that ledger, usually a pointer to some object on the web, plus some meta-information. My NFT was for a spinning GIF of a Batman comic cover, rendered as if it were a label for a 3 1/2" floppy disk. ...

October 18, 2021 · 6 min · 1110 words · Tipa