Exposed: The Ridiculous Reality Behind 'Physical NFTs'

Today we take another look at some "Physical NFT's" that i found in my local game store. and honestly its an absolute mess. broken apps, destruction of mother nature through NFT's, and sad childeren. i cannot wait for NFT's to vanish.
In this video, I'm sharing my thoughts on physical NFT trading cards. I think they're insanely dumb, and I think they're a scam.Don't waste your time and money on physical NFT trading cards - they're just a scam!I don't think they're worth the time or effort, and I think they're pointless. I think they're a scam because there's no real benefit to owning them other than bragging rights. And I think they're pointless because there's no real use for them in the world.
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[@SnowyRains]

One of our loacal grocery stores was selling the set of cards you burned. I got talking to the manager and he said they never sold 1 packet so they sent em back got refunded and replaced the card for chewable things to help with indigestion because they actually sell 😂

[@Dresdenstl]

One has a use and one doesn't.

[@aerospherology2001]

eating an nft card would give you indigestion

[@TikkiNikki]

​​@@Dresdenstl i mean technically, both have ONE use

[@SnowyRains]

@@aerospherology2001 lmao too funny

[@blakksheep736]

That moment when your product is so unappealing you lose to stomach medications.

[@Carnyzzle]

I like how these probably only exist because of us saying that you don't actually physically own your NFT, and they still manage to fuck the physical part up.

[@RisingRevengeance]

Funnily enough I think you somehow have even less ownership of these. Good luck trying to prove you own the artwork of big DC heroes.

[@capadociaash8003]

@@RisingRevengeance”no you see, a stranger on the internet sold me art of this hero, that means I can use it for whatever I want”

[@TheModdedwarfare3]

@@capadociaash8003 oh, my bad, carry on. Just dont make p0rn of it

[@housemouseshorts]

@@capadociaash8003 they also burn books for this reason. nft bros are actual nazzis or supporters there of

[@capadociaash8003]

@@housemouseshorts that doesn’t make them Nazi’s, I know it’s a joke but using Nazi to describe anyone makes the term lose all meaning

[@FiremeupAF]

As am employee at a popular game store chain, The big boxes of these cards have been collecting dust since they came in. Just one more thing to dust off every day.

[@Atlastheyote222]

I’m not even remotely surprised at this. Have you sold literally any?

[@seekittycat]

This is great news thank you

[@andreddd89]

That's season 2,they over printed the amount of cards,season 1 sold out fast.

[@Atlastheyote222]

@@andreddd89 source?

[@Walawalacookie]

I wonder if you could recycle them for some cash like you can glass bottles and soda cans. You would probably make more off them that way than cashing in the NFTs frankly.

[@Blisterdude123]

I literally don't understand how physical NFTs 'can' exist. Wasn't the whole point they were just JPEG hotlinks to a binary designation on some stupid database someplace, representing your designated position 'on' that database? What IS a physical NFT, even?

[@echo_soldier]

Its finally coming full circle

[@Dragon-Believer]

Physical NFTs aren't any dumber than regular ones. It was already maximum stupidity.

[@UCXEO5L8xnaMJhtUsuNXhlmQ]

A miserable pile of secrets?

[@6581punk]

You're just being assigned a number that points to something. Anyone old enough to buy vinyl records before they originally went out of favour and before they came back would remember "limited edition" records. You'd get a record and it would have a number printed on it. Not saying NFTs are exactly like that but they're trying the same trick digitally. Probably why I never get involved with NFTs as I remember the limited edition record rubbish.

[@alexmcd378]

Arguably physical nfts are more nonfungible than real nfts. Physical cards can have individual serial numbers, and individual condition and alterations. By comparison, regular nfts point to a completely fungible copy of an image that can be infinitely duplicated. Kind of like a dollar is always a dollar but a baseball card value depends on condition, they aren't fungible

[@ludeknovotny3967]

I don't know if it's a European thing, but we have these chocolate eggs with a small toy inside (Kinder Surprise). There is a collection of these toys and they are small plastic animals. You can scan the figure using a mobile app and it will put the animated version of the animal in front of you using AR. You can use voice commands to let the animal do jumps, dances, whatever... And it also works as a learning tool so you can learn more stuff about the animal and play different mini-games. It's a cheap thing for kids and even that is way more useful, interactive, and interesting than this NFT crap.

[@snyderec3952]

We have them in Canada as well.

[@mistandfog5442]

The main reason a treat like that is banned from the US is because the toy being in the egg classes it as a choking hazard. The risk of a kid biting in and swallowing is deemed High enough to warrant a ban. Keep in mind, last year a woman used GORRILA GLUE as a replacement for SHAMPOO... and was surprised when it wouldn't come out.

[@ayajade6683]

​​@@mistandfog5442 no it's actually due to our food laws of non edible items can't be in food as sawdust, glue, dirt, etc use to be used to make more of a profit. This is insanely common knowledge and you have the internet to educate yourself instead of spouting bullshit

[@user-wj6jh1cd5n]

​@@mistandfog5442 they've been unbanned since like 2015. I've seen them in pretty much all the shops out here with the rest of the candy.

[@SenshiSunPower]

@@user-wj6jh1cd5n Are those the ones with the candy on one side and the toy on the other?

[@01petrov]

To me this is full circle because NFTs seemed like trading cards from the beginning. Many modern trading cards already have collector gimmicks like serial numbers and limited prints, autographs etc.

[@housemouseshorts]

Yugioh cards use to have the gimmik of a serial number it worked with the playstation games to give you the cards

[@PointsofData]

"THIs is one of the shit cards but look! It's FOIL!!!"

[@MrMilti]

So... some kids sit together, "enjoying" their cards, start scanning them.. and the camera picks up EVERY QR CODE, that randomly might be in their field of view? That shit would end friendships... if anyone would actually care about those cards

[@electrowave114]

Tbh, a friendship that can be ended by bs cards probably wouldn't last all that long to begin with - it'd come crashing down at almost any other bump in the road. True friendships would work through stuff like that.

[@frankbauerful]

In other words: These packs offer a unique learning experience for kids to teach them the important lesson to stay away from NFTs. Seems like they're worth the price.

[@probablythedm1669]

Just tell the kid you're going to give them ice cream, get them real hyped up for ice cream, and trade something they like for the ice cream, with the promise you'll give the item back even better. Then send them a jpg of ice cream and after a while just delete the message. That's the experince and feeling of owning a NFT right there! 🤣 Then give them ice cream later, once they have processed and internalized the feeling so they never forget how disappointed and hurt they were by the betrayal. It's even a lesson you can possibly call back to in the future whenever they break a promise.

[@housemouseshorts]

the app is run by pedos though...soo

[@TheInternetHelpdeskPlays]

Looking at the speed, I'm thinking the cards are locally loaded. Which makes me think the updates was the app downloading **all** of the cards and letting you unlock the ones you scan. If it is, that means you have all the jpegs already.

[@Argumemnon]

Would that surprise anyone, I wonder?

[@Garycarlyle]

Nah it's just the way they are printed. They are printed more clearer than most QR codes. Although it makes me wonder if the code can be 'brute forced'. If so somebody could register every card that hasn't been already.

[@mjetektman9313]

Sounds logical, I wonder if by using a rooted device I can access those crappy JPEGS Edit¹: I'll set up an Android VM with root in it and see what happens

[@PointsofData]

​@@mjetektman9313 ?

[@vytah]

The Hawkman loaded really slowly.

[@Ogryska]

QR scanner probably uses some sort of open source google scanner. It's actually lazy that they don't analyze only the window (as overlay shows) and simply scan whole camera preview. Most likely nothing written by them

[@sealsharp]

I am somehow disappointed that "i am callum Upton and you are not" is not your new signature phrase , because it is an amazing signature phrase .

[@HanSolo__]

Callum! Listen to this guy. A neat phrase, indeed.

[@TheMamaluigi300]

It’s because it’s trespassing on the legal grounds of Caddicarus’s “Hello, I am Caddicarus. And you’re not.” phrase

[@ColostomyMan]

@@TheMamaluigi300 Did Caddicarus purchase the legal rights to the phrase from Chevy Chase when he did SNL in the late 70s?

[@LSSTmusic]

@@ColostomyMan he did

[@MagnaDrake]

You 'mint' them randomly... from a 'booster' pack of random 'Physical NFTs', some of them are rarer than others, they have a semblance of monetary value depending on how desirable they are by a certain subset of a certain community.... My guy, they have rediscovered trading cards.

[@reidleblanc3140]

"in order to know if it's been scanned, you have to scan it, nullifying your sale..." that's actually hilarious I love that

[@kurojester4513]

I can’t imagine any NFT bros actually leaving their bedrooms and going to a physical store. No wonder they aren’t selling!

[@fn18pack]

They are selling, this guy is making a dumb video for views. The first set sold out completely and resells at 2x retail.

[@Silburific]

@@fn18pack Hey, in your universe, does rain fall up? You know, since reality is reversed there.

[@andrewkoster6506]

@@fn18pack You are holding a bag, bag-holder. I do not wish to buy your bag. Find another sucker.

[@andrewkoster6506]

@@fn18pack The audacity! Imagine making a video for VIEWS, of all things!

[@dillyduncs]

​@@fn18pack you know we can see your subscriptions right? How much money did you throw away on these? 🤣🤣

[@ArchOfWinter]

If DC just made regular trading card, they might actually sell better. Make shinny comic book cover cards as the rare cards. The app dev can probably make more money if they make an app for cataloging trading cards. That personal database of what you own would actually be helpful for regular card collectors.

[@vxicepickxv]

The trading cards are licensed from DC. That's how that works.

[@doomspud6302]

I love it. First, we have real scarcity, thanks to the limitations of physical goods. Then we get artificial scarcity, where a producer intentionally makes less of their goods to artificially increase value. Then, we got imaginary scarcity, with digital goods that are given completely made up limitations, like NFTs. And now, these geniuses have combined both artificial and imaginary scarcity in such a way that they cancel each other out and make the entire thing completely worthless. It would be impressive if it wasn't so sad. Maybe we should just go back to banging rocks together and try starting all this civilization stuff over again, because something clearly went very wrong somewhere.

[@xtremefurrycat]

My thoughts on why the updates are so big is all the images are already in the app and the QR code just pulls them up.

[@andreddd89]

When you scan,you mint your card on a block chain

[@xtremefurrycat]

@@andreddd89 oh I understand that part just this app and the cards, just totally added bloat for gimmick sales.

[@Gohka]

I was thinking the same thing when he said he had to do all those updates. I wonder how easy it would be to generate some codes to "mint" every single card on the app for free? lol

[@ollllj]

The easter islands starved and collapsed because they chopped down the last tree on their isolated island-world for their stone-statue NFTs.

[@thanos879]

Lol

[@clovernacknime6984]

At least the stone statues are still there, and pass as art.

[@kyleoates6367]

I'm... kinda shocked they had access to the DC license for these. Did they? I wonder if they pitched this to DC as simply a collectible card thing, maybe even a game with an app tie in, without even mentioning NFT. If they did, DC should sue. This has tarnished their brand way more than any poorly done movie ever could.

[@lasskinn474]

well it is just a collectable. it's not different to stickers. I'm wondering are they really nft's on a blockchain though.

[@MrHoodsquirrel]

They have the license. Disney, Marvel, DC and a bunch of other big IPs are all diving into NFTs/blockchain tech. websites/content creators will just never make content on it since it doesn't bring in the clicks.

[@Matt_0G]

They are an official licence partner. DC have various Web 3 partners. So no they won't be suing anyone over nfts seeing as they are very much pushing forward into the space. Trading cards with Hro is just another thing

[@ExValeFor]

​@@MrHoodsquirrel take your pills

[@MrHoodsquirrel]

@@ExValeFor What's wrong? Can't handle the truth?

[@FTZPLTC]

It's like someone saw that video where the guy was buying Pokemon cards and could tell without opening them that they'd already been opened and resealed; and their immediate thought was "Aha, so we need to make it so you *can't* tell".

[@alyssavanderklift9296]

'magic for the mentally impaired' oh god, that had me cracking up with how uncannily accurate that is.

[@Ollay245]

feel bad for the kids these days.. hopefully the gamestore owners are gonna be wholesome about it cause this is trouble

[@magfal]

Would be fun to crack their code generation and grabbing all the NFTs by generating all valid codes.

[@vytah]

The code is a custom URI with a string of random-looking characters, it's probably a random identifier in their database.

[@magfal]

@@vytah given the caliber of people involved I wouldn't be surprised if they used one of the un-reccomended uuid implementations that generate sequentially through time and used the MAC address of the machine as the seed.

[@NavigatorBR]

1:21 - Okay, I'm not crazy. I had a feeling of deja vu.

[@foxokon94]

The stupid part is that these would probably do decent as just slightly cheaper DC trading cards without the NFT integration.

[@vxicepickxv]

DC doesn't care. They already got paid for the license.

[@Calliber50]

Good news is I scanned your card you had on screen with the app and it says it's owned by you and I can request a transfer. So there's at least ownership being kept track of. Had it just added it to my collection we'd be looking at an even bigger scam.

[@MassiveSwordAndCards]

The part about the cards/NFTs in the pack being worth only a few cents in total isn't exclusive to this. Every in-print tcg has this issue. There's usually only around 10% of a set that's actually worth selling. The vast majority of the cards are considered "bulk" and you'll see people selling them AT A LOSS on eBay. Meaning, they put them up for like $1 with free shipping, which means they're paying MORE just to get rid of them!

[@n3ff848]

It's great how they don't even create exclusive art for the NFT, but just slapping some random picture on there in different art styles, poses, quality and composition.

[@Faraday.K]

I feel like I'll never not be surprised when Cardfight gets a shoutout from someone outside of the sorts of folks that actively go to card shops weekly

[@valthonispaladine7999]

Can I declare my sketchbook full of stick figure battles a collection of physical NFTs? To Triton (the one orbiting Neptune)!

[@NaudVanDalen]

I wonder if Pokemon TCG NFTs are gonna come out and if it would make any difference whether they are NFTs or not.

[@BloodWolf2005]

Sounds like POGs from the 90s. Edit: no, I take it back. You could at least play a game with POGs.

[@dakat5131]

That's crazy they went from that horrible scanner in the previous app to one that quickly recognizes it even at extreme angles

[@tomlxyz]

They probably just switched libraries

[@My1xT]

They should be smartcards where one can digitally claim ownership and move the cards by nature of a private key which the card doesn't reveal (basically the card signs a tx for you which you can send out) That the only way card nfts could make sense

[@Garycarlyle]

Yeah that was my comment too. Have like a little slider on the card with the key behind it. When you sell or swap the card the get the digital version to to game with or whatever.

[@My1xT]

@@Garycarlyle you mean printing the key behind it? that's explicitly NOT what I am talking about tho. because any previous owner could write down the key. instead a smartcard like approach handles it way better as the key to the NFT would not leave the card. you could scan the card via NFC to have the card sign a transaction or whatever but the actual key should not get revealed

[@northerngiant2915]

It would only be a little better as we already have RFID readers/writers. Whether it’s protecting the QR code or an RFID tag either would probably be an improvement, still not worth a bubble tea.

[@My1xT]

@@northerngiant2915 on a properly made smartcard an rfid/nfc reader cannot just read out all the data willy-nilly. This isn't some 2003 door access tag we have to use that just spawns a number and that's it. Look onto real smartcards for example the german national id card as an example you really cannot just get out anything the card doesn't want you to have, or nfc bank cards/credit cards, they don't just give out your cvc but rather sign the specific transaction they are given and the data can therefore really just be used for that

[@tomlxyz]

Then why do you still need the blockchain? It's pointless to have two potentially contradictory ways to claim ownership.

[@karri-sebastiancalitu4306]

The only thing that was updating was the contents of your phone to their database.🤣

[@atraxian5881]

To be fair, the average value of an MTG booster is probably around the same as those nfts (50 cents for the rare, 30 cents for the 3 uncommons and a 10 cents for 11 commons), but at least you can play with those cards.

[@vxicepickxv]

Or you can take one and pass the rest. Then pick up the 14 card pack and take one, and pass the rest along.

[@screenspelunkers1026]

Yo the Vanguard reference warmed my heart. I didn’t think anyone I watched knew about it.

[@mmrchive]

Isn't it a bit redundant tho? CFV is already for virgins. Bakugan TCG is where the chads are at

[@CallumUpton]

if it makes you feel better my local game shop has a huge group of people playing on the regular ❤️

[@jerm70]

This would actually be great if they would do reprints of old comics and storylines with this technology to where you get the actual copy and the digital copy.

[@lucasreiYT]

Yes. I remember this. We called them garbage pail kids.

[@professorfukyu744]

At least they were interesting.

[@nitiratp]

Fungible NFTs, the next evolution of web3!

[@Romanticoutlaw]

so, wait.. doesn't that make them fungible? And no longer tokens?

[@Nikki_the_G]

Jimmy Olson was from the original Superman comic, heh. He was a kid photographer who worked at the Daily Planet along with Clark and Lois.

[@hughmann706]

Physical products instead of virtual ones?! What an amazing innovation! The world will never be the same.

[@MultiDarkZen]

It's amazing how the physicals nfts increased in value as soon as Callum held them in his hands

[@irobot9250]

10:20 say, aren't those characters protected by copyright?

[@Jessiez]

HRO has the rights to DC. The more you know 😂

[@CommissarMitch]

Pro: The QR Scanner is really quick. Con: The product.

[@blairowens8912]

I actually scanned your cards as you uploaded the video. WELCOME TO THE NFT SPACE Callum!!

[@DuskoftheTwilight]

"vanguard for virgins" implying that vanguard isn't already for virgins :p

[@ComradeChyrk]

The only thing I can see this actually being good for is if games like magic the gathering, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh, etc, allowed you to scan the card, in an app and use it to play others online.

[@antondovydaitis2261]

Look out for Mirandus: Earth 2 meets Roblox, only with NFTs!

[@nathanpremo]

I love NFTs because they let us know who those who aren't mentally capable to hand their own money are.

[@moofy69]

The mother getting mad at the store that the cards weren't valuable is really telling of the state of CCGs

[@fn18pack]

Yeah that's just a parent not understanding collecting cards. I've bought packs of these and have some pretty valuable cards in my collection. Sold the highest priced one for $1,700. It's just luck of the draw, same goes for buying a pack of pokémon or a box of sports cards.

[@moofy69]

@@fn18pack yes but my point was that you don't buy CCG to profit like a get rich quick scheme, you buy them to enjoy.

[@fn18pack]

@@moofy69 absolutely! And that's where this video is missing the point. By this logic you could call any collectible a scam if you don't make money off of it

[@MrHoodsquirrel]

@@moofy69 Exactly why people collect these lol. Some flip some collect. Some of these cards already sell for 4-5 figures

[@shadowman1988]

The QR code speed is limited by the library you need to match against. Scanning against 100 possible variants let's say is not the same as your default QR scanning APP doing so against trillions of possibilities! Also, they didn't develop shit in terms of QR scanning. That's not them doing that.

[@vytah]

It's a standard QR code, containing a typical amount of text for such a QR code (about 30-40 characters), so it's not something simplified.

[@JamesTheCelestial]

crypto i can see being useful in the future if properly regulated, but i have never seen a good argument for a use for NFTs that can't be accomplished with something else. If people want a card game, they'll buy and play a card game, NFTs just make it way more complicated than it needs to be.

[@cheesesniper473]

Crypto is just a heavily encrypted database system. You could literally turn every store of information into this. It was just never done before because no one was stupid enough to try it. And all the theoretical problems involved with hypothetical 5th normal form databases emerged. Rediculous power consumption and needless layers of encryption make even the task of tracking a digital currency a nightmare.

[@JamesTheCelestial]

@@cheesesniper473 Ohhh, I getcha. I'm neither smart nor good with code, so I wouldn't know.

[@andrewkoster6506]

@@JamesTheCelestial Imagine if everyone's bank account balances were stored in one physical notebook, and in order to buy or sell anything, we had to mail the notebook to each other so that we could transfer the money to each other by updating our account balances in the notebook. This is like that, but on the Internet.

[@JamesTheCelestial]

@@andrewkoster6506 ahh, that makes it simpler. I getcha now. See, I've never used Crypto, myself, I just know what your average joe would

[@vxicepickxv]

​@@cheesesniper473 I could see a use case for a heavily encrypted database for showing ownership. They could be deeds in areas without stable governments.

[@xchronox0]

Note on the QR code scanning praise. It's probably just using the system QR code scanner from your phone. I imagine this is just a standard android thing, because my phone also picks up on QR codes just as easily.

[@isaiahcameron7897]

Is it weird that I want a couple packs just for the novelty of it? Imagine how wild it would be whipping these out in forty years and having a laugh.

[@DavBotsArcade]

How can you have a common NFT. Would that not imply there is some funge happening?

[@Kalleboost]

Wait, where is the Twitch link, do I really have to open Twitch myself and locate the channel manually?

[@CallumUpton]

Linktree in the description has all my links XD

[@PinBiohazard]

Honestly I would love a CCG that had QR Codes on them for a digital collection version (Topps have both physical and digital cards) because it would be cool to have both physical and digital versions of things but anything BUT NFTs because they suck

[@monsterfurby]

I'm imagining the blank stare of a baffled Wizards of the Coast exec who is so revolted by the idea they barely manage to stammer "B...but... But if we only sell them once, how do we make money?"

[@housemouseshorts]

Yugioh cards back in the early days had this. the seril numbers on the cards worked for the playstation games

[@marthsinclair3796]

They took those online pass slips from video game boxes in the late 2000s, and they're trying to make them into collectibles. The laughter is powering the electrics for my neighborhood.

[@tvctaswegia497]

Large updates are most likely the entire collection sfx and card artwork - the QR just encodes ID to show them in app, no net traffic except authentication and registry. Hence super fast. Nice except for bloatware. As a DC fan I can see the graphic appeal but the whole NFT deal is terrible. Unless the trading system shown very briefly actually works, still doesn't address the physical-digital disconnect. Yes I have done single card MTG sales, most cards are not rare and worthless. In my day we bought entire trade boxes of packs to ensure the full series print run... I'm out now but I believe the only money is in super rare, meta and collectors unopened prior edition packs. This is none of those.

[@cherry9787]

Another benefit to MTG or Pokemon is that they can be played AND have value bc they're good in play

[@enderkatze6129]

I Like how the only Thing they got right was the QR scanner

[@Brixster]

"I spent money so you don't have to" Well the truth is you didn't need to spend money cause I wasn't going to anyways 😂😂. Worth the entertainment value though

[@Lenariet]

I was one day shy of buying the entire collection of those bad boys from my local gaming store. 🥸

[@iBangADrum]

In don't think this guy is even capable of giving you an objective opinion.. and obviously has no clue how these work.

[@Walawalacookie]

Jimmy Olsen is a long time comic relief character in Super Man. He's a teen aged photographer for the Daily Planet. He would totally be into NFTs. You called it lol.

[@leonyon]

the studio I work in has NFTs that can be either used as a skin in game (or traded) or burned in exchange for an IRL hoodie honestly it's the first time I saw the 'real life NFT' concept working well

[@KarmikCykle]

I REALLY wish I could have sat in on the conversation that lead to them making the second app. I wanna know what insane justification they used.

[@imagiknight47]

So, you buy the cards... to get the (random) cards... to scan the QR code... to get the card on the blockchain... to sell? Why not just resell the physical card? At least with Pokemon cards they gave you one QR card to play with them online, I assume, being able to physically and digitally collect them. This is just a pump and dump without the pump, and somehow even worse for the environment.

[@inthefade]

The block chain is burning trees?

[@marcusanthony9322]

I can get a pack of magic cards from my local over priced toy store for £4.50 and you can actually do stuff with them.

[@andreddd89]

Pull like 20 cents worth out of magic packs

[@fn18pack]

These cards have a leaderboard that awards prizes as well. Uncut sheets, signed prints from the DC movies, original DC art cards, etc. The app has gamification to it and is growing everyday with more collectors.

[@marcusanthony9322]

@@andreddd89 yes but there are people out there, believe it or not, that actually play the game, and the cards will always retain some sort of value.

[@marcusanthony9322]

@@fn18pack gamification? its either a game or its not, sounds like you've been drinking some form of copium

[@fn18pack]

@@marcusanthony9322 gamification as in a leaderboard and competition. It's a new project and they listen to ideas from the community of collectors. A handful of ideas from the community have been implemented already within the first year even dealing with the red tape of approval from WB and DC.

[@enderrzvx1461]

HOOOLY CRAP THAT QR SCAN SPEED ! Legit as u said these guys should sell their source code for the QR scanner ! Ive never seen a QR scanner that fast on any apps.

[@fishbone0]

Qr is supposed to be fast, and there's no way they made this themself

[@existinginaspace8347]

Remember web3 only exists to exert control over it's users and create artificial scarcity

[@Chasardous]

Keyforge for the Clueless, Dominions for the Daft, uh uh Pokémon for the Preposterous

[@antondovydaitis2261]

Yu-Gi-Oh for Yokels. Digimon for Dummies. Weiss Schwarz for Wankers.

[@FuelDropforthewin]

Do you think they actually licenced this art or stole it? And did they license DC's characters?

[@zdrux]

It doesn't have to make sense.. just has to make money

[@RobertSmith-wj6ny]

Card collection in the UK is for kids aged 7 to about 14. They have been going since the 1880s and each generation will go through at least one wave of enthusiasm. The important market in the UK is the school playground. In fact for kids, this is the only "safe" marketplace. Their intrinsic value is close to zero, but for a kid, collecting a complete set is really quite exciting. The true value of these cards was set by the pool of available pocket money. For older than 14 - grow up and if you have to collect physicals, then collect those which have a real physical market value. On Ebay these are stamps and coins, vintage trading cards and teddy bears - again no intrinsic value, just social extrinsic value based on knowledge of true rarity and quality and condition. To relate these to NFTs requires, I think, each card to have a known rarity value - but if all cards are unique, then they are not rare. Some physicals do have nostalgic and sentimental value and have therefore real extrinsic value on ebay, auction houses and similar trading platforms. I do hope these people have gotten permission to use the character names and artwork

[@dylanherron3963]

3:49 "...we've burnt so many trees... welp, I got some packs here." Me, stoned, "Ayyyyyyy I feel you sliiiiiime, same, I got hella packs" insert cannabis lingo here

[@okayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy]

Potentially stupid question: is every card unique? That’s one of the main selling points, right? But when you scanned them it kept saying “New Card!” And there’s rares and stuff… so are each card literally just separate NFTs with the same pictures???? The whole shitty randomly generated images thing was the one potentially interesting thing about NFT’s and they got rid of them for this???? Nft bros are truly incredible.

[@fn18pack]

There is a set just like pokemon, Topps, panini, etc. Instead of a specific insert being numbered, every card is individually numbered. When scanned they give points based on the number. There are leaderboards that give rewards such as signed DC movie prints, uncut sheets, original DC art cards specific to hro, and more. Some of these cards sell for up 2k and there are lots of collectors. I personally sold one for $1,700 and have sold digital only cards for more than that. This guy doesn't know what he's talking about

[@how2pick4name]

I had a crapton of those books you'd buy cards for and glue them into, like footie, Disney movies, etc. This is just the digital version with cards/characters nobody gives a shit about.

[@NaudVanDalen]

The cards are worth more than the NFTs anyway since they are real.

[@fn18pack]

Could be, and depending on the collector some of them are. But when you scan the cards they are worth points. There's a digital leaderboard and snapshots that are taken for rewards. The rewards so far have been signed DC movie prints, uncut sheets, original DC art cards exclusive to HRO. And it's a new company that listens to a lot of the collectors in the community and has so far been pretty decent at adjusting its business model to incorporate things that collectors want to see with the project. I have pleased with the direction of the company and my collection value so far.

[@fgzhtsp]

There are probably copies of the same card, right? Like in a normal TCG. Wouldn´t that defeat the only "purpose" of NFTs?

[@williamchamberlain2263]

Noooo - the purpose of NFT sets is to make money for the people who mint them. Any other consequences are purely incidental.

[@Illindi]

Did they pay for those properties or just went yolo you reckon? Has to be a loss at some point right?

[@andreddd89]

Officially licensed they have nfts on multiple platforms,also season 1 sold fast and they have a digital only side they made plenty off of,I'm sure dc knows what they are doing

[@lostgarbage4055]

We went full circle from Pokémon playing cards, to Pokémon games, to digital Pokémon pictures, to digital ape pictures, to ape games, to ape playing card.

[@ultgamercw6759]

To be fair there cards do have more value than normal NFT's. I can think of uses these cards could have. For example if I need some paper to start a BBQ well I am sure they'll get it started just fine.

[@kyleoates6367]

Probably coated in highly toxic plastic... so don't burn too many of them at one time.

[@fn18pack]

Some of these cards sell for up to 2k, this guy doesn't collect and isn't part of the discord community, he has no clue what he's talking about with these

[@bretton_woods]

It is how any fad or trend dies - when most of the people buying don't actually WANT the thing. Happened with Beanie Babies amongst other things... tons of speculators, very few actual collectors relatively speaking. And when the collectors have collected everything they want - guess what, there's no more market for it.

[@fn18pack]

Except there a lot of collectors. This is only the second set and printing was increased based on demand for the first which sells at 2x above retail now. The customer base did not increase as quickly as they expected but is growing everyday.

[@xenxander]

No one wanted "Jyhad" when it was out in 1998. At my local EB games, they were severely discounted, to 7.99 per starter and per booster BOX. Yep.. the price was per BOX. They had around 20 boxes, NO ONE wanted them.. so I bought them out. That started my V:TES collection for the next five or so years before I stopped buying and completing the series because I found rarely anyone to play with. Have around 40k of the bastards, complete sets up through whatever set they had released.. I think Gehenna at that point.. the re-release of the second edition had just been minted (Due to so much of 'jyhad' being errata or at least reworded and re balanced the original cards were becoming difficult to play with) and after trying to get that set completed.. I stopped and then said 'hell with it' and never bought another CCG again.

[@fredhurst2528]

Did those digital ribbons give you a good dopamine rush? Hell I was ready to pop some champagne just watching.

[@Kingjder02]

So this is what the world has come to. Buying physical versions of NFTs for real money, to get the NFT ver, to sell them on a marketplace for money that has no real value in the world. I absolutely hate where reality is going right now. And I want off this ride.

[@NEKOplaysgamez]

Why mention vanguard and not buddyfight:(

[@swishfish8858]

Because buddyfight is for PLEBS

[@NEKOplaysgamez]

@@swishfish8858 SpongeBob bwomp sound effect

[@nbrown5907]

The Qr scanner is fast because it is accessing a closed system and a pre defined database I bet. A generic one has to reach out through your default browser to the web.

[@massecurr]

"You're typical NFT bro" cmon man dont do my boy Jimmy Olsen like that

[@ollllj]

DC officially made these?

[@MrHoodsquirrel]

They are licensed by DC.

[@NiksSofa]

Are those at least legal in terms of copyright material on them?

[@andreddd89]

Officially licensed, they work with palm and veve also with different nfts

[@kingbeeYT]

I just saw a page on facebook post about an NFT restaurant here in the states. Wild stuff... lol

[@CleverCover05]

So, is every pack unique or can multiple people "own" the same card? I thought the point was having a card no one else could buy. I'm so confused.

[@MrHoodsquirrel]

NFTs don't mean random animal pfp lol. It's a technology that allows for true ownership of a collectible and is verifiable on the blockchain. Each card has a unique mint number at the bottom left. Commons have a high mint between 1 - 110,000 while the rarer cards like mythics mint from 1 - 1,000. The lower the mint the more valuable/more points it adds to the leaderboard.

[@Dkgow]

@@MrHoodsquirrel So similar to how anyone can get a painting from a famous artist, but only 1 person has the 1st print/creation and everyone else has the /XXXX "reprint" of it

[@spacecase13]

I'm so glad you said you had done this before...I was having rotating deja vu

[@arthurlivesley]

So they didn't think to make the code on the back scratchable? Not entirely surprised...

[@existinginaspace8347]

As someone who regularly wears green and loved the color. I'd probably have to have no screen at all.

[@Dreznin]

I've considered buying a few hundred dollars worth of these to stock for the future since I run a collectibles shop with two partners (no, we don't sell these at present). I wouldn't be buying these for the stupid NFT app, but because they are officially licensed DC products that are selling poorly and are likely going to be pulled from circulation as a result - eventually, the physical cards may hold some value for collectors, but the entire NTF integration is mind-bogglingly stupid. Then again, I'm not their target audience, just someone who realizes that sometimes something stupid may eventually command a premium (like the extremely rare stuff I have from the painfully bad Batman & Robin movie - somewhere, someone will want it).

[@The_Purple_Joker]

but tbf Pokémon was just a card game same with Magic gathering or what ever it is and some of those cards are worth thousands if not millions same with sports it just has to take time with any good investment and being such a reputable company I would say these will be come rare.