The "Web3" Metaverse: One Year Later

[@jauwn]

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[@Ayo601]

Nice…

[@Jogurtonelle]

first reply to first comment

[@inspaceoo9165]

You win this round. Just wait for the next!

[@Sacar0th]

@@jauwn Hi Jauwn, didn't see you there

[@dedhour6033]

35th

[@spice-x]

The fact that jauwn makes more money from crypto gaming than 99.999% of people actually invested will never not be hilariously ironic to me

[@jauwn]

That's very true, I definitely make good money off this channel. Which makes me wonder just how much money people who do constant ad-reads and have $10/month Patreon channels make.... if I'm clearing $70k a year just off AdSense... WTF are they making?

[@ZKtheMAN]

@@jauwn 70k a year is some serious cheese, holy shit

[@jauwn]

@@ZKtheMAN Yes, it's been an absolute blessing and I've been extremely fortunate. I was able to use my earnings to pay off 100% of mine and my wife's student debts, and put a down payment on a house. But it's also enough money to where I know that if I compromise my integrity by doing one of these $15,000 ad reads (yes they pay that much), it's a huge slap in the face to my audience. I never started this channel to make money, I just got very lucky

[@mattthedoormat]

​@jauwn Genuine question: what are your opinions on other youtubers that do sponsorships? Is it dependent on the product or just a just general dislike of it?

[@jauwn]

@@mattthedoormat I don't have an opinion on what other people do, I won't not watch someone because they do ad reads. I use proudly use SponsorBlock, and they still get their money, so it's a win win. I personally don't like it for MY videos because, like I said, I feel like I'd be ripping my audience off when I already make plenty of money. I don't need to sell them worthless consumer garbage, I don't want them to waste money on the garbage products that sponsor KZbinrs. Also, KZbin is my hobby, it's my "art", and I want these videos to be timeless. An ad read for a plastic water bottle with shitty chemical-scented plastic waste attachments would ruin them, in my opinion. However, if you do a 100% sponsored video and frame it as a review (the recent OddHeader videos as good examples, LazyPeon does it a lot too), that's really lame and at that point, you're hardly even a content creator. Just a mouthpiece. Not a fan of those, but they pay an insane amount of money so I can see why they do it.

[@ForTheJerusalem]

So 1 is dead, 1 is undead, 1 is dying and 1 was never even born. Better that i expected.

[@dimwarlock]

With "better" you mean that they are doing better than you expected or that it's better for everyone to be this way? You know what? I'll assume both.

[@kajamatousek247]

@@ForTheJerusalem Sounds like a movie tagline

[@emib6599]

I always thought the the law of "big numbers" After billions of billions of tries, one successful must happen.

[@vurpo7080]

​@@emib6599That assumes it's possible for one of these games to be successful in the first place. The law of very big numbers only applies when the chance of success is nonzero.

[@HERTZZBR]

@@vurpo7080 and most aren't trying to be a good game and just wanna scam you, wich lowers the chances even more

[@Dradeeus]

It's kinda crazy how much "crazy programmers are holding our code hostage" comes up in crypto, which I'm 75% sure means they're not confident they'll ever be paid and want money upfront before they even continue.

[@AtticusKarpenter]

Pretty reasonable wish when you work for scammers

[@ThePageofRage]

So weird, I thought "Code was Law", right? :P

[@sealeo5772]

But I was told that this was all revolutionary because you actually owned your digital assets... So funny how the supposed ideal use case of crypto games ("you own all your items and the devs can't take them from you!!") turns out to be bullshit because the devs apparently still have full control over their distribution and also crypto games are all guaranteed to die eventually and since they are almost all always online, maximum social-dependency games made to incentivize spending you don't even get to use the items at all once the rug is pulled.

[@amumuisalivedatcom8567]

@@sealeo5772 you are missing the point dude, in the blockchain world you only have what's inside your wallet, if you go to a game and deposit your axe on it, you actually loose your rights over the axe and it's not longer yours. But let's say you never deposit the axe in the game (so you never transfer your rights over the item) then WHATEVER happen, your axe will still be in your wallet and be yours. Meaning if you are stupid enough to give up your right over your item (or whatever in real life) then you deserve whatever will happen to you. When they say "crazy programmer hold our code hostage" that mean the project was ass in the first place and i'm a programmer myself.. Either it's because the programmer and the project manager agreed for a system where the programmer get paid when he reach programming goals but the project manager didn't paid him like it was agreed (so it's the project manager fault). Either it's because the project manager didn't managed sh*t and never made what he had to do after paying the project to secure the project (manager fault again). BUT if the project manager change the database/server and whatever service they use password, put the code in a private repository and ask for a second look over the code to another programmer to be sure not backdoor were implemented or things like that, there's absolutely 100% chances that NEVER a programmer can hold whatever code hostage. You know what's the crazy shit? Often a company will tell you "we are poor so let's pay you from our future benefice" and because you trust the project you will actually code it and trust them. Then they will not pay you the amount said (or a dime) even if they are making a lot of profit.. those sames lame peoples will then ask you to review parts of the code, to implement things there and there. I believe that's actually the moment somes programmer would say 'fck it, pay me or i delete EVERYTHING' (somes company are so stupid they don't even have backups).

[@Khotetsu]

I wonder how often that's just an excuse they use to keep the bag-holders on the line...

[@mqb3gofjzkko7nzx38]

Runescape solved virtual real estate nearly 20 years ago. Your house exists in a pocket dimension so you don't have to worry about taking up finite land on the game map.

[@anon9469]

Ironically, the very first draft version of Runescape had a specific area of the map set aside for people to have their houses in. This was fixed when they went to a full release.

[@msgasmdc107]

But that goes against the whole point. The idea is to bake scarcity into the whole concept, to milk FOMO for as much as they possibly can

[@carcinogenecist2054]

ff14 also has an interesting way of solving virtual real estate called "Good luck asshole!"

[@PerryProject_]

there are mmo's that do have a finite area for land (I think) but yea I do really like osrs poh system

[@SkigBiggler]

@@PerryProject_ FFXIV has a lot system and raffles off plots to players who make a deposit. Kind of sucks though, I stopped playing when I found that out cause I was only really interested in building a house, but it’s RNG whether you get one. I think it was just a design choice, wanting everything to exist in the game world concretely as opposed to trying to force FOMO, but it kind of sucked

[@tableater_real]

if i had a nickel for every time web3 popped off, i'd be in crippling debt and selling all of my possessions wouldn't be enough

[@ShidoMedia]

Now, if we'd get a nickel for every time a Web3 went under we'd all be Uncle Scrooge-ing

[@liamneedsauniquehandle]

so you'd be just like every web3 investor

[@w花b]

@@liamneedsauniquehandle Calling it web3 is almost an insult to the previous webs, that web3 isn't real and the true web3 should just be the rampant ads and all the things that were free slowly getting behind paywalls

[@planescaped]

ba-dum _tishhh_

[@Markm8]

@@tableater_real if i had a nickel

[@table2.0]

“Censorship is evil!!” But the Discord is heavily moderated lmao

[@jauwn]

Well, it's only moderated if you're criticizing Decentraland. If you're just being a general asshole and spewing slurs it's A-OK it seems

[@HowToChangeName]

Lets see how do they like if someone start posting.... Dr Disrespect stuff

[@dorkydragon5055]

​@@HowToChangeName mate that's their main clientele

[@wyqydsyq]

@@jauwn That's all "moderation" in crypto communities is, banning us "FUDers" and any of their former investors who stopped doing mental gymnastics to avoid having to face their buyers' remorse

[@just-mees]

​@@HowToChangeNameThey're libertarians, they'll save it and then ban you

[@JOZiable]

"He is fuck" has to be a shirt

[@LegendWolfA]

@@JOZiable fuck, he is

[@dao_of_potato4957]

@@JOZiable I saw that at 17:17 and for some reason, it was apparently the funniest thing I've read in months, because it made me burst out laughing so hard I almost choked on the food I was eating

[@TimeTravelingFetus]

With an arrow pointing up.

[@mariomaker69420]

agreed, id wear that

[@starstruckp4808]

Please, has anyone made progress on it? It would be the perfect Christmas gift I have in store for a group of guys.

[@omegahaxors3306]

> We're a free speech paradise, you can say all the slurs you want! > I don't like the way you're handling this > 😡BANNED!!! PERMANENTLY! NEVER COME BACK! A tale as old as time.

[@nihilisticpancake308]

Reminds me of the conservative subreddit.

[@omegahaxors3306]

@@nihilisticpancake308 It was, for quite awhile, one of the heaviest censored subreddits on the entire site. Like they were literally banning their own people for the pettiest of reasons. They probably still are, I just haven't heard from that shithole subreddit in forever, probably because they banned their last member.

[@privateinformation2960]

back in my day it was getting k-lined from IRC for calling out chanops for being PDF files because they were going after 14 year old girls. I remember you BastardlyOne

[@privateinformation2960]

holy hell that guy must be in his 70s-80s by now... he was already past 50 in the late 90s.

[@flamedramon68]

You don't understand, it's free speech *for them*

[@jauwn]

I want to make a very important statement regarding the scene depicted at 8:06. This is not to be considered an endorsement of the SecretLabs gaming chairs, in fact, it's the opposite. There is a reason why it is sitting in the middle of my living room instead of at my desk. I purchased it in 2021 because it was the only chair that was available during the pandemic, and have since replaced it with a Herman Miller Aeron. The Secretlabs one is not a very good chair, don't buy into the hype. It's probably a 5-6 on the Jauwn score, mostly because the "leather" is really high quality and it looks cool. Just wanted to clear that up, definitely not sponsored by them. Not like anyone was wondering but I just wanted to share my opinion of these overhyped youtuber-shilled chairs.

[@drfrankendoodle]

ive heard a lot of good things about the aeron. Honestly ive moved to a standing desk and spend very little time sitting these days. Ironically I also have a secret lab titan that now sits in the middle of my office floor more often than not lol. But I will say that while I Wouldnt call it the best chair ever made, ive never regretted the purchase. Its comfortable and looks cool. But I havent tried the truly high end office chairs so I may just not know what im missing. I will say one of the armrests developed a rip in it and I contacted support and they sent me a replacement for free even though the chair is like 4 years old. So that was cool.

[@jauwn]

@@drfrankendoodle Yeah, pretty much the same opinion here. I got an UpLift standing desk last year and it's so awesome, I love how high quality it is, I got one made with the 100% real wood top (it was NOT cheap) but it's very worth it. The worst thing about the secretlab chair IMO was the poor amount of cushioning, it wore down very quickly and it's not going to be easy or even possible to replace it, so the Aeron made more sense for me since it's mesh and I got a good deal on one ($550). Also the armrests on the secretlab don't swing out of the way or come off like the aeron's do, which makes playing guitar impossible while sitting. That alone is enough to make it suck for me, since I do a lot of recording of guitar or other handheld instruments while sitting at my desk.

[@imanoobandproud]

Well, as a general rule, so called "gaming chairs" are bad. Better spend your money on the real shit like an Herman Miller, something made to be sat in for hours. They can be found second hand for not so expensive since a lot of offices use them and sell them when they close or move.

[@SuperWeapons2770]

You should do a chair review. Mostly because I need to buy a new chair.

[@artsyscrub3226]

I usually stick to buying chairs made for office work WAY more comfortable than any gaming chair and much MUCH cheaper

[@Ironman1o1]

There's an unbelievable sick irony to Decenertaland in that its REALLY actually taking the path of a real life failed mall, including Angry neighbors and squatters.

[@mellow_mallow]

It even somehow replicates building decay through the links for nfts breaking down. truly, art imitates life

[@DANKKrish]

@@mellow_mallow it's like broken reality but without the irony.

[@trumangraham2602]

Decentraland: The player must always be in control of themselves. Also Decentraland: Stand completely still on this moving platform as we slowly move you towards advertisements.

[@Sorrelhas]

It's really funny that the Splinterlands people treat a video with like 300 views like it's a hate crime

[@jauwn]

It was the only coverage they had gotten from outside their bubble in literal years.

[@Sorrelhas]

@@jauwn Ahh, that makes more sense I thought they went after you because you were the only one without a following that outnumbered them Well, glad it worked out in your favor

[@bilateralrope8643]

@@jauwn Then they acted like people who had never heard of the Streisand Effect.

[@Anastas1786]

I don't think it's quite fair to compare Decentraland and such to dead malls. Your local dead mall _used_ to be a cornerstone of the local economy and _was_ at one time the setting for endless fun and all manner of memorable social interactions good and bad. Decentraland and the like are metaphorical malls set up in the middle of nowhere. The management of each one thought it was _inevitable_ that _their_ mall would be a bigger hit than all the old ones based on their quirky avant-garde architecture alone, so they _cast aside_ the traditional wisdom of having _tenants_ in most of your units _before_ the Grand Opening. Thus, each one opened as a big, fancy, empty box filled with nothing but "Coming Soon!" posters from local business magnates who felt obligated to at least put a _down payment_ on a unit "just in case", and the occasional junk shop owned and operated by one of the local wealthy eccentrics. They were _born_ empty boxes; now they're _dying_ empty boxes, as each "building manager" slowly realizes that the crowds _aren't_ actually growing and starts working to quickly get their names stricken from the paperwork before one of the eccentrics comes looking for a complaint box.

[@filthycasual6118]

They were born as dead malls?

[@yannickgrignon2473]

This is downright poetic. Frankly, comparing Decentraland to a mall is an insult to malls.

[@franslair2199]

@@Anastas1786 There definitely are malls that were essentially born into failure and were mostly empty during the grand opening.

[@GotchardandGo]

Indeed. I think that Malls also represent what some people have lost, a simpler time where corporations weren't insane - no prizes for guessing what embodies the time that came after that for a lot of people.

[@arturoaguilar6002]

As Dan Olson said: this isn't a dead mall; it's an undead mall.

[@RyzesTechZone]

8:32 The sudden whiplash of seeing Metaverse brand Y'shtola while grinding out Endwalker dungeons was definitely not what i was expecting today.

[@nerdatello]

godspeed o7 if you were doing them with trusts & with her as a party member that would be insanely funny

[@RyzesTechZone]

@@nerdatello well you aren't going to believe this... I needed to level MCH and couldn't be bothered to deal with DPS queues LMAO

[@scaldcrowe]

i was running a dungeon with her in the party and seeing her in the video made me do enough of a double take that i stood in an aoe and fucking died lol

[@Astradyne]

Estinien invests in these games

[@nicolas4514]

@@Astradyne LMAOOO 100%

[@iamathousandapples]

Decentraland really gets what the gaming ecosystem was truly missing: shitty neighbors. The future!

[@vaiyt]

The future of the internet: web pages that disrupt and interfere with each other's visibility😂

[@plushiepenguin]

Wait until there's a HOA

[@Jared_Throw]

Get off mah digital lawn, normie FUD! (/s in case its needed)

[@connordarvall8482]

Reminds me of Vinny Vinesauce looking through an old virtual worlds program from the '90s and one of the NPCs starts complaining about a creep trying to sell virtual real estate to her. Naturally, he had to then spend 10 minutes chromakeying the windows in her apartment to overlay the Atlas Earth ad. The worst thing about this whole metaverse stuff is that what the cryptobros were "inventing" had already existed for 25 years.

[@toomanyaccounts]

@@connordarvall8482 its like nfts. what the nfts claim to do that has any function is already out there and better done.

[@monsterfurby]

"White squares displaying what used to be an NFT" - isn't the white square technically still the NFT, which makes it an absolutely amazing illustration of the fact that NFTs are just hyperlinks?

[@jauwn]

Yep

[@lupislupine1709]

Decentraland: The Sovereign Citizen of video games.

[@TheNewms90]

Lmfao spot on.

[@jauwn]

It's ridiculous, and the amount of insane racist / homophobic / just generally hateful stuff you can find wandering around there is unreal. It's not even funny, just sad. "We allow 100% freedom of speech, no matter what you're doing". Okay, and don't be surprised when nobody wants to interact with you

[@haroldshea3282]

@@jauwn funny that all those freeze peach lovers then go gestapo on all "fud" in their discords. who would've guessed.

[@WhereMyPants]

Love that it's described as corpo/libertarian paradise when it's literally built on rules and regulations. Also, digital land can't be valuable because there is no scarcity, and if there is, someone makes more.

[@M50A1]

​@@jauwnfree speech mfs lose their minds when you use it against them lmao

[@savvamorozoff9576]

"Unable to remove this crypto chlamidia" My god, that's genious

[@SyndicateOperative]

Since when was being base and vulgar genius? Oh, I get it, you're soyboying over alliteration. Jesus.

[@user-ec3rm9wr1n]

@@savvamorozoff9576 that was it called dumb

[@mikejr7727]

"We're early" is crazy considering gaming is 60+ years old.

[@Sniperbear13]

not to mention that game devs solved every problem that they are having already.

[@Hisnitch]

Of course, they are early because they believe that games are a waste of time and that they should only be used to "make money" because the hustle culture never stops and you should always be working!

[@lillyie]

"were early" my brother in christ bitcoin and crypto was released a decade ago, older than some kids in this comment section

[@TheWoodenshark]

"We are early" is the bagholders mantra. Is web3 really just a sad grift for terminally online cryptobros? No, it's the kids who are wrong!

[@sealeo5772]

TBH I'm convinced that the guys making crypto games just didn't know anything about games until they discovered crypto. It would explain why so many seem impressed by the most basic and universal of game mechanics.

[@yugix155]

the biggest development from this entire video is the absolutely intriguing background storytelling element of you having dota 2 in your steam library.

[@jauwn]

Haven't played it in a really long time

[@yugix155]

@@jauwn you should the talents update is actually really fun

[@golemgolden4670]

@@yugix155 Dont tempt people who have cut cancer from themselves, dota and league are hard to quit, dont try to bring people back into those hellholes. - Sincerely an ex league player.

[@wyqydsyq]

Can confirm last few Dota updates has made it almost a completely different game, but agreeing with golemgolden here, don't play it if you value your personal life.

[@AtticusKarpenter]

​@@golemgolden4670so i must thank Blizzard that they killed HotS and resolved this problem for me? 😅 (and better visuals + various quality of life features that HotS has prevented me from migration in some older moba just like i migrated from Prime World and Shards of War into HotS when they was killed previously)

[@na_cl_ty]

A friend of mine showed me Undead Blocks a while ago and we had a lot more time screwing around with cheating in it than actually playing the game The anti tamper check could be commented out, and enabling the dev menu was just a flip of a variable, and we could spawn in anything locked behind NFTs

[@jauwn]

Haha I did the exact same with it myself, but i never released any content regarding that for fear of legal issues. I used dnSpy to remove the md5 hash check on launch and it was game over. So easy lol

[@aowbtd]

Little fun fact about 10:12, Og's Farm (so far at least) hasn't been ported to Roblox and the Roblox account linked to it has been inactive for 7 months, with the only linked creations being multiple copies of a robot-esque rig, an untextured version of it, and a 4-story building.

[@jauwn]

Haha thanks for checking. That's funny. Guess they realized their dogshit game would never compete with the good games Roblox has

[@aowbtd]

No problem, Jauwn! Keep doing what you do🫡

[@wtfbro469]

​@@jauwn I wish man. Been playing Roblox for probably 10 years or maybe more, and the current state of it when it comes to game is arguably the worst i have ever seen. It's literally filled with gambling games, or copy pastes of it. Sorry for the yapping but i wanted to lyk lol

[@fusrosandvich3738]

​​@@wtfbro469 Good games on roblox still exist, but finding them can definitely be a bit of a nightmare.

[@M50A1]

@@wtfbro469 Atleast there ARE games, which none of these web3 games can claim

[@planescaped]

"I am sure you have been itching to know what happened to each of these games" I remember seeing each of those episodes but cant recall a thing about any of those games, so they left the typical crypto game impression. lol.

[@justaguy6133]

9:59 "We are leaving Decentraland" "We are porting our game to Roblox" Bro's about to hit by the same lightning twice

[@baumdf9134]

Why?

[@baumdf9134]

Iike genuinely is something happening to roblox right now or?

[@justaguy6133]

@@baumdf9134 There are a lot of videos to explain it in more detail such as People Make Games' channel, but in a nutshell, Roblox only pays 10% of the earnings you make while they take the 90%. If you earn $100, you only take $10. Roblox is putting sugarcoats on it like "Marketplace Fees" and all that to brainwash young developers who don't know better, but if you remove those sugarcoats, it's horrible. Plus Roblox has the full rights to remove your entire game, your entire work, and your account and your money on the platform if you even dare to speak against them. They do even sue you if they feel like it. Lethal Company is supposed to be a Roblox game, but the dev got fed up with Roblox's mismanagement and decided to build his game on a real game engine and release it on Steam. Roblox brainwashed devs hate him, but everyone outside of Roblox loves him. Same as Unturned and the devs behind it. Again, there are a lot of videos that go into full details about this. This is just the surface.

[@raridino600]

@@baumdf9134 probably bc its not a good game? Other roblox games are better tbh

[@baumdf9134]

@@raridino600 but thats not the same lightning ie they'll probably fail for a different reason on roblox

[@eliteMeat0]

Love to see the classic Intro

[@jauwn]

Classic topics require classic intros

[@eliteMeat0]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@jauwnoooh and fresh outro nice

[@heidisparklebottom]

I still wanna see the stop scrolling intro occasionally, such a vibe

[@fluoromarx]

@@heidisparklebottom fr it INSPIRES me like crazy

[@eonswan]

In a good way, it reminds me a lot of Ratlobber’s crazy intros

[@nokswift]

blessed with a 36 minute jauwn video

[@jauwn]

Best way to end your weekend

[@lupezo5193]

@@jauwn you saved it!

[@LegendWolfA]

@@jauwnbest way to start a monday (its mon over here)

[@MilesL.auto-train4013]

I took a break from my railroad-related content binge to watch this, only to get whiplashed a quarter of the way in with railroad-related events.

[@jauwn]

The train must consume

[@MilesL.auto-train4013]

​@@jauwnNorfolk Southern and PSR want your money.

[@DG-LG]

Oh look. NFT devs becoming AI devs to no ones surprise.

[@goober-ey7mx]

NOOOOO!!!1! AI IS THE FUTURE, TRUSTMEBRO!

[@timopint1125]

snake oil salesman

[@drago939393]

Great to see these "one year later" videos that unsurprisingly prove you right. Would love to see you do long form videos about Second Life, Star Citizen and EVE Online!

[@jauwn]

All are great ideas.

[@cinquine1]

The decentraland official discord having strict moderation that removes any criticism as "FUD" is actually amazing

[@95DreadLord]

the infinite irony of splinterlands users reviewbombing your video only to have your entire channel take off massively is never not funny

[@AtticusKarpenter]

And they shouted on each other "no! Don't give it attention and popularity!" but proceeded to do the thing they aware of and wanted to avoid 😅😅😅

[@terrorkaka]

as they say: “there’s no such thing as bad publicity”

[@Lemonboba1]

Gotta love the Streisand Effect

[@Deasy782]

Had a bunch of coworkers get talked into some metaverse project by another coworker. He texted me about it and I told him to be careful because history repeats itself and he's falling for a digital hype train. I provided him examples of metaverses of the past that didn't need crypto, and how they failed even though more simplistic in nature. He would always brag at work (intentionally around me) about his coin going up in whatever world. Then one day he stopped talking about it, they all stopped talking about it. About the time people realized NFTs were all rug pulls something had happened and homie lost a lot of money. I honestly think dude took a loan on his 401k to invest. Meanwhile I had dumped a lot of money into Nvidia, tried to tell everyone to get in on it, but they went the NFT route lol. I hated that dude, he was just really damn loud so everyone listened to him.

[@HereticalKitsune]

I always assumed Metaverse was something that brings everything together, so having more than one is just silly. I guess I was wrong there. And yikes, that's some bad investment there.

[@jakerelind5577]

What are those people up to nowadays?

[@Spectacles-xu8dp]

The metaverse united everything, the strange thing is that each company wanted to create their own. When they had to work together

[@Khotetsu]

​@@HereticalKitsune The Metaverse is simply another walled garden. Everybody wants to be the next Apple or Facebook and capture everybody into their ecosystem forever. But nobody wants to share their customers with anybody else, so everybody tries to start their own "metaverse."

[@govern_]

I remember taking a business lecture where my professor showed us slides of metaverse, decentraland and axie infinity next to roblox and fortnite. I think there's soon going to be lots of people thinking they're real businessmen by pump and dumping some metaverse projects. Or maybe that's what's already happening

[@tengille]

100% The last 5 to 10 years people under the age of 30 have equated "financial wealth" equating to "success", when that isn't the case. Particularly in the way pump and dump schemes work. Not only is there a good chance you're going to jail (SBF), but everything is public nowadays and you'll just end up on a Coffeezilla video. Jake Paul is now a notorious douche for crypto scams. TLDR: Wealth doesn't equal success, particularly if you go about it in nefarious ways, but for some reason young people (mainly young men) think its "cool" and continue to conceive and fall for those schemes.

[@johndoe4584]

Soulkeep's anchored positions is actually that way because it's a mechanical copy of the flash game series "Kingdom Rush", which also uses anchored tower positions, but I have a feeling that Soulkeep borrows a lot more mechanics without improving upon it like so many other mobile game adaptations of classic flash games.

[@jauwn]

Holy shit you're right. I've played that game before but didn't even think to put the two together

[@johndoe4584]

Somehow the games keep end up becoming imperfect derivatives - It's Roblox content creation but NFTs - Someone on Roblox already made it but better (Kryxivia vs "Rogue Nightmare", any RPGs) - It's a autobattler/"Autochess" or a card game but NFT'd - A mobile/flash game already did it but better

[@Rapt0rham]

Its so weird seeing what has become of simple flash games that people just made for free back in the early 2000s. though I recall sites like Kongregate starting to monetise their stuff pretty early.

[@banned-user]

Kingdom Rush is a GOAT game. It's a shame that it's style has been copied by low level crypto bro's

[@migueeeelet]

This reminds me of all the people who try to make their own "fixed Dungeons & Dragons" and fail at basic game design. They throw themselves in with the wrong conceptions (D&D is a SPECIFIC type of game, not "any game you want") and the much worse assumptions (as someone put it, "onion farmer goes to restaurant, complains about their onions, starts own restaurant and forgets that onions are at most a side ingredient"). In the end you end up with "D&D but..." which doesn't fix the core issues and simply has some extra slop on top. It's like fixing a pothole by pouring paper mache on it. The bottomline is: Game dev is frickin' hard; if it was easier then there'd be a billion 14 year olds with their own fully made games.

[@RorysHappyHouse]

“he is fuck” -intelligent investor

[@MisterPancake778]

I like how they gave hate comments to your video thus increasing its viewability & making it more aware to people about how these are rugpulls completely backfiring their plan lmao

[@lillyie]

"dont give this guy attention, only report the video to prevent it from going to algorithm!" meanwhile people keep pouring in to dislike and leave hate comments. which one is it

[@user-yi9yg6ym1w]

Cryptobros are such failures that they can't even hate effectively.

[@CHRB-nn6qp]

We give Crypto a lot of crap, but it's actually quite impressive that, at least in their little bubble, they've managed to legalise basically every financial crime under the fucking sun.

[@EpicHMFreak]

Metaverse Y'shtola isn't real she can't hurt you Metaverse Y'shtola: 8:31

[@piedpiper1172]

@@EpicHMFreak I’ve never been so jealous of a character for going blind

[@TillsterRulz]

was thinking the same thing and was glad it wasnt actually her lmfao

[@storm99_]

I am so, so glad that I wasn't the only one to see that catgirl and think that it was a bootleg Shtola.

[@blakewhite3131]

You legit have full, correct captions so much faster after upload than actual company ran channels do and theirs have frequent errors. I really appreciate the attention to that, it was also very funny when you had the DAO desc. on screen and your description overshadowed it with the captions.

[@blakewhite3131]

31:57 "pores" should be "poors" but thats not that bad

[@jauwn]

Good catch, fixed it.

[@blakewhite3131]

@@jauwn whoa speedy!! I love to see you dance on these crypto games' graves

[@JacquesCuistot]

Your footage of exploring Decentraland feels like playing Bioshock for the first time

[@plaguedoctorjamespainshe6009]

Isn't an corporation entitled to spam ads in their virtual neighbors ears and face 24/7 ? "No !" Said the man in the Jauwn KZbin channel

[@thegentlemanphantom1040]

Anything involving "web3" has been hilariously entertaining. I've never seen a group of people so ignorant and so loud and so wrong lol. A few still love claiming this is the future while it repeatedly fails, horribly.

[@LegendWolfA]

I love how Web3 is just a solution to non-existent problems.

[@AtticusKarpenter]

I also love their infinite ego, like web1 is pre-multimedia internet, when it was mostly text and seldom very simple pictures web2 is modern internet as we know it since mp3, mp4, jpg and much higher speed allowed to stuff web pages with pictures, music and videos in any unreasonable amounts and this scum dogshit using ineffective methods to make very bad clones of roblox/second life is claiming to be web3, next step as big as adding multimedia in the internet yeah yeah go f yourselves, cryptobro, whatever actual web3 be (maybe even involving virtual or augmented reality but only when it become affordable for most people, like smartphones did) its will not be that and will nothing to do with crypto

[@Colddirector]

I remember being scared this shit would successfully infest the gaming industry back in 2021, so honestly some of my interest is vindictive in watching this fail so hard.

[@iamathousandapples]

​@@Colddirectorthat was the whole thing wasn't it. Silicon valley turning from a solutions creator to a bully that could impose its poorly thought out whims onto the public by throwing enough cash in the air. Thankfully their power was way overstated

[@blindmown]

It's always just been a way to redistribute wealth from stupid people to greedy criminals. I own a company that provides website design services to Web3 projects (they pay better than any other sector), and I've never met a single project owner who believes in what they're doing. They see the community as stupid sheep to be fattened up and eaten. They're almost always from a shady background in trad finance and get into crypto because they can get away with their crimes. But hey, I went from homeless to owning a company with a large team and a couple properties by building websites for them, so I guess I can't complain.

[@freshglizzy3763]

Speculators encounter the unthinkable: the consequences of an unregulated market

[@CrazySquidward]

35:12 "Next year kids will be asking their parents for a UB AK47 instead of a PS5 for Christmas" These people man...

[@jauwn]

That message was typed and sent by someone who is a VP at a regional bank. Insane.

[@kaukospots]

and these kids will be receiving no christmas presents because their parents spent all their money on decentraland land

[@AtticusKarpenter]

Cryptobros must allow their dreams remain dreams 😅

[@flyingstonemon3564]

​@@jauwn Most horrifying thing I read. Imagine having this guy making the investments of your bank, I'd tap out in self preservation

[@billybadass3056]

you should have had dead drop on your performance report.... for OBVIOUS Reasons LOL

[@jauwn]

Oh they'll get their own video later

[@billybadass3056]

@@jauwn lol nice.... as they should

[@s_callahan]

i'm hyped

[@toomanyaccounts]

@@s_callahan what is Midnight Society supposed to be working on that wouldn't merit the studio just shutting down when their public face is gone?

[@llewelynshingler2173]

Dr Disrespect Accidentally spelled it "Deadrop", as such we are using the name he hates

[@DevilMayKye]

8:36 Y'shtola from FF14 on a budget

[@vyzirT09]

it felt like a jumpscare when i saw the feathers in addition to the white hair lmao

[@ANTHONISHERE]

OMG this is so accurate lol

[@dimwarlock]

@@vyzirT09 Like when you see an AI generated picture that looks like a loved one... that shit is scarring.

[@nerdatello]

wow! she really did find a way to travel to other reflections! :0

[@MiraiVFD]

at least they didn't steal the most important feline... the fat cat

[@it_is_i_deo]

I get most of these... Computer programs... came out long before Ross's "Stop Killing Games" campaign came out but it's still really funny that this is like a bizarre extreme inversion of that movement. "Hey what if we made computer programs that visually resemble video games which are heavily dependent on several servers from several different independent groups and if one of them goes down then the whole system goes down? Forever. Ok now as a treat, let's incentivize our customers to continually pump large sums of money into our little nightmare."

[@Gouretoratto]

18:37 turbotax has a timer thing now so speedrunning taxes is actually really interesting now. Filing for 2023 had me digging up receipts for some untaxed expensive purchases and keeping that research and making sure everything was 100% accurate in sub 5 minutes, and the reward as a feeling of actual accomplishment

[@jauwn]

Turboxtax is so overpriced now, i don't recommend it anymore. I'm excited to try the new IRS e-file system though now that it's available in all states

[@thebluehat6814]

"speedrunning taxes" people online really do find a way to Speedrun absolutely anything

[@jackhudner3804]

In countries outside the US, the government does the work for us and just tells us how much we owe. In fact where I live (NZ) most people never even have to deposit their taxes as your employers do it for you.

[@privateinformation2960]

*blink* i hate this world and what it has become. speedrunning taxes..... The God Emperor would love you!

[@privateinformation2960]

@@jackhudner3804 yeah in Australia they still make you do claims, its another excuse to squeeze more money out of you 'for your own good' - 'if you dont confirm with us, every year, that what we know you earned, and what you know you earned, are the exact same amount, then we will fine you' in the UK, despite being a citizen, my first year there i copped the same thing every new immigrant did, the employer illegally kept the tax return for the year, but yeah, didnt have to do a thing for tax every year in the UK, which makes me wonder... has HMRC been putting 'low income' tax returns into the bank account i apparently still have over there i told the bank to close 14 years ago and they didnt... and ive got a nice little nest egg i had no idea existed!!

[@PlebNC]

Crypto-bros: "the first decentralised video game" Freeware and shareware: "bruh..."

[@operatchick6486]

"Joe Biden Catgirl District" We have found the holy land!

[@jauwn]

I'll take sentences that have never been said before for $100, Alex

[@adamsfusion]

"Let's see how THIS ages" I've drank century old wines that didn't age as exquisitely as this masterpiece.

[@probablygeorge6489]

It aged like lettuce

[@llewelynshingler2173]

​@@probablygeorge6489So, the Crypto Games are doing well, are they?

[@probablygeorge6489]

@@llewelynshingler2173 Have you ever had lettuce in your fridge for more than a week? It spoils faster that milk bro, thats why salads are "expensive." I cant think of anything that spoils faster

[@llewelynshingler2173]

@@probablygeorge6489 I know. As such, Jawn's "This Crypto Game is gonna Fall" videos aged well

[@probablygeorge6489]

@@llewelynshingler2173 oh yea I thought it was referring to the project Jauwn was trashing on

[@mushymcmushington7176]

t-shirt that says "I Survived The Joe Biden Catgirl District and All I Got Was Crypto Chlamydia"

[@mossy3565]

17:05 "What a healthy way to spend your time!" That's so tongue-in-cheek, I love it, gonna use that

[@jansenart0]

Jauwn, I'm so glad you're getting so much love and support for trudging through this literal sewer of content. I can only hope that you're appropriately compensated for your efforts.

[@aeonstar293]

Thank you for the uploads Jauwn. They keep my disdain for crypto gaming alive

[@jauwn]

You're welcome

[@OldyAlbert]

"You own your crypto" while selling you specific unique currency that only works in their one game. It's like me printing my own currency on paper and then selling it you for dollars - and saying "you own it" because you own the paper. Like, yeah, physically you own it, there's paper in your hands, but the moment i stop valuing it you just own a literall paper with funny pictures. What the point of "true ownership" of tokens that is only usable in one videogame that is still centrilized controlled by the developer? Where's this decentrilized freedom, what are they talking about? I remember hearing some people's mad wishful thinking about how you use one thing from a game in another game, but web3 gaming seem to be the opposite - every game having it's own funny money you need to exchange for.

[@Spectacles-xu8dp]

quite contradictory to the vision of the metaverse

[@straight-up479]

Describing GameStop offhandedly as a “pawn shop” is so fucking funny to me for no reason

[@jackpijjin4088]

Nah, there's a reason- it's funny because it's completely true! 😂

[@foxxo6963]

youtube recommended me a 4 minute old video instead of a 4y/o, what magic is this

[@George_vv]

I still can't believe Decentraland claimed it was "true ownership."

[@extremepayne]

I find it incredibly ironic that DCL users blame unfavorable media coverage as the reason for DCL’s decline when Folding Ideas documented the reality of most media uncritically accepting their claims. The only negative of the coverage was that it showed the gameplay, which looks like ass

[@hannahlewis7910]

media moguls were probably trying to pump their decentraland bags lmao

[@FrankieW00FR]

8:30 Oh BOY Square Enix would have a Field Day with these guys if they ever saw that catgirl right there. Blatant Y'shtola copy down to the ear rings. It's legit a "Let me copy your home work" meme.

[@Evnyofdeath]

The catgirl in the arena is literally just dollar store Y'Shtola from FF14

[@TetsuNideji]

Looks more like Kal'tsit from Arknights to me

[@cooldog1994]

​I just googled her bc i have a few friends who play arknights but i dont and yeah i dont think so. The black dress and earring-like feather hair accessories ​are 1000% y'shtola

[@marcusaaronliaogo9158]

Groin ad is so unintentionally funny it’s represents how bad this future is

[@dr.cornwater2886]

I am shocked, nay, appalled that the visual and gameplay masterpiece that is Kryxivia was basically just an asset flip.

[@transientwaveform1475]

The coin sound effect in that Decentraland mall game was made with sfxr, which is a tool intended for generating sounds in game jams.

[@QueerWebs]

I did some QA testing for some web3 game years ago and this video made me realize it was Decentraland. The devs for the game were testing a simple multiple choice quiz game where you would move to a designated area based on your answer. It fell apart because people would just move to the area with the correct answer afterwards and there was no way to remove them due to the SDK restrictions!

[@christianwhalen9263]

Jauwn really is the modern day equivalent of “you don’t make money in a gold rush by digging for gold, you make it by selling the shovels.” Makes me happy to see how well he’s done ❤

[@peerburns624]

Man, i'm subscribed to you since you posted your third ever video to r/cryptoreality back then. You had like under 100 subscribers. Crazy to see how much your channel grew since then. Makes me really happy to read you even make some adequate money from this kind of content without ad reads and sponsors.

[@s_callahan]

yippie my favorite intros back, also i friggin love the how half life 2 refugee body on the jauwn cube avatar stuck around :3

[@blackula911]

Great vid. I, myself, believed in many play 2 earn scams, however, was smart enough no too invest too heavily. Most of the projects I "supported" have either shut down or just continue the grift by introducing new ways to fleece their dwindling audience. None of those projects could even be considered actual "games"

[@adriangenshin9284]

Might be a crazy point to make but with genshin I have more fun *not* spending money. The gacha system just becomes another mechanic, while also making every pull feel special.

[@LesbianJumpscare]

Exactly. Having Zhu Yuan and her signature W-engine in ZZZ feels much better knowing I haven't spent a single $ on the game. If I had it'd feel a bit less cool I'd think.

[@Mirulkaire]

The outro goes so hard I'm in awe (the intro cutting out into reverb is particularly 👌)

[@jauwn]

glad you enjoyed it, not sure how many people watched it or skipped it but it's my little treat to those who watch until the end.

[@jazzytunester]

8:33 Oh, no no no, they don't get to exploit Y'shtola for this slop of "entrainment experience" D:

[@aniroblox7139]

Decentraland really used scratch to script its "metaverse" ☠☠☠

[@migueeeelet]

This video has given me hope for the lame tabletop RPG session I have running in discord (I keep getting distracted) and the little side project I'm doing on RPG Maker for friends. I can say with confidence that no matter how much my motivation fluctuates, or how blindly I run into the next idea, I will NEVER end up this low.

[@jacobp8306]

Why do Metaverse games look like parody stuff you'd expect to find in Hypnospace Outlaw's sequel...?

[@a.n4031]

I was literally just browsing your channel looking for some thing new of yours to watch 🤣 I need my Jawn Drip!

[@leovang3425]

A DAO is just a bunch of stakeholders... they created a decentralized centralized capitalistic corp. ...

[@spectacledWolf]

It took Second Life over a decade to collect the many abandoned plots that exist on the platform that probably count as digital archaeology. It took Decentraland like... 400 days

[@ascendedisamazing]

"That NFT dream" Jeez that's sad

[@Noblesix84]

So we have two games on life support, one dying, and one dead. Honestly that's better than I was expecting

[@rebeccah4732]

Jauwn, I have to say, as someone with audio processing issues, I really have to thank you for how good your captions are. Mostly actually accurate, proper punctuation, and actually captilizing letters, plus you still have captions when you're reading out quotes that are otherwise on the screen (which are easier to read on a phone). AND they are actually well-paced with the voiceover. It's the small stuff. Even channels that do have captions on their videos will have them deviate from the voiceover or give up on punctuation, or have them paced really strangely. So yeah. The work is noticeable and very appreciated!

[@jauwn]

thank you! I put a lot of effort into making them as good as possible. Some of the words are a little off because I start with the auto-generated captions and then fix them, but they're 95% good, and only getting better as I learn how to properly do captions

[@purrnama_]

8:31 y'shtola at home 💀💀

[@mrorange8576]

Decentraland is literally just VR chat but without half it's features, no playerbase and shitty monitization. How on earth do these fuckers think they are going to get players.

[@toomanyaccounts]

by having Hershety and other brands buy plots and make something on them.

[@dsagman]

“mad(e) off fantastically” well played

[@ExileRika]

8:38 That cat-girl is literally just Y'shtola from Final Fantasy 14 😭

[@lilyofthatvelley]

Jauwn has referred to this video as an episode of "performance report" however I feel a more appropriate name may be "autopsy report" for the most part

[@SabinStargem]

"Taxes are more complicated". So when do we get a 'American Tax Form Simulator' game, where you must navigate the American tax forms of the 50+ states, international, corporate, private, and federal?

[@pancakes8670]

- Wants to create a virtual world thats unregulated from restrictions where anybody can do what they want on their own property - someone uses their property to protest decentraland - get mad and demand they be taken down by the devs I know its cringey to reference Rick and Morty, but I feel like this quote is fitting- "You wanted to escape the Government, so you made another Government."

[@eduardoabarca6021]

Jauwn, I mean this as a compliment but I love watching your videos to fall asleep. I'm entertained but also lulled to sleep

[@jauwn]

That's great because it means I get 100% watch time and lots of money. Love ya

[@Sivick314]

it's easier to fool people than to convince them they've been fooled

[@avery_IO]

Games made by people who are not curious are complete wastes of time.

[@Jokoko2828]

These are all souless attempts at scamming people out of money because money is literally the only thing these people can think about.

[@avery_IO]

@@Jokoko2828 right, agree. there’s nothing in these games that the creators wanted to try or figure out or least of all learn. they wanted to package pre-made game ideas, slap some nfts on em, and ship it

[@Mognet_t]

The irony of Decentraland advocating "free speech" in the form of slurs in their player names while simultaneously censoring FUD in the discord server. Free speech, but only when you're punching down on anyone or anything that isn't crypto.

[@observer3984]

There’s no way deutsche bank invested in centraland 💀💀

[@RhondaFizzleflint]

If it's shabby and scummy you can bet Deutsche Bank is involved.

[@ChazMcRich1]

I’ve been a fan for a long time, Jauwn; but you’ve gone and gotten Pikabudragon upset at you. RIP, buddy.

[@whalefilmzthewhale2574]

I’m loving this look back at the games you’ve covered. I hope you keep doing these

[@jauwn]

Yep, I plan on doing this until I've gone over them all. Then I'll start a "Season 2" and we'll do all new games

[@FregoliFent]

5:46 WELL ITS A WORLD WHERE MEN CAN EAT IT ALL 🗣🔥🔥🔥

[@CassiusZedaker-pr7kc]

I understood that reference.

[@antoniocisneros8753]

19:18 If the word "fun" has even been used in the discord server, I'm guessing it's because it's used to describe the game not being fun, rather than using just 'fun' per se.

[@basilmarples9505]

This might be true

[@meman29]

Wild that Catgirl arena has a bootleg Yshtola

[@stonenumba1]

I was invited to a "web3 music" awards show once, ghosted that email HARD