When it was new it had minor charm-- the idea it was cheap and there were trillions of coins in circulation made it so penny-ante that people could have fun with it, and experiment with the tech on a tiny budget.
I played a little with it back in 2014 or so. You could buy some by interacting with a Reddit bot, and I mined a few coins on a GTX 660 (midrange gaming card for the day.
I recall sending 5000 coins to a local dogs-rescue that tried to join on the novelty, and paying for some used RAM in part with it.
By then BTC was basically unplayable without a rack of ASICs and it was already moving past the “currency” phase straight to “speculative asset”.
The Church of Subgenius started as a religious parody. There are people who take it far more seriously than it was originally intended.
I had a friend who got into it and would get emotionally upset when I’d make fun of JR Bob Dobbs. Which was depressing, because I felt that was the whole point to Dobbs.
I see the same thing in Doge. Starts as a joke. Some people buy into it, because funny. Then people buy into it because they miss the point of the joke, or because what started as a joke becomes dogma.
I had a friend who got into it and would get emotionally upset when I’d make fun of JR Bob Dobbs. Which was depressing, because I felt that was the whole point to Dobbs.
I’ve been a member of the Church for more than ten years and take it more seriously than I should. (I paid my $30 to Bobb when it was $30. Can’t wait for my flying pleasure saucer, already planned for where I’m turning my lasers.)
What the fuck.
Did they not participate in any form of Subgenius activity, consume any form of Subgenius art? Did they not listen to the Hour of Slack?
Like, listen to the Agent and Mr. Dobbs. Listen to the way we talk about Connie. Listen to the story about the Subgenius who gets lost on their way to to the Devival and ends up getting their corpse gang banged by wolves, dogs and cops. How on earth would you think that you are supposed to be reverent when talking about Bob?
Did they not participate in any form of Subgenius activity, consume any form of Subgenius art? Did they not listen to the Hour of Slack?
Religiously. He spray painted a big Dobbsheads on his skateboard; I think he even got a tattoo?
I may have been mocking Dobbs. Just a little. We’d been best friends since middle school; I knew how to get on his nerves.
And he had a lot of anti-establishment anger. My rebellion was Discordianism; he hooked onto TCotS. However, I was raised Christian by a fervent father - 4x church every week - and I was inoculated against taking religion seriously. He was raised by hippies, so Subgenius was his first church, and I think he just fell into the cult mindset.
It’s fine; there are worse religions to get culty about; he just lost his perspective about TCotS, I think.
I don’t think so; I don’t believe the people behind Subgenius have any motivation except honest graft - I mean, they tell you they’re selling merch; they don’t pretend you’re buying an afterlife.
I just think people tend to start with jokes and role play a little too hard, until they forget it’s a joke.
This, it was explicitly supposed to be a joke coin. The fact that it trades fairly consistently (if at low value) is kind of an abberation
When it was new it had minor charm-- the idea it was cheap and there were trillions of coins in circulation made it so penny-ante that people could have fun with it, and experiment with the tech on a tiny budget.
I played a little with it back in 2014 or so. You could buy some by interacting with a Reddit bot, and I mined a few coins on a GTX 660 (midrange gaming card for the day.
I recall sending 5000 coins to a local dogs-rescue that tried to join on the novelty, and paying for some used RAM in part with it.
By then BTC was basically unplayable without a rack of ASICs and it was already moving past the “currency” phase straight to “speculative asset”.
You’re always going to get this effect.
The Church of Subgenius started as a religious parody. There are people who take it far more seriously than it was originally intended.
I had a friend who got into it and would get emotionally upset when I’d make fun of JR Bob Dobbs. Which was depressing, because I felt that was the whole point to Dobbs.
I see the same thing in Doge. Starts as a joke. Some people buy into it, because funny. Then people buy into it because they miss the point of the joke, or because what started as a joke becomes dogma.
I’ve been a member of the Church for more than ten years and take it more seriously than I should. (I paid my $30 to Bobb when it was $30. Can’t wait for my flying pleasure saucer, already planned for where I’m turning my lasers.)
What the fuck.
Did they not participate in any form of Subgenius activity, consume any form of Subgenius art? Did they not listen to the Hour of Slack?
Like, listen to the Agent and Mr. Dobbs. Listen to the way we talk about Connie. Listen to the story about the Subgenius who gets lost on their way to to the Devival and ends up getting their corpse gang banged by wolves, dogs and cops. How on earth would you think that you are supposed to be reverent when talking about Bob?
Religiously. He spray painted a big Dobbsheads on his skateboard; I think he even got a tattoo?
I may have been mocking Dobbs. Just a little. We’d been best friends since middle school; I knew how to get on his nerves.
And he had a lot of anti-establishment anger. My rebellion was Discordianism; he hooked onto TCotS. However, I was raised Christian by a fervent father - 4x church every week - and I was inoculated against taking religion seriously. He was raised by hippies, so Subgenius was his first church, and I think he just fell into the cult mindset.
It’s fine; there are worse religions to get culty about; he just lost his perspective about TCotS, I think.
Sounds like scientology.
I don’t think so; I don’t believe the people behind Subgenius have any motivation except honest graft - I mean, they tell you they’re selling merch; they don’t pretend you’re buying an afterlife.
I just think people tend to start with jokes and role play a little too hard, until they forget it’s a joke.
¯\(ツ)/¯
An individual coin trades at a low value but the total market cap is 26 billion dollars.