Web3 Gaming is Mostly a Scam with Charlie Smith, Co-Founder of Nifty Island

We discuss what's real and what's not in web3 gaming, and the future of crypto countries. Charl3s is a cool dude I've got to know in Austin. At a party recently, I heard him spitting some fire about how most of web3 gaming is bullshit, so I brought him on to discuss.

✦ Nifty Island is a web3 game that lets players import NFTs from multiple chains: https://www.flowcode.com/page/niftyisland
✦ Charl3s on Twitter: https://twitter.com/charl3svii

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0:00 Intro
0:58 Why web3 gaming is a scam except for Nifty Island
4:47 Gamifying VC
6:07 What is Nifty Island?
9:27 Separating the wheat from the chaff in web3 gaming
12:58 The problem with humanism
17:38 The positive case for post-humanism
21:42 The post-humanist web3 gaming connection
24:26 Nifty Island engineering feat
30:05 Nick Land & blackpill mitigation
32:59 Alasdair MacIntyre is the most underrated dude of all time
35:00 Navigating a nonhomogenous metaverse
38:40 The coldness of psychotic megacorp social media spaces
43:31 Political cleavage of web3
45:48 Utter bullsh*t going on in web3 & crypto
48:39 The future of game worlds
50:05 Surveying the strategic landscape of metaverse gaming
53:47 Closing words