POG’s will likely be worth more in the long run.
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POG’s will likely be worth more in the long run.
What are POGs?
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Pogs were little cardboard discs with pictures on them. There was a game where you'd try to flip them over and gamble with them with your friends, like marbles . But branded. They were quite the collectable fad.
I think NFTs are more like Beanie Babies, though, myself.
That sounds vaguely familiar. Thank you.
Even Beanie Babies had a physical existence though.
Star Trek NFT's are like paying $250 dollars for some random kit bash ship that a computer generated and you only own it as an idea.
They clearly have some people on the Kool-Aid as all the expensive ones have sold out. Madness. Snake Oil sold as a concept rather than a physical product.
Everyone send me £250 and i will send you a picture of some air that you know own via my own Air Authorisation Scheme, it's all above board and the more people that join my Air Authorisation Scheme the more free money i make......... (opps),i mean the more we all win, so don't delay, join my Air Authorisation Scheme today. 
It even makes snake oil sound like a not so bad thing. But true story, Snake Oil originally started out as a good thing, ie a treatment via Native American medicine, and it was so effective that it started getting copied and everyone wanted their hand in it, hence the travelling salesmen with their miraculous cures. The only problem is that the copies were bunk, and the salesmen got a deservedly bad rap, and that's how snakeoil salesemen got their negative association as a defacto scam.
Everyone send me £250 and i will send you a picture of some air that you know own via my own Air Authorisation Scheme, it's all above board and the more people that join my Air Authorisation Scheme the more free money i make......... (opps),i mean the more we all win, so don't delay, join my Air Authorisation Scheme today.
Great value! Amazing! I want in, dude! Star Trek has nothing on this, nothing!!
They are (were?) small cardboard discs maybe about an inch and a half in diameter with designs printed on them, that you could collect and/or play a tiddlywinks-type of game with, either playing casually, or for keeps to win other kids' POGs.
They started out as caps on glass bottles of Pineapple Orange Guava or "POG" branded juice from Hawaii. The same types of caps were also used on old-fashioned glass milk bottles. These days if you see the actual POG juice in the grocery store, it's in a carton instead of a glass bottle. Anyway, kids had already been playing games with these caps in certain areas for decades, but in the early nineties the POG phenomenon blew up as it went mainstream and countless designs were made with all manner of licensed trademarked characters and logos and so on and so forth, and every 12-year-old kid had to have them. There were also the thicker plastic discs called "slammers," often with the designs engraved three-dimensionally, that you used for the game, to throw down forcefully and flip the other POGs. My "slammer" was actually a brass disc from the hardware store that I affixed a round sticker to. I saved my POGs for years, but I think I ended up throwing them in the rubbish to make room because they were practically worthless.
Edit in case anyone is still reading this: I think it may actually be Passionfruit Orange Guava instead of Pineapple.
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I assume those running these NFT's think of us as being nothing more than Air Authorisation Schemes anyway if they think they can sell us this crypto garbage that is worthless, for high value, with the simple promise that at the end of each NFT is a put of gold. lolIt even makes snake oil sound like a not so bad thing. But true story, Snake Oil originally started out as a good thing, ie a treatment via Native American medicine, and it was so effective that it started getting copied and everyone wanted their hand in it, hence the travelling salesmen with their miraculous cures. The only problem is that the copies were bunk, and the salesmen got a deservedly bad rap, and that's how snakeoil salesemen got their negative association as a defacto scam.
Great value! Amazing! I want in, dude! Star Trek has nothing on this, nothing!!
Or in this case pure latinum!
Which actually begs the question, just where does Latinum actually come from? I don't think I've actually heard an official explanation. I mean, we hear of dilithium mining, but surely latinum isn't just fabricated out of thin air. There likely isn't such a thing as pure latinum. I think maybe it's more of a composite metal, and anyone wanting pure unrefined latinum would probably find it worthless.Apparently, latinum is liquid. It's combined with gold to make it solid.
"WHO MOURNS FOR MORN?" explains this.
"WHO MOURNS FOR MORN?" explains this.
The "gold" casing, or whatever you want to call it, is rather odd... much more fragile than the conventional form of gold as we know it. I have always wondered what kind of "gold" breaks and crumbles into dust so easily by squeezing it with your bare hands:
I thought that these were hollow shells with the liquid latinum encased inside. But then such fragile shells wouldn't be very good protection for the contents within. So if "gold-pressed latinum" is in fact fabricated by combining gold and latinum into a strong composite material, then it's conceivable that extracting the latinum (how?) could leave behind this porous, structurally weak block. I'll let someone else speculate on how that all would work chemically.... I had a materials science class in high school, but all I remember is that we made Nerf-type footballs by pouring "Substance A" and "Substance B" into a mold.
Kor
I thought that these were hollow shells with the liquid latinum encased inside. But then such fragile shells wouldn't be very good protection for the contents within. So if "gold-pressed latinum" is in fact fabricated by combining gold and latinum into a strong composite material, then it's conceivable that extracting the latinum (how?) could leave behind this porous, structurally weak block. I'll let someone else speculate on how that all would work chemically.... I had a materials science class in high school, but all I remember is that we made Nerf-type footballs by pouring "Substance A" and "Substance B" into a mold.
Kor
Speaking of Pogs, I still have a plastic ‘gold’ coloured Princes Leia ESB pog, which was apparently a chase pog of sorts - or a ‘Slammer’ as was pog slang at the time…
Worthless, except to me (sentimental value of course)!
Worthless, except to me (sentimental value of course)!
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