The Mail Bag Returns with Another Round of Headlines

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I did a mailbag post back in mid-December just to display the sort of email and press releases I get on what was once the main blog email account.  It isn’t anymore, but it was during the peak of the blog and blogging, and nobody updates anything on the internet it seems, so I still get notes there daily.  The whole tale of that is in the post I linked.

I decided to go back because since the holidays there has been a bit of a surge in a couple of topics, and they probably won’t surprise you.  These are basically all of the unsolicited email subject lines for the last month that landed in my old inbox.

  1. Touchcast Launches MCity, the World’s First Enterprise Metaverse
  2. Gibson Brands Acquires GWW Guitar Case Company: Sets the Stage for Future Integration, Innovation, and Growth
  3. ESL Pro Tour StarCraft II Schedule Revealed for 2022/23
  4. E:Alert: Original Gaming Thriller “First Person Shooter” Premieres Today on Tubi
  5. Product Review: Lowest price entry-level Xbox on the market
  6. Display Social, Acquires 2 Companies- forms multi-billion dollar metaverse company
  7. Security 101. Don’t Bash Your Head Over Unsecured Credentials
  8. Expert Interview Opp or Guest Article: Managing NFT’s From Creation to Sale
  9. PR: Bitcoin electricity consumption is 8X that of Google and Facebook combined
  10. CryptoDragons Metaverse is starting on December 25
  11. Crypto company TacoCat announces new advisors
  12. Ho-ho-ho: Adult company selling cryptocurrency designed dildos for the holidays
  13. PR: NFT sales surge past the $4 billion mark in the last 30 days
  14. PR: USDT dominance among stablecoins plummets to 49% in 4 years
  15. How OpenSea’s Auction Valuation Confirms Independent NFT’s Role in Blockchain: Intv. w/ CEO of NFT Gaming Marketplace
  16. Expert Interview Opp or Guest Article: Metaverse Explainer
  17. Review/Feature: The Book of Greatest Leadership Quotations
  18. Evanescence, Grim and Umphrey’s McGee and More Go Meta with Soundscape VR
  19. GKIDS Releases Opening Scene for Mamoru Hosoda’s BELLE – In Theaters This Friday
  20. How to Become a Gaming Influencer – Tips from CEO of leading gaming influencer agency
    PR: 23 NFTs Sell for Over $1m in the Last 30 Days
  21. Story: new game let’s kids build the metaverse
  22. PR: CryptoPunks Generated Nearly Half of Top 10 NFT Sales in the Last Month
  23. NEW PRODUCT: Dreo’s Air Purifier Dusts The Competition
  24. Shure Debuts New Look and Even Better Sound For Its Award-Winning SRH840 and SRH440 Headphones
  25. RESEARCH-NFT launches attract 50x more bots than hype sneaker sales
  26. Prime Video Releases Official Trailer and Key Art for THE LEGEND OF VOX MACHINA
  27. Federal regulations cracking down on internet privacy laws
  28. PR: Energy consumed by one Ethereum transaction could power over 100,000 VISA transactions
  29. PR: 257 NFT artists have generated over $1M in sales over the last 30 days
  30. [STUDY] Gaming addiction causing tech-related health issues
  31. Cute but demanding tactical masterpiece! Gem Wizard Tactics is coming to Nintendo Switch and Xbox
  32. PR: Bitcoin Treasuries Account for 7.2% of the 21 Million BTC Supply Cap
  33. PR: MicroStrategy and Tesla Command 80% of BTC held by top 10 public companies
  34. Accessing the Blockchain Can be Too Expensive for Some Developers – Web3 Visionary Explains How to Change That
  35. Blue Tiger Wins TWICE Picks Award for World’s First Solar-Powered Bluetooth Headset
  36. Almost 10k petition EA Sports to honor John Madden on next Madden NFL cover
  37. Intv. w/ XR Cinema CEO: VR Expert Weighs in On the Rise of Metaverse & Virtual Reality
  38. Almost 70% of People Can NOT Distinguish Gmail’s Real Login Page From A Scam – Can You?
  39. Physical release of Comic Coloring Book: Complete Edition for the Nintendo Switch console available now
  40. Activision Blizzard’s games ranked #2 & #3 most popular in gaming community
  41. PR: ETH average transaction costs 33x BTC costs in 2022
  42. Nooie Launches Versatile Smart Camera Featuring a Detachable Base
  43. Calling All Sonic Sculptors, the Legendary Brand Maestro Emerges with Five Pedals for Endless Exploration
  44. XGIMI Expands Versatile Halo Series With Smarter Halo+ FHD Portable Projector
  45. Study from Marmalade Game Studio finds one in four have developed mental health issues since Covid
  46. Connect Tolkien-like fantasy world with the 1920s and see what will happen. Pendula Swing is coming to Nintendo Switch
  47. PR: The average price of NFTs hits $50K in the last 30 days
  48. Reminder: 01/20 News Advisory – Doomsday Clock Update – Major Announcement on Clock’s 75th Anniversary
  49. PR: CryptoArt Market Cap Hits $2.3 Billion With Over 2 Million Total Sold Artworks
  50. [News] ZOAN Announces €100 Million Virtual Land Sale with Photorealistic Metaverse Cornerstone.land
  51. Microsoft is acquiring Activision Blizzard to dominate the metaverse, says GlobalData
  52. Intv. W/ Crypto Creator & Expert – Microsoft To Enter The Metaverse After Purchasing Blizzard
  53. BREAKING: Doomsday Clock Set to 100 Seconds to Midnight, Scientists Call for Action to “Turn Back the Clock”
  54. Highrise City Playtest starts January 27th – New Feature Video and Screenshots released
  55. My Friend Peppa Pig Launches on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X
  56. Call of Duty collectibles incoming from Koyo & Activision
  57. Join awe.live, submit an Auggie Nomination, get your Super Early Bird registration and find out what’s new in the XR community
  58. Gibson and Jake Kiszka -Guitarist in the GRAMMY-Winning Rock Band Greta Van Fleet- Celebrate the 61st Anniversary of the Iconic SG Guitar
  59. Intv: Is Meta increasing accessibility to NFT creation a good thing? NFT Expert Explains
  60. NFT Expert Available on Meta Considering Adding NFT Component to Facebook and Instagram

As you can see, NFT, crypto, and the metaverse continue to trend, though they have somehow managed to all mean the same thing thanks to the crypto scammers pushing their “ownership” agenda.

I am genuinely sorry I didn’t get a press release about the “rave” that took place in Decentraland, which was the saddest, most 2003 online event I have seen in ages.  But the pathetic nature of the video when compared to, say, concerts in Fortnite, haven’t stopped the cryto bros from trying to spin it as amazing.

That is practically a self-own… or yet another demonstration that crypto bros don’t know what they’re talking about.  That ain’t no Ariana Grande concert.

Probably the most interesting on the list… or at least the one I decided to go look at… was #40 about popularity in the gaming community.  It at least has an infographic, even if I am not exactly sold on their methodology.

The top six out of the 23 listed

The least inspiring was the the setting of the Doomsday Clock (entries #48 and #53) by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists because they didn’t actually change the setting… it was set to 100 seconds back in 2020… so the whole thing was, ironically, a bit of a damp squib.  I also feel like the name of the organization has become misleading.  While some towering atomic scientists helped found the whole thing… Einstein, Teller, and Oppenheimer were among the group… the whole thing has been trying to find its way since the end of the Cold War and, so far as I can tell, isn’t exactly the domain of many atomic scientists any more.  It would be more aptly titled the Bulletin of the Poly Sci Majors.

Also, they apparently bought a mailing list with some really out of date and/or inappropriate addresses.  Nice move Einstein.

Anyway, that is all I have.  The inbox has been cleared again, we’ll see what trends continue to find their way into it.

2 thoughts on “The Mail Bag Returns with Another Round of Headlines”

  1. bhagpuss

    I watched that Decentraland video on MassivelyOP a few days ago and it was jaw-droppingly bad. Have any of these people even played a video game in the last decade and a half? No, make that two decades. The Ariana Grande event, on the other hand, looks amazing and that’s just on video. It would clearly be a genuinely involving, thrilling experience if you were in that virtual space with friends.

    Honestly, the Charr heavy metal stage show in Guild Wars 2 is orders of magnitude more convincing than the Decentraland thing and that’s just a scripted event that runs every couple of hours. In fact, screw that, the open mic show I attended at the theater in Freeport in EverQuest one Sunday back in 2000 was orders of magnitude closer to being a real event.

    I’m a strong believer in the possibilities for online virtual spaces. I think Fortnite does an amzing job already, as do a number of other online games. It’s clear the potential is there. It just doesn’t need crypto or NFTs to realize it and there’s no reason for anyone to be calling any of it a “metaverse”.

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