In the days of AOL Instant Messenger, or AIM as all us cool kids called it, I recall a similarish little trick.
You'd tell your friend you were going to hack their computer and then send them a photo. The trick is that the photo was actually a link to "A:\virus.jpeg" which would cause their floppy drive to start up and look for a disk to look for a file. Since floppy drives were loud it would cause their computer to "chunk-a-lunk-lunk" which would obviously then scare your friend.
You could also do it with the "D" drive, but it was less reliable since I think it had to have an actual disk in there already (which was common), but it was also usually quieter.
Something to remember when reading these numbers is that they aren't real money, they're the possibility of real money.
For example if we ignore the initial coin launch where it spiked wayyyy up and then crashed hard, the price of the coin was ~$16 per coin at the time of the event and likely the number being used in the article.
However just a month or so prior the coin was ~$8 per coin. So if this person was brand new to the crypto game they only needed to have $180k. Now 180k is still some major money and getting that exact exchange requires some luck. However that's not the point. The point is that this individual never had $360k, they only ever had at worst $180k. (It's possible they bought the coin at launch, lost it all and kept it, so maybe they had $720k and that got halved.)
But remember, crypto coin trading is gambling. If 38 people walk into a casino, walk up to a roulette table and each puts $10k on every number 1-36, plus 0 & 00 guess how much money the winner gets? $360k. We write the article about the person who won $360k. The other 37 people are just "the others".
Now if I risk $10k and win $360k I absolutely cash out and call it a day. I'm a winner. But if I don't cash out... Do I still have $360k? I have chips. What if instead I spend the next few months at the casino? What if I spend years in the casino? If I'm lucky my chip count goes up. If I'm unlucky my chip count goes down.
Don't get me wrong. There is potentially real money here, but only if I cash out. Let's go back to our social media influencer. They had $360k when the coin was worth ~$16 per coin. The coin is down and now worth ~$13 per coin or $292.5k. But you know gamblers. Never quit on a winning streak. Never leave on a loss.
So did this person have the ability to have $360k, sure. Did they have $360k, no. (Also this assumes the crypto exchange you have your "money" in allows you to cash out, which is not a certainty. Sometimes they limit how much you can take out at a given time. Sometimes they don't have the money, remember FTX?)
I'd watch. I bet he and Bib Fortuna got in fights.
Actually was Crumb on the barge in RotJ? Did he just become Bib's pet? Did Bib kick him out? Is he Boba's pet now? Given that he appears to have a first and last name, I'm assuming he's sentient, right? Or is he more like a parrot?
Edit: He was on the barge in RotJ. But everyone said Bib was dead and we discovered he was alive (briefly).
Connolly put in the time, he played by the rules, it's his turn. Conceptually I get it. It's what's fair.
The problem is, we don't live in that reality anymore, maybe we never did. We want to move forward. We don't want to wait for "our turn". We can't afford to wait as things fall apart around us. Problems get worse the longer we wait.
Joe Biden had the view of riding out the storm. Trump, MAGA, etc are just a blip, everything will go back to normal. He was absolutely wrong. We have a generation of Democrats who are horribly out of touch with reality.
Which is why my favorite Daniel Craig Bond moment is the Casino Royale naked torture scene. Bond telling the torturer to hit him again, then laughing because he's "scratching my balls" is peak whimsy (within the new Bond universe).
I want my Bond to be a bit silly, and that was sadly the only time they did it.
I mean Twitter and "complaining" are best friends, so I don't put a lot of faith in that.
However I think the obvious setup can't be that obvious. The post credits and trailer can't spoil the whole film. A twist, likely Doom related, must exist.
This is excellent news and I hope overall successful. I know Disney can be a dick in a lot of these cases, but hopefully this works out well for everyone.
Didn't YouTube (famously and idiotically) hide the dislike count years ago? The article doesn't source their numbers, just quotes morons.
I don't doubt these morons exist, but I'm curious if they're actually as "popular" as the article makes them seem. It's certainly a possibility, I've been on the Internet, but without actual data this seems like it might be elevating hate unnecessarily.
I'm not confident they do, it's just sort of an open question. We had a light reference to a "new" Iron Fist in an episode of What If...? But not one that would interfere with the current one.
I think Finn Jones can still do it, but I would in if we got a new one.
The Red Hulk early reveal is fine... if it had happened at the halfway in the film. You're absolutely right everyone goes "Where is Hulk?" and that's especially true when halfway through the movie he hasn't shown up.
The final team up villain should have been Sterns, or a lackey of his, or Sidewinder.
We essentially got a 2 act film, the long winding act 1 conspiracy, then Red Hulk the end act 2.
Yeah. So it's already confirmed that the Fantastic Four we're going to meet in "Fantastic Four: First Steps" are in a different universe. So the retro future 60s is unique to that universe. So none of the heroes we've come to know exist in that universe.
There is a scene in the latest Fantasy Four trailer that looks like the Earth blowing up and a Fantastic Four ship just outside the Earth.
So the obvious setup is that the Fantastic Four will fail to save their Earth (from Galactus) and end up in the main 616 universe, which may be what we saw in the Thunderbolts* post credits scene.
There is also a question of Dr Doom, where is he? Since a lot of the Fantastic Four trailer seems to be about them already being saviors of the world, maybe Dr. Doom is on the ship we saw in the post-credits, and The Fantastic Four will show up later in a different ship.
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In the days of AOL Instant Messenger, or AIM as all us cool kids called it, I recall a similarish little trick.
You'd tell your friend you were going to hack their computer and then send them a photo. The trick is that the photo was actually a link to "A:\virus.jpeg" which would cause their floppy drive to start up and look for a disk to look for a file. Since floppy drives were loud it would cause their computer to "chunk-a-lunk-lunk" which would obviously then scare your friend.
You could also do it with the "D" drive, but it was less reliable since I think it had to have an actual disk in there already (which was common), but it was also usually quieter.