We can all agree that NFTs suck, right?They chew energy like wood-eating termites, emit massive amounts of greenhouse gases, and destroy our world by selling one cryptocurrency at a time.Best of all, you don’t get anything physical, just a digital certificate of blockchain ownership.Thankfully, the internet is full of criticism and ridicule about NFTs, and this one took the cake…or I guess you could say it took NFTs?you understood.
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Twitter user DerrickMustDie posted what I think is the funniest way to “steal” NFTs on the social media platform on January 22nd.Derrick connected the Game Boy Advance SP to the Game Boy printer and clicked Print.It’s a little more complicated than that, Derrick told Kotaku via email, but the result is an endless stream of expensive boring ape NFTs being printed through unconventional means.Gamers have already impressed me with glitches and quick runs, but this feat is on a whole different level.
“It’s pretty fungible in my opinion,” Derek screamed in a tweet.Game Boy printers are also really evolving, printing NFTs after NFTs, just like printing money.I don’t recommend any identity theft, but come on!It’s funny.
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But which NFT did Derrick copy?He said the first option was “the most expensive NFT sold,” but the actual image was ugly and unrecognizable when printed.So Derrick and his sketch group Lonely Space Vixens are a group of friends who upload comedy sketches around pop culture themes like bitcoin and waifus to YouTube, which helps get the NFT stealing factory up and running, and they google it Got the “most expensive boring game” and just used it.”
According to Derrick, one part of his team’s struggles was the paper.It turns out that the Game Boy printer, a device designed to work with Game Boy cameras and manufactured from 1998 to 2003, uses thermal paper like most receipt printers.The results weren’t great, because Derrick and his colleagues’ paper isn’t new.Two of their volumes are sealed, but the rest are from at least 2000.They went through a few rolls and the images looked messy.
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There is still the problem of uploading the image to the Game Boy Advance SP and telling the Game Boy printer to do its thing.Derrick said that by using a Game Boy Link cable to connect the printer to the handheld (a cable for trading Pokémon or playing multiplayer games) and using the Game Boy camera, he was able to right-click on the NFT to start the process.The link cable was finicky, he said, and the first handheld device used didn’t cooperate, noting, “…we kept getting printer errors,” Derrick said.
“We googled the printer error codes and it was a battery issue where the printer wasn’t getting enough power, so we put in six new AA batteries to power it,” he added, before moving on to broader troubleshooting issues A list of these issues is part and part of dealing with older hardware.They didn’t turn on the press until they got the Game Boy Advance SP and a different cable.
Now that Derrick and his team have printed the NFT, apparently worth millions, they intend to “mint fake tokens onto the blockchain.”
Listen, I’m not advocating art theft here.Artists should be compensated for the work they put into their creations.So pay your manufacturer.But NFTs reduce art to a commodity owned and collected by capitalists.This sucks, so I’m glad to see rebels like Derrick and others showing the value of NFTs.
Print useless jpegs with environmentally toxic printer ink onto paper overproduced by the logging industry to have a password.
Post time: Feb-17-2022
