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Doc Burford
Personal blog · docseuss.medium.comcareergamesbusiness
Doc Burford's personal blog at docseuss.medium.com covers career, games and business. Since 2021, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Now let me tell you why only a dumbass would get into NFT games”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Doc Burford's Medium essays on NFTs, web3 games and the McNamara Fallacy. Commenters call one long piece a good read and another a long, informed, and funny essay.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Now let me tell you why only a dumbass would get into NFT games6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2021-11-08
- Undervaluing experience is a major threat to your team2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-04-17
What Hacker News says?
This is a bit of a long piece but if you're interested in this subject I think it's a good read https://docseuss.medium.com/the-biggest-threat-facing-your-t...
Comment linking /the-biggest-threat-facing-your-team-whether-youre-a-game-developer-or-a-tech-founder-or-a-ceo-is-8cd1ad359508
on “US Intel”Submitted Why samurai are cooler than klingons as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYes, absolutely. This ("how can you transfer assets between platforms/context without interoperable protocols?", and the corollary "if the content is simple enough to have interoperable protocols, it's probably something uninteresting like an image rather than something valuable like a game asset") is one of the key counter-arguments that deflate a lot of web3 hype (along with "you don't need a blockchain for what y…
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on “Web3 is expensive P2P”Submitted Undervaluing experience is a major threat to your team as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThat's your example? A sword in a video game? Honestly though, I guess it makes sense, because NFTs are arse for anything that has actual real life meaning. Even you, yourself, realised that halfway through your post. Yeah, no shit your degree is worthless if the university says it's worthless. So, on to video games. You think it would work that way huh? Your sword would still be worth something if Blizzard revoked…
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on “10 years of whatever this has been”Submitted Now let me tell you why only a dumbass would get into NFT games as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI read this article just yesterday about why NFT + games does not really make sense: https://docseuss.medium.com/look-what-you-made-me-do-a-lot-o...
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on “NFT's aren't the answer to the problems of digital art”Submitted I was a teenage exocolonist (and so can you) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionA long, informed, and funny essay about this recently https://docseuss.medium.com/the-biggest-threat-facing-your-t...
Comment linking /the-biggest-threat-facing-your-team-whether-youre-a-game-developer-or-a-tech-founder-or-a-ceo-is-8cd1ad359508
on “McNamara Fallacy”Submitted Using ChatGPT and other AI writing tools makes you unhireable. here’s why as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Look what you made me do (on NFT games) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I won’t make an NFT game as a story · 1 points
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