Competing With Morons: RollerCoin, Scam Birds, Villainy, and Why Timmy Will Always Fail.
Imaging you are at an in-person tournament for your favorite competitive game waiting for your opponent for the round to show up and Simple Jack sits across the table from you. They smell, bad. They are drooling all over their cards and when the round begins you immediately notice they have no idea how to play the game. This makes them angry and soon they are yelling at you about how this game is stupid. A judge comes over to see what the problem is and soon they are attacking the judge, then the store owner.
They are banned from the store, but this does not stop them from becoming a sort of local legend, hunting players of their least favorite game and never missing a chance to scream about the scam it clearly is. They still have not learn how to play the game.
You have just met your average RollerCoin online community member.
And if you play RollerCoin and are thinking “Wait, that’s doesn’t sound like me” I’m here to say loud and clear, you are everyone else, and this mean you will succeed. There is a lot to pull apart here so I’m not going to waste time being kind to idiots, mincing words, or trying to obfuscate my biases.
It’s as simple as this: When you play a competitive game and your competition is an idiot who does not understand the rules of the game you have a very high likelihood of being successful.
RollerCoin is a cryptocurrency mining simulation that pays out real cryptocurrency and recently celebrated its three-year anniversary. The rough gameplay loop is fairly simple. After setting yourself up with a few racks and miners you show up daily to play as many games as you want. The games are fairly simple ones we’ve all seen before that are clones of memory cards, gem-matching gams, and simple early arcade games. By playing these games you gain energy which, along with the energy created by your miners, earns you small amounts of crypto. The energy you get from winning games lasts from anywhere from a day to a week depending how much you’ve been winning and the amount you get from each “block” you mine has to do with the number of other players mining the same coin. You can then use the crypto you earn to buy more miners or pull it out of the game to use however the hell you want.
Very simple system all and all it ends up looking something like this.
(Mining Power * Energy)/ Other Players Mining the Same Coin = Payout Per Block
Still following along, good you are going to make a great henchman.
If you have understood everything written here CONGRATULATIONS, you are the elite.
A quick walk through any RollerCoin page from Facebook, Reddit, or Discord is going to quickly leave your shoes caked with bullshit, idiocy, and flat out lies. Notice all the people talking about how they have noticed their energy is going DOWN and this is sketchy as hell. Next you will likely be hit with a wave or two of folks looking to use their Referral Codes to get people in RollerCoin communities to start playing … Rollercoin. Before long you will find the most basic and common denizens of this hellish place: Scam Birds. Scam Birds don’t have the ability to do anything buy squawk out their favorite word, constantly.
My personal favorites are the people claiming to have calculated return on investment for RollerCoin. Explaining to them that that is not possible in a game where each miners has different metrics and each player has different energy levels is a waste of time. This would require basic math and critical thinking skills. They have neither.
If 5 minutes goes by without you finding a post that reads “Hey, I’m pretty sure this game is a scam what’s going on here” than you have visited on a truly enlightened day.
RollerCoin is a game who’s basics can be learned in roughly 10 minutes by reading the documentation on their official website, but the social media is full of people who have not. This problem has clearly been accelerated by the referral program it uses where people can spread their code to get a very small cut of the profit of all those who join the game through their code.
Any game with this type of referral program, which is clearly not the right way to advertise your game, ends up with people screaming about Ponsi Schemes. This is because they do not know what those words mean. Wikipedia teaches us that:
A Ponzi scheme is a form of fraud that lures investors and pays profits to earlier investors with funds from more recent investors. The scheme leads victims to believe that profits are coming from legitimate business activity (e.g., product sales or successful investments), and they remain unaware that other investors are the source of funds.
What these screamers are likely thinking of when they are able to line up two brain cells to rub together is a Multi-Level Market which (again from Wikipedia) is:
Multi-level marketing is a controversial marketing strategy for the sale of products or services where the revenue of the MLM company is derived from a non-salaried workforce selling the company’s products or services, while the earnings of the participants are derived from a pyramid-shaped or binary compensation commission system.
Now, I’d have to be a lying asshole to stand in front of you and pretend MLM is not scummy and while I’m clearly an asshole I’m not a liar. What it isn’t is a scam. It’s not a scam because how it works is laid out right there for you, nothing is hidden, and no one is being victimized.
So why the fury from the simple jacks, scam birds, and other Timmys?*
The fury here is because of the incredible potential in crypto-gaming and because when you scale a project, no matter how low the barrier for entry, some will not make the cut. This is compounded by something I consider The Cryptocurrency Factor and then AGAIN compounded by something I call The Free Game Effect. The two terms above are very simple and I will not overcomplicate them: People who want to get rich quick (and easy) are attracted to crypto and free games nearly always have fanbases full of trash players. I’m not going to argue about these things because I’m right.
As you can see this places RollerCoin in a perfect storm of conditions. It’s like a tornado ran through a field of thorn trees, then through some sort of sewage processing plant, all before finally landing on one of those bullshit get rich quick presentations full of sad desperate divorcees and the early onset dementia crowd who’s victimization keeps the whole machine running.
Except RollerCoin fucking pays. I can tell you this because I have been playing it for 2 months on a $40 investment and have been pulling in earning daily. I have screenshots. So do hundreds of others and those are the players you never hear from. They don’t have questions because they can read and they don’t need advice because they are capable of critical thought. They just log in every once in a while and play the games. A lot of these people have been getting paid this way for years.
I genuinely feel bad for the devs of this game. They have created something between a goose that lays golden eggs and an experiment of Darwinism in fast forward. Put very simply, negativity pays. All you need to do is take one look at the world around you and notice. I’m not saying this is how any of us would order the world, just how it clearly currently works.
Target is changing how they sell TCGs because Pokemon cards are now worth so much adults are fist fighting over them.
The loudest and most vile politically get all the cameras, views, and fuding.
Even on social media negative engagement not only counts more than no engagement, it often thumps the algorithm more than positive engagement.
Negativity Pays.
That’s why you step-dad thinks you are a fucking idiot for buying BTC. Because you are going to retire off that shit and he is never. Going. To. Retire.
If you want to find the next big investment opportunity look for the negativity. It was true in crypto time and time again, it’s been true in sealed and graded collectables, it’s been true in fringe card games like Flesh and Blood, it’s been true in the NFT boom (where pieces of trash like TENHUN are still making bank lying to their followers faces), and it’s true in crypto-gaming.
And you know what, it’s easiest to tell here, because it pays out daily and has been for three years.
So, my humble fools, I’m here to tell you that just because you are fools this does not mean you cannot be successful, or even the smartest people in the room. You just need to know where that room is. RollerCoin is that room and as long as people are screaming about how it is clearly a scam, that will never change.
If me telling you that makes me a villain than hell, I’ll be the villain the crypto-gaming deserves. One that gets you fucking rich.
