TIL that television program “The Boys” has an in universe cryptocurrency as a satire of, well, cryptocurrency in general but also specifically that time when DJT was selling NFTs. They occasionally tweet about it.

It has a listing on the “BSCScan” crypto tracker under the name “VTC” so someone might have actually minted it? It might surprise some of you that I have no way of telling the realness of such a thing.

  • Alphane Moon@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Your description piqued my interest, but then I saw that this was a superhero show (black comedy, staire, but still)…

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      it’s not quite the usual type (which is part of what I like it). it’s from the same people who made Supernatural, if you’ve ever watched that

      should also say that it’s tarantino-tier violent and “beyond” (I wouldn’t use the word excessive for it because I think the show’s stuff fits what it does extremely well, but others may (use the word))

      one of the things I enjoy most about it is how fucking well it hits the nail smack in the middle of its head, even while it suffers the same curse as the Laundry series

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        4 months ago

        even while it suffers the same curse as the Laundry series

        didn’t even know s4 had started airing when I wrote this, and have caught up on some of that in between. oh wow does it have the Laundry curse, bloody hell.

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        4 months ago

        The power level curse where your characters get too powerful for there to be meaningful stakes?