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@MbtHawk @LordCharizard33 You must be new to pokemon. Even just 5 years ago, all cards except for the top chase card were under $20. Most rares were under $5.

@LordCharizard33 Nah. It’s an SIR. No way it would be $20

You might not like it, it might make you angry! But you have to accept the fact that if this card was released three years ago in the exact same set it would only be a $20 card at max. Everything right now is artificially inflated by scalpers and sellers pre determining how much a card is worth.

@KeithAdam10 This is just what happens in tech. When a product is finally established, stop creating new features. Just maintain what you have. And with or without AI, you don't need a large team to maintain something that already exists.

@KeithAdam10 I don't work on snkrs, but it just doesn't make sense to keep a large team when the app hasn't changed. I mean are they supposed to keep developing new ways to drop shoes or just stick to regular scheduled drops? Most experimental drop methods don't go well anyways.

Is SNKRS really shutting down as the viral email insinuates?? I'll preface by saying Stacy is a wonderful woman and I am sure she will quickly find work elsewhere in the modern environment that appreciates diversity advocacy. (1) She also predicted this in her talk "Your job, as it is today, is in danger. With the rapid changes in AI to allow more work to be done by a single developer" (2) Finally, also remember that Nike's stock has been going down, and they need to cut costs. They already told you they are going to shift focus to Nike India. (1) stacydevino.com/about-me-stacy… (2) usa.droidcon.com/droidcon-speak… (3) about.nike.com/en/newsroom/re… What do you guys think is going on? I'm not sure, curious for your opinions though. Just figured I'd add some nuance

@KicksFinder Why wouldn't you lay off a team that isnt making anything progress? The nike backend is a mess, yet this team isnt doing anything about it. Checkout on the android app is also buggy. The app isnt even secure and people are using it to generate data that bots use on drops.

BREAKING: Did Nike just give up on the SNKRS App? 😱🤯📉 A former employee on the SNKRS App team said last week that the company had let go of nearly 30% of its staff. "The org and the people behind SNKRS were obliterated yesterday." "We solved real problems. We solved scale problems that NO ONE in the industry was solving while bringing a genuine voice, citing the culture of the street with sports lifestyle, and bringing light to unique stories that resonated." "Every Saturday morning was a DDOS attack, where sometimes 100 million users would be trying to get their hands on one of the 5k total pairs. Insane new problems that had never been solved before. All of this was happening while developing a unique brand voice driven by the whole org, which innovated and voted on what we would build next, and even physical product development to leverage that creativity across boundaries."

@KicksFinder These stats don't even makes sense. She is only writing this post because she needs another job asap, but she is make stuff up to make it sound like she did the impossible. They didn't even solve anything. They just scaled by spending money on AWS and snake oil antibots lol

@WarCriminal0001 @BTCGLOBALRESRV @GMAX617 @parti_king And thats what happened. White guy left. You said fight back.

@renznotify @BTCGLOBALRESRV @GMAX617 @parti_king Who cares just leave nothings gonna happen to you if you just leave

Black 6ft 3 tweaker tries to ASSAULT and BREAK streamers camera equipment All because he didn’t check in on his block…

@WarCriminal0001 @BTCGLOBALRESRV @GMAX617 @parti_king Blacks like these are a problem. They are just there to push buttons knowing that if they get attacked, they can just play victim and get rewarded in court. They do it to everyone.

@WarCriminal0001 @BTCGLOBALRESRV @GMAX617 @parti_king Its not going to be self defense. Did the black guy do something that made the white guy fear for his life? No. So if the white guy would've hit the black guy, the white guy wouldve gone to jail. Only thing the white guy can do is stand there and wait to get hit.

@Airaasayss 22. You, 20 remaining people, and the killer.

How many people are still in the room🤔🤔 Think you can solve this???

@jwriston @PokeTCGAlerts Just because you see one botter spend 20K, it doesn't mean every botter is spending 20K. There are lots of botter who still strike out. Like i said you are only seeing a small sample size. There are much much more human traffic than bot traffic. Humans get the majority, not bots

@jwriston @PokeTCGAlerts Only reason why I sound rude to you is because you don't like what I have to say and you think I'm arguing against you. Im just stating facts. You think bots are taking majority of the stock but thats not true. If you actually started botting you would understand that.

A reminder that there is no shortage of product at the moment. There are just people with bots like this that fill their garages and other rooms of their homes with the most popular products just to scalp. #PokemonTCG

@Stoned_Zombies @PokeCardsDaily There is no cheap way to beat request bots because you can fake anything. Only thing you cant really fake is hardware based IDs and hardware generated data that constantly changes, which is only available with apps not with browsers. As long as drops are on browsers, cant stop it

@renznotify @PokeCardsDaily I know how to break the bots, i just refuse to state it publicly since im not being paid by the companies. Its a fairly easy process and incredibly cost effective. I use bots to grt product since i have a very busy job. It isnt hard to prevent them if you know what youre doing.

Every day I grow closer to getting my own bot and that’s how I know Pokémon isn’t doing enough to solve the problem themselves. That should NOT be the only solution😔

@Stoned_Zombies @PokeCardsDaily apps arent just https. Apps are not as isolated as browsers. Apps can force hardware-backed key checks, signed sessions (can't be done on browser), and timing and syncing that bots can't replicate well. Only way to get pass these is to have a real device plugged in for each task

@renznotify @PokeCardsDaily Easy way around that is fake the hardware and just loop videos of ai generated people. Remember apps arent anything other than https traffic on a program for your phone. That same https traffic can be mimicked easily on browsers.

@Stoned_Zombies @PokeCardsDaily Bots are able to do hundreds/thousands of task because they only send/receive requests, but if a video stream/sensors are constantly active on a udp connection, then bots would need to send constant data too, stressing proxy servers. It would still require more hardware

@renznotify @PokeCardsDaily All of this can be faked and relatively easily by utilizing AI. The real problem the companies face is the amount the security cost vs profits. If the security starts getting to where it is digging heavily into the profits then it isnt worth it. Just let it sell out.

@jwriston @PokeTCGAlerts There are so many sellers that are only selling 1 or 2 products, which probably means they copped manually. If they were botters they would have 10-100+ quantity. Dont just base it on what you see online. Use common sense. Its like when people say there are no more jobs hiring

@jwriston @PokeTCGAlerts Even a big discord group is not a big enough sample size to determine if regular people are able to get products from walmart. All you are seeing is the negative because people who fail like to post about it, but the people who succeed just go about their day.

@PokeCardsDaily @Stoned_Zombies camera is a great way to destroy the request bots that make thousands of tasks. Having a live video feed basically forces bots to use real devices and emulators, both require hardware and lots of it if they want to do at the same scale. Requiring hardware makes botting expensive

@renznotify @Stoned_Zombies I don’t think it comes down to needing to have your device’s camera on lol

@PokeCardsDaily @Stoned_Zombies Do you really think people would be fine with their phones camera being active the whole time they are waiting in queue? People complain about everything, I'm sure they'll complain about how this is an invasion of their privacy

@PokeCardsDaily @Stoned_Zombies Then the company must spend millions to analyze the data in real time. This would make data generated by AI to not be good enough thus bots would get filtered out. But this is extremely expensive. The profits are already razor thin