Want a 151 UPC but it's too expensive to buy?
Join the TCG Degenerates Discord for your chance to win this awesome collector's item for free!
Our games work like raffles, but only the bottom 50% of spots have to pay.
Invite link: https://t.co/PZc21FUouY
#TCGDegenerates
Congrats to Rizen for winning the Ascended Hero ETB earlier today! Rizen won with 1 spot out of the 52 total spots, which means he won for free!
Checkout TCG Degenerates (https://t.co/PZc21FUouY) for more daily games!
#TCGDegenerates#pokemon#raffle
Two heater games are live right now in TCG Degenerates!
Both items are running as raffle-like games where you claim spot/s. We use https://t.co/SzjqmrsqGf API to shuffle the entry list and the top spot wins! Only the bottom 50% spots pay!
Discord Link: https://t.co/PZc21FUouY
@FB_WSB There is a host fee but it is static and is split in half to go towards giveaway and server costs:
- $1 fee for games < $50
- $2 fee for games $50 <> $100
- $5 fee for games $100 <> $500
- $10 fee for games $500 <> $1000
- $20 fee for every $1000+
Everything is transparent
@FB_WSB I noticed you have an itch towards gambling on Pokemon slabs more than gambling on pack openings.
You should check out my discord if interested and show off your power pack hits. We run raffle like games for slabs and sealed in the server and you can host your own!
@FB_WSB Hell no man. I built the server to combat the groups that make this a business.
I want players to get the best chance of playing for something they actually want and hosts to be able to sell at market without the crazy fees.
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The Hollow Men
American capitalism is rotting from the head down. We have replaced the "Owner-Operator"—the risk-taker-with a new, parasitic class of corporate bureaucrat: The Risk-Free Insider.
By "Insider," I am not referring to a specific title. I am referring to the entire administrative state that has captured the modern corporation. This includes the Directors who exist solely to collect fees, the Executives who exist solely to collect bonuses, and the Managers who exist solely to hire consultants.
These are the hollow men of the boardroom. They are masters of PowerPoint. They wear the right suits. They say the right buzzwords about "governance" and "ESG." But they are mercenaries fighting a war with someone else’s ammunition.
In a functioning economy, authority is tied to liability. If you make a bad decision, you lose your own money. That fear of loss is the only thing that keeps a business honest. It forces you to cut waste, obsess over the customer, and stay late to fix what is broken.
Today, we have severed that link.
We have rigged the game so that heads, the Insider wins; tails, the shareholder loses.
If the stock goes up, the Insider collects a massive performance bonus. If the stock crashes due to their own incompetence, they are fired with a "Golden Parachute" worth tens of millions. They are gambling with the house’s money, and they never leave the table poorer than they arrived.
This looting starts in the boardroom.
We have normalized a "Country Club" culture where directors are selected based on social profiling rather than their ability to build a business. The modern board member is often a professional tourist—paid an average of $350,000 a year.
Let’s be brutally honest about what that number represents. The average director is paid nearly five times the GDP per capita of the United States. They earn more for attending four quarterly lunches than the vast majority of Americans earn in five years of hard labor.
And for what?
Most of these directors are "over-boarded," sitting on three or four boards simultaneously. They treat directorships as a gig economy for the elite. They fly in, rubber-stamp a compensation package they didn't read, and fly out. They collect checks from companies they do not understand, do not use, and certainly do not love.
They are not there to ask hard questions. They are there to be collegial. They are there to protect the other Insiders.
And what happens when these boards hire executives who also have no personal capital at risk?
We get the Delegation Economy.
When a Risk-Free Insider faces a crisis—bloated expenses, a broken supply chain, or a stale product—they do not roll up their sleeves. They hire a consultant. They pay a strategy firm millions of shareholder dollars to produce a 100-page deck telling them what they already know.
This is not management. It is intellectual money laundering.
They use shareholder capital to buy an insurance policy for their own careers. If the plan fails, they can blame the consultants. They delegate the work because they are terrified of the responsibility. They would rather preside over a slow, comfortable decline than risk a bold mistake.
While American Insiders are busy optimizing their severance packages, our global competitors are optimizing their products. They are not slowed down by bureaucracy. They are not waiting for a slide deck. They are outworking us.
If we continue to fill our C-suites with administrators instead of operators, we will lose our edge. We will see iconic American franchises hollowed out by fees, managed for the benefit of the Insiders, while the true owners—the shareholders—are left holding the bag.
The time for polite governance is over.
If we want to save the American economy from mediocrity, we must demand a return to the "Owner’s Mentality." We need leaders who treat shareholder capital with the same reverence they treat their own savings. The era of the Risk-Free Insider must end.
16 Power Pack Pulls - 12 shipped to me, 4 sold back for around $100 total.
$2k total spent. All slabs were bought and given away to my Pokemon Degenerate Discord community. If you like Pokemon and gambling responsibly, DM me!
Overall, how we do?
#powerpacks#GME#Pokemon
Opened $2k worth of GameStop Power Packs! Want to see what I opened? Checkout my Twitch stream recording below!
https://t.co/H22zm8dD1D
All packs except for the last 5 were Giveaway prizes for my Pokemon Discord server! If you enjoy Pokemon and enjoy gambling, message me!
🔥 WEB3 GAMERS, ARE YOU READY? 🔥
The FINAL Gold Foil Heloise The Hollow (Mint 5/5) is up for auction in @Splinterlands, and this is your chance to own a legendary piece of blockchain gaming history! 🏆
💰 Think you can predict the final bid? Prove it & WIN!
To celebrate the success of Heloise The Hollow, we’re giving away:
🎁 25 Rebellion packs
🎁 50 Chaos Legion packs
We will Drop the packs to dozens of random accounts in the the comments once the auction is over!
🔮Guess within 5000 DEC, we will gift you something special! One guess, make it count!🚨 🍀GUESS for this mysterious prize must be in before 4PM EST!
🔹 How to Enter:
1️⃣ Drop your best guess on the final winning bid! 💰 (I’m calling 5,555,555 DEC—prove me wrong! 😏🔥)
2️⃣ Share this post & spread the word! 🚀
3️⃣ Tag some Web3 gamers & NFT collectors who NEED to check out Splinterlands! 🎮⚔️ Don't forget to add your IGN!🔮🔥
🔥 Whether you're from $ETH, $SOL, $IMX , or anywhere in Web3, it's time to experience the most competitive TCG in blockchain gaming! Are you in?
🍀GOOD LUCK TO THE WINNING BIDDER ON THIS AMAZING CARD!!!
🥈🩶 We are thrilled to announce that Splinterlands has secured 2nd place in the @PlayToEarn Game Awards 2024, for Best Card Game! A huge congratulations to @GodsUnchained for taking the 1st place and to @AxieInfinity for making the podium as well! 🥉
Thank you to all the amazing communities that participated—your support means the world to us! Give us a follow as we ramp up for an amazing year to come!
Wishing everyone the best of luck in 2025! Happy Holidays from the Splinterlands team! 🎄✨
VONAK! $SPS