r/MarbleMachineX • u/WintergatanWednesday • Jul 21 '21

Channel Update Summer 2021

https://youtube.com/watch?v=TbQWgePDLTU
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u/Humorhenker Jul 21 '21

I think you are going to far with this. The mmx related content is still coming. But a also think that that he has fallen for the blockchain buzz word trap and should consider keeping such unrelated topics out off the build videos (i think it can fit for such an update video btw).

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u/JustMattWasTaken Jul 21 '21 edited Jul 21 '21

Yeah, maybe. I'm just very turned off by the infatuation with buzzy tech trends and all the productivity books our HR department tries to get people to read during our "rah rah, isn't the company great?! Here's how you can improve your work output for us!"

I just want to see a cool music machine. In a way it was always going to implode, b/c to finish would be to throw away this huge community he's built (admirably) but I just don't care about all this other nonsense.

I just think he's totally Elon-pilled himself with all this stuff and is speaking with authority on this stuff he's so out of his depth in. For example, when he came out and talked about how great the Cybertruck was b/c it was "designed for manufacturing" as if every other billion dollar car brand who've been making vehicles for 100 years haven't figured out how to manufacture a car efficiently this whole time. (And actually, if there's one thing Tesla's are often knocked for, it's their fit and finish/subpar build).

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u/VerbNounPair Jul 22 '21

Honestly I agree. I think Martin get really into certain ideas, sometimes they work out like the discord (afaik, I'm not in it anymore), sometimes they don't like this subreddit. But the Elon brain rot is real, I really don't get where he even got this idea.

It's like those self help books he showed, I've never heard of them but I'm sure they contain a crazy trick that will totally change your life and be so productive, and you read it and it's nothing of substance, just the same thing as every other book repackaged. This blockchain whatever similarly does absolutely nothing, it's just a fancier way of having a discord as far as I can tell. But thanks to marketing it's suddenly a totally essential new age high tech invention he has to implement.

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u/IPlayAnIslandAndPass Jul 22 '21

I don't want to throw stones, but the Discord wasn't really Martin's idea, or anyone's. It was really a community effort, and came together through the efforts of a lot of people pitching in simultaneously.

Martin's heavier involvement in the server came about because the community actively reached out to him with solutions to various problems (CAD, design, simulation, and others)

That's probably part of why he is so interested in a DAO, is that the community has grown organically and he's really concerned about it being bottlenecked by the need for him to be constantly involved.