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“There’s, like, a crypto boulevard there,” he said. “Like, a crypto hallway that you have to walk through. You just hold your breath.” At G.D.C., he was getting a lot of props for a tweet Aggro Crab had made earlier in the year, condemning the publisher of Going Under, Team17, for deciding to incorporate N.F.T.s into its games; the tweet had gone viral, and, facing backlash, Team17 had reversed its decision. “All the indies, and people I’ve been talking to, absolutely hate that stuff,” Kaman told me. “It really is just a grift. It’s a pyramid scheme. And it’s not like they do anything for games, right? I don’t know where that logic came from: we’re going to integrate games with the blockchain. What does that do for games? The point is to have fun, and we’re already doing that pretty well.”