... Hyping the drone thing makes all of you look desperate tbh.
No one is hyping drones, except maybe gembitz on his own way. Drones were most abstract thing that was presented on second day of the MoneroKon. There was plenty other new and good things presented that day, but this drones were something that at least to me was most interesting. Since was a bit crazy tech idea. It caused a lot of skepticism and still does. There is almost a year until it happens. So a lot of time. If it happens, this will for sure attract a lot of media coverage. By fundamentals it should not influence Monero price in anyway, but who knows what media coverage will do.
One of the main goals of Tari is Monero success. Fluffypony emphasized this in his latest presentation on Tari & Monero, which I strongly recommend to watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmeSSnppixYAdditionally, he did not leave Monero. He is still actively participating in Monero's development.
Kind of like one of the main goals of Ticketmaster is the US dollar's success? Please, it's a private company. I'm glad it exists but let's not get carried away.
Private companies exist to make profit. What Tari does for Monero is that they will spend their founds to develop open source code that could be latter on copy pasted to Monero. At least the concept since it uses different program language. That is huge and Monero needes more such projects.