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| Topic | So Ghislaine Maxwell is on trial now and its not front page news? |
| Sad_Face 11/22/21 11:36:08 AM #14 | "The family is not going to leave it there. We are taking steps to lodge a complaint with the United Nations' working group on arbitrary detention because America needs to be held to account for the way it is choosing to discriminate against my sister. The treatment meted out to G has been appalling." I respect the family for sticking up for their lil' sis through thick and thin, but it wouldn't kill them to develop some awareness of what she's been accused of and who's she's connected to. She was an accomplice to one of the most well connected sex traffickers of our time, who also happened to "die" while incarcerated. No shit they're not going to let a repeat of what's happening. Also Maxwell's treatment proves that Epstein's death was an inside job and that the system isn't inherently corrupt, at least in this aspect. --- |
| Topic | JK Rowling not invited to Harry Potter's 20th anniversary special. |
| Sad_Face 11/22/21 11:30:07 AM #104 | Funkydog posted... Please respond why there was a sudden explosion of left handed people when we stopped punishing people for it. It's very concerning and I believe we need studies done into why, when something is no longer punished, more people seem to do it. But this doesn't account for people detransitioning or coming out together as groups. --- |
| Topic | JK Rowling not invited to Harry Potter's 20th anniversary special. |
| Sad_Face 11/22/21 11:22:18 AM #100 | Maze_ posted... You srs? Rowling is bringing up a named researcher's paper regarding transgenders population skyrocketing in the past decade and it is a common occurrence for girls to "come out together" with their friends as all transgenders. She also notes that studies range from 60-90% of persons growing out of gender dysphoria. Basically social media is influencing young persons to believe they are transgenders when they're not suffering from gender dysphoria. Eliza is calling bullshit on those points she's bringing up. I'm merely challenging her claim. Do you guys want to contribute to the conversation or are you just want to keep making pointless posts? --- |
| Topic | Trial: The Murder of Ahmaud Arbery |
| Sad_Face 11/22/21 11:13:34 AM #145 | thronedfire2 posted... thats not silly at all. Youre supposed to call police for that, theres no reason for you to go confront the person Then what's the point of a citizen's arrest then? --- |
| Topic | Trial: The Murder of Ahmaud Arbery |
| Sad_Face 11/22/21 11:10:48 AM #140 | CableZL posted... The prosecutor is driving home the fact that their right to perform a citizen's arrest was extinguished because no felony or misdemeanor was committed in their presence or immediate knowledge.If I have footage of someone robbing my or a neighbor's property, I can't perform a citizen's arrest because I didn't witness it live? That's silly. Sounds like the law needs to be updated to account for the latest innovations in surveillance technology. --- |
| Topic | Do you tip for takeout? |
| Sad_Face 11/22/21 11:07:37 AM #4 | Unfortunately yes. Out of habit since the option is on the receipt I have to sign. --- |
| Topic | JK Rowling not invited to Harry Potter's 20th anniversary special. |
| Sad_Face 11/22/21 11:04:38 AM #92 | Eliza-Schuyler posted... the stupid part is that de transition rates are so incredibly low- and a lot of them are caused by lack of social support rather than the person making a mistake That doesn't explain how there's an insane rapid rise of Transgender population in the past decade. Why didn't this exist 2 decades ago? People were better at hiding their problems or depression? The definition of depression changed? There has to be something that demonstrated that this population existed back then for them to come out all the sudden in droves now and not be a consequence of social media influence. --- |
| Topic | JK Rowling not invited to Harry Potter's 20th anniversary special. |
| Sad_Face 11/22/21 9:09:05 AM #80 | Background_Guy posted... https://www.jkrowling.com/opinions/ j-k-rowling-writes-about-her-reasons-for-speaking-out-on-sex-and-gender-issues/ The fourth is where things start to get truly personal. Im concerned about the huge explosion in young women wishing to transition and also about the increasing numbers who seem to be detransitioning (returning to their original sex), because they regret taking steps that have, in some cases, altered their bodies irrevocably, and taken away their fertility. Some say they decided to transition after realising they were same-sex attracted, and that transitioning was partly driven by homophobia, either in society or in their families. I've already read the essay before but this is an eye opener that more people need to know about. --- |
| Topic | How much of this is true about the Kyle Rittenhouse situation? |
| Sad_Face 11/21/21 8:37:36 AM #31 | The gun charge was dismissed because the specifications of Rittenhouse's gun was just outside what was considered illegal to carry. In other words Jesus loved him. But yes, Black Lives Matter support thrives on delivering a narrative to rile up the masses using very suspect cases that seem incredibly egregious and racist until you dive into the facts to see it was a much more nuanced situation that puts the perpetrator's actions in a more reasonable light. This is what has been happening since Trayvon Martin's story and why they completely ignored Eric Garner's case even though that was a clear cut case of police abuse. The ultimate goal is to divide the nation and deny any chance of Occupy Wall Street from ever coming back into the limelight so that no one is able to rally together to fight against the American Dream becoming an impossible dream for more and more people. --- |
| Topic | Only a man is not loved unconditionally |
| Sad_Face 11/18/21 7:56:17 PM #3 | He's talking about how there are base levels of sympathy between genders. If you're a girl, just be available and people will notice you and give you attention (assuming you're not terribly ugly). If you're a guy, that base level of sympathy and compassion just won't be there. So either put up or shut up. Show that you're valuable to society or you won't get that base recognition that you exist. --- |
| Topic | C/D: Bitcoin is basically the The Simpsons of cryptocurrency. |
| Sad_Face 11/18/21 12:45:53 AM #10 | TheMikh posted... though to play the devil's advocate, this "slow-and-steady" strategy probably prevented bitcoin from securing a first-mover advantage (and all the brainpower that brings) with respect to fostering a decentralized application ecosystem, hence ethereum becoming a gold standard in this regard, while bitcoin only begins to cultivate smart contracts functionality and must contend with a rather saturated and competitive ecosystem of newer layer-1s for developer and user attention, never mind ethereum itself. Bitcoin is incredibly limited with respect to smartcontract development. Ethereum was developed because of the BTC's limitations here. And remember, the Ethereum developers and early investors and contributors were all previously bitcoin maximalists. I'm reading "Out of the Ether" by Matthew Leising on the history of the conception of Ethereum and it is such an inspiration to read about these cyberpunks inspired by Satoshi Nakamoto take it upon themselves to grow and cultivate its growth till they were hardblocked by the limitations from all the ideas they wanted to implement. --- |
| Topic | Do most people realize billionaires dont actually just have billions to spend? |
| Sad_Face 11/17/21 10:58:37 AM #14 | IndustrialTrudg posted... Next time someone tells you capitalism is evil, think to yourself, How badly do I want to farm my own food so I can eat today? My community would be a lot happier and a lot healthier if we didn't import so much food and grew it within our own community. Keep the capital within our community. I have a lot of respect for Bezos in his creation of Amazon but Amazon did a number on ma and pop stores. You have to remember in these conversations, the wealth inequality is the highest it has ever been and the American dream is dead for a considerable number of Americans. People are angry. --- |
| Topic | New York puts Ben and Jerry's on notice for Israeli boycott. |
| Sad_Face 11/17/21 10:48:27 AM #59 | SpiritSephiroth posted... Why does the US have such a hard on for Israel? This has baffled me for so long. Is it because the Israelis have influence in the higher levels of the US Government? That's the only reason I can think of.There are a number of congressmen who have Israeli dual citizenship. --- |
| Topic | Jeff Bezos donates only $500,000 to a charity gala and gets groans. |
| Sad_Face 11/17/21 8:48:12 AM #54 | Swagger_Dagger posted... He could have donated $2 million and people ITT would still be upset. There is no arbitrary number that he could donate to satisfy Them. Its just them being upset that hes a greedy billionaire(he absolutely is but nothing ITP is wrong). It probably wouldn't have garnered an article like this. At the event, someone else donated $1 million first and he didn't even match the first donor. --- |
| Topic | Ben and Jerry's, the ice cream company, weighs in on the Rittenhouse trial. |
| Sad_Face 11/16/21 6:35:23 PM #118 | gamepimp12 posted... i feel like youre intentionally missing the point, if an historically marginalized group is watching someone get privileged with extremely beneficial odds in their favor, when they get upset you cant just tell them they should be grateful the systems working as intended. That 100% is a slap on the face and injustice in and of itself. That's the thing, they are not watching someone receive privileged benefits. They're watching someone receive the due diligence EVERYONE is supposed to receive. If this was Brock Turner who got a slap on the wrist for something he knew was immoral and illegal, then yes, your point would stand. But this is not Brock Turner and this is exactly why I call your sentiments a crabs in a bucket mentality. --- |
| Topic | Rittenhouse for his gun charges dropped. |
| Sad_Face 11/16/21 10:35:03 AM #252 | TheVipaGTS posted... Terrified? lmao no. Im more terrified of the laws defending his actions....Kyle however.. Does make him look bad but it doesn't particularly make me overlook all the other things I've heard him do. --- |
| Topic | Ben and Jerry's, the ice cream company, weighs in on the Rittenhouse trial. |
| Sad_Face 11/16/21 9:09:36 AM #116 | gamepimp12 posted... i dont think thats a fair way to look at it. Equality to who? Do you want one group to be treated as harshly as the marginalized group or the marginalized group to be raised to be the level of respect the first group is given? Using this case as a platform to complain about injustice is crabs in a bucket mentality as you're criticizing that someone is getting their due justice. And no one argues against the hypothetical scenario of reversed colors because it's irrelevant. CyricZ posted... Also I feel that if someone who supports Q-Anon says "the system is working as intended", then I feel the next question should be "what is the intent of the system", and then maybe asking yourself if the intent of the system is in fact what you thought it was. What you were taught it was. Innocent until proven guilty. The intent of the system so as to protect innocents from being unjustly incarcerated. And as I've said before, crabs in the bucket mentality. Also flinging ad hominem attacks is just petty. If you have a point to make, just make it. --- |
| Topic | Ben and Jerry's, the ice cream company, weighs in on the Rittenhouse trial. |
| Sad_Face 11/16/21 8:10:39 AM #113 | XxAxem_BlackxX posted... Couple of things. First of all, I can't stand it when companies take political stands. Their job is to make ice cream so they should stay in their lane. Second, even if what they said is true that doesn't mean Rittenhouse should be found guilty just because a black person might have been. If he was black he shouldn't be found guilty either. This is my biggest problem with the complaints. Here's an example showcasing, should the jury find the kid not guilty (there's always a chance of the opposite), the system working as intended. You want the system to work as intended. Wanting it to break because you don't like X character's skin color or because of your own bias is counterproductive and is a crabs-in-a-bucket mentality. --- |
| Topic | How do people forget that the DNC FUCKED OVER Bernie Sanders? |
| Sad_Face 11/15/21 10:56:07 PM #12 | PyroBlade1985 posted... Sanders vs Trump would of been the best thing ever. You can't convince me otherwise. Everyone wanted to see this. But the DNC did what they do best. Twice. Both friggin presidential election cycles. --- |
| Topic | Professor sparks outrage for rebranding pedophiles as minor-attracted people. |
| Sad_Face 11/15/21 10:49:25 PM #14 | Lebronwon posted... Walker explained that people can be attracted to children without acting on it. "Its less stigmatizing than other terms like pedophile," Walker said. "A lot of people when they hear the term pedophile, they automatically assume that it means a sex offender. And that isnt true. And it leads to a lot of misconceptions about attractions toward minors. I completely understand this guy's sentiments, where I've found people on this board and IRL think being attracted to kids == will molest kids. But I think the conservative method of shutting down any open and explicit interest in children is the safest route for society. I do not want to live in a world where I have kids and am playing in the park with them and some dude or woman comes up to me and says "your kids look absolutely delicious! ;p". I want to have peace of mind when I drop them off at the day care and not have any thoughts or worries gnawing at me if one of the daycare staff is openly attracted to toddlers. --- |
| Topic | Rittenhouse for his gun charges dropped. |
| Sad_Face 11/15/21 8:47:10 PM #224 | What exactly makes Rittenhouse a piece of shit? I haven't followed the trial but I recall footage of him extinguishing fires on that fateful night, him playing the medic role, and there are images of him helping out cleaning up debris from the riots. On top of that, he has displayed incredible discipline with the weapon especially with the 3rd victim where he lowered his aim when the victim initially held his hands up before the victim tried to pull out his pistol to shoot him with. There's nothing I've seen of this kid that makes him out to be a trigger happy school shooter people are terrified of. --- |
| Topic | Tried the demo for Neo: The World Ends With You |
| Sad_Face 11/14/21 10:47:14 AM #13 | saspa posted... I went in wanting to hate it but... I actually think it's fun. As someone who loved TWEWY and hates modern Square Enix of the past like, 10+ years, I didn't think the sequel could be anywhere near as fun as the original. Did you at least look at the developers who worked on the game? The main Square staff returned for the sequel. --- |
| Topic | Does anyone still think Rittenhouse did NOT act in self defense? |
| Sad_Face 11/14/21 8:21:56 AM #19 | DirectedVerdict posted... Bonus question: Does anyone still think the jury will convict Rittenhouse of any type of murder even manslaughter? There's always a risk of this happening to prevent riots. --- |
| Topic | more NFT stupidity to laugh at |
| Sad_Face 11/13/21 10:31:19 PM #83 | 1337toothbrush posted... Sure, but what practical problems does it solve over what the internet already provides? As I've said before, trust. It eliminates the middle man which means a more profitable platform for all. Imagine if CyricZ got paid for his guides per view? This is possible now, but at the mercy of Capital Ventures or whoever owns this site right now. Someone could remake this site to share the revenue with the contributors. It'd be way simpler on a platform where everyone has a bank account that is universally connected to the platform and you can write automated service agreements (a better term for smart contracts since they're not smart) to execute payouts. And as I've said before, smart contracts have aleady demonstrated that they abide to the constraints of their contract. When there was a crash due to Elon Musk and the China fud, Coinbase blocked all buys and sales. Uniswap, a Decentralized EXchange, did not. This kind of platform where applications must abide by their ToS and not change it at a whim is going to attract more people and absorb industries. And no, I'm not a fan of Proof of Stake blockchains. That's no different than the banking system we have now. I don't understand, you've had your sentiments for years. What do you need to change your mind that this is something worth looking forward to? The banking world is scrambling to adopt DeFi products. All the big tech enterprise companies are investigating blockchain. What is holding you up? --- |
| Topic | more NFT stupidity to laugh at |
| Sad_Face 11/13/21 9:42:36 PM #81 | 1337toothbrush posted... As neat as those technical details are, they don't explain how it's like the internet. We already have methods of trust on the internet. The difference is the decentralization for blockchain, but again, decentralization by itself is really not a selling point. Chainlink, or more abstractly, an oracle is the entity that blockchains use to communicate with one another and to the real world. It's likened to the internet because the internet, the WWW, bridges computers together to communicate and share information. And I see I didn't make that topic yet out of procrastination... --- |
| Topic | Will people start using the Rittenhouse Defense to kill neo-Nazis and shit? |
| Sad_Face 11/12/21 9:53:11 PM #65 | AP3Brain posted... What do you mean they are "correct" about their interpretation? Any kid that gets into fights in school is a violent thug now? I've personally known kids like this and none of them went on to murder people. What that defense team did was attack his character rather than discuss actual evidence. Kind of like how the prosecutor was trying to attack Rittenhouse's character. RchHomieQuanChi posted... And Zimmerman has a history of domestic abuse and being an overall violent s***head. The whole purpose of the attacking his character was that we have witness testimony of Martin bashing Zimmerman's head into the pavement with Zimmerman screaming for help. We have the letter talking about the lead up to their pivotal contact, but we don't have evidence to corroborate with Zimmerman's statement that Martin suckerpunched him to put him in that situation. This begs the question, is Martin the kind of guy that would likely suckerpunch someone and/or pick a fight? This is where his history comes in. From his text logs, this guy was enamored with the gangsta life (the drugs, guns, yadda yadda blaze blaze) and was suspended from school multiple times for fighting. This is why I say if Martin had survived the shot, he'd be coming out of jail for attempted murder. Is this thought process an obstruction of justice? --- |
| Topic | Will people start using the Rittenhouse Defense to kill neo-Nazis and shit? |
| Sad_Face 11/12/21 3:38:38 PM #56 | AP3Brain posted... Looking here there is no mention of a text from Trayvon threatening to "get that [white slur]". Zimmerman's defense team was just trying to paint Martin as a violent pothead because he had heated exchanges with a friend (no mention of Zimmerman in the texts). Checked again, you're right that "text" is incorrect. He was on the phone with his girlfriend Diamond Eugene during the event and he told her there's a "creepy ass [white slur]" following him. Digging a little further, that description came from Rachel Jeantel's recount, and her existence is 100% perjury so not even that description could be trusted. So I'll go by the purely by the letter Eugene sent Trayvon's mother. Thank you for calling me out on it.  But the Defense team is correct in their interpretation of him, it's more than just exchanges with friends. He routinely got suspended for fights to the point where his mother kicked him out to go move in with his father. --- |
| Topic | more NFT stupidity to laugh at |
| Sad_Face 11/12/21 12:12:23 PM #76 | 1337toothbrush posted... How? You've yet to explain this. You can't even tell me key points of that video you posted.Have you ever heard of the oracle problem? The basic gist is this: blockchains are built for security as priority first and foremost, any data you see on the blockchain, you can be sure it has been verified to be truthful. But what happens when you onboard data to the blockchain? How do you know it is valid? This is what an oracle is for. An oracle relays data to and from the blockchain, but this poses another problem. How can we be sure the data the oracle relays is reliable and the oracle is tamper-free? You could have a centralized oracle that's trustworthy or reputable, but then you have a central point of failure. Chainlink takes this a step further to create the tools so anyone can design a network of decentralized oracles that will verify and secure data to and from blockchains. This is why Chainlink is considered the WWW/HTTPS/Internet of blockchains. They onboard data and connect blockchains to the outside world and even other blockchains. This is one of the 4 key problems Vitalik Buterin outlined in an essay that Ethereum faced back into 2016. Don't recall all of the others (more than likely scaling was one of them), but one of them that Chainlink solves, was also the issue that it's impossible to generate non-predictable random numbers on the blockchain. The fact that everything is transparent, you could look at a contract, copypaste the algorithm they use on a different contract to trigger on until you get the answer you want to trigger on the original contract. Miners have even more power since they can pick and choose what transactions to verify and add to the block and a lot of times, developers would try to generate random numbers of the blockhash or a timestamp. Honestly, I followed the conversation on this but it didn't "click", how important having an equivalent Math.random() on the blockchain, until I tried this myself and broke a contract. Here's the site where I learned about these attacks and how to protect against them, it's the 5th challenge, coinflip, I believe. https://ethernaut.openzeppelin.com/ What Chainlink did is build functionality to generate random numbers in the oracle network to onboard to blockchains, Chainlink VRF, verifiable randomness function. It's a standard now if you're developing in solidity to use this if you want randomness. And for a quick reason as why you would want this on the blockchain, this guy has a quick story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m05sAGZpl5Q Just watch the first 2 minutes. Long story short McDonalds' monopoly sweepstakes games lasted for years and was riddled with fraud. Had this been on the blockchain, there would be more transparency on the overall results, the winners, and the odds. Busy at the moment but I'll comment on the next part in a few hours. --- |
| Topic | more NFT stupidity to laugh at |
| Sad_Face 11/11/21 11:31:12 PM #74 | 1337toothbrush posted... You're only bringing up chainlink because you have money in that bulls***.I have money in link because I believe in the project. And quite frankly at this point it's a done deal, if a blockchain project wants to be worth a damn, they need to use Chainlink. It's the internet of blockchains after all. 1337toothbrush posted... Regardless, if you think it was some huge conspiracy by the banks, why do you think they would give up their power in favor of blockchain? By the way, banks already provide undercollateralized loans. Do you know what kind of people can't get those? People with a terrible credit score. You think if they go to some blockchain it'll suddenly work out great? They don't have a choice, as this is exactly what's going on now, they're scrambling to come up with financial products to interact with DeFi so as not to fall behind. And there's a good deal of bureaucracy that prevents peeps with good credit scores from getting loans. And mind you, as a rebuttal to Robinhood, the BTC was in a freefall after Elon's and China's FUD, Coinbase and the other big exchanges halted all trades. You know what didn't halt trades? Uniswap, a decentralized exchange. People will be able to read the contracts (and yes, I can read solidity too) and audit to see if they have trigger buttons that they can pull at their own convenience. Dude, what would it take for you to actually dabble with the field? --- |
| Topic | more NFT stupidity to laugh at |
| Sad_Face 11/11/21 10:42:37 PM #69 | 1337toothbrush posted... Are you proposing the game files live on the blockchain? That has its own problems but if you're not even proposing that then what? Do you think the game files will just magically be available forever somewhere?You are right there will have to be servers hosting the files. 1337toothbrush posted... The only thing they'd need to be "blockchain compatible" is to push things onto blockchain. They don't have to maintain their own blockchain. For someone who's so hyped about blockchain, you sure do seem to know very little about how any of this works. Your posts read like a brochure. That's what I said. They can interact with blockchains via chainlink. It's why I posted that paper from the World Economic Forum. But I am arguing they will build their own blockchain anyway because this will be the next evolution of gaming. And no, blockchains are not a solution in search of a problem. Robinhood already demonstrated the need for smartcontracts when they abused their power and colluded with Citadel in freezing accounts and selling GME stocks. And again, DeFi has demonstrated they can handle what banks do and when Chainlink's DECO comes out, they'll be able to offer undercollateralized loans and leave banks fighting to justify their existence. Watch the goddamned video. --- |
| Topic | I had a hell of a day today, story and poll options |
| Sad_Face 11/11/21 10:09:00 PM #6 | KTP brings up Knowledge Transfer Partnerships on Google. Not sure what you're talking about but if you're not learning anything that you will find useful for the profession you're dedicating your life to, you're wasting your time. And given that this job will have an effect on your health, how badly do you need the money? How important is this job to you? --- |
| Topic | Will people start using the Rittenhouse Defense to kill neo-Nazis and shit? |
| Sad_Face 11/11/21 10:00:27 PM #54 | cjsdowg posted... Martin Literally RAN away from Zimmerman. And Zimmerman a man who lied in court is the only person to claim that Martin started the fight. What the f*** is wrong with you.He ran away but then he went back to confront Zimmerman. The police dispatcher audio corroborates with Zimmerman attempting to rendezvous with the police at a certain point and Diamond Eugene (look her up) corroborated that the last thing Martin said to her via text was that he was going to get that [white slur]. --- |
| Topic | more NFT stupidity to laugh at |
| Sad_Face 11/11/21 9:46:36 PM #66 | 1337toothbrush posted... I love how you bolded the text that highlights the problem and points out that blockchain still won't solve this yet you insist that blockchain somehow magically would. Once again, as I already pointed out in the sentence right after the ones you bolded, you need to have servers actually serving those games. Reposting what you're referring to the whole point of smart contracts: people are forced to honor their obligations. It will solve the problem, because we are moving ALL BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS to DLTs. You all say Steam can handle trading keys but it's blocked by design. And this is where blockchain (or the umbrella term, distributed ledger technology, DLT) comes it. It allows you to reclaim your ownership and cuts out the middleman. On top of that, blockchains are a natural evolution to videogames, akin to online becoming mainstream in games because now we can give videogame items real value as you have to have a transaction verified to produce or move a digital item via DLT. This is the distinction that allows a digital asset to exist; compared to digital files being copy/pasted, you can't do the same with a digital asset. With these factors, videogames are going to thrive and grow and create new economies. We are even seeing this right now with this one blockchain game Axie Infinity, and it's a billion dollar protocol that has been hailed as providing UBI.  With these in mind, Steam has to adopt blockchain tech or they will eventually get pushed out decades from competitors that embrace the tech. And you're right @1337toothbrush , Nintendo doesn't necessarily have to have their blockchain, but they have to be blockchain compatible and they can get away with this via Chainlink. https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Interoperability_C4IR_Smart_Contracts_Project_2020.pdf ^ Chainlink's CEO, Sergey Nazarov cowrote this paper on a system to connect legacy systems (businesses of today) to DLT (tech of tomorrow) But they have to be blockchain compatible because this will be the direction of gaming's evolution; where we can generate digital assets. I'd argue they would create their own blockchain to allow digital assets to be compatible with all games on the platform, as this is another fundamental feature of digital assets (NFTs are digital assets, a more specific term but under the same umbrella). 1337, I'm begging you, you have to watch through this hour and change video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiuvsLNCg-Y This is the world we're building towards. The law industry is going to heavily reduced by smartcontracts. The tax industry is going to get annihilated (good fucking riddance). If you want, I'll setup a topic on Saturday so the board can go through it. If you're going to have an opinion on blockchains, you have to know what the vision is because they're been working at this since 2008 with the advent of the BTC white paper by Satoshi Nakamoto and these cyberpunks are willing to give their lives to see it through. --- |
| Topic | more NFT stupidity to laugh at |
| Sad_Face 11/11/21 8:33:30 PM #65 | 1337toothbrush posted... @Sad_Face Need to consult your local crypto conman for answers? If this is supposedly the future, you should know how to answer. @1337toothbrush I got distracted last night working on something. I'll continue the conversation in a bit. --- |
| Topic | The Pokemon Company On Increasingly Angry Fans: We've 'Heard A Lot' |
| Sad_Face 11/11/21 6:29:31 PM #16 | There's zero craftsmanship that goes into the Pokemon mainline series and it has been this way for almost a decade. --- |
| Topic | Will people start using the Rittenhouse Defense to kill neo-Nazis and shit? |
| Sad_Face 11/11/21 2:10:05 PM #38 | TheVipaGTS posted... But when Trayvon Martin was literally being stalked people said he didn't have the right to defend himself. "he shouldn't have gone back outside!"...well, Kyle should have stayed home. Trayvon forfeited his right to defend himself because he took himself out of the supposed area of threat and deliberately went back in to start a fight. He would have been in jail if he survived the gunshot. --- |
| Topic | The dating market is a race to the bottom. |
| Sad_Face 11/11/21 1:16:08 PM #23 | Legato-and-Vash posted... Contrarily to popular belief, a lot of men have trouble in the dating area because of their own crappy personalities. Not this whole "Chad" nonsense. The populations of perpetually single young men in their 20's and single childless older women from their late 30's and beyond have been growing rapidly across the past decade. We have a societal problem that's not going to be fixed by telling guys to "pull yourselves up by your own bootstraps!". --- |
| Topic | IYO is Kyle Rittenhouse guilty of murder? |
| Sad_Face 11/11/21 1:09:33 PM #32 | The 3rd guy he shot, Rittenhouse demonstrated incredible gun discipline by lowering his gun when the 3rd victim approached him with his hands up. But then the 3rd victim pulled out his gun, which triggered the reaction from Rittenhouse. I have respect for the kid from that move. He's not malicious, and this is on top of all the good deeds he was doing that night. --- |
| Topic | more NFT stupidity to laugh at |
| Sad_Face 11/10/21 9:04:43 PM #56 | warlock7735 posted... There's absolutely nothing wrong with centralized data. We've been able to use GUIDs and PKs for data for a very long time, and there's virtually no need to put things like airline tickets or steam keys on a blockchain - those are on a central authority for a reason with API access. Again - blockchain is a solution looking for a problem. Eventual consistency is still a problem because there's nothing guaranteeing that the consuming client is able to validate/ensure it has an up to date ledger if you're attempting to decentralize your source of truth. If you redeem a steam key, you can't trade it sell it off, no? Well that's the point of issuing an NFT, so you can play the game, then sell off or trade your rights to someone else. NFTs are the final tools needed to allow someone to digitally represent ANYTHING. From reputation to rights to something tangible, to even digital game items. 1337toothbrush posted... The only problem people had with keys was questions of whether servers would stay up to honor the keys. This problem doesn't go away with blockchain. Like I already pointed out, you ultimately need a service to actually serve the game files to you. The other issue was minor annoyances like hard to read keys and typing them out, which are eliminated by copy+paste since we don't deal with physical boxes anymore. I assure you that dealing with keys is a lot simpler and much less riddled with problems than dealing with managing a crypto wallet. 1337toothbrush posted... The only problem people had with keys was questions of whether servers would stay up to honor the keys. This problem doesn't go away with blockchain. Like I already pointed out, you ultimately need a service to actually serve the game files to you. The other issue was minor annoyances like hard to read keys and typing them out, which are eliminated by copy+paste since we don't deal with physical boxes anymore. I assure you that dealing with keys is a lot simpler and much less riddled with problems than dealing with managing a crypto wallet. This right here is exactly is what going to force Steam and every platform to adopt blockchain tech, because blockchains do in fact honor their terms of use. That's the whole point of smart contracts: people are forced to honor their obligations. I'm not going to bother address the Nintendo issues because those are product design obstacles that I know you @1337toothbrush can solve if you stop saying NO NO NO NO NO, and start saying yes to blockchain. And mind you, Nintendo will mostly run their own closed and private blockchain when they finally get onboard next decade, but the pic I showed of Chainlink's Cross Chain Interoperability Protocol allows them to interact with ETH and the rest of the blockchains as to the extent Nintendo specifies. The Blockchain field is above a $5 Trillion marketcap and the rest of the financial world is deploying their products to interact with the field come next year to revolutionize the banking world. You have zero grounds to stand calling blockchains or NFTs a waste a time. --- |
| Topic | Kyle Rittenhouse is a little bitch |
| Sad_Face 11/10/21 2:53:56 PM #130 | Gobstoppers12 posted... He clearly didn't learn his lesson, because he was trying to kill Rittenhouse unprovoked.That's fine, judge him on that. Bringing up his past is just emotional appealing and shouldn't be allowed in the court of law. I say this as following the logic that if I, a law abiding citizen, decide to threaten Rittenhouse unprovoked, and then chase after the kid, Rittenhouse is well within his rights to give me a case of lead poisoning for self defense. --- |
| Topic | Kyle Rittenhouse is a little bitch |
| Sad_Face 11/10/21 2:44:27 PM #123 | KingWhiteKnight posted... damn yall coldblooded. literally makinig fun of a 17 year old boy crying because he had to kill people. Though he only klilled 1 guy in my book. Rosenbaum was a multiple child rapist and shouldn't be counted as a human.Wasn't he already convicted and did his time? Just because someone committed a felony doesn't mean you should disregard their humanity. That's generally how guys end up reoffending. --- |
| Topic | more NFT stupidity to laugh at |
| Sad_Face 11/10/21 2:37:25 PM #50 | R_Jackal posted... This thing here that you're explaining? It's CD keys. The thing we largely abandoned a long time ago. Just saying. And why were they abandoned? Blockchain tech solves a considerable number of issues and allows for a number of new opportunities that weren't practical before. --- |
| Topic | more NFT stupidity to laugh at |
| Sad_Face 11/10/21 1:31:08 PM #45 | warlock7735 posted... Most of the issues with fungibility you're referencing are due to bad API design and event sourcing - to use your example of gamerscore- it's 100% fine if the individual points of your gamerscore are fungible. All's you need is an endpoint to get info about the events which are associated with X game. Likewise, who cares about the existence of an airline ticket, what you care about is the history of transaction events associated with an individual ticket. There's a decent amount of issues with that, but I promise you that NFTs are a solution looking for a problem, and most of the problem spaces being proposed have no benefit from non-fungibility. Trophies can be replaced with regular tokens, sure. But things like an Amiibo, if they were to recreate it for blockchain tech, it would need to be an NFT. You want an NFT over a regular token for airplane tickets because then you could specify other constraints on the token. Instead creating different ERC-20 tokens for Coach, Economy, 1st Class, etc etc, you can have a single NFT that specifies what class you are in along with other data like destination + arrival time (I dunno if you really want this kind of info on the blockchain, but it could go on a permissioned and private blockchain). The biggest boon of moving to an NFT, is that if you move to the current industry standards, an entire world of new use cases open up to you thanks to cross chain interoperability protocols.  A steam competitor could issue game licenses as NFTs, which would allow players to sell and trade games but you can offer incentives and specify parameters based on on how many addresses the NFT touched to incentivize buying a game new instead of buying second hand. On top of that, you could create a marketplace that pays the original creator a percentage fee for each sale of the NFT to allow creators to capitalize on the secondhand market. This already exists on Opensea.io for their art NFTs and sales on their platform. Videogames and NFTs go hand in hand but in general NFTs are the evolution of assets the internet needs. It's a fool's errand to disregard its potential. --- |
| Topic | more NFT stupidity to laugh at |
| Sad_Face 11/10/21 9:22:13 AM #41 | Zano posted... I still dont understand what NFT is >_> Non fungible token. But let me backtrack to the "fungible" word. When it comes to money, money is generally fungible. You don't discriminate between which 20 US dollar bills are in your pocket. You just use them as you need them. However, things like airplane tickets, immunization records or vaccination cards, trading cards, they need to be nonfungible. You have to discriminate between them to maintain their value. Now the blockchain's key innovation is the successful creation of e-currency by creating digital assets, which is distinct from regular digital files because you can copypaste the digital file while a digital asset on a blockchain, when it's moved from wallet to wallet, it's no longer at the original wallet as the network verified and recorded the transaction. But here's an issue with the setup, you can't discern between the currencies. The network will tell you you accumulated 10 BTC over the past 5 years, but it can't discern between the first BTC you purchased and the 3rd one you were gifted from crazy Uncle Cyril. Enter: NFTs. While ERC-20 is the standard Ethereum came up with to allow other projects to monetize and crowdfund their projects (all those scam coins use that official format) using tokens, ERC-721 is the format Ethereum designed to accommodate the innate lack of fungibility in cryptocurrencies. This means we can finally recreate the uniqueness of trading cards, and expand to property rights and deeds and what have you. We can create a digital asset counterpart to represent anything. But what's limiting the market right now is data. Until chainlink or some other oracle network onboards more data the blockchain, they're stuck playing around with making tokens on art, mostly. Though there are cool applications like one project, Linkpool, released an NFT to all their ICO (initial coin offering) investors. About 1K persons bought into their crowdsale, now one NFT of those sold for over a million dollars worth of ETH. TL;DR; NFTs are nonfungible digital assets, separate from cryptocurrencies and where you can discriminate between each NFT individually unlike a cryptocurrencies. They'll be used quite a bit in the future and you're seeing the pre mainstream adoption phase build up right now. Expect Game consoles to release trophies and achievements as NFTs when they integrate blockchain tech. GameFAQs would benefit from this because then they could have reviewers link their NFT compilations with their reviews to guarantee they played the game and didn't halfbake their run unlike half the gaming journalists at big name sites. --- |
| Topic | Started mining ETH today |
| Sad_Face 11/09/21 11:42:32 PM #5 | I hope I can setup an ETH mining rig before they migrate to 2.0. I don't think it's likely but we will see... --- |
| Topic | If Rittenhouse walks, it will embolden far-right militias greatly. |
| Sad_Face 11/09/21 3:03:51 PM #43 | DuranOfForcena posted... oh, okay guys, it's cool, the firearm was "given to him by a friend". that totally exonerates him, yeah. What are you trying to charge him with? Murder? Manslaughter? The first victim (his background is irrelevant so why bring it up?) chased after him and tried to reach for his gun. The second victim attacked him with a skateboard and the third got shot in the arm attempting to shoot him point blank. If you're charging the kid for murder, he has a crystal clear case of self-defense. --- |
| Topic | If Rittenhouse walks, it will embolden far-right militias greatly. |
| Sad_Face 11/09/21 2:51:36 PM #29 | PoundGarden posted... It's weird to see people think it's ok for a kid to cross state lines and play cop with an illegally obtained firearm because we found out after the fact the person he ended up murdering had a record. He works in the area and the firearm was given to him by a friend. This is such an open and shut case, but you never know, the jury could get swayed by emotions and convict him anyways. --- |
| Topic | Politician to miss his Anti-Vaxx rally because he has COVID |
| Sad_Face 11/09/21 10:16:44 AM #7 | Shablagoo posted... I didnt do that shit on purpose lmao how did that even happen I noticed since all 3 topic OPs have the same timestamp. GameFAQs has been weird for me lately as it takes 30 seconds for a message to be posted using the newer message board style where you can upload images. --- |
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