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looking forward to it.
the covid specials were pretty great and as culturally relevant as it gets so who knows wtf to expect.

delta first.
omicron second.

2022 is off to giving 2020 a run for its money with this start.

and now Konami is celebrating Castlevania's 35th anniversary by releasing NFTs.

remake? port? some new music? nope just pictures you pay for.

MoogleKupo141 posted...

all these companies already have their own account systems that can track what you do in one game and give you stuff in a different game, they dont really need the blockchain for that

i got a TF2 hat for playing Poker Night at the Inventory like ten years ago now

it's doable but rarer. it's not perfect of course, but NFTs can function as a certain string to find a character's data from one game to another. i'm thinking of stuff like Mass Effect or Golden Sun, or the Gwent/Witcher idea, or what if a company wanted to end one MMO but have people join the other MMO with that same character/some adjustments to it?

this isn't exclusively something that only NFTs can do but it's one area where it might be better as it can work across platforms. coded something for mobile? for Windows? for Windows 5 years later? that key still works to pull up that info, like a mini torrent if nothing else.

of course i don't know how the fuck this is something you buy as a consumer. it's just something usable on the backend.

tony, there was no good way to handle this situation. hell, he tried using the trump playbook of closing borders but it was even dumber since it was already here by then. of course biden can lose due to covid, meaning that the sooner he transitions from zero policy attempts to those focused on living with covid, the better for him. on that end, this variant could be helpful to him.

i mean it's a million new cases of an even more contagious strain of which vaccines and delta antibodies don't protect against the infection of very well.

like i can't give him particular shit for this and a lot of the shutdown is a case of a lot of industries having major disruptions over 1-2 months before resuming back to normal. biden can't really be blamed for this and it's become very clear that this strain is something people suffer from, not die from.

Forceful_Dragon posted...

Except being NFTs allows them to be digital products that can be sold. Without the authenticity it ceases to be something that people would pay for.

i don't understand these sentences at all.
digital products are sold because... digital products are sold.
the authenticity is the game telling you "hey, this is yours."

scarcity is also a similar thing, gacha games tell you the rates. like if your objection is that some of them lie about it fair, though the popular ones don't and there's enough people who are damned sure to check. NFTs aren't the solution to that as much as just not lying when you say "our rate is 3% for SR," which is something you don't run into often.

Collectible NFTs: Far fewer people would pay for these or assign value to them if there was no proof of ownership.

huh? proof of ownership isn't what assigns it value at all. the game/company telling you its value does. even if you disagree with it because that character/person is far overvalued, you accept the shit luck.

Digital Art is basically just selling digital prints/commissions. the only benefit here is that the claim of "official ownership" manages to make people throw more money at them, assuming it's the actual artist. when done right this is fine, it's just done wrong a lot too. but that's a distribution issue and can be resolved that way. there's not much difference here though and once the fad is done there shouldn't be much difference.

for what it's worth this:

And sure, Blizzard to turn around one day and say "we're turning off the hearthstone servers so it doesn't matter if you have those assets in your wallet because the game doesn't exist anymore" then someone else could make a different game that adds functionality to those same assets you already possess.

actually does have some value to it in the form of sequels. they can say "Heartstone is over, we're going to Heartstone 2 and your cards are transferred to that."

this is probably done easier through NFTs/blockchains because the tech for that will be more consistently the same as opposed to a 5-10 year old game. there's definitely an element on this which would make the transfer of data easier. some cross-game integration can also be done with this, like Gwent can have a game of its own but you can play with the actual cards in The Witcher 3 as well.

Forceful_Dragon posted...

Now take that same game, but instead of having a shop where the whales can buy an infinite amount from the developers, you *have* to play the game to earn the premium token and only a finite amount of tokens get generated as time progresses. This allows the other players to either keep their premium currency that they earned for themselves and use it to make their own character stronger and buy their own advantages, or opt to sell to someone else who wants to pay other players for the same advantage that they previously would have been paying the game directly for. The devs will get a small % of each transaction on the marketplace so they aren't cut out altogether, but the bulk of the purchase goes to the person selling. Axie takes 4.25% for example, so if you sold $500 worth of their premium token you'd get to keep $477.50.

I don't pretend to speak for everyone, but to me this feels like an improvement

okay so to clear up a bit here...
all that's actually describing is two things, with a lot of extra fluff.

1) pay to play model. you play a game to be able to generate in-game currency. this has already gone a step further to pay for your own subscription, which is likely where i'd see this go for any MMO crossover.

2) real money trading.

like when you break down everything said here it's just "play the game, get in-game currency, don't have whale shops to increase scarcity, then real money trading." that's why Eve Online came to mind with this description: it already is pay to play and people have traded real money for ships in that game. games like this end up devolving to just spreadsheets in the end.

in terms of gaming implementations NFTs i can't think of an that aren't just worse versions of things that already exist and things that have already been rejected - waiting for paid mods being NFTs.

the most that i see games try to make NFTs a thing the more i've come to terms that South Park absolutely nailed it in the post pandemic special.

also i think FD is describing a lot of Eve Online without realizing it.

the dem field is shit enough that he can win.
though right now the race is honestly de santis' to lose. he runs, he wins.

we're going from horse armor DLC to horse armor NFTs.
every single page of an artbook is gonna be an NFT to charge extra.

Mega Mana posted...

Valheim, easily. I can't think of anything that came close.

i will say however.
tar pits suck unless you've got some lox or a goblin village you can lure to them. then they're ok.

if tabletop simulator counts, that one.
valheim is my fave game from this year though and it sucked time out of me like nobody's business.

NFUN posted...

90% of his posts in these topics besides one-off remarks are defending China

i was just surprised since i thought he had moved on. like i pop in from time to time now because real life gets in the way but that was just a very "wait you're still here" moment for me. then laughter at china valuing human life.

though uh, gotta say.
can't say i expected anybody except guiga to agree that a country actively committing genocide holds values to human life in any way.

it's the way you underreport. when india underreported for example, anybody who knew of their history could tell you they were majorly off, though not completely intentional in how they were hiding it. Brazil, lying. US, probably incompetence is the biggest. for china, lying. thing is we knew they were way off from December 2019 with the most extreme estimates being by something almost 30x. lowest was... 6x i think? but then they cracked down harder on leaks since, y'know, china.

<_< when's the last time guiga started posting anyway.
because this shit's gold.

DeepsPraw posted...

Wang can you explain what you mean by "funky numbers"? I get that from an American standpoint China's covid numbers seem absurdly low, but that's just what happens when a society values human life more than individual freedom.

HeroDelTiempo17 posted...

There is so much propaganda flying around about China, both positive and negative, that you have to constantly be reading things between the lines. And I hate to be the one to out-centrist Wang but if you somehow read that NPR article as being pro-China you've bought way too heavily into the anti-China spin.

headline.
Officials promise groceries for Xi'an, China, city of 13 million under lockdown

first half, all positive spin.
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) Chinese officials promised steady deliveries of groceries to residents of Xi'an, an ancient capital with 13 million people that is under the strictest lockdown of a major Chinese city since Wuhan was shut early last year at the start of the pandemic.

China's Commerce Ministry has contacted nearby provinces to help ensure adequate supplies of everyday necessities, a ministry spokesperson said Thursday.

State broadcaster CCTV aired a story Thursday showing building staff assembling free grocery deliveries for the residents of an apartment complex in Xi'an.

The deliveries included a box of 15 eggs, a 2.5-kilogram (5.5-pound) bag of rice and some green vegetables. Residents could also expect either some chicken or pork, it said.

the "critical" part:
Still, some people complained in comments below the segment shared on Weibo, a social media platform, that they have not received the same deliveries in their communities. Many worried if they will be able to obtain fresh vegetables and meat.

This week, authorities tightened restrictions in Xi'an so that people can no longer leave their homes to buy groceries. Previously, residents were allowed to buy food once every two days. The city is also sealed off, meaning that people cannot leave without special permission.

Xi'an reported 155 new locally transmitted cases on Wednesday, and a total of about 1,000 cases in the latest outbreak.

The numbers pale in comparison to outbreaks elsewhere in the world, but are significant for China, which continues to follow a policy of trying to eradicate the coronavirus. That has resulted in widespread lockdowns to cut the virus's spread.

China has reported a total of 101,890 cases and 4,636 deaths since the pandemic began.

even when it's critical, it's using the funky numbers and trying to make it not sound as bad. but do remember that most people just read headlines and if they read anything, just the first paragraph or two. at which point their takeaway is "oh, they're giving groceries to their people! that's a good thing!" it's framed pretty clearly as a positive for China with some light critique but still meant in a positive way. this is pretty similar to how they handle some of the worst Uighur stuff like their spin on forced sterilization. ...though seriously, the headline wasn't a giveaway that it's intended to be positive?

there's nothing reversed, china's spent billions to spread propaganda around the world. this isn't new and it's silly that you think otherwise quite frankly. here's a 2018 article that goes pretty in depth.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/dec/07/china-plan-for-global-media-dominance-propaganda-xi-jinping

and that's not including the more recent stuff we know like them giving WaPo some $6 million in 2020. like... this is what they do. if you're hearing a strangely positive story with funky numbers about something the Chinese government is doing, it's because the state controlled media released a puff piece about it.

chinese propaganda appears in every major paper. kind of a thing they do!

that's why i say it's a compromise - it's not forced anymore. that said, there's also not much reason to go out, which is why it's effective. if you don't need to go out to make money or to get food then the vast majority of reasons to leave get cut out. your reasons are 1) exercise (good), 2) social activities (variable).

if you want to then crack down on social things, that's something else but won't impact your individual freedom to step outside the house, which admittedly isn't at all a bad thing since free air and sunlight are just good to have all around, for personal health and mental health. don't need to support China style lockdowns to support the societal outreach.

masterplum posted...

I'm good not being policed into staying at my house all day

easiest compromise would be you aren't forced to stay indoors all day but you still get the free money and groceries. but i mean, you're reading chinese propaganda. they lie about everything and spin everything.

holy shit, new tomb raider trilogy.

damn nice one.