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6'2 193lbs

By BMI standards I'd be overweight if I hit 195, but I also work out regularly and have some muscle definition

@STEROLIZER do you have the booster?

@STEROLIZER

damn just noticed the bartender too. looking good. also random tall black guy.

Not gonna lie. Girl closest to the camera is cute af. Her friend looks hammered lol

Holy bad pic

Is the party Kodak Black attended before leaving and getting shot somewhere else or something?

Kinda creepy to be taking pics of girls like that, OPngl

Alright,. be honest. How much drugs did you take to this event?

looks more like a public viewing than a private party

Did you take your buds tails and caution?

Nah, Justin Bieber just sucks ass and I wouldn't have fun being forced to listen to him for hours on end. Sounds shitty

Private party

Hundreds of people in pictures

Didnt you have covid recently? I might be getting you mixed up with someone else.

I enjoy not having covid. So no.

Is this from the future? How was there a Superbowl after party BEFORE the Superbowl?

Quite a few people ITT have asked you questions about it.

I like how TC is ignoring all the questions.

@STEROLIZER I showed off your meme to Something Awful lol

who's the mother and who's the daughter

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/0/2/AADAKwAACyhC.jpg

Lmfao. Imagine thinking that because a person posts on the internet, they dont engage in any other way in society. Moreover, if accurately describing capitalism without any profanity is rage and yelling, you may not want to hang around message boards much as you will get your sensitive feelings hurt.

You really are the worst gimmick ever to visit POTD.

We all agree with you that capitalism is trying to consistently screw the general public by artificially inflating values of goods and services while painting them in a way to increase desirability.

you didn't make it on the actual poll of the day message board though

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/1324-actual-poll-of-the-day

I didn't say anything about a T-shirt. I said something about paying a graphic designer to make a custom Metaverse skin based on a screenshot, which is basically what you said, only without the transaction's value being magically inflated somehow because an NFT is involved.

Alternatively, I can say they're stupid, explain why they're stupid to people that are tying to pretend they aren't, and stick to buying games that haven't gutted their overall experience for the sake of making the publisher a quick buck.

smh I fell for a joke topic.

Alternatively, they hit the PrintScreen button, pay a graphic designer $100 to replicate it for them, and get the same effect for a fraction of the cost.

Because when games are designed around players being able to purchase in-game bonuses, they tend to suck for people that don't spend the extra money. This is true whether we're talking about loot boxes, traditional microtransactions, or official RMT. The extent to which that is true varies by game. CS:GO's tradable items are pretty much all cosmetic (to my knowledge), and in both CS:GO and TF2's case, you get more than enough items (cosmetic or otherwise) dropping through normal play to have a good time, even if you'll have to resign yourself to never having the rarest cosmetic stuff if you don't want to buy it. DotA 2 similarly just has cosmetic stuff (plus the occasional extra minigames for those that purchase battle passes), with the rarest and most interesting stuff paywalled, but the game's quite enjoyable without that. Diablo 3, on the other hand, actively sabotaged its loot system to promote RMAH usage, and the whole game suffered tremendously as a result.

As much as publishers trot out the "it's optional!" excuse whenever people criticize them for greedy monetization schemes, they don't actually want it to be optional. They do everything in their power to encourage players to fork over extra money, stopping just short of making it actually mandatory because that would be bad PR. Any NFT integration is going to be no different. You'll get people defending it because they're clinging to get-rich-quick fantasies (*cough*), but ultimately, NFT's implementation is going to be done in a manner that pushes players that want to play for free (or not even free, since they already spent $70 on the game) into spending extra money. That makes for an objectively worse game for non-whales.

If you doubt this, just look at the letter Squenix's president wrote: He spends a great deal of it expressing thinly-veiled disdain for people that just want to buy a game from a game developer and play it for fun. These people don't like that paradigm, because it leaves control over that sweet, juicy revenue stream in the hands of players that are making the decision to play entirely on their own. The term "play to earn" is telling of what they want: They want players working for them. They want players to use their leisure time to make money for the companies not because they like the idea of playing the games, but because they feel compelled or obligated to. That is going to make for worse games. That's going to get even worse when the NFT bubble inevitably bursts and companies outright stop supporting the infrastructure, leaving countless players with nothing to show for the work they thought would be profitable for them and a terrible game that might not even run at that point.

That explains TC's enthusiastic bias for a terrible system. TC is a stakeholder so of course he/she will want to make this horrible system look like the best thing ever. It is in TC's interest.

This has to be the worst gimmick in POTD history.

All three listed games allow players to buy/sell some of the items that they find while playing the game, and have for over a decade (well, D3 stopped in 2014 with the Loot 2.0 system, and became a dramatically better game for it). NFT's are in no way needed for such a model.

• You create cool skin
• You happen to play against twitch streamer who likes it
• That twitch streamer buys it and starts to use it on his streams
• That twitch streamer has a celeb follower like Logan Paul that wants the skin
• Logan pays half a million for it because money means nothing to him
• Other influencers, celebs, and rich people want what Logan has so they seek you out to make them custom Fortnite skins
• You are now known for better or worse as a High-End skin crafter. Like the Gucci of Fortnite. Anything you make sells for six figures, and you are now pulling in millions of dollars doing something that makes you happy.