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zedprime
Jun 9, 2007

yospos

Protocol7 posted:

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?
$5 of video rental with a bottle of pinot noir.

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Jose Valasquez
Apr 8, 2005


Looks exactly like something no real person would ever use, which I find comforting. All this stupid poo poo will never catch on

Random Stranger
Nov 27, 2009



Jose Valasquez posted:

Looks exactly like something no real person would ever use, which I find comforting. All this stupid poo poo will never catch on

Apparently it's a five year old demo, but I still appreciate it as a dystopian view of our corporate feudalism future.

William Henry Hairytaint
Oct 29, 2011



Just gonna pick up some pineapples, some milk, and a television on my trip to Walmart

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur
God never existed beyond the paper concept anyhow. We've always been alone, we just needed a boogeyman to prod us into being nice to each other. People just abuse the message to defend their accumulated wealth or for being racist/sexist/spiteful fucks.

"They don't believe in god my way, so I get to poo poo on them because some rear end in a top hat in a hat in Europe says it's fine."

Meanwhile the rear end in a top hat in the hat is sheltering child rapists and hoarding historical artifacts (regardless of religious affiliation) while putting on a gentle, grandfatherly show of generalizing complex issues down to a bullshit solution (prayer!).

ADMRL Perkins
Jul 1, 2008
https://www.wetravel.com/trips/the-crypto-crystal-convergence-tket-agency-tucson-00596436

This is happening in my town next month. I'd be skeptical it's real because every detail is from a fever dream but it's taking place during our annual crystal wook fest so it's absolutely real.

Dynastocles
May 29, 2009

"If you'll excuse me, my dinner time is six o'clock. Only gangsters eat at 9 o'clock, after some bootlegging and a hot game of craps."

On the subject of Cryptoland, wasn't Malatora1 also supposed to have a crypto element to its economy, or did I imagine that?

1 - transhumanist micronation of cybernetic dragonkin led by a guy who said his leadership experience came from playing Starcraft

jokes
Dec 20, 2012

Uh... Kupo?

HootTheOwl posted:

It's decentralized, so we made an organization to collect proceeds and administer it.
Aka, centralized it.

It wasn’t about decentralizing anything really. It was always just about escaping regulation so they can scam each other and buy and sell child porn/prostitutes. Some people discovered it could be used for money laundering which really made the number go up.

I guess they’re looking for a new grift/crime to use to inflate cryptocoin’s value now

BoldFace
Feb 28, 2011
Who needs real food when you can simply enjoy Papa John's NFT pizzas in the Metaverse.

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur

BoldFace posted:

Who needs real food when you can simply enjoy Papa John's NFT pizzas in the Metaverse.

Just tell Shaq the metaverse is flat and he'll happily invest using his franchise ownership powers.

Macichne Leainig
Jul 26, 2012

by VG

BoldFace posted:

Who needs real food when you can simply enjoy Papa John's NFT pizzas in the Metaverse.

Who doesn't love a good peeperoni pizza after a hard day of trading? I mean pepperoni.

jokes
Dec 20, 2012

Uh... Kupo?

Walmart, I need to buy milk I’m running low

*beep* Seems like it’s time for an oil change, here’s some oil. I’ve already booked an oil change appointment for you tomorrow

Walmart I can’t get an oil change I will be at work, and also I need milk

*beep* we’ve detected via your smart fridge that you already have milk in your fridge, time for electronics. This TV has great reviews, I’ve added it to your cart you can pick it up at the front

Walmart I don’t want a TV I need milk. I know I have some milk, I’m running low on milk and want more

*beep* we’ve detected you already have milk. How about some cookies? We’ve added cookies to your cart and you can pick it up at the front

Walmart please, please let me buy milk

*beep* your neighbor just posted on Nextdoor about someone casing your home. I’ve already called the police and have unlocked your gun locker

BigRed0427
Mar 23, 2007

There's no one I'd rather be than me.


How is this easier than just picking stuff from a drop down menu?

Macichne Leainig
Jul 26, 2012

by VG

BigRed0427 posted:

How is this easier than just picking stuff from a drop down menu?

#Metaverse

Doctor_Fruitbat
Jun 2, 2013


Random Stranger posted:

Apparently it's a five year old demo, but I still appreciate it as a dystopian view of our corporate feudalism future.

So they didn't even care enough to make something new? Flatlining right out of the gate, incredible.

BigRed0427
Mar 23, 2007

There's no one I'd rather be than me.

The Metaverse makes you stupid!

Zil
Jun 4, 2011

Satanically Summoned Citrus



novamute
Jul 5, 2006

o o o

Futanari Damacy posted:

So can "gas fees" be set to a permanently high value, like $1000/transaction by someone putting in that much to get their transaction prioritized?

https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitfinex-paid-a-colossal-23m-fee-to-send-100k-of-usdt

jokes
Dec 20, 2012

Uh... Kupo?

Video games are already incredibly predatory and quasi illegal (but definitely ethically/morally horrific). Why not integrate them with NFTs, Jesus


lol

Gutcruncher
Apr 16, 2005

Go home and be a family man!
Richtor, there’s no way it’s that stupid. You must be explaining it wrong

Jose Valasquez
Apr 8, 2005

jokes posted:

Video games are already incredibly predatory and quasi illegal (but definitely ethically/morally horrific). Why not integrate them with NFTs, Jesus

Uh... kupo?

Futanari Damacy
Oct 30, 2021

by sebmojo
"You just gotta put some gas in it man, for it to go" might be the funniest/stupidest thing of all

Make me the Exxon of this poo poo

jokes
Dec 20, 2012

Uh... Kupo?


Some video games are cool. But the industry is horrific most of the time

Mans
Sep 14, 2011

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
https://twitter.com/SilvermanJacob/status/1478934594544095233?t=e2Hg15Q5AWmm5nXm_ZNRog&s=19

Khorne
May 1, 2002
If mining impacted price, which it doesn't really for btc at this point, 10% of hashing power being lost would increase price as fewer new coins are entering the market until difficulty readjusts at which point the same number of coins as before are entering the market...

If we looked at it through the lens of "efficiency" or "cost to run the network" BTC is 10% cheaper to run at the same performance and throughput when losing 10% of its hashing power. If it lost 99.9999% of its hashing power it'd be 99.9999% cheaper to run with the same performance and throughput.

I get that's a tweet grabbing at anything remotely in reach to rationalize a market swing. It's still profoundly detached from reality without even looking at the protestor hating & boot licking aspects.

Khorne fucked around with this message at 19:28 on Jan 6, 2022

jokes
Dec 20, 2012

Uh... Kupo?

“Oil prices are going down because they cut oil production”

-delusional person who absolutely, without question, thinks they are extremely smart

Gutcruncher
Apr 16, 2005

Go home and be a family man!
It’s called supply and demand. As supply goes down, so does demand.

priznat
Jul 7, 2009

Let's get drunk and kiss each other all night.
Other countries looking at Kazakhstan may give them pause to allow crypto miners to set up shop unregulated and introduce regulations for crypto in general.. Perhaps that's also a reason for the price drop. I dunno I can dream.

jokes
Dec 20, 2012

Uh... Kupo?

Gutcruncher posted:

It’s called supply and demand. As supply goes down, so does demand.

It’s good for bitcoin when there are more bitcoins because people will be using bitcoins which makes bitcoins worth more. It’s also good for bitcoins when there are less bitcoins because bitcoins will be more scarce and be worth more

Futanari Damacy
Oct 30, 2021

by sebmojo
e: bitcoin

acidx
Sep 24, 2019

right clicking is stealing
Bitcoins price is a function of pure speculation, so if people think that a lot of mining is being done in kazakhstan and that unrest there means that valuations of crypto will fall, then they will sell/stop buying and valuations of crypto will fall. In web3 you will get to make up your own reality instead of letting big tech companies make it up for you.

acidx fucked around with this message at 20:41 on Jan 6, 2022

Cowcaster
Aug 7, 2002



sure is amazing that bitcoin hit 100,000 on january 1st 2022 and fell to 43k within 5 days

drk
Jan 16, 2005

Cowcaster posted:

sure is amazing that bitcoin hit 100,000 on january 1st 2022 and fell to 43k within 5 days

lol, that PlanB guy is just doubling down on his moronic predictions (and also posting a bunch of antivax poo poo, because of course)

https://twitter.com/100trillionUSD/status/1478701553800335363

Klyith
Aug 3, 2007

GBS Pledge Week

nnnotime posted:

So was Fart-Queen going about this the wrong way? Instead shouldn't she have bought a pig farm, have them fed all sorts of gassy stuff, enough to give steady fumes at night, but not have painful bloating, then have the air circulating from their sleeping chambers into a processing room, where workers ( in gas masks) bottle up the air stream into jars and send them off to the eager consumers?

I guess the customers would be really pissed if they found out the truth. But pigs don't talk, as far as I know...

you can get hydrogen sulfide and methyl mercaptan from chemical supply companies and be the Walter White of fart jars

this is the brown ice, every fart-sniffer from here to Timbucktu is going to want a smell


Barudak posted:

Their 2021 financial results videogames were their largest revenue stream, and about 5x more revenue than the next biggest division.

Edit: I will continue to post Konami financial information until everyone just accepts they make a fortune in videogames and they suffered only success for their restructuring.

2020 and 2021 have not been good years for health clubs and pachinko parlors though

jokes
Dec 20, 2012

Uh... Kupo?

drk posted:

lol, that PlanB guy is just doubling down on his moronic predictions (and also posting a bunch of antivax poo poo, because of course)

https://twitter.com/100trillionUSD/status/1478701553800335363

No math no model just delusion

Doctor_Fruitbat
Jun 2, 2013


Barudak posted:

Their 2021 financial results videogames were their largest revenue stream, and about 5x more revenue than the next biggest division.

Edit: I will continue to post Konami financial information until everyone just accepts they make a fortune in videogames and they suffered only success for their restructuring.

How? Selling what? :psyduck: What have they even released this past year besides that terrible football game that was free to play anyway? I honestly think they're only still in videogames out of spite, lord knows they seem to hate their properties and anyone who wishes to actually enjoy them on some level.

Gutcruncher
Apr 16, 2005

Go home and be a family man!
Maybe the castlevania and contra collections sold REALLY well

Jose Valasquez
Apr 8, 2005

Mozilla pausing cryptocurrency donations
https://twitter.com/mozilla/status/1479143340159422468

Bullying works again

jokes
Dec 20, 2012

Uh... Kupo?

Doctor_Fruitbat posted:

How? Selling what? :psyduck: What have they even released this past year besides that terrible football game that was free to play anyway? I honestly think they're only still in videogames out of spite, lord knows they seem to hate their properties and anyone who wishes to actually enjoy them on some level.

I believe a lot of places call certain casino machines video games.

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Pham Nuwen
Oct 30, 2010



Jose Valasquez posted:

Mozilla pausing cryptocurrency donations
https://twitter.com/mozilla/status/1479143340159422468

Bullying works again

Mozilla torn between their pathological need to make the dumbest decisions possible at every opportunity, and their desire to be seen as a socially-conscious organization.

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