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Miners in Kazakhstan can't complain. With the immutable stateless blockchain, funds are safe.
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*soldier busts down door of bitcoin factory* "what is yours is now.... mine!!! ahahah!"
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https://twitter.com/steveaoki/status/1481082018238648323 Imagine paying money to see Steve Aoki at a show and he stops it to show you a stupid loving NFT picture. Though you could probably just leave it at "Imagine paying money to see Steve Aoki at a show."
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Jan 12, 2022 17:47
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it's nice these days when you get art you don't need to consider whether it has any artistic value or meaning at all as long as it exists in the correct medium
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Jan 12, 2022 18:13
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Mozi posted:it's nice these days when you get art you don't need to consider whether it has any artistic value or meaning at all as long as it exists in the correct medium
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Jan 12, 2022 18:55
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Mozi posted:it's nice these days when you get art you don't need to consider whether it has any artistic value or meaning at all as long as it exists in the correct medium
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Jan 12, 2022 19:10
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ELTON JOHN posted:you know what isnt good for bitcoin? unrest in kazahkstan devastated to discover that by "leaving is not an option" they mean it's still the most economically ideal place to mine bitcoin, not that the russians have sealed the borders and are hunting these dudes to shake them down for their lunch crypto
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Jan 12, 2022 19:24
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can someone do something about the bitcoin price?
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Jan 12, 2022 19:28
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Surprised no one has started knocking over bitcoin farms in Kazakhstan. If you squeeze it out of some cryptobro with an AK47 to their head it's not like they have any recourse.
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Jan 12, 2022 19:32
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I assume the first part of this is hyperbole, but that last line does make some sense. I also almost never play multiplayer games anymore, so that probably impacts my view of cosmetics, but I didn't go for them in multiplayer, either. Hmmmm, hyperbolically written, but that is my genuine opinion. Mostly I think that games that offer gameplay advantage / benefits for money are bad games. Building that into the game is almost always a negative to the objectives of good game design. There are a few exceptions (reviews for Dead Space 3 said the in-game shop was pointless because you had plenty of resources just playing the game), but it's absolutely never an improvement to the experience. There are more good games than anyone has time to play, so why waste time on bad ones? But beyond that I think it's a perversion of why people play games -- all games, not just video. There's a reason games are as old as history. Games fulfill some of our higher level psychological needs in snack-size form. Playing games is "fun" because it gives you the rewards of learning, achievement, freedom, cognition, even self-actualization. Games are good. The monetized pay2win games that sell advantage are hooking into those rewards, but turn the drive for achievement ("winning") into a parasitic trap. Paying money feels good. So that's pretty lovely on the game's part. But beyond that it's a negative sign for the people who buy in and get trapped. A dose of winning is lower on the pyramid of needs than other things you can get out of games. (Esteem is really important for adolescents though, which is another awful thing about these games.) So yeah, I do think the impulse to buy the $20 Epic Sword of Pwnage is bad, and the Philosopher-Gamer rejects it in favor of higher goals.
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Z the IVth posted:Surprised no one has started knocking over bitcoin farms in Kazakhstan. If you squeeze it out of some cryptobro with an AK47 to their head it's not like they have any recourse. Anyone smart enough to recognize a bitcoin farm probably knows that the bitcoin is useless and cannot be cashed out in any usable way, shape or form. Stealing all the GPUs in their farms and reselling them online, though, is probably the smarter venture.
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funeral home DJ posted:Anyone smart enough to recognize a bitcoin farm probably knows that the bitcoin is useless and cannot be cashed out in any usable way, shape or form. Stealing all the GPUs in their farms and reselling them online, though, is probably the smarter venture. i would assume that any gangster can figure out that a million computers hidden in an old warehouse in loving Kazakhstan = money somehow and be willing to take some risk it's not something more useful like a cartel's offshore banking operation or Jeff Bezos's child porn trove
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Z the IVth posted:Surprised no one has started knocking over bitcoin farms in Kazakhstan. If you squeeze it out of some cryptobro with an AK47 to their head it's not like they have any recourse. You don't even need to steal their bitcoins. I bet they could find some buyers for discount mining rigs.
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Jan 12, 2022 19:53
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So is this the men with guns people were talking about
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Klyith posted:Hmmmm, hyperbolically written, but that is my genuine opinion.
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Jan 12, 2022 20:19
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Love that cheat codes were replaced with bullshit tokens that you pay money to give you all of something etc.
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Klyith posted:Hmmmm, hyperbolically written, but that is my genuine opinion. The most recent examples of things I'd bought with in-game benefits were for Dying Light, which I've only played single-player. I got some unique weapons of questionable utility, and most notably an outfit that let me earn a 20% XP bonus. At the time I was trying to level up fast during the holiday event, so the XP bonus was helpful. And, like you said earlier, it was like a few dollars into the chip jar for the developer. I don't like and have always avoided pay2win games, which again seems to be most commonly multiplayer (which I have also tended to avoid for a while now).
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numberoneposter posted:can someone do something about the bitcoin price? Elon Mush.
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Klyith posted:But beyond that I think it's a perversion of why people play games -- all games, not just video. There's a reason games are as old as history. Games fulfill some of our higher level psychological needs in snack-size form. Playing games is "fun" because it gives you the rewards of learning, achievement, freedom, cognition, even self-actualization. Games are good. I don’t really play many video games as a challenge, even single player games-I like to play games with a story (but not visual novels) set in a different world. Sci-fi, fantasy, odd fiction: I like to glimpse into others’ imaginations and learn all about their stories and rules of their world. I got Jedi Fallen Order free from Amazon last week, but I’m playing it on the Easy Mode because I don’t care to learn deep combat mechanics/systems and develop muscle memory for a Star Wars single player time as much as I want to run through and see all the sights and enjoy the lightsaber noises. I don’t want a Dark Souls approach for a few hours of movie-or-novel-quality entertainment. I just want to finish to have seen the whole thing. It’s not multiplayer or MMO, so I don’t feel like I’m cheating myself any more than if I just read a Timothy Zahn novelization of the story. quote:So yeah, I do think the impulse to buy the $20 Epic Sword of Pwnage is bad, and the Philosopher-Gamer rejects it in favor of higher goals. Multiplayer games are a bit different. I played WoW since day 1and enjoyed myself with the systems and social aspect immensely, hampered by having a life outside of the game. I don’t have time to grind for cash, but I’ve always been a huge fan of Engineering. The last two expansions were hard to find time to have a good time, but also grind for heal pots and ores and food and cloth and non-xp’d machine prerequisite gizmos and parts, so I ended up buying (once in each expansion) a WoW token to sell for enough gold in-game to buy mass quantities of low-level materials and spend a few hours “grinding” out my Engineering crafting skill, from 1 through Max Skill. I had 15+ years doing it the old way of scrounging silver coins, and know the fun is making stuff like the random teleporters and the one-time use mailbox robots and the mechanical pets etc. 90% of the stuff I made like the Diving Helmet from Vanilla was still in my pack because it was fun, visually distinct (master-level crafted Engineer’s Goggles), and most importantly, made up of common-but-time-consuming-to-gather materials. So I rushed through the low level skill training to make and profligately USE bombs or ammo or single-use transmog booths by buying vast amounts of stuff in the AH, and then playing the game the way I had fun with the limited time I had to play! Stuff like Explosive Sheep were much worse than firing a bow at an enemy (especially in PvP), but really tickled me every time the long cooldown was done. Nothing I could make was any advantage whatsoever in power, but crafting your No Drop boom stick and Adamantium bullets just felt better than a more powerful drop. I never bought armor/weapons better than I could Engineer for myself, and I am highly against cash-shop PtW stuff. But I had zero trouble spending $20 twice in 15 years power-leveling my Engineering skill to make End-Game (but waaay worse than quested/raid drop) Engineering Headwear that could be built with 99% AH camping and two raid-random No drop jewels. My time was more valuable when I had an hour solo, and I never used the cash to buy a carry or remotely BiS item of armor or weapon. By the time I bought 400 fish scales and crafted 9000 copper ores into bolts and tubes, I didn’t have enough left over anyways  !NFTs are loving ridiculous because of all the reasons already discussed ITT, and the thought of PtW items being “rented” or sold for money (lol, “money”) is pretty crappy, and that’s coming from someone who admits to spending dollars to power-level through a non-game effective use case. As a longtime rogue in every MMO I ever played, though-an Illusion item/mask NFT that let me play temporarily (even once a day-but-rechargeable/reusable) as an NPC race or class appearance…well, I guess I could be tempted for 20 real life Maya Angelou quarters, not gonna lie!
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Looking forward to the Dan Olsen video on crypto/NFTs, he usually puts out very interesting and thoughtful vids.
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Protocol7 posted:https://twitter.com/steveaoki/status/1481082018238648323 Lmao, the project has to reassure everyone that their new drops are “non-dilutive”
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CaptainSarcastic posted:The most recent examples of things I'd bought with in-game benefits were for Dying Light, which I've only played single-player. I got some unique weapons of questionable utility, and most notably an outfit that let me earn a 20% XP bonus. At the time I was trying to level up fast during the holiday event, so the XP bonus was helpful. And, like you said earlier, it was like a few dollars into the chip jar for the developer. Eh, everything in moderation is fine. Just continue to be mindful, and realize that somebody probably sat down an figured out exactly how much XP to make that goal just hard enough to reach that the 20% bonus item seemed like good value. DerekSmartymans posted:I don’t really play many video games as a challenge, even single player games-I like to play games with a story (but not visual novels) set in a different world. Sci-fi, fantasy, odd fiction: I like to glimpse into others’ imaginations and learn all about their stories and rules of their world. I got Jedi Fallen Order free from Amazon last week, but I’m playing it on the Easy Mode because I don’t care to learn deep combat mechanics/systems and develop muscle memory for a Star Wars single player time as much as I want to run through and see all the sights and enjoy the lightsaber noises. I don’t want a Dark Souls approach for a few hours of movie-or-novel-quality entertainment. I just want to finish to have seen the whole thing. Ah, but what you're describing here isn't playing a game, it's experiencing art! That can be fulfillment of cognition and aesthetic appreciation, which is valuable without competition or overcoming difficulty. You don't have to struggle against an end boss reading a book either. Similarly, minecraft in creative mode has no inherent win/loss and the only challenge is your own creative ability. It's not really a game any more than a canvas and paints is a game. So video games have qualities above and beyond just a "game", and are not all about challenge. But the ones that rely on microtransactions for benefits and boosts all emphasize the "game" parts, involving competition and win/loss. Because it's mot like they can offer to give you more artistic talent for $15.
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Protocol7 posted:https://twitter.com/steveaoki/status/1481082018238648323 Skinman xSTIK alien fren Sharkdeck Mad Meerkat Kusama Duckz FoxyFam Gunslingers Portalheads Chubby Kaiju NeckVillians Cartel Cats Humanoids Crypto Duckies Coodles Superlative Apes Bricktopians Noodles Clone X Surreal Society Hatchlingz Galaktic Gang PoodleDunks Bears Deluxe Invisible Friends Grandpa Ape Chameleon Collective Blockchain Miners Club Lazy Cat Naked Strokes Fang Gang MetaScorpies GuyWithASmirk I tried to find the bottom of the shitpile of worthless, derivative NFTs and failed. I had to give up with god knows how much more shilling to go.
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Woke up to some radio hosts talking about the metaverse, NFTs, and crypto. The guy was saying if he had $100k lying around he would totally buy some digital property next to snoop dogg. He also mentioned how NFTs are pictures that you own and can’t be copied by anyone. The lady host just said it didn’t make any sense, all of it, crypto, NFT, digital property. It was one of the few times I agreed with the things she said.
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Didn't Valve do all this years ago with Team Fortress and CS:Go weapon skins and unique hats?
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ELTON JOHN posted:you know what isnt good for bitcoin? unrest in kazahkstan Won't someone please think of the real victims here? The crypto miners who just want to kill the planet in peace.
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Protocol7 posted:https://twitter.com/steveaoki/status/1481082018238648323 Every one of those tweets is full of people hawking their lovely NFTs, trying to lure in another sucker. Every. Single. One. Shitdick McGillicutty.ETH @mouthbreather419 12hr Hey @[celebrity] you should invest in @bloodfartcumbubble NFTs. It's gonna be the Next Big Thing. [picture of something that looks like a 4-year-old drew it]
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Rebel Blob posted:The NFT shilling in response to this trying to get Aoki's notice boggles the mind, especially considering the sheer level of desperation doesn't drive off anyone smart enough to tie their shoes. I don't think I've heard of a single one of these NFTs: god damnit i've heard of at least 5 of those all this exposure to this space is rotting my loving brain
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i've given it some thought and i'm pretty sure i figured out what art is
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You can never have enough new NFTs because no one's dumb enough to buy an established one and thing they can make money off it except true believers, if you want to actually make money you HAVE to make your own special new one and shove it towards credulous techbros until someone bites.
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Failson posted:Didn't Valve do all this years ago with Team Fortress and CS:Go weapon skins and unique hats?
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Rebel Blob posted:The NFT shilling in response to this trying to get Aoki's notice boggles the mind, especially considering the sheer level of desperation doesn't drive off anyone smart enough to tie their shoes. I don't think I've heard of a single one of these NFTs: I worked on bricktopians  Not by choice, the studio I work for was paid by them to create the artwork and code
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I don’t understand how removing some producers can cause the price of something to drop. I understand people are loving dumb and delusional, of course, but that’s the most basic understanding of something whose entire value is derived from scarcity: more scarcity makes thing more valuable.
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Mad Dragon posted:Every one of those tweets is full of people hawking their lovely NFTs, trying to lure in another sucker. Every. Single. One. NFTs.txt
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Protocol7 posted:NFTs.txt NFTxt
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jokes posted:I don’t understand how removing some producers can cause the price of something to drop. If you're talking about the miners, they probably want to cash out and they have the biggest bags
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