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Ah, I see. Yup. I suppose like Chaosium they could avoid the proof-of-work platforms, but it's still a grift.
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Dexo posted:https://www.polygon.com/22406490/magic-the-gathering-nft-tokens-hasbro-ceo-quarterly-earnings This is from April of last year.
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# ? Feb 11, 2022 22:15 |
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ShallNoiseUpon posted:This is from April of last year. AngryBooch posted:to be clear, this person's evidence is an article from april of last year that cited a bog-standard CEO earnings call statement about how "yeah, we're totally looking into NFTs." The CEO that said that is also now deceased and has been replaced. Hasbro tried some NFT poo poo with Power Rangers and it didn't go well, and MTGO is already the real-money auction house digital version of the game, and good luck trying to get D&D into NFT nonsense, the very format of the game is antithetical to it.
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# ? Feb 11, 2022 22:26 |
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Leperflesh posted:Where is that guy getting that WotC is "going to announce" that soon? There’s a dude who wanted to run some kind of Magic organized play with NFTs and blockchains, and he got a “don’t" letter from WotC in the last couple of days. He thinks this means WotC is about to launch their own version. His white paper is pretty funny. I won’t be surprised if WotC does NFTs at some point, but I suspect today's discourse is a tempest in a teapot.
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# ? Feb 12, 2022 01:32 |
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Thanlis posted:There’s a dude who wanted to run some kind of Magic organized play with NFTs and blockchains, and he got a “don’t" letter from WotC in the last couple of days. He thinks this means WotC is about to launch their own version. That reads to me as the equivalent of getting a C&D for your Mickey Mouse NFTs and assuming it meant Disney is ready to hop into the NFT space.
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# ? Feb 12, 2022 01:46 |
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Thanlis posted:His white paper is pretty funny. quote:The NFTs aren’t meant to establish ownership of the card, it will only be used to allow that card to be played in the mtgDAO format. Oh, ok then.
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# ? Feb 12, 2022 02:16 |
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The solution to modern: more scarcity.
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# ? Feb 12, 2022 02:16 |
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“The very format of D&D being antithetical” to the idea of selling digital versions of stuff is hilarious considering they sell digital copies of their books at full price to people that own the physical and even have DLC for races, classes, and rules.
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# ? Feb 12, 2022 02:23 |
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I cannot understand what this dude thought his sales pitch was that Apprentice or a similar program can't already do.
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# ? Feb 12, 2022 02:35 |
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Mors Rattus posted:I cannot understand what this dude thought his sales pitch was that Apprentice or a similar program can't already do. Make him a lot of money, presumably.
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# ? Feb 12, 2022 02:42 |
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quote:In order to be allowed to play a card in the mtgDAO format, players will need to show proof of ownership of an NFT for each card in their deck. In order to play the game, players will need to own both the NFT for their card and also the actual card used to play. And since WOTC objected to him basically charging people for entry into his pyramid scheme.. i mean format, he's now doomsaying and trying to get people to divest from MTG entirely.
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# ? Feb 12, 2022 02:49 |
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Piell posted:There is no actual use for NFTs and anyone who says there is is either a scammer or a mark or both
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# ? Feb 12, 2022 04:41 |
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Ultiville posted:Make him a lot of money, presumably. yeah, pretty much every DAO I’ve seen is a scheme to use someone else’s property to make money for themselves based on wild misunderstandings of trademarks or copyright or licensing, plus a naive belief that nothing a DAO does can get you in trouble because it’s decentralized
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# ? Feb 12, 2022 15:36 |
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People who heard about the centralized profits and socialized risk of a moral hazard, and tried to bootstrap their way there.
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# ? Feb 12, 2022 15:42 |
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Bitcoins and now NFTs have always been the purest form of scummy rent-seeking and it's depressing how many people have publicly thrown themselves behind a transparent scam just because they might not be the bigger fool yet, but it's really funny to see a guy try to pitch MtG only you buy your cards twice without any self awareness
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# ? Feb 12, 2022 16:20 |
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Who wants some red meat? https://www.reddit.com/r/rpg/comments/srhua3/martin_ericsson_defends_controversial_v5_chechnya/ quote:Martin Ericsson, former Lead Storyteller of White Wolf and co-creator of Vampire: The Masquerade's 5th Edition (V5) has recently been interviewed by the 25 Years of Vampire: The Masquerade (25VTM) Podcast. The majority of the interview deals with Ericsson's work in Live Action Roleplay (LARP), how his personal connections within Paradox Interactive (PDX) sponsored his desire to takeover White Wolf's World of Darkness IP, how he created many of the systems and themes within V5 (Hunger dice, Predator Types, Thin-bloods, and the Gehenna War), and mentions his current work on Sharkmob's Blood Hunt V5 battle royale video game at 1:06:30. The last hour of the interview however delves into very serious subject matter that leaves Ericsson emotional raw and vulnerable. It can be difficult to listen to at times, as he breaks down while attempting to wrestle with the many troubles that plagued his tenure at the top of White Wolf. Seriously though, gently caress this guy and I hope the door did hit him on the way out. Nuns with Guns fucked around with this message at 18:12 on Feb 13, 2022 |
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Nuns with Guns posted:The hosts of the 25VTM podcasts put forth the possibility at 02:45:00 that the Abrek Blight Chapter temporarily halted the persecution and torture of LGBTQ+ people in Chechnya. lmao, yes a few pages in a lore chapter written for a goth roleplaying game absolutely stopped discrimination in Chechnya. Ericsson is a dingdong and the podcast hosts sound like twits too if they unironically brought that idea up during the interview.
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# ? Feb 13, 2022 18:51 |
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If memory serves he in fact tried to use the absurdity of the book to deflect the legitimate press reporting on the homosexual purges in Chechnya.
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Kurieg posted:If memory serves he in fact tried to use the absurdity of the book to deflect the legitimate press reporting on the homosexual purges in Chechnya. That's even more tragicomic.
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# ? Feb 13, 2022 19:31 |
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Kurieg posted:If memory serves he in fact tried to use the absurdity of the book to deflect the legitimate press reporting on the homosexual purges in Chechnya. And Rein*Hagen talked it up like it was the most cutting of satire until he suddenly claimed that Chechnyan death squads were after him for his commentary and said he went into hiding.
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# ? Feb 13, 2022 19:35 |
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Dawgstar posted:And Rein*Hagen talked it up like it was the most cutting of satire until he suddenly claimed that Chechnyan death squads were after him for his commentary and said he went into hiding. It was basically this
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Dawgstar posted:And Rein*Hagen talked it up like it was the most cutting of satire until he suddenly claimed that Chechnyan death squads were after him for his commentary and said he went into hiding. must be nice to go on vacation and then sell it to people not as an act of privilege but rather a desperate, hitchcockian-style adventure trying to avoid death every turn.
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Nuns with Guns posted:Who wants some red meat?
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# ? Feb 14, 2022 00:13 |
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Missing the good timeline where we're all playing Nightlife 6th Edition instead.
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quote:By the 02:37:00 time stamp, Ericsson becomes emotional describing a LARP where he and others played a group of LGBTQ+ friends during the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. He brings up this roleplay to make the point that RPGs can be used to tackle real world problems and as a well meaning "homage". Seems like there's some dissonance between "me and my friends pretending to be a group of queer people has a real-world impact" and "pretending to be a nazi doesn't have any real-world impact."
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# ? Feb 14, 2022 07:15 |
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Vampire the Masquerade, Fifth Edition, the finest example of the experimental Nordic LARP tradition
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Kai Tave posted:Seems like there's some dissonance between "me and my friends pretending to be a group of queer people has a real-world impact" and "pretending to be a nazi doesn't have any real-world impact." Curb stomping for thee but not for me.
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# ? Feb 14, 2022 15:59 |
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Phil Eklund is at it again with a long thread full of "definitions" for political viewpoints that are, in his opinion, undefined. So that's fun. https://twitter.com/SeanFranco_/status/1493245292690485259
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# ? Feb 14, 2022 20:34 |
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I skimmed it but let me tell you, the brain worms are full blown.
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# ? Feb 14, 2022 21:21 |
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I started reading it in detail and got to the second post/eighth image before my patience collapsed and I gave up. He just... asserts so many wrong things -- obviously wrong things! -- as facts, then derides anyone who disagrees with him with 'why do you hate facts?' It's infuriating.
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# ? Feb 14, 2022 22:07 |
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I'm very glad Cole Wehrle has made better Eklund games than Eklund so I don't have to FOMO over them.
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# ? Feb 14, 2022 22:09 |
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I got one post in.
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# ? Feb 14, 2022 22:23 |
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https://twitter.com/fordm/status/1493074224281534465 To quote the Bard, "LOL. LMAO."
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# ? Feb 14, 2022 22:29 |
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Who the gently caress is Ecklund again, the name is familiar but just barely.
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Hostile V posted:Who the gently caress is Ecklund again, the name is familiar but just barely. A very helpful goon has put some information in the second OP of the Board Gaming thread.
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# ? Feb 14, 2022 23:40 |
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Magnetic North posted:A very helpful goon has put some information in the second OP of the Board Gaming thread. I somehow missed all of this chucklefuck’s games without trying, but considering what I’ve skimmed and seeing he did a game called Neanderthal…. I’m pretty morbidly curious. Not enough to give him money, obviously, but I’d paw through a used copy to see how lovely his views on ancient hominids are. You know he’s gonna have some Opinions.
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# ? Feb 14, 2022 23:57 |
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My favorite part of Eklund is that he spends a bunch of pages in Pax Renaissance talking about how the development of banking led Europe out of the dark ages and into enlightenment, and that's why his game about the renaissance involves playing banks. But then you actually play the game and realize that the enlightenment victory condition is nearly impossible compared to the feudal military or religious war victory conditions.
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# ? Feb 15, 2022 00:26 |
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Kai Tave posted:Seems like there's some dissonance between "me and my friends pretending to be a group of queer people has a real-world impact" and "pretending to be a nazi doesn't have any real-world impact." A true master of LARP knows when to enter a state where you manifest a play-pretend Stand hard enough to move mountains and when to keep it on the DL and the twitter leftists are holding us all back from this mass awakening or something. Dawgstar posted:https://twitter.com/fordm/status/1493074224281534465 I don't understand at all how people keep trying to do these stunts with NFTs like they're some magic totem against IP laws, but I guess the answer is "they're all credulous morons or scammers" and I should spend brain power doing something else?
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# ? Feb 15, 2022 06:02 |
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Nuns with Guns posted:I don't understand at all how people keep trying to do these stunts with NFTs like they're some magic totem against IP laws, but I guess the answer is "they're all credulous morons or scammers" and I should spend brain power doing something else? that's basically it, yes
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I was bored enough to engage on Twitter today and someone spent a whole lot of time earnestly telling me NFTs would do all sorts of things that we could already have done without them, so there are definitely some people who think they're some kind of magic spell.
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