The Emperor's $10,000 Clothes Receipt: NFTs, Blockchain, and Web3 In Gaming

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ultrafilter: Aug 23, 2007; It's okay if you have any questions.

Hub Cat posted:

What is an NFT?
From this great Medium piece from the creator of indie game Adios:

GB 'Doc' Burford posted:
all an NFT is this: a link, a url, on the internet, that points you to your spot on a ledger and the copy of the image that resides there and says �yeah this is the owner.� You can sell the link to someone else.

It's very important to understand that the NFT--the part that you own--is the link, not the thing it points at.

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RPATDO_LAMD posted:

Then what's the point of using a blockchain at all?

RPATDO_LAMD posted:

its ability to attract leagues of credulous speculators to buy all its poo poo.

# ¿ Dec 18, 2021 15:49

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Dark_Swordmaster posted:

e: Having read that Twitter thread I have no idea what this dude is on about. That's.... Not how companies or anything works?

crypto.txt

# ¿ Jan 19, 2022 05:01

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You have to have an NFT to get into the restaurant, but they only accept regular currency for some reason.

# ¿ Jan 22, 2022 15:15

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https://twitter.com/natethenate/status/1487512103925678080

# ¿ Jan 31, 2022 05:09

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This came up in IoSM and the more you think about it the worse it gets:

Tarezax posted:

a couple options:

a) there's barely anyone playing the game
b) the boss is a non-instanced world boss that only spawns at set intervals (say, weekly) so it's only been defeated less than 100 times
c) the requirements and resources consumed for fighting the boss are so costly that most players just won't bother and only a few highly organized groups can attempt it on a regular basis

None of these imply anything good about the game experience

These are all plausible scenarios for the numbers in the story and I can guarantee you that cryptobro there was not thinking of any of them

# ¿ Jun 7, 2022 14:06

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# ¿ Jul 21, 2022 04:36

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The market for NFTs cratered earlier this year so it's looking good for the anti- side.

# ¿ Nov 4, 2022 19:08

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Nier and related games.

# ¿ Jan 2, 2023 18:54

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Qwertycoatl posted:

https://twitter.com/MichaelMumbauer/status/1632594085403049984

Dude's getting deservedly pilloried in the replies.

# ¿ Mar 6, 2023 16:15

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You wouldn't want one but the NFT people absolutely do.

# ¿ Mar 6, 2023 22:30

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