The NFT just contains a link to the asset. The asset isn’t embedded in the NFT. It doesn’t contain the asset code or model. That’s not a thing that can be done with NFTs.

“The end game is about giving players the opportunity to resell their items once they’re finished with them or they’re finished playing the game itself.”

Because a generation of gamers who don’t actually remember playing blocky PS2 games on a crappy 20" CRT TV are now arriving on the internet. It’s just become a mythical reference-point for “old”.

It’s not even digital art on a blockchain. It’s reference to digital art on the blockchain.

It’s possibly more problematic. Tolkien lifted its dwarves straight from Wagner (who used them as an antisemitic proxy for the Jews).

It’s only a bad move for a company if they’re on the bottom. That’s why they’re trying to jump on the bandwagon early.

Also, these legal teams don’t make aesthetic judgement about the work. They may as well be robots (and in many cases are assisted by algorithms).

The part that is most bizarre to me is that in the first of his three goals for his recently-acquired book, he realizes that making the book public is problematic from a copyright standpoint, and hedges that bet with the caveat that it will only be done “to the extent permitted by law”.

VMs introduce a whole lot of issues when trying to do GPU pass-through for CUDA work, and introduce performance issues for games.

Sure, most serious PC gamers primarily game on Windows. However, there are plenty of us who also use other platforms.

It’s all down to the games. There’s a better selection of couch co-op games on the Switch than any other modern platform other than the PC.

He’d run into trouble if he tried to turn it into an addictive, monetized product, given it’s basically a copy of the existing TV game show Lingo. Lawyers would be in touch wanting a piece of the pie.

I’m totally up to date with modern culture. I read more than forty books in a typical year.

He’s not doing well.

If you’ve got limited airflow, and insufficient pressure in your cooling setup, then that might work. But with proper cooling, it will be much worse than leaving the side on.

A great game, but one that was much better when I worked out how to turn off the dialog and enable subtitles.

NFTs are only worth money if people think they are going to increase in value. They have no intrinsic worth.

Normally, I’d worry about this kind of thing, but Asmodee has already been pushing its digital board games really hard (probably as a result of the pandemic-related difficulties around the physical product), and has acquired Board Game Arena in the process, so this will probably just continue the existing trajectory.

Destruction of property is never OK. I had to spend hours arranging a replacement bin, after it caught fire, all for their 30 second of fun.

Maybe he was just referring to people who try to break into computer systems. Within the Open Source community “cracker” is the preferred term for this activity, because “hacker” is a general term for a creative coder.