That’s literally what I said, dingus. The rate stays the same, the cost of each goes up as more machines are mining.

Also similar to golf, it’s usually more fun when played digitally where 90% of the tedium is stripped out.

I genuinely enjoyed Stardew Valley’s fishing. Probably the only fishing minigame I’ve spent any real time with. (FFXIV’s is an honorable mention since I leveled it, but it’s at best ‘inoffensive’ rather than fun)

Simplified it might be, but I fully stand by my description of pyramid schemes. This is from someone who has actively investigated several of them. You scam the people below you, and they in turn scam those below them to make up for it.

Actually, I follow the goings-on in the blockchain space fairly closely. Aside from a few pie-in-the-sky implication-of-concept (“proof” is far too kind a term) applications, the only people proselytizing NFTs are the scammers, or the marks. Which are you?

That’s 80% on regular bog-standard “POS is just a few months off, really we swear!” Etherium

All of that can 1) be done cheaper without NFTs, and 2) still requires full buy-in from every single separate game dev that the items would supposedly interact with. Every game could do the exact same thing with - as you yourself pointed out - the Steam inventory, but they don’t. Because they don’t want to, and…

In a pyramid scheme, the instigator makes their money entirely by getting others to buy in on something that has far less value than claimed. In turn, those people have to make back the money THEY made by getting others involved. This is exactly how cryptocurrency functions. Those who have already bought into the…

NFTs and cryptocurrency are almost entirely scam based right now. The former being gold-brick-scam type price pumping, and the latter being the world’s largest pyramid scheme. What legitimate use is crypto being put to other than that?

Unless you’re talking about like... nigerian prince emails, the vast majority of the net was non-scam-based.

The internet didn’t start as exclusively the realm of money laundering and pyramid schemes

So your argument is that everyone complaining about the current ACTUAL use of NFTs should sit down and shut up because in some magical future, the technology might possibly maybe someday be used for something that’s marginally better than solutions we already have.

You’re right, I over-stated. Over 80% of issued NFTs are Etherium, which is proof-of-work.

The bandwagon jumping that we’re seeing from companies currently has nothing to do with your unrealistic utopian dream (let me guess, you’re a libertarian, right?), and everything to do with trying to get a cut of the scam money while they can.

MMOs are not remotely based around scarcity. Joe blow next door getting his epic loot drop doesn’t do anything about my chances for getting the same.

Kotaku understands pyramid schemes and money laundering just fine. The current state of NFT is largely what’s known as a “gold brick” scam, or more simply: fraudulent price inflation.

Lucky you living someplace that’s actually an option. In like half the US, it isn’t.

Because “two dudes being best friends and their antics” isn’t a massive media subgenre across TV, movies, and elsewhere. Sure. Those poor friends and their under-served narrative.

It really underscores that the character writers were not the ones who wrote the back half of the main plot.

Classic Transformers game - YAAAY!