Actually, the guy was making money. This wasn’t freely distributed, it was behind a paywall via the guy’s patreon, which is likely Crytek’s issue.

Foveated rendering? I did not know it was going to have that! That’s crazy. The technology makes such perfect sense.

In case anyone’s wondering what that means; basically all the graphical power pumped to the headset will try to be at highest fidelity precisely where your eyes are pointing. This allows the peripheral…

I wouldn’t say nationalistic, just a culture that doesn’t walk around visibly aroused at the idea of having guns in everything like in the US.

The technology involved in this particular blockchain uses about as much power as you do every time you post to Kotaku (because it uses HTTPS).

They’ve seen a few early examples of influencers using NFTs to exploit their fans and decided the entire idea will never have any worth. It’s like they took a look at the Dutch tulip bubble and decided all flowers are bullshit and will never be anything else.

I find it interesting that Gawker tends to reserve the most criticism over representation to the media that actually makes the attempt. I mean, it’s fine and all if you think they can and should go further but shouldn’t we at least acknowledge when a game/movie/etc is making steps in the right direction? How many…

> All NFTs use proof of work blockchain. We live in the real world, not your fantasy.

A completely ignorant statement from someone who knows obviously little about what’s happening in the blockchain space.

Your “actual point” is an unrelated tangent.

Math is only part of the problem, in blockchains’ current state it’s very hard to own and maintain enough processors to output 51% of validations for PoW blockchains, and you can overcome a 51% takeover by adding more hardware to the system without a hard fork (though once mining becomes expensive enough and a smaller…

You do not solve poverty and inequality by creating another scarce commodity and maybe giving some of it to the poor. You do it by ending scarcity

So in your hypothetical world where nobody’s using a proof-of-work blockchain it isn’t a problem? That’s nice. We’re talking about Earth though.

Download from whom, fucking Aquaman?

Tell you what, when 100% of NFTs use PoS and Proof-of-Work cryptocurrency doesn’t even exist anymore, maybe I’ll give the tech a look. Let crypto put its own house in order before asking everyone to sign on.

No, it just proves people wanted to pay money for rare digital items.

Great comments, I appreciate you in here maturely educating people even when they only throw snark and braindead comebacks at you

Awesome, how does that address the problem of checking the ledger?

So trustless between nodes on the network, so functionally not trustless for you the end user.

The blockchains you listed as non-PoW blockchains are either private/centralized/hybrid blockchains, or decentralized PoS/DPoS.

Now if I try to start my copy of the game, it’s going to need to verify whether I own it or not. It needs to either phone somewhere to check the ledger to see if I still own my license, or I need the ledger locally

Not even owning a single bitcoin, I do remember similar things being said when bitcoin had a big drop years ago. This whole NFT thing will go up and down for a while. I sincerely doubt this is the last we’ve heard of it, and I wouldbe really surprised if there wasn’t another big spike.