Like the Agatha Christie (turned recent Kenneth Branagh films) novels of Hercule Poirot, the Knives Out sequels will follow Benoit Blanc on new crimes to solve.

Next we should lament the fact that Night City’s insanely high murder rate and propensity for gunfights with automatic weapons to boil over into main thoroughfares doesn’t produce a realistic response from the people who live there, namely that they would abandon it.

This article just shows that Alladin had it right. People with too much money on their hands will sometimes see what it is like to live the life of a poor person. I should open up my apartment to tourism.

And lots of websites - even for non-chain restaurants - have times pop-ups that, you know, pop up interrupting your reading of the menu with entreaties to sign up for the VIP mailing list or make a reservation for Mother’s Day or whatever the next special day is, etc etc. 

You’re definitely misremembering, there’s a breath and one arm is propped at an upward angle but there’s no other movement

Oh, man, and then there’s a full on essay on why Bioware entirely failed to understand the appeal of its own franchise when it made the third game all about Earth, a planet you never visit in the prior two games and have zero investment in.

Yes, as a real human being in real life I care for the real Earth I live on,…

Hard disagree with the entire premise of the article, namely because none of the endings of ME3 are satisfying as they fundamentally ignore the premise of the previous 90+ hours of the game to that point unless you’d been a die-hard renegade who killed everything you came across (aka a brutish dolt of an asshole).

After…

Any IT Security professional can tell you TOO MANY stories about hijacked QR Codes that lead to cloned sites with nefarious intents. It really is not too hard to replace a tableside QR code without the restaurant noticing. If it is a restaurant that allows you to pay via that QR code, a bad guy can steal BOTH…

That sure is a lot of words for "I'm a bigot trying to defend a murderer"

Health care records? No thanks. Keep my personal info the hell away from this nightmare.

Hell, Star Wars Galaxies had serial numbers and the creator’s name (which basically functioned as a “brand name” for players that made high quality items) on weapons and other items almost 20 years ago... it’s functionally the same kind of “strict uniqueness” as NFTs except paying for them in space bucks and hosting…

Watching the crypto world “pioneer” what Second Life and games like Entropia Universe did without the blockchain 10-20 years ago continues to be deeply amusing.

None of those gimmicks work very well. They work better for liquor than wine, but that’s because liquor takes a lot longer to oxidize.

NFTs don’t enable the situation you described. The fact that you think they do represents a fundamental misunderstanding of how enforcement of contracts actually works.

I love how this comment describes the uses for shovels, backhoes, and opioids, and yet doesn’t say a thing about the uses of NFTs or blockchain technology. It’s kind of a perfect encapsulation of NTF apologetics. 

But your comment provided ZERO examples of how it can be used correctly.  You spouted a bunch of analogies, and that’s it.  Like an NFT, nothing of value.  

“However, as a technology, just like how when cloud servers first started, it doesn’t do anything that monolithic servers can’t already do. But as the time goes on and the companies decided it’s cheaper to outsource servers to be on the cloud, it is now the backbone of most of the technology.”

NAME. ONE.

“That’s what the blockchain is. There are only a handful of instances where it’s useful, but in those instances, it’s one of the best technologies for that specific application.”

Yes, many of the people pumping NFTs and blockchain technology are doing it wrong for financial gain, but that doesn’t mean it has no valid use.