To divert; cool to hear from people in the gaming industry.
I did third party QA for a number of years before going to work at Electronic Arts' Montreal studio in the mid-aughts.
Good times.

Steam are completely opaque about what they will allow and what they won't right now. All the big gaming companies are gearing up to add NFT support and Steam are stomping their feet a bit. For our part, we aren't upselling NFTs in the game (Steam won't allow this for sure) and won't even mention them anywhere in the Steam ecosystem. But if you have the NFTs, they will unlock extra stuff in the game.

Is this gonna be ok with Steam? Possibly not, nobody knows. Is it within their power to stop this sort of thing? TBH the way things are now, if Steam push too hard then we'd probably quit Steam.

Children are people, and people are more important than money. Especially money that requires you to burn down a fucking rainforest to produce.

Why not neither?

A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: Wed Dec 22, 2021 3:36 am Sideways step into NFT lunacy, but I thought this video was enjoyable and worth sharing.

I got through 25% of that video and i understand less than when I started. They’re just rehashing the same old “NFTs have no value” argument. I thought we knew that! I am sitting here outside of everything crypto telling you exactly that. I know nothing. I want to learn more about all that crap and get rich and build a cabin In the woods but every time I think it’s worth my time and energy to get involved these guys come along and confirm it’s all bullshit.

Don’t get me wrong. I appreciate gonzochicago and Anthony Flack for trying to explain it to us in a non-cultish way. I know it’s possible for this to work out for me, short term. But even their “endorsement” amounts to little more than “good luck to you. This shit makes no sense to us either.” Crypto will always sound like a cult to me. Am I wrong to think of it in those terms?

Depressing stuff

jason from volo wrote: Sun Jan 02, 2022 7:56 am

hbiden@onlyfans.com wrote: Sun Jan 02, 2022 7:15 am Crypto will always sound like a cult to me. Am I wrong to think of it in those terms?

I don't think it's wrong to think in those terms right now, but...

I wonder what happened the first time someone was approached by someone else who said, "Here, I'll give you this piece of paper with a '1' on it for that cow."

They probably were thinking similarly.

I guess crypto has value then. It’s either really incredible or really not and the answer rests on who takes advantage of it.

Crypto is not a currency (it cannot function as one; it cannot be transferred in reasonable time spans to make purchases, it fluctuates wildly). It is a speculative investment vehicle which refers back to no real-world property or capacity, which means that it's a speculative investment vehicle whose value can only increase if more people buy it. It's a decentralized ponzi scheme that happens to be destroying the planet.

Crypto in 20 goddamn 22 is deeply immoral, in the same way that building a pipeline or fracking is deeply immoral.

Ace K wrote: Mon Jan 03, 2022 10:30 pm Crypto is not a currency (it cannot function as one; it cannot be transferred in reasonable time spans to make purchases, it fluctuates wildly). It is a speculative investment vehicle which refers back to no real-world property or capacity, which means that it's a speculative investment vehicle whose value can only increase if more people buy it. It's a decentralized ponzi scheme that happens to be destroying the planet.

You said what I was thinking, but with better words. Thank you.

Ace K wrote: Mon Jan 03, 2022 10:30 pm Crypto is not a currency (it cannot function as one; it cannot be transferred in reasonable time spans to make purchases, it fluctuates wildly). It is a speculative investment vehicle which refers back to no real-world property or capacity, which means that it's a speculative investment vehicle whose value can only increase if more people buy it. It's a decentralized ponzi scheme that happens to be destroying the planet.

Crypto in 20 goddamn 22 is deeply immoral, in the same way that building a pipeline or fracking is deeply immoral.

Exactly. I think of it as sports betting without the sports. And NFTs are housing bubbles without the housing.

There’s a reason nobody writes contracts denominated in Bitcoin.