Frankly 13-2 wasn’t that good either…
While 15 had chunks sliced out of it with a butcher’s cleaver due to mismanagement, at least I felt like they knew what they wanted from it by the end, I got what they were “aiming for”, even if they didn’t hit the target.
The 13 Trilogy felt comparatively like a muddled, impenetrable mess.
NFT’s are the 2020’s version of Beanie Babies.
They’re worse.
BBs are at least something cute, tangible and, when the fad is over, you still have something physical that can last a long time if cared for.
They also don’t burn like 77s years of a households energy consumption just by being made.
That’s honestly the bigger problem to me.
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:concern:
:looks at the piles of beanie babies in charity shops:
Nah they’re basically the same thing to me. Now excuse me while I purchase yet another plastic tank model kit and inhale my government mandated dose of copium. I’m making fun of myself
It’s a craze for something based on perceived value driven up by people who want you to believe the perceived value when they are infact valueless. Hells I -worked- in crypo finance, I know how this’ll work out. People will buy in, the bubble will inflate, then pop, then everyone goes “wtf” and drops it.
Same thing happens to the new fad crypto, they boom then bust. Bitcoin does it on a monthly basis. And so did Beanie Babies ( boomed then busted, not on a monthly basis my bad ). Or any other false value item that gets shoveled out.
The fact that people keep banging ON and ON about ‘offset’ and ‘greener blockchain’ and all this guff. Oh, and their firm favourite “Oh, well, guess you shouldn’t use the PC or the phone or a car if you care so much-!”
WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY, CLIVE! THE FACT I AM ALLOWING YOU TO KEEP YOUR KNEECAPS IS PEAK CIVILISED, YOU MELT.
Edit: The whole ‘offset’ thing really, really grinds my gears, too. It’s like the people who honest-to-god think food comes from supermarkets. There’s a new woodland been planted near to where I grew up as a teenager. It’s already quite pretty… but it won’t be a full woodland until, at the least, I’m a pensioner. If not 6ft under.
Undoing the damage that this shiz does will take decades, if not centuries. Once you destroy habitat, it’s NOT just a matter of sticking new trees in the soil. All these eejits need to go back to school and study the very basics of geography and biology. Gods damn.
So I just watched a video of my friend proposing followed by a very serious action scene where all the sound effects have been replaced with cartoon bonks and I feel like I just put my emotional core into a washing machine
I watched it in IMAX and the saurdakar chant was at the same resonance as my liver.
I’m still waiting on a donar, a couple of months later.
The greener blockchain thing is to appeal to ecobrains. It’s a crock of 
Much like green energy lmao
Just gonna quote myself on why they’re not the same thing. This was a comparison to TF2 ‘unusual hats’ but the broad strokes remain the same.
NFTs use blockchains and cryptocurrency, each transaction is extremely energy intensive even on the supposedly “eco-friendly” cryptos*. In a time of mounting and ongoing climate crises it is not just negligent to support NFTs but actively malicious in pursuit of profit.
*also because they’re eco-friendly their generation is seen as being worth ‘less’ pure currency than others like Bitcoin and Ethereum, meaning that in order to attain the value that these pyramid schemers want, they have to generate more and more of the raw ‘coin’ which…you know, counteracts the point. If generating 100-eco friendly coins is the same energy cost and monetary value as 1 non-eco-friendly coin then uhh…nothing was accomplished.
On top of that NFTs and the crypto space in general absorb massive amounts of computer parts, especially graphics cards and other processors, in order to facilitate was is essentially funny money that exists solely to rugpull people and steal money. This puts other customers such as the humble and most oppressed minority of all (Gamers) in an awkward spot where prices are now inflated and stocks are limited, no doubt already made worse by the pandemic. I’ve seen a number of people talk about how they cannot buy parts for their PC due to it all being snatched up by crypto weirdos.
Furthermore, NFTs push to cryptocurrency in general: something that is (supposedly) unregulated and thus is rife with scams, money laundering, fraud and of course, financing crimes - actually bad crimes too, not just weed dealers.
For instance you will note that despite Ubisoft announcing their NFTs using the ‘Tezos’ blockchain, not one of their executives or investors or anyone who would have known about this before its official announcement had to declare re: any ownership they had of Tezos-coin to avoid insider trading laws. There have been a number of notable crypto pump-and-dumps done by youtubers. It is entirely reasonable and suspect to question if anyone at Ubisoft was in a position to do the same, but the lack of transparency in crypto makes that impossible. There has also been numerous documented and no doubt undocumented cases of people buying their own NFTs in order to inflate the value to try to resell later, something which is llegal with stocks, but notably not so with crypto (yet).
Finally, this inclusion of NFTs offers no actual benefits over what already existed before - you yourself claimed they were the same. To players, there is no benefit. The negatives I have detailed above are not offset by any facet of the system nor are they enriched for its existence.
Beanie Babies were a collector’s fad, with many rubes getting into it in the hopes it would pay dividends later. In that regard, yes, they are the same as NFTs. The differences between the two makes the comparison basically pointless though, and I believe doing so diminishes the negative impact that NFTs (and the greater crypto-blockchain zealotry) have.
I’ve chosen the attitude that if I don’t use twitter, it doesn’t exist.
Equally, if I dismiss NFT’s, they don’t exist either.
Simple and ignorant life.
See, there are greener energy sources, though. I’m fairly confident there was a study/paper/economic doohickey that advocated for the investment into PV (solar) panels on every commercial and industrial building in the UK, and ideally residential to.
Because, once completed, that would have cut our reliance on fossil fuels (and, even better, foreign fules coughRussiacough) by a huge percentage. If not entirely.
Sounds pretty worthwhile to me, but of course the lobbying power of FF industry wouldn’t like that, sooo…
Yeah, like NPP’s.
Three new nuclear power plants would power the UK so much we’d be able to -export- our energy production much like how France does to Germany. The waste is minimal, and has a half life so long the plant would be decommissioned before the first load is rendered inert.
One plant would power something like 80% of the national grid and for cheaper than building another bank of eyesore wind turbines on the east coast.
Far better than building energy negative solar panels that rely on external imports of materials and fossil fuels.
Inb4 nuclear power plant accidents from obsolete facilities that should’ve been decommissioned long before they encountered the fault.
There’s no downside to a well maintained NPP.
I don’t disagree. I’m of the mindset that, while I as an individual may not be the most clued up on stats, figures and alternatives, I do not believe that precludes me from going “We shouldn’t just maintain the status quo, because that’s going to be a disaster in the foreseeable future.”
I hate how energy industry and society as a whole has the same mindset as “Unless you’ve published a novel you’re not allowed to be critical”…
<Rambling about welding and Nuclear power plants and safety standards being incredibly high so as to ensure the faults only come about due to leaving the facility running long past it’s decommission date and how nuclear waste when properly disposed of is completely safe>
Studying welding has really just opened my eyes to a lot of the industrial and engineering side of things that I took for granted. Hell, imagine if we had a natural disaster that knocked out power grids in say… Cambridge, a medium sized city in the UK.
A mobile fusion plant the size of a normal moving van could roll up, connect to everything and keep the city running for fifty years before needing to be recharged. And we’re shunning this for sources of power that turn over at best, energy neutral results. As in, they don’t cost more power than they produce to run. And that’s me being generous, since wind turbines are energy negative for most of their operational life.
I for one welcome this proposed Fallout timeline. Bonus points if I get a nuclear-powered car by the time I retire.
I would highly appreciate if people didn’t gave time or posted on an obvious forum troll’s thread. I know the temptation and difficulty in not responding to a semi-smear, but everyone would live a better life if they didn’t.
But, consider this tiny fox man.
We’re bored, and he is fresh meat.
( I’mma go play Nier Automata now though )
I even forgot that one existed.
It’s biggest sin was that it was a scrapped versus 13, that actually looked quite interesting. Shame really.
I’m currently replaying 13 to play 13-2 for the first time
It does commit the cardinal sin of its worse part being the beginning few hours [ie, when most people will play and stop playing] but I will defend the paradigm system with blood and fire