Malf on 29/10/2021 at 06:32

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Whenever I hear some hyperbolic right-wing shitlord using the term "woke", my mind replaces it with "not an asshole".

(Well, more accurately, I use the C word instead of asshole, but you get my meaning)

june gloom on 20/11/2021 at 12:11

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I'd say citation needed but I know that you won't present any meaningful evidence of this, just anecdotes and biased conjecture and bad-faith readings and general absurd reactionary paranoia... over a racist symbol. Why don't you get mad about something that actually matters? You earlier brought up the way subsequent releases of GTA remove licensed music -- why aren't you more mad about that? Why don't you get mad about how Rockstar treats its employees? (Or Ubisoft... or Blizzard!?) Or hell, you even touch on the fact that the industry is prone to flooding the market with the flavor of the month (zombie survival games, battle royales, soulslikes, roguelikes, Amnesia clones, basically anything that tastes like money) -- but you'll never have the insight as to why that is.

There are so many things wrong with the gaming industry, but the stuff you choose to get upset about is so minor.

I guess that's what this thread's for, but jeez.

Starker on 24/11/2021 at 01:19

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That sucks. Here you get an SMS and an e-mail on the day of delivery, so that you can choose the method* and time of delivery. With some companies you can actually go to a webpage and watch the truck move on the map. Plus the deliverer calls you before they reach your house so that you know to be ready to come to the door.

* for example, bring it to your door, deliver to a secure location where you can pick it up later, or assign another person/place to receive it for you

Starker on 24/11/2021 at 01:32

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Might be a good idea regardless. Even just for the convenience.

Cipheron on 27/11/2021 at 21:39

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My landlord / flatmate recently bought some crypto, called "sand" and won't stop going on about it now. He doesn't have a technical background, and I've tried to steer him to the idea that it's risky to invest. Then more recently he told me that the "metaverse" is going to replace gaming as we know it (specifically, minecraft is old news because everyone will be on the "metaverse" instead).

At first I thought he meant Zuckerberg's Metaverse - which is basically the idea of building an entire VR internet inside the internet. Which is flawed for obvious reasons. But it took me a bit of googling to work out what he's even talking about. This is the kind of shit you need to wade through to get information:

(https://mvs.org/)


That should immediately trigger a red flag. It turns out that there's no such thing as "THE Metaverse" it's just the basic name for a shared cyberspace/3D space that people are touting as Internet 2.0. So SecondLife is a "metaverse". More recently, they've attached the concept to blockchain/crypto/NFTs, and that's when I worked out WTF he was even talking about.

So it turns out what he was talking about as "THE metaverse" was that the people who made the SAND coin also have a voxel-based game called Sandbox, and they're turning it into an NFT-based game (which they refer to as "the metaverse"). This game has been out 9 years but has never gotten very big. Think a less successful version of Minecraft or Roblox.

The deal is, the Sandbox people have made a small (by Minecraft standards) amount of "LAND" NFTs for sale, attached to 96x96 meter blocks of land in their game. Overall, the total amount of LAND is 408x408 parcels. So it's basically the size of a city 40-km across.

(https://cryptobullsclub.com/buying-land-in-sandbox/)
(https://www.publish0x.com/crypto-world-and-other-blockchain-thingies/now-a-landlord-in-the-sandbox-metaverse-xkkwylv)

This model has some obvious flaws, not the least of which is that none of the sites pushing how great it is to invest in this ever explain what it is exactly that would pull PLAYERS into this to even put money into the eco-system. Right now the entire eco-system is a land-rush to get the LAND before other people do, on the basis that one day it'll be digital gold.

So the holy grail of this is to basically become a digital landlord and squeeze money out of the late-comers through rent, rather than actually making anything of value. I take offense at the idea that we're going to create a fantasy world for us all to live and play in, and the FIRST THING we do is recreate fucking landlords.