My guy. Do I have to explain to how “I was reading about the olympics” is a whole other category than “I was looking at anime girls”? Maybe it shouldn’t be, but that’s not the world we live in.

when they showed such obscene NSFW things like the Olympic games with their skimpy track and field and beach volleyball outfits?

You seem to be unfamiliar with the concept of context

Thus, you have validated my comment you found insulting.

I don’t think insults are going to benefit anyone.

But the logic to perform operations on those tables for a transaction and accounting system must still be written. One of the main aspects of blockchains are exactly such an API.

Transactions are one of the most basic things databases do. Audit trails are also extremely common. Have you done any development that uses a relational database? Nothing you’re describing is difficult or uncommon.

When you buy an NFT, the actual data for compromising the NFT itself is stored somewhere else. The blockchain just has the token proving ownership.

I don’t see how this is a plus or unique. A typical row in a standard table would be like pk, item_id, owner_id, etc. Foreign keys are extremely common.

You are debating so confidently and asserting things so boldly, yet you don’t have the knowledge of the topic that a 2 hour tutorial would give you. That is the real problem

I mean, maybe, but I’m really not getting the impression from you that you know how existing technology works. I’ve been a software developer for more than a decade so I’ve got that going for me.

Why?

Why don’t you care about them and their safety?

unique items with serial numbers

record of ownership for items

transaction history of who bought/ sold the item

account balances

All of that is pretty trivial to do in a standard postgres database.

currency to pay for items

I’ve never worked on currency stuff, but my understanding is this is a well understood and developed problem space. No one is blocked on software development because they can’t figure out how to charge a credit card, or implement their own stupid “Microsoft Points” system

all that tied to some external reference to a blob of data that represents the thing being traded

I don’t really understand what you mean by this. Maybe this is a load bearing point of yours?

Sounds like an API layer on top of the DB, though, which is also pretty trivial. Like Gw2Efficiency uses the GW2 api to read the items you have on your account.

For reasons I don’t comprehend, a lot of folks have been fooled by central banking propaganda that “crypto bad; me no like crypto bros”. Alan Greenspan, or whoever is modern equivalent is, ain’t yer buddy. And neither is the PR firm his friend hired to program y’all’s brains via Reddit posts from hundreds of deep socket puppet accounts.

I think it is an error and deeply presumptuous to make that kind of claim about the other people in an argument. How would you feel if I said you were fooled by crypto propaganda? Not likely to change your mind or even have a amicable conversation. Especially if you add the insulting “me no like” phrasing.

There are many reasons to reject NFTs and cryptocurrency that do not stem from being “programmed”.

Involved video gamers (as opposed to people who merely play video games) from my experience, more than a typical person, tend to angrily seek scapegoats for I’m-not-sure-what. Therefore, a successful profitable and enduring enterprise like Ubisoft is one of their favorite targets of ire. So like any angry mob, whatever Ubisoft is doing then they hate it.

People of any sort are susceptible to believing what their group believes. I don’t think “gamers” are more suspectible to this, but they may be louder in spaces like lemmy.

But, to your point, I don’t think people would focus their ire on Ubisoft if they were like “You know what? We decided to let our workers unionize, and we’re getting rid of microtransactions.” I mean, maybe. I don’t know. There are certain groups that if they told me the sky was blue and there was free ice cream, I’d still be suspicious.

You don’t need NFTs or block chain for any of that.

Also, “moving items from ESO to GW2” is utter nonsense. Every piece of that idea is a fever dream. The games have different mechanical rules for how they work (eg: the stat numbers on items, how they behave, who can use them). The technical stack that puts them in the game and on your screen are different. Different engines may have different needs for texture and mesh stuff.

If they wanted to do some sort of cross game promo, some games already do that. TF2 has weird cross game promo stuff. But there’s not really a universe where you can just drag and drop an “item” from one game to another. And even if you could, you don’t need NFTs for that.

Ok tinfoil hat time.

Perhaps this government anti-porn law stuff is backed by people who actually want to dismantle government altogether. And not in a fun Communist way but in a privatize everything, corporate serfdom way.

By pushing for the government to do stupid and unpopular things, they can get people mad at the very concept of government. They can then use that to dismantle things like nationalized health care, fire departments, whatever.

You have no friends or family who are in any vulnerable groups? No one’s queer, non-white, not the approved kind of Christian, a person with a uterus?

Now? Vote. Tell good people to vote. Convince bad people not to vote.

There are more extreme options too but I’m not going to ask someone to do things I’m not willing to do myself.

Yes. There’s a lot of people itching to use this opportunity to seize power and implement their extreme right wing views via the government. Project 2025 is just there on the web to read, and they have people ready to go.

Do you care about your friends and family?

That’s from Unknown Armies (2e). A great game with a great rulebook. It really made me think about some assumptions I’d been making about how games work.

Reasons why I like systems that have rules for this sort of thing.

“Sure, you can torture the captive. That’s a rank 8 check against Violence, so go ahead and roll. Oh, you don’t want to risk any mechanical consequences for your horrible actions? Ok then”

I feel like there’s a lot of overlap between powergaming min/maxers and war crime doers. It really keeps players in check without having to resort to hand wave-y deus ex machina like “it turns out the bartender is a level 20 barbarian lol”

• “if I die, I die holding vampire smut”

• “I guess he’s going to fist fight the helicopter”

Right. Now hold onto it and remember it when someone tells you “people don’t want to work” or “if we had basic income, people would just sit around eating Cheetos all day”

Yeah, well, many people are deeply stupid. And selfish. And racist. But I repeat myself.

Personally I think anyone who goes like “I don’t want to ride a train I might have to sit next to a black person” should be dealt with more assertively, but I’m not in charge.

I think it kind of depends on how he dies.

Massive ugly heart attack on live tv is different than someone shooting him in the head, and those are both different than like a bombing at one of his rallies.

Other than soulslikes I pretty much always prefer mouse+KB. Playing bg3 with a controller briefly during a co-op run was just way worse, for example.

Vampire: the requiem 2nd edition