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When you said "but they can just not" I assume you were saying "[people] can just not [buy collectible NFTs]"

If you are saying that "[TopShot] can just not [give out a free copy to everyone]" then my point was that by removing the authentication of blockchain ownership they have effectively ceased to be a product that people will buy.

Collectible NFTs: Far fewer people would pay for these or assign value to them if there was no proof of ownership. If TopShot released a new set and gave 1 of every highlight to everyone with an account then who would pay for them?

Again I'd direct you to Candy Digital. Their MLB Icon NFTs are digital assets created specifically to be used as NFTs. They released 25,000 packs with 3 NFTs per pack of five varying rarities. They combined video clips and graphics and sound effects to create a pretty slick looking NFT and the high rarities were more detailed with additional features. That is miles beyond the Topps approach of "take the picture of our baseball card and make an NFT of the same static image that we print on the cards".

Candy also did a run of "Suite Futures - Football" NFTs last year where they selected 22 up and coming college football players and did a release of NFTs for them. These NFTs were not as elaborate as the MLB ones described above, but were still more than just a static image. Now that college football players are allowed to monetize from and benefit from their likeness, this was a positive thing for those 22 players.

"less cool" is subjective, and the prevailing sentiment could change over time. There are also ways of presenting digital assets that are more dynamic than the static image that paper cards are limited to.

I'm not sure what you mean by 'impersonally chucking money at somebody". If you buy a pack of NFT highlights you pay for the pack but then you get to open the pack yourself to find out what you got. I could use some clarification on that point.

Autographed NFTs already exist. They are typically 1 of 1s where the athlete/celebrity will sign like an iPad or something 30 different times to make 30 distinctly different signatures for the purpose of those signatures being incorporated in unique NFTs.

There are scummy corners of the NFT space, and they should absolutely be called out as such. Projects get the rug pulled out from under them on a dishearteningly regular basis. That's why I wanted put an emphasis on being cautious and doing research before investing in one project or another.

I don't see how that makes the space as a whole inherently scummy. People make forgeries of Pokemon cards, those illegitimate happenings don't automatically taint the legitimate side of the experience.

Anyone can catch a Charizard in a Pokemon game. How many people can say they have one of only a few hundred Charizards, and they are all subtly different so no one else has their exact Charizard?

That is the distinction. And admittedly that might not be important to everyone, but that doesn't make it less valid for the people who do enjoy that verifiable uniqueness.

Lazy Tiger Wood Cub #7,894 is a lot more likely to disappear someday than an NBA asset.

I understand the concern, but it's not a likely problem for reliable projects/assets, and I imagine there will be some future solutions at some point as well.

I didn't include Trails as I looked and saw it was a port of a 2010 game, but I guess that's a big deal for those in the fanbase!

That sounds cool but I don't think I'd be able to commit any amount of time to it. I just slapped this together as an NYE special to do on Twitch since I had a pretty long absence. Was a lot of fun honestly but I got way too much to do. Thanks for the invite though!

...though I'm curious as to what kind of prizes exactly?

ok but when theyre outside, whats different?

Do you think a pet cat going outside wears a monocle and struts down the sidewalk with a cane and top hat, scoffing at the other cats around it or something

What do you think the difference is, exactly, once they're outside?

i thought that was a working title

I guess my youtube tastes are different cause I always gravitate towards the much longer videos. 2 hours+ gets watching more often than 5-10 minute videos.

It's probably a nothing story, but there's some weirdness going on with DeSantis's communications team.

He hasn't been seen in a while so some people started asking questions.

One comms official said he was on vacation out of the country. Then later another said he was in the office today having meetings with the surgeon general. The second of which later then deleted his tweet stating that and protected his account. And in the middle somewhere DeSantis's own account posted a picture from two weeks ago of him meeting with some citizens but left out when the picture was from to make it seem like it was current.

I mean, if you have to live life by tiptoeing around the idea that you might upset anyone that had a bad experience at any point, you can't actually do anything meaningful or exciting in life, if you really think about it (really think about it). Targetting fireworks, a pointless display of excess, is easy, and I don't really care about fireworks either. But I don't really support the notion of being against something like that either, because of the momentous force of banning it creates by using the logic for banning them; it gets out of hand very quickly.

Can 2021 just die already

<_< when's the last time guiga started posting anyway.
because this shit's gold.

Has no one seen the finale?

So far, what I've gathered from this topic is to not play Persona 5.

so then the answer is none of them

I'm pretty sure #6 is only in the mobile game

If your goal was to get the 10 most recognizable fictional characters in one poll together how the hell did you end up with Homer Simpson

Is there a character that's universally known in both China and India? If so that probably wins even if no one from North America knows who it is.

The irony that out of me and NFUN, I'm the one that knew the Phantasy Star character. =p

that's Alys from Phantasy Star IV

Since when does this site allow pictures to be posted this way, it is awesome!