This story seems so infatuated with itself and it's determinidly "different" presentation of a same-old-story, so above having to explain anything to us, that there's just nothing in it for me.
And it fits so poorly, the way he treats that first human he finally sees, a man in a car drunk, not feeling happy excesses of same-species relief at finding each other, no common ordinary instinct ti help the man, stick with him, I mean, what would ANYONE do in this situation? They'ds do anything BUT what our incurious pro-tag slug did. I love the Escape radio drama adventure sci-fi suspense series, Great, maybe even BEST stories, best actors, I so enjoy Robert Conrad, and good volume with crystal clear sound found only 1 exception.
It's all fun, superior entertainment, even "Earth Abides", in spite of itself. I'm still listening to it. Still following it through its somersaults, trying to grasp it and tie it down so it might behave, think of the audience, and BE a STORY.
Reviewer: Frank drebin - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - February 4, Subject: Great show One of the most exciting and entertaining OTR shows available. Well worth your time. I'm a "pseudo expert" on the series "Suspense," for example, and am hearing these Escape episodes for the 2nd and 3rd time.
So, I'll offer any help I can. A great series, period. I especially enjoy the classic literature adaptations. I would suggest Escape to any 1st time listener, then Suspense next.
Enough episodes exist to listen to a different one every night for over three years! Great audio quality, too. However, some researcher has found the Richfield Oil Co. They are in mint condition! Previous shows I've heard from other sources were taped and in wretched condition. This is a marvelous series with excellent stories. Reviewer: smeiz99 - favorite favorite favorite favorite - October 24, Subject: Great Short Story Anthology Escape was a fill in program for the summer break of "Suspense".
The style is a close relation to Suspense but the shows were mainly taken from the best of short story literature. The cast is composed of radio veterans and future TV performers. All in all a great series, worth the time investment. Old Time Radio. Radio Show and Programs Archive. What do you use an NFT for?
In another comment, you say it's not the image. So what is it? It's an entry in the blockchain. A record in a database. Along with the actual painting, you'd get a certificate of authenticity showing the provenance of the work.
Basically, a record showing everyone who owned it before you and certifying that this is, in fact, the real Starry Night that Van Gogh painted. The real value of the painting is not in the painting itself, but in that certificate proving that it's the real original.
If you tried to sell the painting without it, you wouldn't get many buyers. There's lots of people who could paint an exact replica of Starry Night, but there's still only one real Starry Night. Likewise, anyone can make a copy of a piece of digital art, but there's only one NFT, and if you don't have the NFT in your crypto wallet, you don't actually own it.
So, think of it as a certificate of authenticity for digital artworks, although it can be used to represent ownership of other things as well, if people agreed to it. It can also do neat things like transfer a portion of the sale price back to the original artist every time it's sold, which isn't currently done with regular artworks. Except the real value is in the painting.
If it were destroyed, then the certificate would be worthless. If the certificate were destroyed, you could have experts inspect the painting to see how old it is and compare minor defects to those found in duplicates to show its authenticity. No one would want to buy the certificate from you but let you keep the painting in your vaults reply. Not true. So, no, the value is not in an intact painting. Forgers can artificially age paintings.
It's amazing the lengths they go to. Maybe something like Starry Night has been analyzed enough that it could be verified, but other works are not. It's not really known how many works of art on the market are forgeries. They pay millions upon millions of dollars for a work of art and it gets loaned to a museum and possibly sent all over the world.
They still own it though. There's also freeports[2] around the world with warehouses full of art. You can buy an artwork and it never moves from the warehouse, just the record of who owns it changes.
Banksy is gimmicky. The value of art is art. If we disagree then you are admitting that both the art world and crypto are heavily used for money laundering. Of course art is heavily used for money laundering. Nobody ever claimed otherwise. Nothing that you claim about value is going to change the fact that art is used for money laundering. The blockchain equates to the Moon Shares company. Outside of the blockchain, a token on the blockchain means nothing.
Outside of the Moon company, a piece of the moon is still a real thing that means something. You can only "own" a physical object if you either have sufficient physical force to assert your ownership of it or the government recognizes your ownership and will exert force on your behalf to assert it. Neither of those are necessary for the blockchain because nobody can assert ownership of the blockchain tokens without the private keys to your wallet.
TheProbes 3 days ago root parent prev next [—]. As a crypto-punk owner myself, I feel that that NFTs are the future. Look at this baby. Authority on the blockchain is validated by a bunch of different actors, none who trust each other but reaches consensus anyways. Authority within the moon share ecosystem is validated only by the people who own the company. That might matter in a niche case where the ownership of my moon share database entry is in dispute.
And each system has positives and negatives, blockchains aren't a strict upgrade. But the potential authority over the actual moon is the same under both systems. Ownership only ever matters when there's a dispute. If you go build a house on a piece of land, and nobody ever comes along and disputes whether you own that land, does it matter whether you do or not?
I mean, we even built into our laws that if you do that and nobody disputes it for long enough, then you get to officially own the land. And a blockchain only solves a tiny percentage of ownership issues.
Moon Shares were legal ownership over particular tokens that signified but not enforce in any legal way ownership of land on the moon. The JPEG is incidental. What you own is the token. You don't need the legal system to enforce your ownership of it because it is essentially impossible for anyone else to assert ownership of it without your private keys. But whatever, think whatever you want.
Just know that you're the guy in ranting about how this silly Internet fad is just something nerds waste time with. Owning the token representing a claim on a JPEG is equivalent to owning the token representing a claim on moon land. In most of the uses of the internet were stupid. Eventually, they became useful. Hopefully the same happens with crypto reply. Is it really equivalent? Are you sure you can't think of any differences between a JPEG and a piece of land?
You may just have opened a Pandora's box. Closi 3 days ago root parent next [—]. Well you can almost buy an NFT for a virtual plot of moon land in the moon metaverse. Are games with virtual assets bubbles? The whole NFT space might be, but it's still value creation analog to games with virtual assets. Last 15 years we've gone from MMOs with lots of game and in some of them you could buy land plots, and of course shiny armor.
To less game with casual mobile games and loot boxes, to now no game with social media flexing and NFTs. Closi 2 days ago root parent next [—]. As an investment asset? Almost certainly. If you buy one because you want to play with it? Fine, that's not a bubble. If you are just buying one just because you think the value will go up, and the asset doesn't generate any returns other than the price people are willing to pay for it, and other people primarily want it because they think the price is going to go up - you are probably in a bubble.
I think that's a good clarification, I agree with your point-of-view. Usually people seem to mean fast and blow off top, which might not necessarily be the case. Ha, of course, a virtual moon, better still! Also many of the involved are lunatics shouting "to the moon" as a mantra.
With NFTs, the whole game part of the game cosmetics analogy is missing. Games can load them from ipfs and verify ownership or somehing, but to counterfeit all you have to do is change the shade of pixel by one bit and get a new hash.
So then you have to move to a whitelist system where someone centralized or a DAO has to manually act as a copyright system, whitelisting hashes, duplicating the work of the existing copyright and legal system.
My even change 1 bit? Just create a new NFT with the same exact image. Nothing is stopping you. You can create a smart contract where only a set group of people ie, the devs can mint NFTs.
You cant just mint arbitrary nfts whenever you want, that's why they are unique. You can create your own smart contract though. I'm assuming the idea was games only let the person who owns the NFT oldest entry of the hash on the chain, or transferred from it, plus however the limited number serial works for "limited edition" vs singular NFTs.
Money is made by selling a skin multiple times to return effort. The whole concept is a nonsense. Edit: spelling and errant word reply. NFTs are a form of Status or Veblen good. This means being useless or grossly overvalued, exploiting craftspersons, being exclusive, prices defying reason are all good properties to have.
A physical world example is the combination of social media marketing, fast fashion and product drops. Items are sold for many multiples of their production cost due to a manufactured air of exclusivity and scarcity.
As the items are mass produced from exploited labor, a bottleneck from time consuming highly skilled craftwork cannot be the cause of high prices. There are many examples of conspicuous over consumption and status goods, all of them defying common sense to most. The NFT version is the same principle, merely on a different type of datastore. Particularly relevant to NFTs is the art world of artificially inflated prices, donations to manufacture prestige and where fakes are hard to tell to the untrained eye and wealthy buyers bring lawsuits or otherwise buy the silence of those who can prove forgeries.
The artifact or artwork is not the goal, instead the ability to take something useless or mundane but somehow demonstrable as unique, prove provenance and flaunt wealth to some peer group considered high status is the goal.
I suspect NFTs are currently in a gold rush stage and comparatively more open. When the loose flow of money is over, I expect it will decay back to gated elitism typical of the existing art world. Underlying something like an Ethereum linked IPFS hash artifact are interesting consensus algorithms for persistent data-structures on open distributed networks. That they're being used in this manner is not surprising.
It's reflective of humans, not something inherent to the utility of the tech. Too bad. Most games are not going to put in work to support other game's cosmetics.
Except to have some skin in a game, you actually have to have that skin in the game. To put a monkey as your profile picture on Discord or Twitter, you can just do that without owning the monkey.
If anything, not owning it is better social proof. Correct, but to get access to the "exclusive guilds" on Discord you need to verify your NFT for respective guild. Seems like internet new maybe last phase is about "selling everything". I don't see anything replacing the internet any time soon it is too entrenched currently, it certainly isn't the "metaverse". People will revolt against that.
I've already seen facebook overload the past few years along with other social media. Gravatar has been a thing since Yes, and I have been using it since then, this is quite something else tho. We already have exactly that, without any of the problematic aspects of being tied to NFTs or blockchain.
I assume you never used steam in the last years? Games drop avatars as items for steam inventory, and you can trade them and put them in special slots, they aren't just random images, its not just avatars its also frames of avatars, slots of stuff to show on profile, animated backgrounds etc. Except trading of Gravatars, right? Well, until Steam deplatforms you I guess. Only this time with a much slower and more inefficient database.
Nothing about it being a NFT grants any advantages in that case, the developer can still take it away, ban your account, remove the item from the game etc. You just decentralized the database entry. Only this time, the database is global and multiple independent games can all be using a common set of NFT resources that can be unique and transferred from one game to another. COD could release some NFT for a uniform or a gun or something, and an indie developer could incorporate that nft into their game if they wanted.
Sure, but How is that different than just setting 1 instead of 0 on a database for the game somewhere? Because the nft can be used in any game at any point in the future. It's not just one game with one database. It can be multiple independent games all using the same resources that can be transferred from one game to another.
If the games are by the same publisher then that's trivial to do anyway. If they are not from the same publisher And why would NFT make it any easier? Idk man, use your imagination. It could literally be anything. NFT just stands for non-fungible-token. It's like a unique ticket sitting on the public blockchain that can be tied to any digital asset sitting on IPFS.
Any game or software can verify that you own the NFT without a third centralized party. I don't even play or like video games so this isn't my domain of expertise. Im more interested in seeing NFTs replace ticketing systems and financial systems, where they would represent things like claims to some financial asset.
Well I work in video games, and I can't think of a single thing this could be useful for, that's why I'm asking you for an example. They can be couterfeited by changing one bit. You now copied the outgit, and have the earliest hash of your clone on the blockchain. A human has to review if it is the same thing or just had miniscule modifications. Something like neural hashes may eventually solve it somewhat. But does it verify ownership of anything other than the token itself?
What are the typical contract terms, if any, related to NFTs? And are those terms enforceable in any given jurisdiction? The supervisor of the Travelers Aid Society said, "Putting human misery on display can hardly be called right. In addition, as the burst of the most notable game show scandal in s, people generally lose fate on game show and suspect the goodwill and kindness that the show spreads.
The scandal shows that the sponsor company of the game show producer actually controls every aspect of the show.
The show was totally scripted, we are not sure if the contestant actually get the money. With the complaints of the contents, the increasing doubt of game show and the increasing dissatisfaction of television, Strike It Rich ended on January 3, Reviewer: babe - favorite favorite favorite - December 1, Subject: Not the worst--three stars for historical importance This reminded me of a telethon. I don't think it was intended to be evil but it had a very naive way of helping people, just as Jerry Lewis did when sobbing over the plight of the kids on stage with him.
I can't think of any other show that would raise money on tv then for a black man. I applaud its lack of bigotry in a decade when things could be very bad for blacks indeed. His race was secondary. What was primary to the story was his status as a veteran. That was extremely unusual. Thank you for putting this on the website so we could know that things like that actually happened at the same time that desegregation and voting rights were issues that led to violence.
I also found it interesting that Fab was useful in all kinds of washers including ringer washers that were still in use in many households in the s, including my family's home.
It was a technological turning point. What exactly was Gardol? The amounts of money given on the show, even adjusted for inflation, were not instant wealth and made it sound as if the recipients were greedy and out to make a fortune out of misfortune. If it had been titled something like Good Samaritan or Help Your Neighbors it might not have seemed so crass among the commercials.
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