My thoughts exactly, using historical paintings and actual art are becoming too hard and noticable for the vampires, so why not use arbitrary code instead?
I mean, that’s what crypto currency has basically been used now for a decade plus. Although that might be coming to an end since the IRS has come out and said they known who the people are doing that and are coming for them.
The more I hear about NFT, the more it sounds like a Yakuza scheme. Not the ACTUAL Yakuza, but the series Yakuza. Like this sounds literally like some side quest Kiryu gets involved in.
It's pretty simple actually, it's a pyramid scheme. And there could be some money laundering going on as well, but that's often just a bonus side activity.
pretty much, yeah at one point i tried to reason it as "its like buying animal crossing villagers but... you dont get a villager? its just the idea of one?" and i think it might even be less than that.
Correcting 'legal' to 'unregulated' is something I will do for myself and everyone I know until the end of time, thank you Jim Stephanie Sterling, thank god for you
I can probably find a million suckers who'd pay through the nose for the right to "own" the tweets of people whose Twitter pages were shut down. Though I reckon some of this ownership can be sold on the basis that if someone "owns" them, people cannot take them out of context for the purposes of criticism or libel.
It's like buying a sports car. There are still speed limits, the upkeep is higher, the handling in most trafficked areas is worse, the noise is abhorrent, the running cost is insane and all you show is that you're genitalically underdeveloped and to make stupid people think you're worth more than you are.
@@ToddHanson Well and you actually can use it to bring your groceries home or drive a kid to school...def not the best tool for the job, but it still HAS some actual, practical application
@@ctb3335 just pissed at Jim for spreading misinformation, none of this is a pyramid scheme and anyone saying it is a pyramid scheme doesn't know anything about computer code... but then again Nobody ever trusts the experts
A "NFT Influencer" mentioned an artist I follow as one as well, which she wasn't, which lead to her being harassed and spammed with people and bots trying to sell her art as NFTs. So, just to show what kind of people love the concept.
@@mickeyd1999 And you know that sad thing is that even *SCALPERS* like these are less of a fucking scam than lootboxes, which was another point Jim made in their video. It literally makes more financial sense to buy a lootbox item at an inflated price from a pirate than to go through buying all the lootboxes to get the asset you want in one of those shitty games. All of these problems show the kinds of "freedom" that crypto bugs and video game companies claim to represent is the "freedom" to scam their consumer base. When your operating philosophy is "well they *OBVIOUSLY* knew what they were signing up for" I don't want the kind of "freedom" your supposedly fighting for.
Sorry Jim Stephanie - when you buy souvenir plots you don't actually buy a piece of land. You buy a piece of paper which says you own the land, but in Scots law it's actually not possible to own a souvenir plot. What you are buying is an expensive piece of paper. (More technical description: to own land in scotland it must be registered in the land registry. You cannot register souvenir plots in the land registry. Therefore you cannot own souvenir plots.)
According to the souvenir plot website, I read what you're buying is a donation to a national park fundraiser with a non-binding certificate attached. Which is actually awesome.
lol I just had a thought why not hand one of these to an applicant in an interview and if they don't look at you like your insane, they don't get the job.
I initially heard that as you being in a relationship with a bag of Weebles and was about to tell you to get out of it because, as everyone knows, Weebles wobble, but they don't go down.
Reminds me of my favourite punchline.... its a shaggy dog story but the punchline.... makes me laugh 30 yesars after I first heard it. Trouble is it is predicated on an advertising meme from the 1970s....
...you know...I'd love for that to be in a game...either at the end or in a fake-out "midboss" just the shittiest world that makes no effort to make you like it or want to protect it, your character is basically forced into the role of "hero" out of obligation. And that scene comes in after a few hours of genuine "fuck this shit"....and then the real fun starts
@@Dipnderps I mean persona 5 does it. It's basically like do you want a world where nobody has control anymore or where everyone is free but the world is shit because of it. Honestly I'd pick the former in that case. Screw free thought, all it does is make people miserable.
Thats the definition of legal. Illegality is only what is banned. The law only seeks to define what it deems nessrarly and even then rarely. E.g. murder is defined only by common law not statute in the UK
"It's not illegal so far, that must mean it's not wrong." -People who know damn well they shouldn't be doing what they're doing, and are determined to do it anyway
"You cannot buy them directly so it is not gambling!" I would like to see any of these losers trying to spend money at a blackjack table. You have to buy chips and then spend them at the blackjack table to gamble. Almost like the way you have to buy tokens in Resident Evil remake and, and, and, oh wait…
@@refundreplay bitcoin is for the wealthy, you must be wealthy.. I could give you 100 better cryotos to invest in. you must not know anything about computer code huh? reply if you wanna learn
Reminds me of that old scam about selling stars to people. They'd only give a piece of paper saying it's yours, but didn't mention it's not recognized by anyone but the seller.
@@clancywiggum3198 this is wrong. They are recognized by no one. Which is funny, you know. Because if you wanted to sell your PNG, you actually could just make a sale contract - which is legally binding. But hey, then you would have to own the PNG your selling and can't just sell your neighbours house.
@@Cudgeon Exactly, ppl already had IP protection on their own images and could just sell the rights for money...but then there would be paperwork and legal accountability.
Except the star thing gave you a cute certificate you could frame and give as a gift. Like the Scottish Lord thing, most people know its not real. But its gives them a fancy certificate that is cool to look at and play pretend
@@Cudgeon They're effectively certificates of authenticity. There's strictly speaking no actual authorisation involved in a physical COA but people still recognise them. And there's technically nothing stopping you from selling a COA for your neighbour's house but the buyer would need to be a bonehead to fall for it. The whole "selling someone else's art" problem isn't an NFT thing, it's a dirty capitalist thing that existed before NFTs and isn't fundamental to them.
My brother’s friend got him one of those lordship land kits for Christmas. He immediately bought the tackiest gold frame he could find on Amazon to display the certificate, and I feel that’s the correct level of seriousness.
@@jaywilliams720 rare cases and exceptions are there. Normally a cracked recent AAA game can not be played in MP. Even the biggest pirates pay when they wanna enjoy MP.
The way I see it, if you're the sort of person to spend millions of dollars on an NFT, then you probably shouldn't have been trusted with millions of dollars to begin with.
It was pointed out that it was some money passing with ethereum. It's like what they do with "artpieces", but now it's only a pretense of a thing you bought.
There's an anthology show in the UK called inside number 9, which had an episode where a celebrity died while blowing up a balloon then everyone in the room tried to sell the balloon containing his last breath. That is still far more tangible than an NFT.
No, no, you see, what they mean with balance is adjust prices/split their games into more DLC so you, the consumer, can have a better experience! Lmao I also just can't with EA anymore.
Been having a very very hard time with clinical depression. I want to genuinely thank you for the first honest side splitting laugh I’ve had in months. The ‘Mince’ advert absolutely got me.
"This thing isn't a (bad or manipulative) thing, because it's done by (game developer/company)" is the most common shill line we hear over and over. I'll always be sick of hearing it.
The action of going to whatever Nickelodeon park and getting actual slime slinged at you that you may well have an allergic reaction to is infinitely more valuable than an NFT because at least you'll have a physical picture of yourself covered in slime
"It's optional to buy lootboxes!" I would love to hear a drugdealer say "Hey, it is optional if they want to buy crack and ruin their lives! I just provide a service people want!" in court. Wonder if he'd get away with it like CEOs and Execs does.
@@andonbreitna4466 I plan to make NFTs of quotes I've come up with throughout my life.... have to wait for ADA to get around to making it more affordable though, it's expensive to create an NFT right now because those types are on the etherium network
Hey, it's not fair to compare MLM's to your "traditional" pyramid scheme. You're actually *far, far,* more likely to earn your money back in a no-product Ponzi scheme than you are an MLM.
It would if they actually let the money trickle. Those on top wants every single drop. The sweat on your brow you get from laboring for your welfare? Yeah fuck that, they want those too.
yes absolutely right, I'm one of those crooks, I have that criminal mind... thats why I'm using crypto and blockchain and NFTs to steal from the rich, the 1% that is
*EA showing microtransactions and loot boxes:* "It's optional. You don't have to buy it. You can play for free and grind for years, or pay to skip the grind and get a competitive edge. Your choice." *US hospital showing expensive medical bill for treatment to fix broken leg:* "It's optional. You don't have to buy it. You can walk it off and wait for it to heal, or pay to get your bones fixed quicker and walk again without pain. Your choice"
*Insulin prices skyrocket:* "It's optional. You don't have to buy it. You can die a slow, painful death as your body begins eating itself because your pancreas failed and you can no longer digest food, or pay to continue living. Your choice."
@Mekronid Uhh, it's not socialist if you have to pay to get treatment. That capitalist. That's what the USA has right now and it's regarded as one of the worst systems in the world. Also, if socialist healthcare is so bad, then why do countries with such healthcare have higher life expectancy than the USA? Oh, and last time I checked, it would be cheaper to have free medicare than private since the cost would be covered by everyone's taxes. The USA is the third most populated country in the world, so I think the money would be plentiful enough. The only reason it has not been implemented is because pharmaceutical companies have influence and do not want things to change because they wouldn't be making as much money as they already do. It's rather odd that those who complain about social medicare have never tried it. But if you like your current medicare system, then when the doctors say your next treatment is going to cost you your house and the insurance refuses to cover it because it's too expensive, then you have no right to get angry or complain about it.
@Mekronid Uhh, socialist medicare does work, is not corrupted and they haven't changed one bit in the decades (over even centuries) they've been established. The only things people pay for in socialist medicare systems is for prescriptions and they're cheap. No one has to fear paying for it unlike in the USA. Everything else is paid through taxes (this includes treatment and ambulences). Every country with socialist medicare (including Canada, Japan, Cuba, Greece, Italy, Macao, Spain, Israel, and many others) has a much higher life expectancy rate than the USA, and they haven't changed one bit. If you don't believe me, then you can go watch the many documentaries that show how much worse the American healthcare system is crap compared to the rest of the world. (Life expectancy rate = the average amount of years people life a full life).
Imagine having all that money, I could pay off my student debts, buy a house. Live comfortably for not only myself but my entire family. "Nah fuck it lmao I'll buy a tweet"
I am pretty sure those people who seriously consider "buying" a tweet dont have financial problems. I would argue they have more money than brain cells
I love pyramid schemes, and all forms of financial fraud. Pump and dump, Ponzi schemes, check kiting, shell companies all fascinating subjects. I look forward to the next season of American Greed like most fanboys looked forward to a new season of Game of Thrones or Supernatural.
Every fibre of my being tells me I shouldn't reply and ask this question but the rebel in me insists on asking what you would like to be in with Jim exactly? 🤣
LMAO Had a feeling it would be something like that and I should know better to ask but there is always a tiny part of me saying go on ask, Jim confuses me in strange ways as well I'm not even going to deny it 🤣🤣🤣
tech bro? sorry I couldn't stomach this episode, so I don't get the reference... is that what they call people who are trying to spread the word about crypto
Hey if there's a millionaire out there tired of being a millionaire, I'd be happy to sell you this comment as a memorial to your hubris and wasteful spending.
@@matiascabrera2557 NFTs are not bad for the environment. look at Jim with his action figures, you think those don't effect the environment? they probably came all the way from across the world! and he wants us to play video games most our lives. think for yourself! research and learn educate... and it's bitcoin which is the inefficient cryptocurrency, it uses more power than all of Paris combined, that's why it's considered the gold of crypto, and just like gold, a lot of energy is required to mine and move around.... it's really a perfect comparison and people will always want gold and always want bitcoin, so it's just the way of the world, try to change it if you have any ideas
@@AJLikesCats I know i sound like a shill, sorry im a computer nerd and very low spectrum autistic, so I'm not the best at communicating... but like do your own research and see for yourself, what else better do you have going on, you watch this garbage on RUclips
@@AsgneonthebesT Diamonds are much rarer than rocks, you can't find them in your backyard. That analogy is BS, and you should be ashamed for making such an analogy.
@@jlev1028 Diamonds are, however, only valuable because one company has a monopoly on them and gets to decide they're expensive as shit. They're actually not that rare at all :)
Nobody spending $2.2m on an NFT really cares about what it represents, it's just a way to move large sums of money around with less scrutiny, since it's a subjective, unregulated market.
"Oh it is all cosmetic it doesn't..." Then me from 2007 saving every last neopoint to try getting a Faerie Paintbrush for a Korbat. Yes even that website has the premium nonsense, but never put a dime into it because screw that.
@@forickgrimaldus8301 Jim's pronouns are they/them, they came out as Nonbinary on the show a few months ago and debuted their new look about a month ago :)
In theory, nft art is like collecting baseball cards. In practice, it’s like buying an iou with a printed-out picture taped onto it, but you also have to set a forest on fire in order to ever cash it in.
I mever understood that. I played azur lane for a bit and never put a penny in and done just finr at the game. I dont understand the people eho do spend on the games. Because like. There is do much more art work out on the internet than what they could get on the game
@@qade2128 They put money into the game because the game is designed to psychologically manipulate a small percentage of humanity who have gambling addiction tendencies.
Ah yes, good old "business BS" or "BuSiness" if you will. Putting the BS into business. Same as any other company claiming they do things differently when it's just the same practices with different names and the game underneath is the same. Kinda like EA actually, rebadging FIFA 14 or whichever one first used Frostbite and just releasing the same thing incrementing the year plus one every time. The only thing they ever work on is Ultimate Tease because of course, they want to tweak the formula to make even more money from it. And they have. And it works because idiots with poor impulse control and/or don't know any better fall for it.
do you have any idea what blockchain or cryoto is? NFTs are crypto, they have value, because they can't be copied or duplicated in a way that keeps them legit. NFTs are the new collector cards. and they aren't bad for the environment, that's bitcoin, bitcoin is the environmental hazard
@@icedcoffee8561 See, we're gonna be in fundamental disagreement about the definition of "value" here. NFT's are uniquely fingerprinted, which is kind of cool, but the fingerprint is the start and the end of it. You own an abstraction, not even the thing the abstraction is a representation of. You can buy an NFT of a tweet, but you're not buying the tweet itself. Also, it's not _as bad as_ Bitcoin currently is because it's not as intensive, but blockchain is blockchain. If NFT somehow manages to catch on it _will_ be another thing on the long list of unnecessary and easily avoidable environmental hazards that we so callously perpetuate.
As a mathematician I just laugh at the simple scam of labelling any odd as "less and 1%" as that's a margin of error that's just insane. it could be anything from "1 in 101" to "1 in a googolplex" and beyond.
Rick: The eggs don't affect gameplay directly. They just add a fun surprise element with the option to pay for more useful things. Morty: That's just loot boxes with extra steps!
but they really don't affect the gameplay - all good pokemon come from wild and raids eggs are only good to fill out a pokedex + you can't even buy eggs
@@Draclord35 well back when i was playing(1-2years ago) he wasn't but he was one of the few mons to get benefit from his baby form - reduced cost for unlocking second skill but that's it
This is basically creating money out of thin air. I mean you could sell just about anything. Want the NFT of this pixel of this one frame of this movie or video game? Starting bid $10,000. How did this ever gain traction? 😂
It's just yet another economic bubble. People are buying things that they hope to be able to sell to someone else for a profit - and the person buying off them is only hoping to do the same. The only difference here is that the commodity being bought and sold has no intrinsic value. Basically, it's blockchain but without the pretense of it being a currency.
People have to be willing to buy the thing first. The issue isn't the NFTs, it's rich people being so rich that they need to invent new "valuable" things to use their wealth on. The NFT itself is functionally just a certificate of authenticity. If you attach it to some novel digital artwork and sell limited editions for a modest living good for you. If you attach it to a public tweet and sell it for millions then that's ridiculous.
"well he's got the right to sell a bill of goods"... I mean if the commissioned work wasn't licensed to include nfts - no he doesn't. At least, not if the work was commissioned with a license that didn't explicitly include text along the lines of "you can use this artwork in an nft" - which odds are the license didn't have that. So it's questionable whether he even has the right to sell these things as NFTs
But which side has the money to sue and create additional expensive lawsuits? That's all that matters. Spurious lawsuits exist to bankrupt and harass little people who try to enforce their own supposed rights
@@steelsolider95 Take a peek at any commissioned artwork assets used for Wizards of the Coast or Paizo, or CC3, or any VTT software, or audio files for podcasts or youtube. You buy those programs or publications, but alllllll the licensing are SUPER specific. Creators sell their work for very specific uses, which then have limitations. But it really just boils down, like everything, whomever has the most money to litigate more has the power
@@steelsolider95 actually nearly every commissioned artist license will contain a “use” clause - I.e, you can use this art for X and not Y. Hence you can’t commission someone’s art and say you’re using it in a game, then slap it into a boxed album to make extra money. Some publishers will use off-licence IP (I.e pirated) anyway because they’re taking the bet that the artist doesn’t have money to sue. I personally know someone who had his work used after the 2 year term of his license, because the client thought he wouldn’t notice. Publishers abusing off-license uses of their products is a real fukken pain for artists who have to work for a living.
I love that our society is so thoroughly twisted that you can flat out say "I like being a shady fuck" and people will treat that as if it's not deeply concerning at best.
Because more and more it looks like playing the shady fuck game yourself is the only way to even stay safe, let alone exist in tandem with these people.
@@amberlee4536 If we stoop to their level, they win. Doesn't mean we should let ourselves be suckered though - we just need to keep our guard up and acknowledge the reality that a lot of douchebags would love to take our money and give us nothing in return. And teach our loved ones, where appropriate.
“It’s a scam” “That’s bad” “It’s a half scam” “So it’s only half bad?” “Yes only half bad” “You just said it was bad, like the word came out of your own mou-“ “At least it’s only half!” Great logic
In terms of digital art, I never understood how they utilize NFTs. Like sure someone buys a work of art for a bunch of ETH, but anyone can just right click on the image and press "Save image as..." What are they gonna do, call the internet police on us?
This is far from the first time people have bought literally nothing. There was once an app called I am rich, if i recall correctly it costed 1000 us dollars and did absolutely nothing
Next time I ask a student to provide a source for their claims in a research paper, am I going to be told, "That exceeds my bandwidth as a content creator?"
Fuck me has it really been 10 months since I started hearing about NFTs, no wonder I'm sick of them already. Nobody with an NFT satisfies their partners.
I genuinely think that corporations know society is going to collapse imminently - from one thing or another - and they're all rushing to squeeze as much profit as they can before that happens.
capitalism isn't over, the problem is that poor people need to stop wasting their money on video games and gaming consoles and purchase appreciating assets like NFTs crypto and blockchain
@@Gurgamo I always thought that an open source AI would be a great governance.. that way everyone could see what is going on, or atleast everyone smart enough to understand computer code, which isn't that complicated.
When I heard sterling say someone bought a first tweet, I expected that they got to set the message of a celeb that had a twatter but never posted, so surprised to hear about NotFuckingThere's.
There are already twitter bots set up that will AUTOMATICALLY make an NFT out of anything you post or tweet- whether you are ok with that or not. So if you make art and put any of it on twitter, go find the blocklist they’re putting together and use it!
I am so far beyond bored and annoyed with the "Gate"ing of any controversy. As for that Pokémon Go article. Did anyone check the writer's bank account for a deposit from Nintendo? Allegedly.
They should have just went ahead and tagged it "sponsored content." I mean, there's still some shadiness involved for a supposed "games journalism" site, but not as much?
Coming to this from Dan Olsen's excellent NFT video "Line Goes Up," it's amazing how ahead of the curve Sterling was about this. Or not, because she's always been good at evaluating industry bullshit.
I've had my work stolen for this shit three times in the last two weeks. I had to file DMCAs to get the listings removed. The only thing more irritating than the disrespect from the theft is the disrespect from the dudebros who get a chub at the mere _thought_ of these things. The first dudebro told me, and I quote: "Your work wasn't stolen, they just minted it before you did. If you want this to stop you just need to mint it first or take them to court." Just take them to court. _JUST TAKE THEM TO COURT._ Because we all know how cheap and easy THAT is. After the third theft, I told the story of it all in the comments of another video about how people hate these things, and I was graced by another dudebro telling me, and again I quote: "Look man I'm sorry you're upset but please understand that complaining about your OC being stolen or whatever won't help things." I'm a professional illustrator, designer, and colorist with 15 years of industry experience and a BFA from a respected art school. This is affecting my livelihood, you goddamn doorstop. And even if I was some kid with a Sonic OC or something that had been stolen for this, _that wouldn't make it okay._ All creatives deserve to have their work respected and protected, no matter their age, skill level, subject matter of their work, or professional capacity. I mean Jesus Christ it isn't like we weren't already being disrespected by these bent coat hangers all the time as it was; let's just add NFTs as the cherry for this new shit sundae.
@@icedcoffee8561 why do you comment on every one of this without offering an answer or explanation, just spouting Blockchain like you're trying to sell something with only buzzwords.
One of the planets Le Petite Prince visits has a businessman who is always counting stars and noting them down in a big ledger. When the prince asks him why he's always counting stars, he says it's because he owns them. The prince then asks him what he does with all the stars he supposedly owns. He replies that he counts them and that this is a serious matter of consequence.
Small time. Ima gonna pull 5 "insensitive" comments and sell the hundreds of other comments I've made to the same people who are disgusted that I "cancelled" 5 comments.
The more I find out about NFTs makes me want to ask... isn't this just being used for money laundering?
I mean... probably?
My thoughts exactly, using historical paintings and actual art are becoming too hard and noticable for the vampires, so why not use arbitrary code instead?
Just like laundering, with money!
I mean, real art has been used to launder money and dodge taxes since forever
I mean, that’s what crypto currency has basically been used now for a decade plus. Although that might be coming to an end since the IRS has come out and said they known who the people are doing that and are coming for them.
The more I hear about NFT, the more it sounds like a Yakuza scheme. Not the ACTUAL Yakuza, but the series Yakuza. Like this sounds literally like some side quest Kiryu gets involved in.
Sadly I don't think simply Tiger Dropping everyone inside a building will be enough in this case.
@@Spumawful
It can’t hurt to try.
@@Spumawful
It won't be enough but it is an important step, cause boy do these c-SKELETON WARRIORS deserve it.
Does kotaku think that if the artwork isn't shaped like a box, is not a loot box
"I love pyramid schemes" is a quote I thought I'd never hear completely unironically
He needs to amend “morally grey” with “morally black”
From someone claiming they're not scamming anyone.
The people at the top of pyramid schemes tend to love pyramid schemes.
Pyramid schemes are great! Any plan that gets you a nice, swag crypt is pretty great.
The world is becoming an episode of South Park for sure.
So the reason I couldn't understand NFTs is that there was nothing to understand?
NFT stands for "Nothing Fucking There"
It's pretty simple actually, it's a pyramid scheme. And there could be some money laundering going on as well, but that's often just a bonus side activity.
pretty much, yeah
at one point i tried to reason it as "its like buying animal crossing villagers but... you dont get a villager? its just the idea of one?" and i think it might even be less than that.
Always hasn’t been.
*bang*
@@nevarran I always like my pyramids with a laundromat
Correcting 'legal' to 'unregulated' is something I will do for myself and everyone I know until the end of time, thank you Jim Stephanie Sterling, thank god for you
that was so perfect!
"What does buying a tweet do?"
It shows you a fool whose money needs to be parted from them, that's what.
Each new transaction increases the value of ETH. The point is to bring fresh suckers into the scam.
I can probably find a million suckers who'd pay through the nose for the right to "own" the tweets of people whose Twitter pages were shut down. Though I reckon some of this ownership can be sold on the basis that if someone "owns" them, people cannot take them out of context for the purposes of criticism or libel.
It's like buying a sports car. There are still speed limits, the upkeep is higher, the handling in most trafficked areas is worse, the noise is abhorrent, the running cost is insane and all you show is that you're genitalically underdeveloped and to make stupid people think you're worth more than you are.
@@DrZaius3141 Except we have race tracks where you can actually take that sports car and use it.
@@ToddHanson Well and you actually can use it to bring your groceries home or drive a kid to school...def not the best tool for the job, but it still HAS some actual, practical application
“I love pyramid schemes” sounds like it should be a bdsm safe phrase; but here it is as an actual opinion.
I might actually use that...
if nfts are a scheme then I love schemes lmao cuz it's making me rich!!! you like being poor? you like being working class and having no power?
you people are brainwashed
@@icedcoffee8561 wat
@@ctb3335 just pissed at Jim for spreading misinformation, none of this is a pyramid scheme and anyone saying it is a pyramid scheme doesn't know anything about computer code... but then again Nobody ever trusts the experts
A "NFT Influencer" mentioned an artist I follow as one as well, which she wasn't, which lead to her being harassed and spammed with people and bots trying to sell her art as NFTs. So, just to show what kind of people love the concept.
They found a way to "steal without actually stealing", to sell someone else's work without actually selling their work. The perfect scam.
Holy shit, we need a collective name for the crypto, blockchain, scalper type of nut-jobs
Thieves.
The words "NFT" and "Influencer" do *NOT* belong in the same sentence.
@@mickeyd1999 And you know that sad thing is that even *SCALPERS* like these are less of a fucking scam than lootboxes, which was another point Jim made in their video. It literally makes more financial sense to buy a lootbox item at an inflated price from a pirate than to go through buying all the lootboxes to get the asset you want in one of those shitty games. All of these problems show the kinds of "freedom" that crypto bugs and video game companies claim to represent is the "freedom" to scam their consumer base. When your operating philosophy is "well they *OBVIOUSLY* knew what they were signing up for" I don't want the kind of "freedom" your supposedly fighting for.
The best thing to come from cyberpunk is that damn "now that's punk" meme
Sorry Jim Stephanie - when you buy souvenir plots you don't actually buy a piece of land. You buy a piece of paper which says you own the land, but in Scots law it's actually not possible to own a souvenir plot. What you are buying is an expensive piece of paper.
(More technical description: to own land in scotland it must be registered in the land registry. You cannot register souvenir plots in the land registry. Therefore you cannot own souvenir plots.)
According to the souvenir plot website, I read what you're buying is a donation to a national park fundraiser with a non-binding certificate attached. Which is actually awesome.
lol I just had a thought why not hand one of these to an applicant in an interview and if they don't look at you like your insane, they don't get the job.
What about when you buy a star in the night sky?
Glad you pointed out the nature of that scam.
@@Eunostos Stop pushing bullshit. OP already explained you can not buy souvenir plots. They do not promote conservation. That's a lie.
NFTs feels like those meme pages that put their watermark over someone else's meme, while the original watermark is still visible
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@@bargaintuesday812 I'm big enough to admit that I read this yesterday and didn't get it. Only to come back today and read your name
Handsome Jack comes to mind when thinking about NFTs and how they work. Specifically, his line where he says, "enjoy your nothing, idiot."
I initially heard that as you being in a relationship with a bag of Weebles and was about to tell you to get out of it because, as everyone knows, Weebles wobble, but they don't go down.
(slow clap to applause) Well played.
YTCS, make this person famous.
This is Iconic. And not Ubisoft iconic
Weeble. That's a word that so satisfying to say... Weeble.. It just rolls off the tongue. Weeble. It's euphonious. Weeeeeeeeeeeeble.
Weeble weeble.
Weeble weeble weeble weeble weeble weeble weeble weeble weeble weeble weeble weeble weeble weeble weeble weeble weeble weeble weeble weeble weeble weeble weeble weeble weeble weeble weeble weeble weeble weeble weeble weeble weeble....
Reminds me of my favourite punchline.... its a shaggy dog story but the punchline.... makes me laugh 30 yesars after I first heard it. Trouble is it is predicated on an advertising meme from the 1970s....
When I heard that someone had "sold their first tweet" I just assumed I'd misunderstood due to my lack of sleep but no... It's just capitalism.
"I like to think I pay well"
for the upteenth time... pogs aren't currency, stop handing sackfuls of pogs to people like you're paying them.
This is brilliant. Genuine lol. Ah all those people who thought POGs would be valuable one day (still aren't).
This ain’t fallout, you can’t pay people with garbage and reasonably expect to not get decked in the face
Jrpg final bosses: I will wipe the slate clean and start the world over
Me: You know he has a point let's pack up gang
...you know...I'd love for that to be in a game...either at the end or in a fake-out "midboss" just the shittiest world that makes no effort to make you like it or want to protect it, your character is basically forced into the role of "hero" out of obligation. And that scene comes in after a few hours of genuine "fuck this shit"....and then the real fun starts
@@Dipnderps ever see the fuck it ending in bard's tale?
@@Dipnderps I mean persona 5 does it. It's basically like do you want a world where nobody has control anymore or where everyone is free but the world is shit because of it. Honestly I'd pick the former in that case. Screw free thought, all it does is make people miserable.
Kefka "Hold my Light of Judgment!"
@@devastatheseeker9967
"Screw it free thought just makes people miserable"
Sounds like a line from the dub version of a 90s anime.
"Despite it being legal--uh, I mean, despite it being unregulated.."
Fucking genius.
THIS
There's a lot of truth in not a lot of words, there. Jim's writing at it's sharpest.
Thats the definition of legal. Illegality is only what is banned. The law only seeks to define what it deems nessrarly and even then rarely. E.g. murder is defined only by common law not statute in the UK
"It's not illegal so far, that must mean it's not wrong." -People who know damn well they shouldn't be doing what they're doing, and are determined to do it anyway
you can't technically regulate it, it's on the internet, like you know how you can do anything online, crypto is online, so how you regulate that?
"You cannot buy them directly so it is not gambling!"
I would like to see any of these losers trying to spend money at a blackjack table. You have to buy chips and then spend them at the blackjack table to gamble. Almost like the way you have to buy tokens in Resident Evil remake and, and, and, oh wait…
@@icedcoffee8561 that's cool. I just hodl Bitcoin. You do you, bro
@@refundreplay bitcoin is for the wealthy, you must be wealthy.. I could give you 100 better cryotos to invest in. you must not know anything about computer code huh? reply if you wanna learn
@@icedcoffee8561 This guy is shady as fuck. Nobody message him.
@@arandombard1197 I've been reporting all his comments.
Reminds me of that old scam about selling stars to people. They'd only give a piece of paper saying it's yours, but didn't mention it's not recognized by anyone but the seller.
Difference being that NFTs aren't issued by a single issuer, so they're recognised by multiple entities
@@clancywiggum3198 this is wrong. They are recognized by no one.
Which is funny, you know. Because if you wanted to sell your PNG, you actually could just make a sale contract - which is legally binding. But hey, then you would have to own the PNG your selling and can't just sell your neighbours house.
@@Cudgeon Exactly, ppl already had IP protection on their own images and could just sell the rights for money...but then there would be paperwork and legal accountability.
Except the star thing gave you a cute certificate you could frame and give as a gift. Like the Scottish Lord thing, most people know its not real. But its gives them a fancy certificate that is cool to look at and play pretend
@@Cudgeon They're effectively certificates of authenticity. There's strictly speaking no actual authorisation involved in a physical COA but people still recognise them. And there's technically nothing stopping you from selling a COA for your neighbour's house but the buyer would need to be a bonehead to fall for it. The whole "selling someone else's art" problem isn't an NFT thing, it's a dirty capitalist thing that existed before NFTs and isn't fundamental to them.
My brother’s friend got him one of those lordship land kits for Christmas. He immediately bought the tackiest gold frame he could find on Amazon to display the certificate, and I feel that’s the correct level of seriousness.
He glossed over that the lord kits are actually funding nature conservation projects. So it's fun and not-serious *BUT* also does concrete good!
Bonus points if he chipped some of the gold paint off to really get the point across.
This really is just the modern version of the “Wanna buy a bridge?” scam
@@JaelinBezel It's that, combined with a pyramid scheme.
@@Eunostos They actually aren't. They claim to do that, but don't. Prove me wrong.
"But you get eggs for free in the game!"
You also get Overwatch lootboxes for free, doesn't make them not lootboxes.
Wasn't expecting you to be here
I paid $0 for the NFT to play EA games. It's not piracy. It's a surprise NFT.
you can't play em online if it's pirated, Yar har diddly Dee I am a pirate
Now that's, a sense of accomplishment 👏
@@icedcoffee8561 yes.... you can't play them online.......... skirts 2142 and BF2 under the rug.
@@CDNSnowDay depends on the type of crack doesn't it?
@@jaywilliams720 rare cases and exceptions are there. Normally a cracked recent AAA game can not be played in MP. Even the biggest pirates pay when they wanna enjoy MP.
"See that, that's mine that is" is the PERFECT summation of all this dumb NFT shit. Perfect work as always.
The way I see it, if you're the sort of person to spend millions of dollars on an NFT, then you probably shouldn't have been trusted with millions of dollars to begin with.
It was pointed out that it was some money passing with ethereum. It's like what they do with "artpieces", but now it's only a pretense of a thing you bought.
There's an anthology show in the UK called inside number 9, which had an episode where a celebrity died while blowing up a balloon then everyone in the room tried to sell the balloon containing his last breath. That is still far more tangible than an NFT.
That's horrible. :(
Imagine living a life where the last people you were surrounded by try to monetize your death for their personal gain.
EA pretending to care about “balance” in their money vampire games may be the funniest thing I’ll hear all week.
No, no, you see, what they mean with balance is adjust prices/split their games into more DLC so you, the consumer, can have a better experience! Lmao I also just can't with EA anymore.
Been having a very very hard time with clinical depression. I want to genuinely thank you for the first honest side splitting laugh I’ve had in months.
The ‘Mince’ advert absolutely got me.
I wish you all the best in the world! Hang in there!
"This thing isn't a (bad or manipulative) thing, because it's done by (game developer/company)" is the most common shill line we hear over and over. I'll always be sick of hearing it.
on my end of the internet, 99% of the time that shill is for Nintendo
@@MintyArisato Lol yeah it's the same for me too, but I do get some Blizzard shilling thrown at me sometimes too.
The saying "come sling your slime in me" is infinitely more valuable than an NFT .
The action of going to whatever Nickelodeon park and getting actual slime slinged at you that you may well have an allergic reaction to is infinitely more valuable than an NFT because at least you'll have a physical picture of yourself covered in slime
"It's optional to buy lootboxes!"
I would love to hear a drugdealer say "Hey, it is optional if they want to buy crack and ruin their lives! I just provide a service people want!" in court. Wonder if he'd get away with it like CEOs and Execs does.
With crack at least you get an actual high?
If, “weird flex but ok” was a currency.
you can make that an nft
That's it. You nailed it
@@andonbreitna4466 I plan to make NFTs of quotes I've come up with throughout my life.... have to wait for ADA to get around to making it more affordable though, it's expensive to create an NFT right now because those types are on the etherium network
I bet Jason calls them "multi level marketing" when pitching it to his friends and family.
"Hey, hun! 👋 I have this 💰AMAZING financial opportunity💰 that I think you'd be PERFECT for!❤❤❤❤" etc.
@@Myrea_Rend i just had to block a dude trying to get me to buy in to a pyramid scheme because my cousin is in one
Hey, it's not fair to compare MLM's to your "traditional" pyramid scheme.
You're actually *far, far,* more likely to earn your money back in a no-product Ponzi scheme than you are an MLM.
Thank God for James Stephanie Sterling!
wonder if people relies he's basically making fun of transgenders, and i love it or he went insane...wait he kind of was lol
@@kyotheman69 I found the transphobe
@@kyotheman69 it's pretty well-known Sterling is NB, so definitely not making fun of trans people. Also the word you were looking for is "realize"
@@kyotheman69 And you claim that WHY exactly...?
It’s Stephanie James Sterling you sexist.
"btw finding out if I'm pronouncing Rohrer's name right would exceed my bandwidth as a content creator"
Classic Jim. Just classic.
I'm staring to think this "Trickle Down" theory doesn't actually work.
Well, it is just a theory.
AN ECONOMIC THEORY
THANKS FOR WATCHIN
It would if they actually let the money trickle.
Those on top wants every single drop. The sweat on your brow you get from laboring for your welfare? Yeah fuck that, they want those too.
Trickle down doesn't apply to conmen which is what NFT
The only thing that trickles down is the hatred and division the 1% encourage to keep us fighting among ourselves so we don't eat them.
@@doug2434 XD XD XD on point
“Ain’t no such things as halfway crooks” - Mob Deep
The missing b off the end of “Mobb” is inflaming my retinas
@@Endeva09 Sorry, I typed too fast 😅
YER SHOOK
Mob Deep 100
yes absolutely right, I'm one of those crooks, I have that criminal mind... thats why I'm using crypto and blockchain and NFTs to steal from the rich, the 1% that is
*EA showing microtransactions and loot boxes:* "It's optional. You don't have to buy it. You can play for free and grind for years, or pay to skip the grind and get a competitive edge. Your choice."
*US hospital showing expensive medical bill for treatment to fix broken leg:* "It's optional. You don't have to buy it. You can walk it off and wait for it to heal, or pay to get your bones fixed quicker and walk again without pain. Your choice"
*Insulin prices skyrocket:* "It's optional. You don't have to buy it. You can die a slow, painful death as your body begins eating itself because your pancreas failed and you can no longer digest food, or pay to continue living. Your choice."
@@Silburific That's a good one.
@Mekronid Uhh, it's not socialist if you have to pay to get treatment. That capitalist. That's what the USA has right now and it's regarded as one of the worst systems in the world. Also, if socialist healthcare is so bad, then why do countries with such healthcare have higher life expectancy than the USA? Oh, and last time I checked, it would be cheaper to have free medicare than private since the cost would be covered by everyone's taxes. The USA is the third most populated country in the world, so I think the money would be plentiful enough. The only reason it has not been implemented is because pharmaceutical companies have influence and do not want things to change because they wouldn't be making as much money as they already do.
It's rather odd that those who complain about social medicare have never tried it. But if you like your current medicare system, then when the doctors say your next treatment is going to cost you your house and the insurance refuses to cover it because it's too expensive, then you have no right to get angry or complain about it.
@Mekronid Uhh, socialist medicare does work, is not corrupted and they haven't changed one bit in the decades (over even centuries) they've been established. The only things people pay for in socialist medicare systems is for prescriptions and they're cheap. No one has to fear paying for it unlike in the USA. Everything else is paid through taxes (this includes treatment and ambulences). Every country with socialist medicare (including Canada, Japan, Cuba, Greece, Italy, Macao, Spain, Israel, and many others) has a much higher life expectancy rate than the USA, and they haven't changed one bit. If you don't believe me, then you can go watch the many documentaries that show how much worse the American healthcare system is crap compared to the rest of the world.
(Life expectancy rate = the average amount of years people life a full life).
@Mekronid I have the right to speak, as is part of your country's ideology and constitution (as well as mine).
Imagine having all that money, I could pay off my student debts, buy a house. Live comfortably for not only myself but my entire family.
"Nah fuck it lmao I'll buy a tweet"
I am pretty sure those people who seriously consider "buying" a tweet dont have financial problems. I would argue they have more money than brain cells
Someone read the tale of the Emperor's new clothes & decided they could get away with something even ballsier & stupider
The Emperor's NFT Clothes, perhaps?
I love that your "Skeleton Warriors!" meme is starting to make a comeback Jim. XD
Wow, look; nothing! (Digital style!)
"Sling your slime inside 'em" Is an unbelievably gross phrase.
I love it.
"In na relationship with a bag of wheels!"
Are they.... Hot Wheels?
Goddamnit, lol.
"I love pyramid schemes": the words of a man who is definitely not running a pyramid scheme
.... who is definitely RUNNING the pyramid scheme. It works on top.
@@Flotube444 woosh
I love pyramid schemes, and all forms of financial fraud. Pump and dump, Ponzi schemes, check kiting, shell companies all fascinating subjects.
I look forward to the next season of American Greed like most fanboys looked forward to a new season of Game of Thrones or Supernatural.
More like, 'It's a pyramid scheme, but it's not unethical and/or illegal this time, honest."
It's not a pyramid scheme! It's a Trapezoidal scheme!
Been said before, but once upon a time, "I've got a bridge to sell ya" was a cautionary tale, not a siren's call.
I've got an NFT of a bridge to sell ya!
All I can manage is an exhausted "what the fuck" at this rate.
agreed, i am running out of fucks at this rate, instead a "wtf" is just being stuck on my face instead.
*Sighing scot* shall be your name now.
There are worse things you could be in a relationship with Jim, like politicians or CEOs. Never change you crazy person you.
A relationship is not what I want to be "in" with Jim
Every fibre of my being tells me I shouldn't reply and ask this question but the rebel in me insists on asking what you would like to be in with Jim exactly? 🤣
@@LJAndrews1986 Jim
LMAO Had a feeling it would be something like that and I should know better to ask but there is always a tiny part of me saying go on ask, Jim confuses me in strange ways as well I'm not even going to deny it 🤣🤣🤣
I second the "a relationship is not what i want to be 'in' with Jim" feeling
So “tech bro” is just another word for a conman that the law isn’t regulating, right?
Every century they used to get a new name, now it's every decade
tech bro?
sorry I couldn't stomach this episode, so I don't get the reference... is that what they call people who are trying to spread the word about crypto
@@inigo137 oil baron, railroad tycoon meme
Hey if there's a millionaire out there tired of being a millionaire, I'd be happy to sell you this comment as a memorial to your hubris and wasteful spending.
you can do that, you could research and find a way to do it. or you could download the veve app and realize how cool NFTs are!! it's blockchain
@@icedcoffee8561 Hey, you know you sound like a huuuuge shill, right?
@@icedcoffee8561 because fuck the environment right?
@@matiascabrera2557 NFTs are not bad for the environment. look at Jim with his action figures, you think those don't effect the environment? they probably came all the way from across the world! and he wants us to play video games most our lives. think for yourself! research and learn educate... and it's bitcoin which is the inefficient cryptocurrency, it uses more power than all of Paris combined, that's why it's considered the gold of crypto, and just like gold, a lot of energy is required to mine and move around.... it's really a perfect comparison
and people will always want gold and always want bitcoin, so it's just the way of the world, try to change it if you have any ideas
@@AJLikesCats I know i sound like a shill, sorry im a computer nerd and very low spectrum autistic, so I'm not the best at communicating... but like do your own research and see for yourself, what else better do you have going on, you watch this garbage on RUclips
Smells like money laundring.
#1 hit by Nirvana were Nirvana comprised of talentless CEOs needing to find another tax dodge.
I'd compare NFTs to Pet Rocks, but at least Pet Rocks were, well, rocks. And they didn't cost $ 2.2 million...
Tell that to diamonds
That is _entirely_ unfair to pet rocks.
First off, you actually got the rock...
@@AsgneonthebesT Diamonds are much rarer than rocks, you can't find them in your backyard. That analogy is BS, and you should be ashamed for making such an analogy.
@@jlev1028 Diamonds are, however, only valuable because one company has a monopoly on them and gets to decide they're expensive as shit. They're actually not that rare at all :)
Nobody spending $2.2m on an NFT really cares about what it represents, it's just a way to move large sums of money around with less scrutiny, since it's a subjective, unregulated market.
"Oh it is all cosmetic it doesn't..." Then me from 2007 saving every last neopoint to try getting a Faerie Paintbrush for a Korbat. Yes even that website has the premium nonsense, but never put a dime into it because screw that.
listening to James Stephanie Sterling talk about horrible garbage is one of the highlights of my week
Its what She/he? is good at did Jim come out? If so when I totally missed it.
@@forickgrimaldus8301 Jim's pronouns are they/them, they came out as Nonbinary on the show a few months ago and debuted their new look about a month ago :)
@@fallingdream them? So Jim and Stephanie not what I was expecting but cool of him no Them for coming out.
I did not follow Them for a long while.
In theory, nft art is like collecting baseball cards. In practice, it’s like buying an iou with a printed-out picture taped onto it, but you also have to set a forest on fire in order to ever cash it in.
A bigger problem is the gacha game community trivializing gambling addiction and going broke for a "jpeg of their waifu"
I mever understood that. I played azur lane for a bit and never put a penny in and done just finr at the game.
I dont understand the people eho do spend on the games. Because like. There is do much more art work out on the internet than what they could get on the game
@@qade2128 They put money into the game because the game is designed to psychologically manipulate a small percentage of humanity who have gambling addiction tendencies.
@@arandombard1197 yeah ok yhat makes sense
Never understood that too. Like yeah I have husbandus too, but I don't see myself paying for a jpeg.
@@NIHIL_EGO well as the others say. Its people with gambling problems.
"NFT - Not Fucking There" - My Dad
Good one!
XD
Jesus christ does No one understand computer code
James Pumphrey?
Your Dad is a wise man.
Your Dad is a boomer.
“We’re looking into it”- Every Liar Ever
"Please hold, your call is important to us"
@@Fizz-Pop Here at Abuser Corp we treat our employees like family!
You just need to turn on your translator. "We're looking into it" means "were just going to wait until everyone forgets about it" in Corporate
Ah yes, good old "business BS" or "BuSiness" if you will. Putting the BS into business. Same as any other company claiming they do things differently when it's just the same practices with different names and the game underneath is the same. Kinda like EA actually, rebadging FIFA 14 or whichever one first used Frostbite and just releasing the same thing incrementing the year plus one every time. The only thing they ever work on is Ultimate Tease because of course, they want to tweak the formula to make even more money from it. And they have. And it works because idiots with poor impulse control and/or don't know any better fall for it.
It's what I tell my parents when they ask me how my studies are going
"I don't have the bandwidth for that"
... to send some fucking email?
"I don't have the desire to give a fuck."
they're literally just expensive bookmarks lmao
Nah a bookmark would let you find your way back to the thing in question. Even a bookmark is more useful than an NFT.
do you have any idea what blockchain or cryoto is? NFTs are crypto, they have value, because they can't be copied or duplicated in a way that keeps them legit. NFTs are the new collector cards. and they aren't bad for the environment, that's bitcoin, bitcoin is the environmental hazard
@@icedcoffee8561 See, we're gonna be in fundamental disagreement about the definition of "value" here. NFT's are uniquely fingerprinted, which is kind of cool, but the fingerprint is the start and the end of it. You own an abstraction, not even the thing the abstraction is a representation of. You can buy an NFT of a tweet, but you're not buying the tweet itself.
Also, it's not _as bad as_ Bitcoin currently is because it's not as intensive, but blockchain is blockchain. If NFT somehow manages to catch on it _will_ be another thing on the long list of unnecessary and easily avoidable environmental hazards that we so callously perpetuate.
As a mathematician I just laugh at the simple scam of labelling any odd as "less and 1%" as that's a margin of error that's just insane. it could be anything from "1 in 101" to "1 in a googolplex" and beyond.
"If you can't pay your taxes with it, it's gambling"
"I love committing crime, fraud etc."
no one expects the bathroom jimquisition
i mean, given the topic it seems like a natural evolution.
I did expect a jimquisition, in my bathroom
What better way to listen about the crap of the triple ay industry if not while taking a dump, lol?
with mint sauce, definitely wasn't expecting that.
Their chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...surprise, fear and Boglins...I'll come in again.
Rick: The eggs don't affect gameplay directly. They just add a fun surprise element with the option to pay for more useful things.
Morty: That's just loot boxes with extra steps!
but they really don't affect the gameplay - all good pokemon come from wild and raids eggs are only good to fill out a pokedex + you can't even buy eggs
@@FlandrionScarlet Back when I was playing, Lucario was amazing and locked behind eggs. And that was the case for many other mons.
@@Draclord35 well back when i was playing(1-2years ago) he wasn't but he was one of the few mons to get benefit from his baby form - reduced cost for unlocking second skill but that's it
@@FlandrionScarlet neither thing you said was true.
This is basically creating money out of thin air. I mean you could sell just about anything. Want the NFT of this pixel of this one frame of this movie or video game? Starting bid $10,000.
How did this ever gain traction? 😂
"Fugazi, fugayzi" *whistling* "Fairy dust!" - Matthew McConaughey.
It's just yet another economic bubble. People are buying things that they hope to be able to sell to someone else for a profit - and the person buying off them is only hoping to do the same. The only difference here is that the commodity being bought and sold has no intrinsic value.
Basically, it's blockchain but without the pretense of it being a currency.
People have to be willing to buy the thing first. The issue isn't the NFTs, it's rich people being so rich that they need to invent new "valuable" things to use their wealth on. The NFT itself is functionally just a certificate of authenticity. If you attach it to some novel digital artwork and sell limited editions for a modest living good for you. If you attach it to a public tweet and sell it for millions then that's ridiculous.
@@clancywiggum3198 Totally agree
"well he's got the right to sell a bill of goods"... I mean if the commissioned work wasn't licensed to include nfts - no he doesn't. At least, not if the work was commissioned with a license that didn't explicitly include text along the lines of "you can use this artwork in an nft" - which odds are the license didn't have that. So it's questionable whether he even has the right to sell these things as NFTs
But which side has the money to sue and create additional expensive lawsuits? That's all that matters. Spurious lawsuits exist to bankrupt and harass little people who try to enforce their own supposed rights
That artist sold his rights the second he sold that piece. Hur durr
@@steelsolider95 Take a peek at any commissioned artwork assets used for Wizards of the Coast or Paizo, or CC3, or any VTT software, or audio files for podcasts or youtube.
You buy those programs or publications, but alllllll the licensing are SUPER specific.
Creators sell their work for very specific uses, which then have limitations.
But it really just boils down, like everything, whomever has the most money to litigate more has the power
@@steelsolider95 actually nearly every commissioned artist license will contain a “use” clause - I.e, you can use this art for X and not Y. Hence you can’t commission someone’s art and say you’re using it in a game, then slap it into a boxed album to make extra money.
Some publishers will use off-licence IP (I.e pirated) anyway because they’re taking the bet that the artist doesn’t have money to sue. I personally know someone who had his work used after the 2 year term of his license, because the client thought he wouldn’t notice.
Publishers abusing off-license uses of their products is a real fukken pain for artists who have to work for a living.
When I was born, I got an NFT for breathing. I wonder how long it's gonna take some company to sell me something I already had.
I love that our society is so thoroughly twisted that you can flat out say "I like being a shady fuck" and people will treat that as if it's not deeply concerning at best.
Seems like every passing day it becomes more of a positive...
Because more and more it looks like playing the shady fuck game yourself is the only way to even stay safe, let alone exist in tandem with these people.
@@amberlee4536 If we stoop to their level, they win. Doesn't mean we should let ourselves be suckered though - we just need to keep our guard up and acknowledge the reality that a lot of douchebags would love to take our money and give us nothing in return. And teach our loved ones, where appropriate.
make that money baby, why not? who's it hurting?
It's like the meme, if an animal was hoarding all the resources we'd study it in a lab not encourage it in other animals.
There's a boglin in an episode of Stargate SG-1, in a homeless man's shopping cart when he says Carter was kidnapped by ninjas.
The way they say fungible... Gets me everytime
“It’s a scam”
“That’s bad”
“It’s a half scam”
“So it’s only half bad?”
“Yes only half bad”
“You just said it was bad, like the word came out of your own mou-“
“At least it’s only half!”
Great logic
It's 0.5017 bad to be exact. You know, in bad units.
@@DiThi bad units. Could I perhaps do some nft bullshit and buy that off you..?
@@teacooper6485 Nah have it for free.
@@DiThi woo! So kind. Now to firgue out what they are
That’s only half good.
In terms of digital art, I never understood how they utilize NFTs. Like sure someone buys a work of art for a bunch of ETH, but anyone can just right click on the image and press "Save image as..." What are they gonna do, call the internet police on us?
This is far from the first time people have bought literally nothing. There was once an app called I am rich, if i recall correctly it costed 1000 us dollars and did absolutely nothing
I shall live a hundred lifetimes and I swear I'll never hear anything as malevolently vacant as "It would exceed my bandwidth as a content creator".
Have you never heard neither of these:
I'm just following orders
That's the policy
Obey the law
TBH, I'm stuck at "as a content creator" in direct reference to having had other people generate the content in question.
@@vikiai4241 can it even be called content?
My over 60 boss asked me about NFT's just the other day. I'll send her this link and await the fallout.
Unemployed in 3... 2... 1...
When's miniature, fantasy Willem Dafoe coming back? I'm not prepared to move on from his angelic siren song.
I think we need a miniature fantasy Wilma Dafoe now as well.
Oh please yes please.
Wow, that was a deep DEEP pull with the Raggedy Ann book cover Jim. Well played.
Next time I ask a student to provide a source for their claims in a research paper, am I going to be told, "That exceeds my bandwidth as a content creator?"
Reminds me of the "Source: Trust me on this" meme
"So I'm going to get good grades from this, right?"
"That exceeds my brandwidth as a conscientious educator."
Also, in the nightmare of post-capitalism performance art:
Sterling is the performance artist we need
Fuck me has it really been 10 months since I started hearing about NFTs, no wonder I'm sick of them already.
Nobody with an NFT satisfies their partners.
Capitalism: "We're in the endgame now."
Mr Smith: "Is it over? Is it finally over?"
I genuinely think that corporations know society is going to collapse imminently - from one thing or another - and they're all rushing to squeeze as much profit as they can before that happens.
capitalism isn't over, the problem is that poor people need to stop wasting their money on video games and gaming consoles and purchase appreciating assets like NFTs crypto and blockchain
@@icedcoffee8561 oh it isn't over; it's just evolving beyond the point where it needs humans.
@@Gurgamo I always thought that an open source AI would be a great governance.. that way everyone could see what is going on, or atleast everyone smart enough to understand computer code, which isn't that complicated.
EA: How dare this (alleged) employee try to unethically profit from gamers with spending problems. That's our job
Nailed it. They're fine when they do it on their own, they just don't like other people profiting from it. Just themselves.
When I heard sterling say someone bought a first tweet, I expected that they got to set the message of a celeb that had a twatter but never posted, so surprised to hear about NotFuckingThere's.
There are already twitter bots set up that will AUTOMATICALLY make an NFT out of anything you post or tweet- whether you are ok with that or not. So if you make art and put any of it on twitter, go find the blocklist they’re putting together and use it!
Wtf
dude really? like that sounds a little nuts
Having us buy something that doesn't exist is exactly something the video game industry would love to make us do
The 16-bit Kefka laugh never fails to get a smile from me
My first thought of NFT was "game currency," and my second thought was "money laundering."
I am so far beyond bored and annoyed with the "Gate"ing of any controversy.
As for that Pokémon Go article. Did anyone check the writer's bank account for a deposit from Nintendo? Allegedly.
They should have just went ahead and tagged it "sponsored content." I mean, there's still some shadiness involved for a supposed "games journalism" site, but not as much?
Coming to this from Dan Olsen's excellent NFT video "Line Goes Up," it's amazing how ahead of the curve Sterling was about this. Or not, because she's always been good at evaluating industry bullshit.
With a bang on perfect analysis in the three minutes, too.
Being ahead of the curve is Sterling's entire MO. They've been ahead of the curve on everything since 2013, mate.
Along with putting gate on everything, prefixing things with "i" is also irritating.
i©Rritating
@@nobodyinparticular9640 iGate
IShit
Jim: "I genuinely can't be fucked."
EA: *cracks knuckles*
What cracked here is Jim, finally realizing that the crusade was doomed before it began.
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I've had my work stolen for this shit three times in the last two weeks. I had to file DMCAs to get the listings removed. The only thing more irritating than the disrespect from the theft is the disrespect from the dudebros who get a chub at the mere _thought_ of these things.
The first dudebro told me, and I quote: "Your work wasn't stolen, they just minted it before you did. If you want this to stop you just need to mint it first or take them to court."
Just take them to court.
_JUST TAKE THEM TO COURT._ Because we all know how cheap and easy THAT is.
After the third theft, I told the story of it all in the comments of another video about how people hate these things, and I was graced by another dudebro telling me, and again I quote: "Look man I'm sorry you're upset but please understand that complaining about your OC being stolen or whatever won't help things."
I'm a professional illustrator, designer, and colorist with 15 years of industry experience and a BFA from a respected art school. This is affecting my livelihood, you goddamn doorstop. And even if I was some kid with a Sonic OC or something that had been stolen for this, _that wouldn't make it okay._
All creatives deserve to have their work respected and protected, no matter their age, skill level, subject matter of their work, or professional capacity. I mean Jesus Christ it isn't like we weren't already being disrespected by these bent coat hangers all the time as it was; let's just add NFTs as the cherry for this new shit sundae.
Have to admit when I first heard the stupid horrible garbage line my first reaction was ‘which company is it this time?’
Twitter, EA, and Niantic
Whenever I hear stuff like buying a tweet I automatically think that the people "buying" are simply laundering money.
it's probably not laundering in itself because there's no real money involved. just tokens being traded for other tokens.
And you're right!
no its history, they are selling history. do you know what cryoto is? blockchain?
@@icedcoffee8561 why do you comment on every one of this without offering an answer or explanation, just spouting Blockchain like you're trying to sell something with only buzzwords.
@@JamesV1 actually cuz I don't want to spend a ton of time typing and it be for nothing, but you replied, so now I'll take my time 😄
Jim: Here is an insight to the most concerning things in the industry today.
Also Jim: GREEEEEEEEEEEEN!!
Nothings Fucking There....except a whole lot of wasted energy, like a cartoonish amount.
One of the planets Le Petite Prince visits has a businessman who is always counting stars and noting them down in a big ledger. When the prince asks him why he's always counting stars, he says it's because he owns them. The prince then asks him what he does with all the stars he supposedly owns. He replies that he counts them and that this is a serious matter of consequence.
We're at a point where you can really say "I have a bridge to sell you"
is it a pretty bridge?
I'm selling this comment for $1M.
Now it's just a waiting game.
*Engagement to artificially inflate perceived value. #JimquisitionStonks
I'm not greedy, I'll sell my reply for half that. What a deal!
Humm... I'll give you 0.9 cents, rounded down. Final offer.
I'll give you a hug
Small time. Ima gonna pull 5 "insensitive" comments and sell the hundreds of other comments I've made to the same people who are disgusted that I "cancelled" 5 comments.