They're Just Selling Nothing Now (The Jimquisition)
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
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This week, we take ourselves a look at NFTs, and how one game developer is using an already shady concept to insult videogame artists.
Then there's the case of the unfortunately named #EAGate, and FIFA's latest scumbaggery.
You want some more? Okay, well we've also got a response to the claim Pokémon Go has "fun presents" instead of loot boxes. Ha ha ha.
#NFT #Pokemon #FIFA #EA #Nintendo #Niantic #PokemonGO #Twitter #Money #Kotaku #LootBoxes #Microtransactions #JimSterling #Jimquisition #FIFA21
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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.
"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.
“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
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
"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
Does kotaku think that if the artwork isn't shaped like a box, is not a loot box
NFTs feels like those meme pages that put their watermark over someone else's meme, while the original watermark is still visible
The above post has been brought to you by Bargain Tuesday.
@@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
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!
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.
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.
The best thing to come from cyberpunk is that damn "now that's punk" meme
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.
"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
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 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....
"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
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
"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?
"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.
"btw finding out if I'm pronouncing Rohrer's name right would exceed my bandwidth as a content creator"
Classic Jim. Just classic.
"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.
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.
“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'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
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?
“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
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.
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!
"If you can't pay your taxes with it, it's gambling"
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.
Me: Oh Fck, 8 days to go until next month, ramen noodles it is for a week...
Rich people: let me buy literally NOTHING for 2,5 million
At the end this is just a money laundering scheme, that nobody cares about... But as a peasant: dont pay your taxes for a month and you are done
The true revolution is to scam rich people with NFT's and meaningless art.
"See that, that's mine that is" is the PERFECT summation of all this dumb NFT shit. Perfect work as always.
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.
Smells like money laundring.
#1 hit by Nirvana were Nirvana comprised of talentless CEOs needing to find another tax dodge.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
"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.
The way they say fungible... Gets me everytime
Wow, look; nothing! (Digital style!)
Having us buy something that doesn't exist is exactly something the video game industry would love to make us do
Conclusion: There are too many people for whom 2m$ is so little they spend it on nothing at all. And we should eat the rich.
@Payton Cantrell by selling goods and services these dumb people want? How about you let them decide that for themselves and mind your own business.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
My first thought of NFT was "game currency," and my second thought was "money laundering."
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.
The 16-bit Kefka laugh never fails to get a smile from me
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.
)>;
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
We're at a point where you can really say "I have a bridge to sell you"
is it a pretty bridge?
Also, in the nightmare of post-capitalism performance art:
Sterling is the performance artist we need
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
We really are in end-stage capitalism, and either the system is going to collapse or the people are.
Or both
And the ducks will be here to pick up the pieces and rule this world.
Taking bets on the people
@@KiomonDuck I'll take bets on the duck uprising. Just cause if I do then it might become a possibility..?
@@KiomonDuck i for one welcome our new avian overlords
You can always trust a guy who loves pyramid schemes.
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
"Capitalism is the most efficient economic system ever developed"
Capitalists:
The sad thing is: So far, it still kind of is. Humanity hasn’t found a more successful economic system. It should be regulated, though.
Well it's the only economic system that has been shown to work.
@@ivanvoronov3871 ur commenting on a video of it clearly not working employ 1 critical thought please
@@davedave8323 look up poverty rates through the years and come and tell me that capitalism doesn't work.
@@v0rtexbeater This is propoganda. The drop in poverty over the last 2 centuries can be attributed almost solely to mass industrialization. If it was really due to capitalism, why did both Soviet Russia and China lift millions out of poverty in the 20th century and why do most of the poorest countries in the world have capitalism as the base for their economic systems, despite the fact that there are heavy economic and political sanctions from the US and its allies levied on socialist countries?
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.
I helped destroy my planet and all I got was this digital deed to intangible ephemera.
God I feel the "I didn't sleep I redesigned my apartment"
Kotaku isn't full of shit, they're "fecally over-encumbered."
Well, someone got his PC branding on the cheeks.
XDDD
Jason Schreier did himself a favor by jumping ship.
Their article also forgot to mention that you have limited inventory space. So even if the incubators are not lootboxes (they 100% are), them being optional is complete bs as you can't even grind your way through it even if you wanted to.
@@woutervvugt what I've been saying for YEARS!!
At 13:06 I half expected "EA unleashed a good, old-fashioned, solemn JPEG" to be followed with "which they immediately sold as an NFT"
These are just the end stages of capitalism: higher prices, less value... oh, and fascism on the rise. 🤷♂️
Indeed 😋
Not long before clean air and water become even more commoditized than they already are, mere trifles that exist solely for the rich.
Nothings Fucking There....except a whole lot of wasted energy, like a cartoonish amount.
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.
NFT's for digital art are basically the blockchain version of paying a company to name a star after your girlfriend. Sure, it says right there in their ledger that PSR J2222-0137 B is named Sally or whatever, but what does that actually *mean*? It means you're $50 poorer and that's it.
it's like that but you could go on to sell the star name to someone else.
NFT vs Loot Boxes - at least the loot box doesn't use 4 days worth of power to make a blockchain.
Ah, so NFTs are basically working for exposure, except you don't even get to have the exposure. Or, as we call it in the trade: art fraud.
If Twitter ceased to exist the world's problems wouldn't go away but damn... the world would be a much much better place
if we can't have that then either a day where no one can post on twitter, or twitter can get banned for a year.
Someone should go set the twitter's servers on fire...
Twitter is 4chan but somehow convinced public figures to join
@@vinicius5095 oi at least 4chan is mostly ironic and people trying to be cancerous twitter is what happens when you let the general public have a voice. abolish democracy now bring back monarchy and fuck communism
@@greatlyreducedgameplay9939 I don't think it's the public, the platform's algorithm prioritizes inflamed reactionary discourse. Loud and divisive but extremely small groups get verified.
4chan's bump or delete system also promotes divisiveness but to an arguably much smaller extent and scale.
"It's disgusting, and that's why it's funny." No Jim, sometimes things are just disgusting.
@@icedcoffee8561 no thanks, freak
@@33melonpaws77 you aren't the type of person I'm wanting to help anyway. you don't deserve power or wealth
@@icedcoffee8561 I'm the type of person that will tell you to get some morals and decency, and stop scamming people. BYE.
@@33melonpaws77 you don't see what is going on with gme? it hasn't stopped, the federal reserve and stock market are manipulating your money, money printer go brrrrrrr. so obviously you want to buy what has value, and crypto has value.
I love James Stephanie's new Terezi glasses
I was thinking Miss Redglare
@@cherryr9285 I wonder ... can we convince them to wear something teal next
Capitalism requires ever-new commodities to exploit, and the world is running out of things that haven't yet been fully commodified and exploited. Expect to see even crazier ideas going forward.
you underestimate capitalism's ability to find ever-new commodities to exploit.
How exactly are we not extinct yet?
At least we still have Jim Stephanie!
Thank god for you
Jim: Here is an insight to the most concerning things in the industry today.
Also Jim: GREEEEEEEEEEEEN!!
"How can we get people to pay for things that are less than nothing? Can we monetize that?"
- Ulta-capitalism
It already exists. It's called big corporations getting tax refunds while paying no taxes in the first place. You PAY TAXES so they can make storefronts pitched to us as "games" .
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?
At least in the case of that silly thing where they sell 1 foot of land in scotland, there’s the potential for that land to be used as a nature reserve and the money to be used to fund the conservation effort.
Along with putting gate on everything, prefixing things with "i" is also irritating.
i©Rritating
@@nobodyinparticular9640 iGate
IShit
I'll just slightly misquote Jayne Cobb: "I got a share of this NFT. Ten percent of nothing is-let me do the math here. Nothing into nothin’. Carry the nothin’…"
so computer code is nothing? blockchain is nothing?
@@icedcoffee8561 I don't see the point you're trying to make.
@@icedcoffee8561 It can be valuable if it's copywrightable, but that's completely separate from NFTs.
well check out veve, these are copyright. and big companies, DC, cartoon network, power puff girls, and these awesome ponies that are mostly sold out but i got a couple
@@lwaves NFTs are blockchain and if you don't know what that is then you should learn or you're gonna have a rough future.
NFTs are the first step towards creating scarcity of content on the internet. One day, anyone will be able to sue anyone for using artwork that doesn't belong to them.
There's a possibility that this might help stop the epidemic of stolen art being sold on merchandise, but I have a feeling that people will find a way around that anyway.
@@MolecularMachine It won't, a lot of stolen art printed on second party merchandise is perfectly traceable already and nothing is being done against it already, unless its a big company of course, and NFTs ain't gonna change this.
I would have loved to hear Total Biscuit's rant on this too. :,(
@@DiagonalByte His troubles are long over
Try not to be too jealous
Lucky bastard escaped while the gettin' was good.
@@shyflyf3772 I'm trying and failing.
Pokemon Go's eggs are just loot boxes with extra steps - better title than Kotaku's.
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.
"You see Jim, the reason the eggs in Pokemon Go are different than loot boxes in other games is that Pokemon is doing it, and I like Pokemon, ergo I have to like this, because bad things are only bad when people I don't like are doing them, when people I like do them, that means they're good. You see how it works."
They might say otherwise, but for many people who defend this shit, this is the reason why they do.
The "solemn jpeg" cracks me up holy shit
I was sitting there like "wow this intermission is so cute and wholesome Jim are you oka- oh. Oh yep, there's the cursed shit."
by all accounts, I should've seen it coming XD