LazyPiranha

I know I've said it before, but you're simply knocking one domino of dozens out of the line of progression. FTL travel doesn't account for the fact that space is unbelievably massive. It also doesn't account for why any intelligent species with FTL travel would just fart around in our lower atmosphere for a minute or two and then just leave. Any species with that kind of technology would have certainly invented the telescope and could just observe us from much further away.

Or just buy a completely shitty defunct theme park for pennies on the dollar and share ownership of it. Call it snowflake land, name a few rides after whiny conservatives, and call it a day.

Yes, everyone understands and agrees that the subjective value of owning an original over a duplicate is subjective. What I am saying is that the material difference between an original and a duplicate is NOT subjective, and whatever value people derive from that difference is entirely personal. I have seen “The Persistence of Memory” in person at the MOMA. Would I personally pay whatever millions it would be worth to own it? Fuck no. Would I have traveled to a museum to see a bunch of high quality image files of the same artwork? Also no. There is no material difference between the linked file NFT of a meme and a meme I copy and paste here for free. There is no material difference in the thing a person owns. The problem I have with NFT stuff aside from the obvious environmental issues is that a subjective value is being attached to a nonexistent material difference. The person who paid half a million dollars for a meme and I have the exact same rights to the image.

You keeping bringing value into this when I’m intentionally putting all value aside. Objectively, a painting is different than a jpeg. The objective act of seeing a painting and seeing a digital image of a painting are different. There is no denying that. What value you place on that difference is subjective, the fact that there is a difference is not. The objective act of viewing a jpeg and viewing a jpeg of an NFT you own is identical. You own theaters, there is an objectively different experience between watching a movie with an audience in a theater versus seeing it at a drive in versus watching it on my phone. My subjective enjoyment of each experience will differ, but you cannot deny that they are different things.

We’re discussing two different things now. I was discussing the functional difference between owning art and owning an NFT regardless of value. Now we’re discussing personal enjoyment. If you get some sort of joy out of owning an NFT then so be it, that has nothing to do with the functional difference between owning an NFT and having a link saved to your clipboard being nil. All value is relative. All enjoyment is subjective. A person who owns an NFT objectively can’t do anything a person who has the image saved on their hard drive can’t also do other than sell the NFT to someone else. The same is not true of an original piece of art.

I’m not arguing value though. A painting is a painting, I can enjoy the painting and never sell it. I have art I made in my house that is absolutely worthless to anyone who isn’t me, I have it because I like it and I’m proud of how it turned out. A print, no matter how well done, is not a painting. I can’t see the dimensions of the strokes, I can’t view it from different angles and see the perspective change, I can’t touch it if I’m that sort of person and feel the texture of the canvas and paint. Monetary value or not, a true original painting has a material history and presence no duplication can have. An NFT pointing at a jpeg is no different functionally than a link pointing to the same jpeg. Your use of the NFT is functionally no different than someone who didn’t pay 500k for it. The only purpose to “own” an NFT of a piece of art is because you think it will increase in value and you can sell it for a profit.

There’s a fundamental difference here in that regardless of arbitrary value there is only one original piece of art. If I own a Picasso, whether or not it’s value goes up and down I still have a Picasso and everyone else has a print of it. I can put it on a wall, lend it to a museum, eat it, whatever the hell I want. If I own an NFT of a Picasso, I’m the exact same as any other person who has a jpeg of the same painting, I just have a random string of code that may, or may not, point to a jpeg representing that painting. The only reason to purchase an NFT for artwork is market speculation. While a lot of rich people buy original artwork for that reason as well, it’s not the reason it exists in the first place.

Season 2 was also a fun romp, it's hard to maintain the initial novelty though. Whatever season had John Lithgow was also decent if I remember, but then the whole thing just completely went off the rails.

Excessive cocaine use my ass, you know he got canned for never sharing and screaming that cocaine redistribution was communism.

Dexter was such a fun, guilty pleasure show that absolutely dove off a cliff and decided that gravity was too weak and strapped on jet engines aimed straight down. I bailed before my wife but would watch over her shoulder from time to time and we would joke about how late series Dexter seemed to exist only to fill some Faustian bargain Shotime made in terms of tits per hour. The excuses this show made to get women topless were award worthy. Dexter goes to a high school reunion for some reason only for a woman we went to school with to blow him while fully topless and then immediately leave forever.

Trying to come up with a new, meaningful power for a character in a series that’s been as long and as iconic as MK is a nightmare assignment. It’s like giving someone the task of writing a Mario movie and they need to come up with a new plumber. Good fucking luck. With Jax they have an established character with a defined endpoint, the guy gets super jacked robot arms. Forget the fact that unleashing a magical superpower and robot arms should be unrelated, the man’s unlocked secret power is by coincidence a minor upgrade over something he already has by accident? If he was in a wheelchair would he get tank treads instead? What makes it worse is Sonya Blade is right fucking there. They write a bullshit notion into the film about killing one of the select few and suddenly taking their place out of nowhere all so Sonya can get her pink rings after not being special enough. Just make Jax the normal one and suddenly he can compete with these people because Raiden’s homies have great prosthetic technology. Instead the movie pulls a third act macguffin out of its ass.

Did you forget the part of the movie where Jax’s arcana was somewhat better metal arms? What if sub zero never shattered his regular arms, would his arcana have ripped them off anyway?

I like how this turd starts his segment by saying that stocks are up because the market decided the tax hikes weren’t going to happen. These dipshit chuds are the worst.

I don't know what your phone situation is, but the Phoenix Wright games are on iOS and I think you can get the first case for $.99 or something. It's worth seeing if it's even appealing to you as opposed to buying the whole thing.

I liked Layton x Phoenix, but I also liked the Layton games. It's almost worth it just to see how preposterous the resolution is, but you would probably be fine just watching a plot video on youtube or something. Main line Layton series games can get exceptionally tedious towards the end.

"Gameplay" Think of it as a visual novel with occasional choices you need to make to solve logic puzzle that you either get right or wrong. There is essentially zero player choice that impacts the story, you just find the right answer and move on. Keep in mind a lot of these games are old and are not friendly in the way modern games are. You will frequently miss a step forward because you were in one location, did all you could, and didn't release that by doing stuff in another location you have progressed forward enough for new things to happen in the original spot. I love them for the characters and humor, but the original games definitely feel old.

Fair enough. Kal was kind enough to get me a copy of Layton x Phoenix Wright when he was in Japan, but I still have it sealed and just bought the english release when it came out. I'm far too lazy to even go with fan patches sadly. Maybe someday I'll do it for Edgeworth 2 seeing as an official release of that seems basically impossible.

Well damn, nevermind then. Are you actually fluent enough to play them?

These never came out in the US though, unless you imported the Japanese 3DS games.

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