Dr_Awkward

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Re: Talking Point: How Does Switch 2's Launch Price Compare To Past Nintendo Systems?

Dr_Awkward

@Bizaster Inflation is the measure of how much the price of a market basket of goods has gone up over some period of time. It has nothing to do with wages; accordingly, it is not accurate to say "while people don't earn more money." Certainly, some people do not earn more money. Certainly, others do. Some government benefits in the USA are pegged to inflation; people earning them receive more money if inflation happens.

Inflation is called a "lagging" indicator, because the inflation number is calculated after the thing (price increase) happened. So, yes, it would be hard for firms to respond in real time with salary increases, but make no mistake: many do. My wife and I both got inflation adjustments in our jobs within the last year.

Re: Talking Point: How Does Switch 2's Launch Price Compare To Past Nintendo Systems?

Dr_Awkward

So much crying over a toy. YOU ARE NOT ENTITLED TO A SWITCH 2! Honestly, $150 difference between the S2 and Switch OG price: skip 3 AAA games. Look at your backlog and consider: hmmm, maybe I overspent and should have budgeted better.

If you can't afford the launch price, then maybe you should be saving for more important things. Also: if you are crying over the Switch 2 launch price and live in the USA, then you should REALLY be saving your money for the incoming economic pain that is being gifted to us by the current administration. It will not be pretty.

Re: Some Fans Are Drawing Unfavourable Comparisons Between Switch 2 And Xbox One

Dr_Awkward

@GADG3Tx87 on the contrary, gaming is a cheap form of entertainment. MKW costs about as much as a family of 4 going to the movies twice, or out to dinner once at a casual sit-down restaurant.

However, 2 movies for a family of 4 is probably about 4 people * 2 movies * 2 hours = 16 person-hours of entertainment. MKW will provide me far more than that. Going to a professional sports game? A concert? Forget it! Gaming is, again, way cheaper. Furthermore, we are talking about the cost of a AAA game; the entertainment value of a Hades, Stardew Valley or Dave the Diver, when considered by the total amount of entertainment they offer, is even better.

There are lots of gaming options. However, as with anything, if you want the new shiny toy, you have to pay for it: when the game boy came outin the US in 1989 it was $100; adjusted for inflation, thats about $260 today! For a 2-bit handheld!

Re: Konami Is Committed To NFTs In Order To Preserve Beloved Content As "Commemorative Art"

Dr_Awkward

@Wexter

1. Source number one is incorrect, factually about NFTs, "Simply put, NFTs are unique digital tokens that—through a series of computer transactions—give someone ownership of a piece of art." NFTs have nothing inherently to do with art. Alao claims that the "daily carbon footprint of Bitcoin is the equivalent of watching 57,000 hours of YouTube videos.," but you probably aren't out there railing against YT itself (over 1 Billion hours of YouTube are watched per day, making it over 17,000x more polluting than Bitcoin. https://www.globalmediainsight.com/blog/youtube-users-statistics/#:~:text=Daily%20Active%20Users%20on%20YouTube%20in%202021,-Daily%20active%20users&text=YouTube%20has%20122%20million%20active,across%20the%20world%20every%20day.) Also, your source even acknowledges that blockchains are getting greener.

2. Quoting your source, "But it is early days for crypto, and every month brings new efficiencies."

3. Biased; doesn't acknowledge ETH move to Proof of Stake.

4. Quoting, "NFTs most likely do not have a direct, causal relationship with CO2 emissions, because they are just making use of the underlying blockchain that Ethereum is already running...Currently, Ethereum is mined through proof of work but the hope is that Ethereum 2.0, based on proof of stake, will arrive within the next few years, vastly reducing the network’s energy consumption."

5. Estimated data, not based on anything actual. "Even though the total network hashrate can easily be calculated, it is impossible to tell what this means in terms of energy consumption as there is no central register with all active machines (and their exact power consumption). In the past, energy consumption estimates typically included an assumption on what machines were still active and how they were distributed, in order to arrive at a certain number of Watts consumed per Gigahash/sec (GH/s)"

6. Uses #5 as a source.

7. Youtube? Lol, not credible.

7. Also lolz, this one is funny. "Proof of Stake is bad because it gives money to validators who Stake more money and that's not fair to people who don't have money." Nice moving the goalposts.

8. Check out his links to pro-crypto arguments!

For someone so loud, you didn't seem to read your sources very thoroughly.

Re: Konami Is Committed To NFTs In Order To Preserve Beloved Content As "Commemorative Art"

Dr_Awkward

@Wexter A single NFT transaction on the Solana network uses less energy than 2 Google searches, and about 1/400th the energy usage of 1 hour of playing PS5.

https://solana.com/news/solana-energy-usage-report-november-2021

Your assertion that NFTs are environmentally destructive fails to recognize that there are many different blockchains, with different energy usage profiles. The most dominant blockchains are transitioning to far less energy intensive methodologies. ETH, for example, is slated to move to Proof of Stake this year.

Please investigate before you disseminate.

Re: Konami Is Committed To NFTs In Order To Preserve Beloved Content As "Commemorative Art"

Dr_Awkward

@Zebetite

LOL your past comments include "find any way you can to download" nintendo game music before it is removed from youtube; entitlement about what belongs in Nintendo's retro game libraries, railing on about the "rip off" that NSO is, and predictions that Splatoon 2 will be dead by the end of 2018.

Entitlement much?

I don't owe you anything, but here, let me google for you some readily available use cases for NFTs:

https://bfy.tw/SUjJ

Will you now please stop your unreasonable screeching?

Re: Konami Is Committed To NFTs In Order To Preserve Beloved Content As "Commemorative Art"

Dr_Awkward

Excited for these first forays into NFT technology to evolve into something actually useful. A lot of you kiddos won't remember, but a couple of decades ago, people thought buying stuff on the internet was ludicrous. There were also all kinds of scammy fly-by-night operators, bilking the less informed for their money (419 Scammers, Nigerian Prince, etc.). Also, tons of stupid marketing stunts (anyone remember E-Trade's dancing Chimpanzee commercial in the 2000 super bowl. "We just wasted $5,000,000--what are you doing with your money?")

Then, in the early 00s, tech had a reckoning, and stocks fell through the floor. Lots of companies went bankrupt. What was left was the basis of the current generation of the web/internet. The one we all use now.

So, yeah--there are lots of scammy NFTs right now. Does that mean NFT technology is bad? No. The environmental footprint of cryptocurrency gets better and better, and will continue to do so.

Crypto is here to stay, just cant wait to get past this "irrational exuberance" phase. (And for you shrieking naysayers to actually read up on the technology and understand it, rather than listen to some demagogue youtuber who isn't a fan.)

Here's a tip: one of those companies people couldn't imagine working in the pre-crash internet? Amazon. Wish I had invested early. Don't miss the boat on crypto--but do your research. Memecoins will go the way of Pets.com. Bitcoin and Ethereum? They'll be the Netscape and Google of crypto.

Re: Lovecraftian Text Adventure The Innsmouth Case Is Out On Switch Today

Dr_Awkward

@AbejaGrande Good people do bad things; bad people do good things. We are more complex than the Manichean view you put forth in your comments.

Ghandi was a horrible misogynist. Should we demoize the reforms he brought to India?

MLK Jr. was a womanizer. Yet he was instrumental in the American Civil Rights movement.

Mother Teresa is a saint in the Catholic canon, yet she has an incredibly questionable record when it comes to the care of people in her hospitals, often going so far as to baptize them (regardless of their religion) without consent if they were dying.

Thomas Jefferson (along with many American founders) enshrined "equality" in American law, while owning slaves.

I think the world would be a better place for all if we try to remember that people are complex, not always internally consistent logically, and if we celebrate the good in each of us, while trying to reduce or eliminate the bad. After all, if there is no chance for redemption, there is no reason for oneself to stop the bad.