Dr_Awkward

What would happen to the world if there were different actors playing Batman or James Bond or Obi Wan Kenobi or Hulk or Willy Wonka or Hannibal Lecter or...?

The world would probably fall apart.

Honestly, some people in here sound like they are 4 year olds throwing a tantrum.

@falkyn

I would amend your comment to say "web2.0 kingpins and their unwitting foot soldiers"

@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.

@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.

@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?

@Kehkou BOTW is my favorite 3D Zelda; I just miss my dungeons. I will say that no prior to BOTW brought back the feeling of actual exploration that I'd had from playing the original on my NES.

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.

@EarthboundBenjy nah, to me Link to the Past is the most Zelda-y Zelda.

@RainbowGazelle Yep, this article is about the sequel. The original is much better on the DS/3DS than on the Switch, though the things that make it unique on the DS also make it more difficult (imo). The sequel, discussed in this article, is very good, but (again, imo) not as good.

@TheWingedAvenger Finally, someone noticed!

@RainbowGazelle @TheWingedAvenger that's a different game. NEO: TWEWY only exists on current-gen consoles.

Backwards compatibility or my next system will be the Steam Deck

+$10/annually is my preferred add-on pricing.

To the people complaining about the pricing: don't buy it?

@Olliemar28: Other reviews (https://screenrant.com/disco-elysium-final-cut-nintendo-switch-review/) mention font size scaling options. Is this review taking that into account (and font size is still a problem), is the other review wrong, or was this option missed in your review?

Thanks!

@mariomaster96 Yes, you should. Try to get the DS version, if you have a DS. If not, the Switch version will suffice.

@dmcc0 Any teacher will tell you that the first steps of learning are imitation. Source: master's degree in education.

@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.

@idrawrobots Many Americans already did this when they voted by mail for Trump

@boxyguy Are sales therefore sleazy? This is just a "buy all 3 and get a discount," if the analyst is accurate.

Looking forward to Warhammer Mechanics--just wish it had a release date. If XCOM2 releases around the same time, Warhammer sales might suffer.

@whizzkidd Seems to me that the pubs could spring for the bigger cart (e.g., Witch3r) and that this isn't a nintendo problem.

@Chlocean if you're willing to, I'd make it worth your while. Do you have a reddit account, or a way to contact you?

If you have a Reddit, I'm u/Dr--Awkward

@Chlocean Would you be willing to pick one up and ship it to me? I'd pay you in advance and throw in something for your trouble...

I own the Genki dock and it works like a charm.

Any comments on how it runs on switch?

@PJ You are doing your readers a disservice by calling Pillars of Eternity "excellent RPG action." It is completely broken, and this has been acknowledged by its publisher, VS_Evil. Honestly, I think NL should amend its review of POE.

@Bones4241 I, too, was lucky enough to get a refund, but Nintendo was surprisingly grumpy about it:

N: Refunds are not guaranteed. I don't have to do this for you.
Me: You sold me a literally broken product.
N: So? Read the legal agreement you accepted when you used our eshop. We don't have to give you a refund.
Me: If you don't give me a refund, I will ask my credit card company for a chargeback.
N: If you do that, we will terminate your account [with thousands of dollars of eshop purchases across several platforms.]
Me: Don't make me take you to small claims court.
N: You agreed to this [sucker. Good luck in court.]

This interaction has had me seriously rethinking my decision to be all-digital. I know that my next purchase, The Witcher, will be on cart.

And before anyone says, "hurr durr, read the reviews before you buy a game," NONE of the reviews in the first weeks mentioned any of the game breaking bugs. Not even the one on NL.

VS_EVIL, who is publishing this game, is the company responsible for the DISASTROUS Switch port of Pillars of Eternity. I would advise anyone considering this to wait until well after release to pick it up.

For my part, I am boycotting this company entirely.

@N64-ROX This refers to the recent reboot of Jumanji from 2017, which is a way better film than the sad contrived and aged Robin Williams original.

Not sure where you're getting the 90s nostalgia from, or why you are complaining about it given that your user name is literally N64-ROX!

@pingua08 I'd argue that's not a hardware failure (as more hardware means more install base for non-exclusive software), but instead a software failure, or poor decisionmaking to move ahead with that game.

OTOH, I bought XC for N3DS, so no complaints from me.

@Jaalsky Nintendo is a company. You owned the hanafuda card company?

@MrBlacky I am sorry Nintendo is forcing you to play with your tiny switch.

@pingua08 Do you have a source for your "failed" comment? I'm seeing each N3DS as an incremental purchase that would not otherwise have happened...

Harambe, we hardly knew ye...

Dumb game gets dumb price; news at 11.

@Heavyarms55

This is neither racist nor demeaning. I find that many religions tend to fuel bigotry and hate. All are eminently mockable.

@Anti-Matter To weed out the plebes.

Oddly, after the update, my switch ran hot and depleted its battery overnight last night.

So...Bowsette?

So many entitled children in the comments!

@Preposterous or perhaps, a lot of people care less about cutting edge visuals than satisfying gameplay and are sending that message to publishers.

As someone who normally doesn't care about frame rate, I must say that the small freezes that occur from time to time have a material impact on gameplay. This particular game has fast and vicious combat, as well as permadeath. That doesn't combine well with the freezes.

That said, I am still loving the game, and would rather have it now than wait another 3 months.

Glad the developers are going to do the right thing.

Lack of VC is disappointing, but the fact that the ONLY way to back up saves is by handing money over to Ninty is really really terrible.

In the long run, I'll probably end up hacking my 1st gen switch to enable non-cloud saves, and ROMs of all of the games I've bought in the past.

@electrolite77 I so hope you are right.

No mention of Labo. Odd.

Perhaps, if competitive players don't like the way a game is designed, they should move on to something else.

I refuse to fund PDP's edgelord nazism.

My favorite video game book is Ready Player One. Having grown up in the 1980s, it resonated with me quite a bit.

XX!

ITT: Whining about free stuff that can be used as a cash equivalent on the eShop