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Why all hate NFTs?

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You could buy some, they'd be roughly as wise an investment as the other kind of NFT.
I would prefer to not have them, they seem to take up too much space and appear to be a weak spot. I quite entire the space in my pants
 
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I would prefer to not have them, they seem to take up too much space and appear to be a weak spot. I quite entire the space in my pants
That's entirely reasonable, but you could always store them elsewhere

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Cryptobros, instead of addressing the inherent flaws of capitalism, would rather exploit other people just so they can get a cushy life. Maaaaaaybe everyone deserves a cushy life, yeah? Sans the evil, of course.
 

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In short, I see NFTs as overpriced idiotic QR codes that you don't even scan; It's just a stupid token that LINKS to a document, that then usually links to an image or some other asset. The "blockchain", which is a large bullshit database of every transaction, and also a huge waste of processing power and electrical power, can't even store what the token links to.
The server your monkey jpeg that you "bought" is hosted on goes down? That token is even MORE worthless.
Essentially, all crypto is good for is just pyramid schemes, and money laundering. Both of which are illegal.
 

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I think NFT is good. It helps a lot of artists in my country.
Wrong. I know fighting someone like you, who is probably a bot, is a fruitless affair, but as an artist myself I'm not fucking letting that lie just fly with no turbulence.
In parenthesis, let me state the fact clearly: The so-called technology that you hold so dearly hurts artists more than it help them, capiche? Art theft is rampant, and so damn apparent, to the point that DeviantArt made an automated scanner to check for reuploads of people's art not only within DA itself, but also on those crappy NFT marketplaces. These arguments, are just open-shut cases. I've been on the net both near and far, spitting fire and some bars, and you my friend you're just a fool. Crypto shit just isn't cool! Yeah yeah sure, maybe rapping to diss some bot at midnight ain't the most productive thing to do, but what else would I do? In your life, you wanna proceed, but your intelligence? It just recedes. When it comes to idiots like you, I know what to do: I gotta believe!
 

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Wrong. I know fighting someone like you, who is probably a bot, is a fruitless affair, but as an artist myself I'm not fucking letting that lie just fly with no turbulence.
Y'know, when you reply to a bot instead of just reporting the post, you just boost the thread and make it more likely that there will be more bots.
 

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Y'know, when you reply to a bot instead of just reporting the post, you just boost the thread and make it more likely that there will be more bots.
Eh, it's not like there'll be too many of em for us to handle anyway. Thanks for reminding me to report it though.

edit: holy shit they blew it up
 

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NFTs could be great as a theoretical replacement for utility, markets, and industries that consume more than just electricity. Ex.) Trading card games, physical media, vouchers, tickets, hard-copy contracts and records.

If an NFT could grant you access to a game through a decentralized system, then you wouldn't have to worry about your console store going offline or cutting access to your account. Being able to trade, sell, and return digital media rights would make digital media more viable in the whole digital vs physical debate.

NFTs aren't going away, but they have a long way to go in demonstrating utility beyond fads and recruitment schemes.

The Reason why Game Publisher want to use NFTs is to suck you Money by telling you that their stupid loot boxes would be now worth something.

If you purchase DLC, then you are already a potential customer of a system where that DLC can be traded or used in different games and on different platforms. They don't need to be sold to you as "NFT", but the NFT could be a framework on how they determine ownership. The NFT aspect could even exist without you knowing about it. As an end-user, you'd find out that DLC became cooler because you could trade it, and you'd be none-the-wiser that it was blockchain/NFT management that makes your DLC, ironically, more fungible.
 
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Most of the images you buy are links to the image either hosted on Google Drive, Amazon's AWS cloud services, MEGA or similar.
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There will also be a time where the link no longer exists, leaving you completely empty handed. Be a good person and do what everybody else does, and that is to save the image for free.
 
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Most of the images you buy are links to the image either hosted on Google Drive, Amazon's AWS cloud services, MEGA or similar.
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There will also be a time where the link no longer exists, leaving you completely empty handed. Be a good person and do what everybody else does, and that is to save the image for free.
And if it were from a real artist and not just some shitty picrew made by a computer, you could just (sometimes) commission them for something you truly wanna see!
 
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