D&D General NFTs Are Here To Ruin Dungeons & Dragons

[Jer]

Gripnr attacks drivethru.

Wow. Either he's spewing out squid ink, or he doesn't understand the market at all.

Neither of those are good looks.

 

[darjr]

Wow. Either he's spewing out squid ink, or he doesn't understand the market at all.

Neither of those are good looks.

It’s all so familiar.

 

[darjr]

Oh man.

I'm going to give some free, friendly advice that has been hard earned over my many decades of life. You can pass this off to your boss as well who is busy personally attacking the journalist who wrote the story on Twitter.

You guys need to get a communications person and let them do all of this. Individually going out to defend your work is the first impulse of everyone when they feel like they're being "attacked" but it's also the worst possible thing you can do from a corporate perspective. You need to hire a comms person who can remain detached, gather information, and present responses to stuff like this. And also to decide if it even needs to be responded to. And then everyone else involved needs to stay off social media (at least where things like this are concerned) and let your social media response team handle it. And if your company doesn't have a social media team and you're working in a highly controversial tech space - like crypto/NFTs - then you need to ask yourself seriously what your management is doing and why they haven't done the basics for communications support that you folks should have. If you do have a communications team you all need to back off and let them do their jobs and if you don't you need to hire one, because without one you're sunk.

(A second bit of advice you can pass off to your boss is that he needs to be able to answer journalists who ask the question "why does this need to be on a blockchain - why can't it be in a database you host?" Because if the only answer to that is "NFTs! Resale Value! Tokens! Blockchain!" you're also sunk eventually, it just may take a bit longer for you all to realize it. Because it means your model is based on the trading of digital pogs and not anything inherent in what you're putting out, and anyone can get a digital pog to trade from a lot of places)

It’s part of the plan.

 

[giant.robot]

It does not matter one iota how well meaning a company is or how nice the employees are if the fundamental business involves NFTs or cryptocurrency. They are Ponzi schemes. Not only are they Ponzi schemes but they are horribly wasteful and polluting Ponzi schemes.

There is just no way around that core fact. No matter what is built on top of the system at the end of the day it's gangrenous puppy cancer powered kitten canons.

From the technical side of things everything GRIPNR is proposing could be run on a boring-ass cloud instance. Due to the absolute naughty word performance of blockchains it could run on the least capable VPS you can find for a dollar a month. Such a VPS would run circles around the blockchain based stack. There is no technical problem to which cryptocurrency blockchains are the best solution.

 

[Bill Zebub]

It does not matter one iota how well meaning a company is or how nice the employees are if the fundamental business involves NFTs or cryptocurrency. They are Ponzi schemes. Not only are they Ponzi schemes but they are horribly wasteful and polluting Ponzi schemes.

There is just no way around that core fact. No matter what is built on top of the system at the end of the day it's gangrenous puppy cancer powered kitten canons.

From the technical side of things everything GRIPNR is proposing could be run on a boring-ass cloud instance. Due to the absolute naughty word performance of blockchains it could run on the least capable VPS you can find for a dollar a month. Such a VPS would run circles around the blockchain based stack. There is no technical problem to which cryptocurrency blockchains are the best solution.

When I get together with friends to game, I like to know my character's continued existence requires a non-trivial (detrimental) contribution to global climate change.

 

[darjr]

Thier boss is literally a billionaire. They know best.

 

[Fanaelialae]

That doesn't mean the behaviors aren't analogous.

People have the same set of initial response to a friend jumping out from behind a corner as they do to a tiger pouncing them. No one is equivocating the stimulus, just the response.

Sure, different behaviors can be analogous, differing only in degree, though in this case I would disagree that is the case.

It's like someone bringing up survivors of tiger attacks, and another person responding that they know exactly what that's like because a friend once jump scared them. Just... No.

 

[Faolyn]

But you can just as easily do that with objects in a database without the blockchain energy-guzzling nonsense. I mean, I don't know if Arena works the same way, but Magic Online created "digital objects" of each card, with the same rarity as the physical version. No NFTs or crypto needed.

Heck, my library only has so many copies of each ebook they lend out.

 

[beancounter]

NFT's are a shell game. Sure those entering it entrance may do well, but everyone after them is likely to lose money (assuming the play by the rules). The fact that there are no controls over hw people can level up would be a huge warning sign. Nothing more than a speculative investment masquerading as a game.

 

[Grendel_Khan]

Look, do I think NFTs are almost entirely a scam? Yes I do. Do I think crypto is, similarly, almost entirely a misplaced used of technology that should actively be regulated into oblivion? Yes I do. Does that mean Gripnr falls within that same arena. Likely, yes. Not because of the people involved, but in spite of them.

You’ve laid out exactly why I think it’s perfectly reasonable to give no leeway to this company or this project. NFTs are awful through and through, and crypto is a cancer. What you’re essentially arguing is that maybe this project deserves the benefit of the doubt because it might be an unprecedented miracle.

If it does turn out to be that miraculous, we’ll all be convinced whether we like it or not.