Release [Chaosium] Call of Cthulhu arrives on digital collectable app VeVe

theliel · Feb 13, 2022

Greggy C said:
I can see the value of an electronic piece of art that only you, the owner, can display digitally at high resolution. Everyone else has a poopy screenshot. All depends on how much you love that painting. I never played Call of Cthulhu so it doesn't mean anything to me.

That's not how NFTs work. Your idea would at least have some value.

Because The Blockchain is 100% public facing, and everything you are purchasing must be in the token (stored on the blockchain) everyone has access to the high resolution jpeg.

You could, if you wanted to, create a storage portal that attaches an NFT to an account and then that account has access to the high quality item. But now you're building a custom storefront to serve images, and the NFT/crypto/Blockchain angle is 110% superfluous - as demonstrated by the fact that the Associated Press (AP) has been doing exactly what you said for a few years now, all without NFTs/Blockchain.

The only thing the blockchain adds is new ways for your items to be stolen.

Greggy C · Feb 13, 2022

theliel said:
That's not how NFTs work. Your idea would at least have some value.

Because The Blockchain is 100% public facing, and everything you are purchasing must be in the token (stored on the blockchain) everyone has access to the high resolution jpeg.

You could, if you wanted to, create a storage portal that attaches an NFT to an account and then that account has access to the high quality item. But now you're building a custom storefront to serve images, and the NFT/crypto/Blockchain angle is 110% superfluous - as demonstrated by the fact that the Associated Press (AP) has been doing exactly what you said for a few years now, all without NFTs/Blockchain.

The only thing the blockchain adds is new ways for your items to be stolen.

Yeah thats hot garbage. The greed of man.

theliel · Feb 13, 2022

Greggy C said:
Yeah thats hot garbage. The greed of man.

If you ever feel confused about NFTs or Cryptocurrencies (NFTs are a use case for Cryptocurrency and require an associated cryptocurrency to work with) just know that this is intentional.

Like all good conmen and grifters, they know that complexity is the best place to hide malfeasance.

Each individual part, when broken down, seems perfectly reasonable. It's only after you see the entire picture and can comprehend some of the 2nd order consequences does the scam start to come into picture.

This is why Dan Olson's/FoldingIdea's video is 2 hours and 18 minutes and not a minute is wasted and why he cut 3 hours of relevant material.

The complexity makes it so that those in on the con can always counter any criticism with minutia from another part of the scam and be technically correct, but doing so to deflect from the perfectly valid criticism.