ralphthemagician

Selling Funko Pops are a physical thing. Selling NFTs are basically just him selling his signature on a piece of paper that says "1 of 100" and has some other metadata on it. Maybe there’s a link that may or may not be live. Most NFTs contain no content.

An NFT is closer to the certificate of authenticity you might get with some piece of special merch, not the merch itself.

Feels like Tarantino might be able to win this, since NFTs contain no artwork and confer no ownership rights. The closest real world analog to an NFT is a signed, serialized, certificate of authenticity.

It’s kind of funny to see a movie studio step in to protect consumers from getting scammed.

As per usually, a new financial instrument was created, without a thorough framework, and—surprise, surprise—it has been abused. SPACs where invented to make the IPO process easier for smaller companies that would never be able to realistically meet or afford regulatory compliance for an IPO. Funny thing is that SPACs aren’t even new. There were some changes that made them more attractive over the years, but it all comes down to someone sitting down one day and thinking, "Wait… can I do this? I shouldn’t be able to do this. Holy !@#$, I can do this!" It was never intend to be used the way it’s used now, for $80B hype train car companies.

All you need today to take a company public via a SPAC is $700k in cash, a PowerPoint presentation, and about a half dozen people to get in on it with so you can fill out names on the correct forms.

He might not be that far off. Hardware has really plateaued and the gains from hardware now are really quite marginal. The returns on quality after 1080p/60—for most scenarios—just don’t feel next level anymore. Even when looking at the difference between PS4 and PS5, the biggest real difference that you feel is load times.

Part of the issue, I think, is development costs. Creating really good textures and models at 4k and beyond is just… expensive. It’s a lot of creative hours to do it well. You are better off in a lot of ways trying to focus on creative decisions that make things look good, feel natural, and provide for smooth gameplay. We need a breakthrough in content creation at this point for graphics hardware to have a real impact on the enjoyment of games going forward. I think what has been learned from games like God of War, RD2, BotW, TLoU2 (and even the original) is that art direction actually matters a lot more at this point than graphics hardware does. All these games run on hardware that is 10 years old. A little slow in some cases, perhaps some dynamic scaling, but they look great on 10 year old hardware. Hyper-realism has reached a tipping point where it doesn’t make financial sense to keep pushing pixels. Even FPS games are starting to drop the excessive bloom, resolution and lighting effects and focus more on color palettes, textures and smoothing things out with smart creative decisions. In an almost bizarre twist today’s FPS games are now intentionally adding blur of all kinds (both motion and DoF).

There is no doubt the Switch will continue to get upgraded. 1080p/60 will happen eventually. They will eventually either enable 4k or add an upscaler of their own. But they’ll do it when it’s cost efficient to do so, and it really won’t make that big of a difference. The Nintendo 3DS has a 10 year lifecycle. So did the PS4. So does GTA V. The idea that today’s Switch will be the baseline Nintendo console until 2030 might be true.

I’d like to see a slight faster Switch. I’d really like to see one with a high quality upscaler. But I really do hope that they don’t create a new piece of hardware that you are "forced" to buy to play new games.

It’s not about your device. It’s about the devices of the millions of people who click "okay" or "accept" on every dialog box they see.

You open up sideloading, even with restrictions, and it just creates new paths and new vulnerabilities that will be exploited. It creates an entirely new attack vector.

The real winners of sideloading are Symantec/Norton/McAfee//GeekSquad who will be able to charge ridiculous fees to remove the malware that will inevitably get installed by tens of millions of people.

We are way past that. There are only eight or nine cities in the entire country with transit infrastructure that isn’t ridiculous garbage.