Team17’s boss sounds like a bit of a c**t

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So she’s worth £200m, but pays her QA staff £16k a year. Talk’s about being a women in the game’s industry, ignores the concerns of female staff in her company. Talks of being ethical, supports NFTs.

Sounds a bit shit. Shame, as Worms and Overcooked are great fun to play.
 

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What is the Worms NFT firestorm? I have to admit, I don't really get NFTs in general.

The closest I came to understanding them was the explanation: Imagine you're married and your wife fucks around, sleeping with hundreds of guys all day every day. But you have a marriage certificate. That marriage certificate is the NFT.

But I still don't get the point of them.
 

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The only argument I’ve heard for NFTs that make sense is a way for digital artists to sell the “original” of their work.

Otherwise it’s a scam.
 

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Anything you can exchange for money can be used for a money laundering scheme.
 

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The only argument I’ve heard for NFTs that make sense is a way for digital artists to sell the “original” of their work.

Otherwise it’s a scam.
Including that, it's a scam. You can't sell an original where none exists. It's like selling something imaginary, like an idea. I guess if it includes publishing rights to the piece, that's something.
 

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If game companies want to get behind NFT's, they can provide them as licenses for downloaded copies of thier games.

Of course, they don't want to do that.
 

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Including that, it's a scam. You can't sell an original where none exists. It's like selling something imaginary, like an idea. I guess if it includes publishing rights to the piece, that's something.

I agree when something can be perfectly copied that there is no original.

It’s a fiat currency at that point.
 

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Including that, it's a scam. You can't sell an original where none exists. It's like selling something imaginary, like an idea. I guess if it includes publishing rights to the piece, that's something.
that's just the current, limited application of nfts. there are others...but these types of use cases would be waaaaay down the road, assuming it even becomes a legitimate thing beyond scammy shit art right now.
 

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If game companies want to get behind NFT's, they can provide them as licenses for downloaded copies of thier games.

Of course, they don't want to do that.

In 2012 Microsoft wanted games to have licenses so that you could buy/sell/transfer them.

Consumers rejected it because of the online nature of the DRM.
 

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that's just the current, limited application of nfts. there are others...but these types of use cases would be waaaaay down the road, assuming it even becomes a legitimate thing beyond scammy shit art right now.

Such as?
 

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In 2012 Microsoft wanted games to have licenses so that you could buy/sell/transfer them.

Consumers rejected it because of the online nature of the DRM.
yeah, i'm not sure why norton suggested this. it makes no sense. the only real sensible way games can use NFTs and blockchain, at the moment, is for creating of in-game items (as an NFT) tied to a blockchain and utilizing a provably random/fair mechanism for random generation of those items.
 

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I agree when something can be perfectly copied that there is no original.

It’s a fiat currency at that point.
But in the case of digital art, there's really no original. What are you going to do, give them the computer or tablet you created the piece on? Decapitate yourself and give them the brain you conceived the piece with? The idea is completely nonsensical.

I think NFTs are a pushback against the idea by tech moguls that by 2030, we will own nothing "and like it". People with NFTs are like, fuck you, not only am I going to continue to own shit, but now I'm even going to own imaginary shit and what the fuck are you going to do about it?
 

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you'd have to be bought into the the idea that everything would be digital. the easiest example i can come up with would be the title to your home. anything that needs a unique digital representation that can not be forged or manipulated. but, like i said, this requires many things to happen before this becomes a reality. you'd also have to have multiple organizations recognize that NFT as being official so you can use it the way you might use a title to obtain a loan or sell.
 

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NFTs seem to me to be an experiment of creating an economy of goods and assets to be traded within the metaverse when that space finally becomes massively inhabitted.
 

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yeah, i'm not sure why norton suggested this. it makes no sense. the only real sensible way games can use NFTs and blockchain, at the moment, is for creating of in-game items (as an NFT) tied to a blockchain and utilizing a provably random/fair mechanism for random generation of those items.

Don't tell me that it's not possible.
 

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Don't tell me that it's not possible.
of course it's possible, but it requires you to be online, hence lagduf's example of why it didn't work before. if people have changed their mentality now, then yeah, it would work if the companies are willing to do it.
 

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I don't see anything that warrants this a thread unless it's an outlet for madmanjock to get angry at women.

It appears to be the norm just about everywhere nowadays.
 

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I don't see anything that warrants this a thread

Okay Sage so the idea is to read the article and comment on something within it, with the rest of us so far?

Right now were discussing NFTs, but if you want to talk about the disillusionment of workers in larger corporations that’s also a valid point, but maybe think about making some sort of argument with that idea, or at least make your posts semi-interesting to read?
 

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WTF did I just read? This sh8t read like the fine print of a misleading ad.
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