I messed around with shredded pastry dough today and made a weird but tasty kind of banana yogurt eggroll with it.

It basically bakes up like shredded wheat you can shape beforehand and the little dough shards made really pleasant sounds when they crunched.

I kind of get that, those little pins on music boxes are so hard to not keep touching

I have spent thousands in gacha, though I’m more a ‘dolphin’ than a whale

Was #1 on server 10 and 11 in Memento Mori for a while, ran the top guilds there (NORTH and TRUE NORTH). It was really fun till one of our shift guild leaders usurped the guild and kicked half of the team on the night of our biggest Mass Combat push, losing us most of our territory. So I quit and got very, VERY bitter

That was 2 years ago and the only gacha I’ve played since is Pokemon Pocket tho as f2p this time (it is very generous)

If you want to know anything about dolphin/whale action in Memento Mori, Blue Archive or Reverse 1999 I’ll answer any questions

The concept of Gacha predates lootboxes and started as physical real-world vending machines with surprise balls containing little toys or stickers, mainly aimed at kids

They noticed that the mystery drove sales and pretty much overwhelmed ‘normal’ toy vending machines in a few short years

While the concepts are similar, they had different origins.

These gacha companies pay ridiculous amounts of money for psych profile info specifically to target vulnerable individuals, yet individuals don’t have that same kind of access or understanding

This is NOT a both sides thing.

Yeah American is a victim blaming culture

Almost as if capitalism was specifically designed to shuffle all wealth from the bottom to the top in a neverending ratchet of human degradation and exploitation

I am so fucking tired…

It’s so easy bc there’s only dozens of them

And you can ride your horse to work and post him up right outside your office

Maybe nowadays, it was a very different place in 2010

Every thread on lemmy is dead

There are more millionaires around now than ever before

Granted nearly all of them are the children of other millionaires and billionaires

That’s who the world caters to now, not normal people

Windows will be turned into exits

You didn’t even bother to read my use cases…

A mix of the best and worst of humanity shoved into a small room and given no supervision

actually having to pay off extra passengers can get expensive, up to 10k per seat, so even one willing passenger without a seat is a loss, but they accept that possibility based on a curve over time of profit across all flights calculated on historical outcomes. Some flights will be overbooked and they accept that as the cost of making sure that other flights are more filled

The reason they overbook is that there is no human way to seamlessly transfer ticket ownership between pass holders down to the moment of boarding, across all venues and services where the tickets are sold.

NFTs add a platform that is universal, secure, and publicly accessible. No other database offers that

You know, when reddit first started, no one minded long replies, in fact they were considered a mark of excellence and understanding. Long, accurate replies were almost always the top comment in non-meme subs.

Then smart phones became popular and every idiot gained access to the web

Suddenly, around 2012, you started seeing comments disparaging long replies as being ‘nerdy’ or ‘tryhard’. On FUCKING reddit, the HOME of the nerds!

It was a real emotional whiplash to me for a place that once welcomed detailed discussion to start mocking users for creating quality reply content

That’s when I realized the internet was fucked because of people like you.

You can do this with a database.

Yes because blockchain is a database. What it brings that other databases CANNOT is 1) Unfalsifiability baked in to the product at a fundamental level and 2) A universal framework for enacting contracts that are secure enough to use in court as a legally binding document (adobe paid and passed on to the customer a ridiculous cost to make their product compliant with this, for blockchain it is already baked in

You can do this with a PIN code.

A horse will take you to the grocery store too, but the NFT of the apartment also comes with the legal documents that show you are the valid resident unlike just a pin code. This also protects the customer from brokers and services from using illegal subletting as you can only get the ‘pin’ from the last valid owner, and that access can be traced back to the initial moment the property entered the blockchain. Also in court, discovery is stupidly easy as all transactions are public and secure

You can do this with databases.

Yes and every company has their own database system and almost NONE of them talk to each other and none of them are public ledgers and absolutely none of them operate on consensus polling, meaning trust needs to be established directly, custom APIs need to be crafted for every paired trade instance. Nearly every blockchain comes with that baked in, and has been actively tested and attacked for a decade and a half with zero failure of the underlying blockchain technology.

it’s not the NFT that’s binding, it’s a contract, and the NFT is just a proxy for the contract. The NFT adds no value.

The NFT IS a contract, this is what you are missing, and the value it adds is immense which I have demonstrated thoroughly in counter to every weakass claim you have made and you still adamantly refuse to admit your failures

You are so welded to your meme identity it blinds you to a useful and functional thing

FUCKING THANK YOU!