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Sanya Juutilainen posted:Is that... is that metallic whisky glass? Made from metal? You know, one of the materials that is well known to transfer heat quickly, making your whisky lukewarm faster than if you had it in something with lower thermal conductivity, like, say... glass? It doesn't even seem to be double layered, so you could have insulation vacuum or air layer (which is how some metal mugs work), just metal with some coating. It’s being sold with whisky stones. This is not for people who give a poo poo about whisky or have any clue at all about it. Don’t sweat it. The metal mugs will sweat enough for you.
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DaysBefore posted:Wow Penny Arcade comics are still going It's the Marmaduke of webcomics. It will never die. Why improve when people will keep shoveling money at you for your mediocre art and pretentious yet lazy writing? The other PA.com projects are all miles better than the comic, but they've abandoned every single one of them save PAX. BRING BACK STRIP SEARCH YOU FUCKERS
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Scruffpuff posted:The Breakpoint NFTs are incomprehensible to me. You have to find someone who cares about a cosmetic, who also cares that the cosmetic is globally unique, and there must be an established methodology to prove that, in addition to some unnamed third party for the owner of the unique cosmetic item to wear in front of so someone else can see it and know it's unique, and that third party has to give enough of a poo poo for the original party to feel it wasn't a waste. How many people really have all those pathologies at once? And haven't they already spent all their money on SC? quote:How many people really have all those pathologies at once? Honestly? billions. Because it's not caring about a cosmetic, it's caring about the possible money the cosmetic may bring to you. Who cares about the technical details as long as you can maybe sell it for a shitload of money? (And if in real life you could materialize a Ferrari out of thin air nobody in their right mind would be caught driving one. Way to paint a giant bullseye in you classless rear end).
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Alibaba has tonnes of these for anywhere from cents to literal $10 a set, custom engraved too! Wow CIG is really scraping the bottom of the barrel selling poo poo like this And of course the monocle wearing Concierge will happily buy 3 sets each, because their brother will want one for christmas/Chanukah
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Scruffpuff posted:The fact that any of this poo poo exists at all keeps making me renew my research on it. I keep getting this nagging feeling I'm missing something, some major aspect of this I haven't considered, that will make it all come into focus and I'll suddenly understand why this is a thing. And so far I'm turning up nothing. Short answer: It's pure greed my dude. Long answer: We're quickly approaching the physical limits on the amount of real stuff that can be produced without totally dooming us even more and even land prices cannot appreciate in price forever. Investors are looking for new exciting ways to grow their money. NFTs are just a way to make free unlimited stuff scarce, which creates value, which means that you can invest on it. Digital alchemy. It's dumb but money ain't real either so if we can keep capital gains going up, uP, UP! forever with dumb tokens instead of destroying our own planet over that (yes, I am aware some crypto is very good at the whole destroying the planet thing) then it would be a net positive, to be honest. Dumb as gently caress but we already like in a dumb as gently caress reality.
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I'll never get used to 'Concierge' being a supposedly prestigious title when in French, it's the lowly-paid dude(tte) that lives on the bottom floor apartment and is in charge of maintaining the common floors and addressing the building-related problems of everyone. The concierge is basically the delegated building slave, sent by the owning company to serve the residents. The cliché mental picture of the concierge is that of a lower-class-than-the-real-residents individual mopping the stairs.
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FishMcCool posted:I'll never get used to 'Concierge' being a supposedly prestigious title when in French, it's the lowly-paid dude(tte) that lives on the bottom floor apartment and is in charge of maintaining the common floors and addressing the building-related problems of everyone. The concierge is basically the delegated building slave, sent by the owning company to serve the residents. The cliché mental picture of the concierge is that of a lower-class-than-the-real-residents individual mopping the stairs. it's French, therefore it's fancy and important you FUDster
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FishMcCool posted:I'll never get used to 'Concierge' being a supposedly prestigious title when in French, it's the lowly-paid dude(tte) that lives on the bottom floor apartment and is in charge of maintaining the common floors and addressing the building-related problems of everyone. The concierge is basically the delegated building slave, sent by the owning company to serve the residents. The cliché mental picture of the concierge is that of a lower-class-than-the-real-residents individual mopping the stairs. "Concierge service" is a pretty common term in the hotel industry. The title is supposed to be applied as something you GET, not something you ARE. I think CIG is using the term correctly but I think a lot of the whales aren't.
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Rotten Red Rod posted:"Concierge service" is a pretty common term in the hotel industry. The title is supposed to be applied as something you GET, not something you ARE. Ah, right. So they get to avail of a concierge or equivalent. That makes a lot more sense than calling themselves concierges...
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FishMcCool posted:I'll never get used to 'Concierge' being a supposedly prestigious title when in French, it's the lowly-paid dude(tte) that lives on the bottom floor apartment and is in charge of maintaining the common floors and addressing the building-related problems of everyone. The concierge is basically the delegated building slave, sent by the owning company to serve the residents. The cliché mental picture of the concierge is that of a lower-class-than-the-real-residents individual mopping the stairs. Here in good old Kwebek plenty of them don't even get paid, they just get a "free" ground floor apartment in exchange for the pleasure of being everybody else's footstool. Still better than Latin America where a "conserje" is just a janitor.
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Too many concierge/janitor posts in a row now. I can feel Viscera Cleanup Detail calling me...
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trucutru posted:land prices cannot appreciate in price forever I've been looking into buying a piece of land to build a house and I feel like this is not true at all. 
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sebmojo posted:legitimately pumped to finish up cod:iw, the plucky heroes are gearing up to beat up jon snow and his treacherous aircraft carrier (in space) that's such a good last stage that game is so good but only 1% of the player base gave a gently caress because they only play multi
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Regarde Aduck posted:that's such a good last stage Yep, I had a blast. It has that cod sheen where all the guns and sounds and visuals are dialled in just so.
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FishMcCool posted:I'll never get used to 'Concierge' being a supposedly prestigious title when in French, it's the lowly-paid dude(tte) that lives on the bottom floor apartment and is in charge of maintaining the common floors and addressing the building-related problems of everyone. The concierge is basically the delegated building slave, sent by the owning company to serve the residents. The cliché mental picture of the concierge is that of a lower-class-than-the-real-residents individual mopping the stairs. I live in Vegas, concierge has a really different meaning here. At the bigger or more affluent casinos the concierge service can get big money players a.... very wide selection of goods and services.
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Dr. Honked posted:Heretic It was okay, but all in all, I preferred Hexen.
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Time_pants posted:It was okay, but all in all, I preferred Hexen. heretic 2 was a stealth classic
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Ego concierge advocatus sum et hoc crap emere volo ab alibaba propter ridiculam pecuniam!
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Dr. Honked posted:looks a bit like Doonesbury now Yeah, the art change looks rill bad.
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Can't help it, but Elite always wins over SC with its cohesive style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBvM_OVm8Vs&t=4507s You can tell the similarities to Scarab (and how they make sense in-universe), but at the same time it's a new, interesting approach to surface vehicle in Elite.
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Angry_Ed posted:This is CiG, it's always as dumb as it seems Not true! sometimes it's dumber
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Sanya Juutilainen posted:Is that... is that metallic whisky glass? Made from metal? You know, one of the materials that is well known to transfer heat quickly, making your whisky lukewarm faster than if you had it in something with lower thermal conductivity, like, say... glass? It doesn't even seem to be double layered, so you could have insulation vacuum or air layer (which is how some metal mugs work), just metal with some coating. Consider the target market. People who have repeatedly demonstrated their lack of critical thinking and will literally buy any poo poo they want to sell. If they sold SC toilet rolls for $100 each they would sell out.
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CIG is still selling SOCS socks. You remember of course when SOCS released and changed gaming forever, this break through technology driving the entire industry forward by leaps and bounds. It definitely did something... I wonder what they're going to sell when Serving Meshing (static of course) comes out. Mesh top shirts?
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Popete posted:I wonder what they're going to sell when Serving Meshing (static of course) comes out. Mesh top shirts? String vests. Please no.
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Popete posted:I wonder what they're going to sell when Serving Meshing (static of course) comes out. Mesh top shirts? Chris will release a song. I was working on my code late one night When my eyes beheld an eerie sight As the servers from their racks began to rise And suddenly, to my surprise They did the Mesh They did the Server Mesh $500 on CD, $490 streaming, Warbond only
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Popete posted:CIG is still selling SOCS socks. You remember of course when SOCS released and changed gaming forever, this break through technology driving the entire industry forward by leaps and bounds. It definitely did something... "Whale-net shirts" works on multiple metaphors and can also represent the size of the garment.
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Popete posted:CIG is still selling SOCS socks. You remember of course when SOCS released and changed gaming forever, this break through technology driving the entire industry forward by leaps and bounds. It definitely did something... did they ever fix 'uint46' on the SOCS socks? silly fudsters, Chris invented uint46 as a line-optimal binary representation of data!!!!!!
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eonwe posted:did anyone say shart shitizen yet piiss assizen
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cmdrk posted:did they ever fix 'uint46' on the SOCS socks? I just looked it up on the store and lol no. That's loving hilarious.
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Scruffpuff posted:The fact that any of this poo poo exists at all keeps making me renew my research on it. I keep getting this nagging feeling I'm missing something, some major aspect of this I haven't considered, that will make it all come into focus and I'll suddenly understand why this is a thing. And so far I'm turning up nothing. It's just tulips and beanie babies on a block chain
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Canasta_Nasty posted:It's just tulips and beanie babies on a block chain
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Time_pants posted:Not true! Sometimes?
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sebmojo posted:Yep, I had a blast. It has that cod sheen where all the guns and sounds and visuals are dialled in just so. I wish COD games weren't so stupidly high priced for so long so I could feel good about buying their single player campaigns. I don't care about multiplayer at all but I like a good shootmans campaign, but it usually feels like a bad value proposition. Also the problem is I used to enjoy replaying COD games but now there's so much like in mission cutscenes and stuff that I find it less fun to basically play through a bunch of cinematics again. That's the great thing about Squadron 69. It's one low price for 50 chapters of the game, and every level is an open world that has craters bigger than skyrim with more content. And you would think the mess hall scenes would be boring to replay, except they play out differently every time through the quantum cutlery systems with emergent foodtray gameplay. Squadron will be a Cod killer for sure, in fact we already know it's even more lethal. I'm just glad chris is sticking it to the AAA publishers. I bet we see a release Q4 of this year, as there's no way Chris could be holding it back for longer, and PU progress is so bad that they must be crunching near the end.
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L. Ron Hoover posted:I wish COD games weren't so stupidly high priced for so long so I could feel good about buying their single player campaigns. I don't care about multiplayer at all but I like a good shootmans campaign, but it usually feels like a bad value proposition. Also the problem is I used to enjoy replaying COD games but now there's so much like in mission cutscenes and stuff that I find it less fun to basically play through a bunch of cinematics again. (Nods s9lemnly) preach it
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Scruffpuff posted:If in real life people could just create a Ferrari out of thin air, anyone who wants one would have one, and nobody who matters would give two shits if it was an "original" or not. They'd laugh over the constant bitchy mewlings of the "real" owners and go about their day knowing they won. You overestimate rich people. As I said before, look at the watch market. Patek Philippe sells a watch, the Nautilus, for which nobody in their right mind would pay more than 15k. They sell it for 30k, but not to you, because you're a plebe who hasn't bought enough horological Idrises. Therefore, everybody wants one to show to themselves and others that they are not a plebe. Therefore, the Nautilus (again, a plain steel wristwatch) trades at substantially over 100k now. A few days ago, Patek Philippe introduced a light blue version limited to 170 pieces. They sell it for 50k, and there is a consensus that the first piece auctioned will fetch a seven-figure-price tag. The kicker? You can get a clone from China that is literally indistinguishible in each and every respect from the original for 1k. So this is exactly the scenario that you describe, and you're wrong: people do go for the original Ferrari. Which is why I think, God help me, that barring a collapse of civilization, that ridiculous NFT poo poo will work out, especially in a near future where AR glasses are ubiquitous.
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sebmojo posted:legitimately pumped to finish up cod:iw, the plucky heroes are gearing up to beat up jon snow and his treacherous aircraft carrier (in space) Goddamnit, ok, I have just add it to my steam wish list thingie waiting for the next sale.
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Blackstone posted:You overestimate rich people. I think in a way you're in agreement, the question is always to what level of society will that caring about the original descend? I think the watch thing may be a bit different in that the whole purpose is to show how wealthy you are, getting a deal on an indistinguishable replica is counter-productive to the purpose. Because as far as utility goes, a watch is a watch. There is some purpose to a Ferrari besides being expensive in that it does indeed perform better. Although I think we would agree that its main purpose is still as status symbol. In the end though, I agree with you. I think there are more than enough people who will buy in to the concept that having 'ownership' of a jpeg is worth something. And I stand strongly by what I said about NFTs for game items being huge in the future. The funny part will be laughing at whoever is left holding the bag when the game servers shut down and all the NFTs that go with it become instantly worthless.
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