cadekat

I'm a furry, so I'm going to use an example that is familiar to me. Apologies if you dislike furries. Also note that, as far as I am aware, the general opinion of furries is strongly against blockchain.

So, some setup:

• I have a character. I pay artists to draw art of my character.
• There is a... subgroup among furries that do not get art of their own, and instead use other people's art as avatars/profile pictures for erotic roleplay.
• I would prefer that I am the only one using my character's art as profile pictures (erotically or not.)
• Some furries sell their characters and associated art to other furries.

Here's how NFTs would actually be useful:

Whenever an artist draws some art, they mint an NFT and transfer it to the character's owner. Now that owner can prove to whatever roleplay websites that they officially have permission from the artist. The roleplay websites would need to allowlist artists for this to be effective.

You could (partially) solve this with PGP or some other non-blockchain cryptographic tool. What NFTs offer above this is that there is only one current owner. That makes it possible to safely transfer ownership of a character to someone new.

Oh, sorry, I wasn't intending to argue against your main point. For the most part, I agree with you.

What I don't agree with is that the value of NFTs (as a technology) is dubious. Instead I think it's overstated.

In the same vein as "LLMs can write Python", NFTs provide ownership information. Regardless of what some asshat pays for a picture of a monkey, the underlying technology still has merit.

I'd argue that people got way too excited about what NFTs offer. Being able to own/transfer a digital item with a standardized interface is interesting technically (and has real value, for example ENS names), but holy hell did people go all Beanie Baby on them...

Don't give them any ideas.

Being old means you have the knowledge of what was. Whether you look at the past objectively or with rose-tinted glasses is irrelevant.

There's a loud subculture of furries who insist sex is shameful and something to apologize for.

Split meaning equal shares, or split as in each person pays for what they ordered?

Canadian checking in.

Biggest oddity to me is that the default for restaurants is one bill, and waiters get annoyed if you ask them to split it by person.

Like why would I want to either:

• do math correctly splitting the bill while trying to leave; or
• be worried I ordered something more expensive than the average and unfairly make others cover it?

It's complete insanity to me.

Two questions: are you still on Gentoo, and have you tried LFS?

I will never not be jealous of the pure joy a cat must feel stretching.

I'm going to need to see a reenactment or video before I believe this.

Which book?