A Lounge in the Wind

[KRYPTON INC.]

Sheesh, looked it up. Was talking about EVE online, but there's one that one ups it, by a million...literally.

5 Online Games That Players Invest Heavily On Virtual Items



I guess you haven't lived until you spent 6 million on your own virtual planet...That's for a game called Entropia Universe (if you didn't read the quote).

Next is info on EVE online. One battle cost those involved $600,000 in losses...One battle! I saw a YouTube video on that battle (not into the game, but a $600k battle is ridiculous). Apparently it was the start of an accidental war neither side was prepared for, and lots of ships were lost.

I... I have no words. I'm sorry but this is madness.

 

[Iceman]

I remember reading about some huge scam in EVE online.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Maybe it's just a matter of perspective and all but... Stuff like this is why I will never believe in some kind of efficient and rational "free market" as some kind of unimpeachable absolute. Yes these folk are free to do with their cash however they want but there have been more than enough examples of people getting caught up in something that ate up capital like the oft cited tulip bulb bubble but those times people were investing or buying actual things. Pet rocks were a stupid fad but you got an actual rock. Paying millions for a planet that doesn't even exist? I just look at that at terrible waste. Yeah, folk can do what they want with their money. It's a free country. And I'm free to think that they are ****ing morons for doing so, and others are morons for making it feasible or profitable in the short term enough so that it happens.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

This discussion reminds me of a pre-IDW reboot of the Ninja Turtles comics, I think it was Donatello who finds a ring of slavery forcing people to play some Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game for hours with very limited sleep and nutrition to sell the coins they make to other accounts.

 

[Lily Adler]

Sawyer was right we are abusing our acronym priveleges.

 

[Reek]

Why do you listen to that heathen?

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

So the distracted boyfriend meme thread took a turn into legalizing prostitution for some reason. I guess at this point this is just how online convos go. But for real... Look at how this **** starts out usually around here and you see a pattern. Because here's the thing... It's fairly regularly that it's never about the topic at hand.

 

[Teelie]

If a discussion goes on long enough it inevitably goes off topic and into something else. At least so far no one has brought in Hitler or Nazis that I'm aware of yet.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

If a discussion goes on long enough it inevitably goes off topic and into something else. At least so far no one has brought in Hitler or Nazis that I'm aware of yet.

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Speaking of Hitler and Nazis (thanks for the segway Teelie) I recently discovered this German movie from 2014 called LOOK WHO'S BACK, based off a book and... I can't recommend it enough. It's currently on NETFLIX. Unfortunately the only English language trailer I could find on YT had this really affecting strobe thing going on. No literally it made me queasy and even the poster of the trailer pointed this out so I won't inflict it on anyone else. So the premise is I suppose "magical realism" crossbred with social satire and a pinch of BORAT. In the film Adolph Hitler returns to 2014 Germany and is catapulted to fame and then political power... And it's mostly a comedy believe it or not but watching it I was both very entertained but also... Yeah there's no way around it... It helped to put our current politics into focus in the USA. (Sorry Teelie... I guess it always does come down to Hitler and Nazis...) because it really shows how people respond to confident leaders that say they will take care of problems, whether they are real problems or not, especially when there's A. A widespread feeling of unearned cynicism about politics and B. When people's "feelings" about social respect outweigh practical considerations. It's well done and it's thought provoking.

 

[squeekness]

Maybe it's just a matter of perspective and all but... Stuff like this is why I will never believe in some kind of efficient and rational "free market" as some kind of unimpeachable absolute. Yes these folk are free to do with their cash however they want but there have been more than enough examples of people getting caught up in something that ate up capital like the oft cited tulip bulb bubble but those times people were investing or buying actual things. Pet rocks were a stupid fad but you got an actual rock. Paying millions for a planet that doesn't even exist? I just look at that at terrible waste. Yeah, folk can do what they want with their money. It's a free country. And I'm free to think that they are ****ing morons for doing so, and others are morons for making it feasible or profitable in the short term enough so that it happens.

That's how many game makers make the most money, selling skins and the like. It certainly isn't something I would do. I like tangible things myself.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

That's how many game makers make the most money, selling skins and the like. It certainly isn't something I would do. I like tangible things myself.

Well, I mean... I get squeezing a bit more juice out of some things. I don't mind the idea of "skins" etc. or "expansion" features or the like... But we aren't talking about things that cost the customer/gamer maybe less than a $1,000 over the course of possibly years of game play... We're talking about paying the equivalent of the car for a fake fleet of space ships, $90,000 to have a fake banking license and millions for a fake world... It's feels on a whole other level to me.

 

[Iceman]

That's how many game makers make the most money, selling skins and the like. It certainly isn't something I would do. I like tangible things myself.

You want to buy tangible skins? Maybe you've been overdoing it with the real crime films Squeek.

 

[Reek]

I'm trying to figure out why Adele can't speak proper english...

Hello = Hahlow
Bridge = Breeeege
Lover = luhhhuhhhvaaahh

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

I'm trying to figure out why Adele can't speak proper english...

Hello = Hahlow
Bridge = Breeeege
Lover = luhhhuhhhvaaahh

Strangely this kinda also works for Jack Black's singing voice as well.

 

[Teelie]

Oops. Accidently Godwin'd this thread talking about another thread.

 

[Fading]

While we're tossing out random facts, books, ect. I watch a show called Destination Truth. They had an episode a year, or two back about the origins of Bluetooth technology. I recently rewatched the episode.

Bluetooth was actually the name of a Danish Viking King. The makers of the technology named it after him. Even the Bluetooth symbol is a combination of his initials made into one symbol. Apparently they also named it that because he was a king that brought vikings together, and Bluetooth technology connects devices together.

 

[squeekness]

You want to buy tangible skins? Maybe you've been overdoing it with the real crime films Squeek.

It's bad enough I buy Ebooks.

 

[Ruth Fisher]

Watched a video today of singers that died too soon and Amy winehouse was number one :'( so sad

I cant believe how good dolly partons voice is btw and she is in her 70's!

 

[Enriquespy]

Apparently I'm seriously likeable now, which would mean more if all the likes weren't from Spider Aziz.

Anyway, now that I'm seriously likeable I'm going to the bars to hit on them ladies, I'l show them how many likes I have on here and they will suffocate me with multitudinous amounts of panties.

 

[Iceman]

Apparently I'm seriously likeable now, which would mean more if all the likes weren't from Spider Aziz.

Anyway, now that I'm seriously likeable I'm going to the bars to hit on them ladies, I'l show them how many likes I have on here and they will suffocate me with multitudinous amounts of panties.

That guy has got a lot of love to share.

And yeah, it's getting dangerous out there! Good luck homie

 

[Spider-Aziz]

All? Maybe a little more than half.

 

[Enriquespy]

Well, I love my hyperboles.

 

[Iceman]

Aziz accounts for around 68% of all Hype likes. He is a love machine.

 

[squeekness]

Watched a video today of singers that died too soon and Amy winehouse was number one :'( so sad

I cant believe how good dolly partons voice is btw and she is in her 70's!

I saw Ralph Stanley a year or so before he died. He was near 90 and had the strongest voice of all the guys on the stage. Amazing.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

My likes are like coins, and your posts are the arcade cabinets.

Aaaahhhh, 90s nostalgia.