You just did an excellent job of explaining why BTC is no good as a currency, thank you

BG3 actually has micro transactions

No it doesn’t. There was a preorder bonus that was free if you preordered. If you didn’t, and you want the art and music, then it’s $10.

The value of USD has decreased by about 10% over 2 years. Over the same time period, BTC has been half and more than double its current value – a factor of 5 spread. Oil varied by a factor of 2, copper a factor of 1.5. Eggs a factor of less than 3.

Things which vary that much can make useful commodities but are terrible currencies. You have accidentally given BTC a sick burn, since anyone who tried to pay their rent in crude oil would likewise be laughed at.

I have a similar setup to yours and fiber internet.

While I debated upgrading my system, I got a subscription to GeForce Now for $20/month. It adds about 15 ms of lag (which, honestly, I don’t notice) and it runs everything at max settings on a server quality machine with an RTX 4080 card. I play from my laptop usually, but I also use my tv or phone and a Bluetooth controller.

I am no longer debating upgrading my system. All hail cloud gaming.

None of the other things you mentioned have 5% price swings every single day. It’s a mere facade of a currency fit for insane people

Todd already lives in a fantasy simulator

If you would both rather trust …

So in other words, no. Nowhere.

It took all of 6 years for banks and scams to be reinvented – mt gox was in 2014

Call me when I can pay my rent with your monopoly money. Until then it’s all monopoly and no money

I’m up voting just because I’m now wondering what xkcd fanservice would look like

It is of great comfort to me to remember that most people are completely indifferent to me.

But for my part I hope you find some light in your life

Grief comes in waves and you can never predict when one will hit. I lost my cat of 15 years a couple months ago and I still swear I hear his meow sometimes

#Gatekeeping

I own every game they’ve ever released, but the expectation they’ve built over the last 20 years is that their games spend a year being trash, at least

Because we have memories long enough to remember literally every game Bethesda has released this millennium

The model is intended for commercial use, uses the entire work and creates derivative works based on it which are in direct competition.

Doing the CCPs work for them, I see

Not to mention her ethnic minority romantic partner

Steam takes 30%. If they thought they could drive people to their standalone launcher they would be doing that

Climate change really has to be solved in this generation. You’re thinking too long term, we don’t have that kind of time.

Additionally, not all children of climate sociopaths become sociopaths. The planet increasingly makes a convincing argument even for those who weren’t taught to hear. That’s why the old propagandists have to ramp up their effort

All I know about you is this conversation, and your response here sounds a lot like “I’m not sexist, I have women friends”.