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Floriane
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Lain, my adolescence counterpart!
Pretty hard to explain how it felt to watch Lain in the beginning of 2000. It feels like another world, now (37 woman speaking here!) |
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Nigel Planter
Posts: 99 Location: London, UK |
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Seems kind of fitting for a tech focused series like Lain, even if I don't get it much myself. Could never get into ARGs myself.
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Vanadise
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Probably worth noting here that while the press release doesn't explicitly mention it and you have to dig into the web site a bit to find it, they're actually selling NFTs. That's what their "protocol keys" are.
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Kaylee Smerbeck
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Gaah NFTs why
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Lightice
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As long as they're simply used as game tokens rather than falsely advertised as "investments" I see no issue with that. You can use the tech positively even if its most common usage has been pure grift. |
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PipimiOden
Posts: 197 Location: Pennsylvania, USA |
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How's the "LET'S ALL LOVE LAIN" myanimelist hacker feeling after they announced lain nfts?
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ChrissyC
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Twenty-five years ago? Man, I forgot how old this series is.
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Crystalyn
ANN Managing Editor
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While you can purchase the Protocol Key as a version with an NFT, you also don't have to. From https://en.serialexperimentslain.io/:
So yes the project includes NFTs, but access to the ARG does not require it. |
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ZelosZoidberg
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My comment is somewhat off topic but the from what little I remember (never finished it even) of watching it on Anime On Demand it was unique, trippy, confusing and in hindsight view way ahead of it's time.
Does Sony still have the rights? If not I would love for Discotek to re-release it. |
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John Thacker
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NFTs are perfectly reasonable as a digital limited edition item that's no dumber (or smarter) than any physical limited edition item. People shouldn't expect them to go up in value any more than any other collectible, but something like this is one of the few natural uses of them. |
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kotomikun
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As far as I know, they have not yet been used for anything else. But I suppose there's a first time for everything... |
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Lactobacillus yogurti
Posts: 846 Location: Latin America |
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Nice way to ruin a person's memories by turning it into a grift.
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Vanadise
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You could, in theory, use them as an authentication mechanism, or use them to store small amounts of data in a fault-tolerant, distributed manner. NFT proponents will tell you that those are their best features. The problem with using them for those things is that NFTs are absurdly wasteful in terms of computing power compared to using GPG or a distributed SQL database for the same purposes, which have been around for decades and work perfectly well. |
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Zalis116
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Posts: 6896 Location: Kazune City |
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It's too bad Serial Experiments Lain isn't as readily-available as its classic 1998 contemporaries like Cowboy Bebop, Outlaw Star, and Trigun. Although Funimation's disc releases are long out-of-print and quite expensive, Funimation is still streaming the series (albeit English-dub-only) on its own website. However, the old Geneon single DVDs can still be found for reasonable prices on the secondary market. The miracle of excessively-large early-2000s "anime bubble" print runs, I guess. |
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