Much better explaination than that nonsense about off-screen wizards casting bootstrap spells onto the hexcubes.

> It also somewhat bugs me that pretty invariably the folks that crap all over these movies are huge Trek or Babylon 5 fans, shows that have endless literal magic in them, and they're just fine with it.

Interstellar was heavily hyped as being "realistic".

Meanwhile Microsoft and "app" developers are training normal users to avoid updates by continuing to push anti-user updates...

Also the "I'm withholding simple answers to simple questions until you give me a full backstory".

> Then don't make them devine

Nobody is making them devine, they do it themselves and pat themselves on the back for reading that XY problem article and spamming XY "answers" everywhere.

Discord offers a chatroom, not a forum.

Allow me to introduce "Fallacy Fallacy", the fact that someone might have arrived at a conclusion via a fallacy does not mean the conclusion is false.

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/the-fallacy-fallacy

> Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater

But in the case of NFTs, there's no baby in the bathwater.

I understand why somebody would buy a baseball card, even if I would never want to. I understand why someone would right-click and download a jpg of a baseball card, or screenshot one, even if I would never want to.

But when you add "pay $100 in etherium for a reference to a publically jpg hosted on some website" you completely lose me.

> you're trying to live somewhere that you chose to live precisely because it was more exclusive

*didn't get lucky when searching for a unit

source: got lucky so I don't pay $1400/month, still live 1hr away from work.