Quoting: foobrewAs someone who's gotten more into gardening over the past few years, I'm interested in this. I just wish all the games like this weren't so...cutesy. Maybe it's time for someone to cross a chill gardening game and, I don't know, Diablo? PoE? 7DTD?

I can see why a lot of people would want to avoid the grim reality of gardening, which after all is about dirt and worms and animal shit and killing bugs.

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Quoting: IvancilloUmmh, good initiative.

Waiting for models with discrete graphic cards.

Me, I want discreet graphics cards. For privacy; can't be too careful.

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Imagine a world so red in tooth and claw that the very vegetables prey on the fish . . .

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Liam's leading us down The Garden Path again.

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it does drop Banana Steam Items every so often and everyone then dumps them onto the Steam Marketplace hoping to make some extra cash, which you can then use to buy Steam games

So basically all the downsides of the modern usage of NFTs (speculation, dubious valuation, Ponzi scheme) without any of the upsides (decentralization, no vendor lock-in, potentially lower transaction fees).

That's where my mind went as well. Great way to waste electricity if people are leaving their computer on specifically to farm those items.

I'd say it has an upside that the NFTs don't, though, and it's fundamental: The game is free.

Same is true for nfts.
The methods to generate them are free to use(blender, real crypto wallets).
The objects(nft/Item) aren't.

But in this case, the people who create the nft-like things are not charging you for them. You get the game for free, you get the item drops for free. Then, yes, apparently you can become a profiteer because some suckers are willing to buy them for some reason. But the actual game-and-image creators are not scamming you, the game user and recipient of item drops.

You can buy some of them directly from the developer, actually, e.g. https://store.steampowered.com/itemstore/2923300/detail/57/ [External Link]
Oddly enough, people are buying and selling this particular one at higher prices on the Marketplace, so it seems about as sensible as NFTs to me.

Just to be clear, I never said it was more sensible than NFTs. I just said it was not scamming specifically the people who acquire and "play" it.

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Quoting: LoudTechie

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Salvatos

Quoting: Nic264

it does drop Banana Steam Items every so often and everyone then dumps them onto the Steam Marketplace hoping to make some extra cash, which you can then use to buy Steam games

So basically all the downsides of the modern usage of NFTs (speculation, dubious valuation, Ponzi scheme) without any of the upsides (decentralization, no vendor lock-in, potentially lower transaction fees).

That's where my mind went as well. Great way to waste electricity if people are leaving their computer on specifically to farm those items.

I'd say it has an upside that the NFTs don't, though, and it's fundamental: The game is free.

Same is true for nfts.
The methods to generate them are free to use(blender, real crypto wallets).
The objects(nft/Item) aren't.

But in this case, the people who create the nft-like things are not charging you for them. You get the game for free, you get the item drops for free. Then, yes, apparently you can become a profiteer because some suckers are willing to buy them for some reason. But the actual game-and-image creators are not scamming you, the game user and recipient of item drops.

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I have this feeling that there has been a shift over the years when it comes to this stuff. Some time ago, when someone cancelled their promise of a version of the game for an OS, they would just cancel the Linux version but they'd usually still do the Mac version. These days, they cancel Linux and MacOS if they're going to cancel at all. I'm not sure that's good, misery loves company maybe? but it's different.

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Kind of a stupid premise. Like, if I were in the trenches with this guy and he said he was going to go looking all over for his brother who was "missing in action" I'd tell him, "My friend, how long have you been here? He's not 'missing in action'. He's dead. What makes him 'missing' is that a shell hit where he was and they couldn't find any recognizable pieces. If you go wandering around the front instead of sitting tight and keeping your head down, you'll end up the same way and your family will have two less sons instead of one less. Unless they execute you for desertion when you leave your post. Just sit down. Look, I do feel bad about your brother--you can have a piece of my chocolate bar."

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My only problem with this game is I don't like bubble tea. Will it let me have real cafes instead of "boba cafes"?

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For the record Liam, I do indeed find it as stupid as you do.

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