GameStop's brand new NFT platform, which launched on July 12, is off to a less than promising start. Unlike some other NFT platforms like OpenSea, Gamestop does not allow just anyone to create and list NFTs—creators have to apply and be approved individually.
One of their artists, "Jules", created an NFT clearly modeled after The Falling Man, a well-known photograph of a man falling from the upper floors of the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks in New York City. The NFT is also titled Falling Man, and pictures a model in the same position, but wearing an astronaut suit.
Not only is GameStop selling an NFT of the victim of a tragedy, it's a featured image when Googling "GameStop".
Minecraft is a massively popular sandbox-style video game that had almost 140 million monthly active users as of 2021. Its developer, Mojang Studios, published a blog post detailing upcoming guidelines to clarify their position on NFTs and blockchain more generally. They wrote that "NFTs ... can create models of scarcity and exclusion that conflict with our Guidelines and the spirit of Minecraft." They announced that "blockchain technologies are not permitted to be integrated inside our client and server applications, nor may Minecraft in-game content such as worlds, skins, persona items, or other mods, be utilized by blockchain technology to create a scarce digital asset."
I keep some Euro coins in the car to put in the trolley at Aldi. Occasionally as I'm leaving the shop, someone gives me a pound for the trolley and I make about 15p profit. I'm on my 4th Euro this year.
by Eric Voreis, Principal Program Manager, Player Experiences and Platforms
All your friends and communities in one place
Get ready to connect with your Discord friends and communities on Xbox! Discord Voice chat is coming to your Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One consoles. You will be able to chat with anyone on Discord via voice channels or group calls directly from your console making it easy to connect with friends across mobile, Xbox, and PC. The update will start rolling out to Xbox Insiders today and will be available soon for everyone.
Streamlined audio experience
Today’s update enables a highly requested feature – Discord Voice on Xbox consoles allows you to talk with your friends and community while you play your favorite games. Planning a few rounds of multiplayer action in Halo Infinite with buddies on both console and PC? Exploring new biomes with your friends in Minecraft? See them already playing a game that supports cross-play? Connect to their voice channel and chat as you all play.
While you are playing on your console, you will be able to see who is in the call and speaking. You’ll also be able to adjust the sound, and switch between Discord Voice and Xbox game chat.
Link your Discord account to your Xbox
To get started, open the guide by pressing the Xbox button on your console, then go to Parties & chats and click Try Discord Voice on Xbox. You’ll see an option to scan a QR code. The QR code will take you to the Discord and Xbox apps to connect and set up a two-way link between your Discord account and Xbox. If you’ve previously linked your Discord account to your Xbox, you will have to re-link. To link your Discord account you must be at least 13 years old and other parental controls may apply. Learn more in the Discord Xbox Connection article.
Once your Discord account is linked to Xbox, you can hop in a channel you’d like to talk in using Discord just as you normally would. On the Discord mobile app, you’ll see a new option to Join on Xbox. At this point, you’ll need the Xbox app to transfer voice chat from your Discord account to your Xbox. If you have it installed, the Xbox app will launch and let you connect the Discord Voice chat to your Xbox Series X|S or Xbox One console. Discord’s safety standards will apply when chatting on Xbox consoles with Discord Voice.
What’s ahead and how you can jump in
Today’s update will start to roll out to select Xbox Insiders and will expand to more in the coming weeks. Check Xbox Insider release notes for more details. Stay tuned to Xbox Wire for future updates with Discord and all the latest and greatest Xbox related news.
If you’d like to help create the future of Xbox and get access to new features download the Xbox Insider Hub on your Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, or Windows PC today. Share with us what your dream gaming community looks like and help shape the future of gaming!
I babysat for an awful family with two kids. The kids had a pet rabbit they abused horribly. One day I volunteered to take him to the vet, told the vet to write on his card that he was euthanized and dead.. I took the bunny home. He turns 8 this summer.
I'm a programmer and sometimes I can spend hours looking at my old code and think to myself how beautiful it is. Also sometimes I look at old code and think wtf was I doing.
Best public confessions for April 2022, what a great month that was. Do keep sending stories in and keeping us laughing. Thank you everyone, and remember to encourage your friends to FOLLOW @FESSHOLE NOW, so we can keep it all going with your most extraordinary confessions.
Used to work in an office with a lot of computer illiterate old ladies. Any time they asked what every happened to someone I'd pretend to Google them and make stuff up. Kid from Charlie and The Chocolate Factory started a cult. Yazz died in a shootout with police in New York.
If it wasn't already nauseating to watch a huge corporation like Coca-Cola use LGBTQ Pride Month to market their products and pay lip service to supporting LGBTQ rights while supporting anti-LGBTQ politicians, now they're doing it with NFTs. Coca-Cola launched "The Coca-Cola Pride Collection" of 136 NFTs, which are minting for 335 MATIC (~$158). The website states that all proceeds will go to LGBTQ+ charities.
At that price, Coca-Cola will only be earning about $21,500 (minus any expenses) if the project mints out, plus any resale fees. A many-billion-dollar company like Coca-Cola might consider just donating the 20 grand themselves.
I'm a plumber, once was watching porn, about to rub one out and instantly lost my boner when I saw the absolutely atrocious copper pipework in the background.
I've trained my son to insist on special days like Father's Day or my birthday that he needs to buy me a pint of beer in the pub. I insist on a half. The pub staff always upgrade it to a full pint free of charge when he pays, because he's four years old.
I deliberately take detours so I don't have to pass petrol stations, which cause me stress when I see the price of their petrol. It's costing me a fortune in petrol.
The Bored Ape-themed "Bored & Hungry" restaurant in Long Beach, California has stopped accepting crypto payments. Despite excitedly announcing the first ever crypto purchase, made with Apecoin, when the restaurant opened in April, it seems crypto payments haven't been working out for them.
The LA Times reported that the restaurant had stopped accepting crypto at some point in the past, and that an employee described the crypto payment option as both unwieldy and unpopular with customers.
For now, and indefinitely going forward, customers will have to pay for their $13 hamburgers with plain old fiat.
You’re invited to dive and dodge your way to victory in the pantheon of clumsy. Rookie or pro? Solo or partied up? Fall Guys delivers ever-evolving, high-concentrated hilarity and fun. The only thing more important than winning is looking as ridiculous as possible while doing it. Grab the silliest costume you can and fall in line—the show's about to start!
Competitive & Cooperative: Tumble between competitive free-for-alls and cooperative challenges—or take on the Blunderdome with up to 3 friends!
Play with Friends: Fall Guys supports cross-play, cross-platform parties and cross-progression via your Epic Games Account.
Ever-Evolving Content: Play stays fresh with Limited Time Events and new game modes. Each Season brings with it new costumes, collabs, obstacles and ways to play.
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One winter, my bf complained about how chapped and sore his hands were but he refused to use hand cream. Every night while he slept I moisturised his left hand. After a month he exclaimed his left hand was healed but his right was still sore. I fessed up. He now uses moisturiser.
As a postgrad, earned a bit of cash supervising undergraduate exams. Relieved the boredom playing Battleships against the other supervisor. Stand behind a student to fire a shot. Opponent gives silent nod or headshake for hit or miss.
Now that I'm only occasionally in the office, instead of buying a pint of milk, I take some from home in a little drinks flask. I like to pretend that I'm pouring in alcohol when I make my coffee and it makes me secretly smile to myself every time I do it.
Anna Sorokin, the scammer who convinced people and companies to give her hundreds of thousands of dollars by pretending to be a German heiress, has decided to get into NFTs. After winding up with a "scammer persona", which she says is a result of the Netflix series about her and not a result of the scams that landed her in prison, she has announced her intentions to "move away from" it. Now she is focusing on an NFT collection, which she announced in an interview from a detention facility in New York.
Our kettle is 15ft away from the fridge. If I'm making someone a cup of tea, I swig a mouthful of milk, walk over to the cup with teabag in and spit the milk into the cup
Every morning when she wakes up for work, my girlfriend does one enormous, flat-shaking sneeze. She finds them incredibly embarrassing, and thinks I'm being kind when I say I don't mind. I genuinely don't, as an absent minded man it saves me remembering to set an alarm.
Some crypto advocates have long promoted crypto as a proper digital equivalent to cash. Physical dollars have a lot of benefits, including that you don't need a bank account to use them and they provide a lot of privacy. Although bank transfers and apps like Venmo offer digital ways to transfer money, they typically require a bank account to use, and they leave a digital record of the transaction. Crypto advocates have long promised that crypto is a proper digital equivalent to cash, despite its own accessibility and privacy concerns.
Anyway, a project called Offline Cash has sprung up. In a stunning example of Poe's Law, the project seeks to provide a physical form of that digital physical cash people have spent so much time working on.
Hear me out: imagine you had paper notes that you could transfer to people in lieu of making a Bitcoin transaction! And unlike regular cash, it has an expiration date to keep track of!
I tell people I don't believe in otters, and that they are just wet cats. Has become legend. Went to a zoo once; was dragged to the otter mound to have their existence proven. No otters. Vindicated.
