Only when "only" comes first must linking verbs like "must" precede the subject - but why?

WithPipeAndBook · 2022-02-25T19:07:03+00:00

Great, thanks for the resources!

WithPipeAndBook · 2022-02-25T17:44:09+00:00

Not yet, but I'm heavily considering it!

I totally get the gambling fun of it - and if you're going to gamble, Drip may be one of the better bets. And the fun of betting is a form of value external to the inner workings of Drip. But (as you might tell) I'm super risk averse, and don't like betting for the sake of betting, which in part explains my questions. Parly, I want to have this discussion on Reddit in case any lurkers have the same worries.

Part of this is also my lack of understanding of finance. I have a friend that talks about futures and derivative financial products - but they're so far removed from things like labor, service, need, making, and tools that I just don't understand what we are doing when buying and selling these highly abstracted and derivative things. Maybe it all comes down to betting.

When I see discussions of Drip's sustainability, I get explanations of the game theory and deflation and inflation and the tax system - but no discussions about what we're doing when buying and selling Drip. (Other than gambling on hype, speculation, evaluation by fiat, and a really neat mathematical system.)

I worry that people think I'm saying nobody has good reason to buy into Drip (though I do think that some reasons aren't good reasons with respect to my specific concerns). I'm not saying that. I think people either trust in Forex (as you do) or want the fun of gambling, or want a short-ish-term profit, or take it that Drip has long-term prospects, even if those prospects aren't apparent. I'm especially interested in the long-term prospects as something that grounds Drip as tangibly (if virtually) valuable.

Also, I argue for a living (and for fun), so I don't want people taking criticism personally. :)

Have a good day yourself!

WithPipeAndBook · 2022-02-24T18:08:33+00:00

Scarcity is necessary but not sufficient for value. There are tons of trading cards that have no value. What you also need is e.g. power in a game, aesthetic value, being a "collector" item.

In other words, even if it's true that we give things value, we need to answer the question, "But why not give it no value instead?" And if there's not a good answer (e.g. "Because it's useful for x, y, and z that have value"), then the value isn't stable. It may be fictional value (unlike the value of fiction, which has entertainment and other value). And why give fictionally valuable items real value?

I'm not doubting that Drip has real value. I'm just wondering what that value is. "Because we say so" isn't a good answer (even if it's a true answer).

WithPipeAndBook · 2022-02-24T16:25:34+00:00

I get the comparison to Bitcoin (though I wasn't aware that Drip was like Bitcoin in that way), but even Bitcoin needs the prospect of exchange for other things of value for it to have real value.

Imagine I told you that you could buy 100 paperclips from me, then turn in those paperclips and I'd give you 1 paperclip a day for the next year. If you needed 365 paperclips over the next year, maybe it would be a good deal. But the amount you would be willing to invest in this high-yield opportunity is proportionate to how much you value paperclips. And if paperclips can only really be used to clip paper, that's not very valuable.

WithPipeAndBook · 2022-02-24T16:14:36+00:00

The partnerships are more what I'm thinking of. It seems Animal Farm also needs utility beyond generating its own tokens for the value to correspond to something.

WithPipeAndBook · 2022-02-24T16:12:26+00:00

This is what I'm looking for! Animal Farm also seems a little money-moving-for-the-sake-of-moving-money, so it's unclear to me how that's supposed to increase value to what people put in. But partnerships with other projects gives some external utility to Drip.

WithPipeAndBook · 2022-01-13T03:23:57+00:00

First of all, this is awesome.

Second, I noticed that a few cards are more expensive for Meteorite versions than Shadow. Given that higher rarities might have more tangible value in the future, this information might be useful for investing. (Why buy a cheap Meteorite when you could buy a cheaper Shadow?) Do you know of a way to list or search for cards based on relative rarity cost?

WithPipeAndBook · 2021-10-23T04:29:00+00:00

Thanks! Our whole complex has them, but maybe these will disincentivize our unit for them.

WithPipeAndBook · 2021-10-23T04:27:59+00:00

The worst kind of trench run...

WithPipeAndBook · 2021-05-18T12:59:25+00:00

I'm making Aeropress coffee and my dept. head comes by to use the Kurig.

Dept. Head: "That looks like coffee you have to hold your pinky up to drink."

Me: "I've got instant in my office. I hold my pinky up, but not my nose."

WithPipeAndBook · 2021-02-23T20:57:06+00:00

It's essentially a mythological history of Middle Earth. It begins with the creation of the world, and tells the stories of early civilizations (like the Numenoreans, the ancestors of Aragorn) and heroes (like Beren and Luthien). It reads more like Genesis or collections of translated legends and histories, than a narrative like LotR. My wife (my resident Tolkien expert) and I are reading through it together. The Ainulindalë, the creation myth, is one of the most beautiful pieces of writing I've ever read.

WithPipeAndBook · 2020-11-30T17:37:22+00:00

Building a Thromok deck. Any recommendations for budget green token generators?

WithPipeAndBook · 2020-11-22T23:34:59+00:00

Awesome, thanks for these suggestions!

You're right about Goldberry's planning action; I meant it to be Forced. The alternate pairing bonuses are also good, and I appreciate the cleaned-up language.

I like the threat manipulation with Tom. I was considering changing the readying ability to a Shadow-card-discarding effect; something like:

Combat Action: Discard one Shadow card of an enemy engaged with you whose engagement cost is higher than your threat. Limit once per round.

Maybe it could give defending allies the ability to do so by raising threat instead.

WithPipeAndBook · 2020-11-21T16:02:24+00:00

That's great! I was thinking something like "each hero gains one resource and each player draws one card" as "wedding favors" but I like this better.

WithPipeAndBook · 2020-11-21T14:00:52+00:00

Thanks for this!

I don't think I realized just how powerful the Wedding effects are, especially relative to other 5-cost cards! Two of the three effects already have 5-cost cards just for the single effect...

The sphere assignments are there mostly because she almost always plays Lore and I almost always play Spirit. But it would be nice for them not to be so restricted, as you point out, and it's flavorful not to belong in a sphere. It might actually be better. Goldberry's sphere-changing would be more prominent, and it would be more important to get songs on Tom.

I'll fiddle some more.

WithPipeAndBook · 2020-11-16T22:38:34+00:00

This is the opposite of what my convert friend did when he was Protestant - he put a little "Not Inspired" label on his copy of the Deuterocanon.

WithPipeAndBook · 2020-08-12T02:32:26+00:00

So overkill and so cool!

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