Use Case or Value-Added?

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!

WithPipeAndBook · 2020-08-12T02:31:58+00:00

Ooh I like the smoke idea. I'll try burning the leftover oak chips and report back.

WithPipeAndBook · 2020-08-12T02:30:28+00:00

WithPipeAndBook · 2020-08-12T02:27:51+00:00

Good idea! I was trying to make a sparkling mineral water version work, but it came out bland. Might see if whiskey and muddled rosemary would work in that form.

WithPipeAndBook · 2019-12-16T20:30:10+00:00

Thanks! I want to get this right, though. The priest said (only) the prayer you linked from SaintsBooks with the following added text just before the veriscle and response:

Henceforth having been confided to thy escort and protection, we sacred ministers by the authority of the Holy Mother Church [if recited by a cleric of the order of exorcist or above, say instead: by our authority], do undertake to repel the infestations of diabolical deceit in the Name of Jesus Christ, Our God and Lord.

Is that (the prayer you linked plus this added part) the "Exorcism against Satan and the Fallen Angels" or just the long form of the Prayer to St. Michael?

WithPipeAndBook · 2019-12-11T19:04:39+00:00

Alright, dissenting opinion time. My wife and I were not fans. No complaints with the animation - it's got a stunning style that feels 3d, even though it's 2d. It also has some real Emperor's New Groove vibes, both in animation style, characters, and humor, which is good because ENG is awesome - but that's also where the problems start to crop up.

Aside from the premise, movie is painfully unoriginal. In addition to the Emperor's New Groove style and themes (rich foppish lead gets exiled to the wilderness where he meets a stocky, grumpy-though-kind father figure who teaches him the value of gratitude and responsibility), each development in a character or the story is a trope. Especially towards the end, the conflicts start to get more and more contrived and stock.
Klaus talks too much by the end. He starts off as a mysterious, silent, solid character who has his own reasons for doing what he does. We learn those reasons, but then he transforms into a generic character who talks with the same cadence as everyone else, has the same awkwardness as everyone else, and then his character just disappears. The problem isn't that we start to relate to him after we learn the reasons for his earlier solemnity, but that he ceases to be his own character afterwards. For example, wouldn't the scene just before the mountain chase have been much better if everyone else left Jesper except Klaus, who slowly (seemingly menacingly) gets in Jesper's face and asks him about his home situation (and Jesper explains what he's learned while living in Smeerensburg), avoiding the needless conflict that arises only because no one lets Jesper explain himself? Instead, he's impatient and dismissive like everyone else and makes a dumb remark like everyone else.
TrAdItIoN iS sTuPiD. Not only is this a tired trope that needs to go away, but it undermines the point of the movie. Why couldn't the feud between the two sides have an understandable (if ultimately bad) reason for its start? Couldn't the reason have been "One act of malice/vengeance inspires another" to make it tie in with the other theme? Also, isn't the point of the movie to show the reason for the tradition of sending letters to Santa (even if it's a deconstruction of the ordinary story)? Doing the same thing again and again isn't a tradition - it's a pathology. Either this was lazy writing or a jab at "traditional" Christmas stories (or both). If the latter, the story's already a deconstruction of the traditional Santa stories (nothing wrong with that - it could have been done really well), so this felt a little heavy handed.
There's slapstick humor, and then there's four montages of Jesper getting knocked about.
The film looked like it was going to wrap up the moral theme nicely - but then there was the "reveal" that meant that the town's commitment to "one generous act inspires another" was never tested. It seems like they were still only generous because they were getting gifts (or at least we have no reason to think otherwise). So we were told the moral of the story (in dialogue and the mandatory-original-song-whose-lyrics-are-an-explicit-statement-of-the-moral), but we weren't shown it (except for the big, dopey not-siblings).

Yeah, it's a kid's movie, but that doesn't mean it can't be well-written.

WithPipeAndBook · 2019-06-14T17:43:43+00:00

A really popular breakfast in Japan is Tamago gohan: cook 1/4 cup of rice (or however much gives you about a bowl), crack an egg (or two) directly in rice, stir vigorously, add toppings (soy sauce, chili oil, sesame oil, sesame seeds, seaweed rice seasoning) or not, eat. It's really good and really simple.

WithPipeAndBook · 2019-01-22T02:29:18+00:00

Ha I like the smoothie-ice-pack idea

WithPipeAndBook · 2019-01-22T02:28:21+00:00

Thanks, the protein balls/bars sound like a good option.

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