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Something I need y’all youngins to understand growing up in the age of crypto and streaming is that digital ownership is not ownership. Digital ownership is renting.
If you have, say, House (2022) on Netflix. That new stop motion movie. You don’t own that movie. You pay to have access, to that movie, but you don’t physically own it. It isn’t yours to take with you or put in a blu ray player. You’re paying to maybe watch it.
The movie is something you can access so long as Netflix is active and you pay for access. If one of those things changes you no longer can see that movie. If the movie goes to a different streaming service it is gone. (You should buy any movie you want to see again or would be sad if it left streaming).
Same with digital video games. Silent Hills PT is a playable trailer that, because of the Kojima/Konami dispute, was pulled from PSN. You cannot download it anymore. A physical disc cannot be taken from you, it can always be put in your console and played. Having the physical game is owning it having the downloaded game is renting it.
You’re promised these things forever but you only have access to rented digital goods for as long as the site supports it. And eventually that will change. You can pop in a Mario 64 cartridge into your N64 anytime you want and play. You cannot download a digital copy of Halo 2 to an original xbox because that support has been shut down (and modern consoles don’t let you carry your entire library on your system storage). If you have a disc of Horizon Zero Dawn you can always play it. If you have a digital copy that will go away given enough time.
Same with digital card games. Magic the Gathering has had multiple online formats. When they close one to make another your entire collection is gone. They offer you the idea of collecting but it only means anything if the servers are active. Physical cards can always be used and can even be used in inventive ways like horde mode. That’s how commander/EDH got its start.
Spotify is great for music exploration but download music you like. Go to the library and check out cd’s to put on your computer or go to bandcamp and get albums DRM free. My family switched itunes email accounts in 2011 and its junked up 3 years of purchases requiring us to rebuy them.
As much as NFT bros want you to believe it digital ownership is NOT ownership. The concept of digital ownership relies on false scarcity (minting a limited number of NFT’s when more could have been made) and a few clever words to make you think the netflix library is YOUR movie library. Its really fucking convenient for big businesses who can squeeze every drop of money out of you without giving anything tangible in return.
Digital ownership is NOT ownership.
I think the next big cool trend should be everybody gets a VCR again and everybody pirates all the digital media to vhs tapes. that's what I think ought. The video games we can figure out different.
Anonymous asked:
Speaking of the tattoos, is Ichiban's really meant to be a fusion between Kiryu's and Nishiki's? How do you feel about the "Ichiban is Nishiki's second chance\reincarnation" theory that's popular in the fandom? I really like it, it feels intentional with how Ichiban has the same VA, is also a very sensitive guy and even has a similar suit to what Nishiki had in 0. A koi 'being born again' as a dragonfish feels poetic and like it would complete Nishiki's arc of transformation, ending it in a brighter note. If that theory is true I hope they'll reference it in Y8 and that Ichiban will remind Kiryu of Nishiki.
moophinz answered:
Nakaya himself had a lot to say on that subject in an interview. He loves them both deeply, but they’re totally different people to him. At most, he’s thought a lot about what it could be like if they met apparently 🤧
Edit: here’s the talk
That full transcript is amazing and everyone that likes Nishiki (& Ichiban!) should read it tbh Nakaya’s thoughts on his characters are so much fun. This is another of my favorite parts:
And when it comes to Ichiban being reincarnated Nishiki, it’s impossible because Ichiban was already like, 26 years old and in jail when Nishiki died. He went to jail at 22 years old in 2001, Nishiki died in 2005, so. The timeline just doesn’t match.
Anonymous asked:
Do the tattoo artists really pick the tattoos for yakuza? In Kiwami 2 it seemed that way with how Ryuji got his gold dragon because the artist got a feeling that he should be tattooed with it. Utabori showing up with a dragon design for Kiryu and a fish design for Nishiki must've been the real beginning of his joker arc lol
moophinz answered:
The view of his tattoo being something as simple as a loser vs winner story is unfortunately incredibly common, but the koi has very important meaning in Japan. With how Nishiki and Kiryu are in 0, it’s very likely that they could have possibly viewed their tattoos as a matching pair until it started to represent their deep divide in 1. Also, Aikawa has one too, but it’s black. It should go without saying that the colors here clearly have different meanings
I sadly don’t know the irl tattoo artist’s thoughts that went into crafting Nishiki’s koi. I also can’t remember his name atm 💀 But I’ve seen a bit of him talking at length about everything Mine’s tattoo symbolizes for example. Their tats aren’t supposed to represent who sucks and who’s good at everything. They’re just a symbol of who they are, and also in Nishiki’s case, be an example of fate due to the story of the koi trying to turn into a dragon
Seeing it as “Oh Nishiki got the "you’ll never be him” tattoo" is doing it such a disservice honestly. It’s a gorgeous tattoo and even Utabori tells Kiryu that they’re equal in power in a cutscene where he retouches the dragon. Koi fish aren’t just the loser fish, they’re seen as a symbol of power, bravery and in the case of the red koi also motherhood (probably because of Yuko) and intense love. Like, it’s a representation of who Nishiki is just as Kiryu’s dragon is of who Kiryu is. It’s not inferior, it’s just different and means different things.
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