Tell me, tell me this is a joke.

Please tell me you aren't legitimising all those assholes who steal from artists.

Dammit, I've been subscribed to your RSS for more than a decade. I've enjoyed a lot of your content. It'll be painful saying goodbye.

@Grant Robinson - Tell me more about this.

I may be wrong, but doesn't any transaction on the ethereum blockchain have a cost of $100 or 200 ?

I may be wrong, as I only follow these subject from far away, but having a cost of $5-$10 seems improbable to me.

That said, excluding the NFT stuff, I really like the idea. It may very well be feasible without nfts, by just selling the drawing (and possible bonus figure) with a certificate of ownership (see "adoptables" in art/furry communities) mentionning every right ceded to the buyer.

Well shit. I've followed you for many many years. If you go down the NFT route its time to say goodbye. Good luck with your ponzi scheme.

Please educate yourself: https://www.jwz.org/blog/tag/dunning-krugerrands/

@Ronan - If you use polygon network, its pretty much free. So that's why I'm looking into it at all.. if it was the ether gas fees, then no way I'd even consider it :)

I'll look up adoptables, and see if that might be something that fits :) Thanks for the recommendation.

@Shevek - Thanks for the link, I'l read it through :)

Just chiming in with the other commenters: If you do NFT, the feed gets removed from my feed reader.

It's not just the ecological impact of certain chains it's about the whole idea to financialize all aspects of life. It's just a thing I can't morally support in any way.

I wrote a longer piece with explainer and critique a few weeks ago https://tante.cc/2021/12/17/the-third-web/

@tante - Longest read ever. Thanks for the link/writeup. We'll see if you need to remove me or not from your feed.. we'll see.. :)

Love the idea of what you want to sell. Really great idea!
Hate the idea of using nft pyramid schemes. Personally, I don't see how any of this needs nft, in fact I don't see why any of the world needs nft. We already have ways of selling things and those actually have a basis in law, too. Plus usually they cost a lot less energy, and are less founded in thin air.

So go for it, just loose the nft part of the plan :)

@Erik - Good input, thanks! :)

Forgot the most important thing! Happy birthday!! :D

I also forgot the Happy Birthday wishes ;)

As Erik said: Nobody really needs NFTs for that. Maybe setting it up in a different way could actually give the whole thing some publicity. If you wanna chat about ideas on how to set things up as "opposition" to NFTs I'd be happy to help

@tante - thanks! :) .. I might take you up on that :)

Vice has a pretty good writeup

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7vxe7/people-are-stealing-art-and-turning-it-into-nfts

It can be as easy as tweeting to steal your art, and there isn't much you can do to stop it.

@Grant Robinson - Durig my 20+ years of Little Gamers, it's been stolen, resold, altered and resold so many times I've lost count.

So that part of NFT doesn't bother me at all. It's the internetz, even tho I don't support it, stealing shit is gonna happen anyways.

Are you one of those people who also disable right click on your websites so that one can't download your images? :D

Sure, it'll always be a problem, at least with T-Shirt and other merch you'll be able to put out a copyright claim, and maybe get them shut down.

For NFTs, a lot of that relies on

1) The platform voluntarily deciding whether to enforce the notice
2) The rights-holder keeping an eye on that obscure area of the internet

... and then the thief can just do it again.



To be honest, I'm not sure of the business sense in creating one thing and selling it for $5, where you could use the technology of the internet to sell the same thing an unlimited number of times with much lower cost to you, lower cost to your customers, and lower environmental impact, but I'm not here as a business consultant. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

All I really know is that a lot of talented artists have had their stuff minted by other people without permission, and that participating in that system will mean that more of my artist friends and people I follow will get hurt.

Artists who participate and get hurt have real "'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party." energy, and it makes me sad :(

@Grant Robinson
Well.. this guy is still making money off'a little gamers. https://shivian.com/ohmygods .. Doesn't matter what platform or technology you use, there will always be assholes out there. NFT is just a new technology that enables things to get stolen again. But that doesn't mean it should be shut down.

Reason to use OpenSea or the likes is so that we can get a trading card thing going, where the platform makes it easier for us all to trade and such since the platform is already there and usable. But, this is if we can use the blockchain that's free from gas and such.. or extremely cheap (NOT the eth chain). I don't know how it would be made / work if we didn't use a platform like openSea?

Might sound harsh (and believe me, I know about this first hand), but when you put shit on the internet, it is always at risk of getting stolen. I put shit up, since I have faith in people not being assholes.. well, not all people. You don't want it stolen, then don't put it up. Don't digitalize you shit.

I mean, look at this ass :)
https://opensea.io/collection/oh-my-gods

I mean, it's your stuff, it's totally up to you ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I hope lending your reputation and mana to this platform works out for you.

It's not a journey I can go on, I won't lend my name or mana to anything NFT related, and I'm withdrawing my support from anyone who does.

That said, I'm only one person, you'll get on fine without me. Good luck. I hope leopards don't eat your face.

@Grant Robinson - Well.. not miniting yet (and still undecided), so you still have a while. :)

I'll be interested to see what you decide.

If you plan on continuing to celebrate your birthday on this date I might have to unfollow you! 'Cause that's MY birthday.

Anywho, happy birthday dude!

PS: how can they steal your stuff. You even told them about the little lamb :D

@Ferdinand - Haha :D Happy birthday to you too! :)

The physical ninja or drawing is still my favorite idea. Not sold on the NFTs, climate change and all of that as well as the people stealing things issue. I do hope the people threatening to dump the RSS feed have and do support LG in some way that generates income for you. If not they are just leeching and loosing them is a pity but won’t change anything. Sorry to see them go.

I want to support artists. I will spend money on things like books and art (I have a closet full of posters from online artists and no place to hang them up, and a (small) box of qees from my days in London). I own all the LG books, used to have a couple of shirts, bought myself a custom character from you long ago. I would love to have something that was “original” and verifiable but even though I don’t have the space I still want the physical thing.

Any happy birthday.

@Beggs ❤️❤️❤️

just find a way to make ninja figures and forget the NFT environment killing JSON garbage

this comic coming back to life with a theme that I can relate to (Japan + Japanese female) after loading it as a "Webcomic" bookmark group every day for the past [INSERT DATE COMIC STARTED] was such a welcome surprise.

don't kill the planet for some digital pyramid scheme. gimme ninja figs.

@Thad - But.. but.. no gas fees!? :)

Happy birthday nachträglich!
You got me right there with the urge to get rich with something stupid, as long as someone is more stupid and drops out later than me. Piramid schemes do work diffrently and worse, I thought.

I have to decide for myself, but leaning more towards genuine LG-Merch.

On the other hand, I want to know if there is any real meaning in those supposedly sustainable NFT/blockchains like xch.gallery ...

@Fritz - Thanks! :)
I don't know where this pyramid scheme comes from. You buy something, since you want it. You support the artist. IF you're lucky, someone one else wants to buy what you just bought, and you can make some money, but most of all, you bought it because you wanted it (not to resell it), no? Or can someone put me in my place here? :)

Think of it like house-flipping but with even more douchebags who constantly flip the same house (while not even renovating it) until they find a sucker who either can't flip it or actually wants the whore of a domicile

an also while you may the original owner of the house, the people buying it have razed about 50 other houses already to get the money for your home.

Yeah, the pyramid scheme bit is when people are buying NFTs as "investments" or for "prestige" rather than to support art or artists they actually care about, like the ridiculous monkey copypastas going for six figures. If you're actually selling to fans it's not so much of an issue, directly. But at this point the NFT space is so overrun with con artists that a lot of legit artists don't want anything to do with it because they don't want to lend legitimacy to the buzzwords.

And either way you gotta be careful about the energy waste of whatever tech is backing it up. In the end you can always just... sell stuff without the buzzwords and overhead.

@Thad
That makes no sense :)

@kirin
So many things to touch here.. :)
I'll write a blog post instead :)