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NEWS: Serial Experiments Lain Anime Celebrates 25th Anniversary With New Alternate Reality Game




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Floriane



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 09, 2023 4:39 am Reply with quote
Lain, my adolescence counterpart!

Pretty hard to explain how it felt to watch Lain in the beginning of 2000. It feels like another world, now (37 woman speaking here!)
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Nigel Planter



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 09, 2023 5:44 am Reply with quote
Seems kind of fitting for a tech focused series like Lain, even if I don't get it much myself. Could never get into ARGs myself.
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Vanadise



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 09, 2023 8:16 am Reply with quote
Probably worth noting here that while the press release doesn't explicitly mention it and you have to dig into the web site a bit to find it, they're actually selling NFTs. That's what their "protocol keys" are.
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Kaylee Smerbeck



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 09, 2023 8:20 am Reply with quote
Gaah NFTs why
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Lightice



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 09, 2023 8:36 am Reply with quote
Vanadise wrote:
Probably worth noting here that while the press release doesn't explicitly mention it and you have to dig into the web site a bit to find it, they're actually selling NFTs. That's what their "protocol keys" are.


As long as they're simply used as game tokens rather than falsely advertised as "investments" I see no issue with that. You can use the tech positively even if its most common usage has been pure grift.
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PipimiOden



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 09, 2023 2:11 pm Reply with quote
How's the "LET'S ALL LOVE LAIN" myanimelist hacker feeling after they announced lain nfts?
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ChrissyC



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 09, 2023 5:33 pm Reply with quote
Twenty-five years ago? Man, I forgot how old this series is.
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Crystalyn
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 09, 2023 9:02 pm Reply with quote
Vanadise wrote:
Probably worth noting here that while the press release doesn't explicitly mention it and you have to dig into the web site a bit to find it, they're actually selling NFTs. That's what their "protocol keys" are.


While you can purchase the Protocol Key as a version with an NFT, you also don't have to. From https://en.serialexperimentslain.io/:

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There are 2 types of access keys to Project Protocol:

・Protocol Key Standard (purchase with credit card)
・Protocol Key NFT (purchase with ETH)

Those who hold a Protocol Key will gain access rights to various events & activities held to celebrate lain’s 25th anniversary, including:

・Access to Layer 3301:De-Cipher (both Standard & NFT Key)


So yes the project includes NFTs, but access to the ARG does not require it.
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ZelosZoidberg



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 09, 2023 11:04 pm Reply with quote
My comment is somewhat off topic but the from what little I remember (never finished it even) of watching it on Anime On Demand it was unique, trippy, confusing and in hindsight view way ahead of it's time.

Does Sony still have the rights? If not I would love for Discotek to re-release it.
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John Thacker



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PostPosted: Sat Jun 10, 2023 5:32 pm Reply with quote
Kaylee Smerbeck wrote:
Gaah NFTs why


NFTs are perfectly reasonable as a digital limited edition item that's no dumber (or smarter) than any physical limited edition item. People shouldn't expect them to go up in value any more than any other collectible, but something like this is one of the few natural uses of them.
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kotomikun



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PostPosted: Sat Jun 10, 2023 8:51 pm Reply with quote
Lightice wrote:
As long as they're simply used as game tokens rather than falsely advertised as "investments" I see no issue with that. You can use [NFTs] positively even if its most common usage has been pure grift.

As far as I know, they have not yet been used for anything else. But I suppose there's a first time for everything...
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Lactobacillus yogurti



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PostPosted: Sat Jun 10, 2023 10:02 pm Reply with quote
Nice way to ruin a person's memories by turning it into a grift.
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Vanadise



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PostPosted: Sun Jun 11, 2023 1:00 am Reply with quote
kotomikun wrote:
As far as I know, they have not yet been used for anything else. But I suppose there's a first time for everything...

You could, in theory, use them as an authentication mechanism, or use them to store small amounts of data in a fault-tolerant, distributed manner. NFT proponents will tell you that those are their best features.

The problem with using them for those things is that NFTs are absurdly wasteful in terms of computing power compared to using GPG or a distributed SQL database for the same purposes, which have been around for decades and work perfectly well.
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 11, 2023 12:09 pm Reply with quote
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Funimation announced in 2010 that it licensed the psychological cyberpunk series previously held by Geneon, and it has since released the series on home video in 2012 and 2014.

Crunchyroll began streaming the series in 2017[, and removed it] in 2018.


It's too bad Serial Experiments Lain isn't as readily-available as its classic 1998 contemporaries like Cowboy Bebop, Outlaw Star, and Trigun. Although Funimation's disc releases are long out-of-print and quite expensive, Funimation is still streaming the series (albeit English-dub-only) on its own website. However, the old Geneon single DVDs can still be found for reasonable prices on the secondary market. The miracle of excessively-large early-2000s "anime bubble" print runs, I guess.
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