Won't you be my neighbor?
As Mister Gowron used to say: "When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for those who seek glory. You will always find people who seek glory.'"
Yeah, that was my initial reaction too. Such meta jokes would be 100% in line with what current Deadpool writers do, but I guess Blahaj was not such a trans icon yet when the comic came out originally.
Origin of the comic panel
Tolkienesque fantasy has become the carbon copy of a carbon copy of a carbon copy ages ago...
And it becomes even more apparent when people consider that Tolkienesque fantasy tropes aren't even about "medieval Europe", they are about a particular English pseudo-medieval world. Fantasy doesn't do much exploring even beyond the English-speaking world.
Southern Europe (Italy, France, Spain,...) aren't even featured much. The landscape may allude to it, but then the same Northern European castles sit on the top of hills, occupied by the same kind of lords that you'd find in other parts of the game map.
And other parts of the medieval world do not fare much better: Everything around the Mediterranean is reduced to stereotypes or entirely replaced by some fantasy race. Every place outside of Europe/the Mediterranean fares even worse.
It has no depth, no knowledge of particular local traditions, it is not rooted in any stories, only recalls the same tired tropes that Tolkien established.
Even inside Europe and around the Mediterranean, the medieval world was very diverse. Every region had its own traditions, stories, clothing, customs and its own mythologies with their own particular kinds of monsters and creatures.
But you'd not know through most fantasy stories which - no matter the landscape they take place in - it always boils down to a band of adventurers walking into an inn, drinking a beer and paying it with gold coins, before they go off to kill some orcs in the name of some duke. Very little thought is spend on considering if it even makes sense that a place that is akin to - let's say - Southern France had any of these things.
When Tolkien wrote LOTR, he based most of it on ancient Germanic stories like "Beowulf", that there are uncountable other folktales and stories from all over the ancient world which could be chosen as the basis of a fantasy setting instead.
Not over here either.
For those interested: It's a sculpture called "Betonturbinen" by Karl Rissler, in a small city in southern Germany
Personality rights are already a thing. They are a mess in the US though.
The most successful example for a blockchain game is "Axie Infinity" which is something of a Pokémon-like. It used blockchain technology to track the unique "Axies" (= Pokémons) which could be traded and sold. So the blockchain was used to do just that.
The big promise of games like "Axie Infinity" was "play-to-earn", games which allowed players to earn money through playing the game, such as trading in "Axie Infinity".
Could this only be done with blockchain? No. All of that could technically also be achieved by other means.
So ultimately all of the talk about the blockchain was mostly PR and a way to distinguish the game. Nobody would have cared about it, if it had not had this feature. Which is very representative of all blockchain games.
The talk of how blockchain technology would allow players to transfer items from one game to another; or create unique characters which could be transfered between games; etc. have always been pipe dreams, They would have required a level of cooperation between publishers and developers of games that was simply impossible to achieve.
As a footnote: The use of blockchain in "Axie Infinity" ultimately resulted in an in-game economy that was largely a pyramid scheme. The game is still there, but the economy imploded and most players only ever made cents, if they earned anything through the game at all.
I don't want to disappoint you. I tried my best.