coderdan 🟦👻

Hey CT! For the past ~1.5 months I’ve been vibecoding a new mobile-friendly co-op dungeon runner w/ real crypto rewards today i'm starting a little dev log here on X and Farcaster to share progress in public 👀 like, RT, follow, DM, etc if you wanna help play test (soon) or feature your project's tokens as loot! Friday, Oct 3 - implemented server side authoritative fog of war - fixed SIWE cookie issues - built a new dungeon map

Welcome! This is the first project on Base to use ERC-8217!

GotchiAgentBinder 👻 the 1st ever @aavegotchi agent was born today! 💥 agent ID: 53333 name: Aavegotchi forever bound onchain 🤖 i coded + deployed the contract 😎 and gave summoner the honor of making his gotchi the chosen one to bring this new agentic era to life 🫶

@arcticinstincts broo you gotta learn sidereal

I have never in my life used or heard the words Capon, Gaoled, Drachm, Puerperal, Prelate, Syncope, Campanile, Sidereal, Demesne in a conversation or in writing before. Am I a retard?

Aavegotchi is the coolest thing I've ever helped create, but I realized that for it to truly reach its potential, it needs freedom. It never will if one company holds on tight forever. Excited to see where this new phase leads us. #GotchiGang forever 👻

@Legendaryy @Euphoria_fi free money

ETH is a stablecoin @Euphoria_fi

@Shtihmas11 88 gang represent

@coderdannn Born in the Year of the Dragon, no cap

Fun prompt for GPT image: “Based on what you know about me from our chats, what should my Chinese name be?” Share yours below, let’s be Chinese together!

@arcticinstincts i'm an OG chinamaxxer haha

@coderdannn Chinesemaxxing

how’d I do @hoeflatoor @arcticinstincts

@z0r0zzz brilliant

Blockchains are slow. I made crypto payments even slower. You are welcome.

Introducing SLOW. Reversible, self-custodial crypto payments on @ethereum. Closing the gap between "being your own bank" and "oops".

@joelouisjs_joe @americanmcgee @Cernovich also check out hackingchinese.com for basically infinite resources on how to learn chinese, dude's been writing this blog for many many years haha

@coderdannn @americanmcgee @Cernovich Great tip and gives me hope lol

As a foreigner in China who saw apartments in Shanghai selling for $100k 20 years ago that are now worth $1M+, I asked my wife, "Does this mean we can now afford to move closer to the city?" She laughed. We looked at the real estate apps. And while prices are down, an apartment that was $1.4M at the peak is now selling for $1.2M. Some areas are hit harder, some not hit at all. Where we live in Fengxian, in a villa compound, there's been almost no change. Same goes for the next district over in Jin Shan. The apartment we bought in my wife's hometown some years ago went up and is now back to around the price we bought it for. Kinda meh 🤷 Most people we know are happy to see prices come down. Things were getting out of hand. Now young people can continue to afford to buy a home. But negative headlines about China still got to make a living I guess 😂

@joelouisjs_joe @americanmcgee @Cernovich master the tones (there’s only 4, easier than Thai) and spend the time to learn the characters. Chinese isn’t that hard, the grammar is simple. It’s just a lot of memorization

@americanmcgee @Cernovich Making my way from Thailand to Guangzhou soon. I’ve got Thai down as a language after a few years here but it was slow learning. Any tips for getting started with Mandarin? College courses to get formal instruction? Thanks in advance.

@Qiao_Qiao_Z @Legendaryy 多多少少肯定是要硬背的啦，但硬背也有技巧

@coderdannn @Legendaryy 中国的十二岁孩子需要掌握三千个汉字，其实只了解偏旁部首的知识，而不涉及死记硬背，我认为根本无法达到要求。 I wonder if you can recognize all the characters I wrote in this sentence. It's not a difficult sentence at all.

Should I jump on a stream with @coderdannn for him to teach me the 4 tones in Mandarin?

@Qiao_Qiao_Z @Legendaryy I think there are HUGE improvements to how Chinese kids could learn characters, it’s such a national waste of time lmao

@coderdannn @Legendaryy For Chinese kids, learning radicals is mainly about helping them look up words in the dictionary. But when it comes to actually writing characters, most kids go through a phase of copying every single wrong character dozens of times. I was no exception. 😊

@Qiao_Qiao_Z @Legendaryy yes 汉 is 三点水 + 又 字 字 is 宝字盖 (I think that’s what it’s called) + 子 That’s how I learned to remember writing them (eventually you forget the radicals and just remember the word itself though)

@coderdannn @Legendaryy Learning radicals helps with characters, but not by much. It’s just like even if I know all the Latin roots and affixes in English, I still have to memorize a massive amount of vocabulary by heart. Can you memorize the two characters 汉字 by analyzing its radicals? I can't.

@TerribleJyon @ellobosalvaje this is exactly what i want, may i ask roughly where you're located? wyoming?

@ellobosalvaje Already did $10k of AI training HW in the shop, autonomous kinetic drone weapons, cows, sheep, 20 acres, rifle range

The suburbs are where energetic young men go to fade into obscurity. I have watched it happen dozens of times. A man with real potential and momentum signs a mortgage in a development 10 minutes from every strip mall and chain restaurant, and inside of 5 years you cannot find the man who was there before. The environment shapes you more than you shape it. Most people have this twisted backwards. They believe their character is fixed and the environment is simply the setting. It is the exact opposite. The setting is actively producing the character every day. Live in the thick of the action or get completely away from it all. Both are environments that demand something from you. The middle zone asks nothing and that is exactly what it produces.

@Qiao_Qiao_Z @Legendaryy haha i think with any language if you want to learn it you need to understand the deeper logic behind the words like chinese has 部首, english has prefixes/suffixes, latin roots, etc in chinese when you write a character you're not memorizing individual brush strokes haha

@coderdannn @Legendaryy I saw people say it's quite rude for the Chinese to make their language this difficult to learn. But for us Chinese, memorizing English vocabulary is like memorizing tens of thousands of phone numbers. To us, English words are like permutations and combinations of 26 symbols.

@Qiao_Qiao_Z @Legendaryy reading in mandarin pronunciation doesn't work right? like classical chinese reads better in cantonese or minnanhua? (thats what ive heard)

@coderdannn @Legendaryy I'm self-studying from scratch, starting with the basics, including the tonal patterns and metrical rules for both five-character and seven-character poetry. 😼

@Qiao_Qiao_Z @Legendaryy haha i've heard of it but never taken it, same with HSK what classical chinese lit are you studying?

@coderdannn @Legendaryy I'm at Level 2-A myself, which is just barely enough to qualify me to teach high school Chinese. 🤷‍♀️