Sam 💀

Waking up at 4 am to talk about the Grotto. No better way to wake up.

@snapss @Luckymonkey141 @TheGrottoL1 Game coins eh?

Launch memecoins on @TheGrottoL1 Launch game coins on @TheGrottoL1 Launch projects on @TheGrottoL1 Launch on @TheGrottoL1

@baguetteart @threejs Nice one, did you find it took a lot of work to make it perform well?

grass shader is behaving now leaf blower very strong just needs a flamethrower for tree stumps @threejs

@ChrisFusillo @owenwg Probably best to print it in two parts where that top part can clip on to the base, will use no supports and both parts will be cleaner 🙂

@owenwg New one is on left. Still has some issues. The support filament was much harder to get off and may need a tool to remove. I did get a roll of dedicated support filament so maybe I will try that.

Slowly working my way up to printing something useful. 😅 This is a desk stand for the HashCash Nano Miner. It takes a lot of support filament but it came out nice. The miner plugs right into it snugly which is pretty cool, no magnets or screws needed.

@snapss Always find it weird it only counts pushes to main or master, but nice work! Mine is a lot more sporadic...totally because of branches not because I forget to check things in for a few days in a row..

gud year so far

Keepfall updates - Fixed issue with AI all crowding on one spot when attacking - Added scout button to reveal land from the fog - Work on the AI difficulty and gameplay, trying to balance difficulty - Fixed UI on main menu

Next up for @TheGrottoL1: - Game token launches built directly into the game publishing system - The City for Analog Distortions gets funded again tonight and the new experience begins on the L1 tomorrow - Moonpay and Kraken integration

I want to do a charity stream where I play @TheGrottoL1 games. I'd want to hit some smaller ecological charities and see if we could bring some attention in a good way to what we do here. Would yall be down??

@Wrathtank_avax @TheGrottoL1 YES I'm in, and down

@0xFrenchy Yeah I was almost there, then I read all the reviews and thought..there must be something to this, glad I pushed through. Finally a good LOTR game though, can't wait

@samtechcoded Ye first time I played I gave up cos was too annoying lol Glad I revisited later on

This makes my pp tingle so hard

@cleveland_ball @YourAnonNews I still have no subs apart from ones for work I do to get money. Pretty sure people used to have cable TV subs, etc, as well... I have no student loans and bought my car with money not a loan. I keep cutting down on things where I can buy costs keep rising.

@samtechcoded @YourAnonNews People used to cook at home, had no subscriptions, no student loans, and no car payment….. not that long ago

They did the math on a $75k income. This is why everyone is living paycheck to paycheck.

@pepeDRT Thank you

if anyone out there is feeling depressed, feeling bad, or feeling sick or whatever, I just want you to know that I feel pretty good

@cleveland_ball @YourAnonNews People used to get married and live on one income, and afford to buy a house, not even that long ago.

@YourAnonNews This is happens when people stop getting married and start moving out on their own Day 1. Yes, there’s a lot more that goes into. Yes, even on $75k you are making sacrifices. However, some people would rather complain. And yes, the American Dream is much different than before…..

@vohvohh Avalanche: transforming neurodivergence from a struggle in to a superpower

Avalanche embraces the neurodivergent. Join us.

Guess this is dependant on what kind of games you like to play, too. After spending endless hours in MMO's in my early years I guess my gaming "values" kind of changed. For me, i'm not into playing the same game over and over, doing the same thing to unlock +1 on a stat. I just want to be part of good story and a good challenge. The story part keeps me wanting to know more and helps push me through bits I don't enjoy as much, and the challenge keeps me playing so I can conquer it, cause that's really rewarding. I get that they seem a bit pointless now, esp. because in the end all you got was err..some gameplay, haha. There is that "real reward" factor that could be possible in web3, it wasn't "all for nothing" (apart from when the tokens/nfts inevitably go to zero 😂) I still like the idea of layers where people don't have to interact with the money side/web3 side but as soon as it's mentioned a lot of people are out and you need those numbers to make that kind of game economy work in the long term

I get it. I would do the same thing if the only web3 games I enjoy shutdown or didn't exist, but I wouldn't promote the web3 games as the future or anything if that was the case. The amount of fun I can have in a web2 game is greatly reduced because it all feels contrived and meaningless. That used to be enough for someone like me to spend countless hours and dollars over time, but not since I started playing web3 games. I would rather play a mid or even sub-par web3 game than a similar web2 version with much more polish, but even most of those have no active player base or terrible economies that exploit the value captured by players. The games I play all suffer from the worst web2 monetization designs, but the web3 side is as fair as I can find. I guess it is better to deal with the devil you know. LOL

I would never trust a web3 gaming content creator who clocks out and plays web2 games for enjoyment unless they are also deep in the Real Money Trading markets. It's like promoting the use of EVs on X all day while driving a gas guzzler and only flying private.

Yeah unfortunately so, imho a lot of it was to do with the people scamming using the keywords when it was the meta, with no actual intention of making something good, same thing with AI. The scammers ruin all credibility and also got rich off it, it's a lose lose. I know there are heaps of good people doing it, it's just been very tainted.

I made a mistake years ago promoting my Web3 game on Reddit and led with "NFT Game" got absolutely destroyed by downvotes. Good lesson learned there. People say Web3 gaming is inevitable, but I think it will always be a small niche to build in. I don't think it will ever hit mass adoption.

Absolutely, there are. Hard to find real gems tho, a lot easier to find good games outside of web3. I made web3 games so I don't hate them, I just hate some things about some of them, haha It doesn't help that there aren't mainstream reviews because as soon as people hear crypto they say it's shit.

@samtechcoded @Clit_Yeastwould yeah there is a massive range of entry cost to play a web3 game from $0 to hundreds like you are saying. If a game charges $1k for a NFT JUST TO PLAY they need to go to jail.

@prisonmikeio @Clit_Yeastwould If it was like $30-100 and it was a really enjoyable game, hell yeah. But I don't want to have to get an NFT that is $500-1000 just to play something that doesn't tickle my fancy.

@samtechcoded @Clit_Yeastwould Wait what? You don't want to play a web3 game because it costs money to play? Are all Web2 games free-to-play or something? lol...