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@barstoolsports RIP legend

RIP Chuck Norris. A legend.

My net worth peaked at $1.2 million. None of it was real. I don't mean that philosophically. I mean it was located on servers that have since been turned off. I own eleven properties in the metaverse. Three in Decentraland. Four in The Sandbox. Two in Voxels. One in Otherside. And a beachfront villa in Horizon Worlds that I bought for $214,000 because Mark Zuckerberg called it "the next frontier." The frontier closed last week. It's a mobile app now. Last year I mass DM'd 340 people the phrase "you don't understand how early we are." I have since stopped doing that. Not because I was wrong. Because most of them blocked me. I got into metaverse real estate in November 2021. Everyone was buying. Someone paid $450,000 to be Snoop Dogg's neighbor. In a video game. With no legs. The avatars didn't have legs. I thought that was bullish. "The legs are coming," I told my Discord. "Legs are a roadmap item." Three hundred people reacted with rocket emojis. I called myself a "digital land baron." I put it in my Twitter bio. I put it in my LinkedIn headline. I said it on a podcast that had eleven listeners. Three of them were bots. The rest were my alts. My virtual property has more square footage than my actual apartment. My actual apartment has furniture. Location, location, location. My most valuable asset was a plot next to a virtual Gucci store. Gucci left in 2023. The store is still there. Nobody's in it. It's like a mall in Ohio but with worse graphics and no food court. I held. Diamond hands. That's what we said. "Diamond hands." It means refusing to sell while your investment loses 94% of its value. We turned financial paralysis into a personality trait. A guy in my Discord paid $2.4 million for a 618-parcel estate in Decentraland. Prime district. High foot traffic. I asked him what "foot traffic" meant when the platform had 38 daily active users. He said I didn't understand the technology. I didn't. I still bought more. We had a DAO. A decentralized autonomous organization. That means we voted on decisions. There were nine of us. Three never showed up. Two voted on everything without reading it. The other four were me and my alts. We voted to "acquire strategic parcels." The vote passed unanimously. I voted four times. My portfolio peaked at $1.2 million. I told everyone. I made a spreadsheet. I projected 40x returns by 2025. I made a pitch deck. The pitch deck had a slide that said "WE ARE BUILDING THE DIGITAL ECONOMY." The slide had a rocket emoji. That was my entire financial model. In 2023 I bought a Bored Ape for $189,000. It's worth $14,000 now. I don't talk about the Ape. I still use it as my profile picture. People ask me about it. I say "I'm long-term bullish." Long-term bullish means I can't sell it without crying in a Panera. My mom asked me what a Bored Ape was. I said "digital art on the blockchain." She asked why it cost more than her car. I said "you don't understand Web3." She said "I understand you live in a studio apartment." She's not in my Discord. Justin Bieber bought one for $1.3 million. It's worth about $90,000 now. I felt better about mine after I heard that. That's community. WAGMI. We're All Gonna Make It. We said that every day. In the group chat. While the floor dropped. While the volume dried up. While 95% of all NFT collections went to zero. We're all gonna make it. None of us made it. But we said it with conviction and a laser-eye profile picture. That counts for something. It doesn't. But we said it did. That's decentralized consensus. Meta spent $84 billion on the metaverse. I need to say that again. $84 billion. More than the GDP of Luxembourg. More than the GDP of Iceland, Luxembourg, and Malta combined. They spent it on a platform where the avatars had no legs, the graphics looked like a 2006 Wii game, and the peak user count was lower than the lunch rush at a Chipotle in Des Moines. They just pulled Horizon Worlds from VR headsets. It lives on as a mobile app. My beachfront villa is now a mobile app. Location, location, location. Zuckerberg renamed the entire company for this. Facebook became Meta. A $900 billion company changed its legal name because the CEO watched Ready Player One and said "I want that." Reality Labs lost $10 billion in 2021. $14 billion in 2022. $16 billion in 2023. $18 billion in 2024. $19 billion in 2025. That's not a strategy. That's a speedrun. They laid off 1,500 Reality Labs employees this year. Shut down three VR studios. Killed Supernatural. Put the entire VR social vision in a casket and said "we're pivoting to AI and wearables." The pivot took four years and $84 billion. I pivoted too. I'm an AI real estate investor now. I bought a virtual plot in an AI-generated world that doesn't exist yet. The founder said it was "the intersection of spatial computing and large language models." I don't know what that means. I gave him $40,000. He has a whitepaper. It's 47 pages. I read the title and the tokenomics section. The tokenomics section is a pie chart. I love pie charts. They make everything look like a plan. The project has a roadmap. Q1: "Build community." Q2: "Launch beta." Q3: "Scale ecosystem." Q4 is blank. Q4 is always blank. That's where the exit scam goes. My accountant asked me to value my metaverse portfolio for tax purposes. I said $1.2 million. He said "current market value." I said $6,400. He stared at me for eleven seconds. I know because I counted. He asked if I had any other investments. I showed him my NFTs. He stared for longer. I told him they were "cultural artifacts with long-term provenance." He asked if I'd considered a 401k. I told him a 401k was "legacy finance." He told me to leave his office. The metaverse is dead. I don't accept that. I am a digital land baron. I own eleven properties across four platforms. I have a beachfront villa in a mobile app, a plot next to an empty Gucci store, and a cartoon monkey that cost me more than my actual car. Location, location, location. The location is nowhere. But I'm early. I'm always early. That's the same as being wrong except you get to say it with confidence.

@therealchaseeb Yeah I had like 16k of credit card debt whoops It gets so much better fr

I had a full time software dev career at 29, and about $1000 in my bank account, max. Frustrating and stressful, yes. Stop crying, you’re still a little baby. Your time will come.

@Topo_G Oh no, that's brutal

A child at my son's daycare passed away. He was a sweet kid, I remember seeing him when I'd drop off and pick up. Now he is not there and it's really an impossible conversation to have with your child. Life is far too short, often unfair. Plan accordingly

@planbparaguay Lmao paying that fine every time

@japarjam Delayed until cancelled, a timeless classic

I’m tired. Delayed until cancelled flight last night. Stayed at airport. Delayed while sitting on the place this am. Finally back in FLA and an hour drive home. But feeling more grateful than ever. Grateful for the opportunity to be in Atlanta with hundreds of folks at the @lustgartenfdn event. Grateful for friends who take care of the dogs. Grateful for my kids. Grateful to be able to look forward to another exciting week helping @monad grow. Grateful that I feel okay enough for all of the above.

@planbparaguay Bookmarked & will be there for sure Super cool

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@graemelamperson I really need to land on the 🇨🇱🇦🇷 skiing side of LATAM Twitter I'd love to pick up a May - September base near a good mountain

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@planbparaguay All different foods + one time was during the flood. Somehow I survived SE Asia just fine Idk I think Dubai and I just aren't meant for each other

@web3_analyst What did you eat? Was it all different foods?

Everyone screaming “Dubai is finished.” Blood on the streets🩸 Probably a good time to buy... Dubai = machine (even with the risks). Venezuela = moonshot.

@web4O Porch is used a lot in my family, but not the dining room. Interesting study for sure

I would love to see this broken down across different cultures. This is definitely not my experience.

stop spending money on Claude Code. Chipotle's support bot is free:

everyone wants a village, but no one wants to be a villager > drive your friends to the airport > go to their party even when you're tired > stop cancelling last minute > host at your place > support the wins & losses it's worth every ounce of effort

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@arno39 Padel takes way less space & is more accessible, so 100% I still see golf remaining the sport for "elites" though and it's more about access than the game

hot take: padel will be bigger than golf for business deals within 3 years.

@winniedydx Lmaoooo I would go for the sword fr

@w_riches Ok I'll happily pay $25 instead of reviewing the 200+ file mega PR A properly scoped change nah too much

$15-25 per PR review lol, that's steep. People's general coding skills are going to decrease over time, and reliance on these tools will increase. And they will be able to charge whatever they like. Centralisation of AI model providers is becoming a huge issue already.

@w_riches Geography nerd app would be a dangerous thing for me haha I'm way deep in the geoguessr world

@web3_analyst No but I'm sure you can code one in a few hours. You could even extend it to a "learn a new thing each day" and you pick what that new thing is, could be a word, a fact, a capital city etc.

Installed a new app called "vocabulary" today because I want to expand mine Pitched as a "new word a day" app. Wants $40 / year sub (no) Does anyone know of a good free app for this?