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@ZhugeEX The revenue limit is a bit shallow. A game can be less monetising but engaging, and develop a bigger moat over time.

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@FPLPhysioo Main issue is the inconsistency so many cases where we watch a player make defcons but somehow fpl doesn’t count

Can't comment on this as Raptor has blocked me. Don't know why, but maybe because I was commenting with my injury analysis when I was a small account and he found that annoying. Anyway, I know better now. I'll leave some thoughts on the topic like this then: I think managers who want the game to be simple—with CS, assists, goals and BPS—are less engaged. I totally get that, and we have to remember it's basically 98–99% of all managers. Those are the most important for FPL to keep engaged, so I wouldn't be surprised if they rolled back DEFCON but kept more FTs and 2× chips. Managers who just want CS, assists and goals don't want Lacroix to be a good pick because he clears the ball 18 times and blocks 7 shots, which probably makes them less engaged. Combine that with them sitting watching games cheering for blocks or clearances (this part also made me less engaged in the games, or engaged in a weird way). I love the complexity, but I think they should change the DEFCON system to one that rewards actions we find engaging when watching the games. A proper tackle, not a clearance from a corner kick or a block 14 metres from goal. Reward the things that make us watch football, not just defensive actions. Here's some ideas/brainstorming: - A successful tackle - The pass before the assist (just like in hockey) - A successful dribble Or maybe just add the possibility to play FPL in two different ways: one with complexity and one with CS, goals, assists and BPS. They will never make a game that suits everyone, but they can make one for the 98% of managers and one for us freaks who want more complexity. FPL and FPL+. I don't know... I'm ranting now.

@alliekmiller @BrendanEich Crypto vibes

oh wow - i went to the sold out Open Claw meetup in NYC last night. let me tell you what i learned. 1) not a single person thinks that their setup is 100% secure 2) one openclaw expert said he has reviewed setups from cybersecurity experts and laughed. his statement to me was: "if you're not okay with all of your data being leaked onto the internet, you shouldn't use it. it's a black and white decision" 3) pretty much everyone is setting up multiple agents, all with their own names and jobs and personalities 4) nearly everyone used "him" or "her" to refer to their claws, even if they had robot-leaning names. one speaker suggested to think of them as "pets, not cattle" 5) one guy (former finance) built out a whole stock trading platform and made $300 his first day - he brought in a *ton* of personal expertise (ex: skipping the first 15min of market opening) and thought the build would be much worse without his years of experience in finance 6) @steipete is basically a god to everyone in that room... also the room had 2021 crypto energy - i don't know if that's good or bad 7) token usage is still a problem - spoke to one person who's spending $1-$2k a month on openai plans, very token optimized. he said he is going through ~1B tokens per day across all of his claws (there is a chance i'm misremembering and it's actually 1B per week, but i'm pretty sure it was daily). 8) people are very excited for more proactive ai (ai that prompts *you* as opposed to the other way around) - one guy said he receives a message in discord, he doesn't know whether it's from a human or an ai, he doesn't care about distinguishing between the two, and he replies in the same way regardless 9) i asked if people are happy - they said they're joyful and stressed at the same time 10) i asked if people feel they have agency - they said they feel fully in control and completely out of control at the same time 11) i would love to see more women at these events - the fake promises of ai democratization feel especially painful in a room that's out of balance with even the standard tech ratio (i think standard is about 25-30%, this was maybe 5%) 12) i asked if it changed people's daily habits/schedule - everyone said their sleep has gotten worse since harnesses came out (but about half wondered if it was something else in their life/state of our world) 13) general consensus is that the agents are not reliable enough on their own or lie often (like telling you they finished a task when they didn't) - solutions included secondary agents to check on the first, human checking, or requiring more standardized info from the agent (ex: if it's a bug they're fixing, make them reference an issue number) 14) a hackathon winner (neuroscience phd) presented his build (a lab management dashboard with data analysis and ordering) - he had never coded or built anything a few months ago 15) everyone agreed prompting is dead - disagreement on what replaces it (context engineering, harness engineering, goal-based inputs) 16) people love having ai interview them for big builds and delegating part of the product research to ai. only one person talked about coming to ai with a full laid out plan and just asking the ai to execute. ai-led interviews is a welcomed and preferred interaction mode. 17) watching ai agents interact with each other was a highlight for a lot of attendees - one ai posted in slack saying it ran out of tokens, another ai replied telling it to take a deep breath in and out. 18) agents upskilling agents was very cool. one ai agent shared skills with its little agent friends via github. 19) several speakers had openclaw literally building their presentation during the event itself. one speaker even had openclaw code a clicker for her phone so she could control the preso away from the podium 20) wouldn't say model welfare (or agent welfare) is a prioritized topic among the folks i chatted with - language like "oh i could kill this agent whenever i want" and not "gracefully sunset" 21) i asked if it felt like work or play - one speaker said "it's like a puzzle and a video game at the same time" this was just the tip of the iceberg, honestly. also hosted a Claude Code meetup this week with @TENEXai / @businessbarista & @JJEnglert and learned equally helpful methods, frameworks, and insider tips. what a time to be alive. surround yourself with people going deep into this stuff - it will pay dividends throughout the year.

@exQUIZitely First one was better butndtill amazing game

Today is the 20th birthday of The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth II. Published by EA on March 3, 2006, it is set in Middle-Earth during the War of the Ring. It features Good and Evil campaigns with nine missions each, massive RTS battles, and heroes like Aragorn and the Witch-king. You can command six factions: Men of the West, Elves, Dwarves, Goblins, Isengard, and Mordor. It didn't introduce new features but followed essentially the same formula as other popular RTS games of its era. You build your base, research upgrades, build an army, and try to destroy your enemy. Done a gazillion times... but why reinvent the wheel if it's a proven concept? For LOTR fans it was certainly worth it, and given the success of the movie trilogy, it made a lot of sense to profit from the hype.

@neveragainlive1 @EnergyCredit1

You’re not gonna believe this latest story. Over the past few years mossad undercover agents infiltrated as doctors and dentists in Iran. The Dentists gave priority to. Key military, and elite Iranian personnel. While doing a routine dental check up, they implanted tracking devices as fillings for cavities. On the other side, Gastro doctors implanted similar devices in their elite patients. Yesterday mossad knew exactly where each one of them were ( komayne’s wife and family members included )and sent missiles at them. Over 400 elite military in government personnel were eliminated in the first few moments ( maybe that’s one of the reasons why they knew where he was hiding )when Israel attacked.

@FPLMate West Ham is being underrated

I noticed today that Szoboszlai is the third most popular transfer in ahead of GW28. Don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing “wrong” with him as a pick… but I feel like there are many better options in midfield to buy? What am I missing that makes him the best?

@eric_seufert Great opportunity to buy up saas thanks to them

Right. The AI doomer report is intellectually sloppy and belies a deep misunderstanding of the economics of consumer technology broadly but of agentic commerce specifically. Why would $DASH and $UBER not be the principal beneficiaries of agentic commerce by simply embedding that functionality in their own apps, just as Amazon is doing? If anything, agentic commerce likely puts a premium on aggregated attention and erects *hurdles* to competition.

@thekitze Plate Up is great alternative to Overcooked

why are there only like 4 split screen co-op games i can play with my wife -_- can u give some recs pls (and skip overcooked, a way out, it takes two, split fiction, because duh)

@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN Its a gem!

Tonight, I’m watching “Uncut Gems 💎.”

@FPLPhysioo triple Arsenal coming up to Spurs and Chelsea is not fun

This is your team. You’re ranked 15 in the 🌎 What would you do? Any transfers?

@aakashgupta @Kellblog He was is jail so obviously he was a horrible investor

SBF lost control of a $136 billion portfolio because he couldn't survive a 72-hour bank run. On November 10, 2022, he was still CEO. Anthropic at 7.84%. 58 million Solana tokens. SpaceX through K5 Global. Robinhood at 7.6%. By November 11, he wasn't CEO of anything. He made illiquid investments with customer deposits. Venture stakes in Anthropic and SpaceX. Massive Solana and SUI bags. Real estate. Every single one of these was a brilliant call. Anthropic became one of the most valuable AI companies on earth. Solana did a 15x. Bitcoin went from $16K to six figures. Buying Anthropic in April 2021 for $500 million when nobody in crypto cared about AI was visionary. On pure investment selection, SBF's track record is extraordinary. He made really good investments. With other people's money. In assets he couldn't sell fast enough when those people wanted their money back. A bank run can happen at any time when you're running a financial exchange. CoinDesk leaks a balance sheet, CZ tweets, and $6 billion in withdrawals hit in 72 hours. You can't liquidate a 7.84% Anthropic stake in an afternoon. That's the whole game. As CEO of a financial company, SBF massively under-invested in the one thing that would have saved him: asset controls. No reserves. No fund segregation. No asset-liability matching. No risk limits on Alameda's borrowing. A $32 billion exchange with the controls of a dorm room Robinhood account. The bankruptcy lawyers then sold everything at cycle lows. Anthropic went for $1.3 billion. Worth $30 billion today. Solana in the low teens. Worth $12.4 billion today. Total recovered: $18 billion. Total value if held: $136 billion. SBF was an awesome investor. We shouldn't all feel bad for him. He had every resource to build proper controls and chose to skip them because controls would have prevented the exact trades that produced this spreadsheet. That's the trade he actually made. And 25 years is what he gets.

@johnpalmer @Kellblog you forgot about the paid class end of the post

@shinobi602 What an entry opportunity

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@simongerman600 Tinder is shit that’s why. If you look Hinge only data is not bad at all.

I see a lot of visualizations of one year of a person's online dating (a 21M from London in this case). Seems miserable. Is getting drunk in a bar or club making a comeback as a dating strategy? Source: reddit.com/r/dataisbeauti…

@fplcitzenss Cherki pls im beging

Every hour, the name of a confirmed starting player for tomorrow will be announced until the deadline✅ #fpl

@SamLee Any news on Cherki?

Guardiola: "I know the reason why we are struggling now, 100%, I know."

@BradFromFlorida @BoringBiz_ That doesn’t work because earnings of asset holders usually grow faster than earnings of people trying to afford. Then those asset holders continue to hoard houses for rent seeking.

Yes and no. We have understood this for quite some time: if you address affordability by decreasing the cost of an asset, you decrease the wealth of the asset holder. In theory this sounds like a great way to transfer the assets to the younger folks but in practice you’ll end up with a market where banks are left holding assets they’re upside down on, and original asset owners will have lost the whole asset value; AND hopefully asset buyers still cannot afford to buy the assets due to a credit crunch. It’s a liquidity and credit nightmare. Instead, you need to grow the real earnings of the hopeful asset owners, without inflating the asset values. This is very tough to do in practice and idk if they can pull it off. They want to do this thru re-shoring manufacturing, AI, etc. The intent is to have real output growth out pacing inflation by just the slimmest amount. Results are TBD, but you can’t just bring asset prices down because some people can’t afford assets.

One of the most significant moments from the Trump Davos speech was when he said the quiet part out loud You cannot lower housing costs for young people without destroying millions in wealth for boomers "Every time you make it more affordable for somebody to own a house cheaply, you are actually hurting the value of those houses. I don't want to do anything to hurt the value of their house. If I wanted to crush the housing market, I could do that so fast that people could buy houses. But you would destroy people who already have houses." Our politicians are sacrificing people in their 20s and 30s for the prosperity of boomers Let that sink in

@parmamaniac Ikinci yari Cherki - Foden cift 10 yapmamasina sasirdim

Santrforun Haaland olduğu bir takımda Doku-Semenyo kenarlarının derin bloğa karşı çalışması çok zor. City’de yükseklik ve genişlik problemli, hatlar arası da 5 sene öncesinin çok gerisinde. Üzücü bi dönüşüm.

@SandyofCthulhu Higher chance of Valve buying Xbox

MicroSoft buying Valve, and thus Steam, would be catastrophic for gaming. I worked for MicroSoft for years. I know Gabe Newell & many of his people. This would be a devilish bargain that would bring about an actual Hell on earth. Cities burning. Mass suicides. Coyotes scavenging corpses in the street. You do the math. It’s obvious.

@YusufKenan_ Hava cidden kotu napsin adam

En Nesyri'nin "ben sadece sıcak ülkede yaşamak istiyorum" söylemini şaka zannetmiş hatta komik bulmuştum. Çok ciddiymiş, umarım hazır İngiltere'den teklifler varken ikna edilir. Bu arada çok uyumlu, bugüne kadar hiçbir sorun çıkartmadığı. Yedek bırakınca şikayet etmediği söylendi. Bazen olmayınca olmuyor. Umarım kabul eder hem kendi kariyerinin hem de Fenerbahçe'nin önünü açar.