Buster Scribes Episode 147 Raids! 02/23/2026

Monday Magic News: Ep 147 Raids! Burns!.m4a

Here is a speaker-organized summary of the key points, decisions, and next steps from the discussion:

Summary of Speakers

SPEAKER_1:

Discussed the upcoming Myths and Monsters raids and the testing process on the Sepolia testnet

Announced a "Monster of the Week" promotion, starting with Manticore Raiders being available for purchase

Emphasized the importance of community feedback and collaboration during the testing phase

SPEAKER_2:

Provided updates on the Forgotten Runes community, including the potential Warrior Burn feature and the Feckless game proposal

Discussed the current state of the crypto markets and the potential impact of AI and government involvement

Mentioned plans to continue promoting Forgotten Runes and potentially seeking funding for the show

SPEAKER_3:

Shared concerns about the safety and alignment of AI systems, particularly in the context of the recent incident with the Facebook AI researcher

Discussed the history and significance of the Game of Thrones universe, including the differences between the books and the TV show

Provided market-related insights, including the potential impact of the Zach XBT investigation and the deletion of tweets by the Trump family

SPEAKER_0 (Curator):

Provided an in-depth update on the Myths and Monsters testing process, including the focus on balancing, bug fixes, and community feedback

Announced the upcoming "Monster of the Week" promotion, starting with Manticore Raiders

Emphasized the importance of running Myths and Monsters like a traditional game service, with features like FAQs, patch notes, and a weekly cadence

Key Points and Decisions

Myths and Monsters is currently in a testing phase on the Sepolia testnet, with a focus on balancing, bug fixes, and community feedback

The "Monster of the Week" promotion will start with Manticore Raiders being available for purchase, with unsold items going into the rewards pool

The Myths and Monsters team is committed to running the game like a traditional game service, with features like FAQs, patch notes, and a weekly cadence

The Forgotten Runes community is exploring options for the Warrior Burn feature and the Feckless game proposal

There are concerns about the safety and alignment of AI systems, particularly in the context of the recent incident with the Facebook AI researcher

The crypto markets are facing potential challenges, including the impact of AI and government involvement, as well as the ongoing investigation by Zach XBT

Next Steps

Continue testing Myths and Monsters on the Sepolia testnet and incorporate community feedback

Launch the "Monster of the Week" promotion, starting with Manticore Raiders

Provide regular updates to the community, including FAQs, patch notes, and a weekly cadence

Explore options for the Warrior Burn feature and the Feckless game proposal within the Forgotten Runes community

Stay informed about the ongoing developments in the crypto markets and the potential impact of AI and government involvement

[ 00:09:19,820 ] Live from the Obsidian Tower.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:09:23,150 ] In the Black Sands, near the portal to the myths and monsters, this is Monday Magic News, Myths and Monsters Magic News.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:09:36,120 ] Giving you the live updates and a mostly unbiased platform with our distinguished co-hosts.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:09:44,310 ] Oh, I guess that's on a good. Bisonic. F Man, we got actually a pretty good show for tonight. I was trying to light up a guest this week, but it just did not pan out with... Getting to that, it's not. So we just had a lot to talk about with Mrs. Monsters. As well as what's going on in the market, the conclusion of the United States Olympics, I mean, the World Olympics, and what's going on in Mexico. I mean, that is insane what is going on down there. I had a guy today tell me he had to cancel his trip this morning. because of all the calamity that's going on down in Mexico and like they couldn't rebook his flights or anything. It's pretty nuts down there. What do you think, Bisonic?

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:10:28,740 ] I mean, you know, it's not like the history of the cartels hasn't been history in the past 50 years or so.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:10:37,300 ] And just because Cabo... Or Puerto Vallarta. Or, uh... Acapulco just happened to be owned by one specific cartel that's going to make it safe.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:10:50,390 ] Yeah, I mean, it's a power vacuum, and, you know... Those cartels. controlled a lot of territory, money, and resources.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:10:59,860 ] And they're just vicious.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:11:02,410 ] It's not going to be easy. I mean, the Mexican military is... It's going to have to step in, but I mean, can they handle what's about to ensue? It's the insurgency within the country. I mean, these people live among the normal folks that they have to deal with, and they have a rule of order, which, you know, has been upset.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:11:24,530 ] Um. And it's been that way since literally the wild, wild west.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:11:29,580 ] MMMMMMMMMM Yeah. So it's, it's, yeah, I. Hmm.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:11:37,120 ] especially when, especially when, like you actually like, look into the history of, like The way the cartels operate, like... Ain't no way. I'm going to visit any of those places.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:11:48,340 ] No, I mean, the risk is not worth the reward. I mean, you can get kidnapped and then, you know. Hail for Ransom. I mean, just for the sake of trying to prove a point.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:12:01,130 ] for the cartels. It's not. Not good.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:12:04,810 ] I mean, I'm sure, like... Some of those blazes are nice.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:12:08,880 ] but the bottom line is though that their cartel control Yeah, it is.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:12:14,170 ] And you feel terrible. Look at the airport. Just mass chaos ensuing. Yeah, so they got a lot to figure out. And also dropping another 5% on tariffs. I mean, craziness, man. The market. is getting hammered in the crypto space.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:12:29,980 ] Easiest liquidity is your fastest, right? Or the fastest liquidity is easiest. It's always been crypto. You can sell at any time. Look what happened Saturday night. Sunday night. I mean, people just don't know. If they can't go to the bank, they're going to... Exit liquidity off the exchanges.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:12:46,010 ] And, you know, Binance doesn't help anything with that. Them being in cahoots with the Iranians.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:12:52,870 ] Sir. I mean... That's what's causing the market outflows. I mean, people realize that.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:13:00,180 ] Cryptocurrency is the easiest. access to cash in the world.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:13:05,540 ] It is about time to go ahead and um, shift to USD-C and what happened I don't know.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:13:14,010 ] I mean, how low can it go? It'll always go lower than you think. I mean... Panico was talking about, you know, if we get another buying chance at $1,000 for ETH, I mean... good, grief, the opportunity.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:13:27,900 ] Um... you know, for that. Bitcoin value below $50,000 would be a pretty good deal too.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:13:37,790 ] Especially if they're going to crater everything else.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:13:40,370 ] Well, yeah, it's taking the liquidity out of everything else. But look at Decred. I mean, it's at $25 a coin. That was... Hovered around $11 all last year and the year before that.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:13:54,500 ] The utility and the, um... Privacy of that one is still holding fast. People realize that that might be a place to go.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:14:04,250 ] Are they going to pull it off, though? Because, you know, Zcash has always been rumored.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:14:10,730 ] Going way, way, way, way, way back.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:14:14,290 ] The old 4chan posts, I would say, like, as old as like 2017 or so. Yeah, revealing that uh Zcash was actually a military uh Who knows?

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:14:26,080 ] But I know Decred isn't. They're run by a board of dudes and they have their own decentralized exchanges.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:14:32,780 ] I mean, I hate to say it, though, but Zcash actually looks a lot better than Decred because it is a military optic.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:14:39,120 ] Well, yeah. I mean, anything that's got a stigma towards something with the government or somebody affiliated in the news, I don't think it's a good optic right now— you want to get in it. Um, it's just— go with what you know and trust.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:14:53,900 ] You know.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:14:54,980 ] I know Chainlink's going to be around. Yeah, Chainlink is good. Nobody else is going to solve the Oracle Problem. Yeah, as fast as they do and on a standardized level as they do. Like, I've said time and time again, like, I wish... Oh, I wish in retrospect I'd actually held at the peak of what I held because they're not going away. Bitcoin, Ethereum, Chainlink.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:15:26,520 ] Those are three that are not going away like all the other, like quantum-resistant, supposed like pretenders that are gonna, like, somehow usurp Ethereum. I don't see it happening because... Vitalik is a billionaire, but yet, like, he puts all of his time and his effort into being a dev. And to, uh, still solving problems and, uh, they have a huge war chest to hire the best devs in the entire world to continue to work on these issues.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:15:59,040 ] Yeah, I mean... That's right. They, um... have a good war chest and they've got a different philosophy on their products.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:16:08,890 ] Yeah, you really aren't going to lose just putting your money in Ethereum if that's what you choose.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:16:18,090 ] I still think that Chainlink still has, Quite possibly, one of the best.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:16:25,100 ] Returns the next. 10 years.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:16:28,530 ] Well, well, this is it. History repeats itself or certainly rhymes, and so we're here at this pinnacle again. But, you know, also look at some of the core NFT projects.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:16:40,870 ] Ethereum. As their baseline, and Myth and Monster is the same way.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:16:45,310 ] Um, it's, it's— I mean, this is like Ethereum is working on, like, minimizing their gas transactions to a point that L2s are just going to be irrelevant.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:16:55,600 ] Well, yeah, I mean, you still 18 cents or eight cents here and there for a thousand bucks. But, you know, it's a lot better than eighteen dollars when it was when it when it exploded on the scene.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:17:09,540 ] It's.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:17:12,829 ] Yeah. So it's an interesting time in the market.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:17:16,319 ] So many lessons in holding.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:17:18,849 ] Yeah, I mean, for real. And when people get scared when the price gets low.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:17:25,060 ] Um, that's the opportunity to buy. Uh, you know, the use cases haven't gone away for the cryptocurrencies.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:17:32,780 ] Um, the pump and dumps, and the fun . fun . com and stuff that's just— That's just a scam. But... Oh, man.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:17:41,989 ] The l1s in the dinosaur coins. I think you know. You still got a good case. Hell, man, I remember when, like, Ether was $140. It was like, oh, my gosh, you know, it's going to go lower and lower.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:17:54,630 ] And you know, it never did. I was like, that was a dumb move on my part.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:18:00,320 ] Aw.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:18:01,600 ] Not getting more of that.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:18:04,050 ] At the time, but uh. Yeah, we've got a big show. I put together a little thread there. There's some news and happenings. Forgotten Tomes are still going strong, and there's some puzzles still to be solved. That is a fun little project. There's so many Easter eggs in that.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:18:21,860 ] And many of the bookshelves have minted out.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:18:26,470 ] So you need to get in there and get some tomes by Sonic.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:18:32,380 ] I've not done so yet.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:18:34,640 ] You got some free mints, and I know I got more free mints on other wallets that I clearly did not check because... I found another myth and monsters over the weekend. And I had 10 the whole time. And I'm like, oh, what an idiot.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:18:50,320 ] Um, but, uh, I probably could have.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:18:54,160 ] So you're, you're a Titan then.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:18:56,220 ] Well, yeah, I am. And I was like, I had 10 the whole time. I just didn't forget about this one other wallet that I had like 140 bucks on at one point. And I just minted and I forgot about it. Um, so yeah, I'm gonna uh lobby uh Cyclops Technologies to um go back and administer.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:19:16,250 ] OG Rewards.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:19:18,130 ] For me, I'm going to put in an appeal and file a grievance to the Ministry of Myths and Magic, Myths and Monsters.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:19:26,930 ] I had Steezy recently trying to pick up a flamethrower, a flamethrower warrior that happened down because there's not many of those at the moment for sale at all.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:19:41,010 ] And I was like, You know what?

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:19:44,380 ] I'll still... I'll sell it to you to tax less, harvest, and next to nothing.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:19:49,560 ] If you can convince curator to uh, give me another guardian or raider that uh, that I don't know.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:19:56,040 ] Ah, yes. This is group effort to get the best possible squad that you can. Um, Yeah, that time is coming around the corner. But, um... also in news, we'll start with stay with forgotten ruins for a second. Elf appeal to the community uh, for any devs that might want to um, help contribute to rebuilding the building out the code for the warrior burn. They've got a roadmap for that, and I think they've got the... The recipes. You set up? I think that they were at the stage of implementing it. Um, because if I listen, I listened back to a Monday, Wednesday, Wizard Wednesday, where everything was ready to go. And they admitted it on the show.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:20:43,950 ] Then they decided to pivot all of a sudden. I think that they're dusting off the old book of that and um finally, understanding that, yeah, we'll have to We'll have to get that back going.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:20:57,840 ] And get the warrior bird, which was essentially, it was a puzzle. Um, and what you would try to make different combinations of treats with a warrior. And if you were successful, you'd come out on the other end with specific traits and rarities. In addition to that, for that warrior. It would make it rare. And it would also... uh, burn—um, an additional warrior with that. I think it was a one like you. That, if you did not get the combination right, you would get some sort of item or or things or bits or something.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:21:34,120 ] So the interest in downsizing the Warriors collection, adding to the rarity of the current ones, would be... is very appealing. Something—maybe they should have done it a long time ago, but who knows what's going on. With the, um, magic machine. So, alphas appeal to that, and of course, we'll see what comes of that. and happy to help with lore writing or stories or even coming up with fun combinations to help with that. even if it comes at a cost of not being able to participate objectively.

Wild Mage [ 00:22:11,600 ] Oh, no.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:22:12,820 ] Whatever it takes, you know, you know, maybe you got 20 devs from Forgotten Runes that are hopping into this.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:22:21,200 ] don't need to participate.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:22:24,040 ] Or do a blind allogamation of their warriors with somebody else who doesn't have the ends. Let them work with it. Which I think would probably happen, be like, hey.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:22:36,260 ] Take all these warriors and these treats and figure out the best possible combo since you did it with the souls.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:22:42,500 ] Everyone does seem to be kind of confused as to, uh... what exactly the Warrior Burners are going to look like. They're just... I'll... There's a number of folks that are excited about it, and I'm just sort of... I don't know. We'll see when we see it.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:23:01,670 ] Yeah.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:23:03,930 ] Yeah, definitely. And I think it would be fantastic.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:23:08,420 ] To have that.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:23:10,120 ] momentum with forgotten runes. And then in the meanwhile, forget about the game for a while until they figure out that side of it, if that's even possible to bring it back.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:23:19,030 ] I've actually I've actually thought about actually um holding a contest to give away a flint. Good. There's not many flamethrower warriors out there. And I do happen to hold one, and I definitely hold a number of Chainsaw Warriors.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:23:35,490 ] But I've thought about possibly trying to give away a Chainsaw Warrior or a Flamethrower Warrior. To, uh... I think it's about time that I need a new Web 3. 0 Moniker. Obviously.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:23:48,380 ] I'm not going to stay by Sonic. F forever.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:23:52,320 ] I don't think they even deserve that attention.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:23:55,700 ] So, um... And at the same time, the wild mage.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:24:01,730 ] I just... I appreciate Forgotten Runes for everything.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:24:06,870 ] That uh, we that that has gone on and that we've all participated together and whatnot, but I've kind of started to come to the conclusion that it's like you—Henvoid.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:24:19,700 ] I would actually like a Web3 identity that is not necessarily specifically attached to the Forgotten Runes.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:24:27,160 ] Yeah.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:24:28,910 ] Hey, that's a... definite uh avenue to go. Maybe it's myths and monsters you can get, get some more um.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:24:39,220 ] Well, I can't say necessarily that. I just... as much as I still am um definitely strategizing and plotting with myth and monsters, I just uh... The most unfortunate part is the fact that Wild, Dada. With the one with the eyes being a one instead.

Wild Mage [ 00:24:59,370 ] Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:25:00,860 ] I mean, it's available, but That's the thing. For four-digit ENS addresses, it's like 0. 05. Ethereum. per year. And I just can't quite justify spending that.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:25:15,710 ] Yeah. Well, you know, you got to make a call. I'm just glad that I just used my name.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:25:22,920 ] Yeah, no, I mean that works. I suppose I could use some sort of version of my name or some bastardized version of my name. I i don't really know. I i like everyone calls me 'Wild' so I feel like that kind of has to be a part of it in a way. Yeah.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:25:42,350 ] Well, no. So that's the news in the Forgotten Rooms area.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:25:47,690 ] Maybe, maybe, maybe after. We end up fully reading Neuromancer.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:25:54,760 ] And Curator reveals the Neuromancer character that he thinks that I am most like.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:26:02,300 ] I might be able to use the Web 3 Identity of some sort. I still... have not started Neuromancer, but like I said, I'm a fast reader and I will get it done before next Monday Magic.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:26:15,730 ] Oh, it's a good book. I've been reading it and I read some about an hour tonight. While the kids were just chilling.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:26:22,980 ] And, yeah, I'm going to pick it up after the show tonight, the catch up, because I'm going to finish this book. And it's getting really good. Case is his name, right? Case is the main character.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:26:34,510 ] It's a lot to take in with the... with their nomenclature and what this is in Japanese and all that.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:26:43,850 ] What some of the artifacts are and stuff. So I have to like stop and Google it. And I'm like, Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:26:49,550 ] Ja. So I didn't watch that much anime growing up.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:26:56,100 ] Ah.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:26:57,110 ] Some of the things are just... A loss to me. But I'm picking it up, picking it up. Oh.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:27:04,480 ] Have you ever seen Blade Runner 2049?

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:27:08,500 ] Yeah, I've watched Blade Runner.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:27:11,150 ] You definitely it's interesting that you see in Blade Runner 2049 as well as like Firefly? Yeah, the series that uh that uh occurred back in like the late 90s early 2000s or so. That they definitely envision.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:27:30,640 ] I guess a future.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:27:33,510 ] I guess an intergalactic space traveling world.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:27:37,190 ] in which, uh, The two predominant languages are Mandarin and English.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:27:44,110 ] Mmm.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:27:46,320 ] Yeah. It kind of makes sense. I can see it.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:27:50,840 ] Yeah, well, reading the book so far, it's just really given me Ghost in the Shell vibes on a little bit of some of this. And I'm like, so I'm glad that I was such a devotee to Ghost in the Shell. When it came out, and it used to play on, what is it?

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:28:07,270 ] Oh, Adult Swim back in the day. Adult Swim, yeah.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:28:10,590 ] And I was like, I used to watch that a lot.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:28:14,160 ] In high school and such. And uh, so that's all coming back to me and that was like my favorite type of fantasy uh stuff because I always thought that uh, What was the sergeant's name?

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:28:28,270 ] Always had a cigar.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:28:30,510 ] The sergeant with the cigar and one captain.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:28:32,890 ] He was in the police force.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:28:36,810 ] With a biotic arm.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:28:41,190 ] Oh, I know you're talking about, but I I could not name him. I definitely, yeah, that's a, uh, called her chief.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:28:48,420 ] Oh, mm.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:28:50,410 ] I can't remember. But, uh... Yeah, it's a really cool book and I look forward to getting back into it. Um, the uh, I was gonna say 'Forgotten Ruins' with the forgotten tones. You know, you got a few bucks lying around. I think I'll do it on the show tonight. I'll go ahead and mint some more tomes. And it's a lot of fun. I didn't check 'Catch Wizard Wednesday' on Wednesday, did you?

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:29:16,560 ] No.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:29:19,940 ] It always occurs right.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:29:23,580 ] When I'm, when I'm, when I'm, when I'm I don't know when I'm possibly uh Clocking out from work. And, uh... My phone is near dead because I've been listening to podcasts all day long while I work.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:29:38,050 ] But... Yeah, no, it's it's it.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:29:44,360 ] I still appreciate Wednesday, but it's just not convenient.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:29:48,160 ] Yeah, it just isn't for me as well. Maybe I can get one of the... council folks to uh prepare a little brief or something for us or just listen to it again on the weekend. But then again, you get a bunch of time to do it and track it down. Um.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:30:05,860 ] To find out what's going on with the council. They got the vote up this week. End of voting is the 28th for Feckless' game. I voted yes for it. I mean, I see it as the last hurrah, either revenue generation. Or, um... or a potential, you know, spinoff of something that we've all created.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:30:26,760 ] I haven't seen any more effort. Then I mean I haven't seen anybody put more effort into something besides the board game of Brennan. And, uh, Maybe.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:30:37,360 ] Bill's AI game, if we ever see it. And, uh... in this concept, I really hope that this pans out. Um, for faculty.

Wild Mage [ 00:30:48,900 ] It's a fun game.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:30:50,460 ] It's Mmm.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:30:54,590 ] I there's definitely been um Well, As you can see, as well as everyone has seen, a certain uh dispirited distrust amongst the community.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:31:10,150 ] Yeah. I get that. Oh. You know, but he has done nothing but produce since he's gotten here in some of the best little one-off games. I don't know what the Risk worst reward is— maybe we should put in for a couple thousand dollars to continue our show and promotion of Forgotten Runes.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:31:31,940 ] Oh.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:31:32,880 ] Oh, we should have done that about a year ago. Yeah, yeah, you know.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:31:36,810 ] Whatever. Well... Mama?

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:31:39,020 ] I know, I know.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:31:40,680 ] You know, this is fun.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:31:43,230 ] Um, Maybe we'll get big one day and then they'll be begging us to cover.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:31:48,370 ] Um That's how a lot of podcasts started back in the day, of course.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:31:54,480 ] I mean, through the other end of this, we'll probably be... you know. We'll still be here.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:32:00,930 ] We are still here. We're still spitting the real talk. About the crypto community.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:32:08,500 ] NFTs, the economy, all that shit.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:32:11,300 ] Yeah. There's not many. I mean, I don't see. The og content creators producing much anymore— maybe it's not coming across my feed.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:32:21,580 ] But we're still here. So Forgotten Runes... I discussed the possibility of the Warrior Burn, Feckless' proposal, Wizard Wednesday, MDP Steve is still chirping along. He's a... He's still coming up with ideas.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:32:41,090 ] path forward. I think he's just trying to wait till the dust settles too to figure out. What's going to happen?

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:32:47,180 ] Um, That's kind of how we've been over at Forgotten Curators.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:32:52,190 ] Yeah, I mean... put your time and money into something that makes sure you have a path forward besides this, uh, I hate it.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:33:02,530 ] Even if it includes a possible sale of the IP at some point. I don't know. But the community will. Be as patient as long as they can.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:33:12,330 ] Um, so that's what's going on. Forgotten rooms they're still tweeting, they still got their outreach going. Um, and whatnot. But I really think that game dropping. Is uh, Dropping off the map really hurt them.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:33:25,980 ] All of them. Yeah, I mean...

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:33:29,520 ] It definitely um, it definitely did not look good to the ronin community.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:33:36,220 ] No.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:33:37,670 ] I haven't even checked the Ronin price in months. I don't even know what it is now.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:33:42,060 ] Mmm.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:33:43,650 ] We just hold all sorts of assets that are worth nothing. Nothing.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:33:49,790 ] Would you like an antler chair to put in your home that doesn't exist anymore in the Forgotten Runes universe?

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:33:58,950 ] Yeah, sure.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:34:01,310 ] Oh.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:34:02,650 ] I can't even. I can't even bring myself to hell the turf NFTs are more than the freaking Rootiverse game assets. There's some dude still buying $5 turfs.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:34:13,870 ] I've gotten to a point where I just... With my dad. When my dad asked about, like, what's going on, I just kind of quietly shake my head.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:34:24,790 ] Yeah, just... Yeah, that's. It is par for the course. But we can sit here and LARP about it. All we want.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:34:32,750 ] Or we can make sure to tax loss harvest that shit.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:34:38,070 ] That's a fact. That is a fact. We do have that.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:34:42,530 ] We've got to look at the upside. If you want to deal with the IRS, sometimes them things are better left not discussed.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:34:50,520 ] or thought about. I'm just saying that.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:34:54,630 ] Lick your wounds and go on.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:34:57,819 ] I mean, really.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:34:59,350 ] I told Stacey that I would... I would give him.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:35:04,490 ] Auh, a flamethrower warrior. The round, if he was able to fin, yeah. Oh yeah, I mentioned this already. Actually, yeah, he's gotta, he's gotta come up, so for a trade with curator, so I can acquire one more guardian or rager that I don't own.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:35:20,240 ] Well, there you go. Aum.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:35:24,460 ] Yeah, I lost my train of thought. Where was the, what else did I put on the phase today? COFFEE! Oh, yeah, USA Hockey beats Canada. How about that? Game-winning goal by... Quinn Hughes, or the other Hughes brother, Jay Hughes.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:35:40,250 ] Um, Unbelievable game. Watched it Sunday morning. The hype is real. And Kash Patel going into the after party.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:35:52,490 ] I, you know, it's... At this point, that's the thing. Even when folks were posting, you saw this recent video folks were posting about how Michael Jordan touched some kid's butt or something.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:36:10,120 ] Yeah.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:36:10,640 ] Yeah. But at the end of the day, like, you you have to realize that AI technology has gotten to the point that you really truly don't know if that's actually... Something that actually happened or not.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:36:27,560 ] It did. He was in there. And the craziest thing was. Wait, how do you know that? Were you there? He put out a statement today because people were talking about, you know, how did he get in there?

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:36:38,130 ] Well, I mean, of course he would put out a statement in relation to all the idiots that think that, like, AI doesn't exist.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:36:44,390 ] No, he put it about him being into the, well, into the ceremony.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:36:49,640 ] The celebration room with the hockey team after they won.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:36:53,400 ] I mean, like, I just—you— you really can't trust anything you see, picture or video, wise anymore because AI has gotten so sophisticated and so good at the lighting that—um. You really can't tell.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:37:09,450 ] Well, yeah, you really can't tell. When I first saw it, I was like... Don't tell me this is real. Cash Patel wasn't in the beer chugging. Ceremony with the hockey players. But truth is stranger than fiction, man. We've seen it all through crypto. He was there. And the part that got me was. Him opening a beer while Donald Trump was on the phone, reaching over there to the 18-pack. Grab it and I'm like, 'What? What is this guy?'

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:37:37,160 ] So, I mean... Bye.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:37:40,400 ] Coming from like professional public sector, I mean, good grief. Um, It is what it is. The truth is stranger than fiction. Oh.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:37:52,080 ] With that. So yeah, congratulations to USA.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:37:56,010 ] And, uh... Yeah, congratulations to the USA.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:38:01,610 ] And, uh... Are you there? Oh, you dropped it off a second. And, um, The AI narrative. Oh, yeah. And, uh... Yeah, it was a great win. The closing ceremonies were fantastic. I got to watch those last night. Um, but yeah.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:38:20,450 ] USA wins, and we got hockey starting back up on Thursday. So looking forward to that and the run to the playoffs.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:38:27,580 ] Oh.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:38:29,520 ] That'll be fun. What else did I put on? The thread tonight, that caught my eye.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:38:37,710 ] Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We're going to get into Myths and Monsters now. The contest ended for the poem and the artwork. Congratulations to the winners of that.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:38:48,170 ] Boo! Super talented people.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:38:51,890 ] I know that was hard to judge. And thanks to Delicious for connecting with me, showing me how to do full-body renderings of the 'Uh Miss the Monsters'—uh, I'm gonna continue to use that.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:39:04,810 ] Where was AI when Forgotten Runes first launched, so I could use a similar tool? That's all I could say about that, but delicious. Thank you so much for um helping me with that. Um, I'm still. Using Canva.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:39:18,230 ] That's all the only tool I know how to use.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:39:21,720 ] Me too. I need to use ClipJet or something like that for Magus Wazir.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:39:27,780 ] I haven't really engaged with him to get that straightened out.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:39:32,010 ] MMMMMDDMMMMMM Yeah, I just I like I mean I realize that it sounds kind of uh like Ted Kaczynski schizophrenic but that's the thing like When it comes down to it, We really have crossed the Rubicon when it comes to AI tech with videos and pictures and like we really trust anything they actually give us and show us and try to tell us about how the narrative is Yeah.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:40:01,490 ] It is, um... It is interesting, I'll tell you that. and all that money that's going in on Wall Street to it. You know, someone's going to lose their ass.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:40:09,260 ] Oh, not to mention the fact that apparently... I think it was Donald Trump Jr. and I think Eric Trump as well that like deleted all of their posts about WorldFi and about crypto and all that. Which almost seems to kind of indicate that maybe there might actually be a... a downward spike coming in crypto even further. I've actually gone ahead and sheltered in the U. S. D. C. myself.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:40:38,650 ] All right.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:40:40,170 ] That's a move. That's a move.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:40:42,990 ] I mean, you know, with the way things re— or the way folks react to things, I—I. Yeah, I can see it going a bit further lower.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:40:54,700 ] Yeah, but I still think that at the end of the day, in the coming years, things are going to go up, but, um... Well... I don't know.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:41:07,100 ] Hmm. I mean, they're going to go up for those holes.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:41:11,440 ] That's right.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:41:12,740 ] In the meantime, we have other exciting things to divert our attention to, such as the myths and monsters. Um, uh, raids that are coming up. I don't have a date yet. Let's see if they gotta tweet anything about the dates and the raids. I don't see anything.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:41:27,650 ] I don't think they have a date yet.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:41:32,230 ] They're still playtesting a little bit.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:41:34,560 ] Okay.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:41:36,430 ] They don't want me and you getting in there and um gaming the system, yeah that's right.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:41:42,575 ] Buh-huh! The, uh... Winners were... I can't. I just got that at Visonic . f.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:41:52,420 ] Nakeem 88.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:41:54,170 ] Crypto Gamer. Give a hoot. and win Quinn.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:41:58,620 ] That's Casper in the shadows. Of course, he's number one. There's no beating that one. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:42:03,270 ] When you saw Castor's video, you already knew he was going to be one of the top four.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:42:07,270 ] I was like, no. I can't even. I can't eat this.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:42:11,110 ] You're early. Okay. I'm going to try to achieve one of the four now. Yeah.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:42:15,800 ] So um, my late entries were just— they probably were laughable. I used the what was it— the golem.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:42:25,030 ] Oh, the 1980s game for NES.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:42:28,610 ] I can't remember what it's called.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:42:31,110 ] Oh, um... oh well, I was gonna say myth and monsters, but no— it's not myth and monsters.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:42:37,880 ] It's uh, something Golden goblins.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:42:41,350 ] Golden goblins.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:42:42,670 ] Yes.

Wild Mage [ 00:42:43,860 ] Thank you.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:42:46,130 ] I uh, I actually borrowed from a um, from a poem.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:42:53,820 ] From an ode on the Grecian urn. And made a little bit of a— i just i don't know— i just all of a sudden just uh, the day before The uh... Against the... the deadline. Yeah, I just all of a sudden decided to write a poem about it.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:43:14,810 ] So I want to. CENTAUR! RAIDER.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:43:21,230 ] And I definitely needed that because I did not have a centaur raider.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 00:43:25,580 ] I tried to, um, give always try to give the maximum strategy units to everyone, uh. So Bisonic, I have a name for you.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 00:43:38,490 ] Oh? Wild Centaur.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 00:43:43,330 ] Wild centaur. It's kind of like wild stallions, you know, from Bill and Ted, but it's wild centaur.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:43:52,730 ] I was almost. You know, I've been, like, kind of messing around with the idea of, like, other names, because I definitely want a . s. Address. associated. And um... I was almost considering Mild Mage. Mild mage?

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:44:12,720 ] I'm past my walled phase. I'm like, this is... Ah, this all has been a, um, This all has been a tremendous blow to my ego and my pride, and I've definitely learned a lot of things.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:44:29,859 ] Don't let it get to you. It's just crypto.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:44:33,080 ] Um, I mean it is, but the IRS is still knocking on my door and taking a chunk every month.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:44:39,640 ] Well... Yeah, there's that too. AHH! Oh, man. So, yeah, we got a lot of... exciting things on the horizon for raids. They're abnormally quiet. With the Mifflin Monsters. Okay, I'm looking at the trees.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:44:56,010 ] I've been like... Maybe I really should have been like... I guess uh, asking the questions in the general chat.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:45:05,920 ] Exactly. I should have been asking this question.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 00:45:08,600 ] Yeah, I should have told you to do that. Like, who was it? There's been a couple. People that have been in DMS with me and I've said, like, 'Oh hey, you know, let's continue the conversation in the Game Theory channel, so everybody can everybody can benefit from this. Um. But you have my permission to post our naughty DM chat over the last, like, 24 hours. Because I want, yeah, that's a thing. I want to answer questions.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 00:45:45,520 ] want to answer, you know, this is generally the time of the game testing, right? When it's it's called 'friends and family' um. Before Alpha, right?

Wild Mage [ 00:45:56,380 ] And um.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 00:45:57,780 ] You know, we're kind of emulating and making games like games are actually made. And so, you know, the friends and family, like, we know friends and family round from investments, but friends and family, like, it's also a game test. Term, uh, and and you know, the team testing with friends and family, and that's very much what's happening with uh, with the first uh, ogs of the genesis, uh, and so we're gonna learn a lot of things, um, and a lot of what we're doing, so we're on Sepulia, and a lot of what we're doing is You know, just finding tons of little visual bugs, like the contract is done. With the contracts are done, because there's multiple contracts involved, the uh, the back end is done, like you know, everything everything works, you like, you know, you go on raids, you get rewards. You can mint those rewards. And so we're, like, minting rewards on Sepolia.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 00:46:58,390 ] Like, it's all done. But what we're doing right now is, like, there are... there are rough edges. They're like visual bugs. Like, 'Oh, that's not good. We can't do that right.' Like, and little things you discover before you go to friends and family. And, you know, balance is a big thing. To the you know, there's the whole interplay of: How long does a raid last? Which we kind of know, but when you get injured, how long are you injured for? How much can the healers heal?

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 00:47:32,410 ] The cool down of the healers and the assassins, so there's like this math involved in that, and then there's the math involved in our favorite subject, tokenomics, which is like, every raid you get like genetic material and chances at other NFTs. And making sure that those numbers are right because, you know, it's fixed, right? So our 10-month season, we know exactly how much we're going to give out. And, you know, I don't know if Bisonic or... I don't know which Web3 companies actually do this. But you need to have a cap. and you need to be working toward the cap you can't just like willy-nilly release currency into the ether right it's like the us government then you end up with a 37 trillion dollar debt like you have to balance it better for good experience and so we have a cap on the number of the genetic material what the breakdown is but we don't know how many is given out each raid and what the multiple is like so there's there's a lot of factors that's uh going in right now to our uh to our calculations and that's that's what it's about that's what it's about is you know like two weeks a week or two i mean

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 00:48:51,280 ] it's up for debate you know like You know, let's say you know, seven to 10. maybe 14 days of, you know, we just are going to make it good enough, right, to release it. And then we'll release it, and you'll start getting rewards. you know, after the first week. And these rewards are not like, we're not gonna do the thing where your characters get wiped, right? It's all persistent. Your experience is persistent. Your rewards are mintable from week one. And, and, uh, and, and, but we're going to have to tune it right. And we'll see. Based on your feedback, everybody's feedback. What direction we tune it in so— but we just have to get it good enough before we release it because we know it's not going to be everything, and we're going to need the community's collaboration. But it has to be like good enough, if you know what I mean.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:49:44,029 ] Yeah, definitely know what you mean with that.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:49:48,810 ] So are we going to have Titan Tuesday tomorrow?

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 00:49:52,080 ] Yes, oh, yeah, oh, that's the big announcement. I actually have an announcement.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 00:49:56,780 ] I have an announcement.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 00:49:58,460 ] It's an announcement of an announcement because I'm announcing what's going to announce tomorrow.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 00:50:04,610 ] So you might have noticed there are manticores for sale. Um...

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:50:08,690 ] I'm going to check it out now.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 00:50:09,790 ] Yeah.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 00:50:11,420 ] Manticore Raiders. The rare Manticore Raiders are for sale.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 00:50:18,200 ] So what we're going to do is we're going to have a monster of the week. And it's going to start tomorrow, and it will go for a week. And so the first week's Monster of the Week is Manticores. So this first week is Manticore week. And so there'll be two Manticores on sale. Right now they're on sale for 0.08. We're going to do a little price discovery on what we should put these at. But for the next couple weeks, basically until we... until we you know release the raids, we're gonna put out uh some treasury items.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 00:50:53,730 ] They're already— 20, um, treasures in the wallet. 20, there, there are 20, the, the, the last 20 of the missing monsters were remitted. They're rewards for season one. They're already in there as rewards. Every week, though, whatever doesn't sell, we're just going to put in the rewards. So these two mana cores are out there. If people want them, they can buy them. If they don't, then they're going to go into the treasure chest. And we're going to do the same thing with some more precious... We have good stuff in the wallet, and we're not going to just hoard it all. We're going to... Not the unicorn, but we're going to take... We're going to put what we know to be kind of treasured into the Monster of the Week. And in so doing, that, we hope to like... have the sort of discussions that I've been having with Wild Mage, which is like, 'Oh, here's the rules, and just... So, no one's gonna really get a feel for the game until they play it, but... You know, for the next couple of weeks, we can like talk about it

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 00:52:04,530 ] and oh, that's why this is special. Obviously, the Manticore Raiders, um, there's only like 11, I think. Manticore Raiders and and they're one of the slots. So, you know, The maximum you can ever have on a raid is a 90% chance of success. But you need one of everything. You need one of all nine raid types. And there are only five dragons and they're only 11 manticores, and and and there's an increasing number of like raiders, uh, by design. Um, but but so that's why that's why the manticores are special. Casper has one. Casper has the cool. Casper has, I love the one that I have and the one that you have, Casper. They're like two of the favorites. The one I'm not selling that I just ended up minting. and the one that you have are like two of my favorite, uh, magical raiders, but um, but two of them are for sale and they will go into the rewards if they don't sell, so that's a big announcement. Monsters of the Week, monster of the Week, starting uh, starting tomorrow and every week until we raid.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:53:14,690 ] Oh, man.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:53:16,320 ] So for $150, you can have a rare one.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:53:20,740 ] Which was the original mint price, by the way.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 00:53:23,630 ] Yeah, our silly... I mean, times have changed, right? It just seems like it gets more and more... uh, uh, what's what was the what was what's the what's the word that the EU wants us to use um with um, with um, Communism. No, no, no, no. When you when you like cut back when everything becomes spartan. The, um... Oh god, it's escaping me. Uh... not not solidarity. Oh my god, austerity, austerity, austerity.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:54:01,150 ] That's it.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 00:54:02,355 ] Austerity. So, so we've entered an age of austerity in uh in in crypto and yeah, we went down from 0. 08 to 0. 04, which still you know, we appreciate all the mints at 100 bucks that was awesome. Um, of course, like, end of the end of the day, they were they were 80 or something like the mints the mints started off the mints started off at you know at 0. 08 when uh you know when we when we thought we were going to go 0. 08 and ether was where it was. The mints would have been like 300, but you know, but but when we did start minting, Like you said, the mints were still like... 140, 150. It was like 140 for the longest time. Um, at 0. 04, but now 0. 04 is like is like 80 bucks, so um or less, probably like 75 now.

Wild Mage [ 00:54:52,380 ] Oh.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:54:53,620 ] We're going to definitely see some price shifts whenever a cloning occurs.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 00:54:58,530 ] That's right. So that is another big balance that we're taking into account ahead of time. Remember, the clones are not going to be as powerful. And they're gonna be in a different collection, right? So we anticipate that clones will be worth half or less that Yeah, so, because they will have a reduced, I mean, there's two things about the clones, right? One is they will have reduced power. And of course, the other thing is they cannot make clones. Clones cannot clone.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 00:55:34,680 ] So that's why the Genesis are so valuable. That's why they're OGs. Um... Because they make clones.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 00:55:45,260 ] And so... It's part of the modernization strategy. So, anyways, but yeah, very exciting. We're doing a lot. We're on Sopolia. Playing every day on Sepulia all day long, it ended. We, we literally aren't playing all day long because we're on an accelerated clock. So we're like, the game is running and we're like, watching and seeing what happens. So that we, the game has not stopped since, you know, like a couple weeks ago. It's just we're just the game is running around the clock on Sepulia and um and yeah, uh, you know, we'll we'll announce, we'll do a big fanfare, we'll announce uh, we'll announce a day, um and And it's not far away. We just have to get to a place with the features and the bugs where we can do it with confidence. But we honestly are close. We're testing in Sopolia right now, and things are looking great.

Wild Mage [ 00:56:42,370 ] Mmmmmmm!

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:56:44,000 ] That manticore does look nice.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:56:46,130 ] Yeah, I know. I would like to purchase it, but I really, yeah, I can't do it.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 00:56:53,850 ] Tasty, is that a good price? I like so part of this is like learning, so we thought, like, hmm. Let's like this. It seems like the right price. You know, but but it's all discovery. Right, so like, we're going to work with the community on all our pricing strategies if ever we do things like this.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:57:13,530 ] Yeah, it's a very good price. I'm surprised they haven't been... snapped up as a Genesis Manticore. Yeah, I was looking at my collection. I was like, 'Yeah, I could probably use one.' I don't have one of those.

Wild Mage [ 00:57:28,100 ] Mmm.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:57:29,030 ] Yeah.

Wild Mage [ 00:57:29,450 ] Yeah.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:57:30,800 ] I don't like the three eyes. Oh. Arachnids—I don't like spiders— so I'm gonna have to go to uh the one with the uh The fake change.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:57:41,560 ] It does seem like, after I've asked Curator, a number of questions.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:57:47,860 ] In DMS that uh, we're not quite privy to being able to attack each other as much as I thought we were. Initially able.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 00:58:01,340 ] Are you okay with me just putting our chat into the general? Because I'll just put it there for everybody to see. It's good education.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 00:58:10,450 ] Oh, you can? Yeah. I'm going to do that after this.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 00:58:14,960 ] Good questions. Really good questions. And it's a really, really, really good questions that, you know, and I'm building the FAQ. Right. So, of course, these questions are great. Great, because they're going to make their way into FAQs, because you're asking questions, and I'm going to put them in the FAQ so that people have the answers, and you can just direct them there. But you're helping us make the FAQ.

SPEAKER_3 [ 00:58:38,650 ] Yeah, definitely, you know, based on... You know, input. That's right.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:58:44,070 ] You have an FAQ. That is a huge leap.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:58:47,940 ] For this. Forgotten Runes didn't really have one. They had some information on a board, but not in a Q &A format.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:58:56,240 ] Um. It wasn't very conducive to sending new members to that web page. Early on it was. The first four months, it was perfect. But then it just grew and grew and grew. And so they just kept. You know, one liners hyperlink with what that packet was.

SPEAKER_2 [ 00:59:17,160 ] So at FAQ, On set, sounds like a really good idea.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 00:59:21,570 ] Yeah, and I mean, if you guys have played World of Warcraft or any... Games of Service, or Magic: The Gathering Arena, or... really like, you know, any, any real, if you have a game pass to anything, right? Like, We're going to operate in that fashion. We're going to have an FAQ. Uh, we're gonna have a weekly cadence where everybody knows what the events are. We're gonna have a um uh every time we do a release of the software, I mean sometimes there are these things called hot fixes where you just fix stuff behind the scenes, but most releases, like when we know how we messed up, and we need to change the balance of the cool-down times, or... You know a graphic glitch or whatever there is gonna there's gonna be patch notes. So I will release patch notes. That will be on the website and will be released on the Discord. And so there will be FAQ.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 01:00:23,290 ] Weekly weekly cadence patch notes. Just like games. Just like the games that you're used to. We'll run the games like a game, not like the way Web3 people usually run games.

Wild Mage [ 01:00:37,980 ] OOF I like it.

SPEAKER_3 [ 01:00:44,760 ] Did you curate? Did you happen to watch the season finale last night? Oh yeah.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 01:00:51,590 ] I don't have HBO, so I don't watch them.

SPEAKER_2 [ 01:00:54,990 ] Oh my goodness, I did watch them Wild Mage and it was a fantastic episode, but it was like okay, no maybe not okay, and then the end was just fantastic, but um Yeah, that was a... The music of the opening.

SPEAKER_2 [ 01:01:13,680 ] But I did not expect that.

SPEAKER_3 [ 01:01:16,970 ] It does kind of make you wonder.

SPEAKER_3 [ 01:01:19,450 ] Man, what about the Lionel Baratheon?

SPEAKER_3 [ 01:01:23,340 ] And Duncan came up.

SPEAKER_2 [ 01:01:27,230 ] I don't know. That per se has got to have something to do with... with what happened in the actual Game of Thrones.

SPEAKER_2 [ 01:01:37,140 ] Oh, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_3 [ 01:01:39,420 ] Lionel is definitely like, let me tell you how it is. Let me tell you how the Targaryens really are. Let me tell you how things are really going to happen.

SPEAKER_2 [ 01:01:50,230 ] Yeah, the Baratheon was the king. And the first Game of Thrones.

SPEAKER_2 [ 01:01:54,250 ] So he's got to be a descendant of... of Lionel.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 01:02:00,220 ] Yeah well, Robert, I mean, Robert and this is not a spoiler for the show. This is like the nerdy, lore of Game of Thrones. I mean, Robert kills Rygar at the Trident, at the Battle of the Trident. You know, the whole thing where he... Ligar runs away with the Stark woman that was supposed to marry into the Baratheon. Family and so there's a war there it's called Robert's War and then the end of Robert's War is just a one-on-one combat uh between the two greatest fighters ever in Westeros uh Robert, His Prime, who was his giant Warhammer, who is supposedly the greatest the greatest warrior ever against Rai Gar. Who was like? The last, he's like the last dragon. He's like the last, the last dragon for all the shit, the shit came down and Danny, like everything we know from Game of Thrones.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 01:03:02,070 ] Um, so that, that's uh, i mean, that's that's where it ends right, that's where the that's where the uh that that that's what happens in between the time of Duncan Egg and the time of Robert's Rebellion. Robert's Rebellion is what it's called, Robert's Rebellion.

SPEAKER_3 [ 01:03:19,870 ] I remember watching the Game of Thrones last season finale.

SPEAKER_3 [ 01:03:29,000 ] And everyone else was just aghast. And I was like, 'Yes!'

SPEAKER_3 [ 01:03:34,030 ] Now we don't have a female communist dictator.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 01:03:40,040 ] I don't know. I mean, so, like, obviously, common knowledge, the last two seasons are after the book ends, right? So, Martin... Martin's about, it's been 14 years. Yeah. So this is like 14 years since he wrote the last one. And, you know, in the last one, you know, John dies. Like, so the point at which John dies, you know, for watchers of the show.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 01:04:09,690 ] John dies. Um, but then there's stuff, there's like two seasons that happen after. And basically those seasons were not written by Martin. Uh, those. Seasons were written by the showrunners and so that's why people feel like it's a bit off. Uh, I mean, some people like them, most people you didn't know that. Yeah, yeah. So, the last two seasons uh the were were completely written by the showrunners. You know, with a little bit like, 'Oh, we looked at his notes, but after after the shows came out, he's like, 'Oh, I'm going to change everything.' Yeah, that was stupid. I think I'm going to change. And after seeing it, I think I'm going to change some stuff up. So, like, yeah. Two seasons of Game of Thrones were like, basically, for every point from which Jon dies when he gets stabbed by the Night Watch, uh, everything after that is like not from George R. R. Martin.

SPEAKER_3 [ 01:05:03,570 ] Oh.

SPEAKER_3 [ 01:05:06,270 ] Okay. I was not quite aware of that.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 01:05:08,850 ] Yeah, because he didn't finish the book. I remember that. There's two left. He's done five of the seven.

SPEAKER_2 [ 01:05:14,390 ] Yeah.

SPEAKER_2 [ 01:05:15,770 ] Oh, he hasn't written the last two.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 01:05:17,450 ] There's two left, yeah.

SPEAKER_2 [ 01:05:20,770 ] Then they're going to rewrite the last two seasons.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 01:05:23,530 ] No, yeah, he said he's going to do this. He said this book's going to end differently. And there's other characters, believe it or not, there's like... a million more characters, like, a million million more characters, and and crazy.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 01:05:41,150 ] There's, there's entire crazy, really cool subplots, which I'm not going to say on the show because I don't want to spoil them. But if you want to read the books, read the books, and you will be surprised in a cool way by certain like cool things that, oh my God, you know, they left that out and it's really frigging cool. Um. So, uh, yeah.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 01:06:03,810 ] Yeah, read the books. That's what I always say.

SPEAKER_2 [ 01:06:08,170 ] Um, Decred has gone up to $27 a coin, so I may peel off some to get a Manticore. That's just saying. Boom.

SPEAKER_2 [ 01:06:17,700 ] I might peel off some decentralized credit.

SPEAKER_3 [ 01:06:21,650 ] Um, curator, do you think the market is going to go down because I'm kind of feeling it?

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 01:06:27,610 ] God, I have no idea. Oh, the one market-related thing. So that's it for Missing Monsters tonight. Monster Week starts tomorrow. Yeah, the market thing. You're talking about Eric Trump, you know, doing the deletion. Did you guys catch Zach's, Zach XBT's tweet this morning?

SPEAKER_2 [ 01:06:49,710 ] No, I'm looking it up now. I saw that too.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 01:06:52,110 ] Okay. So that's where it all starts, right? Where he says, 'I have been doing an investigation. For months, there has been—uh, consistent—uh, insider trading and selling—uh, patterns of at one of the leading, most profitable financial organizations or something, right? And he said it in such a way that it could be... anybody, and actually, Polymarket has a has a has a has. Of course, you can you can bet on who it's going to be. He's going to reveal it in a couple days. But the funny thing is, Polymarket didn't put themselves on it, and they're the number one.'

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 01:07:39,750 ] Um, person rumored to be— they're the number one person already. But the number two rumored person to be—uh— and number one in their polls is World Liberty Financial. And when Zach made his announcement today, that's when the Trumps deleted all the tweets.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 01:08:02,950 ] Mmm. And then their token actually de-pegged.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 01:08:08,183 ] They're— they're stable coin. Actually, do you think? Yeah, no. So, so it could be this Zach thing could be— it could they could be talking about Pumped Up Fund. They could rip apart Pumped Up Fund. They could rip apart Polymarket. They could be ripping apart World Liberty Financial. Whoever the target is, I'm sure the research is 100% accurate. He's the greatest digital forensic you know investigator and uh. And the fact that it could just be bad timing, right? But right after that... He deleted everything.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 01:08:46,510 ] Um... That doesn't bode well.

SPEAKER_3 [ 01:08:52,260 ] Oh, and I also happen to notice, in a completely unrelated note, The, uh... The late 2000s emo band Circus Survive. deleted their entire Instagram.

SPEAKER_3 [ 01:09:08,460 ] Who did?

SPEAKER_3 [ 01:09:10,859 ] The man's circus survives.

SPEAKER_3 [ 01:09:13,660 ] I don't know who that is.

SPEAKER_3 [ 01:09:16,930 ] And they're okay. You're not necessarily missing out.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 01:09:20,920 ] Oh, the other piece of news, the other fun piece of news is, I'm sure you saw this, but for posterity, the The head of safety and alignment for Facebook Meta AI, she had Clawbot. She gave Clawbot the keys to her work computer. And, uh, Clawbot-like. Deleted... tons of her, like, basically a bunch of information that shouldn't have been deleted.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 01:09:56,030 ] Uh... and if you read the dialogue, she like, apparently had this rule that like, you know, clean up my email but don't delete anything without my permission. And he's like, 'Okay.' So she gets there the next day she's like, 'Hey, you've deleted and unrecoverable all these like emails.' And and and and Claw responds, 'Yeah, you're right.' You're totally right. I went against one of your rules, and I apologize. And she said, 'Okay, well, in the future, future, I'm going to write this into your persistent history and memory and make sure this rule will never be forgotten.'

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 01:10:37,050 ] Claude says, 'Okay, great.' I promise it will never happen again. And it's just like, to me, it's the most freaky, it's the most freaky read ever. Read that email, that post.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 01:10:51,170 ] It's Skynet, man.

Wild Mage [ 01:10:53,470 ] Yeah.

SPEAKER_2 [ 01:10:55,620 ] Yeah, why would you connect AI to anything private with your computer?

Wild Mage [ 01:11:00,480 ] As the head of safety.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 01:11:02,000 ] She literally, her job is the head of safety and alignment for Facebook.

SPEAKER_2 [ 01:11:07,040 ] They're not watching those Terminator movies.

SPEAKER_2 [ 01:11:10,730 ] That movie scared me back in the 90s that a computer could do that.

SPEAKER_2 [ 01:11:15,560 ] Um, or a possibility.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 01:11:17,930 ] Or war games. Remember war games in the 80s? Yeah, I do. The nuclear code. Shall we play a game? Matthew brought, my original hacker, that was like, he was like the original inspiration for me to program and all the little hacker boys.

SPEAKER_2 [ 01:11:33,940 ] Well, that's how the Matrix got started, right? The computers got so powerful, they over... Powered mankind or something. And nuke the... so it would, or the humans did so they wouldn't get solar power.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 01:11:50,630 ] All of the good. All of the good dystopian Sci-fi.

SPEAKER_2 [ 01:11:56,230 ] Well, why didn't your Matrix computers just like get geothermal?

SPEAKER_2 [ 01:12:00,520 ] I don't understand.

SPEAKER_2 [ 01:12:02,190 ] There's all this.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 01:12:03,530 ] Yeah, yeah, there's a lot about the Matrix that makes like absolutely no sense, um, as far as the science fiction novel goes. I mean, it's it's cool and it's epic, it's visual, uh, but you know, me. I mean, I will always... I i've read so many science fiction novels that are amazing, that most stories, like, I can enjoy and love the visuals of many, many things, but the stories, to me, are complete.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 01:12:35,580 ] You know, not as good. They're substandard. But then you get magic. Like, I'm Blade Runner, obviously, which I did my thesis on in film school. It's the greatest thing ever because I mean, it's a Philip K. Dick novel that became a screenplay. That became a movie. Created by Ridley Scott.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 01:12:52,620 ] While you were talking about Cyberpunk. This was before. This thing predated.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 01:13:01,440 ] Neuromancer. And.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 01:13:05,030 ] It predated Noromancer and it predated Akira. I mean, it was the original vision, you know, of the... oriental meets, you know, dystopian, destroyed environment, raining all the time, all your animals are dead, sort of, we have to move off, the rich people are moving off colony because the earth is, you know, that whole... that whole uh cyberpunk neuromancer. I mean it's all— it's all Blade Runner. It all goes back to Blade Runner, which goes back to Philip K. Dick's novel, Blade Runner, which was originally called 'Do androids dream of electric sheep?

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 01:13:52,400 ] There you go.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 01:13:54,090 ] Wow.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 01:13:56,890 ] A lot of film nerd history.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 01:14:01,770 ] I love it.

SPEAKER_2 [ 01:14:02,610 ] I love it.

SPEAKER_2 [ 01:14:03,980 ] Well, we're going to tune in for Titan Tuesday tomorrow at 2 p. m. I've got to set my weekly team meeting around that. And have my team listen to Titan Tuesday.

SPEAKER_3 [ 01:14:15,500 ] Well, make them listen in Biomanticorum.

SPEAKER_2 [ 01:14:21,540 ] Yeah, well, we're going to monitor the markets. We've got two days on the Manticore sale, y'all. Two days left.

SPEAKER_2 [ 01:14:30,340 ] Let's see. Make sure that I saw that right. I was looking at the listing just a second ago.

SPEAKER_2 [ 01:14:36,270 ] Two days. It was still listed. We'll see who scoops it up.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 01:14:40,310 ] Oh, I'm gonna extend that till next uh, I mean, it yeah, it's it's currently um, whatever whatever it is now uh, the Manticore is gonna be on sale for a week it'll be on sale from till next to till next Tuesday or till next Monday well we'll make it a week for everything Acredito.

SPEAKER_2 [ 01:14:59,660 ] So, yeah, I'm going to look at it. I like the little fire hat he's got.

SPEAKER_2 [ 01:15:05,540 ] We'll see if I can move some stuff around.

SPEAKER_2 [ 01:15:09,690 ] I don't know, I thought uh, Adam uh, Hollander was looking at getting one maybe possibly Hollander?

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 01:15:17,200 ] Yeah. Or Weissman.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 01:15:19,800 ] Oh, was it Weissman? I thought it was Hollander that tweeted.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 01:15:24,060 ] It was our billionaire philanthropist. Okay.

Wild Mage [ 01:15:28,760 ] Yeah.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 01:15:31,910 ] Yeah, hit up that tweet. Convince Adam to buy a missing monster. I tried to tell him and Gabe. We did work for them. They were a good client, and we made a good activation for them. But we're still... we're still a small fish compared to in the universe. We're an indie. We're a little scrappy indie.

SPEAKER_3 [ 01:15:58,080 ] And some get stung.

SPEAKER_3 [ 01:16:00,620 ] Someday we're going to get our open sea airdrop.

SPEAKER_2 [ 01:16:02,880 ] That's right.

SPEAKER_2 [ 01:16:04,620 ] All we got to get is like a Mr. Beast to buy one Mr. Monsters. Well, what's the dog with three heads? Who's got that thing? A cerebus.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 01:16:14,100 ] uh, cerberus is amazing. He's a 101. That particular 101 is both a guardian and a raider. So he can raid, but he also defends.

SPEAKER_2 [ 01:16:28,380 ] Well, whoever owns them has got like 50 tokens. Let's see here.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 01:16:31,640 ] That's ABP.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 01:16:36,640 ] Mmm.

SPEAKER_2 [ 01:16:38,200 ] They just went all out and said, 'Hell, I'm just going to buy it all.'

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 01:16:41,840 ] He is our largest whale.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 01:16:44,360 ] He's great.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 01:16:45,770 ] Good guy.

SPEAKER_3 [ 01:16:47,480 ] I've actually... even though like it doesn't seem like the strategy has evolved just yet at the moment.

SPEAKER_3 [ 01:16:54,870 ] But... I've definitely been um tempted to try to get all the Titans to a rally together.

SPEAKER_2 [ 01:17:03,320 ] And go against ADP.

SPEAKER_3 [ 01:17:05,960 ] Yes. Thank you.

SPEAKER_2 [ 01:17:07,950 ] Oh. With all of our assassins combined. ADP doesn't have a chance.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 01:17:15,810 ] As you'll see in my chat with Bisonic, you do not target assassins. So it's soft PvP. They randomly... If you send them out, they... They choose a random victim.

SPEAKER_2 [ 01:17:30,210 ] Okay. Okay, we're going to figure out that algorithm.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 01:17:34,150 ] Figure out the algo.

SPEAKER_2 [ 01:17:35,910 ] There you go.

SPEAKER_3 [ 01:17:37,730 ] We're going to hack mythic monsters and we're going to win.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 01:17:41,330 ] Create an agent you, got to create an AI you, got to create an AI agent, an agent, an agent for uh, to command the forces.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 01:17:49,710 ] Oh, my gosh.

SPEAKER_3 [ 01:17:51,070 ] I'm just going to list out to AI the ownership of all the items of everyone in the top 50 or so in Myth and Monsters and then tell them what I need to do in response to this current situation.

Cur8tor Cur8Tor [ 01:18:05,750 ] Get a Claude bot. Turn your wallet over to Claude.

SPEAKER_2 [ 01:18:10,280 ] Ugh. Yeah. I'm good. I'm a standard district.

SPEAKER_2 [ 01:18:14,970 ] Crypto Protocols. All right, guys, it's 938. We have gone over. We've got to save some stuff, some meat on the bone for Titan Tuesday. Tune in for next week, we'll try to get a guest. Um, it's going to be the final tomorrow.

SPEAKER_3 [ 01:18:28,010 ] No, no, no. Next week is our uh Neuromancer.

SPEAKER_2 [ 01:18:31,830 ] Yeah, we got book club next week. So uh, that's going to be great. Book club next week. And then we'll pick up with a guest. And then we'll be halfway or starting through March, and then the run up to the three-year anniversary.

SPEAKER_2 [ 01:18:47,710 ] We're going to pick now, Gene, to get the founders on.

SPEAKER_2 [ 01:18:51,950 ] Or run a series of getting the Forgotten Runes founders. You're going to get them ready to come answer some tough, tough questions.

SPEAKER_2 [ 01:19:02,280 ] He's always been really good about mitigating all that stuff or something like that. and uh, but we will have somebody from Magic Machine.

SPEAKER_2 [ 01:19:13,870 ] On the three-year anniversary, so that'll be a run-up.

SPEAKER_2 [ 01:19:18,210 ] But by then, rains should have been started, maybe they're started, and we'll have to wait. We may just be focused on that. Raid of the week.

SPEAKER_3 [ 01:19:26,440 ] Big hole of the week. Yeah, that's the thing. The House of the Dragon season three doesn't start until June this year.

SPEAKER_3 [ 01:19:35,030 ] Oh, there's another House of the Dragon? Oh, yeah, season three. Is slated for sometime in June 2026, but they haven't set a date. Okay, but I don't know if you guys have been following. Um, Invincible Season 4 is coming out in March.

SPEAKER_2 [ 01:19:55,840 ] Well, we're going to have to talk about that then, besides playoff hockey.

SPEAKER_3 [ 01:20:00,060 ] Have you guys kept up to date with Invincible at all? No, I haven't. I've just been one show a week. It was a ball out. It was for Game of Thrones.

SPEAKER_3 [ 01:20:12,490 ] Invincible is so good. Like, it's such a... It's such a fresh take on this on the superman mythos in a completely different direction and then proceeds to have like numerous different directions within like the whole plot as well as the fact that like The, uh... The superheroes as well as the villains are all very interesting.

SPEAKER_3 [ 01:20:44,660 ] Have you guys watched any of Invincible at all? I've watched the first season.

SPEAKER_3 [ 01:20:50,760 ] Oh, man, you. Thank you. It only gets better through second and third season.

SPEAKER_2 [ 01:20:57,700 ] I'll make a note of that. I'll watch it this week. All right, Titan Tuesday next Tuesday, book club. Read your Neuromancer copy if you haven't already. Get into it.

Wild Mage [ 01:21:07,380 ] Read it.

SPEAKER_2 [ 01:21:08,300 ] And we'll check you out tomorrow at 2 p. m. Eastern Standard Time.

SPEAKER_2 [ 01:21:13,009 ] Manticore is up for sale. That's a rare opportunity for those who felt like they couldn't mint or win an award.

SPEAKER_2 [ 01:21:21,820 ] uh, rewards. So, uh, check it out.

SPEAKER_3 [ 01:21:26,100 ] And then we're going to have to decide another book to read. Yeah, we'll do that. I would, if I had complete power and control over our book club, I would suggest either The War of Art by uh oh I forget what his name is it's not the art of war it's the War of Art Or... Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis.

SPEAKER_3 [ 01:21:52,270 ] Okay.

SPEAKER_2 [ 01:21:53,790 ] That's it.

SPEAKER_2 [ 01:21:55,090 ] We'll see you next week. Book Club, read your Neuromancer. Read your Neuromancer.

SPEAKER_3 [ 01:21:59,560 ] Read your Neuromancer. Titan Tuesdays. See y'all.

SPEAKER_3 [ 01:22:04,680 ] Bye, y'all.

Wild Mage [ 01:23:24,880 ] Thank you. We'll be right back.

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