PhiMarHal

@phimarhal

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I'm warming up to castcoins. - the objections to it tend to sound like "I'm afraid of change" more than "this is bad and here's why". Reactions of the kind don't imply the hated idea will be good, but it signals potential (anything truly transformative is controversial) - someone explained on Twitter all your castcoins feed into a metacoin sharing the liquidity pool, at least on Base App. Sounds interesting somewhat - I can think of a couple fun usecases already. Resurrect the original idea of creator tokens from 2018: pay people for their time. You could do something like "bid on this cast to hire me for one hour". Some of the trending casts already do something like that

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Oh wow. Tried the Climb or Die challenge today. It was quite laggy on my computer. I always got a bit of lag the closer the lava got, but today it was quite unbearable all the time. Maybe 10-20 FPS gameplay. I open the frame in a different tab, just to check if it's any better. Nope. Then I open the frame in Brave browser instead. !!! Silky smooth animations. Never experienced the game like this. I got 516 on first try. It's not like it was *awful* before, but maybe I was getting 30-50 FPS and not noticing it. Compared to either 60 FPS or 144 FPS today (I didn't check). Oh, yeah, the key insight? Normally, I am using the piece of garbage browser known as Firefox. Firefox is such a disgrace nowadays. I see it break spectacularly in some fashion at least once a week. And, if you point *that* out, you get a barrage of answers from people who presumably use the Internet to do two or three things tops. But then, the competition is increasingly user-hostile too in a more big corpo way. There's no winning.

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I didn't think much about it until now, but if it is $300 a pop for #1 spots in the Base Remix contest, there's bound to be cheaters. Too big of an incentive, and too easy to cheat.

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If you attach 2 pictures then remove them from the cast, then try to attach one again, The client gets confused, and tells you you need Farcaster Pro to have 4 embeds (you have 0 embed at this point).

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*shows up one day* *decides to score 150 higher than everyone else on first try* *favorites the game* *plays a few more* *leaves* *refuses to elaborate*

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Why'd you make a game with only text for objects? That's a bit weird. One of my guinea pigs, err, family relative playtester, has no experience whatsoever with video games. His initial reaction summed up my vision: "you've made the engine". With AI moving the way it is, I think this is where we're headed. Nail down the gameplay loop. Run visuals through whatever filter you like. It may be interpretative, on the fly. It may be curated between a palette of styles. I could also see an iterative process. You find a style that meets your vibe, then you apply that style as a base, and you refine it further exploring AI substyles. Go on decart.ai right now and give it a shot with your own game! Enable screen sharing, play normally, and it will run these filters on the other tab. Once the 4 minutes session is over, you get a video you can download.

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Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In My Lane. Focused. Flourishing.

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I'm a fan of power inflation from version between version, including plain score inflation. For new players, it rewards paying attention and giving the game a go. For old players, it incentivises reaching higher heights. MMOs often play with the same levers to good effect. The argument can be made this is an artificial relationship, like all kinds of relationship. Too heavy handed with it, and the strings are obvious. But I think game inflation is enjoyable - even with the knowledge it is happening - as long as the changes are within reason. If a game is fun, being slightly more powerful is generally fun too.

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Everytime I play an @insidethesim.eth game, I find myself I could tweak a little thing here and there. A great game gets your mind going with ideas, yearning for various spins. I could do this right now for myself. View Source, copypaste, throw it in Claude, ask. It's not as if the code is obfuscated. However, it's a level of effort that is a little too involved, for a payoff that is a little too low - a personal version of the game you play alone. I'm ready for the Remix feature. A little nudge for man, a giant leap for gamerkind.

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Oh nooo. 🙂 I was about to say "my most prized possession" right now, and post pic related. Unfortunately, I forgot to tap "Continue" and closed the app to do so. Result: my score didn't get sent to the Remix leaderboard. Would have been #5 🥲 I've seen this happen in a couple of Remix games. imho, as soon as score is shown, it is a good idea to send it to the Remix API. A natural expectation is: the game is over, so we're done, we're good. Any "Continue" button should be for the "Play Again" state. Thoughts? @insidethesim.eth

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Happy to shill good games for free, even happier to shill them for a penny.

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Makes me wonder if it is possible to transfer a PRO sub if you receive one. Maybe you don't want the badge. Microscopic edge case obv, just intellectual curiosity.

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new_village_test is the Metaverse. Get in or stay poor forever.

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This is my kind of weird. I love the shrines especially, looking like they should be background elements but you can jump on them. Playing this for a couple minutes was a little trip in itself. My vision started to shift when I was done, text moving where it shouldn't be. In Toby I have seen Glory.

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It is over. The loop is still. You braced yourself for the terrible secret of space. For that, we salute you, heroes. CONGRATULATIONS to #1 @gontzalbrazal (+$5) #2 @regynaldbito (+$4) #3 @spaceman-crypto (+$3) #4 @oddly-augmented (+$2) #5 @horsefacts.eth (+$1) Quite the competition, once again. It seemed like Regynald was going to take home this round. The Gontz had to come in clutch on the last day. with a run that was merely 5 seconds faster. Man of Space had a good run too, as you'd expect from his name. While the Bizarrely Enhanced kept his #4 spot from an earlier loop through lack of competition, nobody beyond the top3 meeting him in escaping this silent hell. Finally, if you think horses can't fly, think again. Thank you all for playing. Moar updates coming, soon, again, forever.

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Dream feature: arbitrary game tournaments inapp. Anyone wanting to host a tournament would deposit the prize money in a smart contract. Then set the winning conditions. "Top X leaderboard". "Over Y points". "Lasts for Z days". The tournament happens. Results could then be posted by pulling from the Remix API (no cheating). Prize distribution happens seamlessly.

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It's good to see so many mini apps about choices. All great social apps are fundamentally Hot-or-Not. I hope they do something more interesting with the data. The cool part of blockchain is getting to crossreference all that open data in whatever way you want.

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I complain a lot about Farcaster, while I tend to have praise for Base. Yet Farcaster is clearly valuable. While Base is mostly valueless as a network (op stack, single sequencer...). Their moat lies in their network effects, which Farcaster is a big driver of too.

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zkSync support in Warplet wen

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