1 minute ago, DJ_Villain said:

That’s the badger!

Played for the knuckle draggers for a bit, think he kept switching his national allegiance too when he was young, then no-one picked him anyway.

2 minutes ago, DJ_Villain said:

Who was that hot prospect we had years ago that got poached from us by Arsenal for a “nominal fee”… and whose career went nowhere (karma)

Daniel Crowley?

Can't see Chelsea beating Arsenal without Palmer tbh.

Turning into the player I'd hoped Zaniola would be.

Early days though - he can't play like that every week.

Can he?

he always played like his head and his heart were in it but his feet were drunk

still love him though

1 hour ago, Panto_Villan said:

OK. I didn't realise you were a true believer in Bloomverse. Then just a quick warning from someone that has worked in the video games industry for a long time.

The tech video that they have on their website is the sort of amateur stuff you'd expect to see from a two week student project - where I work if a new grad applying for a job had that in their showreel, they wouldn't be getting an interview. There have been crypto games with perfectly competent development teams, of course, but this doesn't look like one of them. There's literally one 3D artist and maybe 2 programmers?

There's also fundamental problems with any crypto game that means they only appeal to players who are more interested in the crypto part than the game part - it's extremely hard to compete against mainstream games that don't have the same design constraints on making the player experience more enjoyable. So I'm not saying crypto games will never have any players at all, but it's a relatively small audience and development studios are very expensive to run. 

Please do let me know if their ICO raises more than $1m. I've seen big raises from the more capable teams, but I'm curious what a white paper and a low-grade tech demo can raise!

Cool, you think this early stage studio sucks, move on. I didn't tell anyone to buy anything, just to keep an eye on them. The whole thing could implode before anything gets released - that's start-ups.

I have no dog in this battle, sometimes you get to see things other people don't, will post more on other projects so maybe block me from now on.

3 hours ago, Panto_Villan said:

Get in early to make a bit of money before it inevitably crashes and dies, right? As an actual video game that people want to play it's never going to succeed.

I think it's fascinating so much of the altcoin scene revolves around projects that everyone knows are ultimately doomed to failure, where everyone is just trying to work out if any given project looks "real" enough that the price might rise for a bit and give them the opportunity to make some money at the expense of everyone else trying to do the same thing. It's really just gambling based on group psychology.

If you think every web 3 game studio is going to "crash and die" then avoid the space. If you think no-one wants to play some of the studios existing games then you're flatly wrong, go check out the Oh Baby Games discord, I'm sure there are plenty more I'm just not deep in the gamefi trenches.

All crypto projects (from BTC to the newest alts) are / were essentially micro-cap start-ups at inception.  If you're not building and you want something to succeed, the best thing you can do is invest early when the project needs capital / liquidity / attention.

There are obvious grifts, but how is this different to the internet in the 1990's?   Everyone I know is looking for novel defi / raw / socialfi / ai / gamefi / etc projects to back because of course you want to be in early and make money, but they are looking for projects they actually want to use. If someone offered you equity in Facebook in 2005 would you have said "nah, seeding internet start-ups is just gambling on group psychology"?

Even memecoins, which are pure gambling for attention, serve a utility purpose in bringing liquidity to a now fractionalized multi-chain ecosystem.  Serious defi founders know this - in 2021 they used NFTs to build community and onboard new users to financial derivatives, lending, yield farming, etc.  Today it's memes - if you don't think  they serve the chain study Solana and WIF.

I don't know your crypto leanings, but your post sounds a lot like what I hear from cynical BTC maxis who are ironically now building out their own NFT and L2 eco.

You do you, but the chats I'm in are all genuinely excited about projects and teams that can create meaningful utility for end users, and there's a level of curiosity, support, transparency and hard work that I haven't see in crypto before.

2 hours ago, rodders129 said:

So glad all this neurotic coefficient rubbish finishes now. 

Sir you are on the wrong forum.

also, not nfa but if you think arbitrum gets a rotation, boop is a good leveraged bet - lead meme (by a distance), community very active, has been working up some good partnerships for a memecoin

i don't normally touch memes but r/r feels very asymmetrical on this one

2 hours ago, Pongo Waring said:

My biggest investments are all in gaming, ai, rwa and BTC ecosystems.
 

keep an eye out for an indie game studio called bloom, think the tge is a ways off but having seen the team and roadmap I think it'd be one to get in early

this guy is one of the lead devs:

https://x.com/oddishdoteth?t=PLG5Aob7hBTfMPtuSnkNnA&s=09

3 hours ago, romavillan said:

He can only take one though surely?!

i bet if asked he'd want to take all five

Football Insider saying they're after Dendoncker if they stay up, so they're **** either way.

Would 5th place have more qualifying games or anything? Or would it be the same as finishing 4th?

GCR is back, max long everything 

nfa

Yeah, people get risk off when WW3 is looming

April almost always the start of "sell in may and go away".

Going to be choppy for a while - sticking with the stables ratio I have right now vs trying to catch that knife.

On 10/04/2024 at 01:08, colhint said:

The parents of a school shooter have both been sentenced to 10 years. Enough evidence to show they ignored all the warning signs and even bought the gun

Ethan Crumbley: Parents of Michigan school gunman sentenced to at least 10 years

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-68773119

It's not even complicated - law should be:

1. You are responsible for ensuring your firearms are stored correctly (locked, not loaded, stored separately from ammunition)
2. Minors can't legally own firearms - they belong to the parent or guardian and rule #1 applies

Mitigating factors for sentencing:

1. Could a minor access those firearms
2. Could anyone with a history of mental illness (including undiagnosed but reported directly to you) access those firearms
3. Could an intruder easily access those firearms

They got the minimum as far as I'm concerned.  The lowest bar should be "my kids can't access these and a burglar would need a lot of time to find / access them".

It's called personal responsibility - they didn't have any and other people's kids died. Absolutely tragic.

Truth Social is a meme coin. Four milly in rev, doesn't come close to turning a profit and usage is barely worth mentioning at the ipo valuation.

It has the Trump name along with people trading attention and emotion, and that combined with a low float means you could see crazy volatility and high valuations (backed by nothing) in the short term.

Honestly I'd short it with all the money I have if Trump supporters weren't so fanatical.

But bottom line the likely market value in six months combined with the cliff means it does very little for him in his current predicament.

photography, been in the industry nearly 20 years and taught for ten

know absolutely nothing about new camera models though, which is the only thing people ask me about when i tell them what i do

1 hour ago, Mic09 said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/football/68742239 

Another bit of wisdom from our favourite LOL pundit. 

ABC 1-2-3 and he couldn't even do that. 

But it's nice that he doesn't like to slag off people. What a guy. 

"we signed overpaid shite who were on their last legs"

didn't watch but i'm guessing that's what he said about himself

Just now, TheAuthority said:

There are some terrible barnets considering how much money Ci$y have.

Haaland, Greesford, KDB

Foden always looks like he's about to go smash up a phone box.

2 minutes ago, VillaCas said:

Basics. If you’re the end player in the wall you don’t split and jump out - you cover the post as set out by the keeper. I thought it was cowardly - he should have faced up and taken the hit

Yeah, it's basics not to jump out, but he was obviously trying to get hit vs jumping out of the way.

Like I said dumb, but not cowardly.

Dumb move trying to jump where he thinks it's going but anyone accusing Zaniolo of being a coward is equally stupid.  A lot of luck in trying to bend a freekick around a wall, failing, and a gap appearing just where you miss hit it.

Olsen also has been good.

2 hours ago, Tayls said:

Man U could easily go and win their remaining 9 in a row

They're 20/1 to finish top 4. I can't imagine the odds on them winning 9 straight but if you think they could do it then it's the definition of an asymmetric bet.

Absolute robbery that they came away with a point. Brentford were all over them.

They look truly terrible and it's more fortune than skill that they're not bottom half.