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rwxThe Molt: Dancing in the Collapse
Everything hums like a live wire. You can feel it, right? The buzzing tension that makes your chest ache when you scroll too far down the feed, the static that builds every time another headline screams the world is ending. Climate collapse, endless wars, algorithms tightening around our throats… like we’re sleepwalking toward extinction. …Doomscrolling our way to the heat-death of culture. But here’s the secret: this isn’t death. It’s molt. Think snakeskin. Think cicadas buried underground f...
rwxthoughts as a collector (november 2021)
me by @jungnft (https://twitter.com/jungnft)Hi, you may know me or you may not. My name is robek and I’m an artist and collector of NFTs. As the former most important collector on Foundation (I was recently displaced by a man who likes to fish in real life and not just metaphorically like me), I thought I’d finally write out some of the thoughts I share often in chats around the web. I’m not qualified to write this and my view of the NFT marketplace is very different from people who are here ...
rwxNFT Monetization mechanics for AAA Video Game Publishers
This blog will outline ways AAA Video Game Publishers can leverage NFTs to give gamers some ownership while still milking them with the usual predatory practices found in loot crates and battle passes.The NFT Battle PassThe NFT Battle PassBattle passes (BP from here on) are the absolute worst monetization thing to exist since loot crates. They create FOMO for gamers and force them to sacrifice fun for completing agonizing challenges in exchange for experience points that level the pass up. Ea...
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rwxThe Molt: Dancing in the Collapse
Everything hums like a live wire. You can feel it, right? The buzzing tension that makes your chest ache when you scroll too far down the feed, the static that builds every time another headline screams the world is ending. Climate collapse, endless wars, algorithms tightening around our throats… like we’re sleepwalking toward extinction. …Doomscrolling our way to the heat-death of culture. But here’s the secret: this isn’t death. It’s molt. Think snakeskin. Think cicadas buried underground f...
rwxthoughts as a collector (november 2021)
me by @jungnft (https://twitter.com/jungnft)Hi, you may know me or you may not. My name is robek and I’m an artist and collector of NFTs. As the former most important collector on Foundation (I was recently displaced by a man who likes to fish in real life and not just metaphorically like me), I thought I’d finally write out some of the thoughts I share often in chats around the web. I’m not qualified to write this and my view of the NFT marketplace is very different from people who are here ...
rwxNFT Monetization mechanics for AAA Video Game Publishers
This blog will outline ways AAA Video Game Publishers can leverage NFTs to give gamers some ownership while still milking them with the usual predatory practices found in loot crates and battle passes.The NFT Battle PassThe NFT Battle PassBattle passes (BP from here on) are the absolute worst monetization thing to exist since loot crates. They create FOMO for gamers and force them to sacrifice fun for completing agonizing challenges in exchange for experience points that level the pass up. Ea...
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Apparently in 2023 this sort of 1980’s AI reimagining is all the rage now. But I wanted to finally post another part to series I started in the middle of last year. What’s more dystopian than publishing a set of AI generated images inspired by Neal Stephenson’s SNOW CRASH, on a “web3” publishing platform -- in a space where the term metaverse is so ill-defined and misappropriated. Nothing. Prepare yourself for character art of Hiro Protagonist, Y.T., Uncle Enzo and many more of these beloved characters.
Snow Crash, John Carpenter style. Warning Maybe some minor spoilers ahead, idk.
So yeah, I know I missed some characters. I did this for fun, it stopped being fun at some point and became work.
Part 3 tomorrow (winks knowing tomorrow is a span of days between tomorrow and next year)
https://twitter.com/robek_world
You can look at these pictures again on Twitter in this thread. Very exciting.
https://twitter.com/robek_world/status/1613379603795517440
these were made with midjourney v4, which is vastly better than v2 from last year.
Apparently in 2023 this sort of 1980’s AI reimagining is all the rage now. But I wanted to finally post another part to series I started in the middle of last year. What’s more dystopian than publishing a set of AI generated images inspired by Neal Stephenson’s SNOW CRASH, on a “web3” publishing platform -- in a space where the term metaverse is so ill-defined and misappropriated. Nothing. Prepare yourself for character art of Hiro Protagonist, Y.T., Uncle Enzo and many more of these beloved characters.
Snow Crash, John Carpenter style. Warning Maybe some minor spoilers ahead, idk.
So yeah, I know I missed some characters. I did this for fun, it stopped being fun at some point and became work.
Part 3 tomorrow (winks knowing tomorrow is a span of days between tomorrow and next year)
https://twitter.com/robek_world
You can look at these pictures again on Twitter in this thread. Very exciting.
https://twitter.com/robek_world/status/1613379603795517440
these were made with midjourney v4, which is vastly better than v2 from last year.
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