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| Wizard Wednesday Episode 72 - January 25th 2023
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| Elf: [00:00:00] I think.
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| I got[00:01:00]
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| supernatural. My presence is magical. No tricks. This is, life is so fantastical.
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| Cult Member: This is
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| Elf: tell.
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| I gotta get this. I'm by now. Uh, [00:02:00] dream
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| Cult Member: Master.
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| Elf: 1.22. E 1.22
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| Cult Member: for a Dream master. Okay. Twin of the Iconic one who rings
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| Elf: the iconic Wonder Rings. Welcome to our Wednesday cult meeting. We're wizards and today is the magical day. We call Wizard Wednesday, channeling in with quantum Style through the quantum Downs. This is Elf and Doda.
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| Cult Member: Dead snake. Oh no.
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| Elf: You know, I saw a dead snake in the secret tower and I was like, who the hell is this?
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| And why are they trying to be bear snake? Yeah.
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| Cult Member: I'm not gonna be able to talk much today, cuz I've been decapitated by the Hall of cats.
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| Elf: Yeah, that's my next question. Why is the Hall of [00:03:00] Cats, uh, decapitating? Everybody what? What's the deal?
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| Cult Member: Well, I just think they have an issue with, uh, contributions and they're just making a lot of demands and it's, it's gone outta control.
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| Um, I still fully support all of facts. I think there's a lot building there. There's some really great ideas that I'm sure someone from H O C will come on stage today, but, uh, for now, there's just a lot of blood and gut.
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| Elf: Yeah, my impression is that the Hall of Cats has been out of control since day one.
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| Dotta: I hear nothing but drama from
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| Cult Member: which, which is to be expected when you're in a Hall of Cats.
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| Elf: We have a big show today. Uh, we've got a lot of cult questions. We've got a 3D update. Um, we've, we're gonna question, uh, the, the wizard in our midst, uh, our very own jitsu and his accomplishments over the weekend.
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| [00:04:00] We've got Black Sands updates and we've got cult content. Um, so yeah, I mean, lemme just jump right into the questions. Uh, speaking of the Hall of Cats, uh, Brett is asking why is Hall of Cats still below the sales chat? Um, I, I don't know. I jitsu is, is there, do you know why?
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| Jitcy: No, I still don't know to this day how that happened.
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| Cult Member: but it's comfortably sitting there now.
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| Elf: Okay. There's your answer. Betty. Uh, bridge is asking, uh, is there a plan for cleaning up the blood coming out of Hall of Cats? Um, Good question. Uh, cuz it certainly is bloody and I don't know who's gonna clean it up. Uh, I don't know, maybe someone from the Hall of Kaz wants to talk about their blood lust.
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| Uh, but I, I don't have an answer to that. Um, okay. Uh, slim has two questions. This first one is for you bear, uh, bear. Why do you support such a sad football team? [00:05:00]
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| Cult Member: My gosh. Uh, I mean, I don't, my sad football team's number one in the world, so if they're sad, stay sad. And we're talking about the Philadelphia Eagles, and I just wanna go on record.
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| I'm not some crazy sports fan. I literally don't watch anything except for the Philadelphia Eagles. So, so sorry. Slim and also slim. I'm, I'm coming. I still have a warrior to put on the line for, uh, for betting on the Oh, oh. We're betting. We're betting, we're betting a warrior each, uh, for our team. Damn.
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| Elf: Okay. Right on. Um, slim also asks, uh, where do you see the Wizards 10 years in the future? Um, that's, that's a pretty big question. I think, uh, you know, I think there's a chance that the singularity could occur by that time. So, um, I think, uh, if, if you wanna know where we see the wizards, uh, just look in the mirror because we [00:06:00] will, uh, merge with our wizards.
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| Um, I don't know. Do you guys have an answer to that
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| Cult Member: In 10 years? 10 years? Uh, gosh. Um, Well, uh, hopefully I'm gonna be getting more sleep, but that's a personal goal of mine. Um, in 10 years, I think kids will be playing with forgotten rooms, toys all over the world. I think, uh, I think we will have innovated much sooner than 10 years, but have in will innovate a path to like onboard the rest of the world into digital assets or digital collectibles.
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| Um, and yeah, I just think we're gonna be a household name. That's,
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| Elf: that's it. Yeah. I remember somebody asked this question in a spaces we were in a few weeks ago and like, you know, we can, we can speculate and about the, uh, the expansion of the franchise itself, but I think like the bigger goal and [00:07:00] the more interesting goal is, Just like if, if we can do this right, then not only does it mean that Forgotten Ruins is is big and, and, and successful, but the entire entertainment industry will have been disrupted.
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| Uh, if we can execute this sort of horizontal IP structure where IP is not owned by some corporation and it's a one-way street, uh, top down, um, but it's a two-way street on every level, uh, creativity, creativity, creatively, uh, financially, legally, all of that, um, you know, that to me is like the real 10 year goal.
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| Um, okay. Uh, Blackwater is asking, uh, win Game. Um, Blackwater, I'm gonna assume you're talking about the Univer game, uh, which I don't think there's a solid answer on that. Um, however, you mean if you mean the Goblin town game, uh, Dota win game.
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| Dotta: Oh yeah. I don't think there's a [00:08:00] solid
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| Elf: answer on that either.
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| What? But yeah, I mean, you know, I
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| Dotta: think like we're aiming for sort of like end of February, like to hopefully have an internal playable the next couple of weeks, and I think we'll have a better answer then once we start to get, uh, start to get that rolling out Mattos here. Matto, maybe you have any ideas, uh, on kind of what you're seeing, but I don't think we have a hard date for the, uh,
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| Elf: reverse game.
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| Cult Member: Oh. So yeah, I actually, um, I was reading those in the, the secret tower. We do not have a hard date. We are definitely getting closer. Um, I know that obviously we put out, uh, recently that the, um, private investor plots, um, where, you know, um, starting to get delivered. Um, I did see that there was a question about whether those plots could be, um, transferred or not.
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| They are not transferable. Those were as part of the deal for, um, but those, uh, private plots. Um, well for, for the sale of those plots, um, they, they are unable to leave those wallets. Um, for, I [00:09:00] don't have the exact period of time in my head right now, but it's quite a while that they, yeah.
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| Dotta: So I think that the, um, that the, it's a linear vest over a couple of years.
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| Yeah. And so I think that, um, you know, at the most technical level, I think that the, some of the early plots could be transferred. Um, but you know, I think from our perspective, like ideally they're not selling them, there's not too much volume there, uh, prior to the public sale.
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| Cult Member: Right, right. And also as another note, like, um, even though they have like those plots delivered to them, not all of those plots are gonna be readily available to them.
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| Like, some of those are allocated to like, Kind of spots of the universe map that haven't been kind of developed yet. And then as the game that gets developed more, then those spots will kind of bere delivered. So like over time they'll have like more of those lands to them. It's not like you're gonna have a complete monopoly over the entire universe map once this comes out, you know?
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| Elf: Um, right. That's
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| Dotta: an important point. Okay. Mm-hmm. So, just to like, clarify on that, which is. The, the, the, the total plots of the universe is [00:10:00] capped at 70,000. And that's like all time, all plots, you know, you know, maybe it takes five years to actually sell all those, I don't know. I don't know exactly what the plan is.
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| And then the, this first round had, uh, about 10,000 plots sold. And then I think when we do the public sale, it'll be like roughly that many, right? Like maybe it's a little higher, maybe it's a little lower. Um, but the idea is not that sort of, these private sale investors will now then kind of have, um, ownership of half the world, but rather that, uh, those plots that they bought will, um, because you know, when the game launches, it's not launching with the entire world at once.
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| Right? We'll launch with some of the initial zones and sort of expand as, as the game needs. And so, yeah, that's an important point, which is like the investors plots that, that, that were sold and the original round will not all be playable on day one. It'll kind of, they'll kind of grow into it as the game grows.
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| Cult Member: Right. Right. Thank you. Yeah, thanks for, for elaborating on that as well, cuz I, I saw that there were some people who had concerns about how many plots were given, but [00:11:00] they're being allocated in a way that makes sense for the later in development of the game, so. Yep.
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| Elf: Yep. Um, yeah. Speaking of land plots, and maybe you already answered this, uh, Tupa 21 is asking, uh, uh, the land plots on OS and the private sale, are they protected from trading for the time being?
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| Dotta: there is, uh, sort of, so they, they, they're actually vesting every block over a couple of years. Um, so that means that, like, you know, since, like, I would, I think there's like a few hundred that technically could trade, but again, it's a, it's a smaller group of people, um, who we like, kind of know personally who own those.
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| And so, you know, we don't, we're not looking for there to be a lot of volume on those plots before the public sales starts. So technically sort of. Uh, socially, I guess also sort of,
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| Elf: uh, and then Snoop Doug is asking, uh, for the different size plots of land, roughly how much do we need to be [00:12:00] saving up? Like is a four by four a village, um, and it's just bulk buying the plots?
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| Dotta: one of the cool things about this game, the, a couple of things, I don't have the price sheet in front of me, um, but we basically price the private sale in u s d terms, uh, like very reasonable price. Um, and those will map over when we do the public sales, so it for sure should be affordable and it's pegged to U S D, so that way there's not like a huge kind of difference relative to whatever E was at the time.
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| Um, An important thing to know about this game is that it's not like a piece of graph paper where, um, you know, we just slice up the, the entire world into these little square blocks and anyone can buy every single plot of land. No, no, not at all. There are only zones within the game that are available, um, for building, uh, as a [00:13:00] house.
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| And, uh, at the same time, even those plots are not, um, conti. Con contiguous, which by which I mean they don't, they're not like next to each other. You can't buy like two, four by fours and combine them, uh, you know, to, to make like a plot that's the size of both of them all together. Um, and so they, they don't actually don't touch, they're laid out in this like, very organic way.
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| Like you might notice like a village would be, um, naturally and, and, and they're separated by basically land that is, uh, not empty space, but like the rest of the kind of game. And so, yeah, so, so there is, um, a non-linear effect in sort of the yield output from the land because they're just in infrastructure that also requires a certain size.
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| So there are structures that you just can't build on like a, uh, the smallest plot, which I guess I said four by four, but I think the smallest plot is actually eight by eight. Um, so there's some, some infrastructure that you ca you have to have a 32 by 32 even to build that like piece of [00:14:00] equipment at all.
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| Elf: plots so. Yeah, there, there's different sizes of plots you can buy, but you don't necessarily put a bunch of plots together to build a thing. Right?
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| Dotta: That's right. Yeah. You don't combine the plots.
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| Elf: And then, just to touch on Snoop Dog, Doug's question, do you have any, I any idea of exact prices or do you not wanna say that yet?
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| Dotta: the, the prices are known, but I don't know that they've been published, and I don't have them in front of me. We'll tell you as soon as we get closer, but it's like, there'll be more hundred dollars. Like you can get like a, yeah. Eight by eight is in order of like hundreds. It's not a thousand dollars.
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| Cult Member: Yeah. Cool. Yeah. Uh, I, I have, I, I have the, the price is floating. I think that right now there's kind of like a, a little bit of leeway for the change, but yeah, they'll be very reasonable for, for, you're not gonna have to save up too much if you want, just like, um, you know, a
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| Elf: plot. Okay. And then one final game question.
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| Uh, Shroom Lord [00:15:00] is asking any possible timeline or hint on when there will be another demo test for holders. Um, or, uh, yeah, demo testing for holders. The timeline on that.
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| Cult Member: That'll be quite soon. Um, I, I know we've been seeing this for a while, but like I said, we're getting close to our, our, our land sale. We are going to have our closed data, um, we had over like the holiday, over the holiday week when, um, for like New Year's we had Magic Machine kind of come in to kind do a closed alpha test and get their thoughts on it.
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| Um, we are having very soon, um, by either probably like this week or next week, we're gonna have, um, a su uh, closed one for kind of like, uh, private investors. And then we're gonna have, and ways we're gonna kind of open up for more people to come in for, um, private testing. So, um, look forward to, I wanna say like, uh, wanna say over the next month or so, we're gonna have more information on that's gonna happen.
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| And like I said, it's gonna be closed. [00:16:00] Um, at first we're gonna kind of gradually open up the gates for more people to come in. So even if you don't get in the first wave, um, you know, there's opportunities as, as we roll through and we get kind of more of that, more feedback from people.
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| Elf: Awesome, Matto.
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| Thank you. Um, okay. Tanya has a really fun question. Um, it's something that I've always, I've been thinking about for a long time, and I've, we've talked about past Wizard Wednesdays. She says, uh, when forgotten peasants 100 K collection. Um, she's, I think what she's talking about is like this, this potential collection we talk about doing in the future where, uh, we introduced a hundred thousand new characters in the collection.
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| But they're not wizards. They're not warriors. They're just like Normies peasants. Um, you know, the, the reason to do something like this would to be to like open up the forgotten universe to a bunch of people, make a more comfortable entry level collection. There's certainly a lot of controversy around this.
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| Um, [00:17:00] you know, we can go deep, but to answer your question directly, when, uh, T b d, if ever at all, um, bear, did you wanna say something? Yeah,
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| Cult Member: I just wanted to chime in. I think, um, Yeah, we definitely don't have any like, concrete plans. I think this concept though, of creating a collection at that kind of scale, um, would have to go hand in hand with, uh, a, a like a larger media expression type of thing.
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| Like be that, like the television show launch or, um, you know, the univer game, reaching a milestone or, or what have you. I think, I think it would be important that everybody know that of course our current collections are like the Genesis collections and wizards being at the top of those, but this concept of, you know, most people in the world, the 8 billion other people that aren't in crypto, probably can't afford, um, digital festivals at the price.
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| Yeah. And so [00:18:00] what does it look like? Um, what does it look like for. You know, uh, a kid to walk up to hi one of his parents and say, Hey, like, I'd love for governance. Can I get a digital collectible? Um, you know, we have to make sure that there's, uh, a way to, for them to come in, you know, comfortably.
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| Elf: Yep. It's, it's something I think about a lot, how to scale to the mainstream.
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| When you've got 2 million fans loving your IP and they want a digital component, what do you give them? Um, you know, I, I'm, I'm not gonna answer the question now, but like, it's, yeah. It's something fun to think about. Um, I don't have, they can always
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| Dotta: get, they can always
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| Cult Member: get a chocolate frog.
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| Elf: What's that
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| Elf: Totally. I'm
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| Dotta: not like super into the forgotten peasants idea at, at the moment, given the way like anything is working right now. Like I, like you can kind of imagine this like, sort of far out [00:19:00] scenario. Uh, but like, okay. A couple of things that I think about.
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| Um, one would be this idea around like having an entry level character asset. I think that like the Warriors are already entry level, like the, the Warrior price is completely affordable. If you are trying to go into like, uh, kind of get this sort of like collectible that you can sort of trade and build out the character, um, you know, like.
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| Uh, a warrior costs right now as much as like a Nintendo Switch, for example. So I think that like if we start to see our assets kind of out pricing, um, sort of things that you already see people buy as kind of like a consumer product, then maybe we can talk about it. But then even then, maybe not, because I think also secondarily, when you talk about this idea of like, People collaborating on a character.
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| I actually think that there's like a Dunbar number of characters that people can even like, pay attention to and like share as a community, [00:20:00] right? Even when you look at like, let's say, game of Thrones where they have this massive world, I think that the number of characters in the whole series is, is like fewer than 500, something like that.
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| Like, and, and if we sat down here as a. Group and name them all. Without looking it up, we probably couldn't reach 200. And so I think that like when we talk about this idea around like people collaborating around an ip, trying to make a character valuable, um, and then sharing in the value of what they created.
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| I actually think that I'm more interested in looking at ideas of what people like Party Dow are doing, where you get like a group of people who collaborate to make one character legendary before I think that you dilute the kind of assets with a hundred thousand characters, right? Because you're not just diluting like the, let's say market price, which, um, but rather you're diluting like even just the attention of like, just the number of people you're even able to pay attention to.
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| Elf: know what I mean by the Dunbar number? Um, Yeah, I know what that is. [00:21:00] So
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| Dotta: just in case anyone doesn't, uh, you know, the Dunbar number is like this idea that there's like, uh, this like limit, like a cognitive limit on like the number of people that you can even kind of keep track, right? You can only know like, whatever it is, like, it's like 150 people in your life before you just like, can't even keep track of the faces, for example.
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| And so, I dunno, I think that like the IP will have a limit there that's probably even less than 10,000, frankly. Um, and so, yeah, I, I don't know. I love the idea of forgotten villagers. Th but like, I'm, I don't think we're ready. And then thirdly, I think with, for example, um, the Universe game, it will be, um, free to come in and play and like have this sort of like player your character.
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| And so I think that's another thing that kind of like fills a bit of that role. Um, you know, those aren't gonna be like tradable character NFTs in the same way. But if you just wanna like come and participate, collect equipment and xp, um, I dunno, that feels similar to me. So, Yeah. I, I love, I, I love the idea of the [00:22:00] art of like, you know, the forgotten bakers or whatever.
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| Like if someone wants to do that as a community project, that's fine, but I just don't see us making that like anytime
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| Elf: soon. Definitely not anytime soon. I think that's the one thing we all agree on. The market would not support it, it just, it makes no sense anytime soon. Um, everything else you said we could debate, but for another time.
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| Cult Member: don't invite me to that meeting. I don't wanna play
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| Elf: mediator bear. We need you as the middleman as always. Yeah. Need you to be the mediator.
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| Elf: hi. Okay, so speaking of the Athenaeum, uh, Virgil asks, um, can you give a few more uses for the Athenaeum collection? Uh, yeah. So, You know, when, when this, the, the Athenaeum was first dropped, uh, through the, uh, the treat boxes of our Halloween event, um, the, uh, baseline utility is of course, as is every token in [00:23:00] the universe, uh, storytelling.
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| Um, and I have certainly seen a lot of really fun storytelling occur on Twitter in the book of lore elsewhere around these items. Um, so that's, that's the baseline now, uh, other mechanical utilities in the future. Um, Yeah, I mean we, we've talked in, in last, in a few wizard Wednesdays ago, uh, about this staking, uh, thing that we're building.
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| Um, we're not gonna really talk about that much today, but I will say that there's potentially use, uh, uses for athenaeum items there. Um, we have, uh, a shapeshift feature that we're working on that atheneum items, uh, will be used for. Um, you could imagine, uh, a thing in the future where perhaps, uh, you could put one of the athenaeum items in your wizard's hand, uh, instead of the current item they're holding.
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| Um, this, of course, would apply to the shapeshift token and not [00:24:00] to, it wouldn't affect the actual rarity metrics of the core collection. It's just cosmetic. Uh, but those are just a few things just right off the top of my head. Um, I don't know if you guys wanna add anything to that.
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| Dotta: Yeah, I, we talk about Athen Token uses all the time.
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| Elf: it. Yep. Yeah, I mean, and just like, like to, to put a button on it. Like what we're trying to build is just a huge ecosystem where all the tokens interact with one another, um, to optimize for fun and world building. Uh, yeah, andm is definitely a part of that.
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| Um, okay. Uh, let's see. Uh, master Brown. So you asked a really fun question, um, and if you guys will allow me like five to 10 minutes to expound on this, um, Mr. Brown asks the very simple question, how many [00:25:00] moons are in the universe? Um, and you might think, I don't have anything to say about this, but I actually have a lot to say about this.
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| Cult Member: Yeah. Get, get, get your notepads out, everybody.
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| Elf: Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Please take notes. This is critical. Uh, okay. So the universe is earth in the future, as we all know. Um, and not just narratively, but literally. Um, so I think there's just one moon I e the same moon we have now, but I'm not totally sure on this.
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| I just think this is the case. I don't know. Okay, so now when I say that, I think a lot of you might be thinking damnit elf. Just give us a solid answer on the facts of the universe. We need to know these cold, hard facts so we can write some lore. Here's why I'm not gonna do that. The universe is a reflection of the real world.
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| [00:26:00] Okay? So you might say, great, the real world world has one moon solved. But no, that's not the full reflection of the real world. In our world, for better or for worse, fact-based empirical reality is not a universal constant in the minds of the populace. We are living in an era where even flat earth theory is considered a reality by a staggering number of people.
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| The moon landing itself is questioned as a hoax, a hoax. In fact, so many of once accepted truths are now being questioned, and so in the minds of human beings, it's just impossible to get 100% consensus on how the reality of this world is built. In other words, the construction of reality itself is decentralized.
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| If 99% of the humans on this planet believe there is [00:27:00] one moon, I guarantee there's that 1% millions of others who believe otherwise. Okay. So if the ref univer is a reflection of the real world, that is the reflection that I'm trying to, to, to adhere to. Um, so, you know, this to me is the only real way to do the collaborative, legendary, the decentralized world, build the open source middle earth.
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| If, if you want my take on the moon of the universe, then, then yeah, there's only one moon, but maybe there's some wizard astronomers out there among you that will find another hidden moon right behind the one that I can't see. Um, and so, you know, I I, I love that you asked me these questions, but I just, I don't want you to think that my answers are the cold unquestionable facts because I'm not the sole creator of this world.
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| Um, it's everywhere if you just look for it. And, and I put it there because to me it's a really powerful symbol of the magic and the machine. Um, it's, it's a machine because the physics in our universe, all the celestial bodies in it, like the moon, uh, it, it all operates like clockwork. The, the sizes, the masses, the movements, all of these objects seem to function in precise machine-like ways.
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| This is why I love that Erian engraving, where the wizard is peering behind the veil and he sees the machinery of the heavens. Uh, and of course, the moon is one of these objects. Um, you [00:29:00] know, the idea of adding more moons or having zero moons. Would have a profound, uh, effect on the planet in all life. On it.
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| The, the size and the distance of our current moon is just absolutely critical to the ecosystem of this planet. If, if any of these variables were, were changed or, or if another moon was somehow added to the earth orbit, uh, the effect would just be catastrophic. Um, and okay, so that's the machine. Then the magic, uh, of the moon is just, it's, it's very heavy.
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| All throughout the history of mysticism, it's usually associated with strong emotion, subjectivity, even madness. Um, you know, werewolves come out during the full moon. Uh, crime statistics in the real world literally go up. Um, and so, you know, to bring it back to the universe, if the universe is the result of a future singularity, uh, then there is some vector through which magic has entered our plane of [00:30:00] reality.
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| Dotta: Um, speaking of something coming into orbit, uh, space news for you, I don't know if you've heard, but there is a green comet that can be seen, uh, tonight for like the next week.
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| Out, uh, it's gonna be near the Little Dipper and it's called the E three comment. And it only comes around once every 50,000 years.
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| Elf: So, and what's really fun is Dota just made that whole thing up. You see what I mean? Like[00:31:00]
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| Okay. Uh, this, this is something I'm very excited about. Uh, I, my time, the past few months has, has been mostly devoted 3d, uh, me and Frog and Molly and the 3D team are, this has [00:32:00] been taking up the majority of our time, and so I have a very exciting announcement to make. Um, a few months ago we put out a call, uh, to people who, um, we said, uh, if you want your 3D model done first, let us know when we'll put you at the top of the line.
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| Elf: unbelievable. It's unbelievable. Yeah. Now I say that, but we're not gonna deliver him until next week. Um. But, but they're, they're done. Uh, and they look amazing. Um, and so, yeah, it's, I I can't wait to get them into your hands.
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| Elf: Uh, okay. Uh, j I hear you've been playing in the sewers.
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| They're getting paid a lot of money to be good at it. So I saw the opportunity. I'm still grinding at it. I have a lot of delegated wallets on different accounts that I basically charged to be able to hopefully hit a rank for them. And I've had, I've enjoyed it. I think it's awesome. Um, continue to do it.
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| Playing video games, you have two mindsets of play, which is these are both fine, acceptable. I have casual friends and games that I play very casually. But if you're playing it for entertainment value and escapism, you're not gonna be a competitor. But if you're trying to compete, you have to look at it a certain way.
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| Elf: jitsu. I, I love what you were saying about gamers being hired to, to game because they've put 10,000 hours into the craft, and so of course they should be paid to do it. Um, I, I, I think. In five to 10 years, you are going to be this wandering cobal, like, like, like the mandalorian, like this mercenary for hire who just, uh, gets paid to game.
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| Jitcy: it's funny to watch the progression of players, to be honest. There's a lot of pros and cons to growing up and playing competitive in my era versus what it is now.
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| Uh, there were prizes awarded to the winners, uh, prizes donated by other cult members. And so, uh, Mala, uh, who was in first place won, uh, the external rows, which came from the order of eternal rows. Um, uh, Sharon won, uh, a Black Sand mount from the Council. Um, which, which by the way, there, there's a whole, uh, group on [00:49:00] Discord who is, uh, creating new mounts, uh, for, for the wizards to race on.
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| Dotta: crispy cake of my doda head. It was incredible. So first off, I love Rice Krispies. Uh, rice Krispies treats are like my trigger food.
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| Elf: Um, yeah. I mean, this is what I love about pixel art. You can, you can do just about anything with it, including rice crispy. Uh, treats. Um, yeah. And then secondly, uh, El DOJ music. Um, apparently, uh, leaf dojang made a really, uh, you know what? I actually don't know what this is. It says black hat mint umdo.
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| Do you know anything? You, you were talking about black hats the other day, but you never expanded on that.
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| Dotta: I don't know what it is, so maybe someone can come up and talk
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| Elf: about it. [00:53:00] Yeah, I'm looking at it now and I probably should have researched more as to what this is. But anyway, it's, it's a black hat, uh, project by Leaf dojang.
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| Um, let's see. Secondly, on Tony's list, we've got, of course, uh, the ROS trading card game. Uh, there's a real, there's a bunch of new, a bunch of fun new cards that I'm seeing. Uh, there's a really good one that, um, sweet Bread made of this hilarious little fluffy pink and white cat. Um, you know, we've been seeing a lot of really good art from, uh, the trading card game lately.
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| Um, Yeah. L Loving, loving Ruins. T c G. Uh, and then, uh, Daniella Ra and Artsy, uh, has, has, has showed a lot of great content this week. Um, Daniela showed her sketchbook, which is just chock full of amazing artwork. Um, you know, this is why physical books are awesome. Uh, we love our digital collectibles, but will they ever compare to physical [00:54:00] art?
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| I don't know. Um, and then, uh, yeah, speak, we were, we were talking about Jitsu being the video game wizard earlier today. And, uh, uh, Emma went
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| Elf: Universe poster of the Wizard. Do you guys remember that Wizard movie from like the early nineties?
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| Cult Member: Oh, yes. Yeah. It was, it was just one big Nintendo ad, right?
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| Elf: Yes. Yes. I freaking loved that movie when I was a kid.
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| Elf: Yeah, that, that quote right there, it's so bad. Is, uh, one of the most memorable quotes right next to this quote, California.
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| Cult Member: I don't remember that, but I'm sure it happened. Yeah,
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| Elf: [00:55:00] you don't remember that quote? Yeah,
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| Elf: Okay. Speaking of, uh, Mado, uh, mado, do you have like some kind of new, uh, like AI generator for your character now?
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| Cult Member: Oh yeah. I'm actually using stable with effusion. I've just been training to stable with Fusion. It, it's been like a lot of time I've been putting into it and kind of like messing off models and messing around different methods of training and stuff.
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| Um, and I think like at first I was having issues where it was kind of like, It, it was getting like a nice, like, it was kind of getting it, but it was missing like a lot of details. It was very kind of like, um, messy. And I think I really, I kind of do like the, like I really like surreal arts and stuff. Um, so like the more abstract styles that was coming out, I actually did like that.
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| I wanted to lean more into it, but I just wanted to actually make it like actually pop out Mags Devin more. Um, so after training it a while and like tweaking it, it takes a, took a long time, but I think I got it to like, give out some very, like, it's, [00:56:00] it, it very, um, concretely like spits, spits out Mag Devin very like, you know, with, with, with a lot of details very consistently now.
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| Dotta: Um, I love it too. I'm, yeah. I wanted, it's just so. Iconic and like the perfect example of what we're trying to do. I think that like Mag Devin and I think, um, uh, wise Sam, for example, would be another similar one where, uh, the character has become just, um, so stand out when you see it in all these different.
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| Elf: cool. Um, give a hoot. What's up? Hey, hey.
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| Cult Member: What's happening? Hey, not much Happy Wizard
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| Elf: Wednesday. Happy Wizards Wednesday.
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| Cult Member: Um, yeah, so you kind of touched on it a little bit. Uh, the ROS cards. We've started to leak a few. I hope everyone's really enjoying the art. It's taken me every ounce of self-control.
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| Not to, it's not to like just post all of them. Um, but it's been, it's been quite the process, but we're, we're kind of, we're kind of at the point where we're starting to get ready for the launch, which is happening one week from today. So, um, we're, I want just to, just to chill [00:59:00] for a quick second. Um, the rooms card set, which is 64 cards, but 128 unique pieces of art.
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| Um, And so, uh, mints one day, one week from today. I'll release the exact time, but, um, but yeah, I'll, I'll be blasting way more about it on Twitter and stuff, but Shawanda announced it and with her Wednesday. Um, and, uh, hope everyone's excited and hope everyone's enjoying the arts. So far it's been, uh, it's been so much fun, um, kind of gen, you know, getting the art, um, commissioned and, and kind of releasing it and all that good stuff.
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| Uh, you've got quite a, a Beastie area, uh, that's you're buildings and which is, you know, you're, you're really adding to the world with, with all this new stuff.
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| Cult Member: Yeah, I mean, and uh, so thank you. It's been so much fun. And also some of my favorites are also, um, you know, when we were developing the corset, we, I tried to get as many people from the cult involved as well.
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| So today the, the Cobalt attorney, uh, was submitted, yeah. Was, was contributed by Reptar. He was the first person to actually chime into the channel and give an idea. And I was like, this is brilliant. This is a, this is brilliant. This is a brilliant fucking card. And the art came out amazingly. Holy shit. The artist like, literally took exactly what Reptar had kind of prompted and just turned it into a masterpiece.
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| Dotta: They are. It's so fun. And the, um, and, and the cards are just so beautiful. I wonder if there's, if it, I wonder if it makes sense to like mint the original artwork as a part, as opposed to like the individual cards. Right. You know, I know that like, [01:02:00] yeah. Continue, continue. Go. Well, no, I just noticed that's a thing that like happens and so that could be super interesting.
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| Cult Member: Y actually, and you, thank you for reminding me. You totally, I totally forgot to let everyone know that part. So I mean, I, there's a lot, there's a lot going on here. Part of the mint process is actually going to be, um, we're going to be raffling off the original art for the carbs. Oh. And so, yeah, you're completely spot on.
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| That's an excellent idea. Actually, maple Dad, uh, gave me that idea, what, a few weeks ago. So, huge shout out to him. He's also been just insanely helpful as he always is. Um, maple Dad's Correct. So how work is basically, yeah. As people mint packs every week. We're gonna raffle off a few. I haven't come up with the actual number yet.
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| I think it might be around 10. Cuz again, there's 64 cards in total. So like 10 a week. It'll go for a few weeks. And basically, um, every week, uh, Uh, however many packs you mint, every pack will kind of be a raffle ticket. And, [01:03:00] um, you know, and then the likelihood of you getting the art, um, is dependent on how many packs you minted and actually, um, A little other nuance is that, uh, the mint is gonna consist of two pack types.
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| Elf: Love it. Give a hoot. Um, before you run outta time, I just wanna call out a few more pieces of amazing cult content. Um, the Baren Court has got to be one of my favorite, uh, projects happening in the universe.
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| I freaking love the Baren Court. The characters are so good. The art is so good. Um, whoever is drawing the pixel art for this is just amazing. Like, just like everything about it is so damn good. It's just beautiful. Um, and I'm looking at this one particular piece. I mean, even though it's a character from the Hall of Cats.
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| I don't think that means Mac Wasier him or what, uh, mag Wasier himself. Uh, surely not, [01:06:00] uh, but a tragedy nonetheless. Um, so Danny's Diner, I hope you have good lawyers. I know there's a few Cobalt lawyers out there you might wanna look into. Uh, the Cabinet of Curiosity, uh, we talked about them last week, um, is continuing their call for Wizards, warriors, and souls and ponies to gather mirror shards, uh, to save ponder Atlanta.
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| Uh, so we have two tiny Wizard projects going, which is, which is great. And I think that's all [01:08:00] the quote content I'm seeing this week. Uh, do you guys, do you guys recall any others? Uh, there's so much. I
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| Elf: Yep. Yep. Yeah, every, every time I try to curate, uh, cult content, I know I miss a lot.
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| Uh, so I'm really glad that Tanya is now, uh, doing this through the Cult Content Chronicle. Um, okay. It's, uh, it is six past the hour. Um, anything else? Nope, not really. Bear. We haven't had a a, an update from the Bear Cave in a while. Anything, any final words you might wanna give us from the Bear Cave? I'm gonna save
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| Cult Member: it for next week cause I think there'll be some stuff.
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| Elf: That sounds great. Um, okay. Well this has been Wizard Wednesday channeling out from the Quantum Downs. This has been El Doda Mad [01:09:00] Suki Bear Snake, and the Dooky Dash Champion, our very own Wizard Jitsu. G and everybody.
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