When Club Penguin was shut down, it was making $30m in revenue a year with a team of 15 and we were told it was “losing” money because of all the corp overhead attributed to it. The reality is the people who wanted to shut it down just threw cost on its P&L until they could make
@deantak
Gamers don’t want their games to feel like they’re designed by corporate HR or used to peddle some journeyman’s political agenda. No one likes to have their party crashed by a lecturing hall monitors. I don’t think it’s about actual diversity so much as how woke tropes make
I can’t believe we never put this out. We were charged SO MUCH for this. Well over $1m. We should have just finished it but I don’t think we could figure out how to make money on it because paid games had died in the App Store.
The unreleased Card-Jitsu mobile app has been found!
This was a port of the Flash game, from October 2011. Completing levels would've granted you pieces of the Shadow Ninja suit.
Noteworthy assets & animations are featured in the thread below:
@chamath
The messenger but also the message.
Progressives are so spoiled as to be ungrounded in real world constraints. They have it good so they assume everyone else does. Their jobs & wages aren’t threatened so they assume everyone else is just overreacting. It wasn’t (until recently)
@ItsEduMock
The Playdom acquisition was an embarrassment. Pleasants was a disaster. Disney Infinity was a successful seller but they way, way over spent and were hemorrhaging money. Iger was under pressure from Ike - who wanted to license everything out - as well as Wall Street to stop the
@BriannaWu
“Nearly everything they do pushes me away on a cellular level.”
This is how men feel about democrats.
For a decade, you have called us sexist for everything, pushed the conspiracy theory that we are a “patriarchy” conspiring against women even as women are ascending to
@thirdwavelabs
did a FASCINATING analysis of
@InviteToMystery
's wallets...
76% "Normal" wallets
18% "Fresh" wallets
6% Bots
Real wallets = real community!
@3orovik
Very suspicious of this guy. He makes very hand wavey claims. Hes also completely dismissive of the threat of the CCP. He’s on the payroll of the Intel agencies. I think you have to regard him as a propagandandist and take everything he says with a heavy grain of salt.
@stalbs
They say they are in the business of buying, not selling IP.
But I think they feel it would be humiliating to admit you have to sell it and they don’t want the negative pr right now.
@JeremyCom
I’m proud of my run. Best team I ever led (and I’ve had great teams). And best product I’ve ever worked on (and I’ve worked on many.)
Behind the scenes it was extremely tumultuous. Disney was trying to kill us everyday for largely poltical reasons (that still plague them).
I
This is wild!
Guys I’ve been doing this for over 20 yrs and I’ve NEVER seen someone move as fast in the world of licensing and real world product as
@LucaNetz
!
This guy is an ANIMAL(that animal being a Penguin!)
Pudgy Penguins has 2 different arcade machines debuting in 2024. One is a crane, and the other is a digital 2 player runner game (not shown here). Our goal at Pudgy is to abstract the complexities of Web3 and to leverage our cute and fun IP to distribute blockchain technology to
@jradoff
The real perverse incentive was that if you wanted to get ahead at Disney, you had more to gain by saying we should shut games down and license it out than make Disney a player in a medium that is bigger than movies and TV. How short sighted does that look now? How short sighted
@ItsEduMock
The Playdom acquisition was an embarrassment. Pleasants was a disaster. Disney Infinity was a successful seller but they way, way over spent and were hemorrhaging money. Iger was under pressure from Ike - who wanted to license everything out - as well as Wall Street to stop the
We will be using
@ERC721_C
(actually 1155c to be precise) for
@InviteToMystery
.
Thank you
@limitbreak
for creating this and
@gabrielleydon
for the leadership.
What this means is:
- Royalties will be enforced (good for the game long term)
- NFTs will have minimum FLOOR PRICES
@gabrielleydon
@MrsAlpha___
@limitbreak
@DigiDaigaku
@DigiDaigakuJP
This is basically my conclusion as well. People who want to get-rich quick are marks, not customers. And I’m not a con man. There’s no point into trying to please these people because nothing will make them happy but hitting the lottery. And even if they do they will get mad if
@mcuban
@ZalinskyS
@VivekGRamaswamy
@mcuban
I’m not understanding your problem here. Today the government gives the money to the states.
@VivekGRamaswamy
would simply give it to parents. And then parents could decide whether to give it to a public school. Or use it for another option.
What you’re saying here is
@mehdirhasan
@mmasnick
It’s pretty disgusting what you are trying to do. The Files speak for themselves. A few minor errors (which he corrected instantly when pointed out) does not invalidate all the reporting and evidence here that the government IS engaged in censorship which is BTW something we can
@DoctorKimochi
@deantak
There are lots of ways to do diversity. We did it better in movies in the 90s.
Wokesters did not suddenly invent diversity, but what their artistic movement (if you can call it that) is really about is using critical theory to deconstruct everything, which is why fans hate it.
@KonstantinKisin
@TEDchris
Bingo
“You shouldn't fire employees for disagreeing with you, you should fire them for undermining your mission of facilitating the spread of useful and important ideas by weaponising their feels to force you into censorship.”
@stealthygeek
There was literally testimony yesterday from John Durham fully debunking the Russia collusion hoax. This has been investigated - twice - and neither Mueller nor Durham found evidence of collusion. What Durham did find is that the Clinton campaign fabricated the Russia collusion
@elonmusk
why not institute an advertiser loyalty system that incentivizes consistently spending on the platform and punishes sporadic behavior like boycotts? Feels like economic or systemic incentives could create a cost to these hair trigger reactionary moves.
@mcuban
The algo is open source. Can you point to where
@elonmusk
is biasing it?
Before Elon, it wasn’t open source and it WAS biased. He’s greatly cleaned it up.
Your comment seems based on the popular left wing perception of Elon, not what he’s actually doing. And facts should
@Jason
@vkhosla
This isn’t just a transient political debate, this is about the direction of the country and Silicon Valley’s role in it.
Vinod, Benioff, Hoffman and the like have gotten filthy rich while letting SF degrade into degeneracy and crime, allowed California to become so overly
@KimIversenShow
@krystalball
@RobertKennedyJr
@krystalball
WTF? Your asserting here that he’s wrong without being able to prove it, appealing to experts you know have a vested interest in saying he’s wrong, and not allowing him to make his point. I thought Breaking Points was going to do things differently!
We're thrilled to announce that our upcoming Ethereum marketplace will be powered by Payment Processor: a robust marketplace protocol developed by
@limitbreak
. When compared to protocols like Seaport, our marketplace will reduce gas fees by at least 6% and up to 40% for many
@chamath
@Tyler929394
And you can see that in his comparison between TSLA and GM. TSLA doing almost the same profit off nearly half the revenue and fewer cars shipped. TSLA just has fundamentally better economics.
It’s really awesome to have been part of something that kids found so epic that they are still talking about it as adults. Operation: Blackout was the equivalent for many to the Death of Optimus Prime for us Gen Xers.
Well done, Agent. Thanks to your remarkable skills and courage, Club Penguin is free. Truly…you have saved us all. Now you know the truth. And you are worthy of my secret. Keep it well. There is much to be done. And though the road ahead is long…the EPF shall rise again.
@Scaramucci
@VP
@KamalaHarris
This is absurd. You’re saying vote against the guy who is on record supporting crypto but vote for the person who is only open to it privately. And we’re supposed to take your word on this private support?
Fuck that - get on the record or lose the crypto vote.
No rugs!
The reason I went to
@Immutable
was that it seemed likely that both it and
@Ronin_Network
would use
@0xPolygon
’s zk technology which will eventually (hopefully sooner rather than later) all be interconnected by the AggLayer. So between the 3 you have an interconnected network of
BREAKING: LAYER 2 BLOCKCHAINS ARE COMING TO RONIN!
Introducing Ronin zkEVM ⚔️
• In the near future, Ronin builders will be able to leverage the
@0xPolygon
Chain Development Kit (CDK) to create their own zkEVM layer 2 (L2) chains on Ronin and permissionlessly deploy their games
@pmarca
“Outsourcing” was not a moral panic. You can see it in the contraction of the American middle class and the massive skew in income inequalities and regional inequities over the past several decades. Almost all of the political upheaval and division we live with today stems from
Great thread on what
@0xPolygon
is really up to. "AggLayer" is the worst branding since X but what it DOES is create an internet of chains with shared liquidity and interoperability of assets. There are chains that are arguably better for games from a player liquidity standpoint,
Seeing a lot of people confused or unaware of what Polygon is trying to accomplish with the AggLayer (aggregation layer).
So what is Polygon cooking up?
An aggregation thread 🧵:
(Let's talk about something other than L3s for a second 😂)
@mcuban
But this is your guy! This is what you want us to vote for!
Stop bullshiting
@mcuban
!
The Dems are at WAR against crypto and a free Internet. No other way to interpret this and everything happening with Telegram, etc.
This was so damn fun to do. The “Party team” flew to Lucasfilm, got a download on Star Wars, and designed the whole party that day AT LUCAS. They were blown away! Never seen design go so fast at quality!
@chamath
@chamath
Can you have “man in the arena”
@mattgaetz
on the show to explain why he’s doing all this?
So much noise. Listeners would benefit from hearing direct answers under Bestie interrogation.
I just want to say that
@BoDoggosENT
has been WONDERFUL to work with on the
#ChooseRich
event!
Very professional, worked with us to figure out the right approach, extremely responsive, paying attention to what is/isn't working and adjusting in real time.
I feel like we got
@mcuban
@VivekGRamaswamy
Man, this is the weakest defense of a broken status quo I’ve ever seen.
What he’s saying is that if we have a huge Dept of Ed giving money to the states who give money to your school district that that will be more efficient than cutting out 3 bureaucracies and giving the money
@KonstantinKisin
@BriannaWu
And also intellectual honesty. I don't agree with
@BriannaWu
on a lot but she's clearly thinking for herself and holding both sides accountable to her values.
HUGE news! We plan to launch
@InviteToMystery
as a browser game using WebGL. When Unity 6 releases, we will be able to take that to mobile, and even do progressive web apps for the phone.
I don’t like this “web 2.5” notion some people have that “oh you don’t need NFTs or web3 stuff to play it at all, it’s all totally optional”.
Then what’s the point?
How good can your web3 hooks be if they aren’t part of the core loop.
Low conviction. Faux3.
@BillKristol
How many people has
@elonmusk
killed by lying us into unprovoked wars?
After Iraq, how can you possibly think of yourself as a good guy much less someone anyone should listen to?
@designmom
I actually agree with this. Men need to be responsible too and we put too much emphasis on women and too little on men in preventing unplanned pregnancies. Part of being a man should be taking responsibility for yourself.
@cameron61587075
@OsheaJacksonJr
I think you are seeing it right now. He wins the Speed championship and becomes the face of this brand. That preps him for a bigger push in the main product.
Everyone is writing threads again.
I won’t.
Last cycle i wanted clout
This cycle I want deal flow and to make my clients money.
I’m only doing the videos and spaces for now.
Smart. Good positioning. High tier experiential retail is the right place to start. None of these NFT brands should over assume their reach. Start small, keep inventory tight, sell out. If you overexpand beyond market demand and inventory gets stuck to the shelves - it’s death.
Introducing our first flagship retail & entertainment experience - Doodles x CAMP, launching this summer!
Through this partnership, we will grow the Doodles ecosystem by creating a real life emotional connection with thousands of new people, spanning generations.
Here's how: 🧵
I have no inside knowledge but its pretty clear
@BoDoggosENT
is aiming to be the
@barstoolsports
of crypto. How can you not be bullish on
@BoDoggosNFT
in that case. If you had Dave Portnoy's NFT in 2019 you're telling me that wouldn't be a top collection right now? This whole
One big change you could make would be to enforce creator royalties.
We’d love to work with
@opensea
but we’re not going to forego royalties (or work on tips) to do it.
We will be launching
@InviteToMystery
on
@ERC721_C
. We hope OpenSea changes course, but if it doesn’t, you
No game has ever seen the revenue trajectory of Monopoly Go. If these guys execute on the promise, this should be one of the highest grossing games in web3.
CityVerse Tycoon is built on three rock-solid pillars:
🎲 There are 100Ms of casual mobile players
🪙 Our player persona is already a "Web2 degen"
💵 Monopoly GO has a 4.8M+ players in trading groups
We iterate on a proven genre.
And we supercharge it with Web3 P2P trading 🆙
@DavidSacks
Great laying out of the case.
Of course, there’s much more including Biden’s war to suppress speech and control the internet for partisan purposes, his war on crypto and financial freedom, the crushing regulations that come one after another and threaten American innovation, and
Counterpoint - every web3 founder I know with any experience is quietly doing old fashioned UA now because the pool of players in web3 is limited and everyone is marketing to the same group of people.
We have to bring people into the space in order to grow it. That means meeting
Web2 tactics don’t work in Web3.
Ads don’t work.
Cold email doesn’t work.
Winning in Web3 is about who you know in the value you provide.
At times it can almost seem counterintuitive.
Arcadia has received hundreds of applications this year and turned down 8+ figures.
A
This is my son’s first professional game…being played by Napoleon Dynamite
@hederjon
who is starring in
@toonstarhq
’s
#SpaceJunk
which the game is based on. Pretty cool! Proud of my boy!
The price of Yuga assets have been pretty much down-only since royalties became optional.
Correlation does NOT imply causation.
That said, I think it's hard to say that these projects, their holders, or their shareholders have benefitted from some influx of new participants
I can't claim to be a web3 marketing guru yet by any stretch, and I've tried a lot of things that don't work, but here's a few that have been working for us lately.
1. Video – No duh, but X's algo prioritizes it now and it leaves much more of an impression than something people
17 years ago today, the minigame, Ice Fishing was released. Penguins could now earn coins by catching Fish and learning a special trick to catch even a Mullet, while avoiding dangers below the ice.
A lot of the ecosystems that are currently performing well from the last cycle are ones that created communities where women also felt welcomed.
@SappySealsNFT
@pudgypenguins
@pixels_online
@AxieInfinity
The crypto bro communities will have a hard time going 'mass market'
Contrast with
@LucaNetz
who had a fraction of the funding but just focused on blocking and tackling, one step at a step but in rapid succession.
@pudgypenguins
is really a masterclass in how to build momentum.
Feel like
@yugalabs
brand slowly collapsing and difficult to turn:
1. Many apes changing pfps to monke or frog
2. Yuga marketplace/otherside delay + lack of communication
3. Record high # of mayc sold into blur bids
4. OGs looking for otc details
5. Shitty DAO exec
What else?