I'm thinking about getting back to some streaming again, although most likely not just on one platform as I'm pretty sure I'm going to have close to no viewers. So will probably look into some tools for multi-streaming on twitch, youtube and whatever else you may have that's worth it.
Today was the first day I've played some games (cs2) + bought some games from the steam summer sale. It feels like I've been so busy trying to build things lately while doing my other hive stuff that I've not had any time to play, while at the same time feeling like any time playing is a time wasted.
I have tried to watch more things however, so I can log them on scrobble.life mainly, lol. It's hard to try focus on watching something while running multiple claude instances and trying to remember what you were working on. Often times that bites you in the ass cause you may forget some of teh steps and it causes you to give it unnecessary prompts you may have to revert on, etc.
I'm not counting playtesting holozing:wilds as gaming cause that's not really been "fun" so to speak, lol, more like checking it profusely that things are working as they should and that they're scaling as they should. We plan on opening it up to a wider audience soon so we can at the same time maybe stress test the servers to make sure it can handle mutliple people all playing at the same time before considering a reset and beta launch with more things to do and less resets.
Either way, it was quite fun to play something again today. Did two premier matches of CS2, won one and had a nice ace in the first match. Took a break from writing to go back and record it for the fun of it:
Either way, it kind of feels like I need gaming, or like my brain needs it every now and then. Like there's an emptiness kind of that needs to be filled somewhat. I was hoping by now I'd be able to fill it with my own games but as we all came to know the markets decided Hive wasn't going to hang along with the others when they were doing better a couple years ago.
I am hopeful however that with AI tools that exist now we can get there and with the way hive and other tokens work that we can be a place that offers players more value for their time, attention and effort and that that's what people will strive for eventually rather than just being all "I don't care i had fun playing this and I don't regret it". Like, sure, that's all fine, but don't you realize you can have the same amount of fun soon while also not being treated as a cashcow? Not being studied and seen as just another wallet and how to get you to empty your paychecks onto our microtransactions, dlc's, ingame items you can't trade, sell or even own, really?
Yeah, I don't know, this world is quite upside down lately and it feels like it's just getting worse. People spend so much time, effort and attention where others are benefiting from it and it's only possible thanks to the people, yet they don't know any better nor care to figure out if any better options exist.
The reputation of crypto has been put through the gutter and it's been filled with fake web3's for years now while the real gems see no attention and people can't seem to solve the puzzle even when it's presented right in front of them.
Maybe AI will see it and be able to put it in better words than we can, who knows. Anyway, just a little shitpost today as my sleep rhythm is messed up and I'm supposed to go on a show tonight - not sure how that's gonna go.
Thanks for reading anyway. (and maybe watching (and maybe watching more in the future once I start streaming again))
