Recent content by Arden

Yeah banks starting to wake up to the existential danger crypto poses to them. Their arrogance has made them slow to the punch here, but they can hit more than hard enough to make up for being slow- as we are seeing.

People knew, but it didn't get brought up much lol. I'd say there was a hope that computing power would eventually compensate, but those people tended to be the optimists. Not to be overly negative, but there were enough crises going on all at the same time that you could kind of take your...

We fought the good fight and managed to eliminate a lot of 3rd party gold sellers, but like I said, it was doomed to be a losing battle because we didn't have support from programming (not their fault), marketing, and the publisher. Also keep in mind I was only involved during the Sigil era. I...

Yep. There were 100 Chinese gold farmers for every actual player.

I was part of the Sigil team that battled rmt stuff in Vanguard. Learned quite a few lessons from the experience, but the main one was: if you are going to take a stand against 3rd party rmt stuff, you need to consider that through all stages of game- design, publishing, marketing, GM tools...

That's Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane buddy. NO -Amod

Count me firmly in the camp of those who don't care much about flashy graphics. I still dust off Super Mario Bros 3 every once in awhile because actual gameplay is what's king to me. Also art direction is way more important to me than polygon count. And I am very much liking the art direction...

Not sure there are hard fast rules or definitions for this stuff, but your list is pretty good imo. Like I said, I think for it to be a "collapse" it needs to result in fundamental structural changes. Great depressions clearly qualify. You could definitely argue that 2008 caused deep structural...

It's semantics, but I wouldn't consider 2020 a collapse. A crash, yes, but not a collapse. To me collapse implies a fundamental structural change with either no recovery or a really lengthy recovery that involves rebuilding.

Any word on when this will be available to play- either through additional invites or an open beta etc?

Run from FoB to EJ and then ask for a port- more likely to get one.

Fun start to 2026. Just going to note for the record I called a new ATH for BTC in the first half of this year in the Investing General thread :emoji_grin:

Me? I'm not advocating for anything one way or the other lol. Just pointing out that it's not like the "government" can just make your Bitcoin go poof in 3 years. Also, the government has a ton of authority over both you and your shit- that's what laws are.

Pretty sure this just brings BTC in line with normal bank accounts. CA can take custody of dormant bank funds after ~3 years. Also, CA doesn't automatically liquidate your BTC or anything. It basically just holds it in a trust for you- indefinitely. Same thing with cash from long-term...

Worth keeping in mind, IBIT doesn't behave like a normal stock where buying and selling alone push the price up and down. IBIT tracks BTC price, so you can have huge outflows of IBIT, yet the price actually increases because the price of BTC is going up. If you pay attention to IBIT...