Fluxty

Indie game dev

Owner @olimpocraftmc @minecade

Building the best network in Hytale @DespawnNetwork

[Fluxty @Fluxty]

It's counter-intuitive but this makes scalping WORSE, not better. They're reducing the supply of mint-condition sealed product, which will increase value and attract even more scalpers.

The whole reason scalpers exist is because there is a severe supply-demand imbalance ALREADY. If there are buyers at double, even triple MSRP, you can bet there will be someone on Earth willing to be a seller.

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@sama It's entirely possible for people to prefer a democratically elected government while sometimes democratically siding with unelected private companies.

After all, the people appointed by the democratically elected government are also unelected.

[Wuwy @ItsWuwy]

Haven't posted art in a while so here's BROWT!!

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I see, I understand better now. This is anthropocentrism but technically accurate. Since "AI art" is an oxymoron, people use the derogatory "slop" to describe it instead.

I'm not sure I totally agree, there is still a human designer prompting the AI with emotion and intent. You have a very conservative interpretation, similar to when painters said photographers aren't artists because they're simply taking pictures of the environment.

At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter. The demand for art will be supplied by whoever makes the best cost-adjusted art (cheap imitation or not). You may be right and it'll never be good enough to displace humans permanently.

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@TibayAron @TheShabunga @BarleyTheBurr Hey, genuinely curious - why do so many people have this view that AI art is a cheap imitation? And I'm assuming you mean that it is a cheap imitation of human art?

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@retracjnarat2 @Simon_Hypixel Good morning Tazza!

If you need help understanding my response, you can paste it into your favorite AI chat bot for a full breakdown.

P.S. We're all just trying to help make Hytale the best game possible. There's no need for all the hostility.

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Fair points, I deeply respect and relate to your passion. Hytale was essentially owned by Tencent at one point, so I can appreciate that you have firsthand experience with your baby being in the corporate machine.

But I think a REALLY important factor here is that you're building a UGC platform and creators need players/viewers. If you're content with reaching i.e. Stardew Valley level for profitability and not scaling to i.e. Roblox level that doesn't seem to serve creators?

Also, Roblox is not really burning money. They're just taking their massive (gross) profits and reinvesting it into R&D, data centers, etc. They could be profitable ~tomorrow if they stopped trying to grow. They are intentionally not profitable.

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@Simon_Hypixel Wait, why would you already have profits? Roblox doesn't have profits because they reinvest in growth.

Roblox also has over a billion in FCF. They booked nearly $7B in Robux last year. Any entrepreneur in their right mind would take their cash flow over an accounting profit.

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I think this is a bit TOO cynical.

Roblox pays their employees over $1B a year in stock based compensation - they're diluting their shareholders and shareholders aren't particularly happy about that.

If anything, Roblox is prioritizing their engineers/employees over the other stakeholders (creators, owners), which is much less black/white ethically.

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@VitalikButerin I think a potential issue with this idea is that it introduces insider trading.

Even if you hand-pick the initial creator set, it's difficult to prevent non-public coordination of the members and the DAO subsequently devolving into a cabal.

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@VitalikButerin Progress DVT😀

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@Simon_Hypixel Not as exciting as some others, but I got weapon/tool stats showing up in items! (Including in workbench & player inventories, not just a separate UI)

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@Windows @Simon_Hypixel Galaxy brain intern

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@DevSlashNulled Just finished our Survival server w/ anti-spawn camping setup @ https://t.co/NwrDuQH3k5 :)

Next step is to slowly evolve into full SMP!

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@slikey @DevSlashNulled It's really unbelievable what you guys have pulled off.

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Hytale is less than 3 hours away

3 hours til' we can spend hundreds of hours doing this

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https://t.co/CBzRGUPlFr will be the best place to play Hytale multiplayer on launch week.

[Despawn Network @DespawnNetwork]

Despawn is hosting a Day One Hytale Survival Server

• Enterprise grade hardware
• Team with 30+ years combined UGC experience

Ready for anything early-access throws at us🫡

🌐 IP: https://t.co/jJJVIQeBUU
🔖 Buying Hytale? Support w/ Creator Code: DESPAWN

#HytalePartner

[Fluxty @Fluxty]

Hytale is offering an unprecedented level of fairness to builders compared to the rest of the UGC space today.

This is stuff I only thought was possible in my wildest dreams, and I want to do everything I can to help make Hytale the greatest place for people to make and play games.

It's time to build on Hytale. And because our community loves and misses our games, we're starting there.

To everyone from our MC communities: Hytale is enabling us to reimagine everything we've built over the past decade. It's all coming back, and it's going to be bigger and better than ever, in Hytale.🫡

[Slikey @slikey]

Hytale Modding Strategy and Status Blog is live. Excited to hear what you think about vision we have for modding in Hytale. https://t.co/bUwsvdTaLk

[Simon @Simon_Hypixel]

We did it. Hytale is saved. We have acquired Hytale from Riot Games.

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@MoonOverlord I'm more skeptical. Those historic games had 10x+ the concurrency at launch. Arc Raiders is a bit under where Marvel Rivals was.

Further, this genre is very vulnerable to cheaters and player burnout. Hard for extraction shooters to get enough retention to achieve GOAT status.