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[Luddaverse @Luddaverse]

yes 🙌🏾

[Luddaverse @Luddaverse]

VAR is a plague on this #WorldCup

[Luddaverse @Luddaverse]

Everyday @YouTube gets worse & worse with AI slop :( they gotta get a handle on this junk

[Luddaverse @Luddaverse]

@elonmusk A society full of people with money they didn’t earn and nothing productive to do doesn’t sound like a good idea actually…when was the last time you met a rich kid who never worked a job and said to yourself, “wow, what a wonderful person he turned out to be.”..yeah me neither

[Luddaverse @Luddaverse]

He is risen, indeed!

[Luddaverse @Luddaverse]

“We need to build the Terafab, or we don’t have the chips…and uh we need the chips, so we’re gonna build the Terafab.” -@elonmusk

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Announcing TERAFAB: the next step towards becoming a galactic civilization https://t.co/xTA70LOU0e

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

Life pro tip. Not enough people talk about this. The secret to having a "fulfilling" life is doing new things. Radically doing new things. Consistently. Every day. New activities, people, goals, even something as simple as trying new foods. Life feels longer when you're a kid because every day is packed with almost infinite amount of new learning. As you get older, you've already acclimated to your environment, the new inputs stop, so your perception of time speeds up drastically. You fall into routine, which is a time accelerant. If you want to feel like you have a long infinite lifespan, like you did as a child, you MUST be having new experiences, which slows time down.

[Luddaverse @Luddaverse]

@AutismCapital EQOA was my first! If you know, you’re a real one

[Luddaverse @Luddaverse]

There is a situation that needs monitoring.

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@AutismCapital Bro they got different color eyes 👀

[Luddaverse @Luddaverse]

Truth bomb 💣

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am a senior vice president at a $68.7 billion gaming company.

Activision-Blizzard.

We have a 30-year-old franchise.

Warcraft.

Millions of players. A subscription model that prints $15 a month per user. A cash shop on top of the subscription. Paid expansions on top of the cash shop.

Our former creative director just told the press he wishes we hadn't called it "Warcraft."

He said the name sounds intimidating.

He helped create the name.

We ran focus groups. The focus groups said the brand needed to be "more approachable." We asked the focus groups if they played the game. They did not. We took their advice anyway.

Our VP told an interviewer we want players to experience "weddings, raids, and new adventures." She listed weddings first. Before raids. In a game called Warcraft. Nobody in the room flinched.

She also said "No one thinks the same about Warhammer."

She compared our franchise unfavorably to a competitor. On the record. As a defense of the franchise.

The forums are on fire. Twenty-year veterans are writing goodbye posts. One thread is titled "Think I'm done with WoW." Another calls our pre-patch a "player purge."

We called our GDKP raiders "delusional."

We timed a cash shop bundle to launch during the Trading Post anniversary -- the one event where players earn free cosmetics. We offered 200 discounted items but kept the monthly currency cap at 1,000. The math doesn't work unless you open your wallet.

The community noticed. We described their concerns as "feedback we're monitoring."

We are always monitoring. We have never once changed course because of monitoring.

The players say we're "Disneyfying" the game. Turning gritty into cute. War into weddings. Orcs into mascots.

They're not wrong.

The data says approachable properties have wider TAM. Total addressable market. That's the metric now. Not "subscribers who love the game." Not "community that built this franchise." TAM.

TAM doesn't post on forums. TAM doesn't write goodbye letters. TAM doesn't have 20 years of muscle memory and lore knowledge and raid nights that turned into real friendships.

TAM is a number in a slide deck that makes a board feel comfortable.

We added player housing. Players have asked for it since 2004. We launched it in 2026. Twenty-two years. We described this as "listening to our community."

We are very good at listening. Eventually. When the feature aligns with a monetization roadmap.

Here is what I know and cannot say in a meeting:

The name was never the problem. The name built this. The name survived server crashes and subscription drops and an activision merger and a harassment scandal and a $68.7 billion acquisition.

The name is "Warcraft" and for 30 years nobody was confused about what it meant.

The problem is not that new players find the name intimidating.

The problem is that old players are starting to find us unrecognizable.

And we don't have a focus group for that.

[Luddaverse @Luddaverse]

It was all a lie 😂 @Waymo - https://t.co/5bl29JJGRI

[Luddaverse @Luddaverse]

@entrylevel0 Hey dude..sorry only just seeing this! Yes, we are still in touch but now we live across the world from each other. Maybe one day the music will flow again :)

[Luddaverse @Luddaverse]

Ironically, the internet destroyed society. 📉

[Luddaverse @Luddaverse]

wow @AshesofCreation turned out to be a massive fraud…with incredible hype comes an incredible rug pull 😂

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@Drivethelane21 haha we used to call him Suga “Shane” back in the day when he used to stream CoD Warzone 😂

[Luddaverse @Luddaverse]

Let’s go Suga Shane ☘️🇺🇸 #UFC324

[autist @litteralyme0]

COVID-19 wasn't 3 years ago
It was 7 years ago

[Luddaverse @Luddaverse]

@elonmusk can you tell us if your bullshit alarm is going off? 🚨 #SolidState #Worldfirst

https://t.co/cB5WE19WpG

[Luddaverse @Luddaverse]

Bring @RealAlexJones back on @YouTube !

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5-7% of China’s energy imports were evaporated literally overnight. #Venezuela With the US Capture of #NicolasMaduro This is huge.