Matthew Simone | The Web3 Gamer

Host of the #1 Web3 Gaming Podcast 'The Web3 Gamer'

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[Matthew Simone | The Web3 Gamer @TheWeb3Gamer]

Hey everyone — Matthew here.

After a lot of thought, I’ve decided it’s time to say goodbye to The Web3 Gamer podcast.

When I started this show almost three years ago, it was never supposed to be anything big. It was just a hobby — I love gaming, I love learning about people, and I figured, “What a wild niche to try… why not?” Somehow, that small idea turned into something much larger than I ever expected.

My SEO was working overtime, the show kept climbing, and I kept hearing from guests that I was the #1 Google search result for Web3 gaming podcasts. The inbox never slowed down. There were weeks where I simply couldn’t keep up with the demand from founders, devs, creators, and studios wanting to be on the show. And honestly — if my plan had been to turn this into a full-time, profitable business, it likely could’ve gone that way.

But it was always just a fun passion project… nothing more.

Over the last few months, though, that spark faded. Recording started to feel less like a hobby and more like a chore. And if my heart isn’t in it anymore, that isn’t fair to listeners, and it isn’t fair to the amazing guests who trusted me with their stories.

So after nearly three years and 67 episodes, I think it’s time to call it.

If you ever tuned in, shared an episode, recommended a guest, or came on the show yourself — thank you. Truly. The Web3 gaming community showed up for me in ways I never imagined, and I’m grateful for every conversation, every DM, and every moment.

I’m not sure what my next creative project will be, but knowing myself… something will eventually find me.

For now — this is Matthew, signing off as The Web3 Gamer.

[Tim Soret @timsoret]

Make sure to take your daily dose of Japanese Twitter 20mg to remedy any effect caused by doom-scrolling.

[せっき～＠インディー スマホゲーム開発者 @seki_seki_seki]

Youtubeを見てると、
ＦＦ９の開発当時のスクウェアのゲーム会社風景が映ってたんだけど
フロアを覆い尽くす、レンダリングサーバーの大群😨

恐ろしい資金力！ って思った😂😂

[spring ✝ @TheNintendoGoof]

🚨 IN CASE YOU MISSED IT 🚨

Increase your Switch 2 download speeds by 2-5X instantly.

Go to System Settings ⟶
Internet ⟶
Select your network, change details ⟶

⚠️ TURN OFF IPv6 Connection
⚠️ Set MTU to 1500

Enjoy MASSIVE improvements.

Share for others.

[PelleCreepy @PelleCreepy]

this cartoon is from 1936. I legitimately thought that was a background painting until the rotation revealed it was a prop model. @fleischertoons never ceases to amaze to impress even after 90 years.

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

There is this guy on youtube name GAKHED who films his cats with a 1999 camcorder and in this time of brainrot and toxic internet it's the most calming and soothing thing i've seen.
This is what spring felt like as a kid. ❤️

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

That water clarity is an engineering decision, and the math behind it is wilder than the video.

Roman aqueducts ran on gravity alone. No pumps, no pressure systems. Engineers carved channels with a gradient so shallow it borders on absurd. The Pont du Gard in southern France drops 2.5 centimeters over 275 meters. That's roughly the thickness of a coin over the length of three football fields. They surveyed that accuracy with plumb lines and wooden leveling instruments.

The clarity you're seeing is a direct product of flow velocity. Too steep and the water erodes the channel walls, picks up sediment, turns brown. Too flat and it stagnates. Roman engineers targeted a slope of about 20 centimeters per kilometer, which kept the water moving fast enough to stay fresh but slow enough to stay clear. Before the water reached the city, it passed through multi-chamber settling tanks where velocity dropped near zero. Suspended particles sank. Clean water flowed out the top into the next chamber. Repeat three or four times.

Pliny specified the minimum slope in writing. Vitruvius published the exact mortar ratio for hydraulic cement: one part lime to two parts volcanic ash for underwater work. The pozzolana from Pozzuoli reacted with water to form a calcium-aluminum-silicate compound that actually gets stronger the longer it sits submerged. Modern concrete degrades in water. Roman concrete bonds with it.

Scale the whole system and it gets harder to process. Eleven aqueducts fed Rome at its peak. Combined output: roughly 1 million cubic meters of water per day. That works out to about 250 gallons per person for a city of one million. Modern New York delivers about 125 gallons per person per day. Ancient Rome had access to double the per capita water supply of the largest city in the United States, running entirely on slope and stone.

The Trevi Fountain in Rome is still fed by one of them. Two thousand years, same source, same gravity, same water.

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

A Japanese manga artist lost his entire Google account forever after he uploaded private files from an old comic he drew to Google Drive.

Google’s AI checked the files and flagged them as not allowed. He asked Google to review it again, but they rejected his appeal and banned the account immediately.

He can no longer access years of his private drawings and lost access to many websites and services that used his Google login.

The artist said this is very embarrassing and causes him a lot of trouble. He warned that it might not happen to people who always follow every rule, but others should be careful.

So Google is scanning files that people upload to its cloud storage even if they are supposed to be private. I wonder how long they have been doing this.

[Dios @Dios_0ficial]

-Hoy sí me voy a dormir temprano.

Yo a las 3 de la mañana viendo el campeonato mundial de geishas.

[haruka no yume【はるかのゆめ】 @haruka_no_yume]

🇯🇵 Tokyo from the mid 80s almost looks a dream but this is actually real. It's not AI but instead from Wim Wenders' "Tokyo-Ga" from 1985.

[パクトリ @l9a_w]

#AIのクソ動画が話題になってるので人間が作った動画を見よう

[✨Ｇｗａｒａｖｅｌ🐦‍🔥 @Gwaravel]

Peakborne mentioned

[cybercore @cybercxre]

Mood

[CyrilXBT @cyrilXBT]

A MIT professor gave a 1-hour lecture in 2019 that has 18 million views.

He died 5 months after recording it.

It was his final gift to the world.

Patrick Winston taught at MIT for 50 years.

The smartest engineers on earth sat in his classroom.

And he spent his last lecture teaching them the one skill their degrees never covered.

How to speak.

15 lessons that will change how you communicate forever:

Never open with a joke. Your audience is not ready to laugh yet. Open with a promise of what they will know by the end.

Your ideas are like your children. You are too close to them. What is obvious to you is invisible to everyone else. Explain the obvious.

The 5-minute rule: the first 5 minutes of any talk determine whether people will listen for the next 55. Spend more time on your opening than anything else.

Repeat your most important idea 3 times in 3 different ways. Once is never enough.

Build a fence around your idea. Tell people what it is NOT before you tell them what it IS.

Verbal punctuation. Pause. Let the idea land before moving to the next one.

Ask questions nobody will answer. Then wait 7 seconds. The silence is not awkward. It is processing.

Never read your slides. Your audience can read. They cannot listen and read simultaneously.

Use the board not the slides. Writing forces you to slow down. Slowing down forces clarity.

Inspire before you inform. Nobody learns from someone they are not inspired by.

End with a contribution not a summary. Tell them what you gave them. Not what you said.

Never say thank you at the end. It is weak. End with something that lands.

Stories make ideas stick. Data makes ideas understood. You need both. In that order.

The quality of your communication determines the quality of your ideas in the eyes of the world. Not the ideas themselves.

Practice is not preparation. Practice IS the skill.

Patrick Winston understood something most people spend their entire careers missing.

Your ideas are only as powerful as your ability to transfer them into someone else's mind.

You can be the smartest person in the room and be completely invisible.

Or you can master communication and make average ideas feel like breakthroughs.

He chose to spend his last lecture teaching this.

Watch it tonight.

Bookmark this first.

Follow @cyrilXBT for more lessons from the people who built the future.

[Matthew Simone | The Web3 Gamer @TheWeb3Gamer]

@amagicmantv PS5555555

[GermanStrands @GermanStrands]

Pretty sure Lies of P 2 is going to be something truly special. The first game was phenomenal and more people really should play it.

[Matthew Simone | The Web3 Gamer @TheWeb3Gamer]

@mouuhikona49328 PLEASEEEE

[KAMI @Okami13_]

It's hard to believe Demon's Souls remake will be Bluepoint's LAST game.

Should have been their first of many. Imagine releasing something this great only for your studio to get shut down.

[VideoArtGame @VideoArtGame]

Elden Ring for SNES

Artist: @64BitsAnimation