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Weโve lost the art of just being like โhey man that was kinda uncool.โ Everything has to be the biggest deal ever and people have to be groveling begging for forgiveness and apologizing profusely for every little thing. Sometimes a โyeah that was uncool my fault guysโ is enough
Happy Friday Everyone
Hereโs something a little different, recently received some new art from Pumpkinpaw of Loco in heโs cute Victorian Railways shirt. Doesnโt he look adorable? ๐ฅฐ
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I worked at Epic Games for two years. This is real, and the strategy behind it is smarter than most people realize.
Tim Sweeney has spent nearly two decades buying North Carolina forest land. 50,000+ acres across 15 counties. Heโs now one of the largest private landowners in the state. The purchases started in 2008, right after the real estate collapse wiped out developers who had been planning golf resorts and luxury communities on biodiverse wilderness.
Sweeney paid $15 million for Box Creek Wilderness, a 7,000-acre stretch in the Blue Ridge foothills containing 130+ rare and threatened species. Developers had owned 5,000 of those acres before the crash. He bought them for conservation prices when nobody else was bidding.
He runs the acquisitions through an LLC called โ130 of Chatham.โ He buys the land, holds it for years, then either donates it to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, sells it at a discount to state parks, or hands it to land trusts. In 2021, he donated 7,500 acres in the Roan Highlands to the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy. Largest private land donation in North Carolina history.
The part people miss: he told the News & Observer that since 2021, land got too expensive to keep buying. So he shifted focus to converting his existing 50,000 acres into permanent conservation status. Heโs locking the land into legal structures that make development impossible regardless of who owns it in the future.
A billionaire worth roughly $6 billion is spending tens of millions acquiring wilderness specifically during economic downturns, then giving it away or placing it under permanent legal protection. The land will outlast him, Epic Games, and Fortnite.
Thatโs the part that separates Sweeney from billionaires who write checks to get their name on a building. The building depreciates. The forest compounds.
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Okay, I might be losing itโor this island loves surprises. Found the oddest rock today, faintly glowingโฆ and no oneโs seen it before! Magic? Or just my impeccable sense of adventure? Either way, the next adventure feels enchanting ๐ฆ๐
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