#charlie vc: this is a great idea!

[hazbintales]

@radiosrequiem - ♡ starter with angel dust.

“ So like, I know we are out here to help Charlie but come on… She really expects you and I to be able to find some sinners dumb enough to come stay at the hotel? “ Angel started off as he walked beside Alastor. His eyes moved to look over at the radio demon as he moved a hand to rub at his head.

“ Believe me baby, no one is gonna just come with us. “

[radiosrequiem]

@hazbintales

#charlie vc: this is a great idea! #angel's vc behind her: this is a terrible idea

and Alastor's only going to prove Angel right, mark my words.

[ailtrahq]

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[shwirtz]

Making the leap!

I voluntarily chose to leave the senior, well-paying position at Lightricks, which I’ve had for over a year and a half.

To answer the immediate question: "so what's next, where to?" 

I’m betting on myself.

My goal is to remain independent and focus on doing what I love for stakeholders, clients, partners, and friends. As I've done before, the mantra once again is:

“Work with people I care about on projects I care about."

(read on to understand what this means)

Those who know me have seen me previously take periods of independent work in-between the more corporate roles I've had. I took some time between Viacom and Endemol, between Endemol and WeWork, and between WeWork and Lightricks.

And those who have known me even longer can also recall I’ve co-founded and led companies, projects and campaigns, I pursued side hustles and invented things… so being my own boss isn't new, but it's still a nervously-exciting type of chapter to kick off.

All such periods have energized me, brought me to new learnings, new friendships, and propelled forward my professional skills, experiences and rolodex. If and when I chose to go back to a "normal" job, I'll be doing so with new insights, expanded relationships, and fresh strategies.

There’s nothing wrong with 'corporate life' but sometimes you can get stuck in a funk, gaslit into thinking the way that company works is how they all work, or how things should work. Experiencing a wider variety of projects is a valuable reset and growth opportunity.

Not less important is being a better father and husband, while devoting more time to self-care and my own mental health.

Wrapping up my time at Lightricks, I'm very proud to have brought the brand to new heights of awareness through a vast upgrade in social media sophistication (killer team… Dana, Guy, Charlee, Shani, Michal), a comprehensive approach to influencer/talent partnerships (best-in-class collaborators… Margot, Ryan, Limor, Callina) and a series of experiments and iterations across community, original content, and experiential marketing.

During my work I got to architect possibly the biggest influencer deal in Israeli history, with the D'Amelios taking an equity stake and becoming broad-based ambassadors for the company (over 500 posts made in the year, driving over $50M EMV, great collaboration with Greg and Ali). We pulled off a huge activation at Vidcon (with Charli D'Amelio, Marc D'Amelio and Brandon Baum) and won "best creator lounge" (thanks Omri and Erin!) And we got to work with some insane people… like MrBeast, Maye Musk, Jordan Rudess, Lorena Pages, Kiersay and more (thanks to Regev and Leslie for your help).

Looking forward, I can best break down my areas of focus like this:

Talent / Creators / Influencers / Celebrities -

Mentoring talent at key milestones of their journey, such as building out a team, expanding beyond their core platform, evolving into media companies and businesses, widening monetization options, and insuring they don't get screwed. (inspired by the work being done by Christen and Sherry, among others)

Startups and beyond -

Consulting for companies operating in or building for the creator ecosystem - concept validation for startups, biz dev and intros for those further along, brand building and storytelling, content marketing operations, 'requests for proposal' processes and overall assistance with sourcing the right PR, social, ghost writing and other services. Special focus on working with companies putting money in creators' pockets.

VCs and investors -

Helping vet ideas, bringing deal-flow to the table, acting as an operator within portfolios to bring value from my experiences, relationships and capabilities. This can work several ways, acting as a bridge to American VCs and partners for Israeli companies (there are few folks in Israel as well-connected and experienced with the American Media & Entertainment industries as me… looking at you, Omri, Eyal and Gil) and/or bringing deal-flow to Americans from the insane amount of entrepreneurs operating in Israel.

Israel -

Bringing Israeli culture and business to the world through continued work with Birthright Israel on innovation initiatives (thanks to Renat, Shay, and Gidi). I'm also pursuing a collaboration to bring top-tier VIPs and influencers to Israel, not just for amazing tourist experiences but also for connections and partnerships with local businesses, non-profits, artists, entrepreneurs, VCs, and more. If you're thinking about visiting Israel, definitely reach out and I can help craft the agenda, set up meetings, and advise (for free)… it’s been amazing to see visiting friends like Joanna, Lauren and Greg.

If any of the above resonates with you, and even if it doesn't, be in touch!!!

Endless gratitude to my super-connector friends who are always there for bouncing ideas and expanding the pie, Amanda, Debbie, Sharon, Liat, Weston, Israel, Eran, Dan, Gregory, Paul and others.

[raindownforme]

When

Charlie Slimecicle x reader [they/them used]

They stared at the box in front of them. In it was a camera that would easily hook up to their computer. It would easily record with OBS. It would easily reveal what they looked like to thousands of people, including their closest friends.

“You don’t have to you know.”

“I know Wilbur. I mean I want to.”

“Then why not?”

“What if they’re disappointed?” y/n poked at the box. “What if they thought my eyes would be a different shape and my nose would be smaller or my hair was a different length or color-“

“You don’t have to worry about that. You look like you. That’s all.”

“Yeah but they don’t know what me looks like. They just see the animated icon and they’re used to it.”

“You don’t have to start fast. You could do a little bit at a time. You could show, I don’t know, me, or Phil, or Niki first.”

y/n sighed and turned back to their monitors. One had discord pulled up, where they were in a call with Wilbur, one had a paused spotify playlist, and one had the instructions for installing the camera. “I could start with you.”

They could hear Wilbur clapping on the line. “Yeah! Let’s get it goin!”

The two kept talking as y/n installed the camera. Not before long it was ready to go.

“Okay. All you have to do is turn it on. Here I’ll do mine.” Wilbur’s face flickered to life on the front monitor.

“Okay. Just a second.” They looked at the mirror next to their desk and frowned. Maybe they could’ve done their hair a bit different. Or they could’ve worn a different shirt. Maybe some mascara? Would that be what Wilbur was expecting?

“Come on! I’m excited now.”

y/n nodded and pressed it on. They stared at the monitor, watching their face show up. Wilbur gasped a bit and stared at it. “What? Is it alright?”

“I owe Charlie money. He said your eyes would be a different color.” y/n felt their face flush and looked down at their keyboard. Wilbur laughed and smiled at them. “I can see you get embarrassed! Oh this is so cool!”

“I’m gonna turn this shit off.”

“No no! Keep it I like it. Here wait smile.” They smiled at him and he cheered again. “That is exactly how I thought you’d smile! Oh I’m so good at this.”

They both laughed together, but stopped when a ringing noise came through discord. Tommy and Tubbo were calling. “Wilbur, I-“

“Hey, it’s okay.” The ringing kept going. “If you’re not ready you can turn it off. If you are then we pick up. Which is it?”

y/n paused, holding their breath, then picked up the call. Everyone’s icons came onto the screen, then they all slowly turned the cameras on.

“Sorry didn’t realize we’d have- wait who’s that.” Tubbo moved closer to his screen, as If studying what he was looking at.

“Is that y/n?” Tommy stared wide-eyed as they nodded. He began cheering as did Tubbo. “FUCK YEAH! FUCKING POGGERS- sorry mum. What-“

Tommy walked off from his chair and y/n laughed at him. They looked up at Tubbo and saw him smiling. “What?”

“That’s not how I thought you’d look at all! Does anyone else know?”

“No just you three. I had just showed Wilbur when you two showed up.”

“We should show Philza! Or Niki! She would love to see this.”

“y/n doesn’t have to show anyone they don’t want to.” Wilbur’s voice was cautionary, but they just shrugged.

“Maybe it would be alright. We should start with Niki.”

“Yeahhhhh!!” Tommy cheered as Wilbur went to ring her. It only rang a few times before Niki joined. She turned her camera on and began talking about something or other, but paused and looked back at discord.

“Who’s on y/n’s account?”

“I am.”

“Oh. Oh! y/n......” She dragged out the name as she stared on. “Awe, you’re cute! I love it.”

“Right? I wasn’t expecting it but look!” Wilbur gestures to his screen with an exaggerated smile.

“Philza’s next right? Let’s get him on!”Tommy seemed overly enthusiastic for the reveal to the group father figure, but y/n was excited too.

“Do it! I wanna know what he thinks.”

It rang for about a minute before Philza answered. He didn’t turn on his camera though. He sat there in silence.

“Phil? You there?” Tommy leaned in closer to the camera.

“y/n? Is that what y/n looks like?”

“Hey Phil!”

“Oh my god! Wait can I show Kristin?”

“Of course!”

He called his wife into the room and everyone heard her gasp. “Oh you’re so pretty y/n.”

“Philza I’m going to steal your wife.”

“Okay that’s enough.” Kristen chuckled as Philza took the headset back. “Maybe I don’t get divorced today.”

The group laughed and fell into a comfortable silence. y/n wasn’t sure what to do. “It’s weird being able to like. Smile at you guys and stuff.”

“I’m sure you’ll get used to it. It’s like face time. You can leave it on when you play games or you’re streaming, and only we can see if it help you get adjusted.”

“Yeah!!! You get used to us you get used to everyone.” y/n laughed at tubbo’s excitement.

Tommy rubbed his hands together. “Who we showing next? Charlie?”

y/n tried to keep her composure but still felt her face fall a bit. The idea of showing Charlie was terrifying. Probably more so than showing her audience. Charlie had no idea what they looked like, but they knew what Charlie looked like. They knew his laugh and his smile and that they absolutely adored it. But if Charlie saw what they looked like? What their smile looked like and their laugh? Their eyes and their nose and everything else, would he like it? Would he treat them the same?

“y/n?” They snapped their head up at Wilbur’s voice. “Are you okay?”

“Yep!” They forced a fake smile and Wilbur frowned.

“Is there a problem with showing Charlie?”

They didn’t want to talk about this in front of everyone. Having a crush on Charlie was one thing. They’d had feelings for him for a long time now. But they hadn’t admitted to it. Ever. “I think I’m alright with just you guys for now.”

“That sucks. He just asked to call.” Tommy was glancing away at other monitors.

y/n stared blankly at the computer in front of themself. “You guys go ahead I think I’m gonna go.”

“You sure?”

“Yeah. I’ll come back on in a bit and play. I just need to do a few things.”

Wilbur furrowed his brow. “Alright. I’ll see you in a bit then.”

y/n nodded and their face disappeared from the screen. It was quickly replaced by Charlie’s.

“Hey goofy gamers what’s up?” He smiled as he turned on his face cam, but was only met by a crowd of confused or disappointed looking people.

“y/n was on just now.”

“What they were?” Charlie sat up quickly and smoothed his hair down, blushing horribly. “I- are they coming back or-? What were you-? Wait, why-?”

“She bought a camera and did a face reveal for us.” Wilbur fiddled with a pen between his fingers.

“Oh that’s so cool! Tell me what they look like! Are they pretty? Wait, are you allowed to tell me? Did I win my bet?”

“You won your bet. Charlie I think they’re afraid to show you.”

“Why? I’m gonna love them no matter what it is.” Everyone froze as the gears clicked in Charlie’s head. Tommy and Tubbo, the children the are, did a terrible job at trying to not laugh at Charlie. “Love it! Their face! I bet it looks great I’ll love their face! Wait that’s just as-“

“You have crush! You have a crush!” Tommy started yelling as Charlie tried to gesture at him to shut up. “You love y/n! I’m gonna tell them!”

“Listen I will fly across this goddamn ocean and kill you-“

“I think it’s cute.” Phil tried to speak up over the sound of the children.

“Me too! If anything they like you too.”

Charlie paused and stared at the monitor, his face growing redder by the second. “They do?”

Wilbur nodded. “Charlie, trust me they do.”

He smiled to himself. “Uh. We should- uhm. Minecraft gamer time.”

“Charlie? Are you-“

“Processing.” He cut Wilbur short. “Planning. Proceeding. Gamer.”

“Gamer.” Tommy echoed the flustered boy.

“Gamer.” Charlie booted up the Minecraft world and examined his wooden house. He bounced his game character over to y/n’s house. When they had joined the game they had picked to be a shulk, so they lived in a dug out home near the Pube.

Charlie’s character ran into the cave home. It was quite lovely for what it was; wooden floors with support beams and plants everywhere. There were pots on the floors and on the shelves and vines from the ceiling. As he looked around the room he felt the gears clicking in his head. Knowing exactly what to do.

A few hours later, y/n signed back into discord. They could see a few people being active in solo vc’s, including Charlie. They did their best to ignore it, simply moving on to open Mojang. They logged themself into the Origins SMP server and checked around where they were. They had last logged off in Wilbur’s house, so they were very ready to move around when they got a set of private messages from Charlie.

Are you streaming?

y/n didn’t hesitate in saying no. It was an honest response. They had only logged on today in the hopes of grinding towards gathering ores and other basic needs. But if Charlie needed something, who were they to say no?

Can you meet me at your house?

y/n responded and went on their way towards the familiar cave. It wasn’t a long walk. They were there soon and were greeted by a closed door and a sign telling them to join Charlie’s VC.

“Hello? Charlie?”

Looking over at discord, they watched as Charlie’s camera turned on. He was sitting in his streaming room wearing a blue button-down shirt with short sleeves. “Hey, uhm, so, I wanted to say something before you go in your house.”

“If I go in will you be there?”

“Well yeah but-“ y/n opened the door and gasped. The entirety of their floor was made into grass and there were flowers blooming everywhere. Every single floor block had been made grass, actually.

“Charlie, how did you do this?”

“Well, bonemeal, and some Ranboo help.”

“Charlie, it’s gorgeous. Aww, and the flowers…” They just now noticed that most of the flowers in the room were their favorite - blue cornflowers.

“Yeah! I just,” Charlie took a deep breath. “I wanted to say that I know you don’t think I want to see you or that I wouldn’t like what I see, but I know that I would feel the same way about you as I did this morning, or yesterday, or four months ago. Because it’s you, and I’ll always feel the way I feel about you. But, until you feel comfortable, I’ll be here. waiting.”

They sighed, making sure their camera was plugged in before they turned it on. “Charlie, this is the sweetest thing.”

“Oh fuck.”

The two of them seemed to freeze. Charlie looked mortified, his face pink as can be, while y/n looked incredibly confused. “I’m sorry, what-?”

“No no no you’re just really pretty.” The words spilled from Charlie’s mouth faster than they’d ever been. “Like gorgeous. Top tier. 10/10. On God. Have I told you I’m in love with you-? Your face! In love with your face! Please tell me this is going well.”

y/n giggled. “So you’re in love with me now?”

Charlie sputtered, stumbling over his words. “No-! Maybe, I- that’s not what I meant-“

“Charlie it’s okay.”

He paused, pointing at his own chest. “You? Me you? You do? Me?” y/n nodded and watched as Charlie threw himself backwards cheering. “SHIT-“

“Charlie?”

“Yes! Yes I’m here I’m here for all of this. Oh my god I’m so happy.” y/n watched Charlie’s Minecraft character dance around and jump. “Oh my god. Oh my god! Wait does this mean I can meet you now? If I meet you can I kiss you? Please?”

“When I meet you, you can kiss me all you want.”

“When? When!” They watched Charlie’s camera as he got up and danced around. He stopped and dashed back to the camera, getting absurdly close. “I love you. I can’t wait for when.”

[breadknight-likes-things]

Bread’s Game Journal 07/05/20: Westfall Was Probably A Nice Place To Live.

Westfall is unique among most Alliance zones in World of Warcraft, in that I have a pretty fond connection to it, even though I spend probably 70% of my total time in WoW playing Horde characters!  Of course back in the day there was reason for Horde characters to take a trip to Westfall, to take part in the iconic “Dead Mines” instance.  Now though, there’s really nothing there for The Horde player, but the charm of the zone remains and any time I level an Alliance character (as I am doing now) I always make sure to at least do some of the quests in Westfall!

Notably, as far as I remember, Westfall was unique in the early goings of World of Warcraft for having a real zone storyline to follow along with when most others in the game simply didn’t.  It was a place that had been through a lot, but had, after a long period of instability, finally found a common sense of peace and something to work towards.  That would be shattered handily when the Defias Brotherhood moved in and took control, led by the smarmy heel “Edwin Van Cleef”.  Now granted, a lot of this was buried in quest text, obscure lore dumps and other sources both inside and outside the game, but it was so much more than what most zones could say.

Westfall is one of two early alliance zones that has something of an “Eternal Autumn” feel to it.  I guess someone at Blizzard really liked that concept and ran with it (ran straight into making two of the best zones in WoW, that is)

Early WoW had a lot of great zones, and I really do mean that, but at the same time many of them just had nothing going for them and nothing to do in them.  Westfall almost seemed like a crazy outlier.  It had a whole story about these bandits, it had a genuinely unique vibe to it as Stormwinds breadbasket overrun by threats, it even had one of the best instances in the entire game (which, for many players, was their first instance at all!).  The zone itself had this sort of “Amber waves of grain” sensibility to it that made it stand out among the other handful of Stormwind Centric alliance zones (which, lets be real, every race converged on, nobody was leveling in Darkshore or Loch Modan).

Gnolls were a problem, sure, as were vultures and wild boars and all sorts of beasts you’d expect, but Westfall is also full of some truly weird stuff to fight.  Harvest Golems, hulking robot men meant to take in the harvest have gone haywire like Charlie The Robot from Scooby-Doo and are attacking the farmers.  Roving bands of classical style hobos are taking anything not nailed down.  My favorite though, are the weird, Goonies esque pirates to be found in The Dead Mines.  The fact the outlaw bandit troupe had their headquarters in a secret underground dock, where they hid their pirate ship, is some truly tropey fun to be in this place.

By the time of World of Warcraft, there isn’t a whole lot of civilization left in Westfall, hell, Moonbrook here is almost just an extremely elaborate set dressing for the hidden entrance into The Dead Mines.

Westfall is still fun today, Blizzard really took the old Defias story line and ran with it when they were creating the new slate of quests for Cataclysm.  With everything from secret daughters to a resurgent pirate crew complicating an already complicated web of assassins and liars.  If you’re leveling an Alliance character, whether on retail or WoW Classic, I assure you Westfall is a great place to visit....maybe just don’t set down roots.  At least not until they finally get those harvest golems under control!

Random Screenshot Of The Day:

Wondering how that pirate ship even got into that cave?  Oddly, you’ll find the answer in nearby Stranglethorn Vale!  It’s very easy to find this today, but solving this mystery back during Vanilla WoW felt like a real adventure! 

Stray Notes:

- Remember when we all called Deadmines “VC” for short, because somehow the consensus came down that “DM” would be used for Dire Maul, so Dead Mines needed a new shorthand?  Online communities were weird in 2005.

- I think the killing of Van Cleef is more or less the only time WoW has ever acknowledged the cycle of violence involved in cutting off a dudes head for a quest reward.

- So, I intended this to be a one off post to fill some time, but in writing it I think I maybe cooked up a couple new series ideas....stay tuned, this might turn into something.

[joeyhqs]

Besides the few musicals he had done when he was younger, Joey never really had been part of a musical as big as this one. Of course it was just a summer musical, he probably shouldn’t take it as a big deal, but he was still nervous about his audition – even if one of his dads was the director, he still had to work hard to get a part and that’s exactly what he did. Joey knew the difference between the movie and the musical, but he always had preferred the movies and after a night of binge watching both of the movies, he had decided to audition and he knew exactly who he was going to audition for – Harry Bright.

Apparently auditioning for a musical was more work than Joey had originally thought. Not only he had to pick a song, he had to dance and act a monologue. Obviously, he wasn’t worried about the dancing part, since the dance classes he had when he was a kid had helped him improve his dancing, and after he joined the Cheerios, dancing was just part of his life. Picking the song was the hardest for Joey; especially since he had no idea what to sing. At first, he even considered singing one of the songs from the musical, but changed his mind when he was scrolling on Spotify in one of those Broadway playlists and finally found the song he was going to sing – Popular, from WICKED. It was the perfect song for him, especially because he could relate to the lyrics. He was popular, after all!

As for the dance part, Joey wasn’t as worried for that part, but he still had to practice, since it had to be perfect. He decided what he was using for his dance number when he was watching Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again! (2018) and his favorite scene came on – the scene where the younger versions of Harry and Donna sing and dance along to Waterloo and it was perfect, especially because Harry was the one singing it. Since he had watched the movie for the first time, that scene had been stuck on his head, so he thought it would be a great idea – but he was going to need a dance partner. Joey had thought about asking Lemon, but since she was the choreographer for the whole musical, he decided to ask Leia Evans instead. They were on the Cheerios together and they were good friends too, so Joey was thrilled when she said she would help him.

The monologue part of the audition was the hardest for Joey, especially because he didn’t have a lot of experience with acting, but since both of his dads were connected to Broadway somehow, he thought that it couldn’t hurt to ask them for help and the last thing he expected was to end up doing a monologue from “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown”. Joey didn’t even know that Charlie Brown had a musical until that very moment but after reading the monologue that his dads had recommended, Joey decided it was actually a good choice.

Finally, the day of his audition had arrived and Joey was nervous as anyone could be when you’re auditioning for a musical. He usually wasn’t nervous when it came to performing in front of people, but this was different, at least that’s what he thought. When he finally heard: Joseph Hummel-Anderson, he slowly made his way towards the stage and stood in front of the microphone, giving a small smile at the people in the audience. “Right, hi. My name is Joey Hummel-Anderson and I will be auditioning for the part of Harry Bright, but I’ll gladly take any other role! I will be singing Popular, from the musical WICKED” He said, before looking over at the man in the piano, nodding at him to show that he was ready. And so he started playing.

“Whenever I see someone less fortunate than I, and let’s face it, who isn’t less fortunate than I?” Joey started singing, positive that he wasn’t going to mess things up. Even if he didn’t have the habit of singing unless it was in the shower, Joey was confident with his voice. He wasn’t the best singer at that school, but he wouldn’t admit that to anyone, especially not to the people in Glee Club. As he kept singing, Joey actually thought it was easier than he had initially thought and since he was more comfortable on stage now, it almost seemed like he was talking with the small audience that were on the side, but singing. If that’s even possible, he thought. “You'll be popular, just not quite as popular as me!” He finished the song and took a deep breath, smiling and nodding at the people on the other side. “Thank you.” He said.

Now it was time for his favorite part, or at least what he thought would be the best part, especially because he did have fun singing that song. Making his way quickly to grab Leia’s hand and basically drag her onto the stage, Joey smiled over at the girl and nodded. “Ready?” He whispered to her and once she said she was ready, Joey nodded over at the band and once the music started playing, Joey immediately started dancing with Leia, basically recreating the scene from Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again!, except this time there were only Joey and Leia on the stage dancing. They had prepared an entire choreography for this audition and Joey couldn’t be happier by the way it went, mouthing the words of the song as he danced along with Leia. Once the song was over, Joey was out of breath but took a bow, smiling over at Leia as she made her way out of the stage.

Finally, the monologue part had arrived. If Joey were being honest, he usually didn’t read a lot, so reading the entire monologue, even if it wasn’t that long, was hard for him. But he still read it over and over again and when the day finally came, he felt like he was ready for it. “I will be acting a scene from the musical ‘You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown’” He said with a smile, before he started reciting the monologue. “I think lunchtime is about the worst time of day for me. Always having to sit here alone. Of course, sometimes, mornings aren’t so pleasant either. Waking up and wondering if anyone would really miss me if I never got out of bed. Then there’s the night, too. Lying there and thinking about all the stupid things I’ve done during the day. And all those hours in between when I do all those stupid things. Well, lunchtime is among the worst times of the day for me. “ He kept reciting the monologue, trying to give some of the best acting he could possibly do. Once he was done, he turned to everyone on the other side with a smile, bowing yet again. “Uh, yeah. Thank you!” He said and before anyone could say anything to him, he was already out of the stage, a big smile on his face. He totally nailed it.

[ryleeames]

josephine skriver. cis female. she/her. ／  rylee ames just pulled up blasting we dont have to dance by andy black — that song is so them! you know, for a twenty-three year old beauty youtuber/singer  i’ve heard they’re really closed off, but that they make up for it by being so kind. if i had to choose three things to describe them, i’d probably say blacked ripped jeans, oversized band shirts, and flawless make up. here’s to hoping they don’t cause too much trouble! (charlie/ 25 / NZTS ) vc: kelsea ballerini/haley stenfield

righty-o lads, don’t act suprised but new bae to the world. welcome to the world rylee and you know the drill. queue her bio and if you wanna plot great successful things, hit me up in the dm’s and lets plot great and successful things

right, rylee is the sister of leo { cause i’m a sucker for some sibling love }

she is a very closed off and reserved but once she got close to people, you couldn’t shut her up. 

she also is hella good at piano, like when she was younger. it was her thing! like if you asked her to lay the piano, she would be straight in there for the kill and be super into it. 

however, after the night her mother died in the car crash. rylee hadn’t gone near a piano, she actually hates the piano and refuses to touch it because she believes that if they weren’t in that car going because of her - her mother would still be alive. 

this had put a MASSIVE strain on her and leo’s relationship as siblings and personally, she doesn’t blame him her hating her - she hates herself because of it as well. 

however, she had discovered the land of youtube and decided to put her creative energy into something else - learning make up. so she began to film makeup tutorials, get ready with me videos, try on hauls of clothes and anything you could name. she had filmed it.

her channel had seen some success, gaining over 100k within the first few months of it being live and active. this BLEW rylee away, she didn’t think that she would draw so much attention to herself. so ideally.. she kept putting her creative energy into the piano

, however, with the success of her main channel; she decided to put up a side channel for vlogs and showing her life outside of beauty. also, putting up some clips of her singing. this had attracted quite a few offers but then this gave her the chance to record a music video with the chainsmokers called this feeling. 

this song WAS MASSIVE she got to do some performances on tv and it was a pretty massive song. it had lead lot of footwork and views on her youtube channel skyrocketed to the point she had gained 19 million subscribers on youtube - like yikes

however, she had let herself learn how to love. she had fell in love with alek. she thought he was the most amazing person to exist on the earth. they had gotten engaged after six months of dating that she had gotten freaked out on how fast everything was going. she had called off the engagement. 

however, like EVERY booty guru beauty guru she had her own side hustle. she had made a few makeup palettes’s to test the waters on how they would be received and they were received very well, so she decided to open an online business/shop. [ business name pattern pending ]

the business took off very very quick with alot of things selling out quite quickly. the palettes soon expanded to rylee releasing liquid lipsticks, eyelashes, makeup brushes, small things [ eg. hair tyes, make up bags ] and highlighters. 

every once and awhile she does release new songs on her channel along with make up tutorials. 

well this is my sweet child rylee, if you wanna plot with her. slid into the dms, hit me up and we can discuss things. i’m usually pretty down for anythinggg and everything [ angst, drama, fluff, friendship you name it, i’m down ] so no ideas a silly idea!!

[autumndear]

hello hello !! it’s lucky back at it again !! i j wanna preface this by saying my last intro was compared to drunk history and i was also asked if i was drunk when i wrote it ( but in the nicest way y’all ). i wasn’t that time. i’m still not that drunk, but ya girl a little tipsy. there’s the answer 2 future questions. ONTO THE SHIT THAT MATTERS:

disclaimer: honestly everyone involved in mommie dearest ( 1978 / 1981 ) cld totally sue me for this.

background.

triggers: child abuse, mention of illness and death, brief mention of infidelity

ya girl is too invested in classic era hollywood and she hates herself for it so that said autumn’s mother, not based off of joan crawford just set in a slightly different time period, was pretty much considered one of the last greats. as a part of the patty duke/sharon tate/etc. generation when paparazzi were just beginning to get involved in personal live ( we stan elizabeth taylor for this ), she was pretty much... as i said... one of the last classic actresses

and she KNEW IT!!

irene caeden was a hoe for publicity. although never confirmed nor denied, autumn has always highly suspected the only reason irene adopted her was to make her look good.

autumn was made to call irene “Momma Hen” what do u mean mommie dearest?

that said, irene wasn’t... a good mom... honestly at the beginning, her intentions were pure. however, as autumn began growing up and learning how to be more resistant, irene began worsening her punishments

“y’ain’t gonna keep racing me until u win?? ok ig i can lock u up if u want me too....”

“y’ain’t gonna keep playing this game of strategy against me until u win?? ok ig i can force u 2 stay up all night and day staring at that board not sleeping with a surveillance camera placed right by u.”

“y’ain’t gonna finish ur meal? fine. starve.”

irene could have the best night of her life. she could win an oscar for best lead/best supporting and just be in a total state of euphoria which would pass to autumn. then she would find one thing wrong in autumn’s room in an attempt to reminisce and all hell would break loose.

that’s when the abuse that one typically associates the word with begins – when all hell breaks loose after reminiscing. 

then her mother would grow irrationally paranoid over something that didn’t exist – usually a stain because we’re not original – and would force autumn to work on it with her. she cleaned her rooms perfectly. there was no stain. but she helped her mother, now vulnerable for some reason, nonetheless.

their best moments of connection were when irene was putting autumn through hell, because she was going through her own.

that’s fucked!!

naturally, the older she got, the worse their battles became.

when she graduated high school, she was proposed to by a young man named charlie (i accidentally called him mark once in the biography oh my god i hate myself). she planned to move in with him and begin studying away from home. 

irene didn’t like this plan. she made sure a tempting young woman introduced herself to charlie and and proceeded to seduce him.

charlie took the bait.

when autumn and charlie broke everything off, her mother reminded her that she always knew best!! (ok to be fair... he did cheat ok we’ll give her that even if she set it up he still cheated by his own volition) 

still, autumn wanted to leave the horrible environment, the only good people in her life being the live-in maid and nanny. unfortunately, irene is a very good actress.

irene told autumn that she had been dropped by her studio and that her contract had been lifted – that she was back where she started and didn’t know where to go, financially or career-wise. 

ultimately, she manipulated autumn into staying.

their battles continued to grow up until irene fell fatally ill. autumn took a sort of sadistic pleasure in watching her mom slowly deteriorate,,, and tbh she hated herself for it but,,,

their shared fear made them connect over it.

when she died, autumn was essentially the only person at the funeral who knew her for her. irene had always complained about people loving the idea of her, but not her – the only valid complaint she’d ever made. autumn wished she could’ve been that person, but she was essentially just like every other person there.

when she learned she’d literally inherited zero (0) in the will except for an acknowledgement of all the ‘lessons’ irene had taught her, she decided she would get the last word by writing a tell-all mommie dearest who.

following the book’s success, she decided she didn’t want to live a life of fame and harassment. she moved to boot hill and thought she could become a brand new person!!

-kathy bates vc- LIIIIEEES -end vc-

-marina and the diamonds vc- liiiEEEeesssss -end vc-

working at the funeral home (we stan) reminded her of her past, present, and future. 

marrying the local pastor, a horrible match for her, echoed charlie.

having to be the stern parent of three children reminded her of her own mother.

AND BOY HOWDY THERE IS NOTHING SHE FEARS MORE THAN WINDING UP LIKE HER MOTHER!!

ofc she’s convinced if she ever even shows signs, the one good thing about her marriage to gabe is that he would intervene.

wow i should be ernest hemingway my intros are so much... less drunk sounding than they are when i’m 110% sober.

personality.

wine mom. lives for the gossip. basically helen lovejoy from the simpsons.

a lot more serious than ophelia (in part bc she’s never high lbr). she generally understands situations much better and actually... gauges them appropriately.

has a compassionate side. although she’s largely rational, she is quick to recognize emotion and act. 

has to be the stern parent out of her and gabe. she doesn’t know why they continue having children. they have no passion and she’s afraid she’ll wind up being like her mother.

sad bitch bad bitch (tbh ophelia too but)

honestly the epitome of almost every single lily allen song.

we stan.

wanted connections.

considering i can only come up with unique connections when i have a theme going (like classic movie lines for ophelia’s), i can’t think of anything very unique, but:

someone she cheats on gabe with (gender doesn’t matter)

friends?

people she gossips with/wine buddies

???????

STAY TUNED!!

and then we also love brainstorming.

N E WAY. LIKE THIS OR HMU IF U WOULD LIKE 2 PLOT !!

[disneyloading498]

Harem Atari 2600

Atari 2600 Complete Game List

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Atari 2600 Complete Game List

In short: if you're looking for an ordinary Atari 2600 ROM set, look elsewhere. It can be found almost everywhere on the Internet without too many problems. If you're looking for the most genuine and best documented Atari 2600 ROM collection in the world, then look. Welcome to the all new 'The What Are We Fighting Four'. One part Let's Play, one part podcast. The What Are We Fighting Four is Travis, Joan, Josh, and TV Di.

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Adventures of Max

Little is known about this title other than it was part of the game development deal Atari made with Axlon during the late 80's. According the former Atari programmer Steve DeFrisco

'This was one of the “Designed by Nolan” games, which was never finished. It was to be set in Medieval times, the player is a knight with a sword. That’s pretty much all we had. John moved on to another company and the game was never finished. The opening sequence of the character running and jumping into the hole, and falling to the bottom worked, but that’s it.'

Bagman

This port of the 1982 Stern coin-op was programmed by Steve Hostetler for Atari. According to Steve he was almost finished with the game when they laid him off. Steve sent all his materials back to Atari after he was laid off, and it is unknown what happened to them.

Ballblazer

Previously thought to be only a rumor, programmer Tod Frye recently confirmed that this game was indeed once in development. Although the technically challenged 2600 was woefully underpowered to produce the split screen scrolling required by Ballblazer, Tod apparently had a demo up and running (various reports put it somewhere between 30% and 60% complete). The whereabouts of this demo are currently unknown.

Battle of the Sexes

Developed by Michael Case for Multivision. Multivision president Eugene Finkei talked about this game in the October 1983 issue of Videogaming and Computergaming Illustrated: 'Battle of the Sexes is played simultaneously by 2 players. It's very innocent. Each player has surrogate partners scrolling across the screen. Each player must score with as many surrogates as possible while trying to knock out the surrogates of the other partner. There are different skill levels & variations: it can be played by 2 guys with girls scrolling across the screen or by women with men scrolling across the screen. To score, the player directs the figure to bounce together with the surrogate for a fraction of a second. No genitalia. And you don't shoot the other's surrogates, you merely get them out of the way.' This title was long thought not to have even been started, but the programmer recently confirmed in a 2007 interview with Digital Press that the game was actually completely finished: 'Battle of the Sexes involved male and female figures coming together from the top and bottom of the screen, to either shoot each other or screw each other. The owners kept the only copy. It wasn't as good (as Harem). It was basically like Pong. I knocked it out in a few weeks so we could say we had two games when we approached distributors.' The whereabouts of the one and only prototype are currently unknown.

Bird Programmed by David Lamkins, after he departed Parker Brothers for Activision. David worked in Activision's short-lived Boston office. During that time, he worked on a 'bird game' which was never published. He discussed the game in a 2002 article that appeared in issue #74 of the Atari 2600 Connection: 'I spent my time at Activision working on a 2600 game I called Bird. I’ve heard that Rex (Bradford) later described it as “a pterodactyl on a bombing run”, which is pretty good as a brief description. My inspiration for Bird came party from the Heavy Metal movie (the scenes with the girl riding the bird into battle), and partly from Activision’s Battlezone clone, Robot Tank (the point-of-view perspective of the playing field). The player piloted a bird which had a limited endurance that was affected partly by the intensity of the player’s maneuvers and partly by damage incurred from missiles fired by ground-based hostiles somewhat reminiscent of Dr. Who’s Daleks. The Bird game was really based around subtlety and survival. The player had to be sparing in his moves in order to make it to the next round. It was a shooter game, but not so much an aggressive game. It had kind of a Zen quality to it – probably way too cerebral for the market. I was recently contacted by Activision’s Ken Love, who is in the process of putting together a definitive collection of Activision games, including all the unreleased and prototype games. Ken wanted to acquire a copy of Bird. If any such copies exist, it’s either on a 20-year-old hard drive in some Activision storage locker, or in a dusty prototype cartridge in someone’s closet. That’s kind of a shame. I certainly wouldn’t mind seeing it one more time…'

Blow Out

Developed by Mattel, Blow Out was a party game that had 'Two roller-skating dancers drop darts from a scaffold onto rising balloons. An easy enough task, except these rude guys keep bumping into each other and knocking each other off the scaffold. When the music stops, that's the signal for the next players to take the controllers.'

According to the Blue Sky Rangers website 'David Akers only worked on the game briefly in June 1983 before being pulled off to work on higher priority projects.' It is unknown how far along this game got before being cancelled.

Candyland Surfing

According to former 20th Century Fox programmer John Marvin 'There was a surfing game where you surfed a rainbow. That was taking advantages of something you could do cheaply with the VCS, each scan line you could change the color and you got this great rolling rainbow on the screen. It was more a screensaver than a game, the problem was there wasn't a lot of gameplay in it.'

Circus Charlie A port of the 1983 Konami/Centuri coin-op. Parker Brothers announced Atari 2600 VCS, ColecoVision, and Commodore 64 versions of this title, and prototype boxes were shown in a CES press kit. According to a Parker Brothers internal marketing release schedule, this game was scheduled for a September 1984 release. The C64 version was actually completed but never released by Parker Brothers (it was eventually released by Konami in 1987). According to Phil Orbanes, former Senior VP of Research & Development at Parker Brothers, the VCS version received 'some coding' at the very least, and may have been completely finished. The programmer is unfortunately unknown, and as yet no prototypes of this game have surfaced.

Computer Corridor

Developed by Mattel. According to the Blue Sky Rangers website 'This game started out as an original concept by Ron Surratt and Jane Terjung called Computer Revenge. At the same time, Spring 1983, Russ Ludwick was working on an Intellivision game called Moon Corridors, inspired by the arcade game Battlezone. In mid-1983, Marketing began an agressive campaign to release titles on as many different game platforms as possible. Noting similarities between Computer Revenge and Moon Corridors (mainly a 3-D grid effect), they decreed that the two games should be mooshed into one - Computer Corridor - and released on both Intellivision and Atari. By the time they tested and approved the idea, though, Russ was no longer working at Mattel Electronics and no one else was available to pick up the Intellivision version. A couple of months later Jane also left Mattel, killing the project altogether.'

It is not known how far along this title got before being cancelled.

Count's Castle

Also known as the missing CCW title, this would have a been a math title based on the Sesame Street Count character. An internal Atari memo puts the game at 80% complete, but the game was never finished. Apparently the original programmer left and there was no one available to finish the game.

Cryptogram

According to David Crane he developed this word game after moving to Activision from Atari. The game would display a scrambled phrase that the player would then have to unscramble in the quickest time possible. Players could also enter their own phrases if they didn't want to use one of the built in phrases. This game used a programming technique called 'Filled Venetian Blinds' which alternated the scanlines used by the regular Venetian Blinds technique every frame, making the image look more solid (no more lines) but also slightly transparent due to only half the image appearing on each frame. Unfortunately the game was deemed to be of 'limited interest' and Activision feared it wouldn't sell well enough to consider releasing so the project was abandoned.

Cumulus

According to the Blue Sky Rangers Website 'Cumulus was an original Atari 2600 idea by Jeff Ratcliff. His idea was to take a relatively simple game but use the extra memory available on a Super Cartridge to create spectacular visual effects not seen before on Atari - mainly really cool explosions. He worked on the game briefly in August 1983, programming a demonstration screen showing a high-resolution cloud with an enemy ship above it. While the game was listed on the weekly in-house status reports, it never received the four-digit product number that made a project official.' Sims 4 buying groceries.

A screenshot exists.

David and Goliath

Programmed by Rick Harris for Enter-Tech Ltd. Enter-Tech Ltd. did some Christian themed games for Sparrow who released Music Machine for the 2600. David and Goliath consisted of two stages: On the first David had to herd sheep and on the second David had to fight Goliath. Unfortunately the contracting company ran out of money and the game was never finished.

Dazzler

Port of the 1982 Century Electronics coin-op. Developed by Enter-Tech Ltd. for the Unitronics Expander system (which also went unreleased). The game was on a cassette and not a cartridge.

Dual Scrolling

Based on a programming effect developed by David Akers in which the screen was split in two with each half scrolling a background independently of the other. Although there was no game designed to use this technique marketing apparently loved it and decided that a game could be designed around it.

According to the Blue Sky Rangers website 'After determining the same effect could be created on Intellivision, Marketing put the still-to-be-determined game - temporarily called Dual Scrolling - onto the official release schedule. That was December 19, 1983. Exactly one month later, Mattel Electronics closed. Although no game concept had yet been thought of, Dual Scrolling was one of the few games officially still in development for the Atari 2600 when the doors were shut.'

Flapper

Developed by Mattel. Flapper was to be a unique game where 'You control the Flapper to rescue baby Flappers from an underground maze. The maze is filled with snakes, bats and ghosts. Cave-ins and landslides keep opening and closing the tunnels. Luckily, the Flapper is a unique fellow: he has three types of beanies - chopper for flying, gun for shooting, umbrella for protection - and four interchangeable types of legs: flying, jumping, running and walking. You have to find and change the appropriate beanie and legs for him to overcome the obstacles and rescue the babies!'

According to the Blue Sky Rangers website Flapper was never finished, although some coding did take place. 'While the game was listed on the weekly in-house status reports, it never received the four-digit product number that made a project 'official.' Steve worked on Flapper briefly in August 1983 before being pulled off to work on higher priority projects.'

Flashlight

Not really a game, but another 'cool programming technique' for the 2600 that Mattel thought they could design a game around. Programmer Stephen Roney had developed an interesting programming effect on the Intellivision where a moving circle of light could illuminate the background and any objects within the circle. Another Mattel programmer, Ron Surratt, was asked to duplicate this effect on the 2600. Once it was shown that it was indeed possible Mattel tried to come up with a game to fit the effect, but closed their doors two months later.

Flesh Gordon

This was to be Wizards final game entry, but was never released. Based on the 1974 soft-porn movie of the same name, Flesh Gordon was long thought to have never been even started until the programmer of the game kindly set the record straight.

'Flesh gordon was finished. It sucked, sometimes literally if you know what I mean. It was a horrible game with a lot of sex and the payoff was the ability to hump using the joystick. There was nothing cool or interesting but then wizard video wanted what they wanted. There came a time when they stole a copy of the final or near final version which was sent for their approval. They refused to pay and they went to publish the game using the rom we sent them to approve. It was just about finished but it needed some finishing touches. We never did them. They never officially released it as I understand and that was no loss.'

What happened to the prototype that was sent to Wizard is unknown. Rumors over the years have surfaced that some collectors have access to the rom, but this has never been verified and is highly suspect.

A picture of the box exists.

The Impossible Game

Developed by Telesys, but never released. The Impossible Game was shown at the January 1983 CES show, and mentioned in an interview with Alex Leavens in the Aug/Sept. '83 issue of Video Games Player magazine. According to Alex 'It's a puzzle game, sort of like Rubik's Cube. You don't blow anything up and nobody gets hurt--it's strictly a mental challenge.'

Other than this short interview, the only other information we have on this game comes from Leonard Herman, who actually played the game. According to Leonard, the object of the game was to 'successfully navigate through six levels of 36 squares that are randomly chosen by the computer.' On the first level the player only had to pick one square at a time, but on each new level the amount of squares the player ahd to pick increased (2 on the second level, 3 on the third, etc.).

For more information on The Impossible Game, check out to Leonard's personal write up of the game.

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James Bond: As Seen in Octopussy

Before Parker Brothers decided to turn it into a crappy version of Moon Patrol, the James Bond game went through two different iterations. Originally starting out as James Bond in Octopussy, this version would have taken place on a train and be based on only one movie (rather than a series of movies like the final game). In this game James would have to shoot at and dodge bullets from two armed men as they ran around on a train cart. This version of the game was seen by more than one person at various game shows and was advertised in at least one PB catalog. It is highly likely that this game was completed, but dropped in favor of the 'Moon Patrol' version.

A screenshot the actual prototype running exists.

James Bond: Moonraker Demo

According to programmer Charlie Heath, he did a one screen demo of a James Bond game based on the movie Moonraker. Sadly it appears that the demo has probably been lost forever.

'I'd prototyped a 'James Bond' scene during my first first few weeks, to see what I could do with a VCS: you're in space orbiting earth in the space shuttle, chasing bio-terrorist pods to shoot them down before they break up in the atmosphere, while your shuttle and the pod are being buffeted about by reentry. You see something that looks a bit like a spinning earth bobbing about at the bottom of the screen. If you watch the movie Moonraker, it's one of the climactic scenes, but Parker wasn't interested in it for the Bond license because they wanted to do something that was more along the lines of Pitfall - little guy running around with various spy gadgets.'

'It wasn't much beyond a concept, but it was a pretty functional single screen 1st person perspective shooter. Not up to the level of Star Raiders gameplay, but I thought the pseudo-orbiting-world view was pretty cool and unique at that time. I didn't keep a copy of the code when I left Parker Brothers. It might be buried on a backup tape somewhere at Parker Brothers, but more likely the tape was reused for cereal inventory or something like that.'

Keystone Cannonball (Keystone Kapers II ver #1) Dan Kitchen worked on two unreleased sequels to Keystone Kapers. This first version involved Officer Kelly chasing the crook across the rooftops of a train. 'I had also done a sequel to Keystone Kapers, which was the Keystone cop on a train. And that was actually a neat thing because I was able to pull off some interesting software kernels where I had eight rotating wheels on the bottom of a train where you could normally only have 2 or 6 It was a very cute game. From screen to screen, from boxcar to boxcar fighting and trying to defeat the character from Keystone Kapers, who was the runaway criminal. That was a very huge game as it had non-symmetrical play and had a really nice, large engine at the front of the game and a very large caboose at the bottom of the game.' According to Dan the game never got to a playable state and was only around 20% done before being scrapped for unknown reasons. Recently Dan found his prototype which featured the train and officer Kelly running on top of the cars. You can see a video of it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u60o2nYEXM Keystone Kapers II ver #2 Dan Kitchen worked on two unreleased sequels to Keystone Kapers. This second version was a vertically scrolling game similar to Crazy Climber and involved Officer Kelly climbing a building while Harry Hooligan threw objects at him. According to Dan this version got to a playable state, but was cancelled for unknown reasons. - L - The Levee Game Programmed by Dan Kitchen for Activision. According to Dan: 'Keystone Kelly appeared in a yellow rain slicker running around ladders and platforms repairing cracks that would appear in a background Hoover Dam-style image complete with warning lights and a beautiful sun setting on the distant reservoir . The screen kernels were written such that I could change the background color on every scan line so the entire screen would slowly fill up with water if the player couldn't cement the cracks in time. There was also a mechanic to 'empty' the water on the player's side of the dam to keep the game going.'

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M*A*S*H II Programmed by David Lubar for Sirius Software. This alternate version of M*A*S*H developed at Sirius was ultimately scrapped in favor of another version developed internally at Fox by Doug Neubauer. Programmer David Lubar describes what he remembers of the game: 'I know I had Klinger at the top of the screen, on guard duty. Once in a while, he'd try to run off, and the player had to stop him. Beyond that, I think the game involved taking supplies to different surgery tents.' 20th Century Fox had announced a M*A*S*H II game and it is believed that this version may have been planned for release as a sequel. A prototype of this game is rumored to exist in the hands of a private collector, but nothing has been released to the public as yet.

Mission Omega

Mission Omega was a space shooter developed by Commavid. According to an interview with some ex-Commavid employees, this game was finished but sent back to the programmer for some 'fine tuning'. The game was never re-finished in time to be released.

Mission X

Port of the 1982 Data East Coin-Op of the same name. Although released for the Intellivision, the 2600 version was never finished before being cancelled for 'unknown reasons'. It is not known how far along the game was before being cancelled.

Monkey Business

Designed by Mattel, Monkey Business was to be one of the few unique 2600 games designed by Mattel (all others were ports of existing Intellivision games). Although not completed, Monkey Business was fairly far along before being cancelled.

A description of the game found on the Blue Sky Rangers website reads as follows 'In the zoo, things have gone awry. Billy the Chimp has escaped and is up to no good. As any curious monkey would, he has managed to free the elephants! It's up to you, as Mike the Zookeeper, to return the elephants to their cages.

Once you have restored order in the elephant section, you must quickly run to the next section of cages. Perhaps you'll have to capture the loose Koalas. Maybe you'll have to avoid soaring hawks, battle fierce tigers or try to grab the slippery penguins. Along the way, you'll find items which will be of help to you, such as a bag of peanuts or a net. So grab your hat and stop this monkey business!'

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Penetrator

Programmed by Bill Heineman for Avalon Hill. This game is not believed to have been advertised or even announced. According to the programmer: 'The game itself was a lot like Activision's Megamania. It was a simple drop from the sky shooter. It was unfinished because I left Avalon Hill to work for Time/HBO on a playcable system for the 2600. The game was probably 50% complete. My source to Penetrator was lost many years ago when the 5 1/4 floppy it was stored on simply went bad. The only EPROMS made were almost certainly erased to make way for Death Trap, etc, because we only had a few dozen and they kept dying on us because we burned EPROMS so many times. Only three dev cards were made, so all the other programmers had to write code, and test on an EPROM.' Avalon Hill's stay in the market was short-lived and it's unknown if any further work was done on this title, or if it was simply erased.

Pepper II

Port of the 1982 Exidy arcade game that was released on the Colecovison. It has recently been confirmed that the same programming team that was responsible for the Atari 2600 version of Turbo was indeed working on this game, but it was never completed (or even reached a playable state) due to the collapsing game market. A prototype case was found for this game, but it was empty as it was just a mock-up used for advertisements. Artwork sheets for the game graphics also exist.

Incidentally, there is no Pepper I. The II in the title referred to the fact that the character had two personalities (angel and devil) and not that it was a sequel.

Porkys

Not the same game that was released by 20th Century Fox, but rather a game based on the cartoon pigs that were seen on the electric sign in the movie. Former TCF programmer John Marvin remembers seeing this game while he worked at the company. According to John 'The game made no sense at all.' It is unknown what happened to this prototype after it was rejected.

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Real Time Chess Real Time Chess (working name) was a strategy game developed by Greg Easter while at Atari. According to Greg: “You commanded one piece and tried to capture other pieces one at a time without stepping on any of the squares they could land on. In simple mode, all of the squares the other piece could move to were lit up. In expert mode, you had to keep that in mind yourself. So it was also a training aid for playing chess, sharpening your mind to keep track of different pieces. That game was about 90% done when I was told Atari would not be releasing any more games no matter what, so there was no point in my finishing it.” Greg said that that several test carts were made, but it is unknown where they currently are.

The Rescue of Emmanuelle Alan Roberts (designer of X-Man) talked about this game in the October 1983 issue of Videogaming and Computergaming Illustrated: 'We are currently working on The Rescue of Emmanuelle, based on the famous Emmanuelle character. It is a male-oriented action game where one has to rescue Emmanuelle, the rewards being that, if you are skillful enough to save her, she is going to thank you, bestow her kindness on you. It's a climbing game. It takes place on the Eiffel Tower. The hardest part in designing the game is that the tower doesn't fit well on the TV screen. We're working on a scrolling system.' It is not known how far this game made it into development before being cancelled.

Robotron: 2084

A Proposed title for the ill-fated Atari Graduate add-on computer. A WIP version of this game was shown at at least one show before being cancelled (along with the Graduate). According to one eye witness, it was 'The most flickery thing I'd ever seen'. This isn't surprising considering the amount of objects that would be needed to be shown on the screen at one time was well beyond the poor 2600's capabilities. A picture of the title screen exists showing some pretty nice graphics for the 2600.

Sharp Shot

Port of the Intellivision game developed by APh Technologies. Mattel decided not to release the 2600 version of this game after it was widely criticized on the Intellvision as being 'too easy'.

Shove It! was a two player game being developed at CBS which would have used a special cable to communicate between two 2600s. According to programmer Bob Curtiss: 'Shove It! was my original concept for a two-player 2600 game that used two 2600 systems, each with their own TV of course. The idea was that someone would take their 2600 over to a friend’s house to play this game with them. A bit far-fetched at the time, but to CBS’ credit they were open to these kinds of ideas. The game was simple – there were 9 rectangular objects, sort of like long pieces of wood or metal, displayed in a 3D view, that you could ‘push’ or ‘shove’ away from you, and they would move toward the other player on their screen. They in turn could shove them back toward you. The two 2600’s communicated via serial data transfer with a serial cable connected to one joystick port on each machine. Did you ever imagine that you could send data from one 2600 to another via the joystick ports? You’d use the joystick plugged in to the 2nd joystick port to select which object you wanted to shove toward the other player, and the push the button to shove it. I had a functioning prototype working within 3 months.' Shove It! was cancelled after CBS decided to get out of the video game business and closed down their Atari 2600 development unit. Stomp it This port of the Bally Midway coin-op (which was also unreleased) was done by Alex Nevelson at Bally Midway but went unreleased. There is no information on how either the arcade game or home version would have played.

Sky Blazer

Sky Blazer was a multi-level air combat simulation game by Broderbund, similar to CBS's Wings. Although shown at the 1983 Summer CES show, the game was never released.

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Snark

Programmed by John Dunn for Atari, but ultimately unreleased. John would later go on to do Superman before leaving Atari. Snark was a combination Maze solver and shooter. Each game generated a new maze, and you were set upon by critters that you had to shoot in order to negotiate the maze.

According to John, Snark 'was my first game for Atari. It was not published while I was at Atari, and perhaps never was - I didn't track it. It had a video spin mode that caused the screen to color cycle really fast, and release was held up because there was some worry this would cause people to have seizures (I know, it's bogus - but this was the early days of video games, and that kind of intense color cycling was unknown territory).'

Snowplow Developed by VSS, Inc. for Sunrise Software. According to Leonard Herman, this game was shown at the 1984 Winter CES (along with Glacier Patrol, another Sunrise title that went unreleased). Leonard described the gameplay in his book 'ABC to the VCS': 'You operate a snowplow which must clear the eight horizontal rows of snow. Snow is cleared by merely moving your plow through it. Somewhere in each row you'll uncover a car which will then move across the row that it is in and must be avoided at the risk of losing a turn. When all the snow has been cleared, one of the six cars will flash on and off and you must get to it before time runs out while still avoiding the other cars. When the car has been reached, another car will begin to flash. After all six cars have been retrieved, you'll move on to a harder screen where you must again clear the snow.' After Sunrise Software folded, the rights to their 2600 catalog were apparently acquired by Telegames, who eventually released Glacier Patrol and reissued Quest for Quintana Roo in 1989. Yet for some reason, Snowplow was never released. What happened to the prototype that was shown at CES is not known, and thus far the game has never turned up in any form.

Solo

Solo was a 3-D flight simulation game by Broderbund. Although shown at the 1983 Summer CES show, the game was never released.

Super Pac-Man

According to an internal Atari memo preliminary coding was started on the 2600 version of Super Pac-Man. The memo lists the game as only being 5% complete, so it is doubtful a playable version of the game exists.

Tarzan

Port of the Colecovision game of the same name. Tarzan was developed by Wickstead Design (the same team behind the unreleased 2600 Pink Panther game). The game finished, but was unreleased due to it requiring a special chip for extra memory. A prototype of the game may exist with one of the programmers. An in-game screenshot, picture of the box, and a manual all exist.

Tank Blitz

Was to be the third and final game in the Milton Bradley Power Arcade series. Tank Blitz was shown at the 1984 Toy Fair along with its Armored Commander controller.

A picture of the cartridge with its controller can be seen here (thanks to Rom Hunter)

Target Omega Target Omega was a submarine simulation developed by Greg Easter for Atari. From Greg: “Another game which was only barely started was an extremely ambitious submarine simulator. There were three choices of views - periscope, radar and instruments. Your goal was to find enemy ships and sink them, as you would in most sub games, only there were additional complications of needing to keep track of fuel, battery power and sustainable pressure. I don’t remember too much of it now.” Given its early stage of development, it is unlikely that any copy of the game survived Those Little Buggers

Developed by Enter-Tech Ltd. for the Unitronics Expander system (which also went unreleased). The game was on a cassette and not a cartridge.

Treasure Hunt

Developed by Enter-Tech Ltd. for the Unitronics Expander system (which also went unreleased). The game was on a cassette and not a cartridge.

Underworld

Was to be a D&D type game by Commavid. A tape labeled Underworld is known to exist, and is believed to contain development source code. The current whereabouts of the tape are unknown.

Untitled Motorcycle Game #1 (real name unknown)

David Crane mentioned working on two unreleased games for Activision that involved riding a motorcycle. The first version was similar to Atari's Stunt Cycle where the player controlled a motorcycle that would jump over buses and other obstacles. According to David the game was abandoned because he ran out of objects (Player/Missile sprites) and couldn't display the buses properly.

Untitled Motorcycle Game #2 (real name unknown)

David Crane mentioned working on two unreleased games for Activision that involved riding a motorcycle. The second version was to be a motocross style game with a large segmented motorcycle that would realistically move up and down over the terrain. Like the first motorcycle game it was scrapped after David ran out of objects (Player/Missile sprites) due to the large realistic motorcycle.

- W -Wacko Port of the 1982 Bally Midway coin-op. This port was done by Tom DiDomenico while he was at Bally Midway but went unreleased.

Zookeeper

Perhaps one of the most famous missing prototypes, Zookeeper was a port of the 1982 Taito arcade game. Zookeeper was finished enough to have have been playable, and may have even been completed. The music/sound effects code for this game (by Robert Vieira) has been found, and is nearly arcade perfect. A video showing the graphics for this game has also surfaced.

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Reading Through the First Half of 2018

The reading of books (beyond news and long-form journalism), has become a critical part of my adult life and is integral to the way I order my mind. Reading helps me formulate my opinions, create a sense of solitude, learn specific technical knowledge, and entertain myself. I enjoyed reading as a child and spent more than my fair share of time ripping through Hardy Boys mysteries, getting creeped out by the slimy details of the latest Goosebumps novel, reading YA biographies of so many great Black soldiers, engineers, and thinkers, and soaking in every detail of any book on soccer or drawing I could get my hands on. But my appreciation for reading as a dedicated and intentional practice grew significantly after I graduated from college. I learned that it’s actually not something many adults spend a great deal of time on (Pew Research), and is something that can serve to significantly distinguish and shape an individual. Reading books gives one a chance to form their own mind by directing their thinking, rather than having their brain completely subject to the whims of the loudest noises of the outside world.

In 2014 I worked on the first Congressional campaign for Don Beyer, who is now my representative in the US House (VA-08). In the general election campaign I ended up in the position of Deputy Finance Director, and found myself shut in a room with the candidate for several hours a day making phone calls to ask people for money. I learned many things from this experience, perhaps chief among them was the fact that Don was an incredible reader. He seemed to know at least something about everything, and had read an incredible number of books over the years. He could easily isolate the most important ideas from each book and use them effectively in conversation, while accurately citing the references. And in addition to this great historic recall, he was always reading something new, just about a book a week, and this was while he was running for congress (which, if you didn’t know, is an extraordinarily time-consuming pursuit). This showed me just how much importance he placed on the practice of reading and on the pursuit of new information.

For the last few years I’ve set reading goals for myself at the start of the year, and have recorded my progress on Goodreads with their annual “Reading Challenge” feature. I highly recommend using Goodreads if you enjoy books! For 2018 I set a goal of completing a total of 40 books (35 last year, 25 the year before that, 52 next year!). I’ve kept good pace and have reached the halfway point just before the middle of the year. I wrote a post about my 2017 reading at the end of last year, and was considering doing the same for 2018, but breaking it in half seemed like a much more manageable task. There are many books that I start but never finish, and some really big books that I may break into two or three spurts throughout the year - but here are the 20 books I’ve completed so far in 2018:

Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius - A Christmas gift from my girlfriend, I sought this book out because of the amazing amount of recommendations I’d seen, particularly from people in the technology and finance worlds. An emperor of Rome, Aurelius was an extremely powerful and thoughtful person. This book is essentially a compilation of his journals as emperor and includes his thoughts as a Stoic philosopher, as a leader, and as a man. Highly recommend to anyone looking for some words of wisdom or who has found herself in the midst of a seemingly uncontrollable situation.

“Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains; and thou too art wont to desire such things very much. But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in thy power whenever thou shalt choose to retire into thyself. For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul, particularly when he has within him such thoughts that by looking into them he is immediately in perfect tranquility; and I affirm that tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.”

Hedge Funds: An Analytic Perspective, by Andrew Lo

The Underwriting, by Michelle Miller - Not my normal reading fare, but one of my most memorable selections of the year. A totally trashy, salacious novel about the IPO process of a fictional Silicon Valley dating app unicorn written by a Wall Street and Bay area veteran. If you don’t want to take the time to pick up the book then you should check out her infamous blog Why San Francisco Really Is That Bad, which caused a huge stir when she released in anonymously in 2012.

Getting to YES: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, by Roger Fisher & William Ury

Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson - A reread. I first read this book when the paperback edition was initially published in 2013.

Principles: Life and Work, by Ray Dalio

Tribe of Mentors, by Tim Ferriss

Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor, by Tren Griffin - Charlie Munger is an irreverent and original thinker, a brilliant investor and businessman, and a voracious reader. While little knows beyond the world of of finance, he is a giant within it. He’s the Vice-Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway. This book distills his investing ethos and describes his famous “mental models” mainly through Mungers own quotations, which are well worth the price of admission.

“You've got to have models in your head. And you've got to array your experience—both vicarious and direct—on this latticework of models. You may have noticed students who just try to remember and pound back what is remembered. Well, they fail in school and in life. You've got to hang experience on a latticework of models in your head.”

The Hard Thing About Hard Things, by Ben Horowitz

Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader, by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli - After I reread the Isaacson, book I was hungry for a bit more information on Jobs, particularly his time in the wilderness with NEXT. I sent a Tweet out communicating as much and immediately received a response from my Jobs crazy colleague who recommended this book and other, and subsequently brought the book into the office for me to borrow. This did not disappoint. It may eclipse, but definitely rivals the Isaacson book as the definitive Jobs biography in my opinion.

Surely You’re Joking Mister Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character, by Richard Feynman - A pretty amusing book by and about the life of an extremely interesting character. Ranges from his experience designing the bomb at Los Alamos to his experience as an amateur bongo player. Highly recommended by a lot of smart people.

Flow, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work, by Randall E. Stross - Not the biggest crowd pleaser on the list, but if you are particularly interested in venture capital, this is a must read. A 2000 business biography of the founding and early days of Benchmark, this book goes in depth on the personalities around the table, the details around their decisions, and even their responses to investments gone bad. An absolute must for any VC junkie.

aol.com, by Kara Swisher - Love Swisher, so when I came across this at a used bookstore, I snapped it up.

Measure What Matters, by John Doerr 

Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas From the Computer Age, by Paul Graham - Paul Graham’s essays, more than the work of any other individual, are responsible for my love of startup culture and tech investing.

Inside Steve’s Brain, by Leander Kahney

American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History, by Chris Kyle - If you’ve seen the Clint Eastwood movie then you should maybe take the time to read the book. It’s relatively short, simply and clearly written, and has next to nothing to do with story of the movie. A lot of really interesting technical information about military practices and weaponry.

Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit, by Chris Matthews - Bobby Kennedy is a personal hero of mine, and I also loved Matthews’ book Hardball, which I was assigned to read in high school, so I knew I had to read this when it was published late last year. An excellent option if you have never read a book on RFK and want to try and get a good overall picture of the man. 50 years on from his death, I imagine there are many people for whom this new book was perfect. I’ve read a number of books on RFK and the Kennedy family and didn’t get much new information from this, but I did still enjoy reading the more personal perspectives and reflections offered by Matthews.

A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton, by John McPhee - I listened to an episode of the great podcast The Axe Files that featured Senator Bill Bradley. In the discussion they mention this book. It profiles Bradley when he was still just a college student and basketball player. I knew a little bit about Bradley as he has been a great mentor to my boss, and I was extremely intrigued by the idea of a book written about someone so early in his life. The book is all about basketball and through the sport gives a good bit of insight into the standout student athlete and who he would come to be.

“He went on to say that it is a much simpler shot than it appears to be, and, to illustrate, he tossed a ball over his shoulder and into the basket while he was talking and looking me in the eye. I retrieved the ball and handed it back to him. ‘When you have played basketball for a while, you don’t need to look at the basket when you are in close like this,’ he said, throwing it over his shoulder again and right through the hoop. ‘You develop a sense of where you are.’”

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HOW TO HAVE A BIG DEAL

Google is again a case in point. If languages are all equivalent, sure, use Visual Basic. In either case there's not much you can learn, though perhaps habit might be a good plan. Nothing is forever, but the thousand little things the big companies.1 In the Valley it's not only programs that should be short. Life is too short for something. Partly because, as components of oligopolies themselves, the corporations knew they could safely pass the cost on to their customers, because their competitors would have to as well.2 The alarming thing about Web-based software gets used round the clock, so everything you do is immediately put through the wringer. It's part of the mating dance with acquirers.3 Suppose you could find a really good manager.4 That's to be expected.

Change happened mostly by itself in the computer business.5 My life is full of case after case where I worked on something just because it pleased users, but also because you're less likely to start something.6 He turned out to be really tough than the quiet ones. The first yuppies did not work for startups. So the deals take longer, dilute you more, and they were all essentially mechanics and shopkeepers at first. Of course college students have to think about it if you're trying to make you learn stuff that's more advanced than you'll need in a job.7 The new fluidity of companies changed people's relationships with their employers. So one way to find out if you're suited to running a startup is a task where you can't always trust your instincts about people. Keep doing it when you start a company? Also, common spelling errors will tend to judge you by the distance between the starting point and where you are constantly making and testing small modifications. Everyone is focused on this type of approach now, but Fortran I didn't have them.

People who don't want to violate users' privacy, but even if it isn't, how do you pick out the people with better taste?8 But few big companies are smart enough yet to admit this to themselves.9 It's a better place for what they want. And that is a way to answer that is to try. An accumulator has to accumulate. A guilty pleasure is at least an interesting question.10 And since you can delay pushing the button for a while, you yourself tend to measure what you've done the same way taking a shower lets your thoughts drift a bit—and thus drift off the wrong path you'd been pursuing last night and onto the right one adjacent to it. The other end of the list, fixing them.11 And yet the prospect of a demo pushes most of them don't.

He didn't choose, the industry did.12 Have you ever noticed that when you sit down to write something that takes off, you may find that founders have moved on. Sam Altman, the co-founder? If we could answer that question it would be a good plan. Writing eval required inventing a notation representing Lisp functions as Lisp data, and such a notation was devised for the purposes of the paper with no thought that it would be used to express Lisp programs in practice. If you could find a really good manager. At best you can do in a startup.13

That's incremented by, not plus. Will you be able to dump ultimate responsibility for the whole company. It matters more to make something people want. Because it is the people. And then of course there are the tricks people play on themselves.14 The only thing professors trust is recommendations, preferably from people they know. Those of us on the maker's schedule. If you use this method, you'll get roughly the same answer I just gave. Seeing a painting they recognize from reproductions is so overwhelming that their response to it as a painting is drowned out.15

For example, in preindustrial societies like medieval Europe, when someone attacked you, you have to know if you bet on Web-based software is like desiging a city rather than a building: as well as talent, so this is what Bill Gates must have been dismayed when I jumped up to the whiteboard and launched into a presentation of our exciting new technology. If you're writing software that has to run on the server. A survey course in art history may be worthwhile. At any rate they didn't pursue the suit very vigorously.16 So there is a name for the phenomenon, Greenspun's Tenth Rule: Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp. You could just go out and buy a ready-made blank canvas. She assumed the problem was with her. If someone seems slippery, or bogus, or a tool for 3D animation. I advise fatalism. The most likely source of examples is math. Lots of small companies flourished, and did it by making cool things.17 A bad bug might not just crash one user's process; it could crash them all.

We do advise the companies we fund to apply for patents?18 Forms up to this challenge? But only about 10% of the time not to defend yourself. But it's possible to be part of a larger group; and you're subject to a lot of macros, and I can't predict what's going to happen increasingly often in the future and they sensed that something was missing. When it got big enough, IBM decided it was worth paying attention to. Ideas 1-5 are now widespread. You only get 52 weekends with your 2 year old.19 Why not start a startup? A painting familiar from reproductions looks more familiar from ten feet away; close in you see details that get lost in reproductions, and which you're therefore seeing for the first time. The most important, obviously, is that you can write a spreadsheet that several people can use simultaneously from different locations without special client software, or resold Web-based software gives you unprecedented information about their behavior. I feel a bit dishonest recommending that route. Yet that doesn't seem quite right, does it?

Notes

Acquirers can be said to have them soon.

Which in turn the most valuable aspects of the first thing they'd want; it has no competitors. The root of the next time you raise them.

The University of Vermont: The Duty of Genius, Penguin, 1991. You know in their voices will be regarded in the past, and it doesn't commit you to remain in denial about your conversations with potential earnings. One way to explain how you'd figure out yet whether you'll succeed. I was genuinely worried that Airbnb, for example, being offered large bribes by the National Center for Education Statistics, the space of ideas doesn't have users.

That's why the series AA terms and write them a microcomputer, and I had zero effect on the world, and it would have seemed to Aristotle the core: the energy they emit encourages other ambitious people, but even there people tend to be writing with conviction.

Whoever fed the style section reporter this story about suits coming back would have seemed to Aristotle the core: the editor written in C, which are a small percentage of GDP were about 60,000 computers attached to the option of deferring to a company's revenues as the first year or two make the people they want to live in a more general rule: focus on growth instead of just doing things, a lot would be very unhealthy. But a couple of hackers with no business experience to start startups. Plus ca change.

MITE Corp.

Other investors might assume that the money right now.

Horace, Sat.

In fact, for the same trick of enriching himself at the time I know for sure whether, e. If not, don't even try. In principle yes, of course there is a meaningful idea for human audiences.

It's to make a conscious effort to be very popular but from which a few additional sources on their appearance. But he got killed in the other meanings.

A lot of face to face meetings.

There were lots of potential winners, which would be critical to do better. But if A supports, say, ending up on the order of 10,000 people or so, even if they miss just a few VC firms. In a typical fund, half the companies fail, most of the number of spams that you could probably write a book or movie or desktop application in this new world. Internally most companies are also the 11% most susceptible to charisma.

When that happens, it increases your confidence in a band, or at such a dangerous mistake to believe, is that if you like a little about how closely the remarks attributed to them more professional.

7x a year, but its value was as bad an employee as this place was a good open-source browser. Trevor Blackwell, who may have now missed the video boat entirely. It's worth taking extreme measures to avoid variable capture and multiple evaluation; Hart's examples are subject to both write the sort of Gresham's Law of conversations.

01. According to Sports Illustrated, the manager mostly in good ways.

Digg's algorithm is very visible in Silicon Valley like the Segway and Google Wave. But you can play it safe by excluding VC firms regularly cold email.

There may be to ask permission to go out running or sit home and watch TV, music, and also what we'd call random facts, like indifference to individual users.

This must have been in preliterate societies to remember and pass on the way we met Charlie Cheever sitting near the door.

Some professors do create a great founder is in the top and get pushed down by new arrivals. This was made particularly clear in our own online store.

[notagarroter]

it's a shame more people haven't seen moffat's talk/interview at the seoul digital forum in 2014-tho understandable cuz it's not something you can actually find, only stumble across accidentally-in which he not only gives a great synthesis of a lot of his oft expressed ideas about writing (do what you're passionate about, write unputdownable scripts, imagine your audience is about to leave the room, etc) but gives my favorite version of the we're not telling the johnlock story answer...

anon cont'd: after his whole fantasies are great tho i did that w/ charlie's angels bit, he makes the point of saying a deeper relationship and a sexual relationship aren't necessarily the same thing. anyway it's well worth watching (www[.]youtube[.]com/watch?v=vc-x4OjWxBo) tho you kinda have to guess what the questions are based on steven's answers.            

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omg anon, thank you so much for this!!  I *love* hearing or reading Moffat’s thoughts on writing in general and Sherlock in particular.  I always find him really articlate, thoughtful, and self-aware, and full of good, nitty-gritty advice.  I thought I had watched absolutely everything available on youtube, but this is new to me!

[savetopnow]

2018-03-31 06 BIT COIN now

BIT COIN

@AmberBaldet

Alright, it's on. Mid-late twenties black woman seeks white male mentor in Startup, VC, Equity space. Must be wokety woke, preferably happily married feminist with a feminist wife who's equally dope, cuz I'm not trying to get harassed this year. RT please.

Kind of got too busy to remember to boost this one, but I’m thrilled to host this month’s sold out #ETHNYC @ JPM’s Hudson Yards innovation hub! There is... a lot of pizza. https://twitter.com/nyc_techevents/status/977571246819995648 …

The selfish reason to be ethical is that it attracts the other ethical people in the network.

A privilege and honor to welcome Kathryn Haun @katie_haun to the board of directors of HackerOne http://fortune.com/2018/03/28/kathryn-haun-hackerone/ …

In 1999, I asked David Gerrold to write a "future of computing" prediction for the magazine where I was Technology Editor. Here's what he wrote.pic.twitter.com/UAMM0Pm4W6

@AriDavidPaul

Laura has a great podcast. We chatted about security, custody improvements, and ASIC resistance. https://twitter.com/laurashin/status/979762986372947969 …

2/ Or just put the whole treasury in cryptokitty accessory stickers. https://www.kittyhats.co/

Projects ask me about treasury management. I say, "you're already all-in on crypto. Your project is pro-cyclical in all regards. Your costs are all in USD. You should be 100% USD in your treasury." ...death stares. "Fine you want to gamble, at least be 50% USD." https://twitter.com/twobitidiot/status/979507369448296455 …

I came up with a half dozen religion-cryptocurrency jokes, but I'd rather avoid offending believers in both. Beautiful setting for a fun discussion with @prestonjbyrne, Joel, and Rebecca moderating. https://twitter.com/JohnnyAntos/status/979136970860441600 …

New (facetious) ICO idea: a one-time pad based cryptocurrency. https://twitter.com/desantis/status/979452268620795905 …

@ErikVoorhees

Crazy right? Well this exact thing happened in 1933 with gold... https://imgur.com/a/gWpuu  Government cherishes its ability to debase and control money. Not much longer will they have that power. #bitcoin

FCC authorizes Elon Musk's SpaceX to provide broadband satellite services https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/29/fcc-authorizes-elon-musks-spacex-to-provide-broadband-satellite-services.html?__source=sharebar%7Ctwitter&par=sharebar …

Software Daily Podcast: ShapeShift with Erik Voorhees https://www.softwaredaily.com/post/5abe18fc6422da00046b628c?platform=hootsuite … # via @software_daily #bitcoin #EndTheFed #fiat

If someone proposes that "blockchain can solve X"... ask them "Which blockchain?" If they are confused by that question, they may not know what they're talking about.

Fantastic episode today with @zooko Wilcox of @zcashco! We discuss whether people care about privacy, why so few people choose the shielded addresses on Zcash and the moral implications of creating a tool that could aid criminals. Check it out! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/zcashs-zooko-wilcox-on-why-he-believes-privacy-coins/id1123922160?i=1000407572319&mt=2 …

@Excellion

HODL. Or HODL not. There is no try. #Bitcoinpic.twitter.com/bcLZu7f50a

C'mon, guys, we can't wait for the next episode! This is what we need, I mean based on the episodes I've watched so far - I consider The Magical Crypto Friends the "TOP GEAR" of Crypto space. In all seriousness. One learns a lot as well enjoys tons of fun and laugh.

When is "Episode 6: What did Charlie do this time?" coming out? @MagicalCrypto @Excellion @WhalePanda @fluffypony @SatoshiLitepic.twitter.com/sZVYU1kbTM

I think you’re obligated to record the song and make a music video now @La__Cuen. https://twitter.com/la__cuen/status/979530081361125376 …

If you’re an exchange operator and want to be a part of the #CryptocurrencyDataFeed hit me up! https://twitter.com/blockstream/status/979539061001113601 …

@KevinRose

Reminder: Mister Rogers stamps are now available at USPS, just ordered mine: https://store.usps.com/store/results?_dyncharset=UTF-8&Dy=1&Nty=1&siteScope=ok&_D%3AsiteScope=+&Ntt=mister+rogers&search=&_D%3Asearch=+&_DARGS=%2Fstore%2Fcartridges%2FSearchBox%2FSearchBox.jsp …

can't wait to read this!! https://twitter.com/jasonfried/status/976850741985009664 …

So many cool topics in this episode...more reasons to use the sauna. https://twitter.com/foundmyfitness/status/975769511788929024 …

Happy Wednesday, much love to you all.

My first job was also $4.25/hr making bread sticks at Olive Garden. Then I got a job as a cashier at Computer City https://twitter.com/btaylor/status/970010441702260736 …

@Melt_Dem

“with their reach considerably larger than any college professor, (insert famous VC name) apes expertise in an effort to get us to believe that the best society is one where men like him determine legitimacy.” - @girlziplocked slays me https://medium.com/@girlziplocked/paul-graham-is-still-asking-to-be-eaten-5f021c0c0650 …

is it bad that i view someone calling me “an absurdist, contrarian crypto troll” as a compliment? paging my mom aka @D_Demirors - can you put that on the fridge at home?

can we have a support group called "bag holders anonymous"? asking for a friend...

so excited for the US version of Crypto Finance Conference! if it's anything like the St Moritz, it's going to be absolute FIRE! https://twitter.com/marcpbernegger/status/979240765741240320 …

People are more mad at Facebook that Cambridge Analytica found out which sex and the city character they are than they are at Equifax for letting their personal and financial info get stolen.

@Naval

Groups who externalize thinking have to externalize responsibility as well.

Groups can’t admit to their members that they were wrong. That’s why when they lose in public, they fall back to conspiracy theories.

20) What is THE TRUTH about The Zone? 21) This is what I have discovered through my own experimentation. The Zone is not a state in which the mind is calm. 22) The Zone is a state in which the mind has disappeared.

When the email hosts, the web hosts, the domain registrars, the banks, the payment systems, the censors and the politicians crack down on crypto... only then will we see the true power of decentralization.

Make a smart person look dumb if you want to know if their humility is real

@NeerajKA

Everyone donate to Coin Center so I can buy this jump suit http://coincenter.org/donate

@antoniehodge can I expense this

Do I cop?pic.twitter.com/YSAIUm00Q1

i dont know what this is or how it works or if it’s good

I'm minting my @CryptoFamous card to turn my Twitter into a CryptoCollectible™: https://cryptofamous.net/NeerajKA

@NickSzabo4

When the email hosts, the web hosts, the domain registrars, the banks, the payment systems, the censors and the politicians crack down on crypto... only then will we see the true power of decentralization.

All phones have spy backdoors these days. But if you live outside of China buy a phone from Huawei and use encrypted communication apps. That way it’s the Chinese spying on you and they don’t share your data with US / EU spy agencies #PickYourSpies

We will look back on the idea that government bonds can be "risk-free" as a kind of collective insanity: "Despite history and facts, associating the word 'risk' with UST is for some reason blasphemous among financial professionals." ht @michaellebowitz https://realinvestmentadvice.com/the-mind-blowing-concept-of-risk-freeier/ …pic.twitter.com/IgyCNqQBiq

Welcome to the UK in 2018, where publicly elected officials snitch on citizens for saying things they don't like it and call for their imprisonment.pic.twitter.com/auBXFA1lVv

how a well diversified modern portfolio management strategy would have managed in 1912 https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/holy-grail-hedge-fund-strategy-handle-black-swan-size-world-war-i-1576915 …

@SatoshiLite

Also, this introduces a risk for miners to include any transactions, because any transaction could potentially be a double spend that the miner didn't know about. It creates a mine field for miners. Would give miners incentives to mine empty blocks.

A simple attack would be to broadcast a double spend and send each transaction to half the network. If the double spend gets mined, then 50% of the network would orphan. You now just cut the networks total hashpower in half. Keep doing that to disrupt the whole network.

The job of blocks is trying to determine which transactions are real. Doing that outside of blocks is like trying to solve the byzantine general problem all over again. Satoshi already solved that with the blockchain!

He also goes on to say that Bitcoin works because miners are greedy. That's true, but then if miners are greedy, it would be idiotic to orphan valid blocks and build off a shorter chain.

I just finished watching CSW's talk at Satoshi's Vision. I can't believe some people still think he's Satoshi. He proposed an idea to make 0-conf better: miners orphan blocks that includes double spends. This is one of the dumbest ideas I've ever heard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrVtC9r0sTU …

@TuurDemeester

Thread on "decentralized Twitter": https://twitter.com/muneeb/status/979722014767403019 …

Discussion about the mathematical proof that it is impossible to determine the “true” transaction history in a PoS blockchain without an additional source of trust: https://forum.blockstack.org/t/pos-blockchains-require-subjectivity-to-reach-consensus/762?u=muneeb …

Given the math proof that proof-of-stake is impossible without relying on an external source of trust, imo the PoS school is ultimately a set of political theories. Vitalik's article reminded me of Plato's belief that everything would be great if only philosophers were in charge.pic.twitter.com/kuGvZOTIQE

Vitalik Buterin criticizes delegated proof of stake, yet still believes: "The answer is ... cryptoeconomics". https://vitalik.ca/general/2018/03/28/plutocracy.html …

Thread: https://twitter.com/MartyBent/status/896775534658686979 …

@VitalikButerin

I just published "Governance, Part 2: Plutocracy Is Still Bad": https://vitalik.ca/general/2018/03/28/plutocracy.html … @VladZamfir @dannyryan

The State of Ethereum Union - Ex Unitate Vires https://blog.cosmos.network/ethereum-and-cosmos-bae657645e31?source=linkShare-aa134d2d5140-1522374466 …pic.twitter.com/IZlcCWSNUq

Over 5 days and that https://www.facebook.com/VitalikButerln  account has still not been removed. Shame on you, @facebook. BTW, can someone who has not yet deleted their instagram account please report https://www.instagram.com/vitalik.buterin  ? I HAVE NO SOCIAL MEDIA EXCEPT REDDIT AND TWITTER.https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/977557216080273414 …

Recap: Ethereum Sharding Workshop in Taipei https://medium.com/@icebearhww/ethereum-sharding-workshop-in-taipei-a44c0db8b8d9 … Thank you! @ethereum #sharding #icanttageveryone

Excited to be part of this initiative! https://twitter.com/Give_Directly/status/978796862936375296 …

@WhalePanda

I might just be a grumpy old panda but I don't actually enjoy April Fools' Day pranks. Most are unimaginative, silly and predictable. I prefer sarcasm, word play, memes and gifs with a slight hint of political incorrectness.

Oh damn all social media usernames? They better add an extra page for the @BitcoinCom staff if any of Roger's employees want to enter the US. https://twitter.com/business/status/979589162910257152?s=19 …

Real Tether vs Wannabe Tether. Interesting times we live in. https://twitter.com/BittrexExchange/status/979419926917275651 …

$Crypto is definitely crumbling. #Bitcoin only up 7x in a year. Please send help. https://twitter.com/izakaminska/status/979323457728073728?s=19 …

Got some cool @magicalcrypto t-shirts in the mail today. Going to take some extra with me to #Consensus2018.pic.twitter.com/Z0Dq6aLWL8

@aantonop

Ridiculous yet true. Reality has become absurd. https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/979498330710425602 …

Sorry to longtime followers that know all this, but if you like Twitter bots and: - public records, @FOIAfeed - fruit watercolors, @pomological - emoji trains, @choochoobot - Joe Brainard, @i_remember_txt - old 78 records, @78_sampler - weird postcard poetry, @postcards_past

They also shot down our list that supposed to be used to announce critical updates to ETC

Great comments on my video about chargeback risks and decentralized exchanges like Bisq - Thread https://twitter.com/bisq_network/status/979472634747514882 …

This is the second instance I hear of @mailchimp shutting down accounts related to crypto-currencies. Not ones advertising ICOs, or even exchanges. Just news, books, event announcements. https://twitter.com/evan_van_ness/status/979485548476710912 …

@brian_armstrong

Friend made on the Amazon river, Avi https://www.instagram.com/p/Bg9P6TUlz1m/

Lots of rain today, but quite warm. Amazon rainforest https://www.instagram.com/p/Bg7aOwvFamE/

Old Spanish churchs in Latin America https://www.instagram.com/p/Bg6017NF-TT/

Amazon river https://www.instagram.com/p/Bg6dImilfXI/

Amazon rain forest hikes https://www.instagram.com/p/Bg6dFwMFfIA/

@gavinandresen

The Ventures @ CICS (@umasscs) event will be held on April 3rd. See you there. #Entrepreneurship https://www.cics.umass.edu/event/ventures-cics-panel-networking-event …pic.twitter.com/HDQ9AmAhly

We’ve created https://doublespend.cash  -- a tool demonstrating Bitcoin XT’s ability to monitor double spends on the Bitcoin Cash network

After a devastating earthquake in 2010, the world collectively pledged about $13B to aid to Haiti. That's enough to give every Haitian a 50% pay increase for 3 years (on average) and far less than we'd need to fund a #crypto #UBI there. https://jamespflynn.com/2018/03/21/the-cryptoeconomics-of-funding-a-universal-basic-income/ …

Damned if you do, damned if you don't? http://gavinthink.blogspot.com/2018/03/precautionary-principle-problems.html?spref=tw …

What’s new with BlockSci, Princeton’s blockchain analysis tool: https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2018/03/15/whats-new-with-blocksci-princetons-blockchain-analysis-tool/ …https://twitter.com/random_walker/status/948408704596168704 …

@lopp

High time preference crypto noobs right now:pic.twitter.com/A0S9av6mac

I weighed in on current events at @CrushTheStreet in which we discussed ICOs, crypto ad bans, privacy, AI, and @CasaHODL . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPAHzcuQauA …

In high stakes adversarial environments you must defend against the impossible because the impossible will happen. H/T @hugohanoi https://medium.com/@hugonguyen/proof-of-stake-the-wrong-engineering-mindset-15e641ab65a2#---0-283 …pic.twitter.com/JNuohs6dn6

Connecting your hardware wallet to your own full node https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/880q54/electrum_personal_server_beta_release/ …

Grin team is making great progress & just launched testnet2! New features: * Schnorr-style signatures * Fast chain sync & pruning * Dandelion protocol * Compact range proofs w / bulletproofs * An efficient multi-device GPU miner * Compact block propagation https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin/ …

@prestonjbyrne

Our response to the SEC’s first round of questions and comments on our Reg A+ Security Token Offering has been submitted! One step closer to making finance history.pic.twitter.com/X98cwpCBmr

“If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.” - @nntaleb This applies to everyone in crypto.

Finally my laziness pays off. Don't have any fitness apps, wasn't hacked. There's no way to hack a bag of Doritos from my hands.

Uh guys we might have a problem herepic.twitter.com/CezvNP57va

my theory right now is that it's every goddamn thing all at the same time and it's gloriouspic.twitter.com/Vhf46Z3IWl

@rogerkver

Don't like fast, easy, safe, cheap, and reliable transactions? Don't use #BitcoinCash. For everyone else there's now @blockchain, @coinbase, @BitPay, @BitcoinCom, @CoinText, and so many more!pic.twitter.com/1MiWwimAFf

Be your own leader.

Too many people don’t understand that: GUN CONTROL IS GUN VIOLENCEpic.twitter.com/rIrEKkSCHr

Software developers far too often underestimate the importance of business developers.

[email protected] , the man who had the vision to go all in on bitcoin in 2011 is one of Bitcoin Cash’s biggest supporters today. #MeToo https://falkvinge.net/2011/05/29/why-im-putting-all-my-savings-into-bitcoin/ …

@starkness

Just released the first beta of LightningTip! I created it to make it easy to accept tips via the Lightning Network on my website. It uses LND as backend to create invoices and monitor which of them were paid. Source code: https://github.com/michael1011/lightningtip …pic.twitter.com/wIMb4a5SsJ

Tonight: @lightning Labs CTO @roasbeef to speak @SFBitcoinDevs about lnd 0.4, the beta release for the live bitcoin network! https://www.meetup.com/SF-Bitcoin-Devs/events/248815578/ …

Meet @starkness. The Lightning Queen. She'll stitch a global payment network on a shoestring budget. One of few people who can follow a rosabeef conversation in realtime. 15/10pic.twitter.com/Yvt8qRPbgN

The Times 21/Mar/2018 Bitcoin will the become world's single currency, tech chief says. https://twitter.com/Beautyon_/status/976511842926432256 …

Yes

@twobitidiot

[email protected] has no top gainers today. pic.twitter.com/TjREDHvCzR

A gripping thread https://twitter.com/zaktoscani/status/979448251546927104 …

Today we are excited to release the Alpha version of Dharma Plex, an open-source tool that enables borrows and lenders to create, invest in, and manage a portfolio of peer-to-peer lending agreements. Dharma Plex is live today on the Kovan testnet. https://buff.ly/2pR7sQR pic.twitter.com/PYuiSs8q9j

surprise, surprise -- just published “Token Daily: March 28” also there's a @naval tweet inside this time around. happy reading! https://medium.com/tokendaily/token-daily-march-28-6018aa50723f …

[email protected] I've spent thousands of dollars with you and sent hundreds of subscriber emails on crypto over the past five years. I'm restarting my Daily Bit Monday. I don't shill ICOs. Don't fuck with me.pic.twitter.com/XHdWBUQGPF

Bitcoin Magazine

Cryptocurrency Exchange Bittrex Introduces Stable Tether-to-TrueUSD Pairing

Op Ed: France’s Emerging Cryptocurrency Policy Appears Optimistically Vague

Newegg to Accept Bitcoin Payments from Canadian Customers

Promoted: Sharing Your Identity? Get Paid in ShoCoin

Two More Japanese Exchanges Shutter Their Businesses

Bitcoin Price

Cryptocurrency market bloodbath continues; Bitcoin Cash topples hard and fast – March 29

Litecoin dips hard for the first time since February – March 28

Ethereum falls to new 2018 low as markets tumble; Australia seeks public input on cryptocurrency taxation – Mar 27

Cryptocurrency market declines slightly; Monero devs say no to ASIC mining – March 26

Bitcoin continues to trade sideways. Traffic at crypto exchanges declines – March 23

Bitcoin Reddit

Bitcoin became 99% more interesting when I stopped comparing my holding to fiat and just concentrated on increasing my btc amount from trading.

You’re all crazy

Anyone else oddly feeling alright during these times?

Bitcoin price trading in a range below $7,000: Tom Lee tells cryptocurrency investors to hold on, Bitcoin will hit $25,000 end of 2018

PSA: Bitmain is selling off our contact info to spammers

Bitcoin.com

Chinese Investors Use Wechat Brokers to Bypass ICO Ban

​PR: Chandler Guo Joins Education Ecosystem LiveEdu as Advisor​

Mailchimp Latest Company to Ban Cryptocurrency Advertising

Okex Rolls Back Futures Contracts After Liquidations Leave Traders Reeling

Not Dead: There’s Good Reason to Be Long on Bitcoin

Brave New Coin

Towards a practice of token engineering

Blockchain as life: Incentivizing humans with machines

How blockchain can revolutionize the HR and recruitment industries

ICOs so hot right now and Morgan Creek hedge fund goes crypto

What the tech billionaires think of cryptocurrencies

CCN

OKEx to Roll Back ‘Irregular’ Futures Trades After Bitcoin Price Crashes Below $5,000

XchangeRate.io Uses AI to Take Crypto Trading to a New Level, with Working Prototype, Pre-ICO under Way

When Did Bitcoin Become a Byword for Capitalism? It’s Time to Use It for Good Causes

MailChimp Bans Cryptocurrency Ads Following Twitter, Facebook and Google Curbs

Money Pit? Telegram ICO Hits $1.7 Billion After 2nd Funding Round

Coin Journal

Safeguard Eyes US$12M ICO For AI System And Blockchain-Based Safety Data Marketplace

Havas Group Launches Havas Blockchain

Can Minds Capitalize on Facebook’s Failures ?

Two More Japanese Cryptocurrency Exchanges to Shut Down as Regulations Tighten

London Block Exchange Adds Ripple, More Coins to Follow

Coin Telegraph

France and Germany: How Regulatory Traditions in Two Countries Could Affect EU Legislation

How New EU Privacy Laws Will Impact Blockchain: Expert Take

Audi Is Exploring Blockchain For Its Distributional Network

OKEx Resolves Futures Price Slip Impact As Trader Threatens Suicide

Dogecoin’s Creator Jackson Palmer: 2018 Is Shaping Up To Be The ‘Year Of The Fork’

CoinSpectator Blog

How Zerocoin is Set to Solve the “House Always Wins” Problem?

You can now pay with crypto in over 6,000 South Korean Shops

Gibraltar leads on ICO regulation

How Blockchain can Solve Problems for Online Gambling Sites?

Blockchain-based Container Shipping Platform 300cubits to start the TEU ICO on 12th April 2018

Coindesk

Chile's State-Owned Bank Cutting Ties with Crypto Exchanges

AirAsia Planning Cryptocurrency-Based Rewards Program

Cisco Imagines Group Chats on a Blockchain in Patent Filing

Riot Blockchain Acquires Futures Brokerage After Crypto Pivot

Winner-Turned-Loser ICON Tanks 40 Percent as Crypto Markets Falter

Crypto Currency Reddit

When in doubt, zoom out

Why I will HODL.

Look around you and think, “Where do I go to learn more about cryptocurrencies?”

German National Tourist Board Accepts Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies As Payment

BlockchainBrad chats with OneLedger execs David and Matt about their Universal Blockchain Protocol

NewsBTC

Telegram Completes Second ICO, Raising $1.7 Billion, a Third ICO May Be on the Horizon

Can Ethereum Overtake Bitcoin?

Seoul Mayor Prepares City to Embrace Blockchain Technology

Has The US Tax Code Become a Problem For Cryptocurrency Traders?

Tron Developers Announce Test Net Launch, But is it Such a Big Deal?

Reddit Cryptocurrency

When in doubt, zoom out

Why I will HODL.

Look around you and think, “Where do I go to learn more about cryptocurrencies?”

German National Tourist Board Accepts Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies As Payment

BlockchainBrad chats with OneLedger execs David and Matt about their Universal Blockchain Protocol

[cryptswahili]

What happened this week in the Crypto markets?

“That’s Our Two Satoshis” — A Dovish Fed Reinforces Bitcoin’s Value Proposition

The Fed blinks

After posting their worst December in 87 years, stocks bounced back in spectacular fashion in January as the S&P 500 Index rose 2.0% last week to finish January 8% above its year-end closing level. The stock market has now gained 16% since the December 24 lows, after Mnuchin called the banks to force reassure them. We’ve highlighted the lack of correlation between the stock market and the crypto markets many times in the past, so the equity returns themselves don’t matter much to crypto as an asset class. What does matter is why this rally occured. The Fed has done a complete “about face” on its policy, ignoring strong employment data and inflation figures which normally drive motivation, and instead have focused purely on stock market returns and sentiment. As our friends at Ikigai stated last week, “the now dovish Fed is great for risk-on assets and validates the idea that Central Banks are irresponsible, thus reinforcing Bitcoin’s original value proposition.” Once again, we remind all investors, even those who think digital assets are irrelevant, to remember why Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies exist in the first place. You can only push something so far until it finally breaks.

So Equity Markets are Fragile, What About Crypto?

Meanwhile, crypto markets were largely unchanged last week, but January still concluded with a sixth straight negative monthly performance, the longest stretch ever.

Bitcoin’s Largest Drawdowns

Source: Ark Invest

While February is historically a very good month for crypto prices, there doesn’t seem to be enough tangible data to sink your teeth into in order to make this market move materially higher or lower. Last week we even highlighted all of the positive announcements that are on the horizon in crypto, but the fact is, none of these events are actually happening today. All of the positives are important, but remain highly speculative and forward looking. Until we witness some actual substance to support all of the great announcements and infrastructure investments, it’s unlikely that this market can go materially higher. Even when certain protocols and projects deliver positive results or outcomes, the boost to token prices is often short-lived as the increased valuations can’t be sustained. As long-time technology investor, Tim McDonald, wisely stated this week:

The crypto narrative is still strong, but adoption remains weak.

Bubbles vs Adoption

So that leaves us at an impasse. We have a technology that is undoubtedly promising, coupled with major investments across the whole ecosystem reinforcing the future role that Digital Ledger Technology (DLT) will have on financial services and beyond. Yet prices of today’s digital assets don’t necessarily reflect this future. It’s become clear that investors are now demanding that these investments in the infrastructure begin to bear fruit before the asset class can grow any further. And that takes time. Daniel Heyman, a developer working on Ethereum projects at Consensys, put it best(paraphrasing):

In many ways, the bubbles created by the frenzy in the installation phase makes it possible for the new technology to succeed. The bubble creates a burst of (over-) investment in the infrastructure of the new technology (railways, canals, fiber optic cables, etc.). This infrastructure makes it possible for the technology to successfully deploy after the bubble bursts. The bubbles also encourage a spate of experimentation with new business models and new approaches to the technologies, enabling future entrepreneurs to follow proven paths and avoid common pitfalls. While the bubble creates a lot of financial losses and economic pain, it can be crucial in the adoption of new technologies.

The bubble [in crypto] came early because blockchain technology enabled liquidity earlier in its life cycle. More bubbles are likely.

Although there are no “good bubbles,” bubbles can have good side effects. During Canal Mania and Railway Mania, canals and railways were built that had little hope of ever being profitable. Investors lost money, but after the bubble, these canals and railways were still there. This new infrastructure made future endeavors cheaper and easier. After the internet bubble burst in 2001, fiber optic cables were selling for pennies on the dollar. Investors did terribly, but the fiber optics infrastructure created value for consumers and made it possible for the next generation of companies to be built. This over-investment in infrastructure is often necessary for the successful deployment of new technologies.

This analysis suggests that the best case scenario for crypto in the near-term may be more speculative bubbles, which will ultimately crash as all previous bubbles have. During this time, many investments will ultimately be wiped out, but each building block created will ultimately accrue value to those companies/projects/protocols/users that remain relevant during the subsequent phase(s). Different investing strategies will take advantage of this in different ways… quant funds will take advantage of the elevated volatility, VC funds will patiently wait for the cycle to conclude, and liquid strategies will adapt to what is most profitable. This is a key rationale for why active management matters in crypto, today and in the future, as fund managers offer the ability to navigate these bubbles and crashes to discover where value will ultimately accrue.

Notable Movers and Shakers

A choppy week left most tokens largely unchanged week-over-week. Those that outperformed generally were caused by news of increased future adoption via enhancements that are still months if not years away.

NEM (XEM) token saw a 26% selloff last week following layoffs from the NEM Foundation. According to the foundation, the organization is nearing bankruptcy and making a last ditch effort to sell some of their tokens to stay afloat.

Augur (REP) is still feeling the positive effects of Veil’s launch two weeks ago, gaining 11% week-over-week. User experience is one of the major hurdles to mainstream crypto adoption and Veil seeks to solve this problem for Augur, 0x and other Ethereum dapps.

Ripple (XRP) posted overnight gains of 14% on Thursday after video footage went viral of Christine Lagarde, head of the IMF, mentioning Ripple as one of the “new technologies that will actually change the way intermediation is conducted”. Although speculative, positive endorsements of blockchain technology from groups like the IMF is huge for the tiny world of crypto.

Litecoin (LTC) rose 1% on the week after selling off with the majority of the market earlier in the week. Tweets from founder Charlie Lee, the upcoming block halving, and bullish technical analysis all contributed to a strong week for the token.

What We’re Reading this Week

Why Crypto Needs Institutions

Haseeb Qureshi, GP at crypto fund Metastable, penned this article speaking to a central debate in crypto: the role of institutions. In a space that has thumped the table for decentralized and unseating large players from power, we forget that the rise of centralized institutions drove much of the progress in mankind’s history, and that these newly created decentralized institutions are fundamental to crypto.

Kik Speaks Out Against Possible SEC Enforcement Action

Last week, messaging app Kik spoke out stating they would fight any enforcement action from the SEC levied against their 2017 ICO, when they raised over $100m. Kik received a Wells Notice last month which they publicly responded to. While it’s good that Kik is looking to defend themselves in court instead of settle, publishing their rebuttal is an easy way to invite the world to critique your defense. Our own CLO, Phil Liu, thinks that Kik is unlikely to win as there is a rebuttal to every one of the arguments that Kin (their token) is not a security.

The Anti-Fundamental Case for Crypto

According to trading platform Caspian, the next wave of crypto traders will be High Frequency Traders (HFT). The fragmented and volatile nature of crypto provides opportunities for HFTs to capitalize on the price discrepancies common in the market. In addition, exchanges have begun to provide tools to allow for these HFT strategies. Although algo strategies have the potential for great success in crypto, such strategies may be short lived as the market develops, spreads tighten and exchanges consolidate.

Creating Trust in Centralized Entities

Arwen, a crypto startup out of Boston, released a testnet this week for its Arwen protocol. The protocol is designed to allow traders of centralized exchanges to trade without providing the exchanges access to their private keys, essentially letting traders keep custody of their tokens. To start, the protocol will be available with a beta version through the KuCoin exchange, with an expected launch in Q2. Arwen is an example of one of the many good solutions we’re seeing developed in the crypto space that complement existing infrastructure.

When Bankers Bash Bitcoin

Andreas Utermann, CEO of Allianz Global Investors, made comments this week that might have ruffled some feathers, including that cryptocurrencies are “entirely unsuitable for investing in”, and “look like something dreamt up by and most useful for the criminal underworld”. Putting aside the motivations of such comments (crypto and blockchain are afterall poised to disrupt businesses like Allianz), Utermann claims his intention was to point out that cryptocurrencies require far more regulation than has been applied to date.

SWIFT’s Race Against Ripple

SWIFT’s CEO revealed this week that the group is working with R3, the company behind the Corda blockchain, to integrate their Global Payments Innovation (GPI) Link Gateway to Corda for use in payment transfer and settlement. SWIFT has made a massive effort over the last year to step into the blockchain space as businesses like Ripple have made strides in cross-border payments. Although rumors circulated late last year that SWIFT was partnered with Ripple, it’s clear now that these two giants will be in direct competition.

Blockchain Progress Outside Crypto

JPMorgan’s Chair of Global Research, Joyce Change, commented last week that although cryptocurrency performance is down, the potential for blockchain technology to succeed is ever increasing. Chang believes that adoption will be slow and mostly concentrated in trade finance, estimating real impact over the next three to five years.

Arca in the Press & on the Streets

Bloomberg quoted Arca’s Portfolio Manager, Jeff Dorman, this week in their coverage of how crypto hedge funds’ are shifting their strategy to take advantage of current market conditions. The story was also picked up by CoinTelegraph and Finder.

David Nage, Arca’s Head of Distribution, published an article in Block Tribune last week discussing how crypto investing has revived the Fund of Funds model, which up until 2017 was considered dead.

Enterprise Radio hosted Arca’s CEO Rayne Steinberg on their podcast last week where he discussed the future of traditional finance and crypto and how Arca is bridging the gap for those groups.

CEO Rayne Steinberg also published a piece citing concerning trends globally and how crypto/blockchain are antidotes to these trends.

If you’re up in the Bay Area, catch Arca’s Jeff Dorman at Blockchain Investment, who is speaking at the event hosted by Sheppard Mullin on February 26.

And That’s Our Two Satoshis!

Thanks for reading everyone! Questions or comments, just let us know.

The Arca Portfolio Management Team

Jeff Dorman — Portfolio Manager

Katie Talati — Head of Research

Hassan Bassiri — Junior PM / Analyst

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off the rack #1247

Monday, January 28, 2019

 What a classic Canadian winter we're having right now. It was bitterly cold but sunny yesterday so I went for a walk around the boundary of our neighbourhood. I walked out to Bank Street, turned south to go to Alta Vista Drive, turned north-east to go to Heron Road, turned west to go back to Bank Street again and then up Portland Avenue and home. It was very invigorating. More snow is forecast and Ottawa may break its all time record for the amount of snow fallen in January. Thank Thor I don't have to shovel all of it.

 What a great week for outstanding art. My eyes couldn't believe the work it was relishing with every comic book that I read. I generally choose the comic books that I want to read based on who writes it. When I flip through a new book that has nice art I will give it a try even though I don't recognise the writer's name. I do get disappointed when a writer I like is drawn by an artist that doesn't appeal to me, but I will continue to read the book. But if the story doesn't appeal to me even with beautiful art, I can't continue to read that comic. Monstress is a good example. I was surprised many times with the art this week. I haven't felt this happy after reading a pile of comic books in a long time.

 Man Without Fear #4 - Jed MacKay (writer) Paolo Villanelli (art) Andres Mossa (colours) VC's Clayton Cowles (letters). Wilson Fisk, the Kingpin of Crime and still Mayor of New York City, pays a visit to Matt in the hospital. The biggest point that this issue makes is that Daredevil's secret identity is intact. When the Kingpin became mayor I thought the idea was ludicrous. Now not so much.

 Hardcore #2 - Andy Diggle (writer) Alessandro Vitti (art) Adriano Lucas (colours) Thomas Mauer (letters). This issue of an impossible mission is action-packed. Agent Drake is trapped but good. I love this crazy off the wall stuff.

 Superior Spider-Man #2 - Christos Gage (writer) Mike Hawthorne (pencils) Wade von Grawbadger with Victor Olazaba (inks) Jordie Bellaire (colours) VC's Clayton Cowles (letters). So why is Terrax terrorizing Earth again? Because he wants to rule the entire planet. Hey, why not. Otto makes a valiant effort to beat the cosmically powered villain but all seems lost until his ex-girlfriend comes to the rescue. I like how Otto uses his brain to augment brawn when he fights bad guys.

 The Immortal Hulk #12 - Al Ewing (writer) Joe Bennett (main story pencils) Ruy Jose (main story inks) Eric Nguyen (flashbacks art) Paul Mounts (colours) VC's Cory Petit (letters). We are introduced to another side of the Hulk while he's in Hell. When the Hulk first hit the racks, he was just this big monster being pursued by the army. All he wanted was to be left alone but General Ross kept hounding him. Ever since they added multiple personalities to this character, he's become far more interesting. This story takes a serious look at Satan and what the devil means to mankind. A surprisingly mature theme for a super hero comic book.

 Cover #5 - Brian Michael Bendis (writer) David Mack (art) Michael Avon Oeming (Owen art) Zu Orzu (colours) Carlos Mangual (letters). A comic book artists traveling around the world attending comic book conventions is an excellent cover for a spy. It's much more interesting because Max the artist is constantly out of his depth.

 The Avante-Guards #1 - Carly Usdin (writer) Noah Hayes (art) Rebecca Nalty (colours) Ed Dukeshire (letters). I liked the art in this when I flipped through it so I pulled it off the rack to read. I'm glad I did. This is a slice-of-life comic book starring Charlene "Charlie" Bravo, a freshman at an arts college. She's a loner who I took a liking to after reading this first issue. Charlie meets perky go-getter Olivia who is trying to form a basketball team to play against other art colleges. I'm going to stick around to see if this southpaw joins the team. I really like the clever title of this book too.

 Guardians of the Galaxy #1 - Donny Cates (writer) Geoff Shaw (art) Marte Gracia (colours) VC's Cory Petit (letters). Now see? This here is a new Marvel #1 that's worthy of being bought off the rack. It's a sequel to "Infinity Wars", which didn't hold my attention, and introduces the new team. Seems like the old team broke up during "Infinity Wars". If the new team isn't enough to get you hooked on this 6-issue story, then their first mission will. They have to stop the resurrection of Thanos. Y'see, the Mad Titan was killed in "Infinity Wars". There's guest stars galore and the one on the last page is another reason I want to keep reading. And wait until you see how Groot has changed. I haven't felt this excited after reading a Marvel #1 in some time.

 Oliver #1 - Gary Whitta (writer) Darick Robertson (art) Diego Rodriguez (colours) Simon Bowland (letters). It's been a while since we've seen Darick Robertson's art on the racks. His work on "The Boys" made that series a highlight issue after issue. I think his work in this post apocalyptic story based in London, England is some of his best. Oliver is born into this hell hole but he grows up fast. There's a genetic mystery that's got me interested but it's the art that will keep me reading.

 Blossoms 666 #1 - Cullen Bunn (writer) Laura Braga (art) Matt Herms (colours) Jack Morelli (letters). This new Archie Horror book should tide you over while you're waiting for the next Sabrina book to hit the racks. I know that the new Blossom twins have been recast as villains and this will show you how dark they've gotten. If the number of the beast isn't a hint, wait until you see what Cheryl is up to on the last page.

 Naomi #1 - Brian Michael Bendis & David F. Walker (writers) Jamal Campbell (art) Josh Reed (letters). Have you given up on Riri Williams/Ironheart? I haven't yet, but it's not the same without Brian Michael Bendis writing her adventures. Well, if you're looking for a comic book just as cool and eye-popping gorgeous, please give this new DC/Wonder Comics a look see. It's very difficult to get a brand new character onto the racks that will get me jazzed but Brian has done it here. Superman makes a cameo but this is all about a troubled teen growing up in a small town. I can't wait to find out more about Naomi's mysterious past. Jamal Campbell's pretty art is a huge bonus.

 Shazam #2 - Geoff Johns (writer) Marco Santucci (art) Mike Atiyeh (colours) Rob Leigh (letters). The big surprise at the end of the first issue gets a cursory two page mention before we join the Shazam siblings back in the grand central station of the Magiclands. There are seven lands to explore and Funland seems to be safe. Meanwhile, we get our first look at Mr. Mind and as an added bonus, his origin story. The art in this issue is really nice and we are left with another new character on the last page that makes me want to keep reading. King Kid, ruler of Funland: good or evil?

 Avengers #13 - Jason Aaron (writer) Andrea Sorrentino (art) Justin Ponsor & Erick Arciniega (colours) VC's Cory Petit (letters). This is the origin story of Fan Fei, the very first Iron Fist from one million years BC. She deserves her own mini series by these guys. Andrea Sorrentino's art impressed me immensely when he did Green Arrow with Jeff Lemire and I think he's gotten better since. His stuff in here reminded me of Frank Quitely. It sure is pretty.

 Batman #63 - Tom King (writer) Mikel Janin (art) Jordie Bellaire (colours) Clayton Cowles (letters). Knightmares part 3. Batman is trapped in a dream with Constantine. If the second hand smoke doesn't drive you crazy, the dream will. This look into Batman's psyche reminds me of the time he was captured during the Court of Owls story. It was nice to see Tom explore what might have happened if the Cat and the Bat got married.

 Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #2 - Tom Taylor (writer) Juann Cabal (art) Nolan Woodard (colours) VC's Travis Lanham (letters). This isn't just friendly, it's amazing and spectacular. I haven't felt this much joy reading a Spider-Man/Peter Parker story since Brian Michael Bendis was writing Miles Morales/Spider-Man stories. The scene with the kids and Johnny Storm was cute. I like how Mayor Fisk's cameo establishes when this story happens. The cherry on top was the last page introducing a new character named The Rumor that made me giggle with glee. I can't wait to read #3.