Ahri's unqualified thoughts #10

Random articles, quotes, videos, musings. Easy to consume content: 1 quote, 1 tweet/storm, 1 article/video and 1 song.

In today’s edition, we’re talking about Ledger’s latest update (Ledger Social Recovery). and an update on the Forgotten Runiverse game.

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“If you really understand something, you can say it in fewest words, instead of thrashing about.”—Paul Graham

That’s a harsher version of a very famous saying. A lot of charlatans tend to use overtly complicated words/concepts, to sound more intelligent and make it seem less accessible. If I’m being honest, I did this when I was younger.

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Ledger communicated about a new feature coming to their famous tool: Social Key Recovery. Let’s say that it didn’t go as smoothly as expected…

With people on both sides of the coin tearing/defending them, it’s hard to find an unbiased set of information, especially when you’re not super technically educated in Opsec (like me).

In this thread, Notsofast (an OG from the pre-2016 era) summarizes the Twitter Spaces that happened right after the debacle with the intervention of Ledger’s top management.

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Among the web3 games I am closely following, there is Forgotten Runiverse, based on the Forgotten Runes IP. Not to dive too much into the whole IP for now (I’ll do a specific article in the future about this IP/game), but here’s an (overly bullish, to my taste) TLDR, and here is a more neutral one made by the team.

In their latest update, they touch upon:

• Art updates

  • Cities

  • Battle scenes

  • Cities neighborhoods

  • Enemies

  • VFXs for status effects

  • Interior decoration

  • UI

• Design & Programming

  • Alpha UX tests

  • Collision tests

Last, but not least, they are going to release their whitepaper pretty soon, and with it some economy simulations. This is going to be key, as it’s one of the core elements of most games.

As far as I know, there haven’t been talks of a token for now (in terms of funding: they sold a collection of 10k wizards, and are having a Land sale as well), and if there are plans, I wonder how that ties into the in-game economy?

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While writing today’s edition, I listened to the Remastered Golden Sun'OST. This game is among my favorite JRPGs of all time, on my favorite console of all time: Game Boy Advance (SP!). It’s finally coming to Switch, so if you never played it - time to correct that horrible, horrible mistake.

I have very fond memories of this OST, playing it when I was much younger in Morocco, in English - since games back then weren’t necessarily EFIGS (English/French/Italian/German/Spanish) on the same cartridge, so you couldn’t change the language.

(Note: this is why when you download ROMs/Emulated games, you have different versions, per country, and not only region)

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