[Applause] So So The bears are back and this time they’re coming in through the back door we should have noticed but we were too euphoric not even the front door will protect us this time as well looks like the bears are here to stay and they’re mocking us in our human Ways the bears are ready to strike they’ve been practicing and training waiting for their moments to finally put it on us And now some are even saying don’t fight the bear eat with the bear Make the bear one with your family even bathe with the bear share break bread with the bear or you can trick the bear Or just straight push the bear away or plead with the bear bear bear please stop that please stop breaking my things the skunk has the right idea just get that bear out of there one thing’s for certain the bears are here and the question is for how long Goodbye mr bear until next cycle uh what did i just see that was amazing what was that what was that that was open to lmg live that was the first time we saw that uh matt and i holy moly that was amazing the bears among us and i hopefully just Left the building but we are here and we’re back for the number five this is holy crap the fifth lfg live lets floor can go live of hard four gaming and i’m joined with my buddies my my couple friends in crime here and we’re here to Basically give you the alpha we want to give you the inside scoop of everything metaverse and gaming not just web3 gaming but we got web 2 gaming we don’t discriminate we’re we’re looking everywhere and we got e flow i’m going to start with you my man what are you Working oh what are you drinking my man oh it must be the same thing huh cheers yeah one of our traditions when we go live on lfg is we have a little glass of jameson right when we get started we haven’t been drinking all day this is This is just starting so we’re not trashed yet by the end of the episode we’ll see just you wait i’m drinking apple juice yeah all right so eflo you’re rocking a new background it’s kind of a tradition we talk about what’s rocking behind us we’re not in green Screen rooms no no no mr e flow what’s happening i am currently in kakariko village this is actually the ocarina of time version of kakariko village ocarina of time was probably my favorite video game growing up i remember getting it on christmas i got my nintendo 64 and Legend of zelda at the same time and i remember just like ripping open the box i think i know what this is this is the thing i’ve been waiting for and then i binge played this game for days until i beat it it’s uh it’s amazing and i Actually found this footage of somebody going and taking ocarina of time and putting it into unreal engine and this just looks insane i could have shown you clips from actual ocarina of time when it came out on n64 but everybody knows what that looks like i just thought this Looked a lot cooler so this is uh this is operator of time and somebody uh building it inside of unreal engines i want to play that dude though i don’t like that so would you not want to play this game float to you i think that’s an old english bottle There can we just watch this the whole time look at those waves holy crap there you go man ocarina of time is my background i definitely recommend uh recommend recognize buffalo’s background i spent a lot of hours on that game but uh why don’t you tell us about it there buffalo See oh well buffalo indeed ah this is uh warcraft 2 came out in the old 1995’s range and uh it is a classic for me back in the day it was one of my first rts’s i ever played real-time strategy warcraft 2 look at that i don’t know how that magazine has Made it as long as it has i think we came across that on ebay warcraft 2 had some sounds and when you heard them you knew it was time to play warcraft 2. tides of darkness is a classic ready to serve make it so it is a good Day to die are these ringing a bell to anybody because they’re bringing up full nostalgic vibes and guess what there is a remastered version of warcraft 2. it is called the chronicles of the second war you should check it out they have redone warcraft 2 and a warcraft 3 Engine and it is done by the fans blizzard did not do this i don’t know why they haven’t remakes warcraft ii it is a classic but the fans have done us all justice it is called the chronicles of the second war and it’s got the og vibes of warcraft 2. So for anybody out there like myself who loves warcraft 2 check it out kokomo i’m noticing some background there i’ve played that before what do you got going on this is a dust it was called this map but it’s part of counter-strike counter-strike man this was it released in 2000 i was Just looking that up i’m like that’s been 22 years it was half-life but it was a mod from half-life and i’m sure y’all played counter-strike if you haven’t where have you been it’s been around a minute and go go go let’s go get em like maybe it wasn’t that but Like you know i remember in high school rocking it subwoofer up sound you know killing that chicken right there thinking i’m the [ __ ] yeah no this this game uh this brings back memories and it felt like yesterday just played it i know matt you played a little bit buff i Don’t know if you played counter-strike i did i do i want to play all the new ones man i haven’t touched any of the new ones but they’re still going strong csgo and all that stuff so i was more of a dave defeat guy i like counter-strike but there’s too many Bunny hoppers bunny that’s true day of defeat was legit man that was a fun one i was debating about using that in the background but i went this way so um let’s talk about what we’re doing here on this fun uh day or evening whatever wherever you are uh show me the rundown Mr buff if you could throw that up here we got a lot going down as always we’re talking about the opportunities we’re seeing all over web3 but also here at hard fork buff will walk us through that we’re running a twitter contest matt’s going to tell us about that actually i’m Going to tell you about that that’s going to show you uh but that’s going right now if you want to head start go retweet something that latest post that we have on twitter go find us there avatars and nfts they’re a thing and we have a cool interview with an avatar a Living breathing avatar do they breathe i don’t know uh other side the metaverse built by yuga labs and the board apes we’re talking all about it we have mr q nifty q from lad city himself ronin over here with their thoughts and some some visuals on that we have esports we’re Talking to meta sports joe another joe in the crypto space watch out coming for you esports is telling us about how that’s going to merge with blockchain and how you’re going to benefit as a player and invest and all and then the spotlight with our partner animoka Brands and all the cool alpha they’re bringing i’m out of that was a long run down i think we’re going to cover a lot we’re trying some new stuff but buff i want to send it your way for the web3 opportunities and what we’re doing at Hard fork how we can work together how we’re collab and what are we doing well they say it’s a bear market as the cold open should show you the bears are out in full force but so is job opportunities and specifically web three opportunities oh you guys leave me hanging on that are You okay we all agreed to do that i just got a hose all right let’s talk about some positions we have open right now if you want to come work with us here at hard fork gaming we’re looking for video and graphic editors do you have the touch Are you a spielberg in the making let us know are you a show producer are you a kathleen kennedy who is a producer that works for spielberg for almost every one of his films a little bit of that that’s an amalfa now you want some more alpha You should be an alpha scout that means that you go down and you get us some gaming alpha something that’s coming around the mountain about gaming and you tell us and we get it on the show you are an alpha scout and we reward you huge shout out to all our office scouts If any of this is tickling your fancy head on over to hard fork dot gg slash discord let’s see what you got come on boy the hard four gaming crew as we are we’re hiring right now we are we are we’re doing a lot right now and uh sorry To catch you off guard there mr buff with that segment i want to kick it over to matt too about um to elaborate on what you’re talking about what we’re doing at hard fork gaming because we’re always experimenting we’re doing all sorts of stuff and just this last week we had um A live podcast our second one and so matt tell us about what we’re doing content-wise community-wise all the good stuff yeah so hard for gaming is a community first content network so we’re out there we’re playing the the greatest games and we’re talking to the people Behind the scenes of the games and we’re bringing you the alpha and the interviews and we’re working our magic behind the scenes to get nfts that we can give the community for free and we’re doing all of that in the name of spreading the word around web 3 and Building this community of people that love gaming and one of the ways we do that is through giveaways and you know what we do this on every show whenever i mention the word giveaway i kind of feel like i should do a giveaway uh let’s do It you want to give away a rev card like we just have the cars in the garage and we’ve got some red cars parked over in the garage i think i’m going to give away a rev car i’m using this tool called uh oh yeah oh my god he agrees he’s approved I’ve got this tool over here called nightbot it’s looking at everybody that’s chatting in the comments we’ve had 23 people chatting in the comments in the last few minutes so we’re going to pick from those 23 people and we’re going to give one of Them a rev car so here i go i’m going to press this button that says roll it and it goes to feel the pain there’s there’s the rev car music yeah that’s gonna do the dance that’s the music we play the giveaway so feel the pain make sure you’re on the Hard fork alpha list go to hard fork dot gg slash alpha make sure you’re on that list because that’s where you’re gonna give us your wallet uh details your solana and your ethereum address and that’s how we can hook you up with these free outfits so make sure you’re on that Alpha list so that we can get that over to you mr feel the pain sir um i don’t want to feel the pain but uh you know if why not you do this this is going to be a painless transaction we’re just going to send you These it’s not normal no no no no but you know what in the mood of doing contests i’m going to kick it back to joe and let’s do another contest uh well show me what you’re working with mr matt you know what i mean show me what you’ve got so What i mentioned earlier on that rundown i was doing we’re giving away some more stuff and one of the things we’re working with blockchain space and we’re actually producing some really killer content with them we’re doing some some blockchain conversations some chats that’s basically our job to pull out all The alpha from the founders and builders and all the cool people doing the building we’re going to talk about some companies and people doing that later too but blockchain space uh we also have some guild token and some more rev uh cars and tokens and all that fun stuff We’re gonna give some of those away to folks you listening watching uh if you hop over to twitter and uh matt maybe we could show what the tweet looks like if you go to hard fork on twitter you’ll find it’s probably the latest tweet go retweet that thing go retweet that thing And help us spread this to more folks because you know we want more friends here we want some more lfgs rocking in the comments and i want to see your comments by the way because we’re going to show them here on the screen mr buff is but first go to Twitter go retweet this preferably a quote retweet so you can tell us what you think about lfg live five and what you’re looking forward to in this one and if you are retweeting like hard fork is retweeting ourselves i think that’s matt you are then eligible to win some coins Some some guild token we’re going to give you a little grab bag of guild tokens some some rev car maybe cars other stuff i don’t know it’s like a loot box so you know we’re always hooking me up here at lfg and hard fork gaming so go to twitter and go retweet That tweet just like this one on our screen is retweeting you can even copy that retweet it’s cool that’s fork and go go to twitter you know what there you go tom hanks says to that [Laughter] i’m waiting oh come on all right that’s what he says All right so we’re doing that i should be wearing my padre hat right now no instead i’m sailing all right let’s go so go retweet that stuff and that’s what i got to say about that and you know what i’m going to cue that uh buff We’re going to kick it over and talk about the most uh actually there’s a couple blockchain space conversations coming out pretty soon but this one is crypto uh i was going to say crypto buffalo this one is crypto stash and he’s telling me a little bit of thoughts about his How esports is going to combine with blockchain and what you can expect so roll that thing buff so i’m crypto stash or stash most my friends call me stash and i’ve been in the crypto space since 2013. i’m curious man you’ve been in this space for a minute you’ve Definitely seen the trends your finger on the pulse uh we’re in a bear market but there’s things happening i know you can feel it too uh what’s your take on esports and blockchain gaming i think it’s a great match man i mean gaming and and uh you know and and the blockchain elements That we can bring to it through you know tokenization through nfts in particular with nfts i think is is uh uh really the case for mass adoption here for crypto i mean in particular with for nfts i really think so and i’ve been shouting this from the top of the mountain for Years already now i’m glad other people are starting to wake up but there is there is i think a lot of great things that come from that like when you talk about cool things you can connect to esports tournaments things like that you can turn tournaments into nft tickets That you you know can unlock certain things there’s great ways to be able to track everything going on um you know just having like a blockchain based leaderboard uh that can be verified you know that kind of information stuff like that i mean there’s there’s so many good Elements that you know could be injected into esports that actually improve the experience you know a verifiable blockchain based leader board for you know like uh league of legends so you could have a global one that is input in certain ways like you know hey this Cannot be uh it can’t be messed with you know this came directly from uh this game uh you know match and and boom here it is right so i mean things like that i think that there are some you know really great improvements that we can see esports doing That was mr crypto stash and uh you know we’ve had him on live here that was a little little pre-record so we’d chop that puppy up here and you’re probably gonna see more of that some little segments of our friends uh different kol’s different founders and builders in The space giving their thoughts uh and gracing the lfg stage here with us so that was crypto stash so check him out for all the fun stuff he does and also go check out the blockchain space conversations we’re having you know these things together they’re on our youtube channel and also on blockchain Spaces youtube channel not on crypto stash’s channel but that’s okay you know where to find our stuff so um that’s that’s going weekly and that’s basically what we got going there and i think the big thing takeaway here i want to kind of think about is is esports meta Sports uh joe we’re gonna in a little bit we’re gonna get his thoughts on what’s getting developed in the esports side of things with blockchain games because we’re seeing a lot of trends and uh matt maybe we could talk about this now because this goes into the news that You’re going to tell us about a little bit here is the traditional gamers kind of moving their way over here in way of esports and all these different mechanisms so tell us some of the news that you’re working with and and some thoughts yes sir yeah so we got doctor disrespects Midnight society he so dr disrespect if you’re not familiar with him he is one of the biggest gaming influencers out there he used to be a twitch streamer now he’s a youtube streamer and he’s pretty much a badass when it comes to like shooter games and so he’s really Really well known and he’s actually developing a game studio called midnight society they are partnered with polygon and midnight society is about to release footage of its first game called project moon and so they announced last week on twitter that project moon videos is going to come this week and they didn’t Give a date but this dude here named where is it where is it jake lucky mentioned hey 729 los angeles california be part of gaming first uh history up twitter just crashed on me anyway uh midnight society there you go so tomorrow is the day that that is supposed to release so check That out and uh yeah that’s what i got about that it’s a big name gamer in the streaming space jumping into blockchain gaming so really really excited about that i think uh that’s how we get mainstream adoption is some of these big influencers in the gaming space jumping Over and talking about it on stream and things like that so really really cool stuff excited about this midnight society video we’ll probably start seeing clips and stuff on twitter and the youtubes and there we go places like that tomorrow so pay attention to uh midnight society because there is a big Name dude behind it in the name of dr disrespect matt it’s not going to be a a smooth ride though for the transition of traditional gamers in blockchain do you think it is do you think i don’t think it is no yeah it’s we actually have some clips coming up in A few minutes where uh we we really show you how bumpy that’s gonna be but that’s what i was referencing yeah yeah but actually before we get to that clip there’s this thing now you know we mentioned avatars inside of our our title here avatars eastern three i’m Seeing it right on the screen over here so let’s get to that avatars part you guys had a really cool conversation with a guy named metamike now mike’s not like a human he’s like a robot in the computer or something dude first time i’ve ever seen this and it’s The first time that he ever made an appearance i’m talking about metamic and that is metamike right there yeah the man man i don’t know you’re looking at the thing right there yeah yeah so that just reminds me of uh of the good place not a Human not a robot not a robot yeah so that is metamike right there and one of the things that buffalo and kokomo asked metamike when they had the chance to sit down with them is how the hell do you do these avatars like how do you do interviews and actually be your avatar In the interview and you guys got him to break it down and i took some some footage and kind of tried to show off what he was talking about and this clip that i think buffalo is about to roll is the result of metamic explaining how to Be an avatar i do a lot of tinkering with different 3d applications different technologies and there’s not a template where you can go now and you can drag and drop and get this setup happening some of you may be familiar but game engines you’re dealing primarily with unity and unreal Engine what i have here is a 3d scene in unreal engine i am rendering this on my computer in real time it’s got a camera in the scene which is basically this view now and you know if i had a controller working i could move the camera around i could change the focal Length i could change any of the post processing on it but all this is actually running in real time on my computer i then have this avatar file which is really a set of different files that i’ve had to do a lot of combining and then exporting to get it into this Place what i have connected to that is a plug-in called live link which is an unreal plug-in and it takes your phone it takes the camera from the phone and it tracks all of the different facial movements from there it maps it in this real world environment on top of that There are various different technologies out there that utilize a avatar standard file format called vrm basically you can think of it as an interoperable avatar that allows you to create whatever you want as long as it matches these specific standards for the vrm standard and you can bring it in a lot of Different applications i believe it’s the magic mirror this is the technology that will actually take your audio input from your microphone and move your mouth in a way that replicates that sound if i’m saying ah then it will move the mouth and rather than me needing to face track it it will then Take my keyboard input and move my fingers to match whatever keys i’m on the same with the mousepad the same with the gamepad the same with a midi controller as well there’s a lot of different technologies that integrate with brm format so i have an app on my Phone called tdpt it allows me to take either a youtube video or your camera input and tracks your full body pose so it doesn’t track your face but it attracts your body so i can send that data through a protocol back to either unreal or back into blender to render a Specific set of poses or animation so there’s a lot of utility tools that allow you to play with this avatar rather than just being it you can use it as a creator tool yeah so that was meta mike there explaining how to do the avatars and That might be one of those clips where you want to come back and watch hard fork again and uh you know take some notes on the tools again if you’re an alpha scout i’m going to put all the links and references mentioned on this episode inside of the discord just for Alpha scouts so that is going to be available for you so make sure if you’re not in alpha scout hard fork dot gg slash alpha get on it and in the discord you get hooked up with all the links all the stuff you mentioned and hopefully That’ll be real clear oh yeah mr joe fear yeah no it’s man with metamike that was crazy because this guy met a mike that was the very first time he’s ever showed off his avatar and the the slew of technology i know matt you cut down That video a lot there’s a lot of tech that goes into that but it’s becoming more and more mainstream which is really rad and what metamic you really should follow him on twitter and see all the cool stuff he’s doing because just imagine i mean this is your your nft Eventually it’s going to become to a point where you now have this 3d rendering of yourself you can put yourself in all these different worlds and all these different metaverses and he was talking about interoperability and and how you can just move that character and and you know all the stats And all the things into other worlds and what’s really cool actually buff i have this on my screen here is that there’s a new open metadata that that was just a few days ago came out on the 21st essentially it’s a a bunch of these different you know those alien worlds Animoka brands dapper labs uh decentraland and all these others inbox upland and they’re basically teaming up to kind of come up with these protocols and an agreement for a lot of what meta mike was talking about so there’s definitely advancements happening quickly metamic you’re onto something my man you’re onto something Um and you know speaking of metaverses because i think the themes here the theme of this show here is mainly you know you have a little bit of esports we talked about we have more coming up here but really it’s this whole metaverse feeling this open metaverse and the Feeling that you can kind of go from one game or environment to another with a character with stats with leaderboards and all that cool stuff so um got more to come and and i want to talk about the the next segment because we actually had a chat with Nifty q over at lad city and he had a run through he he holds one of the the apes over there and he was on the other side kind of metaverse demo and we have a little clip of him we also have ronin the collector featured in This clip as well he also joined so let’s roll that buff and we’ll talk about the other side a little bit after decentraland is kind of a ghost town maybe decentraland should be the one that coordinates all these dope events why can’t there be a really cool rap Concert or any type of different concert in decentraland now that i mean they could do that if they wanted to but they kind of leave it to the community right it’s a very web 3 way to be is saying like okay we created this thing you guys build on top of it You guys create all this value yuga’s actually going out and saying no we’re doing all this stuff we’re creating this experience we’re creating this event imagine if if the other side was like for a 48-hour window we’re gonna have the other side open and that’s all they said the experience wouldn’t have been [ __ ] fun at all so five thousand people you know if you divide that up you could have got maybe 300 people in there at a time you know like maybe a community member organizes event within that but no yuga took the lead and said we’re going to do this event and then they Made a whole cool [ __ ] story that we could participate in get it together to central end so i did take part in the the first other side uh test which is really really cool as a gamer you instantly understand like the technical accomplishments that they have made you Know and i was watching you know the counter go up while i was in there to have 2 500 people in you know one virtual space is an accomplishment and then to have them all doing things like jumping and moving and emoting is is a step above and then to have every single One of them activate their voice comms and and for that to work in proximity across the entire level all 2500 people it didn’t so much as hiccup technologically what the other side is doing i think is really really cool dude other side other side’s crazy and technologically like ronin just said There i think that’s the biggest piece and we talked with uh nifty q yesterday this buff and i and and he was just saying yeah there’s so many people that were just uh flipped on the microphone all at once and boom you know no hiccups no nothing i think he was saying Something like 5 000 people so check out check out the video that um nifty q did actually so he’s we’ll check it you know we’ll probably post it in the group or something um but definitely he did a whole walk through this thing and it’s awesome so i want to Get in on the other side i don’t know about y’all but it’s looking pretty cool and interesting in the metaverse world and that’s where that’s where i want to kind of talk about what’s going on now because we’re we’ve been chatting with a lot of these Folks like um you know like nifty q was one of them uh crypto stash and all these folks you know what are we doing in the bear right now the bear is a time for building there’s not a lot happening with the markets it’s like we’re trying To poke with sticks and make it do things i know we joke about it in the house all the time over here at the studio that’s not a lot of news happening there’s a lot of people that left this space and unfortunately you know we’re that’s why we’re trying to Bring the entertainment the excitement and the fun and keep the uh the eyes here basically to tell you what’s new and what’s happening and one of the brands in one of the companies that we’ve been working with since day one at hard fork is anamocha brands and it was Very interesting when we i forget what how we heard about him at first i think was yatsu and some of the vision about the open metaverse and kind of this just the stuff they’re building and what they’re investing in and they’re investing in a ton of things You have the sandbox over here i’m sure you’ve seen that you got all these cool collaborations going on you have phantom galaxies you got life beyond we talked about this i think a couple shows ago they actually have a live demo you can play that’s a huge metaverse right there Rev sports there’s a whole ecosystem going down and there’s even i learned about it today that i think this is a new game in in the works so there’s a whole ecosystem of racing on the back of blockchain and the point being i’m just kind of showing some of the the slew of Things that animoke is doing and we’re just like essentially it came down to us thinking like hey these guys are actually building some really cool stuff and they’re building in a way that’s bigger than anyone else in the space it seems like um and it’s kind of it’s just wild so what i Wanted to show is actually one of my one of my tabs skipped over um but i wanted to show the slew of stuff that’s going down here and then break into a couple games that you should probably pay attention to um so just to kind of keep it tabs on things Are going on one of the ways that we get our alpha is honestly watching these guys animocas so that’s why we want to present it to you because they’re actually building in a huge way and you can see whatever you’re interested in in web3 because we can all benefit from Building you know if it’s you being as a content creator or just a player and engaging in communities or maybe offering to helping communities you could just look at these companies and just look at where you can actually give some value and contribute during this building phase in the bear market so That’s why i wanted to highlight in a mocha and there’s some games uh specifically that are coming out kind of recently here and some events that you should be aware of one of them is binge bananas this is actually an older game it’s a mobile game that anamoca had but they Have now started to apply all the play to earn elements and some other cool ways for you to get tokens by basically just playing and collecting bananas so buff roll the the clip of this thing and then we’ll talk about how to get involved in it right now Uh All right yeah so here’s a little bit of alpha for you so this benji bananas game here’s the theme with animoka they have a slew of investments it’s something like 340 invest yeah investments in games in game studios in all these things so just think there’s a lot So in terms of alpha pay attention to them and bingy bananas is kind of the most recent thing that dropped this is a mobile game so you’re actually playing it on your phone and you’re collecting bananas like that that thing was showing but now they’re actually having this This event where you can earn some ape or is this primate tokens we can actually swap it for ape tokens very easily that’s kind of the easy utility with it but you should check out what they’re doing over here on their medium it kind of outlines what’s going down the whole Thing is it’s starting on july 29th and goes for about 10 days and they’re giving something like the equivalent of over 300 000 worth of tokens you can see it’s 18 million primate tokens right there so just by collecting bananas you can see there’s there’s all these different ways that they’re weighting The scoring but the point being is uh that’s an event you can go and play at bingy bananas and make sure to kyc and all that stuff because that’s how you get the rewards you can trade it in all this other stuff a couple other things anabolic just like events that you Should be aware of moto gp this is also another tournament giveaway kind of thing that’s going down this is what anima mocha does a lot is just keeping the community engaged and with the bear i think that’s super important playing games and actually keep it engaged with The community i think that’s what’s big here and being immersed in social and playing the stuff and seeing what’s new so moto gp ignition is one of the newer ones and their champions game is live you can see they’re giving away 50 000 rev tokens which rev tokens can Be used on all sorts of stuff and this is kind of like a card game so the point is you you basically get cards and you match them up and there’s simulations and there’s giveaways rev tokens rev racing there’s a lot of stuff going down so there’s a couple things you can play Here at uh life beyond the demo phantom galaxies guys that’s what i got there’s a lot of things happening point being is check out the alpha over here at the uh the good old animocas awesome breakdown oh boy that was a lot of stuff cheers yeah take a breath take a drink yeah You got a whiskey shows you how fast you’re running on the show i love it uh we i think we need an alpha counter every time we drop alpha that’s a little thing you know what i mean next show we might engineer something like that so you can See how many pieces alpha we drop play that toasty at least buff come on i gotta hear that oh which toast are you talking about your new one come on the the disturbed oh oh oh wow that one he says okay i think you’re talking about live yeah all right you’re Talking about little tom makes mix he is that’s what i wanted to see audio and all right so quick things um and i did point out that you do have to kyc to put animoka stuff so um i actually some of it i don’t actually Think you have to kyc if you don’t want to earn but if you actually want to earn and actually get the tokens out of it you do have to kyc so that is um an important disclaimer we got nothing to hide but that’s got nothing to hide but yeah kyc it’s kind Of a pain process but i mean once you do it once i think it’s all the same but get it done that’s how you get rewarded but yeah giving away cool stuff but good on your husband i thank you and uh matt what do we got going on here So meta sports we’ve been talking about esports and all the all the crazy stuff to cross over with what’s being built with metaverse what are we talking about with joe at metasports yeah so somebody made a comment um i believe it was lama666 made a comment about how Onboarding into web 3 is the important part and like the other side looks really impressive but we still have some ways to go with onboarding and we had the opportunity of talking to joe from meta sports in fact uh joe fear joe kokomo joe and i actually drove up to L.a and met with him and had lunch with him and got to sit down we went dude this dude’s brilliant we got to get a recording of him saying some smart stuff and that’s exactly what we did was we sat down with him we got some sound Bites of him talking about how do how do people come into web 3 how do we get gaming rolling among web 2 gamers in web 3. how does esports fit into this whole picture because that’s where his background is and you know we put together this little clip of joe from Metasports breaking down why gamers don’t like web3 and what it’s going to take to actually get gamers into web3 let’s uh roll the one of the founders and the current ceo of meta sports last year you know it was a bull run so everyone is more interested in the financialization and The earnings part of the games when i think what’s happening now is that you know the games that raised money last year now is the time where it’s going to really show if a game is good all these games launching this half of the year with their alpha versions better Versions are going to be judged on a different scale the people who are creating content now or that are really going to be people who matter for gaming and web 3 related because it’s not solely about the financialization but really about the games themselves or the larger picture of the game competitive Gaming doesn’t really care as much about the finances but other than that it’s about the spread of the competition the lore the people behind the talent with organizations and the guilds who are supporting the infrastructure to be able to play my team’s greatest big idea is Over the next two or three years is that there won’t be web 3 gaming versus web 2 gaming it’ll all just be gaming and esports falls within the same category part of that thesis or parallel to it is that i truly believe that all games will be deciding What level of integration to blockchain technology will have so some games be like maybe mmos with full-scale economies some will be just their marketplaces will have nft some will have part of their marketplaces and items only a small part of it would actually be nfts and some will only not Have any but will allow cryptocurrencies as a way to buy into the product what does that mean it won’t be different in a few years content will gravitate towards the greater picture of the game and web 3 related assets nfts technology will be a way to augment certain parts Of it so same as esports i think that esports players and organizations who find value in gaming ecosystems or game worlds that have augmented themselves using blockchain technology but i think a lot of people who are in this space are thinkers builders are obsessed with some sort of alternate future that i Think is more equitable but the other side a lot of the greater gaming market is not here they don’t hate the experience they’re not here to want to own more of a game studio publisher studio or decide if a game will last longer they do this to escape it’s Really purely recreation so a lot of my friends are you know excellent gamers and passionate successful people who have to convince going to the space you know they don’t even hate it it’s more of like you know i don’t think it’s broken i get to do my amazing job or my Good job or my satisfied job and i get to go home and i get to play my games happily i get to cycle through different games and then you couple that experience which is probably the experience of most gamers with what you see in the media which is True that many gamers who’ve gotten to play to earn or the hype at the end of the run lost a lot of money you bubble that with another stack of crypto and people having lost more money from even before that through crypto but if you look at that level it really looks like A bad thing for gaming right it’s like why are people trying to mess with what already works for me why do i why do players have to own more of the games i’m fine spending on my assets it’s disposable income for recreation why do I need to be able to resell my assets so in that sense i fully understand i don’t think there’s nothing wrong i think it’s just that we’re inching towards some better options related to sustainability of games and if you really work in gaming you see the frustration a lot of Communities in games that don’t have the ability to survive despite the community who’s so passionate about it because it runs on web 2 rails that really has the control on one end it doesn’t allow community empowerment to help a game or community last longer so i don’t blame Them i think that’s totally fair and it’s really up to us who are in the space to navigate the technology navigate the features in our end for us like all of us in content and do a good job telling the actual value gamers are the most unforgiving market i’ve ever Had to work with if gamers don’t like your game it doesn’t matter what you do how much marketing you spend they just won’t play your game they don’t give a crap like they will be honest on reddit they’re empowered and they will just move on that fuels me There’s something about it that makes it feel more real if we do a campaigner do content or esports for a game and it sticks it’s because the gamers really freaking care about it the gamers really freaking care about it that’s true that’s true man that’s we’ve Heard a lot of people say that actually about gamer audience and you know what the content goes on the content goes on folks so uh yeah meta sports and joe over there his fingers are on the pulse and uh so go check out what they’re doing over there they’re They’re building some cool relationships and technology around the esports side of things and blockchain and that whole combination of stuff so that’s where it’s going to get interesting i feel like that’s going to be a big piece of onboarding as well um as of everything else we’ve been talking about Anything else uh let’s see i got some news yo but i don’t know if there’s anything else on your mind before i get into it huh let’s get into it i wanna this is this is uh got some breaking news my friend actually is probably a few days Ago but um this was about the big news out of the traditional gaming about minecraft matt has it on the screen there and so there’s a big deal about nft worlds which was actually an uh a project built a metaverse project built on top of minecraft and uh You know what let’s play the the real buff i think let’s set the scene of what this thing is and then we’ll talk about what just happened So Nft world all right so that looks like pretty fun game huh i don’t know you guys i would play it right i mean i would there’s a whole bunch of other people 130 000 people following on twitter well they got the news unfortunately for them that minecraft Said that they no more nfts no more for you no more nfts they’re cutting them off and they gave them this little nasty gram and uh you can basically the gist is they’re not supporting nfts minecraft and what it was is this uh this project essentially was built on top of Minecraft and uh to take a little further here if you want to read all about it and what the news was minecraft and nfts and how they see essentially they just don’t like the the openness of nfts and we had a response from a couple parties And one of them being that that uh nft world project essentially they said okay well we’re just going to make a better game it’s gonna be kind of tough i think uh we’re talking about it minecraft’s been around for like 10 years they’ve been developing for quite some time so It seems like some sour grapes from uh from everything i’ve noticed they actually had a whole write up nft worlds did of the future of what they’re gonna do there’s a lot of people banking on this project that essentially was a metaverse project is a metaverse project but essentially they’re all banned from Minecraft now but we had a statement and this uh this fine gentleman i’m assuming is maybe not gentle woman i don’t know [ __ ] richard it’s 20 22. sir you should never try to solve that riddle i’m not solving the riddle and i’m just saying the name now And they but they prompted a great discussion and said hey epic games it’d be really nice to see if you had the same opinion so assuming that they would have the same opinion uh as as what went down on minecraft over there and essentially they responded you know this Is that thing and here is the you see tim sweeney he is the epic founder or a games founder ceo this is what he said developers should be free to decide how to build their games and you are free to decide whether to play them preach it i like that like 1687 all right i believe stores and operating system makers shouldn’t interfere by forcing their views onto others we definitely won’t so that was nice it looks like they were calling him out on some nft stuff that’s not the point of the story now but you can you could dig deeper and just Remember this was the thread it was [ __ ] richard all right so moving on remember [ __ ] richard guys that’s all you got to remember there you go if that’s your takeaway and uh that’s your alpha for the day and and and here’s to it’s just a little uh It goes a little further you know just uh epic games basically won’t do it and and these guys nft worlds are essentially saying uh yeah we’re not leaving bottom line we have a community and we have a war chest and we know how to build the game that’s what these guys said in Their discord so we’ll see the uh the time will tell if they can make a better game than minecraft you know if i’m given my honest opinion my honest opinion is i think it was kind of foolish of nft worlds to build than somebody else’s sandbox that’s tough man Yeah i see that i see the the the need or the want to do that you know yeah yeah but you know like as digital marketers right you know we knew a lot of people that built entire businesses on the back of like a facebook page and then facebook decided you know what Let’s not give facebook pages reach anymore right like minecraft is kind of doing the same thing like build what you want in here oh but not that right and so i i just think it was silly to sort of build it in the first place that’s probably gonna like there’s probably a Lot of nft worlds people that are like that guy but um you know i think it was sort of foolish in the first place to build in somebody else’s sandbox because microsoft is not a stupid company i mean it was microsoft buffalo used to work with microsoft do you Is he stupid no so you know microsoft is you know they’re a smart company they see where stuff is going they see the web 3 stuff they have smart nerds at their company figuring this stuff out they’re going you know what other people are making money off nfts and our Sandbox maybe we should make some money on nfts in our sandbox that’s where i think it’s really headed that’s where i think the real motives are but you know that’s just speculation yeah it’s really interesting too uh lad city which was a content network i worked for last year in the year before They actually had a lad city built by small town cowboy in on a minecraft server for uplift and uplift i’m getting some uh alpha from our office scouts right now asmodai he’s saying uplift already has a full export of the buildings tested they just need to make New bases in unreal or unity to import into so a lot of these projects it’s not the end of the game for them they just have to move to a more healthier friendlier uh platform like unreal which is supporting crypto projects so it’s not the end of times it’s the changing Of the guard if you will for i guess minecraft just gonna miss out right now but we’ll see how this plays out maybe fortnite’s gonna do something big or build on back and forth who knows it’s an open economy it seems like over there so matt What do we got on the twitter fronts uh we we didn’t really remind folks which is not bad uh but you know over there on twitter you still have time if you want to quickly scurry over to twitter and find our tweet from about announcing the Show with the link to the show please retweet that and uh you will be eligible i’m begging and pleading no i’m not but uh you will be eligible to win some guild tokens and some rep car maybe cars we’ll see the grab bag and uh matt is going to use his fancy pants Twitter selector tools so we’re not just picking winners you know with our choice matt what you got what do you think so i’ve got this tool up on the screen it’s called twitter picker i just plugged in the tweet that we referenced which is the one with we said to retweet and i’m Going to turn it up turn it up come on let’s rock what are we listening to oh yes this is our giveaway music very good all right so we’ve got this twitter picker tool it’s looking at anybody who’s retweeted this tweet that we put out earlier in the show to Announce that we’re going live you got to be following hardboard gaming if you’re not following hardcore gaming well then you’re just wrong so i’m gonna go ahead and let’s see what’s my next step i’m gonna click continue down here nope i’m not uh load tweet i gotta press this button here I’m learning how to use this tool in real life okay well maybe uh-oh maybe i’m not all right let me see what’s going on here this is the tweet link this tweet is real it’s real life all right guys thanks for bearing with me this is real life this is All right there we go now i’m gonna go ahead and tell my broadcast bro jeez come on all right now it’s loading hey now i can click continue and we can see all of the people that are eligible there’s 20 people eligible and so as soon as i press this button Wait how many what oh did we already pick it no i have not picked anybody yet joe say what you’re gonna say how many how many winners are we picking is it one is it two why don’t we remind him what we’re giving away in the first place well we didn’t actually Specifically say totally what’s being given away but it’s a grab bag of things guild tokens and also possibly rev cars slash tokens actually whenever we send cars we send tokens we make sure you’re all hooked up so we can actually so you can go race on the race tracks and kyc Of course like asthma dies said and suggested very nicely uh you could win some money over there at rev racing but you know mr matt let’s go what are we gonna you know what i’m feeling two two okay we’re picking two people continue no we’re picking three another okay hold on Three threes are good three okay continue we’re set on three right we’re gonna pick from these twenty no i said it all right ready bomb no drum roll’s the music again i need the drum roll there’s our winners who’s our winner zoom in man zoom in we got something rejected huh Well because they don’t follow hardcore gaming oh why if you don’t follow hardcore gaming then you’re all right so we got chromer dot eth we got fizz mark salaro and we got jvd1227 yeah there’s our winners all right so the way that you claim is you see that thing right down yonder It’s hard for gg alpha you want to go to that list and make sure and there you go buff’s got the fingers look at them fingers so you want to go to hard four dot gg slash alpha hey you’re just tickling matt’s nips it’s getting weird um so good hardboard.gg Alpha and make sure that you’re in there and let us know in discord that you won i mean make sure you’re that you’re probably live and just going discord we got that support tickets now what’s going on everyone keep your hands away yeah we do have a support ticket thing So yeah send us a support ticket in the channel if you’re in the discord send a support ticket and we’ll hook you up you know and thank you this was fun guys huh what’d you think i’m i’m really impressed that we got everything in under an hour Boom thank you ma’am wham pam all that stuff yes exactly what matches another this is impressive man so everybody uh when is the next day i don’t have the calendar in front of me but when is the next lfg live let’s do it for today two weeks from today Thursday but that thursday after that one you know i mean you got to be in the discord follow us on the twitters on the youtubes and leave us some comments and and you know after this thing’s live give us another comment if you don’t mind it helps us out spread the word to More people again this is where the number one place for all the alpha and the early access and all the fun stuff and and chats with founders at the metaverse and gaming space hard fork gaming and lfg live every two weeks probably every one week you know starting in the fall 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