So many ideas that you're looking for art direction from a forum full of 14 year olds and currency speculators.


Job? I thought this was a big giveaway where people got paid pennies for scribbling in MSPaint?

"Job" would be where you try to find people who aren't idiots, and pay them money. The important part is that they're not idiots; everything else can be learned.

And YOU know how to hide your curiosity, almost.

"Grinding" (never heard the word used in this context before) would be replaced by just purchasing skills in-game with BTC, or by hiring other players who've grinded/bought their way to the physical/financial/etc state you want them in. Why spend 3 weeks collecting magic levels when you can buy a shop protection spell, or hire a tough to hang around your door? Obviously there will still be some grinding/farming happening, but it won't be necessary and will only be for those who want to earn BTC without providing or creating anything that the public deems useful / worth buying.

In-game tech support requests get sent to the Hall of Wisdom, where you can read the ancient scrolls of FAQ, or hire an expert to help you organize the items in your shop, hone your farming skills, etc.

Want an off-limits area of the map opened up? Approach the Council of Elders, who will decide amongst themselves whether or not to enable it. Can they be bribed? Who knows.

Make (or lose) some quick money by stumbling into a gambling house, and trying your luck at some dice.

Based on how much money a character is spending in-game, more or fewer money-making opportunities will present themselves. Little kid who's farming wheat for 1mBTC a day? He might get lucky and find a 25mBTC coin in the soil every once in a while. Shop owner who pushes BTC10 of revenue a month out the door? Maybe the mayor gives him a prime location for his new shop, or the keys to the city.

Fact of the matter is that the splash page is a red herring; nobody gives a fuck about the splash page. Any dummy with a Wacom tablet can pull one together in a couple of hours. The meat and potatoes of this "create a splash page and we'll make a game around it" contest is that you're fishing for game ideas without saying as much. So I'm going to keep sketching out details of the game that's gonna put S.MG on the map (we've only scratched the surface), and you and MP are going to either take the freebies I've given you so far and run with them, or you'll realize that this project is enormous, too big for yourselves and one 20-hour-a-week programmer, and start, y'know, paying the people who are creating your game for you. Or I'll get tired of handing out freebies and you'll miss out on all the ideas I haven't come up with yet.

Assembling a round table of people who aren't idiots is a good start; more ideas will obviously follow when the council of non-idiots realizes that their ideas aren't just being pissed into the wind.

Best-case end result of this is that bitcoin transforms from a vehicle of speculation to a vehicle of commerce. The classic problem with opening your own dot-com online store is visibility: who's going to buy your product if they don't know about your website? How do you break out of a local market? Where does your advertising money get spent? How do you connect with your audience? Ebay and Etsy etc somewhat solved this by providing a shopping mall type setup, where people interested in spending money are browsing products; you're much more likely to get search hits for "unicorn pendant" on ebay than you are on google. Suddenly you don't need to break through the non-commerce noise, which is overwhelming on public search engines.

And so you set up your shop in TMK and start selling the chainmail shirts you used to sell on etsy, and someone sends you bitcoins for one of them, and now instead of hoarding those bitcoins or cashing them out for USD, you spend them on something else in-game, because now YOU'RE the person in the middle of a market with a pouch full of coins in your pocket. And so on.

Wheat.

Why buy your drugs on the silk road website when you can log into TMK, head over to the back-alley district, and buy them from Ye Olde Opium Shoppe? Obviously lots more tax men and thugs around here, so you're much more likely to get jumped and get your BTC stolen. Unless you've purchased a protection spell, which will protect you, &c.

Win a few jousting tournaments and you're more likely to win fights. Run a store, keep your customers happy, and maybe someone steps in when you get held up, or your inventory catches fire.

Nobody gave a fuck when their Tamagotchi died. Think people will give a fuck if the money they earned selling jewelry just got robbed?

Online wallets provided by "banks", so you only need to carry your spending money on your avatar instead of your whole in-game roll.

You writing all this down?

Focus obviously in the above image is those two guys trading BTC in the corner. If you want to make real money you don't sell virtual cow patties or turnips, you sell physical objects. Players open their own in-game Etsy stores and sell actual physical unicorn pendants and healing crystals and all the shit you see people hawking at renaissance fairs. In-game currency is obviously BTC. Unlike Etsy and eBay, there's no fees for listing or selling. Instead, the mad king's tax men are everywhere, and if they catch you in a transaction, you have to pay the king's tax (listing/selling fees).

It's like the home shopping channel, but you can practice your archery or do quests in the meantime. Think your girlfriend is gonna mind you playing TMK 16 hours a day if you're a level 99 middleman and can buy her a new Bench hoodie once every few weeks?

You guys aren't even trying, there's no "e" in "dragon".



The mad king is heavy on taxes because he's trying to secure operating funds for his kingdom. Commoners have to guard their BTC closely.

All outstanding orders have been mailed! Since I'm out of XXL and XL, and dangerously low on L, I've closed this group buy.

THANK YOU to everyone who ordered, and to Chaang Noi and Canary for each donating $10 to help cover the cost of two shirts for friedcat ($40 total... I splurged on air mail)!

but...

Regarding these shirts: I like the style of artwork, but I agree that the text looks out of place. Remove the text and you've got yourself some kick-ass shirt designs.

Just out of curiosity, why did you choose digital printing over traditional screenprinting? In my experience, people are much more willing to hand over money for something that's been made by hand, rather than something that's been made by a computer.

All outstanding orders have been printed and packaged. I'll drop them in the mail tomorrow morning.

I'd also like to mention that if you've had a positive experience ordering from me, I'd appreciate it if you clicked the "Trust" link under my name and left some feedback. A few kind words go a long way when you're trying to sell things here

open terminal

ls /dev/cu.*

Launch MacMiner, open the bfgminer window. In the advanced settings, enter the flags:

-S /dev/cu.yourdevice

where cu.yourdevice is the likely culprit from the ls /dev/cu.* above

i also used the checkbox to disable gpu mining.

PM sent! Thanks!

Did we win?!

Unfortunately, no. Shipping from Canada is expensive, and tracking numbers would have added almost $10 to the cost!


Thanks! I'll add you to the list shortly, and ship your order tomorrow.

It's not for the faint of heart or the easily disturbed

Given the variety of items for sale in this subforum, I figured there might be enough book fans floating around to get some interest in this item:



The 4th book by Canadian author Anthony Brenton, A BOOK is equal parts paranoia, madness, gibberish, and surrealism. Anyone who's into Burroughs or Bukowski will find something they like in here. This is a first edition, limited to 40 hand-bound copies. 207 pages with a manually silkscreened cover.

Some promo posters, with quotes from the text: https://i.imgur.com/V9LuhjV.png

Prices below include shipping:
to Canada
to USA
to everywhere else!

THIS.

Longest thread I ever COMPLETELY read was 96 pages, and it wasn't on this forum. People are at each other's throats here, any thread longer than 5 posts is guaranteed to have at least a few insults or an argument tossed around.

Almost every single subforum here has threads that are too long to manage. Nobody has the time to sift through 400 pages of posts on every topic they're curious about.

Yes please!

Chaang Noi donated $10 earlier, so if you were to do the same, that'd be the cost of friedcat's shirts covered. Your total would be

it'd be roughly as expensive to add his shirts to your order as it would be to ship them myself, so i'll pick up the shipping tab ($10-15 for surface, 6-8 weeks), and if anyone else wants to chip in on shipping, we may be able to upgrade it to airmail

We've still got Small, Medium, and Large left... I may be able to dig up a sky blue XL, if I remember your size correctly?

I've got two printed for friedcat already, and you're the second person to offer to pay for one