Crazy who is this Rustin guy S/o to @higround team and community fr

In America, a stranger will rename you in a single breath, and you are simply expected to come when called. I went to eat at a busy restaurant. A young man at the front asked for my name, to mark my place in line. I gave it the weight it has carried for eight hundred years. "Nobunaga." He smiled, nodded, and wrote it down with great confidence. Then he read it back to me, to be sure he had honored it correctly. "Perfect. Banana, party of one." Banana. He had heard my name, held it a moment, and returned to me something rounder and more cheerful. To refuse the name a host gives is to refuse his welcome. I bowed. I was Banana now. Then he handed me a small black disc, said it would "light up and buzz" when my table was ready, and turned to the next guest as though he had not just placed a living thing in my hands. I held it in both palms, the way one holds a small sleeping beast that may wake. I found a place to stand. I waited, ready. It woke. It screamed. It flashed red. It leapt and shook in my hands like a captured spirit demanding release. A lesser man would have dropped it. I did not. I gripped it, steady, looked into its blinking lights, and told it, in a low voice, that its time had come. Then I carried it back to the host with both hands, the way one returns a hawk to its master. He took it without looking and shouted across the entire room. "BANANA! Party of one, your table's ready!" A hundred strangers turned. I rose. I crossed that floor as Banana, spine straight, chin level, a man answering to his name. A child pointed at me. I gave the child a small bow. He had recognized me. All through the meal they kept me. "How's it tasting, Banana?" "More water, Banana?" The check, when it came, said Banana, and thanked me for visiting. By the end the whole staff knew me. They waved as I left. "Night, Banana!" So tell me honestly. For eight hundred years my clan answered to one name. Tonight I answered to a fruit, calmed a screaming relic in my bare hands, and ate among people who were glad I came. When the little disc lights up, is the table truly mine, or am I only keeping it warm for the next Banana? Because I have already decided to return on Friday, and to ask, very humbly, for the same disc.

SIGNATURE MOVE: EARNINGS CALL THROWS BRICK PHONE AT YOU AND MONEY RAINS FROM CEILING

YEA I MIX THE MARGIELA WITH THE ROBLOX 🤣 #IGOTROBUX #MARGYONME

Hi @Banks

BRING BACK COUNTER STRIKE SURFING.

DOES THAT MEAN MARATHON IS GONNA BE NEXT DESTINY? PVE MODE IS LAUNCHING. I DO HOPE THESE PEOPLE FIND THEIR FEET. ITS GETTING ROUGH OUT HERE.

This was to be Virgil's first NFT, “Self Portrait”. It is his envisioned DAO smashing through the Louvre, representing Web3 smashing the barriers to entry for all creators. Uploading it here for anyone to right-click save, as he would have wanted. RIP Virgil.

No matter how hard life gets… don’t sell your console.

AND TRYING IS WHAT WE NEED TO DO. DONT BE AFRAID TO TRY. BE AFRAID TO BE STAGNANT. SHOUTOUT ASHA.

MATHEW BALL (BALLIN') JOINING IS CRAZY. CANT WAIT TO SEE WHAT HE COOKS UP. HUGE MOVE I AM EXCITED FOR XBOX'S FUTURE.

Career update: I’ve joined Riot Games. My job is to incubate projects that will help make them even cooler than they are today. It’s a dream role so I wanted to share how it happened to help others. To my business people, any brands, creators, agencies, etc. let’s do something dope hit me up I want to hear from you!

The CEO of Take-Two, the company behind GTA, just said something the entire AI industry doesn't want to hear. And he said it without being anti-AI. Strauss Zelnick's argument is precise. AI is built on datasets. Datasets are backward-looking. Creativity is forward-looking. A model trained on everything that already exists cannot, by definition, produce something genuinely unexpected. And all hits, by their very nature, are unexpected. Asset creation and hit creation are not the same thing. AI is getting very good at the first one. The second one is what actually makes money, builds franchises, and changes culture. Nobody has shown AI can do that yet. The derivative property problem is real. You can clone GTA with existing technology. You could do it before AI. It would take 3 years and look identical. It still wouldn't sell. Because it isn't GTA. It's a clone of GTA. And consumers, despite what the industry occasionally pretends, can feel the difference between something genuinely new and something assembled from the residue of things that already worked. Thousands of mobile games ship every year. 0 to 5 hits get made. The same studios make them every time. The technology to make more games has been commoditized for years. It didn't democratize hit creation. It just flooded the market with more forgettable product. The Silicon Valley thesis that AI unlocks game creation for everyone is true in the same way that cheap cameras unlocked filmmaking for everyone. They did. And the same 5 studios still make the movies everyone watches. What Zelnick is saying, without quite saying it, is that the thing AI cannot replicate is taste. The instinct for what hasn't been done yet. The cultural antenna that detects the gap in the market before the data can see it. Data tells you what people wanted. Hits tell people what they want next. Those are different jobs.

HI GUYS, LIFE UPDATE. I HAVE LEFT @higround THE COMPANY I HELPED COFOUND. ENJOY THIS VIDEO. BYE BYE 4 NOW. #founder

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WHENS THE LAST TIME YOU LAYED UNDER A TREE AND JUST CHILLED?

PEOPLE SAY DO WHAT YOU ARE GOOD AT, NOT WHAT YOU LIKE. I KNOW THIS IS COUNTER TO ALL THE ADVICE ONLINE BUT I THINK THATS FUCKING DUMB. WE DIDNT START HIGROUND BECAUSE WE “THOUGHT” ABOUT WHAT WE WERE GOOD AT. WE STARTED IT BECAUSE WE “FELT” LIKE WE WANTED TO (S/O TO MY FRIEND BEN FOR UNLOCKING THAT, PEBBLE BEACH IFYKYK). YOU CAN JUST HAPPY MAX YOUR WAY TO SUCCESS.

im really enjoying making games with @threejs anyone else?

euromaxxing (living paycheck to paycheck with no prospect of upward mobility)

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Enjoyed speaking @WorldGovSummit about how gaming can be a part of foreign and domestic policy for countries (Ignore the pic I got a haircut)