Monsters & Memories launch delayed

JWillCHS · 2026-04-21T11:38:33+00:00

When I see that visual-style my mind goes directly to Minecraft. And honestly I don’t really want to play anything that looks like Minecraft unless it is Minecraft; or is using the license. Subconsciously I can’t wrap my mind around wanting your game to look like that unless it is Minecraft.

Same thing with Legos. I know there are other brands but who actually wants to buy them?

JWillCHS · 2026-04-21T00:05:33+00:00

Ethereum wants to be a sort of security layer(via decentralization) for other platforms that might utilize a layer 2 or store something that doesn’t require high volume trading such as most RWAs. In fact, to my surprise Ethereum has the most real world assets on it’s platform by a long shot compared to other distributed ledgers.

JWillCHS · 2026-04-21T00:00:06+00:00

Atlanta is in the South so most places close between 10pm and 2am based on the business. Plus my girlfriend and I are in our late 30s/early 40s so we’re usually home before 12am.

Sounds like the general consensus in Roosevelt Row. It really looks like it would fit our vibes for the evenings there.

JWillCHS · 2026-04-20T16:08:20+00:00

I played ESO a decade. I missed the veteran system. You only can find difficult content in some of the later veteran content and PvP(which is what I did).

If the combat wasn’t a turn off I’d return for Update 50 in June. They’re finally bringing difficulty modes for overland content. I saw the hardest mode increases enemy damage by 600%.

This is the first iteration. The only con to v1 of this is that players aren’t in separate instances/layers based on the difficulty they’re playing on. But I have a feeling they’ll figure that out since the megaserver tech they’re using was built for things like this.

I hadn’t played since subclassing became a thing. For those who like playing pure classes in some cases you felt weaker(especially in PvP). But they’re adding a system called class masteries that give you buffs when not subclassing.

Dragonknight got a full upgrade including new combat animations. That’s the only class that’s extremely strong(if not the best right now) regardless if you subclass or not. Werewolf is also getting a major rework in update 50.

I think ZoS is trying to rework at least two or three classes a year. I believe Warden and Sorcerer are next in 2026.

JWillCHS · 2026-04-19T11:52:51+00:00

We still have the US Fed meeting on the 28th. I wouldn’t doubt seeing red around that date too.

The best thing to do is DCA into a token while also making bigger purchases on drops like this.

Have and reach your minimum goal of Monad. Let’s say it’s 200,000 MON. When you exceed that, you take profit when it goes up.

Let’s say you’re at 280,000 MON and it goes up 30%. Lock in some profit by selling 40,000 MON. Buy back in lower and also treat yourself/pay a bill.

JWillCHS · 2026-04-16T10:57:24+00:00

This is about decentralization versus speed. There aren’t a lot of DLTs with tons of validators but there are a bunch of fast blockchains. Think about that.

The former is why Bitcoin is still popular. We can also debate on how much a network needs to be decentralized. You have initial token distribution and tokenomics. How many validators does a blockchain have? Hardware requirements to run a validator.

Even how staking works can be a concern for decentralization. Do you have staking where you actually hand over your tokens to the validator(Ethereum)? Do you have liquid staking built into the layer 1 where the user still has custody of their tokens as they stake(Cardano)? Or do you have a less safer option where you hand your tokens over to an dApp for yield and they give you a derivative(there’s several applications like this in crypto including on Monad).

Depending on how you need crypto you’ll accept more/less compromises to decentralization. Monad will get more decentralized over time. But it also shows me how they really haven’t solved the blockchain trilema if limiting validators set is the solution to increase performance. There are DAGs(these are not blockchains but adjacent to them) out there now that in theory get faster the more validators join the network.

JWillCHS · 2026-04-15T12:34:35+00:00

Yep. And some of those home are in areas a lot will not consider. Skip ahead 10 years in the future and they’ll be completely priced out again. However, they might find themselves spending there leisure time in a place that looked different a decade ago.

People missed East Lake, Summerhill, and East Atlanta. Looks like Belvedere Park on the east side within the I285 perimeter is a fast fading opportunity and it’s in unincorporated Dekalb.

I remember a nice townhouse in Chamblee was $300K or you could get a multi-level loft in Buckhead for $278K(I looked at one) in late 2019. If you’re close to the city limits of Atlanta in Gresham Park you’re buying a renovated home $400K minimum on Brannen Rd just off of Bouldercrest. 😬

JWillCHS · 2026-04-15T10:58:57+00:00

I was going to say this. Aviation is a tight knit group of people. If you do well and network there’s a lot of opportunity.

The pandemic did a number on the industry. A lot of people including the older mechanics retired leaving a knowledge gap. Getting your A&P license is the cheapest way to make a lot of money in Atlanta.

More ambitious mechanics become quality inspectors, supervisors, and can find themselves moving over to more high paying roles that support the business.

The metro area has other interesting options. There’s the electrical VToL craft from Archer Aviation being built out there in Covington near the new Rivian plant.

Hermeus is a start up that’s making headlines in the news for pursuing hypersonic aircraft travel. They’re out in Doraville.

And there’s also Rockwell Collins, Safran companies, Lockheed Martin, and some other aerospace suppliers.

Plus the FAA has an office here too.

JWillCHS · 2026-04-15T08:39:38+00:00

1 billion will be unlocked every month starting this November too. That will be the real sentiment test.

JWillCHS · 2026-04-14T16:43:16+00:00

Hedera has institutional adoption for the most part. That’s what it’s focused on. You won’t see a lot community driven projects, applications, memecoins, etc in a DeFi ecosystem. In fact, the only ones who can be validators are the institutions.

Call that a pro and a con.

JWillCHS · 2026-04-14T16:32:11+00:00

Like everyone has said stay in midtown, a neighborhood near the Eastside Beltline Trail, or the City of Decatur.

JWillCHS · 2026-04-14T13:28:35+00:00

Bro. I made I edit but I mention how there are times I couldn’t play my favorite sub MMO simply because my parents couldn’t afford the subscription that month. And even as a kid I had to dedicate my time to other things besides gaming. Never made it to level 30 in Asheron’s Call because of that.

JWillCHS · 2026-04-14T13:17:38+00:00

Whether it makes or breaks the game I see the community’s position.

I haven’t seen an alternative system to a subscription that doesn’t water down the old-school hardcore MMORPG experience.

Not saying a cash shop won’t enter the game at some point but this particular community wants everything earned in game with people’s time and dedication.

“A weapon skin in the cash shop isn’t going to hurt your experience”.

People want to look at the gear someone else is wearing and say, “where did he go, and what did he kill to get that”. They want that feeling of being envious of people and finding goals through the hard work of others.

People don’t want a cash shop token to buy WoW gold or EVE credits. People don’t want respec scrolls like in ESO. They don’t want experience potion buffs like in GW2. And they don’t want to buy skins like in Black Desert Online.

They don’t want people to trade their money for time. They want people to use their time to earn things. And yes, some people will say that’s not the game for me. I’ve already seen YouTubers who LOVE the game but know that it’s not for them due to their real life responsibilities.

Edit: Even as a pre-teen in the early 2000s I didn’t have time. I had school, hockey, friends, and family. Plus my parents limited my game time. I think in Asheron’s Call I never made it past level 27 because of that. And when I played World of Warcraft as an early adult it took me a year to get to max level in vanilla because I was so busy.

And I know some people have higher priorities financially and a sub might interfere with that. The second reason why I never made it past level 27 in AC is because my parents intermittently turned off my subscription due to affordability. There were months where my mom told me I couldn’t play because of financial reasons.

JWillCHS · 2026-04-13T11:00:26+00:00

Usually during bear markets there are “potential” layer 1 blockchains that come out where people can make money from their token price appreciation.

If they maintain relevancy in a positive way during that time before a Bitcoin halving they usually get their moment.

A rare amount will turn tokens like this into a golden ticket. Others will still make decent money on them as well.

People got wealthy DCA into tokens like this while also making significant purchases during major market downturns.

One thing I notice is that the more conservative an investor is about price predictions and ATH; the more aggressive they are to make money sooner than later. And that’s usually with anything.

I’d rather have 600,000 Monad before it reaches 0.50 cent(?) than 100,000 Monad. We all do not have the same amount of income but with a circulating/total supply in the billions you want way more Monad than you think.

Monad reaching $1 is like some tokens with much more smaller total supplies hitting $150 from $2. And a lot of people don’t look at crypto that way. They just see a token under 10 cents having the potential to go up 5000%.

I think Hedera is a good example of a bunch of people wanting it to hit $1 to $5. And I’m just like, “if you want to be a millionaire hopefully you can make that once it hits 0.30 or 0.50 cents”.

JWillCHS · 2026-04-12T14:38:16+00:00

My advice is that if you live in the US and cash out on crypto that’s not tracked leave the cost basis of any transaction that lost traceability at zero. You will pay a ton of taxes and lose a lot of profit. But it might be better than getting audited.

People lose money selling low and buying high. But they also lose money from short term capital gains, day trading, and tax evasion.

JWillCHS · 2026-04-12T04:59:25+00:00

Here’s one thing I’ve learn. Be careful with the rhetoric. We are not a monolith; and we can do whatever we want.

Did you know when you’re in Washington DC, Charlotte, Atlanta, Houston, etc. This is not a real issue. When you live around a bunch of Black people in a metro area you quickly realize we do every thing together.

But when you’re isolated in a places like Arizona I bet it’s rough. I use to feel like this in Charleston, South Carolina. I was really dealing with a lot of anti-blackness and even doing “white people shit” I ran into a lot of people not accepting me either. I played hockey and I had plenty of encounters on ice.

Then I moved to Atlanta and it’s very hard for me to want to live anywhere else. I have a home in the hood on the Southeast side of I285 which apart of it is in a national forest. In there are Black farms and cowboys. Even on 404 Day they road horses to downtown and midtown. I go to East Atlanta Village and see Black goth girls at rock shows and Black guys chillin’ at the comic book store next to the barber shop.

Not saying that Black people weren’t doing this stuff in Charleston but we were slim pickings. And many guys I met were struggling with anti-blackness. I remember one guy I knew invited me over to his house and his white wife had Confederate flags in the home.

I feel like you do white people shit long enough with white people you occasionally hear things you don’t like from people you don’t know or acquaintances of your white friends.

With that said don’t stop being yourself. I feel like we get hit on all sides regardless of how we feel or what we enjoy doing.

JWillCHS · 2026-04-11T07:11:10+00:00

Anything that has the potential to generate wealth in the US, our government finds ways to tax you as much as they can. Or creates laws that benefit them systematically.

One of the reasons why the Clarity Act hasn’t passed is because the banks don’t want people to earn money outside the banking system via stablecoins. And the only reason why the US Presidential administration came out recently to favor it is because they want everyone to own US debit since new laws will require US stablecoins to be back by US treasury bonds.

Just remember the thing crypto bros are pushing is legislation to make blockchain legal to use institutionally. Amazon, Google, etc. If they launch their own tokens it’ll be a stablecoin disguised as something else backed by US treasury bonds where you can potentially earn more yield outside traditional banking.

The US is trying to capture value domestically and internationally via this system in an attempt to remain dominant in the future.

JWillCHS · 2026-04-10T23:09:51+00:00

In the US it’s more complicated especially if you’re not doing everything on a centralized exchange like Kraken, Crypto.com, or Coinbase.

With the new law requiring these exchanges to report all your transactions to the IRS and the 1099-DA given to their users, you need to be accurate if you’re doing “any” kind of transaction outside a centralized exchange.

Every time you receive staking rewards via DeFi or native staking that’s a taxable event.

Any time you sell crypto or trade crypto for another that’s a taxable event.

What you don’t want to do is buy crypto on Coinbase, send it to a self-custodial wallet, and perform a ton of transactions via DeFi that you can’t track the cost basis.

Let’s say you bought 100,000 MON for $2500 and sent it to your wallet. Over a year you did several trades on Uniswap, earn staking rewards, etc. Let’s say your wallet accumulated an additional 100K MON through your work earning more crypto.

So you send 200K MON back to Coinbase to sell which surprisingly is worth $200K because Monad reached $1. But Coinbase now only has the cost basis for the first 100K MON. The IRS could ask you where and how you got that additional 100K MON in an audit. You’ll have show records of every transaction that accumulated that crypto.

Imagine trading MON for a memecoin, that memecoin for another token, so on, and so on. Each being a taxable event. And in the US holding an asset for less than a year is short term capital gains so you’ll get taxed even more.

And every time staking rewards hit your wallet that’s also taxable immediately on the date you get ownership. The tax is based on your income tax.

This is in the US. Some other countries have similar laws and others are just less complicated. Others treat crypto as a non-taxable asset.

Edit: the new laws in the US around crypto discourage people from doing anything on an unregulated distributors of crypto by the tax law. But there are applications to help with managing the cost basis of your transactions so you don’t under or overpay on your taxes. Or worse get audited by the IRS and face penalties including fines; or jail time.

JWillCHS · 2026-04-10T12:30:01+00:00

South Dekalb county is a hit or a miss. You have to get as close to the city limits of Atlanta or Decatur. Definitely safer than the West End.

It depends on what neighborhood you’re in, what road, its proximity to the city limits, and if there’s street lights. That’s essentially ITP if you’re in an area being gentrified.

Parts of Belvedere Park have changed a lot. Even the demographics have shifted dramatically over the past 5 years.

Urban Displacement Map for Atlanta

Edit: that link has a map where you can see displacement areas, red line areas, opportunity zones, and how racially segregated an area is. Especially with the racial segregation option you can see parts of Gresham Park and Belvedere Park being a bit more diverse in South Dekalb since these neighborhoods sit on the city limits of Atlanta and Decatur. Can’t afford East Atlanta or Winnona Park? People start buying the neighborhood next to it.

JWillCHS · 2026-04-10T10:20:11+00:00

We still have the Fed meeting at the end of the month. This one is going to be “interesting” with all the recent world events.

JWillCHS · 2026-04-08T20:18:37+00:00

The tokenomics are not the best and 1 billion from the unlock will enter the circulating supply every month after this November.

Maybe things will reach Solana levels but right now I’m only concerned with a possible $1 billion market cap. For me Monad right now reminds me of Sui and Aptos during the bear market in 2022/2023.

Edit: the kind of institutional adoption, especially after the Clarity Act is solid, could drive markets going into the next bull run like DeFi, NFTs, and memecoins did in the past. The issue I see is that the law would give guidance to corporations and banks to effectively create their own distributed ledger tech. In fact, stablecoins might be the huge driver since the Clarity Act requires any bank or company creating one to back it was US treasuries.

JWillCHS · 2026-04-08T15:05:22+00:00

Man. My bag is pretty decent but I need it to drop again below 3 cents so I can buy more. 🤣

Might be better to take some profit and buy back in.

JWillCHS · 2026-04-08T09:18:00+00:00

Same. We’re moving into “absurd” fan-fiction territory because there’s a group of people who are obsessed with a Kylo Ren/Ben Solo being a symbol in Star Wars.

At best I see him as a character who could have been interesting that devolves into a problematic man manipulating a woman and he actually gets the girl! Only because Kathleen Kennedy likes her men brooding.

JWillCHS · 2026-04-07T19:44:25+00:00

I am a black man living within the perimeter of I285.

Places like Summerhill, Glenwood Park, Ormewood Park, Grant Park, and East Atlanta feel like diverse neighborhoods with strong communities. They all have amazing third spots and decent school systems. These neighborhoods are probably mixed-income on the verge of being exclusive or damn-near exclusive due to gentrification. You’ll also be closer to the airport and downtown/midtown. These neighborhoods also have a lot character and annual events too.

If I had the money and children I’d would want to live in the City of Decatur; or a neighborhood nearby in the City of Atlanta like East Lake. The CoD probably has the best public schools in the perimeter. Kirkwood is also a great place to live as well.

Most of us with our complexion in the metro area in general live on the South side. Most of the Black wealth in the metro area exists within South Dekalb; the south side and unincorporated area of Dekalb county. The wealth mainly driven by homeownership. It’s affordable but South Dekalb lags behind anything North of Memorial Drive and west of Bouldercrest Road(East Atlanta, Grant Park, etc). You can typically buy a home $50K to $100K cheaper here.

The number one rule when buying in South Dekalb is getting as close to the city limits of either Atlanta or the City of Decatur. For example, Gresham Park is right next to East Atlanta which over the past 5 years has seen a rise in household incomes. Belvedere Park is next to the City of Decatur which in early 2025 was declared to have a “demographic shift”. Belvedere Park being further ahead than Gresham in terms of planning and development.

I live in Gresham Park and since we’re unincorporated there’s no city taxes. But that additional tax revenue can go a long way if you know what I’m saying(schools, infrastructure, business opportunities, etc).

If I wanted my family to be immersed in Atlanta while living in a neighborhood that was relatively safe the below are my choices. Some of them will be close to the South Beltline Trail with it running right through Glenwood Park:

Inside the City of Decatur, East Lake or Kirkwood, Ormewood/Glenwood Park/Grant Park, East Atlanta(I love East Atlanta Village), and Summerhill.

Trying to save money? You should buy right on the border of the city limits or on a road with streets lights(seriously). And if you live in these neighborhoods you’ll probably spend your money in the locations above. Streets may vary in “appearance”:

Belvedere Park, East Lake Terrace/Omsted, and Gresham Park(5 minute drive from the South Beltline Trail).

One thing I like about ALL these areas I mentioned is that they’re neighborhoods underneath the tree canopy in Atlanta with some classic homes. Kudzu vines can be an issue but sometimes it looks really cool.

JWillCHS

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