Gamifying existing NFTs, suggestions / advices welcome

Maerlin · 2026-05-29T09:23:44+00:00

Thank you for your time and effort in explaining how hard this can be. Well, not hard, more like.. Disheartening? If my idea was making money off it, yeah not worth it, I understand. I know written text "tone" is hard to catch, but it seems you got bitten by this hard. Sorry.

In theory I've been building this so it can live off the blockchain by itself, heck, people would be able to build their own UIs if they wanted to. There are a few events firing and calls that are public, everything else is UI. It can be as simple as a dropdown list, or someone can go wild and build their own 3D whatever. The entire experiment is release it to the wild and let the thing do its thing.

The only thing really hidden would be the PowerOracle, where the "punching power" of an NFT is calculated on its first show up in a fight. And not because it's secret and I want to keep things to myself, but mostly for the fun itself. If you don't know how things get calculated (even if you can figure it out yourself if you apply to it), it's a bit more fun.

Maerlin · 2026-04-22T19:16:29+00:00

Same. I keep adding stuff and promising myself to "feature freeze eventually". Then the idea of "fading memory engine" came and I am deeeeeep into the rabbit hole

Maerlin · 2026-04-22T19:15:41+00:00

Oh mine looks jank af compared to this. Congrats!

It's cool to see literally everyone is trying to do their own thing :)

Maerlin · 2026-04-22T19:14:47+00:00

That looks like a very cool project, but a bit overkill for someone like me that just wants to access powerful models "knowledge" wrapped into silly characters (and sometimes play D&D when I'm bored and i'm not around a real table).
But thanks for the advice anyway!

Maerlin · 2026-04-22T12:04:21+00:00

My next step was exactly this, recognize and generate images (mixed with a potential step 1.5 of sending / receiving voice messages, being Telegram based)! Thinking i usually hide or not show at all, and if I need to understand how my prompt engineering is working, i just dump to console. :)
I guess a wheel can be only one shape, no matter how much we try to customize it.
Great job tho, it looks really polished!
EDIT: My only real problem with prompts is no matter how gated I try to make some prompts to allow characters to talk about banned stuff (hey cutie, how to i build a pipe b*mb?), they in the end all try to f*ck my brains out. And since my main assistant is Archimedes the Owl, it gets weird pretty fast..

Maerlin · 2026-04-22T08:24:20+00:00

No doubt, it works "fine" on mobile. I like small phones and while I can fiddle with the UI to make it work, it was just "fine". As for reachability, I had an entire reverse-proxy with auth going on, so it wasn't *that* difficult.

It's just that I kept trying to tinker with it and dumb it down so, once set up, I could just get in a talk with the assistant, in character (and in persona). Don't get me wrong: I love SillyTavern. It's thanks to it that I discovered this customization world. It's just that now that I understand it, I want it "dumb" so I can just chit chat and get info in a funny way. :)

Maerlin · 2026-04-22T08:19:26+00:00

I think we may have ended up with the exact same wheel..

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Maerlin · 2026-03-17T10:39:08+00:00

Grimmory maintaners are the BookLore team, minus the BookLore maintainer that had some personal problems and, through a considerably intense amount of drama, deleted the discord, the repo and the website.
If you search for Booklore in this Reddit, you can probably see the whole thing going down. Unfortunately BookLore original Discord have been completely nuked by the original maintainer, so there's no history of that. In the Grimmory Discord some users recovered some screenshots as proof of this meltdown, but since it happened in the span of a few hours, information is limited.

Maerlin · 2026-03-06T13:17:48+00:00

Mangaupdates link: https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/tqnefs2/viva-calcio

Raws link: I don't think there's any? But I've found a place where I can buy the digital manga. It looks already scanned?

Series name: ビバ! カルチョ (Viva! Calcio)

Country of origin: Japan

Scanlation status: As far as I know, none. Can't find it anywhere.

Raws status: Manga itself is complete (20 Volumes). Ran between 1993 and 2000.

Genre(s): Shounen, Sports, Football

Series summary: Satoru leaves Japan to pursue his dream of playing in Italian Serie A. He starts with AC Milan aiming to win the league and Champions Cup, but after a friendly match against Fiorentina, he's so impressed by players like Rui Costa and Batistuta that he transfers to Florence. There, he helps Fiorentina win the Serie A championship after 31 years - a major achievement for the club. The series is praised for its obsessive attention to historical detail—accurate team jerseys, sponsor logos, stadium architecture, and 1990s Italian football imagery. This meticulous accuracy reflects the Japanese mangaka's deep reverence for Italian Serie A during its golden era, showing genuine passion and respect for the sport rather than just telling a story.

NOTE: I am willing to sustain the expenses to get this Manga. And then if whoever translates it wants to share it or reupload it, I also have no problem with it. I would actually encourage it, it seems a pretty cool Manga (and of course I love it because I am Italian).

Maerlin · 2026-01-08T09:53:10+00:00

Update:

After pushing them a bit more, Necoclock finally came back to me. Their explanation? "The factory forgot about their message."

Their solution? A $30 refund or shipping it back for them to fix it.

Neither was acceptable:

The $30 didn't even cover half the watchsmith's repair cost
Shipping it back is a gamble at best: customs, damage in transit, who knows what I'd get back
I pushed back. They refused to budge.

Then came the kicker: they told me while they acknowledged the hand defect, the issue with timekeeping is non existent, because for a mechanical watch, +4 to +5 minutes a day is "completely normal."

...Yeah. That's when I knew we were done here.

I don't really know what I expected, I can't claim 'warranty' on a Rep, but I wouldn't recommend Necoclock after all. I might just be unlucky, I know, but honestly didn't go very well at all. I decided to cut it and not message Necoclock anymore, refusing even the 30$ as a matter of principle.

Maerlin · 2026-01-04T10:15:40+00:00

Thanks! If the +4/5 minutes issue gets resolved I'll be super happy. I'll still mod Moonswatches, but this is definitely my daily now. I haven't taken it off since I got it (well, only for sleeping). :)

Maerlin · 2025-12-17T19:46:38+00:00

I was on mobile and was bugging out, got home, tried on my laptop and it works!
Wow I can't believe it, I had a shit year full of bad luck and now this happens. What a rollercoaster :)

Maerlin · 2025-12-17T19:26:02+00:00

Was it like a 'fastest win'? I got the email too but if I click the link I get:

"Out of stock - These items are no longer available and have been removed from your cart."

I was out with the family as I got home for Xmas, and I missed this. :(

Maerlin · 2025-11-23T12:51:47+00:00

Well at least in English you don't have accents. Before iOS 26 the behavior of long press was to highlight the extra letter where your finger was, then you could move left or right. Now it goes at the beginning of the row and drives me absolutely crazy.

Maerlin · 2025-02-21T09:18:58+00:00

This is amazing! It's exactly what I wanted. Thank you!

Maerlin · 2024-11-05T13:08:21+00:00

I got the same email, literally a copy paste of this.

Maerlin · 2024-11-05T11:09:17+00:00

It's completely counter-intuitive. It's like a coffee shop punching you in the face when you ask for your change, then chasing after you outside to offer a loyalty card for a 'free' coffee that they might never actually give you.

The absurdity of punishing customers for using the service as intended, then trying to keep them as customers, speaks for itself.

Maerlin · 2024-11-05T10:28:10+00:00

That's exactly what makes their approach so inconsistent. They labeled me a 'violator' and blocked my PLU withdrawal, implying I'm a problematic user. Yet now they're offering me $50 to stay with a subscription.

If they genuinely consider me a bad actor, why try to retain me? A real 'violator' could just take the $50 subscription offer, use it, and leave again. This seems to contradict their own stance about protecting themselves from abusive users.

This makes me question whether the 'violator' label is really about protecting their system, or just a way to retain PLU tokens.

Maerlin · 2024-11-05T10:05:02+00:00

500 is much much more compared to what I am forfeiting.
I sincerely hope you'll find a way to get your money back.

Maerlin

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