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Marco Amati, an Unreal Engine VFX Compositor, shares a powerful R&D project focused on combining Gaea terrain masks with procedural logic for asset placement. See how he makes the procedural feel art-directed, driven by Quixel Megascans assets.

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28,148 views • 1 year ago

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Arch Network

13,575 views • 8 months ago

This is the post that ties it all together. The Only Income Producing Collectible That Can Buy Every Other Collectible Most investors in collectibles don’t actually own assets. They own expensive inventory with permanent carrying costs. Most collectibles are static. They sit still and wait. Art, sports cards, and memorabilia are stored assets. They live in vaults and require constant insurance, protection, and oversight just to exist. A thirty-million-dollar trading card may be rare, but it is the most expensive nonfunctional real estate on earth. At roughly 1% annual insurance, that single card costs about $300,000 a year just to sit there. Over ten years, that is $3 million spent to stand still. No income. No compounding. No leverage. Just cost. It’s an asset. It’s also a liability. Hold it long enough and the math becomes unavoidable. Decades of insurance just to stand still. Millions spent not to grow, but simply not to lose. Smart investors understand there is a fundamental difference between collectible inventory and operating assets. One waits. The other works. An operating asset doesn’t sit in storage. It operates in public. It compounds. It builds leverage while you sleep. A great operating asset becomes the front door, the brand, and the world headquarters of the business built on it. It doesn’t just represent value, it becomes the center of gravity everything else builds around. There are assets that don’t just hold value, but create it. They generate revenue. They can be licensed, leased, partnered, and scaled. They can spawn companies, platforms, and entire ecosystems with virtually unlimited expansion. Most collectibles only have value if someone else buys them. If no one shows up, nothing happens. An operating asset doesn’t wait for a buyer. It produces. It earns. It compounds. You don’t hope for an outcome. You create one. If your asset can’t work while you sleep, it isn’t an asset. It’s inventory. The most valuable assets in the modern world sit at the intersection of language, identity, commerce, and behavior. One word can represent an entire industry. One name can outlive companies, technologies, and trends. From the right operating asset, you can buy every collectible in the world. You can’t do it the other way around. That’s not opinion. That’s math. Collectibles are owned. Operating assets are deployed. And the most powerful operating assets ever created are high-profile, memorable, brandable, category-defining domain names. Curious how people outside the domain world see this distinction.

Rick Schwartz aka DomainKing®

12,752 views • 5 months ago

Demonic. Maniacal. Demented. Insane. For Alastair Crooke, the European Union’s relentless push to seize and divert frozen Russian assets exemplifies a descent into sheer illegality and demented will. “We have the power. We’ll do it,” he characterizes their new manifesto. “Don’t ask me if it’s legal. Don’t ask me if it’s appropriate. I have the power, so I’ll do it.” This, he says, is von der Leyen’s creed—ramming through the asset seizure, ignoring treaties, and fabricating an “emergency” to justify a weighted vote that silences dissent. “What is the emergency?” Crooke demands. “Only the emergency that they themselves have caused.” Their goal, in his view, is not strategy but insanity: using the seized funds to prolong a war driven by a refusal to live with a powerful Russia, seeking instead to see it “humiliated and defeated and broken up.” The money, he argues, will be moved illegally to Kiev, all to “thumb their nose at Trump” and his peace plans. It is, he concludes, a paranoid and demonic pursuit devoid of any rational calculus. The relentless, unhinged determination to appropriate these assets leads him to one blunt verdict: “This is just insane.”

Demonic. Maniacal. Demented. Insane. For Alastair Crooke, the European Union’s relentless push to seize and divert frozen Russian assets exemplifies a descent into sheer illegality and demented will. “We have the power. We’ll do it,” he characterizes their new manifesto. “Don’t ask me if it’s legal. Don’t ask me if it’s appropriate. I have the power, so I’ll do it.” This, he says, is von der Leyen’s creed—ramming through the asset seizure, ignoring treaties, and fabricating an “emergency” to justify a weighted vote that silences dissent. “What is the emergency?” Crooke demands. “Only the emergency that they themselves have caused.” Their goal, in his view, is not strategy but insanity: using the seized funds to prolong a war driven by a refusal to live with a powerful Russia, seeking instead to see it “humiliated and defeated and broken up.” The money, he argues, will be moved illegally to Kiev, all to “thumb their nose at Trump” and his peace plans. It is, he concludes, a paranoid and demonic pursuit devoid of any rational calculus. The relentless, unhinged determination to appropriate these assets leads him to one blunt verdict: “This is just insane.”

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15,752 views • 7 months ago

THIS GUY HAD OPUS 4.8 BUILD A FULL LEAGUE OF LEGENDS CLONE IN UNDER A DAY AND CALLED IT "LMAO" temu league of legends, fully playable, multiplayer, and all built by claude ALL the art is claude too he had claude generate every character, animation, and background as SVG code then converted them to procedural canvas for smooth animation. used dedicated sub-agents for each champion the tech stack: typescript, react, canvas, and partykit for multiplayer the workflow: > used /goal to kick off the entire project > ultracode workflows for big tasks like optimization > /goal again to queue up lists of bug fixes > treated claude like a dev team the original champion names claude came up with: the original champion names claude came up with: Teehee" instead of Teemo. "CtrlAltDefeat" as a champion name. he had to run through and clean them all up so nothing infringed on riot's IP claude even built the bots on its own with "chill," "normal," and "sweaty" difficulty levels the token bill was 2.7 billion total tokens consumed. mostly cache reads. 15.5 million actual output tokens. would have cost roughly $6,600 at list price but he just used his pro max subscriptions people are already benchmarking claude by how good of a game clone it can build game developers are watching someone build a multiplayer MOBA in a day with zero art skills and zero game dev experience 2026 is wild (and its going to get even wilder)

THIS GUY HAD OPUS 4.8 BUILD A FULL LEAGUE OF LEGENDS CLONE IN UNDER A DAY AND CALLED IT "LMAO" temu league of legends, fully playable, multiplayer, and all built by claude ALL the art is claude too he had claude generate every character, animation, and background as SVG code then converted them to procedural canvas for smooth animation. used dedicated sub-agents for each champion the tech stack: typescript, react, canvas, and partykit for multiplayer the workflow: > used /goal to kick off the entire project > ultracode workflows for big tasks like optimization > /goal again to queue up lists of bug fixes > treated claude like a dev team the original champion names claude came up with: the original champion names claude came up with: Teehee" instead of Teemo. "CtrlAltDefeat" as a champion name. he had to run through and clean them all up so nothing infringed on riot's IP claude even built the bots on its own with "chill," "normal," and "sweaty" difficulty levels the token bill was 2.7 billion total tokens consumed. mostly cache reads. 15.5 million actual output tokens. would have cost roughly $6,600 at list price but he just used his pro max subscriptions people are already benchmarking claude by how good of a game clone it can build game developers are watching someone build a multiplayer MOBA in a day with zero art skills and zero game dev experience 2026 is wild (and its going to get even wilder)

Om Patel

335,777 views • 1 month ago

Just over a month since signing an MOU that quickly followed our joint work at the U.S. Army Operation Jailbreak, Havoc and AZAK continue advancing autonomous ground systems together. What started as a rapid integration effort has become an ongoing partnership focused on quickly developing and scaling autonomous ground capabilities. In this video, Havoc COO Joe Turner and AZAK CEO Ben Meager discuss the latest. AZAK's innovative wheel architecture combines a low center of gravity with exceptional ground clearance, allowing the vehicle to reach terrain that conventional ground vehicles simply can't. Combined with Havoc's collaborative autonomy software, those capabilities become even more powerful—enabling autonomous systems to navigate challenging environments, project other autonomous assets forward, and extend mission reach without sacrificing endurance. This partnership demonstrates how quickly interoperable, open-architecture systems can move from integration to real capability. Thank you again to U.S. Army Futures and Concepts Command for creating environments that bring industry together to collaborate, integrate, and deliver at speed.

Just over a month since signing an MOU that quickly followed our joint work at the U.S. Army Operation Jailbreak, Havoc and AZAK continue advancing autonomous ground systems together. What started as a rapid integration effort has become an ongoing partnership focused on quickly developing and scaling autonomous ground capabilities. In this video, Havoc COO Joe Turner and AZAK CEO Ben Meager discuss the latest. AZAK's innovative wheel architecture combines a low center of gravity with exceptional ground clearance, allowing the vehicle to reach terrain that conventional ground vehicles simply can't. Combined with Havoc's collaborative autonomy software, those capabilities become even more powerful—enabling autonomous systems to navigate challenging environments, project other autonomous assets forward, and extend mission reach without sacrificing endurance. This partnership demonstrates how quickly interoperable, open-architecture systems can move from integration to real capability. Thank you again to U.S. Army Futures and Concepts Command for creating environments that bring industry together to collaborate, integrate, and deliver at speed.

Havoc

17,983 views • 2 days ago

Everything you love about generative models — now powered by real physics! Announcing the Genesis project — after a 24-month large-scale research collaboration involving over 20 research labs — a generative physics engine able to generate 4D dynamical worlds powered by a physics simulation platform designed for general-purpose robotics and physical AI applications. Genesis's physics engine is developed in pure Python, while being 10-80x faster than existing GPU-accelerated stacks like Isaac Gym and MJX. It delivers a simulation speed ~430,000 faster than in real-time, and takes only 26 seconds to train a robotic locomotion policy transferrable to the real world on a single RTX4090 (see tutorial: The Genesis physics engine and simulation platform is fully open source at We'll gradually roll out access to our generative framework in the near future. Genesis implements a unified simulation framework all from scratch, integrating a wide spectrum of state-of-the-art physics solvers, allowing simulation of the whole physical world in a virtual realm with the highest realism. We aim to build a universal data engine that leverages an upper-level generative framework to autonomously create physical worlds, together with various modes of data, including environments, camera motions, robotic task proposals, reward functions, robot policies, character motions, fully interactive 3D scenes, open-world articulated assets, and more, aiming towards fully automated data generation for robotics, physical AI and other applications. Open Source Code: Project webpage: Documentation: 1/n

Everything you love about generative models — now powered by real physics! Announcing the Genesis project — after a 24-month large-scale research collaboration involving over 20 research labs — a generative physics engine able to generate 4D dynamical worlds powered by a physics simulation platform designed for general-purpose robotics and physical AI applications. Genesis's physics engine is developed in pure Python, while being 10-80x faster than existing GPU-accelerated stacks like Isaac Gym and MJX. It delivers a simulation speed ~430,000 faster than in real-time, and takes only 26 seconds to train a robotic locomotion policy transferrable to the real world on a single RTX4090 (see tutorial: The Genesis physics engine and simulation platform is fully open source at We'll gradually roll out access to our generative framework in the near future. Genesis implements a unified simulation framework all from scratch, integrating a wide spectrum of state-of-the-art physics solvers, allowing simulation of the whole physical world in a virtual realm with the highest realism. We aim to build a universal data engine that leverages an upper-level generative framework to autonomously create physical worlds, together with various modes of data, including environments, camera motions, robotic task proposals, reward functions, robot policies, character motions, fully interactive 3D scenes, open-world articulated assets, and more, aiming towards fully automated data generation for robotics, physical AI and other applications. Open Source Code: Project webpage: Documentation: 1/n

Zhou Xian

3,818,087 views • 1 year ago

Robody: A Soft and Friendly Caregiving Humanoid Robody is a wheeled humanoid robot developed by the German company Devanthro. Unlike the cold, rigid metal humanoids we often see, Robody is built with a musculoskeletal design, stands at a human-like height, and features a head that doubles as an interactive, projectable display,making it feel much more approachable. What makes Robody special is that it’s not just a robot, but an avatar. By combining robotics, AI, virtual reality, and 5G, it allows caregivers or family members to project their senses, actions, and even their presence anywhere in the world. In practice, that means you can be there for your loved ones anytime, no matter the distance. With Robody, caregivers (whether professionals or family) can provide 24/7 remote support, helping older adults age comfortably and with dignity at home. On top of that, families can use Robody to make video calls and even directly control the robot to interact with their loved one's,bridging the gap between physical care and emotional connection

CyberRobo

11,622 views • 10 months ago