History
The Kickstarter Gaming Era
Gamers opened their wallets to fund games that didn't exist yet, and learned the hard way that promises aren't products.
Speedrunning
Arbitrary Code Execution (ACE)
When speedrunners exploit a game so hard they literally write and run their own code inside it.
Onchain Gaming
Bario Punks
The core PFP collection of the BAES ecosystem, evolving from profile pictures into AI-powered agentic entities.
Psychology
Skinner Box Design
Press lever, maybe get pellet, press lever again -- congratulations, you are the rat.
Indie
Internal vs External Playtesting
The painful moment when you watch real players completely ignore the obvious path you spent months designing.
Based on infomaxxxing codebase