So, you may have noticed that [splintertalk.io](https://www.splintertalk.io/) had a big update last week. A whole new user interface, everything looks a lot cleaner (not like a copy of steemit.com anymore)... pretty cool right?
Except that they didn't give any warning beforehand, and the update led to every post disappearing (they're all still on the blockchain of course) **and** #SPT rewards not being distributed for the last week or so...
Now, technical difficulties are always going to be a thing. Growing pains are always going to be a thing. Exploiters are always going to be a thing (the game is down right now because of it)...
The most important thing for a business to do is to **commmunicate** these issues. As quickly and clearly as possible. You want to be *ahead* of the rumors. You want customers to find out about the issue from *you*, not from running into it themselves.
If it's too late to get ahead of it, then you need to get an announcement ASAP, so people know what's going on.
TONs of folks (who don't understand Hive) have been panicking about their rewards disappearing, and their content all being deleted. Because a week later, there is still no word from the @Splinterlands team.
That is wildly unprofessional, and is costing the game users, right now. Which means it's costing all of us who are invested in the game **money**.
Let's not even get started on the 2-3 week backlog of customer support tickets... Most of whom have received nothing but an automated *"Your ticket # is"* email.
I'm a huge fan of the game. I'm a fan of the founders. I just bought 6300 more SPS yesterday. I've invested 200,000+ DEC into the @Hive.Pizza guild, hold a tract of land, and play every day.
I've also worked in a **lot** of different corporate settings, and I call things like I see them...
#### Y'all need to communicate *much* better with your customers.
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Here's my first ever video without any words or music of any kind... just the sound of the river. *And maybe an occasional footstep.*
I found this branch down by the river a couple of days ago, and have greatly enjoyed meditating on it, exploring all the different ecosystems existing on it, noticing ever more details.
Let me know what you think of the video, and the branch :-)
My apologies for the lack of a gimble/stabilizer.
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Hello beautiful humans!
The last couple weeks have been all about the #decentralization of my content. I went from only posting on #HIVE, to having my #LBRY channel up & running, plus getting started on #Flote.
In today's video, I'm chatting about my plans for the coming weeks and my upcoming livestream/radio show. The show is going to be a couple hours a day, 3-7 days a week (haven't decided yet), and will include interviews, panels, call-ins, and just me talking :-)
* Interviews/guests will focus on people creating & promoting solutions, as well as hosting dialectics between view points that too often have debates.
* Call ins will range a lot depending on who calls in - obviously my highest excitement & expertise are in the areas of mindful living, veganism, sovereignty, and community building.
* When it's just me... whatever's on my mind, going through important headlines, reading short stories, who knows :-P
Hope you're all having a magnificent week!
Much love!
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If you've ever read or seen *Ready Player One*, then you know what the **Metaverse** is.
It's like *The Matrix*, but without the whole human-battery-in-a-pod thing.
It seems extremely likely, to most everyone, that the **Metaverse** is where the internet is heading over the next few decades, with advancements in AR & VR, better and better hardware, and of course the "lockdowns" that are never going away.
Recently, **FedBook** made a big publicity play for the space, rebranding their company to **Meta**.
Over the last couple of days, some big names in the tech & crypto worlds have stepped up to face off against Suckerberg and his gang.
Oh, and $MANA, the token for Decentraland, has been skyrocketing.
### The news articles:
* *Forbes*: [Gemini Raises $400 Million To Build A Metaverse Outside Facebook’s Walled Garden](https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeldelcastillo/2021/11/18/gemini-raises-400-million-to-protect-the-metaverse-from-meta-facebook/?sh=843ca15f5798)
* *Decrypt*: [‘No Company Can Own’ the Metaverse, Says Epic Games CEO](https://decrypt.co/86323/no-company-can-own-metaverse-epic-games-ceo-tim-sweeney)
* *BBC*: [Facebook changes its name to Meta in major rebrand](https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59083601)
### Here's some links for Decentraland:
* [Official Site](https://decentraland.org/)
* [CoinMarketCap Page](https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/decentraland/)
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Hello beautiful humans!
Welcome to another beautiful day, and the beginning of another beautiful year!
To start of 2021 right, I'll be doing a video-a-day again, at least for the month of January, **and** I just registered for the [Grey School of Wizardry](https://www.greyschool.net/). Excited to dive into more realms of magic, with some guidance & support - in addition to my own research and spell-crafting.
Tomorrow I'll be taking another wonderful train ride across the continent, heading for Colorado and the annual *CommUnity Share Fest*... then most likely on to Mexico for a while.
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Here is the wildly anti-scientific post from the CDC. No evidence of any kind, just their "belief" - belief that they need to increase their vaccine sales numbers that is. The fact that there are still folks falling for this scam is mind-blowing.
*[Source](https://twitter.com/CDCgov/status/1344025513640292352)*
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Here is the video I'm responding to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcELFL6gYsg
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I started off with the intention of making a response video, alternating between clips of Tony and myself, but after taking notes, and writing out what felt like brief responses to a variety of points... I realized that it would have ended up being at least half an hour long (my super-shortened version was still 17 minutes. I wrote this piece in a 1st/2nd person format, since I assume Tony will actually see it, but the video is done in more 3rd person language.
Before I dive into a full, point by point response, I want to address what I find to be the biggest problem with the video as a whole: You frame it both in the description and at the beginning of the video as just your sharing your experience. Great, that's the best way to share things, except that you then go on to make lots of "factual" statements about nutrition, human physiology, and what vegans do/don't do or believe/don't believe, all without a single source, a single piece of evidence, or even the briefest reference to where you got your "data."
Here is my full post (YT description would only fit 1/4 of it, not including hyperlinks): https://steempeak.com/@kennyskitchen/7bj409wvpqs
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1rvEeAZngw