Last night we had an awesome chat about the hive film which is not public so I will not be filling you in...

However, suffice to say, its pretty exciting stuff and the story is coming along nicely. It seems like their will be a good dose of humour to compliment the drama and even some fairly surreal stuff too. Its not easy to make a story about a bunch of nerds sitting behind screens so it makes sense to throw in some outlandish dramatisations of the events and have some fun with the imagery. Once you've opened that creative floodgate there's a whole tonne of fun to be had...

Revolution in the Air

We talked for about four hours and we could have gone on all night. But it wasn't just the film that was getting us going.....whenever hiveans get together to speak there is always a palpable sense that we are on the brink of something unspeakably exciting. This blockchain is gearing up for some immense technological innovations and due to the nature of our story, we have one of the most authentically decentralised blockchain communities out there. I just don't think anyone else comes close to what Hive is offering, and we are SO NOT DONE yet.
Soon we will be able to approach big content creators and applications and offer them the opportunity to create their own sovereign communities with their own currencies to reward them with, in a place where they own all of their own content, all within the click of a few buttons.
It will only take a couple of big players to see the power and potential in this and before we know it, millions of people will be getting onboarded to Hive, possibly (and perhaps hopefully) without even really having to know it!? I mean seriously, most people dont care whether something is decentralised or awesome on the backend....they just want to watch their favourite videos or use a handy application as easily as possible. If they are getting rewarded with genuine value in return, thats just going to be the icing on the cake. It will take a while Im sure before the populace genuinely comes to start realising their own power as consumers, but we dont have to ram it down their throats, just allow the warm glow of decentralised applications to slowly transform their experience of the internet.

This keeps reminding me of the lovely Aesops tale:

The Sun and The Wind - a story with a point

Theres that Aesops tale:

Basically the sun and the wind were hanging out one day and the wind makes a bold claim:

“I am so much stronger than you”

The sun just smiled and took of sip of a pina colada.

"Oh you dont believe me you smug fireball?" gusted the wind, "come on then, I challenge you to a competition!"

The sun chuckled and shook its head gently. "What do you have in mind?"

"You see that bloke in the jacket?" said the wind, gesticulating towards the surface of the earth where some tired fellow was trudging home after a long day filing papers "I bet you I can blow his coat off faster than you can!"

"Sure, why not?" shrugged the sun, "just be nice ok"

"Haha LOL ROFL" laughed in the Wind "Thats what makes you such a wimp Sunny old pal, you're too nice" And the wind began to blow a wild gale across the surface of the land.

Trees were shaking, rubbish bins were tipping over and animals rushed in to their dens, but the mans coat would not come off. In fact, the harder the wind blew, the tighter and tighter the man held his coat around his body until the Wind was absolutely exhausted.

"billowing heck" puffed the wind as he tried to catch his breath "thats actually really hard, maybe we should try an easier challenge"

"Nah, watch this" said the sun confidently and a big smile spread across its face. The smile was so warm and loving that beams of golden sunlight poured down across the land. Flowers opened, The animals came out of their hiding places and lemonade sales skyrocketed. It was so hot, that the man simply took his coat straight off and swung it over his shoulder.

The wind stared down in disbelief. "you jammy bugger" he muttered under his breath.

We do not have to go charging after victory. If we simply continue to shine, victory will come to us. Hive has a very bright future and we must be patient and kind.

Quick! its time for...

Splinterlands!

EARTH QUEST

I barely use my wizard of eastwood coz he's not levelled up much, but I liked the gif so there it is!

Now on to the battling highlights of the day!

This one was sad. Id have loved to see my spirit shaman and rexxie combine in this knockout + stampede ruleset match, it would have been so satisfying. But alas, the stun wouldve needed to work first time and it didnt so I lost. The Spirit Shaman riding atop a T-rex would make a pretty cool image...
https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_c356a639a58a6cd84fd2a9af64248e46&ref=basilmarples

I was struggling to get my first win. But finally it came in the weak magic ruleset thanks to queen mycelia bolstering my defenses!
https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_375550b894df7208a7f149dd4289ff58&ref=basilmarples

Double Healing the Nectar Queen!
https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_427ec8447b5d2a862bb44a828e8a2a86&ref=basilmarples

Once my vulture took out their harpy, I knew the Cube would prevail!
https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_2a08e0d5ed169001e3cf72837a411bbe&ref=basilmarples

I love my spirit shaman
https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_519560f7eb3f6ad3025d059e727b8517&ref=basilmarples

Listnerds

had a little crack at listnerds again, just opening some mails, clicking the links, rarely reading the content (at only 5 mail token per validation I cant afford to be giving the luxury of my attention away! lol)
I havnt really been using it much, but every now and then I figure I can build up a few mail token and then one day, if I ever have anything of any importance to say, I can bump it out to a whole bunch of potential clickers! The joy of marketing.

And that is how for now

Im genna go grab some pina coladas in the sunshine and do my best to shine for the world and for myself. It doesnt always work out that way, but the intention is good : )

Huge love and exactitudes to you all

Basil x