Greeting to Splintertribe and all other denizens of Hive, today we will be touching on a topic that is well overdue for me and was hoping to get to it with even more art to describe it, then will actually be present. Eye measure time differently than most, as it is all a function of 13:20 based systems Dreamspell/Mayan Calendar and as such my week is a cycle called a Wavespell and it consists of 13 days, each wavespell (20 in all) has a main energy that kind of governs or defines the properties of that 13 day cycle, this current wavespell is the Wind wavespell a seal or energy that represents, spirit, breath, wind, thought, sound, communication and a host of other words to describe it ( learn more at lawoftime.org ).Today we are on the 9th day of this wavespell and eye had intended to get to this on the first day of the wavespell, ( eye am telling u this because eye will never use words like last week or next month and without context, it may sound like nonsense, so here is context ) because it's just such a good wave for communicating complex thoughtforms.
What kept me was an underhanded Venari raid on my apartment kitchen, before my partner and eye knew what was going on they were everywhere, leaving their little treasures and trails behind and eye assure you none of it was DEC. Fortunately they awoke the Desert Dragon and we together are dealing with the situation, lo and behold however we found the actual Chaos Portal, at least the one the Venari used to enter Splinterlands, or at least my Splinterpartment. An entire blog complete with pictures will be made to communicate this to you all and in a comical Splinterlandish or Splinteroutlandish way, coming soon, hopefully during the last 4 days of this wavespell.
Well then onto the topic at hand, The Entity Known As Botticus Wrex
{ spell check not working again, even downloaded an spell check extension and that's not working, wtf Brave, so bare with me and my potentially senseless woggelling }
now let us woggel on shall we
Woke up today to a post by our valued Splinterbrother Marcus Wahl ( love what he does and how he does it ) ( Marcus Wahl Bot Topic ) and this got my head and heart out of the Venari kitchen raid paradigm and back into the eye just rolled a 20 time for some critical thinking paradigm, below on his post eye, with a glorious host of typos and bad punctuation ( reply sent from ecency on my phone ) replied to the hot topic on bots and our feelings surrounding them and so you all can get the gist of my message there.
However, eye wasn't satisfied for this message to be a footnote in someone else's blog, regardless of how much of an active legend they are and so here we are, refining the message surrounding that entity known as Botticus Wrex.
Eye can come at this from more angles than most could comprehend as it is a truly multidimensional issue and is present in life in way more areas then just on chain and associated with Splinterlands, so eye will attempt to keep my points clear and relevent, however long winded they may become.
The idea of Botticus Wrex is an entity that was once an extension of human intent, that became an architecture of function and purpose towards a single goal and that is MORE!! Eventually its power grows past what is valued as human because it defies what a human can accomplish within cubic magnitudes of application. It does not sleep, it does not feel, it does not care, ( we hope there's a human behind it doing these things and guiding it with heart ) it does not need to eat human food, it's only hunger is for MOOOORE on chain assets. Its existence allows for a human to split their awareness and allocated energy towards multiple account generations as Botticus Wrex does the rest, MOOOOORE!
The value of human awareness can be summed up in this context as availability towards process, the value of clicks and the ability to process information in varying degrees and direct presence within a field of integrity, ( in this case field of integrity= Hive and Splinterlands and peripheral operations, such as cardauctionz, peakmosters, tribaldex and others ) ultimately TUNING IN to a paradigm. The key to the natural value here is HUMAN AWARENESS, the true gift and the true and only value we will ever have in this life, one that is all encompassing and deeeeply sacred.
Every account operated by Botticus Wrex steals a quotient of the value of that awareness, like watering down a drink and selling for the same price, every on chain bot in existence devalues the very nature of humanity as an interactive magnitude and the value of awareness on chain. Miota or IOTA is a project that has created what is known as the tangle, from what eye have gleaned from the project, this project is imbedded in the Internet Of Things and is capable of machine to machine learning and payments, from machine to machine, to support many necessary needs and functions of the machine automation paradigm.
This in itself is not yet an issue and has many potential benefits for all of life as we attempt to rebalance the entirety of our planet, into a bioharmonic garden miracle. However if you think about it, why don't we just become food for bots and they can just play Splinterlands instead of us. There are those factions who are attempting to replace humans with automation, is this what you want, no more art contests on Splintertalk that's for sure. Either Way this blog is so far a kind of philosophical frontier, challenging you all to think deeper, so lets bring forth some real life use case scenarios ya?
The first of these would be the market, in my gleanings and readings of others posts on the topic, there is much conjecture as to the pros and cons of the presence of bots in the market space, some support that it is a good thing because they make prices cheaper because they have access to so many more cards and because of that they drive down the prices, the idea is that the current volume of the rental markets can't exist as they are without bot support, because human demand would be too much for the available cards wishing to being rented ( eym sure there is many angles eye dont see ).
My mind and feels on the topic are that the entire topic is a inflation of personal interest in a matrix of smoke and mirrors, which is to say that people are biased and so am eye so all information is relative and so we look for metrics that bypass personal interest and speak of the purely impartial mechanics that make up a thing and its operations, in this case this is what eye see. Because of the amount of rewards cards on the market the price is down, and thus fully stacked sets of 400bcx pelacores as a rental idea for passive income is shot in the foot before it gets going, let's face it we are a collective consciousness ( 100th monkey syndrome) , and when one one of us does it, the rest of us realise it and do it as well, but Botticus Wrex gives this path toooo much access and before the plane can't land because the landing strip is rotted out and devalued. If we as humans only had access to the rewards we won and the cards that were on sale, with higher prices the value and importance of these actions would be greater as they would have more meaning and personal value of cultivation, value as meaning and not just as in pocket and in effect TIME would slow down, in a representation of the motion of assets as a measure of time, or of cycles.
Bots speed up time because they can access everything at higher levels way more quickly across the board.
Point 2, while cheaper market prices may sound great for buyers and renters, the lower playing tyres like Bronze level now doesn't give DEC rewards any more and so new players who are just leaning in to clicking their value into being, have been punished before hand for not doing anything and even though it it's meant to be a deterrent for bots, in my eyes it's a reward for bots because now the creators of splinterlands have made it even harder for beginner human players to gain footing in a P2E environment thus giving even more relevance to bot accounts, that can so easily operate at higher tyrs.
This also goes to promote that entry level players can only rely on low quality quest rewards to advance their playdecks to a functional level and that in those lower tyrs you are forced to drop more and more cash directly in game, if u wish to play at all ( pay to win model much ) and this promotes bot play as well, because who has access to more assets directly, bots so thos bot players can buy and sell assets with more freedom and authority while controlling market prices more directly because they are hypothesised to have more access to all of those assets.
[ in D&D terms what could have been a shiny platinum piece has become an old blemished copper ]
This in turn goes to say that because the rewards cards that are naturally accessible to all play to earn players, if those players are grinding daily rewards to strengthen their playdecks, with what's available to their clicks and have a few extra pelecore or venari, or whatever the rewards cards are at the time and wish to sell them to earn dec to buy cards from a different set then the rewards set, then they are chopping through a mountain with a toothpick, towards their goals, because bot access to those cards has devalued them so much that human clicks are worth less then venari turds and that only way to sell pelacores is by the 100 lot and that could take a newbie 100 days if their lucky to get such a small motion forward in this game, their poor poor clicks.
This brings me to the REAL root of this topic for me, the true reason eym writing this and grinding away at seemingly relevant points. We all know what happens in 100 days, a prophetic moment of sovereignty as Splinterlands becomes a true DAO directed by the love and dreams of the players, a holy moment for sure to some of us. A person like myself has been doing everything in her power to increase their airdrop points, in every way that is possible. Eye live on disability, make roughly $1400 [cad] in a pay cycle and the majority of that goes to rent and bills and eye maybe make about 300 extra each cycle due to djing and tattoo work, if eye focus on it, which takes me away from here. SO if eym lucky eye can get safley about 300 [cad] into splinterlands, either for my card collection or to just drop it all on DEC to multiply my airdrop rewards for the next 100 days.
However for the next few moons there's a festival that requires funds, so not so much into Splinterlands, oh and right the Venari raid on my kitchen had forced my to tear my kitchen out and rebuild the entire thing from scratch, there goes that 300 and THEN SUM, but eye only got 100 days left to do 1 thing and what is that, why does sps matter. SPS is our voice it represents our will to change it is the mark of our sovereignty, the power of our vote and as it is mine stands currently at [2,457.368] SPS and at the current rate eyl have about a tidy 5k SPS at the end of the 100 days. However this does not account for the $1500.00 [usd] plus 500 vouchers cost for a chance at a chance to get a license to fulfill my most ultimate dream on hive to run an SPS validator node ( want this more than anything ) and as the tyrs progress the exponential cost separates me from my dream as it could vanish into the mist controlled by high level wales and guess who,,, Botticus Wrex, the thief of dreams, the devaluer of humans and their clicks.
Because Boticus Wrex can control so many accounts who do you think will have the most SPS by the time the DAO is operational and what do you think will happen at that time, it's quite possible that the amalgamation of botters will become a centralized entity as a few folks controlling hundreds of accounts have the manipulative voting and commanding power of HUNDREDS of humans as a single click, can you hear the evil voracious soul-les laughter of a heartless unfeeling entity controlling the direction of our worlds #1 blockchain game and shattering your hopes at having a say and being included in the direction of this amazing game and investment platform. There's a reason why 1 human = 1 vote and this situation tells us exactly why, wherever you turn there's some person wanting to be more than another through unfair means.
We HAVE to put a stop to this before licenses launch and definitely before the end of these 100 days or all you humans can kiss your voting power goodbye as we watch Splinterlands become a vampire's blood pet, which all of you offer the blood to, unwittingly.
And that's not all, what's to say of the mainstream outreach programs and partner mergers spoken about in some episodes of the town hall, why would any sane human bring newbies into a vampire pit like this without Vanhelsinizing ( destroying ) all the vamps first, first , first not after , we have to stop feeding newbs to these bots, it's not ok. Main streamers are most likely not smart enough to comprehend how deep this goes nor are they ready to deal with it, outside of just bailing and giving Splinterlands a critical bad rep, to all other POTENTIAL players.
Epic level promotion and art doesn't kill parasites, we do and tho SPS DAO isn't here till 100 days WE STILL HAVE A VOICE, PLEASE LET'S USE THIS VOICE TO MAKE THIS CHANGE, before our value is devalued
Eym a devotee and will be here till it doesn't exist anymore and will fight the good fight
Blessings and be well
Please get the word out, repost this or make ur own post, but please lets get the word out and stop this bot menace, if you at all value your vote and the direction of this great game.
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