#147 - Yuga Labs lays out its 2023 plans 🦍

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• Yuga Update: the studio's 2023 plans

• Bard crashes Google share price

• Headlines, Tweet & meme of the day

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Yuga Update: Next Trial of Jimmy chapters, second Otherside Trip & Legends of the Mara

The sewer is officially closed. Dookies have been dashed. Passes have been delegated. Accusations are flying of cheating using bots.

And every Yuga collection has done serious volume on Opensea since The Trial of Jimmy the Monkey began.

– And $15 million worth of passes were left lying on the yacht club bar. Which equates to even more cash if you factor in upcoming mintable NFTs using those sewer passes.

Here's the dasher who occupied the top spot when the sewer closed anshould win the key to Gary the Dog's locked box:

Pro-gamer @Mongraal is a teenage "Fortnite professional." They recorded their winning run for posterity.

Now, Yuga says they're validating every single score before locking in a leaderboard that will translate to a mint-priority list for the next stage of the project.

Over the past week, Yuga has also dropped dates and teasers for their content output in the coming year

– which means it's time for another edition of Yuga Update.

Thanks for tuning in, folks. I'm Aperson Cooper.

First up, in a short video posted to Twitter, BAYC unveiled the next chapter titles in the Trial of Jimmy the Monkey.

After scores are reviewed and card 6 of 11 unlocks on February 10th, we'll have:

• Feb 15 – Dookey Dash prizes are handed out in "The Summoning"

• Late Feb – Gary the Dog kicks of the next phase of the story by "licking the toad"

• Early March – we get the full details of Yuga's new NFT collectibles

• Early April – The first iteration of those collectibles (Evo 1) reveals

• May – What sounds like another mini-game, "Journey to Evo 2"

At The Summoning, the highest Dookey score will get the key to Gary's chest, while other ranked players can swap their sewer pass for a narrative-themed NFT.

Yuga Labs says those NFTs will form the basis of the next project stage and will evolve as players/holders "traverse the underworld" in search of fragments and take part in a "great cosmic battle."

And if you missed it, BAYC has already teased the robotic artwork and lore for its new NFTs:

Over on The Otherside, Yuga has more plans in the works

It feels like a long, long time since the First Trip – when Yuga previewed their metaverse to select voyagers back in July '22.

Now, we know that a Second Trip is coming, scheduled for late March.

In this latest demo, we should see "new environments, new mechanics, and a higher concurrency of users than on the First Trip."

And once that's done, we'll get our first look at a full piece of Otherside narrative content, with Otherside: Legends of the Mara. 👀

What's this?

• Not metaverse gaming: "A stand-alone 2D experience powered by Apecoin"

• The movie poster-style promo has anime/Tarantino vibes(?)

• The poster contains what looks like a shattered knife blade

• But it also contains cryptic text that's been deciphered as meaning "The Shattered Vessels"

• Yuga's Chief Gaming Officer retweeted the graphic with the statement "maybe we finally answer the question, WTF is a Koda?"

Tweet of the day

Looks like the Checks burn mechanism could activate this weekend, in "Super Burn Sunday." 👀

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Bard made a mistake in its first public conversation

Remember that clip of Google Bard in action, shared by the Google CEO in a blog post earlier this week?

In the video, you can see a user asking Bard, “What new discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope can I tell my 9-year-old about?”

In response, Bard suggests a few answers, including one about how the JWST “took the very first pictures of a planet outside of our own solar system.”

Well, it turns out that ain't true.

Here's an official human astronomer spitting savage facts and putting AI in its place. Go humans!

The bad press has hit investor confidence in the company, with shares down 6% (at the time of writing).

For Google, 6% = $100 billion. 😱😱

Big deal? or market overreaction?

Investors are getting worried about Google's market position when it comes to consumer AI products.

The company may have been in AI R&D for years, but its recent moves have got Alphabet seeming like that kid who always forgot to save their work before shutting down the school computer.

I dunno though. 🤷‍♀️ Since when did Google Search provide accurate results anyways?

Also, I feel like literally every tech presentation I've ever seen involves the product breaking or something going wrong.

And, some are arguing that Bard didn't even get the question wrong – it just answered it in a weird, counterintuitive way.

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