Highlights
"Gemini is king."
CEELOS opened by explaining why his prompts run so long — he builds in randomization (sports, outdoor, futuristic, space, NFT scenes) so results vary unless you steer them. He noted Baked's copy didn't fire in ChatGPT, and pointed everyone to Gemini.
Pharaoh's AI-built card site.
Pharaoh described using AI to write the code for a site that pulls eBay/Depop historical sales, tracks market movement, and flags the gap between his price and market. The bigger idea: fold his Depop and eBay inventory into one website rather than reinvent the wheel. He credited "point" (the region dev) as the influence.
"A smart machine but a stupid machine."
Pharaoh's tidy summary of prompting — you become the creative director telling the machine exactly what you want, because it won't fill in the blanks for you. CEELOS riffed that a swipeable card-binder animation would keep young shoppers scrolling ("attention retention").
People are charging for banners?
Sam's cameo surfaced the going rate ($10–$50), which briefly offended the room's sensibilities — until they clarified some folks actually draw them. CEELOS's point: with a little prompt literacy you can make these yourself.
The banner-size gotcha.
Baked couldn't get ChatGPT to cooperate; CEELOS shared that Copilot kept falsely claiming no internet and ignoring dimensions, and even Gemini once returned a too-wide image — the fix was telling it "you didn't stick to the ratios, redo it." A guest added the practical tip: say "Twitter header," not "banner."
"The realist space in all of Web3."
After Val caught herself mid-overshare, CEELOS leaned in and gave a daily shout-out to the recap Spaces — kicking off a self-aware bit where the room realized it was being transcribed by "the robot" in real time.
Meetup logistics.
Between UFC talk, the crew sorted San Diego dates: the 18th (Val's/someone's birthday), the 26th (solo's run), landing on the 25th, with toomazing on driving duty.
The Lorcana masterclass.
Geist, partnered with a physical store, said the last month has been all Lorcana — graded singles briefly hitting "small car" money before retracing. His two-pillar case: real scarcity (distributors offer 10 cases, gone in five minutes, vs. Pokémon allocations you're forced to pad with unwanted product) and Disney's near-universal fanbase, all under a private publisher with no dividend pressure.
"Buy everything Lorcana."
With CEELOS working a convention floor and asking what to hunt, Geist's advice was blunt: anything under MSRP (~$14.39), buy it. CEELOS: "Financial advice, recorded space. All in."
Topic timeline
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 1:37–5:23 | Open; the randomized multi-NFT banner prompt explained |
| 5:23–19:29 | AI prompting philosophy; Pharaoh's card-sales website build |
| 19:29–30:45 | Paying for banners; ChatGPT vs. Copilot vs. Gemini; getting the dimensions right |
| 30:45–46:00 | Banter: weight gain, Texas/edible laws, recap shout-out, San Diego meetup, UFC/soccer betting via Grok |
| 46:00–53:00 | Geist's Lorcana deep dive (scarcity + Disney) |
| 53:00–1:03:46 | TCG prompt callback, wrap-up, next episodes, farewells |
Notable quotes
It's a smart machine but a stupid machine.
This is the realist space in all of Web3 because you keep it real… We're real human beings. We're not over here talking market talk.
It makes me think about how much I should actually probably not share.
Locana is printing 3.5x less cards than Pokemon every year.
Bro, buy everything Locana… if you can find something under MSRP, buy everything.
I put on twenty five pounds in the last month and a half… I went from 150 to 175.
Who said what
- CEELOS (@CEELOSFIGG, host): Ran the banner workshop from a convention floor; built and explained the randomized, art-style-preserving prompt; committed Gemini loyalist.
- Val (@valeriekates_, co-host): Dialing in from Texas (with intermittent signal and edible-law commentary), kept the room warm, wrangled meetup dates, and teed up next week's "famous art" theme.
- Baked (@Bakedmetax, co-host): Arrived mid-Space; ChatGPT wouldn't run the long prompt for him; owns the TCG-game prompt they'll revive; good-natured target of the weight-gain bit.
- Pharaoh (@spade_pirates)*: The AI-coding thread — building a card-sales aggregator with scraped eBay/Depop data and dreams of a swipeable digital binder.
- Geist / "guys" (@Geist254)*: Collectibles/store partner who delivered the Lorcana bull case and got invited to make Sundays a regular slot.
- solo dolo (@solodolo)*: Dropped in for the betting talk and farewells — running a 5k, degen-ing "everything" on Robin Hood.
Worth a full listen
- 10:00–18:00 Pharaoh's build The clearest practical segment, walking from "AI wrote my code" to understanding what each piece does and plugging it in yourself. Useful for anyone curious about AI-assisted tooling for a card business.
- 46:56–52:55 Geist on Lorcana A genuinely detailed collector's pitch (distributor mechanics, print scarcity, Disney's reach, active-player vs. subscriber numbers) that a summary flattens — hear it in his own cadence.
- 34:00–36:20 The recap meta-bit + scary-movie weed plant The room realizing it's being transcribed live and CEELOS's convention-floor sightseeing capture the Space's easy, unbothered humor better than any paraphrase.
* some voices are identified from context; those names are marked as likely.
