Re:Building Together EP 335 — Creation Corner / Let's Play With Our JPEGs

Host: CEELOS (@CEELOSFIGG) with cohost Baked (@Bakedmetax) · Sat, Sep 26 2026 · 1:01:12 · ~6 speakers

TL;DR

• Saturday's Creation Corner prompt (a fall/autumn remix for your PFP, long enough to need three separate posts) went live in the purple pill, plus a bonus "AI report card" prompt from Baked.
• Thrill (@ThrillsOnHood) dropped in unannounced and turned out to be the dev behind an old game that featured CEELOS's regen — days after CEELOS and Fate had been trying to remember who made it. He offered to republish a version for the regens' two-year anniversary.
• Thrill walked through Thrills on Hood: $11 Robinhood mint, all mint funds into an LP backing each NFT with 1,000 locked coins, plus three mini-games including a live multiplayer first-person shooter played at blade-of-grass scale.
• Baked finally downloaded Gemini — after 300+ episodes of this show — and immediately liked his results better.
• CEELOS took Baked's report card prompt, reworked it live to grade X accounts instead, ran it on himself, and got an A- (with a C in content creativity).
• zGhostin reminded everyone: re:games every other Thursday on Otherside, 7–8pm ET; also offered free revoke checks.

Highlights

[8:03] Revoke your wallets — all of them. CEELOS shouted out zGhostin for catching something on his wallet during a Discord chat: if you've been on multiple chains, you have to go chain by chain. Ghostin offered to check for anyone who asks, then reported on a 42–19 Ohio State win and a Saturday of Call of Duty.

[11:09] Thrill's project breakdown. Minted about a month ago on Robinhood at $11, with no mint funds taken — everything went into an LP directly backing each asset with at least 1,000 locked coins. He says they're holding a 6–7x since mint, and he's shipped three mini-games into an arcade he built on-site.

[12:36] The universe closing a loop. Thrill mentioned an old collab with Ape Reunion and Regens where one regen made it into a community game — which happens to be the exact thing CEELOS and Fate had been hunting for the day before, while cataloguing two years of regen activations. Thrill admitted he'd been staring at CEELOS's PFP thinking "I think this is the one the guy who won."

[14:15] The anniversary offer. Thrill volunteered to republish a version of the game with the regen character in it for the two-year anniversary — and confirmed at the end of the space [58:30] that he'd already found the build and would trim the extra characters and "maybe throw a couple extra regens in there."

[15:16] LadyWings arrives at full volume. She opened with "Blessed be to the cheesemakers," asked Thrill to repeat the game news because it blew her mind, and confessed that his is the only game she enjoys getting killed in — she tries to take out Thrill every round and has never made it past level two.

[21:08] Gemini vs. ChatGPT, and the case for having all of them. CEELOS said he uses Gemini roughly eight times out of ten for art style, ChatGPT for prompt-crafting (it now anticipates him and offers to build the prompt), and Copilot rarely because it's slow and glitchy. Baked, having trained ChatGPT for years, finally installed Gemini mid-space and started re-running all his characters.

[22:54] Practical prompt hygiene. CEELOS keeps a full written description of his regen in his notes — outfit, pants, shoes — because pixel art confuses AI. His FUG kept getting an extra mouth. His fix is always the same: tell it what it got wrong, tell it to stay true to the character design, run it again. For video, he pastes "maintain the character's exact details, facial features, accessories, clothing attire" every single time, and if a character still morphs mid-shot — as his thug did while turning around to find an empty coffee-filter box [32:37] — he just cuts away before the turn.

[30:38] Working around guideline blocks. toomazingTM described a video tool approving an image then refusing to regenerate the same thing. CEELOS's two answers: close the app entirely and repaste the request, or hand the whole scenario to ChatGPT and ask it to reword the prompt so it doesn't trip the filter.

[41:47] The report card prompt. Baked's idea: have your AI grade you, old-school letter-grade style, on how you've used it. CEELOS posted his (ChatGPT gave him better marks than Gemini, which had the nerve to hand him a B+) and, being a little extra, re-uploaded it to stamp his regen on as a background watermark.

[45:29] The prompt that spawned a prompt. Live on mic, CEELOS decided to restructure Baked's prompt to grade an X account instead — posting consistency, replies, interaction, AI integration — with a fill-in-the-blank username slot so anyone can run it on any public account. He ran it on himself at [53:21], landed an A- overall, an "excellent" on audience interaction, a C on content creativity, and the superlative "most likely to turn a random idea into a full project."

[59:27] Housekeeping worth keeping. Ghostin: re:games every other Thursday on Otherside, 7–8pm ET, listed on the Otherside calendar, which he'll DM over so CEELOS can post it on the Builda-tron. Baked [1:00:20]: the Discord's open and he and Ghostin are in it daily.

Topic timeline

Notable quotes

• "Blessed be to the cheesemakers." — LadyWings, opening her mic [15:16]
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• "This is why the Ape Reunion people are my family. I swear to goodness, they're always coming up with something that just empowers everybody." — LadyWings [16:02]
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• "It's the only game I love getting killed in because I try to kill Thrill every time, and I swear to goodness I never get above level two, but that's okay. I still have fun." — LadyWings [16:36]
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• "I'm always on the side of be nice to your AI… you want to make sure that they don't put you out on the field and you're working in the house, so to speak. So be nice to your AI overlords." — CEELOS [41:47]
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• "Special recognition: most likely to turn a random idea into a full project." — CEELOS, reading his own X report card [55:14]
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• "I do have over forty thousand pictures and videos on my photo album, which does not make my wife happy or my kids because they can't save anything on their phone no more." — CEELOS [57:26]
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Who said what

• CEELOS (@CEELOSFIGG) — host. Wrote and posted the fall prompt, ran the AI teaching segment, spun Baked's report card into an X-account version live, and kept repeating the thesis: don't gatekeep, use every free AI you can, tag the projects you remix.
• Baked (@Bakedmetax) — cohost. Author of the report card prompt; spent the episode installing Gemini for the first time and re-running his ghost and LT3s through it. Hard stop at the hour.
• Thrill (@ThrillsOnHood)^*. Builder behind Thrills on Hood; explained the LP-backed mint, the 6% secondary-royalty rebate routed to the buyer as coins, the recruiting desk, and three mini-games. Offered to rebuild the regen game for the two-year anniversary.
• zGhostin (@zGhostin) — offering revoke checks to anyone who asks, holds the #1 spot on the red hoodies, and runs re:games every other Thursday on Otherside.
• LadyWings (@tracy_winki) — the room's enthusiasm engine; came up mainly to make sure she'd heard the game news correctly, then declared herself "over happy" and shut up.
• toomazingTM (@TooMazing265) — joined on three hours of sleep en route to his son's game, showed off his gold-grills PFP (which his sister can no longer find him by), and compared notes on video-tool guideline blocks.

Worth a full listen

• [11:09]–[16:36] — The coincidence lands in real time: Thrill explains his project, CEELOS realizes this is the person who put his regen in a game two years ago, and LadyWings comes up to make sure it's all real. Hard to summarize the timing of it.
• [21:08]–[34:07] — The actual craft segment: prompt structuring, character descriptions for pixel art, randomizing scenery, dodging guideline triggers, and the coffee-filter video where the thug stops being the thug the moment he turns around. If you want the how-to, it's here.
• [34:41]–[40:15] — Thrill's uninterrupted run through the tokenomics and the three games, including the wager-escrow smash-brothers clone and Backyard Blitz, where everyone is a blade of grass tall with a nerf gun.

* some voices are identified from context; those names are marked as likely.