Re:Building Together EP 258 — Creation Corner "BANNER TIME"

Host: CEELOS (@CEELOSFIGG) with co-hosts Val (@valeriekates_) and Baked (@Bakedmetax) · Sat, 11 Jul 2026 · 1:03:46 · 7 speakers

TL;DR

• The theme was banner-making: CEELOS shared a long, randomized "dual-part" prompt (copy part one, then part two) that turns up to five NFTs into a Twitter banner/header without altering each art style, with an editable text field. It lives in the purple pill and on the Buildatron.
• Recurring AI-tool takeaway: Gemini "just works better" (despite a watermark), ChatGPT choked on the long prompt, and Copilot is glitchy. Fix for any of them: paste the prompt and ask the AI to reword it to run seamlessly in that specific app.
• Pharaoh (@spade_pirates) walked through building a card-sales website with AI-generated code — scraping eBay/Depop sales history, showing market gaps, and (in theory) a swipeable digital binder.
• Geist ("guys," @Geist254) delivered a full Lorcana bull case: ~3.5x fewer cards printed than Pokémon, Disney's massive fanbase, and a private publisher (Ravensburger) with no shareholder pressure.
• Scheduling: a San Diego meetup targeted for the 25th; Sunday is the collectibles Space; next Saturday's Creation Corner turns NFTs into famous artworks.

Highlights

[2:24] "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.

[10:00–15:09] 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.

[16:15] "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").

[19:40] 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.

[24:16–25:46] 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."

[34:42] "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.

[36:19–37:12] 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.

[46:56–52:55] 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.

[56:03] "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

Notable quotes

• "It's a smart machine but a stupid machine." — Pharaoh^* [16:15]
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• "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." — CEELOS [34:42]
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• "It makes me think about how much I should actually probably not share." — Val [34:38]
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• "Locana is printing 3.5x less cards than Pokemon every year." — Geist^* [46:56]
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• "Bro, buy everything Locana… if you can find something under MSRP, buy everything." — Geist^* [56:03]
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• "I put on twenty five pounds in the last month and a half… I went from 150 to 175." — Baked [31:42]
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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.