Episodes
On tonight's show, we caught up on the Upland market and Sparklet floors, we reviewed and reflected on the Miami Beach release, power-up bundles are back for Upland Racing, there are a few events and opportunities that have just been announced for the Wonderland Season, and of course there’s the Upland Roadmap Update to dive into. The main topic for tonight's show is "THE RISE, PROLIFERATION, AND FALL OF USER GENERATED CONTENT IN UPLAND”. Outlining and discussing some very biased opinions on...
Published 11/09/24
In this episode, I was joined by both co-founders of the Hyde Park Ninjas, Sckicker and KO_Ninja, for the third and final round look into their growing presence within and around the Upland Metaverse. Having previously discussed their individual Upland journeys and approaches, today I set out to uncover the strategy behind the past, present, and future of what the Ninjas are building in Hyde Park, which I hope you’ll enjoy. Both Sckicker and KO_Ninja have shown a balanced and sharp approach...
Published 10/18/24
Published 10/18/24
In this episode, I was joined by Keith, aka KO_Ninja, one of the co-founders of the Hyde Park Ninjas. KO has been playing Upland since January 2022, after being introduced to the platform by fellow co-founder Sckicker, whom I chatted with in the last episode of this series. As mentioned previously, this chat is the second discussion in what will be a 3-part series featuring the Hyde Park Ninjas, with the next episode focusing on the wide variety of ways that Sckicker and KO_Ninja are engaged...
Published 10/13/24
Story Time With BEN68: No.1 an 8-chapter rant that was produced from the recent community sentiment survey on THE INESCAPABLE BONE-CHILLING HORRORS OF UPLAND. Outlining some of the many ways in which Upland can and must improve to support its vision of being a WEB3 ecosystem for digital entrepreneurs to stake their claim in the metaverse, create value, and engage with a global community of players. --------------- 🌏Metaverse Ventures Australia (MVA)...
Published 10/04/24
On tonight's show, we catch up on the Upland market and Sparklet floors, we’ve got another Sparklet segment from Swarley, a bunch of stuff to review and reflect on from September and the later part of Sizzle season, a lot to discuss about what’s kicked off and kicking off in Harvest Season, and we’ve got a couple of mini-Upland community spotlights for the Evergreen Lahser and Creedmoor nodes. The main topic for tonight's show is "THE INESCAPABLE BONE-CHILLING HORRORS OF UPLAND”. Discussing...
Published 10/03/24
In this episode, I was joined by Mike, aka Sckicker2022, one of the co-founders of the Hyde Park Ninjas, who are heavily involved in a variety of WEB3 ventures in and around the Upland Metaverse. As his name suggests, SC has been playing Upland since January 2022, and today we focused on discussing his journey into Upland and the aspects that keep him interested and engaged with the platform. Since this is the first in what we hope will be a 3-part series featuring the Hyde Park Ninjas, we...
Published 09/28/24
In this live stream, I'll again be attempting to broadcast from my new podcasting space, to outline a massive giveaway campaign for the Evergreen Lahser 7/8 neighborhood development collaborative in Detroit, and go through some of the recent Upland news and events. --------------- 🌏Metaverse Ventures Australia (MVA) Discord:🌏 https://discord.gg/Vvz3f96yC9 --------------- 🌏 Evergreen Lahser 7/8 🌏 Discord server: https://discord.com/invite/umKXkpNuu7 Website: https://evergreen78.com/ X...
Published 09/22/24
In this episode, I was joined by Jsawyer, one of the co-founders of the upcoming Next World platform being built for the Upland Metaverse. J has been playing Upland since late 2019, becoming an official Uplander in February 2020, and he’s maintained a slow and steady growth of his account since. That’s all starting to change as Next World begins to take shape however, and it presents quite a paradox with my own Upland journey, where I started off big and have recently dialled my engagement...
Published 09/07/24
On tonight's show, we catch up on the Upland market and Sparklet floors, Totems cycle 2, gamified earnings Sparklet drops, the Haunted Halloween Plaza Challenge, and the upcoming Stock Car Pro Series car sale. The main topic for tonight's show is "IT’S TIME TO START DIALLING WAY BACK”. Outlining some more big changes that are happening regarding my role as a broadcaster of Upland and other WEB3 content. We’ve also got QIPS on communication, cafes, and sparklet transfers. We'll take a look at...
Published 09/05/24
On tonight's show, we catch up on the Upland market and Sparklet floors. We check in on Totems Cycle 2, gamified earnings, and Sizzle Season Pass cosmetics. Swarley gets a dose of iOS whitescreen mania, and we’ve had another Sparklet airdrop. The main topic for tonight's show is "WOOHOO!" or "MEH!"? A new São Paulo expansion has been announced. We’ll take a look at what’s on offer and see if there’s any meat left to go with the Mantiqueira Mountains of potatoes over there. We’ve also got QIPS...
Published 08/28/24
In this episode, I was joined by Laban, who has been a highly active and engaged member and supporter of the Upland community since joining way back in November 2020. Laban has pretty much been involved in and seen it all as Upland has continued to grow and develop since then, from humble beginnings as an FSA agent in Fresno working with established players (including myself), to having some epic USD flips and striving towards, and succeeding in, getting his account into the green ‘playing...
Published 08/24/24
On tonight's show, we catch up on the Upland market and Sparklet floors. We check in on Totems Cycle 2, gamified earnings, and Sizzle Season Pass cosmetics. More glitches appear as the "Oops, something went wrong, please try again" virus spreads. There’s plenty to unpack with Sparklet, including the airdrops and the ongoing confusion surrounding them, and we’ve got a sales update for the Genesis Node Midtown Terrace. The main topic for tonight's show is "Detechland!"—taking a look at the most...
Published 08/22/24
On this week’s show, crypto consolidates, Tether and Aptos announce a partnership, crypto markets brace for the Fed's comments, the Upland Airdrop campaign ends, the Upland Midtown Terrace sale has begun, ASEAN enters the Metaverse through ROBLOX, unleashing the power of the Metaverse to transform marketing, insane AI videos and images go viral in the lead-up to the US Presidential election, a mayoral candidate promises to let an OpenAI bot govern the capital city, Trump cashes in on memecoin...
Published 08/20/24
In this episode, I was joined by QAPM, who is another member of the Upland Australian community—well, kind of. QAPM has been actively involved in Upland since back in the Fresno days, spending time navigating the platform fairly independently before moving more and more into collaborative community engagement. That has led to him becoming one of the most active and engaged members of the Cosme Velho Node community in the Upland Metaverse, helping to establish and continue to develop the Rio...
Published 08/17/24
On tonight's show, we catch up on the Upland market and Sparklet floors. A last call for the Bitget Sparklet airdrop has been given, there are a couple of new Upland news articles to take a look at, apparently, treasure hunting has been nerfed again, and we check up on Totems Cycle 2. The main topic for tonight's show is, 'This can’t continue: the growing critical stability crisis for Upland on iOS.' We’ve also got QIPS on quality control, quality of life updates, Sparklet utility, and a...
Published 08/15/24
On this week’s show, crypto claws back some of the recent losses, Venezuela restricts Binance access, Ethereum sets new staking withdrawal records, Upland Totems' 2nd cycle begins, while Chapter Two Sparklet airdrop ends, half of the 10 most valuable companies on Earth are now making metaverse hardware, Sandbox land prices plunge 95%, OpenAI fears people will form bonds with the AI it developed to fool humans, Apple to release the next-generation iPhone SE with AI features in 2025,...
Published 08/13/24
In this episode, I was joined by fellow Australian ACE696, who happens to live not far north of me here in Queensland. And that’s not where our similarities end. We both got into crypto around the same time and had similar adventures in that sector, we both stumbled into Upland, and we’ve both made active community engagement and UGC map asset content creation one of our main personal hobbies. Which, as we both agree, isn’t a ‘normal’ sort of thing to do for blokes of our age and backgrounds....
Published 08/10/24
On tonight's show, we catch up on the Upland market and Sparklet floors. We’ve got the Sizzle Season racing, ornaments challenge and map assets to take a look at. Cycle 2 of Totems is here at long last but you better hurry up and get ready because we’ve had bugger all notice on this one, and we’ve got another Sparklet-focused segment from Swarley129. The main topic for tonight's show is ‘Crypto fizzles while Paris sizzles’. We’ve also got QIPS on map assets for seasons, next-gen NFLPA legits,...
Published 08/08/24
On this week’s show, it's raining blood as crypto dumps with over $1 Billion USD liquidated from the market, crypto hackers buy Ethereum dip using stolen funds, Sizzle Season melts down into and begins in Upland, Sparklet airdop platform update after some algorithm shenanigans, Meta burns another $4.5B on metaverse in Q2 while preparing for AI growth, Nvidia targets metaverse with OpenUSD NIM microservices, Nvidia delays next-generation AI chip with huge implications for the sector, OpenAI...
Published 08/05/24
🎢 Hold on tight as Swarley129 breaks down his big picture perspective on the Sparklet cryptocurrency market listings, and outlines how and why he believes that the Sparklet token price is exactly where it should be expected to be, and is primmed for great things to come. 🚀 --------------------------------------------- Clipped from: Upland Down Under Podcast: No.052 - UPLAND METAVERSE SPARKLET & PARIS!!! [1.08.24]...
Published 08/03/24
In this episode, I was super thankful to be joined by Detech, who jumped in at the last minute to cover this weekend’s show slot. Detech is someone who probably needs no introduction, having been an extremely successful and widely respected Upland community member for several years now, particularly for his insane skills and attention to detail in 3D User Generated Content creation. Detech has won numerous 3D asset construction competitions over the years. He has dozens of map assets,...
Published 08/02/24
On tonight's show, we catch up on the Upland market floors, the current Sparklet action in the crypto market, including a new Sparklet-focused segment from Swarley129. New Upland Property Pre-Sale bundles for Paris sold out lickety-split but not without the usual nonsense and a hefty dose of drama, the associated landmarks have been won and delivered, we’ve got the Upland Summer Games: Speed Champions Team Contest underway, and there are new Gamified Earnings Missions for Sizzle Season and...
Published 08/01/24
On this week’s show, Crypto is all over the place, Mt. Gox Bitcoin distribution underway after a decade-long legal battle, US government transfers massive amount of BTC to new wallet, Upland Metaverse’s first-ever tradable token, Sparklet lands on exchanges, Paris debuts in Upland, Disney officially enters the metaverse, exciting news for NFT and Olympics fans as The Sandbox prepares sports events in the metaverse, roughly two-fifths of US adults are using AI for their finances, more colleges...
Published 07/30/24
Discussing some of the details surrounding the announcement of the Paris release date for Upland, and some of the big changes made for this city release. A special broadcast brought to you by the UPLAND DOWN UNDER PODCAST. ----------------------- 🌏Metaverse Ventures Australia (MVA)🌏 Discord: https://discord.gg/Vvz3f96yC9 ----------------------- ⚠️WARNING!⚠️ This podcast is produced by Metaverse Ventures Entertainment and contains unsolicited and heavily biased opinions which are solely the...
Published 07/27/24