Edvard and I coordinated the backend. We decided to use AWS Lambda for the metadata API, and our own server for file generation and leaderboards. Once minting is complete we can throw the metadata on IPFS.
Nadia and I had technical meetings in regards to the sprites. I refactored the the contract, frontend, and backend plan to her requirements. She's a believer in keeping things simple. I like to make things complicated. She usually gets her way. In this case it took me a day to adapt to the new sprite format. She combined the right hoof and the body.
We also decided to do 10 pigs total. Nadia selected the characters. We had raucous debates over a few days about who should be in and out. Our mutual shared goal though was freedom. We both hate censorship and cancel culture. We are willing to fight for our right to expression, creativity, and innovation.
The final cut was:
Pig Jong Un Donald Oinkler Che Chicharrón Jamón Castro Augusto Cochinillo Hugo Chicharrón Leonid Bacon Joseph Snortin Queen Swill II Napoleon Saveloy
While Donald Oinkler and the Queen are not despots, and the furthest thing from a socialist or authoritarian, neither were all of the animals in Animal Farm. Dissent, and shortcomings exist in many forms. Not every socialist thinker is a bad person, and not every libertarian ideologue is a good one.
Nadia and I both love the weird. Our current playlist in the car includes Industry Baby, many versions of the title Let's Go Brandon, Moranbong Band, and Russian music from perestroika. We wonder if Lil Nas X realizes he has crossover fans from the right who love him for who he is, or if our right wing friends realize we play North Korean propaganda on repeat for our newborn daughter.
We are all degenerates in some way. Politics makes for very strange alliances that can quickly turn into hate. As long as we are free to both love and hate, the world will find equilibrium.
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