I am actively contributing to the SPS Validator Network as nate-sps.This is a reference for anyone who is considering voting for my node (nate-sps) here: WHO IS NATE AGUILA?I'm hoping that it instills at least a bit of confidence in knowing that I am not a mysterious unknown agent hiding behind an obscure username. My username IS my real name. You can research who I am, where I live, and what I do.

Are you trying to figure out what to do with your Splintershards (SPS)? Or maybe you want to get some SPS...and you're wondering how or why you should get it?Well, I'm sorry...but it's not all flowers and unicorns. On the contrary, we are going to explore the dark, terrible underbelly of SPS.

I have no idea if the Splinterlands AMA (Ask Me Anything) session from earlier today was recorded or not. However, fret not! I can, at the very least, provide some insight on my portion of the program.For those of you who scrambled afterwards to make sense of the Discord chat once it was over, you may have noticed me posting random screens and imagery. However, without my narration, you might be pondering what the heck you are looking at, haha.

Welp, the big day has finally arrived!I’m sure that there’s a wide mix of emotions in the wake of Splinterland’s BIG ANNOUNCEMENTSome of you may be feeling UNDERwhelmed. Others of you may be feeling OVERwhelmed. Some of you are smugly commenting, “I knew it”, while others are in a complete state of shock. Some are shrugging their shoulders and moving on. Others are in total and utter FOMO mode.

Last week was my kid's birthday. @koolitime hit the big 13. He was a teenager.To celebrate the upcoming years of rebellious and emotional anguish that he was about to subject @raynie and I to, we decided to go crazy!We hit up the Disney Hollywood Studios park here in Florida and visited Galaxy's Edge for the first time! It surpassed all our expectations. We did everything there was to see and do and buy, haha! But I'll share those details in another post someday.

Today was pretty cool.Back in the day, folks from LeoFinance were waving the RUNE flag. When I researched what RUNE was, I thought the branding and theme were neat, but everything else just went over my head. Since I didn't really understand the project, I invested elsewhere.