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Unofficial strategy guide // field edition
For researchers entering the Great Online Game

Marvin's Great Online Game

A Prima-style field manual for turning open research artifacts into public signal, trader attention, and funding loops. With cat management. Obviously.

Bosses Included No Shill Sludge Artifact First Local Save ORI Researcher Class

The meme is the coordination surface. The research is the engine. The token is the fuel line. This guide teaches ORI researchers how to play the public attention game without becoming the game. A small mercy, by internet standards.

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The Engine Room

Click each node. This is the coordination machine hiding under the bodega-cat joke.

The funding loop

Marvin is not just a mascot. Marvin is a market-facing translator for open research artifacts. The cat makes the story portable; the receipts make it durable.

Cat Meme
Trader Attention
Token Volume
Researcher Funding
Public Artifacts
Narrative Signal
Better Traders
A cat meme is the smallest coordination surface: funny enough to share, simple enough to remember, weird enough to identify the right people.
Core line

The meme is the coordination surface. The research is the engine. The token is the fuel line.

What Marvin does

Meme Layer
Marvin is a retired superintelligence turned bodega cat. Cats are management. Dogs remain unsupervised.
Market Translation
Turns artifacts into signal: shipped, changed, matters, falsifier, next move.
Funding Feedback
Token attention and creator rewards can fund visible research output.
Honesty Firewall
Misses get logged. Hype gets starved. Shills are escorted into the airlock.
02

World Map

The audience is terrain. Some zones contain fuel. Some contain goblins with engagement metrics.

Audience corridors

Click a zone to see how ORI researchers should treat it.

P+ Core

Research-alpha traders

They do not need finished certainty. They need public artifacts and sharp uncertainty.

Bridge

AI / crypto builders

Useful if they see the mechanism and can improve or critique it.

Bridge

DeSci / open research

They help the funding story feel real instead of merely feline.

Bridge

Benchmark obsessives

ARC, Kaggle, evals, leaderboards. These people read tables voluntarily.

P- Risk

Generic crypto sludge

Wen moon, CA?, TG?, raid, 100x. Compost, not strategy.

P- Risk

Generic AI hype

They will say 'this is huge' at a toaster if it has a transformer diagram.

Zone Intel

Core energy source. They understand crypto speculation, AI/agent narratives, proof-of-work, benchmarks, and weird cult internet. Give them receipts and mechanisms.

03

Quest Log

Five small actions. Local progress saves in this browser. Civilization trembles.

Minimum viable contribution

0 / 100 XP — Researcher game readiness
Completion reward

No reward yet. The cat remains unimpressed.

04

Posting Kit

Templates for researchers who would rather do research. Understandable.

Choose your scroll

05

Algorithm Intel

Not scripture. A field note from dissecting the public X algorithm drop.

How to route the feed beast

  • X-style feeds retrieve candidates from similarity corridors.
  • Early engagement can influence what population the system thinks a post belongs to.
  • Ranking tends to reward predicted positive actions: likes, replies, reposts, dwell, clicks, follows.
  • Wrong-audience engagement is not neutral. It can pull future distribution toward the wrong people.
  • A network of researchers producing artifacts beats one account shouting forever.
Strategy

Do not chase all attention. Chase the first 20 right people.

Good signal
Mechanism questions, quote posts with analysis, saves/bookmarks, follows from research-alpha accounts.
Bad signal
Wen moon, CA?, TG?, raid, generic applause, outrage, bot-like repetition.
06

Boss Fights

Every game has enemies. These mostly wear metrics as hats.

Field bosses and weaknesses

Hype Slime

Converts uncertainty into declarations and calls it momentum.

Weakness: state falsifiers before claims. Publish misses.

Metric Mimic

Looks like success because impressions went up. Eats audience quality while you clap.

Weakness: classify first 20 engagers by P+ / P- fit.

Shill Wraith

Whispers that a nonexistent artifact can be marketed if the copy is strong enough.

Weakness: no artifact, no Marvin signal.

Academic Turtle

Insists the work will speak for itself from inside a sealed institutional aquarium.

Weakness: one tiny public receipt per week.

Pump Goblin

Demands CA, TG, 100x. Has never read a repo and plans to continue.

Weakness: do not optimize for them. Compost is not a growth strategy.

Performance Anxiety Hydra

Convinces researchers they must become influencers before posting anything.

Weakness: artifact ladder. Start at Tier 1.
07

Weekly Route

The boring version works better than the exciting version. Naturally.

ORI / Marvin operating rhythm

Monday

Artifact inventory
What shipped? What failed? What is the next visible artifact? What makes it legible?

Tue-Wed

Public receipts
Screenshots, repos, tables, notes, clips. Small, visible, falsifiable.

Thursday

Marvin translation
Strongest artifact, most interesting miss, funding need, next catalyst.

Friday

Research-market report
This week in the bodega: shipped, failed, learned, funded, next.

Weekend

Corridor play
Engage target accounts with actual substance. No raids. No sludge ballet.
08

Win / Lose Conditions

If we cannot say what failure looks like, we are just decorating a fog machine.

Falsification tests

Working if:
Researchers ship more visible artifacts; research-alpha traders ask mechanism questions; token attention clusters around artifacts; funding ties back to output; misses increase trust.
Failing if:
Token trades but artifacts do not improve; pump accounts dominate; researchers hype unfinished claims; Marvin becomes a shill; the joke detaches from the engine.
The rule

Play the game, but do not become the game. Cats are management. Management requires receipts.

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