Now we'll take a look at the different aspects of this window we have here, which is known collectively as the level editor and We'll explain what each part of this interface is responsible for doing Okay, we'll start up here at the top then this here is known as the menu bar and it's got options like file edit window tools build and Every editor within Unreal Engine has one of these menu bars Some options like file edit and help will be in every single one of these editors But some are edited specific in this case things like build and actor are specific to the level editor Then we've got this tab here This just tells us kind of what what we have in a specific tab and we conduct different tabs along here Which we'll do later this tells us that we're in third-person map Which is a level and then next down below that we've got this section here, which is known as the main toolbar This contains shortcuts to some of the most common tools and commands in Unreal Engine and it's divided into we've got the save button here We've then got this little drop down here, which is mode selection and that allows us to change between Editing selection foliage mesh paint and we'll touch on some of these as we go forward Next we've got these three here are kind of your content shortcuts So you've got create here this lets you add things to your level or to your world Then you've got this one here, which allows you to get into blueprints and edit those The next one is to do with cinematics and sequences and all that kind of stuff so creating things like cutscenes Then we've got the play mode controls this contains shortcuts such as play, skip, stop, eject So it's basically for running and testing your game within the editor Then we've got the platforms menu and that is just a series of options You can use to configure, prepare, deploy your project for different platforms such as desktop, mobile or consoles And then way over here to the right We've also got settings and this just contains various settings for the Unreal editor, level editor, viewport and game behavior And we'll touch on some of these later as well Moving on then this big-ass window here is known as the level viewport And this just is responsible for displaying the content of the level that's currently open So when you open a project on Unreal Engine, the project's default level opens in this viewport by default And it's where you can view and edit the contents of your level, whether it's an environment, a product visualization app or anything else really And the level viewport can generally display the content of the level in two different ways There's perspective, which is what we're looking at now, which is kind of a 3D view And we've also got orthographic So if we change here from perspective to top This would be an orthographic view and we can see kind of a wireframe view of the level And that's a 2D view that just looks down one of the main axes, such as x, y or z But let's just pop that back into perspective The next important part of the interface, we can't even see right now And that's because it's called the content draw And if you just press control and spacebar on your keyboard Like that, your content draw will pop up and you can see that it's labeled down here content draw You can also just click on it from down here at any time And this is essentially a file explorer window that displays all of your assets, blueprints And other files that are contained within your project And you can use it to browse through your content to organize it And even to move them between different games and projects And here you can see we've got like a file browser window here And we can also see some of the folders here within the content folder So you've got two different ways of laying that out And now I'll just press control and space again to get rid of that And along the bottom, this entire strip is known as the bottom toolbar And this contains shortcuts to the command console, which is here Which is incredibly useful You've also got the output log, which is here This will tell you, you know, whether or not you've got problems within your game You've got derived data, which we're not going to touch on Source control status for if you're working, you know, on a shared project between a big team Again, we're not going to touch on that for this exercise But lots of useful stuff down here In the top right of the screen, this is called the outliner It used to be known as the world outliner And it basically just displays a hierarchical view of all the content in your level By default, it's docked up here in the upper right corner of the window You can move if you want to And you can use this to quickly hide or reveal actors by clicking on the associated icon here So you can see that's making that appear and disappear You can access an actors context menu by right clicking on it So, you know, there are certain things that we can do with an asset And that will come up if we right click You can create, move, and delete content folders to help to organize it Here you can see we've got a folder here that contains block 1 And also down below that we have the details panel So if we click on something, it will bring up the details for whatever we have selected And that allows us to change some of the properties like location, rotation, scale What material has on, there's lots of stuff going on in here Which we'll cover as we go through the tutorial And that brings an end to our quick whistle stop tour of the Unreal Engine default interface, the level editor And the next step, we're going to take a look at how you move around in 3D space Or how you navigate using the mouse and keyboard to get around in Unreal Engine So I'll see you in the next step for that Thanks so much for joining me I hope you found this tutorial helpful and enjoyable If you'd like to help me create more content like this Please consider becoming a patron on Patreon The 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My name is Sam Vaknin, and I'm your favorite Sigma professor of psychology. Sigma professor, like Sigma men. I'm also the author of Malignant Self-Love, Narcissism Revisited, and a host of other books and e-books and videos, etc., etc., etc. Aren't you tired of this? I am. So, what we will discuss today is Tinder.  I'm going to back everything I say, of course, with numerous studies and research, what have you. Before you say anything, good research observes behavior. Good research is not based on self-reporting. It simply follows people around and sees what's happening. So, we have many studies which incorporate and include observations of behavior in situ, in real life. And most of the studies I will cite in this video lecture are experimental studies, studies which observe behavior, rather than just self-reporting questionnaires. Because in self-reporting questionnaires, people can and often do lie. They do lie especially when it comes to sex. God knows why.  So, before we start, I would like to refer you to the contemporary sexuality playlist in this channel and especially to the video Youth Sexlessness, where I had summarized dozens of studies conducted with young people under the age of 25. Today we use the concept of extended adolescence, just up to age 25, when most people graduate, those who do, graduate college and so on and so forth. Dating apps. We are all acquainted with them, no need to introduce them. It's a great mistake to believe that Tinder is the largest dating app. It's not by far. Badoo, B-A-D-O-O is much bigger. Plenty of fish. Meet me, they're bigger than Tinder. But Tinder has the advantage of catering to people in the West, especially young people in Western countries. And because the West controls the media, the mass media, the West controls social media, the West controls television, the West controls printing presses, the West controls moviemaking, etc., etc., or at least it believes it does. We are more exposed to Tinder and we use Tinder as a gauge. That would be, of course, highly misleading, because China, for example, has its own social media universe, which is utterly divorced from the Western one. Same goes for Russia. So anything we learn from the United States, from Norway, from the United Kingdom, from Portugal is not applicable in Brazil. Not applicable in Russia. Not applicable in China. Not applicable in the Middle East. Not applicable, actually, to something like 85% of humanity. And yet this Eurocentric, this Atlanta-centric view of humanity, like everything important, happens in the United States or in Europe, nor else, it's unfortunately with us, even in academic circles. Someone asked me what exactly was I trying to say yesterday in my video about casual sex and one-night stands and so on. Here's what I was trying to say in a single sentence. One-night stands are full-fledged relationships with a very brief or short expiry date. Casual sex is a form of full-fledged relationships with intimacy, with emotions, with affection, with attachment, with bonding, with commitment, with investment, like any other relationship. But with intermittent or short expiry date, the only thing differentiating a one-night stand from a 25 years marriage is that a one-night stand lasts for one night. Essentially, nothing else. Okay. People use dating applications. And I will give you the gist of this video for those of you whose attention span never exceeds three minutes. Here's the gist of the video. People use dating applications almost exclusively for entertainment in order to boost self-esteem and, surprise of all surprises, in order to find an intimate, long-term romantic partner. Dating apps are rarely used to find casual sex. Shocking, isn't it? Against everything you have been taught online. Dating apps, I repeat, are rarely used in order to find casual sex. Moreover, dating app usage rarely results in real-life, face-to-face meetings or dating. In other words, what is on Tinder stays on Tinder. It's a self-enclosed, self-sufficient, self-contained digital virtual universe. People interact online or via Tinder with other people online on Tinder, and that's where it stops in the overwhelming vast majority of the cases. So it never, it never exits cyberspace or rarely exits cyberspace. It rarely becomes a reality. People swipe right and they swipe left and they do this in order to be exposed to visual stimuli. They like to watch photos. So they watch photos, they read, they read bios and descriptions. They sometimes chat a bit, sometimes they take it to another chat application like WhatsApp. That's where it stops in the overwhelming majority of cases. That's where it stops. It starts online, it ends online. It starts on Tinder, it ends mostly on Tinder sometimes on WhatsApp. It is extremely rare for any Tinder interaction to end in real life. And it is even more rare, almost unheard of, for such interactions to lead to sex. These are facts. I'm going to substantiate these facts with numerous studies from all over the world. But before we go there, I would like to refer you to a recent study published in Sexual Medicine Reviews. It's an academic journal, Volume 8, Issue 3, July 2020. The article is titled, Sexological Aspects Related to Tinder Use. A comprehensive review of the literature. And it was written by numerous authors, there's like, if I count correctly, 12 or 15 authors. And here is an excerpt from the study.  Moreover, some pathological aspects of personality characterize Tinder users. The authors say, we found social sexuality, that is, sexual activities outside a committed relationship, to be the main predictor for casual sex in Tinder users. The sexual aims appeared gender influenced. Men used Tinder mostly for casual sex compared to women. Women didn't. With respect to other dating apps, it has been also found that the Tinder use is less related to the risk of sexually transmitted infections. For a simple reason, by the way, Tinder use rarely, extremely rarely ends in sex. The authors continue, however, specific personality traits related to dark personality, association of Machiavellianism, narcissism and psychopathy, were more frequently reported among male Tinder users. So what the authors are saying is a mismatch between the expectations of male users of Tinder and female users of Tinder. Because of this mismatch, it doesn't translate to sex, or rarely translates to sex. Men want casual sex, women don't. Sex is very simple. As we go further, and I cite a plethora of other studies, you will see that even this is not entirely true. The situation is much more benign. And of course it's much more benign than anything described in the Manosphere. Manosphere users, Manosphere pseudo-intellectuals, Manosphere bright lights, Manosphere geniuses, Niktau intellectually challenged leaders, all these people have no idea what they're talking about, are not using any data, are confabulating, imagining, inventing, spewing out unmitigated trash and nonsense. I'm referring now as an academic to facts. I'm not expressing an opinion now as to the ideology of Niktau, or Incells, or Red Pillars, or the Manosphere. Ideology is debatable. Opinions can vary, we can agree or disagree. I can find them contemptible, misogynistic, fuggish and stupid, which is exactly how I view them. But this is my opinion. I am exercised by, and I'm incensed by, their misrepresentation, or lies, or misrepresentations of facts. They misrepresent facts. They also misunderstand, because they are not intellectually equipped to understand, most of evolutionary psychology and other relevant theories in psychology and other fields. And this creates a mayhem. And they are led by pseudo-intellectuals who had failed as academics. And these pseudo-intellectuals spew out even greater nonsense, and what's worse, they lend a seal of credibility to the junk, to the junk manufactured by these groups, to the intellectual junk manufactured by these groups. This is not even junk food, it's just junk. Okay, start with the concept of beta and alpha. Alpha males chads in the lingo of the Manosphere, and beta males. Now the concepts of alpha and beta male do exist. These concepts exist in ethology, the study of animal behavior. And they had been imported from ethology to anthropology, and to sociology, and to some extent into social psychology. So these concepts do exist, even in the academic literature. But not in the way the Manosphere had expropriated and corrupted them. On the very contrary, actually. The alpha male in academic literature is an empathic, team player, compassionate, loving, in a way effeminate, networking person. Exactly the opposite.   They are idolizing narcissists and psychopaths. They are placing narcissists and psychopaths on a pedestal. All the industry of dating coaches and business coaches, they are teaching people how to become more narcissistic, more antisocial, more defined, more grandiose, more fantastic, less realistic, more delve deeper into magical or to sink in magical thinking.  And they are sickening people.  It borders on a crime, in my view. And so when you look at business coaches, even respectable business coaches like Kate Luderman, for example, or Eddie Erlinson, they had written an article published in the Harvard Business Review, coaching the alpha male. When you read the article, you would immediately say, that's not, I don't know what it is, but this is a narcissist. The alpha male in the article is a narcissist, grandiose, defiant, pseudo-stupid, not open to criticism and ideas. Absent reality testing leads by intimidation. So a bit psychopathic, a bit antisocial. And that's the alpha male in the Harvard Business Review.  So we have a problem here. Alpha males and beta males are, in my view, legitimate distinctions. It's a legitimate distinction. But they have been misconstrued and corrupted completely online. And so the fact is, the fact is that women prefer what the monosphere calls beta males. Women abhor jerks, chads, the macho swaggering, aggressive male types. Women find them repulsive and disgusting and want nothing to do with them. They prefer, women prefer, empathic, kind, attentive men. Yes, even for one nightstands. How do I know? We have numerous studies. We had observed women in settings such as bars and restaurants on dating apps and so on. And we know. I'm going to replace five links in the description to studies that confirm what I've just said. Women prefer the monosphere's version of beta males, even for one nightstands. Alpha males are actually narcissists and psychopaths. And women don't want them. Alpha males are out, except perhaps, as visual entertainment on Tinder. Alpha males, not all by any means. Some alpha males have musculature. Their bodybuilders, they look good. They look nice. They are drop dead gorgeous. They're hunks. So they're nice to look at from a distance, from a safe distance. And that's what women do, as I will show you in a minute. Women swipe right in order to entertain themselves. And sometimes extremely rarely, by the way, they reach out and they rebuild or sustain. They get an ego boost. They rebuild or sustain their self-esteem. And that's where it ends. Validation, goodbye. These are the facts. Now hooking up is a new stage in what we call the dating script or the sexual script. Let me retrace. What is a dating script?  Scripts are prescriptions or recipes on how to behave. They are behavioral recipes. Who gives you these recipes? Who dictates to you how to behave? Society. Society tells you how to behave. Society tells you how to date a partner. Society tells you how to behave in sex. Society provides you with scripts. Dating scripts and sexual scripts. Society does this via socialization agents. Via people or institutions that introduce you to the expectations, mores and rules and norms of society. First and foremost, your mother and father, then grandmothers, grandfathers, then teachers, then influential figures, influences, then role models, then peers. All these people teach you one way or another, by example, verbally, intellectually. All these people teach you how you should be a man, how you should be a woman, how a man behaves in a typical dating, in a typical date, how a woman behaves in a dating situation, and how both should behave in the sack, in bed, during sex, what is acceptable, what is crossing the line, what's a violation of boundaries, what is really, really bad taste, and what is wonderful. These are dating and sexual scripts. And now, here's the problem. In the past, people had access to 500 other people if they were lucky. You had 500 people to choose from if you were lucky.  These habitations were very small. And so you had a very limited and narrow repertory, choice, set, or group to choose from. Today, everyone and his dog is exposed to 5,000, 10,000, 50,000 people, millions of people via dating apps. The pool had expanded, had exploded dramatically. Today, a woman can choose from 1,000 men or 2,000 men, while in the past she would have been lucky to choose from three men. So, we needed a new filtering mechanism, because the number of possibilities and options and potentialities had exploded in a supernova style. We needed something to help us make the correct choice.  And this filtering mechanism is dating apps. Dating apps are not divorced from dating. Dating apps are not kind of disjointed. They're not out there all by themselves. Dating apps are integrated into the seamless flow of interaction between the genders.   Then you find your matches. Then you fix a meeting.  The date leads to sex. In a small minority of cases, by the way. The date leads to sex.  So, while in the past, we had the very same sequence, only without the dating apps. Today, we have the same sequence augmented by the dating apps. Because the dating apps help us to select their filters. They help us to filter out the wrong options. The options that are not right for us. And so dating apps actually lead to marriages. To intimate relationships. To committed, invested relationships. This is the main output of dating apps. Not casual sex. As I will shortly show you. And so dating apps are not a bad thing. Dating apps are a good thing. And even when there is casual sex. In a majority, a surprising majority of cases, it leads to relationships. And because women prefer to have relationships. With beta males, monosphere beta males. Even in the monosphere, they admit that women prefer to have relationships with beta males. So follow the logic. Dating apps in a tiny minority of cases result in face-to-face meetings. These face-to-face meetings in a small minority of cases result in casual sex. Casual sex in a large majority of cases, more than two thirds. Leads to relationships. But women want relationships with beta males. Not with alpha males. Not with narcissists and psychopaths. And jerks. And a-holes. They want a nice, kind, empathic, supportive guy. Attentive. Compassionate. So they are likely to choose in advance. What the monosphere calls beta male. So the vast majority of meetings offline. Meetings that had emanated from. Meetings that were catalyzed by the dating app. These meetings are actually, meetings offline are actually with beta males. Consequently, most of the casual sex is also with beta males. Using the monospheres. Misrepresentation of the beta male. Okay. Let me quote to you a study. It was published in personality and individual differences. Volume 155. We are sure write a lot. We are psychologists. Volume 155. March 2020. The title, the study is titled. Never mind, I'll find someone like me. Assortative meeting preferences on Tinder. And it was written again by Van Den Balker and others. So. Here's another myth.  Women are looking for chads. They're looking for, they're looking to marry up. It's called hypergamy. They want to marry up. They want to marry someone above their station. Someone who is not like them. Someone who is superior to them. They also want to date. And they also also want to, to hit the hay. They want to roll in the hay.  Who are superior to them physically. Much more attractive. So women are looking up. They want the men who is more attractive, more muscular, more handsome, more of a hulk and a hunk, more richer, socially superior and so on. That's the myth. It even has a name, hypergamy. It's wrong. It's simply completely wrong. Many studies have shown conclusively that women want men who resemble them, who are like them, in terms of attractiveness, in terms of personality, in terms of economic status, in terms of life, life potentials, in terms of stage of self-actualization, in terms of age, et cetera, et cetera. So I'll read to you from this. In this process of selecting, it's called assortative mating. So I'll read to you. The study says, we analyze experimental and survey data on almost 8,000 Tinder profile evaluations. We unambiguously find that Tinder users prefer a potential partner whom they perceive to be similar to the personality traits, agreeableness, and openness to experience. So they are looking for someone who is as agreeable as they are and as open to experience as they are. With respect to similarity and perceived age, we find either no assortment or positive assortment. In other words, when it comes to age, people are looking for either the same age or they don't care. And they never look for on purpose for someone who is not the same age. And this depends on the condition of another personality participant characteristics.  Finally, we do not find any evidence for preferences for assortative mating based on attractiveness. I repeat this because people in the monosphere don't get anything the first time. We are lucky if they get it the seventh time. So I repeat the sentence for the benefit of our deprived brethren in the monosphere. Finally, we do not find, say these scholars, the authors, we do not find any evidence for preferences for assortative mating based on attractiveness. In other words, my dear monosphere listeners, in other words, people on dating apps tinder in this case do not choose people, do not match, do not look to meet, do not look to sleep with. Other people based on attractiveness, not, they do choose to go offline, to go on a date or even to have casual sex based on agreeableness, based on openness to experience and to some extent based on each, but not based on the possible matches attractiveness.  Okay. One very important thing that I keep saying is that people confuse alpha males with narcissists and psychopaths.  You see, but on tinder women choose the most good looking guys. Wrong, by the way, not true. Even if it were right, the good looking guys on tinder are narcissists and psychopaths. They are not alpha males. I'm sorry to break the news. The good looking people, the womanizers, those who are playing the field, those who are looking only for casual sex and so on, those who are grooming, they are narcissists and psychopaths. I refer you to a study in the academic journal Current Psychology. Published this last year, 2020. Study is titled The Dark Tetrad in Tinder. Hookup app for high psychopathy individuals and a diverse utilitarian tool for Machiavellians. It was authored by Mina Lyons, Ashley Messenger appropriately, Rebecca Perry and Gail Brewer. And here's what they say. Using tinder, using tinder for acquiring sexual experience was related to being male and to being high in psychopathy. Did you hear this? Men on tinder are narcissists and psychopaths. That's why the manosphere calls them alpha males. Psychopathy was positively, the authors continue, psychopathy was positively correlated with using tinder to distract oneself from other tasks, procrastination. Higher Machiavellianism and being female were related to peer pressure as a tinder used motivation. Using tinder for acquiring social or flirting skills had a negative relationship with narcissism and positive relationship with Machiavellianism. Finally, Machiavellianism was also a significant, positive predictor of tinder used for social approval and to pass the time. Results indicate that individuals high in Machiavellianism use tinder for a number of utilitarian reasons, whereas the main motive for high psychopathy individuals is hookup for casual sex. Okay. The current situation is, it would come as a shock to you, I'm sure. One third of marriages are conceived online. One third of people who get married had met online, most of them through dating apps. Dating apps are the main tool today for getting married and for long-term relationships. And dating apps are abysmal failure at arranging and facilitating and catalyzing casual sex. Facts. A survey from 2014 found that 84% of dating app users were using online dating services to look for a romantic relationship. 84% were using dating apps to find a romantic relationship. 24% stated that they use online dating apps explicitly for sexual encounters. Okay. How many are successful? There's so many people on dating apps, close to a billion. Some people say 2 billion. How many of them are successful? Do dating apps or does the use of dating apps translate to any real-world benefits? Sex, marriage, romance. We know that the main outcome of using dating apps is marriage and romance, romantic relationships. But how many are there? What's the statistical outcome? A study found that 50% one-half of Tinder users have only ever been on a single face-to-face date, even though most of them had hundreds of matches. 50% of Tinder users have met one of their matches and that's it. The same study found that less fewer than 25% of matches are looking for a long-term relationship. Researchers say users need a large number of matches to have any meet-ups at all. So 25% go there to find romantic relationships. It's a huge number, by the way, because all the other reasons are like 2% and 3% each. The vast majority, actually, of people who gave reasons want to use the dating apps for romance. There was a study in... This study was in Norway, which has its own special sexuality care. It's Scandinavia, they're much more liberal when it comes to sex and dating. Marriage rates are exceedingly low. Single-hood race, single-motherhood race, everything is very high and people have special cohabitation arrangements, which effectively are marriages but without the seal and imprimatur of the state. So there's a study by Trond Vigo Grundvedt, G-R-O-N-T-V-E-D-T at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He and his colleagues made a survey of 269 students. All of them were members of Tinder. 60% of the participants were women, which is an anomaly, by the way.  The majority are men. We'll come to it in a minute. But in this particular study, they included a lot of women. The students were asked a lot of questions. For example, if you are a current or former user of Tinder, how many matches have you had since you started using the app? And of those people you have met using Tinder, how many did you meet with an interest in a long-term committed relationship? So men reported typically 111 matches. So men reported 124. Half of the participants had meet-ups with a match. And on average, men had 1.2 meet-ups. In other words, of 111 matches, men met two. Women met also two, 2.2 over 124 matches. Not a very good ratio, is it? Only about 25% of study participants said they had used the app to meet someone interested in a long-term relationship. That's in Norway.  And 4% had more than two. If you put everything together, something like 20% had any sexual encounter. 80% of the heavy users never had one. And so to better understand even how the mechanics of the process Tinder imposes on its users, because Tinder forces you to swipe. There's an issue of matching. There's a way of starting conversations. It's not totally free for all. You're within a structure. You have to obey rules. You have to follow directives and procedures. It's very, very form... In a way, it's very formalized.  There was a study in Belgium. They studied 1,038 Tinder users. And they say, our findings show that a user's swiping quantity does not guarantee a higher number of Tinder matches. Women have generally more matches than men. And men usually have to start a conversation on Tinder. Moreover, while having conversations was positively associated with reporting having had offline Tinder encounters, less than half of our sample reported having had an offline meeting with another Tinder user. Again, the same number. Whereas more than one-third of those offline encounters led to casual sex, more than a quarter of offline encounters resulted in the formation of a committed relationship. And by the way, two-thirds of those who had casual sex ended up having a relationship. Such findings indicate, say the authors, that Tinder is not just a hook-up app as often is assumed in public discourse. It's a polite way of saying the atmosphere. We argue, say the authors, that it is plausible that sexual encounters will eventually lead to committed relationships in a society where initiation of relationship formation with dating has been replaced by hooking up. I disagree that it has been replaced. I think it has been augmented. I think the dating apps are a filter telling you who to date, helping you with a mate selection process, including a sortative mating process. A few anecdotes. These were studies. Now, a few anecdotes. One Reddit user quantified his journey in the $1 billion online dating industry in a very personal graph. I'm quoting from an article. Inspired by someone who did the same for OKCupid over the course of 500 days, user Keong Manja showed his swiping progress over the course of 28 days. The results. He had 53 mentions, including 38 people he began talking to on WhatsApp. And 12 of these ghosted or never replied. Of the 38 people he had spoken to, 9 agreed to a date. 3 of these 9 stood him up. Never appeared. 2 cancelled. Actually over 500 days he came up with 53 matches. He tried to talk to 38 people and of these matches he met 4 people in 500 days. My grandmother used to do better just walking to the grocery and back to the grocery store and back. It's extremely inefficient. More than 44% of people in one survey reported that they were swiping only for confidence boosting procrastination. 44% were swiping with no intention to meet anyone to date anyone or to f anyone to have sex with anyone. American Millenials spend an average of 10 hours on dating apps. The study by Badoo, which is a much bigger app than Tinder.  Heterosexual men there's a study 2016 Queen Mary University in London UK Heterosexual men are less choosy less picky. Men swipe right far more often than heterosexual women do. Living these men with a low success rate the more you swipe right the more you're disappointed the more you're ghosted the more you're stood up the more you're ignored. The success rate the success rate of men on Tinder hold your breath is 0.6%. Meanwhile women are more selective about who they swipe right on so women get a success rate of 10%. Women are 16 and a half times more successful than men on Tinder and this seems to be the case as well. The guy from Reddit that I mentioned before he had a similar experience and there was another guy I mentioned before on OKQPID. That guy on OKQPID he sent 143 unique first messages over these 500 days and 80 first messages which are essentially copy paste canned 8 messages so a total of 223 messages and of these 223 messages that he had sent out over 500 days he received only 5 responses he received 5 responses and then he pushed further and he got another response he finally succeeded to date 6 women 2 of the 6 stood him up and he had 4 actual dates. These are the dismal ratios all over I'm sorry. Successfully getting from match to date doesn't mean that dated self is successful of course. Most dates most majority of dates do not lead to second dates let alone to 6 and women complain that men are using the first date as a therapy session or they're using them as sounding boards for personal problems for example. Many women complain that men are too aggressive too influenced by pornography and so to attract dates openness to experience, agreeableness sense of humor and a good credit score these are the 4 determinants not how you look how you look is irrelevant not attractiveness it's a myth dating coach there's a dating coach called Meredith Gordon she says the biggest mistake men make is letting banter via text message to continue for too long without extending an invitation to a face-to-face meeting banter for about 2-3 days averaging 2 messages a day and then ask to meet she says also cast the net wide swipe a lot and engage with many for every 10 interactions 1 or 2 will respond and of course 1 of 2 of these 1 or 2 so it's I mean it's dismal it's dismal I mean the success rate on dating apps is zilch in the youth and sexlessness video I quote much more extensive statistics and these statistics show that less than 3% less than 3% of dating app users get to ever communicate with each other in whatever form and then a fraction of a fragment of these date and then 1 third of these end up having sex and luckily actually a majority of the dates end up becoming couples which is a redeeming feature of dating apps I would like to quote from an article by Janet Purvis article is titled tinder women get many more matches but it's quantity not quality research has shown that men and women may have different motivations for using the app while women do frequently engage in short term mating strategies men repeatedly demonstrate more desire for short term mating which is a gentle way of saying one night stands in addition studies suggest men are more likely to pursue romantic partners using direct and quick methods of approach and they spend more time and energy looking for shorter mating opportunities than women and since tinder users often use the app when they're alone and can reject or express interest without receiving any social backlash males may be especially drawn to rapid swiping as a result women and gay men receive more matches than heterosexual men in one of the first quantitative studies conducted on tinder I think it was 2017 researchers created an equally attractive fake male and fake female tinder profile I mean like fake male tinder profile and fake female tinder profile and then swiped right on everyone who appeared in the app they then recorded the number of swipe matches and messages each of the fake profiles received in return while the female profile had a matching rate of 10.5% the match rate for the male profile was 0.6% the most matches came from gay or bisexual men ok I would like to quote from an article published in technology review it's called how tinder feedback loop forces men and women into extreme strategies the article says next the team created an algorithm which through each profiles matches logged the details of each one's age, sex, by bio and so on and then liked all of them in total they crawled 230.000 male profiles in this way in 250.000 female profiles huge sample by counting the likes each profile got in return the team could determine the percentage of other users who had responded favorably it was a big sample size the data analysis reveals some interesting differences between the sexes for a start men and women use entirely different strategies to engage a potential mate on tinder men tend to like a large proportion of the women they view but they receive only a tiny fraction in return just 0.6% women use the exact opposite strategy they are far more selective about who they like but have a much higher matching rate of about 10% still curiously the vast proportion of matches came from men whether for the male or for the female profiles even though the male female ratio is roughly even on average 86% of all the matches of all the matches our male profiles receive came from other men so men try to team up with men on tinder, not women about 1 in 10 women are getting matches from men they like men are getting swipes from about 9 in 1.000 women and that is excluding homosexual men to men's wives another difference is the way men and women behave once they have received a match women tend to be far more engaged more likely to send a message to the match overall we find that 21% of female matches send a message whereas only 7% of male matches send a message another difference is women because of pre-selecting they are more likely to send a message there was a survey in April 2020 of adults in the United States 15% that's 15% of respondents, people between the ages of 18 to 29 years were using tinder adults between 33 and 44 years were more likely, most likely to use the social dating apps 19% of this age group so actually adults between 33 and 34 are using tinder much more than teenagers and young adults another myth busted Tinder is a popular location based dating app and it was one of the first swiping apps as of January 2019 the vast majority of users of Tinder users in the United States were male about 2 thirds of active Tinder users accessed the application only once a month only one third of users were daily active users so what is the distribution in terms of gender male users 72% female users 28% and that includes all the transgendered and homosexual and other fluid sexuality definitions by genitalia men 72 women 28 in the UK the situation is even much more egregiously radical there is a study by Oguri OGURY the male to female ratio on Tinder in the United Kingdom is 9 to 1 for every 9 men there is a single woman men are about 85% of total Tinder users women make about 15% again when you say women it's also including transgender pure men to pure women I mean sexually speaking would be 9 to 1 college students aren't keen to go on dates they see Tinder and dating apps as ego boosters that's a study by lend edu edu so when they ask college students why are you using Tinder do you want to find dates no way we're not dating do you want to find casual sex no so college students are using Tinder mainly as an ego booster so here are the statistics close to 24% are using Tinder to boost confidence and to procrastinate 29% use Tinder for a variety of reasons which have nothing to do with dating or with sex about 4% use Tinder to find a relationship to look for a relationship and about 23% or 22% use it to compare hookups casual sex ironically most of the casual sex ends up in fostering and in gendery romantic and intimate relationships so hooking up is only the third most prevalent reasons why students use Tinder another survey asked students to compare Tinder and Bumbo 40% of the students said they use Tinder to hookup for dating 54% said they don't see any difference between the two Tinder and other casual dating apps are actually not used for dating the authors summarize the study and say students see dating apps as a form of past time to pass the time entertainment rather than a chance to get a date simple texting website conducted a survey on the topic of the link between online dating and casual sex survey was not specifically focused or centered around Tinder was about all dating apps but the results were surprising 23.6% of respondents answered that they've had two or more one night stands using dating apps and the surprise was of course 50% ended up having sex flip it and you could say that 76% didn't get a chance to have sex the dating app didn't lead them to sex 52% said they had no sex whatsoever not even conversation about sex like sexting or cyber sex nothing sexual 52% so dating apps are not for hookups they're not for hookups simple if you want a hookup and you use a dating app to obtain a hookup you are far worse than for example going to a library if you go to a library if you go to a laundromat if you go to grocery store these effects if you go even to a restaurant to some extent a bar or a pub you're more likely to pick someone, a partner for casual sex than if you use a dating app sometimes twice more likely so there's a high percentage of respondents who actually never had sex they had zero one night stands in both genders and the surprise was that more women had casual sex and the consequence of using dating apps than men women ended up having more one night stands than men men failed more often and no men failed across all all the attractiveness measures so it has nothing to do with attractiveness men failed across all personality and biography keywords all visuals it was universal so um dating apps are a failure so why why use it so it might be true that Tinder is used primarily to boost one's ego shore up his self-esteem and not forgetting a date so I mentioned the Lend-Edu study where 70% of Tinder users stated that they didn't meet their matches in real life there was another study much bigger modern dating myths conducted a study of 7072 respondents and the results were staggering 95% of people of users of Tinder did not get did not get I mean got matches and uh were able to leverage this message these matches into a date so let me explain majority did not get did not obtain dates but a small minority of this minority 95% succeeded to convert into a date and then 44% of these dates ended up in a long-term relationship and this is exactly the same as 42% of offline in other words people who dated as a consequence of using dating apps had the same success rate in developing a long-term relationship as people who had dated offline without the benefit of a dating app so this challenged the perception that dating apps help you to choose and select that they are kind of filter that they help you to focus and zero in and home in on the one on the perfect one it seems that random encounters offline are as good as dating apps so this study challenged a lot of what we we had believed 93% of respondents when asked what they thought was important in a relationship there was a primary value so even though Tinder users do not want to hook up do not want to hook up do not want to commit to long-term relationships only 15% said that they want to commit within the next month they don't want this to happen but it happens so even people who come to the dating app with a mindset not looking for anything long-term just want to say even they end up in long-term intimate relationships of course statistically as I mentioned before the majority fail majority don't have dates majority don't have vast majority the overwhelming majority don't have don't end up having sex they don't end up meeting anyone they end up swiping and swiping so majority of them end up being single end up single rather than dating but those who date even those who have casual sex size of their proportion anywhere between 44 and 67% depending on the study end up having long-term intimate relationships according to Cosmopolitan there was a survey by more M-O-R-A-R-H-P-I 1,000 young adults who used Tinder between the ages of 18 and 25 Cosmopolitan wanted to see how respondents view it being single while also using the dating app 72% reported that they choose to be single and what's even more shocking 81% of which 47% were men and 34% were women and 34% were men 81% said the benefits of being single were the benefits of a romantic relationship I want you to listen to this well because it refutes another nonsensical claim by Jordan Peterson Jordan Peterson makes many counterfactual and utterly nonsensical claims in his books, lectures and so on one of the nonsensical claims he makes is that men are more sensitive to rejection than women which is refuted disputed and refuted by numerous studies another nonsensical claim he makes is that women want to get married and have a long-term relationship and it is men who are averse to it they are trying to avoid it and after a certain age they are no longer interested the numbers in this study show the exact opposite women women want to remain single not men men want relationships men are much more romantic than women men want intimacy men men actually feel much better in marriages than women that's why 73% of all divorces are initiated by women men don't want the marriage to fail because they thrive in marriage their life expectancy increases in marriage their health condition is much better when they are married women suffer in marriage women suffer disproportionately in marriages women want to exit marriage and women want to stay single not men so 72% reported that they choose to be single and 81% said that the benefits of being single outweigh the benefits of romantic relationships or these 81% the majority the vast majority were women when asked when these people were asked why don't they like the idea of settling down 61% of women and 46% of men answered that they don't want to make the mistake of ending up with the wrong person 25% of women and 17% of men reported feeling empowered by their choice to remain single women want to remain single not men another survey was conducted by global dating insights and these were respondents between the ages of 18 and 35 and it shows that 68% of women 68% of women and 56% of men said that loyalty is their number one priority 64% of women and 51% of men wanted independence from their partners they were going to end up in a relationship again women wanted independence much more than men women are leery and reluctant to give up on single-hood single-hood empowers them and they feel disempowered and dependent when they enter a long-term intimate romantic relationship with men including marriage and that's why most of them want out they initiate 73% of all divorces most Tinder users just use the app out of pure boredom to make themselves feel better rather than to engage in a real relationship regardless of the actual outcomes so this no one knows exactly how many but tens of millions of people on Tinder there's about 1.6 billion swipes 1.6 to 2 billion swipes a day so there's about 50 daily swipes everyone swipes 50 times a day because only 56% of the users are active so according to Tinder it delivers something like 30 million matches every day and that means that 46% of users get a match every single day majority of users are heterosexual men but the majority of matches are with other men this would mean that men actually get homosexual men gays not women the matches are mainly with homosexual men Tinder claims to have accumulated 43 billion matches since it had launched in 2012 and they say they are responsible for 1.5 million dates every week maybe the next thing has done a survey and it showed that 13.6 of online matches can end up in a marriage so maybe this doesn't apply strictly to Tinder but there's a whole lot of marriages and as I said earlier in this interminable lecture about one third of all marriages are conceived online one way or another through social media email etc etc when it comes to a number to the number of Tinder matches that male and female users get it's a lot more complicated as I've mentioned before and there was another study they used male and female profiles they wanted to see how many matches they would get over a certain period and this study showed that women got 400 matches within one hour and men got 100 matches within the same hour so for every match men got in one hour women got 4 over 4 hours the female profiles got 700 matches and the male profiles got only 200 matches and so women have a more frequent tendency to receive matches and they also react to matches much more frequently they write messages first when they match with someone 21% of the time they write the first message men 7% of the time men are reluctant to write the first message because men's motive is not actually to date or even to have sex men's motives is to be entertained ego boosting or manipulation most men this is the study that I quoted in narcissistic and psychopathic Machiavellian women are more careful and more engaging when they look for potential dates men don't care they are focused on the visuals and the possibility to manipulate men use women use 122 characters in the first message men use 12 average time men take to message the match is about 2 minutes within 5 minutes women on the other hand take much more time 18% of women's messages are within the first 5 minutes of matching it takes them on average 38 minutes there's an article in business outsider 2017 the article claimed that 52% of women have had success at matching with the person they've swiped right to compared to only 16% of men who did the same if you're a woman using Tinder you have 1 in 2 chances of getting a match if you're a guy you have 1 in 5 chances homosexual men have more than double the chances their success rate is 35% so what are the words the trigger we have established already that attractiveness the visual is not the thing is not a determinant it's untrue the nonsense on the monosphere is untrue women do not react to the way the men looks they are not after chads and jerks and narcissists and psychopaths women are very discerning and very discriminant and very wise in using the dating app what the people in the monosphere say the wannabe men in the monosphere say is because they're projecting their own insecurities their own failures their own limited intellectual capacity their own recklessness their own defiance their own psychopathy and narcissism onto the women but that's not how women behave on Tinder, I'm sorry women are triggered by words like work travel, music, dog outdoors and adventure these are the words that turn them on and when they see these words these words indicate agreeableness these words indicate kindness compassion empathy, these are all according to the monosphere, better qualities actually women are more focused on matching interests women focus much less on the body and men, homosexual men gay men and so on they react to words like six feet or tattoos women don't women use a lot of body descriptive words in their own bio but they are not reactive to body descriptive words in a male's bio they focus on the male's character the male's history the male's interests the male's totality the main, the men on Tinder focus on attractiveness so women use very often to describe themselves they use words like shy sarcastic, awkward men surprisingly use words like nerd active and professional so the picture is much more nuanced than the monosphere makes it out to be so as of June 2020 there's a kind of an app measuring system called App Ape so as of June last year 37.5% of owners of Tinder access the dating app on a daily basis only one third access the app on a daily basis access the app part of the race some of the race access the app on a monthly basis that's not exactly the sex hungry fiends and predators that the monosphere describes the usage of the dating app is intermittent it's boredom, motivated by boredom low self-esteem it has to do as far as women are concerned it has to do with relationships and it's focused on the inherent properties and traits and qualities of the potential mates potential men they're looking for real men and real men to use the monosphere's terms are betters the alphas of the monosphere are jerks stupid narcissists and psychopaths there's a good description from the monosphere itself by the way


I'm Bob Muth, owner, manager at Muth Farms, our farms in Williamstown, New Jersey. We farm 80 acres here, 60 acres we own, and 20 acres we continue to rent on a year-to-year basis. Our main crops are tomatoes, all different types, on steaks, also red bell pepper. We also have ground that's certified organic. We grow about 20 different crops in a limited fashion for an organic CSA. We market through a combination of wholesale and retail. We grow cover crops because it's the essence of soil husbandry and sustainable ag, and that's really our main crux here. The idea is to improve the ground so that when I'm ready to retire, this farm can be handed over to the third generation and be in great shape. Our rotation strategy is one year in high-value vegetables or small fruit. In our case it's strawberries, and then it's going to be followed by three, sometimes four years where the ground's rotated out. So in effect, we're only farming about 20% each year of our total 80 acres. I implemented this rotation back in 1987, and I know at that time some farmers thought it was crazy to be resting that much ground in an area where there's high land values. But over the years I realized some real benefits. We see pest and disease pressure remain in manageable levels. The soil fertility is going way up, and stuff grows a lot better simply by prepping that ground in between those high-value crops. I think it's important to note that that 80% that's setting fallow is not just laying out there idly growing weeds. It's being rested by plant or design, and it's all part of the total farm management picture. We're doing that to improve soil organic matter level, and to put the ground or make the ground in a much better shape so it's easier to grow bigger and better crops which eat the passing year. For us, when a vegetable crop comes out or a small fruit crop, I'm immediately thinking three, four, five years down the road, and what I try to do is implement that rotation so that ground will be in much better condition. It starts by, when the crop is finished, simply leaf mulching. We spread municipal leaves up to six inches deep. That's the maximum amount you can spread in New Jersey by law. Those leaves are worked in the following year. We then plant either hay or suedex. The hay or suedex will stay in for two to three years. We then plow that out, and we go back into rye or rye vetch, and then back into vegetables once again. So at the end of that time, literally that ground is super charged. It's ready to go. Hay is a significant part of our rotation. We grow both Timothy and orchard grass on the place. I prefer orchard grass because it's a little more drought tolerant. One of the advantages that I see is good not putting a plow on the ground for three years. You can really enhance your soil structure through the rooting action of that hay crop. You'll never get rich growing hay, but there is a significant horse population in the area now. These are pleasure horses. And there's a waiting market for good high quality hay, which we can provide. It's a source of income for you when that ground is being rotated out. This is suedex. This is our main summer cover crop. We like it a lot because it helps alleviate soil compaction. You can also use it for nematode and disease suppression. Normally, we like to plant suedex around Memorial Day. This year, with the wet weather, we got significantly delayed. We were planting in June and into July. I spread our plant mine with a vicon seeder, sling it out at around 25 pounds of the acre, and then lightly disc it in. This is the age and stage where we like to flail it when it's about head high or a little bit above. This will be about four tons of dry matter per acre. Some people tell me that planting suedex can create a significant weed problem. That's not a problem as long as you mow it before it shoots those seed heads. That's why we like to see it mowed when it's about a head high and not much bigger than that.  If you grow this for a couple of years, you can significantly reduce your weed population. There is no light in there for those weeds to get established and grow. Hey, this is municipal leaves from Monroe Township or hometown. Leaves were banned from the landfills in New Jersey back in 1987 because they were using up valuable landfill space. And we hooked up with the town at that time and started to take them. Initially, there were some serious trash problems, but over the years, the town worked that out so it's a very clean product. A lot of people have said that I should be charging some significant tipping fees for these, but I've never felt that way. We've taken them for free all these years. It guarantees that I get a good supply every year. The bulk of the township's leaves come in November and December and early January. I prefer to spread when the ground is frozen because I get virtually no soil compaction at that time. For me, that's December and January. That's when it's a very light workload then and I can work on these things all day uninterrupted. We spread these anywhere from three to six inches deep. We use a New Holland manure spreader and it's anywhere from three to four passes going at a slow rate with the spreader wide open. When I started with these, I had what I would call a lot of wives tales. People telling me how it would ruin the ground, destroy your pH, you'd need tons of lime to counteract the acidity and it didn't work out that way at all. I always had a good soil testing program and I saw that two or three years after we had applied leaves nutrient levels going up significantly, especially miners and the pHs were actually starting to climb when I was expecting them to go the other way. They've been of God's hand for us. Normally we like to flail mow very low to the ground. However, there's any residences in the area, houses nearby, we always mow higher and spread into a stubble and that way we don't have leaves blowing off the field and creating angry neighbors. This ground was just in vegetable crops and it won't be back in the vegetable crops for another four years or so.  There's your leaf application though right there. That's all you got left after four years. One thing I've seen over the years, if you can take leaf mulching and link it with a good cover cropping system, you can really help yourself. Over the years, since we started this, we've slashed our fertilizer probably by 60 to 70% or more. There's no need to apply it. It's already here.


In today's video, I'm opening up a $750 vintage Yu-Gi-Oh mystery box. What's up guys, we're back with another epic video and today we have a mystery box that I spent $750 on. A guy hit me up and he saw one of my mystery box videos. He's like, hey, do you want like an actually good mystery box? I'm like, yeah, of course I do.  So that was a few months ago. I think he said like, he got caught up in some stuff but he sent me a message a couple of weeks ago. He's like, hey, I sent you the mystery box. So I have it here. He says it's really good. He says I'm not gonna be disappointed. So that means that you guys shouldn't be disappointed either. So let's get into it, but first we have a giveaway. I'll be giving away these three cards. We have Skull Archivian of Lightning, the Creator and Ancient Gear Castle. So like the video, be subscribed, turn on notifications and let me know what you think about this mystery box. Was it worth 750? We're gonna have a little counter up on like the value of the stuff. We have a note inside. Hi Phil, enjoy the sealed product mystery box. Hopefully there was no damage after the triple-closs of the Atlantic. Good luck with the pools and thanks for all the great content. Jackson, Instagram, Jackson, masquerade or McQuaid, sorry, design. The sticker packs are for the giveaway. So we have a giveaway. We're gonna be adding to the three cards we just did. We have some Yu-Gi-Oh sticker packs, which are pretty, pretty cool. Inside you get like different stickers, I believe. I think I've seen these before. So yeah, just end with the giveaway. These will be included as well. First item we have is this like a custom pack or something? It has a blue eyes wide dragon. Is this one of those stickers? This is probably one of those stickers. That's actually pretty cool. I need some scissors. Oh wait, no, we can rip it here. Nice. Okay, so this is somewhat like a mystery pack. I don't know what's actually inside. I'm guessing some singles. All right, first thing we have, pale pharaohs chaos. All right, all right, the pale beast is at it again, dude. I gotta hit the gym, man. You know what I'm saying? I gotta get a little bit of workout in. All right, let's see what we got here.  Oh, we got a Ruxin special. Pakenio Moth with the European Pakenio Moth. We gotta save that guy, Genzo. We got the Millennium Shield Super Rare. All right, all right, ugly art. Very nice. We have the Blackwing Thane, steel chain, battle scarred. Where is the Medulche Chickalates? Ah, the Medulche Chickalates, Chickalates is one more card. Oh, there he is, the pale beast at it again. Okay, what's his flavor text? We never read it. With skin tinged at blue as white, this strange creature is a fearsome sight to behold. I am indeed a fearsome sight to behold. Let's just say that. That's a great pack. All my classic cards, I love that. I don't know if we're gonna be opening everything in this video, because I bet there's a lot of stuff. We're gonna pull out what we have. Inside of that, we had a secret edition and a flames of destruction special edition. Okay, all right, we're just gonna start opening. I don't know if we're gonna open everything, but we're gonna open a lot of it. Let's do Movie Pack. What's our promo again in these special editions? The European special editions are cool. They're like much smaller. I like it. It's much more efficient, you know? It's not so wide and much extra space being used up. What can we pull out of here? First edition Movie Pack secret edition. My favorite version, by the way. I like the gold version as well, but I think this is the best Movie Pack. Deep Eyes White Dragon. We are indeed recording. We gotta double check that. Pandemic Dragon. Century Soldier. We've got the Berry Magician Girl. Okay, not bad either. Couple of Magician Girls. Those are always pretty solid in value. So far, okay, we have Palladium, Oracle, Mahad. That's a very good pull actually. The Meta Morfortress, okay. Dimension Garden. That was a lot of trap cards in a row. Four straight trap cards. All right, yeah, I think we're gonna do value for what we pull, because if we could do value based on like the sealed stuff, but we're probably gonna open all of it anyway, it's very hard to make your money back opening. So that doesn't mean it's a bad mystery box if we don't pull it back or pull it out, but there's a very good pull right there. We just wanna see like how much we can get back on the 750 if we open everything. All right, Flames of Destruction. It's pretty weird that all of those are first edition, like all of the different versions of that set. It's pretty weird. The Malanglacia, okay. We have the, oh, called by the grave. Good start. That's a very good common. Should all construct. We got the crystal keeper. Can we get the infinite impermanence or the ghost bell? Let's go. Monster reborn, reborn, a funny card. World legacy, world lance, and a phosphrage, the elements of Lord. Okay, nothing crazy there, the link streamer. Two packs, lots of Flames of Destruction. What can we pull? The box from Jackson. So thanks again, Jackson for sending us this. Hopefully it's gonna be pretty, I hope we pull some really awesome stuff. That'll be great. Seconds light and we have a Trickstar Bell Madonna. That's an ultra rare. Okay, that is not guaranteed. We're taking that. Solid special edition so far. We're doing pretty well. The MVP one was actually really good, the movie pack. Pulled a lot of the really good cards. We didn't pull alternative. That was like the only one in Dark Magician Girl. Cookie, Octa Stretch, the Malo, the D-Frag, Vindred, Anima, and a Windup Zen maintenance. Very, very nice. Okay. And also we have probably had 150,000 at this point. So if the video has not come out and it's being worked on by my editor, it's a three hour video. The footage is three hours.  So it's gonna take a while. I had to edit it last year to me like a week. So it took forever. All right, next up we have some, what appears to be booster packs. Let's get through this real quick. We have Force of the Breaker Unlimited, very nice. We got a first edition legacy. Oh, it's second one and then an Invasion of Chaos. So as you can see, this mystery box is not messing around. This isn't like a Walmart mystery box. We have classic packs inside. So let's just go ahead and do it. Let's open this Force of the Breaker. If you missed the other day, we actually pulled an insane card out of Force of the Breaker. So hopefully we can continue that right here and pull something really good. I think four from the back should do it. We have the Other World, the A Zone. Okay, Volcanic Recharge. Volcanic Scatter Shot. We got the Crystal Rygeki. The Maku Master of Barriers. The Crystal Blessing. Heart Cell and Zombie, not Goblin. Grab the Crystal Dragon and Lucky Iron Axe. All right, not so lucky today. I like how it's called Lucky Iron Axe and then you pull it and you're like, I'm not feeling very lucky now. You know what I'm saying? LOD Legacy of Darkness, one, two, three, four. Also by the way, we do have a Dark Crisis box break up. We've sold like two thirds of the packs. The rest need to be sold out. Then we're gonna do a live stream. And I have a few other box breaks coming up. So if you are a member, keep an eye out for those. You'll have first access. If you're not a member, you can become one by clicking the join button down below. Then you can get first access to the box breaks and discounts and stuff like that. So Dragon is kind of hard. We have a bunch of them lined up right now. A Winged Beauty Giant Dragon, Dragon Manipulator, Life Absorbing Machine, Burst Breath, Frontier Wiseman, Possessed Dark Soul, Super Rejuvenation and Magic Reflector. All right, the magic has been reflected. It's also a magic card, which is pretty cool. So LOD, first edition commons right there, very cool. Let's go with the Invasion of Chaos. I wonder if this is from those Force of the Breaker blisters because we'll be able to tell if it's an E.N. pack. Let's go. It is, it is indeed. So it looks like you got the Force of the Breaker and the Invasion of Chaos from the same place. We have a Chaos Sorcerer, beautiful. Quora Turtle of Illusions. By the way, if you're looking for E.N. comments, I have a few available. So hit me up if you want those. Jain Insect Whistle, we got a Sacred Crane. Primal Seed, very nice. Grand Mausoleum Day. Iza, Tower of Babel. Finrear, can we get an E? Oh no, I thought there was two more. No, we got a Curse of Darkness. My nose got itchy right there. Guys, I'm telling you, I think I'm allergic to Yu-Gi-Oh cards, opening Yu-Gi-Oh cards, which is kind of funny because that's what we do. But literally when I was doing the every pack opening the whole time, and when I do live streams, I just start getting like, it's like a dust thing. I don't know if I'm inhaling dust or something from the packs being opened. I don't know, my allergic to old Yu-Gi-Oh packs. It's kind of funny, my kryptonite is what we do. The emergency provisions, Lusuri Gentleman, a legendary ocean, Roboyaru, Super Juvenation. That was good for a while. Bad reaction to Smochie, Robolady. Is it up next or is it next one? Serpentine Princess and Royal Oppression. Actually, I think this is a pretty good one. I think this is actually pretty nice. So Royal Oppression, very nice poll. We didn't get any foils, but maybe the next ones. All right, so we have the, what appears to be more stickers, which is pretty. So I guess that's what you guys can win. These actually look really nice. Then we got a, oh, look at this. Is this a custom blister? Oh my gosh, Ruxen Special Edition with three Portuguese metal raiders in the package. This is the coolest thing I've ever seen. I don't really want to open this. I think we're going to keep this sealed. I want this in my collection. This is so cool.  That would actually be pretty cool. And speaking of Portuguese metal raiders, I'm going to be doing a battle with Heart of the Packs soon with a Portuguese metal raider booster box. So keep an eye out for that. He's sending me one, so that's going to be a lot of fun. So we're going to keep this one sealed. Jackson, this is like the coolest thing I've ever seen. We had definitely had to keep this sealed, even though it's not really technically sealed, since you sealed it, but it's still cool. Okay, Glass Special Edition, super sick. This is one of my favorite things to open. Let's see if we can pull a magic formula. Can you imagine if we pulled a magic formula here? It has never happened, but one day I believe that it will happen. I believe that we're going to pull it at some point. There's a lot of things that we still need to pull and Glass Magic formula is one of them. So we have a vortex trooper, very cool. Now let's start, let's start with the DCR, because DCR is not as crazy. I think this is an Ian potential pack. Usually says it on it though. So this is not, yes. Sometimes they're Ian, sometimes they're not. Let's see if we can get a skill drain. Something crazy like that. Precious cards from beyond, Goblin of Greed, Archfiend's Oath, Viopon Archfiend, Darth Scorpion Minet of the Thorn, Arsenal Robber, Darth Scorpion Gorg the Strong, Fairy of the Spring, and then an infer queen, infer infernal queen, Archfiend. There we go, two glass packs to go. We still have a lot of stuff in there.  So I'm pretty excited for that. Let's do three just so we don't spoil the magic formula, which is totally gonna happen. We have the Stealthroyd, Perry, Hoplimus, Gladiator Beast, Devakari, the Swift Strike Armor, Chamberlain of the Sixth Samurai, Fog Control. Colosseum Cage of the Gladiator Beast is actually a pretty good card. I think it's usually worth a couple bucks. We will take that, but it is not. The magic formula or the Necroface that we wanna pull. We have never pulled either of those. I would like to start now. So I think it was four actually there. Cloudian Nimbusman, release from Stone, Cloudian Turbulence, Gladiator's Return, Disarm, Foolish Revival, Cloudian Poison Cloud, Gladiator Beast Battle Gladius, and a Gladiator Beast Spartacus. This is what I always forget about.  So let's see what's next. All right, now we have what seems to be an entire box of something. A Judgment of the Light. Wait, why is this so thick? Normally a box would be more like this size. It almost seems like a 36 pack box, but it's not. Very interesting, Judgment of the Light. I actually might keep this for my collection. So we're gonna put this in at the value of the seal. I think it's around 150 bucks. So we're gonna put this in because I wanna keep this bad boy because Judgment of the Light, you know, Chickalates, all that stuff. We're gonna keep that sealed. Next up, we have a sealed tin. This is the, what is this guy called from Duel's Revolution, whatever the name is. I forgot, oh, there it is, Dragon Knight Draco Equest. I somehow missed that. It's literally written across the tin. So we're gonna open this bad boy up. We're not keeping this thing sealed. Pretty epic stuff inside of here. Let's just see what we can get. Out of a 2000, I think it's a 2010 tin. Okay, so we have the promo pack. This is probably worth like 10 bucks, something like that. So we can add that to the value, very nice. Then we have five packs. We have the Angel Prophecy. We have the Absolute Power Force and then two Shining Darkness. Can we pull ourselves some ghosties? Let's do it. Shining Darkness, European pack. Very cool. Let's see if we can get a ghost rare. What is he called? The Blackwing Dragon? Yeah, the Blackwing Dragon. We've never pulled them, I don't think. So let's start now. One, two, let's just do three on this one because it's five Ds. He usually has three, I think. Cardbreaker, Dragon Laser, Blossom Bombardment, the Gen X Undyne, Morphotronic Scramble, Charger Synchron, Donna the Herald, Cherry and Mado, and we have a Synchro Magnet. So nothing too crazy in that guy. Synchro Magnet. Let's go to the next one. Can we pull the Blackwing Dragon? I wanna pull it. I wanna do it. Let's do it. I take Olti too. That'd be pretty cool. King, I always thought this was a cool art. It works like a brain with a horn. Very weird. Quacking Mirror, Initialize, the Assault Spirits, Eternity Randomizer, Wattcube, Battlewing Strafe, Gen X Searcher, and a Key Mouse. Sorry, Key Mouse. Our luck so far has not been great in terms of actually pulling foes. We need to pull some. Absolute Power Force. Let's go. I've never pulled this ghost rare either, so I take this one as well. I have the only one I've actually pulled out of here is Ancient Prophecy of these packs. Let's see, we have the Power Invader, Inverse Universe, Nature's Reflection, Rocket Pilder, Magical Golem, Gundari, the Dijin, Cursin Chanter of Rituals. Okay, and... X, X, Saber, High Underlay. Wait, I didn't do it right. Okay, the Break Draw. Okay, the X, Saber, High Underlay. This is actually a pretty good card. Very solid. When I saw Synchro, I was like, oh baby, here it comes. Very solid pull. Our first foil of the opening actually, which we haven't opened a ton of packs yet, but we will take that, a Synchro Ultra Rare. We are in for that. Let's see if we can finish it off with a Majestic Red Dragon. Let's go. We have Temple of the Sun, Rose Fairy, Bicular, Alien Brain, the Lair Wire, Magical Golem, Unicycular, X, X, Saber, Garson. Is there three cards left or one? Forgotten Temple of the Deep. All right, nothing in that one. But so, we got an Ultra Rare in this 10. I'm happy with that. Ancient Prophecy. I'd be okay with ending with a Ghost Sure or Ancient Fairy Dragon. Even though we pulled it before, I don't care. I love it. Last time we pulled it for EX Gamer after a long, long search, which is a really, really cool video. But let's just go ahead and do it for myself now. You know what I'm saying? I've never actually pulled it for myself, I don't think. Slip of Fortune. I think the other one was for someone else, too. Shark Cruiser at one with the Sword, Armored Axe on Kicker, X, X, Saber, Ryugogura, Fossil Dig, Brain Research in Lab, Psychic Emperor, and a White Bowden. All right, we got a White Bowden at it again. Okay, nothing too insane, but we did get an X, Saber, Hundley. It's pretty good. All right, we now have a Legendary Collection. So he knows we love Legendary Collections. This is actually pretty fun. Game Ward Edition. Let's see what we can pull out of here. I think there's five packs inside. So let's go ahead and get it open. Oh, this one actually, theirs has the Game Ward on top, which is interesting. We never usually even look at it because we've seen it so many times. We have a sealed pack. This is probably about $10 value, so we can add that to the value. Then we have five sealed packs, Legendary Collection, too. Usually pretty good value opening these, so hopefully it'll add to our total. Let's go. Six packs, Legendary Collection, too. What can we pull? I'm hoping for some good stuff. We have Cyclone Blade, Six Samurai Eru, Mariner, Hero Spirit, Hero Mask, Elemental Hero, Dark Brite, boom! Let's go, Super Rare and Proto Cyber Dragon. That's just a Ultra. Okay, what's the Secret Rare? Ooh, a Cyber and Dragon Ult, or not Ultimate. I wish it was an Ultimate. Secret Rare, that's awesome. And then an Over Destiny. That's actually probably a pretty valuable one right there. Very nice Cyber and Dragon. That's a great start to this Legendary Collection, too. Game board edition, all right. That's gotta be a $10 card, right? That thing's so beautiful. Okay, Chamberlain, the Six Samurai. We got the Elemental Hero Prisma. Gateway of the Six. Yaichi, Return of the Six Samurai. Hero Ring, very cool looking card, but not really worth anything. Ultra Rare coming up. The Cyber Phoenix, also pretty cool. And then Secret Rare, we have Elemental Hero Nios Alias. Another cool one, because this can be used in Edison and stuff and some decks, which is pretty nice. And then Crystal Beacon. I also like how, if you've noticed, you don't have to do a pack trick with these, because the Rare's the last card, so there's no commons after that. Very nice. I'm liking these Europeans. European packs seem to like, they make it where you don't have to do a pack trick. It's really cool. Problem is, if the back card gets damaged, it's like a valuable card.  All right, D-Fortune. We got the Return of the Six Samurai. Clay Charge. Elemental Hero, Avian. Fusion Recovery. Destiny Hero Dogma. Very nice. Ultra. Rainbow Dragon. All right, we're getting all the big monsters and we have a Dambi Lion. Also a pretty decent one for Edison. A very nice copy. Look at that Secret. For some reason, the Euro Secret's really hidden for some reason. Then the Glownios. I think Glownios might actually be a little bit of money. So that is a very solid special edition so far. Legendary collection, whatever it's called. Two packs to go. We are looking good. That was a great pack. Change of Hero Reflector Ray. Let's go. Captain Tenacious. Tell me in the comments your favorite item that we get from this Mystery Box. So far, I'm really liking it. Hero Heart, D-Spirit. He knows what I like to open, clearly. Crystal Beast, Topaz, Tiger. The Woodsman. All right, wait. Is there something damaged on the back of that card? I thought I felt like a corner come off. All right, Woodsman. Dark Fusion. Pretty cool. With Avian and Burstentrix on there. That's pretty cool. And... Sky Skipper 2 Hero City. Okay, first dud of a secret rare, but it's still pretty cool. I mean, it's probably worth a dollar or two. Final pack of this Legendary Collection. I think we still have a couple of things left in the Mystery Box. Not really sure. First card is Sky Skipper. Zanji. Instant Neo Space. Hero Kit. DD Survivor. Elemental Hero Wild Cyclone. We have... Cyber Dragons and Ultra. I thought it was a secret rare. I guess the all-arts of secret rare. That's pretty cool, though. And... Oh, Burstentrix all-art. Very solid special edition that we got today. Very good one. Like, almost all the secret set one were really, really good. All right, nevermind. That's it. There was a box, but it was just like filling up space. So, that was everything. So, that was a pretty awesome Mystery Box. We got a really nice variety of stuff. We got some old school stuff, some newer stuff, some Legendary Collection stuff. I enjoyed it. Let me know if you think it was worth $750. We're gonna see how much we pulled right here. I know it was not even close to $750 because we opened the sealed product, but with the sealed product value, it's probably a lot better. And if you guys enjoyed this kind of video, make sure to subscribe to the channel because we'll be doing more stuff like this. And if you really enjoyed it, let me know that you wanna see more. 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Well, there are 43 chapters of JCI in the state of Minnesota, and over the weekend they gathered at Breezy Point Resort for their Fall All-State Convention. Hundreds of JCI and JC members from across the state came together for a full weekend of events. The organization held training, seminars, and state elections for the upcoming year. The JC's hold three conventions throughout the years, a way to celebrate each chapter's accomplishments. These conventions kind of give the JC's time to connect with each other, learn from each other, and build their leadership skills and then prove themselves. Each convention recognizes the top performing chapters in the state. The top three chapters were Alexandria, South St. Paul, and Bemidji was ranked number one. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


The hunt for asteroids presented by Science at NASA. A few NASA-funded astronomer teams are always on the hunt for potentially hazardous near-Earth objects, asteroids and comets whose orbits periodically bring them within 30 million miles of Earth's orbit. At NASA, the Planetary Defense Coordination Office supports the search programs, while also planning and coordinating any response to possible asteroid impacts. Lindley Johnson heads up this NASA office. We oversee several NASA-supported search projects that detect and track near-Earth objects. The rate of asteroid discovery has increased considerably due to these dedicated astronomers and the upgraded telescopes coming online in recent years. As part of NASA's Planetary Defense Strategy, the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory analyzes the data collected on near-Earth objects and publishes the running statistics on numbers and types discovered. After almost 20 years of searching, over 93% of the near-Earth objects larger than one kilometer, or .62 miles, are already discovered. The focus is now on finding 90% of those larger than 140 meters, or 450 feet. Almost 7,700 of these are now being tracked, but we believe there are still over twice that number out there to be found. NASA is not only hunting asteroids, it's also working on ways to defend Earth against them. Astrodynamicists at the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies predict orbits a century into the future to determine whether there are any risks for impact. Asteroid impacts are predictable and now preventable. If we can find them before they strike, we can precisely predict their paths and time of possible impact, and we now have the space technologies to divert them. For example, if an approaching asteroid were detected early enough, its path could be altered by using a large spacecraft as a gravity tractor. It would fly alongside the asteroid for an extended time and slowly pull it out of Earth's path using nature's virtual tug rope, gravity. Another method involves sending a heavy, high-speed spacecraft into the path of an approaching object to strike it at the right time and place. This technique, called the kinetic impactor, could slow or speed up the asteroid into a different trajectory away from the Earth's path. And then there's the Hollywood option. This is a last resort measure. It involves exploding a device close enough to an asteroid that the superheated surface material blows off, creating a powerful rocket-like push. Though quite effective if time is short, it would take a lot of coordination and approval not only within the U.S. government, but also with the international community. Another reason we should find any impactors as early as possible is so more benign methods can be used. All these techniques are in some stage of study or design. Meanwhile, the hunt for potentially hazardous asteroids goes on. After all, at NASA every day is an asteroid day. For more on objects in and around Earth's neighborhood, visit science.nasa.gov.


to our second session this session is on the digital revolution fostering innovation infrastructure and investment We have our speakers on stage. They're each going to have ten minutes And you'll know who doesn't want to ask and answer any questions because if they go over ten minutes It's to cushion at the question time. So hopefully that's an incentive to keep everybody on the ten minutes I also want to make you aware that there's been a change of speaker from Latvia Mr. Roland Straddins, councillor of the Minister on Digital in Latvia Will contribute in the place of our tours Tom Plesch, which is in your program book So thank you Roland for joining us. Now. It's my pleasure to introduce our first speaker for the digital session It's Mr. Tonus Nirkus ambassador at large for digital fairs in Estonia. Please welcome Tonus Thank you very much indeed. And it's my great pleasure and honor to to be here today with you and to speak about the digital cooperation between Nordic Baltic countries and Ireland and specifically from the point of view of public services and I will make three Points touch upon three issues. First of all, very briefly about Estonian e-services ecosystem Secondly, I will talk about the Nordic Baltic cooperation from the Estonian perspective, of course and then Give some ideas from our side about the Nordic Baltic and Irish cooperation in the digital area So very very briefly about where we are in terms of e-services development in Estonia We have started to develop our e-commerce system more than 20 years ago Today we have reached a stage where practically all the public services are available digitally with the exception of three services, which are kind of major life-changing Events like buying real estate or getting married Secondly the essential features of the e-commerce system In Estonia, they are quite unique. So I have kind of underlined them here in the presentation first of all, we have kind of a unique infrastructure the digital ID which is compulsory for every person who lives in Estonia and the digital interoperability system what we call X-Road which connects all the different databases in Estonia second feature is that the services are built in a very user-friendly way so the take-up rate by the citizens and businesses is very high and Thirdly, the privacy and security concerns have been taken into account right from the beginning So the secure by design principle has been always one of the founding principles of our e-commerce system What we have paid quite a lot of attention to educating the users of the different digital services starting from the school kids of course, but not forgetting also the elderly So we have a special program targeted towards retired people and the popularity of this is very high and Finally, I would like to underline the cooperation between the government and the private sector Which has been very successful vast majority of the services what we use today in Estonia Are actually developed by the Estonian tech companies Estonian tech companies, not the multinationals So the cooperation with the government has been very positive and very good with regard to the Nordic and Baltic cooperation the ministers for digital development of the Nordic Baltic countries declared in 2017 already the ambition to become the Digital front-runners in Europe, but perhaps not perhaps also in the world So the the aim is to become the most interconnected region in Europe It's not an objective in itself It is a tool it is a stool it is a tool to strengthen the competitiveness of companies and It is a tool to make the life of people in our region easier So so this is a very very ambitious approach the major areas of cooperation and Our priorities there. I would like to mention cross-border interoperability We have formed a consortium with Finland to develop the Interoperability system what we call x-road together and now also Iceland and the Faroe Islands have Become partners in this consortium We very much hope that all the countries in the Nordic Baltic region can join this consortium so that we could develop the Interoperability system together in the in the in the region secondly the digital IDs All the countries in the region have digital IDs But to to to a quite extent these can be used at the moment only nationally, so the Nordic and Baltic Governments have an ambition that by the end of next year The digital IDs could be mutually recognized and mutually used I just checked a couple of days ago in fact that with my Estonian digital ID I could only enter to the Latvian Latvia dot LV government portal not to any any other system and also not No digital ID from the from this group of countries can be used when the Estonian Government portal at the moment So so or for example fin finish Digital Platform can only backseat it by German digital ID, so this is this is a this is a challenge So in order to foster the cross-border cooperation and the cross-border Accessibility the digital IDs have to be recognized in this region Third area of cooperation is Real-time economy solutions and here we talk about different different Logistical Solutions for for example transport companies Solutions with regard to know your customer Which is a huge issue in today's world and also the E documents like the receipts Then Another area of regional cooperation is 5g Latvia is organizing in November a 5g conference for the Nordic and Baltic Governments, which is a very very important event and Also, there are quite a number of bilateral and sub regional projects They are very much Concentrated on what is specific areas like e help That is a there is a project between Estonia and Finland for example to recognize each other's Digital medical prescriptions Estonia is next year the chair of the Baltic cooperation and also the coordinator of the Nordic and Baltic cooperation One of the Priority issues for us will be the digital Cooperation I noticed that I have what in the time left So next year we will we hope to bring this this agenda further in the framework of our Coordinated coordinator role with regard to the island and Nordic Baltic cooperation we see Island of Nordic Baltic very much as like-minded partners in terms of digital Issues to digital development So we very much welcome further Discussions and further dialogue between the Nordic Baltic and and island in these matters There are different Potential areas what we can discuss More among us The digital single market issues for example is one one of the possibilities, but also We think that the emerging technologies and data economy is is an area where we all have Interest and where we all are quite well developed so we could have More discussion and more dialogue on these issues in the future as well Thank you


With forward pay from Appalachian Wireless, you'll avoid contracts and credit checks while taking advantage of some awesome perks like unlimited talk text and 3 gigs of data for just $44.99 or with 5 gigs for a mere $59.99. Forward pay, that's today's Appalachian Wireless. One controversial topic over the last year has been Pied County's occupational tax. However, officials say without that extra support, the Pied County Fiscal Court would be struggling to keep its head above water. If we didn't have the occupational, that's, you know, we budged at $3 million for this year. There have been a lot more cuts and a lot more of a skeleton crew working for the county. In fact, for the first quarter of the 2016-17 fiscal year budget, it has put the fiscal court ahead of schedule. Last year we calculated the average would be around $750,000 and we still wanted to be conservative. But for the first quarter, we have received $800,000, so we're $50,000 above what we'd expected. And if that trend continues or grows, then we've done a good job of budgeting. It's one of those things you never know how the economy is to know what to really budget for, so I do like to be conservative. Overall, Pied County Treasurer, John DeBillider, believes this year's fiscal budget is in good shape so far. The total revenue received is 24.17 percent for the overall budget. The expenses that we've expended for the overall budget is 21.93 percent, which that does include the 2.5 we borrowed from the bank. So with that, we are being able to keep ahead of everything. At this time, Pied County fiscal court is waiting on coal severance numbers from the Department of Local Government and should receive a report in a week. Putting in Pikeville for EKB News, I'm Shelby Steele.