Mark 2! Another episode of Jurassic World Alive where Flocks have basically taken over the entire game. It is brilliant But we'll get more into that in the near future, I should say Because I am now thinking about ways that I can sort of claw my way back up to the top of the leaves because Spoiler alert I am now starting to drop down so much that I'm entering Jairus fear station Which actually isn't as bad as it sounds because when I am down there games become fun Almost close though. We definitely need this guy for one of the hybrids. So how are you guys finding this new update? I am very curious because before We had the Indorex or you know the Indominus new hybrid and everything like that. I felt like I had a grasp on What to put in first what to do sort of thing was now I'm never confident with whatever I put in if I put in like the thing is a lot of people will put in the Indominus Rex and the internemis in first and I'll just not be able to not be able to counter it Like it'll be the one time I have a hand when I don't have a flock and I'm like sweet But if I put it in no no no they've always they've always like gonna swap out or something like that It always just feels like I'm just really unlucky with the hands But before we get into the meta and stuff like that How about we talk about what Lydia has done recently with the events last week as I didn't cover it But they were very generous. They gave us. I think we had opportunities to dart Argentavis, which you need for the Odentus or whatever Dreadnought of Tavis hybrid that fly We've got a I think you could dart blue or sorry I should say beta even carbon nemes was one that you could dart so they basically in last weeks giving you ingredients to make Indonemis and the compsoraptor and I think even the alberdosaurus if you wanted this guy They gave you the ingredients to make that if you wanted to which you know, I'm all for very good But the only problem is I Hasn't really helped me. I feel but how about we look at what's coming up at this week So from the October 12th to the 18th. So I think that's today or maybe yesterday God knows Oh, yes, it was yesterday. They recorded this. So we don't need to worry about Wednesday Thursday. We don't really care It's commons man. Nothing really to worry about but Friday. I mean you can already look if you look look above There we go now we look nice We've got loads of good things coming. So Friday you have two attempts now You could get the Dredactylist thing you could get the atabaga Nathus or you get the listrosaurus hybrid And each one goes into something good both flock creatures All three sorry all triples and then on Saturday you've got nine attempts to dart the Giga Beta or the micro raptor I don't think I will just double check for you to make sure if micro raptor actually has a hybrid Oh, it does it has the Segno Raptor. That's right and Segno Raptor seems to be really good But I don't haven't seen anybody use it in teams. Maybe it's a bit too fragile It does have good speed. It has that crazy distracting triple strike, but it's always delayed by one and Kind of on that right off the bat or at least to be able to survive And yeah, maybe that's what's causing it not to be used But on the Saturday out of all those I would say go for beta It's it's just gonna be good DNA to get the comp comp Raptor and if you get a comp Always make you mistakes. I know what night is great But if you do dart beta, it's what let's say you get a minimum of 200 per dart or like per Attempts or 200 times 9 so like 1,800 DNA and a pop I think is 200 So, you know, it's like nine attempts if you got 200 minimum That's not so bad, but it doesn't end there either because on Sunday You have maybe a mediocre it depends if you if you like me and you've already got rexie maxed up Then it is a bit. Oh, but you have the ankle of mohawk, which does go into something I can't remember whatever the Segno F thing which we've just talked about which hasn't really been used I don't see it in the meta at the moment And rexie probably want to dart rexie I wouldn't be surprised we let it down the line that they decide to give rexie a hybrid like rexie in blue Could you imagine I mean you were thinking I'd be in double strikes, but no, it'll be I don't know What do they call friggin in dominance rex did I have a nickname in don't maybe the indoor? Anyway, but Monday is a bit of a oh shall we say a 90s term a snorefest? Yes You got the dreadnought which actually I guess isn't so bad if you want it for the hybrid So I'll take that back But the more super lion and the megalonia whatever it's called and the sloth I don't think are too great and then on Tuesday. I mean this whole week is filled with Amazingness Wednesday Thursdays are the boring now But Tuesday you get two attempts for indominus rex which goes into like a plethora of things Interrupted gen 2 which doesn't I'm pretty sure And also aloraptor. I think that is out of those probably indominus rex I'll say but anyway with that being said let's have a look back into the game We can talk just you know, where do you think this game is going here? We go as you see 5,897 can we just I love it. We need a we need a Thank you. Thank you so much, but there's also something I was gonna get as well And I can't remember what that was. Oh, yeah, the legend the past we haven't even done that was why you're blown out the Minor Hey, it's coming at me. That's actually really freaking good. Okay. Hold on. Let's do this Yeah, I think that the problem is that I I play Pokemon go. I also play a new warhammer game and I played dressable the live and They're all kind of different except for Pokemon goes very similar to dressable the live And I I can't say that Pokemon go has a better battle system Then dressable the live dressable the live is fleshed out and it's intense That's why there's like such a meta as there is over Pokemon go goes for more laid back kind of feel And I think that works in its favor now here we go if we talk about events and stuff So let's say we want to do the nine attempts. It's only 24 hours for the beta. Let's say you you know, this is the map, right? You've got a fair few around me. I'm sure maybe you guys might live in places Which don't have this many stops and what have you? But I may only see oh look there's a quetsa gen 2 over there I may only see like one beta on this map and I've only got 24 hours to do this and let's say I sleep eight of those hours So really I've only got what like 16 hours in order to you know dot nine betas Maybe I'll get lucky and some of the green supply drops around me will have it but more than likely I'm not gonna be able to get it which is a bit of a shame and that's the problem with this It's I don't have enough opportunities to do it and even if I go out It's not really gonna help too much I mean I've got some greens in the distances as you can see there's a park there And it's only got two if I'm on Pokemon go that thing has got like 20 in there But draca will alive now to I will admit that for some reason draca will alive has more stops Just generally dotted around the map then Pokemon go does because Pokemon go has to rely on like a specific Google Maps like thing. That's why you can see places that are dead Whereas in draca will live they just kind of put them anywhere So when it comes to events it does kind of suck a little bit Especially when you want to dart stuff as you can see I'm in five thousand eight hundred ninety seven and at my highest was 6,105 and it's just been loss after loss after loss and it's always feels bad Because I'll I'll be playing a game a match and my was it the Alberto hybrid will come in it'll attack something And I'll leave it that much health or I'll be killed and Exactly the right amount. I'll be killed and it's just like if I was one level higher I would have won that game. I get it. That's how this game is But the thing is when you have these ultra competitive PVP games because that's what this is You know, you don't see League of Legends or any other like pay to not pay to win But you know unlocking characters that have matters You don't see all of a sudden them releasing a new character and the character being OP Maybe maybe that happens have been now and again But for some reason Drasso will the live have just become so blatant with how they Monetize the PVP and these the meta basically that's the problem. They monetize the meta So a new thing will come out. It'll be so good They'll buy incubators for it and everything and all of a sudden it'll get nerfed and it'll not be used Like if we just have a look at all these dinosaurs I will we'll scroll down and see how many are used as a Sarah Magnus doesn't get used Gorgotra Bex doesn't get used Hatterasaur doesn't get used Mortimer X on a very rare occasion I will say it odd in this maxima no early dominance and nope the giga maybe but not not very frequently Indoraptor or Indor Torah. Sorry. Yes Magnitator. No model rhino very little Forex very discovery again very little titana boa thing it none Existent the deer very very low again four door very low Basically extinct tricot extinct like that is just like what I've got maxed up and maybe only four or five of them I may even have a chance of seeing I probably won't see those and the roster at the top I will probably see most of the time and yes, there's some things in here that you know I you will see that I haven't leveled up But the majority of the time it's it's the meta is a Monetizable roster of dinos that will only last a short period of time and yet We've got dinosaurs in here for the same You know have been in here maybe five ten times as long as other dinosaurs and just don't get used And if you put that in a game like League of Legends or Overwatch or something where only maybe like six or seven of the Characters or used and everything else isn't you'd probably have people calling out Especially if the only way to get those characters was basically micro transactions because yes Maybe you can unlock it, but you need it to be max level You need it to have boosts on it and the only way you're getting that is basically micro transactions Or just dedicating your life to the game basically playing it a whole lot It just sucks with the way that this game is going about it I don't know what else to say and it's Demotivating, you know, I used to play this every week a bit like or every no not every day But you know every couple of days I play this just because I'd be getting a new thing or striving for a new thing Or something interesting would happen, but it just hasn't happened recently all that's happened is that maybe I've got the Alberta hybrid up one level, but then I've dropped two to three hundred cups So is that I can't make content on that little yeah What's happened is you've decided to put all your your eggs into this one basket We will milk our player base for as much as they're worth And then just the content creators will have to either spend money in order to catch up or even to even show content I if anything, that's that's my thoughts. It's been rambling. I just kind of want to put them out there I may be somebody from Lidia watch this or maybe they already know that of the practices that are going on But they can't do anything about it because it's not their job Like, you know, this is the higher ups is CEOs that are looking at these this money on a spreadsheet and seeing it Pick up every time they release a new creature. So they're like, right, we'll just keep releasing new creatures That's obvious the way to go. I was you know Quality of life features in the game Like the sanctuary was nice when it was put in but that was like two or three years ago now We haven't had anything in there and the thing is I Get how this works like you dark creatures and then you've got that one creature and it's yours but for some strange reason I don't feel as attached to a Single dinosaur in this game then I do for Pokemon in Pokemon go because I caught it at a certain location It tells me that it has certain statistics You can level it up. You can teach you different moves. You can make it your buddy You can walk around with you and get can is you can take pictures with it You can there's so much you can do with a single Pokemon that you know You might not use in your team or anything like that. Whereas I've only got one into nemesis and If it's not good in the meta, it's worthless to me. I can put as many boosts on to it max it up to a whatever level I don't know. I just thought that you know when this game first came out It made sense to have that one that is your in the nemes and that feels good But actually Pokemon go has a down like you can nickname things you can trade things Whereas this this affects nobody else except for who I'm fighting It just feels like the game would benefit highly from some updates something else to happen in the game But anyway with that rant over let's talk about this the new pass So I may as well collect all of these because oh why not and this one is basically just yeah Sorry about blowing up the mic. I'm trying not to do that, but there you go Yeah, this one's for the in you hybrid Oh, that's sorry nothing you have well there is a new hybrid as you can see it there the 50 But it's a new dinosaur of course It's a new flock because it always always a new flock because that's where this game's going and if creatures do not have a Way to take on flock creatures. Oh, I seem to have broken the game Oh, but that is fantastic. At least I can't collect anything sweet I can't even click eggs. I can scroll up and down, but that's all I can do Okay, we'll close the game be right back Right, where were we? Oh, there we go. We collected the emote fantastic for some other reason that Apparently glitched the game So yeah, this one's focusing on that as well as more supial lioness and some other things is more supial lion hybrids And the new thing the new whatever that is the flock a thing that goes into the hybrid And I haven't actually seen it put into teams and I think that's probably because people don't have it maxed out yet But there's a lot of dinosaurs now that Impending doom. Yes, that's that's how every wallet feels when a new creature comes out a hundred and ten percent But yeah, like I haven't seen it at all and I think that's because people don't have it maxed out and Maybe it's not as good as some other dinosaurs like the dread actor the hybrid which now it feels like As long as you have good Flock dinosaurs you don't need the counter for it You don't need something that comes in and hits everything because What what differences that make if you have to swap out in order to do that when if you swap out You're either attacked by something or the flock creature trying to kill gets invincible or gets a shield Or gets a dodge that the swapping thing cannot take out. So now I feel like This albedo spino is very niche like it does have its uses like the the revenge Part is very good the fact that for indonemies, especially the precise revenge is very good But the whole like swapping in to kill something Isn't gonna do much if I'm honest especially get the flock because like I said swap out you take damage But there is something I have been levelling up and I thought I was so yeah Is there it is the alo dreegus unfortunately I didn't buy the season pass for the last one because I was like is there any need however if I had done Maybe it would be level 30. I think it would be 29 But also I don't actually I do have a lot of boost So I probably could make this usable if I wanted to but the reason why this guy's good Is because it has a way to not attacking opponent, which is a great way to avoid a counter hit It also has some like really good attacks. It has the render. It has the cutting rampage And it is immune to being swapped out. So that's great immune to damage reduction To a somewhat and also a complete speed decrease reduction, which is great to have But the one that I think everybody wants at this point, and I don't think I've levelled it up Maybe I have it's the dread something there he is haha the odd dawn to go to Mathis That's the one. Ah, yes, okay, so we'll level this guy up now The reason why this one is very very good is not only because it has a 25% crit and decent speed and all the other stats but it also has a decelerating sideflap as well as an attack that can hit twice and also Recover its health, which is very good defend Shattering rampage the fact when it swaps in it heals itself and if an opponent swaps out It increases its speed by 30% for two attacks and gets a shield Which I think it says a hundred percent. So I think that's invincible. I mean, it says it's already visible basically gets invincibility when you swap out So unless you've got parrow the parrow and one that swaps in You're not doing any damage to it at all. So Albert a hybrid isn't any good It also gets a 5% increase to its crit chance when it's hurt It's attack pretty much can't be reduced as well as another thing So yeah, and a 75% chance to stun stun just needs to be taken out of the game If you've got everything that is immune basically like 75% chance to resist the stun if something gets stunned It's a feels bad like at least make it 50% But if you're gonna make it 75% then just get rid of it Like stun was such a meta thing when it was introduced and now it's like just just a freaking nuisance I'll admit I'll be the voice of reason To an extent of course. I have my own biases yet, but you know, we'll level this guy up I think we get it to level 25 is probably the push. They didn't get too many of this Yeah, 200 get to maybe 26 at a push We'll see but I see this guy a lot come so raptor the ardente gonathus, which is this or the Aldrigus bird. Oh, we get to oh, we might even get to level 27 We really need to think about Which one we can put into our team because I've never seen somebody with three flock creatures I think probably because if you got all three in a team Something is good against you Maybe you won't stand much of a chance or maybe you will. I don't know. It would be interesting to know I deliberately haven't Darted and the little the the ingredient for this the flying bat thing was just such a cute face However, I should have because every hit you get on it is basically a direct hit. It's so generous with it Um, but we are very close. I mean I'd say that but you know 28 29 30 You know, those are the hard numbers to get that's when you need a lot of DNA In order to keep going But you know, we we popped it up just a little bit more there And if we look at our leaderboards for the first time in such a long time It's obviously not me. Who's the only one that is struggling with this new meta ID gt or whatever Is not in there Um, which is so weird to see because for god knows how long they have always been the top Always like without a doubt. They've always been there and yet here we are and I don't even War number seven and in the last, you know before the update they were like 12 000 trophies So they were winning by a lot now It could be that I don't know if this is the team they use they always put out the apex And I feel like that's just a cover-up for their actual team So when they log on they switch them do some battles and then switch them back So if anybody sees they're like, oh, this must be the team they're using however Now our number one is king dread and Yeah, there it is. That's the new thing the list rows have this or whatever you want to curl it And now what's good about this is it does have something that goes through armor It also has a decent amount of chance to stun Like I said, most things are immune to stun Um, but it's immune to some damage reduction It also the 75 chance to resist the stun is always there But it does feel like with the evasive restore to get your health back It doesn't matter how low your health is you can do that Hey a spider sword gen 2. Oh, yes, let's dodge you So why not we do a battle and just see if we can actually win now normally I might go with komso raptor I have recently been starting with a referendum, but uh, each one has their problems Like maybe I put ref in and then the indomit me. So whatever comes in Uh, I guess then I could probably swap to komso raptor So maybe that's the tactic I gotta think of put in ref if I have a way to swap it out Oh, that's interesting. The only time I have ever bumped into hydro boa is down in gyrosphere as soon as I got demoted Would you believe here it was? Which is very interesting. Maybe very telling too um So the thing is I kind of have to stay in because if I swap I think I get locked in or yeah either way. I'm taking like 3000 damage um Now I am still quicker Um, I'm gonna have to go for this Um, here's the opportunity to actually swap out which is doing and there it is. Is that level 30? Of course, it's a level 30. Right. Yeah. He was I mean I was quicker So even if I swapped out I would have been killed and also healed it Um, so there was nothing really I could do there now I guess the only thing I can do is go for komso raptor and make sure that I kill it Um, he's not doing much damage to me. He's probably killing one maybe two But apart from that, um, oh look at that big hit. Wow. Okay Uh, so it was hydro boa, wasn't it? He could probably swap in hydro boa again. Um, but you know what? He did he go for his quicker move? I don't I think he just killed me So, you know what? I'm just gonna go for my quickest move. Uh, oh, do I actually kill him? Oh, thank god.  Um, so with this kind of thinking to go for that big hit and then the rexie But then again I'm gonna die if I do that. So I'm thinking I might as well just swap in rexie. I suppose at least with rexie I can go for like a giant hit Um, and then I've still got comp so raptor to finish off the hydro boa hydro boa It's got more chance of killing hydro boa than anything else. I've got let's be honest Because rexie's probably easily killed and definitely alberto I think um, but the hostile glow, you know, I can deal with Um, I mean what's he got next is then 3900.  We don't get the crit. I've been getting crits recently with rexie, which is interesting Uh, but we have died. Oh, yes fun times Um, so now it's a case of do I put in albertus servia? Or are we swapping? Ah Ah Interesting interesting. Okay So I think at this point I can safely go for my albertus servia. Um, and then he's gonna have to swap Uh, yes, because it doesn't matter what he does here. He's gonna have to swap out Otherwise he loses hydro boa and then as long as whatever he puts it doesn't stop me from swapping out Which he definitely can do I can get health back onto. Oh Oh Well played well, you know Yeah, okay Okay, actually that was bad on his part He did not want to stun me there because if he hadn't if he hadn't stunned me I would have used my priority move But because he did stun me I've still got ready to go so his hydro boa is dead and it depends. Oh, it's a forex Oh, this will be interesting. So he needs a crit to kill me and he's got 10% chance of that Uh, otherwise Well, hmm Um, I'm just gonna go for that. Oh wait, what he didn't even do it. Oh, well played good sir. Okay Oh, has he won? Oh, this will be interesting Oh, okay. Okay. Now. Does he stop me from swapping out? Oh, he does. Oh the bucket.  Yeah. So even though it got priority. He's faster. He's killed me I'll just try.  He didn't attack me. All he did was try to stun me And yet that still counted as an attack That's weird because I feel like that happened because didn't it used to attack you if you try to swap out But they've still kept the passive counter for it. Interesting. Well, there you go. That's one ball Let's see if we get another loss. So we how low can we go? Yes I think yeah, I should have lowered his attack there and then either have gone for The precise pounds or was precise rampage or the you know the extra time. I probably should have went for that Damn, that's a bug. Okay. So let's have a thing. Well, we got here Worst-case scenario into torus and indonemies if I put in dilokairis So we'll put dilokairis first and then if that happens Oh, not bad. Not bad. Okay. Okay So what are the chances that he's gonna attack me? Now the normal play to do is to just go for the regular heal Ah and anklos looks Well played, okay So anklos looks does fill in the niche of killing my console raptors if I get rid of this That's good for me. He's got anklos looks and he's got rep both are really good at killing my uh my things Um, so I think rex is, you know, it's not the best thing against these I feel it's only really good against the anklos looks. It's not really good against uh ref So I may as well swap it out to take a hostile glow and then I can do a big hit to it Uh, if he gets lucky you might want to go for his parody move I don't think he will It'll also be stuck in Another turn at which point it's how do I finish it because if I want to do I get a crit Again, I haven't been getting crits with rexie recently I don't even remember the last time we're going to crit with rex. It's 45 percent But you know a dinosaur that has like 10 or 20 percent feels like it's got 80 percent sometimes But rexie 45 does not feel like 45 at least for me at the moment. Uh, so Interesting interesting I could put out Uh Should we I don't know man. I feel like I like I said I feel like recently I just have no idea what's good anymore So I may as well just go for this. He does have his ref. Oh Interesting interesting. He's going to reduce my attack a whole bunch Okay, okay Now Now now now now He's probably going to go for his parody move because he does not want me to hit him with this Yeah, yeah, he definitely doesn't want me to hit him with that. So if he's got that I may as well go for this and then He might have to show if he's got a swap in hit it at this point because that's not going to kill me Um, it's also not going to bleed me Um Oh, oh, but I get my speed.  That's good. I can get some health. He's going to do a big hit. He actually hold on Hold on if he gets a crit here, then he gets a Oh It really could have been well Okay, okay, so he doesn't have his priority Um, and I could go for my big heel here, but you think he's going to swap into anklos lux I feel like he's going to swap into anklos lux. I think so. I think so. Let's just go for it Let's predict him swapping. It's very unlikely. Hey, didn't damn it Should have just went for the priority heel really because now he's going to go for a little hit I think yeah, he goes for a little hit And now unfortunately, he's got that big one He's got the priority and there is nothing I can do.  Let's risk the biscuit Maybe he'll go for like, you know, you'll try and swap out and put an anklos lux again to set up with the invincibility Uh, he's really struggling. What? What why though? Wait, did he not have it? Maybe he didn't oh Actually, oh Maybe I did a big brain. It's possible. Oh, okay Yeah, definitely did not mean to do that, but you know what? I'll take it Oh, oh, this is interesting. This guy's pretty beasty um, oh Do I want to I don't know I think it's counters pretty killer I don't think I can reduce his attack either as oh here he comes here comes Oh, I think he's got it. I think he's got it Yeah, he's definitely killed me Delayed revenge distracting rampage. Yeah, I get I never even see this thing only in the lower leagues Well, this thing even pop up. Uh, so it has no priority, which is great for me um I could go for The dealer chirus and just go for a heal here Um He is faster, but I don't think after he's used that Oh, the revenge is a cooldown of one. Okay, that's fine. Okay. Yeah, this is what I was expecting him to do with rev Which should just like set this up Um, so I think he gets yeah one turn of invincible, which I think is the turn he swaps and he might even get the next turn In which case that's not good for me because then he's also going to then go for his priority and do it again um, yeah, so Oh Oh, oh, oh because there's nothing I can do here Um I think he's one I think he's also one Yeah, not including this recording session, but I have lost so many times now It's in a double digit And it's gotten so bad that like, you know, maybe I'm just terrible again. It's highly likely, but it's just it's It feels so bad Okay, yeah, we have to swap out now because he oh wait, maybe not He could have went for his alert, but that wouldn't kill me He could have went for his rampage and run, which would have killed me Um, I don't think this is gonna kill him because it doesn't go through the armor and he gets invisibility, of course Um, and then I'm I'm maybe it depends what he does if he goes to his priority Oh, he did. Okay. Now. What's my chance to resist a 75 chance? Um Didn't get it, but he does have his invisibility. Oh, but they counter I completely forgot never mind Does make a difference So what's he like? What does he have? I don't even know Andrew. He has the Andrew, right? Um, I don't know what his other one is Andrew tops. Oh, Andrew tops has a yeah, his tax is swapping. Okay. Never mind. Yeah, okay All right. Oh wait, what does it not attack me on the swapping? I thought it did All right. Okay. So what's his other dinosaur? Oh, it's an internevies Yeah, he knows he's one at this point. There's nothing I could do. I can't swap out He just has to go for his big devour hit and that is uh, that's game. Well done I was I was wondering what other dinosaur he had that he knew there wasn't an opportunity to hit all my flocks Or anything that I thought would have presented the opportunity from the swapping and hit or anything But yeah, and in dominemies will do it and we just keep dropping lower and lower. It's honestly like at this point I know it's because I'm not used to fighting the dinosaurs I'm used to and I'm still getting used to this matter But like it just feels bad like there's so many things that feel bad about this game the micro transactions They're monetizing the meta the 75 chance to get a stun You know the time that it tells you you've got like a 50 or 60 chance to get crits Don't get crits There's so much r and g as well as like money-hungryness with drasa world alive That it just everything about it feels bad at the moment and I know that you guys have come to Expect drasa world alive Maybe I'll I'll put this in a in a video at one point because I know that you know Everyone expects drasa world the game expect drasa world alive, but there's this you know There's not too much going on with drasa world the game and when it comes to drasa world alive It just feels bad So both these games that people are wanting to come for are like aren't there and if I'm going to be honest I'd rather play other games And people want to see the aisle they want to see other games and I feel like maybe I'll address this in a video for you For those of you that are staying here for just this little bit at the end. This is your reward. You get my thoughts Uh, yeah, I think I will do a video just addressing it being like Unless something new comes out for them I don't really want to play them on the channel. Um, that's my honest opinion like It feels like at least with Jurassic Park build that they had an end and it was closed down Maybe you know a lot of people still wanted to play it but It just feels like at the moment You know I just I just don't want to just want the game. I'd rather play than just live because honestly There's there's when you log in there's a few things you do and then it's straight onto battles Like straight onto feeling bad and losing and losing, you know, uh, if you don't have the dinosaurs Um, and or like get like even when you win the battles, you know, it's never just like a nice experience Because maybe you just want the the wins you want those three things to unlock the daily incubator Or you'll just have to fill in your slots to just do the incubators But there's there's not a way just to do that.  Um, yeah, so I'll make a video on that separate playway guys If you join this video, please leave a like until next time. I'll see you cuties later. Oh, bye-bye


In your own research, you looked at three series from Netflix. These were Santa Clarita Diets, Orange is the New Black and Insatiable. And I remember that in the first one, the translator changed between the seasons. In the second title, Orange is the New Black, there were two modes of translation prepared by different professionals, which often happens, we have subtitling, we have dubbing. There's also the issue of how consistent these two modes are in terms of terminology use. In some countries there might be other modes such as the lecture dubbing or voiceover. And in the third one, Insatiable, if I remember correctly, there were at least four translators, four subtitles who worked on one season on different episodes of one season. What impact did all of this have on the consistency of these subtitles that you analysed on Netflix? It's a little bit more complex than that because there was also communication or lack of communication in each of the cases. In the first case, in Santa Clarita Diets, a new translator stepped in, one translator did the first two seasons, and the different translators stepped into the season three. And these two translators communicated with one another. And so, from personal communication, I know that I think the translator who stepped in, it's a lady, and I don't think she, if I remember correctly, she didn't watch the entire thing, she just watched a few episodes to get the feel of the language, and she knew what the story was all about. And as she translated, she would ask questions to the previous translator, what did you do with this and that. So that helps a lot, the material was very consistent. I think it would be impossible to realise that the new translator stepped in. The transition was very seamless. In the second case where there was voiceover and subtitles, and these were done by two people working independently of one another, there were serious errors, serious, I mean serious diversions, maybe let's call it this way. First of all, in the language, Orange is a prison show, so the characters speak prison jargon a lot, which was neutralised in the subtitles, but retained in the voiceover. So if you watch Orange with the voiceover on, it feels more kind of prison-y, so to say, because all the characters speak the jargon, and then if halfway through the show, for instance, you switch to subtitles for some reason, all of a sudden all the characters speak this beautiful, proper, correct Polish, that's kind of not in line with the backgrounds, with the situation, with the story on screen. And there were also some issues with proper names, like a secondary character is named differently in the voiceover than in the subtitles. And recurring pieces of terminology, things being constantly referenced throughout the show, and that stemmed from maybe lack of communication between these two teams of people. And then in satiable, well, first of all, there were these consistency issues like with the letter, there were some other blunders that all of a sudden, you know, something is recalled in a later episode, something is recalled what happened earlier, and it's completely different to what actually happened before, because that particular translator did not see that episode. And also what's interesting is that some linguistic features like humor, humor, for instance, it's a comedy show, fluctuated, so it turned out some translators were better at retaining humor than others, and as a result, some episodes were funnier than the others, although, you know, in the original, the kind of maybe level of humor is more or less constant. And that can be another thing like that, you know, any linguistic features, any aspects that are, again, not the story, the plot, you know, events, ABCD, but all the flavor or the language color, this can fluctuate because translators have different aptitudes. Some translators are good at translating comedies, other maybe are better at documentaries, and some, you know, genres that are maybe more strict, maybe more factual, and less, I don't know, playful. And if you meet these translators in a project, this is bound to show.


Today, I have the pleasure of speaking with Mark Smith of Niocorp. How are you today? Very well. Thank you. Mark, there's been so much news with Niocorp. And of course, I want to start with the fact that you managed to raise 11.5 million recently for Niocorp with the leadership team and obviously with the super alloys that you have. Can you tell us a little bit more about this raise? Yeah, it was very difficult because of the market conditions at the time. But as I've said before, this project speaks for itself. And when you let people know the facts of this project, you know, the wonderful world class resource we have out in the southeast corner of Nebraska, the people that want to work for this company and that we've hired to really run this project to ground and get up and operating, it's very compelling and people support it. And they've proven once again that when we need to raise money to continue the efforts on the feasibility study, they're there to support it. And that's because they really believe in the project. You just put out a recent announcement, of course, about the super alloys that Niocorp has. You've got the Scandium, Niobium, and Titanium. I'd love it if you give our investor intel audience an update on what Niocorp actually has, the advantage. Well, the advantage is, again, you start with ore grade. You know, that's one of those things you learn early on in the mining industry, ore grade is king. Well, we've got very good ore grades for all three of those elements in our deposit. We've got a fantastic location. I mean, the people of southeast Nebraska, you couldn't ask for better support. We've got a town hall that we've announced for next week that's coming up and it's oversubscribed by the local citizens. The little town about Creek has about 110 people in it. We have 275 people already registered in RSVP for this town hall because the entire local community supports it and they want to know what's going on. And about every six to eight months, we try to do a town hall. So all part of that open communication and honesty with the local people. They respect it. We respect them and we're working well together. Well, in addition, of course, to having community support for your project, the industry is watching you very closely. There's quite a bit of buzz actually about Scandium. Would you mind talking to us about the supply and demand issues related to Scandium? Because we're finding that we're getting a lot of inquiries about this right now. And it's a really exciting part of the project. I mean, we still consider Niobium to be our base material, great foundation for any project because it's a very good ore grade and it's a very stable price for this material. So banks are supportive, investors are supportive. But Scandium is the one that intrigues me probably the most of the three super alloys that we're going to produce down there. Scandium, today there's anywhere from five to ten tons of this material produced in the world. About five of that consistently comes out of China. And then five sometimes does and sometimes doesn't come out of Russia. You never know when their production is going to be on or not. But the quality of the Russian Scandium is also very, very well known. So you've got a regular five tons a year coming out of China. Quality is sometimes questionable. You've got a very good quality coming out of Russia. But the volumes and whether or not it's going to be there is somewhat questionable. So there's only ten tons of this material a year. You start taking a look at the potential uses of Scandium. And John Kaiser, who speaks about Scandium a lot, has used this term. And I want to make sure I give credit where credit's due. The latent demand, and that's a term that John used. The latent demand for Scandium is what's really exciting right now. When you've got the solid oxide fuel cell industry all by itself, that could use about 40 tons of Scandium today. You've got the airline industry that if they can get a stronger, lighter material for the fuselage, they will do it. But they need a reliable supply of Scandium. There's upwards of 300 tons of latent demand just in the aerospace industry. So the problem with Scandium is the reliability and the production today. And that's where I think a company like Niocorp really separates itself from potentially the other junior Scandium companies as well. Because when we produce niobium, we necessarily produce Scandium. We're not producing Scandium as our primary or only product. We produce niobium, we necessarily have Scandium flowing with it. And we plan to produce 97 tons per year. Well, and speaking of your production plans, can you give us just a bit of an overview about Niocorp? Just for our audience who may not be familiar with Niocorp and who also may want to be looking up the Scandium price chart as well. Yeah, good point, Tracy. And that's one of the reasons, of course, why Scandium is so exciting. I mean, today's price is probably somewhere in the $5,500 per kilogram range. Now, I'm not suggesting that if we put a whole lot more supply out in the world that it will stay at that price point. But that's a pretty exciting price point to start with. And even a reduction of that into the $3,000 to $4,000 per kilogram range still creates tremendous amounts of revenue and cash flow for Niocorp. And cash flow goes back to project financing and the ability to get the bank debt and the equity to fund the construction. So the prospects for supply and demand for Scandium are extremely exciting for many of our writers, Eccleston, Brombie. Many of our writers are very excited about Scandium. But they also like niobium and we've noticed a number of companies claim they have niobium right now. So it seems to be a bit of a cattle rush to niobium as well. Can you tell us why? The only thing that I can think of, Tracy, is that niobium is one of those very financeable elements right now. Niobium doesn't tend to really excite a lot of people like it does me. I get very excited about niobium because of all the things that it does to make our world a better place. It is truly a technology metal as far as I'm concerned. But it is very stable pricing. And if you have stable pricing in today's resource environment, that usually equates to easier or better financing. That's the only thing I can think of because bottom line is you can say whatever you want to say about your deposit. But you ultimately have to have grade. We have very good or grades for niobium in our deposit. Well, you have cash, you've got management, you've got the team in place, you've got community support. What should we expect next, say in the next couple of quarters, Mark? Next couple of quarters, again, and this company is 100% focused on finishing that feasibility study. That is the next threshold event for the company. Offtake agreements are much easier to get when you have feasibility studies in place. The financing really can't go any further in terms of the actual large equity and debt financing it will have to do to construct the project. Can't go any further until that feasibility study is done. So we are really focused on getting that done. And I think in the next quarter or two, you'll see the final results of that. And then I will not be letting grass grow underneath my feet at that point, because now we need to finance it and we want to build it. We want to get into production. Production is what we're focused on, ultimately. Mark, thank you so much for joining us today. It was such a pleasure to see you. It's always a pleasure to be here at Tracy. Happy to help you in any way.


Channel model, and this is John working with me here, Belair and Alexander Vardy. And I would like to start this talk with the observation that if we look at today's cryptography, then most of it is based on computational assumptions. So we prove security of cryptographic schemes under the assumption that some underlying computational problem is hard. This could be a problem such as factoring large integers or solving discrete logs. But today I want to do something different. I want to talk about basing cryptography on physical assumptions. And in particular, the physical assumption that we are going to consider is the availability of a communication channel, which is subject to noise. And this noise might come, for example, from interference or from some other physical phenomenon that we want to exploit. And basing cryptography on noisy channels is actually something very old within our community. There's been some work in the 80s started by Kripo and Kilian on designing protocols for bit commitments and oblivion transfer based on noisy channels. But today I want to go back to an even older and more basic setting, which was considered within the information theory and coding community in the 70s, which is Weiner's wiretap channel model. This setting was introduced by Aaron Weiner in 1975. And once part of it generalized by Cesar and Kerner in 78. And the task that we are considering here is the basic task of message encryption. And we consider message encryption in a simple setting where we have a sender that encrypts a message, possibly using randomization into a ciphertext C. And then the ciphertext C is sent to our channel, to a receiver who obtains a noisy ciphertext C prime and then tries to decrypt it into a message M prime. But also we have a wiretapper on the line that receives a noisy version of the ciphertext to another channel, CHA. And our goals are as usual, message privacy. So ZM, what the adversary gets, should not reveal any information about the message M. And additionally, we want correctness so decryption should be correct with high probability. And the only assumption that we make in this setting, this is the most important point, is that the channel to the adversary is in some well-defined mathematical way noisier than the channel to the receiver. In particular, there are no keys, so encryption is completely key less, and security is going to be information theoretic. So we don't want to make any computational assumptions. And in this line of work and also in this talk, there's usually an additional goal that we want to achieve, which is that we want our encryption scheme to be as space efficient as possible in the sense that what we call the rate, which is the ratio between the ciphertext length and the message length, should be as large as possible. So in particular, for the purpose of this talk, when I say channel and I talk about a noisy channel, I want you to think about something very simple. Our results are more general. But for this talk, we think of channels as being defined to some randomized map, mapping bits into bits. And in particular, such a randomized map defines a system that processes an incoming stream of bits, and each output bit is obtained by applying independently the randomized map to the corresponding input bit. So this defines some length preserving randomized map from string to strings. And in particular, one example of such a channel is just a clear channel that doesn't do anything, but a more interesting channel that we'll talk about in this talk is the binary symmetric channel, which flips independently each incoming bit with probability p and keeps it the same with probability 1 minus p. So one particular instantiation of the YTAP channel model is by having the main channel from the sender to the receiver and the channel to the adversary, both being binary symmetric channels with respective error probabilities p and q, such that p is more than q, and both are smaller or equal to 1 half. This is to ensure that the channel to the adversary is noisier than the channel to the receiver. Okay, and I want to stress that, even though this problem is a very old problem, it has recently attracted a lot of interest from the practical corner, and in particular as an entire community, which has been named physical layer security, which has been centered around this problem and similar problems. And things this researcher look at are problems like the following. So assume that we have some device like a mobile phone, and we want to use this mobile phone to make a payment to a cash register. And we want the mobile phone to send a credit card number to the cash register in a private way. And we want to exploit the fact that you can hold your phone very close to the cash register. And in particular, you can use a very low communication power to send your credit card number to the cash register. And if we do this properly, we can ensure maybe that every wiretapper that tries to find out the credit card number is going to be sufficiently far from the mobile phone. And in particular, the signal the wiretapper receives is going to be degraded. Okay. And if we can ensure this, then of course, if we have a scheme for the wiretap channel model, we could use this to communicate privately between the mobile phone and the cash register without the need of establishing cryptographic keys. Which would be a great advantage. But so in, there's been 35 years in fact of work, starting from Weiner's work on this setting and related setting. There's been papers, there's been books even on the topic, but this work has been almost exclusively confined within the information theory and coding community. And from a cryptographic perspective, so we are all cryptographers here, we can see two major drawbacks with this type of work. First of all, the privacy notions that have been used within this work are from our perspective improper in the sense that not only they are based on metrics that are hard to work with in a cryptographic sense like channel entropies, but even worse, they mostly only consider, they actually only consider random message securities. And we know that in reality, we cannot expect messages to be random. And another point is also that with respect to constructions of actual encryption schemes, results are also a bit surprisingly disappointing in a sense that all schemes that have been proposed either are missing some explicit decryption algorithms. So they use some existential results to show that decryption is maybe in principle possible but there's no efficient decryption algorithm. Or if they do have such an algorithm, then they all achieve security notions that are much weaker than what we would like to achieve. And so the main contribution of this paper is to fill these two gaps by taking a cryptographic point of view on this problem. Now, our first contribution is to give proper security definitions for the wiretap channel model on the one hand based on semantic security, that's what we use in cryptography. And on the other hand, we also give definitions based on information theoretic quantities and show them equivalent. And also with respect to schemes, we provide quite general paradigm to construct encryption schemes for the wiretap channel model that are polynomial time in encrypting and decrypting and are semantically secure and also can be instantiated to achieve optimal rate in many settings. Okay, so in the following, let me just first go through the issue of security notions. And let me start by saying what people in the wiretap community have been considering so far. So the traditional security notion used so far is based on mutual information. Okay, so mutual information between the message sent by the sender and the noisy ciphertext Z of M received by the wiretap. And mutual information is defined as usually in terms of the difference between the entropy of the message and the conditional entropy of the message given the noisy ciphertext where entropies are in the sense of Shannon entropies. It doesn't matter if you don't remember the definition just to think of this as a measure of uncertainty over the outcome of a random variable. Now, in particular, the usual requirement that you find in the literature is that if we look at this mutual information for a random message M, which is uniformly distributed, then it is required to be negligible or very small. Ideally we would like even to be zero, but that we cannot achieve. Okay, and now of course as cryptographer the first things that captures our attention is the fact why does the message need to be uniformly distributed. And in fact, if we look at the work in the information theory and coding community, then this seems to be a common misconception. So people argue that it's completely fine to assume without loss of generality that messages are uniformly distributed because you can always apply source compression to the message to make sure that the message is transformed into a uniform one. But we in fact know that this is not true. So for this to be true, we will need a compression algorithm that takes a message with an unknown arbitrary distribution. It could be really any distribution. Doesn't know this distribution and transforms into a uniform one. So this we cannot achieve. So we really want one single encryption algorithm that works for any message distribution and it's secure. So this is not the notion we want to have. And now our first attempt that we could make is what we call mutual information security. So by the way, we refer to the older notion as random mutual information security. And near the difference is just that we require the mutual information to be small for all possible message distributions. Okay. Again, this is one way to go, but from a cryptographic perspective, this is something which is not possibly not nice to work with because first of all, mutual information is based on Shannon entropy. And these are hard to work with. And also when we think about concrete security, it's not exactly clear what a certain number of bits of Shannon security mean. So a better approach would be to translate semantic security to the wiretap setting, which is what we do. So this is done as follows. So we consider an experiment. First of all, where does an adversary A and is going to receive a noisy encryption of a message M and the task of the adversaries to get some function F of M of the message. Okay. And for every such adversary, we require that there exists another adversary call it S, which is as good or nearly as good in a setting where it doesn't receive the noisy side effects at all. Okay. And we require this to be true for all adversaries and also for all functions F that needs to be guessed and for all message distributions. And since we care about information theoretic security here, it's really all functions F and all message distributions without restrictions of computationally, efficiently computable or efficiently sampleable. Okay. And a slightly easier way to define security is another approach is to consider what we call distinguishing security. And here it's a traditional way of defining security where the adversary gets two messages M0 and M1 and an encryption of one of them chosen uniformly at random either M0 and M1 and needs to guess which one is the message that has been encrypted. And we require that the adversary must not be able to guess which one was encrypted with probability to much larger than one half. Okay. And this turns out actually to be equivalent to, so this turns out to be equivalent to requiring that the statistical distance between any two encryptions of any two messages, any two noise encryption is negligible. Okay. So these are two different ways to define security in a more in the cryptographic way. And our main result here is to show that in fact, all of these three new ways of defining security turn out to be equivalent. So mutual information security, distinguishing security and semantic security turn out to be equivalent. Well, of course, the older notion using the literature of mutual information security for random messages is of course not equivalent to mutual information security. This is what I wanted to say about definitions. Now let me move to the question of devising efficient encryption schemes for the wiretap setting. So recall that what we want here is we want to find an efficient encryption and decryption algorithms that ensure correctness, semantic security and achieve optimal rate. Now if we look at these three questions and now we look back at related work, what we will see first of all is that we have tools around that we've been developing in the context of information theoretic cryptography that allows to obtain solution to satisfy property one and two. So we could use for example fuzzy extractors by Dolly Zetal or tools from the line of work on information theoretic key agreements started by Marl in the 90s to obtain schemes that achieve correctness and semantic security, but then it's not clear how to achieve optimal rate. On the other hand, if you look at work in the information theory community, then there's been some work, for example, by recent work by Asher Matsumoto and by Madhavifar and Bardi on constructing schemes but even there you cannot achieve all of the three properties at the same time. We can either achieve correctness and optimal rate but at the cost of a weaker security or people can achieve semantic security and optimal rate or something equivalent to semantic security but the corresponding schemes do not have any correctness guarantees that can be proven. Okay, and so our work is the first to provide a scheme that achieves all of the three properties. Now just let me mention what is this optimal rate for the case of binary symmetric channels just to give you an idea. So it turns out it has been shown already in the 70s that no scheme can achieve rate higher than h of q minus h of p minus something vanishing and where h is as usual the binary entropy function and our scheme achieves exactly this rate so in particular this means that this is the optimal rate for any security notion. So does our scheme operate? I just want to give you a high level idea without going into details. So I'm going to just give you an encryption algorithm in a slightly different setting where the encryption algorithm can make use of a public random seed to encrypt the message. In the white-up setting this is a public random value which is known to the adversary in the actual white-up setting such a value does not exist and in the paper we show how to get rid of this. So encryption just works as follows. We just take a message which is m-bit longed and the seed has length k-bits, k is larger than m and we just append k minus m random bits to the message to obtain a k-bit string and then we multiply this longer string with the seed where multiplication really means interpreting k-bit strings as element of an extension field. We get this string x and then we apply some polynomial time linear encoding function that outputs an n-bit ciphertext c. And the only restriction here is that the message cannot be so long, too long, there's a restriction on the length of the message which is not really important to look exactly what it is but the message cannot be so long but as long as this is guaranteed then our main theorem tells us that our encryption scheme is indeed semantically secure. And the proof turns out to be trickier than one would expect because in particular one main issue that we have to face is that we cannot really look at the distribution of a ciphertext for a particular message and say a lot about the distribution of the corresponding ciphertext. Without understanding too much about the combinatorial structure of the underlying code. And this is tricky, for many codes we do not even understand well what the combinatorial structure of the output is. And so we just take a detour where to prove security of the scheme as a first step we show, and this is a fairly general result that holds for a larger classes of schemes but in particular for this one that in order to prove semantic security for the scheme it is sufficient to prove a weaker notion of random message security for the scheme. And this is in fact the main technical step in the proof, the first main technical step. And then at the second step this leads us with the task of proving random message security for the scheme which happens to be much, much easier if we don't know anything about the combinatorial structure of the code. So we need to know very little. Okay. And let me just gloss over these slides very quickly. I don't wanna say much. The only point is that why do we achieve the rate? Well the point is that we need to instantiate the encoding function E with our scheme such that it allows for decryption when we just send ciphertext over the main channel from the sender to the receiver. So the idea is that we take this from a good error correcting code for a binary symmetric channel with error probability P. And if we instantiate this with the best codes we can find that achieve rate like concatenated codes or polar codes, then we plug in numbers. We let the message as to be as long as our security proof tolerates then we get exactly the optimal rate. Okay. So let me wrap up. So what we've seen here is that so we revisited the problem of secure communication in the one in one is wiretap channel model. And on the one hand we provided new security notions to define privacy in this setting which were based on a cryptographic viewpoint and that model security for arbitrary messages like we want in cryptography. And we also devised the first polynomial time scheme that achieves the security notions and also in many settings achieves optimal rate. And just a little advertisement. I mean the point is that our scheme is really simple and modular and efficient. So if you really want to implement it the efficiency is essentially the one of the underlying error correcting code. And just two additional remarks is that I mean in the paper we provide actually a general a concrete treatment of security in the wiretap channel model. And also I explained results here for the specific case of binary symmetric channels but in fact the result extend to a much larger class of channels. And if you want to know about this just look at the paper. Okay, thank you. Thank you.