Hey guys, it's Nate, aka the Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. I wanted to make a video today talking about Premier League Player of the Month that is going to be coming out here in the next couple of days in FIFA Ultimate Team, talking about how we could possibly invest for this and how this SBC is going to look because we're gonna be inside of the team of the year promotion. Now, this happened last year where we had a big-time Player of the Month player, Van Dyke. That SBC came out during Team of the Year and a lot of people ended up doing that SBC because of the upgrade packs that were out with the league upgrade packs. You could actually kind of craft your way there in a sense. So I'm gonna talk about that this year. Look at the SBCs, how you might be able to invest for it, of course, accordingly during the time period of Team of the Year when this SBC would come out. But at the moment, these are the competitors that we have for this month's vote. This is the month of December. We have Trent Alexander Arnold, Buendia from Norwich, Kevin De Bruyne, Calbert Lewin, Ben Foster, Danny Yings, JB Vardy and Adama Treore. So those are all of our options that we could vote for at the moment. And I kind of wanna go through and look at their stats. The first thing I wanna notice is a lot of time we use foot bin, right? A lot of times we use foot bin to kind of look and see and get an idea for their stats because foot bin has this nice graphic that lays it out. But what I'm seeing here is I don't think we can completely rely on this graphic from foot bin because if you look into the statistics that the EA website shows, which is this is where you vote for player of the month voting. It's actually open right now. You can vote on it at the moment. But these stats are different, right? It shows Jamie Vardy is having two goals, no assists. But if we go back over here and look for Vardy, he has got five games and four goals. So I'm not entirely sure what they're counting is like what games are counting and what games are not counting inside of this. But I think that using these statistics on EA's website is gonna be one of the most important because that's where the voting is off of and that's what people are gonna see. And I'm guessing these are the statistics that the committee that also votes on this award because the fan vote for this is only about 20%. So that's why we look at the, you know, who's more likely to win based on the statistics and how the committee usually ends up voting for this. Adama Treora is another option. Two goals, one assist, a lot of hype this month. Danny Ings, five goals and no assist. But five goals and his team did it pretty well. The only thing that I like this page for is you can see their form. So Southampton with four wins, one draw and two losses. I think Danny Ings is up there as a possibility to win this one, five goals. He's one of the most high scores. Ben Foster with 20 saves. That's actually a really decent amount of saves. If we don't see goalkeepers win very often but that's possible. And then I think the person that has the highest chance to win is Kevin Dabrana. He's got three goals, three assists in the games this month. And their team did pretty well. Five wins, two losses. So not perfect, but according to these EA stats, three goals and three assists, which I do think might put him ahead just enough to win Player of the Month. Dominic Calvert-Lewen though has a shout as well with five goals scored. So this Player of the Month seems like it could be an easy one, I guess. With KDB is kind of like the front runner who everybody, I think a lot of people want KDB to win. But I don't know too much about trend. Three assists, one goals or one goal, nine tackles, 76% pass accuracy. So this one's a little bit harder to read in terms of looking through all of these players and figuring out which one could be there. I really think it's gonna be De Bruyne. I think that possibly it could be Danny Engs. It could be Calvert-Lewen or it could be Trent Alexander-Arnold. It's really a crapshoot, to be honest. But I think KDB is gonna be the one who ultimately pulls it out in the end. Not that Citi played really great this month because I don't think they played fantastic but I do think that KDB would have an edge with all this all-round statistics. He just played fantastic this month. So I do think that KDB would have the edge on most of these guys but I wouldn't be surprised if Trent Calvert-Lewen or Danny Engs took the trophy home for a Premier League Player of the Month. But with KDB and KDB being the one in mind we do think could win, I do wanna look at some of the possible investments for that. Let's look at Kevin De Bruyne's card right now to see what that Player of the Month option card would be. I'm guessing it would be a 95, center attacking mid, Premier League Player of the Month card. So obviously that card would come out. He's probably gonna get into the team this season. I do think it's possible he gets in. Maybe, maybe not. But if the Player of the Month does come out and it's the highest rated card of KDB, I do think you'll see a lot of people wanna go do that card and it could mess with the price of his other special cards. And if he does get a team of the year, this Player of the Month would be very, very interesting. We kinda had that scenario last year. We had the Van Dyke SBC out during team of the year. This SBC right here for the 92 Van Dyke was out during team of the year and Van Dyke actually had himself a team of the year item. So a lot of people were deciding, do I go to the Player of the Month? Do I craft it through upgrades or do I shell out the coins and try to get the big boy team of the year? Obviously, the team of the year cards are very hard to get. So there's a lot of people that ended up doing this 92 Van Dyke and they rocked him almost until the end of the game. So we'll definitely talk about this. But I do think the Bruins Player of the Month would be 95 rated for sure. He's already above 80 pay, so that looks fantastic. I mean, this card looks phenomenal. It would be an end game card, in my opinion, if you're a KDB fan, Manchester City fan, or just need a Premier League cam in your squad. And I think this SBC would be phenomenal. It's probably gonna cost somewhere around the range of 800,000 coins, I would think. Maybe it's closer to 750,000 to 900,000. It would be kind of the range I would expect it to be in. I think you can actually make it, you could probably see it being really close in value to this Sadio Mane SBC that is currently in the game, which requires five different squads. And comparing, if you look at last year's Player of the Month Van Dyke, which came out at this time, a lot more of the squads were related around Premier League games. Obviously, look at the descriptions here. Exchange a squad of players featuring Van Dyke's home country. Exchange a squad of players featuring Van Dyke's current league. Exchange a squad of players featuring Van Dyke's current club. This year's Player of the Month SBCs, we just have Exchange a squad featuring Liverpool players, and then Premier League players, and then just random squads. It feels like they're not putting as much effort or they're not really mixing things up for these Player of the Months. They're just requiring high-rated cards. So it's making the... It's kind of smart on EA's part that it's making some of the Premier League and some of the team-specific investments that we often invest for for these SBCs. It's making them go up a little bit less on the market because they're just requiring more of high-rated players and less of specific investments or what they would call pinch points on the market. So again, if KDB is the one who you do think is gonna win, now if you have some personal feelings that somebody else is gonna win Player of the Month for this next month or for December, but the SBC coming out during Team of the Year, maybe you could adjust your investing accordingly, but since KDB is gonna be winning, I do have a few options in mind of players that I would be very interested in investing in based on just their SBC value. And obviously we're gonna be looking at Manchester City cards. Ilkai Gundewan is inflated in price right now. I do think these cards are gonna get lowered during Team of the Year Lightning rounds and all the packs that are gonna be open during Team of the Year. And this is a big thing that we're gonna be looking at on the channel during Team of the Year is when's the best time to buy these cards and invest? I would not buy these right now. Like if you're watching this video and Gundewan is still 6,400 coins, I would not be a fan of buying that card there. But of course, you're gonna look at the Manchester City cards, Manchester City Informs. There's an Odomendi Inform that I would be interested in investing in for a KDB SBC. KDB's gold card, this would be a possibility where I do think they could require the gold card, but they haven't done that as much as they have in the past because I just think they know that it requires, that it allows people to make a lot of coins. And again, that's a really specific pinch point on the market. And of course, KDB's gold card would be out of packs if he was in Team of the Year. So that's even less supply for that card if they were to require in the SBC. But if you see Gundewan, like right now he's 6,400 coins, 6,200, which is really on the high end. If you see this guy dip back down around 4K, like 4,000 coins for this Gundewan card, even like 42, 4,300 coins, anything under 4,500, I think would be fantastic for a card like this. And again, we're gonna focus on some of the higher-rated cards in the prem and higher-rated cards from Manchester City to invest for this. Fernandinho at like 20,000 coins. He was just 20K a couple of days ago. He's up a little bit now. I think people are doing base icon SBCs. Right now when I'm recording this video because they're bored, there's nothing else to do on FIFA. So they're just putting some coins into base icon upgrades at the moment or trying to invest for Team of the Year SBCs. But I do think this is gonna be an opportunity to pick up some of these cards during the lighting rounds of Team of the Year. Usually the first day of Team of the Year they don't put out an SBC, or most times they don't, like a player SBC or moments or whatever. Now it looks like we might be getting one SBC every day because there's supposedly seven SBCs coming, like four flashbacks and three player moments. So if we do get an SBC first day, then obviously that's a risk that we run. But this Odomendi card at 20,000 coins, I think is a really nice shout. Maybe you can try to pick a couple up on bid like 19K, but there's really not a lot of people talking about this right now. And if there are some Premier League informs required, that would be a great investment for a KTV player of the month. And then of course just other high-rated players. Again, if you're gonna invest that all, I would focus on the Premier League cards. Premier League high-rated, it's 84s, 85s, 86s, 87s and 88s. Joris would be a decent one and goal, he links to a lot of guys. Fernandinho would be a really good shout. I think a lot of people would look to invest in that card right away. Bernardo Silva could be a really, really good one, especially if any of those formations require a right mid or a right wing card. Him being that position on the outside wing could be huge. For chemistry purposes, depending on how much chemistry they require for those SBCs that are inside of the player of the month SBC. So actually let's take a look and see this Sadio Mane's player of the month SBC. How much chem are they requiring for a lot of these SBCs? It might actually just be easier to look on the game. So we're gonna go over here and look in the game at Mane's SBC. I'm using Mane's SBC as an example because this is just kind of how they're doing it this year. I'm gonna do these SBCs different every year, I think. And this year, a lot of the SBCs have been like this, just kind of not as specific, like we looked at before with the description underneath each SBC. But it looks like 70 chems, 65, 60, 65, and 55. And how many of these formations were required like an outside wing player, like a right wing or a left wing? Boom. First one we have here, Liverpool players one, team of the week players one, 85 overall rating and 70 chems. So a guy like Bernardo Silva would be perfect for a squad like this. Even though it is 85 rated, this one's an 86 rated squad, Bernardo would be perfect for this, boom, right wing situation in that one as well. So Bernardo looks like a decent option because he's from Man City and he's got that different positioning. But again, if we're looking at some of the players to look at cheapest players by rating, of course we're going to look at good links to other Premier League players, even if it's just like, even Thiago Silva might be a decent buy because if you're going to put Edison in your team, he's Brazilian, that would link Brazilian and Fernandinho together or that would link Edison and Fernandinho together. So those could be two possible pretty good links for some gold cards. And then let's take a look at some more specific informs for that you can invest in for a KDB because I'm thinking that this SBC would probably require a bunch, I'm thinking either five or six squads again, kind of like Mane and you're probably seeing some 86, 87s maybe, maybe an 88 squad requirement that would be the most that I would think that I would see. So again, for the informs, if there's like an 87 or an 88 rated squad, I wouldn't buy any inform that's over 86 because a lot of people will use a lower rated inform and more high rated golds because it's cheaper that way most of the time. But some informs you could look at, you know, Belgium of course, we haven't mentioned the nationality much at all but this company center back inform 85 rated, it's one of the cheapest center back informs in the game at the moment. And it's one of the cheapest 85s and it is Belgium. So this card, if you can snag him on bid, looks like he's risen a little bit out of packs but maybe stock one in your club, put a couple in your transfer list for around 16 or 17K, maybe 15K if you absolutely can, maybe on a bid or something, that might be a good inform to look at. And then again, focus on the Premier League guys. A lot of the guys that are in this week's team of the week, actually let's take a look at this. Team of the week 16 is full of Premier League players.  Obviously Doherty at Discard and Io's Perez at kind of close to Discard and Maguire as well would be great SBC fodder investments. Maybe on like a Tuesday of team of the year, the second day of all the lighting rounds being opened. If you can get these guys for like 12K, Doherty for Discard and then Maguire and Io's Perez for about 12K, I would be okay with those investments for a Premier League player of the month. Just as an inform, but then again, maybe if you're really looking to invest in some informs, you try to find some Premier League guys like Tarkowski. Tarkowski is not a bad shot because he is out of packs. He's 14K for an 84 rated inform. Maybe you can snag a couple of these on bid for like, you know, 12, looks like he was 12K earlier on Friday. So maybe you can snag him for like 12,000 coins and on bid or something like that, which is almost Discard. And those would be the type of deals that I would be looking towards and looking into. Now, the last thing I wanna talk about is when is this SBC going to come out? So right now, Sadio Mane has five days remaining. So that means that he is going to come out on Friday. If they put the KDB SBC out right after Mane expires, then the KDB SBC should come out on Friday of team of the year. So that would be Monday the sixth, that Friday afterwards, which when the full team of the year would be in packs at that point, that is when I would expect a KDB or whoever's gonna win this player of the month, that SBC would come out on that date. So what is that Friday? Maybe the, I don't know, Monday the sixth. So Friday would be the 10th or the 11th, maybe. Let me just look at a calendar and get that exactly up for you guys because I'm not good with dates sometimes. The 10th, it would be the 10th. See, I had my initial math correct. It would be the 10th on the Friday is when I would think we would see the Premier League player of the month, December, SBC coming out in this game. And again, if we have upgrade packs during that timeframe, it's gonna be something that I think a lot of people are interested in, right? Exactly like we talked about with that VVD SBC last year. A lot of people went and did that SBC because it was cheaper than his team of the year card, a lot cheaper. The VVD SBC was around 500 or 600K and they could get some packs back and they could grind and do upgrade packs to pack high rated cards from the Prem to work towards that SBC. So that's the only thing with this SBC coming out that could hurt your investments a little bit. Like if you buy some Gundawans, this is gonna be the type of guy that a decent amount of people are gonna be packing from like an 81 plus or a Premier League upgrade SBC. That could hurt his rise a little bit, but I still think you would see a rise in these cards because not everybody packs them.  That's kinda how it works most of the time. So I still do think stocking your club or putting some on your transfer list of some of these Prem Informs, Manchester City guys, especially high rated, 84 to 88s are gonna be a really good shout for the KDB player of the month SBC. And it should be a good one. Of course, it's gonna be interesting if he gets into team of the year and stuff like that. Now, if somebody else wins, going back to the nominees really quick, of course, if Trent Alexander Arnold comes out and wins and then the Liverpool players are pretty cheap at that timeframe for whatever reason, maybe you go out and you try to get on some of these guys, some of the Liverpool players, or maybe if Adama Treore somehow wins, or Danny Ings, maybe you invest accordingly to that. But if Ings comes out, I would expect that to be a really cheap SBC. If Adama Treore comes out, I don't think it would be that cheap, but again, Premier League investments is like the main thing here, just buying some Premier League high-rated. And I would not wait for this SBC to come out on Friday to invest. I would be looking, and we're gonna look at this a lot here on the YouTube channel, we're gonna be looking for the absolute cheapest time to buy some of these high-rated golds because there's going to be a point during this team of the year promo where these cards get low because whatever reason they drop an SBC or they drop some packs that overpower whatever demand there is for an SBC that comes out. Then we're gonna be looking at trying to pick up some of these 86s around like 13 or 14K, 85s around seven to eight K, 84s at 4,000 coins flat or below for some of the Prem guys, 87s at 20K, 88s at like 25, 26, and then 89s at like lower 30s. We're definitely gonna be looking at picking up some of these cards. And at some point during team of the year, we're not entirely sure yet because right now they're still kind of inflated. But those are kind of the buy prices for some of those high-rated gold cards. And again, I would not invest in this SBC just yet. I'm putting this video out early, putting this video out ahead of time just to get you guys prepared for this because it is important information. I want you guys to be in the know, in the knowledge and prepared for when this SBC comes out. And especially for when this upcoming week of team of the year, there's a lot of stuff going on. You can kind of put this in the back of your mind and say, hey, this could be a little bit of an opportunity to make coins or to just get ready to do this SBC if that's something that you would want to do. If you enjoyed this video, smash a thumbs up on it. Comment down below if you have any questions and of course, subscribe to the channel. If you are new, it's been Nate, the Foot Accountant, catch you guys later. Peace out.


Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Learning lessons from history requires tripping away the specifics and the particular and creating an abstract model which preserves some of the structure across time. There are many modeling strategies in use. The goal of this lecture is to show that the mainstream methodology which is based on a nominal strategy is wrong and an alternative is available which we hope to demonstrate. If we study many over the course of the 20th century we find many radical changes in the monetary system from gold standard to dollar standard to abandonment of gold linkage of the dollar from fixed exchange rates to floating exchange rates. These changes cannot be explained by conventional economic methodology which seeks to provide a universal law which works the same across time. Also the reasons for this change are hidden and cannot be captured by the types of nominal models in use in mainstream economics. The difference between nominal models and real models is very simple. Nominal models attempt to match the appearances, the observed reality without having any concern about matching the hidden portions of reality. In contrast real models attempt to discover the underlying hidden structures of reality which cause the appearances that we see. The methodology of modern economics is based on ideas of Friedman that a model does not need to capture the hidden mechanisms. It only needs to match what we observe. Friedman invented this methodology because surveys of firm managers showed that they did not plan to maximize profits. So Friedman argued that what the managers intended to do the hidden motivations did not matter. All that mattered was that the profit maximization model produced a match to the observable actions of the firm. In contrast realist models look at what firms real world firms actually do instead of just looking at the data produced by firms and trying to find a model which fits the data without concern for the actual behavior of firms. So studying the actual behavior leads to radically different models from those currently found in mainstream economic textbooks. Apart from realism we plan to use a newly developed strategy called agent-based modeling to develop our monetary models. These models allow for a wide number of different kinds of agents like consumers, laborers, producers and the government and allows each of them to have their own behaviors. This is called heterogeneity. ABM become feasible because of massive increases in computational power and lack of this power in early part of the 20th century when modern economics was being developed led for the creation of extremely simple models only because it was only the simple models that it was possible to calculate outcomes for by hand. These oversimplified models currently in use all over the world for macroeconomic policy decisions have only one agent because putting in multiple agents leads to computational difficulties beyond those which could be solved by pencil and paper on hand and when the congressional committee investigated the failure of economics to predict the financial crisis one of the witnesses Robert Solo said that this was because the DSGE models in use have only one agent and one agent cannot deceive himself and deception and fraud was a major element which led to the global financial crisis. In his attempt to explain the Great Depression of 1929 and why this was not predicted by classical theories of economics at the time Keynes came up with three radical insights. None of these insights was accepted by the neoclassical economists because it simply does not fit into the types of models that they use to study economics. All three of these insights can easily be incorporated into models based on the ABM modeling strategy. One of these insights is complexity where complexity is used at technical term not in its normal English language meaning and the meaning of complexity is that a system displays complexity if the behavior of the whole is different from the sum of the parts. Studying individual parts of the system will not lead to an understanding of how the whole system behaves. Keynes gave an example that the negotiations between laborers and firms takes place in the form over nominal wages but what they really want to do is to negotiate real wages but real wages are not under control of the system not in control of the agents and so they cannot decide what happens to the real wage by looking at the nominal wage. Another critical insight of Keynes was radical uncertainty given that the system is complex and what happens depends on the decisions of large number of agents. Nobody can predict what will happen. This is again in conflict with the standard economic methodologies which assumes that expectations are rational that weak people can more or less forecast what is going to happen. These issues heterogeneity complexity uncertainty play a central role in the theory of money. In conventional textbook models there is complete knowledge the value of money does not fluctuate so in that situation money just becomes an accounting unit. You can just write down in the books who owes how much to what and then money basically disappears from the system but if different people have different evaluations of what the value of money will be and if the creditors are trying to have a dear money have a strong and stable money while the debtor are trying to reduce the value of money and so they act differently and if there's uncertainty about the value of money itself we don't know if the money value is going to decline or go up. All of these give a very essential and important role to money which is different from that of any other commodity in the economic system. It no longer plays the role of simple accounting unit. So to understand money we have to take into account these factors and it is impossible to do so in conventional models of textbook economic theory. The philosophy of knowledge known as logical positivism emerged in the early 20th century and economic theory was reshaped to match this philosophy and was built on the foundations of logical positivism. This theory was later rejected by philosophers. This theory leads to nominalist models but it was realized that nominalism is not enough to explain how and why science works. So modern economics is based on a fundamentally flawed philosophy. In this our approach historical approach to monetary theory we will abandon this positivist approach and use realist models to study money and this will give us far deeper insights into the nature of money which are not available in conventional approaches.


One, two, three, jumpin' off the porch like mom's not home, take so long We are here in La Comenta, in the suburbs of San Jose and a little area called Parasas This is a place for learning for the kids, or whether it be English, Spanish, or even magic It's also one of the headquarters of Magicians Without Borders Yeah, so it has a lot of open space for kids to learn And we've also been using one of the classrooms and computer labs to do our Magicians Without Borders lessons And over here, as you can see, is La Comenta, the little center we talked about Here we have some members of the Magic Society practicing their routine Hopefully I won't interrupt Yeah, sorry, George Well, let's just keep walking Sorry Here we are Lots of open space Lots of books And here is actually the area where we've been teaching the kids No, we're going to use the one That one isn't close You're false You're going to do mouth coils tomorrow Can you do it so they can see it? On the ace Okay, we have a lot of paper Shuffle Perfect Shuffle Actually, while we were performing, one of the Costa Rican national news networks came in To film our show for a story on the nightly news That was really awesome They also followed us back to La Comenta here Are you writing with the right or the left? Okay, so we're not going to use it Can you do that with the left? And do that with your hand? Yes So I'm going to write with my hand An X, yes? But look I'm going to touch the X Like that And the hand? Like that? Look Here It's not enough But please open your hand And look Because the X is here Well I'm going to break it It's a lot, but it's better to have it instead of a quarter Look One bill Of 50,000 Now I have 50 100,000 150,000 200,000 100,000 I don't think it's going to work I don't think so


Ssssssssssssss. One of the more fascinating entries in the The Super Nintendo Slash추 Lacan library is Rachman and Forute otherwise known as Mega Man & Bass, released in 1998 although it didn't come over to North America until it was ported to Game Boy Advance in 2002. So, wait a second. Who's this bass guy? Where'd he come from? Is this game part of the normal Mega Man series? Well, apparently, it's considered a quote unquote, second version of Mega Man VIII since it uses a lot of that game's assets, including three of the bosses, Astro Man, Tengu Man, and the Green Devil. The story takes place about a year after Mega Man 8, but before Mega Man 9, so it's kinda sorta like Mega Man 8.5. The thing is, though, while this game uses the same art style of Mega Man 8, it's got the same viewing perspective of Mega Man 7, so in other words, it's a bit more zoomed in with a little bit less screen real estate. Now, you might recognize base, he was introduced in Mega Man 7 along with his trusty wolf treble. He's Dr. Wily's version of Mega Man, so to speak, only he's uh, sometimes evil, and sometimes not. He's supposed to be Mega Man's ultimate rival, but occasionally they do team up to fight a common enemy, hence this game, where you have to take down a new robot villain named King. You even get a scene where Proto Man shows up to try and stop him, but he gets sliced in half for his trouble.  You get three lives with unlimited continues to get through a series of levels, but the typical Mega Man structure is mixed up a bit here. After completing the opening stage, you gain access to three of the eight total robot master levels, Cold Man, Astro Man, and Ground Man, and what becomes unlocked next depends on which of those three you defeat. Once you defeat one of the second tier robot masters, that opens up what's called a Crystal Gate, where you use robot master weapons to unlock the final part of the game. Mega Man and base are both playable characters with different skill sets. Mega Man has a charged shot and a slide, and he eventually gains access to some rush abilities that you buy in a shop, and that's about it. Base, meanwhile, can shoot in every direction except down, he can rapid fire if you hold down the Y button, he can dash, dash jump, and double jump, and he eventually gains access to some treble abilities. Gee, I wonder which character I should pick. Now here's the funny part about this game. According to Mega Man creator Keiji Inafune, he wanted to make a Mega Man game intended for younger players who didn't have access to 32-bit systems yet, hence why this game was created for Super Famicom of all things, all the way in 1998. Well if that's the case, then why the heck is this game so freaking brutally difficult?  Just to give you one example of how this game is set up, your boss weapon energy does not automatically refill when you use a continue. What is that? What makes it even harder is that if you make the mistake of playing as Mega Man, he can't double jump and he doesn't have access to a lot of rush's abilities until later, which you kind of need to make any sort of progress in this game, but ultimately let's face it.   You got enemies that just appear, I guess? I mean seriously, did they skip some animation frames here or something? Like I said, playing as base does definitely help since he can double jump, but the sheer amount of nonsense you gotta deal with, especially all the insta-death spikes. The boss fights aren't much fun either, Dynamo Man freaking heals himself during battle.  You shouldn't be able to do that, this is like if you're playing Griffey baseball and someone like Greg Gagney has a 10 for power.   I will say I did enjoy using the boss weapons, so at least this game has that going for it, I mean if nothing else, using playing cards as a weapon makes you feel like gambit, so that's pretty cool. Now I think what the developers were hoping would mitigate some of the difficulty here is through this store where you can buy upgrades, you collect bolts for currency so you can get yourself energy tanks, weapon energy tanks, a quick charge shot, a faster dash, even stuff like auto recover which slowly replenishes your health meter.  And hey, you can also pick up CDs on the ground that tell you stuff about Mega Man stuff, so yeah, that's, you know, kinda cool I guess. If you think you'll find any respite playing the localized version of this game, Mega Man and base for Game Boy Advance, you are sorely mistaken. Your character sprites are way way too huge for the screen, the camera is zoomed way too far inward, and you can't see a freaking thing. That's a recipe for disaster when you're dealing with nothing but insta-death traps. Here's the thing though, you can perceive this as a negative review and yeah it kinda is, but it's only negative when compared to other Mega Man games. Mega Man has practically become its own genre over the years to the point that it's a fool's errand to compare Mega Man to other action platformers. I mean, for example, Rockman and Forte looks amazing, the sound design is great, the music is, well it's not as fun as Mega Man 7, but it's still got some great tracks, and the controls and hit detection are all still great and spot on. It's all the stuff that people have come to take for granted when it comes to Mega Man, but the thing is, what separates a great Mega Man game from a blah Mega Man game is all the other stuff, like Mega Man 3 or 9 or X or X2, those games feature some awesome level design, some fun secrets to uncover, some really fun boss fights and boss weapons, and challenge that comes about organically through clever arrangements, enemies, and bosses. Unfortunately, Rockman and Forte just doesn't have that, does that make it a bad game? No, it just makes it a really disappointing one by Mega Man standards, but I don't think it's completely irredeemable. I mean, if you approach this one like you would a game like, say, Super Ghouls and Ghosts, where you just die a thousand times until you memorize all the traps and patterns, and if you're into that sort of thing, then yeah, this game would be worth checking out, but that's not what makes the Mega Man series fun, that's what's disappointing. So is Rockman and Forte better than the average action platformer? Yeah, definitely, I mean, I'm playing this over stuff like, you know, Robocop vs Terminator, Arrow the Acrobat, Spawn, hell, maybe even the Super Star Wars games, but am I playing it over Mega Man X or Mega Man 3? Nope, no chance. I guess I'd slot it alongside Mega Man X3. Yeah, they're disappointments, but they still have plenty of positives that will put them above many other games. Just make sure to adjust your expectations accordingly. Alright, I want to thank you for watching, and I hope you have a great rest of your day.


Hey there guys Matt here from Mantic. So today I am bringing you a quick tutorial on how to paint leather So today we got this Bacillian crossbowman We're gonna be painting the boots of his his uniform in a nice worn leather So to begin we're gonna put dark base down and I'm gonna start highlighting up through an orangey brown And then I'm finally up to a really light pale color just for the scratches So to begin with I'm gonna start with a mix of charred brown The Vallejo game color range and a little bit of matte black This will just give us a real nice dark Dark brown color to work off of you can use any sort of dark brown for this if you have a darker one in your range Or just take any nice Medium maybe slightly de-saturated brown just add a touch of black to it I'm gonna get a good solid base down on these boots Interested this miniature holder is a prototype from Redgrass Games As is this size 2 brush the size 2 brush is available on the website But this is still a prototype just finished on Kickstarter It's important to get a good solid base down first So now we've got a good solid base for them boots down. What I'm gonna do is we're gonna write a small about beastly brown From the Vallejo game color range What this will do this just adds a slight orange tinge I'm gonna start picking out The higher areas of the boots up to be it on the the brim at the top and then you're working on areas where the lights catch Also areas where the leather will wear So down the front of the boot across the top With the insta where the leather would crack. Okay, so that's the first highlight down So what I'm gonna do now is keep adding small amounts of the beastly brown To my base color The second highlight now It's like touch more orange to it now and I'll switch over to a side of one brush from Artisapus And you can see we started to get some nice color variation into that leather We're gonna go in with a straight beastly brown now I'm gonna be a little bit more sparing with this highlight You can also start to stipple this from this stage onwards stippling is just adding very small dots Just add a touch of texture rather than just straight highlights It's very gently with a tip of the brush Just add a little bit of texture want to add a bit of texture to leather as it's a Natural product. It's not gonna be smooth in all areas particularly under light areas because that's where the leather is Worn so now we're gonna start moving into the final highlights where we start putting some scratches in So now what I'm gonna do is to the beastly brown. I'm gonna add some pale sand Again, you can do this with any sort of ivory sort of color or It's best not to go with pure white as de-saturates the It would de-saturate the brown a bit too much My liking anyway I'm gonna do some very small Scratches and lines to the leather and all go the same way You can add some little dots Don't need to look too uniform. You can really start to see the war on effect when you start adding these little scratches and Little dots in so it's a great technique for leather bags coats And trousers I suppose anything that's made of leather quivers Good for this technique Yeah, if you don't fancy doing an orangey leather, you can do a red leather Differences is rather than using the beastly brown. I've had a reddish sort of brown in so maybe mahogany or Cavalry brown from the belay her range, but the process is the same now finally I'm going to take some pure pale sand very very small amount Just making some extra light scratches This is just a quick tabletop Sort of standard shows them wanting to go a bit higher with this what we'll do is I'd add a couple of glazes With a medium sort of browns just to pull these back slightly For a tabletop standard Good enough And if you're doing these tiny scratches, you wouldn't see them from two three foot away And a very very small increments in color There you go guys There's just a quick tutorial like I said, it's a very very quick technique Just adds a little bit of texture to the model This makes it look like a little bit like one level up a safe I was going to go a bit higher and that what I do is I start using some glazes now to bring them back in again Maybe again going some more small scratches just over the top I hope you got something from that guys I hope you like that just another quick tutorial there and we'll be doing some more of these soon See you soon guys


Pugsley come on now. We record to my channel. Thank you so much for tuning in and watching another one of my videos Merry Christmas. It is Christmas Day, and it's winding down. It's the nighttime. It's a little after 10 o'clock So I fell asleep. I was gonna shoot this video earlier, but I fell asleep. I'm so tired I hope all your wishes came true for Christmas. I hope you got what you wanted friends family good health food Even some gifts, but that's not the whole point of Christmas, of course I just hope that you had a blessed Christmas and it was safe and that you just got to spend that time with your loved ones Because a lot of us with our jobs that we have we're constantly working and we have little time to spend with our family So I hope you got that today. So I want to share with you guys what I got for Christmas for those that don't remember If you don't remember I did a video for Thanksgiving and in my Thanksgiving video Which I'll link somewhere up here in the little I we drew names as a family We did a secret Santa and so I drew my sister's name and my brother my oldest brother He drew my name. So I'm gonna show you what my brother got me before I show you this gift I just want to say my mom and my sister both say that this is something I used to play with a lot back in the day And I do not recollect. I do not recall Playing with this. I remember seeing it. I remember playing with it in the store But I don't remember owning one, but they said I used to play with this a lot So this is a old school like old school old school like hadn't seen this in years So I got the magic eight ball and of course the first thing I did was Think of something or ask myself a question in my head to see what the answer was gonna be So I think I said or asked Well, I have a great 2018 and It's it was something negative. I think it basically just said no So I'm gonna ask a question about my YouTube channel. Now, of course, I don't believe anything this thing says But it's just all in fun. Will my YouTube channel be successful and grow for 2018? Let's see what it says. I Guess I need to take it out this box It says without a doubt Okay, so we will see my brother who drew my name Not only got me the eight ball. He also got me Carol's daughter So I've got the this is the shampoo, but this is the almond milk shampoo This is the conditioner from Carol's daughter also almond milk I cannot wait to try this on my hair and I've got This is the Precaxi, I can't pronounce it Preca, Preca, Precaxi. I don't I can't say it nectar. This is a Twist a curl twisting custard the Precaxi. I cannot say that word nectar Whatever that word is and there's Puzzly again. Tell the people hi hit the phone So moving on to the next gift this gift was given to me by a friend and I Got I Got some perfume This is from Emporio Armani called because it's you this perfume smells really good. It's It's almost kind of a slight fruitiness a smell It's really a good smell it doesn't take a lot like a little of this goes a long Way, I mean a long way I've been smelling this for like I only put just a little on I've been smelling it since this morning, so Yeah, it smells really good. Thank you my friend The next gift I got this is the cutest bag ever. It says open me I had a co-worker to give me this she gave me a gift card to Sephora now Believe it or not. I have never gone into Sephora. I think I've been an altar like one time But it is kind of far away from me and I've just never had an interest of going in there I guess because I'm not I just assumed it was like a lot of makeup and stuff And I don't really get into makeup like that I'll wear some makeup, but I'm not like a big makeup person that I'll go into a makeup store But I went online and I ordered a few things from Sephora So I will be doing a separate video for that and I will be showing you guys what I got from Sephora So that will be coming probably in the next couple days I think let me see I ordered I Ordered three things I want to say or maybe two things and the rest of the stuff I got was free because the two things I ordered were enough In price where I could get choose for free items. I didn't know they had hair products I didn't know they had skin care products. I thought it was just strictly makeup So I was kind of surprised but they did have those items there So it was pretty cool to have a good selection and variety that I could choose from since I'm not a big makeup buff the next present I got was really really cool and I don't know if I had a known this I would have given others the same gift I don't know if y'all can see it good But it says free frosties for a year at Wendy's but you put it on your key chain And so whenever you go to Wendy's and you do have to purchase something and you get a free frosty for a whole year I love Wendy's frosties, especially a chocolate frosties So moving on to the next gift I have here The as I am this is the as I am co-wash And I also got some Hand sanitizer. I think this is right here sweet pea and I also got the lotion So this is the body cream from this is the signature collection sweet pea Get out of the cellophane puzzly. This is from bath and body works. Let's see what it smells like. It smells really good So this is the body cream Yeah, I love sweet pill. Gosh, that smells really good 24-hour moisture body cream bath and body works and this is the hand sanitizer and This is the as I am co-wash, which I have tried before and I absolutely Love love love love this stuff like it's I've never done a Review on this before but I'm gonna do a review on it and show you guys This product because it is a really really good product And it's also good for growing your hair because a lot of people are talking about how good this stuff makes It makes their hair grow so I wasn't Sally's and the lady was telling me that they can't even keep it in the stores Because people have learned that this stuff is making their hair grow But that's all I want to show you guys as far as this video goes just what I got for Christmas So I hope you enjoy seeing what I got for Christmas. I cannot wait to try these hair products out and To tell you guys about I'm gonna do a whole review on these also the my L Deep conditioner the mint deep conditioner that I had I'm gonna also be doing a review on that one So I got a lot to bring you guys so stay tuned I hope you liked this video. If you did, please don't forget to subscribe like comments and Also, don't forget to click that notification bell. It's just Janine I hope you guys continue to have a safe Merry Christmas for the remainder of the night I don't know what time it is where you are, but it's probably about 11 o'clock here central time So just have a safe and Merry Christmas for the rest of your night And I will see you guys Lord willing on the next video. Bye guys Tell them about Leslie


Hey everybody, welcome back to my Star Wars channel. My name is David and today we're going to look at the vintage 1978 Kenner X-Wing. We would be honored if you would join us. Alright, the X-Wing Starfighter, most famously Red Five, right from A New Hope, driven by Luke Skywalker, Mark Hamill. Mine is sitting right up there and I've actually had two. Now I never had one as a child. I never had one as a kid. It was like $15 when it came out, which back then was a ton of money. Back then gas was under a dollar a gallon. So there's no way my parents could have afforded that. I had a couple of figures and that was the extent of my Star Wars collection. I purchased all of my toys later in life as I sorted out my priorities. Let me just tell you about how I've purchased some of my vintage ships because I have a lot of vintage ships. Maybe there's a couple more I still want. I still really want the Shuttle Tidarium. I really want that one. We'll see. But when I look for a ship, I'm always looking out on eBay. There's two ways you can purchase your ships. One, you could buy it completely whole. The listing says it has all its parts and it has all its decals and lights and sound work. When it checks off all those boxes, it's going to be higher. It's going to be a lot more money. But if you don't want to do the work and you want it completely vintage and you want it just shipped to you as is and you don't want to have to do any of the work, that's a great way to do it. And certainly with ships whose parts cost a lot more money and are a lot harder to find, that's a good option. So that's what I did with the Millennium Falcon. The Millennium Falcon, I was thinking about putting it together, you know, finding parts here and there. But when I did the research, the little extra pieces that are sometimes missing, those can be very expensive just for the little pieces. So it didn't make sense economically to buy a cheap hull and then to go out and keep spending more money on all the pieces. For me, it made more sense just to save my money and buy a Falcon that was already put together. And the cloud car, pretty much the same way. The snow speeder was pretty much the same way because both of those ships, you know, they don't have a lot of pieces. The TIE fighter doesn't have a lot of pieces, okay? But if you wanted to piece out a TIE fighter, it wouldn't be hard, right? All those pieces are out there. And so I would say the X-Wing and the Y-Wing are pretty easy to build as well. The pieces for those ships, Y-Wing not as much, but the pieces are out there and they're not as expensive.  Now I've had two X-Wings. I've had one that was this one right here. It was a Beater. It had really junky stickers and I took it all apart and I cleaned all of the parts with cleaner and got everything back to white again. And then I ended up putting retro stickers on it and sold it. Sold it for money and you use that money to then buy a completely vintage X-Wing that had all of its original stickers. And I'm going to be showing you both in this. So this is my all vintage X-Wing and as you can see it doesn't have as much white on it, but I'm not going to take it apart to clean it because it has all vintage stickers. So we're talking about the removable parts that are sometimes lost or that you have to replace and so the vintage X-Wing has five loose parts. One of them is this. This is the transparent canopy and it's usually missing and you can find those on eBay. And then the other four are the KX9 laser cannons that are attached to the Wings. And of course decals. Decals are another thing that are sometimes missing but like I said there's a lot of great vintage repro's out there should you want to go that direction. So let's talk a little bit about the toy. This came out in 1978 and like I said it had a retail price of $14.99. I think most notably what everyone talks about is the X-Wing is not to scale. The ship is way too small compared to the figure size but you know if the X-Wing had been scale if it had been one-to-one the X-Wing pilot figure I mean as you know a reference the X-Wing would have been massive. It would have been a super massive toy. The cockpit here is a little tight and so it really only holds one figure right only holds one figure and it doesn't hold all of the Star Wars figures obviously it's only going to hold a figure that's a little on the smaller side. I put a vintage retro figure in all of my ships so if I have a ship that's on display I always make sure I get a like a little beater figure. I don't pay too much more for them. I don't care if they've got scratches or loose limbs I just make sure that I've always got a figure inside. This toy is made all from white plastic as you saw earlier and it has these red and yellow stickers throughout. The other thing you probably noticed in the back here is that there's an R2-D2 shell. This is not a figure. If you look at the Y-Wing here there is a figure right there's a figure here but that is a real figure that's a removable figure. This is not a figure it's not removable he's actually a button and if you press him he activates the wings. So for playability the X-Wing has three play features the first of which is it has retractable landing gear okay just there in the front the bottom two pieces there's some little struts that stick out they are permanent. The second feature is the laser light and I'm going to show you some footage here from my older ship this was the first one and you can hear that screen accurate laser sound that's what a lot of these vintage ships sound like that's the button and you know what they sound like and it makes that sound with two AA batteries and the last feature and this is probably the coolest and what every kid wanted right was the locking the S-Foils in the attack positions and so when you press down on R2's head like that the S-Foils lock like that and so then you have your action X-Wing and then to release them there's this little slide button here and that closes the wings. You know when we were talking about building a collection and looking for different ships to purchase I don't think there's even an argument that if you're gonna start right if you're gonna start you have no no ships at all the first two I would highly recommend are getting your vintage X-Wing and your TIE fighter I think those frame out a collection beautifully there's a lot of other great ships right you really love the slave one you really love the Falcon even this no speeder right I love all those ships too and I've collected them but I knew in my heart of hearts that I had to start with these two because growing up I'm a child of the the 70s I was there when Star Wars first came out so I'm a fan of everything Star Wars if you watch this channel subscribe to this channel I'm never gonna hate on or bag on on anything Star Wars any director I don't bag on Disney I don't bag on any of the actors or any of the films or the scripts if it says Star Wars it has Star Wars on it I love it because I am I am a true Star Wars fan I don't hate anything this is just what I wanted so much so growing up when I was a kid you know you knew some kids that were lucky enough to have an X-Wing or a TIE fighter and you were like so jealous of them so just to have a real vintage X-Wing now with all its decals I don't care it has a little bit of wear a little bit of weathering because to me that just says you know it was played with it was loved by you know some kid growing up and to that kid that's out there that little kid I have your X-Wing now but I'm taking really good care of it and I love it and thanks for allowing your story to cross the line thanks for watching guys I hope this helps you on your journey as you begin to purchase some vintage figures and ships as well feel free to always ask me questions down below in the comment section I will always answer hey thanks for watching may the force be with you I'll see you next time bye


Okay, so for this project, I am using Visual Studio Code as always and I've already created an index.html page that we will be using for this project. So let me close the File Explorer and just focus on the document itself. So let's create the HTML to start with and then I will title this Anyang. The first thing we need to do is to include the Anyang library. So let's go to teller.com slash Anyang and I will post this link in the description below as well. And they actually have a really cool demo in here which you can have a look at before you start coding if you like to. And then if you scroll down, this is the script that will get us started. So first of all, let's copy the Anyang minified.js file. So let's copy this and paste it just here at the bottom of our body. Save this and now we can start creating the Anyang elements. Now let's open a new script tag and this is where we will be writing the application. So first of all, we need to check whether Anyang exists and is working. And to do this, we can simply do if Anyang and then we can just console log something. Anyang works. Let's save this and hop back to the browser. Open our page, of course, refresh. And as you can see, nothing is displayed in here and this is because we actually console logged the message. So we have to right click on our page, inspect and then go to console. Let me hide some of those messages first of all. Let me refresh. So as you can see, this Anyang works, which is good. Now we can start writing the rest of the application. The first thing that we need to do is add some commands to the application. So let's start by writing by adding some commands. To do this, we can do our command. And this is where we'll be adding the voice commands. And this is where we'll be adding the function name that corresponds with the voice command. So let me give you an example. For example, let's say our first or first voice command will be hello. And let's correspond this voice command with a function called greetings. And let me give you another example here. So let's say we want another command and this command will be what is your name? So this will then link to a function called, for example, introduction. And of course you can name them whatever you like. Also, you can keep on adding other commands if you wish to. And also you can use different languages for this. Now that we've created two basic commands, let's add them to Anyang. And to do this, basically what we have to do is Anyang. Add commands and we need to pass the commands that we just created here. The next thing we have to do is make sure that Anyang is actually listening to us. And to do this, we just have to do Anyang start. As you can see, Anyang makes everything super easy to use and it's very easy to understand. So let me tidy up a few things. And as you probably guessed, we actually have to create those functions as well because they're not yet available. So let's create the greetings function first, country greetings. And this will basically display or you can do whatever you like. Basically, this will display a greetings message or you can make it do whatever you like. And then let's create the other one, display introduction message. Function, introduction, oh, it's more. And then this is where we'll be displaying some messages. For example, let's say console.loc and we can console.loc something like my name is Billy. For the greetings, instead of just doing a console.loc, let's make it a little bit more interesting. And let's give it and let's make a display random message. So for example, we can create a variable that holds a few messages. And let's say I want I want the first messages to be, hey, and let's add to make a little bit to make it better looking. Let's add some emojis as well. So let's add a speaker and let's say, hey, and then let's add another one. I'm going to copy the speaker in here as well. Let's add another one saying hi there. And let's add a few more just to make it more interesting. Hi. And then let's add a last one called hello. So what I want to do is display randomly one of those options and we can do this by getting the index of this messages variable. So to do this, it will be fairly simple and easy to do. We can do var and create a random index var. And the random index bar will be equals math dot round. And then we need to do math dot random and the random basically I want to make sure is between zero and the number of strings that we have in here. So to do this, we can do times messages and we can get the length of the messages of this works. And then let's console log the random message. And to do this, we can do console log. But let's make this a little more interesting as well and make it display in a different color than the introductions. And to do this, I can do I believe percentage and see. I don't know if this works in all browsers, but you can test it out. And then let's pass the variable messages, messages. And then we need to pass which and then we need to grab around the index. So around the message is displayed. I also need to close the curly brackets in here. And then to make the color actually work, what we have to do is the comma and inside here, we have to do color. Let's make it like this green and then we can do from weight both. Okay, and this looks good. Let's test whether everything is working. And just before we tested just to go back on this, we basically have only two commands that we've put in here. And the first one is hello. And the second one is what is your name. And basically we're just outputting the answers in the console. But of course you can do anything you like with this. So let's save this, go back to the browser and see what we get. Introductions is not defined. So let's have a look. Introduction. Introduction. Okay. Basically, I think the Visual Studio Code to pick this instead of the name from there is introduction. It's the one that we need. So let's save this, go back to Anyang and refresh. And as you can see, we don't have any errors now and the recording, the little red dot in here is blinking, which means that the browser is listening to us. And also if we navigate to here, you will see that the microphone is allowed on this page, which you might have to do. The browser will warn you, of course. And also you can select which microphone to use. So I've selected the microphone that I'm currently recording with. And let's refresh and test both of the phrases that we put in. So first of all, hello. We're getting a random message here. And now let's say, what is your name? What is your name? And as you can see, we're getting my name is Billy. And let's try another one. Hello. Hello. Hello. As you can see, the number is random. So it just picks up one of the ones that we preset.  And that's pretty much everything. And of course you can use this with different languages. And the way you do this, you have to go to the documentation of Anyang and find the GitHub page, which is at the bottom of there of here or API documentation and look for languages, languages. And then once you find languages, click on the link here. And this will give you a list of all the languages you can use in here. And basically what we have to do is pick up your language. For example, BG for Bulgaria. Let's copy this. And to enable the language, all you have to do is underneath here. When you check if Anyang is available, all you have to do is put Anyang dot set, set language. And then you can just put your language prefix. Now that you've done this, obviously you're going to have to change the command to your languages. So instead of writing in English here, you would write this in your language. And also you can obviously write the output in your own language and that should work as well. Well, I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. Please give it a like, subscribe, hit the notification bell if you'd like to stay tuned with everything that I'm posting. Don't forget to comment. And as always, my name is Roddy. Thank you for watching and I will see you in the next video soon.