This week on fanservice, we discussed... Oh. This week on fanservice, we discussed anime 180s. My first 3D experience? I'll explain a little about Future Diary. And process meets. Yeah, they did a Squidward spinoff. It's when he goes to Squidville. That's what I was gonna say. There we go. And I think that's all you need. We got it. We already got it. You got it. We got the spinoff. The only Spongebob, like, new spinoff I would accept... Anime Spongebob. We've already got the OPs for you. They're all over YouTube. And maybe that's our intro to the show. Anime Spongebob? Anime Spongebob. Yeah, let's go ahead and start it. Sure. Welcome to fanservice. Future Diaries official anime podcast. Yeah, that's it. Not anime Spongebob. But if only. If only. If only. I'd join. I'd be the president of the Spongebob. President Fiona. President Spongebob official podcast. We're the Secret Service. What would you call an Anime Spongebob podcast? Spongebob. But you have to say it that way. Spongebob. Spongebob. But I'd call myself Cole because I'm one of the hosts of the show. Hi Cole. I'm Miles. I'm also a host on the show. I am Issa. I'm here often. A very special guest with us. Very. Very special guest. Fiona the Spongebob. Fiona. How's it going? What's that? Fiona. Hi. Welcome. Hi. Fiona is like the biggest anime fan outside of the animation department. Yes. I am. Even bigger than most people in the animation department. So we knew we had to get her on. Actually, like somebody tweeted at us this week because we're going to talk about my hero. Thank God. But yeah, you tweeted about Kami Nari? No. Kirito. Kirito. Kirito. The recent episode came out. Yes. I knew Kirito was going to get his line, like his line. Yeah. Have you read the manga? I know bits and pieces of it. Okay. But like I don't want to read it because I kind of lose track sometimes. Yes. Like it's a lot and then I forget a week and then I'm, you know, I forget months. There you go. That just happened to me where I was like, oh, I didn't read the past weeks. I went back, I'm like 20 weeks behind. Yeah, yeah. It happened so fast. It happened so fast. And then now you have to catch up and you're like, what's going on? And then yeah. But no, I just follow the anime for my hero. Really like nice. Nice. Like that. Yeah. Every Saturday morning. Yeah. You tweeted about it this weekend and people are like, hey, you guys should get Fiona on fan service. I was like, well. Well, funny. Funny thing. Funny thing. Yeah. Nice. So yeah. Welcome to the show. Thanks. Thanks so much. Tell us about yourself, Fiona. What's you? What are you watching? What I'm watching. Finish Demon Slayer. Nice. Okay. Cool, cool, cool. ESPN with the guest appearance. ESPN. I love that. I'm on episode 10. I finished episode 10. I'm slowly getting there. Oh my god. Dude, I mean, it was each episode was just like a. Yeah. So good. It was so good. I was talking recent just to get on Demon Slayer, but I was talking cool about this yesterday. Yeah. I was like, I'm watching it today. Where I was kind of just like, you know, I'm watching it and I'm into it. Right.  Like that's the one show for some reason, all the episodes, you are, they go by so quickly. And that's like frightening how every episode goes by so quickly. And you're like, okay. Well, I want to watch the other one.  Not because of the pacing of the show. But then one of the conversations I was having with someone else, I was just like, well, we're into the show. We're at the same point. Why is it? Why was it that episode 19 changes everything? What happens there that makes, that turns the show because we're into it already? Yeah. Why is episode 19 special? I'm going to go, I'm going to go on and let me say like episode 19 was not a big deal to me as it was to everybody else. If it's episode that I think it is. Wait, what? Yeah, what? Yes. Earmuffs real quick. Earmuffs real quick. Oh, right. And this will be a spoiler, a quick spoiler. Is it when he does the flame dance? Yeah. Here's my thing. Okay, you can come back. You can come back. I thought it was very cool. It really changed to me.  You also knew about it going in. Did I? Yeah, because we had talked about it beforehand. That was like, that was the episode because I had kind of like taken a break. Like I was a few episodes behind and then the internet blew up. I mean, it also has like the best animation of the show. It absolutely does. I mean, it changed for me. I was, I watched. I was like, I had to rewatch it because I was just like that. I don't know what I couldn't process it. It got me back into watching it. And then I also read the manga and caught up after that. Because I remember when talking about episode 19, I think I was preparing for some sort of big sort of narrative thing or plot thing. And I get it is a little bit.  It also kind of plays not in the, not in the same feeling, but it's also, that's kind of where the show is kicking off. That's like the, the first big twist.  We'll see. We'll see. I don't, I don't, I realized like, I want to be very big. Yeah. Not spoiled. Yeah. It's good. So it's good. Demon Slayer. I had tweeted it. It's like, Demon Slayer is hype in all like caps.  I'm going to take a break. That's going to be careful. Demon Slayer is hyped.  No one has said anything. People are, people are kind. Well, be careful now. Now that you're. I know. Yeah. Watch your Twitter feed. I know. Demon Slayer. I tried. I started Dr. Stone. Oh, I had a hard time getting into it. I don't know why. How far in did you get? Two episodes. And I'll be like, if I'm not interested in it, I just, yeah, I just don't really watch it. There's something we'll have to talk about eventually. Like people often give like the three episode where it's like, oh, you watched two or three episodes. And if you don't like it by then that's completely fine. I say if you don't like it after one episode, you don't have to keep watching. Yeah. The same. Yeah. Because it's. It was crazy because when we've talked about a little bit on the show before, the manga switched main characters after the first like six chapters. Okay. Where you feel like it's the lovers. Yes. No, it's the celery head. Thank you. They realized that he was a bigger selling point for the manga. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. And they flipped it over. Once you get out of that first arc, that's people who like Dr. Stone like that one. They stopped watching the episode right before everything gets better. One of these days I'll go back and I'll try to get it. That's also, it should have been good from the beginning. Yeah. So you're going to lose people if you're not good from the beginning. Yeah. I mean like I'm also watching Fire Force and like that first episode got me medium. All right. I'm going to watch it. I didn't like Fire Force first. I like it now. You like it now. I like it now. So like from what episode was it that changed your opinion? Or like. So my problem was all the way through like episode five. Yeah. I'm like the, I'm not the biggest fan of like the, what's it? Lucky pervert. Yeah. Yeah. And there's a character who is that, like who is the definition, textbook definition of that. Yeah. And I, so, but I can also put that aside. I can also be like, okay, well that's. That's one thing. Comic relief. That's not the story that's. Right. It does invade the story sometimes. Yes. But I can put it aside. What I had trouble with was when newbie characters were on par with seasoned professionals and there was no like reason. It's like, oh, you are just new to this Fire Force. Like you're just new to this team. Why are you able to take on this other division who seems like they've been together for years and all of a sudden a full on squad on squad battle where they have more people who are seasoned veterans, you newbies are able to come in and take it. Yeah. Yeah. As someone that hasn't watched Fire Force, are you telling me that there's competitive firefighting in this? Is that what's happening? Not too far off. They're like, this is a training because essentially Fire Force is very, did you ever watch Premier? No, I haven't watched Premier. So it's kind of, well, not really. People are spontaneously combusting and that's like a thing that happens on Earth now. To be fair to the point that you just made, that is like, that's a similarity that is not common. Two stories about people exploding. I think it's fair to say that they're similar. And so the Fire Department, the Fire Forces are groups of people who use fire magic? Of course. Of course. Of course. To fight against, are you, wait, the people who are spontaneously combusting because they turn into like demons. Cole. Yeah. The fuckers are fighting fire with fire? Yeah. 100%. Sometimes. Sometimes ice. Sometimes. A big shield. He just wants to know about the fire. I just wanted that one. I just need that one. It was essentially, because I really wanted to like Sakura Hibana. I was like, she's very good. But that was like, they like, this is easy.  There's also a character who I didn't understand at first. One of my roommates put it as, he's a character who took all of, when leveling up, took all of his points out of intellect and put it in strength. And so the first fight you, like one of the first fights you see, he's losing very badly. And then he realizes that he is right-handed. And then he wins the fight. That's like, that's like Deku forgot he had legs times 10. Yeah. I was actually going to compare. I was like, if you don't like the fact that the main, the protag's so like OP compared to like season professionals, do you care about that when it comes to Deku? Because I feel like Deku does have that advantage. Deku, Deku, see I trusted with Deku because he learned, like Deku's like strength always was his knowledge and that he researched how to like, so like Deku still also kind of, loses. He does, yeah. He loses all the time in the first season. And even the second season, actually he loses pretty much like the first two seasons. The first two seasons he loses every time other people come and save him. The fact when he actually starts winning is a major plot point.  Like they make a point to like comment on that through other characters. But even then like the school tournament arc he loses against Stain, he technically loses. Like it's all the way, he keeps losing, losing, losing. He does keep on losing.  What is a show that you have done, a show or a character that you've made the biggest 180 on? As a put, like maybe you start off absolutely hating the show and then it gets to a certain moment. Baka Monogatari. Baka Monogatari. Yes. That's the vampire one that you showed me, right? Yes. Is that the movies or is that the series? I showed you the movies. The series, it was at a point in time where I wasn't ready for that directing style. What is Baka Monogatari for those that don't know? One sentence. I don't want to trigger a cold experience here, but the best way I can put it is it is a supernatural drama where a guy is helping people he interacts with, with supernatural phenomena that are affecting them. Okay. Okay. So like the first character, like first two episodes is he's dealing with a girl who is weightless. Like she has to stick school supplies in her skirt to keep herself weighed down on the ground. Otherwise she'll fly away. That's great. Okay. So you just weren't a fan of it at first. And I remember you showed me the films and they do have a very unique directing style. Yes. He does a lot of interesting things. It's just a really unique form of directing. Yeah. And so like the first time I watched it I was like, I can't really process this. Do I need to pause every time, because they do a lot of things where like when scene changes they'll flip to a black panel and it'll say like black and then it'll flip to something else and it'll be like almost like subconscious messaging where just flashes a bunch of words that you super quickly and if you can read Japanese you're supposed to be able to understand. So like do I need to pause and read but that's also defeating the purpose of it being subconscious. Yeah. I would almost liken it to, and this is not a great one for one comparison, but kind of the later episodes of Evangelion in the way that they're just kind of throwing some imagery at you in really quick succession, except rather than imagery it's kanji. It's yeah. Yeah. And yeah, it's like it can be as well as like different colors like the different colors mean different things. Like every time there's red they're supposed to be like blood somewhere. Every time it's black it's when somebody closes their eyes and like, but it's all significant. It's really weird. Yeah. I dug it, but I also watched it later into my anime life. Okay.  So it took a while for me to come back around on to it. Another one was Attack on Titan. I hated Attack on Titan the first episode. Yeah.  I don't want that. Yeah. I mean, well yeah, Attack on Titan I loved it like from the first episode so that's a bad example. But I think I had a hard time full metal alchemist just weird. But like the first couple episodes or like maybe just the story like if someone were to explain it to me I was just not like, I don't really care to watch it like it's whatever.  I was like, it was super good. I think it was kind of in the same boat because not too long ago I wanted to re-watch Brotherhood. Yeah. And like, I think there's always like which one's better? The OG, I think they're different. I don't know if one is I think probably I'd say like technically speaking I think Brotherhood's better. I would wager to say you should actually watch both. I think you should. I definitely think you should watch the original before you watch Brotherhood because I think Brotherhood respects your time more. But either way, I started re-watching Brotherhood and I also tried kind of re-watching the first one and both the first few episodes I was like, I don't want to be here. I want to be where I know this is going. It's hard for me to re-watch that series. I knew at a point it was going to get really good. There's just like that time to get there. I don't know. It was hard for me to get into it at first but then when I was in it I was like, oh man. It's kind of like when they're all like, hey Death Stranding gets great after 10 hours. Yeah. It's like, do I really want to do all that? It's not. Full Metal Alchemist is not about Full Metal Alchemist is great. Actually with Full Metal Alchemist I would actually say there's like a true watch watching way where it's you watch, I don't know, you watch up until the phone booth of the original series. Then at that point you switch over to Brotherhood. Whoa! Interesting. Brotherhood Episode 1 or Brotherhood from the phone booth? From the phone booth. Interesting. Because I think it does a better job with Shell Tucker. Have you done that? Have you watched it like that? It totally works? No, but I should. I should. Dude, leave the comments. If that works, if you've watched it because I think that's super interesting. It does a better job of building up May Hughes. It does a better job of building up Shell Tucker because like, I mean when you see Brotherhood you know Shell Tucker's bad from the beginning. When you watch the original series. Yeah, there is like a difference in time too because what is it? It's definitely clear Brotherhood, they only spend a certain amount of time repeating what happens. Right, they were like we've just done this before.  Which I think was really smart of them to do. But I think Cole is correct in that the way that the first one did it, pretty good. Because that was when they still had a longer reference. Right. So they did take their time with the original. Around after that is where they lost the longer reference and they were like well let's and they had a great story on their own. I will still say I think though I think I probably prefer Brotherhood I find the explanation for Alchemy in the original series infinitely more interesting. I think that is such a cool concept as to like how Alchemy works in a multi-dimensional universe scope.  Love that. Show or character. Evangelion. Evangelion. 100. Oh. You went from hating it to liking it or like mutating it? Hating to love.  What is the only good person in this entire group? Like why are people so shitty in this entire show? And then 16 happens and that is like look that is the term they actually use is like the mind rape episode and oh my fucking god I was silent for the rest of these other than me crying like yeah other than that silent crying silent crying and then like when the show would stop but yeah that was the most interesting time with the one I remember the most where I remember just shutting up just being like oh I was wrong yeah I really because I watched Ava much later like I watched it when it came on Netflix that was the first time I saw it I didn't want to like it I was like okay this has been like a gatekeeper show for so long people been like you're not a real anime fan unless you watched Ava I was like I like the anime I've never watched it either and I was like I was like so I don't like I don't know it seems old I've watched other old stuff that's like okay it's good and it was good for the time Ava was like good for now if they like they made this like now like this today and at least that now it would still be amazing well that exact thing like that exact I'm still going to watch all the rebuilds I think it's been long enough yeah I think there's something to be said about like why Ava is such a classic because I think there's so many base ideas in Ava that's just like it still works I just it's hard to like perfect execution yeah with all of their like allegories and metaphors yeah visually and just how they built it ugh there's just there's just so much though like I get overwhelmed when anyone says like oh even Galleon watch this then watch this oh yeah so like is it just there's like three series already on Netflix and it's all like different names it's like where do you start it's like the Evangelius series yes and then end of Evangelion I would put some time between those experiences I really really would yeah cause Death and Rebirth are just recaps of the series yeah it's a clip show yeah where's coming up I very much enjoyed the series and I thought the film was interesting it's kind of where it came from me but yeah okay I also have my onions with me with your onions oh we may have talked about this I prefer the series I'm one of the people who like prefer the series and Carrie and I will argue about this I prefer the series over the rebuild okay and I prefer the series over the movies and the rebuild is just the clip show right well no the rebuild is also slightly different it's different like structurally yeah so those are the ones that are on Netflix original series original series and then a different studio the spiritual successor studio the rebuild and the first one is pretty much just a retelling the first one's practically a retelling it's a remake the second one is where it differentiates it starts to split off and the third one is completely different story than what happened it feels almost like a more of like a fun what if like what if things were slightly different we all know the story let's see if we attacked it from a different way and there was some different I was always confused about it because it's just like there's so much happening with it so it's like I don't even know where to start so why should I but yeah exactly I understand what you mean yeah if you ever get the chance to watch the series definitely yeah if the series that I have to start with yeah yeah but it is I think it is as cool it's like well it's still very still very much of a thing but I do prefer the series over any of the other movies that they have made okay yeah if only because I like the message at the end yeah yeah it ends a bit more hopeful for me as opposed to as opposed to some of the other shit some of the other content out there Tokyo Ghoul first season of Tokyo Ghoul like I've never seen Tokyo Ghoul I hate things when they're so depressing there's like no light of hope there's absolutely easier and it's like that's not how life works like obviously bad shit happens something good eventually haplike something balances and I'm like it doesn't just like it's just a slap on his face constantly also your fiction you get to make it happy you get to write it happy I can't I don't want to watch some kid be depressed depressed and tortured and like I don't want to for no reason yeah are we talking about Evangelion or Tokyo Ghoul Tokyo Ghoul that's it that's it points and laughs I don't see the difference yeah that's why I can't watch Black Mirror oh yeah I can't watch Black Mirror I get that have you watched Darker Than Black oh yeah you guys have watched it yeah I haven't watched that since college I barely remember that I just remember being like lightning badman I kind of I don't like strings right and he was like like he was he was kudo or black and then there was the other members of his team right it was like silver, yeah like in or something oh man this is a throwback yeah cause I also watch it in college and for some reason in my brain I cannot I always mix up Tokyo Ghoul and Darker Than Black huh they're same like color palettes I think so I think same field dreary raining all the time sadness crying I think with Tokyo Ghoul there's also a scene where they're on a rooftop and the one thing I remember from Darker Than Black is always rooftop it's always the rooftop that's where you're gonna use your dagger knife now I'm like what a fucking anime ass title we must go Darker Than Black and then I met Cole and was like oh there's shows called like my sister is a teenage dungeon and I think I like her but she's also a demon seven question marks and I was like oh no that's an anime title oh man yeah anyway that's a throwback that's a throwback I'm seeing that's the actual title that was a really fun thing the first time I got to go to Japan for Ruby Volume 3 stuff we had dinner with a lot of the folks there from WBJ and a few I don't think this was there but there were a few other folks from a few different studios and we had we had dinner that night and because we were like the foreign guests like I remember our Takaya-san was like hey it would be really cool I know you guys probably feel more comfortable together but like if y'all actually sat at different tables because everybody here wants to talk to you guys cause y'all are the fucking white boys and I was like are you sure yeah and what my table turned into like you know Gray's probably like he's talking like business stuff and like Carey's talking like animation stuff my table was like what's your favorite show and we discovered this really fun thing where I was like I can't remember what I was watching at the time for oh I was talking about Devil Is A Part Timer is my favorite it's like my new favorite comedy anime and they're like devil what is that and I was like and then I pulled up a picture of it and they're like St. Satan is the Lord of McDonald's oh that movie and then we played this game where we started trying to be like okay what's your favorite show and that would be like this and then you go okay what could that possibly be and then we would try like it was so much fun it was so much fun yeah like the American titles are just different versions of the gap yeah I think a fun drinking game like whoever it's like yeah I guess Boruto's dad oh my god I want to play that so wait hold on actually what is what is the actual translation of Kimetsu no Yaiba then what's that Demon Slayer that's the actual Japanese title Kimetsu no Yaiba oh that's right like when people like Bokunohiro and I'm like I just call it my hero I fucking own it yeah I'm not that level I'll get up Kohli I'm not gonna be like oh you mean Bokunoh I'm just gonna shut the fuck up do you mean Bokunoh I'm like be chaotic be like you mean my Bokunoh macademia I would hate that so Kimetsu so at a cursory google search it was annihilation blade blade of annihilation okay cool well isn't that also like attack on Titan the shingeki no kyogen yeah that's right does that mean something else as well or maybe I'm it's like advance on Titan something yeah it might yeah I think the no is usually possessive or of yeah they say Yaiba a lot in the show and I'm like oh blade blade of sword in the show so I'm like oh but it's not demon's line it's not no no they had to switch it up have you watched all like almost all the anime on Netflix or are you just no no there's a lot there's a lot there's so many but it's like some of it is just like yeah yeah well Netflix I like it but it's also like not what I'm gonna watch they have a lot of like kiddie stuff like they have like pretty cure and stuff like that well I mean I know pretty cure is a huge male fan base that's basically like the bronies yeah interesting so pretty cure is a magical girl show okay it has blah mass animation it's like Sailor Moon okay it's like Sailor Moon but it has blah mass animation it's okay looks really good like that term sakuga I guess of like really really cool animation high budget whatever the term has become but it's basically very good animation a lot of it actually comes from the pretty cure series wow yeah it's wow I feel like the only anime I watched on Netflix was Adjin which was on Netflix like two years ago or something. I think, and I don't care for like, it's like, it's like hard cause like an anime you see, you always see 2D, and then all of a sudden it's 3D. It's like, oh, that's a change. Okay, yeah, but yeah. Oh, sorry, go ahead. No, no, no, but it was just like, I would see it and I'm like, okay, this is, all right, yeah, yeah. I'm into it. Did you check out Land of the Lustrous? Yes. That is one that I think takes great advantage of the fact that it is a 3D medium. And I love that now. Like it's like 3D is like now, I think maybe one of my favorites at any time. Yeah. Just like. They utilize it super well in Demon Slayer too. And I'm seeing more and more and more shows. They use it so intelligently. There's so many, every time we, when I'm watching Demon Slayer, whenever there's a 3D shot, we always go 3D. Yeah, me too. And it's like, and we're always like, oh, hey, good 3D. Like every time we don't ever stop. But it's like you said, it's very smart the way they use it. Because it's always just for walking shots or like wide shots. And it's like.   Yeah, I saw the worst 3D. I was at a point. Was it Berserk? Yes, that's bad too. That's really bad. But it was Zombieland Saga. Oh, I love it so much. But the 3D is so bad. The 3D is so bad. But like why? Just animate it. That's the idle one, right? Yes, it's so good. It's so bad. It happens at parts. And I'm like, I literally have to turn this off. I cannot watch it. While we're on the topic, too, did you guys see that Zombieland 2 is doing a crossover with Zombieland Saga? What does that mean?  It's like when Splatoon did the Squid Girl crossover, I was like, yes!  Yeah, that was like. How does that work? It made me care about Zombieland 2. Nice, good one. That's what made you the Zombieland Saga. Yeah, I was like, I love that. All these girls and this very good boy. That manager is the funniest. Oh, yeah, that's right.  Yeah, that's right, I remember. That's when he's bad, though. Yeah, I'm just letting you know. So funny, fun fact, I was one of the times I was in LA and Reyna Scully was still in LA. I spent a whole day with her. And we actually talked about that. I was just like, oh, yeah, the 3D versus 2D. We were talking about some misconceptions that we were really frustrated about when it came to what people had said before. And one of the things she mentioned was like, once again, this term barrier of entry, she's like, but 2D is actually so much more accessible globally. Because when it's 3D, it's that barrier of entry where people automatically look for that weird uncanny valley. Right. You're just looking for all the, you automatically see all the bad stuff instead of what works. Yeah, and I feel like it's because in Demislayer, they do it so well because they transition perfectly into it. Whereas, and Ajin did it because it's the entire thing 3D. Yeah. There's no like, swishing, just that's all 3D. So your eyes just get used to it at a point. But when it's like, Zombieland, Saga, for example, just, OK, cut, literally the frame after it's all 3D for another three minutes. 2D, you're getting less visual information than you are from 3D.  It's too much. It stands out. Yeah, it makes it bad. Yeah, that's interesting. Yeah, because Zombieland, Saga, they'll cut in. They'll cut literally the next frame. And it'll be for a couple minutes, too. It won't just be like a second or like five seconds. It's just literally. I think that's all budget based. What kind of shots are they using 3D? It's them dancing, running around, dancing on stage. And then it'll cut into them doing the exact move. Then it'll pop back out to the wide shot of them all moving around. Wide 2D inserts 3D. Wide 3D inserts 2D. 2D, yeah. Oh, OK. Yeah, Love Life does that a lot, too. Yeah, Love Life. Only their models in 3D is probably bad. Idol Master does all 2D. Yeah, it's like watching it on a mobile game or like if you're watching a game, it's like these 3D models, like dancing and stuff. And then all of a sudden, it's anime. Because they want to get the close-ups. They want to get the facial detail and stuff. And when it's like, oh, when it's all wide, we can almost do mocap. Like, I remember the first anime with 3D that popped out to me was Beck Mongolian Chop Squad. They'll do the guitar shots really close-up. Like, it's like, bam, we're in 3D land. Check out this sick riff. I'm like, I don't need to. I don't want to put it back, please. The first 3D I saw was in the Inuyasha ending. Where it's just a 3D mountain that it spins around. And it's the same every time we get there, we go 3D! Oh my god, that's the funniest answer to it. Your first 3D is there. Inuyasha? Wow, that's hilarious. Kagome! Kagome! I need to watch that again. People shouting Inuyasha and Kagome will forever be more, like, closer to my heart than people shouting Kanada and Tetsuya. Tetsuya. I'm like, no, it's all about Inuyasha and Kagome. Oh my god. No one gets squished. Oh man, I feel like that could be, like, OK, Boomer, kind of. Stop. Is it Boomer or Inuyasha?  No, any Boomers are there for Akira. Millennials are there for Inuyasha. Yeah, exactly.  No respect. No respect. Avocado.  Is millennial good or bad now?  We've come full circle. We all know that. We all just ate each other, that's all we've established. Yeah, we're all shitty people. Let's see, what else have you been watching? Let's see, so my hero, I watched, and really, I really like The Promised Land. Oh, hey.   Yeah, yeah. And, uh, uh. Have you heard of Recreators? No. So it is a show about, like, about characters from video games, manga, music videos, stuff, anime, coming to the real world. And they're all, what's it called, Recreators? Recreators, it's an Amazon Prime video, which is why I feel like it hasn't gotten a ton of traction. It was part of their anime strike. It is. It is. It's very good. It is very quickly becoming one of my favorite anime I've ever seen. It is ultimately about the relationship of each side being equal, a creator, their creation, and their audience, and how each of them belong to themselves and each other. Yes. Wow. It was awful. Yeah, it cried twice so far. Oh yeah, the crying will continue. I think it's really like a person who makes stuff. Yeah. It's a very much, it's a very poignant anime. Have you gotten to that, uh, recap? Yes, the recap was very cool. Yeah, I enjoyed the recap. It's the best. There's a moment, there was a moment in one episode that just made me laugh where they're trying, they are searching for something, and they are searching for that thing through the means that they have to themselves as like creators of content. And at some point someone's like, we need to stop thinking like creators and need to start thinking like the audience and fans because there's fansites and OCs and things like that. And there's a line in there where it's like, yeah, it's hard to forget that fans and creators think very differently from time to time. And I'm sitting here like, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We're currently, we're currently watching a Ruby fandom that is dead set on something happening in this volume that definitely isn't happening in this volume. And we're going, why do they think this is going to happen? This voice coming back? No, it's like, I can't wait for the shopping montage. And I'm like, why are people waiting for a shopping montage? We had the episode because, you know, all the Ruby characters have new outfits and stuff. We had the episode where they got new outfits and stuff. And it's like, well, I still think we're going to get a shopping montage. And I'm like, wait for what? Wait, this is breaking for stand. I don't understand the fact that I'm ever fan service breaking news. No, there's no shopping montage in Ruby. I literally had to talk with Eddie and Kay about how I shouldn't bring this up on Twitter.  Which is probably worse. But it's interesting though, because like, you know, you'll get, I don't know if it's, there's no way it's just Ruby. But like, there's a dangerous thing that happens when people have enough time to speculate and form their own opinions. And then they get locked on to the idea that the community has had and they really like that. And then when the show doesn't do that, people get really upset.  I'm sorry, it's not a thing.  I'm sorry. Anyways. And I can't even imagine like how that happens with y'all where it's all improv. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. And people are like, well I expected this to happen.  Which is like, if it happens, it happens. There is no script. That's the thing, like people want like that Uno the movie too. When that first movie was like super improved and super like random. It was a mistake basically. Most people, by the way, real quick audience, Fiona does Let's Play stuff with Achievement Hunter. And if you're not familiar with her content. Achievement Hunter, yeah.  Yeah, no one knows in there. I'm sure our audience definitely hasn't heard of Achievement Hunter. Anime Achievement Hunter. I don't know if Anime Achievement Hunter fans are allowed. I don't know. Oh no. But yeah, no, so like things like happen and it just happens and you can't really do it. Yeah. It's just, if it happens, it happens, you know. And it's like, well I would have done this. It's like, okay, cool. Okay, cool, yeah, well. Come in. Why are you coming in? And you do it. No, but I feel like I've seen that a lot in like fandoms where it's just like people want this specific thing. And it's like the creators are looking at a bigger picture thing.  But that's also the thing, if they never kiss, then the audience is like, okay, well. Yeah. Why will I trust you? Yeah, I can't trust you. There should be one kiss a season. I want them to kiss. Looks like him. But anyways, promise never land. Yes. And on a show I desperately need to watch. Did you? Is it done? Or the season? No, the season's done, but I did, I started reading the manga. They just announced the second season. Yeah, they did, yeah. How many episodes per season? 12. 12. Where do you find it? Fondue. Fondue. I watch it on Crunchyroll. Oh yes, Crunchyroll. I think Funimation has a dub, probably. But that's an easy like binge. Yeah. Yeah, like quick binge. That's one that will go by too quick. That's one that you will like. Okay. You'll watch it and be like, oh. Yeah, yeah. I think I'll hit that next. I'll hit that after re-creators. You will like it. I watched the first episode because Aaron suggested it to me and I was like, okay, that's cool. But then as I was watching the first episode, I thought to myself, oh, this is pretty interesting. I like it. And then the more I sat with myself, I went, this gives me anxiety. Yeah. I'm not, I'm just gonna look it up. You don't like, you had problems with Demon Slayer with how you felt after each episode. I don't imagine that you felt like this. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because that one's tough. That's a toughie. Because it's like the situation's not great. Yeah. It is, to me, basically, anxiety in the show. So I'm kind of just like. And the first episode is definitely like, because at the end it's like, oh, this is not the way it's gonna go.  Plot twist. Yeah. It's a lot, but then what else? Like, I really, I think one of my favorite animas is Mirai Nikki. Oh, interesting. I love Future Diary. Like, I was thinking, oh, I don't think Miles watched this one. I'm gonna say it. Say it. Please watch Future Diary. Yes, Future Diary. Is that the one with the yandere? Yes. The titular, the poster child. Pinker girl, she like has a knife?  I mean, you've definitely seen it. Pink hair with her. Ponytails. You've definitely seen it. There's stuff about the show that you're gonna love. OK. Like, yeah. It's, oh. Can you summarize it? It's been a minute, but it's just like, guy, phone, God. Nice. I'm just gonna be one of those things. Tight, tight, tight, tight. Phone, God, 12 phones. What is it, 12 or nine? Well, it's, yeah, 12 diaries. 12, yeah, diaries. Yeah, those are the diaries. OK. That's what I'm trying to, like, remember. It's like, I think that was very coherent. Yeah, definitely the same as the show's about. Isn't that, don't you want to watch it? So if you've heard the show, if you've seen it, you know exactly what's going on. Exactly, you know exactly what's going on. If you haven't, then you're like. I like this. I like Fiona explains. She just gives some key words. Key words. You put it together. Yeah, you put it together. I'm gonna tell you all about Konosuba through Rorschach inkblots. Yes. Oh, did you see? See what? The screenwriter for Pulp Fiction. Oh, my God. So you got the Konosuba movie. He would dare to say this is the reason that cinema was invented.  What? I love that. Oh, it's a parody.     Yes, let me Google it right now. It is the guy who wrote Pulp Fiction, I believe. This is so good. Quentin Tarantino. No, no, someone else. Avery, something Avery. Yeah, it's real. Is this real life? He gave it a five star. And then when somebody goes, oh, my God, the guy who the screenwriter for Pulp Fiction gave the Konosuba movie five stars. And he responded to that fan. Like he retweeted it was like he was like it was one of the most enjoyable cinema experiences I've ever had. Dare I Say, the reason film was invented. Dare I Say, that's crazy. Yep, it's super legit. And it's no longer in theaters. Fuck. You'd have to watch all of Konosuba, though. So he's watched all of Konosuba.  He's a bro. Damn, get it, Roger Avery. He's a weebie. Roger Avery, yeah. Yeah, he knows where the honey's at. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Yeah, that's fair. Cool. That was vindicating. Shit, that was. I was so excited. Cole has a lot of onions, too. I love Konosuba. I know you do. It's very good. I need to finish it.  Yes, watch. Yes, don't sleep. Yeah, don't sleep. Don't watch anything else. Oh, no. I just watch anime.  You're not wrong. I get it. I just become so not fun to be around.  What I would give for your metabolism is going to slow down and then I'm fucked. One day it's just going to be like, oh. You say that. I had a friend in college who, like, he was like, if he was a meat, he'd be beef jerky. He was very lean and defined. And like, he would come home and eat sleeves of double stuffed Oreos, drink Mountain Dew. That's like, he was a monster.  Yeah, yeah, one day. He's just going to explode.  Meanwhile, I'm just like, oh, why? Bless me from the gods. He's like, me, he's not going to get any muscle, though. What kind of meat are you, Fiona? That is the most interesting question. But that's a good question. I was wondering how he gets to do this. I was like, I don't think we should have miles tell us what it means to eat, because that seems a little weird.  I'm a little griffle. I'm a little, I'm a little emerald. We'll think on this. Yeah. In the comments below, what kind of meat do you think we are? And I am a lamb chop, who knows? Smash that like button if you like these meat-related conversations. I think I'm spam. Oh, I'd be spamming a heartbeat.  Spam's dope. I love it.  Is this a pro spam table? Yeah. Are we all pro spam? Pro spam. Yeah! Ta-da-da! Woo! That was the worst thing that happened. I fear the synergy at this table and what we're capable of. We're just too spam-me. Pro spam team is there. Attack, pro spam. Oh my god. Ooh. So spam and some anime? Mmm. Spam-ame. Spam-ame. Spam-ame. Thanks for coming. Thanks for having me. Yeah, we'll definitely have to get you on again soon. Yeah, please, bring me on. I don't speak, I can't talk about anime anywhere else, other than here. Really? Because you're legally blinded. Really? I can't, like, I go to a treatment hunter and I'm like, yo, this thing. And they're like...  You fucking...    I don't care what Obama said. You take your manga and your anime and you can't go full gear out. Get your animus out of here. For the next time we have you on, is there a show you want that we have homework for? Mirai? You need to watch Future Diary. Like, I think that's the one thing. Out of all the ones I said that you haven't watched, that's the one. For my Spam-sister, I will watch that. Thank you. That could be our first... Spam-sisters! That could be our first, like, book club slash thing we do eventually. Like, we'll give it some time and we'll let the audience know. Oh yeah. To watch Future Diary. Do it. Do it. Do it. So, that's it. That's it. Okay guys, show over. Show over. Bye. Bye. I feel like the first week we did this show, we kind of had a side-off line and then we abandoned it. I don't remember what it was. It was whatever it was. And that's the new. No.


Replacement females and development, we really wanted to take a chance to talk about nutrition. Nutrition and first calf peppers is really important. They do require a higher plane of nutrition than the rest of your herd, typically, to get them fully developed and ready for breeding in a timely manner. The best way to do this is to kind of separate them from the rest of the herd. A natural time to do that is around weaning.  Those heifers over from the time that they're weaned until the time that you're trying to get them bred for the first time and have that calf, they have a lot to go through. So you want to make sure that those heifers have what they need out there even if you're having to supplement some to get them to that right plane of nutrition. So your general rule is trying to get them to about 65% of their mature weight at breeding time. And that sounds like just a funny number to throw out at you. But Dr. Kim Mullenex put together a really good basis publication on nutritional management for beef replacement heifers. This will give you an idea of how to estimate that 65% of mature weight. So as that what this uses is like a months your weight at that at that age and then your hip height at that time and it allows you to estimate what that mature weight of that animal is going to be that allow you to get to kind of that 65% number at breeding time. Your ultimate goal is to breed at 12 to 14 months of age and for that heifer to have her first calf around the age of two. In order to try and get to that 65% mature weight between weaning and breeding you're gonna try and aim for a pound to a pound and a half a gain per day over that time. This is usually pretty easily accomplished out on regular perennial grasses that we have in Alabama. There will be times that you have natural gaps in forages based on seasons. You could run into some drought and things like that that will require you to supplement. But also even if they don't really require a supplement they're still gaining that pound to pound and a half a day. It will really help you on the marketing side to kind of hand feed them. I mean a couple of five gallon buckets will really help you out in the long run as far as marketing those heifers. You saw in some of the videos earlier walking through those heifers. Those heifers are really calm and docile. Those heifers are really what people are looking for.  So a couple of five gallon buckets and getting those heifers up even when they don't really maybe need a supplement. Just to kind of get them used to people having people out in the pasture even having different people that don't feed them every day coming out there and just walking around those heifers really gets them comfortable with having folks out in the field with them. You also want to make sure that those heifers are on a quality mineral program.  A quality mineral will save you in the long run and get those heifers where you need them to be. By the time you're ready for calving you're really trying to aim for a body condition score of about a six. This will also help you in marketing because you want those heifers to look nice and full and you can fully expect them to lose a full body condition after they have that calf and they're trying to they have the calf for the first time they've never gone through that before. They're suddenly milking and having a calf at their side and then you're asking them to get rebread. So if you have them at a BCS of six about that time of calving then they'll be ready to do all that for you and get rebread and get ready for that next calf. On the marketing side of that if you're going to some of these heifer sales and you're trying to market those heifers in those sales you will notice that those heifers are a little bit heavier than a body condition score of six and those that are a little bit heavier typically sell a little better. Now you don't want to over condition those calves where they can't lose that weight before calving because you can have issues with calving.  So making sure that you may have these heifers at the right plane of nutrition will really set you up for long-term reproductive success and get you on the right track to keep in those heifers in your heart for a long time.


Did Asian viral sensation Lil Tay just fake her own death or does she just have the worst parents in the world? Yo, we got to talk about this because this went Super viral both the news of her death and then the news of the hoax and now people are debating about who to blame Let's just say this Andrew Lil Tay. She definitely had her little day in the sun Because even legitimate news sources were tricked by this despite no governmental agencies No police departments. No coroner departments ever verifying this. So a lot of people are basically signaling this Andrew This is it for social media. It's peaked. It's only downside from here. Get off social media All right, everybody Please hit that like button check out other episodes of the hot-pot boys But don't get off YouTube because you need to watch more hot-pot boys because we actually deal with facts and we pop up Little screenshots of our receipts of the searches, you know, so you know what we're referencing But anyways guys, I do want to talk about Lil Tay. Okay, she is half Chinese mostly grew up in Vancouver Her mother is Chinese and I guess like I guess the weird thing is is like she's one of the few Asian people that Everybody talked about like everything from like kind of the urban circles like your DJ academics to your reddit pages your general reddit Entertainment you unless Jackie Chan passed away. You would never see these You know urban sites post anything generally Asian. Yeah, it was it really interesting. Why why is she so like why did people? I don't know if they cared about her, but they talked about I mean she was a huge sensation in 2018 Andrew We're talking about Tay Tien, which apparently a lot of people were reporting her name to be Claire Chee Hope But it's actually Tay Tien, you know, actually we call her Shao Tien. That's where a little Tay came from So there's just a lot of misinformation out there.  Yeah, and I think a lot of people now are debating like do are we glad that? Lil Tay is alive. Are we sad that she tricked us and what's going on in her life?  Listen if it is actually child exploitation and actually serious like child abuse It needs to be investigated from a criminal standpoint CPS somebody called the doc the police got to be called But if this is some social media BS and the parents were either trying to take her off social media Or she did this whole hoax herself her and her brother just to get attention so that she could go do a bunch of podcasts in a year From now launch a crypto coin. Yeah, then shame on her and I'm down to cancel her for it if that comes out to be true but I think Part of me. I also I'm glad that she's alive because I was like slightly sad I was like, dang, I don't want to hear a little tape passed away. That's not cool You know, I'm sad, but I'm glad she's alive and now that she's alive. I'm over it Like I don't care what happens anymore, right?  Value like her her content is like not she can't come back and do the same content Unless unless she's been practicing her rap skills this whole time and she comes out with some fire Oh, she starts rapping like Eminem. Maybe then maybe I'll pay attention Let's get in the comments section somebody said she must have just watched that Dave episode Which is a little dicky show where he faked his death because it almost seems shot-for-shot like that somebody said no She more had watched Jesse Smully a someone said listen guys This isn't even surprising in the past month on Instagram sharks have been eating people like chicken nuggets Aliens have been dropping by earth for coffee and cake and somebody just faked their own kidnapping a week ago So let's just go for it. It's 2023 fake your death and then just announce it 24 hours later Who cares life is weird somebody said you listen when teens become deeply involved in social media It appears to become more important to them than anything else young people really need to stay off their cell phones and Social media.  Did she get in a jet skiing accident in Alberta and then a lot of people are like dude We were all speculating we were all on this edge of our seats and then it just turned out to be fake and you're launching a crypto coin Yeah, that's what I heard man. Oh my god. If you guys buy that coin You deserve to be broke.   We need to start actually cancelling people But see here's the thing and you are Positing that they care about what is right and what's wrong. They just want the clicks I think if Lil Tay is proven to get clicks what she clearly has with the faking her death If she does another thing this stupendous enough and it gets clicks Lil Tay will still be near the top of the search news SEO I don't know. I don't know if people have the appetite for I'm a little bit Journalistic integrity integrity has been compromised in the name of consumers Wouldn't have the appetite to hear more about Lil Tay, right? All right.  It depends. I think it just depends on how many clicks that her name gets literally I think that people are literally just looking at that name Lil Tay and they're analyzing the hardcore deep analytics on it Andrew is it more tick-tock? Is it more Instagrams and more social media or is it more parenting? Why does it feel like social media is showing the downfall of American society or North American society from within well? There's a lot of blame to go around David. Do you blame the individual? Themselves that's abusing social media. That's just putting out their content and putting out all these lies No trying to heat up the attention pie, right? Because there's only so much attention pie Do you blame the news sources that give it attention? Do you blame the consumers for caring? Do you blame the parents for raising that kid because the parents can't control everything the kid does? So there's just a lot of blame to go around or do you blame the capitalistic system that allowed them to make millions off being this Ridiculous internet character like the same thing man It's like I mean, you know if you don't like some some rap music But you give it attention because you think it's a bad influence, but it's also highly entertaining Then that's also you're also to blame. Yeah, no, it's true people always make that argument saying.   You're probably not making a highly intellectual content. That's positive I can almost assure you so I think this is why that person said that.  I always thought she was Asian I've seen her speak Mandarin and like understand Mandarin But like I get it cuz she doesn't look, you know, it's how I got the hop of look But like is this weird that this is the only way the Asians can penetrate like the low-end market, you know I mean, I'm not saying I lean goo like switching teams to China and winning a gold That wasn't discussed on like geopolitical like Fox News, but I'm talking about Amongst just like a person who works at like Burger King. They're talking about Lil Tay But I think she just kind of falls into Like this comment said like the bad baby viral like kind of sphere where it's like like the Jerry Springer Just very easy to consume these people are ridiculous Is it like honey boo boo? Are you saying they're speaking ridiculous? Like I don't know. I think it is unfortunate I think it's interesting that a lot of people don't talk about her being Asian or I guess it's not an issue And I guess maybe I'm glad that it's not I guess it goes to show you that if a girl I think particularly Asian female who doesn't appear to be super super Asian looking and Also doesn't act Asian so she doesn't represent Asian culture or Eastern culture and philosophies Then I feel like her being Asian is not really a point. Yeah I think the only time I've seen a guy be half Asian and not have it be talked about is the Octo mom's Father, you know the people who had ah, yeah kids or whatever. Yeah, we had like nine kids or something. Yeah Like the dad was half a John Kate innate. Yeah. Yeah John. Yeah, John Goslin or whatever his name was Um, I guess does it also feel like this is an interesting observation Andrew that uh, like fob Chinese Which I believe Jason 10 Angela 10, which is her brother and her mom because I think she has a half brother Who's full Chinese from China from another marriage and her mom born in China Yeah, her mom is a fob from China was born in China born in China And I'm saying that like is it interesting that I feel like whether it's getting into Wild illegal things or just in the news for some sort of like fringe non-model minority thing or even doing You know even more adult video or something like that. It's a lot of people from China You're not gonna see that type of like edgy extreme behavior Prototypically from Chinese Americans. Yeah, I think that there's more Foreign-born Asians in America. Most Chinese are foreign-born 60% right I was only a lot of American-born Asians tend to assimilate harder into One of the pre-existing cultures in America, which would I guess temper them a little bit or put them in this kind of role Where they don't I guess act out as much or something like that No, does it seem like ABCs are super normie?  Yeah, cuz they're outside of the box They're just being very non-confucian I mean you could say a lot of the most famous Asian-American actors are even from Canada too, is there something about being from a different country low-teh seamu? There's I do think that Asian-Americans from Canada play ourselves very small and play the game very conservatively for good and bad Yeah, because there's pros and cons of everything, you know, there's a lot of Asian Americans I think a lot of American-born Asians tend to go into different fields different careers like they tend to maybe Just want to climb the corporate ladder and stuff like that and want to live life and go to nice bakeries And also I think Asian-Americans are taught to at least on the high end really appeal to like a very posh crowd and not like You know, I'm just gonna go ahead and say a lot of people follow a little Tay not that for sure Not like a big book reading crowd probably not no No, I think that's safe to assume but anyways guys up. Oh, I got my last takeaway Shame on the news man. Oh, yeah shame and we're talking about major news outlets with people paid to vet information and do due diligence Reporting on little taste death literally based off a chat GPT AI written thing whether it was by her mom or a manager or herself chat GPT wrote her eulogy dude There has to be a limit on social media guys like there needs to be a law that all the social media has to Abide by that's like hey if we talked about you this amount of times and you've Lie, yeah, in order to get attention then we cannot talk about you anymore You are banned from being talked about but that would then again go against freedom of speech and go against the freedom of the Stupid consumer to consume this and give it attention Literally, I think social media has peaked now after the little tape has captivated both Mom-and-pop as well as Institutional media outlets for 24 hours can't commandeered the headline section.  I like cat videos I like these fight videos.   Yeah. Yes I'm glad little taste a lot. Yeah, I'm glad she's not dead. I'm glad shaltay is still around Shaltay lives on yeah, but I can't lie. I don't want to hear about her on social media anymore. Please nobody post her Yeah, but just let her be alive All right, you guys let us know what you think in the comment section keep it civil until next time with a hop-hop boys. We're out


Stress is the desire for things to be different than they are in the present moment. Stress is rampant in our society today. There is nothing inherently stressful about cars in my way when I'm trying to get somewhere. Stress comes from me wishing those cars were not in my way. I'm inviting the stress into my life. So when you can learn to have a certain level of acceptance and be willing to acknowledge that I don't control the cars that are in my way, but I absolutely control my response, then you take your power back and you lower your stress immediately.


Item number SCP-251 Object Class Euclid Special Container Procedures SCP-251 is to be kept in a locked container at all times. No one is to enter the container alone. If anyone is found to have been left alone in the container for any amount of time, they are to be treated as violently hostile and terminated with extreme prejudice. The container is to be guarded by armed personnel at all times, and guards should never allow anyone, regardless of clearance level, to move the artifact or to be alone with it. Sounds of screaming, gunfire, and fires will be heard from within the container. This is normal. Description Origin Unknown SCP-251 consistently appears to be a small snow globe. Attached to the series of photographs taken of the same artifact over time. This indicates that the snow globe is at least partially animate. However, when viewed directly by multiple people, there is no apparent movement except by a perpetual blizzard. SCP-251 has not been moved in its arrival at Site-19, but the snowflakes have never ceased falling. The scenes depicted in SCP-251 are all extremely violent or morbid, occasionally depicting something fantastical, while mostly depicting more realistic brutality. All those who have been alone with SCP-251 for any amount of time have later displayed extreme violence, xenophobia, and emotional distress.


Hi, my name is Jonathan Hirsch. I'm the founder and executive director of Included, a nonprofit organization, and I'm here to talk with you today about the future of cities. One in six people in the world today live in a migrant slum. Within a few decades that number will grow to one in three. I think right now the migrant slums in Latin America are doubling every, probably every 300 years or so. If you look at Asia where it's a very current issue, they're doubling every 30 to 60 years or so. What happens is that they're expecting a better quality of life when they are hoeing their plot of land in the village where their family has been for hundreds if not thousands of years. They are probably going to look down at their five-year-old daughter and say this is no life for the 21st century. They have TV now, they have radio now, and so they can see the possibility of what could be. When they come into the cities, they suddenly bounce back on the edges and land in these informal migrant slums because they're an outsider. They're not able to access formal healthcare, formal education, formal housing, formal employment. In essence, they're living informal lives on the edges of our cities, and that causes long-term issues. If you look back at Latin America, you have two to three generations living in the favelas there, and we see that migrants work really hard. They take advantage of opportunity, they do really well. Why aren't they moving up at least into the lower middle class? And we bring that back to this issue of informality because they're treated as an outsider in their cities. In China even, legally, they're kept out of the system. Back in 1954, 1958, the Hukou, the social security card system actually legislated them back into their places of birth. And so if they choose to move into Beijing or Shanghai, Shenzhen, many of them, actually all of them at this stage, aren't allowed to carry those formal social benefits with them, always remains back at their place of birth. Migrant high schoolers are not able to take the university entrance exam in the cities where they maybe have lived informally for 10 years or so. And so the brightest students that their parents might have a chance to go to university actually get sent back at grade nine to live in their villages probably with their grandparents or with their uncles or with their aunts. As an example of what can work in Shanghai, the government said about four or five years ago, that they were going to flow all of the informal migrant population of the children into the formal education system. It's a humane issue, but I think it's also a very pragmatic issue as well. As city mayors and city leaders understand that migrants are an asset, they will find ways to flow them into their cities and reward them based on their contributions. In Kathmandu, one of the slums that we were working in and getting closer with and really getting to know the migrants living there, the government came in and demolished them. Like many governments do, they try to understand how to clean up their cities. They don't always understand what the best approach is, and that's their solution. Within probably six hours or so, they set up new tents, new tarps, new bamboo structures just to the side, and a year and a half later they're still there. It's a very complex issue, and so I think the way that we can all try to support and help governments who are open, and many of them are, to trying to find a better way to give them examples of what might not have worked in the past, but other examples too of what has actually seemed to work in the last four or five years. I think Latin America, in particular Brazil, have given the world wonderful examples of things that might work. After that, it comes down to very pragmatic solutions and hopefully empirical in nature, but actually at the very beginning to catch our attention to hook our attention, we all need to be inspired. If we don't find a way to include the migrants in our cities, I think there are two possible scenarios if you look 30 to 40 to 50 years down the road. The first is very scary and a little bit risky, where you might have hundreds of millions of disenfranchised migrant youth actually not able to access a system. As you know, youth have a lot of energy and they have a lot of idealism. There's a lot of activity and action that they will take if they feel like they're not being treated fairly. The second scenario I think is a much brighter one and I think a much more, it's much more possible than the first scenario. And that's one where migrants are recognized as an asset. They help build the cities, they help grow the economies, they help provide the diversity that's so important to make a very strong city. Either way, we need to include them. As a city leader, I would begin to tax migrants, maybe three to five percent. In turn, of course, I would give them social benefits, access to our education systems or healthcare systems. But what that does is it addresses very directly this issue of informality. I think in the coming decade or so, you're going to see corporations and other SMEs really begin to see the migrant slums as an opportunity. We need architects, urban planners, product designers, industrial designers to consider a career that's focused on what will be one third of the world's population. They wouldn't have a lot of competition at this stage, so they could certainly be early movers.


What's going on everyone? Sam here with Layton Sports Cards and I am ripping one box of 2022 Zero Cool Jackass for Jordan G. So good luck Jordan. Just before I start, I say this before I rip any box of this. I can't show every card on stream unfortunately. It does contain explicit cards so I will cover them up with a blank which I don't have next to me I gotta get. I'm just gonna cover up the inappropriate ones with a blank so sorry what I have to do. YouTube guidelines not my guidelines. My guidelines unfortunately. All right here we go let's do come on the side here perfect. Yacht Charge got Beauty and the Beast nice one here we've got title of the creator we've got chrome to 100 on the refractor that is jackass number two nice chrome one and musical chair bags we've got this one was painful that of nails we've got a behind the lens got butter beam or butter bean I should say got legend of Loomis fall and one that I unfortunately cannot show sorry about that one as always we've got a rookie of Rachel Wilson chrome not numbered on that one and quite game with poopies got the field goal a behind the lens a jackass forever a chrome not numbered of the electric tap dance and the quiet game with Rachel can't say that one or show that one or this is a behind the lens card but can't show that one either I apologize we've got Daniela tool uh David England and a quiet game of Stevo let's pull like a Knoxville not Johnny Knoxville auto that'd be sick or Steve oh I got the high five a behind the lens I cannot show uh jackass forever jackass with all the rookies that's Jasper poopies Zach Rachel and Eric Monaco and when I can't show or say we've got the invisible man a behind the lens this is from the last one oh nice one here one of my favorite characters from the new movie got a dark shark that he's so funny in that one they mess with him so much feel bad for the guy that's uh Jasper's dad uh Rick Kosick and the tarantula helmet I guess that we do have some pretty cool personals coming up would definitely recommend sticking around and checking them out got uh the exploding room got a rookie Zach Holmes nice one there got Johnny Knoxville oh so sick on the chrome how about an auto of dark shark to 100 that's so cool I really like dark shark from the new movie he's so funny like he's scared of heights and they do like a bit where they take him up and they make him uh skydive poor guy they put him in a room with a bear like this poor guy gets messed with so much but he's so funny congrats on that one Jordan that's a sick hit and the toilet geyser not guaranteed an auto in every box so that's really sick to hit one the jet ski lens I cannot show an Eric Monaco rookie hurricane slide roll our refractor to 100 nice one there hurricane slide and uh triple wedgie just can't show it can say that but cannot show that last pack for you here Jordan good luck got pinned the tail on the donkey got a behind the lens pulled an auto of this guy recently uh dj paul got danger erin and underwater firefarts and that's gonna do it for your box of jackass there Jordan thanks again for hopping in in your order get that right out to you man thank you


It is the 2nd of December 1959 and a photographer is preparing their camera. Today they aren't documenting a wedding or a baptism but a disaster. The city of Rajesh has been battered by a wave of floodwater, the culprit, the dam that towered above it, the name Malpase. My name is John and welcome to Plainly Difficult. Background Our story starts and will ultimately end in the French Riviera and the need for a dam just north of the city of Rajesh in the early 1950s. Although a new project, the need for a dam in the region had been frequently brought up over several decades before. A number of previous projects had failed to get off the ground as early as 1865. You see the area had an issue with the Rayran River where it is mostly dry in the summer but conversely bursting at the banks in the autumn and winter. This is where a dam would be beneficial as it could attempt to regulate the flow of water and even out the Jekyll and Hyde like behaviour of the river. A dam would have a number of other benefits providing water for agriculture, domestic use as well as creating a lake for the use in the tourism sector. Before any concrete could be poured for the dam, geological surveys had to be undertaken. With each preceding project, surveys had been completed but these were not particularly useful as each proposed dam was a completely different design from the other. Well in preparation for the 1950s project, surveys at the valley at the potential building site took place in 1946 where a fault line was discovered by the science department in Marseille who were undertaking the initial site investigations. They advised that further investigation was required by excavating sections of the river banks to check their internal composition and identify any unweathered rock. They also suggested that other sites should probably also be considered. Another survey took place in November 1949 but a company in charge of the project decided to move the foundation site 200 metres downstream without any additional geological survey at a new placement. The dam was going to be an arch dam. These had a number of advantages, most notably cost as it uses a thin dam curved structure which spreads the weight of the reservoir into presumably solid banks. In comparison the 1800s design was going to be a gravity type which is very large and expensive so the new Malpassée dam was penned by renowned French civil engineer André Cohen and the project will be funded and owned by department Va. The dam was going to be 222 metres wide and was a doubly curved equal angle arch type with a variable radius. It was also to be made out of concrete with a masonry base. It was 6.78 metres wide at the base tapering up to a 1.5 metres thick at the top and 66 metres tall with an aimed reservoir capacity of 50 million cubic metres of water. On the right bank looking upstream a 10 metre high concrete abutment was also planned due to the topography of the valley. Level control was rather simple at Malpassée with a simple spillway at the centre of the dam which would allow water to well spill over the top. There was also a draw off made from a metal pipe of 1.5 metres in diameter cutting across the foot of the arch and shut by valves. If the level exceeded 99.5 metres then a fixed wheel gate would automatically open allowing water to flow down the draw off. This system was also able to be manually controlled. Construction began in April 1952 and after two years was complete in October 1954. Upon completion it was said to be the thinnest dam at its height in the world. But although the structure was complete the filling of the lake behind the dam would be a long long task taking several more years. Filling the reservoir at an even pace is vital. Over stress too quickly and structural failure is guaranteed but filling too slowly can cause issues well but we will come back to that later on in the video. This was the reason why Malpassée although built in 1954 wouldn't even be close to full capacity until 1959. As the water level increased cracks appeared and were discovered on the right hand side of the dam but were largely ignored. By mid-November 1959 the reservoir was roughly 7 metres below the crest and the cracks had turned into clear streams of water running down the right hand side of the dam. Somehow reservoir water was escaping. Now if things were looking a little bit ropey imagine what a torrential downpour would add to the mix. Well imagine no more. The disaster. So the Malpassée dam wasn't looking too great towards the end of November 1959. The dam's right side was still leaking and now a downpour of rain had arrived and wasn't helping. One of the dam's guardians Andre Ferro requested permission to open the gate for the draw off to reduce the reservoir level on the 2nd of December. Sensible idea. However this would have encroached upon construction of the Malpassée Nice motorway about 1km downstream from the dam. The reservoir would be allowed to fill up. Remember how it had taken years to fill? Well the water depth would increase by the rain by 4 metres in just 24 hours. Ferro was finally given the okay to open the gate at 6pm but by then was probably too little too late. Over 3 hours of the gate being open only a few centimetres of depth was removed. The dam was now groaning under the weight of the water. The dam breached at 13 minutes past 9 in the evening releasing a torrent of water 40 metres high at a speed of 70km. It destroyed everything in its wake including two small villages. The motorway finally reaching 20 minutes later, Régis, flooding the western half of the town. By the time it hit the town the wall of water was still 3 metres tall and littered with concrete debris. Eventually the torrent reached the Mediterranean Sea. Complete destruction had hit the region. All road and rail connections were severed, hindering residents from escaping and rescue workers from reaching the disaster site. 155 buildings were destroyed with a further 796 damaged. Cars were washed away and shops were decimated. An estimated 423 people lost their lives in a tragedy with many more injured. Hundreds were made homeless with 79 orphaned. Sadly dam failures caused incomprehensible tragedy to an area, but as the community began to clean up and try to heal the wounds, the cause had to be found. The aftermath Well, it would become quite clear that the interrupted and incomplete surveys of the dam site would come back to bite the project in the behind. When looking at the dam face upstream, you can see the likely start point of the failure, that right abutment, the one that was leaking. It was discovered after a thorough geological survey that there in fact was a fault line downstream from the dam. This stopped infiltration water from flowing away and instead collected below the foundations of the dam. As the weight and pressure built up from the filling of the reservoir, it unseated the dam's foundations. This formed cracks which were then filled by the impounded water in the reservoir, thus weakening the structure which led to the base being stripped from the valley. And when the right hand side failed, the rest would only have to follow. Pretty disastrous, but the issues with the dam were not just geological, but human. Although the dam was a good design, but placed incorrectly, people were the cause ultimately for the failure. You see the regulators saw the Malpase dam differently to others. Because it was mainly due to be used for agriculture, it attracted less scrutiny than that of a hydroelectric dam, and thus fewer inspections were undertaken. Little was done to check out the design due to the designer being so successful in his career, with over 70 structures under his belt, pretty much all of which were problem free. The long time it took to fill the reservoir was also an issue. As in 1959, the dam was still on its first filling, which really when testing out such a structure, it should be filled and emptied a number of times, building up to its final capacity. Instead, they just decided to reach full capacity in the middle of a downpour. They should have opened the gateway earlier to reduce the level in the reservoir. Building up of water behind the dam gradually by emptying and filling successive times gives time to find any issues and fix them as they arrive. Interestingly, over a number of court cases, the design of the dam was cleared, more putting blame on the choice of location. Andre Coyne, the dam's designer died a few months after the disaster, admitting full responsibility. But as we've seen, the real cause was not just down to one man, but a whole selection of issues. The dam was never replaced, but left as a reminder of the all too common issues of corner and cost cutting. So I'm going to rate this disaster as oboes people will hear about this and a six on my legacy scale. Do you agree? This is a plain different production. All videos on the channel are creative commons, attribution, share like licensed. Plain different videos are produced by me, John, in the currently very windy and wet corner of southern London, UK. I have Twitter and Instagram, so feel free to check them out if you want to see all the random photographs I post up. 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We're within a hair's breath of being able to put 150,000 young men to work the next 90 days. It looks like we're going to get beat to 5 to 10 votes, unless we can get some liberal Republicans. Is this in the house? Normally, labor can deliver us 15 to 20. We're not counting but three or four there. We met with a leadership this morning. We just need to take a few of those people and you try to see them because I'll see anybody can, but I can't do much with a Republican. But a Republican liberal like a Conte, yeah, folks like that. Now, they're about 15 of them. We got 195 votes. We need 218 if everybody's there. But we're probably on 210 or probably carried. That means 15. We think we can pick three or four Democrats off. But it's going to come up. We're going to get a rule this week and it'll come up next week. If we can't get a Republican to vote for us, we won't try to get some of them to pair. I'll tell you, it'll do more to help our unemployment among young people. Okay, I'll get busy on it right away when you need 15. That's right. You just do it because the working people, Dick Bailey tells me he's got 100,000 folks out there that on his role just waiting. And where all this Harlem stuff comes from, they got no jobs. They can't do anything. They just raise mail. And we'll try to put them to work right quick. And if you'd mind checking that and looking into it and see if you can't go call on two or three, I'm going to tell them how important it is and what it means to labor because there's nothing but jobs. All this billion dollars, one billion dollars. They talk about Accelerate Public Works. They want to get 300 million for A-A-A-A-A-R-A and 400 million for Accelerate Public Works. This is one billion right off the bat. And if you do call me back in a couple of days, I'd sure appreciate it. Okay, I'll go right to it.


Welcome back retro enthusiasts. This time we are looking at arcade conversions for the Amstrad CPC. This is the video where we don't allow nostalgia to blind us. It's all about the pass or fail. I've picked these games at random and will continue to do so with a little mini-series each week to ultimately find out which games which arcade conversions ported or were converted to the Amstrad CPC successfully or not. This is a no holds barred.  Now you can see how the arcade original looked there in the top left hand corner and on the surface the Amstrad conversion looks alright. Appears to be very colorful to the eye. Admittedly it looks quite blocky and there's a nice little colorful winner circle there and then we're on to the next track. Just wanted to point out there's another game from the same stable on the Amstrad which is Badlands. It doesn't look great as you can see but it controls better and the collision detection is a lot better as well. It's just unfortunately really slow and that brings me to super sprint on the Amstrad. It's dog slow. In saying that I've played it on the other 8-bit conversions and this one although decidedly average betters the other conversions in almost every department. Even the looks. Sadly the engine noise in this just grates along. There's no music, no intermission sounds. You get the few odd explosions here and there or collision but in all honesty these Codemasters bad boys did it far much better because they understood the one vital ingredient for this type of game. Speed my friend, speed. It's as though the programmers were on to something here with this conversion but they either didn't test the game properly or completely ran out of time. I always hate to criticize programmers because there's so many different things that could have happened. You hear nightmare stories about they were only given a month or less to bring a game out to rush it out before Christmas. It was almost as if it was the impossible job, the impossible task with so many different variables against the programmer before they'd even started. Now I did pay for and own this game as a child. Well, it was bought for me for Christmas and I did play the cassette out of this but even as a kid I knew this game had massive issues but back then you kind of played through them. Probably out of desperation for a good racer. It was confirmed to me months later after visiting an arcade and playing this with the steering wheel and the big setup that the Amstrad CPC didn't deliver a convincing enough arcade conversion. So on that bombshell it's a fail from me. I'm sure this one has its 8-bit fans but I'm not one of them. Jesus Christ on a bike.  It's not even a specky port. It looks far worse. It's like the specky port, the specky original 1.0 before they added all the bells and whistles. It's slow as well. God it's miserable looking especially if you're an Amstrad CPC owner and remember breaking out that Amsoft pack of 10 games and all that colour. I mean that's how it should have looked there on the left, the arcade original. Well not should have looked but we know what mode 0 can do on the Amstrad. We know that mode 1 can even do better than this. Not only are my eyes bleeding just watching this but my ears are bleeding as well with the sounds. Can you imagine all those poor kids at Christmas or their birthdays or whatever? Opening this, loading up the cassette tape, thinking oh god I can't believe we're playing this game. On the Amstrad CPC. I love the arcade version so much and then all of a sudden silence followed by tears and then Amstrad rage. Probably slinging the cassette across the room, smashing a few objects or items on the way, probably even a window. It was that bad. The Commodore 64 and the original ZX specky and this Game Boy version tops for me and these are the ones I play instead of these Amstrad ports as you can see. But there's quite a few actually. There's quite a few Bionic Commando ports that turned out really good.  And I hate to say that and I don't want to admit to that. There is a game there and you can progress and I think from memory I even completed this a few times. But when you look at the NES version there on the left, I mean, God this pales in comparison to anything, to everything. Thinking back, it was torture. And I guess a bit like Stockholm Syndrome for me. Can you imagine being the programmer that had to convert this from the specky? It must have been stomach churning. A real feeling of I'm going nowhere in life. I'm just a specky porter. A real low point of any programmer in his life.  Oh God. But the worst is yet to come with this second level. Again, although it's playable, I mean, you scroll along. I mean, look at that. The Amstrad CPC has colour clash. How? It's impossible. You can't even get colour clash if you try. And the the enemies appear out of nowhere. You're just walking along.   Look at that. It's just a green beret style flick. And that guy was just standing there in midair.  And to parents who would have purchased this for Christmas. So this is go, which I believe is a subsidiary of US Gold.  It should never have made it through the QA session. And if there even were game testers, they should have been sacked on the spot. No surprise then that this is a big massive epic fail. Oh, now that's a sight for sore eyes. She's a bit blocky, but she's yellow where it counts. I remember seeing this intro and thinking we're in for something special here. We're in for something special. I have to admit, though, by this point, I'd already moved on to the Sega Mega Drive and played this. But I was aware it came out on the Amstrad CPC. So I just had to have a go. I just had to play it. And as you can see, from this screen, the music, the presentation, I was expecting big things until this happened. Just look at the speed there of the arcade original. So fast, so smooth. And then look at the specky port as well. The specky port moves along, zips along quite nicely as well. But then look at the Amstrad. It's so slow, which makes it even worse because it looks decent. There's animation as the guy turns the wheel. You can see in the rear view mirror are the spectrum and the arcade ports are blocking it slightly. But then the reality kicks in when you when the first turn comes, and you smash against the roadside objects only on the left, hardly ever on the right. They've balled up the collision detection as well. The Amstrad CPC can do really good fast convincing road games. I look at the scroll there. I mean, look at the pseudo 3d as it's coming towards you. There's pretty much nothing that's different between the way that road's moving and this road's moving. Apart from this version on the Amstrad of Super Monaco, it's absolute dog slow. I mean, that's rally two from, say 1984 1985. Surely things are supposed to get better. Codes supposed to get tighter. What happened? What went wrong? With the spec, he can do it. Why couldn't the Amstrad? In fact, I've just proven that the Amstrad can do it. So coming up right here, here's one of the big problems with the Amstrad version. Did you see that? The collision detection can't make its mind up whether it's going to work or not. Okay, so this is super cycle and motorcycle game. But again, it shows that the Amstrad can deliver fast screen updates. So once again, screw you US gold. You screwed us over once again. Admittedly, this is kind of playable. You can complete the game. You can work around the issues with the collision detection and the slow speed. But why would you want to when the superior versions out there? I would say play this on the Sega Mega Drive, play Super Monaco, the first one and also play Super Monaco 2, the airton's center version. Both of those games are absolutely unbelievable for the time and still hold up quite well today. So now we've qualified. We're on to the race and I just wanted to show you what that looked like. So we're off again. What's interesting if you look, the little details that have gone into this game, the tires look as though they've got this animation as if they're spinning. The scenery in the background of Monaco looks and moves really nice, I think. I like the fact that the grass has that stripe effect on it. I like the fact that the road is a different color. You've got the roadside signs telling you where the corner's coming, which is why it hurts to give this one a fail. Because it seemingly does everything that you'd wanted to do as an arcade conversion, but sadly there's little elements, important elements that are broken, which unfortunately can sign this to the dustbin. And I think Amstrad action for being overly generous when they gave this one 74%. Ah, altered beast. I had this on the Sega Mega Drive and absolutely loved it. They couldn't possibly ball this one up on the Amstrad. Surely not. Presentation is lovely, the music starts off great. Initial thoughts on the graphics are that they're colorful, a bit blocky. On the bottom right is how it looked in the arcade original. So one might say it does look authentic at this point. But then what's happened to the speed? Why is the guy kicking so slowly? Why can't he punch? Why is it scrolling so slowly? I thought this was an app division conversion, not a US Gold. Okay, maybe I'm being a bit hasty here, but let's give it a chance. Things hopefully will improve. The kick seems quite effective. There's quite a few enemy characters on screen at any one time. Those explosions look good when the zombie gets eliminated. We need to upgrade our character here where he basically turns into a wolf after collecting three pickups. On the top right there is the Sega Mega Drive version that I once upon a time owned. But instantly you can see we've got an issue on the Amstrad with the speed and this game was all about speed in my opinion. Which again is a crying shame because the music's unbelievable and you know although the graphics aren't scrolling smoothly it's it's all right. I could have lived with it. It seems like the screen's quite busy. So it looks and sounds authentic but unfortunately sadly alas it just couldn't pull it off in the gameplay department. And because of this Activision have slayed the beast before it's even got going. Trust me I want to love this game on the Amstrad CPC. I've played it up until completion but the reality is it was painful doing so. I'm not going to lie to you I hated every last minute of it. The Sega Master System version on the top left as you can see on the other hand is absolutely brilliant. Nice smooth scrolling nowhere near as vibrant in the color department but it does the basics it delivers the gameplay and the hardware is pretty similar. We've all played Savage, Traventor so we know the Amstrad CPC can deliver this type of game which for me made it all the more difficult to swallow. It does slightly improve when you manage to turn into the wolf. You can dart around the screen and have a lot faster. You can take down multiple enemies zombies in one fell swoop. At that point it does feel a little bit more like the arcade. It still feels slow but it's almost bearable. Still I'm not going to make excuses it is a terrible awful conversion but as a game in its own right there is still something there. It's still playable I think but personally for me I just kind of wanted to reach for the off switch. I mean this was 1990 when this came out. I can see why Amstrad Action only gave it 50% and between US Gold and Activision I'm not sure who made the worst arcade conversions. In fact let me know. In your opinion what are the worst Amstrad CPC arcade conversions? A bunch of very very clever people have already remade lots of failed arcade conversions for the Amstrad CPC. R-Type being one of them got ghost and goblins or golden ghost and let's hope one day we can add altered beast to that collection.  The rest is up to you just not on the Amstrad CPC. I first discovered and played Outrun whilst on holiday in a seaside town of Wales, north Wales I believe. My cousin and I gathered round the arcade machine in the hope that I could play it but the queue was absolutely massive. This would have been around 1986 probably early 1987 and you can see at the top left hand corner what it looked like on the arcade and as a young kid this would have absolutely blown anyone away. So you can imagine how happy, how ecstatic I felt when I saw it advertised in computer and video games and Amstrad Action for a release on the old Humble ZX-Becky 64 and Amstrad CPC. Then all the fake screenshots started to come out in the magazines. One magazine had stills of the Amstrad CPC version and it looked absolutely unbelievable.  The music playing in the background of this video came from the cassette version that they gave away with the game because the bastards couldn't be asked to include music whilst you were driving around. The ZX-Becky version, the 128K version and the Commodore 64 they featured music and it was bloody good music too. The Amstrad did feature music on the intro screen but that was it, it was complete silence once you loaded. So you can see on the upper left the ZX Spectrum version and it's not perfect but it runs quicker, it runs faster than the Amstrad CPC. The car spins, flies in the air, there's extra animations. The code doesn't feel as unfinished and buggy as the Amstrad CPC version and I actually played it a lot back in the day and thought it was really a really good faithful conversion despite all its faults.  I just, you know, to put all that effort into the car and then zero effort into the speed and the graphics. It's just bewildering, absolutely bizarre that they'd let this happen. I mean this is their product, Probe's product, US Gold's product and it looks absolutely shite. Seriously, they'd been better off not releasing it at all on the Amstrad. It just gave them a really bad reputation. So there's two of my favorite versions there you've got on the left, the PC Engine version which is an 8-bit console with 16-bit graphics I believe and then the Sega Mega Drive version which looks a bit washed out there but that's not fair. I think only the Sega Saturn, Dreamcast, Switch and 3DS versions obviously bettered it because they were arcade perfect but up until that point this was the definitive version. There are some weird moments in this Amstrad CPC version where you're driving along over 180 miles per hour and the screen looks as though the road is going backwards in reverse. It doesn't happen throughout the game on all stages but it's massively off-putting when it does happen. Things could have been a lot worse though, I know, can you believe it? The Amiga version was an absolute dog. As they say, for me once, shame on you, for me twice, shame on me. So then how do I sum this one up? Probably one of the worst arcade ports conversions on the Amstrad CPC of all time. Without question, a resounding fail. So this is the end of episode one, I hope you enjoyed it. Episode two will look at more Amstrad CPC arcade conversions. Sadly in this episode they've all been massive failures. Hopefully in the next episode we'll have some winners. If you like this video and like what I'm doing, please do me the honour of liking, subscribing and leaving a comment. Oh and don't forget to ring that bell. Bye!