One time a boy at school at assembly just took a disliking to me and called me the r-word and started to beat the hell out of me. I still don't know why. Yeah, there's, it doesn't seem to be no any rhyme or reason, I think, when we experience things like that. Although it may not happen again sort of during our school experience. The fact that we couldn't predict it coming, we didn't know that it was going to happen. There was no particular signs for us to take notice of before that type of thing happened. We can develop just like this extremely high baseline anxiety throughout our school experience. I mean, there's obviously those social battery aspects and the social and sensory overwhelm which definitely increase our anxiety in that in that sort of school experience. But it makes us very paranoid and hyper-vigilant to the point where it can be really, really difficult for us to cope with school. This is a video from a relatively small channel called Aniva talking about harassment and bullying as an autistic adult. Something that I'm sure many of us have experienced with. Sadly, it seems to be a pretty consistent part of a lot of the lives of autistic people that we do face these negative circumstances. So today we're gonna take a look at this video, see if it resonates with us, see if there's anything that I can add, and yeah, let's get into it. Bullying happens to people who are different. So the definition of bullying is, I almost said, gerund or present participle. I haven't said that in a long time. Seek to harm, intimidate or coerce someone perceived as vulnerable. People view a lot of autistics as vulnerable. Does that mean that we actually are? I think that we can be. I think that sometimes, like in the times that I have experienced bullying, I usually caught it kind of off guard, like I definitely did not see it coming. Sometimes I didn't recognize it, like I didn't realize that it was bullying. So the issue here is that autistic people are clearly different. The way that we move, the way that we talk to people, the things that we talk about. Yeah, it's, I don't know if you guys have the same experience, but it does seem, it does seem that bullies do have a knack for picking out people who are different in that way. I was definitely very vulnerable when I was younger and when I was experiencing bullying. The thing is, I wasn't particularly like physically weak. You know, I trained in Taekwondo, I went to the gym quite a bit. So from my age, I was, you know, still very tall and I still was very sort of physically active. But I struggled because I didn't know how to respond. I didn't know how to deal with it. The issue with confrontation, the issue with bullying, is that a lot of people have a lot of different ideas on how you should conduct yourself in this situation. You might go to one person and they say, you need to fight back, you need to show them who's boss, you need to at least deter them in that way. Other people will say that's not the right thing to do. What you need to do is you need to talk to a person of authority in order to get them to sort it. You need to talk or you need to talk to them calmly or you need to try and help them understand. There is no like particular rule book in order to deal with this type of stuff because it's very different situation to situation. And everyone has their own ideas and how to sort of conduct yourself in that circumstance. Because of that nature of confrontation. I found myself in a lot of situations where I just couldn't advocate for myself. I didn't know what to do. Perhaps there might be someone who was particularly smaller or younger. I had that experience quite a few times who would sort of harass me. But I would be hesitant in order to advocate for myself in that situation because they were smaller and younger than me. It's not the only situation. I've had someone who was absolutely gigantic, believe me before, at school. It was not a fun time. I did stand up to him at one point and it stopped. But it can happen. And for all intents and purposes, we do tend to be behind in terms of our social, emotional developments, especially around those teenage ages. I'm talking generally, I'm not talking about every single individual, of course. It does tend to be that way, especially when we're using neurotypical sort of social rules in order to make that characterization. It does kind of feel, especially going through school as an autistic child, teenager, that everyone is just kind of developing this weird sort of indirect language that allows them to communicate with each other non-verbally, the sort of different social nuances. It does kind of leave us in this very sort of gray space where we're not really sure what people are trying to communicate with us. Perhaps someone might be making a joke and being really mean to us, but we don't necessarily know if they are or whether they're communicating something else. And if they are communicating that and we think they are, sometimes they're not. So we're in this kind of state of uncertainty a lot of the time. One time, a boy at school at assembly just took a disliking to me and called me the R-word and started to beat the hell out of me. I still don't know why. Yeah, it doesn't seem to be no any rhyme or reason, I think, when we experience things like that. Although it may not happen again sort of during our school experience. The fact that we couldn't predict it coming, we didn't know that it was going to happen. There was no particular signs for us to take notice of before that type of thing happened. We can develop just like this extremely high baseline anxiety throughout our school experience. I mean, there's obviously those social battery aspects and the social and sensory overwhelm which definitely increase our anxiety in that sort of school experience. But it makes us very paranoid and hypervigilant to the point where it can be really, really difficult for us to cope with school. I've had a lot of times where I've taken days of school saying that I was sick and I kind of was sick to a certain degree. I had like a stomach ache and a headache and that was because of all this cortisol, because of all this anxiety caused by an environment that I didn't feel was certain. Basically everything about us kind of screams different. Even if we're masking sometimes we're not that great at it or we don't have enough energy to mask as well as we usually do and they just kind of pick up on something being a little bit different. What I can say is the bullying usually happens with people that you had to be around for a certain period of time. So it could be your family, friends that you hang out with a lot, your team, like if you play basketball or volleyball, co-workers. These are people who usually have enough time to kind of examine you. People who are forced to be around that you didn't choose to be around them. In adulthood it's a little bit easier. I found apart from work there isn't many circumstances where you are forced to be around a person. You can avoid people in adulthood a little bit easier than you would perhaps in childhood. It's kind of closed social environments. Yeah it can be really difficult. I have an opportunity to be just as perceptive. However the thing that kind of sets the bully apart is that they'll actually act on those sort of weaknesses. What it really requires is a sort of awareness of how people are treating you and paying really close attention to that and actually trying to nip it in the bud as best you can. So what does nipping it in the bud look like? I'm sure you know. Telling someone to stop. That's what they tell you in all the kid videos about bullying. But that sometimes makes it worse and that sometimes is not safe to do etc. So what can you do? Well if it is at work you need to talk to HR. You can go through the proper channels but if your managers think it's funny or they don't think it's seriously you can go to their boss because this is harassment. Another thing I would do is document everything in the same way that you would file a police report, time and date and location of what happened and you really want to be specific with how it happened, what they said specifically if you can remember the quotes. There are certain laws and stuff against recording people, audio recording. I don't really know the states where it's legal and also you don't want to be invasive of someone else's privacy. Like if they're not consistently bullying you or harassing you you know maybe that's a step too far because you can kind of get worked up with like kind of going overboard like that's something that you can easily go overboard with. When you have three or four cases that you have written down and you take it to a manager or you take it to HR or you know even general managers whoever you take it to them then they know that you're serious they're like okay it must be really bad for you to document this and you have several instances always be aware of the time if you need to have a watch whatever the case because you don't want to be in a situation where you can't get to your phone for 30 minutes and now you're kind of off with a time. So that is how you would professionally handle bullying and that is one way that you can nip things in the bud is to have a very open conversation with your managers and luckily at one of my jobs the management team took it so very seriously especially because I was a good worker I was always respectful and I had actually gotten really worked up and they knew that something must have been really wrong because I was always in a pretty good mood when I was there just know that that ladder that hierarchy goes all the way up so your boss has bosses if there's bruises or anything like that involved take pictures like do not hesitate you know evidence is everything so how would you handle this without having to go to a boss or whatever you know like in your personal life when you have to stand up for yourself let me just tell you I'm not too great with comebacks now some of you guys are really good with comebacks sarcasm bluntness see the thing is here I want to show you is that we all are able to stand up for ourselves but you may not be aware of the different ways that you can stand up for yourself because on tv they say oh snappy comebacks that'll really shut someone down but there are so many different ways to shut someone down or like what is it disarm them there are so many different ways to disarm someone I'm thinking of of times where I've effectively sort of dealt with bullying in my life both like in in childhood and adulthood I think um drawing attention to what someone's doing can be helpful sometimes obviously it really depends on the circumstance but if it's kind of like it's not like really sort of aggressive like physical bullying and you feel safe enough in that sense and there's like people around like I found a lot of use in being quite a matter of fact in like calling things out I had a situation where I was being picked on quite a bit sort of bullied physically in some in some respects and I remember talking to them and it's the same as how I dealt with it in adulthood I remember talking to them and basically saying something along along the lines of why are you spending so much time harassing us or why are you spending so much time being around us what do you not have like anything else that you can do that's different to this because it's not very comfortable to me it doesn't make me feel very good when you do this um you know obviously like they're gonna continue to be a bit combative but it does sort of sink in a little bit with some people because usually they're not they're not very like cognizant of things they're just kind of getting getting their frustrations out or getting their energy out in some some very harmful way towards yourself or even it can be something along side the the lines of if someone's getting like confrontational like a party or someone's getting confrontational like a workplace or something um you know I've had a lot of a lot of use in trying to like reframe the conversation like just take it to a very sort of open nice place I realized that it might be a little bit different for me compared to most people because I'm I'm six foot three I'm a dude I go to the gym a lot I know how to fight things of that nature so there's obviously going to be some differences but you know just saying something along the lines of you know bar this situation I'm not really enjoying speaking like I would prefer it for us to have like a mature kind of conversation if you don't like something about me we can talk um but at this point you are making the environments particularly like negative for other people as well as well as myself and I don't particularly like having this confrontation you'll be surprised by like how many people can have like positive reactions to that kind of thing like that there'll still be a bit kind of angsty and might might for a comeback or two but if you if you stay strong to like your frame in that situation where you're not being sort of outwardly combative and you're just kind of you're being very stern you're not you're not like rolling over you're not getting upset or or anything but you are stating the facts and saying that you don't want it and it's not a good thing and it's not a good look for them either if it's in like a social context um it can do a lot I think for some people because they they can sometimes be a little bit caught up in their own emotions and they don't necessarily think about the greater context of the situation gray rock um I don't necessarily think that works I think some people can take gray rocking as an invitation to continue in my experience you do have to you do have to somewhat either remove yourself from the the situation or you need to you need to talk and you need to sort of try and keep it to the facts yeah keep it to the facts not too emotional like you don't have to make yourself scary you don't have to like you know it depends on the context of course like in some some situations you know perhaps defending yourself is a good idea um but usually when it's in like kind of like an open public place um taking things to to the facts and and not sort of playing too much into their confrontation their anger and just talking normally to them um you know over over perhaps like a couple of back and forth pieces of dialogue they do they do tend to sober up a little bit from their rage what's gray rock it's when you become almost completely unemotional and you don't you don't you're not reactive in any way to like what someone's saying it can be quite a useful thing when it comes to sort of toxic interpersonal relationships but if it's someone if it's like a leased friend or an acquaintance or someone that you know or someone at school even um i think it's a little bit different like the way that the way that i would handle that and who is um coming at you like that so let's talk about it right so i'm not very good with comebacks i've gotten much better over the years i don't know what happened i was always really good at saying random stuff like i used to say really hurtful things but then i kind of was told like you can't just say really mean and that is definitely um the autism and i don't i don't mean like i was trying to hurt them their feelings but i would just say the first thing that came to my mind and so now that i've gotten my autism diagnosis and i'm kind of like just trying to go back to who i was really now i just kind of am more likely to say the things that i just want to say my comebacks have gotten better because i just don't hold back anymore um and um it just has worked out for me but when i was not good at doing comebacks i was really good at um disengaging is it disengaging yes yeah disengaging like so sort of separating myself from the situation um there was this one job where i was actually mistreated a lot a lot of it went over my head i slowly got better at disarming some of the people and it took me like a year to do so um because i was just so afraid i was like i barely talked i did not stand like the whole the whole extreme selective mutism sort of thing yeah i just could not deal with the bullying anymore and so each person was different because i was getting bullied by multiple people actually this one person always every time this person got the chance would say something rude to me yeah would roll their eyes would make me feel insignificant um and when i made mistakes they blew it all out of proportion you know what forget it he i was this whole inside joke and um there was like a few people who were very kind to me despite um how i was being treated and it's just this whole thing like that's a whole different youtube video but essentially i gained the courage to disarm the bullies i noticed that ignoring it didn't work i noticed that being nice didn't work so i started being passive aggressive and i don't know if this is like i don't know if this is appropriate like is it okay for me to give you guys this advice because it seems a little bit like angsty like it feels like brutality yeah i suppose it's it's difficult isn't it because you know there's it's going to be very situationally subjective to like the the person who's involved and who's doing it and the type of situation you know where exactly it is happening i mean to be honest if if being nice and being that way doesn't work and they sort of continue to do it i i tend to just laugh with them and i i have sort of uh yeah again not not giving not giving advice here my my way of dealing with situations like that is to not take them seriously like sort of you know be somewhat sarcastic and like aha that's so funny just you know sort of infantilizing them to a certain degree like i think that's what they're saying about like being passive aggressive i think sometimes that can that can work i mean it has worked for me quite a bit but again i'm very hesitant to offer any sort of advice with like dealing with confrontational bullying because it's it's kind of you know i i have a lot of cards to you know i've got a lot of strings to my bow in terms of being somewhat physically intimidating so it's i imagine that it'd be quite different depending on the circumstance lol oh my god my insults are on point now because i forget to filter yeah yeah i have a very very heavy filter i've never i've never really been one to have no filter but you know it can it can be good in situations like that sometimes i try to equally give it back um what they give me use the tip for tat usually subsides yeah that's not passive aggressive yeah i suppose so i think it's it's it's very much based on like my my indirect communication you know i might change my tone of voice towards them a little bit just to like kind of like i'm talking down to them in a way if they do stuff like that you know somewhat infantilize them to a certain degree thankfully i've not been in a lot of confrontations over the past few years but i do tend to choose who i'm around more nowadays yeah i think that's that that is like solution long-term solution if you can um i suppose like the situations where it may be an issue is if you are a part of a social circle and someone else is part of that too and that could be school that could be work that could be just like a friend group as well sometimes that can be that can be difficult but i know that that we as autistic people we tend to have like we pick and choose our friends very conservatively we pick we're very picky with our friends um are we talking about muggles we are maybe that can we can we start calling people who aren't autistic muggles is that is that a bad thing that's a that's a that's a very interesting way of characterizing it believes want a reaction best to learn to control our emotional response yeah controlling emotional response but not not not gray rocking i don't think i don't think gray gray rocking has never helped me you do have to do something get back here muggle no let's call them pick up pickle neurotypicals i i hesitate from making any funny remarks or jokes towards neurotypicals because i i'm very i'm very keen on many of them let's say like um i have close relationships with them and i know that a lot of people who watch this are neurotypical if you do at all see me remarking in a negative way towards that i'm not talking about you you're great um yeah i'm very hesitant on on sort of doing that in the reverse sort of calling names and all that but um muggles wizards and muggles that that's a really interesting way of like characterizing autism and neurotypical society we should call on harry squatter is harry squatter autistic oh my god aviation i guess the only reason i thought it was so important to make this video is because um a lot of the time people are unforgiving unapologetic i'm sorry a lot of people are not going to apologize oh yeah they will apologize you and they don't see anything wrong with it and it's so damaging to a person to be treated like that especially consistently you just kind of realize how much that can hurt you and the things that it can lead to um there are so many instances where there's just been so much pain um that was caused by a person who was just just hurting so badly and of course you know you think what would drive them to it but you know it can start out really really small you know it's important to stand up for yourself um and it's um something that you absolutely have to learn how to do especially it's i find i find that the way that the way that it progresses usually is through small reaches and boundaries being broken like people will push your boundaries very very very slowly over a over a large amount of time especially in adulthood i found so if you find that someone is being sort of outwardly negative in that way or is pushing your boundaries and what you like in a certain way what they were saying about nipping it in the bud is a good way of going about it because if you express like some some level of resistance against them pushing against your boundaries um it's in my experience it's likely not to escalate much further um you just have to kind of keep them in check if that makes sense like you just got to be very firm about what your boundaries are what you what kind of behavior you accept what kind of behavior you don't accept i think that's a good way of going about it um because once you once you start letting them slowly slowly sort of push your boundaries further and further um you can get yourself into a tricky situation because they feel like those things that they're doing are safe for them to do and so they can continue pushing the boundaries there's an autistic person because this can continue into your adulthood um because we don't really typically get this naturally and if we do it's delayed um you know people were standing up for themselves when i was like in second grade and i didn't learn until i was like out of high school i told you i started being passive aggressive so he would speak to me sometimes no pretend not to hear him god this is so bad um it's not bad it's really not bad because of how bad like the number of nights i went home crying then of course it was another guy and he would just like stare at me like just like stare like i would turn around he'd just be like glaring at me and i'd be like are you okay and i'll like turn into a joke and he would be like oh yeah i'm fine i would just ask him he would do it all the time i'd just be like you good bro like are you okay um i think that what really helps is kind of being able to joke about it what that does is it kind of takes you out of the situation you can kind of step outside of that and kind of see that the person who's talking to you is either hurt it is the it's the reframing i think the reframing is like a really good tool i would say you know i was talking about before about if someone's being aggressive if you kind of reframe it and you stay strong to your frame and god i'm talking like one of those um stoic bros kind of people but um staying staying staying true to your frame and not letting people push push boundaries or at least offering some retaliation to your boundaries being pushed in an effective way i think can be can be useful jeweler says hello thanks for doing what you're doing i've learned much from your channel i'm really glad jeweler's thank you for coming on i was severely bullied in elementary school i tried ignoring it fighting back going to teachers principals my mom the parents of my bullies i even tried making myself look weak and pathetic to make it seem less fun for them there is no way to handle it that leads to positive results in many cases yeah if they're not having a good time if they're not having a laugh in the little group of people um that's definitely a deterrent i would say i'm sorry for your experience yeah sounds awful i'm sorry dev not i'm sorry hurting or insecure unhappy and you just kind of say i can handle this you know and then you kind of come back and you say well that wasn't very nice it kind of throws them off because what they really want is a reaction it's so interesting but it's also the nicest way to respond you didn't give them what they wanted and it's really important to remember that they're trying to get something from you all they want from you is to hurt you don't give it to them or at least don't let them see that you gave it to them do not let them see it's definitely strong to be able to manage your emotions like most people just kind of let their emotions fly out and anger and rage and insecurities getting flung onto other people you know it would it take so much strength to hold that inside and still be a compassionate person and so that's what i really want you guys to know is that you know you're going through this stuff use it as strength start sort of build armor you know over time and it this isn't something that happens overnight and this is not something that you need to pressure yourself with it takes so much time and then a lot of you guys have already gotten to that point where you're just fed up and when you're fed up you have to make the right decisions because it's very possible you could make the wrong decision and you don't want to do that you want to um be so in control of yourself and kind of take a break and make the right decisions i highly recommend reading books about this watching videos about this um i watched charisma and command for a very long time bright side has like so silly bright side has like some videos um about psychology and like body language so so so so helpful for people on the spectrum even though it's not necessarily made for people on the spectrum hmm yeah um i think a lot of people to this would say like why are you trying to teach us to mask i don't think that's the case i i think that there is nothing wrong with trying to understand neurotypical communication i don't really consider that to be masking but i know that some people might might might say that to to what aniva said um but definitely like learning how other people work and how to understand things can be helpful i also think if you're using masking as a protective mechanism i don't necessarily think that's a bad thing i think if you're using it to protect yourself in confrontation or in in very very difficult circumstances it can definitely be applicable you know you do what you need to do to to keep keep yourself safe you know i was bullied badly i'm sorry cherries like i've told you before my daughter is still getting bullied at uni she was bullied all through secondary school i was bullied too but then i found myself in friendships with bad power dynamics makes me really sad to hear around it's so awful i hate this stuff my god they don't understand like how much of a negative impact it can have on people they don't take it seriously that's that's like one of the worst things it's just like seen as like a joke and some of it that's humorous or some of it that's like entertainment it's it's crazy and then they can have such massive impacts on our mental health in the long term since that majority of us have been bullied yeah yeah it's very very common for autistic people sadly we don't have to go through a lot i wish it wasn't the case these body language videos have helped me so much to realize what's going on in my environment because i had no idea the things i was missing out on and the cues that other people are aware of having to do with people facing you and what it means if they're facing the way from you that means that they're disinterested and this is something that we don't realize on our own and so we have to sort of teach ourselves these things help us recognize bullying early on because that's when you want to act on bullying um but of course you need to like watch some videos on appropriate responses because i know that i can have very inappropriate responses to how someone is treating me i think that's all i have for you guys today i hope that this video was a little bit more helpful um and a little bit more insightful i guess um bullying is really tough it's really hard to deal with it and it takes a lot of practice standing up to it and it takes a lot of time and it takes a lot of studying so if you are on the autism spectrum or you just found my page randomly or you just enjoy watching my videos please do leave a like and subscribe and i really appreciate you guys you guys are absolutely fantastic and i think that's about it thank you guys so much for watching and bye really um let's have a look at some of the comments here oh that's not what i want to do sad fact is the human resources department of a company is often there to protect the company not the victims if the HR debt department refuse to take victims seriously i would strongly suggest going to a workers union representative and filing a complaint against the bullies such bullies bullying sadly never ends some people are still stuck in high school people will be all happy joking being good for each other but when you are around they become serious not laughing disinterested and harsh towards you like what you've been doing here talking to us kind of speech i don't think that's necessary bullying i think that's i mean it can be but i think that's more along the lines of like isolation i just don't understand why people think it's okay to pick on others who are different about what is it about some others that is so different some people just pick on pick up on it right away i think there's there's a lot of it's it's usually like the indirect communication you know and and sometimes we can take quite a while in terms of processing some people pick up on that processing delay and think that we're like slow think that we're easily sort of we're kind of vulnerable they do have a knack for for picking up on vulnerability in people and um i definitely displayed a lot of that when i was younger sometimes bullies will make a formal complaint of bullying against you if you stand up to them what's happened to me repeatedly yeah um that's been a really really good video from an either i think one thing that wasn't particularly delved into too much was kind of the less apparent sort of aspects of like what you describe as like discrimination of autistic people socially um you know sometimes it can come across in the ways of harassment or bullying sometimes it can be a little bit different it can be related to hovering you know perhaps exclusion um lots of different ways that people can treat us differently which do have negative impacts on ourselves which aren't sort of outwardly sort of negative in this way and there's just a lot to do with like the inner workings of the social world and other aspects that i think is worthwhile mentioning is mate crime you don't know what mate crime is it's when someone befriends a disabled or autistic person or a vulnerable individual in order to take advantage of them happens quite a bit i saw it in school i've seen it in adult life um i've experienced it to some degree highly recommend looking into the concept of mate crime i do also have a podcast with joe lee um my autistic wings we talked about unintentional gaslighting um also within that episode we were talking about mate crime something that's quite considerable sort of threat to us you know some sort of taking advantage of us especially if we're in like quite a lonely sort of isolated place highly recommend you look into that and if you have enjoyed this make sure to like subscribe for more content like this and go over and check out an either's page give the video harassment and bullying autistic adult like drop or subscribe and uh set for a comment let me know that i that i sent you


It's obviously New Year's Resolution time, which I think always works out when you make resolutions. So we might as well do that for our teams, Chandler. And why don't you start us off with the Lakers? Yeah, I think it's the live in the moment. Listen, you have the best arguably of all time on James. Your future is pretty awful. There's no real other option. You got to get Anthony Davis healthy. You got to have Russell Westbrook healthy. And listen, it could be either one of two ways. Just live in the moment and try now. And you're only three and a half games out of the play-in. Michelle, he's out. The only other option would have been to blow it up. And I don't even know if that makes them better. So you know what? LeBron is, you know, he's chasing Karim. He's going to pass Karim. Let's give him his flowers. Let's ride this great season he's having and live in the try and get in the play-in and see what happens.  I like this. I like this one, you know, day at a time. I like it. This is, don't listen to people. 29 other teams, but you gave me the Lakers. Thanks. Hey, man. That's what you get. Eddie gets a team. He gets to pick his team, though, obviously. That was picked for me, but I'm going to go with no more drama for the Nets. Let's just play basketball. Kevin was on the podium a few weeks back saying, hey, we always are like this, but right now you are. So let's just play basketball. Let's keep winning. Let's keep rolling. Guys look great. When this is a basketball team, when it's like just a basketball team.  It's just a basketball team. They look amazing. And then they've been great. 11 straight wins. Probably getting 12 tonight. I'll see Beatle up there and then laugh at her and learn. No, but yeah, 12 straight wins. Yeah. Start, you know, wondering what's, what's the record? Looking forward. You're just, just OD with it. Just, just take it, but no drama. Basketball. Well, that's the thing. Chandler, we got like, what, three, four months left in the regular season. What are the odds that they make it all the way to then without drama? I mean, isn't that a novel idea? Just play about basketball and nothing else. Is that what they're supposed to do? But yeah, listen, it seems like it's in the past. I'm starting to believe it. The Kyrie Irving, something new is going to happen. And hopefully it's not with Brooklyn. And they're going to just continue to win games. KD is going to continue to dominate. And they're going to be a tough beat in the playoffs. But yeah, the less drama, the better off they are. Can we get like six or drama, Celtics drama, like blocks. You want Celtics. You need Celtics drama. That's what you need.  Let's do that. All right. I'm in on that. I like drama everywhere. Anywhere we can get it. I obviously am picking the spurs for my New Year's resolutions and building on the cheese that Chandler decided to drop on us. I'm just going to, you know, live last love, be in the present, embrace it, just be zen. No, but for real, like, look, they're not, you're playing with house money at this point. You just got to do what you got to do. They're young guys. They're having fun. Personally, I'm loving watching them play. And I know that doesn't make sense because I sat through five championships as a super fan, but it's fun and it is what it is.  And I don't want to hear it anymore, Eddie, about your 12 wins in a row. I'll see you in a few hours. Okay. We'll see how that plays out. We're taking a quick break because guess what? We are on a roll. Oh, that's right. Harley Genius. Try to make it keep going when we come back.


Okay, we're back. I sat staring at it for a while Before I tell you what I've decided I want to show you this really interesting thing I just found out See, you know, however, we have that bubbling pool over here. It's actually a place you can go I thought it was part of the terrain. I thought it was just this like mudpool or something it's actually a place you can visit and But it's not an altar of earth, right? So that's that's altar of earth where you buy elementals this thing is like Earth elemental conflict so I assume it's like a You know the Naga Bank like that thing there you go and fight earth elementals and then they give you a reward So I'm kind of keen to do that to just see what it actually is So I might send a beater to do that actually today While she's teleporting around the place I've decided I'm gonna use the beater to explore the area up around here from the necropolis I expect there to be a green town up in here But I don't like the fact that the Necro is so badly Fogged I know this area here is safe. The only way to access it is the tan Or this this portal here this month this particular monolith So that's a pretty important priority for me. I think is to clear this away. Someone's got to do it I don't use her This area here is more important to explore and develop on the underground here I already have a leska to do that and then my two best heroes I'm gonna continue with the plan to use gal art a trot up to the blue portal come out here Get to this observatory. Just explore this area a bit. You probably won't have enough Strength to do this job, but we'll see what troops he gets given This guy's gonna continue to explore down here this guy's quite important He's gonna continue to explore up here And then I'm gonna keep my eighth here on my sleeve The other possibility is is this here But I'm satisfied that orange is basically trapped in the bottom left And I've got tons of notice like if they have a decent hero that comes trotting up this way to challenge me I've got two weeks worth of troops here. I've got town portal. I just don't I just leave orange trapped in the corner While I go and explore Red So all it remains is to figure out what we're buying and Get the beat that is sort of teleport around and do that I think I do want the unicorns So I'll start with them He's gonna do his best To get as far up to here. So she's gonna come to here come down get them probably not bother to This happened before as well seven grand I'm not gonna bother with the movement for the seven owls If she does that first And I'm faced with the same problem again is that I can't make the more unicorns because I don't have that I haven't invested Yeah So do that one first. I don't know if it matter. I'm trying to just like traveling salesman problem going on here. I Want for less get to be happy Um, these will make her happy and these Spectacular how much of my money have I already blown most of it? Yeah Yeah, as you can clearly see I might as well get these two So the things So I'll leave my army here I'm gonna go and deliver these to the leska pick up the other stuff that The bloke has for me 11 grand left.  Uh, there's also a case for going for This I don't know that many chances of water walk. It's the last spell. I really want to need I'm gonna do that. I don't know if it's level four level five, but Okay, we missed I have to do a bit of mucking around here We town portal to The new conflux keald Which I can't enter because the leska's standing there keeled Just let's guzzle boat for the record Well done. The leska She learns it from the leska Why wouldn't she know it herself from having gone into the town herself? Hmm, it's interesting Take the stuff I've bought for you with my blessing Enjoy Do I have anything you'd like? I'll keep the shackles Keep these things you're happy Oh, what does this stuff do? Oh, okay improves crystal production. I'll take that off. If you want this do Makes it cheaper to surrender Okay, we'll keep the split like this Obviously I want someone to wear that Wear that crystal cloak Right, the leska's sorted Okay, uh, the leska meanwhile, I like this swarm of order elementals I like the look of them reckon I could take them Could be worth it for the box Does cost me quite a bit of time though But I think I'm gonna do that for flavors sake if nothing else Okay Right now the beta has some errands to run Just got to go pick them up and give them to That other bloke Would have loved to have gotten the four phoenixes. I kind of feel like I messed this up anyway Do it again Voluption go ahead learn some stuff with my blessing Can you wear this? A bit busy. Oh, I should have given us that fear guy. Damn it Uh That's a mistake I guess you should keep it now Take this take that take that It's a slightly better army now for him Plus one crystal could be quite good. It might be relevant I assume you don't have a cloak on then And oh the other thing I had thought to do was go over and check this out see what it is Yes, I kind of think I might do that actually And then with the Because I've used a day. I'll be able to get the phoenixes before I set off. So that's what I'll do with my day off So my army's back over here in the tower But I haven't been to the rampart yet The rampart has Stuff I don't have money for the stuff that's in the rampart I definitely screwed that up Um He's just been standing there. Thane. I'm worried that he maybe Has to mention door, but no mana and he's waiting for it to build up again That'd be really super annoying If you just say sits there for 25 days getting enough mana to leap over here and then Annoyingly take my base How else did he get there right because he got there and he has no boat So he either water walked and used all his mana or he dimensioned or he's got a scroll of dimension door, but no mana All right, um What are we doing? Are we gonna visit this pool? Um, and I still need to visit the rampart Like if we're doing this, I want to do it today.  No, okay Okay, come back to Poison somehow I learned even more stuff. There's the crystal cloak Why not does that work? What happens? What happens if I stand in here? It only works once. Okay, right In that case, um You can have it back All right, so I'm keen to see what this does earth elemental conflux So how is that different from the altar of earth? What earth elemental conflux? Alter of earth weird, right? So you yeah, okay. All right. So it uses a little bit of movement every time I don't think that was because she'd cast it too many times. I think it was because she'd run out of movement points mp as they say That's what do this Still waiting for a comeuppance here Um expensive, aren't they? Is there a comeuppance from red? No green's not happy with us there Wow, that's quite an army I'm impressed No point doing anything Okay Couldn't quite get to me though. So I think I'm surviving Green is very cranky Oh, hang on. I actually know some spells. What can I do? Planting bolt. Uh, who wants it? So yeah Tracty, that's okay, mate. All right, where did that happen? Damn it.  It's probably the way to go It's not an army. I particularly want to fight with Gela Even though he can get to this fight, I think Yeah, like there's no reason for me to use this army against that army. I'm just going to take casualties No comeuppance here Red very quiet I'm nearly certain red has the braille And there are black dragons in my future That can't be imploded Anyway, with that in mind, we do this shoot the swarm to death Cast slow and blind if I have to with tons of spell points Yeah, what else would have come down here? Okay yikes I deal a thousand damage Kills about half a stack. Okay, so we will need some help here Is it blind? Can you blind an elemental? I'm sure I've asked that question before You can certainly curse them that could also come in Um Yeah movement five, okay Blessing my guy seems pretty good, right blessing the titans Just just gonna make them Deadlier just get that upper range of damage Clearly doing nothing Oh, hang on these guys can do something if you guys move into range. I can kite with the nagers Yeah, so do that Try to kill that stack. I think it's really really good Kiting is off the table, but I can do it next turn Right, so I can do this right and then run away. Yeah, yeah seven You know this will work Okay, I'm still blessed No need to do anything you guys have till there So I'll wait here that was a kite move so I come back to here May just do this I could maybe do another spell here. I could bless Or slow Shoot here they move to here and here The Lister does its thing the gremlins go in and finish them off Then on my turn I kill Yeah, I think I do need To buy a turn here So hopefully that's two turns for them to connect now. Yeah, perfect.  So we'll just do that You guys are getting out of there You're coming down here It's already tickety boo That was probably a bit of unnecessary slow, but whatever. I didn't know I was gonna get a morale. So Whatever three mana. I think it cost me See that's great experience for someone of Velezka's Level navigation is no use to me now You're the one I want to open the box Do I want to waste? I've got four swamp moves here to get this scroll. I've got the right care. Just clerk on anyway Deserve it of course it has okay. All right. Um, yeah, she got the experience which was all right I'm not gonna waste the moves to get to here You really need a You need a swamp hero Witch you need a witch to gallop around in here It's an absolute nightmare. Right, so I've got my money She's stuck stupidly here. I obviously want to get the phoenixes Now wait Before you do that She still hasn't been to the rampart yet To get the unicorns or these Are they more important than The ice elementals I don't know Right do The things in the right order He comes to you.  She's got to kill that green hero And I'm sure he came out of here Would you come down maybe out of here? Okay, maybe he came out of the underground as well So is that is that a better use of her To after she's killed him After she's killed him Gallop through all this to get to No, sorry. Hang on. She'll be she'll be here. So she gallops through here pops her head up here Sees what's here Finishes green once and for all and if she can she reveals a bit of map here And in the necro Guess what we could do We have a man We have a man who loves zombies. He looks like a zombie Him back here Yeah Seems good, right? So do I want the wishing well before I go Nearly sure that's how that works Um be ashamed to lose out on four of these Celebrative resources here. Oh, actually, I could do that to just buy him today. They try to buy him today Yeah, like it's not it's I've I've got so much sulfur and that trades trades at a really good price. So I generally find I try to Limit how much stuff I sell for gold until really late in the late late late game Um But yeah, it's easy to get up enough money to raise enough money to hire him back. So we'll do that Um major little fry that's happened Yeah, okay So I don't think I need the 80 mana That badly to waste a trip up there I think I'd rather just go kill the guy from flush Luchin is where I'm going There is a bit more money, but I don't want to spend it on any of this and I'm not gonna muck around Well, I could send him back to get those troops after he's been here So I could send him back to here to just buy Unupgraded versions of the elementals It's not very exciting though Okay, she goes and kills that green dude Shackles on Gets there In fact, she could have gotten She had that much left over. Okay, so could we've gotten to the wishing well and done this? Maybe but probably not um So demer is just absolutely dead meat He should never have come here demer He's gonna do a meteor shower So we'll just do the usual. We'll just do the usual I don't want to wait.  So So just do our usual strategy, right, which Means we aren't Gonna do anything until he's Yeah But then there's no more. There's no meteor shower now. So I'll just resurrect the unicorns when the time comes 481 I'd kill two I'd kill two, but I probably lose one What else am I here for? You lose one. Yeah, there's lost one All right, so now I've got three stacks with balloons on them Kill them because then Knock him out Kill that might be better. Here go kill that We'll use these on 40 to 800 damage 1200 to pile into them. They're quite hard to kill About a thousand there the majors. Yeah, they're really really tough really good unit.  The answer is yes So these three units are going to kill the others. So we have to resurrect now It's just okay compared to what I'm used to Do this and then the elves. Yeah, okay Yeah, yeah, so we said she was going to come up this way Poke her head up the top maybe gallop up here There is that mercury mine Right, so we'll follow that plan that we came up with which was To hire him back down here Somewhere creepy Where he belongs because he's a creep He himself is a massive creep by about I don't know. Yeah, ten of these so hopefully he's hard to kill How much money have I got left nothing? So I bought zombies instead of skeletons because of the toughness He's really hard to one shot once he's got this configuration on um Willing to bother doing that is a thousand spell experience matter to you Kind of does It's probably not really worthwhile, but it's like There's a certain level of flavor That I think is worth You know same with these guys here, but it's much more valuable to me For you to come this way Just look in here. I don't care too much About you as a person Like I didn't hire you to be your friend You know what I mean?   How does that work? They seem to be able to come back whenever they want. Oops. Hang on wrong button. I want to look underground here So can he go gallip gallip gallip gallip And then come do do do do do do. Maybe But if I'm standing on one cool thing you can do is you just stand there And then he can't you'd have to run all the way to there Which is an underground hero so maybe he wouldn't care I can't body block there, maybe The only thing I could do is get behind the walls. It's a bit something.  Let's just do our exploring job first. What's up through here? Hello? Can't go that way? Okay I'm just doing a little bit of a beachhead exploration gig. Trying to find out where we are. Where are we? So I think the exploration value is better than the sulfur. So let me go for that. Ooh, you want to talk exploration value? Do this instead? Libythera and him might meet up at this rate actually. This might save Libythera a job. No it doesn't. Okay, cool. Oh actually maybe it does. Yeah so it tells us, huh, there's Shakti. There's another prisoner. A pack of champions. Like a walk past them. Hmm, interested in this but hard to get to. Orb of driving range makes my water spells deal more damage. Water doesn't do much damage so ice bolt does a bit more damage. And there's Feleska. Oh man it's all the rich tapestry isn't it? It all connects together. And there's Jager. That was a really big reveal. Yeah I've forgotten that this thing actually shows you beyond the walls of your current area. Right, so when I pop up, I guess I'll go to this one. I don't really want to waste for less Libythera's time coming in down through here. She does have bigger fish to fry up here. As much as I'd like to do this. Looks like it's free. How can this just be sitting here for free? No one's been here that means. Well because you can't get past, no one's gotten past the pack of champions yet. Okay I think I just have a quick look down. Are they connected? They are. So that's connected in through there. So in theory if you could run in through here, do this. Come back out. Is it worth taking a whole day off to go do that? This hero better be amazing. She doesn't need any more Pandora's Boxes. I'm not gonna do it. I think this is in everyone's interest. Fantastic wishing why not take that or don't know. And there's green. What remains of them? Tons of movement here. Might be the end of green. Okay, pretty good. Now here's the thing. Blue and green are gone. Okay so it's just orange, red and me. How do I get into Red's area? It's through here, right? This is the only way. So that's actually really good. We're narrowing everything down. The only other way is maybe if there's more up here. She's got quite a bit of movement left. So I can just gallop up here and see. Then assuming it's a dead end, I'll go to the Inferno. Assume there's nothing in here. That's a pretty good mage guild. Precision would be good to teach to Thingy. So I'll jump in here. Just surely no precision. Maybe I've just forgotten about precision. Yeah so that would be a good thing to give to Valeska. I'm sensing that we're heading towards the end game now in a big way. There's fight against the gold dragons and black dragons. Maybe significantly less of a big deal than I made out. I don't know. She doesn't need to come in here. There's no reason. Is there a thing of Valhalla that gives plus one attack? Oh there you go. There's a reason. Yay! Okay continue up here. Green has been vanquished. Keep trotting around. Kind of want to hire that eighth hero here now. I think I'm gonna head up here. This is where I want to do this. Or is it here? The action is how do I get close to the action? Hire at the Inferno. He goes gallop, gallop, gallop, gallop all around up through here. Gets to here. That's the key. I really want to get to it. Say I'll use labita for that now. And I'll hire my eighth hero here. There's still this question of orange but I'll just trot down here and destroy orange once I've destroyed red. I think I'm nearly at the end game. I really do. We might not get the massive showdown fight that we've been spoiling for. I think just absolutely nothing. That's quite a good artifact. A throng. 100 to 200 I think is a throng, orb of the firmament. I'm quite sure that does. Air spells do more damage. This is all pointless now at this stage of the game. Going down to the Necro isn't useful for him is it? You could pop down to the Necro and load up on all these buffs. Have a look in here. What else could he do? He could go to the fortress through the green portal here. Come down. Neato though. Should I do this? A throng of earth elementals. I think they still can be slowed though right? I can clone my stuff. Should be able to beat them. One way or another I should be able to beat them. And then he can actually look up here. He could summon a boat here. That would be something. What if he summoned a boat right there? Yeah, Neato. I think just the sooner we get to red and get a really good fight happening with red, the sooner it will be all over. Yeah, labita to the inferno or labita to here? Might be faster to bring her here actually. We know reds nearby. Just have the two of them wandering around. Yeah, definitely to here then. Okay, Jager's running for it. That's fine. Tan is gone. Probably at the hands of red.  I think we saw a red hero teleporting around, getting up to no good, getting up to mischief. Yeah, they're not strong armies are they? So instead of trotting down and killing Jager, so they actually did a trade, someone came and traded with him. How did they do that trade? How did he offload? Makes me want to bring labita down here immediately. I could go kill him. Labita can gallop up here. Hit the wishing well. Do this just for flavour. It's got to be a hero time, right? Oh, that's here. Okay, well, taking back down, go here. I think it's better to run through there again. We're staying an orange hero up here in the middle of nowhere. So I'm happy for this guy to just be killed in action or caught in action. I'm not really interested in rehiring him or anything, doesn't matter. So yeah, I'm just going to scout, find out as much information as I can. Okay, so this is here. What is this? There's something to fight there if I run up there. Okay, it's extremely young this area. Okay, that's just a mop up job at the end.  Shakti was going to explore this area, but I'm not as worried about this now. Back this way. Okay, it's all connected. It's like a conspiracy theory. It's all connected. Yeah, we can do this fight. So these things are going to take some killing. So I can deal about 400 damage. I can deal about less. And I can deal only 120, okay, right? Yeah, so these guys don't have morale. That's really, really good. So let's wait. What is he doing anyway? He's vulnerable to meteor shower. I think I know that. No, I don't. Oh, I made a mistake. I should have cloned at the end of before. Yeah, so let's do this again. So I just wasted an entire turn there. Yeah, so the clone stack has... Yeah, so we just killed this one now, right? So I'm completely just exploiting the fact that I strike first with no retaliation. Okay, so they're not dead, which is really annoying. I could just kill this one.  How far can you move? Yeah. Do you tie the magic arrow? Go here. The reason for that is that that one guy can kill the entire stack of clones. Bit of this, bit of that. And just pile in here now. So clone very handy in the right situation. How great are Earth elementals? Such, such an incredible creature. Do it man, as to my suppose. If I were to walk over to him, can I beat that? I'm gonna say yes. Get a better arc, isn't it very good. Euro, I can't get there anyway. I was hoping to be able to summon a boat here, not to be... right. Let's get real here. What are the, what am I doing? How am I finishing this game? I've got to close it out now. You guys are getting bored. She can get to... oh yeah, I've got to kill this guy. Jager doesn't need though to be shackled, shackled. She can come to here, get underground quickly. Probably this underground portal here actually. Come racing up here. I do feel like there's another red hero somewhere nearby. I don't need to defend the conflicts against this. How sad am I if they take it? It would be different if this was a really great hero, but we've already killed him once, so he can't be packing that much awesome artifacts or what have you. I'm gonna just do this. There's a wishing well up there, so I'll do that. This is more valuable to me at this point. The information, the scouting. Where are you? There you are. Not good enough, Verdish. You are not strong enough, love, and I actually have a feeling I could even catch you today. What if I caught her today? That's just, that's just available. Why would you split your army up like that? That seems a bit irresponsible to me. While I look up here, I think this game is over. Okay, there. Gates, gates everywhere. We'll be there right from the off we're going to portal to the, this one? Okay, here. It's just about good to get to her. I'm not, I'm happy for this fight to happen. I don't think Verdish is a very good hero. I'm gonna beat that army with either of my heroes, so I'm not worried about her. I'm not gonna bother asking what that person wants. I think I can just end the game. Okay, so there should be a rampart around here somewhere. You could do it. Hope he's easy now. Yeah, they're just running. He's gonna go for it. Oh no. Okay, a orange. Really? That's annoying. Who would have thought Clavius could ride that far in one day? I assume you've come ready to rock. Ooh, what's that death ripple? I thought you got three more of those, that'll do the job. Enough, okay. That's enough. Well actually, hang on a minute. I'll have morale.   Didn't think that'd be happening in this particular run. Um, I think we might win this. Maybe not. This guy goes first. Okay, he has to wait. Wait, wait. I move out here and not, I should have killed that one. No, I couldn't kill that one. Okay, he's out of spell points though. So just, if I just defend, I think I win. A glorious victory for the defenders of the fortress. That's classic.  Oh man, that's embarrassing.  It's gonna be right out of there. Okay, thank you. Where shall we ride to? You could ride over here. Great.  I'll have you come this way. All right, um, what'll we see Red do? Run away up this way. So let's continue with this plan here. There's the dungeon. We'll just go for it. Virdish is in there, I think. Lost hold. There is a dungeon. I had to assume there were like two dungeons. Maybe just do a bit of this before we decide. There's the rampart. A male kith. We know he sticks. Yeah, okay. Red is just, I'm actually disappointed. I was hoping for a really big showdown with Red, but it looks like our biggest fight of the match is actually going to remain just the, um, was it that one against Vitamina? The undead one, maybe? Where she had the recantor's cloak? That actually turned out to be the biggest, biggest match of the day. Um, so against this guy, he knows, what is it? Meteor shower? Which he'll cast annoyingly, or we just do our usual thing, then resurrect stuff. Yeah, we don't really compromise. I don't think anymore it's two. Oh, excuse me. Oh, I shouldn't laugh.   Silver Pegasus here are a bit better because they can do that, they can fly over. On turn one, take some killing, don't they? So I don't want to do this, right?  Yeah, catapult, acid formula. A little trot in here and have a look. Counter strike. Okay, didn't know that one. So, I like not going to do anything anytime soon. Just take this now. No extra moves, so I can't go here first. The hero, okay. They just struck me there, no hero. Um, I can try. Resurrection, sadly, doesn't work because I don't get to keep them afterwards. Because she doesn't know, she's an expert. I can wait with the catapult. See if they come out. Seems good. How many hit points does a catapult have, and why do they have 1,000 hit points for a catapult? Well, wait, would I kill them enough? So, can I use the Nargis to kill the Black Dragons as a way to go, yeah? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Do this. Yeah, they're coming over. So the catapult can just go for the arrow. Does that kill? It does. Yeah, let's kill, and then this kills. Two. Oh, that's right, it doesn't matter if they come out. That's right, I got the golden bow of awesomeness. Kill all these. I probably should have just killed them with the titans. Okay, it worked. Right, I think I'm a little bit lucky there. Um, so, when it's my turn, I think I magic arrow for the win on the titans turn. I'm finding at this point, yeah, I'll take the ballistics. It matters, is there a mana vortex here? So there's no grail building here either. How does that work? If you capture somewhere that has the grail building, I can't remember that now. Does the grail go away? It's a big thing that gets built here, if you have the grail. I love the dungeon. The dungeon town is so cool. Can't believe this is the first one we've seen. Just given how many dungeon monsters there have been in the game. No mana vortex. That's just such a good deal with mana vortex, man. I don't get why they don't build them. You've got an upgraded dragon cave. You never bother with the mana vortex. I'm building it. There. Oh, she's not in there. Go in there. Yeah. Does it double your maximum?  Like that's really, really good. So basically for a thousand bucks, if you have a dungeon in your empire, all of your heroes have expert intelligence. Like that's how she had to devote an entire secondary skill and level it all the way up to get the same effect as a mana vortex gives you, to your entire roster of troops. It's unbelievably good. The AI just never bothered. Like, it's so strange. Okay, so Valeska can't actually do much else other than, you know, well, where'd I get up down there? Go hunting and try to find people to kill. It's kind of where we're at. We want to just capture every town and put enough defenders in each of them for them to, for red and orange to both have no choice but to attack back into their, into us. And this feels weird, but I do want to move on from here today. So live with that. We're gonna get the tower now. Oh, you're not. Don't tell me you're stuck on there. Oh, she can't get under. I didn't see that. So let's, this guy seems more, do me a job man. That's going to be useful. Yep, go here. Try to figure it out. What's connected to what? Swampon? I can't remember what that does. Do this. And we're in the clear. Never really got to fight a dragon utopia, but it's not really necessary at this point. So this entire area is completely safe and we can just run out of here now. Run back here. I'll just do that on my way. Can't get to him. There's someone a boat there. Yes, that's nice. Quite like that. So maybe we'll just do it. See how sad we are. We're that sad. That's how sad we are, as measured by her green movement bar. So annoying that he's stuck there on that. Anyway, who cares? How do we need to invest anything in the defense of that conflux now that he's there? I've got so much notice with Jaeger, like before I need to worry about him, right? So getting mopping up here, I feel, come on. Red comes back up. They're annoyed with me. She goes here. That's fine. Who are you? And what are you doing here? Okay, so they're all just dead to her, to Labitha. Jaeger finally made landfall. He could go anywhere from there, which is a bit annoying. Go to the lecropolis, try his luck there, so I can just pop behind here and defend. I can't even do it. It's annoying. Let's see what happens with my sailor man. He's not gonna matter now. Back, mate. He's just dead now.  Anyone who wanders near a town. He's dead. I'm gonna sail. Let's go sail. Can you please get out of the way, go up here? Tell me what's up there. Nothing. You can't get through it. How do I get in there to that area? I can't underground it. I can't walk in. Monolith 2, I haven't found what that is. Absolute conundrum. Tell me what that does. Very nice. So Valeska kills him. Actually, while she's here, she comes in through here, kills this first, then hops over and kills him. Bit of a gamble. Does she have enough moves to do all that? Surely she has. Yeah. I'd like to kill her as well. Probably do need to kill her. Gallop. Gallop. Gallop. Come portal. I can decide after. Shackles. Oh. Water elemental again, I don't think. Westend will be an absolute beginner. She's not.  No reason to play this differently to normal, right? It's all less sad, isn't it? I cast a spell properly and then she does this like pathetic version of it. Let's kill these. Be a hero. How many have I lost of them so far? What did she do? She cast Slow. And then all this stuff died, so I haven't actually lost anyone yet. I'm waiting. I can afford to be inefficient. There we go. So this won't be needed. Genie's one of the worst units in the game, I think. Oops, better do this. We're nearly there, folks. We're nearly there. Gimme stuff. Yeah, so I think from Orange's point of view, that was their best hero. Very close to him. So I feel like I've got enough time to do all this other stuff. Have I? I can gamble with this. I can do that. Okay, I don't think I do have enough time. And I don't want to have to take the rampart again. There aren't enough soldiers here to defend it. So sadly, we'll have to do all that again. I'll be killing it. Will I lose two? No, I won't. Okay, so I killed them. There's an autopilot almost. Yeah, sausage. Okay, actually inflicted a wound on me, so that's interesting. Okay, get back to here, do that move again. Meanwhile, you may as well go for an explore. Do some skills, up on up here. Not before I do any of this. Aha. Well, well, well. Well, well, well. Thank you. We meet again. My arch nemesis.


Hey guys, my name is Jen and I'm a crafter. I'm going to talk to you really quick about this craft world fine point pen set that I have here. I normally buy the Cricut brands, but this was amazing. I'm just going to show you really quick what it can do. So it comes with this beautiful colors. There's 30 in here and they are fine points. So this is going to be great for this project that I'm going to be working with. You can see on the back here. So I'm just going to show you really quick. I'm actually going to take the black color out really quick and show you. If you haven't used the Cricut pens or the pens for Cricut machine before, I will show you. So there's a little arrow on here. You're going to want to open your B clamp up, or I'm sorry your A clamp up and just open your pen and put it in here. So you see that the arrow is pointing down. I'm going to push it. You can hear it. Since you hear it go in. So you just want to hear that click and then you know it's in. What I like to do with the cover too is just put it right on there and then close it up and I already have my stuff in design space ready to go. So I have my piece of paper on my mat already. I'm just going to go ahead and throw that in here. I'm going to push the flashing arrow and I'm going to show you really quick how this draws this out. I'm just doing a coloring picture for myself to color with these pens. You can use any pens you want, but this brand is really awesome. I love it. It's called Craft World. So definitely check it out. I'm just going to show you really quick. I'm going to let this go. I'm going to speed this up, but I'm going to show you what it looks like after it's all done. Okay, so now it's finished. I'm just going to push the button. I'll show you guys what it looks like. So this is just a little coloring thing I like to do. You can use the markers that you got, but I love how these turn out and these really do last a long time. So it was the thin ones. These are the fine point ones, but I'm just going to go ahead and go in and color this in. You can make a whole coloring book out of this whatever you want. I actually, in design space, I went in and made it so I could take it out basically so it has a nice edge to it like this. So I can take this off and finish coloring it. But again, this is the Craft World of pens. Just a really quick tutorial. They worked really well and I've had them for a little while and they last really long. So just make sure when you're finished with it to put to the cover back on. So you want to take it out of here, pull it up and then just put the cover back on. And then it's nice because you have the little side part here on your Cricut to put them so you can always put them for storage. Happy crafting everyone!


So, here's a simulation on ideal gases. It's actually on gas properties from the PHET group. And we're working with ideal gases here. Now, I'm going to put the link for this simulation into the learning management system from my course, from my students, but you can also go to the phet.colorado.edu and look for their sims, including gas properties. You can play around with a lot of different things on this, and I'm not necessarily going to show all of the features. This one is just a basic introduction. So, you can actually add gas to the system. It takes a little while for everything to equalize out. You can actually let some gas escape out. You can change the volume of the gas. And you can add heat or reduce heat, cool the gas off, heat transferred. And then see how that affects the temperature, which should be measured in Kelvin, and the pressure, which for physics we measure in Pascal or kilopascal. There's also things over here you can change in terms of if I want to hold the volume constant, or what if I want to hold the pressure constant, but allow myself to change the volume. Or what if I want to hold the pressure constant and watch how if I add or subtract heat, the volume changes. So this simulation allows you to actually qualitatively see what happens in all these different situations. Have fun playing around with it and getting a better idea for how things work.


And even when one takes their shahada, it reminds them of that if they're coming into the fold of Islam. And our brothers and sisters in that realm, whether today they're Christian or Jew or whatever they are, at that point they were all believers. And that they were our brothers and sisters in the experiencing and the witnessing of the oneness and unity of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. That He subhanahu wa ta'ala created us out of love and that He honored us. And the fact that some of us remember here or not that we were born Muslim, alhamdulillah, we remember that in a way. And some of us may not due to the consequences of family, environment, whatever, wherever we were born. But at any cost, all of it is a fuddle. It's the grace of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. So it is upon those that have been graced that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala made Sayyidina Adam, alaihi salam, the Khalifa on earth. And we, an extension as human beings and especially as believers, are all hulafa. People that are protectors and maintainers of this earth that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has blessed us with. And at the least one of the things that we are responsible for is to remind others of that pact. Allah subhi rabbikum bala Shahidna. That when people look at us as Muslims, in our characters, in the way we interact, in the way we carry ourselves, that we should encourage people that when people look at us, they can see the Muhammadan light in character within all of us. That they too can be reminded. That they too can be reminded. It was said about one of the saints, Rahimullah, from Hadramat. His name is Habib Ahmad Mashour al-Hadad. That 300,000 people became Muslim at his hands. And some of those people became Muslim just by looking at him. And not only did he impact him that they took the shahada, he changed their hearts because the Prophet salallahu alaihi salam was one that changed the hearts of people. That's why with the Quraysh, the non-believers, they would say, don't listen to that man. So they would pass by him and they would hold their ears like this, but when they would look at him, they would bear witness that he's the Prophet of God, salallahu alaihi salam. Just by looking at him, his interaction, his character. So it is upon us. The deeper understanding then is that we should always remind ourselves of that day to have this ashhadu walla ilahilallah shadu anna Muhammadan Rasulullah. This is a pact with Allah SWT that we are faced with in our everyday activities, that every single time we come to a place where we have to make a decision of taking the right road or the wrong road, that we have to remember, we have a pact with Allah, that we are Muslims, that we have said this pact, we say ashhadu walla ilahilallah shadu anna Muhammadan Rasulullah. What does that mean? That kalimatein, the shahada should not be taken lightly. That when other people look at you, they're going to judge this deen. Then when other people look at you, that either they're going to love this deen or they're going to despise this religion. This is why we are the khulatha, this is why we are the protectors and the maintainers. Sidi Ahmad Zarouq said that I was a seeker, a seeker in search of Allah SWT for 40 years. And then I realized Allah's not lost to be found. It is my, myself that I am lost. I have to find myself. I have to get to know myself in order to find Allah SWT.   And that is to even say La ilaha illallah Muhammad Rasulullah. To have knowledge of Allah, to know Allah, the human being is the only one blessed to know Allah the way we know Allah. And this is why Allah SWT said, We have honored Bani Adam. We have honored him. We hear that so many times. Who is the one honoring all of us? Who is the one that is honoring the children of Adam? Me and you. You and I. It is Allah. It is Allah who gives you Izzah. It is Allah who gives you this honor that elevates you to the status of angels and even higher. It is Allah. And how did he honor us? Such an introduction into the universe. Such an introduction, such an honoring that he said, Usjuduli Adam. And the entirety of this creation in the Malaika to bow down to Adam, to this creation, the human being. What an honoring that is. And then today, who do we honor? Do we honor our Lord? Do we teach our children? And Alhamdulillah that everybody is here at Juma. But I have family members and I know a lot of people. There are so many people that we all know that are not here. And that we need to reach those. Who are those people? Who are they honoring? I just saw a little, what's it called? I was sent a link and I looked and it went into this little advertisement show of a reality TV show just like they do of all these housewives and stuff. But it's all these Afghan sisters now. Who do we honor? The athletes. Do we honor the reality? And it's not even a reality. Because they're faking who they are on the TV show. They're an illusion of who they're trying to portray and to be. They don't understand who their fathers were and their forefathers were. And what kind of people they came from. So they don't understand. So who are we honoring? We have to say that we need to honor Allah SWT. We need to honor the Anbiya. We need to honor the prophets. And we can't really blame anybody. Well, we can't blame anybody. We can't say, you know, a lot of us especially in this day and age we play that victim role. We love to be victims. Oh, it's because of this. Oh, it's because of that. But we have to, Islam is a deen that you have to look within yourself. The Prophet SAW said, That your greatest enemy of your soul, the greatest enemy of yourself, it was between these two shoulder blades of you. It's your own selves. That is the greatest enemy. And in another Hadith, the Prophet SAW, he says that that Iman has 77 branches. The highest of it is what is that the removal of something from the road.  And you move it. I don't want somebody's foot to get cut. But the ulima and the knowers of Allah SWT, they look at that even in a different way. They believe that there is a spiritual path as well as a physical path and that they need to remove things from the spiritual path of people in order for them to reach Allah. And they understand that the greatest, the lowest thing that you have to remove on the path to Allah SWT is your own self. It's your ego. That it's the ego. It's that pride. It's that I am. It's that Nike. I do. I want to do it my way. It's that. It's that that gets in between you and Allah SWT. And this is why our mashayikh and our shayyuf, this is why we mention that these are people that when we seek after, these are people that when we sit and when we come, there's so many programs that happen in this masjid. There's so many mashallah, blessed people come here. We are people today that we want to see everything on YouTube. But what we don't understand is that the light that descends in one of the scholars in one of the people of Allah is in a place, the light in the mercy in the guidance that descends. You will not find that until you come to that spot. You're not going to get that on YouTube. You might learn a few things. But you're really not going to capture the essence of it. You're not going to look at somebody and they're going to change their hearts for you.  And these people at the end of the day, who are they? These are people that are connected, that are connected, that are connected to the beloved of God, the one that traveled the unseen road and came back.  Because there's a spiritual light and connection that goes all the way back to the prophet of God that strengthens you so much. And this is why Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la, he says, That the prophets of God is closer, is more important, takes priority to the believer than their own souls. Because why? Because he is here for our souls. He is here for our souls. He said, I have come. What? For the kaba'ir, for the major sins. The major sins of the human being. One of the sahabi comes to him and he says, He had a soul, it was right after a prayer. After the Zohar prayer, I think he says that, He had a soul, I have sinned. And he says, what should I do for expiation? He said, didn't we just pray? He said, yes. He said, then your sin has been forgiven. The five times prayer. It's like jumping in a river. The five times will do. How many of us forego that prayer? How many of us skip the prayer when the prophets of every single prayer that you do between the prayers and the prayers and the Jumma to Jumma that your sins are forgiven? And that is why people loved him. Because he was Ra'uf al-Rahim. He was compassionate and merciful to the believers. And Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la said that if he wasn't, that people would run away from him.  And that is why one of the sahabi, his name was Mu'ad ibn Jabal. When he goes to Sham, after the passing of the prophet, he goes to Sham and one of the Tabeen, he sees, they say, who is that man? He has such light, masha'Allah, who is that? He said, this is Mu'ad ibn Jabal, one of the sahab of the prophet. He's one of the companions of the prophet. So he quickly goes and runs to him and he says, As-Salaamu Alaikum. And then he says, what does he say? He says, can you please tell me something you heard from other beloved Sala'Allah. They loved him. They wanted to hear something that he said. We have books and books. Bukhari, Muslim, Anasai, we have so many books, six Sittasahiyah, six canonical books of Sahih hadith that we have, that we could read what the beloved Sala'Allah said. To increase our Eman. And this is the honor and the adab that they had, the love, and that takes you far when you have adab with Allah. And it takes you far when you have love with Allah on his messenger. There's a story of a man. His name is Bishr Ibn Al-Harif. He was born 150 years after the Hijra of the Prophet Sala'Allah, full-blown alcoholic. He was a known alcoholic in the entire town.  So he goes and he picks up the paper and he wipes the dust off of it and it says Bismillah in the name of Allah. In all of a sudden this compassion and devotion comes over him in a state of drunkenness. So he staggers to the closest market, to the closest store and he buys some rose water and he cleans it up and he puts rose water on it and then he takes it to his house and he puts it in a high place of honor. And then that night one of the Shuyukh, one of the Awliyaar, the saints of Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala they have a dream. And then in the dream it is said to them, Go find Harith and tell him this, You have perfumed my name. So I have perfumed yours. You have exalted my name. So I have exalted yours. You have perfumed my name. You have purified my name. So I have purified you. By my majesty I will surely perfume your name in this world and the next. And this man has his dream and he says, How could this be? He's a drunk. That was not divine. He prays, he makes wudu, he prays, goes back to sleep. Same dream again. Three nights in a row, same dream again. So finally he goes to Bishr and he's in some kind of brothel bar or something and he asks the people where is he? Where is he? And he says he's right there and he's drunk and he goes up to him, Oh Bishr and he recognizes him. He's one of the Awliyaar, the saints of the town and he looks at him and he says I got a message from Allah for you and he starts screaming and he said is it a punishment? Is it a warning? What is it? And he tells him the dream. And when he tells him the dream Bishr, he falls on his face crying. He falls and he makes toba. And he from that day on devotes himself to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. And when the message came to him, he was barefoot. And he said that when this message came to me, I was bare feet. And I made my peace with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala in that way. And Allah has said that he has made this world a carpet for us. So I will never walk with shoes on it again. So he was known as al-Hafi, the barefoot one. But this is the type of honor. This is the type of love. Even a drunkard had that went so far with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. What action of love? What action of fear? What action of exaltedness and honor do you have for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala? To get us closer to him. And this is why the month of Hajj is coming inshallah. And so many of us will go see the Imam al-Adham, will go see the Habib al-Adham, will go see the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And if you read about or hear the hadith of Jibreel alaihi sallam, it's a long hadith, I'm not going to go into that. But it's the hadith about Iman, Islam and Ahsan. But what I do want to say about that is, when Sayyidina Jibreel alaihi sallam comes to the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam in the form of a man, the way he approaches him. Sayyidina Omar narrates the hadith. And he says about, he says, We did not see, we did not see the traces of traveling on him. Of course he was the angel Jibreel alaihi sallam, but at the same time he said he had shiny black hair and he had a white robe and he was perfumed. And then he comes to the Prophet of God sallallahu alaihi wa sallam and he sits before him directly giving him all his attention and he sits before him calmly and puts his knees against his knees with so much adab, with so much adab. And then we go and see the Prophet of God sallallahu alaihi sallam during Umrah and during Hajj. And especially if you haven't gone before. And when you enter, you enter through what? To Baba Salaam, the door of safety, the door of Salaam. Because when you enter in the sanctuary of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam you're in a state of safety and peace. You're in a state of being whole. And then you see him, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And that is the climax of humanity. That is the greatest experience the human being could ever have in this world is to go visit the grave of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam and stand before him sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. And that is why when you exit, when you exit from al-Baqi the door of the graveyard because once you've seen him and been with him, then that's it. You can go back to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. But we go, how do we go to him? Some of us, we're on FaceTime as we walk by. Hardly even looking. Hardly even making dua. Hardly even making Salaam. I'm not judging anybody. I'm just saying for your first time go with respect to the Prophet of God. Because he said the one that comes visits my grave my intercession for that big person becomes obligatory on me. And once he may intercede for you, what's left? What's left? So adab goes far away with Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. I'll say this to you, and forgive Allah the great for me and for you and for the people of Muslims, Muslims and believers and believers, so forgive him. He is the Forgiving, the Merciful.