The first thing you should do, if you haven't done so already, is clone a fork of the Bioconda Recipes GitHub repository. This will make it much easier in the future to commit and create pull requests. This process takes a bit of time, so I will be skipping that part of the video. Once this process is finished, we can change into that directory, so that Git can find our changes and so on. Then we want to create a new branch. In this case, we're calling it the Balerifon Bioconda because the software we are creating a recipe for is named Balerifon. We also want to create a condo environment with the same name so that we can easily find it later with some simple dependencies such as condo build and pip and Python. This is another process that takes a while, so if you're following along with the video, now would be a good time to pause and wait for condo to install all its dependencies, maybe refresh your drink or what have you, and if that is the case, I will see you when you get back. Welcome back. Now we activate the environment we just created. That way, no other dependencies or software is messing with us. Now we also know that we're going to need the SourceTurbles checksum or hash, which we get by downloading it using WGet from GitHub. Usually you find these at the end of a GitHub repository's URL, followed by the word archive and the version of the package or release, and then the compression for that archive. Then we pass that tarble, which we saved locally, through a program to generate the checksum. It is not a very large file, so it's not going to take long, so we select that 60 character hexadecimal string, then we create a directory for the meta.yaml file, and with our favorite editor, we edit the meta.yaml file. This will also create the file. Now for starters, we're going to want some template variables like the name and version and so on. This is going to make it possible for the bioconda automated process to whenever a new version is released. Automatically update the bioconda recipe, so the recipe maintainer often need not do anything. In this line here we paste the hash that we just copied from the WGet command, and then we're ready to define the metadata for the contorecipe itself. We start with the package directive, we give it the name and plug in the variable we defined above, passing it through lowercase because in some github URLs this may be a various case. Then we plug in the version variable, and we define the source section. Here we give it a URL with some template variables plugged in so that, again, the automated process can create recipes for new versions without any difficulty. In this one we do not pass it through lowercase because github URLs are case sensitive, and the version, of course, is numeric in this case, so it does not need lower casing. Then we plug in the hash that we defined above. This also automatically gets updated whenever new versions are released. Once we've done that, we define the build section. First of all, we know this is a Python package, so we don't need to build it for separate architectures. It's a new recipe, so build number zero. And then condo build has certain also template variables defined that we can use to build Python packages. We also want to include some flags that tell condo build that it does not need to build dependencies, and it does not need to check for installed packages. Now we need to define the dependencies. In the host section are the dependencies for actually creating the condo package. In this case, it's only Python and PIP because Balerifon is a Python package. Then in the run section, we define the dependencies needed to actually execute the tool, which is also PySAM. Furthermore, it's always good to define a test section in your condo recipes. For Balerifon, it's sufficient to just put in the dash dash version flag. And finally, we define the about section of this recipe. We put in the home page as the GitHub URL to Balerifon, which is under my GitHub account. We specify the license under which this code is licensed, which for Balerifon is MIT. The license file directive mentions the path to the file where the text of the license is found. And finally, we write a quick summary of what the tool does. In this case, Balerifon filters BAM files for reads where there is high-quality mapping on either side of a splice junction and retains the five-prime side of those reads. It then merges those reads into a single paired-end BAM file. Once we are done editing our recipe, we tell condo to build this. This is a process that again takes quite a bit of time. So if you're following along with the recipe, now would be another good time to pause the video and take a break, stretch your legs, or refresh your drink. And I will again see you when you're back. Welcome back. Now that our recipe is successfully built, we check our git status to make sure that no stray files are there. We're good. So we add recipe slash Balerifon. Check the status again. And yes, that's all we added. Now we check the diff to make absolutely sure that we committed everything correctly, which we did. So now we exit and acute the actual commit command, which is add recipe for Balerifon version 1.0. It's always useful to make the commit message something meaningful. Now that we've done that, we push to our fork, making sure to track the Balerifon BioConda branch. The output of git will give you a URL that you can simply click on to pull up the pull request. Here are some of the tips for contributors, and we select that text and write in a brief description again of what the tool does. So we basically just repeat what we said in the condo recipes about section. And once the description is written, I like to make one final check of the diff to make sure that I actually committed and pushed everything I meant to commit and push. Because there have been times when I didn't. Everything looks good, so I can just click the create pull request button. And so the pull request has been created. Each pull request to BioConda recipes is always passed through a series of continuous integration testings, and some review and code editing after which your recipe will be merged. And after a few minutes, usually 15 to 20, the recipe will be available on anaconda.org, which we double check by going to anaconda.org, typing in Balerifon in the search bar. And sure enough, there it is. We can then click on the name of the package. We'll see some details here, such as license, and the files we see the no arch. And we have successfully created a BioConda package. I will now pass you over to my colleague Alex Ostrowski, who will go into creating the Galaxy XML for the tool wrapper.


you know way of viewing conflict is yeah it's a fight for their lives and somebody's got to win oh but let's contrive circumstances where the world breaks to let them get away or the characters breach their principles to allow it to continue you know I think it's funny that it literally just had like Obi-Wan on an escort mission and then Vader is trying to kill the person he's escorting or whatever yeah I mean obviously would have Vader be a distracted by Obi-Wan's presence but I'm sure it's doable yeah he did work protection on Tatooine for different jobs and then one job it's like we need to go to this other planet and he's like I can't but then they like tell him to do with their family they'll pay him as much as he could possibly ask for all of the different motivations you might be able to get and you know it's enough to he's convinced that he might go on it but then yeah it turns out the person he's protecting is a Jedi they could do the thing like if Bale didn't have mass like massive resources to try and protect Leia you could understand why Obi-Wan would leave to do it you could have anything where it's like something he's personally invested in that he has to leave to go and do and there's no real other way he's the person who can help yeah just put some thought into it no it was great um but yeah I was going to say it's kind of funny that he references Ryan Kylo here because that whole problem you've just been lying out is exactly what happens with them first fight the world splits in half to separate them second fight in TLJ it's the he gets knocked out and there's conveniently a ship she can just take right now right next to her and it's like oh yeah yeah and then the third fight is that she actually does kill him but then she force heals him I think um damn I'm sure I said this uh I'm trying to figure it out I think uh I think I've said before that a good way to think about um like your character in an action story or a story where they come into conflict with people is that there are only so many times that they can succeed before they have to fail um there are only so many times that they can get hurt before they have to get killed by some crazy injury like it's it's worth considering um you know like for a skill that somebody may be the more times they get put in danger the more likely it becomes that they will inevitably make a mistake or scrub or come up against somebody who's more powerful or more skilled than they are and that it's just worthwhile to approach a story thinking about it that way okay action scene alright I they're gonna get out of this one I've expended that next time it's got to be less likely that there's no consequences for them and then you keep doing it I think it should be the same way when it comes to um encounters with the big bad depending on the nature of their conflict and what their objectives are especially in the more simple case that the bad guy wants to kill the hero there's only so many times that they can fight that somebody's got to die um you know like it's just worth thinking about it that way but in this case they just wanted their fights and neither of the characters could die because of the story and where it slots in but they didn't give a shit they still wanted the fights well it's funny because like we would say the same for Ray and Kylo early on we'd be like huh neither of them can die because the story's got to be longer than this but this time it was neither of them can die like in episode 3 because the story is longer than this but also who they are necessarily means they cannot die it's the risk of telling a prequel you've got more constraints it prompts the reality you have to write something pretty clever because you're under more restrictions than usual but we are all saying it like pessimistically because we know they're going to pull someone out of their ass they always do what if they'd introduce like a survivor Jedi and like uh then you could have Obi-Wan and Vader versus well no sorry Obi-Wan and survivor Jedi versus like Vader and Riva and that could be the final fight we don't know who's surviving that other than Obi-Wan and Vader so many things you could do to have a fight with stakes the inquisitors are right there for you to use I mean you had them in your show could have been a fight and they even brought an O.C. like bring a couple O.Cs and kill them because the Grand Inquisitor had to survive and that's the one they post the stab to the chest they stabbed him in the fucking tongue which is why they stabbed him in the chest and then that's exactly how he sounds that's just all my stress he is a powerful motivator the stage is getting dangerously close to Squidward as well Rags Riva you're up okay let's click on this here drag it on over you know what kind of made sense when Obi-Wan attacked Darth Vader by throwing boulders at him because he was using his greatest weakness against him if you think about it boulders are nothing but big sand poor Anakin sand is found in so many places already melt okay hey remember that scene in wait what return of the Jedi oh thank you it's I'm slight I'm tired where Luke said to Kenobi I can't kill my own father and Kenobi replied oh don't sweat it bro I like totally had him twice and couldn't do it either it's amazing writing all ties together I mean like I had three battles to the death of this man technically four just like it looks like what he's like well Mustafa weird quarry planet weird boulder planet and then death so weird quarry planet in the OT Luke Invader fight and Luke loses and the next time they fight he wins and like that is the end of that that conflict there's only so many times that you can have characters fight before it's like are you guys like just fucking around are you actually interested in achieving any of your goals that's where it used to be in terms of like experimental ideas like we got our main hero fighting our main villain here like what but we're only two movies in what are we going to do is Luke going to win and it's like no what if Vader what if Vader wins and they were all probably like whoa Vader wins at this point it's become something of a cliche right they fight and then lose and then the next time they fight the hero wins Empire is famously the example of the low point being something that should be embraced that have avoided yeah well it's the contrast between success and failure and stories is where a lot of the juice comes from you want those peaks and dips this Obi-Wan trists you that with the Obi-Wan getting put on the fire I guess it's just a matter of consequences Luke actually loses his hand and his lightsaber and nearly dies like the consequences are real can Obi's skin had plot armor it can't actually be damaged by fire and then they just put him in a back to tank anyway like it's think about the consequences and of course well Infinity War was trying to do the same thing the heroes lose and then they win it just doesn't commit to any of the consequences of that because that's where the real potency comes from is even if the hero prevails in the end the loss matters and has longstanding repercussions I mean hell you can say like that the loss in Empire is the thing that reminds Luke of what he needs to retain because you know his hand can't go to a hand maybe it wouldn't have hit as hard I hate to bring up but you've you've cited that a couple of times it's like a really good moment I've even said that I love the line I'm a Jedi like my father before me I don't know a few guys have experienced it but I don't know why this happened but in the Red Light Media Part 2 video Rich specifically cites that moment as like unfeeling and robotic on Luke's part it is peak feeling the best moments in the entire saga it's just like yeah I did like Luke in Return of the Jedi he's so robotic and he literally says that line and it's like oh my god that is that like a level of overcompensation like to if by downplaying the merits of the entire series it becomes a lot easier to not compare to say that Kenobi is slotting into some yeah well at one point they do say like Star Wars as a whole is just stupid which is so sad yeah that's a shame it wasn't always stupid at all it was a great moment that is some top notch writing it is a really good moment and then when you think about what it leads to and that that was probably the thing that pushed Darth Vader over the edge to come through in the end you know and like Luke is different in Return of the Jedi 2 first two but like it's not hard to follow exactly what happened there he's gone from being beaten the fuck up training more consolidating more and now he's like almost overconfident has a super success in the first scene being the Rancor and then of course winning on the barge if you remember he's like hyperconfident when they're on their way to be executed because like we can go over how dumb and crazy the plan is in Jabba's powers but him as a character it's more than fine that he was just like I'm confident that we're gonna overcome all of this and then he behaves that way his intention and confidence in the fact that he's going to win he's going to convert Vader back he's going like it's all gonna work out I think that's what helps really play into the throne room scene that he fucking loses it he thinks he can control himself he thinks he's like almost become a Jedi master essentially but um and then he and then right on the brink he's like shit I've almost become my father and then using that line reflecting it back I will become my father I am my father a Jedi this is like good stuff Luke and I movie is great in terms of a character thread there's just there are problems in return of the Jedi we're all aware of them we know yeah like it's head yeah what a fucking idiot if only we could find the actor and kill him he's probably died from an accident at this point he's had too many times too many times put that in like wait so where are we oh yeah okay so that means I'm next whoa terrifying Baru she will come when the sun goes down objection your honor lack of foundation speculation yeah that's what I thought when she said that what they said in the recording it's just like I'm sorry where did you get that from where why is she saying that what if anything it's the opposite what you would do yeah it's such a weird thing not sure what you think it's almost like she read the script and she was like that's when she's coming so we will prepare for that that is when the action she looks at the screen that is the action scene moment guys it'll sync with the other action scene it's gonna be epic as fuck two action scenes at once whoo she knows that that Riva's gonna wait until sun down because the fight scene has to be under lit everything has to be under lit yeah because it would be a fight scene and Obi-Wan could Obi if it was well lit hey when she slapped the stormtroopers' faces that was well lit I like that when the light was super lit it's hard to see the the fuck up the white savers glow better yeah that is almost exactly why they do it yeah they love that little it's like aesthetic points automatically in the same way that Hytop does it where it's just like I put two colors together isn't that am I an artist now yeah sure well when you talk about subtlety again the green light on Vulture's face is subtle compared to blue light oh no you're evil red light which yeah to be even trying to like separate them out a little bit it reflects the fucking lights those are things that exist and work that way to be like yeah they exist with the lightsabers the blue light on his face and the red light it's like yeah but you have to lift them up and down at the right times to make that work and it just seems super arbitrary and obvious I mean green light is like he's got it he's figured it out he got it which is I mean of course that lines up pretty well with what green light means go it's Vulture's main primary it's like his Vulture's primary color as well so that's a nice little thing and also it's just something that yeah like it's a lot more diagetic whereas like the red and blue you know it's just yeah they shouldn't what I'm saying is there shouldn't be that's just like you did that that's not like his light sabre as opposed to which is yeah which is just like he timed it with that point in the speech sayings of the evil that's where I mean meanwhile the lights go off at that time but the best like he's so focused on his realization that he even ignores what the green light means like he's even driving and then of course you've just got everything else in that scene methodically building up to him figuring it out asking very specific questions such a great scene I fucking love the dialogue Harrison yep so natural mm-hmm Spider-Man we should rewatch time coming instead of doing this hey shut up Jay read this shut up and read Owen and Baru are way too I feel I say clean it says calm way too clean way too clean to send everywhere way too calm seeing Riva holding unconscious loop back they should be snatching him away and beating her up shoot her I suppose you can make the argument they're just like being very careful because she's currently holding him as opposed to running up to him but I think I was kind of annoyed that they were more speedy in picking him up mm-hmm like they sort of but and to be honest with you I might just fucking punch you I don't know it'd be hard not to you fucking whore you killed everyone almost and then you come into our house terrify us ruin everything we're gonna have to move plant it I'm sorry I want that to be real dialogue in a film you fucking whore you killed everyone almost I want that to be in a story killed everyone almost um and on that note that's it for the catch up of catching up on them comments um thank you all so much for joining us on this wonderful adventure through Kenobi it's been great um you know Andor would likely be the next thing uh and then Ahsoka and then Ahsoka deez nuts you know but you know we'll see it'll half of it will depend on our interest half of it will depend on the audience's like desire for a particular thing cause I'm assuming you guys don't care if we cover bad batch but you might care if we cover Andor I don't know I guess we'll find out someone will likely want that yeah sure but then they'll be like don't cover that just cover Clone Wars and then we're all gonna be like mmm no I've heard them what so anyway okay bye see ya goodbye everyone bye wait is or will this this just say way into another clip of what was gonna happen should we be saying bye here um technically it is super goodbye but it will actually there'll be um something that was cut will now play after this so enjoy that well how does that one start should we segue into it I don't know how it starts I'm sorry is that the one on the state of Disney thing yes hey what do you guys think about the state of Disney yeah let's talk about that now it would be really nice if they built like a really expansive Coruscant set and loads of stuff they use that set for you know they just kept coming back to it like like like like if it was a set they regularly use they could probably justify spending like ten like ten million on it oh so like um like a modular one basically like a bit of a living set maybe almost like a hot wall you know but for a television show that I mean they have um having been watching a lot of TNG recently the fucking they the set for the enterprise they basically just built the whole fucking ship like that and it was all in one studio if I if I've got my trivia on it correctly is they have like uh and that's like you know several fucking decks um and this they do not they did not have Disney money they have you know the bridge every hallway loads of different I actually I'm not sure if it's like loads of different quarters rooms or which one room that would be the quarters that they redecorate for each one but you know it might be they could have a quarters or two room the captain's side room uh transporter room they have the jerry tubes um and like even like the science labs which you don't see that often I think they are a consistently yeah the medical they're part of the set go there sometimes I recently watched an episode where you have um a dream sequence with data it's called it was bloodlines part one if it's called that um it was it's uh data has a dream they show his dream sequence and there's just one really long and broken shot where they go from one side of the set to the other through hallways and you just realize oh this is actually all one set and it's fucking huge that's pretty cool yeah it's cool um I can explain that jay because they knew they would be filming in that ship quote-unquote uh for their like basically the entire show so it's worth making while disney have no clue what's gonna happen what's the whole town set for still a little bit unreal that there it doesn't seem to be a long-term plan for star wars no yeah shows can be made I don't know let's try this it's all hot potato shit um and there is gonna be a comment we eventually read out I don't know if it's gonna be now or later but uh cause I know I've seen it some way but basically the outline for what this show was gonna be is it I mean the problem is right the no matter what it was gonna be it could still have been just a shit but it does sound like a better premise um but we will look at that when it pops up in our cycle I'm not sure if it's in these comments or in other ones but we shall see and on the topic I guess that's the that's a problem when you just a content creation machine I mean they like just this week I think put out like a picture of all the releases plus it's like 30 something things or whatever it's like man it's not exciting because they seem to want to release episode of something every week well every day the reason why is because that's how you maintain subscribers long term that's kind of like the problem with a lot of the content is it's probably I feel like probably might be down playing it it's almost certainly being made with the number one goal of well yeah it's just gonna like this is gonna be good for Disney Plus as a platform you know what would be great for Disney Plus platform would be making good shows sure but like what does it matter right if with all the Marvel stuff and you know we've seen it like the show comes out people think it's really good at the time that's all that you need that's all that matters is that people think it's good at the time it doesn't matter whether they think it's been a month Boba Fair was kind of this weird sort of anomaly where people kind of recognize that there was a lot of things that were connected though whereas like Mando people thought that was really cool when it was coming out people loved Boba Fair finale I can't believe that I just can't believe it was so bad I guess it's just it feels like the way that these things are being made is very much it's like it's I guess it's always been the case because you know it's a business so you're trying to think about how you can make money it's just that Disney Plus which is we are going to release weekly because that's probably better for retaining subscribers it's like well how do we what is like the most optimal way to achieve a lot of objectives beyond storytelling such as keeping people on the platform people talking about the show which means that it's kind of at the forefront of popular culture it's like that's probably the reason why you know the very last episode it's the reason why cameos and stuff are like a pretty persistent aspect of these things it's all it all feels very deliberately done to make sure that people stay subscribed to the platform I guess this model feels I guess pretty insular and that none of these shows that they put out seem to be the cultural phenomena that like something like the original some like some like thrones right cause if they had if they had just they were producing loads of original stuff and they were throwing their money at loads different creative teams and maybe being pretty harsh with who doesn't doesn't get a second season you could be they could be creating such excellent content and they'll be using the subscription model and doing well with it if you crunch the numbers though like the being counters on their team probably have the likelihood of creating a game of thrones level cultural impact incredibly difficult compared to what they seem to be doing on purpose which is the pipeline sludge monster thing I mean I guess the thing is when you say like a cultural impact kind of know getting around the fact that like Marvel broadly is a huge cultural impact as like this nebulous sort of content thing it's true I mean so is those but they're getting all of these things once they seem to have sort of closed off and then no longer accumulating many new fans and then I think they're surfing it like it's like they stay at a constant six on the cultural relevance as opposed to doing like tens and then one one one one ten one one one one one over like two decades it's just six every year basically the thing is there's no getting around the fact that like you look at the highest grossing films in any given year Disney tends to take up like five or six of those sometimes more than that Marvel's hat is the whole six every year thing in terms of cultural impact because it just doesn't doesn't seem to last but like it doesn't seem that they care that seems to be part of the goal until until it carries everyone over that's all a box office bomb like until they have one of those and I don't think they I don't know that they ever will at least not for like the foreseeable future do you mean like a significant one well one that just flat out a solo like a film that legitimately loses money which yeah we've got precedent to say that changed their mind Star Wars quite a bit but they're clearly like trying to get Star Wars back onto that track well I guess it's just I think that I think that Marvel needs more than one because like that was the third that was the fourth Star Wars movie whereas like there have been nearly like 30 Marvel movies now or maybe even more than that plus the shows for there to be like one bomb I don't know that that would mean a lot yeah you're right because their treadmill of exchanges like solo is the next of building block as opposed to they lay like six building blocks per year for Marvel so like if all six of the year crashed maybe then they'd change it oh I would love to see what they would do I I guess the thing is I don't even see that happening because you look at what's like Moon Knight did pretty well right so like at least in terms of people watching it I imagine and Loki Season 2 was already filming because Loki did amazing so that's probably a guarantee of success to some degree I imagine that they do factor budget still like I think they will have sort of comfortable budgets but the budget varies right like Loki probably costs more than Miss Marvel so like Miss Marvel doesn't have to do as well and are probably still doing like well enough oh yeah it's probably with me in here I don't think any of us here presumably have any intention of watching Miss Marvel no I already forgot it existed I'm gonna obviously ask other friends to just catch me up if anything significant happens but that's not one I give I struggle to care but I've seen people complimenting that show already getting that hype up you get the impression though that they are surfing a wave and that the wave will eventually run out because they're not producing anything new no I don't think so yeah and it'll drive their legacy into the ground they're making Star Wars and Marvel as common as like soap opera well it's kind of everything right I think I think Disney's new stuff is one the animation studios make and then give them time and then you can come back to those and make them live action because that I mean that's kind of the thing all the live action stuff they don't really do like and well they did that jungle cruise movie I guess which is kind of like close to what Pirates of the Caribbean was it's like what they have is they have Disney animation studios and Pixar along with revisiting old stuff that they've already made making new stuff and then I don't know you can just start remaking that like it wouldn't surprise me if we do start seeing remakes for like Treasure Planet or remakes for I mean frozen like a live action will happen maybe give it like 10 more years and then by then there'll be more there'll be more new stuff that the studio will have made like Disney animation studios that was an original idea and then and so didn't that do as well as frozen did I did pretty well I that's I'm pretty sure that one they all do well it's kind of the thing like Disney don't really have bombs anymore like I don't know it's all like scientifically measured at this point and it's kind of scary because it works it really does work how long it'll work for like long-term effects I don't think they're going to be prepared for we'll have to see what happens I think the externalities of what people have been talking about where it's like hey you want to go see the Northman in theaters yeah well yeah sorry one show that's the problem I had here in Germany I couldn't find an English version for like another week or something before I could watch it in English because all the things were covered already with oh was it fantastic beasts or whatever the fuck the movie was what big IP fantastic beasts was filling out cinemas well well the screening rooms yeah no one went to see it but they already had the contracts for the cinema so they had to do it I guess so it's it's worth keeping in mind Jay the difference between box office and number of screenings the screenings will be determined based on like expectations of box office I assumed that they knew I assumed that they knew that wasn't going to do well oh no I think they I think they thought that was going to do well it felt the marketing felt so desperate with how the fantastic beast's logo fucking tiny on the posters and then it was secrets of Dumbledore which is so conspicuously hey remember Dumbledore I mean I guess I guess whatever insecurities they have like how report it was because I presume they're not making anymore a really important franchise to DC must be like really upset because that new guy that's come in wants to make it more like Marvel which is probably not like the worst idea in the world in terms of fighting I mean like in a good version of the Marvel stuff just that the Marvel stuff is just consistently horrifically bad in terms of quality well and so is I guess it's just we've reached a point now it's like well there hasn't really been anything from Marvel equivalent to like the Batman in a while you know like some artistry or I would love to watch like a cinematic universe based on like DC comics it's totally similar to the Batman right even if they were all the same quality as the Batman which has you know would happily laugh up and taste the nice universe of that but the thing is is um man this is a big old tangent from what I understand the new guy whose name eludes me at the moment thinks that there's not enough unity in terms of like DC stuff which is very true oh yeah it's all completely disparate it's like they don't even know they exist the other people their last attempt to try and get everything together was unfortunately ruined by Snyder well I mean was it also ruined by other people involved like um well it's worth remembering that like that uh well yeah there's been a lot of bad DC comics Patty Jenkins was also there making the one moment true true true I wouldn't want to do that um and we were made birds of prey what was it what was the team effort well it's just um it seems like the benefit of all of this disparate stuff is fortunately it feels like you look at Marvel stuff coming out now it's like is it going to be bad I don't know it just seems to be a pretty big triangle with DC it's like will black out and be bad it's like I don't know it might be fine like you know it might be okay I don't know I don't know what like but I guess it's just um nobody that that brand has been tarnished a lot like I don't know how much people are excited for like DC stuff cause there's this perception of a lack of quality whereas for as bad as the Marvel movies have gotten they kind of have this reputation of already reliably entertaining like they're not like those X-Men films from the 2000s like they're not like X-Men origins Wolverine bad even though they probably are they are probably it could be weird the bad in different ways right probably worse well it's just that I think what happened with Marvel's studio stuff is that they um they created a reputation for themselves that was different from what comic book movies had before which is that occasionally you get a good one but they were generally pretty shit there was like that perception and then like oh well these ones and cringe yeah like that they were like Daredevil 2003 or yeah X-Men origins or like Catwoman like there was kind of those ones that loomed and I think that there's a perception well Marvel has never made anything like that bad which is kind of funny cause I imagine if we watched Daredevil the Ben Affleck one it's probably going to be more redeeming qualities in it than some of the stuff coming out right now well yeah I was going to say even like X-Men origins Wolverine he's probably in character for most of it Logan yeah it's just um I don't I don't I don't know it's kind of it's kind of odd well no it's not I think it's because I got a lot of talented people involved they got great actors um the visual effects starting to wane bit at the moment but they used their production value to some extent too um it's kind of carried by a lot of things that aren't the writing it feels like this is all relevant to Star Wars because it's going to the exact same thing exact same process well I it's like kind of if it was like that's what they're trying to figure out now is like how can we do it and it seems like on the TV side it's working for them like the TV side has generally been responded to well and who's fault is that all right well I was just wanting to see how long that silence would last I checked my route and router of my internet that's why I talked that's why I talked to make sure that the internet had just cut out it was so silent all of a sudden I was like okay my internet is gone Rex why did you have to ruin it because I thought my internet was like turned off yeah I don't I don't know how much sludge it'll take before people will be like ugh doesn't taste very good um it's fun one of my friend was already is like when when you Marvel stuff comes out it's like I'm gonna watch it someday when I need something on the side to watch so much better stuff to do that with because he just on the on the side when he's doing completely other things just things it's background noise basically like here's the thing right you could do that with stuff that's really good um you there's a lot of really good stuff that isn't that you can't you can't do that with that really requires your full attention like Bly Manor for example mm-hmm but stuff like um house Archer or Star Trek TNG or watch house in the background okay yeah the office yeah perfect stuff that's like really well crafted these are shows they have great reputations they're pretty long they're nice and formulaic so you can play a little video game or have your food or whatever while you're watching them nah I assume community would be like that as well yeah I think community would these this what I mean these shows have so much more character compared to like Mandalorian season 2 episode 6 does anyone even have any clue what that even is mm-hmm fuck is it the one where the dark group is getting introduced and like baby Yoda is on the plinth yeah it's the Boba Fett episode just how I remember it because he it's funny how episode 6 of Mandalorian is the Boba Fett episode and episode 6 of Boba Fett is the Mandalorian episode there was 5 in Boba Fett shut up no I generally don't remember I don't remember either it might be it was something like that because there was 7 in total and I think 5 and 6 were Mando's episodes and then 7 was where they come together remember because we were blown away by the fact that Boba wasn't in it for like 2 episodes in the production quality like tripled yeah because all of this is a fucking mess and it's really funny because they can't even cover it up with their money because they don't give the time for the money to be spent properly


Hey everybody, welcome back to MagicRothodoxy. My name is David and this is a deck review. Hey, today we're going to look at the American flag playing cards from Bicycle, United States playing card company. You know Bicycle is an iconic American brand that proudly is made in the USA for over 130 years and the Bicycle American flag playing cards celebrate our American heritage and our history. These are hand illustrated cards and they feature images of the stars and stripes in very unique pips and face cards and include references to the brand's historical card back and tuck design. This Bicycle American flag deck celebrates one of America's cherished symbols, old glory, and becomes a whole new way to show your patriotism. These cards have been hand illustrated by the United States playing card company designer Pete Thomas whose passion for the history and tradition of illustration is exemplified in this unique deck which features references to historical card backs and tucks. The front of the tuck case just says Bicycle across the top and made in the USA since 1885. Of course, there's a giant exploded American flag there and it does say American flag playing cards underneath that. One side says air cushion finish made in the USA as does the other and the bottom has some ad copy even says designed by Pete Thomas at the bottom which is awesome. The back design of course is the back design of the cards. The top of the tucks has poker sized American flag face and that is pretty much it for the tuck case. Let's take a look at these cards. These cards come printed from the United States playing card company made in the USA. They have a modern cut and air cushion embossed and if you'd like to learn more about stock cut or finish you can click the link below in the description. Now a lot of people always ask me how these cards feel, how they handle, hey they feel and handle great. Best thing I can do though is put them in a caliper and measure them for you so that you can compare them against other decks that you've maybe previously held or owned in the past. 10 of these in the caliper come to 2.85. 2.85 is about the same as the black roses the magic con 2012 deck. The back design of the cards is a bunch of red white and blue banner symbols iconography etc. You got the American flag on the top and bottom. You have the shield there in the center and then all around the outside kind of making its own banner is a bunch of just red white and blue banners right. Yeah and they're all waving. You got stars and stripes pretty much everywhere. You even have a symbol of the eagle there in the middle as well. The other cool thing about the back design is it has an aged parchment look and the thing about the aged parchment look is that they didn't make the pattern the same on the top and bottom so what you end up with is a one-way back design. With this deck you're going to get two ad cards. One is an advertisement for a bicycle and the other one tells you a little bit about the deck. Also with this deck you're going to get two original jokers. It is the eagle shield emblem. It says joker at the top and I like this. Normally you get the traditional bicycle jokers you know with the king riding the bicycle but they put the time in to give you some original jokers and I would encourage bicycle to do this in the future. You also get an original ace of spades which is awesome too. It says bicycle across the top. There's the image of the American flag. It says the American flag below it and it says the United States playing card company made in the USA since 1885. As I mentioned earlier the pips in this deck are all stylized in that they are the vintage looking ones that they've released before and they also have stars embedded into each of the centers. Your court cards have all been redone as well. They've all been re-hand illustrated which is awesome. They kind of keep to the traditional look but they have kind of like a cartoony Americana overlay. They're all done in the red white and blue colors that you would expect. A little bit of gold in there too and then of course you have the stars and stripes kind of adds to the theme of this entire deck and I think it makes it super super fun. All right so that's my review of the American flag cards. Like I said unique court cards and pips. Air cushion finish printed on premium bicycle stock. One way back design awesome deck. If you see this when you're out and about I would highly encourage you to pick it up. As always recommend that you like this video just so other people can find it faster. We also recommend that you subscribe to this channel just so that you can stay up to date on the latest in cards and magic. If you want to follow me on social media you can. I'm at facebook.com slash magic orthodoxy twitter.com slash magic orthodoxy instagram.com slash magic underscore orthodoxy and if you need more content you can always find it at magicorthodoxy.com. Thanks. Bye. These cards come printed from the United States. Woo. Hi.


Good morning, dear friends.  Although it is just me in this simple wooden structure, I am not alone. The walls are open on all sides, and I wake up to see my relatives. A cherry tree to my right, oak trees with sister Ivy growing up the trunks. I look to my left, and I feel grateful for the food in my jars, much of it the product of my relationship with earth, and my great love of harvesting the abundance the earth provides. It is around 7 a.m. I am not in a rush to get out of bed. I have no phone, and I have no wi-fi here, so I have my mornings to myself. I generally don't speak until 10 a.m., and today is no exception. Getting dressed is easy, since I just have five green t-shirts and a couple pairs of brown shorts and pants. I shake out my body and stretch for a bit, to loosen up both my body and mind. I see what kind of critters might have visited me in the night, like mice and raccoons. Sometimes, I see them scrambling away when I stir. They can't get at my nuts, though. Those are too precious. I poop in my compost toilet, returning my nutrients to earth, and wiping with some of the softest leaves that I grow right here at home. It doesn't take long for me to get right to chores and tidying. I sweep the house and shake out the cotton mat and put away some dishes. I check my ferments. Right now, my pickles are bubbling quite substantially. I put out the food I'm dehydrating. Right now, it's salt, fruit leather, and cherries. Today, I'm putting away herbs that I have finished drying. And by now, I've definitely taken a swig of apple cider vinegar, or firesider. Before the day has gone on too long, I care for my body with my simple, natural, personal hygiene.  No deodorant, cologne, or toxic chemicals here. I generally stay at home until at least 10 o'clock, so I can have a slow, yet generally quiet, and productive morning. I get on my computer to do some work to be of service to earth and humanity. Never until after 8 a.m. and don't get onto the Wi-Fi until after 9. Here, without Wi-Fi, I'm doing work that I will upload later when I connect to the internet. Because I don't have a phone, it means that I'm unreachable for much of each day. This is part of my practice of mindfulness and presence. I will often start to make breakfast around 9.30 so that I can eat at 10 after 16 hours of intermittent fasting. Today, breakfast is locally grown oats with freshly picked lamb's quarter and tomatoes with apple blackberry sauce that I made this summer and some local duck eggs, which were a gift from a friend. Today is a bit of a different day because I have a cameraman here to show you a day in my life. But this is pretty normal. I do a lot of media interviews. This week I have vice and 60-second docs coming over to share my story. One of my most connective moments of the day is going to the spring to fill up my water jugs, which is about a five-minute walk away. I find that my mind slows down here. And that I'm able to take this mindfulness and presence with me throughout the day. And wherever I am, I take opportunities to connect with the earth and with my plant and animal relatives. Nothing to do no longer. I'm in the communal space of wild abundance, the community where I am staying. And here there is internet. What I do is very diverse and I won't sum it up for this day in the life. But most of the time I'm on the computer, I'm in service to earth and humanity. I do still waste some time on the computer, but after my vipassana, which is a 10-day silence meditation, I find myself watching a lot less clips of the office on YouTube. It's mid-afternoon and it's time for a swim. My swimming hole of choice is about a five-minute bike ride away. Wherever I am, I try to get in a swim. Lakes, roaring rivers, tiny creeks or ponds. Swimming is my shower and my time to connect with earth. I do struggle with anxiety a fair bit and many of my practices throughout the day are very helpful with this. Swimming resets and re-centers me. Today I'm staying in, but on many days I go out. And if I do go out, there's a good chance that I'm looking for food. If you're in the car with me, you'll notice I'm rarely looking at you in our conversation. Instead, I'm keeping my eyes out for food and there's a good chance we're stopping and you'll be learning something. You've probably noticed that I've been barefoot this whole day and I pretty much go barefoot everywhere I go. At home, walking in the woods, bicycling, walking through town and into the few stores that I go into. I spend a lot of time alone and over the last year have managed to get in a lot of silence and solitude. But when I do go out, there's a good chance that I'm talking to people. It's a pretty common place for people to recognize me on the streets and I've made a lot of new friends this way. I love eating and I eat a lot throughout the day. Often lunch and dinner kind of mix together and I'll make lunch and that will be my same thing that I'm eating for dinner. But today, I didn't have lunch. So now it's dinner time. So this is wild rice, lamb's quarter greens, chicken in the woods mushrooms, lamb, sauerkraut and then apple blackberry sauce with a couple of tomatoes on here and different herbs and spices. Right now, I'm eating a 100% non-industrial diet. So all locally grown and foraged foods in this meal represents real well what I'm eating in a day. Generally, I try to finish eating by six o'clock so that I can get in my 16 hour intermittent fast. But it often ends up being more like seven and that's actually 7.30 right now. This meal took me a little longer than usual. As much as nutrition is important to me, so is delicious food. So let's see how this chicken in the woods is. Very, very happy with it. I wish you were here to taste it with me. In the evening, I like to wind down and get myself ready for a good night's rest. So usually the internet is off by 7 or 8 o'clock and then the screens, all screens are off by about 8 o'clock and put away for the rest of the evening so that I can reduce the stimulation and get myself ready for bed. I like to have an evening herbal tea tonight. I'm not making that happen. And then ideally in bed by about 9 o'clock. If not 9, then 10 o'clock. I'm generally going all day and often late into the evening. But on my really good days like today, I have my evening wind down and I get myself into bed pretty early. Every day there's a balance of living in service to earth and humanity and taking the time for myself. My goal each day is to be the change that I wish to see in the world and to live it out loud. And at the same time living simply and sustainably, all of this takes a lot of time. But one of the big lessons I've learned over the last decade is that a quality existence takes time. Each day I practice some compassionate communication or nonviolent communication and after a year of practicing it, it has very much become into my flow as we call it nonviolent NVC consciousness. With this practice of NVC and many other practices over the last few years, my big focus has been overcoming the dominator culture that has been ingrained into part of me. Racism and sexism and the belief that humans are superior to other animals. And so a lot of my day and a lot of my time and energy goes into that, just the self-work and the growth to overcome what this dominator culture has ingrained deep inside of me. I haven't accomplished nearly as much as I've been hoping to in the last three years. First there was COVID, which stirred things up a little bit and made it harder for me to do my activism. And with the murder of George Floyd about three years ago as a white man, I definitely had a decent amount of shaking up of it's time for me to step aside and de-center myself and to use the platforms that I have to bring in other voices. And so I have been doing that for a lot for the last three years, just listening and learning. And so that's one of the reasons that you've seen a lot less of me here online. But after the last few years of doing this, I still have a lot left to learn, but I'm feeling like it's time for me to center myself a little bit more, bringing myself back into these platforms online and continuing to make sure that I'm using them in a way that's bringing other voices in so that our society is moving towards equity and justice. I have over the last years come to find that in most days I'm not able to accomplish what I want to in a day. And I've had to do a lot of figuring out what is my best gift and my best service to the earth and what do I focus on that allows me to be productive and successful and effective while also not burning out. And I've been learning a lot from Anishinaabe culture, which are the indigenous people of where I'm from. And particularly the Robin bird, as I've been returning to Robin from Rob, Robin is my birth name. I've learned from Pichi or O Pichi in Anishinaabe. And one of the lessons that I learned, which was so powerful for me was do not aspire beyond your scope and your own being. And that's the lesson of the Robin, one of the lessons of the Robin. And it was so powerful for me to hear that. And that's really one of my things that I'm taking in deep right now is do not aspire beyond your own scope and your own being.  People have been asking me for this video for a very long time. And I've been hesitant towards it because a day in my life, well, my life is so different. It really depends on the different activism project that I'm doing. I do so many different immersive campaigns that my life widely varies depending on the activism that I'm doing. But here, what you saw today, this is a tidbit of my life at the age of 36, about to turn 37, living here in this little shack for a temporary piece of time.  I love you all very much. And I'm so grateful to have spent this time with you. And I look forward to seeing many of you in person and sharing a hug.