the day off the weekend come on guys in the yard let's go in the yard come on come on no cheating come on now Frank you always try this go in the yard oh man no peeing on my barbecue so good morning everybody good Saturday morning and look at it it's gonna be a good day I'm planning on going to the land today gathering some firewood stalking up a little bit you know when we installed this air conditioner a lot of you including our family member said that we should probably build a little fence around it here's that the dogs don't do their business on it and we agree with you that's a great idea we would like to do it but so far we've been very lucky the dogs don't even want to go anywhere near it really I don't think they like it much I mean they probably don't understand what it does for them they would like it if they understood that but no they never never go around here that's all the firewood I've got left they naturally like to go to the back usually behind the sheds further away from the house I think they understand that we don't like them doing that anywhere near the house head note to the land I was going to take the big guys with me but just remembered Britt reminded me just before I left she messes me from work they haven't gotten their tick medication yet their wood ticks what is this little pill sort of like a treat that they get and it protects them from tick bites and with West Nile being around here we really don't want to risk it with our dogs and it's hard to find all the ticks in especially Chevy's big fluffy fluffy coat so what it does is this medicine goes into their system and any tick that bites them for the next few months just dies and falls off it was really really nice and handy I just don't want to bring them there now before they get that have a bunch of tick slats on them we don't find them then a few days later it's too late it's got a big subwoofer in the line up here now so kind of him to share his music with all of us good thing we all have the exact same taste in gangster rap oh he's cool too oh wish I was that cool and have you ever noticed this I have to admit I used to do the same thing when I was a teenager until I grew up alright when I was still a child I would have to roll my windows down on a nice sunny day like this all the time all the way down all the windows down and just crank the music that I'm listening to crank it so that everybody else could see how cool I was and hear the music that I'm listening to those are cooler days man cooler days now I'm just an old guy doesn't want to volume up too high on the stereo has the windows up so that the air conditioning doesn't get out slowly rolling down the road doing the speed limit using his turn signals not having his high beams on in traffic man I'm a boring guy I am boring kind of sad that I couldn't take the big guys with me thought it'd be a lot of fun and it'd be good to get them some exercise but their health comes first right one second could I get a large coffee with two cream and a shot of espresso in it that's it super duper however I have grown past the phase of having my windows down with the crank cranked music and subwoofers that you know vibrate the ground a mile away they're cool to listen to I have nothing against those kind of stereos they're awesome I love it I just it kind of bugs me when you're in traffic nobody else wants to listen to that nobody else but whatever if you're on the highway crank her up give her rattle your license plate right off I don't care I have a Tim Cardo's here there we go right here mm-hmm so last time we were working out here was a little bit wetter yet but looks like it's all dried up which is good that means we got high land and there's no low land here otherwise it would still be pulled up good my dad made me a new dolly pad for that thank you very much works great and got the slide-outs all popped out already ready to ready to go we got the trailer up on wood here so it's not gonna sink in you can see the wood has already sunk in a little bit so imagine how far this trailer would be sunk in these tires would be into the axles already if I hadn't done that or it could have been anyways who knows and then it's the same thing over here on this side good good good and she's all leveled out so now I'm gonna see the air conditioner can be powered by this thing and get to some mowing I got my chainsaw up there one of these days we're gonna get a skid steer yet but for now I'm gonna start doing as much as we can to clear this all down oh I can't wait till this is actually home all right very important to have air conditioning here I'm already cooking and it's only plus 10 today that's what 70s 765 Fahrenheit no I don't know what that is in Fahrenheit no it's not too warm yet but it feels hot so I can just imagine once it gets to plus 30 and above you know up to about 100 Fahrenheit it's going to it's gonna be cooking here so I've got the power and the extension cord all the way out here this isn't where I'm always gonna have this thing but for the sake of experimenting right now I'm gonna plug this thing in I already got this all warmed up just shut it off so I could talk to you guys now plug this in here like that I'm gonna turn her on see what we get out of it 4,000 peak watts and 3500 running watts I thought it was 3,000 35 even better let's check the lights first lights are working obviously they're just LED lights I mean that should work lights lights interior here we go we have lights now for the big test the air conditioning set it to cool the fans running set it down 65k the AC just kicked on post place needs a cleaning we haven't had a chance to clean it the spring yet Brit hasn't even been here yet and I haven't haven't gotten around to it but yeah that's air conditioning okay now let's shut the door here you can hardly hear that thing let's shut this fan off this air conditioner off so it's a little bit of ambient noise back there but I'm gonna move that generator further away from the camper so that it's not noisy in here that's not bad not too bad right sort of hear it out there cool this place down let's see what else we can get this generator to do I want to be able to hear if it's struggling at all so I'm gonna open this door again final how okay I'm going to turn on the fridge okay the fridge can also run on propane but we have it set on electric right now in the freezer the only thing is we probably won't be able to use this anyways because it takes about 24 hours for the fridge and freezer to cool down and I'm not gonna leave that thing running for 24 hours unless we're actually staying here for a weekend maybe in that case it'll run for a majority I don't think so okay so the fridge is on lights are on let's try the microwave this is the big one this is the big test so nothing's in there just make sure put it for like 20 seconds and go is this thing struggling at all no it's it's handling it just fine it's got the AC running it's got the microwave going it's got the fridge and freezer running so now we can make food here and either microwave it or we can use the propane use the stove the lights the water pump will work however we don't have water here yet so that's a problem we're gonna have to work out as the lady is going to need to use the bathroom I can use the woods she's going to need a bathroom I'll figure something out yeah we're gonna leave this running while we're working out here see we can cool this place off nice let's go cut some wood for the water situation what I'm thinking I'm probably gonna do is we're just gonna bring bottled water here just drink bottled water until we dig a well I don't want to completely get the water flowing in here and then have to re-winterize it next winter if we're not gonna use it that much for the toilet maybe we can rent a porta-potties or I mean we can still use the septic we'll just have to flush it down with water maybe take some tap water from home and if you have to go to the bathroom rinse it down with tap water that we brought along I don't know that's that's problems for another day one problem at a time son is slowly headed to the west west horizon over there but we're making some progress here cleared this little area he's cutting down the bushes cleaning them up and mowing it down I think I'm gonna turn that into my little bush more and this is working pretty good I may not even get a skid steer this year then to level this all I may just clear it up like this is the best I can the only problem is we've got all these stumps from the bushes that's what I'd like to dig up with the skid steer but maybe we don't need that this year maybe I can just use that more there as my bushwhacker and get a new push more for the house at home same price is renting a skid steer you know we get an extra mole road but then I'm gonna do this ourselves I don't know stuff to think about see how much how much I can get done like this we just had this area cleared before right my pickup was in pretty much today I got all of this cleared out and into there the only problem I've got here is these stumps where these bushes were I'd have to get the skid steer in to dig those out or we'll find a whole bunch of clean fill somewhere and we'll just cover it all with clean fill once we have everything cleared because then we know where the fill goes right so if I can clear this all without the skid steer organize it or get organized then I should be able to just find some clean fill somewhere hopefully I can find some at a good price get it shipped here dumped here then I'll rent a skid steer level it all out angle it properly for drainage and stuff and I should bury all this well that's an idea I don't I'd love to hear your ideas down below in the comment section what do you think I should do with this should I scrape a layer of dirt off of this along with the roots of all of these bushes or should I just cover them up with fill and then let grass grow on top of that let me know down below what would you do you probably have more experience doing this than I do this is my first time doing all of this I don't know idea what I'm doing but I'm gonna figure it out I might not know what I'm doing but I'll figure it out but I don't mind if you want to help a little bit and give me some advice I bet you there's a few of you watching right now that are landscapers maybe you've already built those maybe you've cleared bush like this before and you know the best way to do it let me know give me an option other than just hire somebody that's the easy option that's the easy answer just hire someone to do it I'd like ways to do it without hiring someone how can I do this myself we'll take one last look at it and this was just a half an afternoon's work only left home at 330 and 630 now so it's been three hours including the drive here all that to do yet but from here to there is clear decide from all of these like these roots and stuff so I need to find a way of just like shaving them down grinding them down I don't know I'll look in the comment section I'm sure there are plenty of you out there around the world with some good ideas we made a lot of progress of the land and the rest of the weekend we made some progress here show you from the area here oh can't really see it we got our patio set out here now already for summer we've got things a little bit more organized in here we'll help we've got this whole room completely reorganized and look at all the space we have in here now I had realized that this vent is our intake for our furnace and for the fan and that was blocked by that bookshelf it was in front of there so it wasn't circulating the air in here properly so we got this cleared away now but the bed in the corner here my old duck dynasty blanket on there that's the guest bed and then my workstation right there and I also brought the treadmill inside I'll show you that another day it's just living in there right now but it's on the phone I believe you know let's go over here right there so that's where our dehumidifier used to be now we got this back here which we don't always have running but when it does get high this house has had some issues with humidity in here but that's changing as it's getting warmer outside we can just open the windows and let the humidity out but you know in the humid days we got to have this running here and so this actually sucks the air from the whole house it's such a small house and then it blows the air down here circulating the air as well trying to get good circulation in the house and get the air moving a little bit so we don't any stale air that's why I leave my closet's open the closet here this is my closet Brits is in our room leave that open so that everything can circulate and we don't get any stale staleness I'm really tired right now though it's Sunday when I'm filming this last little end clip I hope you guys had a great weekend it's back to work tomorrow for me bright and early and guess what it's supposed to snow what did I do seven to 12 centimeters of snow and for those Americans out there that's probably about six inches how much is 12 centimeters 12 centimeters is well 30 centimeters is a foot so 12 centimeters is just less than half a foot so let's say four to five inches so let's say two to five inches we're supposed to get tomorrow it's April 12th tomorrow and it's supposed to snow the next couple of days after that yet this is another one of those crazy weather systems that Alberta and their southern buddies Montana are sending our way thanks guys we don't appreciate it but we are polite here and want to say thank you very much for sharing at least you're not being selfish there's that right on that note tune in tomorrow to see me drive trucks in the snow in the middle of April all right it's gonna be fun though we're gonna make it fun right it's gonna be a good day either way we're gonna make it a good day we just got to figure out how


A former governorship aspirant under the platform of the African Democratic Congress, Rami Oseni, a serving lawmaker of the People's Democratic Party, Akinbola Morayana, former special advisor to Governor Shea Malkinde on local government and Chief Chancellor Matas Yemi Adheribibi, and about 35,000 others have defected to the all-progressive Congress in all your state. Speaking on behalf of the defectors, three-time lawmaker, Akinbola Morayana, disclosed that he and others decided to shift calm due to the enviable track record of the APC, coupled with the urgent need to, as a matter of priority, rest power from the ruling PDP in the state. We understand the dictate of politics. That's what we are bringing. Bringing electoral folly into the APC. I am bringing to the APC my wealth of experience, which you know, or you have forgotten. This is the man that spearheaded the arranged PDP between 2016 as the coordinator to 2018, before we took over power from APC. As a FRAP member, the APC chairman and others received the defectors, charging them to fly the flag of the party well. It stands one of our aim and objectives, how are we to bring a lot of people back to the party so that we are able to win by next 2023, and we are winning by special grace of God. And there are still more coming. We just want to stagger it. There are more coming. I mean, like I said there, you look at the quality players we are bringing into the team, tested politicians, winners, politicians who are not used to losing. These are politicians we've brought into the fold. And so we're very happy. And like I said, more are coming.


With so many beautiful deep sky objects out there, how do you pick which one to shoot? Well, with a fisheye lens, you don't have to pick because you will literally shoot the whole night sky in a single photo. Hello, this is Nico Carver. I'm a deep sky astrophotographer and in this video, I will be testing and reviewing five fisheye lens in terms of their night sky performance. You can find all of my test results and reviews for these lenses at astrolenses.com. I received no compensation to make this video. I rented the Sigma 15 and the Canon 8 to 15 from lensrentals.com. I already owned the Sigma 8 millimeter circular fisheye. I bought the Opteka from Amazon with proceeds from my Patreon and the TT Artisan lens was kindly loaned to me from the company for the purpose of this unbiased review. I tested these lenses on my Canon EOS RA camera I'm shooting on right now, which is a full frame camera with an extended HA response helpful for picking up nebulae. It's an RF mount camera, so the only lens that fit directly was the TT Artisan. The other lenses I adapted with a Canon EF II RF adapter. Okay, that's the disclosure and sort of the setup. Let's jump into the physical characteristics of these lenses. Okay, starting with the Teca 6.5 millimeter f3. This is a lens that comes in at $165. It's available on Canon EF and Nikon F mounts. It's designed for APS-C or crop sensors, but it will work still on full frame.  The lens shade is easy to remove. You just press a button and twist. It has click stops for the aperture from f3 to f22. It's all manual, including the focus ring. Unfortunately, the manual focus ring on the copy I have doesn't work. It doesn't actually focus at all to infinity or anything. It just sort of stays the same. So this was something that I'll mention more when we get to the star test, and it was the biggest downside to this lens is that it wouldn't really focus. The Opteca with lens caps on measures 105 millimeters tall, 90 millimeters across, and with lens caps off, it's 85 millimeters tall. With lens caps off, it's 524 grams or one pound three ounces. With lens caps on, it's 580 grams or one pound five ounces. Okay, moving on to the TT Artisan 11 millimeter f2.8. This retails for about $215. It's available for all the different mirrorless mounts, including Canon RF, Nikon Z, L mount, M mount, and Sony E mount. It's all metal construction. It's very heavy for its size. All manual has a metal lens cap, a small metal lens shade that's not removable. It's a clickless aperture control. Goes from f2.8 to f16. Both the aperture control and the focus ring are very tight, which I like. They're sort of a little bit difficult to move. It measures 100 millimeters with caps on, 70 millimeters across, 82 millimeters with caps off. It weighs 502 grams with all caps off, one pound two ounces about. With the caps on, it's 546 grams or one pound three ounces. Okay, the Sigma 15 f2.8 diagonal fisheye. That would be a diagonal fisheye on full frame. It goes for $609. It's available on Canon EF, Nikon F, Sigma SA, and Pentax K mounts. It has a non-removable lens shade, has a mix of plastic and metal parts. It's very lightweight and small. It has both autofocus and manual focus with a switch on the side. The aperture control is controlled by the camera, and so it just has the focus ring for manual focusing. It measures 89 millimeters with caps on, 75 millimeters across the front cap, 68 millimeters long with caps off, 338 grams with caps off, 12 or 12 ounces, and 384 grams or 14 ounces with the caps on. Okay, next up we have the Sigma 8 millimeter f3.5 circular fisheye. Retails new for $899. It has autofocus or manual focus just like the last Sigma. It has a manual focusing ring. It measures 95 millimeters with caps on, 77 millimeters across, 66 millimeters from front element to flange, and 394 grams without caps or 14 ounces, and then 482 grams or one pound one ounce with caps on. Okay, last lens is the Canon 8-15 f4L zoom lens. This is the only zoom lens I tested. It's just something I've always wanted to try out. It is a circular fisheye at 8 millimeters on full frame or a diagonal fisheye at 15 millimeters. It has a removable lens shade that you would want to remove at 8 millimeters on full frame. The zoom ring is down here at the bottom of the lens, and the manual focus ring is more towards the top. It is 108 millimeters tall with caps on, set 90 millimeters across, 82 millimeters from flange to the front lens, 530 grams without caps or 1.3 ounces, 584 grams or one pound five ounces with caps on. Okay, next we're actually going to look at some star tests. Here are the details for how I conducted these star tests. You can pause the video and read through this, but the basic gist of it is they were all done with the same conditions on New Moon from a Portal 3 site with the same equipment. Okay, first up we have the Opteca. Like I mentioned, I was not able to properly focus this lens, so all the test results came out out of focus. It would not focus to infinity. It reminds me of an older lens I had called the Lens Baby Circular Fisheye that had sort of the same problem. And so you can't really tell much about the star distortion like coma or chromatic aberration when the stars are out of focus. That said, you know, if you don't zoom in, it looks fine, I think, because these shots, of course, are so wide field. So it's really up to you whether this focusing issue is a huge problem. And of course, you may get a copy and the focus might be okay. It might be a copy to copy variation thing. Okay, the next least expensive lens. Remember, this one is only $250, this TT Artisan 11 millimeters F 2.8. And at F 2.8, it looked pretty good. But then at F 3.5, it really sharpened up and looked great in all corners, edges, and center. So I would probably use it at F 3.5 because it didn't improve much from F 3.5 up to F 5.6. Okay, next up we have the Sigma 15 millimeter. This had some substantial vignetting and other issues, including pretty heavy coma even at F 5.6. Here's the Sigma 8 millimeter circular fish eye. This lens looked pretty good even at F 3.5, but it got a little bit better at F 4. And then it didn't improve much after F 4 looked pretty good from there on out. The Canon 8 to 15 F 4 L. This is at eight millimeters, so all the way out and you get the circular look at F 4 through F 5.6. It looked pretty much the same all throughout there with some coma and chromatic aberration. Same thing with at 15 millimeters, F 4, F 4.5 and F 5.6 all looked about the same in terms of the star quality. Okay, let's look at some head to head comparisons now. So these are center crops of just the circular fish eyes. And here it's really apparent how the opteca is suffering from that not being able to focus. And also here with the corner crops, we really can't tell much about the opteca's performance, like I said earlier, because those stars are out of focus. Well, we can see that both the Canon 8 to 15 and the Sigma 8 have, you know, a little bit of chromatic aberration and coma, but really not too bad. Could be a lot worse. And the coma is a little bit more exaggerated on the Canon compared to the Sigma. Now let's look at some center crops of the diagonal fish eyes. They all look really good. They're all pretty sharp. But when we look at the left edge, here you can see that the TT Artisan, the mirrorless lens, but also the cheapest lens of the three, I think really wins in this, in the edge test, has the least amount of star distortion and coma. Coma is that what gives stars instead of a circular shape more of a triangular shape. And when it's really exaggerated, like on the Sigma here on the right, it's sort of a triangular shape with wings. It sort of looks like a little bird in flight. The Canon was, again, did pretty well, but not as good, I think, as the TT Artisan, even though it did do a good job with contrast and sharpness. It did exhibit some coma and chromatic aberration as well. Okay, here are my final thoughts on all of this. I was really happily surprised by the TT Artisan at only $215. It really shows the promise of these mirrorless lens designs. You can't adapt a mirrorless lens to a DSLR, which is the big downside. So I think something like 90% of all camera, you know, advanced camera users are still using DSLRs and not mirrorless cameras. So it does limit the potential, but I think mirrorless is the future. So I'm really excited by how well that lens did for especially considering the price. Next up is the Sigma 8mm circular fisheye. This is a lens I already owned. I bought it used for about $500, and I was pleased by its performance. It's not perfect, but it's quite good for a circular fisheye lens and probably slightly better than the Canon in terms of performance on stars. After that, we have Upteka. This one was only $150, so I didn't expect much, but the frustrating thing is just like my lens baby that I used to have, which was like a $300 lens, it didn't focus properly to infinity. I was reading this article online about how to maybe fix this in these cheaper fisheye lenses, how to open them up and just change the focal distance yourself to try to fix the manual focus issue. And so I'm going to try that with this Upteka since I wanted to see if I can make it work to finish these star tests with it. Then we have the Sigma 15mm diagonal fisheye. I was a little bit disappointed with this one. It was nice and bright, but the star distortion, the coma especially towards the edges of the frame were really pretty bad when you get the sort of birds wing flaring on the stars. That's pretty bad coma. And then finally, the Canon 8-15mm. This is a f4 lens, a little bit slower. If you didn't have tracking, I probably wouldn't recommend this one because it's a little bit of a slower lens, and it's also very expensive. But it is cool that it combines, if you have a full-frame camera, a circular fisheye and a diagonal fisheye lens into one lens. So that sort of gives you more creative potential with it. And the performance was quite good, of course, but it was also a very expensive lens at $1300. Okay, so all these reviews are going to be available in text form on astrolenses.com. So you can head over there to download pictures or read about these, and you can also follow the links on that site to purchase them through my affiliate links. I'm just going to leave you with a processed photo since we've been looking at single exposures. This is a stack of a couple hours of exposures, just to show you the potential of a fisheye lens. And this was done with my Sigma 8mm and my Canon RA and some different filters. And lastly, I just want to thank all of my patrons over on Patreon. I couldn't have done this video without you because you're helping finance this channel and lets me do cool things like renting and buying equipment, in this case lenses to try out and review, which I'm really enjoying. So here's to all of my patrons, you're about to see all of their names in the credits right now. Until next time, this is Nico Carver from NebulaFotos.com.


Hey guys, it's Nate, aka The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. I want to talk with you guys today about EA Access. Now I know that this is still a couple weeks away, but I want to get you guys prepared for this because this is a very big point of FIFA 20. Obviously you get a chance to play FIFA 20 a couple of days early, you get a chance to get inside the menus for the first time, and it is a 10 hour trial that should be coming out on the 19th of September. That should be the release date for EA Access. That's what it says on the PS4 console and on the Xbox console, since it is out for both of those consoles this year, which is a new thing for FIFA 20. And when you see me, we're going to look at some footpin graphs today. When you see me look at those footpin graphs, we're going to be looking at Xbox prices because last year on FIFA 19, EA Access was only available on Xbox. So PS4 guys from last year, we're going to be looking at Xbox graphs and don't just think that they want to apply to you because this year they actually will apply to both consoles this year because both consoles for the first time will have EA Access. But I want to talk about today how to best use your 10 hours on EA Access and also how to best trade and make coins during EA Access. So it's going to be a big time video, all that kind of stuff.  Depending on if you've used a web app before EA Access dropped, you might have some coins. If you're EA Access the first time getting on the game, you might have a couple welcome backpacks. You go through all the welcome stuff or whatever on the actual console. And the first thing that I always recommend to people is going into the catalog and redeeming all the free stuff from up here. Somebody told me that there is not going to be a catalog for FIFA 20. I don't know if that's true or not. So if we don't have a catalog for FIFA 20, we won't be able to have these coin boosts which are very nice to have, or all the balls that you can quick sell in here. So if you actually, if we do have a catalog in FIFA 20, make sure you redeem all of the balls and the kits and the individual items that are in here and you can quick sell those, a few coins off of that to help you get your coin total up to start and to begin with. But other than that, some general things about EA Access and the best way to use your 10 hours, I want to talk about that first before we get into trading stuff. Using your 10 hours on EA Access, unless there's a glitch where you can get unlimited hours, we'll look and cover that if that happens when EA Access is actually happening. But the best way to use your 10 hours is it's a one question, it's a one answer to the question. And that is gameplay because packs are so huge early on in this game that if you can collect some rewards from playing squad battles from online drafts or from division rivals, which I would, those would be the only three modes that I would consider playing because you do get coins from those and rewards. And to narrow it down even more specific, I would just stick to squad battles because you can get a lot more games in on squad battles. You don't have to worry about trying to connect to an opponent, laggy gameplay or opponents rage quitting. You just play against the computer for 90 minutes and you can rack up some rewards based on doing squad battles and playing squad battles. So you get four games a day on squad battles. So this should take you just over an hour a day. If you just play squad battles, which I recommend only playing on EA Access. If you have a time to 10 hours and there's no way to get around that 10 hours or to make it even more. I would say the best way to use those hours is to play games and to play squad battles specifically because you can get four games in in a little bit over an hour, let's say an hour and 20 minutes. That's 20 minutes per game, an hour and 20 minutes for four games. If EA Access does drop on the 19th, you will have your 10 hour period. You can split that up over a couple of days.  But playing games on squad battles I think is the best option for you guys at the beginning of the game. Don't worry about your skill level too much, maybe even set it a little bit lower than you think you might want to. Because you're just about getting rewards. And if you're going to be playing more games, you can lower the skill level a little bit, especially if it's getting into a new game and you're not entirely sure what your skill level could be for this game. Maybe if you're usually playing on legendary on squad battles, maybe tone it down into a professional, just so you can get guaranteed wins and guaranteed more rewards. You're not entirely worried about getting the highest rank, you just want to get solid packs. Most people maybe will be playing on professional or semi pro.  And if you look at some of these packs, Prime Mix players, premium gold players pack, Jumbo premium gold pack, and 11,000 coins, I mean obviously these are FIFA 19 rewards. But imagine getting that on Sunday night of the first like three days that the EA access is live. Imagine getting that kind of pack you might be able to make with the 11,000 plus those packs, you might be able to make 50k from a squad battle rewards. Even by just packing a few 82s and maybe an 83 rated player, that's some big time coins from EA access. So the best way in my opinion to use your 10 hours on EA access is to get inside the game, start playing. And if you match yourself out in squad battles games and you think that you're going to have extra time that you have to play and your squad battle rank won't be improved by playing more games, then maybe slip into division rivals and see if you can get a few games in. And just kind of see where the amount of the rank is, like how much score there is for each rank. If you can tell that there's a lot of people playing squad battles or a lot of people playing rivals, play the other one because you might be able to attain a higher rank where less people are playing and therefore get better rewards if you put more time into that. So kind of just keep in tune with where the rewards rankings are for rivals and for squad battles based on the amount of points because I think actually it might not be worth it to play rivals at all because you had those ranking games at the beginning, those five matches that it takes you to get ranked into rivals. So squad battles literally might just be the best way to do it. That way you don't have to waste any time on the five ranked matches where it places you in a division for rivals. So I would say probably just stick to squad battles. Now that I think about that, just stick to squad battles and just spam as many games in that game mode as you can. A draft, if you're somebody who has FIFA points, then possibly a draft could be good if you are an advanced player, if you are very good at the game from FIFA 19 and years before, a draft could be worth it for you but only if you're going to get three or four wins in the foot draft would I recommend spending the 15,000 coins or the FIFA points on actually going into those drafts. Other than that, I would just recommend staying on squad battles and spamming those games with whatever team that you have in your squad at that time. So that's how I would use your 10 hours. But now I want to start looking at some trading stuff because the EA Access period is finally when we have people that have demand on the game for teams. I did a video yesterday about the web app and the ways to trade and kind of how we have to think about trading during the web app period where nobody has teams they can actually play with yet. They're just building teams to actually have a starter squad and to actually put a team together in their club or in their ultimate team but they can't actually use it yet so the demand is a lot different there since people aren't actually trying to get players to play the actual game itself. But with EA Access we have the full game we can play so that's where the kind of demand for this stuff changes inside of the game. So I have here a bunch of graphs and tabs of foot bin that we're going to look at and the first one I'm going to talk about is basically some of these cards that you're going to flip and each one of these cards that I'm looking at here today tells a story. So basically what I did last year during EA Access was I flipped a ton of cards and you know in the middle of EA Access is when foot bin kind of gets up and running so you can start to see a little bit of these trends. This is Kieran Trippier. This is a 82 rated right back from the Premier League so this is a very base it's not a very good card but the start of FIFA this is a decent card that a lot of people are probably using their starter teams. He's 82 rated and look at his price first day 6,000 coins upwards of 7,000 coins for that first couple of days and you see his price kind of rise up into the actual early access release for people that pre-ordered the game. Then he kind of goes down and then goes back up upon the full game release but we're focused on this period that's basically right up until before this graph happens and then up until this point on Monday right here. Now I made a lot of notes from last year. I had this little trading notes page that I made for myself and basically I was reading through that today to kind of remind myself what I did last year at the beginning of the game. I remember trading with this Trippier card because there's a lot of ups and downs that happened with the market during the EA Access period. The same thing with this Jesse Lindgard and foot bin is like whack right now. What's all this white space? I don't know foot bin is crazy at the moment. But there's a lot of fluctuation with these cards. You see Lindgard's price here is at 10,000 coins on a daily average, about 10,000 on Friday, 10,4 and almost 11,000 but pretty similar until his price drops off considerably when the early access comes out. But what you don't see here is a daily fluctuation. This price right here, the daily price doesn't show you actually the fluctuations that happened throughout the day. I remember multiple times last year that I was going on to the market during EA Access. I was looking up Jesse Lindgard. I'll do it for you guys right now. I was looking up Jesse Lindgard and his card was going for around 8,000 coins late at night. This card right here I'd buy it for 8,000 coins. Basically when the UK falls asleep, which is about midnight UK for the next three or four hours, is a great time to pick up cards. Now for somebody who can stay up late, it's a great opportunity or if you're even up at midnight UK, it's kind of a decent opportunity to start looking at some of these cards, which also midnight UK is like 7pm for us guys in the US. So that works out very well because that's kind of our peak time where most of the people are on. Easiest for us to play FIFA at that time. But overnight when the UK was asleep, the UK was not awake, this Lindgard card would drop down to about 8,000 coins, 8,500, and then boom, the UK would wake up in the morning the next day and he would be 11k. So I have multiple notes of last year where I bought Lindgard for around 8,000 coins and was able to sell him for 11k literally like 7 or 8 hours later. So that's something that we can do is during that low period of the night, we can go on the market and pick up some cards, listen for 6 hours overnight and maybe increase them like 20% in price. And then we can wake up in the morning and we'll probably see them start to sell, which is perfect because then we can do some more trading throughout the day and we can be safe and have all of our cards sell before 6pm in case EA drops some content. And then we can do the same thing the next night. You can find different cards that work the best. Excuse me, some cards fluctuate more than others. Premier League, English, very hyped up, new transfer cards. I traded with Giorginho, obviously last year Giorginho was a once to watch. He had a decent card, his card this year still looks not very good. I'll just, that's to say the least. His card this year does not look very good, but this card's a solid center mid for starter FIFA 19 team and I remember this card fluctuating a lot from about 8 to 11k as well early on in the game. And then this is basically what you want to do with these cards. The flipping, the up and down trends is the biggest thing that you're going to want to be able to wrap your mind around. You'll be able to see it on flip and graphs. Obviously you can't see it on here because this is a daily graph, not an hourly graph, but there will be daily graphs that see this after the first couple of days of EA access. You'll be able to see stuff gets low at night, you can pick it up, and then you can sell it during the day, during the peak times of FIFA, the next day of EA access as people get on again, they start building their teams, they're using their 10 hours to play games, etc. So that's one point I wanted to make. One other thing that I want to make regards these two guys right here, Paracich and Douglas Costa. Now obviously I don't know what's going on with this foot bend thing, all this white space, it's ticking me off. But I want to look at this right here because this is somewhere that I did not take action last year. I saw this massive difference and there was a big time coins to be made here. And it basically revolves around players that are on the same position in the same league, but there are different prices at the start of the game. And I have two examples of this. First one is Douglas Costa and Paracich. So Douglas Costa you see here, obviously he's got the five star skills, he's very fast. So he's got a lot of pace. If you're looking for a left winger in the Syria or Brazilian left winger, this is your guy. So he's about 70,000 coins first couple days of EA access. Paracich on the other hand, down here at about 32K, rises up to 40K. And I want to talk about this a little bit. Actually before foot bend graphs even registered this, I remember Yvonne Paracich being 16,000 coins on the first and second day of EA access. He was 16,000 coins for an 86 rated card like this at the start of FIFA, which is ridiculous. Douglas Costa as a matter of fact, this card was about 40K. So he even rose almost double between when the EA access first came out and when you see the graph start here on a Friday, which I think actually was about the same time. But I think first day, Douglas Costa was like 40,000 coins and he shot up to 70 right away, but Paracich was 16K. So Paracich was very undervalued and that's why you see this massive rise from 30K. He was actually 16K and he goes all the way up to 40K. But you see that massive rise because if you think about left wingers or left mids in the Syria, you kind of come down to these two guys as your only options, Paracich and Douglas Costa. And when they have such massive price discrepancies with 16K versus 40K, something has to get either one has to go down to meet the other or one has to go up in price to meet somewhere in the middle or reach all the way back up to that other player's price depending on how good the cards are, everything like that. But what happened in this case was Paracich went up to get closer in price to the Douglas Costa card because of how expensive he was and people were like, well, I want to make a Syria team. Douglas Costa is 70K, but I only have like 50K so I'm going to have to go and buy Paracich instead. There's a lot of stuff that happens like that in the game. One other example of that that I do have is actually Rashford versus Martial.  For an 81 rated card, look at this drop off. Look at this drop off from Rashford. It's crazy. But him and Martial had a similar effect at the beginning of the game. Rashford's around 30,000 coins. Obviously he drops off a bunch. So here's Rashford at 30K. Now let's go over here and look up Martial. Kind of compare these guys again because I remember this same thing happened with these cards during the year as well. What is this? This is an 83 Martial that we want to look at right here.  So I can show you this little comparison right here. So Martial right here up to 50,000 coins right away. Rashford is about 32,000 coins. But first day I remember Rashford being under 20,000 coins. And I knew after I saw Martial at around 40K that there had to be something to give there. So obviously I think I bought one Rashford at like 20K and I sold it right here for 30,000 coins like three days later. So that was a decent little bit of flipping, almost an investment. But it is basically just flipping. It's basically just flipping for this EA Access period. And that's what I wanted to emphasize again with you guys as well. EA Access and the web app is all about flipping, flipping and flipping. I mean we're not going to be sitting here on the game and buying cards to invest in, maybe a little bit towards the end of EA Access into the early access, the pre-order stages of the game. But most of the time you're just going to be flipping cards, finding the trends, the fluctuations, buying low at the night time when the game is low, dead, and then selling the next day in the hype when everybody is back onto the game. So that's kind of your main mindset for a lot of this stuff. And I think I showed some good examples there with the Rashford, with the Paris Etch and with the Douglas Costa. But a lot of that stuff, like finding the Rashford and the Martialog, finding what makes their prices be so far apart, it just kind of depends on the market. So this is the kind of time of FIFA where the way that you're going to want to find players like this is literally just going into, I'm going to go to FIFA 19 players for the sake of FIFA 19 and finding stuff like this. But I would basically just go by league. So search top five leagues, we're going to go Premier League, then we're going to search by position. So let's go, you know, you'll probably need a center back. Well, now there's a lot of those. Let's go right backs in FIFA. Right backs that are version gold, all gold rare. So a gold rare right back. What do we have in FIFA? Walker, Valencia, Trippier, Aurier, some of these guys. I mean, Ricardo Pereira for me was a, I flipped this card so much for around 10,000 coins, like seven to 10K at the beginning of the, yes, look at this 10,000 coins right here. I flipped Ricardo Pereira all the freaking time because this is a perfect starter team right back. And his card price fluctuated so much because of that. So look to buy some of these cards, especially during little like reward sprees, like Sunday night when we get the first squad battles rewards. A lot of these cards will dip down in price from the supply, but they'll shoot right back up after rewards. It's exactly like a footchamps rewards during the weekly cycle of the game because that's like the first rewards that are on the game that people have to actually get coins and to open up packs in that way is by getting those squad battle rewards. So that's a great time to flip some of these cards. Even guys like Callum Wilson, I have very, very good memories of flipping this Callum Wilson card. He was like 4,000 coins. Boom, nailed it on the head. Look at that, 4,000 coins. My memory is serving me correctly. He's like 4,000 coins in the first couple of days of this game. I was flipping this card all the time from like 3, 3.2K to 4.5K because it's a perfect, pacey and English striker in the Premier League. A lot of people like to start off the year playing with the Premier League team. They just build it up and keep improving it throughout the year. So just look at good nations, good leagues for cards that you can flip during EA access because people actually have an incentive to play the game now. They can actually get on the game, they can play rivals, they can play draft, they can play squad battles, and they start building their ultimate team. So I would recommend just looking at some of those cards, looking at English guys, looking at some of the new transfers that could be hiked up, that are going to be somewhere in the perfect range for a lot of these cards that you're looking for in price like the Callum Wilson's, like the Giorginho's. You're looking in that like 2 to 20K range. 20K might be a little bit high, 15K because think about yourself early on in the game. You might only have 50,000 coins. So yes, you could buy 10 Callum Wilson's for 3,000 coins. That's going to take you 30K. That way you have a little bit extra to trade with if you're on like that 50K budget because it's hard to invest in stuff. It's not going to be worth it for you. If you have 20,000 coins, it's not going to be worth it for you if you invest in two Jesse Lingards that are 10K and put all your coins into that to make 5K from both of those cards. So you spent 20K to make 5K, but you had to wait overnight and do nothing else with your coins because you didn't have any coins in the meantime. That's just not too worth it in my opinion. So if you're going to be investing in stuff and flipping like this, make sure you're being conscious with your budget and use good coin management early on in the FIFA stages. But this should help you guys out in terms of what to do with the first 10 hours of EA Access. I know there's a lot of information on this video. If you need to go back and rewind it and listen to what I said again, I would highly recommend that because it was just like boom, boom, boom, stuff coming right at you in terms of reading the footprint graphs and looking at cards and talking about the market movements and stuff like that. And if you want me to do another video on this EA Access flipping and trading stuff, let me know I can go a little bit more in depth on some of these things. But my next video in terms of timing and events that happen on the game, because we have the web app. I made a video about that. I'll link that below. We have this EA Access video. And then I'm going to make a video about early access too. When everybody that pre-orders the game gets on the game, there's a lot of crazy market movements because of that. A lot of supply enters the market at that time period. But still, a lot of stuff goes crazy high because people get coins again because some people don't want to spend the $5 on EA Access or they don't even know about it. So they know that they pre-ordered the game and they got it early. Then they start playing. It's a whole new batch of people entering the game.  I'm so excited for the start of FIFA Ultimate Team. Right now, after putting a few of these videos out, seeing some of the content that the guys that were at the capture event has been putting out as well. The pictures and stuff, at least before they've released their content, as of right now they haven't released it. But I'm very excited for a lot of that stuff. But again, best way to use your 10 hours on EA Access, play games, spam games, get rewards, get packs, you can trade on the web app or the companion app and not use your 10 hours. And then of course, some of those trading methods including flipping the daily fluctuations of cards that are popular, that are meta, that people want in their starter teams for FIFA 20. If you enjoyed the video, smash the thumbs up on it. Comment down below if you have any questions. And of course, subscribe to the channel if you are new. It's been Nate, The Foot Accountant. Catch you guys later. Peace out.


and it was premier exploration-based sci-fi action game. It features Samus Iran, who is a renowned bounty hunter, and she's been sent by the Galactic Federation to Planet SR388 to investigate and annihilate the Metroids. She's the best at what she does. Oh yeah, she's super cool. And this is actually a re-imagination of the original Game Boy classic that was released in 1991. Metroid II, Return of Samus. And this game is just, it's beautiful. It's a little bit shinier than the Game Boy version. Yes, it is. And this game is still about discovery and exploration. There's intense boss battles and there's so many pathways to discover and you can take your time through it. And this is really, this is classic 2D Metroid II. It's got the isolation, the exploration, and of course, Samus just generally being amazing. Yeah, and the great thing about this being on the 3DS is that there's so much detail in the background and it's really heightened with the 3D feature on. And you can't see it at home right now, but it does feel really, really good. Yeah, it sounds cheesy, but it adds a lot of depth to the experience. Yeah. Oh, and something I wanna actually show here on the show floor. So in the past, Samus was able to aim at 45 degree angles, but now she has this whole range of motion which really allows for precision here. It's really nice because especially as you get further into the game, there are enemies all over the place. So having the freedom to shoot anywhere you like is incredible. Yeah, so the free aim. Oh, thank you. So the free aim here is also really cool here where when I'm actually moving it and I actually have an enemy onsite and target, the cue will, audio cue will change and also that it will highlight in red. So again, it allows for a little bit more precision here. Yeah, it's still up to you to aim precisely, but that nice visual indicator is just very helpful. Yeah. And Samus here has her very basic abilities and so as I keep exploring and seeing new environments, I'll hopefully gather new abilities to upgrade my suit. So this is another new ability that Samus has in this game and it's a melee counter. And if I time it appropriately and immediately shoot, I do a critical hit on the enemy. But in the circumstance that I don't immediately shoot, I have some time to actually just shoot from afar and give myself a little bit more leeway to not get hit. And then the melee counter is a new ability as you mentioned and it's really great because this game gets challenging. Oh yeah. It's very, very difficult. And since we have Sakamoto-san here while we're speaking about challenges, perhaps you could tell us a little bit about some of the challenges you encountered while developing this game. Yes. Yeah, well I mean, I think, I don't know if you'd qualify it as a big challenge, but something that we face whenever we're working on it on something like this with an established style of gameplay. It's adding, you know, what sort of new elements can we add to something that, again, is established and has, you know, had some success in the past? Yes, I mean, I really felt that it would be difficult to bring in new elements that would add a lot of excitement and at the same time make the fans of the franchise, you know, happy and satisfied. But you know, I think this time with Samus Returns, I think we've done a really good job. And why is that? It's because we found this really amazing partner to work with. And that's Mercury Steam. Thank you very much, Jose. Thanks to you. Thanks to both of you. And after we were speaking, you actually got Samus's legendary Morph Ball ability. I did, and this is very, very handy to get, as you can see through certain tunnels here. Here's a save station, which I don't quite need right now. I'm gonna keep on going and exploring this area. And here, this is a pretty bleak area from where it just was. And you'll see this gate here. This is a little different from the original game. Yeah, it definitely is. And for people that haven't played the Metroid 2 in the past, this purple liquid is actually very painful. And I'll just kind of, yeah, don't, yep. She did it, ow. Yeah, so I can't really go down there and I want to. And I can't really interact with this right now, so I'm gonna keep on moving forward and see. And that's really, that's the nature of this game is you'll come across areas that you just can't survive on yet. You just can't get past and you'll have to acquire new tools and abilities to be able to keep exploring and keep pushing forward. Exactly, so since I couldn't go through the door, I went up and around it. So I'm gonna keep on moving forward. And this is also a brand new feature to the Metroid franchise. These are Aeon abilities. Aeon is a very mystical and powerful energy source. And they actually give abilities to Samus that are very different from the technical upgrades that she gets for her suit. So this one that I just gathered is called the Scampolls. And what it does is that, oh, I should remind people that the Aeon abilities are actually not, they're limited, you can't just span them whenever you want to. And so they'll have their own energy and you'll have to gather power ups for them and also more energy in order to refill that tank. So just to showcase the Scampolls. Yeah, so to showcase the Scampolls, if you see the bottom screen, the map usually kind of explores once you start moving. But if I use the Scampolls, it'll actually open up this quadrant of map already for me. And also on the upper screen will show these blocks that I can easily break. So now I know that, oh, there was an actual hidden path there. And normally you would just have to shoot everywhere to try and find breakable blocks. And you can still do it that way if you want to. But if you have the Aeon to pull it off, the Scampolls is also very, very helpful. Yeah, keep in mind though that not everything can be easily broken with your laser. So that's kind of some ammo that you'd have to waste. And it's nice to actually have the Aeon ability to strategize about which one am I gonna use? Am I gonna use my ammo? Or am I gonna use the Aeon ability in order to keep on discovering and exploring? Absolutely. Throughout her long career, Samus has had a lot of unique abilities at her disposal. And as we've seen already, this game adds even more. So Jose, perhaps you could tell us a little bit about the process you guys went through of adding new abilities like the melee counter or the Aeon abilities. Yes, well, from the beginning, it's like I'm also wanting to challenge ourselves to bring new ideas to the cities. So we were given freedom to prototype a lot of different ideas and mechanics and say which ones would better fit within the Metroid universe. Once these ideas and mechanics were discovered, it was just a matter of iterating and policing the design. Oh, wonderful. They really add a lot to the experience, so good work. Yes, they do. So here is an energy station and I'm a little bit low, so I'm just gonna take that. You always wanna take advantage of those energy stations. Every little bit of health matters. Yeah, for sure. You'll notice that a beeping started. That's actually my Metroid detector. It's telling me that there is a Metroid nearby.  Yeah, you don't wanna hug a Metroid necessarily. Yeah, exactly. Another thing I want to showcase here is actually the mapping system that this game has. So now that in case I'm not able to go through a door because I don't have the ability to unlock it. Which happens a lot. Yes, I have these pins now that I can just drop it onto the map and then that'll kind of be my note for myself that, oh, I wanna revisit this later once I grab an ability and maybe I can try it later. And as you mentioned, this game is so much about exploration and going back and trying to find every square inch of the map to find all of the mini hidden secrets. So this pin system is actually very, very useful. Yeah. Oh, I'm getting close, but I'm gonna go investigate. This area. Your Metroid senses are still tingling, so keep searching. He's getting closer because the beeping is getting a little bit more insistent. Found a hidden missile tank. Yeah. But see, that was an example where I kind of knew already that this pass was there, but the scan pulse would have been very useful right there to kind of show those blocks. There's another save station. So there we go. The sample told me that block is breakable, but I can't shoot it. So I'm gonna try a missile instead. It's open. And that's a good point. If you ever run into an area you can't progress past, use all of your weapons and it's always... Yeah. Oh, it's a little friend. Hi, friend. That was a Metroid, but we're actually not fighting him. We're actually fighting his first evolution. And this is known the Alpha Metroid. He looks twice as friendly as a regular Metroid. So if I time it correctly, I can actually melee counter him and it gives me an advantage to actually hit him for more damage. You'll also see that he'll drop these little sparks. If I actually hit those sparks, I'll get more ammo replenishment. So in case I end up using all of my missiles, I could always go around him and try to shoot those in order to get more missiles. Nice melee countering. And I'll say, I don't know how well the home audience can hear this, but the sound effects in this game are incredible. The music, the atmospheric sounds are just really great. So Sakamoto-san, perhaps you could tell us a little bit about what went into the development of the soundtrack for this game. About the soundtrack and the SC, the development, the production, and the effects that were received, I'd like you to tell us a little bit about that. In this Samus Returns, two of the sound composers from Super Metroid are participating. Well, we have two of the composers who worked on Super Metroid on the team for Samus Returns. They've been in charge of the Metroid series for a long time, so even if I don't say anything, I want them to play the music that they want them to play. And you know, and they've worked on pretty much every Metroid title since that time doing music for us. And so I really don't have to say anything. They just go do what they do, and what they do is create great music. Excellent. We'll lock them up. Don't ever let them go. Whoops. So you made quick work of that alpha Metroid. Good work. I did. So I'm actually going to go return to that gate that I couldn't get to before and see what happens now. But make my way there. So in the original Metroid 2, whenever you defeated a certain prerequisite number of Metroids, the ground would rumble and then you would know that you would be able to proceed to the next area. So now in this game, you have these gates and if you press on it and you enter the Metroid DNA that you had just gathered from the Metroid you just killed, it will enter into this gate, unlock, reduce this hazardous liquid that was killing me before, and now I'm able to get to the next area. It's really cool having this really visual cue of your progress in the game as well. Yeah. So now I'm going to go to a later area in the game. And we've gotten a glimpse of it a little bit, but the 3DS hardware really goes a long way in bringing this world to life. It helps communicate the isolation of Samus being stuck on this alien planet. So Sakamoto-san, could you speak a little to how you use to the 3DS tech to bring this world to life and really reimagine it? Yes. Yeah, I mean, I do think that with this title, of course, the 3D effects are put to great use and really does help build the world that we're exploring. But I'd like to go ahead and ask Jose to talk a little bit about some of the more technical aspects. Yes, it was very clear to us from the beginning that if we wanted to convey to the player the greatness of the inner depths of the planet and the past glory of the social civilization, we had to provide a big sense of scale thanks to the depth given by the 3DS capabilities. So we wanted to reflect this from if we only the development process, this scale through the first initial concept parts. Thank you so much.  I always do. I ran into his room and he didn't like me being here. Aw, he woke him up from a nap. Don't do that. But I'm stuck here until he gives me leave. And now it's not the time to play with it necessarily, but I wanted to point out that you also got your spider ball upgrade. That's right, and I also got bombs here. So these are actually very handy for taking him out. Oh my gosh. Well, you play with your new friend. This is obviously an enemy from the original game, and that brings to mind the fact that all of the enemies can actually be redesigned for this version. So Jose, perhaps you could tell us a little bit about what the process was for redesigning the enemies from the original game. Yes, we wanted to respect the visual design of the regular enemies as much as possible, but we had to adapt the attacks, movements, and behaviors so they could fit with our new gameplay without making them lose much of their original feel in the process. And as for the Metroids, they were the stars of the show, along with Samus in the original game, and they wanted also to be the same in our game. They suffered a massive overhaul from the visuals of the original game and their gameplay mechanics, and also we wanted to clearly show the transition in their life from one Metroid to another. This is something that is very clearly reflected in the movements, behaviors, and attacks. Thank you. And good work to you. Oh, thank you. So I could actually take the Spider Ball, and the Spider Ball is actually in an ability here that's very unique to Metroid too, but I'm actually going to do a very hard technique that I am not doing very good right now. I swear I practiced this. The bomb jump. Oh no. Alright, last try. Metroid fans have spent hours trying to get to the craziest places using bomb jump. Oh no. But I'm actually trying to work your way around this map. That also brings me to the point that a lot of the maps have been redesigned for the new system. So Jose, can you speak a little to the process of redesigning the maps as well? Yes, we wanted to respect as much as possible the original layout of the original game because it has such a distinct structure within the Metroid series. And well, we wanted to add a lot of new series or new things because we wanted to be felt also new. And we added lots of sections different from the original game because we wanted to accommodate all of our gameplay needs. And also we wanted the game to be more dynamic and diverse than the original game, introducing some classic abilities from other games in the series, but that were not present in the original game. And also we added some new, of course, special abilities that are unique to this title. So the combination of both made us realize some very interesting situations regarding double design for players to actually figure out their way forward in new ways. Actually, before I take this elevator, I want to show this. This is also a new feature to Metroid Samus Returns, and it's a teleport station. This actually helps a lot with the mobility of the game where instead of backtracking all the way through previous areas, you can actually use the teleport to quickly jump into a new area. And this actually really helps when you're trying to gather some items that you weren't able to in the past or explore new pathways that you weren't able to before. I'm not going to take it right now. I'm actually going to go back and take this elevator to a new area. But you're right, it's such a huge addition to the game. Being able to more quickly get to the areas you've already been to and find all these GC secrets you weren't able to get at before. Well, because gathering all these items, it actually rewards you in the end because it does get more difficult as you further get into the planet. And the baddies do get really hard. So you definitely want to get all those upgrades and the items, and it rewards you. But you can also choose not to if you want a challenge. So I've visited previous lava rooms before, so I know that this red door looks a little bit dangerous, but I'm going to go in anyway just to show a rebel. Yeah, it hurts. Yeah, I don't want that. Okay, so I'm going to actually use the scan pulse because I see there's something up there and I'm pretty sure there's a pathway. Just to make sure while you have the A on energy might as well. There we go. Excellent. So we're going to go up here. I love how if you had just shot up above you, it would have looked like there wasn't anything to break. So it's actually good that you used the scan pulse right there. Yeah, I have gotten lost more than once. Here's another suit upgrade. I love this. This does feel really good. Really epic. I love how vibrant the colors are. It's just this world is so metroid. So beautiful. Yeah. And it's just, again, it's really cool when the 3D features on because you get to see all the stuff that's happened in the background. But yeah, so I'm going to go in here. And Samus has her classic suit. Yeah, her various suit. We're going to take out here. So let's try going back to the way we came from. That was close. That was close. That was very close. I like to play it dangerously. And now you can survive the very, very hot. So we're going to explore this room now. And we could always go back and explore other lava rooms to see what we missed. I have to point out that this is all one planet. This is all SR388. But look how different the environments are. It's a big planet. There's a lot of different areas and a lot of variety. So much variety, yeah. And every area is just so colorful and unique on its own. So here I'm going to show a new Aeon ability called Lightning Armor. And what it does, it gives us green glow to Samus, but also overcharges my melee and lets me go through enemies without taking much damage. But it does take away from my Aeon pool. And so I want to actually save it in case I need it later. Every time you get hit, it actually makes your Aeon gauge go down. So you can just run foolishly through a group of enemies unless you want to feel a lot of pain. Yeah. So here's another door that I'm unfortunately not able to get in through. So I'm going to do another pin here. But I'm also going to show here, there's this information screen that will actually see, it'll show different items that are shown in the map. And if you're not quite sure what that icon means, it will actually tell you here. And it will actually unlock too once you've discovered it and you know how to interact with it. So definitely keep an eye on these because these are actually really informative. It'll help you remember what you already know. Yeah. And we've already seen a few new Chozo artifacts, but that brings me to the question. Sakamoto-san, can you tell us a little bit about the decision to integrate more Chozo artifacts into this version of the game? So, you know, this game is set on SR388, and it's a planet that was home to the first generation of the Chozo artifacts. So, you know, this game is set on SR388, and it's a planet that was home to the Chozo civilization at one point, and so it saw the Chozo flourish, and it also saw them crumble, so this whole area has this historical background of being a place just sort of filled with lots of riddles. So that's why you see all of these, again, Chozo ruins that you mentioned throughout the game. And I think if you, you know, you had a chance to play Samus Returns, you might find some of the answers to the riddles that the Chozo civilization left behind.  But it is possible that there may be some new and more intriguing riddles introduced through the game as well. Fine. I guess everyone's just going to have to wait and see. She keeps some surprises. You've gotten yourself into trouble again. I did. So this is the second evolution of the Metroid species. This is the Gamma. I was able to do a counter melee on him, finally, as he came up close to me, but I'm also going to use Ice Beam, because it seems to be really weak to his nucleus, so I'm just going to keep on attacking him. But yeah, he's got a dynamic set of moves. He's swooping down on me. Electricity on me. But that's a good point. If you're ever fighting an enemy or a boss and your weapon of choice doesn't seem to be making a big dent, try and try one of your other weapons or abilities, because they might be a little more successful. And since I'm a little below on health, I'm going to feel safer if I put on my lightning armor, so I'm just going to go here. You've made him mad. Yeah, he is not happy with me. I'm just going to throw this out there. Your legs are really creepy. Yeah, I'm not a fan of spiders, so yeah, this guy creeps me out. Oh, he's turned red though, so you're doing well. Yes, I should be almost there. And that's another kind of visual indicator to show you that you're getting closer to making men's meat of this guy. Yeah, and there's all those audio cues too for when's the right time to... Oh boy. When's the right time to melee him? So it only happens when he goes down on the ground, but yes, I was able to successfully come to work. All right, well, with that, I actually want to show another leader area in the game because I think it'd be really cool to show the fans. Excellent, let's do it. So while you switched your other save file, Sakamoto-san and Jose, we're hoping you could tell us a little bit about how you went about balancing this game because there's obviously a lot of abilities and it must have been difficult to balance making them feel useful to players without taking away from the challenge. Yes, of course, you know, it feels great. It's exhilarating to use this. It's so fun, it's so fun, it's so fun to play with it. I'm really looking forward to this. I don't know how it goes, but it's so fun to play with it. So I want to show you that you're getting closer to balancing with this game. Yes, well, I actually want to show you It feels great. It's exhilarating to use these really powerful and dynamic abilities and, you know, players want to use them and we want them to use them, of course. But, you know, one of the things we have to be careful of is if we, you know, overuse them if we make them too powerful, it reduces, you know, some of the tension that you feel in the game, and it sort of has the counter-effect of actually reducing the excitement and sort of, again, that thrill that we want players to feel. So, again, it's a really delicate balance. Well, yeah, and I think a good example of some of the difficulty in that fine-tuning is what we just saw on screen is this beam burst. And what's difficult, again, about finding that balance is you have to measure the effect of the weapon, and you also have to take into consideration the amount of energy it uses and the supply of energy that's available to you. And trying to come up with, again, a balance that works throughout the game and keeps all of those factors in mind, it can be quite challenging. I think, you know, we put quite a load on Mercury's scheme and having them do that, but I think they did a remarkably good job. Yes, I completely agree with Sakamoto-San's words. It was difficult to balance the new abilities, not only because they can be used alone, but only because they can be used in combination between them, and also they can be combined with the classic abilities, too. So, at the end, it was pretty tough, but we, however, are very confident that we finally found the best possible balance for all players to fully enjoy them. Yes, I think you achieved a great balance, and trust me, it's still difficult. All right, so my Metroid detector went off again, and this is the Gamma Husk, so I'm pretty sure I'm not going to be facing him. Maybe it's something cutlier, a little guy? Or maybe not. Yeah, maybe not. So, this is the next evolution, this is the Zeta, and he's pretty gnarly. I'm not a big fan of him. And as Sakamoto-San was saying about the beam burst, I actually wanted to showcase this other Aeon ability because it is so powerful, it's so cool, and it feels really powerful. And I missed my moment into the melee counter. He does so much damage, too. He does. I'm going to use a combination of abilities here, from missile to grapple to beam burst. You really have to be on your game with this guy, because he switches up his patterns a lot. Oh, he does. He's hard to predict. Yeah, he's hard to predict, and he totally aims for me, too. Like, he's got me down. Nice. That's just the beautiful melee counter, too. I love how it slows down time, and it has that really cinematic presentation. Yes, it feels so epic and action-y, and I absolutely love it. This is my least favorite move. This one gets me every time. Oh, God. Oh. And now you died on purpose, so that we could see it's down as high. She looks so elegant there. Beautiful, yes. So, thank you. You're welcome. I aim to please. Yes. All right, I'm going to try this again. Yes, you can do this. We all believe in him. I'm going to skip the cutscene. I'm going to get right into that. All right. Nice melee counter right off the top. Oh, he was nice enough to give it to me, so I'll take it. Yes. The other side. I got a good shot at the nucleus. You know, he's not invited to your birthday party anymore. No. You ruined it. I like green, but not in my face. No. And as we're showcasing here, the new abilities, your beam burst there, your lightning armor, they add to the experience, but as to the balance they were talking about earlier, they definitely don't make it easier. You have the eye on gauge, and you can't spam these abilities at all. I mean, I think you're already out of them, so. It's all right. Third time's the charm. He's pretty strong. Yeah, he's pretty awful. I'm hopeful that this third time I can get it. Yes. You have the power of Samus at your disposal. I have all our abilities. Oh, I missed him. He missed me at that time. That was lucky. He's going to feel that tomorrow. I hope so. So mean. That was your favorite. Oh, God. I absolutely hate him. He's more afraid of you than you are of him. Is that really the case? That's the truth. I don't think he cares much about me. Do you think you have a handle on it? He switches it up. Oh, yeah, I know. I always need to be on guard with him, because it's never the same pattern or consistent at all. You're getting really close, though. I think you can do this. Oh, I don't know. I can do it. I can do this. We believe in you. This is the time. And he's not going to do that move. Maybe Sakamoto-san can give me some tips. Do you have a hint? Do your best. Good luck. That's all I can. No pressure having creator and Metroid watching you. No. I'm like the bean burst looks. It is. It feels so good. And I ran out of me on energy. That was my best one. Oh, no. I've got to do it the old-fashioned way now. Missiles it is. Oh, that was close. Just stay down. Yes. Finished with the melee counter. That's beautiful. Well worth the wait. Thank you. Good work, too. Well, that is all we have to show for game footage, but we do have some cool announcements to also show to the folks at home. So I'm really excited. Shall we? Oh, we shall. All right. So as you probably might have seen in the very beginning of the game, the surface area, amoeba functionality is active in this game. It does support the two Samus, the Zero Suit Samus and the regular Samus from the Super Smash Brothers line. But there's also two new amoeba that we're so excited to show you guys. So we actually have them right here. I'm going to ask you to hold. Actually, no. I'm going to give you the honors of holding him because he's so awesome. So you get the Metroid and this is the best part. He's actually squishy. He actually feels like a Metroid. So cool. And he's like breaking out of this little case and everything.  And that is just so, so cool. Like the amount of detail that's around her. It's just, it's so amazing. She feels so cool. And.


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Good morning nerd fam and welcome back to Palo Alto, California. We are at the Women in Data Science Worldwide Annual Conference here with live coverage all day long on theCUBE. My name is Savannah Peterson. Very excited to be joining you all for International Women's Day with a series of absolutely fantastic interviews. Kicking off this morning with Harshita. She is a grad student in machine learning at my favorite university on the planet, the University of Washington. Harshita, welcome. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you for having me here and thank you for the opportunity to be here. It's wonderful. I can tell just sitting next to you, the energy you're radiating. Is it great to be around your peers and all your fellow data scientists today? It's so beautiful, a lot of women, inspiring women. It's so beautiful to be here, lot to learn and still lot to learn. Yeah, there's always a lot to learn. There's a lot to learn. Speaking of learning, you've had quite an impressive academic journey. You're also the first woman in your family to study and take on this challenge here. Tell us about what that was like, the challenges you faced. So it definitely looks scary, but if you see on the other side, there has been a lot of positive things. I'm the first girl in my family and the first person in my family to come to the US and study in the US and especially studying Master of Science in Engineering. So it definitely looks scary, but if you see on the positive side, I have gotten a lot of learning. So I have seen everything from scratch. How do I get here? What do I need to do? Who do I talk to? So I think this only led to a lot of opportunities to question people, to get the right people to answer your questions. So it has been beautiful. I love that and you're obviously clearly optimistic. How did you get the courage to go down this path? So I always wanted to be in the science field and yeah, looking at US. So I always wanted to pursue my Master's in the United States of America and science is so beautiful here and women are being supported here. And yeah, I started my journey in 2021 where I prepared for the GRE exam and then I got cleared and now I'm studying at the University of Washington, Seattle. Oh, I love it. Loving the Husky vibes. How does your family feel? They must be so proud. Yeah, so one thing is my family were always supportive. My parents, my sister and my uncle, they were always supportive of me to study anything and to study anywhere. So that's one thing which was a very huge positive thing in my life. So they are really proud of me. I mean, even a single thing I do, they're very proud of me. I mean, how could they not be? It's very easy to see just sitting here next to you. Do you feel like you're seeing more and more momentum around women in school and data science, given your lens? Yeah, it's clearly so beautiful. You can clearly see at the conference it tells how many beautiful and inspiring women are over here. And even in my university, you can see a lot of good diversity present in the university or anywhere I go, whether it is internship or university or conferences. There are a huge amount of inspiring women in data science. Yes, and I feel lucky. I was telling the crew, actually, I'm a little intimidating coming in here because there's so much brain power and great energy and drive. You're now, it focused on machine learning, but your background was originally in power electronics, also impressive, but I'm curious, what was that career pivot like? What made you change your direction? So before I came to the U.S., like last year, like September 2022, I wanted to pursue my career in power electronics, but there was some unfortunate incident where I could not take my career in power electronics and I had the opportunity to explore. I mean, it again looks scary. Many of the people told me you cannot do machine learning stuff. It's just hyped up, but I thought this is what I like. I explored Python, I explored coding, and then I thought this is what I want to pursue for the next few years or forever. So I just started with coding and then, yeah, and then I was able to pursue internships in the same field. I love that. You know what you're passionate about. Advice for folks at home or young women who might be thinking about data science, go what you're passionate about. I mean, I don't think I've actually ever heard someone talk about Python, which is with as much glee as you just had, and I wish I could puddle that up. You mentioned internships and you've had some impressive internships. Tell us about how you went about getting those internships and where you've had the pleasure of doing some work at. Yeah, so I started applying for internship from, like I was late. I started applying from Jan 2023. So from September, I started learning machine learning and then I was so keen at learning what it is, what is Python, what is data science, and then I started applying for internships and I performed a data science internship at Quadrant Technologies during the summer where I worked on Microsoft Cloud Technologies and during my fall in 2023 from September to December, I got an opportunity to work as a machine learning research engineer at the Robert Bosch Technology. Yeah, so this both was, it was a really good experience. What's the energy like, you know, machine learning and AI is really having a moment right now in terms of the hype curve, we're all waking up and the technology is really getting applied to our everyday lives. What was the energy like on these teams that you got to intern with? I mean, like everyone's so open to learning because there's always, you need to keep up with the technology. So every week there's a new technology. So what I saw in the team during fall at Bosch, everyone reads paper every day. So they want to keep up with the technology and they keep talking to the peers, work on new projects, and I think it's really good to see that everyone in this field are continuously updating themselves and it's beautiful. It is beautiful. I feel like there's a real intersection of industry veterans who've been working in AI and ML for 20, 30 years and fresh excited faces of your generation of students and also people in the workplace and even entrepreneurs that are really getting to get excited and to dig in beyond your impressive academic backgrounds and your fantastic internships and everything else you do. I'm not exactly sure how you sleep. You've also been selected as a delegate for Harvard for a really special project. Can you tell us a little bit more about that? So HPA is a conference held by Harvard University. So every year they select a certain number of delegates from around the world to talk about their community or their interests. So I represented my community of women in technology and I also represented my country, India. So there were a lot of people from various countries, I think more than 40 plus. Wow. Yeah, and they were so inspiring in various field. Like I got to talk about sustainability. I got to talk about climate change, healthcare in different countries and about different countries. So it was really nice experience. How did you find out about this program? I always wanted to go to this program since I'm in the US itself and I could not miss it. So I was waiting for the registration to begin and then I just clicked and applied it. Jumped on it. Wow, I'm sure they were very lucky to have you there. Is there a particular space or application of AI that really gets you personally excited? Healthcare industry. So healthcare industry requires, yeah, AI in healthcare would be a huge, huge change and requirement because it can help save a lot of life. I mean, currently I'm working on a mental health project which is AI based project to provide mental health accessibility to everyone. Wow. So using AI to provide the right amount of, yeah, to provide accessibility to everyone. So that is one solution which we could think of and providing healthcare accessibility to many people using artificial intelligence is very important. We could save a lot of life. So tell us a little bit more about how that works. Tell us about your project.  I do face anxiety myself. So major pain points in this industry are early detection and early detection. So people are facing a huge issue in detecting the symptoms and also going to therapy costs a lot. So our solution, I'm working on the solution where it'll be easily accessible for everyone. And then the app will be there for you every time, anywhere. So yeah, that's what I'm working on right now. An emotional support app, to agree. Yeah, always there for you. Oh, I think that's so important.  There are moments when there isn't someone who can pick up the phone and having a tool like that, especially accessible when mental health care is extremely disadvantaged and favors the privileged in so many different ways is really powerful. Thank you for working on that. I didn't even know that you were working on that when we sat down and started chatting. That's really powerful. So how can people find out more about that? How can they follow your work? So they can follow me on LinkedIn. I'm currently still working on the project. So I'll soon launch it. So we are a team of four and we are still working on it. And once we launch it, I'll put it on my LinkedIn post. Excellent, okay. We're going to have a lot more LinkedIn fans now, including me after this session. I want to talk also about as if you haven't contributed to enough things. You also work with some NGO activities. You're all about empowering young women in STEM. Tell me more. So as a woman myself and then being the first to come to the US, it was really difficult to actually understand how to come. The awareness is very important. Awareness about, okay, there is something called data science, but there is something called technology. Some of the people don't even know that. So I, internet was a huge friend to me. I kept searching, searching. Even the Harvard conference, I kept searching, is there something I can do? So I think some people do not even have internet, do not have access to all of this. So that's why I wanted to get into this and volunteer with different NGOs to bring this to the people, younger girls and underrepresented communities. So that's why I was actively involved in NGOs. What does it mean for you to be able to talk to young women like you and get them excited about science? You know, it's so beautiful because I think every kid is so excited about science experiments, different colors and liquid turning into gas. So recently I went to this science explorer program. I volunteered at the UW Science Explorer where we went to elementary school nearby in Seattle. And then we showed them how to make a laugh. Yes. They was so excited. You make a little volcano and do the whole thing. Oh my gosh, how cool. And so you get to see that moment when they realized science is magic, except real. Yeah, it was so beautiful to see that. And it's really nice that they're so open to learning what it is, what is science, how to get into that. So I think we need to go to every corner in a triangle, like an inverted triangle, reach every sector of the people and then tell them that, yeah, there is something called science, you can do it. Yeah, absolutely. What a great message. There is something called science, you can do it. Anyone can do it. Hopefully tools and things like AI and ML will help even more people get involved in science. And also see how science applies to everyday lives. To your point, science and healthcare isn't just about medicine. It's also about a variety of different tools that doctors and healthcare providers use, mental health, holistic wellness, all of it. Oh my goodness. So how do you balance all of these hats that you wear? What's your advice for people who are as driven to achieve as you are? So I have three more, two. So one thing, it's risky to not take a risk. I always think it's risky to not take a risk. And second, always say yes. Yes. So if not you, someone else is going to say yes to that. So why not you, just start with an S. And thirdly, so there is this thing which made me feel better whenever I think about any obstacles I'm facing or I'm going through something, I always think about if one door shuts, look for the windows that open. So if one door shuts, look for the other windows that open. So you always have so much more opportunities. So if you lose on something, it doesn't mean the end of the world.  Oh my gosh, great advice for anyone interested in doing anything really. Do you have any advice specifically for women in data science watching this interview, seeing you, getting inspired, maybe thinking about going to UW? What would you tell them right now? So if you're interested in data science, so there are so many things in data science itself. So machine learning, and then nowadays deep learning. So start with Python, and it's really exciting. Even I started at some point, everyone starts at some point. It's not like everyone knows everything. So everyone starts at that point zero. Start now. Start learning Python. Start knowing what this is, what applications you like to solve. And then yeah, start now. Just get started, I love that. There's a sign here outside the D-School at Stanford if you go for a walk today. And it's one of the more photograph signs at Stanford, and it says you are here. And it's just one of those little pins, and it's really start where you are, essentially. And so you're doing that. You're advising everyone to do that so well. Since today is International Women's Day, is there, or are there any women in your life you would like to give a little shout out or say thank you to? My mom and my sister, they have been a huge support to me all the time. So they tolerate me, so it's really nice. I think it would be easy to tolerate for the record. How they support me all the time, so I really want to thank them from the bottom of my heart.  Last question for you. Do you have any advice for allies? I know there are a lot of great men and other folks in the world who do want to support women like us and don't always know how. What would you tell them? Do you have any examples or things that come to mind when you think of the ways you've been supported by any agenda in your career path? Yeah, so there are so many organizations like Women in Data Science, Women in Data Science, Pew, Women Tech Network. So all of those organizations work so much together to provide support to women. So look for any communities nearby, in your region or something like that and they'll always be happy to include you or include your work or yeah, just go there. There's always someone who needs your help and there's always someone who'd be happy to listen to you. So yeah. Well said. Okay, bringing us back to today to wrap us up here. You are excited and I believe in charge of the poster blitz. What does that mean for the attendees at the show? So they'll be, it's going to be beautiful because today is the first time we're going to have poster session at the Central Conference at the Witt-Stanford University. So there'll be 23 young women presenting their research to the audience. So there'll be a poster blitz session where they'll get just one minute to talk about their research and then during the reception they'll have the opportunity to present their work using the posters. Oh my goodness, that's so exciting. I'm going to have to sneak in there. We're going to have to get the crew. We're going to have to get some b-roll of that. I think that sounds very, very exciting. Harshita, thank you so much for being here.  I'm going to be following your LinkedIn. I'm actually going to set up an alert so I can keep an eye on your very important mental health work. And thank you for being a truly fantastic and inspiring start to our day here on the show. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for having me here and it was really nice to meet you. Happy Women's Day. Yeah, happy International Women's Day. And happy International Women's Day to all of you out there watching theCUBE on our all day long live broadcast from Stanford University in a beautiful Palo Alto, California. My name's Savannah Peterson. You're watching theCUBE, the leading source for awesome women in tech coverage.