Hey there 3d artists. What's going on? So what I wanted to do? I'm going to start a new series It's going to be called Mastering UV mapping. I think something like that and what we're going to do is we're going to get our heads around UV mapping So I found through teaching Maya for a few years that it's the UV mapping the unwrapping that is the thing that Students new 3d artists find it really difficult to figure out So what I want to do is really to series of videos where we'll kind of ramp up the complexity each time To try and help you to really grasp this thing that can baffle so many people So as you can see by what I've got on screen. I've created some toy blocks and what we will be doing today is Getting some cubes and just using some simple UV mapping techniques to get each side of our cubes to have different layers on So let's get into it. I'll delete these and I will create a brand new cube There's our cube lovely stuff So the first thing I need to do is create this texture and put it on there So I'll just nip into my hyper shade Here it is. Hello hyper shade. So you see I've already got one made but I'll make another for your benefit So make a new Lambert. I shall call it M underscore blocks and Then I'm going to link up the texture So if you want to use the same texture that I'm using then follow the link in the description below and you'll be able to get Your hands on that I'll just share the entire project folder and this is what I'll be building on each time So I'll keep adding textures models etc to this one So there's T blocks on score D and you can see all I've done to make this is I've got a wooden texture I've put some letters on there. I've added some colored Squares around it and then we can use UV mapping to Put certain parts of this texture on certain parts of the model so let's create that material and Then I will just drop that material Onto my 3d model. So if you're still new to Maya You might have tried to drop your texture on there and realize nothing happened So it might still stay great if that's the case just press 6 on your keyboard and your texture will magically appear And you can say that it does look good. This is wrong So we need to work out why that is and the first place to get a good grasp on that is in the UV editor So you can get at that in a few different ways So you could just go up here to the top UV and open the UV editor from here And this will open up as a separate window. So then if I click on here I can see my UV shell here and I can see my texture underneath it But I'm going to get to it a slightly different way because I think it makes a better use of the space I've got I'm working on one screen here because I'm recording so I can set a split screen up for that So you've got this little option here, which will allow you to go kind of two sides to your screen panel layout So we'll click on that and then you've got kind of it gives you a An orthographic view and a perspective view. That's not what I want though. So what I'm going to do is just change So if we go to saved layouts and I'm going to change to perspective and UV editor like that So then I get my perspective camera here so I can see what I'm doing and I've got my UV editor over here So that's pretty good So here we we should be able to sell just if you click on here It will turn on like a shaded view of a UV shell So we can see the outline of it So this represents our cube our 3d shape as a 2d version of it. So it's unwrapped. It's opened out And it's laid it on top of our texture and that helps us to see why this is behaving the way it is So if I was just going to shell mode Select this and move it side to side Let's make it so that most of the shell is in this red column here You will then be able to see Let's just make that visible that most of the sides of our cube are in the red space So that makes sense. I think that makes sense. That's pretty straightforward But what we want is the ability to be able to move Different faces onto different parts of our texture So we need to do a bit of simple UV mapping to get that to happen So we need to separate all six of these sides off at the moment They're they're very much joined. They want to move around together. So let's get them separated So I'm just going to be an object mode and have my cube selected I'm going to go to UV and for this one. I'm just going to do a an automatic projection and The default settings are fine because I want to go from six different angles Which there are six sides to my cube so that makes sense. So if we click on project What that will then give us Is one two three four five six sides, but now they're all separate. So if I click on one and Put my move tool on I can move that one around independently Which is really great for this exercise So what I'll do is make sure that I'm in UV shell mode I'll select all six and I want to get them all to be the same size So I'll just put my scale tool on and I'm just going to focus on this one in the middle And I want to make sure that when I place that over one of these squares It's going to be the right size So I'm just going to get it kind of to this wooden inset because then I'll know it's in the right place and Then I'm going to scale it back up to be almost filling The red area on this texture just move it over a tiny bit There so I'm pretty happy with that and I know that they're all the right size So now all I can do all I need to do is go into shell mode and I can move each one of these shells to a different letter.  I don't want The same colors to be next to each other if I can help it Okay, so this one here is Kind of over K anyway, so I'll stick with that and then we'll get This one here and we'll move it over And then we've got to find two more. So let's go for a D D for dog Very nice and the final one. Let's stick it on We'll have another green we'll stick it on a there we go So at that stage you can see that we've just used simple UV mapping to Separate our one shell into six different shells and then we can position them. There will be one issue though Because of the way that UV mapping works on cubes. One of these is going to be upside down There it is. It's that a so you can see in comparison to the others. Oh, is it the a? AIF it's the K the K is upside down when you compare it to the others So these two here don't matter as much But the K just looks wrong So we will need to rotate this shell So we're going to select it UV shell put our rotate tool on and then you can rotate it for your hand But you'll almost certainly not get it perfectly straight if you do that only a crazy person would do that So what we're going to do is turn on rotation snapping So at the same time as rotating I'm just going to hold J on my keyboard and that will now snap this rotating to 15 degree increments So as soon as I've gone far enough around that is now facing the right way Okay, so so far so good. We've now mapped out one of our toy blocks and it looks pretty nice I don't like this. I am this a be next to each other So I'm going to move the eye To make it yellow, I think So let's get this UV shell here and we'll probably Move it to See there we go. So I just get that lined up again And then hopefully that will look random enough Okay, so the cool thing about UV mapping is once you've done it for one shape if you duplicate it It's already done for you again. So if I want to create a little group of blocks like I had before Let's just duplicate this we'll move it off to the side We'll just put a little rotation on it to make it look a bit more random Okay, so you can see now they're both UV mapped. So that's good, but they look the same which is less good so what we'll do is We're going to go in and select all of our six UV shells all at once And I'm just going to shift them along and I'm going to do that to hopefully illustrate something So let's move them all down. Yep. I think I'm happy with that Okay, so now these are all where you would expect them to be But one of them has fallen below and what's going to happen is that the one here I'll just select it so I can find it It's on the bottom So this one here is got a D on it and D is the one up here. So what happens is this texture tiles So the texture is shown here in our main zero to one space And there is a way of turning on so it'll show you that it's tiling as well But what it means is that if you can move your your UV shells outside of this and it will still work So that's allowed me now to get a different letter So I've moved them all That way, but I've now got two reds facing the camera, which I don't like so let's shift It over to the left one as well and Then now we've got a couple of different looking blocks beautiful cool So now I'll just create one more And we'll just repeat the same thing And then we will call that the end of the lesson because we've all worked very hard. Didn't we we've done well So let's just randomize that one a little bit And then we'll get our shells in shell mode There we go put our move tool on and this time. I think I'm going to shift To in that direction That was good Back into object mode. So now that's given us a fairly random looking collection of Toy wooden blocks There we go. So we'll just go back full screen Okay, so we'll leave it there for this first-ever episode of UV mapping king of the world. I hope you've taken something from this This is only covering the absolute basics and we will ramp it up But hopefully in terms of just getting your head around how UV mapping works This has been a fairly good demonstration of that If you want to see more videos in this series Then just click the card on the screen to be taken to another video And the last thing I'd like to do is just say a massive. Thank you to all of my patrons You guys make it so much easier to be able to keep putting videos out and My main aim in doing all of this is to always do it for free A lot of people are trying to find ways to charge for this and I understand why that happens We've all got to make a living, but that's not something I want to do I want to be able to put these videos out to be able to help people to learn for free And people supporting me and doing that through Patreon or through donating for the things that the resources I offer really does help and it's very very much appreciated So thanks for helping me keep putting these out and offering them for free And I hope that I'll see all you guys in the next video. I don't know what it'll be yet But hopefully it'll be a good one If you want to take your learning further than I've been able to cover in this video Then I recommend checking out plural site They've got tons of courses covering Maya and they can take you from an absolute beginner through to a pro If you're just getting started with Maya 2018, then I recommend checking out the Maya 2018 fundamentals course by Justin Marshall This gives you a good overview of everything including UV mapping and he's really well paced out for beginners If you want to check it out then use my link in the video description to get a 10-day free trial of the service I can't recommend it highly enough. I'm a member of plural site and I check back in regularly to keep my skills up to date Right, that's the end of this video Hit the thumbs up button if I've helped you out Subscribe if you want to see more and I hope to see you in the next one. Laters


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The following is a presentation of TFNN. The Tiger Technician Hour with your host, Basil Chapman. Call now, toll-free at 1-877-927-6648. Good morning, everyone. Basil Chapman. This is the Tiger Technician's Hour on Monday, the 18th of March. You're looking at the Dow up 110. And I must say, if you're looking at this chart right here, this support level, you see this little pink line here? I call this the Chapman Insight Track. It's actually a larger channel to the upside. It's a little mini-channel, and it's been holding in this mini-channel. And I'm watching it. Let me just do this for one second here. If you're looking at the nine-period exponential moving average, which I use, I call it the indicator of last resort. Why? Because it's the very last one that finally turns up or turns down. Look at this. It's so close to turning down. Yet it just doesn't do that. It's like walking this green line. The nine-period moving average, one going to the 14. We're looking at the last time we did that was back in when it went from pink to green. November the third in the Dow's case, I believe it was. Yeah, November the third. So since then, this green line has just been in place. And even those very sharp sudden turn downs did not turn the nine-period moving average pink. So it's a very nice indicator. But at the same time, for subscribers to open your call, we do have, so far it's been working, besides the long-term long positions, which we're not touching at all. The shorter term, we do have a cell, just a short-term cell. And we'll see if that's going to hold. Now look at this. This is quite important. If you're looking at the QQQ, it keeps getting so close to turning down. And it doesn't, it had one out of, since it's the October low, and then that November thing, I think it was the sixth turn to the green side in the nine-period moving average. It had one day that it went negative. That was on the fifth of January through the sixth, through the eighth, it was a weekend. And then it went back to green. And since then it's been green. It's getting closer to turning down, but it has not turned down yet. So I just wanted to talk about these indicators that I'm going to talk about tomorrow. Very simple indicators you can use to help in your analysis of stocks and the ETFs, et cetera. Even the currencies, whatever's moving. So here we are, up 127, 38,839 in the Dow. The S&P had a much stronger move to the upside earlier on, and it's holding that. It's actually gained. It's up 50 at 5,167.48. Getting really close to the 5165 all-time high of about a week ago, this is a leg. Now this is going to be something that I'll be discussing in my webinar tomorrow. When we're looking at weekly charts, what would make us negative? Well, so far there isn't anything really that's negative. Look, the price is way above the 9-period moving average. The 9 is way above the 14. The MACD is very strong moving average convergence divergence. The stochastic is starting to decline a little bit, but it's still at 92%. That is really good. The blue line that's on balance volume did make a little double-topping as pulling back, but the market has ignored it so far. So I'm going to be discussing what are the implications? If this is only in a B and in a Chapman wave, a buy signal that gets upgraded to a buy mode, which the weekly is, implies that it should go to at least a peak C, then a pullback, and then a leg D, which would go to a peak D, four higher peaks to a peak D. And we're only at B right now. That's still very positive. Does that mean that there could be a sharp pullback? Yeah, you could have a pullback. You could go back to the green 9-period moving average of 5,044. We were there just a couple of weeks ago. You could even go down to the 49, 59-ever, the 14-period moving average. But what would take this green line to turn pink? You'd have to see a slump in the S&P. I don't know what's going to do. Unless the Fed says something that the market really doesn't like, you'd have to see a slump kind of in the low 4,800. So, so far, I'm taking that off the table just at this particular point. We're only dealing with the shorter term. And if you look at the QQQ, the index 100, yep, walk in the 9-period moving average at a nice balance. So far today, up 6.20 and 440.13. Yeah, we are sorry to make lower lows and lower highs. The week is young. We'll see what happens. But this is a peak C in the weekly now. Is there a chance that we could see over the next three weeks or so, peak Cs go to Ds in all the different indices, even the S&P, look the Dow itself, my NGU, is at a peak B. It doesn't take much now to get it to a C and then you have a rest of it. So it doesn't mean that sometime in April we make a really serious top. Or is this a digestive phase unfolding now with semiconductors taking a bit of a breather, although they're up today. 4.41, the S&P at 222.25. You can see making lower lows and lower highs. The 9 is still over the 14, but you can see it's getting a little harder to do. So maybe we're looking at a rotational correction in some of the areas. Let's go to the IWM, talk about rotation. We haven't seen the big rotation into the small caps yet. That is a concerted, we've seen nice bounces. But not a concerted effort, 22.15 down 25 cents. Very close to seeing the 9 period moving areas to pink hasn't yet. And the weekly charge at a peak D already. But you can have a recycle go sideways. You can just consolidate. You don't have to break down. So this is a very important moment as far as I can see it. If you're looking at the gold, gold contract is up to 2163. Let's look at silver. Silver was actually acting a little better than gold last week. And now it's a 0.03 at 2541. In a leg C. And we're looking at the weekly chart, which is slowly improving. You did see the 9 period moving average for the first time in a while. Cross green, go to green at the close on Friday. That's important. Weekly chart, not too much to see there. Look at high grade copper. High grade copper is still acting so strongly. This is a good market sign. Let's put it this way. Economic sign for the global economies. Now talk about the global economies. Look at this. This is the Vanguard total return. This is the World Stock ETF made an all time high above the 109.30 high of November of 2021 plummets down to the 70s. It comes all the way back to 110.02. That's what was 70, 80 cents above the all time high from November of 2021. Now it's taking a little bit of a breather. The 9 is still over the 14, still acting quite well. So we'll be monitoring this because it's the world and it's already making a peak D in the weekly chart, but the technicals are still very strong. I would say that I can consider this kind of a mixed market, mixed areas, but the consolidations have all been high level consolidations, meaning that there hasn't been a major turn down. You've just been rotating sideways for the consolidation. I wanted to show you the EUR, USD, that's the EUR dollar currency pair, pulls back quite sharply, still technically okay. But the 9 period moving average is over the 14, but that weekly chart has a strong 200 period moving average of 1.09 as resistance and the EUR at 1.089. Let's just do the USD-JPY as we go to the break. USD-JPY, that's the yen. Very nice looking up side. It's up 16 cents and 49.2. I'll be back. That's the chapter. How good conditions are. It's up 127. If you're looking for potential trading setups in the stock market, then Rocket Equities and Options Report is a newsletter you should try. Tommy O'Brien delivers options and equity trades when the markets present them using a combination of fundamentals and technicals. 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Go to the newsletters tab of TFNN.com and sign up today. We'll see you March 19th. TFNN. Educating investors. Toll free at 1-877-927-6648 We're back to 520 now. We're going to ask a question about SCCO, this is Southern Copper, up 96 cents at 103.96, a spectacular move. In 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 sessions going from the 78 level is now at 103.96 and that's been almost like one straight-up move. Look at the weekly chart, just a monster leg to the upside. One of the biggest legs I think I've ever seen in Southern Copper. Let me just check it out here. Yes. Not only is it one of the biggest legs, the leg itself is probably bigger than a lot of the moves to the upside certainly on a monthly basis. So yeah, this is absolutely a terrific action and as I was saying, if you're looking at what we used to talk about, I don't talk about that much anymore, Dr. Copper. Dr. Copper was a way of saying internationally, if Copper is doing well, usually world economies are doing okay, that's the reason why I went to that VT, Vanguard World Total Return and this SCCO is really demonstrating that very nicely. FCX is another one in the same area. Not quite the same chart in the monthly chart, but wow, isn't that a nice leg D as well in the daily chart trading at up 48 cents at 45 10. So this is really a terrific action and look at the way it broke that Chatham Wave inside track repellent zone that it had been for about a year. It just kept coming down. It couldn't break that resistance and then it tried once back in, I think it was November, December of 2023 and failed and pulled back and this month it has just climbed much, much higher, right through it. So yes, so this is the question on CCO. I like it. You didn't ask me anything about it, I just wanted me to look at it and all I'm going to say is this is the stochastic is flat at 95.64% that is really a good sign because when you see that it just pops up like that in the curves over in the stochastic and then comes back down. Usually the price goes with it in this particular instance the price is holding well on balance volume is very overboard. That's just a single part of the little puzzle here. The magnate is very strong. The relative strength has just gone a little overboard. So I like it very much and you didn't ask me anything. So I'm just going to say to you congratulations, you're long. This is a terrific long position, but all I would say is in the context of what to do now you can expect some kind of a pullback. The gap is just in the 90s and here you are at 103.74 the gap the low of just Friday's low was 94.83 Thursday's high was 98.20 So you got a little bit of a gap there. That's probably something that would be filled if there was a pullback. I like it just in terms of money management all I would say is taking a little bit off here did you expect in one week that it would go up almost 20% it's a lot. So that's all I'm saying. I think it's looking terrific absolutely visually it looks a little overboard because it's got this huge spiral to the upside but you can have a high level of consolidation and then go higher. So I'm just saying you didn't ask me my opinion my gut reaction right now based on the technicals you just grab the 120 minute chart. Yeah, even with 120 minute chart you could pull back about 3 points or 4 points and if you take just a little bit off you can even just put it back. It's a way of controlling the position so that you are adding to it appropriately you're taking off but you're keeping absolutely keeping your core position this is just part of a training or you just want to bother it all you say how I'm in I don't think it's coming back to my initial price I like it I'm not going to mess around. So two things one is if you want take a little bit off now you could plan to put it back maybe 3-4 points lower and the other is don't do anything. My preference is to actually take a little bit off take a little bit off had a note from Michael saying he's still got his core position he's taken as we've discussed over a period of a year or so he's taken bits off Broadcom semiconductors it hit a 1418.17 high 1418 a couple of weeks ago it's had a ton of round numbers even today it had a low of 1241 that doesn't mean it couldn't be taken out but when I see numbers like that over and over and over it's it's almost like round number fear of missing out that I've got to get it so I'll just play anything I'll play that round number usually put it 0.3, 0.20 0. whatever it is and if you're grabbing it like this it means you really want it so that just says to me from the pattern it's in a cell signal that's been upgraded to a cell mode of Vagio it was a Vagio announced Broadcom for a long time it was taken over but the symbol is still the AVGO symbol at 1245.11 up 961 it's in a cell mode on the dating the weekly chart is still holding really well but it has pulled back in a peaky I think there's a consolidation going on in the semis we actually asked short the semis so far it's worked out okay but the week is young the days and the hour is young so that's that next question I had was MP correct MP is in a decided down mode starting at 13.26 down 0.64 what is it called again MP materials this is ready looking very poor I agree and there was another one I wanted to do so that did that did that in the den I saw SMCI SMCI that's no SMCI is the wrong one SMCO SMCI this looks quite good 23.32.02 what is it it is oh this is Hilton something other oh is this just a Hilton small Hilton Hilton small something Hilton small mid cap opportunity oh this is one of those opportunity stocks all right well that's a little different altogether it does look quite good doesn't it but they they're kind of dangerous so SMCI that's what we're looking at and SMCI is super micro company sales service solutions architecture high power AI yeah whoa so there's this whole cluster I call it I've even stopped putting in the number of round numbers it had a 1229.00 all-time high that day that it did that it had a 1212.00 open it's had 10 around numbers it has open today of 1107.00 all I can say is there's something going on here that says to me there's probably a consolidation going on in these very big high techs this is of course in the super micro in the whole survey I guess this is hardware and software I don't know I just I get very nervous when I see that and it's not going anywhere. Arm arm is holding in the semiconductor area 164.00 high round number high on the 12th of Feb and here is it 130.09 keeps having round numbers I don't know not going anywhere I'll be back down to 142. 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investors this portion of the Tiger Technicians Hour is brought to you by Directions Daily Leveraged and Inverse ETFs whether you're a bull or a bear you choose the direction visit Direction.com investing in the funds involves significant risk and should only be utilized by investors who understand the impact of leverage and actively monitor their portfolio they are not designed to track the underlying index or security for more than a day before investing carefully consider funds investment objective risk charges and expenses contained in the prospectus available at Direction.com read carefully distributor for side fund services LLC Hi folks we're back and I had a question A is this symbol trading at 3127 up 83 cents yes this is going right to the 200 feet expansion moving average it's a leg D leg D is where you have to say oops anything can happen at D objective is to get to a D in a bicycle upgrade to a buy mode and then when it gets to D you do a reassessment that's where you have to do an analysis of does it have an instant restart all sorts of things happening that's going to be looking at peak D start very quick peak A peak B peak C then a D when it does that I'm always a little nervous because I'm anticipating some kind of a pullback and it's exactly what happened here but the weekly chart is kind of arched over and now it's starting to make a cut formation and it's improving so Alcoa is in the area so I'll be talking about stocks like Alcoa in my webinar tomorrow it's a little different to my usual webinars I usually I have like 45 50 slides that we go through we're going through all these different patterns I discuss them in this particular instance I'm going to show some of the techniques that we look for and then I'm going to look at many stocks for instance Alcoa is one of them stocks that have that are in the cyclical area some secular some cyclical and where are they ready to start performing for instance steel look like it was ready and then it just sort of had a fabulous move up end of last year into the beginning of this year now it's just store the Van Ag Vectors steel ETF he has the technique that I'll be discussing as well very simple you take two lines you just draw them to the tops of the candles and that gives you the inside track repellent zone it keeps pulling back when it hits it or the propellent zone when it comes when it comes down to the area it is it has a propellant zone right so when we do this just easy techniques that you can use as there still is this kind of in a sideways trading band so when we're looking at PAVE this all goes together PAVE is the infrastructure area very strong move and now it's sort of stalling off to making an all-time high about a week ago in the 38th is trading at the 27 right now weekly chart peak C monthly chart global X us infrastructure development ETF I'll be going through this very important this is so you will see the concrete area the steels the aluminum you'd expect that they'd be part of this well in this particular instance you're looking at lagging sectors the steel sector has really been lagging for a little while it's done very nicely but look at the daily chart just kind of sideways weekly chart sideways so I want to be discussing that where would you get into certain stocks certain years I had some requests I'm taking some requests as well that we will deal with and at the same time I'm looking at the rotation when let's just say we do get the semiconductor digestive phase which really would be appropriate after such spectacular moves where would that money go well I suspect that fund managers are going to be looking at areas it could include the IWM we don't know yet it could include the small caps but I want to look at those areas and I want to look at the chart pattern that says what to what would be your key metric that you're looking at to be able to go into that so you can do your own work I do of course my newsletter always got positions that we're taking but at the same time you can also do your own homework and it's sometimes it's quite easy sometimes a little bit more difficult but these are the tools that you want so I'm going to be looking at that I'm going to be looking at the bank stocks so the question came in about Alcoa and I like it very much I think it's going to slowly if it can push sharply above the 200-period moving average it's been such strong resistance in the daily chart for so long look at this every time it popped up it came all the way down it hadn't even been there it was there in December but it hadn't even been there I mean I could go back I will go back look that two and orange 200-period moving average the last time that Alcoa touched it was just briefly when it popped above it and it fell in March of 2020 good grief look at this it was on the third of March 2023 it was at 55.74 since then it's been down into the 20s right now it's at 31.26 and this and it's look look look look it did that once again over there and then failed this time it's making a more concerted effort it's been a shorter timeframe and that just says to me that the 200-period moving average could turn into a springboard if it could start to trade in the 32 50 to 33 area and make this big cup formation how it tackles the most recent high that was the high of December the 20 something 27th at 35.04 is going to be really important in April that could be March but I'm just saying in April itself that's really important why did I want to do that because the weekly chart let me show you but the weekly chart is just starting to repair the damage of pulling back so sharply it last week it went green on the 9-period moving average it's having a slightly higher high today and that's important so that's what I'm looking at how do we what are the stocks that we would like to get looking out where are the prices that we would get them at what is working what is not working it's as simple as that another question I had was let me see if I can find it over here yeah Airbnb EB&B there we go AB&B is the symbol trading up $1.43 at 162 let me just refresh over here there you are there it is so it's just pulling back a little bit it had 168.19 high just recently it had 166 opening price trading right now at 162.09 had 167 round number high the other day 168 round number open and now it's trading a little bit how these round numbers unfold over a period of not just short-term I'm talking about 2-3 weeks is going to be very important as I say when I see so many in so many different areas we were looking mostly in tech and high and semiconductors and then we've seen everywhere look at this would you expect that stock of Buffett Premier stock, Berkshire Hathaway B conglomerate just I mean they in everything America I mean everything to do with the economy whether it's insurance you don't banks the oil it doesn't matter and it has a 430.00 all-time high round number with a 422 round number open that day that's the day I forgot to put the date the day of the 26th of February and here it is the 18th of March at 4.07 and I still had a couple of round numbers and this I went back over the weekend I was looking at so many in trying to prepare for this webinar I decided I wouldn't just write notes and notes and notes I'd actually do a lot of work in different stocks that are really important and just try to do an analysis of them and I went through a daily chart to look for round numbers doesn't happen very often and if you get it at the high shouldn't mean something I'll be back down to 152 S&P's at 55 you'll be right The Gold Report As a precious metal gold is still king it continues to hold the most effective safe haven and hedging properties across the global major trading hubs of the London OTC market the US futures market and the Shanghai Gold Exchange Tom O'Brien publishes his weekly gold report every Monday morning for subscribers consisting of coverage of the XAU, HUI GDX, The Dollar 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are not designed to track the underlying index or security for more than a day before investing carefully consider a funds investment objective risk charges and expenses contained in the prospectus available at Direction.com re-carefully distributor foresight funds services LLC this program is brought to you by Vista Gold traded on the NYSE American NTSX under the symbol VGZ request if I could look at Viscorre Corporation a little weird to say Viscorre Corporation that's what it is Viscorre Corporation trading at 35.81 down 25 cents it's had a huge move in 2023 from the 35s to just about 100 and then it came all the way back down like an Eiffel tower straight up straight down pattern and it's been trying to form a base in the 34-35 area for oh for a month since since about October and it keeps coming back to that level at some point it either treats this and it's had a huge gap down and it hasn't been able to even test the breakdown high in other words one day it's tutoring along at 46.21 low the very next day the high so 46.21 and the high next day is 40.38 I mean at 6. that's a huge it's a gap down and it hasn't gone even close to that level this is the chapter of Roman Camel right here the red one and you had three days in which to close at least into a short-term period for about 60 minutes or 90 minutes to try to hold at 39 level above 39 that would say now you could go to the upper part of the canal couldn't do it failed just couldn't do it so this is an arch formation that dreaded this is a dreaded H pattern and we are higher than the low that was made on the 26th February 35 round 00 round number low isn't that interesting 35 round number low okay and as a pretty decent balance goes all the way to 38 about 10 percent then it pulls back and now it's testing and what does it do it comes all the way back down on Friday to green candle 35.21 and now it's not ready but it couldn't hold it 35.75 down 32 cents so this is a pattern that very often when it does this retest of the low and you start to see the histogram of the MACD improving a lot and the stochastic actually having a divergence it isn't now but a positive divergence this is oh wait a minute this is a negative divergence in the sense that stochastic went down but the price held so that's a divergence slightly different divergence what I'm looking at here is this either has the potential and speedies of the essence if it takes two days and it can't get above 36.47 that is not good action at all if in the next two sessions today's Monday give it one that's Tuesday give it Wednesday by four o'clock on Wednesday if it's able to get to the 36.47 maybe Thursday 36.47 level and close preferably above 36.47 I'd say now you're looking at the chance that it has the lowercase h that can go to another h pattern so it makes what I call the lowercase h to a lowercase m formation and that says it could take you if it can break above the high of the 14th of March was 37.17 it could take you all the way to the top of the pattern which was at the 38 38.64 area so it's a work in progress that's on the upside on the downside as I say it has two days it really is speedies of the essence if it's going to do that it starts as it makes its ictus on the right which is above the 35 round number low that was made in February it's speed quickly to say I'm done consolidating I'm moving high otherwise the weekly charts is now it can't get out of this pattern that just constantly the low that was made back in the week of the 17th of November of 35.48 isn't that fascinating that it can't it hasn't broken the 35s yet it just keeps coming back down to it so very often I've seen charts that do this and then when you least expect it this is vikor high performance power modules for networks you don't even anticipate that it's going to do it because it looks so ugly suddenly it shoots out of the box and it moves higher so speedies of the if you're interested in this I'm going to say nibble on it right here 3575 say I'd have 3525 is I'd have the tightest stop why because in this particular scenario I am talking speed so if it hasn't done anything another couple of days it's just stuck in the range it's really I don't think it'll start to move after that so there's the opportunity right now I would have preferred to see it a little higher at 35 because today hit 3613 I would have preferred that it pull back to 36 early in the first hour and right now it was starting to get to 3612 and then 3616 3622 that to me would be really nice action just to see that it has the kickstart to be able to really push quickly otherwise it's just stuck so I hope that helps you stuck ready to move or nothing so at this particular point the only way you can test it out is just to have a very small little position and if it starts intraday to get towards the 3611 area you can even add just another fraction but don't get carried away I'm just saying as a training vehicle now one of my anticipating today I'm anticipating that somehow other we come off the highs that this is just an overbought oversold situation at the same time let me just write that down at the same time it isn't overly negative remember when we were looking at the chance that this could become a consolidation I said to become a really strong cell mode in all the indices you need to see the S&P the futures for some reason and usually the some reason has to be higher rates maybe the next time crude oil if it does spike to the upside sharply there's got to be some impetus to say oh oh this is not good for the market and the Fed has to kind of saying you know we're not looking at the rosy look that you look we've got a little bit of a cloudy situation right now because there have been some inflation the numbers that have got us a little not concerned but watching it closely so S&P futures down 48 to down 52 S&P futures down 375 to maybe 425 and then there's a market and it looks exactly like this intraday this chart on the left of EICOR this is an intraday chart which should look like an arch formation and then it rallies and then it closes at the end of the day a lousy and then it has the same thing the next day with a lower low and a lower high and that to me is a cell mode really getting the impetus to the downside too consecutive very negative sessions that buyers have kept coming in all the time that's why I've said we're taking smaller positions on the short side but they have so far the memo working out okay but I'm monitoring very closely the action in what had been real big winners and what had been real big losers and if the big losers are starting to show that they are just demonstrating some kind of capacity to hold on the downside and not make lower lows I think that's going to be a good sign for a rotation that says fund managers should be looking at something else for the next two months or six weeks or so question came in where was it PayPal PYPL I haven't looked at this for a little while PayPal PAPB PAPC just above the Georgia pre-moving average actually much better it was once upon a time the 300 then it went to the 50 area this is not bad I'll be back in a moment are you ready to take charge of your financial future? 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Hi, friends. Welcome back to my channel and welcome if you're new here. My name is Jen. I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach and I'm on the WW or the Weight Watchers Blue Plan. Happy Saturday. It's Saturday, so it's another grocery haul day. I have some good food finds for you today. I ended up shopping at both Walmart and Trader Joe's. So if you're excited for another grocery haul, give this video a thumbs up. And if you're new or you haven't yet subscribed, of course I'd love to have you here. Hit the subscribe button and click the bell right next to it so you never miss a single video. Down in the description box, you are going to find nutrition coaching. I do offer personalized to you macros and calories, as well as one-on-one coaching if you would like to chat with me directly. Links, discounts to all my favorite things and my Facebook group are also down in that description box. Head on over and join us there. So without further ado, let's jump into this week's grocery haul. So here is this week's grocery haul. I did Walmart grocery pickup and I also made a trip to Trader Joe's. There were a couple of things I wanted to pick up and then I really liked getting my produce at Trader Joe's as well. So let's jump into this week's grocery haul. First thing I picked up was my favorite coffee creamer. This is the Fun Fetti. It is so good. If you love sweet vanilla birthday cake flavors, this one is absolutely delicious. I grabbed some of the Bolt House creamy Caesar dressing.  And it called for Caesar dressing and Walmart didn't have any light Caesar. So I ended up just going with the Bolt House farm.  This is for a recipe. Can of crushed tomatoes also for a dinner recipe. I was completely out of eggs and we can't be out of eggs in this house. So I grabbed an 18 pack of my very favorite eggs, the happy egg. I have a couple recipes this week that calls for bacon.  Diesel hasn't been eating very well since his procedure. So the vet recommended chicken and rice. So I went ahead and grabbed this cheap pack of chicken for him. I don't normally eat this chicken, but I thought he's a dog. He's not gonna care.  I also needed a pack of chicken thighs for a dinner recipe.  So I thought I'm gonna go ahead and enjoy myself a good chicken thigh. Lots of lunch meat here for Troy's lunches. I have three quarters of a pound of deli roast beef, three quarters of a pound of deli ham, and then half of a pound of a deli dried salami. He's gonna do like that whole Subway BMT vibe with the three meats. This is a seasonal rub or seasoning at Trader Joe's and this is our all time favorite seasoning for burgers. So good on hamburgers. So I went ahead and picked another one up. That way we have it all year long. I don't know why, but Diet Root Bear sounded really, really good but I didn't want to get an entire case. So I went ahead and just grabbed a two liter of the zero sugar A&W. We were completely out of rice for us as well as for diesel. So for us, I grabbed the organic California Jasmine Rice. This one is so incredibly delicious and super affordable at Walmart. I went ahead and picked up a couple different crackers at Trader Joe's, one brand new one and one kind of old school favorite. So I grabbed some spinach and kale Greek yogurt dip so that we could have dip and crackers or chips and dip. I love this dip. And it is two tablespoons for 30 calories. A pack of the La Bandarita carb counter tortillas. These are my favorite tortillas and my lovely husband ate all of mine. So I had to do a restock. I also ordered rice for diesel not anticipating a five pound bag. This is a huge, huge bag of rice, but that's okay. That way I can just cook up a ton in my instant pot. So I have a huge five pound bag of long grain rice. A loaf of country potato bread. This is for Troy's sandwiches for the week. My favorite little teeny tiny avocados from Trader Joe's. I love these because I can eat the entire avocado in one sitting and not have to worry about trying to save it in it not going bad. New cracker alerts at Trader Joe's are these Rosemary Saffa Glatt, thin and crunchy Italian rosemary crackers. I picked these up for the dip. They sound really good. And you get a ton of them for the points and calories. And I also went ahead and grabbed a box of the Pita Bite crackers as well. These are really, really good with that dip. I didn't know if Troy would like the Rosemary one. So I went ahead and grabbed a box of the Pita. A rebuy of Troy's favorite cereal, the Special K Red Berries. I also eat this cereal. I love it. Boxes of the Yasso Sea Salt Caramel Ice Cream Bars per my husband's request. He actually really likes these and they're a much better option than sugar filled bars. So I went ahead and grabbed two boxes. The produce of course from Trader Joe's. I have a bag of the Frozen Organic Blue Berries. This is for my meal prep that you guys will be seeing on Monday. Of course, a bag of organic lemons for my water. Some romaine lettuce for Sunday's dinner recipe. One orange for a recipe. Some tomatoes for Troy's lunch. He's been liking lettuce and tomatoes on the side with his sandwiches. And then he just adds them to his sandwich when he goes to eat it. So I picked those up. A couple of organic bell peppers and then some fresh basil for a recipe and then some fresh mint for my water. I know what you're thinking. What happened to your mint plant? Well, I got this great idea to replant it into a larger container and then it was drawing bugs to the inside of my house for some reason. So I ended up putting it outside on my picnic table and then it died.  So I am just back to buying these little packs of mints for my water. So that is everything for this week's grocery haul. Let's jump into what you'll be seeing on Monday for meal prep and what my meal plan is for the week. So here's this week's meal plan. This is the week of July 10th through the 16th. So today, Saturday, we always go out for dinner. Tomorrow, Sunday, I'm making a chicken Caesar pasta salad. You guys will actually see this recipe in next Wednesday's what I eat in a day. So stay tuned. Monday is a one skillet, sausage and peppers with rice. This just sounds easy, quick and delicious. Tuesday night is always a leftover night. I have some ribs in my freezer from ButcherBox that I wanna eat up. So we're going to barbecue those on Thursday, or on Wednesday. Thursday is Herb Balsamic Chicken with Vegetables. This also sounds really good. And then Friday, we always like to eat up any leftovers from earlier in the week. Here's what you'll be seeing this week for meal prep. For breakfast, I am making morning glory muffins. These are going to be so hearty and delicious. Lunch is slow cooker crack chicken. I've actually heard a lot about this recipe and how good this crack chicken is. So I'm excited to try it. And then for dessert, we are making blueberry scones. I love scones, my husband loves scones just because they're not overly sweet. So I'm gonna be doing that. I don't know why it says dinner. That would be dessert is blueberry scones. So you'll be seeing all three of these recipes on Monday for meal prep. Thank you for joining me on another weekly WW grocery haul. I hope you enjoyed seeing all the good stuff that I picked up for the week, what you'll be seeing on Monday in meal prep and of course my dinners for the week. So if you enjoyed this grocery haul, don't forget to give it a thumbs up. It really helps out my channel and I appreciate it. And if you're new and you haven't clicked the little subscribe button, we'd love to have you hit the button and click the bell next to it. That way you never miss a single upload or a Saturday grocery haul. Check out the description box down below for nutrition coaching, links and discounts to my favorite things and my Facebook group. Head on over and join us there as well. Happy Saturday, happy weekend and I'll see you all in tomorrow's video.


Welcome to another episode of GUI Challenges, where I build interfaces my way, and then I challenge you to do it your way. And with our creative minds combined, we're going to find multiple ways to solve these interfaces and expand the diversity of our skills. And today's GUI Challenge, we are building a favicon. And not just a favicon.ico or a favicon.png, we're building a favicon.svg. We have an adaptive, light and dark themed favicon, and I'm going to show you how I did it. Let's hear that intro. You've probably put a favicon on your site before. I'm sure they're pretty easy to get started with. The traditional one that's, you know, 20 years old or something is a .ico file. And a little later, you could use a .png file. And then all of a sudden we got like manifest icons and all sorts of stuff. And icons can be quite a lot to manage these days. And one of the main benefits other than being an adaptive icon opportunity with SVG icon is that you can supply one icon for all of the different sizes and use cases that someone might come up with. And that could mean it's in the side mark, like your bookmarks bar. Okay, if I go to my bookmarks, yeah, right. Here's the SVG favicon here in the bookmarks area. If someone saves your site to a reading list, you're going to get your icon in the reading list. So there's a lot of really nice opportunities to show your brand in these other areas when someone's like not specifically at your page, but they're considering it. So this icon needs to be adaptive to color, which is going to, it's like a nice to have, but it should be adaptive to size. And so using an SVG, we have this scalable graphic and look, I can even use my SVG favicon right here in the middle of the page. And so that's what we're looking at here. It's just the SVG favicon here nice and large so we can see it. So if you've put a favicon on your page and you're maybe juggling three or four or maybe more because you're, you know, supplying an icon for a PWA and maybe some other use cases. SVG icon can come in really handy and let's test out what it looks like in the light theme here. And as we're just switching our OS, so we'll switch to the light theme. We can see that Chrome picks up the new icon, Firefox picks up the new icon. We zoom in here, we can see it's nice and crisp. Yeah, that looks really great. And down here, we can see that we now have the purple outline. We have a white skull color. And if we go back to the dark theme, we can see these things change. So look, now I don't have quite such a vibrant outline on here. It kind of pushes back a little bit. It's a little bit more subdued in the dark theme, but I left the pink hat because the pink hat's so cool. And I thought it just popped really well off of there. And that is the effect that we're going for is this really high quality, scalable, adaptive SVG favicon. And turns out today, we're not going to be writing very much CSS. We're going to be writing some XML. We're going to be writing some SVG and let's dive right into that. What do you think? So here I am in my HTML. And the first thing we want to do is load up an SVG icon. Let's look at how to do that. So if we scroll down into our head tag, we see our link tag here for our original favicon, so favicon.ico. And that's going to be supplied to all the browsers that don't know how to handle an SVG. And that's what's nice here is we can supply our SVG favicon in the next line. And if a browser understands it and they are down to render it, they can just pick it right up. Otherwise they can ignore that line and it's no big deal. But here's our type saying image slash SVG plus XML. And that's your key to getting that into there. Now what happens when it loads this SVG is the fun part. And we'll come down here and look at our SVG in this tab down here. So we've made an SVG tag. Nothing surprising here, right? We're passing literally just SVG into this icon area here, handwritten. And this is where it gets really interesting is this style tag here. We can use style tags inside of SVG and we can put some colors on our paths that we have inside of there. So we have a favicon stroke. That's where it's going to be the purple. We have an eight pixel stroke on there. Skull outline is filled wide. The eyes and nose are filled. The hat and bill rights. So we can see that I'm colorizing all of these things with selectors. If we scroll down into the path data, we can see the selectors here. So here's our group for an ID called Skull has the Skull outline or eyes and our nose, the jaw line. If we come down here, here's the hat. So we have the hat, the hat fill, the hat outline and the hat bill. So those are all the pieces of our SVG with nice little names and with the names all nice. And with the ability to have some styles, we have this app media prefers color scheme dark selector media query. That's then going in and finding each of these and making some exceptions for the dark theme. So we're changing the stroke to a gray. We're changing the outlines, the hat outlines and then eyes and the nose outlines to not the purple to a nice gray. And then we give the Skull a nice light gray. So it's not quite white. It's not going to be glaring and glowing off of someone's tab. It's going to be nice and pushed back a little bit. People will still see that the icon is a Skull. I'm pretty certain of it. And that is pretty much the extent of the trick here. So without going into too much about how I created this SVG, which is I took it straight from the illustrator file, which a designer made. I loaded it up into SVG OMG. I scraped off all of the stuff I didn't need. And then I isolated down these nice paths and put them in some groups. So I did the grouping here because that's not how the illustrator file came and I added the nice IDs to give them a nice easy way to target the styles. And then I just went and styled it as I needed to. So it's kind of like I took a really complex jumbled up SVG five icon and I took all of the craft off of it, cleaned it up, made it nice and then give me a nice foundation for styling the dark and light theme of it. And that is it for this GUI challenge. We built a light and dark adapting favicon. How are you making these?   Let me know in the comments. And as always, check out the article for a full breakdown on how we do this from the ground up and any of your forks. And remixes still be at the bottom of that so you can see everybody else's thoughts on how to do this too. Alright y'all, take it easy and I'll see you in the next GUI challenge.


Well indeed we are facing a major famine in the northeastern part of Africa currently so these issues are right at the top of our daily existence. Here at the climate change conference I think that what we've been able to emphasize is the the gaining role of evergreen agriculture as a means of actually tackling these problems and in our learning event here at the agriculture and rural development day we just had the opportunity to analyze the impact of evergreen agriculture over millions of hectares of land in countries throughout western eastern and southern Africa and get feedback about how we can actually improve the effectiveness of campaigns to scale up evergreen agriculture in many other countries. Basically it is all about developing ways in which trees are integrated into the crop lands of Africa and with the amazing species of trees that exist here that are so compatible with crops we are able to see enormous dramatic increases in crop yields, fodder production and the production of fuel, wood and timber for households all over the continent and so we've been trying to really bring this to the fore because so many policymakers are totally unaware of the potential role of trees in adapting to climate change. The role of agroforestry is being recognized as a tremendous fundamental part of what we see as the solutions for both adaptation and mitigation in Africa and we've been very happy to see how the international organizations as well as governments are gearing up to support these efforts and we're working in countries with governments all over the continent to actually take advantage of the many years of research that have developed solutions that farmers not only can use but are using on millions of hectares of land and it's our vision that we could reach now the most poor and desperately hungry people who are the rural farmers that cannot actually grow enough food for the entire year. Well red has been limited in its discussions mainly to the conservation of forests and the reiforestation of plantation forests but indeed this is only a part of the solution and agriculture is the cause of deforestation predominantly throughout the tropics and what we find is that unless farmers have the trees that are producing the products and services that they need on their farms in their communities they're going to have to have access to those products and services in the forest whether it's timber or other forest products and so indeed agro forestry which is the growing of trees on farms for the benefit of farm households is a major way of deflecting deforestation if you can employ these techniques in communities they don't need to use the forest resources to the extent that they would have had to and they can cooperate and collaborate with governments to actually protect those resources.


Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol Read by Nikolas Bolton for Maxis Audiobooks BOOK ONE CHAPTER ONE A rather pretty little shays on springs, such as bachelors, half-pay officers, staff captains, landowners with about a hundred serfs—in short, all such as are spoken of as gentlemen of the middling sort, drive about in—rolled in at the gates at the hotel of the provincial town of N. In the shays sat a gentleman, not handsome, but not bad-looking, not too stout, and not too thin. It could not be said that he was old, neither could he be described as extremely young. His arrival in the town created no sensation whatever, and was not accompanied by anything remarkable. Only two Russian peasants standing at the door of the tavern facing the hotel made some observations with reference, however, rather to the carriage and to its occupant. "'My eye,' said one to the other, "'isn't that a wheel? What do you think? Would that wheel, if so, it chance to get to Moscow? Or would it never get there?' "'It would,' answered the other. "'But to Kazan now, I don't think it would get there.' "'It wouldn't get to Kazan,' answered the other. "'With that,' the conversation ended. Moreover, just as the shays drove up to the hotel, it was met by a young man in extremely short and narrow white canvas trousers, in a coat with fashionable cutaway tails, and a shirt-front fastened with a tulip breast-pin adorned with a bronze pistol. The young man turned round, stared at the shays holding his cap which was almost flying off in the wind, and went on his way. When the shays drove into the yard, the gentleman was met by a hotel servant—waiter, as they are called in the restaurants—a fellow so brisk and rapid in his movements that it was impossible to distinguish his countenance. He ran out nimbly with a dinner napkin in his hand, a long figure wearing a long frockcoat made of some cotton mixture, with the waist almost up to the nape of his neck, tossed his locks, and nimbly led the gentleman upstairs along the whole length of a wooden gallery to show the guest to the room Providence had sent him. The room was of the familiar type, but the hotel, too, was of the familiar type. That is, it was precisely like the hotels in provincial towns where, for two roubles a day, travellers get a quiet room with black beetles peeping out of every corner like prunes, and a door always barricaded with a chest of drawers into the next apartment, of which the occupant, a quiet and taciturn but excessively inquisitive person, is interested in finding out every detail relating to the newcomer. The out-of-a-sard of the hotel corresponded with its internal peculiarities. It was a very long building of two stories, the lower store— Sample complete. Ready to continue?


Well folks we have a few stories I want to share with you today, dealing with Tears of the Kingdom and well, another code recollection, some Hogwarts Legacy stuff and folks, the big coup de gras. We're going to spend a majority of the video on Nintendo potentially a new rumor about them launching a brand new subscription tier for Nintendo Switch Online, likely for Nintendo Switch 2 based on how this is being put out there where you are going to be able to play games for free. Oh baby, are you ready for this? I know Mr. Lama here is. Let's go ahead and dive into the news. So our first story deals with Google of all things because they released a nice little chart showing off the most searched for video games of 2023 and Tears of the Kingdom ranked at number 2 behind Baldur's Gate 3. Now that's fine and not really surprising. What does surprise me a little bit though is how this chart is. I don't really know the data is based on searches but I just don't understand what the chart is showing. Like what does 100% mean compared to 88% or 70% or 23% there's only the total amount of people who searched and then how many of those people searched for a specific thing. To me it's a little why I don't understand the chart is basically what I'm saying. If you just want to take it out of the server's value Baldur's Gate 3 is the most searched for video game then Tears of the Kingdom then you just keep going down the line. That part I get I just don't get the percentages but hey it is what it is. You know what folks that's alright it's time for us to dive into our next story. And look Pioro strikes again everyone for those who don't know who Pioro is he is a leaker for Nintendo stuff over on X and last time he did a bunch of leaks was right before the last Nintendo Direct and one of those leaks was actually for another code recollection and he quoted himself over on Twitter and said well hey you're going to get a demo and a new trailer for this game and now that was about 9, 10 days ago and people thought it was for the game awards but he never said that it was and then last night Nintendo dropped the goods and gave us a trailer and now a playable demo that you can play right now for another code recollection that comes out on January 19th. So again Pioro strikes again he posted it you know 9, 10 days ago but doesn't matter it happened and his 100% streak with all of his leaks continues the guy is literally the goat of goats in 2023 for leakers so yeah it's pretty hard not to pay attention to everything he says now in the future. And next up another little quick story for you guys is are you playing Hogwarts Legacy on Switch because it actually sold pretty well right we talked about sales data how it bumped up Hogwarts Legacy like number three in the sales charts number two out in the UK and yeah it's apparently selling very well on Switch so obviously if there's any issues with the game the developers are going to want to get them cleaned up so they released a new patch and that's fine because there really wasn't a ton of like game breaking complaints like people say it all the game is broken and doesn't play I'm falling through the world this isn't a Pokemon you know situation but they drop some patch notes and I'm not going to go through all the patch notes what I just wanted to show you is how shocking they are because take a look at this this is when you like click on the image of the patch notes if you see them on someplace like X they are the longest patch notes maybe in gaming history I don't know there might be some longer ones but there is a certain in one of the longest ones I've ever seen for a Nintendo Switch game holy crutter they fixed a lot now most of this isn't like game breaking bugs are fixing just at a quick glance there's a lot of graphical glitches you know things you know cutting through each other that aren't supposed to color fixes there were a few actual bugs fixed in the game something with the final fight was fixed and I want to spoil things for people but yeah look I on one hand this is a hell of a lot of things that needed fixed in the game on the other I'm really glad that they actually fixed them because all they did was take a game that people seem to be having a lot of fun with and just make it even better and obviously it just makes me more confident when I eventually pick up my copy on switch because I know some people make fun of the visuals but apparently the gameplay is holding up just fine so that's what I care about so I'm probably gonna pick up Hogwarts legacy and switch here right after the holiday season and enjoy my adventures for now I'm actually gonna be playing skull and bones because I got into the clothes beta so I'll be playing that over the weekend here on ps5 and before we dive into our last story I just want to let you guys know hey we have all the confetti going because I mean we technically haven't got there yet but you know what I am excited about possibly getting there if you're enjoying this content want more of it go ahead and hit the subscribe button maybe hit the bell to be notified of all future videos and hey look we've been raining down eggplants doughnuts and Oreos I'm gonna give you a break today and just say hey if you subscribe to the channel it's just a free smile from me now last up we have the rumor of rumors and look this stuff is pretty crazy it deals with Nintendo switch shoe it deals with Nintendo switch online a brand new tier a more premium tier being added but there's a very good reason for that before we talk about it give me a second we're not we're not dressed appropriately for the occasion alright now we are appropriately dressed for the situation because this rumor does come from 4chan and while leaks do happen at 4chan we obviously need to take this with the largest amount of skepticism humanly possible but it's such a really cool idea I want to talk about it anyways so here's the 4chan post and it says this is like a third hand info and I'm not sure how accurate it is but I've heard that Nintendo are contacting publishers to do more than just free trials for the Nintendo switch online service like how PlayStation Plus model works it's supposed to be a more premium tier I don't know the prices or anything I don't even know when it will start I just think it makes sense for the timing to match up with a console launch in September since that's when Nintendo will get an influx of resubscriptions I've heard very little about the new console basically nothing other than 2024 like Miyamoto has a gun pointed towards everyone's head and what he's inferring to a PlayStation Plus is where they have the free games that they hand out every single month that you could just download and keep so long as you are subscribed on Nintendo could you know entirely support this on their own but they're much more likely to do a service like this and they can get third party companies involved and hand out free indie games to be free you know AAA third-party games that are a year or two old I think that's the idea here that what Nintendo would want to do and it would be a more expensive tier I think Nintendo would have to rework all the tiers at this point to launch this thing next year but this does look like something they would probably want to include with Nintendo Switch to sweeten the pot with NSO maybe it's something they'll bring over to Nintendo Switch as well just because they're such a back catalog of games there they could offer I don't know this just seems like a really really obvious thing to do their competitors already do it and if Nintendo's considering this this gives me hope Nintendo might do other things their competitors do you know like the ability to message our friends you know what I'm saying like how about some of that basic functionality this is a standard feature on Xbox and on PlayStation so Nintendo decided that this into their subscription plan would be quite neat especially if they do decide to eventually include Nintendo published games in there even if it's just they're smaller ones like the Kirby games and stuff like that Yoshi that's totally fine like those games aren't ones are gonna keep selling oodles and oodles over time so why not include them in I think this just makes a lot of business sense I think this will increase people subscribing and paying even more money for their services but they've already done this with a couple things of DLC why not offer us games now I think it just makes a lot of sense and look we're not talking about Nintendo going the game pass route as much as some of you guys might want them to but all right we got to take this thing off it's a quite the design alright folks thank you so much for tuning in I am the theater over dance from Nintendo Prime let me know you think about all this stuff down in the comments below I am legitimately excited about this possible NSO thing that's just I have so much skepticism around it because it's 4chan but hey you know what now it's out there for you guys to chew on we'll see what happens in 2024