Welcome to this year's Who is some of the most behind the session. We have four presentations right now to our students and to the company. After these presentations, I would like to discuss this year's Who is some of the best program from our side because in contrast to the previous years it was a bit unsuccessful and we had some problems that we should face for the rest of the years. But let's start with the thoughts and the first comment we will give to Daniel. Hello everyone, my name is Daniel Smova and I'm doing an award event in Thailand project this summer. I'm a manager of the group, it's very colorful. First you're going to have a week-long video in Thailand before the event and then I'm going to talk about some features and show you guys the different status of it. The last time I brought it to you. So this brings that up a lot. I hope you guys can see I don't know what is happening in the awkward. As you can see there are four tabs, we have a lot of options. And what we first made was to move the each one on a tab. And move is quite a general tab and it also gives options there and somewhere. Because those options were not very useful nowadays but it kept them. And of course we made some things. The big battle was not just that. And this is the result. Yeah, very small, sorry guys. So page layout is right there. You have two columns options. And you have a computer over there and it's just a drop-down. And then you have page copies. Just like before, there are no drop-downs and no regular ones. Also the ring level is bigger. And you have to do a regular build because there are all these double-downs. So we thought it would be nice to see the bottom of the bed. It was supposed to ring. And that was the general option. Sorry guys. That was the general option. Those options are present in all of our versions. Currently we have a key. So it's very similar for all of them. In the other general, you have a specific option for the application. It's changed for writers. In writing you have those options that are specific to it when you are printing. Now I'm going to talk about some features. The first one is print in and out pages in the brochure mode. Before printing, you put red lines on it. You use the monetary mode as it can see if it's disabled. A resolution or even slide mode. You go to the download tab and it's disabled. Print paper size. That is also not its title. Turn off. You see that's the bottom of the properties. You go there and set it. Which is okay. Some extra plates when you are using linux. We have generic printer properties. So it's similar. You just go to both sides of the paper. Your only one side is fine. Like it is right now, but it's fine. But for windows. When you go to printer properties. What happens is it calls the head to print their properties. It can be for you to set some options there. Each printer is different. It can have a lot of paths for you to browse. The drivers you are using don't have this option. Maybe you don't have this option at all in the office. So it's very cheap to have this option as well. So you can print it back to make sure it's present. The feature that we added in print dialog is to select the paper size. And before it was only printed properties. Printed print dialog. Printation in print dialog. That's very good. Because print dialogs are generally printed properties. So for the user it's a bit awkward that you don't find it in print dialog. Before printing a dialog at a dog hand that is portrait. And you say oh. And what would happen is the dog hand is still in portrait. And it just flips the page to lengthen it. So it's cut off part of the text. And as you can see. This was the end of it. Before it was cut off part from the title. So for writer. At least we synchronized page orientation in dog hand printation. So we can change page orientation in print dialog. Also change dog hand printation. And be not very frustrated for the user. Because even that. Close the print package. And then change the orientation there. And then come back to print. I know you'll be very surprised. And if this option is important. In the case you have a small machine. Or your dog hands to print. So rendering. Print review. With the very good data program. It's available for development. The current status of the project. It is still on the future page. It's called print on this program. And I'm working to merge it to master. And actually there's still many things to do. For the print dialog. There are many requests. And unfortunately I was not able to cover them. And continue contributing to the print dialogs actually. We can take that. Any questions about this contract? I saw a list of pretty fine sizes. The sizes. Unfortunately the rest of the contract is gone. And I'm feeling guilty right now. There are some requests about that. It's from 2012. But unfortunately I couldn't offer it. I accepted this. Because it could sell options. It's custom size. That we set. For my page. Inside from the dialog. That's why I didn't have the option. The print reviewer. That's a hard question. But I think that's not sure about that. That's not how I like it. This was a fixer. This is option here. Printing option. Comparing that. Using the LG reviewer. On the code documents. This is a new name for the sheet. You just type your name. And you take this. Impossible to use. Because they decided to switch to a new name. When you switch back to the reviewer. Of a standard reviewer. You choose all the changes you made. Unfortunately. With this fix. Now the reviewer stores. All the changes you made. Into a page file. On the right. As you can see. And now. When you switch back to the reviewer. It loads it. Loads this. File. Instead of the new name. So now you can. Save your data. Thank you. To work on this. This is still in code reviewer. And. The language language. And. It is not a new subject. Do you have any questions. About the next one. Students. Because they are used with water. To send it in sites. The first one. Was I. And this one. This user does not allow you to lie. In a way that you have to fire. Again. The first one is useful. Most of the. Because one day. So here. You set this. Finding. And you would find. The result. And you would find. And you would find. And you would find. You would find. And you would find. And you would find. Where I have many classes of it. So for these builds. There are parameters. That for some provide us. By any interaction. With the menu set. Some kind of selection. For objects like喔 Arpus. A sidebar is covered. It is mostly covered with some special guidelines. Don't go through the normal. The model in growth is the usual model and hopeless code, and may I use the wrong color. We see always in the beginning a responsible object, that then some kind of action, idea of the object, therefore, how we can identify it, to take that log, to identify it, that we can execute again. It takes each line, looks at the line, and tries to convert it to some simple type of code. Basically, in each line, try to easily match to one line type of code. A few more, basically with the gang. The result of the result of the code, since we still have a few more UI, that need to be brought into the UI testing. A few of them are already in UI testing, I want to support it by taking the log in. It's not really nice, not close to some of them. Is this already managed? Yes, because it's somehow in too high. There's some simple support for it would be nice if it was in too high. But the feature is invited into two parts. First, it's always a data provider, data source. Because it speaks from the data, we usually need to sanitize the data, clean it up, and then loop all it into our document. The second part is done through data transformations. Because with some work on data solutions, data transformations, instead we can update the data and we apply the state of transformations. So, when these data changes, we can easily import them again into the client. Another important is that we implement the next porting and importing. So, at least to OVF, we can install the data. We don't have to do it every once in a while. Finish it so that we can do some new ones. The important part is that as soon as we think about the data, we provide credentials, and we don't want to store credentials, especially passwords unprotected, so we need to find a way to equip them. The idea is to have a way to identify a column instead of a normal one. And it's the third column we would specify a page column with the data that we need. Because it's still working on it, so after this one, from the first one, we start to work on it. It's usable, so we start to work through stuff. It really reminds me a lot of the music.


This is not real! They did not write on the card and call it near mint! In today's video, we got back my $1,000 that Twitch chat's been on TCGplayer. YouTube, in the chat, let's go. Let's get back our $1,000 cards. This is the first one. This is from, I think his name is Ken, and he said he sent us some extra stuff. So, let's open this up. We got some giant bubble wrap. If you guys are watching on YouTube, all you have to do is like the video, be subscribed, turn on notifications, and let me know what you think of our purchases and how the conditions turned out. You can win this drone lock bird that was sent to us by a TCGplayer seller. So, it's a perfect giveaway. Fits in the situation perfectly. You guys can win this drone lock bird. So, there we go. Thank you, Ruxen Chat for purchase. Yeah, Ruxen Chat. Chat, you already got shouted out from TCGplayer. An ESU's contact me. Lambs a lot, yeah. I think I'm pretty sure I've interacted with this dude on Instagram a few times, too. So, when I saw his name, I was like, okay, I know this guy. Okay, these are these weird top loaders. They're like cardboard. I don't really know the best way to open them because I've never used them. I guess we just go like this. You got to be really careful though. I don't know. Oh, no, no, no. Look how he did it. He did this. Okay, strategy. I like it. No, it's not cut anything. All right, then he's got a pull tab. All right, there's our rising energy. Okay, front is pretty nice. So, the back is where it's really going to tell the tale. Front looks really good, actually. A little bit of whitening there. Not too big of a deal. I kind of expected on some of these oldies in the old sets. Maybe a little whitening there, but not too bad. Back is honestly pretty clean on this. I don't have crazy lighting going on right now because I don't want to get hot during the stream, but this doesn't look bad at all. Like for TCG player, you know, near mint, what do you expect? I would consider this pretty near mint. Solid, solid card there. I'm not upset with that at all. There's a, I mean, it's not perfect. It's not mint, but it's not bad. So, we can handle that. We got some bonus investments he sent us. What could this be? Okay, upgrade. Well, what is happening? Wait, what is happening? Upgrade copium vote redemption? What does this mean? Is this something we're supposed to do? Wait, before I open this. Upgrade copium vote redemption. What does this mean? Are we just supposed to open these and see what they are? Or are we supposed to like, what does the vote mean? What are we voting for? Maybe you have to vote for the three. Okay, how about this? Whatever you guys vote for, the winner of this one, if it's a better investment, you can swap it with this rising energy because we paid way too much. Paid $14 for this rising energy. If we decide we get a good one, we want to swap it out, we can do it. Copium is the winner. 150 total votes. First of all, no, you know, how about this? We'll reveal the two that you guys did not vote for first and see which one you guys missed out on. Here we go. Oh, so look, we didn't go for the engage, right? And then he sent us an engage. So it looks like he watched our whole video or he might have watched a stream actually. We like looked at the engage. These are the mama versions though, so they are the cheaper ones, but I think that was a good decision. We'd probably rather have. Well, maybe not. I don't know, it depends on if the mama ones go up because they're kind of like penny stocks right now. Not too bad. I mean, that's not bad. Next one, upgrade. Let's see about this 10K, there's 1K purchase. Oh, drawing Lockberg collector rare. Huh? You guys missed out. You should have picked the upgrade. Isn't this like money? Okay, first of all, I don't know why he sent us such an expensive card. Oh my goodness. Go check out his TCG player store, I guess guys because isn't this like 50 plus dollars, 60 even? I think it was like 100 at the time of release, but I don't think it's that much anymore. Wow. Big mistake, Chad. Big mistake. Copium, like were you right? Did you make the right decision? It's going to be hard to be to draw a Lockberg. I can't believe it's only 36 bucks now. That's wild. Still an amazing card though. Here it is, the Copium. This, it's going to be a Picanha Moth. Oh, Fiber jar. Okay. It's not as expensive, but this is an old card. Now we have to decide guys, do you like Fiber jar or rising energy more? Which one would you guys prefer for our investment? It seems that the Fiber jar is overtaken the rising energy. We decided to swap these. So rising energy, you've been booted Fiber jar. You are now in. You've been accepted into the cool kids club. Next, that's only the first package. We've got like 20 packages. These will be a lot faster though because there's like envelope. So we got envelope right here. Okay. There's some cards and a note. Okay. No invoice. Wait. This might not be a TCG player either. Maybe it is. Okay. This says that the name is Therium cards. What is this? Hello, regress. What does this say? Can we read this? I'm so confused right now. That means return in Spanish. Okay. So it's a Spanish guy. Okay. All right. Let's go here. Pull these out. There's no invoice. So I don't know what's going on here. We have night beams. Two of our night beams. All right. Night beams. Here we go. Okay. Let's check this out. Not bad. Not bad. I'm a little scuffing. Little bit of a scratch there in the middle. It's really not that bad though. I mean, it's not perfect. Looks okay. You could maybe be like, yeah. A little bit of a little bit of scratching in there. It's not too bad though. Oh, we got some, we got some edge wear on this one. Unfortunately. Definitely edge wear. Back has definitely some scratches on it. I mean, I would, I would be selling this at light play. Not terrible. A little LP there. A little light play action. So we might have to return that second one. I don't know. We'll have to decide later. Okay. The next one is in-house games. So in-house games, they got some serious packaging here. Really taped. It's so hard. Like, what is this? I think it is tape. He taped it like at the top like that. Okay. Yeah. They don't, they don't take it into account that you like have to get it back open. Like if we were just sealing the card and like sealing it away like the Seal of Orichalcos or something, this would be great. But oh, okay. We got it out. That actually wasn't as bad as I thought. Here we go. Oh, Bacchanio Moth. He literally sealed two common Bacchanio Moth like that. I mean, he had some respect for the card. He respected the goat of cards, the Bacchanio Moth. You know, I thought this was going to be a ghost rare the way he packaged that, which it should be a ghost rare. Honestly, it should be a ghost rare. It deserves it. Next package. This is from MysticTCG. Okay. Then he's got the cardboard. I don't see why people don't just use top loaders like instead of ease and just be a lot easier. I think maybe they're cheaper or something. I don't know. Another night beam. Okay. Let's check this night beam. How's it look? It is, oh, why are all the night beams so scuffed up on the back? That's some serious scratching right there. Personally, I'd sell this as LP. So it's like, and this is where I have to decide. Do I can just go with TCG player near mint and just accept it that it's TCG player near mint? Like personally, I would not want to sell this many scratches as near mint as the highest that you can sell. You know, so am I going to deal with all the returns? Maybe. Who knows? Okay. This is from Dabber's Gaming Cafe. Oh, it's more night beams. Okay. More night beams. Okay. First night beam. This one actually looks pretty minty on the front. A little bit of stuff on the bottom and not too bad. Now this is what we're looking for. This is like minty almost. Now we have no complaints about that one. I mean, there's like slight, slight scuffing, but that's near mint plus for me. I mean, we're taking that night beam. So far, good start. Let's see if their second one lives up to it. Okay. Okay. A little bit more scuffing on this one, but honestly, I'm still at near mint on these. So good purchase from Dabber's. Definitely good. I'll take both of those near mint for sure. Next one. Quattro cards. This is our roses. Uh, how do we, I do not like them. This, if you ever do packaging, I don't like this. I don't like when you tape the card in a sleeve because like, then if you pull on it, it's like pulling on the card. It's just, it's not good. It's not a good way to do it. I would not recommend. So I'm going to do this very carefully under the sleeve. So you kind of have to use a knife and you never want to, you have to use a knife next to a card. It's just not great. This is, this is scary. Okay. We got it out. Let's check the card condition. Packaging, as long as it gets you, oh, it's not great. It's not great for a newer card. I thought it would be just super minty, but it's, it's not awesome. I don't think $1 cards we're going to worry about returning. We're just going to assume they're near mint. Uh, dad, now I would put LP, but we're just going to go with that. Next envelope. Who is it? Big city cards. Okay. So this one is our petite moth. Speaking of one card per sleeve, one top loader with seven cards. Now this is something I never do. The most I put into a top loader is two cards because then when the top loader starts bending to me, like if it's bending out, then that is a sign that it's putting pressure on the cards and, you know, hurting the condition. So if it's doing like this, then I'm going to stop. So I put two, you can easily fit two Yu-Gi-Oh cards into one top loader with no damage. They fit in perfectly. You really don't want to put one card. This is another reason I double sleeve. You put one card in by itself, it can move around. So you either put two cards or you double sleeve. That's the way I do it. Okay. So we've got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. We've got different versions here. You can tell, uh, seven Picanio moths. That has a scratch right on the back. Great. That is. Wow. Nice and near meant there, huh? Near meant TZG player near meant at it again. TZG player near meant at it again. TZG player near meant at it again. What in the world? Come on. This is just disrespectful. Big city cards. Come on, man. You know this ain't near meant. Okay. I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt. Maybe they didn't look. Yeah. Maybe they just, maybe they just overlooked it.  Near meant that's just messed up. Not a great performance there from big city cards.  It's only one order. You know, it could be different. I don't want anybody to like never buy from them or anything because of this, but I do think you should probably check them. I know this was not a big order. This is a $5 order. So it's not a huge deal. We're not going to return these because it's petite moth. You know, but little unfortunate with the conditions on that one. No big deal. That was a meme purchase anyway. Who's this from? Oh, this is the fiber jar. I think this is from no name. Okay. This packaging here right here is why we use the team bags and the double sleeves. This just came out of the package like this. So that's not awesome. Hopefully nothing was dinged. Got to be really careful because it's not the ideal way of taking it out. So this is why my packaging is why I do it. Okay. We got the to the sleeve. Okay. TZG player at it again. We got a Pokemon sleeve. That's not the correct size. You were okay. Maybe a little bit of a bend there might be a bend. Anything on the service actually looks pretty good surprisingly not real. They did not write on the card and call it near mint. What in the world are we watching? Dude. Dude.  Is this ironic or what the copium card had the same card? How do they know we needed this? Copium is real. Oh my gosh. What on earth dude? You can't sell a card with marker written on it near mint. Like if this was damage, that's one thing near mint. Well, we have one that we have to return 100%. We have to return this. You are not getting away with this sir. This is why there's no name on the envelope. They didn't put a name on the envelope. All right. We're looking this up. Who was this? Who did it? Raise your hand. If you're in the chat right now, I'm disappointed in you. This is the one that people told me. This is the seller. This seller has over 50,000 completed sales. Can you believe that? 50,000 and they are selling cards with Markered stars on the back as in your mint. Here's what I will say before I reveal who it was because there is something to, you know, saying something about people it being a bad situation. Maybe they overlooked it. If they have 50,000 sales, I'm guessing they have employees. So maybe the employee missed it. So I'll say that, but you got to tell your employees.  This is from the card stand. I bought from them and someone commented. I think it was on the video and they said, oh no, you bought from the card stand and it looks like they were right. Okay. All right. On to the next one. This one's from Peter. He has, he has an actual like names. This might just be like an individual guy. All right. Night beam. This is Mark just 20 bucks. We didn't pay that much. This was maybe, maybe this guy does have a shop or something and he added up for 20 or something. You got the ultimate rare. Oh, Peter. Talk about a minty looking card. Shout out to Peter. I guess I can say his name because it is his store name. So it's like, I guess he would want that. Shout out to Peter, man. That is an awesome clean looking card. One of the best looking cards we've seen yet. Peter, well done. That's definitely better than a star on the back of our card. I'll say that. Okay. Next we have YGO cards TCG. Let's pull our card out real quick. We've got another night beam. Okay. Let's pull this out a little sticky sleeve here. Feels like, what can we see on the front? Uh-oh. We got a dinged corner right there. Dinged corner right off the bat. Okay. Maybe not backs. Backs actually clean.  It is bent. The rest of the cards clean, but there is a little damage there. But you know what? If that's it, I mean, I would, I would with a little cornering like that, I'd have light play. This might be one that we're just going to overlook and be like, sure, that's fine. It's near meant whatever. That's all right. That wasn't too bad. This one doesn't have a name on it.  It's okay. It's just the Picanha moth. Will it be better than the ones that were all like written on this stuff? Gosh. Okay. Where's the envelope? Yeah. I mean, I'm not returning this anyway, but man buying these common cards near meant on TCG player. Nightmare, dude. Nightmare. That thing is disgusting right there. I'm sorry Picanha that you retreated that way. It's okay. It's our meme purchase anyway. YGO wonder up next. Oh, okay. The boxia ultimate rare. I'm a little nervous because this is more of a higher end one. I don't like doing tape like this.  I used to do this. So I can't it's not terrible. If you double sleep, but the problem is when you don't double sleep, it can follow the sleeve and then hit the tape and damage it like that. So you really don't want to do that boxia ultimate rare front looks. Okay. That was just a whisker. I thought there was a bend or something first. Oh, okay. A little bit of a line there. I think that probably is print that line coming down. I've seen that out of the packs. That's not too bad. This is I think okay. I think this is not like mint or anything, but I think it's possible it came out of the pack like that duelist alliance ultimate rare. I think that looks fine for an older somewhat of an older card like eight years old. This looks fine. So I think they didn't YGO wonder was was fine saying that was near mint. That's not a big deal. So we'll take that. Not bad CCG view dot com from Richard. Here's another pecanium off. Come on back. Be nice. Front looks good. I mean, compared to the other ones is not that bad, but it does have some scuffing on it. This is a M R D E and though the rare variant very nice. Okay. With all the ones we've seen, I'm becoming a little desensitized to how good it is. It's it's fine. It's like like play the LP something like that. Okay. This guy's name is Pogi magic. So Pokemon YGO magic pretty cool name. I'm very, very nice. You got all three in there. Pogi magic. Let's see what you did. See, I just do not like this packaging because it's difficult. It's it's good because like, I think he's got it in here with a team bag too. It's actually really good packaging. If it's like a really nice card, but if it's like a $20 card, I think it's a little excessive, you know, like select. Let's see what card it was. Okay.  So it's like respect the hustle. I think it's a little overboard, but look, the card comes minty. I can't complain, you know, and as long as I can open it safely, there's nothing to complain about. Honestly, it's great packaging. Like he has like five different layers, you know, really not not a lot to complain about. And he's even got doubled here. He's tamed there. He's got that there. The back is looking maybe nice so far. Dang, this is nice dude. I mean, there's slight scuffing, but wow, that is an old ulty. That looks amazing. Okay. Pogie magic. Shout out to that guy. Pogie magic. That's one of the best looking cards we've gotten yet. Still have a ton of envelopes left, but we're, we've got a while to go. I've got the big one. I'm saving the big ones for last. So we'll see what, wait, who's this from? YuGyoGaming.com. Okay. It's Picanium off again. This one is another M-R-D-E-N. Nice. Oh, a little bit of stuff back there. Probably not near mid, but, you know, close enough with what we've seen on those Picanios. The commons are apparently the hardest ones to actually, you know, get nice. Okay. Next one, funtastic pop. Rising energy. Oh no. Oh no. He's got a fingernail in it. Our first bad one in a while. Oh no. I mean, the rest of the card looks good.  Yeah. I mean, you can't go near mid on that. That's, I mean, mod play automatically, right? Yeah. We'll return that one. Unfortunately. Next up, low P rises. So low prices, but it's separated in a weird spot. That's actually kind of a funny name. Okay. We got more roses here. So these are more of our roses. So we did buy more. It just seems like it was a different seller. Skystrike or ace rose at it again. We've got clean rose. There we go. Better than the other one we got earlier. Back looks pretty good on this one. Those both look pretty minty. Nice looking cards for the rose. Moving on to the next one. We've got sloppy turkey. Let's see how this one looks. This looks like a reprint. So absolutely do not do that. Yeah. That is a bad idea. Okay. That is near meant because that is a brand new card. It's a reprint. I'm joking. Okay. I'm glad to hear that because I was worried for a second. Some people actually think you can do that though. So you have to, you have to cut that down or people are like, what really? I can clean my cards. I can do that. All right. We got a TCG player direct order. Time to see how this goes. Here we go. So here's the no top loaders. That seems like a disaster waiting to happen. Yeah. Okay. That makes me not want to use TCG player direct. If they're going to sell my cards like that, not going to lie. Don't love that. We've got clean. That looks great. So the cards nice. Didn't get damaged. That's good. These look minty. They are new cards. So unless they got like damaged in transit, which with no toppler, good chance, looks like these cards are nice. So that's good. All right. It turned out fine. I guess I can't question it. It turned out fun. Cow's house night beams. We are not done. We are not done with the night beams. Okay. Night beams. We've got a lot of them here. First off, we have pretty nice. They're all in the same sleeve. I never love to see that, but sometimes that happens. Slight scratching, but not bad. That's, that's fine. Near mint. How are we looking? Overall, okay. We've had a couple of night mercenaries. That is very scratched up. That is definitely LP at best. So one near mint, one LP for cows house. And then a lot of the night beams came LP. I mean a decent amount. That's like in the middle of the two. Probably wouldn't return that one. But yeah. So we got another LP. Yeah.  I've accepted at this point. Okay. Everything left is not an envelope. So now we're on to like, you know, nice stuff potentially open this way. This is from turtle rock gaming inside. What do we buy? It's a, these, uh, they've got these shipping shields, which some people like. I don't know if I like them or not. Haven't used them much. Okay. This is our, our ash blossoms. I think we bought six of these, right? Are they all from the same seller? Secret rare. Looks pretty good. Let's leave it up. I mean for on average, I think for the most part we have decent conditions. We do have several instances where it's not good though, but that's good. It's just the majorly bad ones that really stick out. It's a third copy. This is new. So it should be in decent condition, right? All these seem pretty clean. So so far a great purchase. I don't remember who this was, but good purchase so far. Only one left is nice as well. Okay. So all the ashes looked good. That's, that's good. All six from the same person. Okay. Next it says, please don't bend. Okay. This is from FTKampa collectibles. So let's see. Uh, okay. Here are cards. Oh, there's the, uh, catastrophe. That might be the only card we bought from this guy. Did we buy multiples? I mean, we bought one catastrophe. We might have bought other things. It was just a catastrophe. Okay. So he basically did what I do. Same packaging. He did triple top loader. He did double sleeve. He did cart or a team bag. Big fan of the packaging. He also taped down the cards here, which I don't know if you need to do that, but a couple extra top loaders there. That's not bad. And then, okay. He double-sleeved. He also did the tape as well. So he went extra hard. Not bad. I like that packaging. Well done. Gotta be careful with these to get them out. Nice and slow. Ultimate rare is good. And the back's good. Oh, I just realized we don't have any music on this whole time. Have we? We should probably turn some on. Should we turn some music on? Crispy collectibles up next. I remember we got something decent from Crispy collectibles, I think. Didn't we? Crispy himself. I don't, I don't really know Crispy, but, uh, Christy or Crispy. Huh? Why is there a dark vile plume? P.S. It's stuck to the top loader. Dark vile plume, minimum grade. Okay. I don't see the point of that, but okay. Instant fusion. This is the one where you guys made me buy this, even though you knew I didn't need this. Okay. This is a little business card too. Let's check it out. We've had some weird orders today. That's for sure. Let's see if it's near mint. Front looks good. Good start. Back looks. Oh, no. Oh, that's just the artwork. Okay, good. That's just the artwork coming through. I thought that was a cut in it. All right. Minty AF. Really nice. Beautiful inst fusion. Okay. Crispy collectibles. Shout out to them. That was a nice purchase. So far the people in the bubble mailers have been killing it. They know what they're doing. They know what they're doing. Next up, Simply Unlucky Games. The man himself, Simply Unlucky. Let's see what Simply sent us. Is whatnot top loaders? Okay. 23 gate guardians. Do you guys voted for all of them? Are these all in one sleeve? How do you fit 23 cards in one sleeve? It's impressive. I'm not going to lie. So all of these, they're probably brand new. Just check the backs.  I mean, this stuff on the back is just how they come out. They're a little bit glossy. So they got a little extra something going on. So it looks like the gate guardians are fine. That's a plus. I'm going to have to sleeve these up later. All right. A few left. Our next one is Prodigy Games. We got Prodigy Games coming up. We have Yazi Evil the Yang Zing. Front looks good. Back looks pretty good. Little print line down there. No big deal. That's fine. That looks like a nice card. That is a nice looking card. We'll take that. Now, dad, it's a pretty new card. So it shouldn't be too bad, right? Is that card bent? Okay. There's the back scuffing. That, that's natural. Is it bent? I can't tell. And it's not too bad. Whatever it is, it's fine. All right. Next up, George in. So we've got two cards in the same sleeve and high end cards. You don't really love to see that. Battle Fader is nice on the front. Pretty clean. I mean, a little scratch on the back. It's not too bad. I don't think that's anything I would freak out about. All right. Then we've got the Colossal Fighter. Front looks good. Back. It got a little, it looks like a dent there, but that's just from the artwork. Actually, pretty minty. These cards actually look good. Colossal Fighter is good. Okay. We got another one. This one's from, I just cut it open. It's from Galaxy Buster TCG. It is a Pot of Desires Ultimate Rare. I forgot we bought this. Yeah. Cause we were thinking maybe it came back to three. Could help out. Is this going to be near mint? Ultimate Rare Pot of Desires. Looks great. Looks awesome actually. Great packaging. Really nice condition on the card. Pot of Desires is looking fresh for us. Not bad. Two left. Top table gaming. Oh, our Trap Tricks. Yes, I forgot about our Trap Tricks. Trap Tricks, Trap Hole Nightmare. Trap Tricks, Trap Hole Nightmare. Back. Scratchy. Probably, oh, I dropped it. That doesn't help. That's probably LP, but you know, it is what it is, you know? Okay. That one didn't look great. This one looks much better. A little bit of scuffing in the middle. Okay. Two more of these. Those, one looked okay. One didn't. This is why I don't put a bunch of cards in the same top loaders. You can't get them out. I can't get this out. Can I break this top loader? Sometimes you can pop it. That's the dangerous way. I don't think that was a good idea. Okay. This is definitely getting sketch. I don't know how to do this. The best way to do this is, okay, let's see if I can get the bottom card. Oh, okay, we got it. Okay. I don't think I damaged anything somehow. Front looks good. Back looks clean on this one. Really clean. That's a super nice one. Clean back. Wait, has it got something on the back? A little bit, but not too bad. Okay. So other than that one, these are pretty clean. One left. Last card. It is in a top loader. They also have a little, they have their own like little magazine thing going on here. Cool. Okay. The rescue rabbit. I forgot about the rescue rabbit. Hey, look, this is packed exactly how I packed mine. Literally the exact same way. Other than the, they didn't double see the rescue, the rescue rabbit. That's it. Rescue a rabbit. Let's go. That looks pretty clean. Ruxen 34. Rescue a rabbit. Okay. So for the most part, most of our cards looked pretty good and the TCG player stuff. Some were a little iffy, but most of them looked pretty good. Overall decent. I mean, the star really took the cake for being the worst.  There was a few cards that were moderately played. We didn't have anything like, there were no creases the entire time. No creases. That's pretty good. That's pretty impressive. So I will take that. Shout out to Toenfo Show, Daxer, JT Show, Puffins of Doom, Ernesto Deanna, Dizzy, Flexi Boy, Hoppus, Choice333, Missycle, James Jantz, TCG Truster Cards, America Deutscher, Supreme, Sage 21, Frankie Martinez, An Anatai Show, Ian Moosa, Junior Barting, Mimic Gecko, Shadowfall, and Thomas McLean. Thank you guys for supporting the channel and I'll see you guys in the next one. Peace.


Welcome to the breakdown. My name is Umu. I'm a fellow on the Brickman Klein Center's Assembly Disinformation Program. I am recording today from California, and that is why my background doesn't appear the way it normally does, but I am excited nonetheless to be joined by Lisa Kaplan of the Alethea Group. Lisa founded the Alethea Group to help organizations navigate the new digital reality and protect themselves against disinformation. Thank you for joining us, Lisa. I'm so excited to have a conversation with you about this and many, many other pertinent issues. Thanks so much for having me. Excited to be here. Yes, so our conversation today centers on a really, really big topic in the disinformation space, and that is the shift in focus among a bunch of different stakeholder groups, including the national security community, academics, civil society and others, and focusing on disinformation from a national security sort of foreign policy geopolitics perspective. So the first, the first thing I want to ask you to that end is just can you give us a little bit of a taste of your background and what sort of compelled you to to found the Alethea Group. I started the Alethea Group in 2019 and prior to that I was the digital director on a 2018 Senate campaign. One of the things about disinformation that I always like to remind people is it's not always a foreign government and it's not always people who are seeking necessarily geopolitical goals. The goals for threat actors really do vary depending on the threat actor and that's one of the reasons why the hard work of attribution that we do at Alethea Group is so important. It does depend on who the actor is and what their motive is. And once you know that you can infer what their goal may be and it can help to mitigate a situation before it even starts, or it can be used to mitigate a situation that's elevated into more of a crisis situation. So I was working for Senator Angus King and because he was running against a Democrat and a Republican, we were looking at disinformation narratives from both sides, not necessarily doing the work of attribution. But because we were a campaign, we had limited resources, but trying to understand what the narratives were that were out there. And what we realized is that disinformation, it was targeting candidates, it was targeting issues, but at the end of the day it's really targeting voters, us as people. And when you think about it as an election context, it's really straightforward. It's trying to influence people's decisions around when, where and who to vote for.  However, disinformation, it's not an issue that's limited to just elections, and especially for sophisticated actors. So think for an adversaries think for profit disinformation networks who have built up influence to then sell to the highest bidder, or are they influenced to be able to generate ad revenue through clicks, for example. They're not just talking about one election or one candidate. They're talking about a variety of different issues. And so I say that because, you know, for us and the proliferation of this, these, the number of threat actors since 2016 has been exponential, what started as being primarily Russian we now have according to Oxford, over 80 countries who are actively engaging in social media manipulation and that doesn't even account for all of the individuals who have stood up their own operations. You know, we also see both sides of the aisle to be clear. Political consultants engaging in similar behaviors and social media manipulation tactics. So it really comes down to who is the actor and what is the goal. Now fast forward. One of the things that we saw, unfortunately, and it's very unfortunate that it took essentially an insurrection attempt at the US Capitol to really catapult this conversation and there are a variety of research organizations including ours that had been beating this drum for several years now and so people were saying oh it's it's just a meme but no it can really you know disinformation really can lead to offline harms and we know that we've seen that with pizza gate we've seen that with you know different different events such as the L.A Dodgers stadium being shut down. Yes, there's vaccine site right so we are seeing more and more offline action happening as a result of disinformation. I think one of the things about the what happened at the US Capitol is. It's a really important case study and I say that, and I know it sounds clinical, but because what happened was obviously a horrible day for democracy and I think affected the research community in a variety of different ways that was a very tough month for everyone. So I don't want to sound overly clinical about it but in a lot of ways there are a lot of lessons that can be learned. So for example, we can draw a straight line from some of the narratives that were happening in March saying that the election would be rigged that there would be violence that people needed to start preparing for the worst to what happened on January 6. One of the good things to come out of January 6 though is that most people get a second chance, not everybody. Obviously there's a Capitol police officer who died in the line of duty protecting the Capitol. So we're able to really learn from this moment and move forward so that we're addressing this threat in a way that does make it so that we're able to identify these online threats and prevent them from becoming offline harms. And for that summation of what not only what happened on January 6 but actually like the through line you can draw between the sort of initial stop the steal narratives and organizing to what ended up happening on the 6 and what I think is also projected to sort of continue this week on the fourth. Can you talk a little bit about your practice at Alethea Group and how you help organizations navigate through this new digital environment. In Alethea Group what we do is we detect instances of disinformation misinformation and social media manipulation as well as track other types of online harm such as targeted harassment to be able to help individuals figure out how to how to navigate this new digital reality. A lot of times people don't realize how many options they actually have. So for example if you're able to detect what what a lot of people are doing right now is they're analyzing something once it's already gotten onto Twitter onto Facebook onto YouTube for example, and it's on one of these mainstream platforms and they call the social media platforms and they say please take it down. One option, but if you've gotten to that point in a lot of ways it may already be too late. So what we do is we practice early detection so we tried we catch narratives when they start and we're able to then track them and understand how they may be influencing individuals and seeking to change individuals behavior. So what we do is we analyze on the network level and what that does is it enables us to take more options. So for example, let's take these for profit disinformation networks. Well, you know if they're making a profit off of a potential organization there could be an opportunity to seek damages. If there is appropriating intellectual property such as your name your likeness trademarkable or patentable or copyrighted material. There are legal options that organizations can take to seek recourse. If there is an opportunity to do counter messaging and I'm not talking about fact checking and our experience fact checking while it's helpful in creating a paper of record or it's helpful in giving something to point to to set the story straight. That's not sufficient. And here's why the people who are choosing to believe a narrative aren't necessarily going to believe something, you know, salacious about it. It's changed their mind and say they no longer believe something that's totally salacious about you and confirms their biases about you just because you're the one that said it isn't true. We're talking about really counter narrative building. You know, and that can be done in an ethical way by creating a greater understanding around an individual or an organization. So what we do is we help through the entire process so we detect what's happening we assess whether or not it's having an impact on an organization's goal and then we help to mitigate any potential impacts the idea being that we can solve a lot of problems before they become a real issue or a challenge for an organization. You know, along with the expansion of the threat landscape. There has been sort of an uptake and sustained information events, like the COVID pandemic like stop the steal and just a lot of these, not just this information but chatter around the election. Are there other structural developments or other factors that you attribute to the expansion of the threat landscape and the shifts that you know the shift can focus from foreign disinformation to domestic. Yeah, I think one of the things about disinformation and you know there was conversation around how this was going to happen after 2016 because it's fast cheap and easy to do if you know how to run a good marketing campaign. You can actually figure out how to run a disinformation campaign. And so, with that, and then you also look historically and open source estimates say that the Russian inner attempt to influence the 2016 election cost a million dollars which is a rounding error to most large organizations or federal governments. So, it wasn't a question of if other organizations were going to start engaging in these tactics it was a question of when. I think what we've seen is the proliferation of that. It's the proliferation of the number of threat actors that's causing an increased number of threats, when it comes to the disinformation landscape so going to the COVID 19 pandemic. Race narratives have shifted over time, and they vary again based on the threat actor so one thing we saw and again this is all open source just Russian state media. You know we did see Russian state media pushing race narratives, targeting different communities and trying to put them against each other we saw our tea put out content that was more focused on, you know what's the big deal with calling it the China virus for example we saw that the Spanish flu, and our tea typically targets one audience and then we saw in the now which is, you know, typically targeting younger audiences on Instagram with videos being like if you are Asian, you will get attacked in New York City and it's not to say that people are being attacked because of those sort of attacks, and, you know, as a result of disinformation going back to the online to offline action and I don't want to make it sound like it's just the Russian government because there are definitely other actors who are playing in this space. And it is I think just providing more opportunities from that perspective and then, you know, similarly, there's the financial motivations and the financial perspective so we'll see some of these junk domains pushing false information about the pandemic, and they're doing so because likely to generate a profit, you know they have advertising revenue that they're getting from clicks, so I think it really does depend on who the actor is as to why they're pushing it but because it's so cheap easy and potentially easy to do, as well as it works from a geopolitical perspective. So, and if it's cheap why not try there's not really a high cost to people who are executing these sorts of campaigns, not at all. And I would just echo what you said by, you know, by pointing out that it's been so interesting that since 2016. You know, our own elected leaders see value and exploiting the sort of fissures and society that we have and exploiting them for their own political gain. As you mentioned, you know this happens both, both on the right and on the left. Here's and talk about some of the specific mitigation. So one of the most significant impediments to legislating on disinformation and engaging it, engaging on it from a policy or regulatory perspective is that moderation is often criticized as being a brush up against the first amendment. What is your thinking around how regulation can encourage effective moderation without brushing up against those first amendment concerns and then I guess also more broadly what is your thinking around what the government's role should be in addressing specifically domestic disinformation. Well, I do appreciate and admire a lot of our colleagues in this space who are putting out really important research that can inform eventual legislation where I see the opportunity for more immediate action is actually through other other means such as you know the our judicial system and so on and so forth and forth and I'll get to that in a second. So this goes to first amendment. So that's an argument that I just don't really buy. We accept limits to speech in real life. I can't yell fire in a movie theater, like there will be consequences for me we've accepted that there are some limits on speech. So I think we should be reframing this question to say how can we make the online conversation more reflective of the conversations that we have offline. I think one of the things that's become really clear in the pandemic when we've all been you know forced inside and online to a degree is that that's not where we're at right now, but there's no reason why that's not where we can be. So what we should be talking about to though is, you know, when it comes to content moderation. I don't think that that necessarily removes the thread all together. For example, we saw a lot of accounts BD platformed for breaking the terms of service multiple times and again I think that's a perfectly acceptable consequences it's kind of like the no shirt no shoes version of social media platforms it's like if you break the rules on multiple occasions you're not going to be allowed back in. But where I think we need to be headed, and where I think we're going to see the most progress in the immediate is enforcing some of the laws that are already on the books. For example, the Dominion lawsuit that's ongoing right now is something that I'm paying attention to. I think that that is a potential avenue we've also seen some successes when it comes to copyright infringements because guys aren't really paying attention to following the laws if they're spinning up disinformation campaign so I think that we can potentially anticipate some actions taken there. You know, I think that the other thing that has been interesting to watch unfold is the stop hate for profit sort of activism. I think that that is potentially having an impact as well. So, all that said, I don't see this as a speech only issue, I think that there are very serious concerns, especially when we're thinking about the world outside of the United States and the Western liberal order, where, sometimes social media is how you evade censorship. And so these are really tough challenges and there are no easy solutions and I think having these conversations and debates are hugely important because if this were an easy fix it would be solved by now so But I am confident that this is something that we will begin to see and we've seen progress since 2016 to be fair but we will continue to see progress, we will continue to see solutions proposed and implemented. You had mentioned earlier that you've observed that fact checking is not necessarily the most effective way to clamp down on some of the bad and false information we see circulating online and certainly not enough to sort of interrupt the cementing of alternate realities that really disinformation is intended to foster. Yeah, so I think that fact checking definitely plays a role but I don't think it's something that can be done alone.  These are relatively new, new features and so you know how effective they are. That's a little bit outside of my purview and I look forward to reading somebody's research someday that did a longitudinal study on how effective labels were on any given social media user. But I do think we need to start thinking about this challenge more holistically than we currently are right. So for example, it's not just what's happening on social media platforms it's also what's happening on blogs it's how social, some of these disinformation networks are being financed it's through advertising revenue it's through. It's through, frankly, like people who are building influence and then turning around and selling it for profit. Those are all things that, you know, I think we can incorporate into part of the solution when we're trying to figure out how do we put out the fire that's happening right now. And when we look towards a long term solutions to figure out, you know, what is it that we can do to really change the equation to make it so that disinformation is not as successful as it is now. There's all kinds of things we can do but I keep coming back to education. The general person knew what we knew and likely what everybody who's listens to these podcasts new, we'd be in a lot better shape. So how do we make it so that we're not so special anymore how do we make it so that the general population is more resilient to disinformation and a lot of that has to do with education. So when I was in high school we used to do these things where we would basically learn how to read a news article, we would learn how to read a newspaper based on you know what page was the article on in the newspaper for relative importance what paper was like, who's the author when was the paper published like how do you read the first two paragraphs how do you read for bias. Why aren't we teaching that for a digitized world, because I am still pretty old school and I like physical them, but I'm like the rarest subscriber you will see for my age demographic like one of the things we need to consider is how do we modernize our approach to consuming media and I don't want to put it on the social media user to protect themselves from a sophisticated information operation. But again when you think about it as a holistic solution this can also be a piece of the puzzle that really makes a difference. Thanks so much Lisa I really enjoyed our conversation. Thanks for joining me. Thanks for having me.


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