Hello and welcome to International Daily Roundup by People's Dispatch, where we bring you some of the major news developments from across the globe, our headlines. 1.5 million recover from COVID-19. Brazil and India add a record number of cases. U.S. depots, Haitians, Amit Bhatni. Anti-government protests resume in Iraq after formation of the government. Six months after the coup in Bolivia, right-wing atrocities continue. And South African Labour Court strikes on retrenchment consultations for national airline. We begin our daily update on the COVID-19 pandemic. Close to 4.2 million infections have been reported around the world as of today afternoon. 284,000 people have died so far and there are around 2.4 million active cases. Nevertheless, the number of recoveries has risen to 1.5 million as of today. The U.S. continues to add the largest number of new cases with over 20,000 reported yesterday. It is followed by Russia, Brazil and India. In the case of Russia, which is seeing more than 10,000 new cases reported daily, the surge has to do with its aggressive expansion of testing capabilities. In the case of Brazil and India, experts accuse their governments of failing to effectively contain the spread. Meanwhile, the U.S. is also planning to deport over 100 undocumented Haitians on May 11th. At least five of these people have tested positive. The deportation is to be done despite requests from Haiti to wait until the spread subsides. The fact was pointed out by a Boston-based rights group Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti or IJDH on May 10th. Responding to the news, the Haitian government panel, assigned to direct the nation's pandemic response, wrote to the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement or ICE. The panel emphasized the risk that the uninfected passengers and crew members face when they are placed alongside those who are likely to be infected. The letter also pointed out the stress such deportations would place on Haiti's already strained public health system. ICE detention facilities from where such deportees are held have so far reported 788 infections. Previously, the Guatemalan government had also accused the U.S. of deliberately deporting infected patients without informing them. After over 100 of those returning were found infected. In our infocus section, we talk to playwright V, the author of the vagina monologues, on the pandemic, racism in the U.S. and the attacks on workers. Rebellion is on the streets and you are quite correct to say this touchless future is the fantasy of the fascists in a way. And yet in the United States, where you are based, it's the far right that's on the streets saying end the lockdown Give us a sense of the context of Trump, this disease, the lockdown, the fact that there are people on the streets saying please let us go out and infect each other. It's just so hard to even try to articulate what is going on in the madness of America right now because it's mad. But again, if you even look, they even the crazy right wingers know that the way to have power is to be in the present with your body on the steps of the Michigan State House, right? With your AK-47s, by the way, amassed. I mean, just imagine if any person of color or a black person showed up with that, what would happen? I mean, it's astounding what world of racism and inequality we are living in right now. I mean, Michael Flynn got free today, just his case got dropped today. I mean, it's every moment we see these extreme, extreme inequalities of power and justice. But I think what's happening in this country is on one hand, it just utterly terrifying. I think the kind of manifestation of white supremacy, which is of course been here forever, but now has a special agent at the top boiling it and cooking it and catalyzing it and inviting it and celebrating it as far as I can tell. He's unleashed all these forces that have been here. I think what's really disturbing me is to see the way we are killing off black people, brown people and poor people, and our essential workers, and they are often one in the same, right? And I've been doing a lot of work with women workers and nurses and restaurant workers and farmers and just we're doing this regular show, really trying to look at what is happening to women workers in this country. And I think what I'm very, very disturbed by is to see this kind of invisible genocide that is operating right now. What we call preexisting conditions, right? Which are kind of synonymous with systematic oppressions. So that you look at what are what are preexisting conditions that are killing people? Well, environmental degradation where people live in the neighborhoods where they are more susceptible to asthma. And so this disease is hurting them. Diabetes where people don't have the right kind of foods to eat. What's a preexisting condition? Like as all this is going on, the right wing is busily eroding women's rights and desecrating abortion rights all over the place. What's another preexisting condition is like their desire to destroy and extract the earth to death. So we're seeing the complete deregulation of lands and parks and places that should be preserved. And I think what I am hoping is happening is that people are waking up to understand that we are living in a country where capitalism and the kind of racist patriarchal capitalism has reached a peak. I hope it's a peak because if it goes beyond this we'll all be dead. Where we have to now make a decision that whatever door this is opening, whatever world this is opening cannot be a world governed by profits over people, commodity over care. Where we have to start saying who is actually saving our lives right now? Who are the people who are keeping us able, those of us who are privileged enough to shelter in place?  It's the people who, if you eat meat, who are working in the poultry plants and the meat plants. And those are the people who in my opinion have always been holding this country together and have been the least appreciated, the most underpaid, the most undervalued, the most under cherished and the most unseen. And what I hope is that this is the time where that's all going to change. Where we are now going to understand that the people who are most essential have to be the most valued and the most paid and the most cherished and the most protected. Because what we're doing to nurses, I don't know if you saw the demonstration today at the White House where the nurses went and put their all the shoes of the 88 nurses who have already died in this country who didn't need to die. All those women were sent into slaughter or mainly women were sent into slaughter without PPEs, without any protective gear, without masks. There was no reason for that to happen in a country as rich as the United States. Absolutely no reason except for lack of forethought, lack of care, lack of consideration and lack of love and respect for the people who are keeping us alive. I mean, I think that's very beautifully said. And I know that on social media, I've been watching you lifting up the stories of people who are, you know, the workers who hold things together, particularly people in the health field.  When things go back to normal, there's a real forgetting. I know that you're trying to make the forgetting impossible. But how is this going to be fought in the realm of culture to make people not forget? It's such a good question. You know, we've been working for years on this thing in One Billion Rising called Women Workers Rising where we've been doing lots of work trying to build coalitions with women workers across various sectors. And I think, like you said, there's moments where people will rise up and they'll care. And then of course, but I think now, actually, there's what I hope and I, you know, I'm endlessly optimistic. I'm one of those beckoned people. I can't go on. I will go on. I must go on. But I feel like I do believe something has kind of shattered people's denial in this moment. Even these beautiful things that are happening every night in New York, where people are banging their pots and pans and appreciating workers every day. Something's going into the consciousness that has to be altering the way people see things. And you know, I was reading the story the other day of this beautiful woman who works on the MTA. She's a conductor on the trains. And I don't know, her story just really devastated me how she was going to work every day. And of course, they had no protective gear and they gave them these shoddy masks that didn't work. And there were no bathrooms that had water to wash her hands.  And when she came back, beautiful workers who she had loved were missing. And she said, you know, like, we do our jobs. We like our jobs.  We actually like the work we do. But we want to be respected for the work we do. We want to be honored for the work we do. And we want to be cared for like everybody else.  I don't want to be doing this. I think part of what we have to do is start asking ourselves, do we want to live in a culture, in a society where we respect each other equally, where we honor the work that people do and we pay for that work and we value that work, or do we want to keep in this awfully hierarchical capitalist structure where people are, they're basically, are seen as kind of slaves to the ruling class who will just do their bidding, be sacrificed at the altar. You know, they're not essential workers. They're sacrificial workers. And they'll just be thrown out there. And for the very, very, very small, you know, 1% or even 0.1% who is willing to sacrifice everybody for their pleasures and for their advancement. And I don't know, I don't think I've ever felt more strongly in this moment that we have to turn our reality away from this very, very, very small section of people owning the world at the expense of the majority of people. May 10th marks six months since the coup in Bolivia. On November 10th, the democratically elected government of Evo Morales was overthrown and right-wing leader, Jeanine Anez, was replaced. He was orchestrated by far-right groups in the military against the government or the movement toward socialism party. The situation in the country has been precarious ever since the coup. The coup regime is backed by the US and the organization of American states. It has been widely condemned for grave human rights violations, brutal political repression, and blatant racism and misogyny. Over the past six months, President Evo Morales, who's currently in exile in Argentina, has called out these setbacks suffered by the country under the coup government. Over several tweets, Morales criticized the de facto government for its anti-people, fascist, neoliberal, and racist tendencies. Under the right-wing government, there has been widespread persecution of members and supporters of the movement toward socialism. The coup government has also sought to reverse the policies of Morales' government and introduce neoliberal reforms. Elections were scheduled for the month of March but had now been pushed to October due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Former Minister Luis Arce is the candidate of the MAS and polls show him leading over right-wing candidates. In our next story, Iraq witnessed a new round of anti-government protests on May 10th. This was just days after the formation of the new government under Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadimi. The demonstrations took place in multiple cities in the south, such as Baghdad, Babel, Vasid, and Nasiriya. In Baghdad, protesters gathered at Tehrir Square despite the pandemic-related lockdown. There were some violent confrontations between the security forces and the protesters at the adjacent Al Jammuria Bridge, which connects the city to the high-security green zone. Protesters accused the new government of being part of the same old corrupt and incompetent elite. They said this elite was responsible for the severe economic crisis and the widespread poverty. Many of the demands of the previous phase of protests were reiterated. These include early elections, large-scale reforms in the electoral and political system of the country, as well as voting rights. Demands were also raised to investigate the killing of over 600 protesters by security forces during the protests. The al-Kadimi government has taken a conciliatory stand, agreeing to push for several of the demands by the protesters. However, there is little indication that the demonstrations will subside anytime soon. In a recent judgment, the Labour Court in Johannesburg in South Africa struck down retrenchment notices issued by South African airways. The court read down the notices, served under Section 189 by Business Rescue Practitioners, or BRPs. These BRPs are charged with the management of the airline. The court called these notices procedurally unfair. The notices were served to begin the consultation process to retrench over 4,700 employees. The BRPs proposed a package for the employees who would accept the retrenchment. This package included one month's wage in the form of a notice pay. This was in addition to payments for outstanding leaves and a week's pay for each year of service. The money for this was to be raised by selling the assets of the state-owned enterprise. The National Unit of Metalworkers of South Africa had strongly opposed the dismantling of the company. The BRPs also did not engage with the unions while framing the proposals. The South African Cabin Crew Association, or SACA, representing the workers, has in fact proposed an alternative plan to revive the airlines without laying off the entire workforce. Refusing to bow to such pressure, NUMSA and SACA approached the Labour Court, filing an urgent petition on May 7th to stop the retrenchments. Following this, the Court delivered its order. That's all we have in this episode of the International Daily Roundup. To know more about these stories, visit our website peoplesdispatch.org and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Thanks for watching. We'll see you in the next episode.


I have selected an urgent question, which will be taken as the first item of business today, and as a consequence, decision time, I'm afraid, will be pushed back to 5.15. We are already a little bit tight for time. Our first question is from Liam Kerr. Thank you, Presiding Officer, and I say I'm grateful for the acceptance of the question. To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the reported reform of firefighters' pay and conditions. Minister Annabelle Ewing. Yesterday, the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service issued a letter to staff setting out a proposal on the possible future transformation of the service. Under those proposals, there will be no compulsory redundancies. The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service has confirmed that formal negotiations will be conducted through agreed collective bargaining arrangements. The Scottish Government in the 2018-19 draft budget has increased the spending capacity of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service by £15.5 million. The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service has been exploring for some time now how best to develop a service to meet new and emerging risks, including how transformation could see the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service do more for the people of Scotland. The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service will be issuing a formal consultation on the future transformation proposals within the next three weeks. In conclusion, I would say at this stage that the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service has indicated that its proposed reward package would be for a new, expanded role for firefighters, which, of course, is still to be negotiated and agreed with unions. I welcome the FBU's willingness to engage with the service. Diolch yn fawr, convener. I thank the minister for that answer. The public will understand the rationale for changing the fire service, but, as I have said before in this chamber, it will have legitimate concerns that this is a way to implement cuts by the back door. The chief fire officer has told firefighters that there will be a small reduction in whole-time firefighter posts. Can the minister confirm exactly how many full-time equivalent posts will be lost? Can she explain how the service is expected to respond more quickly with fewer firefighters, given that the average time taken to respond to house fires has increased in almost every council in Scotland? I would say to the member that the decisions about allocation of resources are an operational matter, obviously, for the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service as the employer. What is to be embarked upon is a discussion with the FBU about the transformation of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and a new and expanded role for firefighters. The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service has confirmed that there will be no compulsory redundancies, as has been the case since the establishment of the single Scottish Fire and Rescue Service. I would say in terms of resources that, of course, in terms of the press coverage that we have seen in this morning's papers, what the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service is looking at is in terms of a reward for the new expanded role, potential pay increases of up to 20 per cent. Finally, of course, if the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service were able to get back the almost £50 million in VAT that Mr Kerr's Tory colleagues in the House of Commons have refused, the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service access to, then, of course, over the year since the establishment of the single Fire and Rescue Service, they would have had more resources available for each community in Scotland. The minister for some of that replied, Presiding Officer. It was, of course, the Scottish Conservatives who won the VAT refund for our fire service, worth £10 million a year. If we could stop the grievance politics and answer my further questions, there are aspects of reform that we can welcome. In particular, I praise Scottish Fire and Rescue for their successful trials of responding to cardiac arrests. I understand that a number of lives have been saved, thanks to this effort. However, the Fire Brigades Union has said that their members have been given no specific detail about the roles that they will be expected to take on. We understand, for example, that firefighters will take on youth and social prevention work and inspection and enforcement responsibilities. Can the minister outline the specific duties included in his definition? In talking about the pay rise, will the Government publish the methodology that has been used to calculate the proposed pay rise? Presiding Officer, I am not entirely sure if Mr Kerr is therefore saying that the position of the Tories in Scotland is that they would be again seeing firefighters gain a reward for what they were being asked to do, which is an expanded new role for firefighters at the length and breadth of Scotland. It seems that the Conservative Party is not very enthusiastic about that, a point that will not be lost on the firefighters throughout the length and breadth of Scotland. As regards the operational detail about the new expanded role, of course that is a matter for the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service to discuss with the FBU in the context of the formal process, and that is what I understand is about to happen. Finally, I would say about the key question about resources. It is, of course, not surprising that the member did not like the bit about the VAT, but the fact of the matter is that, although we saw Highways England and academy schools be allowed to reclaim VAT, that was precluded by the Tories in Westminster for years and years. In those years, the fire service in Scotland has lost almost £50 million. What I would suggest to the member is that, instead of perhaps being less and supportive about the transformation of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service with increased reward for our firefighters, he might want to fight for the money back to Scotland on the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service. Can the minister give a guarantee that those taking on enhanced responsibilities as a result of the new contract will be given comprehensive training and the resources to effectively carry out their new role? I would say to Gillian Martin that, obviously, those are matters for the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, but I am encouraged to note that training is deemed to be crucially important and will play a very vital role in the transformation of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service. Of course, as I said, there have been no compulsory redundancies since the establishment of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service have confirmed that the proposals that they are putting forward do not involve any compulsory redundancies. Daniel Johnson to be followed by Liam McArthur. The Scottish Government has been intimately involved in not just the finances and strategies of this transformation project, but the details, too, according to a Freedom of Information request that was received by the Scottish Labour Party. Can the minister therefore confirm that she was aware ahead of yesterday's announcements about the scale of reductions in firefighters, stations and units? If that is the case, why didn't she feel that, given the scale of the change, it was not worth revealing that to Parliament directly? Finally, does she share my concerns and those of the FBU that they hadn't received prior sight of the details and that national pay and bargaining mechanisms have effectively been bypassed? On the last point, I just wish to clarify that, of course, I heard Chris McLoan the head of the FBU in Scotland on GMS this morning, on this morning's radio, and I was concerned to note that due process had not been followed. However, I was also very encouraged at the same time to note the FBU's willingness, nonetheless, to engage in discussion with the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, and that was right and proper. Yes, the Scottish Government is aware that the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service has been engaged in looking at how we can transform the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service so that it meets the new and emerging risks of 21st century Scotland, and we will continue to offer any support in that process so that we can. I would stress, of course, that the SFRS is the employer, and it is in charge of operational matters. It will be, as an employer, getting on to discuss the detail of the proposals with the FBU. Liam McArthur, to be filled by John Finnie. Thank you, Presiding Officer. Simply relying on the goodwill and hard work of staff on the front line to get by is not a long-term sustainable strategy, and it is an important part of protecting fire service to pay workers properly and to prevent their living standards from falling. Can I follow on from Daniel Johnson's question and ask if the minister was informed specifically of the offer before it went directly to staff, and how does the enhance role envisage for staff in relation to terrorism, medical emergencies and community engagement differ from what they already do? Is that to any extent formalising or recognising existing practices? Well, I had no knowledge of the letter being sent yesterday, and the first I heard of it was when we all heard of it, so that is the answer to the first question. On the issue of the expanded role, to an extent it will be the case in terms of, for example, the out-of-hospital cardiac arrest work that has been going on in some fire stations in Scotland on the basis of a pilot. However, the proposals would involve expanding that emergency responders aspect of the new expanded role across the country and also looking at an expanded role with regard to terrorism, environmental risk and other matters, including prevention. This is the hub of the discussion that will be taking place as between the employer, the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and the FBU in the context of the collective bargaining arrangements, which are very important. I would hope that the member would do what he could to support that process. John Finnie I welcome the minister's comments about collective bargaining. As a former full-time official of the staff association, I would have been raging if the employer had bypassed agreed procedures. That is not an operational matter. Will you direct the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service to adhere to the collective bargaining procedures, not only for the benefit of future negotiations for the fire service, but for the clear message that it would send to others in the public sector? I am happy to reiterate what I said in answer to Mr Johnson, which was that when I heard Chris McLoan, the head of the FBU in Scotland, on the radio this morning, I was concerned, indeed, to hear what he had to say on the matter. However, I was equally encouraged that, nonetheless, the FBU stands willing to get round the table and engage in discussions about the transformation of the service. As I stated in my opening answer, the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service has confirmed that formal negotiations will be conducted through agreed collective bargaining arrangements. I hope that that gives the member the assurance that he was seeking. John Finnie I thank the minister for taking that urgent question. Members who still have questions to ask—there are a number of outstanding questions—there will be other opportunities later in the week, if you wish to raise it again. We turn now to portfolio questions on communities, social security and equalities.


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I don't care what they say. The reason you're experiencing Symptoms is because your hormones are out of balance because of toxicity and When you get that toxicity out of your body That's when your body will start to Be free and work the way it was designed to work where your hormones are working In tandem with each other and your body is functioning normally So I hope this video has helped you. Please comment below if you have other questions or if you have Um, if you want me to do videos on other topics, I'll be glad I'd be glad to do that Um, so anyway until next time y'all take care. Take. See ya


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and welcome to another edition of this special program series from theCUBE highlighting the brilliant women of the cloud. I am absolutely thrilled to be joined today by a transformative visionary accelerating the routes market for many of North Americans top businesses. Please welcome Tia Wiggins of AWS. Tia, thank you so much for being here. Hello, hello everyone. Thank you for having me. I know there's a lot that we're going to talk about tech animation and the very exciting parts of your world, both at AWS as well as on the philanthropy side, excuse me. But before we get there, I want to know how you got to where you're sitting right now. Yes, yes. Well, I'm proud to say my entire family is STEM born and bred. I think I have a more traditional American upbringing of parents that did not have college degrees but they've always had us in programs.  And, you know, I had got sponsored by a leader that took me on through the business journey and allowed me to connect the STEM side of my life to helping businesses grow. I'm also, I'm proud to share that I'm a philanthropist. I do believe in building communities and removing barriers to help people grow also, you know, as a child of two military parents, you know, my mother leaned on programs, right? I went through local hospital programs that taught me about medicine, that taught me about math, school, that taught me about physics, right? That were free and funded that allowed me to, you know, explore and get exposure. So with that, you know, I've always had a knack to figure out how do I in my own capacity, not being a billionaire, not being, you know, a trust fund child, but how do I create resourcing to help others come along in this pathway, leveraging and bridging the two of STEM and community together? So yeah, that's a little bit about my background. Yeah, I mean, it seems like it's a lifelong commitment, not just a career long commitment to the industry and you're very clearly a curious person. You mentioned the role that resources and community have played in your journey. How would you recommend others who may be interested in a similar career path or exploring technology and business, take actionable steps to do some of the similar things to you've done? Absolutely. So as I believe that I have everyone watching this from early career before actually in college. So I would tell for the entry level, for you to focus on first finding programs, the AWS, we have programs that help you come into the cloud computing. We will help you get your cloud certification. We have great internship programs, but then also too, there's diverse programs like National Society of Black Engineers, Society of Women Engineers, Society of Hispanic Engineers. There's so many programs, right? That can help you gain those actual training, actually will actually provide you a job and exposure so they can help you actually figure out what the path you wanna take when it comes to STEM. What I would share for mid-level, something that I do personally for myself is after you're in the industry, is to write a vision. So my superpowers is transformation and a vision and every year I start off with like a love letter to myself and it includes something related to my career, a bold move. And as I get crisp on saying something dangerous that I wanna go do, I share that with my sponsors, I share that with my network where I call my tribe and those individuals help me gain the experiences that actually make the moves to get there, right? And it might not be exact, right? I might not actually hit that move that year, but if I look backwards, I actually looked, I actually took some of the steps that were needed and essential for me to thrive when I actually get there. So definitely I would say, you know, one in terms of exposure with programs, two for if you're actually in your career, write your vision, right?  And then the last point that I think is essential that we don't really talk about a lot is feedback, right? It sounds, it's easy, but feedback is communication. And how you perceive yourself is not how others always perceive you, right? And I do believe in having pride, I do believe you need a certain level of ego for yourself, right, to thrive. However, there is nuggets in there that can help you accelerate on your journey, right? So I take time and I actually go on listening circles and I ask about, what are my blind spots? Like just be honest, right? Something about the EW's culture I love is that we use this principle of being vocally self-critical, right? That creates a level of transparency and honesty for others to be honest with us about something that we might not see, right? Or we might have failed, right? Or we might need to improve. So I will say again, programs, write your vision, right? You know, I call it a love letter to make it more personalized. And then three, get your feedback. It's essential. I like that. There's almost like an id and ego and an external to that as well as a qualitative and a quantitative component to that, which I think is really interesting. You know, I went to five different classes or I looked at six different YouTube videos to learn about these skills versus I took the time to think about what that would actually mean to me and to myself. And I think a lot of folks at any stage in their career journey don't necessarily give themselves the time to have that type of reflection. So it's wonderful to see someone who's been as successful as you talk about both your process as well as that level of transparency and communication. Taking feedback is a skill set that you'll have to use in many aspects of your life. Moving forward. It's just communication. That's all it is. Just communication. Yes. And working on that is certainly a lifelong journey. You've had a lot of success in your 15 years of being in the cloud. Can you give us some examples of your favorite moments? Yeah. I'm proud. Like I took some, I took very, it got along with that vision, right? I took some very critical steps to ensure that I was taking roles and created mobility, right? Going back to starting at VAE systems, working with an aerospace and defense contractor where I had to move different states and get exposure to different platforms and lines of business, IT manufacturing, down to actually stepping into an international nonprofit firm where I worked a redesign of that company, right? Understanding different levels of contracts. How do we go to route and market with other foreign countries, right? And then coming back into my previous journey. Not simple problems there. Not simple at all. Pretty amazing. The TV was shout out on complexity, yeah. Complexity, right? And it constantly moving. And also a side note to everyone, obtaining my additional degrees. So if you look at my background, you'll see a lot of HR formal rules. But if you look at the components of those jobs, it was business building, project management, agile management, change management, right? So when I will say two of my major success moves, well, one would be I was chair of Northrop Grumman. It actually allowed me to crack my teeth when it comes to new business acquisition, business proposals, right? So take all that idea of programs but actually being a part of a team to go after some of our most sacred nation contracts and programs that protects our country, right? Building, coming up with a solution and strategy, using technology, using data modernization, pulling together cloud components and then actually going out there and actually identifying the talent across the world that will be aligned to this and making that and being a part of that team and actually signing off and saying, all right, this is what we believe is the best program for our solutions, for our employees, for our world, for our nation, right? It has several multiple, multi-billion dollar contracts that I worked on that we actually won with the Northrop Grumman that really also from a side note helped me build my confidence that say, hey, I can do more. Like, hey, I don't have 50 years in this industry but you know what I know is I have exposure, I have experience, I have, hey, I have an idea, right? And I know about technology and tools and how this links together into a story to say, hey, how does this bring value? So I would say we had several, again, national security programs that I was a part of and then here at Amazon to speak more for our partners, right? Our partner experience. Just this year, coming into my role within two quarters we actually delivered, we actually confirmed that we actually identified Amazon opportunities for our partners, right? We believe Amazon opportunities helping our partners route to market helps them actually identify better partner opportunities so we can actually help them attach them to an actual customer. With that, within two quarters, we were able to deliver over. Just to insert number for scale for folks listening, you have over a hundred thousand partners. That's right. So echoing on the complexity, it's not just like you're matchmaking two different people from two different sides of the fence here. The matrix is massive in the flywheel. Yeah, absolutely. So with that, we took a subset to start with a subset of partners to say, hey, how do we just pilot an experiment, right? If we did an exercise where we actually do use tools to identify opportunities that are better online to partners and how do we deliver that to them, right? Versus us, we actually just waiting for them to provide something to us. What are the biggest challenges for you there? Oh gosh, complexity, right? Yeah. Complexity, partner types. We deal with system integrators. We deal with independent software vendors, resellers. Everyone has their own additional needs. They have their own complexity. They have their own in terms of their makeup, right? In terms of resourcing. So we have to on top of that, we have to work with the partner to make sure they're actually ready and equipped to actually receive opportunities from us. And then also, how do we help work with them to build a sales plan to go after those opportunities? So it's all of the, if you think about the flywheel, yeah, we could throw something over the line, but we also have to work with them as one team to say, okay, how do we help make this, help you launch this opportunity with a customer with us? Yeah. Yeah. And so what do you hope to see coming in the next five years? Where do you hope your role takes you? Oh gosh. You know, I don't actually go off five years because if I look back at the last 15, I didn't imagine all those different opportunities by the way, right? Love that. So true. So yeah, so I don't, again, it goes back to like, I hate putting boxes over myself, but it's vision wise, you know, just to say thank you to my mentors, to my sponsors. You know, I am, I see myself C-suite, right? I see myself over an organization helping again, connecting the dots with business growth and opportunities. Now, is it Amazon, I hope? We wonderful, right? But if it's another large Fortune 500 company, absolutely. But in terms of the cloud computing industry, I mean, we're the unimaginable, right?  By the way, just be honest, everyone, but I do believe that as a company, we are gonna be moving to be more digital, you know? I do believe our customers will be more digital. I do think a more virtual engagement, right? And I see myself building those programs to help ensure that our workforce is there, that our sellers are there, that we can actually continue to drive growth and that they're actually equipped to actually align to those opportunities to help our customers grow their business. Yeah, the acceleration and evolution of the modern workforce is a challenge that so many businesses are facing right now. I'm sure tens of thousands, if not all, of the Six Figure Plus partners in your program are experiencing a dynamic range of challenges as a result, and they are all very lucky to have you there to support them. Hopefully everyone at AWS is listening to that nice plug and opportunity to promote you to the C-suite where I'm sure you belong. As time goes on, switching from digital to diversity just a little bit, it's clear that you have had people in your community who've mentored you and taught and been a part of the education side of your journey. And I'm curious to see, or curious to ask you rather, what are the challenges that you still see in diversity in general today? Yeah, well, you know, unfortunately it's still here. We still have unconscious bias, right? And senior level career advancement. That I think that's embedded in our culture and that's something that we constantly have to combat. You know, I was also trained other than mindset and had this belief that say, hey, let your work speak for yourself. In reality, it's not about your work. It's also about who knows you and who actually wants to know about you, right? And that equals unconscious bias, right? Someone that actually, you know, for people to see who you are and see what you actually contribute versus they just liking you. So, you know, and also too, you know, we've run into the issue of being taught in our culture to lean in, right? For a moment there, I believed that. But at some point when you used to look around and you're like, oh gosh, you know, I worked all last year, but my pay was only this or hey, that person got promoted and they only worked on this one thing. And then it pinches like, oh, it's still there, right? So I just believe as leaders and I include myself as my commitment is like any organization on my part is like, how do I advocate for others? How do I create opportunities? How do I address it? I'm very blessed to have a leader that also sees what's possible than me and creates those opportunities and, you know, removes those roadblocks and those barriers. But you know, I can't lie is that, you know, I've also personally been through that. But then again, I look around my family and my community and I have, you know, family that's also civil servants, public servants. This is nothing new, right?  But then also with your commitment as a leader, my commitment is how do I create those pathways for others and remove those barriers? And when I see that, how do I address it? Mm-hmm. And how to really be, what you're touching on there so much is allyship. And I think there's, it takes, being an ally takes many forms across workplaces and functions and genders and demographics and anything quite frankly. And not everyone can advocate for themselves as loudly as someone else can. And that's particularly if whatever that demographic is sees itself a lot on the leadership side of things. But it's really easy to compliment a friend or a teammate. And I think it's actually pretty easy to say nice things about them in the room when they're not in there. And that's one of the easiest ways to be an ally. And I love that you just brought that up. I think that, yeah, we just, we forget that someone else is still fighting to be noticed. And when I was looking at your, you'll let the work speak for itself. One of the lines that I've always referenced is be so good, they can't ignore you. Which kind of combines exactly what you just mentioned is the being noticed piece. And I think it's all of our jobs to help other people and the right people and projects get noticed. So I really love the final question. So I just took another quick line about that. And also, and this is another reality about this is knowing when to walk away, right? Cause some people get chewed. And I do believe in closed doors are a blessing. When you face rejection, it's redirection to where you need to go. But I also do believe, like I was at this conference years ago and this woman made this analogy. She said, there's a million men out there. If it doesn't work for you, go get another one. And that's the idea is that your one company is not your only company. There's other companies that might be better aligned to you. Believe in yourself that you're worth it to go find another opportunity that's better aligned where people can actually celebrate you versus where they say this concept of tolerate you. So I just put that out there is that bold belief that you have to know that about yourself to know that, hey, you're worth it. And there is another company that you can thrive and you're going to be okay. And when you do it, you'll be happy that you actually took that leap of faith. And that's something that I've taken in when I know that, hey, my time's up. If I sense that, if I see that, then I just will move on and I'm okay. I've been back here behind the curtain just snapping as you've been talking. I couldn't agree more the only brand you're ever going to represent your whole life is you. And I think you just nailed it. I was going to ask you for some closing inspiration, but I think you just nailed it with that statement to be quite honest. So I don't want to poison the well. Tia Williams, thank you so much for joining us. It is very clear why you are a go-to-market leader and AWS is very lucky to have you. And thank you to our audience for joining us for this special program series here on theCUBE where we are featuring women of the cloud. My name is Savannah Peterson and may the skies be clear and blue and with beautiful clouds in your universe today.


What's up guys, Rex and 34 back here with another video and today we're going to be opening some much anticipated mail. I've been waiting for this for a few weeks. It's international, so that's why it's taking so long. But before we do that, I want to remind you guys to like the video, subscribe, and hit that bell. Ring a ring ding. Make sure you ring a ding ding because YouTube might unbelly you, as we've mentioned in the comments. So yeah, besides that, make sure you guys check out my TCGPlayer affiliate link and my eBay link to support the channel. If you guys are buying anything, buy it through that link and it helps me out. So now we've gotten that out of the way. Let's do the giveaway. So this is what you guys, you know, free, free cards. It's pretty good. This is a pretty nice one. We got a Power of the Duelist Super Rare Neospatian Flair Scarab. The Wicked Avatar Jump Promo. Pretty cool. Just a circle, which is kind of weird. And then a Secret Rare Barrel Dragon from Master Collection 1. So this one has a little bend to it, but pretty cool. Three hollows. If we hit 60 likes on this video, it'll be given away. These three hollows to one random commenter. And I want to remind you guys to follow me on Instagram for where I post the stories of where who won the giveaways. And of course, I reply to you guys on YouTube, so make sure your notifications are on. If you win, you will get a notification that I commented and said you won. So let's go into this mail. It's only one package. It's an international package. I have a piece of paper over this, because it actually has an address on both sides. It has one huge address and one another. So I had to put it over it so I don't have any address that's showing. Here we go. Let's cut this open. This is only like... It's sort of four or five cards. I think it's four cards. I actually bought this when I was on my honeymoon in Jamaica. This was a while back that I bought this, but it was pretty cool stuff. It's from a guy on Instagram. He was a pretty nice guy. I don't think I've ever bought from him, so this is the first time. Let's see how it went. Here we go. I got some top letters. Let's throw this package away. Let's get these out of the way. Here we go. It looks like four top letters. I believe that it was four cards. Let's get these open. Slice these open. Make sure we get everything. There we go. Alright guys, we're back. We're about to have a new computer. This thing is awful. It is lagging right now, so it's probably going to freeze again. In the next few days, we're going to have a new computer. We're not going to have to deal with this freezing of the face cam. Me taking forever to edit a short video. I'm just so ready for it. Sorry about that freezing. It's probably going to do it again. We've got four cards to go through. I haven't even touched them since it cut off. Four cards. Really epic ones. Let's just get into it before something crazy happens over there. Alright, we're going to need the knife for these. I just don't love tape. I don't love tape in there. I understand the purpose I used to do it myself, but what you would call it is way better. What do they call them? Team bags. There we go. I hate that. Super tough tape. Soft tape is okay, but I don't know why people use the tough tape. It's so hard to get it off. It's crazy. Here we go. I forgot to mention what we're actually looking at. Left arm of the forbidden one. I believe this. Two of these were not in great condition. One was like light play. Two of the cards we got. I can't remember which one was which, but one was in good shape, so we'll see. Here's a left arm of the forbidden one. We've got something crazy going on outside, so I don't know if you guys can hear that. This one actually looks pretty clean. Glossy print, as you can see. Left arm of the forbidden one. Pretty good sintering on that. The back sintering is pretty bad. But honestly, this looks really nice. We've got probably like near mint. Maybe a little better. Maybe even closer to mint. Left arm of the forbidden one. Okay, so that's epic. Secondly, let's go with this one. Let's see if I can get all this stuff out without damaging anything. It's scary. You can watch my face, but you don't want to see this. Oh, that was too close. That was too close to the card. Way too close. Okay, let's get this out of there. Not a fan of tape, but it's double sleeve. As long as you don't cut it with a knife, it would be fine. Here we go. Right arm of the forbidden one. This one's in worse shape. I can see it. It's got a little corner up there. It's got a little thing right there. Glossy print as well. This one's not too bad. This is probably hopefully the light played one. It's got some stuff going on over there. It's not perfect, but probably like light play, but pretty cool. That's a right arm of the forbidden one. So we got two arms going here. Let's go with this one next. All right. Two more down before to worry about cutting the card. We got this.  Didn't cut the card. Yes. Didn't cut the card. Congrats. Yeah. Congratulate me in the comments. I want to see some congratulations for this. It's not as easy as it looks. All right. Here we go. Left leg at the forbidden one, and this thing is beat up. So yeah, the first one was the near mint to mint one. So that's pretty fair on that. The other one was light played in near mint. Definitely not near mint, but maybe probably light play. This guy is like mod play, I think. Well, it doesn't look bad though for mod play. It has a corner in that. So I'm in pretty good shape for any first edition LOB card. So overall pretty fair assessments on the conditions. So yeah, definitely a fair guy. And I'll pull it back from me again if you have something cool. Well, we got one more card, but yeah. So that was pretty good. If I'm recalling this right, it was a good price. I mean, it was a while ago. But I'm pretty sure it was a pretty good price for those. I mean, it's hard to find those anymore, even in near mint. So pretty cool. I think he sold me those other two, pretty cheap, because he was bundling. But here we go. Black Rose Dragon, Ultimate Rare, first edition. Pretty cool. Let's see what it looks like. All right. So first glance looks pretty good. The back does have the square, but he said that it did. Wow. So I mean, honestly, it depends on what they do with the square, but oh wait, here we go. The top has a little bit of a cutting. Just slight, slight stuff right there. Hopefully that'd be cool if this could get a nine, because the PSA nine of this would be really cool. Probably not a 10, but pretty cool. So I'm definitely going to submit the two of these and just see what happens. I think the left arm was a nice one, wasn't it? I'll check it out, yeah. So these two, hoping for nines on both of them. This one, I mean, borderline, maybe a 10. Probably not these days, but this could get nine, maybe a 10 on a lucky day. This guy looks like maybe a pretty solid nine. That'd be pretty cool. These I'm probably not even going to hang on to. So if you guys are interested in the first edition of Xodia, let me know. I might sell these. I might put together another raw set, since I already have two out of five pieces. But yeah, so yeah, I'll submit this guy. I hope, you know, pray for maybe a Hail Mary 10, because I do have a nine right now in glossy. And if I get another nine, I'll probably just sell on them. And I did sell my copy of this, but it did have a little line on it. It was pretty nice. It looked really good, and then it had this kind of indention right there, which kind of stunk. So I'm going to probably submit this and try to get a nine. And that's about it for this video. A pretty epic one package that I waited a long time for. So thanks again, man. If you watched this video, thanks for selling these. I think your conditions are pretty good. So I'm happy with it. And let's see what else. Well, we have some, oh yeah, I do some announcements. We got some epic, a lot of epic booster boxes coming in. Actually, I'm trying to think how many, at least four more booster boxes. They're not all super old school, but there is a really nice, there's a GX box coming in. So we got a GX box. We got a GX box for, that's mine that we're going to open and try and pull some pretty epic ultimate rares. I know you guys have been requesting GX. So this is cool. You guys are going to see your GX box. It's a full box. That's going to be cool. We're going to open another box for a viewer. So we got another GX box, two different ones, by the way, not the same box. So we got two GX boxes coming. I got three other boxes I've got. I'll just go ahead and tell you guys, Dragons of Legend 2 coming in. So we can get a Toon Kingdom. What else is in there? The Mimikat, stuff like that. So there's some really cool stuff in there. And then I also have the Toon, not Toon, Dragons of Legend Unleashed. So there's the Toon Dark Magician girl in there. Not Toon Dark Magician girl. I'm not saying anything wrong. But you know, the Dark Magician girl, the Dragon Knight. There we go. Ultra rare, not the secret rare version, but still really cool. And then, what was the other box? Legendary Duelist. The one is just called Legendary Duelist, even though it has Joey on it. So that one. So we're going to open those up. And potentially other boxes. I'm always looking to get more stuff. So and also a pretty epic, epic Graded card coming in. I just bought yesterday. So, from a cool guy. So that should be coming in soon. I have a look forward to. If you guys have any products you guys want to send me for me to open for you, or you want to donate it to me and have me open it, you know, whatever, then send it in or send it to me. And I can either like, if you guys want to have me grade your stuff. I will grade your stuff. You do have to pay for the grading because I'm like, I can't pay for that because it's gotten expensive these days.  If you guys wanted to do that, that's what the guy with the other boxes doing. So it's going to be pretty cool. And yeah, if you guys have mail or something you guys want me to open, whatever, but anything that you guys want to send is cool because it provides more content for the channel. Alright guys, hopefully this is the last video I ever have to record with this computer because it froze again as I'm literally ending and I just have 10 seconds and I need 10 seconds to say see you guys later. But guess what? It doesn't work. So, I'm hoping this is the last video I ever have to see with this computer. I never have to deal with it again. And yeah, I'll see you guys later. Thanks for watching. Peace.


This is the steam deck. It's a crop top whenever I wear it. It's so embarrassing. Doesn't matter It's finally here. I have been waiting for this for I was gonna say what feels like a year But I think it has literally been a year since I slapped down my five dollar deposit It arrived today in this very box That is not even close to what I expected Hold on apparently I'm gonna have to blow out my address because this is actually just the box That the steam deck is shipped in even the a and neo were shipped in a really nice packaging Attention plug in power on okay. Uh, this is what I meant by I Didn't expect it to and it's fine. It actually came in a carrying case. So I mean, it's nice I don't have to buy a carrying case. I definitely wasn't expecting that accessory But I wasn't expecting it to be shipped just in a generic box and have the power cord Outside of the unit. That's not a slight on this at all. This case does feel very nice Yeah, there's the power cord now this big thing that said attention Plug it in. I guess that telling you put it on charge immediately Your games are going places. Oh, that's actually kind of me. All right. Here we go the Nintendo switch killer I'm actually just kidding. I mean, yeah, that's what the picture looked like. It's massive I can't help but really look at the size of this thing. It's so Oddly reminiscent of a game. I'm really curious to see what these pads are like though. Oh, they're weird to touch That's not what I expected.  It's actually super light It is way way lighter than I expected That's actually really cool if we take a look even at this a and neo the recent one that I did a video on I mean this has to be almost twice as heavy. I'm actually super impressed with how light it is. It is big It is big. It's really big, but I love these grips on the back. That's actually really nice I might have been a bit harsh on it when I got it out the box initially also bananas that the d-pad and the buttons Are like leaving the console They are so tucked away in the corner that the B button is starting to drip around the side of the console Like it's it's melting off the side. It's trying to escape, but the triggers feel really nice The buttons feel really nice. We have back buttons too two on either side. No, I like it. I actually like it I think it feels and looks pretty good now that I've had a second for my eyes to adjust from I guess just what I'm used to but let's plug it in before I turn it on since they really stressed it Hey, that took a hot minute to boot up welcome to steam deck press or tap to continue This is the steam button press to access your library store settings and more This is the quick access button quickly view notifications friends list quick settings and more all right So I don't have the most extensive Steam library, but I do have some solid things to download like the witcher cyberpunk red dead 2 So I'm gonna get to installing some of these things and then now we'll try them out. See you see We'll see I'm very excited. So I've installed but I've started installing three games apex cyberpunk and Witcher and I'm already maxed on how much I can fit on this thing locally I do need to get a bigger SD card. All right, let's leave that let it do what it do and we'll be back I've just been sat here for three days No, not really.  That's right Bluetooth the reason why having Bluetooth on a handheld console is so great is gaming with wireless audio Which is perfect because this video was sponsored by Raycon as you guys already know, I love my Raycons I've been using them for over three years and when the switch could finally use them I was excited so you bet the first thing I tested on here was linking up the earbuds and it works perfectly and immediately or maybe that fantastic audio is just because how great the Raycons are at half the price of other premium wireless earbuds on the market. It's incredible They sound this good.  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I actually have had the steam deck now for over two Weeks initially my plan was to rush out some sort of video You know the first impressions that I'm boxing, but I I gotta be honest I fell in love with this thing Really quickly and I didn't want to rush out a video I didn't want to do it any kind of injustice the more I played it the more I found to love the more I wanted to talk about and suddenly I had way too much to talk about to just put something out there quickly I've tried dozens of games on this thing and almost every single one has impressed me in Multiple different ways. I've fallen in love with the form factor of the steam deck and Everything it has to offer from its track pads, which I actually like I thought I was going to hate them And I actually like them even down to little things like the Wi-Fi on this thing is actually really great I downloaded cyberpunk in like ten minutes on this thing and that's like a 60 gig game I mean yes, I have very good internet, but still okay. Let me reel it in I don't really know where to begin I guess the first thing I'll say is this is in no way a replacement for my switch I still love the Nintendo switch and I always will and I'll talk at the end of the video Why I think they can both exist alongside each other, but to summarize it It's it's I mean it's kind of like saying well I don't need my Xbox anymore because I have my PlayStation 5 well That's probably not a good example really for most of you, huh? Um Sometimes it's just good to have more options. All right The first things I fell in love with really quickly is it's very user-friendly I love the Steam OS interface they have on here immediately as you load it up You can go straight to your library, but to make it even more streamlined You can go to your library and go great on deck Which means these are all the games that have been verified to run Perfectly on the console with no issues and if you decide that you know You don't have enough games, which is really everyone's problem It takes two seconds to load up the store right at the top You have a scrolling bar that seems to update every day with a bunch of games That's great to play on the deck today. I got no man sky Lego Star Wars Elden ring and I will definitely get to that and as you go down you'll find a ton more games on sale You can sort by action adventure RPG and there are just so many games that are already verified to just work perfectly on the console But that's not to say that a bunch of other games don't work great to for example red dead 2 They haven't even tested that yet or given it any kind of rating for the steam deck But I've been playing it and it's fantastic the speakers are these big right on the front here and yeah They sound great the fan It's not whisper silent well unless you're playing like an indie game or something I have a game on here called eternal the card game Which if you watched my 10 free e-shop video what I recommended that game? Yes, I'm still addicted to it when I'm playing that It's definitely whisper silent But if I'm gonna boot up a game like Elden ring it might it might start gasping for air But that said it's not nearly as loud as the a and neo which will get to or maybe even as loud as you might Think really the only time I notice it is if I'm playing in bed at night And it's like 2 a.m. And I've got the sound turned down so I don't wake him up and all I can hear is However the battery It's also really not that bad Again, they say that it lasts between two to eight hours if you're playing Elden ring You'll probably get that two hours sure I was playing that eternal card game last night for five hours because I'm addicted to it And when I was done my battery was still in green so it really all depends on what you're playing some other neat things I really love about this everything just works With the a and eo, I'm gonna be referencing this a lot and if you don't know I made a video on this. It's a $1400 handheld PC. It's essentially a steam deck, but you know a thousand dollars more the steam deck blows The a and ea out of the water in my opinion with performance frame rates graphics It's insane how much better the steam deck is but yeah anyway on this thing like I would try and load up red dead redemption 2 Off of steam mind you and it would always load up in the corner of the screen And I had to do like a bunch of Jimmy in with the rotating and then resizing the game in the options It took five minutes every time I wanted to play the game just to resize it to full screen And there were a bunch of games I had issues with just like that like monster hunter rise was another one on the a and eo I have never had that happen on this even red dead redemption to just opens up Perfect every time it's hassle and stress free as long as you're using the steam OS There are ways to get like game pass and epic store on the steam deck rather than loading up in the OS You can load up just a desktop and use it like a computer, but it runs on Linux I have never used Linux before and I discovered the hard way that you can't just open a dot exe file on Linux Just just open game pass just open game pass. What do you mean choose an application to open? What what do you mean? I don't get it. What am I? What am I doing wrong?  What do you want to do with this file execute select the program? You want to use to open Xbox controller dot exe? Oh Hold on. I can't open an exe in Linux. All right.  Um, I just I Don't know All right, everything else about the steam deck comes into play when I talk about the games So I'm gonna be breaking down every single game by what it looked like how it visually stacked up compared to I guess What a console or a PC port would look like but also what kind of frame rates did it have and how did it feel to play? Frame rates are very important. However, I feel like I'm not as hardcore on Needing 60 FPS There's a lot of people are and when it comes to gaming on the go, you got to make sacrifices So for me personally anything above 30 FPS is good Let's be honest though most of the games I tested are like 45 FPS and up So I think everyone's gonna be pretty happy with it. All right, okay I've kept you waiting for the game part of the video for long enough So let me just get straight to the game You will want to see and I know it because I know you guys Elden ring. I love Elden ring by the way. I I want to review it on the channel. So just a small side note I freaking love this game. The Elden ring is super impressive on the steam deck to start It is verified so to quickly talk about what that means with the verified So what this rating means and there's a bunch there's verified There's playable so it might have some issues, but it's playable and then there's just we haven't tested it yet How they get these is people working at steam closely with the steam deck are playing these games testing these games Maybe even the developers of the games themselves are Optimizing them for the steam deck and we've seen that for quite a few of the games and Elden ring is one of course Because it's a recent release and why wouldn't you it's been optimized for the steam deck It looks and plays super smooth It holds a steady 30 to 40 FPS and in my opinion for a brand new triple a release that just came out That's really impressive as someone who just played through the PlayStation 5 version 2 I don't feel like there's a massive downgrade here at all It feels damn near the exact same experience just on the go easily one of the most impressive games I played on the console and it's so good. It's even got me stuck playing through a new character I did try Lowering the graphic settings to see if we could boost the frame rate up a bit But it just things went south really quickly see the way those trees are like dancing now This definitely does not look as good and for some reason it didn't improve the frame rate at all so just keep it on the default God of War is verified and Wow, I know this game is I guess technically old older now I mean it was a PlayStation 4 game, but it still feels super Recent to me and I still hold it in higher regard as a game that had gorgeous visuals Fantastic gameplay. I couldn't imagine playing it on the go just a couple years ago but it is Immaculate on the steam deck and it continues to blow me away every time I loaded up to record more footage I just still I could I had wrote the word immaculate in the script and I would load it up thinking like maybe That's a bit strong and every time I saw it. I was like nope. That's pretty good It's easily sitting around 30 to 40 FPS, which for me in an action game like this is perfectly fine But visually it's stunning. Okay, so let's look at a game. That's not verified Jedi fallen order Now this is interesting because fallen order it says playable with a caution So when I looked up what the caution was it actually gives you a breakdown and it said everything was great Graphically, it looks great. There's no bugs. It plays you're gonna have a great time But the caution was there's a launcher that you might have to like type or press some buttons or something So I guess they consider that like a bad user experience where if the EA launcher pops up or the CD project red Launcher pops up you might have to sign into something and then from there the game just opens So I think really it's doing these games a disservice to have a caution mark on them because Jedi also plays really great and Looks fantastic, although I will say and this is not why it has a caution on it Uh, it does have it does have frame dips. It's weird because the opening Intro area sits pretty close around 60 FPS because it's linear and it looks fantastic And then when you hit the open area in the game the first area it does go down like 45 frames It's it's pulling a little bit more power now, but both of those are great It's just when you load in or walk into a room or an area the first time It just seems to tank and dip for like a second and then it's fine once you're in the area It's fine I've never had it dip or do anything like that while I'm in a boss fight or any kind of Pre-established area I've been in so that is a weird little hiccup that might throw some people out of the experience But for me to play this on the go and have it looking this great I don't mind so let's take a look at apex which is also verified on the console So apex does look amazing It's a really cool one to play on the steam deck because it's one of those games that we have a direct Comparison for on the switch the switch port is un Playable in my opinion. I am it's maybe 30 FPS with some dips But to get to that point they had to severely chop up the visuals It ended up looking like a mud bath very blurry hard to see anything in the distance So having it crystal clear on the steam deck is really nice I mean you weren't looking at 50 FPS all day, baby, and that's great It does hit 60 FPS when nothing really is going on and you're standing still I even almost won a couple of games playing on the steam deck I think that that one's a winner too quickly before we look at some more graphically intense beasts I want to point out that indies on the steam deck go hard I mean I love the switch and the indies seen on switch is just one of my favorite things about the console But with indies they usually don't start on switch they start on steam So the steam deck is just like the home of indies There are so many that I'd never seen on switch not to mention They are always on sale when I first got my steam deck hollow night was like four dollars for the first week But of course all these indies are gonna play in like perfect frame rate They're gonna look and pop on the screen The fan is gonna be whisper quiet and you just have this huge plethora of really cheap games to buy and play Okay, I gotta be quicker with some of these. I'm taking too long. I'm just gushing over all of them Red Dead 2 was easily the most impressive game for me Because when I got this initially that was one of the things that blew me away Because I could play Red Dead 2 portably I could and it looked really great But the frame rates were around 25 And I said it's borderline playable borderline like I'm pushing it because I love Red Dead and it looks great But I wouldn't blame anyone if they looked at that and thought okay steam deck I it looks better. It looks better than a in here somehow the textures are better There's more foliage the shadow and lighting all looks better, and it's like 40 FPS I mean, I don't I don't I don't understand. I mean there are points where I see it hit 50 I mean those are frame rates that the PlayStation 4 and Xbox one would dream of And that's only one generation of consoles gone And to have it be put just straight into your hands and possibly perform even better What year is it? And again interestingly that game is unrated. They haven't tested it They haven't given it a rating at all. I feel like that's a game they would have Right, but they also haven't tested a game like Monster Hunter Rise Which is perfect on the console. I mean again the switch version is pretty perfect So of course the steam deck version is just gonna look a little cleaner around the edges And be just as good in 60 FPS solid But they they're like nah, yeah, we haven't tested it. We don't know I can tell you steam deck. Let me test them. Monster Hunter Rise is legit perfect And Red Dead 2 you could sit down and play that whole game on this thing and have no problems That's wood verified Witcher 3 is of course another great game to test Because it's not only one of in my opinion it is the best open water RPG of all time But it's just a game that many people would love to play on the go And it has been possible before now because there's a switch port And I think the switch port is borderline They managed to get the game on there and that's great And they kept the frame rates pretty stable But there was just too much of a sacrifice visually The game has that apex mud look about it Where just everything kind of looks like an interpreter's painting Of what the Witcher 3 actually looked like I really feel like a broken record But for a game that came out on the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox one You can of course guess 60 FPS pretty solid across the board And it just looks I'm running out of words adjectives You know gorgeous striking stunning fantastic I don't think I've said that one yet. Have I? It looks fantastic Oh the track pads you know I said I actually like them And I never really talked about why here's a good chance Sims 4 I wanted to buy a game that was specifically a PC game You know like you can play it on console but without a mouse it's tough Because the track pad essentially acts not only as the d-pad and as toggles But also it's touch it's mouse you can use it as a mouse So I downloaded Sims 4 I'm you it's it just becomes a mouse It's super pinpoint and sensitive I can very easily Delete a wall and then build an extension to the house in seconds Now is it as easy as a mouse? No but I've been using a mouse my whole life The more I've been using this the better at it I have been getting Obviously it's never going to compare but it's not a bad replacement Another thing I really like about it too is They have like haptic feedback in these track pads And when you run your finger along the mouse pad It kind of like vibrates along where you're running your finger To let you know that yeah you're touching it you're mo- It feels really cool Here's a weird one Uhhhhhh Cyberpunk It's weird for a lot of reasons Cyberpunk on the A&E was trash Which I kind of at the time just blamed on Cyberpunk Right? Cyberpunk's a very poorly optimized game But it didn't look bad But again it was like 15-20 FPS at best on this $1400 PC So I really expected similar from the Steam Deck And I was very wrong and very impressed again But here's what's so interesting When you load it up it defaults to a graphical setting called Steam Deck It'll go low, medium, high, ultra, Steam Deck So it actually has its own preset optimization for visuals And it blows chunks It's horrible I don't get it at all Barely holds 30 FPS at the best of times And as soon as you start running around or moving The blur becomes insufferable Like you're gonna throw up When you start moving like that and the blur kicks in It just tanks down to 15 FPS Literally unplayable for any kind of driving or shootouts Or you know everything that makes the game worth playing So initially I was like Okay well yeah this is This is Cyberpunk right? That's kind of what this thing was doing too This is what they've optimized it as I was done honestly And I think someone in chat said try lowering the settings So if I set it all to low I wonder That's way better It doesn't look as nice But it's locked on 30 now That's way better What the heck? It's 30 FPS and extremely extremely playable Oh yeah someone in chat wanted me to put it on medium Give me a second Okay we're on medium now We're still doing good for the 30 So you don't have to go all the way to low You can go to medium I wonder if I can go to high Even high is not nearly as bad What the hell is Steam thinking with its setting for this game? I mean it was night and day The fact that the game is Cyberpunk aside It's super playable on the Steam Deck If you really wanted to Might not be the best way to play it It also goes to show that When you do get your Steam Deck Feel free to mess around If you do get a Steam Deck Feel free to mess around with some settings And see what you can squeeze out of some of these games Because you never know But honestly that's the only game I've had to tweak those Every other game that I've talked about today That I've played outside of this video I just used whatever the default was And it was fine Maybe I could have squeezed more out of some of these But I'm really going for the most generic User experience possible And I think it's been fantastic Easily my favorite experience with the Steam Deck so far Other than the countless hours I've played To tunnel the card game It really is a problem guys Help me easily My favorite experience is Tales of Arise Every single game I've talked about today Is a game that I've played before It's a game that I adore and I love And I wanted to see what it could do And play it portably And it's been exciting to see my favorite games that way I wanted something new And whenever I think of handheld gaming I think of like playing Persona 4 Golden on the Vita And how much fun that was I love playing these long RPGs on a handheld console Immediately I wanted to download Persona 5 on this Apparently that's not on PC or Steam yet And then one day I was browsing the store And on that little scrolling tab up top It said Tales of Arise is verified I haven't played that yet and I've heard great things I didn't realize what a great choice I was making Honestly, the self-shaded visual style pops On the Steam Deck With no rough edges I mean it just seems pixel perfect And the colors really shine through And then the gameplay is fast and smooth Sitting around 50 while exploring the world And 45 while in combat It really is just a fantastic game to play on the Steam Deck Okay, let me give you some final thoughts Clearly, I love it I mean, I can't hide that I can't even talk about the stupid thing without a smile on my face I want to reiterate I love portable gaming Ever since I was a kid I've had home consoles all the way back to NES But I also always had a Game Boy A Game Boy Advance A Game Boy Advance SP A DS A 3DS A Vita I've always loved handheld gaming And I've always been excited for the future of handheld gaming So I think you would be insane to think I wouldn't love something like this I mean, it would have to be pretty abysmal for me not to I like this thing a lot But it was $1,400 I don't think it looks or feels that very good And I just don't really have any attachment To something called Aeonio I'm sorry to say it Steam Deck has that brand recognition That makes it a little easier for me to feel attached to it I feel safer in knowing that this thing probably isn't going to explode in a week And it's going to have continual support from a platform that has been hosting games for years Now, I realize that what I just said might not age well Because Steam does have a habit of releasing things And then discontinuing and dropping them And then selling them for a nickel a year later But that doesn't change what this is in my hands right now I think it's a perfect companion for me to have alongside the Switch Of course if I had to pick one I gotta go the Switch because it has Zelda and Mario and Splatoon and exclusives That I would be missing out on if I didn't have the console An insane library of games That I'm not going to want to just throw away Because I can buy things on Steam now But there are experiences I've been dying to have portable That the Switch just can't pull off because it's a five-year-old outdated console As much as I love it, that's the truth This has the entire Steam library And my bet is it can play pretty much anything on it Games I probably never would have tried or considered otherwise Like Tales of Arise I love this thing And if it's something you think you might like or you might want You're probably going to love it too Just promise me you won't sell your Switch for it Because I'll be very mad at you if you do All right, that's it I hope you liked this video Comment down below and subscribe with your thoughts If you have a Steam Deck, let me know what you think Also, please check out the Nintendo podcast It's a new podcast I started with my buddy Bob Wolf It's all about Nintendo It's been a ton of fun so far Weekly episodes every Thursday And bonus episodes every Thursday on Patreon But that's it All right I talked about this thing for an hour and a half And now I have to edit it into like a 25-something minute video How did I do? 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