Hey, everyone. Welcome to theCUBE's presentation of the AWS Industry Tech Partner Showcase. This is season one, episode two, kicking off our exciting series covering partners from the AWS ecosystem. We're gonna be talking about enabling global collaboration in game development. And your host, Lisa Martin. Pleased to welcome Laura Teodosio, CEO of Arch Platform Technologies to the program. Laura's here to talk about game development infrastructure in the cloud. Laura, great to see you. Thanks so much for joining me today. Thanks for having us. Tell the audience a little bit about Arch Platform Technologies. Give us your mission, your vision. Great. Arch is a company that helps other companies move their creative workloads to the cloud. So a lot of workloads such as visual effects, animation, game development, virtual production, we make it really easy to work, move those workloads to the cloud and run them efficiently for cost savings and other sorts of efficiencies that you can get by running in the cloud. So you launched in 2019 just four short years ago. What was the catalyst to launch the business? What gaps in the market did you see at the time? Right before that launch, two people at the company decided that they wanted to build a visual effects studio entirely in the cloud and it hadn't really been done before. So they got together and they built the first VFX that we know of VFX Studio in the cloud on AWS. And we basically leveraged that idea and realized that we could extend it to all sorts of creative workloads in the cloud, whether that be editorial, virtual production, game development, engineering, et cetera. And that's where we are. And we have had wild success in doing that because we make it really easy to build those facilities in the cloud on top of AWS. Wild success, I love that. We're going to get into that in this conversation. Give us a little bit of a double click on the actual platform and what it's enabling organizations to achieve. So it's essentially a control plan that sits on top of AWS. And it makes it really easy to use AWS. So it's a SaaS dashboard and it fronts an orchestration engine and a machine image pipeline, which allows customers to build these facilities in the cloud and AWS. So everything from VPCs to networking, to connection manager and broker, storage, build farms, render, workstations with all the software tools on it. And we can spin up those facilities in 45 minutes. And it's all done through code. So it's repeatable. It's auditable. There's nothing that's custom or hand built. And so we make it really easy to do this. And then additionally for the workstations, we have a machine image pipeline, which allows us to put all the tools and services that customers like and are already using on the workstations and in the facility. Talk a little bit about your target audience. Who's using the platform? So our customers are varied. And the thing they have in common is that they're all collaborating in some sort of creative endeavor. So we support studios, broadcasters, game development companies, engineering companies, government contractors. And the thing that they all have in common is they're doing some collaborative creative workflow, whether that be game development, editing in the cloud, visual effects, putting on a virtual production. That's the similarity between all of them. And they include companies from 20 people to some of the largest enterprise companies in the world. Talk about, so a wide variety of companies and those folks leveraging the technologies. You talked about that speed to market, 45 minutes, amazing, the ease of use. What, when you're in customer conversations, what are some of the major challenges that they're coming to you and are saying, guys, help us fix this? Yeah, yeah. I mean, certainly there's the challenge of being able to find global talent. That's one of the challenges and one of the reasons, there are many reasons that people move through the cloud, but what we've been seeing and what we've been hearing from a lot of customers is talent is hard to find for these very skilled jobs that are needed, particularly in game development. So one of the things they want to be able to do is go around the world to find their talent, but keep all of their infrastructure consistent, right? And they want to be able to make sure that no matter where people are working, they're working in a facility that has all of the tools and all of the data that their teams are going to need. And so Arch helps them do that by building these connected facilities all around the world on top of AWS data centers. So they get that consistent experience and help with the skills gap. Sharon with us, Laura, why the decision to build on top of AWS as a partner? AWS basically has some of the widest reach in terms of data centers, right?  And AWS makes it really easy to do that. And additionally, the breadth of services that AWS provides has allowed us to build very complex and robust solution. So really, in looking at the cloud providers, AWS has really been a very good partner for us in terms of the ability for us to build what we needed to build. Sounds like it was the absolute right kind of synergistic partner.  AWS continues to be a very good partner for us just in terms of support and visibility. So we have a very good working relationship with AWS. That's excellent. And that goes a long way towards employee experience, customer experience. Talk a little bit about besides game development, where else are game companies using the cloud? Give us kind of your perspective across the industry. Yeah, I mean, most of our customers to date in the game industry have been on game development, but we're now currently working with a AAA studio to really test game play testing. So that's when they do a build of a game and they want 100 people to get on there and test it, to see how it's performing, to see what changes need to be made. So working with a studio using our orchestration engine and machine image pipeline to very quickly spin up hundreds of workstations. They get their game testers on there, they test, and then those workstations can be destroyed or spun down so that they save money. So the next time they have a new build, they want to do this, they spin this up again. So it's a new use case for us, and we're really excited to see how this goes. You talked about wild success earlier. Share a customer story that you think really shines the spotlight on the value that Arch is delivering to its customers. Oh, there's many different customers to talk about in different ways. So, we're certainly working with game development companies who have facilities around the world that we have connected together. And in one particular case, they're working out of Europe and they're working out of North America. And so everybody's in sync. We're also working with broadcasters who are using Arch in their supply chain to be able to do edits right before things go to air. We're working with studios who are doing editorial for their productions and visual effects for their production. So, we're able to really tap in to all of these creative workloads and help the companies basically leverage the efficiencies of the cloud. One of the things I was looking at when I was doing some research on Arch on your website is that Arch has come a long way from its VFX roots. And just for short years, how have you guys accomplished that? Give us some of your magic. You know, I think part of that is everybody at the company comes from both a technical background and a creative background. So, folks either started VFX companies, worked at VFX companies, we're film producers. So, we understand this content creation process from beginning to end. And so, we understand a lot of where the pain points are and how we can leverage our platform and orchestration engine to really solve some of these problems. So, it's really, really deep domain expertise that has allowed us to really start to move in all of these areas of content creation. Deep domain expertise. When you're in customer conversations, I imagine that's one of your differentiators, but what are some of those key elements that really define and differentiate the Arch platform? You see, so, what we do, nobody else really does in the way we do it. So, there are systems integrators and consulting companies which will go in and build by hand bespoke solutions for a cloud studio. And they're great solutions, right? And, but we do it a little differently. We build infrastructure in the cloud by software. So, it's infrastructure as code, which means that everything is repeatable. It's auditable. It's fast. And also, because of that, and we make sure that everything's consistent. So, if we build a facility for somebody in London, their facility in Vancouver is going to be the same. Their software stacks are gonna be the same if they need to be the same, right? So, there's no drift. There's no drift in their fleet. And so, it's really helpful for our customers. In addition, the platform is built in such a way that the IT teams and the technical teams at these companies can build, monitor, and manage their resources on their own. So, it really helps drive efficiencies in the technical teams at these companies. Though, if there's a company that's a smaller company that may not have those technical or cloud-enabled teams, we can basically be their, essentially, their resource for maintaining the facilities for them. So, we'll work with our customers in many different ways. And you've got the capacity to be able to dial up, spin down, really meet those customers where they are, help them from a services perspective. But you talked about consistency. Consistency is such a key element in delivering the right user experience, right employee experience, the right end customer experience that's really critical for your customers to differentiate themselves. Can you give us a little peek into the product roadmap? What are some of the things we might be looking for in the next six to 12 months? Yeah, there's a couple of key elements. You know, last year, we started to support the integration of on-premises hardware, right? So, for example, since this is a game tech conversation, if you've got a Perforce server on-premises, for example, we can connect to that. We can connect the cloud workstations to that. If you've got a build form on-premises, we can connect the cloud workstations to that, right? Again, being able to support this infrastructure. Or if you've got workstations or, you know, dev kits on-premises that you want to connect to, we can make sure they're all accessible by the cloud workstations. So, what we're going to be doing over the next couple of years is expanding out our ability to work with this on-premises hardware. A lot of customers want to move to the cloud in phases. They may not want to move everything to the cloud right away, or they have a real workflow reason to keep resources on-premises. So, making more robust are a hybrid offering. And additionally, people have been really excited about the analytics and reporting that we have been providing. So, we're going to expand that out much more significantly so people can really, really dig in and into their usage patterns and, you know, find efficiencies, find where they can create better efficiencies in their organizations. It's all about efficiency and that end user experience being seamless, being consistent. Laura, we thank you so much for joining us on the program. Where do you want to direct the audience to go to learn more about ARCH and its platform? You can go to our website, archpt.io, to learn about our platform and you can reach out to us and we can set up a conversation and a demo so we can learn more about how we may be able to help you.  Thank you for walking us through game development infrastructure in the cloud, what ARCH is doing, how it's different and amazing benefits, the wild successes that you're having and your customers are having. We really appreciate your insights and your time. Thank you for your time today, I appreciate it. My pleasure. We want to thank you for watching the AWS Industry Tech Partner Showcase. For Laura Titocio, I'm Lisa Martin. We'll see you next time.


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Section 7 of Persian Self-Tought in Roman Characters with English Phonetic Pronunciation by Sheikh Hassan This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org Recording by Nicholas James Bridgewater Persian Self-Tought in Roman Characters with English Phonetic Pronunciation by Sheikh Hassan Section 7 Adjectives The Grammar of Adjectives See page 55 Able Tavanah Able Tavanah Or Moktader Moktader Able Moktader Afraid Tarsu Afraid Tarsu Tarsnok Afraid Tarsu Lonely Tanhaw Lonely Tanhaw Or Vahid Lonely Vahid Another Digar Another Digar Another Digar Awkward Bad Bad Bad Beautiful Zibao Beautiful Zibao Or Qashang Beautiful Big Bozorg Big Bozorg Better Talch Better Talch Blind Coor Broad Pan Broad Bah Or Goshad Goshad Broad Goshad Busy Mashgul Busy Mashgul Certain Mohak Tak Certain Mohak Tak Cheap Arzan Clean Park Clean Or Tamiz Tamiz Clever Mohair Mohair Clever Mohair Or Ostad Clever Ostad Cold Cold Sad Common Ordinary Adi Common Ordinary Adi Convenient Rohat Convenient Rohat Or Osude Convenient Osude Cool Cool Khunak Damp Nam Damp Nam Dangerous Dangerous Dark Tar Dark Or Tarik Dark Or Khire Khire Dark Deaf Car Deaf Car Deer Expensive Geron Deer Expensive Geron Deep God Deep Deep Different Different Different Different Different Mohair Mohair Difficult Hard Sad Difficult Hard Sad Hard Difficult Hard Dirty Cherk Dirty Cherk Distant Door Distant Door Dry Dry Dry Dull of weather Tor Dull of weather Or Tarik Tarik Dull of weather Tarik Early Zood Easy Osone Easy Osone Empty Khawli Empty Khawli Even Smooth Hamvar Even Smooth Hamvar Or Moustavi Moustavi Even Smooth Moustavi False Doruk False Doruk Or Kezb False Kezb Fast Quick Toned Fast Quick Toned Fine Small Zarif Fine Beautiful Gashang Fine Beautiful Gashang Flat Soft Flat Soft Or Mosate Mosate Flat Mosate Foolish Divane Foolish Divane Or Divanagi Divanagi Foolish Divanagi Foreign Karib Foreign Or Bigone Foreign Bigone Free Ouzod Free Ouzod Fresh of eggs etc Tauze Fresh Tauze Full Poor Full Funny Ajeeb Funny Or Garib Funny General Customary General Customary Or Marsoom General Marsoom Glad Shod Shod Or Masroor Glad Masroor Good Good Grand Splendid Allee Or Bozorg Grand Splendid Bozorg Hard Solid Sacht Or Seft Hard Seft Healthy Sehee Sehee Heavy Sangin Heavy Sangin High Bolland High Bolland Honest Dorostkar Honest Dorostkar Hot Garm Hot Garm Idle Idle Idle Ignorant Ignorant Ignorant Or Jau Hel Ignorant Important Mohem Important Mohem Impossible Nomem ken Inconvenient Noro hat Noro hat Inconvenient Noro hat Or Bimas raf Inconvenient Bimas raf Interesting Moh fid Interesting Moh fid Monand Just Equitable Monand Or Mesl Kind Mehraban Kind Mehraban Lame Lang Large Great Large Bozorg Late Deer Deer Left Chap Left Chap Light Sabok Little Small Little Small Chord Or Little Small Long Deraz Long Deraz Loos Shol Loud Boland Many Besyar Besyar Many Besyar More Bistar More Much Ziyad Much Ziyad Or Besyar Narrow Tang Narrow Tang Necessary Lozam Necessary Or Darkor Necessary Darkor Next Oyande Next Or Digar Next Old of things Kohne Old of things Kohne Old of persons Pir Old of persons Pir Opposite Ruberu Opposite Other Digar Other Painful Dark Painful Polite Moaddab Polite Poor Faqir Poor Faqir Meskeen Pretty Zibao Pretty Or Pretty Proper Sahi Proper Correct Or Proper Rost Pure and adulterated Clean Pure and adulterated Clean Or Clean Pure and adulterated Clean Poor Poor Poor Weird Weird Quick Tond Quick Quiet Quiet Quiet Or Arom Quiet Rare Camyab Rare Raw Uncooked Uncooked Or Uncooked Raw Real Real Real Real Rich Rich Rich Rich Rich Tavongar Rich Or Dani Rich Dani Right Proper Ripe Of Fruit Reside Rough Rough Rough Rough Rough Rough Round Gared Round Gared Round Round Round Rude Be Adab Rude Be Adab Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Safe Shallow, par-yab, par-yab, shallow, par-yab Or, be-omg, be-omg, shallow, be-omg Short in length, ku-tah, ku-tah Short in length, ku-tah Silly, ah-nack, ah-nack Silly, ah-nack Simple, saw-dee, saw-dee, simple, saw-dee Sleepy, khaba-loud, khaba-loud, sleepy, khaba-loud Slow, kond, kond, slow, kond Or, yavosh, yavosh, slow, yavosh Small, ku-check, ku-check, small, ku-check Soft, narm, narm, soft, narm Solid, sach-t, sach-t, solid, sach-t Sorry, gam-nock, gam-nock, sorry, gam-nock Or, gam-gene, gam-gene, sorry, gam-gene Sour, tor-sh, tor-sh, sour, tor-sh Special, na-xsous, na-xsous Special, na-xsous Square, chahar-gu-she Square, chahar-gu-she Stiff, khoshk, khoshk, stiff, khoshk Still, tranquil, ah-rom Still, tranquil, ah-rom Or, raw-hat, raw-hat Still, tranquil, raw-hat Straight, rost, rost, straight, rost Or, mustaim, mustaim, straight, mustaim Strange, begone, begone Strange, begone Strong, qavi, qavi, strong, qavi Or, zurmand, zurmand, strong, zurmand Stupid, ah-maq, ah-maq Stupid, ah-maq Or, geege, geege, stupid, geege Sweet, shireen, shireen, sweet, shireen Tall, boland qad, boland qad, tall, boland qad Thick in size, koloft, koloft Thick in size, koloft Tight, tang, tang, tight, tang Troublesome, zah-maq-dar, zah-maq-dar Troublesome, zah-maq-dar Or, poor zah-maq, poor zah-maq Troublesome, poor zah-maq True, raw-st, raw-st True, raw-st Uncomfortable, nor-o hat, nor-o hat Uncomfortable, nor-o hat Unhappy, nor-shod, nor-shod Unhappy, nor-shod Or, mota-as-sef, mota-as-sef Unhappy, mota-as-sef Unkind, no-meh-ra-bon, no-meh-ra-bon Unkind, no-meh-ra-bon Unwell, bi-da-mog, bi-da-mog Unwell, bi-da-mog Or, no-chosh, no-chosh Unwell, no-chosh Urgent, fo-ree, fo-ree, urgent fo-ree Or, musta-jal, musta-jal Urgent, musta-jal Useful, mo-feed, mo-feed Useful, mo-feed Useful, bifo-ide Useful, bifo-ide Usual, adi Usual, adi Vein, chod-pasand Vein, chod-pasand Various, mo-chdal-ef Various, mo-chdal-ef Or, jur-be-jur, jur-be-jur Various, jur-be-jur Warm, gar-m Warm, gar-m Weak, za-eef, za-eef Weak, za-eef Or, lo-gar, lo-gar Weak, lo-gar Well-in-health, chog, chog Well-in-health, chog Or, tandorost, tandorost Well-in-health, tandorost Whole, ha-me, ha-me Whole, ha-me Or, tam-om, tam-om Whole, tam-om Wide, go-shod, go-shod Wide, go-shod Worth, in-value, ar-zan-de Worth, in-value, ar-zan-de Or, lo-ye-k Lo-ye-k Worth, in-value, lo-ye-k Worthless, no-lo-ye-k No-lo-ye-k Worthless, no-lo-ye-k Wrong, gal-at, gal-at Wrong, gal-at Young, jav-on, jav-on Young, jav-on End of Section 7 Recording by Nicholas James Bridgewater Recorded in Iman Jordan Section 8 of Persian Self-Tought in Roman Characters with English Phonetic Pronunciation by Sheikh Hassan This is a LibriVox recording. 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Recording by Nicholas James Bridgewater Persian Self-Tought in Roman Characters with English Phonetic Pronunciation by Sheikh Hassan Section 8 Verbs, af-all For grammar verbs, see page 59 To accept, gab-ul-kar-dan, gab-ul-kar-dan To accept, gab-ul-kar-dan To add, zam-kar-dan, zam-kar-dan To add, zam-kar-dan To admit, allow-in, pazi-roff-dan Pazi-roff-dan To admit, allow-in, pazi-roff-dan To allow, permit, ez-n-dor-dan, ez-n-dor-dan To allow, permit, ez-n-dor-dan To answer, jav-ob-dor-dan, jav-ob-dor-dan To answer, jav-ob-dor-dan To arrange, in-od-de, tar-tib-dor-dan To arrange, in-od-de, tar-tib-dor-dan To arrive, res-i-dan To arrive, res-i-dan To ask, pors-i-dan To ask, pors-i-dan To assist, kom-ak-kar-dan To assist, kom-ak-kar-dan To bark, vach-vag-kar-dan To bark, vach-vag-kar-dan To bathe, ham-mom-raff-dan To bathe, ham-mom-raff-dan To beat, za-dan To beat, za-dan To become, shodan To become, shodan To begin, transitive and intransitive All laws kar-dan To begin, all laws kar-dan Or, ben-all kar-dan Ben-all kar-dan To begin, ben-all kar-dan Or, eb-tid-all kar-dan Eb-tid-all kar-dan To begin, eb-tid-all kar-dan To believe, bo-var-kar-dan Bo-var-kar-dan To believe, bo-var-kar-dan To bend, pic-e-dan To bend, pic-e-dan To bite, gaz-e-dan Gaz-e-dan To bite, gaz-e-dan To boil, water Ju-shan-dan Ju-shan-dan To boil, ju-shan-dan To boil, intransitive Ju-she-dan Ju-she-dan To boil, intransitive Ju-she-dan To borrow, bear-as-kar-dan To borrow, bear-as-kar-dan To break, transitive and intransitive She-cast-dan She-cast-dan To break, she-cast-dan To bring, av-or-dan To bring, av-or-dan To build, insh-o-kar-dan To build, insh-o-kar-dan Or, so-ch-dan So-ch-dan To build, so-ch-dan To buy, char-e-dan Char-e-dan To buy, char-e-dan To call, we-kin Beed-or kar-dan Beed-or kar-dan To call, we-kin Beed-or kar-dan To carry, bor-dan Bor-dan To carry, bor-dan To change, transitive Av-as-kar-dan Av-as-kar-dan To change, transitive Av-as-kar-dan To change, intransitive Av-as-sh-o-dan Av-as-sh-o-dan To change, intransitive Av-as-sh-o-dan to choose to climb to collect transitive to collect transitive to collect intransitive to come to come to come to come in to consent to cough to cough to count to cry, weep to cry, weep to cut to dance, raxidan to decide to die more than to dislike napasandidan to dismiss dafkardan to do make kardan to doubt to dream to drink to dry transitive to dry transitive to eat to engage to explain to faint to fall to feel to fill to fill to find or to find to fish to fly to follow to forget to forgive to gain to gather to get to get up to get up from bed to give to go to go away travel to go away travel to guide transitive to hang transitive to have to hear to help to hire a servant to hit to hold to be hungry to hurt oneself to hurt oneself to interfere to interpret to invite to join transitive to join transitive to keep things to kill to know to label to last to laugh to lead to learn to lend to lie down or to lift to light to light to like to like to live to live to lock to lock to look at to look for to lose to love to make to make a mistake to make a mistake to manage to manage to mix transitive to mix transitive to move transitive to move transitive to move to object to object to offer to offer to omit to omit to open transitive to open transitive to open intransitive to open intransitive to open intransitive to order at shop to order to order at shop to order to order command to order to order command to order command to pack to pack to pack To pay pardoch dan To perspire, arag kardan To pick up, bardoch dan To pick up, lern, o muchtan To play, bozi kardan To pour, riech dan To prepare, hozer kardan To prevent, mo ne chodan To promise, va de do dan To pull, keşi dan To push, tak on dan To put, place, goz oşdan To put off, time, takir andoch dan To rain, bori dan To raise, boland kardan To read, kondan To receive, gereftan To recommend, toosie kardan To refuse, rad kardan To remain, stay, mondan To remember, yod ovor dan To repay, past o dan To rest, rahat şodan To return, transitive, bargherdan dan To return, intransitive, bargherdan dan To ride, savar şodan To ring, transitive and intransitive Zangzadan, zangzadan To ring, zangzadan To run, davidan To save, rehondan To say, goftan To see, didan To seem, appear, nemudan To send, ferestadan To sew, duktan To share, taksim kardan To shave, beard, rishtarashidan To shine, tabidan To show, nishandardan To shut, transitive, bastan To sing, of persons ovor zekhondan To sit, as European Neshastan, neshastan To sleep, khabidan To smoke, pipe, etc. To sneeze, atsezadan To sew, kaştan To spend, kharjkardan To spoil, injur Or, kharaab kardan To stand, istadan To start, set out To steal, dosdidan To stop, transitive, negahdoshdan Or, moattal kardan To stop, intransitive, vaistadan To sweep, jarub kardan To swim, senokardan To take, bardoshdan Or, gereftan To take care, dekatkardan To talk, speak, harfzadan To tear, daridan To tell, relate, revoyatkardan To thank, tashakor kardan To think, fekrkardan Or, khialkardan To think, khialkardan To throw, andochdan To tie, bastan To touch, destzadan To travel, safar kardan To try, tajrobe kardan To turn, transitive, gardondan To turn, intransitive, gardidan To understand, fahmidan To use, estet mol kardan To wait, sabr kardan To walk, gardesh kardan To want, nadoshdan To warn, khabardadan To waste, transitive, zoyehkardan To watch, poidan To wear, puton, transitive, pushidan To wear, intransitive, davom kardan To weigh, transitive, keshidan Or, vaznkardan To weigh, transitive, vaznkardan To wipe, pokkardan To wish, khostan To work, karkardan To rap, pichandan To yaan, khamyaze keshidan End of Section 8 Recording by Nicholas James Bridgewater Recorded in Amman, Jordan Section 9 of Persian self-taught in Roman characters with English phonetic pronunciation by Sheikh Hassan This is a LibriVox recording. 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For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org Recording by Nicholas James Bridgewater Persian self-taught in Roman characters with English phonetic pronunciation by Sheikh Hassan Section 9 Adverbs, conjunctions, prepositions, etc. Zarf, harfaatf, zamir, faqire For grammar, see pages 63 to 64 About, nearly, tagriban About, nearly, tagriban Or, nazdik About, nearly, nazdik Above, bala Above, bala According to, banobe According to, banobe Or, nazarbe According to, nazarbe Across, azmiyon Across, azmiyon Or, saray Across, saray Or, rouye Rouye Across, rouye After, pas Pass, after, pas Or, bad Bad, after, bad Afterwards, pasazon Afterwards, pasazon Or, badazon Afterwards, badazon Again, dobore Again, dobore Against, barzid Against, barzid Or, barchelof Against, barchelof Ago, pish Ago, pish Almost, tagriban Almost, tagriban Already, hanouz Already, hanouz Also, ham Also, ham Or, hamchenin Also, hamchenin Although, agarche Although, agarche Altogether, quite All together, quite Or, kollan Altogether, quite Kollan Always, hamiche Hamiche Always, hamiche Among, miyon Miyon Among, miyon And, the The And, the Anybody, harkas Harkas Anybody, harkas Or, harke Anybody, harke Anything, harche Anything, harche Or, harchees Anything, harchees Anytime, harvakt Anytime, harvakt Anywhere, harja Anywhere, harja Or, harkoja Anywhere, harkoja Around, atrof Around, atrof Or, door Around, door Around, door Or, doro doro Around, doro doro As much as, an gadre An gadre As much as, an gadre At, dare Dare At, dare At last, ochar Ochar At last, ochar Or, aghebat Aghebat At last, aghebat Because, zira Zira Because, zira Or, chunke Chunke Because, chunke Before, pish Pish Before, pish Or, pishas Pishas Before, pishas Behind, post Post Behind, post Below, poin Poin Below, poin Beneath, poin Poin Beneath, poin Or, zeer Zeer Beneath, zeer Besides, joz Joz Besides, joz Or, magar Magar Besides, magar Or, gayraz Gayraz Besides, gayraz Between, meon Meon Between, meon But Ammar But Ammar By, bo Bo By, bo Certainly, albathe Albathe Certainly, albathe Or, motlag Motlag Besides, joz Joz Besides, joz Or, magar Magar Besides, magar Or, gayraz Gayraz Besides, gayraz Between, meon Meon Between, meon But Ammar But Ammar By, bo By, bo By, bo Certainly, albathe Albathe Certainly, albathe Or, motlag Motlag Certainly, motlag Daily, rousane Rousane Daily, rousane Or, yomiye Yomiye Daily, yomiye Down, zeer Zeer Down, zeer Or, poin Poin Down, poin Downstairs Poin Poin Downstairs Poin During, darasno Darasno During, darasno Or, darzarf Darzarf During, darzarf Early, zoed Zoed Early, zoed Either, or Yol, yol Yol, yol Either, or Yol, yol Especially, magsousan Magsousan Magsousan Especially, magsousan Even, agarche Agarche Even, agarche Or, hatol Hatol Even, hatol Everywhere Hamejo Hamejo Everywhere Hamejo Or, harjo Harjo Everywhere harjo Except Magar Except Magar Or, joes Joes Except Joes Far Far Far conjunction Ziro Far conjunction Ziro Or, chunke Chunke Far chunke Far preposition Baraye Baraye Far preposition Baraye From As From As From As How How How Or How How long How long How long How long How long How many Chand How many How often Chand bar How often Chand bar However Behar hall However Behar hall Immediately Foran Immediately Foran Zood Immediately Zood In Dar In Dar Or Tuye In Tuye Into Darmion Just Exactly Monand Just Or Mesl Just Exactly Mesl Nearly Taqriban Nearly Taqriban Neither Nor Neither Nor Hargez Hargez Never Hargez Or Heechvaqt Never Heechvaqt Next Digar Next Digar Or Oyande Next Oyande Notwithstanding Preposition Sarfinazar Notwithstanding Sarfinazar Notwithstanding Conjunction Notwithstanding Conjunction Now Aknoon Aknoon Aknoon Or Halaw Halaw Of belonging to Az Of belonging to Az Of Ezor fat E Of Ezor fat E Of course Albat te Of course Albat te Ofun Khayli Khayli Ofun Khayli On upon Rue On upon Rue Or Sare On upon Sare Only Tanha Tanha Opposite Ruberu Opposite Ruberu Or Yaw Or Yaw Over Bishaz Bishaz Over Bishaz Or Sare Sare Over Sare Over Ruye Over Ruye Perhaps Shoyad Shoyad Perhaps Shoyad Probably Shoyad Probably Shoyad Or Ehtemal Ehtemal Probably Ehtemal Quietly Ahestagi Quietly Or Arami Arami Quietly Arami Rather Somewhat Badri Rather Somewhat Kami Recently Mohakharan Mohakharan Recently Skersli Badoshwari Badoshwari Skersli Badoshwari Or Ba Zahmat Ba Zahmat Skersli Seldom Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga Or Kam Kam Seldom Kam Or No Der Seldom No Der Since Preposition As On Vact Since Preposition As On Vact Since Conjunction Chun Ke Chun Ke Slowly Ahestagi Ahestagi Slowly Ahestagi Or Yavoshaki Yavoshaki Slowly Yavoshaki So Thus Chenin Chenin So Thus Chenin Or Chenan Chenan So Thus Sometimes Ba Zee Vact Ba Zee Vact Sometimes Ba Zee Vact Or Ga Ga Sometimes Ga Somewhere Ba Zee Jow Ba Zee Jow Somewhere Ba Zee Jow Or Joi Joi Somewhere Joi Ba Joi Somewhere Ba Joi Soon Zood Soon Zood Still Yet Hanoos Still Yet Hanoos Than As As Than As That Conjunction Ke Ke That Conjunction Ke Then Pass Pass Then Pass Or Bad Bad Then Bad There An Jaw An Jaw There An Jaw Therefore Banabarin Therefore Banabarin Or Lehozo Therefore Lehozo Through Sartosar Through Sartosar Or To Aukhar To Aukhar Through To Aukhar Till Until To Till Until To Be To To Too Much Besyar Too Too Much Besyar Or Ziaud Ziaud Too Too Much Ziaud To As Well Ham To As Well Ham Or Hamchenin Hamchenin To As Well Hamchenin Towards Suye Towards Suye Or Samt Samt Towards Samt Or Rube Rube Towards Rube Under Zir Under Zir Unfortunately Bad Bachdane Bad Bachdane Unfortunately Bad Bachdane Unless Magar Unless Magar Or Ello Ello Up Upwards Bolo Up Upwards Upwards Saar Bolo Bolo Or Rue Rue Rue Usually Generally Audatan Usually Audatan Or Omuman Omuman Generally Omuman Well Adverb Chaili Well Adverb Chaili Or Bechubi Bechubi Well Adverb Bechubi When K When K Where Kojaal Where Kojaal Kojaal While Vakdike While Vakdike Why Chero Why Chero With Together Bow With Together Bow Or Hamro With Together Hamro Within Adverb Dar Tu Within Adverb Dar Tu Or Dochelan Dochelan Within Adverb Dochelan Yet, as yet, Adverb Hanus Yet, as yet, Adverb Hanus End of Section 9 Recording by Nicholas James Bridgewater Recorded in Amman Jordan Section 10 of Persian Self-Tought in Roman Characters with English Phonetic Pronunciation by Sheikh Hassan This is a LibriVox recording All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer please visit LibriVox.org Recording by Nicholas James Bridgewater Persian Self-Tought in Roman Characters with English Phonetic Pronunciation by Sheikh Hassan Section 10 Outline of Persian Grammar The Noun All nouns in Persian are of one gender They form their plural by adding On or Ha the former for persons the latter for things Examples Man Mard Mard Mard Plural Men Mardone Men Mardone Book Ketob Book Ketob Plural Ketob Ha Books Ketob Ha But Ha is now generally used for both classes The accusative is formed by adding Ra to the singular or plural Examples Pen Qalam Qalam Pen Pen accusative Qalamro Qalamro Pen accusative Qalamro Pens Qalamho Pens Qalamho Pens accusative Qalamhoro Pens accusative Qalamhoro This termination has also the force of the definite article Examples I saw the garden Baogro didam Baogro didam Baogro didam I saw the garden Baogro didam I saw a garden Baog didam Baog didam I saw a garden Baog didam Baog didam In the singular the indefinite article is indicated by the ending e pronounced e Examples A horse Asbi A horse Asbi A white horse Sefid Asbi Sefid Asbi A white horse But when the adjective follows the noun e is attached to it also Example A white horse Asbi sefid Asbi sefid A white horse Asbi sefid End of section 10 Recording by Nicholas James Bridgewater Recorded in Eman Jordan Section 11 Of Persian self-taught In Roman characters with English phonetic pronunciation by Sheikh Hassan This is a LibriVox recording All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain For more information or to volunteer Please visit LibriVox.org Recording by Nicholas James Bridgewater Persian self-taught In Roman characters with English phonetic pronunciation by Sheikh Hassan Section 11 The ez or fat denotes possession The ez or fat denotes possession The ez or fat signifies possession It is denoted by the sign Zir And is used in the following three ways One The genitive is formed By adding the ez or fat To the governing noun Which usually precedes the governed noun Examples The key Of the door Ke li de dar The key Of the door Ke li de dar The tree Of the date Der ach de chor mau Der ach de chor mau The tree of the date Der ach de chor mau But when the word ends in a vowel Or Vov semival It takes the form Ye with a zir Ye Examples The god of the world Chodoye jahan Chodoye jahan The god of the world Chodoye jahan The surface Of the sea Ruyedaryaw Ruyedaryaw The surface Of the sea Ruyedaryaw Two When several adjectives form attributes To the same noun They are connected by the ez or fat Or by the conjunction Va Examples A good red rosetree Der ach de gole sorche chubi Der ach de gole sorche chubi A good red rosetree Der ach de gole sorche chubi Der ach de gole sorche chubi A good red rosetree Der ach de gole sorche chubi Der ach de gole sorche chubi A good red rosetree Der ach de gole sorche chubi Three Personal pronouns are connected with nouns By the ez or fat Thus forming possessive pronouns Examples hand. My hand. Your foot. Your foot. Adjectives. Adjectives usually follow nouns and in this case I connected with them by the azor fat. Examples. The Arabic book. Kitab-e Arabi. Kitab-e Arabi. The Arabic book. Kitab-e Arabi. The English paper called Ghaz-e-Englishi. The English paper called Ghaz-e-Englishi. The termination raw for the accusative is added to the adjective only. Example. I bought an Arabic book. Kitab-e Arabi-raw Khair-e-dan. Kitab-e Arabi-raw Khair-e-dan. I bought an Arabic book. Kitab-e Arabi-raw Khair-e-dan. But if there are several adjectives raw is only added to the last. Example. I bought a large well-written Arabic book. Kitab-e bozorg-e khosh khat-e Arabi-raw Khair-e-dan. Kitab-e bozorg-e khosh khat-e Arabi-raw Khair-e-dan. I bought a large well-written Arabic book. Kitab-e bozorg-e khosh khat-e Arabi-raw Khair-e-dan. A few adjectives sometimes precede the noun to which is then generally added the indefinite article yeh. And the ezo fat is mostly omitted. Examples. A good man. Khub-mar-di. Khub-mar-di. A good man. Khub-mar-di. A bad town. Bad shah-ri. Bad shah-ri. A bad town. Bad shah-ri. Adjectives often precede nouns forming compounds. Example. Of bad temper. Bad kholk. Bad kholk. Of bad temper. Bad kholk. Of fine color. Khosh rang. Khosh rang. Of fine color. Khosh rang. The degrees of comparison are formed by adding the terminations tar for the comparative and tarin for the superlative. Examples. Laj-bozorg-bozorg-laj-bozorg. Laja-bozorg-tar-bozorg-tar. Laja-bozorg-tar. Largest-bozorg-tar-in. Bozorg-tar-in. Largest-bozorg-tar-in. Best-beh-tar-in. Best-beh-tar-in. Than is expressed by as. Example. Younger-than-all. Javon-tar-as-ham-ay. Javon-tar-as-ham-ay. Younger-than-all. Javon-tar-as-ham-ay. The superlative construction, as in English, is with the genitive. End of section 11. Recording by Nicholas James Bridgewater. Recorded in Amman, Jordan. Section 12. Of Persian self-taught in Roman characters with English phonetic pronunciation by Sheikh Hassan. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Nicholas James Bridgewater. Persian self-taught in Roman characters with English phonetic pronunciation by Sheikh Hassan. Section 12. Personal pronouns. I. Men. Men. I. Men. Thou. To. To. Thou. To. He, she, it. Oo. Oo. He, she, it. Oo. We. Maul. Maul. We. Maul. You. Shomal. Shomal. You. Shomal. They. Ishaan. Ishaan. They. Ishaan. Thou is used when speaking to inferiors in rank or age, otherwise Shomal as you in English. The personal pronouns are declined as nouns except that the accusative of man, I, is marrow instead of manro. Possessive pronouns. These are either the same as the personal pronouns or the following shorter forms can be used as also for the accusative of the personal pronouns. First person. My. Me. Am. Am. My. Me. Am. Second person. Thy. Thee. At. At. Thy. Thee. At. Third person. His. Hers. It's. Him. Ash. Ash. His. Hers. It's. Him. Ash. First person. Our. Us. Maan. Maan. Our. Us. Maan. Second person. Your. You. Tone. Tone. Your. You. Tone. Third person. Thee. Them. Shon. Shon. Thee. Them. Shon. Example. My. Hand. Dasty man. Dasty man. My. Hand. Dasty man. Or. Dastam. Dastam. My. Hand. Dastam. The short form of possessive pronoun added to the word preceding the verb has the force of the accusative of the corresponding personal pronoun. Examples. Let him go. Velashkhan. Velashkhan. Let him go. Velashkhan. Or. Oorah velkhan. Oorah velkhan. Let him go. Oorah velkhan. I see you. Mibi namat. Mibi namat. I see you. Mibi namat. Or. Total Mibi nam. Total Mibi nam. I see you. Total Mibi nam. The accusative of possessive pronouns is formed as in nouns by the addition of raw. Example. My. Hand. Dasty man. Raw. Dasty man. Raw. My. Hand. Dasty man. Raw. Or. Dastam. Raw. Dastam. Raw. My. Hand. Dastam. Raw. To form the plural, raw is added to the nouns. Example. My. Swords. Shamshir ha-yaman. Shamshir ha-yaman. My. Swords. Shamshir ha-yaman. Or. Shamshir ha-m. Shamshir ha-m. My. Swords. Shamshir ha-m. The possessive case is often denoted by maal. Property. Examples. This house is mine. Inkhane ma le manast. Inkhane ma le manast. This house is mine. Inkhane ma le manast. That garden is yours. On bargh ma le shomast. On bargh ma le shomast. That garden is yours. On bargh ma le shomast. The six reflexive pronouns are. Myself. Chodam. Chodam. Myself. Chodam. Thyself. Chodat. Chodat. Thyself. Chodat. Himself. Herself. Itself. Chodash. Chodash. Himself. Herself. Itself. Chodash. Ourselves. Chodam. Chodam. Ourselves. Chodam. Yourself. Chodat. Chodat. Yourselves. Chodat. Themself. Chodeshon. Chodeshon. Themselves. Chodeshon. Nota bene. Personal and possessive pronouns must be replaced by reflexive when they refer to the same subject. Examples I wash myself. Man chodamra mi shuyam. I saw my father. The following are demonstrative pronouns, declined as nouns. This. In. This. In. That. On. That. On. This same one. Hamin. This same one. Hamin. That same one. Hamon. Hamon. Such a one as this. Chonin. Such a one as this. Chonin. Hamchonin. Such a one as this. Hamchonin. Such a one as that. Chonon. Such a one as that. Chonon. Hamchonon. Hamchonon. one is that, hamchonon. So, such, hamchol, hamchol, so, such, hamchol. So much, chandin, chandin, so much, chandin. Or, chandon, chandon, so much, chandon. Accusative pronouns. Ke, who, that. Accusative. Ke, uroh. Che, which. Ke, uroh, oke, ash. Examples. The man whose head they had broken. Mard ke sarashroh shekaste buddand. Mard ke sarashroh shekaste buddand. The man whose head they had broken. Mard ke sarashroh shekaste buddand. The carriage, the wheel of which they made. Koleske ke charchashroh sohdand. Koleske ke charchashroh sohdand. The carriage, the wheel of which they made. Koleske ke charchashroh sohdand. The relative pronouns ke and che are often connected with the demonstrative pronouns. Examples. This one who has money. In ke pul dorad. In ke pul dorad. This one who has money. In ke pul dorad. That one who is poor. On ke faqirast. On ke faqirast. That one who is poor. On ke faqirast. When a noun is followed by a relative sentence defining it, a ye is added to the noun. Examples. The man who. Mard ke. Mard ke. The man who. Mard ke. The boy who. Accusative. Pesari rao ke. Pesari rao ke. The boy who. Accusative. Pesari rao ke. Interrogative pronouns. These are the same as the relative pronouns. Who. Ke. Ke. Who. Ke. What. Che. Che. What. Che. Examples. Who came. Ke omad. Ke omad. Who came. Ke omad. What did you eat. Che chordid. Che chordid. What did you eat. Che chordid. End of section 12. Recording by Nicholas James Bridgewater. Recorded in Amman, Jordan.


So, there is a very specific reason why right-wing political commentators are able to attract so many billionaires who are willing to invest and fund, you know, their effort to spread right-wing propaganda. It's because they help to prop up the system. There's a very significant reason why, you know, billionaires like Robert Mercer are not donating to the rational, national or secular talk or the humanist report. It's because we challenge the system and right-wingers are fundamentally opposed to any challenge of the system. They are about propping up the status quo. If you're a conservative, that's kind of something that is baked into the ideology, right? You don't want change. You want to make sure that things continue on the way that they are. And billionaires really need that. They need people like Ben Shapiro and Steven Crowder, who are bootlickers, by the way, to legitimize the system, to where whenever things get tough and we start to kind of look at capitalism and look at the root causes and talk about, you know, oligarchy and greed and the real sources of problems in this country, they need people like Ben Shapiro to tell you to look away. They need people like Steven Crowder to tell you that it's actually transgender people. They need people like Ann Coulter to tell you that it's not the capitalist. It's the immigrants from Latin America. They need that because so long as there are people there to prop up the system, then that helps to cultivate legitimacy for a system that is illegitimate, that is not working out for normal people, that is exploitative. Now, they oftentimes are called hacks by me, rightfully so, I think, because they do engage in a lot of team politics, you know, Republican versus Democrat. But at the end of the day, they will always serve their role as the bootlickers that they are of propping up the system. And there's evidence of that because lately we've been talking a lot about the wealth tax and billionaires because Michael Bloomberg just entered the race. Now Michael Bloomberg is, he's more of a centrist, but you know, generally speaking, he is identified as a left-wing billionaire because he is a Democrat and used to be a Republican, but he's a Democrat now. So once we start talking about billionaires, can you guess who's there to defend these billionaires even if they are incorrectly believed to be part of the left? Right-wingers. So I've got two clips I want to play for you that demonstrate that. So the first is from Stuart Varney, who scolds liberals and progressives who aren't too happy about the idea of Michael Bloomberg entering the 2020 race. Michael Bloomberg entered the 2020 race Friday. By Saturday morning, the Democrat civil war was in full swing. Bloomberg has widened the chasm between the socialists who now run the party and just about everyone else. The left is outraged at this. Billionaires? Screwing up an election that was supposed to put the workers front and centre? Oh. Bernie Sanders, well, Bernie is just plain angry. Watch this. What we need is a dynamic democracy, a democracy where all of us play a role in shaping public policy, not just a billionaire who decides that he wants to run for president of the United States because he's a billionaire. Let's be clear. Bernie's always angry. He would abolish billionaires. Now, now, he's got a $52 billion man coming right at him. Senator Warren, well, she responded to Bloomberg's run with, I'm going to call it theatrics. Watch this. And boy, there are some billionaires who don't like this. Ooh. I think I hurt someone's feelings. Mm. Yeah. You know, this is, this is sad. This is sad. So there are people who are saying, oh, that I'm just mean to the billionaires. Mean. Oh. Oh. I know. I know. I don't know how that plays with middle America, but clearly the party is split. One side demonises the rich. The other side says, leave them alone. You'll hurt the economy. The split gets worse. Bloomberg will not contest the early primaries. That means the other candidates will be forced to spend millions in Iowa, New Hampshire and elsewhere while Bloomberg sits on his billions. And then there's the debates. The next one is November the 20th. It is highly unlikely that Bloomberg will qualify to be on the stage. He'll be watching the other candidates tear each other apart from the sidelines. OK, Boomer. Stuart Barney, he is the most elitist person ever. He can just talk about something that's completely benign.  And I would think that he sounds elitist because it's just like the smug way that he says things. He's kind of like the right wing version of Bill Maher. Actually, Bill Maher is the right wing version of Bill Maher.  And what he did there was act outraged at the fact that the left isn't too happy about a billionaire like Michael Bloomberg jumping in the 2020 race. Now, why would we be happy? We believe in democracy, right? Does Stuart Barney believe in democracy? So why is it that someone who is wealthy is literally able to buy their way into a race just because they're wealthy? Like there's no qualification that makes Michael Bloomberg so special that he could enter at this late stage of the race and think that he has a shot. It's money. Nobody was thinking that Howard Schultz, you know, was so qualified because of the way that he built up Starbucks.   That's what people on the left are speaking out against. The mere fact that billionaires exist in and of itself is an issue. But when they start running for government, running to assume even more power, because remember in a capitalist system, wealth equals power, well, people calling that out, they're logical. They realize that if you truly want to live in a democracy, we can't have billionaires running. That really diminishes the value of our democracy.  That shows us how much further we have devolved into oligarchy in this country. So the fact that we're speaking out against that is rational, logical, and necessary. But Stuart Barney isn't the only one because Ben Shapiro over the Daily Wire also decided to scold us for speaking out against billionaires like Michael Bloomberg. Take a look. The Bernie Sanders attack on billionaires and the Elizabeth Warren attack on billionaires is cynical and disgusting.  It is. I'm sorry. Elizabeth Warren is worth 12 million dollars. And there she's like, these rich people, these rich people, they must be stopped.    Only I should. I've been useless my entire life.  So he got Bernie ripping into billionaires. And then he got Michael Tomaske over at New York Times saying, Bill Gates, I implore you to connect some dots. He says, the billionaire class has begun unloading on Elizabeth Warren. You see, it's a class now. It's a class. Now, just to recognize the fact, Bill Gates is basically a lifelong Democrat. Warren Buffett is a lifelong Democrat. A lot of these quote unquote billionaire class members are lifelong Democrats, people who have given tons of money to left leaning causes, but they're a class now. You see, this is pure Marxist speak, where you are judged by the basis of your income, by the basis of your wealth, not by what you think or what you do or how you vote or any of that sort of stuff. Like George Soros is a billionaire. George Soros gives a lot of money to exactly the kinds of people that Jamie Diamond doesn't like. So treating everybody as a class based on their income is really.  But when a robot like Ben Shapiro gets angry, he increases the tempo. He speaks faster, which is so weird.  So to criticize billionaires, according to him, that is disgusting. Why is that disgusting?  So to become a billionaire that really speaks to the moral character of any individual human being, you're just the bad person.  So the fact that there are people sleeping on the streets and struggling to put food on the table while billionaires exist, that's what I find disgusting.  There's a reason why billionaires pay the daily wire. It's because they need propagandists like him to prop up this failing capitalistic system. But you can only prop it up so long before it crashes you. People are waking up to the fact that capitalism is exploitative and it's not working. Now, apparently, Bernie Sanders is a welfare queen because he's been in public office and gets paid by the government. Like, I don't know why he thinks Bernie Sanders is a welfare queen.  Why does that make him a welfare queen? And the irony here is that capitalists are the true welfare queens. I mean, Walmart pays their workers such low wages that those wages literally have to be subsidized by the government. We bailed out the big banks after they crashed the economy. The real welfare queens are the capitalists. Ben Shapiro won't tell you that. Ben Shapiro won't tell you about how the capitalists will privatize the profits but socialize the losses. That's our system. We have a system of capitalism where we pump billions of dollars into specific industries just so they won't collapse. I mean, look at our health care industry. The Affordable Care Act was premised on the idea that you have to buy private insurance and the government pumps billions of dollars into these private plants to make sure that they're cheaper because otherwise they would be too expensive.   So what Ben Shapiro needs to do is be honest. He doesn't hate socialism. He loves socialism, but socialism for the rich. Socialism for large multinational corporations, not socialism for normal people. He also says Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are lifelong Democrats. And we don't discriminate. We love them just as much. And yes, we want to confiscate their wealth, excuse me, our wealth that they stole just as much as we want to take away Robert Mercer's Mercer's wealth or the Koch brothers wealth or the Koch brother wealth because one of them is dead now.  Right. But that's a problem. Money and politics should not be what facilitates change. It should be what people want. But that's not the way our system operates, because a 2014 Princeton University study by Drs. Gillens and Page found that political outcomes are not determined by normal people. We have a statistically insignificant impact on policy outcomes, whereas special interests and elites, they actually do influence policy. So we don't care if a billionaire is supposedly left wing or right wing. This isn't about politics. This is about class and class solidarity. There's certainly class solidarity among the wealthy. So it's time that normal people recognize their class and have a little bit of class consciousness, you know, in spite of efforts by propagandists like Ben Shapiro to dissuade you from realizing the reality of class warfare in this country.  That is the whole point of class.  I mean, the fact that people take him seriously, it just it's puzzling to me. This is someone who doesn't really know what he's talking about.   Ben Shapiro, like Stuart Varney, these are paid propagandists. One is ostensibly independent. And the other is working for Fox News, which is the propaganda arm of the Republican Party. Look, the point is bootlickers like Stuart Varney and Ben Shapiro are showing their cards. This isn't so much about Democrats versus Republicans to them in spite of what they say. This is about protecting elites. They don't want you to question the system. They don't want you to look to billionaires and their hoarding of wealth and the way that they've rigged the economy and shifted the tax burden away from them and onto you and I. They don't want you to look at that. They don't want you to think it's the billionaires. Again, they want you to think it's not enough deregulation or it's immigrants. Whatever the scapegoat is, they don't want you to look at what really is the issue in America. It's capitalism. That's the root cause of every issue in this country. It is the lowest common denominator, that desire to increase shareholder value and maximize profits that corrupts every industry you could think of education. Look at what charter schools have done. Healthcare, look at what the for-profit insurance companies have done. Hell, even democracy has become a money making venture.  They don't want you to acknowledge that. But unfortunately for them, people are waking up and now 70 percent of millennials are socialists. So bad news for them. A new generation will soon assume power and we're not going to be in favor of the status quo as the right wing bootlickers are now. We are actually going to change the system because we don't have a choice. The system doesn't work. I would say it's broken, but it's functioning exactly as you'd expect a capitalist system to function. And now we are in late stage capitalism. So people are becoming privy to the fact that capitalism doesn't work. So we can do better.


Hei, dywedais i'r lleidio. Gweinwch. I have given this presentation at WordCamp Norway and it ended up kind of forming a part of a discussion. So we are going to have plenty of time for Q&As at the end of the, all of the sessions today, so if we can get a good discussion going, that would be great. So wordpress is licensed under the GPL licence. These are the freedoms that you are granted as an end user and a developer of wordpress. We don't need to read the whole lot, we can cut it down a little bit, so as an end user and as a developer, you have the freedom to run the program, you have access to the source code and you have the freedom to change the source code, you have the freedom to redistribute copies of the original program and you have the freedom to distribute copies of your modified version of that program. We can cut that down a little bit further. You have access to the source code, freedom to modify it and freedom to distribute your changes. And I like to cut that down even further, make it better and give it back, so this has been my mantra for a while and I like to try and apply this mantra to not just the software that I write and develop but to other parts of my life. There's a great book published by MIT called Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software and there's a prefix in the book which covers this topic. It talks about the ways that you can apply the philosophies of open source to not only software, not only open source software but to many areas of your life. And it's also touched on in this book called The Cathedral and the Bazaar and anyone who is involved with open source at all, this is a must read by Eric Raymond who was involved in Linux in its early days. So let's take a look at an example. This guy is Rodney Mullan, he's a skater and he was a pioneer of skating back in the 70s. And at first thought you might not think that open source could apply to skating but Rodney gave a really, really interesting talk at TEDx a few years ago where he touched on the topic of skaters who go to a skate park and they practice their tricks and they get good at their tricks and they go to a competition and they win a competition with their tricks. But the next thing they do is they go back to the skate park and they go back and see their friends and they say, hey, look at this cool trick that I've invented and look at this cool trick that just won me a trophy at Games and I'm going to show you how to do it. And instead of keeping that knowledge to themselves, they share it amongst the skating community and people practice it and they get better at it and then they share those improvements with other people in the skating community and it's a cyclical process. People don't tend to keep skating tricks to themselves because you can easily find out how it's done by watching someone do it. So the whole process of taking something, making it better and then giving it back to the community which effectively enabled you to do it in the first place is quite a formative part of skating as it turns out. You should definitely go and check out Rodney Mullan's talk on TEDx. But it applies to many areas as well. So recipes are a great example. Recipes tend to get handed down throughout generations of families.  You'll make the recipe and because you know a bit better than your mum does, you'll make it a little bit better. You'll make an improvement and quite often if you're brave, you can then go back to your mum and say, hey mum, I made your recipe just a little bit better. What do you think of it? Or you'll pass it on to other family members. Yeah, you've got to be brave. Or you'll pass it on to other family members or you'll pass it down through to your children or other members of your family. And it also applies to martial arts. Obviously martial arts are an old process and an old art. So the whole education, the whole training process of martial arts is really similar to the open source process of taking something, getting good at it, going off and practicing it, making it better and then going back to your peers and going back to your people who you are involved with in the same process and saying, hey, I've made this better. How about it? Is this something we can iterate on and something we can get better at? And of course with martial arts over thousands of years this process has been refined. Open Street Map is a bit more of a modern example of this process. For those of you who don't know, Open Street Map is a free and open source and community driven alternative to commercial services such as Google Maps. And all of the data that populates Open Street Map is community generated. But if you go on to Open Street Map and you're looking at some streets around where you live and you find a mistake, you can go on Open Street Map and you can click edit and you can move a pointer around, you can fix the name of the street and you can give your improvements to Open Street Map back to the community and everyone will benefit from it. And of course the scientific community, this is a great example of this iterative improvement process. You would have a hard time publishing a scientific paper without having peer review these days. It's a whole process of saying, you know, I've got some ideas, it might not be fully formed, but I would like feedback on it. I would like people to iterate on it and improve it and they do that and they give it back because that's the whole foundation of the scientific community. And then on a bit of a larger scale, evolution in general. Where do we start with that? You give your genes to your children, they make them a little bit better and they can't give them back of course, but they can pass them on to younger generations. So maybe, who knows, maybe evolution, maybe open source is rooted in all of us through our genes and through evolution. So that's about it, that's all I've got. Make it better, give it back, this is my mantra. Thanks. Next, Rachel McCollin about teaching WordPress to kids and what it taught her. Good morning everybody. My name is Rachel McCollin, I'm a WordPress developer and writer from Birmingham where today the sun is shining and if you were in room 3 yesterday afternoon you'll know why I said that. And I'm going to talk to you today about my experiences teaching my code club to create their own sites. So I run a code club at my local school which happens to be my kids school. I've been running it for nearly two years now and it's part of a national organisation called code club, unsurprisingly. Can I just ask for a show of hands, anybody who's heard of code club? So there's quite a few people. Anybody here run their own code club? Do. Hopefully I'll convince some more of you to get involved by the end of this talk. Code club is a voluntary organisation that teams up people with technical skills, volunteers with schools or libraries or community centres or anywhere where they want to run a code club for kids to learn. And they start off with scratch, which is a great tool that helps kids understand how code works without having to worry about the syntax and so forth. So you don't get any white screen of death, any of that thing. And my kids have been spending some time on scratch, they've been doing a bit of HTML and CSS, they've been doing some Python. They created loads of really, really fab projects. But they were getting a bit frustrated particularly with the HTML and CSS because when you're starting out it's a bit dull, you're doing. And when you're 11 you want to create flashy, whizzy things. So I said to them, how do you fancy all having your own blogs? And they were like, yeah, we'd love a blog. So I set them up with a multi-site installation. Multi-site, yes. And this is a screenshot, I talk of it recently. You can see I haven't really been maintaining it very well. There's a few updates available. But this was about a term ago and we spent half a term working on this. So I created user accounts for each of them and I set up a number of sites, just empty sites for them. Installed some themes and some plug-ins as relevant to them. And just sort of let them get on with it really. So I found some themes that they could customise, had lots of customisation options which they really liked. And it was quite interesting to see the different directions that they all went in. But the thing I really found useful was because the way that kids learn, the best thing to do is to just give them something and let them play with it and work it out for themselves rather than try and teach them up front and tell them what to do first. So I did that. I just basically gave them WordPress, moved around the room and gave them tips and answer questions and so forth, but let them discover it for themselves. There were some aspects of WordPress they just couldn't do that with. Some aspects they found really intuitive, the UX was very friendly for them and they got on great with it. But there were some aspects that were a bit more tricky. So as somebody who's been using WordPress for years and years, it was really eye-opening to me to see people who'd never seen WordPress before and how they responded to it. So I'm just going to quickly show you what they did with WordPress. Here we have Yolo Marvel Heroes. So they really enjoyed finding lots of photos and adding them to their sites. I have no idea where they came up with the idea of a blog about mustaches. This was three girls who invented this Princess Mustache character and are still blogging about mustaches. And they're making up all sorts of random rubbish about mustaches. And then we had our mystery blog. Now the two girls who run this blog said to me before I came here today, whatever you do, miss, do not tell them who we are because it's a mystery blog. And the whole point is that their classmates are supposed to guess who wrote which posts. So I've promised them, I said, I won't say who you are. And besides, nobody at work camp London is really going to know who you are anyway. So they are sort of, does anybody ever feel that Mondays are unlucky and things like that? I mean, sometimes you read this and think, oh, I should be telling the parents what they're writing. But it's very entertaining to see what they come up with. And then here, I'm quite, on one hand I'm quite proud of this one because my son's behind this and he's got four WordPress sites. But on the other, I'm quite ashamed of his design skills. He's definitely a geek. But this site was interesting because there were three of them working on it and they had very different ideas about how to customise it. And they kept going in and undoing each other's work. And then at one point somebody deleted somebody else's posts. So I had to change permissions. Oh, I had to basically tell them that they can and can't do this. And in the end I had to split one group in two because they just kept changing each other's work. And then finally we had this quiz site. A quiz all about football teams. So I installed a quiz plug-in and they created this quiz and then got the other kids in the group to do it. So that was really good fun for them. So on a more serious note, some of the things that I learnt from watching them do this, the good, they loved creating the sites, adding content to it. They found that all really straightforward, had no problem with adding images, links and so forth. None of them asked me how to do that. They just got on and did it. They really liked the customiser. The customiser, I showed them that there were often two ways to do something. You go through the widget screen or go through the customiser. For example, they all went for the customiser because it was very visual. It was immediate. They could see what was happening. They liked that. And the other thing that was interesting in the way that kids do, they find their own work around. So those things they couldn't work out, they found some sort of solution. Now, I looked at some of those solutions and thought, that's a bit of a messy way to do it, but it worked for them. And they're not so good. Posts and pages, they could not understand the difference between posts and pages. These kids had never blogged in their lives. They had no idea. When I tried to explain to them that a post was for their posts and that it would be constantly updated and that they had a page that would show the loop and the feed of all the posts. To them, a web page is a web page. And then I said to them, well, on your pages, you want to put things like about you. And then they just started doing it, put loads of content in the wrong post type, as it were, and ended up when they then came to look at categories because they couldn't categorise their pages. They had to then create posts and copy and paste what they'd done in the pages. But they didn't care. This is the thing with kids. They could just like, oh, I did it wrong. Oh, I'll redo it. I'll just get on with it and do it. Whereas I'd have been sitting there going, I messed up here and I've been getting really annoyed. I just got on with it. They struggled with the difference between categories and tags. This may have been because my explanation of it to them wasn't really very good. And none of them really used tags in the end. They all used categories. And the main reason they used categories was for navigation when they discovered that they could add categories to the menus. That was when posts really made sense to them when they're linked with categories. And creating menus was something they didn't find very intuitive. Even through the customiser, I had to help quite a few of them create menus. So when we spent a couple of weeks creating all the content, doing all the customisation and design, and then when we got on to looking at structure and navigation, they did need quite a bit more input from me. Although I will say I did stand up and give them a demo and they all ignored it. They all just carried on doing what they were doing. And then afterwards they said, Miss, how'd you do this? I just demonstrated that. I'll have to do it again with you. But all in all it was really interesting experience seeing how young people who've never even heard of WordPress in many cases and who've never had their own website or blog got to grips with it and they really quickly created. I think we spent about four hours in total working on it. But some of them are still working on their sites and their blogs and adding posts. Occasionally when they have a spare few minutes in co-club, working on Python for example, if they finish a project in one session, they'll just go back to their blog and have a bit of a tinker and add some more content. So it's really encouraging to see that they like it so much. So I would finish by saying teaching WordPress to kids is great fun. If you're at all interested in running your own co-club, please look at the codeclub.org website or come and talk to me afterwards and I can tell you all about it. Or alternatively if you know some kids, if you've got kids yourself or nieces or nephews or kids of friends, it's a really good way to get them to introduce them to the internet and to creating their own thing online and they love that. So thank you for your time. Thank you Rachel. Next. Probably the tallest person in the WordPress community. Taco Verdon Scott. That's probably Remkes by the way. Taco Verdon Scott. You've been practicing. No problem. All right. So in 2013, I joined Yoast. I did not have a lot of WordPress experience and I thought I could be a developer. So did Yoast back then. And on my very first day, he told me I would be going to something called a word camp. Word camp Europe. And I did. And I attended some sessions. In fact I was a really nice guy and I attended pretty much all of them. And I felt out of place. I wasn't that awesome rock star developer that all the others were. And there were like 900 of them. And it was quite a bit overwhelming. So I just sat in all the talks and I tried to remember as much as I could feeling my own little self. And then by the end of the day we, because Twitter, ended up in a bar in Leiden. And at some point I had the courage to tell one of the people there that I felt misplaced. And that guy happened to be Jeremy Felt. And Jeremy said, you know what? All you have to do to be part of the WordPress community is to show up. Well, I was there. So I was now part of the community, he said. I didn't quite believe him. So he said, wait, I'll introduce you to some people. That worked. I had an amazing night when we got thrown out of the pub at 4am in the morning. I made a lot of new friends. Some things happened.  But it was great fun. So wordcams aren't that scary even if it's the first time you probably know by now because you were at the after party last night, weren't you? Most of you, good. So partying, it's part of WordPress. It's giving back, you know. But there's more. There's not just wordcams. There's also local WordPress meetups. And local meetups are pretty much wordcams but then really small. They are like, you know, a couple of people, some are slightly bigger. But usually a couple of people, one or two presentations or, you know, a simple subject and you get to meet the people around you. And although going to wordcams is really a good thing, especially for the parties, your local meetup is way easier to reach. I mean, if I look at the distance from my house to my local meetup, you can't even see the line in Google Maps because it's so close. Those wordcams, they're quite a bit further away. So you might go to your local meetup to meet local WordPress people to share your knowledge, especially if you've been at a wordcamp, you learn like a lot of new things probably. And you can bring it back to your own community and help your own community improve. And next time, drag them to wordcamp. So there's another advantage. Last week I was in Turin for a wordcamp and there was a really inspiring talk about SEO. So I had to attend, even though I do not speak a single word Italian. At some point, one of the people there sent me a message on Twitter and this kind of explains why a local meetup might benefit you as well. I had no clue what was going on. So yeah, thanks Luca for this. But your local meetup has more benefits. You might meet your new colleagues, you might meet new people. It's just amazing. But there still are cities in the world that do not have a local meetup. There are, really. So I'd like to quote a couple of famous people in different communities. For example, Cal Evans, who's really big with his Nomad PHP and in the PHP community. He says, if you look around you and you can find a leader of your local user group, you're it. We have another famous person. He's the main organizer of PHP Benelux and he says, if there is no local group, no local user group, start one. So of course I want to be in the list of famous people and I add my own quote. Especially for you, if there is no WordPress meetup, you are the one to organize it. And it's easy. What you have to do is pick a name for your meetup. Well, I'll help you a bit. Your WordPress meetup is going to be called WordPress meetup, name of your city. I work at Joe's, we do SEO, this helps, trust me. So, what you need is a date and I'll help you again because finding a date, you know, you need someone to help you stick to it. Date, 27th of April this year. John knows because I tricked him into organizing a meetup in Norwich last week. So, hands, who of you lives in a town or a city without a WordPress meetup? That's quite a few. The gentleman in front here, what's your name? Yeah, there's no local meetup, yeah? Yeah? Scott, and where are you from? Cardiff, and there's no local meetup in Cardiff. There is now because you are organizing a local meetup on the 27th of April. Everyone tweeted. Oh, I skipped my last point because what you have to do is announce it publicly. I just did that for you, it will be on WordPress.tv. So, there's also a couple of things that you should never do when you organize a meetup. It's easy, you can remember those.  Find another venue, find a bar, find a friend's place, don't trash your own. Find a way to keep your meetup going, but do not cancel it. If you had a speaker and last minute your speaker says, hey, I cannot make it. What you do not do is cancel your meetup. Just find another subject to talk about or just have a beer in the bar. You know, you'll be fine. It might be that you're organizing your first meetup and that you do not have enough friends so you're there on your own. No one else repeat what you should never do. If you cancel your meetup, thank you very much. Even if no one else repeat for your meetup, you're going to be there at the set time and date because what if someone does show up without Irish repeating and you're not there? They will never come back.  It's that easy. So there's a few to-dos, especially for Scott because he's now a meetup organizer. You need to have a venue. That can be a pub, that can be a company, maybe your own company, your friend's place. Find a venue and let people know it's there.  So use Twitter, use Facebook, use LinkedIn, use anything possible, wordpress.tv, to announce your meetup and make sure that you invite people. And then, fun thing, have your meetup, make it a success. That's it. But what to do at a meetup? Because having a speaker may not always be possible if you live in a really small town without so many wordpress people around that have the confidence to get on stage. There are other things you can do. Except for your speaker, you can also do a contributing evening or a day or a weekend, whatever you like. But just an evening, introducing people to wordpress, let them work on core, let them work on anything related. Or give back to the community. You can just have a drink, meet people, you might meet new colleagues, you might meet new business partners, just having fun. And of course, there's a very important thing you can do and that is translate wordpress into your own language. I didn't forget it this time, Petja. And it's easy if you're not going to do a meetup on the 27th of April, like Scott is, you might join the wordpress translation day and you can find more info on that on wptranslationday.org and then help us translate wordpress into, well, any language. And if you speak anything other than American English you can contribute. So don't think you're excused because you're British, you're not. All right. That's it. Things you can do for your meetup. Organise your local meetup. If you have any questions, just find me. Fantastic. Thanks, Taco. And please, everyone in this room, just tweet the 27th of April, hashtag WP Cardiff. Scott is going to organise the meetup. Tweet, tweet. We'll retweet. We have, we have five minutes for questions to Taco or John or Rachel. So five minutes means probably two or three a maximum. Petia. I have a question for John. Have you found anything other than wordpress that you can implement the whole open source in your daily life? Of me personally? Yeah, you personally. Outside of software development. So I suppose I found a few other open source projects which I contribute a little bit towards like jQuery and a few other projects. So outside of my life, yeah. I suppose the primary one for me is this is going to be a bit of a strange one. So I used, when I was a youngster I used to race carts and I, as a youngster I was just kind of dropped into a go cart and gave a kickstart and that was it and I had to learn as I went. And I've got a few young cousins who wanted to get into carting so I passed that knowledge of carting onto them and I ended up helping them out to learn the racing line on the track and things like that. So it's quite a vague connection and quite often you'll struggle to find the vague connection between making improvements and the philosophies of open source. But it's also turned out that the guy who owned the track where I used to race wasn't actually any good at racing carts himself. So he came along one day and watched me showing these kids how to ride carts and he picked up a few tips from me. So that's a little bit that I gave back to the guy who put me in a cart and just gave me that kickstart all those years ago. That's about all I've got, yeah. Fantastic. Are there questions? Hi, a question to Rachel. How old are the kids you're teaching WordPress and how much you have introduction into WordPress? You just say, here's a website just started or do you explain a few hours or days before they start? That's a very good question because I should have said that in my talk. They're all aged 10 and 11 so they're years 5 and 6, the last two years of primary school. In terms of introduction, I... a couple of minutes. Yeah, I... I learned from experience of doing scratch with them which was the first thing we did that having spent the first session talking to them about lots of concepts about code and the internet and all sorts of things and having them all just sitting on their phones reading their books, ignoring me. What they wanted to do was just do it. So I set them up with WordPress, told them their login and just let them get on with it. Hi Rachel, thanks for your talk. Most of what you said I found applies to adults that I work with and teaching them how to use WordPress and those same concepts of pages and posts and categories and tags. I'm just wondering, was there things that you learned from the kids that you bring into your own work or how you teach to adults? Was there learnings from teaching the kids that you could kind of apply in other places? Yeah, that's a really good question because I do sometimes have to teach clients how to use WordPress once I've set up a site for them and it does work quite differently because they want some context and they want an introduction, what you asked about I normally spend a bit of time with clients first explaining to them what WordPress is and explaining to them what the structure of their site is because often they've got customisation and then I sit down with them but I think the thing that they have in common is that with any learner the best way to learn is through doing and so the kids, that happened very quickly and that was what they did immediately but with adults as well if you just give them a demo and don't let them do it themselves they won't remember it. I just want to note, there's one thing I give to clients was WordPress 101 I don't know if anyone uses it but it's a plugin that has all the tutorial videos so they can watch the videos in the back end and it's just for all the basic concepts so that's nice. I also, when I've created a site for a client that's quite customised I do a little video for them myself as well and I find, although up front you think it's quite a bit of work doing a video I'm actually set up for screencasting because it's part of my job but I find that spending an hour putting together a five minute video which is what it does take to put together a five minute video for a client will save you a lot of support work down the road. We probably have time for one more question I've got one. Taco Wins, what meet-up are you organising at the end of April? Well, not at the end of April because we have a regular schedule every three months so the next one is going to be the 8th of June and you're most welcome. Of course we're doing the translation day, yeah. Cool, awesome. Thank you Taco, John and Rachel.


Hey there friends, how's it going? My name is Kevin and today we're playing Lakeview Valley.  I mean, the name is similar, it's in a valley. Oh my god, he looks terrifying. Sex, no, that won't be happening. A nice mullet would suit him and that goofy little mustache. He looks like a stereotypical cartoon villain. Okay, fine. He's in escape convict apparently. Alright, his name is Murderer. I just like being upfront with people, you know? Speaking of being upfront, sorry to interrupt you there past Kevin, but I just wanted to quickly let you know I'll be doing a stream with the folks over at Two Point Hospital on their stream channel, the link will be in the description. That'll be tomorrow, Tuesday the 25th, 4pm GMT, up until 8pm GMT, so if you want to come by we're doing some fun things over there. But yeah, other than that, I'll just let you watch the video, sorry for interrupting, back to you past Kevin and Murderer, of course.  Why would they even allow him into the valley? You okay back there? You haven't said a word, this whole time we've been driving, I'd be so pissed if the bus driver said that to me. It's like, that's why I didn't take an Uber, I don't want to interact with anyone. Trouble with love maybe? Oh yeah, this is the part I just jump off the bus.  Jesus Christ, I think we crashed. There's tons of blood all over the place. This is why the bus driver shouldn't be making conversation. I still remember to thank the bus driver though, please. Okay, we're off to a fantastic start. Is this a hammer? I have the hammer. Oh god, he's fighting back. No, hold on.  I didn't expect this, I just wanted to knock him out. Dude, you've already killed one person today. How are you gonna explain this with self-defense? It's not gonna work. I keep fecking missing him. Whoever's in that tree, can you help me out? Oh, welcome to Lakeview Valley. I don't know if they're gonna welcome me when there's this trail of blood behind me. Like they're gonna blame me for the other Murderer now too. Oh no, oh no, he's dying, he's dying but he's running away. Come back. Okay, I think I hit him again before we made it to the next screen. Continue, restart. You know what? I think I'll restart that day if that's possible. Oh, Jesus, that went bad. Look, if you don't want me to murder someone, don't leave a hammer just on the floor. I still want to murder him though.  Okay, I got two solid hits there. There's another attack though that like slows down. I don't know what it does. Like what is happening? Am I dead? I think I'm rolling away. He's looking around like, oh, how do I explain this?  Alright, I'm just gonna walk away. Not because I want the bus driver to live, but just because I don't want to make the entire video about beating up a bus driver. Oh, this old lady should do. All this resident here. Surely she'll be easy for me to take then.  Yeah, she's just running away immediately. Okay, please don't get help. How many times do I have to hit her? How weak is my guy?  I knew you were in trouble.  Okay, this was a mistake. I'm dead. Okay, let's try not murdering immediately this time. Look at her, she's just going back to the fountain.  Okay, I just looked up some weapons. The sword is found in the cabin in the middle of the lake. Let's go find that. You stop right there. I didn't actually do anything this time. You must be the new owner of that house up north. Glad to finally meet you. Okay, this interaction is going a lot better. Oh, is that my key? Just head north of the lake until you find a giant gate. You can't miss it. I'll be seeing you. Okay, good. That means the lake is up this way and I can go get my sword. Okay, this is a problem. Why is there a cow blocking the path? I appreciate the cones being put down. Okay, they can't seem to move the cow. I'll try and help them with that later. Where is the lake? Is this the lake? Is that my house? I heard something when I went past there. Okay, probably just the wind. Great, I've become a Skyrim guard. Oh, a map. Thank God I might be able to actually find my way around. I am here. My house should be up here then around all these flies, I guess. And that's the island I need to get to, but I don't know how to get to that. Okay, I thought he was going to stop me or something. He looks like he's ready for a Pokemon battle. Private property, go away. Oh, no. Oh, no, he's got a shotgun. I don't want to fight this guy. I'm out of here. I'm leaving. I'll deal with you another time. I want to kill everyone in the town. That is my goal. But I got to start with the weak. Oh, he can swim? No, he can't swim. He can just walk on the lake bed. This doesn't seem like a good idea, but I really want that sword.   Okay, I think I'm drowning. I don't know what to do.  How do I get up onto the little island? Fexic, I'm dead. There's got to be a way to this island. Is this my house? Oh my God, it's huge. I'm so lucky. Maybe not super lucky too early.  Why are these creeps hanging out in trees? Hello. I'm telling me to go into the lake. I have a bad history with the lake. Okay. I scarecrows talking to me, I think. Okay, I probably shouldn't attack it. It's probably going to show up in the middle of the night or something. It looks so empty, even though it looks big enough to fit a villager in. It seems to be open at midnight, and I think it's hungry. What are you talking about? Like, I actually want to know. It would be nice to know where I can dump a body. Maybe it's the thing in the tree? I don't know.  A little motorbike for sale. Can I buy that? 200 in cash. Do I have enough? Yes, I don't even know if I have enough.  I mean, if I killed him, I could just take it. Is there anyone else home? Doesn't look like it. Yeah, it looks like it's pretty abandoned. I think this might be my chance to kill. I hope he fights back, though. Like, I usually don't want them to, but if he runs, it seems to be hard to kill in this game.  He is fighting back. Come over here. Come over here. He's coming too close to me. Oh, no. Oh, no. His wife is home or something. It's just boys playing in the air. Boys will be boys and all that. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Don't get the sheriff. Don't get the sheriff. His wife just walked by.  No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. Oh, for fuck's sake, he's going to get away, isn't he? I need a better weapon. Oh, wait, he bled out. Okay, well, that's probably a good thing. Um, what do I do now? I'm pulling him. He seems to be cooperating. Can I just dump him in the lake? Come on in, buddy. Okay, he's gone. I should probably wash off, shouldn't I? Oh, wait, I think I'm wounded.  I'm just out for a swim to ignore me. I'm too obviously a villain. It couldn't be me. Like, it's always someone you wouldn't think of, you know? It's never the most likely suspect, is it? Oh my God, I'm bleeding so bad. I hope there are no sharks in this lake. She's just watching me. Should I leave? I'm gonna leave.  I'm gonna have to get a better weapon because I can't get past the first day without it. Okay, there's a knife found on the top of the rock shelf in the woods. Enter the woods from the north. There are many snakes. Oh, for fuck's sake. Why do I have to earn things? Why can't it just be handed to me?  I think this person may have been dead before they got hit by the bus. Okay, I'm carrying the body away. I don't know if I should be doing this.  Don't trust the town folk. I don't trust them anyway. That's why I was murdering them. Yeah, I have a feeling she was murdered before she got hit by the bus. That's my thinking anyway. But that's none of my business. I'm just a murderer after all. What would I know? Oh, football. Yeah. Oh wait, he's in there too. I'll float too, I bet. Did you know serial killers usually start out by practicing on little animals? Think about that. What's that supposed to mean? This woman is looking for a cat. Is he telling me to murder the cat? I just want a good weapon. Like for self-defense and also murdering people. Who owns this house? Let me in. We don't socialize when I'm popular people.  That is, if I can ever get this murdering thing down, it seems pretty difficult.  Oh my God, I'm gonna die, aren't I?  Okay, this is definitely where I should be, but also definitely where I shouldn't be. I found the knife. Okay, can you stop? Can you just- Could you just stop for just a second? Ah, for fuck's sake. Okay, I've got the knife. I don't know why I'm going the other way because it'll draw even more snakes on me. I'm never gonna make it back to the hospital. Stop it, please. Just give me a chance. The game is loading. Stop hitting me. Run to the hospital. Run to the hospital. Oh, get him instead. Jesus Christ, it has an out for me. This doesn't look good. This doesn't look good. This doesn't look good. But I'm not bleeding as much as I was earlier and I lasted like surprisingly long last time. Oh no, now I'm bleeding a lot.  Okay, I'm almost there. That is the hospital. Yeah, treat me. Yes. Oof, I feel much better now. Okay, I need to go rest in my house because I cannot do that again. That was too stressful. And then I can cause some mischief tomorrow. Are you strong enough to get an apple from the tree? I'll make sure to tell everyone how strong you are. Oh God, I gotta do it. I gotta impress this kid. Okay, I don't think this little bottom knife is gonna do it. Sorry, little Billy. Jesus Christ, I tried to sleep and this guy came into my house.  Trust the frog. There's still time for a sleep tight murderer.  Just saying my name. I need that clarified.  I wasn't expecting that. Ah, well, better sleep soundly. I've got a lot of murdering to do tomorrow.  Goddamn Reggie, this is a real mess. Oh, it's from the bus. Oh yeah, I forgot. I moved the body up there. Who did he say he was talking to? Oh yes, murderer. It's like, hmm, might just be Sheriff's intuition, but I've got a hunch. Hmm, I wonder if our plan is already ruined. Oh, fuck, what are they up to?  Okay, thanks. I think the sheriff investigates every night, so the bodies have to be hidden. Morning murderer slept well like a baby. I'll get out of your hair now. Is that a balding joke? All right, I believe the game is saved now.  Well, this is just terribly unpleasant, isn't it? All right. Well, I want to go try and steal that motorbike. Okay, that was easy. It's the noisiest getaway vehicle ever, but it's mine now. Can I hide it behind the house? Oh, that fell off. Okay, you know what? It'll be fine up there. They won't see it. Oh, for fuck's sake, the cow's in the way. Can I get around?  Hopefully they'll just move the cow now that it's dead. I'm sure there was another way of doing that, but oh well, we'll never know. Hey kid, how's your day going? He's a big old smile. He's totally over that murder already. Choose your fighter. I didn't really want to play. This one kind of looks like me. I don't know how to play. I don't think he does either. I have no idea how to play that game much like most games that I play. That's for all the snakes where you can see all my blood all over the place. Oh, I'm digging up graves. Yes, I'm finding riches. Okay, well that was fun, but I can't carry both things, so I'm just going to wander off with my knife now. Oh my God, who was this? This seems like a perfect opportunity for a murder. Hey there, stranger. My name is Matthew, but you probably already knew that. I'm not exactly a nobody. You're out here sunbathing in a full clothing out in the woods. Ooh, I'm really sweaty. I just want to get out of these clothes. They're so limiting. Will you consent to intercourse with Matthew? No. He's like... Yeah, I was just joking. I will consent to killing him though. No, don't hit me back. No, no, no, no, no. This is bad. You don't want to hit me. I know a cool dead end over here.  Oh, he's dead. Okay, great. Oh, but I'm bleeding. All right, leave the knife here. I'll be back. I got to go get cleaned up. Don't die for once.  There's just pools of blood leading to all of my crimes. Well, to be fair, my first one was just a crime against snakes. That was a bit of a hate crime, but I don't think the people care about that. I don't know if all this running is good for me. Body found. Shit. And my knife is right there with it. He's like, what seems to be the problem is blood pours from me. All right, back to the forest I go. I don't know if I should return to the scene of the crime or not. But hey, look, the cow's been moved. So that's good. Oh, he wants to paint my house. Now is a good time. Paint it red. I have a feeling like there's going to be a lot of red all over my property and it'll just help with a few explanations. I don't have any money. You want money in exchange for these goods and services? No comment about the cow being murdered or anything. Oh, no. Where's she going? Is she saying about the body? She's going to tell on me. Maybe I can go hide the body before they get there. She's a slow old woman. She'll never make it in time. But where can I hide the body? Oh, this is a problem.  I was just going the opposite direction. Actually, this is a wrong turn. I was looking for my house. I'm new to these parts. I'm so screwed.   Easy bank. I think I can get some money here. He said like a loan or something. You see, you're eligible for valiade every day for a week. Yes. Give me money. I can't stop thinking about Matthew. Why, why did he? How did you know that already? He realized that he died like an hour ago. You didn't even take the day off work. I'm sorry. This isn't your problem. Just take this. Give me a hundred bucks. Now now murderer.  I wonder will I ever get my knife back? I miss it so much. They're not even going to clean the bus. They just leave it there. Like I will let the rain take care of this. Oh no, where are they all running to? I think Tana's realized. Maybe she was talking about something else. She didn't realize that her husband was murdered. But look at the time. It's almost getting ready for bedtime, right? Everyone, we should all forget about this. Like this seems to just brush off yesterday's death. Can they not do it again? I wonder is everyone rushing off to see the body? Like could I trespass on that guy's property now? Or is he still guarding it with his shotgun? Oh no, he's still there. Frank doesn't like people from outside the valley. Frank has some trust issues. I think he's in danger to the valley. That weapon should be taken from him. He seemed like a much more balanced person to wield a shotgun.  I have a feeling that they're going to arrive in the middle of the night with pitchforks and they're going to kill me. Wait, what are you doing? Looking at my house like that. I've got a stick and I'm not afraid to use it. Hey murderer, how's it going? She said it'd be great to get to know you better. I'll stay on your guard, murderer. Committed a lot of good crimes today.   I'm just going to bring it out to the road. I don't want it on my property.  She's just watching me do it. Here, a gift. This is what I think of you. Just get naked. All right, much better. I'm going to go out and see her again. Just trying to rack up as many crimes as I can in one day. She doesn't seem to care, though. Can I clean my clothes? I would really like to know that. Oh, I can. Thank God. Okay. Now I don't look suspicious. Look at the state of them. Ah, yes. Just having a good time swimming. It is now nighttime. Time to return to bed. Oh, I'm very interested to see what the sheriff will say today. And I love how I didn't lock my door. I didn't learn a lesson from last night. Damn, let's see what we have here. Jesus, it looks brutal. Like all the graves are dug up. There's a knife there, blood everywhere, leading all the way to the hospital where I'm probably the only person to get treated for wounds that day. Two pieces of evidence. What was the other one? And several fingerprints on it. Oh, no, I didn't know you had that sort of technology here. Nobody reported any suspicious behavior. The guy running around in blood soaked clothes. The guy going in with wounds to his chest. The guy stripping down and running around his house in a panic. Oh, I found a weapon that might have been used in a previous murder. And there were fingerprints in conclusion. Don't say me. I'm innocent. Hungry. Good thing I have this mushroom. Well, stomach filled, everyone. What a fantastic day to be alive. I'm going back into the forest. Oh, there goes the sheriff. God, he's a fast one. Or maybe I'm seeing things. I don't know. Either way, I think that was a good time to end it. Jesus Christ, this game is weird, but I like it. If you want to see more, please let me know because I'd be totally down to ruin this community more. I think I've finally gotten the hang of it. I got a murder under my belt. I've got a robbery under my belt. A streak under my belt. I guess really there was nothing under my belt in that one.  It does seem like fun. I hope you guys liked it and I hope you want to see more because I'd be looking forward to playing more of this. But yeah, let me know if you do want to see more. I appreciate you watching. Even if you don't want to see more and you think, you know what? I hate this guy. I'll never watch again. I still appreciate you and I hope to see you next time. Hopefully you'll change your mind. Bye for now.