I love Six of Crows. It was mostly the crows that got shafted. Hormatias had nothing to do because reasons, the iconic line, that they did not need to do. Shadow and Bone season two just dropped and I watched all of it immediately because of course I did. If you don't know this about me, I'm a huge huge fan of the Six of Crows duology. I like the Grisha trilogy which is what Shadow and Bone, the first book is called Shadow and Bone. I like those books fine. They're not like end all be all like super faves of mine. They're like they're decent. But Six of Crows, like if you I just recently posted a video that was like books that are worth the hype. Six of Crows was on there. A few years ago I posted my like top favorite books of all time. Six of Crows was on there. I love Six of Crows like that duology. Me coming into watching Shadow and Bone, I'm obviously most interested in, most invested in, and gonna be most concerned with choices made as regards to the characters that are from that duology that have been brought into the Shadow and Bone storyline. So I love the books and I still do love the show. I would still say Shadow and Bone is one of my all-time favorite, certainly fantasy adaptations, and probably one of my favorite shows of all time. And if I hadn't read the books, if I didn't know what they had changed, I would probably like the show even better. It's because I know what the books have and because I know what they've taken and what they've changed that I'm upset. But like the way this story is unfolding in the show, if I did not know better, I probably would be fine with it. But it's because I know what now is not possible anymore or what is gonna have to change because of what they've done that I'm upset. If you're watching this video, I figure you probably already know, but just in case you don't really quick, Shadow and Bone, the TV show, is based on not just the book Shadow and Bone and the trilogy, the Grisha trilogy. The Shadow and Bone books, the Grisha trilogy, are three books and they are the storyline of Alina and Mal and the Darkling and Ravka and all of that jazz. Those books were published first and their events chronologically take place first. And then after that, Leigh Bardugo published a duology called the Six of Crows duology, which is Six of Crows and Crick Kingdom, which take place in the same universe as the Grisha trilogy, the Shadow and Bone trilogy, but they follow different characters in a different area of the map and it pretty much has nothing to do with the events of the Grisha trilogy other than the fact that it's the same universe with the same magic system and like generally the political landscape of this world was affected by the events of the Grisha trilogy. So like it's taking place in a world that was influenced by those events, but otherwise like I read Six of Crows first. I frankly didn't even know how Grisha trilogy existed and you could absolutely read Six of Crows without ever having read of or heard of the Grisha trilogy and it would still make sense and be like makes sense in a contained way in and of itself. So yeah, the Six of Crows story like it does not originally have anything to do with the Shadow and Bone story. So for season one of Shadow and Bone, it was very clear from the from the get-go that they were combining these story lines and that Leigh Bardugo herself, the author was on hand to facilitate this. So okay. And season one did a fantastic job. In season one, we basically did the events of Shadow and Bone, the first book and the Grisha trilogy that was like the driving force of the narrative of the first season of the show. And then they basically invented like a fan fiction plot to create a reason for the crows to be there. So the characters from Six of Crows, this is now going to be taking place chronologically before the events of Six of Crows. You know, these characters, they existed, they were alive before we meet them at Six of Crows. So the idea is that well, before we meet them at Six of Crows, they did get up to other things. So what if they got up to some kind of a high story adventure that was near or connected to Ravka and the Shadow and Bone storyline? So they just invented an entire plot line that didn't exist before to give those characters a reason to show up and to be involved in the events of Shadow and Bone. And she did a fantastic job where they did a fantastic job creating a believable plotline for these characters without really messing with like who they are and who they will be in their own story in their own books. So like giving us those characters so that we don't have to wait until Shadow and Bone gets wrapped up, but not messing with them or ruining them or doing anything to really alter what's going to be true if we do then adapt the Six of Crows storyline. So season two, we figured we're going to get kind of the same thing again, right? We're going to do the second book in the Shadow and Bone trilogy in the Grisha trilogy. The second book is Season Storm. And then presumably we would once more like sort of fanfic a plot for the Crows to be involved again. And maybe like again, they did draw a little bit from the Six of Crows book. In season one, they took some things that are presented as flashbacks in Six of Crows. They took those events and showed them happening like currently, which makes sense. If something is a flashback, it happened in the past. This is the past. We can use it. So doing stuff like that again, pulling out flashbacks during something like that for the Crows to be involved again. At least again, that's what I and I think many other people assumed we would get in season two. So the good stuff. I did really like season two. I genuinely did. This is going to be an extremely negative video and it's going to sound like I hated it. It's because I do feel very strongly about the things that I did not like. But I did actually really, really enjoy the season of television. And I think they did a lot of things really, really well. The casting remains super. So the original casting we saw in season one, no notes, except I don't really like Ben Barnes, but he's the villain. So it's fine that I don't like him. But yeah, he would not have been my choice. But otherwise, the casting has been great. And so now we got to meet some more characters from the books that we hadn't seen yet in season one. So we got Weiland, we got Nikolai, we got Tolia and Tamar. Those are the main ones that I think I, most of the people were excited to see. And the casting was fantastic. The clips I'd already seen of Weiland made me fairly certain that Weiland would be fantastic. And he was. The clips I'd seen of Nikolai were promising, but not like convincing. But I was like, I think he's going to be good. And the guy that played Nikolai, fantastic. Absolutely ideal Nikolai. Wonderful casting. Tolia and Tamar, we didn't see that much of Tamar. So I don't really feel that strongly one way or the other about Tamar. But Tolia, who definitely got a lot to do in season two, I very, very much liked that performance. And I very much liked that casting. Once again, just like with season one, the costumes and the sets were amazing. I think again, the only costumes that like stood out to me a little bit as not that great were Tolia and Tamar's costumes, their costumes looked the most costumey, i.e. they don't look like clothing that people in this universe are wearing, it looks like a costume. So that was like, not like it wasn't horrible, but it looked a bit costumey to me. Like it didn't look lived in or practical or or rough enough to have been worn for a while. So like, not not perfect. But again, the crows, what they wear is great. I love the way they've done the Grisha keftas, which they did well in season one as well. Alina has some great outfits. The places that they've chosen as locations to film were great choices. I love all the sets that they've built, like the sort of like city areas, the way that all of the signage is like in universe language, it's not like in English that we can read. And the maps do that as well. Like it'll have like subtitles to tell us what this is. But like it'll be like written in Kirch or in Rovken, which I just think adds like that extra layer of immersion. And I love that they do that. The costuming also is good world building because aside from just the individual characters and their costumes, the show does a good job of showing different geographic locations, having a different style of dress. So you feel like you are in a geographically distinct to different cultural area where there is a different style and a different mode of thinking or dressing or behaving or whatever. So the way that people look and dress in Rovka is very different from how the people look and dress in Ketterdam is very different from the people look and dress in Novia's M is different from the people look and dress in Fjorda. I think they do a very good job with that as well. I think for the most part, the special effects look pretty good. I mean, it wasn't like a Hollywood movie, but like for a TV show, very, very good, I think. And just enough, not overused. I did really like the sort of Guy Ritchie-esque style in which they shot and cut the sort of like violent altercations particularly in Ketterdam. It definitely felt like something out of like one of the Guy Ritchie Sherlock Holmes movies or King Arthur. It's this kind of like snappy, well, if you've seen a Guy Ritchie movie, I think you know what I mean. It definitely had that feeling. And there were some shots to where Mal is fighting it also definitely felt very Guy Ritchie to me. And the on-screen chemistry of the entire cast is phenomenal. I think the performances are all great. The problems that I have with the show are with like the way they've written the story or the plot choices that they've made. I have zero issues.  Like I just wouldn't have picked him. But yeah, the chemistry between the actors and the way they're performing their roles, it seems to me they very much know their characters. And I think they have, for the most part, like definitely looked at the books and what the characters are supposed to be like. I definitely get the sense that they are embodying these characters very well. So that's the positives, which I promise I did enjoy the show. I really did, but I'm really, really mad. So I'm going to be talking about differences between the book and the show because feel free to tell me that I'm deluding myself, but it's not just that, you know, I'm a book purist. And if you change it from the book, then I don't like it because the first season changed a lot of things. But I think it did it really, really well. And I think it did it in a way where it didn't alter the sort of like DNA of the characters and the character arcs. If anything like it added to it, it never took away from it. So like I said, the plot line with the crows, it never did anything to harm what is going to be their character arcs and Six of Crows storylines. Alina and Mal actually like were even more fleshed out and their relationship wasn't really changed so much as it was expanded on and made even better in the show. The fact that they changed things is not necessarily a problem. But it's the way they went about making changes in this season and the way that they went around robbing the Six of Crows books of some of their best moments to no purpose is very, very upsetting and concerning to me both because I think it's a waste and two because of what, if they are going to adapt the next storylines from the Six of Crows books, those storylines are now hurt by having either had things that are supposed to happen later happen sooner or by having things happen now that never really happened, but that make it impossible for these future things to now happen. So I'm going to avoid as much as possible talking about spoilers as concerns of the future plot lines in the books, anything that I haven't actually shown us in the show. It's a little difficult to do that to explain why a future thing is now not possible. I would kind of have to tell you what that future thing is that I'm upset is now not possible. So I don't even know if that is a spoiler because if it's no longer possible, well then it can't be a spoiler because it's not going to happen. But if you haven't read the books and you want to or you're worried about that, you know, just warning you, I'm going to try my best to stick to things that already have passed in the show and like the opportunity to do them has come and gone. And I'll tell you what was supposed to happen or whatever, because it can't really be changed now. And then as to things that are going to happen or should have been in the future, I'll do my best to either only refer to them in terms of how the show has shown them to us so far and tell you where they were supposed to go before and be vague kind of about where that was supposed to go originally, as vague as I can be while still making it clear why I'm upset. But yeah, if you're very spoiler-averse, then you know, don't watch. But I kind of feel like anyone watching this video probably either doesn't care about spoilers or has already read the books. This show in general has followed the Grisha trilogy more than Six of Crows books. The feeling is that like they're doing first the one and then the other, but they wanted to involve the Crows, which is fine. But so they also, they haven't really changed as much about the Shadow and Bone storyline as they have about the Crows storyline. And this hurts me because I care a lot more about the Six of Crows storyline. I would much rather do the Six of Crows storyline and kind of like rob and bastardize and alter the Shadow and Bone storyline in service of the Six of Crows storyline than the other way around, but here we are. So the Shadow and Bone storyline, they did make changes. Some of them I also didn't like. It wasn't only the Crows that got shafted, it was mostly the Crows that got shafted. The Shadow and Bone storyline did not come away unscathed. So they made again fewer changes. The plot line pretty much unfolds the way it does in the books, but where season one gave us the first book, Shadow and Bone, season two, in a surprising turn of events, whipped us through the entirety of Xi Zhen's norm and Ruin and Rising. We have reached to the end of the Shadow and Bone, the Grisha trilogy. So that was fast. There are quite a few smaller changes, kind of just like in specific scenes, how a specific kind of like fight goes down, a specific conversation, things like that. But like what these characters are doing and what their plot arcs are and what their relationships are remains pretty much true to how they are in the books. But the endpoints for these characters are extremely different. So in the show, full spoilers for the end of season two, Alina is able to defeat the Darkling. She still has her powers and it's heavily implied that she resurrected Mal by using Merzost, which is the sort of like forbidden dark magic that the Darkling was using. That it wasn't natural, that it wasn't Nina's heart render abilities, that Mal shouldn't be alive, and that it's because of Alina that he is, and that she's still got her powers. The Darkling is gone, but she's now kind of this dark version of Alina possibly as we see her do the cut at the end, which looks very Darkling-esque. And then Mal, who is alive, is going to go off and be a pirate, and Nikolai is now going to be crowned king with Alina the Sun Summoner, I guess, as his consort. This is an extremely different situation from what we get at the end of the Grisha trilogy. At the end of Ruin and Rising, there's quite a lot that's different. Okay, so first of all, Alina and Mal. Alina does use Mal as an amplifier and she does kill him, but defeating the Darkling takes away all of her powers. She does not have the Sun Summoner powers anymore, and Mal, because of magic reasons that I'm not going to get into because they are kind of silly, but because of magic reasons that are not Alina doing anything bad or nefarious, Mal is able to be alive at the end of the book. Alina doesn't have powers anymore, Mal isn't like the Firebird anymore, they're just like two normal people now.  He just like puts it out that Alina died in saving Ravka, so sank to Alina, was a martyr for Ravka so that the real Alina can go live a normal life with Mal happily ever after. Yay. Nikolai, he in the course of Ruin and Rising, when he encounters the Darkling, the Darkling in the book infects him with Merzost and he becomes this like monstrous, winged, dark creature. And during the final battle with the Darkling, Nikolai, as this monster who retains some sense of being Nikolai still, is able to lead some of the Vulkra against the Darkling and kind of help Alina out. And then once Alina kills the Darkling, then Nikolai reverts back to being Nikolai, but he's still scarred from it. He has like marks on his hands from where he used to have talons. He can't really remember everything that he was doing or what he was when he was the monster, but so he's back to being Nikolai mostly.  So that's obviously, as I said, a really different end point. Mal and Alina are together and Nikolai is on the throne and that's where we end. Whereas in the show, for some reason, Mal, even though he's alive and Alina's alive and they could be together and she's very possibly done something very naughty to make him be alive, they're just like, nah, we should part ways because reasons, because this show can't have us have a happily ever after right now. If they want to continue to have a show, there has to be tension. So now, even though he clearly doesn't want to leave Alina, he's gonna leave Alina and go be Sturmund, which is obviously not a thing that happens in the books. So I don't know how I feel about Alina being this dark Alina, which is where I'm guessing this is going. I mean, I think that also is there because we killed the Darkling, but we need a villain. So we're gonna make Alina possibly the villain in the next season because she's done Merzost and so she's now darkened herself. Perhaps Mal's a pirate because it'll be easier to rope Mal into a Ketterdam Crows plotline if he's already a pirate available to help with some crimes. And Nikolai has this kind of poisoned dark wound that looks like it might develop into a thing, but he obviously never turned monster in this season and the opportunity to be turned monster by the Darkling has come and gone, the Darkling is dead. So we just didn't do that at all, which is interesting because I feel like the show is probably going to, if it goes long enough, it's gonna do the King of Scars plotline, which is the duology that comes after Six of Crows. And that plot, this plot of those books heavily relies on Nikolai having the baggage of having been this monster. So if he was never a monster, that really, that means that we can't even do the King of Scars plotline. So that's kind of a surprising choice to me. So that's Shadow and Bone or at least the Grisha trilogy. That's the main changes they made there. And in my opinion, the reasons that they made those changes. But then we come to the what really, really hurt what I really, really don't like in this season. And that's what they did to the Crows. They basically just robbed the Crows books, the Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom. They just went in and stole some of the best scenes, some of the best lines, stripped them of their context and shoved them into this fanfic plotline just so they could have them be around in season two and doing something. Now we can't have those lines. We can't have those scenes in their original much more weighty context because we already squandered them by just plucking them and using them here in second season. And not only that, but we did things to the character relationships and revelations about the characters that were either too soon or too much or not accurate, which really alters what is supposed to be the dynamic between them when we get to Six of Crows. So one by one, let's do it. Kaz, my favorite. So many things they did with Kaz that Freddie Carter, no blame there, absolutely fantastic casting. And he understood the assignment. He played Kaz so, so well. No issues with that. But what they did writing this character in this season, it is just, oh, it's so upsetting. Let's start with the fact that in the book, he is already the de facto leader of the Dregs.  And as a young man, Kaz rose in the ranks of the Dregs. And by the time you meet him in Six of Crows, he is the de facto leader. The actual leader is Per Haskell. But he is delegated to Kaz basically all leadership duties because he's much savvier at the business end. He's much savvier at the violence. He's just savvier. So he retains like ownership and he's the head of Per Haskell. But the Kaz is in effect the head of the Dregs, the tattoo that the Dregs wear just has a crow on it. It's a crow like sipping the Dregs of a cup. So it makes sense that as the kind of a nickname for them would be crows because the Dregs wear this crow tattoo. And the crow club is an asset of the Dregs. So Kaz doesn't own it personally, but it's kind of his pet project as the de facto leader of the Dregs. So in the show, because they needed Kaz to have something to do, they stole a scene from Cricket Kingdom, which I'm not going to say the context for it, but the context is much, much weightier in Cricket Kingdom, where Kaz has to go to the Dregs headquarters and basically get beat to a pulp in order to reassert his dominance and reclaim leadership and reclaim to reclaim control of the Dregs. They just use this scene to have him have something to do and to have him take control of a gang that he was already supposed to be part of and in control of at this point in the story. So now I guess they could do that scene again when we get to the Cricket Kingdom plotline in the show if we get that far, but they've kind of wasted it because we already did it, but not for the same reasons and not in the same situation, and it is not as weighty here because it was just kind of a thing for him to do. In that same vein in the book, this plan they have where they wear the sort of masquerade masks and they spread this fake plague, that is something that they do do in Cricket Kingdom. But the reasons for it and the situation surrounding the need to do that is weightier, and it's the fact that they're doing this has much greater plot significance and character significance in Cricket Kingdom. But instead, they've plucked that little plotline or that little plan of theirs from Cricket Kingdom and stuck it in here so that it's just again like a little side quest, like a little activity to keep the crows busy so that they have something to do in season two of Shadow and Bone. Kaz's relationship or maybe relationship isn't the word, but Kaz's history with Pekka Rollins is something that haunts the books. When you read Six of Crows in Cricket Kingdom, it's this backstory and this baggage and this need for revenge that is haunting everything that's happening, haunting everything that Kaz is choosing to do, every choice he makes, every line he says, that's in the background of it, and his friends do not know, nobody knows. The reader slowly comes to learn this. As far as they know, Pekka Rollins is just a rival gang leader. Kaz has reason to hate him for the same reason that any other gang leader would, you know, it's a threat, it's competition. But having this personal history with him, perhaps his friends have noticed that he seems more than naturally usually driven towards harming Pekka Rollins, but they don't actually know why he would, and he obviously doesn't say. They also don't know about his brother and how his brother died. They don't know about the corpse barge. They don't know why he doesn't want to touch people. They don't know anything about Kaz. Kaz is an enigma and Kaz keeps everything like close to the vest. Is that close to the chest? Kaz doesn't share. There's even this moment, which I mean it can't be spoilery because they can't possibly do this moment anymore because they've ruined it. There's a moment in Cricket Kingdom when Kaz is exasperated and emotionally upset and he's angry with Jesper, but he calls Jesper Geordi in that moment of passion. And everyone who's present and witnesses that is like, who's Geordi? Because they don't know. They don't know about his brother, they don't even know that he has a dead brother, and it's the slip of the tongue which is rare for Kaz. That moment can't happen now because in the show, not only do the Crows, his buddies know his backstory with Pekka Rollins now, all of the dime lions, Pekka Rollins, everybody basically in Ketterdam got to hear this tragic backstory. He just spilled his whole backstory to everyone, which is one, something Kaz would never do, and two, means that this kind of like, what is his deal? What is it that's driving him? What is behind this hatred kind of question that's lurking in the minds of the Crows for all of the Six of Crows books until they find out is gone. They know exactly what's driving Kaz and then Kaz gets his revenge against Pekka Rollins. That's taken care of now. So in Crooked Kingdom, after we have slowly built this, this growing sense of the hatred and obsession that Kaz has with revenge, and you've slowly come to learn his backstory, and he's made a lot of choices that have been very questionable, and you've watched this building and this obsession and this need for revenge, then when we get to Crooked Kingdom and Kaz finally has his chance to have it out with Pekka Rollins, it's so much weightier this moment because we've been building towards it and we've been waiting for it and it's been haunting everything that's been happening. But now, Kaz has already confronted his arch nemesis, Pekka Rollins. He's already told everybody his tragic backstory. We're done with that. So this thing that gets built towards in Crooked Kingdom is our, it's done. We haven't even done Six of Crows yet and we're already done with exploring Kaz's past with Pekka Rollins. Then Kaz's relationship with Anezh in the book, like if you're in Kaz's head, yeah. When you're in his head, it's pretty clear that he's got feelings for Anezh and he struggles with that because he regards it as a weakness. Outwardly, like they kind of think that maybe he does, but he doesn't say anything and he does certainly doesn't show it. And in the show, I understand that they kind of, it's hard, you don't have the character internal monologue to tell you this, so you would have to show it a little bit more for the viewers to know. But in the book, Kaz, the only things that he does to outwardly show how much he cares about Anezh is that he just makes sure, he goes out of his way to make sure that she's safe to physically protect her. And when this is pointed out, he just says that he's protecting his investment, not that he cares about her. In the show, it makes it very clear how much Kaz is into Anezh. It's an open secret. So there's a lot less tension surrounding what exactly Kaz's priorities are, what is going on with him. No one else, like his, it's not just that we the reader or we the viewer know what Kaz's deal is. Everyone around him knows that his deal is. He wanted revenge against Pekka Rollins. He has PTSD over whatever happened with him and his brother and Pekka Rollins. He's into Anezh and can't handle it. And he likes to say that he doesn't have feelings, but everyone knows exactly what his feelings are, which is just that's not what Kaz is like. He's, these are things that he would never share and no one would ever know about him because he wouldn't tell anyone. And it also creates a lot more tension and uncertainty with the crew because when your crew is supposed to trust you and they don't even know what your deal is, this is a source of great tension in the Six of Crows books because when they're asking Kaz why they're doing something and they begin to see that they don't actually maybe know why Kaz is doing what he's doing, what is actually driving him, what is actually motivating him because they don't know his backstory with Pekka Rollins. They just trust that he's running their heist the way that it should be run until they realize that there is something else that he is prioritizing and it's not necessarily the heist and it's not even necessarily the safety of his crew. It begins to make that trust falter and that's a source of intense dramatic tension, but now everybody knows exactly what his deal is. There's no tension. Jesper, we don't know that he's a durast until much later in the books. So now before again we even start the Six of Crows plotline, we already know that he's a durast and that he was kind of hiding it and it's not again until like the end of Crooked Kingdom that Jesper is like you know what I actually probably should try to be a good durast. I should like try to actually you know foster this skill. But before we've even started Six of Crows he's already been like oh yeah I should probably actually foster this skill. Again it's a great source of tension that Jesper keeps hidden this big part of himself and it's a big reason for why he behaves the way that he does. Not just that it's a secret but the way that kind of like suppressing that magic in him has consequences and this is a huge part of his character and it's just been resolved. It's opened and resolved already before we even do Six of Crows. Likewise Jesper's relationship with Wylan. Jesper first meets Wylan in the book in Six of Crows. He's never met him before and over the course of the heist he gets to know him and there's a will-are-won't-they for the most of that duology until they finally do. But in the show not only have they met before they had a fling before, I mean Wylan is not certain in the book if Jesper even swings that way. There's a great line which I know the actors are aware of because they quoted it in an interview which made me hopeful that we would see that line but we did not and it would not make sense to have that line because by the time we see these characters in the show Wylan already knows Jesper and knows Jesper swings that way but he said in the book Jesper is like talking about flirting with girls and Wylan says something like just girls and Jesper is like no not just girls because Wylan isn't even sure that Jesper would have the potential to be interested in him. So all that's gone they're basically in a committed relationship ready to retire together by the end of season two of Shadow and Bone so there goes that tension. Then we come to Wylan and this is the part that I can't really say too much about because presumably they are still going to do this. I'll say that in the show there's this line where Jesper is like you know this other guy these other guys they would have been better choices for doing demolitions for this job or whatever and Kaz is like and yet Wylan is the one that I chose so presumably the audience would be like oh Kaz must have an ulterior motive he must have his reasons for why he would choose Wylan for this job and the thing is in Six of Crows Kaz does have a reason for choosing Wylan for the job a reason that does not become clear until much later but there is a reason and in the show there is no reason there can't be a reason because the reason for choosing Wylan is specific to the Six of Crows heist which we're not doing yet which we're only going to do in the next season we've been set up for that. Why Kaz would choose Wylan now before knowing anything about the circumstances of the heist that he's just learned about in the last episode Kaz is like oh I've haven't found out about this thing which means we're going to do the Six of Crows heist he didn't have that knowledge when he hired Wylan for the job in season two this line that seems to suggest that he chose him for a reason is just bullshit and now we don't have this in Six of Crows where everyone is like why did you choose Wylan who even is Wylan why is he part of our crew and Kaz is like don't worry about it I have my reasons and he does he doesn't have reasons in the show so it just makes Kaz's behavior sillier it doesn't he's a character that always has a reason you don't always know what it is his crew doesn't always know what it is and that makes them sometimes distrust him but he doesn't act just like irrationally well I guess he acts a little irrationally when he gets emotional about stuff he's very calculated and he might do things that you don't get why he's doing it but his crew consistently follows him because they're like I don't know why he's doing it but for as long as I've been with him he always has a reason for doing what he's doing so I won't question it in the show that's not really been the case so it just makes Kaz much less enigmatic imposing calculating intimidating and interesting then we come to Inej and for the most part Inej hasn't been messed with too much but the one of very particular thing they've messed with is her relationship with Kaz and one of the best lines in the book which they plucked and used in this season in a horrible way because the context for where this line is delivered is what makes the difference and I'm so mad about it so in the book the iconic line when she tells Kaz that she will have him without his armor or not at all is delivered in extremely different circumstances than it is in the show in the show she's basically saying so long see a good riddance when she delivers this line which is the complete opposite of the reasons for her delivering this line in Six of Crows in Six of Crows they are mid heist they are not about to part ways when she says this to him it's an extremely tense moment and her telling him this is not to say bye-bye she's still presumably she's at least going to be there for the remainder of the heist she's basically telling him look I I do have feelings for you but I'm not that's not enough so you're gonna have to meet me halfway and if you're not willing to do that well then I'm not willing to be to to do anything with you to do anything about the way that I feel about you she's setting her boundaries and making clear her position and the ball is in his court and it's an extremely vulnerable moment for both of them because they're kind of like saying out loud what neither of them has wanted to acknowledge and she's not shunning him Kaz Inej would never just abandon Kaz particularly when she can see how vulnerable he is and at this point in the book she does not know his full backstory in the show she already does know his backstory she knows his PTSD she knows how crippled he is by all this and she definitely knows he has feelings for her and for her to deliver this line so callously and then peace out I'm not saying she doesn't have a right to do it but it is a very different portrayal of this relationship and this character like it is a strong moment for her to lay down that boundary in the book but it's not cruel she's saying I do care about you but that is not enough so I'm giving you the chance I'm telling you I'm being open with you I'm telling you that if you do shape up then we can do something but if you don't well then we won't but it's up to you as opposed to saying I I'll have you without your armor not at all bye forever like do you see why that's so completely different and now she's said the line so we can't have that line in that moment in Six of Crows when we get to that part of that plot line which we presumably will be doing in season three or four editing me here obviously I forgot somehow to mention the scene where Kaz is helping or wanting to help Inej with her bandages this is also a scene that's from Cricut Kingdom and it's also a scene that is much more meaningful and significant in its original full later context the reason why she's injured is different like though their like relationship is at a different point when this is happening and crucially this bandaging scene happens after after Inej has told him she will have him without his armor or not at all this is him trying to like bear that in mind and meet her halfway and and try to shed his armor for her not doing a super great job with it but that's what that scene is so the fact that it's reversed that it's out of context that it's it's it's such a good scene from Cricut Kingdom it is an iconic scene from Cricut Kingdom and it was just squandered it's very upsetting anyway back to whatever I was talking about and then Nina and Matthias they remain the most unscathed predominantly because poor Matthias had nothing to do in the book Matthias is in Hellgate and in the show Matthias is in Hellgate he's just in prison got nothing to do until such time as they break him out of there they didn't like have the opportunity to mess with his character too much and then the same goes for Nina and his her relationship with him it's on hold until we get him out of there and it's true to her character that she is trying to get him out of there the way she's going about trying to get him out of there is different obviously in the books because she's been trying to do this for some time without Kaz's or Nicolai's help but that's basically what she has been up to is trying to get him out of there and then she joins the heist in Six of Crow so they haven't really been able to mess with that too much um Nina's been in Ketterdam for a while she does know Kaz in the books it's kind of strange that Kaz and Nina are strangers in the show but like that's not that big a deal so far so okay I mean because they just like they couldn't mess up that storyline if they tried because while while Matthias remains in Hellgate you can't do much with that they are doing something with Matthias and Pekka Rollins because obviously Pekka Rollins is not in Hellgate in the books because we have not yet had our revenge and comeuppance against Pekka Rollins before the events of Six of Crows unfold Matthias meeting Pekka Rollins in Hellgate is new but it doesn't really seem to have done much um either way so I don't know what they're trying to start with that but we'll see so why did they do this? I mean I don't understand but I also I do understand sort of so basically season one of Shadow and Bone ended with all of the Crows basically being in position to begin the Six of Crows storyline but season two they refused to do the Six of Crows storyline so all our characters are in position ready to go to start Six of Crows and we're not going to let them we need to halt we need to pump the brakes we need to stall so that we don't start that plot yet for whatever reason because they want to do it next they want to do it later they want to do it separately whatever so because they refuse to do the Six of Crows plot line they have to come up with something for the Crows to do they could have once again just fanficked some stuff for them that doesn't take away from their future plots that is basically like we got in season one of Shadow and Bone where it's some more stuff they could possibly have gotten up to before Six of Crows the quest they have to find the sword was a pretty good fanfic quest that's not anything from the books from either series that was like a perfectly fine usage of Crows yes you need a a McGuffin stolen have the Crows go into it because that's what they do their thieves so that's great that's fine that was a perfectly fine use of the Crows we could begin to show flashbacks that begin to tell the audience what the back stories are of these characters we the audience could learn Kaz's backstory we could learn about his childhood we could learn about why he hates Beccarolan so much but what we they did not need to do is rob the books of their most poignant moments the most epic moments the best lines and take them away from where they are the most dramatic and significant and just just sprinkle them into this season for some spice that's just such a waste and such a crime against these characters that they did not need to do they didn't so in season three we're starting the Six of Crows heist I don't see how we could not not just because like they really cannot stall anymore on this and two because at the end of season two they basically announced that they're going to be starting this because what begins the Six of Crows heist is Jurta Parem and we just saw Jurta Parem being used in that final scene in the coronation and Kaz announcing to his crew that like oh he's heard this new thing so off we go on the Six of Crows heist Mal is a pirate and Inej is with him inexplicably so presumably that's why Mal is a pirate and that's why Inej is with him because we're gonna need a pirate and Inej will already be there to help us with our Six of Crows heist so I'm guessing that's what they're doing with that or at least I'm hoping Kaz has already had his revenge against Beccarolans but they need to keep him brooding so presumably Beccarolans is gonna do some new heinous thing to make Kaz even more upset and to make him brood some more so that he can remain Kaz as an emesis because we already zipped through that plot line too early so we're just gonna have to create a new reason for them to be against each other Beccarolans will probably do something in Hellgate something to do with Matias something like that. Jesper and Weiland as I said they're already basically together so presumably to create tension something will have to come in to part them to create tension between them just like with Mal and Alina we couldn't have them have a happily ever after so something has to come between them to create tension so the show can keep going. Nina and Matias again are positioned the most like they are in Six of Crows they're pretty much set up to be exactly the plot line that they have in Six of Crows so that's something and then I'm guessing that Alina and Nikolai in season three will be engaged in some variation of the king of scars plot line like I said before Nikolai didn't go monster so he can't be exactly the king of scars but I'm still guessing that it's gonna be at least politically speaking a very similar plot line to king of scars and then maybe have him somehow go monster now because of Alina or something there but I'm guessing it's gonna be king of scars is what's going on with Alina and Nikolai in season three but of course this is all speculation I have no idea what they're gonna do in season three or even if they'll get a season three which brings me to my conclusion which is that I very much hope they get a season three because I do actually really like this show I know it sounds like I don't and I it's because I like it so much that it hurts me when it fails it wouldn't hurt if I didn't care I'm really mad about what they did to my crows but the writing and the acting have been consistently good the choices that they've made have been consistently pretty good so knowing that Lee Bardugo is so heavily involved in the show knowing that she would have had to sign off on these plot line decisions presumably I don't know for a fact but I'm guessing she had to be aware and had to sign off on these plot decisions I have some faith they've thought this through Lee Bardugo knows where what these characters are supposed to get up to in Six of Crows she knows what what scenes she ruined what lines she stole what tensions she erased I'm hoping and I have some faith that she and they and the crew and the team and the writers have a reason for this that they've thought this through they have a plan that accounts for this and that it will be a very different story from what we get in the Six of Crows books that doesn't mean it will be bad it could be a different kind of equally good so as a fan of the books I'm pretty devastated by season two but as a fan of the show I'm pretty hopeful let me know your thoughts in the comments down below have you read these books do you want to read these books did you watch the show did you not watch the show I'm hoping that you have both read the books and seen the show I don't know what you get out of this video if you haven't done either but let me know if you're just as mad as I am about what they did to the crows or if you don't care or whatever I post videos on Saturdays other random comments about only Saturdays so like and subscribe draw my patreon if you feel so inclined and I'll see you when I see you


the brand new Galaxy Fold versus the Moto Roller Razer. Let's jump in. So Moto Roller has a brand new device. It's called the Razer. It looks like the original Razer and it's also a foldable. It folds up, it opens up and it's truly unique giving you a display at 6.2 inches and a 21 by 9 aspect ratio, if you will. Now, here's the kicker. When you look at the Galaxy Fold, it opens up like a book giving you a 7.2 inch display internally and a smaller 4.3 inch display externally. Could be wrong with those numbers, but bear with me here, right? Now, what Moto Roller has is something that's truly unique. It's as much smaller, portable, foldable.  Those are two different philosophies here. Now, when I put side by side in terms of looking at the crease and hinges, the crease is more visible on the Galaxy while the Moto Roller is less visible, highly less visible. The hinge also on the Moto Roller feels really sturdy. Making that display feel like it's a regular display as opposed to the Galaxy feels more like a rollable display. I don't get me wrong, but that's just what it feels like. The hinge on the Galaxy is good. Now, when you look at both devices, you can clearly see that the Galaxy Fold doesn't close all the way, but the Moto Roller closes flat because the design allows you to slide into that chin, giving you something more flush and fit. So the Moto Roller fits into your pocket quite easily and that's something unique and very, very different. Now, when it comes to performance, right? Both devices are powered by Snapdragon processors, but this is where the Galaxy has the upper hand. It comes with a Snapdragon 855. It has 12 gigs of RAM, UFS 3.0 storage, which means much faster storage as opposed to what you have on the Moto Roller Razer, which is a Snapdragon 710 or older processor. And of course, you've got six gigs of RAM. So there's that difference there, but how does that compare when it comes to gaming? Both of them can play Call of Duty well. Moto Roller Razer does a good job. You can play on max settings, but it runs hot pretty quickly. It's a thin device. That's just the way it's going to be. As opposed to the Galaxy Fold, which can game for quite a bit and a longer period of time, I would expect because you should have a bigger battery and of course go max settings on all the games you can think of. So there's the performance boost there. In terms of camera, you've got a single camera, rear camera on the Moto Roller Razer with a front-facing camera internally. While the Galaxy has five cameras, there's a camera everywhere around and the front of the device, the back of the device and when you open up the device as well. So there are multiple cameras and of course you've got those ultra-wide lenses so more lenses, more cameras, something that I think Samsung does well enough quite here. And that's something truly unique and different. Usability is a very interesting factor. When you look at both devices, you can say, hey look, the Galaxy gives me a lot of footprints to do more work. So when you're multitasking, have different sections of the screen cut off or you're watching even a video and having just a bigger display. Now, the Moto Roller Razer gives you that 621 by nine aspect ratio, so it's a very different look but a lot of things will get cut out if you don't have that aspect ratio in mind or at least an 18 by nine. So take that in mind and of course multitasking is basically the same as every other Android device. So you have that built in there as well. Now when it comes to extras of both of them, they do have some nice extras. Moto Roller comes with a charging cradle which can use to amplify your sound. You've also got braided cables, your travel charger and headphones from Denon which is pretty cool. Now the Galaxy does come with of course cases within there, it's a Kevlar case as well as also the Galaxy Buds that give you of course extra audio. So you've got different options and placed in. Now when you look at it from side to side, you go, hey look, the Moto Roller Razer is priced at $1,500, $62 on a Verizon plan. While the Galaxy Fold is priced at $1,900. So there is about a $400 or $500 difference depending but you can say, hey look, one gives me premium specs, the other one gives me portability and uniqueness. Now you have to decide which would you go with? Would you go with the Fold that opens up to be in a tablet or would you go with the Moto Roller Razer that actually comes, makes itself smaller into a more portable device for you? I wanna hear your thoughts guys, what do you think? Otherwise don't forget to like and share, subscribe to the channel and always enjoy entertainment.


I almost got quieter when I said that. This is going to be a kind of game show. It's not a kind of game show you like to have over in the US. It's something a bit weird, a bit British. I can just trust me here.  But I do need you as an audience to respond. I need you to be vocal. So we're going to try that again. And this time, you're going to make enough noise for 350 people, OK? Good afternoon, Goruko! Excellent, excellent. OK, I'm going to need three things from you all as an audience. OK? The first thing you need to know is the game we're about to play is very hard, is a huge challenge for the speakers involved. So when you feel they have done well, I need you to raise those voices, put those hands together, and let them know. OK? It's very daunting being up here. Just give them all the encouragement you can. The second thing you need to know is that the game involves challenges where the panelists will put just a little bit of criticism on what's just been said, and they're pretty subjective. So if you feel some of the challenges are a little harsh, maybe, by all means, let us know that as well. And the third thing is actually the very first thing, because each show starts exactly the same way. I'm going to boisterously welcome you all to the show. And once I've done that, I need you. I'm going to play in the piano music, which is just the theme music for the show. As soon as you hear that piano, I need you all to raise the proverbial roof. Can you do that for me, Goriko? You're getting better. OK, here it goes. Welcome to Just a Minute. That is right. Good afternoon, and welcome to a very special edition of Just a Ruby Minute, here in the spectacularly oversized fruit that is New York City, New York. My name's Andrew Faraday, and we're going to play the game of Just a Minute. It's a huge part of British culture. It's been going to our audiences for almost half a decade, and it's slowly finding a home in the Ruby community. So what's going to happen each round? I'm going to select one of these witty, insightful, and of course terrified individuals, currently arrayed before you, and give them a topic that's of some kind of interest to the Ruby development community. They'll then have to speak about that topic for 60 seconds without hesitation, including pauses or hedging noises, repetition of words other than the topic sentence they've already used in that round, or deviation where they're no longer talking about the topic. Now, if the other panelists discover these rules being broken, they can challenge by pressing their buzzers. Someone buzz for me? Excellent. Now, you'll notice one of our panelists has turned green, and the timer has stopped. So what will happen there is I will ascertain the nature of their challenge, and if they're correct, they'll gain a point for a correct challenge, and then take control of the topic, be allowed to continue speaking until the minute's over, or they are in turn challenged for exactly the same reasons. Now, whoever's speaking at the end of the minute gains a point for doing so, and if the challenge is incorrect, the original speaker gains a point for being interrupted, and is allowed to continue where they left off. Now, the end of the minute sounds just a little bit like this, and that is the whole game, a very simple set of rules, and a very difficult set of rules to follow. So now that we know the rules, let's meet the panel. First up, closest to me, we have the chief zealous officer at Coding Zeal, and in his own words, master of smile generation. Please welcome Adam Cuppey. Next up, we have got a senior engineer at Ghost Spot Check, a huge part of both Kubmo and Bridge Foundry, and this being her third panel, a Ruby Jam veteran. Please welcome Kinsey Ann Durham. Next up, we have got the co-founder and director at Ignition Works, a very prolific public speaker, and the presenter of the Ruby Book Club podcast, Nadia Odineo. Nadia. And last but certainly not least, we've got a senior developer from the New York Public Library, organiser for eight of the 10 years of Go Ruko from right here in New York, Stephen Shaw. So without any further adieu, let's move on to the first round, appropriately known as round one. Kinsey, as our returning panellists, you're up first to start, and your topic is my startup idea. So that's my startup idea, Kinsey Ann Durham, for 60 seconds, starting now. My startup idea is the best idea that anyone has ever heard of. It relates to dogs because I am obsessed with that breed of animal, and I really just want to stare at pictures of cute puppies all day. So my startup idea is to just have a website where you can look at these creatures as long as you want. Whenever you're having a bad day or you're not feeling well or...  Thoroughly mixed response there. Wait, is that one of them? No, that's not one. Oh, sorry. I forgot the rules, sorry. I don't think I can give you that within the rules of just a minute. I forgot for a moment there. An entertaining interruption, however, Kinsey, you gain a point. For being wrongly interrupted, you have 22 seconds remaining on my startup idea. Before I was rudely interrupted by my teammate to the right of me, I was talking about my startup idea. Repetition I? There was a lot of I's. So that's completely correct, Steve, you gain a point. And control the subject for 13 seconds, starting now. My startup idea is so complicated, it cannot be summed up in the short amount of time afforded. Kinsey? Hesitation. Yes, definitely hesitation there. So Kinsey, you gain an additional point. You have 3.7 seconds remaining, starting now. Anyways, back to my startup idea. So that's Kinsey and I'm showing fine fighting form, currently in the lead with 3 points. Okay, we're gonna move on. Adam Cuppey, it's your start and your subject is user stories. User stories, Adam Cuppey for 60 seconds, starting now. As we begin to speak about user stories, it reminds me of the first user story I happen to write myself. It always begins with if I want to do something of great importance and meaning, I will begin by looking specifically at the way in which the user story is structured for the user. If nothing... Kinsey? I was gonna say a repetition of story, because it's stories. Ah, did he say story twice? Yeah, it's very definitely in the rules that plural and singular are different. Hey, he said story, it's not story. Adam's got some friends in the audience. That was... That was a technically correct challenge from Kinsey and Durham. Gain a point. I don't make the rules. Hey, I wanna win.  Hey, I was right. It doesn't matter. It was right. So you had 36 seconds starting now. I use a tool called Pivotal Tracker to write user stories at my current company called Ghost Spot Check. I really like the application and it's built in my hometown of Denver, Colorado. It's really nice to use and I can easily accept, reject. Repetition of I. Yes, that was the third I. So can I use that? So Adam, you have regained control of this topic for nine seconds starting now. I particularly prefer the use of Jira for its simplicity and raw ability to really hone in on the... Adam, speaking at the end of the minute there. So currently we have Kinsey in the lead with four. Adam trailing just behind on two. Steven's got one, Nadia's still to score. So, Steven, you're at first to speak. Your subject is how many arguments is too many? How many arguments is too many? Steven's sure, starting now. How many arguments is too many is an interesting question. It could be that you're talking about arguments with your significant other or arguments passed into a function also known as a method. Ruby has... Hesitation, yeah. That was hesitation. Man, just breathe. Give genius room. You gotta really get in there on that buzzer. You do need to breathe, but you definitely did pause. So, Adam, you have 46 seconds remaining. How many arguments is too many starting now? I believe that arguments can be summed up in a correlation between the arg and the ment of reason. Now, as we look specifically at what might be too many, we can ask ourselves, most importantly, is too many too many or is too many right many? Too many is part of the topic sentence. What? So, I didn't explain that properly at the start. The topic sentence is basically, for a game, you can repeat as much as you like within that realm. So, because that was my fault, I'm not going to award a point this time, but I am going to give control back to Adam Cuppey. You now all know the rules, so they will be kept from now on. Okay, so Adam, you have 27 seconds. How many arguments is too many starting now? Looking back at how many arguments is too many, I reconsider the notion that too many can be too many if really, arguments are summed up as part... Repetition of summed. Summed. Yes. Summed. Who thinks that was a repetition? That's a few here. Who thinks it wasn't? That is now not my fault anymore, so Adam, you gain the point and have 14 seconds remaining. How many arguments is too many starting now? Repeating back to too many arguments, I continue to add my... Repetition of I. Yes. So, Kinsey, yes, you gain the point. You currently have five and eight seconds remaining on how many arguments is too many starting now. How many arguments is too many is a very good question, and when I refer to... BUZZER Excellent, so Kinsey, you are still in the lead with six. Adam, you're trailing with four. The other two, you can join in the game soon, I'm sure. LAUGHTER So, Nadia, you're up first. Your subject is naming variables. Naming variables at Nadia starting now. I hope that I can speak very well for a minute on naming variables given that there are zero points by my name right now. When coding, it is important that your intention is very clear when naming variables. Some people like to name variables with very long descriptive names. For example, if you are coding an application to do with dogs and there are many different breeds of them in your work, then you may have a variable, which is something like German Shepherd, Terrier, Puppy... LAUGHTER ..101 Dalmatians in... No points yet and you were sitting on that. Woo! Amazing, that is absolutely so. Nadia, you gain a point for speaking at the end of the minute and another for speaking uninterrupted for a full minute. That happens very rarely and has not yet happened on Tech Jam at all. You are the first one to achieve that particular accolade. It's amazing. OK, how do you follow that? Kinsey? You are up next.  Who you should be following on Twitter. So that's Kinsey and I am 60 seconds starting now. I have a very long list of different software engineers that you should be following on Twitter and they are as follows. Adam Cuppey, Nadia, Steven, Sandy Metz, Rachel Ray. LAUGHTER Hesitation? Yes, that was a hesitation. Adam, you gain a point for that. You have 38 seconds remaining. Who you should be following on Twitter starting now. I believe the people you should follow on Twitter are the attendees here at Goruko, amongst many other conferences. Please feel free to yell those out at will. First and foremost, I believe Tender Love is a great example of someone you can follow on Twitter. You can also follow, of course, Jim Bransky, Bill Jordan, Susan Sarandon, Kelly Powell, Kelly Ripa... LAUGHTER Repetition of Kelly. LAUGHTER For what it's worth, you all missed the fact he said follow more than once and the subject is following. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, you know, I'm calling you out on that one, but nobody else did. So, Kinsey, you have 10 seconds remaining. Who you should be following on Twitter starting now. Once again, as I was saying before, I was... ..I. So, Nadia, you gain a point and you have six seconds remaining. Who you should be following on Twitter starting now. I think that you shouldn't be following anybody on Twitter. So, Nadia gets quite speaking at the end of that round. And the next one's a bit of a curveball. Adam, you're at first to speak and the subject is how to write a regex. This is going to be fun, I can tell. So, Adam Cuffee, how to write a regex starting now. The first step in writing a regex is to open up the computer. From that point, you will select the IDE that is the most appropriate for the task at hand. I prefer to look specifically at the beginning of the line followed by the second character, the third character. Kinsey. Repetition of character. Repetition of character, of course. Then again, you've got to take over the subjects. Kinsey, you have 40 seconds remaining. How to write a regex starting now. How to write a regex is something that I learned from one of my fellow co-workers. His name is Ben Horn and he attended Turing School or... Deviation. Deviation. There's nothing to do with regexes. So, Nadi, you have 23 seconds remaining on how to write a regex starting now. I am going to tell you about how to write a regex. When it is time to write a regex, open up something called rubular.com. It gives you a playground where you can practice different ways to write your regex. Repetition you. There was you and there was your. Oh, those are different? Yes. So, that was the incorrect challenge. Nadi, you have an additional point and 3.6 seconds on how to write a regex starting now. It was correct, but there is less than two seconds to go. So, Kinsey, you do gain a point and you have 1.3 seconds on how to write a regex starting now. I feel so cruel for that subject. Okay, so currently Kinsey is in the lead with 10. Nadi has got 6. Adam slipped a third with 5. Steven currently on 1. Now, Steven, you are at first to speak and your subject is going to New York. So, going to New York, Steven Shaw starting now. Hesitation, correct. Help if you speak. So, Nadi, you've gained a point and the topic of going to New York for 59 seconds starting now. I really like going to New York. Let me tell you about going to New York. I go to New York for one purpose only and that is to attend Garuko, which is a fascinating conference at which all of you people are attending. Last time I was in New York was to attend Garuko. And I just realized... Kinsey. Repetition of Garuko. Of Garuko. And I. And I. And attend. And attend. Completely correct, Kinsey. So, you're currently on 11 points. You have 35 seconds on going to New York starting now. Going to New York is one of my favorite pastimes because there are a lot of people that I know here between friends like Tara, who some of you met last night, and family members that live here in Brooklyn. Going to New York is exciting. There's a lot of humans walking around. It's very crowded, unlike Denny. Repetition of Barry. Repetition of Barry, correct. So, Adam, you've regained the subject and 3.9 seconds, nearly enough four seconds, on going to New York starting now. My favorite thing in going to New York is to visit... We will never know the end of that sentence. We will never know. Okay, Nadia, you're up next. And your subject is My Talk at Garuko. So that's Nadia on My Talk at Garuko starting now. My Talk at Garuko was all about code hospitality. I want to tell you two stories about My Talk at Garuko. The first one is about the time a friend came to stay with me. She messaged saying that she wanted to move to London. I said, great, tidied up my flat, went to pick her up from the airport, created a guide for her. Repetition of her. Repetition of her, correct. That was like eight times. That was good. Sorry, I feel bad. So, yeah, Kinsey, you've got half a minute remaining on My Talk at Garuko, which hasn't happened yet, starting now. My Talk at Garuko is happening right after this panel, and I will be talking about code readability. And earlier when... Yeah, there's lots of answers there. So Nadia, you've gained a point and regained the subject for 17 seconds on My Talk at Garuko starting now. Let me tell you some more about My Talk at Garuko. Which hopefully... Kinsey. Hesitation. Hesitation, definitely. So, Kinsey, you have nine seconds. Just to be clear on repetition, you can't see anything you said earlier this round. So, nine seconds on My Talk at Garuko starting now. You all should be very excited and enthusiastic. Repetition on very again? Very again, yes. And and. I said and when you left. So, Steven's got a point. Richly deserved. Be ready to speak quickly. So, Steven Shaw has 2.5 seconds on My Talk at Garuko starting now. My Talk at Garuko has not happened. Excellent. Kinsey, you're up next. Your subject is Stack Overflow. Stack Overflow. Kinsey and Durham for 60 seconds starting now. In office in Denver, and I have the pleasure of going over there to talk to their developers, but mostly I use Stack Overflow to research things that I... Spasm in my hand. Well, that's correct. It is not one of the rules. So, Kinsey gets a point from being possibly tactically interrupted. So, Kinsey, you have 45 seconds remaining on Stack Overflow starting now. Stack Overflow for researching problems that I don't know. Repetition, that's a third eye. Yes, yeah. I'm not sure you might have repeated research. Was it research or researching? I'm not sure. Okay, that would have also been valid. Okay, Stephen. You have 39 seconds on Stack Overflow starting now.  Not only that, but I can go home looking my son in the eye after using Stack Overflow. It's a wonderful website that provides answers to commonly posed questions in the software development community. They have a reputation for being difficult to get a job at, but have a very rewarding dental care system. Adam. Repetition of have. Have, correct. No, I cannot. For software reasons and for the rules. So, Adam, you have 2.7 seconds remaining on Stack Overflow starting now. Stack Overflow is a great story. So, Adam Cuffey speaking at the end of that minute gains a point for doing so, gets into second place, just ahead of Nadia and Stephen, and Kinsey's quite a long way ahead of all of you. Okay, Adam, you're up next to speak. Your subjects. Matt's is nice, so we are nice. We have a rule in tech jam that the real just a minute doesn't. I should explain now, you are allowed to use common short forms of the topic. So, in this case, minus one or minus one, however you choose to pronounce it, is also for gain to repeat. Of course, any of the words in the topic. So, Adam, Matt's is nice. So, we are nice. 60 seconds starting now. Minus one, minus one, minus one. However you choose to pronounce this as an acronym for Matt's is nice, so we are nice, is entirely up to you. However you choose to start. Repetition of you. Yes, repetition of you. Nadia again a point. You have 45 seconds remaining. Matt's is nice, so we are nice starting now. I have a very interesting story about minus one, which stands for Matt's is nice, so we are nice. I was at RubyConf last year in Atlanta and Matt's gave a keynote presentation about new things coming in the language and he had a slide which had minus one. Repetition had. Had, there was a few had there. So, Stephen, you gained a point and you have 21 seconds remaining. Matt's is nice, so we are nice starting now. Matt's is nice, so we are nice. Also known as metiswan, is a thought that's given out in the Ruby community and accepted as common wisdom. I've heard it echoed by fellow developers such as Joshua Knowles, Brian Helmkamp, Mike D'Alessio, and my favorite human being in the world, Luke Julia. Excellent, Stephen Shaw clawing back some points there. Slowly but surely gaining. Stephen, you are up. Accidental puns, they are the best. Okay, Stephen, you are up next to speak. Your subject is the elevator pitch. So, Stephen Shaw, 60 seconds on the elevator pitch starting now. The elevator pitch is an idea... Nadia. Hesitation. Hesitation, definitely. So, Nadia, you have 56 seconds on the elevator pitch starting now. I think we can draw interesting parallels between the elevator pitch and a just-a-minute speech. In a just-a-minute speech... Kidding? Just a minute speech. Yes, repetition of just a minute and speech. Kinsey, you gained a point. You have 46 seconds remaining on the elevator pitch starting now. The elevator pitch. The elevator pitch. The elevator pitch. The elevator pitch. That one's buzzing. I would have actually accepted a repetition challenge by that stage. We have to have some interest in the game. So, Nadia, correct. You have 39 seconds on the elevator pitch starting now. The elevator pitch is a way that you sell your start-up idea to venture capitalists. What you do is go into an elevator on the zero floor.  Repetition. That was the third you. Yes. Yes, there was. Stephen, so you've gained a point. You have 25 seconds remaining on the elevator pitch starting now. The elevator pitch is an interesting idea in the American economy. A lot of my fellow attendees have had the opportunity to give the elevator pitch because not only are they developers, but they're entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs such as Josh Knowles. You've been challenged. Adam. Pick one of the three. I would have gone with hesitation. Yeah, me too. Yeah, hesitation. Adam, you've gained a point. Broken into double figures. You have 12 seconds remaining starting now. An elevator pitch begins with four primary components. First, you position yourself inside of an elevator with another individual. Second. So Adam Cuppey speaking. At the end of that minute has tied once again for that all-important second-place space. Kinsey's still ahead, Stephen. Just a little bit behind. You're next to speak. Your subject is microservices. You like that one? Nadia, you have 60 seconds on microservices starting now. On microservices. Because when working at Pivotal, I was on their Cloud Foundry team. When on that... Hesitation. Hesitation. You're definitely running out of steam, I'm afraid. So, Kinsey, you have got 49 seconds on microservices starting now. Microservices is something that we are trying to implement on my team at GoSpotCheck and it's kind of been a complete mess. So I've been learning a lot and seeing different libraries such as Kafka for sending messages between different services. There's also another library called Kinesis. I haven't done anything with, but interested in checking out what it does and why. Repetition of and. There was a few answers there. So Adam, you have 12 points and 13 seconds on microservices starting now. Microservices cannot be confused with either Microsoft or Microfridges. It's important to note that as a... Nadia. Hesitation. Hesitation, definitely. So Nadia, you have 4.1 seconds on microservices starting now. At RailsConf last year... Adam. Derailment, I don't know. No H. H. Hesitation of H. Hesitation of H. I should give a point to that fellow on the front row there. Not for the topic on the board though. If you shorten microservices to DHH, you have problems. It's one word. It's not one word. There is an established form here and yes, it was repetition of H. You're not popular, but you are right. So Adam Cooper, you have half a second on the subject of microservices starting now. I would have accepted a challenge if it had come before the minute. The minute happened. 13, that's higher than 12. Yeah, so it's 14 for speaking at the end of that minute. Feel the hate there. Beautiful. Kinsey, you're next to speak. For the start of the round, your subject is Games for Developers. Games for Developers, Kinsey Andoram, 60 seconds starting now. Games for Developers is a confusing subject, but I recently watched a talk by Ernie Miller at Nordic Ruby about video games and how they relate to developers and the tool of that developer. I think the audience has it. Once again, not my fault. So Adam, you've gained a point. You are just creeping up on Kinsey at this stage. It's getting interesting. Adam, you've got the subject of Games for Developers and 44 seconds starting now. The available Games for Developers are quite extensive, but I'm not going to bother to go through that list now. Instead, what I'll talk about is the start of Games for Developers begins at the point in which you have an idea, and then that individual chooses to move on to the next thought within the framework of the game itself. For Games with Developers and for Developers, I've decided to sit on the topic of what involves the game that you chose. Kinsey. Repetition of game. Repetition of game is absolutely correct. So, Kinsey, you've regained the topic with 13 seconds to go. Games for Developers starting now. Games for Developers could be any game such as World of Warcraft, Halo, anything that makes you... That was an incorrect challenge! So, Kinsey, you've gained a point for being interrupted, and you have 90% of a second remaining on Games for Developers starting now. Impressive.  One minute left. So, yeah, Kinsey gains a point at the end of that round. Adam, you are up first to speak, and your topic is DHH. Doesn't actually fit on the screen! If you're wondering who to blame for that, it's me. I will accept the correct long form, which escapes me right now. However... So, Adam, you have 60 seconds on DHH starting now. DHH is the initials for David Hanna-Meyer Hansen of Denmark. David Hanna-Meyer Hansen is an individual that has brought a lot of opportunity to this world in front of us. At Go Ruko, we have focused entirely on the opportunities that the Ruby community has as a result of DHH or David Hanna-Meyer Hansen. From Denmark, he started by... Nadia? Repetition of Denmark. I think I heard a repetition of Ruby as well earlier on. Nobody picks up on that one. So, Nadia, you have 35 seconds remaining. You've gained a point, and you have 35 seconds on DHH starting now. I'm very happy to have challenged Adam on the topic of DHH, given an earlier conflict when he interrupted me on another... Adam? Is it diversion? What's the word? Deviation. Deviation? Ooh, because that was about the challenge about DHH. What do we think? Nadia gains a point for audience support. And 23 seconds remaining on DHH starting now. I was for keynote on the differences between microservices and monoliths and how Rails was like a backpack for him, which included action cable and interesting... Repetition of Ann. Yeah. There was lots of Ann's. Interesting, Adam. You have 1.9 seconds remaining on DHH starting now. David Hanna-Meyer Hansen. That is Garouko all we have time for. Thank you so much for listening. You have been my favourite audience so far on this game. All that remains at this moment in time is for me to thank the Ian Messeter, the originator of this game, and Nicholas Parsons, who's been presenting it in the real world for almost 50 years. Thank you very much for listening, and please once again show your appreciation for the panel. Stephen Shaw! All right, we've got a five. Adam Coppy. And today's winner, Kinsi Andoram. Thank you very much. Goodbye.


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Hey there friends, thanks for checking in at Shot Show and I stopped by the Sky Firearms booth because they have a new release It's called the Sky DVG1 and I was wondering what DVG stands for I thought it was damn very good, but it's actually David versus Goliath, and I think that's pretty cool But this gun is very different than some of their other models you can take a look at it You may notice that the the grips a little bit slimmer kind of reminds me of the CPX3 Versus one of the older CPX2's with a little bit of a wider grip So this has a nice grip the grip texturing changed it remains 10 plus 1 right same magazines But the main thing that makes this different is that it is striker fired and that's a little different from Sky We know that the CPX1, CPX3 and 4 and 380 they're all hammer fired This is striker fired you may notice also it has a flat face trigger very popular these days A lot of people like the flat face trigger and you can get it with this Sky DVG1 and we'll go ahead and take a look at that sky saying that it's breaking at five and a half pounds and Without having my trigger skill here. I would say yeah, that's right around five and a half pounds 3.1 inch barrel you may notice that it does have front serrations for those press checks And it has the same Subcompact feel that we're used to with sky handguns But it's a striker fired It's a David versus Goliath one and it has a very nice feel I know a lot of people are excited now when I reviewed the sky CPX2 RD model it has a crimson trace 1500 on there and crimson trace actually made this proprietary for Sky firearms, and I actually called them to find out to verify that and that is true But they're also offering it on the DVG1. It's a DVG1 RD now this crimson trace 1500 CTS 1500 has a 20,000 hour battery life now the thing that makes this very much a sky thing is that the MSRP is 389 with the red dot that comes installed by the way I know a lot of people are worried about getting plates. How am I gonna mount this? Will this red dot work for this particular? Set up and this comes installed I really appreciated it when I got the CPX2, but it Is just like this 389 and over here. We're looking at 289 and you know as Most other sky handguns it drops over time at your local gun store So that's what we're looking at from from sky firearms for 2020 these will be available most likely late March early April that's the projection anyways and It has the exact same feel that we're used to with sky handguns, but it's striker fired It's got a little slimmer grip and a five and a half pound trigger that is flat And then you'll have the option with a red dot or not, but there it is new from sky and I will be getting one of these and showing you at the range how well it does if you like videos like this Please subscribe and share I always appreciate thumbs up button. Thanks for watching. You guys be safe