Even with Matt Breda being back and Tevin Coleman starting, Rocky Mostert stayed the lead dog in the backfield. He had 10 carries and two targets while playing 60% of the snaps, which was higher than I expected it to be. Breda had six carries and one target. Tevin Coleman had just three carries and basically didn't play like the second half. Mostert is the highest guy on this list, but there are still some major red flags. They have other healthy bodies they can give it to and they've shown this year they won't use anybody as a bell cow, but Mostert does at least get a decent bump up given that he played 60% of the snaps, even when they had everyone active and he's been very effective this year. So Brandon, I want to ask you about Rocky Mostert because I swore off this backfield last week. I might need to undo that given the snap rate here, given how effective he has been. They are at home against Atlanta next week, named that salary for Rocky Mostert in this 49ers offense. You, okay, so I accidentally saw it. Okay, and you seem higher on him than I am and I just want to know what range you're thinking because I don't want to give anything away. Does that mean it's bad? Just, I mean, just let me know. I think that he is worth 63 to $6,500. Oh gosh, I'm way off. I can tell by your face. He has $7,500. Wow! No way! That's why, yeah. His snap rate is similar to Aaron Jones, but Aaron Jones gets a lot more targets and Aaron Jones, you could question whether he's worth $7,500 at times. Mostert being 75, I think is huge and way too high, but it's so hard to ride him off because he's crazy effective.  Yep, it's high, it's top, and I mean you mentioned Aaron Jones. Aaron Jones has to deal with, you know, Aaron Rodgers and the passing touchdowns, but really he has to deal with Jamal Williams. Mostert still has two other guys in the backfield. I mean, it, I don't anticipate having much Mostert at that side. I mean, I think that, I think that like he is grading out for me much better than I thought he would, and I am bumping him up in my mind, but bumping him up to $7,500 to me is really, really hard to get to and I think that there are a lot of paths to failure at that number. So I'm sure I'll talk more about him on Thursday, but it's a good role. It's still very scary though.


Still talking crime. The alleged murder of Hanifah Abubakar, Abdul Malik Thankh, who has made a U-10, as he has pleaded not guilty to the murder of the five-year-old, as opposed to his earlier confession to killing the girl with rat poison when he was paraded at the headquarters of the Kansas State Police Command. Although the scope of right here, alongside his accomplice, Hashimo pleaded guilty to the false charge, which is a conspiracy. They denied the remaining four charges, and Fatima, who is also a suspect, denied conspiring to kidnap Hanifah Abubakar for a carnal high court today, presiding judge Justice Osman Naba, adjourned the case to the second and third of March for the commencement of the hearing, in order that the accused's presence be remanded in a correctional center. So we are prepared to go into hearing in the second to third of March. Okay, how many can't charge, slapped on clients? Five can't charge. How many has he pleaded guilty? If there are no names to cross out, why did he deny the arrest? Meanwhile, the Commissioner for Justice, Moussa Lawan, has assured that the case would be completed as soon as possible. The trial is charged with criminal conspiracy, kidnapping, concealance slash keeping in confinement the kidnapped person and culpable homicide, contrary to sections 97, 274, 277 and 221 of the penal code. Thank you.


week I was like holy shit that is that has been a huge part of my life too so yeah I've lost paper work this cost me tens of thousands of dollars and a great deal of aggravation and humiliation I sold a car and didn't get proper paperwork for it and so I was on the hook for all sorts of parking tickets holy shit hey I can't look maybe I shouldn't share this but I'll do it anyway hey right safe space yes it's a safe space here on the Luke Ford show it's between you and me nobody listening yeah so look I could I have this issue right back in something like 2014 Luke right the early stages of Bitcoin I got into Bitcoin as like a kid right yeah somewhere somewhere on a hard drive I could have like at least a minimum number of bitcoins like at least the number on like you could maybe count in a hand but potentially a huge number somewhere and this is now like 10 years over 10 years ago I was a kid at the time many computers since I have these things on like hard drives basically in the attic and you know just the potential just the like impossibility the task just seems so enormous and I've never been able to put myself through attempting to find these things and yet and this is gonna sound absolutely insane to anybody that's listening they're gonna be like what the hell are you ridiculous you could have like a life-changing amount of money sat there or something just like the end it just there's just like this blockage or something that's this blocking thing in front of my in front of my mind to just put myself through the task of attempting to go and look for this shit yeah yeah I've always had to do that which is exciting yeah absolutely I mean the losing routine paperwork not keeping track of important details and constantly searching for stimulation and excitement and and just having my mind check out when I'm faced with mundane routine reality that is not exciting and I mean just the wreckage of the consequences of that are just absolutely enormous and I was talking to a friend and suddenly I found out that he'd been diagnosed with ADHD and he talked about how he could have done great in school but he just couldn't pay attention to detail so smart guy accomplished guy but his life choices were severely narrowed because of his inability to you know concentrate on routine details yeah so when I heard you mentioned that I hadn't even realized that this is like a big consequence of ADHD like I still don't think that I'm tempted to go and get medicated Luke and you know after I played on one of my streams that walk and talk video you did where I said Luke Ford psychoanalyzing my situation here but much of it was true many of the things that you're saying were true but loads of people came and were counseling me against it and how many of those people are counseling you against it do you think we're married with kids six figure incomes or did they want to keep you a loser like them it's an interesting question isn't it I don't think people see themselves as losers and want them and want me to be a loser it it's a funny thing because advice always comes from a place of I think people are seeing seeing you fuck up but pun French but and and or potential pitfalls and it comes from a good place wouldn't you say do you really think I want to drag this guy down no I don't think they're explicitly feeling I want to drag this guy down but we see the world as we are much more than than as as the world is so people generally don't want you to change I mean people who enjoy your streams don't want you to change even though what may well be in your best interest may well be for you to stop streaming I mean I'm not recommending this I'm just saying that your best interest and the viewers best interest maybe in fact going in completely opposite directions yes I'm getting a lot of bumping with the mic I don't know if you're able to not bump your mic I mean it sounds good aside from side from the bumping but aside from the idea of giving advice comes from a good place it comes from the place of the person who's giving the advice and so if someone's messed up they are overwhelmingly going to give you messed up advice they can't help it if someone's in a good place they're probably going to give you good advice because again they almost can't help it so for I remember in one of my 12-step programs it talks about the need to rescue and the need to be rescued come from the same sick place I know at various points in my life I've wanted to be rescued and then I've also had times where I've gotten you know an emotional high from rescuing others and yeah I recognize that comes from a sick place and and so we can't do anything but speak from the position that we're in so I would just be highly skeptical that these are high-functioning people who are telling you stay just the way you are yeah how have you dealt over the years with the audience capture Luke I don't know if that's the right term it's the right term and I've struggled with I mean it's been intoxicating to me because now I grew up in in foster care so I've always been looking for love yeah I wouldn't do so many live streams if I wasn't looking for love and if I wasn't so awkward at you know getting and receiving it in in real life so audience applause is is you know highly emotional experience for me it's it's really just washed over me but then I've seen the the humiliation that has often resulted from it and and so I guess just the pain and humiliation all right it's nothing without specifics so I will get a bigger audience the more extreme the shows I do all right and and the more I will get more applause the more extreme I go and the more anti-establishment I go so I noticed that when I really burst on the scene in 2018 like doing shows with Mike Enoch and Eric Stryker and people of that ilk you know those would get the most views the most applause and when I could say anything that was a tall akin or sympathetic to what these people were saying that's what would get me the most applause and luckily at about the same time I started doing that I read the dangerous perils of the e-personality and I kind of I was able to somewhat spot what was happening but I still got I still got sucked in right I still you know said things that I regret it's it's it's very difficult it's but it's a symptom this is almost everything's a symptom of something deeper so to the extent that I've been able to build a life of self-respect for myself over the past six years approximately the less vulnerable I become to audience capture so the the problem is not audience capture the problem is how vulnerable am I to things like audience capture but also a hundred other things as well so as long as I'm vulnerable you know people are going to come along and take advantage of my vulnerability or they're going to you know incentivize me to go in in directions that are against my best interest but the problem is not audience capture and the problem is not other people the problem is that I don't consistently lead a life of self-respect from the time I get up in the morning to the time I go to bed once I have a pretty good handle on that then audience capture largely disappears as a problem you know once you like so for me adopting the mindset that everybody knows everything so graduating from the idea I'm trying to get away with something uh so that was essential also what would what would my words and deeds look like if they were published on the front page of the New York Times fairly and accurately I mean in imbibing those two ideas kind of helped me to develop a life of self-respect and then audience capture just didn't become much of much of a problem like I used to like to gamble in high school but I haven't gambled since high school uh because I kind of got that sorted out that gambling is not good for me so I watch sports and there are innumerable gambling ads but they don't really have much of an effect on me and so audience capture no longer has much of an effect on me because I've largely created a life that from the time I get up usually on average at 4 a.m the time I go to bed usually on average about 8 30 9 p.m I'm pretty much doing everything that not only I would respect but my family would respect people in my synagogue would respect and you know you would respect if you you know knew the details it's not like when I'm not live streaming I'm engaging in you know behavior that I'd be you know appalled and ashamed and embarrassed to have you know put forward to the world yeah yeah I'm sure you experienced it too the moment that you start to get a little popular people want to befriend you um and people like um you become more uh interesting to people or people just want to have you around and then they start talk talking to you or feeding you things that they want you to do uh am I resonating in any way yeah yeah absolutely yeah yeah because I mean everyone has their own agenda how do you say no again yeah who's who you want to impress how do you do yeah yeah so I definitely have there are a lot of people who I want to impress uh but that's a symptom once again once I get myself sorted out so that I develop self-respect then my need for other people to provide me you know with admiration or you know give me positive strokes uh that just considerably diminishes so this desire to accommodate others it's a symptom of not respecting yourself right self-esteem is the opinion is the reputation you have with yourself and if you can develop a good reputation with yourself then it's not nearly as important to one to to meet the needs of other people particularly if you see them going against your own best interests so I think it's it's primarily a matter of getting yourself together developing a good reputation for yourself with you know life worthy of self-respect and then these other problems considerably diminished so I'll still meet people who intoxicate me you know particularly you know pretty young women or very successful and accomplished men and it's like oh you know I just want to hang around with these people I want their their good opinion but my yearning for that is considerably diminished if I'm standing on my own two feet and I'm leading a life that not just I would respect but would be considered respectable if it was broadcast to the world sure yeah that's yeah those two are often in conflict as I see it you know I never go around thinking do I respect myself or things like that um I think in many ways my self-esteem is in probably holy in what other people think of me um and as I go around in the world and thinking how do other people judge me how do I come across what is my reputation to these people based upon what they know of me already I rarely ever I rarely ever spend a moment to think yeah maybe we're just in two different mindsets here so you you go around thinking do I respect myself like actively is that what you're saying well that's my my primary goal now I I definitely get around other people and I think why aren't they including me why have they invited me I went on a hike a few months ago and I ran into four acquaintances of mine like people I've known for years and when we were done saying hi and we've gone our separate way those things it would never have occurred to any of these blokes to invite me along uh so yeah so I I still feel that keenly you know when I'm not invited to play when I'm you know not invited in I still feel that I think though my primary consideration is do I respect myself and and evidence for that is that I frequently do live streams where virtually every single person in the chat disagrees with me and I don't back down so I am very pro vaccination the overwhelming majority of my audience is anti-covid vaccination I am pro getting medicated for ADHD the overwhelming majority of my audience as opposed to getting medicated for ADHD I believe that the 2020 elections in the United States were were fair and that voter fraud would not have played a significant role in the outcome of those elections most of my audience passionately disagrees with me I'm coming around on that one so if I can if I can stand up and I can say things that virtually everyone in the chat disagrees with that to me is is evidence that I've arrived at a place of self-respect that I say things that that I respect even though everyone in the chat is is against me that that shows that I can stand on my own two feet and that I don't need you know someone else so I'll just give you one more example I know I've written something good if after I've composed it I then open up a new browser and I read the the blog post for myself or the essay for myself and if I get a chocolate out of it if I enjoy it then I know I've written something that's good even if nobody else comments on the essay or the blog post right even if no one else says it's good if I read it in a new browser look at it and I enjoy it and and I think I'm making some good points and I get a chocolate out of it okay that's self-authenticating and so I I have by no means graduated from comparing myself with others and noticing others there's no way to graduate and it's not even desirable we need to constantly compare ourselves to others for informational purposes maybe they're doing things that I need to do and you know there are various reasons and maybe I need to repair those relationships or I mean we can't help but compare ourselves to others but we we don't have to put the vast majority of our self-esteem in their hands I find that is is a very volatile and dangerous thing yeah it's certainly it's certainly a challenge certainly definitely in the early stages of getting any popularity whatsoever I feel like in say the last few months my online streaming for whatever reason has gone like it's not necessarily my content but the attention that I'm getting has gone up a gear and I've noticed a distinct amount of more attention than I'm getting I even even on last night's show I was just like this just this morning I was just tuning in to JF Gary Epis show and there I was just watching it and halfway through the show about three quarters through somebody sends a super chat into JF Gary Epis a guy I've never heard of and his super chat was dear JF Gary Epis there appears to be a young man in England called Stephen J James who is on the verge of throwing away his own life or something and about to become a dissident on the internet would you have any advice for such a young man and I'm there thinking what the hell is going on here and so these are various surreal moments I don't think I am that guy by the way but other people seem to think that that's the situation I'm in well yeah it comes go ahead yeah I was just saying people will rarely see you as you are people will project you know things onto you and so I think what was going on in that particular instance was someone projecting things onto you because you've been doing more dissident right adjacent live streams over the past few months so you took a few months off then you came back and you did with that Thomas guy you've done you know you've you've met those desperate cravings among people on the distant right for some some content there's very little that's out there on YouTube in particular so you're meeting a desperate desperate need it's just like a woman who's a five all right and and she's hit up by these guys who haven't had sex in years and you know they are flattering her and they are trying to seduce her and you know they are doing absolutely everything they can to try to get their you know needs met with this woman who is objectively a five but due to the severe nature of their need you know she she becomes everything to them and so there is a huge need for the type of material that you're pumping out and so people are responding to you from that place of great hunger okay yeah that's what I think I mean what do you think of that it's possible I'd like to believe people can see some potential in me and they want I think yeah I think that's probably it they want to mould me to become that thing um they see there's a potential for me to become this dissident right ring commentator or something I don't know why probably like you say it is because I've just started tackling some of these topics I have duvet on every other week now immigration's coming up I'm being I'm being asked to take positions on these things on the internet it's probably not in my best interest but when it happens you do it don't you um and my instincts are naturally well like let's just call them antithetical for the mainstream um so yeah people also don't like somebody who is like holding back so I give a sense of this that I'm like walking the fence because I'm worried about hate speech laws in the United Kingdom and that's the right thing to do I think I think you would counsel me that this is the right thing to do be very careful of what you say don't put yourself in any actual real world harm trouble but people don't like that when they're listening they want me to drag it out of you and they sense that it's deep within you and you just want to blurt it out and so they like they're they're tugging for it to some extent I mean I can give you another arena where you would get just as much praise and and maybe even more and that is if you started becoming a commentator on the world of pornography because again you don't have a lot of you know intelligent thoughtful people but if you started you know providing you know regular youtube streams on you know news and and controversies going on in the porn world just like I did on my blog for 10 years you'd get an enormous amount of attention because one there's a huge audience for for gossip about the porn industry and two you know very few people are providing it and so so yes you know if you wanted to go uh if you wanted to go swim laps in a sewer right you wouldn't keep bumping into people right there wouldn't be many people in the sewer like getting into your lane and bumping you as you go for your for your morning swim but most people don't want to swim in a sewer and for normal society but the pornography industry and the distant right are considered sewers yes it certainly is and it's swimming with sharks too yeah so definitely got to be careful of that okay right Luke I think I need to hop off right it's been great just talking with you for a few minutes there again I'm sure I'll have more to discuss in in the future sounds good take care Stephen bye bye thank you Luke thanks for having me boy yep bye okay I want to talk a little bit more about this new book by Michael Wolf on Fox News just read a few excerpts then play some more clips from Tucker Carlson Suzanne Scott the CEO of Fox News which largely barred from instructing or even talking to the networks leading prime time anchors and major money makers Carlson and Hannity what could she tell them after all that their ratings did not already say it was Scott's management mantra don't fix what isn't broken and in the variegated ecosystem of Fox misogyny Laura Ingram was derided as a hopeless drunk a bad drunk a puke spewing drunk and two she had thrown herself drunk or not at every man in the conservative movement this since her undergraduate years at Dartmouth that particular hotbed of conservatism in the 1980s where she first made a reputation and yet never sealed the deal in a story that has long haunted her she used to garden hose to flood the basement of a boyfriend who jorted her she had three adopted children now she was the telling of many men at Fox and through a socially unreconstructed conservative movement a gross pathetic drunk in a skank cue the huge peel of laughter every aunt air woman of Fox was selected for the feminine role that she could fill aside from Laura Ingram Roger Ailes was very precise about who he was casting and for what role beyond that each woman needed to be not just white but not ethnic not to look Italian Jewish Hispanic Greek or too far from an Anglo-Saxon Irish Nordic standard long leg usually blonde and in a hairstyle that said somewhere other than New York and generally a former beauty pageant type each needed to have a more particular sexual role function the girl next door the vixen the disciplinarian it was casting all had to rise to what Roger Ailes called the American blowjob test this was a home grown Roger Ailes theory but she was pleased to frequently expound upon about every man's evaluation of whether or not a woman would give head and with what verb and style one of your is favorite formulations to get ahead you have to give some head so I'm thinking about the Nicholas Cage movie the weather man and early on he and his wife go to counseling and they each have to write something on a piece of paper that they find disappointing about the other and the Nicholas Cage character wrote down I feel like your blowjobs lack enthusiasm I mean how many women out there enthusiastically give blowjobs in an ongoing relationship like the enthusiastic blowjobs that I've received of you know almost always occurred in the like the first week of a sexual relationship so generally speaking I think it's it's true that six weeks is about the half life of a sexual relationship so about six weeks in or tend to be half as intense as it was at the beginning Roger Ailes said that news is a variety show that sexy girls and outrageous man has to be clear what everybody is playing what role they are in everybody needs to play broad to play big to play character don't try to be subtle this is America so the look of cable news when he launched Fox in 1996 it looked like a classroom I wanted Fox to look more like daytime television so the women were important their job was to be familiar to other women in a non-threatening way


It's a small one. Don't even don't even. We got to talk about Vinci. So small world is made. We got to have a Vinci first by Philippi k arts and Vinci is made by Philippi k arts as is another game called evo, which is a fun little game that I played once at RIT with Professor Richmond. I try to remember if I played that the little evolution game. I don't remember. I remember evo for the SNES differ. Oh my God. That game was awesome. But anyway, so we were at we were at a gaming store one day and there was this game Vinci on the discount table right and Alex was and then he bought it and I basically all he had heard about the game was that it was a out of print and be that there were some flaws in it like I knew that had typos and some other like flaws in the instructions. So we got Vinci at the discount bin and we played it and it was actually a fantastic game right and basically the idea Vinci is it sort of risk like where you have units and you conquer space territories on a map. Well, we did a whole show on it. Well, we did we in 2007. Oh, so go back and listen to a two thousand seven that she show. So basically small world is the same game remade with a skin right so that basically Vinci had those flaws with it. So the same guy years later as in a couple of years ago, maybe a year or two he remade the game changed a bunch of the rules to polish it up.  He fixed the typos. He basically redid the game while keeping most of the rules. So it's 90 percent the same game put out by days of wonder. So you might as well call it shelves next to all the other days of one game. You might as well call it popular. You might as well call it Vinci 2.0 right and he put out this game small world and we bought it and we finally got around to playing it despite it being crazy popular. And you know what it's pretty good. If you were on the hedge, you might as well just buy it. It's a solid game. I mean, you're not it's not like you're going to buy a copy of Vinci. No, right. So you might as well buy a copy of small world. Now, one thing I have to say, this is kind of an aside, but I've never had this experience until now of having played a game and knew the rules very well and then having played a game that is based on that game so much that it's almost the same game. It is way harder to learn the rules of the second game that's almost the same. I think it's because you don't put in the full effort of reading the rules straightforwardly, right? Because what you do is you look for the rules differences and you skip over the rest. But the other problem with that is you get to a section of the rule book and you say, oh, I know this rule and you skip over it. But really there might have been something different in there you missed because you skipped over it because you're not also days of wonder games have kind of crap instructions usually, which makes it kind of hard to parse anyway. It's kind of hard. It's like once you know a rule, it's hard. It's like it's easier to search a rule book with your eyes if you don't know the rules at all than it is to search them, you know, being very familiar with. Yeah, well, this is an aside.   People already it's the thing is that information is already out there, but people don't. It's not in a format that people who write board game rules would ever find. It's also not obvious. It is not like do this than this in this exact format. That's just I'm going for it. But anyway, so we ran into weird problems like we're playing and then after the game, we're like, wait a minute, you have to be contiguous because in Vinci, you had to be contiguous. Yeah, you couldn't in Vinci bisected. You weren't allowed to have say a territory on the left and a territory in the right. All your territories had to be touching each other unless you had what was it astronomy or something like that. It was the one that led you to be contiguous. Yeah, there was basically a special power that let you be discontiguous. Otherwise, you couldn't. You had to keep all your stuff connected. But in small world, we couldn't find a rule in the rule book. Correct us if we're wrong. That says you had to be connected. You can actually let your guys split up. You could take all. You know, it didn't matter. Yeah, we might be wrong. We only played the game twice and I read the right check the rules. I couldn't find anything about being forced to be contiguous, which significantly changes the game. So huge because you can basically conquer a territory temporarily for a turn and then abandon it to get more valuable territories on the other side. So the gist of the game in case you've never played Vinci is that there's a list of set of races and a set of powers and they're randomly combined into a list like, I don't know, dragon rider elves or giant spectral giants. Stout gnomes. Actually, I had spectral ratmen, which was both hilarious and overpowered. Yes. The ones that we noticed that were overpowered where spirit is definitely overpowered. I don't think they're overpowered. I think the people we played with did not optimally fuck. Possibly. But so you pick a race and there's a there's like a loadout, a draft. So if you want to pick one, it's free if it's at the top of the list. You have to pay victory points to skip over them to get one further down the list and you leave those victory points on the ones you didn't take, which is a very elegant way of balancing the game. Yeah. So initially at the beginning of the game, there is sort of a random factor, right? If you go first and an awesome combination is in the first slot, you can get it for free without having to pay victory points. But going first appears to be a disadvantage in the long run. It does because by going on to the board first, everyone can just come in on top of you. And there's not much you can do about it unless you're like the super strong defensive hobbits or something like that.  The game is deterministic with one twist in that to conquer a territory, you know, you pick up all your guys from the board except the ones that are holding on to territories every round and then you throw them all back on the board. And instead of risk where it's like, all right, I roll the dice to see if my 10 guys beat your four guys or whatever, it costs two guys to take a territory plus one for every enemy guy on it plus any other modifiers that may be in place like forest plus one, mountain plus one. So it's completely deterministic all the combat. It's like, you know, it requires this many units to conquer these territories, but everyone has a limited number of units so you can only expand your empire so far and you can't do it all in one turn. You have to do over the course of many turns. Also the more you expand, the less you expand in the future, and the more difficult it is to defend because you have more places to defend with a limited number of units, also every race gets a different number of units. So what you do is when you sort of reach the limit of your expansion or you don't feel right, what you do is you decline and that empire now becomes declining empire. You basically stop playing it, but it stays on the board and you go and you get a new empire and you keep getting points from it. Right, but you get points from the old empire. So what you want to do is you want to have a big old empire that still exists and a big current empire that still exists and you want them both simultaneously so you can get double points from having two double points. Simultaneous empire is an old one and a new one and as long and then as the old one gets disintegrated, then you decline the new one and you come onto the board with another one. So you always have two going and you cycle them and then you get the most points and when now this mechanic is awesome because it works a lot like a formula one race with the pitting you basically have to pick and when you decline you do it at the start of your turn, but you get victory points from your turn at the end of your turn.  You probably have a whole bunch of bonus powers from your race.  You don't do anything. Flip over all your guys, all your powers go away. You get some points. You get some points. Not a lot. And then you don't come back out of the board until the next round. It feels really rough to decline unless you have a stout. If you're stout, which is the same thing as rebirth and vinci, you can decline at the end of your turn, which means you can take a turn and then decline and then without wasting a turn, which is incredibly powerful. Now when you decline, it's like being punched in the face. It's like playing Age of Steam, but remember when you're playing this game, everybody has to decline at some point. Yeah. And when you come back onto the board, it's like super awesome tally ho here.  So the game pretty much is that and it goes a set number of turns and then the game is over. I'm like vinci, which went to a set number of victory points. Yeah. That was that's much more interesting, right? I mean in vinci, it was a set number of victory points. You couldn't be you couldn't really work really hard to schedule your declines, right? Because scheduling on the declining on the final turn of the game can only hurt you, right? So it's all about when is the game going to end, how many turns are left in small world, you know exactly how many turns are left. That's a huge dynamic changer coupled with the fact that vinci had open scoring. It had, you know, the 90s style score track around the board. Small world has victory point tokens that are supposed to be kept secret. Now you can keep count. It's basically just a who can actually keep counting thing, but I think what they're trying to remove from the game is the fact that the end of vinci always came down to Pete is winning.  To prevent him from going over the edge. Yeah. Because not everyone has counted the victory points and they're I count him. I know exactly who to absolutely counted them, but not everyone has counted them. Therefore it's difficult to convince everyone to say gang up on the leader and also gang up on the leader isn't necessarily going to help you win because you're not going to say delay the end of the game because the end of the game is coming no matter what. So if they've already got more points, the only thing you can do with a limited number of turns is maximize your points and also vinci you could actually slow the game down.  Yeah. It's like you I just looked and I won the second game we played demonstratively right and what I did is you know I had a spirit guys who stayed around the whole game getting me points that helped a lot but the other thing I did was I basically looked and I said you know with this many players there's going to be 10 turns I think it was 10 turns right I said I will decline on these turns and I did exactly that I kept to that schedule and I declined exactly three times and because the game is clockwise it is the exact same end game dynamic that happens in El Grande with the big and the low bidding. Yep. It's the exact same thing. So I you know if I play you know with any number of players doesn't matter I'm going to look at how many turns there are I'm going to figure out the optimal declining schedule and I'm going to try to pick my combinations based on of course how many points they'll get me but also will they stick to my declining schedule right if I'm if I'm if I'm behind I got to pick a race that will be able to decline more quickly or if I'm if I'm ahead then I got to pick a slow race that needs like three turns to expand I'm like how many turns will it take for that race to decline that's how I'm going to judge them when I pick them right that's a two turn race as a three turn you know it's a four turn and then I could pick and so that I declined exactly the right times to get the maximum points out of every single turn so the races and the powers in Vinci they were very abstract and then you get there weren't separate races and powers it was just chits and they could be combined any which way yep you could have double in something yeah you could have double barbarian you could have god that's a lot of barbarians diplomacy currency you could have you know astronomy and mining you could have all sorts of powers were also very abstract and usually came down to numbers games in small world the powers are all way out there dune style crazy bullshit like some guys get dragon that they could just put somewhere and is fucking invincible yep but at the same time there's a lot less diversity in terms of the number of unity yet yes so in Vinci you could you could have a one you know civilization you have like five units and one another one 14 14 in this all of the special powers have either three four or five most of them have four only one of them has three and all the races the diversity in the number of units they get is very small game gives you the exact minimum number of pieces yes so almost everyone has like nine ten eleven ish guys almost everyone i think you could have as many i think what is a combination that lets you have like 13 maybe yep now there is a combination that lets you have like five which is the dwarf god did what dwarf something the equivalent of currency yeah i pick that combination and i got hosed so this factor of the fact that the numbers are pretty much all in line and the powers are all equally crazy means that the game is almost too well balanced like no matter what civilization you pick unless you pick those fucking dwarves with the currency you're coming onto the board roughly as strong as everyone else it's very balanced and very deterministic and very i don't know i dislike it a little bit compared to vinci because of that yeah and vinci for example you if you picked mining you would go for the pickaxes on the board and they would be worth two points and that was crazy awesome and you would right so everyone be like oh shit don't let him take the ah crap he's got mining mountaineering fuck but in small world you can pretty much with any civilization you have like four different ways to come onto the board that are equally viable and it mostly doesn't matter who you attack yeah it's like there's not there's nothing that gives you that many points that is so much greater than everything else so it's like okay these guys get points on green and these guys get points on wizard marks and these guys get points on this so it's everyone's going to get bonus points from something it's a better tighter game in some ways which at the same time reduces certain kinds of strategies from the previous game it's like on the one hand we should be happier there's less randomness but on the other hand it's like well it's so you know ah but they added randomness with the die in oh i forgot about that in vinci you throwed all your guys you have extra guys that's it in this if you've got one guy left at least you can roll this die you have a chance of conquering one more thing which is great and that it unsticks the game but it's also a little bad in that it's random but i feel like if that weren't in the game i would have just given up on this game because it's so well balanced that without that little bit of randomness it would have immediately solidified yeah it's weird that they bet that right and the thing is they're putting victory points on the races to skip over them is support i guess civilizations is supposed to be the factor that on that makes up for the fact that they're so unbalanced because it cost way more to skip them in vinci too it only cost one victory point and you get a fuck ton of victory points in small world yeah so it's like you know in vinci it's like okay one raise one sieve might be way more powerful than another one but you got to pay a lot to skip over to the good ones so it's okay that they're unbalanced because some guy who gets stuck with a crappy sieve is gonna get a ton of victory points getting victory points from taking a small world sieve that wasn't great for the mad never really seems no it doesn't help you at all you might as well pay the four victory points to get something more awesome right but that you know i'll have these complaints the game is still great like they're they're balanced out by one the theme is great like the icons on the characters and their little like logos are pretty great yeah the art the art of this game i mean the vinci art was pathetic utilitarian yeah i liked it it looked a lot like the game with the rondle no what's that called antique antique yeah but there's actually a rondle series you know i know i know i i always kind of want to buy it then i remember that antique a wasn't that great you know go is is great though yeah it's not a rondle game i but and also the game it tokenized a lot of the stuff that you just had to know in the old game like pretty much every power has tokens to represent it there are so many unique pieces to make sure that you know the count everything is uniform it's kind of like if vinci were second edition d&d then this is third edition yep everything's tokenized everything's literal everything's worth one everything's very simplified it makes the game very accessible and it's still a great game it's just yeah i mean to make a game that is actually you know vinci kind of a you know somewhat hardcore game it's to make it as accessible as small world has made it is quite a design a i consider it equal to vinci they're equal but different if you like one you will probably like the other but you will like them for different reasons and they're so similar you know despite being different that only hardcore people care about these differences and the vast majority people just love either game yep which mean but the vast majority people like small world better because it's more well produced and you know streamlined and easier rules and better arts and all that stuff so it's a great game you should buy it play small world if you haven't is the reason it's popular now there are a million expansion million expansions i haven't played any of them but my suspicion is that some of them are probably good and some of them are probably carcassone catapult i was gonna say the catapult i have no idea which ones are good which ones are bad if any i will have to do this research at a later date yep so buy the game if you're a board gamer it's a game that just it deserves a place in your library oh absolutely this has been geek nights with rim and scott special thanks to dj pretzel for the opening music cat lee for web design and brand okay for the logos be sure to visit our website at front row crew dot com for show notes discussion news and more remember geek nights is not one but four different shows side tech mondays gaming tuesdays and my comic wednesdays and indiscriminate thursdays geek nights is distributed under a creative commons attribution 3.0 license geek nights is recorded live with no studio and no audience but unlike those other late shows it's actually recorded at 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In my younger days I spent years as a camp counselor and camp administrator working with kids at a summer camp and one of my favorite activities was to Go canoeing with the kids But I found that over time that it was better for me to be in the back of the canoe facing forward to make sure that the young person in front of me was paddling in the correct direction because it couldn't tell you how many times I'd turn around and see the kid Paddling in the opposite direction or going somewhere crazy because they didn't really know what they were doing in terms of paddling a canoe And it just put us at odds and we'd end up going in circles and making my job three times as hard getting us anywhere And so anyway the same thing is true in an organization and and that's really the topic of our discussion today It's relate all this to employee relations employee relations is just a company's efforts to manage Relationships between employers and employees in it and it really really helps when you're all paddling in the same direction both the Management the ownership and and the employees of an organization are all paddling in the same direction And that's where public relations intersects with this idea of employee relations. So let's take a look at that in this week's video So for public relations and employee relations are a couple of key Aspects to keep in mind couple of key functions to keep in mind So first of all, this is this is has to do with internal communication So we're talking about communicating with people who work or you know it could be employees in terms of We typically think of this people who paid to beat that organization, but this could also be it's true for Volunteers in a not in a nonprofit organization or you know anybody really who's an internal stakeholder Within the organization So we're gonna talk about it as though they are employees as though they are paid to be there But this could also be just as true these things for people who are volunteering in an organization or whatever But we're talking about internal communication communication It's intended to connect and and inform people that work within that organization. This is not just you know, randomly public information It's not advertising. It's not whatever. It's just intend intended to I could communicate to those internal stakeholders people who are What would call on the inside of that organization? This also is very much connected to corporate culture Corporal cultures is that the intersection of you know your physical environment So so where you're literally doing the work where you were physically located to do that the behavior patterns that are that are you know accepted norms within that organization and then the attitudes and beliefs that the That the organization itself and the leadership and the management of that organization put forward all of those things combined to create What we would call corporate culture so part of how we develop and maintain and and Communicate that is through employee relations and an employee communication corporate culture is an important part of employee relations in terms of the The the vibe that we have in an organization and that we want to create what kind of organization We want to create and know what kind of kind of feel we want to have internally And so corporate culture is an important part of employee relations And then also you can't underestimate the their old leadership here in employee relations Leaders set the tone. They also have to be responsive to those around them. But but leaders really do Set the tone for for employee relations and how They're going to go both in the way that they communicate and what they communicate how they behave all these different things So leadership isn't as a critical aspect of employee relations at every level Anybody who has people who report to them or work under them is a leader And so leadership at every level of an organization sets that tone sets that standard It does kind of trickle down from the top, but but it's important at every level So so internal communication corporate culture leadership These are all important kind of aspects or if you want to think of them as kind of the legs of the three-legged stool of Employee relations. That's where it comes from this idea of internal communication corporate culture and leadership all Go into employee relations. So why do we care about this? What are some of the benefits of employee communication and and more importantly positive employee Relations positive employee communication. What are some of the benefits here? First of all It it allows an organization to be effective in the sharing of goals So again to make sure that we're all paddling in the same direction We have to have the same goal in mind and so as an organization We communicate with our employees so that we can communicate these are our goals Sometimes they're very specific or short-term goals like this is our this is our quota for the day Or this is what we're driving for in the next week or two weeks or whatever Sometimes it's longer term goals. What what is our we know? What's the vision of this organization? But and everything in between so but in order to Effectively share those goals and and get employees to share those goals with the organization We need to communicate that with them We need effective employee relations in order to make sure everybody's on the same page Everybody's paddling in the same direction. Everybody knows what our destination is and we can see it there in the distance And we can all work together to achieve that then Another benefit of employee effective employee communication effective employee relations is enhanced teamwork Teamwork is really important people oftentimes it might sound included get get kind of distraught over working in a team Sometimes we think I could do better on my own or whatever But but the reason we work in groups and teams so much is because it is much more effective in the long run So we ought to do so as effectively as possible We want to do so as effectively as possible and effective employee relations can help Enhance that sense of teamwork and and smooth out the rougher edges of working in groups And and so it can enhance this idea of teamwork and make that more effective within an organization You can also raise employee morale can lead to higher employee morale when when employees feel good about what we're doing and where They're working and they don't dread coming to work and being there and you know They just have this positive feeling of what we're doing there where we're headed that they're part of a team that they're you know all of that stuff Leads to higher employee morale, which leads to greater productivity. So there is a you know, something on the bottom line here for the organization Better employee morale leads to lower turnover. It leads to lower Absenteeism leads to higher productivity in the workplace. So higher employee morale should be a concern there You know the old school would say well who cares if the employees are happy as long as they're doing their job But in reality people do their job Better and more effectively and are more productive when they feel good about where they're at and what they're doing in the organization that they're with So and that's especially true as we get into younger generations the Millennials Gen Z. So, you know, those those types of generations Place increased value on just being happy where they work and and being able to buy into the to the corporate goals and so Being able to communicate effectively with them and develop those positive employee relations will lead to that higher employee morale You also see a better adaptation Amongst employees to risk opportunity and change when they are informed when they are engaged when when you have these effective employee relations They'll handle change better, you know, when you have a massive Organizational change or you're changing a process or you know, you're entering a time where there's a risk factor Involved and so things are a little less steady or there's an opportunity that you as Organization want to pursue which will oftentimes again carry with it some risk. Maybe but you're gonna have a better chance of securing employee buying buying and and support and better productivity all again All those things that will lend to the ability to better adapt to these things with more effective employee relations Employees know what's going on. They see it coming and the end they have that faith They have that trust in the organization that that is built into, you know Kind of cooked in with this effective employee relations Then you'll see employee and employee workforce or volunteer force with a better ability to adapt to those things like risk and change And finally you see increased clarity of policies and structures people just know better what's going on They know what the expectations are of an organization They know what the structure is and who they should go to and ask about different things and and so you just see a more Effective workforce in those regards as well when there's increased clarity Because of that a more effective communication Increase clarity within the policies of an organization and within the structure of an organization that benefits everyone as well Just keeps those gears working more smoothly kind of greases things up a little bit So you don't have as many as much downtime you don't have as many people confused by what they should be doing again It's just better productivity. So again Effective employee communication is just not only is it the right thing to do But it's the right thing in a business sense for making things go more smoothly and run more effectively Okay, so we talked about corporate culture a little bit So and the importance of a corporate culture, you know, this so let's take a look at what? Defines effective corporate culture just briefly here. We're just going to touch on each of these things But when we say effective corporate culture, what are we talking about those things that that lead to? More effective employee relations through corporate culture. So first of all constructive relationships We need a corporate culture that emphasizes constructive relationships relationships that allow people to work Effectively with one another and have that positive effect again If there's somebody in the cubicle next door or on the line next to you that you're just like I don't even want to go To that person. I don't want to talk to that person. That slows things down. It's not it doesn't create an effective corporate culture It doesn't create better productivity and it does the opposite of all that so we want those constructive relationships We need a culture that the emphasizes those effective Relationships amongst employee working relationships doesn't yet be best friends with everybody But you ought to be able to work alongside somebody and not hesitate to ask them a question or whatever Effective corporate culture will also empower employees will give them some latitude to kind of Make decisions based on what they know best and you know within the limited framework and within the framework of the organization Allow them empower them to pursue those things that will benefit the organization in that moment So we ought to be empowering employees to to better themselves better the organization and have that kind of impact all over We need a corporate culture that emphasizes morality and honesty Again, this comes back to trust, you know employees want to be able to trust the organization that they work for they want to trust that That not only is the organization doing the best for them as as employees looking up for them and has their best interests at heart But also that of the community where they live and and they you know They're the immediate area that even the environment in which they're living that they're being responsible with that So they want to know that an organization is being straightforward Treating them with respect treating them with honesty and those types of things Connected to that they want an organization, you know an organizational culture that emphasizes social consciousness meaning The organization understands that it's not out here on its own. It's part of a community This organization is part of a community has some responsibilities in that we've talked about corporate social responsibility and in previous videos and Throughout our discussion of public relations the importance of corporate social responsibility That is part of developing an effective corporate culture and a positive corporate culture is is really being cognizant of that corporate social responsibility and and and really Not just giving it lip service, but really following through on that And then diversity we need a diverse workforce corporate culture needs to be diverse and not just diverse in the sense of Racial and ethnic backgrounds although that's that's good too But diversity of ideas diversity of thought diversity of ways of doing things, you know You need as many tools in that toolbox as you can get to do different things You don't build a house with just a hammer you need a diversity of tools to build a house, right? You need a diversity of tools and diversity of employees and diversity of thought to to build an effective corporation as well In fact an effective organization and that should be part of your corporate culture Embracing that sense of diversity in different ideas so that you can get all those different perspectives It's only going to make you a more effective organization. So Developing that effective corporate culture then will feed into effective employee relations is an important part of that So there are some obviously some challenges and opportunities and oftentimes those things are two sides of the same coin Where you find challenges you also find opportunities and vice versa a lot of times where you find opportunity You'll find challenge and employee relations are no different It does come with a lot of challenges, but it also comes with a lot of opportunities to improve your organization So one of those is organizational clarity again this idea of everybody rowing in the same direction We need everybody pulling in the same direction or rowing in the same direction moving toward that same goal and for that We need organizational clarity Effective employee relations and employee communication can provide that for an organization can provide that clarity Can and give everybody that common goal and help everybody to move in the same direction and be moving in unison And not working against one another There are also opportunities and challenges that exist within different communication tools and different tools that you can use for employee relations So for example an intranet whether that's a corporate website an internal company website Whether it's an app if you're very spread out and you just you know Maybe not if you're large retail organization, for example, not everybody may have access to the corporate In you know through a computer through to the corporate intranet So a lot of organizations are developing apps internal corporate apps to keep people informed and to keep people connected But you can use that intranet intra meaning within meaning it's not for public consumption It's really just for employees and there are different tools and resources there that are for employees specifically You can use that to help connect people connect Connect them with information connect them with resources connect them with one another keep them informed that company intranet Organizational intranet can be a really effective tool Video storytelling can be very powerful Access to anybody can make a video anymore, right? You almost have in your pocket in your cell phone You have basically a hollywood would have been a Hollywood style camera 10 15 years ago the same quality of camera so everybody can make a movie everybody can make a video It's really easy to share those now So as evidence by the fact that you're watching this video on the on the internet somewhere He does available to you to the internet so we can tell stories though We can tell powerful stories through video and and communicate them in a very powerful and personal way because Everyone has a story and we can share that we can utilize that as a tool in employee relations to allow employees to tell their story So video storytelling can be one a powerful tool there as well one last one It's not the last tool period but one last one that we'll talk about here are different employee programs Obviously organizations offer a lot of programs like maybe health insurance or you know things like that But you can expand that you can offer wellness programs you can offer pet insurance You can offer, you know all kinds of different incentive programs for employees and ways for them to take advantage of those things You and that those pooled resources that can come with large organizations and so we can offer employee programs On a variety of things maybe some travel incentives or whatever it is that your employees Tell you that they want we can offer those programs Collectively in order to enhance the employee relations that we have within that organization So we can communicate through all you know all kinds of our tools are almost an infinite way number of ways that We can communicate so the important thing is that we find what's going to be most effective for our employees our specific Audience internally and that we utilize those to the best of our ability then to enhance employee relations Then finally another opportunity that we have which you know can also end up being a challenge But but an opportunity certainly is corporate social responsibility Again employees are keenly aware that this organization is a part of their community and hopefully an important part of their community And so they want to see that organization doing the best they can for those people who live in that area and are involved In that community and and not just the people but that the Being good stewards of the land around you and you know not dumping toxic chemicals into whatever Land or water resources that you have do they but we they want organizations that are going to be on the lookout for how they can Better their community in every possible way both the people and the environment and and just engage in good corporate social Responsibility they want to work for an organization that they can be proud of and say yes I'm extremely proud to be a member of this team, and that's what you want as well. It's going to be great for your Community relations. It's going to be good for your employee Status in terms of retention and turnover and things like that. It's just good all the way around So corporate social responsibility is an important part of employee relations as well You know in the in the end we need to remember that employee that a company or an organization is not made up of Necessarily these physical pieces not made up of machinery and things like that so much as it's made up of people Any organization is only as good as the people that it has Involved in it and working for it and working toward the same goal So it's important that we give those people our our attention and that we connect with them And that we develop those relationships through effective employee relations and through effective employee communication And that is part of our responsibility. It falls Logically in the realm of public relations. So it's an area that we should as public relations practitioners and students of that be engaged with and involved in and figuring out how we can add to that in a positive way If you have questions about employee relations and my employee communication, please feel free to email me I'd love to hear from you there in the meantime I hope you have a new perspective on employee relations and the importance of those people Within the organization to that organization and the different ways that we can reach them and why that that's just positive for Everybody around both the organization itself and the employees that are involved It's it's a win-win-win all the way around when it's done effectively


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Hi, welcome to this episode of APS 1060 Seconds. In this episode, I'll be focusing on the journal referencing. So for journal articles, you have to list out the author's name, followed by the year, followed by the title of the article that you're referring to, and then the journal name, and then the volume of the journal, and in bracket issue is included, followed by the page number. So the page numbers are for the articles that you're referring to. Then for the volume, some journal may not include the issue or the number. Only volume is provided. So make sure you just put the volume instead of the number. So if laying is provided, let's say it's an online journal or even database reference code that DOI is included, then you have to include after the pages. Take a look at the sample below and then try to digest the structure for the journal referencing. I'll see you in the next video.