This is stock number 10811. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and use Dodge and sports car headquarters. Today we are checking out this super clean 2016 Dodge Challenger RT 392 Hemi Scat Pack. This vehicle has the 6.4 liter V8 Hemi motor which pumps out 485 horsepower. This car has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop as a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and tapped off and this car is 100% ready to go. Pitch black clear coat is the color we shoot all of our videos in 1080p 60 frames per second so if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device turn them on right now because it is definitely your best way to check out the quality and condition of the vehicle before seen in person. Comes with the 20 inch granite crystal painted alloy rims, brand new Uniroil Tigerpaw 245 45 ZR20 tires. Those are brand new tires. We put those on in our safety inspection and it does come with the Brembo brakes and these slotted rotors. No dents or dings on that front fender. Factory fog lights, HID headlamps, LED running lights. That front bumper is in excellent shape. I didn't see any dents or dings on that. Lower valance is in pretty nice shape. It's got a couple little scuffs but that's pretty common on these cars. It does have the shaker hood which is a pretty awesome looking feature and functional too. Hood is in excellent shape didn't see any dents or dings on that and the passenger side front fender no dents or dings on there. Passengers side rim no scuffs or scrapes and as you go down that side of the car take note of how clean the body is how reflective and mirror like that paint is. We take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and just cannot make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the car you can see the car here the car and have confidence in the vehicle that you are looking at before you even get here this one does have the Sunruff and that's why we offer the Summit Auto Fastpass option in the upper right hand part of your screen and link right to our website where you can apply for financing get pre-approved see a payment code even appraise the trade off from the comfort of your own home so when you get here or you get the car shipped to you it'll be absolutely no surprises. Back rim is in excellent shape as well and those back tires are brand new as well. You do get the Brembo brakes in the back as well and as we come around to the back of the vehicle rear bumper is in great shape didn't see any dents dings scuffs or scrapes on there does have the chrome tip dual exhaust and the backup parking sensors which are conveniently hiding in that bottom plastic piece LED tail lamps decklid spoiler there's your backup camera this one does come with a car cover also has some little goodies back here as well extras and you do get the tire inflator kit and this is where your battery is located but that car cover does come with the vehicle. Decklid is in excellent shape that satin stripe is in nice shape as well that driver's side rear quarter no denser dings on there and for full disclosure this back rim is in excellent shape as well down the rest of this side of the car very very nice condition didn't see any dents didn't see any dings does come with heated power mirrors enter and go system so I got the seat up here so you can check out the original window sticker they got it framed which is pretty cool if you want to hang that up in your garage after you bought the car that'd be a neat thing to do feel free to pause this so you can see all the options on the vehicle back seats are in excellent conditional rips or tears back here and it does come with the latch child safety system for any child car see needs power windows power locks power mirrors alpine premium sound system auto headlamps power tilt and telescopic steering wheel and as we hop inside the car here you can see that this one has 89,000 nine or I'm sorry 8,929 miles seven-inch LCD display digital speedometer outside temp and mileage empty has the heated leather wrap steering wheel with the thumb pads cruise controls on the right Bluetooth and information center controls on the back paddle shifters on the steering wheel this one does come with the 8.4 3c radio AM FM and Sirius XM radio capabilities factory navigation system this is also where your backup camera is going to show up you got your climate controls for your heated and cooled seat buttons those have the other climate controls there and it does offer the super trap pack option which gives you performance pages with launch control and all the different stuff that you can do with the performance pages which is really which comes along with the RT shaker scat pack package so you got timers gauges g-force engine and all that cool stuff there here's your key fob that's a nice shape down here you have more climate controls and radio controls as well you have the eight speed automatic transmission dash and passenger side format and seat are in excellent condition as well no rips no tears you get the super B stitched into the backrest this car had never been smoked in headliners in great shape as is the color sunroof yeah it map lights up there and 911 and assist buttons in the rear view mirror kind of hard to see but that's where they are anyways we'll take a quick look under the hood and I wanted to show you the driver's seat no rips or tears on there and that's in great shape as well and you do get lumbar and a power driver's seat there alpine premium sound system and we'll take a quick look on the hood I would personally like the thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video you've been able to tell just how clean this car is all the way around inside note as the cold air intake the functional hood scoop engine base very clean runs very smooth and like I said this car has been fully safe to end spec by our service shop has a fresh oil and filter change all the fluids have been checked and topped off and this car is 100% ready to go for brand-new tires and to see more pictures of this car one of our other 450 new and used cars trucks SUVs minivans Wranglers half-tons three-quarter tons one-ton sports cars challengers chargers Mustangs GT 500 Camaros Corvettes you name it we got it with our website www.SummitAuto.com full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at Summit Auto.com and if you'd like to check out more HD videos you can go to youtube.com slash Summit Auto remember to like subscribe and share on this video and all the videos that you see there in fact in a second you see link to subscribe to our YouTube channel on your left it linked more Dodge Challenger videos like this one on your right if you've not been to our website on the bottom link to this vehicle on our website click those check us out and we really look forward to helping with this super clean 2016 Dodge Challenger RT scat pack with shaker and pitch black clearcoat thanks again


First game of solos in a while, and the bus is going over tilted, so I think we're gonna land there. Oh my god. What? I'm not pe- Okay, we're landing somewhere else. Typical EA. Can I make it to salty for me? Yes I can. Ayyy, first chest of the day. Okay, here we go. This- this could work.  Oh my- alright. I guess we're finding a weapon on the ground today.  Oh no, no, no, no, no. Please give me a real weapon. Okay, here we go. Great pistol. I'll take it. Oh, I see a guy. I see a guy. Let's get in a fight.  I'm done. I quit. I'm done. I'm not playing this game. I'm not playing this game.


Ahead of the BIALSA governorship poll fixed for November 11, 2023, a non-governmental organization, the BIALSA Women Arise, is calling for peaceful elections in the state and wants the Nigeria Police Force, INEC and political actors to avoid anything that will bring about violence. At a peace work target never again, the women joined by students and other civil society organizations said they don't want a repeat of the bloodshed that marked the 2019 governorship election in the state as many families were still mourning the death of their loved ones. With placards, they marched from the popular Ekeki Park in Yenogawa to the government house and then head quarters of the BIALSA State Police Command to register their concerns. Never again, stop using our children, stop using our youths, we want BIALSA State to be peaceful. The more the peace we have, you don't need the position of leadership. Our blood does not watch spilling for you. And we are saying to the community at large, the BIALSA State community at large that everyone come November 11, everyone should come out and vote. For this peace work shows that yes, BIALSA State students and the BIALSA State women, we are all united and all of our leaders we are all united that come November 11, there will be a peaceful election. Please allow peace to reign. Where do you feel? And the people are crying. Who are you going to? Who are you going to live? Who wants to appeal to their conscience? Please allow peace to be where? Who wants peace? Who don't want to? Who wants violent repression? Peace? And we want people... Do everything within our constitutional powers and rights to go out there and cast youths on a vote without harassment, molestation.


Thank you very much for coming at the launch of this book on Britain and Europe, what we think is the end game and it's from an Irish perspective. It's the third book in a series on Britain. We published a book in 1996 on Britain's European question and in 2000 on Blair's Britain and England's future. I think what the book traces is the disengagement of Britain from Europe and also that we actually believe that it's now the end game in the sense that a decision has to be made about Britain's future in the Union or not. We think it is possible to do a deal, if you like, with the United Kingdom and to settle the question for a number of years between the United Kingdom and Europe, what we call a bespoke solution. We think that's possible, but another possibility, of course, is that they might leave. If they do leave, of course, the consequences for us are enormous. The reality is that the British question is unsettled, it's uncertain and it's unpredictable. We believe a referendum is inevitable, whether it comes in 2017 or a bit later. We also believe that the notion of British exceptionalism, the feeling particularly in England that they are different to everybody else and need solutions different to other people, that's a reality. And other realities which exist now, which may not have existed in quite the same way in the past, are Scottish nationalism, and that's not a settled question, and English nationalism. So there's a possibility not only that the UK might leave Europe, but there is also the possibility that the UK itself could break up. The consequences for, for example, for Irish trade, the consequences for our relationship with London, consequences for Northern Ireland and for the relationship at the border and across the border, all of those are really very important, and all of them quite possibly could be disrupted in a serious way. So what we're trying to do with this book really is to start a debate, if you like, to contribute to a debate, and to perhaps address something that Cameron himself used in an article in the Financial Times last Friday when he talked about the possibility of Britain sleepwalking out of Europe. The format for this evening is that I'll ask Brendan to talk first. He'd be followed by Paul, done by John Bradley. John in particular will deal with the implications for Ireland and the implications for Northern Ireland, and then I'd call upon Paul again just to talk about the end of the book where very unusually we present, for this institute, we present an agenda for Europe and an agenda for Ireland, and after that we'll take questions for as long as you like, as long as you allow us to go away for dinner eventually. So, Brendan.


The scene that you just saw was real. I was trying to accomplish something and I ended up having a missile, a literal missile, come flying out of my thickness planer, go whizzing by my hands and my body and my ear at a great rate of speed and I looking at the film, the video afterwards, I can see that had I been in the wrong position doing the stupid thing that I did that that could have hurt either broken ribs, taking my ear off, hit my, hit my glasses, any number of things. Hell, I don't know, could have hit me in the forehead and killed me.  What were the mistakes that I made? Well, the primary mistake, I was trying to avoid snipe on a job for a vice and I just, it was really nice cherry wood. I didn't want any snipe on it and so I wanted to avoid it. I thought I had seen next-level carpenter do a technique where he used a sled and then put some sacrificial pieces on that sled with his workpiece and I thought he used two-sided tape to do that. I went back and looked at his video later, found out that I did a lot of things wrong. I put mine with two-sided tape next to my workpiece so that I wouldn't get any snipe on the workpiece because it would be, this was sticking further out, so it would be, the snipe would be on here, but he actually put his work, his sacrificial item on the end of his workpiece and longer. So my primary mistake was the length of this. Nothing should go into these jaws here, even if it's attached to something else, unless it's 15 inches in length so that it's underneath a roller at all times. All right, so that was the first mistake that this was too short. I think I'd have been okay if I had used pieces that were 15 inches or longer for my thickness planer. Secondly, I used the wrong kind of species. I used red oak and as you know red oak is just absolutely full of grain and even though I had the grain going the right way based on these marks here, it still was too severe and too easy to catch. All right, now having learned that I, and I'll never do it, what should I do? Well, I think the first rule is don't worry about the snipe. Why would I not want to worry about snipe on my really nice jaw for my vice? Well, what you should do is leave your boards longer than you need them and let the snipe appear, if any, on the part of the board or workpiece that you don't need and then you can just cut things to proper length when everything is done. So in other words, I should have left my one long piece instead of cutting it to two pieces exactly the right length and then laminating them and then trying to pass that through my planer without getting any snipe.  Leave extra length on the workpiece and then you're not going to get, you get to snipe on the waist area and then cut, cut it to length after.  All right. Some other ways is to make sure that your beds are level. Also, if you, I've seen some people construct longer beds and the whole point of that is to support your workpiece for a longer time because if you put a workpiece into your thickness planer that's a good example of small workshop, but if you put a workpiece into your thickness planer and you got a heavy end here and you kind of let it tip up even though there's a catch it and start putting it through it's going to tip up and get into that blade and you're going to get the snipe across there furthermore when it's coming out the back side, if you let this push down because this is a fairly short you know bench top planer bed here, then that will tip up on the way out. So my instruction manual actually says when you're feeding the workpiece in these are level hopefully lift the back end of here up a little bit until it gets properly engaged in that back roller All right, and then support it when it comes out make sure you catch the end of it and you pull that up a little bit as it's exiting from the planer. For my little WEN thickness planer here I don't get any snipe if I do that So I'm not going to fool around with any little missiles in the future I'm just going to use my proper technique when I put it through there. That is my kickback on my thickness planer story and I hope I've kept you from getting harmed. The other thing remember is don't stand right back here where the missile is going to shoot at you When you're putting your board through make sure you stand to the side and get them in there so that you're out of the line of fire if some freak occurrence does happen I hope that will help you keep your ears keep your eyes keep your ribs and avoid any kind of a kickback happening or if it does happen Let it go past you if that's helpful if you think that might be helpful and Save you in the future then give me a like give me a comment Really really enjoy comments, you know, I got very very few subscribers So it's lonely out here in my little small workshop So give me a comment so I can comment back to you and we can have a little woodworking community going small workshop guy Signing off and hoping that you will be safe with your thickness planer


Alrighty, so we have another conspiracy theory video today. Today's conspiracy theory is going to be one of my favorites to discuss. So as you just saw, today's will be Will Cedar Point upgrade top flow dragster to an LIM and LSM launch system to help with current problems it experiences. For those of you that don't know the current problems it experiences, that's fine. We'll go over that in this video as well. So to get right into it, many enthusiasts and people alike know how unreliable top flow dragster is and has been. Top flow dragster is one of those coasters that is always down for maintenance or some mechanical issue. Oh, and if it's not one of those, then it's down for an even slight raindrop. Yes, I know that sounds crazy, but on my last trip, it was explained to us that top flow dragster cannot operate in any rain whatsoever anymore. So if it's even slightly raining, the coaster will be shut down. I can't fully confirm that. That's just all that was said to us on our last visit and they literally had to wait until the last raindrop hit the ground. So to even begin a proper discussion on whether top flow dragster will be upgraded or not, we first have to analyze why top flow has these problems to begin with. Well, this is something I asked while visiting the park and the answer actually makes a lot of sense. Top flow dragster, when designed, was designed and built with a ton of moving parts and sensors that all have to work together in order for the ride to work properly. For any of you that had been to the park or stood next to this launch section on the coaster, you fully understand what I just said. Look at how many boxes or motors or sensors that are attached to this launch piece of track here. Those fins all operate somewhat separately. So they're in block sections on a launch segment of the coaster that will then all have to rise individually and lower individually for the coaster to work properly. One sensor blows and that coaster is not moving or going anywhere. So when you're at the park or at Cedar Point and this coaster is down, it's most likely down for a sensor problem. If it's not a sensor problem, then it's most certainly probably mechanical, again, probably to do with the fins or the hydraulics or whatever is attached to the top flow dragster or weather. Weather is another reason this coaster goes down. It is a strata coaster. It's high up in the air. So high winds can bring this coaster down very easily. So to even begin a proper discussion on whether top flow dragster will be upgraded or not, we first have to analyze why top flow has these problems to begin with. Well, this is something I asked while visiting the park and the answer actually makes a lot of sense. So for an example, the launch has block sections of fins all work together while working separately at the same time. For anyone that understands mechanics knows there are more moving parts there are then the more likely things are to go wrong. If you walked alongside the launch track of top flow dragster, you'll see that this thing truly is a maintenance nightmare. That's just the launch. The brake section on top flow dragsters operate in a similar manner that make it twice as likely to go down. Add multiple block sections with multiple sensors and more fins. And you truly have a sensor and cooperation problem. You guys know exactly what I'm talking about. So when you're standing there waiting, you hear the fins going up in separate sections like ch-ch-ch, like you hear it. And whenever you look out when the ride goes down, you can usually spot the one fin that isn't cooperating or the one sensor or the one piston or the hydraulic system something is not working and it's usually one. So here's a great view of that. One will cause the ride to not work properly. There has been occasional times where we've seen them force the ride into manual mode because one isn't going to do too much and they'll try and operate it. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't but in most cases the ride will go down, the mechanic will show up and they'll replace a sensor or something, a wire. That's usually what I see when I'm there. It's usually a wire or a sensor that we're replacing and the mechanic will leave, the ride will go back up. It just seems like a true nightmare. So apparently the topic of upgrading Dragster has come up numerous times and seems to be an ongoing discussion on whether Dragster should move to an LIM and LSM launch to help resolve some of these ongoing maintenance issues. So now let's go over whether I think this is possible or not and this is where it gets really interesting. So for positives it would remove a lot of the problems with differing parts having to work together in order for the ride to run. The more moving parts there are the higher the risk for downtime. Dragster despite its downtime remains a huge draw for the park so removing it is definitely not an option and upgrading it or improving it would be best. Upgrading Dragster would be a lot cheaper than removing it and replacing it as well. It would help with boosting guest satisfaction as well as having Dragster more operational. This seems to be the problem. So imagine an alternate universe where Dragster was up and running 99% of the time and operations were great. This would be fantastic for Cedar Point regardless of how old the attraction is now. It remains a huge hype factor for the park and being a Canadian I can tell you it's one of the biggest draws for Canadians crossing the border and grabbing a pass to go to the point. My friends, family, anyone I know has been to Cedar Point and one of the biggest draws and topics of discussion when you're talking to your friends and family in Canada about going to Cedar Point is top throw Dragster. So they aren't going to be removing it. So the only option in my opinion is upgrading it or enhancing it which is why we'll get to my opinion in just a bit. Now why wouldn't Cedar Point upgrade top throw Dragster one may ask? This is where it gets interesting and I actually find difficult to argue against it. So a couple of reasons might be cost. Cedar Fair is one of those companies we don't see spend money if they don't want to. We see this with Wonder Mountains Guardian at Canada's Wonderland, Shade, and Dragster at Cedar Point. Both these parks have attractions that probably should have money spent on them. This might suggest Cedar Fair isn't in the business to spend money unless it's absolutely vital and one could argue it's not absolutely vital yet. Maybe Cedar Fair just doesn't see it as something in the books quite yet. Maybe they're waiting for that end all, end all situation and scenario where they're like, okay, this ride can't operate anymore, implement the plan we've had in place for quite some time now. Maybe they have a plan and they're waiting to implement it when needed, right? One could argue it would be slightly costly as well, ordering new parts, track sections if needed, and for Dragster, new trains as well, and that's plural. That's five trains. So I say five and a lot of you are like, well, no, Dragster has six trains. Well, Dragster should only have five trains. So Dragster, for those of you that don't know, Intamin Design Dragster with six trains without accounting for body weight. So operating six trains with full loads and different body proportions was actually a safety risk because from what I understand or have heard, and again, I can't confirm this, the trains could collide. So train six and train one, I guess, could collide or vice versa. The basically one trains if there's six on the block would be in the final block on the block section of the brake run and the train would come in and potentially bump with a heavy body weight so that's why Cedar Point only operates five trains during operating hours. You'll see them testing the ride with six trains but it'll never be operating with six trains and people on it. So that's very interesting for those of you that didn't know that, that I would just share that. So it's definitely an interesting topic of discussion and in my honest opinion, I think I have made up my mind on whether this conspiracy theory may have some truth or possibility to it. I am definitely going to side with it's possible that Topfield Dragster can and may receive an upgrade down the road with LIM and LSM launch to help improve its reliability and popularity. I think one off season we could see this upgrade done and who knows, maybe Intamin and Cedar Fair are already working on this. I just personally find that spending money soon to fix this coaster will greatly remove the burden down the road of cost and reliability. Now I want to hear from you. Do you think Cedar Point will upgrade Topfield Dragster and improve its reliability or do you think it will remain the same old, same old? Comment down below what you think and remember every Monday we will have a new conspiracy theory video. It's that time of the video where I tell you to smash that like button, subscribe if you haven't and share this for others to enjoy. And as always, thanks for watching and have a great one. Bye.


Y'all. This book. Hey, E here. Welcome back to another book review. Today we are talking about Jemma Amor's PAP Dear Laura.  I'm going to try something a little bit different. They upped the quality of the E-Bird app, so we're going to go with professional. E-Bird! Dear Laura by Jemma Amor. Every year on her birthday, Laura gets a letter from a stranger. That stranger claims to know the whereabouts of her missing friend, Bobby. But there's a catch. He'll only tell her what he knows in exchange for something personal. So begins Laura's sordid relationship with her new pen pal, built on a foundation of quid pro quo. Her quest for closure will push her to bizarre acts of humiliation and harm, yet no matter how hard she tries, she cannot escape her correspondence demands. The letters keep coming, and as time passes, they have a profound effect on Laura. From the author of Cruel Works of Nature comes a dark and twisted tale about obsession, guilt, and how far a person will go to put her ghosts to bed. Ooh, fancy. So now that we know what Dear Laura is about, let's talk about this book. This book came out of nowhere for me. I have been following Jemma on Twitter for a while. She followed me back. I'm trying to work out a deal to get a war on Christmas, her to illustrate war on Christmas. I just want to give you the full breadth of my knowledge of her and any type of professional relationship that we might have. Am I biased? I don't think so. Look, most people are raving about it. Most of the horror community is raving about it. Jemma is obviously a fantastic author, just from what I read in this book. There are certain scenes and certain segments and certain sections that there is a mastery of language that she has that I am completely baffled by. I really fanboy over the stuff that I don't think I can do. I know that sounds, it might sound odd. You guys might understand what I'm talking about, but I can't write this well. I know I can't write this well, so anytime I see something like this, I am in awe of it. And this time, I'm in awe of it. Chapter 29, paragraph 2 is a powerful, powerful paragraph. There is one scene that is told kind of outside everything. That one paragraph is kind of told outside of everything.  I don't have the words to describe how good it is. That's how good it is. Once more, I am flummoxed. There are so many hidden gems floating around out there. I keep coming across. And it's kind of actually making me angry that these people aren't getting more attention. Helen Phillips, now Jemma Amor. I want to see these books and these authors everywhere. But then, at the same time, on Twitter today, Jemma was talking about she wishes she wouldn't obsess over every single word and every single sentence and every single page of her work. I understand. I completely, 100% understand. And that just makes me respect her even more, knowing that what I read is a polished piece. This also makes me feel a little better that it's not like, oh, here's my first draft kind of thing, you know? But I am insanely impressed by this book. And I don't want to talk too much about the book. Now that you know what it's about, Ebert read you the synopsis. But there's a... I do hesitate. So I got this one mustaches driving me crazy. I do want to say that there's not a whole lot that happens in this book. It's very short. It's about 100 pages long. Not a whole lot happens. Which is a testament to how good the book is because I couldn't stop reading. If this is... This comparison is not going to be good. But if you are a fan of Richard Layman's In the Dark, the book about the scavenger hunt, you will probably like this one.  But the final denounment, the final ending, is where this book really shines. And, well, sorry, not just that, but the writing period. The writing is an absolute joy to read. I was blown away. I was shot. In fact, it completely ruined the next book that I picked up. I'm not going to drag the next book. I'm not going to talk about the next book here. But it really, really hit me when I picked up the next book that I was supposed to read. I opened it up and I started reading it. And I had an honest moment of regret, an honest moment of mourning and grief that I was no longer reading Jemma's book. That's me, fanboying for however many minutes. I highly, highly recommend you go out and buy this book. It's cheap. If you have Kindle Unlimited, it's free. I want everybody to go out and grab this book. So until next time, I have an E, you have an U. This has been Women in Horror Month Day 3. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye-bye!


A new Pokémon Snap game is finally on its way. The inventively titled New Pokémon Snap has been a holy grail of sorts for Pokémon fans over the past two decades. Now, 21 years after the release of the original Pokémon Snap, a sequel has been announced, and everyone is understandably thrilled. So why did it take so long? Long time Pokémon overseer Junichi Masuda has been asked about a new Pokémon Snap many times over the years by eager fans. Last year, when speaking to Metro, he said, All I can say is that I don't think we can just make the same thing again, so we'd have to come up with a very unique twist on this if we do make another one. Indeed, looking at the history of the game, it seems as if nobody at the Pokémon Company has really felt confident about making a follow-up to Snap. After all, the original Pokémon Snap wasn't made by Game Freak, and it was in development long before Pokémon was even released. In 1994, a team at Hal Laboratory were working on a game for the Nintendo 64 disc drive called Jack and the Beanstalk. This work-in-progress photography game was set in a fantasy world, retelling the classic Cornish fairy tale about a boy with magic beans that would use the disc drive's clock to grow in real-time. Surprise, surprise, a game about slowly watching plants grow wasn't actually a lot of fun to play. The project needed to be dramatically reworked to give it a better focus, and as Pokémon began to blossom in popularity, the team at Hal found the perfect new direction for the game, said Satoru Iwata, who was working at Hal at the time. Originally, Pokémon Snap for the Nintendo 64 system wasn't a Pokémon game, but rather a normal game in which you took photos. But the motivation for playing the game wasn't clear. We wondered what players would enjoy taking photos of, and later on we made a somewhat forced switch to taking pictures of Pokémon. Not everyone was on board with this change, expressing a, quote, negative reaction to having to switch gears and work on a Pokémon game. A lot of the character design work for Jack and the Beanstalk had to be scrapped, although much of the game's content would be incorporated into the equally ill-fated Earthbound 64. When Pokémon Snap released in 1999, it was a very short, on-rails photography game without a lot of content. Nevertheless, it was Pokémon, so naturally it won a dedicated audience. Players loved the unique gameplay, the idea of catching Pokémon not in balls, but on film. They loved figuring out how to make certain Pokémon appear or trigger their evolutions in order to catch them on camera. It might not be the deepest game, but it's certainly a lot of fun. Naturally, fans expected a sequel, but none materialised. Why? Because nobody really wanted to make another one. The team at Hal Laboratory had moved on to other games, with a lot of them, as mentioned, contributing to Earthbound 64 before it was ultimately cancelled. Meanwhile, the team at Game Freak were busy with their own Pokémon titles, having had little involvement with Snap's development at all. As the years went by, the Pokémon Snap fans did their best to encourage the Pokémon company to make a follow-up game. There have been many petitions, and even the occasional fan remake. To hear Junichi Masuda tell it, though, the Pokémon company simply didn't know what to do next. In 2014, he said in an interview, As a player, I definitely want to play a cool new version of Pokémon Snap, but at the same time, I also think if it was just a remake with better graphics, I don't think it would be as interesting as a lot of people are imagining. While we may be reading too much into this, it almost sounds as if Junichi doesn't think the core Pokémon Snap gameplay is even all that interesting. Certainly not deep enough to sustain a remake. Junichi went on to say, If someone was to end up developing it, they'd have to come up with some cool ideas to really make it a good game for the current generation. If it was just a direct port, that would be kind of neat as well, but having new elements is definitely important. So why has it taken so long to make a new Pokémon Snap? Apparently, someone at the Pokémon company has finally found the desire to make a new one, the impetus to innovate, to try to expand the simple on-rails shooter concept to create a more satisfying experience. This is great news, because while Pokémon creators might think that Pokémon Snap is a bit basic, it's many, many players know that sometimes, simplicity in game design can create something wonderful. Let's leave that as the moral for this story. Don't be afraid to keep things simple. If new Pokémon Snap ends up being a denser version of the original game, that's great. It's all anyone's ever been asking for anyway.


Alright Lady, what is this?  I'm doing two things here. One is making a little demo here for the LED glasses so you can see tech scrolling and then also the LED rings glowing. So that's some Arduino test code working out here. And then over here I've got my new seesaw dev board based on the ATtiny817. This is connected to a Metro Mini over I squared C. So this is the controller and this is sending NeoPixel commands over I squared C to here and then I've got a ring here just to demo it and then I got on the oscilloscope checking out the signals making sure they're nice and clean looking good. So this is going to be the replacement for the SAMD09 chipset. Early hard to get that chip but this one is a little bit more available. Less expensive and also three or five volt capable. So also they're kind of a nice little upgrade to our seesaw designs.


Jamie Rochelle from GitLab's Community Relations Team is here to moderate a conversation with some of GitLab's most active community members, the GitLab heroes. I helped start this program in 2019 and in the last two years more than 90 members have joined the program due to their outstanding contributions to GitLab. These contributions range from contributing codes to organizing meetups to speaking at events including past GitLab Commits. As a member of the GitLab community, there is a good chance that you've benefited either directly or indirectly from the work of the GitLab heroes. I'm so excited that we have some of them here today to share their stories with you. Enjoy. So thank you for joining the talk Heroes Unmasked, a conversation with our GitLab heroes. This will give you an intimate insight to the heroes program directly from our heroes. So today, I will be your moderator and I'm the evangelism program with GitLab. I assist and manage the meetup programs globally as well as the heroes program. And if you want to get in contact with me, my GitLab handle in Twitter are below as well. Now I'm going to kick it off to Abel so he can introduce himself. Yeah, thanks, Jamie. Hi, everyone. My name is Abel Ayubawa. I am a GitLab hero. I'm also a founder of a company called Softroom where we build innovative products and launch the market. I personally love networking and meeting new people. Yeah, that's me. Thank you. Thank you, Abel. Now I'm going to hand it over to Vlad. Thanks, Jamie. And hello, everyone. My name is Vladimir. I'm based in Brisbane, Australia and I run my own company called Tomato Elephant Studio where we do open-source consultancy and build software products. I've been a GitLab hero for about two years. I'm really enjoying being part of the program. Apart from that, I'm also part of other open-source communities such as Bootstrap and Drupal. Awesome. Mario, you want to give your intro? Thanks, Jamie. Hi, everyone. I'm Mario Garcia from Mexico. I've been an open-source contributor for more than a decade and also a speaker for the same time. I joined the heroes program three years ago this month and now I'm doing an internship at TerminusDB. Awesome. And congratulations on your internship as well. So now that we've, you've met a few of our heroes, I'll give you a brief overview about what the hero program really entails. So here at GitLab, we believe everyone can contribute, meaning everyone can become a hero. Currently, we have 94 heroes globally, which is amazing as I just received more applications today. And our key attributes are someone who possesses a passion for GitLab, DevSecOps and also open-source software, aspiring to uphold our missions and values. We also want to make sure that folks who are heroes are contributing and not just in code, organizing meetups and other, going to conferences and talking on our behalf as well, just advocating for GitLab in general. And if you see this QR code, this allows you to, it'll take you directly to our homepage where if you are interested in becoming a hero, you'll find the application there and a lot more details about the program as well. So let's get started. Are you guys ready for this conversation? Question one, I'm gonna kick this off to Vlad and then the rest of the heroes will follow. How did you first get involved with GitLab? What promoted you to join the heroes program? I started teaching the open-source product to the public about 2013 and that was Drupal the technology I was very interested in back then. So it's a content management system. And year after year, I started seeing that I needed some other technology that would help me to teach people and give them a bit more streamlined approach to actually how to learn different things. I'm not gonna go into details but eventually I found the GitLab first through the job at about 2016 to 2017 and then eventually I started using different GitLab features and they helped me to bring different aspects and features of the GitLab to my training, primarily Drupal first but lately in the last three or four years I also switched off and do some pure GitLab training as well. So it came from my work to answer your question first, to answer your question first. It came from my work first and then really incorporated in the public training I'm doing. So that's how I started with GitLab. Awesome, thank you and we're really appreciative about going out and teaching as well. Mario, do you wanna let folks know how you first got involved with GitLab and what prompted you to join the heroes program? Yeah, well I just started using GitLab back in 2018 and a year later I got interested in continuous integration and I really wanted to start with this topic and I just started learning about it and using GitLab CI for that and I tried to document everything that I was learning then I heard about the GitLab heroes program and applied that same year and since that I've been active participating in community activities and writing about. Thank you Mario. Able, would you like to share about how you first got involved with GitLab as well? Yeah, sure. So I started using GitLab in 2017 when I recently joined the tech industry. So I started using GitLab as a 100 developer pushing codes and maintaining remote repositories there. Now going down to 2019 when I started Softrum as well as started building the tech community here in Africa I saw the GitLab hero program as an opportunity to kind of take that to the next level where I get to advocate and teach people on open sourcing and how they can equally contribute to the tech ecosystem. So basically that's how I got to the GitLab hero program and how I started using GitLab as a product itself. Awesome, I love the diversity that everyone learned GitLab or came across GitLab in so many different ways. So thank you for sharing. So the next question, what does being a GitLab hero mean to you? Mario, do you want to start us off? Yeah, well, this is an interesting question and I've written about it but I think about to answer this question, not only having the opportunity to learn more about how to use GitLab within different kind of technologies and for different kind of projects but the idea of having the opportunity to share with the community the things that I've learned about GitLab and have the support from community, from team members and also get involved with organizing activities for the community. I think that's what being a GitLab hero means to me. Thank you for that because that also upholds one of our values which is collaboration, right? Able, do you want to share what being a GitLab hero means to you? Yeah, sure. Okay, so for me personally, I see myself as a GitLab hero based on two factors or rather pillars I like love to refer to. So the first is community and the second is collaboration. I personally believe in collaboration and I feel being a GitLab hero gives you that opportunity to build a better community around you, to be able to be that community part to a lot of open sources out there as well as tech enthusiasts, be it beginners or experts, you are there to help them in their own journey as well as building a stronger community around you. For me, that's being a GitLab hero. Thank you. Vlad, would you like to chime in on this one? Sure. It's kind of an interesting story because I started my company in 2017 after working about 15 years in the industry for different consultancy companies and big tech. I started working remotely and then I started reading a lot of articles about working remotely and GitLab was definitely pioneering the area of working remotely. We're talking about 2017, so obviously offices, especially here in Australia, well-dominated environment even for IT industry and being an ITO, we thought the idea of actually taking your laptop and going somewhere and working from anywhere was kind of a dream come true. So when I started my company, I thought, oh, I want to research the topic. So I read a lot and I saw that GitLab is definitely pushing the topic of remote work and collaboration and open source, everything I was passionate about really far and really started getting into community. So I thought it would be interesting to see it on the inside. So I actually applied for one of the positions and at that time, GitLab was growing exponentially. I didn't even get reply from my resume part that it's been unsuccessful, but then I thought, well, I'm sure there is other way apart from contributing code and trying to apply for a job within GitLab and I saw GitLab Hero Program and I thought, oh, that's great because it can give me an insight of what's happening in GitLab and how they operate, communicate, and bringing on values as well as pushing so much stuff, open source, as well as feeling part of the GitLab, but also getting a bit closer and learning from the people who are running the program and who are part of the program and I never were disappointed that it gave me insights and so many people's life will actually use GitLab Day-to-Day as well as work for GitLab. Awesome. Thank you guys for those answers. On to the next question. What is your most important contribution as a member of the GitLab community? Vlad, do you want to kick this one off? As I teach a lot, I always appreciate when people come back to me and say, hey, I start using GitLab feature here or GitLab feature here. I think that's the most kind of freshest contribution when you actually, whatever you teach or whatever you teach your team or show your team comes back to you and because that's how I started with GitLab, I was using a competition product for a number of companies to enter a GitLab until one of my colleagues actually show me a GitLab and say, hey, you can do those things much faster and this is how I was introduced to CI CD as well. So that opened a completely different world to me in terms of how you can build, deliver, test the project and without worrying and doing it manually. So for me, the biggest contribution is when someone comes back and say, hey, I implemented this feature using GitLab. So that's, yeah, I think that would be it for me. Thank you. And Mario, how about you? Well, I think that would be related with sharing knowledge. I mean, since I joined the program three years ago, I've been writing about the things I've learned about GitLab and especially how to use GitLab CI with different technologies and also having the opportunity to speak at some conferences and share that knowledge. And well, I continuously try different, well, GitLab CI with different projects and I really like, share what I've learned and document through doc posts what I've been doing with GitLab. Thank you. And we truly appreciate all your contributions as well. How about you, Abel? Yeah. Okay. For me, I will say the growth process of the community itself, because when you probably let's say you host an event, you show people how easy it is to contribute to the open source community, how to use GitLab and all of that. And you have that feedback afterwards, people messaging you like, hi, Abel, this is really cool to use. We've seen how easy it is to contribute to the open source community and how they generally just enjoy and continue to grow. I think that's it for me. Awesome. We're going to keep the conversation going and jump over to the next question. And what advice would you give to people who are thinking of contributing but haven't yet?  So what are some advice that you all will share with those folks? Next off, I will say you should first be confident in yourself when I say confident is when you speak with a lot of people that haven't really contributed to the open source community, what they usually tell you is how do I contribute, what can I contribute? And they keep on giving excuses like, okay, I don't know how to code or I don't know how to do this and that. So for someone to easily do that, he can easily contribute to the open source community regardless of you being a coder or a software engineer with the little knowledge you have, you can go ahead and contribute. You can see people contribute to huge open source projects through probably the documentations or other little things that people kind of overlook. So people can generally start from there and over time you can get better and, you know, grow to being better open source contributors. Thank you, Mario. Advice, please. Yeah, something I've learned from contributing to open source is that you don't need a technical background for a start contributing to a project. If you really would like to learn new stuff, this could be an opportunity for that and, well, don't hesitate to ask community members for help. I mean, I think that's one of the reasons why I joined the open source movement at first. Thank you. I'm actually taking his advice as well because I'm considered probably non-technical as well and sometimes I have hesitation to contribute or jump into doing MRs and all those different things as well. So, Vlad, what advice would you share? As I mentioned before, I've been also part of the Drupal community for quite a while for more than 10 years and it took me a while to start contributing back to open source. It was mixed of things, but I didn't know where to start, although there were training, I never could finish. For example, there was a hackathon, I couldn't finish the patches I started or it never got anywhere. So, eventually, I got to the formula where you need to build something for yourself. So, you have this small project idea or existing project or want to automate something as an example. So, you can start there as a technical person. As a non-technical person, you can read the documentation, see if the documentation clear enough for you to build something very quick, again, helping yourself to fix something. So, find this one thing you want to fix and in particular in GitLab, it can be in many areas. It can be in project management where you're doing something with a board or it can be in an animation where you're trying to send yourself notifications from time to time. You can do all that with GitLab. So, while building the project, also, keep referring to the documentation, you'll find some things that might be not very clear or something that is challenging enough and that would be already a first contribution actually over going this hurdle, overcoming this hurdle, fixing it and trying to also fix something small, but don't let the size scare you because even every small thing brings bigger and bigger things.  It takes time for development, but, again, that's what I'm teaching as well. Don't worry about searching for this thing. Just keep on doing, keep on going for your goal, fixing your problem or building your project and eventually you find some things that you think, yeah, I can improve that. I can contribute more code or I can help to review this issue or I can write a better documentation or tutorial and this is where the contribution starts, really, although it started way before it started when you started doing something for yourself and this is how I started and this is how heard many people started as well contributing so you don't have to be technical, but I think you need to have some sort of a goal or a mission to finish it. Doesn't matter how big it is. Awesome, thank you for that and I want to reiterate that when we talk about contributions like Vlad, Abel and Mario mentioned, it doesn't necessarily have to always be technical. A contribution to the community can also be or CIGIT Lab can be even organizing a meetup, right? So there's so many different ways to contribute here at GitLab. Next question. How do you think GitLab's open source core model affects your experience as a contributor? Do you feel like you have more or less power to contribute as a result of the GitLab's model? Abel, let's kick it off. OK, so I will say the GitLab model kind of, it feels more like you have more power to contribute. Why I said so is because you have access to more resources to do better and you know, with more resources, you'll be able to contribute much more better and effectively. But regardless of that, you can also, you know, contribute either way. So yeah, I feel it gives more power to contribute better. Awesome, Vlad, do you want to share? I've been big contributed to open source and working with open source for a large number of years and I think open source doesn't only comes to the code, it also comes to the, you know, modern government sharing open data models and different statistics now where in times where actually statistics matters, where we can see we can actually get in out of a very tough situation. So any open model, in my perspective, is much better than, you know, closed and proprietary model. The access to a data or access to open core gives more people ability. So you kind of lower in the threshold of contribution does, as I mentioned before, it doesn't matter how big or small the contribution is. So I'm always pro open data and pro open source. And in this case, you would actually probably would find a contributor where you didn't expect to find that. So it's not necessarily can be a technical community. It can be people from all different backgrounds. But until you actually open your data, open your code, you will never find out where it can come from. Also, a very good example I'd like to give is years ago, one of my colleagues asked, Oh, what's the point of open source software? I don't see how you can earn money. It's free. And I don't see a point. And I answered them. Well, actually, where can you find the thousands, thousand free testers? Because once your software gets popular and more than thousand people using it, literally have a thousand people testing your software literally for free. So in this case, this exchange gives you a possibility to build much better product with that many testers that you probably wouldn't be able to hire. Thank you. Mario, do you want to share your opinion on this? Yeah, I think that the open core model of GitLab is actually an opportunity for people to start contributing. And the idea that most conversations happen publicly, you can go to the repository and see what people are working on. And the idea that you don't have to start contributing on a specific project, but the one that you would like to help with. And as I mentioned before, you don't need to have a technical background. You can contribute with documentation. Also, localizing content from English that most of the documentation is in English. But you can translate that to your language. I mean, I speak English as a second language. And it's something that I've been doing in the past. And the idea that if you want or if you want to learn, you can contribute with code or you can participate at any of the hackathons that GitLab organizes. And, well, you will also have the support from team members and the community that is actually involved in any of the projects that GitLab is working on. Thank you. Does anyone else have any other points they want to piggyback on from the other heroes that just shared their opinion on this? All right. Go ahead and jump to the next question. Have you made friends in the wider GitLab community? What do you like and what do you want to see more of in our community? Vlad, do you want to kick this one off? I actually haven't been to any GitLab events. But I got to know people as a part of a GitLab Heroes program, definitely, and I'm following them on social media and what they do in their work life. So that's been quite an interesting journey. And as I mentioned before, just seeing different people from different continents, how they take GitLab and use it in their teaching for work. That's been quite an experience. Overall, in open source, I did go to different conferences and definitely met people there. And I'm probably looking forward to my face-to-face GitLab event sometime in the future. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to make any previous conferences. But so far, the experience digitally, it's been great. Thank you. And Maria, how about you? Yeah, I have the opportunity to attend, and I speak at GitLab Committee in London in 2019. And I met some heroes there. And I'm still in contact with them to these days. But also, now that events are happening in virtual spaces, I have the opportunity to meet some other heroes. And that's why I started organizing the GitLab meeting for Latin America. I mean, I met a hero from Colombia and we've been organizing these events, but also organizing other activities. Awesome. It's pretty cool to me that we get to or I get to manage and support global programs like this, because I get to talk to different people from all over the globe and build and cultivate relationships. I've been in open source for only three years. And with that and being in the community, I have relationships that transpire into the different companies that I've worked for and supported in open source, especially because I've been supporting meetup programs or the wider community. So it's pretty cool that I, too, have also made friends in the community as well. And how about you, Abel? Yeah, so I personally have made a lot of friends through the GitLab hero program. So the very fact that GitLab itself is built on core values, which is collaboration and others, I see that as a direct extension to even the hero program as well as the community. So through the hero program, I've met a lot of folks out there, virtually, as well as in person during events and all of that. I have got to meet key industry players in Africa through this open source meetups and all of that. So yeah, I think it's a great opportunity to network and meet more people and have that professional relationship with others. Absolutely, Abel. I agree with that as well. We're going to keep this conversation in motion and we're going to jump to the next question. What do you like to do outside of contributing to open source? What are your hobbies?  Sure, apart from sitting in front of the computer for a number of hours a day, I like to go as much outside. So I do martial arts. I go for a run. I do a bit of music here and there. Actually, my second degree is audio engineering, so I like to record stuff as well. I play drums. So and overall probably looking to get out away from the devices as much as I can. So any excuse to actually spend a weekend somewhere far away from technology or internet connection is actually looking good to me. So that's me. Awesome, I was going to ask about the guitars and instruments in your background as well. So Abel, how about you? What do you enjoy doing outside of contributing to open source? So I love playing football. I recently started learning how to play chess. I'm still a beginner chess, but I'm kind of learning that. And even outside open source communities, I still like to network. I still like to meet new people and kind of know each other. So yeah, that's basically me. Thank you. And Mario, how about you? Well, outside contributing to open source, I really like reading. And I recently bought some books that I still have to read. But I really enjoyed that and listening to music, something that I really miss. But I hope that I could be doing it again soon. It's traveling. And apart from that, something that most people don't know about is that my family has always raised chickens. And that is something that I'm doing also. And well, that's me. Question, Mario, how many chickens do y'all have? Now we have 27. And I guess I'll share what I like doing outside of contributing. I love to travel. So, Mario, I definitely understand now that things are opening back up, that urge to start planning some trips. I'm a huge music person. I don't know if you can see behind me, but I have Janet Jackson over my shoulder. I have a record player, and I listen to my old iCollect records. I'm really excited about concerts starting back up. I love live music. And so I'm really looking forward to attending a live show again. So that's what I like to do outside of contributing open source and managing the open source programs as well. So many of y'all are part of the Heroes Steering Committee and have been part of the Heroes program for quite some time. Like I said, I've only been here since February, so y'all are much more seasoned than I am. So I would love to hear where you would like to see the program grow in the next year or two. And go ahead, Vlad, you can kick it off. I always like the programs and open source communities that do value the contributions that they give. So I think for me, it would be just finding new people, bringing new people to the table, the ideas of where the product itself and the community can go to. It's quite a large project covering different aspects of software development, project management and security and all 10 areas that GitLab gives. So I think it would be good to see maybe Heroes specializing in different aspects of it, so we can all balance of each other. For example, if we have Hero Summit and or Heroes Conference, we know that some people are very into the security and so we can actually look at them in ability to learn but actually knowing that there are people specializing in the areas, I think that would be quite interesting to see that you will be able to find them easily and follow whatever they do, training, blogging, presentations, contributions. So I think actually focus on a specific area of the GitLab would be great to see it's something I'm looking forward to because most of our jobs are really focusing on one thing, we specialize and really go into in depth in one thing but always keen to learn things from different aspects. For example, I'm always keen to learn more about security, more about project management, although day-to-day basis, it only takes about 10% of my work whereas 90% it's development, code review, team leading. So I would like to get a bit more knowledge in the different areas. So and I think Heroes program is great for that because we have a lot of potential as you mentioned before, almost 100 Heroes specializing in all different areas GitLab. So it would be good to see the, I guess the GitLab Hero tracks all different areas where they specialize too. I would really love to see that. Thank you Vlad for your opinion on this and also I'm taking really detailed notes in regards to what y'all are sharing on this question as well. Abel, do you wanna share? Yeah, so okay, I personally want to see a growth in impact. So the potentiality is there, but now I want to say in a year or two where the GitLab Hero is able to grow its impact on the open source community and ensure that that kind of standard among others and more be like a path to open source community as a whole. So that impact is what I really look forward to exploring that potential as well. So yeah. Thank you Abel. Mario, would you like to share? Yeah, something I've been working on since I joined the program is creating more content in Spanish but something I really would like to see is more people joining us from Latin America. I mean, we've been organizing the meetup for the region since last year, but I really would like to see more people participating and contributing from this part of the world. And well, I think it could, well, something that we are planning to do in the following month is inviting other people to share their experience, not only on using GitLab or on how they are using GitLab for any of the projects they are working on, but also knowledge that we think it would be helpful for the community. And well, like, we are having a meetup this month and we invited a developer that recently joined GitLab and we want to hear from him how was the process and what would they want to recommend people that would like to apply not only to GitLab but any similar company. Awesome, thank you for that. And I wanted to piggyback on your point about diversifying where folks contribute from. One of my goals for the program in the next year is to encourage folks in different parts of the world to contribute. I think that's why those questions earlier about if people are hesitant to contribute, how do we get that to contribute or how do we get them to apply if they had, you know, did some pretty great contributions or organizations on behalf of GitLab, right? So one of my goals is to see in the next year or two even more diverse level of heroes applying and becoming active in the community as well. And on to the next question. Actually, that was the last question. So I wanna say thank you so much for all of you who participated today and joined us on the heroes unmasked. This is one of many conversations that we're gonna have like this as we're looking to expand the heroes program and grow exponentially. So again, if you're interested, please scan the QR code. It will pull up all the information so you can learn more about the program as well as applying if you've already made some great contributions to GitLab. So any final words from my heroes that are online with us today? Yeah, so I will just repeat, I'll just repeat the advice I was given earlier so people that are hesitant in contributing to the open source community. Just make sure you just get out there, try and contribute even if it's as little as possible. No contribution is too small or too big in the open source community. So ensure you contribute and you jump in as early as possible. So that would be it from me. Thank you, Mario, I'm glad. Do you have any last words that you wanna share about your experience as a GitLab hero and or just to folks that are interested in the program or wanting to contribute? Yeah, now that you hear from us what is being a GitLab hero, if you would like to apply and join the program, you can find us on social media and if you have any questions, I really, I would be happy to help if you want to join the program. I just wanted to say thanks, Jamie, for organizing it and bringing this all together and having this conversation. It's definitely a learning curve for all of us and it's a great experience to learn from what we're all doing. And there are different ways to contact GitLab Heroes program. You can read about it on GitLab website. There is a Gitter chat and of course, you can go and see the hero's profile on a GitLab website, which is a great thing to do. So you can see the diversity that Jamie was talking about of GitLab Heroes and what they do. So I'm really enjoying being part of the program and thanks, Jamie, again, it was a great chat. Thank you. And again, thank you for joining Commit 2021 virtually and we hope next year that we will be face-to-face having another heroes unmasked. Thank you.