Hey everyone, what's up? How's it going? It's Rachel here and today? We've got a great AMA with Gary's moods a he is the operational lead for the laundry longevity science Foundation. Hey, Gary How's it going? Rachel thanks for having me. Hey Yeah, of course welcome Gary it's great to have you here before we get started with our questions first of all I'd love to hear some Background about yourself and the audience probably love to hear that as well. So Thanks, Rachel So my name is gary's moods and I'm happy to introduce myself and longevity science Foundation so a little bit about my background I I came to longevity is fear when two of my very close family members were diagnosed with incurable diseases and So I made my own research and I've seen that that there's a lot of new innovations and artificial intelligence new therapeutics and I started to tackle this problem with being general partner in longevity, which is early-stage investment vehicle that invests in longevity related startups Both therapeutics and non therapeutics and we've seen a lot of very promising research which is probably not ready for VC and Here here Here longevity science Foundation comes in as an early supporter for such for such a research that that I'm ready to cover today Great. Yeah, Gary We're looking forward to hearing all about the research of longevity science Foundation also known as LSF for short And I want to remind our audience members Please send your questions our way in the chat that we've got going here also remember to subscribe to our YouTube channel And yeah, Gary, we're gonna get into the questions right now. So first of all, what is LSF and what are the goals behind the organization? Okay, so we at longevity science Foundation We are a Swiss nonprofit organization whose mission is to take human longevity accessible to all so by funding and developing of medical technologies at their earliest stages We believe we can help extend the healthy human lifespan by supporting these new technologies and Unlike a VC or traditional investment. There is no no exchange of equity or or IP So in other words, there are no Pushy investors putting pressure on researchers Just financial support that we've gathered from people from all around the world So our goal is to distribute more than a billion US dollars over the next 10 years in non-dilutive project funding at herring to strict five years actionable impact criteria and This that means that we we wish to support not only early-stage research, but also startups also supporting conferences and Explaining about longevity for the broader audience as well as granting Non-dilutive grants to to to early-stage research so we have already secured more than 10 million US dollars and Have we have received enough the native support to fund projects through through to 2022 So generally cutting edge innovation at the laboratory or research stage often requires significant funding just to get started and this is a big challenge for researchers for smaller from smaller institutions and Foundational grants can offer much needed support when it comes to the high upfront fees associated with such a research Thank you. Got it. Got it. Yeah. So what exactly is LSF doing to raise awareness for blockchain and other emerging technologies? Yeah, the thanks for this. Yeah, I think that We live in a time when the issues of data security and confidentiality are More important than ever and in our foundation We have adopted blockchain to assure data security and established trust and Transparency while achieving full-donator engagement so the Conventional or traditional funding strategy would have minimal involvement from the contributor side and the decision at the decision-making stage But longevity science foundation on the other hand offers Donators a pre-vet at least of funding proposals on which they can exercise their voting rights Blockchain ends enables our foundation To the platform Contributors are a crucial component of the decision-making chain redefining non-equity funding Hello, got it. Got it. Oh, yes, I can hear you Gary. Yes Got it. So and then I was reading today something about the voting mechanism was just announced. Is that correct? With longevity science foundation Can you explain that? Yes, okay. Can you hear me my picture kind of I can hear you Gary? Yeah Okay yes You know with within a context in general of the biotech sector It's safe to say that raising awareness for the blockchain is the utmost experience. So here in longevity science foundation We promote it by grounding our Key processes in blockchain in giving the world a very real and much-needed use case for charity 2.0. That's how we call Our our concepts. So basically here We We we use a blockchain Implementation with adopting principles of technization and decentralization for for the foundation So our donators are are being incentivized to reach funding targets also with NFTs and other perks and Also, we we would like to get access to our for our donators to Longevity physicians and to get to get an access to to the knowledge what happens in the field and around longevity Got it and Gary Can you discuss a little bit why blockchain is important for the biotech space in general and how LSF is applying those? You know blockchain in terms of that industry Yes To to to put it simply blockchain is perfect for unlocking the value of biotech and and the the industry Runs on data. So Merging these two would allow the effortless ownership tracing maintaining audit patient privacy and consent mechanisms Etc. Etc. On average a single hospital produces 670 terabytes of data on a yearly basis and 80% of this data is largely unavailable to research bodies. So understandably this discrepancy has been Stalling the progress to a significant degree So combining the blockchain sourced and managed data with the analytical power of AI will greatly benefit to the biotech world So two good examples to illustrate the extent of the advances already made in health care due to Incorporation of this tandem would be lung genesis and in silica medicine By using AI technology in silica medicine managed to process a big amounts of patient data to identify new health care treatments and solutions So this showcases enormous potential for AI driven health care with dozens of new drug candidates And lung genesis in turn with this blockchain health care ecosystem maintains the necessary level of security and correctly manages large Blocks of patient data scatter the cross different institutions Yeah, that's right Got it an audience. I just want to remind you guys please send your questions our way We'd love to answer those Gary has it been challenging for the biotech industry to adopt blockchain in terms of just because it may be a little bit more traditional and With with data and all of that involved has it been challenging to get in an industry to use blockchain or have they been kind of welcoming towards it? I think that the whole industry moving in the direction of accepting blockchain and There are more and more blockchain applications helping to speed up clinical trials to get Consent from the patient, especially sharing the most sensitive, which is health care data So I think I think that the the industry is moving very fast to do to do to do to this direction God, I got it. Okay, and let's talk a little bit about crypto donations because you mentioned that in the beginning with Funding so how is crypto being utilized here in terms of donations for the biotech industry? So the the field of longevity is experiencing a symmetry with low survival rate in the fundamental research and some institutional actors may have sufficient funds at their disposal to jump-start their projects and Then they have a higher chance of translating their research into practical applications so here Here I'm sure that that crypto community can can help a lot to to fund this type of projects and And we at longevity science foundation we accept we accept crypto so any Anyone from crypto community can make his donation and his contribution So I think I think this is this is super important at this stage In terms of the cryptos that you guys are accepting for donations Is that are there specific crypto currencies or is it all are you accepting all crypto currencies just out of curiosity? Yes, basically we will we are we are aiming to accept the major the all the major cryptocurrencies Okay, and then you mentioned incentives with NFTs. Can you elaborate on that a little bit? Oh? Yes, so NFT is one of the aspects of the benefits for our Donators alongside alongside with other perks like longevity consultations with top world leading experts and The early supporters will get the unique NFTs to commemorate their Contributions and we believe that by doing so the NFT will serve as a means To raise public awareness to longevity related issues like cancer and neurodegenerative disorders Etc. And I think I believe that here NFT Can be a very good tool for the appreciation for our donators And we are actively working with with the biggest Platforms on that so so I hope we can announce something on this separately In Q1 next year Got it and Gary when you say NFTs I mean what can we be a little more specific there? I'm are you talking about like art NFTs or or Obviously, there's a wide range of NFTs So can you kind of be a little bit more specific with the NFTs that LSF would be considering? Yes, so basically Now we are in negotiations with the top digital artists that will will produce will produce digital art about longevity with the team of longevity and Aging Etc. So this this is something we're gonna we're gonna give as a Part of appreciation for our donators and And this is something they cannot buy for money. They can get only in exchange For for their donation from one side, but from another side if they decide To sell it on the secondary market 10% from the transaction will go to to the artist they created this and 10% goes to to the foundation So this is this is something we're gonna incentivize this way incentivize this way our Donators Got it Gary I wanted to talk a little bit more about the challenges in the biotech industry today And how blockchain is actually going to be used and how it is being used to solve those challenges So can you kind of discuss that? You know what we're seeing in the with longevity today What technologies are being used and how blockchain is actually making everything a lot easier there? So as I as I already mentioned blockchain the best from my perspective the best implementation of blockchain is the Consent management and data privacy. So basically blockchain allows to audit and to to keep to keep everything auditable and traceable and Actually because the the thing is that the data especially with the with the strict regulations like GDPR in Europe and HIPAA in in the US It's one of the most sensitive sensitive data. So here blockchain gives these level certain level of transparency and the auditability which and and actually this data is is Fuel for for research for arts using artificial intelligence for drug discovery Etc etc. So I think I think In in these cases blockchain is really must to have For for such an applications right Is there a specific region that longevity science foundation is targeting first because Obviously with regulations You know with data and all that is there a specific region where longevity science foundation is actually looking at to conduct the research First or are you targeting us or Europe or Asia? Not really we are we are actually we are not focused on on one region We are ready to accept any applications from from all over the world and for us then the utmost importance is the the technology itself and that It it the the main topic for the foundation is that this this research must give a must show significant impact in five years not longer than this because academia a hardcore academia that get used to to to spend decades for research and We actually we want to speed up this process and to get results as soon as possible Got it. Got it. Okay. I'm going to take a question from the audience Nordic is asking are they working with s e and s foundation the biggest longevity foundation out there? Actually as I as I already mentioned we are in a startup mode and we are starting being fully operational in Q1 next year but but we actually we We are ready to collaborate with anyone that wants to contribute financially or with the in kind contribution and We build around the longevity science foundation the collaborative model where we'll be happy to collaborate with any with anyone that that Gives that that puts his efforts for longevity movement So I don't I don't think why since foundation this is a very well-known institution in the US and Yes, we'll be happy to cooperate with them as well yeah Gary is LSS cooperating or collaborating with anyone as now I mean, I know it's still in startup mode and stage But are you guys looking at forming any partnerships already that you can discuss now or is that something that's yet to be determined? Oh, first of all, we have an amazing partnership with coin telegraph, which Which is our favorite crypto media that really helps us to spread the world in front in is spread the world in front of the crypto community and Very soon we are going to announce the partnership with with two big institutes and research centers that that are the front line of longevity research As well as We are creating a kind of supervisory board with the KOLs from crypto industry and tech industry that will also supervise the transparency of the of the foundation and We are actually working with with big Donators and supporters from crypto community as well. So this is something we we will announce very soon like in the next month or two Got it. Yeah audience. Please send your questions our way We we still got time here with Gary and he's happy to answer anything you guys send So please remember to send that in the chat Gary out of curiosity. Does LSF have its own cryptocurrency or will they have their own crypto moving forward? Actually, we we have a voting rights that that represent That represent donations voting rights inside the foundation So it's it's not a cryptocurrency, but we and it doesn't have any monetary value but in the in the closest future The one has more of voting rights will be first in line to get treatments and to get longevity access when accessible to to everyone of course, but The our donators will be first in line Okay, so basically if somebody sends a donation they get first for those voting rights then is that correct? Yes, correct, but primarily that's a donation. So someone someone he he wants to donate He's he's he's doing a donation and he's got both and he's like of appreciation as an addition as a Appreciation of his donation, but Ideologically, it's a donation and it's his contribution to the longevity movement. Yes Okay, and then in terms of the voting that's voting on projects that need to be Further researched with within the biotech space. Is that what the voting is for? Actually the visionary board members that consists of the of the most Credible scientists from all over the world including Mike Levitt Nobel Prize laureate chemistry professor Kaber Lane Andre Meyer professor of Singapore University Alex Javarankov and head of our visionary board Evelyn Bishof they they actually they decide the direction Which projects to be funded then the analytical team that basically mirrors VC structure, they kind of pre-select the projects that are most relevant by our by our pieces and then it goes Prevoted projects they go for voting for for our Donators and they can vote or they can delegate their vote to one of the visionary board members If they decide that maybe they know they know better how to vote it in this situation and which projects to support So they can vote and they also can delegate their vote to to to anyone Got it. And if a project wanted to be involved with LSS for research How do they get involved with LSS? Oh? Actually, we now have more than a hundred applications from research from the biggest institutions like Harvard Yale Weizmann Institute etc etc but The idea for the foundation is to divide this into pillars. So for example for the next call we support Artificial intelligence for next call we can support some other like like age-related Diseases like for example Alzheimer or Parkinson's so so we're going to divide it by calls and look for the most promising Research and teams. So this is so this is how we're going to structure this Okay, and then in terms the technology behind the voting mechanism What blockchain network are you is LSF using for that? We are working now on the technical solution that that we gonna we're gonna launch in I think in February next year and The and the blockchain technology there we use is Ethereum Ethereum, okay Are there any benefits here that you can discuss like why you're using a theory and obviously that's a public open network And it seems like this is an you know enterprise use cases. So any particular reason why you chose to use Ethereum? Yes, that was suggested by by our by our technology team and looks like that for our for our goals that that was That was Good first and then also we know that Ethereum Foundation they they support Longevity projects and we'll be also happy to collaborate on the later stage With them on the on on our mission Got it. Got it. Okay. I'm going to take a question from an audience member Ash is asking How many years do you think we can add to the average human lifespan with longevity research? That's a great question Thanks, it's a good question So so we are we are aiming we are aiming to 120 years and and this there are a lot of research now that that can that can We can we can get it but but we Very important to understand that we are not talking about some magic peel that can you know prolong our life we are talking about family of technologies and supporting different research in in curing age related diseases, so and and and actually the approach I like also the approach of Treating aging as a disease itself So here we are trying to support as more theories as possible that exist here So and we believe that at least one of them it will work so so I don't know if I if I answered your question, but Yeah, no, I think that's a great answer And then in terms of so what I'm curious to know about is I was just reading a book called platform revolution by Don Tap Scott where he discusses blockchain and all these other emerging technologies like AI and machine learning and how blockchain is going to be Applied with all of these other technologies How important is that? Combination of technologies in your opinion Gary for instance Do you think that it is necessary to have blockchain together with AI in terms of longevity in the research that you guys are doing I Think yes, and as a as a as a VC I see a lot of a lot of interesting implementations of AI and blockchain together and There are more and more startups Appearing in this field. So I'm a very very strong supporter of this combination of blockchain and AI So, yes, I think I think that's That's that's a super promising combo Mm-hmm. And are the projects that LSF is working with the people within those projects also kind of have the same opinion in terms of the combination of technologies for this research or You know, we are trying we are trying to have different opinions That's that's how we actually gathered together our our visionary board and Sometimes these these people they are on the opposite sides But we have the same the same goal to get to get people live longer and healthier life. So here We are okay to support Anything that will lead us to the to the end result which is healthy human lifespan so there is some there is some AI and blockchain they showed very good results in the last in the last one two years including the including the You know helping to develop vaccines for coffee then solving the main the main issues of the main you know house problems of today, so Yes, I I'm a strong believer and I hope I hope I mean the results the results of this research They will they will show the path. So I think the the results of this kind of Research will be will be then then we can judge who was who was right or wrong Right, and you mentioned so there are a few different sectors that LSF is looking at in terms of the longevity research I'm assuming cobit. Is that one of the sectors that you guys are also looking to do further research into? Oh, of course. We are we are we are also looking because On the on the COVID the applications because you know COVID kills people and especially older older people and the people with health risks. So Definitely in in our focus as well. Yeah, no, that's really interesting An audience member Neilio is asking is the LSF an open source organization. Oh, yes, it is as I mentioned We we have a collaborative model. So we'll be happy to have anyone Supporting us Whether it's a financial support or any other in kind contribution. So I'll be happy to connect, please send me a note in LinkedIn or Facebook or any other way and I'll Be happy to talk about this and about your contribution Yeah, that's a great question And also Valeria is asking how many years should we wait for the results of longevity at things? How how we a real humans can use this for our lives? Okay, thanks for this question and I already mentioned that the goal for the longevity science Foundation is primarily to fund projects that that will show significant impact in five years from now so so this is this is something we are targeting and We My personal perception is that that in in ten years time from now we will have We will have some fundamental results from our from our Efforts, so I hope I hope our generation will still benefit from from what we're doing now Got it. Yeah Great. Wonderful. Thanks for the questions audience members and feel free to keep sending us questions You know, it's interesting Gary because although we're talking about blockchain and cryptocurrency here Longevity is such an interesting topic and so the questions that we were getting from the audience They're not all related just you know to blockchain and crypto It's just about longevity, which is so interesting because you know so much about the topic So I think you know, especially given the situation that we're living in now with COVID This is such an interesting topic and there are so many questions that you know People probably want to know the answers to But you know, I believe I believe that crypto community they are visionaries in a way because they believed they believed in this concept many years ago and and I believe that these people they they also they they must they would they will share our ideas and and I think today a longevity longevity industry in general I would say is in diapers and it's growing as as as an industry but I strongly believe that Crypto community can make a significant push for for these applications to be accessible Sooner than later Right why in particular I mean you said the crypto community I mean and I understand we are visionaries for sure and we look forward and we think ahead in terms of future But why in particular are you saying that this was something that the crypto community was focused on? Way before other communities maybe Because just because I think this is most most progressive and and the crypto community better understands the value of You know participation decentralized participation in the decision-making processes, etc. So just just they are on the front line of emerging technologies, so that's that's why we believe and we Target these audience And this community and I believe that that we will have even more support than with that we have now Right. Yeah Okay, great. So market news for you and audience members asking how does blockchain provide solutions in the genome space or Decentralizing ownership of our own DNA. That's a great question Thanks for that. I'm I'm actually I don't I'm not sure I'm not sure I understand about the decentralizing ownership of your own DNA. I mean you can of course share the You can you can share your DNA sequence DNA for a research for example in the era applications now When when you can share your medical data and get something in exchange a token or Other other perks, but I Don't I don't see a big difference between genome space and traditional healthcare because in both cases blockchain helps to helps to For with transparency of the stability getting consent and being in the in the legal frameworks, so Yes, this is something I Think these are these are a lot of now a lot of different implementations of using blockchain for for genome sequencing Yeah, for sure. I think yeah, I mean there there. I think that there are many use cases here Gary do you think that other traditional organizations that are doing longevity research are going to Maybe want to start implementing blockchain based on LSF is doing Actually, we are we are building our technical solution for us F Super transparent way and actually the way we can white label this for other charity or non-profit organizations that want to have the same level of transparency and involvement of their Donators So I believe Other other charities maybe not focused on longevity, but on other another Healthcare applications they can they can use this platform and For for for for their research for their Goals Yeah, that's interesting Great audience keeps sending us your questions. I'm going to take another question from an audience member Valeria's asking How can I invest in longevity? Okay, so first of all supporting longevity science foundation you can get an access to a pipeline of Startups that might appear out of the out of our grant So basically our our donators we are planning to offer them participation in the pre seed and seed rounds in the early stage in the early stage companies that pop up In in in the in the best case scenario out of out of this research So I think I think this is a good way and and and there are Investment investment Vehicles like longevity and there are a number of others that you can participate as a limited partner and To invest in longevity related startups, so this is the Now more and more Investment funds looking in this direction Got it and Gary you mentioned so did you say that LSTF just published their white paper? Recently. Yes, we just we just published our our founding statement Today on our website that it's well well covered so you can you can check it on our on our website and they're In in all details explained all the all the main processes of the of the foundation and Also, we'll be happy to answer any questions that that might appear So just let us know directly through the website or ping me or my colleagues in social networks Great wonderful Audience, please keep sending us your questions. We've got a few more minutes with Gary So any questions you may have on longevity blockchain and crypto feel free to send them in the chat Gary just curious to know what what can we expect next from LSTF? You know, you just mentioned that the white paper is now up on the website and people can view that but what else can we expect moving forward? Actually, we are working on On a lot of interesting content about longevity But in a very simple words because not not everyone I'm also not a not a native speaker So sometimes there are a lot of terms that are super complicated So now we are working on the more comprehensive materials for the broader audience as well as In Q1 next year, we will announce a call capital call for sorry call funding call longevity for longevity research So and then we will have also a few announcements of the institutions that that supports us as well as Some key opinion leaders from crypto community that are also supporting us and They will share their experience in cooperating with us So stay tuned and we will have more news and also covered by fortunately by coin telegraph as well Right, definitely, and I've been reading a few of your articles on coin telegraph as well Gary I know that you're you're starting to write content and it's really really good So audience if you if you guys haven't checked out the content up on coin telegraph about you know from Gary on LSTF and just general topics. It's really good content. I was reading a few of the articles So, thank you for that Gary. We are planning. We're planning also to To we are planning a series of Explanation what is longevity from our visionary board members and this is super interesting especially Because they have they have different visions So we want to we want to create a kind of discussion club where they can they can explain What is longevity and what? each of us can do to live longer and healthier life Yeah, that sounds awesome and what what I'm excited about Hopefully you guys will start doing conferences whether there's a virtual or in person But I think that that would you know, it's such an interesting topic So I don't know if that's in store with with conferences or events for LSF, but if so you've got to let us know Oh, yes We definitely we're planning to support existing conferences in longevity We also plan to make our own like on a later stage so more people and broader audience that are not so much familiar with with the latest Technologies in longevity so they can participate and they can get this knowledge and Get this education and maybe we can turn turn someone Into the movement and we hope that's our main main goal to get more professionals and more visioners Here so I'll be happy to share and and to discuss You know the any any ideas that can help All of us to get better and longer living Right I'm gonna take another question from the audience before we run out of time here market news for you is asking What are the top two technologies that companies will make that will be groundbreaking for human health or bioengineering? It's a good question, but it's I feel like that's a tricky one to answer. Oh, yes, but I think I I Wouldn't I wouldn't like to to you know to to name them exactly because as I mentioned We we would like to bet on on everything is credible by the by the understanding of our visionary board member and analytical team and I would be happy. I mean there are there are different approaches. There is CRISPR engineering the telomeres Whatever the a lot of a lot of complicated words that I can I can Pronounce now, but but the thing is the thing is that we are targeting to to cover most promising research in this field With with with getting was explaining to our donators why we think it's it's best here Gary I don't I cannot hear you. I think I'm having a problem on Fix that real quick. Can you hear me? Yes, I can. Okay. I think I fixed the issue. Okay. Sorry about that Great. Well, Gary, this has been a wonderful conversation. I just want to thank you again I know that we are running out of time So if the audience wants to get in touch with you or LSF, how can they do that? Just visit our website and we'll be happy to connect or just find me in any social network like Facebook or LinkedIn Everything works, okay, and are you on are you on telegram or anything like that? Yes What is your telegram handle? It's it's a G a R I Z M Great wonderful. Well, Gary. Thank you again for joining us I want to thank the audience for your questions and for joining us and remember please subscribe to our YouTube channel We've got great AMA's like this all the time and Gary It was a pleasure. So thank you again, and I hope that we can see you soon I'm looking forward to reading more of your content on point telegraph. Thanks Rachel. Thanks for having me here Thank you. Bye. Bye. Bye


Howdy, howdy, all right, there we go. Thanks everybody. How's everybody doing this morning? Everybody's good? We're all awake, are you sure? Okay, so I figure I have about 20 minutes until the sugar starts to spike down from the cocoa puff marshmallow things this morning. That was awesome. All right, so this talk this morning, I'm gonna hit you over the head talking about a few things, mostly around production systems, what I tend to deal with a lot, and talking about testing and monitoring two topics, I guess near and dear to my heart on some ways, and talking about organizational boundaries and how their issues to be worked through. So a lot of people have a lot of different opinions on monitoring and testing. You can find certain amounts of drama about these things. See if this thing is on, this thing is now on. So I tend to think of monitoring in this way and this may be controversial. I don't know how many of you or professional QA people don't take this the wrong way. But I look at monitoring as like, it's like testing in a lot of ways, but you do it in production where the important things happen. And so I tend to focus more on monitoring as a thing that I'm concerned about and I'll get into why that is. And that is essentially the heart of the talk is there are trade-offs to basically everything that we do, right?  And so figuring out what are the right trade-offs for the systems you're gonna run, that's a big part of what you're gonna do with testing and monitoring and how that sort of flows all the way from idea, all the way into production and keeping customers happy and that kind of thing. Dolly had a really long intro that he had to read for me. I think the one thing I will mention, I have been known to avoid social norms that most people tend to adopt. And so I put this shirt on for the conference's protection so that they can disclaim any knowledge of who I am afterwards. But we'll try to keep it friendly and happy and good for a Friday morning. So, all right, testing. What do I really think of testing? I think it's really important. You actually have to do it, right? I mean, it's not like a thing that you can ignore. I have seen many a software developer write code and I probably have done this myself although I don't know that I admit it. And there is that old thing about throwing it over the wall, they don't actually test it and it gets there and it's broken and all that. But I think generally most people do some level of testing, right? Like you will write code and you at least like, does it compile? Like can I actually bring up a thing and see that it ran? That may not be very formal, but there's always some level of testing that's going on. And so everyone understands like there's this baseline of testing and then in some organizations it's a very rigid procedure and there's lots of policy documents and all that stuff. But no matter how much testing you do or how much you agree that like this is a thing, whether you have a QA department or not, it doesn't matter in some level, right? Because it's not like, I've never known an organization as like we don't really have to worry about production because we have a really awesome testing situation, right? Like nobody has ever said that, right? Like, well, we don't have on-call because we use testing, right? Like it's not like it's the other choice, right? So and I think some people look at it that way.  Because if you had a problem, it wasn't like you could easily update that. But that's not the world that we live in anymore, right? Like most cases, not everybody, like there are certainly areas of government where like you can't just necessarily go slap a patch on like a submarine that's out in the ocean or whatever. But even that's starting to change, right? So but you've got to have some level of testing and you have to realize that there's gonna be more to it. There's all different kinds of testing you can do. A lot of people are different fans of different methods, right? There are entire conferences dedicated to the subject. I would say, you know, go with whatever seems to work for you. I don't really have a favorite. And anyone who's run my code will probably tell you that obviously that's true. Some testing I think it's very difficult to do. Certainly as you start to get into either like really large distributed systems or running at really high scale, you find that things like performance testing becomes really difficult, right? The simple sort of examples are like, if you were Facebook, how would you duplicate production traffic for performance testing?  And everybody starts to approach that problem if they're successful, right? Like that becomes the thing you have to deal with. And I wanna sort of point out, like I said, it's necessary but it's again a trade-off. It's not the thing that's gonna solve your problems that I do think people tend to focus too much on that. They put too much emphasis on that side of the equation, and I think it's sort of an old school mentality. One of the problems that I see in testing, no matter which style you do, whether you're, if you're a functional tester or you're like, I do test-driven development or whatever, you think that that's the answer that gives you sort of working code and working software, but the problem is that testing tends to be very deterministic.  It's really hard to do a test suite that randomizes tests as they're going. And gives random inputs because you need to be able to duplicate it and go back and look at a test and duplicate that test. If you can't do that, the testing doesn't really work. And so when you have deterministic testing, obviously you're gonna start to create blind spots. One of the first places that I see these issues are the data problem. Whether it's how much data you're collecting, the type of data you're collecting, the quality of the data that you have. There are folks that dedicate their lives to this kind of stuff. How do we generate test data and how do we make these kinds of things? But it's not as good as the weaponry that users have when they start creating this kind of stuff. And there are known examples. How many of you have heard of this Wolf 585? So I didn't see any hands, which doesn't actually surprise me. So if you were a professional QA person and that was your jam, and all you did was I tried to figure out how to break software on purpose, not like one of those people where software always seems to break when you touch it, you would know this Wolf 585. And if you look it up, I'm pretty sure there's a page on Wikipedia about it. The basic idea was there's a name, which I will not attempt to pronounce, but there's a name that basically is like 585 characters.  So when you think about like, well, I don't know, 100 characters ought to be enough for anybody's last name. That's not necessarily true. And we've all heard those stories of like, whether it's a foreign language or like somebody has a space in their name or whatever, there's all these like corner cases that people think of, they probably don't test for this guy, right? Like, and if he shows up on your site, your code's probably gonna break. And I don't necessarily blame you. You could go out of test for this now, like you've now heard of it. So you could, you know, mock something up if you wanted to. But that's sort of the thing, right? Like users are so crafty and creative that like no matter how good of prediction method you think you have, like they will outdo you, right? I've never been able to figure out how to outthink my users in ways of breaking systems, right? Like they're way better at it than I am. And I have access to the code. So you'd think I could do it better than they do, but no, they'll find a new way. How many of you have heard of the Corrupted Blood Incident? Okay, so it's some old school folks. These are the gamers in the crowd. Since most haven't, you're probably all familiar with the concept of like World of Warcraft and these massive online player games. The Corrupted Blood Incident, so it was a bunch of years ago, basically they introduced, I don't know if you call it a feature, sort of a game mechanic, where they wanted to have a thing that's sort of like a disease that one character could get. And while they had this, right, this kind of infection, they would take damage as a character within the game. And the basic ways you would try to get rid of this was either go like find other players in the game and sort of stand next to them or be around them and they will transfer off to these other players, or you could die, right? And then when you died, like it would also spread to other players that were nearby. Now in most cases, dying is not like your first option that you would pick. So you might try to find other players and do that. Well, in the beginning, this is sort of an interesting game mechanic because players would go, they'd end up getting this and then, you know, they panic a little bit and try to figure out like, how do I get rid of it? What do I do? What they didn't really account for was like, well, certain players in the game have been playing a really long time. Some of them really understand how the game mechanics work in the world far better than the people who are creating the world itself, right? And they would also have characters that were powerful enough to have sort of abilities or ideas that like they didn't really account for, right? That the typical user may not have. Essentially where this started to become a problem was the idea was initially this will be out in like remote areas of the world, right? Where there's campaigns where you only have a limited number of players, but some of those players would get this and they were strong enough that they would actually work their way to get back into the major towns and cities within the world, the online world, right? And so when you work your way back in the town where there's like, you know, hundreds of thousands of other players, you end up with a situation where like new players would join the game, they'd immediately get infected with this and then they'd die within minutes because they didn't have a strong enough player to actually take the damage and stay alive. And you end up with a situation that's really not as fun as you think it would be, right? Like and the people who made the game, like they didn't perceive that this could be a thing that would happen. And before they knew it, like entire cities were basically just getting wiped out, right?  They did rolling restarts on servers to clear out this feature, quote unquote, right? This customer value that they had delivered. They did rolling restarts of all their servers to clear it out so they could restart the game over so players could actually play again, right? And what's amazing is like, you know that generally the people who are writing like game software, like they do actually play these games at times, right? Like a lot of them get into it because they like gaming, but they didn't outthink the users in that case, right? They didn't really, they weren't able to predict like where this was gonna go. So, you know, it's interesting to see those kinds of cases out there in the world. And again, that's what I say, like you can do a lot of testing, but predicting the future still remains hard. We haven't figured that one out yet. And this is the thing, there's so many factors to consider, right, and they all sort of pile on top of each other. Trying to have foresight in what people are gonna do, trying to figure out all the use cases, right? Like there can be assumptions that change over time.  It's kind of like code, right? Like sometimes you change a piece of code and you're like, I'm not really sure all the features that this code touches, but, you know, hopefully it'll work. You'll never be able to add enough tests to be comprehensive about all that, right? And the thing that I think that's important to realize is that trying to get tests for everything in the system really is not your goal, right? The way you need to think about testing is not like we're gonna stop all the bugs because that's not gonna happen, right? Testing is really only for one thing. It's about a confidence game, right? It's about understanding that I can make some changes into the system and then not be super paranoid, not be freaking out that when I roll this code out to production, it's gonna blow up the world, right? And that's all you really need. If you have like super elaborate test suites that, you know, take days to run, you probably need to chop those down because you're never gonna be able to roll out code faster than those test suites run, right? So figure out like, what are the important things here? What are the things I know I need to deliver and how do I reduce the scope of that testing so I can have strong confidence? And you can actually have multiple channels for testing, right? You can have sort of a fast lane for like, we think most stuff will be fine with this and we'll run a comprehensive test suite that's sort of offline. If you wanna do those kinds of things, I would say go for it. But your goal is really just to understand how confident am I that when I push this code, I'm not gonna blow everything up, right? And it doesn't have to be 100%. This is the thing that I think a lot of people get sort of tripped up on, right? And this is sort of culturally dependent. If your job is on the line, if you ever blow up production, you're probably gonna say, well, reasonably confident is not a good enough metric for me, like I have to be 100%. Find a new job, I would say, right? Like that, because it's not gonna work. Like at some point, this is not gonna work for you. You'll make that mistake, right? And you won't be able to blame it on your coworker that you're gonna try to do.  So try to understand what's the level of confidence I need, right? Make tests for those things, right? Think about sort of key features and things that you need to keep running and ways that you can make sure that those features will keep going. And you can deal with sort of those known, known, those things that you understand, this is how the system would break if we change it in certain ways, right? But it does, again, I'd say, this is not good for the unknown, unknowns. This is not good for the thing that you didn't really, either have a good way to test or the thing you didn't predict, right? And that is where monitoring comes in the picture. This is the other side of that trade-off. I don't think, I mean, I hope in this crowd, like nobody is like, we shouldn't really monitor things, right?  We all think we've gotta do some of it. Hopefully we all think we have to do some monitoring. If you don't think you have to do some monitoring, go down and talk to the monitoring vendors. They'll give you a lot of good reasons to monitor, I'm sure, they must have some. I sort of sum it up this way, right? So software isn't ever gonna be perfect. It's made by humans, humans aren't perfect. It involves computers. Computers are naturally against us. I mean, the AI might not be here, but the computers are already against us. So I'll get on the same page with that, right? Like everybody gets that. Systems are definitely complex, right? Most of us really don't understand how computers work anymore. We have different levels of abstraction that we understand, but I mean, nobody knows the assembly that goes into their Mac, which I say nobody. There's probably a few in the crowd that do, but for the most part, most of us don't know that. There's always external dependencies. And this one is definitely growing, right? Like the whole push for doing like microservices and using APIs and like the, you know, bringing sort of more REST integration into your application, all of that starts to create a huge web of external dependencies and realizing that many of those dependencies also have their own external dependencies, right? So that's a big thing. And then just trying to sort of realize like, how do we manage all that in a way that keeps us sane without, you know, sort of losing our minds because of the level of the complexity and the change that's going on in the system. And change is also the sort of great equalizer to all things, right? Testing is really good and the development model is really good because generally, those are fairly static things. You can wrap your head around and don't change wildly out from underneath you, but in production, right? Especially when you're production of LZ Internet, things do change. They change a lot, right? And they're sort of beyond your control. And in most cases, you want that change, right? You want new users to sign up, right? You want to like have them buy stuff from your site, right? Or you want for them to register for your service. Whatever the thing is that you are providing to people, you're looking for that change to happen and you want that to keep going on. So that's a big question, you know, sort of ask question. So what do I monitor, right? I've convinced you monitoring is a good thing. That was probably the easy pitch. What is it that I actually need to monitor in a system these days? There's a saying, right? In God we trust and all others we monitor. Right, so there's all these pieces to our systems that we deal with, right? Whether it's a web server, database, you know, caching systems, there's the integration points of APIs. You can have monitors on those, right? You monitor like your side of the API and their side of the API. So you need to be able to point to like which side is broken, not for blame because we don't ever blame anyone for anything, but like you need to understand where you're gonna focus your troubleshooting, right? There's performance, there's user behavior. Think about application features, like monitoring whether a feature is still used by a majority of your users or whether people have stopped using it. Maybe they're using a feature in a way you didn't predict that happens all the time. You can put monitoring on a lot of things, right? And there become questions, right? How much of it is enough? But we also have the other question, we saw this yesterday, there was an open space on like am I logging too much, right? Logging is sort of in that realm of things that you're monitoring and how you're going about monitoring things and maybe you are monitoring too many things, right? So you've gotta know what is actually important for your business, right? What does it mean to monitor a thing? There's an application many of you have probably heard about. I won't name any names, but a lot of people use it for sort of like a distributed messaging system, right? They talk to other people over the internet. And there's been cases where from sort of a way of looking at that service you would say everything is fine, like servers up and running, you could hit like API endpoints and get like 200s back, so the status seems to indicate that it's okay, but you would send your message, which may or may not be a tweet, and you expect other people to get it, right? And the thing that you really care about is like, are they actually getting the messages that I'm sending? You don't really care whether a ping check comes back and says the server's up. You don't really care if the status is 200. What you really care about is, are my messages getting delivered? Can I go back and see that people are getting this thing, right? If I go back and look at my history, do my messages show up there as if I've actually sent them? And if that's not happening, then like something is wrong, right? And start to think about when you're monitoring a system, how do my users perceive this system to work, right? And then how do I build monitoring around that sort of idea so that we can see if they're having a bad experience, right? Again, servers working does not mean business is working, right? Servers can be up and fine and doesn't mean things are working, but the converse of that is also true. One of my favorite customers we had taught us a very valuable lesson on the idea of monitoring things like temperature on your server and temperature in the server rooms, right? Like we used to do this automated. Anytime we spun up a machine, we would automatically put a monitor in place to see how hot the box was, right? Because everybody knows, oh my God, if the server gets to 70 degrees, like the world's gonna end. And we sort of vary succinctly and accurately got told by one of our customers, like, why do I care how hot the box is, right? Literally he said, well, not literally. There's a code of conduct I'm told.  What was an important metric to this guy was what's my revenue stream, right? How many orders are getting processed? It really wasn't how hot is the server? And to be honest, he was right. If the server was on fire, but that other metric was still going on, I mean, it would be nice to know the server's on fire, but it wasn't like the primary thing, like the business hadn't stopped at that point. This is a very good point and a very good thing to think about. Many of the things that you monitor on maybe are not business impacting, right? And if they're not business impacting, then you gotta really think about, how do I wanna be alerted about this situation, right? Should I even monitor it? Do I need to monitor it, right? If I just focus on business impacting things that I'm monitoring, is that enough to actually get me through my day as far as making sure that the service is up and running? I think most people do focus on the wrong things, because again, part of it is trying to be proactive, but I think another part of it is we tend to think of things as technologists, right? And we think of like, how do I know if the technology is working and not how do I know if my business is working? And that's the mindset that you really should start thinking about, right? And it's not just for your benefit, like it benefits the organization that you're at, which ultimately comes around full circle because people realize like, oh, these are the things that are important on and these are the things we should funnel sort of our money and our energy into, right? Help people monitor these metrics. They're all about how we're doing from a revenue side, right? Or how we're doing from a user registration system. And I will be honest, I've been doing talks for a long time. I've been doing DevOps, I guess, for a long time, whatever that means. And part of this is my fault because I've given talks on operations and monitoring that kind of stuff. And I think there's a part of this is monitoring vendor's fault, right? Everyone has heard that phrase monitor all the things, right? Like we've said this for years within the industry and I think we're starting to see this conversation change and I think that's definitely a good thing. It isn't that you should monitor all the things, right? Cause that, I mean, literally is like every spindle on a machine, every like CPU instruction on a VM, these things really probably are not that important, right? Or at least they're certainly not the place to start, right? You really need to start about, how do I know? Again, my organization is functioning correctly. And there is, if you like drama and the internet is great for drama, there's been drama on Twitter because it's short form drama instead of Facebook, which is long form drama, about things like the terms monitoring observability. And I think when we say monitor all the things, what we really have actually meant was, we want to observability all the things, right? Like we want to be able to go and have introspection into the systems we're running. We wanna be able to go and debug those systems when there are problems, but it doesn't mean you actually have to have a monitor on every piece of your system. That means you need to be able to go and get that information when you need it, right? And observability all the things isn't quite as catchy, so I'm sure that's not gonna take off, but at least like keep the idea in mind, how do I give introspection while keeping a concise set of monitors and alerts and those types of things, right? How do I make sure that my organization, my business is actually still functioning? Well, I'm gonna start from that premise, right? I'm gonna make sure that user registrations are still working and I'll have a metric on how many users are registering over time. And I'll use that as sort of a baseline of like, is there an actual problem? It's a bit of a top-down approach, but it's not a bad idea. I always like sort of give a real-world example when I can, so I'll give you an example. An online marketing company that we are working with, major e-commerce, 100 million users, right? Really big systems, lots of code, lots of metrics, right, we're collecting all that and things like, with most customers, they often start with a call. And the call is, the customer comes to us, he says, hey, I was looking at my graphs because we expose graphs to everybody in the organization and if you don't do this, maybe that's the first thing you should do, which is expose your graphs to everybody in your organization. But we do that. So he says, I'm looking at the revenue graphs and I see there was a dip over the last few days, right? And if you look at this graph, like, we see spikes and there's normal patterns and there is this sort of weird dip. And we're like, well, okay, there's a dip in revenue. That's interesting and maybe a bad thing. We overlay a graph on top of that, so we use a monitoring system that allows us to do graph overlays so we can take other metrics and put them on top of other metrics. And we overlay traffic on top of the revenue graph. We say, well, okay, you had a dip in traffic so maybe that's why you had a dip in revenue. There's a little bit of debate on that and so we say, well, let's go with the system. So we overlay load time on this and we say, well, load time is fine, right? So load time is sort of the bottom line there. And the load on the systems is fine this entire time. So we think like, well, it wasn't a server problem, right? It wasn't like a technical issue like that, but we definitely had less traffic and then one of the app developers at that point pipes up and they're like, I bet it's the database. Because always it's the database, right? Like it's the first. I don't know why we didn't just start there because, but anyways, does that bet it's the database? So okay, we overlay the database graphs on top of that, right? And we're like, how does the database look? And we're like, it looks pretty steady. It's basically just a solid line. And so we look around some more and again, the system that we have so we can build graphs on the fly on any metric that we have and that's sort of key. So we had a building a graph on email bounces. And what we see is like, hey, you're doing a lot of marketing, marketing drives people to the site. Suddenly there was a spike in email bounces. Well, hey, guess what? Spike and email bounces, less traffic to the site. All the systems are working fine, but that will lead to less revenue. So then we dug into why the emails are bouncing, right? We were able to resolve the issue, but it was sort of like that level of introspection to understand this wasn't really a problem. It didn't seem to be a problem until we knew there was a business impact to it. And then when we did, let's go look at different causes around that and see why we might have a trouble, right? You can imagine what if email wasn't actually monitored? Luckily we had enough monitoring in place, we were able to generate the graphs on that and actually correlate it back to the systems that we were working on. I would say if it hadn't been monitored at that point, you know it would have been monitored going forward. And that's a little bit tough because it's tough to predict that stuff. And I will say that goes back to this idea of observability and instrumentation, right? You wanna be able to instrument your system so that you can go back and figure these things out, right? And be able to sort of pull those metrics out and do interesting things with them. We actually had this same problem again, few months later, all the metrics were the norm, right? Sort of the revenue went down. And in this particular case, what we ended up doing is we overlaid a graph that ended up being higher decline rates on credit cards, right? And this time we thought we were smart because we figured this one out without the customer being involved. And then we call the customer up and they're like, oh yeah, yeah, we know. We're having a dispute with AmEx right now so they're blocking our charges. So like, yeah, that's just that. It was like, well, darn it. The minute you think you're smart and you don't involve the customer, right? Get the organization involved. There might be a business issue that's going on that will impact your production. That has nothing to do with technology, right? And you have to remember, always keep interweaving business and technology. That's the point of this thing, right? You have an organization and the whole organization is there to accomplish a thing, right? Technology is in there trying to do one thing and the organization another.  But that's not the goal and that's not how it should be. And hopefully we all can agree that like, that's not the way that it, you know, that that's not the way to success down the road, right? That's what leads us being frustrated. So I got a few minutes left. Well, TLDR this little bit. Testing and monitoring, not testing or monitoring, right? Everybody can, I think can agree to that. We need both sides of that equation, right? We need to understand some level of testing to gain confidence for production changes and then monitoring and production because we understand we can't predict the future well enough to know that we can be comprehensive on the testing side. Again, you've got to understand the organization that you're in, understand why it's there, what is its mission, what's the point of what you're doing, right? CIO Baltimore, you know, I mean, it's correct. Like technology for the sake of technology, what's the point of that, right? It's fun on the weekends, but that's not why we're getting paychecks. Atoms or ability to as many things as you can, try to figure out how you can go into a system and debug it. It doesn't mean you have to have years of log files, right? It doesn't mean you have to stream everything and like have a graph on it, but try to figure out how you will get that information out. And when you're building an application, figure out how would I know that the application is working and accomplishing the reason that I'm building this feature, that I'm building this application or this microservice, right? It's there for a reason. It should expose what those reasons are and how to tell if it's healthy or not. Make sure you're monitoring those impactful things, right? The things you usually have a reason why you put a thing out. What is it that you expect it to do? Go back and verify it's doing that thing that you expected it to do. And then lastly, only alert on those things that are actionable emergencies, right? Again, you can tie this back to business metrics and it's the one time that the business side will probably be on your side with this, right? You don't have to get up at 2 a.m. in the morning because the disk is full if no business impact is actually being measured, right? If you can't see that this affects us in no way, our revenue is still fine, our user registrations are fine, like the carts are happy, the messages are going through. Whatever it is that your service delivers as long as it's still delivering service, the disk full doesn't necessarily mean I have to wake up at 2 in the morning, right? You can deal with that when you get into work the next day or when you get done shoveling the snow out of the driveway when you can't get into work the next day. So that's it. Thank you, everybody. I hope you are all now awake. I hope you'll think about these things with your organizations. And if you have questions, I'll be around. There'll be open spaces, all that good stuff. Thanks, everybody.


Thanks for checking out this video. So let's go ahead and talk about what is coming to shutter for March And I will tell you off the bat I am excited for what's coming in March because there are two films in particular That I've had on my list to see that I've heard good things about so I'm very excited when shutter You know brings me movies that are on my list that I can then check off I'm not as excited for March as I was for February. I feel like shutter did an awesome job in February They dropped a lot of films that I really either wanted to check out for the first time or wanted to watch again So obviously those are still streaming so go check those out So let's get into it with the March ones And then I am gonna say I'll give some updates at the very end of this video if people if not everyone wants to see it Just a few of the videos I'm working on for movie reviews and yeah I'll just do that the end if people just want to find out the shutter stuff and then stop So let's get into it. So for shutter originals and exclusives We have the room which will be hitting March 12th, which is a Thursday They usually put them out on Thursdays usually This one the room is a best feature winner at Bush Bushion International and Strasburg European Fantastic Film Festival He's a struggling comic book artist. She's tired of her job in a big law firm in search of a more authentic and healthy life They leave the city and move into an old house in New Hampshire They soon discover a secret hidden room that has the extraordinary power to materialize anything They wish for like children in a fairy tale They spend days and nights indulging their every material desire and then one day they ask for something different a child a little boy of their own Only to discover some wishes have dire consequences. I mean I assumed being a horror movie now This is a shutter original. I check it out. I don't know when I first saw the room I was like, oh man, they're gonna have time. He was the room I love that movie because so awful so awful, but I love it how awful that is Okay, so this next one is a shorter exclusive And this is one of the ones that was on my list that I'm very happy to be able to check out now It is satanic panic and this one's hitting Thursday March 19th Sam's first day as a pizza delivery driver is not going according to plan at the end of a long day and not enough tips Her last delivery turns out to be for a group of satanists looking for someone to sacrifice Now in a fight for her life Sam must fend off witches evil spells and demonic creatures all while trying to keep her body and soul intact I'm very excited about this one. I read some good reviews on it Also, you know, the premise just sounds great, you know Yeah, reminds me a little bit of Ty West's house of the devil in that same vein I'm sure it'll be very different but that you know material So very excited about that and then this is the other one and this is another shutter exclusive so Daniel isn't real this one premieres Thursday March 26th This one this was at a one best feature at Brooklyn horror film festival best actor at Sitges Catalonian International Film Festival and best director at that Bouchon International Fantastic Film Festival Troubled college freshman Luke suffers a violent family trauma and resurrects his childhood in Imaginary friend Daniel to help him cope charismatic and full of manic energy Daniel helps Luke to achieve his dreams before pushing him to the very edge of sanity and into a desperate struggle for control of his mind and His soul. Oh, that's very similar to last one that and their soul. It's like the same writing. That's kind of funny So Patrick Schwarzenegger is in this and I've heard he does a good job. Yes, Arnold Schwarzenegger's son So that'll be interesting. But yeah, I've heard good things about satanic panic heard good things about Daniel isn't real So I'm very excited to watch those when they hit The Dead Lands is still going on I will be doing a review on the Dead Lands once I have seen all of those episodes I'm getting screeners for them, but I don't think all the episodes are available to me for screeners yet Once they're all available and I've gone through all of them I've only gone through like the first three. I think so I have a little catch up to do But once that's done, I'll be putting up a review of the Dead Lands. I will say at the moment. I'm enjoying it I think it's gonna be ramping up more. So I'm gonna see to what level I'm enjoying it, but Well, I won't say too much about it. So yeah Dead Lands Excuse me. It's just so going on then there's gonna be a season two of the show called missions I didn't see the first season. I don't know anything about it So here here's what it is. It's Shutter Original. A tech billionaire hired hired a group of astronauts and psychologists Gene Renoir to make the first successful journey to Mars, but the voyage didn't go according to plan Now five years have passed since the crew of the Ulysses returned to Earth The memories and traumas of the first man voyage to Mars still haunt each of the mission survivors But everything changes when they each experience a vision of Gene Convincing them that somehow somewhere she is still alive a new secret mission for the red planet is launched to find her But the billionaire still has a few secrets as does Mars itself. I don't know Not really being to like space stuff. So I might give a pass on this one plus. I'd probably have to watch the first season I don't know if I want to get involved Excuse me. Get still getting over some stuff. Don't know if I want to get involved in that one Okay, so the non-exclusives not originals Here we go March 2nd. These are the films coming March 2nd replace Afflicted with a dermatological disease young and beautiful Kira discovers that she can replace her skin with that of other girls helped by her Excuse me helped by her lover. She plots a murder and the victims become her donor But when the disease returns she is forced to find more victims Yeah, sounds good. Oh Barbara Crampton's in it. I feel like I have to watch it that I really like Barbara Crampton She's really cool. If people are on Twitter, you should definitely follow her on Twitter. She's a very positive person She's really cool Yeah, so that one might be one to watch sounds interesting now a movie that Yeah, I'm gonna watch this because it's about do for a rewatch for me I might actually do a review on it put some comments down there if you want me to do a review on this I really like this movie ginger snaps I'll read the review. I'll read the synopsis for people have not seen it, but you it's a must it's a must Morbid and singular in their small town Bridget and ginger vowed to live and die together But when ginger is attacked by a werewolf she grows detached from her sister and embraces a vicious new lifestyle It is good. I can vouch for that. So I might do a review on that one I'm definitely gonna watch it again because it's been a while March 9th Luciferina a young sexually curious nun Okay, and a group of her friends traveled to the jungle for an occult ceremony where they encountered the devil himself I don't really like devil movies so much like that Yeah, so I don't know probably pass on that one Frankenstein This update on the classic Frankenstein is set in present day and told entirely from Adam the monster's perspective Adam is confronted with nothing but aggression and violence from the world around him after he is artificially created but and left for dead I'm gonna pass on that. I don't like these stories that are just continually told and told and told and told Sorry again. I Understand it's a it's a different perspective, but just you know, it's the same tired old story. I'm out not interested Okay, March 16th the movie read Christmas a mother must protect her family on Christmas day from A demented stranger who is hell-bent on tearing them apart after being rejected I might check this one out because D. Wallace is in it and D. Wallace is another person I really like and like to support she I've met her before she's super cool super nice wonderful wonderful lady Then there's the film howl Young ambitious ticket collector Joe is overseeing the last train out of London on a dark and stormy night The usual collection of passengers on board from the obnoxious teen to the workaholic business woman Suddenly the train screeches to a halt in a forest after hitting something on the tracks, but the investigating driver never returns Realizing an unknown and dangerous threat is lurking in the woods the disparate group of Strangers must work together in order to survive a common feral enemy That sounds interesting. I do want to check that one out, especially because sounds like a creature feature sounds like it's either a creature feature or it's a Specifically more specifically another werewolf film like ginger snaps, so yeah, I'll check that one out Definitely now March 23rd some kind of hate Relentless bullying has turned Lincoln's life into a nightmare But he soon learns the true meaning of terror when he is sent to a remote school for troubled teens and the harassment starts all over again Only this time someone is watching a teenage girl named Mora Moira who has driven who was driven to suicide by vicious bullying years ago when Lincoln accidentally summons Moira from the grave He unleashes a vengeful and unstoppable force on a mission of blood soaked revenge Sounds interesting, but I typically don't like ghost movies. I don't like spirit stuff. I don't like ghost stuff I don't like the devil himself stuff. I don't like haunted house movies. Those are possession films Those are the other things. I mean, I'll do them here and there for reviews Especially if people kind of call it out and be like, oh man, I'd really like you to do this one And you can put some comments down on it. Excuse me about that. I will take Recommendations, it's not a guarantee that I'll get to them, but I'll take some recommendations and then the last one housewife Haunted by a horrific childhood trauma for 20 years Holly struggles with vivid disturbing nightmares that leave her Detached and unable to live a normal life then an old friend recommends Holly meet with a charismatic cult leader Leading her on a twisted journey of waking dreams that will begin to unravel the fabric of reality and reveal the truth about Holly's family a terrifying destiny That one sounds interesting that one could be like one of those possession ones or the devil himself or like ghost but The premise is interesting enough that setup is pretty interesting. I might check that one out housewife sounds interesting So obviously the big thing that's not there that a lot of people wanted No announcement about the last drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs I'm assuming and I've been assuming it's probably gonna be in April Because I believe that's when it started last year and I figure they're probably just gonna keep the same schedule So I don't know hopefully when I do this update next April. I'm able to bring that news But okay, so anyone who just wanted to hear the shutter stuff you can sign off now people who want to know What I'm working on at the moment Clear south is terrible. I hate being sick So anyone who wants to know what I'm working on for this month of March What I definitely have scheduled coming out. It's definitely have a review for ready or not I definitely have a review for return of the living dead to and return of the living dead three I am Potentially going to be working on one for I mean I will be working on it I don't know if it's for this month or the next month one for dr. Sleep I am also going to work on ones for don't torture a duckling by Lucio Fulci and Cat anine tails by Dario Argento So those are definite ones that are either hundred percent coming out in March or coming out either in March or April So those are those are all definite I'm working on some TV series as well. Obviously those take a little bit longer So like I said before I'm watching through the dead lands through my screener. So that review should be this month I'm also working on locking key on Netflix that one should also be this month And then I'm also working on the outsider through HBO That one might be next month, but those are the three shows. I'm working on at the moment There's some other shows. I'm gonna jump into after I get those done I'm thinking about doing what we do in the shadows the FX show As well as the second season of terror the one they're calling terror infamy I think I'm gonna jump to that one as well, but oh I'm also thinking about doing stand against evil. That could be a good one So people put some comments down there. Are there specific movies you would really love to see me do reviews on or specific shows Just let me know. I Know at one point someone had said that they might want American horror story I want me to do all the seasons of American horror story. I could do that Obviously that would take some time, but I've only actually watched the first season of American horror story before I never watched past that but I had an interest so that would be okay. So yeah, put some recommendations down there It's not guaranteed. I'll do it, but I'll think about doing some stuff And yeah, cool, but thanks everyone for checking this out. Once again I hope we get that news on Joe Bob and they're all last driving for next month But thanks for checking this out. Do me a quick favor Hit the subscribe as your way to pay me back for any of the videos that I do if you like any of them Do the thumbs up if you already subscribed or if you just want to keep encouraging me and comments comments comments about whatever But thanks and until next time keep it brutal


I do have portals here we go That's $15 for a portal effect, right? Don't you just add a zero? Oh, boy.  Don't buy me this stuff. I'm just making fun of no mail because he's here He's gonna be sleep so I have to take advantage of this opportunity a $15 portal Yeah, they're all they're all steep. I think they're purposely steep because they're like a donation They're not really like I Look at them as you're not really buying the portal. You're actually donating eight dollars and then you're buying the portal for seven Yeah, all this stuff is optional. They don't have any kind of any kind of like XP boosts or anything. So I it's they're forgiven for their high prices because they're looked at as donations There's no way. I mean compared to other games. This stuff is stupidly overpriced That's why I always the stash tabs I have I always got them on sale because every once a month They all or is every three weeks. They have a map stash tab I mean a stash tab sale not map but stash tab sell every month I always wait for that before I buy any of those and I bought so many. I don't need any ever again All right, let me let me just use one of my existing How we get to my microtransactions to area Uh, let me just use one of my old portals Um, I got a bunch. I've been supporting these guys for a while. Wouldn't I get this? Wasteland, huh? This fits this fits the underground thing right Although that's not going to be the no Order thought welcome. I didn't want to go here Now I have to run all the way back because I don't have any more portals And I didn't turn in the medicine chest Forget that chat.  I ain't doing that. I ain't running all the way back there Uh, I I do need us. I need a quick silver crown What do we got arcane surge ruthless chance to bleed onslaught support I got supports already An ancestral call Um, what should I get? What did I get so smite We've got concentrate effect lighting damage penetration focus and damage. Yeah, that makes sense dominating blow Coloring strike melee physical multi strike Constructed fast attack. So I really none of these go into the build. I'm trying to think of what I should use ancestral call I actually don't care that much So you managed to sell Hello. All right. So so this stuff Um Farewell Did you put that on you put that on smite though? Crap. I don't have any links Yeah, I'll have a link for it though. I haven't found a chromatic yet.  This looks like a bad version of torchlight. You don't expect me to retaliate Wow, we'll cut you. All right. I need red. I guess I can get this one of these iron hats or something Uh But have a good night. No mel. I'll see you tomorrow And yeah, I am seriously considering adding minecraft to my stream schedule I am but not as a I take it back We're not doing minecraft. That statement just did it Nope That statement right there just did it No, take it all back. Farewell. I'm deleting minecraft. I'm gonna delete my account. I'm calling mojang right now And we're gonna delete that account We're deleting it everything So should I make a sound pack chat? What do you guys think? That's what we call a hard crash chat That's a ctd. That's what we call in the industry a ctd No error log. No error message. No kind of indication of just ctd You forgot to watch ziggy's video on it. I forgot what we're talking about I have special old No pants crusader All right, so Let's try this again That lose anything Doesn't look like it. All right, let's try this try this again All right, the flats are mud now Oh, wait, wrong skill I like the smite You can call high res Oh, we're doing it again chat This'll do nicely. This'll do nicely axar. Oh I don't think I want to do that yet Who am I kidding? I'm doing that again. This is software Who cares? Let me get this first What in god's name is that smell? All right, I'm done slandering bird eye view skyrim. I will oh Are you do that? I am triggered chat. I won't get hit by roar this dude Just call this game top-down skyrim of all video In the universe.   Don't be Excelling me. I don't have very good similar target at the moment. I guess I can do that Okay, I need to defend it. All right, cool. I can do that Dude, I'm liking this smite. What do you guys think about smite? I ain't talking about high res studios neither Give me that belt. I don't have a belt But can I just like do this in place and hits everything?  I don't have holy relic yet Or do I? Now this is a smite Yeah, I don't have holy relic yet I think I get it on the next uh The next reward cycle Oh medium flask The club Sir, can you come a little bit closer? I need to finish this Thank you All right, I'm gonna go on the thing now We're gonna we're gonna cave while this guy is minecrafting Holy relic is after mudflast man. That is really soon All right, we're gonna make it this time chat. Y'all ready? All right, I'm ready Let's go Oh, I don't have my uh, I know what's wrong. I don't have my um I don't have my kiwi. I gotta get my gold kiwi out.   It's not over This roaches man in spite of If you have if you have a roachia phobia Dude, this this skill was made for this Well, what is the azerite? Is the freaking Is this thematic sulfite attacking everything?   I'm being racist Okay, raw high boots small lifeless Uh, see there we go Okay All the white loot choose until tomorrow, uh, yes Actually choose until you leave and I'll I'll I'll I'll I'll like I'll uh We'll talk about you. Okay. Talk to Nico But I can go somewhere else now Be Okay, uh, so this is Treasure I guess that's a web or contains weapons. It says right here contains items contains azerite Spa around here Kniffin So this is something that's just going to be in the game right now, right? Well, they usually keep stuff in future leagues So, yeah, I imagine yeah this They usually add they they keep stuff from previous leagues and put it in the future leagues But it's not going to be the focal point. You'll probably just see this guy randomly in levels Um Oh, I don't have enough sulfite so I have to go back Wayne wait you have to run back That's lame Or I can venture out in the dark if I have flares in that right chat Oh, you saw that Push back the darkness You can warp back from the cart. Oh I'm going back to the cart just to prove that point And I gotta get my uh, I gotta get my kiwi Grim near make it make sure you show up for tomorrow sub-a-thon I imagine there will be gifted subs raining from above like justice tomorrow That's what I hope return to my flats. Okay Actually, I didn't want it. Okay. Welcome I think I have to talk to him in here. Don't I? Yeah, I do Oh, you know, you can just sub if you want to stay sub can turn these rocks into something a little more But I mean that's cool and everything You put a few flares together Mine's also full of dead ends and things that ought to be dead themselves So get a blasting stick while you're at it should have enough for both on you All right, so I should be able to craft Oh Six and seven I have to use the six and seven buttons No, how am I supposed to do this? I'm okay.  I have to do this again What? No uh Is this a fractured wall I hope so because I'm gonna dynamite it. All right. So we failed that miserably Let's just continue to muff less This dude right here This dude right y'all This dude right here chat Oops wrong button What god's name is that smell Look at the ring. I forgot to put on the belt. Let's put on the belt.  Let me do one talk to talk Now that you've drained that big boy is gonna relic now Put that on the how we're gonna do this. We're gonna put that on the w I guess now Put that on the w What's up L run? How you doing? Man town is crowded. Nico the mad is in here now And zombies from nesting. You're good to go. Oh wait. I get I get zombies from nesting now Probably can't You have a linking red weapon in your inventory links smite and ancestral Throw my this one, right Pro-hide But I can't do a wield on this side. Okay All right. All right. All right Oh wait, no, I don't want that. All right. Let's get situated here. Yes Can I use this? I don't think yeah God hasn't abandoned us Yeah, okay Um We'll keep these around just in case for now in my garbage one got sold out. Yes Yep I'm busy So raise zombie out there on w actually Then put this on here Oh, okay. You didn't see I had it here. That's why you said that. All right It's fine. I mean This works too. I get two right now. I get Three, okay The army lives chat. I'm a pulsating ice cube pulsating ice cube crude boy All right, so what's the sound pack I should use chat?  It was just like I came out And I was just like and they were like this kid special That's not a cry That's not a cry. What is this wrong with this kid and it started from there All right, this is my first major note My first major note. We're going to retribution board Yeah, I don't know how they work. Yeah, I got I got a look at how they work Do they have a on on the site? Do they have like uh previews of the sounds?  Oh, I see I see a thing um In early builds or summoner they just always died you were constantly resummoning them Hey, what's up? So lore wise why didn't I see this stuff before? Why is it appearing now? Lore What are you using beck black's bloopers for he's talking about the sound pack Uh, because you can now have custom sounds in this game for drops So he's using becks bloopers for that And once I get to my next checkpoint, I think I'm gonna um I think I'm gonna do that. I'm gonna check them out Oh, wow, I even see the little uh indicator on the map before Dude these zombies just never died.   I didn't go away. Wow That would take me like five minutes to do The hardest part would be to take out the wow from that video and then but creating a scene and uh OBS would take like Half a second. I gotta be careful about my strength on this because Sometimes I go overboard with strength items and you know, he's a hybrid character Dude, this is amazing so far. I'm glad fizz out convinced me to do this Amazing work man.  It's fine. Mr. Krabs and get this over with Think I need some music chat. Oh, you know, it'd be some good music monster hunter music Oh, can I get copyright strike for that? Which one I go on first? All right, so we need to go precision towards righteous decree Or sanctity, which is armor increase energy shield. I kind of want to go towards that But we've got spiritual command Which gives me more minion damage and minion life So do I want minion life or do I want my life? Minion life Wait, what are you guys saying? Oh, yeah, does capcom do that though? I don't know You know, I don't want to lose revenue.