Going on everyone Sam here late in sports cards We are rip in 22 a panini absolute football hobby six box half case break number 16 Rand our picker team style gonna read off our list of names and teams Andrew H. Giants Anthony P. Bucks Antoine D. Raiders Bernard H. Patriots Jets Brian S. Dolphins Brian P. Seahawks Falcons Cameron K. Cardinals chance a Packers Daryl P Broncos Texans Thank You there Daryl Donald C. Lyons Edgar B football team Eric P. Ravens Gilbert D. Browns Harper B. Chargers Bills James G. With the Panthers John G. Bangles Cowboys Joshua M. Niners Joshua S. Jags Mark G. With the Vikings Mo M. Chiefs Raquel B. Titans Robert O. Steelers Sam C. Colts Scott T. Bears Victor F. Saints Wallace S. Eagles and Wyatt S. With the Rams Good luck here everybody let's do it Rich just said he's not gonna go with rollercoasters I don't like rollercoasters either I don't I don't like theme parks in general like I'm Like I'm looking forward to it, but I'm gonna be an early exit Not a feat like I've never been to Disney hadn't I've had no Want desire inclination to go to Disney. It's just not not my thing You're gonna ride test track Maybe depends on the line Probably though test track school What's that roller coaster? Drake London That is 64 out of 75 introductions. If it's a roller coaster now Anything roller coaster absolutely not Roger McReary to 275 Going to the Titans Brian Robinson jr. To 399 Going to the commanders the ton of these gotten getting pulled out of this case Yeah, it's just not my Never really has been I've done it before like I've gone on a ride mission space That's the one that the person passed away You then definitely not an absolutely not There's a blue deck Prescott 36 out of 50. You can travel to earth Which is like not that bad or you can travel to mars, which is like Pretty easy force Elijah more Debo Samuel Got Romeo Dobbs two color patch 16 out of 49 going to the Packers Grats Packers. I'm pretty sure the basis of it is they just spin you around really fast So it feels like you're like Luisinae that is 83 to 100, you know, you know that like feeling of like, yeah Yeah, if you like stick to the walls and stuff. I did like that We like we had a pretty big fair in my town growing up like it was big enough that like we all got the day off from school for that day Which is pretty cool. Yeah, it's like a holiday for us And uh, they had a couple they had that ride the gravatron That's fun. I didn't hate that That's John Mechie for the Texans to 100 base and base God Joe burrow three color patch 14 out of 49 for the bangles. Nice one there bangles Nice Joe Shiesty.   No say it. I was just having Joe mixing that's eight out of 199 And nice cave on tibido 35 of 35 rookie Otto for the Giants Well, what are you gonna say? What is it? What does it pertain to a sports team? Uh gold geekette that's uh one of 10 nice one there for the Seahawks What's going on here? What are we missing the the tape cutter? Yeah, come on now Got in Hutchinson nice one there uh 16 out of 99 for the Lions And then mr Brandon cooks one of one There you go Houston last team taken Let's go Congrats to I believe that is Daryl Daryl P one of one Brandon cooks Very nice Let's go dude Mr. Brandon Cooks one of one what Yeah, that's it's like an old video like there was some breaker that like scammed somebody And that's what he did like when he was like that that's like a quintessential part of the video It's like right before it happens. He was like he pulled the Brandon cooks car to 99. He was like mr. Brandon Cooks 99 And then like I never watched the video. I don't know exactly what happened But it looks like we got another glass coming up to 100 Sam how is this gonna be on my home's glass for mo Is this gonna be in my home's glass? That's a Dalton Schultz by the way base We've got Eden Hutchinson going to the Lions.  Congrats Detroit On the glass Andrew Booth to 275 And a sauce gardener 88 out of 99 going to the Jets nice sauce Congrats Jets Bernard On to the next one. Okay. These weren't sealed the box was sealed itself and the packs are sealed But there is no there's no like foil on them. There usually is. Yeah, usually there is That's happened before though. We've seen like archives that happened once the whole case had no seal on it Josh Jacobs to 100 but as long as the outside was sealed. That's all that matters Travis Kelsey Dalton cook Got going to the Texans Damien Pierce 23 out of 49 Groundhogs and Vilis Jones Jr. 33 out of 75 for the Bears Congrats on that again as long as all the hits are there as well There is a orange Patrick Mahomes 35 out of 75. There you go. Um Moe Mack Jones Damien Harris. This is cool tools of the trade that is Matt Ryan 29 out of 40 for the Colts Lions, yes lines, sir And we have a dual Chris Carter Robert Smith 48 out of 75 really cool one there for the Vikings I love these dual autos historical duels Salt fray We've got last call a Monro St. Brown to 100 for the Lions Among us St. Brown. He is yeah, he's I haven't been fancy. Yeah There's another Jameson Williams the 275 for the Lions And we've got Hassan Haskins 26 out of 399 for the Titans. Congrats Titans Yeah, he's so good dude. He's like helped like saved my fantasy season I mean I am in second place, but really I didn't need that much saving If I beat some of the bottom theaters that work here Praying on the the forests and the the riches and uh the donnies Who's the top tier Sean now it's me uh Jake's the one seed on the two seed I think the lane's the three seed and then Caleb is in two There's Christian Harris four of ten. Oh, hey, we're just talking about how bad your fans are team. We are. Yeah I can't keep my players healthy James Conner Christian White Bolt Got CD lamb on the quad 28 out of 99 let him rest up. Yeah, that's what I gotta do Get him next year and Eric has to con ma 10 out of 100 This is what you're looking for force There's the goodies. Oh, yeah, dude. It's gonna be CR 7 messy and fixed Out of the World Cup final Got orange Carson Wentz to 75 commanders other locket patch my homes Got a war room Garrett Wilson 23 out of 25 for the Jets three color patch And going to the Cardinals Zach Hertz 12 out of 25 on the tools of the trade auto jersey ball Read some of the notes that I put on there So you know which ones they are Yeah, he did Can you pick it to 75 Trying out some moa to To 75 that would be pretty cool. That would be pretty I would honestly not hate that And pure strong junior for the Patriots on the triple to 399 That's So bad, dude, it's all bowman. There's bowman and prism. So it's like two of the worst products for it And then absolute's got like the foil. So it's not helping. It's not hurting necessarily, but it's not helping either There's sky more to 75 for the chiefs base true lock Got burners, uh, but deandre hopkins 7 of 25 jersey for the cardinals And a cool one here Going to why it s with the rams. How about a matt stafford 10 of 49 triple tools of the trade jersey auto nice Congrats on the stafford economy Oh, yeah classic classic Good one Got dashaun watson to 100 There is a chris olave war room materials 53 out of 99 for the saints And going to the jags christian herk spectrum materials 75 of 75 Nice one there for Jacksonville Josh Allen gold Three of 10 nice one there harper on the stargazing Nice allen Barclay mccordy and sauce gardener to 275 For the jets and we've got desmond ridder 19 out of 49 starting this week going to the falcons Congrats on that took them long enough to start desmond ridder Oh Marcus mariota isn't the answer Like that's our guy right there. That's our guy. All right last box guys. Good luck Vila shone jr 11 out of 100 for the bears on the red base base Here's a james cook uh 78 out of 99 And go to the commander's iconic ink mark ripping 20 out of 50 Nice one there for the commanders Like those iconic There's lee roi kelly draft diamonds for the browns to 100 Whole famer now base base cam taylor britt to 275 bangles And nice one here chris olave 39 out of 99 rookie premier um Jersey autograph congrats saints nice olave And last about box of the break. Good luck everybody See what we have in here and store for us Uh orange rosson haskins to 75 Titans Damian harris and travis kelsey kill a trav We've got keenan allen 7 out of 99 for the chargers nice one there chargers Glove passion there as well and a christian harris 14 out of 75 rookie auto going to the texans Congrats texans That'll do for the break guys do a quick recap here Thanks, sir. Had keenan allen chargers Uh james cook bills deandre hopkins cardinals chris olave saints cd lamb cowboys Garrett wilson jets damian pierce texans matt ryan colts adan hudgensen lions Joe mixon bangles joe burrow bangles and romeo dobs packers We had autos now christian harris texans chris olave saints mark rippin commanders desmond ridder falcons christian Kirk jags matt stafford rams eric azucon medolphin's pier strong junior patriots zack earth's cardinals Really cool vets in this one vila stones bears hasan haskins titans Uh vikings dual adan hudgensen lions That is a sauce gardener for the jets cave on tibit o giants louis cna vikings corlyn souten um broncos brian romminson junior commanders and a one of one Brandon cook signature standouts go in to the texans That'll do it for the break guys. Thanks again for the fill. Um, that is it for group breaks. Uh, so thank you


Hey everyone Shaber 1000 here got something special That's going to be going on this weekend. I'm going to tell you about it in this video right now.   I got to noticing every time I go on stream yard It shuts my PC down and reboots. I got to reboot it every time sometimes it'll do it once sometimes it'll do it four or five times and I have sent them emails and they're always accusing me My equipment my internet and all that stuff, but it's funny How that's the only app or anything that it does it on I Don't know I think it's causing issues with my PC and it's done it from day one So and it's a Windows 10. It's upgraded as you know as far as it can go for Windows 10 I know it's a crappy computer, but it doesn't do it on anything else now my software That I try to use It's kind of choppy now that could be in the settings of the software That could be in my PC But as far as shutting shutting down and rebooting the only time it does that is when I'm on stream yard And so they just sent me another message.  I don't I don't want to hear is You know It's my PC. It's my internet connection. That's always the first thing they they still tell you Well, what do you have your PC settings on? You know, have you tried to set up for gaming? Yes, it's all set up for that So, you know well you're probably out of date your PC is probably out of date You should update it look there's no updates available because it's updated as far as it can update You know and then there well, you're you're in you probably have poor internet connection. I showed you guys the speeds. I'm running well over a hundred Plenty that's plenty But anyway, that's not what we're going to talk about So I've been on YouTube for ten years now this month has been ten years so I mean to me it's a milestone but It's taken long enough to start Getting somewhere and I still don't have I You know they took As soon as I hit four thousand subs they took almost a thousand off of me. I think it was 800 or something I did a video on it They took him away Monkey was one of them a few other people They was like they wasn't getting notifications anymore So they went to check my channel and found out they they were unsubscribed monkey was one of them So you know They're clearing out bots and scammers and all this stuff and I'm like, whoa, you know in trolls and I'm like, well, I know monkey's not a troll. She's not a bot She's not a scammer and I still have yet to get back to that four thousand mark. But anyway, the point is only 1% of My subs are watching.  Okay, and I'm probably I was going to do it in the house on the PC But I'm probably not going to do that because of that stupid issue That's another thing YouTube took away from us if we're on a PC We have to use a third-party software Now we can live stream straight from our phone Hmm But we can't do it on the computer without a third-party software That's stupid they took that away from us and stream yard once I forget how much money a month to go pro Just so you can get 1080p and I'm going to pay all that kind of money Just to have them shutting my computer down and rebooting now. I don't think so. No, you know It's and then have them blame me or my settings or I'm using the app wrong How am I using the app wrong? Well the settings you didn't have your settings right It's working fine until it just shuts down so Anyway, I'm apologizing for that but so what we're going to do is We're going to have a giveaway. It's gonna be a lot of fun Okay, and I'll tell you why it's gonna be a lot of fun. It's what we're going to do We're going to give away this wireless charging desk lamp. Okay? So You can it's a desk lamp, but you just set your phone on it and it'll start charging now Your phone has to be compatible with that. Okay. No, mine's not monkeys is not but Maybe yours is so I Thought I thought my voice wasn't going through. I mean it's been horrible, but anyway, so This was bought at CVS pharmacy, okay And like I said, your phone has to be compatible with it, you know with wireless charging So you might want to look into that, but we're giving this away and it was 1499 it was 15 bucks plus tax. It has never been open. We've never opened it. See it's still got the seals Around it Okay On the bottom to the seals still there it's never been open never been used It was just bought the other day So we're going to give this away And how we're going to do it is we're going to take the fifth caller the fifth caller Is going to win that? Yes.  We'll put you on speakerphone sorry about smoke and I Will give you a number on that day to call Now mind you if you call after that day if you call that number, it's not going to work anymore. It's a one-time number so well I Can keep using it if I want but every time I do that if this goes well, we'll do it more often But every time it's going to be a different number as soon as we're done with the live stream that number is going to be It's going to be cut so That's how we're going to do that But the fifth caller we're going to take the fifth caller the fifth caller is going to win this now even if your phone doesn't Even if your phone is not compatible with this, maybe maybe you can you can re-gift it I Don't know if it'd be If we could get it into you by Christmas, but you know give it to someone maybe you can sell it make a few bucks on it I mean 15 bucks You know, maybe get 10 or 12 bucks out of it or trade it just to a friend for something, you know put it on eBay and sell it Craigslist whatever you want to do with it. It'll be yours. Okay So that's what we're going to do. We're going to take the fifth caller Like I said, I will give you the number on that on Saturday Saturday. It's going to be eight o'clock eastern time Okay That's what time the live stream is going to start so we'll probably start the We'll probably turn the phone on at about 8 30 right in there So that way it gives us some time to talk and shit chat with you guys and give some People time to come in to the live stream. So we'll start to call in at 8 30 that's eastern time So you guys are out west, you know, if you're way out west like Nancy She'll be it'll be three hours before that be what like five o'clock and in central time it'd be You know, whatever I'm not sure how that works, but whatever so So playing that accordingly to wherever you're at, but eastern time it'd be eight o'clock So you guys on this side of the country it will be 8 p.m. Is what time the the Livestreams going to start Like I said, we'll chitchat for a little bit that you guys know what's going on maybe some What we're gonna be doing in the future with videos and stuff like that, so it's gonna be a lot of fun also That's somebody slowing down here for some reason drive by Oh, it's an old guy Anyway, so, you know, it's gonna be a lot of fun. So we're gonna do that We're gonna have a call in so 8 30, you know, we're gonna open the phone up and start you guys can call in the fifth caller We'll get this also a question and answer you can ask us questions. We'll answer them We're not going to answer anything too personal No politics nothing bad like that. We're just gonna we just want to have some fun you know, maybe What kind of equipment we use and and stuff like that? What are what are what our plans are for future videos also? December 6th and 7th We're going to be doing an overnight camp out. I couldn't get the whole weekend because of one day One day that campground is booked for one day Doesn't make sense out of the whole month of December and that's the only weekend we can do it So I can't go like I can't book it from the fourth to the seventh like I wanted to because Friday or because Saturday the fifth so it'll be Sunday the sixth and we'll be going home Monday the seventh I don't think I don't know if we're gonna take the boat just for an overnighter because you know We'll do some cooking. We're gonna do a lot of fishing. I don't think I can get service out there to do a live stream We'll have to see maybe if we do it's not gonna be good and I'll warn you that but if you want us to try it Let me know in the comments below and we'll try it, but that's what's that's what's happening this weekend So Hopefully y'all have a happy safe and happy Thanksgiving and I know I'm thankful for all of you guys that that watch my channel and support me and you guys are awesome all of you and there's a lot of you that that are I Mean immediately like like I tried to do two live streams first live stream mine was like Jacking around and Nancy was there right now check her out by the way She was there right now, and I think she thought it was her computer, but it was on mine So I said I well, I'm gonna go to stream or and I went to stream or and sure enough Nobody was watching yet.  I'll upload it tonight So you might see it tomorrow or whenever, but I'm gonna upload it tonight I Kind of got a winner for remember the spice I did What was it in did I make chili? What did I make can't remember what I made now I think it was chili anyway I put I put I put a spice in I wanted one of you guys to guess it and I can't I can't remember what I made The first time I made the stew first time we went camp and then the second time I Thought it was chili. I thought I made chili, but Yeah, I think it was I think Hell I can't remember now. Anyway, there was a spice and I wanted you guys to try to guess it somebody kind of Kind of won that so and I'll explain that to you in that video, but remember guys this Saturday At 8 p.m. Central time. We're going live 8 30. We're gonna start. I'm gonna I'll give you guys a phone number to call and And the fifth caller that calls in wins this so like I said, even if your phone doesn't I mean hell just it's a cute nightlight Little desk lamp type thing so even if your phone's not compatible with wireless charging. It's still light like I said Maybe you sell it give it away And if we can get it out before Christmas then maybe you know You know, maybe you can re-gift it 15 bucks right so Anyway guys, so and then what I'll do is I'll I'll give you a I'll give you an email that you can get a hold of me on To give me your information so that way we're not doing it on the air So no personal information will be exchanged So, you know whether you got a post office box or an address or whatever that we can send it to them We'll get it out to you as quick as we can Well, actually we'll send it out at a product. It would probably be Monday So Saturday we're going to do the giveaway and we'll send it out Monday and you guys Maybe should be able to get it before Christmas. I don't know. We'll just have to see I got a few things coming in for monkey and I got a couple devices coming in So I can use my phone and live stream with this camera from my phone So hopefully that'll work out and then I can just do that all the time steady using that other stupid stuff. So My fire went out so anyway guys, that's what's going on Again, happy Thanksgiving to you all. I appreciate it. Monkey appreciates it She is editing a video right now because her mother is baking pies and I think she did Something I guess it's real rare in this pumpkin pie. So I don't want to say too much because you know, that's already a spoiler alert So if you check her out That's what they're doing. She's editing that video right now, which is where we had nothing like I said nothing but well, I had nothing but but technical issues all day long and then you know, she's using her new camera with her phone and Well, it was upside down everything was upside down. So I switched it in the camera to where it was right side up in her phone When she and put it on the computer it was upside down. So she had to you know in editing She had to flip them all back around. I don't I don't know what's going on today Very weird very strange. But anyway, I'm thankful to all you guys who watch my channel You guys mean a lot to me and I really really appreciate it so stay tuned for the spice thing and That'll be about it. Don't forget Saturday. So again guys, thanks for watching. Shea bear the myth man legend I'm gone for now. Happy Thanksgiving y'all appreciate it. We'll see you soon. Bye. Bye


Hi everyone, Joe for jazby'scasewrakes.com doing a quick little random number block randomizer for impeccable basketball pick your team too That's coming up in the next video featuring all these teams right here. It's a serial number break There are the instructions for this format right there big. Thanks to this group for filling this up There are the numbers right here. Let's roll it randomized names and numbers two out of four six times one two three four five and six We got Collin down to Nick o two and a four six times for the numbers one two three four five and six One down to zero Now remember zero gets any and all redemptions including one-of-one redemptions doesn't happen too often, but it is it is a rule But one Collins still gets live one-of-ones Collin with one Samuel with four mark with seven Richard with eight mark nine and three Collin with six Nick with two Russell with five and Nick with zero Let's order these numerically and coming up in the next video will be the break itself jazby'scasewrakes.com


And so, my fellow Americans, what your country can do for you is what you can do for your country. Please explain your use of student document readers during your history classes. Six people volunteer on the first day of class. They come up to the front of the class, and I give them a primary document to read. And I usually give them something to swear words in it or dramatic words in it to test their ability to say whatever needs to be said in a historical sense in something that they can be dramatic about. And I ask them to be in character. They have to absolutely become that voice of the class. They have to become believable just as if they were doing a play. They have to make that person come alive. So the students believe what they're reading. Because some of the stuff they're going to be reading to our modern minds sounds absurd and unbelievable. What were these people thinking? So we'll want to dismiss it. But if I can get my students to convey while they're reading that these people were absolutely sincere in what they said, then it will help me try to convey the point that I'm trying to make about history to make the past come alive with all of its absurdity. So at any rate, so they have to do a contest. Six people come up, they read the documents, I have them turn around and my entire class silently votes with their hands as I point and they pick the three they want. By the way, the other reason I do this is because if I was the only talking head for a whole hour, every day, every week, I don't care how exciting I was, my students would be more. So I want to bring in fresh voices, a fresh look, their own fellow students, just to mix it up. Just to give students something else to listen to, something else to look at. I, too, sing America. I'm the darker brother. They send me to eat the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong. Tomorrow I'll sit at the table when company comes. Nobody dares say to me, eat the kitchen. Then besides, they'll say how beautiful I am and be ashamed. I, too, am America. So Langston Hughes is talking about rising expectations of black, an idealistic dream or hope that blacks have mentioned.


This video contains major spoilers for pretty much every incarnation of Scott Pilgrim, the comic, the new anime, and two different versions of the film. It does not contain spoilers for the end of the game because the game is really hard, and I've never actually finished it. The new Scott Pilgrim takes off anime has fixed Scott Pilgrim, or at least that's the take that is bouncing around in certain circles of the internet, the idea that the new anime has somehow sanded off some of the edges and made the idea of Scott Pilgrim in general feel a little bit more appropriate for the I remember reading an article all the way back in the Stone Age of 2010 when Scott Pilgrim vs The World, the live-action film, came out which claimed that Scott Pilgrim was essentially Twilight for Boys. This was at a time when anything to do with Twilight was considered to be the greatest insult that you could possibly throw at a thing. The logic was apparently that just as Twilight is wish-fulfillment romance for girls, Scott Pilgrim is wish-fulfillment romance for boys. You get to date the manic pixie dream girl, and you also get to beat up all of her exes. And I think this probably misunderstands the whole point of Scott Pilgrim in a fairly major way. Indeed, I feel that a lot of people who have only ever seen Scott Pilgrim vs The World the film will not necessarily get the concept of Scott Pilgrim as it's presented in other media. To this end, while Scott Pilgrim the anime certainly recontextualizes a lot of Scott Pilgrim tropes, it does so in a way that doesn't necessarily contradict the core message of the original comics. Which is to say, the comics themselves were always fairly self-aware, Scott Pilgrim was never meant to be a role model. There are certain elements that you lose when a book series is converted into a single film. Indeed, Scott Pilgrim vs The World the film points this out specifically, with the character Comeo on point pointing out that the book is always better than the film. And whether or not that's always true is up for debate, but certainly when you're taking six fairly chunky volumes of a comic series and trying to squish them down into two hours, you don't necessarily manage to translate all of the nuance of the story. So in the case of Scott Pilgrim vs The World the film, the focus is very much on the fights. Scott has to defeat each and every single X before he is able to win Ramona. And that does come across as a bit of a uncomfortable concept in 2020 to 2023, whatever year we're in now. Really? Is it 2024 already? Wow. To a lot of people, this is not the biggest deal in the world and doesn't necessarily get in the way of enjoying the film because, I mean, it's very well directed, it looks gorgeous, it's incredibly stylish, and ultimately there are significantly worse films from Hollywood which have far more uncomfortable morals at their centre. Nevertheless, the plot of the film is essentially Scott Pilgrim has to defeat a series of evil Xs in order to win the prize that is Ramona. This is not the plot of the comic in the same way. And indeed, even in the film, there are glimpses at the idea that the fights are not necessarily as important as they may seem on an initial viewing. So in case you're watching this video without any prior knowledge of Scott Pilgrim, and if that's the case, thank you very much for watching, it is very much appreciated, Scott Pilgrim is a series of comics which were created by Brian the O'Malley in the early 2000s. O'Malley took a significant amount of inspiration from video game pop culture, because it was the early 2000s, that's what indie comics were at the time. Certainly, if you'd read any web comic at the time, you would have seen a video game pop culture comic. Also inspired by manga and by music that he liked, O'Malley came up with the idea of Scott Pilgrim, a character who, in order to date the girl of his dreams, has to defeat her seven evil ex-boyfriends. By the time the film adaptation had rolled around, this was changed to evil exes for reasons that will be very clear if you look at the roster of characters that Scott Pilgrim has to defeat. Thus, despite being a comic, Scott Pilgrim has always been all about the video game experience, and the idea of filtering an entire worldview through the lens of video games. One thing that's particularly interesting about this is the fact that Scott Pilgrim was actually semi-autobiographical, based on O'Malley's own life, particularly his dating history. He has later stated that the idea of a league of evil exes came from discussions with his at-the-time girlfriend, Hope Larson, who is, by the way, herself also an incredible comic artist, very, very well-renowned. She's brilliant. Before dating, O'Malley Larson had dated several boys named Matthew, and O'Malley, taking this information in, processed it and thought, wouldn't it be interesting if I had to defeat all of these evil Matthews in order to win the heart of my girlfriend? Initially, all of the ex-boyfriends were going to be named Matthew, which is quite a fun idea, and I have to say, as a Matthew myself, I appreciate the idea that just all Matthews are evil. It's also worth pointing out that I am the third Matthew, that Bretton Stripes the usual voice for this channel has dated, so she's got some evil ex-Matthews as well. Let's put a pin in the idea of me then relating very hard to this, and also being a potential evil ex-Matthew and myself, because we will be coming back to that. There were other elements that O'Malley took from his life as well, his band, his friends, everything just kind of got mushed up together and turned into Scott Pilgrim, and according to O'Malley, not everybody was particularly thrilled to see that come out in comic form, and indeed ultimately in film form. O'Malley later said, I took some of my friends to the Scott Pilgrim premiere in Toronto, and it was so awkward. They left without saying anything at the end, no comments. It's a weird life making stories, especially with Scott Pilgrim, because it was so close to our lives at the time. We all had different versions of the things we were experiencing, and to see my version on big screen, it was very uncomfortable for some people. Now this I feel is a significant part of understanding the Scott Pilgrim experience, this idea that this was genuinely the lens through which Brian Lee O'Malley saw a lot of his life at the time. If you look at the Scott Pilgrim comics, ignore the film, ignore the anime, ignore every other adaptation of this work for the moment, but if you just look at the comics, Scott is not a great role model, and his way of viewing the world is fundamentally flawed. So the initial idea was that Brian Lee O'Malley was working mentally through the idea that his girlfriend at the time had a romantic past. And in order to process that in a way that made sense to him in adding this video game lens, the whole logic of Scott Pilgrim, essentially, is that Scott Pilgrim feels like he needs to prove himself as superior to his girlfriend's ex-boyfriends slash ex-girlfriend. Like that's the whole point of the work, is that Scott needs to prove to himself that he is worthy to date Ramona, because if you look at the comics, Ramona has almost no interest in the actual fights. For Scott's second fight with Lucas Lee, Ramona doesn't even bother to turn up, it's not important to her, she does not care. Prior to Scott's fight with Roxy Richter, Ramona has spent the night at Roxy's house, has made out with her apparently a little bit, clearly has absolutely no skin in the game in terms of who is going to win this fight. This is only something that matters to Scott. And it is worth pointing out by the way that according to Brian Lee O'Malley, while it's not mentioned in the text, his idea was that once you get defeated as an evil ex, you do just regenerate later, like you come back to life, it's fine, like you don't actually have to worry, it's not a permanent thing. The Scott Pilgrim comics then are a little bit about fighting and a lot about relationships, and specifically about the idea of learning from the past and trying to better yourself and improve yourself. At the start of the story, Scott is jobless, he is freeloading off a friend, and in order to make up for the big ex that has left his life, he is having a romantic relationship of sorts with a teenage girl. The whole point is, at the start of the story, Scott has a lot of work to do on himself, and the impetus, the motivation for making changes in his life and trying to improve himself, is Ramona. In order to make himself more appealing to Ramona, in volume 4, Scott gets a job, and is very pleased with himself, and then completely forgets to brag about this later, because actually the process of making himself better is in and of itself fulfilling. Or maybe he just genuinely forgot, I don't know. Similarly, Ramona is a tremendously nuanced character, and she has plenty of flaws herself. I don't love this idea that she's often characterized as a manic pixie dream girl, because for one thing, what even is that? Is that just like a girl with a quirky sense of fashion style? Ramona's big problem is that she doesn't like to stick things out when a relationship gets difficult. She will immediately move on, and that's reflected in her eclectic list of exes. When we first meet her, she has fled to the country to avoid her ex-boyfriend, Gideon Graves, and is living in Toronto instead of New York where she was previously, so that she can get a complete fresh start. She's not interested in looking at her past, and then it turns out that her past is coming to look for her. Looking at these comics from Ramona's point of view, you get a very different experience. This idea that a girl is just trying to move on with her life, she's trying to do something new, she's trying to be a different person, and every time she tries that, everyone from her past just comes and drags her back to where she was before. To this end, Scott and Ramona suit each other quite well, because Scott genuinely doesn't tend to learn from his mistakes in romance either. He has hurt all of his previous girlfriends, including Kim Pine, by ditching her and not telling her that he was moving away as a teenager. When he's more interested in dating Ramona than the teenage schoolgirl he's been spending time with, we see him break Knives Chow's heart, and we see him also immediately move on from this. It does not take him any time at all to reassert himself and feel comfortable again. Like, there is a moment of feeling guilt, and then it is gone, because that's just how Scott rolls. The big shadow over Scott in the first half of the comic series is his relationship with Envy Adams, aka Natalie, his ex-girlfriend who broke his heart so spectacularly that he essentially fell apart. And in later volumes it's made clear that no, actually, things weren't as one-sided as Scott believes. Initially, we just get Scott's side of the story, and he claims that Envy Adams, for no reason, just destroyed him, that she transformed overnight into a different person and left his heart broken by the wayside. Maybe it was his haircut. That's the only thing he can think of that might have suddenly caused her to turn on him. When we later get Envy's side of the story, she says that no, Scott was no saint either, that the breakup was not necessarily as one-sided as we initially believe. The true final fight of the comic, much as we later see in the film, is a moment where Scott has to face himself, head on, has to come to terms with his own darker side and to stop running away from his past, where he has to suddenly remember everything and appreciate that he's genuinely made some mistakes, and he needs to improve, and he needs to work on himself to make things better. Then he goes and fights Gideon, so we all get the closure of seeing the entire series wrapped up.  Meanwhile, Ramona has realised that she can't just run away from a relationship any time it begins to get boring or dull or stale, or any time that she doesn't feel quite right. The two of them hold hands and walk off into the sunset together, with an awareness that the relationship might not last forever. After all, they've already had several quite rocky patches, but they are genuinely committed to giving it another try, and they're going to enjoy it for as long as it lasts. It is a somewhat ambiguous ending. It doesn't say that they're going to be together forever, it doesn't say that they're going to fall apart immediately again, it just says, Scott and Ramona, they're going to try. And as an ambiguous ending for a comic, it's pretty good, because it gives you what you want, which is to see the two lovebirds get together, but it doesn't overly simplify things, and it doesn't claim that fairy tale romances are going to live happily ever after, because this ain't a fairy tale romance. The message of Scott Pilgrim the comics, then, is that we are all of us flawed individuals, we all of us have baggage from our past, we all of us have things that have gone wrong in our lives beforehand, and it is only by accepting those things that we have done before, accepting our own mistakes and the way that people have hurt us, that we are able to improve ourselves and change and grow. To this end, Scott's journey to defeat Ramona's evil exes is less about winning a human-shaped prize, and more about accepting that Ramona is a human being, and that she has a past, there have been people in her life before, and that Scott is not the centre of her universe. Indeed, I would argue that perhaps the best parts of Scott Pilgrim the comic are the parts that are nothing to do with the fights whatsoever. The fights, as I say, are a tiny part of a much larger romantic story. I swear I'm getting to the anime, I am getting there, hold your horses. Before I talk about the anime, I think it's time for us to talk a little bit about the film adaptation, what works and what doesn't work, and what needed fixing in this that may not have needed fixing in the comics. So the story goes that Brian Leo Malley finishes the first volume of Scott Pilgrim. Scott Pilgrim's precious little life, hands it to his publisher Oni Press, they print about a thousand of them, which is, you know, a decent number for an indie comic, but it's never going to take the whole world by storm, and then Brian Leo Malley carries on with his day job and starts working on Volume 2. One copy of that initial print run, through circuitous and random means, ends up in the hands of Edgar Wright, the director of Shaun of the Dead. Wright was already a rising star in the UK. I remember the premiere for Hot Fuzz being like a big deal at the time, like everybody in the cinema dressed up in police gear to go to it, so we already knew that Wright was going to be a significant director for many years to come, but I don't think he'd quite gained the same worldwide notoriety that he has today. Either way, Wright absolutely loved Scott Pilgrim and decided that he wanted to adapt it into a film. There was just one problem, there was only one volume of it, and the story wasn't finished yet. It takes a while to get the ball rolling on a big-budget film, and as such, there was plenty of time for Brian Leo Malley to go away and do a couple more volumes of Scott Pilgrim, while at the same time Wright was working on Hot Fuzz and other stuff before they were able to come together to make Scott Pilgrim vs the World. Right from the beginning, though, when there was just that first volume of the comic, Edgar Wright was already coming up with his idea of what a big-budget live-action Scott Pilgrim film would look like. That does go some way to explaining the direction that he takes with the film and with the story, and his decision to make Ramona perhaps a less appealing character than she is in the comics compared with knives. The original ending for Edgar Wright, Scott Pilgrim vs the World, the live-action film, involves Scott at the very last second, realizing that no, actually, he's more into knives than he is into Ramona. He has better chemistry with knives, he's a more interesting character, and so he ultimately decides to end the film with knives instead of with Ramona, the woman that he has been battling all of these exiles in order to date. It certainly is interesting that Wright read the first volume of Scott Pilgrim and really shipped Scott knives, where kind of the whole point of the story of Scott moving from dating a teenager to dating a woman his own age is the idea of him growing in maturity and finally moving on from his big breakup. Nevertheless, test audiences were not particularly keen on this direction. After all, Scott had spent two hours fighting for Ramona, and it felt odd for him to suddenly not want Ramona anymore. And so, as a result, a new ending was filmed in which Scott and Ramona dance off into the sunset together. Apparently, Edgar Wright was a little bit apprehensive about explaining all of this to Ellen Wong, the actor who plays Knives Chow. He had to essentially tell her, sorry, you're not the romantic lead of the film anymore. You were, now you're not. In response to this, though, she actually said, no, that makes sense. I don't think Knives would take Scott back that quickly anyway. Which, yeah, I like that. That's true. And it led to the line, I'm too cool for you anyway, which is what she says when she breaks up with Scott. It does make for a much nicer arc for Knives' journey within the film, with her starting off absolutely idolizing Scott and thinking he's the best thing in the world and then slowly learning that actually he isn't all that great and suddenly realizing that no, she can do better and indeed she is just cooler anyway. The downside to this is that because the film was supposed to be leading audiences to want Scott to get together with Knives, Ramona's characterization is very different from the comics. In the comics, she's fun, she likes to joke, she has a good time playing around with Scott, they have great chemistry together. In the film, there's not spectacular chemistry between Michael Cera and Mary Elizabeth Winstead and it feels like a lot of that is deliberate because you're not supposed to want these two to get together. What this results in is a film where Scott Pilgrim is attempting to date a woman and indeed fight all of this woman's exes to rescue her somehow, but she doesn't seem like she's particularly interested in him. This isn't necessarily a fault of anybody involved in the project, it's just how it turned out because of that last minute change to the ending. The result of this though is that if people have only seen the film, Scott Pilgrim, they tend to malign Ramona as being a little bit more than a cardboard cutout, just a kind of a lamp to be put on a pedestal, something for Scott to idolize and work towards but that who doesn't have any kind of depth or character herself. The prospect then of an anime adaptation of the comics seemed like an excellent opportunity to fix Ramona in particular and give her the more well-rounded character that she really should have had to do her justice in a moving picture scenario. It's worth pointing out that because Scott Pilgrim the film was being worked on at the same time as Scott Pilgrim the comics, there is a point where instead of the film being based on the comics, the film came up with its own story and the comics are instead influenced by the film. Brian Leomali, as for example, said about this panel of Scott being dead, which appears in the comic, was initially lifted from the film because he had seen it and he thought it looked really cool in the film so he was like, all right, I'll just put that in my comic as well. As a result it is difficult to separate the line between where Brian Leomali's ideas end and Edgar Wright and the rest of the production team for the film's ideas begin. They're kind of all nebulous mushed up mess, which is absolutely fine because all versions of this are fun in some way or other. Some of them have strength and some of them have weaknesses, but all of it is fun. It's just a little bit more fun, at least for me if we don't think of Ramona as just being a prize that Scott has won at the end of the film. I'm going to be honest with you, I find it very easy to give Scott Pilgrim the benefit of the doubt because I absolutely adore the comics. That's probably come across by this point. I donated the original versions of these, the black and white ones that I bought in 2010 to my little brother when these came out because I figured, oh, color, color is better, right? And to a certain extent there are some jokes that I feel work better in the black and white. And also to a certain extent I feel like, especially in some of the later volumes, you can really appreciate the gorgeous line art in black and white in a way that you can't quite the same way in color, but hey, it's still all good. I first came across Scott Pilgrim the comics in much the same way that I think a lot of people did at the time. There was a trailer for Scott Pilgrim versus the World of the Film. I watched it, I thought, that's brilliant. I want to see more of this. Why don't I try out the comics that this is based on? And so I bought number one and I thought, this will do me for a while, and I read it in like an hour, and then I thought, I need to get another one of these. I remember the summer of 2010 very clearly, and Scott Pilgrim was a large part of just the general vibe of that experience. It was my first summer back from university. I'd gone a few years later than everybody else, so I was in my early 20s at the time about Scott Pilgrim age. I was listening to iFight Dragons and Anamanaguchi. Later Anamanaguchi would be very heavily involved in Scott Pilgrim media, but at the time it was just a cool chiptuni band that I was enjoying. And so I was listening to Helix Nebula, and I was reading these comics, sat out in the sunny sunshine of my parents' back garden, and I was, I guess, feeling quite Scott Pilgrim-y in general. What am I going to do with my life? Where am I going to go? And these comics connected with me, and this message of, you might be a bit confused about where your life is going now, but you will figure things out, really resonated with me. I won't say that every element of my life was a one-to-one with Scott's at the time. I wasn't, for example, dating a teenager despite being in my 20s, but certainly the general feel of Scott Pilgrim connected with me. I could, I could see what Brian Leomali was doing with these comics. Early 20s kid who's still learning about the world, and who's processing a lot of the world through pop culture references and through video games, and just kind of beginning to understand things and beginning to grow in maturity. The other thing that really spoke to me with these comics as an aspiring comic artist myself was seeing the glorious artwork and what Brian Leomali achieved, and indeed how he grew and developed as an artist over time. Because looking at the first volume in particular I could see that, and I could think to myself, I could give that a go, I could do something like this, and then seeing how he grew and developed this art style. It was an art style which as someone who had only ever read newspaper, comic strips, and Marvel felt so different, and I'd realised for the first time what comics really could be. They could be something more than just Spider-Man. They could have a deeper meaning. Going beyond the art style there was a substance here. There was a meat to this storytelling that I hadn't really felt before, and this was the gateway, the initial start of me discovering so many different comics that actually tell meaningful, heart-filled stories as opposed to punch-punch-bow-pam comics aren't for kids anymore. That's not to denigrate Spider-Man. There's absolutely Spider-Man comics that I really connect with, and I feel very strongly about as well. But what I just mean is this was another level or something, a different direction, a feeling from a comic that I had not had before, and a realisation that this could be comics, and that you didn't need to have necessarily quite as heavy an emphasis on the fighting. Though obviously there is quite a heavy emphasis on fighting in some of these comics. It might be for this reason that I'm so willing to overlook a lot of the elements of Scott Pilgrim that haven't aged particularly well. Certainly I'm willing to take this not necessarily as a perfect piece of art, but as one which attempts to tell a bigger story than it normally gets characterised as. If that's the way that I relate to this comic, and the inspiration and the message that I take away from it, I get the sense that the people who made Scott Pilgrim Takes Off are on a very similar wavelength. I think the genius of Scott Pilgrim Takes Off is the fact that this was built primarily as just a straight adaptation of Scott Pilgrim Comics. In the time since Scott Pilgrim Takes Off has released a lot of people have expressed some disappointment that the anime isn't more faithful to the source material, and I absolutely get that. And yes it would have been lovely to see this story told in a very similar form to in the comics. But at the same time the comics do still exist, and I can use my imagination to fill in the blanks a little bit. But also what they did with this anime is something so brilliant, so revolutionary that it's just fantastic.  I've already given a spoiler warning, but one more time here come spoilers for the anime. Scott Pilgrim dies in episode one. How brilliant is it that a media has pulled off this bait and switch? It's one of those things that I think a lot of people have often talked about, oh wouldn't it be interesting if the hero just died off in the first 30 minutes and then somebody else takes up the mantle instead. Oftentimes with these kinds of stories you get lulled into a false sense of security that ah it's the main character nothing bad's ever going to happen to them. And then right out of the gate Scott Pilgrim dies and they hold a funeral for him and Ramona picks up the baton and runs with it and now this is Ramona's show. If I was previously disappointed that Ramona of the film was not as nuanced as Ramona of the comics then Ramona of the anime absolutely makes up for that. So again if you're watching this without having actually seen the anime in the very first episode Scott is defeated by Matthew Patel Ramona's first evil ex-boyfriend. The rest of the show is a who did it rather than a who done it in which Ramona has to figure out which of her evil exes are responsible for Scott's disappearance because as it turns out he isn't as dead as everybody thinks. Somebody has kidnapped Scott and somebody has made it look very much like he died. Who has done that and why? In order to solve this mystery Ramona has to do what she would not have done in the comics which is have a genuine heartfelt conversation with all of her evil exes to figure out why they're unhappy with her what she could have done better in their relationships and whether or not they were involved in the disappearance of her new boyfriend. Right out of the gate one thing that this does very well is make it clear that Ramona actually genuinely likes Scott which is something that as I say was entirely missing from the film. Like she's called out uh several times I think by characters who say why are you putting so much effort into this one guy you went on one date with was it really that good of a date to which she says yes and there was a spark there was a connection there that she hadn't felt before and she wants to pursue it further. This makes it very clear Scott and Ramona are meant to be together they just work as a couple and even in an alternate timeline where things are all messed around Ramona is making that relationship happen. I think my personal favorite episode of this is the episode in which she confronts Roxy Richter her evil ex-girlfriend and where Roxy talks with Ramona blatantly and candidly about how Ramona just kind of up and left one day. Like Roxy thought that they had something stronger than they genuinely did Ramona kind of strung her along for a while and then just pieced out of her life the moment it was inconvenient. All of this happens because it's a Scott Pilgrim story with the two characters fighting their way through various film scenes because they're having a giant battle in the middle of a VHS rental shop. At the end of it Ramona genuinely apologizes and Roxy accepts because ultimately that was all she needed that a lot of Ramona's evil exes wouldn't really be all that evil if a viewed from a different perspective or b if Ramona had just given them the closure that they needed and from that point onwards Rift healed these two are now friends again and Roxy is willing to even flirt with Kim a little bit and just see where else she can go. It's a very clever subverting of the story suddenly instead of it being about defeating evil exes Ramona has to come to terms with and fix her relationship with these people that she has wronged over the course of her life. The story makes it very clear that an enemy is only an enemy until the moment that you're able to patch things up and then suddenly they are one of your friends and they are one of your most adorable friends and it's wonderful seeing all of these evil exes playing together and genuinely being nice to each other like there's niceness here that we haven't seen in the Scott Pilgrim world before. The Roxy Richter episode ends with a song which I've absolutely fallen in love with by Tegan and Sarah which contains the line I wouldn't like me if I met me and boy does that not give me chills because that's kind of the point of Ramona's story here she's suddenly realising that she has had a negative impact on these people and to tell you what I can absolutely relate to not necessarily liking oneself. That's the point of Scott Pilgrim, right? That we see our own flaws and we see our own failings and we work to improve them and that's what Ramona does and that's how she's able to save the day even in a Scott Pilgrim story that doesn't have a lot of Scott Pilgrim. It helps of course that the animation is absolutely beautiful although sometimes it's more successful than in other times. There are certain scenes where I feel like they've kind of overstretched their capability and their budget and have tried a little bit too hard and been a little bit too ambitious. I've got nothing against that to be honest because a big swing and a miss is always better than playing it safe and for the most part the show looks absolutely gorgeous just a joy to behold. It looks like an anime version of the comics which is exactly what it is because the production team behind this are all genuine anime veterans. If there's a flaw in the show's presentation and yes I am absolutely stalling before addressing the elephant in the room that is the last few episodes, if there's a flaw in the show it is in the voice acting unfortunately. In every other aspect I'm willing to praise this show endlessly but I've got to say that some of the voice actors in the show do not quite work for me. When I first heard that the cast for the films Scott Pilgrim vs the world would be reprising their roles in animated form I wasn't quite sure I was on board with that because I kind of would have liked a fresh clean take. As it turns out I was absolutely right to think that because at least to me the voices come across as being that horrible thing where Hollywood A-listers get cast in films that they're not supposed to be in and it just doesn't sound right like you're Chris Pratt as Mario or Garfield or like for example you're Chris Evans as Buzz Lightyear like it just doesn't quite work and you'd think to yourself it would have been better to get a professional voice actor. In particular I think there's an issue where the characters voices don't necessarily match the anime art style and the energy that that brings where they developed this character in a physical form where they had a physical presence and now it's all about the voice and the voice just doesn't match up to that anime vibe. I'm not going to name specific names of actors that I don't think do a great job in this but I will point out some that I think absolutely nail it because this is not true across the board. Jason Swartzman absolutely knocks it out of the park he's brilliant as Gideon Graves in animated form and that's not a huge surprise given that I already saw him this year as the spot in Into the Spider-Verse no across the Spider-Verse beyond the Spider-Verse he was in a Spider-Verse film as the spot and he was brilliant in that and he's brilliant in this. He works absolutely. Another one who's absolutely spectacularly brilliant is Sacha Baba as Matthew Patel and maybe yes he is my favourite Evil X anyway but seriously this actor is brilliant he completely understands the assignment he is an anime villain to AT he's got exactly the right energy for the animation why do we not see more of this guy oh yeah Hollywood's racist like every other actor in the original film has gone on to mega stardom every other actor is a big big big deal and this one guy is not I'm sorry I'm getting distracted I'm getting distracted I'm just saying he's really really good and he deserves more. One actor that did a really good job despite not sounding anything like I imagine the character in my head Johnny Simmons as young Neil I've always seen young Neil as being a little bit more self-aware and a little bit less dopey than he appears in both live action film and in the cartoon there are some tremendously heartbreaking scenes in the comics as he's getting increasingly frustrated because this friendship group is crumbling around him and everybody's just kind of abandoned him and that side of the character is not seen in any of these moving picture adaptations of the story but he's just so funny as this kind of slightly dopey character who's a little bit slower than everybody else and is just barely struggling to keep up like it's very very entertaining whether or not this is the version of young Neil that I imagined in my head. Okay all of that said I think it's time for me to address the elephant in the room the big plot twist at the end of the series the fact that the only Evil X that Scott Pilgrim has to defeat in Scott Pilgrim takes off is Ramona's eighth Evil X, Scott Pilgrim. There's a reason why I've not wanted to talk about this sooner and I want to be very careful in the way that I do so because some genuine lives are involved in this. You may have noticed the foreshadowing from earlier in the episode but we're going to be talking about real people again. I did kind of guess that this was where the show was going because for one thing if there's a who done it and somebody grabbed Scott out of a portal it would be most interesting if it were Scott himself and if you open this up to time travel why not that's just kind of a fun idea and I'm very glad that it is a time travel story and not what I was worried about was a multiverse story because I've had enough of multiverses but yeah Scott Pilgrim kidnapped himself he staged it to look like Matthew Patel defeated him it's part of a grander scheme in order to try and undo his 13 years of marriage to Ramona. We go to the future we see the future the future doesn't look great but Wallace Wells is doing alright for himself because he's married up. Oh I didn't mention Wallace. I don't like the way that Wallace is presented in this show because he's a little bit more mean to Scott I feel like Kieran Culkin has brought with him some of his character traits from Succession but at the same time I also really don't like the idea of him and Todd Ingram it's just I feel like Wallace would have better taste but that's beside the point. It is in the future segment of this episode that we get the joke that made me laugh so hard I had to pause the episode on the train that I was sat on and just giggle to myself for a while. It's built up that Wallace Wells' husband is somehow phenomenally rich and wealthy some kind of superstar and we don't know who it's going to be but maybe I'm thinking to myself oh no is it Todd? Did he marry Todd? And it's built up that Wallace's husband works at Nintendo and I could not stop laughing because it is classic kind of Scott Pilgrim humour this idea of just bringing that back and there's not a lot of video game references in Scott Pilgrim takes off I imagine they were probably harder to clear for this than they would have been for the film and I imagine that they're also harder to just kind of slip in than they were in the comic where no one really cares about what's in a comic Nintendo's not watching that like a hawk. Okay so let's talk about real life again. Brian Lea-Malley has spoken about how difficult it was going to be to return to Scott Pilgrim and he has said that he would always like to he is considered doing another volume of the comic but it's difficult to figure out where the characters are going to be so many years down the line and I think especially with that ambiguous ending to the comic which is then picked up by the film this idea of Scott and Ramona having a certain amount of time left but not really knowing whether they're going to work out or not but just giving it a go and seeing what happens the logical kind of follow through for that is that they don't have a fairy tale happily ever after. The other wrinkle to the story is because this is based on Brian Lea-Malley's actual relationship with Hope Larson the acclaimed comic artist we know exactly where things ended up for them and again I don't like dwelling on an actual couple's actual history but imagine for a second that your relationship with your husband is blown up into this over-the-top dramatic really like high big budget enormous film this blockbuster like your romance is a blockbuster film and then imagine how it must feel to be constantly bombarded with that when the relationship doesn't last. Hope Larson and Brian Lea-Malley got married in 2004 while the Scott Pilgrim series was still ongoing and they divorced in 2014 after 10 years that's a good run for any marriage and I don't really want to comment on anything else to do with their relationship but this idea that the couple that inspired Scott and Ramona ultimately divorced is not something that can be skipped over or glossed over in coming back to these characters. Now obviously there is a difference between fiction and between real life and absolutely characters that are fictitious can go on and have their own lives it's not necessarily the case that Scott and Ramona had to be entirely tied to Brian Lea-Malley and Hope Larson's marriage forever like that's just silly these characters are their own thing and they're not a direct one-to-one translation of these real people at the same time I can imagine why it was not easy necessarily for Brian Lea-Malley to come back to this particular relationship and try and explore where it would be 13-14 years down the line like that must not be an easy thing to write and to his credit in revisiting Scott and Ramona he definitely casts the character that is his self-insert fan fiction character Scott Pilgrim he casts him as the villain of the piece which I think takes a certain amount of self-awareness and also absolutely fits with the plot of Scott Pilgrim it's a perfect metaphor for a series which has always dealt with the idea of maturing and growing and learning from your mistakes and being willing to examine yourself rather than just stick your fingers in the ears and blindly ignore all of your own frailties when confronted with the difficult situation Scott has fallen entirely into old habits and has attempted to erase his past rather than appreciate the lessons that he can take from it and move on and try and better himself he is stuck endlessly trying to erase what came before because he does not like having to deal with his own past and with the mistakes that he has made it's also entirely appropriate for a pair of characters who we knew were always going to have a difficult time of things they went into their relationship again knowing that things were going to be difficult and they might not last forever what's all the more heartbreaking and indeed very clever is this idea that future Scott is then so obsessed with trying to erase his past so that he can get rid of his heartbreak that he misses out on opportunities to fix his future and he loses 10 years of his life and 10 years of his relationship with Ramona because he's unwilling to just meet her halfway and try and communicate with her when he could rather just try and erase everything and just start afresh and have a different life entirely he's so trapped in the past that he can't fix what's coming and then there's that absolutely heartbreaking scene in which a middle aged Scott turns to Ramona and realizes suddenly that if he hadn't shut himself off in the wilderness for 10 years he could have potentially patched things up with her and he asks well can we get back together now and she says just like that after 10 years no dude no you made the wrong choice finding a satisfying next step for Scott and Ramona's life was never going to be easy and this particularly heartbreaking direction and taking the characters genuinely does feel appropriate for them but is also presented in such a way that we can kind of laugh off a lot of the the heartbreak and the anguish that they have caused each other it's not easy to make a story that is at once very entertaining but also really sad ultimately Scott was always destined to become Ramona's eighth ex as said there's a lot more going on here than people give Brian the O'Malley credit for this one signed by the way to Matthew you see that to Matthew uh what year did this one come out 2014 2014 Brian the O'Malley was promoting his new book seconds which is downstairs currently and he went around on a little signing tour of the UK and I queued for an hour and I got to meet him he is huge in real life I mean I'm not a particularly large person he was like he towered over me it was brilliant meeting him in real life absolutely brilliant and I got him to sign the book and I'm very happy with that I suppose the nice thing about the Scott Pilgrim takes off anime is that it gives us an opportunity to re-explore some of these characters in a fresh light after 10 years of experience and we get to see for ourselves just how much they've changed and grown and we get to see for ourselves just how much we have changed and grown as an audience those of us that remember the release of the original film and the original comics certainly in revisiting these things after so many years there are elements of Scott Pilgrim that are problematic and it's interesting how the anime kind of plays down a few things for example Scott's relationship with knives just to make it a little bit less awkward and the fact indeed that the entire story spins away from this idea of fighting evil exes to win Ramona's heart and instead leans more heavily into this idea of genuine connection between people as being the catalyst for solving the vast majority of grievances and upset and the creation of evil exes ultimately for all of the time travel shenanigans the end of the anime is quite similar to the end of the books and the film Scott and Ramona have had some rocky issues but they're going to give it a go and they're going to explore their relationship and see where it takes them and see how much joy and wonder they can get from each other along the way they might not last forever they're probably not going to last forever but they're going to have fun while they can there is also the hope the hope that either a young or an old version of Scott will put aside his flaws will work to improve himself and will fix the things within himself that are keeping him from Ramona because now it is made entirely clear that the evil exes were in no way ever an actual impediment to these two dating the only genuine impediment was the fact that Scott himself is a flawed person that Ramona herself is a flawed person and if they are able to overcome those flaws maybe they'll have a go of it after all in all of this i'm not saying that Scott Pilgrim is a perfect story in any form there are problems in both the comic and in the film and in the new anime and in the video game things that are a bit icky are a little bit just morally awkward which are just a part of the story but the fact is that it's a story about recognizing your flaws and overcoming those flaws and so I don't think there's a problem necessarily with seeing Scott Pilgrim for what it is a fundamentally flawed piece of work which is also kind of brilliant and enjoying it for the good stuff while also aiming to improve so that some new iteration of this in the future or some story that takes inspiration from Scott Pilgrim is able to overcome and remove those flaws and be better as a result because ultimately that is the point of this story you can like a thing and also know that it's not perfect i think if there's a moral to this story it is that there is a benefit to looking at ourselves recognizing our flaws and finding ways to improve that is true of Scott Pilgrim the character and it is true of Brian Leo Malley when analyzing his own body of work and if there's anything we can agree on it's that Anna Maniguchi are brilliant thank you very much by the way for watching all of this i know this is not our usual kind of video and i know this is the third of these me on camera videos that i've done thus far and i don't necessarily know how they're going over like if people are actually enjoying this format or not for me it's significantly quicker and easier for making a video and that is my priority because life is so ridiculously busy at the moment and it is hard to get videos done unless i just find the quickest way of doing it which is just to put myself in front of a camera and just start talking and see what comes out and this in particular is a subject that i think i've come across honestly here this is something that is very close to my heart absolutely love Scott Pilgrim and having seen the anime i just really needed to get this out of my system and just fire it off into the ether so this is me doing that and clearing house and perhaps with 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Hello, in this lecture we're going to talk about partnerships and we're going to talk about the selling of a partnership interest. We will be able to describe the process of selling a partnership interest, create the journal entry to record the sale of a partnership interest, define the effect of journal entry to sell a partnership interest on the trial balance accounts, and explain the effect on the capital accounts of selling a partnership interest. All right, so now we're going to do the same thing, however, this time we're going to have B sales to capital partnership interest to the partnership, however, they're only going to pay $50,000 this time. So same idea, except the exchange will be the $50,000. So is cash affected? Yeah, it's going to go down by the $50,000 in this case. So if we take a look at that, then let's go through the journal entry, see what we can do, where we run into a problem, then do the calculations. So cash, is cash affected? Yeah, it's going down. The partnerships paying B for the partnership interest. Cash has a debit balance. We're going to do the opposite thing to it, which in this case would be a credit. We're going to take B off the books. B has a credit balance in the capital account. We need to make it go down. Therefore, we're going to do the opposite thing to it, which in this case would be a debit. Now the debits do not equal the credits. We need more credits in this case, and the credits are going to go to M and L, the other two partners. And we're going to have to figure out how to break it out between those two partners. Remember, we have our ratios here. So we have M30, 20, and 50%, broken out between a 3 to 5 ratio. And we have our capital account balances represent at 151.2, 124.2, and 264.6, which are represented in the trial balance up here. If we're then going to break out our ratio, then it's going to be looking like this. One calculation we did last time, if we're saying 3, and the 2 is gone now, so we're dividing by 3 plus 5, so divided by 8, so that's where we come up with the 37.5, and the 5 over divided by 8, which is the 3 plus the 5 because the 2 is gone. That's where we get the 62.5. And so now then, we have our difference of 74.2. Where does the 74.2 come from? We, B is going off the books at 124.2, and cash is going to be affected by 50. And that's the 74.2. If we multiply that times, the 0.375, 0.375. That's what's going to give us the 278.25, which is going to be allocated to M. And of course, L will receive the difference. Let's do that calculation, however. Which is the 74.200 times the 0.625, and that gives us the 46.375. So that's how we're going to break out this 74.200. That's the plug that we need up here. So our new capital account balances then would be the 179.25, which of course is the beginning balance plus the 278.25, and the 264.600 plus the 46.375, giving us the 310.975, which will give us a total capital account balance of 490. So if we see that in terms of journal entry, we're going to credit or increase the capital account balance for M, 278.25, and we're going to credit L, the 46.375. All right, so if we take a look at the effect of this transaction on the trial balance then, we'll see if it does what we expect it to do. What do we expect it to do? We expect M's capital account balance to end at 179.025 B to be off the books because we have now sold B's partnership and they're not with us anymore. And then L's going to be at a capital account balance of 310.975, giving us a total capital account balance, which is equivalent to the book value of the company, assets minus liabilities of 490,000. All right, so we're going to debit B's capital account. So here's B again on the books at 427.2, has a credit balance, we're doing the opposite thing to it. We're going to be off the books by debiting it, bringing the balance down to 0, so B is off the books. Cash, cash is being paid by the partnership to the partner of B in order to buy B's capital account interest. Therefore, cash is a debit balance, we're making it go down by doing the opposite thing to it, which is a credit, bringing it down from 550 to 500. Then M, M has a credit here, so here is M, credit balance in the capital accounts like all capital accounts have, and we are going to credit it, making it go up because we're doing the same thing to it from 151 to 100 by 278.25 to 179.025. And then L, we're going to credit L, so here's L's capital account balance, has a credit balance in it. We are going to credit it, bringing it up to 310.975. We now have B off the books, we have M and L on the books, and we see that the cash minus or the assets minus the liabilities equals the new capital account balances between the only two partners left being M and L at this time. So we are now able to describe the process of selling a partnership interest, create the journal entries to record the sale of a partnership interest, define the effect of the journal entry to sell a partnership interest on the trial balance accounts, and explain the effect on the capital accounts of selling a partnership interest.


All right, folks, you survived the midterm, or at least some of you have, physically, but I don't know if it's not great yet, so we'll wait on deciding on that. Okay, so before we get started on the next part we're gonna talk about, which is network security, I wanted to get your rooms opinion what you thought about the public trust part of the third assignment. So it's the first time I've ever tried something like that of making adversarial components to this to try to get you to scan each other, so, and I think it definitely has pros and cons, so I'd like to hear your feedback on how it can be better depending on the future or what you thought about this. So if you don't want to share your opinion in front of the class, that's totally fine. If you want to send me an email, I'm really happy to get that feedback so I can kind of improve this or find this for next year or so, or next semester or whatever this is talking about. And one thing was when I got my adversarial key the name on it was like a woman's name, and then I heard some people that are like a woman they got a name and I thought it'd be like better maybe if we got like the same gender name so it wouldn't be so obvious because if I try to like give people to sign my adversarial key then see like it's like it'd be pretty obvious like Natalie Russell is like obviously not my name it's like the woman's name, so. I mean it feels, it just feels a little bit odd and fair maybe, I don't know. Just how interesting. That's like a 50-50 chance of which gender you got I think, at least name-less. Yeah. Hey, this is a comment. I also felt like it was sort of an unfair. I thought the common name you could probably have that made it a little unfair too, but. Yeah, I thought about throwing initial names in there to throw you guys off. I didn't mean that, but. I actually thought what would be kind of a cool idea in the future is, you said the adversarial part really had a gender-like role in terms of what we could do so I thought I'd just try and bring a valid key that you saw. The key part I guess is, at least from my perspective, the idea is I want to encourage people to to be careful when signing keys, right? So the default action if you just sign anything that anybody gives you that's not really doing the assignment, right? And actually like understanding and verifying I definitely understand that. I feel like it would have been really different and you really would have had to pay attention. Instead of creating a whole different name with the same exact name but with an additional character. That way you actually had to check and see if I type this name into the student registry that name doesn't pop up and I can't trust it. Or if it's just close enough I feel like that was one of the hard things too. It's trying to identify someone against the registry and they may be in a completely different even majors. I don't know if they're in IT but they're taking this. So how do you verify that yes they're in the class unless you actually have the time to shake them down and get their ID. Yeah that's also another tricky thing. I mean some people aren't open in this class but in general, right, so the name like one of my PhD students, the ASU name is not their actual name. So their documents actually say a different name. It's very similar you could easily tell why but yeah and I don't know so I actually don't know where these ASU names come from. I just have the information that's given to me on the course the thing that tells me on my ASU that says you're all in this course. So yeah interesting. Yeah. We'll make it a little bit more difficult when we do not specify not to put your ASU ID. Do you have ASU email in there? Because ASU email you just go to the ASU email type in the email address. It gives you the ASU name. And so that's an easy way to check to see if that person's legitimately who they are. And that's why I went over to the ASU email to look at it and put it in the email. I said oh this is the right name. Yeah the email would be tricky so maybe I could let you pick or something. Oh yeah I'll just say to specify you can't do ASU email. Ah, I see what you're saying. Another way to do it is that you have all the students' names for the route roster. So this keeps that person's email the same but just randomly selects another person as their class roster. I think that could cause problems. I don't know that I want you necessarily impersonating someone else in the class. Maybe the last semester's class roster. Maybe the last semester's class roster. Yeah I don't know. That's also a tricky one. Maybe. Any other thoughts? Yeah. My only thing was it just got kind of tedious. I think he's typing the same thing over and over again. Did you write a script for it? What's that? Did you write a script for it? No. So let's take a lesson in the future. Your science is writing a script for it. No no I understand. I mean that's actually part of the intention of the assignment is to understand that these things are tedious and easy to get wrong and really knowing what to actually do like GPG in my opinion is a pretty terrible interface so doing all this is difficult. So. Okay. I miscied on GPG. Like I tried someone else like when I pulled my key off the GPG the server we were using and I had like 17 keys to why I look at my key ring even after cleaning it up I had like 30 keys. 3 separate keys. I was kind of mystified by how that happened. You had more or less? She pulled it down and I had 17 keys on hers that were separate keys and I pulled I was looking at mine and I had like 30 and even I just pulled it off too and it was very odd to me. I mean that's probably because your key, your local copy will only grow over time right so if you ever somebody ever signed your key not on the key server right and they just emailed you a signature and you imported it. Another clear thing too is it would duplicate keys too. Like I would have like one person supposedly signed my key at this time and then again at this time. That's an implementation. I was kind of mystified. I'm assuming this hasn't been updated in a while. Interesting. I don't know how GPG deals with that. Any other general? So then I have a question for those that will say chose. Cause I've been through some of the reviews and some people for reasons I brought earlier didn't want to do the adversarial part because they don't want to cause their other fellow students to lose points. I definitely understand. On the flip side you could see it and maybe I should have pitched it as a as a peer grading scheme right because the idea is if nobody's acting as an adversary then you just sign whatever anybody sends you and it's not very interesting right. So you need some adversaries an alternative approach.  Yeah I don't know that's another question. I don't know. It makes sense to have a portion say like I just randomly I even necessarily 10% of people randomly saying oh yeah you're playing as the adversary you're playing as the right person. Yeah the tricky part is then at least from my perspective there are people who want to do the adversarial part right and so if they don't get the opportunity or maybe you can opt in to do that I don't really know but I'm still struggling with that. I'm not sure how you would do the adversarial that way though without actually getting more work because you still have to have a regular key possibly. Because then at that point it's like how is your adversarial key not a regular key? Yeah well I could if I really wanted I could start this at the beginning of class and choose 10% of the class tell them at the start of the class we're going to be doing this assignment you will be in charge of this adversarial identity so and give them the name and let them choose an email address or something and then that way they could then build up from the course. I have a style to see from one assignment to a semester yeah you should do it where if they get caught you can choose another random person and then if someone survives the longest interesting okay so that did brought up another comment that's another suggestion that somebody had because for people who were doing the adversarial component if you identified that clearly somebody else's key was adversarial you had no incentive to actually tell the rest of the course because they actually made that tell on you right so one idea would be to restrict like create a pot of let's say some amount of extra credit and then that fixed amount is distributed among all the people that do the adversarial component so that way you actually have an incentive to stop other people and protect like as an adversary your goal is to get more people to trust you than other people so I could the weird thing about that is in this assignment like it's not that hard to definitely find out if a key is fake and I appreciated that nobody liked boxed I saw one instance where somebody said I signed this key don't sign it that was like one obscure post in the mailing list because in this case we didn't get points for saving other people but if that happened it would eliminate the fun of the adversarial because it wouldn't work because if you actually understand how do you think you work you can find out in like 30 seconds maybe that would be a good way to fix the minus point maybe if you had a way to upload a list of keys that you were certain were adversarial then you can maybe offset your points from accidentally signing other adversarial keys that would be interesting kind of like that idea but you don't have to say it publicly I think that would be another this would add another layer right and I guess I don't want to get into the thing of people fake saying that somebody's key is an adversarial key but it's a real person or a person can't get into it not exactly but like fake docs they are a legitimately real person and can't get any way to sign their keys are we going to get a visualization like can we do a database on how the graph of the whole game so we can see what happened on the statistics yeah I can do something like that yeah I haven't looked at it yet but I will look at that yeah interesting because it does have a time stamp of when things are signed right so I'm sure the best visualization for that it's going to be cool turn it over again anything else that I was closing I had a really hard time with the graph like at first I tried keeping track of it and then I got a bit just got just kept signing things yeah that's another tricky part maybe maybe I can have you upload those signatures too and get stored each of those because that's the other part that's difficult to grade because you may have signed 20 keys but all 20 of those people didn't import your signature or didn't want to do the assignment or let's say dropped the course or something that signature didn't make its way to our servers that would be not good and so another option would be we could actually run a key server so instead of having you guys use this other key server the public one we could actually run one and then we have all we could just pull the data from there but I like that you guys found the key servers independently and that it wasn't part of the assignment because that makes it a lot easier to just email stuff back and forth I also noticed that once in a while I know for a fact my friend signed my key and I kept pulling it down and it took like five or six hours to get that so any of those last minute people that were trying to get signatures it's entirely possible that they were never showing signs yeah that's the problem with the key server because I don't know exactly how it works but I know there's essentially like basically a distributed network of these systems so the key server you may be talking to may not be exactly the key server there's different people run different key servers and so the time it takes with data to propagate can be a while yeah these are free servers that are running right so feel slightly doubted that we took over but you can now use these keys and you have what needs to be considered alright again any other thoughts that you want to share with me please do so just on the on the second cipher I wanted to make that like ridiculously difficult programming code oh that'd be interesting no it'd be interesting so basically the idea would be to do a different distribution right so as long as you're upfront about what it is that's encrypted right that could be or you can encrypt the actual algorithm you think I could see your cipher or something like that it's all about what you want to test like I don't want to test that part I don't want to test the actual breaking of the cipher but I also wanted to be that you couldn't just take it and throw it into some online cipher which I think was mostly done that's why base64 coded it and used 256 and axler so it would be just traditional I wonder how much code you would need in statistical there's play if you did it in python the code was python that was encrypted it wouldn't be running as long open source python out there interesting I was thinking more of like x86 or arm or something there's got to be some kind of distribution of bytes based on the character plus definitely like two bytes and three bytes frequencies there's going to be a lot to have in python more spaces depending on your flavor but that's okay that's yeah that could be interesting I think I'd also if I did that I wouldn't want to provide a repository of similar looking documents so that you could calculate a similar frequency I think that would be cool to pitch that into something it would work for the TA next time


Hey everybody, what's going on. I am Greg Sussman joined today by Tom Vecchio of Fandall who's here to break down the top NBA value plays on tonight's slate. What's going on Tom? I'm doing good. We have seven games on tonight's slate. There's a number of injury concerns, so we're looking at some value tonight. There's injury concerns. There are rebuilding concerns, so let's continue it and let's start with a player that is priced at the bare minimum tonight and that is Malachi Flynn. Flynn is $3,500 for Toronto this evening. The playing time shouldn't be a problem tonight. No, they already have Kyle Lowry ruled out. They've Fred Vinh fleet listed as questionable and that puts Malachi Flynn in a spot to see plenty of minutes. Now he's been in the rotation a good amount over the past few games, seeing 12, 15, 19 minutes, but those should increase due to the number of injuries that they have. They also have a number of depth players out. Rodney Hood is out, etc. etc. And he's in a fantastic spot. If he's in the starting lineup, Oregon, we've seen 20 plus minutes off the bench going up against the Wizards. They're allowing 50.03 fatal points per game. Supposing point cards, that's the fifth worst elite. We have a piece of spot for Toronto. They're 14th right now. The Wizards are number one. It's a 228 over under. Everything's lining up for a player at minimum salary to be in your lineup, seeing over 20 minutes, hopefully breaking one fatal point per minute tonight. As he said, Flynn's been in the rotation. Kyle Lowry already ruled out Friday Van Fleet questionable Malachi Flynn's numbers, minutes, everything's just going to go up tonight. And at the bare minimum, very tough to ignore here on this Fandall Slate. Moving on, we get to Minnesota, where Jordan McLaughlin has been really, really good as of late. He's $4,600. He's still under 5K. I think McLaughlin is kind of hard to ignore as well. This is a classic don't get cute spot when it comes to NBA, DFS is a spot where we expect McLaughlin to be plenty chalky, but he's going to be in the starting lineup. He's going up against Sacramento. They're allowing the sixth most Fandall points per game, the opposing point guards. He's projected to see 37 minutes tonight and going for 31 Fandall points. He's going to break value. It's a 200 and 34 point over under, which is the highest on the slate going up against the Kings who can't play defense. He's under $5,000. Everything is lining up for him to be one of the chalkiest players on the entire slate. It's very simple. Do not fade him tonight.  As you said, everybody's going to have it, but that's okay because it makes sense to me under $5,000. The minutes have been there for McLaughlin with Minnesota tonight is going to be no different. Don't be silly. Get McLaughlin in the lineup. One final player to get to and he's under $4,000 tonight. That's Isaiah Stewart of the Detroit Pistons. The play tonight with Stewart here, $3,700. Like we said, first let him back to back for Detroit. Why do you believe he belongs in the lineup? He not only should be in your DFS lineup, but he should be the starting center for the Pistons tonight because Plumlee has been ruled out due to rest. We have the Pistons going up against the Thunder. It's two teams that don't want to win. And that means we're going to be seeing plenty of their young players and that means plenty of value. When Plumlee is off the court this season, we see Stewart producing .91 Fandall points per minute. And right now on number five, he comes in as the best projected value play going for 29 Fandall points in 30 minutes. Another simple spot under $4,000. Going to see 30 plus minutes. Going to put up all those Fandall points. Drop them in your lineup so you can go up for plenty of stars in the other spots. The big man getting an opportunity to start here tonight. As we said, first let him back to back for Detroit. Plating a Thunder team where we spent a lot of young players to just be productive overall here in this one. Stewart's under $4,000 and is well worth getting into your Fandall lineups at the center position. That's it for us here in the Fandall hurry up time. We appreciate the time. Good luck tonight. Same here. Talk to you in a few days.  The national championship game on tonight. That's where all eyes are. That's where you can take advantage here in NBA DFS on Fandall. Tomorrow, Davis Maddock will join us as we take a look at the best bets to win the Masters. For time back here, I'm Greg Sussman. Thanks so much for watching. Enjoy the games tonight and we'll see you back here tomorrow for another edition of the Fandall hurry up.