Hello everybody best greetings from Alaska. My name is Falkutman I work with the University of Alaska in Fairbanks. Obviously we are involved in climate change and other issues here and so for us it's really important that we have a platform where we can share and receive information and data from the global community. Our own work involves the Arctic community and Arctic and also the Himalayas where there's a lot of snow and ice but beyond that we also are engaged with the tropical community and many researchers and industrial nations including European Union and certainly Brazil and India and so on. And so with that clearly open access data sharing and digital culture is for us a core of what we're doing and we need to move into much more digital approach to doing things. Clearly that involves many questions and many more details are to be hammered out but clearly the digital data sharing and certainly for students is a core issue and so with that I would be very supportive of open access. I would be happy to see the European Union moving into open access entirely having an entire platform of open access information and the whole institutions and cultures around here and behind me here you see many papers and books still and I hope that that becomes a thing of the past in a certain way so that we have everything readily available for everybody and have an open playing field of information so that we all can reach better decisions and eventually live in a sustainable world where also the wealth is more equal distributed which is part of the open access movement in a certain way and it has been stated in many legal documents also so anyway that's a little bit the vision and the approach we're doing. That's the view from the Arctic and looking forward to learn more about your efforts too. Best greetings from the Arctic. Bye bye.


I want to be able to wake up, take maybe two or three pills, go to work, and be on the same basis as everybody else. Like, they're here, I'm here. Or maybe I'm here because I'm successful. I have a God-given right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. At the very least, life. This is real patience, really suffering, waiting for real medicine. When you're sick and you deal with sickness every day to be able to function, it's, you know, it's something that a lot of people take for granted. I don't think there's anything more frightening for a parent than to watch your child go through something like this. When your loved one is suffering, you'll do anything to help them. And I don't think that that's so, so unusual or so remarkable. That's really, that's the human spirit. It's emotional. To see the struggles those kids go through, and the families, and the parents, and to be denied a plan. They open the door. They are the heroes. Long term, he just cannot continue to take opioids. Medical marijuana kind of opens up a door of possibility that wasn't there before. For us, that's life changing. This is really happening. This is actually turning into this amazing program that's going to help countless Pennsylvanians. I believe cannabis will not only help keep me alive, I believe it will give me a better lifestyle. I think we both see light at the end of the tunnel and it's not a train coming at us.


Growing in any capacity can seem like an invisible process. When growing up, have you ever measured yourself to find that you are much taller than you were before? Much like your physical growth, changes can happen emotionally as well. These differences can be hard to spot, and you may not realize the small ways that you've progressed to help you unearth some of these small but big signs. In this video, we'll be looking at personal growth indicators. So, what is personal growth? Growth is subjective and looks different for everyone. One specific theory for personal growth and its objective is self-actualization. German neurologist Kurt Goldstein developed the theory, but it was popularized by Abraham Maslow. Both talk about the idea that self-actualization refers to the realization of one's potential, which is the process of self-fulfillment, peak experiences, and life appreciation. Maslow puts these into a pyramid-shaped diagram, detailing each step to achieving this. While we will be looking at some aspects of this theory in this video, we'll also be gathering expert opinions on personal growth as a whole. You're looking ahead. Life is unpredictable, at times messy, and it can be hard to think further ahead than dinner time when you're in a situation that's unstable and needs your constant attention. With an endless list of to-dos and loose ends, you may feel lost. However, finding yourself feeling that the future is not full of worries and dreads can be a sign of personal growth. That you're now in a place where you're comfortable, stable, and ready to take on new challenges. Psychiatrist Dr. Grant Brenner describes this as having good self-governance, being balanced in your ability to take care of your needs while also being able to appreciate the world around you. You're able to live your life without being overwhelmed.  Maybe you're not quite at this point yet, and that's okay. Even the little things like looking forward to a nice fluffy donut or a dinner date with a friend are steps in the right direction. You're accepting. While you may be excited about the future and looking forward to what's to come, you also may find yourself living in the present. The future's great and all, but things are good right now, and you're going to enjoy it while it's here. You also can acknowledge your past and see how the parts of your history fit together today. This doesn't mean that you haven't struggled or minimized the bad, but you can now accept what has happened. Furthermore, self-acceptance is one of the points in Maslow's pyramid of self-actualization. Mind Body Green explains this point as the ability to accept her quirks and desires without needing to apologize for them. You're more emotionally intelligent.  Are you able to process them better than before? Do you have a better handle on strong feelings like anger and can hold yourself back from lashing out? These are signs of higher emotional intelligence, or EQ. Luckily, EQ is highly malleable, so even if you get overwhelmed easily, there are strategies to build upon these skills through mindfulness and introspection. Corporate psychologist Dr. Patricia Thompson discusses how a high EQ is associated with emotional regulation, empathy and awareness of yourself and others.  You know you're still growing. Personal growth is a continuous process, and there is no finish line. You can grow in a multitude of ways, some faster than others. However, one of the biggest factors to future progress is having a growth mindset. This is believing that you're able to improve yourself and your abilities no matter where you're at. A fixed mindset, on the other hand, is the opposite. You believe that you can only improve so much, if at all. Psychology Today explains how some studies have shown that having this mindset results in positive effects on students' GPAs. By understanding that you can improve yourself, you're keeping yourself open to learning new things, versus closing yourself off forever. Self-growth is an individual process, and you may not realize all the ways you've progressed until you look back. All progress is progress, so even acknowledging that something has improved slightly is a step in the right direction. Of course, personal growth is a journey, and there are steps you can take to improve it further. This can be from taking time to introspect, talking with a therapist, or coming up with a plan to improve different areas of your life. There are many ways to do this that are unique to you. Ask yourself, what can you do today to get started? Thank you for watching this video. If you enjoyed it, please give it a like and share it with a friend. Let us know your thoughts in the comment section, and remember to subscribe to Psych2Go to keep up with our uploads. Take care.


What's going on everyone, welcome to the divisional round of the NFL playoffs and the FanDuel hurry up. I am Brandon Gadoula, managing editor at numberfire.com, here to break down my three favorite stud plays for the Sunday Slate this weekend. Stud number one is going to be Cooper Cup, who is coming off of his third worst fantasy game of the season after he produced 61 yards and a touchdown on seven targets for 14.6 FanDuel points last week against the Cardinals. Cup now has seven targets in each of the past three games which is really good for anyone but not necessarily for Cooper Cup. Cup however has a 28% target share in four games with tight end Tyler Higbee back in the lineup. Cup is averaging 96 yards per game on a 96% route rate. He's going to be fine, this might be an opportunity to buy low as much as we can for a receiver with a $9500 salary after a bit of a dud. Back in week three when these teams faced off the Rams had a 71% non-garbage time pass rate which led to nine targets which was 32% for Cup. He should be set to return to a double digit target number this week. My second stud for Sunday is going to be Josh Allen. All four of Sunday's quarterbacks, Allen, Patrick Mahomes, Tom Brady and Matthew Stafford are in play but it's really hard not to try to prioritize Josh Allen for this year sealing potential that he provides. Stafford and Brady, we're not going to get any rushing from them. Mahomes has some rushing upside but Allen has a lot. That's led to at least 21.8 fandal points in each of his past six games with three of those going over 30 fandal points. He has four of those 30 point games in total this season. Mahomes also has four but believe it or not three of those came when he had five touchdowns in a single game. Brady got there twice, Stafford hasn't. Mahomes though hasn't been great against top 10 pass defenses so that leads me to Allen who is rating out as 40% likely in my slate simulations to lead all Sunday quarterbacks in fandal points. He's 43% likely to get to at least 25. My third stud for Sunday's main slate is Devin Singletary. I'll be sticking with the bills here, sticking with Singletary with Josh Allen. I think they stack well together as well. We kind of get access to every single touchdown that this team should score on offense. Singletary also should just be the leader and snap right across the board for all of Sunday's running backs. Leonard Fournette seems primed for a return but they're still risked there. Cam Acres is a great value play. But he played only 51% of the snaps last week with Sonya Michelle at 42%. The Chiefs backfiled with Clyde Edwards-Elair back and healthy on Wednesday's practice that backfiled just projects to be a little bit of a mess. So we can have Singletary to turn two against the Chiefs run defense 20 second by number fires adjusted metrics. Singletary since a week 14 role expansion has averaged 16 carries in three and a half targets for 97 scrimmage yards per game. Also has a 63% red zone rushing share. And in a game with a 54 and a half point total, that definitely works. That'll do it for my favorite NFL studs for Sunday. Best of luck this weekend.


A loving Heavenly Father gives us those feelings to impel us to help His children. Please recall those feelings as I speak about our responsibility to protect and act for the well-being of children. I speak from the perspective of the gospel of Jesus Christ, including His plan of salvation. That is my calling. Local Church leaders have responsibility for a single jurisdiction, like a ward or stake, but an apostle is responsible to witness to the entire world. In every nation of every race and creed, all children are children of God. Although I do not speak in terms of politics or public policy, like other Church leaders, I cannot speak for the welfare of children without implications for the choices being made by citizens, public officials, and workers in private organizations. We are all under the Savior's command to love and care for each other, and especially for the weak and defenseless. Children are highly vulnerable. They have little or no power to protect or provide for themselves and little influence on so much that is vital to their well-being. Children need others to speak for them, and they need decision-makers who put their well-being ahead of selfish adult interests. Worldwide, we are shocked at the millions of children victimized by evil adult crimes and selfishness. In some war-torn countries, children are abducted to serve as soldiers in contending armies. An United Nations report estimates that over two million children are victimized each year through prostitution and pornography. From the perspective of the plan of salvation, one of the most serious abuses of children is to deny them birth. This is a worldwide trend. The national birth rate in the United States is the lowest in 25 years, and the birth rates in most European and Asian countries have been below replacement levels for many years. This is not just a religious issue. As rising generations diminish in numbers, cultures and even nations are hollowed out and eventually disappear. One cause of the diminishing birth rate is the practice of abortion. But why are there estimated to be more than 40 million abortions per year? Many laws permit or even promote abortion, but to us this is a great evil. Other abuses of children that occur during pregnancy are the fetal impairments that result from the mother's inadequate nutrition or drug use. There is a tragic irony in the multitude of children eliminated or injured before birth, while throngs of infertile couples long for and seek babies to adopt. Childhood abuses or neglect of children that occur after birth are more publicly visible. Worldwide almost 8 million children die before their fifth birthday, mostly from diseases both treatable and preventable. And the World Health Organization reports that one in four children have stunted growth mentally and physically because of inadequate nutrition. Living and traveling internationally, we church leaders see much of this. The general presidency of the primary report children living in conditions beyond our imaginations. A mother in the Philippines said, sometimes we do not have enough money for food, but that is all right because it gives me the opportunity to teach my children about faith. We gather and pray for relief, and the children see the Lord bless us. In South Africa, a primary worker met a little girl, lonely and sad. In faint responses to loving questions, she said she had no mother, no father, and no grandmother. Only a grandfather took care for her. Such tragedies are common on a continent where many caregivers have died of AIDS. Even in rich nations, little children are impaired by neglect. Children growing up in poverty have inferior health care and inadequate educational opportunities. They are also exposed to dangerous environments in their physical and cultural surroundings, and even from the neglect of their parents. Elder Jeffrey Holland recently shared the experience of an LDS police officer. In an investigation, he found five young children huddled together and trying to sleep without bedding on a filthy floor in a dwelling where their mother and others were drinking and partying. The apartment had no food to relieve their hunger. After tucking the children into a makeshift bed, the officer knelt and prayed for their protection. As he walked toward the door, one of them—about six—pursued him, grabbed him by the hand, and pleaded, "'Will you please adopt me?' We remember our Savior's teaching as he placed a little child before his followers and declared, "'And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me. But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me? It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and that he were drowned in the depths of the sea.'" When we consider the dangers from which children should be protected, we should also include psychological abuse. Parents or other caregivers or teachers or peers who demean, bully, or humiliate children or youth can inflict harm more permanent than physical injury. Making a child or youth feel worthless, unloved, or unwanted can inflict serious and long-lasting injury on his or her emotional well-being and development. Young people struggling with any exceptional condition, including same-gender attraction, are particularly vulnerable and need loving understanding, not bullying or ostracism. With the help of the Lord, we can repent and change and be more loving and helpful to children, our own and those around us. There are few examples of physical or emotional threats to children as important as those arising out of their relationships with their parents or guardians. President Thomas S. Monson has spoken of what he called the vile deeds of child abuse, where a parent has broken or disfigured a child physically or emotionally. I grieved as I studied the shocking evidence of such cases during my service on the Utah Supreme Court. Of utmost importance to the well-being of children is whether their parents were married, the nature and duration of the marriage, and more broadly, the culture and expectations of marriage and child care where they live. Two scholars of the family explained, Throughout history, marriage has first and foremost been an institution for procreation and raising children. It has provided the cultural tie that seeks to connect the father to his children by binding him to the mother of his children. Yet in recent times, children have increasingly been pushed from center stage. A Harvard law professor describes the current law and attitude toward marriage and divorce. The current American story about marriage, as told in the law and in much popular literature, goes something like this. Marriage is a relationship that exists primarily for the fulfillment of the individual spouses. If it ceases to perform this function, no one is to blame, and either spouse may terminate it at will. Children hardly appear in the story. At most they are rather shadowy characters in the background. Our Church leaders have taught that looking upon marriage as a mere contract that may be entered into it pleasure and severed at the first difficulty is an evil, meriting, severe condemnation, especially where children are made to suffer. And children are impacted by divorces. Over half of the divorces in a recent year involved couples with minor children. Many children would have had the blessing of being raised by both of their parents if only their parents had followed this inspired teaching in the family proclamation. Husband and wife have a solemn responsibility to love and care for each other and for their children. Parents have a sacred duty to rear their children in love and righteousness, to provide for their physical and spiritual needs, and to teach them to love and serve one another. The most powerful teaching of children is by the example of their parents. Divorcing parents inevitably teach a negative lesson. There are surely cases when a divorce is necessary for the good of the children, but those circumstances are exceptional. In most marital contests, the contending parents should give much greater weight to the interests of the children. With the help of the Lord, they can do so. Children need the emotional and personal strength that come from being raised by two parents who are united in their marriage and their goals. As one who is raised by a widowed mother, I know firsthand that this cannot always be achieved, but it is the ideal to be sought whenever possible. Children are the first victims of current laws permitting so-called no-fault divorce. From the standpoint of children, divorce is too easy. Summarizing decades of social science research, a careful scholar concluded that, The family structure that produces the best outcomes for children, on average, are two biological parents who remain married. A New York Times writer noted, The striking fact that even as traditional marriage has declined in the United States, the evidence has mounted for the institution's importance to the well-being of children. Current reality should give important guidance to parents and parents to be in their decisions involving marriage and divorce. We also need politicians, policymakers, and officials to increase their attention to what is best for children in contrast to the selfish interests of voters and vocal advocates of adult interests. Children are also victimized by marriages that do not occur. Few measures of the welfare of our rising generation are more disturbing than the recent report that 41 percent of all births in the United States were to women who were not married. Unmarried mothers have massive challenges, and the evidence is clear that their children are at a significant disadvantage when compared with children raised by married parents. Most of the children born to unmarried mothers, 58 percent, were born to couples who were cohabitating. Whatever we may say about these couples' foregoing marriage, studies show that their children suffer significant comparative disadvantages. For children, the relative stability of marriage matters. We should assume the same disadvantages for children raised by couples of the same gender. The social science literature is controversial and politically charged on the long-term effect of this on children, principally because, as a New York Times writer observed, quote, same-sex marriage is a social experiment, and like most experiments, it will take time to understand its consequences, end of quote. I have spoken for children, children everywhere. Some may reject some of these examples, but none should resist the plea that we unite to increase our concern for the welfare and future of our children, the rising generation. We are speaking of the children of God, and with His powerful help we can do more to help them. In this plea, I address not only Latter-day Saints but also all persons of religious faith and others who have a value system that causes them to subordinate their own needs to those of others, especially the welfare of children. Religious persons are also conscious of the Savior's New Testament teaching that pure little children are our role models of humility and teachableness. Verily, I say unto you, accept ye be converted and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven, whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same as greatest in the kingdom of heaven. In the Book of Mormon we read of the risen lords teaching the Nephites that they must repent and be baptized and become as a little child, or they could not inherit the kingdom of God. I pray that we will humble ourselves as little children and reach out to protect our little children, for they are the future for us, for our Church, and for our nations. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.


I'm cleaning out my garage and I have a lot of cables that I've Held on to for way too long this garbage can is completely full of wires and adapters and ID cables, you know, I kept one or two of each but I mean some of them might look useful like here's some cat 5 never used But how much do I actually need I just had like just So many of them I even have things like this, you know PS2 adapters in your case my computer's too old for a PS2 keyboard or mouse Look, I've got four of them. One of them still in the package. I Don't think I'm a hoarder, but Sometimes when it comes to stuff like this, I feel like I am.  I had like 20 or 30 of them I feel like and never gonna use them. Anyway, I just thought I'd share my craziness Still clean out my garage. I got this here. It is a network adapter back in the late 90s I did not have ethernet on any of my devices everything was dial up but if I wanted to connect two computers I bought this and it went from USB to USB and I must have been running Windows XP at the time and I Could kind of sort of transfer files it would it would lock up and lose connection quite often I tried playing Quake through it that lasted about 10 seconds I did when I first switch the links. I was curious if it worked and I remember plugging in and auto-detecting of course and And working fine. I think before I throw this out. I might do a quick video on it. What do you guys think? Let me know I got this Let's forget serial port at one end and at the other end it's Eighth and stereo audio jack. I don't I don't know where I got this I don't know what I would do with this, but I have it. I've probably had it for 20 years Goodbye speakers Perfectly good speakers, but I haven't used them in years White speakers those are actually from my very first computer. I bought with my own money when I was 15 Over 20 years ago. They're all discolored, but they were great. I love these speakers. I love them so much In the garbage. I Actually am saving one of these speakers. I've already spliced the wires on it because I need to do a video on Getting audio out of an Arduino, which is what I've done this with this before Make it talk and stuff. So I guess on my second channel. You should look forward to that eventually Here's the sub that went with those speakers and actually Now that I think about it and look at this those weren't from my first computer These were the replacements after the ones from my first computer stopped working My first computer weren't surround sound, but they sounded better than these but these were still awesome speakers These are some cheapo speakers Well, that's cool about them though As they powered off USB that was pretty cool The audio didn't go through USB, but it powered off USB at any next plug I don't know if I ever even use those speakers for anything. I Know right now you guys are looking at me thinking oh Chris is a hoarder. Well, some of you think that's something thinking Why are you throwing out perfectly good stuff? Yeah? Yeah, I get you I get you Know if anything is I kind of do this once a year. I throw stuff, but I still have stuff as 20 years old I just I keep holding on to I'm like, oh, I might use this put it aside You know and then a year later. I throw out that stuff and then but there's still more There's still more and there's gonna be more because I'm still not letting go of everything this time so HP mouse PS2 I'm keeping it me at least one of these and this one's nice It's the only the only ps2 mouse I've ever had that had was a laser mouse not a track ball in it I have literally thrown out at least focus five or six pairs of these cheap You know headphones you can get for a dollar dollar store. Come on focus focus This that's a little nicer sound cancelling Little speaker or some sort of audio controls on it these They said Sony on them. I would they think they were from my The Sony palm pilot I had 15 years ago. Sorry focus try Whatever You might think power cable like this would come in handy, but I don't need 30 of them I probably just threw around threw away 20 and I still have 10. I'm still finding more more RCA cables Micro USB or mini USB Mini USB focus there we go again. I have plenty Again, the funny thing is I can already picture some of the comments because because some of you are gonna be complaining that I'm throwing away perfectly good stuff Which is true. I am but I don't need it You're gonna say I can do something with it give it to somebody but nobody needs it Nobody nobody needs it and and then there's there's gonna be the other side of the people who were just laughing it And on why I have all this stuff and why I'm keeping some of it, you know Speaking of ps2 mice mouses mice There's one There's another Here's another Here's another No, I've never bought a Mac, but I've been given Macs before This is cool Back in the day I had two or three computers You know people give away computers and I buy them so I've only had One mouse and keyboard at the time and this was a little device that I click that button and it would switch The display switch the computer to the display, but only use one keyboard and mouse I had one keyboard and mouse one monitor, but I could have up to four computers hooked to it I really really want to keep this, but I don't think I'll ever use it again Look at this I'm keeping this This was if you remember some of my very first videos I had put a computer in the dash in my car, which actually all that stuff Right here. There's the screen and the computer's actually on the other side of my Garage anyway This was a handheld mouse that I would sometimes use with I plug in I could scroll Move the mouse around and I could click right and left click so I might keep this It is It's USB. Yes, it's USB. So it's worth keeping right? I think so you let me know below what you think Also want to note that in with the screen for my computer car car computer, whatever I have some floppy disks This is these are the few of the I used to have hundreds and hundreds every year I threw away like 50 to 100 floppy disks. That's what's left Down here. I've got many CDs from my old Sony my Vika camera. That's that's saved pictures to Floppy disk or off the floppy disk a mini CD 2001 Orlando trip. I probably already backed these up, but I should make sure they're backed up Mini set take another PS2 keyboard adapter, so I had five at least this one's out of the package Hmm, it's funny how much I love this little KVM switch Like I said, I had three computers I could have hooked up four to one monitor and now and then I use that for a year or two And then I realized it's better to go the other way have one computer with multiple monitors More cheap headphones still a little bad. These ones actually look kind of nice Suppose I should keep at least one pair, right? Yeah, I'm gonna keep this pair Yeah Speaking of my first computer the first computer I bought with my own money cost me like 2100 bucks had a DVD player in it, which was awesome It's back in like 95 96 probably it was a Quantex you ever hear of them? No, probably not because I think the only people who bought computers from them was me and my dad It was an awesome computer and over the years. I still you know getting rid of the last part of it I've held on to parts of it over the years Big Quantex 99% sure they don't exist anymore My dad bought one and then like a year later. I bought one had 64 megabytes of RAM. It was awesome The good old days and you can tell you knew it was a good computer because it says right there on on the mouse pad They gave you Quantex good choice. At least there's not a question mark at the end there Good choice


Do do do do we seem to be streaming So let me pull up the other biz It's I guess we got opening bits plenty opening bits Women news again Mario tennis nerf sure jackbox party pack thing The Overwatch League thing draw door. That's plenty. We got one Especially because I think we had a lot to say about pub G2 All right, not that much. I mean, it's not despite being a good game There's actually not too much to say about it because it doesn't have it's pretty simple There's a lot of key bindings. I I didn't bind until I played the game enough and realize why What what key do you hit to hold your breath? Did you even look that up? There's a whole breath, but yeah I'm not doing that changing the ranging on your scope if you zoom level but the Distance level while it's while it's zoomed in you can use a page up and page. Yeah, that is true I think that's the button. Do you know how to figure out what to set it to?  Yeah, you know, I just aim higher or lower on the next shot You think even if I even if I did set it how would I know what to set it to based on how far away the prison I've noticed most people who kill me when I look at the death cam They spot me and I'm like doing something and then they like look around see if there's any wells And they like set up and like And then headshot That's the majority of my deaths. They must know something. I don't know. Yeah Had like even if I knew like ah, if he's this far away that I need to aim it higher or lower How do I know how far away you are?    I I mean most of my the damage I do is SMGs at short range Yep, I don't have any problem with that. I don't try to snipe anymore I try to sneak in close and just open up on people with like Yeah, no, I don't know problem with that. I only have problems, you know Because I you know, yeah, I'm also I have no idea what all the weapon Parts do I just attach it. I figure well, they don't make him a gun worse I attach as many as I can I will I attach everything I get that fits any gun I'm carrying that's pretty much it. Yeah, but then sometimes it's like alright Well, there's a quick draw mag. It's like when am I gonna reload in a fight? I go down before I'm gonna reload I usually take the holographic scope instead of like a two or three I can't tell the difference between the holograph and the red dot. I like the holograph a lot I can't tell different. I tend to get a lot more kills if I got that holograph All right, I'll start this thing If I get a like a 4x 6x 8x scope. I mostly use it just for looking what's going on. Yeah Like are there people over there? Yes, there's people over there. Let me see is anyone you know Maybe I'll try to shoot someone. Yep. Yep Because like they let you put it on guns that are not sniper rifles. Yeah, like I'll put it on an AK It's like well, even if I zoom in I can't hit anyone with his that is 6x the 2x is good though for that Hmm. All right. I don't see 2x too often I did two or two or three is what I usually find. I never even seen a three. I thought it was two four six eight Maybe I'm thinking a four. Anyway, I find only like small ones Yeah, usually four is the most common one that I see two is definitely the most common I've run into But I've seen I'm sure to probably I don't I feel like I see four more often Yeah, I don't you know what I usually see is seen twice You know what the most common is is watching my death cam. Yeah, I see that more than I say Walk around and loot some buildings and then suddenly die. Yep. Maybe kill one person along the way All right It's Tuesday July 17th 2018 I'm rimms good and this is Geek Nights tonight We are talking about pub g player unknowns battlegrounds because we are in no way late to this party The kids got to understand that the older you get the later You're going to be to every party. No, you just don't got time for that Actually, yeah, even Counter-Strike. I didn't play till beta eight something like that six I don't even know I started somebody was playing Counter-Strike before me I was playing Counter-Strike before the P 90 but not that long before the P 90. I remember when they It before the umph for sure I remember when they added the P 90 remember when they added the umph and then I remember when the P 90 was Ridiculously overpowered That also this P 90 was my favorite. It was a good time that P 90. I remember those days. It was a good day Is like the number one gun of you know gun fetish fanboys. Yeah, it's I mean gunslinger girls I think whenever I see like some you know, like especially yeah, especially anime But like any sort of anime fanboy stuff. It's always P 90. It's always that bullpup You know the one from Counter-Strike the uh, oh god. I remember what was called the stair. Oh It's either the stair. I'll get pub G in a crate. Yeah, I've seen one I've never I've never got that the other guy have it because there's no point in me taking it But I usually get the scar like that's the weapon. I end up using the most I actually rarely see that I find it a lot It's not great I don't like it But I end up with it a lot to the point that I think about it Last time I saw it. I looked at it.  It's gaming day All right, so Mario tennis is out and it's got it's not it's got some problems. Yeah, this is this is the Second weakest Mario tennis offering from Nintendo So it has a lot of it's like it's it's better than the it's not it is Mario tennis, right? Yep, but there's not the bullshit DS one is real there's a lot of things they messed up I'm sure we'll review it at some point But so I'll just talk about the news here the news being that they are going to actually update it And they're gonna nerf Bowser Jr. Who is OP? Yep, and they're gonna adjust the way the trick shot works is right now You can basically just keep trick shotting over and over always return the ball no matter what with a trick shot No matter what that will fill up your charge meter to max and then you can use the power shot and then Condend and repeat using the trick shot again. That's pretty much the strategy for winning It's similar to snaking in Mario Kart similar to basically the exact same problem It's not fun like trick shots are not that fun Like I don't really like them actually you can play in the mode that has no meter and it removes the trick shot Yeah, I actually kind of feel like the thing is the problem with that mode that I found is that it Chain chomp and certain characters are actually more powerful because without some sort of super shot or zone shot It's like they can almost always get to the ball and return it Yeah, and you know with with relative ease, but the trouble is and I even ran into this I haven't even played kid Koopa because it's money even though. He's like my character.  Yeah, man I always been the case in Mario tennis I still feel like Mario tennis for n64 boo is like tricky It's the ball it curves like a motherfucker I do miss older Mario tennis is though like I play older Mario I feel like as a guy's our friend group. That's probably what we should do. I haven't we can just play at any time But yeah, it's interesting for a bunch of reasons so one obviously the game needed to be nerfed like that like there's problems with the game's core design, but Why didn't Nintendo pick up on that before they released the game? This is this game is you can just sort of tell that it was obviously released too soon They sort of rushed it out.  I wouldn't have bought it but I the I I pre-ordered it and forgot why pre-order the reason I bought it was because You know that the demo even though it had some problems. I wasn't gonna play online. Those are online problems Mostly I was like, oh well the tennis part is still good I'm gonna play this locally so I don't care and then when I actually got it I found that you couldn't even play like actual tennis. Yeah, so we'll talk about a full review But the other problems with the game aside from the fact that Nintendo Clearly didn't play test this with anyone who tried to be good at the game at all This isn't like overwatch or like someone figures out a very difficult strategy and it becomes the new meta over time This was like day one you can just snake and it's invincible and if you don't snake you lose But aside from that like you can't actually play real Matches of tennis with multiple sets can either play like this sort of tiebreaker only quick match like not even normal tennis card Or you can basically play this one set match or it's like you get two games and then you win So you can't play like a five-set match and like feel the other player out and anything like that Yeah, like it's really actually not fun and shit as much as that seems like a really like minor point It actually really really makes playing local multiplayer not fun If I had known you couldn't play like five sets I thought I don't even question that like oh, of course you it's Mario tennis You can be able to play a match of tennis if I would have known you couldn't play a match of tennis I wouldn't have bought it. Yep, but there was no way to know that but I could I guess I could have waited one day instead of Pre-ordering I could have waited a day and then bought it. Yep. I I too was over optimistic Did I worry conceivable that you would not be able to play a tennis match? Yep Like if you bought a racing game and it only had one lap races and you couldn't do a three lap race Because like Nintendo like you wouldn't be conceivable that that would be you also can't pick the map Yeah But I guess I assumed that Nintendo would have the problems they always have meaning Online play is garbage never do it and there'd be some like single-player mode I won't care about and those things were true But on top of that like nothing else really works Like I actually like the single-player mode and old Mario tennis is because it was literally just play tennis Play tennis against the computer into as and learn and get better at playing tennis until you can beat the hardest AI Whereas now the single-player mode is like this adventure with all these garbage challenges in it That are annoying as fuck and I quit after like yeah one try like I guess Ostensibly they make you because that the real skill in the game as it is today is one You have to trick shot literally every shot which they're gonna hopefully fix but to you have to return Fancy shots with frame per or semi frame perfect timing like this very particular timing and you have to get really good at that But all the single-player doesn't really make you good at that. It makes you good at that in these weird contrived situations and there isn't really a good single-player against just like normal tennis and Online the hardest AI in some very very short games Yeah, lots of them, but that's not fun and then or playing more local multiplayer Also was actually really hard to make work Like we had a lot of trouble getting the right controllers and Nintendo really just was sloppy in this game to a degree that I'm not pre-ordering any more first-party games I'm gonna wait one day. Yep at least Except for Metroid Prime 4. That's good. That's a shoe. I don't know. I'm gonna wait. I'm gonna Metroid Prime 4 Not be a shoe. I'm gonna let you play it for a few days. Let me see what you say Cuz I'm just me Metroid Prime. I'm not I'm a little worried about this game Play the other Metroid Prime. No somebody why you don't need to play the new one. Yeah, maybe maybe I want to play the new one Why would you play one you haven't played the other one? Why not? This might be better I mean I skipped a whole bunch of Zelda's and then I played Breath of the Wild. It was great I don't feel like I need to play Skyward Sword. No, but well think about this. You're like, oh, I played Breath of Wild It was great. Yeah, you guess what you missed out on a whole bunch of great Yeah, I I mean I didn't even finish Twilight Princess because I got bored about a third of the way through It wasn't as great but it wasn't that it wasn't that fun still good The fact that I got bored during it was enough to tell me that it wasn't for me Breath of the Wild I feel like I'm gonna play again. Anyway, Mario attendance is a lot of problems Nintendo didn't like play tested They've missed all these talking about too much Mario tennis obvious issues and we still got we'll do an episode of Mario Yeah, stop talking about Mario 10. So Jack box party pack five. It's coming They're still they're gonna make it and so far they've revealed one of the games that's gonna be in it It's a rapping game and the way it works is this you put in a word any frickin word you want And then it puts your word that you chose at the end of a rap phrase that it is generated by the game And then you must then enter an entire rap phrase that rhymes with the last word of your new rap phrase That you write an entirety must rhyme with the single word that was put at the end of a random I'm feeling that I like the jack box games And then a text-to-speech thing does the rap in a hilarious way And then I think there's some sort of voting on who's is the best or whatever because originally like there's a bunch of different ways To play these jack box games and obviously half of the party fat games are just garbage But the ones that are good. It seems like you're paying for what you're there Basically throwing darts at the wall and you're buying all the darts and half of them hit Yep, but the ones that are the most fun seem to the ones like this where they basically are enough context and prompting to make a Situation that is both competitive But more importantly it's just an excuse for you to be funny with all your friends And it guides your less funny friends into being more funny I feel like this rap battle is gonna be right in the same feel as TKO, which is still the pinnacle of jack box Mm-hmm, see I'll probably just buy it. I just buy every jack box game So overwatch league playoffs weren't just on the internet.  Yeah, I guess I didn't actually know that existed still That's where I keep this Disney channel and then this Disney XD you to cable channel where they show cartoons I'm shocked is where gravity falls was aired. Oh wow No, but I as far as I knew gravity falls was aired on this pirate ship somewhere I mean these days gravity falls in overwatch League are on the same channel Yeah, which is weird, but the interesting news here is that the overwatch League playoffs were just on Disney XD and They got a shit ton of people watch it. Mm-hmm like What was the number is the highest ratings for Disney XD 127,000 viewers That's the numbers you see on twitch. Yeah, twitch had about a hundred thousand users What's interesting is that as far as I can tell I read a bunch of like other people talking about this cuz I didn't even I had no idea until this news that they put this on TV. Anyway, I didn't either and Yeah, apparently that many people watched it there Despite there being basically no advertising whatsoever about it being there I mean probably people flip through the channels and saw overwatcher like holy shit Yeah When is someone gonna be put in like fortnight on a network like this because fortnight is the most popular thing ever I'm surprised it isn't yeah, I'm actually really surprised fortnight could just be on like primetime TV I think at this point probably So I guess there are a lot of kids who just have cable still and Will watch eSports on cable instead of on twitch for some reason But I am curious about or maybe there's kids who play video games on their playstations or the switches or whatever And it don't know about which they're not twitch YouTube. There's so they're not technically advanced You know what it could be like you don't even brand it even have a PC They might they maybe have a phone or a tablet only it might be the demo like it might like look at the demographic of people Who go to mid-tier local conventions like they don't know the packs even exist They go to a local gaming con and that's it So if like a game studio goes to that gaming con and does a panel that is like like they would never encounter that otherwise Even though it's just literally streaming on twitch somewhere So maybe it's that this is fascinating That they're that this demographic exists in numbers that it does it I I Greatly underestimated the demand for eSports on cable Especially on Disney XD So in some other news Trogdor is a fantastic thing like I want to make that very clear It's the countryside we've been fans and those horrible peasants and codges I mean we Scott and I it's not an exaggeration to say that we were literally fans of Trogdor from his inception Yes, I saw Trogdor the day he was released to the internet. We were already I was burninated We were already pretty deep into the brothers chaps fandom well before Trogdor existed correct So this Kickstarter game is legit like home star runners actually had a pretty big renaissance if you haven't been paying attention I'm trying hard. Yeah, but it's kind of working. Yeah, like there's a little bit. They have Maintained a pretty sizable fandom Despite the fact that the type of humor that was originally home star runner was from a much earlier time Mm-hmm. I mean I don't still why I don't watch any new home star runner No, but I still strong bet on Twitter, but I watch I like a while actually a few weeks ago I ended up watching the ukulele Okay, like I just watched an old home star runner And it was about in terms of modern comedy sensibilities was basically on the level of hey So yeah, it's still there, but they made a board game Well top game is Trogdor the board game and basically this board games on Kickstarter You can pre-order it and get either the wooden meatballs or the plastic miniature. It's already like way over double It's goal like it's still going up and the game seems mediocre. It's a game where Basically, you're caught. It's a co-op game You take turns controlling Trogdor the burninator trying to burn and ate the peasants and the Thatcher of Cottages and all the tiles on the board and Meanwhile, there's some I guess AI Controlled nights who and peasants who make things less burn and ate it.  Yeah, so it's like the theme and the end of this game is hilarious and great The actual game does not appear to be good. So there's no reason to buy it or play it Yeah laugh at the video of it and you're good to go I guess board games are now on the level of like when all the great graphics literally no gameplay era Yeah, pretty much it's been going on for like a couple years now already at least but the Ghostbusters Kickstarter game for was like the real Genesis of this era before then but like people now especially Kickstarter There's a big, you know faction of the board game community, especially online where they really like their board game collectors They care about miniatures. They care about the quality of the cardboard, you know, they're putting shit in sleeves But more importantly, you know, maybe they do play games But they actually aren't super deep into playing games and game mechanics and winning in competition Well, there's a parallel thing going on that I've been reading a lot about around how a huge percentage of people who buy tabletop games today In this like niche extended market core market like not mass market. We're not talking about that I'm a monopoly but a huge percentage of even people who do care about game mechanics buy games and Literally never bring them to the table. And there's a lot of reasons why we even did a packs panel on it once I have one game on my shelf. I haven't played I At one point bought a copy of castles of burgundy because it was on super sale only to discover That not only did I already own castles of burgundy, but it was still in its shrink wrap in my closet So if anyone wants a copy of castles of burgundy, I accidentally bought another one So this is a thing, but the confluence of people don't actually get games to the table that often and People want to collect makes a perfect storm of games with literally garbage game mechanics And it does not matter to the primary Tons of games coming out these days that are just all you know, physical physically fancy But don't have much game going on because that's the hard part It's like if you told me Scott make a board game But what matters most is the fancy pieces and the rules don't matter I'd be like well roll and move and let's make some fancy miniatures We're gonna have like a four pound like lead Filled computer miniature of the Baron Harkonnen, right? It's a piece of cake right now. It's like, okay make a game that's actually good Yep, this game comes with an entire wooden ship. Yeah, let's go. Yeah, it's like it's easy to make a game that is physically What's the game? It's basically just mousetrap So there's a lot of games like that out these days and there's a lot of people who are into that and I feel like they're at you know Even though they're in the same Community space they're actually completely have nothing in common with people actually interesting There's a really there's a neat way to tell these games and like to tell this demographic because there's games You see at packs that are demoed a lot But you very rarely hard one or the music card one. Oh god We're the machine I care so little about that game that I literally from on the harmonics made yeah Honestly, that was the Omega-Thon final. It was garbage. That was drop mix. Yeah drop mix was the second worst It was the second worst Omega-Thon finale in packs history I've talked about no game But all kinds of fancy shit because the only packs Omega-Thon finale that was worse than that one was the one that actually failed Yep Even though that one would have been good if it hadn't failed, but it failed so it failed. It was the worst one but You see games like this I mean I always get back to that Ghostbusters game But I'm not gonna even bother using that as the example anymore because there's so many games like it But you can tell because they have a big Kickstarter They have tons of sales a lot of people know about the game and the games are very highly reviewed But you literally never see them on the table at a packs Like just look on the shelf at the game store and you can see all these fancy shamancy games and stuff But it's like the games that actually get played a lot Are you know back in the olden days or an olden days? Yeah It's like people play fucking settlers in Carcassonne and take it to ride Which are way way way less fancy but get played a lot a lot a lot more yep But I do feel like part of this is a response to the fact that I hate to say this the tabletop Market is pretty saturated already and the rate of games being released both from indies and big publishers is only accelerating and The skill game space is definitely like super saturated right now And the euros are super saturated this space of collect games that are primarily aimed at collectors and IP is Probably way easier to grow For a lot of reasons. I mean, you know, they're making with cells Yeah, but I feel like these are selling too. They're you're playing games. Don't buy a lot of games They buy a few games and play them. There are some people who play games and buy a lot of games some yeah But not many not enough to build a business around. Yeah, definitely not All right No, look, there's people watching the stream. It's like 11 people in there. Why go home You know why I'm wearing a cap because I got I got rained to hell on on the way home because when I woke up It was like 80 degrees and sunny and not a cloud in the sky and I didn't even think to look at the weather Every morning no matter what I look at the weather like multiple times a day religiously So this year is only only in a few minutes before we did the show did it actually dry. I'm soaking wet and Let's see. Yep. Pat knew it was drop mix, but we didn't actually I should have looked at the chat He would have reminded us written sounds to it. Well, I remembered it. I eventually Eventually remembered it You like my hat to people are commenting on the hat, okay? Don't they you must have something better to do than look at rims hat and go somewhere and do something All right, go make a crappy game with really fancy pieces that That'll be more productive use of your time I feel like with our grease the wheels game though The way to go is the game has to be really simple but really polished But I think we also need to go all out on the theme like Tammany Hall style like Yeah, I'm talking that style that that aren't like Tammany Hall era political cartoon art. All right, let's get into the main bit but anyway things of the day so I Am actually a big fan of the American National Anthem, but not for the reasons you'd think no It's awful.  Okay, kind of like imagine a sci-fi or a fantasy world where there's like some Byzantine style archaic Ancient civilization that has like traditions and weird stuff that go beyond memory and beyond recorded history And they have weird old rituals that no one knows where they came from.   Yeah, also if you know anything about music It's weird and it's really hard to sing right well They shoehorn some poem that was not musical into a song Yep, but also the rain wasn't like they had a song and then wrote lyrics They had lyrics that were whatever and they refused to change those at all So in high school I used to do a lot of arrangement just like I used to arrange songs like Partly sometimes for money sometimes for class whatever but when you're arranging songs For people to sing not even just writing them just arranging them like writing the parts however you're gonna do it You take into account that most humans sing in a set range of notes And not many people can sing outside of those ranges well And you fatigue people who try to sing outside of those ranges You don't generally write a vocal part that crosses all these ranges I mean you might do that if you know that I'm writing this song for such-and-such singer who has a mad range Yeah, I can make this song balls out and you say oh I'm writing this U.S. National Anthem is like the opera in the fifth element like normal humans cannot fucking sing this song No, and even worse even if you like Have a decent range if you're not a professional like say you're just asked to like you can sing Okay, and you're asked to sing the National Anthem at like your high school sports ball game Unless you're a like trained musician as opposed to someone who knows how to sing You'll even make a mistake of you'll start to sing in your national register Oh say like that that'll already start you too high to have a chance of hitting those later You'll notice a lot if you go to like baseball games or you know at big stadiums or things like that where there's people singing They start low. Yep. You got to start low start lower than you are comfortable but anyway to not belabor the point this video in Very good detail explains Why it is so hard to sing why so many people forget the lyrics It has a compilation of some of the most amazing Fails in the history of people singing the National Anthem and it's just a great video I love the fact that our National Anthem is so utterly representative of how archaic and fucked up our government is And I'll just take control of the government. You can change the National Anthem I feel like we can only change the National Anthem if we fix our government by fundamentally restructuring it And I feel like our penance is that we got to keep this thing as long as our government works the way it does But also I kind of like changing it doesn't seem to be an issue We can change it when you change the daily savings, but I do like the idea that it's almost like this test like Ken the Lord who's going to take over the space whatever in the future They have to pass the archaic test of singing the ancient song So what do you got for me? So they tore different homes happening right now.   This is Probably I mean, I don't know exactly what he had Practiced it and set it up and everything. This is actually way less dangerous than you might expect assuming the person doing it Knows what they're doing because the person if the person practice they knew they could make this jump They've done it before they knew they would clear over the the rider Yeah, because on a mountain bike like you know, you can do it very consistently It's not like some mega jump where there's you know like big margins, right?  They could like if they had hit the brakes and slowed down They could have landed short. Yeah, you know to be if you practice that much you would not do that Yeah, because I mean the way you mountain bike You basically do the same trail over over again like you do it slow and learn it and just like you know Car racing you memorize a true route and you do it consistently and increase your time or decrease your times So this is while this isn't as dangerous as it looks It is still dangerous and you're I'm not saying you should do this No, but you can also notice the riders in the tour.  No, they don't even flinch They just keep on go. This is one of those things where because no no harm no foul because no one was hurt This is awesome. If someone had gotten hurt other than the person doing the stunts I would have been way less cool with this totally different news. Yeah Thing so in a related thing of the day because there's another video Full disclosure, but if you watch this video, she is fine like I double checked that the person This is not a snuff film it very likely could again So this person this was sold to me by FARC as Someone tried to ride over a drawbridge as it was opening that is not the case Well, it technically is the case Technically the drawbridge is opening.  It's really hard to tell.  Yeah, but they mess up and hit them on the way Yeah, and then they just turn sideways and literally just bike into this hole and disappear The hole that the drawbridge is about to crush Yeah, not not the not the hole in between the two pieces of road Yeah, not the cool part one at the bottom where that's because the road is lifting up It's like at the bottom of the lifting road a space is appearing and they go into that space And then they slowly sink into it and then you don't see what happens after that Well, if you watch so the video is really long But basically eventually you see a bunch of people walk over and be like whoa and slowly help the person out of the hole the Drawbridge is like this usually have a human controlling them like there's usually a tower nearby And this is some automatic thing that's like on a schedule Yeah, it's just as a human being who's like sitting in a tower opening the thing The only reason this person is fine is that the person who controlled the bridge Saw them bike into it and basically hit a button to stop the bridge from moving Which actually was really to lift up enough for the boat to get through.  There aren't just boat breaks. No It's not like a car break. No So yeah, again, I only use this as my second thing of the day because I confirmed that the person was fine She had minor injuries I guess the moral is if you're gonna bike somewhere stupid if a thing comes down and says drawbridge Train tracks do not go. Stop. Stop. Stop. Oh my god.  Oh, no, no more importantly If you're gonna bike somewhere. You're not supposed to bike Practice it Be good at it and commit to it like the person There are no red lights saying tour de France do not jump Yeah, I will there was a conceptual red light because there is there is a voice of the heavens That's really saying, you know, it's probably a bad idea what you're about to do jumping over the Tour de France Like do not do this But if you're gonna do this at least commit to it Don't just like derp into a pit and almost die. Well, I think the thing is the person who jumped over the Tour de France I think they may have spent a night or so in jail I think the person who fell into the drawbridge should have also spent a night in jail I've spent a night in the hospital. Yeah, so big tip. Don't go to either. They're not good places to be Yeah, but if you're gonna go to jail, he's do it for something awesome that didn't hurt anyone All right, all right, let's see In the middle of a minute Connecticut on which we were not at for the first time in like 10 God that more than 10 years too many years we So we went to Connecticut on for a decade plus and we ran the entire panels department like this entire goddamn floor for the better part of a decade and We passed the torch. We couldn't do it anymore. We weren't there this year I still want to go to Harper's far away. Yeah, it's a perfectly good summer weekend I do want to return to Connecticut on to do panels again because I actually really like doing panels at Connecticut But I cannot commit to taking vacation days to doing Connecticut anymore. There's just too many packs is We we do a lot of packs is that really adds up like I can't even deal with packs dev every year anymore So for the first time in more than 10 years, we didn't go to Connecticut I'm apparently went fine and we may return to do some panels next year But the next convention we will be performing at will be packs West the real packs the convention Like if if we had to drop every other convention we go to this is the last one we would drop I think the only thing that will stop us from being at packs West every year is us dying So what happened someday? We will be there doing a panel. We've done before first rim or packs West I'm pretty sure you're gonna die before me, but I'm not sure if packs will die before I'm gonna bet on that.   I'm I'm pretty confident.  Hmm pretty confident Also pretty confident.  I wouldn't have to go to work though. I Am so confident you're gonna die before me. Hmm, but I digress anyone who knows anything about poison Let me know at least one of the panels we're doing at Peck's West is the 40 tabletop games You must play which we did in the past. We've done versions of this in other cons. We did it once We've done it twice.  I got some ideas about it But the the reason we're doing it here as a repeat as opposed to doing a brand new panel as much as I wanted to Do a brand new panel. Maybe we'll still do another brand new panel stay tuned, but We're actually doing this one in the streaming theater for oh my god So it's gonna live stream on PAX's twitch We got it. We got a very bad time slot. It's the very first panel on Monday morning Yeah, when nobody cares, but we're in the official PAX one of the official PAX streaming room So on one of the two or more, I don't know how many PAX streaming twitch channels You will be able to see this panel. There's the only things that stream our main theater and the two big Panel room, so there's three channels. There's three channels. So we're probably on I imagine I think we're PAX two We're on the third channel. We're either PAX two or PAX three. Okay, we'll have details later But that does mean we're gonna up the production value of the panel a little bit and based on the feedback from the last Two times we ran it it will be different in some ways But parts of it are not gonna change because they're perfect like I'm not gonna take Dune off the list There's a lot to say about Dune So, uh, yeah, stay tuned and Otherwise hopefully we'll see you at PAX unplugged PAX South magfest Yeah, I put out a new episode of anime judging we judge the summer anime All of it. We reviewed it all before it came out. So if you want to know what anime to watch I'm pretty sure we're right about all these shows You trust someone with just going based on gut instinct and almost no knowledge I'm actually feeling a lot of the shows like if you watch it. It's minor spoiler We're gonna give a lot of these shows a couple episodes Like we're gonna watch a few of them more so than we have said we'll watch from any season hither, too And the book club book is the Odyssey and I should be able to finish it by Thursday Yeah, I said the Kindle says I only have like a few hours left so I can read well Oh, I didn't read any the last weekend because I was busy It says I can only have a few hours so I can just read it before I go to bed Usually overestimates like usually when it says three hours it means I'll try to burn through it tonight and tomorrow I forget how many hours it said but it's single. I'll try to burn through as I'm ready So there's so most likely Thursday. We'll talk about the Odyssey.   All right And if you live anywhere in like the New York area and you are a biker or even if you're not a biker But you bike sometimes like if you could bike 10 or 20 miles But if you can bike you can bike 10 or 20. Yeah, you just don't think you can but you totally can yes Especially you're like really older and firmer have a problem But you could bike 10 or 20 miles where there's like rest stops Cars like following everyone to help you out if there's a problem You have many hours to do it right even if you go slow as balls, right as slow as my mom You will make 20 something miles in like what 10 hours, but you'll make it So this weekend the Harlan Valley Railroad is Super goddamn fun. There are tons of bike rides all over the place, right? Especially around New York that all over the country But me Scott and Emily will be at this one right there's tons of organized bike rides But this one of the many you know that I've done this one. It was the most luxurious and awesome So there is a 23 33 45 57 to 70 to 80 and two different hundred mile routes We're just gonna camp in this field on Saturday than on Sunday We're gonna do the ride. It's gonna be awesome. So if you want to go to this thing We'll be there.  Yep. Hang out with some cows and some horses. It's gonna be a good time We'll be there so pub G So pub G came out. It was a big deal. It's a real good thing that pub G didn't come out when we were in college Yes, I didn't pay a lot You know, I didn't play it right away because it was like this early access game that was getting huge It was number one on steam. It was the biggest deal ever and I just didn't get into it because I was 50 bucks And I didn't have time to get into it. I was busy Yeah, it was it was I wanted to play it and it's a money wasn't even an object It was just I knew I did not have time to commit to it because pub G the best way to describe it If you don't know anything about player unknown battlegrounds It's the hard more. It's the hard mode version of fortnight, right?  Yep So here's the deal the maps just like battle royale the movie only with less people more people So the the things that the important points about this game or that one This is an old school fps. This is one of those games old school What do you mean old school then? Is quake where everything's fast, right? This is not the that's not the aspect of old school because there were slow FPSs back then too, right? But those fpf like the old fps like that were like maps were mazes So here i'll clarify. This is one of those. This is a military fan. I'll clarify.  You could bind to a million different complicated things. This doesn't have that many It yeah does you just don't know about this is just a military fan boy fps You didn't even know you could hold your breath people cared about realistic weapon stuff and you know actual instead of a hit scan bullets, they're actually like ballistic and they have to they but it's a game where you can start playing but Eventually you'll you're gonna start looking up the keys to hit to do complicated things You didn't even know you could do like change how the sights work on a gun Yep, uh, like you can hold you can bind a key like you can crouch you can lay prone You can crawl you can lean. I don't lean yet. I feel like I should start leaning leaning is pretty important Yeah, I don't lean at all. It's a problem It's got melee. It's got all sorts of nonsense. There's a lot of buttons and a lot of stuff to Learn before you can actually be good at it at all like so on one hand It's like counter-strike semi realistic weapons and like super dead like one bullet will pretty much just take you out Sort of it has this that's one of the it's weird great because Fundamentally right and if you look at the big picture of this game, right? I love it and I knew I would right which is why I played it when it went on sale after we and especially You know the seeing the the maker the creator of the game at the packs east kino reaffirmed like all right Yes, everything I thought about this game was correct. I would know was great He's really smart and he talked a lot about like why he made this game Right, but so on the big picture of the game everything is like totally awesome, right? You parachute onto this island the parachuting is way fun.  I stopped playing by myself. I like all by myself as lame I like playing by myself.  You're collecting loot.  Especially. It's like this. It's big It's like it's so big you got this like for example one of the maps that desert map like If you don't get a car like you just can't get to the other side of the map No, it's too far away Not only is it big but like you go into a building this building said like multiple stories with like tons of rooms in them It's like yes Like I love it like it's it's hyper realistic just one building in this game will be as big as like a whole counter strike Yeah, so Imagine like that that feeling alone is really fun like this giant Tribes tribes isn't even big. So you look at the map. You're thinking about your strategy like Should I go head head toward that?  Uh, there's probably a lot of people there. Maybe I'll just cut through the woods here There though. Yeah, I'll cut through the woods. I won't find any loot But this is a weird remote part of the map. There's gonna be no one out here Or I'm literally just I land on this island by myself and get a jet ski and leave the island when I'm ready But anyway, so then there's a circle that appears and the circle is what makes it interesting Because there's only a few maps, right? One's the new one is like a small one. Well, the two and there's two things that are Important here. There's one. There's the circle and there's the random plane route, right? Well, the yeah, so the the The the flight that everyone jumps off of with a parachute is different every time And it's hard to fly far away from the plane in your parachute So people start in generally along that line. So the map starts you look at the map There's a hundred people with you on the plane and you decide when are you going to jump off the plane? And when you're on the plane, you'll see like a seating chart And you'll see people disappear as they jump off the plane Yeah, like it goes over the military base a million people jump out the starting distribution of players is different every time It's more dense along the line more dense in the in the cities with lots of loot And then there's a circle that appears once you're on the ground And if you're outside that circle when the time runs out Then it these this electric fence that's like virtual electric fence will come in And if you're outside of that circle when the fence comes in you start taking damage and eventually die The circle appears in a random location And then it gets smaller and smaller and smaller at intervals And those inner those smaller center of each one of those is also in a random location within the current circle Yeah, so basically the game is different every time even though It's on the same enormous map because a the map is enormous b You're starting in a different place and c the circles are different which shows like as the game goes on It's like all right Well the game is ending this time like in the water or on a bridge And then this this time the game is like everyone's you know coalescing around this building or this You know this uh, this you know, maybe big city the game ends on or just in the woods is what happens most of the time Right or this rock formation and that really changes how the game goes Based on the terrain that everyone's being forced into or at least the survivors are forced to yeah Now at close and moderate range like in a firefight It's very counter-strikey in terms of the skills.  You hear one gunshot in the distance. You're like Uh, where's that? Yep. What's going on? Someone's nearby.  Yep. And because they know I've gotten a lot of kills by being along a road They know that people are coming from that city and if because they're they have to run that those people didn't make it to the Circle in time They're coming in from that general direction will shoot them as they come in my favorite thing that ever happened is There was another strategy is oh, we know people are gonna camp there to shoot people as they come in Let's go shoot them Yep, or in the back because they're looking outward There's a fire watch tower up there and it's in a good spot I'm pretty sure someone's camping up there doing what we just described Let's toss a little grenade up there and I hear it explode and someone's just dead good game Yeah, there are how many times I've been like in a building and I'm pretty sure no one knows I'm in here As I haven't moved or made any noise. Yep a grenade comes in the window.  It's like, you know, it's like that kind of thing Yep, so it means the game is really more about things like literally managing your time a grenade and throw it back I've no idea. I don't in kind It's pretty rare that I get a grenade thrown at me So I haven't really interacted with them in that level that happened to me a lot when I would just camp in houses Now that I run around it doesn't happen as much But so that like threat assessment like you're driving along the road and you see some houses up in the distance like You got to think about what if someone's in that building? Will they do anything to me? Do they care or they just because they're just just as afraid of me as I am of them probably Well, if they're good, they're yeah, it depends, but I feel like the good players are going around hunting everyone And aren't afraid at all. Yeah, but I'm basically afraid of everybody I'm trying to hunt people more and I'm having fun with that I've been playing in squads more because then when I get in a squad with good people, uh, they carry me But you're thinking of things like So I got to get inside the circle. Where do I go? Like you're pulling off the map if you're playing with a squad Usually like someone's got the map up like and picking waypoints like all right. We're gonna head here. We're gonna head here Well, someone else is like covering you that's the team stuff is so fun You can put waypoints on the map and then your friends can see that on their map and you can sort of You know communicate really nicely So let's talk about that.  No, don't play third person I've heard the third person is like the the the way to win But at least they keep the third people their third person perspective people separate from the first person Yeah, I tried it's not fun. It just feels really I didn't even try it. It's really not fun I'm only an fps person But so you can play solo which is fun in its own way.  I think is more funny if you're actually good Yeah, it's also very it's very unnerving because you're just alone But it's also a good. It's a good way to learn sort of basic skills like I didn't learn a lot doing solo because I just died and but when I played in a team people could tell me stuff And would give me pointers. I just read some wikis I started playing solo and I started getting like I'm not saying I'm good But I can usually make it to the last 10 or 15. Oh, I can make it to the last But not but I make it there.  I take a lot of risks Because the game's not fun if you don't take risks No, yeah, I mean, what do you want?    That's how it was in a camp in a building. Grenade comes in the window Nope, but you can also play two-player like duo squad where you can do two people You can do three four two people is the default Scott and I stream two people That's pretty fun because it's very like you like you can do basic simple tactics like I'll cover the windows on this building while you go in or I'll look at the map while you're covering me Like that kind of stuff before people is really where it's at It's it's just great to have four people, you know, you don't get outnumbered by some bigger squad Yep four people is I've only played four people a few times. It's real fun. I play four people the most Once I realized you don't actually need I thought at first I thought you needed to bring three friends Oh, no, you can join you can just join a random group of four people once I learned that that's all I do Yep, but it's four people is especially fun when you play with friends Because four people like you could you're on voice chat and you're just playing a game when you play with friends Or you randomly get put with people actually good But I actually was worried I'd get put with like shitheads from the internet, but that actually hasn't happened Uh, I think a big part of it. I've usually been with like good people. I haven't had any awful experiences But then again, I'm a dude. Yeah, that is true But I have noticed I think part of that is that there is a pretty high barrier to entry for this game Like imagine if you've never played like counter strike or like those kinds of games And you've never played those army like super realistic games And you've only ever played like call of duty.  So, I mean, you know, the it's not necessarily A negative but the only negative things I see in this game is simply that a I don't like the military You know realism stuff. I do a lot.  It's like if I click on someone, I should shoot them, right? It's like come on So I like that realism. I mean, I understand it. I understand that other people like it It's just a matter of taste. Well, I would argue. Here's the main reason is not my preference Here's the reason why it needs to be that way in counter strike the sniper rifles were Way too dangerous and the only reason they worked is because you can't get that far away from people I think it would be cool if they just a counter strike style awm in this game Where you could just click and it'll always kill the person. I think it would be cool. Just don't have sniper rifles Scopes you can see but no guns that are actually any accurate at that range No, I like the fact that sniper rifles exist because sniping like you can interact with this game in very different ways But you can't necessarily specialize because Every game is so different that even if you get one a snipe like sniping is really fun Or interacting with snipers is really fun Like sometimes like a sniper takes a pot shot at me and misses and then it's a game of Me trying to figure out where the hell they are figure out where they are Serpentine get out of sight like get over a ridge and then it's not like now. I got to go kill them It's well. I got away from the sniper. Good luck. Have fun sniper.  It's a military fan boys. Yeah, but I also like so there's what there's so much of this game Like vehicles because the maps are so vehicles are just fine So you can literally like getting a car and drive it around with your friends or like a jet ski There's all like there's so many different vehicles. The other thing is like the inventory stuff It's like it's all right You need to have some amount of inventory thing because part of the game is about going and getting loot and like upgrading your weapons and stuff Right, but you know, it's a it's just like the complexity of it is just like one smidge too much Right to where it's like, oh, you got to have the right bullets for that gun I like that though And then you have to remember which bullets go with the witch gun They don't help you know because if you're holding a wet if you're holding a weapon if you have one Then it shows the silhouette of the weapon when you look at the thing on the ground It's not it's it's still It helps you a little bit. I can't I don't even know that because and I've been playing it for yeah See I like I don't even know what the hell I don't like what gun do I'm even holding right? It's like you have to be a military fanboy to know Oh, I'm holding the Tell m4 apart from an m16 and know what kind of ammo they take Uh, so if you don't know that stuff, which is weird that I know some of that stuff The easy way is if it shows the silhouette pick it up one of your guns uses it Yes, I don't even notice but anyway the point is but I like that element because here's a counterpoint You can't pause the game. It's PUBG. It's live.   Yeah, that happens often, right?   I need to be counter strike level We're just I've you know, let me pick up the ammo like quake where I shouldn't have to touch When was the last time you played counter strike? Uh At least a year ago. Yeah, you want to play counter strike.  No, it's great So here's the other things that are important about this game because of all the factors we talked about Irrespective of scott's complaints about the military fanboys. It's not it's just I don't it's you know It's not bad. They do a good job of it. It's just that's not for me But I still play the game because all the other parts are all like everything's pretty tight and there's A lot of complexity that you don't have to engage with if you really don't want to Like well, you're not gonna win if you don't you'll do well, but I'm not gonna win it I'm not gonna win anyway. So it doesn't matter, but I guess it's a game Where losing and winning are pretty much equally fun Once you get above the point of you just die immediately and don't know why naked in the wilderness Like when you get past that point losing at this game is actually super fun Yeah, I don't really don't give a shit about like I've never won and I don't really care Right, it's like in counter strike if you just keep losing and losing and losing Eventually you want to quit and find a different team and pub g I expect to lose I lose and I don't care But I just keep playing the the emergent stories the emergent gameplay the narratives of winning and losing like this game Is such a triumph in that regard like literally every game of this I play is completely different from every other It has at least one story to where like if I'm hanging out with people who have also played pub g I can tell the story and it's usually funny or interesting in some way and Not many games can generate that consistent level of interesting stories I mean the only games that don't really have much of a story are the ones where you Land in the hotbed area and die right away.    So I was basically always in the center of the circle That circle is what even though you're on the same map doing the same exact thing with you over and over again The random circle or the random plane flight change the game So much every time is completely different and it's like relative to where you happen to land, right? It's like Even though you know you get different circle every time but your landing spot is different Maybe the circle keeps focusing on you.   You got to get more gas for it So I was this was like one of the most fun I ever had I was playing solo And I was in the big desert map and like the circle just started on the Like I started on the edge of the map and the circle was the opposite side Like I'm fucked. There's no cars or anything near me And then a car from a little bit even further away to the north comes driving by on the road And I see the car coming and I take some potshots and rather than just ignore me Dude stops and gets out of the car Why so and he comes after me So I just sneak out of the building and like sneak all the way around and get to the car And I see why he got out of it.  Yep, which is why You know, it's like, all right, I'll put up with some military fanboys and for that I tend to live it's not the most extreme military fanboys in my obscene So if you if you're okay at the game games last between 10 and 20 minutes Like that's about how long you're in there. Yep Uh, if you're when your first start anything is you don't have to chill out while the game finishes You can just leave and join a new one. Yep. Basically when you die You have two options You can either start spectating and like watch the person you killed you and see if they make it Because I did that a couple times or watch the rest of your team if they're still alive Yep It's real satisfying when like you get killed and it feels salty about it But then you see that the first new killed who killed you Is like a super expert who goes on to win the entire thing and you were just one of many That they took out or you can watch the death cam and it shows All the context that led up to your death Like the person who killed you and it's way earlier in the timeline than you might expect I think it's like 30 seconds before you died. Yeah, it's something it's some amount of time It shows the person who killed you for their perspective for like x seconds up until the point you died It's pretty cool.  It was naked rim is walking through the woods and no one knows he's there It's such a fun game.  Maybe I'll get it and not open it For now, even though it's disadvantaged. I'm just being naked. I didn't even put on the default clothes Yeah, I'm using the default clothes and I'll never use non-default clothes Uh, and that's just how it's gonna be.  Do you get more pub g money if you win is I don't even know how it works Uh, I don't know. I never I speaking. I forgot one awesome thing about this game Uh, we built two awesome things about the game number one This is red circle that appears in the map sometime Oh, yeah, and just bombs fall out of the sky if you're in that red circle And you're not in a building bombs and shit fall out of the sky So you kind of want to not go in the red circles and it sort of creates interesting player movements, right?  We killed like four people. It was awesome Uh, the other thing is that there's this sometimes the airplane comes and drops a crate When the airplane drops a crate it parachutes down It's a red box and then smoke comes out of it That red crate is full of the best loot like level three armors level three helmets guns You can't get anywhere else. It's also a giant sign saying hey Nobs are going to run toward this thing and be very easy to kill, right? So like there have been you think oh scott who's not good at the game It never will be would never go anywhere near a deadly crate But actually there've been like two or three times where like I've been on a team the crate just lands near us like Yep, or the crate lands kind of near us And then we go and camp and see if anyone goes for it and then shoot at them It's like the crate is like it creates like these events Of awesomeness that happen in these individual places if you're not in the center of the action Suddenly, uh-huh. Here's a hot spot of action near this crate full of loot So, uh You know it it mixes it up and I wish they would I think the game could actually do with like just only one just one more Thing that could happen on the map besides the red circle in the crate Just like a third thing that would be four would be too many But just like a third special event that could happen on the map randomly Just to stir things up a little bit, you know, yeah, there's some weathery stuff Like there's stuff like that the weather happen is different every time the weather moves along But the weather only matters a little bit It depends like in a rainstorm people can't hear you like it's you can you can book it fog You know one can see you Anyway, but yeah, it's a it's a good old fps. We're gonna I'm gonna keep playing it semi regularly for a long time I think yeah, I mean, I don't think it's going anywhere. It's still super popular Yeah, it's like a weekend thing or like an evening thing like I'll play overwatch every day But I'll play this like every weekend at least All right, that was a good show