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Okay, folks, I mentioned before that I did watch this video about these Apple products, but we're going to take a look at Apple from a long term. We're going to go back a year and a half here and just show you the chart of Apple and just give you an idea because it really follows the A-B CD phenomenon. You can see here on this long term weekly here, the beautiful A-B CD pattern down here at this level here, this is 126. And now, of course, we went up and we've made a new high. But what we need to do is as we're making a new high here, we really need to get down to the nitty-gritty and see how it's made this new high because I think that's very, very important. As we look at this over a period of the last five or six months, we'll get this chart up so you'll be able to see it here pretty quickly. You'll be able to see it right here and you'll see we went right up. The number we were looking for was 185. We talked about that yesterday. I believe the high was 186. We're a little bit lower than that right now. You can see that it's backed off a little bit, but that's just a short-term phenomenon. But what we have to remember is we're looking at Apple here over the past. I want to get this up because this is from eSignal, but it's a really neat chart. Blow it up so we can all see it a little better here. This is talking about a pattern that you don't see very often, which is an outside reversal pattern. In other words, you go up and you take out the highs of the previous two days and then you take out the lows of the previous two days all at the same time. And when you do it with pretty good volume like you did here, and then we've already showed you these ABCD patterns all the way up, that's telling you that, my goodness, there might be a correction coming. Maybe even two or three-day correction coming in Apple. We don't know, but that's how it looks like. So that's a few of the things that we're watching with Apple, but this product that these folks have, folks, this video augmented reality that Al was mentioning to me, it was amazing. These headsets like virtual reality, and it literally expands your little tiny 15-inch laptop into a 100-inch or larger football size. And it's incredible. Then you can interact with it and you can order things. And oh, my gosh, I'm just totally amazed. The price now is $3,500. Of course, when it finally does come out, then we're going to be able to see what's happening. But AI is in the news. Everybody is talking about it. But remember yesterday, folks, we had someone asking us about this ETF. They're clamping down on Bitcoin today. But let me tell you who they should clamp down on. This is this WTAI. This is Wisdom's Tree, Artificial Intelligence. Folks, this has about as much to do with artificial intelligence as I do with looking at point-and-figure charts. I mean, they have an invidious in this to the tune of about 2.5% and a couple of other small ones. But as far as AI, not happening. No, it's not. And I don't mind them putting it out here, but when they're putting commercials out here on how to get involved with AI, maybe this is stepping your toe in the water. That I don't know. But this is not good business. And then they come down really hard on Coinbase today for things that they had been doing for quite a while. Nothing any difference. But let's take a look at Coinbase today, folks. This is a really, really cool-looking situation of what's going on in some of these things. So let's take a quick look here. We've got a lot of things to cover. We'll be able to do them all together. But look at this Coinbase chart. And those of you that like ABCD and like Bitcoin, you must really love this one because look what's happened to this. There's your... Let's give that to your first letter before we talk. Look at your ABCD pattern, folks. It measured here to 46. The low was $45.94, and we're trading $6 higher already. Now, I know Gary Ginsler used to work for Goldman Sachs, and he's a tech guy and everything. But I will tell you this right now. I'm not a betting man, but I will tell you this. These folks here at Coinbase have bucks behind them. There's no question about that. And they are going to have some pretty high-priced attorneys, not the $150 an hour variety that they have at the government or less. They're going to have the boys that wear the $10,000 suits, the guys that make $1,200 and $2,000 an hour. And I will bet you a nickel to a donut, and donuts are about a buck and a quarter now, that this thing will be rectified in favor of Coinbase. They've been doing this all along, and all of a sudden they came out with all of these rules or suggestions of what's going to happen. That's how the government puts a kibosh on these things. But as long as we don't get below that 46 level we made today, this is a flat-out bullish chart, because that's a perfect ABCD right there at 46. I didn't see it until just about a half hour ago when someone brought it to my attention. But that is a perfect guardly right there. And the fact that it's acted so good from that level. Remember those stocks in the banking sector that Jim Bartolioni passed out to or told us about? I mean, they haven't even made two retracements on those. And what did our government do? They verified everything in the doggone banking system, no matter what the amount of money was in the past books and stuff. I mean, they changed the rules the way they want to. So that's what the government does. It's a government by the people, by the people, but not for the people. Who knows? We're going to pay attention to this as we look at some of these things unfolding here today. 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They were made by Intel. And what they did is they crunched numbers. And as we crunched numbers we start to see, this is part of those harmonic numbers that 20 men came up with and myself and Bryce Gilmore, but where numbers repeat over and over again. They also repeat in time. But time is more elusive. And so what it was trying to do was to find special spots during the day where the markets were supposed to turn. And sometimes they just work absolutely beautiful. Today I showed you the one that we had on the bottom of the S&P and also the top. And then we also had one on the gold market. I do crude oil. I do natural gas. I do the treasury bonds. But again, it's only about 60%. About everything that I look at is a little above 60%. But if you stop and think about that folks, 60% in our business is pretty good because what we're trying to do is focus on the risk control of the trades that we're trying to figure out. That's all we're trying to do. Now when you line this up with Fibonacci numbers and ABCD patterns, it also gives you another edge. That's a double edge and that's what you like to see what's going on in the world, okay? So I just wanted to bring that to your attention. Dennis died very unexpectedly and it was quite sad at that time and it's still sad because I think about him all the time.  He spoke seven languages. He was a master. He had pictures of a President Reagan that had given him awards for the Tomahawk warhead missile. He was the one that developed that. When it came out of the water, out of the submarine, as soon as it got out of the water, it started searching for the pattern that it was looking for and what it did, it could identify the difference between a school and a hospital and stuff like that.  What he could do, remember this was 30 some years ago. So he was incredibly bright. But anyway, someone just asked me a question about the Bitcoin and I'll bring that. I don't trade Bitcoin. John Jameson is an expert in this, so anything I have to ask about is this. But let me get the chart up here, the longer term chart here of Bitcoin because frankly, folks, this is probably a buying opportunity for two different reasons. You remember, we completed the ABCD pattern in Coinbase. That was really an easy one to see. But look at this. We're hanging right at the 382 retracement down here at 25,000. This is really strong support for two reasons. Look at this old high right back here and there's your 382 coming in right here at 25,000. Now, if you close below 24,000, that's telling you that this pattern is broken and it's going to go down a lot more. But this was also a 382 retracement off of 16,000. So that's why this is such a really important thing that's happening and it's in the news. The government's out there and we'll see how this thing comes back to haunt the losing side. My guess is they'll probably settle out a court because there's going to be a lot of money involved. And of course, the government has more money than Coinbase, but Coinbase can afford to pay for higher priced attorneys more than the government. That's my assumption anyway. Okay, now let's move on here. I wanted to talk a little bit about the German DAX. We're going to take a trip here across the pond because it's still acting like it's still having a rally formation here that you'll be able to see without too much trouble. And as long as we can hold these levels that we're looking at early today, we've got a chance to go higher. But we did make a 61% retracement and back off, but there's still that possibility that we could go higher here in the German DAX. The next one we're going to look at here, folks, is going to be the FTSE, which looks a lot more bullish than the DAX because it had a tremendous rally. And if you can stop and think, the London Stock Exchange is basically stocks from all foreign countries. And you can see what's happened here. We had a little bit of a back off here at the 382 and has done very, very little. And then finally, I wanted to talk one more time about this Dow Jones chart that we've been looking at because we've completed that Gartley pattern that we made last Thursday down there at that 32,227 level. And there it is right there. We had a really strong rally. It didn't get hardly any above the, just a little above 33,800, I believe it was 33,056 or something like that, which was just a shade above the 78% retracement. And it's backed off about 300 points since that time. So that's still in the formation of it could go either way. And what we're still concerned about more than anything else was this big ABCD pattern that we have here in the S&P that has not been violated. The highest we got was 3,208 or something like that. And we were saying the short was around 4,296 with a 20-point stop. It hasn't come close to that yet right now. It's in the money very slightly, but it's still got that potential to fill. But it hasn't really broken down much. So that in itself gives you a what we call a danger sign because usually when these hit, they back off right away and this has not done that. It's gone up here and hung higher. One of two things is happening. It's taking its time to make a new high and has not or it's just making a distribution at this level. Remember, we made new highs in the NASDAQ and we've actually had the Russell breakout today, which no one really has talked very much about it. On Bloomberg I was really surprised because we talked about that ABCD pattern in the Russell yesterday here on the air and we made it today up there at 1860. He went right to the number, to the exact number actually, which was an ABCD 50% retracement and right at the 50% ABCD as I just mentioned. 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And I wanted to bring to your attention the gold because we had a 382 retracement last Thursday up there at 1998, at 96 and it broke down to, we covered it at 62, made $3,300 on that and the reason why we were covering it is the fact that it had stopped at a very significant spot on the charts and then what I suggested, and I'll show you why trading can be so doggone frustrating even though you sometimes break even. Here is the chart of the gold. You can see here where we covered it last night. Yesterday was when it took out that high right there. That's the first time I was able to do that. We shorted it right there. We covered it right there and you can see we went right up to the exact 61% retracement at 82, 1982. We broke all the way down to 1972. That's $1,000. When that happened, in the video that I sent out, reviewing the positions that we had and we had three positions on today, short stocks. Of course, at the S&P, we were long the natural gas that was doing quite well and we were short the gold. So I said put the stop back at break even because after you had $1,000, it went right back to it and it's trading there right now because I can hear the beeper going off. So I don't know if that's the right thing to do or not but folks, I'm risk averse. I don't like to stand in front of a train and ask the flag men to stop the train because it takes about two and a half miles to stop a train. Anyway, that's what we're looking at here. You'll be able to see here what's going on with us right now. By the way, I don't know if you know the news yesterday. The Treasury is getting ready to issue $1 trillion worth of T-bills. Of course, we've been out of T-bills for quite some time as the debt crisis has been coming. So in these next few weeks and months, the Fed will be printing paper to the tune of $1 trillion. How will that affect the market? I'm not sure. Usually when you bring out a lot of supply, that causes the demand to go lower unless you get it at a good price. And I don't think it's a good price where we are here. Folks, I believe we are looking at higher interest rates for the next five to eight years. I don't believe we'll ever see 2% mortgages and stuff like that anymore, at least in my lifetime, but that's not saying a whole lot. Anyway, that's how I handled the gold trade because I wanted to make sure that we didn't miss anything as far as losing money after being ahead. Your goal is to try to make money every week. You don't make money every day, but we do make money just about every week. And that's the main thing of why we're doing some of these things. I wanted to bring to you attention something that just happened here just a little while ago. This is from the Sunday newsletter that we sent out. And we'll bring this up here. That'll be changing too, by the way. Get this up here. You'll see this was the hogs. You remember we had this trade in the hogs where we lost a point here in hogs. It went around quite a bit more. And now we've rallied up supposedly to the high of the day here, which is the 3-8-2 going back here for the last three and a half months. Folks, hogs are up right now. The July hogs are up to this level right now. We just hit it just a while ago. They're up 300 points at the 3-8-2 retracement. Now, this was sent out Sunday saying that that's probably should happen. Now, I didn't say sell hogs here or anything like that. I brought this to your attention to show you that's the level where you want to look at. Just like this level was a 3-8-2 retracement, this level is a 3-8-2 retracement. I can't put eight or nine different positions on here for the 24-7 people because many of them are smaller traders. I give them ideas of where to look like, whether it's crude oil or whether it's a treasury bond. I'll give them an idea of what to look for, but do a specific one. I'll give a specific buy and a specific sell, and it's usually related to the ABCD patterns that line up perfectly. That's the main thing. A perfect example today would have been this Russell. This Russell came exactly to the level of 160. I don't know where it's trading right now, but this would be one of those that would be right on the money of what you want to be looking at. That was coming in at 160 on the Russell contract that is now trading at 52. The high has been 64, and the low is 52. Right now, it's got an 8-point profit in it, and that's all we're looking at is to see how that wants to operate from that level. Also, folks, I mentioned yesterday that we have this huge, huge pattern here in the cattle. This is beef, folks. I eat beef probably three times a day. It's not quite that bad. A couple times a week, for sure, and I love my favorite here in Arizona, is cowboy bacon. It's about a half-inch thick, and it's got applewood flavor. Oh, my goodness. One strip of bacon, folks, is a whole meal. That's how really cool it is. Anyway, this is the cattle chart, and as you can see, this monster double top that we have here. Cattle prices have not been this high since 2019. 2014. I can't believe I'm saying this. I've been in this business. I put my first trade-on in 1959 for God's sake, September of 1959. How many years is that? That's more than 10 years. That's eight decades for God's sake. We've got a... Oh, you talk about Mr. Lucky hitting the lottery. We've got Mr. Z from Philly on the line. John, how are you today? Well, I'm glad you were keeping everybody abreast of the bear market and those hog futures going into last a week, maybe two ago, and I just took a nice little profit after holding a contract the past couple of days, and lo and behold, I hadn't even pulled out the daily chart to see that the spot where I took the game was right up at your 3A2, so thanks for that. Well, you're welcome. I'm trying to buy it, but they just keep pushing it higher, so I'm waiting. We've got a report coming out here on Friday the 9th. I think it's a rain trade report, Rich told me. So what do you think is going to happen here? Well, Larry, I'm calling to ask you how you handle something in particular. First, I'm holding long partial profits a week ago Sunday on a nice move up. We pulled back last week and now we're you know, higher this week and of course, the rally off that low maybe two, three weeks ago, as you well know was a lot of shorts who were pressing the bear case covering those shorts. And of course, much of the corn belts has gone very dry since about May 10th. The reason corn hasn't just truly exploded, of course it's rally, yes. But in the big scheme of things, you can look at that these contract on the daily chart going back six months, maybe a year, we can see it's a bounce. Whether or not or what happens the next 30 days is going to be dependent upon whether or not this dry stretch extends. And what I can share with you, I found very interesting when I went back into the studies Larry, this year's action in new crop corn trees that these contract in the past six months into a may low was very similar to what happened in 2012 and 13. Can you stay with us for the break, my friend? I can, I heard the music. Thank you very much. We'll be back with Mr. Z from Philly folks. Stay tuned. You might think that if you want to be successful at trading in the stock market you're going to need a crystal ball. After all it's impossible to predict the future, right? Like any endeavor in life, before you decide it's impossible get some advice from the experts. You might find that it's not so impossible after all. 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So my assumption is this should be some type of a top and we should get a little bit of a pullback. That's what I'm looking for. The big money in the trade is very focused on one or two outcomes and of course only mother nature knows which one outcome is that this dry patch that's been going on now for oh four weeks gives away to rains that start emerging in about seven days time. If so the 2013 analogy probably is in force where we're topping right at your 382 and that go down in bust 490 possibly going down you know into 450 in the harvest. The other scenario is mother nature doesn't give the rains that are forecast to occur seven to ten days out and something more akin to some variant of the 2012 type of drought is unfolding and in that event we could have an explosive rally based upon smaller crop size. So my question Larry is of course you don't know and I don't know which outcome is but in the events that we get that no rain scenario forthcoming you know looking out seven to 14 days and price starts to explode higher question for you given your decades and decades of trading experience how do you handle that? I call you John and ask you what to do. Hey listen you're as good as this and I am the best way to handle it is if it is going to be a weather market it's probably going to gap above the 382 on some overnight or weekend or something like that and if it does that and you really believe that that's what's going to happen you just got to buy it because your stop would be below the 382 in other words if it breaks out it's got to continue so if it breaks out and it comes back below that 382 I would have nothing to do with it and I'm not talking about a 2 or 3 cent breakout I'm talking about 10, 15 maybe even 20 cents the higher the better because if it's really high that means they've trapped some of these commercials that are so very very bearish and we've seen this if you remember back in well this was happened to Cook Rain back in 1975 and 76 they were extremely bearish and they were right the problem was corn and beans rallied $4 a bushel before it finally went down and they went bankrupt because they stayed short till they ran out of money and you just can't do that so gapping above the 382 which in deacorn would be right here at about $6.55 if we gap above that that'll be the first indication that yep this thing might be ready to go and then I'll have to handle it on a basically hour by hour way to look at it because I'm not just going to buy the breakout and say if it goes back below it again it's got to keep running because I don't like to fool around especially this market's bearish for heaven's sakes yeah Larry I've just at very point I learned that long ago the idea if you're chasing you know chasing doing a chasing buy and lots of people in the tigers den see me do this very short term stuff if I do a chasing buy I've got very specific parameters that I'm going for when we're breaking above prior highs for example but I do so always with this thought in mind risking little if it abruptly reverses on me so I'm with you on that idea that sure chasing buys are warranted certain conditions but you got to see a move in your favor kind of quickly to warrant staying with it so we're like minds on that well I can remember one of my best mentors in soybeans was Dave Nelson who worked with Sympathetic back in Pasadena back in the late 60's and early 70's 20 men and I were students of his and he said we're about chasing markets he says well you've been chasing women he said how'd that work out for you and I said well I guess it must be the same way for the corn and the beans and the other things so I don't like to chase him but once in a while you got to chase that bus down because there might not be another one going for a while so Larry let me ask you this Sarah, Toronto, Hong Kong was that a case of so the family has got some things my son-in-law you know he's in Philadelphia that runs the Parkinson's Institute and Alzheimer's unit for the University of Pennsylvania medical school he's well he's asked to go everywhere for speaking because he's really quite one of the top people in the field and so he's been they've asked him to do a sabbatical in Barcelona and then also in London and then the family he's asked to go to Hong Kong they're going to do some remodeling on the house and then their sister's going to meet and some other family stuff so I'm going to be home I'll be I'm going to probably meet him over there it depends upon you know how the air traffic is and how I'm feeling but I don't I don't like to fight the airports anymore John you know I I just don't so it's just question of whether I'm going to do it or not but it's going to be fun I talk to them every day of videos they were always on video chatting about what's going on and all the things that are happening in the family but they are taking a little bit of sabbatical and I just didn't want to it's just too hard to get all the data and I'm busy doing this stuff I love this is what I love to do I don't get to play golf with Tiger Woods and I don't want to play golf with Tiger Woods I rather sit here and chat with you about the corn market for God's sake so that's what I like to do at least you have the luxury of being able to say you played against Tommy John in high school yeah I sure did that was a lot of fun yeah that was back in the old days but trading has been good to me you know just like it has to you John I mean we've been very lucky you know I'm going to be 83 here pretty soon and I've been doing this since 59 that's a long time that's 64 years for crying out loud and I'm enjoying it as much now as the very first day that I did it when I bought that Elastic Stopnut ESN and excellent stretch Larry excellent stretch just just in parting I'll just share this with you I had bought I didn't get these corn down at the 490 I grabbed it at 511 I took partial profits up at 35 holding the rest and so I'm prepared to see that unrealized gain on what I didn't sell evaporate to nothing if the bear case unfolds if the rains don't come 7 to 10 days Hanson we start to surge well I'll just add to that winning position so that's the way I'm going to handle and see what happens I am too soon as I find out that it clears that well basically 660 in Christmas corn I'll say okay there's something different now and if I can find a place I might have to buy at a higher price but at least I know what my risk is going to be because I have not had a historically good record of buying breakouts so I've got to be careful hey John thanks we really appreciate it John Cheveny folks go to him to the Tiger Den he's one of the real jewels of GFNN we'll be right back if you're looking for potential trading setups in the stock market then Rocket Equities & Options report is a newsletter you should try Tommy O'Brien delivers options and equity trades when the markets present them using a combination of fundamentals and technicals sign up for Rocket Equities & Options report today with a 30 day money back guarantee so you have nothing to risk for all the details and to start your 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have the debt thing done they can print as much as they like and that's going to be coming to market and folks that is not going to make interest rates go lower folks when you sell that much stuff you got to discount it and that means interest rates are going to be higher and I don't think that's going to be good for stocks but you know they go separately sometimes and that's pretty much someone's oh someone asked about the re-entry in the folks if you're if you're following the 618s like we do and they go up there and they just they just kiss those numbers in other words the number of the high of the day is 1982-90 and it goes to 1982-3 1983 and it doesn't go any higher than a dollar or so that's just that was just people fishing for stops because they know where these stops are out there they're not going looking for them they have assumption of where they are but we have such great data now remember when I did this we had to do all this stuff by hand we didn't have data like this till 1983 yeah I know that was 40 years ago but by golly back in those days all we had was the Reuters machine and we had to keep it by hand so you just got to be be really careful the thing is is when they go smashing through the 61% retracement by three or four dollars in gold that's a lot and then you know probably wrong but I'm just basically risk averse that's all I'm doing if I got the S&P working if I got the natural gas working and I had gold working and those were the main crude oil working I've had all those working nicely for me why do I want to expose myself to any risk and that's really what I'm looking at so what we're going to do now is we're going to have Jeff huge as our guest tomorrow so live every day in an attitude of gratitude may god bless


Okay, so let's go over the first one here, okay? Now the choices are A, B, C, and D. We have done exercises like this before, right? And we need to fill the correct answer with the correct second conditional part of the sentence, okay? So let's go over the first one. Um, Ernon, can you please read that for me? Good. If I had a dog. Now, if I had a dog. Now what do we think the correct answer is? Um, Claudia. Very good, yes. I would walk him every day. Very good, very good. So that was the example, so that was easy because they gave it to us, right? But that's how we do the exercise. So I'm going to give you guys a few minutes to work on this in pairs so you can stay where you are and work with the person next to you. And I will give you a few minutes to go over this exercise, okay? And then we will go over the answers. Okay, so let's go over the next one there. Okay, how about Ashley? Can you read the next one please? Very good. So if I had a car. What did you have for the answer? Right, if I had a car, I would drive it. Very good. Okay, so you guys did very good on that, very good. So I'm glad everyone got them all correct. And we are doing very well and we understand it, right? So now I'm going to hand out a sheet of paper.  If you won the lottery and you could take a vacation anywhere, if you want a trip, if you want a trip, a vacation anywhere, where would you go? Okay, so I want you to draw this. I'm going to hand it out to you guys. So what did you, what did you draw? Um, Brittany. So if I had one, or if I had one a vacation, where would you go? So if you had one a vacation, you would go to the Bahamas. Very good. That's a beautiful picture. Look at that picture everyone. If Brittany won a vacation, she would go to the Bahamas. Very good. Okay, so I'm glad everyone showed their pictures. And that is the end of class today. So everyone have a good day. Okay, we'll see you tomorrow.


Wow, what a weapon! Well guys my name is DPJ and today I bring you another BL3 video, if you do enjoy living a life really helps out and subscribe if you want to see more. On screen now you can see my weekly giveaway along with last week's winner, to be in the chance of winning this yourself, follow the instructions on screen now and good luck. So today we are going to talk about this new sniper, this new legendary, this monster of a weapon. It's called the wedding invitation and it's an exclusive weapon to the now active Broken Hearts Day event and when this event does indeed end, so does your chance in getting this weapon. Right now this weapon is limited to one per character unless you play on PC and back up those saved files before opening the loot chest within your inventory which rewards you this weapon. But without that method like us console players, you are limited to one per character. And this is obtained via you collecting and shooting 100 hearts which you will find anywhere besides DLC areas. Now if you do have all to Vault Hunters, it doesn't matter what level they are, if you jump on them and farm 100 hearts, you will get this to drop at a level 53 which is good I guess. But other than that there is no way for us console players to farm this weapon so we can chase that specific role which fits our builds, which is kind of disappointing. For our actual guys that is not the case, I have legit found a perfect way to farm this weapon and the SMG this event offers for us console players. That video will be coming very very soon if it isn't already on my channel, if it is I will link it within a video description to this video so do check it out. With that aside what we have here and I will straight up say in my opinion this is the best new sniper in the game. In fact it's my favourite weapon in the game right now, now we ain't gonna go over the top and say it's the best weapon in the game, that is not the case, it's just my most favourite to use.  So the sniper on paper looks decent yes, my variant with 3473 damage, 93% accuracy, 36% handling, a reload time of 3 seconds, a fire rate of 1.39 and a standard mag of 6. Now I've had a few of these and the stats have always been identical, I can't confirm they all drop with these stats though but the ones I've seen have this set up. Anointed on my initial one was unaction skill end deal 125 more weapon damage to bad ass named and boss enemies for a short time but after farming for this weapon with my amazing console strat I got the perfect variant for my zane build. Now you saw that grave ward kill at the start of the video, that was my initial drop. Now check it out with this variant, same build, faster kill, I absolutely love this thing. So the sniper shoots in scenery damage but headshots not only cause a blast damage area of effect but they also ricochet a cryo shot to the nearest enemy which is absolutely brutal and if you land that crit shot it gives you that bully straight back into your clip which basically means unbigger bosses like grave ward keep hitting that crit spot and you'll never have to reload. Now firing bosses the size of grave ward if you look close the cryo ricochet shot also deals damage to him too which is utterly amazing. Now messing around earlier I managed to land a shot which seemingly did 77 million damage, this was on mayhem 4 by the way people, this weapon is truly a brute. Now I know this might sound crazy to some but this actually feels like a sniper and how a sniper should be within borderlands. Yes it's powerful, no it's not OP, we don't use them terms anymore cause we know what happens but it is super powerful and it's a 100% must get weapon in my opinion.  So yeah guys get this if you haven't already like I said if you want to farm this unconsol I do have a great method of getting one at least every 15 to 20 minutes and like I said you'll find that linked within a video description if it's already uploaded. Well yeah guys this is my review of the wedding invitation, a crazy powerful sniper, one which is definitely standing my build for now, one which is super fun to use and it's actually something I've kind of wanted for a long long time. Move aside lauda, the new daddy sniper of the game is the wedding invitation. On that note we have come to the end of the video, if you guys enjoyed it leaving a like really helps out, if you're new around here and want to see more borderlands be sure to subscribe and if you never want to miss a video I upload can turn notifications on by hitting that bell button. But guys thanks as always for stopping by, hopefully you enjoyed the video and hopefully I will see you on that next one.


This is the real-to-real piano library, a completely free lo-fi piano with features like tape hiss, some tape warble, and what about the shimmer? Hi folks, I'm Mike and I hope you will. All of the free libraries that I'm going to be featuring in today's video can be used within the free decent sampler. I'm going to put a link for that in the description down below. Not only that, but you can often download and install these libraries from within the sampler itself, meaning you don't have to visit lots of websites and sign up for different things. Now there's some pretty quirky instruments amongst the ones I'm going to feature today, starting with this one. This is Santa Monica Waves and you can grab this library from within the decent sampler itself, just go up to the browse feature here, then scroll down and you should find it somewhere. There it is, Santa Monica Waves. Now have a listen to the wave sound come in on the decay of these chords. And you can emphasize those waves by using this waves control here. So I'll push it up as we play. And there's a few presets similar to that with a slightly different sound to the pad stroke organ. Now you can also add some seaside-like bells in there as well. I'll go across to this preset, which is the delayed bells preset. Let's have a listen to that. And if you like, you can actually use the bells all by themselves. I'll go to the final preset, which is vendor bells here. Have a listen to that. Look, I reckon this could be really useful, actually, if you want to get that kind of seaside feel to it. Very moody, a little bit dark in some ways, but definitely worth grabbing hold of. Volitions, as you may imagine, is a violin inspired library from Venus Theory. And you can grab this one as well from within the decent sampler itself by going to the browse feature. Now, I really do love this library. It's very, very rich. And it's got six presets, which all have their own kind of character to them. Now, this first one, Arteek, is really worth listening to with a decent pair of headphones or on studio monitors. There's a lot going on with this preset. There's some pluck sounds, there's some legato sounds. There's maybe some harmonics going on in there as well. Let's have a listen. Beautiful.  Let's see what you think. And if you want to focus more on the pluck side of things, you can go to the third preset. How do you pronounce this? Chasu, Chaso, not quite sure. Doesn't matter. It sounds like this. Nice bit of ear candy there. And on the other extreme, without any plucked things going on, more of the legato sound with Freud. I reckon that could lend itself much more to some sort of Irish sort of Gaelic kind of sounds going on in there. Then we have Sinistras. Little bit creepy. And finally, the last preset, which I'm not going to pronounce these correctly, Volatile. This one's really, really rich sounding. Maybe one of my favorite of the six. Let's have a listen. Really loving the low end of some of these presets especially. So that's Volitions from Venus Theory. Do you know what else is free? This video. It's also free to like it and subscribe to this channel. Thank you. Back to the plugins. So we heard real to real piano in the intro and is the sound of a piano which has been put through a rather old tape machine here, real to real tape machine. Okay. And as we saw, we can add in tape hiss. We can add some warble to mimic the sort of speed changes that you get with tape. And then we also have shimmer. Let's hear it again with some shimmer. I can't get enough. Dreamy. You can also add in some chorus. And I have a little soft spot, I've got to say, for turning the tone down here. Okay. I know it already sounds kind of subdued. Yeah. But listen to this for a really subdued kind of almost like a felt piano sound. Yeah. That in some hiss and some warble. Something about this is a little bit charming. I know you're not going to use it on too many tracks. But when you want this kind of sound, I reckon real to real piano is the way to go. This is a sampled library of a zither. An instrument you may not think you need yet. Maybe when you hear it, you'll want it. Now this library cannot be gotten through the browse feature of the decent sampler like the others. But you can download it still for free. And I've got a link for that in the description down below. You're going to hear this very kind of folk type of instrument here. But I've got a challenge. Why not put it with something unexpected? I don't know, like an 808 or something like that. If you do that, let me know about your creations in the comments down below. But let's hear this with its most sort of basic sound, a picked sound. Now apart from that picked sound, we also have some sort of slowly odd chord sounds here. Yeah. And then some kind of special effects, I guess, down here on these keys. Now, as I say, that was the picked sound. Let's have a listen to that little demo again using the stick sound or even a tremolo sound. As I say, how about use this in a creative way, perhaps with a style of music it's not expected for? As I say, let me know in the comments down below. This is Banjo Eucalyli and you can get this from within the decent sampler itself by using that browse feature and is exactly what it says it is. Now, this is a velocity sensitive instrument and you can only play the notes which are authentic to the instrument itself. The only control you have is this reverb control over here, which I shall manipulate as we play this cutesy little demo. It's incredible what you can get for free these days. And I've made a whole series of videos about free effects and instruments. I recommend you watch it by clicking on this thumbnail here.


Now that's pushing it too far. So I was fishing through my collection again, trying to look for more wintery puzzle sets. And I think I've mentioned this before, but I don't actually have that many. But I realized that I did have one from a brand that I have not tried before. And the brand that I'm talking about is Sherlock. Now I picked up a number of sets during one of my last trips to Dollar General. I think it was during their summer clearance sale and I picked up a whole bunch at an amazing price. And I almost forgot that one of the sets that I picked up was a snowy wintery scene. And the set that I am talking about is called A Village in Winter. The artist is Steve Crisp. It is 1,000 pieces and it's 27 by 19 inches when it's completed. Now originally I was just thinking about just completing this one puzzle set. But then I thought maybe we should go a little crazy here. As I said before, I did pick up a number of Sherlock sets. And one thing that I've noted since I started trying out different brands is that sometimes different puzzle counts from the same brand can have kind of different experiences. If that makes sense. I don't know what I just said. Or different levels of quality. I think that makes more sense. So why not try some of the lower count sets? So I also have here one of their 500 count sets. And this one is called By the Sea. The artist is Kathleen Dennis. And when it's completed it's 19 inches by 13 inches. And then we also have this very cute image here. And it's a 300 count set. And this one is called Barbecue at the Round Barn. Oh man, that sounds good. Anyways, this is an image from Heronym. And this one is also 19 inches by 13 inches when it's completed. And I absolutely love this image.   Actually, now that I think about it, I prefer to have all the barbecue to myself. But anyways, here I am waving from my house, getting some food prep ready. And once I'm done with that, I'll head on over and join the party. There's a lot of people here. I hope we have enough food. I think this is gonna be a fun one to put together. I feel like I already know how I can go about sorting this. But in terms of challenge level, I don't think it'll be too hard. I mean, I say that now and watch me have a hard time with it, even with it only being 300 pieces. But we'll see, right? And then like that puzzle, I mean, By the Sea is another great image because who wouldn't want to be in a place like this when it's blistering cold outside? Sometimes you just wanna walk on the sand and dip your toes in the ocean. Nothing better than a beach to yourself. And of course, there's my beach house. And then our village and winter image here is another fantastic print. Obviously that's my house on the right because you know, all my lights are on. I don't know who that guy is though. I'm gonna have to shoe him away. But anyways, this town overall looks very peaceful and serene. And I don't know what it is about the wintertime, but for some reason, the sunsets just look so much more majestic. But anyways, in regards to the challenge level of this image, I kind of feel like this is gonna be a tough one for me. But anyways, my ultimate goal here, again, is to get through all three of these puzzles and do a comparison on the quality level. So you know what guys, we have a lot of work to do here. So let's get busy with this. All right, let's get these open and see what we got going on here. Now let's start with the 300 piece first. Yeah, I'm gonna be honest, I really don't like when puzzle boxes are sealed this way. I don't know why, it kind of feels like it takes too much work for me to figure out how to go about opening it without, you know, destroying it. But let me see, how am I gonna go about this? I mean, is there really an easy way to open these kind of seals? I don't know. Oh boy, I really screwed that up, didn't I? Yikes. So I pretty much destroyed one whole side of the box, but let's just move on. So I must say, so far the packaging I'm not thrilled with, but you know, then again, it's a cheap puzzle, what am I expecting? Let's open these up and let's see what we got here. All right, so so far, first impressions, they're pretty thin, but I'm gonna be honest, I'm quite impressed with the print. The colors are very sharp, the detail is very clear. I mean, look at the branches on this, that's a very clear image. And this is a very good piece size as well. Again, they're quite thin. Oh, I just bent that tab there with my beastly force. I gotta make note not to do that on the next set. We got a bit of glare there, as you can see, I have the light from the window on this side coming through. So, you know, depending on the angle where your light is coming from, that could be an issue for you, you know, depending on how you're working on the puzzle or it might not. I don't know, we shall see as I put this together how bad it affects me during the completion process. All right, that was the 300 count. Let's move on to the 500 count and let's see if there's any major differences with that one. All right, that one turned out a lot better than the first one. Let's get this one open. All right, again, we're dealing with pretty thin pieces. This is probably a little bit thinner than the 300 count set. As you can see, the tabs are pretty weak, but again, you know, you don't want to put Beastly Force anyways on it. Let's check out this print quality. It's kind of hard for me to tell how clear the details are in this print here because I'm trying to compare it with the actual box image. And, you know, and this is a case with a lot of puzzles in general. Sometimes your print doesn't seem like it's very clear, but you know, you have to think, what does the actual image look like? Is that just the nature of the image? Is it meant to look that way? And comparing the piece print and the print on the box, this looks pretty darn close. And the colors seem to be pretty true to the box image as well. So I would say so far we got some good color prints going on with these two sets. And quick note, we also have pretty much the same amount of gloss compared to the 300 piece. But you know what, this is pretty interesting. Let's open up the 1000 piece and let's see what that's all about. I keep getting better and better with cutting these boxes open. I spoke too soon. Oh well. I must say, looking at the box image and the print on these pieces, I feel like this print is quite blurry because this looks really, really sharp. But honestly, these do not. This doesn't seem very clear at all to me. I mean, look at these people's faces. They look a little bit like blobs. I'm hoping this is coming out clear here, but I think that's supposed to be someone else's face. And I think at least, but it also looks like a blob. So I don't know. I kind of feel like the print quality, this 1000 piece set is kind of off really, at least compared to the 500 and the 300 count set. Again, they are on the thin side and again, the same amount of glare. And really the colors as well aren't as vibrant or sharp in my opinion. I mean, the only thing that's standing out to me are these little holly berries here. But I mean, I don't know. The rest of it, I'm not feeling it. And it's also giving me a sense like this particular one because the piece print is on the blurry side. I feel like this is gonna be quite challenging, more challenging than I expected. So I don't know, I guess we'll see, right? This is quite interesting. You see, this is why I like to try different piece counts from the same brand because really you do get kind of a different experience or level of quality with each of them. So you know what guys, I think enough of that. Let's start with the 300 count set, then we'll move on to the 500 and then the 1000. And then we'll do a comparison between all three of them and see which one I like best or I might not like any of them. I don't know, we shall see. Anyways, let's move on. All right, this sort was a real quickie. I didn't drive myself too crazy because it is only 300 pieces. But anyways, the first tray of course is the edges. I did the next one here with just like water pieces. This tray has anything with the grassy areas and flowers. Next tray is anything with the buildings. And then the last tray is any pieces that had people in them.  So we can just move on with this now. Let's go. So I started working on the edges and pretty much started getting a really good idea on what kind of experience I was going to be dealing with here. And I must say, I was quite surprised in a good way though. In the beginning, I wasn't too sure what to expect considering the pieces seemed to be quite thin to me, but the fit was just right. And the hold, what a fantastic hold these had. And it didn't matter how big or small the sections were. I was able to slide them around my table, pick them up, drop them. It was great. And you know, I'd love to be able to do that kind of stuff. So I was really happy working on this. And I did have some issues with glare, but it wasn't too much to drive me crazy. These pieces were great size and the print was solid. So I was able to see the details very well anyways. I love this image. And I didn't find it at all challenging. You get like three different piece shapes here in some slightly different variations. So it was some quick and easy fun. This puzzle took me about an hour to complete. And as soon as I was done with it, I gave it a quick pickup test and it passed. But when I moved on to see if it would pass my storage test, I don't know, something came over me and I did something I shouldn't have done and I destroyed it. But that's okay. I did test a small area of what was left of it and it looked like it would have been able to be separated into sections and saved in the box quite easily. But I'll make sure to be more careful next time. But anyways, let's pay a visit to my beach house with the 500 count set. All right, again, another quick sort. So first tray, we have edge pieces. Second tray, I did anything with house details and the bike. This tray here is kind of like a lot of plant life in here with nothing much else going on in there.  So you kind of have some sand with detail in there. That's sand. I thought that was water, but it's actually the sand which from this little area right here. Next tray, we have water and plant details. So it's going to be anything kind of like in this area here where you have some of the fencing but there's the water in the background. And then you also have this area with the sky and the water pieces as well as you can see there. This tray mainly is just plain sand pieces. There are a few details here and there but it's very minor, but again, mostly plain. We have an empty one. And then this one is all sky pieces which are pretty much all plain except for a few pieces here which have some birdies on them. Pretty simple. I thought this was going to be harder but it was actually pretty straightforward and easy. So let's continue. So because I thought this image was going to be a bit challenging, I didn't really know what to start with. So after piecing together the edge pieces, I figured the easiest thing would be to start with the tray with the least amount of pieces which was the one with the water details. And that actually worked out really well. I got that tray quickly done then naturally went on to piecing the rest of the bottom right corner with the sand and plant pieces. The plants were a bit tricky but whenever I got stuck, I went on to the next easiest thing I could make out from the trays and that ended up being my bike and my sun hat. And that's a little tip for you. Don't let yourself get stuck in one area to a point where it can get frustrating trying to make out how to piece certain areas together. Move on to a different section and if you get stuck there too, think about different ways you can simplify the process so that you are always in the mindset that you're making progress. And that's very important. It's kind of like you have to make your mind feel like you're always doing something to get closer to the end. You kind of have to keep that momentum, that motivation and excitement going because the end goal at least for me with this image is to finally jump into the finished scene, lay my towel on the sand and just take in the ocean air. Sorry, but anyways, I'm trying to get more into the habit of re-sorting trays whenever I find myself stuck. All right, I'm down to the house now and surprisingly it's actually quite difficult but I'm getting through it as best I can, trying to separate window pieces and like siding pieces and hopefully that'll help a bit but this is the only tray I have with house pieces. So hopefully it won't take me too long. So as I've said many times before, there are many different ways you can go about re-sorting. In this instance with the house, I separated the pieces by detail. So for example, here I made two piles, one for the windows and one for the house siding and honestly even after doing that, it still was a little bit tricky because the pieces in each pile looked very similar to each other but at least I was able to focus my mind on one pile at a time instead of one bigger pile with everything all jumbled together. And once I got that done, I moved on to the sand tray which was all plain pieces. They all looked the same and in the end did the same for the sky. So in these type of situations, you're probably gonna wanna sort these pieces by shape. At least I think that's the best way to attack these kind of areas. And the great thing about this particular Sherlock set is that there's more of a variety of piece shapes compared to the 300 count set. There was about five different piece shapes which honestly was something I really liked about the 500 piece set but I did find this one to be a little bit more on the crumbly side. Not excessively. It did have a good hold in some areas I was able to pick up and move small sections around my table. Just don't go trying to aggressively slide the whole puzzle across the table. Well, small sections do have a good hold but if you try sliding it and you're not too careful, in other words, you're being too beastly, this will happen very easily. So yeah, don't move it too quickly or don't be brutal with it. This puzzle took me about four hours to complete. I honestly thought this image was gonna be a lot harder but it turned out to be another session of good quick fun. Quick for me at least. Now I was surprised when this one stood up to the pickup test for the most part. I mean, now as I look at this footage, I can see it's starting to come apart. As I said before, I did find it to be more on the crumbly side so I wasn't too surprised that it didn't make the trip back down. Eh, it is what it is. Still fun though and with this second Sherlock experience behind me, I still found it to be an overall better experience than the 300 counts set, even though the hold wasn't as solid but we'll talk more about that later on. Let's finally move on to the last set which is my wintery village. All right, now I already knew this was gonna be a challenge in terms of sorting and especially so after seeing how blurry some of the pieces looked to me. So here's what I did. I have the edge pieces. This tray here is pretty much just plain pieces. There's not really much on any of these and if there is anything on them, it's very little but as you can see, these are like yellows, whites, blues but for the most part plain. Next tray, this was difficult. I kind of put pieces that I knew had snow in it and I know that doesn't really make much sense considering this is a snowy scenery so there's a lot of snow everywhere but I mean, to be honest, I don't know how else to explain it but as you can see, there's snow with like bits of detail here and there that are for the most part blurry but yeah, anyways, next one. We have pieces for any of the buildings, at least what I can make out were buildings. Next tray is anything with people. This tray is, I kind of felt like blue had to be separated. So I kind of did anything with like this dark blue tone and it's gonna have details in it too. That's pretty much the best way I could describe it. This tray here, we got two things going on. We have here anything that looked like to be the water and then this tray, I don't know, this stood out to me the most and these are actually the most clear looking in terms of image print. It doesn't look quite blurry so I know it's any of this area here with these hollies and flowers and greens and then the last tray here, I don't know. This will most likely be the last tray that I work on but as you can see, it's just snow and branches. They all look the same. Some have different color tones in the background but for the most part, it's branches and they're flying everywhere now but it's gonna be most obviously this tree here. We got some of these. That's probably more of the blue tray over there but this looks like it's gonna be a nightmare. I'm gonna be honest. I almost feel like this is gonna be super challenging and I'm not quite sure at this moment if I'm going to enjoy it or not but we'll see, right? So anyways, let's just continue with this. All right, so that wasn't too terrible actually. What I basically did was I did the most obvious areas first and then from there, just kind of like resorted it on the board by shape just to kind of help get through these really difficult areas like the snow and the sky and whatnot and after doing that, it was pretty straightforward. Much easier than I expected but I don't expect that for the rest of this puzzle image. So you know what? I think I'm gonna make sure I stick with the resorting method in order to, you know, figure out where this madness goes. In terms of next tray, I don't know. I'll probably just do this one here since there's only a few pieces but it looks pretty easy, I hope. So, you know what? Let's just move on. So I did go after the tray with the least amount of pieces which was the one with the water in the holly and that went okay. Then the next section I figured would be best was the buildings. So I separated piles by details and colors and then piece those together. Still a bit tricky at times but I got through it slowly but gosh, looking at this footage I wish I would stop making a mess on my table with piles and pieces everywhere. And I always say I'm not gonna do it and I end up with a mess anyways. But anyways, it always feels good when you get those little piles pieced together and set in the areas they're supposed to sit at. It's very satisfying, especially when it starts to clear up the mess on the table. Right, so just as I had suspected this is quite challenging. Now I'm probably gonna have to start again with the whole resorting by shape but at the same time I'm not really sure how that's gonna work exactly cause there's really from what I'm seeing only two different P shapes in this set. And sometimes it's a little challenging to figure out which way they go. But you know what, we're gonna do it anyways and hope for the best because as you can see here this is a lot of cuckoo-ness. I don't know, looking at a pile like this kind of like place tricks on your eyes or place tricks on your mind. I don't know, one of those things. But anyways, you know what, we're gonna do that anyways because you know, what else am I gonna do with this? I'm pretty sure if the print was a little more clear this would have been a lot easier but you know what, I'm gonna stop complaining. Let's move on with this. And at that point I still didn't really do much in terms of resorting that tray because to be quite honest this image was really starting to overwhelm me and I still don't know what did that to me more. Whether it was the image itself, the lack of shape variety, the blurriness of the print, I don't know. I had spent a lot of time in some areas and I guess I struggled to get myself to resort because again, there were only like two piece shapes and even they looked similar to each other. I couldn't figure out how they were meant to sit and I also dealt with a lot of false fits. All right, so I got most of this done. For the rest of this puzzle I think what we have now, we got the rest of the sky and some more, you know, like thicker branches. So I think what I'm gonna do is probably separate those pieces and kind of try to sort them by shape even though there's like only two shapes in this puzzle which is kind of grating on me a bit but we shall see. I'm hoping the rest of this doesn't take me extremely long even though it probably will because I'm down to like the really, really hard bits now but anyways, you know what, enough of that. Let's just move on with this and get this done. So I resorted the rest of the puzzle as best as I could in the end. It wasn't easy and this last stretch really took me the longest time to complete. I feel like this one dragged a bit and I think it was because of all the reasons I mentioned or complained about before but I never gave up. This puzzle took me about nine and a half hours to complete. Yeah, I feel like it took me longer than it should have but whatever, I can happily say that it's done now. Now, even though it had several issues it did hold up well to the pickup test and if you really wanted to it's possible to break this up into sections so that you can store it in the box but very carefully though, there were a few casualties. The overall hold was better with this set. It sure does lock together and I was able to fold it up, which was interesting but I crumbled it up in the end which felt very satisfying and I don't know if that had to do with the way it felt in my hands or the fact that I was just happy to be done with it. But anyways, what are my overall thoughts to the Sherlock brand? All right, so I did some looking up on this brand and they don't have their own website. They're actually under a company called TCG and there it states that Sherlock puzzles are known for their precision cut pieces that fit together seamlessly. I think I can agree with that. I thought they were all cut pretty well and they fit really nicely together. They are made from high quality materials. Now that's pushing it too far. I can't for the life of me say these felt like high quality pieces and as for the rest of the stuff it says here, well, look, the pieces are thin and you even saw early on in the video their strength or lack thereof I should say and the website even states that the puzzle thickness is 1.8 millimeters and when I saw that, you know I had to grab the calipers and find out for myself and what do you know? It's not even close. I had issues with glare with all of these sets really and they did have quite a bit of puzzle dust to them and as I just said, they are well cut and have a good fit. But really each puzzle count has differences and offer very different experiences when it comes to the completion process. Now they did all stand up to the pickup test but in terms of the hold during the completion process the 300 count was the best. Not to say that the others didn't hold up well but they did have some crumbliness to them. The print was sharp and the colors were great on the 300 and the 500 count sets but my goodness, that 1000 count set needed some serious help. It was very blurry and made the whole completion process more challenging. What also made the process more challenging for the 1000 count set was the lack of P shapes. I think there were only like two different pieces. You couldn't even tell them apart. I didn't like it. The 300 count set had like three different pieces but that piece size was great. You can see everything. The 500 count set had the biggest variety with about six shapes I think. It was fantastic. And if I had to pick a favorite experience out of the three, it would have to be the 500 count set. My beach house. And that's mainly because of the variety of P shapes, the print quality, the fit and the overall hold was okay. It certainly was my most enjoyable experience but after coming to terms with all of this I realized something. I picked up these sets from Dollar General and they were priced at $5 each. Now, if you look up other online stores I think I saw some of them at Walmart. There's some on Amazon. But there, there's quite a difference in the price. And if you study the images closely and I'm talking about the images of the packaging it looks very different. Not like what I have here. The packaging honestly for these sets suck. I don't like them. But it looks like what we have here. How do you say? We have different versions of the Sherlock puzzles that has different quality levels. And I guess that just depends where you buy them. And of course, you know, what they are at regular price. Obviously what I have here are the much cheaper versions of the brand which makes perfect sense because hello, I picked them up at Dollar General and I didn't even pay the full price, five bucks for them. I actually took advantage of the sale they had. They only cost me like $2 and 50 cents each which for my budget is absolutely fantastic. But anyways, would I pay the $5 at Dollar General again? Um, I think so. But it would probably only be for the 500 count sets and it would have to be an image that I just can't refuse which by the way, my Dollar General location seemed to have quite a nice variety of images. What kind of selection does your Dollar General have? Let me know down below. I don't think I would get another 1000 count set but you know, that's just my preference. At the end of the day, take all this information that I've spewed out to you and think about what is more important to you because we all have different preferences when it comes to puzzling. But I would for sure take advantage if they were having another super sale like the last time because at $250, even $5, you can't really go wrong with, you know, what you're getting here because then again, you can't expect much. You get what you pay for, right? So who knows, maybe I do need to pick up a more expensive Sherlock set and do a comparison to kind of see if better versions or ones with better quality actually do exist. But I'm super curious now. So let me know down below, what have your experiences been with this puzzle brand? And if there are really other better versions out there with much better quality levels? Anyways guys, it's practically one million years later and this video actually turned out to be way longer than I would have liked. So I'm gonna get moving on to my next puzzle now because I am super excited about it and it just so happens to be the one that you guys voted on. And if you're new here and you wanna find out what puzzle that is and what I have to say about that brand, be sure to subscribe. And if you're looking for a place to share your own puzzling experiences and make new puzzle friends, I do have a community that you can join. And I'll leave a link down below so that you could look more into it. And finally, thank you all so much for watching. Hope all is well and I will see you in the next one.


Okay, good morning everyone. This is not going to be a very technical speech. Don't be worried. I'm not going to talk about how to tweak the user interface. Other people are going to tell it better. But you may have seen the announcement that we have done about the user interface concept. And I wanted to, this has been extremely successful in terms of positioning. I wanted to give a little background on this, and especially as a thank to the developers and the designers that have provided the solution, because of course when you speak about software, if you don't have the product, you cannot do any announcement. So from my side, being the person that is after marketing of LibreOffice, a big thank to all the developers and the designer. And Haiko is back on the corner, but I think he's been one of the key people. We have had quite strong discussions, but I think that at the end, the result was extremely positive. So I'm going very quickly through the slides. We have a very complex user scenario at the moment. We go from people that is using laptops to CRTs on old screens to white screens to mobile screens. And the user interface has to answer everything. And we have different generation. I think they're all in this room, probably the only one year, but all the others are in the other generation. And if we look at how many PCs have people in different generation, you see that even people that is over their 70s starts to have an interesting number. So it's more than 25%. And of course they have side problem that make the user interface very important. And you have to answer in a flexible way their needs. And if you look at screen sizes, this is amazing. These are the top, I think, 20 screen sizes. And you see that no one is having a real advantage. So the 1366 by 768, which is wide, is 19.1. But then you see all the others are very, they have tiny, tiny percentages so that we cannot count on a single screen size. And these are computer skills by the OECD. These have to be interpreted because it tells that, for instance, in Japan over 40% can't use computers. The reality is that the language in this case says they cannot control their computers when they're using it. So they depend from the computer. They are not able, and so the user interface is extremely important because if you are not able to manage your computer, then you depend from the user interface from what you are able to do. And these are skills versus age. And of course, you can see the skills go down, but they are not down to nothing. So it was very important to have a user interface that was flexible enough to answer to everything, to all the needs. So you know that with 5.3 that we have announced a few days ago, we have introduced the notebook bar. So now we have at least three different options, which is the traditional user interface with the bar on top and the sidebar on the side. This is what most people have seen in the last few years using LibreOffice. We have a more streamlined user interface without the sidebar and with a more sizeable toolbar on top, and now we have the notebook bar. The notebook bar is an horizontal bar on top of the screen. Of course, this is similar to what most users of Microsoft Office are seeing on the screen since version 2007. But we wanted to have a positioning for that. And of course, this is something that we have tried to emulate, the good marketing of proprietary software companies. So we have called our interface Muffin. Some people think that this is a cupcake, but we call it Muffin. So it's my user-friendly and flexible interface, and of course my, because it's personal, user-friendly, because it's user-friendly, you don't need to explain it. It's flexible because you have different options and it's the interface. And I think that next slide shows the hits on our block after the announcement. It was amazing. So these are the hits after the announcement of the user interface. And these are the hits after the announcement of the 503. So you see, and this is why I think it's important to, people may think that announcing the user interface may be a minor thing. It was not minor at all. 80,000 page views in one day. Usually we are around 15,000. So it was four, five times as many. And this is thanks to the work of what I said developers that have made the user interface workable and designers that have made the user interface happen as it is. And I've tried to put everything together, but I think that the merit is on the technical side, because again, if you don't have something that works, you cannot announce anything. And I think I've been a lot shorter than supposed I'm over. If you have questions, but don't ask me about technical stuff on the user interface, other people are able to answer these questions. So I'm finished. It was not hard. But I think if you have questions on the user interface, we have the people that have made it possible. So you can ask technical questions, and I think people is able to answer them, not me.