Alright, welcome back everybody. Hope you had a good break. Let's resume with our second session and do a quick recap of what we've covered so far, right? So from page two, the introduction of defining praise and worship, we started, you know, with just understanding the context of what worship really is. We are designed to worship, we are made to worship, we have the capacity and the ability to worship anything or anyone, because that's in our DNA and how we've misunderstood worship in a way, in a sense that we thought that we are the recipients of worship. We are the center of the worship universe when it's not, and it's Jesus who's at the center of it all, isn't it? And we went through a few quotes by a few people of their understanding of worship. And we are now in page four, one of the last quotes on worship. So I hope you're all there. Quote number six by Bob Coughlin. Let me read that for us again. Christian worship is the response of God's redeemed people to his self revelation that exalts God's glory in Christ in our minds, affections and wills in the power of the Holy Spirit. Okay, I just want us to, you know, break that court and really try and understand what Bob, Mr. Bob is actually trying to say. Okay, so here we go. Christian worship, what does that mean? Christian worship is different from every kind of worship because it has been made possible through Jesus Christ. Amen? Christian worship is different from every other kind of worship because it has been made possible through Jesus Christ. So can someone please read to me, read as Revelation chapter five, verse nine and 10, please.   And with your blood, you purchased for God persons from every tribe and language and people and nation. You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God and they will reign on the earth. Amen. John, do you mind reading us again, please? So Revelation chapter five, verse nine and 10, and they sang a new song saying, you are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals because you were slain and with your blood, you purchased for God persons from every tribe and language and people and nation. You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God and they will reign on the earth. Amen. Thanks. Thanks, JP. Here's the thing I'd like to do. Can we read the scripture in another language in a couple of different languages also? Any language, Canada, Tamil, Hindi, one of the African languages is also cool. And then I want you to read it out loud for us. That'll be great. Who I was reading, any language? Aradhana, if you're reading, your mic is on mute. I'm not able to hear you. Okay, Aradhana, go first and then Abu, go next. Go ahead, Aradhana. Thank you. Thank you. Abu Bakr, please go ahead.  Yeah, so I'm reading it in Oriya. Thank you, Alice. Pema, Taddu? Yes, go ahead and read it for us. Just go ahead. Sorry, there seems to be some disconnection with the line. Ebenezer, you want to go ahead and read for us, please? Yes, Pastor. I praise God from Telugu-reading people. Amen. Thank you, Ebenezer. Thank you so much. Thank you everybody for reading. I just wanted us to do that and I want to keep doing this as we go ahead. But it's so beautiful in a way that what we did is from verse 9, it says, Every tribe and language and people. Every tribe, every language and people. He purchased us with his blood. Jesus purchased us with his blood. Every tribe, every language and people and every nation. And he have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve God. Amen. It is wonderful. So that is a gist in a way of Christian worship. Okay, Christian worship is so different from every kind of worship because it's been made possible through Jesus Christ and that's what we just read. The second part is Christian worship is the response. And what is the response? And I'm going to request someone to be ready with Acts chapter 17 verse 24 to 31. God has already done something outside of us and inside of us that enables us to worship. We are not the initiators of worship. God is. Okay, if you remember the court that we read by David Peterson, Court number four says worship of the living God and true God is essentially an engagement with him on the terms that he proposes means he's initiating it. Okay, can someone read Acts 17 24 to 31 please. At 17 verse 24, the God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. And he is not served by human hands as if he needed anything because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else from one man. He made every nation of men that they should inhabit the whole earth. And he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him. Though he is not far from each one of us for in him will live and move and have our being. As some of your own poets have said, we are his offspring. Therefore, since we are God's offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone. An image made by man's design and skill. In the past, God overlooked such ignorance, but how he commands all people everywhere to repent. For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead. Thank you. Thank you. This is a response. This is what happened and then the next passage tells us how we ought to respond. So this entails that God has already done something outside of us and instead of us that enables us to worship him. And we just read through that passage and we are not the initiators of worship. God is. So Christian worship is the response of God's redeemed people. Just as God delivered the nation of Israel from Egypt to worship him. So he has redeemed us as a holy nation to declare his praises. 1 Peter 2 verse 9. We read the same thing that's mentioned in Revelation 5 verse 10. He's made us a kingdom of a royal priesthood, a holy nation. Isn't it? So of God's redeemed people. So that means we are the God's redeemed people. So Christian worship is the response of us, the God's redeemed people. What next? To his self-revelation. We can't know God apart from him revealing himself to us. And he has shown himself to us in creation in his word and through his Son ultimately. And we see that in Romans chapter 1 verse 20. Okay. Quickly. And let's just, because we are there next, let's go to the next book. Romans chapter 1 verse 20. And see what it says. Romans chapter 1 verses 20. For since the creation of the world, God's invisible qualities, His external power and divine nature have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made. So that men are without excuse. Right. Thank you. Okay. So to his self-revelation. So we see that he has revealed himself through his word, through his creation. That's exactly what Romans 1 20 says. To his self-revelation of water that exalts the essence of worship is exalting, raising up, lifting high, submitting to magnifying, making much of honoring, reverencing, celebrating the triune God.  What does magnifying mean? What does it mean? What does magnifying mean? So to enlarge something and seeing it. Okay. To make something that is small look big or big look bigger. Okay. Small thing looking bigger. Right. Okay.  Okay. So that's the purpose of magnification. Magnifying magnification is that you, you make something look small, look big or big, look bigger, et cetera, you know.  He's eternal. Right. And when, when David says magnify the Lord, oh my soul, and Hannah cries out the same thing, you know, magnify, magnify his name. And what I believe happens is that he becomes big in us. Isn't it? When we exalt him, when we praise him, when we lift him up, when we honor him, when we praise him, when we honor him, when we magnify, he becomes big in our lives. Isn't it? He shows himself bigger in our lives. But that exalts. Okay. So Christian worship is the response of God's redeemed people to his self-revelation that exalts that worships. Right. God's glory in Christ. God's glory in Christ. Moses asked God to show him his glory and God passed before him and proclaimed his nature. And we read that in Exodus 34. And God has enabled us to see his glory in the face of Jesus Christ. Can we go to second Corinthians chapter four verse six, please. And read and read what Paul writes there. Second Corinthians chapter four. Verse six. For God who said, let light shine out of darkness. Made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. Amen. Amen. So that's God's glory in Christ. And then the quote goes on to say in our minds, that goes to say worship involves thinking, meditating, reflecting, processing, evaluating, understanding what God has revealed to us of himself. And then affections. True worship involves the heart as well as the head. We worship what we love and value the most. And we see that in Matthew chapter 22 verse 37 and 38. This is what we see in the Bible. And we see that in Matthew chapter 22 verse 37 and 38. This is quickly actually go to Matthew 22, 37, 38 and see what it says.  This is the first and greatest commandment. Amen. Thank you. Okay.  Amen.  Okay. If we are truly worshipping God, we will truly be transformed. Our choices will reflect our profession that the God is supreme in our lives. Everything that we do and say some of you actually said in the beginning of the class that worship is a lifestyle, right?  And then in conclusion, he says, in the power of the Holy Spirit, we are those who worship by the spirit of God and depend on his leading and enabling. Okay. So God is the spirit being and we worship him in spirit and truth because the Father seeks true worship, who worship him in spirit and in truth. Okay. So with all of these understanding, I know there's a lot of content this, but one of my requests is guys, when you go back, just go through this court and go through this breakdown of that court once again when you can. Okay. So with everything that we've covered just now in that light, I want to read that quote again. It says, Christian worship is the response of God's redeemed people to his self-revelation that exalts God's glory in Christ in our moments, affection and wills. So something about Christian worship, you know, we should be able to respond in a way because of his self-revelation, that maybe worship and magnify in our minds affection and our hearts through the power of the Holy Spirit. Amen. So that kind of concludes just the brief definitions for worship. And in conclusion, what we can take away from all of that, what we just finished is true worship is centered around Jesus. True worship is centered around Jesus. He is the goal of our worship. It is in Jesus, through Jesus, through Jesus and for Jesus. He is the name above everything, our Alpha and Omega are beginning and the end. The one our worshiping universe should revolve around. Amen. Is there anything that you would like to add in this? Anybody would like to add from what we've covered so far? Did you go ahead? Yeah, as we were telling about this definition of worship, what was coming to my mind was the woman with the alabaster jar. Yeah, so I love her response to Jesus Christ as, you know, he forgave her of all her sins and out of her gratitude towards him, she's worshiping and she just forgets about whoever is around.   Yeah, I just want to add, thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. We are going to touch on the topic of the woman with the alabaster jar in the chapters to come. It's people who know me know it's one of my favorite passages in the Bible and we're definitely going to look at that. But thank you for sharing that. Okay, there's nothing else. Anybody else would like to share what you kind of took away from what we've covered so far? Okay. Okay, sure. Ebenezer, go ahead. Ebenezer, did you raise your hands? Asbestos, asbestos. Okay. Sure. Go ahead and share. Just I want to add from Mika chapter six verse seven and eight. God is not expecting something from us that which we cannot give or something like this material thing, but he's asking from us to listen to his word, to have compassion, to love, humbleness. This one only God is asking. He says, I just want to add that. Thank you, Ebenezer. Thank you.  That's wonderful. Yes, thank you for sharing that. And Lubega, see you've raised your hand. Please go ahead. I have learned two things among many. One is the contradicting words like disconnecting and connecting. You see, when you worship, you're like disconnecting yourself from the realm of the world and you are connecting to this power, to this nature. Number two, I have learned that God, when we are worshiping, we are putting Jesus to be inside our box and at the same time outside our box. So thank you, Pastor. You're welcome. Awesome. Amazing. Okay. All right, guys. So we'll continue on now to page number five. And we'll see a few definitions of praise. Okay. So we've covered a little bit on the definitions of worship. We'll learn a little bit about praise. And as we progress from chapter to chapter, we'll go deeper and deeper into the subject of praise and worship. Okay. So page five, what is praise? So before I continue reading from the text, I want to play for us one of the most amazing songs I've ever heard. Okay. Are you all ready? It's the best song I've ever heard. I've been listening to two and a half years of my life now. Get ready. I just thought I'd play for us. Isn't that amazing? Okay, you all have to know I have a three-year-old at home and I've been playing this song for a long time. And one of the things that really struck me is praise. What's that? It's a yuppie yahoo way to go God. I mean, it's so simple, isn't it? We adults tend to complicate it, isn't it? But that's just so simple. Just become childlike. And how would we explain praise to a child? We can't really go to the dictionary and say, okay, praise is to commend, to applaud. I'm sorry, what? What do you mean? The praise is yuppie yahoo way to go God.  That's it. Isn't that awesome? But now that we've joined Bible College and we are all adults, let's just look at a little bit of the dictionary definitions as well. Okay, so, hey, I'll enjoy that song. John, get ready to have a playlist of those songs. Okay, so let's go. What is praise? To commend, to applaud, to express approval or admiration. That's what the dictionary says. To commend, to applaud, to express approval or admiration. Praise is the verbal declaration of adoration and thanksgiving. Everybody with your mic's mute say verbal. Praise is the verbal declaration of adoration and thanksgiving. That means you can't really keep quiet and say I'm praising. It's a verbal declaration. It's a very powerful declaration. It's an anthemic. And thanks adoration and thanksgiving for what God has done and for what he has promised to do. It focuses on his character and his wondrous acts. Okay, so that's the basic definition of praise. And we see praise is the spiritual sacrifice that we offer to God. Praise is the spiritual sacrifice that we offer to God. A couple of definitions there. Sacrifice. I've mentioned these two points there. But before we get to that, what is your understanding of sacrifice? Sacrifice of praise. What do you make of it? Sir, it's in Hindi, it's Balidan. Okay, then sacrifice of praise. How is that connected? What do you understand of it? Anybody, feel free. Giving up something for God. Okay, sure. Thank you, George. If I'm sharing the gospel and bringing people to the Lord, that is best sacrifice in Christian worship. Okay, what else? What more? There are about 27 of us. Go ahead. I believe your sacrifice is something that you give, but it costs you as an individual as you give it to someone. So it becomes a sacrifice if you give it at a price. If you give it at a price, that's a very important line. We're going to remember that. Praise becomes a sacrifice if it's given at a price. Let's remember that. What else? Even when times are difficult, thank God. Come on, guys. Praising God even when it feels hard. Anything in worshiping God? Yeah. So here on your notes, it says, sacrifice involves giving up something that we have a right to. Or sometimes sacrifice can also mean taking on something, taking on a responsibility or something that we don't necessarily have to. Okay. Somebody raised their hands just a second ago. I'm sorry I missed that. Okay. Yes. Go ahead. I'm saying to me, it actually means when we're studying economics some years ago, like 20 years ago when I was in secondary, it is like a value of a foregone alternative. There would be something you would be doing, but that value of that foregone alternative is what we call sacrifice. Okay. Thank you. Thank you for sharing that. Jaffina, I saw you raise your hand as well. I believe sacrifice is something like giving the best that we can show God from ourself and giving whatever he asks for. It could be anything, but without a doubt, God, say, oh God, I will give this to you. That's the biggest sacrifice of all. Right. Awesome. Thank you. Thank you for sharing that. Sikidna, go ahead.  You want it extremely, but still you are keeping it. You are separating it and you are going for the God's purpose. This is what I mean. Okay. All right. Thanks, guys. Okay. Thanks everybody for sharing that. Okay. I mean, everybody's on point. Giving up something that we may have a right to or taking on something that we don't have necessarily have to. Okay. That's one of the things. Can we also go to Hebrews chapter 13 verse 15, please? Hebrews chapter 13 verse 15. Thank you. Right. So it says, through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise. The fruit of lips that openly professes his name. New King James version says this. Therefore, by him, let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God. That is the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. So what do we make of that verse? How is sacrifice of praise the fruit of our lips? Come on, somebody. Like what we say should honor God. Sacrifices the fruit of our lips. So like James also says, right? What we speak is important. Right. Thanks, Josh. Right. Sometime ago, Mulongo, he said that the sacrifice of praise is when we praise someone that costs us. But very often than not, our praise doesn't really cost us that much, isn't it? I mean, in our day-to-day life, we praise our dogs for going and fetching the stick. You know, we praise our friends. It's like, hey, good job. It's like, oh, dude, that was awesome. What you did, we do that or not? Yes or no? Okay. If I have to get more local about it, you have to say some of them are amazing. You know, too good, brilliant, right? Those are all praise in a way, but that doesn't really cost me anything. The thing is it makes me, in some way it makes me feel better than me praising that person. It's very weirdly. But, you know, and I think in the context of our Christian worship, Christian response, and this is, again, my understanding of it, is when everything is going well, it's easy to praise God. It's like, I praise you, Lord. I got this month's salary. Everything is going well. It's amazing. Thank you, and you're awesome and whatnot. But then, like some of you have already expressed, worshipping him in difficult times, that's when, on our bad days, not just bad days, but now worse days, where the season of darkness just doesn't seem to end. You know, the medical reports coming, you know, not in your favor, your spouse is not treating you well, you're not being treated well by your parents. You're just going through a very, very bad time in life in general. And in times like those, I don't know about you. I don't really feel that the first thing that doesn't, that comes to my mind is not praise God. I'm being very honest. But it is in those moments, you know, it's, you're not feeling right.  I don't understand it, but I choose to praise you, verbal act, anyways. That is the fruit of our lips. That's kind of costing you something, isn't it?  Isn't it? That's a beautiful way to look at it, isn't it? So that's, you know, it's the spiritual sacrifice that we are talking about. And that's what praise in a way is when Hebrews 13, 15 is also asking us to do. And another definition or understanding of praise or sacrifice is also death. Death to comfort, self-pity, fleshly desires, pride, jealousy, ego, lust, anger, et cetera, et cetera, whatever it is.  Everything has to be around me, me. You know, we build a mini-me temple for all of us. You know, but dying to that. And that's when, you know, Romans 12 comes into the picture. You know, offer your body as living sacrifices. Right, makes sense. So that is praise. And we'll conclude this chapter with just understanding this little differences between praise and worship. God does not need our praise. We need to praise Him. One of the lines my, one of my youth pastors used in early 2000s, he said, God doesn't need you, but He wants you. Actually, he said, God wants you, but He doesn't need you. That stuck with me for till now.  But He wants, He enjoys partnering with us. And similarly, God doesn't need our praise.  It's like He praised Himself. He's like, hey, good job. That's good. You know, He created the sun, the moon, the stars, the seas and everything. He said, it's good. You know, so God doesn't need our praise. He's self-sufficient. He's all-sufficient. You know, but we need to praise Him. And one of the psalms says, praise looks good on us. When we praise Him, it looks good on us. Okay, so God commanded us to praise, not because of what it does for Him, but because of the changes it brings us. The second point there is, praise can sometimes be distant. The heart of man need not be near to God for praise to occur. It is possible for even rocks to praise. But worship is intimate. Relationship is a requirement for worship. Okay, second point. So praise can sometimes be distant. What is it? Again, you know, we can, like I said, we praise our dogs. We praise this movie actor. We praise this sportsman. You know, all of India is praising that guy who won the gold medal. That doesn't necessarily mean I know the guy. Right? So you can praise someone from a distance. So praise can sometimes be distant.  No big deal. Creation that has no breath will cry out. I can teach a parrot to sing a song. It doesn't mean it has any connection. It understands everything about praise. Right? But worship is more intimate. It's a relationship. You go deeper and deeper. You get to know the person.  You begin to understand the likes and dislikes of the person. And you begin to fall in love.  And point three is praise is always obvious. Either seen or heard, but worship is not always evident to an observer. And sometimes it may be visible, but not always. And again, just going back to some of the definitions, you know, we looked at earlier. We, as humans, we tend to gauge with what we see, isn't it? And for example, if a person is expression, full on lifting their hands and praising, waving left and right and whatnot, versus a person who's very quietly sitting, we come to, very fast come to a conclusion saying, okay, the person who is sitting and not doing anything is not worshiping, but the person who is lifting their hands up and doing everything is the worshiper. But it can be so tricky, isn't it? So that's the third point there is praise is always obvious, either seen or heard, but worship is not necessarily evident. It's not always evident to an observer. And actually it doesn't have to be because I'm not the recipient. So first of all, I shouldn't be looking at people around and then finally praise is mostly horizontal in its purpose. We speak to one another, we invite, we encourage is, hey, someone says, come, let us go to the house of the Lord, come, let us bow together in worship, come. So this is invitation, okay? It's like, hey, come, let us go. This is invitation for community. Let's just go in hundreds and thousands and praise Him, okay? Whereas worship is so much, again, more vertical. It's just direct connection. It's so private. It's so secret. So there's just a few differences between praise and worship for understanding, okay? I just want to pause here and there's some notes that you can go through at the end of it. But guys, just think with me or imagine with me. We said, Christian worship is about Jesus, amen? I mean, it should do something to us every time, every time. We say the name Jesus or the beautiful name of Jesus. And when we have His face before us, expressing our love and gratitude doesn't become hard. Worship doesn't become complicated as we have made it. Are you guys with me? Every time you just say the name Jesus, and you just behold the beauty of our King, that beautiful King who took our place on the cross, that beautiful King who had to be taught to walk, who needed help when he was born, who had to sleep, this God who never slumbers nor sleeps. He came down because he loved us. And this is the God that we are talking about when we say that He deserves our worship and that you do something, isn't it? Iman, are you all with me so far? Yes, sir. So we choose to praise and worship Him. As it's mentioned in the notes, when we feel like it or not, we choose to praise Him. We choose to worship Him. Just a few examples from the Bible is Abraham from Genesis 22. We know what happens there in Job chapter 1 verse 20, and David in 2 Samuel 20, when he loses his son, he wakes up, he cleanses himself, and then he goes and worships. Our situation, our circumstances change for the good and for the bad, one day up and down. Today is good, tomorrow is bad. Our situations, our circumstances will change, but the worth of Jesus never changes. His worth never changes, isn't it? And which is why it is important that every time we worship that Jesus is the focus, we magnify Him, we exalt Him, we adore Him, we honor Him and Him alone. No other name, no other rival throne, nothing else should matter. Iman? So, we've come to a close now. Would someone like to pray and close the session, please? Anybody? Can I pray in Hindi?  Sir Roshan was kept between us, so that God can make us know better about your knowledge. Today we have learned a lot about Aradhana. We thank all the brothers and sisters here. They are learning. I pray to all of them, God bless them. May God help you in making Aradhana. We pray for our next class, God bless you. Thank you for your good class and your teachings. All the blessings are on you. Pray for your life, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Thank you everybody for joining in for today's session. Let's stop the recording. Thank you sir.


All right, so our last topic our final one today, we'll see how short we can make this one because Pretty long podcast I think today. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we're always right at the cutoff point So yeah, so we're just gonna we're gonna talk probably about 10 minutes about this Mostly because I think I'm gonna do a lot of the talking which is pretty typical, but right So breath of the wild I'm gonna let you know right now. We're talking spoilers So if you do not want to know anything about breath of the wild In terms of Characters and backstories and yada yada yada some of this is gonna delve in the speculation, which is what you're seeing in the title of this but Speculation is the one I'm worried about if you don't like spoilers. Just turn it up. Don't even watch this episode All right, so Femme2 magazine It comes out every week. They released a big feature on Nintendo Switch and focused a lot on arms and Specifically breath of the wild. We don't really learn anything new from arms It's kind of just a repeat of information. We know it's the same images and screenshots The same images and screenshots for breath of the wild, but we actually learn new information about some of the characters So There are spoilers ahead below about so here's the deal so the Zora girl We see in the trailer her name is Mifah and Mifah is a Zora girl who lives in Hyrule She has a special power that no other Zoras have But perhaps due to that she's somewhat introverted It doesn't talk much and Femme2 wonders how she will use the spear that she's building. That's her weapon Darkle or literally The Rukera you gotta remember that these might not be the final names in English. This is Japanese So like those are all oftentimes translation differences So Mifah and Darkle or Dora Kuru might not actually be the name of these characters in English But he is a Goron warrior who lives in the mountain mountains of Hyrule most surprised where Gorons live He's normally calm but when entering battles he changes into a very brave warrior that screams loudly while sweeping away enemies And then finally you have Ribo who is a member and this is the key part of the bird like Rito tribe Which lives in the skies of Hyrule. He is spotted wearing the same blue scarf as Darkle and Mifah and each of them also wield different weapons We also learned In a different thing from Enuma that the guys wearing the blue scarves are like your companions Okay, that's what I was actually just wondering We don't know what that means because traditionally is all the companions mean people who travel with you and basically give you hints the whole time Yeah, I don't know that that's what these characters are gonna do because he also says that they're Companions but in a very mysterious way which tells me okay, so they're not traditional And they just would do only show up. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. We have no idea what that means but the point I want to highlight is the fact that they say Mifah is a Zora girl and Ribo is a bird like Rito You didn't know this probably till I told you today, right? But in Hyrule Historia, it's been theorized for a while but Hyrule Historia confirmed at 100% that Rito Evolved from Zora now.  They become birds. Yeah, so yeah It would make more sense if it was in reverse order And the thing is is the Rito in this game look even more like birds than the ones from the Wind Waker Yeah, you remember the ones from the Wind Waker and it yeah Yeah, they had like it looked like they were like literally had a normal nose with a beak on top It was really yeah. Yeah, they had to earn their feathers to fly. Yeah, anyway, so like it didn't it didn't feel like they This is like a fully evolved form of Rito So this is more down the line of evolution. I think which means you can already say all this happens way after a Wind Waker However Zora and Rito in the same game that's how evolution works Why do why do things evolve? Because something happens that forces them to some situation comes up that forces them to change Usually something that happens to the environment they live in. Yeah Why does the cold keep changing because we keep releasing different medications? Yeah, so it evolves and evolves and evolves and evolves on granted We've been lucky so far that it just evolves into something. That's the same thing just just yeah, bro That doesn't yeah, you know thankfully it's you know, they keep saying how we're going to create super viruses But so far the things that are evolving aren't actually making us worse than what the original did It's just making it harder to treat Which is what it is kind of that's why the common cold will probably never have a cure but That's why I kind of like cold medicine doesn't treat the thing it just treats the symptoms. Yeah So just a personal take with me and yeah, yeah, I'd rather just treat the symptoms than worry about Telling my body how to fix something But doesn't yet by the way, it doesn't mean I don't support vaccines. Absolutely. Like vaccinate your kids, man.  Yeah There's a reason that there's certain things that have been practically eliminated right because of vaccines, right? so breath of a wild timeline placement is kind of what I want to talk about because Generally when evolution occurs, you don't have this highly informed ball with the reto and then the Zoras are just still around And I've heard explanation that oh, you know, maybe travel back in time and that's where the Zoras are 100 years ago those roars are on or 100 years later now It's the reto and they're not actually together, but they all were blue scarves Which tells me they're all involved in the gameplay so far. We don't know that you can play in the past We know you can play in the present. Yes, so I'm assuming that it's not that complicated that they are all in the same world That Confuses me. The only way I think it would work is if like there was some part of Hyrule that got isolated isolated and kept the same Stipulations that the Zora have to live so I'm gonna throw this out here This is something that isn't too uncommon of a theory, but as soon as I saw this it felt like this Just confirmed in my mind and I could still be taking back the game could end up telling me something totally different But this is what I feel right now right now the Zola time line is one of the weirdest time I'm not not the weirdest in gaming. I think Kingdom Hearts kind of takes that cake because the story is so convoluted well, yeah, but Zelda is really weird in that it goes on a straight path goes in a straight path hits our greener time splits off in the three different timelines right and One of the timelines seemingly they pulled out of their ass because it's a timeline that can exist in any Zelda game Link dies. Here's a new timeline link and die in any game Yeah, so that's a crappy explanation to me because that means there's already infinite timelines that yeah Yeah, yeah, so whatever it is what it is They they wanted a way to explain away the old games because they didn't fit in with the new games That's basically what they read. I say old games only between worlds and 21st year It's also falls in the downfall timeline, but there are also games that don't necessarily Impact anything that happened in rolling to the past or the legend of Zelda, etc Anyway, so basically it was here's me about those arrow games Here's Ejinomo and Ejinomo's games do not play nice with those games So we're just gonna shove them off to the side and link died and that's when everything happened because I died Yeah the end So You have that then you have the other time that always made sense And this is because Ocarina of Time deals with time in fact it actually deals with a paradox in there the song of storms paradox where Link learns the song of time as an adult From the windmill music guy and saw the windmill in Kakariko village But link also after he learns it goes back as a child and he ends up being the one who teaches it to him Yeah, so it's a paradox because it's right. Yeah, how does he know how does it hot to the guy? Well, he knows that as a kid because he travels back, but how He didn't link didn't know the song until he was an adult Right, but he traveled back in time and as a child after he learned it as an adult taught it to him Yeah, so How did the guy know it to teach a human as an adult if like then this is the weird thing that happens when you travel in time Like all right these paradigms can exist and like the person who's traveling has all his memories, but you know It's weird like did I already traveled back in time and didn't know it and I like it's anyway It's crazy. It's great. So like when you're dealing with time, you know There's a lot of theories out there about how it works, but it can get really convoluted and what they did Here that made sense for splitting the timeline is that when you get to the end of Ocarina time You defeat again and Hyrule is saved. Yay. Praise. Praise. Praise Hylia. Praise the gods So it was like I'm so sorry That you lost your childhood because then it's gonna be travel seven years in the future So basically you lose your entire like age 10 through 17 age, which That might have a bad age Link it's no say in this And she just cries and says I'm gonna send you back to when you're a kid so you can live your childhood Okay, okay, well she sounds a back in time when he's a kid. I mean none of the events have been stopped yet So in order for him to stop those events, he's got to go to He they show him in in like the post game going to Zelda and basically telling her what's gonna happen Yeah, so it prevents everything from happening in the first place And then there's your paradox because you have we're not your paradox There's your there's your split because you have he defeated everything so that's still it was all the center back It's not like this all this on the back was no longer there So that that time is still going on when link is no longer part of the equation And that's what leads to the Wind Waker where Ganon came and there wasn't a link around to stop him And so the gods flooded everything yeah to make him stop because there's nothing to conquer. Yeah, what are you gonna? Create mass murder to stop a mass murderer made some total sense to me. Yeah. Um anyways, so So you do all that and then link in the Wind Waker isn't like a blood You he wasn't born as a hero. He had to earn the right to be the hero Which made sense because the hero bloodline and was gone it got sent back and it's not there anymore Yeah, so and then there's the link was sent back as a kid And then he stops everything happening and then he gets to go on in his merry way and have a happy-go-lucky life Which he doesn't because majority mask happens, but you know whatever that made sense That's why the split timeline thing started So now we have these three timelines because he knows one where he just dies entirely You know, I know people say oh, we don't know if he dies. He dies He does cuz you honestly think link with the travel the courage is going to stop unless he dies. He go and That's one thing that people theorize about the while. Yeah Well, he obviously didn't die 100 years ago when he was when he was battling. I'm like, how do you know that? Yeah, right or maybe Him being preserved wasn't his choice because he was going to die and Zelda put him in that chamber So like you don't know that right? You don't know that link didn't stand up there till he couldn't breathe anymore And then you know, it didn't have a choice ones all the same. It was like we don't know how that plays out yet I hope it's crazy, but I just think link with the travel the courage is no way I can stand me down as long as you can breathe, right? That's just the way that's what Travis Curtis does. You're not afraid. You just keep going at it even if you're losing so If these three timelines how much stuff happens on The adult timeline which is when link gets set back. So it's when the windmaker happens That's when the Kokiri become the Koroks Koroks are in this game in breath of the wild those are those little Little guys with flying around Okay, little tree stubs. Yeah, and then there is the Rito which again Evolved because of the flotty to Hyrule We're yeah, okay the Zora Die out so the Zora are no longer in all the games after the after actually not even in the one waker So they die out sometime in the events before the one waker and on that time It's a Zora's no longer exist Zora's continue to exist on the child timeline because the flotty no Hyrule never happens they obviously also continue to exist on the adult timeline or on the I'm sorry on the death timeline whatever it is the I Already forget what he's officially called anyways the time on where he dies They continue to live there because the world was never flooded Which is really weird. It's really weird because I know this is why I always thought it was the Using the excuse of him dying to the bad excuse because isn't it the same thing like if he If he's not there to stop Ganon and they flood the world. Yeah, and he dies So again, it's never stopped when they flood the world anyways That's what again. It's another thing like you're just throwing anyway Sorry, I'm getting too deep into the HCC's and the plot holes in the timeline. Um, so you have all that going on So so basically because Rito and Zora in the same game And in addition He's called calamity Ganon Yeah, and now I run with that that that timeline is called the downfall timeline. He already dies. Yes He Ganondorf is only called Ganon in the downfall timeline. Okay He is not he's called Ganondorf in all other situations In the other timelines. So You have calamity Ganon. Yeah, you have Zoras, which you Well, even more than Zoras. You also have wolf link in there for the amiibo and you also have a ruined castle town from twilight princess Um, maybe even the bridge of elden. We don't know 100% of that if it is the bridge of elden But it looked like the bridge of elden in some early footage So we have twilight princess references and then we obviously have clear wind waker connection with corax and Rito now And some people argue the art design or the great deku tree was also in the wind waker and also in ocarina of time So and this reference is back to ocarina of time Which you know, which means but we know this happened after ocarina of time because there's too many references back to ocarina of time. So To me This is a dragon break situation Yeah Where all three timelines Reconverge and breath of the wild is the point that it happens at something happened 100 years ago I made everything come back together right don't know what that something is don't know what the game is ever going to explain it Yeah, um because nintendo's honestly, I'm like good at storytelling But I think that everything's just going to come crashing together Yep, and we're going to have this solid timeline moving forward. Yep And to support this beyond What's happening in the game per se that we know about all the different races all the different references all the different landmarks Besides all that because that's just you know, we don't know you could argue. We don't know enough yet Which we don't there could be different ways they explain all this stuff that ends up keeping it in one of the three timelines it's that ej and oma who's come out and said in an interview that How do how do I phrase this? That breath of the wild Miyamoto agreed with him that breath of the wild redefines what zelda is Wasn't it wasn't it something along the lines of this is what they always wanted?  Okay This is different and the essence of zelda means like this is what zelda has always been Like this is the core of what like forget all the traditions. This is what zelda is They want to redefine what zelda is So you have the essence of zelda, which is this feels distinctly like zelda and then you have Redefining what that means. Okay. So they kind of work it against each other, but with each other to say right really weird So the last time they really did this was ocarina of time you could argue I argue it's only to the past because I think everything that ocarina of time does until the past It is just in 3d But whatever people view think ocarina of time is is that one so if whether it's only to the past where it's ocarina of time Reality is they haven't redefined the series in a hell of a long time Zelda won defined a series and then zelda to threw that all at the window Redefined it right away And then a link to the past no great time kind of brought it all back together and redefined what it was going to be moving forward And every game after it has been built off of it Um, we talked about this last week about you know, should this be the game that Futures all the games are built off of and I think when they say that this is going to redefine zelda That means it is going to be the game that the future games are built off of and if that's the case They need to Complicate the way the series works right now right because right now the one timeline ends with spear tracks Spear tracks doesn't even happen in traditional high rule. It's in a new high rule Okay, there is ganondorf has been killed. There is no more ganondorf The last enemy we defeated was maledis and there's no more maledis. So as far as we are aware There is no bad guys left That doesn't mean that there isn't but as far as we are aware as a player There is nothing left. We have not had a game after spear tracks and that came out in 2009 Um In the let me let me bring up the zelda timeline quick just to make sure I have the final game in each timeline right zelda timeline In The child era it looks like it ends with four swords adventures Yes, uh four swords in high rule adventures So I think there's a little two force. No, no the one four swords game happens before any time. So four swords adventures Happens at the end Of so it's sort of the princess one people remember four swords adventures. I guess happens after that at some point Um, it was very interesting since four swords in the other game related the four swords adventures happens before our current time But right again, I didn't do the timeline And the decline or the the hero is defeated ends with the adventure of length so We're at we're at this point where you have all these different endings and the series and each ending going distinctly different directions At the end of this timeline zelda's an rpg Okay, because the eventual next in rpg at the end of this time zelda's a multiplayer game Right for some adventures multiplayer game on gamecube. Yeah end of this timeline All the bad guys are dead and we're not even in high rule anymore and link rides a train Just saying yeah What brings this all together? So you have rpg elements you have multiplayer aspects And you have tech technology What brings this all together? I grab we don't know how multiplayer aspects. Yeah, anything to do with it. Yeah, but cool But you know, I it calls back more to twilight princess So they might even be skipping four swords references and just calling back the twilight princess But either way, yeah, um It just feels like this is what's happening and this is what's going to be moving forward They're going to uncomplicate all of this where one timeline ends as an rpg one and ends as a multiplayer game One that ends where all the bad guys are dead. They are just going to say screw that We're instead of scrapping the timeline because if they scrap the timeline in retcon everything and reboot the series People are going to get mad. Oh, yeah So instead they'd be like look we're going to explain this really crappily But we're converging all three timelines And now every game will be forward to put that breath of the wild all the stuff that happened in the past Matters in the past. It does not matter from breath of the wild Great. Um That's my theory. It's crazy. I know some people agree some people don't Sounds like it works for me And you haven't been theorizing about timelines like I have my whole life with Zelda, man I'm the third split really upsets me But I've always wanted the timelines come back together because I felt the series was getting too bound to the timeline if that makes sense um everything that happened with games had to be explained away in the timeline in some way And I didn't always like the way it did it and I didn't always think it felt it fit very well Now that the official timelines are I think they need to uncomplicate it into uncomplicated. It's bringing it back Um, and I feel like breath of the wild is doing it back. Don't know.  It could be any of the timelines and there are numerous reasons that it can be Which is why I think it's all of them put together That's all I got That's it. 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Hi everyone, this is Nicole, the Kirkwood Librarian, and I'm here today to talk to you about Google Drive. I'm sorry I can't be in your class today in person, but I hope this email tutorial will help you. I'm going to go ahead and have your instructor show you a video, kind of explaining Google Drive and some of the benefits, and I'm just going to walk you through the mechanics of using Google Drive. So first things first, I'm going to sign into my account. If you don't have a Google account, please go ahead and create one, it's very easy. You can just Google Google Account and create one. So let me log in here, and I'll just sign in. I'm going to be showing you today how to collaborate on a Word document, but you can do this for spreadsheets, presentations, and a handful of other types of files. So just kind of keep that in mind, it's a really handy tool. So you see now, this is what Google Drive looks like. It's called Google Drive because it's kind of like a flash drive or maybe a hard drive on your computer.  To get started with creating a document in Google Drive, I'm just going to go in the upper left corner here and click create, and I'm just going to create a document pretty straightforward. To create a document once we load here, first thing I need to do is I need to title my document. So because this is for a group project, I'm going to title mine group project. So enter my document name here while I'm typing this in here. I'll just emphasize to you guys that I'm available, if you have any questions, you can email me at nicole-n-i-c-o-l-e dot f-o-r-s-y-t-h-e at Kirkwood dot edu. So here in my Google Doc, I've created my group project. And now I can go ahead and start typing. So maybe I'm going to write outline for my speech, and of course, you know, correcting errors as I go. Yeah, I did mean outline. Google Docs is part of Google Drive, and this is the word processor that Google offers to you online. You can do all the things you would think you can do in Word, things like code your text a certain color, left justify, right justify. Obviously you saw there's a spell checking feature, kind of all the good stuff that you need. Obviously not as many options as you'd find in Microsoft Word, but this is a free program and it's a great way to collaborate with your peers. So I've got this document created. Now what I'm going to do is share it with my group members. So in the upper right corner here, I'm going to go ahead and click on share. What this is going to do is it's going to allow me to set some privacy settings. So who can see this document? Who can't? What do I want people to be able to do to this document? Do I want my group members to be able to just read it, or do I want them to edit it? Since you guys are creating a document together, obviously you're going to want people to go ahead and be able to edit things. So here in my sharing settings, you can see there's a link. If I wanted to share this document with my instructor, maybe I email my instructor this document, or what we should probably just do is add our instructor as a person to share with. So here in add people, I'm just going to enter the address of people I want to share this with. So I just go ahead and do that, and we're just going to go ahead and keep that notified people via email. What this is going to do is it's going to send an email to that person and invite them to see your Google Doc. Notice over here also to the right of where I entered that email address, it says can edit. I can set this so that the person I've invited can edit the document, can just comment on the document, but not make changes, or can just view the document simply. Obviously I'm going to keep that to can edit. I'm going to go ahead and share and save. So now, obviously I've got two Google accounts here, and I'm just sharing this with myself, and you can go ahead and click done. So now I'm going to show you what it looks like to share a Google Doc, or once a Google Doc has been shared with you, what it looks like when someone else is in the Google document typing something. So bear with me just a second here, and I will log into this document so you can see what's going on. Notice how in the upper right corner here, see how it says one other viewer. If I click down on that little arrow, I can see the name of the other person viewing here. And so now in theory, there are two of us online here together, and I can go ahead and enter some text, and you can see who this text has been entered by, and you can see the other person typing. So for instance, see that little pink flag that says Nicole Garst? In real time, I'm seeing what my peers are typing within my document, and then when I go into my document to type on their screen, they would be able to see what I was typing.  Notice on the right hand side now that I've pulled down that little arrow under one other viewer. There's a chat feature. So let's say this was an outline, and I was working on it. Say at 2 AM, I could say something like, hey, you know, you're still up. And we can kind of maybe have a chat here about the work that we're doing, the paper that we're working on, all kinds of things. You can have a meeting this way, essentially. You can say, hey, everybody, be in the document at 10 o'clock tonight. We'll all put our parts in. We'll read it over and kind of say what we think. We can call each other on the phone and talk about the document together. This is the basics of Google Docs. And again, this is part of the overall Google Drive application. A couple of things I've shown you here in this document is you can color code your entries. So at the very top of the page, maybe my group members are Emily, Jack, Austin, and Muhammad. You can see that Muhammad chose purple as a color to type in. And you can see this highlighted area here is what he's written into the document so far. This can be very helpful for your instructor to kind of keep track of who's entering what. So just kind of a cool feature that I wanted to share with you. Not necessarily something you have to do, but maybe kind of helpful. In the upper middle, see how it says all changes saved in Drive. Google Docs, you don't have to kind of hit save all the time like you would in Microsoft Word. It kind of saved things automatically. Notice that over here on the right-hand side, I can go back to a revision I've made earlier. So let's say someone accidentally deleted a paragraph or added in something you didn't want, you can revert back to an older version. That's the basics of Google Docs. To go back to your Google Drive, put your mouse in the upper left corner and see how that little arrow pops up that says back to Google Drive. If you click on that, it takes you back to your whole listing of files that you would see just like on your flash drive or something like that. So go ahead, take some time, test this out, learn from each other. If you have any great tips or ways for me to include this tutorial, to improve this tutorial, I again would love to hear them. So this has been Nicole from the library wishing you happy collaborating.


Good afternoon folks. My name is Shailesh and I work as a principle test engineer at blue jeans network, which is a cloud based Enterprise video communications company and though the names are just so we don't sell jeans It's just video I'd like to share my experience and my team's experience of building an automated resiliency testing tool which we name goblin and And so last night I was having a talk with my dad About the conference and he was flipping through the pages of these speaker bios and as he came to my page He read it for a minute and then he went so I'm driving my car and it runs out of petrol But then the reserve kicks in so looks like you're working on the reserve kicking in part So I was like yeah, that's what I'm working on So I really liked how he simplified the problem there So a bit about blue jeans Up to date we've done about 1.4 billion minutes of video conferencing What that means is for the past five plus years for every minute of the day We've done 500 minutes of video across the globe. So quite naturally uptime is our number one priority and Our users make use of the blue jeans service across using their mobile phones their iPads their tablets desktops existing room systems and We want to make sure that every time they have a video conference They have the best experience and thus resiliency of our system is really important to us So when we set out to measure the resiliency of our system, we wanted to do two things We use a bunch of third-party components in our system like zookeeper Cassandra, etc And we wanted to get a deep understanding of what happens to our system when any of these components fail the second thing was we wanted to measure the resilience of our own in-house software components and We went out looking for tools and we came across things like chaos monkey, which is very impressive But what we realized is that the set of challenges and use cases that we were trying to solve there was no real solution for that and What were those challenges? So as we decided to look at each part of our system and try to measure the resiliency We put together a set of test cases and failure scenarios for the interactions between all the components And as you can imagine as the system grew and became more complex these manual test cases and just the number of test cases became humongous and Manual testing would no longer cut it for us. So we needed some automated solution The second point that we wanted to be aware of is that we wanted to introduce controlled failures and Why that was important for us at the time is because our system wasn't really mature from a resiliency perspective So if you went to went and created random chaos, then it would have been very difficult to go debug those failures So what we wanted is what I call orderly chaos where we where you know what you're failing and how and When a side effect happens due to that failure, you can go debug that fix it Get your system to a good state and then maybe do random failures We wanted something fast. So We wanted a tool that would basically generate some sort of load on the system in our case We wanted to start a few meetings with a few participants simulated in it Run some failure scenarios validated the result record the result and we wanted this to happen within minutes The other thing that we do is since video conferencing is all about the audio and visual experience to the end user one thing that our company does is we get a bunch of people together and We run some tests with people, you know live testing And what our team would do is at 3 p.m. In the afternoon just like right now when people are dosing off we would go and ask these people to join a test and Then we would go fail a component and then record results, etc But soon our team started becoming like the most hated team because we were disturbing people in the afternoon So we thought we'll pass on the dirty work to a chat bot sort of a thing So the chat bot would bring these people and they would join a meeting We would run our tests and then and we wanted this to get integrated into a tool So that is the other requirement that we had we wanted to make the testing live and bit more fun So that is how goblin was born and Essentially what goblin does is it takes a bunch of components like Linux processes These could be third-party processes or standard Linux processes that you use or anything that you build on your own And you have a bunch of components like zookeeper rabbit couch base my sequel Cassandra and goblin comes with Support for these and you can extend it to any component. So given a list of components You can apply a list of failures to any of these so you can go kill processes. You can start restart Services you can exhaust disk memory CPU or connections on the node you can introduce latency between any two nodes or even cost packet loss and When you have n by n combinations you get a pretty Long list of tests and effective tests that you can do to test the resilience of your system So this is how goblin looks like in action. So you have goblin on your local machine and it has a configuration file that You have a configuration file that describes the system that you have and Then assuming that you've got tests written it goes and kills stuff in in the network lab and then it records your results and publishes them There are two essential modes in which goblin runs one is called a nightly a nightly run mode and That's fine. Thank you So what's the nightly run mode? Think of it as an overnight Regression suit that's running. It's just running resiliency tests for you So goblin gives you the ability to prepare the environment the way you could the way you would like to and then it goes and Causes some failure for example I want to go stop my zookeeper service and then it allows you to hook in your own methods so that you can validate the result In our case the validation would be did any participants drop from the meeting did any participants lose any video? Etc. Then it recovers the system from failure and then reports the results in a J unit style So here the picture shows a Jenkins job, which is finished and you've got reports on the failed tests and the past tests The other mode is the automated test bash the we are heavy users of hip chat which is a well-known chat application like slack and What we do is we integrated a goblin to be to be a hip chat bot as well and it goes and pings a few participants to join a meeting and it communicates the test Steps that we are going to do so that everyone's on the same page and knows the expectations of out of the test Then it goes runs the test kills something Ask for feedback from the users on the same hip chat room So you have a documented result and then it recovers the system and goes and runs other tests So chaos monkey lovers don't kill me for putting this light up but I really wanted to focus on the different use cases that these two tools solve and to be frank chaos monkey was the inspiration that we had when we started with goblin and we learned a lot from it So chaos monkeys designed to run in AWS And to generate random chaos because nets Netflix believed that It's okay for things to fail and you want to build a system that can auto recover It runs on non-holiday work days so that engineers are around to fix the problem. It's not a test framework It's a collection of really good tools Whereas goblin was designed to be a test framework from the get-go and we and since we don't run on AWS We've got our own data center. We wanted the ability for it to run on any environment We wanted to use it for regression testing I want to know how my resilience has changed build over build or release over release and The live Testing is also something that I think a lot of you might like and it was designed to be a test framework So let me just do a sneak peek of some of the Ruby code that goblin has written in here's a Cassandra Library that's written for goblin and you can see that there's a bunch of methods That allow you to stop a Cassandra service or restart the Cassandra cluster itself typically you would import this library into your own test class and then call these methods and Typical test class would look like this where you would have to override a bunch of mandatory methods For example take simulate failure here I want to get all my zookeeper nodes and then run an exhibitor process restart on all of those nodes I can also hook in my Validate method and a recover method the way I I seem suitable So this is where you can get goblin it's up on github at github.com slash blue jeans slash goblin and We are definitely looking for contributors, please try and use it give us feedback on what you thought about it and Also, please check us out at blue jeans.com on the home page there is a try button and That is going to lead you to this page and when you click on start now you will get into an instant meeting and you can share that URL with a friend or a colleague and have a video conference right there and I hope you enjoy that experience so thanks for having me here and You guys might be dying to get out, but if there is any questions, then I'd love to answer them Thank you Is your goblin configurable on any Environment or is it basically customized for your environment? We've built it so that it can be custom it can be applicable to any environment All you need is a configuration file with a bunch of nodes That you've written like if you have say a zookeeper cluster you put those IPs in there and mark it as like a zookeeper Category and you can have several such categories as long as your test machine where goblin is running can access the cluster That you want to run these tests on goblin should just work and my other question was if you run some in like In introducing the latency. Yeah, and if a person needs to correct those So here do we have to manually go and solve the issue or? So are you saying how do we undo the latency? That's built-in as well. So there's an apply latency and a remove latency method That you can use it basically uses IP tables under the hoods Any other questions? All right. Thank you guys


Pokemon have just officially confirmed a brand new Pokemon that will be making its way to the Pokemon Scarlet and Violet DLCs later this year. Gonna cover all the details of this brand new Pokemon in today's video. So last week in the brand new debut episode of the New Horizons anime in Japan for Pokemon, we had a sneak peek at a brand new Pokemon but there was no information on this. You can see in this picture here from a screen cap from the anime that this Pokemon appeared. And from face value, I think everyone kind of put two and two together that this was related to Terra Pagos, the brand new legendary Pokemon that will be appearing in the Indigo disc or at least we feel like it will be appearing in the Indigo disc. Now on the back of this sneak peek from last week in the anime, we've had an official tweet from Pokemon earlier this afternoon officially confirming this brand new Pokemon that did get shown in the anime episode. Now if we go over to the Scarlet and Violet website, there is a little bit more information about this new Pokemon introducing a newly discovered Pokemon. A newly discovered Pokemon appears in the Hidden Treasure of Area Zero for Pokemon Scarlet or Pokemon Violet. This Pokemon is small in stature and not particularly strong, but when push comes to shove, it can crystallize the energy in its body to form a protective shield. Apparently it can also assume a dormant state when it feels like its life is in danger by pulling its head and limbs and tail into its shell and making it look like a jewel. Its splendid aura is reminiscent of the legendary Pokemon Terra Pagos, but this Pokemon's name and true nature are shrouded in mystery. So that is all of the information that we've got so far. We've got some more official artwork so you can have a little bit of a better look at this brand new Pokemon. But as you can see it definitely looks like Terra Pagos. It's got that crystallized body. It looks like a baby turtle and this looks like a bigger turtle, fully formed turtle. And there is lots of indicators here with the coloration in particular that relate to Terra Pagos. So in my mind it is a pre-evolution of Terra Pagos. It could of course be another alternative form as well of Terra Pagos, but it is probably going to be a pre-evolution of this one. And from the description that we've got here it's not particularly strong which kind of indicates it may be a pre-evolution as well. But it can be quite formidable and it can turn itself into a jewel which is kind of interesting because if you look at the top of Terra Pagos here, it looks like a jewel shape on the top of its back here which is the centerpiece of its shell. So maybe there is some link there where this can kind of go into that dormant shape of the jewel and then it sits on the top of Terra Pagos. It may even be part of Terra Pagos rather than a pre-evolution of it, but who knows there is not much more information for us to go on. And after that teaser that we got from the anime The New Horizons anime that we're seeing, we do get the official confirmation from Pokemon today about this new Pokemon. Other than that though there isn't really much to go on. There was an interesting tweet from the Japanese Twitter that did confirm that from Monday the 24th, which is a week today, the download purchase cards, Pokemon Scarlet and Violet DLCs will be available to purchase in Pokemon centers, Pokemon stores and Pokemon center online, nature and wide in Japan. When you do this you receive a bonus Pokemon center original sticker sheet, but the big thing about it isn't the bonus that you get from pre-ordering it. The sticker sheet, it is the fact that these download cards are going to be available next Monday, which may indicate that we are going to get some sort of news very soon for the DLCs. It has been a little while since we've had any news about the DLCs in particular since Pokemon Day, so you would think that we're probably going to get some drop soon with some more information, at least about the Indigo Mask and we might get some bump on information from that with the Indigo Disc as well. But the big thing for us today is that they have confirmed officially this brand new Pokemon that did get leaked in that anime episode last week, which is very exciting. But that is everything. I just wanted to make a quick update of it. Of course, if we do get any more updates with news on the brand new DLCs, this new Pokemon or anything else, we will drop an update on the channel as soon as anything does come out. But very exciting news, obviously the DLCs are getting closer and closer every day. Hopefully, we get some more news soon. As soon as we do, of course, I will drop it. But I would love to hear your opinions on this brand new Pokemon. I love it. I think it's really cute. It looks good. I do think it's probably a pre-evolution. But the fact that that description says it does kind of took its limbs in and it turns into a jewel looking thing, that it could be very reminiscent of that jewel that sits on the top of Terra Pagos like we've just mentioned. I'd love to hear your opinions on this and apologies if I'm a bit croaky, a bit tired. I've just got back from EUIC, the big championships over the weekend. This news dropped and I wanted to put a video out for you all. So, I hope you've enjoyed it. If you have, please drop a like. Do subscribe to the channel so you stay up to date with all of our Pokemon, Scarlet and Violet content. And I'll see you all in another video very soon. So, until then, friends, take care of yourselves and bye-bye.