You know what I love the most about Pokemon? It's not the memories.  No, it's how Pokemon has always tried to spam me and others out of money. Pokemon Unite released a week ago. Fun game. I actually do like it a lot. I'm enjoying the game. However, I've come to very quickly realize it is pay-to-win and I have proof. A lot of it. Let's talk about that. If you don't know what Pokemon Unite is, it's a Pokemon game that wasn't developed by Game Freak on Nintendo. Actually, Tencent had the rights to make this one. Tencent is the same company that owns League of Legends and Pokemon Unite is also a MOBA just like League of Legends. MOBA stands for Multiplayer Online Battle Arena. The one I'm most familiar with is Dota because I've played Dota 2 too much. Now, I'm not here to review the game.  But for the purpose of this video and proving that it is pay-to-win, we're gonna stick to just what we need to know. In a MOBA and this one specifically, you have ten players, five on each side. Each player picks a Pokemon and they will control that and only that Pokemon through the whole ten-minute game. Each Pokemon have different and unique ways of playing, special attacks, attacks and even base stats. Not that we know what any of these Pokemon's base stats are because the game doesn't tell us. Something we're gonna get to later and something that's really weird. Now, in other MOBAs like Dota or League of Legends, when you start playing, your character is naked, essentially. You don't have any items, beefing or powering you up. But as you play and you defeat creeps and enemy heroes, you get gold, which you can use to buy items in that game, in that round that you're playing, that temporary item and then it resets the next time. And you only use the gold that you earn while playing that round to buy said item. That's where Pokemon Unite differs from games like that, because in Pokemon Unite, it's very streamlined. You don't go in arounds and then buy items or do any of that while playing. You actually equip items onto the Pokemon in the main menu and then you take whatever items you want into the game. And that's where we find our issue. Because the items that you equip, which you do have to buy from the store, however, you can pretty much buy any item just using credits that you earn from playing. The actual buying the base items isn't too much of a hassle. There's three slots you can fill up on each Pokemon and you can fairly easily fill those up with whatever items you want for free. The issue becomes each of these items can then be upgraded from level one, where it starts, all the way up to level 30. This is where it becomes pay to win. Again, I have proof and I've recorded tons of comparisons of a bunch of different things and we're going to get to all of those. But first, I need you to understand what it is we are comparing in those clips by the items that I'm holding. Also, what it took to get the items to that point. Nyeh, it's me, Eugene. And I'm back to try and hack into your system once more. Just checking for that pesky ExpressVPN around here. No, no, no. Japan. Once again, they turned on their ExpressVPN and changed location, which then routed their connection through one of ExpressVPN's 3000 plus servers hiding their real location and sending me here. And I was just about to hack into all their social media accounts. What am I saying? I'm in Japan. I love Japan. I'm going to find a maid cafe. Not using ExpressVPN is like going to the bathroom and not closing the door. Everyone's going to smell what you did in there. ExpressVPN will help protect you from situations like that one, but also many others, whether you're at home, at work, or even in an internet cafe, anywhere you access online. But there's a fun side to using ExpressVPN too, like with services such as Netflix. Those services actually have a ton more content that's region locked, but you're still paying full price. I mean, screw that. Take your ExpressVPN, plop yourself in Australia, and boom, bam. You got South Park, Rick and Morty, Brooklyn Nine-Nine. You can try it with all different kinds of places. Just see what pops up by going to expressvpn.com forward slash beat em ups and find out how you can get three months of ExpressVPN free. I'm honestly not even mad this time. I wonder where to send me next. Uh, I am choosing to use Gengar for this. And I decided that the best items to test with Gengar would be Shell Bell, which improves the special attack and cooldown of abilities. Floatstone, because it improves the movement speed up to an extra 120 points, which if you've played a MOBA, you'll know how broken having that much extra move speed can be. And finally, Rocky Helmet, which improves my overall HP by almost 300 points and defense by 42 as well. But yes, I have all these level 30 now, but let's talk about what it took and how much money it took to get here and how long it would have taken to get here if I didn't spend that money. Let me break this down and let me know where along the lines, if at all, you get confused by all of this. The thing you need to upgrade the broken items is called an item enhancer. One item enhancer is 10 tickets. But, you know, items at level one, they'll take three item enhancers to level up. So there's no point in just buying one. And they start jumping up in price quickly each time you buy one by 5, 10, 20. And by the time you hit level 29, it'll take 300 item enhancers to go up one level. Once you run out of the tickets, and you will quickly, you can use Aeon Gems to buy the item enhancers instead. Aeon Gems is what you buy with real money. It takes one Aeos gem to make 10 Aeos tickets. And since just using 10 tickets to get one item enhancer is pretty much useless, you're going to want to do this in batches at a time. So the most you can do is 500 tickets for 50 gems. Gems cost $1 for 60 gems, all the way up to $100 for 6,000 gems.  But let's just use that as a base rate. Are you confused? Probably. Because I've done the math once already and I'm lost. Again, I can't remember how this broke down. This, and this is exactly the super predatory actions that games like these take to confuse young people specifically, but myself, and anyone bad at math or anyone in general, into not realizing how much they're spending or how much things are actually worth. Because you have this item, which is sold in tickets, but if you run out of tickets, you can use gems, which is a different amount than tickets, and the gems you pay for, and that's a different amount too. And that's the point. I have no idea how much anything actually costs. I just know that I keep going into the eShop and then it's all gone. To fully upgrade, one item costs $2,587 of these item enhancers, or almost 26,000 tickets, which breaks down to about $45 per one item hitting level 30. Which, which, I don't even know where to go with this. So to upgrade all three to level 30 is going to cost you $135. There's items that will make you attack faster or it will increase your attack speed, but that's not good for a Pokémon like Gengar, because I don't care how fast I'm attacking normally, it's all about the special attacks. But if I want to get good with like Machamp, then I'm going to have to upgrade that item too. Three is like the base. You have three slots. You want to at least complete one Pokémon, but for another one, you might have to do it again. Let's just say you do it one time for one Pokémon, it's going to cost you $135 plus tax to get it all the way up to level 30. And you might be thinking, well, I don't, you know, I just won't do that. I just won't do that then. That's a lot of money. I won't do that. Um, and maybe you're thinking I won't even worry about the items. Well, I will show you soon why you're going to want to worry about the items if you want any hope of being competitive or not getting owned. But let's say you go the other way and you're like, well, I will worry about them then, but I'll let it happen organically. You know, I'll get there naturally. I'll play the game a lot and I'll just use whatever rewards I get to level up. Okay, that's one way of doing it. Uh, it's also a lot more math. Um, and I burnt myself out even getting that $135 number. Probably should just look to my PayPal receipts. Um, thankfully, yep, that's a waffle on red. It did some bigger breakdowns for us here. So shout out to them. This is what they've called the long grind ahead. Given that it takes about 26,000 tickets per item, so 78-ish thousand tickets to fully upgrade a set to 30 or three, how long would it take to obtain that? It looks like the daily missions are currently rewarding 100 tickets per day. That would equate to doing 498 days worth of daily missions to complete the set. So you would have to play every day for 498 days, completing all the missions each day to do what I did in 20 minutes by getting out my credit card or actually by logging in a PayPal. Well, actually just by going to the eShop. It's all saved to pay. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter how I did it. I did it in like 10 minutes. Okay, let me show you what this has done to my Gengar. Now, again, they don't show you the base stats for any Pokemon, which is really weird for a MOBA. I have no idea what Gengar's actual special attack is or any of that. All I know is what I've added to it. Let's dive in to speed first of all. Here in my first clip I would like to present to the jury of brokenness is just me running down the middle of the game. I just go from top to bottom. Let's see how much faster I am. You can see that I have already on the right gotten far further to the point where I can see this dreadnought at the bottom of the screen already. A good one to two seconds before no item Gengar can see it. And again, a lot of these examples, I'm going to have to explain a little bit for people that don't really understand or comprehend MOBAs, but this game is super competitive. I love it. I actually love this game. I love this genre. MOBAs have always just equated chess to me, because chess is a game of wits. It's a game of smarts. And each individual piece does the exact same thing. So it just comes down to how much better you play, or in this case, you play as a team. So the fact that my powered up Gengar can see this dreadnought early means if this was a game, then I could see the enemy a couple seconds early. I could get into a fight. A couple seconds earlier. I can get places sooner, but even bigger than that in many ways, is I can get away quicker. It doesn't seem like my defense boost is really doing much for me, probably because Gengar already has really weak defense, but I wanted to test it anyway. I've mostly powered up my attacks more than my defense. You can see how much extra HP I have here, which is nice. But enough of me being attacked, I didn't really power that up. I powered up my attack. So let's see how much more damage I can do to this Eldegoss. You can see that my Dream Eater move is doing 2,736 damage without any items on. With items on, it's doing 2,842. So we're not talking about a couple of extra points anymore. We're talking about almost 100 more damage. But we also have my Shadow Ball move, which is doing 14.58 with no items, and 16.42 with items. So all up in this fight, I hit Eldegoss with 3 Shadow Balls and 2 Dream Eaters, totaling about 500 extra damage. And then cooldowns. The other thing I pay to improve. But since the cooldowns are so short on Gengar, Alolan Nine Tails has a 13-second cooldown on its Aura Veil. Casting Aura Veil at the same time, as soon as it comes off cooldown, about 4 or 5 Aura Veils in, I'm starting to lap the other one. It's that this 4.5% starting to show a lot more how much longer than no item having Nine Tails is having to wait to cast moves. In these fights, it really does all come down to split seconds. The amount of times I wish an ability had come off cooldown just a moment before it did. And I could have had the upper hand in a situation. But let's see what happens when you take these improvements into the game. So here's a situation where I am on the ropes. We're all fighting near Zapdos. Obviously pretty close to dead here. They're doing some work, but I'm hanging in, hanging in on a thread, on an absolute thread. And I managed to get the kill. I should have been dead. If I didn't have my items, I can 100% tell you that right here, when I'm on this platform, I wouldn't have had the HP. Not to mention I am getting a defense boost. And a lot of the heroes hitting me are heavy attackers. So not only would I have had more damage taken to wipe me out, even if I didn't have the extra HP, I have that extra HP covering me as well. And it not only helped me get away here, it helped me actually get a kill. Like look at the health I have at the end here. I not only have a kill, but we managed to take Zapdos, which means I have 50, I have the max amount of pulls, and I can go and dunk him for double the points here in the last two minutes, and probably won this game here. This is probably like a game winning move right here, me going and dunking those and getting that score. Actually I'm curious what the end score was. We might have smoked him, but I at least paid to win that situation. We won by 40 points. I actually did pay to win that game, because if I had died there, we wouldn't have won, because I wouldn't have scored. Hands down, I paid to win that game. I could have won that game a year and a half from now, if I didn't pay, and I had earned it, I paid to win that game.  I don't feel good about that. I don't feel like I deserve that. Again, the chess, like I, I don't feel like I outplayed that guy. I feel like I outpaid that guy. I just came up with that. Also there's so many other things to think about here when it comes to what advantages I am actually getting. Here's a game where I played with Zorora, because someone took my Gengar and we lost terribly, because that Gengar sucked and I didn't do much better. I was still MVP. But here in this situation, I've got pretty low health, and there's three of them.  If I didn't have as much HP as I did, and I was less, I probably wouldn't have the confidence here to try and stick around. And that happens a lot where I have just enough HP where I feel I could probably get away with doing something crazy here, especially with my extra attack. I could probably get away with doing something and hanging around a little longer than I should. Okay, here, here again. This is another one where I should not have been alive. It wasn't a great turnaround for me, but it did lead in Venusaur getting killed. I'm on like no health already. I am standing in the fountain a little, which is barely keeping me alive. But right now, I should be dead. We already know my extra HP in defense would have, I would be dead. I even get down to a slither of health. For the enemy team, they're still having a work on me. They're still distracted. They can't dunk. They can't go after Gengar. They have to still finish me before they go about the rest of the game. When I should be dead, if I hadn't paid for it, I should be gone and out of their way.  Now only can it not dunk, but when it comes back, it's going to have half the balls it had and have to try and get back and dunk again. And it's out of the game for a while. I'll stop beating a dead horse because I think I hope I've made my point. I only recorded a few games, by the way. All those clips were from two or three games and I got all of that. To summarize, this game is obviously pay to win because it takes way too long to do it organically and naturally. And it feels really weird that it's Pokemon because again, I've grown up with Pokemon and I've grown up with Nintendo and these are two companies that are usually so wholesome. I mean, the worst thing we have to deal with is usually just paying $60 for remastered and ports and stuff like that. And that, that feels pretty bad, but they're not a company that typically goes down this alley. However, I do have a whole nother video on Nintendo's greedy microtransaction practices on the mobile market. Some of them even worse than what we've seen in this game. There's the side of it where Pokemon is so kid-friendly and child-friendly and now you're introducing these practices into that. And there's also just removing Nintendo and Pokemon from the equation altogether and looking at it as a MOBA and thinking about the MOBAs I enjoy and what makes a MOBA work, putting pay to win in a MOBA just ruins the whole thing. It just destroys the balance. As soon as you add that into a MOBA, it ruins it. And it's a shame because it actually is fun. That said, I paid for it now for the video. So like a dirty, cheating whale. I'm gonna at least play for a little longer and make the most of it. What are your thoughts though? Do you think this is pay to win? Am I making a big deal and overthinking it? Let me know down below. Like the video. This is just a quick one while I'm working on my Skyward Sword and Monster Hunter reviews. But this practice just made me feel sick and didn't sit right with me, so I wanted to get something out on the topic. Hope you enjoyed it and I'll see you in the next one. That will hopefully be a lot more fun and lighthearted. Bye.


Baw! What's up everybody? Once again, it's Brian man, Sean, and I'm doing a video on a Friday, which means I must be talking about some music resource, tool, or a specific strategy that you guys can use. Today, we got a strategy and it's really along the concepts of user experience. Let's hop right into it. Now, this video was inspired by an artist's name. Nowadays, I ran into him. He had a USB. A lot of people have deployed music on their USBs and use that as a campaign.  But what was interesting and the very useful of how he did this was he said, yo Sean, put the USB in your computer, use it. And he just watched. He didn't start off by explaining the concept and try to get my opinion on the idea or anything like that. He literally just let me do it and I went through the process. And what was important from this was he watched and he said, man, you're the second person who couldn't find the actual audio song. You clicked on everything but the song. And there was a real interesting nuance where the song kind of looked like a logo or something like that. But I remember seeing the file for the song and I didn't think it was a song. I thought it was something else completely that wasn't worth clicking on and seeing that, especially since he wanted to give his USB to DJs was extremely important. A lot of times we come up with these ideas and ways of doing things and we think it's so obvious when it's in our head, but we put it out into the world. People don't really react how we want them to. It's a very simple concept, but a lot of times people don't take the work to do it. Just give it to somebody. Don't even ask their opinion. A lot of times we ask people's opinion and then they start going into all this theoretical stuff. You make them think a lot harder than they need to know. What is their experience? You want to see how they go about things. Why is this important? A lot of times study show people will lie about what they will do. Not willingly. They just think they're telling the truth about how they were reacting in a certain situation or what they think. Oh, that's a cool idea. But then when they actually experience it, they act completely different. If nowadays had said A.L. Sean, so like check this out. All right. I got my MP3 file right here. I got this link here and I got this link here. He never would have known that without him absent of his experience, which is how most people are going to really experience the campaign. I would completely miss that the MP3 file was the MP3 file. It's hard to simulate complete reality a lot of times, but you've got to figure out a way to get the best version of a test of your campaign before you put a lot of marketing and energy or just money behind that campaign. Now, one thing, obviously you can just run like a low amount of ads if it's a ad for Facebook or something like that. You can always test with like $3, $2, just to start getting a feel of how much people can click and they convert. But there's a lot of things that you want to do beforehand. Right? If you're asking somebody about an ad or a flyer, things like that, ask them not what they think. Ask them how do they feel or what did you look at first? What were your thoughts as you went throughout the ad? Because what people immediately do when you ask them, Hey, what do you think about this? They're thinking that you want their opinions on certain things that aren't necessarily going to help you reach your goal, which makes me end with this. One, you got to know your goal for the ad as well. So if somebody has an experience that's alternative to the goal that you have, that's when there's a problem. And that's when you need to figure out, All right, how do I make sure the experience is actually in line with what my goal is not getting all into this creative space of, Oh, man, people got opinions. Everybody got an opinion on what I'm doing. But obviously, they're not the one going through the creative process and already had these thoughts. Yeah, but you can spend a lot of times thinking about the wrong thing or making your own assumptions. We create a lot of assumptions in our head. Sometimes we'll do something. Everybody else will have a completely different experience. It just is what it is. Of course, you want to do that with multiple people because multiple people might have different experiences. But it's about their experience going through the ad, not their opinion of the ad, because oftentimes that's completely different things. The goal is to have people experience your ad and hit your specific target after experiencing your ad versus just liking it from a superficial level. Oh, and a last reminder, this Sunday, February 28th will be the last day for the free bonuses that come along with the Master Music Networking Guide. If you want those, you can click the link in the description and I'll put it all kind of places around the top comment, all that stuff. If you want to see what those bonuses are and get a vibe for that, I'm not going to go into that here. So if you like this video, hit that like button. If you like it, you might as well share it. And if you're not subscribed, you know what to do. Hit that subscribe button.


What's up everyone? Takedown here. Welcome back to another comic book video. Today I'm going to be sharing with you some more X-Men comics that were included in the 2000 comic lot that I did purchase. Now today, like I said, is going to be X-Men. That's usually what I collect is X-Men, Spider-Man, Fantastic Four. A lot of stuff that's from Marvel's from the 80s is stuff that I collect and I'm interested in collecting. So if you guys want to send any comics my way, by all means, I will gladly accept. But I am going through the slots that I purchased to resell, but also keep ones that I want to keep my collection along the way. X-Men is definitely going to be stuff that's going to be really hard for me to want to part with. But I think I'm going to because I do have a lot of X-Men in my collection and I might have some of these already in my collection as well. I just have to go through my personal collection and see exactly what I have before I end up listing a lot of these X-Men comics. So we're just going to get right into it. Starting off with issue 249. That is really cool. And this is around the time that yeah, they started to sell them instead of one comic a month. It's two comics a month. So this was early October for 249. And the next one here is late October issue 250. Usually the ones like this issue, you know, 100 issue 250 issue 500 of different comics. That's usually what I keep. So this one here I might end up keeping because I don't think I have issue 250. This one was late October. So I like that they were doing that. Back then we have 252. So it's missing 251. But that is really, really cool. I love the artwork of these. We have issue 253. This one is not boarded. They're all bagged at least. Gonna definitely check this one out. 254. They look just so cool. I can't wait to read these. I like the black on that one. It pops. 255. Really cool. We have Logan front and center 258. He's having a fight right here. That is really cool. I like the fight scenes on the cover. You guys know what draws me into the comics and me to purchase a comic whenever I'm in like a comic book store is usually the cover. If the artwork and the cover is interesting and it's something that it collects, I'm likely going to pick it up. This is issue 259. Looks like I can't tell who it is. Doesn't look like Logan but it's fighting some soldiers. Issue 260. No idea is what is happening here. That looks creepy but definitely going to have to read that one and check it out. I like the pink around it. That looks really cool. Next we have 261. Again a lot of soldiers on some of these. So I'm going to have to see what the story is about here but we have Wolverine here. Looks like he's trying to save this lady down here. That kind of looks like cable. I can't really tell though. 262. I don't know if it's some aliens or something. I see some eyeballs up here. Definitely going to be interesting. 263. Again a lot of soldier related stuff. This one I might end up having to keep. 264 has beasts on the cover. I absolutely love beasts. I'm more drawn into Wolverine, beasts, Cyclops, Colossus. That's usually whatever I'm drawn into. So that's really cool. I usually don't get to see him often in the ones that I find. Him on the cover like that. So that one might be staying in my personal collection. 265. Really cool. Issue 269. This is back. I think they're doing it once a month again. Looks about right. 270. I wonder if issue 300 is in here. That would be really cool. Issue 300. 272. A lot going on on this cover. A lot more than I'm used to, but we have cable at least. That's cool. 273. I don't think we're going to get to 300 in this video or if it's even in this lot. 274. First one that I actually see, Magneto, and that looks like a futuristic Nick Fury right here. You're going to have to check this one out. It does say Fury on it. Looks like him. 275. Eagle Awards 1990. I don't know what that is. Comment down below if you know what the Eagle Awards is. That looks really cool though. I like that. And then we have some more modern comics. These are 97 X-Men. Rogue. Squire. I can't really tell. Issue 342. So when they changed over to a new comic books, this isn't really... I like the stuff before this one. Is the stuff that I collect. This here is stuff that's... It's interesting. I might read it, but it's not really stuff that I usually keep in my collection if that makes sense. Then we have two... Sorry, 452. Wow, stuttered on that. 452. So a huge jump right there. Again, this isn't really stuff that I keep artwork. And that's just not for me if that makes sense. I like a lot of the 80s comics for the artwork alone. It just... That's what I grew up with. That's what I like. That's what I love trying to find whatever I'm out. That's usually what I like keeping my collections. So at least I think I'm going to be keeping a couple of these ones. I think I already went through them, but I think I missed issue 250. So I definitely think I'm going to keep issue 250. And I think there's another one that I've seen, the one with Beast on it. But the rest of them I might end up selling. These sell in my area usually around $5 each. I think I'm going to ask two to three dollars. I don't feel right selling them for five dollars whenever they're not worth five dollars in my opinion. I don't mind picking up one if it's five dollars. If I'm missing one and I'm really looking for that one specific one, that's fine. But selling these likely two to three dollars each. I'm definitely making profit on that because I only paid 44 cents each comic. So hope you guys enjoyed this mini series. Finally bringing comics back onto the channel. It's been a long time. I think it's been four or five years since I had actual comics on the channel. I've had a lot of people watch my old content recently, my old comic videos, and they've been requesting me to get back into comics and I've really wanted to. But I haven't been able to until I purchased the 2000 comic lots, which I'm absolutely glad I did because not only am I going to be making money, but I'm also going to be adding things to my collection and being able to make comic videos for you guys as well. So hope you guys enjoyed this video. I'm going to leave this here and soon it will be more Spider-Man and other comics. And I hope you guys enjoyed it. If you guys want to see me go through X Factor, let me know. I don't know if I want to make videos on that or not. But if you guys want to see the X Factor comics, there's about 50 of them. I might make two videos worth. Let me know if you guys want to see that if it's even worth making those videos. I'll see you guys in the next video. Please take care. Peace.


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com coming at you with 2019-2020 Panini Contenders Optic Hoops. Pick your team number 33 with the Pelicans randomized to someone in the break. If you got it, if you followed the instructions here, right there. Big thanks to all of these folks for getting into it. And now let's figure out, it's sort by your first names. That's right, Rake 33 for Jeremy 33. He's in this break. If you bought at least two, you get one entry for a chance at the Pelicans. Brett with two teams, that's an entry. Chad with two teams, that's an entry. Eric with two teams, that's an entry.  Nine entries. Eight count for the purposes of the promo. So that's four entries for the Pelicans in this quick little two box break. Kurt with two, that's an entry. Nick Stober with eight as well, that's four entries. Sean Maddock with two, that's an entry. And Sumin with two, that's an entry. All right, there we go. So now let's grab all these names, 14 names on here. Let's put all the names in here. And let's roll it and randomize it. Five and a five, hard ten, name on top after ten, gets the Pelicans in this quick little two box break, little snack break, well appetizer, one, two, and tenth and final time. After ten, Eric, hey, there you go. After ten times, you get the Pelicans in this two box break. All right, so now let's get all everyone's names, or everyone's teams alphabetically and let's print and rip and see what happens. All right, good luck. Well, to be honest with you, Jet, a lot of basketball has gone down in value, as it always does in the offseason. For sharp collectors, it's a good time to buy a little. It's exactly during the 33 to steal. All right, big thanks to these folks for getting into it. All right, we've got a randomizer to do at the end between the wizards and the Mavs, historic picks. They were both ninth overall, both international players, both ninth overall. We got All-Star Aspirations, Magic Johnson for the Lakers. That will be four, he's got my Lakers, the Chance, Nick Stover. We've got Marcus Saul right here and Rudy Gobert. Of course, Andrew, why wouldn't it? Nine out of 99, Rudy Gobert. Behind Darius Garland is, whoa, nice Kobe White. That's Jeremy 33 with the Bulls right here in Pigger Team 33. And that is eight out of 49. Just eight off his jersey number. Nice, there you go. And the Darius Garland will go to the Cavs. That's also for you, Jeremy. Nice. And the final box. Oh, nice LeBron James champion for the Lakers for Nick Stover. We have historic slams for the Utah Jazz, Donovan Mitchell. That'll be for Nick Stover. Colin Sexton Silver for Jeremy 33 in the Cavs. Dame Damien Lillard, red for Portland for Jeremy 33. And behind Kevin Love is Grant Williams, rookie ticket autographed silver. Brett Rodgers, Brett with Boston, my rivals. There you go, Brett. And there you go, everybody. I'm Joe for jaspyscasebrakes.com. And that was 2019, 2020. Why did I write 2019-12? That year doesn't exist. That was break 33. Anyway, let's do the randomizer really quick. So let's get some new dice and a new list. So Washington Wizards, Dallas Mavericks. Let's roll it. Let's randomize a team on top after four gets it. One, two, three, and one more. Dallas, that'll be for Eric K. Eric, there you go. This dual player card going your way. Thanks, everyone. I'm Joe for jaspyscasebrakes.com. That was Pick Your Team 33. We'll see you next time for the next one. Bye-bye.


Coming up on DTNS, Facebook's going to pay some publishers, HP has a very pretty laptop and why we are at risk from too few robots taking our jobs. This is the Daily Tech News from Monday, September 30th, 2019 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. And from Studio Feline, I'm Sarah Lane. And I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. We were just reminiscing on Good Day Internet about the dangerous world of the 1970s we grew up in. If you want to get that and other wider conversations, become a member at patreon.com slash DTNS. Let's start with a few tech things you should know. Reuters sources say that ByteDance, makers of TikTok's app, posted revenue of 50 to 60 billion won. That's about 7 billion to 8.4 billion US dollars in the first half of 2019. And the company looks to be profitable in the second half. Most revenue reportedly comes from the China-focused products like the news aggregator Jinri Tuntau and the domestic version of TikTok, which is called Doyin. The company also recently launched a search engine, a work efficiency app called LARC, and plans to launch a music streaming app as well. Amazon announced that YouTube TV is now on the Fire TV platform. Hooray! The streaming service can be accessed on Fire TV sticks and set-top boxes as well as Fire TV edition smart TVs, though Amazon notes first generation Fire TV stick and Fire TVs can't support the app. That's just because they're old. Apple released iOS and iPadOS updates to the iOS and iPadOS 13.1.1 software that was released on Friday. Yes, just a few days later, the iOS and iPadOS 13.1.2 updates are now available on all eligible devices over the air in the Settings app and include bug fixes for several issues, including problems with the camera, iCloud backup, and the flashlights. Alright, let's talk about Facebook. Sources tell in the Wall Street Journal Facebook at this point is going to pay between 40 and 50 publishers, depending on who you talk to, for content shown in the upcoming Facebook News tab. That's the tab that's going to have curated news from curated publishers expected to launch by the end of the year and going to feature headlines and links from about 200 publications. So either they still have a lot of work to do to figure out who to pay or they're not going to pay a lot of these people. Facebook is still in content negotiations with publishers over how much content and how much access would be granted in the News section, so maybe that number will go up. Fees are reportedly in the $2-3 million a year range, at least for national publications on a three-year contract. Really interesting look at why this is good for regional publishers, the ones getting less than $2-3 million probably, like Dallas Morning News, that sort of place. Maybe not as attractive if you're the New York Times because it's a smaller percentage of your incremental revenue and you're having to give up some control of your stuff. Yeah, based on the fact that the New York Times and other very large publications have seen ad revenue shrink so much over the last few years, last decade, really. I wonder how much this would be a viable revenue stream going forward. Yeah, because the New York Times has, there have been a lot of stories saying that their subscription revenue is doing very well. Their ability to get people to pay for their content seems to be working for them. But yeah, a lot of these regional newspapers do not have that story going on, even though they're trying to get people to pay for their digital versions. My argument has always been that it's because everybody's competing on a national level these days, and so the ones that were already at the national level like Wall Street Journal and New York Times are going to have an easier row of that. However, Facebook paying publishers when they don't necessarily have to. There's no US law that says they have to do it. Is them trying to play nice and say, we know that you're worried about us having control of your content, so let's work something out. I'm very interested to see if it rises to be the majority of the 200 publications, or if there are publications that are just like, yeah, we're apparently in there, but we're not getting any money out of it. Yeah, 40 to 50 publishers is nobody. You know, if you're talking about everything that would surface on Facebook, otherwise just being shared by people who use Facebook. And I don't want to speculate too much, but yes, how much of this would be, hey, publisher, we're going to go ahead and pay you. This is great for you, right? But let's make sure that your next headline is a little bit more Facebook friendly than it would be otherwise. So there might be a little tit for tat going on here. I want to help you on that. Yeah, exactly. HP's Specter X 360 13 2 and 1 still has glossy edges and one USB-C port, but is also slightly smaller and uses Windows precision drivers for the trackpad instead of synaptics. Has a 90% screen to body ratio and the world's smallest Windows Hello enabled IR webcam. You can choose an OLED 4K screen. Also has a new display control that lets you switch between color gamuts. It features Intel's 10th Gen Ice Lake quad core processor and Iris plus graphics and claims to last 22 hours on a single charge. It also arrives in October starting at $1,099. You forgot the most important feature. What? Pretty. So pretty. It is pretty. In fact, before the show, I was, you know, Tom was like, I'm excited to use Sarah. And I'm like, well, I don't really need a new laptop. But yeah, if I want to compare this to like a MacBook, it, I mean, it's just as nice looking. In fact, it is becoming less and less distinguishable really. Well, the spectre has always been, let's put it charitably, been compared to the MacBook in its look. That's certainly not new. But over the years, I think it's become beloved amongst those who want a Windows laptop because it is quite a bit cheaper, at least on the starting price than than a MacBook and or a MacBook Pro. And, you know, it's a two in one has a touch screen has all that kind of stuff and it's gorgeous. And I don't think it's gotten less gorgeous. In fact, the big actual legitimate feature that everyone's talking about is the fact that it's lighter and smaller, but it doesn't feel that way because the screen size is the same. They just cut out the bezels. They made them thinner. They made them. They made the whole laptop way less. And it just feels more compact now. I get it. Stacked Vanessa in chat says, I want one. And you are not alone. No, you are not. Wall Street Journal reports that the U.S. House Judiciary Committee sent a letter to Google on September 13th inquiring about the company's plans to adopt DNS over HTTPS or DOH in Chrome. DNS over D. Sorry, DNS over HTTPS passes DNS data over an encrypted connection, which means it prevents man on the middle attacks. It's great for people who aren't going to use a VPN. It's going to help prevent their connections in more cases. However, the House letter says the committee is worried that this would give Google an, quote, unfair advantage by denying access to user data by cable and wireless companies. The poor ISPs won't be able to see your traffic, says the letter. According to a Google spokesperson, Google has no plans to centralize or change people's DNS providers to Google by default. Any claim that we are trying to become the centralized encrypted DNS provider is inaccurate. Google is expected to begin testing DOH rollout in Chrome next month. And for comparison, we got none of this concern when Mozilla started testing DOH on Firefox in March of 2018. So this is entirely about Google. Now, DNS over HTTPS does not stop your ISP from being your DNS provider. It also, you know, that's entirely up to you. It's probably not going to keep the DNS, the ISP from seeing what your traffic is, if that's how they make money off you. But man, it strikes me that this is such a different story than it was five years ago when we would have simply said, oh, good on Google, providing more tools to keep you private. Where now, there's those of us who know that Google is made up in part of a lot of engineers who are very consumer friendly and just trying to make things good, even if that's not the entire company. And the government, which just sees Google as the new Exxon, as the new whipping company that you can pick on if they do anything that smells like it might be anti competitive. Well, you mentioned the Mozilla started testing the same features on Firefox earlier, just about a year and a half ago now. And OK, so that went under the radar, no problem. So if something like this were to be found that, yeah, OK, this is unfair advantage of Google got to roll this back, even though the features in many cases are really good for consumers. What does that do to smaller companies who provide the same services? Yeah, I mean, it's not that problem. This is Chrome saying, hey, we want to give you a way to make sure a man in the middle attack doesn't happen when you're at a coffee shop or even at your home. It's not about any ISP or other company being cut out of the endpoints. This is middle encryption and also the kind of DNS that we should be doing. The DNS system is redundant, I get that. But DNS is horribly insecure. We should be shifting DNS to be totally encrypted so that you can decide who sees where you're visiting. And while I understand the impetus for this house letter, I think it's counterproductive. And this is where it's now certainly politics over what's good for the consumer. Well, on an entirely different note, Wired's Adrian So has a roundup of the best tech and accessories for your dog. The best camera is the pet cube bites to which has an app, 1080p camera, 160 degree viewing angle night vision and zoom and the ability to dispense a treat remotely. $249 plus a monthly fee if you want pet detection and smart alerts. We also have whistle go listed as the best fitness tracker for $100 you can track by GPS set fitness goals for activity based on breed, age and size also has a nightlight. Ms. So also recommends the geobit pet tracker if you just want to know where your pet is. The spot on virtual fence costs $1,500 that can use sock alerts or sound alerts to warn the dog it's near the boundary line. Those are the techies on the list with number 10 best toy being a stick. Yeah, man. I mean, I found this first of all commendable job by Adrian So. It's a great read and good recommendations in here because some of the stuff is, you know, just like really good water bowls and stuff that isn't particularly technology related. It does show that there's just not a lot of great pet tech out there right now. I mean, the ones she mentions are really good ones. But yeah, this weekend I pulled out a tree that was growing a little too close to the house and cut off, you know, I cut off the tree, put it in the brush bin and then went back was like, I should cut that a little closer, tossed the little bit of the stump, which was, I don't know, it's like an arms width, right? It wasn't a very old tree over to get later. The first thing I know my dog sitting there chewing on it like best toy ever. Thanks dad. You know, this is great. Yeah. The stick is the stick is a big hit in my house as well as somebody who was wearing a fitness tracker, my Fitbit Versa two, you know, for a couple of weeks now. There are lots of metrics where I'm like, huh, okay, I'm getting used to the fact that I have these and how much of them do I care about versus not care about when you when you when you get down to pets. That number decreases quite a bit earlier today. I was in the middle of something. I knew that my dog Otis had he had to walk. We hadn't had a good enough walk this morning. So I hired somebody to walk him for an hour. And this is the sort of thing where it's like, not that I really think that someone's kind of lied to me about where they went and what they did. But it would be cool to be like, okay, I have some GPS tracking information about where my pets going and, you know, did they did they go where they said that the walker said that they went and and you know, is there any opportunity for me to kind of like check in, you know, midwalk or that sort of thing. I get that. But yes, some of this stuff is the smart pet tech just to be smart. It depends on the pet but I know a lot of it would go unused in my house. In a more dense area like like I'm in. I don't think I would rely on a whistle go to keep my pet in the yard. Certainly not with my dogs. But I could see if you just kind of lived out in the country. And you're like, well, I just want to make sure they don't get too close to the highway. Right. You could you could probably use something like this. Great. But I don't think there's a lot of really great pet tech out there. If you're like, no, no, no, you guys are missing this one thing that's really great. Send us an email feedback at daily tech news show dot com. Let us know. Linus Tarvalds approved a new Linux kernel lockdown security feature which when enabled will restrict some kernel functionality from even root users. Feature comes with two modes integrity, which disables kernel features that let a user land process modify the running kernel and confidentiality which disables features that extract confidential information from the kernel. The features will ship as a Linux security module as part of Linux kernel 5.4 they will be disabled by default, although any distributor can turn them on. And those of you who are in the know what the sort of thing know that most of the distros red hat Ubuntu, etc. have been putting their own kernel lockdown patches in their own distros already. It's just nice to have it upstream and Linus Torvalds has been kind of fighting against this saying, yeah, you don't need it in the kernel, but security being what it is these days. So he finally flipped and said, all right, fine, we do need to make it available in the kernel still not turning it on by default. That's that's up to you. But but if you want it now you've got a couple of lockdown features there and there's the ability to make some more modules as well built into this. Yeah, I mean besides the fact that it sounds like he's kind of keeping up with some of the other Linux distros. And think that it was necessary before does he really now maybe that's not really the point the point is to to give the consumer the choice. Yeah, I think so the customer being the distribution makers in this case, I guess. The joke is Windows 7 locked down the kernel at a time when Linux was still saying, no man you don't do that. And now Linux is locking down a kernel at a time when Windows 10 is having some kernel issues. So there's a little snickering going on in the world out there if you look around on Twitter, I'm sure you can find it. That's all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes. Be sure to subscribe to Daily Tech headlines dot com. I heard a report on the economist today about UK Parliament's Business Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee publishing a 54 page report a couple weeks ago called Automation and the Future of Work. The idea was to look at what effect automation would have on work, particularly in the United Kingdom. And after months of research based on hearings and written evidence from manufacturers, universities, trade unions, and other organizations. One of the conclusions was and I'll quote I'll read it right out of the report. The problem for the UK labor market and our economy is not that we have too many robots in the workplace, but we have too few. In 2015, the UK had just 10 robots for every million hours worked, compared with 167 robots for every million hours worked in Japan. By 2017 the UK represented just 0.6% of industrial robotics shipments. So the issue isn't robots taking our jobs so much as in the UK, not enough robots to give more productive jobs. Part of the problem is the fear news stories focus on jobs eliminated, which will happen. But it doesn't give you the jobs created part of the story in the same way they'll put 75 million jobs to be eliminated in a headline. When what the 2018 World Economic Forum Future of Jobs report noted was 75 million jobs would be displaced by 2022 with 133 million new jobs being created. Now we've talked about that report particularly and reports like it many times on this show and emphasize that the focus should be on figuring out how to deal with displaced jobs filled by people who can't easily move into newly created jobs. Because even though it's good news that 133 million new jobs are created even if 75 million are eliminated, not every one of the people who had the 75 million jobs will easily be able to take one of the new 133 million jobs. And this report agrees with that, but also adds that you need a healthy adoption of robots to have those new jobs.  I got some of these from Digenomics. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the most robotics intensive manufacturing sectors in the United States, which are automotive, electronics and metals, employ 20% more mechanical and industrial engineers than other manufacturing sectors and pay them higher wages. If you thought robots would just eliminate jobs, that's not what you would expect to see. In 1993 through 2007, study by the London School of Economics revealing that robotics increased productivity in 17 European countries by the same amount as steam technology did during the Industrial Revolution, but in a quarter of the time. So in other words, robotics is helping increase productivity and it's doing it fast. Japan has more than 297,000 industrial robots in use, a 23% share of all the robots in the world and their unemployment rate is 2.4%. So from the UK report again, we have seen from previous inquiries that the practice of businesses such as Amazon and Uber can lead to workers being exploited by increasingly monopolistic firms who are in huge returns that do not flow back to the workers who help create that wealth. More cooperative ownership models, as well as greater employee engagement, stronger employment legislation and fairer corporate tax regimes are key to ensure public support for the benefits of a growth in automation, a rise in living standards and a fair economy and society. In other words, what this report is saying is we need to focus on figuring out how to get displaced workers into new jobs. We need to make sure that we've got new jobs for them, which means putting in robots and not will fearing that the robots are going to eliminate the jobs. And once that's done, we got to make sure that all the robotic automation jobs don't just benefit one or two companies or you're not going to see those jobs be as quality as the jobs they replaced. Yeah, and for smaller companies, I know this is a little bit different, but if you're thinking of a large automotive company, it is worth it for the company to say, OK, we now have 200 people who used to do this job that have been replaced by robots. Let's put them in a training procedure in order to place them in better places for them. You're not going to do that for like two or three people or 10 to 15 people that isn't advantageous for the company, but monetarily. So I can see where more and more if the company is like, OK, well, it's on us to not just fire a bunch of people and hire a bunch of robots, but make sure that the entire company is benefiting from this. When you have a greater amount of people that you can train at once, that that that just works better for the whole process. Yeah, and it may be something where countries that are developing their economies right now, I'm thinking Kenya, Nigeria, places like that might benefit by automating faster. Even though that might be publicly problematic, because it could create the efficiencies and new companies that provide more employment in those companies. And I say that more instinctually than knowing that for sure. But if you look at the International Federation of Robotics, 10 most automated countries in the world, number one is South Korea, number two, Singapore. Then you get Germany, then Japan, Sweden, Denmark, the US, Italy, Belgium and Taiwan. Now, some of those you would make sense because OK, these are developed countries that have been around for hundreds of years and they just kept up, right? That's that's the story in Germany and Denmark and the United States, etc. But South Korea, Singapore, even to some extent Japan and Taiwan. Those are countries that were developing countries 20, 30 years ago, but really worked on developing their economies through automation and adding robotics, and they are now very strong economies. Japan, somewhat like that with Japan, it was more like, well, we know our population is aging rapidly, but if we want to keep up, we need to have automation and that has kept their unemployment low. So I guess this kind of comes back to a discussion that we've had along these lines, you know, over the past year of if the company wants to replace jobs that were previously done by humans with robots, OK, we've got some we've got some workers that are still skilled and could be more skilled in different areas. Who, who, who does this fall upon? Is it, is it, you know, governments? I mean, who trains the people in order to have a quote, better job than they had previously? Well, we talked about the fact that Amazon is doing a training program where they're they're telling their workers, we will pay for you to learn new skills to keep up. New skills to get into programming and stuff like that. When you look at the landscape and you see the lack of qualified applicants in a lot of STEM careers, science, technology, engineering and math. I think it's pretty obvious that it would be in companies best interest to step up and provide this and say, let's figure out how to help transition people. And then, yeah, I think it is the government's place to to with a light touch. It doesn't have to be heavy. Look and say, where can we help? Where where can we be a clearinghouse for information? Where can we encourage programs and make sure that we're getting folks to do the things that they need to do to make this happen? In other words, I don't think the answer is one or the other. I think it takes a lot of efforts to do something that complex. I was going to say that I think you hit the nail on the head. It's the whole thing is everyone has been looking at it in a very singular fashion, specifically toward labor and what you do with labor policies. And what's needed is a more comprehensive, broad based approach that includes things like education, market controls and stuff like that, where you can't just focus solely on robotics and how they impact, but how automation will impact society as a whole. And I think looking at it as a glass half empty, instead of a glass half full, kind of the way you look at things determines what sort of policies you roll out. If you look at robotics as an opportunity, right? If someone said to you, we have all this new land that you can develop. People look at that as an opportunity. They look like, oh, there's more land. What are we going to do with all this land? It's going to put rental prices down and houses are getting cheaper. Everyone's going to lose money. If you look at it in the terms of what does this automation bring? What can you do with it? I think you would probably help at least get in people's minds a shift away from like, well, I'm going to lose out to, hey, I can benefit. Let me find out the number of ways I can do this sort of job. Or I myself can invest in automation and start creating my own products if I get an affordable loan from a government or financial institution. Something like that. Yeah, I think you're right. The key here is, yes, it's a reasonable fear that these companies are trying to sell us on automation is a great thing, but it's going to end up hurting me. That's a reasonable concern. What this report is saying is, yes, but if you let that be your only thought on automation, it's going to make things worse. And we do want to make sure that automation has benefits beyond just a couple of big companies. To your point, Roger, like making automation should help more people be able to start businesses or start projects or create careers that they couldn't have otherwise. And like you say, if you see it as an opportunity for that, I think it really does change how you look at it. In fact, it could be pitched as a way to make sure that big companies don't have all the power if it's like, hey, automation could help you as an individual. The way the internet has helped a lot of people as individuals, including the three of us, have careers that we would have required a large company to have had before. Yeah, required to live certain places and all sorts of restrictions that modern life has given us some freedom on. Well, if you like robots or don't like robots, guess what? You can participate in our subreddit either way. Submit stories and vote on them at dailytechnewshow.reddit.com. We're also on Facebook. Join our group, facebook.com, slash groups, slash Daily Tech News Show. All right. We have lots of great conversations. Sometimes they come as emails. Sometimes they don't. Yeah, this actually happened at our Discord earlier today. We were talking about the new iOS update that came out. Jay at Nomadon wrote earlier today, dang, he said, 13.1.2 is out supposedly fixing shortcuts on the home pod, so that makes me happy. And SCWLung responded and said, is this where we remind ourselves that they could have skipped 13 and went to 14 instead? To which Jay Nomadon says, no, though, it's unfortunate. It's in the state that it is. It'll be interesting if things slow down to typical cadence in a week or two when the hardware is tied to the software release. They paint themselves into a corner as the hardware is the moneymaker. I know Lung was just joking about, you know, the number 13. But Jay Nomadon's very reasonable response, I think, is important to note if you're not the kind of person who has to try this out right away. Yeah, maybe wait a couple of days after this one to be like, OK, is it safe to go in yet? Because you don't have to upgrade to the new iOS right away. You can wait for the bugs to shake out. There have been a few more bugs to shake out this time. Yeah, the person shall remain nameless. But I was hosting a podcast yesterday on a Sunday afternoon, as one does. And there was a bit of an iOS meltdown that happened. And I was like, this is why you don't update things right before you have to do work. But it happens more and more frequently these days. Tom, Roger, I know we've all been there. I'm curious, did you upgrade to iOS 13? No, I did not. Because I keep hearing complaints about it and I want the complaints to stop and then I will. Well, folks, don't forget we are changing our Patreon rewards tomorrow, October 1st. Thanks to everyone who gave us feedback about these new rewards. 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guys, I'm Braden, editor-in-chief of SupplementsWorld.com. Today we'll be going through a few questions that you guys have left with us and who best to answer than our fitness expert Rob Riches. Thank you for having me. So today's subject is competing and modeling. Okay. It's question three. She's asking, I'm in the best shape of my life and want to get a photo shoot done. How should I go about doing this? I love this because it's about it's about oneself rather than let's say doing a competition and going up and putting yourself up against the whole group of strangers. There's a lot of unknown factors in that. With a photo shoot the goal for this is really just to capture you in the best shape. It may be something that you want to continue on from there. It may be just something that you go you know this I might never be in this shape again and I want to have that as proof in a memory for me. Finding the right photographer is key and you know the thing about social media now is it's easy to find photographers especially on the likes of Instagram with all of these hashtags. It doesn't take long to find someone that you maybe follow a fitness competitor model or just a fitness professional of sorts. Have a look through maybe their timeline and you'll start to see some of the photos and often we will credit the photographer that we've done that shoot. At least that's what we should do. I think giving credit where credit is due. So then you can start to kind of see who the photographers are. Listen treat it like a bit of a business. Make some notes. Build up a sort of a little spreadsheet based on maybe who that you look up to admire. Pick some magazines up. Just use the word hashtag photography or fit photographer. These kind of things might take a few kind of moments to kind of get around it but then it's pretty easy then to find the right photographers who you'd like to work with. Have a look through their work and you know make contact with them. It's easy to message people at least like and comment on their work. Start to build up a rapport and at least then when you get that chance if you do to shoot that photographer he's kind of aware of you maybe they've spoken to him sort of throughout social media and just have fun with it. It's easy to become sort of stage frighten in front of the camera. The easiest thing is just to have fun. Smile just feel whatever you need to to feel at home and comfortable and that really does show through to the photographers and it's great to be able to have it and look back or use it as your motivation to push on forwards. Rob, thank you very much. That covers our fitness questions and guys by all means if you have any questions further questions from what we've spoken about or any new questions that you would like to ask Rob should I say an email. Yeah leave a comment on this video and we'll try our best to answer all the questions we can and until next time please follow us on Facebook or YouTube and Instagram Twitter. We've got content pretty much daily relating to training, nutrition or supplementation. If you have a question I'd say Twitter is our best point of contact just because we're on it all day but if not an email and one of the team I guess will find it and shoot it over to us. See you next time. Bye.


Hi everyone, it's MJ the fellow actuary and in this video I want to talk about super rare and this thing called Botto now why I'm quite excited is because over the weekend All of my art kind of sold out. Well, when I mean all of my art, there's still one that hasn't that hasn't sold Oh wait, I want to go to owned by creator. Here we go So there is one that hasn't sold and that is dog pricks and you guys might remember Gosh, I think that video only got like 300 views where we we put the doge on a formula one car made a little game and Yeah, that's what I was doing back in 20 2016. Anyway, turn it into an NFT It's the only one that hasn't sold out of I think 170 something and we do have a new one coming up So I'm thinking of maybe releasing this one here I'm still playing around with you know, what color colors are we gonna go on and How's it gonna look and all these kind of things? But this is gonna be the the next entity that I will be Releasing anyway enough about me what I want to do in this video is talk about a much better artist and This artist is called Botto and Botto is not a person Botto is an artificial Intelligence that created this beautiful thing over here. In fact, why don't I favorite that? because it is absolutely gorgeous and This guy sold for Just under 80 ETH. Okay eight hours ago Needs won the auction at at 80 ETH and I mean if we had to go, let's just see ETH to USD, I mean the price is constantly Do they not show me like we'll do it in rent Don't know why it doesn't pop up as the little thing But you're around 80 ETH. It's just shy of our five million rent And I think ETH is that I should be able to do this in my head but Yeah, about three hundred and twenty thousand dollars for this and That could even be a bargain because this is the very very first piece. It's the genesis of Botto now you might be saying okay. Well, Botto. It's this little AI Let's go check it out So this is it. I am Botto a decentralized autonomous artist. You can read the manifesto you can learn more or you can go to go to the app and Once we hear you can see that I can start voting So I've got some voting points so I can click here and we can get started and we can actually train Botto on which pieces We prefer That looks a bit creepy the horse face, so I'm gonna go and vote for that rock over there then we've got That's I don't know. I don't like either of these ones, but we have to vote in order to move on That one looks cool. They do have a bit of like a Strangeness to them, but I think that's the appeal, you know, this is this is an artificial intelligence Oh, see now like I like both of these. I really do like both of these So I don't know which one to choose that reminds me of like a little Hansel and Gretel Theme over there and then we'll vote for one more that one also looks quite fun and then Yeah, let's click submit our votes and then we can put in our little votes over here And we just sign it on the blockchain. So it says thank you for contributing. It's like no problem And what is cool is so I've got voting points because I I got given Botto and I mean, this is why I started off with super rare is if you just own any Super rare token you become eligible for for airdrops. So what happened is I was given I think it was one thousand eight hundred Botto tokens and I then put the Botto tokens I went into Uniswap and I put it into the liquidity pool and this then now generates a little bit of Not only does it generate 0.3% of all trades, but Botto had a liquidity Mining thing with with some rewards and I just staked my my Botto over here So you just go stake you can see I don't have any left Because it's all been staked, but I think I could withdraw it Yeah, so you can see I've got thirty point two six Botto ETH And that was your so I put in zero point five ETH and one thousand eight hundred Botto tokens And then every day I kind of get these this reward thing keeps growing. So at the moment It's two hundred and and twenty and the nice thing about it is I mean if we had to go to to coin gecko Oh super is dropped under two dollars and we go to Botto That's a clip. You must click Botto and not Bottas Botto you can see it's it's absolutely pumping at the moment up 17% one dollar fifty two so This is the thing is a lot of people when they got given the airdrop towards Botto is They simply just sold it and you could go here. You could go to to Uniswap And you could just you know, you could spend your ETH and you can buy more Botto or you can do whatever you need to need to do But I decided you know what why not just keep it? Why not just hold on to it? Why not just have fun with this thing? I did this liquidity pool It was kind of like the first time that that I did it I had nightmares that I was climbing a mountain and falling off the mountain not knowing what I was doing But I was able to then realize, okay I then had to stake it and like I said these rewards you can kind of claim whenever you want and Then you know, you just come here and you can confirm and all these kind of stuff And as long as the the transaction fee is below because you are 220 times 1.5 It's about 300 and something so as long as that is higher than your gas fee You're making making profit a big thing with Ethereum is that Joe you have to always always worry about the gas fee And that's why if you don't like gas fees, there's this amazing thing called Polygon So this is actually where I'm working now at the moment I am working With Polygon as an NFT Researcher so if you want you can reach out to me if you want to talk about NFTs We've got some ideas my email is Michael J at Polygon dot technology You can reach out to me there if you want to chat about NFTs and and all these things or I mean, I guess in a more informal way is more active I guess on on Twitter So like I said, you can come to Twitter, I like to read the little notifications You'll see we We sold the the little Rick one. I'm very happy with with that amount It's like I say normally my pieces sell for around the thousand dollar mark. So it's a little Rick Sanchez Doing a little wubba lubba dub dub, but yeah, like I say NFTs we've been doing this since what 2017 crypto kiddies For me, it's it's a lot of fun. There's a lot of fun things. I want to check out I mean even with Polygon, they're reducing their fees. Yeah, the fees on their blockchain are considerably lower And they've also got this other thing which I don't know Let me let me know if you guys want me to make a video on this thing called avagacchi. I mean, it's This is something I'm trying to figure out at at the moment Anyway, this video is supposed to be about butter and now we're getting getting distracted and we're talking about a whole bunch of Other things so yeah, so Botto. It's it's a really cool project. Go check it out And like I say look out on on my super rare when we'll be releasing This little box and some like I said, we need to decide How we should do it I mean the nice thing about making why I put things in layers is not only can you then, you know Play around with your art piece and see how you actually want it But you can then also animate it and give it some special effects and and all that kind of stuff But yeah, I think This video has gone on for for long enough like I say, let me know if you want me to talk about avagacchi in an upcoming video And John follow me on Twitter. I mean my I use my middle name. So eight. Where's my profile over here? So yeah, Michael Bayman Jordan Bayman 1991 and there and I mean if you really feeling generous you can go You can go but oh, this is not back in 2017. This is back in 2016 gosh gosh, I'm old I'm very very old anyway. Thanks so much for watching everyone and I'll see you guys soon. Cheers