A brand new selection pack is finally here in Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel and it's introduced one of the top 5 decks in the game. And I'm not playing it. That's right, the all new pack didn't just introduce crazy support for Super Heavy Samurai, it also introduced the Gold Pride Arc type. And despite not being super heavy, but still remaining super expensive, I've decided to give this decklist a shot. So will we get any wins climbing up the rank ladder with Gold Pride? Well, that's exactly what we're going to find out today. Okay, let's get into our first duel of the video here. We are running with that punk Gold Pride branded engine. I'm going to walk you through how it works, why it works, and why I think it's the best way to play the game. Although, granted, my decklist is a little bit different than, you know, some other decklist out there. It's probably a little bit worse, but you know, it just works for me. Can we win the first coin toss? We don't, which means we're not going first, which means I hope we get some hand traps, man. I really hope. Oh, second. So Gold Pride, at least this deck, isn't really one you want to be going second with, especially with all the stuff going. At least we got, you know, we got Droll and Lockbird, so it's not like we're completely helpless. This could shut down a few decks. A Ghost Ogre and Snow Rabbit, not the best hand trap to draw them. We only run one of these because it is searchable in certain scenarios if you would want that. And we also open up with a trap card here, so that's pretty unfortunate. I hope you add a card to your hand relatively early, and let me Droll that real quick. Let me Droll and Lockbird that. Could this be it? Are we just going up against a few back row? A lot of back row. A lot of back row. All right. He just blind fired the Allure? Blind fire Allure? I know you're crazy, but what?  It's a Thunder Dragon deck, man. I, man. What is this, man? He just, he just, my guy froze.  That's crazy. And we draw into Leon. This hand is a little, a little different. Again, we want to start with our Punk Engine. We go into Xiamen, even though we can only really go into Foxy here, but that should be fine. So our opponent has some trap cards back there. We know he don't got any hand traps. He threw, he threw his one away. So how can he stop us? Any imperms? What do you got here that can play around this? Realistically, we don't want to go second because it just risk having too many negates on the board for us to play through, especially with a hand like ours. But hey, if he doesn't stop us, we're going to go ahead and grab Foxy Tune and activate its second effect. Foxy Tune's second effects allows us to ditch one card in our hand. And honestly, I'm ditching Ghost Ogre. I know, hey, I know it's a hand trap, but do we re, hauled by? Okay, so we, we can't play around with five. That's honestly still okay only because of the cards we have.  Why would I not ditch Captain Kerry? I almost made a huge mistake. Thank, honestly, thank you for playing around my mistake. I was going to make a mistake. Still, this is fine. Now we're just going to go ahead and honestly, this is kind of crazy. We're just going to special summon the Captain Kerry and grab another trap card. What does he have to stop this? You already used the call by bro. Normally, I put it in defense position, but what am I really afraid of? Captain Kerry's effect is going to go off. Normally, this is how we would search our one copy of the trap card, but I actually run two. I knew my bad deck construction was going to get, all right, so I'm not going to be able to exceed summon now, which is a little bit of a shame. But hey, to start your engines, I'm not even really that worried about it, honestly. And you know what? Because this guy did me like that, I might have to hit him with the, well, do I want to lower his life points to be lower than mine though? It might be smarter to just keep Leon in the hand. I don't really know. I don't actually want to hit this guy, I don't think. I could synchro summon, but he wouldn't. You know what? Let's go ahead and get Leon out here anyway. We're going to put him in defense mode though, because we don't want to swing. Or at least I don't want to swing. Droll and Lockbird, Ghost Ogre, we're going to leave the game state exactly like this. I think you could have swung if you really wanted to. It's not really going to matter going on his turn. Well, we'd be able to lower ours again anyway. But I'm just feeling very confident that he doesn't have much to go off here. Thunder Dragon. Oh, get ready for this one, buddy. Get ready for this one, buddy. What are you going to do now? The duel's over. The duel's already over. I know you've got to say allure of darkness. He's got a right officer, arrest this man. He's trying to gamble. Who is this guy? Does Dharma Cannon flip forever? Oh, just once? No. What did you do? What did you do? And thank you, Ash Blossom. Thank you for showing up to the party, man. Hold on. Let me get Xiamen out here. Hold on. Let me get Captain Kerry out here. Hold on. Let me Xiamen to lower my life points. Ugh. I'm not going to discard anything. And honestly, I'm just going to get the Shirakazai normal summon. Oh, I'm doing my combo, but late. All right. Hold on, everybody. Let me show you what this would have looked like. We know he's got nothing in hand. We know he has nothing. I'm going to pay 600 life points with Shirakazai and immediately go into Ryzen Carp. Ryzen Carp will replace Xiamen and Shirakazai, hits the field in defense position. Not like it really matters. It's just, he's here for a good time. Not a long time. Xiamen effect is kind of useless right now, so we don't. Ryzen Carp activates effect, and we're going to replace that with Deer Note. Yes. We're also going to special summon Wagon. Boom. Wagon. I mean, Deer Note. Wagon. You can do it any order you want. I am going to get a spell card. We're going to go ahead and get Extreme Jam Session. You run one of these in the deck, because, you know, it's just a little bonus. Just a little bonus to the punk engine, of course. And now we make our real play. With Deer Note and Wagon on the board, you want to go into Jam Dragon Drive. Jam Dragon Drive is going to get these two, and up next, you're going to want to see something very important. You don't want to mess this part up. Jam Dragon Drive on summon. Boom. We've got two effects to activate. Always go with the graveyard. Deer Note. I'm going to go ahead and ditch a, oh wait, what? Oh yeah, we got Shirokuzai on the board. And then Jam Dragon Drive, we're going to ditch a level three from our deck to the graveyard. That card is going to be none other than Nyan Nyan. Let me show you in a sec. So Nyan Nyan hits the graveyard. We don't add it to hand. The reason we want it in the graveyard is because on special summon of this level three, and normally this is where we would kind of do our thing. Give me that 600 life points real quick. And then Nyan Nyan also gets special summon from the graveyard because we special summon another level three. So very intricate there. You do want to get, get him out of here. Get him out. I was mid combo. I didn't even get to show off the gold pride part of the deck list. But then normally because of those level three's, you would start popping off with gold prides. Although we were already kind of done. I think we could have made 8,000 life points happen there, I think. Let's go into dual two now because that's not always how it's going to look. We kind of just droll and lock birded that guy and he just had to go next. But yeah, pretty good hand for us, especially going second. And now we don't have to go second. So I'm feeling a little more comfortable. But the question on everybody's mind, will my hand be good enough to play through some interruptions? It's looking, it's looking likely. So we did draw the gold pride better luck next time. That's a starter in and of itself. But we're actually going to go with terra top here for a second. So terra top allows us to special summon it and then also lets us special summon another level three. So you know, you know where we're going with this one. We're going into our rank three, except we're not going into our rank three. We actually do get an ash blossom out here, which is why I wanted to start with Terra. Maxi makes this a little interesting. Maxi definitely makes that a little interesting. I feel like he knows I'm on gold pride and that is definitely a little interesting. I'm not going to lie to you.  What do I do? I think I don't want to give him any draws. I kind of want to leave him with that, because I do have some hand traps in my hand to stop him from going too crazy. I'm not even going to special summon this. I know this is crazy. I'm going to normal summon and then just special summon, I think. We're going to give him one normal summon captain carry. This is only for the effect of getting our trap card. Our trap card is really good. It gives us one little stoppage point. We're going to set that down. We're not going to go into a rank three and I will give him one special summon only because I really want roller baller at least on the board. Just do I even do that? I can't guarantee I'll get a roller baller off the side switch. So I'll give him one. I'll give him one. We're going to give him one draw. We're not going to do anything about it. We're not going to activate roller baller's effect. That's a little surprise for the second half of this video. But that's it. So our board looks pretty bad. I get that. But what I'm not telling you is roller ball has a little bit of that negation built in him. He's got a little bit of that. Nah, I'd win in him. But all we can do is hope I didn't give our opponent too much gas and play around Maxi and Droll and Lockbird. And you know, hope that our Maxi scares him like his scared us and hope that Droll and Lockbird is there to lock him down anyway. That's all we can hope for. And then we have a monster destruction and then we have some the double monster absorption. But that's it. That's all we got. We also can go into a synchro play. I won't explain how. But basically it's because of start your engines. Well, what's it going to play? How do you get around the gold pride board of three monsters? How do you beat Speedroy Territop, Captain Carrie, and also roller baller, my favorite of the gold prides? I don't even think bro wants to play. He's trying to solve the board. He's trying to get around this trap card. Oh, big mistake. I'll chain Maxi to this. We're going to chain Maxi off this just in case he has like a call by or something because I'd rather Droll and Lockbird him off this. No. Oh, brother bear. It's looking good. Rivalry of the warlords. That's not good. He's playing skill drain. Oh my God. This guy's scary, bro. This guy is a fiend, man. Does Droll and Lockbird even do anything to these guys? I hope so. Hey, nice card that you added to your hand, man. Do you mind if I hit you with the Droll and Lockbird? Never again. You add no more cards, but go ahead and feel free to special summon. Did you have the call by? I know you didn't add the call by, so did you just have it? Oh, Droll and Lockbird moment in gaming. Oh, hit him with it.  Say your trap cards. This is still probably really bad for me. I'm not even going to lie. I'm not even going to lie. This is still, what's you doing with that one? Hold on. Should I just absorption that? I don't know if I want to absorption that. I kind of want to absorption that, though. I ain't even going to lie. I can't even lie to you. I kind of just want to steal that. Would I be able to with Pinballer? Hold on. Can I target anything he has? Oh, only face up monsters. He's playing around Pinballer. He's good. He knows everything about my deck. Leon. Well, to be honest, I guess I'm just going to go into. Ooh, but I could get a little crazy on him. All right, so maybe this is a little crazy. I'm not going to lie. Do I want to do that, though? I kind of want to hit him with the Zeus. But would that even matter? I don't really know. Monster effects, we couldn't negate that. We don't really need Chariot Carry right now. I don't think there's a way for me to get 8,000. So is the better play just to hit him with the Zeus? But he can definitely destroy a monster, bro. You know what, I am going to make the Chariot Carry just to send to the graveyard effect. I'm going to leave it in face up attack, too. Why not? Let's see how he plays around this. And then maybe we can adjust Rollerballer. Please sit this one out, man. I do not need you right now. We've got Leon in the hand, so we can make up for any big mistakes with this. That's kind of why I wanted to take this line, although I am open to the fact that this is probably not very good. I would like to see how a gold pride player would play this. Special summon one Labyrinth monster from hand to deck. Yep, pretty much expected there. And then Dogmatica punishment. OK, he's going to get a little draw off this. Chariot Carry. This is still OK. I still don't mind that too much. I'm glad I run two versions of this trap guard. I feel like that allows me to get a little crazy with it. So he's going to summon this. That's OK. I'm a little worried about the hand effect. I mean, what is he going to target here? Better luck next time. I guess that's the best bet. So actually, to be, oh, well, this is going to add a card to my hand. So really, I guess we have to hope for another Leon, right? He can only destroy one. We have to get lucky on this. We can get the Leon or I can do the Fusion effect, but I don't think that would stop it in time. Gold pride, start your engines. Let's see if we can play around this. I'm going to throw in probably another carry, though. Not sure what my opponent is thinking right now, but thinking is scary. I know his hand. I know he's got good trap cards, roughly. Oh, he's ditching his own monster that still lets me get my things, though. Spell cards. I don't got no spell cards in my hand, bro. I don't want to. I don't want to draw any spell cards either, for me and honest. So gold pride, better luck next time is gone. I can't get any spell cards because that's just crazy, bro. Eradicator Epidemic virus is a little nuts. Start your engines. I still get my three. I'm going to go with these and then a carry for the trap card to carry Leon Leon. We're fine with either of these. A Leon will lead to a carry anyway. So we do still want Leon and we get a Leon, baby. And we do get a Leon. I'll just summon this. It's still our turn as hard as it to imagine this. This is still blue, which means it's still our turn to duel. I'm going to leave it in face-up attack and it's gone.  That's crazy.   Bro, please don't take it away, man. This is so cheap, bro. I can't, that was a good little line from you. I can't even, oh, you didn't get my second one. Yes. Yes. Thank you so much for starting my engines. Leon hit the board. Leon effect activates. Leon allows us to target one non-warrior gold prize. We're going to go with carry. Carry's going to hit the board. Carry hits the board. Carry allows us to get a trap card as well. Trap card from deck to hand. Now, how does eradicator virus work? All spell, all cards they draw until the end of their third turn. Does adding a card to hand count as drawing? Is that how it works? Am I about to be pissed? What should I do? I think I'm about to be pissed. I ain't even going to lie. So we can go into Star Leon or Cherry and Carry. Well, actually 1800, how much damage could we get on the board here? Probably not enough to make it worth it doing that. Do I do this? It's so risky. What if it doesn't work like how I think it works, bro? That I've just done for. All right, Cherry and Carry in attack mode. We're just going to put it in attack mode. Why not? I don't know. And now we're going to see if I'm going to be sad. We're going to see if I'm going to be sad here in a second. I don't know how this works. I'll be honest. My Yu-Gi-Oh knowledge is limited. Does a Raticator stop me from adding a card to hand? Please? Are we safe? Are we safe in sound, dude? Do I want to send a card from my deck to the graveyard? If I do, I guess I'll just send Nitrohead. Why not? Captain Carry, don't activate. Roller Baller, don't activate. And it doesn't work like that. Yes! Better luck next time gets to come to the board anyway. Thank you. Thank you, I needed that. Do we get to play though? We do have another start your engine, so I do want to leave at least three in there. Could I add a carrier? You can only use this once per turn, right? I'll add it, why not? Leon to the hand, you know I got a normal sum in that. We don't get the effect, but that's still fine. Because again, we're here for a good time, not a long time. Do I want to do as much damage as possible? 18, 19, 15? Why not, right? Why not swing on this guy? Why not swing on this guy? I know we want our life points a little lower, but let's get him sweating a little bit. Let's get him sweating just a tad bit. So you're just toxic, bro. You're just toxic, man. I understand. You might want to pop him right now though, because I can just pinballer him and get him out of here. But then I lose my... Well, I guess I kind of have to pinballer him. Actually, no I don't. There's no rules against having to pinballer him right now. There really isn't any rules about having to pinballer him right now. I don't know what's optimal.  This duel has been testing my thinking ability. Chariot carry is gonna work. We're gonna get another carry out here. Sadly, we've exhausted our trap card options. So do we want carry from the graveyard or from the hand? Let's just do from deck to hand. Why not? Let's hope that we can draw another hand trap. Better luck next time. Can I get that draw though? Can I get that draw? Max, I'll take it. I'll take that. Decent enough hand trap as they come. Give us some draw. Hopefully we get to use it. This is kind of what I was waiting for though. Because if possible, I really don't mind getting the fusion for the double tap. And also we have gold pride starter engines. So hopefully we left three gold prides in the deck. I think I did my math right. Let's count. Oh, we might not. We might not. Honestly, I'm not sure. All right, we know he can special summon. So let's just let him do it first. Chain maxi, guys. We don't wanna shotgun it right now. We wanna chain this. Gold pride Leon. Don't do anything just yet. Watch the main phase one. Keep our eyes on the prize here. It's before the end of the main phase. God, damn it. All right, because it's before the end of the main phase, we're gonna use gold pride Leon's effect here. We're gonna do some special summoning. We're gonna synchro on his turn. That's how fast we are, bro. That's how fast we are. We're synchroing it up. We're just gonna go into, honestly, I don't wanna do any of those. Psychic Ed Punisher is a little crazy, but we're gonna do Star Leon for the destruction here. Star Leon's gonna hit the board in attack mode. Boom, bursting onto the scenes. My goodness, Captain Kerry. We're not gonna use that effect in the graveyard. No thanks. And now our opponent gets to play around a little bit here. We'll see what he does. If he does anything, we're not too sure what he's looking at right now. Our opponent is thinking up a storm. Okay, we'll take it. So he doesn't do anything again. He's gonna let us Star Leon pop this guy. We'll actually Star Leon copy his attack, but then it'll allow us to pop the stroke card. Yes. So he gets popped. We're at 4,500, which is why I put it in attack mode because we might as well be. It's before the end of the main phase again. I wonder what this guy is up to, man. What is he thinking? What is he thinking? I gotta know.  I haven't really used the punk engine much. There's kind of been pure gold pride right now, actually, other than Terror Top and all the hand traps. What is our opponent thinking about, man? My guy is, he's good. He's using every brain cell in his body. Okay, so he's gonna end on just that.  Unfortunately at the end of the turn, he's gotta make his exit here and replace it with a Leon who was in the graveyard. Leon though, as we hit the board, guess what that's gonna do, buddy? Well, I guess I, well, hold on, let me Leon first. Do we wanna bring out Carrie again? Or do I wanna bring out Nitrohead? I mean, I guess Carrie's just overall a little better and then better luck next time for the draw. Maybe we'll leave it, well, I guess all my Leon's are dead, huh? All my Leon's are dead. I kind of wish I got a Nitrohead. Oh, we draw into another hand trap, the beautiful part of running eight million hand traps. That's what you wanna see. All right, don't do any of that. End his turn, yep, yep. All that's pretty up and, up and at him. Draw phase 86 seconds on the clock. We got dear note. I'm not too sure I wanna use that though. We could go into psychic end punisher here, but I'm just not too sure how good that would be. All right, instead, we're just gonna play around his one trap card here, why not? We're gonna synchro these two away and play Adam, Ancipator, Risen, Dragite. I actually don't run any rocks, but we do have some water in the graveyard. We have waters in the graveyard. We have a start your engines, although to be honest, I need a card back in my deck for real. Just getting a little crazy. Hey, he's gotta get out of there. We had the trap in the gate. I'm glad he surrendered. I honestly think he probably could've gotten away from me there, but we'll take it. Honestly, maybe that was the play I should've made before, but good enough, we've got two wins. Man, you can see that I'm still not very good with this deck though. I have to think too often. And honestly, I'm sure I thought wrong. Please let me know down in the comments if you're a go, oh, another coin toss making the deck look good. Still though, we still need to just make sure that we're doing things right, that we get decent hands. We've got two hand traps here. We are going first, so it's not too bad. Foxy Toon is just a little bit, just a little bit unfortunate here. I'm not sure what I would drop for Foxy Toon, maybe Roller Baller. I guess we're gonna go ahead and Foxy Toon here real quick. Or I can add a spell. Yikes, I don't know. Do I wanna walk on into a spell effect into, that wouldn't really glue my engines together though. So what's the play? I guess we're gonna Foxy. We're gonna Foxy, see what happens. We'll ditch the Roller Baller. It's not too important anyway. Ditch the Roller Baller. I wanna keep my hand traps up right now. And then we go into, I mean, Xiamin is just better, I think. We could also just get this out because he clearly didn't stop us. I could do something a little crazy right now. But then I would use my normal summon. All right, we're just gonna Xiamin. We're gonna Xiamin. We're gonna see where this gets us. I think we might have screwed up already. Anytime I have to take a path other than the one I've practiced. Then I'm just gonna go to Shirakazai and I'm just gonna use my normal summon on this. Then we're just gonna use the normal summon on this. Get out Rising Carp. He hasn't played around anything just yet. I don't know if that means he's patient or if he just don't got it. So let's just, hmm, hmm. I could also play a little different for real. I could play a little different for real. I won't. I won't. We'll get Rising Carp out. We'll get Rising Carp out. We'll stick to the standard line and see how things work. I'm a little curious. I'm a little curious to see how this'll go. Rising Carp hits the field and again we're gonna go Dear Note and then we're gonna summon our own Wagon. Again, I'm keeping things consistent to my line, but the one I practice is the one I'm gonna do. Let me get my spell card out. Let me get my spell card out. There's no eradicator virus here, even though this wouldn't have counted. Activate Jam Extreme Session. You know that's gonna come in handy and now we're going into the Jam Dragon Drive. Wagon, Dear Note. Remember, and I'm saying this mostly for myself. I know you guys got it already, but hey, I need to activate the graveyard effect first. Dear Note. That's when we're gonna go ahead and target Shirakazei. Love that for me. Dragon Drive on the back burner. Make sure we're ditching Nyanian. Look at that life points. Already beautifully at 5,600. Nyanian, don't add it to the hand. Don't make that mistake, but also I guess I should say that is the moment where if you have Nyanian already in the graveyard, you can go ahead and add your Ghost Ogre hand trap. That's why I run the one Ghost Ogre, even if it's not like super good. It's like, you know, sometimes searching Ghost Ogre, it's good. And then boom, Nyanian hits the field. We have three levels to end an emergency teleport. Oh my God, I got to, right? Let me do it. Let me keep Shirakazei on the board for the extra bounce. Let me show you the other line. So we're just gonna add, well, I guess I could special summon that, but we're not gonna do that. Can I activate this effect more than once? That would have been crazy, man. That would have been crazy, but we're not, we're just gonna go ahead and get the Sherriot carry. Not too worried about anything else. We're just gonna having a good time here. Sherriot carry hits the board, allowing us to go ahead and search some stuff out. We've already got a roller baller in the graveyard. Let's get Nyanian out of here. That's gonna loop that for us. Better luck next time to the hand. Beautiful, send a card to the graveyard. I will, I'm gonna send, honestly, I kind of feel like sending a Nitro head, but I guess, hold on, I really wouldn't make too much sense. Should I add the Leon? Uh, there's so, if you wanna get greedy, there's so many different plays you could do, right? Like if I add a, ah, I don't know what I wanna do. Ha, ha, ha, I don't know what I wanna do, dude. Do I send a carry to the graveyard? Let's send a carry to the graveyard. Let's stick to the, let's stick to the script. Let's not use that. That's better luck next time. So we're gonna add three Leon. Oh wait, we don't get to choose. So this is what I meant when I got a little like, this is a little extra, I'm not gonna lie.  And this is kind of what I meant by being extra, although, you know, it could have been better. I'm just getting my trap card early. That's kind of why I want carry out here is for the start your engines trap card. And now we have a lot of options. We have a lot of options. We're gonna get a trap card to the hand as well, cause I do run two of them. Man, we have a lot of options on this next turn. I know our board's not looking that good. Sherry, it carries gonna bounce.  Dual Link Central, who is kind of who I learned this deck from. YouTuber, you go look it up, great teaching option. Okay, he just got it. He only runs one. I'm running two because I wanna be a little different for real, not a little different. But I like having the ability to search too. I didn't get my second search. That's not how it works. Well, later on in the duel, I'm gonna get my second search. Later on in the duel when I start bouncing carries around. That's the idea for me anyway. Ooh, that unironically sucks, but we're gonna maxi anyway.  We're gonna lose our trap card. So we lose a bit of our negation here. It's unfortunate. It's unfortunate for sure. Maxi gets to go off though. Extreme Jam Sessions also so good. He gets rid of our start your engines. That card is so good. We're not out of it just yet. Cause we still have this Sherry cause I play. Danger, I'm not even sure how this works.  It's just, it's a nice double bounce. And then we also have Star Leon for one pop, even though it could be better. Again, the fusion is also available. If you wanted to bring back roller baller, you could. Hey, let me get my draw though. And then you know what? I'm gonna droll and lock bird him. Let's see him play with the cards in his hand, huh? Hey, hey, do you think you could play with that hand right there? Buddy, go ahead and press me. Go ahead and press me. Make my day and press me. What you got? I know you got 400 defense, but what else you got? Droll and lock bird moment? Is this the droll and lock bird it's over? This is why you wanna go first in Yu-Gi-Oh! Masterful, baby. Oh, two monsters there, huh? Two monsters, let me go ahead and do this real quick. So I'm gonna do this to summon out. Boom, we get this guy. We get Jam Dragon drive, and now we're gonna bring out the punk boss of our deck. Oh, amazing dragon. Look at our little guy riding up there. Go ahead, activate this.   Yeah, get up out of here. Yeah, go ahead, leave. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, amazing dragon. Look, you can see the guy riding him. I love card art, man. It's before the end of the main phase. I'll let him go ahead then. I'll let him do his thing. Hey, let me draw. Oh, Nitro Head. This duel might be over already.  I'm just gonna special summon Nitro Head here. We might have enough on board to do this anyway. Amazing dragon, what can you do? We can special summon a punk monster from our graveyard. Honestly, you know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna use amazing dragon to special summon something. Ah, he's gotta leave, he's gotta leave. I was just deciding how it was gonna go, bro. I was just deciding what monster was gonna kill him. Ha, ha, ha, ha. All right, that was a pretty good duel for us. Obviously we kind of droll and lock birded him. I really wanna show a duel where our gold pride monsters are doing the second hand negating here, but I'm really, I'm struggling to get that, but at least you can see the duel. Oh, I was gonna say the deck. The deck has other options of winning. I will say a deck like this is where I feel hand traps fit the most because you just wanna have all those extra options that just do what you can do. Oh, this is so bad. This is such a bad hand. I wouldn't even be able to do anything with this.   There's no way we can make this cost life points. We should still play it in attack mode just for the draw, but it's kind of already a dead turn, bro. Oh my, oh my God, oh. That's a bad hand right there. This is the risky run. All we have is one ash blossom hitch. This is not the hand you wanna see. Hey, if you don't wanna kill me, I'll more than take that. No, honestly, no. Like I'm gonna make you fight me for it. I don't know what else you got, but no, you can keep the cards you have now, man. You're scaring me. Honestly, I can't let that happen. Yeah, yeah, I understand. Oh, yeah, yeah, I understand. I understand, you probably, oh, yeah, I understand. Yeah, I understand. No, I get it. No, I get it. Lava golem. I, yeah, well, I am gonna get a draw here. That's the reason I played this in attack mode. Boom, quick effect. Let me draw a card. Another, my third ash blossom. It's okay. Our life points are lower, so gold pride is online. Hopefully we get a, if we can get a carry here, like I wouldn't be that mad. A carry draw would kind of hit. All right, okay, hey. We lived through turn two. Really, that's all I can, oh, ghost ogre. Now you're seeing why the hand traps can sometimes be a double-edged sword here, man. I could go into an eight-star monster though.  Okay. Oh, we are cooked.  Only one of them? Oh, no. Oh, no, my God.  Oh, man, I gotta get rid of the cards in his hand. So we can't activate a monster effect. We could beat over it if we have an eight-star monster. Damn dragon drive's not gonna work. We only run that one eight-star, man. Well, technically we would also be able to get a little negation here, but it's just not gonna be worth it, especially when he could just beat us over the head. So my original play was to go for that, but honestly, it's a hard sell right now to do that. And he would just make it as discard a card anyway. Although we could ghost ogre him and pop that, but then we get, it wouldn't really be worth it to us necessarily. Actually, you know what? I think this is the play. Ghost ogre gets to stay in hand. We have to go for our level eight synchro dragite, and then we're gonna have to discard. Oh, no, but what if he gets discarded? Wow, I'm literally giving this all up to a prayer, huh? I'm literally doing this all for a prayer. Then I have to activate my effect, and then he's gonna fall for it, even though this literally does nothing. I have no rock monsters in the deck, by the way. No rock monsters in the deck. This is pretty bad. He just has to negate this. Okay, good. So that's gonna happen there. Then we're gonna ghost ogre. So the play kind of, when the play is playing, we get a ghost ogre off on him, pop that. We don't even have a rock monster in the deck, so this means nothing to me. Now I have to discard one though. He only had a kaiju, so it's not that bad. I didn't have to discard it. Oh, ooh, I have to discard my ash blossom.   Does anybody agree? Was this the agreeable move?  It's not necessarily advancing my plan, but I'm just surviving. This is something my deck can't, and yeah, and yeah, you do have that, huh? Ah, you had a fiend monster, man. You had a top deck into that, man. Come on, man, you didn't have to, you didn't have to do that to me. Come on, you couldn't have drawn like a, something else. Oh man, man. Oh man, he's got another gates of the dark world, man. Make it once per turn, please. Well, ah, you know, we tried our best. We tried our best. I think, wait, no other plays? No other plays? Gold pride? Gold pride? Please, Leon, please, Leon. If you're out there, Leon, save me. Imperm. Oh my God. I guess we said it. I mean, I don't want to get it discarded, so. Oh, Imperm. No. No, dude. It is once per turn, by the way. I was freaking out for actually no reason. Oh, how could this happen to me? It was a max seat. I'm as sad as I ever could be, man. Leon, please, if you're out there, Leon. Oh, we still don't have a shot.  Oh, it's over.  It is so over. I had never seen something over like this. 4,100, I'm still alive. Ranted this. Oh, bros. No. What? Oh, make it a hard once per turn. I knew it wasn't a once per turn. I knew I was lying to myself. I knew it. I knew it. Ah, damn. Damn, man. Damn. I only run one Imperm in the deck, too. That was such a bad card to get into. Damn. Good duel, though. I can't even lie. We just got Dark Worlded. We just got Dark Worlded there. We had a bad opening hand. Hey, sometimes that's going to happen with this deck. I need to show you all the reality of it, too. Not every duel is like, I have 80 hand traps, and I'm going to win, you know? Sometimes it's, I have eight hand traps, and I'm going to lose, so just got to keep it real. Let's get into another duel. Can we win a coin toss? Can we get our spirits up? I think we've won every coin. I'm not even sure what I'm talking about. I think last duel we just drew. We went first and had a horrible hand. Every time I say I have a horrible hand with a deck, I don't really know, though.  Are you like me? Anyway, I have gold-pride-better luck next time. Do I even want to mess around with Foxy Toon right now? I'm not sure I really do, to be honest. Like, in-per-monster negate, gold-pride-better luck next time so I can just literally special something. I mean, I'm just going to gold-pride it up. Why not? Mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm. I should have, I should have Foxy Toon. I should have Foxy Toon. That's still okay, though. That's still okay. It's just that now I have to make a very tough decision. Technically, I haven't normal summoned, so with Foxy Toon, I should be able to do the entire route, so it should be okay to ditch Captain Carrie. Let's try it out anyway, though. I'm going to ditch Captain Carrie. This could be very bad. I should probably not do this, but I am going to do this. It's greedy, don't stop me. Oh, you didn't stop me? Maybe that means you'll never stop me. Does he mean normal summon? Face-up attack, we don't care. Don't stop me. Droll and Lockbird, don't. I know you're playing gold-pride. You have a lot of hand traps. Oh, no. No, dear God, no. All right, so that's unfortunate. We should have done, we should have done. Well, I guess we wouldn't have been able to lower our life points anyway. So keeping, can I still pay 600 life points? Hey, I'll still, hey, I'll still take it because I know he's playing gold-pride. I got to keep my life points lower than his. And we have Droll and Lockbird. We have Droll and Lockbird. It's not necessarily over yet. We have a monster negate. We have the same thing he did, but I don't have a way to stop better luck next time. Rough, rough, rough, rough. Again, playing against another gold-pride player we should have known they were going to have, oh, that's like the best card you want to start with all the time, man. I couldn't get that. So you start with emergency teleport, but I can't. All right, we're going to let him activate it first. We're going to imperm that. Same as he did to me. This is literally the mirror match. We're both, we're both playing the gold-pride punk deck. I haven't actually run into another gold-pride player. This deck's pretty expensive. But I know I'm looking at another guy who dropped some money on this game right now. Is that bull, is that where we're both going to stop? I don't play Madame Spider. We run in different builds, bro. He's adding one punk trap card from deck to hand. Either way, I'm going to draw on Lockbird that. I'm going to draw on Lockbird that one, bro. Yeah, yeah. Oh, I forgot you had 900 attack, man. You're really going to do this. You're really going to do, well, now I got a top deck. Oh, I didn't even lower my life points to be beneath him, too.  What a mirror match. I don't even know what the trap card does, by the way. Can I see? I know that dangerous Gabu is something that a lot of people do negate its effects. That's unfortunate. OK, so he's going to negate any of my effects. So I can special summon this. The question is, can I? It's going to get negated, man. Can he just do it on anything, though? Target. So does that mean he could stop me, though? So I special summon an attack. And then even if I get negated, right? Getting negated is not the worst. I mean, he can only stop me until the end of this turn and then gain life points. So I'm not even sure he wants to necessarily do this. Let's try it. See, I guess I don't get running this card because why would you want to gain life points? Like, it's kind of a double-edged sword. Like, I agree. Like, stopping this isn't necessarily good for him. Then I can also special summon this, base up attack.   Like, I'm just going to take the 1200. We're already beneath him in life points, so I'm going to make him take this, too. I guess this is why I run the build I do because I'm not really sure why you would want this trap card. This trap card's not that good, especially because it takes up a deck slot. You could draw it. Like, it's a little risky. Although we know he would negate this anyway. So do I just want to go into chariot carry for the defense? Or do I want to go into gossip shadow? Gossip shadow is a little worse because he would just negate this next turn. I'd be thinking. This trap card do got me thinking though, so maybe it is pretty good. Negate its effects until the end of the turn. So I kind of want him to negate my effects now. But if he negates my effect, then I can't go back. So what does this card do against chariot carry? It's just going to let me get a card into the graveyard anyway. I'm trying to think if there's a better play. I could have gone for like a Zeus kind of deal, but it doesn't seem very good. I guess knowing everything I know, it just makes sense to go into chariot carry and get negated anyway, because then he would still have to gain life points putting him in a worse spot. So I guess this is okay with me. I'm trying to see if this is actually just bad for him. All right, yeah, here, negate my effect, bro. Do what you gotta do. It's not going to bring him up to my life points though. I probably shouldn't have swung. It would have made it a little more dangerous for him. Yeah, and then I guess I just end. And because I end, my effect's still negated, right? Yeah, so I get to keep the 2700 defense. Overall, it's not terrible. The thing is though, oh, he didn't gain the life points back, nevermind. Oh, you can. Oh, only if you control a punk monster, nevermind. I wasn't even reading it. Bro, I really don't be reading, nevermind. Okay, so that's why you would run this deck in this, this card in this deck. Okay, I get it. I get it. It's a bit of a monster negate. Unfortunately that you had another one. I'm probably cooked now, but I would have been cooked regardless because of the monster effect negate. So I guess this duel is exactly the reason you run that card. Damn, I feel like I could have gotten out of it though. I could have with a slightly better look, I could have gotten out of it. Like if I had played foxy tune first and baited that negate, I could have been in a pretty good spot, especially if I gold pride better luck next time. I guess you would always want to keep this for a second. I learned a hard lesson, but you know, you got to learn it. Now we're going to see the play from the opposite side of the board here, and it's going to be rough.  Extreme jam session. We've seen this combo from the other side. We really have. It's just a matter of, you know, it was, it was his turn. We even went first. That's the crazy thing is we went first, but I just, I picked a bad way to play my spells. I picked a bad way to play. I thought I could get away. I got greedy and now we got to pay the price. His internet. Oh, don't let that internet go out. Don't let that internet go out. Oh, no, he did it right. Ooh, he got me nerdy. I thought he did the little combo, bro. Oh, I thought he did it wrong. Ooh, I thought you messed up, bro. I really did. I thought you made a ensy-weensy mistake right there. Huh? You brought back Ryzen Karp? Is Ryzen, is bringing back Ryzen Karp better? Why would you not want to bring out like your tuner that you could go into this with? I guess cause you get Nyan-Nyan, you, maybe you feel confident anyway. What is the route, bro? What is this route? Is this better than my route? Oh, he's just going into it right away. Okay, he's more of a punk focused player. Okay. All right, maybe, maybe this is the route. I don't know. It's probably better. What do you think? What do we think? 600 attack. You're going to beat me down with 600 attack, man. Ooh, second attack. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Maybe this is the better route for the kill. Oh yeah, this is the better route for the kill. Okay, I see, I see. Hey, you know what? I learned something though. So I'm going to get mine more than I get got, man.  Do what you got to do. Gee, geez. Well, we got to see the gold prides go off on the other side of the board. So I'm still comfortable ending the video here. Hopefully you enjoyed it. If you want to see the gold prides again, honestly, I didn't even get to use pinball or so. I'm going to do another video on that. You know, hey, I got to do another video. Hopefully you liked it. 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Okay, we're back to three o'clock block likeable science one of the most likable shows in our lineup That's a Ethan Allen and he is the host guest Was it the guest host and I am whatever the other the other version of that is the guest host Okay, he's the real host of the show and we talk about things from science and technology that we stumble across In our daily readings, and this is one of the most interesting things that has come by in a while very high tech Yeah This is this is derived from an article in the daily cost KOS Very interesting newsletter on the internet. You can subscribe to it It's got a lot of interesting articles a lot of them about politicians But this one was at the tail end of was it yesterday morning's daily costs? And and I said what what is this because it the title of the article was the domestication of fire What does that got to do with Trump? nothing So I click on that and there's this fabulous article and I said it's an Ethan because I wanted to compare notes with Honor so you read the article. What did you think Ethan? It was great It was it was a real nice demonstration of how fire Was in some sense probably the first big disruptive technology and it changed humanity it Changed everything about how humanity lived it allowed us to Expand our range from the tropics and sub tropics up into the temperate zone even in the Arctic Allowed us to get more food more energy Probably altered Evolutionarily altered our heads. Let's be quite possibly allowing our brains to grow further freed up time Maybe the basis for language allowed us to start altering on the landscape That's probably some of the earliest climate change that we were actually inducing there. So, uh, yeah, it's It's sort of uncountable of its impact. Yeah. Yeah, well, that's unpacked that you just you said a mouthful just now There's a lot of stuff there So, I mean, I'm just thinking at random about some of the things that fire did for us Um, I guess the one that comes to mind at first is it's a defensive mechanism It defends against the beasts of the wild because they don't like fire and you can chase them away with fire and Survive their attack. This is very important. Right Another one would be some of these deserve more conversation others less another one would be Keeping warm, right, you know, they didn't have shelters. They had caves which were dark And cold and the fire could you know help them survive in bad weather indeed other than the very shallow entrance to a cave You can't really go very far into a cave without fire because your cave is dark plus Often other things living in the cave some of which might be fairly large and nasty I might not like you being there or might decide that you will be a good meal But with fire again, you can drive them out take over their space and then yes, you have shelter We're talking about caves Can you see all these drawings on the caves? I remember the first time I actually saw drawings on a cave It was in it was in a place called Lazy Z in southwest France Quite remarkable, but the cave was dark, right? How could you possibly draw anything intelligible on the wall of a cave? Unless you had light right here go fire, right? So indeed fire is probably in some sense responsible for human artistic creativity, too Yeah, yeah, I mean the idea of putting pen to paper so to speak actually creating a graphic that depended on Light right in a cave with a with a surface that you could actually draw on So that was pretty interesting and if you could if you could draw something on the cave You could have conceptual thoughts and you could start developing language By drawing on the cam recorder thoughts, too And it's a different medium other than simply verbalizing things. You know, it's a it's a fixed medium long lasting medium Yeah, other than the trends in nature of speech. So yeah, again, very powerful influence I guess you can't you can't do any of that without fire basically and just just to just to put a time frame on this This is probably around 80,000 years ago 80,000 years ago, which doesn't seem like it's that that much you know and It probably happened before humankind Left the East Rift Valley in East Africa. Yeah, I think this article suggests that somewhere probably around 400,000 years ago. We actually probably gained mastery of fire 100,000. Yeah, yeah, it was quite a long while ago There's there's some evidence we were using fire perhaps a million a million and a half years ago that the early Romance at least used it But they may not have known how to control it to start fighters and keep them keep them going Things move slowly in those days. Yes, in order to figure out how to make a horse Probably took him a hundred right Yeah, exactly, you know, whereas, you know, the iPhone came in five years Right. Yeah, this is yeah, things will be much more slowly and I get the biggest the biggest challenge of all was that how do you keep it burning? How do you keep the fire burning? You got to get the fuel You got to keep on supplying it and You have to have a way of having a place to have it burn Without getting doused in the rain or swept in the wind Oh without without starting and getting out of control, right?  So, you know these these two you're right. They took a long time to figure it out I'm sure there are lots of false starts. So, how do you think and this is a question that's not really answered in the article How do you think that the humankind ever really found fire? I mean where they could control it where they could it at all Where did it come from? Yeah, when one can only speculate that early People saw fires that were naturally occurring saw animals fleeing from them Perhaps wandering through aftermath found some roasted plants and roasted animals and being hungry ate those and realized they were like good and tasty and gave Faster energy to them. So, you know, it made that connection between the fire They somebody had to make the connection right fire was had had beneficial effects, right? But but once having made that connection. They had a actually get it Right put yourself out on the on the planes there. How did you how could you get fire? It's not so easy, right? And once you've got it if you don't if you don't understand how to make it Then you then keep it going is this sort of incredibly valuable thing to keep always going keep a stash of hot coals You can start a new fire. Oh, yeah, that's right.  Well, certainly But it strikes me also that this is Some one person whether he be Neanderthal or Cromanian man One person figured it out And he had very little schooling by the way One person figured it out and he was able to do it But I think the remarkable thing is I don't think we know for sure but this was happening in various places now it could be that they discovered it in the East Rift Valley and then as as You know the diaspora took place they took they took with them one thought and that thought is We better know about fire this fire will will save us Yeah, I mean, I'm guessing that it got independently discovered a number of times and probably at last, you know There were probably groups that discovered it and then lost fire and died out and yeah Oops, you know, they didn't make it you know But somebody else would discover how to do it how to use it how to control it a little better Maybe the next time so lightning sounds like a good prospect Don't you think I mean if there was a lightning bolt and something was burning because of the lightning And then they would see that it was happening and they would try to take a piece of burning material burning wood Whatever and and reduce it to their own control and try to keep it alive Yeah, once once you begin to understand what fire could do for you, right? And understood the basic process of adding more wood to it to keep it going Then yeah, and you started the process of sort of domestication of fire and Presumably groups found that very valuable to do. Yeah Now there was this movie, you know, and I was looking at this issue in preparation for today's show I'm trying to remember about the movie and it was a movie with Ray Don Chong Who in those days was really a knockout And and a few other guys and they all wore these in fact They got some kind of Academy Award for makeup because everybody looked like Neanderthal And and somebody invented a language a caveman language and they spoke the language in this movie The name of the movie ultimately I remembered was quest for fire 1981 and it was a movie without any English in it Without any civilization whatsoever with these fabulous scenes the scenery stretching across, you know, 50 miles at a time with with the small tribe, maybe a dozen people of Who were fascinated with fire who knew how important it was and they were involved in a kind of fisticuffs with another tribe down the block And in the process they lost their fire So they were there was freezing on a little island in a kind of swamp They were hungry and cold They were gonna die and they sent out a search party to search for fire and that's why the movies called quest for fire And it teaches you what you would have to do in those days Yeah, and it's set 80,000 years, so they knew about fire earlier, right? But now this was you know a quest to regain the power that they had had with their fire Right, yeah, and obviously if you were someone in that Culture who understood fire and knew how to keep it going knew how to revitalize it from embers and all You'd be in a position of real power. You you might be sort of a shaman or a leader of some sort, right? Yeah, well it was it was a mysterious thing I imagine sitting around a campfire when we were kids and looking into the flames. It was hypnotic Yes, some people inappropriately so the pyro pyromaniacs But but you know looking at it and seeing the hypnotic effect of it you think maybe this is An eternal being this is a God. This is a spiritual Person that is way beyond, you know your experience and you thus you attach a religious significance to the fire Right, I mean other than not being sort of cellular in nature fire is very much as many of the characteristics of life actually Yeah, well, yeah, and it's you know staring the fire has inspired poets and scientists alike The famous chemist Kekele is said to have discovered the ring like structure of benzene Well staring into fire watching the fire Tongues loop around each other and then realizing that's how that's how the carbon atoms in benzene had to be structured to make it Give it the properties it had Nobody had figured out for us great great puzzle in chemistry. So how benzene could possibly have its weird properties Well, it's truly one of the critical parts of our universe And what what did they say in the old times? What was it? Oh, this is slightly religious, but There are only four things in the world. It's fire wind water and earth that's it, but you can see the you know the The power and the importance of fire in the development of humanity. All right You we would not we would not be here. That's what I would not be here That's what I said. I mean it was truly disruptive in the sense It just radically altered the course that humanity was taking we were we were confined to a narrow little Band of tropics and subtropics. We spent virtually all of our time running down food eating food had you know That was sort of the extent of our lives Once we had fire You can get a lot more nourishment a lot faster protein. Yeah, and protein is very important to human development Evolutionary scale one of the nice points that article made was it it allowed scavenging to become effective, right? You can only scavenge a dead animal for a little while before it's rotting right and then you can't eat it Or you'll get a second eye, but you can take that same rotting animal and cook that meat and it's fine It's a great source of protein still, you know little maggots and renter just extra protein. Yeah, so now There's a suggestion that over time and we're talking about hundreds of thousands of years Fire allowed you To it's easier to eat it's easy if you're going to do me a fire helps you Make the food soft right and therefore you don't have to work as hard and this led to an evolutionary development in the In the skeleton of the head in that and the teeth right in the jaw You didn't have to have this massive brow ridge to ankle a but anchor a bunch of jaw muscles on anymore You didn't have to have a huge ridge on the top of your skull to hold a lot of heavy jaw muscles Yeah, it became much easier because it breaks in not just for me, but for starches or Grains or anything cooking them make some softer some more accessible and more digestible So then so you eat more you eat faster you can digest it faster And you're more efficient in general in getting protein into your body and protein is what makes protein led to the evolution of the bigger brain All right, so I mean it's like if you go all the way back go back to that 400,000 point where presumably it was discovered in the East River Valley It changed the evolution of the species right fire was our friend our partner in evolution Fire made it possible for us to survive to eat to succeed in hunting to improve But it goes further than that. I want to talk about the diaspora for a moment You know somehow from the East River Valley Humanity got to go everywhere in the world Different ways with different evolutionary results obviously between the races And to cross the Siberian Straits, which are very very cold. They were colder than now. They're a little warmer But how do you do that you can't go into a an Arctic environment and survive Without a way of staying warm and fire allowed that thus fire allowed the diaspora It allowed us to spread out of this this very narrow band of tropics subtropics that we were as as Essentially apes we were confined to Once we had fire yes, we could spread north we could spread south Many more resources new food new food sources You know all kinds of Opportunities yeah opened up. Well, and let's talk about the fire and weapons You needed a sharp stick you needed a piece of rock That was sharp as a weapon and fire gets you there fire applied to the stick could make it Sharp and pointed I couldn't do that otherwise The same thing with with rock if you've made the rock hot you could flake off right the pieces of it and make a blade I know this is ridiculous in the sense that you know here. We are 2019 we're talking about something that happened somewhere between 80,000 or 400,000 years ago But I think we have to understand this sort of thing good stop and appreciate it. Yeah, absolutely There was there was a real change that came about and then it came out because one sort of simple thing That's fire right. Yeah. Well, I think it's about time to take a break Ethan Why don't we take a break of maybe what 10,000 years or so? Who'll come back and we'll talk more about the domestication of fire. Okay? Hello, I'm Dave Stevens host of the cyber underground. This is where we discuss everything that relates to computers It's just kind of scare you out of your mind So come join us every week here on think tech Hawaii calm one PM on Friday afternoons And then you can go see all our episodes on YouTube just look up the cyber underground on YouTube All our shows will show up and please follow us. We're always giving you current relevant information to protect you Keep a new safe. Aloha Aloha, I'm Yukari Kunisue the host of Konnichiwa, Hawaii Japanese talk show on think tech Hawaii Konnichiwa, Hawaii is all Japanese broadcast show and Streamed live on think tech at 2 p.m. Every other Monday. Thank you so much for watching our show We look forward to seeing you then I'm Yukari Kunisue. Mahalo Hey, we're back with Ethan Allen and me talking about the domestication of fire You know, I don't think we can forget for a moment that it's built into us We didn't get here by some magical process. We are the product of evolution over those 400,000 years And fire is part of the evolution and in our in our DNA in our way of looking at things In our very existence is built in a kind of relationship with fire. Maybe that's why it's so fascinating To talk about it. Yeah, so and it's so fascinating I mean to if you you sit around a campfire it is there's something very mystical about that experience almost and there's something It's a bonding experience it's people to sit there and stare at the fire and they start talking and This article makes the point that that you know that kind of situation may have helped lead Humanity into the use of language actually. Yeah, so it's it creates a social bond to be around the fire Why and being around the fire through the darkness of the night? Offers a kind of cocoon where you can actually exchange ideas you have to build a language But you have to exchange ideas and and feelings and whatever motivations And and thus create a bit of a community around the fire Right and expand the length of day and at the same time because you were using the fire to cook your food You actually had the energy to stay up and Communicate yeah, it's a magnet. Yeah, it's a magnet for everything you do really to eat and cook and sleep warmly and Socialize at night around the fire It it brings these people together and in so doing it creates a society a Bond a community and before you know it now you have a family. It's all around the hearth Mm-hmm, and you have we can talk about dogs later. That's another part but but And then it goes to language communication and as you said it goes to religion All things are these things are inextricably intertwined in our DNA over 400,000 years, right? I mean if you think about many many religions use fire in various now more symbolic ways shapes and forms as a rebirth Purifying or really Rebossing of humanity whatever in various Traditions the fire plays very critical roles in some of them Yeah, we've just had a show with rabbi Krabz and Jansky of Khabar of Hawaii And he told me that well, I mean he reminded me that there are there's a What they call an eternal light in every synagogue which burns all the time and That that fire is symbolic, right? And so I think and has to be eternal Just the way the fire was should have been eternal in quest for fire the movie Yeah, I mean symbolically it's saying that's this is critical that we keep fire in our lives and we keep it going we understand Critical nature of that this act Keep fire burning some fundamental level. We must understand early on getting a fire going was probably a very very tough thing I don't know if you've ever tried starting a fire without proper implement It's the article talks about it over a period of time It was probably earlier than 80,000 no recent in 80,000 years ago.  Maybe you can get a fire. I mean, it's a unless you're a master that technique It's a very difficult and chancey thing to do, but it's a lot it's a lot better than you know hiking across the Terrain for miles and days to find a chance to find somebody else who had fire it steal it from you And you know, but every Boy Scout knows how to do this now And you look at a Boy Scout with the fire drill and you realize that this has been Implicit in the in the human condition for how many tens of thousands of years we could not have survived without it Well sure no I mean if you go out camping one of the key things you take with you is the stuff to make fire You know lighter matches flint and steel something that's going to enable you to make fire because you know, that's that's part of the whole thing I mean, I mean Jack London years ago wrote his story to build a fire where This becomes a literally a life-and-death matter whether this guy can build a fire or not He's stuck in the 75 below zero weather and oops and spoiler alert, you know, he doesn't make it So somewhere around the turn of the 20th century.  We had gas lamps on the streets. We had kerosene stoves We lived in many ways on the same fire the same flames that those guys You know on the on the on the on the fields In the woods and across the mountains We're using in 80,000 80,000 years ago and we were still doing it, right, but sometime Right around then around the turn of the 20th century. We invented electricity Electricity and so let me ask you this and then we gave up smoking. We gave up smoking So when's the last time you saw an open flame?  Oh God and you look at our literature if you look at our culture in general every globally, right fire is All through it in every way that the words of the notion of fire the meaning of fire the effect of fire It's everywhere and we haven't gotten rid of that and we're gonna get in more and more high-tech things That would be no open flames in the next century But but we will still be thinking about and talking about fire Absolutely, absolutely so Electricity has replaced fire in so many ways It's the it's the you know fire was the technology Electricity is the new technology and beyond that. I don't know what what happens after that It'll be something else remarkable, and I think what it makes us Appreciate is that we we as I said we would not be here. We would not be anywhere We'd still be in the East Rift Valley, right? Had we not had the benefit of this now and that means that people worth thinking about how to survive the great human the great human attribute thought and Creativity and innovation and they figured it out took a long time, but they figured it out I mean it's it's a classic, you know Darwinian selection here the the ones that didn't figure out Never made it right The ones who did and knew how to do it and to pass that past that ability on to their offspring Right the brains and in quest for fire You know the group of people who sent out the party to steal the fire from the next tribe They survived But but in other parties they other tribes they didn't think of that and they lost the fire and they died That were the end of their line. No, I'm sure I'm sure the loss of a fire has killed off Many lines of people over the over the eons, you know No, I used to think that when worse came to worse that that I could disappear into the north woods and Reinvent those early days That I would take my Boy Scout fire drill and I would make a little fire and I would survive and that would be critical to survive And I would I would then hunt more effectively with my sharpened stick I would I would kill an animal use his skin for my my clothing and I Would I would gather around a group of people who would who would enjoy a kind of common interest and become a little Society and I would somehow survive and what did you say Einstein Einstein's great quote? What was it? Oh, well, he said World Wars about the world wars. He said I know not what weapons will be used for World World War 3 But I can tell you World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones That's where we may be right and there won't be many of us either Big back there and we know we won't be evolutionary Evolution wise you won't be as strong as we used to be either now that that control of fire and the ability to create it I mean remember the movie cast away when Tom Hanks finally after a long struggles gets it makes his fire and Enables him suddenly now he can doesn't have to eat raw crabs and with slimy gooey stuff in LX He can cook the crowd Yeah, yeah So, you know being reduced to the state of nature is really not a likely possibility anymore Even if you know how to make a fire drill And so I think what we what we got is we got the new technology we got electricity We got nuclear energy and we really have to make the most of it because Can't go back. I don't think we can't go back. He's in no if we go back There's only going to be a very small number of people right now. Oh, yeah Yeah, you can't turn back the clock, but we have to appreciate what happened right because there are lessons in innovation In the development of the human condition And so it's worth having this conversation. We're studying technology and it's it's as early as right You could think of this as that Humanity got a hold of a of an energy source there with fire, right? Now we're looking around looking at solar energy being able to capture that a wind energy a wave energy It's over. We're searching for more and better energies and atomic energy Nuclear energy, I mean all these different paths. We're now searching for more energy in better ways to get energy It's not just simple combustion Well, just like fire we become dependent on our discovery We become dependent on the disruptive technology we stumbled into right right now We have other disruptive technologies that we are dependent on we can't give them up, right? And I guess that's a lesson here too because if you give up something you become dependent on well You're in trouble right So the the comparison I want to make before we close here today Then is the second technology that humankind discovered probably a little after fire was Talking about domestication of dogs domestication of dogs that was again a pivotal event but that shaped our futures and even more radically altered the future of the domestic dog But had again powerful far-ranging effects on both groups In terms of our food our ability to get things done to go places To travel to protect ourselves all of these things were Mightly impacted by domesticating dogs. Yeah, and this happened many tens of thousands of years ago and like fire We became dependent. We've developed a dependency with dogs. Maybe that's the magic of the relationship And they are our partner in evolution. They've helped us evolve without them Well, I don't know I I appreciate dogs on an affection basis But truth is that man's evolution humankind's evolution over the years has really depended on having dogs in the East East River Valley and elsewhere in the Diaspora And and right on through maybe what the 18th century or so 17th century You really couldn't get along without having your furry your furry friend who would protect you sure. I'm in a classic Whole shepherds with dogs or trained to keep flocks together. I mean that was Remarkable stuff. Yeah. Yeah dog was was a key Dog domestication with a key technology if you will So you could get along today without a dog is possible right to do And yet I think it's worth taking a moment as we are To look back and appreciate from whence we came in terms of developing Species on the planet if you think about it a fire was probably critical to helping bring the dog into our orbit basically because one can envision Walls hanging out around that the periphery of fires You know waiting to get extra food and those that sort of behave well look gradually became dogs And that was that didn't slunk off in the woods and stayed as well And you were telling me about an experiment that was going on to Domesticate fox wild animal wild dogs today to make them. It's how did that work? So this isn't actually it's still ongoing in in Russia, but back in the mid I think 60s it started this one guy took lots of foxes and he started breeding the calmest gentlest foxes together and also breeding the wildest nastiest ones together and Because of the way foxes reproducing and do this once a year and you get a new generation and After 15 years 15 generations.  They're becoming very nice. They're becoming dog-like basically After just 15 generations and now I think it's gone on for 30 40 50 years now, and yeah, they've got way more So they have these these wonderful domestic foxes now as or There are no longer real foxes. They are basically a sort of second line of domestic dog We're married to dogs a species is married Man, give me a family who wouldn't want one. Give me a kid who wouldn't want one, right? You know not everybody has them, but it's clear that you know We are we are married to them as a species the other thing is like like fire You don't you don't see much fire open flame around these days except in wildfires in California But in terms of dogs, we do see dogs Not only in the home, but we we see them used to sniff out drugs in the airports We see them on the battlefield as we did on World War two I'm sure they still have these German shepherd dogs in the battlefields elsewhere And they'll probably continue to play a role because they are the remarkable thing about dogs is you can instruct them to do something And they will do what you want, right? How different is that from a computer, right? No, in a sense, right, but they're mobile and they have capabilities that we don't have right They have a much better sense of smell for instance than we have so yeah, I can yeah, right So I think we have to be aware of all these things as we go forward and learn about innovation some early technology They're still sort of reverberating with us, right? Right and maybe it drives us to be innovative to see how well we've done with these early technologies We know it at some level in our DNA and makes it it makes us Redutarily makes us innovative. We are innovative species, right? I'm sure you know the genes for innovation have been passed along and survived those that didn't have it didn't make it Yeah, and I feel now between you and me that it makes us do this show Thank you. It's a thank you. Thank you to talk with you. Take care. Take care


What is going on guys, welcome back to the channel and I appreciate you being here today. I am back with another Fortnite news video and today we have a few bits to cover including the return of 50v50 but it comes back with changes which we'll go into in a second. But before we do that people, I am giving away 2800 V-Box to win. Make sure you are subscribed to this channel and have that bell button turned on for notifications. Drop a like on this video and leave a comment down below. I will contact winners via direct message so good luck everybody. So let's get into it, 50v50 is returning. The news tab within Fortnite about where I reveal this it states, back and better than ever, two teams of 50 battle it out with two bosses, increased loot spawns and massive thoughts. So what's changed? They plan on having it closer to the 50v50 trailer experience we saw, split to start, converge on battle, boss for each team, see all your squad mates on the map and more supply drops so it definitely sounds more fun than the first. I look forward to trying it out for a second time, not going to lie I really didn't enjoy the first one but I will give it another chance for sure. The problem I had was it was nothing like how the trailer portrayed it to be. It's good to see the changes being made, I'm trying to lead it that way though but we will see people. In a few hours from now we will get a new update patch, patch version 3.5.0, which fixes many current issues and brings a couple of new things to the game. Firstly it brings the new port of thought which I covered earlier, since then they have released a trailer of this thing and as I expected it will build the force I predicted. So that's pretty cool, check out the trailer right here. Also with this patch we will get changes to the guided missile, what these are at the moment we do not know, but Epic replied to it a relic post which you guys can see on screen now. CJ Leto 12 states, personally I like to see more of a response to the recent concerns the community are having with the items you're putting in the game. For me the guided missile has made the game less fun, not because it's super powerful but because once someone targets you with it your sat building boxes around yourself until you can move, it slows the game down especially in squads and duels. Chris at LS8 at Epic Games replied with, we want to provide more items that allow for many different play styles and tactical play. All within thematic world are Fortnite, we're going to continue to iterate on the game and add new items with the hope that we will continue to create fun new gameplay experiences. As for the guided missile, lots of feedback has been valid and you will see adjustments made in the version 3.5 patch tomorrow, so I wonder what's actually changing here. Also with this patch tomorrow we'll be able to see friendly traps, i.e traps placed by teammates. A bad time this is happening really is. These are the important bug fixes coming with tomorrow's patch they state, floating weapon unable to shoot, quickly cycling through weapons or switching to build mode can cause your weapon to appear to float or keep you from being able to shoot or build. Unable to build, players may encounter a temporary issue with building even with the correct amount of materials. Unable to edit structures, players may sometimes become locked out of editing friendly structures. Random controller vibrations, controllers are vibrating at times when they shouldn't. We all know this is not an actual problem, we all know this is a hint activity tellers being destroyed, this has been proven. Visual problem with the rabbit radar outfit, players may notice visual problems with their ears while playing. I actually noticed playing with my daughter, them ears got all white hood, I said that gameplay has made notice of visual problems with the ears while wearing the rabbit radar outfit. This is expected to fix problems with Raven too, haven't noticed anything on Raven though, but hey. General hitches during gameplay on console, the amount of longer hitches on console has steadily increased over the last few builds. As far as we can tell the root cause is blocking loads and we are pursuing two approaches to improve the situation, making sure we are not blocking unfile IO and removing cases where we incorrectly are improving load speed. The latter is done by reordering our assets on HDD which requires shipping a large patch on PS4 and Xbox One. This is currently planned for version 3.5, so people expect a massive patch if you are on console with this update. And yes guys that's what we know about this patch so far, if anything else comes up I will have you guys covered here on my channel. On that note guys I am out, thanks as always for stopping by, if you enjoyed the video leaving a like really does help me out, if you're new around here and enjoy these daily fault night videos be sure to subscribe and hopefully people I will see you on that next one.


Hi, welcome to Fixed Layout EPUB Accessibility Demonstration. My name is Milsa Castillou and I am an Accessibility Consultant for NELS, and I'm talking to you from Chaudjage, known as Montreal, where I live. I would like to begin by acknowledging that I am located on unceded Indigenous lands and that Chaudjage is historically known as a gathering place for many First Nations. This presentation aims to give you a little insight into accessible Fixed Layout electronic publications. So for today I will start by a simple introduction to what is Fixed Layout. After that I will be explaining the limits of this format in terms of accessibility. And once we have established these limits and we understand the context where Fixed Layout is appropriate or not, I will show you some elements you should include to address some common accessibility issues. The presentation will be followed by a 10 minute long Q&A session and also the PowerPoint will be made available after the summit with all links to online resources for more information. What is a Fixed Layout EPUB? It is mainly a format of digital publication where the print layout is preserved in the digital edition. It is somehow the opposite of reflowable EPUB such as presented by my colleague Kai in the previous demonstration. For people who are not familiar with the difference between Fixed and Reflowable Layout, we could say that Fixed Layout EPUB is comparable to EPUB format where the layout would stay consistently the same. On the other hand, Reflowable EPUB could be compared to a regular web page where you can change font type, size, and color and where also you could zoom in and out while the content automatically adjusts to the window and I will be demonstrating these two things in a minute. Advantage and Limitation of Fixed Layout Fixed Layout has its advantages such as total control over the book display for the publishers. This is why books such as children books, comic books, photo books are produced mostly in this format. The format enables a heavy usage of graphic and design elements. That being said, these advantages have a pretty heavy cost in terms of accessibility. There are two main issues that will be discussed today. First is the fact that readers can't adjust the visual layout to their needs. So aside from making sure the content is as readable as possible, it is not possible to fully remediate this issue even while following the best guideline ever. So it is important to be aware of this before considering the second main issue is related to screen reader user. So in Fixed Layout, most of the time each word is usually wrap in span tag. So the screen reader would read each word one by one and we'll look at this issue closer now. So let's first talk about visual adjustments. I would like to illustrate the difference between Reflowable and Fixed Layout book in terms of the visual adjustment possibilities. So here I have a Reflowable book and I'm at chapter one. And the first paragraph is written in very, very small font and this is an issue. I can't read it, it's too small. So what I would do is to go in the reader preference and I'm in the eReader vital bookshelf and then I would choose the text size that I prefer. So for me now I would choose the larger one. So here we go. So what's happening is that the text has been enlarged and it's also been adapt to the size of the window. Here again we have another issue, the line spacing between the line is too small so it's all crammed together. So it's easy. I go again in the reader preference and I choose a larger line spacing and here we go. We have like a really readable text and this really illustrates the possibility of Reflowable Layout to be adjusted to the reader needs. It is a very different story indeed when it comes to Fixed Layout. So here we go. So here we have a Fixed Layout book with a very similar issue. We have a paragraph that is in such a small font that it's really hard to read. So let's do the same thing that we did for the Reflowable and go to the reader preference. Here we don't have the same feature to enlarge the font. The only possibility is to enlarge the page. That means the font is not going to adapt to the same size of the page. That is problematic for readability. For instance you may have to go from right to left and then right to left again to be able to read like line by line the text. And also depends on the quality of the image but the text may not be readable at all. So that illustrates the issue that can emerge from not having the possibility to adapt content. So we will see it soon a way to make the font as readable as possible. But keep in mind that with Fixed Layout the reader doesn't have the possibility to adapt the font to their need. And now let's look at a small video about the Spantag issue. Books that allow for Reflowable content are usually easy to navigate and read with assistive technology. When play is pressed the content is well narrated. In this text we have studied the effects of a number of invasions, conquests and waves of settlement in the history of English. In contrast books produced in Fixed Layout presented choppy and disjointed reading experience. Introduction. Capital T. Industry. You surely have noticed that the reading experience with Fixed Layout is very choppy. This is because in order to keep the layout each word will be put between Spantag. So that means it makes it unreadable with a screen reader. There is some way to remediate this issue such as putting the full sentence between Spantag instead of each word. However keep in mind that there is readability issue with screen reader for a Fixed Layout book. In short Fixed Layout Advantage have a heavy class in terms of readability and accessibility. Especially for people with print disability therefore you should choose wisely. I added to this slide the two button meme. The first panel show two big red button called Fixed Layout and Reflowable. The second panel show a man sweating profusely trying to decide which button to press. And the caption says Fixed Layout may lead to total devastation. To avoid a catastrophe here's some advice to decide if your book content justify the user Fixed Layout or not. So if your book layouts must stay the same because it has meaning in itself and I'm talking here about the layout you can use Fixed Layout. We can think here example of a comic book that is reliant on its organization and appearance for meaning. The frame of the page decides the orientation and the panel's position actually convey meaning. Therefore Reflowability would affect the ability of the reader to comprehend the content. That would be an excellent reason to do a Fixed Layout. A children picture book would also justify a user Fixed Layout. On the other hand a novel with mostly text and some images here and there does not justify the user Fixed Layout. Even a book with many images within the textual content would not justify for Fixed Layout because the layout does not contain meaning in itself. Now that we know the accessibility limits of Fixed Layout and that we should use it only if necessary we can continue safely. Let's imagine our book need total layout control how to make sure it does not lead to total devastation in its accessibility. So here are some recommendations for more accessible Fixed Layouts. The first key point if I can say it like that is alternative text or image description. Fixed Layout have usually a lot or even consists entirely of images. Ensuring that the information conveyed by images is accessible to all reader is top priority when making Fixed Layout as accessible as possible. So having good image description is super important. The image description guideline is the same for Fixed Layout and Reflowable Layout. However, Fixed Layout are susceptible to have some specific challenges when it comes to describing and I have two examples for you. My first example of complex images concern context and structure. So I have included a strip of my Felda comic book and my Felda is looking at an earth globe while her father read the newspaper. It has four panel and in the first she asked where are we? In the second panel the father says here see while pointing at Argentina at the bottom of the globe.  The fourth panel with my Felda the globe and her father is now upside down. My Felda says my word I think from now on I'll feel more attached to this ground. This strip is a good example of content that need a description that require to go further than describing the individual images. This strip needs a description that take in consideration the spatial organization of the panel. The fact that the last panel is upside down revealed that my Felda literally feel her world has been turned upside down and because of this we now understand why she say that she feel more attached to the ground and also we can understand the comical aspect of this strip. The second example of complex images concern image where there is many element in one image. For the second example I have taken an image from the Smurf comic book and the image show a riot at a football match and there is many thing happening at once. There is some Smurf football player that look confused on the pitch while on the crowd there is many Smurf fighting, shouting to each other. There is some object being thrown. There are many dialogue bubble across the image saying foul, cheat, same to you and on. This kind of image there is many different action happening at once is actually quite a common place in fixed layout. So the challenge here is to describe the image and provide context given that the description is not attached with one single item. These images would require a long and complex description. I encourage you to go look at the guide to image description on accessiblepublishing.ca for more information about image description. Another important element for fixed layout accessibility is good navigation. Many of the EPUB accessibility feature found in reflowable EPUB can still be used in fixed layout. The first step for great navigation is happening in the EPUB navigation document which is a mandatory component of EPUB package. It allows publisher to include a human and machine readable navigation layer which increase usability and accessibility for the reader. Here are three main features to keep in mind. Adding a table of content, a page list and landmarks. Adding section marker and landmark to the major section of the publication example cover page table of content can further increase the accessibility. Here a very very short demo of navigation in a fixed layout book. Here I have open the fixed layout book called The Adventure of Polkadot made by Lia and on the left side we can see some table of content that had been added into the navigation file. I can click to the cover page on the title page and I will be redirected to the title page copyright, dedication and another part of the book. So this is what the nav file allows you to do in your e-reader. Also if you add page list I can go on the top right and write down page 7 and enter and I will be redirected to page 7. I could also write page 1 and be redirected again to page 1. So this is a small demo of the navigation possibility with fixed layout. Now let's talk about reading order. Each page of a fixed layout EPUB is an individual XHTML page and pages are presented sequentially in the order that they are listed in the spine element of the package document. An EPUB needs to offer access to the content in some specific order. This is quite obvious you wouldn't want an EPUB that started by the conclusion and finished by the introduction. It is usually quite straightforward also within the textual content order as it would go from left to right and top bottom. The issue is that many fixed layout publications don't necessarily have an obvious reading order or the logical progression through the content don't follow the regular one. You can find design where there is multiple readable objects on the same page in a quite chaotic manner. Here as an example is again the smurf football riot where there is many dialogue bubble. The reading order is not obvious. For viewer, the visual page, the reading order can be inferred by different visual cue including size, style and font. Without the properly coded reading order the screen reader which rely on machine readable information would read in a regular order which can make it very confusing. It is therefore important to take time to ensure that thoughts has been put into the reading order for the textual content. Accessibility recommendation. The recommended best practice solution here is to adjust the reading order of the elements within the Xhtml page and preserve the design using CSS. Design CSS. Semantic structure in the Xhtml page. Next is a structural hierarchy. So headings are a key way for reader who use assistive technology to get a feel for how the book is laid out. It is important to be able to know when a new section begins and navigate efficiently between sections. Therefore a predictable structure of cascading headings is crucial to any accessible EPUB. In a book, level 1 heading should be used for major sections such as chapter and a title of subsection within chapter should be marked up with level 2 heading and etc. So now let's talk about readability. Readability of fixed layout content is so important for accessibility and particularly for user with low vision or learning disabilities. Readability could be defined as an easy and enjoyable reading experience. As I mentioned earlier, fixed layout does not allow visual adaptability and sentence reader can't customize the textual content to their need and preferences. It is so important to consider best practices to create books that are as readable as possible. The first piece of readability is fund selection. So there isn't a specific fund that is good for all user needs, but certain fund characteristics would increase legibility. So when planning fund selection in fixed layout, consider the following. First, the fund type. There is no specific fund type and again no one size fit for all, but one recommendation would be to use fund type without serif, that augment legibility. After fund sizing, a 16 point fund would be sufficient for most content and if there is a lot of textual content, it is actually recommended to consider a larger body fund size like 18 point to ensure readability. At last, the fund weight. Using a two light fund can be an accessibility issue and make it hard for some user to read. Similarly, content that is too bold or heavy can also have its own issues. Next piece, color contrast. Here I have an example of a fixed layout book that have a readability issue. The book page consists of an image displaying a bulldog waiting to get on the couch. At the bottom of the image, there is a paragraph of text in black font and the text background is a beige blanket with many folds, which makes it very difficult to read and cause readability issue. So here we need to consider color contrast. So it is important to follow the WCAG guideline for color contrast. This is especially important for visual content. It is strongly recommended to place text on a solid background or one that is neutral enough to increase legibility of the text. We could, for instance, improve the last example by adding a solid square background to the text content. Another piece of EPUB fixed layout accessibility is media overlays. Media overlay for EPUB allow for now publisher to synchronize text and audio. It would be possible, for instance, produce a children's book with human voice narration and attach the narration to the text. The other file would be divided in small clip and attached to their textual sentences or paragraph. Media overlay helps reader who would have difficulty following the text of a traditional book. It is also quite useful for children who are learning to read. Well coded, the reader can look at the text being highlighted in the same time that they are listening to the narration. For dyslexic children and even adults, having access to the content visually and verbally simultaneously is very beneficial for learning. So using Resolverly is a great way to make up for some of the format limitations. The last piece here is accessibility metadata. As we know, fixed layout are not perfectly accessible. It is therefore important to share the accessibility limits to the reader. And metadata are a bit like a list of ingredients at a supermarket on a food item. If, for example, you have a peanut allergy, you need to know before you buy it and certainly taste it. So in the same way, the allergic person will be so thankful to know they can't consume the product. Some readers will be happy to know in advance what to expect with the book. So as a producer and publisher, don't be shy if your book is not fully accessible, just indicate it in the metadata. In conclusion, here are some key points from this presentation. First, remember that fixed layout format pose many accessibility issues. Also, use fixed layout only if necessary. And if you do, follow the fixed layout accessibility guideline to improve image description, navigation, readability, and accessible metadata. I have some resources for you, so I encourage you to visit the website accessiblepublishing.ca for the Guide to Image Description. I encourage you to consult also the websites W3C, EPUB, Fixed Layout Accessibility and the WCAG Color Contrast guideline. Also, note that in the accessible publishing summit, Google Drive, there is a sample of fixed layout book. Thank you for listening, and now we can go to the discussion session.