Hello friends and welcome back to another BGC 2020 Battle Series episode My name is Lee also known as Osiris and in today's episode We're going to continue on with our preparations for series 6 with a Durant team as you can see on the screen in front You've got Durant then we go got the tell Primarina, Arcanine and Mungus and Gigalith So we took a lot of inspiration from this team from a team report and team that was a very successful In an earlier format from look at me. He's done actually a really comprehensive team report over on trainer tower I'll link it down in the description below and I would recommend even All the players especially new players to check this team report out very cohesive and goes into depth on why He's chose the Pokemon why they work together in and the cohesion between each and every one of the members there And as you can see he's got the goth hotel Durant Milotic Tyranitar Arcanine Sylvia and obviously we can't have access to Tyranitar anymore And but a lot of the other members on this team are still available to use So if you check this out, maybe it will inspire you with them a Durant build of your own because Durant was very popular early on in the format But then kind of dropped off with a lot of new Introductions of Pokemon in series 5 especially so dropped off the usage stats a little bit But I think with a lot of the Pokemon that give it a lot of trouble gone now It's probably going to come back in a big way So it's important to understand that Durant is going to be a big threat And maybe it's something that you want to use as well going forward So it was primarily the reason why I wanted to feature on the channel and create a team for you guys So as always what we're going to do is have a couple of games And then I'll check up the rental team at the end of the episode if you're wondering if there's a Poker paste it is down in the description So check that out and as always if you do enjoy this sort of content Please remember to drop a like on the video does really support the channel Let's me know that you're enjoying this content And if you are new to the channel make sure you do hit that subscribe button and smash that notification bell So you get the notifications for when these teams coming up for our series 6 preparation are going up and live So to say we're gonna jump into it right now I'm really looking forward to using this team like the Durant is a Pokemon I think has a lot of potential and because I haven't used it for a long time It's been like series 3 maybe was last time I used Durant So it's been a while since I actually had a play around with it And it's gonna be a lot of fun So hopefully we find some opponents pretty quickly and we can get into a couple of good games today with it But I like I say I think Durant Especially with Cinderace kind of been removed from the scene I think Dragapult kind of helps with that as well Those faster threats aren't around anymore to give Durant a lot of trouble. So Makes it easier obviously in Cinderall kind of leaving the format as well definitely helps Obviously a big predominant fire type that we did see a lot of so We've got a lot of options now with Durant Okay, so we've got a first opponent playing a team of Arcanine Ryperia Dusklops, Dommanitan, Rotomwash and Amungus So it's nice to see a series 6 legal team I think there's more and more of them as we're coming on to the casual battle now ladder now So if you guys want to practice, it's probably a good place We're seeing more players playing these legal series 6 teams. Okay, can we need Durant? Maybe not because The Durant, the Dommanitan is probably Scarfed I would imagine on my opponent's team But we do have Bakeup from Gothetel to give us a little bit of room there and so we could go along those lines Got to be careful as always of the Amungus, but other than that, I think we'll be alright So I'm gonna go with Durant the Gothetel. I definitely want Primerina in this match and probably Amungus, I think helps us a bunch with the Rotom helps protect Primerina And it's got that if the trick room does go up We've got that spore as well that we can throw out from our end To help us against stuff like Ryperia because you've got that Dusklops Ryperia call there with potentially trick room and The the bulldoze weakness policy stuff. So We'll go with it. We'll go with it. We'll see what we can do in this first one here But Durant like I say I can't hype it enough. I do love Durant It's because I haven't really played it enough and I was earlier on reading through Lukamea's report and honestly It's so good. I would like I know I've said it earlier in the video and I'm repeating myself But I really would suggest that like and and definitely recommend you guys to go and check that out It's such a good report Okay, we've got Dommanitan and Rotom. So it's not about lead for my opponent, honestly They do threaten willow respond to the Durant of course with the the Rotom But the the Dommanitan for sure Is scary and so I definitely want to fake that thing out and probably want to just go for a max I mean do we go for max quick? It gives us a little bit more Durability against any special type attacks are coming out from the Rotom And they don't have a ground immunity out The only issue would be if we saw an ally switch from the Rotom which would be horrendously bad That would be the only thing That would be literally the only thing I think we're gonna go for steel spike into yeah, we're gonna go Steel spike. I don't need to risk it the defense boost is gonna be useful Especially if the right period comes out later on And then we can think about my squaking after this I just I'm gonna double in put all eggs in one basket against this Dommanitan I'm just praying that we don't see our life switch, which definitely was there was a great comment I don't know who it was in the last video said petitioned by an ally switch Or Pokemon in general. I'm totally behind that. Let's get on board with it. Let's start the petition Okay, so what we're gonna see we get the fake out into the Dommanitan, which is great I'm hopefully gonna be able to get rid of this threat. Yeah, we're gonna be able to know I like switch here Just just the fear of it was enough So we are gonna be able to remove it from the field, which is brilliant We get the fence boost as well on to go to tell Onto that Durand does worry me a little bit. We're giving this room a little bit too much room It could nasty plot here, which wouldn't be amazing, but it's not gonna be the end of the world if it does Yeah, we are gonna see that nasty plot. So it's probably gonna max its next turn and Which is the reason why we need to start trying to stack some of these max quake damage and you know It might have been better off to go for it there But you kind of understand the reasons why it didn't go for it in that first instance Do you see the arcanine coming it is gonna get the intimidate on to Durant Oh, it might be a good time now to honestly get our trick room up Just we could get trick room up now and then we are gonna be able to get to move this on to the field and Then put put stuff to sleep could go from max quake as well into the arcanine And what we have to face the facts that we're probably going going to lose Durant here and But I mean if we don't take the arcanine down, which I don't suspect we will do we could help in hand But I think in the long run. It's probably gonna be better if we sacked around and then We get a trick room up get a moongus onto the field put that rotten to sleep shut it down The likelihood is that we're gonna see The rotten probably attack into got the tail but with a special defense boost we should take whatever they kind of throw out at us and As we get that max quake into the arcanine like I say we could have help and handed the arcanine here But not okay. Well, don't need that don't need that Durant just actually Bodying arcanine, which is pretty amazing and we didn't expect it to take it down But there we go. Um, of course like I forget because incinerals much more like it's way better to Handling things then Then arcanine on the defensive side so you can calc quite easily like Incineroar to take the minus one tax from Durant but arcanine not so much Okay, so like I say we do lose Durant But at the same time we are able to get a trick room up, which is great And so depending on what comes in. I mean my opponent doesn't really have anything slower than a moongus and Other than that that they're on dust globs Which is fine and is the dust globs? Yeah, it's not gonna be it's gonna be the movie So that's that's all right, so we can just really disrupt what my opponent is trying to do here We've got primarine here in the back And they're probably likely going to put our got the tail to sleep I would imagine unless they're running like a super speedy a moongus Which wouldn't make so much sense in their team if you look at like that they're build They're kind of more trick room oriented with the right period of the dust club So makes sense to have maybe a very slow moongus in that build rather than the fast one So I don't think I got the tails gonna get the jump on it here So we might just end up with two sleeping Pokemon But hopefully like the main thing what we want to be doing here is just shutting down that road I'm stopping it from really Doing too much. I've actually seen it protect which is interesting Yeah, no no safety goggles there, which could have been super bad and we do get the psychic there into the protect and Trick room fully enforced now we can I think we've got for another psychic here We could go for a helping hand, you know, um The got the tails kind of important to us because if we lose the got the tail our ways with dealing with the Opposite moongus become a little bit awkward and We just got a hope that the the opposing Rotom doesn't wake up I think and like I say we could go I mean psychic might be good because we could drop the special defense Potentially and just go for a giga drain here Yeah, but they're using the spore on us This is where I like switch about honored coming, but I stand by not using our life switch I've got to try and set an example. So we get the giga drain into the road and the helping hand Obviously would have been a little more beneficial there for sure And There you go. It does take another nap. So that's the end of its max turns, which is perfect now I think what we could potentially do here is maybe switch in we could switch into premarina for sure. Um as we've got Really though We probably don't probably don't need to to be honest I think we'll just go for another psychic into it. We'll double into the Rotom here And hopefully the Rotom Snoozes for another couple of turns if you get the giga drain into the Rotom this would do a nice chunk It's got the citrus berry. If not, then we are going to be able to get it the next turn hasn't here So there's a slug from Special defense boost on the got to tell gonna help us out massive here We do take that turn of sleep and the Rotom actually stays asleep as well So that's that's massive for us that pretty much steals the game for us they're getting that additional sleep turn there and Moonga's shown why it's so good in this format as well, especially in that trick room environment Especially if you opponent has maxed their Pokemon and bring it in and shut them down quite easily if they've not got ways or means around kind of Stopping how preventing the sleep from your end So you drink gonna make easy work of that Rotom kind of pleased we didn't see the right period in this match up Honestly, it's probably the most The scariest thing as a prospect But the round putting in the work early on and I mean that made all the difference for us. So I think here with the dimension turn back to normal. What we can do is switch We'll go for the sidekick and you'll switch into primarily here. I don't suspect my opponent's gonna go for A spore into our among us, which is the main concern. They may go for a sludge bomb into that slot But if we can get from arena onto the field with got to tell and we can start doing a bit more damage It's just at the moment with our among us. We're not really going to be touching it, especially with giga drain So it's one of the choices you've got to make I think you really primarily only really got room for one attacking move on a movie It's honestly either sludge bomb or the giga drain Or energy ball as well as another option pollen puff as well I don't think you've got room for like to there because you need I think you need protect Honestly, I think you need obviously need rage powder for the redirection and this for as well It's just such a good utility not to use and as we see another sludge bomb coming out It is going to be into the Peruvian a slot here But with that assault vest We do take that a little bit better and actually get probably a bit more fortunate here getting a poison means that we can't be Put to sleep so kind of will take that for now and but the next Round of a damage from us should pick up this among us unless it has got a berry of course and just go for a moonblast and a Psychic but the got to tell obviously going to be one of the last last Pokemon standing here. Um Got to tell as well another Pokemon I feel with the the ban list being introduced has really benefited from that a lot of the threats in the format Have kind of gone and got to tell having a lot easier time So they can trap in a way more viable option as well I do have very fun perished trap team that I would like to feature And so if you guys would like to see that definitely let me know down the comment section below and I will I'll get that Up as soon as I can okay So we will move on but a nice way for us to kick off today with that big W and hopefully we can continue that and the next one And I'd like to be able to feature a few different elements of the team Maybe I think we've obviously got the the got to tell Durant going there in the first one But there are other mods to the team that we can kind of feature Like got a little glimpse of the primarina there But primarina I think with the assault vest is a good shout as well going into the early stages format Obviously with the energy ball that gives you the grass coverage which which helps a lot When grass types have been kind of nerfed so much going into this new series six. Okay, we've got NG NG up next playing Grim snarl, Porygon Z, Meowstick, Dracozalt, Flygon and Incineroar So I was gonna say it's kind of a legal series six team Except there's the Incineroar on the end which completely makes it illegal, but we'll go into it anywhere Let's see what we can do. Got the talent for sure. Let's go to rant Primerina is gonna be very good in this we need to be careful with the Dracozalt of course They probably got in prison meowstick, honestly, it would be my guess screens Grim snarl T waves probably an option there for them You could go you can live but the Flygon worries me quite a bit I think we're gonna have to really rely on Primerina Amungus here There's a better to bring Arcanine to be honest to this match like Arcanine Like offensively not really doing very much and more about the snarl for the PZ And then the Intimidate for the Dracozalt. I'm gonna really need it. That's the thing Okay, well, I'm just gonna lock in with the previous four, but I think there are definitely definitely Questions hanging over whether I should have probably went maybe Arcanine Amungus Especially if we see the PZ lead They do have the only thing that would make me not want to go down that route too much is because of the fake out options They do have which could make it very difficult for us to get Either a spore or a snarl off whereas at least this way we can max we can help in hand we can just nuke PZ if we want to do this first turn, which is which is always a good option here Yeah, we're gonna see meowstick It has got fake out has got a fast fake out as well So got to tell susceptible to that. So I think I'm just gonna go straight for that help in hand We're gonna go for The question here again is do we go for the max quick to get the special defense booster?  I'm not too sure on my calcs This is the thing the bad thing about not playing Durant not being a well versed around playing my calcs and understanding of Durant calcs as we saw in that last game like it wasn't expecting to pick up the knockout on two alcanine So that's something that you'll get more experience with playing a certain Pokemon and playing a certain call You learn the calcs and it's literally it's not because they don't understand the Pokemon of the team itself It's just literally because I haven't played What are like and I wasn't a prominent Durant player earlier on in the format either so we do max Durant here We are gonna see the PZ max as well. The worst case scenario here is that we lose Durant And we don't pick up the knockout onto the PZ and we lose the Durant. So we're gonna see the PZ max That'd be interesting to see if we can pick up the knockout there So we do get that helping hand which is gonna be the big thing to help us maybe pick up the knockout here Depends what this me asked it goes for does go for the fake out. So we are gonna see that into the Durant Interesting, maybe trying to break a sash there, but is this gonna be enough it is come on There we go. There we go. Well, there's sunlight coming in madness So sorry if I kind of come across a little bit bleached and my camera sometimes we see with the Sun and the clouds outside Makes me believe in white, but we do get the PZ. So That's that's huge and see this is the thing like if I was a bit more comfortable knowing my calcs here I would be able to say we'll get that a hundred percent of the time if we don't see like a reflect something in that situation Now we do see the Incineroar come on to the field another fake out user like I say one of the reasons why I didn't really want to leave the Amungus and The Alcanine in that situation just because the fake out at least with the goth the tell we do have ways around We'll go for Max quick helping hand Max quick into the Incineroar now problem is here if they attack the Durant They've probably got a way to they may survive this like I was talking about Incineroar in that previous match Oh, they go for the T wave. Is it gonna be enough to slow us down though? It has to be a really speedy Incineroar I think yeah, we're still gonna get the speed jump on it and we've done enough now And I think yeah to kind of close this one up now You can see how devastating Durant is and in situations like this and we still have the option this next turn to go for maybe a max guard And a trick room if you want depending on what my last my opponents last Pokemon is of course, and then we can use that maybe Paralysis to to our advantage there. So it is the Dragon's ult probably is gonna out speed us But it isn't max. We do have a defense boost And I think we can literally just go for another helping hand Max quick into the Dragon's ult Has it got fire fang I mean even if it ha if it has really like all boosted helping hand boosted everything boosted Okay Well, everyone's helping their hands out now Let's see Baldbeak into Gothital Fine Wow, and we're fully paralyzed that that really is not great That really sucks Okay, I mean the Gothital took that pretty well considering so we'll go for a trick room we'll go for a protect hopefully get the protect here and We'll be able to Okay, we're gonna see another helping hand they're going for the the Baldbeak again I think into Gothital out here, but hopefully we're able to get a trick room I mean you look you saw from the previous damage that we took that pretty comfortably They do actually miss you and oh they're gonna get is that the blunder policy it is boost speed And accuracy I think and but perfect time for us to get the trick room up now because we're definitely gonna get the jump on This drinkers all and set everything else up coming in later in this game So we'll do we'll just go for that sidekick and we'll go for stomp and tantrum that should be enough To get the drinkers all to hear that combination I mean like it just helped Saves us a little bit not going for the helping hand because you can see if we go all in on a helping hand Stomping tantrum here, and we are paralyzed waste a turn from both Pokemon at least here We're gonna be able to get hopefully a psychic off and then the stomp and tantrum We do see the thunder wave now come out from the meow stick and it is yeah We're not paralyzed so we are able to pick up a knockout onto this drinkers all and there's a stomp and tantrum We don't miss which is ideal which is enough and that kind of wraps up the game because meow stick probably hasn't got an offensive Option here and it kind of appears like it's more of a Just a supportive option, but Durant got to tell again done a huge Number on my opponent's team and Durant picked up pretty much every knockout here Against my opponent so far so hopefully you can make it a clean sweep, but we're gonna see the battle cancelled So friends that is two wins two great examples of got to tell just the power of got to tell Durant So hopefully you've enjoyed that hopefully it's beneficial Hopefully it's inspiring some ideas for you going forward in this format like the whole idea behind these These early preparation videos is to help you guys get into the new format get you ready get your ideas and understanding of what Pokemon will be Prominent and used by other players who gives you a little leg up getting started in this format So I'm gonna do the rental team for you guys now. I need to take down Team sad I have to take down mud still have to It is a series 6 5 team So it's not really relevant going forward anymore You know mud still probably one of my favorite teams from series 6 and we'll throw up the Durant We'll check it Go and then we'll make it public didn't really get to see the gigalith today But the gigalith does give you a nice dimension nice option against Sun teams if you do see them Especially just get your trick room up You've got nice options with the redirect to always kind of get that up with got to tell there And then get gigalith in and start doing some work. So there is a team my friends. I hope you enjoy it There's a rental code there. There is a poker piece down in the description below So I hope you've enjoyed it if you try this team out and definitely let me know what your thoughts are It's ready to go for when that new rules is implemented next Tuesday on the ladder So and if not plan the casual ladder take the poker piece going showdown try it out and see what you like It might inspire some ideas or you might like this build But either way, I hope you've enjoyed today's episode just a quick reminder to drop a like on the video Do support the channel if you're new do hit that subscribe button. Thanks so much for tuning in We're gonna wrap it up there But we'll be back with more series 6 preparation very soon so just do stay tuned and Whatever you do take care of yourselves be kind to each other and I'll see you all for the next one So until then take care and bye-bye


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So my talk is called the legend of Zelda a link to the past see what I did there yeah so it has zero to do with Zelda but I just really like the name I kept chuckling every time I thought about it I couldn't help myself I thought that's freaking awesome and we got to do this at work as well so thanks to Paige you down the front it's awesome so I apologize to anyone who came here just to hear a talk about Zelda and ember because that's about as much as you get I'm really really sorry about that what I'm actually trying to hoping to tell you a while back Jamie sort of said on the forums that one of the feet one of the bits of feedback he got about this meetup is that those people kind of wanting some more begin that beginner type talk so I thought this may be useful so it's really about what happens when you click on a link to in an app so it's it's something we always do like in all our web apps we've got loads of links but I'm not sure how often people actually stop and think or how many people actually understand what really happens under the covers when you click on a link to and I came across a tweet a year or so ago from Alex match near that kind of had this big flow diagrams like holy crap that's actually what happens in the router and I thought that's kind of cool so I just wanted to explain a little bit about that really so first of all who am I I'm Aaron you can get me at either those two places there I am one of the maintainers of the embassy a lie deploy thing that Tom talked about earlier so if you're interested in deployment of your and perhaps jump on to the repo there we've got some cool cool stuff coming so it's going to be awesome I'm this guy's little this this little guy's dad that's Noah he wears features in my talk so so link to what does it actually do has anyone actually stopped to think about what it does I mean it puts a link on the page but nope okay well you might all learn something hopefully so traditionally I guess when we have a link in our server side apps it's just an href pretty simple really it just doesn't get get request the browser to get the next page that you're going to that's cool but in an ember app we have something slightly different produces the same sort of thing looks pretty similar actually but what does it actually do here's the picture the flow diagram I saw this is what a link to does simple clicking on a link I saw that I went wow so I kind of want to explain a little bit about what sort of happens there so imagine a scenario where we have this sort of router setup in our app we've got two routes we've got slash about slash FAQ and we've got slash about sorry slash users slash some ID slash profile so we can go from the FAQ page to a user profile page things to note we've got some nested roots here so we're going to have an about route and FAQ route and our user route here has a dynamic segment which is the user ID so this is all pretty standard stuff I'm sure you guys have all seen that so this is kind of laying the land of what we're what we're looking at here so we sort of look at what ember objects we sort of have here we've got our two routes about FAQ and users one profile with that comes well the application route we always get that for free every time we get an about route by convention which is responsible for the about part of the URL there and we get an about FAQ route and then over on another one here we have the user route which someone there and our user profile route so there the routes we would probably see in our app for these two two routes so so imagine we start out on the about FAQ route we're sitting on there and there's a link on there to say the user profile the current current route so our link to might look like this we're going to link to the user profile route and we're going to pass in the current user which is a model object we're passing that in so that's kind of important to remember that where we're providing the model for this profile user profile we're going to and we have a link on the page so what actually happens so basically the router kicks in and a transition object is created at the point we click and that's essentially like a promise that travels with us all the way through until we've gotten to our destination and there are sort of three phases that the router goes through the first one is the will transition phase and the second one is the model resolution and validation phase and the last one is the sync exit enter setup phase so I'll explain to each of those as we go so let's start with we will transition phase so basically what happens first of all when you click that link is it goes to the current routes that you're on and fires the will transition action so this is an action some you might have even implemented you don't need to but if you want to do anything in your route before we exit out of it and go somewhere else this is the place to do it so the route is going to go to each of your current routes of where you are and fire off this this will transition action so we can see it starts from the outermost route the faq route it's going to come in here and fire and you can see we're passing that transition object that I was talking about this is something that will travel with us to the end so at this point you might want to do something like check that the user has entered all the mandatory fields and if not you actually don't want to go to the next page you want to sort of stay where you are so you can sort of abort that a transition that transition at this stage by calling transition dot abort essentially the router will call it on the faq route if all is good we haven't aborted or anything we go on to the next one and we call will transition on the about route and then if that's all good we go to the application or it called will transition on there so these are these are all things that happen along the way give me it's an opportunity to bail out of that transition at any time if the transition isn't halted and everything's good then we move on to the model resolution validation phase so this is a phase that most you probably would have seen the roots allow you to override a few different hooks that you've probably seen before model model after model but a lot of people actually don't really even know what they're doing or why they're being called some people talk to think the model is actually just setting the model on the route but it's actually just a hook that you're overriding that ember expects to be there and if it's not it has some sort of default functionality so the idea of this phase is to collect the model objects for the route and then resolve them all in this case we have two routes we have the user route and the user profile route so it's going to go through and try and resolve what the model objects are for each of those route so I can set them on the controller and I guess it's important to note if you return a promise from from any of those hooks before model model and after model the breed is actually going to halt until that until that resolves so if you've got a call to an API in your model hook that takes 10 seconds to load your ember apps not doing anything until that comes back which is where you probably start to see the loading substates but that's kind of another another call another discussion but basically essentially it'll wait till those promises resolve until we get in so after the start of this thing this route comes in and fires the before model hook of your user route if you haven't implemented that's cool it's just an empty function under the covers but you can override that to do something you might want to check if the current user is logged in if they're not you want to abort that transition you want to go to the login page we don't want to go to the user profile because we're not logged in but if that's all cool then the next thing this one's going to do is actually call the after model hook so you'll notice we skipped over the model hook because well in our link to we provided that that user that user object we said we want to link to the user profile and here's the user model so because we provided the model Emma doesn't need to go and resolve what the model is for this route it's been provided already so it's so it's skipped over that one so if the after model of that that route is okay we jump into the profile route and we fire off the before model model and the after model hooks is this making any sense to anyone yeah cool everyone's probably familiar with these hooks right so you don't you can you can implement as many as little as as many as these as you like it's not like you have to put all these in your roots so then if all the all the models have resolved okay and there's been no sort of errors thrown or anything like that we go into the sync exit it's into setup phase so this is where it comes to clean up so we're we were in the about FAQ route we're just trying to go to the user profile route we've resolved all our models we know what our model data is for the new route we're going to we need to start to clean up now so first goes in and calls deactivate again it's another hook you can implement I've never had to implement this to be honest but if you want to do something on your way out of a route here's a place to do it so we can see that it goes in there calls in the about FAQ roots you can see again it's going from the right most route back in just deactivating all the routes we're currently on before we go and activate the new ones we're going into then we come into our user route we have a chance to do something here on activate again I haven't had to do anything there but set up control is pretty common most people do this this is where by default the the router will take the model that you've returned from your model hook and set it on your controller and then around this stage it'll it'll call rendered template say here's the controller here's the template go and render yourself but this gives you a bit of a chance to do some other things set up some other controllers maybe set some other data on your controllers if you need to an important thing with this one is the router does have some default functionality for setup controller so if you are going to override this make sure you call super on it because by default it will set the model that you've returned from your model hook on the controller for this route and if you don't call super dot no call super on it then you're not going to get that model set so that's kind of a little gotcha there so after doing on there we end up calling activate on our profile route and activate setup control on our profile route so there was a lot of stuff happening transition complete and at any point in those in that model resolution phase or the setup can sync phase if an error occurs the transitions are boarded and then the error action will be called on your route so I don't know if you've if you've ever implemented that or seen that but basically if you have an actions hash with an error function that will get called on your route if that's not handled there or bubble up to the next route bubble all the way up so that's what'll happen if you throw an error or reject the promise in any of those things so that was a whole bunch of stuff and diving into like little bits at a time so this here is trying to just look at it from a higher level of what we actually did there from clicking on that one link what actually happens so basically we we go and fire off any will transition hooks from our current routes that we're currently on the about the FAQ routes if they're all good we go through and we resolve all the models on our new routes we find out what they are we go and get the user if we need to or in this case it was provided we go and get any profile stuff that we need to we resolve those in our before model model and after model hooks next thing is we go and deactivate all our old routes the ones we're leaving and then finally we come in and we activate any of the new routes we're going into we call setup controller we put our model stuff model objects onto the controller and we render the templates and that's about it does anyone have any questions in terms of the synchronous behavior that you know basically you want to it's going to wait until the models are completed before it moves to finish the transition yeah in your example you had the user object and the profile object or the user model and then the profile model are those asynchronous and then they just both have to be resolved so the first one no it'll it'll fire the user route and then it'll wait for a promise to be resolved before even if you have a promise only before model and model the before model or wait before it hits the model and then it'll do the after model and because like the after model hook is actually past the model object as an argument so yeah it waits till it's resolved and so then it will go into the profile route but are there any real dependencies between those two different independent models I mean it seems like you could do those in parallel well okay so if you think of users and then user the user's route will fire and get the list of users and then your user route will generally get an id from like it's not going to go to the server and get it it's going to get it from your cached list so there is a kind of a dependency there right so you're going to wait till you got your list of users say in the data in the cache and then going to get the user for id one it's right there so yeah I suppose there's an invested relationship it's probably dependent and that's exactly the reason they are nested in the router is because there is a relationship there if they weren't related like that then you wouldn't nest them you can still have the nested URLs but if they were if you if you clicked on the user and went to a different page you don't need the list of users so there's no real relationship there and that's I guess the intricacies between nested templates and nested URLs in the router which is another discussion as well right yeah just putting in our errors only relevant to building up to what are the also like uh or whether we raise it's not the exit they could be raised an x as well yeah and the transition will abort at that stage yeah yeah yeah or you can call transition.abort if you if you want to as well yeah what's the best practice in terms of stuff and controller is it is it is it the best practice to keep everything in the model as opposed to the controller so like do all the logic that's required on the model or um or just check out if it's a controller uh I don't know what the best practice is um I generally return what my model is from the model I'm just trying to make better one liner like here's the model and then if I need to do anything else do that and set up controller and so um yeah I mean I don't I try not to do much and set up controller if I can help it because I feel like yeah I'm not really sure what the best practice is to be honest as little as possible yeah basically it's going away the root the idea of the root okay right what are you really trying to say so actually on that point there's an rfc at the moment yeah for what useful components will look like so if anyone's interested in having a little glimpse of what what your roots will look like in m2 that's the current best guess it's pretty likely it'll go that way and it's existing moves won't break in m2 they'll carry on working more or less but there are the the idea of a model that's being exploded out to like uh naturally beats um so if running to things in the past where there's differences between clicking on a on a link to go to a root and accessing the root directly through like a actually can you talk about um uh so I guess if you think about it like I don't know what issues you have or differences but like if you think about it if you're going via the like clicking on a link so say for instance you have a list of posts and you don't want to go you click on a link to go on a particular post at that point you will already have your collection of posts so um you can go into the new post you're just really pulling something from the cash but if you're going from the url it's actually going to fire the the route for your post route and then your particular post so you can I have seen issues there where it's not exactly the same because when you transition from posts to a particular post you're not activating and firing that post route because it's already been fired and you're just becoming more specific by going to the post route does that make any sense yeah whereas you're coming from the url you're you're actually firing I think the sequence of events is yeah exactly yeah so different stuff's actually happening or more stuff's happening when you go in via the url because you're essentially loading from a clean slate so it needs to activate the application route the post route and then the post route whereas if you've come in via a link you've already activated the application route because you've got there somehow you've got to the post page so you've activated that route it doesn't need to reactivate it so there is slightly different stuff happening under the covers and you can get different issues that way I don't have to answer your question also there's two ways of what you're doing voting some people prefer to do it via a link to helter whereas others they're just doing behind the scenes they just essentially trigger an action yep yep that's another way to do it right yep but it's really bad privacy to do it by action because then you lose the you know google and the course yeah obviously sometimes it's not important if it isn't right it's better to use the object because yeah it can follow yeah yeah under covers that'll be doing a similar thing so we're basically creating a transition object and transition between but yeah in terms of SEO and stuff that makes sense yeah does anyone else have any questions so if you're doing say link to users slash ad yep no you can pass like the literal model that's the second argument to link to can you pass the you can yeah yeah yeah I think you need to then implement the model I'm pretty sure you get the idea and you need to return the model of that stage but yeah you can pass the although it may because by default the model hook is implemented to to search for a dynamic segment and use that as the idea to get a resolver model so it may actually do for you magically because that's what happens if you like or don't don't create a root nor do generates it for you it will return for you it kind of knows that when there's a dynamic segment you probably want to retrieve the model for the same name with that id no one else yeah sure yes so um this is who I am that's where you can get me and um I wanted to give the people that came for zelda a little bit of something so um yeah here's a surprise for you she's took me forever


to the Global Virtual Meet on Stress Management, Stress Webinar 2021, organized by Expert Meet Private Limited. We are very proud to host it today. Just before we get started, I would like to express my gratitude to our organizing committee members, Sam Vaknam, visiting professor of psychology at Southern Federal University, Russia, Mr. Sandil Kumar, professor at the Department of Psychology in Balaas Hindu University, India, who have so generously helped us make this event happening. Along with these, I would also like to thank you for taking your time and joining us today. We could not have made this day without you all. Moving forward, I would like to call Dr. Sam Vaknam for the presentation. Thank you very much for having me and for your kind words. We are at the beginning of this conference. I'm delighted and proud to be here. And I apologize to Dr. Widhi. Normally, I would have deferred my sport, but I have other prior obligations based on the on the agenda. So you have my apologies. My name is Sam Vaknam. I'm visiting professor of psychology at Southern Federal University. We're still on dawn in Russia. And I'm a professor of finance and a professor of psychology in the outreach program of CIAPS, CIAPS Center for International Advanced and Professional Studies. And I apologize that I have to inflict this introduction on you. It's in my contract. I have to identify myself this way. Today, I would like to discuss the issue of self-awareness and narcissism. Is the narcissist self-aware? Now, in this presentation, narcissists is anyone diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder by a qualified diagnostician. And so I would like to open with a quote from the book scriptures Jeremiah chapter 13 verse 23. Can the Ethiopian change his skin? Can the leopard change his spots? Can the narcissist therefore change himself? Doesn't change require self-awareness, awareness that something needs to change. If the narcissist becomes self-aware, if he accepts that he is a narcissist, isn't this the first important step towards healing? Well, regrettably, not really. Narcissism defines the narcissist's waking moments, his nocturnal dreams, his every being. It is all pervasive as the diagnostic and statistical manual kindly reminds us. Everything the narcissist does is motivated by his narcissism. Everything he avoids is the outcome of his narcissism. Every utterance, decision is very body language. They are all manifestations of narcissism. It's a little like being abducted by an alien and ruthlessly indoctrinated ever since. The alien is the narcissist's false self. A defense mechanism, first described by Donald Winnicott, constructed in order to shield the narcissist's true self from pain, from hurt, from inevitable abandonment. So cognitive understanding of this disorder does not constitute a transforming insight. In other words, cognitive understanding, knowledge of the disorder has no emotional correlate. The narcissist does not internalize what he had learned about his disorder. This new gained knowledge does not become a motivating part of the narcissist. It remains an inert, indifferent object, piece of information with minor influence on the narcissist's psyche. Moreover, the narcissist may grow aware of certain behaviors of his that are abrasive, antisocial, pathological, dysfunctional and self-defeating. The narcissist may even label these behaviors as such, but he never grasps the psychodynamic significance of his misconduct, the deeper layers of motivation, the relentless and inexorable engine at the convoluted and tormented core of his being. So the narcissist may say, I really like attention, or he may even self-deprecate or disparage himself, but the narcissist will not be able to fully account for why it is that he is addicted to narcissistic supply, attention. What role this supply plays in his psychology, interpersonal relationships, life itself? The narcissist may realize belatedly that he is ticking, but never what makes him tick. Sometimes, when the narcissist first learns about narcissistic personality disorder, he is elated. He really believes that he could change following a period of violent rejection of the charges against him. He accepts that there's something wrong. I've seen it in clinical settings many times, and he fervently wants to change. And this is especially true when his whole world is collapsing, falling around his ears, in shambles, when the narcissist had hit rock bottom, when he is in prison, undergoing a divorce, a bankruptcy, the death of a major source of narcissistic supply. All these are life-transforming crises, and the narcissist is transformed by them. He undergoes a process called narcissistic modification. The narcissist admits to a problem only when he is abandoned, when he is destitute, and when he is devastated. That much is true, but he does admit to problems in certain points in his life. And he feels that he doesn't want any more of this. He feels that he wants to change. And there are often misleading signs that he is changing. Everyone around him becomes so optimistic, especially his therapist. And then it all fades. It all reverts. It all disappears. He reverts to old form. The progress that the narcissist had made evaporates virtually overnight. Many narcissists report the same process of progression followed by recidivism, remission and relapse. And many therapists refuse to treat narcissists because of the Sisyphian frustration involved in it, pushing the narcissistic stone up the mountain only for it to come down, tumbling again to the foothills. I never said that in my work that narcissists cannot change. I did say that they cannot heal. There is a huge difference between behavior modification and a permanent alteration of the psychodynamic landscape. Narcissistic behavior can be modified using a combination of talk therapy, conditioning and sometimes medication, same with obsessive compulsive features. But I have yet to encounter a healed narcissist or as they call them online, recovered narcissists. The emphasis in therapy is on accommodating the needs of the narcissist's nearest and dearest. His suffering, spouse, children, colleagues, friends, there's no point actually in so-called treating the narcissist. If the narcissist's abrasiveness, rage, mood swings, impulsiveness, recklessness, if these are modified, people around the narcissist benefit the most. And this is a form of benevolent social engineering. Narcissism does, especially antisocial narcissism, psychopathic or malignant narcissism, does tend to ameliorate with age. And many forms of pathological narcissism are reactive and transient. And I refer you to work by Milman, Ronningston and Gunderson on these forms of narcissism, acquired situation of narcissism. But the bulk or the vast majority of narcissistic disorders are for life. So how can the narcissist introspect? Can the narcissist ever see himself in the mirror? Are narcissists capable of introspection? Can they distinguish their false self from who they really are? Is there such a distinction? If you take away the false self, is anything left at all? Can we say that the narcissist has a false self or should we say that the false self has a narcissist? And can all these help them introspection? Can it help them in the therapeutic process? I would like to read to you a passage by Nathan Salant Schwartz from his article, Narcissism and Character Transformation. It's a book as well published by Inner City Books in 1985. And he had written, psychologically, the shadow of reflection carries the image of the self, not the ego.  Often when they look at the mirror, they will see someone of great power and effectiveness precisely the qualities they feel a lack of. For even though they may overwhelm others with their energy and personal qualities, they themselves feel ineffective, inefficacious. Narcissus says, Salant Schwartz, Narcissus must possess his idealized image. He cannot allow his otherness for that would be too threatening to his basic design. He cannot allow to be mirrored himself. And so the sudden switch, shall I be wood or shall I woo? The libido of Narcissus quickly changes from an idealization into a mirror form, showing how his unredeemed inflation, in psychoanalytic terms, his grandiose exhibitionistic self had gained control over him. Put aside the Jungian Jaugon, the author is describing, rather poetically, the basic relationship between the true self and the false self. No theoretician had ignored this dichotomy, most basic to narcissism, pathological narcissism. So what is the true self? And what is the false self? And what is their relationship? The true self is synonymous with what Freud used to call ego. But in the narcissist, it is suppressed, shriveled, dilapidated, stifled, marginalized, atrophied. Why? Because the false self had taken over most of the ego functions. In early childhood, narcissism is a catastrophe of early childhood. Children exposed to abuse and trauma and breaching of the boundaries and parentifying and being instrumentalized, this kind of children developed narcissism. Of course, luckily for us, not all of them, but some of them. It's an early childhood calamity. The narcissist draws no distinction between his ego and his self. He is incapable of doing so. He relegates his ego functions partly to the false self and in huge part to the outside world. That's why he keeps seeking feedback. Feedback from the outside world, feedback from others, helps him regulate his internal environment. The false self is an invention. And then it is the reflection of an invention. Narcissists, therefore, do not exist in any meaningful sense of the word. They have an empty schizoid core. They are a void. They're an emptiness. I refer you to work by Kernberg, Seinfeld, Gantry, Fairburn, Winnicott, numerous other scholars. They've all noted the same thing. At the core of the narcissist, where an identity should have been, where a person should have been, there is nothing, nothing but deep space with howling winds, a hole of mirrors. The narcissist is a loose coalition, a hive mind based on a balance of terror between a sadistic idealized super ego inner critic and a grandiose and manipulative false ego. And these two entities, essentially malevolent entities, interact only mechanically. Narcissists are androids who seek narcissistic supply. When I say androids, I mean, they are devoid of the essentials that make us human. They're devoid of empathy. They have no access to positive emotionality. They do not have the basic human experience. They don't know what it means to be human. They don't feel it and they don't go through it. No robot is capable of true introspection, not even with the help of mirroring or proper programming. Narcissists often think of themselves as machines. They describe themselves as automata, the automata metaphor. I'm an automaton. I'm a robot. They say things like, I have an amazing brain or I'm not functioning today, my efficiency is low. They measure things, constantly compare performance. They are actually aware of time and its use. There is a meter in the narcissist's head and this meter ticks and talks, ticks and talks, a metronome of self-reproach and grandiose unattainable fantasies. The narcissist likes to think of himself in terms of automata and robots because he finds them to be aesthetically compelling in their precision, in their impartiality, in their harmonious embodiment of the abstract. Machines are powerful, machines are emotionless, machines are not hurting weaklings, machines are not wounded children. The narcissist often talks to himself in the third person singular. He says, I, he doesn't say I, he says he. The narcissist feels that using the third person singular lends objectivity to his thinking, making his thoughts appear to be emanating from an external source. The narcissist's self-esteem is so low that in order to be trusted he has to disguise himself. He has to hide himself from himself. It is the narcissist's pernicious and all pervasive art of unbeing. The narcissist undoes himself. And so the narcissist carries within himself his metal constitution, his robotic countenance, the metal of his superhuman knowledge, his inner time keeper, his theory of morality and his very own divinity. He worships himself. The false self is an idol and the narcissist is a one-man religion or a one-man count where he is both God, he is both the divinity and the worshipper. Sometimes the narcissist does gain self-awareness. Sometimes he does reach some kind of knowledge of his predicament. Typically, as I said in the life, in the wake of a life crisis, but in the absence of an emotional correlate or feelings, such merely cognitive awakening is useless. It does not congeal into an insight. The dry facts alone cannot bring about any transformation, let alone healing. Narcissists often go through soul searching, but they do so only in order to optimize their performance, to maximize the number of sources of narcissistic supply and to better manipulate their environment. They regard introspection as an inevitable and intellectually enjoyable maintenance chore. Introspection is supposed to enhance the efficacy and agency of the narcissism, not reduce it. The introspection of the narcissist is emotionless. It's akin to an inventory of his good and bad sides and without any commitment to change. This introspection does not enhance the narcissist's ability to empathize, nor does introspection inhibit the narcissist's propensity to exploit other people, his proclivity to discard people when their usefulness is over. This introspection does not temper the narcissist's overpowering and raging sense of entitlement. It does not deflate his grandiose fantasies. In short, it has zero impact on him. The narcissist's introspection is a futile and arid exercise at bookkeeping, a soulless bureaucracy of the psyche. In its own way, this introspection is even more chilling than the alternative. A narcissist is blissfully unaware of his disorder. But how does the narcissist experience himself? What is the inner experience of the narcissist? The narcissist experience himself as a prolonged incomprehensible, unpredictable, frequently terrifying and deeply saddening dissociative nightmare. This is a result of the functional dichotomy fostered by the narcissist himself between his false self and his true self. The true self, the fossilized ashes of the original immature personality, this is the self that does the experiencing. This is the self that maintains continuity and retains the core identity. And when it's defunct, when it's disabled, when it's dead, the narcissist is dead inside. There's nobody home. The false self is nothing but a concoction, a figment of the narcissist's disorder, a reflection on in the narcissist's whole of mirrors. The false self is incapable of feeling, incapable of experiencing, yet it is fully the master, the master of the psychodynamic processes which rage within the narcissist's psyche. The inner battle, this war, civil war inside the narcissist is so fierce that the true self experiences it as a diffuse, though imminent and eminently ominous threat. The outcome is constant anxiety. Narcissism can be reconceived as an anxiety disorder in a post-traumatic condition. Anxiety ensues and the narcissist finds himself constantly ready for the next blow, fight or flight. The narcissist does things and he doesn't know why. He doesn't know where from. The narcissist says something, acts, behaves in ways which he knows, put him at danger at risk, put him in line for punishment and yet he doesn't know why and he cannot control his impulses in many cases. This is the interface between narcissism and psychopathy. The narcissist hurts people, inflicts pain on people around him. He breaks the law. He violates accepted morality. He knows that he is in the wrong and he feels ill it is on the rare moments that he does feel. Some narcissists want to stop but they don't know how. Gradually the narcissist is estranged from himself, possessed by some kind of metaphorical demon, a puppet on invisible mental strings. The narcissist resents this feeling. He wants to rebel. He becomes defiant. He develops reactants. He is repelled by this part in him with which he is not acquainted and with which owns him, controls him and in his effort to exercise this metaphorical devil from his soul, the narcissist of course dissociates. And so most of the life of a narcissist there is an eerie sensation that pervades the psyche of the narcissist. At times of crisis, danger, depression, failure, defeat, narcissistic injury and of course modification the narcissist feels that he is watching himself from the outside. This is not an out-of-body experience. The narcissist does not really exit his body. It is just that he assumes involuntarily the position of an observer, a spectator, politely and mildly interested in the whereabouts of one Mr. Narcissist. So the narcissist spends his life watching a movie. The illusion is not complete. Neither it is precise, but it's close enough to cinema. This detachment continues for as long as the narcissist's ego-dystonic behavior persists, for as long as the crisis goes on, for as long as the narcissist cannot face who he is, what he is doing and the consequences of his actions. And since this is the case most of the time, the narcissist gets used to seeing himself in the role of the protagonist, the hero, the main character, the star of a motion picture or a novel. It also sits well with the grandiosity and the fantasies inhabiting the narcissist's mind haunting him. Sometimes the narcissist talks about himself in the third person singular precisely in order to put distance, this kind of distance. Sometimes he calls his other narcissistic self by a different name. It's very reminiscent of dissociative identity disorder which used to be known as multiple personality disorder. The narcissist describes his life, the events in his life, ups and downs, pains, elation, disappointments. He describes all these things in the most remote, objective, professional, coldly analytical voice as though he were describing the life of some exotic insect. You remember Kafka's famous story Metamorphosis where the hero of the story, the protagonist, wakes up to discover that he had turned into a cockroach. This is the narcissistic condition. Throughout his life, the metaphor of life as a movie, life as a movie gaining control by scripting, writing a scenario to borrow a term from transactional analysis, by inventing a narrative. That's not a modern invention. Caveman narcissists probably had done the same, but this is only the external, superficial facet of the disorder. The crux of the problem is that the narcissist really feels this way. He actually experiences his life as belonging to someone else. His body is a dead weight or as an instrument in the service of some entity. His deeds he experiences as amoral, not immoral. He cannot be judged for something he didn't do now, can he? The dissociation creates multiple versions of himself, each one leading its own life consecutively. As time passes, the narcissist accumulates a mountain of mishaps, conflicts and resolve, pains well hidden, abrupt separations, bitter disappointments. He is buried under these. He is subjected to a constant barrage of social criticism and condemnation. He is ashamed. He is fearful. He is humiliated. He knows that something is wrong, but there is no correlation between this cognition and his emotions. So he doesn't know where is the locus of the problem, and he experiences everything as an external locus of control. His life, his being, is determined from the outside mysteriously. So the narcissist prefers to run away. He prefers to hide as he did when he were a child. Only this time he hides behind another self, a false one. People reflect to him this mask of his own creation, until ultimately he comes to believe the very existence and veracity of the false self. He acknowledges the dominance of the false self. He forgets the truth. He knows no better. Remember that many of these processes take place very early in childhood, for example, age two, before separation and individuation. The narcissist is only dimly aware of the decisive battle which rages inside him. He feels threatened somehow. He feels very sad, very suicidal sometimes, but there seems to be no outside cause for all this, and it makes it even more mysteriously menacing. And the dissonance, this dissonance, these negative emotions, these nagging anxieties, they transform the narcissist's motion picture solution into a permanent one and into a horror movie. It becomes a feature of the narcissist's life whenever he is confronted by an emotional threat or by an existential threat, he retreats into this haven, this mode of coping. He relegates responsibility, submissively assuming a passive role. He who is not responsible cannot be punished. This is the subtext of the narcissist's capitulation to his multiple self-states and pseudo-identities for most among which is the false self, the coordinating organizing principle. The narcissist is conditioned to annihilate himself, to eradicate himself in order to avoid emotional pain and to bask in the glow and glory of his impossibly grandiose fantasies. And this he does with zeal, fanatic zeal, and with efficacy. Prospectively, the narcissist had assigned his very life decisions to be made, judgments to be passed, agreements to be reached, tasks to be accomplished. He had assigned all his life to the false self. He had surrendered to the false self, total submission to the point of vanishing. Retroactively, he reinterprets his past life in a manner consistent with the current needs of the false self. He subjugates his own needs to the needs of the false self. It is no wonder that there is no connection between what the narcissist did feel in any given period of his life or in relation to a specific event and the way that he remembers or he sees these emotions later on. He may describe certain occurrences, certain events, certain phases in his life as tedious, painful, sad, burdening, even though originally at the time he had experienced them entirely differently. The same retroactive coloring, retroactive emotional content occurs with regards to people. The narcissist completely distorts the way he had regarded certain people, the way he had felt about them. This rewriting of his personal history is aimed to directly and fully accommodate the requirements of his tyrannical false self. It's like living in a dictatorship. You re-write history. You retouch certain people out of photographs. In some, the narcissist does not occupy his own soul. He does not inhabit his own body. He is the servant of an apparition, of a reflection, of a ghost, of an ego function, gun or eye. To please and appease his master, the false self, the narcissist sacrifices his very life to it. This is the human sacrifice at the core of the narcissistic religion. From this moment onward, from that moment onwards, the narcissist lives vicariously, by proxy, through the good offices of the false self and only that way. Throughout, the narcissist feels detached, alienated and estranged from his false self. He constantly harbors the sensation that he is watching a movie with a plot over which he has little control. He cannot direct this movie. It is with a certain interest or even fascination that he does this observation. He does the observing. And still, it is merely passive observation. And so, not only does the narcissist relinquish control of his future life, this movie, he gradually loses ground to the false self in the battle to preserve the integrity and genuineness of his past experiences and his identity, whatever is left of it. Eroded by these processes, the narcissist gradually disappears, disappears and is replaced by his disorder to the fullest extent.  It had allowed the child to survive. It is intended to isolate the narcissist from his environment in a schizoid manner and to shield the narcissist from hurt and from injury, both real, anticipated and imagined. And so, the false self and all pervasive psychological construct gradually displaces the narcissist's true self. It takes over. It's a work of fiction intended to elicit praise and deflect and firewall criticism. The unintended consequence of this fictitious existence is a diminishing ability to grasp reality correctly and impaired reality testing. The narcissist cannot cope with reality effectively. Narcissistic supply, attention, replaces genuine, veritable and tested feedback. Analysis, disagreement, criticism, uncomfortable facts, they all screened out in a kind of confirmation bias. Layers of bias and prejudice distort the narcissist experience. Yet deep inside, the narcissist is aware that his life is an artifact, a confabulated sham, a vulnerable cocoon. The world inexorably and repeatedly intrudes upon these ransackle battlements, invades his fortress, breaches his firewall, reminding the narcissist of the fantastic and feeble nature of his grandiosity. And this is the much dreaded grandiosity gap. And to avoid the agonizing realization of his failed, failed, defeat, strewn biography, a horrible biography of missed opportunities, wasted potentials and broken dreams, the narcissist resorts to reality substitutes. The dynamics are simple. As the narcissist grows older, his sources of supply dwindle and become scarce. His grandiosity gap yawns wider. He is mortified by the prospect of facing actuality, facing reality as it is looking at himself in the mirror without the good agency or the bad agency of the forth self through the veil. The narcissist withdraws ever deeper into a dreamland of co-cocted accomplishments, feigned omnipotence and omniscience and brattish entitlement. The narcissist reality substitutes, fulfill two functions. They help the narcissist rationally ignore painful realities with impunity. And they prefer an alternative universe in which he reigns supreme and emerges triumphant every single time. And the most common form of denial involves, involves persecutory delusions. I describe persecutory delusions in my book Malignant Self-Love, Narcissism Revisited, This Way. The narcissist perceives slides and insults when none were intended. He becomes subject to referential ideation, ideas of reference. He believes that people are gossiping about him, mocking him, prying into his affairs, cracking his emails, you name it. He is convinced that he is the center of malign and malintentioned attention.  Gradually the narcissist slips into paranoia. Paranoia is a form of grandiose narcissism of course. It means you are the center of a conspiracy and therefore you are the center of attention. Malign attention, but attention all the same. And the narcissist's paranoid narrative serves as an organizing principle. It structures the here and now. It gives meaning and direction to his life. Paranoia aggrandizes the narcissist as worthy of being persecuted. The mere battle with his demons, inner demons, is an achievement not to be sniggarded. By overcoming his enemies, the narcissist emerges victorious and powerful, restored. The narcissist's self-inflicted paranoia, projections of threatening internal objects and threatening internal processes, this self-inflicted paranoia legitimizes, justifies and explains his abrupt comprehensive and rude withdrawal from an ominous and unappreciating world. The narcissist pronounced misanthropy and misogyny if he is a male. They are fortified by these oppressive thoughts. They render him a schizoid, a recluse, a loner devoid of all social contact except the most necessary.  The final phase of narcissism involves verbal, psychological, situational and sometimes more rarely physical abuse, abuse, abuse directed at his foes, at his inferiors, at his critics, at his detractors, at everyone who had betrayed him. He is vengeful. It is the culmination of a creeping mode of essentially psychosis, the said and unavoidable outcomes of a choice made so long ago to forgo the real in favor of the surreal. Thank you for listening.


This week's IonMPI is from ST. Every single week we do IonMPI brought to you by Digikey and Adafruit. This is where we look at new product introductions, MPI, and the place that we like. Yeah, the place that we like and we think has the most MPIs is digikey.com. Well, they've got lots of new products all the time. So go to digikey.com slash new, and that's how I find what I'm going to cover on IonMPI. Yeah, it's not a secret. We, back in the day, when our website was a lot smaller, and there was people trying to do bad stuff to our website, we noticed that some of our competitors at the time, every morning they would look at Adafruit.com slash a new. I would too. And that's how they would figure out what they wanted to try to do next, because we were always coming up with really good stuff. And that's what you kind of do too. I do the same thing. So you go to digikey.com slash new to stay? I go to everybody's site slash new. Digikey.com slash new is where you'll get all the latest component MPIs. So this week, the newest, latest, hardest from ST? Yes. Okay, so this week from ST, we've got the ST25DV. I actually really liked when I saw this pop up, because I was like, hey, I know this ship. I even made a breakout for this ship, so I know a lot about it, and I know what it can do. So I thought this would be a really good MPI, because I can really talk to you in depth. There's also a lot of good information from ST about this chip. So this chip is a dynamic NFC RFID tag I see with 416 or 64 kilobit EEPROM fast transfer mode capability and optimized I squared C comes in a bunch of different packages. You can see it comes in four different packages there. And it's an NFC chip. And this is an interesting chip, because when a lot of people talk about RFID or NFC, they think about RFID tags that look like this. And if you see, you know, there's the card and the sticker and the circular tag. But if you look at the clear tag or the clear key fob, you see that there is an antenna made of coil of wire. It's kind of like a made of magnet wire, so it's reddish or orange-ish. And in the center, there's like the silvery blob with only two pads on it. And that's an RFID chip that is fully powered and takes data over the RF link created when energy enters the coil that is, you know, the data and power transfer. RFID and NFC. NFC is kind of a, it's a near field communication, so it's a larger scale thing than RFID, which is a very specific thing just for identification. So I'm just going to refer to NFC, but a lot of people use the two terms kind of back and forth. So these tags, they have memory built in and you can read, write, or authenticate through them. So oftentimes they're used as, you know, public transport identification or you have RFID and NFC in your credit card. They're very inexpensive and they're great if you want to just transmit a small amount of data without needing a battery. However, they're not smart. Like you can't run code or like have the data inside the tag change on the fly. Like whatever you write to it is what you read from it next time. It's just, it's just a little piece of memory that is powered and has data over RFID. So this, which is, this is the breakout we have. This chip is interesting because it has that same coil antenna you see at the top, the coil antenna that's built into the circuit board. You could of course use an external antenna, but you know, it's convenient to have it printed onto the PCB. It's inexpensive. Oh, it's a little bit large. And over I squared, so you can communicate to it. So you can read or write data over I squared C or through RFID. And so that gives it a kind of a dynamic ability to act as a bridge between NFC communication and microcontrollers that don't have NFC. It's quite rare for microcontroller to have NFC built into it. But this chip, which is very inexpensive, lets you bridge that data and do it. It's useful for a couple different things. So because we already have this breakout in the store, here's an example. When this phone goes over the tag, it's been pre-programmed with a URL, you could see that it's the product URL. And we program that in the factory. But what's interesting is, of course, if you had a microcontroller attached to it, you could change what tag with the data is read from the tag on the fly based on whatever data you'd like. So you can use it as a way of advertising data sort of the way Bluetooth does, but without any batteries. So inside, you know, it itself is not a program on microcontroller. It is only iSquared C or RFID, but it's got a couple cool things going for it. One is it uses ISO 1593, which is not what most people think of as, you know, classic my fair or my fair does fire or my fair light or whatever. It is a different protocol. So, you know, it doesn't necessarily work with our PN 532 breakouts, but it does have support from like pretty much every modern phone iOS and Android phones. If they have NFC support, they'll support this chip. Inside is both a dynamic RAM buffer and an eProm buffer. The dynamic buffer is just faster to write the eProm buffer as I expect you write it and it is maintained over, you know, 100,000 cycles or more. Also has this cool energy harvesting capability, which I think is neat. I'll show you a little demo of that in a bit, not demo from me from ST. So one thing that is nice about this ISO format is compared to most, it can actually go much farther. I will say that the distance is dependent a lot about whether how good the antenna is. So at the bottom where you see it's like, you know, a couple of feet up to a meter, it, you know, you that's for a not a phone, it's for my dynamic reader with a good antenna. Speaking of which one thing that I thought was really cool is ST has an eDesign website where you can dynamically design the antenna you need based on in the data sheet tells you what the you're based on the frequency and the built in capacitance you can tune what inductance you want and then you can use this tool. You can say how physically large you want the antenna to be and I'll tell you the trace width and the number of turns and the inductance. So it kind of does like this method is told pain to do by hand. So I use this tool when I design the antenna for the NFC breakout. It does have energy harvesting built in. This is also kind of neat because a lot of people like the idea of energy harvesting. It has some use cases where not only would the ST 25 DV be powered over the energy harvesting from the NFC electromagnetic waves, but also you could have an external circuit connected. And so there's even an LDO built in CC won't go above 2.7 volts. But you can get up to I think 2.7 volts. Yeah, you can get up to 1.1 milliamps to 7 milliamps based on the field strength and the voltage that you want out of it and you're willing to drive from it. You know, once you're getting into 4 milliamps, you can drive a low power microcontroller can run off of it for a short amount of time. So, you know, if you want to do some data transfer from microcontroller from a sensor using NFC could be preferable to something like Bluetooth or Wi-Fi where you need a battery. I'm using a coin cell here because this is a common low power battery source. But you know, there's there's a big gulf between having no battery or having a totally energy harvesting solution and having a battery. Once you have a battery, suddenly have to deal with replacing the battery, having it be replaceable. So you have to do will open the case and move it. You have to make sure the battery doesn't get damaged or there's like chemical corrosion. If it's in there too long, if it to recharge your batteries to recharge it, you know, batteries, it's like it's not just the cost of the battery. There's a lot of support circuitry and design required for it. So if you know you can get away with not having a battery, I think that could be interesting. Here's a design for a ink a tag that is completely data is transmitted reprogrammed over NFC. Now you're going to have to hold that NFC tag fairly close so it can go through the update cycle, which takes 20 seconds. But you don't have a battery. Maybe you prefer that maybe from a meter away. This is this is useful enough. There is a library for the ST 25 DV. This is the I squared C side, of course, from the NFC side, you know, you just use it according to any API you've got for iOS or Android. It acts as a normal tag it that the mobile device does not know the difference between it and any other ISO whatever 15963 tag. There's also the K and the KC version. I'll say I looked for a little bit and I believe the big difference is there's a there's a couple of little details, but you can change the I squared C address of the KC family. Otherwise, it seems like they're pin to pin compatible and functionally very, very similar. So you can you can pretty much use either. I've used the K because the KC was an app. I'm going to check the details of this more and best of all, they're in stock. That's right. Love it when the IMPI is in stock. So pick it up. You can use our open source design if you want to get started also a valve boards from ST. But I think it's an interesting way you want to transmit data to and from a mobile device, not have to deal with deployment, not have to deal with Bluetooth or pairing or batteries. This could really be a good solution. You know, there's you know, there's a couple of presentations on the ST website with demonstrations of what they think it could be good for. So all right, and we have a video. Do you want to play it? Yeah, let's play the video. This is from ST showing their sensor tag, which is another product that uses this chip and a microcontroller to data log and then transmit that data log data to a mobile device. Okay, it's two minutes. See any other side? Hi, I'm Jim Barlow with ST's NFC RFID marketing. We're here at Sensors Expo in San Jose and we're introducing our new low power NFC sensor tag reference design. It highlights many of our low power sensors for your design, such as the low power accelerometer, barometer pressure sensor, humidity and temperature sensor, and our low power cortex M0. What the sensor tag allows you to do is completely, this entire board can be read through an NFC field from your phone, for instance, and can be completely powered through the energy harvesting capability of the NFC IC on here, the ST25DV, NFC dynamic tag. You can completely power up this microprocessor and the sensors and read that data, but we've designed this reference design to now allow you to enable in your designs the ability to data log. So you can design, you can test, like for instance you could test if something stays cold during shipments, if it encounters vibrations or maybe heat during the shipment, and then when you come in range of a near field communications, you can take that data log information out and make intelligent decisions, like for instance if you had a case of wine shipped to you at your home and you're wondering why it tastes bad, you can detect that it was stored at too high of a temperature. So this new reference design is now available on ST.com, and we look forward to you designing and being very successful with your projects. Thank you. That is a thing, sensor expo. This is one, by the way, that's one of the places we want to go to. Sensor expo. We went to a couple of shows that I can't wait until we can do it again when we go to pick and places. We went to, there's giant commercial shows that have all the stuff, and sensor expo is one of them for that. So that is that this week's IonMPI. IonMPI.


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