Determination and dedication drives Staff Sergeant Vanessa Carrillo from the 515th Transportation Company. The 21st Theater Sustainment Command's NCO of the year is preparing for this year's use of a best warrior competition by trying to have some fun. I mean it's fun competing I'm a very competitive person so you know when when competitions come down especially based off of a warrior task you know the the things that I enjoy about the Army you know land nav rug marching and PT test and all that like I like competing. She will rely on her preparation and training to help her through the vigorous competition. I'm a little nervous especially it's coming up real fast sometimes I feel like I didn't prepare enough or maybe I'm just overthinking and you know it might might hurt against me but at the same time I'm really excited I get like a little adrenaline going you know especially come times when the the the events start and I got to compete and you know show my best out there. Well Staff Sergeant Carrillo the Army Europe's NCO of the year follow her journey on the 21st TSC's Facebook page. From bomb holder Germany I'm Staff Sergeant Adrian Patoka.


Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching my tutorial today I'm going to be showing you how I've made these really full loaded over-the-top gift tags it's using lots of the simply creative supplies mixed with one of the first edition papers and a few other little bits but I'll talk you through that as you go so you would have seen me share a few weeks ago now I got all of these little gem stickers so there's the Father Christmas that's the one I'm going to use today and then I have the tree so that's this one here and what I've done is I've stuck them onto some acetate and then I've just roughly cut around the acetate and then I've stuck them on some clear silicone foam tape and then you can just see there's some dimension to it there and then I've started to build up these really like I said over the top gift tags now you don't obviously have to use them like this but I just I don't know I just got a bit carried away and I love them I love all this kind of stuff so that's the Christmas tree then you have the snowflake which is this one here you can see all that sparkle on the snowflake it's really nice it's all got a little bit of skinny tinsel there there we go and it's got a bell they've all got a bell actually they're going to look great when they're on the presents you can see on this I've put all these like little styrofoam balls and there's a little sentiment there from the Christmas tails collection and these are actually pipe cleaners on the all around the frame there just to kind of I just really like the effect and because they bend because they've got the metal in them it looks yeah I thought it looked really good so that's the snowflake then you've got the gingerbread man I like this one here and I put a little Christmas hat on him again a couple of bells kind of lost their ring a little bit there but and then I've made a little candy cane out of the pipe cleaners there and I've put it along the bottom there as well and then you've got all this pompom trim on all of them and then the last one is the penguin I love this one it's so cute again I've added the Christmas hat onto him and the same kind of thing that I done with this one here white pompom trim and then there is a jingle there and that's a merry Christmas that's one of the puffy stickers from the Christmas tails collection so very very straightforward it was more about inspiration for this video because these have all been cut by hand so you don't need to die for these tags because I wanted them to fit these stickers that I had so here's Father Christmas and then this here is a piece of five by three and a quarter like I said it doesn't have to be that length that size it's just that's what I decided to use for these ones here now what you will need to do if you do want to make it like I have is along the top you want to put a little marker at one inch and at two and a quarter and then along the side from that from the top there you want to do one and a half down so again just on that side there one and a half down and then I just with my scissors you can use a trim if you want just cut from the one and a half to the one of the top ones and then the other one there I'm just cutting down to that one there so now I've got my gift tag shape it's very straightforward and then what you could do is use that as a template or make up a template and just draw around it on all of them that's just a quick way to make a tag and then I've got my hole punch here I'm just going to punch a hole in the top there okay so that's the tag already then I'm going to grab my let's take this one out of the packaging I've just got a piece of scrap acetate here it's just stronger you can stick this directly onto whatever it is you're using I just liked it to be a little bit dimensional so that was why I'd done it but just peel them off they're lovely on shaker cards you can have them on the shaker window as well so I'm going to take that one off and stick him on here and you can see just look at all the sparkle on them they are so nice they really are fun to use and then I'm just going to very quickly cut around him okay like so so now he's just a bit more easier to use you could have him you know you could just put a hole punch and have him hanging as like a little decorative dangle it's entirely up to you but what I'm going to do now is just with some of my clear foam is just run a couple of strips down through the center really just to just to lift him up a little bit and then I'm going to stick him a little bit high because I want to run some of the pom pom trim on the bottom so about there now that clear tape's brilliant because you can't see it but now he is lifted off it's hard to really see on camera but you do notice it in person and yeah I just think he looks I think he looks really cute then I'm going to start decorating it so I have used all sorts so I've used the simply created pom pom trim so I've got the red I've got the white I may well frame this one again I do really like that effect so these are the candy cane pipe cleaners I'm going to grab two of them you get so many in here 60 so it's yeah it's just been really really handy and then those are the balls that I've used all along here all along there and don't use them on any others no just use them on those two so I may use it on this one I'm not entirely sure and then this is the skinny tinsel I've used these snowflakes which you can see here in here I have used oh yeah I used a couple of the rosettes from the Christmas towels so I've got one rosette there and one just here those Christmas hats are from last year and it's again simply created it's the Christmas chunky stickers I think I tried linking these before and I struggled to find them so I will have another look I think there might be something similar but it wasn't these exact ones but they're really cute but because I'm working with Father Christmas he doesn't need a hat because he already has one and then I used some of these puffy stickers so that was that one there which I used on the top of that one there these I picked up from Hobbycraft that's obviously the candy cane made from the candy cane pipe cleaners and then the bells you can pick them up everywhere but I have got the simply creative ones here but I've also got all of them in one of my drawers I have a lot of bells so I've just kind of been mixing them all up so yeah that's kind of what I did so what I'm going to do first is what have I got I've got a white one red so I've got two whites and two reds it doesn't really matter I could combine two I guess with this one so you just get your pom pom trim and I'm going to stick it along the bottom there let's see what it looks like with both actually quite like the white on top so I think I'll do the red on the bottom and then the white in between oh yeah I like that so I'm going to run a bead of glue along the bottom and then you just want to stick that over the top like so and then I'm going to grab the white one and you just want to offset it so they sit in between the ones below so let's do that there because there we go that's fine then I'm going to get one of these and I think I'm going to frame so I'm going to run one there or do I want to pop the little see I like the little balls there as well so let's see I might pop this up here you basically just the more you add for me the better like just really go over the top with it if that's the look you want obviously I know that's not everyone's cup of tea but I really like it so now I'm going to run a bead of glue all the way around here and I'm going to stick down this pipe cleaner okay so I stuck everything down how I wanted now you would notice that the background has changed because I didn't like the other one I found that he I don't know I just didn't think it looked great so I've just popped it on this red one which is the same as the one I used there for the tree so that's now all in place so I just want to add all the little details to it now so I'm going to add some of the of these little balls I think along here because I do like those and I'm going to tie off some ribbon along the top I need to choose a sentiment that I'm going to use and I'm probably going to try and find one of these wreaths and do the candy cane so to do that you just get one of these pipe cleaners and I just literally just curl the top a little bit bigger like so and then just cut it really how tall you want I'm going to go about there there we go so I can have that one find up there and I'm going to add some bells and things like that so again I will show you once I've done it okay so I've just been playing around I've added these Christmas trees so on this one here I've used the green rabbit here this is the sunlit meadow so once that dries it's still very wet I've literally just finished I will probably put another layer over it just to give it a bit more of a green but there's a lovely sparkle coming through on that one it's not picking it up too well at the minute in terms of sentiments I have to have a little rummage around because I'm not liking I love the the rosette but I don't like it on there I just think it's too big and it's going to completely hide the glitter you know the the gem Santa there and then that little penguin I added another one of these Christmas trees so again that one's all drying but it does need to set and then I tried the green here which was the woodland green on this one so this is going to just dry really shiny but I will put another layer over that as well so it should come up much much better in the photos but I think for the minute I'm just going to leave them it was purely just to give you some inspiration my idea is is that I'm going to wrap the presents in red plain paper or even white I've got a big roll of white paper so I may well use that actually I probably use will use the white and then I'll do a big red ribbon and then I'll have this gift tag so it really pops against the present so yeah I really like them they're really over the top and just fun and they use a lot of things which is good so if you have got a lot of bits and pieces lying around put them all together you know they clash but they work if you stick within those kind of I've stuck with red green white and then either silver or gold and it all kind of works together I think it does anyway so there you have it that's my very full loaded over-the-top gift tags I hope it's inspired you if it has please give me a thumbs up if you've enjoyed today and consider subscribing so you get to see more thanks for watching bye


So, I have a question about the value of EMC, and I wonder if you could just make an observation and you can comment. Sure. I have my numbers exactly right, but roughly speaking, on January 1st I looked at the value of EMC compared to a year ago, and I assumed an 80% valuation of VMWare, ownership of VMWare, and the core value of EMC actually dropped in a year where you had a great year. I throw out tons of free cash flow, great revenues. So do you feel like EMC is undervalued as a result of that, or is it fairly value because of the VMWare ownership, and you get the uplift from that? I wonder if you could just talk about that dynamic, does it matter? I know you think it's undervalued, but just if you could talk a little bit about the dynamic, and does that matter, and is there anything you can add to that? There's shareholders that own VMWare. I'm talking about taking EMC ID equation. There's shareholders that own VMWare. And for the year last year, they got 110% return on their investment. There's shareholders that owned EMC, and they got about a 33% return on their investment. So 110% up, 33% up. These are both far in excess. So customers are liking both sides. Now to your point, if you took VMWare's value, I don't even know where it is anymore, but it's approaching, it's called 40 billion because it's close. If you took 80% or 81% of 40 billion, is that reflected in EMC's 50 billion? And EMC would probably be no. Now we can go into why is that, and there's a lot of ways ARBs. When you give two ways to play something, there's ARB charge. And then of course EMC at a company of close to $17 billion in revenue, can you afford to give that? You kind of got a bit of a sanity coming in, too. In terms of what am I going to give VMC? This big company, forget about VMWare a second. What am I going to give? Just that consolidated P and L. What P, am I going to give that relative to its peers?  They are giving us a higher P in all of those companies. I make a statement that of the really big companies in IT, we're the smallest of the big. So we didn't announce this quarter, but last quarter, we had 50 billion in market cap and last quarter we had 10 and a half billion in cash. That's a lot. In any other industry, you'd be a giant. But in our industry, there's companies that are way bigger and way more cash. So again, not all the big ones have more cash, but if you look at it in kind of a macro. So we're kind of the smallest of the big, which is, okay, we have a lot to run. But if you look at all the ones that are above us, we have a higher P in all of them. So I think there's two ways to look at it. One way is you look at a consolidator and that's what we're telling the world. We're telling the world, hey, VMWare is part of the family. Yes, we shared it with employees and we shared it with public. But we're holding our stake and it's a consolidated company, part of our financials. So they believe us and they're looking at EMC as a whole. And they're saying, what do I want to get EMC as a whole? What P, they want to give that company? What's their growth? What's their prospect? And I'm not going to argue with the market. So it's just cheap. We just got to continue to perform and things tend to take care of themselves. So that's, I think what's happening with EMC. They're looking at it as a whole because they're now believing us. There's a lot of fodder for a while.  You're going to do additional. And I kept saying, no, we're not. No, we're not. This strategy together makes a lot of sense. I mean, if you look at the cloud, you know, do you need what VMWare is doing? Absolutely. Do you need information? Information storage? Information management? Information protection? Information security? Information intelligence? Yes, you do. Those are pieces. So we got all of that in one company. You know, we partnered very closely with Cisco and get some of the pieces that we don't have. Namely, networking and we use their UCS servers. So again, I like what we have. But I do think what's happening is customers, they're not customers. Investors are looking at us and they're believing us. They're saying, okay, let's look at this as a consolidated entity.  It's got a great place in the cloud. And it believes it will grow into its P over time so they're willing to give that more of an advanced TE, which we don't, multiples of EMCs. And that's kind of the way they're playing it. And a lot of investors play both sides. So it is what it is.


My name is Marc Boutet, and I'm the CEO of DeMark. We got started the business to grant access to contents to the most, to the largest number of people. Essentially, at first it was in French only, so the idea was to get access to some French language contents. Fast forward, 2008, we started a digital distribution platform called Kentook. The idea was to have publishers to use that collective platform to get content distributed to the largest number of people, so two different platforms like Amazon, Apple, but also local bookstores. The idea from the start was accessibility to content and the largest number of people having access to content in different formats. From the beginning of the platform, the idea was to have an open architecture and build a common ecosystem. From our perspective, this idea was to build common applications, common standards, APIs, and this idea I think is perfectly in the direction that we were looking at to have a collective activity and build something altogether to have common applications, common standards, and that's why I think it's so important. The idea of DeMark is also to build a common architecture for libraries, local bookstores, schools, even eventually corporations, universities. So this idea is to have a common platform that is used by all these people and all these different types of organizations. So we need to co-invest in some ways in a collective effort to be able to have a common ecosystem and I think that's how it can be integrated. Because if today DeMark is in some ways different projects all over the place, and it's okay like that because that's the way we grew the ecosystem and the company. But now for the next 10 years is trying to imagine a common ground and common platform and try to not do everybody reinventing the wheel and doing the little thing here and there and having a more global infrastructure and also think about accessibility and common recommendation tools so that we don't each and everyone do his own thing in its own garden. So that's the idea. At DeMark we try to convince publishers and libraries and bookstores to say well don't take too much time to reinventing the wheel and building your own infrastructure and we're going to take care of your needs in terms of this general infrastructure that everybody can use and we try also to be as standard and as open as possible at DeMark but in our own business model. So the reason why I think people should join the consortium is to say well it's the same thing but for another reason for other segments and other applications and it's the same the same way so the same reason. So everybody saves time we all have the same goal and we all focus on different activities on our side and then hypothesis can provide what is needed in terms of social and recommendation and some other areas and then we don't need to invest in that environment and we collectively use that same route. In our words in our business models it was we're going to construct we're going to build the roots and the bridges and you know all what is everything that is needed to circulate and you don't have to care about that and then you focus on your contents and for different companies like DeMark and the other members of this group is the same thing. So we can then focus on our own activities and then we are part of our larger group and we all have the same objective so I think that I recommend to similar companies or complementary companies to join this initiative.


Well, it's almost time folks. Black Friday is almost here if you live in the United States.   That's right. The eShop starting today running through December 2nd. We also have a bunch of Black Friday deals that are already live at a ton of various retailers. Let's get into the Nintendo stuff first that you can check out for yourself on the eShop. But if you want to know exact amounts, I mean there's so many games on sale. This is going to take a lot to get through so bear with me everyone. And hey, it feels good to be back. I know it's been a couple days, two and a half, almost three days to be honest. I've been playing a ton of Age of Calamity. I'm actually going to review the game and I don't really do game reviews that much. So stay tuned for why I'm actually reviewing this game. Sort of. You'll see. I'm not done with it yet though. Not just done with a review. I'm not done with a game. I'm doing something with this game. I typically don't do a game. So stay tuned for that. All right. Here's the full lineup on the eShop. So Bloodstained Curse of the Moon 2 is on sale for $9.74. Cents was originally $15. Borderlands Game of the Year edition is on sale for $17.99. It was originally $30. Burnout Paradise remastered is on sale for $29.99. Was originally $50. Carry on is on sale for $14.99. Was originally $20. Castle Crash is remastered is on sale for $9. Was originally $15. Catherine Full Body is on sale for $29. Was originally $60. Coffee Duck is on sale for $9.74. Cents was originally $12.99. Crash Team Racing Nitro Fuel is on sale for $20. Was originally $39.99. Cuphead is on sale for $14.99. Was originally $19.99. Dama X Makada is on sale for $39.99. Was originally $59.99. Dark Souls Remastered is on sale for $19.99. Was originally $39.99. Diablo III Eternal Collection is on sale for $29.99. Was originally $59.99. Divinity Original Sin 2 Definitive Edition is on sale for $34.99. Was originally $49.99. Doom is on sale for $29.99. Was originally $59.99. Dragon Quest Builders is on sale for $24.99. Was originally $49.99. FEH is on sale for $4.99. Originally $19.99. Hades is on sale for $19.99. Was originally $24.99. justDance2021 is on sale for $29.99. Originally $49.99 Katana Zero's on sale for $8.99 was originally $14.99. Knight's and Bikes' on sale for $14.99 was originally $19.99. Layton's Mystery Journey, Catril and the Millionaire's Conspiracy Deluxe Edition. What a mouthful. That's on sale for $23.99 was originally $39.99. Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 is on sale for $29.99. That was originally $59.99. Marvel's Ultimate Alliance Through the Black Order is on sale for $47.99. Was originally $59.99. Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate is on sale for $15.99. Originally $39.99. Mortal Kombat 11's on sale for $14.99. Was originally $49.99. New Super Lucky's Tales on sale for $27.99. Originally $39.99. Nino Cooney's on sale for $14.99. Originally $49.99. Rooters on sale for $9.99. Originally $20. Sega Ages Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is on sale for $6. Originally $8. Shantae and the Pirate's Courses on sale for $10. Originally $20. Shovel Knight Treasure Trove is on sale for $20. Originally $40. Slay the Spire is on sale for $15. Originally $25. Snack World The Dungeon Crawl Gold is on sale for $30. Originally $50. SNK Heroin's Tig Team Frenzy's on sale for $30. Originally $50. Super Hots on sale for $15. Originally $25. Super Limitals on sale for $14. Originally $20. Super Mario Party is on sale for $40. Originally $60. Sushi Shryker Way of the Shishito is on sale for $24.99. Originally $50. Tateria is on sale for $14.99. Originally $30. Elder Scrolls 5 Skyrim is on sale for $30. Originally $60. The Jatbox Party Pack 7 is on sale for $23.99. Originally $30. The Last Campfire is on sale for $10.50. Originally $15. The Long Dark is on sale for $23.44. Originally $34.99. The Outer Worlds is on sale for $30. Originally $60. The Wonderful 101 Remastered is on sale as well for $27.19. Original Price was $40. Tokyo Mirage Sessions. F.E. Encore. Cool! Glad to see that. That one came out this year. $40. Originally $60. Travis Strikes Again. No More Heroes is $15 when it was originally $30. The Two Point Hospital is $20 when it was originally $40. What's the Golf? Is on sale as well for $14 when it was originally $20. Wolfenstein II. The New Colossus is on sale for $30 when it was originally $60. And I will say that game is very good on Switch. Xenovate Chronicles 2 is up sale for $40. Originally $60. Xenovate Chronicles 2 torn out of the Golden Country DLC. $26.79 was originally $40. Zelda Link's Awakening is on sale for $40. Originally $60. That is it for the digital sales. There's a ton of digital sales. But there's even more crazy sales happening at various retailers. I'm not going to go over which retailers these are from because they are all over from Amazon, to Walmart, to Best Buy, to GameStop, to Target. A whole bunch of these sales are live right now. So if you're interested in any of these games at these prices, be sure to type in the games at the various retailers. Instead of giving the price and how much off it is, I'm just going to give you the price right now to buy the game this week at these retailers. Civilization 6 for $10. Mortal Kombat 11 for $13. Saints Row 4 re-elected for $13. Ghostbusters, the video game remastered for $15. Disney Classic Games Aladdin and the Lion King for $15. Overwatch Legendary Edition for $15. Mario and Rabbids Kingdom Battle for $15. Assassin's Creed III Remastered for $15. Moving Out for $15. Minecraft Dungeon for $20. Spyro Reignited for $20. Final Fantasy X slash X2 HD Remaster for $20. Crash Team Racing Nitro Fuel for $20. Catherine Full Body for $20. Collection of Mana for $20. Burnout Paradise Remastered for $20. Jump Force Deluxe Edition for $20. Final Fantasy XII The Zodiac Age for $20. BioShock for $20. Trials of Mana for $20. XCOM 2 Collection for $20. The Survivalist for $20. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games 2020 is on sale for $25. Story of Seasons Friends of Mineral Town is on sale for $25. Overcooked 2 is on sale for $25. Rune Factory Force Special is on sale for $25. Borderlands Legendary Collection is on sale for $25. The Wonderful 101 Remastered is on sale for $25. The Outer World is on sale for $30. Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered is on sale for $30. Captain Tubasa Rise of New Champions is on sale for $30. New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe is running $35 right now. Yoshi's Crafted World is running $35 right now. Splatoon 2 is for $35. Fire Emblem 3 Houses is $35. Mario Tennis Aces is $35. Luigi's Mansion 3 is $40. Zola Link's Awakening is $40. Super Mario Maker 2 is $40. And The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt Complete Edition is now running for $40. Now, again, prices can vary by a buck or two at these various retailers right now. You can buy them online. Some places will let you buy them in the store, but most of these are online only. And these are obviously, we're talking about physical copies of the games here. So the first list was all about the digital stuff, go to the eShop, buy now. This stuff is, you know, buy in store or buy online and have it delivered to your house. So, whoa, that is a lot of sales, guys. And that's all Switch. Literally just Switch. We're not even getting into PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X, PlayStation 4, all this stuff. Because like, there's going to be more. The ads are going to be rolling in. And I think we're going to do one massive, just absolutely massive roundup video, like the day before Thanksgiving is what I'm planning to do here, because some sales go live on Thanksgiving. Obviously some sales are live right now, but the best deals are usually on Thanksgiving and then on Black Friday itself and then over that weekend, heading to Cyber Monday. So yeah, we'll have a general sales post up, I believe landing on Wednesday. But man, I needed to get these deals out there because these are available right freaking now. And it's just, wow, just wow. Some of these sales are just unbelievable, but it's like that every single year. And Nintendo's actually partaking this time around. Nintendo is not typically one of the discount games. They have several games available for 30 bucks, 35 bucks, 40 bucks. Games that they usually never price drop. So this is a great time to be a Switch owner. If you're looking to get some of the best games on Switch for rather cheap. Of course, if you're trying to get Age of Calamity, like I've been playing lately, that's full price, but it just came out. So thank you guys so much for tuning in. I am Nathaniel Robojet from Nintendo Prime and I will catch you in the next video.


This is a little LM386, a little 3N6 bass amplifier, for a mono amplifier with such a small amount of parts, it doesn't at all sound too bad, doesn't sound too bad at all, even. On mine, I've made sure that I've got the negative side, keeping them separate basically, keeping that side of the negative, separate from the power side of the negative. And it doesn't sound particularly too bad, I don't really get any of this to the Washington, it does sound pretty good. I watched a few videos on YouTube about how to do the proper layout, with the grounds being very important. But before I did this, I had ordered a kit of the LM386. I took it out the drawer earlier, figuring I might just put this together. I've got quite a few kits that I haven't built yet. And this is one of them, so I've got one out over the way. And this is a, I can't remember, I got it for eBay. I think the kit was only a couple of pounds, and the way I look at it is, you know, the LM386, depending where it's come from, you know, that's worth a pound or something. But with the other bits, it's worth it. And you get that little PCB. The lighting's not the greatest.  You do get some instruction. And you get a nice little schematic there. It's quite easy to see what goes where. I'm just trying to see if there's much difference between my circuit and this one, and I can see a difference so far. I've got a, I'm going to resist that. Going from 7 to a capacitor to the ground on the 10k part. That's the same little capacitor. They've got a question there. I think mine's 470 pico. I don't have an LED. Let's see it. I think what we should do is check this together and see what it sounds like.


What is going on guys welcome back to the channel Critical Overload here since about Friday the 13th in this video here again today and going over Another idea that I think could still work as it pertains to where they could go if Victor Miller and Sean S. Cunningham Actually came together and were to give fans what they want which would be a movie surrounding adult Jason bore He's with his hockey mask and not and not Victor off doing his own thing of what he has the rights to do without the adult Jason or Sean being stuck not be able to do anything without Victor. I wanted to talk about Corey Feldman who is the OG Tommy Jarvis and some of his thoughts that he's talked about over the over the past decade I would say he's talked about this idea of Tommy Jarvis returning to battle Jason for he's in a versus movie You know Jason versus Jarvis now a lot of people would prefer from what poll I put out I guess would prefer to just see them do a remake, but what if that remake didn't include Hockey mask adult Jason would you be okay with just getting another remake and then it's just basically retelling Pamela story again You can have young Jason it I guess if Victor Miller is the only one involved in it in that regard because you have rights to that but when it comes to this idea that Corey Feldman has had he has stated that He hoped to do Jason versus Jarvis many years ago prior to I guess them doing the 2009 movie that we got But platinum dunes and whoever else was involved with the IP at the time Decided against it after promising him this now. These are his words. I'll leave a link to this article in the description Some of this could have just of course be him remembering things a little bit more inaccurately or embellishing on certain things like the fact that they promised him this so like He said they were talking about doing like an H2O style film But that got scrapped for the 2009 film that we now have so he thinks bringing in other survivors Which was another idea they got brought up. He thinks that if they were to bring in other survivors That would be too much and he would just want to do something that is similar to Halloween 2018 He did mention that the writer for for the Friday the 13th the final chapter and himself have actually Wrote written up a treatment for this concept of Jason versus Jarvis And then he argued that Jamie Lee Curtis has been brought back for a legacy sequel twice now Or I guess you could say more more than twice at this point and he all he wants to just one Tommy legacy sequel He thinks that if if all these other stars are getting their their Revamps then why can't he get one now? I'm not saying that Corey Feldman isn't Right to some degree as much as I think that even if Tommy Jarvis was brought back I don't think they would bring you back. I don't think they would bring Corey Feldman back I think they would go out of course to get the get the Tommy from Part six Jason lives so Admittedly Tommy is to Jason what Laurie is to Michael or I guess what you could say Sydney is to the ghostface costume What Nancy is to Freddy what Andy is to Chuckie that type of thing But Tommy got discarded after part six and we haven't heard much about him And I think like I just mentioned we already have a TV series of Chuckie where we're seeing Chuckie battling his oldest Nemesis Andy still all these years later So I don't see why something like this couldn't still work today. I think Jason versus Jarvis could work I do disagree with him on the fact of not bringing in other survivors I think something like that at this stage We'll probably be better more beneficial if you brought in one of the other more memorable legacy stars I could say or characters at this point who I think is Tina Outside of Tommy. I think the other most memorable star is Tina At least the ones that people are talking about constantly for what I'm seeing these days Honestly, I would say that Tina has a slight advantage over what I tend to see or online but Tommy himself again, he was the dominant final boy or final character for a Section of this series for at least three movies played by different actors But Jason and Tommy they have a they have a rivalry and I think you could explore something like that in a Legacy sequel that is picking up and I'll start from the bottom What you could do because we don't know what happened to this character after part six at least how it's been depicted on screen We haven't seen anything depicted on screen that tells us what happened to Tommy after part six You could explore his relationship with Megan where did they end up? And we could find out that Tommy and Megan actually moved away from Crystal Lake Tommy and Megan While moving away We're trying to forget about Jason because he was convinced he had killed him and that Jason was dead He's at the bottom of the ocean. He's not gonna hurt anyone anymore But as they have moved away Tommy somehow learned about all the things that transpired in part seven with Tina He learned about what transpired in part eight with New York. He learned about what happened in Jason goes to hell He's also aware. Let's throw this in and make it can and he's aware of the events of Freddy versus Jason So you could do something set like maybe a couple of years many years after Freddy versus Jason still in the late 2000s where you bring in Tommy Jarvis Who is going back to Crystal Lake? We can find out that he still has been obsessed with wanting to kill Jason ever since he found out that his plan at the end of part Six did not work out it led to his relationship with Megan crumbling and you could explore of course some Some mentality within him that is just convinced that he cannot move on from what happened to him when he was a little kid Unless this monster that he feels has been plaguing him for all these years is finally put to bed Now I know of course people say oh that sounds just like Halloween 2018. Well again This treatment that they're talking about has apparently been ready to go for over 10 years. So While it might come off as a ripoff I still think this is a concept that could work And I think you'd even be better if you evened it out by not just having it be Jason and Jarvis throw in Tina Have Tina jump in and of course you could bring back a different actor to pray to play Tina Exploring that a little bit have a tag teams have a scenario go on I wouldn't have them be the main focus as much as they would be the two characters that end up showing up to help these new Group of characters who are being tormented by Jason at Camp Crystal Lake all these years later after Freddie versus Jason This could be in a way I guess for a lot of people an unofficial Freddie versus Jason sequel why not directly associated with it It's set after the events of that movie Kind of like I guess how you could say Jason X is set after the events of Freddie versus Jason But maybe you'll have a little nod to Freddie to just acknowledge that it's set after Freddie versus Jason I think Jason versus Jarvis is a concept that could still work I know many people would probably be on board with that I think that actor himself that plays Tommy in part six has been in these never hike alone fan films Which I think have been great so far But you know the reception and the audience you can pull in from doing that type of event in a Canon mainstream Friday 13 movie. I think could still be something that is Very successful at the box office if done right, you know that you have these people that are starved for Jason content They'll go out and see something like this I think it could work and I think people will be more open to this than having another remake happen That doesn't have adult Jason It's doing Pamela story all over again and then just having countless movies without adult hockey match Jason But of course this will rely on those two coming together and agreeing on something for the fans But let me know what you guys think about that concept down in the comment section below If you haven't already, of course, make sure you subscribe turn on post a kitchen never miss a video in the description I have links for social media accounts on Facebook Twitter and Instagram You can message me there, of course There's any movies news or views like me to cover in the future with all that in mind guys I will see you in the next video


Welcome back to my channel. Today's video as you can see from the title. It is going to be an apartment vlog Not sure what I want to name this yet, but if you're new here, hey, my name is Akira Jenae Don't forget to subscribe and join the family before you leave. So if you see me in the same Area setting attire as a another video mind your business I had to record intro to this video because I recorded this Vlog on my iPad and my iPhone because my camera had to go get fixed for a week and You know, I wasn't gonna wait a week to put up all this stuff in my apartment So I'm gonna be kind of narrating this vlog in a sense So in the beginning of this vlog, I've been getting a lot of packages this week well last week But this week of the video I've been getting a lot of packages. So I'm gonna be showing you guys I got new What is it like jars I guess for my spices We're gonna be putting those together in this vlog And then I also wanted to try to get this play pan for Oreo The video that I recorded me talking about this is actually like a lagging So I don't know if I'm gonna be able to like fully put that whole clip in because the clip was like 10 minutes So I'll probably try to throw in bits and pieces But I did get this play pan for Oreo and it ended up being too small So I was just gonna send it back and get a bigger size, but I'm like well here already has a cage I don't really care about the play pin and I bought it because I also bought him the fresh patch of grass That you buy for like $30. They send it straight to your doorstep. I got it. It just didn't work Like they're literally just playing on the grass or they just decided to like eat the grass basically So that's the reason why I didn't get the play pin again, but after that Took it back returned it back to coals.  I think the next day And I went to home goods with my friend Jenae and we got some stuff. So from coals. I did get a What is it like a shoe rack I think I actually recorded this so I'm just probably gonna throw that in right now And then we'll come Everything that you'll need and then it comes with I think it's there like 300 Labels so it has all the spices labeled on here Super cute and then these are the glass jars.  So it comes with the little guards So yeah excited about that.  It's a lot. I need to go shopping too for some more seasonings Well, I think I only got about like 10 See any broken glass I think all of these are pretty okay So I'm going to set these aside. They packaged them really well The boys are like going crazy right now They look pretty good.  I'm trying to record Logs and stuff. This one is for Oreo. It's like a playpen I'm trying to get him out of the cage It's possible like my ultimate goal right now is trying to Break in potty train him once he's completely potty trained like he doesn't poop in the house But he'll still pee in the house and he pees a little bit when he's like excited or scared So I don't know how to really break him out of it like Prince was a completely different dog like Prince I didn't have no problems with Prince Oreo.  So this is just a playpen For dogs, hopefully it's big enough. I got a size small Hopefully I don't need a bigger size but looking at it. I might need a bigger size for Oreo. I forgot he's way big difference need a larger size because This is as tall as Oreo. Yeah, I don't even know why I got a size small Uh, now I got a return this and wait to get another one Anyways, this is what it looks like. So basically You'll unfold this there's a little playpen So if you had like a smaller dog like Prince size or maybe even a little bit smaller I feel like this will be perfect because Oreo is taller than this literally So it's it's not gonna work Look how tiny this is Oh, I'm so sad because I wanted it to be big enough so I can put that fresh patch of grass in here So I can kind of like eat him to consolidate it So this isn't gonna work as tall as this Like watch if I try to put him up in here And if I think this that I had this too, this is like what the hell So I'm about to package this back up and I'm about to go to cold If you didn't know you can go to cold and do free amazon returns So that's what I'm gonna do Okay, so hey y'all I'm filming on my iPad Um, I just checked the status of my camera and it says now my camera isn't going to be delivered until Tuesday um, january 20 something I don't know it's the 20th. So friday saturday sunday monday tuesday So the 24th is when we'll be here. So Baby, I didn't just went shopping. I got content to make so I'm recording my vlogs now on my ipad. I want to be switching back and forth from ipad to iphone So this is just for all y'all inspiring youtubers out there. Y'all do not need a camera Um, I think I got the quality pretty okay for right now This is like on the hd4k setting on the ipad and I got to be like the biggest ipad that you can get right now So, yeah, and my ipad has more space than my iphone. So i'm using this one But me and my friend jenay just got back from homeless as you can see And we want the coals and chick filet to get our nails done. So got my nails done Super cute. These are my real nails these two Are tips and then the rest are all of mine She only had to put on two tips. So super cute. I love So i'm going to give y'all a little haul and then we're going to start putting this stuff together and putting it up So from coals only got one thing um, if you didn't know You can return stuff at coals. So I think in the clip before this I told y'all guys I was going to go return um prints Well orio's little play pin that I got for him. So if you return something at coals You get a 25 up coupon. So I was just we was just walking around I don't think she ever been in coals before or that coals at this location. So We went and looked around and I stumbled across this this the camera has it flipped. That's Something that I don't like So yeah, anyways, this is a Um a three tier shoe rack it holds up to nine pairs of shoes and it got a walnut finish So like I said in the previous clip, um This style will match my next apartment if I can get into this apartment Like if one comes available Like I said, I will move but if not just gonna stay here But I do still like the brown tones. Um, I do have some like tan and brown items in my apartment So I'm kind of like transitioning my um, like color scheme. So anyways, I got this I'm going to put this up Tonight probably it was regular 59 99 and then it was on sale for like 44 99 And then I also got 25 off. So with taxes and everything I think only paid like 35 36 dollars. So I think that was a really really good steal and moving on To the stuff I got from home goods. I can't show you guys everything simply because some of the stuff is for bay For his house warming gift because he is moving. So I can't show you everything, but I can show you this one This was 9 99. I think this was a very very good deal. It says handmade with love made in india Um, this jar, I felt like they probably would have ran you like 15 dollars But this is only 9 99. I'm going to put the boys treats in this like I'm literally going to dump every single treat that I have for them in this that isn't like a biscuit Like that's not like a hard treat. So all the soft treats I'm literally just going to put it put it on the here and whenever I need to give them a treat I'm just going to pick one random treat and they're going to get a random treat every time. So Super excited about this and like I said, I'm going for the neutral brown tones now. So I'm excited about this one I want to put this down Think there's all All right, moving to this bag. I think I can show y'all this one. I can show y'all most of what's in here. So Keeping along with hold on a sec. Okay, so I also got this. This is a rain jacket for Oreo Um, I got it in the size of medium. Hopefully it fits him But I try to keep all of this stuff like blue So I thought this was super cute. It just straps right here Oops It straps like this put it over his head and then strap around his body Um prints already have a jacket orio didn't obviously because I just got him last year in prints. He's been had one But this one was super cool. Um, it got a little zipper right here So if you put a harness around your dog, you'll be able to still wrap them up in this without actually getting them wet Or if you do a collar, you can still do it right here So Oreo has a collar and he has a harness So I feel like this one worked out perfectly and it was on sale for $10 the regular price The regular price was 25. So this is super cute and The next thing that I got that's pertaining to the dogs is this little bitty It's called reversible crane that so it's perfect for crates for size medium Hopefully this fits if you don't also just stuff this in there. So it says It's to comfort the joints. It is Reversible sturdy and lightweight I basically got this because I'm tired of him in his nails Like when he gets excited like he just wants to be out of the cage He'll just start scratching like the bottom of the cage and it just makes a really really really annoying sound And y'all know I work night shift 12 hour night shifts overnight And when I'm at home and he just be scratching or like moving around Sometimes it scares me and sometimes like other times it just annoys me. So I got this because This is not as annoying as the actual like plastic. So I'm excited to try this out. Hopefully this one Works out pretty well and don't really make too much noise. I feel like this is a more softer like cushion type I feel like I'm gonna like this sound a lot better. This one is for me They had this on clearance for nine dollars regular 1999 I've been trying to just just up my kitchen. I think I said that in the clip before this So I do need new silverware. So I got a 16 piece set and I don't know I didn't want a matte black But a lot of people were saying the matte black that I looked at on amazon that it was like It's not dishwasher safe. It'll start peeling and it's just it's just not cute. So I got this one This is more of like a darker silver. So I feel like it could pass for You know that black or matte black type of look. So Yeah, it's it's a pretty dark silver. Like it's not like that bright Obnoxious silver. So I like this one. This is the one I got And luckily it was on clearance. So Yeah, and right now I got baby fork. So I'm really excited to use these I'm uh, um running the dishwasher. I do got some dishes to clean So I'm just going to throw all of this stuff in there and clean all of that The Next two things are for bae and I think I'm going to have this video posted before I actually Give this to him. So I'm going to wait to show y'all that but just know I did get this off of clearance.  I really don't care that it's meant for crisping. So Easy food release. Yeah, so I'm going to use it as a baking tray Literally to put a pizza on but I got this on clearance. It was four dollars. I think that's a really good still I got more food pads. These are actually on sale for three dollars. Um, they were regular 5.99 Then they went down to four then three. I think this is around the time for pretty good sales going on right now At like Ross tj makes home goods. So definitely get into the stores and I think the last thing that I got Yeah, is this I've been wanting and needing a freaking Cast iron skillet for I don't know how long y'all know. I love to cook me some steak y'all y'all know So literally I can you know sear it and cook it on top and then put it in the oven to give it that Chef's kit. So I'm excited about this. This is only 12.99. I've been looking on amazon And I don't know but they were like way higher than 12.99. So this is the brand I got You guys can see that I'm super excited say oven and boiler safe up to 500 degrees. So Yeah This is very exciting for me. I've been wanting one of these forever in the oven and on the stove top or the campfire So, yeah 10 inches So what we got and then the other three things I got was for bae My whole total tonight was 91 dollars. So not too bad. I didn't want to go over a hundred dollars So I think I stayed on budget quite all right. So That was the haul after I got done with the haul I decided to go ahead and break down those boxes. Then after breaking down the boxes I went ahead and washed those I would say pots and pans, but I washed my new pan and then I washed the um Silverware putting all of my spices into my new jars. I'm super excited about these It made my problem look so much better So it will be like the my amazon storefront It literally came with everything. It came with the labels. It came with the um funnel. It came with the lids the little Separator thing came with a cleaning tool like everything you need. It came with like 300 or something labels Um circle ones rectangle ones and then it came with plain rectangle and circle ones that you can write your own spices in Like if you make your own blend or something like that. So I decided to Start on that. Um, this will be in like a time lapse. So I decided to time lapse it because I thought that'll be Less editing one for me And then it just kind of goes about a little bit faster than me trying to like speed up the content in final cut pro So I put everything together set it all up. It looks amazing 10 out of 10 We definitely recommend like I said, it'll be linked to my amazon storefront. I absolutely love it As I made it Like I said, I was gonna do bags of treats. I just put in one bow.  Um, the little bd Pet mat or pet bed quote on quote that I got I decided to go ahead and put in Oreo's cage Um, it is a little bit longer than what I was expecting it to be but I kind of just Pull it under the cage because he used to like flip it upside down in the cage like I've had it for a week now So I realized that I need to actually pull it through Under the cage. I probably put it a video when I'm talking about because I'm looking at it right now But since I pulled it through it works perfectly fine. I absolutely love it. That was from home goods 10 out of 10 Definitely recommend it definitely minimize those little scratching sounds that I used to hear all the time After doing that, I decided to go ahead and start putting together My freaking um Shoes stand that's going by the door. I I put this together at 2 30 in the morning just to let y'all know that So baby's gonna find me the dogs will still love Um, I don't know.  Yo cops pulling up like I'm giving drugs out I'm a pop star not a doctor Just calling my phone like I'm not stop from the plane to the fucking helicopter Cops pulling up like I'm giving drugs out Hey, shawty with the long text Shawty with the long legs Yeah I also Didn't know if I wanted to put it on the right or the left side of the door So I just decided to keep it where my original Um shoe rack Was um, I love the two tiers so I could put shoes on top and bottom Really, I could put shoes on top of the brown part, but I don't think I want to do that I kind of just keep that right there from my hospital bag. So Um, I used the hospital bag almost well now. I don't use it almost every day But um, I use the majority of the week So I just keep that right there easy access to grab and go make sure I don't forget anything My bag is at the door the backpack is at the door shoes at the door Everything's at the door So I do like the top of that to kind of keep clean away from shoes And I just put my bags and anything that I need to not forget on my way out. I put it right there on the top Then following the next day, I did go grocery shopping So I'm going to throw in a little bit of grocery shopping haul right now I just got back from progress in Walmart. Um, the only things that I got from Walmart was the dog food And the steak and the roast and my fruit snacks. So this is a little grocery shopping haul for you guys I did decide to go to Kroger's first and get freshly sliced ham and freshly cooked bacon Um, I can never really finish the ham that comes like in the pre-made packs Like that's from I can't even think of the brands. It's so disgusting So now I know she let me try this ham in the store like she sliced off a piece when we eat it Tastes amazing 10 out of 10. This is the brand that I got. I like smoked ham so I I used to get them to try to make sandwiches and I would never finish them and I know I'm going to finish this and then I got freshly sliced hickory smoked bacon So this is the price that I pay and then this is the price that I pay.  So I decided to try that Got some grapes.  So all of this is perfect And then over here, I did give me some strawberry margarita and then the tropical mango of the Stella Rosa And that's pretty much all I got. I'm about to put this up. Um, I did want to get some more liquor Because if you can see over here, this card is like Not it I need some more So this one I'm probably gonna I've had these for a minute. So I may throw these out because I don't really know how long I've had those and then I do need to get some more Like patron and some more hypnotic I keep this here so I can remember to get this but I always forget to get it So yeah, and I had bought this little thingy from target. I think it was so cute. It's a little bar card It was five dollars. So I kind of just put all the bar card accessories on there to kind of maximize the space the Oreos in here barking because I'm trying to train him to use this new freshly catch of grass that I got And he will not use it like it's fresh grass, but he won't use it So I have it in here so he can try to pee and poop on there to get him house train And he just when I use it And plants over here playing with a toy and I also got my pots and pans I think I showed you guys that so I'm gonna open this up also And yeah, then I decided to put up my new pots and pans. I absolutely love those I've been cooking with them for about a week now I've only used two because the one main pan literally works for everything that I need to cook with So I absolutely love them those everything from amazon will be linked down in my amazon storefront 10 out of 10 recommend even if you don't want the brown pots and pans I did link a black and a white alternative for you guys in my amazon storefront Excuse me. It should be under like my kitchen tab. So If you like black water brown, they're all there literally Perfect 10 out of 10 to be recommended. I think that's all for this vlog I did want to kind of like narrate this one because The quality obviously isn't as good as this, but I didn't want to put out The content because I mean I filmed it like if you ain't got your camera You just got to make do with what you got. Okay. I used to vlog off my phone anyway So it's just going back to my roots And as always if you like this video if you didn't like this video Still engage don't forget to like comment and subscribe and into my next video. I will see you love these then Also, if you want to compliment my hair because I know probably you will this is here for my own brand a jbbd collection I did pop in my um Photo shoot vlog and stuff. So this is the curly hair that I'm going to be selling I wanted to obviously wear it and promote it super cute. I do have a five by five closure in Um, I did plan to launch February 1st, but the girl hasn't seen me anything about my website So I think I'm still going to launch, but I'm only going to be able to launch for like On hand like in person pickup because I don't have my website for y'all to order across, you know the world So as soon as the website is done, I'm going to be launching and I'm super excited Thank you all for your kind words and support And now I'm done. So until my next video. I'll see you out there. Bye guys


Have you ever found yourself noticing that mainstream game reviews aren't consistent in the way they review games? It's not that I think reviewers are dishonest, I actually don't think that at all. And it's not that I think reviewers should strive for some kind of objective, just-the-facts style of review. That would be boring, and reviews, by their very nature, are simply an opinion piece. I'm talking about how reviewers... how can I put this? How reviewers seem to have kind of, uh, handicaps that they apply to games. For example, a year or two ago, a really well-made little indie platformer was released. The game, Celeste, is a great example of a 2D platformer with a really interesting little story. It was worth its asking price, and provided a couple of days of diversion. However, reviewers made this one of the best-reviewed games of all time. Celeste, for months after its release, was sitting on a 96-metacritic score. That's pretty much the same as Half-Life 2. And while I acknowledge that Celeste was a very good game, it also demonstrates one of the issues with reviews. Celeste, by the way, has now dropped down to a 93, making it in the eyes of reviewers merely one of the dozen or so best games ever, rather than one of the top three.  And what makes Rage 2 one of the year's best games and one of the best FPS's of the last few years score in the 70s? These questions inevitably lead us to the conclusion that there are a whole bunch of criteria running in the background of reviews that might not have anything to do with the game. Reviewers, like all people, bring their histories, their biases, and hopes into their reviews. Today, I want to talk about a game that has received middling reviews. The kind of middling review scores that can doom a game to failure. And we're going to talk about how a game that I think is actually one of this year's best can score so low when Celeste can score so high. We'll talk about the game and why I love it, but we'll also touch on the fact that reviews do drive sales and the inconsistency in mainstream reviews is leading us rapidly to a market that has only indies and blockbusters. Let's dive in and talk about Remnant from the Ashes. The new Souls-like shooter from the Peeps who brought you another good game that inexplicably reviewed badly. After the logo. F of the AA game. So one interesting thing did happen in 2019. For the first time in seemingly ages, a few very high-profile AAA games actually reviewed badly. For the last 10 years, it seemed as if major AAA releases were not reviewing any 1-100 scale, but rather on an 80-100 scale. And to be fair, there's a somewhat reasonable explanation for this. A major component of all video games is graphics and sound design, voice acting, and animations. Those things are all expensive. So a middling game like Infinite Warfare still scores highly because the production values of Call of Duty games are through the roof, even if the campaign for that game was incredibly mediocre and the multiplayer nearly indistinguishable from the previous Call of Duty. But despite what people think, reviews still do matter for a game's sales. And games that cost a lot of money to make are almost all going to look good and sound good enough to score in the 80s regardless of how boring, unimaginative, or stale the actual gameplay is. It's clear that reviewers score indie games on a different scale. Reviewers rightly do not hold indie devs to account for low production values. They don't take off points for middling voice acting or wobbly lip syncing. When you read indie game reviews, you'll notice reviewers talking about narrative and art direction and gameplay. Indie titles are simply not reviewed on the same scale as AAA titles. And it behooves the consumer to subtract 10 from any huge budget AAA or tiny budget indie game review. And the problem with this two-tiered system of standards really only arises when we get to ambitious AA titles. Games that reach for something akin to a AAA type game with a fraction of the team size and budget. Games like Gunfire Games' recent titles Darksiders 3 and Remnant from the Ashes. Incidentally, I didn't play Darksiders 3 for several months because it got such middling to poor reviews. So imagine my surprise to find out that it was actually an excellent hack and slash action title with very light souls influences. The same thing that hurt Darksiders 3 has now hurt Remnant. One of the very best souls likes not by From Software. What do reviewers actually want? A common refrain in reviews is that a particular game is good enough, but doesn't try anything new in its genre. The Surge, another souls like, was dinged for this along with a long list of other critiques that would be more fair to lump under AA production values problems.  Far Cry 5 does literally nothing better or differently from 4 or 3. The Assassin pre-games remained utterly unchanged for years. Call of Duty has remained remarkably unchanged for many years now. But then a game like Remnant releases and seems to get absolutely no credit for actually making many smart changes to the mechanics and design of a souls like game. So let's talk about Remnant for a bit. Remnant is about as well made a game as one can expect from a studio that's battled financial trouble for years. It's not only a nice looking game, it has excellent sound design, great diversity in bosses, enemies and levels. It features a whole bunch of well balanced and smartly designed armor sets, weapons and mods. It has a really well thought out talent progression system. And it's the most interesting take on a souls game since Salton Sanctuary took souls 2D Metroidvania. Remnant from the Ashes is a shooter souls game. It seems like that would be impossible to pull off as ranged combat would make the souls formula weaker, but smart enemy and arena design makes the feeling of playing Remnant exactly like the feeling of playing a souls game. There's no cover system here. Players avoid damage by dodging melee and slow moving projectile attacks. The game is undeniably difficult when played solo and many challenges are overcome not only through skill but by using the game's mods and tools effectively.  And that's actually when the game fully clicked for me. There's only so many ways I can really talk about the gameplay but to make it clear I'm not sure this could actually be done better.  Everything that absolutely needs to be there for souls like to work is. All enemy attacks are clearly telegraphed and most enemies have a limited move set. Regular mobs have one move. Tougher ones would have a melee and arranged attack. Elites will have two melees, a charge and arranged. And then bosses will have four moves or more plus adds.  And to be fair there is a certain frustrating degree of RNG in the boss fight as add spawns aren't tied to boss phases but are random leading to lots of add spawning literally behind the player. It can be annoying but is probably needed to keep the difficulty high. Anyway, leveling and weapons allow for a nice smooth progression of power. Each area you spawn spawns at your level plus one. So then whenever you enter a new place it is difficult but if you go back to an area to grind for money or crafting materials you can feel the difference letting you farm quickly and easily by crushing low level mobs. Levels are large and winding and reward exploration with exits and shortcuts and secrets and chests full of stuff as well as vendors and weapons and armor hidden all through the map. And the level themselves while not triple A production values are beautiful and interesting. Monster design is really cool looking and fun to fight. On the gameplay, level design and art direction front the game feels almost beyond reproach.   It's an excellent game is what I'm saying. Not a decent game, an exceptional game. Now, let's get to those things that affect a review score in an unfair way depending upon how big a studio is. Gunfire Games is not a triple A development team. And like all double A games, there need to be allowances made.  For the most part the voice acting and writing are decent. The story is fine, the lore is reasonably competent but there isn't all that much of it. But a triple A team with years of hit games behind them like From can make Dark Souls 3 an insanely polished, rich, fleshed out universe. Gunfire Games cannot do that. It's beyond clear that the vast majority of resources went where it mattered. Enemy and level design, gameplay, progression systems, boss design of which by the way there are 20 ranging from excellent to fine to rage inducing. There is another small wrinkle that makes the game different from other recent Souls likes. Remnant has a sort of procedural campaign generation. To see all of the areas and bosses one might need several playthroughs or at least a bunch of co-op as bosses are rolled when you start your campaign. This means that each playthrough will be a little bit different. Whether this is a worthwhile change is probably going to be a matter of opinion. I will say it was cool to find new enemies and areas on my second playthrough though I might have just preferred the games to be longer and have everything in it from the start.  What was there wrong?  Some reviews lingered on bad lip syncing or poor cutscene animations forgetting that Dark Souls has literally no lip syncing. Others have reduced the game to, and I quote, a mix of the division and Dark Souls which is insane because the game has literally nothing beyond a third person camera in common with the division. Still others have complained about the lack of lore or an only decent story or graphics that aren't cutting edge yet all of these complaints are the kind of things that are outright ignored in an indie game review. Remnants graphics are as good as can be expected from a 25 hour indie Souls likes. Reviewers have complained it's too much like Dark Souls when they praised Neo which is basically Dark Souls in Japan with an active reload stamina system. Then other reviewers seem to think it's not enough like Dark Souls and that it doesn't have enough lore or mystery. Very few reviews have given it the indie benefit of the doubt. It's too good to get the extra 10 indie points but too low budget to get the extra 10 triple A production value points. What's obvious to me however is this is the freshest take on a Souls like yet. The switch to guns utterly changes the combat in a compelling and interesting way and the difference in weapons makes each gun change how you play almost like how Destiny's weapons do. The game rewards map and situational awareness as well as Twitch shooter skills and even it's melee combat is satisfying. Everything Remnant sets out to do, it achieves. It's got a large and well designed world of interesting and unique locations. It's maps are winding and require careful attention. It's enemies are fair, hard and fun to fight. It's bosses are varied enough to stay fresh all the way through and it's reliance on weapons, mods and acted cooldowns meant that every time I got stuck I was able to smartly look at my loadout and find a solution. Remnant, in my opinion, sits with Salt and Sanctuary as the two best non-from Souls likes yet released. It did everything I wanted it to do and somehow got danged for it. Not only do I recommend it, I recommend Darksiders 3 and I'll be eagerly awaiting any DLC they want to sell me for this. Provided the inexplicably poor views don't end up making the game a failure. Beyond even that, many pundit types have been lamenting the disappearance of the middle budget double A game for several years. They fell all over themselves to praise Hellblade, Senua's sacrifice, a decent game but much inferior gameplay experience to Remnant. And yet, they refuse to give these type of games the same benefit of the doubt that they do to Indies. They say they want mid-budget games and then they slam games for having mid-budget production values. All right, if you prefer to not live in a world where we only get Celeste and Call of Duty and if you like gameplay over most everything else, you should buy this. If you like Souls games, you are 100% guaranteed to enjoy this. If you've never played a Souls game, this is actually a very good place to start with the ability to play co-op all the way through until you're comfortable. And if you've got $40 for what easily feels like 60 bucks of value, you can make a statement with your purchase that you want games like this to keep being made. I bought it on PC and loved it enough that I then bought it on Xbox for my son. I hope I can convince even one person to give it a go. All right, thanks for coming. See you next time, bye.


Meta learning and GPT.  They were built to understand and solve language tasks like translation and question answering. They do this with a pre-training phase to understand language via language modeling and a fine-tuning phase in order to answer some specific tasks. One issue with fine-tuning is that we need thousands of examples for each task we want the model to do. And this isn't human-like as humans typically learn with just a few examples. Wouldn't it be nice that instead of fine-tuning, we give our pre-trained models some instructions with a few examples, or even just one example, or sometimes just zero examples, and then ask them to produce a response? This is exactly what few-shot learning, one-shot learning, and zero-shot learning are all about for GPT. This is the crux of GPT version 3.