First of all, no, actually, I don't want to know. It's already been shared 500 times. There's nothing I can do about it. And I could have blissfully gone through my life, totally unaware of the fact that there's a huge typo on my post that's now gone viral. So first of all, let me show it to you because it's kind of hilarious. So did you see it? Because I didn't, even though I've read the post like 15 or 20 times and put all of it through Grammarly, but of course I didn't put the title through Grammarly, because why would you who would misspell the title? This is part of having a spiky cognitive profile, which a lot of neurodivergent people have, which means we can be really good at some things but struggle with other things.


I am going to share with you some reflections about our efforts to promote paternity leave in Brazil. Tatiana couldn't make it, but I've been involved in kind of our start of it, and I think there's some very interesting lessons from our policy advocacy failure, and I think that's what we need to call it just to fess up in terms of driving this in Brazil. But I think there's some interesting lessons of what it tells us of how challenging this is, but also how things can shift. But before I do, I mean, this is the day that we get to talk about our own experiences as fathers and taking leave, et cetera, so I would be remiss if I didn't start with a little bit of a story. I got into this field and got to Brazil by, I'm married to a Brazilian psychotherapist. 17 years ago, almost to this month, if yeah, it's gotta be this month, was in Chicago doing my PhD in child development. Supposedly a field that teaches you something about how to care for children. My wife was working full-time as a psychotherapist, had six weeks unpaid maternity leave at her employer. Parentheses, Brazil offers and has offered since the 50s. Four months paid maternity leave, paid fully. A woman's full salary since the 50s. So the day came for her to go back to work. I was imagining this relaxing time that I was gonna have time to work, read all those papers I hadn't read, the stack of books on the floor. I always laugh when I hear people I'm going to enjoy my paternity leave. Imagining all the stuff I'm gonna do on this time off. Organize my semester so I could be the caregiver. And then there's that fateful morning. It was a January day in Chicago. You nod and you know what the temperature is like. My Brazilian partner getting in the car to drive off saying what kind of a backward country is this? That I'm going back to work six weeks later. I'm leaving my child here in the hands of a man. So she called between every patient. So right I could watch 59 minutes and 47 seconds, patient over, she was calling. The third time she called I turned off the phone and just didn't take it after that. Which left her even more furious of how dare he. And there's that moment of panic thinking one she's gonna get on a plane and go back to Brazil today I'm pretty sure. And the other moment of panic going I've read all this stuff of Bronn from Benner and Piaget et cetera but I don't know a thing about what to do with the real life baby in front of me except for these last few weeks of a crash course. Anyway we survived we are still together. We have a healthy 17 year old who's in high school here in Bethesda Chevy Chase. I think she still likes to hang with me. I think it was a bonding experience that and if anything I look back and say my God you are never the same as a human being if you go through that moment of being the one responsible for this young fragile life in front of you. Fast forward a year later when we were back in Brazil and the kind of roots of creating promundo as an NGO I was doing interviews with young men who were struggling with getting out of or coming out of gangs in favelas in Rio. Nine out of 10 of those guys were young fathers. Those who were most connected to their children regardless of their relationship with the partner were kind of most solidly on a path of getting out of gangs. Their experience of involved fatherhood was a transformative far different than mine but a transformative experience for them in terms of getting their lives together and having a reason to stay out of this lifestyle and these challenging circumstances they had been in. And one of the icebreakers to get these gang bangers to have conversations with me were often about showing each other pictures of our babies and trading hints on what to do with a colicky sleepless baby. Who would have thought that would be an icebreaker for guys who just a few months before had been toting automatic weapons and causing untold harm to themselves and others. So promundo kind of that lesson that banged us over the head was to say we've got to plant the seeds for different ways of being men including how do we promote this notion of men doing the care work. We did that for many years as a program approach. Lots of stuff including images that looked like this the pictures we saw at the beginning from Baltimore of getting men to do practice what it's like with babies or with the child of a sibling, et cetera to say how do we get men and particularly young men and boys to do some hands-on caregiving and practice with that.  So as I mentioned before 90% of women who are in the formal workplace in Brazil have been using paid maternity leave since the 40s. Brazil has a pretty progressive labor rights set of laws that survived military dictatorship, et cetera, et cetera they have been there, been stable. The part for fathers since 1988, five days of paid leave. Now compared to the US that's not too bad. Still fewer than two thirds of men take it. A lot of men don't even know that it exists and it includes a weekend. So if your child is born on a Thursday you're back to work by Monday, right? So it's kind of barely a nod that we need men to sort of be there, smoke a cigar, help the woman come home from the hospital and then kind of set a lifelong pattern for men doing pretty hands off caregiving or not doing any caregiving at all. So together with this slew of partner organizations, 2008 we had been reading the stuff coming at a fatherhood institute. I think we met you guys in 2005, reading all the Scandinavian stuff saying, come on Brazil's got a progressive base of legislation on maternity leave. We can add paternity leave to it. It makes sense. Brazil wants to talk about it. We introduced a campaign that would translate as give me leave, I'm a father. And it makes the same play on words of leave and kind of let me buy, please excuse me, let me do this as a father. We got a member of Brazil's Congress, progressive member of Brazil's Congress, Maria de Josadio, to sponsor a bill. We put in all the stuff from the Norwegian studies and the Swedish studies showing the benefits of involved fathers in caregiving. And we were really excited about how much media attention it was getting. I'm not gonna show that, but anyway, Jose Wilker is we got four of TV Globo's actors, TV Globo's Brazil's biggest television station. It's about 40% of TV watchers in the evening are watching TV Globo, massive TV station. We got four of the actors to speak out and do a public service announcement with it. We were really excited that they wanted to speak about it. They talk about how five days is too little, it's a ridiculous amount. I wanna be here, it's my responsibility, it's right for me, it's right for my partner, it's right for my child. We got all the messages right. We used the Seahorse, as you know, the male Seahorse carries the child to kind of play on, hey men, can do this, this is cool.  The bill was moving into the hearing in the committee that was to review it and boom. First of all, TV Globo says we're not gonna show this ad because we as a big employer don't wanna pay the extra social security insurance for men to have a month leave. Ad does not go in the air. Number two, our key women's rights partners said, and they literally said it this way, boys, I remember this, the conversation, there was a couple of the NGOs that we were kind of youngish men, youngish men anyway, said boys, what are you thinking? Men aren't doing the caregiving. Who needs a man at home if he's not gonna help? And they cited data which shows that women, so the kind of national household data in Brazil found that women with a partner and children do about 23, 24 hours of domestic work, care work a week. If there's a male partner in the home, she does two hours per week more than if there's not a male partner in the home. So our women's rights colleagues held up this data and said, we want a man at home exactly to do what? So our key women's rights partners were also not very thrilled about this legislation and it went nowhere, got stuck there. And I just liked that picture because it did show the amount of amazing care work that some Brazilian men are up to. Now, I wish that we could say after we promised that we got this discussion going, look at the amazing changes. So data from 2001 to 2011, women went from doing 24 hours of this work a week to drop to 22. So women are doing a little bit less and this massive increase in men, 10 hours per week to 10 hours and eight full minutes. So you could basically say in all of our massive advocacy efforts in these last years, men are doing eight minutes more. So we're trying to figure out is that taking out the trash is that flipping the egg on the burner? Anyway, we do need to look and say, so what does it take to change here? Is it the policy? Is it the social norm? What does it take to get men to do more of this work? So since then, we've worked on a number of different fronts to try to plant the seeds for it. One is women's labor market participation continues to increase in Brazil as it has in much of the world, if not all of the world. Women's wages are slightly increasing. We have been thrilled that nonetheless, it was a fiasco even getting laughed at and some talk shows in Brazil did lead to some more discussion about it. There's now about seven cities across Brazil that offer 30 days paid paternity leave to all of their government workers, somewhat similar to what we now have in the District of Columbia. There's now six weeks for women and men, paid parental leave, adoption or biological birth in the city of DC. So we've seen this option of that some cities and some businesses have slowly began to do it. We're thrilled that last year, there is a new attempt to introduce legislation to propose 20 days additional paid leave on top of the five days that are already there. This time the language is not about men doing the care work but it's language around child development that the bonding stuff. So I was pleased to hear Doug, you're coming around the, it was Intel that's doing the calling it bonding. So the language that's in there now and that's part of our promotion but other organizations as well, it's around child development. This is good for children and women are demanding, we need better daycare options. Men are not doing as much of the demanding but women are doing more of the demand of we need better publicly supported and subsidized childcare. So we snuck it into that. It is now making its way through a committee. I'm not sure and I probably would guess that it's not gonna pass this first round but it's probably gonna make it further than it did last time. And we do feel like that something might happen. It might get watered down but maybe we'll go from five to 10 or maybe we'll make it to 15 but we do feel like something may happen there that it's getting some more news. And then we've jumped on interesting cases that have come along. So an adoptive father, a man who adopted a special needs child, a three year old, I can't remember what the special need was but adopted the child and took a case to court to the social security system and asked for and got 120 days of leave. The statement that comes from the court says we award you 120 days of maternity leave. So we had a field day with making us and other partner organizations making noise around do men are men mothers or do men provide other kinds of care and why do we need to call this anymore maternity or paternity leave? So we've been seizing on cases like that getting pictures out telling stories and at the same time doing a norms change and I think, you know, Adrian was really good to point out there's limitations of this stuff but nonetheless to say, getting stories of visible men in Brazil talking about their care work. I particularly like Charles Galvan he's a drummer or the former drummer of one of Brazil's premier rock bands called the Titans or the Titans. He stopped, he was on a basically 150 days a year on the road lifestyle as a drummer in a rock band and said my children will never be young again I'm gonna do studio work from here on out I wanna be at home. So getting stories like that, we gathered some other ones and we, you know, some lessons that we wanted to include get diversity in there including sexual diversity different kinds of men's caregiving so that we're promoting not simply the biological stuff but also caregiving in general as an ethic as what we want men to do in general. And one of the things that we have made some policy inroads about is getting Brazil's Ministry of Health Brazil has public health something we're struggling with in this country Brazil really does have a public health model a family health and a community health model that's rolled out reasonably well all kinds of problems but reasonably well across the country. Part of our advocacy was to say there's a women's health sector there's a maternal and child health sector there's a family planning sector there's nothing that really talks about men's health and we did some data together with the Ministry of Health that said we found that about 90% of men were going to at least one prenatal visit but most of the time they were either staying in the parking lot or maybe in the waiting area seldom were they invited in. So we in some advocacy with the Ministry of Health said make that prenatal visit a moment to begin promoting this ethic of care he already came he's somehow interested why don't you take that moment to design a way to kind of promote men's caregiving so they've created a men's prenatal health visit you come you're now invited into the consultation you see the ultrasound you get information there's materials developed for men and you're invited to come back the next week to do something that men seldom do which is to get a check up for themselves HIV testing, syphilis testing blood pressure, all that stuff it is now the single apart from emergency room visit it's the single primary reason that men come for any preventive care in the public health system in Brazil is via the men's prenatal health visit so we are thrilled that even though the paternity leave part has been tough some small inroads and this is a health system again that reaches 55% of a country of 200 million you've got a chance of really scaling up a small scale policy which is one of the reasons we feel a lot better that something may move on the paternity leave because there's a lot of noise made about men doing this this has become normal seeing men as part of the prenatal visit so I'm gonna skip ahead a little bit but sure yeah so the posters here trying to get sort of the different looks of men and it says it doesn't matter what kind of man you are be the kind who takes care of his health and so trying to get different age groups of men and different ethnicities of men coming into the health system their biggest public service announcement was you're expecting a new life a new life depends on you take care of your health so using men's connection to their and their concern about the birth that's on the way to take care of their own health so this is what we're working for next we don't think there's any way to talk about the she can do it if the he doesn't do it and thanks to our colleagues from Flint that we think this is the we now don't talk about paternity leave without talking about these three constituencies the child the woman and what's in it for men themselves and just as a final one we are basically trying to fill up the data that's out there we're getting it out to our partners and we think it does fill up quite thickly of saying we've got data of why it's good for women Brazil's GDP would be about 13% higher if women worked at the same rates outside the home that men did we're not shy about holding that piece of data up Mike Fagelson mentioned the data that we have about how children's lives get better Doug mentioned that as well we're getting that out there we're playing a lot on men's own health getting involved fathers tend to take more care of their own health they tend to live longer less likely to drink less likely to be arrested et cetera we're playing up on that one the economic case I think we've made and we're not shy about the I think it was Ann Marie who was talking about the father as the chick magnet there is data including from Brazil that finds and this is asking women this is an important one household surveys we've done as part of our images study been carried out in 12 countries a robust finding is that women with children who say their partner does more or does an equal amount of some of the care work report they're happier with their relationship and they're happier sexually happier sexually with him is what the question refers to not the neighbor or somebody else it's with him we do think that is okay to hold up and what we'll tell groups of guys is to say it's now proven scientifically that if you do have the care work we do look like Ryan Gosling in a wet T-shirt I don't think we have to shy away from that maybe in Brazil you can talk about sex in free ways we and we do bring that point up as well so I leave you with a very word heavy slide at the end just to say we're trying to and as part of a global the global men care campaign now active in about 30 countries we're trying to gather as much data about why paternity leave and joint parental leave equal is a key driver to gender equality so stay tuned to the space both new america foundation promundo dad 2.0 fatherly we're gonna keep and others in the room of course to keep sharing this data out there just a final note thanks very much to new america foundation for hosting us thanks all of you for coming far and weathering the cold out there and yeah thanks Elizabeth for helping organisms so thanks a lot


謝謝 very much. I'd like to talk about the MOOC modular forms and representation theory of affinely super Jebus. There is a very simple definition by Zagie and other papers. A MOOC modular form is a homomorphic part of a real analytic modular form. In the case of affinely algebra, there is a very beautiful theory by Katz and Peterson. They found that the character of integrable modules, the linear span of characters of integrable modules are S L to the invariant. And this result was extended to a much wider class to admissible representations. And so in the case of affinely algebra, there is a very beautiful modular invariance. But in the case of affinely super algebra, the character formula, it is not established, it is still conjecture, but there is a factor in this denominator. So because of this existence of this factor, the property of characters is very unclear. But the very remarkable breakthrough was given by Tzubekar. He proved that the super character of L lambda 0 for S L to 1 hat module, affinely S L to 1 module is a mock modular form. And he gave an explicit formula for it to a real analytic modular form. And so extending his method, we recently obtained the following cases. One is V super algebra of rank 2 and any integrable representations. Rank 2 V super algebra, S L to 1 and S L to 2 divided by center and OSP32. And this result, it is possible to extend this result to admissible representations. And then we go to the quantum reduction and we get N equal to and N equal to 4 super conformal algebras. We obtain the representations whose characters are mock modular forms. And how it can be done? So I will explain it in the simplest case, in the case S L hat 1, affinely S L to 1. The general integral weight, which is vanish at alpha 1, alpha 1 is the odd simple root, is given by this formula, is written in this form a minus S lambda 0 plus S lambda 2. A method works for any S, for general this weight, but for simplicity in this talk, I would like to consider the case lambda is equal to M lambda 0. The supercharacter, generally supercharacter has a better property than the characters from the view of the modular transformation. So we would like to consider the supercharacter. Supercharacter of M lambda 0 for affinely S L to 1 is given by this formula. This is a numerator and divided by superdeluminator. Superdeluminator is a product of a root. It is given by such formula. And to make calculation, we introduce the coordinates. And then supercharacter is given by this formula. And divided by superdeluminator. This is a product of Yakovic data functions. So the denominator, this part is it is very easy to compute the modular properties. So the problem is how to compute the how to know the property of this function. So we put this function tm tau z1 z2 t. Namely, we want to study the modular property of this function, the numerator of the supercharacter. Modular property means the behavior under the action of S L to z. And t action is simply tau plus 1. And S action is just inversion minus 1 over tau, z1 over tau, z2 over tau. And in the case of this function, fm, the t action is very, very simple. Just it is fixed by t action. So we want to know the S action. What is fm applied by S? So namely, in other words, fm minus fms. What is this function? And first, we'd like to note that the difference, this difference is a harmonic function. The proof is very simple. First, consider case t1. Then it is very easy to know poles are g plus tau z. And also poles are tau plus tau z. And by simple calculation, we see that the residue is the same. So the difference is harmonic. So for further calculation, it is very convenient. We use much better variable, u and w. So we write this function in terms of u and w and put this function small fm and difference is gm. So we want to know this function fm. And gm, the property of gm, it is a harmonic function. It is very simple. Just as we have looked at it. And we consider w plus fm minus w. Then it is not so difficult. It is very simple calculation. It is written in this form. And also we compute w minus tau difference between w and w. It is also written in this form. There is a misprint. s is equal to 0. At first I wrote in the general setting so s remains, but s is equal to 0 in my talk. And the harmonic is a very, very good property. And gm is determined uniquely by the above three conditions because it is due to the rubric theorem. W-periodic harmonic function is constant. So we can, it is directly, the uniqueness follows directly. And one more thing. The point in this formula, u appears in this form theta minus theta, theta j minus theta minus j. And also theta j and theta minus j. So the behavior of the function gm with respect to u is very good. It is written by tater function, uter tater functions. But the behavior under w is a bit more complicated. So we'd like to solve these equations. And it is possible to solve these equations. So we want to find gm of the form. So at this stage, at this point, we don't know whether it is gm is written in this form or not. But we put it. And we'll show that there exists just a j type. There is a function, a harmonic function and satisfying this condition. W plus 1 minus w is just taking just the coefficient of the previous formula. So it was taken from just this form and also taken just this form. We get these three conditions. And by the condition property, homomorphic. So if there exists a j is determined uniquely by this condition. So to construct, there is a very, very interesting Tzubega's functions. So Tzubega introduced such kind of functions. So I made some modifications. But essentially this is Tzubega's functions. Rm plus j is a signature of this minus e is a function of this. And important is the derivative of e prime. E prime is just equal to this function. So we make this property. And after a grand city it looks very curious, but this function has very good properties. Rm plus j w minus w minus tau is just gives just and also w plus 1 minus w by simple calculation we get this. And also important point is differential w bar derivative is this is not homomorphic function because imaginary part w imaginary part. So this is a real analytic function not homomorphic. And if we differentiate by d bar, then it is a tether function with respect to anti-variable variable minus tau bar and w bar. So anti-homomorphic tether function. Then by using this function tether function Rm plus j we put Lj tau w is this function times some factors and s transform modular transformation of Rm plus k. Then these functions we can prove that this function is homomorphic with respect to w. So in its place in its proof it is proved by using the transformation formula of Jacobi tether function tether j and plus 1. And also this function satisfies all conditions expected for A, J, W. And then we put additional function by using this function Rm plus j and that u-part is just tether function and this is we call it additional term fm plus this function we put tether m. This is modification of fm and it is a good modification because this function is modular invariance this function is a modular function and fm is its homomorphic part and this function satisfies also elliptic properties, elliptic invariance u plus a w plus b is invariant u plus a tau w plus b tau just get such a factor so then the problem naturally arises what is the representation theoretical meaning of these additional terms and Tzvega's type functions so it is a problem now by using this result we consider admissible representation admissible weight is by definition it is integrable with respect to some sub-route systems so it is a maximal sub-route system so integrable with respect then the super character of this highest weight module is the character formula super character is tau is replaced by m tau m is just and g1, g2 is just g1 plus k1 tau g2 plus k tau tau so this is also our conjectural character formula for admissible modules and then we modification it is not a modular function so we consider the modification of super character of the numerator of super characters so this was honest numerator so we put replace it modular function and put some suitable factors and we consider epsilon prime so epsilon prime is 0 or 1 half 0 is super character work character and don't twist it then we consider 4 types of characters then they form an invariant family SL to the invariant family modular transformation properties then express transformation formula S transformation this is transformation matrix and T transformation produces just just this factor and then we consider the quantum Hamiltonian reduction so given the data finite dimension of the super algebra and the important element and the level of representation then we get W algebra so in the very beautiful case is F is a minimal important element root vector of the lowest then in the case if G is a cell to C then W algebra is biracero and OSP1 to then W algebra is here then so so if we so in this program so affine the super algebra give very very very many information to give super algebra for example characters are obtained computed from G transformation calculated with the transformation of characters of SL21 so in our case we are considering just this SL21 so we get equal to super conformal algebra any equal to super conformal algebra is spanned by biracero ln and Jn even element and order G is plus and G minus and central element in the case if you take Jn and half integer then W is 0 and bracket relation is given by this table and carton sub algebra is just linear span 3 dimensional L0 C is the center so actually it is 2 dimensional character of any equal to super conformal algebra representation are obtained from the character of admissible SL hat1 module by retic G1 is Z and G2 is minus C so this is the character of admissible representation so we put minus C then this is the character of any equal to highest rate representation so if we put children so modify to be extended to be modular modular form then we get extension modular function extension of characters and parameter domain of parameter is just given by this and central charge is given by this number and modular transformation of any equal to character is computed from the modular transformation formula of this function and we obtain such transformation formula and then n equal to highest rate cartons of algebra is 3 dimensional L0 and J0 and center so we put the iron value of L0 on the highest rate vector H and J0 is this means spin and central charge then HSC it is determined by 3 numbers and in this case n equal to representation parameterized by JK so in each case HJK, SJK central charge are given by this formula and in the case of m equal to 0 so m equal to 0 means L0 trivial representation of SLHAT1 so admissible representations correspond to trivial representation of SLHAT1 then the central charge just this part is equal to 0 and m minus 2 so it is well known central charge of minimal series of n equal to super conformal algebra but in our case we consider lm lambda0 for arbitrary m is arbitrary non-negative integer so in the case of m positive so in this case we need we get we need modification and we get modular properties and modular series then there are new representation of n equal to super conformal algebra and we hope that there should be exist the new n equal to conformal field theory corresponding to this moc modular series thank you very much why is that rational why is the corresponding CFP why should I be rational rational rational means the number of irreducible representation correspond to that central charge is the representation of vertex algebra vertex operator is finite so this is just fit to this case and vertex algebra representation is completely irreducible so just this fit this station so we hope but at present there are no theory so but we think there should be we hope that there should be thank you very much


When all this process was going on, the angel who was bound to convey the Wahi to the Zatir Rasool sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, he now changed his strategy. He squeezed Rasool sallallahu alaihi wa sallam's arm, embraced him sallallahu alaihi wa sallam tightly and commanded him sallallahu alaihi wa sallam again to read well. The answer was the same because in this small little time he could not become literate unless the way of Allah or the will of Allah comes into it. This was not done only one time. This was done three times. The angel embraced the Prophet, peace be upon him, and after leaving again he would say, read, but he would find the same answer, sorry, I cannot read. The angel Jibrail repeated this process not once, time and again. Most of the historians agree it was three times, but the answer that Prophet, peace be upon him, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam will give was the same, sorry, I cannot read. Jibrail sallallahu alaihi wa sallam again third time embraced him very tightly from chest to chest and again said, read whatever is written, but it was not to his utter surprise because he must have known as he had been sent by the Almighty Allah, but the reply was again the same, he got the same answer and Zatir Rasool sallallahu alaihi wa sallam even the third time when a very strange and unexpected action was done by the Prophet, by the angel Gabriel alaihi sallam, the answer was still the same and he again said, I cannot read. Obviously, if you suddenly tell a person to read who has not gone through any such process or any such training in his previous life, you would expect the same answer from him. So even after insistence, tremendous efforts, embracement of Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam three times, time and again, he would say, read and he would find the answer, I cannot because illiterate and obviously, if one is illiterate, he has not already been trained to study or to read or to interpret, he cannot do so.


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Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of Outside the Box and today we're going to talk about some comments made by Phil Spencer who's been recently promoted as a member of the board over at Microsoft and he's still the head of Xbox and we're talking about cross play because it's a topic that just won't go away. We actually recently talked about it on our podcast and you can actually check out our podcast discussion with Eric myself and HMK the hype man himself up here but let's get into the new comments by Phil Spencer who seems to be recognizing some of the reasons that PlayStation isn't willing to work with Microsoft and Nintendo on cross play and why he doesn't agree with their stance. So let's get right into the exact quotes. Phil Spencer says this on cross play, we talk to Sony all the time. With Minecraft on PlayStation, we have to be one of the biggest games on their platform in terms of sales and gameplay. Same with Nintendo. The relationship with Nintendo on this front has been strong. They've been great supporters and we continue to collaborate with them. But I think Sony's view is different. They should talk about what their view is. So he's kind of calling Sony out saying hey, you obviously view things differently, you should come forward with it. They've kind of talked around the topic and he goes on to say this. I have a real struggle making comments about their motivation or timelines. I know there is a certain view that says if my friends have this console, they can't play with people who buy another console. That's a reason to go buy my console. I think people look at cross play and say it is better for gamers. If it's better for gamers, I have a hard time thinking why we shouldn't go do this. Especially when you're trying to make the gaming business a bigger business. Grow it, get more games, create more opportunity. Especially in the indie space. Actually, if you're creating an online indie game and you're going to create five shards of your game. The Steam version, the Xbox Live, PC, Xbox version, the PlayStation version. The Switch version creates hard matchmaking scenarios. We should help developers not make their lives more difficult. And this actually brings up a point that we brought up in the podcast about how cross play is beneficial for gamers. It's beneficial for developers. The only people that might view it as not beneficial to themselves are people like PlayStation who probably have the mindset that, hey, look, we don't have cross play with Xbox and Nintendo because if you want to play with your friends that own a PlayStation 4, you better come by a PlayStation 4. And they could take this stance and get away with it as they have so far because they are the market leaders. Now, some people might bring up the fact that Microsoft is saying this and really PlayStation doesn't want to work with Xbox Live. But that's already been debunked by now. Fortnite released and had cross play between Xbox One and PlayStation 4 happening day one. It was a mistake and was removed quickly after Sony caught wind of it. But notice it was after Sony caught wind. It had nothing to do with Xbox Live. Everything worked through the game itself. Xbox Live was not involved. Rocket League's gonna have cross play between PC Switch and Xbox One and it's not gonna include PlayStation 4 in there. It does not use Xbox Live. So again, like any excuse over Xbox Live is just an excuse. It's not really what's holding them up. What's holding them up is exactly what Phil Spencer said, that mentality that we need to hold back on allowing cross play to force people to buy our platform. And while I understand from a business perspective why that might feel like a good idea, that almost feels like an idea you would do if you're not the market leader. There's plenty of reasons to buy a PlayStation 4. I have a future episode coming up where I'm talking about exclusives and their importance to selling systems versus, if it's actually healthy for the gaming community to have exclusives. But when we're talking about things like cross play, we're talking about helping out gamers and developers. And basically you have the console provider, the gamers and the developers. And if something helps out two of the three, then you probably should do it. At this point, this attitude coming from Sony on this or their lack of proper responses, right? Back during E3 it was about protecting the children. Later, Shashita came out and said, hey look, it's just complicated, it's complex. The technologies are difficult and the conversations are difficult, which apparently they're not because Sony and Microsoft themselves have very little to do with whether a game can cross play or not. It's the developers wanting to do it and developing the technologies on their end and then flipping a switch. All Xbox, Microsoft, Nintendo, all these companies have to do is say, yep, you can do that. Obviously things get complicated in there, you know, like when Microsoft wants to use Xbox Live on Minecraft, which makes sense because they own Minecraft, it's their IP, they're obviously gonna want to use Xbox Live. If Nintendo had a cross play game, for some reason they released some other platforms, you know, say they brought Splatoon 2 over to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, they're obviously gonna want to use the Nintendo account system and that provides a whole extra layer of depth and concern that some people might have. But if you think about it, even when you go play Madden, right? I play Madden on Xbox One every year. You have Madden on Xbox One, Madden on PlayStation 4. When you play Madden between those two platforms, on both of them, regardless of if you're on the PlayStation network or the Xbox Live network, you have to create accounts with EA. So you could easily have all those EA accounts be able to play matches against each other. And I understand that there's gonna be competitive concerns, a game might have better frame rates on another platform, a game might have this, a game might have that. And I understand that there are performance differences that could lead to unfair advantages, but let consumers and developers worry about that. If developers have to dial back a game a little bit on one platform to make sure the performance matches across the board, then they will do that. Let the developers concern about that. Let the gamers worry about that. Don't let the platform holders really hold this whole thing hostage. And that's what it feels like is happening with Sony. Now, I'm tired of talking about cross-play. Just like I'm sure many people out there are tired of talking about loot boxes. That seems to be the hot topic now. You gotta talk about loot boxes. Are they good? Are they bad? Are they a gambling addiction? Are they good to have around children? Are they good to have in a $60 game? Should they only be in free games? Should they exist at all? Do loot boxes really hurt anything? It's an interesting conversation, just like cross-play is, but it's one that ultimately has no solution. One thing is clear about loot boxes. They're not going anywhere. They're here to stay, just like microtransactions and DLC, it's here to stay. Like it or not, they're not gonna go anywhere. Overwatch just made like a billion dollars in one year, primarily because of loot boxes. It's not heading anywhere. Cross-play is gonna be a topic that unfortunately isn't gonna go anywhere as long as there's still one company holding out. And that company is in a position of power. As the market leader, Sony can kind of do and say whatever they want. And this is one reason why you might say, oh, Nintendo didn't stop it because Nintendo's behind it. Xbox didn't stop it because Xbox's behind. And I think that argument is Bollocks as well. If you think about it, Sony builds their reputation with PlayStation around being for the gamers. But yet this decision to block cross-play isn't really for the gamers. It's a benefit to themselves. It goes against the reputation they have built up with PlayStation 1, 2, 3, and 4. Sony is heading down that path of when they're at the top, they like to be cocky as heck. And blocking cross-play is just another example of that cockiness. I hope for Sony's sake. I hope for PlayStation 4 gamers' sake and future PlayStation gamers, whether it be on another handheld system if they bring out like a Vita 2 or if it is on a PlayStation 5 or whatever is coming next after the PlayStation 4 Pro, that Sony opens the window to this ability to have cross-platform play. If you're willing to allow multi-platform games to be on your platform, why does cross-platform play matter? It doesn't have any impact on Sony. No one is buying a Sony platform to play FIFA with their friends. They're buying it for Uncharted and The Last of Us and the copious amount of games in there. I know there's a NAK2 come out recently, The Last Guardian, yada, yada, yada. The zillions of games that you are on that platform or why people are buying it combined with some people just care about power.  Anyways, folks, I am Nathaniel Ruffa-Jance from Nintendo Prime. You guys let me know what you think about this whole cross-play fiasco down in the comments below. Is this something that matters to you? I felt like this was a good topic for a new outside of the box, even though we've talked about this a few times this year, because the situation keeps getting more and more interesting and there's more and more pressure, especially from Microsoft here, being applied to Sony to finally do something about this. And do you think that maybe Microsoft shouldn't be saying these kind of things? Maybe they should be backing up and be like, look, they don't want to score a cross, but let's leave it alone. I honestly hope that Nintendo hops in as well personally and starts to push Sony as well.  I love the PlayStation platform. I love the Xbox platform. I love the Nintendo platform, most of all. And I love PC. See this thing back here? That's a pretty beefy PC gaming rig. I love it. I want us to all be able to play together without requiring someone to own every platform under the sun. Anyways, folks, I am Nathaniel Ruffalojens from Nintendo Prime. If you like this video, you know what to do. And if you dislike the video, hit that dislike button. We're giving away a copy of Super Mario Odyssey. So if you go down to the description below and click on that gleam.io URL that'll give you a chance to enter. There's multiple ways to enter. The only requirement is that you are subscribed to our YouTube channel. And you know what, folks? I'm just gonna catch you in the next one.


Hey guys Ryan here for moving nerds so we are going to break down the latest trailer for Avengers now We know the title it's called Avengers Endgame and what I'm going to do is going to go scene by scene Basically shot by shot and try and break down everything we can tell that's in this trailer and what we can learn about it Because there's a lot to go down. There's a lot happening in this thing And I just want to kind of let you know what I think is going on and you know in the comments If you think of something that I don't see make sure you let me know in the comments because I really want to know too That's what's all fun about this thing, you know working out together. What's happening in this trailer? So let's go scene by scene what is going on with the Avengers Endgame trailer? I'm just gonna bring it up on here Now this is full res for me. So let's get into it So I just pause the f second straight off the bat you noticing. This is Tony Stark's helmet from his nano suit and You can see that it's only half of the suit or half of the helmet there and that's because he was using You know most of the suit to defend Thanos defend the blows from Thanos at the end of the film for Avengers 3 or Avengers Infinity War depending on call and you know a lot of the nano system had gone away at that point and That's of course why you see him on the spaceship and not flying home by himself So here you talk CDR uses the communication device on the suit to talk to Pepper Potts Hey, Miss Potts If you find this recording Don't feel better about this Part of the journey is the end and that ship there my guess for that one is that that's nebula ship now she came into Titan by herself And I'm going to assume that's her ship or maybe he's using a ship from Titan that was just left there When they arrived, but my guess is it's nebulous Drifting through the record being a drift in space with zero promise of rescue is more fun than it sounds Food water went out four days ago oxygen So somebody can definitely said that which is really clear This shot is from four days ago. So four days have passed since then. Oh, then oh Thanos had done his snap and You know obliterated half of earth. So You know Stark is stuck in space and so things are going down on earth and there's nothing he can do about it Which is really cool. He's one of the most powerful characters in the MCU at the moment given that half of the world has been killed and Knowing that he's stuck in space and he can't help The humans is crazy for him because you know, he he has a massive love for the human race, obviously I'm wanting to help and make sure that his weapons of mass destruction doesn't get in the hands of humans it was we saw in the original Iron Man movie and seeing him here stuck in space with no power whatsoever to help the humans on earth is sad and Just a really great idea. I think keeping him away from the fight as long as possible is a really cool idea Man When I drift off I will dream about you dream about pepper pots, not the helmet It's always you Once again pepper pots, not the helmet So I imagine he hasn't got much power in the helmet as I said prior So, you know, that's why I can't fly home The I would also say because the helmet is half, you know only half nanos nanos at this point He can't complete the suit or complete even a head for him to be able to get home without the spaceship Just clarifying that Now that was going back to that that's Thanos's suit as you know from the previous movie And it looks like that is Wakanda I'm gonna assume judging by the The the the way the Formation of the hut that is next to the suit So this could be a way of the people of Wakanda to You know say this is the person we need to kind of take out or it could be a way of them seeing him as a god or something It's pretty cool image though seeing Thanos's armor like that and we know that he left his armor Now thinking about it, he left the armor on Thor's ship You know at the ship that left Asgard, so That wasn't at Wakanda so that I mean how did that get to earth Correct me if I'm wrong about that, but I'm pretty sure he took it off to take on Hulk right I'm not 100% sure about that one, but leave it in the comments if you can tell me I would love to know So as you can see there the infinity gauntlet is Destroyed it's it almost looks like it's a fix to his hand But this shot very much reminds me and I said it in my trailer reaction of gladiator There's shot in gladiator multiple times where Russell Crowe is putting his hands through the wheat and this is very Symbolic symbolic of that shot or almost like a homage But you know, I'm not implying that he's a ghost or anything like that, but you know, maybe you could be exactly what he said he was gonna do and Scarlet which I'm Scarlett Johansson who plays black widow is talking about, you know It was exactly what he said he was going to do which of course is the the snap That's Captain America with a beautiful haircut percent of all living creatures now You can see Scott Lang the Mark Ruffalo Still not as the Hulk. So maybe hopefully we'll see him turn into the Hulk a bit more in this one. Oh There was a little bit of Tom Holland right there missing missing and we all know Tom Holland is definitely vaporized at this point We lost all of us You lost friends you lost family This is the fight of our lives This is gonna work Steve. I know it is Because I don't know what I'm gonna do if it doesn't Now this should be the plan of course of what's gonna happen to take out Thanos It looks like they're in one of the carriers or the jets to probably hopefully go into space and go to Titan and Take him out or it could be a totally different way as we've seen in some of the Now this could be spoiler territory, but I don't think so Some of the leaked images that came out earlier like last year had what it looked like time travel But I don't know obviously because I haven't seen the movie so I'm completely guessing But it could possibly be taught them talking about them going to time travel you do see He looks at Agent Carter in the compass or in the in the locket and that could be implying Will I ever come back to what we know or What I actually think it could be is him looking at the locket and saying I could go back in time and See her one more time But just thrown out there This is Hopefully Not hopefully, but I mean it obviously means this is the end of either the Avengers or Thanos And this will be the final fight of this happening and here's Scott Lang Ant-Man out the front of the Avengers headquarters This is Rambling as it does a few years ago at the airport in Germany. I don't really think it's just an old message That's me. Can you buzz me in I Think Paul Rudd is a great addition to the Avengers, you know Chris Hemsworth funny and all so is Chris Evans and so is Chris Pratt all the Chris's they're all funny, but having you know Paul Rudd and this I think it Just brings that extra comedy element to the film that is much needed. I love him in this film And you know in the Avengers and also Ant-Man Yeah, April I cannot wait for this. I know you guys can't wait for this Let me know if I miss something in that because you know, I think I've got everything But you know, I want to know what you guys thought of the trailer obviously and what I may have missed because There's a lot going on in that trailer and it's very exciting to see But you know a few things that we never saw obviously was a full shot of Thanos We don't really know what he's doing at the moment. Well, how is he enjoying himself? Is he having a holiday? What's going on with him? You know, if you watched Ant-Man 2, you know that You know, there's a lot of things going on in that universe that we could be finding out about I don't want to spoil too much because I'm not sure what you guys have seen but You know, there's a lot of things going on There's a lot of excitement from me for this trailer and I cannot wait to see more of it I'm assuming there's gonna be another trailer as this is technically a teaser I would say but judging there's two minutes and 25 seconds. That's a full trailer But anyway lips on what you guys have learned in comments and as always I'll catch you nerds at the movies


The Omega Man. Yeah. Charlton Heston stars in this. This is the least like the book. Besides the fact that his name is Robert Neville and he's kind of the last man living, that's about the only thing that's the same. They really push the fact that there's a new society, right? That's anti-technology. Neville sees it the other way around. They're the new people, but they're monsters, right? They need to be taken care of. Even though the events in this movie are very, very different than the book, the major themes and ideas are still there. The music in this movie is the best. Like, it's so awesome.  Dresses up for his Sunday dinner still because it's just routines. These were in that crushed velvet suit with those ruffles and everything.


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