Film was longer than I slept Where I was in the very long sleeve that's like half the night That's like you've just entered into nap out of nap territory. You know you technically this is four hours one minute in 23 seconds, so it's over half the night. Yeah, how do you get a whim to stay on that hook? Explained to me you impale it. I don't know.    It's the biggest problem with this entire series of movies. Look at that terrible CGI fit Actually, it's better than most things That's pretty funny though.  I mean the ring would kind of not have anything to do with it. Well, yeah, how would it wait first off How would the dog put a ring on as we saw with the seal doors the ring will change according to the thing That's holding it so the dogs don't have fingers Exactly it would change to a cord with the thing that was holding it Yeah, they have toes. Yep, I don't think that ring would go out of its way to change for a dog Wow, I didn't even it was so casual about that right here.  They're not real hobbits. They're proto hobbits.  Well, that's about like Because don't you just like I don't know why they needed to CGI him when he's not Really a dragon's all CGI right here like all this all this is CGI that ring CGI. I know that Yeah, it looks so real the dirt on the hands. Look at it. He had a mustache and they had to CGI it out for the show Imagine if he replaced Henry Cavill and Mission Impossible I just love the idea they're like, oh, we need you back for reshoots Henry Can you just he's poppin? He's like, yeah, no problem. And then he comes in they're like, whoa mustache He's like what can you imagine the two studios arguing about that like you just please let us shave it Like even red land media would just like that's so dumb Why not just put on a mustache instead of CGIing it out? And I was sitting like why would you assume that if they completely separate companies and if you had him on contract?   That's that creepy moment or his eyes Go big bigger free really let himself go in this scene That looks so natural to I quite like it. Um, how did Gandalf know about Gollum's story exactly then? How does anybody my YouTube channel? Gollum's unboxings top 10 reasons why the precious is the best ever That's all the videos are and everyone's just like make something new all of even in the books again Dolf just knows I don't really know how he knows. It's never really Knowing relative visit is like when Bilbo finds him doesn't even find out He's uh, he's held in Merckwood for a while and then he runs away Hmm, so they might have tortured it out of him then I suppose But they never really bring that up.  He doesn't talk about it It's that whole 50 shades of Gandalf the gray Why I'm like front of right now. I haven't slept much and I'm sitting inside of a small stone cave In the morning. You have a ring that you're obsessed with too.  No, not that I'm aware of I double-check that you're aware of Temptively no Sure voice in the background rags microphone. We just hear the sounds of a struggle The hobbits ears like point but they go back they're not as cool as elves They're rocking hair though. No unfair though for like character Customization you stuff like why would anyone pick anything but elf elf just beats out the rest. I'm sorry. Yeah I'm kind of ridiculously OP.   I'd be like I don't want it cool Lego Lasses the funnest to level when you unlock is like double shot mythril fire arrows Where they just annihilate a group double shot mithril fire Why does it need to work?  I Was too young when these movies came out to even watch them until a few years later and by that point I didn't oh, yeah, that's right. We have friends here.   Awesome, so you will come here for information. I have some for you Fisters Would you like to touch them good?  That's what's crazy about it Yeah, you could probably somebody in orderings, but I wouldn't want anyone I don't want them to touch this Yeah, I never want to see another Lord of the Rings Tell me what words of comfort did you give the half before you sent him to his dome?   I just like it. Does anyone want to check on Grima's like no He's dead he climbed up there you can climb down. Oh My black ball. Yeah, by the way, I don't know if you know this wolf because you said you haven't seen it, right?  Oh, it actually annoys me thinking about it. It was like it was just like one minute Just just cut the scene really far down with Saraman or just don't yeah, just don't cut it at all It's such a good scene. I think that's why Chris Philly was upset because he was like it doesn't finish Saraman's story He's just like not around anymore. That's how you saw me. I was on my balcony going left and right and then left again He was like the villain of the second film he was Sauron isn't really relevant to second film as much as he is We kind of funny is that in the books So Saraman doesn't show up until like the last chapter of the two towers and like the second to last chapter for turn of the king with the scouring of the Shire and easy in the Hobbit books at all I'd not that I remember it's been a long time since I last read the Hobbit I remember Alex being like so much and even been in it and I remember being like the whole films are so bad It you should glad he's in it. He really is one of the only really good parts of those To me and then he doesn't do anything Yeah, it's like 60 years later that Lord of the Rings takes place So they put that in the trailer dude for the third Hobbit film him saying leave sorrow to me And it was like oh my god We're gonna get a scene where like sorrow unconverts Saravan.  It looks like It looks like he was hesitant to drink You can see like a fish Yeah, theater has a sort of mini arc in this film, isn't it?  So his speech was better than Aragorn's changed my mind. That's not fair Our God's one was after his how do you follow that up?  Yeah, I remember people pointing that out and being really pissed cuz Kind of ruins the scene no because now it'll be like no, it's just Legolas specifically, okay That looks so good there especially since the camera panned and it showed them dancing on the tables It's like how did you do that?  I would honestly marry I can't stand again. Don't you can't do anything?   What's that about does it represent that you're partially still evil?   It's all great There's another Sam in another show who goes on a similar journey But then his last season he gets turned into a cowardly faggot great I wonder if that ever like came into the decision, you know, we don't want him to be like People are too used to heroic Sam's Give them a different kind of Sam Frodo looks over to him like he looks fine It's the picture of health. All right. Yeah, that guy over there is trying to kill us.  It's like I know Sam I know you're like what do you what do you mean? You know?   Did I fall asleep right here in front of the fire alone in this room in the middle of it? Maybe if I sleep out in the middle of the room air going to notice me Did I just put a couch out here in the middle of a throne room?   The only one that ever cared about him dies And every time like they get a 20 kind of argument. She's just she's can pays him to our gold. He's like seriously Can you imagine He was better than you Okay Something stares in the east. What do your elf eyes see? So it's it's red sun in the morning if blood's been spilled and stars are veiled to something stirring in the east I don't get it man. Our goal. It's like is there ever anything not happening Yes, blue skies.  Hi Have you said anything to Sheila down at the down of the park? I know you're interested in maybe it's like yeah Also, is this the um like the top contender for best book to movie adaptation I'd say it's up there I I have guess I would have to see more book to movie adaptations to really get a good handle of it I just like the idea that Sauron was like I'm free.   I Like they do like yeah, it makes sense minister.  I get it. I should have done the black ball thing. I get it Don't you understand don't you get it?   He's like guys don't rape him.  He's like what's that? Is that a chair? A jack at her what is that?     He's like my lady somebody stop her He's like Elrond sir. I tried to stop her but I did everything I did everything I could I like the edit of this scene where he's like there is death. There is life. There is death. There is life death Are you here alone? Are there other people here? Are you lonely? What what's going on?  He's like that son dies. He's like yes, but after he has a son He's like, yeah, but that son dies too.  Yeah Like does everyone just dies like kind of yes Don't call me data That symbolically represents what they did to the hobbit I knew you'd sit on the floor So then this was like no rewatch lord of the race I just hands her a copy of the blue rays I like how you you you would have watched like an episode of an average tv show by now But the movie we're like right we're almost done with the introduction We're only 41 minutes into the movie and this is like almost as long as an e-fap introduction All right, so there are other elves in Rivendell. Oh, yeah, I like two guys I will just uh me and me and steve here if you ever want to sort put back together for whatever reason That's our specialty. So we lost two guys. He's like, can you put us all together? Yes, actually He just wanted to kick out everyone else so he can be like, hey guys, we got the whole place into our bells now Make me thorn Fucking he's dead He just didn't give him any food or water the whole time and he ended up dying This is a scene where he's like help me please. I need a drink.  Let me stay in a stable. Oh, yeah, just go in everyone trust Gandalf It's fine. The gods like wouldn't you like gray and shit? Yeah, I saw the tree Yes, I know I saw we all saw the tree.   He like he was with you guys.  So Perhaps you come to tell me why my son is dead in fairness. You have another one It is pretty cool. I like farabare more It's actually pretty neat He's a good guy.  Many bullets he bore many to the head I'm fine This is so horrible Boromir screamed and paid before he died I can't blame him. I would have screamed to it. Looked like it hurt after the 12th arrow pierced his new cap His face was pale. He was puking up blood. He was cursing your name Xenothor is just sobbing this whole time He told us many secrets about you He says it's your fault Xenothor. You wouldn't have been here if you didn't tell him to That's that's quite a badass line from gandalf steward Hey, man, it's my name is stewart, please Gandalf clean your cloak. Jesus. No, no, it's cool of this way represents his slow decay into darkness At the end of the movie, he becomes sauron. You know, ryan shallots will probably have that happen Like thanks for visiting come back soon.  He's like i'm going to move into board door Why He's always just liked it there. The orcs are pretty friendly actually the line of kings failed The white tree with it Until the true king ejaculates onto the tree it will never blossom again. I mean if that's what it takes Can you imagine living in this city and seeing that every single day guys Maybe we should do something about that When the shadow of mordor reaches this city it will begin to be fair gandalf. I'd be rather traveling the shade as well There's no leaving this city help must come to us No, we can leave right now.  He's lying shadowfax. Hey, stay right here.  That's the horse.   That's just this is all like extra.  Gratis. I'm dying These lands were once part of the kingdom of gondor. That's your opinion It says that one for one on the thing I can read it to mr. Frodo Look at me. Frodo the the flowers make a crown on his head that moves in for kids.  Yes, you are mr. Frodo Do you think it's wise to be getting high right now gendalf? Is that a movie?  No No, we're fucked.  He is high That's what that didn't actually happen did it gandalf? That's what pippin's thinking about he's like I've met him, but he hasn't been revealed. Okay You gotta wonder how he knew that it was the witch king of angmar specifically that stabbed froto too So he was not only not there, but they all looked exactly I was gonna say i finally marched to the first thoughts racist against osgole to say that they all look the same first On his confusion would be like are there nine of them or whatever nine witch kings and he's like no just one He's like No, which of the five were with the witch king has a witch secretary. It's the one with the beard No, no, he has the black robe.  Yeah Like golems line was like retard. What are you doing?  Had one job obviously all of Lord of the Rings music is amazing There's like one of my favorite tracks here in it This place spots up the witch king track So fucking cool I love that the idea is the witch king commands his armies by autistically screeching He's just re-ing No, this is just the morning track to the supermarket Milken eggs and bread Good thing none of them are looking slightly to the right. That's such an awesome shot Maybe we should wait a little bit I just like gandalf has really good eyesight.  It's super tough.  You're one of the guards.  The best part is as uh in gondor and rohan, they don't know that hobbits exist at all.  I always assumed he did it this way because he wanted him to get in trouble They take him to like be punished again. I was like, how could you do this?  Oh, yeah What it was being like for all the guys that their job is literally just to sit in the middle of nowhere And hope that someone has to light a fire at some point probably cycle them in and out You get a week. Yeah. Yeah, you can see they've got a little like hut there as well I was like, oh good detail.  You can see the smoke coming out the top They just got an xbox set up inside and they're like see they're happy Or something one day they're caught with it.  Oh, look at that one.  L How hard must it be to climb up there?  I'm going for my annual commute What if one of them fell off a cliff like this day and then they couldn't light the beacon Good knuckles great. Okay And Rohan will answer They could get a look side that he goes say no Motherfucker don't I use it to stab people if I need to stab people. Jesus Christ. Erwin. You should understand It's like, what if Erwin like at that moment was like, hey, say it in They did Defending this ruin city was a really bad idea. Yeah, it's just finally though.  How do you when they fire the the catapults With all the heads. I remember even my parents were like, oh That's a bit too adult and I was like, that's awesome I don't even know that's dude's name, but I feel sorry for him. Yeah I think they did a good good enough job of making us be like, oh that guy. No I think it's just because he's nice to fair mirror that I like him. Yeah People that are nice to fair That's our associate that it allows us to get introduced to a new badman who by the way His death scene is cut out of the theatrical vision of this film too In fairness, it's not nearly as bad as Saruman.  They have three nozzbull chasing after them Wilhelm Okay, Julie does this and then they're like, what else can you do by the way? Like however, you know Lord of the Rings has a really light magic system doesn't have really clearly established No, it is tough to do it, but they didn't really even try with this.   He was like I was going to ask all of You Turns out there's another way in on the other side of Mordor that's like really easy Like pleasant orcs as well. They're like hey, how are you doing?  There's not stairs so much as small tiny cliffs one after the other And that army is still coming out of Jesus Christ. That's a lot of army. It's been really crowded in the Midas Mordor That place looks kind of cool. I want to see what goes on there It's like one of the things that I thought was kind of fun about uh Middle earth shadow of war is that you get to run around there in like a little open world area Oh, yeah, it's like all right. This is awesome story. This game is trash But you know, he literally could have grabbed that pulled it so the necklace breaks and just run off Like he really could have gotten his wish here I guess he thought it was too risky Yeah, I guess I thought it would be a little bit uh better to make sure that uh she lob kills them both Yeah, rather than risk them trying to find them. Also, he's got the bread bread plan.  What's the deal here with that? What? Outclasses him outclasses him.   I think it's the sounds cooling concept sort of thing It might have looked his me and execution. Yeah, I mean they might have been able to make it work in here But uh, the cartoon just looked kind of derpy. I guess he doesn't make a freak a staff in the book So it's not supposed to happen that way Yeah, I wasn't really sure what the film was saying with it because Gandalf doesn't get to have his Staff throughout the rest of the film. No, I don't think so.  Oh, you're the guy who loses all skilleth regularly From Face is making Is there a captain here who still has the courage to do his lord's will?    That'll never make sense to me John was just a closet racist Everyone was a Daenerys was just like I think people will be happier if I just kill the Dothraki It was funny as well for a writing stab point It would actually have made some sense to kill them all that way So you wouldn't have to deal with the fact that they rape and pillage, but but they didn't they just resurrected them Okay, I love that the unsullied don't they go back to like Essos Do you want an anarth? Why send John snow to the wall if they're not going to be around to enforce that Dude episode six. I'm not looking forward to breaking it down.   Not to mention that it's the north.  Your head's on a rock.  Yeah, that'll be painful That's all we have left Whoa, where'd it go? He doesn't eat it. He can't have taken it It the logic doesn't follow mr. Frodo.  Yeah the idea that it's like you can just toggle off home He's like dude the army's still coming out to meet his morgule He's gonna have to wait for a while.  Let's take it I love the edit of this where he says to go home and then it cuts to the very end of this movie Where he's back in the shy or marching home to his family and it's like I hope it all worked out with mr.   It's so painful Thanks for flowers. I don't do this, but He just eats it on the way Where does my allegiance lie? Here just start with him specifically.  Gandalf's just like I just spoke to him. He said don't do it Oh good The devil's like no, I said go He's like really high up Did you guys notice they have trebuchets behind the castle walls? How insane is that? They clearly don't know how to use trebuchets. That's why they have such a difficult time with this fight I always thought this is funny as well They showed goth mog realizing they're coming and he's like really Why like this is a trap they're tricking us They wouldn't be this retarded, right?  I don't see how it's working I was trying so disturbing watching him eat They used this song in like the trailer for the third hobbit movie and it was really out of place. It also seems cheap Yeah Remember these other better movies?    I like how this lion is like, yeah, war is a province of men.  Be glad She's like one of our short men He's like, well, I mean, I don't know like well, I mean depends on how short five The god is like what What if he came like right up and he like touched his shoulder and he accidentally killed the guard Why'd you do that?  This is my anti-rape knife She will not long survive the evil that now spreads from Mordor How does that work? Arwen's life is now Thing that's a weird thing that happens. It's like Arwen's dying now It's like Padme dying of a broken heart but significantly less retarded I way prefer the fan theory the palpatine killed her to resurrect Anakin sort of thing That's so much better isn't it? How would that work though?  What? I've been trying to find that video for years because I can't find it anymore because it's so funny I like how ridiculously long the sword is that's right when the camera pans up it and it just keeps going That's a man's sword. You know what pisses me off The Game of Thrones producers wouldn't allow John Snow to keep the sword really why not?  I don't know What are they gonna use it if I were him?   What do you think that Harrington's gonna do?  I'd love to know the logic if there's some kind of contractual thing or whatever You should just stolen it from set. I mean, I like that Ryan Reynolds There's the story where he just takes the suit because he's like if I'm gonna play Deadpool and take in the suit Yeah It just makes youtube videos with it now So it's like I like that they give all the actors a souvenir and they finally get to Daenerys and they give her a bin child She's like They give her the skeleton prop that they used in season five.   Why won't you give Harrington the sword like the petition is littered It was made after what came out that he's like checked himself in the rehab because they were like maybe it'll Maybe he's got a little present. Give him the sword. Have you learned nothing of the stubbornness of dwarfs? Yay, they're going with him. You know, I'm going to like talk to ghosts, right? They're like halfway through. They're like, what are we doing again? We're gonna convince an army of undead ghost traitors to help us in the next battle. I'm like, hmm Alrighty, I was actually listening to us discussing the ghosts thing in like a really old efeb So let's like point out like why didn't they go after Mordor and the justification was that Aragorn says They're released at the end of it And I think that the only thing I have left is I need to pay attention to what legolas says from basically here until They get into the place but just a line that makes it so that they're bound to defend gondor solely It was the only thing they even can do not attack anywhere. That's all I want Gimli does say before they released that they should keep them around. Yeah. Yeah, but that's They don't answer that question really because like the justification that aragorn has already said he would have released them I'm like, yeah, but why did he do that?  Yeah, well I'm kind of there's different Shit I'd have to actually look at that all up because I don't know some more explaining the appendices I like the ghost, but if I was to piss and they've written this I probably would have not had them in next This super OP and the book they actually don't even show up to meanest here If they just take the boats and call it good. It was actually the most disappointing chapter in the entire book I wanna see some ghost shit, dude The worst part is it's like they don't show it happen It just cuts right to The end of the battle that meanest here is that Gimli and Legolas visit Pippin or no It was Mary I think and he's like, what are you doing?  It was extremely disappointing as a chapter I was like, I wanted to see this happen.   I probably would debate it. So that's a thing Is that a thing in the books because I don't they don't really encounter the white walkers that often in the books Yeah, there's not there's not much information on them in the books Spooky scary skeletons I want to fight I will say no more You were allowed to be my servant up until the battle started.    I love the justification for the uh episode three fight in uh game of thrones is hey guys It took them 50 days to Film that I'm like, okay. I don't I don't care.   I can't remember Yeah, let's put I think this was cut. Yeah. Yeah, I remember yeah, uh, then walking through the misty bit there It's in the game, but it's not in the theatrical vision.  I like how there's like a rotting flesh layer over the skeleton You can kind of see them both depending on the shot. What do these guys do in their free time play solitaire, I guess ghost chats I think Legolas, what was the plan there, dude air grind just looks over too many.  I will hold your oaths fulfilled What say you?  Come on. It's so cool.  There's two kinds of cameos There's peter jackson cameos where he eats a carrot throws a rock and gets shot Or there's an m night shaman on cameo where he needs to be a full-on character in the movie And he has like some important advice all the time.  It's like m night out of here You know He and his brother this family. They just no luck with arrows, man. No Barometer survived the arrows. I mean he wasn't shot by three in fairness Yeah, he wouldn't yeah the third one might be the one this movie was ahead of its time It portrays an orc with cerebral palsy The movie was a skull hat.  And I just yeah, it's always like you sent him to his death you flim flam Oh He's a lot. He'd actually actually be okay. Looks like you missed all the vitals Oh So cool If you saw that How fucked would you be this is this is my point about the whole like oh if he was all in darkness And we couldn't see them it'd be more scary. It's like no, it's not like that looks significantly more terrifying And it's not even the full battlefield. That's what I was saying with the zombies Imagine you just filled every last place you could even see right. Yeah, it's exactly two hours in one minute Fighting starts in this movie. Oh man, man. Oh, so satisfying when Gandalf fucks him up Really?   Yeah, it's like guys I mean you're better off at least defending You're dead otherwise Game of thrones you looking you looking Oh Like sir if I could move but it saves me I don't think it's worth it Who's this child? Oh, this is my favorite part.   Oh, you're arch You know the archer on the wall was Arya really?  He got you. He got your sword, buddy.  I see with this this doesn't really look like a wolf. It just looks like a pig I thought it was a pig. I thought it was two like me and my friends called him wilbur all the time Wilbur I think it's because of like kind of reminds you of like that Imagery of like a pig with an apple in its mouth on a plate sort of thing.    They're like, uh Are you still here?  You battle like a million spiders.  He doesn't have to be in any of that. I'd be like you may as well Oh, that'd be so funny if you second time. I climbed these stairs today He gets back to Frodo. He's like, I found all the bread Frodo's like, oh really?  I don't remember why They were showing like movie scenes to like inspire us and I'm like, what's inspiring about him throwing golem off a cliff Well, maybe it was the fact that Frodo is like I gotta destroy it for both of us.  Yeah, that's the one thing with this scene It's like you're not doing a very good job at keeping yourself concealed. You can randomly hear one guy go woman I'm the woman I could see her ankles There is some implication in the book that I mean she in the book She like uses a fake name to pretend like she has a guy But there is like some strange like little implication that like a few of them know it's her but they don't say anything You the girly looking one in the midget. Let's go Only thing with this is like this tower is so far away from that tree So when denith or catches on fire, he's gonna run a long way to jump off that ledge I mean, have you ever been on fire? Yeah, have you ever been a crazy man on fire?  I have so I can confirm it's possible.   I was like spiders Like could you have desired anything creepier?  It's the most horrible. It's the most horrible thing I hope sam told people about this because it was amazing He tells all these kids war stories like no one ever believes the spider story.     It's okay.  Yep That's the first time I found you I did I Saw the orcs carrying you away You know what's funny in a crappier vision sam wouldn't have taken the ring Just because the riders would have forgotten about the ring and then and then we'd be like, why would you have taken this? You should be like, uh, sam kind of forgot about the ring So why did the orcs take it? It's like oh, the orcs just think it's a random ring You know if ryan johnson directed this movie He would have forgot about the ring and then one of the orcs would have taken it become the new dark lord Everyone would have lost. Yeah, and then like the end would be like the ring will return in my trilogy coming 2025 still archers on the wall. Shoot them. I don't know why I don't know why they have any strategy I've heard the best way to do it.  Yeah, it was and the confusion was like, where did gandalf's staff go? This sword does catch on fire in the book too.   Just like he's really far away He was gonna throw it Oh god, that's part of the movie He's like, no, I don't want to do this anymore.    Is that all you just pulled on his face?  Yeah, he would be dead so quickly. I've been collecting my cum. Oh, jeez For years very flammable cum I've been drinking alcohol. Like, so are you sure? Look how slowly they come into words. I'm like, are we really doing this?  The fucker was soaked in oil I really want to kill my son Let me Oh shadow facts was totally on board with that one Yeah, I was like, I'll show you how it's done Now time for a cross-country run Man those horses must have felt so good being against people and then they were like, oh I like that they form up before charging again. Yeah, and I love this shot as well.  Yeah So unfit.  Look at how you took out two of them That still only counts as one.   Oh, which is so cool.  I feel he's like scary to even fight doesn't matter what weapons he has just like Just go away like when he stands up out of the corpse of the felbies. It's like, oh, Jesus Skull head is Like who is that? I don't know. S.T.A. W. moments in Lord of the Rings return of the king I might actually have to kill him That would have happened if this was released today For a long time. I thought he was saying 50 60 and I was like, did you really just count? You don't know it was a mithril fire arrow went through 10 people at once Well, now they're evenly matched. They both have a useless arm See that's the kind of satisfying death we want to see what are you talking about? I would just want like some girl to come flying in from the background He literally asked what the undead even are an episode before that Remember we're watching these movies because of that show. There's literally the motivation here You know as ridiculous as this is Isn't half as ridiculous as what he does in the hobbit. You know for how long it's been riding as well There's no way he would have ended up where Ghibli is That's a great line. So it doesn't matter I wonder how many god dorians they accidentally killed The orcs put on the god dorian.  No one's gonna believe you. Just say it.  Do you have plot armor? He has something very important he has to do in the future At the funeral harrigone's like she made greats And they're all just like sniggering Well, that's awkward. It was like crying his eyes out. God. I was just smiling. It's like, well, we won Dude, did I step the witch king or is that a bad trip?  Not even second place harrigone like Seven three I was gonna say he lost us giliath twice rags. Come on. Yeah, he missed 12 dudes lost Oh, yeah, you're right. He lost it three times. I like that Gandalf was just like, all right I'm gonna go back inside and then just left pippin to find mary for himself. Yeah, I killed the witch king Dude, I got assist points for the witch king is like I leveled like four times Dude, everyone stole my kill. I totally had it.   He could have killed him. He's hobbit man. He's hobbit man Oh man, they had a bullet collection. There's a certain mundane person He's been waiting for this day.     Yeah Took the ring You know what? You could have just let him believe that and be like, okay, you go home Frodo I'll do the right. You're really unreliable right now. I always didn't like I mean, it's totally a character But I always didn't like the Frodo like snatches it away.  Sam's resilient Sam's like, yeah, here it is the ring in the top trumps. He had the highest resilience out of all the characters Yeah, right now. He's just like god Frodo is a weirdo. Sauron was suspected trap. You will not take the bait Oh, I think he will. What is your evidence for leading you to that conclusion? Yeah, I want to see I want to see how that scene went on. Gato's like, no, no, you just said that he did like what's Just the damp of the first spring rain. Aren't you that guy that lost a skill at three times?  Have you tried? Have you tried? Yeah, he's like, what have you done? And she's like, I killed the witch king It's like, god dammit It's like, man, I wish I, I wish my job was that easy. Well, we know which one's going to be wearing the penis in this relationship The question is which one will be out of these two They're moving off. It's a co-dominant relationship. Sometimes Frodo likes the top. Sometimes he lets Sam do it to build up his confidence I love that fool.  I'm so glad I never watched the theatrical cuts I mean, they're still better than the majority of movies. Yeah, but compared to this and you get to see the cinema Also that horse Rearing up on its hind legs was not scripted. Just did that it knew what movie it was a pile That looked good for the big screen. The horse was like, are we doing Game of Thrones or Lord of the Rings? Lord of the Rings like, oh Oh, Lord of the Rings, thank god. What about side by side with a friend? I could do that seem not so many times. Thanks to the internet That's the immediate thing I started thinking of too There's one edit where the rest of the armies don't follow aerogorn and they just watch him charge the orcs by himself Sam's like, I can't carry you too How much photo stuff's moving here? Sam's like, you could move the whole time Nice shot. A lot of how much is happening here. Oh, yeah, this is the Climax of the movie now. Everyone matters.  You don't need your staff. The magic was inside of you all along This place is lit I'm having second thought Sam Dude, if you were the ring right now, you'd be like You really want to put me on but be on but be on The ring is mine. Do you think Sam told people about this part of the story? When Frodo lost his mind and put the ring on and almost ruined everything when Frodo tells it He's like, yeah, I went to throw it in then golem jumped on me bit my finger off.    No, don't be an enabler moller No, we're not enabling him.  No, he needed to be weaned off it Old tic he isn't necessarily the best way to do it I think sam could have kept that part in because he's like, oh, yeah, the Frodo was just like, oh Yeah, Frodo's like I heroically threw golem off with the ring. So I was like You tried to get it back really, you know the animated version of the film at the end of the movie There's some dude who like sings a song and he's like I call this one Frodo of the nine fingers And he's singing it to Frodo and it's like dude.   See what we just saw there was actually saran teleporting out into a different universe Wow, this place got even more inhospitable Makes me wonder if like the whole fellowship managed to get there with they all just sit on that rock and be like So how's it going guys? Sam trying to pretend like he's straight here I think it's very good acting. Do we see through the ruse though sam? It's okay. We're more progressive nowadays. You can admit it.  I'm assuming all of this There's 20 minutes left of this movie and so many people are like the ending six hours long We'll see they're the kind of people that would say and now we're credits Then they're like, oh, I guess we'll have one more ending and i'm sitting here like Dude, we got loads to do yet.  I've heard from entirely too many retarded people both But we look down and see the timeline where the little ball is right now and you're like man We just we're just now at like the end. Yeah, the end is like less than half of the introduction Like it's a four hour movie in 20 minutes are the resolution not to mention This is the third movie in a trilogy altogether. It's almost 12 hours long. It deserves this 20 minute ending I think it's a good sign though that the criticism is the ending's a bit long.  Do you? He's in the last hobbits That interpretation that he just knows that all the other hobbits are It is kind of crazy.  We haven't seen each other in ages. I like that Frodo says everyone's name except for legless. Like he's like, I forgot who you were Or what was the name of the alpha died at um helps deep Imagine he said that when Legolas came in And he's like, no, I'm legless like oh, where's healthy at least like he's dead and Frodo like cries for ages I wouldn't see this version of the movie it opens with the weed and it has all these different alternate scenes And so the free peoples of middle-earth are once again allowed to smoke They've got the about their shields They got the herb like uh hanging from the walls One big weed leaf on that crowd so they look in middle-earth That'd be fucking great if that wasn't symbolizes So Ron was just the representation of the establishment trying to keep us from our weed So like he likes to sing sometimes really awkward just Sometimes he just walks around meet his tears singing and they're like, what are you? What's he saying? What doesn't he ever speak english? He's just he's just reeling off loads of swear words in the actual language What's up, pal there I Love the idea that everyone forgets who Legolas is Yeah, cuz the other interpretations like what he had does the room in front of goes. Oh my god. Yes, you made it I want to see this version of the movie wherever which just forgets Legolas and thinks it's healthy There's a shame that Legolas died at home. See if you fought bravely He's here Like air gourd sees him die and he looks at Legolas.   Why not? Yeah, wouldn't you? No, I don't like little people What? Wow, I can't believe it. See when we watched wish upon this began Because you made fun of the statues Oh my god, look, it's a little devil person. Thank you for saying devil person instead of midget No, little devil. See see see this is what i'm talking about.  You thanked me for not calling the midgets. I was very politically correct back then Little devils instead of midgets Rags stop jerking off. No, I was wiping some Uh-huh.  I'm gonna write like the addendum where he's like few corrections few things that were wrong So Frodo said Frodo called me fat a lot Imagine if Frodo's vision out of respect for the fact that golem died He treats him as like a hero in the storyline that sam was like the annoying one who got in the way His children read it and they're like dad.  Any chance of seeing that old ring of mine again?  Yeah, I could imagine being like really dude. Really now. Okay. Can't nobody hear about this Do you think he's leaving Middle Earth because he can't get over the death? It's all dear. Oh Just every elf male is He calls Galadriel So they just go back to elf topia where they came from planning on euthanizing him They just throw him overboard once they're out of sight. You're just Frodo didn't know what he was talking about What do you mean?  He's like what? He's just like I don't want to go I'm finished writing my book again. Dolph comes and like grabs his shirt and like drags him away He's screaming for everyone else that comes Help!  Aldia you've done amazing I can smell you.  This is just big line of like everyone even orcs are like sorry Sam Well, you know the orcs were elves ones man, that's a town great, isn't it? It used to be Haldia and then they were nothing I think this is the first time I've watched this ending and laughed My dear Sam That was his kid saying that My dear Sam, he's like what the fuck? Where are all your friends honey? He's like they're dead All I have left is you and Haldia And me Sam. He's like that's really creepy Well movie should have ended saying in loving memory of Haldia in loving memory of good writing You'll never see it again I'm gonna take a shower Better smelling up this discord. I meant that was love


أولا zusammen with that is about making smart cities and sustainable communities so two keywords are to be smart and sustainable so in this perspective we are actually trying地 to help developing countries to be very aware of the potential benefits that they can have in terms of having or building or planning for smart cities and smart societies and even help them actually to catch such opportunities وارجعوها منated when having such smarts and sustainable communities A smartness actually revolves around the citizen himself So first the most objective is to try to make bitter life style Bitter enjoyment environment for the citizens to live in And second for the whole community to have a perspective overview on the bitter And more perspective economy aspects as wellTo try to make an economic growth in the communities that are living in And to have a better friendly environment, as well So, there are different aspects that we need to target when we are talking about Smart City or a smart community This is a big question actually because right now people are moving to a new concept of having Smart Cities Other than the traditional cities And this is a big collaboration between ICT and different sectors Because the city involves different players أول جسدdramatic is to integrate and come up with all the players coming to the same table thinking together planning together for the whole God the whole citizens. This is the first thing so it needs a lot of effort to bring them together and to have a political well actually to promote this activity ثم، كل أولام لدي كورونات to be very aware of the opportunities they have within them when they achieve such a smart city or community. So you have to assess the potential opportunities. You have to know your pain very well because you need to target certain aspects of smartness. No one can achieve all smart aspects in one city or one location. Whatever is smart and successful in one place may not be smart and successful in another. وفقاً بشكل جيدًا في المشاركة المشاركة. هذا هو مجموعة جديدة بين المشاركاتين. هناك الكثير من المشاركة في المشاركة المشاركة والمشاركة في المشاركة المشاركة من المشاركة. لذلك يجب علينا to come up with the right business models that can assure profitability and assure sustainability as well. The most important goals involve a lot of aspects that really target better lifestyle, better industry, better environment and all of these aspects are actually one of the targets and one of the verticals that we need to achieve in a smart city. So we are looking for a better and smarter education. We are looking for a better and smarter energy management. These are also aspects of the development goals. We are looking for more business opportunities to lessen the level of poverty. We are looking for a more friendly environment that people can live in. So all these aspects are actually contributing very well to the sustainability and to achieving the sustainable development to goods through different verticals that had to be there in a smart city. Actually there are different aspects we are trying to study. It's the policy aspects, the regulation. You are looking for the security and the privacy. You are looking for the business models. You are looking for cases studies. So we are trying to compile all of these aspects in one report. This is one thing countries can make use of. Second, we are conducting different regional workshops. Third, we are looking for capacity building through different seminars and through different aspects to be implemented in the center of excellence. Fourth, we are also encouraging good dialogue and collaboration between developed and developing countries to have some programs or projects for partnership to really make use of the experiences they have been going through and to transfer this knowledge and experience to the developing countries as well.


Freedom, I'm assuming you saw the thumbnail, you read the title, so we're gonna talk about some other stuff real quick. I'm doing my best on a sick day to record this because I've recorded this video at this point like 10 times. And between the new GoPro 6 being awesome and losing footage and other stuff, it's been kind of a chore. Long story short, I'm leaving Freedom and some people may have some kind of emotional reactions to that. Hopefully good ones. I've been a partner with Freedom since I believe it was December the 8th, 2013. That's eight days after we launched. I have a two-digit partner number. I've been a part of the community team, I've driven all kinds of initiatives in the past few years, and I've kind of come to a spot where I think I've done about all I can do with Freedom. That's not necessarily a bad thing, that means that I've been a part of something awesome. When I joined the Freedom team, we were just this little team driven by like nothing but passion, and as awesome as that sounds, we needed to grow. And grow we did. We now occupy the 20th floor of our office building, the entire floor, and have people working 24-7 around the clock to serve you, the partners. When I say that I've done about all I can do with Freedom, that's actually a good thing. That means that I've built a lot of really cool things, but I don't want to make it sound like it was just me. Some of you may have seen recently that I'm doing these sort of interviews with people on the Freedom team. And these are built so that you can see some of the people behind the scenes, because most people only see George and I. This team is so much larger, with such great diversity, and it's made up of awesome people. All of which I hope that one day you get to meet, in one way or another. I know some of you may be wondering what I'm gonna do going forward, and we'll get into that, but first, I have a lot of people who I've worked with over the years who wanted to say some things and sort of wish me well and send me on my way. So let's go ahead and hear from them, and we'll come back. Hey Anthony, I wanted to hop on here and just thank you on behalf of myself and the entire Freedom family. Thank you for what you've done for the entire network all these years. You helped my channel out personally so many ways, and I cannot thank you enough for what you've done. And you've also helped the network grow and just helped so many other creators out. And what I find amazing is you put others above yourself first. And it's incredible what you do, and you have a true passion for helping others out, which I find absolutely phenomenal. So again, thank you, Anthony. I wish you the best of luck, whatever life brings you, and good luck, man. We're with you. Hello there, Anthony. I hear you're leaving Freedom. Brother, it's been good to know you. I've known you since 2014 when I first joined Freedom. You've been a positive influence on us and the community team as you were our manager when I first joined back in the beginning of 2016. It's been great to know you. You've been very helpful to us in helping other people. You've made a very positive impact on the entire Freedom family as a whole. And we're all very grateful to have known you. I'm very grateful for your influence and your help that you've given all of us to make a better Freedom. I wish you the best. I wish that your health improves. And I hope that you realize your dreams, everything that you pursue in life. Anthony Smith, otherwise known as one of the coolest people in the world, and easily the coolest guy within Freedom, and certainly one of the most approachable. To me, Anthony was the one guy that you could always go to, and you knew he wasn't going to be angry with your own thing. If you'd messed up, what you do, you go to Anthony. You're going to, you know, talk to him and he'll make things okay. We didn't work on any specific projects that closely, but obviously running MGM for a while, I did work with him, and I did speak to him, and along with other people have to do with Anthony quite a bit. So, Anthony, I wish you luck, and stay awesome. Anthony, it was a real pleasure knowing you. You gave me a chance when not a lot of people would.  And it really meant a lot. And I really do wish you the very best, and I hope, I know that whatever you're going to do in the future coming up, it's going to go amazingly, and it's going to go swimmingly. So all the best of luck to you. We wish you all the best, and thanks so much for the work you have done for all of us here in this family.  And I hope this works out. I'll be with you every step of the way. I love you. Adam Ripple's Vox here, just wishing Anthony a great goodbye. You have put in so much time. It's hard to believe it's been what, four years approaching now, I think, since the start of at least what I remember of your involvement at Freedom. And that's insane. That's pretty crazy. You've put in so much of your time, so much of your energy. You've done a lot for the community, for YouTubers on the whole, for those of us who have ever gotten the chance to work with you, and those of us who have been pretty lucky to have shared such an experience. So thank you, Anthony, for all that you have done. Thank you for your work at Freedom, and I wish you nothing but the best. I know you're going to move on to do great things, and I am excited to see them, so see you later. Hey, Anthony. It's Stefan. I just want to wish you good luck on your future ventures. I know that sometimes leaving a job that you've worked for a long time can be a bit of a challenge, but your positive attitude and your great work ethic will definitely make sure you end up somewhere bigger and better. So if you ever need anything, you know how to reach me, and otherwise I wish you all the best. Hey, Freedom Family. Twilight Prince here from the Freedom community team, and it saddens me to hear that Anthony will be leaving the network, which of course is a great loss to all of us. But before that, I want to say thank you. And thank you alone is not enough to describe all the amazing things you have done for us in the past years, the videos you have made on the YouTube channel, the amazing tips and tricks you have given us, but most important, the support you have been for the whole family. And for that, I want to say thank you. And know that we all wish you the best on the path that lies ahead. Hey, Anthony. It's Luke. I just wanted to say, man, I am sorry to hear that you are leaving. I remember when you first joined up with Freedom so many years ago, and you were one of the best, man, seriously. Your friendship has been just an amazing blessing, and you are just one of the best guys out there. So I know that you are going to rock it wherever your road takes you next. Thank you so much for everything, man. Good luck to you back in the States, and until we meet again, God bless. Hey, guys. The lore reloaded here. To let you know a little bit about me, my channel has had an explosion in growth. Hundreds of subscribers a day, tens of thousands of views a day, and it can all lead back to the genesis with Anthony. Anthony got me into Freedom when it first started. In fact, my member number has three digits, which apparently is very rare. Anthony is the most compassionate guy I know. With Freedom, he helped me raise thousands of dollars to help sick kids, taught me how to do YouTube, and really was a huge inspiration. I do YouTube for a living now, and part of that is because of Anthony. I think there's going to be a huge hole in YouTube once he's gone. He's a good friend of mine, and always welcome to stop at my house any time. You'll be missed, buddy. Hey there. I'm Devon Green, and I used to work in talent acquisition at Freedom. Anthony was my go-to guy, but ever needed anything done for a partner, he was always there to make it happen. Anthony had an amazing time getting to meet you in the Philippines, and getting to go out for drinks, and I wish you the best of luck.  Take care, man. Yo, Anthony. It's Smirky. I just wanted to say thank you so much for being you, for being awesome, for helping me continue to grow my brand on YouTube and now on Twitch, and thanks for being you, for growing the Freedom family, making it what it is today. And I'm very excited to see where the next chapter in your life is, so keep us updated, and I'll see you later. Hello, guys. This is Gaming with Hybrid, also known as Flankamol. Last thing I was expecting to see this morning is an email saying that, saying that a very important person, again, is leaving the Freedom family. Anthony has been a huge inspiration to many people, including me. Thanks to him. We still see our channels, YouTube channels, as something we should not give up on. He's an amazing, funny guy, and it's saddened me to see him leaving just like that. We still don't know why. He will tell us. And he's not the first one who left the Freedom family. I hope you'll always, Anthony, this is a message to you. I hope you'll always be awesome with whatever path you will follow, and we always got your back. Hi, Anthony. And to you, the YouTube audience, I am George, CEO of Freedom. Anthony, when I first read about your new passion for telling stories in the vlog style, something you want to commit to full time to be a YouTuber once again, I wanted to share with all of you how I feel. Anthony has been with Freedom for a very long time. I remember when he was running Game Mode 5 and one of his network partners asked him to shave his head. And he did it. Anthony, community is the one thing that I think summarizes you the best.  And I hope you can involve everyone in Freedom. Certainly let me know as you progress in your new passion of telling stories and know that I and everybody at Freedom will miss having you in the office. And I hope you will be successful and happy to follow your passion. Keep in touch. Take care. See you. So let me just convey her voice. Thank you so much for everything.  I used to work behind the scenes in video editing and graphic design. So that's probably why you don't recognize this face. I'm wearing a cap because my hair is a mess. The lighting is really horrible. The set is kind of messy. And you might be hearing some background noise, which is really ironic because I have yelled at Anthony so many times about his production values. All the little details. You need to do this. You need to do that. Meanwhile, now it's my turn to kind of suffer a bit of criticism with the horrible lighting and production values. Hopefully I'm in focus. If I'm not, I'm sorry. I've known Anthony now for it's been several years. It's been four or five solid good years. And he's not just been a co-worker to me. He's been one of my best friends. He's very similar. And as a result, I really value him as an important person in my life. He's one of the most hardworking people I've ever met. He's one of the most sincere people I've ever had the privilege of working with. There aren't that many people I've met in my life like Anthony. And I know that, you know, just saying these things, it sounds like I'm just kind of exaggerating and being hyperbolic. But it's very true. Anthony wears his heart on his sleeve. What you see is what you get for every minute that you saw him in front of the camera. He would spend thousands behind the scenes, holding meetings, talking to people, coming up with new concepts and ideas.  He's been working on so many deals with companies and people and sponsors just to kind of bring you guys as many opportunities as possible. The guy's been relentless over the last several years. And he deserves a little bit of a breather. Making one of these videos is a little intimidating because I have to sum up his importance in a short, brief amount of time. And again, I don't feel like I'm doing it justice. But hopefully this will kind of give you one perspective of how awesome of a person he is. People like Anthony who are great, inspire greatness wherever they go. And so I just know that whatever he does in the future, if he puts in even a fraction of the devotion he's put into the freedom community, I know that he's going to come up with something amazing and awesome. Anyways, Anthony, I love you buddy. And I will talk to you very soon. I'm talking to Anthony, but the freedom community as well in the comments I might just hang around and respond to some things. Take care. Bye. Thank you to everybody who sent in footage. It means the world to me. And it also means the world to me that the community at large even cares. If you have a favorite memory that involves me or a favorite project that you've seen me work on over the years or if I've worked with you directly, let us know in the comment section down below because it warms my heart. And I'm kind of egocentric and I want to hear stories about me. Of course, I'm kidding. Kind of. My last day with Freedom is kind of sort of December the 8th, which also happens to be the Freedom Christmas party. And I'm hoping that I'll be able to send out some footage or pictures or something like that about that as well. My vlog channel is staying partnered with Freedom. And speaking of my vlog channel, that's where I'll be spending a lot of time. If you'd like to follow the journey, link in the description to that channel. Also, I get to do this awesome thing where I am going to spend, you know, all this time the next three, four weeks just going around the Philippines. These are all things that I've wanted to do since I got here and I haven't had a whole lot of time because I've been focusing on Freedom. After that, somewhere right after the new year, I'm going home to the States. And that's going to be interesting too because it's like I get to be a foreigner in my own land because I've been gone for so long, I get to re-adapt and kind of see things sort of like an outsider. I won't drone on too much more other than to say that I hope that this video has been meaningful to you. I hope that it's been helpful in some way and that I hope that you like, subscribe and do all those things that have made me love my job over the past three, four-ish year. Wow. Also, be awesome to yourself and amazing to each other because that's what families do. And this is The Freedom Family. Bye.


You're going to hear and see some of the faces that you're going to see all year. There's nothing better. Even the players talked about it. Even the small amount of fans that were in spring training to get out and hear fans and see kids, it makes baseball, baseball.  You don't dream about playing in front of nobody, so this is great to see people back in the ballpark.


Live from Houston, Texas. Extracting the signal from the noise. It's theCUBE covering Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. Now your host, Jeff Brick. Hi, welcome back everybody. Jeff Brick here with theCUBE. We are live on the ground at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in Houston, Texas. We just found out we'll be back in Houston next year. So we're excited to be here. And our next guest is Dot Graham, software test consultant. Welcome Dot. Thank you very much, Jeff. So you said you tried to retire, but everybody keeps inviting you back to speak. You've written four books on software testing. So the folks here at Anita Borg invited you out. So what was your talk on? Well, first of all, I'd like to say it was a great privilege to be invited to speak at this conference. In fact, I didn't know anything about it until I got the invitation. But it was very, as soon as I found out about it, I thought, yes, I've got to come here. Well, let's jump into that before we get into your talk. Having never been to Grace Hopper before, and you know, it's, wow, do you come here? There's a lot of people. And once you're kind of in the network, then you're like, wow, this is terrific. But a lot of people don't know about it still. So what's your impression being here at the first Grace Hopper? Well, I'm just bowled over by the size of it and the energy levels that are here. And I think it's an absolutely wonderful initiative. And it's really astonishing to see how it's grown. Again, not living in the States, I've probably one reason why I hadn't heard of it. But I'm certainly impressed with it, that's for sure. Yeah, I think we stopped by last year, it was 8,000 last year and it's 12,000 this year. And my name bad says 13,000 on it. So it's pretty amazing. And the energy and the vibe is like nothing else that I've ever been to. I've never been to a conference this big before. Yeah, so that we've been to a few of them. They can have 20,000, they get crazy big. So anyway, so let's talk about software testing. We're in a software defined world now. Everything is about software. All these companies here, many of which are not what you would think of as software companies, all have huge software development shops that some people know don't know. But test and dev obviously is a critical component. We want the stuff to work. Conversely, back in the old days used to do MRD, market requirements document, then a product requirements document and spec the thing out and build it for a year and test it for six months and roll it out. Today, it's an agile world. People are trying to push out fresh code many times a day if they can. So how does that impact test dev? Well, the testing has to change because the testing certainly isn't the same as it was back in the old waterfall days, but it's still critically important that testing is done along with development in the agile world. And people working together, sometimes agile teams will have people who have a particular talent for testers and that will be included in the team working together with people, getting a tester and developer to pair together during both development and testing can be very useful. But certainly testing skills are needed just as much as ever, no matter how you're developing things. So let's dig into your talk a little bit about, you were telling me about offline intelligent mistakes. That's right. What does that mean? Well, I was talking specifically about software test automation. And test automation is the use of software tools in order to help running the execution of the tests. And I'm focused particularly at system level, although in agile teams we should be doing testing at unit level as well. But a lot of people struggle a lot with the testing at system level, with the test automation. So my talk was on intelligent mistakes in test automation. And I actually had five of them. And it's just a bit of an oxymoron, an intelligent mistake. It's something that seemed a good idea at the time, but which has some problems with it. And the first one was the fact that you might expect automated tests to find lots of bugs, but they don't. Because what we're automating is usually regression tests and regression tests are tests that have been run before. We want to make sure that it hasn't slipped backwards and that a new change in one place hasn't defected something somewhere else. So they're very unlikely to change. One of the stories I told in my talk was- Because it's measuring the delta. So if there was a bug in the first and there's a bug in the second, they're not going to catch the delta? If you make a change here, you might end up affecting something over there and you want to run the tests for that other area to make sure it's still working. And that's regression tests. So they're not very likely to find bugs. One of the conferences I went to, I sat next to a guy who turned out to be a very high level manager. And he was telling me that he had a team doing automated regression testing. And they were running tests every night and every weekend and it sounded to me like he was doing quite well. But he said to me, I'm thinking of knocking it on the head. Why? I thought, sounds like you're getting benefits from that. Well, it's not finding many bugs, he said. But that's not the point of automation. Automation can help you run more tests, run the tests more quickly, cover more of the system. But an automated test is not the same as a manual test. Another misconception that's common out there is that if you get one of these tools to help you automate the testing, then you can get rid of the testers. But you can't because these automated tools don't do testing. Testing is an intellectual activity. When you're testing manually, you might be going along and thinking, I wonder what happens if this, or I wonder if anyone's thought about that, or I wonder this, I wonder that. No testing tool has ever said to itself, I wonder. Right, right. The testing tools don't do testing, they just run stuff. It's very useful because they can run the stuff that's boring and repetitive for people to do, but it doesn't replace testers, it supports testers. So how can, how do people testers use the automated tools to add scale to their process as the rate of software is growing and growing and growing? Yes, and I mean the tests that are mundane to do the repetitive, for example, the regression tests, if you automate those, you then free up the testers from having to do those manually and give them the scope to be able to do much more imaginative testing and more exploratory testing and so on. Okay, so I think we got like three, what are the other two? Oh, let's see, the first one was that automated testing doesn't find bugs, the second one was that automated testing doesn't come out of a box, or it's nowadays a download of course, but what you get is just an engine, it's not a whole car. So you need to build around that, you need to have a well-defined test automation architecture in order to have long life for the automation and have it widely used. My third point was that you shouldn't just try to automate all of your manual tests. Some tests should not be automated, they should stay as manual ones. For example, do these colors look nice? Or tests that take too long to automate?  The CAPTCHA, everybody's favorite. Sometimes they're too smart, right? No, you can't read the thing, it's like crazy. Well, that's right, yeah. But the point is, if you could get your tool to do that, it shouldn't be possible, because the whole point of it is to prove it's not a computer. So that shouldn't be automated. Shouldn't be possible to be automated or your software's broke. Now, I know there are ways to get around it. It's interesting, the case of, if it takes too long or it's too difficult to make the automation. So that's just really kind of a value assessment in terms of your resources. That's right, I mean, some tests are fairly easy to automate and if they're going to give you value, then they should be automated. But you shouldn't just automate tests that are easy, but on the other hand, you shouldn't just automate tests that are difficult. So it's getting the balance right. All right, so that was four, or did we get to the five? The fourth one was that return on investment for automation can be dangerous. I mean, sometimes- Return on investment for automation can be dangerous. That's right, proving that you've got return on investment for the automation. Oh, proving you can get return, okay. Yeah, I mean, if people are looking to invest in automation for the first time, sometimes they have to make a business case. And in some cases, okay, what's your return on investment going to be? The reason why it can be dangerous is the easiest way to show return on investment is to base it only on people's time. But that implies that that's the only thing that's important and it implies that the tools replace the people. So that's why it can be dangerous. But I, I'm sorry, I would imagine better testing always has ROI, right? But it really, the question is whether it's automated testing has- That's right, I'm talking about automated testing. Yeah, and of course everything you do should give you value for what you're doing. But whether you actually have a specific business case for it and quantify that, that's what I'm saying can be dangerous. Okay, so- Automation is an enabler for success. And then what's number five? Number five was, and this one, I'm a little bit swimming against the tide with. Okay. Because- That's what we like on theCUBE. We like people kind of pushing against the tide a little bit. Yeah, my fifth point was that I think it's not necessarily that the testing tools are tools for testers. In other words, it shouldn't be the testers who automatically are assumed to become the test automators. Testing skills are different to automator skills. If you're going to be working directly with these tools, they use scripting languages which are programming languages and those require programming skills. Not all testers, especially if they've come from a business background, have those skills or would want to acquire them, or if they did, would be very good at it. Right. Hans Vivalder says you might lose a good tester and gain a poor programmer.  And based on the keynote I heard yesterday about getting everyone to do coding in school at a very young age, maybe in 15 or 20 years, this won't be an issue anymore. Right. But at the moment, I think it's really unfair that testers who've been in the industry maybe for a while have a really good understanding of the business are being told, you're not worth anything anymore because you can't write code. Right. And they don't want to write code. They wouldn't be good at writing code, but they're great testers. Right. They know the weaknesses of the system. They know exactly where to probe it. We're throwing out something of great value if we imply that all testers have to become programmers. I thought you were going to say you shouldn't have them do it as kind of a separation of church and state type of an issue where you want a different, mechanism, a different skill set, a different methodology to kind of counteract what they're doing. Thanks for that, actually. It's different roles. And I have no objection to people who want to do both roles. I think if people want to do both testing and development, that's fine. What I object to is pushing all testers into being developers, even if they don't want to be. And then what about the whole DevOps movement and how is that impacting this where it's no longer the developers making the software, obviously it gets tested and kind of throwing it over the wall to the ops people. Now it's really more of an integrated process. So if it's more of an integrated process with these faster code pushes in this agile world, how does that impact kind of the tester role? Yeah, I mean, I think it's great the way software is being developed now. It's so responsive to users' needs and so on. And this old over the wall idea that we had 20, 30 years ago really didn't work very well. I mean the idea of independence was having a different set of eyes because you can see things that other people don't. But you can get independence just by having two people working together doing pair work or pair programming. So I think the move towards agile has been really good. In fact, my very first published paper back in the 90s was about intermental development based on some of the work of Tom Gilb, who's known to some people as the grandfather of agile. And he was pushing this back in the days when it was really unfashionable. Right, right. So you do see the role of testers being just as important, regardless of the amount of automation. You know, it's a conversation we have often about kind of role of technology and what are people going to do when the machine learning takes over but really having the context, having the knowledge, having the history with the application that defines a lot of the subtle things that the automation is just not going to get. That's right. Automation is extremely useful and very beneficial but it doesn't replace manual testing and you shouldn't ever completely trust the automation either. Because there are a number of examples of the most recent book that I've written called Experiences of Test Automation. There are several stories in there of people who thought the automation was doing something and then they found out it wasn't. One of them calls them zombie tests. For example, one of them, they were supposed to connect to the network but if the network connection wasn't working instead of the test saying something's gone wrong here, I'd better fail, it just stayed green because it couldn't see that there was a false result. Because it never connected to the first phase. Yeah. So looking forward, testing, what's coming up next? What do you see kind of as the evolution of that science? I think building testability in is very important to make testing easier and particularly automated testing. I certainly see a lot more test automation in the future but I also hope that we're going to see a lot more creative and imaginative testers and the recognition testers bring to the table. Awesome. Well, Dodd, thanks for stopping by. I'm glad to hear you're enjoying your first ever Grace Hopper. Hopefully we'll see you again in 2016. Thank you very much. Well, thank you very much for the interview. Pleasure. So I'm Jeff Frick. We are live in Houston, Texas at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Computing. You're watching theCUBE and we'll be back after this short break.


You are clear for launch. And with that, shut down your visors, O2 on, and prepare for ignition to O2. Copy that, and um... Hey guys, Mr. Ruchoff. This is our first lesson in our Southeast Asia unit. And as we do in all of our different units, we start this unit by looking at the physical geography and how the physical geography impacts the people in the region. Now we find that Southeast Asia as a region is located just to the south of China and to the east across from the Bay of Bangal from India. And all the other reasons we've looked at, one thing they've all had in common is being a large body of land, but that's not what we find in Southeast Asia, which is really only the combination of just two peninsulas and a vast archipelago of over 25,000 islands. The mainland of Southeast Asia is made up of the Indo-Chinese and the Malay peninsulas. And oh by the way, the term Indo-Chinese comes from being in between India and China. In all, there are 10 countries we find in this region. On the mainland we have Myanmar, which used to be known as Burma. We have Thailand, we have Landlock Laos, we have Vietnam, and we have Cambodia. At the south of the Malay peninsula is the western part of a country named, oddly enough, Malaysia. Now the eastern portion of Malaysia is found on the northern shore of an island known as Borneo. Here also we find the small country of Brunei. But Brunei isn't the smallest country of Southeast Asia. Singapore is. Singapore is a small island country at the very southern tip of the mainland peninsula. Then there is Indonesia, which is spread out in the south with over 17,500 islands. And to the east of Indonesia, we find only all the rest of South Asia's islands belong to the Philippines, which itself has over 7,600 different islands. Now one of the ways that geographers look at countries is we look at its shape. It can tell you a lot about that country. And there are five basic shapes of states. We have a compact, fragmented, corrupted, elongated, and appropriated country. And Southeast Asia has all but one of these. The first shape we'll talk about is a compact country, and Southeast Asia has three of these, which are Cambodia, Brunei, and Singapore. A compact country looks sort of like a circle or a square, where every portion of the border is roughly equidistant to the center. The advantage of a compact country is that their shape makes it easier for a government to be able to move services anywhere in the country, as well as to defend its borders. And generally, this means the country has a stable history. Now Singapore is actually another type of state, a city state. Now we talked about city states when we talked about the ancient Greece. A city state is a city that forms its own independent state.  How big? Well, we're only talking about 279 square miles. To put that in perspective, the city of Austin, Texas is over 20 square miles larger. In another way, Singapore is about the same size as Bryan and College Station Texas and all the suburbs. However, with a population of 5.6 million people, Singapore is five times more populated than Austin and is 24 times more populated than College Station. So we can see it's pretty urbanized. Alright, so if you take a compact country and you put a tail on it, you get what is called a corrupted country. If you look at the countries of Vietnam in Myanmar, you should see what I mean. You essentially have two compact countries, but they each have an extension or a tail that runs down towards the Malay Peninsula. These extensions or tails are what cause problems for the country. As it's difficult for the government to be able to move goods and services into the area, it is in these regions that are prone to become sanctuaries for anti-government forces that might spur revolutions. And if your country is long with no central territory, like Vietnam or Laos, then it is what we call an elongated country. Here the entire country can have the same type of difficulties that a corrupted country has in its tail. And this has led several elongated countries in history to separate into two different countries, like North and South, such as North and South Korea, or even what used to be North and South Vietnam. And if you look at Malaysia, the Philippines, or Indonesia is pretty easy to see that they are great examples of fragmented countries. A fragmented country is a country in which at least two parts are actually separated from each other. Now you can imagine government services, communication, travel are all difficult within a country like this. It also makes it difficult for our government to be able to control everywhere in this territory. And the last type of country is a perforated country. Now the word perforated literally means having a whole and that's exactly what we're talking about. A perforated country is one that completely surrounds another country. And this is the only type of shape of a country that we do not find in Southeast Asia, but Africa has one. South Africa completely surrounds the tiny nation of Votoso and Europe also has a perforated country, Italy. Italy completely surrounds the smallest country in the world, Vatican City. Now obviously there is usually a high level of cooperation between both these countries because the country inside the perforated country would not be able to survive otherwise. So now we know where the countries are and their shapes. Let's look at Southeast Asia's physical features. First there are mountains and into the northern portion of Southeast Asia we get the eastern Himalayas. Now from this mightiest of mountain ranges we get the Arcan Mountains that move north and south through Myanmar. The Himalayas also help form that Thai highlands which are found in the northern portion of the country. And then running down this Indo-Chinese Peninsula are the Anamite Mountains which are found in Laos and Vietnam. Now just what the Himalayas, each of these mountain chains were formed through convergent folding. But the mainland peninsulas are not the only part of Southeast Asia with islands, the islands of Indonesia and the Philippines also have mountains. In fact Indonesia's mountains can reach as high as over 16,000 feet. But unlike the mainland's mountains which were formed by convergent folding, these mountains, actually the islands themselves, were formed by convergent folding. Yes, once again we're talking about the Ring of Fire. No, not that Ring of Fire, this Ring of Fire. The islands in Southeast Asia are all part of a subduction zone that actually goes around all of the Pacific Ocean. And if we're talking about convergent subduction that means we have volcanoes. Today there are still 200 active volcanoes in Indonesia including one called Krakatau. Now this was a volcanic island in Indonesia, well actually all the islands are volcanic. In 1883 it erupted and nearly completely destroyed the island. It is the eruption from Krakatau that actually created the loudest sound ever in modern history. People 3,000 miles away were able to hear that which is incredibly remarkable. Oh by the way, Krakatau has erupted multiple times since 1883 including this footage shot in 2018 and even as I am recording this in April 2020, Krakatau right now is erupting. Now out of the mountains on the mainland there are several rivers but the biggest and most significant is the Mekong River. Mekong is only one of several names by which this river is known. As it flows out of the Himalayas in China it then goes through five Southeast Asian countries ending up in Vietnam. With Southeast Asia being a collection islands and peninsulas you can understand how important bodies of water are. The significant bodies of water are the Bay of Bengal which we discussed in our last student in South Asia. As we look at South of Thailand, well we find the Gulf of Thailand, to the northeast of Vietnam we find the Gulf of Tonkin. This is a Gulf that actually played center stage in the beginning of America's war in Vietnam. Now between Vietnam and the Philippines is the South China Sea and on the eastern side of the Philippines is the Philippines Sea which opens out into the Pacific Ocean. Now if I told you that Southeast Asia stretched from 30 degrees north latitude to 10 degrees south latitude it should be pretty easy to determine what type of climates these places have. They have tropical climates. Indonesia and most of the Philippines are primarily a tropical wet climate and most of the mainland of Southeast Asia has either a tropical monsoon or a tropical wet dry climate. As we go up into the northern portions of Myanmar and Vietnam we find a hubus subtropical climate just like what we have here in Brian, Texas. Now I mentioned the mainland of Southeast Asia having a tropical wet dry and a monsoon climate. What's the difference? I mean after all both have both a wet season and a dry season. Well the difference is that a tropical monsoon's wet season is much longer than a tropical wet dry seasons is. And when are these tropical monsoons? Well they are exactly as we discussed on our unit in South Asia. In the summer the winds are pushing rains onto the continent and the winter these winds reverse and blow humidity and rains away from the continent creating a dry season. Now the people of Southeast Asia adapted these monsoon seasons in several ways. First of all during the summer you have all this flooding and this rain which makes the area ideal for rice which is one of the reasons why Southeast Asia is what we call a rice culture. But we understand that flooding causes problems as well. To be able to adapt to this Southeast Asians will often build their homes on stilts such as these in Cambodia. That way when the summer monsoon floods come their home is safely above the water. So what are some of the other ways that Southeast Asians interact with their environments? Well first of all there are pirates. No not like Jack's well actually pretty much exactly like Jack Sparrow. See the reality is modern pirates do exist and the Strait of Malacca which is just found just to the west of the Midland Peninsula is often a site of modern piracy. In 2003 there were over 150 pirate attacks which prompted three Southeast Asian countries to combine efforts to be able to fight the problem and they were able to reduce it down to what they called close to zero which sounds kind of like not zero right. Piracy has started to pick up as there have been over 20 attacks in 2019 and just in the first three months of this year 2020 there have already been four attacks. Now why is this important to us? Well because 15 million barrels of oil a day flows through the Straits of Malacca. In fact nearly all of the oil that Japan China and Korea gets from the Middle East must come through the Strait of Malacca and oil tankers are not immune to these attacks. Just in March of 2020 a fully laden oil tanker was attacked by 35 armed pirates and they kidnapped both the captain and its chief engineer. Although Southeast Asia is a producer of oil and even China to the east produces nearly six million barrels of oil a day. If the pirates block the flow of oil into the Straits of Malacca that means that over 50 percent of the oil needed by Southeast Asia and East Asia to run their economies is actually denied. This would have a global impact on commerce and not a good impact. All right so we've talked about tsunamis several times and we know that tsunamis are large waves that are largely created by underwater earthquakes. We also discussed the devastating tsunami that killed over 230,000 people in 2004 after a 9.0 earthquake in Indonesia. Well one of the things that came out of that horrific tsunami is an early warning system that can provide warnings within eight minutes to anyone in the region. These systems can be lifesavers because if you look at that 2004 tsunami it took that wave nearly an hour and a half to hit Thailand after starting in Indonesia. Unfortunately there are problems with the system that actually failed to warn of a 2018 tsunami that killed 2500 Indonesians but is an example of how Southeast Asians are trying to react to our environment. Then there are the river markets. Now the people in Southeast Asia first settled along the rivers when we've seen this around the world and in Southeast Asia rivers not only became ways to transport goods they actually became the markets themselves. In 2012 my family and I visited Thailand in the Amphawa river market which is shown here. Not only can you be able to go and actually buy goods on the on the banks of the river many ties will actually travel to the market on boat and purchase their goods right on the river. But while I love visiting the Amphawa river market my favorite market was the loam hole market. Now when you get to the loam hole market it looks like pretty much any other Asian market has a bunch of different types of foods and products and everyone's trying to sell things out of the stalls. See what is amazing is this market is right on top of railroad tracks active railroad tracks. Watch this. Now that train didn't go slowly by it was traveling at over 10 to 15 miles an hour. It has got to be one of the most remarkable things I've ever seen but what's more is just a few hours later a second train would come through and everyone have to do this whole thing once again. They have been doing this twice a day for nearly 50 years. By the way the name loam hole literally means umbrella opening due to the way that the merchants have to be able to close down their markets and open them back up each day. All right so we've discussed the countries where their shapes their physical features and in some ways that Southeast Asians have to interact with our environment. In our next lesson what we're going to do is we're going to start looking at the culture and the origins of that culture in Southeast Asia. Until then keep on learning.