Some days ago, I stumbled upon a book online by Evan Carmichael and as a long-winded title, the top 10 rules for success. Rules to succeed in business and life from Titans, Billineers and leaders who change the world. I admit I haven't read the book, but I glimpsed the summary and here's what I found. The principles of success are too general for countless people not to succeed. In this book, Evan Carmichael spent a decade studying successful business owners and entrepreneurs. He then distilled the success lessons and wisdom he got from them into 10 rules. The 10 notable rules each one of this successful people leveraged to achieve their repeated success. It may seem overrated or over amplified, but it's the simple things that get results. Yet, it is the simple things that we ignore. In today's video, I'll be sharing with you the top 10 rules of success as learned from Evan Carmichael's book. If you're new here, subscribe to our channel so you don't miss other interesting videos like this. Rule 1. Follow your passion. Again, it is overstated, but passion is still what motivates success. I was speaking with some young people yesterday and I told them I can't remember the last time I really worked hard.  I call it having fun because you hardly find the work difficult when you follow your passion. Bill Gates said the key point is you've got to enjoy what you do every day and even Carmichael wrote follow your passion, do what you love, pursue your purpose, find the things that you would do even if you never got paid for it. You keep going because you need to keep going, you become the best by loving what you do more than anyone else and following that passion through. This is the number one rule of success. Rule 2. Have self-awareness. I've written about this before. If you don't know who you are you can't find and do what your life is made for and if you're not doing what your life is made for you will not be fulfilled. I read a quote from someone yesterday. It says something like success can either come from studying or from hustling. If you love to hustle don't discourage the person who loves to study and if you love to study don't discourage someone who loves to hustle. What matters is that we all hate success. This obviously means that we are not all made for the same thing just because others succeed through entrepreneurship doesn't mean you will succeed via entrepreneurship. Find who you are and what you're capable of doing. Know your strengths, what people pay you most for, what you do easily. Even Carmichael wrote, following your passion isn't enough. It's just your ticket in. It doesn't guarantee your success. Understand what you're good at. Successful people pursue what they are good at instead of trying to do everything themselves. Having the self-awareness to understand how you work best and then build a business around it gives you the best chance at success. Rule 3. Raise your standards. If all you do is all you're paid to do, then you're never better than the average person out there. Like my leader in church would tell me, if all you can do is what the average Joe can do, then it was better for me to have gone to the streets to be higher than average Joe. Successful people bring much more to the table. Les Brown said, develop the habit of giving more than what you're paid for. Develop the habit of setting standards that others will be measured by. Do not go where the path may lead, but go where there's no path and leave a trail. Rule 4. Focus. During my meeting with the young people yesterday, it became further clear to me that young people struggle so much with focus. They often strive to do so many things in their quest to succeed. Ivan Carmichael wrote, success in any field comes from focus. If you want to become world-class at anything, it requires focus. You can have the highest standards in the world, but if you're not focused on your approach to reach them, you never will. Stop jumping from idea to idea and just focus. That's where the magic will happen. Rule 5. Work Hard. You may love what you do, you may be passionate about it, and may have found out who you are, but becoming what you desire to be will still require hard work. Yes, I said earlier that if you find work that you love, work becomes fun, but at some point, you will be too tired, weak or unmotivated to even do those things you love. You must be willing to put aside your feelings to work hard instead, toward your goals. Carmichael wrote, you need to work hard. Look at anybody who has had the success that you look up to. They put in the hard work to get there. The goal of freeing up your time is so that you can use the extra time that you now have to focus on your big goal and continue working hard. Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard, forever and ever. There is no retirement when you're truly committed. Rule 6. Embrace Failure. Movie producer and superstar Sylvester Stallone said, you must fail 100 times to succeed once, that's part of it. No one succeeds the first time. I had to teach myself early on, expect to fail, expect it, cover it, welcome it, it's going to happen, but it's not a permanent state. Carmichael wrote, most people are so afraid to fail that they don't even try, and that's the biggest failure of all. The key is just to fail small. If you're failing, it means you're trying something, and if you keep following your passion, focusing and working hard, eventually you will hit on something big that works, but it only comes through action. Rule 7. Ignore the little man. If you keep wondering what others think of you, you will never move forward, people will talk. You must be willing to set them aside to pursue your goals. Bob Praktor said, think of the amount of time that is wasted on negative energy, wondering what other people think of you. It's what you think of you that makes a difference.  We're worried about failing in front of other people. You will never have the success you're after, if you're living your life according to other people's expectations, wrote Evan Carmichael. Rule 8. Build a team. This is one lesson I had learned the hard way. No one is superhuman, not one successful person achieved success on their own. To achieve repeated success, you must be smart enough to build a team that helps you succeed. You can't do it all on your own. In Evan's words, you can't do anything major on your own. Behind every successful person is a team, whether you see them or not. Rule 9. Model success. When we do what others need to succeed, we are most likely certain to achieve the same result of the success they achieved. Evan wrote, if you study the success clues that others have left behind before you, they can shortcut your path to achieving your mission. Study people in your industry who have made it as well as your heroes outside the industry. Rule 10. Believe. Oprah Winfrey said, you become what you believe. Jesus Christ said, according to your faith, be it unto you. Your last result is a product of your belief system. Whether you believe you can or can't do something, you're right. Others with less talent rise to the top because they believe that they could. You also can rise to the top if you believe you can. If this video inspired you, subscribe to our channel. We love you.


the Q&A. So let's jump into it, huh? Army Piper, what's up, buddy? Living on the West Side, El Paso. Welcome back, First Girl Crypto. Amy Johnson, TND Tesla. Ranch Revoked. Shoot, the heat is coming. California's been two weeks of 100 degrees. That's a lot. I saw in, I wanna say it's Las Vegas, New Mexico. Not Las Vegas, Nevada. Las Vegas, some other place. They've only got 30 days left of water over there. So lots of fires, lots of issues with supply chain, and it's getting pretty ugly out there. Majorkey, I must have given all these people memberships. It's only given a few. That, thank you so much. Such a appreciate it. Where are we here? Ah, Shalon says, yes, Gareth Salloway, which I gotta tell you, is like everywhere. Gareth Salloway, Solaway is like everywhere on different YouTube channels. He was right about going to 20K. That's true he was. Now he says 12K. Yeah, we'll see. Nothing would make me happier to then to see that smug face before. Yeah, me too. Who knows? That's why like, I used to do prediction videos. They used to get a lot of views. Unfortunately, they weren't very correct. So I stopped doing them. But I mean, Gareth, he was right about this one. So let's see if he can write about another one. Again, it's very hard to be right consistently over the years.  And no one's perfect. And that's what the use is. No one's perfect. What's this membership scam and the thing? Jarky was given out to memberships, which is pretty awesome. At some point, can't do it every time. Ah, that's a good idea. Vuli says, hey, Rob, here's something for you to sell me on your channel. A poster, all your rules to crypto. It's not a bad idea. Should probably do that at some point. Yep, energy bill here in El Paso has been killer. Imagine what I can't imagine what it's like in California. Was that hot? Thank God I have solar panels. You know, I'm gonna ask everybody a real quick question. I've got friends in Puerto Rico who have solar panels and they say they suck. They say that they're not able to power the whole house. There's an issue. So I just don't know if that's an installation issue or if that's a product issue. So if you own solar panels, let me know if those actually work because I would like to look into that and get those for the houses. Because if you don't know, like in Texas we don't have many rolling blackouts, but in Puerto Rico, it's like once a week. So I think that would be nice to have. Ah, Jacob and Charles has one pinning of Fed quantitative tightening. They promised $110 billion, yet they only took half of it for three months. Fed might promise $95 billion starting on September. That's too big and high interest. I don't know if they can raise. Again, as far as quantitative tightening, they have to do something. They have to keep the pressure on because Jerome Powell knows just like in the 1976, 77, 78, when Burns was the chair of the Fed, he did not enough as far as raising rates and tightening. Actually, this is the first time they've done tightening. So this will be a new thing for everybody and we'll see how it works out. But as far as the rates go, I think he has to keep raising just to keep his boot on the neck of inflation because he can't let it get out of control again because that will lead to a depression. I missed the show, give me a recap. Nope, you can watch the beginning. Sorry, sorry, Casey. Let's see. Alish, Alisha, Aselio says, can you provide a link to your other channel? I can't find anywhere. It's a great thing you asked. It's very simple. I will show you. So there's a link in the description. Scroll down. And it looks like it says follow Dan. It says Twitter, right there. And then Dan Degen is the second channel. And that's where I go over the more risky stuff that you'll probably lose all your money on. So that's just the Gamble channel. If you like the Gamble, that's the channel for you. If you'd like to just hear about the news and be safe, safe-ish, this will be the channel to stick with. The wine is free. That is true. Lexi says, your 2020 prediction is how I found you.  Let me watch some more. Yeah, Lexi, that was... No, it was working pretty well for a while. Until it didn't. Pipery, Piper. Rob, do you think Coinbase is worth keeping for dedicated customer service and one million account insurance are not worth? I'm thinking about cancelling, too. Look, there's the thing. Remember, it doesn't matter where you buy it. Just get it for as low as you possibly can. And then what do we do when we buy our crypto? We take it off the exchange, right? We put it in our Trezor or Ledger or some kind of cold storage wall device because we never know. We never know. And I think they changed this. I have to do a follow-up. But in the beginning, there was a story about how in the terms and conditions of Coinbase, they state, if we go bankrupt, your crypto is not your crypto, it is our crypto. And as I understand it, for the terms and conditions, they've updated that to where it doesn't say that anymore. Doesn't matter, though. Here's what you probably should do. Wherever you use your, to buy your crypto, wherever you wanna go, just use that place and then take it off. And then you can just kick it. And there's no issues. That's what I would try to do myself. And then, where'd it go? Yeah, there's this video I like, which this was a leaked video of a Bitcoin maximalist convention. And it shows what Bitcoin maxis were thinking or doing when all these different centralized exchanges collapsed because they had everything in cold storage. So this was what it was. That's essentially it. So remember, if you have things in cold storage, you don't have to worry about this junk. So that's my best advice. Thoughts on the hot dog shrugger. That was interesting. So if you haven't seen this video, it's a guy who uses a straw, pokes it through a hot dog. And he's in a baseball game and he puts that into his cup of beer and sips the beer from the hot dog. I think it's genius. Let's be honest, who doesn't like hot dogs and beer? Maybe the guy's got, he's only got so much time to enjoy these things. You gotta get things done. David says, Rob, looking good. Thank you. You too for not, thank you for not predicting and thanks for no sweat coin talk. Oh, so you want to know about sweat coin. Well, let me tell you something. September 12th, sweat coins coming out. That's it. I have some insider information. I just can't just share with you guys. Holy smokes. Reaper man says, my electricity gas bill in the UK is set to triple by Christmas.  That can't be sustainable. And that's why like, I know when people talk about nuclear energy and they're so afraid of it, that's where we should be going, period. Nuclear energy. There's a couple of different great videos from former environmentalists who are now proponents for nuclear energy. And I gotta tell you, I think it's the right way to go. I mean, solar energy and wind energy, sure.  I think that's the way to do it. Rob, thoughts on Simon Dixon on El Salvador. Try and make a recovery plan for Celsius. If you're just seeing what they come up with. I like to have him on the, I think he did a video. Should have him back on if I can, just to ask him about that. Simon's got a pretty good idea. He's like, look, he goes, we can't make investors whole now. It's impossible. But if you wanna work with the company and be given like a, like they were talking about incentivizing the Bitcoin mining process to being part owners of those, then you'd have to wait. It might take two, three, four years, but then you would be a whole investor like what they did with Bitfinex. If they could do that, great. I got nothing but time. I hope. So I could see that going through. But NFL Salvador wants to say, okay, we'll do some type of token that will give you some type of ownership in XYZ token. But it might take a little bit of time. Sure, I could see that. I would do it. I'm not telling you to do it, not financial advice, but sure. No, it's interesting. The carpenter says, the problem with solar is the way they're installed. If they're wired in series and one segment of the panel is blocked by shade and the rest of the panels are also blocked.  Wow, the revolver. This is my Solana argument, shutting down when you need it the most. Yeah. I mean, some people love Solana. Sam Bakeman Fried says there's the best thing out there. So I don't know. Maybe just growing pains. Oh, nice. Gary says, I work in a nuclear power plant, it's safe. Great, thanks to the sweat coin, you're welcome. Ah, USA Reserve is only half full, about three bigs worth. Take one half days to produce one day of use. Oh yeah. Dennis Conrad says the forecast for the UK is 18% inflation by January. If you guys taking a look at, that's a pretty great website. We've gone over many a time. I haven't talked about it lately, but it's called trueflation. Uses different data points, uses chain link as an article to pull in outside data sets to give you a real time description of what inflation is.  I mean, it peaked out around March, March. Yeah, about March, June or so. But it's come down quite a bit. And if we take a look, now they just, they added UK. Geez, crime and Christmas, 13.65%. I don't know how Europe does it. I don't know how you guys do it. That's dangerous. Bad stuff, bad stuff, Dennis. 100% of grand nuclear includes pay promotion. Yeah, I've just been, there's a little thing you might see above as you come in and says includes pay promotion. And I was talking to Paul Barone from the Paul Barone network. I said, hey, man, why do you have that up on your screen all the time? Even though you don't talk about anything. I mean, talk about something. Or you don't have like a pay promotion. He goes, I don't know, it's like a gray area. He goes, I have affiliate links. So I don't really want to deal with it. Like, yeah, maybe I should do that. So I just put, I just click on the includes pay promotion all the time. And then I don't get as much revenue, but who cares? It's just, it just makes it clean. So just so you guys know, there's a link in the description. They're almost all affiliate links, almost all of them. And I even say on each of the affiliate links, I say, this is an affiliate link. So I just want to be sure everybody knows that. How about clean, how about clean coal? Drill coin. Ah, Jerky's got a good one here. Good advice, if you start now buying and scale, now this is Jerky, not me. Good advice. If you start now buying and scale $500 on 20K, 1,000, oh, okay, $1,000 on 18K, 2,000 on 15K, 4,000 on 10K, 10,000 on 5K and 20,000 on $100 Bitcoin. If you lose it, so be it. If not, you can thank me. And this is what Ben talks about this dynamic DCA. So as the price starts to go down from your buy-in price, original buy-in price, you just start to go, okay, well, I bought it at 20 and now it's at 18. So if I'm going to spend, you know, 100 bucks a week, well, now I'm going to spend 150 bucks a week and then you just kind of just ladder it down because if you're here right now in this bear market, I don't think you believe that we're going to go to zero. There's too much money sloshing around. There's just too much. Also, you know why I don't think it's, we're going to see Bitcoin go to zero or crypto go to zero? It's because the government needs some revenue. Remember this picture I showed you?  No, they want you to invest. They want you to invest. They want you to sell.  They love short-term capital gains because that could help them decrease the deficit. I don't know what your country's like, but this is my country. So like first of all, I don't think it's going to zero. The government wants you to invest so they can get that money back. And also just take a look at BlackRock. BlackRock with its 8.5 trillion assets under management now. They're offering Bitcoin product to their investors, to their big clients. And that's big money coming around. I am hesitant to say it's smart money. I just say it's big money. And this is not like even like 2017. So it's even like 2020. There's so much money coming in and sloshing around. I don't see it going to zero. So that suggestion, that majority yet, that's a pretty great suggestion. I can't tell you to do it exactly, but it makes a lot of sense to me. And if we just think about those four year cycles, which I'm always harping on, I think in 2025, I think we'll be okay with buying a $20,000 Bitcoin. I could be wrong, but that's what I got. All right. What's your stance on climate change on a lot of Bitcoin? I don't think it doesn't exist.  And the things that we do, probably should affect everything around us. Don't really make sense. I might have to go into details, but I'll just say this. You wanna fix some of this global warming? Or if it is what it is, try to go to nuclear. Maybe get away from all the fossil fuels. I don't know if anybody's like really up in arms about that, but why not? Wow, look at this one. Mental Lexus Solana, traded speed for security and Seoul is a failed protocol. Does have issues. But I mean, it still is in beta. Remember that. Geez, it's already at an 18%. It is pretty positive. You know, it's more positive now than it was in the bull run. The bull run, the bull run sucked. Everybody was like, ah, Rob, you don't know what you're doing because these institutions, we're never gonna have a real crypto winner anymore. Just gonna go down a little bit. They'll never sell. I'm like, they'll sell. I think they'll sell. Only Greece and Puerto Rico will survive too much sun. Yeah, I gotta tell you though, Puerto Rico, I mean, it's got a lot of sun, but it's not like El Paso. Charles has a good point. The DCA from here looks so much better than last year this time. Well, we're pretty overheated. And remember, if you're trying to look at like, it's hard to find the markets, but just to like some good entry points, there's always those graphs from looking to Bitcoin. And those are the ones I'm always talking about. Look into bitcoin.com. They're 100% free. They're very high quality charts you can take a look at. And they seem to have great information. So if you're looking for something like that, then yeah. And what Charles is saying here is, it does look really good. If you take a look at the MVRV, the market value versus realized value, I mean, we've already bought them out on June 13th. There's a lot of different bottoms out. That didn't sound good. There's a lot of different bottoming going on in the market. And if you just take a look at the different charts, but there's always gonna be, some people will say it can go lower and it can. So that's why I personally, as good as all these charts are, I still don't trust them 100%. So I'm not backing up the truck and putting everything in. I'm just kind of waiting, see where we go. Nah, jarky. Thanks for the super sticker. Jarky's always doing good work. But save it, save it, save it. Put in some other assets. I don't know about this one. Hey Rob, is it worth buying Coinbase shares now or wait until the stock market falls further later this week? You know what you could do? Not a financial vice, but I'm gonna do the same thing I did last time, which was just wait for the Jackson Hole announcement or the speech. Let Jerome speak what he has to say, because that's 10 a.m. Eastern time, which would be 8 a.m. mountain time. So all they had to do is listen to that speech. If he starts talking about, hey, it's gonna be more of a bearish outlook or we're gonna be very hawkish, we're gonna really start to increase rates, the market will probably fall. And all they have to do is just wait for it to fall for an hour or two and then just snag some discounted stuff and then wait for all the bots to stop trading and it'll just kind of just pump up a little bit because that's how usually they go. Or if he comes out and says, hey, we're very dovish, we think we're gonna have a medium soft landing. This is what we're gonna do based on the data that I just buy right there. I mean, that's what I would do, but not what you should do. Ah, look at that. People are changing into solar energy for money. Now that's interesting. Will Solana recover after the hacks? Well, remember Solana, the layer one solution, correct me if I'm wrong, they weren't hacked. It was hacks within their ecosystem. So people who built on Solana, that was the issue. And if that's the issue, then that's an ecosystem problem. That's a project problem. And those will go away if they can't make it. But Solana, as I understand it, has not been hacked. It's been down a couple of times. It's had some DDoS attacks and things like that, but we'll see. Jarke, you're doing his thing. Powerpot me. Are you found a quant? Not really. But you have to understand, I haven't done my research into it. So just because I said that doesn't mean it's bad or anything, it's just I haven't done enough research into it. It's a good question. So Monty says, how did you add a dog into your green screen? This is actually not a green, it is a green screen, but it's a GIF, a video that's in that's loops. So that's why you see the fan sometimes will move and the things will move somewhere. I'm still, it's just me and my mom's basement. Rob thought some mobile wallets, like access MetaMask. Actually, I asked this question yesterday on Twitter and I asked people, where do you use your MetaMask? Do you use it on your mobile phone or on your browser or both? And it was 60, roughly 64% so that they only use MetaMask on their browser. I don't know if you guys know this, but first of all, MetaMask is a hot wallet. So it's susceptible to different issues. It's not cold storage, but if you wanna use things like the Binance Smart Chain, if you wanna use like Polygon Smart Chain, and you wanna move things like pretty quickly, think of it like just some place where you wanna put a little bit of crypto in there so you can do transactions and things like that. That's how I treat it. And what's great about that is that if I wanna use the Polygon Network and the Binance Smart Chain, it's very easy to implement those in the mobile device. Also, you can see all your NFTs on Ethereum, which is pretty cool. So I like that and it's on my phone and I can get to go. Now I don't keep 20 Bitcoin on there. That would be ridiculous, but I like them. Now Exodus, I don't use, I just use MetaMask. Yes, there's only one digital asset channel, so that is a good investment. Invest in yourself, always. Rob, what's your thoughts on World Mobile Token at the moment? I think they're doing great things. I would like to see Mickey Watkins and the team do what they are actually saying they're doing, which is expanding. Also, if you don't know, there's this website called wmtscan.com. And if you take a look at it, you can take a look at just how much they're moving and growing. Oh, look at that. Total network consumption in 24 hours, one terabytes. Just like a week ago, it was like 900, whatever, megabytes? 900 or something like that. Correct me where I'm wrong. You need users, I think we were at 5,000 last week, or at 6,500, network uptime, 111 days. So this is actually a real working product that people are using in Africa for telecommunications. And it's based on, it's built on the Cardano blockchain. And if you want to find, hold on, that video, there's this website. Dentist Crypto. And I've done, I did an original deep dive here, and then there was an update in August we did, which was really good. And as you explained, Zach, what's going on? I like that project a lot. And just so everybody knows, I'm super biased. I bought a ton of World Mobile Token and I am an Earth Note operator. So you have to understand, again, if I'm talking about it on this channel, it's because I bought it and I have skin in the game. I usually don't talk about things that I don't own. Cause to me it's boring. I'm just, that's just how it is. Not your mom's base. Yeah, Jane and Charles got a great point. I understand Fed is to increase interest rates, but they would have promised 95 billion quantitative tightening every month starting in September. They only had half. Yeah, I doubt on quantitative, I doubt on quantitative raised to 95 billion because it might cause massive crash. People think that will cause a massive crash. And if they keep raising rates, it will cause massive crashes. It will, that's true. But that's, you know, people think it's like a science. It's almost more like an art. They're just trying to figure out which one they can get away with and then go from there. So I thought they were going to raise a full point and they only went 0.75 basis points. Rob, does it make sense to sell portfolios at a loss to buy back lower good protects and accumulations so it's a great question. And I've actually done this. This is called wash trading. Cannot do this in traditional equities, but since you are dealing in property, AKA crypto, you can do this. I did this year and a half ago. I can't remember when it was, but I sold all my XRP because it was during that time when, you know, the Fed are the, yeah, they got sued. The Fed sued Ripple, not XRP. And the SEC, not the Fed. The SEC sued Ripple. And I said, well, this is going to keep going down. It did, it did. And when I hit 21 cents, I sold it all. I took a major loss, but then people always say that about how I'll rob your paper hands and whatever. Remember, I did buy a big chunk of it back because you can do that. The only thing is that you can only use $3,000 worth of those losses every year. Check with your CPA and your accountant. There may be other rules and regulations in your jurisdictions, but that's just what mine told me. So it could be, just remember, there is a limit. So how much are you going to use per year now? If you take millions of losses, it just depends on how long you're going to live. I guess that's a great question.  So this is a very lofty question, actually. It's when you're going through life and you're just trying to figure yourself your way out of it, like there's different times in your life, right? When you're young and you don't have much to really fall back on, or if some kind of economic downturn forces you into a less than ideal situation, really it all just comes down to time again. And it's just, there's times when, and it's not about you having a spending problem. I always hate when people say, you know what you got to do? Just stop going to Starbucks and buying those lattes. Really, do you think that's what's keeping people poor? A frickin' latte at two in the afternoon? I don't think that's what it is. I think there's some spending happens you can do, but really what it comes down to is there's an income problem in some way, shape, or form. And now you have to ask yourself this, and I talked about this in my, it was a risk video we talked about. And it was, it was who wet, who wet and squeeze. And the thing is, is, you know, if you don't invest, right? To get out of your mom's place, right? If you don't invest whatsoever, who's that gonna affect? Well, if you don't invest, then there's other ways that you can do it. I mean, you can, you can start to pick up other jobs and do those things, but you're, again, you're trading time for money. I never, I never liked that whole philosophy. It never really worked out for me very well. And that's why I just did businesses for most of my life. And so there's that. So you got to figure out how to stop trading time for money, first of all. And anything you can think of where you're sleeping and making money, that's what you want to be in. And that's what investments do for you. That could be everything from crypto to traditional equities to, I mean, even precious metals and real estate. So now the next question is, well, you know, what if I don't invest? Well, who does that can affect? It's gonna affect you. What's the worst case scenario?  And what's the squeeze? Meaning is the juice worth the squeeze? Is it worth you to get out of there? Absolutely. So for me, the thing I always see is this. If I don't invest, what's the money gonna do for me? It just sits there in my bank account and just slowly evaporates. I have to make that money work for me in some way. And that's either by investing into crypto, digital assets, real estate or something where the money goes to work for me and doesn't just sit there. So that's the basic lesson I could see that might help some people in those positions and stop trading time for money. They'll never get ahead. I know when I was, I mean, even when I was working in a medical field, I'd see doctors that were like buried in debt because of their tuition payments. It's just crazy. Let me watch these videos. Are private key is not your coins? Private keys.  I am grouchy. It's true. I'm not that bad. Long time viewer, first time asker. Well, let's open global domination. Maybe so. Yeah, new medicine. DHEA and Tom Cattley, T-O-N-G-K-I-T-A-L-I. But I still gotta go through a bunch of tests. Ah, Robert's back. I think the world is wrongly treating Bitcoin as a risk on can't fight the Fed type asset. I think this mistake creates opportunity on a 10-year basis, my opinion. Could be, but it's gonna be, it just has to play out. That's really what it comes down to. I don't think, I was listening to Anthony Scaramucci who talks about how Bitcoin really isn't a hedge against inflation, especially with the volatility. And I gotta tell you, he's right. I mean, even Bitcoin maxis will talk, will, some of them will give credence and say, you know what, Bitcoin sometimes isn't a great hedge against inflation, and sometimes it's better just to hold a stable coin for the short term because it holds its value. And that's the truth.  But your stable coin won't do that in the short term. That's why there's a difference between the long-term, short-term investing and just meeting your basic needs. George needs to get thicker skin. He blocks anybody who agrees with him. Man, let me tell you, if I blocked everybody who disagreed with me, I only got to have a channel. Thank you, Amy. I sold some of my crypto investing going the dark. Axlottle and Betafish for breeding operation might be a valuable solution. And Capcom Kahn says it very right. Dan is not your dad, not financial vice, very true. So this is a great question. So Rob, why buy these DGEN coins when we know that long-term, they all crash on the Bitcoin either. See, the key there is long-term. And that's a problem in this. No, it's not a problem. It's actually good because you have to understand that for a long-term investor, you want a long-term outlook, right? Three, five, 10 years, not a big deal. Buy and hold, diamond hands, all that good stuff, right? But that's what we talk about over on Dan DGEN. There's some cryptos you're not going to hold forever because they're not going to last. They're like snowflakes. I mean, they look beautiful and nice and they can pile up and look pretty good, but they will evaporate at some point. And that's when you want to get rid of them. So like the ones that I'm talking about, I don't know, some of them could have a long-term outlook but I'm not holding, why am I saying this? Why am I not just showing you? This doesn't make any sense. So there's a link in the description. It's called the Dan DGEN sheet or something like that. And these are the four that I've gotten into. And it glues up. So like, and the reason I got into them is because I always take a look at the cut, as I call it, the CUTT, will it make the cut? Which is how big is the community? What's the utility? What is a team done before to where it leads into something else and what are the tokenomics? Am I gonna get dumped on? And these ones, I get tons of products and over the last year, I've only done four. Gensokishi, Everdome, Fame, and Sweatcoin. Does that mean I'm gonna hold Gensokishi forever? No, no, that's not the point. The point is to grab, like for this one, and then people always ask me, how much they pay you? I paid all these places. I paid a good amount of money to be into this project. They don't pay me. This is in 2017 where people give you coins and you just dump on people. And I also get locked up for 12 months. Now, like with Gensokishi, when it launched, I got a certain percentage that was released, but I'm still waiting for the rest of it. So when this released, Gensokishi, it was like at 42 cents, went all the way up to $1.45. So I sold some, especially for my initial investment to get it back, and then of course, it's a little profit, of course, you know, right? But I'm holding some to see where it goes, because right now it's not doing so hot. Ever done the same thing, fame, same thing.  So again, these things, we're not holding these things like Bitcoin. These aren't gonna be the next reserve currencies of the world. They could be something great, which is why I never sell any, or I never sell every token that I get, but I do take profits along the way. And I talk about this ad nauseam. I gotta get this outta here. I talk about this all the time, don't I? On these little rules here, don't invest more than you can afford to lose and think it's all gone. Everything's a scam until pre-otherwise. Don't keep anything on exchanges. Don't use any leverage and take profits along the way. But you're right on that statement. These will not, for the long term, they might not do better than Bitcoin, but they still have their role, and that's it. Thanks, Joe, I'm trying. Can I still invest in Sweatcoin? Yeah, you know what's great, Monty? Well, you can't really, because they haven't had a token generation event. All you get a day was gonna be love this. So you can download the app, and it's free, and for every 1,000 steps you take, you get a sweat token. That's it, that's the whole rub. Well, where's the revenue coming from, Rob? Watch the deep-dive video, I explain it. Yeah, and Robert says, I forgot to say that. Thank you, Robert. My DGEM plays are very small. It's like three to 5% of my portfolio. I'm swinging for the fences, that's the one. Lexi says, was your first event in real estate or a different kind of business? It was real estate. Actually, it was a sports facility. It's the sand volleyball facility we have here. And then we got into houses. My wife had already been in apartments. And then I did online education for nursing students to pass their clinical exam, and then I went into Amazon business, and then I just kind of dabbled in those types of, those things for a while, because it was lucrative, but they got boring, and now I did this YouTube channel. And I just, the YouTube channel is actually quite easy. It's not that hard. Over time, you just get used to it. So like, this is an hour long, the research. I got someone who does research for me. Big E, thank you. And just go from there. Where can you go to buy a switch? Chris, you can't buy it yet, but it's gonna happen. Well, September 12th is a token generation event. And I know one of the exchanges that it's going to be listed on, and it's a big one. But you know what? It could crash and burn, never know. I think that's it. Hey, I think I made it at the end. This is a good question. Rob, are you gonna rug?  I can't even rug pull you on sweat coin. Because remember, I did the initial investment as an early investor, because I'm a credit investor, but they said, okay, great, 12-month lockup. And I was like, oh, okay. So 12-month lockup means I don't even get anything. That's the cliff. And then they released it slowly over 24 months, or it goes from 12 months, then 13 months, 14, 15, it's all in the tokenomics. So you got a year, but after that, I will probably sell some to make my initial investment back. That is the truth. So that's it. But it's a good, I think it's a good project. I like it better than step-in. Big step-in, you have to buy that expensive NFT. But people say that that's what makes a step-in great, because you buy the expensive NFT and you repair it, and that's where the economics come from. Sweat coin is one different way with that. That's all. All right, David, I was able to squeeze in some sweat coin information. So thanks. All right, everybody, so that's it. We're coming up on an hour. Let's see. Did I miss?  I'm not a credit investor. So that's it for today. So like, look, if you liked today's video, give it a thumbs up, that seems to go a long way. Also consider subscribing, all that great stuff. But that's it for today. So thanks so much for stopping by. I do appreciate you hanging out with me for an hour or so. But that's it for today. So thank you, and I'll see you on the next one. Adios.


The Word of God is your greatest weapon against the voice of the satanic. Think about Jesus in Matthew chapter 4 when he was being tempted in the wilderness. Whenever the enemy would speak, Jesus would reply with the word and he would say, It is written. So that's how you combat the deceptive communications of the enemy through the Word of God. But if you don't know the word, you're not going to have truth to which you can compare the lies. If you don't have a standard, you'll never know if you're off standard. You need the Word of God as the reference for truth so that when demonic powers try to lie to you, you can recognize those deceptions because right there it is written.


What's going on everybody? Welcome back to another video. Today we are comparing the Google versus IBM Data Analyst Professional Certificates. Now Google just launched their Data Analytics Professional Certificate just last month and since then one of the main questions that I've been getting is whether you should take the IBM or the Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate. And I think that is a fantastic question because up until recently the IBM certification was really your best choice. So today we're really just going to look at these two certifications and then at the end I will give a recommendation. I will say I'm not going to be going super in-depth into both of these certifications. I've done full reviews of both of these in separate videos so I'll put a link in the description if you want to check those out. But really quickly let's take a look at both of these certifications. So let's start off with IBM. It's around 140 hours of coursework and it typically takes around three to four months to complete if you're doing around 10 to 15 hours per week. You're going to learn Excel for a lot of things including data wrangling and data mining as well as connecting that to Cognos to create dashboards. You'll also be learning SQL in IBM Cloud and you'll learn a lot of the basics to intermediate concepts. From there you'll move on to Python and that is going to be all taught in Jupyter notebooks. The IBM certification has a huge focus on Python. In fact it takes up about half of all the hours for the coursework on just teaching Python itself. Now let's look at the Google certification. It's over 180 hours of coursework and should take anywhere from three to five months to complete if you're doing around 10 to 20 hours per week to complete the course. You're going to learn how to use spreadsheets and of course they're going to do that in Google Sheets and you'll learn everything from data wrangling to data mining to data cleaning. You're also going to learn SQL and you'll be doing that in BigQuery which is of course within the Google Cloud platform. After that you'll be learning how to visualize your data in Tableau and you'll also be learning R and you'll do that in RStudio. The Google certification goes a little bit above just the technical skills. It also is going to help with things like resume prep, interview prep, and creating a portfolio. Now that we've gotten a brief overview of both these certifications let's talk about some of the differences between them and let's start out with the glaringly obvious one and that is the programming language that they use. In the Google certification you're going to be using R and in the IBM certification you're going to be using Python. Now we don't have to argue about which one is better but some people will have a preference and that could be a big determining factor on which one you take. If you want to learn both you can always take the Google certification and take a Python course alongside it or vice versa and do the IBM certification within R course alongside it. One big difference that may not mean a whole lot to you is actually the teaching styles or how they present the information. In the IBM certification for most of their videos they're doing some type of animation or PowerPoint and they're just doing a voiceover walking through it and talking through it. Well the Google certification has people that are on camera talking right to you and I definitely think this comes down to personal preference. I much prefer somebody looking at me and talking to me and walking me through these things much like I'm doing with you right now. I never was a huge fan of how IBM did their videos. I mean they get the point across the information is fantastic it just could be a bit boring at times whereas I feel like the Google certification personally it was a lot more engaging. Now I only have a handful of women that are important in my life. I have my wife, I have my two daughters, I have my mother, my mother-in-law and my grandma and another one that I'm gonna have to add to this list is Sally. If you have not gotten to the sequel portion of the Google certification I highly recommend skipping ahead and checking out Sally's videos. I mean this girl is really passionate about sequel and you guys know I am very passionate about sequel so I feel like there's just this connection there so I don't know I feel like on some level Sally knows me better than my wife knows me. I don't know don't tell my wife I said that. I think one other big thing to mention is how these certifications are actually setting you up to get a job after you finish them. One thing that Google has done to go above and beyond the competition is add something called an employer consortium. Once you've finished the certification they are going to share your information with over 130 companies that are hiring entry level data analysts just like you. Now nobody has actually finished the Google certification yet and that's because there's still some courses that need to be released as of today and so we don't know how effective this program is going to be but it still looks very promising. Now with all that being said which certification do I recommend I think you can guess it by now it's the Google certification. So I actually just recently completed the IBM certification and now I'm going through the Google certification and the Google certification to me just feels a lot better. I just personally like learning from someone who is actually talking to me instead of doing it through a PowerPoint that's just not really my style. I still feel like I learned a ton from the IBM certification there's nothing against it at all it's just the learning style itself was a big one for me and when you're doing this for months on end you know you want to find one that you actually enjoy doing instead of something that just feels a little bit monotonous. I also really like that the Google certification is doing things like resume prep and interview prep and helping with a portfolio these are topics and things that people who are just starting out really don't know about and they maybe have never done that before and so having these topics or these optional things that you can do within the course is a huge benefit not to mention when you complete the Google certification they're going to help you try to find an entry level job so that is huge. Genuinely I have nothing against the IBM certification and if you only want to learn Python and you have no interest in learning R at all then I actually do recommend the IBM certification but if I were in your shoes today and I was trying to become a data analyst I would be taking the Google certification and then alongside that I'd be taking a Python course. If you want to check out either of these certifications I will have links in the description. Thank you guys so much for joining me I really appreciate it. If you want to support the channel be sure to like and subscribe below and I'll see in the next video.


The Nigerian Civil Society Situation Room has asked the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Einig, for some of the mood you called to apologize to Nigerians over what the describers' poor conduct of the 2023 General Elections. In its final statement on the elections, the Situation Room maintained that the electoral body failed to leave up to expectation despite several assurance from its chairman. The convener, NLB, called forth the amendment of the constitution to eliminate the position of resident Electoral Commissioner under the control and direction of the Commission through the appointment of the State Director of Elections to replace RECs. We are quite disappointed with what came out because we think we had the capacity to have done better and we are still asking the Einig Chairman to apologize to Nigerians because of the electoral issues. Because of technology, we demand for an apology because we asked the Einig Chairman if the electoral process, if the technology would work. This election was about technology, but this technology was disappointing. National Commission are in charge of voter education. Festers or Koei admitted that there were challenges but urged Nigerians to look forward to a better pose in the future. There are a lot of positives from the election. There are also challenges from the election. Based on those challenges, we are going to look at the reports from domestic and international election observers. We are also going to look at reports from political parties. We are also going to look at reports from our own Electoral Officers, from Collision Officers and Returning Officers. And we are going to see whether there are issues and things that we can deal with administratively and we deal with those ones. We can also see whether there are still issues that demand both legal and constitutional change or reform. Then we will go before the appropriate organ of government and deal with those. Fresh News Updates


Hey everybody, Matt here for Leighton Sports Car Dripping. Two boxes for Luke S. We have one box of 2021-22 Panini Revolution Basketball and one box of 2022 Panini Absolute Baseball. These are for Luke S. Good luck Luke. All right, let's start off with your revolution. It looks like re-stream chat has been a little weird today where it's showing that it's connected to YouTube and Twitch and then YouTube but not Twitch and then Twitch but not YouTube. That is Devin Booker. That is an anniversary to 75. That's the first time I've pulled that parallel. That's really cool. Vortex, Kevin Durant. These revolution designs are awesome sometimes. The Rosen, that's Drew Holiday Groove and Scotty Barnes Rookie. There's Nurkitsch, Astro, Shockwave Jalen Suggs and Bones Highland Rookie Revolution. There's Middleton. There's Brandon Boston Jr. Rookie Astro and Joe Isacamp Rookie. We have four to go on that optic baseball random division style on the fly break. It's Porzingus Astro. This is Miles Turner. That is Cosmic to 99. Brandon Boston Jr. Let's see a Galactic. It's Fractal, Chris Paul. Devin Booker, AT. Liftoff, Dicut, Fractal, John Collins. Go Sims. All right, we go with Absolute Baseball. Come on, Luke. Let's see a big hit in here. This is Rookie Inc. Auto Blue to 75. Sebastian Rivera. This is Dual Relic Auto to 99. Key Brian Hayes. Jersey and Patch. Rookie Jersey to 299. Jake Burger. Boba Shet. Red to 99. Frank Chance. Let's see what's in this sticky here. There we have a book coming. It's Thurman Munson to 199. Brara, Santo and Samberg, Ohtani and Arod. Mookie. Tyler O'Neill to 149. This is Dual Jersey to 99. J.D. Davis and Dual Jersey to 199. A.J. Alexi and the book to 35. That is Rookie Dual Relic Baseball Auto. John Heasley. There you go, Luke. That is two of 35 material booklet, Rookie Baseball material booklet signatures. That does it for your break. Appreciate it, Luke. We'll get these right out to you.


The crypto market was in a decline this week. Bitcoin is teetering below 6,200. EOS suffered the worst loss, falling nearly 7% within 24 hours. Also, Elon Musk is apparently impressed by criminals. The three economists of the FUDPocalypse have arrived. And it turns out that Google co-founder spends quality time with his son in a side hustle mining Ethereum. Here's your weekly hotellers digest. We begin this week with a special report on Russia. Today, a grand jury in the District of Columbia returned an indictment presented by the special counsel's office. The indictment charges 12 Russian military officers by name for conspiring to interfere with the 2016 presidential election. The U.S. Department of Justice indicted 12 Russian nationals for federal crimes funded by crypto. The Russian government's main intelligence directorate allegedly used Bitcoin to fund hacking into the computer networks associated with the Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton, and U.S. elections-related state boards. Russian officials allegedly obtained thousands of stolen emails and documents that they released through the domain DCLeaks.com while promoting themselves as American hacktivists. The Department of Justice reports that the indictment does not claim that the alleged criminal activities altered the vote count or changed the outcome of the 2016 elections. The indictment includes the claim that more than $95,000 was laundered through cryptocurrencies to fund the hacking and spearfishing attacks. These attacks target specific individuals or organizations with the intention of stealing data for malicious purposes. Hillary Clinton was hacked that very same day, the 27th of July, 2016. Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. Russia woes continue. A Greek court agreed on Friday to extradite Alexander Vinik to France. And now, over to Mali. New research suggests that crypto will become a mainstream means of payment. A new study conducted by Imperial College in London in trading plot from Etoro has found that cryptocurrencies could really go mainstream. Crypto, the study claims, already meets at least one of the three main criteria for money, acting as a store of value. However, it has yet to meet the remaining two criteria, acting as a medium of exchange and serving as a unit of account. One battle might be won, but not the war. In order to become money, cryptocurrency needs to solve six main challenges, scalability, usability, regulation, volatility, incentives, and privacy. The study is cautiously optimistic. It outlines that crypto is the natural next step for money and can become a mainstream payment instrument within the decade. It reminds readers, however, that the very first email was sent way back in 1971. So don't expect mainstream adoption overnight. This study flies in the face of fudmeisters everywhere, like the head of the Bank for International Settlements, who said last week that cryptocurrency cannot assume the functions of money. Rome wasn't built in a day, but neither did it fall in a day. It took about 109,500 days. So time here seems pretty fast, for banks to do the same. In Silicon Valley, even family time is tech-related. Google co-founder, Sergei, rocking the calf jam like it's no big deal, Bryn, and his son have been mining Ethereum. A year or two ago, my son insisted that we needed to get a gaming PC. I told him, okay, if we get a gaming PC, we have to mine cryptocurrency. So we set up an Ethereum miner on there, and we've made a few pennies, a few dollars since. He later admitted that Google had been slow to adopt blockchain, and that it was not on the bleeding edge of tech. He doesn't know too much about crypto, but finds the technology extraordinary. I see the future as taking these researchy, out there ideas and making them real. A hundred years ago, Russian-born Bryn may very well have been mining with his son in an actual coal mine. Mining Ethereum in 2018 may not be all that lucrative with the gaming PC, but at least it doesn't break any child labor laws. We will know when the apocalypse is here when the four horsemen arrive. For the end of Bitcoin, we only apparently need three economists. Joseph Stieglitz, Kenneth Rogoff, and Marielle Rubini all came out against crypto with the usual thud. Bitcoin will fail as a currency, it has no intrinsic value, and it suffered price volatility, yada, yada, yada. Nobel Prize-winning economist Stieglitz was particularly cutting. He said that it contradicts the idea of a transparent banking system, which allows for nefarious activity which no government can allow. Hate to be a stickler, Mr. Stieglitz, but the entire history of banking is riddled with nefarious activity from the Medici's to the Lehman Brothers and beyond, a lot of which the government allowed. Stieglitz went on, once the cryptocurrency market becomes significant, they will use the hammer. Rogoff and Rubini, aka Dr. Doom, concurred. This Dr. Doom thinks Bitcoin fulfills none of the characteristics of money and is too volatile to be a store of value. The three economists of the fud apocalypse, coming soon to theaters near you. Elon Musk, modern-day Da Vinci, or Silicon Valley is the Donald. Despite his genius, Elon Musk has been pretty hard to love as of late. There was the meltdown during the conference call, he suggested a rating system for journalists' credibility and reports have bounded that Tesla workers are not paid or forced to use their vacation during factory shutdowns. This week, he tweeted, Vitalik Buterin was not abused. Good to know that amongst the billionaire boys club, there are at least some grownups in the room. China's crypto crackdown unfortunately seems to have worked. Before the Bitcoin purge last year, China accounted for the majority of all crypto trades. Now, trading won for Bitcoin has plummeted below 1% of the global volume. In Japan, which has taken the opposite approach and opened itself up to the crypto world by introducing a licensing system for digital assets last year, is now the crypto trading hub with the yen accounting for over 44% of global crypto trading volume. In January, Bobby Lee, who was forced then to shut down BTC operations in China, said he was hopeful that the government would eventually lift the ban but he couldn't predict a timeframe. Frankly speaking, I don't know what kind of timeframe that is. Whether it's a few months, a few years, or even a few decades, it's hard to tell. China is the ultimate centralized state. Philosophically, the polar opposite of Satoshi's original dream. So it's perhaps unlikely to be anytime soon. If China eventually does lift the ban on crypto, what year do you think it will be? 2030? Ooh. 2230? Predictions in the comments, please. And as always, like, subscribe, and hodl. Coin Telegraph, like, subscribe, and hodl.


Before this video starts, I need to let you know that I have a t-shirt. I never make merch, I never make t-shirts, but I wanted to commemorate the huge effort that making 30 eShop videos and reviewing 300 eShop games was. So, I have made this. It's the beat'em ups eShop tour shirt. Kim designed everything on the front and it is gorgeous. And then with the help of Screenwave, we turned it into a band shirt. So, the back actually features the dates of all 30 of my episodes and where I was when I filmed them. I love this t-shirt and I love what we've created here. So, let's talk about 10 of the best eShop games. 10 eShop games worth buying. That is something I have said all so many times. But today isn't just another 10 that released recently. Today is the best 10. My absolute favorite 10 eShop games from all of the years that I've been making these videos. I have a spreadsheet that a fan made actually and thank you so much that has all of the games I've ever reviewed. And I went through them all and I didn't recognize most of them. I've got to be honest. I've been doing this for six years. But I found my favorites and I voted on them again and again and again with myself just trying to figure out what my actual 10 was and how to rank them. It was a nightmare but I'm pretty comfortable with it. I better be. I made a whole t-shirt with these 10 on it. Initially I thought I would replay them all and review them again here in 2023. But then I thought wouldn't it just be more special as we take a look back at all of these games to also take a look back at where I was when I reviewed them the first time. I also rewatched all of my reviews and for the most part I wouldn't change anything I said. I would just change how I said it. I used to scream in my videos and I don't know why. I hope you find a game today that you actually like the look of and you might go and play. I also can't stress enough that for a game to qualify for this video today I had to have reviewed it in an eShop video. Hades for example which easily would have been number one today but it never was actually in an eShop video so it's not on the list. Although that does segue us nicely into the special mentions. Hades of course my number one but then also Return to Monkey Island, Grindstone. I did not expect to get so addicted to that. The Ori games. Mini Motorways was a little hidden gem classic for me. Metroid Prime of course. The Shovel Knight games. Cult of the Lamb. Cuphead. Enter the Gungeon. Thimbleweed Park. Thimbleweed Park was one of the first games I fell in love with on the Switch. Neon White. TMNT Shredder's Revenge. Bug Fables. Golf Story. Far Loan Sales. I feel like I'm one of the only people that even played that game but it was so good. Katana Zero. My friend Pedro. Tourist. Hob. And even Hellblade. I can't believe that game runs on the Switch as great as it does. So many of these special mentions and my list game today have gone on to get collector's editions, physical releases but back when we talked about them they were digital only. Hope to make a big splash on the eShop and they really all did. Okay I'm gonna get started but with all that said I really want to encourage all of you to go into the comment section below and leave your top 10. I know you have your own list so please share them below. Coming in at number 10 on the list was initially number 9 but I switched it so that we didn't start with a clip from like 2018. By golly gosh I don't want to see that yet. So number 10 in a video I released on March 8th 2023 is inscription. Throughout my break in January out of all the games I played it was inscription that left the biggest impression on me and I've been dying to talk about it. I'm not intended. I love card games and my first thought going into this one is that I was about to experience another rogue like card game and I was excited to discover new mechanics and build the best deck possible and get addicted to it but very quickly I realized things were not as they seemed. It started when I noticed that one of my cards seemed like it was trying to communicate with me. The words on the card were calling out for help and on further inspection I realized it was indeed sentient and wanted to help me plot a scheme to escape the hostage situation we were both apparently trapped in. You see I wasn't allowed to leave this room or the game. Neither were the cards. This is when it began to sink in. Things like the points I earned for winning battles were given to me as human teeth and I was allowed to tilt the scales in my favor if I offered up my own teeth or even my body parts. Every defeat just meant we reshuffled and had to start again. That's when our capture asked me to grab something from the other side of the room and it's here where I found many clues and objects scattered about. With no way out of this room I was forced to keep playing in hopes of finding a way out. Through all the craziness that happens there is legitimately a really fun card game in here too. In fact at times I wish some of the craziness would slow down so that I could just enjoy the card game. Inscription left a huge impact on me. I was thinking about that game for weeks after I finished it. I almost gave it its own video but ended up putting it into an eShop video probably because of time but also I like to review these games in my lists. Alright I can't put it off forever we're gonna go into January of 2018. There was a few games when the Switch first came out that really sold me on trying all of these indies on the eShop. For that reason Fury will always have a very special place in my heart. I want to come right out the gate swinging and talk about one of my favorite games that was released in 2017 and that's Fury. On one side you have a twin stick bullet hell style game and on the other side you have sword play that relies heavily on parrying. Every battle in this game is just one big boss battle and I love it so much. The gameplay is actually pretty simple there's only four things you really have to worry about attacking with your sword, parrying with your sword, shooting and dodging and that's hard when you just have everything being thrown at you. This game reminds me so much of something like Dragon Ball Z both in the gameplay where you can be zipping around each other dodging and parrying and attacking and going so crazy that if anyone was watching you it'd be like Krillin watching Goku and Self Fight and not really not knowing what the heck's going on. Every time you take down one of the boss's health bars he goes into the next stage where things get more difficult and more amped up and you rinse and repeat until you manage to actually take him down but a pro tip master that counter if you can master the parry and you can get good at it the rest of the game will actually be fairly easy as easy as this game can be. In between the really intense boss battles there's this walking stage where you just casually walk in fact you can even choose to auto walk where you just sit back and watch this character walk that contrast between extreme action where you're just sweating and frustrated and you just want to pull your hair out because you keep dying and then all of a sudden there's just an auto walk and you're just kind of taking in the scenery there's such an extreme contrast but I love it and while I'm calling down it's amping me up for the next fight it's such a nice contrast and give and take so if you're up for a challenge and just a really great game as I said one of the best ones to come out of 2017 I'm really happy Fury's on the switch. You see what I mean though about the yelling why was I screaming? I'll give you some behind the scenes here of 2018 Kim and I had just moved into our first place together we just started living together it was a very small one bedroom and a living room situation we both worked out of that living room and I filmed a lot and I screamed every time and Kim hated it talking to all my friends about audio I was always like how do you guys never peak your audio why is my audio always peak Kim was like because you're screaming I didn't see it I thought I was just being energetic I don't know what's more cringe the fact that we're going back to July of 2018 or the fact that Hollow Knight is actually so low on this list it's number eight hey what's my favorite what's my favorite game on this list Hollow Knight is an absolutely gorgeous 2D Metroidvania game that critics and gamers have been praising ever since it released early last year finally finding a home on the Nintendo system it plays as beautifully as it looks whereas in most games if you're low on health you would possibly retreat and find more of it in Hollow Knight you regain health by engaging in combat and defeating enemies this mechanic encourages you to stay in fights and battles longer than you otherwise would and take risks where otherwise you wouldn't have a lot of people like to compare this game to Dark Souls because of course they do if a game's brutally hard it's just like Dark Souls but there are other similarities in this game like when you die you have to go and then find the shadow version of yourself where you died and then get your coins back kind of like in Dark Souls also different enemies have different attack patterns and learning how to fight them in this game gets easier and easier as you learn those patterns for example the first time you find a thing it might kick your butt but then once you start to learn how to beat it it becomes a lot easier and the next time you see that thing you can beat it easier than you did the first time okay i will admit this game is actually pretty much a 2D Metroidvania Dark Souls game but more fun i like this game a lot more there are loads of different power-ups and abilities to unlock as you play and this is just one of those games that needed to come to the Nintendo Switch you can't have the library the switch has and not have Hollow Knight find a home amongst all its other Metroidvania pixel art 2D side scrolling brethren it's a really great game and i highly recommend it why did anybody watch me back then i don't know how i kept fans after whatever that is i think Hollow Knight is one of the games i do wish i could re-review and maybe one day i will do a video re-reviewing a lot of these i think the words were right but i don't think i really captured how special that game is in my video i don't know why we can't get out of 2018 apparently all the best e-shop games released that year but celeste how could i not so i'm going to start with celeste celeste takes place in the wintery snowy region that is canada as i'm sure a lot of you have already heard this game has a reputation for being a very hard platformer and i knew that going into the game i also knew the story which revolves heavily around depression and anxiety as a driving point and that immediately resonated with me and made me fall in love with the game as i do have depression and anxiety and i draw a lot of parallels to this game and i can see a lot of the hidden symbolism throughout the game you don't know what's going on yeah he is throughout the game your goal is to climb a mountain and as you climb the mountain it gets increasingly harder and sometimes it's made even harder still by having to face a coin of yourself in other words while you try and climb this mountain which is life it gets harder and harder as you try and fight with yourself and a lot of that symbolism definitely wasn't lost on me i managed to pick up on even the little hidden things that if you don't have depression you probably wouldn't even catch platformers like this aren't really ever known for deep complex stories especially not revolving around something as dark as depression you've had enough okay so i really appreciated that and as i said it really helped me fall in love with the game and connect with it so much more but fortunately you don't need to have experienced depression to enjoy this game the fast-paced gameplay is incredibly exhilarating with extremely tight controls and no matter how many times i failed i just wanted to keep on going keep trying to best myself pick myself up dust myself off and try again this game also has a fantastic soundtrack from fast-paced to slower methodical tracks there are so many reasons to play celeste no matter who you are and it will for sure be one of the best games you play in 2018 i guarantee it my review of celeste was fine i also wish i could tweak it a bit and not constantly remind the audience how depressed i am yes i i am glad i mentioned it in the video i just felt like i kept going back to it i kept talking about how the little hidden things you'd only see if you have depression i know that was a bit of a tough watch but the thought was there oh god i want to say thankfully a newer game as this video came out in october of 2020 but that's actually still three years ago huh where is the time going spirit ferro is number six spirit ferro is a cozy wonderful little game that deals with death stellar is a fairy master to the deceased who with your aid but friends and cares for spirits before releasing them into the afterlife you do this by helping the spirits with whatever they need to accept their fate and just move on already there are many different requests given from these spirits that will have you farm and mine fish harvest cook and even craft your way across the mythical seas featuring good or just the hand drawn and animated characters spirit ferro is a management sim that as you play will have you building things like kitchens to cook your food farms and even little guest homes for the spirits to temporarily live in there is plenty more you will create upon your ship and even more you can find and discover by sailing to other islands and exploring the world around you what this game does best is deal with its underlying themes of death and acceptance in a way unlike any other game has even attempted to before the story and dialogue is brilliantly written with believable characters and moments that will have you questioning your own real life purpose on this planet i grew attached to so many of my spirit guests and new friends and then right as i felt like i had finally gotten to know them it was time for me to help them move on and they were gone in a beautiful way by helping these spirits accept their own mortality the game in turn teaches you the acceptance of death itself to get chills i got chills when i wrote that and i got chills when i said that and if you weren't sold in the game already you can play call up with a buddy and your buddy gets to play as the cat so yeah buy it now is probably a good time speaking of just spirit ferro the game so talk about how much indies have done for me as far as expanding what i'm willing to play before the switch i was really a triple a guy i like my first part in nintendo games and as far as anything else i would play the next big blockbuster and i still do that but i fell into this whole of doing e-shop videos because at first i realized they did well in the algorithm so i kept wanting to find these indie games to play and i really started to realize how unique they were how fun they were and how many different kinds of experiences in gaming i could be having and it was a game like spirit ferro that i found cozy slow paced management sim style that's just not who i was at the time and i fell in love with it it opened my eyes to so many other new experiences since then and i think for that reason i remember it so much more fondly than even some games like hollow knight which of course i'm gonna love number five thankfully was only two years ago in march 21st 2021 and that is my all-time favorite beat em up game which is the name of this channel so you know it's gotta be high on the list scott pilgrim vs the world i don't really like beat them ups that much it's a long story don't ask but scott pilgrim vs the world the game has always been the exception to that role as this in my opinion the greatest beat em up of all time so imagine my disappointment waking up one morning and finding that it's v gone from the xbox live online marketplace and i couldn't play it anymore but all these years later thankfully the nintendo switch and other places saved this game and re-released it and i have to say i'm in less but love i'm in love once again to start visually the game as a masterpiece with a beautifully animated and vibrant pixel art style that represents the original graphic novel art style perfectly cute characters and wonderful world design it's fantastic next the music oh my lord it's like the best part scott pilgrim is synonymous with its music so of course the game is pumped full of incredible pop rock chiptune beats composed by the band anam anamana gucci the entire soundtrack is just perfect catchy it'll get stuck in your head for weeks and it even topped billboard charts after it released as for the gameplay on the surface it appears as a standard punch and kick beat em up but it has so many extra layers the further into the game you play around the levels you can enter storefronts and purchase food or items these can heal you or be equipped to you boosting your attack in defense stats adding an rpg-esque element into the mix which is crucial as the difficulty level ramps up quick becoming almost insufferable early on unless you really utilize all the upgrades available to you just uh don't go spending too many coins buying up all the bread bread makes you fat bread makes you fat there are so many reasons why i consider this an e-shop gem but just the fact that it's such a fantastic game that we had no way of playing for so many years to get it portably on the switch out of nowhere it felt too good to be true there's a also topical because there's a new cartoon of that now and apparently it's very good july 11 2019 if you thought for a second that i wouldn't pass up the chance of putting link onto my t-shirt design and technically getting away from it from a legal standpoint because yes nintendo don't think too hard about this but i'm selling a shirt with link on it cadence of hyrule all right i recently reviewed cadence of hyrule in my video all about switch games i can't stop playing which was true until mario maker came out and then that just changed everything but regardless of that cadence of hyrule will still end up in my top five switch games of 2019 for sure so i won't repeat myself if you want to watch my review of the game you can go ahead and click here or there'll be a link down below or a link at the end of the video i actually forgot about this but i didn't actually review it in the e-shop video i had just reviewed it in its own separate video and decided to put it in the e-shop video and just point people to the other video it didn't feel right so i never did that again but i do kind of wish i did that again why didn't i do that with hades also it's not really the only reason why i put it in the video is to be on the t-shirt i loved crypt of the necro dancer so much and to get a zelda themed version of that was mind blowing the music was insane and it was just so much fun to play i remember going live on twitch the day it came out just trying to get the fastest runtime possible and i think i had like a 30 minute run in that game in my opinion best zelda spinoff made by a team that isn't nintendo that's ever happened it was 2019 when this next game came out goose game lucy goosey for some reason a tiny game about an even smaller goose took the world by storm and captured the hearts of everyone you are a silly goose that can hunk duck flap and most affectionately hold things in its beak or more accurately still things with its beak hide them and or taunt the humans with them and and that that that is the entire game screwing with people annoying the heck out of them and watching them try to deal with a goose that just won't leave them alone it's such wholesome hilarious fun i honestly couldn't tell you how many 30 second clips i grabbed of this game using the switches capture button to then go and choke him later and both of us would be laughing at this stupid little goose i think this might be the one actually where he goes to sit down it's just so stupid because it looks like it's what a goose would do the game not only manages to capture nintendo's own inherent innocence in their games but also it's just the perfect game to pick up and knock out a few to do tasks and then put back down for later or and this is actually my only complaint finish it in one sitting because it's only about a two hour game unfortunately it does have quite a bit of replay value to be fair but two hours it just left me wanting more i can't fathom it but i just love that this tiny two hour adventure about a tiny goose ended up becoming a solid reason to own a nintendo switch you know all of these clips have made me realize how bad my face rash was i just kind of accepted that's how i looked my cheeks were always so rosy red and sore it was only like a year ago i went to a dermatologist she was like yeah you have this and gave me a cream and now it's i'm not even wearing makeup now why did i look like that for five years another reason why goose game is so high on this list other than i loved it so much was it was weirdly revolutionary at the time it was such a simple concept it was so basic and everybody was talking about it it became a big stream hit and it's just a game about a little goose stealing some things it's so innocent and wholesome it really won my heart number two on this list how are we going at home am i close to your list are you baffled by mine eastwood a master class in pixel art design with every scene packed dense with detail and a catchy chip tune soundtrack that'll get suck in your head for days eastwood is a story driven action adventure that seemingly borrows gameplay elements from zelda earthbound dragon quest final fantasy and it borrows story and art elements from studio ghibli but it all comes together in its own unique way to create something that is solely original on its own the story follows sam and john and new players both their relationships similar to that of joel and ellies the duo live underground in a community taught to fear the outside world they're told there's nothing up there but sam doesn't believe it determined to find her way to the surface john follows and they both end up exiled to the world above they follow the train which is always headed eastward through a series of different towns each with its own culture characters and story there's a nice blend of narrative driven cutscenes dungeon crawling with combat and puzzles often having to switch between sam and john on the fly to accomplish different tasks or traverse the environment safely ultimately ending with awesome boss fights in between all of that you can make some time for breath of the wild inspired cooking and some mini games you can find an old gaming machine where you can play another game a full old school dragon quest clone game that's really hard to beat and actually kind of fun i feel a lot of the story could have been refined and hacked away at to present a shorter more engaging playthrough and i only bring this up because it is so story heavy that i want you to know that before going into it this game is a game that as i said should be experienced rather than just shown to you i adore story driven games so it's no surprise that this one left such a huge impact on me but also so many of these games over the years have been this pixel art style this one by far was the most enchanting the way the pixels moved on every i want to say page of the game because it was so beautiful it was like a story book blew me away i'll say now more than ever it deserves this second spot with the new doc coming out it's a whole extra side story that you can play even if you haven't played the base game but if you have played the base game it's a nice little way to end the story of these two characters just living their life after everything they went through i feel like we crossed off a lot of boxes as far as what this one could be right we went through hollow night we did celeste so i don't think any of you will be surprised at what is number one stardew valley the next game on this list is arguably the most popular one that i'm sure a lot of you have heard of already and that's stardew valley stardew valley is a farming game inside a beautifully created vibrant world it's an rpg mixed with a farm simulator and it works so well grow your crops on the farm enter the mines to defeat creatures use resources you find to upgrade your equipment and find new areas to explore you never really know where your journey is going to take you next in this game but never feels repetitive there's always a mystery about it and i like that farm fight craft there's a lot going on in this game and a lot going on in the town too you can head into town and you can make friendships and relationships i'm not going to talk about it much more than that because we all know it's fun so we should all go out and play it you know what's so funny about me putting this number one out of all of my reviews and all my e-shop videos this is probably one of the shortest and i gotta come clean about that now october 27 2017 at that point i hadn't played it that much i was new to the switch and making these e-shop videos everyone was talking about stardew so i played it a little and i was like okay good enough i think three or four years later i remember i made a video about what is the most actual addicting switch game and it was all about me playing stardew valley because i had randomly picked the game back up again because i wanted to play something with kim and we both got lost in stardew valley for weeks if not months i stopped making videos for a while because i couldn't stop playing stardew valley i had that whole addicted to series for a while which i kind of stopped doing because one it was getting a little old and two people found negative connotations with it and me being addicted to things which i understood but if we were to talk about games i've been most addicted to on this console over the years maybe only next to dragon quest builders stardew valley i have probably put by far the most amount of time and animal crossing actually those are pretty close that's my 10 and i know there's probably a lot of games that i missed believe me i know because i'm sure i've reviewed them in the past but this was just the ones that really stood out to me the ones i have the best memories of these are the standouts they're also all the games i put on that t-shirt i took all of the things that i liked i made a montage of the actual characters and then i gave it to kim and i said can you just make this all one art style and she in the first take made this design i didn't put anything for a description on the shirt at first i was just going to leave it off and then the little squirrel card that she stuck in there she's so wonderful that's it from now this was a very special video and i love you all thank you so much for watching like comment subscribe i've been making a lot of videos lately okay and subscribe i'm making more appreciate it