Okay, the setup is almost a million times better than I could have possibly anticipated. My PS4 is down there, Modem is here, and the Switch lands right where I could use it. I'm literally spamming eggs, bro. I don't know what's going on. Holy camoli. Dude. Bro. The purpose of a lag switch in most video games is either invincibility or invisibility. NBA 2K18 is the least skilled basketball game in the entire franchise, and you have to use lag switches to get ahead? I'm telling you, my guy is not a good look. I've been getting DMs saying that devs are even confused as to how it's possible to lag switch. So do you guys remember about four or five months ago I dropped a video of this lag switcher on the ante up? His name is Delayed Snags. I can't stand this stage, you're none of the people in this- Yo, I trust me.  That was the meta. You had to have a lag switch.  His lag switch broke. His lag switch broke. Bro, look at the ball. Look at the ball. Okay, since then I didn't think lag switching was going to blossom into this major issue it is now. But I've been getting more and more tweets. I've been getting DMs saying that devs are even confused as to how it's possible to lag switch. I am an ex-lag switcher. Back in the days, Socom was the first competitive game I played.  The only way you could hit back is if you had one of your own. So most people that were in the competitive scene built their own lag switch. So let's say you're playing an online game. You and another guy are facing off. Well, if you were to flip on your lag switch, you would appear frozen to him. In the meantime, you can run behind him, flip it back on, and as the server resinks, you will end up behind him, where you can do whatever you want. So let me explain the context because you need to understand what's really happening so you could get the full picture. This is a photo of a lag switch. It's not a complicated device. It's just the Ethernet cable with a switch attached. Just a regular light switch. The whole purpose of a lag switch is you basically want to control the consistency of your connection. So if you flip the light switch off, your connection is gone. And when you flip it back on, your connection is back. The purpose of a lag switch in the most video games is either invincibility or invisibility.  Well, on their screen, you'll be stuck like this because that's the last time you had connection. So your body will be stuck like this.  You can't use it too much or you'll lag out. You can run across the map. So when you switch it back on, it's like you teleported from this location to this location because you didn't have connection through all that running you were doing. Yo, use your stick, bro. Hold up for three seconds and click square. See? That's how you do it. I just play off rhythm instead of playing off what you're looking at. So as I say that, you might be wondering, Agent, how was it possible that people are using it effectively in NBA 2K? Let's talk. Lag switches only work in peer-to-peer servers. Do you guys remember in Modern Warfare 2 when you left? If you were the host, it would say finding new host. It needed a host to run the server so the rest of the game can play. So at all times, it has to have had a host. But on NBA 2K, there's no peer-to-peer. It's dedicated servers, which means 2K runs the servers somewhere in the world. 2K has a studio with a lot of servers set up and that's where everything is run. So if you lag switched with dedicated servers, that means you're lagging too. So how does it benefit you to lag yourself and the other team? So if you guys remember in that video I dropped four or five months ago, I was getting lag switched for days. Now, the guy was pretty clever with it because he only lag switched on our offensive possessions. On his offensive possessions, he's kicking it, he's doing this thing, he's not bothered. But when we're on offense and we're looking to make a shot or do some dribble moves or set a screen, we can't do it if we're lagging 24-7. Now, in most games, the case is if you lag switch too much, you get kicked out.   I'm spamming eggs. I'm literally spamming eggs, bro. I don't know what's going on. Holy camoli. Oh, my God.  And I was like, what? I haven't ran park casually in forever. I was like, cool, let's run park. I DMed a few guys. I got cold and man to hop on with me. Say we need somebody who could dribble like a king. It was about two games into a regular park session and we were being lag switched. Thing about 2K18, unlike 2K17, is when you lag switch on one court, it doesn't just affect the court. It affects the entire park. Bro, these devs, after so much proof, man's are admitting that they boot and that they have lag switches. They don't believe they're lag switching stuff.  Like the whole first impressions of it. Especially on the anti-up.  Unbelievable. Not that they don't want to address it, that they think that it doesn't exist. It's like flat earthers. It's like, what kind of proof do you need before you believe the earth is round?  On top of that, and maybe this is the biggest problem, because, alright, okay, so this is a complex situation. It's not that easy to stop. At least we should be able to ban the people, IP ban the people who are doing it. No, we can't. It doesn't matter how much we report somebody, how much we tell 2K support about somebody, all the people lag switching are still playing the game today. See, that's the main problem for me. And as a YouTuber, I'm going to catch it more than anybody. Because when people play me, they want to win. So what do people do when they want to win? They get desperate. And anytime you get desperate, if you have that switch laying around, you might be inclined to touch it. It got to the point where we were kind of just having fun with it. Oh, damn, I hopped from three feet away. Let's get everybody in the paint. You got it, Cole, you got it. Is that a pump fake? Or are you going up with it? That was a pump fake. How was that not three in the key? What the? Bro, I literally was holding a square the whole time. Oh, I got it. It literally makes playing on the high-stake ante-ups a risk. There's no way to report people, and even when you try and tell somebody, like, do something about this, nothing ever gets done. So people are just going to buy more and more of these things. Oh, okay, take this in. 2K, I have a brilliant idea. This is going to solve the problem for everybody. Get the ISP, take them to court. Get that information from him, all right? Get the IP of these people doing the lag switches, right? And then give that IP to the booters, right? If the booters have the IP, the booters can kick them offline anytime. Unless, of course, they have a dynamic IP. So just keep winning court cases. Keep getting the IP from these individuals. And if they have a static IP, their life is ruined. Even if they have a dynamic IP, we can ruin their life for a short period of time. At least we can do something to these guys.  Like, this is something that happened 10 years ago, and on the PS3 era, you might have been able to... You can use it every once in a while, all right?  If you're still using it in 2018 to win games, what does that say about you? Let's be honest. NBA 2K18 is the least skilled basketball game in the entire franchise, and you have to use lag switches to get ahead. I'm telling you, my guy, it's not a good look. There's people on the 25K high stakes court that'll delay you. So they'll increase that amount of latency to the point where you can't even really play. And on top of that, the lag switcher now.  People are lag switching on dedicated servers in 2018 in the least skilled basketball game of all time. Holy.  Beluba, Scott, Ronnie, something has to be done about these lag switchers. The problem's only growing and no one's getting banned. So let's create a lag switch, guys. Come on. All right, first thing we need is an Ethernet cable from this big box of wonders right here. It has to be long enough to reach my PS4, and I don't want to ruin my current Ethernet cable. I definitely need duct tape. Boom. Hey, what's good? We head into my brother's house. Hey, what y'all know about Canadian type? I'm here for one thing. All right, so maybe I got two things. 370Z looking fire. Looking fire, son. Looking straight fire. All right, so check it out. Boom. Ethernet cable coming out the PS4. Lag switch is officially set. Hopefully it works properly. I think I did everything correctly. We'll see, and then I'm going to plug that into my modem. So my setup's going to look kind of wonky and I'm going to be playing off of this one, but I'm going to hop onto a park now and test it out. First, I got to get a couple people to hop on with me. Okay, the setup is almost a million times better than I could have possibly anticipated. My PS4 is down there. Modem is here. And the switch lands right where I could use it. It's literally the most picture-perfect placement. So I'm going to give you all an update. I just ran through this myself. Setup connection, use the LAN cable. Easy. And my internet connection seems to be working. I hit up Swante and I was... Okay, okay, I don't want to show you guys any unnecessary information. Swante is going to hop on with me. I'm going to test it out on the park and hopefully things work out according to plan. I haven't done this in a while. I'm a little rusty. Look at those speeds. Kind of low, huh? But that means that the Ethernet cable works properly and that it accidentally cut the wrong wires or anything. So perfect. Swante's joining, baby. Wait, let it... I'm going to invite Swante. Swante DM me said, don't fry my router. Gotcha, Swann. Look at these guys, bro. Ads on ads on ads on ads on ads on ads. You serious? They have delayed in the beginning of their name. Like they move in like a movement. I have to message one of them. Be like, yo, put me on the list. Let me live. And they're like, okay, you should be... There's a list of people that live. That's unbelievable. Yeah, man. Oh my God. So here's the thing about the lag switch. So there's two different ways to use it. There's a hardware lag switch. That's the one I built. But you could also get like a software lag switch. And the software lag switch is a little different because all it does is clog up your connection. So like it'll send all this fake... It'll basically... It's almost like a DDoS. You're almost DDoSing yourself to the point where your connection doesn't work anymore. Temporarily. But the hardware lag switch is a little better because you can just turn it off and on. So it's not even like you're trying to bottleneck anything.  I played on the 500 quart, like five times. The 500 quart.  But when they had the ball, no lag. Yeah. Yeah. All right. I'm going to try to switch, bro. What's your last one? No! So I realized something.  So I guess they use the software and they just slow down their connection. The thing about these software is like I don't trust none of these shits. All of these could be viruses, man. If 2K has dedicated servers, what you're basically doing is just stressing 2K servers to the point where everybody lags like crazy intermittently whenever you want it to, right? So how do you do that? I mean, there's one way you could do a DDoS attack. But DDoS attacks bring down the whole network. And they're expensive. And they're most definitely illegal. So that's not it. And even if you do the software version of a lag switch, you would still be stressing your own connection. So why is it that when they stress their own connection, everybody else has lag? That doesn't add up. It doesn't make any sense. Full power. I should have got one of those switches that were like a dial. That might have made things easier. Like an on-off. Oh f- Swan? Yeah. That's the key, yo. If I get a switch that's a dial, I can slow down the internet connection to whatever level I want. I don't have to completely cut it off. Oh my God, man. Like you're just throttling your own connection with the dial. That would be f-ing perfect. Swallowish me a lot, bro. It's probably going to fail miserably. Look it real quick. Good news, the switch works. Bad news, that is not how they do it. That is not how they do it, man.


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Good afternoon. Thank you all so much for joining us. I'm Elana Harrington. I'm the Director of the Sailor Foundation and this is a talk about connecting the dots in the OER space. About one use case in which our organization, the Sailor Foundation, has set out to locate and actuate OER in an online learning environment. It first likes to begin by framing our efforts within the broader educational landscape. I think we can all agree that education is moving toward a more distributed model. We're seeing more and more online learning outfits, distance learning programs, and hybrid models all supplemented by studies that indicate the problems inherent in one-size-fits-all schooling approaches. And OER, this fast distributed galaxy of content within which the majority of us are operating, is both a mechanism and manifestation of this shift. However, as we marvel over this increasingly distributed learning network that is emerging, we at Sailor are constantly reminding ourselves of the importance of convergence, of the importance of context. We can't expect students to master concepts when the information is so disaggregated. And so we in the OER community, as many have brought up in the past, find ourselves in this difficult place. You know, we're torn between the desire to be completely free and open and in need for more structure and standardization. Somewhere along this continuum of tension, we need to find models that embrace and to some degree balance these two opposing forces. We need to find models that manage to both wander the galaxy while also identifying and designing constellations, pathways, and patterns. Sailor is one approach to that dynamic, an open yet structured way for students to navigate the OER network. So when we first entered the open edge space in 2008, we spent some time surveying the scene. I've said it before and I'll say it again, we were bowled over by the efforts of so many at this conference and, you know, so many in this room. However, in order to really push our efforts, we needed to define a problem statement and set to work solving it. While the OER ecosystem is expansive and thriving, first, content is disaggregated, even hidden or buried. We've been aggregating and organizing content for about two years now and we continue to find new projects on a weekly or even daily basis. Second, content is redundant. We're seeing a lot of providers recreating the wheel, whether informed by a not-made-here frame of mind or perhaps just the general difficulty of discovering content and making it interoperable. While this redundancy occurs on one hand, other fields of study are left completely devoid of useful content. Third, content is difficult to assess in terms of quality. There really aren't any validating metrics or tools at the public's disposal. And fourth, content is decontextualized. There are no end-to-end solutions that really tell students what they ought to focus on in order to learn what is generally taught at a traditional, higher-end institution. Now, we realize this is not vital to every student, but for those who seek a more structured learning experience, there are no standards in place. And so we began to ask ourselves, how can self-degraduate learners, with very specific educational goals, navigate this network on their own? How are they to know what to use and when to use it if they wish to pursue a particular field of study? And so our obsession with organization and structure was born. We knew we needed to make use of the existing body of content. We needed to vet that content, contextualize it, string it together to form something whole, something continuous, something that could lead a student from point A to Z over the entirety of a course or even a major. Our solution was to tap into the academic community and really empower forward-thinking educational practitioners. We called upon them to use their expertise of the higher-ed system on their courses, their discipline, their interaction with students, and their pedagogical training in order to help us shape course curricula and to use the existing content and to really add to and scaffold that body of content. I'm fairly certain, though, that you don't want to hear about this process for me because I've never taught a course at the college level and I've not constructed a sailor course of my own. So we have a short video to show you. You'll get a deeper look at our process and you'll also hear from some of our consultants who actually did construct some of our courses. Michael Sailor created the Sailor Foundation because he had a very simple, very earnest, and very bold idea. Education should be free. Rapid changes in technology are making the distribution of information faster, easier, and cheaper. Increasingly, the distribution of and access to education can be universal. We've reached an inflection point where it's now cheaper to learn to read on a tablet computer than it is to learn to read on paper. More people can access mobile networks in the world that can get access to running water. So that network access is greater. And as that happens, right, you've got this this profound, disrupted, egalitarian, utilitarian tornado that's blowing through everything. If I can actually provide 12 million books for free to someone with an iPad, then that means I can provide 12 million books to someone for free in the middle of a jungle of Burma. If I can automate education or project it, then maybe people that don't live in the first world can get just as educated as people that do. The question is no longer does the need exist. The question is content. The question is form. The question is distribution. Camelist providers of open content from the humble teachers and most venerable institutions are opening the doors. Sailors harnessing technology to deliver free education around the world, pushing the open education movement forward, and creating greater access to these resources. I believe that open education is important because not everybody has access to the traditional higher education system, whether that's because of financial reasons or whether that's simply because of location. And so to have this access to kind of an open educational resource like Sailor provides really new opportunities for students who might otherwise have been excluded from a higher educational system. So I think having the ability to log on from anywhere in the world with internet connection and look at resources that are vetted by experts that are assembled by experts and that are trustworthy is really just an ideal way for these students to gain that level of education that they might otherwise be excluded from. Access to the internet is outpacing access to higher education in the United States and abroad, but would be students shouldn't have to drink from the fire hose of free information. We've called upon college educators, discipline experts, to help us discover, vet, and organize the very best of what's around. Our contribution is, in a word, design, the transformative marriage of form and content. We unite superb learning materials with well-wrought courses. The product is a portal to substantive, scaffolded, asynchronous education for a few hours, a few years, or a lifetime. Let's take a closer look at how Sailor is curating, developing, and distributing free education. On our homepage, we list our areas of study, including a general education program and 12 complete academic majors, art history, biology, business administration, chemistry, computer science, economics, English literature, history, mathematics, mechanical engineering, political science, and psychology. As an example of how our full courses of study are laid out for the students to work through, let's consider the history major. Selecting the link for history brings up a description with detailed instructions on how to proceed, followed by robust courses designed to capture the range offered in a typical college catalog. The history major within the Sailor curriculum is similar in some ways, but also differs in some ways from your typical university or college curriculum. Where it's similar, of course, is that each course replicates roughly a 15-week semester course that you would have at a college or university. Materials are very similar, readings as well as analytical materials, and that allows the student to achieve that same global understanding that they would in a typical college or university classroom. And we also, in the course structure itself, we offer all the same basic courses that you would have to take in a history major at a college or university, a basic world history curriculum, U.S. history, or a Latin American history, or even an Asian history. What we differ to is that we offer a diverse range of courses that might not typically be taught at a university. It's certainly not every semester. We offer some courses that we were really excited to put together, but that will be courses that a professor might teach perhaps once in four years. And so when we start to do that, we have these unique courses that are always on, and they're always available to anyone who has access to the website. I think offering these diverse courses really gives the student a much broader and deeper knowledge of history. Once a course outline is created, our professor consultants search for and vet open education materials from various content creators in a higher-ed landscape, matching content and form to build a dynamic learning environment for students. For example, in History 104, Historical Methodology, the art and craft of the historian, our professor consultant, Dr. Benjamin Schwantis, has incorporated a wonderful openly licensed lecture from MIT, a seminar in Historical Methods by Professor Ann Maynard. While this lecture has tremendous worth on its own, weekly value is added by placing it in a larger structured learning context among other materials. Similarly, in History 201, the history of Europe from 1800, our professor consultant has decided to include an openly licensed Yale lecture, The Enlightenment and the Public Spear, by Professor John Merriman. Again, a great lecture, but now is connected to a larger learning landscape that students can access in one place, Sailor.org. To see how all these fantastic OER materials are connected and incorporated into the Sailor structure, let's examine the course, say History 212. Clicking on its length brings up a page with a short introduction. Just below that, the student will find the course overview, everything he or she needs to read, watch, listen to, click on, and learn. While we're here, it is important to note that each course is designed to provide a student with the same level of information contained in a traditional college classroom setting. We've listed time advisories for each unit to let students know how long it should take them to work through the materials. We also list learning outcomes to highlight specific lessons students can take away by successfully completing a course. The time advisories and learning outcomes are designed to help students navigate the asynchronous learning environment. Furthermore, our materials are placed in sequence. Clicking the first resource uncovers a link to the material and some brief instructions. When finished, the student can move on to the next resource working at his or her preferred pace. As in all our courses, the consultant's first look to open education materials for resources to incorporate into the learning experience. For example, Professor Schwantis has included a reading assignment from a public domain American History book published online by the US State Department. Our professor consultants work hard to find high-quality open educational resources from a variety of providers. When they don't find something that meets our needs or standards, we find high-quality copyrighted material available freely on the internet. Then our permissions team reaches out to copyright holders to simply ask for the rights to host or re-license those resources, such as this presentation on the history of slave trade routes. We now host over 1,000 high-quality educational resources from this process. While we first look to existing OER materials and are pleased with a positive response to our permissions initiative, we also have examples of open education content created specifically for sailor.org by our professor consultant. In History 212, American's Award for Present, I developed a series of lectures that complement the reading materials from each unit of the course. I used the resources such as recording tools, Microsoft Paint, a drawing pad to create these online blackboard lectures that would help engage the students, showing them images, writing key terms or perhaps key descriptions on the board, and I say board, I mean literally the screen of the computer, as I would go along to present perhaps a 15 or 29 lecture. And these lectures are tools that are, as I said, complement the readings for each unit and give that student a broader, more engaging experience of having a professor sort of help analyze or help explain the highlights of the materials. In some of those cases, I want to listen to the lecture first and sort of gain a better understanding of the highlights and then engage in the readings, or I'm sure some students get approached as the opposite of the readings, and then listen to the lecture in order to confirm or explain to the materials that perhaps they didn't quite understand in the readings themselves. In addition to these types of lectures, which are distributed under Creative Commons Attribution, or CC By License. In a number of our courses, our professor consultants have created original OER materials such as readings, assignments, and assessments to help the students measure progress the long way. For example, in History 101, Ancient Civilizations of the World, our professor, Dr. Konchi-San's camera, created a reading titled, Art and Society and Religion, to supplement existing OER materials and made the reading available under a CC By License. An example of Zaylor-created course assignments can be found in History 102, Early Globalizations. For this course, our professor consultant, Dr. Dean Costin-Terres, has created reading questions for most of the course units along with answer guides to allow students to check their work. These materials are also made available to the larger educational community via a CC By License. Each course culminates on a final exam administered through the open source learning management system, Moodle, where the student can obtain a certificate of successful completion. We believe that our courseware is truly high quality, but how can we be so sure? It's all very well to ask a highly qualified professor consultant to build a course and select its resources. But we're taking an extra step and have committed to engaging additional professor consultants in peer reviewing all of our courses to ensure that we're doing the very best we can. When we are peer reviewing our course, the first thing we look for is accuracy. We want to make sure that when we send a student to a website, we want to make sure that everything on that website is right because the internet is a blackboard that when you put something on it, it never goes away. So if you're going to do it, the set of information always wants to make sure that it comes right. So having experienced designing courses not only at Sailor, but also at a traditional accredited institution, the best part of that is that it's not only just on you, but eventually your courses at Sailor get peer reviewed, which is something I never had the opportunity to have at a traditional accredited institution. So at Sailor, now you have people that do teach at other universities and institutions looking at what you're doing and commenting and giving you feedback. So in some ways it's almost even a better process. Now that we've explained how we develop our courses and looked at some ways students can utilize the resources on Sailor.org, we'd like to share a little about some new projects, student e-portfolios and the media library. We're developing an e-portfolio system to help students track their progress. With this tool, students can declare major, enroll in courses, view their transcripts, and access their earned badges. They'll also connect with other learners around the world, sharing resources, asking and answering questions, and building networks. While portfolios will allow students to stay on top of their course progress and grades, our forthcoming media library will organize every resource from our courseware into a fully searchable, robust database open to the whole world. The future isn't bright for open education, which we think translates to a bright future for hungry learners. The question is how far can you go? OER can go really as far as people's imaginations. I think education is absolutely right. I think that everyone can learn, everyone does learn to whatever extent they're capable, and I think the more and more you make it accessible to people, the more they'll learn and the better lives they'll have. We agree the sky is the limit. We look forward to working with the OER community to help further connect the dots and pave the way for students to obtain all of the education at zero cost. So, in closing, and I really can't emphasize this last point enough, we heard Jim Shelton's call this morning for a shift in value proposition from just free to better, and we're absolutely on board with that. However, our priority is to get version one of the content out there first. That is our first priority, then we can iterate on that content, others can iterate on it, but we want to get it out in its most basic form first so that students around the world who don't have access to these educational materials will have something to use right now. I'd like to invite Jen Xu, our content development manager, and Jeff Davidson, strategic initiatives manager, Cammy Rodin, our public relations coordinator, we have a couple minutes for a couple questions if you guys are curious about anything. So, is it an accredited institution? So, people go, they take a course, just personal enrichment? Yes, just as students would go to MIT and maybe click on astrophysics to look at the materials in that course, we've instead laid it out in the full semester long course, so if someone is looking for that experience, they have access to it. Do you have just a sense of how many students or would be students and self-learners are using this? You mentioned recently one live, just to get a sense of it. Sure, well I guess we didn't go live until what, March? You know, unfortunately, our site has set up such that there is no login requirement. Our trusty wanted it to be as open as possible. Do you remember what it was? I'm just real quick to read that and promote it yet. We're still building. This is the first time we've ever spoken about this. The percentage you saw on the video or some of the courses are still being built. And just to address your point too, in addition to what Lana said, you envision also in the near future, if not now and very soon, where certain segments of students will be going to take a portfolio of work and take that to an employer. They're not working every field, but it will work in some. It's already has worked in some. Computer hackers don't have degrees at all, right? They're out there working. So maybe someone can take our web development class, our small business manager class and start a business, or go to another small business and use that as, you know, show their portfolio and show their badges and take that knowledge and as well as a portfolio that creative work and pass it on. So they can, you know, then maybe once they have a job, they can afford degradation school somewhere else. I'm sorry. I meant to say we have completed 200 courses. That's about 80% of our original 241 slated for development. And we're still, I mean, we are still learning and we're finding our process as we go. And so if you guys have any recommendations, we want to hear them. Yes. Yeah, we're building this, the OER University. Yes. And it's got, we have 10 universities and colleges in five continents now. And our idea is to take type of work students do there, give them a test and we'll give them credit. So we're also prepared to do that. Great. Quick-stealing car. Well, I got a partnership to do that. Wayne McIntosh is also. Yes. Are faculty at credit institutions, traditional institutions, using these materials in lieu of traditional textbooks and all, or is that what we've seen in funding? I mean, we definitely hope so. At this point, we're still sort of, we don't have data yet, but we can say that a lot of our professors are developing our courses. And I think we have 200 professors we're working with. A lot of them say that they end up using materials they found through this course design process in their own classrooms, which I think is a really interesting sort of subculture crazy. Are these all designed in the self-study formula? Yes. Yes. So I totally understand getting the content out there for version 1.0. What is version 2.0? Well, I don't know. I mean, something, for example, I'd say the Carnegie Mellon OLI courses. They're beautiful, intelligent tutoring systems. They gather data as the student progresses through the course. Something more advanced like that maybe. The textbooks develop on the platform where videos are embedded and students can work with each other literally on the page of the textbook. Yeah, I definitely think assessment is our next stoppage focus. Dean? Yeah, I was just adding to that for a moment. There is, Barbara Diazky's collaborative statistics book that we so often talk about in open source is on sale. So you start to think about the next version with 2.0. I think the issue simply is how can we make more of your content that format? But then the hard rule would be how do we get that? And I'm glad to hear OER University because in our community colleges, for example, our staff courses are completely impacted. No one can get the staff course. So when you look at a sailor and you're using the same book that 17 other universities are using in California, it kind of makes sense that you would get credit if you could test out of that by going through the sailor course and not impact the system itself. So I think the next level for at least my viewpoint and working with sailor is to try to get to a point where we can provide some of the content in a more enriched environment for faculty that can do exactly what OER University is doing, even beyond badges and starting to get more certificates and credit for it. But I do think badges are going to be really huge for the rest of the 95 percent of those who don't go into higher education because they're going to really, really need some skill and they're going to really need to go to employers and say, I've actually mastered X, Y, and Z. And I think to your site is probably, I know my kid can pass Khan's Academy, but we need an adult academy, if you will, to go through like a sailor. It kind of gives us the same kind of skill set. So I think it's going in a great direction. Thank you so much, and we would love to answer your questions offline and getting the signal that we're five over, so shame on us, so sorry. But please ask us for questions whenever you see us. Thank you.


Welcome back agent nation, my name, of course. Y'all know me now. It's agent beam star. Let's get Into the news. There's a lot of news, you know 2k19s around the corner So the news is kind of ramping up. I don't know that I'm gonna continue these after 19 drops. There's not gonna be much news We'll see how things go though for our first story of the day. NBA 2k League was dropping some bombs We know for the first season, I believe they had 17 teams for the second season Though there's four teams in the NBA that want to buy in those include the Lakers the Hawks the Nets and the Timberwolves now for the First season the 17 teams had a three-year $750,000 buy-in. We don't know the details. We don't know the team names what the buying is for these We don't know nothing yet. We just know that these four organizations are gonna be joining the 2k League next year So we know actually what we do That's a little bit of information now You won't believe this because it sounds so unbelievable and I hope they end up changing this because it sounds ridiculous The Hawks organizations team name is gonna be Atlanta Hawks Talon gaming club You don't think that's too many syllables Who's gonna remember that who is gonna remember all of that For our second story of the day There's some drama in the Twitter verse ladies and gentlemen NBA players are furious well one in specific So we know if you guys have been paying attention NBA 2k has been dropping ratings the last few weeks, right?  That's way too high at some point in the season Maybe by the end of season he might reach an 87 he shows a lot of promise the ceiling is really high for the individual But he's not a 87 yet. Okay, so that's that's at the root of this they released Blake Griffin's details and his overall yesterday and I'll just put it like this people weren't really happy Blake Griffin has a 86 overall Immediately people began comparing regular season stats putting out graphics like this one showing Tatum's regular season stats Whereas Blake Griffin's regular season stats and it has a teammate of Blake Griffin's pissed off Reggie Bullock put out a tweet saying I'm glad I don't even play games. I don't even know who Ronnie 2k is well Bullock Ronnie's not the one who does the ratings. You probably should have sent the ad at a different direction. Mr. Stoff Stoff He's the one who usually does the ratings usually he's on point with the shits I don't know what he's been up to this year, but he's bugging and this is probably that the angriest I've seen people about ratings ever now I know ratings are gonna change over the course of the season But yeah, if you think Tatum should be over Blake Griffin my guy You are bugging and that's what the rest of the internet agrees unanimously as well for our next story of the day There's some drama between NBA 2k youtubers annoying versus nay now annoying was on stream And he was kind of just talking he was basically saying that he helped make clout up some individuals in Nades clan Now I don't really pay attention to this stuff most of the time But usually when something like this drops people send me a lot of Twitter's and they're like the listen agent This was happening. So This let's just roll the clip. All right, I just seen a video on Twitter this dude annoying saying that I Didn't make anyone that He made everybody that he made saver. He made quill. He made cash out.  I'm banned on Twitch Why is he talking about my name?    Just watch Just watch you ain't make anything dog. Are you care about your little money? You don't care about the fans.   I'm sorry mom. I had to record a video.  I collab with a lot of small youtubers But I didn't make them if they didn't grind they weren't growing so it was on them at the end of the day For our next story there's some more drama this time.  Sorry swante for no reason this ain't no competition for me He followed up saying I think I'm doing pretty good for all that I balanced law. Jesus Christ you Sorry, I gotta make money somehow take this internet so serious so toxic now Just based on what he's saying. It sounds like at some point annoying was taking shots at swante's viewer count I don't know swante has some pretty entertaining streams.  Let me start some beef.  Is that how you say his name? Troy then is the worst rapper in the 2k community that song he did was incredibly cringy Tell me why cheese looks like Joker in this picture. All right, that should do the trick next episode I'll be in some drama For our next story of the day You couldn't have missed it NBA 2k released this new my team trailer and I'm not gonna lie, bro I haven't seen the my team community this excited about anything in a while now I would sit here and react to it But I assume you already saw it so I'm gonna point out the things that I found noticeable and then we'll move on one I don't know if they added a color correction or did some sort of color grading But in general the colors look more vibrant. It seems like maybe the saturation is higher There's more contrast in the photo when I say photos. I mean videos you get what I mean They changed of course like they do every year the card design so they look different I think this year's card designs look more Aesthetically pleasing than they did last year. Okay now this part was easily the most interesting for me This looks like a park It looks like stage or ante of and it's just a video of Yanis driving to the rim and doing it between the legs dunk This is what I guess blacktop is gonna look like I don't know if they have more courts This is what I've been telling 2k for a very long time if we could do this on the park I like the option to walk around in a neighborhood cool But I also like the idea of having matchmaking work Where you could just load in and play in iconic parks So I like this is cool and all it almost looks like a banquet hall that's Placed in Hong Kong or something But it'd be really nice to play in Rucker Park or or hoop dome Venice like all these iconic places that we know so Well, can you imagine all you have to do is click matchmaking and then it matches you up with some on your rank And it throws you into a beautiful looking-ass park with low latency because you don't have to load in everything else That'd be the dream. So anyway, I'm happy for the my team guys They seem gas about this right here the UI on my team looks Incredible. Oh, they looks like they might have taken a page from EA's book The user interface yo is on point. It looks so appealing I remember the days in 2k 14 where I couldn't even look at the menu because it looked hideous This is like a serious glow-up in 19 if it's something that no one's talking about. I appreciate it Anyway, that's really all there is to it Let's move on to the next story for the next story of the day. Let's make it quick Travis Scott is curating the soundtrack for 2k 19. Whoa, is that the that's a little booth? I was okay. I mean, I wish I would have went the same time as LeBron that had been iconic Here's a track list if you care Travis Scott is curating the playlist ladies and gentlemen I have to mute this stuff because I don't want to catch copyright So I haven't listened to a soundtrack of 2k seriously in like years So I really don't care about this so let's move on to the next one for our final story of The day Mike Wang is back at it again ladies and gentlemen I don't know what he's been up to or how he's gotten the approval But he's been talking about a lot of information specifically the takeover badge Which if you guys don't remember it's like a grand badge in 2k 17 It's like when you play good enough you get a takeover badge And it pretty much gives you temporary superpowers on the court And he was giving some details for every archetype and their specific takeover badges before we get to that though Somebody hit on Mike Wang they said Mike Wang is Wang pronounced with a A or a O sound I want to know how to say your name correctly now Obviously if you're using logic in this specific circumstance Mike Wang it has an A it's Wang That's what I thought because Mike Wang's name is pronounced wong This changes the whole foundation of our virtual relationship like wong.  But he's saying the green window gets bigger and becomes easier for you to green your shots Etc.  I'm like, oh snap something's going down So raw will send me a tweet that I hope agents catching all this beluva replies because he's coming with the heat Mike Ryan replied to that. Yo, I'm telling you bro Oh Mike Wang Mike Wang is a huge fan because he said no classroom videos And he sent me a act ladies and gentlemen first of all I need you guys to know that ever since I recorded that video because I tried going back I'm banned from going there. They started locking the doors to those lecture halls now So if you guys missed the video link, I'll leave a link above basically I was trying to give this class presentation using the big PowerPoint in a lecture hall that proximity chat needs to be in The game and there's no game where it fits better than NBA 2k So if it was to be in 19 that'd be massive So apparently Mike Wang himself saw the video and he said no more classroom videos agent I don't know what listen if you're thinking what I'm thinking. Yeah, let me find out. Let me find out They put proximity chat in there. Let me find out. We had great minds think of light I really hope so it'd be a game changer for 2k 19. Yeah Yeah, I thought I was joking Mike Wang is my biggest fan. He'd be watching all my videos He's on notification squad. He sees all the secret notification squad messages He'd be in the comment section on burner accounts. Yeah, he thinks he thinks I don't know but I really do man I know so Mike Wang put out this tweet just about a week ago Maybe it was like four or five days ago and it sparked a massive outrage and people were going back and forth Basically, he was asking what should have more influence on a maid shop being open or the timing of the jump shot And everybody was going at it I was on the timing side, of course And a lot of people were on the open the side especially the playmakers A lot of those playmaker dribble heads were on the open the side and people were going back and forth on Twitter for a Very very long time now One of the things that Mike Wang made clear before going at that and I won't even touch that subject because that's a whole Another video on itself. I don't even want to make that video That's just been done and been passed Mike Wang put out this tweet and he clarified saying timing is much tougher And if you get a defender nearby you can expect to see a lot of bricks But a pure sharpened takeover left wide open with good timing is gonna hurt a lot of teams Which is like literally the exact response I wanted to hear I want I want to be sure that the people shooting very early and slightly early are missing more And the people shooting good and perfect are making more the guys shooting all wide should be rewarded The guys shooting half bars should be punished. That's the way games should work That's what a skills gap looks like so when I voted timing it was with this in mind You should be able to at the highest degree take control of the things you have control over one of them Is not taking bad shots and Mike Wang is making it clear not only his timing tougher But he's mentioned in the past that contested shots won't be dropping the way they did in 18 and especially 17 So if you've been shooting contested shots this whole time getting bailed out ladies and gentlemen It is gonna be a rude awakening when 2k 19 comes around and you're breaking all your shots Now that's about it. He went all in on the takeover badge I even put out a tweet seeing if Mike Wang Mike Wang would invite me to the 2k headquarters I want to do an interview ladies and gentlemen I want to walk around with my camera and ask Mike Wang some questions some very hard-hitting questions about 2k It would be the most fantastic iconic video of all time. That's all I'm saying That's all there is for the news if you guys enjoyed make sure drop a like subscribe to the channel and I'll catch you guys in the next one Peace click on one of these two videos by the way