Hello and welcome back to The Craft Box, my name is Brent and today we are doing the new quest that has just been added into Pirate 101. Pirate! I knew Gandrey could find you! I come to you, second best pirate in all the spiral, to humbly ask your help. It's Sinbad, Sinbad our Captain, Sinbad the Valiant, Sinbad the Adventurous, Sinbad the best pirate in all the spiral. He's in trouble! You see, what happened was, we were sailing on our 70th voyage, opposite 71st. Which was completely innocent, mind you. Oh yeah. As I was saying, we were just sailing along, when suddenly we were ambushed by the crushes. A vile and motley crew of pernicious pirates. The crushes say if they tip Sinbad out, they can take the title of best pirate in the spiral. There's a boat of champions in every day. You never heard of the boat? Where are you been? The crushes cover it. But they couldn't wrestle it off Sinbad, so they just took him with it. Anyway, as second best pirate in the spiral, we thought you'd be outraged.  It's dishonest! Hello! Luckily, we know where the crushes hide out. Devil, fish, hollow. But Captain Sinbad's honour, and yours, help us rescue em' eh? Right, so this was just added into the game, like literally, not very long ago at all. And I thought I might as well, you know, do this quest real fast. Maybe real long, who knows, don't know how long it is. And get it over with and just, you know, see what it's like. I don't know, I'm excited. It's the first piece of content that has been added to Pirate Forever. Can we please load? No? Okay. Things are loading really slowly. Starting up the game took 5 million years. Apparently, there are a couple of things that have been given new talents and stuff. This is one of them. This companion here, this Sky Snake is level 70. It has been given a new talent. What am I going to give it? I don't know. Let's just give it tough, because why not? Again, things are going kind of slow. It's actually been given two new talents apparently. Jeez, we'll give it Doggie as well. Some of these, and another one, three, really? Really? Three new talents? What? That's a surprise. And yeah, apparently a whole bunch of other companions have been given upgrades. I don't believe Old Scratch has been nerfed. I don't believe so. There was talk about it. I don't know all of the bugs that have been fixed. The update notes haven't really come out yet, because it's literally only just dropped. So yeah, I'm not really sure on all of the things. But yeah, we're doing the quest because what I know is 100% real, almost likely. Yeah, so I thought might as well just hop on and do this. It's been a while. This is actually not exactly the video I was expecting to be recording today. I also was not expecting this to drop at all today. I was quite surprised when they tweeted out the announcement saying update for Pirate, and was it in the same day? I was not expecting it at all. Can we just keep zooming? We don't need to fight these cutthroats. No, we've done that too many times. We ain't need to do that no more. We are above that. We're above that. So Devilfish Hollow, for those of you who don't know, is a free-to-play area, which is very exciting. So I assume that means that this quest is free-to-play. I don't know the level of these things. I'm hoping they're not too low level. We're getting a lot of loading in, which is interesting. Like a lot of loading in. It could be because I haven't been here on my new computer, but I don't think so. I don't think so. I'm pretty sure I have. It could be wrong though. Could be wrong. 100% could be wrong. But yeah, I've been getting a lot more loading in here. Slightly strange. Slightly strange, but oh well. Not gonna complain. New update is new update. Also, apparently there's a new storm gate added into the Aragon Skyway, which is Valencia part one for those of you who do Valencia in parts. That's Skyway to Crocatopia. You can't go into it, obviously. But it's there, which is interesting. There's one in Polaris in Valencia part two, and there's now one in Crocatopia in Valencia part one. Very interesting. Let's see where this Captain Sinbad is. There he is. This place is huge, isn't it? Let's split up. We'll cover more ground. Pirate, shall I keep up with me? Okay, I'll try and keep up with you. Do we go down, or do we go up? Nope, we go down. We go down. We definitely go down. I assumed that would be the case, but you never know. Let's hope to not get pulled. I love how they just shove things in Devilfish Hollow when they're adding new stuff. It's kind of, you know, interesting. I might get pulled here. Wouldn't be surprised, nor would it be the first time that I get pulled in this. Yeah, okay. I'll be back in just a sec. Right, I am back. My bag is full, which is exciting, and I love that. But anyway, as I was saying, I love how they just shove things in Devilfish Hollow. You know... Over here! Smell that? Sinbad's wonderful and very expensive hair treatment. It's coming from that cave. That must be where they have it. Right, I don't really know what to expect from this fight. So... Yeah, we'll have to see what this is like. It's, of course, not ready for us. Makes sense, completely understandable. Uh-huh. Make it out alive. Well, we'll have to see about that one. What have we here? Challengers? You've entered the wrong ring, fools! Crush them, boys! Okay, so by the names, it looks like they're slightly good, which is interesting. So this is definitely, I would say, a level 70 quest. Slightly worried about this, though, soloing this. May not be exactly the best. Okay, so they are level 70. They have Venge 4, Repulse 2, Blazdom 3, First Strike 3, Relentless 2, Repulp 2. And these guys have a lot of scary stuff as well. This is great. I'm gonna see how much I actually remember about questing on a... On my... Hello. That's new. Oh, Karkira's got a different thing. I didn't notice that before. Beasts only. I don't know what counts as a beast, but yeah, he's got a new thing, which is interesting. Very interesting there. Yeah, we're gonna see how well I do with questing on a... Witch Doctor. Haven't done this in forever. So we could be bad. Hopefully not, but you never know. We could be bad. We'll see how this goes. I'm kind of nervous, especially for the last boss. I don't know how long this dungeon is. I'd assume there's more than one fight. I would assume... Hopefully... Oh no, we're already fizzling. This is not a good sign. This is really not a good sign. Oh no. I'm actually slightly worried about this now. Uh-oh. Spaghetti-o. Right, we'll do this. We'll do this. We'll do... You know what? Can we reduce crit? We're gonna reduce crit. I'm gonna see what this does. I don't know if we have any beasts. Should I do that? Or should I just do that? I'm just gonna... Actually, no, we're gonna wait for them to come a little bit. We're gonna do this. You know, we're gonna do that. We're gonna summon Heka as well. Cause sounds fun. Sounds fun. I don't know what we're doing. Yeah, okay, you spawn right over the back there. Fair enough. Understandable. Have a nice day. Have a nice day indeed. Um, right. We'll see what this does. I don't know if anything here counts as beasts. I don't know exactly what a beast count says. But it would be interesting to see, so... Oh, oh, okay. It counts as that thing. Okie dokie, interesting. So I guess it means summons, kind of, is what it means.   Heka will destroy... Uh oh. Heka's getting destroyed now. Oh no. This is not good. Oh no. This is so sad. Oh no. Heka did not last too long. This is so sad. This is absolutely distraught. Um, right. Do we do this, or do we just start hitting? I think we just start hitting this guy from a distance. Well, we can. We're gonna do this while we can. Um, you can actually do this. Um, you can do this too. And hopefully these two will be dead. That's the plan. Try and get these to our ASAP. Um, they did a decent amount of damage. I'm proud of that. Very good. Very good. Very nice. Very, very nice. Uh, this should do a lot as well. Okay. He's down. Poffo's down, which is good. Always good to have Poffu down. Um, this man's is nearly dead, which is good.  Um, Swords are scary. We don't like them. They absolutely rip through us. Mojo rising. Lovely. Mega hit is also very good. Very good. Um, and again, lovely, lovely, lovely. And a Mojo Echo. Love as he did. He's dead. Woo, nice. Blocked. Whoa. I don't think I've ever seen Carcuraeus block ever. This is a first, honestly. This is a first.  Please go away. Please, please die. I don't like you, Vito. I'm going to Vito, you Vito. Um, do we do this? That, that pillar's in the way, honestly. Don't like it. Zero out of 10. Um, we're going to summon a Skeleton over there, because why not, you know? Why not? I don't know. Why not? Um, we'll do that. Sounds good. Get some of that. Fat Damage on. Noice. Noice, noice, noice. Um, right. Skelly boy. Hopefully that'll draw this man's over to us. But not, like, all the way over to us that he destroys us. Um, especially Carcuraeus, who's surprisingly close. Quick adjust. Interesting. Interesting. Um, alright. Let's do this. Here, she has some decent damage. Hundred and... Okay. Um, wait, if I do this, are they going to be, like, high level as well? I'm intrigued. I don't know. I haven't played on my Witch Doctrine so long, so, like, this could be, like, completely known stuff. But, hey, I'm just, I'm just vibing, okay? I'm just vibing. I don't play Pirate enough to know these sort of things, okay? Especially on my Witch Doctrine. I don't think I've tucked my Witch Doctrine much since I maxed. Like, I just do random stuff on my Witch Doctrine. Um... Okay, of course I would fizzle. Of course I would fizzle. Ready to spell. That's right. You've got to get through my minions first. Veto. Yeah, that's right. You fight me. Fight me. Vengeance. Haha. Oh, they're blocked. Unlucky. Unlucky. We have so many that he's going to get wrecked. Watch him get wrecked here. Oh, they blocked him. This is so nice. Oh, who needs to fight yourself when you can just get minions to do it all for you? So good. Vengeance Strike. Lovely. Not really great, but whatever. He actually does a little bit of damage. Just a smidge. Just a smidgeon. Um... Okay. He's nearly dead, which is good. I mean, this strategy works. It works. It works. I'm quite surprised, honestly. What level are they? They're level 107. And he's 102. How are these guys have so little health? I don't know. I don't understand that at all. But whatever. They should kill. Um, we're going to do this just in case. Um, not that we need to, but because I want to, we're going to do it. It means no fizzles, so we'll take it. And GG. Easy fight. No valid targets. I know. I apologize. No scratch. You did well. Right. Gold, I did clear up my bag just before coming in. Oh, can I get down further because that always makes sense. Always a good idea. Um, what is down here, my friend? Not here, Ava. Blast. Wait. Sinbad's a tiger. Tigers are cats and cats hate water. No doubt they took Sinbad down that waterfall to ruin his lovely hair. Let's go. Okay. Let's go and find Sinbad. Sinbad the pirate. This is a great view. More crushes. Go get them. Oh my gosh. Do we have to, do we have to crush the crushes? I don't know about this. I don't know about this, man. I don't know. I don't know, man. I don't know about this, chief. Um, okay, we can't actually see over there. I don't think. Which is a problem. Slight annoyance. Um, we're just going to buff up for a little bit. We're going to, yeah, just buff up for a little bit. I think it sounds like the best idea here. Uh, we'll do this. We'll go done. Um, we'll see how this goes. Hopefully this is good. I assume it will be. Um, but we will see. We will see. There's some spell power. Lovely spooky scary spell power. I don't know why I like giving Momo that. I just do. It's just how it works. Just how I do. Honestly, just how I do. Probably not the best threats. I also do not have like, like the best gear ever. So please don't roast me too hard. Okay. Be, be kind to me in the comments. I beg of you. I beg of you to be kind of me. Um, it would be much appreciated. Or don't. That's also fine as well. I mean, I don't really care. At the end of the day, I don't really care. Um, but yeah. Hey, this is a chain and a half. This is a chain and a... No. Oh no. Momo's dead. Okay. Momo's not dead yet. This could kill though. Stop critting on him, please. Oh, okay. He didn't crit too much. That's good. Um, luckily these guys are all musketeers. So they're going to take a turn to hit. We need to get this guy out ASAP. So I'm probably going to get Momo to do that. Meanwhile. Meanwhile, I will do this and this. And you, my friend, can do this. And you can do this. And, um... Not the greatest, but we'll see. Hopefully that kills. That would be ideal. Um, I should have probably done the big spell power buff, but whatever. Whatever. I just wanted to save it because I didn't know how quick they would be. They were quick though. They were, they were speedy boys. Oh, so close. Just as well, I got carcarious to finish off the job. Just as well. That would have been very bad otherwise. Um, this is going to hurt a little bit. Yep, just a smidge. Just a smidge of pain in the morning. Nothing like a little bit of pain in the morning to get you going, you know? Oh, wait a second, am I poisoned as well? Ranged stun. Oh! I can still do this though. That's interesting. I don't know if that's a bug or not. Um, but hey, I'm going to take it, you know? Free damage is free damage and I will 100% take it.  We're not going to use that next. Let's go. Okay, that's really odd. That's actually very strange. Very strange indeed. Hey, I'm not going to complain. It worked. What I did worked somehow. Okay, good job. Good job, Momo. You're very good. Very proud of you. Very proud.  Not going to lie. That is a little bit OP. I've got, oh my gosh, and it can stack. Oh! This is pain. This is pain and suffering. Oh my gosh. Oh no. Oh. Oh well, it's okay. At least I know that spells can still hit. It's just range itself. Unlike base range is non-existent. Um, but that's fine I guess. Right, let's get the treasure. We're running around with thorns. Sounds fun. Wow, son. You're right. Wicked in a ring pirate. I mean the battlefield. Of course. I bet Sinbad's down here. Let's go. Right, let's go to Sinbad, who is apparently down here. He may, may not be. Don't know. Who goes there? Ain't you Sinbad's first mate? You've Sinbad the cat that his rats want to throw down. Take a corner and ring the bell. Wow. Let's do this. I miss, oh it's not even epic fight. Okay, interesting. I was expecting it to be an epic fight. Um, Swashbuckly has web switches. Interesting. Don't know what that is. Um, we're going to do this. We're going to summon our army. Right in there to distract them a little bit. Uh, we're going to do this and we're going to do this and we're going to do this. And we're going to just keep that. Just for now. Just for now. Um, I'm interested to see what he drops. Donoff is going to drop anything exciting. Um, if he does, that would be cool. Um, there's five new weapons apparently. So, that's cool. Um, unfortunately, um, apparently they're level 75. I'm looking on Twitter, um, because, you know, we're at the time where things are still, like, spoiling, coming through. Apparently you have to be level 75 plus for them, which is slightly interesting. Um, so yeah, if we get one, we'll see that it's level 75 plus and be like, what? How do we get there? Um, so I'm interested that I would say a good sign, unless it's actually a bug and they, I don't know how you would accidentally put a level 75 item on. Um, I really don't understand how you would accidentally do that. But hey, whatever. Not going to complain. Okay, Pet, this is your time. Sydney, this is your time to redeem yourself. It's been so long since we've seen you and we need to see what you're made of, buddy. Um, I don't know who I'm going to go for first. I kind of want this boss out. He seems scary. Um, like really scary, so I might try and focus him real, oh yeah, he's repossed, that can be kind of annoying. Yeah. Yeah, this boss is kind of scary. He does a lot of damage. I'm probably going to go focus him first. These, um, these buccaneers aren't too much of a worry in my opinion, at least at the moment and I wouldn't say. So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to do this, we're going to do this, we're going to then do, we can't do that. Um, kind of don't really want to move more up, but I will. I will. I will un-unwant to, but I will. I don't want to, but I will. We're going to see how much. Okay, he doesn't have too much magic resist which is good. Um, hopefully carcaries can do a decent amount of damage on him. Yeah, it's not too bad. Not too bad, yeah. Um, yeah, don't come too close to us though. Please don't, oh no, don't fizzle, this is bad. Oh no! Oh, the carcaries is going to be wrecked as soon as he comes here. Carcaries is absolutely wrecked, like I just know it. Whoever he hits is absolutely obliterate. He didn't hit anybody, what? Why did you not hit anybody?  I ain't going to complain, but silly.  Why would you do this? Like I said, not going to complain though. Okay, carcaries is a tank, I believe in him. Odd scratch however, not a tank. Not a tank at all. Um, at least mormo can go for a mojo river which is good, so I'll take that. I'll 100% take that. Um, our pet is getting wrecked, but hey, I'm not going to complain because pet's job is to get wrecked so we don't have to. Unfortunately, that bladestorm is not the nicest. Not the nicest. But hey, right, let's go for a mojo river from scratchy boy, not scratchy boy. Mormo, um, we'll do this. We going to do this just to get him dead, I think. And honestly, I'm just going to do that. Sounds like a plan, really. What could go wrong? I say that now and everything is going to go wrong. Just watch it. Watch it, everything go wrong. 100% guaranteed. I'm actually quite surprised. This is probably one of the more easier fights. Um, so, yeah, I'm not, I'm, you know, interesting quest. I don't know how long it is left. Um, but hey, we've got one left. That fight wasn't too difficult. I was, I was thinking it was going to take a lot longer than it did. Um, because I actually have to pick up people from airport and like, very soon because it's like 9pm here, whereas in the United States, it's like, like 3am and people are staying up late for this. Um, good on them. Good on them. Good on them. But what I would say is if you haven't played this and want to play this, it seems to be completely free to play. So you should play it. Why would you not? Honestly, why would you not? It's, it's a fun wee little quest. Do I get anything interesting from this fight? Maybe? Nope. Oh, that wasn't the boss. Oh, this is very sad. You! With those puns though. Oh my gosh. Right, let's do this fight. This will be an epic one, right? Oh, it's not an epic fight. Okie dokie. Good to know. Um, right, he has scary things. Level 73. These guys are level 72 and level 73. Makes sense. Right, what are we going to do? Um, we don't actually have anything too good to do. We'll do this. We'll do this. We will do this. We'll do this. Um, I don't really want a Gale Wind. Could be useful later. So we'll just keep that for now. Um, we're going to quickly Ghost Whale. Take him down to nearly about a quarter health, which is good. Took him down a quarter. Not too bad. Um, we'll do our normal buffing. Unfortunately, we didn't have any chickens. Very sad. I just want me chickens. I want me chickens, man. Just give me the chickens. Give me the chicken. Chicken, chicken. Oh. That did so much damage. What the heck? What the heck? I'm so confused. How did that do like all of his Does he have like no like mojo, resist or whatever? Like, that's crazy. That did so much. What the actual Maybe he just had no health. I don't know. Um, but he's what you like to call a crushed a crushed station. Huh. Get it? Because he's a crust station. Yeah, I know that was pretty funny. I thought I'm pretty hilarious too, honestly. Um, we're going to do this and you, my friend, you're my friend can do this. Actually what I'm going to do is I'm going to do this. I'm going to do this. That sounds better. Actually, I need to kill this guy. We're going to do this. Done. That sounds better. That sounds like a better, better option. There we go. He's dead. Bye. Um, very good to get him out quickly, I would think. Because the vulture guys, I mean, we can we can deal with them. We've deal with them previously. So they shouldn't be too big of a deal. There we go. Just too left. A musket and a buck. Not too bad. Plus they're all in range of us mostly. So we should be fine. Um, hopefully fingers crossed. Mojo Echo again. Blocked. Unlucky. Ooh. Another Mojo Echo. Lovely. Cablamo. Cablamo. Another one. And another one. Good job.   What? How did I block? Oh my gosh. This is crazy. Crazy stuff. Crazy, crazy. Um, did we do this? We did this. I don't do a lot of damage on him.  And you can do that. Done. Lovely. Lovely. This will do mass. maybe not mass mass but pretty decent pretty decent hit there this mojo echo is gonna do a lot as well or mojo storm whatever that whatever it's called i don't know yeah that's heaps heaps don't fizzle good don't fizzle that's not fizzle so that's fine gg easy clap is that it is that is that all we have was that the thing we got a banana salad oh i should have known the pirate who took down the armada would be a monster in the ring take my belt it's in the shrine up there the belt no no no we're here for sin bad my captain he'd never go in that shrine so tell us in great detail where sin bad is you villain sin bad that weakling that cat's not here sibling and he never was because if he was i would have crushed him oh yeah that sounds like sin bad did he find some way out i'll just go and see what's up pirate you uh guard the door thanks bye maybe i'm woozy from all the smackdown you just laid on me but something about where that rat's cooking stinks oh yeah um yeah i i agree oh yeah it stinks are we gonna have to fight sin bad is that what's gonna no surely that's not gonna happen surely not right oh job you and the pirate play it perfect we took the belt while old pinch your brain was distracted yo i would expect to come ever lads lower the rope captain captain sin bad hey sin bad took my belt and he didn't even have the guts to fight for it step up to the crust stations crust station everybody take your corner oh okey dokey this is interesting this turned from a weird weird story into an even cooler story this is the epic fight i was expecting an epic fight some somewhere along the lines and this is it we finally made it um it looks like we have teammates no we do not have teammates we have um we have to defeat everybody okay we have a whole bunch of things um all ranging in level and difficulty we're gonna send out our minions and our other minions we're just gonna we're gonna just like vibe for a little bit longer in this one um yeah i think that's probably the best idea um yeah honestly think that we're just gonna take this one a little bit slower because there's no point rushing as much um especially if we've got a lot of things to deal with and i think just sending out all of our minions to start with is a good idea just to soften them up a little bit you know get their crits out of the way or something like that i don't know i don't know um yeah distract them see like this this see this is this is why we distract them um and this is the exact reason why we distract them with minions just kidding he is too smart crush station is too smart for minions he's like no not today champ no oh no oh no oh no oh no big yikes just go for the minions yeah you get distracted by the minions dudes do it do it do it do it do it do it do it right uh what is this um okay not too bad not too bad they can't run that much which is good uh they're gonna get wrecked but that's fine i guess bye bye vengeance strike oops he's dead unlucky hey they're just sacrificing themselves for me and that's okay i'm i'm a fan of that honestly oh that is unfortunate yikes he really stood no chance he really stood no chance geez old scratch minion is probably the best of them all honestly so much health so good we're gonna do this we gonna do this we gonna do this and we gonna do this um okay interesting that um carcarious thing doesn't actually do anything and it doesn't use it if we don't have anything to use it on which is handy dandy very good to know what do we get we get um intuition and ready spell and first track and repel borders and quick draw and over nice that's actually very useful very very useful actually um not that intuition comes in too handy here but we'll take it we will take it that's for sure ready spell for everybody is very good though like that is op that is op especially since they're all coming towards us so that's actually why i saved it for another round just because i knew the round after that probably do some sketchy stuff yeah you hit my pet you'd do that since when did my pet have repel borders i don't even know this stuff i don't even at first strike wow this is how much i play on this character like seriously just never never ever this guy does a lot of damage what the heck please don't kill us we've done so well so far oh he's dead okay yeah do some damage go more i blocked but he has job those rules yeah that's right yeah red spell unlucky ready spell unlucky attack unlucky pit dead rip wrist and pepperonis i'm surprised more people haven't come for us i'm very surprised by this actually i'm very shocked and surprised mainly shocked but also surprised it's quite sad really quite sad um oh no he's dead man's dead so sad he had so much to live for and he just did on the street very sad um yeah you know what we need some cool ranch dudes in here i 100 think that um we'll do this sounds fun sounds great we'll do this we're gonna do this and um you are gonna do this because we're getting flanked a little bit and we ain't like flanks we ain't like getting flanked you know it's just not really in my um idea not a good idea to get flank there is bandit toad he will serve us well for sure 100 guaranteed nothing will ever go wrong we are now full health very good very exciting old scratch given that good buff this is going to a little bit of damage just a little bit should have probably put car curious on those guys but hey it's good to get those ones down a little bit as well um just to anger them because i like angering everybody that comes into my radius of battle this is so sad oh my gosh the fizzles oh no momo is dead yep we cannot stand this we cannot stand this beating and momo definitely can't oh no rip momo r.i.p he will be missed he will he will be missed this is so sad this is so sad i am distraught oh my gosh oh my gosh um anyway moving on i guess red spell lovely oh i love this this this is so cool yeah it does a lot as well nice nice nice nice um block lovely we block these we block these stop fizzling oh my gosh we have a severe fizzling situation in our midst very sad very very sad um we're getting absolutely um i don't know the correct way to say this but surrounded is probably the best word to describe what's happening to us right now um and it worries me a little bit not gonna lie it worries me we're gonna do this um i mean that would be handy but also this is just absolute beast mode so we're gonna do that and um you my friend you're my friend can do this actually you can do that that sounds good that sounds very good actually he's getting hit by two we'll do that instead nah yeah we'll do that hopefully he doesn't fizzle if he fizzles you know it's kind of a game over and we'll just be very sad but hopefully okay she's dead lovely that's one less one less to worry about old scratch gonna kill at least two nearly three this is an epic which is lovely it means he does not fizzle um man's not quite dead yet though very sad elobano not dead very sad okay yeah you go for you go for the banditode sounds like a good plan works every time ready spell please just stop dodging stop fizzling we don't we don't do that here we don't like that we don't like these mojo echoes plz he didn't attack very good makes it better for us um um what do we do let's go for this i guess that'll kill all of them you can do this you can do this these two should probably die um we're gonna just cut that i don't want that one i don't really want that one he didn't die oh no oh no maybe car curious will kill and no he won't kill but maybe he could mojo echo does he have that i don't know what he has anymore i just he doesn't have that he just doesn't have the crit one mojo rising that's what i know these things i know these things probably maybe just stop hitting me please just just don't just stop get some help what we'll do here's the plan of attack what we're gonna do is we're going to do this on him he's not gonna die but that's okay we're gonna do this and you're gonna do this do you have um mojo echo jiv um mojo echo okay we'll do that sounds interesting that'll get them off our tail a little bit get it because they're rats tail ha funny um yeah hopefully one will die both won't i fizzled of course of course he fizzles man's wood fizzle wouldn't he man's wood fizzle mojo echo coming in clutch though just like i thought it would tombs nearly dead very good very cool one down which is good i mean that is the only one that i assumed would be down so i'm not too upset by that can these guys oh my gosh these guys have so much dodge like what the heck our fizzle is so bad in this fight geez i'm actually surprised how well we're holding up though like i'm really surprised i thought this was going to be an absolute um a terrible mess especially since we haven't even used any chickens i don't think um so yeah that's good um carcarius is kind of car deadiest um which we don't like so we'll do this for now get some of that on lovely nice and then we do a double hit lovely tombs is dead just flair left very nice should have honestly probably put carcarius on flair just to get some extra damage on him um in case he did that oh should we do cookies now we're not going to do cookies um i don't want to do this either i kind of want to do this but also not at this we're not going to do this we're not going to do this we're just going to go for absolute damage right now we're just gonna freaking go for it it's go time it's go time boys it's go time super hit lovely love to see it half health nice very good damage very very good no fizzle amazing decent damage mojo echo do some more of that please yeah more mojo the better that's what i always say i love the spells the smell of mojo in the morning it's hey just passed okay fair enough i i feel like these guys pass a little bit too much not gonna lie um i'm not gonna complain about it but they pass a little bit just a little bit just a smidgen right gg we did it maybe this is the end possibly been twice in one day i gotta hand it to you barrett your stone cold seem bad he left without me how could he betray me his loyal first mate i'm so mad i could hey pirate i have an idea it's soak outside oh okay what do we get what do we get from that um we got that let's just look at this valentine amulet nothing too good nothing too good um kind of just equilla gears mixed with a little bit of valencia part two gear um yeah nothing too seriously crazy hopefully this doesn't result in a fight because you know we're running out of health really slightly running out of health don't think i will though i can check sim bad down pirate i call it a few favors and we'll know right where to find him we've got to go get him for the boat no no no this is about moving the boat sim bad he's already famous enough the real prize is what the boat can get him it's the thing sim bad don't need any boat to tell him how great a pirate he is he's got ego to spare the boat unlocks the real prize a fabulous treasure greatest in a spiral help me trek sim bad down i'll get revenge and you get to keep the eye of the lyga to be continued interesting well i guess that is it for today um thank you for watching hope you enjoyed um especially like subscribe if you enjoyed and i will catch you all next time and as always remember to craft outside the box


Hello there! In this video we are going to make an NPC that players can interact with, it will pop a label that will display some dialogue to the player so they know more about the word building of our game. And for that we are going to choose an interactive ARR2D, which is a recipe, a recipe is basically a design pattern that I made, that an ARR2D, an interactive ARR2D is basically an area in the game or maybe an object in the game that players can interact with and it will trigger an invade. So they are the bread and butter of most of the adventuring elements that we are going to add in this project. So without further ado, let's get to the video. Before we dive into action, I just want to say that this video is sponsored by my platform essentials cookbook. The cookbook is a 180 plus pages book all about making platform games with got an engine of course, but with a twist. Instead of going through step by step instructions that most of them you can figure out yourself, I want to present you 12 recipes. As I said, the recipes are basically design patterns that we can find in this specific case on platforming games. So they are made to solve some common problems and skyrocket the production time of your platform games. So you don't have to start from zero. You already have some problems solved. So you can basically just focus on the content creation of your game. Currently, the ebook is a three pledge tiers product. So if you want the PDF files, which is the ebook itself, you can pay 799 and you get access to one of the highest quality content out there guys. So the ebook packs what is each recipe, where you can find them on modern platforming games, how to achieve them. So this is the more tutorial part of the book. And why do they work? So what's the design behind them? What is the engineering behind them? So all of this packed on each chapter of the ebook guys, this, this is amazing. If you just want to accelerate the production time of your platform games, so you can level up the speed of your production, and you can implement stuff by yourself, you can pay five as a break. So for 1299, you can get access to the assets pack, which is what we are going to use in this very video to achieve our goal. And if you want to see things in context, so how I can use this recipe, how I can implement that, how, how do this, how does this recipe actually behave in an actual game, you can pay two extra bucks. So for 1499, you get access to the very source code of the game that we are making in this series. Guys, I hope you enjoyed it. Thank you so much for your spot. Go there, the link will be in the description so you can go straight to itch.io and get your copy of the ebook. Click there, buy the book. And without further ado, let's get to the video. So this is what we got currently. We have this big sound, which is basically a piece of the revolution. And we have a label that it should pop. Let's see. Yeah, this is the dialogues that it should have. This is another recipe that I have on my first ebook, the top seven good recipes. This is called the event player. It's basically how you can use the animation player to display a sequence of events on your game. This is a very cool recipe as well. But here we are basically changing the text so we have stored the dialogue text in sequence, right? And here we have the dialogue panel, which it will pop and display the text that is saved on the event player there.  And well, this is all here, but the player can interact with this NPC. So how sad is that, guys? The NPC can talk to the player. The player will never understand what's happening behind the gameplay story. So they don't understand the whole building of this game. We need to make it so that the player can interact with this with this NPC so they can understand the story building of our game, right? So for that, we are going to import the interactive R2D. Let's clean this up and find it. What is it interactive R2D? So let's import this to our project. Okay, the recipe itself is basically an R2D with some instructions to warn about the interactions that the player will be able to do with this area. As you can see, it requests an interactive input action, which is called, in this case, interact, but you can use whatever input action that you want. So for that, I will go to the project, project settings, input map and create the interact action. And let's say that it will be the F key, in this case, close. And let's instantiate one of these as the pixen child, as pixen child. Instance, instantiate. And let's add a collision shape. R2D. It will be a rectangle shape. What is it? Rectangle shape here. So I want to, I like to color code this shape so I know which system they refer to for interactive R2Ds. I like the purple color. So now that we have the interactive R2D setup, we can use its signals to trigger some events on the pixen. Here we have some methods. So show exclamation balloon, hide exclamation balloon and run the dialogue. And we are going to call each one of those using a signal from the interactive R2D. So connect this, connect this to the pixen on interactive R2D interacted. We are going to run the dialogue. So once the players press the interaction button, it will run the dialogue. But once the players are close to this area, so once the interaction is available, I want it to actually just pop the balloon. So show the exclamation balloon. Show exclamation balloon. And if the player is not on the area that they can interact with, if the interaction is unavailable, I want to un-pop to hide the balloon, the exclamation balloon. So let's hide it. Hide exclamation balloon. Okay. And believe it or not, probably this is all that it takes to make this happen. So let's play this scene. If I get close to the pixen, yeah, we have the balloon popped. I will press the F key and we have the dialogue running. I will press F again so we have the next dialogue. I used to be just pixen without dreams and desires, but this was before the revolution. And if we press again, it should hide or not. Yeah. So probably this is something here. So yeah, the problem is probably here. We should take rid of this and we should un-pop the label itself. So we can copy and paste this here, but instead play it backwards. So it will hide the label. And we should probably take rid of this as well, because this is not making anything useful. We can manually wrap this value. So dialogue index is equal to zero. And we are going to wait for the animation to finish duplicating this line and wait here and return from the function. Because when we enter in this test, when this is true, we will reach the end of the dialogue. So there's no reason to play all of these lines, to compute these lines as well, to process these lines here. So if we test this, I will interact with this pixen. I used to be just a pixen without dreams and desires, but this was before the revolution and it will hide the label. So we can interact with it again. So if we move away, it should hide as well. Yeah, perfect. And if we move close, yeah, there we have it. As I say, the interactive R2D is the core, the bread and butter of all of the adventure elements that we are going to add, moving forward in this project. So for instance, here I have a crate that once the player breaks, it will install a diamond. Let's open the diamond here. The diamond is basically an object that players can get close and pick it up. But first they will display, the diamond will display a dialogue saying that the players should take it with them, because they are an important precious object to take in the journey. And I did the exact same thing, the exact same process here. I used it some signals from the interactive R2D and it will display this dialogue and once the player interact with it again, it will pick it up. So here I am using the spawn R2D, which is another recipe from my first ebook. This is very versatile as well. It basically creates objects in the game world itself. So it adds objects with position rotation and scale as well. Let's test this level now. So I'll break this crate. A diamond will spawn. I can interact with the diamond. It looks precious. Gonna take that one with me and we interact with it again. And we added the diamond to the players inventory. So the interactive R2D is so versatile that this is the base of all of the recipes that we are going to use moving forward in this series. So for instance, the portal 2D is an interactive R2D that once the players interact, it will teleport the player to another area or even another level in the game. This is what we are going to use to make doors teleport the player to another level, to another scene in our game. The checkpoint 2D is but an interactive R2D that once the players interact with it, it saves the player progress in the level. So once the player dies, they will be teleported back to the last checkpoint that they interacted with. And the switch 2D is but an interactive R2D that players interact with and it will change the state of another object. So let's say if the player pulls up a lever, a lifter will lift the player to the top of the level, for instance. So the interactive R2D is really a pattern very valuable to learn. So in the next video, we are going to create a portal 2D, some portal 2Ds, so that the player can move back and forward in the game world itself. So see you there, thank you so much for watching, keep developing and we'll see you the next time.


schedule. We have some of the items on the left-hand side, although this is not the full schedule page. This has given us a layout of the standard deduction, the hurdle that we would have to clear, dependent largely on the filing status. Single filers having a standard deduction, $13,850, married filing joint, doubling to $27,700, head of household in the middle $20,800, and if over an age or blind, you would then have the added standard deduction depending on if one or two of those items are checked off for single versus one through four for two people if married and head of household qualified widow and so on and so forth. All right, so now we're going to be continuing on with the state taxes. You will recall that in a federal income tax system, the general idea of an income tax is that we should be able to deduct those things that we have to consume in order to generate revenue. So we're taxed not on gross income, but net income, a concept most clearly seen with the schedule C business deductions where we have in essence an income statement income minus the expenses we have to spend in order to generate the income, the net income than being the thing we apply the tax to the schedule A has a bunch of things that kind of deviate from that standard rule where we have personal items that we get a deduction from for whatever reason in the past. Now this often comes up with complexities related to them. We're now looking at the state taxes. Remembering state taxes and local taxes are different than the federal income taxes. Clearly we can't deduct federal income taxes typically, at least like the income tax in order to then calculate the income tax because we would result in a circle reference. But what about the state taxes? Normally the answer would be in a pure kind of income tax system. No, you wouldn't get to deduct them because they're personal unless they were spent for the business. You bought something business related and had to pay state taxes. Then you would think it would be like a business expense. But the IRS for whatever reason said we're going to deduct the state taxes. And so now we have the capacity to deduct certain state and local taxes. We talked about in the past, some of those being the state tax like an income tax that the state might set up to take care of the things they are responsible for such as local police firefighting and so on and so forth versus the federal government that should be mainly focused on protecting us military. And then and then on the local side, they could pay for that with an income tax or possibly like a sales tax, whatever they wanted to do. We talked about those options. What about like real estate? That's another big one where we have basically a property tax type of situation on the main piece of property for most people that being a home. And this is probably one of the big factors that really helped the itemized deductions of the state taxes to stay in place on the schedule A. And I would think it's because of the lobbyist. My skeptical mind would say, well, it's because all of the people that are in the housing industry wants subsidies for housing. Therefore, mortgage interest, a personal expense and the real estate taxes related to the purchase of the home become very beneficial for those those interests. Right. So now we have the taxes on the home. Can we deduct the taxes on the home? Remembering that usually it's going to be a more well off individuals that have the ability to itemize because they're going to have more itemized deductions. And the main thing that pushes people over from taking the standard to itemized deductions is the ownership of the home primarily because of the loan or mortgage related to it and the interest expense on that mortgage, which could be deductible, but also significant to the ownership of the home are real estate taxes, which are often quite high in many areas. However, remember the real estate taxes have been limited a lot in a few years ago. So if you're in a high cost of living area, it's quite common that you could get capped on the deductibility of real estate taxes as they're included to like total state taxes. So that's something to keep in mind. Also just keep in mind that you probably don't want to buy a house just so that you can itemize your deductions unless you've you've really calculated it out because there could be a big gap between the standard deductions you're taking and being able to itemize. And so we might touch in on that when we get to the software example problem, but just realize if someone says, hey, you get to deduct all 6,000 of the taxes, plus you get to deduct the real the loan interest on the mortgage interest. And that's true. And you say, well, that's like 20,000 of a deduction. But if you were married before, you still might not be clearing it might not be enough to clear the itemized deductions or barely clear the itemized deductions. So the actual amount of benefit that you're getting could be substantially less than the itemized deductions that you're claiming on the Schedule A. So we'll see that more in the example problems tip. So if you are a homeowner who receives assistance under a state housing finance agency hardest hit fund program or an emergency homeowners loan program, you could see publication 530 for the amount you can include online 5b.


My name is Ryan Mata and my deal is don't touch my car. Why am I a car enthusiast? Honestly growing up with my dad, always cleaning the car, putting parts on there, just modifying things, standing like that. I just stuck with it so as soon as I got my first car, started doing my little stuff to it and it just started building up from there. I have a 2013 Volkswagen GTI Drivers Edition, fully bolt-on cop stage two, running air lift performance, 3P management, two compressors all done by BD Tuning with a custom trunk set up here in Austin, Texas. My favorite mod on my car would have to be my custom sports shifter I had made from overseas. Definitely a centerpiece in the interior. I cannot stand fingerprints, you know, it's like I'm OCD, so it makes me even worse. All that hard work and labor that my friends helped me put in, the stuff you can't give back. I hope it shows people that I care about what I own and everything around me. What does it mean to be a car enthusiast? You have to share that same passion with everybody around you. Enjoy what you're doing, meeting the people. My car wouldn't be the way it is if it wasn't for that. It's definitely more than just the car, it's a lifestyle really.


This study investigates the temporal evolution of coupled systems by decomposing predictive information about a target system into amounts quantifying internal and transferred information using self-entropy, transfer entropy, cross entropy, and conditional self-entropy. The linear Gaussian approximation is used to compute these measures in benchmark systems with known dynamics, and their behavior is studied during head-up tilt and paste-breathing protocols to infer causal effects and interpret alterations with changing experimental conditions. This article was authored by Luca Faze, Alberto Porta, and Giannomenico Nallo.


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Let's see, where are we? Yes, industrial heartland. When I say industrial heartland, what comes to mind? What do you think of? Well, almost everybody in America would think of the Midwest. They think of, I don't know, Michigan, Wisconsin. They think of Illinois. They think of Ohio, right? This is the industrial heartland of America. This is where industrial plants, and we build stuff from cars to machines to steel to all of that stuff. This is industrial heartland. And yet, that has changed over the last, what is it, 40 years. The industrial heartland of the United States has actually shifted today, in our world today. There is just as much manufacturing heavy manufacturing that you associate with industrial. In the American South, as it is in the Midwest. So today, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, South Carolina, and of course, Texas, that's where the action is. That's when industrialization is happening. Today, there's many industrial workers in the South, as they are in the Midwest. Starting in the 1980s, companies like Nissan, Toyota, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, all built plants in the Midwest. They did not go to Michigan partially to avoid unions. And partially because the Midwest, still to this day, has relatively low energy costs, generally has low living costs, and has a significant amount of labor. Indeed, the biggest problem in the South today is the shortage of labor. What is super interesting about this is that Biden's projects, Biden has passed a number of big bills that involve huge, massive, multi-billion. By the way, thank you, Bjorn. We'll get to Bjorn in a minute, but he just took us way past our goal for today. But he has passed these bills that involve massive investments and massive subsidies for industrialized progress, whether it's EV batteries, electric cars, or whether it's solar panels, or whether it is chip manufacturing. And almost all those investments are going into the South. Now, some are going into the Midwest, but most of them are going into the South. What is it? Toyota is building this factory that is the size of 1,200 football stadiums, football fields. That's just the size of it, and they're building it in Kentucky, right? And it's gonna produce EV batteries, right? So all of these subsidized projects go into the South. And what's interesting about that politically, if you think about poke barrel, poke barrel is where congressmen get the administration to hand over the poke to districts that support them. And here almost all the poke barrel is going to Republican districts, which is super interesting and probably not what Biden intended. But that is a fact. He didn't say to companies all over the world, if you build these factories, we'll give you subsidies only if you do it in Democratic districts. Maybe you should have had that. But he said, if you build it, we will subsidize it. So they're building and they're building all over the place. Chips, mostly Arizona, land is cheap. Water might be a problem, but land is cheap. Energy is relatively cheap. And seismically stable, not like California. And close to California, close to California, where they need the tech and they can get people moving there with the skills. But electric cars, electric batteries, all of that, mostly Kentucky, Tennessee, you know, south. They're south. Funnily enough, maybe funnily is not right. Ironically enough, guess why electricity is so cheap in those places? It's cheap because Kentucky, for example, produces 70% of electricity using coal. Coal that they dig right there, right? So a lot of these high tech factories, EV and everything, who are supposed to be clean, actually using electricity produced by coal, not exactly goes consistently with how they're thinking. Anyway, here we are. And a lot of it has to do, a lot of the energy around the south has to do with where people are moving to. It's not as much about unions anymore because only 6% of America's private sector workers are unionized as of 2022. So unions are not a factor really much anyway. But Texas has a lot of people moving into it. Georgia, Tennessee, Carolinas, are major magnets of people moving there, not just retirees, but working-age people. And if anything, there is a shortage of labor in all these places, in spite of people moving to them. But if they open up something in the Midwest, those are states that are shrinking and the labor shortages are much larger. So just thought it was interesting. Industrial Heartland no longer the Midwest, but the South. Thank you for listening or watching the Iran book show. If you'd like to support the show, we make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me. You get value from listening, you get value from watching. Show your appreciation. 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What's better one takedown here welcome back to a new video if you guys are following my journey into a new career You guys might already know this and that is I am going for a security guard right now And then in the future I'm going to be applying for a CBSA Canada's border recently over the past few weeks I've had plenty of job interviews for a security guard and going into them I was extremely nervous because I haven't had a job interview in over six years So today I decided I'm gonna be sharing a few job interview tips to maybe help you guys if you guys are going for a Job interview very soon. Hopefully this may help, but let's get right into it So for the first tip don't be late try to be early if you can't arrive early Try to at least arrive on time if you arrive late to a job interview The interviewer may think that these are your regular habits and if they were to hire you you will always be late to your job So it is not going to look good on you if you are late to the job interview I would honestly recommend going early if anything the next tip is to prepare for the interview and to go over Questions my job interviews were both of them over an hour away So that gave me plenty of time on my way there while I was driving to prepare for the job interviews by doing this You're gonna prepare yourself So whenever you are asked questions in the interview you already know what to say you already know how to answer You don't have to stumble to try to come up with an answer By doing this it will also help you out with your nerves because you're gonna know what to say whenever you are asked it and To me that makes it so much easier doing your interview if you already know what you're going to say The next tip is how you dress now if you're applying for a job and going for an interview for something like retail or flipping burgers You don't necessarily have to show up in a full suit Maybe just nice shoes nice pants and a nice button-up shirt something simple like that But if you're going for a position that is more professional for example security guard like myself I wore dress shoes dress pants and a nice white dress shirt That just made me look a lot more professional going into the interview You don't necessarily have to dress in a full suit But you do have to dress up a little bit going into a job interview the next tip is don't lie Be honest now This doesn't just mean for your job interview But also on your resume because if you lie during your interview or on your resume If you were hired in the future those lies may catch up with you For example, if you lie about knowing how to do something and then in the future you're asked to do something It's not going to look good on you. Those lies will catch up with you The next tip is if you do not understand a question that you are asked Simply ask them to clarify. There was a few questions in my interview that were worded kind of differently So it simply said I'm sorry What do you mean by and repeated part of the question that way you're not answering a question that they did not ask You're answering exactly what they wanted you to answer the question that they're asking you You will be able to answer it right the next tip is don't be shy to mention any future goals that you have Usually you're asked a question something along the lines of where do you see yourself in five years? If you do have plans for the future and maybe another career in mind It doesn't hurt to mention that in the job interview because that's what I did and it actually helped me get the job It made them know that I do have plans for other things in the future Maybe bigger things and it lets them know that if I'm willing to do that then I'll be doing this job very well The next tip is to try to relate any questions that you're asked to previous work experience And if you do not have any previous work experience, maybe relate it to school experience So for example if you're asked to explain a stressful situation and how you dealt with it If you did have a stressful situation at your previous work, then mentioning that will help you answer the question It honestly looks a lot better on you than just saying that you don't know or something like that Next is to listen to what they are saying and what they are asking you This will help you answer the question So you're not answering something that they were not asking you the next tip is to be well Manored whenever you go into the job interview shake their hand and introduce yourself and whenever you're leaving the interview Thank them for their time and the last thing that I want to mention is just because you're going into a job interview Doesn't necessarily mean you're going to get the job I honestly wouldn't get your hopes up and I would keep your options open Maybe there's other job interviews that you have planned don't get your sights set on one particular job But this also means that just because you go into a job interview doesn't mean you have to accept that job Let's say you were to go into two different job interviews and they were to both hire you Which everyone is better and whichever one that you would rather work for you can go for that one And you can decline the other one just because you go into a job interview doesn't mean you have to accept that job So these have been some of my job interview tips I hope you guys do enjoy and I hope this has helped somebody if they are going in for a job interview Very soon. Honestly myself I was extremely nervous going into my job interviews recently because I haven't had a job interview in six years and I was really stressed out going in for my first job interview But I ended up getting the job and I'm extremely excited to start in the future I am going to be sharing about my new job with you guys Maybe how my first day went and different things like that, but I am gonna leave this video here I will see you guys in the next one. Please take care. Peace


So many people have been speaking about the climate crisis. So many things have been put on paper. But the real question is why is it that we're still not acting at the scale and speed that is necessary? The extreme weather events that the scientists have long connected to the climate crisis are becoming far more frequent and far more destructive. For 150 years, we've built up a world based on the assumption that we can exploit the planet for free and it translates to very dramatic impacts happening right as we speak. The climate crisis is a threat multiplier, which means it exacerbates existing inequities in our society. The impacts are felt most deeply by black, indigenous and communities of color. We're living through an explosion of inequality. We need to remember we're on the same planet and this is the planet that we need to make sustainable for the whole of humanity. Climate change is impacting food security as well as political stability in many nations around the world. Five years ago, there were 80 million people marching towards starvation. That number jumped to 135 million. What caused the jump? It was a man-made conflict like in Ukraine compounded with climate shocks. No one is as vulnerable to climate change as farmers are. If you talk about transformation, the first thing they want to know is what must I do on my farm? We know that this transition will require a fast adoption of a lot of new technologies and the question today is how to find the appropriate way to find this technology. To put a number around it, it's an extra of two and a half to three trillion dollars a year of additional finance that we have to find in order to get those emissions down. Financial institutions have a lot of roles to play to bring the advice and provide the financing to make these transitions happen. Younger generations are demanding a sense of purpose. They want to look at companies and say, I am investing with you all for this reason. With the upcoming two cops taking place in Africa and the Middle East, we have this tremendous opportunity to put emerging markets at the forefront of our collective response to climate change. Being for international treat has to be part of the solution. How do we all get together to talk about a global carbon price that can guide us and help us to decarbonize the world? The solutions are there. What we need is governments to regulate, to invest, and we need business to act with values. History will look at us, people, politicians, corporate leaders. These times require not only solutions but speed. There is nowhere else to look than the mirror. We are the ones that need to do this. Hello everyone. I'm Catherine Boudreau, Insider's Senior Sustainability Reporter. In March of this year, 175 countries struck a historic agreement to negotiate a global plastics treaty. This was described as the most significant round of climate diplomacy since the Paris Agreement in 2016. Only 9% of plastic ever gets recycled. The rest ends up in landfills or enters the environment. Some 8 million metric tons of plastic enters the ocean every year according to the UN. This harms marine life, public health, and it also exacerbates the climate crisis because plastics are made of fossil fuels. The framework agreed to at the UN Environment Assembly outline the scope of a plastics treaty, including that it would be legally binding, cover the full life cycles of plastic, and also that it would finance developing nations who want to invest in infrastructure and technology so that they can help solve this problem. Since then, Norway and Rwanda have launched a high-ambition coalition. This is a group of countries that are working together ahead of the first round of negotiations in Uruguay in November. I'm joined by two of the leaders of this coalition. Jean-Doc is the Rwandan Minister, Environment Minister, and Espen Barlaida is the Norway's Environment Minister. Thank you both for being here. So I'll just start by asking how many countries are involved in this coalition right now and what are you aimed to achieve? And Jean-Doc, maybe I'll start with you. Currently we have 27 countries that join the coalition and we look forward to more countries to join the coalition because plastic pollution is a planetary crisis that everyone should be motivated to fight. So we look forward to have more members joining. What is the ambition of this coalition? Well, you know, as you very correctly said, the world came around in Nairobi in March to agree on a very solid mandate for negotiations towards a legally binding treaty that will deal with the entire lifespan of plastics. Not because we want rid of plastic, but we want to have a more responsible relationship to this man-made product, which is so useful, but also so harmful if it leaks into nature. And that means we need to look into how we produce plastics to take hazardous materials out of it, to make sure we produce plastic that can be recycled. The IE is recyclable, but also that we collect and recycle and use again and try to avoid the leakage to nature. So this is a mandate that the entire world agreed on in March. And then what Shendak Madhya Mavaria, the minister of Rwanda and myself are doing is that we co-chair a high-ambition coalition to support that work. So the mandate is already there, but you always need somebody to bring it forward, to remember what we now call the spirit of Nairobi, of this great meeting so that we move towards a very successful outcome because after all what was agreed in the UN Environmental Assembly is still just a mandate to negotiate. We still have to do the negotiations. So we will be like stewards of this process and trying to make sure that we keep to our promises and make sure that the treaty is as solid as it should be. And how would you define high ambition? And you know, is there certain criteria that is required to enter this working group? Yeah, high ambition. It means that as you know, every journey starts by one step. So we had to get that momentum after Nairobi and to make sure that what we said in Nairobi, what we decided in Nairobi is implemented and somebody has to take the flag of that decision. And motivate other members of the society. And that was Rwanda and Nairobi that decided to be the flag bearers of that coalition. To make sure that we are not only ambitious, we are highly ambitious. To make sure that the negotiations to the treaty start and start with different members of the community, be different members of the society. And being high ambitious should start from home. Start from home for us to be able to have that leadership responsibility and moral responsibility to involve other members. Because with this plastic pollution crisis, you cannot only be ambitious, you have to be highly ambitious to be able to curb this. It is a pandemic. When you see what plastic pollution is doing to the lives of our people, because when we talk about environment, we talk about people. When we are told by scientists that by 2050 we will have more plastic in the ocean than fish, everyone should be highly ambitious to end plastic pollution. So for us, Rwanda, Norway and other 25 members that have joined until today, we look forward really to have a world without plastic pollution by 2040. And 2040 is in the corner. We are in 2022. It is only 18 years left. So we have to be very, very ambitious so that in two years we will have the treaty. But we should not wait for the treaty. We should now start home, back home, and do something to curb plastic pollution. Rwanda has started. Norway has started. Other countries have started. We have to keep pushing and motivate the raw, ambitious countries to be highly ambitious. Yeah, you said that this work starts at home. So I'm going to ask both of you what each of your countries are doing right now about the plastic pollution issue. Yeah, Rwanda has banned plastic curry bags already 18 years ago. So in 18 years ago, we don't have plastic curry bags in Rwanda. And that has created jobs, green jobs for our community. Women cooperatives for weaving and youth cooperatives to produce alternative form of packaging has seen the change in the way people do business. And two years ago, we have banned single-use plastics like plastic bottles. And we have, we start with our private sector to make sure that we change the packaging of water, juice, and soon the government of Rwanda will enact a decree putting up environmental review for imported product in the plastic. So for Rwanda now, plastic pollution or plastic use in different, different domain that we can do without plastic is already history. And we will keep pushing because plastic pollution is transcontinental and international problem that if you, you avoid plastic pollution in your country, your neighbor, if they don't do anyway, it will come to your country. So we have to keep pushing. But back home, we are better off. Thank you. Yes, first I have to say Rwanda is a true leader because they were really ahead of all of us. So we're learning from Uganda, I think many of us. We have done quite well on plastic bottles. We still have plastic bottles, but you can be certain that if you buy one, it's made from a former bottle. It's already recycled. And the system of collecting plastic bottles is very effective and they are fed back into the plastic bottle chain. So there's very little leakage from that particular product. We have fees on plastic bags. We're looking into whether we will increase them and significantly reduce the amount of plastics bag. And we have separation in most Norwegian homes, people actually separate plastic waste from other waste. So that is collected for recycling or at least sort of separate treatment afterwards. We are right now because we are in this coalition, we're looking into more measures that we will do at home as well because Jean-Darck is so right that all this has to start at home in addition to working on the international standards. And one of the things we just agreed in this coalition meeting that we had a few minutes ago is to have a kind of a repository, a catalog of national initiatives so that countries who want to do the right thing but don't know exactly what that is can look at each other's experiences and learn about what different countries have done because there are many routes to the same outcome but the outcome has to be very clear. It is to end the waste of plastic into nature so that all the plastic we use is designed from the very start to be recycled and actually is being recycled back into the system. So this is one of the things we will do as a coalition. Yeah, I'm glad that you mentioned the meeting this morning because I know this was the first meeting of the High Ambition Coalition. So beyond what you just mentioned, what else did you think this meeting accomplished? Well, I think all the 27 countries that are in the coalition who are, I have to say, from all parts of the world. I mean, we have Asian countries, many African countries, Latin American countries, European countries, all parts of the globe is represented. So we have quite a good group of people with different experiences, different levels of the economic development, different outlooks on other issues, but who agree on this. And this is a process that has been very much driven by countries in the South. This is not something that is invented in the North and then pushed on our friends in Africa, Latin America. It's rather the other way around. It was Peru and Rwanda who proposed the most ambitious draft. And this is actually the draft that we worked on and agreed as a world. And that's a quite important point because sometimes I think in parts of the world it's seen as if it's some Northern country that comes up with an idea and tries everybody to come along. It's the other way around here. But what do we do together? Well, we all agree that it should be a whole life cycle treaty. Some people in the beginning talk about eliminating marine litter. That's a very good cause. But the thing is plastic doesn't start in the ocean. It ends in the ocean. So you need to go to the source and find out where it comes from, how they did get there, how they did leak into nature in the first place. So you have to look at the source, the production, the usage styles, they try to reduce and eventually phase out single use plastics, for instance. Otherwise it will always leak into nature. And the other one is that we want this treaty to have a legally binding element. We're still working on exactly what should be legally binding at the international level and what should be, you know, where we allow for national adaptation. But at least there must be an obligation to create national action plans and to report on how you are moving forward so that we can compare each other's behavior in this area. And why? Well, because it's such an international problem. I was recently in Spitzburg in the very, very north of Norway. So I have several hours flying from the northern coast of Norway where there is hardly any human presence. Only a few thousand people live there and they're all very environmentally conscious. You still find a lot of plastics because it might have come from Asia or from America, but it still ends up there and everywhere else. It's just an example everywhere you go. So you cannot really solve why both of us agree that you have to start at home. The solution also has to be global. And we need to commit each other to helping each other in order to take away this very serious threat. Plastics are literally everywhere on the highest mountain top, the deepest sea and also in us. So when I was president of UNEA, I tested my own blood and we found traces of nanoplastics and also something called Eftalets which has been used historically to soften plastics. And so I have been drinking from bottles or drinking water with this and I have it in my blood. And if I have it, you probably have it too. And I think this is an emerging field of research too. We don't exactly know what the impact of that is, the fact that we have this in our bloodstream, correct? But we know it's not good. Yeah. For instance, we already know that it reduces male fertility, which I tell that to some men and they get very concerned, very interested in. This will motivate them to join the cause. But for us, we know the impact already in our lives. Before we banned plastic curry bugs, as you know, Rwanda is a cattle keeper country and we live on agriculture. So you could see every day we were losing our cattle. We were losing our cattle because of ingestion of plastics, curry bugs, in nature. So we decided whatever we do, it should be people-centered policy, people-centered program. So we started correcting those plastic waste from the nature. As you know, in Rwanda, every last Saturday of the month, we have community work. Or the people who are 18 years old, we go out on the street to clean the street. To clean the nature. To make sure there is no littering. So it started from there. We were losing our cattle. Water was not able to penetrate. So we were seeing our fertilizers that we have used on our different agriculture activities. Washed by the rain. Because the water cannot penetrate. So we decided to burn plastic curry bugs. And you had to see, after we cleaned all the waste, plastic waste from the nature, you had even to see how the tourist industry has boomed. We have seen a flow of tourists coming through Rwanda. Because Rwanda, we have no winter. We have the average temperature in our country is 21 degrees in January. And you can see that, that itself has attracted people to come through Rwanda. Because it is safe, it is clean. The air quality is clean. I mean, is livable. So we have seen the flow of tourists coming just even to appreciate the cleanliness of the country. Throughout the country, not only in the city of Kigari, but inside the country. You can't see people littering. You can't see plastic waste on the street. But you can see plastic littering on the border of our country with other countries. As I said, it is a transnational crisis we have to fight. But those are the experiences I want to share with you. When a country has no littering, has no plastic pollution, you don't have even a lot of carbon emission. Because when you avoid plastic pollution, there is emission you are avoiding. So heat wave also is reduced on your site. Those are the experiences I want to share with you. If I may just add that Rwanda has inspired other African countries because I think now there are more than 20 African countries that have banned or made some kind of ban on single use plastics. And then you can actually see it. So if you walk around in Kigali, it's a different experience from walking in New York. I mean, it won't take me many seconds when I go out to the door before I find plastic waste. But you will not in the Aksaham country. And that's because of politics. You mentioned that this is a transnational issue. So I had to ask, the US is the largest producer of plastic waste and are they involved in this high ambition coalition? So the US is not a member of the coalition, but the US was very actively present, very supportive as we move towards the agreement in Nairobi. I spoke to Assistant Secretary Monica Medina who's in charge of these issues in the US government yesterday and many times before, but at last as yesterday. And she reiterated her strong commitment to an agreement.  So we might have to, they have not joined our particular coalition, but it should not be understood as a lack of interest from the US government because I mean, that commitment to helping to get the good outcome I think is very solid and strong. But there are issues about what that instrument will be, which has to do with certain attitudes to international regulation, which still dominates the US discourse. It is even an opportunity for New York to push during the treaty because when I arrived here, I was so astonished to see how much plastic waste on the road. For me, I was just like a dream. Am I dreaming? Am I in the US? So, but as Melissa Burt is saying, we have to run from each other. That's why the coalition is there to get experiences, to get insight from each and every minister, each and every member of the coalition, technical coalition is there also. So, we will run from others. And I mean, in this country, it's not only this country, but this country, quite often you're exposed to, you have a breakfast in a hotel and it's actually served on a plastic plate with plastic spoons and forks and plastic cups. That's simply not necessary. It's relatively easy to have, you know, cutlery that you can wash and use again. And this is an example of a relatively easy transition to a less plastic-intensive economy.  This is okay. Well, the economy forum has glass, so yeah. Well, you all are working on an ambitious timeline. The goal is to get this treaty done by 2024, correct? So, I guess where do you see the major sticking points, the major opposition? Where do you see that coming from? I think when we gathered, nobody was against the treaty. I think by the time we continue with discussion, we will discuss with private sector, we will hear from the private sector because people in private sector are also our partners. But from the discussions we had, we didn't have any single opposition on the treaty. But how, the how is the issue? The how we are going to implement the treaty is the issue, but we have discussion. Even the private sector can find another opportunity to create alternative packaging, and it is possible. Especially countries that have resources should really find alternative packaging. If Rwanda could do with retail, so how about those who have more resources? Yes, and I think I agree with Min Srimocheva Maria's point here. There were very few people coming up against having a treaty, but the devil's in the details, as we know. It's always the nitty gritty details that now will have to be negotiated. And I think there was a perception by many governments that business would be skeptical. My perception is rather on the contrary. I'm sure you find a company or two that are skeptical, but the vast majority of companies we speak to, and by the way, the World Economic Forum is a good partner in convening them, says, you're right, we want to be part of this. We know we were a part of the problem, we want to be part of the solution, we want to look into the future. It's how we know about plastic, we make plastic, we use plastic, but we can do it in a much more sustainable way. We can produce for recycling. We can have containers that are reused rather than thrown away every time. So you go into this reduced reuse and recycle principle. So I feel that there's much more support on the private side, on the commercial side, that maybe we even dare to dream about a few years ago. And I think it should be said the treaty is not there, but the signal is very clear. 175 countries, effectively the whole world, that's all the members of the UN Environmental Assembly have said there will be a treaty. And that means the company board knows that. You don't know exactly what it says, but it's clearly not going to be supportive of single use or hazardous material in plastic, so just get rid of it now. Start planning, start working as if, and try to be a winner of the future rather than try to cling to a past which is going away anyway. And that I think is happening. And I really want to shout out that point to the private sector. There's a lot of good leadership there. Yeah, just yesterday a business coalition launched of more than 80 businesses. And it spanned a lot of different sectors. Finance, for example, also the big retailers and brands that we all know like PepsiCo or Unilever. So I guess why is it so important to bring the business sector along? Like what will they, how will they help the treaty get to the finish line? No, it is very important to bring the private sector on table because they are part of the problem. So they have to be part of the solution. And because they should understand, yes, there are things you can do without plastic. But there are things we may not do without plastic. But how are we going to be related to the nature so that the product we cannot do without plastics are not the origin of the waste in the nature? So private sector is a key because they are partners to the development of each country. So they will be key to discussions. And they will be key to solutions. And of course the industry may be affected, but for short time because the problem, if we don't solve this problem, we will sink together with the private sector. So that's why we have to find solutions together. I think it's easy when you think here about plastics, you might think about containers and bottles. But it's also, for instance, cosmetics. There's been a lot of use of microplastics in cosmetic products and creams. Now the key leading cosmetic producers are now taking that microplastics out. Why do we use it? Because the creams are easier to put on the face and so on. But now they're dealing with this because this is a very bad idea. Microplastic is the worst form of plastic because you can't see it. You can detect it with technical equipment. But a plastic bottle, after all, you can pick it up and take it away. But all these micro and nano in clothes, in synthetic clothing, there's a lot of plastics. And people don't think about that as plastic product, but it is. And when you wash it, it's great, very practical products and rainwear and so on. But then when you wash it in the washing machine, it eventually leaks microplastics and nanoplexics into nature. So it's a broad specter of businesses that are now waking up to this and looking into their own business model and seeing how can we reduce and eventually maybe get rid of the plastic component of these products or make sure that they are much more sustainable that they traditionally wear. One reflection I think of is my grandparents didn't know about plastics. It came when my parents were young. It was invented before, but really at the volume in the 60s.  But it's a recent human-made product. And so this is a totally man-made problem. But if it's a man-made problem, it can also be solved by men and women. Because it's something we put in there, we humans. And we also need to be much more conscious about the way we deal with the planet. And a sustainable, effective economy of growth and welfare requires a much better partnership between us and human beings and the nature that surrounds us. And that is not only politicians speaking. A lot of companies are seeing this. A lot of business leaders, investors, banks, and of course civil society organizations are seeing that. And it lends itself very well to what we call a multi-stakeholder approach. Because you need governments to make a treaty, but you need academia, you need business, you need a civil society to shape that environment in which a good treaty can come up. Yeah, I noticed in the High Ambition Business Coalition that I would say that some of the big petrochemical companies, for example, they weren't members. That doesn't mean that they don't support a treaty because I believe in March when you were striking this agreement on the framework, they were supportive. But I guess I'm just wondering what you see as their role and how will they, I guess, what will their presence be like in these negotiations? Well, I very much hope they, I mean, these people know quite a bit about plastics because they make much of the plastic they are made from petroleum. So, first they have knowledge to bear. And as we keep saying, we're not saying that we're going to face all use of plastic. I mean, the plastic is actually practically, plastic is also the stuff inside your car. And you can probably replace it with bamboo or something else but it's not practical and it's not necessarily an environmental approval as long as that type of steady, long-term use of plastics is part of a recyclable chain. So, there's no particular reason they should be against this and many reasons they should be supportive also because they are anyway, you know, in an increasingly climate-aware society, they are already aware that they need to have good answers to their business model overall. If you're in the petroleum sector, I think many of them, the decent companies in this community actually want to be partners. There will be less use of primary plastics if you recycle more but there will still be some. Yeah, to add on what Bert is saying, they should also invest in research and development to see how they can replace plastic in their factories, how they can better be connected to the nature. So, if they invest in research and development and technology, for sure they will find solutions and they will be part of the solution. My one last question is, I think something significant about the framework in March was that it recognized the role of informal waste workers. So, can you just speak to their recognition, like the fact that they are recognized and also what role they'll play as the negotiations continue? So, there are an estimated, believe it or not, 20 million people who in one way or the other work on landfills and dumps as waste pickers. Many women, by the way, men and women, but they are now increasingly organized. So, they were actually, and I was very proud of that as a president in the UN and the UN Environmental Assembly, they were actually in the negotiation, they were there at the table and we listened to them. What they are saying is that, of course, we need to regulate this better, but don't forget us on the way, because when new solutions are found, that they can also be part of that transition, that just transition into a smarter plastic economy, because much of what they do is to pick up plastics, try to manually and take them to local stores that are trying to get some new use and this has to be done in a better way in the future, but we want to involve them and make sure we recognize their role in this as well. Well, any final thoughts or just closing maybe a call to action or anything that you want to wrap up with? Yeah, so thank you very much. What I would like to end on is to call upon all nations to join the coalition for us to start discussions on the treaty and so that in the rest of the two years, we can have this legally binding treaty to end plastic pollution, because the world has enough crisis to add plastic crisis and of course we call upon all nations to have their domestic framework to end plastic pollution so that we walk the talk going to a national and being ready nationally. We have to think globally, but act nationally to make sure by 2040 the world is free of plastic pollution. I thank you very much and I call upon the low ambitious nations to be high ambitious nation to join the high ambitious coalition. I thank you. And I would like to say that we talk about three planetary crises. We have the climate crisis to imagine missions. We have a biodiversity crisis. We lose species and we lose nature's ability to give us the nature services and we have a pollution crisis. Plastics is part of all of these crises. It's pollution. It affects natural and human health and it's also a climate problem because when you incinerate plastic you emit emissions. So addressing plastics is in a sense one of the easier ones. I'm not saying it's easy, but it's easier because it's manmade. You know what it means.  And if you address this, I think you're going to gauge a lot of people because it's easier to understand that finding whales full of plastic is clearly a problem even if this CO2 thing to some people still is a little hard to grasp. So it's also a good entry point to mobilize people to understand that if we want to have good lives in the future on this planet, we need to reset our partnership with nature and that it can be done. That the modern, future-oriented economy needs to be less pollutant, less emissions, more nature positive. Well, thank you so much, minister. Both ministers. This was a great conversation and I just want to say thank you to everyone also who's watching. Hope you all have a great day.