So today, people, I bring you another amazing creation by the one and only Evil X-Jugz. This one inspired by Chucky and his bride, Tiffany, and is a part of Evil X-Jugz's horror set. People you don't want to miss out on this one, it's truly an amazing weapon and one I recommend you are obtaining. Stay tuned until the end of the video to find out how you get your hands on this. How's it going guys? My name is DPJ and today I bring you another BR3 video. If you do enjoy it, leaving a like really helps out and subscribe if you do want to see more. Also, before we go any further for all your gaming needs, no matter the platform you play on, at amazing prices and incredible weekly deals, check out G2A, links within the video description. So the Chucky and Tiffany inspired DNA Malawan SMG created by the one and only Evil X-Jugz. Who, if you want to find out more on his inspirations behind this weapon, a link to his YouTube channel can be found at the top of the video description. So this DNA has been infused with those terror anointments. Once we saw Exclusive to the Bloody at Harvest event a long long time ago and many people including myself do feel these anointments could be used for crazy crazy things right now and because they were exclusive to this event we sometimes do wish we'd see this event come back so we could see these anointments on our favourite weapons. So this one infused with terror to make the most out of those melee abilities and stacking that melee damage, which makes sense as Chucky and his blade, you know how it goes down and this is amazing for that for sure. I can definitely see the inspiration there. So looking at this thing in action we can see it's kind of like a standard DNA, it still rocks those reptiles in different elements. So this is basically an all in one. Now the original DNA I didn't really like, in concept it was great and I guess with elemental builds it could have been quite decent but to me it just couldn't make its mind off on what it wanted to be. The fact it shoots all different elements at the same time about major execution damage wise was its problem. This one though I can state isn't anything like the original, it's 10 times better as it's damage has been scaled to something I believe it should be in a standard but this thing also has a party trick up its sleeve. This thing has a second firing mode where it shoots out a trial beam of deadly energy and that's exactly what this is. I guess playing with this thing now can understand the Chucky antiphanetized toot with its different modes and its terrarial melee features and abilities. Amazing. So for sure people this is a great great handcrafted weapon and one I definitely feel you will not want to miss out on. So this Malywen DNA, this Terrarium Fuse Malywen DNA, this handcrafted Chucky inspired Terrarium Fused DNA. How do you get your hands on it? Because obviously it doesn't drop in-game. Well actually there people it's quite simple because as per usual with all my amazing weapon giveaways you obtain them via joining my discord which is linked at the top of the video description. 100% free just join my discord, join my amazing borderlands community which I know you'll love you'll stay there and just join my open loot lobbies where you guys just come join pick up the item and leave it is as simple as that. Again my discord is linked within the video description and don't worry what platform you play on we have you covered. Over the coming week I have many many many other items which will be given away once you want one of these out on. So yeah guys this Chucky inspired DNA I will leave you now to watch this thing in action as it's only one of two videos you'll see this thing in on YouTube and on that note we have come to the end. If you guys enjoyed it leaving a like really helps out. If you're new around here and want to see more of BR3 be sure to subscribe and if you never want to miss a video I upload you can turn notifications on by hitting that bell button. Guys thanks as always for stopping by hopefully you enjoyed the video and hopefully I will see you on that next one.


When Game of Thrones first debuted in 2011, mainstream film and television had a true fantasy hit for the first time in years. What had previously been seen as a genre of cinematic poison, relegated to the pages of obscure pulp novels only enjoyed by nerds, now became a cash cow for television producers and convinced every amateur writer that they could make it big if they threw in a few more character deaths. With this success came a slew of copycats that I've already talked about in another video. However, this was also the first time that many people were exposed to the sub-genre of low fantasy. Before this, many people viewed fantasy through the lens of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy, a land of fair elves and heroes where magic was a fact of life, if uncommon, and the line between good and evil was clear as day. Now audiences realized that fantasy could be darker and more focused on things like human relationships or political scheming. You know what else audiences should focus on? This video's sponsor, Campfire.com. CampfireWriting.com? Yeah, I've heard of it. It's a place to help both amateur and professional writers with organizations so they don't need a million word files on a USB. CampfireWrite is the main job of the site. It includes over a dozen modules to organize your writing with things like character sheets, timelines, and world-building encyclopedias. Considering how much nerds like to poke holes in the canon, it's nice to have everything in one place. Everything you create there is private unless you decide to share it, and it's all safely stored in the cloud. That's not all, though. There's more. CampfireLearn is a place to improve your craft with advice and learning tools. It even has a place to share your work and receive feedback in Campfire Explore. You can put all your stuff out there and join the community as soon as you start. You only have to pay for the features you actually use. You can start a subscription for as little as 50 cents a month or pay a one-time fee with Campfire's a la carte options. They even have an offline desktop app with a mobile app on the way, with the capability to monetize your writing. This whole thing sounds pretty good. If you're the type of writer who has difficulty with organization, you should probably check it out. Me? No. I can't get Campfire. I'm too busy with my files. Low Fantasy is, as the name subtly implies, a type of fantasy that takes place in another world and features little to no supernatural or magical elements. This doesn't include hidden world-type fantasy where it's just our world with a magical underground, e.g. Harry Potter. In a low fantasy setting, there will likely be no sentient races besides humans. Magic will be rare to the point where many think it doesn't exist, and even when it's prominent in the story, it's an exciting incident rather than the focus of the plot. The stories also tend to focus on smaller-scale problems such as wars, politics, and individual revenge as opposed to saving the world from a dark lord. There are, however, exceptions to all of these aspects. They don't need to be checked off for something to be considered low fantasy. It's more about the general vibe. Genres resist hard definitions anyways. They're just a way for us to categorize types of stories that share some characteristics. Low fantasy includes things like how to train your dragon, the early stages of Berserk, The Witcher, and Bloodborne. The magical elements are there, but they're extremely rare in the setting or very limited in scope. When magic does appear, it tends to be corrupting or difficult to control or just weak. And when supernatural creatures like dragons appear, they tend to be wild animals rather than humanoids with their own civilizations. Low fantasy is not the same thing as grimdark or dark fantasy, though there is a large overlap between the three. Dark Souls is dark fantasy because the setting revolves around decay, hopeless causes, and the inevitability of death. But magic and magical creatures are huge there, from simple fireballs to dragons to the whole creation mythos, so it's not low fantasy. And grimdark is what happens when you take an unmedicated teenage nihilist and ask him how he thinks the real world works. High fantasy is the opposite of low fantasy in terms of setting, with magic being prominent and even common. The story will likely feature magical elements as an important aspect, and it will usually be about saving the world from some sort of massive threat. Chosen ones and dark lords are optional, though very common. High fantasy includes things like Lord of the Rings, Wheel of Time, Avatar the Last Airbender, and even One Piece. Since this is what most people think of when they hear the word fantasy, it tends to dominate any discussion. People who dislike fantasy typically dislike high fantasy, or at least the image they hold of it in their head. Chosen ones saving the world bores them, and they view magic as pure Deus Ex Machina, so many of them were drawn to Game of Thrones even if they normally would have passed a fantasy TV show by. Genres are slippery in general, and I'm sure dozens of you are already typing up a refutation to something I just said. Whatever the case, that's the basic idea of high versus low fantasy. It's primarily a difference in setting with the differences in plot being secondary. We all on the same page? No? Well, I'm trucking ahead anyways. Now it's time for me to bring back the title of this video. What's the point of low fantasy? It's not that I hate this genre, though I have plenty of criticisms, I just don't see the point of it in its current form.  The whole point of fantasy is to explore another world that's, well, fantastical. I want to watch adventures featuring elves and wizards that can cause earthquakes the same way others want to read romances about shirtless, fabio-esque men sweeping young maidens off their feet. We're all just trying to distract ourselves from the fact that no one can view our thoughts, and thus they all have a different view of us, but none of those are accurate, and the way we view others is also inaccurate, and I don't know if a meaningful connection is even possible under these circumstances, please help me. That's the big thing that drew so many to fantasy to begin with, the way it's different from real life. A world devoid of mystical elements can still be fascinating and well-developed, the history, cultures, and politics can and should be as complex as a high fantasy setting. I built my channel on worldbuilding so take it from me. And a lot of low fantasy doesn't do this. They just have vaguely European names and architecture without any further depth. This is missing the whole point of being different from real life. Part of this is escapism or wish fulfillment, and there's nothing wrong with that. Another large component is that you can use fantastical elements to comment on real-world issues in a way separated from real biases and emotions. Think of the mage and Templar conflict from the Dragon Age games, and how it makes a fascinating conflict for Thedas, while also being a lens for things like gun rights and anti-terrorism laws. Most important of all is that magic and dragons are just cool. You don't need any more reason than that to enjoy something. More intellectual reasons are fine, but secondary. So if there's no fantastical elements, and the setting is basically just medieval Europe, because the settings are always based on medieval Europe, then why have it in another world at all? Many TV shows seem to have asked themselves this question and decided to just abandon the fantasy aspect entirely.  This isn't purely due to the lack of fantastical elements. They both have severe issues with the writing, acting, and production values that drag them down. For me at least, a huge problem was how they're too concerned with being gritty and dark. They aren't trying to tell a good story utilizing a different setting, they're just being edgy by adding a ton of murder and rape. Rather than being more realistic or down-to-earth than their high fantasy counterparts, many low-modern fantasy tales are still overblown with larger-than-life characters and heroes that escape impossible situations.  They have villains who will wipe out whole villages and murder underlings to make a point, just like in high fantasy, but without the morally pure heroes to balance them out, which makes the whole world seem cruel and nihilistic. There's an ultimate evil without an ultimate good, which might be fine if it was tied into some sort of theme, yet it usually isn't. It feels like this is the direction creators took the genre because they felt this is what the genre is supposed to be. Watch my review of Season 2 of The Witcher for more of me talking about this sort of thing. If everyone here is an irredeemable cunt, why should I care about what happens? That's a question I've never received a satisfying answer to. Low fantasy tends to be about the normal people, at least in part. It doesn't follow the chosen ones and the good kings and the dark lords. As a genre, it tries to get into the mud and examine what life would really be like in a world where the laws of reality are different than our own. How would people adapt to goblins that live in a nearby kingdom or wizards that can rewrite time? This is also a way to deconstruct or subvert traditional high fantasy tropes in ways that attract people who dislike them.  Or he might try to be a good leader, but he'll still be a flawed human who's trying to balance the needs of many power blocks while fending off schemes by less scrupulous foes, leading him to make mistakes. The dark lord might be evil, just not an unknowable demonic presence that's made of pure darkness. He'll be a conqueror, a power-hungry hedonist who views others as nothing more than a means or an obstacle to his own pleasure. Someone who utilizes violence as their first problem-solving tool. A very real type of evil, in other words. Without spoilers, this is what makes the villains from Berserk work so well. Even if magic is more prominent there, the apostles are fundamentally just people with no empathy given a large amount of power.  Whether that's making an empire or wandering around killing random villagers. Good low fantasy contains villains like Griffith or Cersei Lannister because this real type of evil feels closer to home. Most of us have met someone who doesn't understand human relationships and only seeks out power as a way to achieve their own pleasure.  And this very real type of evil is countered by a very real type of good. People who don't save the day because they're the greatest swordsmen of all time or because they're destined to stop all evil, but because they see some wrongdoing in the world and want to do what they can to stop it. And these very real types of people don't go off on adventures to bring some magic artifact to the spot where it needs to be to save the world. They do things like try to stop wars, get revenge on powerful people who have wronged them, and gain political authority for themselves. This is what drew people to low fantasy in the first place. It's a more human genre, one where the motivations and emotions make more sense to modern people. But without the chosen ones and the good kings and the dark lords, there's no built-in storyline to follow. You can't just put a save the world plot on autopilot. So what's a low fantasy story about? It's up to every individual creator. There's no standard template. This is both a blessing and a curse. A blessing since it allows more creative freedom without fear of alienating your audience. A curse since it gives you no starting point and if you don't have a clear idea of the sort of story you want to tell, you can wind up drowning in a sea of half-baked subplots. In my video on Game of Thrones Clones, I brought up this very problem. Too many copycats tried to utilize the same plot structure of a bunch of characters putter around doing stuff with no main conflict or goal to work towards. And it has never worked out. Literally never.  Having many plot threads is great, but they have to be tied together. Otherwise the plot isn't a tapestry, it's a bunch of string laid side by side. The thing about Game of Thrones is that it's not really low fantasy. It straddles the line between high and low fantasy. At the start, there's not much magic, but it becomes more prevalent over time. The story focuses on politics rather than saving the world from evil, but the politics covers two entire continents. The morality is grey in that the heroes we follow sometimes do bad things, but the villains are still very clear cut. And in the end, the heroes have to save all of humanity from the snow zombies. There are elements of high fantasy here, elements which become more prominent as time goes on. All the copycats only saw the low fantasy, or at least they only utilized the low fantasy. The sudden popularity of Game of Thrones seemed to convince everybody, but especially TV executives, that audiences just loved low fantasy. They didn't want magic and world saving, they wanted to watch unknown European actors be sad in castles. I've already talked about the severe issues that arose when people tried to copy George R.R. Martin without understanding what made his books work. There's nothing wrong with having more grounded stories, settings, and characters. The problems arise when writers decide that they want to do that without understanding how or why to do so. The worst part of low fantasy isn't even the low fantasy part. It's how after some mainstream success, everyone wants their story to be dark low fantasy, but no one wants to commit to it.  How often do major characters in general get permanently killed? How many times have you found a story that focuses on regular people instead of nobility? They don't want to be Game of Thrones, they want the trappings of it without any of the substance or even doing anything original. This might not be much of a problem if the creators of these works had more familiarity with the low fantasy genre, the sorts of things that inspired George R.R. Martin in the first place, but it seems as though many of them don't. So rather than making their own thing, they're copying someone else without knowing what it is they're copying. And to make it worse, many people started to get it in their heads that a lack of fantastical elements made things darker and more mature by default. Think of the Tomb Raider movie reboot. The old games had all kinds of crazy magic and monsters and gods and dinosaurs. In the film, the Japanese mummy curse is a plague and all the magic was just smoke and mirrors. Riveting. But I guess anything with fantastical elements is for kids by default. The Last Kingdom, which I'll keep bringing up because it's a great example of all the terrible things I'm talking about, has plenty of blood and sex with zero magic, and it's a very sophomoric show. None of the, quote, mature elements are utilized in a mature way. Ironically, they make it more childish. In fact, every producer seems to have decided that Vikings are the key to success in this area.  If you want to make a historical drama with potential for a lot of action, there's plenty of other things to focus on. But they shouldn't because shows like Barbarians and Marco Polo are still awful. The creators assume that adding blood and sex makes their works dark and mature, and then they assume that not including any magic makes them even darker and even more mature. You can have dark stories while also having dragons and stuff. Mistborn is a dark story. It deals with complex themes of revolution, class struggle, sexual abuse, and extreme violence. It also revolves around the heroes using metal magic to save the world from a god of destruction. Fantasy and mature themes are not mutually exclusive. Berserk is... Berserk, and a substantial portion of the story wouldn't happen without magic. Not to mention the protagonist fights with a sword that would weigh almost 100 kilograms, which no human could do. You may have noticed that most of the issues I'm bringing up here are recent, and that's because the genre only got big in the past 10 years. Game of Thrones combined low fantasy and dark fantasy, which makes everyone think they're the same thing. I spent an entire page of the script going over what all of those genres were so we'd be in agreement, yet just about every example of low fantasy I can bring up is also dark fantasy. People think they're the same. Everyone wanted to be different and they tried to be different in the same way. This is a genre which can only thrive when it's a niche. When you subvert the idea of traditional high fantasy setting too many times, it becomes standard, expected, stale. It's no longer a subversion, it's the norm.  There's an idea that constant murder and rape is the natural state of humanity and that modern society is all that holds us back. This idea is common in both low fantasy and the post-apocalyptic genre. Without the machinery of the modern state like police, we would all be subject to abuse from roving bands of raiders and the only thing that might make this machinery bad is that sometimes bad people get to be in charge. Please don't question or try to reform the system. Without it you will undergo massive suffering.  If you don't believe me, consider the following. If the natural state of humanity was unfiltered greed and sadism, how did society form to begin with? People are naturally cooperative. We're social animals who build communities. That's why we created countries and governments in the first place. The reasons people take violent action are usually based in things like inter-personal conflict, need for resources, or rulers of one group seeking wealth from another group. Skilled writers could take advantage of this to showcase complex conflicts with deep themes about how different societies work but we all remain the same in the end. Instead we just get edginess because no one seems to know what to do here.  Now in order to do something unexpected you have to feature zero rapes or add in a few characters that are decent people. And that's what I want to end on. Low fantasy doesn't have to be dark, just as high fantasy doesn't have to be light-hearted. Genres are not chains that restrict what you can and can do. They're an open sandbox that lets you explore your creativity with a small amount of guidance. It's just that the vast majority of the offerings on display fit into a very narrow range, giving people the idea that the sandbox is much smaller than it really is. And when they get the same thing over and over, and the same thing isn't very good to start, they'll get tired of it quick.  I guess we'll just add low fantasy to the list of things ruined by being too successful. So what's the point of modern low fantasy then? It isn't unique, it isn't escapism, it isn't realistic, it isn't subversive. So what's the point? I don't know anymore. Hopefully someone else can answer that question. It'll take some work and some creativity, but I have faith it can be done. Someday. If you watched this far, then thank you so much for supporting my rambling, and thanks a whole bunch to all of my patrons, whose names you can see here, and thanks to my $10 and up patrons who are Tesla Shark, Vaivictus, and Wesley. All of these people, like I just couldn't do it without them. If you want to get your name on here, then consider becoming a patron. All it takes is a dollar a month, and if you don't feel like doing that, or you're unable to, then simply liking this video, commenting on it, subscribing to my channel, it helps spread it around, and I appreciate it more than you know.  Anyways, see you later. Goodbye.


mo come back to another XO0s episode. So today's episode we are discussing the maintenance updates, content, and new heroes that will be dropping tomorrow June 24th. So you might not be able to access it tomorrow once the maintenance is going to be up. So more or less the maintenance is going to take around four hours or even more. But before we go into the maintenance let's check out the new story chapter 19. So concealed moon update. Tuzion's group has been has escaped from stretch out once evil's hand carries and escaped safely. Not sure about that but anyway chapter 19 the concealed moon the story of concealed moon is is vitru's return in the past of Prithyof and I think Luna. So a new nation pedas will be updated as the background of season four fall in sky. So again pedas is a new region which is located in the northern east sky. So again I was able to discuss this on a previous director's note. So more or less we are going to receive all of these and we have new heroes folks but before that the new region update the maximum level of the account is expanded from 65 to 70. Upon reaching level 70 you will receiving 10 nation recruit tickets and 30 die coupons. Let's get back to the new heroes. So new heroes Luna, Melissa, Garland update. So members of the veiled group Shadowbane will be updated as new heroes the head of the secret society called Shadowbane. Okay the fate grade heroes Luna, Melissa, Garland belonging to the secret society Shadowbane will be update. New heroes can be confirmed and acquired through a hero recruit journal door to creation and scout content. Okay so more or less all three of them are going to belong into one banner so but with different chances to get. So we'll start off with Luna. So Luna is an agent of secret society called Shadowbane. So she consists Shadowbane consists of various personalities but Luna still manages to stand out among them. All the other agents have to wear masks to hide their identity but Luna has always been Luna. So Luna's unique appearance is part of what makes her special. Okay let's move on to her design. So first design actually um kind of bit of a tribal look if I may say um if you can see later their their what they call this their their costume is almost similar to a tribal theme so again who those to the art department for exo zeros um I think Luna will be their general so let's move on to her skills. First look at her skills so passive effect so it's going to be first aid three. Grants heals 100% of attack to an ally if they take damage and their health also 20% or less or gains mana if own health is at 20% or less when triggered gains one mana again if own health is at 70% when triggered. So breath of mana over time effect front row allies gain one mana. So here is her um special passive it's called halo grants allies with lower maximum health than self with the halo mark. So everyone has to have lower maximum health than her increasing the target's maximum health by 20% similar to what garth gives garth gives so more or less it's a buff for health when an ally besides self is affected by moon restoration removes the halo mark and increases attack by 50% for 10 turns. What is moon restoration you might say? Moon restoration is a special if own mana is five or more at the start of the turn revives a dead ally with the highest attack okay so this is an auto revive um her her passive would basically trigger once the conditions are met so mark with halo without any cost to own health and the mana burn is five to sell so basically the cost of this passive would be five mana so again whether you have five or you have ten she will actually have a mana burn of five to activate this particular passive which is actually crazy ridiculous especially if you have abundant amounts of mana um on her um at any time which she can generate so more or less very good passive initially as a general so first um general who was revived so far um there are a lot of other heroes that have revived but she's the first one as a general so for her s1 breaking dawn it's uh heals all allies by 70 percent of own maximum health so obviously you have to boost her own health glances all debuffs and damage over time effects on all allies revives all dead allies so aside from her passive revive she also has a revive on her s1 which is actually good so it required mana is three and also a burst skill so next is her s2 eclipse so it's required for mana deals 127 damage to all enemies heals all allies by 24 percent of own maximum health when the skill hits then cleanses all debuffs and damage over time effects on all allies so again very good um kit for a general um more or less she is going to be one of the good or better support generals in the game once she comes out then she is mostly going to be uh be very important moving forward in the meta so more or less a big impact player so but i also have seen her fate core proposed fate core which is more or less uh prepared for summer so again she will be used indefinitely in definitely in the future next we have here melissa so for melissa so here she's the she's the head of the secret society for called shadow bane and more or less again if you can see as i've said before the theme of their of their costume is more on tribal um i don't know how old she is but she looks like a tribal elder so let's go and move on to her skills so she has cleanse three cleanses damage over time this is for her passive uh and debuff effects from ally in gains one mana so gains one mana additionally if health of target is 20% and at 70% or more when triggered next is her s1 so gazing mask increases attack of all allies by 24% of own attack for seven turns removes all status effects from target increases attack of all target ally by 50% for 10 turns if the target has the halo mark okay so synergy when there's a synergy with luna and for her s2 shadow of mask deals 178 percent damage to all enemies so usually basic kit um it would all depend on how good her fc is and she is actually tied again to luna for her s1 next would be garland so garland is actually a g1 agent from previous g1 agent from the secret society called shadow bane so if you can see here again um if you guys have seen the movie um coming to america with eddie murphy their custom design is actually similar to what they have the warless it's it's actually very tribal tribal inspired and the sword looks good at the back so as you can see here for garland um his counter three is his passive counters upon taking damage um gains mana one mana if target dies and if health of target is at 70 percent or more deception if halo mark is applied to self mana burn one to target upon basic attack so inflicts uh mana burn uh to what do you call this to to target if he inflicts a basic attack which is actually kind of good you have a consistent mana burn every turn and control the mana of a certain enemy on the other side shadow crystal so s1 deals 102 percent damage to all enemies next is ice tree forest so deals 255 damage to all enemies again basic kit but more or less i like the passive for the basic attack which is mana burn which comes to my next point chance hero chance up recruit shadow bane so june 24th this is up to july 1st Thursday okay so you can recruit here for the higher probably than the premium recruits so again um very nice uh costume design for fallen sky for season four so the obtained rate for luna would be 0.5 similar to a fate core a gold fate core um where melissa is going to be 0.7 for garland is going to be 1.0 percent so for this banner they're going to all three are going to be uh you can get all three so you can earn one hero recruit mileage for recruiting heroes 11 times 28 hero hero mileage are required for luna guarantee obtained more or less if you have um beach the hero mileage you're going to get luna as a guarantee the hero managers are initialized each time the chance up recruit is changed so next again if you're not satisfied with those three we have another one new hero class so mythic and mythic recruit update the mythical recruits uh the mythical heroes adjoining exos continent will be updated as a new hero class so we've discussed this before in the previous um directors note that i was able to present to you guys the new hero myth mythic class is only allowed to be organized with one hero per team mythic great heroes do not apply the signature force which is actually good which will make them very OP if they still have but it has a stronger initial potential effect than the other hero grades which is actually kind of balance things out this season for updates features misty as the first mythic hero class so i think she belongs to north one frosty mythic heroes can be obtained in at any time with a certain probability for premium recruit chance of recruitment and national national recruitment you can proceed with a chance of recruit through mythic recruit so with this they will be this will be out i think tomorrow together with other three in a different manner with a different currency so more less this is the interface that we will be seeing tomorrow for the dragon age mythic recruit there is even a step up rewards here so one two three four five in the mythic recruitment if the 11th recruitment is carried out you can definitely acquire one mu and one hero of fate grade or higher also step up rewards are available for mythic requirement every 11 recruits and step up level will be you can get up to five step up rewards here are the mileage's and the rewards mythic recruit tickets which require to mythic recruitment you may get one mythic mileage for each mythic recruit ticket consumed when you acquire 280 mythic mileage which is actually very big i don't know if we could get her because she's at i think this banner is limited for only a week you can definitely get a mythic hero so it means uh mist misty so the mythic recruit will not expire even if mythic recruit mitt ends which is actually pretty much good because again there will be other mythic heroes that will be out in i think future banners so i'm glad that they have this mechanic so mythic recruit tickets can be obtained through events such as mythic challenges and season attendance additional purchases are available to store so again the the mileage for this one is going to sorry the the tickets for this one is going to be different so watch out because they're going to have an event so the mythic challenges which i will be discussing later so myth mythic recruit misty let's check out her her kit so june 24 up to july 28 this is going to be only up to a wednesday so her banner is a bit short 24 it's only five days so you can recruit hero plus fate core with a higher probability than the premium recruit men okay again fantastic artwork by exos heroes for misty again she looks like an angel and she she actually is more or less uh she just lacks the halo up there and let's take a look at her kit so passive is cleanse three cleanses damage over time in debuff effects from ally and gains mana one mana additionally if health of target is at 20% or less when triggered gain one mana additionally if health of the target is at 70% or more when triggered also she has a new passive contradiction removal binds dragon blood marks from enemies so more or less um when it talk about bind um the dragon blood mark is going to be the first dragon so i think she's going to have a bind is this is going to be suspended or cancelled out so let's see how how this plays out um bind is actually um how do you bind dragon blood marks on all enemies remove remove them cancel them or i'm not sure but more or less let's let's see once we test her out in gameplay if i have her mystic aura so special grants damage immunity one time to all allies upon dying so all allies will have damage immunity once she dies and guess what if if luna resurrects her then i think it's going to be this is going to be fun so arc as arc azione special when receiving damage beyond own current health grants protection from death one so this is similar to tranquil of battery but this is actually built in intricate and grants damage immunity remove when one ally dies to self for five turns if there's another living ally beside self okay so basically what this says if she's going to die she's not going to die she's going to be at one health but she will be getting damage immunity as long as there's another ally present in the battlefield which is kind of kind of OP i guess so benevolence overtime effect increases own receive damage from legend legendary or lower tier heroes by 30 percent more or less this is for kind of like a balance out of of her kit so increase all that receive damage if the damage comes from a legendary or lower tier heroes by 30 percent so again it balances her out if damage dealt by legendary or lower increase the damage by the way increase the damage received so not being dealt damage received by her so sort of lingering so it's a three mana spell deals 525 damage to an enemy especially increases receive damage for the target by 40 percent for five turns so again this has its own drawback which increases damage towards her resets turn of an ally with the lowest attack speed which you can really combo especially with this is going to be very nice especially for those slow heroes let's say for example valentina if you have valentina at the slowest speed so she can actually do this um if her first attack doesn't hit again kind of a combos that you can do so number your s2 would be virtuous light so deals 255 damage to old enemies record manas for remove status effects of all allies upon using the skill and gain to mana which is actually awesome again um she has everything all the support needs that you need for your team but again she has a couple of drawbacks maybe just to to balance out her kit and to even out her op-ness so more or less um my thoughts on her um well i think she's good she's she's going to be op even even if with the drawbacks you can always mask her within the team or provide her with more protection or you can actually just revive her so more or less you you have luna now so if her and luna are in the battlefield this is going to be another meta which you know which is actually going to be welcoming uh with with the current meta that we have to step up reward in the mythic recruitment that can get upset step up rewards in this recruitment there are a maximum of five step up rewards you can acquire a black fate recruitment for every step upstage so misty is a mythic grade hero the opinion rate for misty is 0.5 a 0.5 percent similar to a gold fate core recruitment consuming mystic recruitment tickets and earn one mystic mileage for each ticket rich consumed so again her ticket mileage is 280 view that uh that mythic mileage may be used in the next banner actually doesn't uh go out as long as it's another mythic banner so myth mystic mileage required can be recalculated every 280 miles and can be redeemed up to three times within the period and mythic mileage is reset when the mythic recruitment ends okay and reset resetting mythic mileage cannot be recovered okay mythic requirements step up rewards are reset when the mythic recruitment ends and i cannot actually understand some of this okay on sir exclusive weapon so north one frosty lullaby so again she's from north one frosty obviously so uh again i'm i wouldn't recommend uh you getting her exclusive weapon this is going to be i'm sure that the currency for this one would also be similar to when you recruit misty when we recruit misty so again i guess um this will just be for aesthetic so the obtain rate is also 0.5 percent and 28 core mileage is for guarantee obtained this will probably be just this but i'm not sure they haven't stated this here if it's going to be zest or the new currency for mythic so let's move on to the next part okay so how are you going to recruit misty so there's a mythic challenge mission update a new mythic challenge mission update will begin starting tomorrow as well after the maintenance mythic challenge mission is a special event that is only preceding before the period of the mythic recruitment okay so clear missions to earn achievement points daily rewards to be consumed to consume points to exchange to desire products at the exchange okay this is going to happening on the 24th up to july 28th wednesday which i think is a is july 30 not not 28th if it's going to be a wednesday next week so daily mission you can earn achievement points by clearing daily missions daily missions clear record is reset every day you can try you can try again and earn points daily rewards can be earned based on achievement points earned every day and daily reward acquisition record is reset every day and can be acquired again a point exchange system can use the achievement points earned during the events to purchase items in the point exchange system for the mythic chance you can acquire various items such as mythic recruitment tickets which is actually preferable gold faithful memory and ultimate orb in holy water which i think would be best for mythic recruitment tickets because again um this is going to be more or less uh more than gold this would be platinum in terms of rarity so precaution since the price and number of purchases restrictions purchase restrictions are different for each product so please check before purchasing chance points are reset at the end of the mythic transmission and reset achievement points cannot be recovered so more or less i'm just going to breeze through this so this is a season four string of creation it's a gold premium limited recruit so again you have your fc ratio fc battering fc garf as your star for this particular string of recreation which is actually very good especially if you're a beginner um i would suggest you prioritize this before you know the other new heroes because these i have faith cores and these you can't actually use if you're building their nation so another gold premium limited recruit will open also june 24th and after the update July 28th okay but this is a very short period of only more or less a week june creation recruitment system you guys know this already um step up reward so more or less there is a step up reward as well for this one which is 123456 which the awards will be here excuse me you can get all of these other um uh heroes if you don't have them yet signature link is also going to be up so i won't i won't delve into this if you want more details on signature link i'll post a video up there for my previous video for the director's note in which i explain signature link so more or less just breezing through it nation signature nation linombe allied nation pedas and shadow bain so this is just linking to uh allied nations linking to your signature nation so that you could use them for your signature force so uh level of enhancement is key on getting a signature heroes transcendence level and applied signature force enhancement level so if you transcend a certain hero to highest level then you will get to have a great effect for your signature link okay you just can link multiple union nations to a signature nation so you can link multiple nations to one particular nation and uh so you have here pedas and shadow bain already infinity core so this i'm kind of curious because infinity core is going to open finally so official season open um has been reorganized and official season will be opens tomorrow so two main reorganization will be carried out and a new reward was added to replace the weekly normal reward first reorganization infinity buff that is applied according to the conditions of the fate core heroes organized organized is added for each dungeon of infinity core a special fate core team is displayed where you can activate the buff effect when using a hero equipped with a specific fate core okay so if you use a specific fate core there's going to be a buff applied i think to your team or to that hero itself a powerful infinity buff is given to all allies not to the self not to oneself if a hero is wearing a specific team fate core is not formed debuff is applied to all allies okay second reorganization the start of ranking is changed to the level of dungeon and clearing the number of clear consume during the battle of infinity core you can check the number of turns consumed when the when a dungeon is clear the corresponding stage and number of turns consumed are recorded and you and used as basis for ranking calculation so basically what this says is if you clear a certain stage with less number of turns then it's better because your ranking will be higher so if the same level is cleared the user with fewer turns consumed at the time of clearing will be ranked higher yes i said that already if both the clear stage and the number of turns consumed at clearing at the same time the user who reached the record first will be ranked higher so again clear stages as soon as possible preferably with lower turns we expect that it will become a strategic competitive factor look for clearing dungeons by changing the ranking calculation criteria so what we have here is a weekly reward for the official season will be charged to infinite crystal no longer 200 zest so these are the rankings and these are the amount of infinite crystals that you may be receiving the infinite crystal may be obtained only in the infinite core content in exchange goods at hewans old store so we have here um a fate core recruit random you have here uh currency for your unleash potential and you even have zest here which is actually good so red fate core will be also be good in the list that can be exchanged using infinite crystal so which is good because i think the red fate core will be featuring um genai i think so i think we can get genai from here but currently red fate core is being prepared and is not included in the product list in this update so probably in the future they will include it rank two equipment update so again it will start in this update i will post again a link up there for um the previous discussion on the director's note on the mechanics for rank two equipment update because this video is going to take very long right so more or less uh just a short overview of rank two you can level up your rank one to rank two not consume them and there will be other materials to be used for rank two okay season season four hero growth update so as you can see here we have another silver fate core which is rebirth gale um which gives a buffs uh well kind of different look for gale but gives a buffs to a bronze story battle so increase attack defense health of all allies by 70 upon starting a bronze story battle that's the unique skill that he's going to give transcendence also discussed in the director's note and unify the tendence book and what else towards creation signature force recruit craft book update which will include signature fated heroes like your generals so more or less uh it's going to be it so zest uh two signature heroes and zest 300 which is very expensive which is okay kind of okay update three additional enhancement material change so your solar seals can now be converted to arcane stone which is a one is to one ratio that can be used in your unleash potential and assume we can actually farm for dark in stone as well as a benstone year daily tournament so hopefully seven senior will be opening tomorrow as well so season reward and daily tournament reward have been changed uh so this is actually similar to oh sorry um i was thinking of arc verse so the best two year daily tournament season reward and daily tournament reward have been changed first place to master three star crystal been okay all the while i was thinking arc verse but this is the best two year so more or less there has been just a small change in the rewards um the zest apparently is still the same so master two star crystal has been added in the reward so okay master three star crystals has been added okay star crystal which is here it's a new um currency day tournament hit hit point reward has changed 12 points reward and 18 points reward has been modified so um day tournament hit point reward so there is there are new rewards daily for zeben studio so please watch out for that kernel bond which now will be fc rara gold and fc april um if you are going for nombe then go for april if you are going for green land more or less go for fc rara but if neither if you're going neither for the nombe or green land more or less the safest pick would be rara because rara you can splash with any team that you bring because i am splashing sometimes fc rara with my wasted red team so i'll probably go with rara because i'm not sure if what level of fusion is uh is my rara currently so season four celebration exos festa more exciting exos festa is coming in celebration for season four update okay exos festa is an event where we can proceed for 30 days from the day to participation exos festa missions open every day one day each up to seven days and rewards can be obtained after clearing it's each mission middle reward and final reward can also be obtained depending on the number of missions cleared so exos festa we've had this before and this is going to have a comeback okay so air squadron battle so similar world drop event so shadow mask of shadow bane we have new exploration item and there is an exchange for that item which is going to be uh the best would be nation we could ticket uh 10 times okay you can get 10 new hero battle update you're going to have zetok i think it's going to be luke for hero battle u pierce lab again will be reset choice forge exos pass for july is coming exos pass exos pass monthly season mission will be reset as well and cumulative uh going to be an orange fate for selection ticket for the cumulative purchase event convenience improvements and all the improvements to bugs no arc verse arc verse um there's a update here but i'm not sure when this will be out but different bug fixes so far for the game and more or less that's it so more or less this event will keep us busy for the next few weeks probably in um getting this new heroes probably trying out infinity core and all it's i hope it doesn't have bugs in it so more or less i'm kind of kind of okay with this i'm still looking forward to arc verse by the way once it is fixed and we can have that in play so if you have stuck along then this far in this video more or less guys please um subscribe or consider subscribing also click on that bell icon and have a like on this video if you find this informative also put down your comments below on this update how is it been is this what you were expecting and also guys take care stay safe the warden in a month


From VOA Learning English, this is the Agriculture Report in Special English. Agriculture produces a lot of the greenhouse gases that scientists link to rising temperatures and climate change. Agriculture can also be hurt by the effects of climate change. A new report says high temperatures and unpredictable weather are disrupting agriculture in many parts of the world. The report is called Innovations in Sustainable Agriculture, supporting climate-friendly food production. The World Watch Institute in Washington published it. The report suggests ways that the agriculture industry could reduce its effects on the environment. Danielle Nirenberg was one of the report's authors. She says industrial agriculture uses a lot of fossil fuels. She says the chemicals used in fertilizers, pesticides, and transportation depend on fossil fuels. Danielle Nirenberg says animal production has an especially big effect on the environment. She knows that the amount of meat being eaten in countries like Brazil, China, and India is growing. As a result, more industrial animal facilities or factory farms are being built in the developing world. Those big farms need fossil fuels to operate. They also require long-distance transportation. She said all those things can contribute to climate change. The report recommends six land and water use practices that it says are sustainable. These include growing trees on farmland to reduce soil erosion and planting cover crops to make soil less affected by drought, heat, and pests. Other recommended practices include recycling wastewater in cities, drip irrigation, and replacing chemical with natural fertilizer. For VOA Learning English, I'm Laurel Bowman.


Well, hello, smart, beautiful people. Own it. Isn't this fun being in a big pack of brilliant people focused on one fascinating thing together? It is. So before you go dive into the reason you came here and dive into the details of build packs and run times and pushing applications to the cloud, I just want to focus for a moment with you on what it means and consider what it means to be a super focused technical solution seeking smarty pants. That's what we are. And I'm a different kind. I'm a mechanical engineer. So the kinds of challenges and solutions I work with are very different than yours. But the rest of the world kind of doesn't know that. They think of us as kind of the same thing. When they're out at happy hour talking about, I wish they talked about this at happy hour. This is what I imagine they talk about. Talking about the possibility of running out of fossil fuels or the excitement that a friend of theirs with a spinal injury could maybe walk again or how complex it is for an ER doctor to be able to pull up our medical records but not your ex-boyfriend to check out what kind of meds you're taking and tell all his friends. When they talk about that stuff, eventually one of them just says, well they'll think of something. And they mean us. And I don't remember, I mean maybe you guys were more emotionally mature at, oh we need a slide of them jumping, of them stage diving into the, yeah there you go, that's you. Maybe you guys were more mature when you chose your field of study and you knew that you were setting out to help humanity. I was not, I was not. I don't remember signing up to help anybody. I don't even remember being that connected to other human beings at school because if you were like me you spent a lot of time alone, did you? It's okay, we're among friends now. That's why we're all here together. Because in first grade, this is what I remember about first grade in Anchorage, Alaska where I went, I was in a group, our teacher set up reading groups and they were the zebras and the monkeys and the tigers. And I was super psyched because I loved animals and any one of those was fine with me. I just couldn't wait to figure out what reading group I was in. And then I was sent back to my desk just to read on my own. I was pissed. Little six-year-old little pigtails just furious sitting at my desk and looking at all the other reading groups and they looked like they were having a fantastic time.  And they looked like they were having a great time. And then the monkeys were reading short little vignettes about colors and fruit and the colors of fruit. Orange is orange, for example. And then the tigers from what I could tell were just chewing the erasers off of their giant pencils and occasionally tackling each other and a little bloodletting. But still, I wanted...  Einstein would have been put in the tiger group. But it looked like every group was having more fun than me and that I was somehow being punished. And it made me really sad and I thought that maybe they had little codes on the playground. Like a tiger would see another tiger from another class and be like, ah, got you back. Like, I don't know because I wasn't part of a group. Like Zebras, maybe they were like, hey. But you weren't in a group either so you don't know. Maybe they did that. I just remember feeling kind of disconnected like I was being punished for something. And by second grade or second through sixth grade, any time there was anything to do with reading or spelling or anything, I was sent to the library just to read on my own. Were you guys ever just sent to the corner to do your own thing? You were in the corner coding second grade. I got this. And in the library, I kept myself busy.  Because even at ten years old, I mean, you know it's very clear. And I felt like, and this is why I didn't really feel very altruistic by the time I got out of school. I wasn't really interested in helping anybody. I mean, by the time I was in sixth grade, I had completely run out of material in the library. I was just trying to be helpful. I helped the librarian scrape gum off the bottom of the chairs. Like I was in a little prison camp. Making plans for what happened if things went bad in Anchorage, Alaska. Because I knew too much by then. I researched the atom bomb, scraping gum, thinking if it got really weird, I was going to pull all the tigers together and get them to protect me. Because I had also read Lord of the Flies by then. I knew how bad it could get. And I tell you this because I think being born like we were with a capacity to come up with solutions and to learn really quickly and to focus and to need to satisfy our curiosity and as quick learners. And that was sometimes a little lonely. But really it is a privilege. But I think it's a lot like being born into royalty. You don't choose it.  But once you're there, you kind of have an obligation. And it is a privilege. And I know it doesn't feel like a privilege or it didn't feel like it then but it all worked really hard to be where we are in our careers. And it took a lot of concentration, a lot of study to do what we do and face it.  We survived all that. We've earned this. But we are privileged. And we not only have this capacity to help the world and change the world and to innovate but the rest of the world out there, the non-technical people, they believe that we'll do it unselfishly. They believe that we're just happy to help. And luckily that is mostly true. That we mostly are focused on the facts and focused on real solutions. But we still have a choice really to face this expectation that our greater ability means that we owe something greater. It's a... We have a choice to really embrace this noblesse oblige. Yeah, I just said that. I said noblesse oblige because I'm in a whole room of smart people and I can use big words. I can use other languages as needed. Noblesse oblige, as you know, means the obligation of the nobility of those born into privilege to be protective and helpful to those not born into privilege. And I know that sounds a little bit snobby, a little bit classist in a way, but it's just us so we can talk about this. We're smart. And there are some people out there who are not as smart. And that's okay. We do have an obligation to use our ability to make the world better and it took me a long time to grow into this and I'm in my late 40s now and it took me a lot of my career. I was just out to have enough independence and enough money and to do what I wanted and be respected for my intelligence. And now I realize I have these projects where people could really get hurt if I do it wrong. I have a project in Portland that I'm working on now with a bunch of great structural engineers and architects, real architects. And it's a patient tower. It's a nine-story patient tower with a psychiatric lockdown and a NICU with these babies like the size of your hand with people who are going through chemotherapy and dialysis. It's this huge tower full of the most vulnerable people in my community. And I have to make sure it gets properly seismically upgraded and that the air flows are changed so that we're not swapping infections from sick people to babies, that it's safe so that the people in lockdown who really can't get out in an emergency are still safe. And the team has to do it in a way so that if there is an emergency and people go streaming toward the hospital, the hospital is still standing. This kind of freaks me out. And we're really, we're all in this together because 80 years ago, if there were a power outage, a prolonged power outage, daylight, a few candles, a party, we're good. But now between your pack of geniuses and my kind of engineers, we make sure that the power is on, that the water is running, that communications are up. And if things go bad, if we don't get this right, now they're really in a prolonged outage, they really could be and will be food riots. I know this because I hosted a TV show where all we did was look at worst-case scenarios. And if that happens, in fact, if there's a power outage for very long, since you are the solution people, the technical people, your friends and neighbors will come and find you.  And they also expect you to do it in a way that's very generous and doesn't turn you into like the warlord of Clover Court. They expect this of you. Can I get that next slide and see if you guys, do you know who this guy is? This is the super nerd of the world, Archimedes. And he's the, this is his moment, his eureka moment in the bathtub when he understands buoyancy and then runs out in the street naked, which in high school, the way I heard the story was blah, blah, blah, naked guy in a bathtub, blah, blah, blah, naked guy running through the street. But he's the super nerd and we retell the story of his death because there's something kind of oddly sweet about it.  And this is kind of what the world expects us to be, so above the fray.  And there's something so oddly sweet about this story because he's so in love with innovation and knowledge and invention that he literally dies for it. Like he doesn't even bother to look up at this invading soldier. Or also it was just a giant misread of social cues which we're also known for. Like you cannot get any more socially awkward than stay away from my geometry armed soldier. That didn't turn out well for him. But it's kind of sweet. That's how the rest of the world thinks of us, pure, sincere, and it's kind of terrifying for me. Maybe you embraced it early, but I am coming to it late. It's a great responsibility. And by just showing up at Cloud Foundry Summit today, I can tell that you're committed to this, especially on the biggest hangover day of the year. Right? Day after Mother's Day. I know. Stay hydrated. Mom's home still drinking Gatorade. Starts with like one mimosa at brunch. I'm like, it's a lot of mimosa. Do you want to have a champagne? Okay. Then suddenly it's four in the morning. You guys are spray painting obscenities in the window of a Quiznos together. I know. Matching mug shots every year. Do we need another set of mug shots in the family album? So you're here, obviously, because you're committed to sharing technology and self-policing and educating and training the next group coming up. And in some ways, obviously, you've internalized this oath of the innovator that I will code and build and design with the next coder, builder, designer in mind. I'll leave some breadcrumbs. I'll do it sensibly. I will put collective progress before individual recognition, which is funny that this group got it so right, because it's something that governments and hippie communes have been going for since the beginning of mankind, and somehow you guys got it right. And mostly the oath of the innovator is, I will be worthy of the world's trust. And that's a big one. It's like this guy. We don't really belong in the groups of zebras or monkeys or tigers. We are like freaky, royal born unicorns, geeky superheroes. Next slide, geeky superheroes. This is not to scale, by the way. I just want you to know that I understand that. That's how superheroes look. See, these are the beautiful people, because we're crucial. In fact, some of you have gotten a little bit more beautiful since you walked in. I did not expect the group to be this good looking. I gotta tell you. The world believes in us completely and sincerely. They trust us. They know we will think of something. So do that. Go, think of something. Go, think of something. Thank you.