From New York City where the American stage begins, here is another program with a cast of outstanding players. Public service time has been made available by this station to bring you this story, as proudly we hail the Flight Safety Officer School sponsored by the United States Air Force. Here the United States Air Force sponsors five eight week courses for its flight safety officers at the University of Southern California, so that the pilots and planes under its command will continue to be the safest in the world. We want to tell you the story of two of these flight safety officers. Let's call them Captain John Miller and Major Evan Johnson. Our first act curtain will rise in just a moment, but first, opportunities by the hundreds. They're opening now in the United States Air Force. You can take advantage of these opportunities and build yourself a highly rewarding career. 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This is the Flight Safety Office, isn't it? Yes, it is, Captain. I'm Captain John Miller. I'm supposed to register for the school. Oh, yes. Would you wait just a moment while I get the proper form? Certainly. How did I California, Captain? Oh, I like it fine. It's not my first trip, though. When you're with the Air Force, you have a chance to get around. I suppose you do. I wouldn't mind getting to see some of the world myself. The name on this little wooden plaque on the desk is Joan Wendling. Is that you? Guilty as charge, Captain. Well, and we're even. You know my name and now I know yours.   Well, I've gotten settled, but as for a wife and family, I happen to be a single American male over 21.  No, no, not at all. Just fighting off the wrong women all the time. Oh. Oh, hey, that sounds conceited. I... I didn't mean it that way. I know what you meant, Captain. In this world where women outnumber men, it isn't a sign of conceit. When a man says that, just stating a fact. Uh, by the way, how's Mr. Wendling? Oh, my father's fine. I didn't mean your father. Captain, I happen to be a single American female, just 21 and looking for a life of happiness. Well, that's the best news I've heard today. Oh, where are you stationed, Captain? Uh, I'm with the Continental Air Command at Mitchell Air Force Base. Any more questions? Well, I'm just helping you to fill out these forms, Captain. Oh, oh, I see. You work here full-time? Mm-hmm. And I'm taking some art courses here at night, too. Not every night, I hope? No, not every night. Miss, I'd like to register for the Flight Safety Officer's school. Oh, yes, Major. Name is Johnston. Major Evan Johnston. Yes. Oh, hi to Captain. But... John! Johnny Miller, for what do you know? Evan, well, I'll be Horned Swag. Well, I haven't seen you since Korea. How've you been doing, man? Oh, great. Just great. And you? Well, riding the crest of the wave. Where are you stationed? I'm with Connack at Mitchell. What about you? I'm with Sack at Carswell. Oh, good old Fort Worth, Texas. You know, it seems like yesterday that we were flying wingtip to wingtip. Oh, not to me. To me, Korea seems like years and years ago. Anything exciting happen to you personally? Well, I found the girl and married her. Oh, no kidding. How long you been married? A year tomorrow. Bought her with me, too. Gonna be like a second honeymoon. Well, you're a lucky man. I think I am. How about you meet her? You really think so, too? I need to interrupt the two of you. But would you mind filling out this form, Major? No, not at all. Say, Johnny, what about you? Any girl grab you yet? No, no, not yet. But there comes the time when you think maybe you've found the right one. And in the most unexpected places, too. Go to it, man. Go to it. I think I will. Say, how about having lunch with me and the wife tomorrow? School doesn't start until Monday. We're at the Beverly Count. Oh, that sounds fine. What time? Oh, about one, I guess. And we'll be up and awake by that time, too, I guess. I hear this is our last weekend to live it up for eight weeks. Yeah, I hear this course is no snap. Hey, man, you sound as if you're worried about it. Yeah, yeah, I am a little... Don't forget, back in college, I was an arts major. What I know about math and physics, you could stuff in a tube of toothpaste. Oh, you've got a good head in your shoulders, Johnny. Maybe you'll have to study a little harder than some of the rest of us, but you'll make it. Well, I'm sure gonna try. Good. Holy cow, look at the time. Let's meet the wife at one, and it's five after now. Oh, look, I filled out that form. Give it to the girl, will you? Sure. And see you tomorrow.  I'll see what I can do. Uh, Miss Wendling. Yes? Are you free for lunch tomorrow? Well, am I safe? Sure, Evan invited us. It's his anniversary. How about it? How could a girl be safer than with a safety officer of the United States Air Force? Oh, sure, I'd love to. Well, that's well, but I warn you, I'm only a flight safety officer. On the ground, I'm as dangerous as I can be, especially with a pretty girl like you. Well, I'll risk it. I think I know a gentleman when I see one. I'm glad you said yes. With a tough grind ahead for the next eight weeks, I think I'm gonna need someone like you to see me over the rough spots. I hope I can help, Johnny. Well, you just keep on saying Johnny like that, and I know you will. See you tomorrow at 12.30 in front of the building here? See you then. Oh, and Johnny? Yes? Stop worrying. Seems to me you're going to do all right. I'll tell you, Evan, I'm scared. You know, I haven't touched math since freshman year at college, and here I am in a class that's gonna cover practically the whole subject plus physics in three days. Oh, now, look, you're beginning to sound like an old fossil. Well, if it had been as recently as a week ago, I wouldn't have been nearly as nervous about it. Oh, what's happened since then? Joan. She seems like a nice girl. Glad you bought her to lunch yesterday. You see, I've got to do well for her, too, not just myself. Oh, you sound as if you were already married. Oh, I'm in a worse spot. It's courting time. You know, from what I saw yesterday, you don't have to worry about Joan too much. I think she likes you as much as you like her. I hope so. You know, with an engineering professor like the one we've got, I'm not so sure. He writes a formula on the board or an equation, and it's just, oh, it's Greek to me. And before I have time to ask a question about it, he's erased it, and he has a new one on the board. I must admit, he does go a little fast. Finally, when I got his attention today, he said to me, Captain, we have a lot to cover in three days. There isn't time for discussion. Discussion? He won't even answer a question. The guy seems to have three arms and hands, one with chalk and two with erasers. I must admit, even I scrammed a bit when he gave us that routine about not being lazy because he's flunked officers before. He can do it again. He was looking straight at me when he said it. That's funny. I thought he was looking at me. Well, I've got one hope. What's that? A young lady named Joan. Maybe she was good at math and physics when she was in school. Good at them? Man seems to me you better just hope she took them. You've got to do the math and physics review. Congratulations, Johnny. Thanks to you, you mean. But do you know what's ahead? Only vaguely. Well, here it is in number of hours of classes. Ninety-three hours of aeronautical engineering. Fifty-six hours of accident investigation. Sixty-three hours of accident prevention and educational techniques. Twenty-four hours of aviation physiology. Thirty hours of aviation psychology. Fourteen hours of field trips to flight safety research and to aircraft manufacturers. And three glorious hours centrifuge indoctrination. In less than eight weeks? That's right. And me with only a Bachelor of Arts degree.  No, you better do, Joan. You know, I'm kind of fond of the Air Force and when they send me to do a job, I've got to do it better than I thought I could. You're quite a guy, Captain Miller. And you're quite a girl. Kind, I'd always hoped I'd meet. I'm lucky. Thanks, Johnny. But I think I'm the lucky one. Where's your dad? In the cellar, I think, working in a shop. You think he'd mind if I kissed you? I don't think he'd mind a bit. Would you? Well, the only way you'll know is to try it. Oh, Miss Wendling, I'd like to marry you. Oh, can you be sure, Johnny, after only six days? You're going to be here for another seven weeks. After the course is over, ask me again, please. That's a long time to wait. When I get married, Johnny, it's for life. Me, too. When you're planning on something that you want to last a lifetime, seven weeks of looking it over and thinking about it isn't so long. Oh, I'd love you, Miss Wendling.  In this materials testing laboratory, we do the most exhaustive studies on all kinds of materials, from glass to steel, from nylon to aluminum. Now, we have found out why 24ST aluminum is used for the outer skins of planes instead of chrome alloy steel. Do you know why? Uh, could it be because it bends more easily without breaking, Professor? That's one reason. It's not as brittle. Any other ideas? Well, uh, it's lighter, isn't it? Yes, Captain Miller. That's another good reason. Score one for us. Take it easy, Evan. It's early in the game. Now, gentlemen, take a look at this machine. It tests the strength of metal. By placing this piece of steel in the machine and pulling it from both ends, with these gauges, we can tell just how many pounds of force it will take before the metal breaks. Isn't science something? It sure is. Now, if you'll just gather around, I'll show you how it works. I will place the metal here. So... now, I flick this switch. And on this gauge, you can see the force being exerted on the metal.  If you stop to think of the force as exerted on a plane, you know why the metal has to be so strong. Uh, what's gonna happen, Professor? If you'll be patient, Captain, in a moment, you'll see. Wow! Hey, that made me jump a mile. And will you look at that steel? See, gentlemen, in planning today's planes, many factors must be taken into consideration. A major factor is safety. The wrong type of metal in the wrong part of a plane, and, uh... Well, you're pilots. When you fly your planes, you want to know they're safe. But in addition to being pilots, you're also flight safety officers. You have a responsibility for safety in the air. That's why the Air Force sends you here to learn. The more you know, the greater your credentials will be.  Understand. Professor, you'll never know how well. You are listening to the proudly-we-hail production School for Safety. We'll return to our story in just a moment. 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A man who be truly valuable must realize that although he may be only one of many links, any weakness on his part will destroy the chain in its entirety. And such a man is Captain John Miller. As a Flight Safety Officer, he knows that he is one of the links that makes our Air Force the safest and best in the world. But at the moment, he is challenged. Because of a background of arts in college, rather than one in engineering and its allied fields, he has to struggle to keep up with the rest of his class at the University of Southern California's Flight Safety Officer School. He knows it must be done. You know, Johnny, you haven't changed at all since Korea, and the odds against you were highest. That's when you fight the best. Yeah, maybe. But you know, over there, the odds against you were measured in planes and guns, things you could see, hear its facts, figures, knowledge there. They're not quite as easy to handle. In spite of everything, you seem to be holding your all. Oh, look, Evan, I've got to. I'm no hero, but the Air Force thought it was important for me to be here and learn, and that's what I've got to do. But we'd better get back to work. I can't do it by just talking about it. What'll it be? Well, how about some of those problems in aviation physiology? Well, I'll be darned. Listen to this. It has been proven that smoking can impair night vision. It is wise for pilots who are flying for long periods in darkness not to smoke for at least 45 minutes before a landing. It might also be advisable for them to turn their cockpit lights on to full at least 15 minutes or more before they expect to reach an area where there are bright lights, thus allowing their eyes to get used to the brightness spectrum. Well, what do you know? You know, it's simple, isn't it? Yet think of all the pilots who don't know that a little thing like a smoke can be the cause of a bad landing. There's a little thing, but it could save lives in aircraft. Well, I guess that's why we're here. If we know these facts, then we can spread them around. Oh, that's why I've got to pass, Evan. I've just got to. This is valuable stuff. This is what we've got to know. Flight safety officers must know these things so they can keep the pilots informed. You will pass, Johnny. All right, I believe you, Evan. I believe you because I know I've got to. Perfect coffee. I knew it the first time I saw you. Young lady, you're the kind of a girl a man should marry. Oh, because of the coffee? Or because I've been helping you study? You think that help has been nothing? Well, Evan helps you, too. Oh, sure. Sure, and I appreciate it. But even though you both help me and both keep boosting my morale and all, there's a difference. Somehow, I feel that you're in my corner all the time rooting for me. You are, aren't you? Oh, Johnny, you know I am. Well, it's important for a guy to know that a beautiful, intelligent, honest, warm, wonderful girl is... Hey, hey, that sounds like a commercial. Who is this perfect creature? You. Oh, no. No, Johnny, that's not me. That's some dream girl you're talking about. Oh, I do love you. I know it for sure now. After knowing a man for a month, the girl could be pretty positive. But I'm not perfect. You're thinking so scares me. Darling, I'm just a human being. Am I a human being to you? Oh, a very human human being. Oh, you have fears, you're always trying to do better. I have fears too, and I'm trying. As long as we both try, Johnny, we're all right. But if the time comes when we look at ourselves and decide that we're perfect, then we have something to worry about. Agreed? Agreed. Hey, hey, look at the time. We better get back to work. Oh, yeah. We've got at least another hour on psychology of flight to do. Can you take it, honey, or shall we quit for tonight? I can take it. Oh, the wife of a flight safety officer ought to know something about his work. You have had a half hour to design and put together a poster.  You also have had several slogans printed on paper strips. All that you needed to supply was your imagination. Oh, man, now I wish I had been an arts major instead of woman engineering. Oh, don't kid yourself, Evan. Arts doesn't mean cutting out tapered dolls like this. As I walk around the room now, I'm going to pick out the best poster and we'll discuss its merits and its weak points. Eventually, we'll get to all of them. Good posters are important. They're one of the surest ways to reach people. If they're eye-catching, simple, and clear, if they tell their story in a dramatic way so that people can see themselves and their problems in them, they can teach far more than a thousand words. I wish he'd practiced what he preaches. He hasn't stopped talking since we started this course. Yeah, but you've got to admit he makes sense. Oh, yeah, that he does. I'm not denying that. I've learned a lot from him. After walking around the room and examining your work, it seems to me that Captain Miller's poster comes closest to doing its complete job. Captain Miller, will you bring your work up to the front of the room here so that the whole class can see it? Certainly, Professor. Professor, I do want to say it's unfair of you to have chosen my work over some of the others. And what is that? Well, you see, I have an advantage over them. An advantage? Oh, yes, Professor. It happens that I was fortunate enough to have gone to kindergarten. I must admit that he was a good egg about it. He laughed just as hard as the rest. Well, I'm not so sure I would have. Oh, I apologize to him after class. You know what he said? No. Well, he said he was glad that it happened. Oh, really? Mm-hmm. That a good laugh relieves tension and boredom, and he was sure that the class had absorbed more for the rest of the day than it ordinarily would have. Wow. Smart man, that Professor. Oh, all the professors here are the best. They're a credit to USC. And a credit to the Air Force. Gee, it's hard to believe it's almost over. Tomorrow is centrifuge day, and then the course is finished. I'm proud of you, Johnny. You know that, don't you? You've done pretty well. Well, I haven't been head of the class or anything like that, but I've gotten by. Oh, now listen, you big lug. You've done more than get by. Your marks have been well within the top 25%. I don't know about tomorrow, though. They say the ride in the centrifuge is tough. Johnny, just what is the centrifuge?  Oh, sure. Sure, it's no secret. It's sort of like a cockpit of a plane on a long arm.  No, wait, wait, you just lost me. Well, look, did you ever see a chestnut tied to the end of a string with a kid whirling it around parallel to the ground? Mm-hmm. Or for the chestnut, substitute the cockpit, for the string, a long arm, and for the hand that's turning it, substitute a motor. Oh. You see, it's really nothing more than a test to see how we react to G-forces. You know, the gravitational forces that a pilot is subjected to during flight. Yeah, mm-hmm. At first we take it in our regular flying clothes, and we put on a special G-suit to see the difference.  I remember once when I was a kid on a picnic, I went on something like that. Well, could be. There's one difference, though. Oh, it's more technical, I know that. No, what I meant was, this isn't going to be any picnic. Boy, am I glad that's over. Well, what was it like, Evan? Well, there are these two white lights, you see, one on your right and one on your left. And dead ahead of you are two other lights, one red and the other green. Well, I don't think I'm going to need any help seeing red and green. But you keep staring at the red and green lights. Your hands are on the arms of the seat, resting on two buttons, which are electrically connected outside of the centrifuge. Now, as long as you can see the white light on your right and left, you keep pressing the buttons. When you stop seeing either or both, you stop pressing the corresponding button. Oh, see, Senor? You know, it's amazing the way that G suit helps you withstand these G forces. There's no comparison, really. Yeah, it seems to lessen the effect on the body due to the excess gravitational pull.  Boy, that's really going some. Here's your chance to show what you can do. The instructor's pointing at you. Oh, my dear instructor, since you have elected me, I have no choice but to serve. Marching music should be playing, something stirring. Oh, please omit music. Just send flowers.  By the way, what's it gonna be?  Roger. Roger, let her rip. In that green, you can see those whites. All right, you're picking up speed, boy. Don't black out. Wonder how many Gs you're taking now. Press those buttons. Light that black out, Johnny Boy. Light it. You can still see them, so press those buttons. Tighten your throat muscles. Tighten your diaphragm. Hey, where's that light on the left?  Remember, so you'll be able to explain it to the others. Getting groggy. Hey, where's that? That light. That light. How are you feeling? Well, fine, I guess. At least I think I'm all here. You know, you took five Gs without the suit and ate with it. That stacks up pretty well with everyone else. You know something? I learned a lot in that thing. I learned a lot, and I remembered a lot of things I'd forgotten. That's the whole idea this past eight weeks, to teach us new things and to refresh us in some of the old ones. Well, I'm glad I went through it. Hey, where are you going? I've got to call a certain girl. I've got lots of plans to make. Well, congratulations, Captain. Thanks, Major. Oh, and Captain. Yes, Major? Just what kind of flowers do you like with your wedding down?  As an airman, you lead with the world's finest technical training. 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Hello and welcome to NewsClick. Today we have Thomas Franco with us. Franco is the former general secretary of AIBOC and joint convener of People First. He is here to talk about the recent announcements of the finance minister. We know that the finance minister told the media that she is announcing a package to boost demand. Can you please tell us what is this package? First of all, I would like to say that the finance minister either she is not having any clue of what is to be done for the economy or she is thinking that she can fool around people forever. Initially, she had given the Tartman and War package where they said that 20 lakh crore is being pumped in, where in fact it was just 2.6 lakh crores, which was the government spending and the rest was just announcement of banks loans to be given. Banks have such given more than that every year. So it was not a package at all to boost the economy that time. Now she is announcing a package again saying that this will boost the economy, where she is saying that she is permitting the government employees to have rupees, 10,000 rupees as festival advance and also allow an LTC voucher, leave travel construction voucher, which they can encash with a lot of conditions which I will come to later. In addition, she has announced that she will be giving certain loans to few states at zero interest rate and also 25,000 crores will be the additional capital expenditure by the government this year for roads and water supply and other expenditure. This is absolutely not going to create any like to boost the economy. So that is the unfortunate thing I find with this announcement of the finance. Could you please tell us what impact will this have on the masses and the employees? Number one, the finance minister is opening a Pandora's box. Unnecessarily she is making people unhappy because the larger masses of the country, she and the Prime Minister keep saying that we are helping 80 crore people with relations and all. So this is the larger majority and this larger majority is feeling that we are struggling so much. They are just giving 10 kg of wheat or rice, which is not sufficient, but they are giving money to the government employees who are already in it. The economists and the people's movements were asking that give 7,500 rupees per month to these poor families for their survival. Instead, she is announcing just a package for government employees, a limited number of them. That is not going to help the masses and masses are very, very unhappy with this announcement. On the other hand, if you look at the government employees, they are also unhappy. See, this leave encasement or the festival advance were available to the central government employees, public sector employees, bank employees for years together. But for the central government employees, after the last 7th pay commission, they withdrew many of the advances except the housing advance. One of that is this festival advance. The demand of the government employees that you give festival advance is equivalent to our basic pay. That is what we get in the banking sector. So an officer in central government employee, his minimum basic is 56,100. You are giving him just 10,000 rupees as the festival advance. That too with so many conditions that will be given as a rupee card and you have to spend it in the shops where you will be paying taxes on that. So that way they are unhappy. Secondly, the leave travel concession. Already that provision has been there. That once in 4 years you can travel anywhere in India within your eligible class and if you don't want to travel, you can encash that amount.  So suppose you are eligible for 33,000, you have to spend one lakh and that one lakh has to be used for purchasing commodities or you have to spend in hotels where you will be spending it with a minimum GST of 12%. That is an additional expenditure for the person. See in what way it is going to help. It's not going to boost the limit. People are not going to spend like that. People are already worried. They are trying to keep whatever little savings they have safely with them because they don't know what is the future. Nobody is able to predict. Right. So how is the reaction of the employees? What are the demanding? What are the main demands? See the employees as I told you have opened the Pandora's bar for quite some time they were keeping quiet because the situation in the country is not good but now once she announced this they have come up with all their demands which were pending. The first demand is that they removed these dearness allowance. After 24th March they have withdrawn the dearness allowance which is a compensation paid for price rights. They rightly point out Shukubal Mishradha who is the convener of the joint movement of the Central Government employees and also the general secretary of the All India Railway Months Federation. He has written a letter where he says that dearness is neither gratis nor bounty. It is only a compensation for the price rights which you cannot stop. You have stopped. That is a loss of 37,500 crores for the Central Government employees alone. Leave alone the pensioners. They are also affected. Give us back that is one demand. Secondly they have been fighting against this new pension scheme which we call no pension scheme because there is no assured pension in that scheme. So they have opened that demand again. Again there are so many issues which were agreed upon in a talk with the Central Government employees. In 2016 itself that they have not implemented. They are asking to implement that. They are also asking for certain quarantine leave for those who are getting affected with the Covid. And there are many more. There are 16 demands in that and probably they will be also joining the November 26th strike along with the Central Union because this government is not at all bothered about either the employees or the people of the country. You were speaking about the impact on the state finances earlier. Could you tell us more about it? How is this going to impact the state's finances? See the government of India it is not spending anything much more than what is announced in the budget. But it is the state governments which are taking care of the people. Let it be the transport, let it be the food supply, let it be the ration shops or the basic amenities made available to the people. All that is taken care of by the state government. They are in a last strike. Their expenditures are going up. They don't have money. Central Government unfortunately is not giving what is due to them under the GST which is guaranteed by the constitution as per the amendment made. But that is not being paid. Instead the Central Government is saying that you borrow from the market. If a state government is borrowing from the market they are paying an interest of 9%, 10%, 11%. What if the Finance Minister of Kerala Dr. Thomas Isaac had been demanding is that you at least permit us to take loans at the rapport rate. The rapport rate is the rate in which the Reserve Bank of India lends to the bank. The same rate you give it to us. We are not going to lend it further like the banks are doing. We are going to spend it for the people of the state. That this government is not permitting even now. Of course for few states like Northeast they have announced some interest pre-loan but that is too little. What is needed for the state government is more amounts from the Central Government including the GST due plus permission to avail loans at a cheaper rate of 4% which is the rapport rate. So finally what is going to be the impact of this or capital expenditure? The capital expenditure she has announced that she is going to increase the expenditure by 25,000 crores more than what was announced in the budget. In fact if you look at the budget estimates, revised estimates and the actual always the expenditure of capital expenditure goes up for various reasons. So this 25,000 crores is fit and this is not going to create any impact at all. So what I once again reiterate is that this finance minister and the government has to wake up. They have to listen to the economists of this country, the good economists who have suggested many good alternatives. The people's movements, the political parties, everybody has to be taken into account. Their opinion has to be taken. They cannot keep a blind eye. And they cannot think that they can keep on pooling the larger number of people for long. You can pool people for a short while but you cannot pool them forever.  Thank you. Thank you so much for being with us here today. Thank you so much.


Where does almond water in the back rooms come from? So every back rooms fan has asked this at one point in time. And to be honest, there's no real answer for it. There's just some theories which I'll get into right now. So almond water can be found in bottles and fountains and rivers and lakes and ponds and inside of pretty much any back rooms level. And all we have are these couple of theories on how that's even possible. The first theory comes from cryptic writings that have been found deep inside the back rooms that say one day all of the almond water simply appeared inside the levels with no explanation. That's kind of boring to be honest, I don't know. Another theory says that whoever controls the back rooms puts them in specific levels in order to keep people that are trapped there alive. Think of a rat in a maze chasing one bite of cheese. But I think that my favorite theory is that almond water is produced naturally by the back rooms. That the back rooms is a living and breathing thing that spans for millions and millions of levels. And the lakes and the rivers and the bottles are just a byproduct of this mega creature that is the back rooms. Let me know your thoughts below in the comments.


little bit more iconic so i agree it matches up better i heard that question raise no if you're going to start in duro tar that's obviously where the trolls are on the orcs as well um if i if i had to bet money i think it will be human orc i mean those are obviously the two most iconic races of world warcraft i think it'll probably just be human and orc dude you guys think that they'll they'll put in the other races and it just spawns you in the other starting areas assuming assuming you're in a starting area right we're this is all assumption that'd be nice just to see the ratios you know but uh i doubt it i wouldn't get my hopes up about that yeah i think there's any any chance to keep our demo progress i they've never done that before with any game that they've tested or demoed i i don't think so oh it means like progress like once we finish the demo we'll be able to use that character yeah right yeah highly likely that'd be a very i think unfair advantage this is a good question and and uh kind of to kind of close the book on this if graphics are updated more than just resolution like like higher resolution textures or effects and stuff like that um how much of an impact do you feel that will have and just kind of to to to like i said kind of close the book on this i think that if they're changing animations it has like kind of inadvertently has balanced implications you know more more um more visible spell effects kind of say like hey purge me hey dispel me whatever uh i think the new models would not be cool because i mean you got the new models in the new game let's have the old models in the old game you can't even go back to the old models in the old game at this point so i think maybe that's uh first off i like them i love them i i love the old models but uh i i do think even from like a little bit of a nostalgia standpoint i think that's what people would want to see whenever they're playing wow classic so yeah yeah like like i said earlier actually right now if you if you open up there's a there's a console you can open up for vanilla wow if you have a 1.12 client you can actually if you enter in a set of commands you can make vanilla wow look much better and this these are graphic settings that aren't actually integrated into the interface you have to use the console to do it but the capacity has always been there um i imagine these upgraded graphics and animations will be among those lines things that have always been there but weren't actually just you weren't able to just flip a switch within the game within the interface that's sort of what i'm expecting yeah yeah as us wants the different animations that's that's actually a much bigger deal than people think it is yeah um question from the darker clouds this one's kind of cool what types of troll things do you think blizzard will do in the wow classic demo for example a level 120 hogger or something like that like i can be uh back in the original vanilla beta they they unleashed infernals i think all over the world and stuff like that or like an interatar um blizzard used to do a lot of cool stuff like that they would have gms come into the game and like summon rag like in the middle of like valley of trials or something like that so do i think they'll do something cool in the demo i freaking hope so i think it'd be funny yeah it might if they do anything like that just like mess with people it'll probably be towards the end yeah old blizzard pepper hands yeah no i um i think if they do anything like that it would be more than likely towards the end like i could also see somebody like i can also see the freaking classic wow forums the official wow classic forum is just like up and uproar like oh blizzard sees this game as a joke they're not taking this demo seriously just like dude come on like i could also see that happening um and i could also see blizzard being afraid of that happening and not doing it so which is i mean i me personally i'd be like dude screw it like if you go back and watch an actual vanilla 2004 open beta footage gms are running around morphed as rats one-shotting players like it was just their playgrounds like i don't know just like suck it guys you know i hope stuff like it happens i hope it happens again i want it you know it'd be cool if they took away the borders on the last day and let people like filter in to like rhetoric or something like a big raid scored versus alliance the last day get everybody fighting against each other battle royale style last man standing and then just wipe the servers that'd be awesome and guys again one more time we are a what just a little update on the giveaway the giveaway for the virtual ticket is is still in the chat i'm gonna keep posting it but um that's going to we're going to announce the winner of that giveaway at the next classic half so so people watching on youtube you guys are going to have a chance as well uh this will be this will be in the comments below uh i usually comment on all my videos that one of our post them so this will be in the comments below as well and uh you guys can get your chance at a at a virtual ticket and that'll get you the uh wow classic demo as well so as well as everything else that it comes with yeah so very very exciting i'm sure i sounded the question here i might have lost it here um i hope i didn't lose it i see what you're since sharding is inevitable is it game breaking for you or not really because otherwise servers will crash um i guess i disagree with the two assertions you made i don't think sharding sharding is inevitable and i think that the servers are capable of not crashing but but yeah sharding is a very big problem it probably would be a deal breaker for me yeah i i really i really really do not want to see that uh this is from eu paladin uh he says that he thinks achievements would be a be a it would have had a huge factor into assuming that blue's gonna add an in-game shop so the good news is that they're not gonna have achievements and they've already they've already said that there's gonna be no achievements and no transmog so in the dev water cooler update that they had a few months back they said that their goal was to not have anything in the game that wasn't in the game post-vanilla and they specifically stated you know it's like okay what do they mean by that i don't know but they specifically said no transmog and no achievements uh one of the we're giving examples of things that would not be in the game so that's something that uh i don't i'm personally i'm happy with that i i do not want to see uh achievements or transmog in vanilla you know i'll read that off real quick uh i'll pick up here this would inherently include classic systems like skill ranks old quest and terrain at towns and so on while later features like transmog and achievements would effectively not exist because they are entirely absent from the data so you have pretty much tldr if it wasn't in vanilla at some point it will not be in classic that's my takeaway from that uh epic leases why would it be bad to get achievements or achievements or whatever on retail if you play or get something in classic he says that that would not directly affect anything classic apart from bringing in more players uh do you guys want to do you guys want to share your thoughts on this yeah i'll chime in on this one um i think at the end of the day there are certain precedents you don't want to cross there are certain walls you don't want to cross you don't want to set certain precedents one of them would be for the two games to have any kind of connection whatsoever um i don't like the idea of you know somebody suggested this in the past use your wow token to buy a classic or a classic time or something like that because it always leaves the door open for the inverse effect for something in classic to change retail and that would have devastating gameplay consequences but um specifically to this thing uh it wouldn't affect me personally but i would actually think retail players would be upset i mean imagine if you you know i don't know like i don't know if you get like an achievement for having full tier three or something like that but i know some people have suggested the transmog pieces you acquire classic could be used to transmog and retail i mean dude imagine if you just got like chromatic chromatically temperate not chromatic temperate sword there's a chromatic blade what is it chromatic sword chromatic blade the one that drops off the right oh cts cts yeah yeah yeah chromatically temperate sword that's the bwl one what's the one that drops off the basilisk and stranglethorne veil i can't remember okay i don't know it's like it's it's just like a it's a green chromatic chromatic sword yeah oh okay that's a chromatic sword it's like a rainbowish sword that drops off the rare and vanilla which is not you know you can farm it it's not that difficult to get in vanilla but in retail it's worth like tens of millions of gold or something like that imagine being able to get that sort of vanilla relatively easily and then having it as transmog and retail i think people on retail would be pissed because that would kind of invalidate their efforts yeah i i hope and i don't expect something like that what happened like if you farm full tier three in vanilla wow you're going to get it unlocked in retail wow but what i fully expect and this has happened with literally every blizzard game ever you know if you play hardstone you can get a mount and wow if you play wow you can get a spray on skin and overwatch if you play wow you can get a skin on starcraft 2 there is cosmetic over a crossover like that to incentivize game purchases i fully expect something like that i think if you play classic wow you will probably get something in retail wow i hope it's not vice versa i hope you don't get something in classic wow i don't want to see that in classical but if they're giving people a pet in retail wow i don't think we need to incentivize people to play classic wow i think classic wow has enough merit to stand on its own it's genuinely a good game but i fully expect that if you're playing retail wow you will probably get a pet or something i fully expect that just because that's what they've done with literally every other blizzard game yeah i think uh the big thing for me is i don't want people playing classic for no i don't want people playing classic no i don't i don't want people to who are playing classic to do something in classic only to get an achievement on retail and take away from somebody who might be maining classic or something like that like let's say um let's say there was like transmog or achievements or stuff like that hypothetically like imagine a corrupted aspringer drops right not not only the point that tips made where you were talking about like it kind of it takes away from the people who got it originally but on top of that it takes away from the people who want to get it now in classic and it's like i want to use that for my myself to play like i don't want to have somebody else take it just because they want it for like they take it on their hunter that they're running max with because they want it for transmog on their warrior on retail like dude come on i mean you're a hunter you probably want it anyway just because you're a hunter you want everything but i i really do not like that yeah i'm really not a fan of that just keep the game separate man i mean just keep them separate they're they're separate games keep them separate i'll also say if the type of player that is crossing their fingers hoping uh to get t3 unlocked or corrupted aspringer appearance unlocked in retail wow if they get a corrupted aspringer in vanilla wow if that's if that's someone's desire to put it politely you're not the type of player that's going to ever get a corrupted aspringer in vanilla wow you don't you don't have to worry about that no i just i don't want to even deal with it like as a as a guild raid leader like i just like god really i don't know yeah i think you're right i think they might not even get to that point but i might not even be a thing so um what would oh this is from dashi move what would be your thoughts if the subs were unconnected and each was fifteen dollars uh i i would not like that i mean i i think what would happen if that had like if that were the case uh i think that blizzard would be basically cannibalizing their own profits right now it's like okay well if you're just paying 15 for both and whatever it's like sure but you're cannibalizing it in terms of you're taking away the potential for them to play the other version of the game um i think that would be something that's really bad i know for me personally like if i still want to arena i might i may or may not i don't know i might just like not arena if i just want to play classic then like if i'm i don't know i don't know what would happen for me personally like you'd have to see how that plays out in the future but uh earn this this hypothetical future but uh i don't think i i don't think that would be a good idea for them to do i think that would be a really really really bad idea for them to do actually you know do you guys have anything add to that tips tips go ahead uh just they should not split their player base like there's no reason to especially when the alternative is to keep their player base together and establish a symbiotic relationship between the two games it's a lot more uh desirable for me to play retail after classic comes out if i know that i don't have to pay an extra subscription and let's say you know six months down the line after classics out we've been farming mc a little bit of a content lol maybe i'll go check out the new retail patch or the new retail expansion or something like that it's a lot easier crossover when i know i don't have to pay an extra sub um and that would kind of keep you within the world of warcraft ecosystem i would not stop playing the game i would not get out of the loop i would still be sub to wow and i do think that when blitzer does decide to link the subs which i hope they do there's going to be i'm just going to be sub to wow for the rest of my life dude like why would i unsub you know there's always going to be content whether it's classic or tbc or the new the new patch or the new expansion of the modern game i'll try it all so i think that's something that a lot of players feel as well and it will definitely keep players connected and sub to the game for much longer yeah i think that i actually i'm actually very happy with this leaked uh sub model i think the shared sub is wise you get the bonus classic uh subscription if you're already playing for retail and if you don't if you really just don't want to play retail you can pay 750 for classic i think that's i'm perfectly fine with that i don't think i don't really see any big problems with that i think tips tips and s font are really right about the ecosystem health ecosystem um yeah i think it's in their interest like you have you have sort of zealots on both sides of fence you have vanilla wow extremists and you have class that you have a retail wow extremists and they like to think that you can only enjoy one game or the other i think it's actually perfectly this might be surprising but it's perfectly possible to both enjoy bfa and also enjoy vanilla and it's still at the same time understand that um that they're very different games i think it's possible to enjoy both of them mm-hmm uh we're going to take a few more questions guys before we wrap it up um just a few more questions because we are we are running short on time uh after this uh i i'll stream for a little bit after this maybe half an hour or so and then and then stay safe you're going to stream a little bit later tonight as well uh and i'll i'll host into you after i'm done with my stream i'll just do a quick little short stream because i didn't stream earlier today but um yeah the after party streams yeah exactly after party streams so uh rock my burst i think this is a good question uh do you think that they'll let us buy mount training as it wasn't the start of vanilla or like it wasn't later patches also do you think that the non armor epic mount versions will be in at all uh i would like to see them i would like to see the non armored epic mounts so what what rock my burst is talking about is two things i believe it was until patch one point was it three or 1.4 that uh they got rid of the unarmored epic mounts i believe it was 1.4 1.4 they got they got rid of unarmored epic mounts it was very very very early on but originally the epic mounts did not have any like sort of special armor to them they were just like different colors uh at least for humans it was like that uh and then also originally i think the mounts were really expensive and the training was super cheap epic mount training was very cheap but then the mount itself was really expensive and they flipped it yeah they they flipped it later on uh to where the training was really expensive and then the mounts were super cheap just so people could buy multiple mounts or whatever uh and only had to pay the big fee once i think that they that they'll have it that way i think i think that it'll be it'll be the final version of it as it was in 1.12 i hope that's how it was you're right so back in early vanilla wow this is actually this is actually 90 percent of vanilla wow so they changed the mount training system the mount prices i think in patch 1.11 uh so prior to 1.11 you had kodo training you had horse training you had mechanistrider training each one had their own training and it was very cheap it was 10 gold and then the mounts themselves were much more expensive uh and up until 1.4 they had unarmored mounts unarmed unarmored epic mounts so um sort of the epic mounts 100 speed mounts look very similar to the low 40 60 percent mounts on top of that and this is like a bit of a gold making tip i guess maybe i shouldn't tell you guys um up until 1.4 up until 1.4 every mount you bought was boe um so if you get exalted with rip with with your alliance reputations for example you can buy an unarmored night saber um an unarmored one they'll be very rare because they're not going to to exist after 1.4 you can sit on them for months and months and months and you can sell one of the og unarmored night sabers or unarmored horses whatever you want you can sell it down the road um because it will it will it will remain boe that's how it wasn't vanilla and you can make a ton of gold you can make a ton of money doing that mm-hmm yeah uh here's a question from uh g dan and i think it kind of falls in line with like the idea of fresh servers thoughts on making wild classic ladder base where there's a hard reset after a 12 or 18 month cycle i don't like the concept of a hard reset i think one of the problems with private servers over the years is that you never know like if you're going to get to keep your character right at any moment somebody could take the server down something could happen well now it's like okay it's happening for sure you're losing all your stuff for sure with a hard reset but um the concept of adding fresh servers after a certain period of time i think would be something that uh that's something a lot more feasible and something that i think should happen and stay safe you're kind of talking about that a little bit earlier um now i don't think they should add if they should release fresh servers in the middle of a cycle of vanilla wow because what that happened what would that cause this to happen is that it it'll kill off and people who are playing the other version of the game will be like oh let's go to fresh and then they just for whatever reason right i mean some people like that some people don't like that but there will be a large portion of people that they feel like man i screwed up i didn't get into the best gilder i got behind or i started late well i'll just wait and i'll go fresh and what ends up happening is it ends up killing off that server uh because there is an obsession with fresh and uh yeah yeah exactly so yeah it creates this culture of just never really you know investing in one server um and it's perpetually waiting for for a new fresh server and i think having that investment is important i would i would really say only have fresh servers maybe every two years i like this one said i don't want them coming out every six months because i'll tell you every time a fresh server comes out the current old uh un-fresh server it just dies or if it doesn't die it takes a huge population hit yeah like it should be i think it was six months after nax or so it was about six months after nax released it's one of the 2.0 patch the burning crusade patch went in um and then burning crusade the expansion itself launched uh in january so i think it should be like a six or seven with period after after nax launches that they then that's whenever they can think about putting out a uh a fresh server sorry no the only situation the only scenario is even putting out fresh servers before that is if they just don't have enough servers at the launch or something but how do they do that back in vanilla wait a minute when they would release new servers would they be on the same patch as every other server or would they restart the patch they would be on the same patch they'd be on the same patch so the appeal of fresh wasn't really there you know they launched on 1.9 or whatever well like i i think what happened was it was after 1.9 or maybe it was on 1.9 uh they would release some new servers to to accommodate the growing game the growing population in the game and i specifically remember going on one of these low-pot like new servers and i think it was towards the end of vanilla and they still didn't have aq 40 open like the war effort was still going on and i just thought it was insane right because i played on illidan and and later kelth is odd and those are servers that were historically have kind of been popping off throughout wow but uh but yeah it was very very funny i don't know i don't remember what server i went to maybe like zuljan or something i don't know it was it was some random server um i have no idea but uh but i just thought that was so funny back in the day mind those copper ores dude yeah you just start mining dude for sure uh here's another good question do you think it's possible to demo as a stress test and do you think it's possible that uh do you think it's possible that including this is the virtual ticket is the hold on is a way to offset project cost in case they don't meet their projected numbers uh i i don't i would say the virtual ticket has nothing with like nothing to do with like offsetting any sort of cost and projected numbers i think more than anything they're trying to increase the value of the virtual ticket right the virtual ticket's 50 bucks well let's just like pack more stuff into that 50 bucks so you get you get more for it and uh on the flip side of things there are going to be a population of people who are just going to pay $50 to get to play classic for a week play a classic demo for a week um i think i think that's kind of the main thing about it but uh stays they've actually mentioned it earlier about the classic demo being likely seen as a stress test and i agree i believe tips you agree as well i think it's going to be big yeah yeah i think it's definitely a stress test i think they're going to be taking notes and taking measurements and taking analytical information um i they might be testing different variables on different servers like you might not even you might not even be aware of the variables or the type of server you're playing on the server you load into on the demo might have a 2000 population cap with a slightly slower respawn rates and they're going to see how that plays out there might be another server that you randomly load into that will have a 5000 population cap with slightly faster respawn rates they're going to test these things potentially who knows um that's that's what i would do that's what makes sense to me so we'll see we'll see let's take one more question let's take one more question uh from the chat let's take one more question from the chat um before we wrap it up and before uh i'm going to go off to my stream we'll do that here and then stay safe we'll stream a little bit later on let's see hmm do you guys see anything that sticks out to you take a look here um people keep asking about what's our ideal patch 1.13 what do you guys think about 1.13 you guys you guys know how i feel i am very very anti 1.13 i want a replay of classic wow and or tbc and tbc yeah do do we want to open up that can of worms now i think i think i i think a 1.13 could be interesting but i just don't think it should happen until uh after a full cycle of classic yeah type the full cycle of classic i wouldn't mind the extra content so long as they preserve the original vanilla servers and maybe they do a couple of these fun servers post next servers i'm totally cool with that um i i just uh yeah i mean honestly if they were really going to go through with it i'm probably against the grain in the sense that i don't want to see the stuff that was all done in vanilla like the dragon isles and um or dragon isles no but like i don't want to see kerosene or caverns of time because we already got that i'd like to see something new that we never got whether it be something like the dragon isles ashara crater or something brand new that they've just developed but the likelihood of going to 1.13 i think is very very very small especially when you have the alternative of tbc and if they did it they would have to do it right they had to preserve the original vanilla servers and then maybe you can transfer onto these 1.13 servers or something just for fun that yeah very small possibility of it happening yeah not only not only do i not want it i think it's not going to happen i mean do you think blizzard if blizzard's going to be introducing new custom content with perhaps new lore and gameplay experiences and storytelling experiences is classic wow the tool that the device that they're going to do that on like is is classic wow the place to introduce new lore and story i think absolutely not like i i just i don't want it and i don't think they're going to do it i think it's very unlikely yeah we'll see we'll see it's gonna be a it's gonna be very interesting thought and we might uh we might open up that can of worms someday but i i feel like we could talk a lot about that um but for now guys anyways guys thank you so much for joining us here for class cast number 14 uh a lot of stuff to cover a lot of stuff to talk 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yeah yeah pretty crazy and blizzcon's a month away dude it's gonna be good yeah thank you so much for joining us guys we'll see you guys later peace


This is driving out of Jerusalem on what's called Kvisham-e-Rot which is at 60. What you can see from our car here is to the right that's the separation barrier. The tunnel we've just crossed under which is what the name is is is named after in Hebrew slang goes under Beit Jallah and this is to the left is Beit Jallah which is area C part of Bethlehem and the fence there is bounding in the Crimean valley which is controversial and battered that's over to the to the south and these big barricades over the road here that you can see to the right are to prevent I guess attacks on the road or something like that but this is Beit Jallah all these houses here and this neighborhood is actually neighborhood of Bethlehem it continues into Bethlehem itself and just a matter of a few hundred meters so you can see right here we're about to go under Beit Jallah the tunnel Minerot in Hebrew means tunnels and you can see what's going on here is pretty fascinating that above us is Beit Jallah which is area C we're just about to come to a checkpoint those high-rise buildings and this road is going directly under so the security fence that separates Har-Gilo and Gilo on the other neighborhoods of Jerusalem from Bethlehem is actually somewhere above this road and you can see up there on the road on the fence there's all these security cameras so the infrastructure here is pretty crazy