What's going on you guys? So, my name is Lloyd, I'm not the single guy, and I brought back the Spock t-shirt. I don't know if you guys remember this, I used to wear this years ago, and I stopped, but bringing it back. So, I have a question from a viewer, and he writes, hey Lloyd, your advice is killer. I had a question. I used to be really good with women when I was younger, but now that I'm older and in my 30s, I'm not getting nearly the results I did in my early 20s and in college. I'm not sure what is going on, but my confidence is much lower. I feel like women are less attracted to me. What can I do to change this around? Well, believe it or not, this is something that I get from a lot of guys. I actually have several clients who, when they were younger, they were doing really well with women, and then they got older, sometimes in their 30s.  So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna talk about the common problems that those guys have, and I'd actually get over them, because I've coached guys through this many times, and it is a process. Believe it or not, it does happen a lot, although it's kind of like the opposite of what happened to me, which is where I felt like women didn't like me at all in my early 20s, and then started later as I got older, I got better and better, and now I'm where I'm at now, which is a very confident place. I feel like this guy is going through a very common thing that happens. So I'm gonna tell you the reasons for why you're feeling the way you are and how to get out of it. Okay, let's talk about what the common situation is. Usually this guy is maybe a popular kid in school, or a semi-popular, or something like that, or maybe you got popular right after college, or something like that. Usually he's something like that. Now, when you have an environment that really is positive for you, it's gonna breed confidence, like you're gonna feel better about it. Like in college there are guys, like I gotta be honest with you, there's a lot of really terrible, for lack of a better term, shithead guys in college that do really well with women because they're popular, they're good-looking, with the captain of the football team, or whatever it is, okay? And they have that, and they can keep that going for a little bit after college too, because they tend to hang out with the same people. Maybe they go to the same job. The job that I got out directly out of college, most people that came there, I actually knew from previously, which was kind of annoying for me, because I wasn't that popular of a guy and didn't really hang out with that many people, but it happened. But if you were a guy who was really popular, you can still keep that going for a while. So a lot of times it's their environment and the things that they're doing that allow them to get the women that they're getting, and then it's slowly but surely get older, they start getting separated from people, they stop having the same things that they had before, maybe they gain a little bit of weight, women stop looking at them in the same way. It's usually just a change of environment, and then they kind of get used to just having a quiet life, and then maybe they get a girlfriend for a little bit, they break up with them, or maybe they don't, and then they come back into this dating world, or they say that I'm gonna actually start trying to get results, and they can't do the same things that they were doing in the past, because those things don't exist for them anymore, they don't have that social group, they don't have those parties that they used to go to, they don't have the network, or they don't have the abs, or whatever it is that they had in the past, that they would use to get girls.  Well, you have to learn a new paradigm, you have to learn something that you probably haven't learned before, but if you learn it, you're gonna be much more powerful than you were back then, and you're gonna be able to recreate that environment. So what I usually recommend that those guys do is focus on the basics. You gotta go back to sometimes square one. This doesn't mean you're gonna stay at square one for very long, but a lot of times, the biggest thing that I have to change about a guy who's in this position is his ego. He has a certain opinion of himself that he does not wanna change.  You don't wanna have to go through the steps that you went through when you were a kid, because you've already done them. Like why do you gotta do them again? Well, the truth is in life when you're trying to reinvent yourself or you're trying to get back to where you were before, you gotta do the things that you did before to get back there. Now, you don't have the benefit of having a college or your friends all around you, or maybe those kinds of things that you were using in the past, if that's what you used. But you do have yourself, and you do have people around you. So as an adult, you typically have to sign up for different activities. Typically you have to meet people in different ways. Maybe it's through your work. Maybe it's through your hobbies. Maybe it's through the people around you. Maybe it's through events, charities, things like that. There's tons of examples that I use for being able to create a network for yourself. For me, my network comes from Brazilian jiu-jitsu, from the networking events that I go to, and from just generally organizing events and parties and things like that. So there's a lot of ways, and business colleagues as well too. Don't forget that. There's a lot of ways that I do it. So if you're in this position, figure out how to create a network for yourself, and this is something that I teach, and then you can replicate what you had in college by building yourself up that way. Now it doesn't happen as quickly and as in quite the same way as it does in college. It's people a little smarter, people a little bit more mature, but it does work, and I think it's actually better than it did in college. It's less chaotic or whatever. And the other thing too is, focus on improving yourself little by little every single day and being patient with yourself and just accepting the fact that, hey, you're not where you were before, and that's okay. But in reality, once you get better and better, you're gonna be even better than you were in college, because you're smarter, you know more about yourself. The good thing about men is that, we have the benefit of getting better as we get older. Men don't, in my opinion, men don't hit their peak until they're past their late 30s. And so if once you're getting there, feel encouraged that you're gonna be a better version of yourself tomorrow and the day after and the day after. And if you hit a road bump or you hit a speed bump, be patient with yourself. It's okay. But you have to improve on your skills the way that you talk to people, your game, so to speak, as well. And a lot of that time that depends on how you feel in the moment. So if you're feeling bad and you're feeling like down on yourself, you're not giving yourself credit for those small wins, then yeah, sure. You feel like your mojo's gonna be off and you feel like women aren't gonna be reacting to you in the same way. For me, usually I can build up a guy's mojo pretty quickly if I work with him for a little bit or he goes through one of my programs. So that's something that I know can change pretty quickly, but it starts by giving yourself credit for the little things. Working on the basics. Don't be too hard on yourself. Shed that ego and you're gonna be just fine. Cool? Well, thanks for watching you guys. If you want more information about this, I highly recommend that you check out my free texting sheet or you reach out to me for coaching or whatever, fill out some of those forms, click on some of those links, and yeah, we'll get back to you. Good luck out there, you guys.


Is it John Ralphie? I'll go back to you. Back to you. Hello everybody! If it's Wednesday it's Warhammer and that must mean it's time for another episode of Warhammer Weekly. This time I'm joined by John. Hey everybody! And Adam. Howdy. And we're going to be talking about this reveal thing that's going on, I don't know, one of these directions for myself here in this area. We just did the Nova Open thing. I'm still waiting on it to say it's actually live. There it is. Okay, cool. We're good. We did it. We're good. We're live. It's all fine. Everything's fine. But yeah, so we just came from that show. I'm going to pause here and say, all right, let's start with our standard thing. Overall score, one through ten. One being it was a terrible, awful, dreadful experience. Ten being it was the best reveal you've ever seen in your life. It's just going to be scrolling by the way up there as this is going on. Though there shouldn't be any sound coming out for that, I hope. Okay, so I think I said everything else, right? And that they're not making sound up there. Somebody please tell me if that's making noise. It didn't when we test recorded, but then who knows? Pointing towards. Do I keep pointing this way? That way? Towards you? Oh yeah, all right, okay, yeah. All right, over here. Tell me if that's making noise. I don't think we're hearing the two of them right now. All right, so overall one through ten, Adam, total reveal. What do you rate in this one? Five. I mean, the, so what you guys are seeing is different than what we saw. They made a video, Eddie Eccles was on screen and we just watched a video and they just kind of machine gun through like Eddie would say now we're going to look at this and then you would see a thing and then it was a bunch of, you know, music, music, and blah, blah, blah, and then they would go on the next thing. And at the time I was appreciating that, but as we've been looking here, we're not seeing like close ups as much and things. So it's a little bit, but so I'm going to say five. Okay, good answer. Good answer. All right, I like that. John, what about you? I'm going to go a 6.4. 6.4. Okay, there's a couple of big hitter positives, but a fair equal amount of duds in my opinion. Yeah. Okay. What about you Vince? Overall for me, I'm going to go for probably a seven, but that's because I really, really, really love iron jaws. And so like anytime you get something for an army that you deeply love, and it's like, especially when it's like a major expansion for the force, that's actually what's on screen right now. And so, you know, we'll talk about that here in a minute. I'm just letting this play, but we're not going to, we're not going to follow what they're doing exactly. We'll just, we'll, we saw everything already. So we'll just talk through it and they'll, they'll be on whatever they're on. And we'll reference the pictures as it comes up. I mean, when you get an expansion for an army that you really love and you really play and like to paint, it's, that's a pretty good day, right? Especially when it's more than just big pig. We got, we got big pig plus. Plus. Yeah. Okay. So let's move through these in order. Here we go. Okay. All right. So first up, we had 40K stuff. We won't spend a lot of time here, but that already passed on the stream. We can talk about it for a moment. Really what I'd like to talk about with the, the, with the 40K reveal, all the different space marines is people really love space marines. They do. Yes. Because it, you know, when we got like 10% of the releases that space marines get as stormcast in AOS. Yeah. In a very short amount of time, people were like, we're done with this. Please stop. We hate this. This is awful. Right. Okay. These space marines, like I saw them and every time the trailer would start and it'd be like, but also this. And it was just like, space marine with a gun. And then they'd be like, and then this one and it's space marine with a gun. But these other guys too. Space marine with a gun. Some of them have jump packs. Some of them did have jump packs. Yes. Those are pretty cool. Like I've been kind of, I'll be honest. I've been waiting for Primaris assault marine jump pack guys. And so you're happy about this? For the most part, yes. Oh, and the scouts. And the scouts. You like those guys too? Yeah. Yeah. To me, I'm just like, this just all feels like more space marines. I literally, yeah, I, I couldn't muster even the beginnings of care about this, but I'm not the target audience. Right. People in that room were very enthralled. We're excited. Oh yeah. The amount of like, applause and just cheers, right? At every new, like they show the stern guard or whatever. Like they showed these dudes. And that's what's so funny in our video. And he doesn't set it up. He's just like, he was literally just like, and also these guys or something, you know, and, and it cuts them and instantly everybody's like, Oh my God. And I'm like, who are these guys? There was hooting and hollering. Right. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. I have a fun little game that I play with these reveals now. And I think you guys would enjoy it way more if you play the same game. Okay. It's where's Waldo, except what you're looking for and trying to find is the one tiny thing that's different about this space marine compared to every other space marine. Sure. And then when you find it, you're like, there's Waldo. Yeah. The Waldo is he's jumping off the rock this time. He's jumping off the rock and holding a sword.  Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, I mean, like buying people seemed very excited. Okay. Sure. So that's fine. Yeah. They do their thing. And they're consistently really well done. It just feels like you're seeing the same thing. Now, if you like that thing, there's a reason why they keep making them and it's not because they're not making money off them. Yeah. For sure. You're excited about the thing. Yes. Okay. So then let's let's just I mean the AOS previews up like look at these because we didn't get these still shots like this. And I actually really wanted this still shots. I'll tell you what, I'm kind of upset that they cut together this video. And then there was so many of the miniatures we saw in the video that they film them in like their studio lighting. Yeah. Speed ramping. Yeah. And they've got like the gel lights. Rotating all that kind of stuff. I gotta be honest, I don't want to sit through this at the presentation. I want to look at it later on the web. I give me five seconds of this. Okay. Five seconds. That's all I'm saying. Like the end shot should be five seconds of this. I feel like this reveal on our end here at NOVA was all about like sometimes this drags, we should try to make it go faster. Now, here's the question. Yeah. Do you think that they did this because of the change to the Q&A? I don't know. Yeah. Interesting. You want to talk about that? Yeah, I do. Go for it. So normally what happens at these reveals, no matter where they are of NOVA, Adepticon, LVO, whatever, at the end, then they'll do Q&A. And people who've been doing this for a while ago, okay, that's my chance to leave. I'm going to go now. Because what happens is people ask stuff like, well, when's the next Primark coming out? Or when's what are we going to get plastic sisters about? Or just all these things that they can't answer. No. Like 97% of every question that pops up in a Q&A is a question that anyone who works at GW is like, yeah, we can't answer that question. Right. I mean, not even necessarily because of like legal stuff. Half the time they just don't know, you know, it's just weird questions. So what they've decided to do at NOVA this year is rather than have people kind of sit through that, they just decided we're going to do a Q&A and it's going to be outside of the hall. And we're going to have more than one person, we're going to have a whole bunch of people from the games workshop and we're all going to sit around and you can just ask this question for the next several hours according to Mike, which sounds torturous, frankly. Agreed. Yeah, yeah, but that's what they signed up for. So all right, that's, you know, yeah. So if they poopsie poopsie let the beans spill, it's just to the three people around them. Right. And then hope that those three people don't plaster it on the internet and you don't have another 300 in the same room that also hurt it to guarantee it. Well, that's exactly it because like three people you say something even if they're like, I've got it on good authority did this. It's like, okay. Sure. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Um, he started a line there. Yeah. Sure. So yeah, that was interesting change. Like our video, they ripped through it in like 14 minutes. Like, like here, what is this? What is that? Is that a new book? What is this? Let's say that's a new book. Are we like getting a new Iron Joe's book? They did not mention that at all in the thing. Let's talk about what we did see for AOS. Okay. Number one, we saw Big Pig again. Yeah. We saw the big new troll guy. King troll. King troll who has the whole thing of a jiggy on his back. That guy looked really cool. I thought before he explained it that that was like the thing that the salon sits on. It looks a lot like the thing that the salon sits on. It does. It looks like his thing. I think they're both the same conceptual thing. Like it's a laystone. So it's a place to channel the magics of the like the lay lines of the mortal realms. They had that guy. We got, and then in Iron Joe's, you've got Big Pig who comes in different varietals. Like you saw different builds of him in the picture. You've got the new Ard boys, which we saw there, which look amazing. Like super amazing. So excited about that. And then you've got the two flavors of the, I'm just going to call them shirtless brutes. Sure. Okay. They come in like the three pack. And then you've got the two new heroes. The one we already saw that they preview beforehand with like the tusk face. And then the other guy with the hammer and fire sword and the anvil squid. I'm waiting for someone to do a conversion of that guy where he paints his blacksmith apron as Warhammer Weekly Vince apron. Sure. Nice. Nice. Nice conversion. Yeah. So all of those are very welcome. They all look great.  We already saw him. I am honestly legitimately blown away by the new Ard boys. Yeah. That. Okay. When I saw those and in my head, you see the old Ard boy kits and you're like, I can picture what a new version of these would look like and look badass.  I thought it could be. Right.  Like, I'm shocked how cool they are. Yeah. Agreed. Yeah.  I like them better than most other orcs. Okay. I prefer if I'm going to pick an orc thing to do, it's going to be them versus savage orcs or non savage orcs or swan toddlers, very calm orcs or any of the other ones, the flavors that they make. Yeah. And I actually own some of the models. I just haven't built them, but I've painted some for Warhammer underworld. So they've done those. And so that's kind of cool. These were, I don't know, the pig is that pigs a lot. There's a lot going on. There's a lot of big boy.  Right. Yeah. Yeah. I would say he's a lot of pig. And so yeah, that's all I got. Okay.  Oh, okay. To answer the question, when has been getting a matching tattoo with ninja on any day? Now I'm going to get the same sleeve that he's got. Absolutely. That's that's happening. Your face. Yeah, absolutely. And then Mo has said, do you all have tattoos?  I do not. I probably never will. It's not a thing. You want to do one tonight? I'm good.  All right. So and then we got the actual Don Bringer's book, right? They showed that.  And then we also saw in Don Bringer's, the King Broad is going to have some new force that the name giant. So I'm pretty excited for the the second Don Bringer's book, because I'm hoping what that means is that we get some new exciting options for all of those armies. I think that'll be super cool. At minimum, we're going to get all the war scrolls for that stuff, right?  That's quite a lot of new scrolls being added to the to iron jaws, which I think is great, super great. Yeah, it was one of those armies, those guys, the flesh eater courts, fire slayers are kind of the notorious outliers of not a lot of option armies. And now I get it that they're kind of throwing green skins together in a lot of ways. But it feels good to add more and have enough of a variety to it as well. Like it's the hard thing with the art boys is that there's only so much design space for making big burly orcs, right, and making them different. Yeah. And there's already like bigger burlier orcs in the rain. Yeah. Yeah. So it's like, well, we can't go there. So where do we go? So they still feel like, like very menacing and powerful, but without just like, well, just off scale at 15%. Right, right, right. So overall, that's cool. Very excited about dawn bringers. I'm very excited about like everything iron jaws, like that was the big win for me. I'm going to be honest, because all those things look super freaking cool. I'm excited to add them to my army. It'll be the first time I've really painted my iron jaws since like 2019. It'll be the first time I touched that army. So good. Like I've had them. I've had them for a long time. I knew new rules, new figs. Good fight. Good night. Okay, great. Yeah. So that was basically the AOS stuff, right? I mean, there wasn't anything else. Then we went to horse heresy, which is up now. And I don't care. If I thought I didn't care about normal space marines, and wow, did I not care about this one? Like, I don't care about the robot guy with the little robot arms who looks like a knockoff battle tech miniature. That guy was the only cool guy in my opinion, because like the normal armor and all the normal guys and regular armor and stuff like that. I'm like, I turned you at one point and I was just like, I don't know that these look different than anything else. I don't know. I just, yeah, I'm not super into horse heresy stuff. I really hate their old guns too. Yeah, I just, I don't like the look of it. So it was there. If you love heresy, I'm sure the iron warrior stuff's exciting for you. I don't know it. I don't play it. Let's move on. The neck was cool, but that was right. Now, let's talk about this thing that's up on the screen right now. Because this was super cool. So this is hunters be hunted at X versus seven. I'm pretty sure it's versus Predator. Yeah, absolutely. Spy X family. So this was, this is the hunter people, like these trackers with all their dogs. We love the pets now, right? Yeah, they've learned that more pets equals more money. Oh yeah, for sure. And literally at one point, when people were talking about that, you know, because they kept showing more and more dogs was like, Oh, there's a dog and there was like, Oh, there's a second dog. Oh my God, another dog. Literally saw one of the GW folks like walk like over to talk to another one go. And I bet they probably said we probably should make more dogs. You know what I mean? Because that was literally the answer, I think. So people are very excited about the new dogs and that, but then also what they're hunting is a group of ogre gorgers. That's what it is. I thought it looked like FEC at first like fleshy or gourd. They said they were cannibals. They are cannibalistic, but they're gorgers. So they're ogre maw tribes, people. So they only eat other ogres. Ah, they eat everything. That's it. I mean, it's a good question. If an ogre eats a human, is that really being a cannibal? No, I wouldn't think so. I don't think so. Or does that make me a cannibal if I have chicken? No, that's it. I think that's, I think you're in the clear. Yeah. Is it, is the line same species or is the line sentient? Generally, I guess what cannibal means. Well, sentience is a good question too. They're a very least same species. Sure, sure. So what you really do know that these guys are sentient? Well, they seem intelligent enough. They've formed weapons. So I think that is sort of the marker we use. Like, if you wear pants and make weapons, you're sentient. I'm no great philosopher of history, but that does seem to be the help, an agreed upon term. We brought an anthropologist to wherever we plead to discuss this. But these dudes are great. Like, I cannot believe, so the gorger, I don't know if you two know what the gorger looks like off the top of your head in Obermau tribes. It's a lot of belly. It's bad. It's such a bad fig. Like, it is ancient, ancient. It's not as old as the Skaven models, of course, because those still remain the oldest in the range by far. The oldest Skaven model in the range still on sale right now as a current thing that you buy for your army. I realized this, John, the last time we talked about it is older than Magic the Gathering. The game. Wow. It released a few months before Alpha released. So what, 1993? Oh, okay, all right. Being in the air. 93. Yeah. So is it the Red Ogre, guys? No, it is the Skaven Plate Priest. It's a good trivia question for Tuple. Yeah. What? For Tuple. Yeah, what is older? This plate priest or the entire game currently on sale or CW's website right now? Or the entire game of Magic the Gathering. All right. At any rate, the gorger was really, really old. And so the fact that we're not getting like one new plastic gorger, but there's like, what, four or five? Something like that. In that kid? Yeah. That's pretty great. I also, I really like these Wilder Corpse Hunters or whatever.   Do you like Dex? Yeah, I like Dex. I like Dex. Fairy Wink of Blue. So yeah, exactly. The dogs are all cool. I just think they're a good looking crew. Yeah. They don't look overly complicated or anything. And then the gorgers looked really cool, really different and big. Yes. Like that, those big cannibals, that honestly looked pretty great. The only downside that I had on the gorgers is was really in their choice and paint scheme. Like it. They looked very FEC. They looked very FEC. Yeah. And I think there's so much nasty flesh to work with there that they are going to have some great opportunities to paint them, not only within an existing Moa Tribe's army, but to tweak your paint scheme and make it unique.  We never saw that. We didn't see this. This, oh, it's a Moa Pit. We never even showed that. We never got to see that. Wow. Why are we even in the District of Moa? We get less. It's ridiculous. Yeah, we get less when we go to the live show. Like people watching at home, this Moa Pit, this is completely new information to us. Just a single frame of it. This was not shown. Yeah. This is not an offer. Let's say they get in the background maybe while they were doing their cool speed ramp spin around thing. Yeah. Maybe it was behind the meat trees. Well, we didn't see the meat trees, thankfully. Yeah, it was meat tree list. That's the thing that's interesting with this too. We don't know anything about this. Is this a box? Is this little box? Is this? Yeah, it's one of the, it's the full-size box because it's two full-size warbands. So it's the next quarterly box. That doesn't necessarily, like they've done a war cry starters recently that is not a big full-size box. It's a small box. Yes, but those were half-size warbands. Sure. Yeah, but I mean, I don't know, like I think they're kind of throwing stuff in the wall to see what sticks. Sure. You know, they didn't show what I thought looked like a box, but it looked like the smaller underworld size. That's what I was saying. Yeah. So I don't think that would come with any terrain then. Well, it could, like clearly comes with the Moa Pit. Well, or the Moa Pit is separate. That is for, that could be a separate piece of terrain. Yeah. Let the AOS rumor meal start on that. Yeah, for sure. But either way, yeah, I thought all those guys looked good. Really excited about the new gorgers. I'm happy for Ogre players because they did say that those will not only play in war cry, but they will go directly into Ogre Moa tribes armies. And so, I mean, that's great to get a new updated sculpt. Now, if they could just do it for the butcher as well and the slaughter master, those two awful, awful, awful, awful, awful models. Well, how awesome that they've done their new versions of the Moa tribes, the butcher, if and when it comes, will be so freaking amazing. Right. Because that's such a characterful model. I love how the Ogres can't get a full re-sculpt. They're just like getting piece parted over time. Yeah. Right? Like, yeah, just get like one hero, one model, one group, one thing every, every couple months, just like every six months a year. That's just all, again, the reason like people talk about this all the time about like, well, maybe if they made more Zenos and 40k, then people would buy more Zenos and it's a real chicken in an egg situation. Yeah. I would do wonder if it's them going, well, look, they don't sell that well, so we're not going to spend a bunch of time and money, but then people go, well, it would sell better if you did spend some time and money. Yeah. Who knows the answer to that? Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, good stuff. I'm happy to see it. I hope they keep updating the, I hope they keep updating the, you know, the Ogre army piecemeal slowly. Eventually, we'll just have a, it's like a ship of Theseus with the Ogre army, right? In like five years, nothing will be the same. It'll be like one model, it's the same. Is it still the same game? Is it still the same ship? Yeah. Okay. So then next up, we had blood bowl, which was this. This is Scott's game, right? He loves blood bowl. He likes the blood, the better version of blood bowl. It doesn't exist anymore. Never heard of it. Never heard of it. Soccer ball. Soccer ball. Yeah. Okay. Here's my question for you. I don't care about blood bowl. Like, it's not a thing. It's a super cool game and I have a lot of respect for it. The people who play it really love it and the people who design it really love it. I've gone to like talks from the designers of blood bowl before and they seem like the greatest group of people that like super love their job. Okay. I have two questions on this blood bowl vampire team. One, do you think is this too goofy for Scott or would he paint these? Well, I will look at it from my perspective when I first started seeing these and then in these situations, I feel 80% confident that my reaction is pretty on par with what his will be. You see a lot of potential with kit bashing about 15 to 25% of each model to make it awesome. I personally love poofy shirts. Okay. I think going deeper into that like really broke style, just like really hyper gothic Castlevania style is phenomenal. But when then you're like, also you get a spiky football and then it's like, no, yeah, I'm out. That's too far. Sure. You jump the shark on that. So if you can take off the silly, the silliest parts of it and just dig into what actually the really nice designs of them are, I think it's got potential. It is the silliest game that they make. Yeah. It is designed that way. Yeah. People who play it seem to enjoy that. And that's not for me. I understand. You know, but yeah, I do believe that like that when they want to get crazy and give somebody a weird pun name or whatever like that, that's the game they deal with. And I am here for it. I'm glad that one game is still allowed to be fun. Okay. So even though I have no interest in it, I'm glad it's allowed to be fun. It has its own identity. Can we all just say that it's Mutant League football from the second Genesis, from the early 90s, because they borrow and stole that entire game? Sure. Because that's exactly this game. All right. Let's talk about this next thing. It's on screen right now though that we caught up to this because obviously this also peaked my interest. So this is Death Gorge. This is the new underworld thing. Every season continues the trend. Death Gorge. Just I'm going to leave it out there. Two words. We cannot help but keeping this like two word naming thing going and they all sound pseudo dirty, right?  I like the Beast Rave. Beast Rave. Yes, exactly. Yeah, that was the best one I think. This is like a weird crappy D&D name generator. Right. Yeah, sure. Where you get two halves of like generate a map. All right. So there's a chart. It's like there's a chart and they roll D2D20 or whatever.  Your surname is Jade a spirit. Like, got it. We're done. And so here's the thing. I think we need to start a pool. Like a betting pool going forward. Like what is going to be the next underworld box game call? Because I feel like there's a lot of money on the line for this. Yeah, this is big stuff. It's going to be a grim clap. Yeah, okay. The grim clave. All right. So then this is Aideneth versus Slanesh. And I got to say these three demonet, they said they're based on all daemonets, right? Like that sort of advanced daemonet type models, like, like herald types. And I mean, I got to say these are weird. Yeah. And I'm kind of here for it. Okay. There's not very much in them that's beautiful. They're a little more on like the body horror side of slanesh, as opposed to the like normally slanesh tries to walk this like really fine line in between horror and beauty, right? Where it's like 50 50 perfectly down the middle. And my favorite sculpts are usually those that like hit that mark exactly. But some of them tilt. Yeah, right. The harp back guy. Yeah. Yeah, that's obviously way more on the horror side. I was interested in the squid until I saw a better picture of them. But let's say let's talk about the Aideneth. You do not like the squid? Squiddy Boy's not for you? I was kind of interested in then I wasn't. Now that I see him like in a better light, not doing a speed ramp, you know, close up, zoom around. Now I'm like, Oh, yeah, no, I don't want that. And the rest of the wet elves, I couldn't care less about.  Yeah, we'll be for quite some time. That is a golden demon future winner right there, the central character out of this potentially this whole warband. But like certainly that central character with the face mask with the cape and the movement like her staff behind her, the cape flowing out like the main open pose is very inviting extremely open pose. That's what you're looking for, right? That's that's the magic for a golden demon manager. She's beautiful. She has flowing fabrics, different materials, the chance to show the shear thing. She could be part of the unit or alone like future golden demon winner. I didn't have the deep can model there. I think that was great. The photographer can't screw up the picture, which is pretty important right in the actuality. True. Also, my hot take is top three bridesmaid but never the bride best model of the year 2024 squid boy there. Squid boy. Squid boy will will make it will have gotten the votes but somehow a space brain will still have won. You heard it here first folks. No, what's going to win is the last thing. Yeah, it is. The last thing that they're they're going to reveal here. That is what's going to actually win because they're they're not to it yet for you audience but there's there's a one last thing. Yeah. And it will win. It was not the it was not the interesting thing on that.  But they they they fumbled it at the end. They everyone got up to leave because you acted like you weren't going to do an encore. Right. And everyone left like the show was over because they never do on course. No. Right. They did the Q&A.  And then people who were even smarter were like, they haven't announced 10th yet and I'm pretty sure they're going to announce 10th year. So you sat for a little bit longer and then as people were starting to make their exodus, then all of a sudden I think it was Mike Brandt was like, you know, we might announce something else still though and those people just kept walking. So this time they actually said we're going to have one big thing at the end. Don't leave. Yes. Now let's talk about this model that's up on the screen right now. We're actually timing this quite well. This is happening. We're constantly professionals. Yes. So this is the damsel on unicorn from the Bretonian army. I have to honestly and legitimately say this is the first model I've seen from the old world that in any way moved me and this moves me. I think this model is gorgeous. I've always loved unicorns. The damsel and the damsel on unicorn were some of my favorite old models. I thought they were absolutely gorgeous and beautiful.  Still have them. They're all just, you know, that's set aside. So they're all still on squares. They're old world ready. But I think again, we didn't get that picture. Oh, we didn't see that. Look at that. Yeah. Give us five seconds of this picture. Honestly, this picture is worse. It is, but still like just give it to it so I can see it straight, right? It's it's a different paint job. The other one is clearly I think it was just lit differently. I think it's that differently lit. It's a lot warmer light and so everything yet turned yellow. Yeah, a little bit. Well, the other light was doing it a lot of favors. Well, it was not so much, but nonetheless, I think this is an absolutely gorgeous model. I think this is a good re sculpt of this thing. I think the damsel and unicorns awesome and unicorns are awesome. I, I'm excited that they're putting the effort into the sculpts of the old world stuff because at the end of the day, some, yes, some, to me, at the end of the day, amazing new sculpts of fantasy models, I can find a way to use them in a us. I can find a way just to enjoy painting them. I can use them for my D&D game and a lot of great stuff or stuff like this. I will say, I really want to see closer up pictures, which we did not get at how much of your positive reaction is to this unicorn sculpt, which is phenomenal and this possibly shaky sculpt of the damsel herself. Because the stuff I saw, I was like, there's some weird stuff going on with her. Oh, nice. There's all the versions of the thing.  I don't have the oldest one there. Yeah. Yeah, you're not wrong, John. I mean, here's my take on it. Okay. My problem with this, with the old world is the following. That model, let's assume that she's actually really strong. I think the dress looks really good. I need to, you're right, I need to see a close up of her face, but I'm just going to give it to her. Let's say she's in eight plus. Okay. Like great model, great sculpt. We nailed it. So we're going to have that and we're going to have that new foot lord, the foot paladin guy, right, that they've showed before and like probably one or two other new kids. Sure. Yeah. But everything else is going to be. And then they're going to be riding alongside, yeah, the original Knights of the Realm from 2002. They were sculpted and putty. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. They look like so horribly out of place and I'm just like, why? Oh, and then by the way, they'll also be next to like up against some metal figs or resin figs from another army. They're also from the early 2000s. That's the thing. And I think that as much as people who are interested in the old world or say that they're interested in the old world, as much as they go on about it, I think when they sit down and start to look at their army and get some amazing looking sculpts and then a bunch of old stuff, they're going to be, I think, unfulfilled. It's just so incongruent, right? To have those old Knights that are like very average sculpts to be generous and to then have the view that beautiful new sculpt next to it. Right. It's just like, ugh, it's like it's a it's a handbrake turn. So yeah, I don't know, man. I continued to see I'll continue to keep my my my powder dry on this. I wanted to be successful. I want it to be amazing. Let me state that 100% clearly. What I want is this to come out and be awesome. And everybody who is excited for it to get everything they dreamed of and more. That is what I want. I'm just not sure I'm getting that feeling. Sure. No, I've got no hate against it. I'm not against the idea at all. I'm not interested personally to myself in any of the models, but for people who are into that kind of thing, I'm hoping that they get what they want. I want to take some of the new Cities of Sigmar guys for Age of Sigmar, and I want to give them weird guns that shouldn't be on them and do one kitbashes and stuff like that. And maybe I could even find a model like that that's also in that's a new model that's within the old world, new old model and do fun stuff like that. But for the most part, it's not for me. And I get that. But I also do worry that people who this is for are going to feel that this kind of dichotomy of like the old, old, old models versus some new ones is going to look a little weird. Yep. Yep. Absolutely. All right. You want to make a joke? Yeah. Because we're over to this guy. Okay. So the last thing, the big grand reveal of the show was the big model we've all been missing. It is Man Rathi. It is our favorite, our favorite leader of the Snake Girls. So here he is. I didn't know who this was. But then again, I'm not super into Primarchs in that I actively dislike them. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I just so when I saw this, I was like, I don't know who that guy is. I don't know. But people sure were happy about it in the audience. They were crazy. People were very excited about this guy. Yes, absolutely. So, you know, like this is Fulgrim, the Primarch of the Emperor's Children, the third, sure, third, whatever, they got the three. And so this guy, when I first saw this dude, I was super excited. And I was like, here's the thing. Many years back, when they first came out with like sort of the very first return to Primarchs, good and bad. And they only made like two of them. And I was like, why are they not printing these guys like one a year? They should be printing one Primarch a year, right? Because if they introduced back one Primarch a year in 40K, that's just that feels like a money printing machine, right? Yeah. For now, the problem is there's not enough actual like Primarchs they could legitimately bring back, I think, in 40K. Like they'd run out too quickly if they did that. Well, it was only like what, 18 or whatever? Well, a lot of them are like dead and not in the story anymore. And you can like... That doesn't mean you can't make them off. Sure. They can like, they could, you can narratively loop. But if they keep doing that, they'd be like, oh, also this other dead Primarch is still alive. And also this other dead Primarch is still alive. For sure. People are like, people really do love the lore and the story of 40K. And if like, you can pull that trick a few times, you can't pull that trick endlessly, right? So when they first showed this model, I was like, oh, sweet, Fulgrim, like I love slanash stuff. Fulgrim is a super cool model. You know, it's clearly full.   And then I saw the Horus Heresy logo and I was like, oh, right. And that's when he said that, like, one of the final things that he said was, you know, part of our Primarch's ascended series or something like that. So remember, over many years, they did all the Primarchs for Horus Heresy, like the early Heresy partners, like the start of the war, right? So you saw versions of every Primarch, what they looked like at the sort of beginning of the Heresy, right? How it started, how it's going. Exactly, you got it. So you saw just like, where they basically all just look like dudes. And I do mean dudes, because like, why would any of them would not be dudes? So they're all just dudes, right? And then now you had Horus ascended, right? And I didn't, I didn't cotton to this that what they're going to do now, what they figured out is, oh, wait, we can print a second version of every Primarch, as they are at the end of the Heresy at the Siege of Terra. Marvel Comics did this in the late 90s. It was the 2099 series. Yes, sure. Right. But like, and forgive me for not knowing a ton about the Heresy, but like it makes sense that the, the Chaos Primarchs have a different, this is not even my final form kind of situation. Yeah, sure, sure. But like, how did the other ones change the good guys as they were? I mean, I think just mostly like a little more, their armors, like some of them are portrayed. It's kind of like, they had beards. Yeah, no, like bigger, more more resplendent, I guess, by the end, something like that. Not necessarily as much of a glow up. Yeah, just good. But I mean, still, people are going to be, are going to probably have a preference or decide that they've got to have both. Yeah, but you're right. It's really the Chaos ones that went through like, right, exactly. The big changes, you know, like what Mortarian looks like at the beginning of Heresy is very different than what he looks like, say now at 40k or at the Siege of Terror or whatever, right? So, man, Zach said Dorn is just a skeletal hand. Yeah, exactly. So, overall, that was a perfectly fine, cool thing. I think some people will grab that model and make it their Marathi. I don't think you're wrong. Like, you know, they'll, they'll do a, people who like have a different story and it's a perfectly fine Marathi substitute model. It's cool. Yeah, it's really interesting that when they showed that model. And if you don't really know the character in the lore really well, I didn't know if that was fantasy or sci-fi. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, right. And maybe there's a benefit to that, right? So, that gives you a lot of options. As we were leaving, good friend of the show, Martin Orlando and I were chatting and he was like, um, so that's 30k. I'm like, yeah. And he's like, uh, so that's resin. I'm like, is it? Not necessary. I don't know. But something that big with those kind of wings, man. I think he said, I think he said, Horace Ascended is resin. Horace Ascended is resin. Yes, it is.  Now, I will say, so I did put together and paint Horace Ascended and it is, it was one of the smoothest resin experiences from GW I've ever had. Like it was actually high quality, crisp, good resin, like like what you would expect from an actual professional company using resin. Okay, sure. Okay. Because we've all done resin managers. Like you and I, John do resin managers all the time in, in dis, from display companies and they're really good. Sure. Yeah. I'd like to do resin like normal, like kind of, you know, tabletop war game figures, like from anvil industry and stuff like that, but they're not like six inches tall. They don't have giant honking wings and like lots of parts that have to fit together very, very, very specifically. Yeah. Yeah. And so like that was honestly an extremely pleasurable experience. There was only like, I only had one minor sort of fit issue with Horace Ascended, but for the most part it was crisp. The details were sharp. It was, it was what I would expect from a professional resin experience. Okay. Like this is the thing, if you or I go to buy, you know, something from like big child or mine works or journeyman managers, those are all resin most of the time. And we're not, I'm like, I expect nothing but a high quality sculpt. Yeah. Right. But would you hear the words games workshop and resin? Yeah. Panic. You're right. Because they're just traditionally so bad at it. And it's just, it's shocking, but that one was really good. I assume they're like tooling up their resin facilities to actually be able to deliver this stuff. So I just, and it wasn't so much that I have zero faith in their resin going forward. It was more than, if I know it's plastic, I suddenly feel much more, you know, stable about it. Of course. Especially with those wings. The wings are the real sketchy thing. That is, that is sketch. That is super sketch. All right. That's it. That was the reveal. I don't know. What final thoughts do we have? Adam, start off with you. What, what, what final thoughts do you have about, about all that? I feel like this event here at Nova was a test to some degree. Because the show can drag sometimes. And I think that they wanted to, I don't know, I think, I don't know if they're trying to focus more on this kind of like one-on-one almost kind of QA sort of situation. And they wanted, so they wanted to get through this stuff. Like both of you said, we're seeing things where we're like, well that would have been nice to have seen. Like, you know, we, we, they, they, for, I was happy that it went quickly. Because sometimes it does drag a whole bunch. But maybe they need to dial it the other direction a little bit. You know what I mean? Split the difference. I, I couldn't agree more. Like give us the still shots. I hate how much more we saw with this present. Like, yeah, keep it moving. I'm with that. I don't need the trivia challenges that they used to do like a hundred years ago. Right. I don't need Eddie and Nick like doing the banter about models, right? Right, right. But like give me some good, clean, good lighting, solid shots of what these managers look like.  Right. Because they were super like, you know, in situ kind of like, you know, all kinds of light and smoke machines and all that kind of stuff that they like to do, which is cool. And it gives a definite visceral response. But if you're just like, yeah, but I want to see what the thing looks like.  So my slight hot take here is that these are often wordy and overdone almost to justify the role that people have within the company that you should want to listen to me just expand on things when that's not actually what we're there for. Sure. And I don't watch GW stuff where these people are featured and know their personalities and like them and who in all that, like it's not the people that we attribute with GW or we associate with their brand with the content we consume. Right.  And when you cut to the chase and get to the cool stuff, it makes you look better. Mike looked never better than he did tonight because Mike got out of the way. Yeah, sure. And I think that's a good thing. I don't think the version of tonight was the best version of it, but I think it's much better than it had been in the past. I think they're testing. And I appreciate that they're willing to tweak things and to do that testing. Yeah. They're not just like, well, this is the way we've always done it. Right. And I think from the growth of the miniatures war gaming industry over COVID as the hobby has never been bigger than it is today. And ideally the growth continues when we get new players, we get returning players, we get people more invested than ever before that they are seeing that as an opportunity for them to facilitate an experience that is better for us, everybody at home and everyone that's there. And so I appreciate that. And you know, it let me get through the sloggy stuff. Like when we got through the 30k stuff, I'm like, thank the Lord, we didn't have 12 minutes of talking about this. Right. Yeah. So yeah, I thought overall, it allowed the low parts of the evening to go quickly and me to be excited about the high parts. Sure. Good night. I yeah, overall good. I think I would still like a host that's actually talking. It was weird that like Eddie's pre-recorded message was there in the room. Like AI Eddie from the future. Yeah, you know, I feel like I just I would have liked it more if I, you know, I don't have to be Mike. I would have loved to see Eddie there. Frankly, Eddie's actually a really good host. I think Eddie's very charismatic and funny. For sure. Could have been P2E students a lot as well. Like I don't care. It could be a lot of people. But just like, hey, we're really excited about this next thing too. And then he shows it and he's like, yeah, man, the stern guard looks super cool. We're really excited to get him in your hands. They're going to have lots of cool weapon options and they'll be fully compatible. And while he's saying that second part after the video, you could be seeing the still. Seeing the still and he limits his conversation, his commentary to literally 10 seconds or even 30. Sure. But it's like, and all these guys, like what they said, like what Eddie talked about very quickly, like my God, was he burning through the script? Well, it got to the point. Did you notice this where the person who was running the presentation, because it was just basically one long video. One long video. Version nine. Did you catch version nine? Yeah. I said to John, as you said, version nine, final, final, final. Yeah, about the same thing. But what happened was is that like, because people would be clapping afterwards, the guy started pausing it because otherwise Eddie was jumping right back into it again in the video and then you wouldn't be able to hear what he was saying because people were clapping. So the guy would pause and wait for people to die down and then unpause so that then then Eddie would jump into the next thing. So yeah, it was a test. But I think that they're maybe heading in the right direction. I hope so. Yeah, I agree with you. It was better. I think we went, we swung the pendulum a little too far the other direction. Yeah, we got to bring it back just slightly. Give us a few stills. Give us an actual human who's interacting. Yeah. Like not that he's not human. I just mean like he's not there present. Right. He's not physically. He is very much a human person. A very nice one too. I just mean he wasn't, he's not physically there in the flesh, right? Yeah. Well, what we did learn is version eight actually had subtitles where it said pause for applause. Right. Yeah, but overall cool stuff. You know, very excited about Big Pig and the rest of the iron jaws things. Somebody said, by the way, that iron jaws thing, that's a free PDF supplement. They'll have all the new worst rules. Okay, cool. Awesome. A plus. Good download. Thank you very much. And I'm sure it'll also be in Dawnbringers. So lots to look forward to on that side. I'm interested in those new slanish managers. Overall, yeah, I'm a seven. I now at the end, I having gone through it in detail, I'll stick with my seven. I think this was definitely a seven out of 10. That's fine. No new cool, super amazing army that blew me away, but I'm happy to see all the iron jaw stuff. And yeah, a lot of other fun things.  Yes. Well, they're going to call it a night. We're not calling it a night. Absolutely. No, no, no, no. So, okay. Let's see. Are you fellas going to be there on Saturday? Yes, indeed. My partner noted that the current hosts are the maiden, the matron and the crone of Warhammer. Like we're the three, like the fates or whatever. Oh, right. We all have to pluck an eye out, though, don't we? Yeah, exactly. And let's see. 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Okay, welcome everyone this is Google see this is now docs office hours, and I'm going to change the title here. Fair enough. I may actually now I'll probably create a new document for our ongoing sessions you know. Okay, so I figured I thought we would want to review Wednesday's meetup. Congratulations enough excellent job. I need to check to see that it's okay that we end your AWS account access. As you know because of costs and whatnot so wanted to double check that whole requests and final reminder on Google season of docs timeline. What other topics. I assume you've already submitted your evaluation of success and experiment experience. Yes. Yes, I have. Great. All right, I, I sent to Kristen. Well, I'm going out of order on the agenda I sent to Kristen and to mark you that are submitting it last night and then I promptly forgot. So I have to submit it today, but it is due today so I think that's still okay. Sure. Yeah, I think I don't remember the exact time but it looked fine to me. Hopefully before noon, noon Colorado time. All right, so Wednesday meetup review comments observations go ahead. It was great to see so much interest in the topic, especially you know as we were saying earlier it's like, it's docs and it's showing like the really interesting walkthroughs, and I really liked again like how you're able to walk through and show that this is what we have. This is how it works. I think it was great to see the questions come in and shows the people paying attention interested. I thought it went really well. Great. See now any observations from you. I don't think I have anything to say outside. What Christina said it was, it was a great experience for me. Also, and yeah, I liked the question and answer segment a lot. It was really engaging. Yeah, which was nice. Okay, were the questions were the questions well enough phrased, etc. I was a little worried that the, the seed questions. Ultimately, I'm not sure was helpful as I hope they would be. And that was one where I don't know what, you know, I think it's, it was helpful. And subsequently, I think is something she keep cause it's actually helped me in preparing for the session cause one thing to consider is the mentors are not the only people that are going to be asking questions, even attendees are also likely to ask questions. So it's good to prepare even beyond the seed questions just for any questions that my hope of eventually. So yeah, it was helpful for me. Good. Okay, very good. Alright, so that's, that's, that's great. We, we definitely did not cover all the questions and I guess that's a good indicator right is we didn't cover all the seed questions. Some of them were, were not especially relevant to the, to the particular audience and, and so for me that was okay. Good. Alright. So I confess I was very nervous as you arrived late. That made me very scared, but but I think I think you would explain what happened because I couldn't explain on the course. You know, actually I joined the wrong, I don't know what happened. So Oleg sent me an invite, and the invite had, you know, a Google link.  Oh, oh, that's an interesting. So I think it was when I joined, I realized, no, I think this is wrong because I know that when I joined I waited a while I was like, no, there's no way everybody's going to be this late for something like this. So I, I went to sign into beat up and that was where I saw the zoom link and I joined. And that reminds me that I had made a mistake that Oleg detected early on, and that we couldn't correct and may have cost us some attendees. I had not configured the zoom link, I had not reconfigured the zoom link to avoid to skip the registration requirement. And we like to not ask people for that information because some portion of them will drop off. So, mistake to fix in the next year. It's asked for my login detail, my details when I was trying to. Yeah, exactly. And I just filled it out because I was like, I need to get in. Right, right. But of course, our many of our contributors or many of our audience will say, I'm not sharing that information. Yeah, go away. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, so that that was, that was a mistake on my part and see others. Oh yeah so one one embarrassment for me was the slide deck. Mark assembled the slide deck at the last minute slide that the rapper slide deck, your slide deck was great Zeno, but the rapper slide deck with the welcome page etc. I just completely forgotten and don't forget that I need to put it on my, my webinar checklist. I didn't even think you were going to prepare a slide and I initially wasn't planning to prepare slides since I was doing it demo I plan that I was just going to show everything we did on Jenkins that I will probably bring up my project reports and all that but then I figure it was a lot of information I need to kind of like organize it so that was why I ended up with slides just to kind of organize the presentation so there's kind of like a direction and everything is not just scattered. Right, very good. Okay. Any other feedback there. Okay, next topic then. So is enough I had granted you access to my AWS organization. So it's on my personal credit card etc. And I assume that was what you used yesterday for the as part of the demo or are you not using it I'm not sure if you're using it at all. No, I didn't use it for demo yesterday, but I haven't used it this week because I'm dreaming this week here, but I've used it years for Jenkins on AWS and working on actually used it a bit. I tried to install Jenkins and all that on it. So yes, I've used it and I tend to still use it to finish up with the documentation I'm working on, but I don't think have I approved any costs because so far I don't think I tried to check it and it didn't show that I'm using I'm not really used to it anyways. Great. So then I need to find out what sources are because I don't understand the cost sources and I've got to figure out what that is. So that's good to know. Okay, so, so as far as you know you're not using any capacity right now. No, no, no. Okay, good. So that's, that means I'm safe to turn off any machines that I find there. Very good. That's excellent. Okay. All right, so I will, I will do that. So I'm not going to end your account access then. Let's just assume you'll continue using it. Let me know. I'll watch the expenses a little more carefully and I'll flag. If I'm worried about it because it's, it's, if my company isn't willing to reimburse me then it's coming out of my mind. Please do. Please plug it. But I don't think I am but please do if you notice anything like that. Great. All right. Hey, anything else that on AWS account access any problems you're having there are things I need to worry about. Next topic then was pull requests and I apologize. I still have not completed the review of this pull request. I will hope to do this within the next one or two days. The doc SIG meets tomorrow and it's official meeting. I would like to have this one merged before then so I can, I can have at least that part of embarrassment off my list. Tomorrow with, and this is why I care about that metrics reporting and mark that pull request off his metrics. I just remembered something. I wanted to speak about helm. Oh, okay. The helm installation. Because so. Okay. Well, while I was preparing for the session because you know the initial plan was to use helm. So I noticed there were some updates to the official Jenkins values file. And I tried installing Jenkins using helm but for some reason I couldn't get it. I use the manual even with user zero on my windows books and wouldn't get Jenkins run I had issues. So I still need to do further investigation and find out if the updates has changed anything major that's affecting it or if we need to update anything in the documentation to make it work. So, so that's an interesting one. I heard that we recently rolled from helm chart version two to helm chart version three on the Jenkins helm chart. So I assume that you had originally documented with helm chart, the two dot x version. Yes. Okay, all right, so need to revisit the helm instructions based on latest helm chart. Good. Very good. Okay, so your timing is perfect. So this also pulls in an interesting thing about how do we make sure our documentation stays current. When big changes like this go through, I think that our sig needs to make sure that we are aware, and I guess like make sure we can still run through everything. So I don't know if that needs to be added to like process or something just like our sig needs to watch. Yeah, like if it is a problem doesn't need to be changed right like we don't want it to stay out of sync and then we have the problem of documentation, not working anymore. Yeah, so should we, I mean maybe I like that because maybe what we ought to do is include the doc sig needs once a month. And what if that doc sig had a report a checklist on it which says, right now it's got a check a checklist of of metrics that supports things extracted from various Grafana images instances, etc. What if we added to checklist items that say we verified the helm install works, we verified the one to one of the tutorials works with Docker, those kind of things I mean that that seems like a good safety check. Yeah, I was just thinking like how making sure that when something big like that happens because I, I mean I don't really know offhand how often things get changed that would break but it's good to know especially with something that large that we should watch for it. Yeah, you know a lot of work to write all that stuff up and then have it change on you and it's like, oh no all that work you just did was needs to be redone, you know, like we're just like you know, we checked and it's like it would be a shame for it to get out of the considering most of the upfront work was done already. Right. And periodically check that it works, still works. Yeah, good I like that. And maybe, maybe what it should be because I'm not sure I'm waiting to sign up to do eight hours every month to check all the tutorials and all the helm charts. But maybe what we do is some rotating install where we say, every month, one, one of one sixth, or every month we spend two hours somebody, you know, invest an hour or two of testing and in that hour to check things that we think are worth checking. Right, like if anything major was updated. So. And now we have to do part of this check. Right. I think I think that that's a very healthy idea because, well, it's it's awkward when new new readers when new users come in and say, Oh, feedback on the page says the documentation no longer works. Right, and then people stop looking at it and it's like, Oh, though. Yep. Good. Very good idea. So I'll let me add that one to testing status report. Because I think I think that's a, that's a healthy idea as one, and then we regularly check with it each other here in our in our meeting in our office hours. Yeah. Good. Okay. So anything else Zenab on helm installation instructions. No, that's it. Google season of docs timeline so see now you had reported your books. You've finished. You've submitted your, your evaluation. Yes. Excellent. Okay. Oh, then I had one more which was December 17. Google season of docs are retrospective and we'll do that next week on in this session. And I'll submit that one. Anything else. For me. Congratulations. Now, Zenab in terms of I'm going to go ahead and stop the recording now I think we're finished with this.


So the black viking is back and not ready to react but ready to sit on this throne of thoughts and answer your question. Hey hold that thought for a second because I think my lighting is off. Let me turn this lamp on so I can get a little bit more light. Yeah so one of you wrote me and you wanted to know if I'd ever been in the fight what caused the fight and what was the the outcome. I haven't been in a fight since I was a child okay and one of the main reasons was because I wasn't an exceptionally aggressive child.


Hi folks! My name is Tom and today I want to talk about dark mode. I'm not sure when you have entered the world of computing, but for me, it was during the dark era of MS-DOS. And you know what? We've actually gone full circle with dark mode. If you've used a computer in the 1970s or 1980s, you probably have used dark mode before. Well, dark mode became a thing. At that time, when screens oftentimes were monochrome and color screens incredibly expensive, dark mode wasn't a choice, but simply a fact. Only when color monitors became more affordable and what you see is what you get desktop publishing evolved, the idea of making a virtual document resemble as physical printed end product became popular. And this baseline assumption of dark text on light background was carried over to the very first earliest web designs. The epoch of those heavy cathode-ray tube monitors with massive desktop PCs that we consumed these very first web pages on is long over. And nowadays, more often than not, we use mobile devices with light, LCD displays, or AMOLED screens that also have enabled completely new usage patterns. For example, I often browse the web well in bed. And because it's easier on my eyes and less likely to wake up my better half, I tend to turn on my phone's dark mode. I've done some user research on why people use dark mode and under which circumstances. The results are pretty interesting. While the majority of the surveyed users unsurprisingly said dark mode was easier on the eyes and just looked beautiful and elegant, the third most mentioned reason for using dark mode was that it consumes less energy. The Android team have looked into this and found out that on AMOLED screens, dark mode can save up to 60% energy. This is why on Android Q, when battery saver kicks in, we automatically activate dark mode. And finally, some people say they require dark mode as a true accessibility tool without which they can't get their work done. Interestingly, dark mode usage correlates less than expected with the surrounding ambient light situation, meaning a lot of people, like me, use dark mode permanently. So how do you activate dark mode in the first place? On macOS, it's a setting in the system preferences in the general section. On iOS and iPadOS, you can toggle dark mode in settings in the display and brightness section. On Android, dark mode is called dark theme and you can activate it in settings in the display section. For Windows, dark mode can be activated in settings in the colors drop-down menu in the personalization section. And finally, for the various Linux distributions, activating dark mode typically involves setting a dark desktop theme. Now that we know how to enable dark mode, let's see how we can actually support dark mode on our web pages. The secret is a user reference media feature called Preference Color Scheme. It has three possible values, dark, light, and no preference. The simplest possible dark mode implementation is to just invert the background and the foreground color in the case the user prefers dark mode. You can see how the page reacts when I toggle the macOS color theme between light and dark. Switching the entire operating system's color scheme can get really annoying, so in Chrome DevTools we now allow you to emulate the user's preferred color scheme. So back to the theme per se. While it works, already in this basic example, you can see how in practice things are a lot more complex than that. The default purple user agent style sheet color of a visited link has a contrast ratio of only 1.9, which isn't enough. We can fix this by adding some more CSS, and now it slowly starts to look okay. But you can see where this is headed. For a production website, we'd have hundreds or even thousands of cases like this that we'd need to cover. So rather than one by one, we need something better, semantic color definitions. We can do this with CSS variables, so instead of using hard-coded colors on the various elements, we use variables like text color or background color, and then define these variables dynamically based on preferred color scheme. As I said before, already for the toy example, we need quite some CSS, and even more for production web apps. But here's the thing. If you have dark mode enabled, you shouldn't be forced to load CSS that is only relevant in light mode, and vice versa. We can deal with this by splitting our CSS into three files, dark CSS that contains all the dark mode relevant CSS variable definitions, light CSS that contains all the light mode relevant CSS variable definitions, and style CSS that contains the common CSS where these variables are being used. Like that, we make sure that in the critical rendering path, only the CSS that's needed for the preferred color scheme gets loaded, with the highest priority and the rest with the lowest priority. If we have to deal with older browsers that don't understand the preferred color scheme media query yet, we require one last trick to make sure the default CSS, for example, light CSS, gets downloaded with highest priority. Therefore, we manually insert the light CSS style sheet with the good old insert adjacent HTML method to force its download with the highest priority. The obvious during escaping is to make it work even on browsers that are only compatible with ECMAScript 5. All right, with all of this out of the way, let's have a look at how you can actually design for dark mode and what to keep in mind. As we've seen before, getting all the contrast right, making sure the design conveys concepts like elevation in both light and dark themes, and still incorporating your brand's colors and accent colors, is incredibly hard. Material design can help your design team bootstrap a design that respects all the best practices material has established. On material.io, you can find a number of resources, including a code lab, to get you started. One last tip. Remember that not everyone who has dark mode activated on the operating system necessarily wants websites to be dark, too. It is a nice gesture to provide users with a dark mode toggle for your site that initially respects people's preferred color scheme preference, but then allows them to temporarily or even permanently override it. You can easily support this use case with a custom element that we've developed right for this purpose. Dark mode toggle. All you need to do is load the custom element script and then include it on your page. You can find out more about this custom element on GitHub. And with that, thank you very much for watching. You can find links to all the features, articles, and code samples from this video in the description. See you next time and enjoy dark mode.


LES is excited to kick off a partnership with the San Jose Earthquakes who share a goal to raise awareness and educate soccer fans about seismic activity. The partnership with the San Jose Earthquakes allows us to reach a vital community. As we're sitting here, ironically, in the area called the Epa Center at PayPal Park. Coming to an Earthquakes game is the best. It's always a ton of fun. The partnership offers soccer fans a unique opportunity to experience a simulated earthquake before and during each home game by catching a seismic ride on the Shake Trailer. The Shake Trailer is just one of our many tools. It simulates a 7.1 earthquake and quite frankly, a lot of times shocks people as to the severity of that shaking. The Shake Trailer gives the Earthquake Warning California program the ability to educate fans and help build resiliency for communities most at risk to shaking from earthquakes. We're so close to the San Andreas Fault and the Hayward Fault here to have a real earthquake safety focus at the stadium is really important. The Quake Stadium also offers fans an additional layer of safety during games. Due to its unique design, PayPal Park is earthquake retrofitted in sections giving the stands the flexibility to move as shaking starts. As I bring my family out to the games, it gives me a sense of comfort knowing that the organization has taken the necessary steps to provide an added layer of protection. Together with the Quakes, Cal OES offers educational tools to learn about the earthquake early warning system. It's a series of sensors around the state that allow us to get vital seconds of advanced notice. It's not before the earthquake, it's not predictive, but it's before the shaking and that's valuable time. The system gives Californians vital seconds to take protective actions like drop, cover and hold on. It's super important to know that you have to do drop, cover and hold on really fast. As the Quakes players practice safety both on and off the pitch, together we encourage fans and Californians statewide to practice earthquake preparedness and share the valuable tools they learn from riding the shake trailer because when an earthquake hits, seconds matter. Our earthquakes are a bit different. We don't get advanced notice. So what we ask is that you prepare, take a few steps to be in a better position.  To see more from us, head to news.calues.ca.gov and follow us on all of our social media platforms.