Moray, we'll start talking about DevConf in Devian. Well, technically, I think the title this year is something like DevConf Organization. But for anyone who hasn't been at the last few years sequence of buffs on similar topics, we thought we'd quickly run through, slight, well, the slides from last year and to say, basically, if anything as well, where things have changed, if it's changed at all. So yeah, we're not in Bosnia anymore, even though the slides might say that. One of the things we did in the past couple of years that most of you probably are familiar with is that we defined what the point of DevConf is or what it's for. This had always been kind of known by people, but we had never actually agreed in any formal written-down thing what that was. So there were slight disagreements. So we decided that we'd have primary and secondary goals for DevConf since it is a conference. The main thing is about the face-to-face interaction, but also at the same time, within the primary goals, then providing the talks and video that can be seen by people anywhere in the world. And anytime later after the fact. And providing time for people to work on Debian during DevConf itself, as well as during DevCamp, both of them, that's also part of the point. And in fact, that's one of the things that the sponsors value most. It's much easier for us to get sponsors to give us money if we say people will be working on this or that technical part of Debian than if we just say, well, it's, we'll have talks and then it will have a benefit later on. And we also recognize that there are other things that DevConf can be positive for, including motivating contributors who have a nice time and giving some benefit to the local free software community and the places we hold the conference. But the outcome of the discussion was that these, although we want to promote both of those purposes, those are somewhat secondary to the first listed points. So another thing we had achieved leading up to last year's DevConf was sorting out the different, how it beats organizationally. So there have been, as in many things in Debian, there were different views about what was reality rather than just straightforward disagreements about how things should be. So the kind of extreme positions were, well, there was a group of people, for example, as previously with, say, the Dams, Debian account managers, there were people previously who used to say that because they existed before the Constitution, they weren't controlled by the Constitution. About DevConf, well, DevConf started when there was already a Constitution, but it started as a project that was linked to Debian but wasn't inside of it. So for many years we were run separately, we didn't share, well, what you will soon say, we never shared the budget, we didn't count on Debian, until we had these agreements and they formalized everything. So hopefully by now it's much clearer that everyone agreed whether or not they thought it already was, everyone agreed that going forwards DevConf was part of Debian and that it should be managed in a way that reflected that. So. I just want to add to this part about DevConf finances and Debian finances, that, well, we have hit reality, I mean, it's not as easy as it sounds. The accounts for Bosnia were just closed about one month ago, or one and a half months ago, so. Well, one week ago we were here. Anyway, they were closed just very recently, there was an overlap of when we had DC-11 and DC-12 budgets open, of course in very different states, but yeah, we will have to work how this flow should be managed. And this, we should try, I think, we should try harder before we give up on this point, so, I mean, since we're talking about this anyway, also if people want to jump in and say things, please do, this is not just a presentation, but the kind of agreement made here on this point was that DevConf would, in the long term, try not to cost money for general Debian funds, effectively, which means that we, in practice, that means we should always try to keep some, each year we should be aiming for it to make a small profit for Debian, effectively, so that in the longer term, we have the opportunity to have some financial problem and take money back from Debian. Well, and on this line, for example, this year the lateness on the travel sponsorship was due to us being maybe too careful, but well, careful enough, because we were approved to spend some money over what we got last year, last year we had a nice surplus, we were approved more money, but we decided to use it responsibly, aiming to still to be not below zero after the conference, I hope we can manage. Yeah, I mean, because again, although there is a kind of group of people who are calculating, who calculate the numbers very precisely, and therefore say, this last year we had, whatever it is, one $10,112.34 extra, and therefore we can spend that this year, but that doesn't really reflect the spirit of the kind of agreement if we just try to spend the money, because maybe two years later, maybe we have a disaster and a big loss. So, although it's, although we, in a way, the money that we, if we have spare money, in some sense that's kind of available for us, but I don't think it's correct for us just to, to view it as being there to spend in the same way as money we have raised in the current year. Yeah, I completely agree to this, that it should be handled that way, but I think we should also try to do is, that to see the Depecant budget as soon as it's agreed upon by the team and by the DPL is money we're actually allowed to spend, without fulfilling the income side at each step. So, we can, in the phase where we're still gathering money, already spend more money than we have, because on both sides, it's just an expectation of how much we will need or how much we will get in. And if this doesn't match in the end, we have to learn for the next year to do it better. Yeah, and two points in relation to that quickly. One is the, we agreed that the overall budget should be taken to the DPL and effectively the project and approved, and that hasn't happened yet for this Depecant. So next time, we should try to actually do this. Specifically on the point of travel sponsorship, again, although our own accounting people have been quite cautious about it within Depecant, there is a absolute permission from the Debian project via the DPL that if we want to spend, for example, travel sponsorship money in particular earlier on, yes, we should agree that not just within our team, but that's fine to do. We don't need to have sponsorship income yet at that stage to spend it. And maybe one thing to add also is that it becomes easier to understand that we can spend early money if you unzoom. I mean, if you take a look at across the years, then it's a rolling budget and we are just spending money that we have left from last year also. Yes, again, I'm cautious about- Yeah, of course, but I mean- It's not our money, but just because it's from last year, it is, from my point of view, I'd say, at the end of Depecant, it is just Debian money. Yes, but what I mean is that it's not a wallet that is empty when you start the organization that fills and that becomes empty at the end. It's the wallet, but you still have a bank that you can go and get money from. Yeah, we are part of Debian, so we can take one. So we had this discussion with Godin's earlier in the week, whether DSA can spend, for example, the Depecant's profit to buy hardware. If it's a rolling budget, we can't. If it's not, then we can't. So this is something that I haven't heard a clear answer. This is the first time I, from you, I heard something, but it still seems some disagreement with the team. And it would be nice to have a clear view, and this is, I realize it's not only- So again, at the moment, this is another, this is effectively a point, the same problem, that there is meant to be an agreement, but people disagree about exactly how to interpret that agreement, so yeah. And I think- No, there's a, yeah. Knowing how much we will, I mean, going back to what you were saying before, that we have not done this explicit step of going through the DPL to give the estimated budget, the thing is, at least this year, I don't know how it will be next year or following, not because it's Switzerland, but because every year is different. This year, the budget changed so much, so many times, that at any given point, we would have been approved for something bound to change sharply, and so. Could you, I wasn't involved in this yet, if you could say in a few words why this happened? Well, first of all, we, well, the team originally proposed a different venue, which was, it seemed like the only place in Managua that would be able to support something this size. Then we, after some adjustments, for example, turns out that due to the crisis in Europe and due to being more expensive to travel here than some expected and whatnot, we had less attendance than last year. So costs went down, but also accommodation requirements. And we, somebody thought about coming to this university and the, well, at first, we had a, a budget, well, yeah, an estimate of like $30,000 for renting the university, but insisting on it, they reached an agreement to pay about one third of that. So that's the reason the university is listed as a sponsor, because they're giving us a huge discount, even though we're paying. Things like that, we didn't count on any of the government's help earlier on. In the end, we received a good part of the costs of the hotel and so we really helped us, I mean, we're paying about one third of the cost of the regular rooms, so two thirds. Well, yeah, yeah, the budget was reduced many times. So, I mean, yeah, no, but you requested details. When you make a budget at the start of the year and you send the DPL and you have like, also covered like a 10% more for damages or whatever, then, and if you make a profit, it's all the better, but the problem is if you're over budget as, and my nationality proves that, but. Yeah, anyway, I think we, no one is against us trying this experiment more like another time to see if we could see if we can make this work. There's a short note to the changing budget. I think the way to do this is if it changes significantly, we just have to re-approve the budget or re-approve the changes. Maybe we can come back to the money topic but just come through some of the other points in the meantime. So, yeah, one point that is still not really, there's been a little progress and maybe there'll be more following Debcon that is not really resolved at the moment is because of the way things developed and the people involved. We have a kind of entire, well, a separate infrastructure for Debcon, including things like db.debcon.org for the account management, which, yeah, it does actually make sense in a way, but also it is another service that we have to maintain, so on, yeah. None of this is really urgent tasks. More the, yeah, exactly, which is why not much has happened in the past year, but it is something we should bear in mind because as people who have been managing these services become more busy, we should ask whether it really makes sense to find a new set of volunteers to take them on or whether we can merge them back into existing Debian infrastructure and then it's not the problem of the Debcon team at least to find those volunteers. I mean, again, at the moment, they've been very well managed, everything is great, but again, it would be a pity if in the future, for example, we lose the list archive because someone who, we don't have proper volunteers to look after it, for example. In point of fact on that, I found that each, at least on the front desk level, each front desk of every venue, of each venue that we've been to has been run completely differently and they're reinventing the wheel each and every time we come in. So there's, there always seems to be mass chaos, there always seems to be mass communication issues, nobody knows what's going on anywhere and it seems like they're just reinventing it at each specific year and I think it is important to have overlap each year with the same people just to keep those concerns and those communication issues done. But this also relates to a thing that's been developing during the last year and we should try to continue even in these next months after Debcon, which is the Debcon of manual, which is just pages in the wiki but it's trying to document some of the processes including things like front desk. Did you want? Yeah, I want to comment on this as well. Front desk is one of the places where most of the local population can easily relate to and we often prefer somebody local to always be at front desk because if somebody asks about where to whatever or I need help translating whatever to this language, well it will need a local. Here I cannot do many things because I don't know Managua and I don't know many ways. So that's maybe one of the main reasons why the workflow is different because it's different people running it. Now this year for example, I saw Mori spent quite a lot of time at least at the beginning. I think it was also like being as training wheels for the team to be there. Well this relates a bit to something that's also on this slide. I think it was not so hard this time but we were a bit worried earlier on this cycle that after we got the formal delegation it seemed that people who were regularly involved in DEF CONF organization took a couple of steps back because there were now delegates and locals. Then maybe some people felt they were not needed. I'm not saying this was for everybody of course, I know there were many reasons for people to reduce the involvement but at some point we did feel it was the three of us and the locals with sporadic intervention from others. So we have to find a way to keep a bigger team. I think on this point there has been a problem over several years that in the past we have always recruited new core DEF CONF team people from previous local teams. But maybe we have got a couple of people say from New York but they're more in specific areas for example in networking or other topics like this not so much in the general management because of people's time availability and so on. And then again from Bosnia say we've got some people who are interested but again no one who is really stepping in to be a kind of core person. I think we should actively ping the people from Bosnia as we're going close to Bosnia. I'm sure some of them will be in Switzerland. But again I mean as though it's... No problem. Yeah but again the local team here I know at the moment everyone is completely exhausted and probably after DEF CONF you don't want to think about DEF CONF ever again but if any of you can it really is good for the organization if you can just even if it's just to come to some of the IRC meetings or occasionally read the mailing list and send your view because so much of our experience is really with the local teams. I mean even in this kind of DEF CONF like this even while we have the chairs we see some things but a lot of the practical experiences with the local team. And if the local teams don't stay involved then we lose a lot of the benefits that we can have for the future teams there. Well something that we should consider and now that it's been slide like one year and a half from the delegation is whether we should explicitly rotate the chairness. So one thing we've done as well as having the chairs we now have there exists as an idea what we called the DEF CONF committee. At the moment this has only been used for the decision process of between bids to avoid it just being a sort of cabal of a few people. It would what I would like to see I don't know how we formalize it I'm sure other people have some ideas about this I would like as if we could not to write more rules and procedures necessarily but to see if we can make the people also who join the committee not just fail a responsibility for the decision but also to feel that it's well as support for the general process. And again some of these people maybe they don't have time to come to every meeting or to read every message on the lists but these are all people who have had some experience from running DEF CONFs before. So again if we could find a better way to draw on their knowledge this would also be very beneficial. So yeah I don't know exactly what's best in that but we should be trying to think how we can draw these people in better. So it seemed like we jumped over the infrastructure overlap thing. Well it has been it has been improving I think it is not an urgent problem but it is something whenever we see a good way to move something without breaking things we should consider doing it. Yeah yeah no I we are trying well a guidance was approaching me to discuss on how to split our current SVN to get and of course that will go to. Yeah this is not actually solving the problem because we already moved that to Alioth anyway. Well yeah that's a different question. Okay right but for example the pentabarff instance we have now one of the main blockers is it's very hard to hack on it because the only machine I should be making changes to while developing is so slow I cannot use it so I can only work on the live copy and whenever I make a modification I have to restart the server which breaks the system for like half a minute so if people are busy I cannot fix things. If we were running on DSA hardware. Just since it was mentioned there actually this question of migrating the VCS I'm on a technical level I'm very I agree entirely I just wanted to point out again this question of keeping our knowledge and experience that I'm very worried if we migrate to a more secure solution where current local where the new local teams cannot access all data because that would really be bad. Maybe actually Felix could say something of what he as a current local team person how whether you think this is useful data but yeah. Okay so I don't know if it's planned to have time to have this discussion here so because I talked to several global and also to Felix I think and we discussed this a bit and I think I really understand your concerns and I mostly agree. One thing is that I think that most people for various reasons some are more valid than the others might want just to move to Git because it's the new cool thing and also because of valid reasons like you can work offline and stuff. But I agree that most of the Git features we actually don't need. I think they won't do harm because if you don't push it others won't see it so it's a bit worth it so there's incentive to push. And on the organizational level I think we need to split the repositories if we go to Git because it's no longer possible to do partial checkout. You can have partial trees but you need the whole Git repository and it's just too big. And for the access rights my proposal now after thinking about it a bit is to have it as for Debcon data to stay with the current model as it is and to have breed access public and easy access for writing and for Debcon team that's something we developed together with Gunnar. The proposal is to have each year one trusted person from the locals in the admin group so he can at his own discretion add people and that we do after each Debcon we do a cleanup and throw out people that no longer need that access. But until like this we can avoid to have projects per year because I agree that that's a hassle and then we would have to add some selected locals to the previous years to guarantee your access and I think that's really valuable to have the previous memory. I don't know if people here agree that that's a good way to go. Again part of my worry is not just about the having access or not but if it's too much effort to access the old data people won't bother. I didn't check the size exactly but I think it's doable to have all of Debcon team in one Git repository. I know it's also actually on the point there is some data in the team repository that just shouldn't be there so we should consider when we although it obviously is nice to import and keep our history blah blah but we should also consider just deleting some of these things that it shouldn't be there in the first place. Yeah so if people send me specific SVN revisions to drop I can just drop them that's easy. Darst already sent me something I will drop if I do that conversion. Yeah I think it's important to keep history and the track of how things were developed following on time but that's mainly on the data that changes and we want to track the changes. I think that the private team repository doesn't have to be we don't have to import a history the version's history. We can lose that the changes. Yeah the changes. We want to keep the whole of the data that's there we may keep the I mean the historical SVN doesn't bother us too much but I think yes we can delete some things by just taking a snapshot of how it is today. I don't think there is any value on getting all the data since five years ago I think it was started. I think there's a value. I don't know if it was because our team wasn't really involved in Debian before but for us I think for all of us it was really nice to have more than five years backlog for 2Depkont because even though in the last three years maybe things or in certain areas some things weren't like really important or weren't like really working as good as before it was really good to go five, six years back sometimes and just look at it and I really started checking out branch sub-directory by sub-directory and at the end I ended up having almost every year in my computer. No yeah yeah yeah but what I mean I mean having the whole of the information we have we should keep everything but if we are facing this decision of we have some data that should be cleared some private personal data that should have never been in the repository we can just clear the issue with the least amount of hassle possible by taking a snapshot of the whole of it and deleting the history. We don't need it. I mean if there is need for it I will shut up and accept it but... Yeah I think we more or less agree on this. So people agree that we do want to do this conversion in the way we said now and then I will just go forward and talk to Ganev how to do it technically or do you think it needs more discussion? The only thing I see from this is that it might be useful to have a period when there's a proposed new version and people can check through for other data that shouldn't be preserved. Okay so but then I will do a proposed conversion and wait like one or two weeks and then we'll do it. Okay. So jumping off to topic. One thing that has succeeded from our point of view is that we killed off the Debian press team and we now use the Debian press team instead. We should get better at using it though. Paul's thinking about saying something. The Debian press team is currently understaffed so we need Debian people in the team as well. I was pressed going into this. Yeah. One other thing, I'm on the Wiki Admin team. This came up, emerging the two wikis came up last year and I talked briefly on ISE with people on the Debian press team channel. It seemed there was a little bit of resistance to that idea. We spent quite a long time before not that many years ago de-merging it. I think it would, from my point of view it would be the best solution in a way which is not necessarily one that the wiki team would like is that the wiki people on the side of doing the admin for the main wiki they also kind of press the button and just copy the same configuration across for Debian Conf 1. Because at the moment it's a different wiki system which is, well that's maybe our fault we should solve it but even for the namespace it was kind of got ridiculous before when we had everything under wiki slash Debian slash Debian, slash Debian, slash Debian, slash Debian, slash Debian Conf 12, I mean whatever. It doesn't make a nice thing for people to find. I spend most of the day typing penta.debian.org slash penta slash penta bar. Regarding the infrastructures, the other infrastructure things, like I'm not going to get out of the list because that's the least mastered but regarding UDLDAP or other CIS admin stuff and with my DSA hat we've never heard anything from Debian people like this is what we need and either you're not doing anything in this area which I understand what's going on but I hate it to see people trying to work around things. There is a Debian Conf CIS admin team most of whom are inactive but the policy of the Debian Conf CIS admin team has been that they like having their own services. So we haven't, yeah, Gunnar wants to. No, no, continue please, finish your idea. Well, no, I mean it's not really a it's just that's the status. There's no reason for me if there are people doing the work in the Debian Conf although I don't think it makes sense to duplicate it it's also not nice to tell them that their work is useless and yeah. Yeah, it's definitely not useless but yeah, the most visible part of the team is your he's of course a great administrator. He, well, he likes having control and yeah, there's been, I mean I hope I'm not talking behind his back. Sorry? Yeah, I trust that my account privileges are dropping by the minute. That's good because I don't want to be responsible for. No, but I think this policy of we want to administer our own stuff is because he is the most visible part of this team. So, well, maybe we should discuss this but not here, but in the list and with you as part of, well with DSA as part of the discussion. But I'm not sure what you're saying here. It seems to be an agreement that you need to merge stuff with Debian and then you're saying that, well but this is separate and work so we shouldn't merge. My view is that it should be merged and that this will happen at some point but that it's not beneficial for me to try to push this in the short term. So maybe again, some of these other points here under this heading, which again I think it's better if we discuss on the list or subsequently. One point I would like to raise again here is this at the top of the page now the about, again, we've only got a couple of minutes so just to flag it up as an issue is this Debian Fundraising Team. Yeah, fair enough. So just on the UDL about that stuff I think at least part of the reason for keeping them separate wasn't the way around you're just presenting it but to keep random people that aren't ever going to be DDs out of UDL depth and that's the reverse driver for keeping them separate. I want to say something about the Fundraising Team. What I saw and what I've seen in all depth cons as far as I know there's no continuity in who were the sponsors who was the contact, who wanted to sponsor but didn't sponsor at the end who doesn't want to know anything about us anymore. So like having at least like this documented would help I think every new team for the next years just to know to write to and it's not like the best way to rely on people like doing a call and hoping that people stand up and contacting every year again their contacts. So I think the first step with this is doing a list and then there are other things that I just think that it would be good to keep in contact with sponsors. I think that sponsors should at least get a final report in an email. It's just nice and it helps that every six months they get a notice from depth cons. So I definitely think that it would be a good thing that it would help in the future to get it more organized. I want to bring back an idea. I put forward on the mailing list after 2010 the idea of having permanent sponsors so being actual sponsors not only the network sponsors that will help us a lot and it will help our sponsors a lot with the planning that means we give them a figure before December so they can budget and they don't need any brochure because they are already permanent sponsors so we can invite certain people, certain companies to become permanent sponsors and we put their logo on DevCon.org. From my point of view, this sounds fine but I would think this is a thing for the Debian fundraising team to think about. Rather, again, this is the kind of thing that if we had a proper fundraising team as preferably even with some people somehow found to actually have experience in this area not just some geeks like me trying it for the first time then people can actually, I mean there are people who work professionally even as fundraisers and they know what does or doesn't work. We don't really know but I'm sure we can get if there was a team really working on this even if we can't get those people directly into the team I'm sure we can get some information from some people with a positive attitude to Debian and really learn what's better. The other reason it's to be in the name Debian fundraising team is because other parts of Debian until recently basically didn't spend money but they're starting to do this and there's a big danger if we don't, what's the, well yeah if we don't work together then we could actually cause problems. A note to that, quick note. Gordon's approached me the other day about us DSA which we recently also announced that we have a five year plan that involves spending around 30,000 euros or dollars I remember per year so Gordon suggested to me that DSA should coordinate with Debian sponsorship team so that we ask sponsors once instead of twice and I don't find this entirely, I find it reasonable to coordinate but I don't find reasonable DSA talking with Debian which are very different requirements. So I would to support a unified fundraising team which can also have unified benefits. So if someone comes to Debian and says here's 100K to buy servers then I would expect them to be on Debian partners even if they didn't give money to Debian itself or the other way around maybe. Yeah when we originally talked about this together I was a bit skeptical. I think I'm a bit skeptical still but I see that there should be in theory in an ideal world this one fundraising team. The problem I see is that if this happens and there's kind of a shift of responsibility we might end up just having no fans at all because I think in Debian we don't have people that are genuinely interested in just to fundraising but they're interested in doing fundraising because they want this cool new hardware or because they want to run this cool conference. So I think, and as I see it now I think we should have this common team but it should be staffed by those actually needing money. So it should be staffed by DSA, it should be staffed by Debian team and if others want to participate every Debian team should be very open and I would love to see people just doing fundraising but if we just rely on this happening out of nothing it's bound to fail. Okay I think that's all we have or we are over time by some margin so we should really stop and let the video team which means Phil and other people stop if they're still awake. But anyway, thank you and thank you everyone for coming and hopefully we can continue these discussions on the lists and IRC once everyone gets home. Thanks for coming.


Odds of being a millionaire changes as you age. There's several graphs that I want to point here But this one broke it down racially, which I was interested in So I'll talk about time relative to men If you invest your time early in your life by a time you hit a certain age You should be able to hit your stride most men at this age. They trade in their money attention in time for one woman Okay, and if that woman works out great Then they get to spend more money and attention and energy on her if it doesn't work out the social contract says She can continue to take from you because she once slept with you What is that called? Alamone or Palamone if she can't get that from you then she'll Drag you in the court for more attention Any court she drags you in it is a attention grab It is not about really the money, but she can make it about the money It is not about the time it is about the attention that she can get from you Because now your ass got to show up damn she dragged me into the domestic violation court a judge I never put a hand on her matter of fact.  You see what I mean. This is all a kind of an attention grab A lot of them can't walk away. So look at the money right here Asians seem to be killing it economically here But as you when you're under 40 at the bottom when you're under 40 Less chance of becoming a millionaire, but as you age up over 40 and you don't get married and divorced You don't have toxic relationships You can invest your time into yourself I guarantee you you'll have better chance of hitting a million both at 40 when above Then the guy that got divorced already Then the guy that's still chasing women and running game on them and all of this garbage Okay, even for black men who have a low chance of being a millionaire. It still increases with age That 40 year old mark.  I was like wow what happened Well, first of all my testosterone increased My standards and women increased I Was least likely to be with a low-value woman my money started to increase my attention and currency started to increase And then I said forget the nightclub. I'm my old ass ain't going to no damn nightclub talking to no broad So what I had energy to put into other things I'm gonna read that quote by Napoleon Hill in a second here Look at this paid Chart here The orange line is the women or it's orange is red that purple line is men You hear about gender pay gap all the time and that pay gap is associated with the time women hit the wall The biological wall and this is the period that they focus on because sometimes they might have cat kids and stepped out of their career or They hit the point where that degree no longer has Value in their earning has peaked they decided to go major in something and that value You know it made money between up until age 32, but now that degree doesn't make as much money But look at where men's income peaks Okay, early 20s. This is when you struggle with women because you have no meat or no money to exchange with them Right, you know have you're broke This is why young men say I will never pay for women.  Well, you're saying that cuz you're broke, right? $250 to you right now will break break your bank To a older man is pennies into them It's a drop in the bucket So it doesn't matter to an older guy. This is why you see do you see older men with younger women now? Maybe not in Pennsylvania But go to LA, New York, DC, Miami, Houston, Dallas You're gonna see young women at master roles chatting it up with older men. No problem. No sweat Because they're there for his resource, but take take a look at where men take off the women's peak right there 40-41 sometimes it's a little but look at where it shoots off 40 gone And they could do this well until 60 65 70 Watch a TV show and they bring out some old expert like an expert as a male the expert for the woman will be a young woman 25 she'll look good.  It'll be a old-ass man It'll be Alan Dershrich ass old-ass man Well, here's the expert the legal expert and it's a old-ass man. Why cuz he has value And he's gonna continue to earn well into it because he can have y'all seen 70 year old women grinding at work 50 year old women grining at work They ready to pack it in and they're ready to find a man They ain't grinding the 50 60 70 the rare exception proves the rule but then I've seen handymen 65 picking up ladders. I Swear to God. I saw these two handyman. I mean there.  That's part of our social contract


So the ZBrush Fundamental Series is now complete, which means anyone who tried to move from Blenda to the industry standard like I did does not have to waste their time like I did figuring out how to translate all the basics. This has been a crazy experience not just as a new user, but also as a teacher. And I think I have a pretty good understanding about each software's strengths and weaknesses, so I'd like to share my thoughts on that with you guys today. There's a lot of videos comparing Blenda to other software like ZBrush, but I feel like a lot of people just try and avoid conflict by spending 15 minutes basically saying oh well they're both good, just use whichever one you like more. And to that I respectfully disagree completely, because there's very clear and objective reasons why you would prefer one over the other, if both are an option for you. So let's talk about that. Blenda is like a Swiss Army knife. It's affordable and it's got a little bit of everything like a knife, a saw, scissors, a bottle opener, maybe some pliers or something you can use as a screwdriver. It's a perfect tool for someone who doesn't know what they're gonna need. So from a 3D software perspective, Blenda can model, it can sculpt, it can texture, weight paint, rig, UV, procedural map, animate, lighten, materials and some rendering. But ZBrush is a screwdriver and it's not just a screwdriver, it's the industrial grade power drill screwdriver that every construction team in the world uses. ZBrush is a sculpting software and everything that the developers do is focused on making it better at sculpting. It's not for people who want to texture, it's not for people who want to rig and it sure as hell is not for people who want to animate or render things. It's for people who sculpt 10 hours a day, every day and want to create the highest detail models with the most quality in the shortest amount of time. And that last part is important because a lot of people will say look, you can sculpt awesome things and Blenda for free so there's no reason to pay money to sculpt awesome things in ZBrush. And if you are not planning to do this for a living then I actually agree 100%. Blenda is more than good enough for you to sculpt awesome things free of charge. But what you are paying for when you buy ZBrush is not quality, it's time. If you know you're going to be screwing screws all day, yes, you can do it with the Swiss Army knife. And the house could look absolutely beautiful when you're done. But you would have finished a lot more and a lot faster if you would just use the industry standard power drill. And even when a lot of beginners start sculpting in Blenda, no one, they would like to do this professionally eventually, they get discouraged because the workers doesn't look the way they imagine and they get caught up and confused and stuff like how to combine curved modifiers with the array modifier to make a seamless chain. And then they fall into this fallacy of thinking, man, if I can't sculpt in Blenda then there's no way I could sculpt in ZBrush. When in reality the opposite is true. Professionals do not finagle and wrestle with array modifiers and curved modifiers in 6 frames per second laggy vector displacement maps using jank boolean operations and $100 retopology add-ons that sometimes don't work. In ZBrush, sculpting is organic and almost always one click away from your imagination. If you want to turn this ball into a monster with wings, left click on your wing brush. You want to give it a parasite mouth?  You want to give it alien pincer arms? Just go find your monster brush and left click. You want to add a creepy demon tail in the shape of an S? Go to your tail brush and left click until you're happy. You don't want to waste your time retopologizing everything by hand? Not a problem. Dynamesh everything together and auto retopologize. With a basic computer, sculpting with 100 million polygons is simple, smooth, natural and fast. This monster would have taken me way longer to do in Blender. The same way that ZBrush is not a rigging and weight painting software, Blender is not a sculpting software. Blender is the affordable one man army. ZBrush is your special ops sniper that you really should only be using when you live in long range combat. So that's the difference. I hope that clears things up and thank you so much for being patient and riding with me on this crazy journey. I hope this was helpful and as always I hope you have a fantastic day and I'll see you around.


It is the Stemma Mini Relay Breakout Board. So I have a cutie pie here so I can plug in my power ground and signal and then I've got a standard sort of 110 light socket here. For my connection over to the Stemma QT Relay Board I have a lamp plug that's plugged in to my AC power and then I'm using one of these nice Wego connector nuts to connect one line and the other is going into common and then my lamp wire is going into the side of this and I'm initially setting it to false which means it's not going to trip the relay. If I just simply change this to true and hit save, bam we have our our light bulb going off so you can see I'm sort of terrifyingly underlit now. It is the Stemma non-latching Mini Relay Breakout Board.


Hi, I'm Zor. Welcome to Unizor education. I would like to continue talking about random variables with geometric distribution. The previous lecture was basically about definition. What is the geometric distribution? And this one will be about the properties of this particular distribution. This lecture is part of the course of advanced mathematics for teenagers presented on Unizor.com website. And that's where I suggest you to watch this lecture from because besides the video presentation, the website contains the notes for the lecture, which are very useful. It's like a textbook, basically. So it's good for you to read the notes as well as listen to the lecture. Alright, so first of all, let me start from just reminding you a couple of points about geometric distribution, which I made the previous lecture. First of all, the definition. Now, the definition of the geometric distribution is following. For instance, you are making a Bernoulli trial and then another and then another. They are independent Bernoulli trials. The result of which is either failure or success. And the probability of success is is P. Probability of failure is obviously 1 minus P, which sometimes we are designated with a letter Q. So that's the sequence of independent Bernoulli trials. Now, what I'm interested in is the first time, the number of the Bernoulli trials, when I get the first time success. Well, maybe it's the first one. Immediately on the first trial, with the probability P, I will get success. But at the same time, there is a probability that the first time I will get the failure. And the probability of this will be 1 minus P. And then I will get success on the second time. So this is the probability of getting success in the second time. And on the third, it will be two failures. So this is number two, this is number three. Number one is just P. So these are probabilities of getting success in the first trial, in the second, or in the third, etc. And the geometric distribution is actually the distribution of probabilities among all the different numbers from 1 to infinity, where the probability of my random variable with geometric distribution with the probability of success on each Bernoulli trial, pi P. So the probability of this to be equal to k is equal to 1 minus P to the k minus 1. That's the probability of having k minus 1 failures before I get the first success on the case trial. And that will be the probability P. So these are different values. And the probabilities this random variable takes. So this is the part of the previous lecture. Now, this lecture, I will basically talk about properties of this particular distribution. Now, first of all, I would like to address it graphically. So the distribution can be very conveniently presented. If this is 1, this is 1, 2, 3, 0, 4, 5, etc. So my variable, my random variable takes values of 1, 2, 3, etc., etc. So the value of 1, it takes the probability of P. Well, let's say just for definitiveness, let's P be 1 half for instance. So I will build this rectangle which has the base 1 and has the height, the probability P. Next one would be 1 minus P to the first degree which is 1 half and 1 half it would be 1 quarter. This is 1 quarter. Next would be 1 eighth, then be the 1 sixteenth, etc. So this is the graphical representation of this probability distribution. And obviously you understand this is a geometric progression and that's why the whole distribution is called geometric. Alright, so we finished with graphical representation. Now, how about expectation, mean value of this particular variable? Well, let's just calculate. What is the expected value? What is the mean value of the random variable? Well, if random variable takes values with probabilities, then the expectation is actually a weighted average of its values where the weights are the probabilities. Well, I put, etc., just in case the number of values is not finite. Sometimes we are using the discrete distributions with finite number of values of the random variable. Like for instance, when you roll the dice, what's the number? It's from 1 to 6, right? But in this case, the numbers basically are not limited. So the probabilities are going down and down and down, exponentially down. But the numbers are actually going to infinity. So that's actually our case. So in our case, what can I say about our expected value? Well, expected value of our random variable is equal to weighted average of its values. Values are 1 with the probability of when k is equal to 1, that would be 1 minus p to the power of 0 times p plus. The value can be 2. k is going to be 2 with the probability 1 minus p to the first times p. The value can be 3 with the probability square times p, etc. The value can be k with probability 1 minus p to the k minus 1 p, etc. Well, do we know how to summarize this? It's not just a geometric regression, which we are summarizing, because these coefficients are actually 1, 2, 3. Without these coefficients, it would be geometric, right? Because if all of them would be equal to 1, without these 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. k, then I would have a sum of geometric progression with the geometric series. Now, how can I summarize this? We don't know the formula or anything like that. Okay, here is what I suggest. Let's call it S, all right, for simplicity. And I will use this notation, right? So let me put it this way. S divided by, you see, p is everywhere, is equal to 1, this is 1, plus 2 times q, this is the first time, the first power of 1, plus 3 times q squared, plus 4 times q cubed, plus, etc., plus k times q, k minus 1, plus, etc., right? It just looks better this way, all right? Now, to summarize it, I will do the following trick. I will multiply the whole thing by q. So S cubed divided by p is equal to, this multiplied by q would be cubed, this multiplied by q would be 2q squared, this multiplied by q would be 3q cubed. The previous one, which I multiplied with the power of k minus 2, and the coefficient, it was k minus 1, q k minus 2, right? That was the previous member to this. Now, if I will multiply it by q, I would get k minus 1, q k minus 1, minus, of course, plus, etc. Now, it goes to infinity. Now, what can we do about this? Well, this now is easier, because if I will subtract one from another, what happens? S divided by q times 1 minus 1 over p, right? That's on the left. No, S, sorry, wrong. S over p times 1 minus q. That would be on the left. Now, what would be on the right? I subtract from this, I subtract this. So, 1 is 1. From 2q, I subtract q, I will get q. From 3q square, I get 2q, q square, I get q square. From 4, I get minus 3, I get q cube, etc., etc. From this minus this, I will get q to the k minus 1, etc., up to infinity. And this is a pure geometric series, and we know that some of this, that's 1 over 1 minus q, right? Let me think about it. If x is equal 1 plus q square, sorry, plus q, plus q square, plus, etc., q times x is equal to q times q cube, sorry, square, plus q cube, plus, etc., minus. So, x times 1 minus q is equal to 1, and x is equal to 1 over 1 minus q. Yes, I was right. Okay, so again, I don't remember the formulas, I derived them. So, that's actually 8. I don't need anything more, because now I can find my S. S over p times 1 minus q. You see, if p plus q is equal to 1, q is equal to 1 minus p. So, this 1 minus q is equal to p. So, this is p, and this is p. So, it would be S times p divided by p. And what it's equal? 1 over 1 minus q is p. That's it, such a simple formula for expected value. So, we did have some tricky calculations, I should say. But in the end, it's just a simple formula, and we have found out that the mean value or expectation of the geometric random variable gamma p is equal to 1 over p. Okay. What's next? Next is variance, all right? Now, with variance, we do very similar thing actually. Variance of gamma over p is equal to, again, this is a weighted average of squares of the deviations from the expected value, right? So, my values are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc. So, 1 minus 1 over p times the probability, the weight. Weight is 1 minus p to 0 times p plus. Next value is 2.  Now, I'm not going to do the manipulations how to add up this thing. But basically, the idea is exactly the same as in this particular case. We just define some kind of a sum, then we put in parentheses. We can multiply it by something, subtract one series from another and eventually we come to a geometric progression. We just have to do it twice because it's square. So, I'm not going to do it. I will actually give you a creative answer. It would be great if you can derive yourself this particular formula and, well, if you can send it to me in an email or something like this, I'll put it on my website. But I do have a result already calculated. So, the variance is equal 1 minus p of, sorry. So, that's the answer. And as you see, it's relatively simple answer, alright, regardless of the fact that the formula is complex. And that's about it. Basically, the only thing which is remaining is the standard deviation. The standard deviation is square root of variance, which is square root of q over p. So, that's basically all the properties I wanted to present to you for this particular geometric distribution. The graphical form, its expectation, mean value, and the variance with the standard deviation. All these characteristics basically give you a sense of what exactly the geometric distribution is. I think very useful is graphical representation when I have this staircase going down geometrically. Now, as far as the calculations of expected value, mean, and standard deviation, well, it's useful to know, but basically I think it's secondary. More importantly is just to understand what exactly your distribution of probability is. By the way, if you will take a look at the expectation and variance, I would like to address these from some intuitive position. Is it intuitively right? Let's put it this way. But think about it. Now, obviously, the p, which is basically the probability of the success. Now, if probability p of the success is equal to 1, which means we always succeed, there are no failures, it means we should succeed in the first try always and the average would be obviously the first try. Success will be on the first try and the average should be equal to 1, right? So, indeed, if p is equal to 1, this is equal to 1, right? Now, if p is close to 0, it means success happens very rarely. Then, obviously, we should expect our first successful result to be further down the line. And the smaller the probability p, the further should be average number of tries until we will get the first success. That's kind of an intuitive understanding that this formula is correct. I mean, obviously, the same intuitive feeling would be 1 over p squared, for instance. It doesn't really matter. What matters is, is this actually corresponding to your intuition? And the answer is yes. There are some other formulas which also correspond to the same intuitive thinking, but the matter is that this corresponds and it does. Now, how about the variance? Well, the variance can be viewed in the following sense. The variance is equal to 1 over p squared minus 1 over p, right? 1 over p squared minus p over p squared, which is 1 over p. Now, don't forget that p is a probability, which means it's from 0 to 1. Now, how graphically these two things look? Well, these are both hyperbolas, right? In the first quadrant, this one is a little higher here and a little lower here. This one is the same, and at the point 1, 1, they coincide. So, if I'm considering only this particular interval from 0 to 1, what do we see as a difference between these two? So, from this graph, we should subtract this one. Well, obviously, this one is significantly higher, so it will be almost like infinity. But basically, it will go to infinity. At this point, the difference is 0, right? So, if I will draw the difference between these two things, the difference should be something like this. So, if p is close to 1, if it's equal to 1, actually, what happens in this case? Well, it means I always have a success. So, there is no deviation from the average. Average will be 1 because I will have a success in the first trial. And obviously, there is no deviation from this because it's always the same value. 1, 1, 1, no matter how many times I try, right? So, that's why my standard deviation, my variance would be equal to 0 if my probability p is equal to 1. Now, if probability is diminishing, if it goes down to 0, then not only my average goes to infinity, but also the distribution among that average also spreads around. This is not as obvious, but well, it is what it is. Basically, you can say that if your average goes to infinity, then the deviations from that average also increasing to infinity. Now, when I'm talking about infinity, you understand it's not a number. It's a tendency, so to speak, right? It's a process. So, if p goes down to 0, then the expected value, the mean, goes to infinity, which means it's increasing, unlimitedly increasing, as well as the variance around this particular average value, also increasing unlimitedly, unlimitedly. Anyway, that's it for today. Thanks very much. I do suggest you to review the notes for this lecture on unison.com. Well, thanks and good luck.


Welcome to this first lecture on conducting your own research. What are you going to get? First of all, a set of video lectures just like this one. But you're also going to get a set of documents.  They actually reflect the computer files that we're going to work with, and those you'll get too, together with the raw data files we're going to work with. So what happens in lecture one? Just read chapter one of the documentation. It really just is about the aims that we have for this course who I think the audience is and I really want to motivate for why I think this course is so important. Read through that first chapter and I'll see you in the next lecture.


As a Christian, you believe the Bible is the Word of God. This means the Scripture has more authority than culture's opinions and even your personal preferences. As believers, we are to align ourselves with God's Word. This means receiving correction from Scripture even if we have to take a hit to the ego. This also means that we must interpret our experiences through the Word, not the Word through our experiences. Now, this doesn't mean that your experiences don't matter or that they didn't happen. This just means that you have to learn to understand and even describe your experiences according to the truth. You can't change the Scripture. Every word was inspired by the Holy Spirit. If we reject God's Word because of personal experience, it's not the Word you trust, it's yourself. Do you believe the Bible is the Word of God? Tell me in the comment section.


What's up everyone? It's your girl Kinsey here from Layton Sports Cards and I am ripping 21-22 Panini Prison Basketball Hobby 3 box break number 14 random teams. Again, here's a look at the random results. You can always find these at LaytonSportsCards.com. Underneath the results tab, the link is also in chat for you. All right, here we go. Again, everyone, five to go on the next break. It is a full case break of Prison Basketball tiered random teams. Do you all know who Paul Sopoos? No, from what? James Webb Space Telescope Mars in December. Oh, 90,000 miles past the sun. Oh, wow. Got a Scotty Barnes rookie for the Raptors. Really? That's... Jonathan Cominga rookie. It's like... Blue Yolkich. That's a starting star, really. This sees up to 100 million years after the big day. Wow, Jared Butler rookie. That's really cool. No bomb of silver. Mine said Julius Randall. We've got Hornet Sensational Signatures, PJ Washington Jr. Hornets. Yeah, a few more basketball before we get into football. Got Aaron Wiggins rookie. Red Wave, Isaiah Jackson Pacers. Jeremiah Robinson Earl on the Hyper Rookie Thunder. And I appreciate it. Thanks for watching the stream. Got Luca Garza rookie. Pistons. Silver, Miles Turner. Orange Wave, Doug McDermott to 60 for the Spurs. Devin Booker fearless. Keita rookie. We've got Evan Mowley rookie for the Cavs. Hey, Marbury on the, um, Pulsar, Sungs. We've got Red, Seth Curry Sixers, Pismatic Deep Fox. Let's see a big auto. Some big ink. Trey Mann rookie. Boston Jr. Corey Kisper. We've got Silver rookie. Elfin Shagoon, Rockets. Hyper Avery Bradley Rockets. Again, there is a link for the next break. It is a 12 box full case break of Prism basketball. Isaiah Jackson rookie. Teared random teams. So I'll get two teams per spot on that one. Blue, Ice, Miles, Bridges, Hornets. We've got Spurs, Sensational Signatures, Rookie Auto. Joshua Primo. Spurs. Darren Sharp rookie. Primo. We've got Silver, Malik Beasley. Firework Silver, Paul George. Prismatic Lamello Ball. The Hunter. Uh-oh. You know you're not winning it, or you're hoping to win it. Book Knight rookie, Usman Garuba. We've got Red, Carmelo Anthony Wave Lakers. Paper Anthony Davis Lakers. Come on, let's see a black. That would be something, huh? Moses Moody rookie warriors. Kenney Martin Jr. Silver Marvin Bagley. Red, Hassan Whitesign Jaws. 75 years. Celtics Larry Bird. Gotcha. Yeah, those are tough sometimes. Sharif Cooper. We've got Red, Markel Foltz Magic. The 75 on the anniversary card, R.G. Barrett-Nix. Last pack, box three one. Cameron Thomas rookie. Silver Ben Wallace. Hyper of Talon Horton Tucker. Lakers. Horton here is a hoop. That's what I call them. 225 for an RPA. What's it? Is it just the base to 199? Or is it a color? Box two. Let's see where we are in this next break. Three to go, everybody. Three left. There is the link right there. Freishan just dropped three to go. Breaks right after this one. Jared Butler rookie. Brian Forbes Silver. Joe Weisskamp on the red. Rookie Spurs. It's a base four out of 99. That's not too bad then. 75 years. Chris Weber. Any big hits? Nothing crazy out of prism quite yet. As far as today, Isaiah Livers rookie. You've had some really nice cards pulled. Miles Bridges on the red wave. Purple Mason Plumlee. Ben Simmons. We had a Otani one of one. Giant letter out of Sterling as well as a triple. Who was it? It was Ichiro, Ken Griffey Jr. and Randy Johnson that was pulled. Silver Duncan Robinson. Nicholas Claxton Hyper. Oh yeah. Paul Mulleter bat barrel one of one out of flawless baseball. Baseball is nice today. For sure. We've got Jalen Green rookie base for the Rockets. Rockets. Orange Malik Mikau Bridges for the Sun. It's kind of an off color match there. Yep. Three to go on the next break everyone. Thank you all so much for getting stuff filled up so far tonight. Only a few breaks with spots left. David Johnson rookie. Kobe White. Fearless Silver Yanis onto the Koopo. We've got, how about a Dean Dollar on the flashback. There you go Portland. Nice Damien Lillard. That's sick. Love the flashback look. I owned on sumo roll rookie bowls. Preston. We've got Isaiah Jackson on the red wave. Pacers. Markel Foltz Hyper. Chrismatic Donovan Mitchell. Yeah. Shangoon rookie. Fred Van Vleet. Bradley Beale Silver. It's a White Howard on the blue for the Lakers. James Harden mindset. Jalen Johnson rookie. We've got Pulsar, our PJ Washington Junior Hornets. Red Duncan Robinson Heats. And again, everyone force will be starting at 11am tomorrow with some new releases. We've got baseball, which is Topps pristine baseball case breaks. And Chronicles football. So that'll be a fun day tomorrow at Penny Hardaway. Hyper magic, prismatic James Harden. Again, all of those are pick your teams. The case breaks for baseball are eight boxes. And then half cases, which I believe are six boxes of the Chronicles football. Luca Garza rookie. Keta rookie. We've got Jeremy Grant on the 75th anniversary card. Pistons. Throwback here. A Kenny Smith auto rockets. Kenny Smith. Um, I, I don't know off the top of my head. I couldn't tell you. Not sure. Thomas Ben Simmons. I have a feeling it's three, but I don't quote me on that. Prismatic silver ant man. T wolves. Fireworks Leonard. Last pack in your box too. We've got a Scotty Barnes rookie Raptors. Jonathan Cuminga rookie. Red wave of Brandon Clark. Grizzlies. SGA Hyper Thunder base. All right. Box three. Aaron Wiggins rookie. We've got Luca Garza rookie. Pistons. Red wave Trayman Thunder. Nice. Josh Christopher Hyper rookie rockets. Nice rookies coming out of that first pack. Keita rookie. Silver D-Wade. Orange wave to 60. Josh Richardson Celtics. Prismatic Lillard. We've got Evan Mobley rookie base caps. Trayman rookie. Brandon Boston Jr. We've got a Franz Wagner. Pulsar rookie magic. Very nice hit there. Pretty well centered on that too. Heck yeah. We'll mag that one for you magic. Demarda Rosen red. Mindset. Luca. I've seen any of those. Yeah. And I like that. Kisperts. Quentin Grimes. Kyrie. The Pulsar. Bogdanovic Hyper. And everyone let's check on this next break. Three to go still. Three to go. That breaks right after this. Bones Highland rookie. Almost there. Chris Duarte. There is the link. 40 to 75 rookie. Davion Mitchell on the 75th anniversary for the Kings. We've got Pelican Silver. Sensational signatures. Rookie Tray Murphy the third. Nice one there. And three to go. That is a full case of prison basketball. Tiered random. David Johnson rookie. I don't assume a rookie. Silver Moses Brown. Mindset silver. Lillard. Tiered random. So you'll get two teams per spot. One from the top value eyes. One from the bottom. Only three left. Last basketball break was spot still left in it. Brissett Silver. Prismatic Silver. Paul George. Got Pistons. Rookie Otto. Isaiah Livers. Pistons. Wiseman. Preston. Shingoon. We've got Red Wave. John Wall. Rockets. Piper. Carmelo Anthony. Jalen Johnson. Van Vleet. We've got a Silver. Jalen Green for the Rockets. Nice hit. Rockets. There you go. Jalen Green. Blue Bill Russell. 75 year insert. Drew Holiday. Tray Murphy the third rookie. We've got Eric Gordon. Red Wave Rockets. Tim Hardaway Jr. Red. Mindset Steph Curry. Pass left here. Santi Aldama. Keon Johnson. Rookie Killian Hayes. Reggie Bullock on the hyper. Prismatic Zach Levine. Check this freak. Three to go everybody. That one breaks right after this.  Three to go. Tiered random teams. Full case break. Jaden Springer. Charles Bassey. We've got Blue Ice. Daniel Thas. Rockets. Remember all. All right. Let's do a recap here real quick for you. We had Isaiah Livers. Rookie Pistons. Tray Murphy the third. Pelicans. Kenny Smith. Rockets. Damian Lillard. Blazers. Joshua Primo Spurs. PJ Washington Jr. Hornets. And Franz Wagner on the Pulsar Rookie for the magic. All right. Congrats everyone. Thanks again. We've got a full case of this coming up once it gets filled. Thank you.


Hello everybody and welcome to another hobby cheating video and today we're gonna be chopping we're gonna be changing We're gonna be kit bashing one really big giant Let's get into it. That's strict techno man sir. That is Vincy V Let us get to the technique and learn it Vincy V style games workshop was nice enough to send me big old king broad here and I'm excited to get him together. However, my giants aren't really standard giants As you'll see here from the pictures going across the screen My giants are all horrible Frankensteinian sort of monsters that have been twisted that have been altered that have been Brought back to life through means Most dark and foul and so it's important to me that I get our new king here Also in line with the rest of the army as such We're gonna talk today about how you kit bash when you've got a big giant mini and an open pal We're gonna make something truly horrible. We're gonna throw a lot of kits in so Let's go ahead and destroy a lot of Warium or stuff to make one giant manager. It's gonna be a lot of fun Let's head over the desk. All right. Let's start with the kits king broad.  I don't know how much that will use but we'll see the Sacrison for trying is always good for pipes. We've got some chaos chariots for wheels and horns Then we've got old mega gargant and night bits So out of this massive pile of nonsense. We are gonna see what we can actually build the first steps are Still using the instructions because still have that open and I'm gonna be combining different aspects of king broad himself He's still the base when you're doing a big kit bash. It's important to still have a central base like there's something that is still the center of the consistent You know large plurality of the miniature so even though here you see I'm actually assembling right away one of the imperial knights legs Which are ironically the exact same size as the mega gargant legs like a Mega gargant leg and a imperial knight leg are the exact same size Which is handy I'm still like his main body and stuff like that is still all gonna be king broad So we're doing a lot of changes on top and that's my first big piece of advice is Make sure that you know what the center of your pieces and use that to anchor You can always cut away you can always change but having some instructions having some baseline don't think of it Like you're just going nuts and doing whatever with just like trying to slam together every bit Start from a base and then start making changes. All right, so we've got some basic components together here We've got the beginning we've swapped his back facing leg for the imperial night leg Ironically the mega gargants and the imperial knights have the exact same size legs So that makes that part just a really easy change We just dropped a bunch of sprugu in there to kind of hold it in place We can lock it in better later for now. I just want to let that harden Completely and then that'll lock that in place. So while that's doing that then we got to turn to other places now I assembled his torso More or less whole because we can always hack at these things later And that's one of the things I wanted to flip the camera on here and say is a big part of this is kind of just trying Parts and seeing what works and then flipping things around Figuring out like what of your normal pieces do you want to use and what do you want to replace? For example, normally along this arm. He has kind of this hammered together armor piece I wanted to give him slightly a nicer armor piece So I took this off of one of the imperial night pieces easy peasy so we can just like yep That looks good test it on there drop some sprugu on the back of this bad boy So it's nice and late on there and Then we just get that On to where it should be and then we'll let that dry But at the same time, you know, we can we can test other things like I he's got this big blank chest Maybe this like armor piece can work so we can kind of test that around and do I like it up top? It kind of looks like he's wearing a little too small t-shirt baby to flip it the other direction You know, maybe that's okay, right? Not sure on that one yet. I gotta think about that piece a little more But if I end up not liking something that I've assembled There's no reason I can't still cut it away and that sounds Anathema like why did you bother to assemble it if you're just gonna cut it? But sometimes you need to see the base shape before you start then modifying it. So like right here. Yeah, this is fine I like his arm good enough right there so we can go ahead and attach that arm Because I'm gonna have this arm holding the big, you know, some big club or a version of it in one hand So I do want this to like have some strength To still look like kind of a normal arm the interesting part about this particular build that I'm doing is that his other arm has no purpose Like it's not actually a weapon on the fig in any way His his big main weapon is held solely in this sort of one hand And so his other arm is completely effectively useless in the as far as like determining A wizzy wig or anything like that goes so we're gonna have a lot of freedom over here on this arm to kind of mess it up or do whatever We want or make something that's just visually interesting and monstrous As we convert this guy. So I'm gonna keep messing around with parts And we'll go from there so now that we have the center of the torso and the legs assembled it's time to start modifying and My real goal here is to just figure out what interesting pieces Can we switch swap around to push toward that? ultimate vision of a nightmare giant and as I'm looking at him and still using some of the pieces and combining them together I Want to really state the importance of futzing here of just messing around Looking at your bits staring at stuff cutting it out Dry fitting it moving it around Seeing if it fits Determining if it's the right piece the right theme and so on Have a vision not of what the final model is gonna look like you'll never know that I didn't know that when I started But have a vision of the theme the thing you want to achieve I know I want to have this big nightmare Impressive potent king of the giants of my Frankensteinian monster giants and so everything I do and I look at is like well can I add more blades spikes tubes just things that make him nightmarish and A lot of bits I cut and then don't use that's fine experiment and see what happens So we got the lower body all together I went ahead and put the back piece on there because that'll give it more stability for it to all dry That's gonna sit for a while. We're coming together on the top part of making him look cruel I want this guy to look, you know horrible and we're gonna add lots of spikes and Different things that make him look more Frankensteinian as we go But he can also stand in for king broads. I want him to have a crown. I found this little piece on One of the 40k chaos things, but it's funny when you put it on his head like that Right, we kind of get a little crown Kind of a little interesting fan-shaped crown So I dig that and that's like I don't know what that piece is meant to be normally I have no idea. It doesn't matter what it was meant to be normally. That's what it's gonna be now At the same time things like big we also want to extend that up a little bit. So let's get this bad boy in place See where we can go one of the reasons I always work with sprue goo For this is because it will hold the things in place pretty well as I'm sort of initially doing my my fit Like I'll drive it like crazy on this But it'll still keep it more or less in place like I can press it down and it sits there But at the same time if I need to readjust or like you saw me do with the shoulder pads Maybe in there like I can take them back off because it does take quite a while to set And so the other thing I want to do here is get these cool horns on him if I can figure out a place to have him I'm afraid though that the That one of the horns is gonna be too big on that side So look at this horn with that Because of the way that his back horns are sticking up So that causes a problem I think we could probably cut it down So let's do that Let's cut that horn down Big horn. I need to get out bigger Bigger flippers All right. There we go. Good enough. We got we got it. We got a progress good enough to just test there so then if we kind of Ram that maybe Up against something like there That'll work pretty nice. Let's see how that feels. It feels too like forward. I think if we move this crown around a little bit Scoot it that way some we kind of stick it over here on the edge of the crown And see now we're getting somewhere now. We're now we're cooking with gas We're gonna take that back off What I'm gonna actually do Just physically Squeeze that piece together Sometimes we just got to bend them into place there. So it's a tighter fit on his head There we go. Now it'll actually like kind of Snap fit against his head. It feels better. See sometimes. It's just bending the things until they fit Cool Then let's go ahead and cut this horn down to the same size This is from the Chaos chariot kit by the way in case you're curious This is the horns off the front of the chariot because of course their chariots have horns Good stuff there. Okay. So then we can do Just kind of sit that against there.  We can always come in. We're gonna, you know, we'll fix at the end But it's still better. We're a little more flush for our initial connection joint push that against there Maybe rotate it down just a little To the side And there we go. Now.  I don't worry generally about whether something fits We can always come back later with miliput or green stuff or some sprue goo and clean up gaps or holes or things like that Let your creativity be your guide and just start going nuts. So here's where we are I let everything dry for a good whole night basically I went away and so everything is now You know firmly in place all of our little pokey sticks and doodads and things like that We've got lots of spikes. I went ahead and attached a crown on the back of his head as well So he's got kind of a full crown action there like that. So all that's looking good on the face I also went ahead and added some tubes because tubes are always good for monsters and I attached the lower arm Inside here this morning. I put on some some green stuff just to hold that all in place and we're letting that dry We'll put the sort of leg plate on there once everything sets over there For now, we're gonna finish focus on this torso part One of the things I want to do is make him extra creepy and nothing says extra creepy like extra arms so I found these little bits in one of the chaos Kits and these look like cool little combinations of muscle and pistons and stuff And I don't know if these are actually the pieces that go with it, but they fit in here So because I'm not gonna look at the instructions for that thing because who cares Instructions don't matter where we're going. We don't need roads So instead what we're gonna do is we're just gonna slap this bad boy up with some some sprue goo here Get it ready to go and then we're gonna find a nice place on the side of his torso here Where we can go ahead and add an extra shoulder joint basically Something like that probably looks nice.  I'm gonna need to attach that one longer because clearly the joint isn't super strong Let's have it like mimic the arm above it. I think Yeah, there we go. Good nice little second baby arm. Nothing says creepy like a baby arm But fun of doing this in real time Good cool The other thing we want to focus on is this hand over here. I added the lower part So I pulled out this claw piece out of the same cast thing. I added a little thumb for it Because I thought it would cooler with a thumb so that's just like one of the claws from the Gauntlet on the Giants and I think that'll fit nicely right in there The question is just what angle do I want it at that's too? Yeah, that's too too up It's definitely that angle Okay So then yet again We get our goo going Let's goo it up and a goo both sides of this since there's Since I don't know exactly some of the sometimes you got to over goo When you're doing these big kitbashes because you don't know exactly where the parts are gonna actually connect Since they're not sort of made to go together. There we go. I'll sit right in there We're gonna actually set him down so it can rest on the ground Take some extra bits that are on my table here. I those under there we go nice little Breach to keep that in place And there we go. We just let those dry so All that's dry. There it is Got a little arm in place. I'll put the second arm on in a minute But we're gonna deal with this weapon situation Went and dug around found this super cool axe head For my bits. I think this is from a creature caster Guy, but that's fine. It's good. It's a good giant axe. I like it. The problem is I don't have anything else for it so I found Some of this which is this is a tube Plastic card you can buy so this is just the gale force 9 Plastic accessory variety pack you can see it has a bunch of different little tubes and I beams and stuff like that So I picked the size that happens to fit The axe head nicely right there good stuff I suppose if I didn't have this you could use like a straw that probably work But the problem is it's blank and it doesn't look like anything interesting So what we have here is some jeweler chain and you can go buy this, you know, this is just jewelry chain It's super cheap and you can get it at basically any Any sort of craft store anything like that And what we're gonna do now is There we go We're going to Go ahead and make a loop of chain here for this We're gonna just take a little glue Put it along there on there.  This is resin. So we're not going to use Spruve before it will use just this traditional gel glue here for our accelerant One two three we have an axe see how that looks I might want to do a little more chain of above actually much feels too popped up He should be gripping it up here Maybe like right under the thing All right Well, I'm gonna put a little more chain on then we'll reattach and we'll get the arm there So it's time to attach him up to his legs actually make him stand here So then I can put the axe in place and we'll see how that goes So happily these guys fit together very nicely Generally Yep Assemble that no issue nailed it. So with him all together We're gonna take a little bit of this and you know one of the things with using sprue goo as you may have noticed Throughout this that I'll apply the sprue goo and then I will come back in and use the Just the regular super glue thin to like smooth it down Resoften it up Just make sure it's very liquidy and that it settles properly It's just a good additional trick now when you're doing it make sure it's not a part that's actively holding something because it will Reactivate all of it and suddenly go loose again. So you got to be very careful about that But in this case, he's nice and solid on there So no concerns give a little pressure Nice, okay So I like the way that's looking yeah all together. He's looking nice and Shambly shamblamatic look at this dude So now it's time to give him his axe and we just need to figure out what position that's gonna sit in now that he's all assembled Fortunately, it just snaps into his hand. I'm thinking we want to rotate it up just slightly like the natural position would probably be here That would be the correct way he'd hold this That's a really ugly position for it to sit in for the viewing angle. So we're probably gonna sit it like this Just because that will make it look better. So, you know such as like Sometimes we we make sacrifices of the the logical for the art. He's he's coming right along our forearmed King here.  So Are all right, so more or less final update. I think he's good to go We got everything green stuffed up there all the gaps filled. I'll kind of sand that once it's hard But yeah, I think he's appropriately Monstrous We got chains. We got tubes. You can see we added some more tubes here on his belly On his leg, you know, and we went ahead and actually put little green stuff snakes here, which I'll flatten out and sand down On his weapon just to kind of separate the two elements a little more Just create something that'll be easier to like have a distinction when I paint it there I got this little portal thing on his belly, which you know, who knows what it does But that's fine. Got a little spiky armor on his arm on both cases.  I mean, he's very sort of contrapasto with the leg forward and then everything else sweeping in that direction The face is suitably horrible. His back is a little open Normally I put a little more tubes and stuff like that on the back But I thought on this guy I'd leave it a little more Unblemished maybe we'll do just some some scarification or something back there with paint But overall pretty good pretty good little project Obviously this took a lot of kits, you know, there's the Multiple different Chaos and Imperial Knights, there's the little chaos monster guy whose name I don't remember for these pieces and all sorts of things But it's a lot of fun Whether you have access to all these kinds of kits or not and you want to chop up, you know $100 box sets to just make a fun model It you don't need to do all that Just doing conversions like this and playing around and making especially an army like this where they are very Monopos and sort of one always looks like every other one you ever see I think is highly rewarding Even if it's just doing things like messing with the weapon, you know, as you could see It's not that hard to make your own new weapon shaft So if you cut the head off like a corn axe or something and put it on there great you can do that too You know, but just messing around with the different pieces and parts doing and Repurposing things like the horns from the chariot became his horns on his helmet, right? A lot of these little pieces like these the bolts in his neck Those were some kind of antenna off an Eldar thing like they don't have to be the thing that you use them as You can always feel free to experiment just stare at your bits for a while and see what grabs you So there you go, that's King broad all ready to go. He's ready for paint now I will see when I actually can get paint on him But what a fun conversion he was to do this guy's absolutely massive and I am definitely very excited About having him on the table. So Super fun. Thank you so much for watching this if you liked this give it a like if you've got questions Hey, drop those down below. I always answer every question Subscribe if you haven't already we're on the push to a hundred thousand. Can we get there? 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So a couple of weeks ago on the program we talked about an article that was published by the Washington Post and The author was Dana Milbank and he posits that Bernie Sanders is the Trump of the left and ever since this article was published We've seen cable news try to reinforce this narrative. We've seen politicians and Establishment politicians more specifically try to reinforce this narrative and now right on cue Presidential candidate Pete Buddha judge who attended what to do about Bernie meeting secretly with Democratic Party leadership such as Nancy Pelosi Chuck Schumer near attendant even he is now Reinforcing this narrative as well, but rather than saying that Bernie Sanders himself is Like Donald Trump is the Trump of the left. He's saying that Bernie Sanders supporters are Similar to Donald Trump supporters with respect to their anti establishment Predisposition so this is what he had to say specifically and when we come back I'm gonna tell you why I take issue with his framing of people who are anti establishment Seeing that the numbers are fine like unemployment slow like all that like set GPs growing And yet a lot of neighborhoods and families are living like like this recovery never even happened. They're stuck It just kind of turns you against the system in general and then you're more likely to want to vote Which could lead you somebody like Bernie The reason why I take issue with what he said there and really his framing more specifically is because there's this underlying implication that being anti establishment is Inherently bad There's that negative connotation associated with being anti establishment and he says, you know people who are anti establishment because let them down This is why we're in the situation Because people are anti establishment because they opt for Bernie because they opt for Trump. This is why we're in the situation So on one hand, there's the correct assumption that the establishment is Pissing off a lot of people but on the other hand, there's this also this the secondary implication that well This is why we're in this bad situation this objectively bad situation It's because there's this anti establishment fervor. So you kind of tacitly give the establishment a pass rather than explaining how bad it's been and why people are anti establishment, but just to draw this equivalence between Trump and Sanders supporters even to suggest that they're on opposite sides of two extremes is harmful because what Trump supporters have is a fundamental misunderstanding as to why the system is not working Whereas Bernie supporters, we're not Anti-establishment because we believe that the political establishment is inherently bad We're anti establishment because we have a nuanced opinion because the establishment is not working for normal Americans And the reason why we're anti establishment is because we view the establishment as impediments to justice equality environmental justice So because the establishment is no longer working because it is now static We are saying the establishment needs to do better. Whereas Donald Trump supporters. They don't get that There's no complexity with their political ideology Trump just says look it's immigrants It's Muslims and they accept what he says whereas with us There's no cult of personality Driving our support for Bernie Sanders So that's why they even put Bernie supporters and Trump supporters in the same category Even if it's correct that they're both anti establishment what you're doing is a disservice You are glossing over really important details that differentiates Trump supporters from Bernie supporters and really if you want to compare anyone to Donald Trump any politician to Donald Trump Ideologically speaking Pete Buddha judge is closer ideologically to Donald Trump because Donald Trump is on the far right Pete Buddha judge is more of a centrist and Bernie Sanders is a center left politician So if anyone should be compared to Donald Trump, it should be the centrists The Pete Buddha judges the better or works of the world because they're the ones who are closer to Donald Trump But yet people like near attend and promote this idea that horseshoe theory is a thing where you have two Equally opposite far right and far left sides that move so far to the left and the far right move so far to the right that they almost Converge in a way, but that's not true What I think is a more accurate Representation of what's happening is fish hook theory, but understand what's happening here and even if Pete Buddha judge is able to I think Easily explain away this comparison here what they've been trying to do when I say they meaning cable news pundits and Establishment politicians. They're trying to cultivate a narrative be very aware of the fact that they have been Deliberately trying to prime you to believe that Bernie Sanders is like Donald Trump So can I just play who he's starting to sound a lot like right? I pay what I owe by the way Donald Trump says that and is completely unashamed. I pay what I owe and why would I pay a dollar more? Okay? That's right Americans should hear here Here are Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump talking about their books I don't apologize for writing a book that was number 300 New York Times that selling translating the five or six languages But I wrote the art of the deal which is in all fairness. I think the number one selling business book of all time It is funny well look why these guys so like So they're trying to cultivate this narrative and that's on purpose It's no coincidence that all of a sudden everyone in the mainstream media everyone in the political elite class Is trying to compare Donald Trump to Bernie Sanders? It's because they want people to believe even if it is subtle that well, you know We have this instability because of Donald Trump So if you elect the left equivalent of Trump then obviously that's going to make for more political instability And it's unacceptable and that's specifically why People have been calling Pete Buddha judge out here So for example, Ro Khanna says come on Pete Buddha judge It is intellectually dishonest to compare Bernie to Trump Bernie is forgiving people health care education Childcare and more pay he wants to blow up Credentialed elitism those who reject tuition-free college for all and of course Pete Buddha judge does reject that Nina Turner says Bernie Sanders supporters are not the same as Trump fans Senator Bernie Sanders supporters are democratic and independent voters Many of whom are people of color and she goes on to cite articles that explain just how diverse and Dynamic Bernie Sanders base is so I think that those tweets do a phenomenal job explaining why we are pushing back So forcefully against this narrative because what Pete Buddha judge is doing by comparing Bernie supporters to Trump supporters is He is adding to this media narrative that they're all collectively trying to cultivate That Bernie is the Trump of the left It started with Dana Milbank and they all started parroting the same thing and now here Pete Buddha judges doing the same thing now He's trying to take shots at Bernie Sanders Because when you are behind if you can attack and target the frontrunner It makes you more viable it boosts your name recognition now Pete Buddha judge put put it Pete Buddha judge he doesn't have to do that because the media loves him They are eating out of the palms of his hands But he chose to do this and it's because again He was part of that small coalition of elite Democratic Party insiders Who got together had dinner and discussed what to do about Bernie now? He did release a response and this is what he had to say my point is that people have been motivated to want to blow up the Establishment and Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump represent radically different ways of doing that But I think part of how each of them was able to get some appeal was by speaking to the frustration that so many Americans have With anything perceived as the establishment anything seen as being committed to the political and economic Systems that have been prevailing really for my entire life. So even though they led different voters in very different directions I do think it is meaningful that anti establishment candidates the more dramatically anti establishment the better Be it from the left or the right have been able to get so much support in recent years two things that I noticed here First of all, he's kind of walking back his comments But second of all the reason why he's talking about the establishment and the perceived skepticism of any one or anything any entity associated with the establishment is because it's led people down Now why would he touch on this? Why would he even bring this up? Well, it's because it's very clear that he is an establishment candidate News media loves him the Democratic Party leadership clearly loves him since they met with him to talk about what to do about Bernie Sanders So he is part of the establishment So I think that he's probably personally angered at the fact that people are skeptical of anyone who's perceived to be Anywhere near the establishment and since he is part of the establishment and certainly perceived to be that way I think correctly so and this is just speculation I can't get inside his head, but because he's perceived to be establishment now He wants to try to speak to the frustration and kind of communicate to voters. Hey look I get it I understand the establishment isn't working now The question is is this a strategy that can help boost Pete Buddha judges anti establishment street cred Possibly, I mean, I think that it's important just generally speaking that you acknowledge that there is widespread frustration with the establishment But the problem is he will have this perception issue going forward Since he already met with Democratic Party leadership and essentially Conspired to figure out what to do about Bernie Sanders and that's going to be a problem So maybe it's the case that he wasn't intending to take shots at Bernie Sanders And he just worded what he was saying in a really poor way But the problem is once you start drawing comparisons between Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump and their supporters You start making it seem as if you're jumping on the bandwagon on a particular narrative that media is currently trying to shove down our throat that Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are Similar in a multitude of ways and the problem is if you do that then people who you may need in the event You become the Democratic Party's nominee will feel disenchanted with you because they think that you're just like Donald Trump supporters So all that I'm saying here is if you want to be perceived as being anti establishment at least To what a larger degree than he has been then actually be anti establishment take more populist positions And stop conspiring behind closed doors against Bernie Sanders period Subscribe if you like this video fucks Mike's tremendous and he's doing a really really good job Many people are telling me about how wonderful the humanist report is Bigly


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