Hi everyone and welcome to a showdown special here on the channel so I'm away on holiday at the minute but I did want to put some content of while I was away and this is a team that I've been playing around with recently just getting back into the ultra series a bit more seriously so I thought it might be nice just to do some showdown stuff while I'm away before we come back and do some serious get our normal battle series underway so this is a team you can see it is all based around choice band requires a I think it's pretty nice and I'm not really sure about the waterfall maybe earthquake there would be quite nice but it doesn't really have that much synergy with the rest of the team so sticking with the waterfall of the minute just to get rid of grout on and things like that that can be pretty problematic for the rest of the team then Serena is the other partner in crime that Queenie Majesty ability just amazing helping hand there's the spreads and stuff there'll be a roll paste down in the description below if you want to try it out scissors something else I'd like to try out with a sash there standard zernius uh salt vest incinero and then we've got the z move on tab at a go-go so that's the team that we're going to be playing around with today and we'll just hop straight in this is a new user uh tag that I've got that I'm running so a ladder ranking is going to be pretty low but we'll get into it and we'll just see how many games you can get through and hopefully it'll be a lot of fun so what we've got incinero aerodactyl match amp uh x-ray as well madness okay um obviously the thunderous theory is going to be a bit of an issue uh I feel like we can probably get away with going for uh the zernius boosting here though uh will lead incinero zernius Serena and what else do we need uh ray yeah let's just bring ray let's do that don't feel like there's anything else that we need to do um and we'll just see like low ladder is always going to be a bit easier than then it will be we get a bit higher but hopefully it doesn't take too long to get a bit higher on the ladder and we can start getting some proper competitive competitive teams um because my champ is definitely something that I haven't seen really run this yet it's interesting pokemon of course especially in detail and watching you probably guessing this team's going to go for with the aerodactyl here uh zernius incinero for my opponent that's fine um I guess the only thing we need to worry about is potentially raw on the uh the old incinero on the other end but I think I'll probably try faker this turn and there we go yeah geo geo we'll just trade geos but the thing is I don't mind this because we've got help in hand um boosted zernius here where we can really take advantage of uh help in hand yeah so we can start doing some nice damage here and just cut through this team and hopefully this is kind of like the main idea with this team you know you get yourself set up in zernius against against favorable matchups and matchups you can't bring zernius obviously to lead with but uh you cut through and then banded very kind of in the end comes back I'm gonna say we're gonna see see a roll maybe there but unfortunately can't survive the help in hand dazzle um so match up coming in interesting uh we'll just go for the help in hand dazzle once again um unless we see wide guard which could be a problem uh I do suspect maybe wide guard here from the match up potentially so let's go help in our moonblast there it is we called it uh we'll get some nice damage there moonblast moonblast um and we'll go dazzle we'll go faint this time because we could have went for that last time it's just nice getting that big damage on to the opposing zernius obviously that's the the big thing here with the fastest zernius as well so the wide guard goes up again oh I don't know if it will and even if not the matchup could be sashed I guess it's the sort of pokemon you think would be sashed in this sort of format with salamence rickwaza and fairies and psychic types all floating around giving matchup a really hard time so we'll see what my opponent hopefully hurries up and we can get this first one underway there's a as uh we went for the wrong the wrong thing but never mind we get the match up anyway it was trying to go for something maybe suspecting that we would go for the moonblast again to the zernius but we can just wrap things up now with a nice faint and dazzle and you can see kind of how powerful this combination is it's something that I've loved all season and do really like a lot and it's probably something I will take to tournaments in the future I think it does need refining but um I think the combination between the twos is still very strong electro web nice nice nice we still had speed though and then we can just go for that faint dazzle again that's a bulky thunderous as well isn't it more of a support variant interesting interesting variant um but they should wrap it up now and there we go very good game to my opponent and we'll get straight into this next one I need to really get a nice background for my showdown I'm kind of stuck with the generic ones at the minute it'd be nice to get some some nice backgrounds if any of you guys know any nice backgrounds that I can use then just throw me a line drop me a comment below and well if you've got any that I can use that'll be even better so we've got uh duskman lunala um medichamp vocal rona it's going to be a bit of an issue especially if we are bringing um zernius going for that side of things uh I might got rea here there's no intimidate on my opponent's side of the field so i'll rea can be good with serena we can really show that off um we definitely need incinero I think and do we want zernius here or top of coco I feel like coco could be better really in this in this matchup so we're going to see ocarona and top of finny I will go mega evolve I'm not really worried about the vocal rona here we want to just get rid of this top of finny here we'll go for help in hand dragon ascent just to make sure that we get rid of the even the bulk the bulkiest of finnies although the finny could have protect you saw it was quite it was a bit of a trend in uh world it makes a lot of sense it gives you a bit of room to kind of maneuver around the field a bit more and preserve the support option there and finny but just having the ability to remove finny so easily is that's one of the the big appeals I think with the bind it really is super nice here uh we'll go for a finned dragon ascent into this vocal rona we could end up burning ourselves pretty sure finned is a contact move pretty sure so we could end up burning ourselves twice yeah uh or we could lose rea to um uh alternate cross matt oh we do survive though it's so weak so weak and we get rid of the bulk rona and rea not burned which is excellent and uh we're sitting in a nice position now we switch in the serena we go for the twinkle twackle twinkle tackle into the uh alternate cross matt and then the medicamp will probably mega evolve go for a fake out but it's not going to work um that's not even going to go for it we'll just get rid of this alternate cross matt and um yeah poor little medicamp going for the poison jab paves the way for rea to come back in and we can just feint dragon ascent and there we go very good game to my opponent I should do this every time shouldn't I but I'm I'm kind of just I'm really impatient when I play showdown I just want to get through games and test teams and things like that it's such a it's one of those things where like if I'm on battle spot it's a lot more relaxed but here I feel really fidgety and I just want to just constantly just click click click click away and I hope I'm not being too annoying with this commentary as well so we got um okay groudon donwings um support I like suikun you know suikun's a pokemon I don't think we see enough in this format suikun gastrodon uh salamence tap coco uh tap coco is decent here we've got to watch out for that gastrodon of course but tap coco is not bad um I'm gonna go coco I'm gonna go rea I'll do I do I go coco rea there we go serena rea might be nice just don't worry about the opposing type of coco that's the other thing um so indecisive let's see let's go coco for sure um it's going sineral actually just for the intimidating support it's quite nice then having fake out as well just to support us because my opponent's not really got any fake out there um zernius is gonna be good and I think we'll bring rea as well in the back uh okay so suikun is my opponent gonna go I'm gonna go very rarely see protect on suikun so I'm gonna go volt switch into that slot I'm just gonna go for a snore as well okay so it's a nice damage on preserve coco for later in the game we'll bring in zernius oh come on nice okay don't mind that miracle it feels um I don't really want to go for the geomancy here because this weekend's definitely got roll like 100 percent let's just click dazzle and let's go for another snore you could see a tail wind here I guess you know yeah so we could have went for the geo um but it's still still fine um I think we just go for it again the same again I'm not really worried about zernius in this matchup it's not really the like the key part to this matchup um I think rea is more important and is like alongside the rea obviously type of coco for us we're gonna see the z move um wow neutral gets us okay it's interesting uh obviously the tail wind's still up can bring in rea though now um we're probably gonna have to lose incinero but we can go for that waterfall into the groudon and we'll try a snore as well come on can we get the groudon this would be magical oh groudon why are you doing this to us we can get that snore into the sweetcoon and we're gonna see the groudon switch up for sure now so we'll switch into type of coco and we'll go for you turn into the groudon slot I think yeah um there's a tail wind to put her out now I can pivot back in with uh oh we're not gonna actually see that this is bad for us okay coco hanging on by the skin of its teeth um but I guess at the same time it's good that we did pivot out there so we're not locked in um you might want to switch into incinero with coco and go for a dragon ascent into gastrodon I don't know if a banded dragon ascent will get gastrodon to be honest yep it does okay that's excellent precipice yeah incin takes it like a boss actually I like the salt vest variant as well I think with the amount of um earth power pokemon that you've got kicking around at the minute it does make a bit more sense we'll go for a snore and a dragon ascent into the sweetcoon we can pretty much clean up from here I feel um dragon ascent should be enough to kind of clear everything out like the dawn wings will come in we'll be able to get this with the band as well um and we'll go for a snore dragon ascent we're gonna be like so weak though like like uh the groudon can still do some decent damage to us because of all the drops we've had hopefully Rick can just take it okay we're just gonna see where some splits that's fine and then coco coming in uh twinkle tackle dragon ascent it should be enough and um we can hopefully pick up another win here it still does decent damage that doesn't it like it really does uh it surprises me how much twinkle tackle does okay there we go good game to my opponent did it again it didn't say good game but never mind uh they know on their heart what I really meant um we've got Kyoga and Lunala up next so we've got right trick room tailwind what's our best option gonna be here um I'm kind of scared about the the stack attack more than anything here to be honest do you want to agree it's really important I need to try and be like coco is quite good here at preventing the tailwind at least it's the trick room element that I'm a little bit more wary about um we could go rare I guess we're probably gonna see Incineroa come out Serena's always kind of good in these matchups as well just where this fake out and it's not bad against Stacker and it does a decent job against Kyoga so there's there's that um and it's what we want to bring in the last place probably Zernius there's the stacks okay this is where earthquake would be good or I'm ready to be honest um because we could just vault switch out on the stack attack on water fallout although I don't think that's going to be enough to get it if I'm completely honest we could vault switch out on Lunala and crunch it but then it's so obvious that it probably protects but we'll try it like Lunala is going to be a bit more of a pain for us to deal with than the stack attack I feel or maybe not let's see there's a vault switch okay we're going to be able to get rid of the Lunala um we'll pivot in Serena this is where Incineroa would have really been probably better than Zernius in the back because there's a trick room in now Kyogra coming in um but I mean this is the nice thing about Serena and running a slow one we've got that nice power whip we can just launch onto that slot um do we keep raiding or do we just take raout uh let's bring cocoa in because the power whip should get the Kyogra should get pretty close to it unless we see okay we're gonna see Incineroa I mean that's fine um rock slide you know I can't fake us out but we can go for um we just need to get through these trick room turns and get some damage onto this stack attack to be honest uh I feel like we're not going to get an attack off with cocoa here so I might just protect a couple power whip as you see Fleblitz from what's going on you too okay yeah I think this one might be a bit too far gone for us now because we lose okay I mean we get raiding so it's not the end of the world um I'm not really worried about the Kyogra it's just I don't want to leave it unchecked that's the that's the only thing um I just want to get rid of the stack attack uh um is the Kyogra gonna uh the Kyogra yeah yeah I think gonna go for that and then bring Incineroa so thank you for the situation yeah okay well that works out better for us so we go for the stack attacker that's fine yeah as long as you don't flinch no flinch which is good but ah we're still so far away from actually really being able to get it um okay we'll bring in because Ray's gonna get faked out I would imagine I think fake out rock slide as well what you kind of go for probably um bringing cocoa will protect Ternius the problem is like the next turn if we still got cocoa around we're not really putting enough pressure on that stack it's like I mean we've got the rock slide but okay that's that's why actually because we can terrain going is not super helpful for us um I don't know if a thunderbolt and a moonblast will get stacker we've got to try though nah oh it does excellent okay we're back in this um with Ray in the back we should be all right I think we just need to get some damage on to the Kyogra so we'll just go thunderbolt and protect Ternius and imagine the Kyogre might protect you but then again when we get Ray onto the field we can just dazzle dragon ascent the Kyogre if it does protect this turn we should be able to win so um stack attack improving a little bit of an issue for this this build as you would imagine it would anyway um maybe we're thinking about possibly putting something like oh we get the paralysis as well what's about coming out we'll get the cocoa um and there's a U-turn but I guess they're now Ray's in a such a good position to just get rid of the Kyogre and we can just go dazzle um yeah might be worth putting like high jump kick on Serena just so we've got an option to hit the the stack attack outside of everything else the other option is obviously going for low kick on Ironson roll but I always feel like that's quite wiffy like you're never doing as much damage as you want to be doing on it um we'll just leave the incineroar and we'll get the dragon ascent so that's excellent I think what we'll do my friends I hope you've enjoyed today we'll be back we'll be back very soon um just showing the team off getting used to it today um we've had some good battles with it as I say the team is down in the description below we'll leave it here and uh we'll come back for another episode and see how far we can push this team it'd be nice to see how far we could get up the ladder see how high we can get up there with this team we'll make tweaks along the way and I think if we do we'll discuss them but uh thanks for tuning in have a great rest of your day and I'll see you for the next one so until then take care bye bye


Spooktober. Thank you, zombie Geo. Your contributions are greatly appreciated.  My name is Johanna Menendez, and today we're gonna be talking about After Live with Archie concluding my mini Spooktober. I kind of wanted to do something different because usually when October comes around or a famous holiday, I'd like to do just one or two videos doing like a best of. I think well last year I reviewed some Junji Ito, and then the year before I did like a top Halloween reads or something like that, but this time I wanted to do something different. So yeah, After Live with Archie, I have been wanting to do a freaking video on this thing since I first got this book in 2014.  And since 2014, Volume 2 just keeps getting put on hiatus and it continues to do so. I think it's currently scheduled for the end of 2019, Volume 2. I think out of 12 issues they've written or they've put out 11 total. So we need one more issue so they can put out a second trade of After Live with Archie. Now the title comes as a parody of Life with Archie, the long running comic strip comic book of Archie and the Riverdale Gang and all that stuff. I gotta admit, I know from back in the day I know who the characters are, but it's not something I thoroughly enjoy. It's not something I read. I don't really care much for the characters of Riverdale. I'm sorry, it's not something that appeals to me. It did appeal to my folks as that was one of the few comic books they read and other family members as well from back in the day. That is completely understandable and it's pretty awesome. Now for me, it does nothing for me. I don't really care. I don't really care about the ongoings in that town. But I'm not going to insult these characters because I actually like the concept and idea. After Live with Archie is the first in the horror Archie line, if you will, taking place in an alternate reality where zombies are invading Riverdale and they're eating up everybody they can find. Now the story begins with the character of Jughead. Unfortunately, Hot Dog, his puppy dog, gets into an accident, hit and run with a car and he is desperate. So he gets his dog and runs to the first place that he can think of which is the Spellman's House with the very famous witch, Sabrina, the teenage witch and is asking Sabrina to please help and do something about it to help Hot Dog because if you are an animal lover and if you have a pet, they mean the world to you and you want their safety. Unfortunately, they are a little bit too late. I'm not spoiling anything. This happens in the first four pages and they're unable to save Hot Dog. But Sabrina seeing the desperate look on Jughead goes against her aunt and does necromancy and brings Hot Dog to life with the help of Jughead. And this is a very taboo thing to do in witchcraft, society and whatnot.  And that is sort of how the contagion or the plague and stuff starts when Hot Dog bites Jughead in the arm and effectively becomes patient zero for the zombie virus and Jughead then proceeds to turn himself into a zombie and he goes on his path of fleshy destruction by eating everything inside. The book is pretty freaking fun, man. I love the idea of taking an established universe and creating an alternate take and alternate dimension, I should say. There's something really fun about seeing beloved characters in a completely different new and scary situation that they're not used to. There's an appeal to have there and the character of Archie, he's always so brave and determined and this stereotype boy lead of the era, now you're forcing him to literally fight for his right to survive and to save the people that he loves whether it be Betty or Veronica, his family, whatever. Saving the town of Riverdale from a force that he really has no control over. Practically in every zombie story there is no way to stop the waves of the dead, you either kill them but eventually more take their place it's not something that you can stop or if you do stop it, it takes a while and there are heavy casualties involved. And that happens in this book as well.  I should mention that Roberto Aguirre Sacasa writes the book and he does a good job now in my case since I haven't read a lot of modern interpretations of Archie and gang or I haven't read a lot of the old stuff but I can't really give you a definitive answer on the character takes but it shouldn't be too different because Roberto's a fan of Riverdale and you see it with the way he writes the characters and the way they express their love of each other and the town and it's a very wholesome community that suddenly thrust into this chaotic apocalyptic environment but I think I do have a suspicion that he does a great job of reimagining all these characters now this is greatly complimented and let's be honest the book wouldn't be as eye-catching if it weren't for Francisco's art it is moody, it is beautiful, it is terrifying and it really gives you the sense of dread, horror, gore and just all hell breaking loose from a simple panel of a building on fire or a moody cemetery or the auditorium where the high school kids are having a Halloween dance or whatever it's all so beautifully crafted and that to me is the biggest appeal of the story and I don't think it would have been as successful with another artist but Francisco's able to say a lot with his images especially whether it's a zombie walking across the panel or the face of fear on characters as they look upon what's happening and the horror of seeing a freaking jug head and all these other characters turning into zombies and eating people and causing mayhem left and right I am showing a couple images but literally it is stuff like this that when you read it it transports you into the universe and you feel what these characters are feeling, their expressions of dread like I've mentioned already it's pretty awesome, I think it is a stellar job that you will thoroughly enjoy my favorite panels by the way, I won't say who dies or any of that if you've never read this but I do want to show you my favorite panel of the whole comic book oh by the way this is a great example, look at those colors man, this is a thing of beauty Francisco does a wonderful job with this particular image right there a character that was dressed as Snow White gets eaten by a zombie and you see her hand drenched in blood letting go of that bitten apple a lot of symbolism and a lot of fantastic wicked energy that only a guy like Francavia can pull off and by the way this aspect I have two favorite scenes in this one involves a certain dog, I won't spoil it but I actually choked up and I felt really emotional reading it with the dialogue that was chosen if you've read it you know what I mean and actually this scene with the apple I won't spoil it but I just want to read this little caption dialogue that says those terrible 30 seconds right in front of us where somebody ate somebody and no one did anything but stare and we live in a society where we have to record anything and everything I should say and we live in the moment through a suspension of disbelief whether it be via media, via movies, music and all that stuff the culture gets so numb when it comes to gore and violence that if something like this were to happen in real life I believe it and it's pretty spooky because it speaks to the reality of teenagers living in today's society that I think not a lot of people are realizing that they've become so numb like I mentioned I don't know I thought it was pretty brilliant stuff in my opinion one of the things that might be a little bit heavy but Roberto does this along with the help of Francisco with his art is that he switches back and forth between something that happened previously with the character and then forward which I thought was pretty interesting I mean you do see that often with comic books and books and TV and all that stuff but in the context of a horror story it provides sort of a look back before the mayhem and after the apocalyptic event began and by the way the style that Francisco uses to draw zombies is spectacular they're grungy, they're disgusting, they're rotting and with the mood lighting and everything it's easily one of my favorite zombie drawings in a comic book in my opinion now the book ends in cliffhanger and like I mentioned it's gonna take ages to get another second volume it's been solicited like four times and it keeps getting pushed back and back and to the point where I really just I don't care anymore eventually it'll be released but you know if you want to read it as sort of a typical zombie story where the story ends on a cliffhanger it's perfectly acceptable and I think you'll enjoy it regardless anyways it's a fun reinterpretation of Riverdale in a horror setting with wonderful spectacular artwork that cannot be missed I hope you get a chance to read it because it is simply breathtaking in my honest opinion what did you guys think of afterlife with Archie? are you excited for the eventual release of volume 2? let me know down below and what's your favorite zombie story? I'd be interested in knowing as well guys thank you for liking commenting and subscribing to it we can keep them thank you so much it really means the world to me also if you can I don't want to ask too much of you but if you can you can follow me on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and we can keep the conversation going you know so yeah I have got to go I've got more stuff to read and play and watch for you guys so I will catch all of you on our next episode


Okay, so there are a lot of people I know who are afraid of LaTeX. And I don't know why. Actually, I do know why. It's because they've never had exposure to it. LaTeX is one of those things which unambiguously has made my life easier since day one. It's one of those things that really everyone should try, and I'm not quite sure why people are so initially turned off. Because it's not something that comes from them trying it and not liking it.  Everyone, there are just some people who are a little afraid of writing a document in a kind of markup language and then compiling it. That sounds smart. It looks smart. If you do LaTeX, you look smart. But it's not something that's inherently difficult, and it is something incredibly rewarding and has increased my productivity immensely. And it's just a lot of fun. It's just a lot of fun. So let me go ahead, you know, I want to make the case for LaTeX why you should stop using Word or whatever you're using and Switch. But let me go ahead and let me tell you my, you know, what's the Christian word for it. Let me tell you my testimony. Let me witness to you about how I found LaTeX and how it made my life easier. So I started using LaTeX only maybe two years ago, two, three years ago, when I was actually right finishing my master's degree. And here's the story. I started using LaTeX too late. I wrote a master's thesis. It was around 70 pages or so, and it was entirely in Word. And of course, if you're writing something that is 70 pages, you have a bunch of sections and subsections and you have references and you have stuff in the text referring to references and you have example numbers. You have all this kind of stuff that you have to organize. And you know, usually you have to organize it manually in Word. Some people have little programs that go into Word and do it for them, but you more or less have to do it manually. So here was my problem. Not only did I, while I was writing my thesis, I had to exert an enormous amount of effort just to keep track of all my references and numbers and cross-references and everything.  But my major professor was like, oh you know what, you should, you should add this here. You know, at the beginning when you're in the introduction, you should add a couple examples in here. Now that sounds something, it sounds like something a little trivial. You just make a little change. It's no big deal. But if you're using Word or something like that, that's an astronomical pain. Because what you have to do is you add in the, you know, new examples or new sections. Then you have to go through all of the references afterwards or all of the sections afterwards in the text where you refer to other examples. You have to change their example numbers. You have to increment them all. You have to change the section headings. You have to go through the whole document again making these little obscure changes. So I don't remember, actually I think the way I copped out of it is I somehow, I think I put it in like a footnote. So it wasn't numbered. So that was my way of getting around because I didn't want to exert the effort. But anyway, after I finished my masters, I actually decided, you know what, that was a pain. Maybe I'll just learn LaTeX. And I learned LaTeX in the space of about a week. And when I say a week, I don't mean like, oh, I was really, you know, it took a week for me to like get the basics and finally understand it. No, it was like a week for me to, what I did is reproduce my entire thesis in a week. And it wasn't just transferring the text. I made all the charts, all the charts, all the examples, all the little, you know, diagrams I had, I remade them entirely in LaTeX. So I learned lots and lots of packages. I basically, you know, I'm nearly as adept at it now as I was then. So that a week, all it took was a week and that was it. And so what are the advantages to LaTeX? Just in case you don't know. So what about my problem with sectioning? What about my problem with references? Well, let's start with references because people, you know, having a bibliography is sometimes a pain to people. Like it takes a lot of effort to organize things and keep things in play. Here's how it works. If any of you guys saw my video on when I show my Vim and LaTeX setup, you'll see that I have like one file where I keep all of my references. And of course, what LaTeX does is you can tell it to look at a certain bibliography file. And in that file, you just list references, you give them all a label, and you just list the author, the title, you know, all the relevant information. And what LaTeX does for you is you just tell it what kind of format you want. And when you refer to some, when you call the tag that refers to that reference, it automatically gives you the reference wherever in your text. It gives you the, you know, if you want APA or MLA, automatically does that. It automatically puts it in the very bottom. You don't have to do anything. You don't have to worry about any kind of, you know, any of the work whatsoever. I don't have to think about, oh, did I remember to put this in or whatever? As soon as I put a reference in my text, as soon as I say like, oh, Chomsky 2000 in my text, that automatically appears in the bottom. So that's something I never have to worry about. And I just keep one file where I have all my references that I use all in one place. And of course, they don't all appear. They only appear in a document when you actually call them. So that's references. That's something you never have to worry about. I'll never have to do, you know, reference a real bibliography again. It's just two lines of code in Lawtech. So the other thing, of course, is sectioning, right? If you have a document that's any amount of length, right, you're going to have to have different sections. Now in Lawtech, all you have to do is you bring up the tag that says section or subsection. And that's it. Lawtech numbers everything at the very end when you're actually compiling it. And of course, you can refer to sections by labeling them with different tags. Let's say I label, the tags are invisible. You label us like the introduction section with the intro tag. And whenever you refer to that, it brings up, whenever you refer to it in the text, it just brings up the number of the section. So you don't have to do any of that work for you, work at all. Or if you add another section in, everything will automatically readjust. Same thing with example numbers. That's something I use a lot in linguistics. It's actually a huge pain keeping track of that kind of stuff. And it's all done automatically. All the most difficult things you don't have to worry about whatsoever. And that's just the general stuff, specifically in linguistics. This might be less relevant for you. But it's no less true in your field. There are packages in Lawtech to do everything and to do everything elegantly. So in linguistics, for example, you might have example sentences in another language or something. And of course, what you do in linguistics is you have these things called three line glosses. You put the foreign language example with all the words and then divide all the morphemes. Then on the second line, you provide English translations of all the morphemes. And they have to be perfectly aligned. And then you have a translation on the third line in sort of idiomatic English.  Because there are people I know.  There are people I know who are still trying to do this in Word, tabbing everything to some exact length. And it's just a pain. Lawtech does it all automatically. There are packages that you don't even have to worry about. You just put the words in and it just works. It just works. So that's one thing. You can make syntax trees, diagrams are really easy.   You can have tableaus and for optimality theory, all these things that are very specific to linguistics. There are packages for it. And of course, this is no less true of math. Any kind of mathematical notation, summation notation, any kind of using Greek letters and all the stuff that might be a pain in Word. I mean, lawtech is made to make that stuff easy. And there's no other way to do it.   If you're one of those people who is like, oh, man, I would learn lawtech, I'm sure. It's just hard. And there's all the stuff. I want to be a grad student in math or whatever, but no, you got to learn it. You got to learn it. It's going to be, it's easy. It's easy. Your life is going to get so much easier once you do. So I mean, the thing about it, I guess, is people are just worried about lawtech. Like, oh, it's really, I mean, one of the complaints I hear is that Word is you can easily manipulate what you see. And lawtech, that's not necessarily the case. But the thing is, lawtech, if anything, is a lot more open-ended. There are packages for everything. There are packages like ticks, which is a general sort of, I don't even know how to describe ticks.  Every single package, there's just so much going on. I mean, there's, you can do anything with these things. I mean, if anything, you have a problem of there being too much, like you can never fully know every single package. You just gradually get to the point where you're like, I know everything I need to know about the stuff I do. So one of the other big advantages to lawtech is that if you're in a technical field or if you're in academia or something, something you're going to be doing pretty often is taking a document and putting it into something else. Let's say you have like a thesis.  I don't want to use them for like a qualifying paper or my dissertation or like something that I actually publish. Now in Word, that's a pain because you've got to copy and paste things. Then you have to go back and change all the formatting, blah, blah, blah. But in lawtech, everything, since it's all code, it's all just content which recompiles to whatever document. There's no problem whatsoever. You can literally just copy and paste code. You can copy and paste sections. You can copy and paste examples. And once you recompile it in the new document, bam, now you have all the right numbers. You don't have to worry about it. Same thing with references, same thing with everything. So this is why lawtech is used universally for making like sort of putting journals together. Taking people who have different articles and putting them all together where it doesn't actually matter what formatting they use on their machines. In lawtech, it's all sort of universalized. It's all, it just works. So anyway, the general idea is this, well, people are afraid of lawtech. They're afraid that maybe it can't do what I want to or maybe. I mean, when it comes down to it, I don't even have word on my machine anymore. There's no reason to use word once you have lawtech and you can use it pretty even rudimentarily. I mean, within a couple of days, I knew how to use it. I knew how to do basically everything I can do in word. And it's just an issue of jumping into it. If you don't know where to start, there's, what is it? They're sharelawtech and that's a good site, sharelawtech, I think, dot com. And they have, you can start compiling documents. It's like a Google Docs for lawtech documents. And you can start practicing there. They even have tutorial videos. But of course, I'll probably put some up going over lawtech stuff just because it's so, I mean, it's easy. It really is the kind of thing you can just jump into. So yeah, just do it. I mean, don't be afraid of it. And oh, and there's another thing. There's this idea that, oh, well, you have to be some stodgy academic or you have to do these technical things to use it. Otherwise, it's just useless. Listen, because it's so flexible, because you can copy and paste code and do all this stuff and create unambiguous, really refined documents. If you're writing anything over a couple pages, even if you're writing a term paper for a class, having your references done automatically, having your sections and the times when you refer to sections done automatically is immediately worth it. I mean, and I'm just saying, do it. Just do it. That's the only thing that I can say. Don't hold back. Don't be afraid of it. Just jump into it. Anyway, that's all I wanted to say. So that's it.