What is the anointing of the Holy Spirit and what does it do in our lives? Let's take a look at the Word of God for answers. The word anoint means to smear or to rub. Now in the Old Testament there was something called the anointing ceremony and in this ceremony a prophet of God would pour oil over the head of an individual or in other cases they would smear oil or rub oil onto certain items. Now this pouring of the oil represented the Holy Spirit of God coming upon someone for a specific purpose. For example, when David was anointed to be king, this is how it looked, 1 Samuel 1613. So as David stood there among his brothers, Samuel took the flask of olive oil he had brought and anointed David with oil. And the Spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon David from that day on. Then Samuel returned to Rama. So again this is an example of the anointing ceremony. In this specific instance David was being marked by God as the next king of Israel. So when the prophet poured the oil on David, God was smearing his nature, rubbing his nature onto David so that he could be set apart to fulfill a purpose. So that he could have divine backing, divine authority, sanctification being set apart. The prophet marked David as the next king. And in doing so the power of the Holy Spirit was released, not because there was power necessarily in the oil, but there was power in that symbolic act, in that as David was being marked with oil, he was also being marked with the Holy Spirit. And this again is a mark of sanctification. When God anoints someone or when someone in the Old Testament underwent the anointing ceremony, it was a sign to everyone that this person is marked. This person is set apart. This person has been purposed for a specific task that God has given to them. And not only that, they are being given the divine authority to carry out that task. So as we just saw in the Old Testament, kings were anointed. You can look at 1 Samuel 16 verses 1 and 13. Prophets were anointed. Just see 1 Kings 19 16. Priests were anointed. Take a look at Exodus 28 verse 41. Special holy items in places such as altars were anointed. You can see an example of this in Exodus chapter 29 verse 36. So in the Old Testament, whenever God wanted to set apart an individual or an item as being holy or purposed for something divine, that person or item would be anointed or have oil poured on them or rubbed on them. And this was a symbol that God was marking them or smearing his nature on them. Now let's take a look at how this looks in the New Testament. In the New Testament, we actually still use oil. Take a look at Mark chapter 6 verse 13. And they cast out many demons and healed many sick people, anointing them with olive oil. James 5 15 says, You will be forgiven. So we see that in the New Testament, nowadays we still use oil. We use oil when praying over someone and commissioning them into ministry. We use oil when praying over the sick. We can use oil when praying for people to be delivered from demonic power. So the oil still works. But why does it work? It's not because there's power in the oil itself. It's because there's power in the act of obedience or the act of faith in using oil. Now you don't have to use oil to pray for the sick. You don't have to use oil to cast out devils. You don't have to use oil for anything. But when you do use it and there's faith involved, God will back that. Why? Because the oil represents something. The oil is symbolic for something or rather someone. Acts chapter 10 verse 38. And you know that God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. Then Jesus went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil for God was with him. So you notice here that the scripture says that Jesus was anointed not with oil but with the Holy Spirit. So God anointed Jesus with Holy Spirit power. And you and I are anointed in the same way. So that Old Testament ceremony that smearing of the oil is symbolic for God marking his people with the Holy Spirit. And just as an anointing ceremony would set someone apart. So the Holy Spirit sets us apart. When God pours out his Holy Spirit on his people. He's setting them apart for a purpose. He's backing them with divine authority. He's marking them and saying this one is mine. Set aside for a special purpose. When we're marked with the Holy Spirit, we're set aside as holy. We are sanctified. We are put into places of authority and power when God pours out his Holy Spirit upon us. So the Old Testament shadow namely the oil represents the New Testament substance who is the Holy Spirit. Now it's not charisma or good preaching or an exciting personality. That's not what the anointing is. The anointing quite simply is the power of the Holy Spirit. The anointing is the power of God in our lives used to do mighty work. So what does the anointing do? Before I answer that, let me make this clear. There's only one anointing. Now that anointing can affect your life in many different ways. That's the power of God. So when I say anointing, just know I mean the power of God. And the power of God can affect your life in many ways. The power of God can work in you. The power of God can come upon you. The power of God can flow through you. It can work around you. The power of God has many different things that it accomplishes. So there's this idea that some believers have that they have to collect all these different anointings to become the super Christian.  Oh, I want the Esther anointing or I want a Joseph anointing. Oh, I want a Moses anointing. No, no, that's not how it works. There's only one anointing that's the power of God. Just as all vehicles these days are powered by similar sources namely gasoline. So all gifts, all ministries, all expressions of spirituality are empowered by the power of the Holy Spirit. It may be the same source of power. It may be the same fuel, so to speak, but that fuel empowers different expressions. So you don't have to go and do something special to get a prophetic anointing. You don't have to go and do something special to get the healing anointing or say a special prayer to get the deliverance anointing. Quite simply, if you want the power of the Holy Spirit to work in your life, you simply have to walk in obedience to the Word of God.  So there's no secret to getting this anointing or a secret to getting that anointing or a special prayer for this type of expression of power. It's simply the power of the Holy Ghost working in you and as you obey God, love Jesus, and obey the Word, that power begins to express many different things in your life. And so when we use terms like the deliverance anointing or the healing anointing, it's not necessarily wrong to use that terminology, but what we actually mean is that the power of the Holy Spirit, which is the same in all of us, is working in a different way for that moment so people can say, oh, the healing anointing was so strong and what they mean by that when they say that is that people were getting healed and that's how the anointing was operating in that moment or they say something like, oh, that worship team was so anointed. Oh, the preaching was so anointed and what they're really saying is the power of God was very evident in what they were doing. Luke chapter 4 verses 17 through 19 say this, the scroll of Isaiah the prophet was handed to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where this was written. The spirit of the Lord is upon me for he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released, that the blind will see, that the oppressed will be set free and that the time of the Lord's favor has come. So we see just from that portion of scripture alone that the power of God or the anointing is to empower our preaching. The power of God or the anointing brings deliverance. It brings healing. It brings freedom. It brings blessing and favor. The anointing is what makes the difference. You see, when we do things without the help of the Holy Spirit, when we do things in our own strength, by our own power, or we rely on our charisma or our giftings or our personality or something that we know, then we're not relying on the power of the Holy Spirit. But when you rely upon the power of the Holy Spirit, there's actual ability to make a difference. Only the anointing can break spiritual bondages. Only the anointing can bring forth miracles. Only the anointing can make our preaching and teaching effective to where it brings transformation in the soul, in the mind, in the body, and in the lives of those who listen to the preaching. The anointing makes the difference. So what is the anointing? The anointing is the power of the Holy Spirit. And the anointing brings healing, deliverance, power for preaching, freedom to the captives. It brings blessing and favor. The anointing makes the difference. The anointing strengthens ministry. The anointing makes your life more effective for you, son, to the glory of God. The anointing can be at work in you. All you have to do. Is surrender to the Holy Spirit. There's no gimmick. There's no secret. There's no information that only some spiritual elite group knows.  Just obey and trust the Holy Spirit. And that power will begin to flow. And I'm going to pray that it flows right now. Father, we thank you that you've anointed those who know you. And I pray today, Lord, that you would pour out your spirit upon all of us in a fresh way. Let that anointing begin to work in our lives. Father, bring healing. Bring deliverance. Bring peace of mind. Bring refreshing. As only you can. Break every bondage in the name of Jesus. And Lord, we also pray that you would cause us to be vessels of your power. Use our lives for your glory. And cause us to demonstrate your power in love to those who need it. And I'm praying that a fresh anointing comes on you. Father, pour out your spirit in a fresh way upon each and every one watching in the name of Jesus. I want you to say it because you believe it. Say amen. Here now is a question for conversation. How have you seen the anointing work for you and through you? Tell me about it in the comment section right now. If you haven't already, make sure to subscribe to Encounter TV on YouTube and click that notification bell so you can receive notices when we put out new videos. 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Hello, welcome to the Paul Cantamene show presented by Buffalo Wildlings I'm Greg Royce showing by Stevenson head men's lacrosse coach Paul Cantamene Coach, I wrapped up the regular season last week before it's up to finish eight no one conference again And just seems your guys are playing pretty well down the stretch here. Yeah, I think we're doing a good job overall I think all of our guys are doing Get picking up their games by a little bit 10 15% a freshman are really coming along knowing their roles And so I think it's going pretty well especially with the better play from our defense think Dom and Dylan Harris are playing exceptionally well And Mark Pouse's better goal play is really helping us. So I think we're getting better in all areas So we're happy where we are, but we still got the conference tournament coming up Yeah, and you said you mentioned those two guys Dom and Dylan like I said They both for the last half of the season really picked their game up and really been strong defensively Yeah, I think if you have all three even Joey, you know those guys We lost those guys all last year to do season ended injuries And they're not going to take a year off from playing and come back in January be the same players I think now playing for a couple months or getting back to how they were where they were the left off before the injuries And it's really starting to show especially in Dom and Dylan They're really starting to play well and moving a lot better and doing some really good things out there Yeah, another guy who was kind of sick in the middle of the season was Jacob Tatum And he's really come on strong last four or five. Yeah, Jacob He's done a great job You know all of our attack and played well especially Ethan and JT But Jacob's come along a long way in the last few games scoring about 16 or 17 goals in the last three or four games And doing a really good job moving Distributing moving the ball and so he's been really helping us on the offense events Especially taking the pressure off all those freshman midfielders. Yeah, absolutely Now switch gears. We have the conference term this week. You have Weiner coming up Wednesday night I'm always kind of a physical battle of them tough battle and yeah, it's like how you see that game though Well, you know, they're always a tough go We got in the better part the first game You know eight goals in the first quarter when we played in the last times we got out on them They had to kind of play catch up, you know, but you know, that's gonna be a little tougher this time around You know, they got a good face off guy The goal is playing much better, but we got to get on them and make all the little plays You know, we got to ride them really well, you know, we can't turn the ball over We got to shoot the ball well early and get on them And I think we can get out on them, but they're gonna be a tough matchup They always are when you play in the conference play Yeah, but we got in the better of them lately But you know, we got to play one of our better games on Wednesday in order to get by them Yeah, then obviously Wednesday if you get through Wednesday, obviously you place, you know, the conference championship Saturday And, you know, knowing that you need that a cue to, you know, make the NCAAs once again, you know That's what the situation last couple years, but obviously, you know, it's something your team's used to Yeah, we're used to this pressure we've been here before a lot of our guys have played in a lot of big games That's why we play all those big games in the course of the year So we can understand how to play in these games when it comes down to the mattering the most And I think we'll be all right, you know We'll probably be a little bit nervous early as we always are, but we'll get better as the game goes on All right, coach, we wish you the best of luck and now, you know, we'll see here at least once Hopefully twice a home this week Hopefully, right, yep And we'll chat again, you know, in a couple of weeks Thanks, Greg All right, for Paul Cantabene, I'm Greg Royce This has been the Paul Cantabene Show


You'll float! Oh my! Hey guys, today I'm going to be doing a tour of my crib. I actually know we're at Castle Olma today for Legends of Horror. I have no idea what to expect. I've never been here before, so this is going to be super exciting and I can't wait to go in. Okay, we went to the wrong place. Apparently, don't go in the front entrance. Apparently, you have to walk down this long hill and go in the back.  Now we're walking back down the hill. There was no signs. Yeah, exercise is good, but there was no signs directing us where to go. So I'm a little lost actually right now and I'm following just a large group of people who I think are lost or have no idea where they're going. So this is going to be exciting already. Not a single sign I've seen for this event. Just a bunch of flag pulls with advertisements. So I see a giant line. I'm going to go line up and I'll tune in later. Oh, there's ghosts floating in there. That's cool. We have ghosts in the mist. This is actually decent. This area is extremely brightening and guests should enter with caution. That's actually sick. They have it going all the way up and they have like a spooky, like this is an original classic car. Roll those thumb when it says do not enter, you enter. I can't tell if any of these are like people. Oh, this is, this is a note. There's a Pennywise mask right there. Oh, what is this? Oh, this is heavier than you think. Oh, it's Pennywise again. Oh my Lord. I know. I was not expecting that. That actually freaks you out. Okay. Oh, what the heck? Okay. This is... I don't know. It's like, it's weird because majority of this isn't live actors. But every like 10 minutes there's a live actor. And it's so far even in between you don't expect it when it happens. Oh, no. I'm so confused. Give it like a minute because the sensors are like... Wait, which way do we go? Oh, no. Let's go. We're, we're struggling here. We're struggling. We're like far behind our group. So this is a little freaky-deaky. Yeah. We're like, there's nobody around us. Like, oh Jesus Christ. That was, oh my Lord. That's not, no. I thought it was a break between like mazes or something, but I take it as there's secret garden. Turn left. It looks like there's something down here. Oh, okay. I'm not going that way. He can, he can mind his own business. I'm not going that way. Okay. This is actually freaky-deaky. I was not expecting this to be scary. This is waste. Like, yeah, we left. I don't know where our group went. I don't know like what's going on. Jeavers. So, pardon my language. There's like, it's really foggy here too, which I like they're cranking it with. I don't know where people are going to be because they could come out of like the forest or something. There's like these animatrons. Oh, what? The dog eats you. We're literally in between groups. So we might want to, we might get forced to catch up. So I don't know how this is going to go.  Oh, okay. It's following me. I don't, I don't like this. It's like a scary thing for Harry Potter. So it has a bunch of like bodies next to it. It's like Chris, yeah. It's in the middle of a pond. That's actually cool. I like that. This way. There's supposed to gaze and then go this way. But I like, like, compared to like Wonderland, I like how all the staff members here are wearing like masks or something.   Oh, what the heck? There's like a tour piece thing or something up there. See, this is what happened last time. It's like, oh, it's a clear way before the next act. And then something, oh my God, goodness. She just like hung herself. What the heck? Oh, okay. There's two of them. Jump at people. That's crazy. Condemned. Condemned zombie area. That's why. Oh, this is creepy. A little bit. There's like a fence here holding back walkers from the walking dead.   No, that's not right. Don't do it. Don't go close to it. They're going to bite you. I don't want to have to like, I don't have to deal with a zombie friend. Oh, there's like skeletons hanging up here and stuff. Oh, no, no. It's, it's there. He's going to get you. You're going a little close. He's going to get you. It's like a T-Rex. It's following us. Oh, no. It's still, it's still following us. No, he's gone. Well, it's, that's cool. They have projections up on the screen. Trees. No, no. They're, they're following me again. They love you. They love me. That's so cool though. The trees. What if it was meant to be truly consented? It's following us. It wants us to go. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Oh, nope. It's still coming. Well, I shouldn't have egged it. You wanted to make a friend. Oh, let us do another one. This is, they're trapping us. I'm sorry. This one was chasing us. I've got your nose. It's got your nose. How do you feel now, huh? Oh, I feel bad. Oh, that comes actually quite far out. Let's go. Oh, it's Pennywise in the hall of mirrors. Oh, it's the hall of mirrors. Oh, no. It's actually, oh, no. This one is like losing its head and has many ears. Oh, no. Okay. It's your neighbor. It's your neighbor. I can't tell if this one's. I can't tell if this one's real or fake. Pennywise in here. I can't tell if it's going to come behind me or in front of me. This is actually freaking me out. Oh, this, this, this one. This one's following me in this. Wait, which way do I go? Did I reach a dead end? I can't tell. This way? Oh, I hope you're not claustrophobic. This is blackout. Oh, no. Welcome to blackout at Wonderland, the tunnel. This one's just a lot, a lot more pressure. Oh, something else. Oh, my God. I've never been so scared in my life from something like this. There's no Pennywise. That freaked me up. The last room? Freak, freak. Oh, it's, okay. This is no. It's giving you a hug. That is so, I thought that was it. I thought that was an amateur. I have never been hugged. Every time. It's, it's following you by the way. I know it. You don't have to say it. It's still there. It says you have something on your nose. It wants you. There is a man playing with fire.  That cannot possibly be healthy. I got an idle warning here saying don't play with fire. Meanwhile, it's like ghosts and stuff. We are now entering the castle. Come seeking me treasure, eh? All stay away from me, Belty. You hear that? There's treasure. We're getting this treasure. We are actually in the castle. Welcome to the second half. Oh, they have black light. Oh, these are graves. There's graves on either side of us. Oh, it's hanging from the ceiling. Very foggy in here. I cannot see. I can barely see in front of me. That was freaky-deaky, man. Gotta check your corners. What is this? Another Pennywise. Fair case. Sounds intense. I did not see that coming.


How's everybody doing this morning? Everybody got their coffee infusion? I had a high-protein breakfast this morning of eggs and cheese. My lovely wife Michelle made, so I want to thank her for that. The efficient exercise prescription. We heard Rob Wolf talk yesterday about the initiative in Reno that he was pulling off with specialty health, which is very, very exciting. At efficient exercise, this is our passion. We know the train wreck that's fixing to happen with American healthcare. We know that we can see that. We know that it's coming. All of us in this room have a part to play in correcting that, and together with specialty health at efficient exercise we plan to do a similar intervention in Austin. Just today I was emailing, excuse me, with a colleague, and I think we have found a pilot group in Austin, a group of police officers that we can roll this out on. We're very excited about that. I don't have all the details on that just yet, but that's where we're going with this. A little bit about myself. I'm the efficient exercise area regional manager. We have three studios in the Austin area. We're looking to branch into Los Angeles here in the next year. After that, we'll probably branch out onto the east coast. I'm one of the founding members of PaleoFX. If any of you people were at the PaleoFX conference, that was the doing of me and my lovely wife and another partner. Along with Michelle, I'm part of ancestralmomentum.com. My piece of that is theory to practice. That's my love. I love to geek out on the theory of this. That's why I love this conference, because talks like Matelons yesterday is right up my alley, but I have to be able to synthesize this and take it into the trenches. That's what I do, and that's where I operate on a daily basis. I have to operate with people who have very little knowledge of the whole Paleo idea, but generally they come to me either because they were referred to by a Paleo-leaning doctor in the Austin area, or they've just seen what I've done with a friend of theirs or a relative, and they'll come in and I don't know anything about this Paleo thing that you're doing, but do that to me. I get a lot of that. I do. I get a lot of that, so I have to be able to synthesize all of this knowledge, all of this great knowledge, and I have to put it in palatable pieces for these people to take home, because we see them at most an hour, two hours a week, but the rest of the time they're on their own, and they have to make decisions on their own, so I have to give them tools that they can take out and use in the real world, which is a challenge if you've ever had to work with these people, because you have to work against pre-conditioned or social conditioning that they've grown up with for 40, 50 years, and you have to break that, and that's tough. It's challenging, it's fun, but it's tough. So again, what are we facing? Rob talked about this yesterday, and I'll just go over some of the numbers. By 2030, more than one-third of the entire federal budget will be spent on Medicare and Medicaid alone, one-third of the entire budget. It's not sustainable by any measure. Rob talked yesterday about 300 percent of CDP by the year 2030. Obviously, that's not sustainable. That cannot go on, it will bankrupt the country if we don't write the ship in a hurry. But we can argue the numbers and how these numbers are calculated and what goes into bringing these numbers about, but the thing is, have you been to a state fair this summer? You don't have to look at the numbers, really, just look around. Just look around at what we're facing. And it's not just obesity and the problems associated with obesity that we're facing. We're also facing a nation of youngsters that are growing up and they're being prescribed drugs from a young, very, very young age. Michelle and I were just around a child, actually a nephew of ours whose daily diet consisted of ramen noodles, Dr. Pepper, and Adderall. And then at that point had to be prescribed melatonin to sleep at night. Obviously, if any of you have any experience with Adderall, there's no appetite. So not only are we facing obesity, but we're facing that side of the problem as well. And believe me, I come from the pharmaceutical industry, so I feel free to speak about that side. And I can tell you, as I rose up through the ranks of the pharmaceutical industry, you can really tell where the R&D money is going. And it's not going to the new and improved antibiotic that needs to come down the line. It's not. It's going to the new Viagra. It's going to insulin delivery systems. That was a big thing when I left the pharmaceutical industry with insulin delivery systems. And I can tell you that the upper echelon and pharmaceutical companies are giddy about that because they see the numbers just like we do. An efficient exercise is we have people funneled into us, either by paleo-leaning physicians or by a type of screening like Rob Wolf was talking about. Either way, when we get those people in right now, right now these people are generally pretty hip to the idea of coming into an exercise facility and changing their health. Once we start getting into a phase that Rob is talking about and I think Rob said when you're talking about firefighters and police officers at least, when these people get funneled into us, that's their job to be able to do that, to perform this way. And so now you're dealing with a whole other demographic that may actually be, they might be apprehensive. They might be even a little hostile that they have to do this. So one of our jobs, and I've talked to Roger Dickerman about this, he runs Relentless Fitness in the Philadelphia area, which is, they do the same thing, they work with the same demographic that we do in Austin. Our job, a lot of the time, is it to be the shrink, right? It's not all about just training. We have to be able to bring these people in, keep them on board, keep them engaged, and that's all part of the training because we can hammer these people with the exercise and the diet part of it if we know what's right and what's needed. But if we don't get buy-in from the client, it's all for not. So we have to, again, we have to put this in a palatable piece that we can take and we have to take an N equals one approach. The person coming in the door, each person is a different entity. Some people can take the 100%, this is the way you do it. I got it and I'll run with it. Other people, you can't do that with. You have to take them through baby steps. But our equation is the same. Once we get them in the door, obviously we're going to put them on a nutrient-dense diet. I usually don't even mention Paleo, because I don't even want to get into the whole Paleo versus Primal versus Atkins. You just don't have time with these people to get there. After a while, you can kind of, and you talk to them, and if they want to, you can kind of delve into the differences here, but initially we're talking sugar-free, grain-free, nutrient-dense diet. That's what we roll with. Once we get them on board, we can actually start getting into the nuances of this diet. But just those changes alone, if we can just get them to drop sugar, of all things, just sugar. Just reduce sugar. Reduce the process carbohydrate intake. We can do wonders with these people. I've got a case study. I'll show you a real-life case study into where this intervention actually worked. We put them on a smartly-programmed exercise program. That smartly-programmed exercise program for us has to be tailored around that person's lifestyle. Our demographic, an efficient exercise, if I had to pick one person to pin a demographic to, that would be the lawyer. Time is money. They come in. They want a good workout. They want to know that I am taking care of their fitness and they want to be out so they can make money elsewhere. So our whole programming has to be built around their lifestyle. Otherwise, once again, we lose them. We can't keep them on board. So although a perfect training scenario might incorporate a little bit more time, a little bit more intervention, but I can't let the perfect get in the way of the good in this situation. I have to be able to tailor workouts that keep them on board and don't occupy a whole lot of their time. Otherwise, they leave. And none of us works out. Generally, within those two interventions, the diet change, the exercise change, generally that will take care of just about any problem they have.  I'll show you some DEXA scans here and just a minute about some of the things we look at in that area. Very rarely will we have to refer somebody out for maybe hormone optimization. I have had some people that come in that are pretty broken. And even after 12 weeks of being on the program, you can tell as an experienced trainer, you can tell if somebody's hormones are optimized or not. You can tell. You can tell the body fat decreases, muscle mass being put on. If need be, we refer people out. Hormone optimization, we can get them squared away. And a lot of times, too, it's a lifestyle change. If we can get them fit, we can get them eating right, we can get them sleeping right, which is huge, we can fix almost anything. And then we have the backstop of having some paleo MDs in Austin that we can send them to. Real quick, this is a whole other topic in and of itself, health versus performance. There is a profound, profound difference in training an athlete and training someone who wants to be healthy. Profound difference. So I cannot have people come to me, and my love is training athletes. I would love to train athletes, but that's not my job here. My job is to fix people in a fixed American health care system. That's what I've taken on. I tell people, if you are training for health and you're training more than a couple hours a week, you're doing it wrong. It doesn't take that long to train correctly and be healthy. On the other hand, if you're an aspiring D1 athlete and you've only got a couple hours a week to devote to that, you better pick another route to the big time, because you're not going to get there doing it a couple hours a week. There is a profound difference between these two. Leveraging modern technology to achieve ancestral wellness. An efficient exercise, we will use everything from body weight exercises to what you see right there, which is an ARX machine, adaptive resistance exercise, to create a workout and a half hour time span. Again, we're having to work with a demographic that doesn't want to spend a whole lot of time in the gym. We craft an exercise program using what I call high-intensity intermittent resistance exercise, which is a lot like the classical hit or the high-intensity interval training that you've heard of, more of the Tabata-style training using sprints. I've kind of twisted that around a little bit. I've manipulated it so that I can use resistance exercise, and I can get a lot of work done in a half hour, which is very appealing to this very demographic that's going to be funneled to us through specialty health in this screening process. A little bit more about high-intensity resistance training, a burst of exercise, typically 20 to 90 seconds, and then we're going to back off rest for a bit. Heart rate comes down a little bit, and we hit it again. Now, there's a lot more to it than this, but just to give you an idea of what we're using on the resistance side. We're using a push-pull method. We're using a push-pull method for resistance exercise here, and there's a lot of different other variables that I can throw in to compress the training into a half hour period. Bloodwork versus DEXA scan. For my purposes, bloodwork only gets people in the door. Bloodwork is a means to show somebody something's wrong internally. You need to get in and see somebody. I'll have a specialty health deal. Once I get a person in the door, I'm really not worried about bloodwork to go pretty far down the road, because really during the initial 12 weeks of bringing somebody in, it's going to whack out their bloodwork anyway. You're not getting a good picture. What you will get a good picture of is using the DEXA scan. See that little ghostly image there?  If you get bloodwork done on a client, they see numbers, and those numbers are kind of hard to relate to them, but they see something about that ghostly image there. They're like, wow, that's me. And they'll keep going back to that image and keep going back to that image. And that really draws them in. Here's a client I was telling you. This is a typical client. This is someone who would be sent to us from specialty health. This guy was a former collegiate soccer player. He's only 33 years old, so he's roughly 11 years out of being a highly, highly competitive collegiate soccer player. He came to me at a time. He's broken right now. Metabolically, he was having a hard time. When he first initially came into the gym, the studio, he could not do one pull-up, one push-up. If you look at his DEXA scan, 37.9% body fat. He was horrified when he got that back. Horrified. So now it's when the psychology kicks in, right? Everything's going to be OK. We're going to get you on the saddle. We're going to get you going. Everything's going to be fine. DEXA scan is great, too, because it will also break things down into regions.  Well, yeah, I can figure that. He's got some cortisol issues going on as well. I mean, all of these things that the experienced trainer can see are verified by the DEXA scan. But it's good, because now I actually have a piece of paper to show that client to say, to let him know where we're going. So this is after six weeks. After six weeks, and I'm going to fly by this to get to that, six weeks innervation, OK? During this time, he lost, let me get to this, he lost about five pounds of fat put on roughly six pounds of muscle during that time. But here's the thing, the scale is starting to wig him out. His clothes are fitting, tighten the shoulders, loosen the weight.  And in his mind, he has a certain weight he wants to get down to. We keep having these conversations. It's not about weight, it's about body mass, it's about fat loss. How you look, how do you feel, how do you perform? Well, I'm cinching up my belt. Every day I get up, I've got to cinch my belt another notch. Look at my clothes, look at this, look at that. I've got room in the waist, but he's still. And this is what we have to fight against as trainers, as people are still looking at the scale, they're still fat phobic. What happens from this time on is he starts doing extra cardio on the off days.  We had his diet squared away, but that's not good enough.   He's losing weight, absolutely he's losing weight. He's losing body, even he's losing muscle mass. So during the next six weeks, yes, he dropped nine pounds of scale weight, but only 2.2 pounds of that was fat, backed up by the next DEXA scan that he got. He ended up with less muscle mass than when he initially came into me. And this is even with a very, very good training protocol. This is what happened when you go off the skids. This is what happens when you look at the scale and the scale alone. Now he's got a smaller metabolic engine, he's got less muscle mass than what he started with. He looked like hell when he was coming in to work out. He kept bonking during the workouts. I'm like, come on man, let's go. We gotta pick, you gotta start eating again. You gotta get your, you gotta get everything back on track, but he's still looking at the scale. This is the stuff we have to fight against. Initially when he went back and he got his other DEXA scan, then I had something to show to him and say, look, this is what I'm talking about. This is what's happening to you. Now I have a tool to show him. Now he believes me. Now he's like, oh, God, yeah, I can see what happened. And I related to him, and I don't know if you guys remember, back in 95 or so when Oprah went through her big weight loss thing and she towed it out, whatever it was, 50 pounds of fat in a wheelbarrow. If she had had a DEXA scan, she would have to have two wheelbarrow because one of them would have been full of 30 pounds of muscle mass. It's very true. If you don't have this DEXA scan, it is very hard to battle that scale thing with people. And it's the same thing with battling the fat phobia. They fall back to their training. I have a quote at the bottom of all my emails. We fall back to our level of training. We don't bring ourselves up to our level of expectation. And so this is one thing we have to battle, is this constant cultural conditioning. And we can do it, but it's one client at a time and it's got to be a cultural change. And it can be done, but it's just very, very difficult. But we're up for the challenge. And we love the challenge. And we're going to stay here and fight. And Michelle and I talk a lot of times, hey, we could just, we know what the deal is. We know how to be healthy. We know how to do it. We can just pack it up, go to the coconut farm and be done. But that's not helping anybody else.  Thanks.


want to ship your 1000 here and monkey 1000 it's gonna be a quick video so really no interest stuff but we got this sucker or some people call them lollipops whatever we always grew up calling them suckers this came when Brian and Moira sent the walk this was with it mm-hmm there's nothing about what flavor it is it could be nothing but the fun part is finding out right so we're gonna find out so what I'm gonna do is break it we're each going to try a little piece so find out what it is yeah let's find out what it is because it's been bothered me there we go you jump I'll have to roll this back did she jump we ain't forever on her to do this she keeps saying we'll do it tomorrow we'll do it tomorrow I keep forgetting she's got a shower so we're doing it tonight I'll give you the bigger piece I can't smell you know what it smells like to me what remember the sponges that you eat that the sponge thing candies that had the holes in it no oh man that's what it smells like anybody knows I got a slight scent of it mm-hmm yeah that's what it smells like to me ding ding ding ding what is it I don't know remember the name of it it looked like a sponge but it was hard and then you put it in your mouth and it kind of melted away it's all right I love Mr. Stuff like when I eat that can of dog food mm-hmm okay very good I like it a little weird I thought maybe it'd be like a coffee no flavoring mm-hmm I like it and I don't care for coffee mm-hmm I like it mm-hmm it does taste like coffee mm-hmm toffee that's it it was like this it had the holes in it and you break it off that's how I don't care for it because it tastes like coffee mm-hmm it's good I mean I gotta say if coffee like tasted like this 100% I'd probably drink up but very good I'm surprised if you like coffee you would like this mm-hmm but unfortunately I can't tell you where to get it I can't put a link came with our package yeah so which is cool because I love Mr. Stuff man stuff I don't know what it is yeah like I said that one time if you like coffee it would be good mm-hmm but if but anyway I you know bought some canned food stuff didn't know what was in it wasn't more or anything so I tried them I pretty much since I opened it and smelled it I I pretty much knew it was probably dog food but for the video the point was to taste the stuff yeah was unlabeled which we need to go back there again in school please but yeah as a whole point of video I was pretty sure that about 99.9% sure that it was dog food but you know it did kind of look like just a hash corned beef hash in a way that's hoping that's what it was but anyway I had to taste it I mean you know I couldn't go okay I'm not gonna eat that one whole video was trying tasting things you know that wasn't but anyway so yeah she likes it I still have it I don't I don't care for it it's a coffee flavored yeah it's nice very much like a coffee reminds me of that toffee though a lot well in toffee a coffee flavored thing I think so it's called a toffee or whatever I never cared for me I never cared for no but yeah that's so thanks guys I don't know if they just threw it in for fun or or what but they always surprised so that was a interesting but it wasn't nasty cuz I didn't know you know might have tasted like open ass you know I don't I didn't know so at least it is a flavor and it is a good sucker if you like that kind of thing I don't but very good that's okay yeah I wish I knew I work you get it yeah you buy them when you cuz I came with the box yeah it was just in the box so so I don't I think they just did that the company yeah they may have that's pretty good but color of it kind of remind me of the noodles the color of the noodles and I thought I wonder fat I have the flavor of those noodles sorry I like so today's Wednesday so tomorrow stay tuned for a another soup video I could eat a long time haven't been able to film much in here my mother yeah got this nice kitchen camp I don't mind it so I sleep on the sofa yeah but anyway so you won't be here tomorrow in the afternoon so you'll be able to do their thing yeah so you like it you give it what do you give it just for the hell of it he comes up okay I'll give it I'll give it a thumbs up because I mean it is good in the sense that I mean it's not rank I mean I could eat that if I wanted to but I really don't want to yeah because it's just too much of a coffee toffee type flavor yeah yeah but I will give it a one thumbs up because it is flavorful you know some suckers you gotta suck on it for 10 minutes to like if it's strawberry or something to get any kind of flavor yeah then you're wanting to chew on that is packed full of flavor so I would like to try more that they have mm-hmm I wonder what all kinds they got I mean look that up that'd be kind of fun mm-hmm yeah but yeah that's pretty cool all right thanks again guys appreciate it excuse me I'm getting over a cold or I'm getting a cold or something I'm going on it's not the Rona I have been tested all right so my decision is out for now y'all yeah all right stay tuned for her video you're finishing it tomorrow yeah she'll have one up tomorrow she's doing a project I don't want to give any spoilers but you want to check it out it's pretty cool mm-hmm so all right she better than met the man ladies I'm gone for now again guys thanks for watching appreciate it stay tuned for more awesome more like interesting videos none of my videos are awesome but but my viewers are awesome yes yes and you know without you guys I wouldn't be I'd still be doing stuff I do I just wouldn't film it so I really enjoy filming and editing and uploading because I know well the majority you guys enjoy them so that's what makes me that's what makes it enjoyable for me so you know so I love like like this little short video here just shooting the crap with you and trying to sucker this this is fun to me because I know some of you guys are going to enjoy especially my how-to videos yeah if I can help one person you know that just made it all worth it you know so thanks guys appreciate it we'll see you in the next one bye bye guys and take care bye guys


Hi, my name is Dr. Manjana Tharidas. I'm a Cholorectal GI Surgeon in the Department of Gastro-Science's Manipal Hospital, Whitefield. We are very excited to introduce the minimally invasive advanced surgery course. This is a masterclass dedicated to surgeons. It's an update and innovations and research in surgery. We are starting a new LAPR endoscopic conference this September 23rd. The first update is going to be about the biliary disease. The second update is going to be upper GI and the Cholorectal. And the third update is going to be about hepatability and the pancreas. We are very excited to bring to you the LAPR endoscopic conference on September 23rd. This is a biliary disease conference. The most important discussion is going to be about the most common procedures that we do, the gallbladder disease. We also have live surgeries during the same conference as well. You will be able to look at what are the new innovations and techniques in gallbladder disease. We are also going to talk about common duct disease too. We are eager to share our experiences and hear your experiences. Thank you.


Two men walk into the octagon. Only one will walk out. Well, you've got to count the referee. And if there's a big old melee at the end of the fight, you've got to count that too. Hello, how are you? Welcome to Octagon St. Leveau. I'm your hostess, Betty St. Leveau. On this show, we talk about all things relating to the octagon. And because I'm a novice, it's a little bit about novice fever. I don't really know too much about the sport, but I'm looking forward to my first taekwondo, jiu-jitsu, or karate class. Hey, if I'm going to talk about it, I need to practice too, right? So today, we're going to start off with going to comment a little bit about the Rose Numanunus and Jessica Andoraj fight. And I want to say right now, this is not an objective sport. This sport is extremely subjective. And I want to say that when you've got a champ who's champ-champ or champ, and she doesn't have a mark on her, but she loses, it's just weird to me. And when you have someone who's also a good fighter, but she's all cut up, and she's all bruised, but she wins, it's weird to me. However, Jessica, I think she just got tired of Rose using her as a punching bag and lifted her up and knocked her out, OK? And that is legal in MMA. And I wish it wasn't. But it's very what a great sport, nothing objective about it, everything subjective.  I wish I could train with you, Thug Rose. I'm telling you, I think you'd be a really, really good teacher. And I think that you wouldn't only teach me about the moves, but the inside, how to be a peaceful warrior on the inside. OK, all right, and props to Jessica. Congratulations. And I'm looking forward to that rematch, all right?  OK, right on. OK, so next we're going to talk about, I've really been getting to definitions lately, we're going to talk a little about the Taekwondo basics. And this is from Yeats and Robbins' great 1987 book, which is called Taekwondo Basics, I believe. So I'm just going to name all the positions, and then we're going to go into our legend segment, all right? So the ready position is Junbi. The attention stance is Ch'e-ho-yo. The bow is Kun-ji. The forward stance is Chong-so-ik. The back stance is Su-go-so-gi. The straddle stance is Kim-so-gi. And the canned stance is Go-nyan-gi. Now, I do regret. I'm not pronouncing these terms right, but I'm sure if I continue to study, I'll get the language correct at some point. So the exercises are to impalm touch. They're sitting stretches. There's a hamstring muscle stretch. There's a groin muscle stretch. There are standing stretches. There's a front leg swing. There's a side leg swing. There's a partner stretch. And then there are sit-ups and push-ups. Pretty intense. Their segment three is punches and kicks. How to make a fist, how to chop, the palm heel strike, reserve punch, ridge hand, and elbow strike. The elbow strike, to me, is fascinating. That looks like a very dangerous strike. There are four blocks, I believe. Down block is Han-mak. Up block is Chu-go-mak-i. Inside block is Ab-shi-shi. Outside block is Yop-mak-i. And knife-hand block is Su-do-mak-i. And then there are five forms. Heaven and Earth, Chung-gi, Providence of Universe, Pine Tree Cell, Song-aom, and Freedom Jiu-yu. Pretty wild, OK? So there are four types of one-steps. And I don't think I wrote those down. But there's some self-defense grabs and hugs, such as that I did right down, which single-risk grab, double-risk grab, front choke, front bear hug, rear bear hug, shoulder grab, rear choke, rear arm lock. The naked-end rear choke, it's a term that's been coming up frequently when I was checking out the Guide on Our Legends segment today. Then there's sparring stances. There's the open stance and the closed stance. And I think the open stance is when both the sparring partners are facing each other. And the closed stance is when one is turned this way and the other partners turn that way. I think I've got that right. It was pretty easy to check out through the pictures. Now, I've got some intents. I guess I just wrote all the list down of blocks, bows, chops, do-bok, how to bow, fists in front of pelvis, legs apart, the sitting stretches. Those notes are a little scattered, but the book is great. Please, please check it out. And the pictures make it easy to follow the stances, written by Yates and Robbins, 1987. And I think that that was printed over in London, England. And then it was printed over here. OK, so the personality that we're going to talk about today is Matt Hughes. I've been remembering back who I would always notice first when I first got into MAUFC about a year ago. And the first couple guys, Chuck Liddell. And it was Randy Couture and Thador. And I just wanted to do everybody in a row. And I could remember Matt's name for Love or Money. I'm like, I know his name is Matt, but what's his last name? And then I figured out who he was. And I was so happy that instead of skipping to a couple other guys I'd love to skip to, I just need to do him in the order that I saw all the fighters. So this is all information from MMA On Point. It's a great YouTube channel about MMA. Please check it out. I'm quoting these guys sometimes directly. I'm going to try not to. They gave me some really good information that I couldn't find information. I wanted to somewhere, so I went to them. So basically, he and his twin brother, Mark, were born in Hillsboro, Illinois. They're both high school wrestlers. And Matt won state finals in a single year twice. And Mark finished second in his single year. I think they both went on to Bellevue. And then Matt was entered in a Division I wrestling program at Eastern Illinois University. So after he graduated, the promotion of cage fighting, promotion UFC was just in its infancy. And it used to be called no holds fighting. And on New Year's Day, back in 1998 in Chicago, he won his first fight in 15 seconds by a KO. And it was refed by Pat Milovich, who is also a MMA legend. And Pat became his coach and mentor. Matt and his brother, Mark, became part of Milch fighting systems in Bendorf, Iowa. And at the time, it was one of the elite fighting schools in the country. Jens Pulver, Tim Sylvia, and Robbie Lawler also went to that school. In a later episode, we're going to discuss the brutal Robbie Lawler-Roy McDonald fight that I call a glimpse of watching one of Al Pac at the Soros' episodes about a year ago. And it was one of the most bloodiest fights you've ever seen. I actually think I tried to watch the fight, and I stopped. Kind of hard to watch. It was either that one or another one at any rate. Robbie Lawler is another one in my list of, we're going to discuss him and check him out. So he won his third match. And then he started winning matches. His career took off. And he had a middleweight fight with David Monet. Hughes dominated it. And then he became up to fight the UFC undefeated champ, Dennis Holman, who, guillotine Hughes, in an analyst's decision. And I think at that point, Dennis had a 15-match winning streak. And then Mark had a fight with Pelé, who also got knocked out. Oh, pardon me. Pelé knocked him out. And then he won his next five fights. Because his coach had lost the fight with Carlos Newton, Dana White, who had just become, I believe, President of the UFC, decided that Hughes was next in line for a title, even though Hughes thought his mentor Pat Milovitch should have been up for it. They call this a crazy fight because when he knocked out Newton, he appeared to be unconscious at the time, but he still won the fight. I got to check this out. Now I saw a little bit of a clip today. Now, Newton won the rematch because he kept saying, oh, I should have won that fight. Matt was knocked out. Yada, yada, yada. Right before the rematch, Matt fought Higato Sakurai. And I think he won that fight. So up until all this time, Matt's fights had been with people who he'd either gotten along with or were able to with. But along comes Frank Twig, who was sort of a trash talker. And I think that he ended up slamming Frank Twig while he was standing up, which was amazing. And at that point, Matt had a better record than Tito Ortiz. So then Tito had had five defenses. Matt's record was better. He fights BJ Penn, who has the record for the most losses trying to win a belt, I think. And BJ choked him out in the first round, which everyone was amazed by. So then BJ quit the UFC. He went over to another promotion. And there was a little spat. And he sued them, yada, yada, yada. And then George St. Pierre shows up. Now, Mr. George, he's very classy. And he was 23 at the time. Matt was a bit older. And from what I see, they had their first fight in 2002. And George St. Pierre idolized Matt. You'll find with a lot of fighters. For instance, Pat Berry, Rose, Nelma Jouza's fiance, Dord, Millicle, Kilkaup. And they had fights together. So a lot of fighters, they idolize their hero and then end up fighting them. And they love it. It's like a dream come true for them. So GSP lost. And then there was a Trig rematch. Matt and Trig fought again. Dana White says it's his favorite fight.  But Hughes ended up slamming Trig and ended up getting him in a rear naked choke. And when you look at that, they're literally on the mat. And the guys on top of them, they choke him out. But it's more graceful than that. I don't know the whole physics and fundamentals. But I think you all understand what I mean. So then Matt had a fight with Hoise Gracie, one of the forefathers of MMA. The Gracie clan is immensely talented. They're all fighters. Most of them are fighters. Now, Hoise was passed as prime. Passed as prime. But I don't know who won that one. I wish I could tell. I think Matt won that one. And then they had another rematch with BJ. And then there were stalks of fighting again with GSP. Now, with BJ, Matt got it. BJ gave him a triangular ombaw. A triangular ombaw, for my believe it, is both guys are lying on the mat. But one of them has the arm pointing up between their legs. I wish I could explain it better. I'm just learning. So Matt won that. His whole MO is that he gets into these incredible positions. And everyone thinks that he's lost. And he has, and he ends up winning. Now, after the fight with BJ Penn, there was another talk having another rematch with GSP. And I guess GSP won that. But then GSP fought Matt Sarah and lost to Matt Sarah. So that's the greatest thing about MMA. Mark has been called one of the greatest fighters ever. He had a bad accident train hit his truck. And he's been recovering slowly from it. I think that he's UFC Hall of Fame. They had something, a big celebration as honor. I really, I like his style. There are fighters who suffer from head injuries. And so some of them have to retire. And they go through personal problems. But it's because they're fighters. It's combat. And so the best you can do is pray for them when they don't feel that hot at the end of the day when they retire. So I think that that's it for me. I hope you've enjoyed watching Octagon St. LaVeaux. I think next week we're going to do another ladies night. And I'll try and do a breakdown. And we'll talk about the Son and Machita fight that is coming up. So I hope you've enjoyed the show. This is Betty St. LaVeaux, your hostess. Trying to teach myself and give you all some hints about all things in the Octagon. Until next time, love each other. Ciao, babes.


The new OmniVap titanium the new design kind of requires a little bit of destructive testing. Let's see if we can break it Keep going hit it again Well, what do we got? We got a minor dent in the cap, but it still fits health be still works Tip comes out tip goes in I Would call that a success Thanks for watching check out our other videos here and here and And please subscribe we appreciate your support and look forward to next time


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Who are you? I'm Don Harbin. So what are you showing here? I'm showing basically an OpenCV demo on the Dragonboard 820C. So we have color segmentation, color segmentation and tracking. It's using the Qualcomm landing team 4.14 kernel build, OpenCV 3.2, iPhone 2.7 at this point. And basically there's two pieces. There's a tool that is not shown right now that you tune your HSV parameters from OpenCV. And then you plug that into a script that you see here. So the black frames are HSV convertible. And then this one's just color to show you what's going on. This is the flow of what's happening. It captures a video stream. It converts it to HSV. It does noise removal using OpenCV, erode and dilate functions. It segments the colors, validates the size, does some frame stitching so you know if it's a previous or an existing, previous or new M&M. And then it counts them by color and displays the results. So if you grab one, you'll see it pass through the correct HSV frame and you'll also see it go through there and count on the screen over here. So now I pass one through and you saw it go through the blue mask HSV at the same time and counted as well. So there's another blue one that went through. It'll also support just grabbing an handful here and you'll see it's simultaneously segment and counts the colors as they go. Nice.  No, but those have been kind of handled. There's a bag for you. This is a webcam. We also just got it working with a CSI camera. So that'll be the next step. It's out on a 96 ports give-home. This is something that A20 is good at. This should work on a lot of the 96 ports as well.


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What's up everybody, I'm the man goose you are awesome and today I'm going to sit down and talk to you sock up and jacka about if strange matter and ometta studios should merge fault and Predecessor I chose soccer jacka because sock is just someone I talked to about this kind of stuff quite a bit and jack I just knows more about all of these pair of zombies than anyone We also talked about the morality of selling epic created skins, but that will be in a different video All right So cap and jack are joining me here for this little conversation Once you guys go ahead and introduce yourself tell us a little bit about yourselves sock up. Go ahead Been on the show what like twice your show for the millions. Yeah, that's probably like pretty much like the height of my accomplishments in life That's about it for me so Other than that man just plain league unfortunately waiting for Predecessor and fault and these games to come out and Excited to play them. So you have been actually fault, right? Right. I have been play testing fault and I am a play tester for predecessor and What are they? I don't know jacket. What other games we play testers for it seems like there's a I Swap a jack and that's not a whole people hostage He's figured out I said this before but he's literally figured out how to like stick a gun through the screen of the computer And have it come out the other side and be like I'll end you dude Yeah, so my name is jacka I come from a very strong FPS background especially when I was younger I used to be a competitive Gears of War player and I started when Paragon came out, you know, I was like, yeah, this looks pretty cool You know, so I started picking it up and playing it liked it a lot But yeah me and sock we test like every single remake we get in there, you know somehow It's cuz we're handsome. So we got deep voice predecessor core fault Primax like all those other ones We were we were even devs in a Gora.  He's funny as shit, man I want to get more into prime X But it seems like he uses Google translate whenever I talk to me and I really can't understand But he's talking about a lot of times and I don't want to like put that's what makes it so good Did you just make a Google translate video interview with him?  You know, I mean, that'd be great. That's a good idea. I might do it Yeah, his translations are really hard to get in but you know what we'll see what happens when more time comes with his company, right? We've got we've got smokey in the chat. I just want to I just want to let smokey know that uh that guy is now a Soundcloud rapper so Check him out. Is that Xilroy? Yeah, that was the I was gonna be the new name of the Paragon map that he made but now it's his rapper name. Oh, yeah Yikes, yeah, check it out Soundcloud Xilroy.  Let's talk about the I Have been very outspoken before About how I don't think any of these companies should merge because they would have to abandon progress They would have to it would set them back You know creative differences would cause splits in the company I think it's actually a good idea though for strange matter and ometta to merge make a Strange ometta or something like that. It's your meta because they the They seem to complement each other's shortcomings and kind of shore up everything and they're both small companies So it wouldn't be like a huge merger there would be plenty of room for for people within both So I mean, what do you guys think?  I? Mean, yeah, I I guess I agree with the fact that you know like So I haven't played any predecessors since Kind of the first Closed Alpha whatever and I know that jacka has played some and says that it's out of all of them It's the most kind of smooth Experience which is kind of like what is really important to me and any of these types of games Is is how smooth it is? But I do know the fault anyway, I mean obviously we just found out about it not too too long ago, but playing it It's kind of got all the you know maps working scoreboards working item systems, you know working for the most part all the kind of Functions different facets of the game or are kind of there and working pretty well so I Agree that they kind of would kind of cover each other's faults because the the one thing that I do see with Fault is it even though it's got all these things working and it's relatively smooth It's still got like a ways to go and Kind of the smoothness, you know of the game itself. So I know I mean it Could be a good move. I don't know if because it just depends on smoky and Omni I don't know who I'm not. Yeah, who heads up faults kind of Stuff I'm not the one I talked to the most. I don't know if he heads it up or not. Okay, Jack I don't exactly know who is like the leader leader, but maybe it's a joint type Operation where they all came together as far as I can tell But at the end of the day, I think Both companies could come together, but if they have the same idea, right? Because at the end of the day smoky is his company. They're their company, right? I will say Without saying too much about the last play test we did with predecessor. I could tell you right now I was really impressed with what they put together. I could tell you from experience map design fringe is doing an amazing job the animations like The characters abilities top-notch like that's the closest thing I've played so far. That's to paragon I know a lot of people saying the fault is but they haven't tried yet what smoky has come in for you guys Just just wait Even though both games are great. Just wait till both of them exceed a little bit more, right? It's very clear to me that the both companies have a good idea of what they're doing, right? Like they've got a good amount of progress. So if I could I Would take the item system from fault and put it into predecessor and I'll I'll be the most happiest dude Yeah, yeah there. I'm getting a little bit of reverb from from you jack Almost like you're coming through somebody else's headset or something. I'm not probably me.    Wow.  No, no try it try There I think I got it Say something But yeah, I totally agree false item system is really really good Like it's it's very close to what people expect out of a MOBA I think that's one of the things that kind of It turned a lot of people away from Paragon a lot of the a lot of the big creators and stuff I mean like I'm you had like mythy move who I'd never heard of until people accused me of trying to be like mythy move But he's he's a big smite creator and he was turned away from Paragon because of the item system They didn't like the card system. I think if any of these Paras zombies are to succeed they need to have a have something more similar that other people Coming in from other MOBAs can identify with and are a little more familiar with but with A twist and that's exactly what fault did they have that twist with the aspect system where you pick your aspect You know one of world two of several aspects at the beginning of the game Right and that plays into the kind of the thing that I find that's interesting about it and that I like about the item system that they have and in the fault is that it's kind of Even if you get like to full build or whatever there's still Kind of like scaling off of the favor system So like even you know, even if you're full build like taking a certain objective still has like an impact You know, I mean there's always keep getting stronger, right? It's still a scaling system even late game There's a scaling system or in game. I should say there's a scaling system So, you know that could be like a snowballing mechanic, but it doesn't seem to be that snow ball It just kind of adds like a little extra small benefit So anyway, I don't know. I like the way that they've done that and I don't know of any other MOBA that has anything Like the favor system Yeah, we've been talking about it for the past few days now Like we have people in our discord already theory crafting like what items we can build what will stack on each other And it's getting pretty nuts and we haven't even touched the tip of it yet, right? And that and also I don't think that Their item system with the favor, I don't think that that would be like too hard to balance either like it It provides like I said a minor scaling towards in-game or or throughout the game But I don't think that that's something that could I Don't think that it's like too crazy by the time some of those items have the potential of granting you like Pretty much like immunity to slows a hundred percent. I think I don't know how that works, but there's one That if you had like 28 favor the boots It you would have a hundred percent slow reduction So I would assume that that just makes slows like nullified for you There's other ways to get like a hundred percent crit off of tokens and stuff like that But late game that's kind of cool. I think because then you will have kind of Characters that scale like real hard off of that shit and if it becomes an issue That's something later on in the game where they can make a mechanic where they put a cap on this is how much Right and you could top out at on this attack speed or this crit or this movement speed Which only if it becomes an issue, right? But yeah, definitely there their item system is really good and and Like you're saying jack up, you know predecessors the the smoothest You know it would be if they merge things like that, you know, if they brought the item system to predecessor that they haven't fought then, you know, that would be a really good experience With let me also say is I don't know the complete item system yet in predecessor because everything is still a placeholder As far as what we know, you know without their endgame But as far as the card system Compared to the item system item systems easier for newer mobile new mobile players to come in from other games Like especially if you know league or any of the others like the tree system is simple Like people know about that stuff in all different genres of games with the tree system Right, and it makes everything available to everybody, too. I think it's very important Then the kind of thing I had with it was I totally agree with jack up predecessor felt way more complete and smooth the last time I played it Which was like a month a month and a half ago something like that It just felt it felt way better than than fault feels right now I'm not shitting on fault in any way. They're just they're just now starting their playtesting, but um, I think The the big advantage for fault though is that they have 11 playable heroes. Whereas Predecessor only has the five. I Think if these guys obviously know how to program heroes how to how to work with gas and how to make everything work It would be nice to see them go to Omeda and help Omeda program more and more heroes I Don't know about their level designer like fringe is just such a great fucking map designer and and everything but his Hit everything fringe does is very aesthetically pleasing Um, I think the guys over at fault did a great job of making everything gameplay Wise very pleased like you can tell that they paid close attention to how you would react to somebody coming out of a fog wall How you react to somebody coming around this wall that sort of thing Whereas fringe is mainly just kind of trying to emulate what was legacy and monolith and I think he could benefit a Little bit from from their knowledge a bit. I'm not again not shitting on fringe Just saying his his his work is way more aesthetically pleasing But I think fault did a little bit better job with their map design I think if you combine the two it would just be fucking incredible I like I said I've spoke out so much against the murders in the past But I really think it would be a great idea for these two guys to merge Yeah, I think I mean at the end of the day I mean just I think have to look at like what is the benefit for them Merging right like if they do merge are they gonna be able to work together well? With a larger team. I mean certainly they probably could have more progress, you know or complete things faster They will have to that kind of Lose progress initially, but if them merging Like, you know brings a game out faster than You know them just being on their own, you know, it might be worth it for them because honestly I feel like kind of the first person that makes I Mean, it's how long has it been now what like two years, right almost. Yeah. Yeah, so like yeah, so like people You know, of course, there's always gonna be interest there But like there's a lot of people that have kind of moved on right, you know to other things so The longer it goes the less player base you're gonna have I think initially You know, so I feel like the the first kind of company that comes out with something that is playable and is actually like at a decent Level of gameplay where it you know is similar to how Paragon was With the with the smoothness and how responsive things felt and has like an actual complete well-rounded game like that person's probably gonna Anything that comes out after that is probably gonna have a rough time Essentially is what I'm saying if it's like another Paragon clone I think the first one that that hits the finish line is probably gonna be the one that sticks around Yeah, that's like another thing we can come back to is We have the so many projects come out and like we have we have some buddies, right? They're really high level players and like they hear us talk about a new a new project You're like, haha, you know, they laugh it off because they're just like it's a joke, right? But when we see this new company fault come out of nowhere, they're focusing on gameplay and that is like one of the most Important things that you need in a MOBA and that we seen how the gameplay is just from our first test It was phenomenal like if you can combine though meta studios somehow with fault It'd be great like they would benefit a lot from it But as long as they're able to get together and like not but heads that's like the number one thing You don't want in a company then you'll have other companies like some other ones, you know not to be mentioned Like core what the fuck's going on with that shit Didn't want to say that As well, I mean that's that's what brought visionary Down, I mean they're still working on their shit, but they had gameplay though Yeah, they did they really did they were very far into the process like I can't wait so they come out with something They're it will it will happen eventually. Yeah But yeah, I think that I mean bring up another good point is the the player base Each company is competing for a fraction of the player base There's only a fraction of the player base that was the vote of the Paragon And merging would merge those, you know Those two fractions of the player base to I think that's very important right now I think that's a huge concern for a lot of people out there is that Everything's being broken up so much that nobody is going to succeed Because everybody's competing with each other God I can't remember the name somebody in my discord. I can't remember the name right now made it the perfect reference It's like Game of Thrones like right The white walkers are coming from the north, but all these motherfuckers are bickering and fighting Yeah, exactly But the way I look at it right is like all these things are like, you know stores, right?  So I mean, I think that if you if you come out with a game a Paragon game that's smooth and playable like Like fault that has like a lot of like well rounded parts to it and it's thought out and kind of built for like competitive Environment then you're gonna have everybody in the in the community that was Interested in playing Paragon to begin with yeah, and they'll stick around and play your game, you know and If another one come and that's the thing too is that if you if you build something that has like a high skill Ceiling and it comes out first right people are gonna play it and they're gonna start to get good at it And then when another one comes out, they're gonna be like well I've already invested, you know in this one and this one's doing great. So why should I? You know give this one any time You know, they may play a few times But if it's not as good as the first one or you know, if it's not as far along as the first one development wise Nobody's gonna pay attention to it. So, you know, I mean honestly if They're not You know if Smokey thinks that he can do it better on his own and get a game out And it's gonna be better than fault By all means I think you should do that, you know But if they're either one of them are worried about the risk of any of that happening Where somebody else releases a game and then nobody pays attention to their game Then the merger might be just beneficial to both of them that way that they neither one of them kind of Gets left in the dust I guess Yeah, exactly Well, I mean I used to say that Whichever one of these games makes it to the PlayStation Network first will be the one to succeed, but I think Come on sir by the time Any of these games make it the console? Everybody's forgot about it Yeah, it's like a public service announcement console guys they love you so much but don't Listen to any of them say none of us gonna be released on ps4 You're thinking maybe ps5. Okay, the PSN launch maybe That game has to succeed on PC first and get balanced on there first as well.  Yeah, I'd be goddamn worth it. Geez Yeah, I'm sitting there debating whether or not that's worth of my yeah next topic. Let's debate whether it's worth It's like it's like 300 400 bucks right? What yeah, it's like a thousand bucks. Oh is it well then a hundred percent No, just kidding. Just kidding. I'm actually gonna grab another beer. I'll be right back All right Man


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