Ladies and gentlemen, it's the moment we've all been waiting for. It's NBA 2k 22 gameplay news They finally dropped it. Hey man, y'all new to the channel be sure to subscribe How could you keep forgetting dog? Come on, bro. It's like a third time you watched the video of mine, bro Please drop a like man. I put y'all OD. Let's get into the news So we've been asking for news for a while It's like a week away from the game's launch and they finally dropped it for us in the form of this game Play blog dropped by the one and only Mike Wang himself They also dropped like a gameplay trailer yesterday on YouTube. Well on all the platforms You might have watched it It was really just a whole bunch of b-roll of NBA 2k players that didn't show you much of anything when we said gameplay I think we all meant like 5v5 no cuts not a trailer like Gameplay just let the game run. Let's see how it looks. Let me see the new animations how everything runs new badges pop up Estimated read time 12 minutes That took an eternity to read god damn So let me save you guys the reading I'm gonna highlight the important points in this gameplay blog So y'all don't have to read you're welcome Hey, there's a couple times they brought this up and I want to know why the first year developing on a new console always brings New challenges. It's like they were trying to remind us throughout the course of this blog that like last year was the first year guys Which is like, yeah, but y'all didn't sell it to us like that, you know saying you guys told us it's gonna be great But that was mentioned a couple times throughout this blog. I thought it was funny Okay, so you're gonna hear the same thing over and over and over again throughout the course of this right here And it's gonna be two things is faster paced gameplay and tighter more responsive movement. Don't let that fool you We've heard things like that before the reason why I like them saying it is because they made it They understand that it's a thing that people want and that they were working towards it But to actually see it in action is a whole another thing like they might have worked towards it And we might not see it in the game just know that because I've been doing this for a while I've heard faster paced gameplay tighter more responsive movement and more skill-based offense so many times guys I lost count that Being said if they did deliver on those three things right there, everybody's dick should be getting hard I've been saying for a while the gameplay needs to be more fast paced and needs to be more responsive The responsiveness really just comes from bad servers just to end latency I know it's been a while you haven't heard me say latency in a while They maintain that a lot of the gameplay improvements They made were for both the next-gen version of the game and the current-gen version of the game But there were times throughout this article where they said that this thing that we're about to talk about is a next-gen Exclusive so it seems like when it was possible they ported the technology they developed on next-gen to current-gen But there were times where that just wasn't possible due to the limitations of current-gen So as you get throughout this or as you watch this video you're gonna be like Oh, okay. It might be my best interest to just try next-gen first because it seems like that's where the focus was So they said that defense and usually games don't sell because of defense They sell because of offense But in this article they maintain their biggest focus this year was defense and that caught me off guard The primary goal for defense was to give gamers the tools to be able to change the outcome in the game on the floor Sound like some gibberish, but the developers say and I quote our engineers were determined to achieve those goals And we're extremely happy with the results, huh? So we're about to talk about shock contests for those who've been playing 2k for a while. It has never been fixed Oh my goodness games like NBA 2k 19 were so fun to play But ruined by a horrible shot contest system and we just have never seen a great shot contest system in NBA 2k history In NBA 2k 21 blinders completely had the game fucking broken if you were on the side of somebody It didn't count as a contest whatsoever It was times where you were directly in front of somebody and it was a ghost contest NBA 2k is saying they've fixed that now The shot contest rewrite removed the ghost contest that many complained about and this year being out of position Or not getting a hand in a shooter's face will lead to some easy buckets for the offense on the other hand Properly crowding shooters with good shot contests will result in plenty of bricks and air balls They maintain they wanted to make a focus on shot IQ the people taking good shots are gonna make it But again, we've heard that before hopefully the improvements they've attempted to make in the shot contest system actually result in a good Shot contest system nothing worse than playing some good defense and it says 2% contested. It's like man.   It don't make no sense So there's been a long standing contest in the NBA 2k community Some people hate bump steals some people love it because it rewards defense but NBA 2k saying here unwanted bump steals and snatch Body-ups have been reduced in favor of giving both the ball handler and the on-ball defender more freedom of movement and respected input shifts launches stops and cuts feel much tighter with much new foot gen planting I'm not falling for that trap. I fell for the foot gen planting trap last year. You don't get me twice NBA 2k Hopefully you're telling the truth though the problem with NBA 2k's responsiveness is not like when you click animation It takes long for the animation to trigger and to execute although sometimes it does some animations do take long I'm telling y'all it's just a latency from the servers when you guys play on my career The game feels way more responsive and tighter than it does when you play on the city, right?    Like it steals has never ever mattered I think it was one year where like lockdowns were overpowered, but other Players could steal too. You didn't have to be a lockdown to click square and get the ball every single time So hopefully this year There's a good reward to cost benefit to clicking the button and attempting to steal if you're spamming it You need to be punished if you're clicking it in a good situation and you got a good rating You need to be rewarded for that I hopefully 2k commits to that and it actually comes out really really well because as they say later in this blog It was game-tested they mentioned that a couple times because maybe people like me hop on these videos and say Why is nobody game-testing not only by 2k players, but by some 2k pros ladies and gentlemen Yes, 2k themselves have said that 2k pros have game-tested this game So I'm talking to the pros now Hopefully I'll give good feedback and you weren't so awe enamored by your opportunity You didn't give good feedback don't ruin it for the rest of us guys come on now So they get they get talking about defensive AI now I have a lot of respect for the czar who's like the guy who does the AI for 2k He seems like a genius low-key because I would never be able to complete such a role like it takes a lot of intellectual capabilities But the amount of times I've heard they were artificial intelligence improvements to the defense and that switching players and hedging players and Rotating and it was gonna be better and then I hop on my team and I change my settings the way I want them and the Guys just fucking do everything but what I want them to do it's it's infinite count guys Now I will hop on my team again, and I'll play some play now And if the AI is still dumb as it I'm getting back off because that's actually the main reason why I stopped playing 5v5 Like my team play now. It's just the AI is just infuriating to play with I feel like I have to use your everybody cuz the AI is just not smart enough But they they say they made a slew of different changes and this was the biggest change They've ever made to defensive AI ever that's what they said a lot of legacy issues were addressed through complete Thorough rewrites of almost all major defensive systems in the game. That sounds crazy, right? And and this goes on for paragraphs. They talk about this. Look at this There's so much AI stuff. It's just jargon jargon more AI stuff more AI stuff Look the ball handler would have an open lane Which in turn would force the help to come from the strong side leaving easy open jumpers this year our hedge defender can Focus on the ball and play two offensive players intelligently covering the deepest threats Yeah, I see it all in text Please I will pile hop on guys and I will put my settings to my liking and if the AI are still dumb I will never open up play now again. So then they begin talking about dribbling and Mike Wang says he's excited with the new Things changing with dribbling this year. He says that next-gen and current-gen dribbling is the same a lot It's basically the same. I don't know if it's identical, but it's a lot of the same That's what he said anytime a 2k dev gets really excited about dribbling It's not because dribbling is like exciting and fun and skill-based. It's usually because it's more realistic Which is usually not what the dribblers actually want But Mike Wang says he made a whole bunch of different changes to dribbling this year These are some of them the one-to-one basic size-ups have been removed and replaced with one-to-one signature size-ups Which means flicking the pro-stick in various directions last year gave you a fairly generic looking size-up While holding up on the rice to give you a nice-looking mocap dribble series this year The goal was to marry the two together Wow There are around 50 unique signature size-up packages to choose from each with their own distinct advantages Additionally, you can equip up to 32 unique dribble sequences, which he's dubbed signature combos Mixing the signature size-ups and the signature combos together gives you a limitless variety for how you want to break your defender down He continues There's a ton of new combos cancels and move chains you can pull off this year drag dribble His has ease and spin step backs being as pretty got his personal favorites already game hasn't even dropped yet Hey, all he's trying to say is they've added in a bunch of new moves to the game 2k has already said that depending on the Seasons 2k is going to have new animations. They give to people who level up in the game So there's going to be seasonal exclusive animations. We don't know how effective those animations are going to be neither But then he refers back to the main point he wanted to get to which is when it comes to dribbling You'll notice significantly faster pace and tighter control There's also a few w NBA dribble styles. They added from these w NBA athletes right here Mike Wang also acknowledged that last year taller players could outpace shorter players with the same speed with ball rating This has been resolved for mba 2k 22 to ensure that smaller players are no longer lagging behind So all all of that to say a lot has changed I don't think dribblers are going to be happy about it But who knows maybe for the first time A dev is excited about dribbling and the dribbling community loves the changes I've never seen it happen in my personal opinion But you don't know it's second year on the next generation hardware ladies and gentlemen So I I'm not a dribbler. I'm gonna tune in to the dribblers uh stizo. Let's see what stizo can do Apparently g-man's about to come back That threw me for a twist. He called me the other day. I said g-man you're alive What the f*** So i'ma tune in see what's going on with dribbling I'm gonna ask questions and the people who might know and and y'all will be in tune too Ladies and gentlemen when you don't know you have to ask questions ladies and gentlemen That's how you know hey first of all the news has been spectacular so far drop a like subscribe to the channel I know you're watching this video and you still haven't done it and you know I reminded you in the beginning of the video. You still haven't done it.  It's fine. You don't have to So they get into post play now. I want to give you guys a preface I don't know how many I've been playing since 2k 15 in 2k 15 post play was at its peak I swear to god if you had durknewitzki and you knew what you were doing in the post You would never miss if you missed it was on you They had post badges that helped you do post fades. It was Unbelievable how effective the post game was. I would say it was overpowered I took full advantage of it though on my team when I play against friends I had durknewitzki on all my teams ever since then it seems the 2k developers have been afraid of making post play too effective And so it's just been like a shell of what it used to be in 2k 15 because it was truly unstoppable But they maintain that they added a whole bunch of new A suite of different features that's going to make the post play more fun and skill based and This is what they said similar to face-up ball handling Many of the new moves are cancels and aborts which is actually more exciting Then you think like the idea of like doing a post spin canceling that and then spinning this way and shooting that way Is like dope like it adds a whole new dynamic So once you do a post animation you can cancel it whenever you want to and you can string it with whatever other animation And i'm not going to lie to you the chances that 2k allowing cancels and aborts and dribbling and post play There's going to be some kind of crazy dribble glitches here There just has to be because there's no way they're allowing cancels and aborts and people don't find like an overpowered string Is not going to happen There are also new rt r2 fakes that keep you engaged in the post allowing you to chain multiple fakes together without disengaging There's also new disengage face-up moves controls to help you avoid steals new hop shots fades Hooks and a better pull chair mechanic. I'm you know, we've heard post news like a lot in in the history of 2k This is one of the more exciting things i've heard So if you are like a post player you hear things like this and you think like hopefully it's a lot of different Shots fades and hooks but also the cancels and aborts gets your dick card a little bit because you don't know what you could string that with So hopefully there is as many opportunities as they're making it seem in this blog here But again, I wouldn't get your hopes too high So then they get to the most exciting thing the most controversial part of really any 2k is the shooting and and they say a Few things one they have a new shot meter They say the shot meter is going to get smaller when it's a worse shot and larger when it's a better shot They say fatigue also plays a role in whether or not it is a worse or better shot So when your shot meter is massive it means the chances you hit that shot is higher Shot timing still plays a major role in the skill gap And yes, you still get an additional boost for turning the meter off But then they finished it off with this which I thought was hilarious It's almost as if them like saying like you know, they just co-signed us We've heavily focused group tested the new shooting mechanics with players of all skill levels And believe this is the best shooting has ever felt in any NBA 2k So we're gonna have to see about that right when i'ma tune in i'ma let y'all know Man the amount of times i've heard something to this nature and things of that nature is Man it goes for years and years But you know, sometimes they tell the truth. Sometimes they're just gassing it You don't know they're trying to sell you a game at the end of the day You know saying if I was trying to sell you on a subscription button I tell you how like it was so easy to click and it's satisfying to click And it's a big juicy red button and it makes an animation when you click it And you tap it with your finger and it takes a half a second So I tell you all the things you'd want in here so you click the button you feel me So that's just what they're doing here finishing doesn't always get much spotlight But they gave it its own section here and they said they wanted to add a skills gap to finishing at the room Which is kind of controversial because in the past when 2k added a shot meter and people was missing layups because they were timing them horribly People were furious that their horribly timed layups were missing So the casual community should hate what the was just said in this first sentence But personally me as a person that doesn't like the fact that slashers can just click square and get these pre-made animations As beautiful as our motion capture dunks are it was a shame that once you saw one fire off You basically knew it was an automatic two points. There's a new revamp blocking system We're giving to rim protectors more tools to make great stops at the rim on top of that on new gen New gen exclusive alert We've added timing meters to both alley-oop and aggressive skilled dunk attempts So they say when you get thrown an alley-oop You have to actually click square and time it properly to be able to put it down And they have this new feature called aggressive skill dunk Which at any point you can activate and it's basically like when you want to Somebody but they're saying there's some skill to being able to pull it off We're gonna get to it in a moment But there's also some new badges that help give you more gas to be able to pull off these aggressive skill dunks Honestly the ability to try and trigger a wavy dunk and then f***ing up if it's not good circumstances for you Is kind of dope to me. Hopefully this feature looks as good in game as it looks in my head here 2k also says you can force bounce past alley-oops this year So that's dope and holding sprint and pulling straight down on the pro stick will trigger the aggressive skill dunks Using the aggressive skill dunks feature will basically force a dunk attempt on demand as long as you have a strong dunker And you have a bit of runway. They also added dunk celebrations this year Which is long awaited because they had celebrations for basically every other exciting thing in basketball But finally now there's dunk celebrations And they also say there's a new thing called the dunk style creator where you can customize your dunk repertoire So you won't ever do a dunk. That's not in your dunk style thing. So I mean for what I don't know what That means we're gonna have to actually look at it.  Hopefully we could see some footage of that at some point Maybe a trailer, but then they get to the really really juicy stuff Which is builds badges and takeover and a lot has changed in that department too Look, they say it again as with any new big developments. There's always growing pains All right, we get a 2k last year was the first year on a new generation. Stop with the reminders I know at least maybe not everybody knows. No, actually everybody knows it was the first year on a new generation It was still no excuse for dropping that unfinished product of mba 2k 21. No excuse mba 2k starts off by saying they increase the amount of badge points you have this year You might be wondering why would they do that? That's because they added a whole bunch of badges And they want to make sure you have enough points to be able to utilize some of the new ones too Another cool addition is the ability to create badge loadouts a long-awaited feature 2k finally said Yes, we'll give it to you So if you have like your pro and badges set up, but you want to hop on the city now You could switch up to your new city badge loadout You don't have to spend five minutes like reducing and increasing different badge points 2k, thank you It's small like this is a quality of life change people that like play the game Love the small stuff like this You just save people like five minutes out their time every time they want to switch right Man, it's small like this that gets me excited It's not so much like the big crazy talk because most of the time They promise you something. They don't really come out anyway, right? But a badge loadout is just like a great feature all around.  I'm looking at you differently I sort of got I'm looking at you differently if you equip this badge Unstripable the ability to secure the ball better when gathering for a layup or a dunk in traffic Chef the ability to knock down stuff like dribble deep threes limitless spot up ability to hit logo range threes off a catch and shoot Lucky sevens boost your ability to score when you're shooting early in the shot clock Mismatch expert your ability to successfully shoot over taller defenders on a switch Interesting. I don't know if on a switch is specific to the badge Can you just shoot over taller defenders at any time or does it have to be on a switch? Like what if it was a turnover? There was no switch.  Hey, I don't like people throwing full court passes So I don't know how much I'm gonna like this badge right here hyperdrive boost the speed and effectiveness of moving dribble moves Quick chain boost the ability to quickly chain dribble moves together. God damn. It's a lot of badges post playmaker Triple threat juke ball stripper hustler, which is a badge. They were moved in previous 2ks and brought back But probably the most interesting badge on this whole list ladies and gentlemen Menace significantly drops the offensive ratings of opponents when you smother them because smothering them should already Significantly drop their offensive ratings. So this might be like an overpowered badge because it applies in too many situations Or it could be a very useless badge because you're already reducing some so we'll see we'll see about menace That's also a crazy thing to name a badge.  Y'all can see that on a meme video expeditiously That will bring the total badge count to 80 and as 2k says that's the reason why they added a whole bunch of new badge points They said like the visuals for adding badges this year looks totally different too And it should make it easier for you to see everything and a lot your different badges And this is all in an effort to kind of give you more rpg vibes Because if you remember at least on the next gen version of the game 2k is committing to this like whole rpg 2k and i'm committed to seeing if they're gonna fuck it up or if they're gonna body it because rpg one done correctly is Addicting so new seasons new rpg. No generic my career. I'm excited to see what 2k puts the guy Am I getting excited agent calm down?  Uh, they also mentioned this new thing That's exclusive to next gen called takeover perks and that's modifiers You can unlock to equip and strengthen your existing takeover abilities And he said he's not gonna list them out because he wants to surprise you. Mike Wang is a freaky guy He wants to surprise you so we'll see what those look like also fantastic idea Hopefully, it doesn't like throw off the balance in games like mba life It had modifiers in like the dunk contest before when done correctly modifiers add like a whole new world Of customization to something that you've known for a while like dunking has existed in video games for a while Adding modifiers to dunks in a dunk contest changed the game So hopefully the takeover modifiers does the same thing over here and on the closing remarks They basically reiterated that it was so hard for them to do what they did That that last year was their first year and that it's gonna get so much better this year And and this part was my favorite guys free this in fact We had the wonderful opportunity to bring in several respected community members I wonder who those were and 2k pros to beta test gameplay So I don't know who the respected community members were but the 2k pros a y'all are the tryhards of all tryhards Y'all played a game night don't f*** up, right? You guys had opportunity to destroy the game and tell them what was wrong with the game I know y'all probably didn't have too much time But now y'all 2k has say y'all cosine the gameplay if it is unbalanced y'all gonna look crazy I'm just letting you know how it works one time annoying went to the 2k plays and went like yeah It was pretty good and then when it wasn't pretty good like the whole community was like what the hell man You said it's pretty good So now you've got the 2k pro cosine over here and then they at the bottom They linked the reveal trailer. They dropped the day before damn. It only has 70,000 views. What are the comments saying? I don't see enough sweat the game is exactly the same. I want to see actual gameplay not a trailer So about the same shit we've been saying hey when 2k when people say they want to see gameplay They don't mean this I don't know 2k knows that like they don't mean this right here So this was the gameplay trailer they dropped yesterday I'm not going to show you the whole thing because it's not really much of anything 2k when we say like gameplay I get like you say trailer features gameplay and this is like from the actual game I'm certain of it, but like this is not what we meant. Is there 4k? Yeah, there is let's watch in 4k Because the game looks graphically appealing. That's all this would have really told us Maybe we can spot some new animations, but when we see like straight gameplay unedited no zooms No this and that and you know, this is cinematic We just want something raw because then we could see a lot about the game Like we could see some contact animations in real time Trailers are designed to make things look good We kind of just want to see things for what it is because we've been through this before Not saying don't drop a gameplay trailer But if you was gonna drop this you should have dropped this like a month ago when it would have been like Oh, okay. We're like a month in a bit away from 2k's launch. We got it. We got ourselves a gameplay trailer Hopefully in the next few days we can receive some actual gameplay But anyway through the course of all this gameplay is the whole bunch of animations We've seen before obviously the game looks graphically appealing. That's the second time somebody went into the stands I don't know if that's like a new thing. They're trying to emphasize There's some like park dunks.  Anyway for what it's worth It was a very pointless trailer, which is why some people wasn't with it But I'm glad we're finally starting to see something and I guess if you had to be positive Someone said put mellows freaking braids in the game as many years since he had them Oh man look at power always breaking it down on on twitter. The new shot meter system looks pretty cool But too bad i'm gonna be using no meter the entire year regardless. All right, let's take a look This is from the trailer. Excuse the bad quality.   Hello? Wow, look at this new shot. I know the whole quality is horrible. Excuse the quality.  Where did you receive that? So usually when like gameplay news is dropped? That's when like mike wang That's why power right now is saying so beluba you can resume tweeting now tell us something Because mike wang usually just hops on and like says like telling us about more stuff like in detail stuff that Like maybe not everybody cares about but like some people might care about the small stuff Like y'all notice how the thing I got most excited about was badge loadouts That's because when you play the game it just saves you time So small stuff like that that just makes the game just more fun to play. Oh, you know what? I think this is I'm sorry. Yeah. I'm sorry. I think I figured it out. So mba2k put out this pose Let me find this real quick quote tweeting a new program they have called introducing next makers We're looking for creators worldwide to partner with on these two random games and mba2k Let's connect you get dev access exclusive info affiliate opportunities hype you and more I think that's what this is if I had to guess because Otherwise, why would this looks too organized my brothers like everybody posted four minutes ago exactly? Hmm. I'm not a part of any program ladies and gentlemen The reason why I make these videos should I say is because I love gaming bro and I love talking about gaming This channel was created originally just to talk about gta 5 because I was so excited for the game When the game came out I talked about it more and I played the game and I showed the game Like I tried to get on top leaderboards at a game and all that I did that for so many games because I love this My fear is and there have been attempts made previously That me partnering with the publisher might interfere with my ability to just say what the is on my mind If I think something like I've thought plenty of things throughout this video Like if I tell y'all like they're saying it in the in the blog post But who knows if they're gonna do I might like I don't want to be censored or feel like I can't say whatever I want to say on my channel. So if y'all ever wondered agent, why don't you join the program?  Are you going to join the program? I don't know what that means for what I can and can't say on this channel No clue a couple years ago. Yeah, you invited me out to an event because mba live 19 was gonna come out And I saw what they showed me I came back and I said pros and cons EA has not invited me out to another event ladies and gentlemen and that's fine I haven't been invited to the last couple mba 2k events for whatever reason at the end of the day having access An exclusive this and that is fantastic But if that comes at the cost of me being able to do the reason why I started this Then it's kind of what's the word when you work against yourself counterproductive It's counterproductive to what I'm trying to do. Hey man, it seems like the floodgates have opened We don't know when Mike Wans can hop on twitter and talk game player when they're gonna release more information about the game We have no clue But every single time some juicy information drops y'all know I got your comfort man drop a light Subscribe to the channel. I appreciate y'all as always man And I'm gonna catch you guys in the next one. Hey catch up on this news if y'all missed it There's so much news you're missing out on right now ladies. Tell me catch up on this one, man And uh, I'm gonna see you guys in the next video peace


Fifteen idioms with the word make from EspressoEnglish.net. You probably already know some basic English expressions with the verb make, such as make breakfast, make money, and make a promise. But here are fifteen idiomatic expressions that might be new for you. After the lesson, make sure to take the quiz to practice the idioms. 1. Make a last-ditch effort. This expression means to make a final effort at the last possible opportunity. For example, I made a last-ditch effort to talk to my ex-girlfriend before she moved to a different city, but she didn't return any of my phone calls. 2. Make a killing. This idiom has nothing to do with killing or violence. Instead, it means to make a lot of money, usually very quickly. For example, Jack buys apartments located on beautiful beaches and rents them out to tourists. He's making a killing. 3.   For example, wow, just looking at that triple chocolate cake makes my mouth water. 4. Make a pass at and make eyes at. Both of these idioms mean to demonstrate romantic or sexual interest in someone. Make a pass at is more active, like when the person says or does something to demonstrate their interest. Make eyes at is more simply looking at the person with romantic or sexual interest. For example, at the Christmas party, the company president made a pass at the new secretary. 5. Make your blood boil. If something makes your blood boil, it means it makes you feel extremely angry. For example, the corruption in this country makes my blood boil. I can't stand to think how much money is wasted with political scandals. 6. Make up your mind. This idiom is an informal way to say make a decision. For example, should I buy a bike or a skateboard, I can't make up my mind. 7. Make do. This expression means to manage with the resources available, especially when some resource is missing. For example, sorry I forgot to buy paper towels, we'll just have to make do with napkins. 8. Make your head spin. If something makes your head spin, it means it makes you extremely confused. For example, I don't understand the instruction manual for this computer program, all the technical jargon just makes my head spin. 9. Make food from scratch. This expression means to cook food from the original ingredients, not using any previously prepared items. For example, these cookies are delicious, did you buy them or make them from scratch? 10. Make a comeback. When someone or something was popular or successful, then loses its popularity for a while, and then starts to gain popularity again, this last part is called making a comeback. For example, the actor's last two films were terrible, but he's making a comeback with his most recent movie, it got great reviews. 11. Can't make heads or tails of something. If you can't make heads or tails of something, it means you can't understand it at all. For example, these legal documents are really complicated, I can't make heads or tails of them. 12. Make light of something. This expression means to treat something as unimportant. For example, don't make light of the communication problems between our employees, it's really a serious situation that needs to be resolved. 13. Make the grade and make the cut. Both of these idioms mean to be up to a standard of quality, they are often used in the negative when something is not up to the standard of quality. For example, she was eliminated in the second round of the singing competition, her voice just didn't make the cut. 14. Make waves. If something makes waves, it means it causes a wide impact on a group or society in general. For example, the author's controversial new book is making waves in the literary community. 15. Make your day. If an event makes your day, it means it made you very happy, like it was the best thing to happen in the whole day. For example, it made my day when the English teacher said I was the best student in the class. That was a lot of expressions, so make sure to take the quiz to test how well you remember the idioms. It's also a good idea to try to create your own example sentence for each one. If you want to continue your study of English idioms, check out my idioms course, which will help you discover the most common idioms used in American English, with lots of practice and short answer questions.


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Welcome back to JSA TV live the newsroom for tech telecom and data center professionals Buffy Harakitas, and we are coming to you live from PTC 23, and it is the biggest PTC Conference to date We're here live at the PTC hub right here in sunny Honolulu, Hawaii and joining me today is Vani of Venkatesh She is the CEO of global business for Airtel Vani, welcome to JSA TV. Thank you Yeah, it's such an honor and a privilege to be speaking with you today one of the few Women CEOs in our industry. So I am so honored to be sitting next to you and speaking to you Here at PTC. So what are you thinking of the conference so far? It's been amazing. Firstly. Thank you for the kind words It's it's an equal honor at the side. So it's been amazing for me. It's my first PTC So it's been particularly special and it's amazing the number of people we are meeting and the kind of Conversations we are having the trends that we are discern uncovering, right? It's been quite quite a fascinating experience so far. Well, I'm glad that you're having a great show We are too and as I mentioned earlier, it is the biggest PTC annual conference to date so welcome You know and many viewers, I'm sure I've already heard about Airtel But in case they didn't can you tell viewers a little bit more about our Airtel and what makes it so unique? Yeah, sure So we are a company which started off in India. We now have operations in India Africa and global operations in many countries and I think what makes us particularly unique is we have eyeballs of 450 million customers That's a lot of the population of the world so we have about 350 million eyeballs in India and another hundred million in Africa and We have tons of fiber. We have about 365,000 root kilometers of fiber across these countries. We present in about 50 countries across five continents So I think all in all we end up being a trusted connectivity partner for several corporates as well as consumers Thanks for sharing that information and you had so many big announcements at the end of 2022 What are you most excited to share? Yeah, lots of big announcements I think the two things that stand out for us is one is our investment into Africa along with yeah, so Meta is an anchor partner there and we are Co-investing in that cable to bring it into India. So we believe that will power the digital ecosystem in the country we have a landing station getting ready as we speak in Mumbai and We're putting more dedicated capacity to get that growing the second one is In no particular order is a launch of 5g in India. So we launched it last October We were the first to launch in the country and we again believe that that will revolutionize the way our Corporates as well as our Consumers use technology and use networks. So those are two things we are very excited about We're even more excited about what's coming in 2023, but more on that later. Oh, yeah We'll have to keep that on the wraps for now, but excited to Hear all about what you have coming up in in 2023 We know you also had some big data center related news With next year by air tail It's a subsidiary of air tail. Why don't you give us a little bit more information there? Yeah, absolutely And so next row was a initially was a wholly owned subsidiary. We now have investment from Carlisle. It's a yeah It's a big space and we're getting a fair amount of expertise as well there So we're very very proud of next right. We already have about 12 core data centers and 120 edge data centers in next row and The beauty of it is we are actually investing another six hundred million dollars over half a billion dollars over the next couple of years And we are scaling up into hyperscaler parks in about seven metros. So as we speak There are data centers getting ready in Mumbai in Kolkata in Pune in Chennai right in many locations which will not only serve India But it would also serve sake and we hope to be the data center hub of Asia with all the skills that we bring Congratulations on all of that news and your investment from Carlisle So shout out to the Carlisle group. They are also friends of ours Sustainability is such a hot critical important topic in our industry You know across all industries, of course So why don't you give us a little bit more? Information about what air tail next row by air tail is doing to be more sustainable. Yeah, so that's a topic We are very passionate about very very very close to our heart. We are too. Yeah Yeah, so Firstly we want to get net positive by 2030. We are already at the 40 45 percent range on that one Yeah, and some of our newer data centers are actually as good as 92 percent net positive And now we were tied up with a bunch of Bunch of like-minded corporates so including with bloom for renewable energy solutions. Yeah. Yeah for renewable energy solutions. We're investing a lot in Liquid fuel cooling technology in a hydrogen based cell cooling technology. So We are quite passionate about sustainability and we are hoping to contribute our bit to the environment that we live in That's wonderful. And of course as you know JSA is also very passionate about Sustainability with our greener data movement. I'm sure you see it everywhere. We just launched our greener data directory yesterday We're also partners with bloom energy. Oh, that's lovely. Yes. So great to hear in fact I think we have them coming up soon later. So great to hear that No, all of the key players are joining Forces, you know to really make the world a more sustainable place for our future Okay, so switching gears a little bit. I mean infrastructure, you know is essential to the success of a lot of new age companies OTTs gaming, you know, we have been tech going a little or not a little bit more You know more towards the digital side How is air-to-hell providing support to all of these new age organizations? Yeah, I think that's a brilliant question So I think we have two skills that we bring to the table So one is we're very very strong on infrastructure and the other is we've also Invested very heavily on digital and cloud-based ecosystems to power the kind of companies you're talking about So in the infrastructure like I mentioned, we have huge fiber coverage both in India in Africa And we have partnerships with many many countries We have our data center, right? We do a lot of national long-distance as well as local access We've invested in subsea so we have about Some kind of ownership in seven cables and participation in about 33 cables So we are well spread across in terms of connecting anyone from anywhere to anywhere What we've done is we've layered on top of that a fair amount of Digital ecosystem and just to give you three examples on how we are leveraging the cloud in the digital ecosystem for OTT is the new age companies as well as our incumbent companies which are going the digital way So there's one product for example, which is called a tail IQ. It's the first Network embedded cloud-based technology for C pass So what we end up doing is we end up enabling communication through different channels be it voice be it messaging be it video channels to transform the customer experience for Communication for corporate. So that's just one example. We also have our own et al. Clouds at CDN So we leverage that to provide Great experience in terms of web and video content delivery to our customers. So again, it's a great use case and in Gaming and healthcare and ed tech right for OTT. So it's a it's a great use case The third of course as I mentioned is 5g and we believe that that will revolutionize the way We look at the cyber security. We look at IOT or the way we even deliver services on our edge So within the combination of the infrastructure strength We have the eyeballs that we have And the data center investments that you're doing and the digital ecosystem Will really put us in a big place to be the trusted partner for a lot of these companies Well, definitely sounds like it. Yeah, 100% so congratulations Thank you on all of that and all the innovations that you're working on, you know from 5g to Cloud platforms to you know enabling C pass which is important Of course for customer experience in today's world. Is there anything else that you would like to share today? Thank you for this opportunity and the only other thing I would like to tell our viewers is Feel free to visit our website and a lot of exciting things and if you have any questions if you feel We could collaborate in any way. We always open. We always happy to Walk with all of you. So look forward to hearing from a lot of you Yes, and that is air tail Dot I am yeah, so air tail dot I am Ronnie Thank you so much for joining us today here on JSA TV live from PTC 23 in sunny, Honolulu, Hawaii And thank you viewers for tuning in to another fabulous episode. I hope to see you again soon and Happy networking. Thank you


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