sm. We have Wieners, Belfas, Joel, Florbus, Mootlo, Debut, Diego, Squad, Shum, OBS, The Destroyer, Ryan Johnson, Spanky, Bitbengus, Jeb Bush, Yumblemon. We have two Diego's, Bill Burr, Bill Burr Baggins. Call him Coom from Umlaut. Bill Burr Baggins, Diego, Deimos. Okay, we have three Diego's. So this guy's going to be Diego, uh, or not. Let me, let me type. Thank you. Diego, uh, I don't know, it's randomizer. I don't even know what I get. Burial gift. It doesn't show up. Like Portal 2 isn't showing up as like a thing that exists. That's weird. That's a shame.  Do you think on the inside you could get like bits? You could get like a hard drive and you could store some files in there. Yes. But is this the world that Cyberpunk wants? Doxel 3-0 death ron can go? Oh no. Oh, maybe if I go, someone borderless, maybe full screen will do it. I hope the randomizer did activate. Plank shield. No, I think this isn't normal. Hang on, I might have to restart the game. Yo, OBS. This is clearly a full screen application. Hey, there you go. Hey, hey OBS, what's up? Okay. Yes, it should be, it should be when there's randomizer. We're going to like deal with this for a while, because I don't know what else to do. And I'm still worried that this whole stream still exists. I guess it does because you're all commenting on it. So, I'm just going to play this video game. And you know what? If it doesn't maintain its on-screen presence, that's fine. We're just going to have to deal with that. I might even just put the cover up and you'll just hear portal noises. That's good enough. And then, yeah, so I'm just going to read through these in a timely fashion. I still don't know if this is randomized right now. Yo, man. It's pretty good how much Abby Shapiro looks like Ben Shapiro. Genetics, man. Genortex. Oh, gotcha. It's like, does that explain it?   And I still like identical twins. Listen to James. Game is mortal. Game is not frozen. It's just me tabbing out of it for a second, okay? Blue shield was supposed to be there at this random. Oh, okay, cool.  Oh, okay. Do you really think that's the problem? I don't know anything else. So I'm just going to that. Are they like a golf hit type person? Is this a common golf hit thing? I don't know. What is this tweet doing? It's like, this is weird. It's still in this game. So this is the weirdest presentation of a tweet I've ever seen. I'm sorry, the weirdest presentation of a meme I've ever seen. I can't put that on screen. Why would you do this, Jay? I don't... It's like such a normie meme. Post it into the mail chat. People can see what you're talking about, I guess. Oh, my chat. I mean, I can describe it. It's not particularly complex. It's the burning meme. I am once again asking, and it says, I am once again asking for you to return my texts, right? Pretty normie meme. And Habbie Shapiro has posted it with, has tweeted it out as its own thing with the caption. If you have a friend who is bad at texting, I hereby provide you with the perfect meme to call them out. You're welcome. I'm just baffled by that. Why present a meme like that? It's just like...  And it's like someone saying, oh, this food is too hot. And then you tweet it out with the caption. I found the perfect meme that you can post when your food is too hot. It's very strange. Where's the lyj? You read Custom List. No. Where is the lyj? Let's see what people quote tweeted this with. All right.  I guess the guy was really dumb. I agree. That answers the question. All of the questions, actually. Archangels, what's up? Certified trap, seven days of FAP, milkhouse, massive make those wall monger as passive, high rags, high j, hello, Mola, high metal. Hello. Lasvasree looks great. Oh, I read that one. It was weird seeing Boba get manhandled the same episode they tease his new show. I am fine. I think this was happening on the discord. I remember saying like, I don't mind Boba being defeated or even contested for a victory by somebody. I just wish they didn't do it in a way that just had me wondering what the fuck's going on. Like, how is this lady able to pull this guy that way? The part where she flies above him and then uses the leverage to flip him over, like, I guess that's fine. But the initial just tug of war. I don't know. Maybe I just don't know how it works. But he couldn't pull here, but she was able to pull him. I just don't think that she's stronger than him. That's all. But he still did cool things, quote unquote. So you should be very happy. He shot Bibb Fortuner and he sat on Jabba's throne.  Cyberpunk has a failed abortion. Does that mean it's a healthy living child or something? Okay, you should be specific. But yeah, it would have been cool to have a fight where she, like, just did a bit of outskilling. Like, he outskills here, she outskills him, and then they draw.  Where she just yanks him for some reason, and then they also use their fire on each other that somehow, that bit's funny. I'm going to give it to him. That was funny. Come on, game. I'll agree. It was weird. I could see why you'd think it was weird that they would do that and then be like, Boba is really awesome, by the way. You're like, okay. Jay, look out. It's a Shakespeare play, and they're speaking in a manner. Modern times find weird. It must be bad run or. I'll hopefully Jay comes back so I can read that out. Jay will have spicy responses for that, I'm sure. Spoycy. If you rub out a... I don't know what that emotes. Banana, maybe? I, I far she can't tell you, because I can't see. Into your own mouth while looking at a picture of another man's money that equals all seven sins and a family emergency. Wow. Yeah, I mean, I guess they were trying to think of how how to breach all seven sins the fastest way. Pretty impressive. Hey people, did you guys happen? Happened the KFC console? Do you think it's real or fake? So Rags brought it up to me and I was like, okay, that's gotta be fake, right? But then I looked into the news portion of Google for this KFC console and apparently it's real. I don't know.  Well, I mean it's KFC console, so. Fair. Questioning why they would have that. You're not just... I think the randomizer is working. Randomizer. Jay. Yeah, Doc says randomizer. There was a thing for you. What? It says Jay, look out. It's a Shakespeare play. And they're speaking in a manner. Modern times find weird. It must be bad. Run. Oh, oh, oh, good, good point. Yeah, so the thing about the Spider-Man dialogue that was never, never, like, good. Okay, moving on. So, happy Christmas, Molo. Oh, merry everything, yeah. I'm going to play Dark Souls 1 Remaster now. You did this, Moodle. That's okay. Happy play, Christmas. Happy, merry. Happy Krabobblums. Meet Cleaver. Is that one supposed to be here? I don't think so. Happy Christmas, everybody. It's Christmas and the old British tourism's right now. Merry Crimbo, you massives. Merry Crimbo. Language. Why do they call it in oven when you out of in cold food, of out heart eat the food? Yes. I'll try that one more time just to make sure I got this. Why do they call it oven when you of in the cold food and of out heart eat the food? What? Maybe if I take another sip of my drink, makes more sense. A very intense message, you know. Of course, I returned to the office to work on Christmas Eve and there's an eFap. In case Trainee status doesn't save me, Merry Christmas massives. Merry Christmas. I watched Seven Psychopathies leave and thoroughly enjoyed it. It was funny and the acting was great. That is a great movie indeed. Great movie. The dialogue is really good, isn't it? It really is. Liar. Wait, Jay, you were lying? No. But Mel said you were lying. Liar. You were lying? He did it again. Don't listen to him. Metal is lying. Oh, wait a minute. Wait, how dare you. Who am I to believe? Shoot metal. I'm the real one. Oh, wait, what?  There's that joke I've seen. Does Rick and Morty do that joke at some point? Well, it's like, shoot... Simpsons does it.  And I can't remember the joke or the context, but it's really good. I know the Simpsons is done. I joke about that trope. I think, yeah, it could be. It could be Futurama.  Gravity Falls does it, but it's not. See, I'll be face-biting. They could be good in Gravity Falls. It's like, it's a... It is in Gravity Falls, not a joke. It is just the trope in Gravity Falls, but they execute it fine. It's just like, oh, I've seen that a lot before. Especially to randomize, it really isn't working. I need to get it run for tomorrow. I don't know. To work. I hope you'll reference it in Family Guy. I might have done it. Yeah, it could have been. I just remember there's a vision of it that I found funny as hell, but I can't remember what it is now. I don't think they do it completely inappropriate or something, and that's the joke. Like, there is no reason to say that, but they say it anyway. I can't remember though. So it's like someone blurs it. I think they do do it in Family Guy, and they're like, we blurt something that's completely inappropriate and that's how they know it's the real Peter or whatever. They do it in Red Dwarf. You've not seen it in Dwarf. I have not. They do it in Red Dwarf, and it's good in Red Dwarf. Do you remember Futurama's joke for the, the oh-is-she-behind-me joke? It's, God, my, I love Futurama apparently. So Morgan Proctor is the replacement for whom he's gone right in an episode because he's not efficient enough. You don't have to read out what you type in metal. It's okay. Sorry.  And there's this scene where Benda's shitting on her for ages, and then Fry and Leela both look like, oh no, sort of faces, and Benda puts his arms behind him and goes, no, is she behind me?  And he goes, hey. Let's see how this will randomize us not working.  It's not even, I mean, Red Dwarf is a comedy show and there are loads of jokes in it, but it's not explicitly a joke about the trope. It's funny, but it's like the trope is actually the plot of the episode, and they resort a lot of time, I think, to figuring out who the real one actually is. They actually have to figure out the rules of the duplicate and what it would and wouldn't be able to duplicate. And it's, I mean, I guess it's not a major spoiler. I guess I'd give this one. It's, the punchline is essentially, the duplicate ends up being lifted from the character Lister's own perception of himself. So they find, so it's like, it's made from Lister's memories of himself. So they end up finding an area in which Lister completely overestimates his own skills and have them both attempt it, and they kill the one that's actually good at it. And it's like, hey, that's cool. That's neat. That actually works. Yeah, that sounds... Red Dwarf is a good show. I'm sure it is. I've only ever heard good things about it. I didn't. Well, season 11 is just really pointless, and there's like, you just watch the entire thing and you're like, I'm not sure there are any jokes in there, and it's a comedy, but the rest is good. That was researching sharks for enough time. I'm not sure what happened on season 11. Do you know who else murders people who are trying to help? I love Harry Potter, but yeah, a lot of the times... Oh, I hear, I just heard that. Well done. The correct answer is no. You would have just, just heard that in reference to Harry Potter a while ago. I don't know what you mean. You haven't talked about Harry Potter for ages. There are no jokes in Harry Potter. True. Sequels still exist, but none of the new shows are really focused on Ray Finn Poe. I think Luke and Mando made them realize what the right course is. Right course. I guess by right, you mean safest, and also best to please the fans, I suppose. I'm sure for an entire show with Luke having that face.  There's no way they're gonna do an entire show with that face. You think? Are they gonna do the meme and get Sebastian Stan? I think they should. I mean, he does look a lot like him. Are there any S.T.A. Star Wars characters anymore besides Bill Boo? He's not S.T.A. He's just not terrible. Yeah. Well, they assassinated him in his own episodes. Like... He's the only character in the assassinator. Yeah. They assassinated him twice as well, because it's completely different character when he comes back from how he... Well, I save it authoritatively. I haven't seen his original episodes.  Dang it. From what pressure in his return? Is that Fair Mola? He's a completely different character when he returns compared to how he is originally? I think so. I don't think it's justified at all that he's... I think a lot of people would try and cite, well, he's been in prison for a while now, so he's different.  So he's the only character, and he's assassinating twice. If you can tell me how long he's been... Oh, sorry, okay. They assassinated him twice. They give him a completely different new character, and then they assassinate back. He just doesn't... This is the thing. Like, Bilbo just isn't playing the same guy. Like, it seems like he's just a different...  What do you want to do in the episode? Fuck! Have him do this, this, this, this, this, this, and we will need him to be like this, this, this, this.  He's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, so they kind of assassinated him twice. Do you think in his next appearance, he's gonna talk about how he like... He just hates explosions, and he would never deliberately cause an explosion, because he hates explosions so much.  Not only he would never go in near explosives, he just hates, he hates explosions. He has PTSD from killing all the, all the Stormtroopers. No, no, no, no, no. He's had this since before that, this is his whole life. We have to reset his character again. Oh, okay. That's the point. He has to be a different character for no reason. Who contradicts the character he's been previously. Wait, someone said the game is a wee bit loud. I can barely hear it myself, but I guess I'll put it to really low. You're playing Portal 2 again? Again? Yeah. I never play this on stream. Well, because you have played it before, haven't you? Oh yeah, and Portal 2's looking great. Hopefully that's not too loud now, Chaturuz. I can't hear you. What? Love you guys, keep it the great work. Cyberpunk 2077 is a 6 out of 10. If they fix the bugs in gameplay and get some great DLC, it could be a 7.508. High rags. I mean, yeah. What? We hope for the best. That's way, way quiet. Sounds fine to me. Oh my god!  Look what you've done. All right, that's all I got. Oh my god. Okay. It could be good. What?   So like I said, just trying to get through these as quick as possible, make sure the stream actually lives. Just finished the Last of Us 2 playthrough videos and subsequent eFabs all highly entertaining and informative. Would the story have been any better if it was connected at all to the original IP? It is connected to the original IP. That's the problem. If it were on its own, we'd be okay with it. I guess by that, do they mean what the original's point is, or what the original's going for rather than... Is there an original that The Last of Us based on? Is it like a game based on comics or something? Not to my knowledge, I think it's entirely original as far as I was aware, but honestly, they can do whatever crazy subversive shit they want to do if they just have someone who can write on the team. That would be great. So I mean, the red wedding is the go-to example for this kind of thing, right? Oh yes, I mean, it's like on paper. It sounds like it would piss everyone off, but if you really justify it right away, it's like, oh man, that's good. It's justified within the story. I'm like, you know what? It could piss people off, that'd be fine, but if it's justified within the story, okay. I just realized I can't jump down here without dying. And it's not like it's an insult to everything. I mean, in the same way that like... YOLO. I mean, there are some sort of like... No chance. Okay. They're not really rules about consistency, so to speak, but they are just sort of things that it's like, okay, I think the example you gave Moeller is if Star Wars Return of the Jedi ended with after the most of the confrontation with between Luke and Vader and Palpatine, Chewie just shows up because he's there and that's fine. It works plot-wise, but he just shows up from the background and shoots Palpatine in the back and he dies. And you'd be like, oh, consistently, consistency-wise, that works fine, but it's just sort of like... Yeah, then we get into talking about... I don't really like what they chose to do.  Yeah.  Well, I guess that would be for me personally saving Private Ryan. Sure. Yeah, I think that would be a point. There's a couple things that this applies to us. It's just that these days the stuff comes out and that conversation's barely getting had. I was desperately trying to figure out... I must be tired. Well, it is midnight and I've not stayed up this long in a very long time. No, no, no. Well, I guess actually I've stayed up 24 hours later than I normally would. That sounds like rape. Over the course of going to bed like an hour later every night. So, yeah, this is I guess the latest I've ever been up with probably like a grand total of like two weeks late going to bed because I go to bed like an hour later every night. That's the end of the story. Portal footage and I forgot that it was new.    This is insane. It just doesn't, you're like, wow. I was really intrigued as to where the video was going. What is he saying? I don't know. I'm tired. But yeah, I don't know. The solution for the last two how about we just we first of all make some stuff make sense then we can talk about whether or not they were true to the original and stuff. Or what narrative they should have ran with. Because would the story been better if it wasn't connected at all to the original IP? Maybe the question is trying to ask would it be better if it was completely disconnected? In which case probably because they would have less to contradict. I think I broke my game. I'm not getting any souls that just realized. Happy birthday afterwards, Miola. Birthday. Okay. Isn't Christmas now better than Halloween? Confess. Christmas tries. It does. It really wants to be better than Halloween but Halloween is just it strolls in.  And Christmas is like, I'm pretty cool too.  Also, also high rags. Merry Christmas at all. Thanks. Merry Christmas. Merry Crumbomius. Please have rags read this in an angry voice. All right. Well, I guess I'll have to find one moment. I shall get a thing and save the stuff. Recognize the loud soup. Yeah. Catholics don't believe you can earn your way into heaven but believe in Christ as the Son of God who forgives sins means you follow his teachings. Very well. Bitch.  While Christians would say this is true, story pigs could talk and build houses. In both cases, they missed the point of the story.  I mean, I think most atheists understand the concept of like a story only supposed to be putting forth a message. It's just that some of the stuff in certain tellings of different scriptures are supposed to be things that actually happened. Dude, he raped me. Depending on who you talk to, they might say that they are realsies or that they're not realsies. Even then, like stories about your all powerful God turning someone into a pillar of salt for doing butt stuff and like, what is the message that God is terrible? Because I don't think it's supposed to be. Well, that's where reader response theory comes in, Jay. Oh, no. Merry Christmas all from Florida, man. Are you re-money in Mando? Maybe 5,000 wasn't credits, but 1,000 was. Watu didn't want credit slash data re's. The tarries, still bad. I mean, it wouldn't necessarily matter. That was more of an afterthought, that little bit. The more important part is the Mando consistency of you pay 5,000 for a bounty, but 1,000, and that pays for fuel, maybe, while 5,000 repays your ship. That don't seem right.  Dude, if you can spare the turrets, you should. They're living creatures. Liar. Let me give an example, right? I need that cube, and all of them are just sitting there. I can do this without hurting them.  They just fire loads of bullets and panic and coom.   Ah, I killed one. No, I didn't. You killed two. No.  I would never. I do love how they just like, ah, I'm panicking and cooming. That's what we're going to do. We're going to delete one of the autism's here. Let's see. Well, you can't super chat the word Christians, really. Cringe. Okay, okay. Disintegrating the turret. That's too far. That's your opinion.   That's fine. Jamming their face into disintegration. That, that goes too far. Custom list, no, done. Okay. Yeah, Catholics do believe Genesis is actual history, but to the Lord, a 1000 years is like a day vice and vice versa. I'm not even, a thousand years to the Lord is like a day. I don't think I got nothing. Yeah, I don't know. No hard feelings, Dalgo. Here's a treat. You criticized religion, have some money, high rags. He would say, huh? Can you explain Jared response theory? No. What I tried to say earlier about Luke and Mando is it's the one moment in the entire story show that made me go, awesome. Only thing I asked to see from anything Star Wars after TLJ. Otherwise I agree the show is enjoyable trash. Yeah, I mean, that's fine. Like, to think that scene is awesome. Yeah, I can see you. Thanks, see why. Let's be a Samurai. Is it well choreographed? I guess we might get a Shad video breaking it down. Shad, do it. Tell me if, if Luke was flimping his lutes well or not. Don't do it. It's a trap. Have y'all seen the collider George Lucas Deepfake? The Trost trailer reaction is great. I've been recommended that before. I still haven't seen it. I think this is a standard item. Let's see. The Expans is a good show. I watched, I think, three seasons and I thought it was kind of too bad. A mutting shield. Everyone is very hype about it. And so, I guess I missed out. That was the shield. Yeah, I'm playing as the Whites of Murray now. That is cool though. There's a lot of cool stuff in the Expans. Cool ideas. I think it actually moans. Oh, damn. Sweet. Oh, Archangel, thanks for the 300 bits. Going to pub with Wife. Have a Merry Christmas metal and chat. Have a Merry Crabopilon, Archangel. And thank you for the bitties. Different ways. Do you think we're going to be able to pronounce Christmas by the end of this? You mean Crabambalam? Grimbab. Grimbab. Let me see if the shield moans. Guys, who is the cringiest atheist you know of? I mean, like... It's probably going to be one of the, like, the low tier skeptic YouTubers. I assume they mean like, I assume they mean cringy with their atheism, rather than specifically just an atheist who is also cringed. That'll be okay. The shield actually moans. It does? It just goes like... Oh, that's great. That's hilarious. Sinder's mod is insane. Oh, I follow the mod. I see. Star Trek TOS has Abe Lincoln in space. Watch it. I'm fed rolling by the fault. Oh, I feel like that's a strange standard. That seems like the standard to me. Well, then watch it. That's better. Troy and Crusher working out in 80s gear best scene. That is a pretty good scene. Metal, the thousand years thing is trying to explain that seven days to create the universe isn't necessarily a week in human time. It's a post-HOC, literalist, creationist, apologetics type argument, also known as bollocks.  I mean, I just like the idea that there's any kind of time restriction for God, you know, in any way. I think that was one of the things I asked in my original RE classes. I was like, why did it take him seven days? It's like, or six, even, you know, because one day was for resting one of. Or maybe he was thinking about it. Maybe he was like... He's got a little like world editor. He's clicking through the bad use, looking at the tooltips like, yeah, trees. They seem neat. Trees? I like trees. Trees are pretty cool. But, you know, caught us in a tight schedule. No compets in this world. They won't even know what compets are. I was going to make that joke, but I couldn't come up with anything that sounds vaguely real. I just kept going to flumes and stuff. Yeah, that's the issue my brain was having as well. The first one was flumbos. I'm like, no, it can't be flumbos. Stop it, brain. Stop it. Stop. God, just really nice brain. Stop it, brain. Stop. Stop. Stop it, Ron. Stop it. Merry Christmas, Utisms, and a Happy New Year. If I got an artist who makes skins slash characters of the EFAP crew in Darkest Dungeon, would you play it? Is that like modding it? Or is it just something to put on the screen? If it were the former, I'd be tempted, but I wouldn't want to promise anything like that because... Dude, I got my favorite item. I like Darkest Dungeon, but I don't know if I'd be able to commit. To playing like through a lot of it. I assume you'd want it to be on stream too. Oh, it's the item metal. It's question mark, accessory, something, question mark. But I can't have it because my inventory has already has it or something. I don't know. Who's... You know, question mark was the original name of the Riddler? Really? Yeah. He was going to be called question mark. Is it? Uh... Fuck, Henry. Is that true? It simply went with the much more sensible name of Edward Nygma. I'm getting good news up, motherfucker. No, that's not true. You're doing it. I was literally going to follow up with... That makes sense because they ended up calling him Edward Nygma. Yes. What's the most like... That, you know, you know, that kind of name for a comic book character? Because I think it's probably Harleen Quinzel. Stop. Stop. Stop. Stop it, Ron. Stop. I remember... Stop it, Harleen. When I first found out that was her full name, I thought it was like... That was still post-her becoming Harley Quinn or whatever. No. And I was like, no, no, no, that's just... That's just who her name is. You can even use it. Literally just calling her Harley Quinn, like that's her real name, would be less ridiculous than that. Harleen Quinzel. It's just like that's... Okay. Harley and Quinn are both real names. Harleen Quinzel. I have no... I'm not going to definitively say are not real names. I will just say I have never seen them anywhere else. They're certainly less common. Look at the name arbiter over here. Are there any more names of that... Of that caliber in comics? There's many more names. There's more names than those? No. Like, perfect. Your name is either Harleen Quinzel or Edward Nygma. It's the word of the old Nygma.  Which means penguins. Oh, 500. Which kind of just... Victor Freeze to Mr. Freeze? That's not as bad. That's like not as bad. His name being Freeze is still like... That's a weird name. That's crazy coincidence in your eyes powers, but it's not Harleen Quinzel or Edward Nygma. Someone's going to call you out on this. It's not Freeze. It's like spelt with an S. It doesn't... Like, it's pronounced that way, but it's not the word Freeze, okay? God. It's Fresca, actually. Victor Von Doom. Victor Von Freeze. Oh, Dr. Doom. That's pretty... By the way, I think Dr. Doom, coming from Victor Von Doom, is as cringe as calling the evil place where the ring was made Mount Doom. Just FYI. Oh, cool. Yeah, but those are dual hot takes because it just criticised two things that are beloved. It's basically just Dr. Evil, but done ironically. Well, yeah. Dr. Doom. Even though I think Dr. Doom is kind of awesome, I wish he wasn't called Dr. Doom. Oh, actually, I wish his real name wasn't Victor Von Doom. If he calls himself Dr. Doom, fine. I don't know what exactly the reasoning is about. It's also like... Oh, because he's an edge lord, IRL, I guess. Lol, I'm Dr. Doom. Like, I don't... I don't really make a character who... I consider myself Dr. Doom without that character having no self-awareness like in-universe. Because that's the only way... Like, you can't take that name. So, like, the only reaction to that is when a character renounces, I will call myself from now Dr. Doom. So was it Von Doom is a real surname? It doesn't matter if the name's a real, really. I'm sorry. It's the writer still choosing to call them this thing. What? It's a real surname. Probably is.  Because I will find it.  I mean, I'm cool with Brainiac if it's named by... So this is the case that I'm okay with... Well, I'm not really okay with Mount Doom in this case.   You know? And that goes the same for, like, if you have a place that kind of... Like, Brainiac is the AI that Superman has to fight, right? And it's like, if Superman called it Brainiac... Does it call itself Brainiac? It's kind of... It's kind of vain. I don't know. It's kind of vain. I'm pretty smart on Flash. Pretty smart. Dr. Von Diem. Brainiac's real name is Vryldocs. So there are military records in the U.S., I believe. Oh, no, I think... Might have been the U.K., I can't remember specifically. I've got it written down, but I don't remember. I don't recall which country it was. On Ancestry.com, there's public records of... Charles Spott and Walden Spott. Someone said that the mountain is called K2 because it didn't have a name. I think K2 is a cool name. I don't know why. Minimalist. Is it, though? Okay. I'm not sure. I might be on an old seat. I'm not sure. Doesn't matter. Works. What did you say, Jay? What is your real name? Was Walden Spott. I would no longer use my real name. There is a military record of a man called Walden Spott. What a legend. Did you ever see the thing from the Japanese video game where a guy, some employee... It was like a baseball game, I think. An employee of whatever studio it was who was Japanese, had to come up with like a full team's worth of western sounding names. But they were all... Have you ever seen... Did you see that? It's great. Not familiar to me. Mattle, did you see that? Adjust at day. Oh, okay. Let me find them. No. I don't want it. Don't touch me. Western sounding names. Baseball game. Old school Hollywood. There it is. It's from...   We've got Sleeve McDeckel. That's a strong start. I'm excited now. I'm hooked. Really? Sleeve. And hang on. And Toly Smorin. Bobs and Ducknut. All right, those are the best ones. I just like the first name is Sleeve. Sleeve is great. Sleeve is fully a champed up name. Like Smeave is one of the ones we had, I think. Smeave, yeah. Smeave, yeah. Visible Smeave. Visible Smeave was a character. Like, you could slot any of our... Any of our... Well, a lot of our champed up names and they would fit in in this list. Smeave again. Pembo. And Pethna. Pethna. We should play champed up on New Year's Eve. Oh yeah, that'd be great. Well, I think... I might... Well, I have plans on New Year's Eve, but I don't know how they're gonna go with lockdown. So depending on what happens, I guess. Where are we? You should cover Farscape. I do intend to do something with Farscape at some point. I don't know what it's gonna be. Liar. But it could be fun. Watch TOS, then TOG. TNG, sorry. While they are separate shows, but the original series builds the world out, you will miss some context in TNG. Also, to contrast Kirk and Picard. Get wrecked, Jay. Mr. I.H.T.O. What? Oh, cards. Favorite season of Downsong.  Question. Frag sick. But there's so many good ones. Yeah. I like Eagle of Rain a lot. I mean, BYOB is kind of a... Narrow choice. You can't do that. I mean, yeah, it's great. Not allowed to choose that one. It's gonna be more interesting. What's the name of the one that goes... Fuck, I always forget the name of that one. Is it vicinity of obscenity, or is that just a lyric? Yes. No, that's the one.  Yeah, that one was great. I don't know why. Is the one called bounce that's just... Yes. Yeah. Bounce, pogo, pogo, pogo, pogo. Up, down, jump, now. I saw them life once.  I went out on a date with a girl. It was late. She had so many friends.  System of a Down. They're just awesome. Yeah. They released three new songs a couple of weeks ago. They're not that great, unfortunately. I don't like them that much. Old school Hollywood is actually pretty awesome, too. Oh, Sad Statue as well. I love that song. You and me will always find more lyrics with a sad statue of liberty and a generation that didn't agree. I want to listen to some of that now. You forced me. Metal is wrong. Don't say the songs are bad in front of everybody. Wrong about what? I didn't say they were bad. I just said I didn't like them that much.  They're going to force you to do a 10-hour critique. On the song? Oh, God. Hell, yeah. So some of the Down sucks? Oh, my God. Yeah, you can tell that person. You have karaoke when? I'll be down. I love karaoke. Metal, you like game grumps. That's kind of hard to do. Sorry, good. Metal, you like game grumps? Not anymore. I remember you were still watching that for a decent while after meeting me and I just kept shitting on them. I was like, I'll stop. Yeah, and then I got bored, too, because it's just good. Yeah, I think I've told people before, but Tired Grumps was the end of my rope. I was like, okay, I'm out.  I'm trying to figure out what was the last thing I watched. The last thing I can remember watching was probably the Doki Doki Literature Club playthrough. I think that's the last thing I watched, if I remember correctly. And then I just fizzled out and I couldn't bear it anymore. I was just like, yeah.  We're just tired now because it's the end of 2020. Yep, we had a long 2020. Watch Big Lez Show and play Liberal Crime Squad. I don't know what any of that is, but I agree. Longman PC ruins Christmas? Oh no. Ow. Looks like it's time for a fundraiser for a new PC. Mola? Golf killed it. Well, hopefully if I don't freeze for a while because I stopped playing golf, then I'll know that it was golf.  Not necessarily, okay? So the Mandalorian girl, she's already, like what, like a wrestler IRL, right? So she's probably got a relish at least. Yes, such a thanks. She's probably got a body built to be able to do something in some way. She's also got the armor and she's a character that's probably got a history of fighting, right? So I'm cool with a character beating another one that is bigger than them through, like, leverage is a whole thing. If you watch Pirates of the Caribbean, they talk about leverage a lot because it can change a lot of situations that you think that you should be losing because of leverage. Now, I don't think they did a very good job of it when she fought Boba, in fact. Yeah, because she just pulls. He pulls her and she stays still. She pulls him and he goes, whoa! It's like, I don't, I'm not following. I don't see how that works. And, you know, there's not going to be made about the way they were standing or the fact that he was surprised, I guess. I just wish they would have done it in a way that was more justified than just having her pull him. She is way made of a much denser material than he is. So he's made of flesh, he's made of flush, and it's just like punch it, and it's like stone. Flush. So yeah, I got my flush everywhere. This is a question for Rags, so I'll just save it for him. I had a couple things left over from before. I probably should have just had them answer here, but we'll try and do it in the next D-Fap, I suppose. Not the next D-Fap, because that's coming out tomorrow and it's going to be a crimbous one, so that's already recorded. Crimbous. And glory to the Toxic Brood and to all a very merry Christmas. Wonderful. And with that, I think I'm now going to try and rescue what is left of whatever happened in this stream. In the, what we'll do now is, I'll unlist it quickly, so there's no longer clogging up anybody's, oh my god. Look at this, this is the, the overall sort of engagement level, I guess. Of the stream, just look at those two dips, it's like what happened. At the same time, Metal Stream has the opposite. Why does it keep, okay, why, why is there a consistent pattern of it going down, then up with two spikes, then down, then up with two spikes? I don't know. Maybe that's the way that we can process the people. Yeah, I imagine that's not natural, it's probably some kind of weird bot thing. So we're to flungus. So I guess we're, you're Danza with the super chats? I, well, I'm going to exit the stream at this point. So a quick, quick outro would be that tomorrow, and by that I mean about probably 10 hours from now, there's going to be a premiere for the Jingle All the Way E-Fap movies. An hour after that will be the premiere of the 7-hour E-Fap, The Crimbus. It's all been, it's all done ahead of time, enjoy. And then an hour after that finishes will be Mandalorian Episode 8 Reaction, and that's two hours long. So basically the whole day is just going to be filled with E-Fap. Is the, is the Christmas E-Fap any good, or is it more just kind of weird bread? It's, it's, it's pretty commonplace. You'll probably find it everywhere. Bit soggy, soggy baguette sort of situation, yeah. Yeah. Are you going to continue streaming more at all? No, I need to get up tomorrow as well, because I sort of have family stuff. So yeah, I'm going to go offline as well. Thanks to all the subs and donations, those are very kind. I will be back tomorrow online, actually. I don't know if any of the Massives is going to be around, but you can just, I guess I just flume you and see if you're around. I'm just going to be chilling here in the evening, probably just play some more Dark Souls. And yeah, if you want, if anyone needs something to hang out, I'll be here. I'll be here. You'll be here. I'll be here. For all everybody. Good boy. Say goodbye, Jay. No. Wow, Jay is such a cool guy. I thought you were going to say goodbye, Jay. And then I've been like, oh, that's not what I meant. That's, that's. Say goodbye, Jay. Oh, I thought you were going to say goodbye, say goodbye, Jay. And I'll be like, oh, that's not what I meant. Yeah. Wait, you kept the first say in there. You'd have to drop that for that joke to work. Sure. I realize what I did halfway through and then I faulted a bit.  I'm committed now. You were hoping no one would notice, but I saw the plot hole, Jay. I saw right through your. And just edit it out in post. You can do that. You can use it in post. Clip, clip, chip. Oh, look how good that was. Tea of the heat. Wait, did you, did you stop already? Oh my God. That's, that's right. Goodbye. Goodbye, Merry Crabobelums. Merry Crember.


My entire closet is full of these dudes. Yeah. Got it. All right, let's get started. So thanks everybody for coming to my talk. I know it's a little late in the afternoon. It's the last day of the conference, so I'd really appreciate the turnout. So let's get really serious and stop monkeying around. Do you need me at all? No, I'm good. Thanks. All right. So before I get started, there was a little bit of a, I guess kind of a bet that if at least 16 people, which I realize now is a very ridiculously low number of people, retweet my tweet about my talk, I would wear this monkey suit. And almost immediately, at least 20 or so people did it. So I was, here you go. But I packed it to come here, so I kind of wanted just to do this anyway. So you know that would probably do it anyway. So thanks for coming. My name is Will Foster. I work on the OpenStack R&D infrastructure team at Red Hat. And I'm here today to talk about Tristack. So what is Tristack? Let me get a raise of hands real quick. Is anyone here familiar with Tristack? Has anyone used it yet or is it where? Awesome. So about half of you. Okay. So Tristack is a free open source. It's a free public OpenStack sandbox that the purpose of this is basically to provide a free way for people to try OpenStack. It started in 2011. And we sort of took it over with the help of a lot of community sponsors like NetApp. Red Hat as well does a lot of administration there at Cisco. And the project is officially sponsored by the OpenStack Foundation. So it is a free place for you to try OpenStack without any of the complexity of installing it yourself or maintaining it or any of all that stuff. You can just get on there and go crazy. There's a few reasons of why we have Tristack. So we wanted to provide a very easy way for people who weren't familiar with Cloud, who weren't familiar with OpenStack at the very least at all, to just go and have a place to kick the tires and get used to it. We wanted to keep things as vanilla as possible with Tristack. So we don't have any sort of distribution markings. Everything runs on RDO. So there's no branding at all. It's basically what you get from upstream OpenStack. You can experience on Tristack. So in 2015, we had a bit of a hairy situation where the original Tristack infrastructure was hosted in the data center out in California and it mysteriously went off the air. So it just disappeared. So we first thought it was a network problem. We investigated that. Turns out there's no outages. It just simply disappeared. And what happened was the ownership of Tristack as far as who pays the electricity bill, who pays the COLO bill, was transferring hands between Rackspace and OpenStack Foundation. And somewhere along the way, someone forgot to pay the electricity bill. So things just went away. It put us in a very interesting predicament because we lost all of the stuff that we had there. All of the tooling, all of the data that wasn't in Git repositories or weren't backed up anywhere off-site were gone. So we very quickly had to scramble, find a new home for Tristack, buy all new gear, put it in a new data center, and reinstall everything from scratch. So that was a very interesting time. So that was around June timeframe. And since then, we've completely revamped the deployment. And it's back and it's bigger and better than ever. So let's talk about where it is and how it works. Tristack has a slash 24 public IP address. So if you're an average person and you want to spin up an application, you want to test an app, you want to just kind of kick the tires, you get allotted one public IP address. We have about a half a rack of servers there, of Dell servers, donated to us for this purpose. And we have a NetApp array as well, donated by NetApp, and a couple of Cisco switches. So we have a very minimal compute count, about 144 vCPUs, right under about 900 gigs of memory. So the resources are very finite. So we can only accommodate a very small amount of people at once, which creates a challenge for us to have an environment that everyone gets a chance to try it out. So here's a picture of the Tristack data center, a typical data center. Here there's really nothing out of the ordinary that I can see. These are the data center cats. No one really knows how they got there. They've just kind of always been there. I think they're multiplying because every time I go back there, there's more that show up. I don't really question it, they just kind of hang out. I think one of them fixed Neutron once. I don't know. So Tristack, so what do people use Tristack for? And what do people in general use OpenStack for? Well, there's a ton of uses for it. Tristack in particular, some of the major ones are DevStack. So we'll get people that want to quickly spin up an OpenStack environment and then test actual code against it. This might be patches, this might be sandbox type code that they might plan on contributing later upstream. So we provide functionality for that. We don't really have any limits on what you want to use it for as long as it's for educational purposes and it's not illegal. We have a good use case in education. There's a university in Slovenia whose computer science department is teaching a course on cloud computing. The professor contacted us a few months ago and said, hey, is it okay if I sign up my whole class and I use it as part of my curriculum? Sure, awesome. This class in Slovenia, this university, now their cloud computing class is using Tristack for basically hands-on learning. That's another good use case. A lot of folks use Tristack for cloud apps, for testing applications, for testing functionality. The RDO project runs some of their external CI on it as well. And some Manila development also happens on the NetApp side. So Ben Schwartzlander, who's the Manila PTL, also does development on the NetApp drivers, the bare metal drivers for Aaronic and for the NetApp infrastructure. So those are just a couple of use cases, but we're seeing even more and more interesting things. People spinning up a very quick blog just to test functionality or people spinning up Etherpad or something like that and then tearing it down. But with all these use cases, demand is extremely high. So I went back as of a couple of days ago and just kind of compiled some of the metrics, some of the usage metrics for Tristack. Over time, we've had about 22,000 users total since its inception. That's quite a bit for a public cloud, especially one of this size. Current active users is about 3,300 right now. On average, we see about 300 instances spun up every day, more or less, and that's about 7,500 a month. And we track all this with some tooling, which I'm going to talk about in a little bit. And then we have about 800 active networks. So this is kind of a snapshot as of a couple of days ago of the active usage. Now it's important to note that I'm not very good at microphones. It's important to note that occasionally we completely wipe Tristack. Any time that we upgrade to a new version of OpenStack, we wipe everything. But if you've ever created an account there, then when you log back in, the way that the authentication works is that if your account isn't already active, it automatically recreates it. So that's where we get that 22,000 number. It's from 2011 and forward. The 3,000 number is anyone who's used it actively since we last installed the current version. So kind of illustrating this in more of a dashboard view, this is Grafana, which is one of the tools that we use. It lets us kind of visualize various metrics that are happening on the Tristack. So we can kind of see the number of active tenants here, free memory, really anything that we can collect with CollectD, which is another tool that we use, we can kind of visualize here. It's very useful for admin teams to just have a quick glance at what's happening in your infrastructure. So onto tooling. So when you install OpenStack, when you set things up, the fun just begins. You're not done, you're just getting started. There's a tremendous amount of cleanup, of maintenance that needs to be done, of operational tooling that you want to put in place so that you can manage the environment with a minimal number of people. And you can do so intelligently, and you can do so as automated as a fashion as possible. So we use some pretty standard tools. Right off the bat, config management is extremely important. Right now we use Puppet for config management. We are looking at using Ansible as well, so we use kind of a hybrid approach, that we use Ansible to push manifests. So how many people are familiar with Puppet here before I get to in the weeds here? Okay, awesome, about half people. So we use standalone Puppet manifests. We've got a lot of resources put into those. We've got a lot of, I don't want to say debt, but we've got a lot of mindshare put into Puppet configs to automate things. We don't want to throw that out. We want to reuse that. That's the necessity of having a client server model with Puppet masters and clients. So we use standalone Puppet manifests, but we use Ansible to kind of push those out as kind of to be the delivery vehicle. Those run, and then they make the different servers inside of Tristack appear as they need to be. They end the state that we intend them to be for things to operate. We're investigating some other ways to do it, possibly using heat templates in the future, but right now we're pretty much all Puppet. That's the config management part. For graphing and trending, like we just saw the dashboard here, we use Grafana and Graphite with CollectD, which runs on each of those hosts. For logging and aggregation, because we definitely don't want to be in the business of SSHing to individual servers and kind of rooting through log files when something goes wrong. For aggregation, we use Elk, the Elk stack, so Elastic Search, LogSash, and Kibana. And then lastly, we use Nagios for monitoring. There's a lot of monitoring tools out there. There's many, many good ones. Zabix is very popular. I believe the OpenShift guys use that. Sentsu is another up-and-comer, which looks quite well, but we chose Nagios because we're comfortable with it. It's something that we've used for decades. It's got a big community behind it, a lot of plugins. And for what we do with OpenStack, it's extremely easy for us to write custom plugins. Some of the functionality that you want to monitor with OpenStack is not going to come out of the box. You're going to need to tailor that yourself. It's still very much kind of a DIY situation. And I'm going to get into the Nagios bits here in a second. So this is as ugly as it is, and it's written in parole, so don't hold it back. This is our Nagios dashboard. Now, we've extended this. This is publicly viewable. Anybody can hit this and see what's going on with Tristack at any point in time. But I want to just point out to one check here. If you see about halfway down the page, zero nine floating IP allocation, this is an example of a custom check that this one single check will tell us if the entire health of the OpenStack cluster is operating as it should. So we have a check that goes in. It spins up an OpenStack instance. So it tests all the Nova functionality. It attaches a floating IP address. It pings the floating IP address, and it gets a response. It then SSHs into the instance and runs an arbitrary command and gathers the result of that command and then records it. Then every 15 minutes it does this and it tears down that instance. Now the point of this is that through that process, just about every piece of core OpenStack functionality is tested. If any of those fail at all, it alerts. And if it alerts, then we get pings on IRC and people don't like to see things spam on screen, so they let us know very quickly. So that's just kind of a small example of some custom tooling that we've had to put together to encompass health checks to make sure things work correctly. The reason I point this out, too, is that you might be able to ping an instance. You might be able to bring up a VM. You might be able to ping it, but you might not be able to SSH to it because maybe the metadata service is down. Or various parts might not work as you expect them to. And we're not there yet, but this is kind of where we want to get full coverage on every single scenario of every type of failure that we would see in a production OpenStack implementation. So, house cleaning. When you install OpenStack, when you set it up, you're just getting started. So with TriStack, we got a lot of people that want to use the service. We get dozens and dozens of requests every day of folks that want to be added to it, that want to check it out. We have hundreds and hundreds of instances that get spawned every day, and we have a very finite amount of resources. You know, with a slash 24, we only have about 250 usable IP addresses. And we have 300 instances that spawn every day. We're cutting it pretty close. So there's a certain amount of house cleaning that has to happen for you to ensure that people have resources, that it has fair distribution, and that people that are interested in OpenStack still have a place to try it out. So to that end, we have also tooling that we've put together that go through and cull resources after a certain amount of time. So floating IP addresses, for example, are purged every 12 hours. We have sender volumes that are deleted every 48 hours. The actual instances themselves, the VMs are deleted every day, every 24 hours as well. And then we clear the gateways every 24 hours. And we've adjusted this over time. We've, depending on the demand, how many people want to use the service, we might extend those checks. So we might say, okay, we're going to let people have a public-facing IP address, have their OpenStack instance running. They can do it for an entire day, or they can do it for two days. But as demand has risen, and the amount of hardware has not risen, we've had to kind of shrink and grow what we allow people to use. So here's an example. Again, this is the Grafana dashboard. And you can see this is when the culling happens. This is when these tools fire off for us to reclaim resources. And we're always playing a very dangerous game because we're always getting very close to max capacity before this tooling fires off and cleans the slate for other people to come in and try things. So you can see very clear patterns here of usage and usage and usage, creation, instances spinning up, IPs flying around everywhere. And to a certain point, when it becomes time to reclaim things, we cut it all down, and then they grow up again. And this cycle rinses and repeats itself. And it's kind of an ongoing battle. It's a challenge from an operational perspective because you only have, you know, 12, 13 servers right now. And you have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people that daily want to use the service. So further automation. And back again, just to kind of running an open-stack cloud with a very small amount of people is you need to automate as much stuff as possible. If you have a very small team, especially if you're geographically distributed, you don't ever want to be doing something more than once, especially doing things manually. So there's some additional automation we put in place. The first major thing that we've done recently is the Tristack website content. So if you go to Tristack.org, you'll see the CSS content there. You'll see kind of the login button where you can get into Horizon, start messing with your open-stack instances. That website content is managed the exact same way that code in open-stack is managed. So that CSS content is in a GitHub repo. If I wanted to make a change to it or anyone else wanted to make a change to it, they would clone that repo. They would submit a Git review. That would go through tests and CI. Then that would go through Garrett and people would vote. If people liked the change, then eventually it would get merged, and then it would just automatically appear. So it's kind of a trivial thing, website content, but we wanted to stay as close as possible to how upstream open-stack manages its own code repositories. The other thing that is useful so far, and this is fairly new advancement, is we've tied in the Nagios alerting to IRC bots to have a little bit more transparency on when things go wrong. So when there's an alert, when one of these checks fail, it will broadcast in public IRC and it will also broadcast to us directly so that we have a lot of coverage and people just know what the state of the environment is. It's just of adamant importance to be as transparent as possible. So challenges. Cloud is not easy. There's a lot of stuff to do with it. There's a lot of post-work, there's a lot of tooling, a lot of automation that needs to happen. Demand and growth. Dozens of people try to sign up every day. The account approval process is done manually. We try to determine that someone's a human before they can join. But other than that, everyone's free to check it out. Security. With any sort of public-facing service, whether it's a cloud-based service or even just a web server, security is always a challenge. You see some very, very interesting usages of the service. So we do have tooling in place to say, tell me who owns this floating IP address at this time back in history. So we have an audit trail. Now this functionality doesn't come with OpenStack. You can't, with the default tools that ship with OpenStack, determine a point in time of who had a certain IP address unless you record it. So we have tooling that will do all this for us and very quickly tell us if someone's kind of breaking the rules or breaking the terms of service, who it is, and then we can hammer ban them. We don't want to do that, but people have to follow the rules. We've had a couple of cases, one in particular where a lad was torrenting a Justin Bieber album. Now I'm a strong believer that people should be able to listen to whatever music they want, but you shouldn't copyright music on a public-facing service, especially one that's for free. Rationing of resources, again, it's just the same theme. We have more people that want to use the service than we have resources to give out. And one of our biggest issues now, this is kind of our main focus with TriStack, is the auth system. So there was a historical decision made back in 2011 that the authentication mechanism for TriStack was Facebook. So who is a fan of Facebook here? Who has a Facebook account? Raise your hand. Yeah, probably everybody. And if you don't have one, guess what, you have one. Because they just make them for you, even if you don't have one, you got one. But Facebook was the, at the time, it was the choice for authentication, that they have an API and auth API that ties in to OAuth. You have a Facebook account. You join the TriStack Facebook group. Now you can log into Horizon on TriStack. That is the number one complaint that we get with TriStack, is when is Facebook going to go away? Oh, it's historical, and I'll get to that. So in the meantime, what we've done is we've allowed API access. If you log into TriStack once, you can retrieve your API credentials, and you never have to go through Facebook again. You can log in directly to TriStack with the CLI or with Horizon. Now we are in the process of moving to OpenStack ID, which is kind of the end all be all authentication mechanism for OpenStack. So if you have an OpenStack foundation account, now you can log directly into TriStack. No if, ands, or buts, just directly in there. We don't have plans of decommissioning the Facebook off. We're just going to let it kind of be secondary because there's still 22,000 people in that community, and it's been quite helpful. There's a lot of folks that answer questions in there. There's a pretty vibrant community. It is Facebook for what it is, but that's not something that we want to scrap, but it will not be the primary off mechanism, and that's something we're actively working on. That's about number one on the priority list, is getting that taken care of. That's why it's added here to challenges. So more improvements. We talked about OpenStack ID. Another thing that we need to work on is better monitoring. You're never truly done with monitoring. There's always some area that you don't have test coverage, that you don't, something's going to break. Two days ago when I was getting the most up-to-date metrics for the usage, the Grafana subsystem was down, and a portion of CollectD wasn't reporting in. Now, Nagio services were running. The checks were passing, but physically it wasn't writing data. So that's another little edge case that we just didn't anticipate, but it resulted in a failure, and then we had a gap of about a day or two where we didn't have any data, that we didn't know what was going on with the environment. So you're constantly, as you run a large public service, as you operate an OpenStack cloud, you're constantly finding little areas and gaps that you didn't know you needed coverage for, or things that you need to adapt a little bit better, because it's different than your traditional array of services. Networking is another big spot that we're going to improve upon. So right now we have a slash 24 public IP address space. We're trying to get a slash 23 to at least double it, and if we're lucky maybe a slash 22. What that will give us is allowing more people to use the service, and hopefully a longer amount of time that people can have their instances running and be publicly available. Hardware. This next quarter, this current quarter, and then the next quarter we're going to be doubling the hardware footprint of TriStack. So it's current capabilities. We should be able to accommodate a lot more people. And lastly, there's been a lot of demand and a lot of people offering support, either in development resources or in administration time, just simply to help us run the operation. There's a very small amount of people that run the service, and we need all the help we can get, but we don't have a framework yet to allow people that are outside of the OpenStack Foundation or outside of kind of our community list to jump in and help. So that's something also that we're working on. So roadmaps. We strive to upgrade TriStack every time there's an OpenStack release. So every six months, when there's a new version of RDO that comes out with the latest and greatest of OpenStack, we strive to upgrade. We've been bad about that. We're still on kilo for the current TriStack, and we should at least be on the M release here. So that's one of the things that we're trying to have renewed enthusiasm and go in and the second that the RDO release drops, we want to push that out to TriStack and be some of the first consumers. We talked about expanding the hardware, but in specifics, we're going to be replacing the Cisco switches with some newer Juniper. Juniper's a big partner in the OpenStack space, and we're going to be expanding the server footprint and, like I said, the networking. So here's some of the folks that operate the current implementation of OpenStack. Dan Radies and Nachi are kind of the original founders. They set the thing up to begin with, and we're kind of a big driving force behind some of the development, namely the Django Facebook Horizon integration. Currently, myself and Kambi is a guy poor, are the current admins of TriStack, and then we have Ben Schwartzlander, who is the Manila PTL, and he helps out as well. He does a lot of the upstream development for Manila on TriStack. So I've done a lot of talking up here, but I haven't really shown you anything. So I want to kind of illustrate the complexity of OpenStack, but I don't want to do it with a computer, I want to do it with humans. So I need four volunteers from the audience. Okay, Francesco? Okay, okay, yeah, Chris? Alicia? Okay. Okay, come on. All right.  Okay? So, he wants to be neutron. Okay, get up here. Okay, you're neutron. There you go. Okay, face your colleagues here. Okay, he wants to be salameter. Creepy salameter, digging into everything, digging into people's business. All right, he wants to be rabbit in queue. Okay, you'd be a good rabbit. Okay, now rabbit, why don't you sit right here, because you're the one that drives everything. Now, I have two Nova compute instances, two Nova servers left. Who wants to be, okay? I got a hell of a choice here. Okay, you'd be here. And you'd be Nova as well. Okay, so I'm just going to illustrate some of this complexity that you don't need to deal with if you use TriStack. Okay, so generally speaking, rabbit in queue, everything is going to be message bus driven.  So, in a typical scenario, rabbit's going to maybe tell Nova to spin up an instance. Rabbit's going to tell Nova to spin up an instance. Okay, now we have an instance going. We've got an instance going. Now, this instance isn't useful without IP addresses. So, we need some neutron in here. So, why don't you tell Nova to talk to neutron and get a flowing IP? Okay. Oh, okay. Now we have network connectivity. It's working. Now we have network connectivity. This is awesome. Things are running. Things are running. Okay. Solometer, what are you doing? Aren't you supposed to be checking things out and telling me what's going on? Okay. Okay. And then, you know, sometimes things go wrong, I guess. Yeah. Neutron crashed. Neutron crashed again. What's neutron doing? What's neutron doing? Okay. And then sometimes, yeah, apparently this is down. This is a down instance. He's just, he's not listening to anybody. Yeah. So, see, this is what you don't have to deal with if you use TriStack. All of this complexity is gone. You don't have to worry about it. We do all the hard work. You just get to go and enjoy and enjoy your open stacking. Let's give a round of my volunteers here. I'm going to open up for any questions anybody has. Any comments? Yes, sir. Is Rabbit that messy in real life? Yes. Yes, it is. Yes, it is. Yes, sir. Right. Oh, we run everything from Cron. No. We keep track of when that floating IP address was actually mapped and then the count starts. So, you should always get the full 12 hours of usage time. Oh, should add. So, these GitHub links, these are the actual tooling and collectee plugins and other stuff that we use to manage TriStack. So, if you guys want to clone these or take a look, that's all the code that we use. The first one is going to be the kind of the culling and monitoring stuff where we go through and remove things. We also have the collectee modules as well that give us those nice dashboards. And then lastly, we have the horizon integration with the Facebook API for logins. Yes, sir. So, what's the version of OpenStack and how often do we update? We try to update every six months. And realistically, it's usually ever eight to ten months. We're currently still on Kilo. We're on Ardeo Kilo right now. Sure. The question was, what's the problem? Why haven't we upgraded to Liberty yet? Just time and money, friend. Just time and money. Just really resources. It's definitely on the agenda. We are probably going to go directly to the M release and we want to sync this with the move to OpenStack ID. So, that is the number one complaint, like we talked about earlier, that why do I have to use Facebook? Why can't I just log in? Why can't I use OAuth or some sort of non-privacy invasive middleman to log into the service? So, that's also why it's taken a little bit longer, because we want to sync that upgrade with redoing the OAuth system as well. I will say, you don't have to be, you don't have to have a full-fledged Facebook profile to log in. We don't care about any of that information. We just want to make sure you're a human and not someone that's trying to do something malicious. So, there is a manual account approval process and we do our best to decipher that, but if you do abuse the rules, we do have some pretty swift ways of digging in and finding out who you are and maybe sending people to your house. So, no. Well, at least order some pizzas that you didn't want. At least we'll do that if you abuse the service. I did want to shout out to Rich Bowen in the back of the room for, Rich has a very useful video of how to use TriStack and how to log in and how to spin up an instance and basically just how to get in there and it's linked on the front page of the TriStack FAQ if you guys are interested. Yes, sir. Myself, Rich helps as well and some of the other folks in the OpenStack Foundation occasionally pop in and take a look. We try to get things approved, at least with a couple of lead time, a couple of days lead time. So, if you click to request the Facebook group, you'll probably be approved in the next couple of days. We try to be good at that. Yes, sir. Monkey dance? Wait, hold on. All right, how's that? Any other questions? Yes. No, not at all. You just make a Facebook account. Just, and then click to join the group. It's a private group. I'm sorry. Oh, yeah, sure. We'll talk later. I have a PayPal account. We'll sort it out. Anybody else? Any other questions? Well, check it out, you guys. TriStack.org. We're going to make it bigger and better. We're constantly working on it, so we appreciate those of you that have tried it and have accommodating more people to continue to use the service. Thanks, guys. Sorry about the mess here. It's okay. I don't want to be leading it up. I wanted to ask you a few things. You will be the main attraction in this video. Oh, great. I can just put it here. You're wearing this for me. You wanted to do the market on your own. Oh, sorry. I'll take it off. I'll take it off. I'll take it off. Well, I'm guessing it's making a question better for all of us that have been there. Do you know why it's still a rabbit empty? Like if there's any planning problem? I'd rate it to, you know, 206 per year. That's a good point. Okay. So, is there a reason why? If it's really that problematic. I like to take it. Yeah. Actually around two days. I like anything else. Okay. That's probably the better question. Hey, we're on the spot. Enjoy. Do you like Bible games? I really need that soup. That's awesome. Can I... Oh, sure. So if you're integrating something like OpenID, you should be looking at a Fedora OpenID. Okay, yeah. There's no reason not to integrate it. OpenStackID is kind of the default that they're trying to federate all the OpenStack services together. I think it's OOFG-based, so... Yeah, but still, since we are also distributing or using a Fedora ID, that could be a good idea. I have to read up on it. I don't know much about it. There are already folks talking to Ms. also to integrate it. Okay. It should be doable. How agnostic is this? Because we really need to have a non-distribution specific at all. And that's the reason why we want to get with OpenStackID, because it's completely agnostic on distribution and we need to be able to integrate it with OpenStackID. So, yeah. Right. But it's also really an agnostic project, so we kind of have to stay with it all. Yeah. So, you just put the class on whatever ID you need. You could even do something like a Google ID or whatever. Uh... Can you speak Russian? No. What? No. What? There's no reason why we can't have more than one full resource. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Now. Okay. Uh, it's. Um, okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Here is this sticker for you. Okay. Can I? Okay. Do you have it? Yeah, your way here. Standing only? Standing only. Oh, there it is. Okay. So I would like to contribute. Okay. You should find us on IRC. Free note? Yeah, free note. Anyone with ops is someone who operates or develops against it. We need all the help we can get. We just need to work out a framework that we can allow people to work on. Because right now it's just open-sac foundation folks and then any of the corporate sponsors. We want to have it so that anyone can contribute up to the GitHub repository and that stuff. Well, I'm more like a staff administrator than development, so... No, no, I'm more like a system administrator. I'm working in Red Hand Global Super Services over in the state. Social extent. I could help them. Thank you. I've developed... It's not... I don't have a specialty. It's a product. Well, just to introduce myself, I'm Michele. I took down the scale a few times. Hey, I'm the faster. Oh, is that you? Bandin. So I thought, you know, at least... Did you just... I will pay you for it as long as you want to move to APEC. I'm getting ready to open up a rep. Hong Kong could work too. Basically you just have to be able to fly around Asia. You could dress up however you want. Okay, Diane is promising to buy you a dress up. Will, are you dressed up? What? I don't know where it is. Well, I saw you up here and... I'm sorry about that. I got scared. I'm taller. I'd better look this. I was scared. I would break it so it would look at me smartly. See? I would get that. I would get that. I would get that. I would get that. I would get that.


Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has carried out a successful attack on the Sakhae airfield during the night from January 5 to 6. This strike targeted the command post at the airfield, as reported by the commander of the air force, Nikola Olszczuk on Telegram, Sakhae airfield. All targets are hit. Unfortunately, our air force has once again been left without yet another command post in Crimea. Once again, thanks to our pilots for excellent work, Olszczuk wrote, this airfield serves as the base for the 43rd Separate Naval Assault Aviation Regiment of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation. The occupiers group is equipped with Su-24 bombers and Su-30 fighters, note that the command post is underground. However, in the case of using storm-shadow-slash-scalp cruise missiles, this is not a problem, as these missiles were precisely designed to target such highly protected objectives. The airfield in Sakhae has already been a target for several strikes, including one of the first long-range strikes by Ukraine in August 2022, which resulted in significant enemy losses, and enemy air defense objects near Yevpatoria were the target of a successful strike by Ukraine in September 2023.


Hey guys, what's going on? It's Andy Elliot. Listen. I'm here today with my son Ian and say hi Hey guys, listen, let me tell you why I'm actually making this video with my son number one He's part of the Elliot group right? He's 10 years old now. Guess what? It's my man part of the Elliot group and we you know He has seen me since he was young and I was a GM pushing through the store He has seen the amount of time that I've been away from home. Okay, and us as fathers Mothers us as people that you know have big goals and visions in our life You know, I learned something really important from him that I want to share with you guys today So I was talking to him the other day and he says to me says, you know, hey dad Obviously, I'm telling him to do his work do his grades do his school right make great grades be great at what he does You know, don't be good be great, right? And he says hey dad, so so what have you learned lately and you know Just really reminded me how much we can learn from our children. All right And as he's been around me and you know, he's he's he's grown up where gosh, man I love this guy more than anything in the world. I've given him everything I have I Watch and I see how much he's watched out of his dad Give to the car business the car business isn't our job. It isn't our career. It's our life My family's our baby, but I've been gone a lot, right?   That's in the car business Anybody that's a business person that spends time away from their kids. What would you tell them? Get better so you can be home more often That's right. Yeah, so so when we go to work we trade our time for money, right? And don't you think when we go to work we should trade our time for three times as much money Yes, so when you go to work, you should be really good and Then when you're get your day off you should take it and Spend as much time as you want with your kids And then you can and then the next day you can go back and then do 10 times more better Dude, that's stud stuff right there now listen So what he's saying is that you know a lot of people go to work and then they're thinking about being with their family Mm-hmm, and then when they're with their family, they're thinking about being at work What he's saying is that hey man when it's your day off Take your day off Go home and spend some time with your why why you're going all in right the reason the number one reason This is for your family. Yeah, you don't have to stay like if you get a day off take it Don't just do it every day like and don't just never take your day off Yeah, so you're saying look when you're at work go all in yeah, and kill it and be the best Yeah, and when you come home spend a lot of time with your family. Yeah, and plus we got to make a lot of money Why do we got to make a lot of money? Why would you say that we need to be successful? So you can have a better house have a better life and stuff Yeah, and plus kids like to buy a lot of stuff. No, yeah, so with that being said guys listen I want to tell you and I'm not done. I just want to tell you Isn't it precious, you know taking the time and us as parents and by the way, maybe you don't have any kids right now I mean truly maybe you don't have any kids, but I want to tell you this You're gonna be your family's legacy Your family right now they gave you a last name and your last name it matters Make your life matter Take your last name and make something extraordinary of it. Okay, when my family they you know, obviously I was born I was given the Elliot name Well, everybody they work hourly, you know, they do I'm not saying they're not just average people But they just do normal stuff and what I want to do is I want to set a new normal with my last name I wanted to make the Elliot name live on for generations So with that being said, what did I do? You be made you decided to sell you decided to teach people and You made the Elliot Made the Elliot group and what do we do we change people's lives change people's lives and teach people how to get better That's it and make more money and make more money and build their last name So they can become a legacy because other people they have the name. Let's say their name is you have a best friend What's his name? Do you know his last name? Brim, okay, so he has a last name.  They'll say man. Remember uncle Eli grandpa Eli, right? You know he changed the game and that's what I want to do I want my I want your children in when you're older and their kids to think about grandpa Andy The way that he was relentless that you know what everyone said that he couldn't get it and guess what happened He went and got it Everybody that's watching this video right now and they're capable of having a great life. Would you agree? Yes? What do you think? Could happen if everybody watching this video right now decided to go all in and give their very best their Family name would go on for generations and generations and what would that be worth that would? It's pricey the priceless and everybody would remember you as like a hero That's it, and I think that everybody can be their hero of their own story. Am I right? Yes But you have to first do what take action. Yes, you have to take action Remember when you first start to learn how to do handstands you really weren't that good at right? Yes, but now Yeah, and it was a grind and now you do them really good and you do them every day. Am I right? Yeah, and now it's actually really fun to do because you can do the better than other people, right?  It's part of the Elliott group This is our name as we're building the legacy of creating the world's most elite salesperson Man and woman that's ever lived. I promise you if you just go all in 80% of why somebody is successful is there why if you don't have a why why would you go all in? Why would you give it all you got? Why would you want to be number one? Why would you want to make the most money?  Okay, there's no distractions in my life. They try to come in and I break them You know why because I got my why I know exactly what I'm doing it for I'm crystal clear I'm laser focused on exactly what I want.  That's non refundable It's time. Mm-hmm. Once the time's gone. You don't ever get it back. Am I right? Mm-hmm So as I've spent so much time away from my family Learning how to become the best traveling around the world training sales people all over I want to tell you that I've given up some time to make sure that you can have it, right? And then also what else? so everybody can make more money and Spend time with their family and at the end of the day we all need more money because life's expensive, right? And I guess what we also need more time together. Why because because everybody doesn't have time forever That's it. There's gonna be a day that we're not gonna have any more time So anything that should be done today. Should we put off for tomorrow? No, right? So spending time with your kids right showing lots of love to their family and then if it's your turn to go to work today Go give them all you got and what do we always say take their one? Take their souls take their souls. You know what that means go in and Outwork every one of them. There's 60 minutes in an hour how you work 60 minutes in that hour We'll build that last thing. Okay, and with that being said guys. This is Ian Elliott. This is my son He's amazing one of the best sells Ian Andrew Elliott. That's right takes right after his dad and by the way He's always sharp Ian. Let's let's get you a little objection, right? Okay, and if somebody comes in we're outside on the lot they test drive a car and they say hey You know what I need to think about it. What would you say? Of course, you need to think about it. I'm giving you enough reason not to think about What I like to do is give you a five-minute proposal of all the numbers so you truly have something to think about would that be fair? Guys, that's that's a closer. That's a closer right there. Hey, listen. I love you, bro. You're the best guys Listen have a great day. Thank you so much for taking the time watching this video guys Go show your family some love and by the way go take their souls right bud. See ya I'm gonna take it Yeah, we are


Hello, welcome to this week's CMC Markets Currency Snapshot. This week we're going to be looking at the British pound against the US dollar. We've just hit a pretty huge support level here and there's quite a few things going on with the UK. We're talking about Brexit, Bank of England shying away from a rate rise, whereas the US have just gone and done their first rate hike. So a lot of things going on here and the pound has been plummeting but we're at this big support level so we want to see what's happening here. So as we've just alluded to the US have just raised rates whereas the Bank of England in recent commentary basically signaled that even 2016 there may not be a rate hike in the UK and so what we've seen is that the yield differential between US bonds and UK bonds has really stretched out in the favor of the US with expectations interest rates are going to keep rising over there whereas we're a bit uncertain about when they can even start here in the UK and so that search for yield has sent investors to the US treasuries rather than UK gilts and so that in effect has been the main driver of why the British pound against the US dollar has been heading so much lower when in general the British pound has actually been fairly strong against the other major currencies including the euro. Now that argument and the performance of the pound against these other currencies somewhat goes against the idea that actually Brexit the Britons leaving the euro zone is the big reason for why we're seeing a bit of a drop off here but I think it probably would fair to say that that if anything is adding to a reason to sell the British pound. So just to emphasize the gravity of the support that we're dealing with here we can pull out to the weekly candlestick chart of the pound dollar and see we've run right into these April 2015 low which comes in at the 14570 area and so we're right at that at the moment and so we've moved partially through it so that means we have hit new five and a half year lows but we've not closed below there even for the day let alone the week so the support can still hold but that so no we're still looking at whether this support can hold or not. Now if we drop down to the daily chart you can see what's led into this. We were in a kind of sideways changing trading range with the top around 158 but we had this downward sloping wedge pattern which can sometimes mean a breakout to the upside but very much not this time since since December we've really fallen off a cliff and obviously that does pretty much correlate with when the US first raised rates and you can see that this rising trend line that could have indicated a breakout to the top side in the pound dollar on the RSI we've broken below that as well so trend is very much down but this could be the beginning stages of a recovery if the pound is able to hold on to this support but we do really need to wait for some sort of reversal pattern on the on the day on the on the on the daily chart something like a double bottom a head and shoulders or something along the lines of a sharp reversal candlestick pattern on on the weekly chart. So that's it for this week's currency snapshot video we were looking at cable the pound against the US dollar we're looking at this multi-year support and whether it can hold or not now the main the main point here is the Federal Reserve raising rates so the other changing factor can be what the Bank of England say so far they've been very dovish but maybe comments in the next few days and weeks might tell a different story and that could be how this support holds