Welcome back to the channel and let's talk about ships custom ships in Starfield and which ones are the best ones and some of the custom designs I have seen online and think are amazing and for I would share with you guys and maybe potentially if I can find any tutorials recreate them for this channel but regardless before we get into it hit the like button subscribe leave a comment down below telling me which of these five are your favorites or favorite if you want to go one specifically and just before we get into it I will say that I have been trying to find the original creators and just have found it very difficult to find them so if I find them I'll add them to the video description and then in the future if I decide to make more top fives or maybe recreate one of the ships I'll obviously give them a shout out as well now the first few are coming from this user on ready called sp7r I've been seeing his stuff around and it's incredible so I found his Reddit and just unreal the things that he has done so first and foremost look at this insanity of a ship if you don't know if you're too young this is the magic school bus one of the best cartoons in the world when I was young it is just incredible it was literally a school bus that would turn into a spaceship and go into space and stuff with some of the best characters I've seen on cartoons in a while honestly I missed this program so much this is what the original magic school bus looks like and as you can see it is a phenomenal recreation for what is technically a limited building process in starfield you've got a limited amount of things that you can use but this is unbelievable if I could find a tutorial for this I'm definitely going to recreate this but look at this man it's insane and it's a sea-to-sea-drive reactor as well I bet it doesn't go very fast but it's like super heavy but look at it it's just unbelievable I'd love to see this flying around and stuff but unfortunately this is one of the only pictures that I could get and look how accurate it is to a cartoon goddamn spaceship boss unbelievable next up another one from the same artist the future armorship the planet express and this is phenomenal not quite the right shade of green but honestly like I said you're working with a limited palette and a limited set of parts and to get this overall kind of like oval egg shaped is just immaculate and this is what the actual planet express looks like look at the similarities even like the red lines that are going across like that like I said that's very limited to what parts you're using but it's got it pretty much bang on all the way down the side unbelievable and then there was like an artist recreation of what it would look like IRL let's say and look at how goddamn close that is it's a shame that you can't get like change the color of all these to like the same color green or like this similar color to the things that you want like this little round bit at the top is supposed to be this and unfortunately it's stuck being black and not been able to turn green but overall this just looks unreal I love it so much next up we have the black pearl or a black pearl inspired ship because obviously you're not really going to get masts and sales and stuff but using all these like parts and stuff pretty much created sales on this incredible ship this is something I would love to see in-game build myself that it's a little bit pixelated because the I was sent a really small picture of it and had to blow it up but oh my god this this is probably my favorite so far that I've seen I love all the magic school boss on as well but this this takes a real like ingenuity to try and make the masts out of the parts that are available in Starfield if anyone knows who this is please let me know because I want to check out to see if they've done any more incredible things but this is just beautiful I love it so much and obviously this is like the black pearl this is the black pearl right so if you look at it in like comparison obviously these are the masts and the sales well there's no sales on it but you know what I mean where the sales should be um just just phenomenal absolutely love it next up we have one of the halo frigates I think it's called forward onto dawn and I'm not a huge halo fan but I definitely remember this and this is near near perfect as well as perfect as you could be in this game because you can't obviously can't create all this big bit down the bottom but this section here on the mouth like just everything just looks insane the side bits as well are very very familiar to what that is just just look at it you cannot deny that this is an incredible build and out of all the ones that I've seen today this looks most like a spaceship but still looks super unique to what you can build in Starfield like this has had some real four points I mean they all have but to make like a starship looking thing within Starfield's game look like it fits in Starfield but also have it be a replica of something from another game is just absolutely unbelievable and I love it so much and last but not least we have of course the x-wing this is one of the first builds that we're showing on the internet and I still haven't found out who built it I've searched everywhere and there's just so many reposts and reposts that I can't find the original person and it's frustrating but the one thing that I love about this more than anything is the color pattern the white and orange fits so well well as well as you can get it in the game but it just looks incredible I really wish you could get like the long the long things coming out of here but if you look at that without seeing a picture of an x-wing you would know that that's an x-wing straight away because it is just so well built and so accurate and I it really it really upsets me that people out there have this much talent to build these types of ships like just to sit down and figure this out and I know like I used to make black ops emblems and stuff that is my newt in comparison to what these guys are doing and girls are doing with building ships like this I really want to have find some time to sit down and try and build something but I just wouldn't even know where to my brain just does not work that way and these are just beyond my level of skill I'm not a very talented person in a lot of things and it makes me jealous when I see how goddamn incredible people are so again if you know any of these artists please let me know down below in the comments so I can obviously actually give them their due and respect and also be able to look up anything else they're doing because I cannot wait to see what people build in this game I have an idea of something I am going to try and build which I don't think anyone else has yet and once I get a bit of time I'm going to sit down and I'm going to try my best so maybe you'll see that again in the future but anyway let me know which is your favorite out of these files if you had any other ridiculously amazing builds link them down below and I'll check those out too and maybe do another kind of like top five situation but ships are big at the moment and everyone's enjoying them and loving them and you know just some of my favorite things in this game is just ship building and seeing what people can do like this it's just ridiculous anyway that's it I hope you enjoyed it hit the like button comment all that fun stuff thank you for watching I've been easy now you guys have been awesome


What's going on guys? Patriot Prime here once again with another episode of The Sit Rep. And my guest tonight is Jacob from the channel Soundwave 8084. Jacob, how are you doing tonight? I'm doing good. How you doing? Doing very well. It's late. I'm ready to go to bed.  Looking forward to it. Same here. I got four kids, so they'll be excited. I've only got one. He turns five Monday. So we got, we're going out town this weekend. We'll have Easter than his birthday Monday and then his party on Tuesday.  All right, my friend. Well, first off, tell us a little bit about yourself. Oh, God, I have. From Alabama and the South. So I wasn't afraid of my, it's not coming out too much, but yeah, 39 with four kids. I work in merchandise and route, which I do a lot of work in Walmart's and Target. So that helps me toy hunt. That explains your quick videos on some of your figures I see you pop up real. Yeah. I'll go, I can do three Walmart's on my route and a Target. And then I'm like, okay, well I get to hit them all and search for them. So it helps elevate my wife also works in Walmart's doing a merchandising for another company. So she can look for me as well. And so I found my reissue gears and Warpath. Excellent. Congrats. I have one Walmart and then 30 minutes away is another Walmart. Then another 40 minutes from that's another Walmart. I mean, that's it. My nearest target's two hours, but we're going out of town this weekend. We'll have a target. So I might be able to do some hunting there. I got three targets around me, three Walmart's right around me. Then I got like 10 Walmart's within the city. So one Walmart, Amazon.com. That's what I got. I got kids. I guess I mentioned that. I got four kids and a lovely wife. I mentioned that. She's probably gonna watch this. I don't think mines ever watch this. I sit there and promote it. I said, honey, I've talked to people from all over the United States. I've talked to people from the UK, Canada.  All right. Well, how the SITREP works is I've got 10 questions for you, five questions regarding you as a Transformers Collector and five questions regarding you as a YouTuber. So if you're ready to go, we'll do this. Sure. Excellent. Question number one. What's the appeal of Transformers for you? Ah, I said I was a kid. This is the wow factor of having a robot and a vehicle. You know, you can change them up. I guess that's probably it. What got me into it is robots. Not every kid loves robots, so. You can't go wrong with them. I mean, when you were growing up, I mean, of course you're, I was a child of the 70s, and that's when the robots really came out. So I've been a fan of those, you know, even when the Flash Gordon era and Buck Rogers and all that, I always loved the robots. All right, sir. Question number two. Aside from G1, which is always the number one answer, what's your favorite Transformers fiction? That's a tough one. I have a tie between those. I love Beast Wars. I got into that when I was in college. I come home from work in my morning. And before I go to college, go to school, I had this little gap and then it came on, I think it was UPN or something back then. I think it was USA Network. It was on like at eight o'clock or 730 in the morning. It had something. I started recording them and I'd watch them. And I got a little bit into Beast Wars. And then with the Dreamwave comics came around. Naturally, I really got back into it in the early 2000s. And it was a slow build in those. And it started getting good just when they went bankrupt. I love the art in those books. I did too. Did you get the mini series, the More Than Meets the Ice series, or kind of went over all the bios of every Transformer? Yeah, I still got those books. I sold off most of my Dreamwave after that, which I can't regret now. But I kept all those books. Oh, those are great. I got them, I guess the graphic novel for the big thick ones. And I actually grabbed those when I was in Iraq. So those have a special place in my heart. They're still on the shelf. All right, question number three. Do you have a favorite figure or grail? This is one toy you will never let go of. I like Masterpiece Soundwave. My wife got it for me for my birthday. It was the first Transformer Masterpiece that she bought me. So it's got a sentimental value there. It's a gift from my wife. And obviously, it's my favorite character. So throwing up as a kid. Oh, you just answered number five. All right, yeah, that's a great figure. I actually sold mine. I really regret doing it. But it was just one of those moments where I need money. We got to take care of some things. What can I live without? Now that I got rid of him, I'm like, I couldn't live without him. So maybe one of these days I'll find another. All right, number four is what figure is your white whale, your most wanted toy? Well, I've got most of those. As a kid, I was jet-firing to make Supreme. Then about five, six years ago, I got those. But now it'd be a G1 Overlord. Oh, you and I are just saying about it. I started looking into that one, and he is just outrageously expensive for just a, just to buy a junker on eBay, like $200 or more. I'm like, no, I just buy a box. It's 200 bucks, his box. I'd have to, one day, strike it rich, win the lottery, something. I'm hoping, I mean, when they were doing the Encore line, that's how I got my Fort Max. I was hoping maybe that line would continue and we could get him. But I think it's, I don't know if that's ever gonna happen. Maybe for the 40th anniversary. Yeah, I like the Encore line because that's how I got Skylinks and Omega Supreme, finally. Jet-firing was originally G1 I bought off eBay. Someone was selling. Well, I got Fort Max as a kid and I was lucky. One Christmas morning, go in there and he's sitting in a box and I was excited. They didn't even wrap him up, he's just too big. Let him unwrapped, put a big bow on him. Do you still have your original? Oh yeah. That's awesome. I never got that thing. I was a dumbass in the 90s. I sold or didn't sell. I traded my entire Transformers G1 collection for a Super Nintendo. Oh. Granted, I've made up for it now. Yeah, you've made up for it, that's for sure. Now my shelves are empty. You'll fill them up, I have faith in you. I'm moving rooms, because we're doing moving around in the house. So I've got to go another room so everything's just kind of moving out. Gotcha, yeah. And the problem with moving rooms, when I moved into this one, you end up playing with your stuff more than actually moving it because like, man, I haven't fooled with this guy in years. Yeah, I've been doing that. All right, well, you've kind of answered number five already, but what is your favorite Transformer character? Well, Sam Waver's mine and my channel's named after him. I got a shirt on, you know, but there's other characters in the fiction that they do more personality with and all the comics. I kind of like IDW's Ratchet for a while in the comic books, but overall, yeah, I love what they were doing with them, but then I kind of got out of the comics when money got tight and kids got plentiful. So I was about 2015, I started easing out and I was like, I got to cut back and want to buy, want to collect. So I sold a lot of my stuff and kind of regret selling some of it now, but I get a lot of my G1, so.  I remember complaining when they upped the price to a dollar. Yeah, it was 75 cents and then a dollar my kid, I was a child and then by the dollar, $50, $25, they went and I was like, man, the dollar, $50, $75, two, I'm like, they got a star. Now it's like $5 for a comic. I'm like, easy. Yeah, they don't even have as many pages. I think everything's like splash pages. Yeah, it's like digital. Yeah, they got the big old splash pages. Sometimes they'll take like two, the whole, like both pages when you open it, and it's just a waste. I waited until a lot of them came out in graphic novel form and then IDW started to get really weird. And so I just kind of, I think I ended, I quick reading after the All Hail Megatron series when it kind of happened up. Yeah, I enjoyed that one a little bit. Then I kind of got into it a little bit when they had to have the lost way, split them up a little bit and I started, I was into it and then I started getting out of it a little bit and they started going a little bit, I don't know, I don't say crossing the line or anything, but they went a little bit far with it and I was just, what has into it? And they rebooted them now and I bought the first two issues, so I'm gonna try to get back into it. I'm debating on grabbing those. Of course, I don't have a comic shop around me. If I get them, I'm gonna have to order them or do the Comixology digital. Yeah, I started doing that. Is this a slow bill so far? I bought the first two issues and it's a slow bill. Most of them are, unfortunately, that's how they get your money.  See what the next issue brings. All right, well that does it for all of our Transformers questions. So the last five are about you as a YouTuber.   Yeah. All your kids are women? Yeah, they're all girls. Oh, yeah, girls. My youngest is two years old, so she's a little young still, but my oldest, I always try to get her in Transformers. She would never pick into it. My twins, I started when they were young and they would watch the animated movie and then as they got older, they just, no, no, no. But every now and then on the background, I'll sip on some on the Roku, I'm gonna put on Transformers G1, and they'll watch it a little bit and then I'll put it in the animated movie and then Prime dies and they're like, is he come back? I'm like, yeah, he comes back and when they watched the rest of the movie, they're like, he didn't come back. I was like, you gotta watch the cartoon there. But. I've tried with my little one. He knows who the characters are. He likes, he loves the music to Transformers the movie. We listen to the soundtrack all the time and he's watched Bumblebee probably seven times. But as far as the toys, he wants Batman Imagine X and Ben 10. Yeah. If I get my oldest to go see Transformers the last night, which. I'm sorry. Yeah. All the other Transformers, I saw them a couple times in theaters. I bought the DVDs, Blu-rays and I would watch them. Now, the last night I bought the Blu-ray. I watched special features. I have yet to watch the movie again. I've seen it once. And I'll look, I'll think back on it.  It took me, I want to say about four days to watch it. I just could not get invested in it. I mean, it's like. It's like in theaters. Oh. Now it's the only one I didn't see in this theaters. Everybody, I heard so many bad things about it. I was like, well, I'll save my money on this one. I should have. I don't know why, but the Blu-ray now I'm stuck with it. You know, no one else going to buy it from me. I actually saw it, a used Blu-ray of it that Dollar General was like $4 and I held it up for a second. I thought, no, not supporting this movie. And I said, I always put towards the figure. Exactly. I did. I think I bought the Dollar General Megatron instead. I bought those little cheap toys.  Yeah. They look good on the shelf though. Okay. Question number seven, what keeps inspiring you to get in front of your camera? I don't like getting in front of the camera, I guess. I'm camera shy. I put my hands in front of the camera. No, I'm sorry. What inspires you to keep doing these videos? I need to word that a little better. No, I understand what you meant. Just trying to, like again, I've got a house full of girls. And if I want to talk about my hobby, passion, you know, I pretty much got to do it this way because my work and four kids, I don't have much of an outside life, so. No, I feel you.  I mean, they're great ladies to work with, but we don't have nothing in common to talk about. Then I come home, I got Dylan and whatever he does. And this is it. I've really enjoyed doing this. I love talking to people face to face. I mean, I see you on Facebook and we comment back and forth on each other's videos, but I really dig doing this. It's like hanging out the bar and talking to bots. Yeah, I don't get to hang out with anybody because between work, family, this has got to sleep. All right, question number eight. There are thousands of toy reviewers on YouTube. What makes you different than the rest? Not really anything makes me any different, I guess. Not as good as most of them, I would say. I don't know, I've watched people doing it and I was like, you know, I want to talk about it. I'll do it too. No, like this, give a different opinion, maybe. Because there's a lot that just, I don't, I'm not gonna say any names, but they like every single figure they review. Pretty much as though if I own it, I'm pretty much going to like it. I don't really buy anything. I don't think I'm going to not like.  That's where I've gotten to the point of watching guys like us, is we go out with our own money and we buy it and then say we don't like the figure. We're not gonna lie about it. It's like, hey, I spent 12 bucks on this thing and it fell apart on me, so do not get it.  And it's like, hey, I spent 12 bucks on it, I would have spent 20. So I would trust our opinions more than somebody that's just giving the toys. Yeah, they get them early, they can review them early and be like the test shots, prototypes, and like. But if I spent $50 on a seed shockwave, which is an excellent figure, this is not worth 50 bucks. I still can't break myself to do it. It's like, one of these days he'll go, he may drop to 30. He's hard to find around here, so I don't know. That's like Ultra Magnus. I got him on Hasbro Pulse because I never saw him around here. My Walmart does not carry leader class or the small ones. Everything I do, I have to go on Amazon.com or Pulse. That's a half my Walmart. They have a certain setup where they have siege studio series and they'll have the cyber burst and then I go to another Walmart and there's like two rows and there'd be one row for siege, one row for studio series, there'd be no class, none of the legends or the battle masters or anything. It's just deluxe and Voyager, that's it. Yeah, that's all mine is. It's like a two foot wide, four foot tall section. The only thing about Walmart's stocks is disappointment. Yeah, that's the one closest to me and they don't stock crap, but then the one that's further from me, they'll stock everything. I'm like, I gotta drive this far. This is a waste of gas. That's why I try ordering stuff because I was like, I'll just order it, save my gas, but then when I go do my work, I'm driving around. I'll just run into it and I'm like, well now I've already ordered it and now I've found it. So I'm like, do I just buy this and then cancel that, buy this one, get that one in, just take it back to the store, get my money back that way. I'll see, there's where I'll see, there's what calls I had pre-ordered sound wave, ravage and laser beak on pulse, along with six shots, not six shot, six gun. And so then I ran into sound wave in my Walmart. So I was shocked. So I picked him up and canceled the pre-order. But then I forgot that ravage and laser beak was attached to that pre-order. And then I went to find them and all, they're like 20 bucks on Amazon and nowhere to be found in my store. But fortunately, a buddy on Facebook hooked me up for him at cost. So I did get them. They just started showing up around here, laser beak and ravage. I found them by, I guess, like a week ago and it was last Wednesday. They're nice, ravage could use some work though. Yeah, he's for the size, he's just too small. Laser beak's fine. Well, laser beak's great. He's the best one. I can't wait for a buzz saw come out of that. They gotta make one. Okay, question number nine. What's your thoughts on the Transformers social community? IE, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, et cetera. And do you have any special shout outs? Uh, thoughts. As long as you're not a fan of the Bayformers, you're good. It's dependent, it's, I don't know, a lot of the Transformers and such Facebook group, they're really good. There's some groups I'm a member of and those of them just argue all, and these constant on my Facebook feed, those of you arguing about the Bayformers movie, the Bumblebee movie, G1 this, Bayformers this, you know, that's just like, you know, they're so cruel with each other. I'm like, dude, it's movie. Yeah. I've left a couple groups because of that. If you don't mind. The fact I'm, it's, it's ridiculous. And going back to it, there was one group, I forget what it was, but I actually took a picture of that $4 last night, Blu-ray, put it on the group and I just had a simple quote, this is still too much.  Just because, oh, if it wasn't for Michael Bay, Transformers with me, like, Jesus, dude. I can see the point in that. Cause I guess 2007 movie, you know, it brought people back into it. But, you know, I don't know if you're a true fan, you never left, but I guess you brought new people into it. I guess, but as his, he was fine for the first movie. The second movie was a mess. The third movie was better than that fourth movie. It started going, lockdown was the best thing on the fourth movie, Age of Extinction. I liked his character. If you take him out, put him in one of the other movies, that'd be fine.  Yeah, that was.  I didn't like that either. It's like, this is like Legos flying around the screen or something. Like the Thanos just snapped him. Yeah. But other than that, I know I used to be on the forums for like TFW and them, but it's the same way. I just, I got to where I just go on the sightings page and say, hey, I saw this in this store or this in this store for the Alabama sightings. So that's about all I do now on those. Yeah, you and I are on the same boat with that. Cause I used to be on those too, but that's all it is, is arguing back and forth.  I'm here to have a good time. I'm 45. Let's talk about toys. That's why I'm afraid to read my comments sometimes in my YouTube videos.  I'm just like, I don't got past a few comments before there just, no, there's just left to be mean and wouldn't anything but transformers in my video. Oh, I get it all the time because of the name of my channel. Yeah. It's, I got my filter set to high. So I usually catch a lot of them quick and I'll actually screenshot them sharing with some buddies of mine and we'll laugh about it. Yeah. You post them on the Facebook group and stuff. I'll see it and I'll laugh at them. It's like, I'll shake my head. It's that word, Patriot, that gets a lot of them angry. Yeah, everything I do has the American flag on it. And oh gosh, how dare I, but.  Me neither, but everybody thinks I do. All right, last question. Do you have any channel goals for yourself and where can our viewers find you? It's time for you to plug yourself and congratulations, by the way, you hit a thousand not too long ago, correct? Yeah, I think the last day of March, I hit a thousand. Finally, I got in the 700 pretty fast and then I just stalled. I was like, I'm not doing anything any different. And I couldn't figure out why. And then all of a sudden I went to 800, went to 900 really fast, got to a thousand pretty fast and I slowed back down a little bit, that's what happened to me. I was stuck at 700 and God, I was in the 750s forever. And then I did a top 10 transformers of 2018 video, got like 500 views within the first 12 hours and my subs just shot through the roof. And of course, right then is where I changed my whole format around a little bit. Yeah, I'm still trying to find my right format. I think that's my problem and I'm still experimenting. I'll do a video one way and then next one I'll do a different way. I'm just trying to find my comfort zones still on this. It's been almost two years and I still haven't found it. Well, I've tried different things. I dabbled in the movie reviews and YouTube actually flagged me on one.  Like, well, how the hell do these other guys do it? Yeah, I don't want to have my stuff. They do these reactions to the trailers. I'm like, how can you put the whole trailer in there? Yeah, I did one too. I think the last night a couple of years ago and I got flagged six months later on it. Well, that was, I did a movie review of the movie Overlord, that World War II zombie movie. I thought, hey, I was really looking forward to it. I filmed the review as soon as I got home. Like two weeks ago, that movie came out in November. So two weeks ago I got hit for it. Like there's hundreds of reviews on this movie. How come I get it? And I had it there in the corner, just a little segment. I don't know how they do it, but I wish I could find their secret. Somebody knows the algorithm. Apparently. All right, well, now plug yourself. What's your channel's name? What do you do for the video? Channel's name is Soundwave Space 8084. I'm on Instagram at soundwave underscore 8084 underscore reviews. I'm on Facebook, Soundwave, I'm on 8084, toy reviews or something. I don't know. What did it gave me? I lose track of what I'm onto. Yeah, I'm on Twitter, but I don't really use it. I don't even know what my name is on there. I can't figure out Twitter for the life of me, which is maybe a good thing, because that's what gets everybody in trouble. I know I have a Twitter page, but I couldn't tell you the last time I posted on it. I have one. I'll go ahead. I had one I connected to the YouTube, because it used to upload a video, it automatically posted through your Twitter, and they stopped doing that. Yeah, that's the only reason I made a Twitter. Yeah, that's the only reason I had one. I don't even know what it is. I couldn't log in if I wanted to. I get emails. I'm like, yeah, I don't care enough to go over there and find it out. I know, kid. That's what Facebook's for. I'll be the old man. I'll stick to Facebook. Yeah, that's me. And just to let everybody know who's watching, I will put Jacob's link to his YouTube channel in the description of this video, and you'll have a link to one of his videos and his channel at the end when I have Optimus Prime waving that flag. And that is all for the sit-rep, Jacob. I really appreciate you stopping by and talking to me tonight. Thank you for having me. Excellent. And guys, I want to thank you for watching. If you like what you see, don't forget to like, don't forget to subscribe. I try to put out videos at least once or twice a week. Just depends on my schedule. And I usually put out sit-reps on Mondays and Fridays. This is Patriot Prime, signing out. Hua!


implore you to keep the conversation going because the pyramid is not complete. The conversation is ongoing and this statement is not meant to be a definitive statement but it is a necessary one, I believe. With that said, Mr. Mayor, with your permission, I'll read it. Please do, thank you, Council Member. This is a resolution against white supremacy, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia of the Durham City Council. Whereas the United States of America has sought to represent itself to the world as a bastion of human dignity, equality, democracy, freedom and justice being the only nation in history that is codified in its credo statements, the proposition that all men are created equal and has committed the blood of her children to the defeat of slavery, fascism and Nazism, which is a form of white supremacy. And whereas, in spite of the nation's aspirational statements enshrined in the Declaration of Independence and in the preamble of the United States Constitution, racism and white supremacy have historically undermined our national life and moral fabric, thus necessitating a perpetual existential struggle to reconcile who we say we are with who we actually are as a nation. And whereas white supremacy is a bankrupt and immoral ideology that stands fully apart from the great faith traditions of the world and is antithetical to the American ideal and to the values and beliefs of the city of Durham.  White supremacy has fueled the climate in which the anti-Semitic targeting of Jews and the Islamophobic persecution and racial profiling of Muslims is made more likely. And whereas anti-Semitism like racism is a phenomena that is expressed in various forms, ranging from overt acts of violence and speech to subtle acts of discrimination and indignities aimed at Jewish members of the human family attempting to alienate, stereotype, marginalized in gender fear and to harm them.  And whereas Islamophobia has been stoked by the highest level of our nation's government and has created a dangerous climate for Muslim members of the global community, Islamophobia plays upon the fears and prejudices of individuals through the tropes of rampant foreign terrorism and the otherization of Islamic culture while ignoring the greater frequency and likelihood of terrorism fueled by white supremacy. Islamophobia is a brand of bigotry that is incompatible with the values of Durham. Now therefore be it resolved that the city of Durham utterly and completely renounces and condemns white supremacy, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in all their forms. And be it further resolved that the city of Durham urges all Durham residents to maintain vigilance against white supremacy, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia and to engage in dialogue and actions that will combat all of these evils and preserve Durham as a city that is open and safe for all peoples submitted for the council's approval. Mary, I'll move approval. Second. There's been a motion and a second that we approve and this one say again, council member Middleton, thank you for your work on that. I think it's really strong and much appreciated. It's been moved and seconded that we approve the resolution. Madam Clerk, please open the vote. Please close the vote. And the motion passes 7-0. Thank you very much. All right. We have three more items before us. We're gonna begin with item 13, Ms. Peterson. Ms. Peterson, please come forward, give us your name and address and you have three minutes. I would just like to just say the public has the right to come down here and if they wanna sign up to speak on every item, Mr. Mayor, we have a right to do that and your rudeness to me is ridiculous and I'm getting a little tired of it. But anyway, and also we need to stop staring up in the pot and leave stuff alone. We don't have to be involved in everything. The Jewish community is part of our community, part of the Christian community also. So we need to be very careful, okay? But anyway, this bill here, I thought at one time, Durham had a organization that was removing the lead-based paint out of the apartment buildings and out of public housing. Has that changed? Ms. Peterson, please, you have three minutes, please. Yes, so is the person here? No, please make your comments, Ms. Peterson. I will make my comments, Mr. Mayor, but I also would like my comments, I would also would like your staff person to respond to the comments. So the question is, do we no longer have that program to remove lead-based paint? Because my understanding, several years ago here in the community, that was a job training program that we were offering. So that's my question, wherever that person is to be able to answer it. Also, the program that you want to run, that you have been running, are they planning to hire the Durham local young men and women to train them in removing the lead-based paint from the various buildings or apartments or whatever they're speaking about? Over $3 million, that $3 million, that's a lot of money that looks like it has come down. So I would like that question answered. And also, what housing places are they planning to use these funds? Has that already been decided? Ms. Peterson, please make your remarks. Once you have finished your remarks and taken your seat, then if there are questions that can be answered, they'll be answered. Ms. Peterson, we go through this a lot. You know this, this is the routine. Please, Ms. Peterson, help us maintain the order, okay? Thanks. Okay, thank you. Mr. Manager. Ms. Peterson, I would just say if you would send me an email, I would be glad to respond to those questions. I don't think I have your current email address the last couple of times I communicated with you would kick back. So if you could send me your email address, I will get to those responses. Thank you. In terms of having this meeting, Mr. Mayor, I should have to do that. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Peterson. Thank you, Mr. Manager. You heard the manager. He's happy to respond. Council members, we now need to vote a motion on item 13. So moved. Second. To adopt the ordinance, Madam Clerk, will you please open the vote? Please close the vote. Motion passes 7-0. Thank you, Madam Clerk. We'll now move to item 20. Ms. Peterson, this is also an item that you pulled. You have three minutes. Yes, I would like the public to know that in the past when Mayor Bill Bell was our mayor, the city employees that were over these various departments that was handling these various projects had a staff person here to answer our questions. That is the purpose of having these meetings so that the public can come in and ask questions.   So my other question for number 20, it looks like it's a youth program. So how many youth are they planning to work with with this project? Where are the youths coming from? Are they going into the public housing to work with the youths down in McDougalteras? I was over at Carmel Wallace the other day. You have a lot of young people over there. You have a facility that is sitting, even though that is public housing, the city can still put a little pressure on the public housing to view some of those, some of those recreation centers that are sitting in these public housing units 24 hours with very little projects going on to reach out to the young people. So since this is another youth program, I would just like to know are we going to be able to, or the persons who's running this, are they going to be working with the youth that are living in the public housing that may not be able to come wherever you folks are located at? I do not know, this is not speaking about the summer's mayor program, which is a little different. I think that looks like Mr. James. Is that, who is that standing? That's James Dickens. Okay, Mr. Dickens. Can you please tell me, sir? I know in the past you have run Mr. Dickens. Miss Peterson programs. Can you please tell me? Mr. Dickens. I have another second here. No. Miss Peterson. Oh, you will like me. When you have finished your remarks and you have sat down, then we will ask Mr. Dickens to respond. I guess my question is, sir, we have these various programs. I live in walking distance of McDougateres. I see nothing down there for their youth. I was over in Oxford Manor. Nothing's over there for their youth. So my question is these programs that the city wants to put monies in, are we making sure that the persons that are running these programs are really in these communities and working with our youth? Mr. Dickens, I believe you understand the question. Good evening, Councilor and Mayor. My name is James Agenwood, Officer of the Economic and Workforce Development. You asked a couple of questions. The first one, I believe, was how many students will we be serving? We will be serving 150 youth. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Dickens. You also, I think, ask, do students come from the housing authorities? Our students, the 150, come from everywhere in the city. These are federal dollars, and they are for Durham County residents. And so we serve students all over the county. Thank you, Mr. Dickens. We'll now take a motion on this to authorize the city manager to execute the contract amendment. I moved. Second. Madam Clerk, please open the vote. Please close the vote. Motion passes 7-0. Thank you, Mayor. Could I just briefly remark at the Juneteenth celebration downtown on Saturday, I saw the folks from this program tabling and we had a great conversation with them about all the great work they're doing in our community. So I'm really glad we were able to get that done tonight. Thank you, Council Member. We'll now move to item 23. This is Mr. Chris Tiffany. Mr. Tiffany, welcome. Please give us your name and address, and you have three minutes. Oh, yes, Chris Tiffany, 2-5-3-3-1, Post Office. You're still gonna be hiring many cops, more than double the number asked for, but psych testing is at the end of the selection process after handing out professional offers of employment. The best predictor of behavior is behavior. I've talked with polygraph experts and psychologists who've tested cops both before and after cops were hired. Polygraph experts admit they make mistakes. Remember Hanson and Ames and Pollard, years of treasonous activities undetected by some of the best polygraph experts and psychologists in the world. Charming sociopaths with anti-social personality disorder can fool lie detector psychologists and parole boards. A psychologist with years of professional experience with cops said, you have to do a better job with recruiting and background investigations. The best predictor of behavior is behavior. Insist on and pay for thorough background investigations before psych testing. And then what?  She's not gonna say that to an interviewer and maybe she fits a profile for the kind of cop you want but a third of a check would discover red flags. Another wannabe cop was advised that during the interview process, one question might be, is there something in your background we might discover that you wanna explain now?  Is that what you want, liars and street thugs? Different cohorts are hired for changing political pressures like women and or minorities with local roots or military background. During one hiring push, applicants were sought at military bases like Fort Bragg and Sherry Point but not from MCCU's criminal justice program. No flyers, posters, emails to faculty or staff, different cohorts dominated by any one category reinforced neuro-minded Clicous subcultures within the department. I've talked with cops here, one of whom bemoaned a warlike approach in his cohort, treating areas of Durham like military targets of opportunity but a couple cops here told me their job is not law enforcement but social control. We come here to Durham, pull a tour of duty in the inner city, keep people in their place and go back home. That approach is why your target areas are sometimes called ghettos. Their job is law enforcement, not military occupation. Weed out any applicant who sees a job as military occupation and control as in a public service before handing out provisional officer's employment for psych testing. The best predictor of behavior is behavior insist on and pay for thorough background investigations. Thank you. Council members, we need a motion to authorize the act to execute the contract. It's on move. Second. Madam Clerk, would you please open the vote? Motion passes seven, zero. Thank you very much. Council members, we have mercifully reached the end of tonight's agenda. I wanna thank each of you for another great year. And Mr. Manager, thank you to you and the staff for the great work that you do every day. Happy new year. Yes, happy new fiscal year. We will next meet in this chamber on July the 25th, I believe. August 7th, August 5th, August 5th. This chamber on August the 5th, yes, that's right. And our next work session I believe is July the 25th. So until then, happy trails. I'm gonna declare this meeting adjourned at 9.46.


So give me an idea of how that game turned out. Was it very competitive or how more competitive? It was very competitive. We played six quarters and we didn't keep score except my managers kept score and we did very well against him. I don't want to embarrass Villanova but it was a great scrimmage and they were all excited to meet Wilt and felt that he was a wonderful person and handled himself beautifully with them and we beat them of course.


Police emergency. Where do you need police? Prior to 1996 the comms group was purely responsible to sworn police officers. He took phone calls and were involved in the dispatch side of things. Back in 95-96 there was a decision to civilianise those roles and saw the commencement of two training courses that year, which was then obviously the start of civilian radio operators and call takers within the Queensland Police Service. We were kind of the brave pioneers that were paving the way. It was a very overwhelming spot so I think we all felt the same and it bonded that group together. But to be part of that first group was a real privilege. I think we were surrounded by so many wonderful police officers and mentors that they really made us feel welcome and we were full of enthusiasm. You know that you're answering the call to get someone the help that they need and that's the only thing that really matters. Knowing that we've assisted someone in a moment when they had no one else to turn to that's really important, but also the team aspect of this role. You're not alone, you're not taking those calls on your own. You have the support around you and that's definitely really important. Every news bulletin starts with 10 minutes of critical incidents across the state. The majority of those incidents start with a call to one of the triple zero comms operators. So if you look at the fact that they talk to people and listen to people at their critical point when they are going through a stressful situation and they do an enormous incredible job actually resolving a lot of those issues and ensuring that we then as a police service provide a response to it. So it is a very demanding job that's created on a civilian call taker. They do an incredible role and they have a huge influence on how an event may pan out of the course of that day and how that matter could be resolved.


Here, let's make a fresh new project for this. Alright, so here we are with the blank project. Let's go ahead and let's just get rid of lots of this stuff. And so now let's go up here and let's add something. Let's do all classes and let's go to text. Let's see. Let's add a text field. Alright, there we go. Text Render Actor. Alright, let's see. Let's get this rotated around so we can actually see it. Yeah, there we go. I'm not sure if you guys have used the text field in Unreal Engine before. It's pretty neat. You can upload some fonts and change things around and have some 3D text in your screen. You can change the text here and just be example. So what we're going to do here is we're going to create an event that we can trigger that will update this text on a timeline in a sequencer. So if you wanted to have a message that was changing in your sequencer or if you wanted to do something like a lyric video or something and you wanted to be able to go back and adjust when the keyframes change at a later point along with the music, this is how you would do that. Alright, so we need this to be a blueprint so that we can add some code. So let's select this, use this button, go to Convert Selection to Blueprint Class. This will automatically select everything and create a new subclass of this text render actor. I'm just going to leave that name to that. This is just an example. Okay, so here we go. Now we're in the blueprint. So we want to go over to the event graph and we're not going to need either one of these. Let's get rid of those. So we're going to right-click to create a new node and we want to create, or sorry, this is Custom, create, add custom event. There we go. This is what we want. And let's name this Show Text, okay? And let's see. We want to go ahead and create a couple of variables here to hold our data. So let's say this is going to be our text items, okay? And this is going to be, this is going to be text. And we're going to see, right-click this so that, sorry, left-click that so that it can become an array. We're going to store all of our messages here. And we're going to create another variable that is just going to be the index. And this is going to not be an array and it's just going to be an integer. And this is going to be the index of which text item of this array that we're going to show. Okay. So let's go ahead and bring text items out to here. Let's go ahead and bring index out to here. Okay. So we're going to want to set the text on this. So let's do set text, set text to have the texture under object. And that goes ahead and gives you the proper target here. We'll just move that down here somewhere. This is all fine. And let's put this execution flow. Let's plug that in like that. And so now we need to know what the value is. And so we're going to grab one of the items from here and put it into here. So let's bring off of this. Let's say get. We want to get as reference. And what we want to get is whatever the index is. Okay. And then we're going to put that value into here. So whatever the index is, it's going to grab that number from this array and it's going to set the text of the text render object to that. Okay. So let's see. Let's go ahead and make sure that this, we want this to be private. We want the default value to be zero. Arrays always start with zero instead of one. And so that's the thing to keep in mind that the first item in this is actually the zero index. Okay. So let's see. Now we'll take the text items here and we can expose that instance editable. That way we can just change it in the editor. And that's fine for now. Let's actually, you know what? Let's just go ahead and add some things here. Let's see. Great. Okay. So we've got some words here that I would like to show to everyone. And so let's see. Let's compile this. Let's save this. And one more thing we need to do after we set the text, we need to increment. So we should just be able to plus plus increment integer. And what we want to increment is this index. Okay. And so what this is going to do is whenever this is set one, it's going to take that index and say, hey, just increment yourself and wait until you're called next time. So we'll compile that. We'll save that. And let's go back over here and let's go ahead and create a new level sequence. We'll just keep it named that. Let's see. Everything else here is fine. Let's go ahead and just select this again. That way we can add text render actor blueprint to the scene. We want to attach an event. We want to do a trigger here. Okay. And so we want to do a trigger. We want to actually we had already done that. So let's go out a little bit here and let's add a key frame like this. And so now once I've got that key frame, I will right click on the key frame, got a properties for the event. We want to create new endpoint and that's going to bring up the blueprint for the sequencer. Okay. And so this is the event that is called by the sequencer. And then this in turn is going to call the show text function that we created in our other one. I have to click off of this context sensitive so that it will know how to find that. But that's how you can make it find it. You just wire that to there. You wire that to there. And that's all good. So let's see. Maybe we should rename this to let's do that because we're going to be creating another one of these in just a minute. Okay. So let's just double check and make sure that this shows the first thing. So we want to first of all go into simulation mode so that this down here will work. And let's see if it changes the text. Great. So it changed to the first word. So now let's make it show all of the words. Let's add a key frame here. Let's add a key frame here. Let's add a key frame here. And I want to see within the bounds of our index, although we're getting ready to add a check for this in just a minute. So let's see. Let's go back. Oh, and as you can see, it's already incremented to the next one. It never does a reset. So actually, let's let's go ahead and fix that real quick. Let's go back over to our text render blueprint. And we are going to stop the simulation and let's add a new custom event here at custom event. And we're going to call this reset index. Okay. And so what we're going to do here is we're going to reset that index. Okay. And so let's see. Let's just pull this like this. Let's say set index. And we just want to set index back to zero. That's all we're doing there. So let's see. Let's compile. Let's save this. Let's close this out one more time. Let's go back to our sequencer. And here, let's add a new event track just to kind of keep this clean. So let's do a trigger here. And at the very beginning of it, I'm going to set a key frame here. And on this one, let's create another new endpoint. And this one, we're going to name reset index event like this. Okay. And so then we're going to, yep, you guessed it. We're going to reset index. Got to turn this off to make sure we get the right one from our blueprint. We wire this up, and this up. And so now we're good with this. We compile. We save. We close this. And so now this should be setting index back to zero every time that it goes through that key point. So let's see. Yeah. Okay. But we're not actually incrementing these other things just yet. So what's wrong with that? Let's go and figure out what's going on in our blueprint. Okay. So the thing that we forgot to do here is we forgot to, we created the key points, but we never actually set them to an event. And so I just need to do this. We want to go to this sequence. We want to call function. And here we want to show text event. Okay. Yep. I see that. It's going to do this every time. It just pops this up to say, here's the thing that you just selected. And I'm like, yeah, I'm aware that I just selected that. But in this case, I'm going to select it again. And there it is again. It's going to show it to me each and every time here. Let's see. Let's go to this, this sequence, call function, show text. Yes. There it is again. And we'll go to the final one and let's see, let's go to the sequence, call function, show text. Okay. Great. That should be the last time we need to look at that. Play. Oh, there we go. What a great message. Okay. So I want to go over one more thing just to kind of keep this clean from a code aspect. Let's go back into the blueprint for the text field here and let's see. Let's what we want to do here is we want to make sure that the index that we're going to use is actually within the bounds of this array. And so let's see what we want here is we want a branch, a branch is the way that you do a if else conditional and unreal engine. And so let's just go ahead and stick that in the middle here. So if this is true, we want to set the text and the condition that we want here is we want to pull off from the text items and we want to get the length of this. Okay. And so this is how many that there are. And keep in mind that this is going to be starting from one. So if there are five items in this, this is going to be five in the length, but the index would be zero to four. Okay. So it's a little confusing there. So now we want to make sure that the index that we're trying to use is within the bounds of the length of this so that the index of this is less than the length of this. So let's pull the index off here. Let's say less than, okay, and it's less than the length of this. Okay. And so if it is, then we're good. We know that we've got a value in this array and we're true here. If it's not, we're going to go through and reset. Okay. Let's compile this and let's give it a shot and make sure that this still works. Great. I hope that helps somebody. Thanks for watching.