So remember when I said that one of my biggest goals this year was to have my best reading year ever? Well, we're going to be doing a year long video series to make that happen. I am calling it Year of Wrecks. It's going to be the Year of Book Recommendations, baby. I am so excited. I'm kind of nervous. I've never done a series like this where we're going to have one episode every single month of a reading vlog where I get personalized book recommendations from a particular source. I don't want to phrase it because I don't, I want to give away any of our feature episodes. But yeah, every single month I'm going to get personalized book recommendations in the hope that it helps me have my best reading year ever. And I'm very excited. So it will be one episode every single month. For the first episode, I knew immediately what I wanted to do. And it is when I think of like personalized book recommendation, the most fun thing I've ever seen. I've always wanted to do for a video. And that is paying a professional to give me book recommendations. You might need a lot of professional help. I first saw this with Books and Lala. Kayla did a video on this a couple years ago. It's a platform called TBR. And you give them information and they give you book recommendations based on that information. A few people have done it since. And it's my turn. It's my turn. I'm so excited. I always want to do it. So today we're going to be paying a bookish professional book recommender to give me book recommendations. And I'm really hoping like a lot of the other sources we're going to do, a few of the other ones are paid, but a lot of the other ones are free. So I'm intrigued to see what paying for the book works gets me. And I'm really, I'm setting my hopes quite high. So let me go take you through what I put when they asked me for the information that would determine what my book recommendations would be. So I cannot tell you how excited I was when I first made my account. So TBR, it sounds for tailored book recommendations. I'm sure some of you will be wondering about the price. There is a version where they send you the books, but that's only available, I think, to people in the US. It's $18 per quarter, which is about £14, which I think for like three book recommendations is quite a lot. However, you are getting someone who's really sitting down and spending the time to really think about what books would be perfect for you and you get the book recommendations within two weeks. So like it kind of feels like they, you know, they've gone away and they've really thought about it. They could have, you know, they could have been done in a minute, but so you first got asked what your favorite genres are. I told them that mystery and fantasy are my most read genres followed by thriller and horror. Then you get asked, is there anything you want to explore more of in your reading life? And I was like, you got to give me the big boys. I basically said I like reading widely in terms of genres, but I really like books that feel new, that feel like they're twisting genres, that feel like they're doing something innovative. And I said I would love to read more speculative slash sci-fi murder mysteries, which is interesting. That's interesting that I said that. Oh my God, I feel like actually this is so interesting looking back knowing what the book recommendations are, you'll find out in a second. Or fantastical horror. So I really like books that merge genres, right? I love fantastical historical mysteries, right? I love books that merge genres and it's not easy to pick what genre they are. Then they asked me what are the last two books you loved and why? And I was like, how can you ask me that? Wow, that's a great question. That was an expensive question. That's so difficult. So I told them the last ever to die by Richard Osman, which was my favorite book of last year, told them how much it made me cry. I love that it's a made of murder mystery series. I love my Bex Friends Exorcism by Grady Hendrix. I thought this would be a fun one to tell them that I loved because it's very like my flavor of horror. Like if I can only tell them, I thought maybe they'd recommend me horror. And if I can only tell them one horror that I love, it's like the camp, right? Grady Hendrix really is the epitome of my flavor of horror. And then I said Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll. Because I thought the true crime element of that was very interesting. And I thought it was handled really well. And I really also enjoyed the characters and the way the characters have been handled in that book. And then you get asked, would you like your bibliologist? Check out, it sounds so official. To balance books that fit your current style or books that branch out. And I went back in the middle like a mix of familiar and also stuff that stretches my reading style. You then get asked, are you looking for recommendations on a certain theme? I said no. And then you get asked anything else you want your bibliologist to know before they pick your books. And I gave them my Goodreads link. And I was like, the books on the horror shelf or the fantasy shelf are books that I haven't read yet. Because I use that for TBR Cluedo. Every book that's unread on my TBR, I have on genre shelves for me to then look through when I get prompts on TBR Cluedo to find out what fits. I was like, please, I don't mind if you recommend one of those because I already own them and thus don't have to buy them. I didn't say that. But I wouldn't have minded being recommended something that I already own. So that was the initial questions. And then I did get an email saying we have more questions for you to fill out, which I did film me reacting to. So I'll hand you over to Pass Megan, filling out those questions and then finding out what the three recommendations are, what the three books we're going to be reading are. I just got an email that they've asked me more questions. What could they possibly need to know?  I feel like Mariah Carey. I'm going to open back. I thought I'd be easy. Did I do this to everyone? Or is it just a me thing? Is it just me? I've just plumped you down. This is, I literally just got the email. Oh my god, there's loads of questions. Oh my god. What are your all time favorite, this is, what are your all time favorite books and why? I did a video on this. What was in my, what's my top five? Thursday Murder Club, Secret History, Babbel, Strange Casey, I Come His Daughter, Once and Future Witches. Okay. What do you mean and why? Should I just link my video? It's the life of a day for I. Is that, is that a bit ridiculous? Listen, they asked me my last three books that I, my favorite and this is all I can type. I have a, there's a character limit and I couldn't, I could barely type. I wanted for three books that I recently liked. Let alone you're asking me my favorite books of all time. Any books you absolutely hated? I'm trying to give big ones. They need to know the big ones. Alice Feeney. I just don't think about the books I've hated. I don't, unless I have to. I don't spend time thinking about them. Also Haven't Enjoyed the Housemade Secret. I've been, let's just say I've been enjoyed freedom at that. A few of your favorite TV shows and or movies. Favorite movies are Con Air, Die Hard and Mulan Rouge. The duality of a woman. Currently loving real housewives body. Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, finale. One of the best pieces of media ever. The seats, proof, timeline, screenshots, f***ing everything. Tom has been watching Real Housewives of Salt Lake City with me in the last couple episodes of Eminemita. Oh my god. There we go. More questions answered. I'm getting a bed nap. It's taking me off. Okay, wish me luck. Let's, we'll see how that goes. Okay everyone, the moment has come. It's almost midnight. I'm in bed. I was ready for bed. I'm wearing pajamas that I know I'm not gonna have to take away from me to Wales. I haven't worn in years. My heated blanket is on. Like I'm prepped for bed. And then I got the email that my pigeon has arrived. That's what they call that video.  Couldn't possibly do that. So we're gonna find out. I feel sick. I'm so excited. This is so exciting to me. I am so excited. Wow. What a moment. What a moment. I hope they've given me a mystery. I'm really in the mood for a mystery and I haven't got any mysteries coming up lately. So I hope they've got a mystery for me. Okay, the recommendations. Hi, Megan. Welcome to TBR. I'm Ray and I'm here to help you find your next great read. For today's fix, I chose three books. You'll love it. Balance what you want more of your favorite genres. The first book is a fantasy book. Second one's a sci-fi novella. And the third one is a thriller. Enjoy. First book. Oh, the book eaters. Okay. I've heard really good things about the book eaters. I'm down for that. First, you want more genre-bending stories and even mentioned a fantasy horror mix, which is why I picked the book eaters with some seriously incredible world building and a nice horror atmosphere. This book follows Devon, a woman who belongs to the family. They are a clan of book eaters, so they feast upon the contents of any story for sustenance. Devon's life is ruled by her clan. So she's raised on a specific diet of fairy tales and cautionary stories, but her whole life is turned upside down when her son is born because his hunger is not for words but for minds. Okay, I'm down for that. I've seen other people read and enjoy the book eaters, and I think I will enjoy it, so I think that's a good pick. Okay. What is this? Tea and murder. The citadel of weeping pearls and the tea master and detective. What? Next, I think you're really lovely novella that is both a great sci-fi story as well as a murder mystery. Oh, and if you want the audiobook version, it is bound up with another novella under the name tea and murder. What one are we going for? The tea master and detective. Okay, the tea master and detective follows a scholar named Long Chow and the ship she chad was on named The Shadow's Child. Long Chow loves scientific study, so she asks the ship for a corpse. The Shadow's Child provides one, but when they discover that the person has murdered the two embark on an investigation that seems to point to Long Chow's own past, I haven't heard of that. That's exciting, a book I haven't heard of. That sounds great. That sounds, listen, sci-fi murder mystery. Put me down. Put me down for that. Okay, what's our last one? I haven't heard of this one either. River Woman, River Demon. A great thriller that's some witchy magical elements as well as some horror ones. So once again, it mixes several of your favorite genres. We follow Eva Santos. I'm going to not, I can't pronounce these words. It's midnight. I am bad at pronunciation as we know to begin with. An artist who practices these things. She's going through a tough time, especially since her husband was arrested for murder that was eerily similar to one from her childhood. Soon enough, Eva herself becomes a suspect and the only way to find out the truth is if she comes face to face with her own past. Thank you, Ray. That is so exciting. Wow. What an interesting selection of books. Only one I've heard of, but the other two sound really good as well. I'm really happy with that. I think that's a really, really good selection. I gotta go get my hands in these books. But what an exciting beginning. Oh, okay. I love that. I love that. Okay. All our books are here. We need to decide what we're going to read. We've got the T. Marston Detective, Nice Short, Sci-Fi novella. We've got the Book Eaters, which can I just say has like the smallest font known to map. That is diabolical. What is going on there? And then we've got River Woman, River Demon. Here's the thing. These are the two I am most confident I'm gonna love. Right? This one, well, I don't know anything about it. This one, these two I've had about lots of people on the Book Eaters. And I remember Mara read this, I think quite enjoyed it. I haven't had anyone read this. However, my first three books a year have been fantasy. And I think I'm fed up. And I don't know if this has fantastical elements, but it's from what I know, like a psychological thriller. And I think that might be what I need.  And this is bottom of the list for me. I should really read this in the middle as like a little break in between the other two longer ones. I mean, they're not too long, but they are longer. This is such a difficult decision. And I read the first page of all of them. I often, when I haul books, I like to read the first page of them. And I really loved the first page of the Book Eaters. No, I'm going to start with River Woman, River Demon. That might be a mistake, but these are all supposed to be my perfect books, you know? So I'm going to start this, I'll let you know what I'm thinking when I'm a little bit of a ways through. We'll see, we'll see, we'll see, we'll see. I'm hoping I'm gonna love it. Listen, these should all be five stars. Basically, it's my logic. Okay, I feel like I made the perfect choice with the book that we chose first. So I started with River Woman, River Demon. I'm 100 pages in. I'm semi-obsessed. I'm really enjoying this. So it has got a little bit of a fantastical element. Apparently I'm just like, fated to read fantasy for like my first 10 books. But essentially what we need to know about this is we're following this lady. I don't even know what her name is. You know what you're following?  So basically one of her and her husband's friends is found dead in the river behind their property and her husband might have killed her. It basically all the evidence is pointing towards her husband. But as the reader you're kind of like, you know, when you read a lot of these books you're like, I don't know, you know, he's being framed, you know, he's a black man so the police maybe assume, you know, with our biases and racism that they've got that it's him but there's a lot of evidence that's pointed to him. So unless that evidence is somehow falsified or something's going on, like, there's something weird going on. Also she's finding out now, I don't want to tell you, but something we just had a bit of a plot twist at the like, just before 100 page mark of like information or something she did that she doesn't remember that really points to her husband having done it or her. And so basically it's her trying to figure out who killed their friend but she is kind of grappling with does she trust her husband? Does she think he did it? And I started this last night, I read like the first 30 pages and I knew I had to go sleep. So I was like, okay, I got to put it down now.  But then you flick through the next like 30 pages scanning it. Do you want spoilers? Even though a lot of what happened was in the synopsis, I wanted to see it happen like through her eyes. I think she's such an interesting character. The fantastical element she practices magic and kind of like spiritual magic. And so that's an interesting element. She's also suffered with postpartum depression and kind of talks about like, still being in a fog, stuff still happening to her, like, am I still in postpartum depression like 10 years on? And she's got her own insecurities like from the beginning, even before the murder happens, you can see she kind of like doubts whether her husband is faithful to her.  She believes it quite readily. She's just a very interesting character to read from the perspective of. And also she's got stuff happening in her past where her best friend drowned in a river. And people thought that she did it. I just think there's a lot of really interesting layers to it. And I think it's written really well. There's something about it that I'm finding just so propulsively readable. And I don't know if that's just because they haven't been reading books that are like, readable. Do you see how that's incredibly offensive? Yes, I do. That's why I said it. I just don't know. I don't know how much of what I'm enjoying this. It's like me really, really enjoying this book or just that it's like finally something that I don't hate. Do you know what I mean? But I'm loving it. I'm eating it up. I'm really enjoying it. And I love when I come across a book through like a challenge video or hopefully I'll come across quite a few books like this throughout doing this series where I'd never heard of the book, right? The other two books in this video I had heard of, I had never heard of this. And it's such a pleasant surprise. I'm loving the, obviously the author's own culture, how that's been infused into the book. I think it's dealing with social issues very well. And I felt like we're only just getting the beginning. So I'm going to try and read another 100 pages tonight. I don't know if I'll check in with you tonight or first thing in the morning, but it's a very interesting, interesting perspective that we're reading from. So yeah, I'm really, really enjoying it. This could be a hit first thing, first book of the series. It could be a hit. Okay. We're like, I'm 200 pages in now and we've got to amend my statements a little bit. Oh no. This has now gone downhill. Tom is making no downstairs, by the way, if you can hear noises, that's what that is. Okay, I'm 200 pages in. Here's the thing. Throughout this whole book, our girlie has been doing things that I haven't necessarily agreed with, right? And I've been kind of like up until the halfway point, I was of the opinion that, you know, characters don't have to be perfect. Our main characters on a race is any characters don't owe you moral perfection, right? They can do things you don't agree with. They can do shitty things. They do not have to be like this perfect person. However, at the end of the day, her husband has just been arrested. Not only is she going through it, but her seven-year-old and 11-year-old are incredibly going through it. Her seven-year-old has stopped speaking, right? And her sister is the one who has to tell her this. And throughout the book, it seems that she's been completely detached from any care for her children.  There seems to be like no care for them and no support for them through what they're going through with their father. And at the halfway point, she's just started doing something that makes that 100 times worse, not only negligent, actively harming her children. And I'm not sure that the author, the character's sister sometimes is making comments to her like, you need to be there for your kids. You need to stop doing what you're doing. But also the sister is like in the narration being painted as like, oh, she's just so like annoying. She's always on my case. She thinks she's my mom, you know, and other characters are saying that about her. So it's not being adequately rebuffed in my opinion.  I was fine with it for the first half. I was fine with her doing things I didn't agree with. And I think it made her an interesting character to read from. But now her actions are just making this book a little bit unsufferable for me. And it's just all that the book is. Do you know what I mean? It's like, it's overtaking the whole book, this new development that happened at the halfway point. And it's just, it's beyond selfish. It's like, it boggles the brain. I don't understand how anyone could behave like this. I don't want to get any deep into it without spoiling it.  And like, she's become a villain in my opinion. Is it me? Am I the drama? I don't think I'm a drama. Maybe I am. Am I the villain? I don't think I'm the villain. Like it's what it's doing to her kids that really upsets me. And they, so this is a fictional character, right? But I can't root for her anymore. And like up into the halfway point, she was from the beginning, she does stuff that's morally a little bit, you know, sometimes like, okay, you know, but I was still rooting for her. I can't, I can't do it. And I understand some of the reasons why the character is doing this. But just as the reader, it's not some of the morals around the other aspects of it is what it's doing to her kids that and she just doesn't seem to care. She doesn't seem to care like when her kids are being actively upset and obviously active that she's like, I don't know why I can't just get over it. Anyways, I'm going to finish it. I'm going to finish it tonight. At the moment, his thing, the beginning was like a 4.5, the first 100 pages.  So at the moment it's a 3.5. We'll see what the last 100 pages do to this book. Okay, alas, I don't even want to talk about it. It's going to be a 2.5. I feel completely crushed right now. Am I cursed? I have not had a read above a three star yet this year. I actually don't know why this is happening to me. I finished it this morning. And really, it was the way that my girly was acting in the second half of the book just kept me from having any emotional attachment to the book. We started off on such a strong star. I thought it could be a five star from the beginning and we just, I obviously can't say much about, you know, what she was doing that was annoying me, but it did like, it's all that's consuming my brain. Everything that I want to talk about is pointless. But I am just so angry with her. And yet, but also understanding, like you do, I, she's, she is an interesting main character to read from.  You know, there was so much I loved about this. You know, our main character and the author described as being Chicana, which I think is of Mexican native heritage. And I thought the way that that was infused was beautifully done. I thought the way the trauma exists within the body, within the mind was beautifully done.   So I'm really upset about this. It had such a strong start. And I don't necessarily hold it against the, you know, the recommendation because I think, you know, this is a murder mystery with a speculative element with kind of horror elements.  So as I'm getting ready, I'm going to get ready for the day now and I'm going to go listen to the audiobook of a team master and the detective and they'll probably finish it off once I'm ready. It's only like 80 pages. I'm only going to listen to this short story that I've got the audiobook and there's like two short stories, but I'm just going to listen to this one because this is the one that was recommended. And I think this one has like a murder mystery element as well. Yeah, this is the one where there's like a corpse given to her by the ship and it's the, but the corpse has been murdered and they try and figure out what happened. So I'm, listen, I'm going to read probably most of this and the bookie to today. I'm going to have a cozy reading day is the vibe for today. So I'm hoping we're going to have our first at least 3.5 of the year. That's not too much to ask for. Does that sound like something you want? It is. But let me tell you, you'll never get it. It's 3.5 too much to ask for. So I'm going to go start this and I'll let you know once I finished it because it's really short. So I'm just going to read the whole thing and then check in with you. Okey dokey. I have finished the team master and the detective. What do I want to tell you first? So the synopsis is basically all that I've told you is that we've got these two characters, one who is a detective, one is a team master, but it's like a ship, which I didn't know going into it. It's like a, there's this thing called mine ships, which I think are kind of ships, kind of people. They're like a strange amalgamation of the two and they're in space. They're in deep space and a body, they find a body and it's been murdered and they endeavor to uncover what happened together. And what I did not know, and I found out when reading a review about 20 pages in, it's a study in Scarlet retelling, aka the first Sherlock and Watson novella, I guess. That made me enjoy it a lot more. Now, I'm going to give it a three. I'm going to give it a three. And not because there was anything wrong with it. I just don't think I fully connected to it. Is that okay? Can I say that? It's the same space. The stuff that's had about trauma was very beautiful. I really, really enjoyed the writing stuff. I would definitely be interested in reading from Aliette de Bodard in the future. And I think this is like a universe. I've marked this as a companion book on my spreadsheet because I don't think this is a series, but there's lots of books set in this universe. But I just felt at a distance from everything the entire time. This is only 80 pages long. Like this book isn't all the book. Let me show you where it ends. It ends there, right? That's all like other stuff. So this is all that the book is. And when I think of other novellas that I love, I do think I prefer things that sit around the like 150 to 200 pagemarks or a little bit of a longer novella. Because I just don't feel like I really have enough time to get connected to the characters. It reminded me a lot of Binti in that it's sci-fi to do with ships, slightly sentient ships. I mean, this one more so. But in both of those books, I just felt like I didn't get emotionally attached. And also a problem with this one for me, I mean, I really struggle when I can't picture stuff that's happening. I know not everyone can picture stuff when they're reading, but I really struggle when I don't have a clear vision of what's going on. And I loved the idea, for example, of the mind ships. But did I actually understand like what physical form they were taking? Not really. And so when they're having conversations between the two of them, like in a tea shop, I'm like, what form are you? Like what's going on here? For me not to be able to picture it is a problem for me, you know? So that kept me at a distance. But like I said, I love the writing. Having read a study in Scarlet not too long ago, I really enjoyed seeing the parallels between them. And I really enjoyed Long Chao's character, the character who is the Sherlock equivalent, a lot more once I was able to kind of make that parallel and see the way that they differed or were similar. But yeah, it's a three. It's a three. Maybe like a 3.25. But I think that's pushing it. I think it's a three. I'm glad I read it. I'd be interested in reading more in this world. But it just felt a bit short for me. I would have liked a bit more. You know, I mean, it's not really a murder mystery when you only really meet one character who it could be, right? And it ends up being like you only meet one character other than these two, the person's murdered, or maybe two, we met two characters. But I mean, it's pretty obvious who's going to be responsible. So it's not really a murder mystery then in my opinion. Okay, time to get into our last one, the book eaters. Like I said, I'm going to try and read this entire thing today. I'm going to edit a bit more of this video. And then I'm going to sit down and read loads of the book eaters. And when I read the first page, this was the one that I enjoyed the most. Just I just hate how tiny the font is. I don't know if you guys can fully tell. I mean, this has large font, this. So I'd say normal font is in between these two. But can you see that difference? It's like psychotic. Anyways, I'm going to start the book eaters. I'll check with you when I'm a little bit of the way through. We'll see. I really love the idea of these. Let's hope I love it, shall we? It's very late. I'm tired. But I am halfway through the book eaters by Sonny Dean. And I'm happy to say I am enjoying it. My hair has gone crazy. What is going on up in here? Can you? Wigs. Can we calm down? What is happening? Okay. Yeah, I'm really enjoying it guys. I'm really having a fun time. So basically, all you need to know is that there's this like long lineage of six old book eater families living in England. They eat stories. They eat books to survive. They're like this. They're not human. They're a special breed. They eat books to survive. And we're following Devon in the present day. She is looking after her five year old son who is like a mind eater, which is like a, I don't know, like offshoot. I think they happen, I guess, where kids could be born that like, don't want to eat books. They want to eat people's brains. Unless they have this very specific drug. So she's like, you know, she's willing to do it for her son at the start of this book. She's getting brains for him. I don't believe in the glorification of murder. I do believe in the empowerment of women. So we're following them as they're trying to get safe. She's trying to help her son. But then we're also following Devon in the past timeline kind of we've already spanned about four years, four or five years, I think, in the past timeline of her as a woman in this bookie to society. They're kind of pressures on them to birth children because it's a dwindling. There's only six families. They've got to like carefully arrange the marriages so there's no inbreeding. Oh, it's terrible.  She's missing her daughter. So that's basically the plot. And as you can already start to guess, yes, it is your timeline. Yes, it is your timeline. It is your timeline, which we all know is not my favorite thing. But I'm not hating it in this. I am becoming, I think, more attached to the past timeline. There has been some one twist in the present timeline, which I wasn't expecting. And we're kind of interesting. And I, they're kind of twists that we still don't know a ton about. But part of the reason we don't know about them is because it's a split timeline. I agree. I've had it. And I've had it. People love, like in the book world, love saying that dual timeline or split timelines work because they leave you as the reader wanting more, right? As you finish one timeline, you go to the other one, you want to know what happened in the other one, and then you want to know what happened in the other one. But it doesn't work that way for me. Maybe I should have put I don't like dual timelines on the thing. Would you guys be interested in me trying this out again as another episode? I don't know if we want it to take up space in another episode considering, like, so because I wouldn't run the burst. But if I were to do it again, maybe I would put like the list of the things that I found I loved in my five-star audit and then tropes I don't like in my one-star audit and give them that list because that might be helpful. It's partly on me. But I am really enjoying it. I'm really enjoying it in spite of that. I think the writing is very interesting. I'm really enjoying this world of like the book-eater families that has been built up. I think it's the kind of thing that if you looked at it closely for too long, there might be some plush holes or some things that don't really make sense.  But we haven't seen a lot of evidence of that. Joe, I mean, there's certain things like if you really look, there could be like problems with the logic. But if you like stand back and squint, it's fine. I'm having a fun time reading it. I'm really invested in Devin's story. But I would say I am currently more interested in the past timeline, which isn't the best situation to be in because that is not what is moving the plot forward. Like, eventually it is going to have to leave the past timeline. Like, there is probably going to be a point in this book for like the last 70 pages. We don't have any of the past timeline is my guess. So that doesn't bode well.  But at the moment, I would say it's a tentative four star, which I'm not one to knock a gift or to the mouth. That is the best I have seen in quite some time. So I'm going to finish this probably tonight or in the morning. And I'll check in with you once I finished it and we will work out and we will see how we feel this vlog has gone. Bearing in mind, this is supposed to help me have my best reading ever. Okay, good morning. I have finished the book and I'm going to land on a 3.5 for this. So we can celebrate the fact that it is my highest rated book. I've read so far to see it, but that's not much. It hasn't got much competition. Let's be honest. It wasn't a four on the end because the second half had a few pacing issues for me. I feel like it dragged a bit. And I feel like the issue was that the past timeline was catching up too much with the present timeline. And thus it wasn't as interesting to me. And it just, I really should have put on my, it's my fault. I should have put on my feedback. Don't give me dual timeline. I don't like it. On the whole, I do think this is a very successful book. It's a little bit weird. It's a little bit experimental. I really enjoyed the themes of motherhood in this. I really enjoyed any books really with a theme of motherhood or sisterhood. I thought it was a very interesting way that the story left off. This could definitely become a series. I don't think it is. I think I read on Goodreads like she would love to do a sequel but doesn't necessarily know if that's going to happen. But it does definitely leave it open to a sequel. I thought the alternative England was very interesting. There was a lot that I thought was successful about it. But I think this is also a debut or I think maybe she published like short stories. But I think this is her debut novel. And I think for a debut novel it's very successful. So we're landing on a 3.5. Something that I can't remember if I told you guys is that this series, there's actually going to be a battle between each vlog to see which one gets me the best book. So the average rating of these three books here is a 3. So I'm deeming a vlog a success if it gets a 3.8 or higher which is what I need my average rating to be this year in order to have my best reading year ever. And so this vlog unfortunately or deeming it a failure. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.  I think it'll be something that'll be so fun to gift to a bookish person in your life. I think maybe I could have specified more what works me and what doesn't. But also there's like a character limit so like you can only do what you can do. Do you know what I mean? But I don't know. I was originally thinking I would do a second part of this in the series. I would do another one because I love the idea of these professionals picking what I read. But I don't know after this if that should happen. I'll be quite honest with you because these weren't 100% me. I was hoping for like a murder mystery recommendation. I don't think my tone of fantasy was really there either. But I think they gave me what I asked for you know. But you can mean so many things with words. Like I maybe meant something a slightly different tonally than what they picked up on based on what I said you know. So unfortunately this vlog is not a success. But let me know if you've read any of these what you thought of them. These two I think I would recommend. This one had so much promise at the beginning and really went downhill. But thank you guys for watching this video. Let me know if you have any suggestions for future episodes of this series. I've got ten of them planned. I've got two free spots that I'm open to suggestions. But I'll probably come up with them throughout the year. But if you guys have any suggestions on sources that I can find these book suggestions from. I want it to be me talking to a person so I don't want it to be like me going on Goodreads and them recommending me books based on you liked this. Do you know what I mean? I want it to be like me with another person getting recommendations. So I've got most of them planned. But yeah let me know if you have any suggestions. Thank you guys so much for watching and I'll see you very soon in another video. Bye!


Now, everything's looking good, but we have one more problem, not all buttons or buttons. Sometimes our buttons can be anchors. And sometimes those anchors have extra attributes attached to them. We need a way of switching this component when it needs to be an anchor or when it's supposed to be a button. The way we can do that very simply is to look for the presence of an href attribute. Now we're going to introduce some logic here so we can't just depend on the automatic returns. We need to create a block here and return this button explicitly. Now we can assign a local variable to decide what tag we want to render out given if we have an href or not. If it's present, we'll render on A. If it's not, we'll use a button. And instead of rendering a button, we render our tag. Oops, forgot I need to get that value off of props. Let's inspect this button and make sure that it is doing that switch that we anticipate. And indeed it is. This one is an anchor and the other two are buttons. However, anchors don't have this type button. It should be roll button. Let's fix that. Unfortunately, this is going to get a little bit complicated. We're going to create a new object called this attributes. And we'll give it a couple properties. We'll give it an A and a button. In the button, we'll put our type button property and in the A, we'll put roll button. Now on our components, we'll use that JSX spread operator again and grab the attributes of the tag that we're rendering. Now when we inspect this button again, we'll see that the anchor is using roll button and the button is using type button. This is exactly what we wanted.


So, I actually didn't have any real agenda to really talk about, just wanted to see what they will evolve into and see what I can come to some kind of conclusions. Well, the topic of the talk should be like open to sea in 2015, but in fact it doesn't have much to do with open to sea as a project for more about the whole ecosystem, how the things look like in 2015, or you know, is the future bright or is the future dark? Well, the type of age is black like funerals, but actually it's not that bad. So, before trying to make any kind of plans or predictions for the next five years, a couple of months ago, and it used to be a so-get country, they used a lot of the five-year plans. Well, just take a look back when I started to work with open to sea it was 2004 or 2005 or something like that. And, you know, just to see what has happened during the past five years to maybe see some hints or insight into the future, things that might happen. So, just did a code checkout to see how the code looked back in 2005. And at the end of 2005, but in the beginning unfortunately, there were 17 different card drivers like support for roughly 17 different cards. Right now the number is 30, which is pretty nice, almost double. And we can take into account that some of the cards are actually already long dead. You know, many are in a state that there's gold, that there's actually no one with an actual card to test it, or no one actually knows it before it. It seems actually a huge number, like 30 different card drivers. But, you know, it's a pretty old project, it started in 2001, I think. And one of the problems of the many card drivers has been the lack of standardization. All the card drivers implement kind of a proprietary reverse engineer, something similar, common interface. But, for example, the Stoney ID card, which I work most, was one of the cards that was set in stone before back assistive T didn't even exist there, which means there's no relation to back assistive 15 in that card. ESOL 71615, which is something like ESOL standard for the back assistive 15, it also appeared in 2004 as a standard. But usually standards are either like documentation of existing reference implementations, or they set some kind of, you know, industry common views to stuff that actually isn't implemented. So when you take Java cards, for example, we have a Java card 3 specification for a few years already, but none of the card vendors actually implement, or, you know, provide you with cards that provide Java card 3 compatibility. We have now the European citizen card. There's the PVE standard in the United States. They all, like, describe the common interface to a card. So that's something that should maybe limit in the next five years, but we won't have so many new card drivers because we have standards which help it. We should have, like, standard drivers. During the past five years, I don't know the numbers, but several European Union member states and other countries have introduced EIG programs. They're all somewhat different, all are somewhat similar. For example, in Belgium, I think the project has been as long as five years, or from also from 2004 or 2005. There's Spain, Italy, Portugal, there's new card coming in Germany, there's something in other countries as well. But anyway, that's something that was set as some kind of policy decision that by 2010, there should be interoperability, for example, for digital signatures in the European Union. We're not there yet, as we saw from the presentation by someone. In the past five years, there's been kind of a huge standard stabilization in the system, APIs and standards that are used. Back in 2004, for example, there was, when you had a PIMPAD reader, they existed. Even I think some of the models are still sold, because there was no real standard for using PIMPADs. There was, but the standard, the CT API is now long gone because it wasn't very good. There wasn't even CCID. I don't know, again, the dates exactly, but I think it was also 2000 something, like four, when the CCID matured. Right now, all the smart readers you can buy anywhere, most of them are CCID. Do they support extended APNU or CCID as well? That's another issue. For example, extended APNU is one thing I forgot, but it's also very important in the products of smart cards. We have PIMPADs. In 2004, there was some industry consortium providing some kind of specification that's now part of the PCSC brief specification, which of course is not maybe the best specification because it has no public review, it has Windows guys doing it, which means, you know, when you have a big engine machine, it's proved very often. But there are standards, which is really, really nice. In 2004, for example, there was MacOS 6, but it didn't come with the PCSC framework. It appeared in OS X 10.4. But now it's included in the system. It's kind of the only reliable solution for cross-platform smart card users. Well, talking about OS X, that before, the important client platforms were Windows and Windows, but then came OS X, which is now, I don't know, depending on the country, for a few percent, ten percent, something like that. It's kind of important. Luckily, it's unique, so we can use some of the tools, even though Apple screws up the open source software very often, very heavily. It's still better than Windows in some situations. And during the past five years, things like platform clients that plug into the overall structure or overall services of the platform like Windows and MacOS 6 have emerged. That's something that has been discussed heavily here today, is the Tech Access 11, which is the platform API, the platform plug-in for Linux, because there is no common framework. There is no such thing like Mi 32 API or like Qt API or Windows or the token TV or MacOS 6, that all the, so to say, native applications use. In MacOS 6, you don't have, sorry, you don't have like, native applications. You can take a bite and ignore them or whatever you think, but that's not the point. The point is that there is no, like, cryptographic platform. There is just a set of libraries you can use. One other thing I noticed is the evaluation or maybe de-technization of certificates. You know, usually, five years ago, certificates were all good. So the padlock icon, yes, secure. But now, what does that tell you? Unless you see the green bar, and not just green bar, but doing a special, you know, like the green, you know, be afraid, be very afraid, drop the keyboard and run away. Just something to think about. And from the smart card point of view, the reason why there were so many car drivers, there are so many car drivers, and all you're going to see is that most of them target a specific card operating system. They target a specific common interface, proprietary, not documented, whatever. But with the rise of the different interface standards, like PIV and ECC, most, most, like, huge card vendors have, I don't think even card vendors, but the silicon vendors offer very good kind of stuff. But the application vendors have settled on Java cards as the open platform, which means you can, you know, have your PIV application, and you can choose your vendor for the card. Again, something to think about. So what has happened in five years in the world of smart cards and open source software? Well, we can try to develop the open source software just, you know, the, what do you call it, IVs, without looking anywhere what's happening, but it's not really a productive thing to do. So in the next five years, probably, not probably, but we're going to see things that will happen in evidence. We can't, we can't avoid that. The most obvious is new average. Right now, when you take any kind of proprietary software, what do you mean like public key means per se? Like, open as it says, the, kind of the one, the key of the, or the one side of the open source to wrap software. I think it was one month ago when 5.7 version was announced to the ECDCA support, the Liptic Curve PSA. In the next few years, we need to take the different government or industry recommendations for new average. We need to deal with it. We need to deal with the Liptic Curve. We need to deal with other than MD5, it's long dead, other than SHA-1, there would be SHA-3, or SHA-3. Yes, in five years. The recommendations for, let us say, keys, like 2,048 bits should be the standard since, I think, most of them already. So once again, from a smart technical perspective, it brings us to the problem of extended APDUs, because the both versions of smart drive will be longer than the short APDU 255 byte limit. It's going to have to hide one or two more bytes somewhere. So it brings again a lot of trouble to the private writers, but it's something application developers should really heavily think about. You know, let us say we run out of juice sometime, and we need to be prepared. We need to be prepared in our application designs, in protocols, in software stacks, and so on. And there's, for example, another interesting protocol to think about. So in the next five years, even more people will have the ID cards that were started to roll out in the last five years. Which means that even if the cards are out at the wallets of people, they don't maybe use it. They don't maybe use them because they don't have any kind of services or software to use them with. But if more and more people will have them, more and more people will think, how can I use it? Which means there will be much for their audience and we need to think about it. How can we accommodate other people? How can we make the software so usable that actually your grandmother's and brothers and brothers will say, how huge currently smart cards like, in a corporate environment or a hacker environment, that you will have every kind of every European citizen, most of them will have some kind of smart card they can use. And probably government will invent ways to use it. So again, something we can't avoid is, we can talk about Peket's S11, and the open source is kind of a broader thing than just the Linux world. So open source exists, for example, OpenSC works on Windows, for MacOS 6, and these are close platforms, proprietary. Even though MacOS 6 claims that it's open source, and for example the software we use to build the native plugin for MacOS 6, it's so to say open source, but it doesn't mean it works like open source. The next final release breaks everything. When you ask for support, there's no comments.  No one trust any kind of questions. It's not open source. And native applications, do we like it or not, we'll use something that works smooth before the desktop experience. We'll use Microsoft APIs. For example, the fact that the Starship or the flagship open source browser right now, Firefox, doesn't use, the Crypto API Windows doesn't use the built-in certificate store and the built-in drive-in windows. That's kind of, actually, that's a legacy. That's a very bad choice by Firefox guys. When you take the new, my favorite browser, Chrome or ChromeView, it works with Crypto API on Windows. Very smooth experience.   It's not really usable. One week ago, or a few days ago, the Linux version of Chromium proved actual support for SmartParts. You can use it, it asked for a thing. Before it didn't use to do that, the night builds were flawlessly much better than Firefox. With SmartParts. Through back at S11 because there is no platform on Linux. Something we should think about. What I wanted to say is that Chromium is open source and it is doing the right thing. And it is doing the only thing you can do on Linux because there's no other option than the S11, even though it's not the best as I said before. So, what we'll also probably continue is the debate whether SmartParts and any kind of, you know, hard topography is like a freelancer organization with a million dollar investment you know, hidden and expensive and so on. Where it's a commodity for grandmothers, fathers, me and you, whoever. That's the thing, you know, for some of us it's a good way to make money and say it's so complicated it needs to be expensive, it needs to be very high level because it brings us more money. Oh, nothing here. Right. The other thing, the mid-ridder, you know, the mid-ridders, there's the same in Estonia that there are porridge monkeys and mid-ridders and everything is, you know, thinking shiny and cozy. Actually, something is missing. I had a few more lines I had between them. First of all, due to the standards, hopefully in five years we will not see another similar explosion of cart riders in open sea. You will see actually that the number shrinks because you're going to have standard interfaces. We have more standards, more car vendors and companies actually stick to standards for the issue of cars, performance, and so on. So we're going to have a fewer of more supported...  I'm sorry, actually. We'll do a switch now. So the perfect future will be that we'll need to grow usability. This is to be demonstrated over and over again that the usage experience of any kind of the usual problem of security is you have to look at the balance between the harness of the security and the usability of the system. We need to grow usability somehow because if we want to win the debate, will it become a commodity or will it remain as so to say big iron business if we want to become commodity what I think everybody would like to see we need to become usable somehow. So the usability of the product is basically my wet ring. And what the usability means one of the these problems which has also been discussed before is the enrollment or the card management or the personalization or the initialization. Well, if you get a card from a government or your company or something they don't really care about it but if you want to like make crypto usable so that you can use it in your own invented environment you want to be able to personalize your own tokens or use some token for your home server to plug it into your wireless router and when you connect to SSH you will actually authenticate against the hardware token in the wireless browser. We need to make that somehow manageable. Diversity versus interoperability versus Yeah. Well the thing with Linux is that one of the tries to make the thing more homogeneous so to say is the Fedora Crypto Consolidation which takes the very easy road that you're going to use NSS you're going to be happy and you're going to have like all the fine things that Windows has. Well Linux is famous for playing wars so we want to create one again which is the right one with new TLS or open SSL or NSS or whatever I doubt it but I would like to choose I would like to choose based on my personal preference my maybe application register preference something like that so the diversity is nice I don't think it should be dropped but we need to get into interoperability and in other cases we can have new TLS could work with the same part and in other cases we can open SSL with open SSL in a very similar way so yeah that means accessing objects that means like every day you always when you go to some website you need to authenticate with a key and this authenticate to work like singularly but you could have the option to choose something and another thing is that the what most of the SSL libraries actually do and what is that very clearly pointed out that the way to distribute or even talk about trust I put it in small tricks because it means different things unfortunately policy or like setting the trust anchors or something like that it needs to be communicated with different applications that you are working out and actually the proposal is what Steph said about making package SSL that is usable across applications that's something really, really great and the tough task to do is integrating for private platforms maybe not really that interesting to the open source developers who work in Linux but for an open SD as a project which should bring the open source promise to everyone without any discrimination on the platform this is a tough task because you know for example for Maca6 we depend on the Apple guys how they do their stuff when the Steve Jobs want to do an announcement on the other stage they won't tell us anything with Windows for example it would be nice to have when you plug in a card that doesn't have any kind of vendor support vendor support in in Windows in Windows 7 for example as you could know the open SD the open source software but for example you cannot do it because Windows policy disallows open source auto discovered drivers so you get something to think about and another tough task to do is to actually move the open source to the other side of the the chip interface so right now all the software talks about how to make use of the card but actually you can put the open source into the card and there is no solid solution for for it there isn't a solid child card that would try it now the Moscow one the food came there all alone and not without the basically that's it so the tough task is the consolidation which is the time the easy path just saying that this is our policy which can be done in a closed project we're going to use this and we gain everything versus interoperability which is difficult this is something Linux says this card being quite good at for example when you say no versus Kali there's this free desktop that kind of assess the the common things and the common tools and common APIs all the all the goal projects and other projects are used to gain interoperability so looking at interoperability in both practical and theoretical ways is the most tough task in my opinion that's it questions I'm over my time with their meeting somewhere to eat afterwards yes there is actually it's 9 o'clock and we're going to have like two hours to spend so there are a few more places I think three places because one guy said he can come and there were two free places before so if anybody wants to join us we're Italian so should we finish the discussion so I can stop recording are you done? okay thank you very much


U.S. Marine Corps Captain Matthew George, Company Commander for Alpha Company, Third Marine Division, talks about Alpha Company's time shared with their Philippine counterparts during Balakaton 23 in Santa Juliana, Philippines. So today, the primary focus of training was a non-live fire event that centered around classes taught by our Philippine Marine partners. Primarily, their version of what would be our Marine Corps martial arts program. They also led us through several iterations of jungle survival training and juggle mobility. We've had a couple of socials with them so far. We've had meal engagements with them. So it's given us an opportunity to really integrate and socialize with the people that we're gonna continue to be working with while we're out here. Yes, so the training today, although light in nature is absolutely imperative to developing relationships that are not just going to last or expire now, but that are gonna remain well into the foreseeable future.


Hello, and welcome back to the craft box. My name is Brent and today we're in episode 217 of the wizard 101 death walkthrough last episode if you haven't checked it out already we made our way into Polaris and Yeah, that's basically it. We graduated Ravenwood. Nothing nothing too big, you know, just just the normal everyday and life of the wiz player But yeah, we did all that so go check that out if you haven't And today we are going to be starting by finding the harbormaster's reports Have to put out we little cheeky-wee announcement here that I have to say that I've never Recorded this much in a row since the time a time in December when I had to record a whole bunch of videos because I was going on holiday Yeah, I've Haven't stopped since the galleries episodes so of the second last episode of chrysalis Well, the last one. It's that disrespectful wizard clue so told us about This is how I get promoted to chief inspector No This is how I get promoted to chief inspector You really think so, huh? The storm easy-peasy So yeah, I'll be back in just a bit. I just have to say how Like pathetic these mobs are like honestly these mobs have like this saying none of health there's people and Like what bosses and Moshe it's ridiculous Same like I think Avalon mobs have more health than these guys. He's literally have like no health at all Yeah, they're storm, but still what is this? What is two thousand six hundred nothing I? Literally got a shed first turn and I played and then they did like what the hell This is too easy This is easy game. I don't even have to cut battles because it's just so easy literally they've just It's just so funny to me like how simple this has gotten like you'd think that you're going up into like Polaris is gonna be really hard like as tickled really hard when you got there chrysalis Be really hard when you got there, but no Polaris is just like yeah, let's just quickly fight all these mobs. It'll be easy. Don't worry.  Um, I Literally didn't skip any time at all. I could have just done it on but whatever. I Just find it so funny how easy these guys are like this is obviously To arms inspectors the intruder is it the top of our game non canoes at the brigade is up to this fishy business Okay, um, I don't know how much I have a bit of bags back space. I haven't cleared out my backpack It's so who long so there's a lot of stuff in there Okay, so this is This is the same guys we fought last time if you didn't pick up that I've decided that I'm not triple fainting any boss because Literally twelve thousand five hundred of ridiculously easy double double faints and like four blades killed last time by way too much so I'm gonna Triple it down to like double fainting three blades. Maybe and the minions are just So, yeah Basically, that's this is Polaris for you welcome Until you get to the the heart better because it was natural attack. That's embarrassing You should get help seek help quickly immediately Okay Tempest gonna do like nothing Yep This is honestly so easy Like people will come people complain about how easy Polaris is but like I now understand how he I'm so keen like I'm I'm so tempted I'm way too tempted that just a thought of getting a Shad second round and having an 80 faint on him Like I'm just way too keen. I don't know that wouldn't have killed but like still Minions are like in chrysalis that wouldn't have killed the minions. I had to Double blade each Lulu to get it to kill and then Possibly denied after for the later on like Okay, so easy just single blade Lulu and dead I Mean it's nice because it makes it go real quick But also kind of annoying you just want me to Lulu don't you I'm getting the hand that there's just so much Lulu desire in here. They're like Lulu Lulu Lulu. I want you to Lulu I've decided I don't know if I told you this But I've decided I'm gonna start packing three whoa. Hello. What's this? Whoa, that's that's different. Why would you use your spells? I don't know. They don't even do much. Good job I think this gives like a big No big Okay, that's really fine. Oh, I thought that's what it did. I've decided to put like three Lulu's in my deck Just in case I can't draw them when I need to but I mean I think I'm gonna Reduce my deck size even more while I'm in here for a bit But I may just keep it the same because I mean I've already taken it half of the DCs that I normally use Whoa fizzle, okay? So yeah, this is Clarus is really nice because it's just basically a whole bunch of boss battles Like that's literally all it is out of the 99 quests 20 regular mob fights five defeating collect and 39 boss fights And seven of them containing real cheaters That that information is probably brought to you thanks to do all this when I want great great place Highly suggest highly recommend. Unfortunately, I'm going to second which is annoying Um, and I keep getting these mental volume smoke screens. It's ridiculous, but um, it's fine deal with it, I suppose We'll deal with the nice balls Still I think it just wants me to Lulu I mean I can only Okay, let's do it. Whatever. Let's do it Was it a I'm pretty sure that was an enchanting thing. Have we crit? He's probably dead I mean That'd be so funny.  This is honestly a bit too easy But I'm not complaining because it makes this walkthrough easier for me to record It wasn't a chunk but I must have 200% for that as well Um, 5000 back to the decent amount. Surprisingly that's nearly half of the self gone And a blade and a faint. Okay, that's cool Bye bye minions. Go away. No one likes you. Oh, my voice is going over a quarter too much already. Oh, no No, please Um, okay Okay, let's go for a blade and Seriously stop with the mantles. What the heck? We didn't even fizzle that one good I was about to say if we fizzled that that would be embarrassing because we had a hundred and basically 20 percent accuracy for that one Um, let's enchant the headless because we're gonna go for a headless. I think Might as well just draw for a um blade Why because we can um, this is gonna do mass I don't actually know how much headless does because The only bad thing about headless. It has like a range of things that it can do. Oh, so tempting to just lulu again Oh, my gosh, this game just wants me to lulu him to death. I'm gonna keep going Because I can fizzle headless. I can fizzle headless, but I can't fizzle I mean we haven't headlessed in a while. I haven't seen it in a while Maybe a headless I don't know. I'm just I don't know.   I think it's only like six o'clock, but Six o'clock at night not morning. I don't I'm not usually up that early in the morning, but um Yeah, I don't I don't there's a specific time and place. I like difficult fights like I'm melis there and stuff and this is not one of them when I'm recording I don't know. Okay. That did a good chunk of his health Um, let's go for a I'm sensing the feeling that it does want me to Lulu considering that it just gave me another shadow poop. Oh, look at that Whoa, you're whoa cheeky.  I suppose that's different Given them tower shield. Geez That he's got this is gonna do nothing Yeah Nothing. I mean, I don't need to help in the way as it hit me Literally hasn't hit me at all Um, I don't know why this is just so fun for me and I have no clue why Um 2000 I don't know. Okay. Just as well. I want it. Geez. Oh, I was thinking about deoniting actually no joke Oh, this is actually gonna do a bit. This is actually gonna do a bit. I'm guessing 1000 1500 basically that's cool. If we can get a may cast that'd be so good. That'd be good I don't know if I can crit may casts like can you crit a may cast? I still won't find out. Oh well Um, oh we can do this and then Lulu Whoa I don't know why this is just so funny to me I just don't know why honestly just don't This is not that funny, but whatever Whatever this game loves me. I I love this world already It's like a sign as soon as you get an enchant and jump the Lulu. This is my last Lulu though So I got to make it count. So I got to actually play it up a bit um Oh, okay, you're gonna give me a another way cheeky. We um, what's it called a man a mentor or like a What is it smoke screen or whatever? fire version That one is good What what is it this time? I think it varies Yeah, it does. I think it goes from like 25 to 65. So First time I got 25 this time I got 45. So that's a bit unlucky if I don't fizzle this I mean, this is probably the only good thing apart from tower shield that they that I've seen them do so I'm not complaining Another tower shield. Okay, just tower shield span because you're low on health that makes sense Just don't do it at the start when you're full of health because I can obviously not one shot you apparently I mean I did the last time this battle is actually taken longer than the last one just because I've Not actually taken it seriously. Maybe I should start taking this seriously Um, I'll do that next anyway. I might have to reshuffle actually that would be embarrassing I'm like, yeah, this is gonna be super easy, but no that won't that now trill attack.  There was no trap there. What the heck? What? I'm confused. I is confused So confused. Hello new Can we just kill him already? I think that's cute Okay, cool. Fantastic. Easy peasy, obviously There is a time to laugh and a time not to laugh and this is not one of them I'm even that done in my own words Good job. Um, here his england is nearly as good as mine The harbormasters report list all the shipments being delivered to the walrus burg harbor A ship called the sea chicken is listed as arriving with several imported tuna crates Tuna crates Memes um, okay Let us head over to the next quest person Um, because that battle took so long I'm probably gonna come out all the rest of the boss battles even though they're gonna take So much shorter than that, but it doesn't really matter. Um, because I don't want these episodes to be too like Even though I did like mess up I I'm not gonna make them too long even though I like just me being around with this but you know, that's fine I don't know why I'm being so cautious because these guys aren't even hard But like I just don't want to get into another fight even though I can kill in two rounds Even with the anite so, okay Uh, where are we going la noe noe noe hush I think as I just pronounce it. I did french not gonna lie. I did it.  So I'm not good at it. But I did it That's for like, what five years. Yeah, I did french for five years Now comes the fun part Still not good at it.  Oh my god. This world has got me already. I love it We board the ship fight our way into the hold and then find a way to get the imported tuna crates Onto the deck then voila. We dump the crates into the harbor. It's going to be fun Go now. I'll meet you on board the ship. It's going to be fun Wow, um level up 105 fantastic. Um, basically Level wise halfway through this world Reality wise, we're not even close. We're on what quest in of um 99 Yep, that that's great Cool. Okay. Um, so yeah, we're gonna be we're basically way over level We're gonna be well before 125 before maybe even before we're an imperial that would be funny Depends how much we get from this world because this world gives out a lot of exp like a lot. We've also got A 1,100 over 5,000 now, which is good gaining debt health we're on debt health grind Yeah, yeet Let's go in here and see what chaos we can cause Red riser The lazy pirates are probably all napping below decks. Maybe we can just sneak down and well, isn't this Convenient. I think we found someone to scrub the decks get him Okay, I'll be back in just a bit once I defeat these guys Actually, we're gonna see what red rosa gives us because I love seeing what these people give us Um, so let's quickly check and then I'll be back Um, she gives us 10 ps. Whoa. I don't need that but cool. Okay. I'll be back in just a bit Welcome to Polaris when the mobs spend half the time changing the bubble from themselves to another bubble of themselves While you blade once and hit with lulu It's great. I only got hit three times In the total of um one eight opportunities that they got given Um, and they're dead. So that's unfortunate. My pet killed one of them. Oh, he blocked. Oh Oh, you think that's gonna cause cause the chaos? That sound is so satisfying I guess we'll be scrubbing the decks after all someone Get out the brushes. Yes, you will so much for the element of surprise. Oh, well, it's overrated anyways Come on. Let's get below decks Um, okay, let's go down below Obviously not even a good This is not even how you get down decks in a monkesting ship. I would know I have one in pirate 101. Obviously fake news Um, but let's see what this boss is Welcome to your doom land lovers Someday I will be making captain Then you can say you were beaten by a captain crane tail Captain who?  He's actually good. He used a death shield. Um So I was kind of annoyed with that one Um, but he can do that to be careful. He can also heal and crit heals apparently so Yep, he's got a regenerate on him Which I don't know why that would come in handy because I'm just gonna one shot them, but okay, whatever Um, um, so yeah Uh, I don't think this is gonna kill the boss just because he has a death shield We don't have too much peers, but oh we crit. Oh, that's juicy. Oh, yes. Look at that crit. Oh Yeah That's good. Don't you dare block? No, we didn't want 33. That's pretty good actually. Oh, okay. He's toasted. He's a toasted marshmallow That's what he is a toasted marshmallow Who am I kidding? I'll never be captain. The name crane tail just isn't catchy It's not fair that hook is already taken And that frozen is not the same as fresh Gross the critter right over there. Let's alert them onto the lift Okay, okay Now we just have to find the controls to raise the lift. They should be right over there Oh, hello I'll wait till they are raised more Ha, so you are the cause of the ruckus on whose authority do you dare to board my ship? Chief and either last building himself ordered this shipment On the authority of the good pink greens at bolaris We do not want your stinking fish in our harbor So you have no authority at all then very well, then it's time for you to learn that the sea chicken will not be so easily plucked Okay, I'll be back once I've defeated this guy. Okay. I am back. Welcome to more myth minions changing the bubble endlessly um and me blading up for an attack um Yeah, basically he can maniburn the boss so the the boss can maniburn So be very afraid of that and he can also go off. So it's basically pain Uh, I wanted to make that joke. I'm sorry. I crit. Oh my gosh. Look at that. Look at that. Look at that.  Okay. Good job Um There you humiliate me on board my own ship. Rasputin will hear of this. You can be sure of that But you want me to humiliate you otherwise you want to fight me the cargo lift lever push the lever to raise the imported tuna crates up to the deck Obviously if he wanted me to fight him That's it. The sea chicken is cooked time to go back up onto the deck and have a poisson party Okay, that's a bit strange, but sure why not a fish party not a poison party. Definitely not a poison party. That's bad Don't don't have poison kids. Um Yeah, easy peasy basically that wasn't too difficult. Uh, why do we have to press x to go up?  Come on. Let's return this tuna to the sea. Good idea except it's frozen sort of just Smells and disgusting the crates tumble over the side of the sea chicken into the harbor When the tuna thaw out, they'll be free to swim back out to sea now. That was the most fun I've had since Well, since the war us came let's go. I'll meet you back at la netriage Okay, back in I don't know worse, but I was still don't worry. Don't worry. I thought we were I'm getting a bit ahead of myself here. You see Okay, that was actually not too difficult the bosses here honestly very easy Um, you saw I had three blades and a potum and even without the critter would have killed probably So, yeah not too difficult I'm very happy Um contempt in fact with this place, but it could get a bit more difficult. I know there's definitely some difficult bosses coming up. So Yeah We just gotta just gotta pretend that we're good and then we'd be good Now that was the best party I've attended in years Felt good. Didn't it? Liberty. Yes, Liberty. She's quite a character. Now the revolution has truly begun You should know though. I am not the leader of this revolution I am just another patriot our true leader don't on was captured by the imperial guard Like your oski friend Ivan don't on is being held in the Bastille We must liberate them and all the other innocent civilians who have been wrongly imprisoned Meet me back at the press and we will discuss our next steps Okay, let's head back to war uskberg And we will continue on Seeing what to do next Um, okay Where are we going? I get really weird lagging here. Jeez. What a Okay, we're just gonna chill for a bit. Please. Thanks Um, weird leg. I don't know I don't know what it is about but we get the slightly weird leg. Hello there Bonjour, it seems our business in the harbor caused quite a stir. We must move quickly now to seize the moment Breaking our friends out of the Bastille will be hard The Empress keeps the Bastille key with her always under the pillow on her palanquin to get close We need someone the Empress trusts She has a private dancer at the theater an oski named perish neko who seeks to defect If you would go to his dressing room at the bolshoi theater He might know a way for you to get close enough to the Empress to steal the key Okay, let's go to this then. I mean, we're just gonna continue. I know it's been kind of long Um, but I have cut out a lot about us So we're just gonna continue onwards. We've actually done a lot and I want to continue doing a lot Um, because a lot is goodly Great and Quote by me great and quote. Good job You can quote that as well. Anything that I say you can quote.  Hello Captain what is his name captain waters winters? Oh, I think we meet him later as well. That's cute. Hello Every day I give everything I have on that stage my entire heart and soul But this gluttonous impress keeps me all to herself Primo ballerino.  I've been the great himself. Well, you know Ah, he was one of the greatest performers of all time together. We packed circus things from here to tanderia Ah For Ivan's sake, I will help you steal the key to the Bastille First of all, we must ensure I can defect from this dreadful place to leave the city I need you to go to the armory and stamp my papers with the marshall seal You may have to fight once the papers are stamped Take them to the captain of a ship called the hummingbird in the harbor do this and we have a deal Okay, um, how many speaking of how many badges do we have in here 33 badges? Whoo, okay That's fun. That's quite a few. Jeez 33 I really like the um the later worlds is just so many badges. It's ridiculous. The imperial has so many Um, and then with part two, there'll be even more which is ridiculous I just I don't know. I kind of I really do enjoy clicking all the badges and doing all the side quests even though I don't listen to the dialogue Yeah, but um, I mean, yeah, that's fun. I just enjoy it. Uh, listen to the armory Hello, don't mind the meat just going into the armory. Um, obviously meant to be here But you know, that's fine Um, I really like the look at this place the skybox is really cool Skybox is really cool 11 out to 10 The armory is restricted to enforcers only, you know the rules I suggest you leave before we arrest you and curfew violation. Okay, I'll be back once I've defeated these guys Okay, I am back. We are hopefully finishing off this as you can see I haven't taken much damage and I've This is the fourth round. So Yeah, there's um, not been much progress on my health. Um, but I got a shad and yeah I wanted to get a couple extra blades just because I know they would probably tower shield and one of them did And also for the fact is that they have slightly more health Not over 3000 yet. We're not quite there. We're not quite at that level yet, but still slightly more than before 2900 Um, I knew I'd probably kill but I just want to be sure And I'm starting to get more health Why not?  Yes, I do and in that game that can hold pears jewels Annoyed annoyed face only Bye-bye. Yep. Goodbye. You're bad. Bye. Bye. You can laugh about it, but you're dead.  Just die. Thank you And we will just look the other way this time. In fact, we'll just go the other way Good. I don't want you disturbing me Let's go upstairs And see what we got now Who are we fighting now another time? I've been waiting over an hour that's strong enough better not be cold Wait a minute. You don't look like the serving girl. What are you doing in here? The serving girl, okay Need to put in some prisms Um, so yeah, I'll be back once I have defeated this guy Okay, I am a bad girl. We are hopefully killing now That took a slightly longer than before I could not find my paint Um, my paint was kneading it very long very long time Um, but we crit. Why are we critting so much? Like we I'm not gonna complain, but like we don't usually have this bit Good luck printing. You know, we only have 25%. I've been saying. Oh, you blocked. Okay. That's why you're still there You're still there, baby Bye Looks out. Yeah, okay. Keep the boss.  I get it. You're dead Just die all at once, please If you could but nope you had to die I guess I will go out first long enough today Good idea Okay, let us collect the marshal seal You stamp original coughs papers with the marshal seal Authorizing him to leave the city Now you need only to deliver the papers to the captain of the hummingbird down at the harbor Okay, okay, let's go do this. We're gonna finish off this quest and then we'll go in the end of the episode I know it's kind of long But I'm excited and loving it Loving it indeed Um, I really want to do this like whole dancey bit, but we'll do that next time whatever Also means next time we'll be storming the best deal. I believe Can we load please load slowly loadly loadly slowly slowly loadly Harbore harbore to the harbore Harbore harbore that's a harbore Okay, load please that would be great greatly appreciate. Thank you Please I'm blague. Thank you Duncan I'll be back in a bit Okay, I'm blank want a fresh start come to the new world Gold and cookies for everyone book passage on the hummingbird today Ah the papers for the dancer very well and he paid in advance So tell him his space is secure and we leave in the morning Yay Um, let me see line sets a bit cheeky. I don't know. They were out there. Hello. Um, let's go back to the primo ballerino I love that as a bunny so good Um, and then we will end off the episode there probably next time we will continue on Most likely storming the best deal Which will be fun. Um, fun. We boss cheating boss for us to do Um, okay, can we just like load? Thanks. That'd be great. Cheers. So goodbye Um, if you're here, hello Oh, hi Who in here? Oh, yeah, okay I don't know what I'm saying anymore. I'm bad But um You secured my place on the hummingbird. I cannot wait this new world sounds almost too good to be true. Maybe it does I have devised what I think is a rather ingenious plan to steal the Bastille king You will take it while she is engrossed by my dancing the empress waits in the theater even now I'll go in and begin my performance. You coming behind me pausing as part of the new dancers I have an enchanted tool to hear that I use for emergencies So someone might stand in with the dancers injured once you put it on you'll look just like one of us Oh the dressing rack is right there Okay, so next episode we will go put on our tutor and dance Didn't think I'd either say that but we are Um, so thank you for watching and to leave a like and subscribe and if you've already subscribed Press the wee little bell so you know exactly when I post another video and remember craft Outside the box


What's going on guys welcome back to the channel and I appreciate you being here today I am back with another Destiny 2 video and today within this video we're going to follow on from the video I posted a few days back about the dreaming cities dreaming kitties now the video I posted a few days back it showcased three kitties altogether today I showcase a total of eight eight have been fans so far now if you're not a location of any I don't cover in this video be sure to let know via twitter at dpjsc08 linked within the video description the next video I make I will give you a shout out for it so this video will showcase eight kitkat locations these cats you can trade with and to trade with them you need something called a small gift you can only trade once per cat it then disappears for good the loot they drop can basically be anything from the dreaming city yeah also guys before we go any further if you do enjoy the video leave the like truly helps out and I appreciate that support also if you are new around here and enjoy dave destiny videos be sure to subscribe now I'm gonna love you and leave you to watch time and order from the land is on making our way around thanks as always for stopping by and hopefully I will see you on that next one enter show a sudden increase in energy associated with the score keep an eye on get incursion incoming


My name is Sam Vakny, I am the author of Maliglan's self-love, Narcissism Revisited. In the narcissist's surrealistic world, even language is pathologized. It mutates into a weapon of self-defense, a verbal fortification, a medium without a message, replacing words with duplicitous and ambiguous vocables. The narcissist, and often by contagion his unfortunate victims, he doesn't talk, he does not communicate, he fends off, he hides, and evades, and avoids, and disguises. In the planet of capricious and arbitrary unpredictability that the narcissist inhabits, there are only shifting semantic and semiotic dunes. The narcissist perfects the ability to say nothing in lengthy, fiddle, Castro-like speeches. The narcissist's speech is impregnated and dense with first-person pronouns.  The ensuing, convoluted sentences are arabesques of meaninglessness, acrobatics of evasion, lack of commitment, elevated to an ideology. The narcissist prefers to wait and see what waiting brings. It is the postponement of the inevitable that leads to the inevitability of postponement as a strategy of survival. It is often impossible to really understand the narcissist. The evasive syntax fast deteriorates into ever more labyrinthine structures. The grammar is tortured to produce the verbal Doppler shifts, essential to disguise the source of the information, its distance from reality, the speed of its degeneration into rigid official versions. Narcissist is completely incomprehensible most of the time. Right under the lush flora and fauna of idioms without an end, the language erupts like some exotic skin rash, an autoimmune reaction to its infection and contamination by the narcissist. Like vile weeds, the narcissist's language sprints throughout, strangling with absent-minded persistence the ability to understand, to feel, to agree, to emote, to disagree, to debate, to present arguments, to compare notes, to learn, to teach. The narcissist makes all these completely impossible because of his abuse of language. Narcissist therefore never talk to others, rather they talk at others or they lecture them. They exchange subtexts, camouflage wrapped by elaborate flurry texts. They read between the lines, spawning a multitude of private languages, prejudices, superstitions, conspiracy theories, rumors, phobias and hysterias. This is the world of the narcissist, paranoid, solipsistic, where communication is permitted only with oneself and the aim of language is to throw others off the scent or to obtain narcissistic supply, of course. This maltreatment of language has profound implications. Communication through unequivocal, unambiguous, information-rich simple systems is such an integral and crucial part of our world that its absence is not postulated even in the remotest galaxies which grace the skies of science fiction. In this sense, narcissists are nothing short of aliens' extraterrestrials. It is not that they employ a different language, a code to be deciphered by a new Freud or a supercomputer. It is also not the outcome of upbringing or social cultural background. It is the fact that language is put by narcissists to a different use, not to communicate, but to obscure, not to share, but to abstain, not to learn, but to defend and resist, not to reach out, but to persevere over less standable monopolies, to disagree without incurring wrath, to criticize without commitment, to agree without appearing to do so. Thus, an agreement with a narcissist is a vague expression of intent at a given moment, rather than a clear listing of long-term, iron-clust, iron-cast, iron-clad and mutual commitments. The rules that govern the narcissist universe are loop-hold incomprehensibles, open to interpretation so wide and so self-contradictory that it renders them meaningless. The narcissist often hangs himself by his own verbose, gordic knots, having stumbled through a minefield of logical fallacies and having endured self-inflicted inconsistencies, unfinished sentences hover in the air like vapor above a semantic swamp. In the case of the inverted narcissists, who was suppressed and abused by overbearing caregivers, there is the strong urge not to offend. Intimacy and interdependence are great, parental or peer pressure are irresistible and result in conformity and self-deprecation. Aggressive tendencies strongly repressed in the social pressure cooker team under the veneer of forced civility and violent politeness, constructive ambiguity and non-committal everyone is good and right, an atavistic variant of moral relativism and tolerance bred of fear and contempt. They are all at the service of this eternal vigilance against aggressive drives at the disposal of an unnever-ending, in-inner, peacekeeping mission. This is the inverted narcissists, a suppressed narcissists. But with a classic narcissists, language is used cruelly and ruthlessly to ensnare one's enemies, to sow confusion and panic, to move others to emulate a narcissist, this is called projective identification, to leave the listeners in doubt, in hesitation, in paralysis, to gain control, to punish, these are the uses of the language.  With cerebral narcissists, language is a lover, the infatuation with its very sound leads to a pyrotechnic type of speech, sacrifices its meaning to its music. These speakers pay more attention to the composition than to the content. They are swept by the language, intoxicated by its perfection, inebriated by the spiraling complexity of its forms. Here language is an inflammatory process. It attacks the very tissues of the narcissists' relationships with artistic fierceness. It invades the healthy cells of reason and logic and communication of cool-headed documentation and level-headed debate. Language is a leading indicator of the psychological and institutional health of social units such as the family or the workplace. Social capital can often be measured incognitive and hence verbal-lingual terms. To monitor the level of comprehensibility and lucidity of texts is to study the degree of sanity of family members, coworkers, friends, spouses, mates and colleagues. There can exist no hail of society without unambiguous speech, without clear communications, without the traffic of idioms and content that is an inseparable part of every social contract. Our language determines how we perceive our world. It is our mind and our consciousness. The narcissist in this respect is a great social menace, undermining language itself.


Do you know the 12 days of Christmas? So if I was like 12... Ooh. Ooh. And a party. And a party. And a party. And a party. Like 12... Um... Partridge and a pear tree. A partridge and a pear tree. Okay. Partridge and a pear tree. That's one. That's the first. That's the first. 12. I don't know. 12. Leopards. Okay. I'm a really good one guy. For 100 bucks, what's 12? 100 bucks was 12. I don't know what's 12, though. Dang. You know what's 12, dude? You're close. By that I mean no. 12. Day of Christmas. My true love, gay to me. 12. Drummers. Drumming. Correct. 12. Drummers. Drumming. 11. Leapers leaping. 10. Mades of milking. 9. Lords of leaping. Oh, the best is such as ready. 11. Piper's piping. 10. Lords of leaping. 9. Ladies dancing. See, I was close. Nine made of milk gang. That's eight. That's eight. Yeah Seven songs of serving seven Swan six Lethals weapon I don't know. I'm just trying to go with the wind at this point. Thanks. Geese of Lang's six geese of Lang's six geese of Lang's five golden rings Five golden rings Two golden ducks or something four calling birds three friends Four calling birds three friends and two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree Calling birds three friends and two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear. Four calling birds three friends and two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear.


This is stock number 10372. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used heavy duty truck headquarters. Today we are checking out this super clean 2013 Ford F250 crew cab short box. This truck has the 6.7 liter power stroke diesel and has been fully safety to and inspected by our service shop as a fresh oil and filter change all the fluids have been checked and topped off. The truck has been gone through mechanically 100% per our state of Wisconsin inspection. BlueJeans Metallic is the color. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p, 60 frames per second. So if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet or smartphone device, turn them on right now because it is definitely your best way to check out the quality and condition of the vehicle before seeing it in person. If you want to check out more pictures of this truck in the upper right hand part of your screen is a link right to our website. 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We take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and just can't make the trip you can still see the truck, hear the truck and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. So that when you do get here there's no surprises. To that effect we offer a Summit Auto Fastpass feature in the upper right hand part of your screen. A link right to our website where you can apply for financing on this truck. Get approved on this truck, even see payments and appraise your trade if you have one. Frame and underbody, absolutely no corrosion, very clean all the way underneath, lower rockers all look really good and it does have factory chrome step bars. Back rim is in excellent shape as well, no scuffs or scrapes and these back tires are brand new as well. Has rear airbag suspension and it does have the camper package with that anti-sway bar there. 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