Ladale Richie comes into the starting line up for Mount Pleasant and these are how this is how the host will set up It will be a 4-3-3 formation John Wilson between the sticks because Kim are foster on national duty Dallas Kamani Stewart comes in Elvis Wilson Keithy Simpson the experienced center back Denado Thomas the White player full of player Denado Navardo Blair Christopher Matthews Schemar both Javane Brian the joint leading goal scorer in the league and Vivaldo Mitchell who is well In a real purple patch so far four goals and a season for him their head coach Marcel Gale Expect this water hose team to really come to the party today TV game behind their home support They'll make it very difficult for this Mont Blaser unit Mount Pleasant with many changes and the changes in a formation as well four five one safari chambers between the sticks because there's no Shaquan Davis Ladale Richie their ever experienced man Centerback will take the captain's arm band Malachi Sterling one of their best players in in schoolboy football this season will play the left back role Melvin Dock says in Lucian Shaquille Dyer regular man in it in the heart of it Kimoni Bailey was at an impressive season the dreadlocked the white player Shaquille Bradford ten goals so far in the season Although eight of them for how about you go in Austin Tevin Shaw Shandy James and Daniel Green Complete the start in line up green as in being in goal goal scoring form their head coach here Over seven players A tough fixture Nerissa Golson The lady in charge of it and Daniel Green early full match highlights, of course This was the first half and Daniel Green letting fly it was a good save low down from John from John Wilson To deny and then that one off the upright from Daniel Green. He had a pretty good game Daniel Green the Mount Pleasant number nine This allows a touch from Melvin Docksley and champagne Brian Letting fly from distance, but couldn't hit the target as the exchange punches in that first half No into the second half. They're not a Thomas showing his skills On the left hand side of the attack, but couldn't get that on target and then the corner Thomas should have done better rose well then are the Thomas good connection, but didn't hit the target and The waterhouse number 10 his drought continues You see more of the ball. This was put towards the back post and Brian was a submit late Maybe being for pace jumping Brian Caught on the back foot as well Daniel Green continued it quite his quality. He hit the crossbar Just going over then that strike which was just wide teared it up as well for shandy James who couldn't keep his strike down Malachi Sterling Had a pretty good game coming into the starting lineup two bites of the chair for Kimoni Boyle On that occasion, but much To the smear of his fans. He put it over until this moment. He had better in the locker so much better a magnificent strike from Kimoni Bailey Perfect technique. Just look at how you turn himself sideways And in step perfection for Mount Pleasant's number 12 one nil after 78 minutes Mount Pleasant continued to pile on the pressure sterling to the back post But one goal was enough for them to execute an important victory and take them back on top of the table One nil 10 shots free on target for them. Just a one shot on target from waterhouse They were disappointing going forward just didn't create enough from the open play There were four yellow cards in it shown by Narissa Goldson Two saves made by Wilson two impressive saves off the boot of Daniel Green as well There was a safe for Mount Pleasant in that and they had nine corners in Mount Pleasant majority of the position And the only goal in this one Mount Pleasant with the Bob Marley one nil over waterhouse Kimoni Bailey today's man at the match. You certainly have a eye for a spectacular goal Certainly wouldn't have scored too many better than that one in your career Well For me still I've scored better than that but you know that that one that one was a good one also to add to the tally It started the season so well. You got the little injury and then now you're back into the team I'm sure you're extremely happy to get that goal today. Yeah, definitely and sometimes it's just the hard work And you know, we just got to be patient because I know it's coming So it's just the patience for me and this team is a winning team. It's a winning unit What's the confidence level like to repeat as champions? Well, it's always a high Confidence going into any game that will play because anything that come at us They come with their egging so we always have to go there with our egging also All right spectacular goal today. Best of luck for the rest of the season. Okay. Thank you That was Kimoni Bailey


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Hello everyone and happy Easter. Today, my family is joining Christians in Canada and around the world to commemorate the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Easter is the most important time for Christians. It's a time to reflect on the values of sacrifice and hope. It's a time to forgive one another and focus on renewal. And after two difficult years with COVID-19, this Easter will be special. That's because many of us will be coming together again to attend church in person, organize Easter egg hunts for the kids, and share a special meal with family and friends. And as we reflect on Jesus' message of compassion, many of us are asking what more we can do to spread kindness and make our world a better one. So this Easter, let's give thanks for our many blessings and let us recommit ourselves to being there for one another. On behalf of our family, Sophie and I wish everyone celebrating a very happy Easter.


I know a lot of people love this. In my opinion it's Hot Trash. I mean I'm just telling the truth. I'm not lying. Hi friends welcome back to my channel. I hope you're well. Today we're doing a really exciting video but it's one that like well I've never done it before because I've never been on bookstube at this point in the year but we're doing the mid-year book free cat tag. I've been watching some people's videos of this and everyone's like this is my favorite time of the year. I love doing these videos. And I'm like it's only my third day out here. Yeah it's only my third day out here. I don't know. I am excited however to look back at the books I have read so far this year. So the first question is best book you've read so far in 2020. This is impossible for me to answer. Like it's so hard. I can't do it. My heart is saying no. I'm gonna treat this question as stand aligned not series. I'll talk about series in the next question because I'm gonna I think I'll change the question a bit to what I want. So if we're talking just about stand learns I think we'll have to be between two. The first will be the guest list by Lucy Foley. I don't actually have it right now. If you're regular on my channel you have heard me speak about this book quite a bit. There is a murder mystery set on this remote island off the coast of the country island and we're at a wedding of this really rich influential couple and we find out on the first page that someone has been killed at the wedding and we don't know for the majority of the book who it is, who has done the king. It's a really traditional who done it and for me this book is also just like representative of me falling in love with the murder mystery genre and mysteries in general this year. They're kind of all I want to read but I also think murder mysteries in that kind of like traditional Agatha Christie style. It's something that's difficult to find modern versions of. Like I don't think they're written enough. I would I just want to be drowning in them but I'm not. So if you have any good recommendations please do let me know but the guest list was just so engaging. You had this cast of characters who the majority of them were just completely horrible but you had a few who were normal. It made it more bearable because you had a few people who were your eyes in the situation. I just thought the tension built so well. I loved the writing and I loved how we didn't know who was dead because for a lot of the book my theory as to who was the murderer was actually the person who ended up being killed. I really liked that twist on it whereas normally you know who's been killed but I think it just add an extra element of intrigue. So this book was great for me but it was also emblematic of a new genre that I was falling in love with. And then my other answer would have to be Middle Game by Seanal Maguire. I loved this book but I don't... I still quite... I love this song. I don't... I still don't quite know how to feel about it fully. It's a book that you can't really put into a category and we have the twins Roger and Dodger who have been made by their scientists and he is trying to use them to gain control of the world. And it's about alchemy and about telepathy between the twins and I can't really say much more than that. It's an impossible book to describe who needs to go into this pretty blind but it was just like a work of art. Ten out of ten. Ten out of ten. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. And the next question is best sequel you've read so far in 2020 and I'm going to cheat a bit. I'm going to talk about two series that I've read the whole of the series already in 2020 and these are up there with my favorite books of the year too with those sand loans. I don't know how I'm going to pick at the end of this year. Like I really have no idea. First is The Illuminate Files by Amy Coffman and Jay Kristoff. This is a science fiction YA series that is told completely through multimedia format. So you have chat logs, you have some really cool pages where you might need to rotate the book or the words go like that. And the multimedia format is a massive reason as to why I love these books and also why I think they are so readable. They're fairly chunky but they are so quick to read. And the first one a company wages war on this illegal planet that our two main characters are living on and they have to escape. They're living on separate ships and they are communicating through these multimedia formats. These books follow different characters to the first one. We're following different aspects of this war. I think Gemina was my favorite. Woo! I think Gemina was my favorite out of the three we matched today.  Gemina had this great part of it where it doesn't kick off until like page 130.  And I love the character in this. One of my favorite characters in the whole series Ella is in this and that series is just it's just incredible. Like it's just beyond anything I've ever read in terms of imagination and in terms of really coming up with something new. I'm putting my whole family onto it and they're all loving it. So excited! And then the other series I have to mention which I talk about all the time is the Heart of the Graphic Novel series. This has my heart. You'll know if you've been here how obsessed I am with this series. We're following Nick and Charlie as they fall in love and Alice Oseman's drawing style on this is just like it kills me. It actually kills me. This made me fall in love with graphic novels and if you're looking for something cute, warm, fuzzy that will just like fill your heart with joy this graphic novel series is it. The next question is a new release you haven't read yet but want to and for this I'd have to say you should see me in a crown by Leah Johnson. I've seen so many people talk about this and give it rave reviews and it's on my script it's just waiting for me to pick it up. It's about a girl called Liz who has these dreams of going to this college in order to become a doctor and play in the orchestra there. However the money that the financial aid that she was counting on to be able to go there falls through. However she realises that her school has a scholarship for prom king and queen and so then her goal is to become prom king... I don't know what the f*** she's saying but girl I am Liz. Her goal is then to become prom queen so that she can get the scholarship so she can go to school that she wants however it's a bit of a difficult journey and she ends up I think falling for another girl who is running for prom. I can't speak today who is running for prom queen and so it's a female-female romance. I've seen so many people whose opinions I trust and who have very similar opinions who love this and I've just been eyeing it up since before it came out so I'm really excited to get to this one. Next is what is your most anticipated release for the next half of the year and I have two answers for this. First is The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel. Now I haven't read Station 11 don't hate me I want to read that really badly but this one intrigues me so much because it reminds me in certain aspects of the starless even though they're very different in genre but it seems like The Glass Hotel from my understanding like follows quite a few different characters and it's a lot of intrigue and mystery and that's kind of elements I enjoyed a lot in the starless sea. I cannot tell you really the plot of The Glass Hotel. I know we're sitting at The Glass Hotel I know there's a woman who goes missing and there's a guy called Vincent who works at the hotel and there's something to do with his brother. I know a lot of things but I don't know about that I'm not sure why. I'm very excited to read it I've already pre-ordered it as a birthday gift for my mum because it was on her birthday list which means I get to read it also. Is there no budget this time around? And then my other Rosentes of Fate release is One By One by Ruth Ware. Now if you've watched my video where I read new releases I've actually read an arc of this and I loved it. It was five stars it was amazing. It's not the most complex thriller if that is what you're looking for it gives me those very much like murder mystery isolated group stuck somewhere vibes which I love. All the thrills I love are isolated closed circle mysteries. Oh it's so good. I love everything about this and this is about a company who go on a trip to this ski resort and you don't really know why and there's a one woman there who worked at the company years and years and years ago and has come on a trip with them. You're like sis why are you there? Why is she here?  I don't think it's going to be to everyone's taste because like I said it's quite simple I think you figure out the baddie quite early on but I think that was intentional so I'm very excited for everyone to read this one and then we can all talk about it. My biggest disappointment this is fairly easy because I just made a video all about my most disappointing books but this is one I read right at the start of the year and it is read white and royal blue by Casey McQuiston. This one good reads best romance of the year last year everyone seems to love it no I hated it. If it came on I wouldn't necessarily skip it well that's not true I would I'll skip it. I gave this two stars but I kind of think that was a bit too generous almost I think if I read this now just a couple months later I'd give it one star because I've become a bit more picky this is oh my god I don't even want to talk about it this is a romance between the son of the president of the United States and a prince of England and it's about them.   Biggest surprise is the next question and for this I'd have to go for The Strange Case of the Alchemist Daughter by Theodore Goss this is kind of like a mystery set in Victorian England featuring the daughters of a lot of the kind of male classic figures so we've got Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde's daughters we've got the female Frankenstein Sherlock and Watson appear in this together as well kind of to help the girls but it's done really well in a way that the girls are still the focus of the story but this was such a surprise I read it for my murder mystery video and I just needed another book to read on on audiobook and I just scrolled through and found this and I thought it was gonna be three stars average whatever on a whim read it loved it was five stars the girls have a really great found family there's about five or six of them and you just fall in love with them and the support that they give each other and the way that it's told is that one of the girls is writing the book and so occasionally the other girls will pipe in and it will be written almost like a play where they'll be arguing about how certain events actually happen and I just thought that that form of storytelling of us meeting some of the girls through that first was brilliant and it made it so engaging especially listening to the audiobook I do want to from now on at some point get the rest in the series but I am I think going to listen along to the audiobook whilst reading it physically I think that'd be the perfect thing because the covers are gorgeous and so I want to own these books because I think they're all going to be favourites but the audiobooks are also incredible so I'd recommend listening to the audiobooks as well. My favourite new author I think a lot of my opinions are the same I'd probably say I've never read any Amy Coffman or Jay Kristoff before I'm really excited to get written to their some of their other stuff and so I'd probably have to say them I know they're not new authors because this is debut or new to you I don't think I've read really many debut authors this year oh actually I read Wilder Girls by Rory Power and this is Rory Power's first debut book and I loved this I got four stars I think it was like a 4.5 it was so close to being a five star but just like not quite there but I know a lot of people don't love this but I do. Everyone loves me well your bastard hates me but they just wrong I think I'm just special special this is about three girls who are at this boarding school where something called the tox has happened which is essentially a illness that is mutating in all the girls in different ways one of the girls goes missing and so then the other two have to go look for them it's also female female romance I think the vibes of this like the atmosphere unparalleled I want this to be a Netflix original limited series oh my oh my god it would be so good it would be so good like you know when you think of something like that you're like I want that to be a Netflix series when you get sad knowing it will probably never happen but you're like it's just so deserving of it but I'm so sad that that is never gonna happen but that's probably actually my favorite debut author Rory Power. Okay so next question is newest fictional crush I don't tend to crush on people in books let me have a think if I had to say one I'd probably say Hector from the girl of Fire and Thorn series he don't really Hector doesn't kick in until books two and three newest favorite character oh I have the answer that would have to be Darby from no exit I just read this in my last vlog I am obsessed with Darby in this book so Darby is riding in a snowstorm to try and get back to her family and she has to stop because the snow gets so bad she stops at like a rest stop and she finds that she's stuck there with four people and in one of the vans at the rest stop is a girl trapped in the van locked in a cage and so the whole book is her trying to figure out who it is although she figures that out fairly quickly and then it's all about trying to survive trying to keep the girl alive and trying to get out of the situation that they're in she pulls tricks at the bag Darby does it I the stuff that she does in this book how ingenuity she is the sacrifice she makes how hard she fights so good so good well just as I thought talented brilliant incredible amazing show stopping spectacular never the same totally unique completely not ever been done before this book made me so stressed I sit in the vlog it gave me chest pain it gave me heart palpitations I was so stressed out for the few days I'm too angry to talk I want to slash someone's head she just really acts in a way that's so selfless and so determined I just thought she was incredible like such an incredibly written character with flaws but with so much like fight and grit as well next is a book that made you cry I cry I like every book under the sun I cried so much at Gemina and if you've read Gemina you'd be like bitch why did you cry don't question it I cried a lot at this book and then one that made me cry the ugliest tears in the world was a monster caused by Patrick nest this is about a boy whose mum is dying of cancer and then a monster turns up outside his house and tries to tell him stories and teach him lessons and I have the illustrated version and it's very dark you will be sobbing for that much onwards like you'll just be crying I was a hot mess and like you know when you have to take a bit of time after the book to just sit there and cry some more this book it killed me and so if you're in the need for a cry like if you're like I just want to read a book that'll make me cry this is quite honestly it this is it next is a book that made you happy again I feel like a lot of my books make me happy in some way but I also don't tend to read very many happy books maybe if I'd say one it'd be Watch Us Rise by Renee Watson and Ellen Hagen I really enjoyed the girls relationship in this it's about two girls who sit out like this feminist club at their school and it's them working out their own feminism seeing how that feminism is flawed and for me they much preferred Jasmine's part in this I don't know if the authors wrote half and half I don't know if Renee Watson wrote Jasmine's parts and then Ellen Hagen wrote Chelsea's but for me they felt very different and I love love love Jasmine's parts but I gave this four stars and probably Jasmine's parts were five and Chelsea's parts were three so it kind of averaged out to four Jasmine's journey and just her character made me really really happy and definitely one of my favorite characters she's so strong but also figuring herself out and I thought this was a really realistic exploration of being like 16 and wanting to be politically active but understanding how you're flawed in certain ways and going through difficult family stuff I felt like it was a really realistic look at what girls this age how they feel the next question is the most beautiful book you've bought or received this year I've gone with books that I know for sure I got this year because a few that are beautiful down there I'm like did I get you for Christmas or my birthday because my birthday's in January and so like sometimes it's difficult to remember but I am gonna go for my cloth bound classics that I've received so I have received Alice's adventures in Wonderland and through the looking glass the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Little Women and I I just love these so much I want to collect them all I just think they're gorgeous you know what I'm obsessed with are you ready you know what I'm obsessed with you for me you know a book is amazing when it has this ribbon bookmark oh I love it well guess what people I get excited about small things and the final question is what books do you need to read this year now there's like a billion books quite honestly if I had to tell you four let's say four books I have to read I adjusted a video of 21 books I want to read before I'm 21 um and my birthday's January 28th so I've literally got the rest this year and 28 days to read those 21 books so definitely go check that video out because that's a much more elaborate answer but for all the books that were in that video and I'm not planning to read in the next two months so like whoops um but they are Six Grosy Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo I said that really fast I'm really sorry I was like come on Megan like it's actually embarrassing I loved Night House by Leigh Bardugo I will speak highly of that book to the end of my days I adored it everyone who hated it you are wrong I'm tempted to read these in like 24 or 48 hours but I'm not sure if I'm capable of that but I'm like tempted anyway they are two of the ones I want to make sure I get around to and then an author which I have read non-fiction from but I've never had fiction and I'm desperate to do so is Americana and Half of the Yellow Sun by Shememanda Nogosi Addichi so these books have been on my TBR for like 50 years I've had these for so long and not pick them up because I find them so intimidating I don't know why but I it's a small font okay and fairly long I love watching Shememanda Nogosi Addichi speak I love reading her non-fiction and so it's about time I get around to some of her fiction as well but I mean there's like 50 books 60 even more that I need to finish by the end of this year so there we have it that is my mid-year book freak out tag that was so much fun that was such fun like I'm only seeing the books I've read across this year I've actually had a really good reading year so far I've got quite a lot of five stars let me know what some of your most anticipated reads are what you're most disappointing most surprising what you want to get around to let me know what some of your answers are to these questions down below and I oh that was like I really whipped my head there if anyone's watching all stars five I felt like india ferro which is like anyway I'll see you very very soon with another video bye


Hi guys, welcome back to my channel. Today's video is going to be really exciting because we are trying Fit Life Foods. I was really inspired by Karen from KK and Baby J to try this stuff. They're located in the Dr. Phillips area and I just wanted to try it. This is not sponsored or affiliated or anything. Wish they would because the meals are a little bit price here but you can compare it kind of to eating out. We were comparing it to Panda Express, four rivers, Hooters, those types of things. It's kind of the same price range, like nine, $10 per meal but you're getting a lot less food and I know that sounds bad but it's good for portion control and it's all fresh with no chemicals and stuff. We've made it to Fit Life Foods. All right, so we are here and they kind of label everything with colors so the green is like lunch and dinner and then the blue over there is breakfast. I'm excited. I'm looking at all this stuff and it actually looks really good and I'm a pretty picky eater. Sherry's like going crazy over here. All right Sherry, show the camera which ones you got. Three protein mixed girl. I got the same one. And grilled chicken vegetables. I got the same one. And simply grilled salmon. And the simply grilled salmon. Okay, I got all of those and I got the mac and cheese and I also am gonna try the firecracker shrimp. So these all look pretty good. I'm excited. And then the rest of the other three are the same as Sherry. So we'll have grilled chicken and vegetables. Okay. Cause they both are used by the 27th but just tomorrow. And I don't have the shrimp. Yeah. And the salmon is like good, the longest for me. Yeah. And then the three protein mixed girl. Are you mixing all of our meals? Well just those two. Okay. Cause they're the same. January 30th is your three protein mixed girl but my protein mixed girl is the 27th is mine tomorrow so I'm gonna eat that one tomorrow. Okay. We're gonna try the chicken and vegetables. So we'll try the chicken and vegetables. That's yours. So these are mine. I'll show you mine. Sherry and I got the same ones. I showed this in my previous vlog but I need to try mac and cheese because you guys know I'm the queen of mac and cheese. We have the chicken and vegetables which we're gonna try and do kind of like a little mukbang first impression. That's why you're watching this video. I have some shrimp here. And this goes about 129 which I still have some time on that. And then this is the meat, the three protein mixed grill. So that looks really good. And then we have the salmon. I bought a good portion of these just to try a variety to see what I like and see what I don't like. Okay. So what we're eating, the grilled chicken and vegetables is chicken, zucchini, red bell pepper, tomato paste, dried dates, balsamic, vinegar, sea salt and ground mustard. This is one of their low carb meals. We both got I think size medium cause they do a small medium large. It's 360 calories with 16 grams of fat, 42 grams of protein and eight net carbs which is what I'm looking for is net carbs. They also have a hundred percent guarantee. So if you get something you don't like they will take it back and give you a refund. So instructions, remove, it says id but I'm sure it means lid. I'm sure it's L's. Wait, does it actually say that? Remove id cause you can't see the L. Remove id and replace. Maybe the printer or something. Replace loosely. Okay. So it's supposed to be on there looses. Take it off, put it on there loosely. Heat for one minute, 30 seconds or two minutes until 165 degrees is reached. Well, I can't really test the 165 degrees. So we'll just do it for, I like mine for two minutes. How do you want yours? I don't know. I'd like to make sure mine is like really hot. Well, I'll put mine for two minutes too. Okay. Aren't you supposed to leave the lid like loosely on there? Yes. Reaching the direction is good. I know. Thank you for reminding me loosely. Two minutes. So. Is this the grilled chicken and vegetables? Ow, ow, ow. I'm gonna kind of stir it up. I said it had a little bit of a balsamic something on it. It smells like it. So wait, is this zucchini? Yes, this is zucchini. Zucchini and this is tomato? With a little tomato paste on it, which is like a little bit. Oh, I like tomatoes. Yeah. So that's kind of what it is. So it's a lot of chicken. Yep. Okay. So it's a good portion of chicken. It is. All right. I was nervous it was gonna be like two bland. That's pretty good. Yeah, it is. Who inspired me to do this? Was the portion control? Cause it's like a set amount. I'm just known for kind of overeating. Well, that I think is very helpful for that. And it's only eight grams of carbs. So it's about the same or maybe, maybe only one carb or two more than what something comparable would be with Adkins. And it's much tastier. Cause it's fresh. It's not been frozen for like two or three months before I buy it. And then. That's kind of true. And in my refrigerator for a couple of weeks before I eat it. Zucchini's not bad. I mean, I've had zucchini before, but like this is like my real time actually like. Is zucchini a vegetable? It is. That's probably why I like it. I do like vegetables. I'm not really a fan of zucchini, but this is really good. It's tasty. Normally zucchini doesn't have any taste, right? I don't know. Anyway, you can tell that this is like actual real chicken that's been cut up. Oh yeah. Okay. Take that part out. Why? I miss my mouth. I'm keeping that in there. That's gonna be the thumbnail. I thought you were gonna say take the part out and you saying it's real chicken because I'm like. No, but it is. I'm like, you can tell. I'm like, I don't think you were lying. Probably cause I'm eating it with the little spoon. I should have gotten a fork, but I thought it was gonna have more sauce on it. And I want to like scoop the sauce up in the spoon. No. So I didn't have sauce on it, but it's very tasty. So what is this like red stuff? Is that tomato? Maybe it's pepper. No, I think it's pepper. But I don't think I got any in mine. It's like cooked, but it's cooked with that.  Or a poblano pepper. Let me try it. Oh, wait, wait, there's, okay. These are like dates. Dates. What is that? Like D-A-T-E-S? Or maybe they just cooked it with, it's like a form of nut. Okay, I think this is a carrots. Carrots. It tastes more like pepper. It tastes more like peppers. It's pepper. So I did get a little bit. Yeah. And they say they don't put like any chemicals and stuff in this. Like no preservatives. So what do you say comparable to, compared to, I don't know, other low carb or whatever? Do you think it's worth the price? I don't know. I don't know if it'd be worth the price to me every day because it's expensive. Not every day. Yeah, no, no. If I had unlimited funds, as you say. Then I think it would be. Then it would be. But because we can get like Adkins Frozen at four for 10 bucks or something like that. I personally don't eat Adkins stuff. Oh, except for the cauliflower bites. Those are good. I don't really eat Adkins stuff. I eat more like salads in my lunch. I have them every day for lunch. And I think that's not really great because it's frozen, got a lot of chemicals in it.   We actually get quite a bit of chicken in here. If it was right around the corner, if we have one next to public, so we could just pop into. It would be worth it. It would be worth it. Yeah, I am. But if you can stop on your way home, it could be on your way home. True, which I could. You also get like most of this stuff is like grown organically. I mean, you have vegetarian options. They do. I didn't see that. You also have things like the Impossible Burger. It was a plant-based burger, but it was higher in carbs. Cause when you have that, they use something to hold all that, you know, plant material together. And that's the carbohydrate. So, well, that's what I like. So what else do we have that we have the same thing? The meat lover. I call it meat lover. It's a three meat thing. I'm sorry, the three protein. It's got like chicken. What else? Steak. Chicken steak and something else. Did she say it was like, one of them has like a turkey sausage in it or something. That's the one. Okay. Then we have the salmon. Yeah. Salmon, I can't wait to try. I know. I have high hopes. Like I'm hoping it's not too plain. Now the expression data, that's the same for both of us. So maybe we can eat that on the same night together. Okay, so this is what the shrimp looks like. And then we have the mac and cheese. The mac and cheese was hot. So it kind of burned me and like slipped. I'm like, you too expensive to be wasted. So I kind of scooped it back in the, not all of it came out. It was just like a little bit. I can guarantee you, I don't like the smell of this when it's like frozen, but it smells a lot better once it's cooked. I don't know if that makes sense. So the seasoning tastes kind of weird, but it's not bad. It looks like something that they put with the rice, like a little seasoning, which is interesting. Maybe it's garlic, something like garlic. Then I'm gonna try the green beans for you guys. They do taste fresh, kind of plain, but fresh. Like it's not a bad type of plain. I like that fresh taste. And I'm gonna try some of the rice. I think this is a stuff that has like a lot of stuff in it. Actually, I think it's the shrimp. It's whatever they put on the shrimp makes it smell funky. Again, it's not as bad when it's cooked. But let me try the rice. Not bad, not bad. That's pretty good. The moment of truth, the mac and cheese. I'm hoping this is good. It smells really good, so. Also guys, I did finish this. It was really good. I just had to like get used to it because I normally don't like a lot of like things touching and like mixed and everything, but overall like it was pretty tasty. And I find when I am like getting used to the stuff, I eat slower, which is actually good for you. Anyway, let's just try the mac and cheese. It's kind of plain, not gonna lie. Don't think I would purchase this one again. The other two I just had, like this one I would purchase again, and then the chicken one that Sherry and I ate earlier. Oh, definitely, but this is just kind of plain. I just started staying dressed, okay. So this is what the salmon looks like.   Well, that's good for that. That's what happened with my mac and cheese. Oh, did you do the same thing? No, no, no, not showing the camera. Okay, well, let's try it. You saw it here first, salmon. Really good, let's see. Salmon, asparagus, and kale. This is a good amount of salmon. Salmon is good. Asparagus, let's see. Is it good? Oh, let me try the asparagus. It's like steaming. Ah. Well, you're liking these stuff really hot. Yeah. If you guys have been watching the vlogs, you'll know. They give her a cup of coffee. Oh, be careful, ma'am, it's hot. It drinks it. Oh, and while we were waiting for this to cool down, we also got our side salads. And guys, I did have an appetizer of some pretzels when I got home, because I was so hungry. Pretzels should not be eaten as an appetizer. I'm sorry, but it was just awesome. So that's why I have a small salad over here. It looks big in the camera, but it's a teeny one. And Sherry has a larger. I have a big salad, because I did not have pretzels, so I have a bigger salad with some tomato and pepperoni. And cucumber. This tastes really fresh. How's the kale? Good. Or is that lettuce? Mm-mm. I think it is kale. Is it good? I don't think I've ever had kale. Yeah, it doesn't really taste like anything. Hot lettuce. Okay, this is definitely one that I'm gonna get again. So good. A plus, A plus plus. Not as good as Valerie's salmon. We must say that. Itchy eye. That's a salmon every night, so. This is the next best thing. We have this. I've come to the conclusion, I'm not going to get the shrimp one, because it just smelled weird, honestly. It's not like it was bad. It was just too expensive to not fully love it. We like the chicken one. And Sherry tried the meat one yesterday. She said she liked it. I'll have to give it the test. It was super protein, so I think it had chicken and some slices of beef and turkey sausage. And with this one, I think basically for all the meals, you just put it in the microwave for two minutes. Very quick and easy.  Anyway, I think that is going to be it for this video. I hope you guys enjoyed it. I hope it gave you some insight on Fit Life Foods and everything. So if you live in one of the areas they deliver to, check them out. Don't forget to subscribe. And I'll see you guys in my next video. Bye.


Yeah, it's definitely a lot of work, timing quarterback trust in you and the quarterback put in a good spot where either you can get it or no one can. And the final decisions are made. What do you think the reaction is going to be like from within the group and you guys agree that it's going to cut each other on the back or the things like that?  But the biggest key is, you know, just just being together as a unit, you know, the guys that are there. We built the foundation, you know, built that team camaraderie with one another. So, you know, we don't have no decisions over that. We just go out each and every day, make the best of our opportunities. You talked about the competition, but with the talent that's there at that position, how tough is it then and how much have you thought yourself going to have a day after that? Oh, yeah, it's a talented group. I embraced the competition. I feel like, you know, I was, I've been prepared for this, you know, since high school, a lot of guys, you know, we compete. Me and my friends, we compete every day in college.  So, you know, it's just a part of the process. Part of what you signed up with football, you know, it's going to be competition. Each and every year, it's going to be a guy coming in trying to take your spot.  Who is it like seeing stretch in a different role tonight? And these guys all like it very much. It's kind of cool seeing them have a chance. It's definitely great seeing stretch out there. Stretch is a great guy, knows the game in and out. I mean, we're very told him that he would be taking over his duties for the night. I know Stretch was happy. And he actually made a good play-caller when he threw the red flag out there on that catch. So, kudos to Stretch.  I don't know. I'm sure you told yourself. He saw it up there on a big jumbo trying. And I guess Mike hadn't been right there all week, but was it still kind of odd to look up and down the sideline at him not?  He's hyped and, you know, he gets the guys going. So it was definitely different to have him on the sideline. Thanks, man. Thanks, man. Joe, no long. Huh? No long. Yeah. What can you like, the last statement you made tonight? Yeah, I think so. One thing, I just tried to give everything I had out there tonight. Just try to be out there with the guys and try to lead them down the field and score points. That was the main thing for me. How different have the last two games been in terms of alternating every couple series or whatever with Matt? Is it harder to get into a rhythm that way? Not necessarily. I think it's just, you know, I'm taking out there and you're getting hit.


So that missing number is four thousand four thousand five hundred and four Wow what went on over here, I see that you guys have three parts up here. Why badly why? One hundred twenty three training car We've had one thousand three hundred forty nine and we don't know how much how many Becky have But we know all together. They have six thousand nine hundred seventy six So how did you go about solving for that missing part? I Said I got that number First we added those two numbers to get that number and then I subtracted that From that number and I got four thousand four thousand five hundred and four and then I said that I subtracted added four thousand five hundred and four plus two thousand four and seventy two and I got the number I Have a question why in the world would Jack have combined? This number and this number together before he subtracted from this Teagan, why do you think he combined this and this before he subtracted because it tell Because it gives you part of the whole because like you have to add them all together Exactly, which is the whole You can you can combine your parts together before you subtract some kid cells sometimes would do 6976 and minus that and then do that Come up with a way to check your answer


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Day 25, What Remains of Edith Finch, which came close to winning a few times, but finally clinched it thanks to Liam Knipe and the power of friendship. And in that spirit, I will do my best to pretend like its stunningly poor performance on the world's most powerful video game console isn't really that bad. I've thought a lot about death over the last two years. I think we all have. The reality that more than 850,000 Americans had COVID-19 on their death certificates is overwhelming. At this point, the lucky ones are two degrees of separation. Everyone knows someone who's friend or father or at all died if they aren't the one grieving. Tragic doesn't even begin to describe it. And after that, whoever's left has to pick up the pieces, pack up the boxes, junk the drawers, a life measured in pounds, hold it to a dumpster. What would I leave behind? If I died tomorrow, what would my legacy be? It's kind of a rhetorical question because we both know the answer because I'm performing it and you're watching it. At this point, the story of Alakubusmire exists primarily in the form of these 150-ish YouTube videos, and while there must eventually be a series finale, I doubt anyone would be willing to edit together and post footage of my death to this platform. And it's even less likely that anyone would make a critically acclaimed video game out of it. But it's interesting to know that someone could. I know that the titular finches aren't real and that their deaths as depicted in what remains of Edith Finch are not gamifying specific people's final moments. But certainly, people had those experiences, drowning in a bath tub, being struck by a train, even being crushed by a tent in a windstorm. All of those have definitely happened and definitely resulted in real fatalities. And now I have played through those experiences. Sure, I've been hit by trains and games before, but then I just go and restart. It was punishment for a wrong move and not the whole dang point. And it may look pretty similar, but it sure feels different. What remains of Edith Finch is a first-person exploration game, a so-called walking simulator scene from Edith's perspective, as she learns about the tragedy of her family tree, one so plagued with misfortune that they finished the graveyard before they did the actual house Edith grew up in. Then again, a house like theirs doesn't just go up overnight or even in weeks or months, it's years in the making, with strange OSHA-defying additions as members of the family grew further apart and needed more space, but refused to leave the property. Edith was pulled away from the house suddenly at the age of 11, but as the game starts, she has come back six years later because her mom, now deceased, left her a key. She doesn't know much about what happened that night or really in the years prior what happened to her family members, what secrets her mom had kept. She had to find out. The house seems to have been untouched since she left, though in a fantastical kind of way. The old food looks like it's been out maybe a few days. The inevitable decay seems to have stopped around the same time the power did. Eventually, you, as she learned that the key opens the first of many secret passageways, which bring you through the most conveniently linear house layout that has maybe ever existed. You can go from room to room, filling in the family tree by reliving each person's last moments, as exposed by some piece of writing or art that reflects that time. You may wonder how, exactly, someone was able to journal their death in real time, but don't do that.  And like, this is pretty typical walking simulator stuff, but what distinguishes Edith Finch from others in its genre is the way in which the game changes to reflect each segment. The first history is as fantastical as the house, and it serves as an excellent introduction to the way the game will shift beneath your feet. Not even 15 minutes in, your first person human exploration becomes first person catwalking, becomes first person owl flying, becomes third then first person shark falling, then swimming, becomes first person tentacle monstering. And once all that's over, you don't do any of it again.   And it's not like the rest of them are bad, they're pretty uniformly fantastic, but Lewis's is something else. It's also deeply sad, though not as much as it could be. Whether the family is literally cursed or not, it's not hard to understand why they would feel like they were, nor is it hard to understand why Edith's mother didn't want her to know what was actually going on, where people actually went when she suddenly didn't see them anymore. It's a lot for someone to even acknowledge, let alone process.  You can, and you probably will for a few minutes, but pretty soon you'll have found another story to experience. And that keeps the game from being just like completely overwhelming. It is an incredibly fine balancing act that Giant Sparrow had to do here, and the performance deserves a standing ovation, except for the performance of said performance. The elephant in the room is that I had a pretty bad time having such a good time. When I first played what remains of Edith Finch shortly after it hit Xbox Game Pass just over a year ago, it was kind of horrified to find that the Xbox One X version was basically a slideshow. After 20 minutes, I just gave up. I downloaded it again when I got my Series X later in the year, excited that I might finally be able to play the thing properly, but no. It somehow still had an unstable frame rate. And that was that. I resigned myself to just never finishing it until it was selected for me, and had to deal with the technical problems. Fortunately, a walking simulator can get away with subpar performance in that the frame rate issues didn't inhibit my ability to progress the game, but it certainly diminished the effectiveness of what I was seeing. And that sucks, because I know that if I had played it on another platform, I would have had a better time. Even in this state, it's the best game of its type that I've played. In the superlatives, I might have bestowed upon it if it were able to run at just 30 frames per second on a machine with 12 teraflops of graphics performance. 8.3 out of 10. Thank you so much for watching and thank you particularly to my patrons, my mom, Hammering Marco, Kat Saracota, Benjamin Schiff, Anthony Cole, Elliot Fowler, Greg Lucina, Kojo, Phil Bates, Willow, I'm the Sword, Riley Zimmerman, Claire Bear, Taylor Lindyce, Andrew Madison Design, and the folks who'd rather be read than said. If you liked this video, that's great. If not, oh well, if you want to see more, there's still a few more days to suggest things. We're getting real close to the end now. Real close. Pretty wild. Bye!


Welcome traders to another techno weekly market outlook for week commencing the 11th April with me Patrick Mumley heading into a holiday shortened week with most Western markets out on Friday for Good Friday and the standard Easter weekend so focus is firmly Back on geopolitical risks. Obviously the crisis in Ukraine continues to grind on and Markets are starting to in some shape or form try to look past that and focus on Economic data. There is one other geopolitical development of note this weekend France heads to the polls today Sunday for the first round of Presidential voting Barring a very surprising first round victory by one of the 12 candidates the top two candidates will then face off in the second Round coming two weeks later on Sunday, April 24th. Polls are very tight It Looks like that say second round runoff between President Macron and Marie Le Pen His main challenge will result in a modest victory for Macron. The Economist magazine gives McCorm 98 percent odds of Getting to the second round and 78 percent odds of bringing it all So moving to the data this week starting in the US Fed's speakers on Monday here from Bostick Bowman Waller At Fed listens event. We're also here from Evans to and then on Tuesday We get the March LFI be small business optimism looking for a 94.9 print versus the 95.7 last time out rising prices Are a key concern with annual inflation at 40 years highs? We also get March CPI on Tuesday and looking for that to come in hot 1.2 percent Moving on to Wednesday, we get the March CPI last time 0.8 percent looking for 1.2 percent print on going supply issues Are supporting producer prices. We also hear from Fed speaker Barkin And on Thursday We get the March retail sales in the US because 0.5 percent fuel price surges to crimp retail sales in the near term We also get March import price index looking for a 2.5 percent print versus The 1.4 percent last time out import prices are set to remain elevated We also get initial jobless claims and they are expected to remain at very low levels We get the business inventories looking for a 1.3 percent versus the 1.1 percent last time Businesses rebuilding inventory at a pretty robust price and then we get April University of Michigan Sentiment looking for a 58.8 versus the 59.4 last time out Inflation and interest rate concerns have hit confidence hard and we will hear from Fed speaker Nesta And then on Friday, we ran it out with the April Fed Empire State Index looking for a positive 2 percent print there Providing a timely update on the NY manufacturing sector. We also get March industrial production looking for 0.4 Percent this is the 0.5 percent last time volatility lingers as firms navigate supply issues And then we ran out the activity in the US on Friday when we hear from Fed speaker Harker from a technical perspective the dollar index Here's to potentially be completing an interim five-way sequence here So I'm looking as we hold the highs Just over the hundred level for a three-way corrected move now back into trust to test trend channel support Also monthly projected range resistance into the 97 30s before the commencing another leg to the upside If we take out the Prize of last week We will then look for an extension up into projected trend channel resistance at 101 level before looking for that pullback Ultimately what we're looking for now is this triangle to complete to get a test of the Projective triangle resistance at 18228 before we may see a regime shift in the dollar focusing to the downside In the eurozone from a data perspective, let's see what we've got on tap We start the week Tuesday really is April ZEW Survey of expectations the Russian-Ukraine conflict Continuing to cloud the outlook there and then on Wednesday. We get February industrial production Supply pressures are an ongoing concern and looking for a flat print there zero percent And then we round it out in the eurozone on Thursday with the all-important eCB policy decision and deposit rates market time anticipating that Remain on hold at 0.5 percent Focus on rhetoric around risks and policy normalization is going to be the key Key watch there from a technical perspective the euro dollars sitting right at Pivotal support here just above the 108 level I'm actually looking for a move to get one more extension here to the downside test into the 107 106 50 area where we have monthly projected range support from there watch for bullish Divergence to be maintained, and then we look for a three-way corrected move back into trend channel resistance on 1256 We also have the projected monthly range resistance there and the high volume node 1313 Moving to the UK a busy week in terms of data this week starting out on Monday, we get a fair trade balance data measurement change figures should normalize in february after the skew from the last print on Tuesday We get the february ilo employment rate looking for 3.8 Cent versus 3.9 percent last time out unemployment now at pre-covid levels in the uk on wednesday inflation data march cpi 0.8 percent last time out energy inflation remains a key driver in the uk with this cost of living crisis being widely experienced And that rounds out the week in terms of uk data from a technical perspective Sterling has retested the prior cycle lows here 129 80s as this trend line resistance remains intact 131 Look for a further downside move to initially test the projected pitch for Descending trend channel support any bounces as long as they're getting they're contained by this Trend channel we are looking them for a quality objective at 126 59 before We could see a more meaningful corrective move in sterling However, if we can get if we do get a close back through this trend channel resistance We could have a potential double bottom in place and that would then see us up targeting initially the pivot here at 131 80s for now under the trend line, we are looking for the downside extension In japan very likes in terms of data next week Just one reading of notes on wednesday We will get february machinery orders last time out minus 2 percent looking for minus 1.5 percent capital spending has been squeezed by the commodity and transport costs from a technical perspective The dolly yen looks like we are about to complete an interim Third wave attempt here. So i'm looking for prices to take out the prior highs We want to initially look for a test Of the 127 extension to the 161 extension of our interim Corrective move here. So we're looking for 126 14 740 area watch for bearish dive urges to develop there and we look for a three-way corrective move To ultimately find support back into the 121 121 20s Before it's the next leg to the upside Develops there in terms of the dollar yen Last but not least rounding it out down under in australia What do we have here? on Tuesday, sorry, we get the march nab business survey hospitality Should see further upside versus the hit from the severe floods in new south wales and queensons We also get march overseas arrivals for australia Gouging the border reopening pre-covid average of Negative 1.8 million per month. So we're looking for a positive print there and then on wednesday We get april w bc mi consumer sentiment last time at 96 0.6 any post budgets improvements are what analysts will be looking for there And then on thursday we round the week out with inflation expectations last time for 4.9 percent Will falling petrol prices lead to a decline in expectations. We also get march employment change looking for a 30 handle there Weekly payrolls suggest employment continue to expand through the extreme weather events on the east coast May have had some impact, but the employment rate should come in lower than the 4 percent print last time at 3.9 percent From a technical perspective, the australian dollar has broken through its descending weekly trend line resistance So i'm looking for any three-way corrected moves now back in to test that trend line Broken trend line resistance to active support. We also have the trend channel projected support coming in So 73 50 73 60s we look for bullish reversal patterns to engage on the long side looking for a move up to test the 77 60s to 77 90s This stage only a closing loss of this trend channel support Which suggests we may have a more meaningful high end place in terms of the Aussie dollar And that concludes the weekly market outlook for week commencing the 11th of april As always trade us plan the trade trade the plan and most importantly manage your bliss until next time. Thanks very much


Hey guys, it's Nate, A.K. the Foot Account, and welcome back to the channel. We have a little bit of a different video today, guys. I am away for a day, and I'm not able to get the normal content video out where we look at yesterday's content, look at today's content that is upcoming, but I still want to get you guys a video, and I think this is one that I alluded to a couple of days ago in one of my uploads that I said that I think I have some reasonings, and I think I've seen kind of the reasons why this game is in the state that it is in. Now, this is not a rant video today or anything like that. This is just, okay, I'm going to take a step back and look at what has happened in this game in the past couple of weeks and honestly a couple of months, and I think we have some reasons, and it's actually right there in front of us as to why a lot of people are feeling very frustrated with the game right now, and it's really because EA made the content too good, too fast, and yeah, you're like, what? I'm going to talk about that and break it down today. So again, this is not a rant video. We're going to look at the bad, we're going to look at some of the good, because Future Stars has been kind of solid for some aspects of the game. So I'm going to break it down today and talk about some of these things and we'll be back with a normal episode video upload, looking at the newest Future Stars content and everything again, looking ahead tomorrow.  So if you're excited for it, drop a thumbs up and subscribe if you're new. Now, I know here's the problem, right? Let's talk about the problem first and then the reasonings behind it. The problem is this game after Team of the Year has really been on the decline, right? The Team of the Year cards being as unpackable as they were, it started to frustrate everybody, but Team of the Year did not start in a frustrating way. Team of the Year started really, really good. When the positional releases were out with the SBCs that were happening, content leading up to Team of the Year, we were very excited for it, right? And honestly, like I was saying, Team of the Year started incredible. Everybody was excited to start off this Team of the Year promo. I remember putting out this tweet right here saying, this Team of the Year pack grind is about to hit different because the cards looked packable on the market. I remember when Sophia Smith was like 1.5 million coins and Sam Kerr was like 1.2 mil before they absolutely exploded and EA changed the pack weight, right? The pack weight was decent. We had insane player SBCs and we were like, oh my goodness, the menu grind opening pack during Team of the Year, this is going to be one of the best Team of the Years we have ever had. It's going to be so much fun. And it started off that way, but that is not how it ended, of course, because EA made those changes, right? The pack weight. But one thing that I think is really hurting the game now more than it did before is because of the SBCs. And that's the biggest point I'm going to bring up today, guys. And I think this is the biggest reason right now, one of the two biggest reasons that this game is really kind of in a downfall and it's kind of falling off because of this content in SBCs, guys. And I'm looking at a couple of SBCs specifically. I'm looking at the icon of SBCs. I'm looking at Sawa. I'm looking at Rude Hulet.  But specifically Sawa, George Best, Ziko, Terry Henry, and these icon SBCs, guys. EA, I think, released cards in icon SBCs that boosted so many of our teams and boosted the power curve and gave these cards out to so many people that it transformed our teams so much during Team of the Year that now as we've gone past Team of the Year and the content has not continually improved our teams, we are left kind of, I guess, underwhelmed, right? Think about all the cards that have come out recently from road to the final cards. Yes, they're live. Some of them have two playstyle pluses, but they were hard to pack. Future Stars, I got very lucky packing a Trinity Rodman, but other than that, none of the other ones that I have packed and really none of the other SBCs besides Cloudy Opinia really get into my main team, right? That's kind of the problem, I think, with the menus that this game has at the moment is that so many people upgraded their teams like crazy around the team of the year timeframe with all the SBCs that were out, it's now like that power curve progressed too fast and now we're feeling the downside effects of that because we're not able to upgrade our teams after a couple of weeks or maybe a month or so with cards that feel like they should be good enough to fit our team. I mean, here's a great comparison. This is my team right now, right? We got the Mbappe, we've got the Davies, which is an absolutely insane SBC. We have the Bruno on the bench, brand new card that just got done, Sawa, right? Absolutely insane card. The Hulets been there, the Mbappe's been there. But this is my team before team of the year. This is actually around the start of Winter Wild Cards. I took a screenshot of my team here. I have Gold Kyle Walker, I have Blanc. I've got Player of the Month, Harry Maguire. Yes, Basha and Mbappe are in the team. I think Mbappe is the only card that is in my team still from this team that was, I think, middle of December or maybe early December. And I know that's like three months and it's like, okay, that's a long time that your team should progress. But look at the levels to which my team has progressed, right? I'm looking at an 87-rated Kevin De Bruyne Flashback that I have upgraded to a 93-rated Sawa. You know what I'm saying? And I'm going to an 86-rated Player of the Month, Harry Maguire. And I now have an 89-rated Evo, Chris Richards. But I'm really actually playing Kim Min Jae in the team. Adama has been updated to Rodman. Declan Rice has been updated to Hulet. I mean, so many of these card and these SBCs that we have had during the past two months in this game, boosted the power curve. I bet a few guys went back and took a look at your teams and realized how many of the players via SBCs or maybe from a Icon Player Pick SBC or a Hero Player Pick SBC that you got kind of lucky from. All those SBCs that we did during Team of the Year exploded our teams up into the meta so much and made them so good that the cards that have been coming out don't meet that type of level and they aren't as good or as grindable that our teams are not improving. And that is what the problem is, right? The last couple of promos, albeit decent. I mean, road to the final, everybody was like so mad at EA during this promo because the pack weight was bad again. Yes, the playstyle pluses on the double PS Plus cards here were cool and they were good and these cards are alive and everything, but they were so unpackable and it just was like, wow, this game sucks. Everybody arrived for Team of the Year was super disappointed and it just kind of left us in this not so fun state. But I think it's guys like, again, just to look back over the insane SP, I wonder how many of you guys have at least two of these players or did two of these SBCs during Team of the Year? Ziko, Kaffu, Best, Sawa. I mean, not to mention Alfonso Davies, Bruno Fernandez, so many insane SBCs during Team of the Year and those were like, that's why we were so excited. Like that's why looking at this tweet, I was so excited about how the menus were gonna be because that content was so insane. It was gonna be an amazing Team of the Year, but what we didn't think about after that was how the content was gonna go. We talk about all the time in this game on how EA kind of makes this content move in like mountains and valleys, right? Team of the Year was a mountaintop experience for like crafting and all of that and now we're kind of down in the valley, it seems. It's gonna come back up again. There's gonna be insane boosted power cards, probably thinking like foot birthday type of timeframe. Well, where they will release probably a huge boost to the meta, but until we get there, it just feels like we're in this kind of valley as we upgraded our teams crazy, crazy, crazy and now it's just kind of like, this is a whole lot of mid or a whole lot of L aspects to it. So I think that is problem number one with the menus right now that is making people frustrated. All these new cards that are coming out. Yes, the Paul is cool. Yes, this Jota card is cool, but it doesn't get into most people's team especially if you grind the menus a lot. Doesn't get into your team. Now, if you're somebody who maybe just started the game during Team of the Year, if you're a newer player of the game, if you just got it recently, you're probably like, okay, this is still pretty dope content. I'm still grinding through these icons. I'm still crafting. Whereas a lot of us who have been playing the game for a long time are looking at this and saying, dude, we need more. We need another big Future Star icon to craft. We need another big SBC to craft because after Team of the Year, we had all of these which most of us have completed the ones we wanted to do and now we crave that again. Like we want a Cruyff Future Star icon, SBC type of thing. You know what I'm saying? Like we want another expensive icon player SBC that we can grind towards and craft towards because that is something that has given us a very good outcome. We've seen that incredibly. And like Sawa, Ziko, all these, it's been incredible so far this year. We want that again. And since that has kind of expired, it feels like it's been taken away from us a little bit. I would even wrap evolutions into the conversation a little bit as well. Not really during Team of the Year, but I mean, you look at that team that I showed you of my squad back during December and evolutions have kind of crazily, you know, snuck their way into a lot of people's teams as well. Now you have to have a little bit more passion to use an Evo. They're not as meta, but like it is nice that the Future Star Academy attackers, defenders and the midfielders, like those are good, good Evo's, right? The Academy Evo's, those are nice. But even during Winter Wild Cards, a lot of people were getting Evo's that were going straight into the team with like Pep's legacy and that's what helped me create this insane Ryan Sesson Yone card and a lot of people are still using these sorts of Evo's at least as Super Subs in their teams too because those evolutions boosted the power curve so much on those specific cards. It just feels like the power curve in terms of SBCs and the players that were able to craft through evolutions went up so much during December and January on this game that now in honestly, February, late January, early February, we're feeling the effects of like, okay, it went up too fast and now it's kind of like, okay, this sucks because it's not going up any further and we're getting a little bit of a low period. But I will say, with some of these new cards that are coming out, Future Stars Team 2, we're still seeing some pretty good cards come out guys. This Zyar Emory card, like those stats, that to me is something that is, we're getting close to like, team of the season level. I know that team of the season every year looks different but just look at this Zyar Emory card with two playstyle pluses, 90 pace, 90 dribbling, 85 above in every of the important stats. Of course, 80 shooting, okay, he's more of a CM center defensive mid. That's fine, right? But like, we're almost getting to 90s in a lot of these different stat categories for a marquee card and a promo. Take a look at Kefrem Taram's Tots card last year. This is a card that came out in, oh yeah, almost May by the way, team of the season started last year, late April, very early May. This card was 400K. He didn't have a stat in the 90s but he had all 84 above stats. A lot of 87s, couple 88s, couple 89s. Like this card is not far off from that and that I think is a testament to how much the power curve has gone up in the recent weeks on this game and especially what team of the year started with those big boosted cards. We knew the team of the year cards were gonna be insane, obviously. They are every single year but it just seems like the power curve in terms of the players stats this year went up so much that EA has to try to keep building on that and they're right now just building on it in very small incremental values which is causing us to be a little bit not as happy because it's smaller changes and not the big jumps like we saw around the team of the year time frame. So I think that's the menu content. I could show you a couple other examples like this Basha card. That's an almost TOTS level left back for sure, right? Now for team of the season this year we're thinking maybe three play style pluses is a part of the cards they're gonna release which is gonna completely change the power curve when we get there for sure but like high 80s stats and 90s on a card. Same thing for like Cold Palmer. Like this is getting crazy, man. We are getting to the like almost end game level stats so early on this year. It is absolutely wild. So that's kind of the menu conversation that I wanna have for today. I don't wanna make this video super long because I think I've gotten my point across already but the other thing I wanna mention too is a problem that's been here since the beginning of the game is gameplay opportunities and gameplay abilities. Like in other games when you think about I don't know like GTA you think about Fortnite. You think about even other games like Call of Duty where the gameplay is the central thing. Same thing for FC24. The gameplay is really the backbone of the game where you use all these cards, right? It's just we don't have anything new and fresh in gameplay and the gameplay has gotten old this year. Maybe it's, I don't think it's for a lack of updates. I just think it's for a lack of way that people play the game and even the modes that we have to play in, right? For the way that people play the game obviously it's the cutbacks. Obviously it's that sort of meta. The AI defending this year being so OP that you just have, it seems like eight defenders in the box or near the box at all times if you're even trying to dribble down and work in and around the box. Like the AI this year is so OP and it sits back so far even without crazy laid back sitback tactics on a squad. It's just like the AI does that itself. That's been a complaint the whole entire year and that has not helped the grindability of this game. It doesn't make you wanna log on each week and say I gotta play the game to get my rivals rewards. Like I get my rivals rewards on weeks where it's convenient for me and when I need the fodder because the menu grind is good. I played rivals this last week because the 80 plus player pick was there and it was like, okay, I need all those golds to put into this player pick. That gave me a reason to play the game a little bit more. It was a combination of the menu content with the gameplay content, right? But the gameplay by itself is just not holding its own this year. And I think you can tell by just the number of matches played by maybe a lot of you guys. I mean, there's so many things we could dive into here. I think they could utilize friendlies a whole lot more. And I really think there's got to be a big change coming for FC 25 with the gameplay mode, guys, because I don't know if they're gonna get rid of one and add a new one in. They're gonna bring back tournaments of some sort. But I think that's been the biggest gameplay complaint this year is that there were no updates and refreshes to the way that we play this game. It's just rivals, champs, squad battles for evolutions and friendlies. And I'll say this, too, EA is gonna come out after a couple more months and say, FC 24, there were the most matches played ever of any ultimate team. Well, yeah, that's obvious because they added in the biggest new feature of this game, which does involve gameplay. It is evolutions. But for this gameplay, guys, I mean, we're not going out and just grinding games because we want the rewards of the gameplay. We want the rewards of the menus, which are the cards that we're collecting through evolutions. That's what we're chasing here. They've given us an opportunity to play, to upgrade. That's what we value the most. It's not the actual fun of playing the game that we are going and playing those games for. It is the playing to upgrade the card, which to them is more people interacting with their game, more people playing their game. But for us, it's just like we're getting a task done. We're not enjoying the task while we are, while we are tasking, I guess, if that makes sense. So I think that's one of the biggest changes that they need to make for FC 24 as five as well. It's just giving us more ways and more reasons to actually play the game more so than just to get a task done. So that's probably the most common criticism with the menus as well. But that's kind of the conversation I wanted to bring up, guys. How are you feeling? I want to read through some of these comments. I'm still going to be active a little bit on social media today as I'm away and stuff. But I want to see you guys's comments and how you're feeling about the game at the moment because I know a lot of you guys have logged off and you've said, oh man, this is not for me right now. And for a decent reason, right? It's fun to take a break from the game 100%. There is no problem with that. But it just seems like that right now is in one of those, we're in one of those valleys. And yeah, Future Stars is not bad. The content in the menus, the SPC content last week of Team 1 was fantastic. The player picks, the pack grind, the objectives solid, right? I'm not going to complain. It's really, really good content. But it's just we're still the team of the year kind of negative vibes and the fact that a lot of these cards, albeit packable for Future Stars, don't necessarily get into our teams is a little bit of the problem. So I want to know your comments down below guys, but that's the video for today. I will see you guys for a normal upload tomorrow. And yeah, please share your comments down below because I love hearing from you guys. I love hearing how you're feeling, the positives, the negatives because I know everybody's in a different spot and that's what I enjoy hearing. I want to hear from you guys down there. So again, if you did enjoy it, drop a thumbs up, subscribe if you're new. See you guys in the video tomorrow. It's been Nate the Count. Peace.


Computers keep changing the world, but their power and safety is limited by their rigid design. The T2TILE project works for bigger and safer computing using living systems principles. Follow our progress here on T Tuesday updates. Okay. Hey folks. If you're not watching the live stream, which is quite likely, I was already messing up second time out trying to go live. So this is already kind of confused and we'll see how it all comes out. All right. So that was a combined demo bumper for this week's update, this update. The useful valley. I'll talk about what I mean by that a little bit later. So what's been happening since the last update? The main thing that actually has taken up the time has been doing science stuff. Had two online meetings that I attended. The earlier one was the Santa Fe Institute workshop on the frontiers of evolutionary computation, which is like genetic algorithms and stuff that I used to do more than I do now. But it was nice because there was folks that I hadn't seen for a long time that I got to chat with a little bit and so forth. And my role, my official job at this meeting was to be a discussant. There were three speakers. And after each person spoke, they had questions and discussion already. But then there was a whole another session at the end of the three of them at the end of the first morning that I was supposed to lead the discussion. So I did my best with that. Here's a clip from the Zoom recording. The answer is embodiment. That's what I was suggesting. And some people sort of misunderstood that by embodiment I must mean robots, which in retrospect is a reasonable thing to think people might imagine. But that really isn't what I meant by it. What I meant by embodiment was being about systems. So taking a systems perspective means you need to consider where your computation is actually occurring in space, how long it takes, energy, and all that stuff. Even if it's inside a raspberry pi or your watch or your cardiac pacemaker or whatever it happens to be, doesn't seem like that's a robot, but it's embodied. So really it was about taking the systems perspective. And we had a pretty good discussion about it and so forth. So the quality was really not great. And that's my current worry about the whole quality issues about doing this live streaming stuff. Partly it's to do with my hardware, partly it's to do with the bandwidth and everything. We'll see. I'm not sure whether I'm going to commit to doing most of these T Tuesday updates going forward live or not. It really does reduce the total amount of post-production to zero basically. Okay, but that was the first meeting. The second meeting just last week, Thursday and Friday, the eighth workshop on biological distributed algorithms, also online. There I was giving an actual talk and so I screwed up the beginning of this live stream because I was trying to get the audio stuff set up and to get all the things that you actually want out of it. It's a little bit complicated and I didn't really get it right. But let me show you a few clips about how my talk began at the biological distributed algorithms workshop. Let's see if this works. Dave, you're muted. I was muted. And did you see that right there? I messed up the OBS layout. There we go. Okay. The process of getting unmuted.  I was muted. That's all. Not anymore. Okay. As well. So I managed to get going. But then looking at the next slide, I realized that I had messed up as the layout. Oh, dear. I can fix this. I can fix this. And so the point of this is that I was trying to redo the OBS layout on the fly while there are. And notice what's going on there. What the heck is that? But I eventually meant there. See, I didn't get it quite right. Gonna have to be close enough. All right. So the thought is, oh, what a disaster. After that, the talk didn't go too badly. But you know, that smear thing, that's the hack that I was using to do MaxScreen. The way I do MaxScreen is I take the two screens, the black background content and the me. And I put them side by side on one big virtual screen. And then I do a filter, which does a max between two different places on the same virtual scene. And that allowed me to get around the problem that I couldn't figure out how to get multiple sources working in OBS. Anyway, what a disaster. Again, the talk was all right. It wasn't the best outing after but wasn't the worst either. So that was the biological distributed algorithms workshop. And there were some good questions and so forth. I think it's been put up, I think it's put up publicly. So maybe I'll cut out the less embarrassing portion of what I did and put it up on the Dave Ackley channel or something. The other thing I wanted to talk about for a few minutes here. I'm going to try to keep this whole thing short. I did some more work on size, stochastic iteration, which I showed last week as a use of the diffuse plates.  So last time the function over here, I just cheated. I made a single atom that took a bit vector representing the entire input from Psi and just come up with a number. I wanted to try to do that better and that's what I have this time. So this was the egg when you gave an event to the seed on the original Psi from the last update. It popped out into these nine atoms. Actually, it got a few more atoms before I'd shown it that image was old. Here's the new one. It's, I think, 15 atoms. And so like here, these are two weight matrices for Psi itself. PQ, how can I do this? I really got to get more practice. PQ is the poll questions as before. This VV is the voter vectors that go off in this direction. But now we've got this whole new bunch of stuff. Another weight matrix and FT, those are function terms. So now we have a distributed function as well. And this last little guy, this MI, that's a migratory seed. So one of the things I wanted on top of all of this, in addition to having it do the function optimization and all that stuff, it was supposed to actually be still movable, movable feast machine. But to do that using the existing code, you have to have a plate operator way up at 1-1 on the plate. Whereas in the Psi plate, all the action is in the middle. The Psi operator is right in the middle of the plate so that it, well, it used to be in the lower bottom center. Now it's kind of in the middle so that it can reach all the different, you know, parties, all the different stakeholders in the optimization process. So that MI, the migratory seed, knows it's supposed to work its way to 1-1. And then when it does, it decays into, well, anything that we want. In this case, it turns into a plate operator which then controls what's going on. So that was kind of fun. And again, in the biological distributed algorithms workshop, Mike Levin, who's a tough computer biology, wild stuff guy, I've talked about him before, gave a newer version of his familiar talk where, you know, talking about development and how you can mess with the cells in a, you know, frog development, the tadpole and all that stuff and have it still grow up into something that kind of works, even if it's nothing that evolution ever would have seen under natural circumstances. And part of that was, you know, you can put stuff anywhere and it'll migrate to where it belongs. So the migratory seed to make a plate operator get up there felt kind of like that. All right, so let's take a quick look at the current version. So now it's got a function value getting displayed automatically. And all of this stuff over here, this is the function. This is psi, just like last time, but this is a whole bunch of individual terms. Each one might be satisfied or unsatisfied and if it turns on or off. So this is a much more recent example of how psi actually works. Now look at that. It's flipping back and forth in what function values it's testing. That's a characteristic of psi. I really need to get the audio ducking here working because our theme song is pretty loud. But this will just go for a second. So the things to notice there, number one, the function value does not just go relentlessly up. It goes all over the place. It goes up and down. And now partly that's because the way that function was designed. Even if you ask for the exact same input, you might not get the exact same output. There's some chance that in those terms, each of which contributes a certain reward or penalty, if it gets engaged may turn on or off even if your inputs were sort of pushing it one way rather than the other. But in the bigger picture, that's also just the nature of psi. As we saw last time, it gets excited about seeing something and then it kind of freezes. And there's a period where you don't see the inputs to the evaluation function changing very much because psi is all excited about, hey, I'm getting 27, 27, 27, that's great. But then it gets bored with it and it goes back and selectively when it does get bored with something, it's biased by its design to consider the opposite. So there were a bunch of cases where the top was all on and the bottom was all off and then it kind of switched to the other way and kind of switched back and forth a little bit. And that's the way psi works. And as far as I'm concerned, it's a feature rather than a bug.  But it's because the psi decision units use plus and minus one. So if they've learned something that was by being plus, I get this, and you start getting punished, they're actually biased towards flipping to minus and then going to the other side. So they're these very flighty voters. I need to put in an extra little thing there to record like the best thing it's ever found and obviously it jumps around a lot. But the other thing that was new was that it was showing the score itself. Last update, I had an Adam viewer from the simulator there. Whereas now we could run this thing incredibly slowly on the grid and see the function values being displayed there. And that's what our opening demo was also. Actual text being displayed as Adams on the grid. That came from, can I do this? That came from, yeah, let's try this. This is old, old code that I refreshed the Hello World program. This was first shown at a talk I did in San Diego. Actually it was where I met Andrew, I think. A long time ago, seven years ago, something like that. And you can change fonts. Maybe you can change fonts. Can we change fonts? Oh, there we go. Okay. So I refreshed this code for plate technology and that's what was used for the opening demo and what is used now for the live function display in the side demo. Okay. So that's what's happened on science and engineering such as it is. The useful valley, so there's this notion, it's kind of disputed called the uncanny valley that when you have robots or computer graphics of people, the idea is when they look like cartoons or stuffed animals or something, they can be super cute and everything. And if they could look absolutely indistinguishable, literally like people, then that would be okay too. But when they start getting close to being like people, but not actually people, it gets creepy, it gets really negative. And I feel like, you know, there's some argument about whether that's really true or whether people just got over it ten years ago. I mean, certainly it's been the case that, you know, I've seen some movies with CGI stuff that look kind of creepy to me. Even, you know, one of the toy story humans looked pretty weird to me when I first looked at them, but you get used to it. But the analogy I see here is, you know, okay, so the T2tile project is doing a whole new way to compute, at least that's the claim.   And, you know, I've got this background in artificial life which plays right into that. But the goal, as I say, over and over, path to useful, path to utility that I want to take this far enough, take this technology far enough that people will say, maybe there's enough potential there that we should invest in more serious research and development. We should get people that actually understand hardware to do a better version of the hardware, get people who want to better understand network communications to do all that, and re-walk this step. But taking indefinite scalability and the idea of doing local communications and being very limited in what we let ourselves see so that we're forced to redo a lot of work, which seems redundant, seems wasteful, but in fact, that's what makes robustness. That's what makes living systems, they're continually rebuilding themselves so that things can own what's so far wrong. So, there's this weird thing happening or I sort of sense it's starting to happen that when it was cell membranes and worms running all over the place, well, that was cool because it was like life-y stuff. But now, these plates, they're all square. Now we've got actual numbers and text appearing. And that was some non-trivial engineering to get all of this stuff working. Specifically, the plates and the text stuff and so forth of just the last update. But on the other hand, it kind of is boring because now instead of seeing it with a wacky evolutionary artificial life-eye, we see it as, when's it going to run spreadsheets for us? Then it starts to look like a really, really bad spreadsheet. One cell and running incredibly slow. And I'm not 100% sure what to do about that. On the one hand, absolutely want it to be path to utility. But I don't actually want it to be an Excel spreadsheet and that came up in one of the questions at the BDA. It's the sort of number one killer app question and the previous answer that we gave to this is take the grid, use it to control a simulated robot, use it to control a simulated system. And I'm still convinced that that's probably the best thing to do to break people out of thinking that computers have to be their servants that they type on and this computer just sits there and waits. No, the computer is out there doing whatever it is in real time. But it makes me a little more cautious about what to develop next. So we'll see how that goes going forward. But it leads to my plans for the next update. I think it's time to get back to the grid. It's time to get back to the hardware tile. It's time to get all of that event loop stuff back into my brain and try to figure out how we're going to get around the whatever seems to be going on that's causing the T2 tiles to glitch up, to hit, unwritten error cases that don't have handlers written for them because it sort of seems like, given the way the code was written so far, the only way to handle what we were seeing there was going to be user-visible. It was going to cause events to not do what the ULAM programmer ULAM infrastructure, the semantics of the ULAM programming language said it was going to do with its best effort. And yes, sooner or later there's going to be best effort and best effort is going to fail, but we want to delay that as long as we can. So that's number one. Number two, get ULAM 5 the next version out. It's two years late. Get serious about getting that back and ready to release so there'll be one, two packages and we can just start moving on that. So that is my goal for the next update. Get my brain going on the event loop, which was painful before, but I feel like letting it go fallow, maybe I'm ready to dig back into it and say, okay, what the heck, let's tear it up and put retries and timeouts in or whatever it ends up being and collect the language stuff, which is mostly there. So that's it. I'm sorry for the folks who started in and got it messed up. I need to learn how to use this stuff better. That's the other mechanism. That's the other message from all of this. And so I will see everybody, I hope, in two weeks and we'll see how it goes. I messed up two weeks ago in that I ended the stream. There were people actually hanging around chatting, which I wanted to chat with, but then I clicked away to another tab not realizing that that was actually going to shut the whole thing down. So I don't know if anybody's actually listening in today or whatever, it doesn't matter. But I'm going to be careful to let the stream hang out and I'll be happy to chat if anybody has anything to chat about. Okay, that's it. That's it. We'll see you all next time.