Bring your own device to Appalachian Wireless and get up to $300 in bill credits. If you're looking to switch to the Big Blue Appalachian Wireless Network, there's no better time than right now to bring in your device because we are you. We are Appalachian Wireless. Tuesday, January 24th, Governor Andy Beshear announced more than $3.8 million in awards to expand access to clean water and support nonprofits in Pike County. Today, we're providing $4 million in infrastructure and in charitable grants to organizations all across Pike County, and then we'll be doing the same in Perry County. So today, we saw $3.5 million go into clean drinking water and sewer systems. Clean drinking water is a basic human right, but in 2023, we still have thousands of Kentucky families that don't have access that can't turn on the tap and know it's going to be there. So every single family that we're able to run new lines to that that then is able to turn on that tap. I've been there in a home where they've done it for the very first time. It's pretty special. Elkhorn City, Mountain Water District and the City of Pikeville received $3.5 million to support reliable water and sewer service and over $300,000 was distributed to local nonprofits. So the grants today have gone to incredible nonprofits to help them as we come out of the pandemic to continue to thrive. It's everything from Judy's place, which helps abuse children, both secure justice and begin the healing process to the YMCA that we're standing in right now that provides community services from childcare to trying to get everybody healthy. These are organizations including the Salvation Army that help people in need every single day. They deserve our support. They deserve recognition. They are wonderful people doing God's work. Thank you for Mountain Top News, I'm Brianna Robinson.


What's going on guys? It's your boy DPJ here today with another Destiny video. Now yesterday I posted a video on how to get the Year 2 Black Hammer, the Black Spindle Exotic. In that video many of you would have also seen the ship I got. Now my apologies to the lot of you. I had hundreds of comments from people asking why I didn't show the ship and to be honest I didn't even think about it. It was my priority to let you guys know about the weapon, the Black Spindle. But many of you guys did ask to show the ship so that's what I'm showcasing in today's video. Now it has been confirmed that this weapon and this ship are exclusive to the Lost 2 Light Mission when it's a daily story and it's the only time you can get it. So if you missed out bad luck but I'm sure it will be back around pretty soon.  Now the secret being the Black Spindle and the ship to that Lost 2 Light Mission make you wonder what else Bungie are hiding. I mean there's no time to explain strange as rifle, there's still no idea how that's obtained, the sleeper simulant, there's still no idea how that's obtained and there's actually a few other exotics as well. I mean I don't think anyone's seen the Warlock Leg Armours. There is also a new chest armor for the Hunter called AT-S slash Tarantula which hasn't been seen also. So whether or not they're in the game yet who knows. But it's pretty interesting to think about the secrets that could be still hidden in the game we're playing. But guys I hope you enjoyed the video, do drop a like or do appreciate support, subscribe for daily destiny and I'll catch you on the next one. Peace out until next time. Peace!


So guys I am back with another halo infinite video and today guys I bring in a location of the two Nexus Audio Lugs How's it going guys? My name is dpj and if you do enjoy the video leaving a like really helps out and if you like what you see I want to see more halo be sure to subscribe Also guys, I'm giving one lucky person a chance to win any game of their choice to enter this giveaway simply drop a Like on this video leave a comment down below make sure you are subbed and have those notifications turned on I will pick a winner from my comments section of one of my halo videos So the more of my videos to support me on the mother chance you have of winning and good luck Okay, so the nexus Area is a part of a multi-stage mission You first need to complete the sequence mission first, which I've already covered on my channel with the four audio Lugs within that mission.  So keep the pointer on your minimap to the West which is the left hand side and leave via this door here Just in case you are confused once you do that guys It's literally straight here go up go to your left and there we have it guys and those are actually the two Audio lugs even a nexus mission So there we have it people quite easy quite straightforward not gonna lie It may as well grab these while you were here because once you complete this and go on to do the actual Command spy a mission. I'm not sure you can come back. So make sure you grab these while you can guys And there we have it for another video guide and I hope you guys enjoyed it If you did leave a like really helps me out if you're new around here I want to see more halo be sure to subscribe and if you never want to miss a video upload You can turn notifications on by hitting that bell button guys. Thanks as always for stopping by Hopefully I will see you on that next one


Have you ever wondered what you need to look for when purchasing a TV? Let me give you an example back in the day and we drove around the city Every house had a antenna on top of the roof when you went inside the house. There was one TV When you wanted to watch TV you got up off the sofa you turn the TV on you change the channel adjust the volume Sat down that show is over you got back up off the sofa sofa Change the channel adjust the volume again sat back down etc. Well nowadays things a little bit more complicated For example back then all TVs were picture-tube TVs and since they don't make those anymore You have to decide to want plasma or I want LCD or LED which is basically an LCD TV with LED backlighting Also, do I want 2d or 3d and 3d is the future of Television yet you need to have 3d glasses plus you need to have 3d content And what I mean by that is if you want to watch a 3d movie for example on your 3d TV You've got to have first a 3d TV. You've got to have a blu-ray a DVD player capable of playing a 3d disc and you need to have a 3d disc itself to play So if you have all those great picture, however There's not much 3d content out there though. It's growing every day You might liken it to when you first bought your high definition TV say four or five years ago There wasn't much high definition content on there in the picture. They're pretty bad now more Programming is available in high definition and it looks pretty good One of the way of looking at it is say you bought a high-performance sports car And it took premium gas, but the city living doesn't offer premium gas Just regular well the car will run but won't run at its peak in the same as with a 3d TV You need 3d content in order for it to get the most Out of your purchase another thing too in the future proof your TV or make it So it doesn't go off sleep as you walk out the door is you want to make sure it's internet capable in other words You all have wireless Laptops you sit down you go anywhere in the house and log on the internet while TVs now pretty much become Computers and they have internet capabilities built in which means you can surf the internet If you want you can watch TV or you can watch streaming audio and video say Netflix for example over the TV also You want to make sure that if you do want to do this see what applications or apps come with your TV Skype is my personal favorite For those of you who aren't familiar with Skype if you remember the Jane and George Jetson back on the TV show the Jetsons They sat down in front of a TV and they could see each other as well as talk to each other That's pretty much what Skype does This is a pretty handy if you're a grandfather you happen to have sons and daughters and grandsons in other cities You can sit down in front of your TV and review your children And the only thing you need to do to make it happen It's got to be internet capable plus you need to put a webcam on the TV So that's something to consider and finally what brand of TV do you buy there's so many of them out there today We live in a global economy. Well, the majority of TVs come from Japan Korea and China And so again, whichever one gives you the best picture quality is the one you probably want to choose However, the price is something else again You get what you paid for the more you pay for TV normally the more features and the better picture you get and Finally you want to consider service after the sale since most retail stores today that sell TVs Do not have service departments You need to find out in the unfortunate event that my TV does break down either during the warranty or after the warranty Who is going to service it? So again, you might want to ask the salesperson that and either just some of the things that you want to look for when purchasing a TV


Really fast CPU with an average GPU, masisihira ba yung GPU? No, kahit gano ka po imbalance yung speed ng CPU in relation to the GPU, neither will harm the other. Ano UPS para sa laptop plus modem? But in general, I recommend 1200 VA for most work setup. Yung mga ibang stores na kailangan na pristine packaging para ibalik. At hardware sugar, hindi mo nga kailangan yung box let alone a pristine. You dim ram with a dim MOBO? Nope, not compatible. I3 to I5? Yes, you can upgrade if you stick to the same generation. In your case, second gen. If you want to upgrade to a higher gen, you'll need to check kung same socket ba yung higher gen na yun siyakin yung socket ng current MOBO. Best GPU for I3-6100? Regardless of what the CPU is, get the best GPU you can afford. Is the AK400 digital ITX? ITX refers to case sizes, not sizes of air coolers. If you mean kakasha ba siya sa ITX case? Kaya siguro in the larger ITX cases like the NR200P. BP249QGR monitor for Web Dev? So short answer, yes. But long answer, pwede siya, pero hindi siya bagay. Masasayong pera mo.


Good morning. Welcome, Space Cadets. Welcome back to the MIT Media Lab for our third annual Beyond the Cradle. We're really thrilled to have you here. We hope to see many new faces in addition to our now returning veterans, or veteran Space Cadets. Today, you'll have a fantastic program of artists, scientists, engineers, authors, astronauts, explorers, and we're really excited to share this day with you. The spirit of Beyond the Cradle is democratizing access to space. And at this particular moment in time, as we think back 50 years and celebrate the anniversary year of Apollo, we are really excited to be co-designing the future of space together with you all and thinking about how we chart the next 50 years, the next half century of space exploration. Couple quick housekeeping notes for you. Throughout the day today, if you need to check the agenda, this is, I think it just disappeared on me, but Beyond.media.mit.edu is the agenda where you'll be able to find information about our speakers, the gallery pieces that you see outside, and the workshops. We do hope you spend a little bit of time maybe over lunch picking which workshop you would like to go to, because we'll send you off. You have about an hour to dive deep into some really fascinating content, and then we'll ask you to come back for the plenary at the end of the afternoon. And now it is my distinct pleasure to welcome Joey Ito, director of the Media Lab, and Dr. Maria T. Zuber, vice president of research for MIT to kick us off for the day. Thank you, Mary. Thank you. Good morning. Welcome to the Media Lab, which is a part of MIT. And I think that this event and the initiative that we're doing is very reflective of what we're thinking a lot about at the Media Lab. So if you just a brief history of the Media Lab over 30 years ago as part of the architecture machine group where they were using computers, graphical computers, to help architects design. And one of the ideas that the Media Lab was founded on was this idea that we could take these computers and put them on desktops and democratize access to computing and kick off the personal computer revolution. And later, the internet and email, a lot of these things came out of the Media Lab. And it was a part of taking the technology from academia and government and bringing companies together. Another key feature of the Media Lab was we have over 90 companies that we interact with. So it's the connection to industry, but also very much about pushing innovation to the edges and helping startups and artists and people who don't traditionally interact with technology, give them access to this technology. And 30 years ago when we launched the Media Lab, it was kind of an explosion of techno-utopianism. If you remember back then with Ellen Kay saying things like, you predict the future by inventing it, some of our faculty still say that. But I look at the internet today and I say, wait, I thought we would just connect everybody together. We'd have world peace. And we don't. And one of the things I think the Media Lab is currently grappling with is reflecting on this techno-utopianism and saying, could we have done better? Could we have been more responsible? And if you think 50 years ago, everybody wanted their car. There were ads. It was this age of growth and prosperity. And if you think about exploration, at the end of exploration is extraction and exploitation. And I think one of the things that I think is important to do on this kind of reflection of 50 years is I think that exploration is tremendously important, but we also need to be very vigilant about what's happening. We have climate change as a result of our prosperity and our extraction and our productivity. And interestingly, it's the reflection back on Earth that helped us really understand that the Earth is this very important thing. So I think that as we go forward, it's important to involve everyone in this conversation. But as we explore, we have to be vigilant about what we're doing out there when we go. But we also have to use that as a tool to try to fix things back down here. And so to me, the balance, and this is what I'd love for us to talk about is how do we keep the wonder and the joy of exploration that science brings us together with the responsible nuance that we need in order to be reflective and not cause harm? And so not to end on such a downer, I'm gonna hand it over to Maria, who will pick us up back up again. Well, but I'm gonna continue in this vein just a little bit. So I think it's really interesting that very recently we all celebrated the first commercial launch of the Dragon that went to the International Space Station. And we were all thrilled and delighted about that. And it occurs to me, really, should we be thrilled and delighted? And of course, yes, but okay. I was thinking back to Charles Lindbergh's first flight. So his first flight was in 1927 and then commercial aviation, transatlantic, started in 1939, okay? So 12 years, okay? And then it didn't really take off cause there was this event called the Second World War that started after that. But then after Second World War in like 1946, commercial transatlantic aviation really took off, okay? So, but even taking into account a world-changing event like the Second World War, we're still talking about like 20 years for commercial aviation to really take off after we had the first transatlantic flight. So here we are, depending on whether we start at the launch of Sputnik or whether we start with the first landing of Apollo 11 on the moon, we've had 50 years. And we've now just finally put a commercial entity up at the space station. So now I'm gonna get optimistic though because we've had this 50 years and I remember back to the 40th anniversary of Apollo that the Aero-Astro department threw and it was also excellent, but it was so different than what we're doing now at 50 years because in the last 10 years, now at this event here, we have not just the Aero-Astro department and the physics department and EAPS, but we have people from all over campus. We have the Media Lab solidly involved. Tomorrow we have the Astropreneurship conference that's sponsored by Sloan. We've got people at all disciplines who are going to all three days of this conference. And so if we really wanna take advantage of the opportunity that space provides for us, we need all the smart people and we need more than just all the smart engineers and scientists, we need all the smart people in every discipline that you can conceive of, the poets, the architects, the designers. And so that's why I'm so thrilled to see so many of you yesterday, today and I hope you come back tomorrow as well. So that's my note of optimism. So hopefully I picked it back up to kind of kick us off. And so now I have the distinct honor to introduce our keynote speaker here, Professor Sam Ting. So Sam shared the Nobel Prize in 1976 for his discovery of the J Particle and you can only get the Nobel Prize once, okay, but Sam has had multiple discoveries over the course of his career, that including what I think you're gonna hear about, but he looked at the size, really defined the size of the electron family and he had really important detections of antimatter and I could go on and on. But what we're here to hear him talk about today is a little bit of the results, but the story of the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer. So yesterday those of you who listened to Thomas or Buchan's talk, Thomas talked about the issue of is there really great science happening at the space station? And he talked about the amazing science that was happening outside the space station and the poster child for amazing science happening outside the space station is Sam's work on the AMS. It's an international collaboration with over 500 scientists involved and for the young people in the audience, this is a story that is not just a scientific story, it is a story of perseverance and keep to it as Sam needed a dedicated shuttle flight to deliver his experiment into orbit and it's not easy to get a shuttle flight, okay? Well, it's impossible now, but even at the time it was very, very difficult and Sam really motivated by the science and the interesting thing is that AMS, when you're going into higher energy regimes in physics, you really don't know what you're gonna discover. I mean, every time we look in a place we haven't looked before, we make discoveries, but it's often difficult to make a pitch to sell something when you don't know what it is you're gonna get at the end and that of course is the fundamental nature of basic science and to do it at the scale that Sam has done and to lead an international collaboration. All of you young people in the audience who are contemplating careers, think about the effort that went into and that's what it takes to succeed at the highest level. So happy to introduce Sam now to come up and speak to us. Thank you.


What a wonderful place here on the edge of the world to listen to something Mark Shapiro How could you accept you a show just in this one case to make the argument and Any of our lawyers here you might find this of interest and finally The last thing I want to mention or as I say all night is I have to make a little bit of a correction on something About she or she I was right, but not a sign of songs. I Mentioned She wrote a comment here and sure stream that he took it literally and that's true And then I started boxing eloquent about how especially today's day and age This is something we it's very nice to look at your sharing love etc. Actually When I was channeling wasn't y'all go far as I was saying and then was I wasn't I think about wasn't Refault Royer was actually y'all go far. Y'all go bar the son of Israel held a sign Or he also writes about sure sure even speaks about the algorithm interpretation, but he also speaks about everything I just mentioned about how um, it's How about they know what they know, you know the marriage and love This is that they're between him or what's on the board a and Oh, I mentioned this because before Royer actually has a different play on it He takes it literally also as an important meaning However, he sees the significance of the literalness in that contrary to y'all go bar That was the son loves you hold a sign or two or three books on their brilliant great greats dollar Refault Royer sees it as teaching you how to hold what not to do. He reached here a sherry as a message How not? He's opposite of art how a love that is not a sherry sherry is telling you how not to express love So it's a literal but it's actually Okay, so the traditional orthodox interpretation is that share share him song of songs without God's love for Israel It seems very Removed from the actual passionate, you know, visceral physical nature Of the text, but here you got a rabbi saying that song of songs teaching us about the wrong way to pursue love and eros I recommend this Because Really in total opposition to art school which art school says that the art school the language is that it says that the literal meaning is so long That it is so incorrect. That's not even a possible meaning. It's absolutely incorrect if you look in the and this is comes right out of you know, the center of religious Zionism two of the editors are From where I brought up show Israeli the great post say it explains. This is introduction. I was calm Obviously this alcohol interpretation, but there's also the literal interpretation and the day he affirms it for the very same reasons Yeah, go part of how much we're pursuing the al-Bazaqa Torah that we should be ashamed. So I'm everything I was Transmitting this comes from good sources. It's just not from a fault warrior No, we're small we're a minority Yeah to come along, baby


No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. All right. It's time for new. So first up. All right, so we've got some MA key caps. We've carried DSA key caps or XDA key caps. But did you do all the colors right now? Yeah. So we have white. We have cream white. I'll show you something on the overhead too. We've got red, kind of like a nice cherry red. We've got this kind of cyan blue, light blue color. We've got the gum drop, deliciousness, blue, blue, blue. We've got like an orange, a deep orange, DBL orange. We've got like a creamsicle, nice, orangey yellowish color. Yeah. And we've got a blink of purple. A lot. And we've got a kind of a pastel pink. Lots of colors. So. Want to show this on the overhead? Oh, so many colors. Okay, so you can go to the overhead and I can show some of these off. So all these different colors available, kind of a mint green. So each one of these is MX compatible. It's got that cross at the bottom, so you know it's MX, so you can use it with cherry MXes. You can use this with Gateron, with Kale's, whatever, as long as they have that kind of standard cross at the bottom. All the buttons are totally symmetric. And you know what I like about them? They have this kind of this cool like they're square at the bottom and then they kind of come up to this almost circular shape. It's got a little bit, I don't know, I kind of feel like it's got this little 60s, 70s kind of feel to it. It's a little bit more old school. They're chunky, but I like these key caps. I think the colors are really good. Like this purple.  It's kind of a nice chill purple. And the mint green is also quite nice. So because they're symmetric, you know, you can put them either way. I'll say, of course, they come blank. As you can see, you get five per. And they don't have any writing on them. You can write on them. You can also attach a sticker. You can do some sort of, you know, embossing if you like. I don't think you should laser these because they're probably made with PVC and so they're not going to laser very nicely. I'd recommend a sticker or just you can draw on them or just leave them like as is. But so these are called MA profiles. So just keep that in mind. They're much taller than DSA or XDA profile. Okay. Next up, lady, that is. Okay. Next up, we've got the WAC Laura hat pie for enclosure. This is just the enclosure that you would fit a pie four into again. You know, the pie four switched around ethernet and USB and there's two HDMI. So if you want to use the WAC wireless Laura hat, which looks like it just looks kind of like a square. So I'll show it on the overhead a little bit. You would use this case. This case is, it's a very nice case with the anodized aluminum and it's got all the slots and holes to use the Laura hat. So let me show it and it's not attached inside of it, but then maybe y'all can understand what I'm going for here. Okay. I've got these key caps hanging out. So this is the pie four and you can see it's bolted to the bottom and it's got it was nice. It's a nice case. And then over here, you see all these holes and slots. Well, if you attach the hat, this is the Laura concentrator hat, so it allows you to make a Laura gateway and a channel or a gateway with a Raspberry Pi. These holes let you mount all the antenna ports onto it. So you know, you don't have to use it with the Laura hat, but like it's kind of designed for it. It sort of makes the most sense. So I do recommend it. And of course, we also have a kit, you can go to the kit next, and the kit gets you the case, the hat and a power supply. And you would basically just add in a pie four. The reason why the pie four isn't included, whereas before we were trying to include a pie is there's four different kinds of Raspberry Pi four with one, two, four and eight gigabyte of memory.  We don't want to assume. So instead, you know, you just add on the pie four. We have them in the shop to make your Laura gateway. And then once you've had this gateway, you know, of course, use the pie four as a Laura to internet gateway. You can then add other sensors that have Laura radios to send data to the concentrator, which then uploads it to the internet. And now you've got your mesh network. Good for you. Okay. Next up. Next up from solder party. If you have a pie Pico and you're like, I want to use the keyboard feather wing from solder party and you don't want to use it with the feather. You want to use it with Pico.  And here you go. All the pins are rerouted. You could also use this for like generic feather wings, by the way. You don't have to use it for just the keyboard feather wing, but like, boy, it's designed exactly for it's got the mounting holes and everything ready to go. Okay. And this isn't the start of the show, but it's it's it's up there because we have a tricky word debuting, but I wanted to give this one special attention. This is the digi key key. Yes. The digi key. Again, eight of box 19. You know, we found a supplier that would make us these custom key caps and we're just like so in love with them. So digi logo looks awesome as a key cap and these are the ones that we have a couple left over from the, you know, the eight of box, you always get extras in case we have to do replacements. We have a couple extra digi keys, of course, stocking this and we're stocking it. If you have a keyboard, this is, you know, cherry and Mexican paddable like almost every key we have. It has this glow through design. So if you have an RGB keyboard or backlit keyboard, of course, it's going to look extra good, but also looks good without with the cool modernized digi key logo. So check it out on the digi key site or at Adafruit and you can pair it up with our other cool custom key caps, including the Adafruit one and. All right. Here we go. World premiere. More trinkets. Star of the product. Star of the show this week for the products besides you, Lady Aida. Yes. Our team, our staff, our customers, there's trinkies. This one is the proximity trinkie. Yeah. So the proximity trinkie was kind of the last trinkie of my first batch. I mean, we'll do more trinkies, but this was the first kind of batch of trinkies I put together. This trinkie, if you just say MD 21, it's a very low cost and small microcontroller board plugs into USB A and it features capacitive touch, some new pixels, and as jelly's elegant waving shows you, it has a proximity sensor as well. It has an AP DS9960. One of our favorite sensors. It's a low cost. It's only a dollar or so and it has color, proximity, light, and even gesture, gesture sensor. Honestly, I don't think it's nothing we're at home about, but it does have it, but it's really good at proximity and color and light. That's what it's excellent for. It has built in IR LEDs and detectors. And then, you know, you can see how the color light does not interfere with the IR light, which is kind of nice. You can have both these neopixels shining as well as the proximity, the IR light coming off of the proximity sensor to let you do distance sensing. And I thought this would be cool because you can plug it into your computer and then, you know, you can have this new interface that most computers don't have.  We saw that like Kano made a sensor like this, but I think you got discontinued. So we thought it would make for a great trinket. So I thought I'd show a quick demo on the overhead. Yeah, you could control a volume slider. You can do HID and MIDI or, you know, have it, you know, Arduino or circuit Python on it. Turn pages. Okay, so actually this is, yeah, so if you see my hand gets closer and farther, it's just making it a little bit brighter. And then if I press this button, I can change the colors. This is a demo showing capacitive touch, neopixels and proximity, but you know, the APDS is a really well established, friendly and happy sensor that people have used Arduino and circuit Python. So I think it's an easy one to quickly integrate. And the proximity sensing, I think it's quite solid. It's one of the nicer surface amount proximity sensors that I've used. So it's a good way if you want to add like simple gestures or motion or, you know, hand movement up and down. And then there is a gesture sensor built. There is a gesture capability for doing side to side gesture sensing, but it's kind of a pain. I don't, I don't really like it. It requires like exactly the right speed. And it's hard to, you know, with practice, you can get good at it. But I think for color sensing, light sensing and proximity. This is, this is great. And you just plug it into USB. So it's very easy to use. You got sensing, any computer. And that is the new product for this week. Thank you, Bat Trinky.


I'm going to talk about today something new, something that I don't often talk about and that is some really niche JRPG games because that is a guilty pleasure of mine and I just often find myself interested in titles just like these. They also gotta be good, if you know what I mean. I hope you wanna stick around for the entire video and if you hit like on all of my videos more people will see them. The first game that I want to show you guys and this is because I found this game myself and I found it to be interesting and it looked so cool. So when it was on sale because not long ago the Playstation 4 had a really huge JRPG sale and they often have that so you know all of these titles in this video are surely going to go on sale sooner or later. A lot of these games are also on PC and other consoles I mean. So it's not only in Playstation 4 but they are interesting nonetheless. The first game is called Crystar. Crystar yes that is the title and it is an action RPG for the Playstation 4 and PC actually developed by Gemdrops and it had its Japan release in 2018 but international release in 2019 you know last year and I was immediately drawn to its art style. This is the sort of art style that I just like I enjoy this and the graphics also looked insane super good already there I was interested. Sign me up but I have a feeling that it is a super niche it's a niche game that not many people are talking about and what can I say about the gameplay. The gameplay is actually just simple enough you play as this girl who accidentally healed her own sister and made a deal with two demons so in order to save her sister she carries out tasks in purgatory. So yeah it's actually quite dark because you have to kill a lot of souls in purgatory and stuff you have to do all these things for these demons in order to save your own sister and a lot of the stories in this game is just sad and deep. All characters that you meet throughout the game have super tragic back stories we are talking losing unborn babies family betrayals revenge killings and regret heartbreak you name it the entire game has this dark theme to it. It is a dungeon crawler like game it is an hack and slash with several playable characters with several skills and abilities each. This game also just reminds me of Oni Naki a game I reviewed earlier this year it has that vibe because that was also really dark and very like hack and slashy with several playable characters and abilities to each of them. I mean the most obvious difference between Oni Naki and this one is that in this game Crystar you can control the camera. Now while the actual gameplay may be very repetitive and basic the story is actually really rich the graphics are stunningly beautiful and the piano like soundtrack is just spot on outside of dungeons you return to your real life bedroom where you can check your items equipment and collectibles and you can also pet your dog and this game is just really visually beautiful so it's a true hidden gem. Now the con to this game is that it is really repetitive the dungeons are pretty much the same all over again and over again but I play for the story in this one and also for the beauty of the game you know I can find myself enjoying a game if it just looks really really pretty but the pro with this game is that it is what I like to call a mindless game and by that I mean in between the story sequences which you obviously want to follow along to the actual gameplay when you hack and slash through these dungeons and sometimes they are actually really big you can actually mindlessly do it you can be on the phone with someone while you're hacking and slashing away and that is so relaxing when games are mindless in a good way so I want to say look out for Crystar when it is on sale it has actually proven to be a decent title and I have found myself going back to it several times already. Now this game I have played all summer sort of and also a bit into fall but I just never talked about it on my channel it's about time because I've actually found myself enjoying this and I've been talking with my discord people a bit about how weird and fun this game actually is and I am talking about death and request super niche game it is by id factory and compile heart the people behind the hyper dimension of tunia are games which is another weird obsession of mine it was a really big obsession some years ago they make super decent games and I consider myself a fan of compile heart and id factory now in death and request and actually all games by id factory and compile heart the art style is just wild wild crazy art style and I love it colors contrast the actual character designs super good and also they are very known for making games with a really good story and excellent writing in the story the history is good so the story in death and request and you want to pay attention to the story the story is epic it's about a girl who is stuck inside a video game she helped write the code for let that sink in so she was a programmer this girl that you're playing creating an MMO game but she gets trapped within the code of the game so she is actually within the game and you're playing her in the game and she meets all these funny NPCs that she helped design but this video game that she's in it's so meta it's funny but this video game is full of bugs because the game itself has been infiltrated with you know a virus corrupting the entire code making her unable to escape her life within this game and there's no way for her to log out of the game so she's stuck inside this game now she actually has contact with a colleague from the real world who helps her try to escape the video game and since and since the game has no log out feature coded into it yet she has to beat the game because that is an automatic log out do you love the story or not i love it so she has to beat her own game to escape you can only imagine how weird and crazy the dialogues in this game are from just knowing that it is just so exciting you're starting to buffer i can't see anything on my end are none of my messages going through even in the backlog that the game is cutting me off on purpose gameplay in itself is not a death and request the strongest side i mean it's decent but it's also very basic but story and dialogues makes up for the lack of good actual gameplay the combat is turn-based but you can move around freely when it is your turn and if you align yourself right you can knock back enemies sending them flying about knocking into other enemies as well the combat is actually sort of fresh and new i have not seen this sort of combat been done before so i think this is a cute and fun game and i am enjoying it a lot and of course it's just super niche but i want to hear if there are people out there that are also fan of games like this but keep in mind but keep in mind this is a part visual novel a lot of text and dialogue and you know the story is the strong part of this game just keep that in mind it's not a gamey game it's a visual novel game with a bit of gamey game actual gameplay i mean but you know i think it's good check it out if you want to now my third game for this video is very again i feel like i say the same about all of these games there they're special niche and cute and kind of my guilty pleasure and this one is just like that as well and this game is dragon star warner i mean these games i feel like they are so hidden from the general people i want to know if you have actually heard about any of these games at all this game is also another game by id factory and compile heart it is also part visual novel and it is also turn based you know a turn based rpg as id factory games are very story heavy the story in this one in short is that you play as sefi who is actually a witch hunter he hunts witches because he hates them or something and by accident he gets turned into a witch himself so you know there he is in the middle of the forest being a witch and all and he can't go back to his friends and you know hi guys i'm a witch now because he will be killed sort of thing so he is found by some other witch girls some other witches and they take him in so i mean he just hangs out with the witches the writing in this game is excellent as always i play this game also mainly for the story because it's a cozy story and actually really interesting to follow along to you know when i started to play this game i was talking with isha man and i was like listen to this and i was like telling him the story because i was so involved with the story um so yeah this is a good story game also really cute graphics cute art style again i gotta say the art style is just on point so in this game you enter worlds from the map and you change between characters each of them has unique abilities that you can perform out in the field the music is beautiful too voice acting is also super good it reminds me of other id factory games like hyper dimension abtunia games and actually reminds me a lot of fairy fencer also which is also a game that i reviewed last year and the actual combat it is turn based but it's it's kind of new and funny and fresh this one also because you are on your broomstick and you can position yourself to be on the top middle or bottom of the battlefield and it is important to position yourself correctly the game has several different you know optional difficulties so you know i play on easy because i always do and i have died where is your family right now do they know that you've become a witch so yeah that was all the super niche games that i wanted to talk about today i wanted to talk about a few more but i had so much i wanted to say about each of these that the video is gonna be too long if you know of any games like these leave them down below because i always check out your suggestions and i sometimes find super good games through the comments section that you guys are suggesting and you can also look around in the comment section for suggestions for yourself you know talk amongst yourselves down there that was all for today folks my battery is running out of battery but do you like my new decorations and new tablecloth now hit like on my video and follow my twitter and instagram and i will see you later i'm so happy that christmas soda is now in all stores so i'm a christmas soda drinker


Okay, so the next presentation change of title again, maybe I don't know so actively secure OT extension with optimal overhead Given by Marcel Keller Emanuele. Oh given by Marcel Keller co-authored with Emanuele Orsini and Peter Shaw. Thank you Thank you. So Yeah, so we changed the title because this sounds a bit sexier Thank you for the introduction. Thank you for attending especially if you happen to be an NPC person So what is this about? Well for those who don't have heard about oblivious transfer yet So here we go oblivious transfer is a very basic primitive We have a sender and the receiver and the sender inputs two strings the receiver inputs a choice bit and essentially gets this choice and string as an output and the whole idea about the security is that Nobody learns anything extra. So the sender doesn't learn the receiver's choice and at the same time the receiver doesn't learn The string he chose not to learn which he chose not to learn A few facts about oblivious transfer It's complete for multi-part computation and thus any protocol because multi-part computation is the most complete protocol you can think of scheme In GMW like protocols. We need one OT per end gate so that means Yeah, we need a lot and unfortunately, we need some public key crypto like assumption like DDH or RSA and There is a recent implementation by Chu and Olandi and they achieved to Generate 10,000 OTs per second. So the question is how can you how can you be faster? Yeah, how can you do? How can you achieve more and and This is essentially the Idea of OT extension. So you start out with a few OTs Add some cheap symmetric crypto and as an output you could many OTs without running the actual OT protocol again so no public key crypto at that stage and This was brought up by shy at all at crypto 2003 and they proposed their like a passively secure honest But cure is construction which is secure against an honest, but curious Adversary at the same at the same time. They also had an Active least secure construction based on cotton shoes. So hence the big overhead in terms of communication from passive to active later Nilsen et al and the sheriff et al came up with Proposals that reduced the amount of communication per extended OT but there was still an overhead in those works and What we present here in this work is essentially for free. So asymptotically We're just gonna communicate as much as as for passively secure OT extension and all those figures are for sender random OT that is The sender doesn't in the extended OT the sender doesn't get to choose Its inputs. So there is a bit if you want to have like normal OT You need to do like kind of a correction, which just essentially just means more communication Okay, so What's what's the idea? How does it work? So as I said, we start with a few OTS. Sometimes they're called seed OTS Here we call them base OTS and Those are a few short OTS So kappa think kappa of think of kappa as a security parameter. So that's like 128 in in the example of the Table of the previous slide so 128 OTS of length 128 and then in first extension ship we extend the length with a PRG and As a result we get kappa random OTS of length n and now imagine n is big much bigger than kappa and Then we introduce Correlation I will come in a minute to what it means what it means a correlated OT so As a result we get kappa correlated OTS with length n and then Interesting thing about correlation, which I will explain in a minute is that correlated OTS are Essentially symmetric so that means we can essentially kind of turn the whole thing around like transpose if you will and as an Output of that step we get n correlated OTS of length kappa. So imagine Before we had a few OTS and now suddenly we have a lot of OTS that are much shorter and in a last step essentially we use some hashing to break the correlation and then we get We're back to random OTS and have n random OTS so Where is the crucial step security wise that is the correlation because the correlation step requires One party to be honest to stick to the protocol Which I will explain in a minute so Let's look at OT. So here we have a Standard OT a couple of standard OT three and you recognize there's like pairs of strings and there is choice bits and then there is like The receiver gets the chosen string as an output now just Rewriting things a bit we can define some Z strings Essentially as the difference between the two strings and that means we can formulate the output that Receiver gets is essentially the first string plus and that is that is an addition in in a vector field in the in a vectoring over G over gf2 plus the bit times the difference So this is just this is just simple. This is just simple rewriting But then essentially we can drop all this and say well instead of having two two strings to be chosen off we have essentially like the first string and the difference and and Output of the receiver is essentially the the basic so some some sort of basic string plus the difference if he chooses so and Then it's just a very small step to correlated OT very essentially The definition of correlated OT is that the difference is always the same so instead of having a Z 0 Z 1 and so on we have why why why and The rest everything of the rest is the same But of course as I said this if we want to have this based on standard OT this requires Sender at this stage to be honest But I now what that to explain like why we can do the transpose. I kind of want to Get away from this notion of like we have several ot's to kind of a more global view and in a sense It's just rewriting again So instead of several having several strings T and several strings Z we just put them in matrices So we have a matrix T of bits a matrix Z of bits and we have a vector of choice bits X and Then it is rather straightforward to compute that the output of the receiver is essentially the the combined output of the different OT instances is the kind of base matrix T plus DX Z Where's DX is a matrix with the choice bits X in the diagonal and zero and zero otherwise and If you don't see it right away, you just have to believe me that this is true. So now Going from again from standard OT to correlated OT. We actually found that DX Z then turns into the tensor product product of X and Y and By that we mean this is a matrix that contains all the possible products of all the possible entries of the strings X and Y and then in a kind of last three writing step if we say well if we Cannot define the protocol For a random T so that the T essentially is an output for for the sender we get to this multiplication box and Here It is very clear that this is essentially symmetric So we have two parties. They both input the string and as an output they get a Additive secret sharing of the tensor product and and this is essentially at the heart of the OT extension Proposed by Scheidl in 2003 that with some rewriting and introducing this correlation We get something that is symmetric and this essentially explains how we can get from copper OTs of length n to n OTs of length copper Because yeah, we just turn things around So now we want to go from passive security to active security So this is kind of a repeat in the case of an on a standard the two outputs called Q and T Form a random secret sharing of the tensor product of X and Y. So this is how such a matrix Would look like for length six Yeah, like the bit length six of X and Y now if we have a dishonest sender This can be formulated as follows. So and top of the tensor product or in addition to the tensor product and we get some error and and remember Yeah, so we have it there DX Z. So if the Sender temp or something we can rewrite this as X tensor product Y plus DX E for some error matrix and then You can see we get some deviating entries over there and this gives rise to What is called a selective failure attack? What do we mean that that just imagine as an example that at the later stage the sender will reveal Essentially his information for the first column of this Yeah, the first column here and that means he has to reveal Y1 and he has to reveal Reveal the first column of T. Now the receiver can essentially can essentially check on him and The interesting thing now is if X six If X six is zero that means Nothing special happens because zero times whatever is always zero So everything is will be fine on the other hand if X six is one then the receiver will notice that Sender cheated and as a result like we would say in a in a protocol. He will abort. So there is Essentially, there is a chance. There's like a 50 if X Six was generated randomly, which usually is in our Context there's a 50-50 chance of learning that the bit is zero or Failing the protocol and this is a selective failure. This is a selective failure attack We can put this slightly differently if there is at least one error in the I throw X I X I might leak later, but there is a cost of being detected for the sender So and now we come to the magic if you will of of of our work. So remember that In case of an on a standard Q and T are Secret sharing of the tensor product of X and Y So put it a bit differently if we now if you denote the columns of Q and T as QJ and TJ We essentially get this equation that QJ plus TJ is YJ the chafe bit of Y times X For all J, of course now what we what we do in our protocol we check a random linear combination of those equations and We do so by essentially confusing the vectoring and the extension field so How does it work? Well, actually rather straightforward. So we sample we sample random coefficients and the sender essentially computes the random linear combination of his information and these results in V and W and Receiver computes the random linear combination of his information, which is just a matrix Q and checks against the information received from the sender So if you now look at the case of a dishonest sender So then we have in general that Q and T the sum of Q and T. It's just D X Z denoting the columns of set by said one to set N In case of a dishonest standard those columns are not all zero zero zero one one one So we get that the columns of D X Z are X sure product Z J so by sure product we mean the component wise the component wise product So if you put all the equations together the sender needs to compute V and W that fulfills the equation The equation but at the same time he doesn't know X and the intuition here is that This is impossible without doing some guessing about X and this in turn is related to the selective failure attack so essentially we can kind of bet on a certain X and then The sender can bet on a certain X Come up with an answer and the check will go through if his bet was correct so here we have a We have a quick example about this this like assuming he kind of deviates in the first OT instance So all the Z and then for simplicity we assume that all the Z J's are one zero zero zero zero So basically it's the first entry that is the problem now if he assumes that X one is Zero we see that all the sure products that appear are zero and that means he can pass the check by By a setting W to zero and just computing V essentially honestly as the Random linear combination of the T's so Again the big picture is here Essentially he bet this is a bet on the first bit of X being zero If he passes the check he knows that the first bit of X is zero if he fails the check He knew he was wrong. So essentially the observation here is that The Adversary and or a corrupted sender can learn M bits of X with success probability two to the minus M and Putting things together in the How does it work out in a in the hashing step? So the hashing step of the passive protocol essentially involves the Receiver of the base protocol, which then will become the sender of the extended protocol because there's a transpose step and This the random these inputs or outputs from the random OT will be the hash of QJ and the hash of QJ Plus X and the intuition is here like obviously if you know both QJ and QJ plus X then you know X and and And of course like there's so like some possibility to like try several things with the With the hash function, which we model as a random oracle model So basically to rapid to rapid up if the Sender of the base OT chooses to deviate Just a little he will have a little knowledge about X. So he would make to Do a lot of hash queries or random oracle queries To break the sender privacy to compute both hashes listed above on the other hand He can also choose to deviate a lot, which then make it Makes it very unlikely That he will pass the correlation check and this is in informal terms Explains the security of our protocol. There is one side one side issue that I would like to mention that obviously Essentially the which is like Sender no yet the sender of the base OT which is the receiver of the extended OT in the correlation check Give some information about his input Y, but that is not Really a big problem because we have the the chi chase were randomly generated So like securely randomly generate We require we require that and we just discard a few bits of Y and then this essentially like Essentially like the sum is like a privacy amplification. So that's not really a problem So so much about the theory a few words about the implementation and not well that There's some in there's some improvements from the paper in here that we made after the Camera diversity was too. So as you can see We love CPU extensions, especially the cryptographer's delight as and I we use it for the PRG and for hashing and Of course also for our correlation check with which involves the operation in extension fields of characteristic tools, of course PCL mall is the Is the CPU instruction of our choice also a brief word about the transpose step? previous implementations of OT extensions have noted that they People people who implemented it have noted that they needed echelons algorithm We found that this is not really necessary and the reason for that is we don't have we don't have to transpose like an arbitrary Matrix we have to transpose a matrix that Has only 128 rows for security 120 days. So it's arbitrarily It has arbitrarily many columns But only a very limited number of rows So if you if you store the matrix in chunks of 128 times 128 you can do the transpose chunk wise and This is Very little information. So it fits perfectly into the one crash of your CPU So you don't really need cash optimized. You don't echelons algorithm is essentially a cash optimized algorithm for matrix transpose and This brings me to some to some figures of our implementation So in a let's say local network where you have two gigabit per second available You can see that Already there most of the time is Spent sending information you have to do because that is just part of the passive OT extension that you have to have that You have to send kappa times n bits So if you want to have a billion OT with 128 bit security you have to send one hundred and three billion Bits and this takes just over a minute and then there's a small overhead for the computation. So To stick with the theme of the of the session you could say this is like a lot of Macchiato You have a lot of milk and a shot of espresso and then the overhead for the active OT is the sugar It's not very much in terms of volume, but it significantly Significantly changes the flavor of your drink going on to One billion OTS over let's say a wide area network where you only have 50 mil bits per second Here it becomes even even clearer by far the dominating component is simply your communication and the overhead for That doing the computation for the OT extension just becomes negligible and This brings me to my last slide. So the take-home message here is for OT extension the pipe is the limit if you can send kappa bits you can have one random OT with security kappa and On top of that if you want to have standard or regular OT you have for length L You have to send two L bits essentially just send those bits and do some X or I didn't go into details of this. So if you can send kappa plus two L bits You can have one regular OT with security kappa and input length L Link input length L and this concludes my talk. Thank you


Turkey has urged Libya to refrain from any steps that would lead to a renewed conflict and called on authorities to follow democratic processes amid a crisis of a control of executive power in the country. After an almost four-hour meeting, chaired by President Esept Ederland on Wednesday, Turkey's National Security Council said a calm in Libya that was achieved through big sacrifices was an opportunity for peace. Turkey has provided military support and training to Libya's former internationally recognized government of National Accord and helped it fight off an assault last and several months on the capital Tripoli by eastern Libyan forces led by Khalifa Haftar. It still has military personnel and Syrian-Malaysia fighters in Libya. Now, Libya's political crisis has escalated since the collapse of a shared of the election in December that was planned as part of a peace process to reunify their country after years of chaos and war following a 2011 NATO-backed uprising.


It's time to do a mid-season review about the Ravens. They came through in that first couple of games. The offense was blazing, but then it slowed up, and then it started to creep. And right now, I wish we could say that the offense was just short of amazing, but we can't because they've been slow. Sometimes we're like, hurry up, go, go, go. And then a lot of people seem to want somebody fired named Giro, but for now he's not going anywhere. And right now we're going to continue to stare at Wings' hair as he sends one, two, three, four guys on a blitz here, there, and everywhere. Team Keep It Clean, let's do a mid-season review of these Baltimore Ravens with a very special guest. Let's jump into it. Yeah, this feels like a dream. The Team Keep It Clean. In the building today, I got a very, very special guest. It is one half of the Purple Rain podcast, Sudden Left. Sudden, appreciate you joining us today. How you doing, man? What's going on in Graven? Thanks for having me on the show. Yet again, man. The question from subscribers, they're always a lot of fun. So I'm definitely glad to be back. Appreciate you, as always. But I've been doing good, man. On behalf of me, Alex, the entire rain gang over at the Appropriate Rain podcast channel, we appreciate all that you do. And yeah, like I said, man, couldn't be happier to be here. Oh yeah, appreciate that. Shout out to the rain gang. Now, before we get into it, let everybody know where they can find you, where they can find your podcast, all of that good stuff. Gotcha, yes. You can find me on Twitter or Instagram at SuttonDef. That's just S-U-T-T-O-N-D-E-F. You can find the Purple Rain podcast. So me and my guy simply is 10 hour Baltimore Ravens podcast that we do every Monday and Thursday, live at 7 PM Eastern time. That is just on YouTube at the Purple Rain podcast. You can find us on Instagram as well at the Purple Rain podcast. And the rain is actually not spelled like rain, falling from the sky.  Purple Rain podcast, check us out. All right, that's what time it is. So we got some really good questions, like we always do every single time. So without further ado, let's jump straight into it. So the first question came from my guy, Great Ice. He said, greetings in Raven. Back in May during training camp, I asked you for the Ravens, how far they could go this year and what our expectations as fans should be. You responded that the Ravens would make it to the AFC championship game and have a great regular season. Obviously a lot has happened since then, 17 guys on Inja Reserve. In addition, five more players listed as questionable. Yet Ravens are six and three, lead the AFC North and have an opportunity to go into the postseason as the number one seed. My question is this, now that we have made it past the mid-season mark and seen how the Ravens play when healthy, actually we haven't seen how they play when healthy because we never have seen them healthy this year and we won't ever get a chance to. But anyway, he said, and we have seen how the Ravens play when healthy minus Nick Boyle, who is on the way. Do you still see us in the AFC championship? If so, who's it against? And if not, then why? And PS, who's gonna show out against the Chicago Bears? I've got a feeling it's gonna be Matabique. Hope all is well with you and the fan. All right, so this is sort of a mid-season review of the Ravens. Now at this point in the season, Sutton, how you feeling about the Ravens? And we'll start off, what do you feel like their biggest strength is right now? Honestly, I feel like right now, their biggest strength is just resilience. And I feel like that's been the team's kind of only strength if you really think about it because the majority of our wins have come from us either coming from behind or fighting some sort of adversity or whatever. And then of course, like you said, going into the season with so many players on IR, that's fighting adversity and having to put a really good display of resilience up there right there. Alone, but I think that's really our biggest strength, man. There's not really one thing I can point to because all the things that I would call strengths, like actually on the football field have been kind of inconsistent. Nothing's been too, too consistent this season. So there's not really one thing I can point to, but definitely a lot of room for improvement though. That's for sure we know that. Yeah, yeah, for sure. They got a lot of room that they can improve in, but I would say probably biggest strength, similar to yours, but it would be certainty. Certainty and knowledge. And having that certainty and having that knowledge that you are able to come back from being down. Now, unfortunately, it obviously didn't happen in that Dolphins game and it certainly didn't happen in that Bengals game either, but we've seen it in the majority of the games with Ravens, they've been down and even down multiple scores and they've come back. They fought back and they've gotten past these leads that they've given up due to slow starts, which hopefully they get past that. But just knowing that you can do that because it can be one thing if you haven't done it before and you may be thinking, all right, well, if we get our chance then we could prove that we can do it. Whether it's in the regular season, whether it's in the playoffs, whatever. But now the fact that you've done it and not only done it once, but you've done it several different times throughout different games, you know that you can. So that gives you a nice boost of confidence if you make it to the postseason, which I still expect them to, but that gets you a nice boost of confidence of moving forward. Now, talked about that biggest strength. What do you think Ravens biggest weakness is? Man, biggest weakness. I mean, there's a lot of things that you could probably point to. For me, I would say the biggest weakness is gonna be just the inconsistencies on the offensive line. Now, we all know when it comes to the game of football, it starts and finishes with the trenches. What did you do in the trenches? And then, defensive line hasn't been terrible this season. We've got, you know, Kaleis Campbell who's been having a really nice year stopping the run, especially doesn't really have the sack numbers to put up with it, but he's been stopping the run pretty well. You've got guys like Odafe Owe Rookie, who's already got what four sacks right now on pace to, you know, basically get more than anybody had last year. And this is as a rookie. So that's already promising right there. When you flip it to the other side of the offensive line, it's just been kind of like, it's been a carousel, especially at the, you know, the tackle position. Who would have thought, and I actually talked about this on last, the last episode of Purple Rain podcast with Alex, who would have thought that we would, we would need Patrick McCarrey so much, this much, you know what I mean? Like he was actually a huge help and a big reason why that right side was, you know, kind of like lockdown for Lamar Jackson for a couple of weeks. And we were able to make some big plays through the air and things were looking good. But he goes down, you know, we start having new subbing guys like Tyree Phillips. And then you got Alejandro Villanueva. You never really know what you're going to get from him. Ben Powers is not really getting good push at the front.  So it's just like, yeah, you know, there's a lot of things, there's a multitude of things on that offensive line that really do bother me.  But I can't really say that too much. And or I could honestly say, you know, Hollywood Brown should be catching more passes or whatever, you know, but none of that, the fact of the matter is none of that stuff can happen if the offensive line does not perform and they're not healthy enough. So I would say as of right now, that offensive line is definitely going to be our biggest weakness for sure. Oh yeah, for sure. And when I think of Raven's biggest weakness is probably a word that you mentioned early on. And that would be just the inconsistencies. It's just been a lot of inconsistencies throughout this entire season so far. And it's just all through it. It is nice that there's six in three, despite those inconsistencies, they have been inconsistent with running the ball and I know JK and Gusta out and that's huge. And I think, I don't really think anybody just realized until we saw action without them.  And so the running game has been inconsistent.  But then just the passing game, the adjustments, sometimes they'll adjust, sometimes they won't and just the receivers, like I know last game, it was rough. Last game, Hollywood I think had his, in my opinion probably his second worst game of the season. First obviously being at Detroit game with all the drops. But he had several drops in the Miami game too. And then he's had some drops every now and then throughout this year. And with the receivers, Sammy Watkins, like I feel like he wasn't even healthy yet. But on defense, the inconsistencies there because sometimes they'll place this lockdown defense, they'll stop the opposing team's offense. But then they'll turn around and they'll give up these huge chunk plays. Early on in the season, they had a big issue that we all recognized with tackling. Tackling was just so bad. But now tackling has been good. Over the past couple of games, it's been a lot better. But then there's again, the big plays, the chunk plays that they've been giving up. So this team, I feel like they, I feel like the best thing about the problems that they have is that they know exactly what they are. But the hardest thing to do is fix them.  You're gonna tell them to get better overnight? Like that is probably the hardest fix. But to fix that, I think it comes down to coaching. You know, you don't have your best five guys out there. Okay, all right, cool. You gotta deal with it. Injuries happen to every single team, definitely to the Ravens and to the Titans too, who I didn't even realize they had more people on injured reserve than the Ravens. But with the Ravens, you have to just, you have to hide that. You have to hide your deficiencies with the offensive line. So it's just been crazy to see that they just, they haven't yet. And it doesn't really seem like they tried to, because I would expect more of a quick passing game, some more screens, bring it to the running backs. Not all the screens just going to Hollywood, like every single play, like we saw in that Telfin's game. And I'm sure they are waiting and hoping and they are just so like ready for Nick Boyle to be back. Cause he is like an extra offensive lineman, cause he's known for his blocking ability. Now my guy, Gray Ice, he mentioned before, before the season, he asked me what my expectations were for the Ravens. And yeah, I did say AFC championship. Now, without this team is playing right now, of course still got a long season ahead of them. How far do you feel the Ravens can go? Oh man, it's hard to say right now, because it just seems like the injuries do keep piling up. And like we talked about before this season started, this is the longest NFL season ever. And we're not done with it yet. We're only about halfway through with it. So it's kind of hard to tell from, you know, for me at this very moment, where we're going to be at the end of the season. But like you said, you made a good point earlier, the resilience has been a really big thing for the Ravens this season.  And like we've been there before in that position multiple times throughout the regular season. So I think that will help us and I think we'll get into the playoffs. But if I'm being realistic, I could see another divisional round exit this season. I could definitely see it.  We won't have, we're really hurting without our playmakers, man. Like, and you alluded to it earlier, I mean, losing Gus Edwards and JK Dobbins, that hurt us a lot more, a lot, lot more than people think. Because I mean, you look at, you look at a stat like time of possession and we're beating most teams that we play in time of possession, but we're still letting them hang around in games. So we're losing some of these games. Why? Because we cannot lean on them with the run game like we used to. Because we don't have Gus Edwards. We don't have JK Dobbins. So we can't do the classic Baltimore Ravens. Okay, let's, you know, get this running back by committee. We got a couple of talented guys here and we're, you know, they're going to turn up at least 120, 150 yards a game. That's not happening now. That's not happening. And it's been like solely reliant. The offense has been pretty much reliant on Lamar Jackson passing the football. We actually have more passing attempts this season. They're rushing attempts. Like, a lot of people don't know that, but we do. There's only about like 20, but we do. We passed the ball more. So I don't know, man. Like I said, I could see the divisional round exit because I feel like at some point, you know, we're going to have one of those games where there's a lapse on the offensive line or the defensive line just because of the lack of experience for one. And then also just the, this is the fact that we don't have like, we don't have any of our anchors. Like Ronnie Stanley shut down for the season, you know what I mean? Two thirds of the monsters, Brandon Williams is out pretty much like what, every other week. And then you've got Derek Wolf who has just been shut down for the season, you know? So like I said, it starts and finishes with the trenches. I think that will be, end up being like our Achilles heel, if anything, this season. Now I hope I'm wrong. I'm praying I'm wrong. Listen, then Graven, trust me. And to entire team, keep it clean. I am, I'm praying I am wrong about this. I hope we can make the Super Bowl and win the Super Bowl of course, because I am a diehard Ravensman about as diehard as they come. But I got to be realistic. I got to be realistic from what I've seen 10 weeks in or 11 weeks in, you know, this Ravens in the trenches, we're just not, we're just not good enough. And we don't have the other talent to mask it at running back. J.K. Dobbins, Gus Edwards, I feel like would have done a lot better running behind this offensive line. They'd have been a lot more productive than, you know, these older guys in Devonta Freeman and, you know, Latavius Murray, who's actually been playing pretty well for us when he was on the football field. He should be coming back soon. Or Levy on Bell, who we just released earlier today. So, you know, I don't know, man. I think it's the, you know, the deficiencies in the trenches will definitely end up being our Achilles heel. And I can see a division around exit. I don't see AFC Championship game this year. And this is why we just hoping the best for Patrick McCarrey and, of course, Nick Boyle. And hoping that they can get back sooner rather than later. Now with Nick Boyle, I would expect him to play this week against the Chicago Bears. Patrick McCarrey, obviously not, not yet. He's not even, you know what? I don't think they even put him on Endreserve. So I think they're expecting him back sooner rather than later. But with, we just hope we can get as many guys back as possible. Because you don't want what happened last season to happen again this season. And that's where the Ravens, they skated by, they skated by the whole regular season with poor play from their offensive line. Literally all season long from weeks one to week 17, they skated by. And now this season, the offensive line play has been pretty bad. Again, throughout the entirety of the season, minus the Chiefs game, but they've been pretty bad. And you just don't want what your problem, I mean, that's usually how playoffs end up working out. Whatever your biggest problem is in regular season, it usually gets blown up and emphasized that much more when it comes to the playoffs. So hopefully Ravens, I don't even know what they could do. I just think the biggest fix to the offensive line to help them out would really be play calling.  Right.  And that's why I know I've talked to so many people. And I think most Ravens fans would definitely agree with the state that their offensive line is in and with the state that their defensive line is in. A lot of people expect the Ravens in the draft this year to go offense and defensive line heavy. As they should, yeah, as they should. I actually wanted to bring up one more thing. So you said play calling should be one of the things that helps out this team. Yeah, play calling also in the very, very beginning of the game is something that I want to see improve and be a little bit more or a lot more cutting edge, because these slow starts are not going to cut it. So you think about like a lot of the games, pretty much all the games that we've won, the close games that we won this season, we started slow and we ended up having to show resilience and come back and build our way back into the game and ended up winning sometimes and sometimes we lost. And a lot of times those were against teams that were not that good, i.e. like the dolphins, we let them hang around, they ended up beating us when we played the Colts, when we played, what was the other team earlier in the season that we played that we started slow?  Really every game. Really every game, exactly. Except the Chargers game was the only game where they didn't start slow. Or we jumped, yeah, we jumped out on the Chargers. Denver as well, even though they ended up, you know, heating up a little bit later. But my point is this, like, we cannot allow us to just start slow, especially when it comes to the playoffs, because in the playoffs you're going to be going against teams that are not like the dolphins, not like the Colts. Maybe the Colts, they might make the wild card. But listen, like these other teams in the playoffs, like they're not going to allow you to hang around and just come back, you know what I mean? Like if you start slow and they start fast, it's bye-bye from there.  Like that's it. There's not going to be any leeway, any room to come back because this team is not, you know, up to par. They're not good, they're not the Colts or we can just run, hurry up offense and just march all the way back on them. You know, it's just not going to happen against the Bills. It's not going to happen against the Chiefs or they can put up the same sort of offensive firepower that we can. Right. You know, so starting fast and kind of setting the tone instead of letting other teams or opponents set the tone for us and having us to respond, we need to come out stronger, a lot stronger. Oh yeah, for sure. And yeah, you made a good point.  Playoffs is a completely different atmosphere, completely different vibe, completely different energy, man. So yeah, these slow starts, they got to go. So I know you did cover how you feel as of right now, the Ravens are going to do at the end of the season and the playoffs, you don't want it obviously, none of us want it, but you wouldn't be surprised if they ended up getting bounced in the divisional round just because of all the problems and the issues and whatnot. So with that being said, Ravens have a head coach, Ravens have two coordinators calling the shots on offense and defense. If they did get bounced in the divisional round, do you think there should be any changes that went down with the squad? And I was kind of premature, super early.  Like I want to see, I'm of the school of thought, I think Ray Roman does need to go, I think he does. I think it's to the point where like, when a team can run, cover zero on you 30 to 40 times and that hasn't been done since God knows when, you know what I mean? I think they said like the age is something like that. It was a while ago, the last time a team did that. But when a team does that and we just show the inability to make the proper adjustments, that's when you know, like, okay, something's wrong. There's a deficiency here, you know? And I don't know if you saw the video or the clip or that they were circulating on Twitter, a Philip River is talking about how like, you know, the Dolphins ran that against us so many times and it didn't really seem like, and he said it like sarcastically, like jokingly, like how could you not, you know, solve that? You know, like why would you not run these type of routes and that sort of thing? So I mean, that's very telling right there. They're in itself because you got Philip River who, you know, Hall of Fame quarterback who is basically telling you, hey, look, they didn't make the proper adjustments. So it's out there on front street for everybody to know and everybody to see that the Ravens do have a problem at offensive coordinator, you know, especially when it comes to these certain scenarios. Now, whether or not those guys will get moved out of Baltimore and Wink is definitely not off the hook either. Wink isn't off the hook either at all. And in a lot of ways, Harbaugh is not off the hook just yet. I feel like he's got, he still got some tenure, you know what I mean? Like he's, you know, he's still got some leeway, some leash to him for sure. But, you know, those two guys, I don't think they'll get moved out of Baltimore only because the injuries will be the excuse for this season, right? So like going into the season, we lost so many guys, Jiro, he lost his entire running back room. And we know what Jiro loves to do. He's a running backs offensive coordinator and he lost all of his running backs a week before the season. So I mean, it would be kind of unfair when you put it that way to like, you know, just get Jiro up out of there when he really never got the fair shake that he was supposed to, like the season he prepared for is not the season he's currently playing, you know? So he's kind of, you know, making adjustments on the fly.  But at the same time, again, like you cannot let a team like consistently, it's like you're playing Madden, right? Against like your little cousin and they don't know how to stop this one defensive play. They just have no idea what to do with it. They have, it's just, it's just mind boggling to them and they can't do anything and they're getting so frustrated. That's what it looked like on Thursday night against the Dolphins. Like we had no answer for that, like at all. Yeah, we were definitely, definitely the little cousin in that scenario. Now with Greg Roman, I felt like Greg Roman going into the season, he had a lot of pressure on him. I didn't necessarily feel like he was on the hot seat, but I feel like it was certainly heating up because we all knew Greg Roman, everybody had heard it and we could see it with the numbers too. That Greg Roman run game on fire all the time, top five and all that. But pass game, always bottom five. And that's, it was like that with the Ravens, it was like that Buffalo is like that with the 49ers as well. But so when your employer, when they hire some additional employees to take on the job that you struggle with, then that shows that you have an issue, you have a problem. And that lets you know and that lets everybody in the company know too, like, hey, okay, he wasn't capable of doing a job or wasn't capable of doing a job alone. So we brought in some guys that could do the job. So that put pressure on them. And overall, this hasn't been a bad year for Greg Roman overall. There's been a lot of bad moments, but there's been, I would say more good than bad. This is why with the whole Greg Roman, the back and forth, some people want to get him fired or want him to be fired. Some people don't, I can completely understand both sides. Now, one thing that's been said, I've seen it by so many people when they talk about Greg Roman, is that Lamar, he could do it. He's the one that's saving Greg Roman's job too. They feel like Lamar is the only reason that Greg Roman is still here. And especially in the case of the run game, because like you mentioned, we don't have Gus Attawoods, J.K. Dobbins, not even Justice Hill. We don't have any of the guys that he was expected to have. But the running game is still, I think, number two behind the Browns run game. And that's when you think about it, that's kind of crazy because they have, even though they injured right now, Nick Chubb and Kareem Hunt, but they've had them for the majority of the season. And then even Deionis Johnson, who's been going off sometimes too. And we have, of course, Lamar, who's our lead in Russia by far. And then Devante Freedman and Laveon Bell, who they just cut. And Latavius Murray, who he's been hurt too. And Tyson Williams, who doesn't get any touches. So the fact that the running game is still, well, stats-wise, the running game is still in the position where it's at right now, that says a whole lot. Shout out to somebody riding a motorcycle through the neighborhood. But anyway, Greg Roman, he got a lot of pressure on him, a whole lot of pressure. And yeah, I agree about Wink. Wink is certainly not off the hook at all. And because I just feel like with Patrick Queen, I don't watch college at all. I had no idea that this whole time he's been playing out of position. I did not know that at all. All I knew was that he was an inside lineback and that was it. I did not know that he was not a Mike lineback. I was, oh, okay. Well, so when they activated Josh Bynes and they brought him on the roster and Patrick Queen been playing a lot better ever since. So, okay, that makes sense. He's in his natural position now. And with Wink, I know Wink, like, I joke about it sometimes. I say Chuck Clark, he's not a safety. He's really like a defensive end or outside linebacker because all he does is pass rush. Like this dude is Chuck Clark, like crazy. But you know, Wink, he lived by a divide with the Blitz. And I was never one of the fans that's like, oh, Wink, don't blitz at all. You shouldn't blitz at all. No, nothing like that. Because we know that the Blitz creates problems, especially when done right. But Wink just, he has to be a more a smarter blitzer and you got to recognize like, hey, if it's not working, then let's dial it back a bit. And also, like we as fans, you see all these graphics on the TV screen when Ravens play these different quarterbacks. And one of my favorite graphics that comes up, and every time I see it, I just feel like, oh boy, they're gonna go directly against it. And they're gonna do the opposite. Because it happened the past couple of years, like with Patrick Mahomes, it'll say, oh, Patrick Mahomes, he got like a 93 rating against the Blitz. And he's thrown, this season, he's thrown like 11 touchdowns to zero interceptions against the Blitz. And it'd be like, oh boy, here we go. All right, I know Wink's about to blitz him like crazy. And again, for the past couple of years, besides his last game, he was still blitz Patrick Mahomes like crazy. Even when it wouldn't work, he was still blitz Patrick, Patrick Mahomes like crazy. Even sending like Marlon Humphrey on Blitz is too. And that, I would just be like, why you sending our best cover corner? But anyway, he just, I feel like Wink has to do a better job of realizing when stuff is not working. And I feel like he has to do a better job of putting players in position to succeed. Right.  Oh, no, I mean, like just piggybacking off of that, like I think like simplifying the defense for like our younger players, because we got a lot of young players on this defense. And like you said, Patrick Queen for a year to this point was playing out of position. Now he's back at the week inside linebacker position and he's playing a lot better. Same thing, you look at guys like Odafe Owe, who has four sacks right now, you think he could probably have more if he wasn't being dropped back into coverage and he was just able to rush the passer like he's meant to do, you know what I mean? Like you got to simplify the defense for these young guys. You can't be throwing, you can't be throwing freshmen calculus for material. You know what I mean? Like you just, you can't do that. You know what I mean? You got to give them what they're more comfortable with upfront that way they can perform better and they can grow into a potentially a better player. But I don't know if Wink sees it that way necessarily. So yeah, I mean, I agree, Wink is definitely not off the hook either. And with that being said, with both Greg Roman and Wink, again, they're not bad coordinators. They're not terrible coordinators, but they certainly have their weakness. They have their strengths and they have their weaknesses too. But everything ultimately it falls on the top guy. And that's John Harbaugh. Because John Harbaugh is the one that's ultimately responsible for everything as the head coach. You're the one that calls the shots. You're the one that has that final say so. If something needs to change or something isn't working, it's your job to step in and be like, hey, we got to cut this out. Or, hey, we need to run this. Hey, I know Harbaugh, he likes to let Greg Roman do his thing and let Wink do his thing and really not interfere. But it's on him to really take that step as that head coach and be like, nah, I don't think this is a good idea. You know what, let's dial back on that. But we'll see how he does. Well, just how everybody does moving forward. Because everything has not been on the coaches. A lot of it has been on execution too. Like for example, there's been games, like even the Vikings game, for example. The Vikings game, the Ravens, on that first drive of the game. They were struggling to move the ball downfield and they, boy, oh my goodness, Greg Roman called, I hated the call. He called an option play on fourth and two. And it was, I didn't like the play call from jump. And even if it would have worked, I still wouldn't like the play call. I would have been glad that it worked, but I just did not like the play call at all. Now it didn't work, but the Vikings got called for a bogus horse collar on Lamar. So that saved that drive. But then this is where execution, this is where it was on the players. Lamar dropped back, a couple of players later, Lamar dropped back, threw a touchdown to Mark Andrews. What happened? Mark Andrews dropped it. So that's to no fault of Greg Roman.  It's like, okay, eight yard slam. Yeah, we wish he wouldn't have caught it, but all right, Raven just gotta tackle them in all case, eight yards, but they didn't tackle them. They did not tackle that eight yard slam turned into an 82 or 84 yard touchdown. So Wink, he caught the right play, nothing wrong with that, but guys just didn't make the plays. So it's not, everything's not on the coaches. It's on the players too. And we've seen so much of the blame to be tossed around to literally everybody this season. Cause the players are, they're trying to make up for what's been lost. Trying to make up for the loss of Marcus Peters. Trying to make up for the loss of Brandon Williams sometimes cause he's been out. Trying to make up for the loss of Derek Wolf. Patrick Queens said he had been overthinking and whatnot. And it's, I know it's been a lot on them.  And I guess, yeah, two out of the, two out of the five are backups. Well, Tyree Phillips was supposed to be a starter, but he's supposed to be a starter at left guard. But he's ended up, he's playing right tackle. Then Alejandro Villanueva, he's supposed to be at right tackle, but he's playing left tackle since Ronnie Stanley was out. Ben Powers, I don't know what the situation is with him because again, I remember the first game of the season, they kept flip flopping him and Ben Cleveland at left guard. And it's just been crazy on the offensive line, but it's forced Lamar to like really overthinking over process things because he hasn't had protection like that. He's had to be, he's been running for his life, like literally all season long. He's been running for his life. And I think that's why a little couple of games before the bye week, like a lot of people were noticing, Lamar, he's not as fast as he, he doesn't look as fast as he is. He looks a little bit slower. And I really think that he was just banged up and he was just hurting. And I know some people like, oh man, he probably hurting from just having to carry the team on his back. But I think he's just hurting from getting banged up just so much from trying to stay in the pocket, trying to make stuff happen and just trying to keep plays alive. So we're gonna see how this team turns out. They certainly got a lot of work to do, but hopefully they can get stuff fixed sooner rather than later. Yeah, absolutely.  I think definitely when it comes to getting the ball out quicker, I think that our timing routes definitely need to be executed to a higher level. Getting the ball out, like I said, more on time in a timely fashion because we know what defenses are gonna try to run against us now. And the way to beat it is with timing routes and like with good execution and things like that. So all this, like, you know, hesitating to throw the football and trying to force it to Hollywood because we know he loves Hollywood as a target. I think that we definitely need to look at spreading the ball around a little bit more. Also, another thing, and I kind of wanna, you know, this is kind of backtracking just a little bit, but starting fast, that's not all on Lamar. I think it's also on the plate calling as well, like we were talking about earlier. Do what you need to do in order to manufacture a touchdown drive in the first two drives. I would say in the first two. It may be asking for a bit much on the very first drive, but on the first two drives, like getting a touchdown should be crucial. And of course, like getting a touchdown on any drive is crucial, but like manufacturing a touchdown drive. You know how like sometimes we'll have those drives where we have like the highlight feature key player of the entire drive is Pat Ricard and what he can do blocking, catching the football and, you know, that gets us down the football field. If you can do that in the beginning of a game, do it. If you can put up seven early by, you know, showing your hand, do it, you know what I mean?  And also, I mean, like starting slow against like bad teams, it gives these bad teams confidence that they can hang in, they can hang in there with us.  It's a very emotional sport.  So if you give this like lesser team who's coming in here with a trash record, if you give them any sort of like sign of hope that, hey, they can hang with y'all, they're going to hang with y'all. Cause at the end of the day, these are other grown men professionals, you know, these are the professional coaches on the sidelines. So it's because their record isn't, you know, all up to par is what, you know, ours might be or some of the higher teams in the league. We can't sleep on anybody. We can't sleep on anybody. Gotta start fast against any and everyone. All right, the last question on this episode came from my guy Percy J. He said, do you think Lamar Jackson will come back next game and play better for his Louisville fans after getting his jersey retired? And also, what do you think about the ceremony? So with Lamar Jackson getting his jersey retired by the Cardinals, do I think he'll play better? I mean, I would hope like not even just for those fans, but for himself, for his team, first and foremost. Maybe I think Lamar Jackson was focused on the wrong homecoming. A lot of the Ravens were focused on the wrong homecoming this week. Because they were focused on the homecoming for the Cardinals, for Louisville Cardinals, instead of the homecoming coming back to Florida for the Ravens. And that game was yuck. But anyway, that was cool. That whenever a jersey is retired, it really just shows how special that player was to that franchise or to that team and to that school. And it really shows that that player has such a significant impact and that they're like, you know what, they don't even want to risk another player having to not even follow in that player's footsteps. It's not even that. But I think that they don't even want to risk the memories being tarnished by a future player, even though it will be to no fault of their own. Like for instance, at Louisville, if somebody else, whether quarterback, whether receiver, cornerback, whatever, if they wore the number eight, then all the fans, every time they see that player, they might think, oh, OK, Lamar Jackson. And they'll do comparisons and it won't be fair, but they'll make comparisons. And I mean, because any quarterback that came after him is going to get compared to him regardless. But especially if any player wears a number eight and fans see that, it's just going to take away from it. Because that's like somebody coming, getting drafted or signed by the Ravens or whatever. And I mean, the comparisons already happen, even though the number is 52, they're not giving out the number. 20 isn't giving out 75. And 55 probably won't be given out either. But it's unfair for those players. It will be extra unfair and just extra, like almost traumatic for fans if they saw another player playing in that same jersey, playing in the 52 Ray Lewis jersey, playing in the 20 Ray Reed jersey. Because the fans already do enough comparing. But if they see a player playing in that number, oh man, it would just be bad. And just like I say, it wouldn't be fair. So the jersey retirement is pretty special. What did you think about it? And did you watch it? What do you think about when jerseys get retired and Lamar getting his retired at his old school? I mean, definitely love Lamar getting his jersey retired at Louisville. I didn't actually get to watch the ceremony live, but I saw the highlights from it, how Lamar reacted and everything like that. Beautiful to watch. I mean, he definitely deserves it. I mean, what he did at Louisville went in the Heisman while there and just, putting up crazy numbers and winning them football games, he definitely deserves it. And to your point, retiring a jersey, it makes sense because the number on the back of the jersey is symbolic, just as symbolic as the player. That's how you match the name to the face. Ray Lewis 52, there's thousands, hundreds of thousands of Baltimore Ravens fans with a Ray Lewis jersey that's 52 on the back of it. Nobody can ever replicate what 52 did. So it's like you kind of have to put that number to the side and kind of just stash it. Because there could be a 52, some Joe Schmoe, number 52 that comes around four or five years later. And people start buying his jersey that, like you said, they're going to start comparing him to a Ray Lewis, which isn't fair to either player. So definitely love jerseys getting retired. And Lamar getting his retire was very, very cool to watch now. In terms of like, do we think he'll play better against the Bears because of how that you looked last week against the Dolphins. And right after that, he had the jersey retiring. I'm sure he probably felt the way, probably just walking into the Cardinal Stadium that day. He was probably like, oh, dang, I really wish I could be walking in here with a W underneath my belt. You know what I mean? But I'm sure it was still special for him either way. But just knowing the type of person like Lamar Jackson is mentally is very, very competitive. And he hates. When I say hates, I mean, he hates losing. Hates losing. So whether it had been a loss before or after three years down the road, two years ago, coming off a loss, he's going to want to play much better going into the next game. It doesn't matter. So I definitely do think he will play better. And hopefully the coaches and everybody else can, everybody can just perform in unison. In unison. That's my hope. That's my hope. Not just Lamar performing, but everybody around him as well. Because it starts with the offensive line, you got coaching, all the skilled players around him. If everybody can perform, I think definitely Lamar can have a good day and benefit from that.