Hey everybody, welcome back to magic orthodoxy. My name is David and this is a magic review Hey today, we're gonna look at the gaff system from Daniel Madison, Eric Jones, Kale Morelle and Adam Wilber What is it? It is a it's a gaff system You're getting a DVD and you're getting a gaffed deck of cards that goes along with the instruction The two work hand-in-hand you can't really use the DVD without the deck and you can't really use the deck without the DVD So they kind of married together you have to use them together This was released through illusionist and if you'd like to learn more about this product, you can visit illusionist.com But in the meantime if you want to see what it looks like here it is That was the gaff system from illusionist.com We always ask a couple of questions about all of the magic videos and the first of which is what is in the box What's in the box? You're gonna get two DVDs. There's two DVDs inside of this The teaching is split up between the four different people and Daniel Madison, Eric Jones, Kale Morelle and Adam Wilber They split all the teaching up There are some live performances not all in fact a lot of the tricks don't have live performances And then you're getting this deck of cards this deck of cards right here That looks like one of the artifice decks one of the standard artifice decks from illusionist. It's in the emerald Color it's in the emerald tuck case and in this box. You're getting 54 gaff cards Okay, all right So standard questions like is it what I thought how are the angles how much practices require how much stuff And reset is there can it be inspected all of that varies from trick to trick And you're gonna have to just take into consideration that they're all gaff tricks, right? And so you're gonna have angles you're gonna have issues with Things being inspectible and so just going into it you understand that this is gaff magic And it's kind of a little different than the standard card magic also that said Because these are artifice brand gas you're gonna need to go out to illusionist.com and make sure you have an artifice brand deck To perform with it. So you're not just pulling these cards out of your pocket You know you get you have the emerald deck that matches the gaff set or you've got the cobalt blue or you've got tundra white Okay, and so there are gaffs in this tuck case that'll match every single one of the different artifice decks Okay, so just going into it Just know that you're probably gonna have to have at least one of the other colors in order to perform some of these tricks All right So I want to go through the cards in the gaff deck really quick Not gonna really tell you what the cards do not gonna tell you the reveals the magic tricks But do want to show you just the cards are included so you can see how many you're gonna get of each effect and then Tell you a little bit about what it might require in additions.  This trick is a card reveal for a trick called chap trick So it's a chap stick reveal. So you're getting that many cards To do the effect for this this card right here. This is for a trick called TNRT It's a torn and restored tuck case effect and as you can see you get one card for every single color of the Artifice series, so you only have one and so if you're gonna do an actual physical tear You'll need a second tuck case every single time you do the a trick This is for a trick called shadow play and as you can see it's a pretty cool gimmick with and you get one For every single one of the Artifice decks this card You can use over and over and over again unless you decide you want to hand it out if you want to hand it out Then you'll lose it and you'll have to replace it. This next gimmick is for a trick called meld Okay, it's a torn and restored trick kind of and you'll have to make your gimmick from this There's a little bit of arts and crafts, but in the end you'll have a pretty cool Gimmick you'll be able to use over and over again So this next set of cards is for a trick with the kings and it's called horcurs and as you can see that's how many cards you get For that and so it's kind of just like a four phase King routine and so that's pretty cool These next two cards are for a trick called morph or you're literally morphing one card into the next these two Cards are for a trick called side effect as you can see it looks like the side of a deck of cards I like this trick. I wish they had talked about how to get into this trick. There was no video explanation about how to set it up but Yeah, these two jokers are for a trick called on point as you can see one's pointing one way and one's pointing the next and You'll be able to use these jokers over and over again These next set of cards is of course for Daniel Madison's infamous angles the trick Usually with this trick you can only do the trick once with every single card Daniel does offer a way that you can do it Over and over again, but I think this trick works best when you give these cards out as a souvenir These next couple cards are for a trick called half vanish And it is a card you can reuse over and over again These two exploded kings are for a trick called magnify and again It is a trick that you can use multiple times these next three tuck case cards are for a trick called peak box And to utilize these three gaffes you will have to destroy a normal tuck case These cards right here are for a trick called immaculate reconnect It's a trick that is a closer for a Paul Harris effect And these last two cards are the label from a water bottle that you can rip off and then reveal the card All right, so it's the overall quality and production value of the DVD. It's high quality high quality DVD Great studio great live performances all shot in Las Vegas, and you can't go wrong with any of these great teachers So how's the teaching the teaching is? Kayla Morelle does all the live performances. He does them on the street in Las Vegas, but like I said There's not that many live performances I would have liked more especially more for the money that you know, you're paying but maybe something happened that footage was lost I don't know And the second thing I had about the teaching was even though you got all these great teachers They do go over the slides that you need to know but they don't necessarily teach you the slides or spend a Lot of time on them so you're gonna have to either already be familiar with the slides or Learn them quickly from the short amount of time that they give you on the DVD They're not really they're not really holding your hand through this DVD. These aren't baby steps These teachers are probably Expecting you to already be at a certain level of magic going into this. Alright, so what are the positives? Positives for the gas system.  So I think one really cool positive to this is they're very creative very outside the box Very All some of the positive is you got really great teachers. I mean wow to have this Assembly of minds all on one DVD Peter McKinnon is even in there somewhere and he he makes the parents And so that's cool too great minds great teaching highly recommended. Alright, so what are the negatives of the gas system? Like we say right here. There's negatives to everything These don't have to be the negatives that you see you these are just the negatives that I see Most of the tricks on here are Disposable, okay, meaning you're gonna tear things up. You're gonna tear boxes up You're gonna tear cards up Okay, and that's gonna require of you to have more cards if you want to do the trick again My advice when you do some of these tricks make sure you're doing them for multiple people Okay, you're spending some money on this so make sure you're getting banged for your buck Some of them are gonna be hard to practice because you're gonna have to practice tearing and once you care something you destroy it So practice maybe on things that you don't care about So that there is some disadvantage to having a lot of disposable tricks It means that you'll have to repurchase Either the standard art of this deck or you'll have to repurchase the gaff deck in order to do some of these tricks over and over again Especially if you hand out and give away some of these gas And I think this is what these guys would recommend. This is what I would recommend This is gonna be the most powerful thing is for you to give your gas away and I know you're thinking I spent so much money on this I don't want to give it away. I want to keep it So that's the problem with some magic is that we show somebody a special card and then we pull it back like oh This is special, you know, I paid a lot of money for this or I bought this So I'm gonna keep this but truly if you were a magician and you could really do the things you say you do You wouldn't care about letting people keep the gimmicked cards because in your mind you're thinking I could just make another one And so I think there's some element to giving these cards away Destroying them that's gonna be more impactful for your magic But you might think that's a disadvantage when it comes to cost another disadvantage that I found there's a trick in here called porters The and the backs of the cards are green when compared with my actual Emerald deck of artifice the green colors don't match up. So the colors aren't the same I just kind of thought that was kind of lame. All right, so is it with your money? Kind of like what I said before in the the negative section. It is seventy five dollars seventy five dollars You're getting 15 tricks now that's seventy five dollars for the DVD and the deck. Okay? That's what it is together once you have the DVD you don't need to buy it again You can obviously just continue to buy the deck. I think it's around twenty five thirty dollars somewhere in there So I think yes with the right perspective thirty five dollars is is a good price Some of these tricks you can do over and over again You won't need to replace the tricks. Some of them you can do only a few times You'll get you'll have to get a new deck or get new gas for instance angle z You can do that trick seven times But you can only do it three times in green and four times in blue Okay, just as a just as an example, but like immaculate reconnect You can only do it twice you can only do it once in green and once in white And then you'll need a brand new Artifice deck again to do the trick Magnified though or on point you can do those over and over again So that's a plus side But I think if this is the kind of magic you want to do then it's definitely worth your money All right, so who would like this? I think anybody who's fans already have Daniel Madison Eric Jones Kailin really Adam over would like this I think anyone who's been a fan of any of the illusionist gaff decks that have come out in the past I think would like this I think if you just love gas magic and you like all that crazy stuff Or you collect gas cards you would definitely like the gas system from illusionist calm All right, so that is my review for the gas system from illusionist calm If you'd like to purchase your own you can find it at illusionist calm


Hi and welcome to the session. Today we will learn about triangle and its properties. First of all, let us learn about equilateral triangle. Equilateral triangle is a triangle in which all the sides are of equal length. For example, here in triangle ABC all the sides are equal to 5 cm. That means all the sides are equal to each other. So here triangle ABC is an equilateral triangle. Now there is an important point which you need to remember about an equilateral triangle that is all the angles are equal to 60 degrees. That means in an equilateral triangle all the sides are equal and all the angles are equal to 60 degrees each. That means all the angles are equal to each other. Now let's move on to isosceles triangle. Isosceles triangle is a triangle in which two sides are of equal length. For example, here in triangle PQR side PQ and side PR are of length 2.9 cm and side QR is of length 4 cm. That means side PQ is equal to side PR. Now here two sides are of equal length that is 2.9 cm. That means here triangle PQR is an isosceles triangle. Now the non-equal side of the isosceles triangle is known as the base and the angles which are opposite to equal sides are known as base angles. Now we have in an equilateral triangle the base angles opposite to equal sides are equal. So here angle Q will be equal to angle R as angle Q is opposite to side PR and angle R is opposite to side PQ. And these two sides are equal sides. Let's take an example. Here in triangle ABC side AB is equal to side AC and angle B is equal to 50 degrees. And we need to find the measure of angle C and angle A. Now in this triangle side AB is equal to side AC that means triangle ABC is an isosceles triangle. And the angles opposite to equal sides are equal. So that means angle B will be equal to angle C as they are opposite to equal sides AB and AC. So angle C will be equal to 50 degrees because angle B is equal to angle C. Now we need to find the measure of angle A. So here by angle some property we know that angle A plus angle B plus angle C will be equal to 180 degrees. That means angle A will be 180 degrees minus 50 degrees minus 50 degrees which will be equal to 80 degrees. That means measure of angle A is equal to 80 degrees. Now let's move on to our next topic. Some of the lengths of two sides of a triangle. Consider the triangle PQR in this side PQ is equal to 6.2 centimeters, side QR is equal to 5.6 centimeters and side RP is equal to 7 centimeters. Here 6.2 centimeters plus 5.6 centimeters is greater than 7 centimeters. So that means we have PQ plus QR is greater than PR. Also 5.6 centimeters plus 7 centimeters will be greater than 6.2 centimeters. So that means QR plus RP will be greater than PQ. Also 7 centimeters plus 6.2 centimeters will be greater than 5.6 centimeters. So we have RP plus PQ will be greater than QR. So from this we conclude that the sum of the lengths of any two sides of a triangle is greater than the third side. Similarly we can notice that 6.2 centimeters minus 5.6 centimeters will be less than 7 centimeters. So we have PQ minus QR will be less than PR 7 centimeters minus 5.6 centimeters will be less than 6.2 centimeters. So that means PR minus QR will be less than PQ. Also 7 centimeters minus 6.2 centimeters will be less than 5.6 centimeters. That is PR minus PQ will be less than QR. So this implies that the difference between the length of any two sides of a triangle is smaller than the length of the third side. With this we finish this session. Hope you must have understood all the concepts. Goodbye, take care and have a nice day.


Hello and welcome to our very first episode of the ACMI show I'm Animo Smone and we are here at the farmers market interviewing people who are Walking around the farmers market for my ACMI members current ACMI members volunteer base and whatnot our first guest today is Kevin Whitmore How are you Kevin? I'm great a name. That's a beautiful Wednesday. I'm happy to be here I'm glad to have you here too. You were uh It's not like we planned this out You were just walking around the farmers market and I was like hey one part of the show. Yeah, that's right I wanted to I was driving through Arlington and figured I'd stop and and grab some smoked fish pate and Say hello to my old friends at ACMI I knew you guys would be here today and now you're here on a podcast show And I think that's the beauty that really encapsulated ACMI is just the ability to hop right into the action So as a former ACMI staff member you are the former goose What was the title? I was the youth production manager. Yes What can you say about ACMI's work environment and the opportunities available for the community and For in your case the youth here at Arlington. Well, as I've said many times I think ACMI is an incredible resource for the youth in Arlington Um, and if you're watching this at home, I encourage you if you know any Any kids in the Arlington school system who might be any age that might be interested in learning video production or filmmaking or animation or podcasting to Contact ACMI and come on down. It's a free service free membership for any any Arlington school If this is all free. Yeah, this is all free How can you not utilize all of this nice equipment that we have for free brand new podcasting station that is a road caster Yeah, like the the youth here that are involved with ACMI get hands-on professional experience that It's really hard to find even at the college level. So if they're interested in pursuing a career In production in any sense, it's really a good way to Kind of get a head start on that. I know a lot of the kids I work with who are working professionally in the field now Um, but even if you're just you know, want to do it as a hobby I think learning media and learning film production or Is a uh, it's a great skill to have Production is a very broad field come to think of it because there's like so many different positions So when we say productions, how would we probably? Actually encapsulate the many different things that they could do in the fields You know, there's camera ops because production is not Just a singular entity where you have to focus all your attention and training towards this Variety of things. Yeah, no, there's so much that you can learn if you want to you know You could come into acmi and learn how to record and mix an album or do live sound. Um, there's a You could be you could learn to be a video engineer or a camera person or Animator, um, you know, there's there's all aspects of production I recommend you to you know anyone to try everything Even if it's something you don't think you're interested in you might find that you really enjoy it Um, and then if you find something that you really enjoy you can focus on that. That's right And you know that will cap it up for this first installment of the acmi show. Yeah, it was great great being here um, and i'm gonna go buy some mead and uh Enjoy the rest of the day. All right. Thank you once again, kevin. Good to see you Remember to all the viewers out there. You could be part of this podcasting station at the farmer's market every Wednesday from two to six We'll be here throughout the entire summer for as long as the farmer's market continues to run once again. I'm


Okay, how is language acquired and how can you create a classroom environment that promotes language development? Think about a toddler that you know. How did they acquire language? Through your discussion, you probably came up with some of these points. The toddler received lots of input. The caregivers talked a lot to the child and they heard a lot of the language. Caregivers tend to respond to the message and not the errors in the message because it's a meaningful communication. Caregivers explain and label things and the child repeats and copies what they hear the caregiver saying. Caregivers also expect to hear the child's message and hear the child's message. Caregivers explain and label things and the child repeats and copies what they hear the caregiver saying. Caregivers also expand utterances. So if a baby says milk, the parent might say, oh, milk, do you want some milk? I'll get you some milk. Do you want it in this glass? So caregivers respond and expand to the utterance. The caregivers have an expectation that their child is going to learn how to talk. There's very few parents that shake their head at 18 months and say, I don't think they're ever going to talk. We believe that they are going to learn how to talk unless there's something physically wrong. And there's lots of meaningful interaction. So we know that the process of acquiring a first language, a second language, is similar to the process of acquiring a first language. There's lots of meaningful communication and purpose for talking in real situations. So we want to try to replicate that in the classroom. So how can you create a classroom that promotes language acquisition based on what you know about the first language acquisition? You can have a conversation about that with your colleagues. So some of the things you may have come up with is that you want to create a safe place where students are able to take risks. They want to feel that they can talk and that it's okay if they make errors. We have high expectations that students will acquire the language, just as parents do for their children. The student has a desire to communicate in meaningful ways. And the students are exposed to proficient speakers of English in many different contexts. In other words, students need to be given lots of opportunities for language input, as well as opportunities to use the language which we call output. And by the way, research indicates that the quality and quantity of the language that they hear will affect the language that ELL students produce.  We want to increase that language acquisition by using rich language. I'm going to talk for a minute now about input and output. The notion of receiving lots of input was put forth by Crashing many years ago, but we still use part of his theory. And it is termed comprehensible input. He theorized that students need to understand most of what is being said to them. Otherwise, whatever is being said sounds like blah, blah, blah. And the language that they hear must be appropriate for their language proficiency. So there are ways we can make content understandable or comprehensible in the classroom. And Elizabeth Coelho has an excellent chapter on this in her book, Adding English. So some strategies for teaching, for providing comprehensible input are to use visuals or realia, which are real items and manipulatives. The use of nonverbal skills, just like we do with social language, we want to support what we say with facial expressions and gestures and tone of voice. Modify your speech. Slowing down your speech is very effective for English language learners. Provide enough response time. Explain vocabulary and then revisit and rehearse those new words and new concepts. Repeat, rephrase and paraphrase concepts and directions that students are expected to understand. Demonstrate what you're trying to do. Provide a peer tutor so that there's a student in the classroom that can explain what's happening. Often the peers can teach what is happening much better in some cases than the teacher. Just be aware of figurative or idiomatic language slang and explain that. Focus on meaning making just as we do when children are learning their first language. And provide alternative resources and simplified resources. Awareness of the level of proficiency that your students are at and comprehensible input can also contribute to language acquisition by making the language one degree more complex than what they're able to understand. We call that comprehensible input plus one. Coelho suggests that we can encourage language acquisition by teaching just beyond their level of proficiency by expanding on the language that children produce, providing prompts, involving students in chants and songs, encourage students to chime in when reading a patterned story, and organize structured group activities. So cooperative learning activities are really helpful for ELLs to acquire that language. So if you notice a lot of these points also involve output of language, not just input. So for a long time researchers held the belief that comprehensible input was a necessary and sufficient condition for second language acquisition. Now however we know that students need language output is as well. No one can develop a language proficiency simply by listening to people talk. It's like any skill that we're acquiring we need practice. We can't learn how to play the piano by watching someone play the piano. So we want to provide lots of opportunities for interaction. I'd like you to try an activity with a colleague. If you see a structure visual on the screen, try to describe what you see without using the letter C or T. Okay what did you notice about your communication?  That's similar to what our ELLs go through. They have the cognitive ability, but they don't have the words to express themselves. They need to think about what it is they want to say and they need to think about the order of the words so that they can express their idea or concept. Language production or output can be a frustrating experience for ELLs. And yet as educators we want them to be able to speak fluently and accurately. So we want to encourage and intentionally target language output from our ELLs. What are some ways that you think we can target language output? So some of the things that you may have come up with is that we want to invite discussion and have cooperative learning activities. We want to ask open-ended questions so that students have to give more of a response than a simple one word response. Have students repeat or rephrase the question that's being discussed. Simply saying tell me more about that. If you pay attention to students responses they may use a one word or two word response and if we just say tell me more about that they have to use language to express a little bit more. Wait time. Students need that time to create those words, think of those words in English. Encourage students to ask their own questions and culturally that this might not be something they're aware of so you might have to model what that looks like. Again letting students be risk takers. Give students opportunities to write. Writing is another form of output and some students at higher levels of proficiency in their first language might be able to write something down before they feel comfortable saying it out loud verbally either writing it in English or their first language. We want to capitalize on the strength of the first language and that there's lots of ways to produce language through reading. There could be choral reading, readers theater, shared reading, role plays and discussion about a book with their peers. We also want to provide language models for our ELL so that they know how to disagree politely, contribute their opinion, interrupt a conversation politely and so providing those language models for actually all of our students is beneficial so that they know how to conduct themselves in a group situation. By focusing on meaningful language use we're helping to build communicative competence as outlined in the benchmarks. You may recognize this chart from the benchmarks. These are all of the communicative competence skills that we want our English language learners to have. Why do we want them to talk then as a review? It develops not only speaking skills but listening skills for our ELLs. It gives students an idea of the construction of the English language. It helps students to connect with their peers when they have the opportunity to talk. They're a part of what's going on in the classroom and it develops self-confidence.  What does language rich mean to you? After your discussion about what a language rich classroom might look like, you may have come up with some suggestions that teachers have come up with before in an in-service about what a language rich classroom looks like. So to summarize ELLs need many opportunities to interact with proficient speakers of English but they also need many opportunities to use and practice English. Thank you.


What is going on guys welcome back to the channel critical overload here system a Halloween ends in this video here again today Shout out to Halloween Daily News really quick because they are the ones who I got this information from they have a video that they posted I'll leave a link to that in the description So apparently James Duke Courtney was at a convention recently Of course, he got asked about Halloween ends Obviously he was asked certain things like what his favorite scene was in this trilogy and also just went on to expand on Some things regarding his last scene he shot with Jamie Lee Curtis and some of the heartfelt things that went into that and probably ended up Translated into one of the most powerful scenes we're gonna get to see in this movie later this year So apparently when he was asked About his favorite scene in this David Gordon Green trilogy in this new iteration this new timeline for Halloween He stated that I can't tell you anything about it, but my favorite scene is in Halloween ends It's absolutely an end. It's powerful and it's beautiful when y'all see it You'll understand. That's what I was able to kind of write down as far as the quote that came again from Halloween Daily News shout out to you and Hearing that his favorite scene is in Halloween ends Obviously, of course is then gonna make me think he's talking about a sequence with Jamie Lee Curtis's character of Lori Strowed But then he also back he also gave me more reason to believe that later with his statements that he expanded on further He stated that before Filming his final encounter or that final scene I guess between Michael and Lori Him and Jamie stepped off to the side to talk before shooting their final scene and it was very It was a very tearful moment for both of them. So and Hearing that there was just tears running down their face really just speaks to me Of course, how big of a moment that is for Jamie Lee Curtis How big of a moment it is for James U. Courtney? Because I don't even know if he is someone who grew up watching her in these Halloween movies And now here you are in this culmination with her of a character She's been bringing the life for over 40 years something She's been carrying with her for so many years and you probably were a fan of that movie You're involved in this new iteration of these movies as the thing that she Her character rather has been scared of for many years and you're about to wrap it all up with her and Hopefully one of the best ways that is a better send-off than what we got in resurrection So knowing and understanding that and considering some of that there potentially makes me understand Why they might have been crying like that prior to shooting their final sequence, especially Jamie Lee Curtis who again is Seemingly saying goodbye to someone who she has carried with her since she first did the role in 1978 And again just from James U. Courtney's perspective if he's someone who grew up watching the original movie and He's someone who has been a fan of this actress. You're in a very big moment This is a very big moment for you You grew up to do something that you probably didn't even conceive as a kid You're in the final stages of a final girl character portrayed by a wonderful actress In what is her final role as this character and your final role as Michael Myers and it's all Comminating so I get why it was emotional for both of them But they apparently stepped off off to the side talked about it before they got on to do what they did and He's again talked about how tearful it was so it just seems like he understands how big it was to Jamie Who again is same seemingly playing her character the last time? So it seems like what he starts to suggest from this though is that all their emotions prior to filming Translates into a very powerful and beautiful sequence in Halloween ends where these two just will have us in all of what we were watching I assume now that's just me going off of again what he apparently stated at this convention It seems like his favorite scene does indeed have to do with the final encounter Between Michael Myers and Jamie Lee Curtis or Michael Myers and Laura short. I meant to say so when it comes to that I know we've already been told that there is a kitchen sequence that goes on in the footage that was shown at CinemaCon The fact that he didn't say anything about that not to say that it's not the kitchen sequence The fact that he didn't say anything about that though might be telling meaning this kitchen sequence could be One of two battles that go on you have one of I'll say pre-show match that ends in Laura getting the upper hand, but it's not really the end of course and Then after that sequence in the kitchen brawl There's another brawl that happens or something else that's emotional and powerful that happens in the end of the movie Regarding Laurie and Michael meeting up for the very final time. Once again, what is the outcome going to be for that? We'll have to find out when we see the movie in October when it releases This could also be something that isn't related to a sequence with Laurie it could be related to Something pertaining to Michael himself and maybe something about that was just very powerful But him being asked directly what his favorite sequence was. I don't think that his favorite sequence came from shooting a scene with Michael by himself or whoever he's with Doing something that's just like, you know more bloodshed for the for the reason of bloodshed as much as his favorite scene Seems to be that final encounter with Laurie Stroll with Jamie Lee Curtis Especially when considering that he talked about that before they shot their last scene together They both stepped off to the side to have a very heartfelt touching moment where they both cried and shared tears and these tears seemingly translated into a Sequence of events that are gonna unfold on screen that were very much more heightened by all the emotions running through them at the time Not to say that Laurie strolled herself or Michael Myers, of course Hopefully not are gonna be crying during this sequence.  Then you go in there and do what you have to do I would imagine that that led to us to us getting something that's gonna be very magical to witness from them Obviously, of course, he's using a lot of he's trying to hype it up as much as he can When asked about his favorite sequence said it's powerful and it's beautiful. Obviously, those are his honest and honest opinions on it but Again, you can take it as just marketing things things to get you excited Which I am excited because I think that that favorite sequence he's talking about that He's stating is from how he ends is gonna be in regards to this battle that goes on between him and Lord strode Now how many battles they have that's what I'm not certain of because again I was so unhoning it on the fact that well He didn't mention that kitchen ball that they had his cinema con So is he alluding to the fact that there's another one that's even better than the kitchen ball that we still haven't seen of But he said that we'll understand why it's his favorite scene when we see the movie and it'll make sense to us But then him expanding talking about how all of these emotions he had while talking to Lori or Jamie prior to shooting Their last sequence together as Michael and Lori makes me think and convince me This favorite scene has something to do with Michael and Lori coming together for a massive send-off That's a combination of everything that's been going on for the past 40 years and it's something that's gonna be Executed very well on screen to get us very emotional But let me know what you guys think about that down in the comment section below if you haven't already of course Make sure you subscribe turn on post in case you missed a video in the description I'll have links on my social media accounts on Facebook turn on Instagram You can message me there of course limiters any movies news or reviews You let me to cover in the future with all that in mind guys. I will see you in the next video


Welcome back. All right, so in this video, we're going to actually take it up a notch and get a little bit more, I would say intermediate, because what we're going to do is we're going to put in the ability to allow the user to pick whether or not they want drawers or doors or some sort of decorative elements on the cabinets here. So if you take a look at the reference, I want the end user or whoever is using this HDA to be able to determine whether or not we get drawers or we have some double doors or a single door like this and even like change the counter of the amount of drawers that you have. So stuff like that. So to do that, we need to utilize multi-parms for this. All right, so what I'm going to do in this video is just show you how to set up the multi-parm such that we can basically store the data on a per primitive basis. Remember, we have these primitives and they all have IDs. So we can actually isolate out each primitive and let the artist change parameters on that particular primitive and make it completely different. So we're not just treating every primitive the same, and that is going to require a multi-parm. All right, so what I'm going to do first is I'm going to drop down a null node here, and that is going to be my out cab prims like so. And then the next thing I want to do is I want to go and set up my controls here. So I have my left and right panes and I'm going to pin this one. That way I can just work on the primitive or the parameters over here. And I'm going to go and open up the parameter interface and in the cabinet folder here, I want to put in another separator. So let's just drag and drop it there. And then we're going to add another folder to this. So we can actually turn these folders into multi-parms. So we have a bunch of types of multi-parms. In this case, we're going to use the list. In most cases, you're going to be using the multi-parm block list for Houdini Engine. All right, so I'm going to call this my cab overrides. By default, we're going to make it so that all the cabinets get drawers. But I want obviously the artists to change that. So we'll call this for the label, we'll just say overrides, and we'll get rid of that. There we go. Cool. So just by turning this into a multi-parm block list and hitting apply, we get this type of parameter right here that allows us to add certain instances, but we actually haven't added any parameters to any one of these overrides here yet. So to do that, we just start to nest parameters into this particular multi-parm folder. So the first one that I want to put in there is the parameter to let the artist decide which primitive to override. So I'm going to call this the cab prim id, and then we'll give it a label of prim id, like so. All right, so now if I hit apply, and I hit plus on the overrides, we now get this prim id in here. So the artist will use that to decide which primitive to override, right? And you can keep adding these guys. So in this case, we have three primitives. So if I wanted to override each one with some different, you know, parameters, I would just set it up like this. So this one's going to override primitive two, this one's going to override primitive one, and this one's going to override primitive zero. All right, and you can just clear them all out when you're when you don't need any overrides basically. All right, so then the next thing that I want to do is set up the ordered menu in this case. So I'm going to call this the cab type, and we'll just put type for the label. And this is where the artist is then going to select what type of cabinet this is. So zero is going to be drawer. So that's just going to be the default. All right, and then one is going to be doors. And then two is going to be decorative like so. Hit apply. There we go. And that's pretty much all we need right now. We're going to add a few other parameters to that as we get further into the development. So now you can see here if I added three, and I wanted let's say primitive one to be door, so I'd set it up this way, right? And then primitive, you know, zero, we'll just leave it on drawers. And then primitive, let's say two is going to be a decorative element, right? So that's how we set this up so we can customize each one of these primitives. All right, so let me clear this here. Cool. So let's get all that going. So I'm going to drop down another object merge node, put it over here, and I'm going to say get cab primes like so. And let's just drag and drop this null node into there. All right, cool. All right, so the first thing we need to do is drop down a for each number. This is how we're going to loop through the amount of overrides that we set on this multi-param list here. So I'm just going to wire this guy in here. Cool. And the first thing that you do when you're setting up these multi-params is just copy this parameter, this overrides parameter here, that multi-param parameter, and go into your for each end and paste relative reference to the iterations. So in this case, we have no iterations. So nothing's going to happen. All right, very cool. And we also want to set this to a feedback iteration. And on the for each begin node or the block begin node, we want to set that to fetch feedback. So for each loop, this node up here is just going to fetch the feedback, whatever comes out of this node, just comes back up and into the block begin, and that way we can keep processing it over and over and over again. All right, so if we add a override, you can see now our iterations is one on our block end node. All right, cool. All right, so in here, inside of this loop here, this is where we're going to add our data. We're going to add more attributes now on a per primitive basis. All right, and so I'm going to call this set overrides. This is where we're going to set all of our override data. All right, so then let's go into this wrangle node and just set up the code. It's really basic. Nothing crazy so far. Trying to take you through this step by step. These multi-params can be quite confusing at first, but what I'm going to do is get the prim ID from our override. All right, so I want to have the ability of getting this user defined primitive ID right there, and we also are going to need to get the type. So first off, we're going to do a CHI for an integer channel. And I'm going to just call this prim ID. Then the other one is type. Again, it's an integer, so we want to do CHI and we want to do type for the label. These are the spare parameters right here. So I just hit this little button right here to expose those. Very cool. Okay, so how do we set this up here? So how do we get the current data from the current iteration that we're working on? So the current override that we're working with, how do we get that over into here? Well, it's not too difficult. The expression goes like this. It goes CH, right, and then you do a string cat. So we use the string cat functionality. And then inside of here, we're going to put in the name of the node where we want to get the data from. So in this case, it's going to be this controls node. So we just type in controls, right, and then we want to get this cab prim ID for this particular one. But you'll notice that it has a little one after it, right? And that's how these multi-parms work. So they basically append the ID of the override or the multi-parm instance to the attribute name or to the parameter name. And so I'm going to select this, but we can't use that one in this case. This needs to be dynamic. And so that's why we're using the string concatenate function because we want to concatenate two strings. So the second string in here needs to be the current iteration, right? Remember, this block begin node over here, this metadata node actually stores the iteration attribute as a detail attribute. And so we need to get that value into here. So the best way to do it, in this case, there's lots of different ways you could do this. But what I'm going to do is just add a new spare input, like so. And then just drag and drop this node in here. So now we actually have access to the data. And you know that by this purple line here. So that means the data from this node is coming into this node right here, this attribute wrangle node, as a spare input. Now these spare inputs are indexed negatively, right? So you refer to this in expression as negative one. Rather than you might have seen before, another wrangle node is where we use like zero one for these inputs. All these spare inputs are negative values. All right. Cool. So now what do we do? So what I'm going to do is actually put my cursor into the prim ID here and do an alt E that opens up the expression editor here. And I'm going to finish up the expression here. So now we need to do a detail. We want to get the data from negative one, right? That's that spare input right here is negative one. And we want to get the iteration value. All right. And then what we want to do is add on one to that. And the reason for that is because these for loops start with zero, but the multi palm lists start with one. And with that, let's just hit apply and accept. And now if we take a look at the number here and move this guy, you can see it's moving that prim ID attribute. So we've successfully hooked up our multi palm attribute or parameter to our wrangle node here on a per override basis. Cool. All right. So let's do the same thing with our type. Now that we've got the expression set up, you can just copy and paste it. And all you need to do is just change out this one parameter name now. So we're going to do cab type. So you can see it's, it's appended on a one, which is why we add that one to the detail expression here. Cool. And we actually need to get rid of the one there. There we go. So now if we were to take a look at the value here, you can see it's moving up an index as we change the type. Very cool. Okay. So now we need to take that data and we need to put it onto the primitive that we actually want to override. So it goes with the primitive. And that's easy enough. All we need to do is in this case, we just need to store the type for now. So I'm going to do a set prim attribute. That's how we set a primitive attribute, which is what these guys are over here. And I'm going to set it on geometry zero. That's the incoming geometry. And we're going to set it as the name type. And we're going to give in the current prim ID. So this guy right here, we're not going to use app prim ID. We're going to use this one. This is the one we want to override. And then we're going to set it to the current value of type, which is this guy right here. So that's the current selection that the artist has made or the end user has made. And then finally, we just want to tell it to explicitly set it like so. And now we have this type attribute on the primitives. So for primitive one in this case, since I've set the prim ID on my multi-param list here to one, I'm currently overriding one. So now if I set the type to doors, right, you can see now the type has switched just for primitive one. If I add another override in here, and let's say I want to override number two over here, and I want to set that one to decorative, you can see now that one's been set to two. All right. So hopefully that makes sense. And that's how we start to put on all this custom data. So let's just kind of stub in the network now for actually performing the operation, the custom operations that make doors and tours and decorative elements, right? So for this, I'm going to loop through at this point. Let me actually turn that off. That's on the keyboard. There we go. I want to do a for each primitive this time. I want to loop through all the primitives that we have. Because at this point, we actually have all the custom data set now. So now we got to loop through each primitive and decide what to do, right? All right. So now if we turn on our single pass, you can see now it on this pass, I have primitive zero, but its type is set to zero. So that means you're just going to be some some drawers. All right. So let's let's get all that functionality set up. So I'm going to create some subnets here. And the subnet is going to be called build drawers. All right, we'll just pump that in there like so. Then we'll put down a switch node. Then we'll call this the type switch. And we'll wire that into the output there. All right. And inside of here, what I want to do is I want to put in a null node. Again, this is just, you know, what I do. And I call this prim in. Usually, I just put a null node there to indicate what kind of data is coming in to the subnet just to keep it clear for myself. And all I'm going to do at this point is put in a color node so we can see things changing. So drawers are going to be red at this point. All right. Then I'm just going to do an alt left click drag to create a copy of that. And this one's going to be build doors. There we go. So I'm just going to wire that guy in there. I'm going to alt left click and drag that guy. And this one's going to be build decorative and pump that into the type switch there. Let's make a little space. And one thing I want to do right up here is I just wanted to use an attribute promote. Now you don't necessarily have to do this. I prefer putting all the attributes onto a detail at this point because remember at this point you just have a single primitive and it's a lot easier to use the detail attributes at this point. All right. So I'm going to or I'm going to promote our primitive attribute to a detail attribute and that's going to be type. So now it exists on the detail level. So we're going to say promote type adder. Very cool. And then in our type switch now we can go and get that detail attribute per pass or per iteration of this loop. So all I need to do is just put in the detail and we want to get the information from our promote type attribute. There we go. And the the attribute we want to get is type and it's because this is a single value we just put in zero there. All right. So now this guy is switching this switch here is switching on the type that's been set by the user for this particular primitive. All right. So in this case we're going to get red. So if I turn off my single pass now by default they're all going to be red. So by default when you first instance this into Unreal using the Houdini event or it's going to be all drawers. But now let's say I want to go and customize and I need to change the colors here. Sorry. There we go. So now we'll be able to see the customization working. Put that one to blue. There we go. So now as I change these guys around you can see that I'm customizing all this stuff. So I have doors over there and now I've got drawers. Maybe I want you know primitive one to be decorative. So I have doors here drawers and a decorative element there. Or if I wanted to send that over there now I have drawers for one decorative elements for there. So that basically is the fundamental concept behind using multi-parms to let users override aspects of your procedural model. It makes it very powerful because you can start to really build in deep customization to your HDAs. So I'm going to call this out cab overrides and we'll pump it into our assemble node here. Like so. And there we go. So now we are on our way. We're starting to make a really full featured HDA. All right I'm going to put a null node down here. It was called out final. There we go. All right so hopefully that wasn't too confusing. Definitely let me know. Send me a message or email whatever you're most comfortable with. I'm going to call this cab prims and this is going to be called our overrides over here. Very cool. All right so I'm going to close the video out there and move on to the next and we're going to start building drawers. In the video after that we're going to do our doors and then we're going to do the decorative elements. Thanks so much.


I never imagined picking up that script of OxyContin that I wouldn't be able to stop. I never thought that would happen. I thought I'm in pain. I'm uncomfortable. I'm sick. Like, I'm helping myself. Grew up in a good family. I have friends, you know. I never thought that I would seek solace and drugs. Never thought it was a problem. I'd just go to another doctor and they would prescribe it and I just kind of had it supply that way and then oh there was a friend that sold it and I got it that way and then oh well you know heroin's pretty much the same thing. I overdosed five times. I mean I'm really grateful that naloxone was available to me and to the people around me. I would have died without it for sure. I stopped telling people about being in recovery after I had about a year's sober and I just thought that's my past. Nobody needs to know. And then my best friend died of a drug overdose and that's when I kind of realized I couldn't be quiet anymore. People needed to realize that anyone could be a drug addict. Anybody could be a person in recovery. It's very overwhelming. There's so many amazing people that have have died to overdose and I really wish I could be listening to them tell their story but they're not here and I think you know I want to share my story but it does get better. It really does and I used to hate when people said that to me. I was always waiting on that like oh I'm you know two weeks clean and I feel terrible when does it get better. Somebody you know just takes time.


Hello friends. I'm smiling like this because I am already regretting doing this video. Hello. So, here's the situation. I do two most anticipated releases videos every single year. I do one for the first half of the year and one for the second half of the year because otherwise the video would be like an hour long and we don't want that. And in November of last year, I reacted to my video for the first half of 2022 to see how many of them I've read. And I think it's fair to say that I didn't do well. And a big reason I felt I didn't do well, I mean obviously I never do well at these kind of things. Do you guys like watching these react videos because you like to see me in pain? But I felt like I didn't do well because it was too quick. Like if you think that video went up to June in terms of releases and then I did it in November, I think that was too quick. So I've left a little bit more time this time for the second half of 2022 most anticipated releases. It's July, you know, coming up to August. I feel like this is enough time. I feel like I should have read it's a year on from some of these being released. So I feel like we've had enough time and we're going to see how many of my most anticipated releases for the second half of 2022 I have read. In terms of hopes and aims, I mean I'd love to have read half. Will that happen? Probably not. It's the truth. I originally saw Mara from Books Like Woe do this video I think and she separated into four categories and we're going to do the same. We're going to do read and liked, read and dislike, unread and still interested and unread and I'm no longer interested because that's kind of a positive as well. If I've decided I'm not interested in that book anymore, get off the TBR or whatever like anything that gets books off my TBR. I feel like I'm kind of overflowing with books at the moment and it's stressing me out. So anything that gets books off my TBR is a good thing. So shall we just stop procrastinating and get into it? Okie dokie. Why do I feel sick? A third? A third would be positive.  Let's just get into it. We're going to go in chronological order throughout the year from July to December of the releases that I am super excited for. First we have Miss Orgid Regrets by Louise Hare actually. Okay interesting. Miss Orgid Regrets, unread and not interested. I'm no longer interested in this one. This one I've taken off of my, I think I've taken it off my wish list. It should not be there anymore. And I decided I was no longer interested in this just because I didn't hear very good reviews. It is a murder mystery set on a ship which I think is a fun setting but I just heard pretty rubbish things. I really wanted to read it. I really met things, like everyone was giving it a three star and there's just so many books out there, so little time. I kind of forgot this book had existed. So yeah not interested in that one anymore which is I mean that's still a positive. I mean I was hoping we'd start out the gates with one that I read and that hasn't happened. Next is The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager. So Megan I haven't never been proud of you than I am in this farad. I'm amazed by you. I read and liked The House Across the Lake. I really liked it. I think I gave it a four star. I'd say it's my second favorite Riley Sager. I literally am foaming at the mouth to read the only one left. I know I could have read it during summer ween. I just didn't feel mentally prepared okay. I know a lot of people read it during summer ween. I didn't feel ready. I have to like you know as someone who's a TBR reader not a mood reader I have to really work myself up to reading a book. I just didn't feel ready but I'm so excited for this one. I feel like Riley you know The House Across the Lake was great. Riley he went some directions that I just I was like go Todd. Todd Todd Todd. His name is Todd if you didn't know it's not Riley. We've had this discussion many times cos he originally wanted people to think he was a woman probably cos he writes with female protagonists and so all the loads of the male flurritis who write with female protagonists take on gender neutral names so that people you know don't know what gender they are. Anyways it's a conspiracy theory that I'm actually interested in. Yeah The House Across the Lake was great. Oh my gosh Megan we're gonna do great in this. I can already feel it. Any self doubt has just evaporated from my body.  Like next we have How to Sell the Haunted House by Grady Hendricks. So I've never read Grady Hendricks. Okay okay here's the T unread and still interested but I this didn't come out till this year did it. It got pushed back so I'm like do you know what do you know what I'm not even gonna count it. Scratch that. Scratch that. I'm not gonna count it cos it didn't come out then and so it's not part of the cohort of 2022 releases that I could have read. I'm gonna scratch it, scratch from the record. I still want to read How to Sell the Haunted House. I'm in my Grady Hendricks era. He is my horror person you know I really like his horror. Well I really like the idea of his horror. I haven't had a five star yet. I really love the US cover of How to Sell the Haunted House and I think the UK cover just doesn't it doesn't match up and now that book depository is gone what am I supposed to do? What am I supposed to do? How am I supposed to get US editions of books? What do I do guys? What depository died? Rest in peace. Like it's so sad. How am I supposed to get US editions of books? So yes I'm not we're not counting it. We're not counting it. I make the rules. You don't. I don't know if you'd notice that but uh The rules don't apply. Then we have Some Time in Summer by Katrina Leno. Katrina Leno is an author I've read from before and really enjoyed it every time I've read. Yeah I haven't read. Still interested. Here's the thing with Some Time in Summer. I can't remember what it's about. I think it's like a middle grade somewhere between middle grade and YA kind of book from Katrina Leno and I haven't really had anyone talk about it. I think Kayla read it. It's not high up on my list of books I'm gonna get. Do you know what I mean? Like if I saw it I would probably get it you know I'm up for reading it but I'm not rushing to read it you know but I'm gonna say still interested because I do want to read all of Katrina Leno's stuff. Then this is when I've pre-ordered. Pre-ordered. We have The Daughter of Dr. Moreau by Sylvia Moreno-Gasia.  Click off. Click off. I pre-ordered that. I pre-ordered it. Well I wish that I could just disappear. So I pre-ordered The Daughter of Dr. Moreau. Interesting. Unread and still interested. That has been on TBRs this this year. I should have read it already. The video that I am reading it for has just been pushed back and pushed back and I don't really know why. I just keep pushing the video back. I need to just do it because it's a fun video that it's gonna be in.  I will read it soon. It's in my stack of TBR down here. This is where I keep like my immediate TBR and it's there so I will read it soon but haven't read it. The quicker we move on from that the quicker I pre-ordered that. Dear god. When you don't read a book you've pre-ordered that's like a bad sign. Then we have The Retreat by Sarah Pierce. Unread and still interested. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. I don't want to talk about it. It's right there. It's looking at me. It's looking at me. It's looking at me. Can I get it out from there? Probably not. No. The TBR card is a little bit precarious. This is the sequel to The Sanatorium and I just haven't read it. It's a thriller that would be fairly easy to read but no. No. No. How am I supposed to move on from this? Guys I really thought I'd left enough time to do well.  Ha ha. I'm so rubbish.  Like I exceeded expectations. Yeah. That's not happening. Okay next then we have The It Girl by Ruth Ware. Miss Ruth Ware. Miss Ruth Ware. I have read The It Girl. There she is. There she is. I didn't love it. Read and liked. I think I gave it four. Here's the thing. I didn't like the start of it but I really liked the end of it. This is like kind of Ruth Ware's most, I mean it's said at Oxford so it's like academia-y. We're following you know death of a friend murdered that happened years ago and she's up telling us like blames herself. I literally just got my hands on Ruth Ware's release for this year Zero Days and I've been hearing good things. It's very different than what I expect from Ruth Ware. It's more like suspense I feel like but I'm excited. I'm really, really excited. Yeah I think Ruth Ware's an author that I read pretty quickly now like once it comes out. I just, I love her. We have a good vibe. Me and her. I think I've only ever given her four or five stars from what I've read. I haven't read The Lion Game or Inner Dark Dark Wood yet but so maybe they wouldn't be four or five but everything else I've given four or five. Next we have These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall. I've never read anything before. Okay I have now read from Kate Alice Marshall. I read also Vanishing with my Patreon book club earlier this year. Unread and Still Interested. This one has just been a ball ache to get in the UK. Kate Alice Marshall's books are quite difficult to get your hands on in the UK. I don't know why. Like more than any other author I would say. They're just really hard to get your hands on so it's not something, but also it's not something I prioritise getting. It did sound really interesting. It reminded me of Gallant I remember. If you've read Gallant I think it had quite a similar plot of like at this house that's inherited in this other while. I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure that's why I remember it being. It's not a book that's yeah again like Sometime in Summer, something that's top of my priority list but I still am interested in reading it. I also didn't love Rules for Vanishing. Then we have Say Awake by Megan Golding. This is the author of The Night Swarm which I really really loved. Unread and Still Interested. Oh my god why am I doing that? It's embarrassing. Say Awake. I have not read yet by Megan Golding and I now own Dark Corners by Megan Golding which is her 2023 release. Oh my god psychotic. I don't know where it is. I do own it but it's like the ugliest. I've got the UK cover and it's so ugly. I mean the US one wasn't incredible but the UK one is it's bad. I'm gonna put it here. It's somewhere here. It's bad. So maybe that doesn't incentivize me to pick it up. I just have to question.  Do you know what I mean? What do I read? What do I read? Because I feel like I haven't been reading 2023 releases enough. I feel like I've been reading loads of 2022 releases where apparently not.  Okay moving on. Then we have Empty Smiles by Katherine Arden. This is the last in Katherine Arden's middle grade hor- I read it! I read. I read and liked. I read and liked. This was the last in the kind of middle grade horror series that Katherine Arden was doing. I am I enjoyed this series. It was like an easy series to read but I'm ready for Katherine Arden to come back in the YA adult sphere. Something in that sphere. I know oh it has been released what she's doing. It's like a warbook with like skeletons. I can't remember but I'll put the pitch in here if you want to pause and read it. I'll put it on the screen but yeah I'm really really excited for it. Katherine Arden as you guys know is the author of one of my favorite series ever the Baron and Lighting Girl series. I know I enjoyed this. I thought it was a fun middle grade horror series and it was a good series for me to tick off and finish so I have read Empty Smiles. Next we have Babel by Alive Crying. This is like chonky. I'm Megan.  I've read and loved Babel. It was my favorite book of last year. I love it. I love Babel. I love Babel. I still haven't read Yellow Face. I know everyone's been reading it and loving it. I'm hopefully gonna be reading it and I would say in the next month I would say. Sometime in the next month I'll be reading Yellow Face. Hopefully everyone crossed your fingers that I managed to read as much as I'm hoping to read in the next couple of weeks whilst also being obsessed with your housewives of Beverly Hills. It's a problem. It's a problem. It's a problem. It's whack a doodle time. It is whack a doodle time. I've watched the whole of season two in like a week which I have some problems season two. If you've watched season two I have you know what I'm talking about. I don't need to get into it if everyone hasn't watched it but I have some deep deep problems with how certain topics have been handled but I have watched the whole thing in like a week. It's like guys it's like 22 episodes.  But yeah Babel we know I love her. I've read it and loved it. Not just really liked it. Loved. Loved. Loved it. Oh what a book. Incredible. Are of Juan Cundino Wrong. I generally think Miss Rebecca is about to be one of the greatest authors of our generation. Like I think she's gonna go down in history as one of the greatest authors to have ever lived. That's my genuine opinion. I'm not bullshitting. Like she is incredible. Then we have Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelward. Why did I get me so excited? Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. A fate is turning. I loved it. I loved Love on the Brea- We're equal with unread and still interested and read and liked.  I love Ali Hazelward. I'm not gonna accept any critique for it. I love her. I love Miss Ali. Her romance is all my favorite and we're excited to read love theoretically. But Miss Ali just always gives me a good time.  I don't care. I don't care. I don't want to hear it. There's certain things about her writing I recognize. You're gonna have a man as big as a fridge.  Actually I've heard in this one she's medium. Medium everything. Medium size. Medium height. And I'm like Ali heard the tiny girl critique. She's like right okay I'm gonna make her medium. Revolutionary. Then we have Carrie Soto is back by Taylor Jenkins-Reed. Oh my god. I'm excited I'm nervous for this. Just clock the numbers guys. It might go downhill from here so I just wanted to I just wanted to appreciate this moment. But wow what a moment. I will never forget a moment that is most pleasing to me. You guys know I love Carrie Soto. I chose back. I literally just spoke about it in my last video. I think it's a perfect summer read if you haven't read it yet. Get around to it now. I think it's a great book.  So pink granitas. After going on holiday to Portugal me and Tom re-questioned why granitas aren't a thing everywhere. Like they are so good. We had this strawberry granita by the place by the pool at not the pool by the sea when we were there and it was like jam. It was like frozen jam. It was incredible. It was incredible. Incredible. Anyways sorry just got distracted by granitas there. I feel like it's gonna go downhill now. I feel like this cut this is too good to be true. This is too good to be true. Half and half. Then we have Unraveller by Francis Harding. So again don't really know the part of it. It was too good to be true. Haven't read Unraveller yet. It is wrapped up I believe and you guys know the finale to wrapped up which wrapped up are we on now risk. The finale to wrapped up risk is coming hopefully this month. We'll see if that happens. It depends on how kind wrapped up is to me. It might be at the start of next month and maybe Unraveller will be unwrapped. Who knows but yeah I remember I've said this many times but the first chapter of Unraveller I've read and it was incredible. It gave me the like most incredible vibes ever and Francis Harding is an author I've only read from once. I've read Skinful of Shadows but I loved it. I feel like Francis Harding could become a new favourite author for me if I were to actually read her stuff which currently isn't happening. Then we have The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D Jackson. Now we have an interesting relationship.  It was a five star for me. I knew me and Tiffany D Jackson had a five star on us. I just knew it. I knew we had the potential for a five star and we got it. I loved The Weight of Blood. If you haven't read it I really recommend the audiobook. I think the audiobook is incredible for The Weight of Blood. It just it it's so good. It hits different. It's a carry retelling. I do recognise that I was like gagged by certain things and like really enjoyed the mixed media elements but like maybe if I had read Carrie before some elements wouldn't have been so like oh my god that's so good you know to me because I don't know where the inspiration started and ended but me and Tiffany Jackson were besties. I was so worried for so long because I'd only given her a two and a three I think in terms of ratings but I just knew deep down in my core that we had a five star on us and The Weight of Blood was it. I don't want to say anything guys because we're doing so well. Then we have Marple which is one of my most anticipated releases that are coming out the rest this year. Okay all right. I'm not interested. I own Marple. This is a collection of short stories following Miss Marple by many favourite authors. Ruthwell, Lucy Foley, Lee Bardugo. Like there's loads of them in there. I originally was just gonna like read this. I was so excited to read it but then I've just thought I've never read Miss Marple right. I think I need to read. I've set myself a goal of reading at least two Miss Marple books before I read this anthology. I just didn't think it was right because I wouldn't get references. I wouldn't get is this embodying Miss Marple. Hopefully I reckon I'm just I'm putting this on hold for a while this book. I don't think I'm gonna read it for a while. I might even read more than two Miss Marple books before I read this. I don't know. We'll see. So unread and still interested but I'm not planning on reading it for quite some time. Then we have The Last Housewife by Ashley Wynstead. So Ashley Wynstead wrote In My Dreams I Hold a Knife which again still haven't read.  Unread and still interested. We're still doing okay. Right. What would you think? Okay. I haven't read The Last Housewife. I think it's another one that's wrapped up. It's one that I would love to get around too soon. I'm pretty sure I've put it on loads of like lists of books that I want to read. Haven't read it yet and Ashley Wynstead's release for this year sounds incredible. So hopefully this is the one that I will get around too soon. This is one of the books when I think of like books I most want to read if it wasn't for vlogs and I didn't have to prepare myself. I'd say this is in the top 20 on my TBR which doesn't sound like high accolade, accolade but it is. Speaking of Courtney Summers we have probably my most anticipated release for the rest of the year. We have I'm the Girl by Courtney Summers. Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. I've read I'm the Girl and I loved it. Courtney Summers can do no wrong. We all know I love Courtney Summers. I'm the Girl's a difficult read. I remember saying I think I gave it four stars and you know I think it's a book that is handled with such care when looking at the topic inspired by the Jeffrey Epstein case. So that gives you an idea of some of the topics in this book and I think it's handled with such care but it also is like it was a horrible reading experience. I didn't enjoy a second of reading it but I think that kind of is the point. So it is a book that I would recommend to people if that does sound like something you think you can handle and you think you would be good for you to read but it was like the whole thing is very uncomfortable and like it's not like an easy easy book. Do you know what I mean? It doesn't like handle the topics in a way that just like makes you feel comfortable, makes you feel better for reading it. Like oh yeah okay I've like I've read about that now and like I I know about it like it makes you uncomfortable on purpose. So but yeah I read it. I read it. We're doing well. The next we have House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson which is so exciting. Oh unread and still interested. This is another one. Oh my god look at the US cover. Look at the UK cover. You cannot expect me to read that UK cover. You cannot expect me to do that. Are you tough enough for the job? No. You cannot expect me to do that.  Like I can see the clipboard edges of stuff. So again please tell me guys where can I get these books now that Book Depository is gone? How can I get US editions? Because it's really a trouble this and how to sell it on the house. I'm not reading the UK editions. I'm not doing it. I have standards. I have morals. I know disrespect to anyone who has designed the UK cover of these books. I doubt whoever that is will be seeing this video but that's my worst nightmare. Like me being mean about it and so apologies. Apologies all love no hate but I know what cover I want to read. Then we have The Glass which by Lindsey Packett. Lindsey Packett is one of my favorite author tubers. I met Lindsey a couple months ago and I felt so lucky. Oh my god Lindsey was so it was so nice to meet her and it was just been a great time. I haven't read The Glass for it yet though because again there's another one that's really quite difficult to get your hands on in the UK. Like these sleeping shadows is quite tricky to get your hands in the UK. So that's the only reason I haven't read it yet. If I had it in my hands I'd be reading it tomorrow. Then we have Into the Windcrack wins by Sean McGuire. This is the next interesting unread and not interest anymore. I decided to DNF this series. I read the first two. Here's the thing it's Sean McGuire. I love Sean McGuire. Sean McGuire is one of my favorite authors ever okay. But just something about this series just I didn't love it and I didn't feel the need like after really reading the first two. I'm glad I read the first two. I feel like I've experienced enough of the story. It's basically if you've read Middle Game by Sean McGuire it's like short stories that are mentioned in that and she's writing them as the author who's mentioned in Middle Game. So it's kind of like Inception and I just I didn't love it. I feel like it's quite similar to Wayward Children. It's like children in this other world so it isn't and I just feel like I'll just read the Wayward Children series. I don't feel like I needed to continue so unread and no longer interested. Oh then we have one of my favorite ones that are coming out Into the Riverlands by Neveau. I don't even own it. I don't even own it. Unread and still interested. I don't even own it. I don't even own it. I want to get this so bad. This is one of the books. Here's the thing I feel like I don't buy books that often. I'm trying to be better at buying books in person rather than just buying them on the internet because I feel like buying books in person is more intentional. However the problem is when I buy books in person I feel like they don't have some of these more niche books that I want. Don't have them. So like it's a it's a it's a vicious cycle. So yeah Into the Riverlands is still one I would really lotteried and Mammoth at the Gate which is the new one this year in the Seeing Hill cycle. I loved it. They're like literally 100 Patron of Elis that are incredible and are a love story to the art of storytelling. So I would love to get around to it but alas the last book is White Out which is the kind of sequel to Blackout. Okay Unread and still interested. Yeah I own White Out. This is like the sequel to Blackout if you've read that. It's a it's a selection of YA authors writing this kind of interconnected story. They each write a chapter or a short story. So it is an anthology but the the well at least in Blackout the stories were connected. So I think this is like you know YA love stories in a snowstorm basically. I'm still really really excited to read it but I just want to talk about the percentages here. So read and disliked none which I think is pretty impressive. Everything I've read from my most anticipated release is I've I think I pretty much gave them all at least a four star. So read and liked eight that's that's you know I feel like that's better than we did in the last video. Unread and still interested 12. Listen not terrible. Unread and not interested two. So how many there's 20 22 books here? Yeah 22 books here. I've read 36 percent of what was on this list. I don't think that is terrible. What did I read of the percentage wise of what was on the last list? I only read 18 percent of the last time I did this. So that's like we've more than we've really doubled. We've doubled. We've doubled the percentage that I have read of this list. I'm I'm calling it a mild success. A mild dub. Not a strong dub. Not a good one. Just a mild attemptative success. Which we're improving as a person and that's all that can be asked of me. You only need to be one percent better every day than you are yesterday. Not terrible. I did okay and I'm really proud that I out of all the ones I've read I've liked because I feel like that's difficult. So there we have it everyone. That is how many of my most anticipated releases of 2022 I have read. Not terrible. I feel like we're improving. Next time we do this maybe we'll get 50.  Don't think that's gonna happen. But I'm pretty happy with how we've done that. I'm pretty proud of us and pretty proud of you. Thank you so much for watching and I'll see you very soon in another video. Bye!


In today's video, I got back my cards from BGS. What's up guys, we're back with another return video and I have cards from BGS. I have not submitted to BGS in a very long time. I submitted a few cards to BGS and let's see if we got any crazy grades. I think mostly they were pretty decent. We will have the pregrades to see what I thought I was gonna get. I'll top right into it, but we do have a giveaway. I'll be giving away these three cards. All you have to do is like the video, be subscribed to our notifications and let me know what you think of the cards that we graded. How are the grades look? Do you think they were fair? Not fair and let's just see. All right, I finally got one card out without spoiling it because if you see the back of the, even the back of the label, it spoils it. So there's no real way that we can like look at this. I guess we could go like this. I mean, it's a little bit difficult. The back looks pretty clean. Now we've got to somehow flip these around. I'm gonna do this without looking. Okay, Yada Garasu Starlight Rare. So, I mean, this should be a good grade. It was straight out of the pack. This is the one we pulled. I've been holding onto it for a while and I'm finally gonna send it in. First of all, it's just enjoyed the Starlight Rare. It looks amazing. I think we are gonna hit up some more, not brothers, battles of legend Crystal Revenge soon. Centering, I think maybe a little off.  Corners appear to be good. You gotta check on the back for real in the corners. That's where you can really tell. Okay, look really pristine and sharp. Back looks good. I mean, there's a little, maybe there's a little line right there. That's gonna give us a 9.5 surface, I think, at least. I think this probably has the best chance of getting like a 10, but the centering probably, they'll probably get like a nine or something. I'm gonna go 9.5 centering, 9.5 edges. Honestly, I wanna go 10 edges, 10 corners, and then 9.5 surface for a 9.5 overall. But I do think that it's possible that they give us like a nine on centering. It goes super harsh on that. They give us harsh on the surface because of the line thing on the back, which you could barely see. So, that's my original guess though, but I'm just saying that could happen. Yada Garasu, I don't remember what I predicted. It was probably pretty high, but I don't know if I would ever said 10 because it's so hard to get 10s at BGS because you have to get at least three 10s upgrades out of four. It's almost impossible to get. So, let's just see what we got. Yada Garasu, you guys just saw what I predicted. Mint nine, centering, 8.5! Oh my goodness, what happened here? An 8.5 on the centering? Hello? Do we need to get the ruler out? Does anyone see 8.5 centering? How's the back? I mean, it's not fantastic, but 8.5, look at that. Edges, corners, 10s, surface 9.5 and 8.5 centering. That's unbelievable. We just got a nine on the centering. This would be a 9.5. This makes absolutely no sense. Wow, I don't know about that. Let me know in the comments how you feel about that one. I am not feeling too good. Centering shifted this way on the back and then on the front.  So, like it's slightly that way, but wow, that does not look like 8.5 to me. That is pretty rough because that card is like, you know, 10, 10, 9.5 the rest of the way. All right, next card. We have five cards in this. This looks like another, well, actually this might be our ultimate rare Majestic Star Dragon. I'm not really sure. It is, okay. We have the Majestic Star Dragon that we pulled the other day out of a 10. That was a heck of a pull. First edition ultimate rare. So this is a pretty nice card. I remember it did have some ultimate rare in, what am I trying to say, stamping? I was gonna say implant. That's definitely not what it's called. Okay, corners look good on this card. Look very strong. Surface on the front looks good. Centering looks pretty good. The back, it's basically this box, which I think is gonna probably give us like a nine or something. Corners appear to be like, honestly, like 10. I don't think we'll get a 10, but I am gonna guess 10 because these are the best corners we've seen yet. So I'm gonna say we get a 10 on the corners. The centering appears to be good too, but you never get a 10 on centering. So I'm gonna say 9.5. How about the edges? Anything on the edges? Surface, I'm gonna go with nine because of the box, but honestly, these cards are really nice shape. I'm gonna say 9.5 edges. So I'm gonna go nine, two 9.5s and a 10, an overall 9.5. I think we can get that. This card is in really, really good condition. That would be a huge hit. If we somehow got a 9.5 on the surface too, that'd be really awesome. This card was super nice. I think I predicted this to have actually pretty high grade.  I don't know if they're gonna crush it on the surface or not. Card looks absolutely amazing to me though. We did pull this in a video. Let's flash back and check that out real quick. This is a ghost right here. It's huge running the secretaries. Let's see. Oh my gosh. No way. Not only is it first head, but it's an ultimate rare majestic star dragon. Oh my God. I didn't even notice it was first edition. And then we pulled this. All right. Now that we're back from reliving the moment, what do we think we got? I predicted, I think all the sub grades in this. So we're gonna have to see how close I was. A nine. Okay. So we got 8.5 corners, 9.5 sintering, nine surface, nine edges. Wow. 8.5 corners. Okay. I don't remember what I predicted for this car, but I thought I remember thinking it was pretty minty. Corners. Anybody seen anything on the corners? Honestly, I'm not seeing anything like at all. Okay. Wait. Right there. A slight bit of whitening right there, back surface. I mean, that got a nine with it, but the stamping kinda makes sense. Okay. Sintering got a 9.5 on this. Okay. What's the difference here in sintering? Honestly, the sintering looks immaculate on this majestic star. That should be 10 Centering. That's what I think. Overall though, the grades were way worse in terms of like the Yada was like almost a 10 on everything except for the Centering. This one wasn't even close to 10, only had 19.5. The rest was 8.5 or nine. So that thing kind of got destroyed on that one, but that's okay. Third card out of five. What could this be? I don't remember what, this is the last Yu-Gi-Oh card I think, because we had two Pokemon cards that we got out of those cubes. I don't remember what the other Yu-Gi-Oh card was. An Aqua Nios. All right, we got an Aqua Nios. We pulled this the other day. This is a gold stamp. This is not a silver stamp because we pulled it out of the power of the duelist pack. Let's see what we can get on this. Centering is not perfect. We're already looking at probably 9.5 Centering. Maybe even nine, because sometimes they're super harsh on the Centering. I'm gonna go to 9.5. Back there's a slight, slight thing right there. There's this, which probably takes off. So I'm gonna say we get a nine or a 9.5 on the surface. Not sure yet. Let's see the corners. Look. Not perfectly cut on that one, so that might hurt. I'm gonna say 9.5 corners on that. So I'm gonna go optimistic on the Centering. 9.5, 9.5, corners as well. Surface, I'm gonna go probably a nine because of the indent on the back.  So I think we get a weak 9.5 or 9.5 minus, as they call it, 9.5, 9.5, 9.5, 9.5, 9. That's my guess. Let's just see what it got. We've already done the pre-grade. Let's see if I got any of the sub-grades right. Ooh, nice, we got a 9.5. It's a Quad 9.5. So this thing is just basically, that people say a Quad 9.5 is equivalent to a PSA 10, even though it's obviously lower number. But 9.5, this is what you want because if you get anything less, like if you get a nine on any of these, it's like a weak 9.5, because it's one away from being a nine. So this one is pretty solid because it has all 9.5s. I mean, that's pretty awesome. How's the back? Okay, not as severe of an indent, but you definitely can see it though. And this got a 9.5. Our first gold label of the submission, that is pretty cool. Aqua Nios Ultimate Rare, that's sick because it's an elemental hero. You gotta love that. I'm excited about that. I'll take a Quad 9.5 any day, to be honest. Very solid grade. I don't really love these cases, but you know, it's fun to do BGS. It's fun sometimes. All right, last two, we have our Pokemon cards that we got in those cubes the other day. Here is the Pokemon. So we're gonna flip this around, not spoil it. Okay, Umbreon first. We have Umbreon and Espion. This card is pretty nice. The only thing is the corners, I think. So the surface on it looks pretty nice. Maybe like a tiny dot right there. A lot of tongue going on. Maybe the edges are not like perfectly cut. And then the back looks pretty good as well. It's pretty clean, but that corner looks good. Okay, that corner has a little whitening right there. That's usually what you gotta look for on Pokemon because the blue, it's so easy to see if there's any like corner issues. That one kind of has the same thing there. And then that one does as well. So they all kind of have like a little white dots, which is not a huge deal, but I bet it'll get like a nine on the corners because we're looking at sub grades now. So last time I did BGS, it was extremely hard to get tens on anything. So I'm gonna say we get nines on the corners. I think there was a little bit on one of the edges. I'm gonna go 9.5 on the edges. I'm gonna go sintering. How do we even see the sintering on this card? Sintering appears to be pretty good. Maybe it shifted a little bit that way. I think this is 9.5 worthy, but I bet they give it a nine. I'm gonna say nine sintering. And then I'm gonna say 9.5 service. So I think we get a nine overall. That's my guess. So I'm putting all four sub grades out there. 9.5, 9.5, 9.9. So we're gonna get a nine overall. I think maybe we could get a 9.5. That would be really exciting if we did. These are both really awesome cards. Umbreon, beautiful looking prime card. I think I thought these were like nine-ish area, maybe even 8.5, because they were absolutely perfect, but I just really liked the card. So I wanted to like send them somewhere. And BGS had a great special going on. That's why I did it, to be honest. They had a two-day special. It was like two-day turnaround once they got it, which is a crazy fast. And it was only like 50 bucks each compared to PSA, that'd be like 500 bucks for a two-day turnaround. So this was pretty cool. And that's why I did it. Let's just see what we got. Here we go. Okay, we got a nine. That makes sense. What would we get? Nine sintering, 8.5 corners, edges, 9.5 service. I remember the corners being a little bit iffy on these. And with Pokemon, it's blue, so it's a lot easier to see. Like a blue versus white is very different. 8.5, I mean, yeah, that makes sense. I mean, right there you can see there's some stuff going on in those bottom corners, but this card was pretty clean besides that. It could, especially for being in a cube for however long that was, for like 15 years. And honestly, everything besides those corners was pretty solid. The sintering, I mean, you can't really do anything about that. I mean, you can't even really tell. I mean, how's the sintering bad on this card? I don't get it. Sintering is, it's dumb. It's dumb.  Like sintering, there's no eye appeal taken away from this card or pretty much any of the cards from the sintering. The 8.5 on the Ata, you don't look at this and think, man, that thing's off-centered. No, you don't even notice it. Shouldn't be killing the grade. I mean, it doesn't really matter because the 8.5 corners, but this is a beautiful card. I'm excited about the nine. I think that's pretty fair for the overall grade. All right, our final card of the submission, it is our final Pokemon card. It is an Espeon. Espeon Prime card. We also got this from a cube. I think these cards look absolutely amazing. I know we don't do a ton of Pokemon, but everyone likes the Eeveelutions and these Prime cards just look awesome. So I had to send these in somewhere. And since it only takes two days, we'll be able to get this back pretty quickly. I'm pretty excited for that. Surface on this card, let's see. What do we think we're gonna get? Top, there might be something going on with that edge right there. I think the corners are a little bit more jacked up on this one, let's see. This corner, yeah, that one is gonna really hurt. That corner's pretty bad. That one's got slight widening. That one's got slight widening. Yeah, so I think these corners are probably 8.5 because of that, maybe nine if we get lucky. Probably 8.5 though, there's definitely something on the surface right there. I'm gonna say we get a nine surface because of that. Edges have something going on up top. I'm gonna say we get probably nine edges. And then sintering we probably get, I think we could get a 9.5. Sintering seems a little better on this. Let's say 9.5 on that. I think that still gives us a nine, but it's a worse nine. So 8.5, 9.9, 9.5 is what we're looking at. That's my guess for this Espeon. Beautiful, I would take a nine. I think it'd be pretty cool. Looks awesome, looks amazing. I mean, there's not much to do at this point because we have to cover it up with this card ridiculously. I know, it's insane, but this card looks amazing. I actually put this on Twitter and I said who likes Espeon or Umbreon more, let me know. It's a pretty intense battle, so let me know in the comments which one he thinks better. Espeon, Umbreon, specifically prime cards or in general. I don't care which one you guys pick. Let's see what it got. Okay, another nine. It got 8.5 corners, 9.99. So this one actually did a little worse because this one had 9.5 edges. This one only has nine on everything. So this is like a week nine. So this was almost an 8.5, which would have been pretty rough, but the corners did, you know, you could see some whitening going on there. Got some whitening down there. I mean, yeah, there's some pretty rough corners on these, but besides that, these cards are really awesome. I really like the looks of them. I'm probably gonna, I don't know if I'm gonna do more BGS because I've said this many times. I just don't love the cases. I mean, I do have more of them now so maybe I can stack them together and it'll fit better where I'm storing everything, but I think CDC is just, it's easier to do the CDC returns because I can go one at a time on the sub grades and that's more fun. This, they're kind of like stacked in a square so you can't do it as well. So I think CDC is more fun for the return and then I like the cases more. So we'll probably do more of them. The thing with this BGS deal though was it was crazy good value for $50. You get it back so fast. And I was like, you know what? I'm a sucker for fast grading. Let's do it. Let's try it out. So overall, I'm so pretty happy about it. 9.5 in this element of your Aqua Nios. It's like impossible to get into BGS. I've just figured I'm never gonna get one. Honestly though, I do kind of wanna try a series where we go for a black label and I just submit a bunch of minty cards to see if we can get one. Let me know if you wanna see that in the comments. If you enjoyed it, make sure to subscribe to the channel and we'll have more grading videos coming up. 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