Hello people of the internet, my name is Johnny and we just got a massive, massive trailer for the upcoming FNAF Help Wanted 2 game. Brand new details on what minigames we can see and even a release date. If you cannot tell, I am super, super excited. I hope you guys are too. We've been waiting so long for more updates on Help Wanted 2. So subscribe to the channel because we will be doing a full playthrough once it releases next month. The exact date we're going to find out in just a second. First up, we have a minute and a half brand new gameplay trailer captured on PlayStation VR2 to take a look at. So here we go. I'm so excited. I'm not seeing this. Time to clock in. Hand unit! FNAF 6 as well. Can be daunting. Anxiety induced. Ooh, I didn't like DS VR2 required. Fansphere entertainment. Is that an exclusive? I hope not. I don't have one. Maybe we won't do a playthrough. I don't know. Ooh, is that the new hub? Captain Fox is back? This is Staff Bot security breach levels. We saw this. This is the carousel. No helpie!  This is an endoskeleton. What?! Okay. Pirate Ride's back. What's this? Oh my goodness, Roxanne looking mighty fine. What the frick is that? Pokemon? Is that not the hub? It's Moon. FNAF 1 remastered?  Ballora? This looks like the private room. Fun time Freddy's breaker room. Oh my god, he looks awesome. Music man! Dreadbear! Freddy, what?! Oh my god, that's going to be terrifying! It's got a baby! What is this? Are we going to make a paper plate? Oh my god! December! December! Now accepting applications. Give me a release date. Scrap baby jumpscare! Oh, she hits us with her claw? December, baby!  Alright, let's go back. Fazer Blast. Oh, that's interesting. At first I thought this was the hub, obviously not. Okay, so we got the FNAF 1 location. We see later on in the trailer stuff pops up here. Looks like we have to throw darts or shoot a gun. Very like a carnival or fair minigame. We get a captain... These environments look so good! We get Pirate Ride 2, I'm assuming. Like this looks like Pirate Ride 2. Because we got the score here. We got the different targets we can hit. Captain Foxy. A security breach level. This is the superstar arcade. Oh my god, this looks so good! Customer service. Looks like we get to make nachos and different foods for the staff bots. Technical support. So this is the carousel ride with the moon, we've seen this. Safety and... Helpy! So it looks like we're getting ports and service 2. Or kind of something similar to that. Because we see this minigame with Helpy. Looks like we have to fix up his body parts. We saw one with Glamrock Freddy. We saw like a make-up one with Roxanne. Security. Then we get like a tile matching game with a Glamrock. And no skeleton. Oh my gosh, okay. So he's got a headset on. Which is interesting. That seems probably lower relevant. Looks like we're in the daycare. Yep, so here's Pirate Ride 2. This looks so good. Then we get to doll up Roxanne. She looks at us, her eyelids twitch as we put on the make-up. That's going to be such a fun minigame. We get to make our own paper plate pal with the sun. It seems pretty similar to the Dreadbear minigame in Curse of Dreadbear. Where we're going to get a template of what we have to copy. And then we have to put on the correct accessories, arms, mouth, etc. Bonkabon! Yeah, and then we get this again. So it seems like there's going to be some segment of minigames that are like carousel or fair theme. Here's Repair Helpy. He's foaming at the mouth. What did we do to poor Helpy? Is the moon? What is this minigame? What was that minigame? I can't tell what this is. We're pressing some panel. It might be DJ Music Man with the purple lights. I don't know. This is the private room? I'd assume? Yes, yes, this is the private room. Oh my God! Private room in VR! Oh my gosh. And we get this minigame again. Oh! So not only, not only do we have to match the tiles with this endo, we also have other threats coming towards us, like other endoskeletons, and we have to flash the fazcam. Oh, that's going to be terrifying. Here's Ballora in Parts and Serves. Or um, not Parts and Serves, the private room. Which is interesting, because she's in the Custom Night private room, not the actual private room with Ennard. So I wonder if we're going to get a mix of both? I'd hope so, at least. I'd love to see a solo fight with Ennard in VR. Her animations look beautiful. This whole game looks fantastic! Alright, we got Funtime Freddy. Dude, music man.  He looks absolutely terrifying. So we got Dreadbear here as well. He's pointing towards something. Oh, we have different segments? Hey, number one crate! Nice! We have different segments in the Fazer Blast minigame. And we have to shoot. We have to shoot away the plush baby. We got Parts and Serves with Glamrock Freddy. Look at how terrifying that is. And how shaky that person was playtesting it. We get some minigame in the daycare again. This looks like the daycare. Music Man's animations are insane. This is, once again, with Helpy. We do see a vent here. So I'm wondering if something's going to try and attack us while we're fixing Helpy. Well, there's my answer. He has a fricking scrap baby. Oh my gosh. Pepper's Pickled Popcorn. What? Dude, the animations. Yeah, so there's the template we have to copy. My god. It just, it looks insane. It looks absolutely insane. And the scrap baby jumpscare with the claw. December. Alright, now we have a brand new PlayStation blog to take a look at. First up with a brand new screenshot of the Roxanne level. Here we can see it looks like the different areas that we get to customize on Roxanne. We get to doll her up, make her look all pretty. I'm Ray McCaffrey, executive producer from Stewell Studios. And I speak for our entire team when I say that we are thrilled to finally give y'all a sneak preview of what you can expect to see in FNAF Help Wanted 2. We will cover the overarching gameplay details touching on what makes this game different from its predecessor and the unique PSVR 2 features we're leveraging to plunge players into the world of FNAF in an entirely new way. So it does seem like it's a PSVR exclusive. I pray that's not the case. Our primary goal when designing Help Wanted 2 was to make it dynamic enough that players would want to dive in repeatedly. I love that. For more than a few minigames, we've kept the spirit of the original to take players through the curated experiences that we've crafted. However, ensuring the vast majority of games would be different each time you played was our main target. That sounds perfect. I love that. There are six categories of minigames. The backstage, the fazcade, staff-only food prep, ticket booth, and a special category containing the new VR versions of FNAF's sister location gameplay. Go backstage as a VIP with Roxanne Wolfe in the Pizza Plex Salon. She loves being up close and personal with those who adore her almost as much as she terrorizes though who ruin her good looks. Being fashion forward, she has a menacing menagerie of makeup and accessories to choose from for a new style every time. She's not the most patient of the band though, so while you're glamming her up, you'll want to get it perfect every single time. Head into the fazcade and enjoy classic games like Bonkabon and Fazer Blast. You'll need some precision and quick reflexes to get the high scores. If you're a crack shot with lightning fast reflexes, you may live long enough to see them. And then we also get a brand new look at Fun Time Freddy. Staff our safety and security team to perform basic first aid for guests who aren't feeling quite like themselves. That's referring to Glamrock Freddy. Whether it's a small patch up or curing rabies. What? That was help. Help he had rabies? You've got to have it covered. Fazbear Entertainment doesn't have the necessary license to stock any sedatives. So be delicate as possible when sawing off limbs because your patient's screams will draw unwanted attention. So help he's gonna scream, scrap baby's gonna be alerted by the screams and try to come and get us. What? Hop over to the counter at Elle Chips and get the federally mandated amount of value preparing food here at the Pizza Plex. Well, it's hard not to question what the nacho cheese is made of. It's even harder to keep up with the near endless combinations of possible orders during dinner rush. Remember, the staff bot serving orders do not need to sleep, eat, or stop ever. Don't get distracted wondering if you're the only human employee left. That seems like lore. Head over to the ticket booth and catch a ride on Captain Foxy's Cowboy Adventure. On this light hearted log ride, you'll float through the Old West as a gun slinger in the search of booty. In the event of a breakdown, oh, the red's gonna break down at one point, please remain calm while the staff finds your location. You may be inadvertently drifted off course. So in the original Captain Foxy's Adventure, there were alternate paths you could take. I wonder if there's gonna, obviously they're gonna return, but I wonder if we go too far in one? If we're going to be attacked, kinda like how the Jackos attacked us in the original Captain Foxy ride. If you're short on dread, dive into the world of Five Nights at Freddy's sister location. Between keeping Fun Time Freddy busy while repairing electrical breakers, or surviving a classic security office game until 6am. This fan favorite brought to life is as fun as it is terrifying. It's an experience littered with custom VR gameplay. So it does seem like it's going to, you know, implement custom night, um, from sister location. And then we get this screenshot of the help you repair. He looks so terrified of scrap baby over here. Oh my gosh, there's so much more. Thanks to the unique features of the PSVR 2 headset, I don't like where this is going. We've also created a more engaging horror experience through controller haptics, 3D audio, and so, so much more. The rumble within the headset has been hooked up to our most terrifying moments, adding a level of physicality to jump scares not previously possible. Lastly, thanks to the PSVR's 2 eye-tracking system, players will have their minds read by the fortune teller Mystic Hippo. A minigame has been built exclusively for the PS5 where players can challenge her ancient power, her? Is this not Mr. Hippo? Of ancient powers of perception. What? Pick a card, any card, and she'll peer through you to see what it is. If you're also attuned to the supernatural, you can try and block her sight, but she will also guide you through everything Help Wanted 2 has to offer. And that's it. Thanks so much for taking the time to read all of this. Be able to get your hands on the dozens of minigames in Help Wanted 2 on December 14th, 2023.  This is looking to be the best FNAF game, hands down. Graphically, gameplay-wise, like, the fact that they're going with replayability as their main focus, I love that.  It didn't mention anything about Steam, which is crazy to me. I understand there is a lot of amazing, amazing, truly amazing stuff you can do with the PSVR too, like they listed out the 3D audio, the eye-tracking stuff. But VR is already such a niche gaming market. To limit it to one headset is baffling to me. I pray, I really, really do pray, for my sake and for many other FNAF fans' sake, it also launches on Steam. Because, wow, how are you going to do your fans like that? I'm very curious, what are your guys' thoughts on this devlog, on this trailer, all the brand new looks and gameplay we've seen for Help Wanted 2? How excited are you guys, and are you going to be playing it? Are you going to buy a PlayStation VR2 headset just to play it? It seems like I might have to do that, which is going to cost a lot of money. But we'll figure it out because I absolutely have to play this game. It looks like a freaking blast to play. Again, I cannot, cannot believe how good this game looks. I'd love to know what are your thoughts. Thank you so much for watching this video, and I'll see you all on the flip side. Goodbye December 14th.


Hello people of the internet, my name is Johnny and welcome back to another FNAF news video talking about the Fazbear Fanverse initiative. As well as Jolly's 4 because I know a lot of you guys are excited for Jolly's 4 so I thought I'd just throw it in the video. In today's video we have updates on Popkos Evergreen, Popkos Arcade, finally an update on FNAF 4 as well as again Jolly's 4 even though it technically isn't in the Fanverse even though fun fact it was going to be. But like I said since I know a lot of you guys are excited for Jolly's 4 there's been a lot of new and very exciting news on the game so I thought I'd just throw it in this video hopefully you don't mind. And in case you're wondering about some of the other Fanverse titles we just did a video on FNAF Plus, we went over all of the user interfaces that got revealed for the game as well as a few other secrets and easter eggs so if you want to go check out that video it'll be linked down below. I do have a few more topics I need to touch on with FNAF Plus seeing as you guys freaking loved that video so make sure you subscribe so you don't miss out on future news on FNAF Plus and other Fanverse and FNAF topics in general. So without further ado let's just hop into the video we got a bunch of recapping to do as well as some brand new news on Popkos Evergreen.  You can see Popkos is in a glowing skeleton costume, Stone the Crow has turned into Stone the Scarecrow, Saffron is rocking a fantastic ghost costume, Sarah is a witch and Blake is a zombie. And then for Valentine's we got some art of Minora the Mouse and this is a reveal of her cartoon design for the Popkos Pizzeria. We also got a small but interesting update from Kane over on Twitter regarding the music and ambiance in the game. He said Popkos Evergreen is going to feature quote dynamic night ambiance. Music that changes throughout the night based on how much panic you currently have. A base music track and five additional layers stacked on top and it's finished and it's awesome thanks to the amazing Radiark. So that's very exciting based on how much panic you have in the game the music will most likely get more intense more panic inducing. Next up we have the character reveal of Blake the Badger. This was from a couple months ago I'm very late to this but this is the official redesign of Blake for Popkos Evergreen and then we also got a whole bunch of renders for him. Technician, confirm, waving, panic and sleep mode. I love the belt he's got he looks so friendly honestly I love the design he looks so cool. And actually going to the devlog post on the gamejolt page for the game Kane stated you'll see that he has a weasel wear phone, a lanyard, a tool belt, a usb charger and more. Something new in Popkos Evergreen Blake actually starts in the server room and makes his way towards the player. The server room has a charging pad on the floor for Blake to charge himself with which you can see under him in the sleep mode image will reveal more about Blake in the future. So that is a look at the new Blake design for Popkos Evergreen. Tell me what do you think about the new design in the comments down below. Sticking with character designs we have Saffron the Squirrel the second half to the Saffron and Sarah dynamic duo and here are some various renders of the brand new Saffron design you got her on the show stage the sporty design waving panic and crawling and it looks like kind of similar to Sarah Saffron will take off her tail and skirt so that she can fit into smaller spaces once again I think this is a fantastic design I absolutely adore the character designs for Popkos Evergreen something else I love are the attention to details in the rooms and now we finally have a look at the party room so this is a brand new room that got revealed alongside Blake in Daco's charity stream not too too long ago and once again I am adoring how this looks the attention to detail is fantastic I absolutely love it and it really does look like an actual party room that you would see in a pizzeria and now let's talk about some very exciting news regarding Popkos arcade which technically yes is a part of the fanverse and is getting a very very exciting paid expansion very soon it was revealed admittedly quite a long time ago I just haven't gotten around to it my bad that the DLC will be called Popkos and the Machinist Popkos and the machinist is a quote sequel to Popkos the dead forest which is the name of the arcade game you play in Popkos arcade if you pay for the premium upgrade to Popkos arcade you will be able to play Popkos and the machinist once you obtain 100% completion in the main game it'll be a direct continuation of your journey Popkos and the machinist is about half the size of the current main game if you consider Popkos arcade to be split into two parts one where you fight the mini bosses and then one where you fight the dead mini bosses then you can sort of expect machinist to be a third part in the Popkos adventure when is it coming out we're not sure but the goal is for it to release before the end of the year obviously that did not quite happen how much will it cost I have no idea it's not something I'll be deciding on by myself why is this paid for all of the ports for the fanverse games are paid for and I decided to work on this expansion for arcade to incentivize and reward people for paying for their mobile console copies of arcade when I announced this I got a lot of requests for a pc version of the expansion for those who don't plan consoles so I spoke with Scott and click team and it seems to be possible where can we play this when everything is finished we're going to see if we can publish Popkos arcade the original version on steam which will then have the premium upgrade which includes the machinist as a paid DLC option on the store page the mobile and console ports of arcade might have actual payments integrated into the game we'll see and finally who is the machinist oh well that is a question we can answer the machinist is and then it goes off interestingly enough the code in that message decipherers too you need to stop asking so many questions also in the same charity stream we got Blake revealed to us we also got robot Blake from the brand new popkos and the machinist paid expansion this is robot Blake he was also featured on the poster for the machinist as the enemy that popkos is squaring up on the second image is showing him scratching the player and though their perspective and coloring makes it look a little confusing it's perfectly fine when animated in game and then finally for popkos and the machinist we got a sneak peek of some gameplay of a brand new area it looks to be in some sort of cave maybe a mine shaft and interestingly enough there's also a camera in the top right that follows popkos as he walks around so that is all the updates on the paid expansion to popkos arcade popkos and the machinist unfortunately it's still kind of unclear when the expansion is coming out hopefully pretty soon though and now let's move on to something that's not fanverse but again is still super exciting jolly's 4 so if you don't know jolly 4 is a fan game of fnaf and was actually going to be in the fanverse but it's based off a real-life restaurant jolly b so copyright kind of you can't do that in the fanverse but thankfully we're still getting another entry into the series and this is some of the brand new news so first up this is a look at jolly good time funny funny name the brand new version of jolly for the fourth game and my gosh dude he looks so good especially that endo skeleton oh i'm a sucker for endos and then we had george good time revealed to us and then in a massive devlog post we got a whole bunch of teasers and updates first up they changed how the hands look the old design is more cartoony the new design is more robotic animatronic like and also a lot more terrifying they gave a sneak preview of the soundtrack for the game then we got a brand new teaser called the week ahead showing off a schedule for jolly entertainment then we got a gameplay teaser of the warehouse's ventilation system as well as a sneak peek at the map and mechanics for the nights ahead and finally in this devlog we got a hallway teaser showing off george good time looming in the background and finally for devlogs we got the official reveals of all of the new character designs for the good time family so first up here is a full body reveal of george good time and then we got a closer look at their face the full character design for maxi once again a closer look at their face the full body reveal of tweedy who would have thought once again zooming in on their face and finally we got that gangly puppet thing and once again that's right a zoom in on their face so that is a look at some gameplay teasers as well as the brand new good time family members their designs look absolutely amazing i freaking love them but that's not the biggest news the biggest news is this a sneak preview of the trailer one for jolly four coming soon honestly the sneak peek alone is freaking amazing and has me hyped a lot you can see some free roam elements in the teaser and my god dude it just it looks phenomenal so we don't know exactly when we're getting the trailer one for jolly four but it is very very exciting and the final news for jolly four is that ultra knights dad played it massive news i know but hey at least we know that there is currently at least a playable build of jolly's four that's exciting and now we move on to the final topic for today's video going back to the fazbear fan verse initiative talking about finac four we don't get many updates on candies four so when we do get one it's kind of a big deal even though this one is really small so back in february we got a new devlog post by a meal called another update i thought i'd make a small update this past year well last year i've been making some progress i'm really happy with especially in the past few months i've been working as hard as i can on a selection of things ranging from finac four stuff to the finac trilogy updates it's very exciting when working on this stuff anticipating your reactions to it once it releases ha ha i can't really talk much about specifically what is coming up next but i think you'll really like it thanks yet again for your amazing patience and remember to stay tuned now you may notice that there are a couple bold letters throughout the post and they do spell out a secret message and that message is don't forget think a meal forgot to give us brand new messages because i feel like we've seen don't forget and don't forget me at least five times leading up to this game but that is just a small update on candies for seems like we're getting something big soon hopefully though it is nice to get you know small little updates here and there on how development's going and i guess we're just gonna have to wait and stay tuned for more info concerning finac but that is all the fan verse and jolly four updates for today what are you most excited for let me know in the comments down below thank you so much for watching another finaf news video and i'll see you all on the flip side goodbye


On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the launch of a special military operation in Ukraine. Putin claimed that the leaders of the breakaway republics of Donetsk and Luhansk in the Donbass region had asked for military assistance against Ukrainian aggression. But the current military operations have spread much beyond the Donbass region. The Russian military claimed on March 2 that it has full control of the city of Kherson in southwest Ukraine and it is closing in on Mariupol, a major port city in Donetsk. Russian forces have also closed in on Ukrainian capital Kiev and the city of Kharkiv. As of March 1, the United Nations had confirmed 136 civilian deaths and 400 injured. The crisis has caused massive displacement. UNHCR stated on March 1 that around 660,000 refugees have fled Ukraine to neighbouring countries in the past six days. What brought about this situation? In the televised address announcing the special operations, Putin stated that this military intervention is not to occupy Ukrainian land, but to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine and bring to trial those who committed numerous atrocities against civilians in the Donbass region. The attack began just days after Russia announced recognition of the independence of Donetsk and Luhansk, people's republics claiming that Ukraine failed to act on the 2015 Minsk Agreement, which promised autonomy to these regions. Putin also drew attention to the unrelenting eastward expansion of NATO, stating that NATO powers have thwarted all attempts at reaching an agreement on this issue which is critical for Russia. This is an issue which goes back to 1991 to the fall of the Soviet Union, let's start a story from there, 1990s fall of the Soviet Union and a new world order. NATO was founded in 1949 by the US and 11 other western countries with the stated purpose of confronting the Soviet Union and the growth of communism in Europe. At the end of the Cold War, NATO's eastern counterpart, the Warsaw Pact, was dissolved. However, NATO continued to exist. In a 1990 meeting, the US had assured Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev that not an inch of NATO's present military jurisdiction will spread in an eastward direction beyond the borders of unified Germany. After the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, the US increasingly began attempting to assert unipolar authority over the rest of the world, betraying all promises NATO expanded into former Soviet republics in Eastern Europe, which presented acute security concerns to the newly capitalist Russian Federation. The Northern Atlantic Alliance has expanded from 16 countries in 1991 to a total of 30 countries today. This expansion was in keeping with the US strategy of trying to prevent the emergence of any alliance in Eurasia that could, in the future, threaten US hegemony in the region. At the time, Russia could not resist this expansion. But things changed in 2008 when the US decided to move towards eventual NATO membership for Georgia and Ukraine, both of whom sit right at Russia's borders. This was not acceptable to Russia. There was a brief armed conflict between Russia and Georgia, and the membership process stalled for Georgia. Apart from expanding membership, US nuclear weapons are now based in five NATO countries in Europe. US bases, which can fire ballistic missiles and nuclear missiles if needed, are positioned as close as Poland and Romania, including a base in Poland which is only 100 miles from the Russian border. The US has also over time become an increasingly rogue state, as it has withdrawn from most armed treaties, including the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, the Open Skies Treaty, etc. In December last year, Russia had submitted a draft proposal for a new mutual security agreement between Russia and NATO. The proposal essentially called for a halt in further expansion and escalation, an exchange of information between the military forces, and that NATO would not accept Ukraine as a member. However, the Biden administration refused to even consider it seriously. 2014, coup in Ukraine. Let's now go to what has been happening inside Ukraine since 2014. Until 2014, Ukraine was essentially neutral and maintained relations with both the EU and Russia, although there were pressures from both directions. In late 2013, then-Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych was looking for a loan, the one offered by the EU involved substantial economic reforms and IMF-mandated austerity measures. On the other hand, Russia offered a $15 billion bailout, along with discounted prices of natural gas, if Yanukovych would sideline the country's oligarchy-controlled financial networks. Yanukovych chose to go with Russia. However, this decision was not taken well by ultra-nationalists and russophobic groups who were leaning towards Europe. It was also not acceptable to Western countries. US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland had previously boasted about the billions of dollars the US spent on democracy promotion in Ukraine, which basically referred to strengthening pro-Western and anti-Russian forces. Far-right-nationalists and neo-Nazis tried to turn this dispute into a means for overthrowing the elected government. They staged violent demonstrations known as the Euromaidan protests, with armed neo-Nazis deploying fire-bombs and other weapons. Yanukovych's government collapsed, his violent overthrow was celebrated in the West, he was replaced by US-backed leaders. Ukraine did not officially become a NATO member after the Yanukovych government was overthrown, but it developed much closer relations to NATO, which gave the country access to many membership privileges, including military exercises and training. The same set of ultra-nationalists and russophobic political groups that called for closer alignment with the West have been hampering the implementation of the Minsk agreements. The Minsk agreements were signed to quell tensions after a civil war broke out between the ethnically divided East and West Ukraine. Eastern Ukraine, which includes the Donbass region, is dominated by Russian-speaking Ukrainians. The post-Euromaidan government adopted pro-EU and pro-NATO policies, which were widely opposed by the people of Eastern Ukraine. The government moved to crush these protests. Ukrainian forces declared a war on the protesters, following Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014. The war lasted for months before the First Minsk Agreement was signed in September 2014 between Ukraine, Russia and the organization for security and cooperation in Europe. It aimed to implement an immediate ceasefire, but it failed to stop the fighting. A revised and updated Agreement Minsk II was signed in 2015, which called for an immediate ceasefire in the Donbass region. It also granted greater autonomy to Donetsk and Luhansk, the centres of rebellion. But the Minsk agreements were not implemented. Instead, the government passed policies suppressing Russian identity, particularly the use of Russian as a language in the public sphere, including in schools, in the service industry, in media, etc. The continuing violence in these policies have led to what can only be called ethnic cleansing. The crisis in Donbass has caused the deaths of over 14,000 people and displaced over 2.5 million people between 2014 to 2021. According to Russian claims, over 1.2 million residents of the Donbass region have already applied for Russian citizenship out of a total estimated population of 6 million. These measures, along with the empowerment of neo-Nazi elements, has shattered the plurianational character of the country. Biden has called the ongoing Russian intervention unprovoked. However, in the four days leading up to the war, ceasefire monitors recorded almost 6,000 ceasefire violations and over 4,000 explosions in eastern Ukraine, mostly in the Donbass region. The Russian attack on Ukraine cannot be seen in isolation from the decades of expansionist policies pursued by the US and NATO. With the Russian offensive, a massive humanitarian crisis has broken out and two nuclear powers, NATO and Russia, are confronting each other. The impact of sanctions will be felt by millions of ordinary people. Progressive movements have been calling for an immediate end to all hostilities, negotiations and security guarantees for both Ukraine and Russia. They have also been demanding that NATO be disbanded. As an offensive alliance, NATO does not stop conflict but only fuels it, as can be seen in places like Libya, Iraq, Syria and now as a direct result of its actions in Ukraine.


Rockstar presenters don't use details like most people do. They actually share very few details during their sessions, selecting only the ones we can best remember, and then they share the real details in handouts and takeaway resources. This micro-learning module will show you how to do this too. Check your skills. Take a minute and predict how many different details are displayed in one minute of the average TED Talk. Don't count what the presenter says, just what he or she displays on screen. Do you have your prediction? Pause this video, search for any TED Talk, and play a random one-minute segment, counting the number of details you see on the presenter's slide deck or presentation. Then come back and resume this video. Your research is complex. Your presentation should not be. Give your audience an overview of your idea, process, or conclusion, and give them a simple set of takeaways to remember. Four or fewer is ideal. This set of micro-learning modules itself has only four. Time, visuals, details, and interactions. Your research is complex, so all the detail that you might want to share in your presentation should get shared in your handouts. Put in the charts, graphs, tables, dents, white paper theory stuff. The real point of a presentation is to get people interested in learning more about your ideas. That more should be in your handouts. Oh, and give them to your audience after your presentation. Otherwise they'll just start reading during your session. Sometimes your point is your information. When you share data, show patterns that can be discerned without looking at the labels. Don't provide more than two or three trends in the same data set. Present one idea or comparison at a time, and be sure to explain verbally what people see on the screen. Remind your participants regularly how what they are seeing and hearing now maps to your larger topic and goal. In a 45-minute session, plan for at least two stop-and-review points to tie things together. Just like with visuals, select details that demonstrate the diversity of your work, research, and ideas. Show how your presentation applies to participants from varying institutional types, walks of life, and backgrounds. Or at least explain why your presentation applies to only one sort of audience. A great example of presenters who select only the top-level details for their presentations is Joanne Baney from Columbia University. Her advice for presenting to your boss applies equally well to presenting at a conference. Pause this presentation and watch her two-minute video called Can You Create a High-Level Presentation, and learn what NOT to do when selecting details. Then come back here. OK, it's time to build your presentation. What are up to four key takeaways that you want your audience to remember? What's the simplest way you can state these ideas? Write down your four or fewer takeaways, what kind of detailed information you'll put into your handouts, and what ideas require data visualization. To go beyond what we've covered in this micro-learning module, look up Laura Foley's Secrets of Awesome Handouts, and learn how to design differently for the page versus the screen. Now that you have completed this micro-learning module on details, where will you go next? You can experience these micro-learning modules in any order. Want a hint? Try Interactions Next. Thank you for working on this micro-learning module.


into maintaining them because that is a significant chunk of our time out here. It's our vehicle, it's our home and I have my tank and with my crew and that's my second family and those are the guys I'll take care of when I'm here.


We've often complained on this show about Keir Starmer's habit of abstaining in parliament. Now we've complained about him doing this on the spy cop's bill in particular. Now it turns out we aren't alone in our concerns. Gary Neville, ex-England and Manchester United defender and now hotelier spoke to Sky's Sophie Ridge about Labour abstaining in last week's vote on the system of Covid tears. Paul, we're in tier three. We're being told currently that we will be told whether we're going into tier two on the 16th of December and that we can open hospitality on the 19th. How can that be? We can't order the food in time, you can't open your booking engines, how can people plan, you can't mobilise your staff. So we're in a situation whereby there is no plan, everything's so reactive and immediate and it cannot be like that. Leadership cannot be like that. And I was critical of the Labour Party running the week because they're there to protect the disadvantaged and the vulnerable and the restrictions being in place which protects health is fine but they know that the economic support isn't in place, aligned with those restrictions which means you've got to take a position and be bold and go against it, you cannot abstain and that's where people have managed it at this moment in time. I think are frustrated with the lack of leadership in, I suppose, protecting the residents of Manchester and the communities that are hardest hit. So you'd have liked to see Labour vote against the tier system then? Yeah, I don't like half rose leadership.  So when you're elected and you're in that, you're in that seat in Westminster, you just take a position, you don't abstain, you take part in the match, you're the opposition, you're the opposition, don't sit in the stand, they sat in the stand. The sentiment that Gary Neville expressing there, I agree with and I think that the Labour Party has abstained way too many times on really significant issues. I actually do think that on this particular instance, even if it's been very poorly communicated by the leadership, there was some logic because basically what Gary Neville there is suggesting Labour should have done is vote against to hold out for more financial support for businesses during the restrictions in the various tiers and in a similar way to how Andy Burnham held out as Mayor of Manchester saying I'm not going to improve this until you, I'm not going to improve these measures until you offer more financial support for the residents of my city. The argument against Labour doing that in this particular situation was that if they had voted against then Boris Johnson to get it passed wouldn't be negotiating with Labour, he'd be negotiating with his own rebellious backbenches and the rebellious backbenches are the type of right winger who just want, you know, general restrictions to be looser, the kind of anti-lockdown crowd. So there was a risk that if Labour committed to voting against the proposal, Boris Johnson's sort of policy would get shifted to the right, not be shifted to more financial support but to be, you know, a dangerously low level of restrictions. Ash, what do you make of this? I mean Gary Neville, I think in the general point is correct.  This individual act of abstention I didn't actually have a problem with because you've got a twofold problem. One is that it sends Boris Johnson negotiating with his headbangers who think that the best cure for coronavirus is poor people getting it and on the other hand you've got a communication issue with the public. Well, you say that you want lockdown, so why are you voting against it? You've been castigating the government for being late for going in. There's a kind of muddiness of message there. But I think the overall diagnosis which is that Kirstama is someone who seems to lack a core motivating story in a way that Jeremy Corbyn certainly didn't lack a core motivating story in a way that Tony Blair certainly didn't lack a core motivating story. There's still this issue of Kirstama being so reactive, defining himself I think most clearly when it comes to internal party management and taking a hammer to his own rowdy left-wing backbenches that when it comes to speaking to the nation on some of these issues and I'm not just talking about the issues which animate the left in particular like spike ops or overseas operations but on reopening schools having this kind of half in half out yes we want them open no ifs no buts but also is this going to be safe enough. Very much only condemning or supporting things in full throat when it's in the rear view mirror is that you're going to get to 2023 and we're a year out from a general election and people are still going to be asking who is this guy who does he stand for what does he stand for so when the policies start coming out it's going to lack I think an anchor and that's what a leader has got to be he's got to be totemic of certain values and he's got to be an anchor for those policies. I mean it's important to say as well the difference between this one and the spike ops one is the justification for abstaining on this was that otherwise the policy could have got taken to the right by the head bangers on Boris Johnson's back benches that would not have happened with spike ops that dynamic was not there so the only reason Keir Starmer abstained then was because he wanted to keep his hands clean want to say well I don't I'm not necessarily against it I'm not really for it it was literally the definition of sitting on the fence there was no other explanation for that and I think the fact he has abstained so many times in the past is precisely why even when it might make sense to do so it just makes him look like a shift defense sitter because that's the that's the impression we've already been given and you know we're not going to be able to get to 2024 in the manifesto just say we we don't really have any policies but we think everything should be done with clarity and with a strategy which is basically the critique of everything this this conservative government does ask your final thoughts on this one. Okay so you raise actually a really interesting point about what happens when a manifesto comes out because here's a lesson that I've learned from 2019 this is something which I was definitely wrong about I loved manifestos which were just chock full of policies all right UBI give me a bit of that rent controls I'll have that too four day working week I'm not delicious and what Boris Johnson did was the manifesto was real back of a fact packet stuff I mean there was hardly anything in it but he painted things in primary colors broad brush and he as a central figure who was promising to do one simple thing get Brexit done end all of this nasty politics was able to you know sell nothingness and do it really really well so I think we are actually also entering an age where manifestos are less important than the personality animating a set of politics something that Jeremy Corbyn did very very well in 2017 of course after you know four years have been completely reduced in the press he couldn't do that in the same way in 2019 and that's going to be something which Keir Starmer if he just abstains you know on everything that he looks at he's going to lack that moral authority