Today's video is all about how you can achieve your most flawless looking foundation you've ever had in just a few steps, and I'm gonna show you every one of my tricks and tips that I do to get really beautiful foundation.  We're gonna go over a ton of information about what you can do in order for you yourself to have your most flawless foundation. Now we're all different. We all have different concerns to our skin, but one of the main ones as we age is our pores get bigger, we get wrinkles and that kind of thing, and that can mean that we have more texture on our skin, and our foundation doesn't quite look the way we want it to. So to be realistic, a lot of that is we just have to work with what we have. I'm 54, so I know that my skin is not gonna be like somebody that's 24. That's okay, but I can do every step possible to make my foundation look as good as it can as a canvas for the makeup that I'm going to wear that day. So I've broken it down into five steps. Couple steps in here are encompassing more things than just one or two things, but you'll get it as we go along. Before we get started though, I'm gonna put a timestamp right here where you can skip over me talking about what I have on my jewelry and that kind of stuff. So go to this timestamp right now if you just wanna skip over the intro. First of all, we always talk about what I'm wearing for the day. I'm wearing a tunic length shirt today. Has three buttons on the side that are a nice detail. It also can be pulled up so it can rush around the stomach a little bit, and it isn't over the shoulder.  It's a nice weight, kind of a medium knit jersey. Comes in a bunch of different colors. It's gonna keep you warm enough as we go into late fall and winter. And then I also have a really cute jewelry set on today. It is Dragonfly earrings and the Dragonfly pendant to match. It is set in silver, but I don't think that this is 925 silver. I would say that this necklace is probably about 18 inches. And I really just love both of them. I think they're so pretty. All of the makeup, the jewelry, the fingernail polish, everything will be listed and linked down below. I also have a numbering system. I'll put up a three right here on the screen which that is to tell you what product we're talking about at that minute. So you don't have to remember the name of the product or the color or anything like that. You just look for the number that corresponds to that. So if we're on number three, I'm gonna be holding up a product. You go down and open up the description box. Find number three. Next to it's gonna be the name of the product and the link and you can shop that way if you'd like to. Okay, that's the total sum of our introduction. We're going to get into me with a bare face and the five steps that you can do to make your foundation look absolutely flawless. 10 years younger, beautiful skin at any age. Let's get into it right now. Okay, step one, you have to exfoliate and I exfoliate every single morning. I am right now using up the micro delivery exfoliating wash from Philosophy Beauty. I like this a lot because the granules in it or the actual exfoliating part in it is very, very fine. Now when I do my exfoliating, I'm gonna really pay attention to the parts that I know really have a lot of texture on them which is my chin, this chin crease right here, right into the nose, on the nose and in the forehead, little bit on the cheeks. And then just a warm washcloth and I'm gonna go ahead and just very gently, I'm not doing a lot of scrubbing.  So step number one to having the most beautiful foundation you've ever had is definitely exfoliating in the morning. Step number two to help you achieve the most flawless foundation you've ever had is shaving your face. Now, I know that this is not for everybody because a lot of people get very nervous with it. I use the little straight razors that are the tinkle razors that you get off of Amazon, they're very inexpensive. I don't use these like over and over again, I use them maybe three or four times because they do get dull quite quickly and you don't wanna damage your face. Again, we're looking for smooth canvas, not anything too roughed up. Now you may not wanna do these two steps together. You might wanna do them on separate days. I exfoliate every day but I only shave probably once every other week. I don't shave every day. So I'm just gonna show you really quickly, I'm not gonna show you a complete demo but I'll show you really quickly what I do. I make sure that I go up here and try not to get these little hairs that are up here in my hairline. Just go the same way that the hair grows along your face and you're just getting very gently, you're not pushing a lot or anything like that because the razor can do most of the work.  The other thing that it does is it will help as the hair grows out, it's going to be kind of cut on a slant, the hair will be and so it will grow in a little bit finer as it comes back in. Also make sure that you really pull tight the skin that you're going to be shaving across. I have a lot of lax in my skin and if I were to just go over it without pulling anything then I wouldn't get all of the hair and I might cut myself. So be careful with that and just practice a couple of times and I can assure you that this makes a huge difference in how your makeup will lay on your face when you have no hair that is causing more texture. Okay the third thing that you can do to make sure that your foundation is as flawless as possible is after you've done your skincare usually I let my skincare sit for about 10 to 20 minutes and sink in and that does include the SPF that I put on at the last. But I've found through the years that if I have too many layers on and I put a lot of layers on if you watched my last couple videos they can not all be sinking in completely. So you're left with your skin being quite techy which is not necessarily a bad thing especially if you're like me and you have very dry skin but you do want to address that. So what I do is I just take a plain tissue this is when I feel like my skin is just overly moisturized and it might break through just a little bit. So then I'm going to take this tissue and I'm just going to just block everywhere. You can take a single ply if you want to it really doesn't matter. Blotting is going to take up the excess moisture yes but it's also not going to take up too much moisture. Do you really want to think about that because what's going to happen is if you go in with your foundation it might not look as good if you have too much skincare on it. It just creates more layers and it could possibly create more texture. Through watching Wayne Goss's videos for so many years I've learned so many things not necessarily about products but about application. So I'm going to suggest to you a couple of products. These are kind of my holy grail products as far as my mature skin and how they perform. So this is the Revlon photo ready Prima plus perfecting and smoothing. I feel like this acts so much like the new hourglass. I think it's, I don't think it's called mineral veil. I think it's called something else. Anyway, one thing that you want to do this is all about application this particular part of it. Okay, so you want to really push that primer into the areas where you have those large pores because the large pores are what's going to cause texture. So take a little bit of extra time and just push your primer into there. Now this particular primer sinks in so quickly and it's absolutely lovely. And so you're not left with a bunch of texture because it's already doing its job and it's already smoothing. I can already feel that it's creating that beautiful barrier between my moisturizer and my foundation. And that's what we want more than anything. I'm gonna let that set for a minute or so.  You can use pressed powder. Whatever powder you like, it really doesn't matter. This is another tip that Wayne taught on his channel and that is right now before you put on your foundation go in with a little bit of powder. And I'm not talking a lot of powder. I'm talking a fairly light dusting. This is from House Laboratories. This powder is phenomenal. I cannot put it down. I've used it ever since I got it three weeks ago and I just love it. So I'm not picking up any extra product. I'm just really dusting this around my skin to kind of, again, we're filling in the pores. We're taking out any texture. The other thing that this powder is going to do it's gonna help you not have to use so much foundation to cover, which is another reason that you might be getting texture on your skin. And yes, I know it seems very backwards but trust me, I've been doing this for such a long time and it works just fantastic. And so many women have said the same thing. Now, another thing that I learned from him is that any brush that you do use to put your foundation on might cause micro exfoliating. So for a woman that is my age, 54, I choose to use a dampen beauty sponge. These are really inexpensive. They're from Shopmiss A and I'll make sure that I link them for you but they're very, very inexpensive. The next trick is one that I kind of developed on my own, not really from anybody. This is Max Fix Plus. You can use any primer spray. You don't wanna use a setting spray but you can use any primer spray on the market. It doesn't matter whether it's drugstore or this just happens to be my favorite. And I spray my sponge just a couple of times. It doesn't have to soak it. It just has to be a little bit more wet with the primer. And then I feel like it really is important to use the right foundation for you. One of my very favorite foundations of all time is the number seven Lift and Luminate Triple Action Serum Foundation. I have used this for years. I've talked about it for years on my channel. It is a fantastic foundation, especially if you're older and do have texture. And what I'm doing today is I'm mixing two colors because one is just way too light for me. I'll make sure that I list both of those down below for you. Now I try to really stick to begin with with just one pump. If you start out smaller, you can always put more on but if you put more on, it's harder to take away. And so all I do is just bounce or push in that foundation. Now this step is where your time comes in. This is very time consuming.  And you will find that that is the bulk of what you need to be doing as well. So promise me, no skipping on this part. No skimping whatsoever. The other thing that's going to make you look flawless and make you look really good is to take that foundation clear down your neck. Now I know that a lot of women ask me over and over again, how do you keep this off of your clothes? I actually don't. I don't mind it because I feel like this step of putting it clear down my chest into my decollete and covering up as much of this area that is so sun damaged, this gives you a flawless look. So this probably besides application, number five is to put that foundation all the way down your neck and your decollete. It is so, so important. Put it clear out on your ears. And yes, I'm going to be careful not to get it on my earrings. Put it clear out on your ears. Put it all the way around your neck. What people will notice and what they will see is this flawless look from the top to the bottom. And I promise you that this is going to make a huge difference.  It helps so much. So I don't know if you can see or not, but this is looking really good. It's a beautiful foundation. I absolutely love it. Next I'm going to be putting on my Sephora Best Skin Ever concealer and I'm going to do that right now I have people that watch me put my concealer on and they think I'm insane for using so much. I do have a video on that too, on how I have really changed my thinking about concealer and the way that I do it, which I will list for you below. But it really does work for me and it covers finally after 50 plus years, it covers the hollows and everything and it just works so, so well for me. Now I want you to come as close as you possibly can. I want you to see, I don't have perfect skin. I still have texture. Let me turn down my light so that you can see. I still have texture. I still have a lot of wrinkles in this area. There, I have bigger pores. It's not easy to get rid of these, but this is making the most out of what you have. So if you do have large pores, don't feel bad that your skin doesn't look like everybody's that's on YouTube. That's because a lot of times we have these lights on that really do diffuse a lot of the imperfections. But it also is so much about application. I do get a lot of people compliment me when I'm out in natural light on what my skin looks like. So that's really nice to hear. So I must be doing something okay, but it truly is a lot of the lights that we have here in our studios. All right, now I'm not going to set my under eyes with powder that makes it look too dry. Again, that's going to make your foundation not look quite as flawless. So I'm going to use a setting spray. This one is the Flower Beauty Seal the Deal Hydrating Setting Spray. I'm going to spray the end of my sponge just lightly and then I'm going to just dot, you have all seen me do this, just very lightly across my concealer. This is how I set it and then I decide whether or not I need to go back in and use powder. I'm going to go in now with that powder from House Laboratories and I'm going to use my fluffy brush. By the way, this is an it brush for Ulta that you can get. I will make sure that I link it below. It's one of my favorite big, huge brushes. It's not inexpensive, but it's so worth it. So I'm picking up again some powder. Gonna just swirl that in the lid so that it distributes through the brush and then I'm going to just very lightly just dust over these areas that we were talking about that have the most texture. I'm just really buffing all of this powder into those areas and then whatever's left on my brush, I'm just going to take that and I'm going to lightly dust over the whole entire rest of my face. So that is the setting powder. If you want a finishing powder, Hourglass has their finishing powder, the ambient. Finishing powders, they're so good. So I will just go into these two. This is the new Butterfly palette. I'll just go into these two and what I'm going to do now is I'm just going to finish off everything and this is not necessary. You do not need to use two powders at all, but sometimes I just like the way it looks. Now I'm going to take the edge of the brush and I'm going to go down into that powder and I'm going to just barely set those under eyes. Since we did just put powder on, let's go ahead and just put some of the setting spray on to melt all the powder and the foundation together. Take your original sponge and just go over everything and you can turn it to a clean spot and just go over everything and make sure that it's all put together. I'm gonna go off camera. I'm gonna do the rest of my face and I'll be back with you and we'll chat a little bit about everything. So this is the final look with the rest of my makeup on. I hope that you did enjoy the video. I appreciate you being here with me and if you're brand new, make sure that you subscribe. Everybody, if you wouldn't mind giving me a thumbs up that really does help me out with the YouTube algorithm. Make sure that you leave a comment in the comment section down below if you do anything different or you use a product in a different order or anything. Let me know how your foundation routine is going and I'd love to hear that from you. I hope that you're all happy and healthy and taking care of yourselves. I love you so very much. Come back around. We'll be together very soon. Take care. Bye-bye friends.


Good afternoon everyone and welcome to the Stock Swoosh and I am here to do a market review of the QQQs today. Market held very strong, market gap down, failed to go lower, made a nice bottoming tail, retraced 80% of the bar from the prior day. So in the morning when I saw the gap down I said the market has an air of bearishness to it because it failed in the daily buy set of yesterday, closed red and then gaped down this morning. However, I said, you know, be aware of the fact not to believe it. Why? Because the market continues to go higher. I keep calling it higher. We do keep making new highs, then we don't seem to go anywhere with it, which is kind of hilarious because we will. I actually think tomorrow is going to be the day. So this could be it. We're gapping up slightly here after hours tonight. I don't know where we're going to be tomorrow morning when the pre-market market sets up here to see where the gap is in the morning. But my unclean says that we gap up tomorrow morning and that we rally tomorrow and make new highs. So that's how I'm seeing this, that's how I'm calling it. Know that the next area I think that we follow through here over the high I think is going to have a sizable bullish green day. And should have the lift off that I actually thought we have like any day in the last month but we just kept making new highs and then kind of taking a little nap and then making new highs and then coming in a little teeny weeny bit. But the market's bullish. I've been calling it bullish all year. And for people that have been wanting to short this market, they're losing money actually because there's been no way to make money shorting this market. It's not going anywhere. It's not coming in. Every time it has a chance to come in it comes into the smallest, most minimalistic level that it could find in its life. And actually this did hold to the number that I gave this morning I think 8948. Let me just see where I wrote down this morning. Oh my gosh, I did write down 8948. I said 89678948. I guess we did hold that number. I can't take this stuff up if I try. Look at that. So the first, the smallest number would have been 8967 and then I said 8948 and that's where we held. Wow. So that's real because I wrote it down before we held it as one of the numbers of support. So and we also almost completely retraced the bar here from Tuesday. So longs are in play here in the market. Follow through the strong stocks. Follow the strong stocks. Stay in the long positions. The power trend is up. The institutions are buying the market, they're getting a lift and there will be a big day in here soon. I'm calling it for tomorrow. So there it is. Call us for tomorrow. Market could have even come in deeper here into the afternoon, still carry through higher and a buy set up but didn't really do it. Held, held, actually ran up here into 1115, the market held all day. So the market held all day, held all day here in the afternoon and based from 1115 till the close and as working up for five hours the energy to make the lift tomorrow. Tomorrow I see it happening here. The call for the market tomorrow is to have a large green day and to gap up and depending on the size of the gap up, I just don't know how big of a green day it's going to be. So beautiful bullish market doing everything it's supposed to do and more. And for people that have been trying to short this, they're getting hurt. The idea is to trade with the trend, the trend is up and therefore that's the direction to play it. This is Melissa with thestockswish.com. If you have any questions or would like more information about the Golden Gap course or how to read charts or analyze price, email me at Melissa at thestockswish.com. Thanks everybody. Have a fantastic trading day tomorrow.


I'm very lucky to have General Yao here with me to talk briefly about China's role in the rules-based international order that we've been hearing plenty about in recent months, particularly in the context of what Trump and the US is doing to that order. Can you see a positive role for China in contributing and possibly changing the rules-based order so that it works better for all of us in the future? I think it's a very complex, complicated question, the rule-based international order. For China, such an international order is a good thing. China is not opposed to this rule-based order for the last four decades. China has incorporated itself into this rule-based order. Traditionally, Chinese people are very comfortable with rules. If these rules are the consensus, the norms of life, there would be no question for China to confirm too. But as you mentioned that the rule-based order has been frequently mentioned in government documents, in high official speeches, and maybe more recently it reflects the concern that the order which has been created and led by the United States is cracking somewhere. And also for the last few years, China has been more or less blamed for being a violator or disruptor of this rule-based order. I think it's very modest of you, and you talked about modesty in China's foreign policy and really in China's way of looking at the world, and it's quite modest to say that China needs to obey all of the rules and that they can't always obey the rules. But of course, in the future, I think China will and should be playing a part in making the rules, not just obeying them. Yeah, I think China is a major player not only in the Asia-Pacific region, but also in the world. And there are already established rules which are not all of them justified to last for such a long time. And not only China, but the United States and Australia, they need to update these rules. And in the updating process, China has a role to play. And also there are new fields, new domains where no rules have been made so far, like cyber space, like artificial intelligence, the technology which is going to be applied to many aspects of human lives. So in this field, China is a big player and China should have a major role in the rule-setting process, not only as a rule-taking player. I share your cautious optimism that China will play a positive and constructive role in the future.


Item number SCP-623 Object Class Safe Special Containment Procedures SCP-623 is located in the R.A.N.X. of R.A.N. University. The entrance to SCP-623 is to be guarded by two level 3 security personnel at all times. Main room monitoring must take place every hour for no longer than five minutes. Extended observation of SCP-623 is done from an external observation room through remote monitoring devices. Personnel operating within the observation room are required to switch out every five minutes. An additional level 3 security guard is required to escort any observers out of the observation room and must not enter until needed. All personnel subjected to SCP-623 for longer than five minutes are to be taken for psychological re-evaluation, regardless of direct or indirect exposure. No photos, videos, or sound recordings are permitted near SCP-623. Sketch drawings and mock-ups must be approved by command level personnel before being released. All photos, mock-ups, or recreations of SCP-623 are to be destroyed immediately. SCP-623 may safely come into contact with room-altering SCPs, as any major alterations to the room neutralizes SCP-623's effect. However, room-altering SCPs will still carry their same inherent dangers. Addendum 623-1 All testing on individual subjects may last no longer than six hours. Security monitoring observing personnel are now required to remove observing personnel before the fifth minute has elapsed, possibly earlier if needed. Description SCP-623 is a room of roughly 7x7x7 meters, built in 1960 by Dr. H. D., a biochemical professor at University, built as part of data expunged. Dr. D. was subsequently arrested for his activities, but not before his students and followers began making copies of the room. As of 2000, at least re-creations of SCP-623 have been found across college campuses. The room is quite large, and consists of the following objects. One blue couch, one red couch, one green couch, one white beanbag chair, one circular table emulating a color wheel, seven chairs surrounding aforementioned table, seven multicolored lighting fixtures. All of the furniture is arranged in a unique mathematical-based pattern, coinciding with the patterns on both the walls and floor. All of the furniture has been nailed to the floor, most likely prior to painting. Because of the high ceilings, the eye is naturally drawn up to the psychedelic patterns on the walls. The arrangement of the furniture, the patterns surrounding the room, and their combined acoustics have a profound effect on mental behavior, regardless if the affected observer is deaf or blind. These effects extend through remote monitoring devices, still photos, and audio recording devices. Upon entering SCP-623, personnel have described a feeling of relaxation. After three minutes from entering SCP-623, personnel are incapable of violence, becoming docile and harmless. For the effects after five minutes, refer to document number 623-1. Due to the room's pacifying effects, all attempts at removing the furniture are futile. Exiting SCP-623 exhibits inverse withdrawal effects. Immediately after observation has stopped, observers will feel an intense jolt back to the outside world, which becomes significantly stronger over time spent inside. Other side effects vary over time. Upon leaving SCP-623 within one minute of entering, personnel have reported feeling uneasy, jittery, and slightly paranoid. After leaving SCP-623 three minutes from entering, personnel have exhibited anxiety, fear, and in worse cases, depression. For effects after five minutes, refer to document number 623-1. Document number 623-1. Effects of entering and exiting SCP-623 after five minutes or longer. Test number 1, 5 to 10 minutes. Test subject. Subject D-251, male Hispanic, 31 years old, 101 kilograms, 180 centimeters. Test behavior within SCP-623. After five elapsed minutes, subject D-251 seen giggling and mumbling slurred phrases. After six elapsed minutes, D-251 begins hugging White Beanbag Chair, declaring his love for it repeatedly. After seven elapsed minutes, D-251 requested various junk foods over the remote monitoring devices. The request was denied. After eight minutes elapsed time, D-251 began to dance around, singing what could possibly be identified as a 60s folk song. From nine to ten minutes in, the subject continued staggering around, laughing. Observe behavior upon exiting SCP-623. Subject D-251 seen actively yelling at staff and threatening violence upon leaving SCP-623. D-251 punched Agent S and was quickly restrained. In detainment, D-251 was observed crying and screaming on the floor, threatening suicide. The bouts of intense rage and intense despair lasted for the next three days. D-251 was transferred off site. Test number 2, 30 minutes to an hour. Subject. Subject D-252, male Caucasian, 28 years old, 77 kilograms, 174 centimeters. Observed behavior within SCP-623. Subject D-252 displayed similar behavior to Subject D-251, with only minor differences for the first 10 minutes.  Subject complained of being thirsty and hungry. Due to safety concerns and to avoid a retest, D-252 was given two liters of r-brand soda with a large pepperoni pizza and r-brand onion-ring flavored snacks. Subject ate food relatively quickly, forgot what he was doing halfway through, staggered around laughing for the next five minutes and continued eating. At 40 minutes elapsed time, Subject repeated the word, indubitably, in different inflections and accents. This continued for the next seven minutes. Agent P, who was observing at the time, began to laugh along with D-252 before being forcefully replaced by Agent G. Upon removal, Agent P threatened to quit and expose the foundation out of anger, but was safely detained and recovered in the next three days. Near the end of the first hour, Subject D-252 began to remove shirt, pants, all undergarments, and proceeded to observe behavior upon exiting SCP-623. Immediately after leaving SCP-623, Subject D-252 began to scream violently and spastically attack its escorts. D-252 was restrained and detained.  Subject was then placed in restraints for the remainder of observation to ensure he could no longer harm himself or others. Subject did not recover for nearly two weeks, and was later transferred off-site. Test Number 3 One Day Test Subject Subject D-253, male Caucasian, 35 years old, 118 kilograms, 198 centimeters. Additional information should include that Subject D-253 was previously charged with serial murder, animal cruelty, data expunged. Their psychological evaluation showed an additional history of sociopathy and regular outbursts of anger. Observed behavior within SCP-623, Subject D-253 was escorted into the room in a full body restraint. Upon entering, the subject, who had previously threatened to kill Agent S, as soon as he got out of the restraints, began apologizing profusely. Before the first five minutes elapsed, D-253 began to engage Agent S in a conversation of a sophomoric manner. Agent S was escorted out of the room quickly, displaying a headache and emotional turmoil upon leaving. Subject D-253 exhibited the behavior of the previous test subjects, and was given the appropriate food and water to last through the test. By the second hour, the subject requested to use a latrine. The request was denied, but Agent G was able to bring the necessary equipment into the room without disrupting its effects. By the fifth hour, the subject's behavior deteriorated into repetitive fidgeting and incoherent rambling. Subject suspected to be hallucinating. Subject fell asleep around six hours elapsed time. Just later awoke 12 hours later, having great difficulty standing back up. D-253 spent the next six hours laughing and babbling on the floor, before being escorted out. Observed behavior upon exiting SCP-623 Upon leaving, Subject D-253 began to convulse, shortly before the autopsy of Subject D-253 proved useless, as Observed behavior upon exiting SCP-623 Upon leaving, Subject D-253 began to convulse, shortly before collapsing to the ground and expelling all bodily fluids. In addition, Subject D-253 lost his hair, eyes, teeth, finger, and toenails. The autopsy of Subject D-253 proved useless, as there was no organic matter left to study. Studying Subject D-253's bodily fluids also proved futile, as there was no cell life to be found. Addendum 623-2 It is unknown what causes a ruck after six hours within SCP-623, but it may be part of the room's effects on the body itself. Lesson complete. If you missed the previous orientation, go watch SCP-622, Desert in a Can, right now. Or for the complete course, watch this playlist.


What's up everybody of the mangoos, you are awesome and I'm here today to tell you how to get good at playing Blood Hunt solo even if you can't aim. I feel uniquely qualified to address this topic because I myself suck at aiming. Well, it's not really that I can't aim, it's that I can't track. If someone is standing relatively still, I can nail them, but even when I get to jump on people, I still lose fights. They turn on me, jump, slide, and weave all while laser beaming me in the skull, and I just can't track them and hit them. However, I still often place at least top 5 and shockingly enough I have some wins under my belt.  I am selective about the fights I take, but I do take them. No, I do this by taking advantage of some of the weapons available and positioning myself strategically. While I'll never be a top ranked player in Blood Hunt, because I can't aim, I can at least enjoy the game and know that I can be a force to be reckoned with. Hopefully these tips will assist you with doing the same. The first thing you're going to want to master is the melee weapons. The melee weapons in this game are extremely strong due to having 50% lifesteal baked in. Once you get on top of someone, you can swing away with a melee weapon dealing massive damage while sucking up bullets and healing through the encounter like it's nothing. However, there are players that are skilled at jumping out of your range and punishing you for bringing an axe to a gunfight. You can solve this problem by adjusting your settings to maximize weapon swap efficiency and using certain easy to use weapons to follow up your melee damage. In your settings menu, go to gameplay, then keyboard and mouse, then make sure your weapons cycle style is set to ranged weapons only. I also change my keybind so that the melee weapon switching is on my mouse thumb button. If you're fine with it on two, then cool, but I personally like it on my mouse. If you're curious about what melee weapons to use, the despite club is probably the weakest, the axe is significantly stronger, the sword is a bit stronger than the axe and it can reflect bullets with the alt bar, the right mouse button. The scourge blades are fast, have a baked in dash and are capable of dealing the most damage. So replace the club with an axe if you can and replace that with the katana or the scourge blades if possible and it's kind of up to you which one you prefer. The scourge blades do deal the most damage, but I prefer using the katana because that damage reflect is really awesome. Be selective about what buffs you pick up. Stacking buffs gives you significantly higher returns.   It doesn't have to be orange, of course, maybe you went with the Nosferatu clan and you planned on invisib boosting on top of people a lot, in that case you would stack the purple melancholic buff. The point is, taking random buffs of assorted colors will just mean that you have three weak buffs instead of one strong one. Pick a strategy and stick with it as best as you can.  But anyway you do it, if you can have three stack of really good buffs of multiple buffs, that's just the best. Now some of the weapons that are useful for aimless noobs like me. The crossbows, both the shoulder fired and two handed akimbo variants work more like grenade launchers than bows. I went into this game thinking of the crossbows as how they work in most other games, which is kind of like a silent sniper rifle with a lot of drop off to the projectile, but no, it's more like the noob tube from Call of Duty games. As such they're really good in the hands of a knowing potato like me. The two handed shoulder fired variant will fire one bolt that explodes in an AoE cloud of gas. Rarity upgrades don't give you more bolts like most of the other weapons, it just shortens your reload time. If you can land the bolt somewhere in the general vicinity of a player it will do some damage. Best of all it will also obscure vision, allowing you to reposition, reload, and fire again. The crossbows also silent allowing you to dish out damage from a distance without giving away your position.  It's also great as a fire and forget when you've downed someone and you don't want to risk either walking over to them or giving your position away with gunfire, you can just drop a bolt on top of them and walk away, they'll die. The pistol crossbows work more like a traditional grenade launcher, each bolt causes an AoE explosion at the point of impact. I used to hate them, but the recent update gives you significantly more shots at all rarity levels so you don't have to reload after two fricking shots anymore and it's made them a great deal more useful. I still prefer the shoulder fired crossbow, but the pistols ain't too shabby in a pinch. It's more about strategic positioning with the crossbows than aiming, before the latest patch I would have said that the shoulder fired bow is by far the most powerful of the two, I think it still is a bit more powerful, but with the two-hander being nerfed and the double pistol bows getting buffed, they're both pretty useful. Next up is the toggler, that's what Shark Mob calls the Browning Automatic Rifle. It has two fire modes, the default is a ranged automatic low fire rate option which can be devastating if you can aim well, but the one we're looking for is the secondary option that you can switch to by pressing the default fire mode button, which is the B button.  You don't have to worry about accuracy or tracking your target when you're slinging a shitload of 7.62 caliber rounds directly in their face, of course you do have to be up close and personal to hit anything, but I find it's an excellent follow-up when you're trying to melee someone down and they jump away, just fast switch to the toggler and blow them out of the air. Finally I want to talk about these shotguns, as I said before my problem isn't with aim as much as it is tracking, with the shotguns I can deliver a burst of damage with one shot instead of trying to track multiple shots into a moving target. You do have to aim with these, but if you're anything like me you can still be successful with them. The double barreled shotgun holds two rounds at all rarities, with increased rarity giving you faster reload times. You can rapidly fire two powerful blasts with this gun. Another great follow-up for melee damage, or if you've picked the vandal arc type you can follow up your knockup with a devastating amount of damage, just a double blam-blam right in their face as they're still up in the air. The pump action shotgun holds more rounds with increased rarity, but needs to be reloaded after each shot by racking the slide. The most recent update effectively increased the fire rate of the pump action, but I haven't had an opportunity to really test it out. It was always a very good weapon if you can aim a little, and it should be even better now. A quick bonus weapon is the marksman rifle. Not the sniper rifle at the scope, but the semi-automatic rifle. It seems counterintuitive for someone who can't aim to use this weapon, but I've personally had a lot of success with the marksman rifle because it forces me to aim each shot instead of trying to track targets on full auto. The burst rifle dropped by entity soldiers is also pretty good. It functions much the same way, but with a three-round burst instead of single shots. Now let's move on to selecting your fights. Like I said, I don't just hide until the end, but I also try not to take fights that I'd know that I can't win. As soon as someone gets the jump on me, I peace out, heal up, armor up, reposition, and then try to take the fight.  As with any battle royale, third-party kills are how you win, so if you have an extended fight with lots of gunfire, somebody will be coming to try and mop up.   The goal isn't to rack up kills, the goal is to be the last person alive. With that being said, don't be shy about running into mop up after a fight.  Just be aware that if you heard the fight and responded, other people did too, so that's also a good way to get the jump on someone, taking them out while their tunnel visioned on a fight. Be very careful about when you choose to deoblerize a target. This of course leaves you wide open, however the benefits of getting that extra buff slot can be huge, so if you think it's safe, go for it. Conversely, never give up once you've been down. I see a lot of people just sit on the ground and wait patiently for their death. Giving up is a mistake. I was down four times before one of my wins.  The next tip is travel low, attack high. When traversing the map, stick to the streets instead of leaping along the rooftops. It's much easier for more people to see you on the rooftops than when you're in an alley. When you do intend to fight someone though, try to get up as high as you can so you can aim down on them. It's much easier and safer, just watch out for people trying to snipe you from across the map. My last tip is to pick two or three spawn points and just keep spawning there until you're familiar with the area. Knowing exactly where loot spawns, police trucks and ambulances are when you first load into the game will help prevent you from falling victim to a player that just happened to find a tommy gun and you're still rocking the starter pistol. I like to spawn at either the harbor or the antenna. Both have boxes with good loot, both have police trucks close by so I can get some quick armor. And armor is just oh so very important in this game. Try not to ever take a fight unless you have some armor on. That wraps it up folks, that's all the tips I have for you today. If I think of anything else I might make another video. If you enjoyed this please and if you found it helpful then please hit that like button and leave a comment and one uh on some of your kills and some of your experiences with Blood Hunt. I've really been enjoying this game, never thought I would like a BR but this one is chef's kiss good. It's really good. So that's all I have for now. I hope you enjoy your day. This is the man goose signing off. You guys have a good one. Man Goose Shout out to channel members foolish Blood Hunter, Jelly Knees and Meow Mids for Mid.


Okay, we are live. That's right, we're doing this live. I am Jim Groom and I am presenting the final keynote for Reclaim Open's virtual online event and it is my distinct pleasure and I will say honor to introduce our keynote today. Ian Linkletter, who is currently an emerging technology in open education library at the British Columbia University Institute of Technology, formerly a learning technology specialist at the University of British Columbia. And some of you may or may not know that Ian was part of a kind of high profile slap suit and he's been fighting that now for several years and he provides not only an example of what to do but also a deeply personal look at the dangers in our current climate of critiquing the status quo of surveillance technology. Ian is here today to both tell us a story as well as to ask us to take a pledge. So without further ado, let me hand this over to Ian and thank you all for coming. Thank you so much, Jim and hi everyone. Thank you for joining me today. My name is Ian Linkletter, I'm a librarian and my talk is called Pledge Against Academic Surveillance. My thanks to Reclaim Open 2023 and its organizers for inviting me to speak. I'm honored to be here and join you from the traditional ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish nations of the Squamish, Musqueam and Slava Tooth peoples. More specifically, I'm in Vancouver, Canada. Many of you may know me as the dude being sued by Proctorio and some have been following the lawsuits twists and turns since it began in September, 2020. I'm the first educational technologist to be sued by a vendor and it's been a long thousand days coping with Proctorio's strategic lawsuit against public participation. There's no end in sight. Proctorio sued me because I told the truth. Linking to their own YouTube videos, I proved that their product was harmful. Proctorio calls my linking to those videos copyright infringement and breach of confidence but let me tell you what I call their lawsuit, their strategic lawsuit against telling the truth. Proctorio seeks to take this right from all Canadians. If we can't share information and link to things, how do we have a chance against the shitty future tech CEOs have envisioned for us? It says a lot about a company when they spend their resources attacking rights and freedoms. It says they are afraid of the truth and maybe they should be because without truth those who have harmed students cannot be held responsible. That's bad for business and it's precisely the point. If we are going to end academic surveillance it will take a whole lot of truth, the bravery to speak it and a shared commitment to do something about it. Join me today in making that commitment. Academic surveillance technology is a scourge and causes great human suffering. Some of the well-documented concerns include that surveillance software discriminates against disabled students, that the surveillance software perpetuates racist biases, that it's an invasion of privacy and that it causes emotional harm. Listening to students is our responsibility and their voices are all around us saying that academic surveillance technology is harming them. Some may dismiss real student experiences of harm by calling them anecdotal but let me tell you why that's wrong. Taking Proctorio alone, there are thousands of negative reviews which I collated at googlereviews.linkletter.org or you can read hundreds of student complaints at twitter.com slash proctorio. Or you can read dozens more individual accounts of harm in the Washington Post, New Yorker, The Verge, The Guardian, Teen Vogue, Wired, Vice, Volkskrant in the Netherlands and student newspapers like the UBC at UBC and The Lantern out of Ohio State University. The evidence that academic surveillance technology is harming students is everywhere. These are real students reporting real harm believing them is the only ethical option. We know students are being harmed because they are telling us and we must stop it. I have hope we can do this together. We can end the harm. So today I propose we band together as a community and push back on academic surveillance. If there's one thing I have learned from going through my whole experience, it's that we are a community of communities that protect each other. There are so many ways to slice it. Staff against academic surveillance, teachers against academic surveillance, students against academic surveillance, learning designers, developers, privacy advocates, researchers, counselors, parents, lawyers, we're a large group. And I know there are senior leaders against surveillance too, presidents, provosts, deans, directors, senior managers and yeah, maybe even a CEO or two. So today I am presenting the Pledge Against Academic Surveillance. It goes, I will do everything in my power to obstruct, work against and end academic surveillance technologies and their harm against students. You can access it and sign the pledge at pledge.againstsurveillance.net. That's it. I will do everything in my power to obstruct, work against and end academic surveillance technologies and their harm against students. You have power and academic surveillance is harmful. So say it with me one more time. I will do everything in my power to obstruct, work against and end academic surveillance technologies and their harm against students. Go to pledge.againstsurveillance.net and sign your name to this, make a commitment. There's a contact email on the site if you ever wish to remove your name but I promise you'll be in good company. If you experience any recrimination for believing what you believe, take it from me, the community will protect you. And thank you to Reclaim Hosting with a special shout out to Jim and Taylor Jaden to Brian Lamb and Brenna Clark Gray for letting me use the Against Surveillance domain and to Micah Prynne for helping me work this. When you sign your name, you will be asked to optionally add your organization too. I understand this may be a riskier move. So tell your colleagues and do it together. If you have academic freedom, especially take this step. You have something many educational technologists don't. So flex your freedom and stand with all of them everywhere against surveillance. And if you're a senior leader watching my talk thinking, I could never sign this, it's too big a risk. Sign it anyway in support of your employees. Show them that you will not only protect them but will help them do their best work against surveillance. Do everything in your power. There's a word in the pledge that I want to draw special attention to and it's obstruct. Don't get me wrong, okay? If you put education first, you are a great educational technologist.   We all make mistakes repeatedly, especially when experiencing moral distress. In the course of my 15 years as an educational technologist, I worked with hundreds of faculty. Part of the job is to develop relationships of mutual trust and respect with the educators you support. We all have faculty who would stand up for us as being good at our jobs. Stay strong in your beliefs and let people watch your back for you. Many of us have unions or professional associations who would protect us in doing our jobs as written. So let it be a relief to you when I tell you that surveillance tech isn't ed tech. Just because it's leaching from the ed tech budget doesn't mean that it is. And so as an educational technologist, you don't have to support it. If a technology has no pedagogical purpose, it isn't an educational technologist. You're the expert. If you have to get your union involved, it's already an ethical issue, and make it a labor issue too. Other duties as assigned might be in your job description, but this doesn't mean you have to spy on students. It's not what you are employed to do, and it's not what you went to school for. And it just so happens that you're really, really bad at it. We all have our strengths, and yours is in your convictions. Academic surveillance is not without its supporters. They are free to make their own for surveillance pledge. I don't care, and I will make fun of them. I have been told that I am dangerous as if without e-proctoring or AI text detection, bridges are gonna start falling down or someone's appendix will burst. It is not dangerous to protect students from harm. There are people out there who think these tools prevent cheating, but there's no evidence this is true. Remember we were talking about evidence, not anecdotes? What's evident is that students are terrorized by this technology. It deters them from being themselves, from accessing their exams if they have dark skin, and from feeling safe and secure in their own homes. There are entire business models that require administrators to believe that without surveillance, there can be no such thing as academic integrity. But how can this be the case when there is no evidence academic surveillance software even does what it's supposed to do? Adding AI to the technology only makes it more discriminatory. It's time to put a stop to this once and for all. So now that you've taken the pledge, what can you do next? Whether you're a president or a practitioner, you have the power to say no. Obstruct the encroachment of surveillance. You'll know it when you see it and you might only get one window of opportunity. When a company like Turnitin and shitifies their tech with discriminatory AI that no one asked for, we must be tenacious. Say no to the vendor. Say it more than once, loudly.   Sound the alarm unless serves in social media. Warn your faculty and get them involved. Post a notice on your public website. Remind the company that their contract will eventually be up for renewal. And you won't forget this. All of these things have happened in the resistance against Turnitin's AI text detection. And we won. In response, they quietly enabled the ability to turn off the AI score from the admin settings page. If your institution uses Turnitin, turn it off. Innocent students are being accused every day by this AI text detection score. If we're going to end academic surveillance, we will need an alternative vision for the future. As Dr. Chris Gilliard says, every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration. So let's map out the one we want. I know we've got this. I was fortunate to watch some of the other reclaim open talks as they streamed live. The future I hope for and believe in is one where there is an open alternative to every closed system. Instead of standing by as every pork for-profit company makes their product worse and more expensive, we can work as a community to develop and host our own apps using those resources. It turns out that once you've removed the profit incentives, the surveillance layer typically vanishes. From Canvas to Microsoft Teams to Zoom to Google Docs, open alternatives exist. Respectively, they're called Moodle, Mattermost, Jitsie, Etherpad, and there are many others. Spark a server and demonstrate what you do with even 5% or 10% of your organization's Zoom or Microsoft budget. When I was an educational technologist, I didn't have the support needed to implement new open applications, but I did have a professional development fund and I used it on Reclaim Cloud to install open web applications in one click. It was my own private skunkworks and learning lab and I had a lot of fun with our learning designers envisioning a better future without corporations dictating it to us. In the future envisioned by big tech, students are surveilled 100% when reading their electronic textbook, when taking exams, when submitting assignments, and when participating in a virtual classroom. We can stop this, prove that a better future exists if only your institution would support you in scaling it up. And if you're fortunate enough to be in higher education in British Columbia, you have free access to WordPress and MatterMos through the OpenETC. It's an open ed tech collaborative funded by BC Campus, hosted by BCNet and run by a community of volunteers. It's a model for all of us to learn from. So check out the OpenETC at opened.ca and get inspired. These are just a couple of ideas for how to advance open educational technology at your institution. Perhaps your school already has robust supports for open and if so, that's awesome. Keep pushing it as an alternative to academic surveillance fueled garbage. If there's one message I want you to take from this, it's that you are not alone. It only takes one person to hold the line against academic surveillance and you can grow this movement within and across your communities. Encourage others to take the pledge at pledge.againstsurveillance.net and let's see what we can do together. Ethical values will light the path to a future without academic surveillance and I look forward to seeing you there. Thank you all. Thank you, Ian. Took me a little while to get back into the stream because I was blown away but I really appreciate you coming on here, sharing your story but making a very, very powerful pitch for the pledge and to make it happen. So we could look there. I'm not seeing right now questions in the chat but if any do come in, we'll see that. But I'm interested in just quickly asking this connection between open and surveillance is kind of like you made it beautifully at the end of your appeal and I really like the idea that with open ETC in Canada with something like Reclaim Cloud by using these open source technologies you are in some ways reclaiming your privacy and the control over that data and having more instructional technologists or librarians or folks within the university faculty, students use these tools there's the collateral impact of actually reclaiming some of this personal data and avoiding the business model that many of these folks are approaching. So there's actually a real deep relation between that value of open and resisting surveillance. Yeah, in the last several years we've seen an emerging trend of these for-profit companies getting bought up by private equity firms and one of the biggest issues with that is that the affiliates clause that's present in almost every privacy policy says that data can be transferred within other units or organizations owned by the same person or a PE firm. So when a company like Instructure for example gets purchased by a PE firm like Tom Abravo that owns 50 other companies that data could potentially be transferred to one of those companies and then sold to a different company with other companies under its belt. The only way to stop the propagation of private student data is to store it yourselves have your own jurisdiction over it. Now one of the worst acronyms of all time the NGDLE, say that again with me three times. I call it Boondoggle. The Boondoggle, exactly. Probably a better description. So the next generation digital learning environment which was talked about by Edgicoz in like 2015. I remember reading a bit about that and then writing a bit about it. And one of the things that struck me about this vision of this next generation of digital learning environments was that it basically used the LMS as a way to hook in all these other proprietary softwares to share data and share it. Like that was actually the model the very thing you're talking about this idea of the next generation had little to nothing to do with open and everything to do with the kind of the LMS is a single site for the collection and distribution of data to third party vendors. Yeah, it's a giveaway.  And what they say as an excuse is that they want to integrate with the best tools. They don't want to be the tool for everything. And that's such a cop out because all it does is hand over student data to other companies. And those companies, you know, they tend to get bought and sold along with the data. Yeah. Now, and that's something when you're talking about the Bravo purchase for Instructure that had been talked or Canvas have been talked about at length a couple of years ago. It is interesting to think about what they're buying as well as, you know, all the collateral data collected and what they do with that. Yeah. I got into arguments online about whether the $2 billion that was getting paid was partially because of the value of the student data and people were saying like, oh no, it's because they have all these customers and their business is booming. But meanwhile, their CFO was actually going to investor conferences and bragging that they have the largest database of student data in the world over one trillion data points and trying to get investors to salivate over what that might mean for their bottom line. Yeah.  It struck me as a moment and we do have a question. I will get to that if you have time. I want to be mindful of your time. But it's interesting how there's a point in the last five to 10 years when you've been in the ed tech business from what I've seen for quite a while, you know, anywhere from 15 to, is that correct? 15 years. Yeah, I mean, I don't know how you don't look like that's possible age-wise. But like you've been doing this for a long time. And one of the things I wonder if you've noticed as well is ed tech had this strange moment when everyone was investing that it was no longer a discussion about what you can do. It was a question about like investments. And it was almost like the financial papers reading educational technologists at a certain point. Like it just, the conversation shifted where it was about bottom lines and like buyouts. It had nothing to do with teaching and learning. Yeah, I mean, if you paid attention to what CEOs were saying for, I would say about 2019 to 2022, especially was concentrated buying and selling. You know, it was all about how much they had to offer to investors, not to students, not to schools, not to teachers. You can tell where people's hearts and minds are at when all they talk about is money. Yeah, absolutely, I was about to say in Italian, but Italian is bad enough. So, okay, we have a question. Taylor Jaden is asking, do you have suggestions or insights in how to empower students themselves in fighting against surveillance and taking ownership over their data? And he says, obviously we can stand together as technologists, teachers, et cetera, but how do we empower students to make their voices heard? Well, if there's one thing that I learned from the whole Proctorio scandal at UBC, it's that students can really band together and get their leadership on board. In less than six months after I was sued, Proctorio was heavily restricted and that was due to the work of students and student senators and student representatives who were just so dogged with talking to their newspaper and anybody that would listen about the real harm that was being done. Stories kept emerging about people who were having panic attacks, having to take their tests and the day before the Senate vote, a student wrote a letter to the UBC editor about two racist experiences that he had trying to take a Proctorio exam and not being allowed in by the software. So I guess my message to students is to make yourselves heard and find your allies because just because you aren't seeing every staff member tweeting on social media doesn't mean that they won't go to the ends of the earth within the institution to protect you. Yeah, and a lot of the early obviously issues with surveillance and Proctorio happened with students. They were targeted as well. And so it wasn't like, this idea of banding together and this notion that not being alone and as a community and as educational technologists, you started this talk saying that you were the first to have been sued by a company. And I think about some of the things when Blackboard was kind of the big evil empire, which seems quaint now by comparison to think about what would have happened that that moment should a corporation took that choice that Proctorio did. And we're living in it now and you've come to represent the best, if you will, of educational technologists and re-positioning and re-centering our ethos and our cause on teaching and learning and creating a web of good for that environment. So I will just say personally, I am blown away by what you have come to represent but what you continue to do and by the good work and the kind of, I mean, the sheer kind of, I don't know how you would say it, like strength, iron will, to have to deal with this on a regular basis. We can come in, we can listen, we can check out and do our things. You've been living with this for like you said, 1,000 days. And I think all of us need to recognize that and come and support and do what we can. So I personally wanna say, and I think I speak for many people in this community, thank you for all you've done in it. Thank you for supporting me. Absolutely. Big fan. And with that, I think we'll end the stream and just a big virtual round of applause for you and for Ian and all the work you're doing. Thank you. Thank you too. pledge.againsturveillance.net Wait, hold on, wait, look, we're prepared, we're technologists. What? Don't forget, like and subscribe. Wait, wait, there we go. It won't be unlisted. It'll be a good company. See you there. Great, bye-bye. Bye.