Shea bearer here, shea bearer 1000. So I set up to sell six or seven days in a row. So I took the day and I wanted to get some stuff cleaned up here in the garage on my side. We got this all cleaned out. That's some of my stuff there but this is stuff that's going to be worked on. This is what I'm going to be putting up on the bench next. And I want to do that next because it needs fuel lines but if it needs I'm going to order some carburetors today. So if that needs carburetor I want to get one ordered for it. Same way that Troy built right there needs carburetor. Now these are kind of important because they're bigger money than just a regular weed eater because they've got all these attachments. The Troy built has what three attachments.  So that those two I need to get going pretty quick. I got a couple things out there for sale right now. Got my personal chainsaw. I've got more chainsaws that need to be fixed. So I need to get my bench cleaned off so I can get the Ryobi up there. And this stuff just got moved over because of you know we was cleaning. So this is going to be all situated and stuff but right now I need to get my bench cleaned off and I need to get this uh I got my little speaker on because I'm listening to music. I need to get that done and find out if it needs a carburetor. If it don't that'll be great because I need to get this stuff done before she gets home today because I'm not supposed to be doing this. I'm not feeling well. I think I'm overdoing a little bit but I can't sit around so I promised her I wouldn't overdo it and I won't hopefully but if she comes back and I'm really torn into a bunch of stuff she's not going to be happy.  And she said you should go. You said you would but I can't do that guys. It's Friday. I cannot. I just can't sit around you know so I've got a couple things out here for sale. I got my peanuts out here for sale. I had stuff sitting out here for sale yesterday and make a damn dime which is unusual for here because usually you know I'll make a dollar but I was going to get set up with my buddy Steve today but I wanted I really wanted to get this done and I got to get you know I want to get that uh Robi running or at least find out if it's going to need a carb because I know it needs lines. I got the lines it needs primer bulb. I got about 27 primer bulbs and none of them will fit because it's the pushing style. It just pops in. It's got two little clips that pops in. I'll show you when I get to that. And all the ones I got take the little two little screws. So I had to go get one. It was like five bucks man. Get the stuff online cheaper but I just went right up here. I had to grab a couple fuel lines and they're two dollars a foot up here. Man it's crazy so I need to start ordering that stuff online but didn't have enough money in the bank account. You guys know what that's like to order that stuff and I happened to have some cash on me yesterday so I just went out and paid cash for it for those few items just enough to get the Robi running or find out I'm confident it'll run. I just don't know if it's going to need a carburetor or not because usually once they set you know I also have another chainsaw back here it needs fuel lines it may need a carburetor too so I'm going to get I got enough fuel lines to do that in the carburetor so or that in the chainsaw it's a craftsman 18 inch so I should be able to get it running and then I got that big ass blower now it's going to need lines too but where is it I can't remember but we'll check that out later but so those those are my main items I want to get a carburetor ordered from the Troy belt definitely going to get the the Robi running and then I'll know if it's going to need a carburetor it shouldn't but you never know once once something's set in carburetors the diaphragms they get all brittle inside of them but I found a website is it eBay maybe it's eBay anyway I found I found where I can get them get the carburetors now I don't know about the one for the Troy belt but like the one the carburetors for most of my the chainsaws that need them like two dollars and seventy cents brand new with a warranty they're not wall bros but that's okay and I get rebuilt kits for five bucks so I can you know we can put see that that that's the stuff that that a guy Gary he dropped off to me and we're fixing them and selling them and we're splitting the money I'm fixing them he'll bring them to me I'll fix them sell them and we'll split the money so we made some money so far on that deal so we was just kind of wondering should we put it in a lot as parts you know but they all run or you know should we buy carburetors put on well since I found the carburetors cheap I think I'm gonna go that route and if it's one where it's a $12 carburetor I can probably just go ahead and rebuild it because I can get a rebuild kit for like five bucks that we can put money into a little bit but you know them pollens and pulling chainsaws you can get them for around $125 the smaller ones you can get for around a hundred on sale so we can't put too much into it because we can't put a lot of money on it it's not it's not like a still or an echo or a home like so they are name brands but they're cheap name brand you know I've got a oh I'm gonna show you this the hell of a deal on this I'll tell you about this later we'll get into this I got that okay so I'm not sure what's wrong with it I got a chain for it guy gave me the chain for it he said it won't run you say being you know this way he says it really one day in the next day went to use it wouldn't run see that's an expensive one you know I could put it you know that's uh to do an 18 inch bar I believe uh it'll take a bigger bar I think you can go 20 inch on that but that thing there you know it's still it's an older one granted but you know that I you know I could put 150 on it and I could get 125 out of it all day long if it'll start up and run because they're expensive now like mine out there my polling it's one of those ones you can find them on sale every so often that one out there you can find them on sale every so often for about a hundred bucks I got 50 on it I'm prepared to drop but it does have the case so I'm not going to drop much 40 45 dollars now I gave five or 10 bucks for that last year to flea market so I don't have much money in it so I add plus so that gives me room I can price it to sell quick you know so anyway that's what's going on so let me get this cleaned off and I'll get the rio be up there I won't show you step by step because it's not a how-to video it's just Friday vlog but I'll bring you with me and I'll talk to you and shoot shit and I'll show you a little bit of what I'm doing but you guys have seen me change lines before it's not that hurt of a deal uh so let me get this cleaned off and I'll be back to you guys in a minute hi guys I'm back or see you here what what we're going to do and I can say I'm not going to show you step by step but it'll put these fuel lines on I got to look and uh it just takes the two same size ones um some of these like uh weed eaters and chainsaw some of them will have the uh have a bigger one a smaller one this one looks to me like it takes it's the same size so uh I've got a filter here it's going on here's the perma ball bottles telling you about here all right let me get this thing up for you say it's the clipping style got the two clips and the other one I don't have one out again they're down here in my drawer but they take uh two screws I'd hold them on some of them you know just has a just takes the ball but there's still two screws that hold it one on each end so this is where it's got to go right down that carburetor so hopefully that carburetor is still good so I'm going to set you up here I'm just going to talk to you guys while I do this okay because well I don't know why um somewhat straight so that chainsaw under my feet ah so anyway I gotta put my glasses on hopefully again this will run good um here's my tank now this tank supposed to have uh two of these and I've only got one what that is that's just a rubber mount for my gas tank so I'm gonna have to pick a couple of them up I'm thinking figure out there's supposed to be another one there and I had them I had them both apparently I lost one somewhere I don't know what's going on with that but you know it is what it is I'm not sure what this is on the tank um hopefully the tank don't leak I mean I can fix it if it does it's no big deal but anyhoo so what I gotta do is I gotta fish this down in here I don't want to fish it clear up to where where it'll come out this end so I put my filter on and uh it's not the original filter for it so I'm not even sure if it's going to work but we're going to try it uh I made a sale I was in here and getting ready set up for you guys set the camera up for you guys and uh guy stop was looking at stuff just a couple things I have out there and was talking these what you got on that blower no I I know a elderly woman that could use that yeah this will fit let's make sure it's free okay good um so I it's a what you got it's a five bucks this is five bucks it worked I said yeah and uh I'm gonna brought it over here the front door there and plugged it in for him and turned it on he was like well that's worth five bucks isn't it I said I would hope so he says yeah I'll buy that off of you she can use it um so I can't get you well used to this camera it's a little different than monkeys which used to be mine but so what I'm going to do is this line is going to run down to about the middle of the tank once I pull it back through with the filter on it because you want the filter laying there and it's going to be on this side so I'm going to run it that line into this hole on this side because you know these weed eaters are always tilted this way so you don't want the line up here you want the line to lay down on this side about center ways you know that way it's leaning forward so these things will run upside down yeah these two strokes as long as it's getting fuel from the tank or anywhere I mean you come out these things on something upside down so that's pretty cool and I gotta figure out okay so what I'm gonna have to do is I gotta find out which one of these is which so um so I gotta find out okay that's the return and the short one usually the short one I found every one of these say there's two there's a long one a short one the short one is usually the pickup where it sucks it up in sucking on my tongue um so this one's gonna it's gonna be a little weird so I'm not sure I'll show you what I'm talking about here maybe it'll be a little better for you what I got so I'm not sure if see the primary bulb is going to go here okay and then I've got a line that's going to go there and it picks it up through I believe so I think it goes through there and then the return okay so what I gotta do is I gotta figure out here which one is which because I didn't take it apart so I'm not sure whoa I'm not sure what uh I don't know if it goes from the primer bulb to that one from there down or if it just goes to there and there down I'll have to just hook it up and find out it's usually not that hard because the one that the one that does that uh let me take you up here there you go the one that um the suction side is the one you're going to want your filter on the other one's just to return it's just going to go you know it's just going to go inside here down about an inch because all that does is take the excess fuel it it sucks it through the carburetor and then puts it back into the tank essentially that's what it does so what I need to do is I'm just going to put this line on here and once I get this figured out I'll show you guys in case you have one like that and right there and then I'll push my primer bulb see if it's sucking up through the other side this may go this way they say you can also put these in water and find out but okay I think I found where it goes yeah so so it goes from the primer bulb over to the far right one I'll show you guys once I get this hooked up here I'm gonna go over to there get this an issue there it is I'll say I have an issue it's not fitting and that would be weird because these are all the same down there and it just pops into that hole right there I'll show you as we go what we're doing okay just pop it down in there now this line here is going to go to that that nipple there and then this one will go into the pickup on the tank which will be in this hole and then the other one from the primer bulb will go back in there so let's go ahead and get that done I don't know what's going on with my stand but for some reason it's not one to stay tight I don't like over tightening my my stuff so all right so let's get this on here as if we're going to hook it up so I know about how long I need okay so that one's going to go there so I need to cut it off right about there like I said once I get these on here I'll show you guys how it is in case you have one just like it you need to replace the fuel lines you can uh help keep this video in your archive download it and uh and you'll know which way it's supposed to go all right that up on there okay there's that now I don't know if this I need to see if this is going to be long enough to come from the carburetor oh yeah I think it should be but is it going to be long enough for me to pull hmm this one's a pain in the ass because I got to take it clear from here oh we have this tube and I'm going to use the whole other one just to it looks like one of those urinal bottles they give me the hospital donut so I've got my little uh little wire here it's just a bread tie you guys have seen this before but for the new people maybe it'll help saw I'm using just a bread tie that's been stripped okay I want to stick it in here so I can pull this through the uh the uh yep so I can pull it through that hole in the tank just want to but uh where I'm from in Ohio we got a place we can go to and buy parts like this or if anywhere you go you know you're going to pay money for it if it ain't online you're paying for convenience just to be able to run up the street and get what you need so but we got a place where I used to buy my fuel line by the foot so and I go in by you know eight maybe ten feet three sizes there's two typical sizes but I would get like uh six feet of the biggest diameter then I would get eight feet of small eight feet of the medium I I'm not sure what the sizes are but that's what I would do and then I would have it wire just broke and I would have it whenever I needed needed to use it you know so um but anyhow so yeah I sold that blower that's good and somebody's gonna get some use out of it and why does my wire keep breaking I may have to get another piece of wire see let's put it up through like that focus stick it down in the hole I wanted to go in sometimes it helps if you uh spray a little lubricant on this maybe some wd-40 what not this one's going in fairly easy I hope it don't leak if it leaks I'll have to put a it's uh like a little connector in there and um not a connector some of you guys know what I'm talking about we'll just have to see and then I pulled up through if we do that I'll show you how to do it right now I can't explain it to you just like a joint fitting yeah what's called so it goes like this and there's like a fitting there okay and then you pull it clear up to that fitting and that fitting where it goes around the nipple you know makes the the the the line bigger so then when you pull it up it gets real tight in there and that's what keeps them from leaking this one I shouldn't have to do it too we'll just have to see if I do I've got one somewhere now I've done this before some of these are are pain because they go away like clear over and stuff this one's not too bad but I've pulled them clear through before like pop after I've worked you know 10 minutes to try to get it say so what I'm going to have to do is I'm going to have to stretch this so in order to do that I have a pair of small vice grips these things are shit so what I'm going to do is I'm just going to clip this onto this line here so it doesn't pull clear through on me and then I'm going to have to stretch this line out like that so I can put my uh so I can put my filter on so let's do that I'm just going to let the end off square ain't got to be perfect guys this ain't the space shuttle it's not an ass car it's a fucking weed eater you know so yeah these are iobis aren't too bad this is I'll show you what I did I just stretched it out through there and that's holding it on the other end now I can let go of it and I'm just going to pull this through I don't know if you guys can see it or not until until it's about the center of that down inside there so it's let me set about see that dark spot up under there that's the filter see it so that way when it's forward the gas is going to be right there it's always going to be on a pickup side so there's that we'll go ahead and clip this end off there we go just like that now the other one's not going to have to be as long so uh I've got one here I don't know if it's going to be long enough I don't know we'll have to see let me get this just about one line so this is going to go like this up in here no you know what I think maybe it only had one in the back because it doesn't look like there was one there so I think that's the way yeah okay there's okay so it only has one I thought I had two I may be a mistaken guy you know I'm human right so let's get this this down in here this is going to go up into the carburetor here for the pickup just like that now I gotta run one I should have bought more fuel line chainsaw excuse me chainsaw fuel line not as long so this before I get that tank up in there let's go ahead and shove this one down in here the return I'm going to clip this off at an angle this does not matter if it stays at an angle actually it doesn't matter at all I just do it so it fits better on to like the nipples or the since this is not going on anything it just sticks down in that hole I'm just going to stick it down in that hole about about an inch just got to return it's all it's got to do now I'm going to put my tank on it just goes in them three little divot things just like that okay now these screws you're going to have to loosen these screws up to get that to make sure you tighten them up now let me get this I've got to hook this up to the fuel line so let me get this clip get it hooked up the fuel line get the fuel line hooked up to the primer ball down here snout all the way on let me get this pulled up there there we go or it came unhooked there's that now I'll show you kind of what I got here okay so we've got on the short end of the primer ball it's going to the one with the filter with the pickup tube on it hang on no it ain't it's going over to this side here okay now the one the other side of the carburetor right there that's going down into the pickup up and then the other side of this is just the return it's just got to go in you know just enough to where it's not going to pull out because all that's doing sending the fuel back in okay so let me get you back up here again let's get this carburetor bolted up past experience tells me I should check to make sure it's pumping first but I think it's right we'll see somebody had this that's a good idea guys if you're taking something part maybe a while before you put it back together that's just a zip tie it is the the two the two nuts the hold the carburetor on he just had him zip tied on there I do that quite a bit piece of wire whatever you got tape not as good because tape don't stick if your thing's greasy and oily like this because this has been used may not may not hold may fall off then you lose it but that's bigger usually they're 10 millimeter five sixteenths that one's a little bigger so let me get my trusty little cool box out here I'll let you know what size these are same size as you can look maybe like three eights or nine thirty seconds see what we got here three eights okay so let's go ahead tighten this down uh needs a filter I got stuff to make a filter with so if this runs good I'll throw a filter in it clean it up and we'll check and make sure all the attachments are working correctly so there's that now I've got to tighten these these end screws up okay because right behind that where you see where I showed you these four screws right behind that your your connecting rod your crank piston so right there those four right behind there's your rod you can see your connecting rod your crank okay so now see I've got to blow all this out anyway so but um let's let me go get some fuel let's put some fuel in it see if it runs hang on a second guys boy this battery don't just don't last as long as the battery in my other camera well monkey's camera so let's get you down here it's not sucking it up there's suction on it whoa sorry I got enough fuel in there there's plenty of fuel got a leak here see it's leaking somewhere right in the carburetor it looks like well let me switch them two lines around and let's see if that does it okay guys so I did have it wrong so it's going to come the short side's going to go right directly in there the long side of the primer bulb is going to go into the tank and then this one over here is your pickup so see if you can there we go all right let me get this back together all right guys I got them lines switched around they were wrong my bad let's get you sit down here let's see if this thing's going to run okay I pumped that already seven times we sold that so I'm going to choke it I'm going to crank it let it run 15 seconds and then throttle it up we hit the throttle it'll automatically come off the choke in the other camera so it's running but it's only running on choke so there's something wrong with the see these don't have a float they got a diaphragm that works kind of like a float and the diaphragms get all brittle and stuff I think that's what's going on with this but I think it's worth putting uh I think the carburetor for this one's six bucks I'm gonna order me a carburetor but it'll run long enough to try our attachments so what do you guys want to try first we got an edger we got a little saw we got a weed eater head we've all seen weed eaters work but I gotta check the head make sure it does we got the tiller I'm going to go let's put the let's put the edger on first and let's see how that works let's try the saw try the tiller out I gotta find a place to try it out so hang on a second probably rebuild this one but uh hell carburetor for five or six bucks for I'm not sure after the look it might be eight for this carburetor even 12 bucks I can put into it I don't want to go no more than that so I'll probably just rebuild it I'll show you what it is plywood like rubber I got this old one out just in case and it's no better you guys yeah I sold this excuse me cleaning up in here sooty pop okay I'm gonna take a break I haven't sold any peanuts today but I didn't get skunked today it's not bad you know I mean I've been skunked twice and how many months so not too bad uh okay so this all here this will be the next video because I'm getting tired we'll check the spark and all that crap and see what's going on with that I said it wouldn't run I pulled it a couple times it does have compression so we'll get that going besides I gotta get some more gas uh I mixed my gas in this can I bought this can I think for the boat motor or something 40 to 150 to 1 so I never threw the can away because I thought I'd mix myself my stuff in there with this little funnel and so that's what I do I use um I use this it's got it's from the boat the boat motor it's got my uh mixes on there so you know 50 to 141 25 to 1 the boat was like 25 to 1 or something like that robe he's 50 to 1 but 40 or 50 to 1 will run fine depending on where you're at what you're doing I always just makes everything 50 to 1 unless it was like the boat motor which didn't take that much oil so I didn't because it would file the plugs out but 40 to 1 will run anything 50 to 1 if you're running it and it's smoking more than what you feel it should draw back down 40 to 1 so I saved this can because you know it's got a nice safety lid on it I don't have to worry about it so and I don't have to wait what can is that I got my mix in you know gotta look see as a green or so that's what I'm going or that's what I do with that so but it's empty but I'm going to start the robe you excuse me the robe up less than half a tank of gas in it but I'm going to go ahead and run it out that way it's you know everything else is going to be lubricated the rings and all that stuff so all right guys there we go thanks for watching my vlog appreciate it she barely met the main legend I'm gone from now y'all have a wonderful weekend and a great week to come appreciate you guys watching bye bye now take care


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I should probably get back to the video. I don't think anyone should be ashamed about not knowing the first two Oli Oli games existed because I didn't and I don't want to feel ashamed. Or even for not knowing that the new Oli Oli world is technically the third game in a series of incredible 2D skate games. As this new vibrant, colorful jump into 3D 2D visuals is a stark difference to where the series began, but incredibly, Oli Oli world manages to bring that intense, fast-paced, and brilliant gameplay that these games were known for and turn it all up to 11. These go to 11. In Oli Oli world, you trick, grind, will run, and more across several different biomes, with over 100 moves to master and combine in your battle for the highest score possible. Right away I was impressed by just the sheer amount of content this game had to offer. The visual art style is so reminiscent of cartoons I love, like Adventure Time and Steven Universe, with these quirky characters and vibrant colors that pop on the screen. The animations are fantastic, especially while skating and pulling off those awesome tricks and flips, and these level designs get insane.  In honor of Oli Oli world, it was a reverse flip. You'll find yourself holding your breath.  Best part is, there's often multiple different paths to take, each with its own hazards and challenges, so it's rewarding to go back through levels and experiencing each different track. Mix that in with the obviously addicting scoring system, but also multiple side quests offered for each course so you can see why this game was very hard to put down. The thing I appreciate the most about the game is at the press of a button you instantly reset back to the start, which is incredible because I screw up a lot. I'm always trying to do more than I probably should, so when I inevitably do stack it, knowing I can instantly try again, might be even more satisfying than pulling off some of those insane combos. Okay, so I haven't played the next game. In fact, it's not even installed on my switch. How could I possibly review it, you might be asking? Well, because Kim played it. So I asked Kim for her review, and I wrote it down, and that's the review I'm going to give you. Unpacking is a very calming and relaxing game that tells the story of a character's life through the items and rooms you need to organize, with each of the 35 levels revealing more and more about them.  At the start of each new room, you click on the cardboard boxes and begin placing every item around the new room, pictures to be hung on the walls, toys to be placed in desks or tucked away in cupboards. Once you've unpacked everything, the game will tell you if anything was put in the wrong place. This only happens a couple of times here or there, and it's just a device used to move the story forward. For the most part, you can spend all day mindlessly organizing books or stacking plates the way that you want them. You have complete creative freedom.  The high res pixel art style is done really well, and while the background music is great, it's the sound design that really shines. The noise that shuffling around items makes is weirdly satisfying in itself. That's everything that Kim told me, but I've heard really good things about this game and people keep trying to tell me to play it, and I will. Okay, yes, technically, Loop Hero has a physical too, but it's through the awesome people at Special Reserve Games, and it's out of stock right now, so shut up! It counts. I think I'm the only one that cares. You guys just want to hear about games. Loop Hero is a game that, at first glance, I did not think I would enjoy. And trust me, after all these years of reviewing all these hundreds of eShop games, I'm the last person to judge a book by its cover anymore. But the graphical style of Loop Hero reminds me of the old DOS games I used to play when I was a kid, and I just didn't think that in 22, I would be able to get engrossed in the world, but I was totally wrong. Loop Hero is a roguelike game, where at the start of each run, you're given a randomized and completely empty loop. As your little stick-bigger guy starts to march around the loop, it'll run into some small wild creatures. An automated battle will ensue, and upon defeating it, you'll be given an item card, either a weapon or armor, or hopefully some land or an enemy card. You place those world cards around your loop, creating enemy spawns like spiders, vampires, and so much more than environmental cards you can place around, like mountains, meadows, and such, and those will give you stat boost. At the start of each new day, the enemy spawn camps will create new enemies that you'll have to battle as you pass through those locations on each loop. But of course, once you beat those enemies, you'll get even stronger weapons, armor, or more world cards to start building more and more until you have a full lush world filled to the brim with monsters, wildlife, and vast biomes. But that's where it lies, Loop Hero's biggest challenge. The more that you place around the world, the stronger and harder the loops will become.  And since you can only end a run at camp, if you instead opt to go through one more loop, and you just can't make it back safely, you will lose almost everything. So it's a very delicate balance, and each loop is very different, made even more unique by the different heroes you can unlock. Those heroes come with their own sets of weapon and armor and more. Once you finally do manage to end a run, you can upgrade your home base with items that you found. And if you make it through enough loops, there are big boss battles that will progress the story, and those are brutally difficult. Okay, that was a lot I know, but this is easily one of the most fun and hardest roguelikes I have played, because it comes down to my own greed. So the hardest part almost isn't even the game, it's trying to beat yourself. Ooh, no, don't leave that in. No, no, no, no, no, no. As I wrote this next part, I knew I'd be getting kind of emotional right now. So I wrote it in the script, wow, I'm getting kind of emotional right now. Freddy Fish, Putt Puts, Spy Fox, and Pyjama Sam. Several different games, all made by the same team at Humongous Entertainment, and all games that I grow up with. And I'm going to count all these games as one. All of these games are point and click adventures that are aimed at children from five to eight, seeming that they all released around that 1994 to 1998 area. It's no surprise that these games were a huge part of my childhood. But all that said, I'm not just throwing them in here as a nice little walk down memory lane to talk about some baby games. No, these games are children's games in the same way that SpongeBob is a children's show or that Shrek is a movie made for kids. Doesn't mean that adults can enjoy them too. All of these games stand the test of time as high quality fun and engaging point and click adventures filled with incredible art and wonderful animation and even really great voice acting. I do think that anyone could still enjoy these. None of this should be any a surprise though, as most of these games were created by Ron Gilbert, who is a game designing hero of mine. I grew up playing Maniac Mansion and the Monkey Island games too. All of those games that he made were all part of my childhood. I had no idea that he made all of them. The puzzles are so enjoyable to solve. And a brilliant touch is that every time you play the game, the puzzles differ slightly. In this first Pajama Sam, for example, a lot of the story is based around you finding your mask, flashlight and lunchbox so you can defeat the darkness. But those items will always be in different locations each time you play, which for a kid is fantastic because you can play the game over and over and over again. Every single new screen or location is filled with small details and hidden secrets. You can click and interact with almost anything around the screen. And that becomes a game in itself. The amount of detail and work that went into these games still blows me away to this day. It's just about the art, the story, the characters, the little details and the journey. Oh and of course, the nostalgia. Oh, watch that!  Well, then how about something much harder? Ender Lilies. I was 95% sure I already reviewed this game in one of my eShop videos. I don't keep a list of everything I've reviewed, I really should. A fan sent me the list recently on Twitter. If you're watching and could send that back to me, I'd really appreciate it. I need to like save it somewhere. But I did try to Google my own name with Ender Lilies and nothing was coming up, so I guess I didn't do it. Yeah, whatever. If I did, let's do it again. If you loved Metroid Dread or Hollow Knight and want an even tougher, more brutal Metroidvania to sink your grimy little unbrushed teeth into, then Ender Lilies might be for you. A 2D action platformer set in a dark fantasy world with a super interesting art style that can only be described, I don't know, like hand-drawn paper art that's been animated to bend and move and flex, which when it comes to the weird creatures and monsters in this world, that can be an uncomfortable and eerie sight to behold. As you would expect, you begin the game almost helpless with almost no abilities available to you. But as the game progresses, you'll find yourself mid-air battling, double-jumping and slashing through anything that stands in your way. The combat really feels different to any other Metroidvania I've played. Lily herself isn't the one attacking, so you can throw out a slash and still continue to freely walk about the battle. The soundtrack is also a standout, composed and performed by the same classical Japanese group that worked on Ghost in the Shell, Goblin Slayer and more.  It's the chugs, I'll leave a link down below. Oh, I'm sorry, watch that? You didn't know that AEW's Adam Cole and I were like besties? Oh, I guess you don't watch me on Twitch and see that we recently played Mario Party together. Well, God, it's fine. It's fine. You know what game fairy is? That doesn't count either. Far loan sales is an incredible and unforgettable two-hour experience that costs $14.99, so I need you to bear that in mind going into it. I bought this one on sale, which was nice, but the amount of detail and world-building crammed into this short runtime might help sway you on justifying the full price if it's not on sale for you right now.  To control the vehicle, you gotta run around inside it, refilling the fuel, keeping the throttle pressed down, venting the steam so the engine doesn't explode. It can become a frantic mess as you try to manage everything at once, while also stopping to pick up more fuel so that you don't run out, making sure to lower the sales before hitting low bridges or buildings or stopping the engine before you slam into a wall and, you know, have to repair everything or put out fires. You'll also need to face brutal hazardous weather conditions and solve the occasional puzzle area to open up new pathways to continue on your journey. Easily the biggest challenge for me in far is trying to take in every environment and location while you're also frantically rushing around the ship, as every few seconds you'll find yourself in another expansive location with desolate wastelands to beautiful night skies and more. I sat down and played this game thinking I would just start it for a few minutes and ended up finishing the entire thing in one sitting. I was completely engrossed in the game. Okay, meh, what was that? Thankfully Evertride does not have any kind of physical, so that's progress. More progress than I've been making in Evertride. It is the second roguelike game in this video, but it really stands out as a very unique and also brutally hard game in its own way. It's very strategy and puzzle-based. The entire map you play on is turn-based, as once you make your move all the enemies and hazards on the map will take their move all at the same time.  There is so much room for error here.  The further you progress, you'll run into all kinds of new enemies that can attack in all different kinds of ways, or stage hazards that might prevent you from moving to a space to escape and so much more, and you're trying to do all of that as quick as you can because you are rewarded for killing things as quick as possible. If you spend too long trying to line up attacks, you'll lose momentum on the bar and earn less rewards, and that means when you go to the shop, you'll be broke, and you won't be able to buy those valuable upgrades, special abilities, or even buy more health back. This game is tough and you need to get good at reading several moves ahead of the enemies, and I'm having a lot of stressful fun playing this one. You could say I'm ever trying. Nostalgia and all of that aside, I saved my absolute personal favorite to last. Death's Door. I absolutely adore this game, pun intended. Adore, you get it. When it dropped on Xbox in July of last year, I was tempted, but I waited. I knew just by looking at it, it was the perfect game to come to Switch, and it eventually would. A 2021 best indie game award nominee, and it's easy to see why. Set in a beautifully bleak world full of doorways to a land filled with twisted creatures, countless secrets, and weird characters you'll meet along the way. The gameplay is sharp and precise, with different melee weapons, arrows, and magic to overcome the wide array of beasts and demigods your little crow will have to face along the way. While many of the enemies around the world may present quite a difficult challenge, requiring you to slash, dodge, and aim with super quick reaction timing, it's the brilliant epic boss battles that will truly give you a run for your life. And since you are a reaper who works for the reaping commissioning headquarters, it's your job to bring these souls into your higher ups. Otherwise, you might get fired, but to be fair, it doesn't seem like the kind of job that would have a ton of benefits. The game has been praised for its mechanics, simplicity, difficulty level, and often likened to Zelda and Dark Souls games. And I love one of those. I just don't want to ruin anything else about the game for any of you, so if you're up for the challenge, grab the game and start bringing in all those souls for processing. Every time I make one of these videos, I get comments and tweets like rest in peace my wallet. I hope that happened to you today as well, I hope I managed to find something for you that you'll go and try out and play. I love making these videos for so many reasons, but they're almost always indie games. So if there is anything that you like that you want to check out, you might find a new experience you adore while also helping out a small indie team towards their next big creation that you might love. But thank you for watching, leave a comment down below with what game you love the most in the video or what game I should look at next. Like, subscribe, follow me on Twitter, and maybe check out my Twitch streams, you know, be a little thicky-daky fan.


The mysterious, all-powerful character who is a problem to the police, but a coup-sadre for law. In reality, Dan Garrett, a rookie patrolman, loved by everyone but suspected by none of being the Blue Beetle. As the Blue Beetle, he hides behind a strange mask and a suit of impenetrable blue-chain armor, flexible as silk, but stronger than steel. Today's episode of the Fox Feature, the Blue Beetle, is the second part of a story entitled Sabotage Incorporated. In the previous episode, Wentworth B. Charles, president of Explosives Incorporated, has been stabbed to death, apparently with a knife pick as he was phoning the police about a shipment of munitions. Investigation discloses no murder weapon and no clues to the killer. All doors and windows of the Charles' apartment were securely locked and bolted from the inside. A later secret investigation by Dan Garrett as the Blue Beetle, discloses that the occupants of an adjoining apartment, a Professor Dennis Kew and his male secretary, are part of a sabotage ring, whose purpose is to destroy a trainload of explosives and war munitions as it passes over the Rocky Gorge Bridge from the United States to Canada. As the Blue Beetle confronts them, he is rendered unconscious by a suffocating gas shot from an air pistol by a young girl named Vicki, one of the conspirators. As the episode ends, the conspirators plan to dispose of the Blue Beetle by dumping his bound and unconscious body aboard the munitions train, which is to be destroyed. As our story opens today, Vicki is on her way in a private plane to Rosno, near the Canadian border, to supervise operations at the bridge. The Professor and Igor are to follow as soon as they dispose of the Blue Beetle. They're Professor Hearyard at the Freight Shop. Yes, and if I'm not mistaken, that's the train with the load of guns and explosives aboard. Yes, it's moving. We'll have to hurry. Give me a hand with the Blue Beetle here. Yes. All right. There you go. Oh, he's heavy. It's his chain armor. No, here comes an empty dump car. Yes. We throw him in. One, two, three. Ah, there he is. Farewell, Blue Beetle. You may reach heaven when the train blows up, but your bones stay long. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Oh, Dr. Blanc, have you seen Donny? No, no, not for some time. Have you got any idea what he might be? He said something about working on this explosive. Yeah, yeah, that's what I thought, but I ain't seen him. What's that mic in your hand? A present for your young sir. Oh, that's an air rifle. I found it in the apartment next to where Charles was killed. Oh, find anything else? Well, nothing much except this. Any idea what it might be, Doc? Hmm, it's an aluminum mold of some sort. Yeah, for making knitting needles or something, but what would the professor be one with? Wait, wait, I've got it. You've got what? The weapon that killed Mr. Charles. What do you mean, Doc? That aluminum mold was filled with water and placed in an electric refrigerator. The water flows into little sharp-pointed icicles about the size of an ice-picked blade. Yeah, I can see that. Then they were shot from that air rifle at the victim. Even though the air rifle looked innocent enough, it is a particular type with sufficient air propulsion to make those needle-pointed icicles penetrate deep into the victim's body where they melted, leaving no trace. But how could the murderer get to him? The door and windows was locked and bordled from the inside.  That's it, that's what happened. Well, Doc, I got to get down to headquarters now and report. You headed for? Canada, but you ain't going. Is this train loaded with munitions? But that's for you. I'm the Blue Beetle.  You're getting the offer up. Oh, wait, wait, help me out of here. I want to warn you. Oh, I'm sure I'll help you out. Out of the bottom, like a load of coal, we don't carry passengers with us. There's no way I can warn you. He's been crushed beneath those cars. Now to get to a phone somewhere and warn the authorities to flag that train. Have you got a phone? The blue what? And we ain't got a phone. Where's the nearest telephone? Five miles down the road. Jet Hawkins is placed. Thanks. But he ain't home. Where can I get a car? The trolleys don't run out this far. They get a bus in the morning. I'm afraid I can't wait. How far is the border? About 20 miles. I've got to get there in a hurry. Who are you running away from? Not running away. I'm trying to prevent a crime. Well, I could drive you out to Rosno in the morning. Where's the nearest airport? Rosno. 10 miles. Drive me to the airport tonight and you'll be a hero in the morning. So will you be if you live through my driving. I'll be down soon as I get my boots on and my store teeth in. Mr. Pilot, faster. I've got to flag that train down there before she reaches the bridge. There she is. Close. Can't make it. Can't bring that train to the stop in less than a mile. The track's too wet. Give me that red lantern. What are you going to do? Veil out with my parachute and wave this red lantern as I go down. Well, here I go. Close to the bridge, Sam. Yeah. Five more miles and our job will be done. And glad I'll be. In 30 years of railroadin', this is the toughest job I've ever had. Falling 50 cars of explosives and war equipment to Canada ain't my idea of a soft snap. Yeah. No telling when you may run into an open switch or a pile of ties on the track. There's plenty of foreign spies who would like to wreck a trainload like this. Hey, listen to that plane. Yeah. Must be something important to bring that guy out on a stormy night like this. Hey, there's no lights in the switch house. You better slow down. Green signals up. Yeah, but you never can tell. Well, keep an eye out on your side as we reach the switch to the Rosneau's first track. Okay. Hey, look there. Where? Up there in the sky ahead. Hey, it's the cruise and lights in the airplane. Yeah, but look underneath it. Well, I'll be. There's a red light forward and swinging from side to side. Hey, maybe he's signaling us to stop. Look, there's a guy in a parachute that's dropped out of the plane and he's waving a red lantern. That's strange. Well, there's the bridge right ahead. Maybe something's wrong with the bridge. All my signal lights have been green except the red lantern on the plane. Well, here goes the break. I hope I can bring this train to a stop on these slippery rails. That guy with a lantern has landed. He's running towards us. Yeah, that must be the train guard. Come on, let's get it on it. Right. Oh, yeah. Okay, Sam. I got his gun. The Blue Beetle. The Blue Beetle? What? You were the man with the red lantern? Yes. I warned the authorities at Rosno, but the telephone lines out to the bridgehead had evidently been cut. I took the only way I could to stop you. Well, you certainly made a good job of it. What about these flotters? I caught the ringleaders back in Rosno and turned them over to the police. What about the men who shot at you? I imagine your train guards will get them, but the ringleaders are in jail. Uncle Sam will take care of them. Well, so long, Blue Beetle, and thanks to me. Okay. Give my regards to your neighbors across the border. Tell them we Americans are glad we both speak the same language in more ways than one. So the Blue Beetle prevented a frightful tragedy and, through sheer nerve, acquitted a clever band of foreign saboteurs and murderers. The moral of this story is that there never would be the perfect crime. Crimes like the murder of Mr. Charles, no matter how strangely and cleverly done, will always be found out and the guilty punished. Further adventures of the Blue Beetle will be presented in the next episode of the Blue Beetle. The Blue Beetle is a copyrighted box feature appearing in Mystery Men Comics magazine and the Blue Beetle magazine. The Blue Beetle is on the air twice a week on this same station. Consult the broadcast schedule in your local newspapers. And don't forget to listen into the Blue Beetle.


So, as many of you know by now, Congressman Matt Gaetz decided to launch a Twitch channel so he can begin streaming in order to, I guess, red pill younger generations. The problem with him is that he lacks charisma and he has nothing interesting to say. And as a result, his first Twitch stream was a complete flop. Now, when I say flop, you're probably thinking, well, he's a member of Congress, so he probably averaged about 2,000 viewers, 3,000 viewers, not that much, but certainly more than anyone else can get, right? Um, no, no, no. Let me explain this to you. His peak viewer count was, wait for it, six, six people, just six people at his peak tuned in to see Congressman Matt Gaetz. Any one of you can fare better than Matt Gaetz on your very first Twitch stream. All you have to do is tell your friends and family to tune in and you can average more viewers than his peak. It's genuinely just hilarious to see this because these bombastic politicians who throw a lot of red meat to the GOP base, they think that they are able to galvanize people. They think that they have genuinely interesting things to say. Well, when it comes to actually getting an audience, well, that's a lot more difficult than they believe unless that audience is captive, unless we have to listen to them because they're a member of Congress and they're on television or something like that. But what did he talk about? Why was this such a flop? Because in the event he was talking about something interesting, I mean, the viewer numbers would tick up. But what was he talking about? Well, as Vice News explains, the Florida Congressman launched his stream Thursday with a 30-minute ramble about the January 6th Capitol riot with Darren Beatty, an ex-Trump speechwriter. In a live recording of Gaetz's Firebrand podcast, the two went on about Ray Epps, the man at the center of a right-wing conspiracy claiming undercover FBI agents led the mob of Trump supporters into the Capitol on January 6th, known as the Fed's erection. The January 6th Congressional Committee concluded Epps was just a guy from Arizona with no ties to the government at all. The stream ended with Gaetz bashing the defunding of police, woke-ism in public schools, and blaming the squad of four progressive congresswomen for just about everything. I mean, that sounds riveting. I can't imagine why people wouldn't want to tune in to that. I just got to point out it's so bizarre to me that so many Republican politicians have podcasts. Ted Cruz has a podcast. Marjorie Taylor Greene has a podcast. Matt Gaetz has a podcast. And now he's streaming on Twitch.  Just because you're a politician, just because you were successful politically, doesn't mean that you have the capability of holding an audience, OK? You are the type of person that can get good headlines. Good quick sound bits. But to hold an audience for 30 minutes, you have to be engaging. You have to provide people with interesting things. And very clearly, Matt Gaetz isn't doing that. And what I love is that most of the viewers who were there, they were not fans of Matt Gaetz. In fact, they were trolling him. So let's go to this first graphic here. And you can see what I mean by that.  We see Shrek. And user Vile asks Congressman Gaetz, what is your favorite way to traffic miners across state lines for sex? And then Zuru tribes in saying, good question.  And then moving on, I had to actually blur this image because you are looking at a phallic shaped image. And it is what you think it is. Now, Lard says, are you guys worried about your kids driving home during rush hour? It can get kind of crazy out there. Thankfully, brave folks like Matt are fighting to keep our roads safe. Full Matt Gaetz minor traffic to find out more. So good.  I've just got to point out their name is Dick Hardy. Very clever. We see an Among Us character with a full blown erection asking, you want to suck? And then we see some comments here. You see Hassan emojis. You see Matt Gaetz as a petto by Jared B. Lazy Lightning 73 says, I honestly didn't think it was possible for you to become any more creepy than you already are. But then I learned you joined Twitch one day after Bloomberg published a report about how child predators are using Twitch to track and cage kids and teens. Oh, it's it's so bad. He's getting so roasted.  Turns out it is paid $900 to a convicted sex trafficker. I mean, it goes on and on, as you can see, just absolutely beautiful. Now he thought that because he's a congressman, because he's Matt Gaetz and he's been successful politically and he knows some really powerful, popular people, he would just automatically find success on Twitch. But no, being a successful streamer on Twitch is actually very difficult because believe it or not, it takes talent to be able to hold an audience. You have to have charisma. You have to be engaging as Greg Grazioso of the Independent explains growing a community on Twitch is not easy. According to data from Sully Gnome and Twitch Tracker, the top 1% of Twitch streams have an average of approximately 20 concurrent viewers during their streams. The users pulling in tens of thousands of viewers each stream are the platform's top 0.1% and account for around 74% of the total watch time on the platform. So it's not easy to be successful on Twitch. Now YouTube is a different story because they've tweaked the algorithm so that way authoritative sources, i.e. news organizations like MSNBC and even Fox News, they're prioritized in the algorithm. So back in 2014, 2015, those of us who were doing political commentary, we would actually get more views than Fox News than CNN on any given subject. But fast forward to today, CNN gets millions and millions of views, Fox News gets tens of thousands of views in every single video and they beat us. But that's because the algorithm has been tweaked. But on Twitch, where the algorithm is more open, certainly, at least from my experience, you actually have to have talent. They're not pushing authoritative sources. They're not pushing politicians and celebrities, right? You can use your celebrity and your large platform that already exists. So certainly gain more viewers, but the algorithm won't automatically do that for you. So on Twitch, you've got to do good. And Matt Gaetz just doesn't have it, but I certainly hope that he keeps trying. I've actually followed Matt Gaetz, so I am one of his less than 2,000 followers. And I will enthusiastically tune into his next live stream because, you know, I'm not saying I'm going to troll, but I just want to see what he has to say, you know, I'm not going to troll. I'm not that kind of a person. You all know me. I'm just going to tune in and hear him out. And if I happen to see some emotes that I like or some Trek memes that I like, I might post them. No promises. But yeah, there you have it. Matt Gaetz is a flop on Twitch. Keep trying, brother. Get good. Up yours. Up yours. Up yours.  Whoop. More of this. More of this. More of this. The dream I saw in my maternal grandmother, she was stroking herself absentmindedly. I let her have her way. The gene of the waging was exposed. I let her have her way.


I just want to say, here you are in Holland, please do not back down. In my country, we have just, you know, had the fabulous Governor of Kentucky say, the future of education, we don't need philosophers, we need engineers. And we're going to stop funding education for anything that's not engineering and the hard sciences. And we don't need the philosophers and we don't need the humanities. Now, of course, I do realize that being human is not necessary. But the humanities are about advising you how to be human and deepening what it means to be human. And I think, without that, you can have all the hard science you want for breakfast. But it's not a balanced diet. And also, Obama keeps coming forward and saying, I want more scientists and more mathematicians. He doesn't say, I want more humanities majors and I want more philosophers. But of course, they could have helped him, not green light torture. They could have really helped him not decide that it was cheaper to simply attack a few villages with drone strikes. It's not cheaper. It's so much more expensive. And the famous cliché, but it's true, is if you think education is expensive, see how expensive it is to have no education. And that's what we're in the middle of America right now. In my country, education has been deliberately attacked and rolled backwards since 1980 in a systematic way. In my state of California in 1984, the legislatures started meeting a special committee to create new crimes so that people could be locked up in new prisons and to systematically shut down schools. So in some parts of California, prisons are the new schools and that was not accidental, it was organized. Starting in 1984, we now have in the state of California more prisons, we have built more prisons since 1984 than Mao Tse Tung and Joseph Stalin put together. And we now have the largest prison population in world history in the state of California. We've also perfected solitary confinement in which young gang members are quote-unquote isolated for their own good and have no human contact for now seven, eight, nine and ten years. These people have, of course, lost their minds. The young people who have been released have gone home and they're sitting in a back room of their mother's house with the blinds drawn down during the day and the door shut not able to talk. It costs $275,000 per year to subject a human being to this treatment, solitary confinement and the California prison system. But we do not have $3,000 to send that person to college. To put a young person in the California prison system costs five times more than tuition at Harvard. And what most young people don't have is basic opportunity to do something interesting. Not something that insults their intelligence, but something that engages their intelligence and opens a world that is more interesting than what surrounds them at the moment. And our rollback of education has meant we have deprived the generation of doing something more interesting than what they're now doing. And it's not that there's nothing that needs to be done. But again, we live in an amazing moment of economic thinking. Anything that actually does not need to be done, there's money available immediately. Anything that urgently needs to be done has no budget, no money, has been defunded, the budget has been cut or removed. And I just want to describe to you a little bit of what I'm hoping the next stage for education is, but also how this works in public life. Because it's now time for universities to have serious roles in public life once again. Because if we leave truth-telling to the politicians and to the legislatures, that will be a problem. And so the universities now need to step forward and have a very public face. Which is where the arts are actually crucial. Because the arts are about the ability to speak in public, to act in public, and to create a dialogue and to create a participatory shared occasion that is able to function through metaphor that lets everybody go to the next step themselves or together. I just want to again underscore if more of the political decisions that we've seen in the last generation had been made with artists in the room. And I don't mean to say that artists are better than other people. The worst artists are just horrible. And there's nothing worse than bad art and there's a lot of it. Well, no, there's one thing worse than bad art and that's the bad artist who made it. But just to say, I'm not making a special case for artists being great. I'm just saying it's another sensitivity, sensibility, awareness, and thought process which needs to be in the room as decisions are being made about welfare, education, war, and peace. About housing and about law. At the moment, the law has very little majesty because so many laws have been passed that are simply offensive. And it will take two generations to remove laws that have been passed in the last 20 years. Law does not mean morally correct. Law means what somebody thought they could do to their own advantage and to disinvantage someone else. And that is the law. We need a larger picture of what law is which is why moral philosophers are necessary because most law is just expediency and deliberately somebody putting their finger on the scale because they can. And we need to ask ourselves very seriously what the structures of equality are. And could be in the 21st century. We have come from extremely unequal histories, unequal systems, unequal ways of thinking, unequal categories, and equality is the urgent question. The other question for me, for intellectuals, is now we've had an amazing period of critical theory in which intellectuals have spoken in a language that is impenetrable to the general public, which means no one who actually votes has read your damn book because it's unreadable. And with deep admiration because there's been such beautiful work done intellectually in the last 35 years, the task of the next 35 years or 50 years is to rewrite those books in a language that becomes part of public dialogue. What I'm saying is the real intellectual task is to find a way to discuss complexity in terms that are simple with no falsification. How do we remain honest and true to genuine complexity but express that complexity in a way that is transparent and where there are points of entry for an entire range of citizens? That is a serious intellectual challenge. And we need the greatest minds to take up that challenge of no falsification but actually using with discipline and precision language that is within reach of a majority of the citizens.


I once again welcome you all to MSP lecture series on interpretive spectroscopy. Let me continue discussion on EPR spectroscopy. In my last lecture I started discussion on hyperfine splitting, so let me continue. If you can see here to decide number of lines very similar to NMR, we use this rule 2 and I plus 1 rule, N is number of equivalent species nucleus or other species and then I is the spin value, so in all these things we are considering N equals 1 and so in absence of any a radical or an anion would show because of only presence of one electron it shows no interaction we will see only one line. When it interacts with one nucleus with the spin I equals half, so we see two lines, simple rule just in case of one I will show you here. So, we see two lines here and similarly when the nuclear spin I equals 1 is there we observe three lines and then in case of spin 3 by 2 we observe four lines. When we have two equivalent nuclei with the spin I equals half then it would be 2 into 2 we expect three lines here and similarly when we have three equivalent nuclei with I equals half we will see four lines and when we have four equivalent nuclei with I equals 1 we will see nine lines here. So, this is how we can understand hyperfine splitting simply applying this to a 9 plus 1 rule. So, how this hyperfine splitting happens is because of hyperfine interaction if an electron couples to several sets of nuclei then the overall pattern is determined by first applying the coupling to the nearest nuclei and then splitting each of the lines by the coupling to next nearest nuclei and so on. So, this is how it goes very similar to what we do while writing splitting tree or coupling interaction tree in case of NMR. The number of hyperfine lines is called NHFS hyperfine lines from a group of N equivalent nuclei of spin we use to N I plus 1 that is what I showed you in my previous slide. So, N total equals this is how it comes. So, I have some examples I will show you later. For example, if you have more than one type of nuclei how they are going to interact depending upon how far they are from the electron. So, now let us look into the relative intensities for I equals half again I equals half I equals 1 I equals 3 by 2 we were using Pascal's triangles in case of NMR. Very similarly we can also look into the relative intensity of the lines when we observe hyperfine splitting. For example, 0 we will see only one line when N equals 1 we will see two lines when N equals 2 we see three lines the intensities are 1 is to 2 is to 1 in case of 3 we have four lines 1 is to 3 is to 3 is to 1 when we have 4 we have 5 lines 1 is to 4 is to 6 is to 4 is to 1 and it continues like this. Now you can see in case of N equals 1 we will see two lines doublet 3 we will see triplet and when 4 are there we will see quadrate when 5 are there we will see quintet and when 6 are there we call sextet and when we have 7 we will see a septet line. So this relative intensity diagram whatever I have shown holds good for nuclear spin I equals half. Similarly, one can also write relative intensities for I equals 1 and again 0 one line will be there and 1 3 will be there for example, if you consider 14 N I equals 1 and then when you have 2 we will be having 5 lines 1 is to 2 is to 3 is to 2 is to 1 ratio and when we have 3 we will be having 7 lines 1 is to 3 is to 6 is to 7 is to 6 is to 3 is to 1 it goes and 4 and then 5 and 6 6 I can show you here we'll be having 13 lines 13 lines. So this how we can calculate and find out the relative intensities when they are interacting with a nuclear with I equals 1. So N equals 1 a triplet N equals 2 we saw that I showed you same thing I am repeating here again. Now let us look into some examples to begin with we shall consider a simple radical such as methyl radical here. Methyl radical we are talking about this electron here this would interact with the 3 protons of I equals half then if you see here if you update 2 N I plus 1 rule we expect 4 lines and how these 4 lines will come again it is very similar to NMR if you assume these 4 lines for example these 3 lines would be interacting in this fashion for example all of them the local magnetic field all of them can be aligned with respect to applied magnetic field or 1 can be down and they have 3 combination and 2 can be down and 1 up we have these combination and they are all degenerate and then we have all 3 opposing the applied magnetic field we will be having this one so we can arrive at 1 is to 3 is to 3 is to 1 this is exactly similar to NMR where we look into the coupling very similarly and then you can see the transitions this is 1 transition 2 3 4 4 transitions are there and we will see this how we will observe the EPR spectrum in case of methyl radical and if you want to assign this MI values this is plus 3 by 2 half minus half and minus 3 by 2 now let us look into this radical anion and here this electron would first couple with this 4 14 N that means if I use 2 N I plus 1 rule again we are expecting 9 lines I am not worried right now these things and also hydrogens we have here if you just leave and look into this one primarily we get 9 lines having this intensity ratio here so this is for radical anion so now let us look into examples of metal complexes coupled with non-equivalent nuclei so one is 15 N one is H hydrogen both of them are non- equivalent and they couple one after the other and now we can use either this way so if you recall how we were writing so first if you see here one doublet will be there this is either coupled with this one or this one both are having spin I equals half and then each one will be again so four lines will be there so that's what we see here we see doublet of doublets that can be seen when is coupled or interacting with nuclei which are non-equivalent then you can also use this fashion 2 N I plus 1 and 2 MI plus 1 you can use for two different one and multiply this also gives the same number here and if you want to look into the transitions to begin with we have something like this and then we have it is split like this first it will be split into say nitrogen and then if it is hydrogen we have and then if you see here this one two three four possible transitions can be seen and that is observed in this if you have spectrum of this metal complex only highlighted is one hydrogen and one 15 N here this is about 14 N here earlier we considered 15 N so I equals half now if you consider here first it is with hydrogen it is a doublet and then it would split into triplet of intensity 1 is to 1 is to 1 is to 1 so this is what is shown here and then of course here these are all the MI values for 14 N and this is for 1 H and then you can see this many lines six lines will be the six transitions are shown here one two three four five six and also we see here this is a very beautiful EPR spectrum with non-equivalent one one with I equals one and one I equals half now let us look into benzene radical anion benzene radical anion now this would couple with six equivalent hydrogen atoms seven lines will be there so if you look into a benzene radical anion so this is how we see EPR spectrum in the form of a septate with AH values 3.75 Ga or this one is 375 similarly one can also look into one hydroxy ethyl radical here in case of this one we get a quarter of doublets here so that means this one first couples with CH3 protons then it gives a quadrate and then each line in the quadrate will be split further because of hydrogen to doublet and we call it as quadrates of doublets we can see here this for one hydroxy ethyl radical let us look into acetamide radical here in acetamide radical we have here we have to consider this one and also we have to consider this one and also we have to consider this one so first let us say it couples with nitrogen it gives three lines and then each line will be split by two hydrogens again it will be a triplet and then these two will split further into triplet and you will get something like if you try to write here so each one this one will be three two plus one three and then this will be giving three one and this will be three so we get 27 lines we get in this one 27 lines so benzene radical if you see first it splits this one into a triplet three and then we have one two three four five five means six we will see 18 lines here so we can also tell how EPR spectrum of benzene radical would look like and then acetamide radical would look like this one okay now let us look into hexachromes manganese two plus and here electron spin is s equals half and nuclear spin is i equals 5 by 2 so since it is i equals 5 by 2 and nuclear spin it would split six lines here so we can see so that means if you record EPR spectrum for hexachromes manganese two plus this is how EPR spectrum would look like and also if you expand here you can write all possible states between which transition occurs or zema splitting happens can be seen here one two three four five six lines will be so this how you can show it is very similar to splitting or coupling tree we show in case of NMR spectroscopy so now let us look into one more metal complex vanadate ag-ag so here i equals 7 by 2 so this interaction with vanadium nucleus would be something like this here you can expect here since it is 7 by 2 one can expect eight lines and eight lines can be seen here very beautiful spectrum is here and then these corresponding transitions are shown here so this how one can analyze EPR spectra and then interpret first you find out equivalent nuclei that are going to interact and how they are going to split or how the hyper plane splitting looks like what are the relative intensities and then you can also show how the coupling or interaction happens in this fashion and then you can your job is done and here eight lines are a and here the g value is 2.0023 now let us look into of course i showed you benzene radical in case of benzene radical as i mentioned six hydrogen atoms are there and these six hydrogen atoms will interact with lone electron to give seven lines and here these seven lines are there again this is a beautiful spectrum EPR spectrum of benzene radical anion or sometime one can also write here this also shown like this here i think this is better to show something like this here now this is again interesting very nicely hyper plane splitting is shown in case of 13 butadiene anion radical here you can see here so here we have these if i say designate HA they are equivalent first it would couple with these four equivalent nuclei so that means basically five lines will be there you can see a quintet initially and then now these two will couple equally and each one will be a triplet here so there will be total of 15 lines so this is from one of the old journals of journal of chemical physics so initially it splits with four equivalent hydrogen atoms to give this quintet and then each one would be coupled with hb these two identical ones equivalent ones and a triplet and then we have triplets of quintet how you can say is triplets triplets of quintet now let us look into cyclopentadiene radical this is anion radical here and now this this is coupled with five equivalent hydrogen atoms so again use same 29 plus one rule it should show six lines here now let us look into naphthalene anion radical how it is made you take naphthalene in say one two dimethoxy ethane add potassium to that one immediately we can see the coloration blue coloration is coming that's essentially due to the formation of naphthalene anion radical so when you look into this radical in epr epr shows very nice hyperfine splitting you can see here initially it splits into one two three four five lines why that four lines are happening yes you should be able to see this and naphthalene and then naphthalene has eight hydrogen atoms yet hydrogen atoms can be designated something like this here we have this is one type of proton you can call it as beta proton and then we have this alpha protons are another four so that means in one is to one ratio we have two non-equivalent type of hydrogen atoms they would interact with this electron radical and split that in in this fashion so first it splits into a quintet and then each line is further split into a quintet to show this kind of multiple peaks that one can also see by just looking into as I mentioned 2ni plus one into 2ni plus one so it is first these things will be 25 lines you can expect here very nicely you can see 25 lines so one unpaid electron interacting with two sets alpha and beta of four equivalent protons so the ESS spectrum would thus show 2ni plus one 2ni 2 designation is given this is alpha and this is beta and then four plus one here four plus one five 25 lines by considering the pattern and coupling constant of A1 is 4.90 g and A2 equals 1.83 g of hyperpain splitting the species formed is consistent with naphthalene radical anion so this is a very beautiful one and this naphthalene anion is extensively used in organic chemistry and especially when sodium and potassium we want in stoichiometric amount in very small quantities it is very difficult to use from fresh sodium cutting and weighing because of its reaction with water to form and sodium hydroxide or sodium oxide something like that in that case what happens no matter how careful we are it is very difficult to weigh exact amount of sodium or potassium but on the other hand if we make something like this and if we standardize the solution we know the molarity and then we can use that solution as a source of sodium from that point of view this naphthalene sodium naphthalate or potassium naphthalate is quite useful in organic synthesis and also in organometallic synthesis so let me stop and continue discussion on more EPR problems in my next lecture until then have an excellent time thank you


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The Great Search brought to you by Digikey and Adrian. Thank you, Digikey. Lydia, to use their powers of searching and finding, especially in the middle of this drought, this chip drought, to show you how to find what you're looking for. Lydia, what is The Great Search this week? Okay, The Great Search is actually what I did today. So, because some Sundays I'm like, what am I gonna do with The Great Search? And then today I was like, oh man, I gotta find an alternative for this part that I can't get, that I can't get, and the alternatives I can't get. And before you know it, you're like four layers down. That sounds exactly like Great Search. That's The Great Search, that's where we're at. So, for this design, this design for this feather, I used the LC7909203 battered monitor chip. The TDFN version is no longer available. It went to end of line. There was no last time buy because of silicon shortage. And so I kind of got like the rug pulled out under me. That's a good idiom, rug pulled out under you. We're collecting idioms. And stuck without an alternative. And there is the, you know, we covered, okay, we can always get alternative packages sometimes. And there is an alternative package for this chip. The BGA package, and I can use that BGA package, you know, temporarily basically for a few months, but it will also run out, it's end of line. So I want to find an alternative lithium ion single cell battery monitor, something that has an ADC, communicates over I2C and doesn't use a lot of power so that, you know, it can stick this on. It has the, you know, it does the battery monitoring, Coulomb counting, state of charge, calculations for you, while still letting the main processor go into deep sleep. And when it wakes up, it can always ask the chip what's the state. And of course, I want it to be inexpensive. I want it to be easy to use. And I want it to be a package that I can put on a two layer board. So I thought that's what we would do. All right, let's do it. Okay, so let's go to the computer. Okay, so this is the previous package, the chip that I was going to use, the TDFN chip. And then, you know, I can swap that for the BGA package. And this will, again, I can kind of limp along with this for a few months because I can get some of these, but eventually those will run out. And this is the life we're living. So the chip that I was using before was basically this one, you know, this is no longer manufactured. It says some substitutes, you know, it has some substitutes, but we're gonna do our great search substitution work. So what I want is a battery monitor. I want to do one lithium ion thing, I squared C and surface mount.  And let's see what we've got for similar devices. I'm not gonna say normally stocking or in stocking, I'm gonna say no marketplace, just because it's a little confusing. I want to just, I'm kind of in the specification stage, so it's like I don't really care whether it's in stock right now, as long as I can get it in a few months. And I want to look at prices in the, you know, 5,000 piece range or so.  They're the least expensive at about 70 cents a piece. The BGA version and the LC709 TDFN version. But, you know, this one not available. This one I can use until they run out of stock. So let's go down the list. Ooh, the BQ27426. Okay, this looks pretty good. Is that the one? What? Is that the one? No. Well, no, not only is it not in stock, but if I ask it, when's it gonna be in stock? It says April 2022. Okay, so it's not only are we trying to find a part, but I'm like, I really want a part I can get, you know, like this year, maybe, you know, would that be so hard? Maybe get it in the next like three months. We were spoiled when we were, when we were babies buying parts that were in stock. This family's, you know, it is quite a nice family of chips, but yeah, basically, you know, all of them are April 2022. This is the same part of that family. This one I think is also, you know, September 2022, like not even within the next year. I'm gonna be able to get this part. So I basically kind of went down this entire list. And until I, and then this one was okay, but I really didn't want a BGA. Again, I want something that's a two layer board. I don't want something that's BGA with middle pads because I really don't want something that's gonna be a pain to route. So what I did find, you know, I basically like scanned through this. Almost all of these are completely unavailable anytime soon, except for this one, the Mac 17 048. And this one not only has 3000 in stock, but it has 9000 in the factory. It's not expensive, but it is TDFN. I can get it, you know, quickly. Another thing you can do is of course, you can put down, you know, even more. And you can see like, well, there's gonna, you know, if I need 30,000, I'm not gonna get them till 2022, but there are gonna be two more shipments of 10,000 a piece, so in October. So, you know, I, if this is something I want to book for nearby delivery, you know, I have a shop, but again, it isn't stock. I'm not gonna need more than 10,000. I just kind of know that that's 10,000 a year is about how many, you know, that's how many I'm gonna need for now. So I think that, you know, this is kind of what I'm thinking of going with. So I designed a, I did a, you know, a board package for it and laid out the package. And then I designed a breakout for it. So, you know, this is what I start with whenever I want to design. I basically pulled out the LC79203 and I put this in. One nice thing about this chip is it doesn't have the, some of the BQ chips, the TI chips used Coulomb counting when they had the basically resistor between the input and output. And one thing that is kind of nice about this Mac17 chip is like the OnSemi LC709203, it doesn't have a resistor. It actually looks at the voltage, the historical measurement of the voltage to track what the state of charge is. And, you know, I kind of like that. I think it's nice because it doesn't matter, you know, especially for a breakout board where people can accidentally connect the wrong way. This is a kind of an elegant method of measuring because you don't have to worry about having it backwards and you don't have to worry about the resistance, you know, being in the way of your boost converter or something or affecting something down the line. So I'm gonna start with this. I normally actually would have gone for the BQ chips. The BQ chips were quite nice. They were much less expensive and they had I squared C and they had, you know, also either voltage or built-in Coulomb counting capability. But if I can't get it in the next, you know, six to 12 months even, if that's as soon as I can get it, I'm gonna start actually designing with parts that are more expensive just so I can get something out the door and then reevaluate in a year. It's easy to then, you know, I can always reduce the cost later by subbing out the old part, but not being able to ship something costs money every single day. So yeah, these are the design trade-offs I'm currently making is going with parts I normally wouldn't go with just because I can get them, knowing that I'll probably have to do a redesign down the line, but you know, I'll deal with that later. You know, I'll say, hey, I redesigned this for a cheaper chip and here is a new driver and here's the differences. And I've done that before. We've designed a lot of our feather boards or early Metro boards, whatever, with FTDI chips. And then when we could get Silabs USB serial converters, which I like a little bit more than the FTDI ones, they're less expensive and they have a couple of capabilities that I like. Very high speed, you know, data transfer and stuff. I redesigned a lot of boards and said, okay, I used to use the FTDI chip now using the Silabs chip. Well, the Silabs chip is also, I end of line, so maybe we'll do a future show where I show how to swap out a Silabs 2104 as well. Yay, it's like juggling. All right. And that's the great search.