Hello everyone Welcome to another NARC survivor live video on my youtube channel where I post videos of or rather about narcissistic abuse to help victims and survivors to understand what they've been through and so that they can move past it and into a healthier and happier situation or environment and then in in this video. I'm going to be talking about how the narcissist feels when you're gone Before I begin, please give this video a thumbs up down below As it will help the youtube algorithm and And it will help to get this very important message out there for other survivors to see it Many of you may see these pictures on social media The narcissist always has to flaunt certain things especially their new supply They really want you to see it They want you to think That they are happy In some new situation without you This is what every narcissist wants their victim to believe and that should be really obvious because Just look at how they Set up the situation in a way where they've got to have you on their stuff They've got to leave you observing their life and of course the way that they do that is They might discourage you Leave you without any closure without an explanation so that you're looking for answers So then they already know you're gonna look to their social media to see where they went what they're doing who they're with To try to figure out why they left And it's just a setup So that when you go on there You see them with their new supply and it looks like having a great time without you Because the abuse never ends You think you were abused a lot in the relationship But they've got more waiting for you when the relationship ends as well Well, they try to punish you by using their new supply to triangle it with you So it looks like they're happy Having a great time Without you they've moved on They don't need you now They have a better life They've found a better person Also, it seems because the problem with that narrative that story Lies in how they behaved while they were with you Because if you look back and remember what they were doing remember how they were always so miserable Remember how they had to abuse you devalue you elevate themselves at your expense Why does a person need to elevate themselves at another person's expense? They can only do that If they are beneath you and they're using you as a stepping stone So that they can climb higher emotionally and vibration in vibrationally So that should already tell you Or rather reveal to you their state of mind that emotional state and should reveal to you that Even in your darkest moments when you were really going through it and they were putting you down You may have felt miserable yourself doing that time, but how you felt in that moment Was nothing compared to how they felt Which is why they were still using you as a stepping stone to elevate themselves They are shame-based people who are doing everything they can to avoid reflecting on their shame So they're constantly trying to deflect it on to you But it just continues to eat away at them Everything they do every negative action It's because they feel miserable That's why people behave negatively Where they are trying to take something away from you even if it's just your happiness and contentment They're trying to do that because they are operating from the lower vibrations Lower level of emotions That is what results in negative behavior There is no such thing as a happy person Who feels the need to manipulate or abuse anyone?  They're trying to extract their narcissistic supply Because they're of a very low consciousness They're like zombies. They're barely even alive They're barely even a person And in fact in my previous videos I said Narcissists are not even like real people and I've had Relationships that lasted several years with narcissists. I just felt like the entire time that I was dealing with them It's like I'm not even talking to a real person It's like a robot an AI It's like they're not even there in the mind the lights are on but no one is home and I think a lot of that It's not just because the very negative pessimistic That of a very low vibration the shame-based people who are doing everything they can to avoid reflecting on their shame It's not just that it's also because they lack effective empathy So they're unable to share the other person's feelings or experience Which kind of leaves them trapped in a world of their own They're unable to reach anyone to connect to them and you're unable to reach them Which is why no matter what it's like. There's always a disagreement There's always a misunderstanding There's always miscommunication They always see you as a threat to someone who's trying to attack them because there is there's never there's really never They bond a tie a connection between you and them It never exists it never occurs That's not even possible All they can do is read into your emotions Because their predators they're very good at sensing your energy your emotional state And anytime that they're seeing you climbing up emotionally It reminds them of what they're missing And then they begin to envy you they envy your happiness your peace your contentment So then they've got to bring you down So that they can elevate themselves at your expense by knowing this It should reveal to you That no matter no matter what where they go or who they're with They're always going to be the exact same way They're going to be doing the same things they did to you to other people They're going to be trying to elevate themselves at other people's expense as well Although it may not be in the exact same way they tailor make these characters to specific people Whatever they think is going to work for whatever person they're dealing with So it might be something with you Help some to feel better at your expense They might not do that same thing as someone else that they could do something else instead It's just whatever works But it's always negative. It's always taking something away from your feelings or experience Because that is how they elevate themselves But even then they can never experience happiness. I mean if they could they would never do the things that they do They would never manipulate abuse or behave negatively a happy person does not feel the need to do that They could just be normal. They could be open and honest with you They don't have to bring you down and in fact Just any normal person Even if they're feeling down. They're unhappy.  That's their idea of happiness Because many of them suffer from sadistic personality disorder as well So they find pleasure in your pain and distress Even then it's not the type of pleasure that we experience They can ever reach that level of happiness and that's really why they do what they do So of course once you're gone Whether they discard you or you leave them They just go back to feeling miserable. They just go back to having to Abuse people put them down So that they can stay afloat Emotionally, but don't mistake that with happiness. They do not experience happiness They never get that emotion It may look like they're elevated at times, but what that actually is When they're hurting you when they're abusing you They're just experiencing Temporary relief From their shame By deflecting it onto you So that's not happiness Even when you see the narcissist ex-merc It looks like they're smiling. They're not really happy That's just a temporary relief from their pain That's all that there is So don't think that they've just gotten away with it and they've moved on found someone else I think you just forget about you. It doesn't work that way and in fact I found evidence that the things they do It comes back to haunt them The shame carries with them even if they're not conscious of it. It stays in their body Everything they do to you it actually affects them Far more than it affects you The studies there's research that proves that in fact People who bully this includes narcissists, of course They're at the risk a risk of 10 to 25 times more than their victim of Developing a psychiatric condition Among many other things such as if they haven't already developed in narcissistic personality Personality disorder sociopathy psychopathy Among many other conditions as well so Their story their narrative it just doesn't connect it doesn't add up There is no such thing. There's no such possible outcome of someone manipulating abusing deceiving harming another person And then just running off for being happy whether it's on their own or with their new supply That's impossible they walk away. Yes, they leave With a 10 to 25 times risk more than you of developing a psychiatric condition among many other illnesses and The shame that will haunt them for the rest of their lives and just endless misery So that's how it turns out for them and they continue to try to distract themselves They continue to seek relief from that emotional pain By finding new victims and abusing them. So as you can imagine just perpetuates Everything that they are trying to run away from and this is why they come after us This is why it's us running away from them Because they're the ones with the problem We're the ones who can attend to ourselves and heal. We do not need an external regulator When they are away from us, they go back to feeling miserable When we are around them, we feel miserable But as soon as we get away from them, it's like finally we can breathe We feel happy and they know that which is why they often come back to hoover us. That's why they stalk and harass us That's the whole purpose of the smear campaign It's to try to keep you down because they already know Once they're not around you Your life goes back to normal. You can experience happiness You can experience everything that they can't everything that they never will So the only thing they can do which relieves that emotional pain is to try to hold on to you For dear life and never let you go But even then that perpetuates their psychiatric condition just makes matters worse for them And it just gets worse and worse the older they get the develop more business and resentment It's horrible to be around a narcissist and old age They are never happy They're always just So negative and miserable horrible company to have so no They're not moving on They're not happy. They're not living their best lives. They're not doing any of that They've not found fulfillment in a new relationship with a new supply It just doesn't happen it never happens it never will The only one who can move on and find happiness and fulfillment is us We are the ones that can heal. We are the ones that can regulate ourselves We are the ones who can be happy whether it's alone or with someone else That's why it's them who envy us And we are the ones who are always trying to fix things for them and make them happy But no matter what you I or anyone else does it's never gonna be enough They're always going to be the same and in fact the older they get the worse they get So that's it. That's what happens when You're gone. 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The artist collaborative theater in Elkhorn City was devastated by a fire over the weekend But in the wake of that fire hope has been expressed by the theater troop that they will be back and be bigger and better than ever And today I'm joined in the studio by artist collaborative theater executive director and founder Stephanie Richard Stephanie Thank you so much for being up in the studio with today. Thank you and for inviting me. It's it's wonderful I have you here. I mean it it was a huge story that we covered a lot of people Really had a lot of reactions to it that people were very sad to see the theater burn But I think a lot of people are excited to hear what you guys have got planned for the future, especially since you're Planning on coming back as I said bigger and better than ever. Yes, so we'll kind of start with Where you guys are in the process right now? I know that it's it's a recovery process It's gonna be a long process But you guys have already kind of gotten everything started and I think a lot of people are just kind of wondering where you are on that sure It's sort of dual layered we figured that out so to keep the business running as is as best as possible so our children's theater have already met this week and had rehearsals for wrist a cat and and the ongoing education program and our next production of you can't take it with you Which is our drama our comedy literary slot? It's already had two rehearsals this week and they're working at the extension office right now We don't know the exact location where those productions will be but we'll be finding that out We were given support from the churches in Elkhorn City offered offered their spaces and also the Elkhorn City Community Center and the Elkhorn the Eastridge High School has offered and I'm sure Elkhorn has offered to somebody It's just not gotten back to me yet so we've been offered facilities and we will keep business going as usual and we're very blessed and Then on the building recovery, so we've started the insurance process We're keeping daily updates online on Facebook on my page and artist collaborative theater and the volunteers page So that people because because there was so much support that night And I think it's showing that we're all in this together now that I think people want to know what's going on daily Are we are we and not and not and not let it get out of sight out of mind? Absolutely, I mean that was a big thing that I wanted to talk to you about You've done amazing at that and I appreciate it. No, no, no You're too kind as I said a little while ago, but what? You've got a lot of support from the community You had a lot of folks out that night that that saw the building burn and a lot of people were expressing support What does that support been like for you guys in the wake of something this devastating? It's kept us breathing and kept us standing If we had to go through that Saturday night, I'm sorry if we had to go through that Saturday night just Just me or just my family or or just some individuals I don't know if I would be picked up off the ground yet or not but Saturday night our Volunteer theater company stood shoulder to shoulder and we held each other up and the community support that poured in and is still pouring Has meant the world because 18 years ago people didn't know what the vision was and they'd and you know And in Eastern Kentucky, we don't trust things until we see it because people promise a lot that don't that doesn't come through for us So 18 years ago people didn't know whether to believe in it or not and now 18 years later for people to believe in it and support it and know the value of it means everything in the world and If if I had even had a second of thinking well, this was a good run and it's over now Boy that would have gotten put out quickly because Between the volunteers in the community and our children our children were at home watching it on Facebook going we're gonna We're gonna be okay. We're gonna we're gonna fix this because that's what we do at the theater We don't blame and we do and we don't find fault We problem-solve and we go forward and that's what we've always practiced. Okay, so with going forward What's next for you guys in the process? Started the insurance process. I'm starting having meetings about fundraisers and and how we can keep keep building the financial base that we're going to need for this so I'm Waiting for the building site to stop smoldering so the fire marshal can come in we don't have any worries about that I don't I don't anticipate any I Think that the fire department said they think that it it was a spark in the wall An electric something that happened in the wall and And the fire departments so Elkhorn City Let me see if I can do it again Elkhorn City Sycamore, Millard, Farrell's Creek, Pikeville and Coal Run to have six fire departments in a rural community in a rural region Come together to fight that fire was very humbling and our Elkhorn City fire department people Were as emotional as I was that night trying to do their best Well, a lot of folks I think at that scene took ownership of the theater They did and I think that's one of the reasons it was such an emotional event for a lot of people. They did. Yeah And I think that that might translate into a lot of support for you guys and I understand that you guys have already actually started fundraising Is that correct? Yes, we have Yeah, so if anybody wants to donate we're not being humble at this point and And I got over that a long time ago when I figured out that the theater is not for me The theater is for the theater people and for our community. So we're taking donations check or online. So check is PO box 964 Elkhorn City, Kentucky 41522 And online on Artist Collaborative Theater Facebook. There are a couple of different sites that you can find our fundraiser Our donate button and they're they're legitimate and I kept track of that to make sure So yeah, we're taking donations and and and we do want to come back bitter bigger and better Not bitter not bitter not not for a second. No bigger and better I think walking on faith and walking on on the support and love of the community before we get out of here I'm not gonna let you go without you telling me so the audience can hear when Elkhorn City is at its best I've been saying you've heard me say it when Elkhorn City is at its best We can't be beat and I've I've always been proud to be from Elkhorn City And I don't say I'm from Pike County. I say I'm from Elkhorn City and and I've I've I've always felt loved I'm probably one of those kids that was raised by the village So, you know, it takes a village to raise this child. I think everybody had a hand in raising me Um And and I appreciate Elkhorn City for For being the theater's home Well, I think the entire village is uh anxiously awaiting that uh, you're come back And uh, as I told you on the scene that night, you're definitely going to be come back because you're too stubborn not to That's what I've heard a lot this week I've heard that a lot this week and I guess I accept that. Well, uh, thank you so much for joining us today and uh, You know myself and the entire village wishes you luck and we're looking forward to what's next. Thank you. Thanks, Anthony


Former Marine Admiral Aokiji. Is he still a part of the Navy operating in secret? Or is he a part of a different faction entirely? Is he a sword member or a revolutionary? Stick around and you'll find out what the recent developments show about the true allegiance of this mysterious figure. Former Marine Admiral Kuzan, better known for his epithet Aokiji, is an enigma for sure. A great example of a morally grey individual whose true intentions and goals can't be ascertained with certainty. He's been the source of many a speculation for this reason, particularly since his defection from the Marines following his gruelling bout with fellow Admiral Sakazuki over the position of Fleet Admiral, choosing instead to join the Blackbeard Pirates in a head-scratching move. And while I don't think anyone really believes his truly turned coat to join the darkness of martial-de-teach, it's hard to know what exactly he's up to. A common thought is that Kuzan is a part of, and perhaps a very high-ranking member of, sword. The secret Marine Force involved in undercover operations to infiltrate Yonko crews. And this theory seems to be based on the following premises. While we don't know much about sword, it's goals or operations. Based on the organization's membership, it seems to be a faction of the Marines who, for a lack of better or more elegant way to put it, are made up of the good Marines. Those who don't blindly follow absolute justice, but Marines who actually care about doing good and improving the lives of citizens. And based on that assumption, what we've seen of Kuzan seems to point to a similar moral compass. Having let Robin go, as well as letting Luffy and the Straw Hats live, opposing Sakazuki's oppressive vision of justice and being an admirer of Garb, another one of the good guys, even as a Navy Admiral, our Kijis seem to fit in in this mob of Marines to lean on the lighter scale of the gray moral spectrum. And just as DS Drake went undercover in Emperor Kaido's crew, it could seem like our Kijis is doing the same with Blackbeard. Another premise for the speculation seems to be that given Kobe's involvement in Sword and knowing the young Marines mentorship under Monkey D. Garb, Kuzan, who similarly has a personal connection to the Marine hero, is believed to also be a part of Sword because of this shared relationship. This, however, suggests reliance on another assumption that Garb himself is a part of Sword and those who join all operate with similar goals and ideologies, which is a popular speculation in its own right, but not the point of the discussion today. And while I can definitely see why a theory about Kuzan being a Sword member would be popular, it's undeniable that there are a lot of assumptions that we have to accept and rely upon to get there. But here's another idea. What if Kuzan is not in fact a member of Sword but is a part of the Revolutionary Army instead? And here's another idea. If you like One Piece discussions, why not subscribe to this channel and show some support? It's worth noting that after leaving the Marines, Kuzan didn't join the Blackbeard Pirates straight away. Before joining the infamous crew, he was suspected of having some dealings in the underworld. A fact he neither affirmed nor denied when alluded to twice, both by Dauflamingo and Smokon. So if this is true, that Kuzan had been somehow involved in the underworld after leaving the Marines, but prior to allying with Blackbeard, this could make a lot of sense in terms of his membership within the Revolutionaries because we do know the Revolutionary Army had been monitoring underworld activity, particularly the movement of the Don Quixote family to gain weapons for their own use and rescuing their comrades who had been turned into toys in Dressrosa. Kuzan, whilst undercover, working in the underworld, may have been instrumental in finding out this information for the Revolutionary Army. But more so than just speculative connections, I want to revisit a conversation from chapter 699, which I find extremely interesting and very illuminating. After saving Smokon from Dauflamingo, Kuzan shares his thoughts with his former comrade that he never believed the world government to be the be-all and end-all, an ideology that is shared by both the Revolutionaries and some Marine members like Garp, mind you. But then, Kuzan also says that you don't have to be affiliated with the Navy to accomplish things, appreciating the fact that some things you are only able to see when you are in fact independent of the Navy. And this to me suggests that he has truly left the Marines. If you have time, I'd strongly recommend you to go back and reread this chapter because it's one of the most unexpectedly impactful moments of the series. It has to be one of the most down-to-earth, honest conversations I've ever witnessed in one piece. And even without featuring any of the main characters, Oda manages to drive home such a key idea of the series. The fact that no faction in the world is wholly good or wholly evil. There are characters, individuals with their own personal relationships and beliefs who make up these groups and organizations. And without involving any high emotions or pizzazz or any embellishments, this conversation just feels so raw and real. A former comrade in arms assuring his friend that no matter his allegiance, he is just him. And from this conversation alone, I'm uncertain of the idea that Kuzan has remained in the Marines and now just operates as an undercover sword member. I really believe his words during this interaction to have been real and honest, which is why I believe that he has truly left the Navy. Even Doughlamingo's words about Kuzan suggests this fact, that Kuzan is a man who has made up his mind about something. To me, Kuzan's a man who's made up his mind about how to accomplish things in the world. I think it's something that he has struggled with for a long time, particularly after what he witnessed in Ohara. We already know that the events of the genocide was enough to transform our Kiji from being an eager Marine, following the brand of burning justice to an apathetic individual adhering to a lazy sense of justice. But with the Marines still being helmed under the guidance of Fleet Admiral Sengoku, a man who seems to be at least more reasonable, and the remaining influence of Garb as a celebrated Vice Admiral still within the Marines. I think our Kiji stayed on board as part of the Navy, perhaps still holding onto some hope that he could effect change from the inside, or that maybe he could act as a balancing force to the ruthlessness and intensity of Marine members like Aka Inu. During this period, maybe he was a part of sword, working as an idealistic Marine still believing in the potential for the Navy to do some good. But this all changed following the Summit War. Not only did both Sengoku and Garb resign, meaning the need for a new Fleet Admiral resulting in that infamous 10-day battle between Kuzan and Sakazuki. And despite following an idea of lazy justice, Kuzan put his all into that battle, determined to not let the Marines fall under the influence of Aka Inu. But when Sakazuki won, despite his best efforts, I think this is when Kuzan made up his mind that the Marines were simply no longer an organization where he believed he could work to change the world, leaving him with only one choice, the Revolutionary Army. Okay, that's not true. He could have joined a pirate crew or he could have even decided to work alone. But I don't think that he did. I think he joined the revolutionaries. For one, like I said, there seems to be a connection between Kuzan being involved in the underworld and the Revolutionary Army also moving in the shadows. But also, you can draw inferences from the fact that during his time with Blackbeard's crew, when the Blackbeard pirates decided to attack the Revolutionary Army base bolt ago, the revolutionaries were able to escape. Perhaps because Kuzan tipped his new comrades about the incoming attack. And as of more recent developments, I think the new reveals of what went down at Ohara and what happened afterwards further supports my speculations. The recent events in One Piece can only be explained to be a lore fest involving info dump after info dump, the futuristic ancient kingdom, the relationship between Vega Punk and Dragon, and most recently, unexpected twists about the outcomes of the Ohara incident. And from all of this, it's hard to miss the fact that the Revolutionary Army seems to be at the center of all these reveals and what can be expected in the story to come. But not only the revolutionaries, because as we have just discussed before, it was the Ohara incident that first led to Kuzan questioning his beliefs and the actions of the Marines. And as we have now just recently found out, Kuzan's attack on Jaguar, the friendly giant Saul, didn't kill the Marine Kump pirate. Now you may have your own reservations about how Ohara has just revived another thought-to-be-dead character, or whether Kuzan even knew or intended to not kill Saul. But these aren't matters that I personally want to get into in this video, because regardless of how you feel about these things, one thing that is for sure is that Kuzan is inextricably tied up in these recent reveals. And it can't be a coincidence that the recent cover story volumes have just also featured him as well. Though still working with Blackbeard, it's almost as if Ohara is now using the recent developments in the main storyline to assure us of Kuzan's good nature. And bear with me for a while as I make some assumptions of my own. But I wouldn't even be surprised if Garp pointed Kuzan in Dragon's direction, because while they operate on opposing sides, the feeling that I get is that Garp and Dragon have the same goals, but are just pursuing them through different ways. In fact, the entire Monkey-D family is a testament to that fact. Each man of the three generations are pursuing the same goals in their own separate ways. And if Garp really is involved in Sword, then I wouldn't be surprised to find out that as the respective heads of these two organizations, Garp and Dragon aren't opposed to sharing information or at least working towards the same goal. On a personal level, Garp doesn't even seem to be on bad terms with Dragon. And it's even suggested that the two may still keep in contact, seeing as how Garp knew that Dragon paid Luffy a visit at Locktown. Although, actually, it may have been Smokar who told Garp about that Dragon incident. So regardless, I actually do have two whole videos dedicated to this relationship between Garp and Dragon and how Dragon founded the Revolutionary Army. I must admit that I made those videos eons and eons ago, but I do recommend you watching them for a fuller context. I also wouldn't be surprised if Kuzan had at least some sort of relationship with Dragon himself dating decades as well. The two aren't too far off in age, and if Kuzan was mentored by Garp or at least had some sort of personal relationship with him, then the young Navy officer may have met Dragon as well. Kuzan certainly seemed to hold a keen interest in Luffy, and I don't think that that's simply explained by his admiration of Garp, but rather as an interest in the entire Monkey D family. Either way, whether Kuzan personally knew Dragon or not, I think he knew enough to know that the Revolutionary Army are not the bad guys, the fact that he was only able to truly appreciate after leaving the Navy. And now with the independence to act on this knowledge, Kuzan became a member of the Revolutionary Army himself, accomplishing things and changing the world under the banner of freedom. But as per his words to Smokar, he is still the man that he was. Now that's a character arc that I really love for Kuzan, and I can't wait to see that further developed or fleshed out, or I suppose I'll have to be proven right first. But anyways, those were just my thoughts on Kuzan and his allegiance, which is an idea that has shot up to the forefront of my mind, especially because of the recent developments. I would, however, love to hear what you guys have to say, so please let me know by leaving a comment below. Please do subscribe to this channel for more One Piece discussions. You can also join our joy fleet Discord server or even become a Patreon or channel member. And I do want to thank all our executive officers for help supporting the channel. This is Joygirl, and I'll see you again soon.


Hello, everyone, and welcome. This is Melissa Arma with the Stock Swish. Hope everyone's having a great day. I thought I would talk a little bit about what I do. Some of you have been following me on YouTube, and you may kind of have an idea that I trade gaps, which is exactly what I do. However, how do I pick which stock I'm trading every day that's gapping? There's literally thousands of stocks that gap on any particular day. And many, many days, the market gaps as well. When I mean the market, I mean the spy, which is the ETF for the S&P and the QQQs, or the DIA, which is ETF for the DAO. Anyways, how I do it is I developed a system a long, long time ago. Back in 2008, it would be about three years to develop my own system, where I rate each gap. I rate it, and I rate it on a 26-point rating system. I use the daily chart to find the points to rate it, okay? So that's my process. I can do it at night, but I typically wait and do it in the morning in the pre-market. So in the pre-market, in the morning, I rate the gaps, then I determine however many rate good per my 26-point system, and those are the ones that I look then to trade on the day. I look to do them as day trades, and sometimes I also do some of them as options trades, okay? The options newsletter is a subscription service where the newsletter is emailed to you. The equity trades, the day trades, is what the day trading room is set up for, and only people that have learned that 26-point system are eligible to be in the live trading room, which you have to take the golden gap course to learn. That is a class where I teach my method and system once a month. Sometimes I do two classes a month, depending on how many people I have interested. Sometimes I'll take a month off, but on average, it's about every four to six weeks that I do a class. If you ever wanna sign up, or if you have questions, feel free to call me. Email me also at MelissaBestockSwish.com, or call me at 99-3200-GET. Have a great day, everyone.


Hi there, thanks for the dislike. I love Halo and I love customizing my character, and with Infinite just a few months out and my excitement juices flowing to uncontrollable pressures, WHOA, CHEAP THIS BACK BABY! Ahahahahaha, yeah. Uggh, uggh, burn us, uggh! I wanted to throw my hat into the Halo ring on the hottest topic, armor customization. Plenty of longtime Halo fans will be pretty split between 3 and Reach on which game did customization the best, but I would like to propose Halo 4 for doing it the best, with reasons I almost never see people bring up with their arguments against it. And obviously this is all opinions that you're free to disagree with, be respectful in discussion, etc etc. Before I do though, I'd like to ask you to totally ignore the art style and design of the armors themselves in the games. That's not what I'm talking about, and I feel is one of the reasons people are sour to Halo 4 and 5's armor. The design. But forget that for a second, because I'm with it there. I'm not a big fan of most of the designs either. When people say they like the customization options in 3 and Reach, that's usually what they mean. Like the designs and options on offer. That's not what I'm referring to. So yeah, forget the designs of the armors and how they look. Just pretend they have all the same art style for a second. Just pick your favorite. It doesn't matter. I'd propose to look at the actual options available to customize, the available changeable pieces and how they fit onto the Spartan. In Halo 3 you have helmet, left and right shoulders, and chest. In Halo Reach you have helmet, left and right shoulders, chest, wrist, utility, knee guards, visor color, and armor effects. That's a pretty nice upgrade, right? And in Halo 4 you have helmet, left and right shoulders, chest, arms, legs, and visor color. Now at a glance that may seem like a step down, but I disagree. Primarily because the arms and legs and also how the chest piece is generally implemented. In the older two games the chest pieces were sort of weird and Halo 3 pieces were kind of attached on top of the chest piece like the CQB chest. And I love the CQB chest. It's my go-to because it gives you a knife. But take a look at it and you can see it's just sort of on top of the base Mark 6. Same with the EVA and Hayabusa and scout chests. They're not entirely different chest pieces, they're more like things placed on top of the chest. And the same thing with Reach too, a lot of the chest pieces were mostly just attachments onto the chest instead of totally different chest armors aside from a few notable exceptions. Where I think Halo 4 does this better is the chest pieces are entirely different with each option. Again, ignore the actual designs for a sec. Ignore how they look. They were all full pieces that replaced each other as opposed to just being laid on top of the default. Now let's take a closer look at Halo Reach actually because although there are technically more options to what's available to customize, a couple of those options are sort of minor and nearly unnoticeable like the wrist piece and the utility and the knee guards. It's just a small minor piece kind of just attached to the Spartan. I personally think being able to change the entire leg or entire arm pieces, it's much better and more significant in personalizing your Spartan than a med kit on your thigh that barely anyone is going to notice. Another minor step up I personally think Halo 4 has and to a slight extent Halo 5 is armor variants where the secondary color placement and patterns on the pieces of the armor can be customized via different variants of that same armor. And I think that's pretty cool to have the option to have your secondary color be a part of a camo pattern or some stripes or something. Now this has its own issues with some variants barely even having the secondary color visible and just filling up the menus with a bunch of armor slots, but I think that could be fixed with a slight little UI tweaking. But again, like I said, ignore the designs themselves and having just the option is pretty cool. That's mostly all I wanted to get off my chest because it's something I don't think people bring up enough when talking about Halo armor designs when discussing what makes which games customization good. And I think it overlooks the good Halo 4's options did in favor of criticizing the design of the armor, which again is not what I'm talking about, just the options. So yeah, that's my opinion and the video's topic is pretty much over and if that's all you care about, you can go. But if you're still here and interested in hearing me talk a little bit more, I wanted to propose an armor customization option that implements the best of both the classic Halo and new Halo customization options. And that's attachments via Halo reaches helmets in Halo reach. Each helmet had variants with various different attachments on them, whether it be some sort of HUL that added an extra piece of protection over the visor or an uplink that had like a little camera on the side. What if we had that except on every piece? Imagine you can change the entire chest piece on the Spartan, not just slapping on an extra thingamabobber on the default chest, like change the whole piece, then you can add on some extra stuff like reaches chest piece options, have some ammo pouches or a grenade belt or that cool ghillie patrol cloth thing that June has, basically make Halo 4's chest option the base chest option, then make Halo 3 and reach the style of chest option a secondary one on top of that. And you could extend that to the shoulders and arms and legs to make the wrist a secondary option of the arms, the utility and knee pads a secondary option of the legs, pick an entire leg piece to change and then have a submenu that lets you line your calves with throwing knives on top of it or something. Halo Infinite is just over the horizon, so I wouldn't anticipate this idea being picked up by 343. And if it was, then it probably already existed long before this video. And I wouldn't be sad if we did just go back to the Halo 3 style of having a very small selection of changeable pieces, but it's just sort of an idea that I liked and wanted to share with the world. Anyway, oh my god, the baddest start in Halo Infinite, holy fuck! Oh, and bring back Flaming Helmet, that would do it, please.


Hey Cal fans, this is Ryan Cardiff of CalTV Sports here with senior captain Russell Webb of Cal Men's Rugby. Russell, close game today, 28-17 loss. What are your initial thoughts on the team's performance? Obviously very disappointed. You know we thought we'd have a chance at the start obviously and but at the same time you know they're a very very good side and couldn't be proud of our boys. I thought we put our bodies on the line and it doesn't matter, it didn't feel like there was an age class in that, it doesn't matter if you're a freshman, sophomore, junior or senior. I think we all stuck together and I thought that was the main takeaway, really awesome. Yeah it's a great game to watch. So what did you guys do in practice this week to set the tone for such a big game? Yeah so I mean it's a 96 year old rivalry. We played them every year twice. So we kind of know what they're going to come out with. Defense was a big focus this week and last week and I think we showed that. And we've got two weeks now until we play them again, we play them back to back and we're going to hit the drawing board and try and straight something up for the next game. Awesome and how do you think these big games will kind of help you guys as you try to defend your titles with the postseason coming up? Yeah I mean this experience is second to none. We don't get competition like this very often you know coming all the way from British Columbia they know they're rugby in Canada and it's absolutely, this experience is something that we're going to take on and definitely use for the upcoming games. Awesome and lastly being a fifth year senior, what will you miss most about UC Berkeley? This, with the rugby fields. It's such a close community. I mean with the band, the fans, all you lot make it so special. Knowing that we play on this field and it's 134 years or so. It's pretty crazy to know that the guys have come before us and won this jersey and that's the main takeaway I think. Awesome, well that's a wrap here from Witter Rugby Field. I'm Ryan Cardiff. Go Bears! Tulip Mania is going to be so exciting. You have to be there.


And even many chronic illnesses are not necessarily due to our own actions, but are due to genetics or family history. But have you ever wondered why you get sick and why this has happened to you, or even why you're not healing? Well, Chinese medicine, in my opinion, is better suited more than any other form of medicine to address that specifically. Hey guys, I'm Dr. Alex Hine, author of the health book Master the Day, and doctor of acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine. So before we jump in, I have two very important links right below this video for you. The first is if you'd like to become a patient of my locally in Los Angeles, or virtually via telemedicine, you can contact my private practice right below this video. And the second is for a free download, which is four daily rituals that can potentially help you add years to your life with Chinese medicine. Now, when we talk about the ancient history of Chinese medicine, probably what stands out as being most iconic is the idea of the channels and the meridians, right? Because consuming herbs is plausible to people because even many pharmaceuticals come from herbs. But this idea that there are meridians or what people consider to be energetic pathways through the body that these acupuncture points correlate with is a little bit more far-fetched because we can't see them, right? We can't feel them. So how do we know these things are real? Well, leaving that question aside just for a moment, the ancient doctors that came up with this medicine had observed that these channels and these organs in the body functioned a lot like nature. So very often the body was viewed as a microcosm of the macrocosm of the universe, right? We have rivers and channels and waste in the body, just like we have rivers and channels and waste in nature. And just like the seasons in the body that we call weather, there are seasons in nature that we call weather or the seasons in the body called weather are really emotions and the weather in nature is seasons, is weather. These inner-outer correlations were made and these connections were made because these ancient people were keenly interested in the relationships between things, primarily how things begin immaterially before becoming material. Some people say this is how the energy precedes matter quality, but medically this is really how physiologically something goes on underlying for a while before it becomes something more structural, like blood sugar becoming end-stage kidney damage or kidney disease. But these ancient doctors viewed the channels as waterways very often and so healthy physiological function was viewed almost like a dam in a river or proper river flow. And so even the channels, some of these characters for the channels like Jing Mai or Jing Luo were viewed as the warp in the wolf of, you know, when someone's weaving something. And so ancient doctors viewed good health as proper physiological flow, proper organ functioning and proper overall circulation throughout the body and circulation throughout the channels and the organs. So let's talk about more of this idea of health as proper functioning or proper flow. I know it's very almost esoteric sounding and nonspecific, but I think you'll see it really is quite clinical. Let's say that the functioning and the flow in the body is like a river. And let's just call this your yangqi. Your yangqi is a concept in Chinese medicine that is not necessarily a real thing, but is a conceptual way to view health. We could say yangqi is vitality. And again, you can't put that in a bottle or measure it in a microscope, but you recognize it when you see it. The little four-year-old running around, bright eyes, high energy, and the 85-year-old lifeless eyes, no energy, slow reaction time. That's yangqi visualized. That's the gestalt of vitality. And we know when we feel it and we know when we don't feel it. But let's say yangqi is the river. The river in your body is yangqi, your resources. When the river is high, there's movement, right? There's enough physiological flow. So a stick falls in, no problem. A beaver poops in it, no problem. There's garbage dumped in it, even no problem. The yangqi can take care of that. It can flush it, it can move it. It's the lymph, it's the blood circulation. It's proper hormones, it's physiology. But then what happens is either due to too much accumulation of garbage thrown into the river.  A beaver builds a dam. There's a sewage waste plant above. There's a nuclear meltdown that happens, Fukushima.  Now if you're yangqi strong, it can deal with detoxification. Ultimately, there's a limit to how much garbage you can put in before a problem will happen, no matter the person, right? If you have someone exposed to radiation repeatedly, everyone will get damage. But for the average person, maybe that waste is too much sugar. Maybe that waste is smoking cigarettes. Maybe that waste is excessive use of pharmaceuticals or just very poor diet fried food. If the yangqi is strong, that river can clear that, no problem. But what happens is very often, yangqi is weak. Weak because we don't take care of ourselves. Weak because we have a weak constitution and we tend to run cold or are predisposed to GI problems just like our mother had, whatever it is. But the river is now low. And now a weak river that doesn't have much flow, doesn't have the pressure to actually flush some of this out. And so now either due to genetics or poor lifestyle, lack of neglect of our health, the river has gotten low. And so now as this garbage accumulates, as it always does, it can't fully flush that. And we've produced a localized area of a problem. And that problem is the beginning of a physiological blockage or some organ dysfunction. And this is one way to conceptualize how illness begins within Chinese medicine. And how do we assess this though? Because you can't see that within your body, but you actually can based on some of the symptoms that come up. And I wanna talk about a few organ systems very briefly that I see as the most common areas where the yang is becoming deficient or there's some area of localized blockage. So how do I know if I have proper organ function or proper health or proper flow, according to Chinese medicine? I mean, a tricky thing is in conventional biomedicine, how do we assess health? It's typically through labs, right? But I have a lot of patience with blood work that looks good. Nothing is flagged by the primary care physician, but they don't feel well. And within my field, the other methods of diagnosis, the pulse diagnosis, the abdominal diagnosis are pathological. If I felt that pulse on someone in a bar, that's a red flag, but the labs look good. One of the ways we do this, besides those objective findings within Chinese medicine, are symptoms. So let's talk about a few organ systems here. One common one is what we consider the xiaoyang organs. So the gallbladder and the sanjiao. This commonly shows up as digestive symptoms like reflux. Reflux, one of the most common symptoms that I treat and diseases, if you wanna call it that, the pathologies that I treat is a clear dysfunction in gallbladder, stomach, and spleen pancreas in Chinese medicine. So if you're noticing a little bit more indigestion, a little bit more feeling, a little bit more heat in the stomach or a little bit more burning pressure in the upper right quadrant, despite there being no pain, there's a canary in the colmi. The stomach and large intestine, again, more digestive issues, but they may be more lower GI, constipation, missing every other day, missing every three days. Some people miss a week and they don't think it's a problem. That's right there. That river is getting dammed up. The lung and the spleen, the tie-in organs, respiratory problems, asthma, excessive allergies, issues with immunity, so catching colds every season, getting the flu easily. Or digestive, a lot of food sensitivities, excessive bloating, loose stools, diarrhea. Right there, the tie-in organs, the lung and the spleen and pancreas are showing problems. The heart and the kidney, these are issues with insomnia, anxiety, depression, sleeping issues, very commonly those four are often heart and kidney. So if those begin cropping up, the river is running low. Those are your canaries in the colmi. It may mean you used to be able to sleep eight hours, now after like six, six and a half, your body wakes you up and you don't feel rested. That's a canary. It may mean the liver and pericardium. So this is a final organ pair, the J-in circulatory organs, related to often blood flow and stasis. So clotting issues, circulatory issues, like menstrual problems, missing menstrual cycles, severely painful dysmenorrhea. So all of these are signs that the river, yangchi, there's issues with the functioning of those organs in Chinese medicine. And those are your warning signs.  Don't misinterpret what I'm saying. But those are your canaries, that the yang is weak and the function is weak. And when the river's low, that's where problems can begin to happen. So very different, East First West view of health and wellness and disease and pathology. And very, very important to keep in mind, because I find that often the labs come back and look good, but very often people are still sick from my perspective and certainly in terms of the symptoms they have, they are not in a state of good health. And these can sometimes lead to issues later on. That's what I have for you today guys, the root of all illness within Chinese medicine. There are the links below for you, the free guide, and if you wanna read more about my private practice, you can check out the links right below and I'll see you in these related videos right over there.