Hello everyone, this is Alice Gao. In this video, I will go through the process of solving the question in lecture 3 on slide 30. In this problem, we relax the eight puzzle by removing both constraints. When we move a tile from square A to square B, A and B do not need to be adjacent, and B doesn't have to be empty. What admissible heuristic function can we derive using this relaxed problem? The correct answer is B, the misplaced tile heuristic. Consider one state of the eight puzzle. We need to determine the smallest number of moves to transform this state to a goal state. In other words, how many moves does it take to move all the tiles into their goal positions? We have removed both constraints, which means that we can move a tile from one square to any other square instantly. In other words, a tile can fly from one square to another square. This is great. This means that if a tile is not in its goal position, we can move it to its goal position in one step. For this state, we need seven moves, since all eight tiles, except tile six, are not in their goal positions. What are we really computing here? The number of moves is equal to the number of tiles that are not in their goal positions. This number is equal to the value of the misplaced tile heuristic. The correct answer is B, the misplaced tile heuristic. Thank you very much for watching. I will see you in the next video. Bye for now.


Welcome everyone. Good to see you all and to be back at the Bible College last week I was teaching from home so good to be here with you all. Let's just begin with a word of prayer and then we'll talk through some of the things, assignments and things like that before we go into today's passage. Would someone be willing to open us in prayer please? We want to thank you for this time. Thank you for your presence, your grace upon us this morning. We ask for God that you would minister to us this morning as we begin to learn from your word. We ask for your grace and bless each one of us God with your power, with your glory.  In Jesus name we pray. Thank you. So I think your first assignment, your reflection paper was due last week. I haven't looked at how many people turned it in and but if you haven't yet turned it in please do that. Were there any questions anyone had or no? Okay. The other thing is that I posted two videos or I didn't posted Monika who helps with the classroom posted two videos last week. So these were the two videos just to make up because we had missed one class a few weeks ago. So please watch those videos because today we're going to be continuing from past those videos. I did the end of first Corinthians and then second Corinthians just the introduction and chapter one and two. So today we'll continue from chapter three. So y'all can go back and watch those videos if you haven't yet seen it. Yeah, so we can go into second Corinthians. Does anyone have anything else with assignments? If you have started on your final assignment, any questions, anything? Okay. Feel free to reach out to me during the week. I'll try and keep an eye on my on Google classroom. I'll know if somebody posts but if you're emailing me or something, I'll just look out for that in case you'll have any questions and need help as you're doing it or preparing to do the assignment. So we go into chapter three of second Corinthians. But before that, let me just give you a brief background to second Corinthians. I've done it in the video, but in case you missed it or you haven't yet seen it just so that you have some context to what is going on here. So second Corinthians was written about three years after first Corinthians. And so the letter to the Corinthians that first letter that we have in the Bible was written in response to some things that Paul had heard about the church, things that were going on in the church from reports that he'd received from within the church and possibly Titus who had also visited the Corinthian church had gone back and met Paul and shared some of these things. And so Paul wrote first Corinthians as a just to answer some of the questions to address some of the issues that were there. Now, second Corinthians is quite different. It mostly is Paul's self defense. So it seems that there were there was a continue continuation of that tension between a leader, church leaders. So there were people who had come in who were mocking Paul in some way. We'll see a little more in detail about that in second Corinthians chapter 11 where he talks more directly about it. But so there were some people who were claiming to be greater apostles or leaders than Paul, and they had come into the church and they were kind of trying to teach the church certain new things. And so that was a confusion within the church of who should is Paul really somebody that they can is he someone who has the authority or for leader that they can trust. And so Paul is sort of writing a defense about his own his own role as an apostle. And also it is that continuation of the the tension between the elite within the church, wanting a leader who meets their standards of rhetoric, who meets their standards of being someone that they support financially, whereas Paul was not receiving financial support from them. So all of these things created some tension between Paul as the as a someone as someone who had authority within the current in church as a leader there. And so he's writing this letter to support or to defend himself. So we'll see a lot of things where he's talking about writing a letter of recommendation being somebody who can be trusted for what for the work that he has done, especially today, what we look at in chapter three, we'll talk a lot about that. So with that, we can go into chapter three. Would someone be willing to just read the entire chapter for us? It's not a very long chapter. Second Corinthians chapter three. Do we begin again to comment ourselves? Or do we need as some others epistles of commendation to you or letters of commendation from you? You are our episode written in our hearts known and read by all men. Clearly, you are an epistle of Christ ministered by us written not with ink, but by the spirit of the living God, not as tablets of stone, but on top, not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of flesh, that is of the heart, the spirit, not the little and we have such trust through Christ toward God. Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God, who also made us sufficient, who has also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter, but of the spirit for the letter of kills, but the spirit gives life, glory of the new covenant. But if the ministry of death written and engraved on stones was glorious so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance, which glory was passing away, how will the ministry of the spirit not be more glorious? For if the ministry of condemnation had glory, the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory. For even what was made glorious had no glory in this respect because of the glory that excels. For if what is passing away was glorious, what remains is much more glorious. Therefore, since we have such hope, we use great boldness of speech unlike Moses who put a veil on his over his face so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the end of what was passing away. But their minds were blinded for until this day the same veil remains unlifted in the reading of the Old Testament because the veil is taken away in Christ. But even to this day when Moses is spread a veil lies on their heart. Nevertheless, when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty. But we all with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory just as by the Spirit of the Lord. Amen. Thank you sister. So we see here Paul beginning with this thought of do we have to start from the beginning again. So when Paul first went to the Corinthians they didn't know him and so he had to win their trust or he had to build their trust in who he was. So in verse one he's saying do we begin again now to commend ourselves to you. Should we again now try and prove who we are to you or should we have somebody else write a letter. So we see that even in scriptures where Paul will write a small just a small recommendation for the person who's taking the letter or someone who's going to the church on his behalf. He writes that on behalf of Timothy on behalf of Titus. So similarly this was something that was common a common practice where a leader a church leader or minister would have somebody write on their behalf just so that the people that they were going to would be able to trust them because they've got a recommendation from somebody they know or they got a recommendation from someone they trust and so he's saying should we ourselves now have a letter like that that we give to you from somebody else or should we ask you yourselves for a letter and then in verse two he says but you are our letter written on our hearts known and read by all men and so he says when people look at you when they see the fruit that has been born in this church that is the proof of the work that we did. Proof that the work we did was work that truly was of the spirit was of God and it's proof to everyone right because everyone can see your lives everyone can see the church what's going on in the church so just by seeing the fruit of the work they can tell that our work was work that was genuine and that's a beautiful thing just as people who are serving the Lord to think about that when we are ministering to people their lives how they are impacted will be proof that God has worked through us and other people will also be able to see that work and know that God himself has done this God has used us but it's God himself who has done it something for us to kind of look at in the work that we are doing to look at the lives of the people we are serving and see what is the impact it's having on their lives do we see that that kind of spiritual growth do we see maturity in their walk with Christ all of those things is is that happening in their lives and if so then that is the evidence that what we've been doing is really is really in line with God and in line with his spirit so then in verse 3 clearly you are an epistle of Christ ministered by us written not with ink but by the spirit of the living God not on tablets of stone but on tablets of flesh so we this language is very familiar because it's it's a use of images from scripture itself right where we hear in the Old Testament that the law would no longer be written on on stone on tablets of stone but would be written on people's hearts when when the Holy Spirit came when people encountered Jesus so we'll just look at some of those passages if someone can read Jeremiah 31 31 to 34 Jeremiah 31 verse 31 behold the days are coming says the Lord when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt my covenant which they broke though I was a husband to them says the Lord but this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days says the Lord I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts and I will be their God and they shall be my people no more shall every man teaches neighbor and every man his brother saying know the Lord for they all shall know me from the least of them to the greatest of them says the Lord for I will forgive their iniquity and their sin I will remember no more amen thank you so we see here Paul using that we see the same language used in other parts of the Old Testament as well in Ezekiel 11 19 and 20 in Ezekiel 36 26 and 27 talking about removing the heart of stone of the people and God removing the heart of stone that people had and giving them a heart of flesh through the Holy Spirit so Paul is intentionally using this language because from here on he shifts to talking about the old covenant versus the new covenant and in doing that he is why is he doing that is because he's saying that I am an apostle of a covenant that is much greater than the covenant that was given through Moses okay so these many of the people in the church were from a Jewish background and they had a great reverence for Moses because of his leadership of the people of Israel and the fact that that covenant was established between God and Israel through Moses through Moses's leadership and so here Paul is saying that the covenant that I have brought to you is greater than that covenant that Moses brought to you and so if you give Moses that kind of reverence then recognize that I am also worthy of respect not because of my authority but because of the glory of the covenant that God has allowed me to bring to you to share with you so so here in verse 3 he basically is saying that work that was promised in the Old Testament of the heart being transformed right so moving from the letter of the law to moving to a heart of flesh which carries the truth of God which carries the law of God in your heart that was what happened for you as a church for y'all as people who receive the gospel and so that itself is evidence of the work that we did so then from there verses 4 to 6 and we have such trust through Christ toward God so this confidence that they have is through Christ it's not in themselves in what they did but it is because of what Jesus did and what Jesus has done in the lives of the church and then verse 5 not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves but our sufficiency is from God so he's making it clear here even though I'm talking about myself and I'm talking about my I'm trying to defend my role as the leader here I want you to recognize that it's only because of God that that position that I have the work that has been accomplished everything has been only through God so that in no way is he trying to take glory for what has been accomplished and here the word sufficiency means the ability or the competency so the ability for him to have seen that church transform those people transformed or the competency to carry the gospel to them all was from God and not from himself so this is something for us also to remember that in ministry we are often called to things that are much much greater than anything we can accomplish in our own strength and our sufficiency our strength our ability our competency whether we have the knowledge or the skills or all of that is secondary it's definitely important to work on those things and to grow in those things but what is important is the calling and our obedience to the calling and then trusting in God to give us the the understanding the skills that we need to carry out what he has called us to and to give him the glory when we see that happen as well verse 6 who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant not of the letter but of the spirit for the letter kills but the spirit gives life so he made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant or minister somebody who serves who runs errands for a master so it's also understood as someone who picks up dust so he they are sent they run to do the task that has been entrusted to them and so that was the understanding of what paul was called to he was just carrying out the task that christ his master had entrusted to him and ministers of the new covenant now covenant is a will a legal contract an agreement that is binding on the people within the covenant and the covenant he's referring here to is the new covenant in the blood that is sealed with the blood of christ right so our covenant with god the father through the blood of christ and so this is a covenant that they were ministers of and this is a covenant not of the letter that is not like the old covenant which was simply a set of rules but it is of the spirit so this spirit that transforms the hearts of people not the letter that kills meaning not the letter that gives you a set of rules that you cannot follow but of the spirit who gives life so the spirit who transforms our hearts enables us to live in obedience to the will of god and through that to experience the life the abundant life that comes through christ so we see here the same thing about the role of the law versus the spirit in the new covenant in roman 7 5 to 6 if someone can read that for us please Romans chapter 7 verse 5 to 6 for when we were in the flesh the sinful passion which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to be a fruit to death but now we have been delivered from the law having died to what we were held by so that we should serve in the newness of the spirit and not in the oldness of the letter yes so we see here the same thing there that the law was something that we were trying to fulfill or we're trying to live in accordance with the law in our own strength in our physical ability in our own flesh we were trying to live in accordance with the righteous law of god and we obviously failed because we could not meet god's standards and because we couldn't meet god's standards that would lead to death for us but because of this new covenant we no longer have to live in the power of our own flesh but we live in the power of the holy spirit and the holy spirit enables us to live a life that is pleasing to god and therefore to have life in christ so from there we go into verses 7 to 18 here we see paul just contrasting these two covenants so talking about the old covenant having glory that was limited versus a new covenant that is much more glorious again here continuing to tell them tell them to value what what god is entrusted to paul as a minister to them and so to recognize that this was something glorious that god himself had chosen paul to carry to the church so but if the ministry of death written and engraved on stones was glorious so that the children of israel could not steadily look at the face of moses because of the glory of his countenance which glory was passing away so this is from exodus 34 29 maybe we can just read that account exodus 34 29 to 33 actually can read from 29 to 35 from verse 29 34 29 exodus chapter 34 verse 29 now it was so when moses came down from mount sanai and the two tablets of the testimony where moses and when he came down from the mountain that moses did not know that the skin of his face shown while he talked with him so when aaron and all the children of israel saw moses behold the skin of his face shown and they were afraid to come near him then moses called to them and aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned to him and moses stopped with them afterward all the children of this little game and he gave them as commandments all the all that the lord has spoken with him on mount sanai and moses had finished speaking with him he put a veil on his face but whenever moses went in before the lord to speak with him he would take the veil off until he came on and he would come out and speak to the children of israel whatever he had been commanded and whenever the children of israel saw the face of moses and that the skin of moses face shown then moses would put the veil on his face again until he went in to speak with him so we see this account of the when moses received the tablets of stone with the old covenant with the law that god had given and so paul is talking about this specific these specific verses in the old testament that talks about that radiance on moses's face whenever he was meeting with god that that radiance could be seen on his face that glory could be seen on his face so he's saying here there that glory was a temporary glory because we see that after some time it would fade away right so he would come immediately after meeting with god his face would be radiant and then it would fade over time and then when he went back and met with god again he would come back with that radiance so that was a glory that was passing away but but this ministry of the spirit is a glory that will remain for eternity and so how much more glorious than is this ministry of the spirit versus that ministry of the old covenant and then in verse nine for the ministry of condemnation had glory the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more glory so another contrast where that one was a one of condemnation it it showed the people how sinful they were it didn't give them a way to be saved it only exposed that they were in a place of sin they were in a place of condemnation whereas the new covenant was a covenant of salvation it exposed the sins of people and gave people a way to be saved through Jesus and Jesus paid the price for that for our salvation and so contrasting the condemnation versus the righteousness that here we were condemned here we are made righteous in the new covenant we are made righteous in verse 10 for even what was made glorious had no glory in this respect because of the glory that excels for if what is passing away was glorious what remains is much more glorious so he's saying that old covenant actually has no glory now when you look at this new covenant this old covenant can't even be talked about as glorious because this glory is so great it eclipses anything that was in the Old Testament or in the Old Covenant verse 12 therefore since we have such hope we use great boldness of speech unlike Moses who put a veil over his face so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the end of what was passing away but their minds were blinded so Moses covered his face as he was engaging with the people on the other hand Paul could stand boldly and proclaim the gospel because of how great the gospel is so he's using now we know that Moses was not covering his face because of any sense of shame or anything of that sort but Paul is using that as an image that that veil was a picture of it being something less than versus we can stand boldly in front of you without any covering without having to shield ourselves in any way we can proclaim the gospel to you and then he also uses that veil to talk about the blinding of the people so the people who are still living with the Old Covenant their eyes are blinded so those who had not received Christ those who had not responded to the gospel had been blinded and that veil that was covering Moses face is like a veil that covers their eyes that they are unable to see the truth of who Jesus is but it is in the New Covenant that Christ takes away that veil and opens our spiritual eyes to reveal to us that salvation is in him to reveal to us what it means to be a covenant people truly people in covenant people made righteous people who stand before God as his people and so all of the things that the Old Testament talked about but didn't fulfill now in Christ is brought to reality and so that veil is taken away that spiritual blindness is taken away in Christ and then verse 15 okay verse 15 is saying a little more about that verse 17 so now the Lord is the spirit and where the spirit of the Lord is there is liberty but we all with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory just is by the spirit of the Lord so so he says this is where true liberty is where true freedom is is in the Holy Spirit and when we experience that freedom from sin freedom from being enslaved and we're able to walk in righteousness we're able to walk in holiness that's where our liberty is and in this liberty we can gaze on on Christ we can look at Christ and it's like we are looking in a mirror and as we are gazing at Christ we become more and more like him we become more and more glorious and that is the work of the Holy Spirit in us so we keep our eyes fixed on Christ we are constantly allowing ourselves to be transformed into his image into his likeness doing that as we surrender more and more through the Holy Spirit's work in us and so this is also a beautiful thing that it's not only a covenant that is more glorious but we are a people who carry that glory so the the Old Testament had some glory and Moses was a carrier of some of that glory but now each of us as believers become carriers of this greater glory and we're growing from glory to glory as we allow the Holy Spirit to transform us as we continue to fix our eyes on Christ continue to gaze upon him and allow him to make us more like him so we can move from there to the next chapter we can move chapter four um I think this is also a short chapter so if somebody can read that for us chapter four chapter four the light of Christ gospel therefore since we have this ministry as we have received mercy we do not lose heart but we have renounced the hidden things of shame not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God but even if our gospel is wailed it is wailed to those who are perishing whose minds the God of this age has blinded who do not believe lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ who is the image of God should shine on them for we do not preach ourselves but Christ Jesus the Lord and ourselves your born servants for Jesus sake for it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness who has shown in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ but we have this treasure in earthen reserves that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us we are hard pressed on every side yet not crushed we are perplexed but not in despair persecuted but not forsaken struck down but not destroyed always caring about in in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body for for we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus sake that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh so then death is working in us but life in you and since we have the same spirit of faith according to what is written I I believe and therefore I spoke we also believe and therefore speak knowing that he who raised up the Lord Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus and will present us with you for all things are are for your sakes that grace having spread through the many may cause thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God therefore we do not lose heart even though our outer outward man is perishing yet the inward man is being renewed day by day for our light affliction which is but for a moment is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory while we do not look at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen for the things which are seen are temporary but the things which are not seen are eternal thank you so here we see Paul moving from this talking about the two covenants contrasting them talking about the fact that this covenant that they brought was a covenant that was so glorious and so God had entrusted that ministry to Paul now he talks about this other side of of the sacrifice that is involved in this gospel the things that they have suffered the things that they have gone through because they know that glory is not for this present day so even if the church is looking for a leader who is who is someone who is impressive or someone who in some way matches their idea of what is great what is something for them to boast in he says that is not what we are looking at we are not looking at what is what is considered glorious in the present we are looking at a future glory and so he talks he talks more about that through this chapter versus from verse one onwards since we have this ministry we as we have received mercy we do not lose heart and so it's recognizing that this ministry is given to them through the mercy of God and because it's given through the mercy of God whatever challenges they face and whatever comes against them in whatever way whether it is from outside the church or within the church they do not lose heart because it is that recognition of God's goodness to them God's compassion towards them that is undeserved God entrusting them with this ministry just out of his own kindness towards them that is what encourages them that's what keeps them going even in the face of challenges this is something that is so important for us as people who may be ministering in different contexts whether it's in a full-time context or voluntarily whatever it is challenges are a normal part of ministry there will be people who question the things we do people who don't like the way we're doing things people who think someone else may be a better leader whatever those challenges are sometimes from the people the very people we are leading it's different when it's someone from the outside who you're not ministering to you don't you may not be as hurt by a challenge that comes from the outside but when it is the very people that you are making sacrifices for when it's those people for whom you're pouring out your life you're doing all of these things to see them grow to bless them and then you see them question you or them to in some way not not recognize what you are doing for them then it's so easy to become discouraged to feel like our work is hopeless or our work is not being not really useful in any way in these times it is so important to be strengthened by the Lord to remember it is the Lord who has called us it's the Lord who's entrusted this ministry to us it's the Lord who has in his compassion in his great mercy towards us and towards the people we are serving he has given us this ministry and entrusted to us and that should be what keeps us going even when outside circumstances are not encouraging us to be encouraged in the spirit through that confidence that we have in Christ and that gratitude that we have for what he has entrusted to us so verse two but we have renounced the hidden things of shame not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God so he says we have done this without in any way trying to deceive people so we have not tried to trap you we've not tried to adulterate or give you something that is impure something that is incorrect something that is wrong we've not tried in any way to to deceive you rather we have brought to you the truth the plain truth right we've been honest before you we've presented the gospel to you and this itself should be proof to you that we can be trusted so the fact that we didn't come with any ulterior motive in the way we presented the gospel we didn't in any way choose any cunning way any way to take your money nothing like that we just came with the pure gospel and by seeing the way we did it the way we presented the truth to you that um should should prove our character and our hearts to you so we'll stop here we'll take a 10 minute break and be back and kind of continue from there thank you


Welcome to Toffey TV, it is the Everton News Daily. 777 are still waiting on a decision over whether they will be allowed to take over at Everton Football Club. This has been ongoing since September. It is with the Premier League. They are still waiting for regulatory approval. There's a lot of stories going around. There's another story today in the press from our mate Matthews at the Daily Mail saying that if it's not going to be approved till January, or sorry, there's not going to be a decision until January, and that might mean Everton going into administration because 777 won't fund the club till then. The Echo have done a piece this afternoon, which will have much more accurate sources, which says that 777's latest payment funds Everton up to the end of January. They will rather expect to hear by that time. The piece in the Echo does say that they won't continue to fund Everton indefinitely. You can't blame them. There's apparently £82 million they've put in so far, and it could be up as high as £100 million by the time this takeover is completed or by the time the decision is being given. Obviously, the money they're putting in is paying for the stadium. It says that and offsetting some payroll requirements, which is what happens. Farad Masheery checked out a long time ago, and they've taken over the payments for that. But you can't just expect them to keep putting money into a football club. They've got no idea whether they'll get control of. So, if they didn't and the decision wasn't successful for them, then that then brings a question of who's going to buy it then. Farad Masheery would have to start bankrolling the club again, whether he wants to or not. He'll have to start doing that while he looks then for a new buyer. There's been rumours around. There's people waiting in the wings to take the club because they're confident 777 won't get the approval. Those stories about Qatari businessmen being interested at the weekend, we've seen stories saying MSP is still hovering around in the background. We'll have to wait and see. But just right now, things are still moving forward. 777 apparently shows us close to them. They're still confident they're going to get the green light for it. And we just need to sort, one way or the other, we need the decision as soon as possible so that we can move forward. Everton Defender Mason Holgate, who's currently on loan at Southampton. We spoke about him yesterday, Everton, thinking of cancelling his loan in January. Well, he is a target for Glasgow Rangers today. That is out there. Philip Clements wants to bring in more balance to his squad. And he sees Holgate as the ideal candidate to come into there. He can obviously play right back defence on the field as well. It is thought that he'd be very interested in moving to Glasgow Rangers. Middlesbrat and Wafford are also keeping an eye on him, knowing and obviously aware of his availability in January. So I imagine he'd go to Rangers given the opportunity. And Everton centre back James Tarkovsky has a spoke today about Everton defender Jarrod Brantwight. He thinks that Brantwight will play for England sooner rather than later. Tarkovsky said he's got everything you want. He's playing with an experienced head at such a young age. Tarkovsky said he's been blown away by the performances of Brantwight and the maturity that the young centre back has shown. He's been in exceptional form since breaking into the team early on this season. And Garas Southgate was at Gwddon Park on Sunday to see Everton beat Chelsea 2-0 and Brantwight was exceptional in that one as well. He really is playing superbly well. We're obviously getting the odd nonsense story about sitting interested in him and Manchester United and all of that. He's just signed a new contract recently. And I, you know, 100 million before we even picked the phone up. But he's not going anywhere right now. He has been fantastic this season. He is however suspended for Everton's trip to Burnley on Saturday evening, which is a blow. He's picked up five yellow cards. His fifth was on Sunday against Chelsea. So he has a one game ban. And it looks like Ben Godfrey is going to be James Tarkovsky's partner for that one because Michael Keane is struggling to make the game at the moment. So it looks as though it'll be Godfrey and Tarkovsky as the centre back partnership for the Burnley game. That is it for the news daily. Give the video a thumbs up and subscribe if you haven't. See you later.


It went from daylight to darkness in a matter of 30 seconds on May 12, the day of the deratial. The weather forecasters had forecasted that indeed a storm was coming and that there was going to be some high winds with this storm. We took precautions. I left my day job. I left a little bit early and I got home and it was around four o'clock or so and my wife had come home as well. We were watching the radar, had the TV on, watching that as well and just to watch the storm come in. My wife says, do you think we need to go to the basement? And I said, well, according to radar, it looks like we still got quite a bit of time, you know, before this thing hits and she says, damn, look outside. We looked outside and just like that, it went from daylight to darkness in a matter of 30 seconds. When I say darkness, this wasn't just kind of dark.  This is four o'clock in the afternoon in May.


The fact that Russ said you can't be black ball, do you wanna watch the video on it or anything?  Yeah, I remember the clip. All right, so go ahead and break down like what you remember, and then we're gonna talk about it. Yeah, so if I'm remembering correctly, we probably should have played, but if I'm remembering correctly, he was saying that you can't be black ball because, like just because like the energy can't stop the tool that you kinda have to reach people, right? Yeah. Like they can't control your recording process, they can't control your access to your audience through social media.  Like, I mean, or even if they don't, they still can't stop the access.  So yeah, that's the general point he was making. I don't know if I'm missing anything with that, but. No, I think that's about right. Cause I know there's like the baby that's been popping up and then there's. Tour lanes. Tour lanes, right? They both have had their issues where it might split the industry in some ways as in terms of how some of the people behind the scenes talk about it. But I'm with him in terms of, you can't be black ball in the traditional way, right? There's no stopping you from being seen by the world completely. Yo, what happened to buddy? Like that can't happen. I think the funny thing about it is to an artist like Tori Lane's, to an artist like the baby, them being black balled is really them just getting treated like a regular artist. The regular artist, yeah. It's like, yeah, you don't have access to those additional resources in the industry machine anymore. So yeah, it's like, okay, you get blocked out of maybe some of that right there. But it's like, yeah, now you just got to eat like the rest of these artists eat, but y'all are in a better position cause at least you had a certain level of awareness. You probably got a certain amount of fans. Some of them probably were fake, depending on, well, and that's not even talking on them specific, but like just the way some people might blow, okay, you might not have as many fans you think you have, but even that, you know, it's what the regular artists got to deal with. Like they got to deal with the real numbers, make real decisions based off of that. And if they want some connects, like what you said, I got to figure out how to finesse and get somebody like me inside Spotify. Yeah, gotta talk, I gotta reach out. I gotta figure something out. Gotta reach out. Yeah, and I mean, like, I think that, like that's the part of it that I feel like it's more of like a falling from grace type of thing, right?   But what's interesting about the way I guess Russ is seeing it is that it feels a lot more traditional. Well, he's basically saying like, bro, those are just industry institutions. Like, yeah, you can be pushed out of the industry circle.  If your goal is to be a part of the institution and yeah, you got a problem. Like, it's a real thing to worry about.  Yup, exactly. Like we saw it with Taurus. Like, bro, as long as you can post on your Instagram and post on TikTok and you understand back in infrastructure, like, you'll be all right, you know, and it's interesting because I think that whole conversation is, or I feel like we, it's gonna sound wild, but I feel like we need to see more artists that get black ball that are forced to go through that process. So I think more people need to see that it's possible to do it without those type of institutions to support you. We saw it first with the six non shit, right?  They had to open the conversation and then NBA Young Boy, right? I was gonna say NBA. NBA, people need to be watching, buddy.  Is black ball even a word we use for him? Like, what? I still don't quite understand his situation, why he's not getting the support. Like maybe I missed that part, I wasn't paying attention at that time, but like, why are people not like rockin' with him? Like he should be from industry side of things. Yeah, so some of it is, I think like earlier antics, like early NBA Young Boy was pretty, pretty wild. You know what I'm saying? Like, you know, young street artists, this is what we expected.  Like, so it's like, certain aspects, I guess Dirk can be seen as the bigger artist, you know, it's in certain points, probably a lot more people will side with him over. And what aspects is Dirk a bigger artist in NBA? I mean, I don't know. Well, I think from a mainstream look standpoint. I would say it's not even close in terms of reality. Yeah, but also that, it's like, he has that look, he looks bigger to that point, but it's because then I'm fuckin' with NBA Young Boy. That's the crazy part about like the industry perception and how that goes, because look, you know, I don't have any size in this race or whatever, you know what I mean?  Young Boy's going for catalog. Catalog too, especially we know the numbers, people are getting off of the buyouts, right? These multiples. So I don't know, man, it's interesting, one, to see him. So if you look at him, you look at Russ, all right? These are people who are big and doing it without in a current day climate, but like you said, you were like, all right, part of this black ball is, okay, I might not be able to pull up to the MTV Awards as a part of my rollout. I might not be able to pull up to the Jimmy Fallon show, Ellen and all these things that were a part of my rollout, but guess what? You can pull up to Logan Paul, you know what I'm saying? You can pull up to, what's that, K-Sci or whatever his name is, like any of these YouTubers and people like that, a lot of people, y'all need to start using a PR strategy where y'all just like, I mean, no, y'all need it, you can add that on, but if you don't have those big traditional shows, which don't have any impact anyway, like most of them, we're like, what's not even getting. It's content genre right now. Exactly, well, let's not get into the TV show that nevermind, it was a brilliant app on the episode. I was gonna talk about the TV show that one of the clients were supposed to be on and the show was trash or whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, they were on it, but the ratings were trash. But yeah, so it was like, yeah, like Tori Lane's, it's still Tori Lane's, the baby is still the baby.  And we know Vlad's gonna interview everybody.  So to pull up the media run is there, man. There's so many third party publications. And the funny part about it is, that would be like a nice indie underground wave to follow traditionally, but the difference between doing that back in the day, versus doing it today, is these indie underground pages, channels, influencers, they actually have more impact than the traditional. So it's like a weird mindset that people are still going for.  Every day you post, there's a little shot in the dark at it, right? And so it's like, it could be like a smaller page could give you just as much if not more of an impact than the bigger accounts. They may be able to get you like bigger and consistently, just because they have the audience. But like I've seen bigger moments come from like a page that'd be small, bro, like 20,000 followers and like a random artist post pop off and they got 20 million views on it. Like, damn, that's crazy. Could it have happened from the shade room? Maybe, but it didn't happen. It happened over here, right? Because the internet- It would have cost it more. Yeah, it would have cost more, exactly. The bang for buck 100% wouldn't have happened the same. It's like, damn, I just paid, I don't want to say I don't know.  Cause just the world looked up. But I think that that's the part that's not seen enough. I don't think people still think of these Instagram accounts as like media entities, right? Like when you think media, you think radio stations, big publications. I don't think they're thinking about like, oh shit, I could just go live or like at rep and do an interview. And like the thing about like these people and like you mentioned the influences versus the industry stuff is like, bro, the influences don't care. Long as you got the money to pay for it and they like you, right? Of course they gotta see your audience connection. They gotta like you, but it's money-based.   And can you go for it as an invoice? If those things are in order, like you all right, you know what I'm saying?    So watch a bigger artist have to go through that and figure that stuff out. Like we all had to watch, you know, like Tori figure out and like the six, nine in the end when all these different people figure it out. Like they have people paying attention to them. Like the indie artists coming up that's doing that. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Like there are a lot of indie artists who do do that and they're like, they're smart for doing it but they're not gonna be popping enough for another couple of years for like the industry a whole potential. It's gonna take these like massive stars falling off and then we all watching them try to figure out and them going through the same process as other artists for us to go like, or for everybody else to go like, damn, I'm like, I could just do that. You know what I'm saying? You could get an interview with the music page before you could probably get on Jimmy Fallon, you know what I'm saying? Easy, bro. Easy. The crazy thing is like the reason it has so much more impact is one, some of them are just underutilized period, right? So there's some age, I'm just gonna say rap because you say rap, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like people haven't exploited it to that extent yet. Maybe they're trying to keep people from doing it. I don't know. Maybe people have tried. But because of that, people are gonna look at it as a new thing, right? But that might run out, right? After a certain period of time.  Yeah. Right, and that's what we love about TikTok so much. I was like, man, I was so surprised. And like, you're like, ah, nah, I can't put that song on my platform. I can't do a dance to that song because my people aren't gonna wanna listen to it. They gonna know it's trash. I don't like it. It's not gonna get any blue views. The algorithm's not gonna like it. Like, it's all bad. So I'm just not gonna take the money. But because of that, people have so much more respect and value because it's actually like I gave it the okay, right? Like Anthony Fantano talks about something he gives to the people respected and think it's him. You know what I mean? Sean C talks about something and he gives his perspective. They respected and feel like it's coming from him because it's not attached to the industry and all that stuff. But someone gets on the MTV Awards, BT Awards or whoever, Grammys. You're like, I don't know how this person got up in here.  Like you just know they know somebody. We know they know somebody, right? That's how we think now where we are. But from a fan, you just like, who's that? And you might kind of give it some credence. Like maybe they're important and maybe they're good because they're there. You might, like especially back in the day, it definitely would be a little bit more for that. But now it's just more like, who is that?   And I'm gonna check it out because I follow this person because I almost look at him like a friend, right? We have something in common, right? So if they like it, I might listen to it.  I've never heard you play any music. I don't know how you dress, you know what I mean? You eat plain food without season. We might not be at across the same, you know? So like that's the value of, I don't know. I mean, these underground influences, we've been talking about that part for years though. So, you know, we've obviously implemented with artists and we've seen some artists do it well, but I'm just so surprised that the tipping point has not come where, you know what I'm saying?  I mean, I can have my theories. I think a part of it is like, every time one gets really big, the industry does come and snatch them up.


Alright, it is Python on hardware. Yay, I'm wearing the shirt. Yeah. I'm ready. Alright, a few things. We'll play this full video later, but we got MP3s going on CircaPython devices. Correct. Very cool. So this just means you're going to be able to do a lot of cool projects. Yes, we had Wave playback, which is great, but waves are kind of big. So now we have support for compressed MP3 format because MP3 is out of patent, which means that we can now ship software or hardware with MP3 decoding on it. It will only work on the larger boards like the M4 or the NRF 52, like the more chunky boards, not the M0 series. And you can play up to two MP3s concurrently. Okay. FOMU. Want Python in your USB port? Of course you do. Try the beta of CircaPython for FOMU, full USB support, thanks to the new USB port and the awesome tiny USB library binaries and instructions are on GitHub. And you can also read some of the story about a profiler. This is an FPGA, I think, running WISC-5. It's basically a WISC-5 processor that's then loading CircaPython on it, I think. I mean, it's pretty amazing. And it fits in a USB port, like inside. Tiny USB now supports the NXP IMX RT Cortex-M7s, including the RT-1010, RT-1015, RT-1020, RT-1050, RT-1060, and RT-1064. There are over 300 stars and 70 forks of this. Tiny USB is helping everyone getting USB onto their hardware, and that's usually the first step to doing CircaPython. And you get all the stuff you get. Mass storage, CDC, HID, more stuff coming down the pipe. Beacon of. What's this? The Feather family takes flight with Feather and CircaPython on the NXP IMX RT. This is from Arturo, and this is something we're going to be working with Arturo on this. Two flavors. You can do USB-C. Yeah. You can do each type of RT and... Yeah, this is the 1010, and this is the 1062. So the 1010 is a lower cost one, but it's available in QFP, not in BGA. And then this is the BGA version, which is, of course, a ton more pain, but you see that extra mezzanine connector that has full TFT controller out. It has a megabyte of RAM. It's bonkers. Yeah. Whereas the 1010 is a little bit simpler. It doesn't have as many pins, but you stuck a ESP32 on the end there. So you can do wireless and Bluetooth. Yeah. So we mentioned this before. We're working on an NXP Arduino-shaped thing. We're working on an NXP Feather one. We're going to try to team up with Arturo. So this is good to see because this is where we think it's heading. People will do stuff with tiny USB. They'll use the Feather format and then they'll get CircuitPython going and they'll go fast. And that's the thing that's really important. You can do all this development really fast and speak it fast. These are some previews from Scott of the things that he showed last week, not only on the show and tell, but also on the tweets. This was showing live messages off an iPhone that goes over to a Bluetooth device using CircuitPython VLA. Brian Stacey is working on a lot of stuff. We put this in our newsletter every week. This is all his Oshpark orders. It's not actually, it's just looping. It's not an infinite score. No, it's actually infinite. It's actually one of these boards I put together. Lots of cool games that people are developing with CircuitPython. This one is Blink is Breakout. It's a CircuitPython implementation of the game that's similar to the classic Atari game chips challenge. This is by FOMIGuy. This connects up to look at the RSS feed on the Amazon AWS re-invent conference. And then it would keep track of the number of announcements. This is the Pi badge. So not only is it a conference badge. It shows your name. It can basically live stream in what's going on at the conference. This is some 3D printed cases at Hackaday Supercon. Thanks to Digikey and I guess us.  And so people were able to instantly quickly do something cool with it. And now they're making cool accessories for their badges and more. This one I think is going to be a guide or is a guide. Coming soon. Yeah. This is a Pi portal smart switch that uses Adafruit IO. And if then this that turns on and off the light with voice command using Alexa or Google Assistant. This is always neat. So Cedar Grove is like constantly making these really cool. I can have these feathers. Yeah. This is a Stemma host feather wing. And then this is the Stemma wing backpack. And you can check these out on Hackaday IO. But the feather wing attaches to the feather wing board provides Stemma or semi-QT interface. And the other one is a backpack that has standalone semi-interface for a non microcontroller feather wing. Like a nice word, C, R2C and LED display. Whew. There are three circuit Python lectures. There's probably more by now. This is from Korea. They're showing all of... And if you speak Korean, listen Korean, you can understand it. That's good because that's the language they're in. And this is all about Python, Blinka, like it runs on Raspberry Pi. Tune into that. Here's another good example. This is what I was talking about before. Folks are quickly making badges and prototype hardware and they're tossing circuit Python on it. This is so cute looking. Yeah. This is a cute little badge. This is the CC Coven badge that runs circuit Python. And in our newsletter, we have a link if you want to buy one and help support the maker for that. This is the Feather Snow. It's an easy way to unlock your programming creativity with circuit Python. It's a snowflake and you just plug it in and you're doing Python and they can control snowflakes. Lots of new boards over on circuitpython.org slash downloads and slash Blinka. So we check all of those out. We also featured the book. We have this in the story. This is from Japan. This is circuit Python and Moo. But one of the things about the circuit Python book that I thought was neat is there's a page of why is it called Moo? And the author, Nicholas, is very thoughtful. And like he said, he has many layers of why he comes up with things. Moo sounds like Moo. Kids like saying that. The Greek Moo symbol is for micro. Moo is a micro editor for micro things. Modern pronunciation of Moo is me. So the website is code with me. And does the editor have a Buddha nature symbol? Yeah. Over on the Dropbox blog, you can read this cool article. It's about the creator of Python and how Python makes thinking in code easier. The Python Africa videos are posted. We posted all of those up in our newsletter. And if you're looking for a good gift this year, these are Python earrings. Cute. You can stop over at their Etsy store. And it's the, just search for Python programming language and you'll stay on Etsy. Look for the earrings, yeah. That's Python harmonies. Yay, blinker, blinker, blinker. All right.


Hello and welcome back to the craft box. My name is Brent and today we are looking at the Mushu box and of the five boxes quest line Last time if you haven't checked it out. We did the Marley bone box And we've also done the wizard city box. So go and check those out if you haven't already But today we're doing the Mushu box. You have to be level 40 and able to be in Mushu for this one My instruments have pinpointed a crisis point in Ravenwood's timeline We've talked about this before right pure mathematics cannot lie from here I've been able to watch several competing forces attempting to master death Come inside my telegraph box in the Jade Palace and I will explain in more detail Okay, let us hit on over. So this is where you get the badge harboring of death Which is probably a badge I might use instead of I mean angle management is quite cool I quite like that badge, which is one that I currently use at the moment Be a hub bring out of death great badge Definitely gonna use it. So yes, let us hit on in and see what we got to do this time Hello the professor hi Again we got to let it load good job and of course the professor is the last I've been watching a critical time in Ravenwood's history shortly after malice to Drake's departure the maestro an overall Jackalips schemes to become the next death professor the potential for harm is incalculable I've set a portal to take you to this critical juncture do what you can to ensure the maestro is not triumphant Okay, let us do this this sounds very dangerous for the thing. Let's talk to gamma gamma yay Hi gamma oh good headmaster Ambrose said he was sending me an assistant. You heard about the calamity with professor malice there Drake Oh terrible terrible business, but we want to ensure classes continuous smoothly as possible We can't abandon one whole school of magic Thus we need to hire a new teacher for the death school I need you to interview two candidates and tell me your findings. Yes Start with jackson last rights a promising applicant from wisteria Then visit dimwood veil for the second candidate Okay, let's go to the professor and we will see who these two candidates are Mm-hmm You've got a couple of potential candidates from gamma I believe the maestro will have influenced one or the other be on the lookout Let's get you to wisteria to find this jackson last rights and see what he's about Okay, let's go to Jackson last rights Again right at the back good job um, and we'll go see what he has to Give ravenwood even though we know that spoilers. He's not gonna be Oh, he's the current sole teacher at um ravenwood. I'm not ravenwood thingy. That's quite cool Still the same You must be the recruiter from ravenwood. Huh, who is expecting someone more polished No offense intended of course. Let me say I'm the perfect candidate I've purchased a whole wardrobe in black silk and embroidered skulls for the position I'm ready to move in as soon as you tell me the pay and how many vacation days I get per term Also, how many sick days demonstrate my magic? No, no, I couldn't possibly do that now I don't have the right wand nor do I want to scare you I'm pretty sure I would scare you with how much death magic. I know so you'll let me know Yeah, he's not he's not hired. He's um definitely fired That's for sure He's a bit too up himself. Just like all of the wisteria pigs. Oh, well Isn't that a shame? um Let's go back to the professor because that one was bad really bad And what did you think of jackson last rights? I'm not surprised wisterion wizards rarely live up to their reputation That is correct. Who's next candidate dwargon from dimwood veil? It says he's a former student of malice stairs sounds promising. No Oh kid okey. Let's go to dimwood veil. Hello This music is so good. I love it so much. Oh, hello. We are in um duck more. It seems I don't know where we're going. Um That's quite a slug there Um, we're going this way apparently it's really annoying how we can't use mounts. This is a huge place Who is this? What are you doing skulking about these parts looking for dwargon? What do you want him for to give him a job? Come inside cornu house and we'll discuss this further over tea and biscuits once he's done his chores I'll summon him Okay, that's cool. I don't believe you but that's cool Why don't I believe you just because you don't seem trusted? Um, and you seem like you're going to fight me Am I going to be right about this? Yes, I am. Okay rank seven boss. Okay. Let's actually take this but I lie I won't summon him for you. I don't know who you think you are that you could just come and take our throw all the way from us Um, yes, okay. Let us take this slightly more seriously than the other fights that we've done in the boxes Well actually blade. Whoa, I know She doesn't have too much health, which is good, but um that blade will come in handy Um, she's also death as well. So she's gonna take a little bit of I'm pushing and shoving to destroy as well, but we should be fine I don't have I just realized I don't have reshuffle them. That's bad Actually, I should have done okay, whatever. Don't do dear dear shield. Okay Okay, okay, then that's a bit annoying That's annoying Oh, well, that's fine. We'll be we'll be fine. Surely I should probably put reshuffle them. That's a good idea Why I don't have that in that's a bit of a I don't know how I didn't notice until just now either That's a bit annoying That did a lot though. That's a lot even with the resist. I'm impressed. Um, let's go for one of these Because I know that It's not enough at all. What is this a life blade? Why would that need a life blade? Sometimes ridiculous One nine one six two. I can't read numbers. Good job. Um, let's go for this one again I will have to What I'm gonna have to do is I'm gonna have to I'm hoping for a shatter.  At least the minion's dead, which is a good Um, let's do this didn't puzzle which is always nice How much damage can we do we do that damage that'd be great Damage please? No, okay, that's fine. Didn't want it anyway. Oh, she's dead. Don't worry. She's fine She's toasted. She's a toasted marshmallow on the fire Good job. Yeah, that's doing a three seven and this is doing 14. Okay, she's dead.  How much health do you have? 174. Okay, this is gonna do what 300 did it probably Yeah, she's dead. Good. Not too bad. Let us quickly put a reshuffle in before Wretched beast you have no respect for your elders Even if you find Worgen in his shack, you won't escape our mandibles. Will I not? I'm pretty sure I will I'm quite good at escaping mandibles because I do not like to be eaten. Um So, yeah, the next is another boss, I believe from what it says the double boss. Maybe who knows what We will just go down and see where's Dorgan's shack. It's kind of sad It lives in such a sad way place. I wish there was a map that would be so cool It lives in such a sad way graveyard. No wonder his death No wonder Sad wee graveyard of nothingness and sorrow and despair It's disappointing really Dorgan, hi. Look at this big empty field Big enough for a battle. I'm thinking That city how in the spiral did you find me color me delirious? And how can I help you you want to consider me for a teaching position at Ravenwood? Of course, I remember Malastair brilliant man A bit intense. The problem is my aunts won't let me leave They're not very open to the idea of running kornu house on their own To be honest, my aunts are nasty and cruel. I'd love to get away, but I don't know Oh, maybe you can tell them. I'll be right behind you. Okay. Yep. Let's just load Dorgan a bit. That would be great Thanks, cool Okay, see and me listen There's the horrid little scape grace intruding in our garden.  It's as I've always said wizards, especially those from wizards city Are blackboards and liars Dworkin dearie work hard and maybe next season will send you to Wisteria, but spite us and you'll never see your wand again Well, let's smite these guys because we can why not Um, what does Dworkin give us? So we've had 30% damage from Dahlia. We've had Powerpup. Oh, he gives resist and incoming. Oh my gosh, what a boss That's honestly good That's actually good though Like That's good. Let's just hit whatever whatever. We're just gonna hit. We're just gonna go for it resist. Oh my gosh, Dworkin's OP Geez, so we had Powerpup from Houston Damage from Dahlia and resistant incoming from Dworkin. That's pretty good That's pretty good. I'm surprised I'm surprised their wands are actually really cool. I would love one of those If you could die the ball on the top of the orb, um, that would be really cool I'd like that, but that actually looks really cool. I'm surprised. I didn't notice that before um Whoa, what's this frozen elf? Okay Cool bro You want to think you're cool? I I get it. You think you're cool. Um We go shad. That's nice. Let's enchant that then Let's put up a a db with a blade And we will see what we can do. How much damage can we do? How much damage can we do? Can we do? Can we do? Um, she's gonna do her things and be cool and do a whole bunch of That's a really cool natural attack. That's really cool. Really really cool No Okay minus 25, of course you would wouldn't you? Good job. Okay Let's part.   They're still probably dead anyway. Well, it's one of their most annoying ways Do a cheeky weed deonite again. We've also got reshuffle now. So that's always good Why is this Avalon music? I've just noticed it's a bit weird Avalon music didn't think this would be Avalon. I thought this was dark Whatever whatever. Maybe it is Avalon. Who knows? We're correct. So that's good. They're dead because they can't blow up here Um, so yeah, fantastic. Easy peasy How dare you defeat us why I've never been so rudely treated in my life one day you'll regret this Thanks, I'll gather my things and meet you in wizard city to discuss this role further Okay Let's go and talk to the professor And we will Then continue on. Oh gosh, we have to go all the way out. We have to walk Sometimes I find it really funny because in the earlier boxes We could just like teleport through the doors out and I really wish we could do that here. That would be good Just following a non-existent path out that makes complete sense Because why not? Professor. Hello How are you today? Those and-ons of Dorgon sound positively dreadful. Glad you hope to lad out It doesn't sound like there's much competition here, does there best hurry back to gamma and let him know But keep an eye out for the maestro. He's up to something I can smell it Well good to know you have a nose. Jeez. Um, let's go to gamma Gamma Gamma Hello Jackson last rights wasn't worth the trip. Oh, I'm sorry about that and Dworkin sounds like a good bit Oh, that's awkward while you were away a new candidate appeared. Oh strumming very good knows his death materials. I told him to settle in Maybe you could test. Oh strumming and walk in both. See who would serve us better Whoo, I like how whenever he says who is like a hood is kind of funny That's why I love gamma game is probably one of my favorite characters in the game He's just such a lad Um, let's go to the professor. Hello again Gamma has another candidate chosen. Oh strumming. That's a pickle. He could be in league with a maestro You're really you think Obviously if you unscramble ostrom a it gives maestro, so I'll send you through to test Dworkin and this ostrom a beyond guard Yup, he's getting really creative with his names. Jeez ostrom a obviously not That can we have them like fight each other that would be pretty cool And have like a pvp battle that would be kind of cool imagine that Hello there. I came in through the back entrance. I hope that's okay. The commons gets too busy for my tastes Good.  Good job. You're bad. You're bad Um, I mean I could have passed and it would have saved time, but whatever who cares who cares not me Let's do this one And we will see how much we can do Hopefully we can kill him one shot. That would be great. Actually if you can they still haven't hit me They've really taken no damage. Good job Fantastic It's kind of funny actually just take no damage whatever whatsoever whatever good job englanders Definitely great league within me. They did aren't they? Yep. Okay. Cool. Sweet easy peasy Fantastic Goodbye You will never root out our master the great and powerful maestro from his sanctum in the lower levels of this tower Lower levels. I had no idea those were down there. Yep. I found that out when We went through the first one as well Didn't realize that was a thing either. How did you defeat my minions? Moreover, how did you find me down here? No matter your deaths will be in my hands soon enough I wouldn't be so confident if I were you this wizard can be pretty tricky Yeah, I can I'll straw me more like maestro more like you're dead Good job. Good job Brent. Clap clap for me. Um, goodbye Goodbye Goodbye, let's use this one because this one looks cool Pew pew pew That's a very wonky ladder It's not very straight. It's got a big kink in it. Haha. Okay. They might need to fix that one 806 pretty good 809 I can't oh my gosh, I'm bad Six two six six two six six two six. Wow. Okay, then um 251 These guys should be dead soon If they're not dead this round that we did next Well, you actually hit me this time while 58 so much Geez so much damage All the damages there Dworkin just comes and clutch with his right way Little resist bonus It's fantastic Oh dark sprite this is gonna do 25 Not 46. He's good. Oh, he's good. I don't know why she's 35. That's a bit too little Whatever whatever But There we go, let's get him One two one six two and this is gonna do 251. Okay We will have to deny it again or if we get a shad we can shad again shad again lulu I don't know what I'm saying anymore. Which is bad. At least these guys can't hit me Not that I was taking any damage anyway It's just good to have them out Focus on the boss, you know Good job Brent. Good job 10 points for me. Um, let's go for a blade And hopefully next time we can either deny it for lulu. That would be ideal Ideal and if we fizzle them way a lot hopefully they do it afterwards Whoa, what's this fire blade? Whoa, OP Geez Look at that. Perfect lulu.  Can you strum a obviously such a bad death was it? Trying to replace to all them disappointing Okay There we go fantastic By the lords of time the spaces between the stars and the machines of termination How do you always win? Finally got a sonic spring. Good job You've driven me out, but we'll meet again wizard some hour or another So does this mean I've got the job I'm pleased to say you do you're the new assistant to the death school Don't worry. The title is just temporary Oh, I would hate to think what damage the maestro could have done if I'd accidentally left him in charge of the death school Dorgan, why don't you tidy this place up and we'll start sending down students shortly Okay, we'll let us hit on out and talk to the professor again Hello Ah, you managed to penetrate the maestro's disguise and route him from ravenwood tip top job wizard However, now he knows we are on to him. His next spot will surely be more devious by far Yep, definitely. Okay. So thank you for watching next time. We will be hitting into the Zafaria box Yep, Zafaria Um, so yeah, thank you for watching a little bit. I can subscribe and if you've already subscribed Personally a little bells, you know exactly when I post another video and You're gonna find this badge the third of the six five ring of death. There we go craft outside the box


In today's video, if I pull a foil, I must open a vintage pack. What's up guys, we're back with another redemption video and you might be asking, what does this have to do with redemption? If you recall the last time we did this, about three to four weeks ago, go check out that video if you guys missed it. I made a slight mistake. So the premise of these videos is, if you pull anything over a guaranteed super rare or a foil and one where it doesn't guarantee a super, you're supposed to open a vintage pack. Well, we did that until the end where I pulled a foil and didn't notice. I tracked with the Aquamere, Curricurry Cash Shed. I went right past the Curricurry Cash Shed or something like that and you could barely tell it was a super. So I was like, okay, that's the last pack. We should have opened another pack. So we are redeeming ourselves here today by opening a bunch of different Epic packs. And if we pull anything, we'll be opening a vintage pack by rolling a die, one through six, we'll pick this. So one, two, three, four, five, six and that'll give us a random pack to open. And of course, if you pull one out of the vintage pack, like last time when I pulled one and didn't notice, you still have to open another vintage pack. Before we get into it, we do have a giveaway. I'll be giving away these cards. So we have the Legend of Blue Eyes First Edition, Metal Rated First Edition and Ferro Servant. These are opened packs. We opened these in a video recently and the guy who actually sent me these to open it said, hey, just do a giveaway. I think people will like it. So yeah, he's right. These are first edition rares and comments from these sets. So the Legend of Blue Eyes stuff is actually worth quite a bit. If you wanna enter the giveaway, just like the video, be subscribed, turn on notifications, just let me know if you can forgive me for my mistake last time. Let me try to redeem myself here. Myself, selves. I'm not myself, I'm myself. Let's do that. Let's start off with Legendary Duelist Rage of Rock. So this is not a guaranteed foil pack. So if we pull any Super Rare or anything like that, that will be a vintage pack we have to open. If it's nothing, then we just move on to the next pack. We have Mind Control and Mech Lord Army. I think it's the next one. I think it would be in the fourth slot and it's Cyber Energy Shock. So we didn't get anything there. As I said, not guaranteed. In this one though, Flames of Destruction, this does have a guaranteed super. So a super will not count as a foil because they are guaranteed every time. We should find a better name for that, just like a, it's basically just a non-guaranteed poll. I just say foil because it's universally understandable. We'll do three. We have Alter Guys. Yeah, but some people comment on the last one, like, yeah, you should have to do it for supers.  There's not really a reward for like pulling something because we would pull it every time there was a super. So it wouldn't really be that interesting. Batterman Solar, we have Element Saber Mallow, Restoration of Monarchs, Gokie Octo Stretch, Nightmare Service, actually a really good super. It's guaranteed, but a great one. That's a good super. And yeah, so not a vintage pack, but actually a very solid guaranteed super rare. Pretty good card. All right, next pack. We have some Battles of Chaos, first edition.  There's also Starlight Potential, Regular Foil Potential, super guaranteed every pack. So keep that in mind, Epsilon. There's a super, so it doesn't count, but that's okay because could get the Dark Magician at the end of the pack. Some Org, we have Octotic and a Ghost Trick Festival, just a regular rare. So not in that one, but maybe in the next pack. So far we have not pulled a foil, so we haven't had to roll the die yet to open an epic vintage pack, but I suspect that it may be coming soon. I assume it's one, two, three on this. Can we get Firewall Dragon? Treasure Panda, cool card for Exodia. Was it Dual Links or Master Dual? I can't remember. I think it was Master Dual Begging by the World Chalice, the Go-Go, Orista, Dexia, Chosen by the World Chalice, World Chalice Legacy, or Landmark, we have Boogie Trap. Is that a super? No, it's not. Motivating Captain, it should be after this. Oh, I thought that was a secret for a second. Okay, DDD Wave, High King Caesar. Our DDDs were actually kind of expensive for a while. I think it was after pack, like one something with them or something. Battles of Chaos, can you give us a double? If we get two foils on a pack, then we'll open two vintage packs. So we've got like Dark Magician and a foil. Euridora Fate, Ghostric Siren. We have Darden, the Mechanical Monstrosity, and a Vampire Ghost, our first foil. That is not a super rare, it's an ultra rare, so it's not guaranteed. That will open a vintage pack for us now. We can get a Dark Magician, it's a double vintage pack. Here we go. Might and Mutant, it's usually the last card. No, S-Force Lapswell, that's okay, because we did finally get something that's gonna help us open up a vintage pack. So here's where we roll the die, one to six. Let's go, let's see what we get. Three, okay, so that means we were opening Legacy of the Valiant. So not a crazy old set, but over 10 years at this point. Let's see if we can pull a Ghostrair. This is kind of a weird set, like not a lot of amazing cards, but it does have Ghostrairs and Ultis in it, which is pretty exciting. First is Ghostric Neko Masume. Gorgonic Guardian, actually a very good XC's card. Sirenorca, got a Chronomaly Moai Carrier. The Magio Sheldon, I got Sheldon, okay, Gorgonic Gargoyle. The, I'm not even gonna try to say that, Mystical Beast of the Forest, Sylvan Pease Keeper, I'd love to see that. And XC's Override, so no foil out of that. The Pease Keeper though, it's pretty fun. We're gonna replace that one with a Cross Souls. So if we do roll that spot again, we'll open a Cross Souls. Next up, Breakers of Shadow Bosch. So it's a pretty cool set, but unfortunately back then, they did not have, you know, Starlight Rares or anything really awesome to pull out of here. So some cool cards, but their secret rare is the highest we're ready. Robot Buster Destruction, but supers are guaranteed as well. So it's a very small thing that you're guaranteed to super, but you can only pull a couple things better than that, Ultra and Secret. So kind of weird, a weird time in Yu-Gi-Oh, not my favorite in terms of like the pack structure. Oh, a Cosmos Sword Troopers, that's guaranteed. And then Odd Eye's Advent. So that's just a super rare. Yeah, these Cosmos, definitely not inspired by anything. Definitely not, they look completely unique. Now we have Dark Neo Storm, probably if you pull a Fusion Destiny now, you know, now that it doesn't matter. It is guaranteed supers and that's a super rare, but those were pretty, pretty big. They're like 20 bucks for a while. Bakery Chariot, we have a Dino wrestler, Marshall Enga, the Ice Miyakashi, Gokie the Blade Ogre, Ultra Geist, Dragviryon, the Firewall Guardian, T.G. Hopper Cannon Assault Mode, and a number five Doom Chimerra Dragon with a Tyrant Dino Fusion. So a guaranteed super rare in that one. Okay, we need some foils, we've pulled one so far.  So yeah, they can heat up at the end. Cybernetic Horizon, not a crazy set, but does have some Cyber Dragon stuff, which is cool. World Legacy, we've got Crusadia Leonis, Beast Magic Attack, Contact Gate, Metaphys Ascension, Crusadia Maximus, another super, then a ruined Supreme Queen of Oblivion, a cool retrain, and performer pal, Labelman. He's a Labelman. Will Rage of Raw be what changes everything? If we pulled a Ghost Shared, I'd open a Vintage Pack and get the Ghost Shared, that would be amazing. Mech Lord, Astro Dragon, Asterisk. We have Mech Lord, Emperor Skel, Brain Control, and holding legs, just a regular rare. No, okay, it's okay. Battles of Chaos, multiple chances. Could have a double Vintage Pack coming here, guys. We need you guys to believe in the comments. Let's go, send me some luck. One, two, three, I think you can do four. No, wait, we're not doing it, because of the Dark Magician, okay. You know what we could do? We could go, this could be the Dark Magician, so we go three like this, and then do that. So we have back-to-back chances there. Dynamorphia Diplos, Dynamorphia Alert, Flower Dino, Tribe Drive, Obinomaru, Onibomaru, there we go, Soul Sweeper, The Branded Disciple, Kaiser the Hidden Star, Liebermancer Agents, a super rare, that's guaranteed, and Octoating Serpent Strike, so still looking, guys, still looking. We have another Legendary Duelist, Rage of Rock. Just kind of threw these in there randomly, so they're kind of coming up. This is about a two out of three Rage of Rock, but maybe that means there's gonna be a Ghost Share right here, Psychic Shockwave, let's go. Meta Reflex Live, good reprint of that card, though. It was actually really expensive for like the regular, I think it's an Ultra before that, so good reprint. Battles of Chaos, I think it's our only hit so far from Battles of Chaos, so do that. That Fun Pack trick, we have Groza, the Tyrant of Thunder. Smile Potion, we got Maija Mutant, the Ghost Trick Shot, Dimension Conjurer, End of the Line, Pot of Greed, a Branded Disciple. We have a White Relic of Dogmatica, super rare, and A.A.S. Force, Lapswell. I feel like it always ends with the same cards in Battles of Chaos for some reason. Okay, we really need to pick it up because we have one foil so far. We've judged from the light, it was actually kind of an older pack, but it was unlimited, so I threw in the stack. We could get a Chickalates out of here, which would be pretty epic. Junk Blader, Trap Tricks, Nepethins, something like that. Fencing Fire Fairy, oh, that's a rucks and special. We got a Shark Caesar. Brotherhood of the Fireface, Caraboo. And is this it? Hummer of Horror Uniform? Wait, oh, these aren't guaranteed, I don't think. Mecha Phantom Beast, Wah-Boo-La-Ran, and Spider-Site, yeah, not guaranteed foil there. Yeah, that's how old that one was. Okay, okay, don't worry, this is it, guys. Maximum Crisis, this is where it happens. This is where we pull something big, right? We pull Ash Blossom, Secret Rare. It's gonna happen. Fantasmal Spiral Powers, we have Spiral Crash, Artifact Vajra, we got the Cobalt Sparrow, Zodiac Caterose, Breakaway, like, what's her name? Kelly Clarkson, we have the Performa Bile. Oh, and an Ultra Rare! Majesty Maiden, the true Draco Slayer. We have finally pulled something. Second Ultra of the video, or at least foil, you know, that's not guaranteed. Time to roll the die, come on, give us something good. A one, okay, Extreme Victory, actually, not bad. I didn't really order them from best to worst, I just kinda did it at random. Extreme Victory is pretty nice. Let's see if we can get that tour guide, Secret Rare. If we get any foil out of here, I need to make sure that I don't miss one. Like, last time, we will continue to open vintage packs. We have TG Catapult Dragon. Scarlet Security, oh, Ruxen Special, right off the bat. Jar Turtle, one of the creepiest-looking cards out there. Jar Turtle, very weird. Morphotronic Landtron, we have TG1EM1. Mental Seeker, he's seeking the mental. TG, Power Gladiator, are we gonna get a foil out of here? Chaos Infinity, is that a rare? I think it's a rare, and Mech Time Blaster. I think if you get a rare, you don't get a foil in those. I can't remember, because those are really, really old. All right, we are putting a Shadow Spectre in that place. Pretty cool card you can get out of there. I really like the, what is that guy's called? I really like the Divine Knight guy out of there. All right, Maximum Crisis, we got back-to-back of these, because, I mean, this worked last time. Let's try it again. Let's see if we can pull another Ultra, or an Ash Blossom, that'd be amazing. Speedroid, Malicious Magnet, Ghost Beef, one of the funniest cards. The Ghost of Christmas Dinner, woo! Zodiac Hammer Kong, Breakaway, Kelly Clarkson, we have the Double Resonator. Onakuju, we got the Formal Pal, Sky Magician, and Sylvan Princess Bride. That's a super rare, nothing crazy there, and Gift Exchange. All right, two total foils, or at least, you know, leveled up foils here. We want to open more vintage packs. Let's go Battles of Chaos. You can do this one, two, three, little special there. We have a Smoke Mosquito, the Mad Hacker. No super rucks and specials today, I will say that. We have had some rucks and specials though. Into the line of the Pog, Branded Disciple, the No-Woo Aries of the Vernal Dragon. Oh-nib-ba-ba, oh-nib-bar, oh-nib-ba-maru, Soul Sleeper, there we go. And a Dragon Bite, I remember this being such a bad card, but hey, it's a foil, that's not bad, and an Imprudent Intrusion. Okay, yeah, well, at least we got something. So we get to open a vintage pack, that's a plus. Time to roll the die once again. A six, okay, we will be opening Magic, Ruler, and Original Pack. Let's see if we can pull the foil out of here. Original print, you can tell. Checked out that old Konami logo from 2002, they changed it to 2003. Will we pull a Blue-Eyes Seam Dragon? One, two, three, four is the pack trick. We have Darkness Approaches, these feel great. The old school cards, Koto-Dama. The Octoburcer, very nice. Hungry Burger, you guys hear about Hungry Burger support? Yeah, this card's going up, it's gonna be like 100, but no, I'm just kidding. I don't know, I doubt they use the regular one, but maybe they do. Boar Soldier, very cool. And Hungry Burger support is real. Also, there's a hamburger recipe, same pack. That is an amazing hamburger pack. We have a Psychic Kappa, it might be the next one. Here we go, is it a foil? No, it's the next one. Come on, Blue-Eyes Seam Dragon, let's go, do this. Oh, an Ultra Rare, Megamorf, let's go. Another Ultra Rare, so that means we are opening another vintage pack. Megamorf, a pretty crazy card back in the day. There's a lot of fun stuff you could do with it. Okay, that's a nice pull. Probably our best of the video for sure. All right, we are replacing that with a Power of the Duelist Unlimited pack, and now we will roll again for another vintage pack. Oh, okay, went off screen, let's do that again. Four, okay, Dimension of Chaos, one of our favorite packs, Scarlet Red Dragon R2, and pulled up many, many times over the course of my channel. Four times, I think, exactly. Two for me, two for a viewer. One, two, three, let's do that. We have Super Heavy Samurai Soulhorns, Dark Contract with Errors, Dark Doctor Fragender. We have Performa Page, Formage, Mirror Conductor, I'm struggling, Suffolk Reborn. So many different eras, a lot of different cards, it's just a lot of things that are hard to say. Okay, Super Heavy Samurai Drum, we have a Super Samurai Cavalry of Reptier, and Greatal Impact, so no foil, that was not a guaranteed foil back then. Actually, the last set before there were guaranteed foils. We are gonna replace that with a Photon Shock Wave pack. All right, back to our regular pack. So we have opened a few vintage packs now, I think four, something like that. Let's see what we can get out of Battles of Chaos. We're gonna do our special pack trick. Can we get the Dark Magician? So far, this has been our lucky one, the Battles of Chaos, Smile Potion, Ghostric Retreat, the Absolon, the Magnet Warrior, I don't even remember that one, Darton, the Mechanical Monstrosity, the Leaf Place Palais, so we've got the Libra Mancer Super, and the Great Double Casted Caster. Man, these really are tongue twisters. Now we've got Synchro Storm Time to pull the Baron before the reprint, let's do this. It's Baron Time, baby, we have Unknown Synchron, we have Speedroid Marble, Tornado Dragon. Oh, and a Saga, a Sage, a Swag, a Deflora, I don't know how to say that, but that is definitely not guaranteed. Ultra Rare, we'll take that. Synchro Storm coming in clutch, here we go. Oh, dang it, I can't roll right, here we go. Oh, another six, Power of the Duelist, Unlimited. Here we go, can we get that Unlimited Dark Neos, that Unlimited Chimeritech Over Dragon? Let's do it, Ultimate Rare. Vintage packs are being opened, we're definitely getting some Redemption today the last time, one, two, three, four. Started slow, we've heated up, we got a Bite Lawn, Destiny Mirage, let's get something good. We've opened a lot of Power of the Duelist, but I'm still looking for that Chimeritech for my collection, even Unlimited, I'd take it. Crystal's Dolphin, Black Terra, and a Neospatian Dark Panther, these things are loaded. Another foil of vintage packs are really, they're really snowballing and open a lot of packs. Okay, Replacement, Primal Origin, First Edition, here we go, let's see what we can get. A five, Legacy of Darkness, another old school. The last one though we did, old school, the Magic Ruler had a foil in it, let's see if this one does. Yada and Judge the Fair Lily, I don't know if it's a hobby or retail, but either one would be insane, even in Unlimited. So let's see if we can do it, one, two, three, four. Here we go, is it another foil out of a vintage pack? Illusory gentlemen, we got the Legendary Ocean, Roboyaru, we've got a Fiend Comedian, the Thoreau Stoney Unit, Spring of Rebirth, Super Roboyaru, Bark of Dark Ruler, and a Magic Reflector, so we're finally ending the vintage pack train, but don't worry, still a lot of packs to open. I say a lot, there's four left, but you know, that's a decent amount, maybe we could pull something here, let's go. We last time, Rage of Rock came through, Mechlord Fortress, Jynzo, and Mechlord Emperor Ski, I know Wild Monster appears, all right, nothing crazy in that one. All right, Cyberdark Impact taking its spot, we have three packs to go, I forgot to replace that last time, Battles of Chaos, let's go, I think it's the last Battles of Chaos, maybe one more, one, two, three. Let's get a Dark Magician here, we have the Doll Monster, Miss Makin', we have Maple Maiden, Smoke Mosquito, Epsilon, Kaiser, Nohru, Clear New World, the Emba Magnan, and a DDD Headhunt, so nothing in that one, two packs to go. Legendary Dual Synchro Storm, can you come in clutch again? I mean, last time you came in clutch, we have Noble Nine Joan, the Tornado Road. Why did I just say road, it has your dragon, I don't know where that came from. Oh, Super Rare Clearing Synchro, guess what guys? In those Legendary Duals, Supers are not guaranteed, so we're rolling. All right, we are rolling on the second to last pack, what will we get this time? A three Cross Souls, we've rolled three a couple of times. Cross Souls, will you have a Clear Wing, Synchro, Dragon, let's go. Let's see if we can pull an Ultimate Rare or a Ghost Rare.  All right, we tried on the Cross Souls, and we do have a backup Cross Souls that we're gonna put in there. Our final pack, if we don't pull foil, if we do pull foil, it could go on infinitely until we stop pulling non-guaranteed foils. Let's see what we can do. Three Battles of Chaos, could have two more vintage packs if we get the Dark Magician and a foil. Maple Maiden, I would love the Dark Magician. Morgh, Ogdoedic, Ruxen Special, it's been a while since one of those. Ghost Trick Retreat, Skilled Brown Magician, it's like Rattagas, Doll Happiness, Neroi, I think this is the foil, XZ's Combined to Super, and Ghost Trick Festival, all right, okay. It was a good opening, we opened a good amount of vintage packs, actually had some decent pulls, an old school, ultra rare pull, was pretty awesome. And if you guys enjoyed the video, make sure to subscribe to the channel for more epic content like this. 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Here, this side of the way, today's a very, very exciting day for you boy. Look, what came in, Series X, Troller, got an extra controller, got the bundle, shout out to Wifey, she's the one that actually ordered this, I didn't even know she did it until after she ordered it from Costco, so got the bundle with the extra controller. Alright, so, y'all know, I don't ever do unboxings, let's let you know today's a special day. So, I'm just gonna turn this around, face us, actually I don't think I can even do that, I guess I gotta turn it around and open it. Alright, took all the tape off, I think, guess I'll just open it from here, no, here, right? Yes, smells new, smells like next gen, alright, got a little getting started thing, and now the moment we've all been waiting for. I was so curious as to see how big this thing is, these are actually a lot easier to take off than I thought, so let's see what this thing looks like, it's a little bit smaller than I thought for real, how are your dreams, wrong side, alright, so the last thing to unbox in this very minimal bundle is this carbon black controller, so I got two black controllers, I wish they would have offered blue but it's all good, I'm just glad I got the X-Box and I can share this with you all but looks really similar to the controller I already have but definitely like a matte black finish which looks really nice, there's quite a bit of dust that you can see, you probably can't see in the video, you can see it there a little bit but the grip in the back is like, the back of the controller is much different, definitely more grippable in those scenarios where you like have sweaty palms because like it's the last kill and call of duty, gain when it's shot in 2K or gain when it feels gone madden, something like that, your sweaty palms won't get in the way of your production, I actually want to compare this controller with the X-Box One black controller real quick, so this is the X-Box One controller, definitely shinier, a more glossy finish for the color and even it feels like less grippable or it's more slippery basically, so you don't want to be using this with sweaty palms for sure, this one definitely feels a lot better, I gotta get used to how it feels though, that's for sure but yeah, these are the two side by side. Alright, now that I unboxed the next gen beast of a machine, let's talk about my first impressions but keep in mind, I'm your average casual gamer that occasionally snaps on call of duty, I'm not really a serious gamer, I know one of the main concerns with both the X-Box Series X and PS5 is where on earth am I gonna put this thing in my living room or on my desk, because they both have a quite unorthodox shape that we're not used to, but I will say that since the X-Box Series X can lay flat due to the little feet in the back of the console, it fits perfectly inside the bottom shelf of my IKEA TV console, I did try to move the TV slightly over so the X-Box could stand vertically and my wife shut that down quick when she saw that set up and of course my excuse was that it was for B-roll purposes, moving on to the design of the top of the console aka the cheese grater to be high, well if you're wondering why Microsoft designed it that way, it's for air flow that acts as a vertical cooling system that keeps the console quiet and let me tell you, this thing is silent, it's incredible, moving on to the gameplay, so as I mentioned earlier I'm your average and casual gamer, so I won't bore you with specs that I'm still trying to understand, but right off the bat I can tell a difference with the home screen, there's a new theme so the color scheme is different, we have blue and black as like the primary colors with nice subtle strokes of white lines as like animations in the background, so the first game I played was Madden and I know that when we get new things we sometimes have this like placebo effect of thinking everything is better and so different, however the Zen Z and RDNA 2 architectures 4K 60fps along with direct X ray tracing has made a huge difference especially when my display is in game mode, the gameplay is so much more immersive than the Xbox one from the lighting to the shadows along with the reflections that make it look more realistic and colorful and dynamic, you can see the true to life experience with reflections and shadows on games like Madden, the reflections off the helmets also played the new COD black ops and I can tell a difference with the movement of the characters and weapons everything feels more smooth and realistic, also the audio experience with aircrafts or helicopters flying above your head feels so real with vibration going through your controller to reflect a more real life experience, I've also noticed an improvement in load time and download time significantly which is great because it used to take nearly a whole day to install and update Call of Duty, moving on to the controller there's really no difference outside of the share button, carbon finish, texture triggers and bumpers to prevent your hands from slipping, the shape of the controller is pretty much the same even though I did read that it might be a bit smaller, be more ergonomically friendly for people with smaller hands without making any significant impact to people who have larger hands, from an ergonomical standpoint it is a lot better, it feels a lot better even though the design isn't all that different, alright so that concludes this unboxing and first impressions, give this video a thumbs up if you enjoyed it at all or if you would like to see a similar video for the PS5 which should be coming in today or tomorrow depending on when this video releases, smash that subscribe button, I love for you all to become a part, I love for you all to become a part of this wonderful community of creators and engineers, thanks again for watching this video, I greatly appreciate it and as always stay blessed, I'll see you all soon, peace.