Going live now. Fantastic. Good evening Foundation staff. It is currently 6 o'clock 1 p.m. on the West Coast and we are here for another episode of Dr. Sherman's Office Hours. So welcome to the stream. I'm sure people will be coming in very soon now that we're live. Ducky draws the question is not are you cool? It's are you cool yet? And hopefully the answer is not. Otherwise, we'd have to lock you in a box with all the other anomalous rubber duckies, which there are many in Foundation custody anomalous rubber ducks. That's kind of a thing that we just have on hand for some reason. But other than that Welcome to Dr. Sherman's Office Hours. We're here for about looks like 45 minutes today before my next meeting. So if you Site 42 staff, have any SCP questions, any SCP news, anything that you'd like to speak of. I am here. Obviously, I've got the chat running on my desktop besides me, although the chat runs like a SCP-5886 air-go. It's hard to catch your questions, but I do have these super chats pulled up. So if you happen to throw a don't know, I will not miss thee. In the meantime, why don't I say hello to a couple of our wonderful viewers? Director Ethan, good to see you as always. The lightsaber complainer. That's a question that I'm used to. Why don't you just close one eye while looking at 173. So there's two answers for this one. The physiological answer would be that the act of closing one eye or the other alternating. You'll notice that I'm getting little blinks in between. Most people, unless they are very well-trained in practice at this, will accidentally blink both eyes even as they try. You saw that? It went right there.  That is my weakness as an anomalous researcher, but even more so than that. It is foretold. It is rumored that if someone were to do that long enough, 173 would just snap their neck out of spite because it doesn't need to wait for you to close your eyes. It does it as a game. So depending on what universe you are in will depend on if it is a viable strategy that you can train in or if it will just get you wrecked anyways. Meanwhile, have I ever met SCP-5031? Oh, my lord. Yet another murder monster. It is not. And I will tell you what. Oh my word. It, the night that it came to Site 42 on its tour, I will never forget. The concerto that it played, magical. I could not imagine such beauty and music, but it was there. And then, of course, of course, of course, the dinner, the dinner for courses delectable. The... It was this beef wellington, but there was this, there was something in the gravy and I couldn't place it myself. I'm not a cook. I eat at the staff commissary every day because I am a terror to a microwave or a stove. But, oh, the beef wellington. And then, bless me for my Italian heritage. That was the night that we got to try SCP-5031's tiramisu. Bless. I know I would have been so proud. Now, I've never personally interacted with 5031. I've just been witness to its tour of the facilities and 343, bless the researcher that turned around its life. Amber, good to see you in the chat. Moi gaming, thank you for your first don't know to the stream. We appreciate all support for Site 42 and its causes. Forgotten Spartan, how is it working with Dr. Kool? Dr. Kool, I have not heard from Dr. Kool in ages. I had assumed that he had fallen victim to some sort of anomaly that something bad had happened to his site. Yeah, we have not heard from Dr. Kool since 2019. I had just assumed that something terrible had happened at that site, but maybe he's still out there being a doctor and being cool. Meanwhile, while we don't have word from Dr. Kool for a while, we do have Dr. Kool bad and Dr. Kool bad destroyed the economy, which is a wonderful comedy tale written by friend of the channel, Radiger. And so did we do a video on Dr. Kool bad destroys the economy? I hope we did. Kool bad, SCP, we did record it. Ha, we did. Site 42, Dr. Kool bad destroys the economy. Enjoy that after the stream because it's really funny. Amethyst YT, can I please be your student?  Either way, I assume that if you're here, you're looking to learn something from me and I'm here for you. Cyber Game Man, is it wise to release information about SCPs to the general public? Ah, you see, that is actually just what I was talking about. If you can find this YT channel, you are a member of SCP staff. That is full stop. Now, whether you found it because you are from a parallel universe and the other you was part of the foundation and we're trying to recruit you by proxy, that is to be told. That is to be known by us, not by you. You'll figure it out in the long run. Either way, you cannot find these SCPs videos unless you are meant to. Anyways, RAND SICK GAMING, thank you for your first don't know to the Site 42 cause. We will continue to secure, contain, and protect as long as you continue to support us. We are here for the people, for normalcy. Is there an SCP that has ever escaped the facility? Well, whatever that name was, Alice Hearts. It is a common occurrence, unfortunately. No security system is foolproof. And considering how secret we are, we sometimes have to hire fools. And the security's not foolproof. And ergo, we have to, that is what mobile task force is for. We need them to go out there and bring them back. Now, hopefully we can do that without revealing normalcy, breaking the veil, breaking the masquerade, and least importantly, mass casualty incidents. But, you know, we're not worried about life of people. We're worried about everyone thinking the world is normal. So, just keep that in mind. What's important here? Desk! Good to see you. Thank you for your service. Now, obviously one of my favorite mass mobile task forces would have to be the one I created, which is Kappa 7, the Haughty Librarians. They contain SCP 3086, as well as any other library-related anomalies. But, since that's mine, and I can't claim that in good conscience, I'm gonna hype an article that we posted today on the member's only section. If you are a mobile task force captain or hire as a Site 42 channel member, besides getting a cool little badge and all sorts of channel emojis, you also get early access to our videos that we release. And we just posted mobile task force Sigma 5, codename Pumpkin Punchers. Uh, no, admittedly, they had a bit of a bad day in their outing in the article we reported. But, they still exist, and so they are my favorite of the day because I just posted their story. Yum bone! This is mobile task force 2489 Lider. How are things at your site? Site 42 is in an unusual calm. I believe it has to do with the rains. The rains on the plains, mainly from Spain. Or maybe it's the blessed rains from Africa. We haven't sorted out which ones they are, but whichever rains they are, they are causing an anomalous calm throughout the facility. Many of the anomalous entities have just fallen asleep. And I'm not going to look at this gift horse in its mouth, especially because the gift horse that is in containment, its mouth leads to a labyrinth of terror. So, we don't look at one. We don't look at that one. Highlander, are there any SCPs that if they come in contact with cheese, they will cause the end of the world? And where are they? I just, uh, need to know. Well, thank you for your first don't know and cheese question. Well, just to be certain, and not at all to stop your devious plans, let's look up SCP cheese. Now, SCP-1622 is a semi-hard cheese made from milk of a blue whale. Uh, all subjects tested describe its flavors delicious and perfect, but cannot define the exact taste. Anomalous effects aside from the taste itself sent around its storage preparation consumption. It will not manifest when the total cost of preparing a meal container consisting of it is greater than $97,250. What is, it makes you dislike other cheeses? Well, this doesn't sound world-ending. So, uh, 1622, blue whale cheese that's weird. 2867 is compulsive mimetic and physical infection surrounding an unknown amount of gorgonzola cheese produced by Jack Terrence and Terrence Farms in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. What does the cheese do? Subject talks through the door, have about cheese, crawls on the floor, licking the area where the cheese was located, repeats the recipe and creation process of brie 12 times in a row, uh, chews fingernails entirely, given five kilograms of cheddar cheese, subject fully consumes all cheese. Well, okay. It is gorgonzola cheese that makes you want cheese and eat cheese. That's, that's okay. 4002 dash J is a cheese wheel in the refrigerator in Dr. Jack's office on site 19. The office is the perfeta location to store the object as it is located level B4, 30 meters underground. In case of a containment breach, all communster cations are to be curred off to prevent further cantilemination. Desgibles end. SCP 4002 dash J refers to a cheese wheel of unknown comportzition. When obey served, the Sussex is over whippment with the impulse to utilize dairy-centered chederick as a priority in their spabeechter patterns. This etheta has been dothund as mimiretic, and as such, contra-ainment must be at Moonstered carefully. No personnel with culea clearance level three or bello are permitted to access SCP 4002 at any time. I have to stop! It's giving me a migraine. Oh, oh, it's titled Kurt of Prey. How would you do this to me? That is just a sampling, a cheese board of cheese SCPs, because that's not even all of them. I didn't even mention SCP 1600, the Philosopher's Cheese that turns any object it touches into a cheese with a distinct flavor for what the subject is. Very cheesy articles. Oh no, not a bag of shredded mozzarella cheese. I'm done! I'm done with the cheese articles. We're getting out of here. I get out of the cheese zone. A lance. I made it into the vents. I've consumed three humans. Someone help me out, or they won't let me out. Well, I hope you enjoyed cheese, because essentially that's the part of the site that you're trapped in now. So stop eating humans, start eating cheese, and maybe we'll give you a nice sell, because you're not getting out of here. Rents the gaming. Thank you for your other dodo. That's the second one. Appreciate it. Could you do a how with the Foundation Contact? The Keyblade or the Heartless from Kingdom Hearts? How would we contain the Keyblade or the Kingdom of Hearts, besides trapping it in a video game, which is the easy cheesy answer? Oh, the darkness. Oh, the universe. Oh, I think we would use Pataphysics to rewrite its story into such a convoluted loop that they were so busy trying to solve it that they could never escape. Done! Got them. Burned. Battle strategist X-Supreme. What do you think of SCP-1678? I think it's data expunged. Well, what is SCP-1678? He wondered aloud, worried about what it would bring. SCP-1678. On London. Oh, the bobbies. Oh, the bobbies. So honestly, while I'm very familiar with this article through rumors throughout the Foundation, I have not studied it myself, because there's a lot of peripheral material involved here. Beside there being just so many interviews, you go to one of my favorite parts of the site. If you go to the Series page, and this is Series 2, and then you click SCP Series 2 Tales Edition, then it lists all the tales related to an entity or anomaly. And in this case, pardon me, too much cheese anomalies. 1678. May the sun ever set on the British Empire. There is no way that on London only has one tale related to it. It can- that's not right. 1678. Let's go to the bottom. Let's check the tags. Euclid City Historical K-Class Scenario Pattern Screamer SCP Subterranean. I can't believe an article that's over plus 1,000 upvotes does not have more than one tale associated with it. That seems bononous. That seems banana-pilled by dado. Dado. Dado. However you want to pronounce him. Either way, the answer is I don't think about 1678 very often, because it's a lot to deal with. Those bobbies are rude. Their un-London is large. I've seen them get in fights with other un-nations. And we just- we don't need that. Alance, thank you for another dono and some cheese. Uh, you should eat the cheese. You should not eat the humans. You should eat the cheese. It will be better for everyone involved here. That is my suggestion as a researcher. Alex Rose, thank you for your dono. How does the world end in SCP-001 Lily's proposal? So, now I have not fully witnessed one of these events and recordings, although I am familiar with the anomaly and its document. It is in fact one of my favorite SCP-001 articles. My thought process, if I were to, I don't know, head can in here. And let me lower this just a little bit so I can slouch more. Papa, slouching. There we go. We're all feeling a little more relaxed now, correct? So my thought process for Lily's proposal is that I believe that there are numerous world-ending conditions that can spawn Lily's proposal. I don't think it's just one end of the world. I think it is that the Earth in several universes has a backup plan to take care of its children in the world ending scenarios. You know, Earth, Mother, Gaia, all that thought. In universes where Lily's proposal is true, I believe it to be that that is the case. So, I could not tell you what apocalypse is because in those universes that applies to all apocalypses. Now, this makes me curious because Lily's proposal and when day breaks, can they exist in the same universe? Can everyone be at peace moments before the sun comes down? Now, in most when day breaks canons, there are survivors and there would not be survivors in a one day break scenario if Lily's proposal went down. We would have prepared for that and gone to our maker. Interesting concept. I like that question. Good job, Alex Rose. Andre, how you doing? Thank you kindly for your don't know to the side 42 cause. What would happen if apocalypse occurred in year 2012, like from the movie 2012 in the SCP universe? So, I am not familiar with the movie 2012. So, I want to see what that movie is about. Isn't that like a comet or a a flat or something? What is the, what is the end of the world in that movie? Roland Emmerich disaster, just like The Independence Days. No, give me just a regular Wikipedia please, not all these fandom wikis. Give me the real thing. I want the real one. The real one. I'm going to go to TV tropes. We trust TV tropes. 2009 disaster movie based on a prediction the world would end. Yes, indeed. Mainly follows Jackson Curtis. TV tropes stop being angry at me. Independence Day day after tomorrow. What did it do? What is the apocalypse here? I've hard research. We will figure it out though. We will not fail. We will understand what the hell happened in this movie. Wikipedia. We'll go to Wikipedia for the answers film. Produced by Harold Clozer, geologist, a scatological sequence of events like earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, mega tsunamis, and global flood. Plot. 46, da-da-da, skepticism, hemeleas, engines, mega tsunami approaching, loading gates closed, there's an arc. Impact driver causes the access ship to get a lot of the gaming, preventing it from closing complete, disabling ships, engines. Arc starts flooding, heading for Everest, Adrian rushes to clear the gears, crew regains control of the arc, all Jackson don't make it to safety, waters are receiving 27 days later. So is this literally Noah's Ark again? Because if that's the case, I wonder if it bears any relation to 001, the Gate Guardian. I wonder if there's some religiosity related 343 being all weird about it that we could ask him about. But many of our anomalous end of the worlds include arcs that we can reset humanity. Remember SCP-2000? That seems like a place where we'd use SCP-2000. At least someone on that arc would be Foundation, and we would go reset humanity at that time. That is my thought process here, continuing on. Do you ever get to reading SCP-6029? Crow-born, thank you for your question. Now let us take a look at 62029, because I have been very busy. For those who don't know, the reason I shaved is because I was in a play. We did Shakespeare in San Francisco. It was a very good show. There are links to get the video of it once it's released in my bio. 62029. But what that means is no, I did not take the time to read any SCPs this week, because I had been that busy. Unfortunately. Oh, it's the crack. I remember you asked me about the crack. I did not read it, but, and especially because it's this long and I will not read it on screen, but I do enjoy, I can tell, even by what I'm seeing now that it's pretty well written, I'm unfamiliar with Nick the Brick 1, the author. Let me see what else he's written seeing if I know any of his works. A pizza that is also a computer. Ratings that stick.  A game amongst friends. Well, I enjoy your titles, Nick the Brick. I will need to look into your stuff, because I feel rather that I will enjoy them. So, sorry I have not gotten to this article yet for my own reading. Collapse. Thank you for your first don't know to the channel. Everyone at site 42 keeps mistaking me for an SCP. Are we mistaking you for an SCP? Or are you actually anomalous, and you were the one who does not know it? Just something to think about. Rency Gaming. How would the Foundation contain the great clock from Ratchet and Clank? It keeps the flow of time and stops the anomalies. I've only played one Ratchet and Clank game. It was one of the PS4 ones. So, it's the one they made the movie about. So, I'm unfamiliar with the great clock, is what I'm saying. Clock. The great clock, also known as the Keeper of Time, is a Zoni construct located in the exact center of the universe, given to take 50 feet near the Briegus Nibbula in an uncharted system at the end of the Polaris Galaxy. Designed by Orvis to maintain temporal normality across the universe, Clank was brought by the clock to the by the Zoni to be its inheritor at the request of his father. To the clock's power over the time continuum, sought after by numerous parties who wish to use it to change history. So, based on this, if this involved existed in the SCP universe, there'd be two things that'd be happening. Number one, the Foundation would be have taken control of it. If something like this maintains normal time flow, we would want to make sure no one's messing with it. So, we as the Foundation would find a way to take control and lock it off and make sure no one can mess with it. Other than that, if we couldn't, it was probably because as a clockwork anomaly, it would be in possession of the Church to the Broken God, and since in most canons they have not successfully rebuilt their God yet, I would assume that instead it is inoperable. But maybe the Church is still in control of it and trying to fix it, or maybe the Foundation is trying to fix it because we could use it to harness some anomalous things to stop future containment breaches. One of the two. How would SCP-682 react to SCP-2163? Slippy, thank you for your first donut of the Site-42 Anomalous Research Facility. And I'm unfamiliar with 2163, so let's take a look at it. SCP-2163. Largest sources of cognitohazards. Communicable to varying degrees. Cognitohazards change in brightness, contrasting color. Auditory rarely contain human speech. Infohazards are uncommon when they do appear there, often lines of dialogue, monologue, or narration. Sixty frames of the film. Toy Story. Cognitohazards are located up a right corner of the screen. Series of rabbit changes in color and brightness caused by the gesturing of one of the characters. We'll view this kind of, we'll see if there are sentient children's toys. So this is the kind of anomaly where 682 would deal with it the same way that it deals with 173, which is that it would get rid of all its eyes and it would get rid of all of its ears and it would not take in information. Because if you don't take in the information, you can't be affected by an info hazard. Now, just to confirm this idea, let's look at its termination log and see if we can find 2613 in there. Now, how many pages of this exist? It goes forever, forever, forever, but there's only one page. So let's see, let's see to 163. No matches. Let's look for Cognitohazard. Okay, when we tested 513, it was in incapacity of your incineration transferred to a video. Introduced to a fixed robotic arm, it regenerated. We rung the bell. It howled and covered its ears due to difference of anatomy and lack of visible ears. It can be safely assumed the motion of covering the sides of its head accomplishes this. Pacing the chamber, pacing, pacing, sedatives, lose conscience, sleepwalking, reached containment, followed by the bell guy, confirmed to containment. Either way, in the light of the loss of 67% of site staff and 45% of site D-class requesting that Cognitohazard item testing for 682 be suspended till we understand what the hell happened here. That is one of four Cognitohazard's tests. Grows to add computer-generated incapacity in Cognitohazard 682's containment gender is pain and approval. Okay, so we did kill agents. 682 initially started to undergo signs of cardiac arrest and a seizure.  We will not give it kill words. Do not give it kill words. So that's how that would go down, at least in a couple ways. Is Porg, but Sherman, I can fix him. I don't know who you think you're going to fix, but you can't. No. And there are no tests allowed for that. We don't fix things. We contain them and we study them. That is all. We can't study it if you fix it. Also, it's not a hymn. Anomalies are not people. They are objects. The only pronouns we use here are it-its because they're not people. They are research subjects. Follow the protocols. I made a tree scream. Okay, but was it 4-5-2-1? Or did it-or was it just a random tree? Because I don't care about random trees. It's 4-5-2-1 that needs to scream. It's that specific tree because it won't scream. And we're going to make it. Desk. Clef's daughter is not a people. You need to get your emotions out of the situation. That is not proper Foundation protocol and you know it.  Keep up the great work. I appreciate it, but I'm not trying to be funny. I'm trying to give you good information about the Foundation. This is serious business. Very serious anomalous business. Solar and berries. It was 4-5-2-1. Well, now I don't believe you. If I would have heard a scream on the decibel meter that I keep on my watch because I know when we're going to make 4-5-2-1 scream, we're going to do it. And I'm not going to miss it. I have my decibel reader right here. And if it went off, we would have known and I would have been there in half a two shakes of a 6-8-2 stale, which is a very large shake. So I would have been there very quickly because you got to move very quickly to make you shake something that big. We're there. Trust me, you were mistaken. It was not that tree. Forgotten spotten. Search for SCP Foundation Commander Cool for a briefing reminder. Dr. Cool, our LTF Harry's Crazy Family and LTF heads to the past, part of our reality, or just observable from our reality. Really? There's a briefing for him? SCP Foundation Commander Cool. It's Dr. Cool, Alpha-1. Haunted Reader did a Dr. Cool background file. Is that real? Or is that a fan thing? Haven't heard from Haunted Reader in a while either. All right, cool it off. Where does this come from? Here's a video of LTF Dr. Cool here within the SCP Foundation. Shall be coming out after this week, May 2014. Whoa, old school. Old school. Okay, I can't find what you're talking about there, Forgotten Spartan. Rents a gaming. What does the SCP Foundation think of the oldest house from control? They do the exact same thing as the Foundation. I was just thinking about control earlier today, because, you know, it was inspired by SCP, but they took it and made their own thing, and Alan Wake 2 just came out, and so I'm thinking about control again, because they had the Alan Wake DLC, and Remedy does, I gotta tell you, for the life of me, could not imagine having nostalgia for a place I had never been, then playing control for the first time, and walking through the hallways of the oldest house. It's just, the vibes are immaculate. Good stuff. Zebra Cheetah. Thank you for your dono. First dono to Site 42, even though you've attracted your message, we appreciate your help in our cause of securing, containing, and protecting. Flynn. Oh, sorry, I didn't finish Rentsy Gaming. So, yes, the oldest house, it is number one, a cool anomaly. We like anomalous places like that. We would not use it as a base. Some Foundations would use it as a base. They played it a little fast and loose. Normally, we would just surround the area, and then send research parties in, but I guess the FBC plays a little fast and loose with their protocols. I feel like after the first time that several people got lost and died in their changing walls, they would choose better, but, you know, what are you going to do? That area with the headphones though, super dope. All day, every day. Can't deny that. Flynn Vashcentz. How does one achieve a higher rank in the Foundation? What department has the best jobs? What SCP are the best to interact with? How is Dr. Sherman today? That's a lot of questions. I am doing quite well. The best SCPs to interact with? Jeff is my homeboy, 008-J. Obviously, 999 is a good friend. 3092, the guerrilla warfare plushies. Love them to death. Builder Bear. Terrible. No, no. The Bear with the Heart of Patchwork is the one we like. The Builder Bear is a monster. It's several monsters. We don't like that one. That's just a smattering of good anomalies that you make friends with. What department has the best jobs? All departments in Site 42. We do archives. We do transfers.  Our containment breach is zero days since containment breach sign is up to 24. It's down to zero, but that's fine. That's fine. These things happen, everyone's okay. Oh, and how does one achieve a higher rank of the foundation? Study, go to work, high commendations. Willingness to throw your life away for sacrificing to the cause usually helps. It will be noted on your permanent record. Oh, and a clean psyche valve, or a clean-ish psyche valve, or a decent psyche valve, or we'll take anybody at this rate. Slippy. Why can't 343 see 682? I think that 343 is able to kill 682. The only way 682 can survive is if he doesn't bump into him. So 682 made itself invisible to 343. What does Rick Sanchez ran into 682? So 343 said that 682 and it can't see each other because they are from different universes. They're not, it's not one of mine. Parallel universes and sometimes universes brush past each other and in that place in between. Are we? There go. Yes, unfortunately we cannot use 343 for that. And also, if Rick Sanchez ran into 343, we'd be annoyed and then he would leave and we'd probably lose a lot of men that day. He'd probably pull a kudraki and try to ride him, if I'm being honest. Flynn Vasons, thank you for joining the Mobile Task Force Captain ranking of being a member. You now have access to the four early access videos that I posted today because after the play I've been busy for like three months and now I'm getting all the uploads ready. So there are four videos waiting for you in the early release section. So thank you for becoming a member and if you want to use some Site 42 emojis and see early releases, you can become a member too. Would Goku count as an SCP? If so, what would his containment class be? So I know somewhere in the past we did a Goku is not an SCP, but if you were. And number one, the situation is that we would, there are some universes where if we use anomalies on Mobile Task Forces then we would use them for that because obviously it's a good fight guy. We used Able on Mobile Task Forces. Goku could be the same in the same token. We would also have the issue of him becoming too strong to stop, but you know, you give him a little heart disease and that's the end of him. So medically induced coma. Flynn, thank you for gifting a Site 42 membership. Axolotl just accepted it. Congratulations. Thank you for your generosity. Now we have two new members in this stream. I don't even know how gifting memberships work. I have to go look that up, but congratulations. Welcome to your shiny new finger guns, Dr. Sherman Badge. Yo. How do you think conversion bureau versus the SCP foundation would go? Also search on site server search engine or Google if you wouldn't. Yes, the archivist, the haunted reader. So forgotten Spartan. The FBC is a federal agency. I liken them to the FBI's unusual incidents unit, which means I find them inept and hilarious and underfunded.  Zebra cheetah. If Son Wukong was an SCP, how would the SCP foundation contain him and his friends with a monk have similar containment to 2662? I haven't thought of 262 in so long. I forgot how funny that guy was. Oh poor Cthulhu. I love that article. That was a really fun one to record for the channel way back when. So the quality might be mid but still a great article. Meanwhile, other thoughts.  So it's a godlike adventuring party. There's like 78 spells. I mean we do some Wukong the same way we do Goku. We trick him into working for us. We keep the monk on hand. That way the monk thought he was helping but we would just be another diversion in the we would just be another diversion in their quest because I doubt we could hold them for very long and they tricked their way out of our containment but we'd certainly hold on to them for a bit. Is it possible a JM Day warehouse? Is it possible the entity described by SCP-5000 can be or is tied to the pestilence as cryptically discussed by SCP-049? So I am not a 5000 pestilence truther. I know that was a popular theory and I know there was evidence for it.  What if SCP-5031 saw SCP-096's face? So first of all, I doubt, well it would be possible if there were a picture. I guess all it would have to do is because 096, well honestly 096, we don't know that 096 processes visual stimuli because it senses its targets and chase them down which means that if 096 is blind then it wouldn't activate 5031's defense mechanism of going incorporeal slash non-existent. So I think 096 would take 5031. Let's not make that happen. Saw your post on control and its association with SCP. Be interested in more thoughts on how the game's design can inspire future SCP projects. So Onimask, thank you for being a member again and all you do for helping us make SCP content in games and stuff like that we're boosting it up the best we can. So my thought process is that the control does a really good job with this design of making the space seem anomalous. I remember walking in seeing the walls change behind me like when I went back and that was a very, very cool feeling going in and being like whoops and so that is a very cool aspect of it. You can do a lot with games and having flags that change the environment so that you're in a more surreal situation like with myhouse.wav whatever that was the doom mod that was based on House of Leaves. That is the same concept where everything's constantly changing around you. Oh, Forgotten Spartan. I did not know about the MLP Conversion Bureau. I'll look that up in a second once I finish some other questions. So yes, the use of space and spatial anomalies is what interests me on that front. Flynn in the live chat gives an option to give memberships. I did the lowest what would happen theoretically speaking. I was an anomaly. Well you would go in a box that's first and foremost. Now I don't know your anomalous abilities, but we're pretty decent at figuring out how to contain most things. So that is my answer until I know more details. Alright, so wrong Bureau, the MLP Conversion Bureau. Let's see what an MLP Conversion Bureau is. Conversion Bureau. The Conversion Bureau is a My Little Pony Friendship is Magic fan figure written by Blaze, which has turned other stories by people using the same premise. Depending on the writer, not the same canon. They do share elements. Conversion will be set on earth sometime in the future. With the eye on a pocket universe of Equestria suddenly appeared in the sea. Unfortunately, the realm of Equestria is pushing into Earth's territory like a incursion, like you said. And the magic of Equestria is lethal to humans in a few short years. Equestria will flood Earth with magic. There will be nowhere left for you may to live. Princess Celestia sets up Conversion Bureau all over Earth, offering the chance of humans to be turned into ponies. Complicating that, however, is that Ponification, as the process is called, is heavily debated both in and out of universe. In the universe it leads to ideologues from warming terrorist groups. One, the human liberation front, is violently anti-pony. The other, Ponification of Earth's rebirth, sees Ponification as a sacrament which absolves humans of their vices, which should be given to every human on the planet. Wow! This is very SCP-ZK End of the World dominant shift event. What is a dominant shift? That's something. SCP-Dominance, not commonance, dominant shift scenario. An SK-class dominant shift scenario where the dominant life form on the planet is converted to another one. So, oof! Yeah, that would not go well for us, would it? Ouch! Haha. Well, the foundation, if we had to face such a thing, we would be trying to push the ponies back into their own universe somehow. Scranton reality anchors would probably be involved to keep them locked into one place, and finding ways to turn ponies back into non-ponies, I would assume. Ransigaming, however, the foundation contain the bio militator from Ratchet and Clank, a paternal organic matter into robots, and its inventor, Dr. Nefarious. So, I would imagine that we would simply put it in a box slash a big facility. We would get Dr. Nefarious away from it, he would stop using it, and we would continually just lock that down. We would not let it be used, because especially if we let it fall into the hands of the Church of the Broken God, it would be a bad day for everyone. So, yes, lock it down. Sky the Gamer, SCP-001 here, can I have more food? I want human. No, you don't get human. We're not feeding you humans today, you get cheese. Now, you could have human-flavored cheese, we can make that happen. It's a little weird, but that's the best you're getting. What's the most dangerous thing your site had, Flynn? We happened to have a GK-class end of narrative scenario with SCP-3086, actually. I think that's the most dangerous thing that's happened at our site. George the Ginchilla went from writing and picture-based to audio-based and voice-based. It ended up taking over this facility and possibly the whole world. We're not sure what happened after that emergency broadcast, but we all might be George now. Forgotten Spartan, Rowan Bureau. Oh, no, okay, yeah, I saw that one and I got that and we covered it. Got it. What would happen if 507 saw 096's Facebook teleporting to another dimension? Andre, my suggestion is that 096 senses where you are, worldwide. I think that sense probably splits to worldwide movement, and that means our interdimensional travel, which means if there is another doorway to that dimension, it would find it and go there, which is why we don't put 096 inside of SCP-3008. And so that is because it would escape, so we don't want that. But very quickly, I've got to sign off because I just realized the time, and I've got stuff going on. So I've got to get back to my next meeting. So thank you all for this wonderful office hours. Let me end with my favorite SCPs. My favorite SCPs on the site that are not mine, you can always read mine, are 3043-3999-008-J, Spooky-J 571-5175-5031, and 5320. One more time, 3043-3999-008-J, SCP-Spooky-J 5320-5175-5031. Sorry for the abrupt exit, I just forgot, and my meeting is very soon, so can't keep them waiting. Trust me, not this time. Farewell, I'll see you guys in the next office hours.


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Okay. Hello. My name is Michael Lascaris. I am from the National Library, as Andy mentioned. I work on Andy's team as part of the Digital New Zealand team, and currently my role is user experience lead. I'm going to be talking a bit about Papers Past today and the recent redesign we did. This won't be a deep dive on Papers Past with this crowd. I'm going to take it as a bit of a given that most people know what Papers Past is. If you don't, go look it up afterwards, and you're welcome. I also need to acknowledge right up front that we originally built this as maybe a pitch for a longer, sort of one hour deep dive on the whole project. We're asked to sort of do a 15 minute, so I'm just focusing on the user experience. It was a very large, very long, very very very challenging project. Some of my project folks are in the audience, and they're going to look at these things and go, man, you're glossing over a whole bunch of stuff and making it sound really easy because I'm compressing two years into a 15 minute presentation. But for those of you who are not familiar with Papers Past, it is the New Zealand's National Historical Digital Newspaper Archive, which is searchable, full text, scanned OCRed newspapers, dating from approximately 1830 through to 1945, which is about as far forward as we're comfortable with pushing the copyright. These numbers are where it was when we launched, so this was the service that we were moving. 130 newspapers, 3.5 million pages more or less, more being added all the time and about 40 million articles. It's also very popular. I think we're one of the most heavily trafficked sites within the DIA portfolio at about 3 million page views a month. That number of 3.5 million pages now that we've moved everything in is about up to 4.7 million. In a big project like this, before you go into a redesign, it's really important to know why you're doing this. It's a question we ask ourselves and it's a question a lot of people ask us like, no, seriously, why are you doing this? Because the Papers Past audience is very, they like the service. It was very popular and people were very, very nervous about change with good reason because it's working. However, it's important to know that the business driver was not the user experience for this project. The business driver was behind the scenes. Two main things I would boil it down to, technical debt and content workflow. The business driver was this. Papers Past was newspapers and we were going to expand it to full text. We wanted to bring in documents of other types, some of which were very newspaper-like, some of which not so newspaper-like. So the challenge was bringing in these four other services that already existed into the Papers Past world. So that's newspapers, but we're also bringing in the manuscript and pictorials site from Alexander Turnbull Library. The Teahoe and the Royal Society were periodicals, journals, and the parliamentary papers in the A to J's. The reason for this is largely technical in that a lot of these other services were different and built in an older era where you had a really big collection, you built a website around it. We had inherited them. They were out of support and possibly not going to make it very far. So what we were doing behind the scenes was the main driver of bringing all of these services historically into a single platform and a single technology stack so that going forward we could iterate, we could build on the same tech, and we wouldn't have all these other things to support and these sites wouldn't fall over in the meantime. The project offered some constraints. One, as I mentioned, very popular. People don't want it to change. We didn't want to mess with what was working. We wanted to understand what was working so that when we brought new things in we didn't unnecessarily impede the current service. The different formats presented a big part of the issue and I'll talk more about that in a minute. So if we're bringing in manuscripts and we're bringing in periodicals into a newspaper world, how do we not overwhelm the user with new information even though everybody tells us they want more stuff on papers past? Smallish budget, it's a lot of work with a certain amount of resource. But also presented us opportunities. We realized that to bring in all these new resources we're going to have to rethink the user experience. So on the one hand not messing with things but also bringing in a whole lot of new stuff. There's a balancing act there and we really had to do some deep thinking on the UX. We needed to future proof so getting rid of that technical debt and having one stack to maintain would serve us well for the future.  Device friendliness which three or four years ago was kind of a nice to have, making sure it works well on mobile and tablets and the multi-device world. There's a slide I forgot to put in here which is that papers past in a given month gets visits by Google analytics from about 1200 different screen sizes. So it's the multi-device future has been here for some time. And it turns out Google is actually punishing sites that are not mobile friendly. So if you have an older mobile friendly site you may have seen in the last year your Google organic search numbers going down. So we were starting to see that with papers past and we needed to sort of get onto a responsive version and build back up. So our design approach we did a lot of discussion. We did a lot of surveys. We did a lot of talking to our audience. We were going to prototype and put prototypes in front of people as soon as possible. We're going to do a lot of user testing early on that was largely one-on-one sessions. We would put the prototypes in front of people and ask them to use them while looking over their shoulder and giving them as few prompts as possible. And we did a lot of those sessions probably about 40 hours all told. And we're going to use an agile development process of two-week sprints kind of working on things once we got into production. So iterating and being able to iterate and taking the iterations into the future.  So this is taking the newspapers front page of papers past looking at the site where it started and where we wound up. So this is what papers past looked like when we started. It hadn't changed since about 2007-2008. Fairly simple, fairly straightforward, works pretty well. Not responsive. So it looked exactly like this on every screen on every device. If you looked on this at your phone it would just be this shrunk down to the width of your phone. But we've got basically a very small number of things going on. So we've got the search box there, which is where you can search. Or if you just want to browse, dig in, pick a date, pick a region, pick a title, start looking at newspapers, you click on these buttons here. So our very first prototype was this. We just sort of started hacking in the Foundation CSS framework and HTML, put together some HTML pages and just said, okay, this is essentially taking the front page of the newspapers and translating it into a new mobile friendly chunky site. You'll also notice there's colors in here and the colors are going to jump around. The fonts are going to jump around. It's just an artifact of the fact that I believed in full, they call it high fidelity wire frames. These are essentially, we thought of these as wire frames, but we tried out fonts. We tried out colors. We tried out a few things to see how it goes. But this is essentially the same stuff that was on the papers past home page. And this is where we started. So we started testing with people. And we got this great comment from one particular gentleman who was one of our patrons who was user testing with us. And he talked about, he said this sentence somewhere along the lines, sometimes I start browsing and then I search and sometimes I search and then I start browsing. And we just started thinking like, oh, these are not really two particular routes. It's like, you might want to browse for a while. And then when you browse to a particularly interesting area, you might want to search within those results. Or you might go the other way. You might search for a word and then facet down and filter. But we found it was almost 5050 with the approaches. People sort of, when they're starting from the home page, won a couple of different ways. The vast majority of our audience comes in through Google. They Google something and they go right to the page they want. But from the home page, it was kind of an even split. So we moved to this, which is the idea that over on the side, you'd have some facets where you could pick an area or you had a nice big search box at the top where you could search. And we started this split for, which we had for a long, long time, of if you search for a word, you would get article level results from the full text. So if I search for Wellington, I find articles containing Wellington in my search results. But if I just used the facets, if I just said all of New Zealand or just, you know, Otago in 1940 to 1945, I would get the front pages of newspapers. And we were enamored of this idea for a long time of like, if the search was blank, you get front pages. If the search was not blank, you get articles. Turns out it didn't work so well. So what did we learn here? Well, we learned, first of all, in user testing when we tested this, nobody knew that those things on the right were interactive. So we added little change buttons and bigger change buttons and bigger change buttons. Fit's law, user experience law says the bigger something is as a target, the easier it is to interact with. So our buttons just got bigger iteratively over a period of about two months. But we still had everything else more or less placed in the same place. And you can see the colors are jumping around a little bit and changing. But we had a little bit of a disconnection going on because the next thing that was happening was when you interacted with these boxes over on the left, they would drop down little interactive panels coming out of the search box. So what we found were people were going left and right. I'm interacting with this over here and then it's presenting these little boxes on the side. So we had done all of this prototyping up to this point before our design vendor got involved. It was ClickSuite. So Emily just spoke earlier. She worked on Papers Past with us. And ClickSuite came in, helped us out, did a bit more user research, did a bit more surveys, did some design iterations. And the next couple of slides here are still the prototypes, the screenshots of the prototypes that we were building internally but with some of ClickSuite's ideas in the background. One of the first things they did was really sold us on the idea that the search box needed to be on the side. I love big search boxes. And I really liked the big search box across the top but they said with the faceting put all the interactions in the same place on the left and we tested it and that turned out to be right in the end. So here this is getting a little bit more, a little bit more simplifying up at the top. The other thing that ClickSuite did was move the facets to interact with the sidebar. So when you click they sort of fly out from the side so that it was very obvious of the thing you're interacting with is related to the panel a bit more directly. So we put the title picker in here and then this is actually the very first design draft of the sort of the new design which ultimately rolled into what you'll see as the final. And we got rid of those front pages in the beginning and you want to know what happened as it turns out historical newspapers when you shrink the front pages down to thumbnail size, they all look alike. It wasn't visually very interesting because nobody could learn anything from the homepage. So even though we really like that as a pathway into the site, newspapers from the 1890s were they packed text onto every given service and the front pages were just not interesting. So what we have instead is a featured newspaper and the browse button. So in this iteration here there's a browse newspapers button which went to that sort of browse by date, browse by region and those wound up migrating down into the visual front end. So here's a quick run through the redesign and probably the biggest question we had was the thing I alluded to earlier is like how do we bring all this new stuff into newspapers and not mess with the existing newspaper experience. So before we even get into the redesign the very first question we wanted to solve was one of two approaches. And I've got, I put this here, I don't want this to be seen like I'm in any way messing with Trove. It has more to do with our audience. There's two approaches and one is what Trove does which is probably one of our closest peers where they have newspapers and also a bunch of other stuff. And this is sort of the very rich search result. I search for Wellington, I get books, I get photos, I get newspapers all about Wellington in the same search result and if I want to filter down I can filter from facets on the sidebar. We didn't go with this approach and had we started from scratch if this was a completely new service I think we probably would have gone this approach and we would have made it work fine. Yikes. Andy's flashing me too much. I missed a five. The other one is the Google approach. And the Google approach is really horses for courses. So Google you do web search, if you switch to image search you actually get a completely different interface. And that wound up being where we were going because we found out that when we did the analysis of the metadata as we went from pictures to manuscripts to newspapers to periodicals the only two facets of metadata that were consistent throughout were date and publication name. So they're actually tend to be very different searches. So this is our homepage. This is our old homepage. This is the new homepage. Anybody notice anything? What's missing? There's no search. And we did that intentionally. Lots of Glam people have commented on it. Hardly any patrons. We made it really simple. There's only four buttons. Pick the one you want. You'll start there. So we take you from here to newspapers. There's the browse buttons as I mentioned. We have a nice big feature in the middle. We keep the format and the layout consistent across the other formats. Clicksuite also helped us bring in this nav bar across the top. So instead of doing a little drop down you have a nice always visible tab. So you see where you are and it kind of guides you. Search results. We started using a lot of the extra space here. These were nice and simple. But we brought this in. You can sort of sort by newspaper by date. It helps you scan by newspaper, scan by date, see the patterns and bring in all the faceting right into your line of sight. So even though this feels a bit more condensed there's a lot more information and more search results actually fit on the screen than previous. This is the most popular article on the site last year thanks to Reddit. One of the other things we learned is newspaper articles historically are almost all very tall and thin. So rather than stack up everything on the top we made more use of the right hand side of the page. We moved all this metadata over here. Kept a lot of chunky hierarchical information here and the distance from the top to bottom here even though we moved all this other stuff in is almost exactly the same as the old site. So we didn't push down the article any further. Searching just really quickly. The advanced search worked great when we had eight newspapers but we were up to 130. So this was the title picker in the advanced search and that needed a lot of help. And also you can see in there it says Canterbury 1870 1877 to 1839. So if you wanted only Canterbury newspapers it was shift clicking through a tiny little box all the way down. When you had eight that was fine. When you had 130 it was maddening. So we now give a lot of real estate to the title picker and you can also just check on if I want just Taranaki papers I check on the Taranaki box and I get just Taranaki papers. We also did the mobile redesign. I haven't spent as much time as we wanted on the mobile. There's still a lot of reification we could do there but we did make it nice and chunky and simplified and bring everything together. I'm going to spend 30 seconds on URLs and then I don't want to be that guy who keeps you from lunch because all the URLs if you remember ever interacting with papers past and citing it anywhere we had very 1997 URLs with CGI bin papers past question mark and then all of this stuff. So all the new URLs do you look at the URLs because we're quite proud of them. They are hierarchical and they have information in there. So this is format title date. This is the hierarchy that the URLs follow all the way down until you get to an article and then with an art with an article if we did Newspapers Mount Baker Mail 1883 to page five and the name of article it would have been way too long. So when you're on an article we've already got these nice IDs that contain a shorthand of the publication and the day so we went with them. So that's easy to understand easy to parse. We're seeing some bandwidth savings once we've had some peeping issues with Google. I would have gone into a bit more but suffice it to say we're spending a lot of time in webmaster tools just to tune the new site because a 40 million URL crawl is pretty big. Result feedback initially very positive. We went live immediately after launch it dropped to about 60% as all the people who now had to use the new site came in. People don't like change. Most of that feed most of that negative feedback on day one was sort of of the unhelpful variety like you've changed things on me so and we did get a lot more later that said you know actually I'm getting used to the new one it's okay I spoke too soon. So signs are pointing to more engagement we're seeing more searching we're seeing more pages per visit on mobile and there's more to come and in the interest of time I'm going to stop there. We're available if you have any questions come find me at lunchtime and thank you all. Thank you.


I was going to ask you, you know, I guess Christian getting closer to return and Adore is certainly a possible return, but, you know, when guys have been out so long like that, or, you know, in Christian's case, not played in a long time anyway. You know, how much can you expect from those guys, you know, kind of thrown into the mix later in the season. Obviously it's tough, you know, when you haven't been playing getting in there just getting the game reps, you know, obviously you're in practice, but it's nothing simulates getting out there and actually getting in the game. So, you know, we'll be excited whenever we can get those guys back to add them to the mix, but obviously, you know, we just going to have to see how, you know, that goes and where we get them back. But, you know, nothing substitute for actually getting in the game and getting out there with game speed and being able to simulate that as part and practice is tough. But, you know, obviously a guy like Adore that has playing experience probably, you know, is being far ahead as far as dealing with that as a rookie like Christian that hasn't had to go through that yet in the NFL. So, you know, just obviously just getting those guys back in there and getting in the game reps would be beneficial for us. Breon, I think Mike referenced the other day, you know, the long pass that got Breon the other day, maybe was looking too much for a pick as opposed to kind of just making sure the pass didn't get completed. Is that something, you know, that you'll talk to him or have talked to him about this week? Yes, you know, obviously, and Breon has been playing good for us, you know, fortunately, the other day just in, you know, he was in good position just peek back, you know, obviously we'll get that corrected. And I'm sure he will, you know, talk to him about it. So he'll be fine going forward, but I'm pleased with, you know, you know, Breon has stepped in and what he's done taking advantage of his opportunities. And when you play this game a long time, you're going to have days like that is how you bounce back from it, what made guys, you know, you know, successful in his league and being able to come back, you know, and put that behind him. Thank you. Terry. Anthony, what has Malcolm Butler done that he seems to have settled into playing against the other team's top receiver most of the time and seems to kind of has been playing a more consistent game this year. What do you attribute that to? Um, just Malcolm, just as his competitive nature, you know, obviously he wants to be on the team's top receiver. He takes pride in it and he works at it. And then, you know, obviously, you know, he's our best corner. So obviously that's what we're going to do when, you know, we need to do it. But he, you know, he relish those opportunities where you get a chance to go against the top guys and fellow. And that's what you want from the top DBs for those guys that accept that challenge to go out there and execute weekend and week out. And he admits that playing zone is not his cup of tea, but how's he done at it? He's been fine, you know, Malcolm, that's, you know, that's funny with him.   So, you know, that's a great attribute for him to have. I love his mentality and that's what he's all about. Jim White. And Coach, following up on Kristen, I mean, what can you do with him now during the stress? You've got to get the guys ready to play that are on the practice field. He, as he has returned and over the course of the last month or so when he hadn't been available, what have you been able to do to kind of get him up to speed and how was he kind of handled that? What's his patience level been like?  So when in practice you just compete versus those guys as much as possible, you know, obviously it's not a lot of reps, but the reps we do get a chance to go full speed. You know, he has to take advantage of those reps going against those guys on, you know, the offense to get him back to where he needs to be to be able to compete in a game. David Butler. Anthony, back to the long touchdown past the other day, anybody who plays in this league long enough is going to get beat that way and we hear all the time, cornerbacks have to have short memories. I'm curious, how did, how did Breon react after that? How did he, how did he hold up the rest of the game? He was fine. I mean, he took the coach and he went back out there. He kept competing and that's what you can ask these guys to do. Obviously, we'll continue to watch the film and study how we can be better, not just Breon, but as a unit. But you know, you just got to continue to learn from it. Don't be what we call an error repeater. Make the same mistakes over and over again.  And you know, I had soft to him, but we just got to move forward, get ready for Jacksonville, who has some time later receivers and we got to get ready to go and get ready to have a successful week this Sunday. Joe.  And we'll just continue to evaluate it and see where we are, you know, where we can, you know, see where he fits in but, you know, obviously he just got to take advantage of these reps and practice of getting healthy and then we'll just see how we go from there and where we get him back on the field. Yeah, cause looking at the the second Colts game as well as the Ravens game, you guys were better on third downs, but then it kind of came apart in this this past game against Cleveland what are some of the ways that you kind of compare and contrast with you guys were able to do and not able to do in those three games. Well, obviously, like you said, we were playing well we were starting to improve and then obviously this week we just didn't play as well as we needed to play. You know, we'll go back and evaluate what we're doing from a coaching standpoint and see what we're doing execute wide from a player standpoint but we'll just continue to evaluate that as we you know game planning for third down but obviously the last couple weeks prior to this game we were trying to make an improvements but you know this week you know not just third down was a lot of things that didn't go well and perhaps you know off to Cleveland and we'll learn from it improve from it and then hopefully get back to where we were playing, you know, at a high level and improving on third down this week. Is that something that you want to get back to right being able to challenge the receivers and play them at the line the way that that you were at times. Absolutely you know the guys you know they took it you know that's what they've been doing and we've been doing that a lot. You know more you know successful the last couple weeks you know they came this week we just you know we just own it we didn't play well and the guys know that I didn't coach well I got to do a better job of coaching and put them in better positions. It's not just the players that start with me because I've got to put them in positions to be successful and I'll continue to do that will continue to do that as a staff and will continue to work to you know get us where we need to be to get a victory on Sunday and be successful on third down in other areas of the game outside of third down as well.


Hey there friends, thanks for checking in today. We're looking at a diamond back AM2 New for 2019 diamond back release this in May It's a subcompact gun that kind of gives a full-size feel especially with this large magazine It does come with two magazines This is a 17 round mag and the one inserted with the flat base plate is a 12 round Mag they priced it right the MSRP's 340 right around 230 240 will get you the AM2 now the actual model number or the model is DB AM 2 9 so it's diamond back AM 2 9 4 9 millimeter and here is the 12 round magazine both with orange followers Okay, comes with both and this one allows Three finger contact two and a half fingers, but it feels good and one of the things that diamond back They they did a great job with packing in 12 rounds into that thin grip Look at how thin that is of course it has the diamond back logo on there That looks pretty cool, but I want to give a comparison because the F9s 9c Packs in 12 rounds with its current mag in there and it's about twice Maybe not twice, but it's much wider with the grip and then here's what we're looking at with the slide length But the diamond back actually measures up well with the torus G2C. We're gonna check that out, but check out the grip That's a nice grip. It's rather Aggressive but not overly aggressive and it's it's smooth on the side So shouldn't rub up against the skin when carrying inside the waistband and I already mentioned the contact is nice Now the mag release sits flush with the frame Like you really can't even see it until I put the light on on it So you find it with the thumb there and it's got a decent deployment and then here's the 17 round mag good for an additional Large cap mag for the range or throw it in the pocket for a spare mag But here you're looking at a full-size feel with a 3.5 inch barrel handgun So I like that, you know, I mentioned the FNS-9C they offer a 17 round mag as well I think diamond back was generous with that considering the price of the gun does have a pick rail there Front serrations black nitride top of the slide, which I think looks cool Then they added that same black nitrate nitride between the serrations, which is a little unique and of course it says You know AM2 right there at the logo and also a serialized chassis Which means this gun is modular and diamond back is expected to come out with different colors of the frames that you could switch out If that's your choice, but it does have a serialized chassis And that's what we're looking at from this side Does have a witness hole right there for the loaded round Also three dot sights it does have the orange front dot and then the two rear dots and they are Glock compatible So you can throw some night sights on there for you know your Glock 43 Put it right on here and you're good to go. Also a striker fire indicator I'm gonna show clear here and then that is a little button there It's the same color as the slide back plate, but then it goes away once the gun has no longer been charged Overall not bad. I took it to the range already and I enjoyed it I I I've got a range view forthcoming pretty much completed But I have to say I enjoyed it. It didn't take long at all before I was able to figure out where the Center fire where it impacted I should say and I felt I felt totally fine with this AM2 the trigger Does have a trigger bar safety in there the sight says between five and six pounds I'm actually measuring that close to seven pounds, but it's not a bad trigger pull All right Right around seven pounds a little heavier than what the site says at least that's what I'm measuring and there's your reset right there So about halfway to full position right there is the reset There is the take up you hit that wall and right there It doesn't have a serrated trigger guard right there A little bit of an undercut Overall nice feel to it. I mentioned the Taurus G2C. I think these two measure up really well Let me go ahead and put this mag in the AM2 and Both are priced right around the same And we can see that the slide length is identical and also the grip length and width is Pretty darn close for two Handguns from respected makers that can pack 12 rounds into the magazine So I think this would make an outstanding comparison. You can look forward to that in the future. We'll take a quick look at this Breaks down just like a Glock and there's your frame Can't imagine the trigger component group would be very difficult to take out and there you have your captured recoil spring And your three and a half inch barrel. You can see it's a little dirty. It was shot and that's a steel Recoil or I'm sorry a guide rod and those are steel sights, too. I don't think I mentioned that but those are steel sights So they did not go cheap with the AM2. Let's take a look at the weight here a One pound five and a quarter ounces and we move that to just ounces 21 and a quarter just to get a Comparison 21 and a quarter with the diamond back and to 21 and 3 8 so essentially the same weight as The Taurus G2C here. We have 12 rounds loaded up target loads in the AM2 And it's weighing in at 26 and a quarter ounces or your carry around in there 26 and three quarters ounces loaded with 13 rounds. So there it is guys The diamond back AM2 already took it to the range Had a good time with it. So you can look forward to a range review Already completed along with a comparison with the Taurus G2C If you like videos like this, please subscribe and share I always appreciate thumbs up button Thanks for watching and you guys be safe