Okay, so let's have a little chat about some things that are relevant. We're gonna have a little chat about psychology and a little chat about narcissism and I Think it's become almost a trend. It's like popular to talk about how catastrophic things are and how we're facing Societies or collapse and all the rest of it. I'm actually much more optimistic than that But there's something that I need to say about narcissistic personality disorder and The phenomena of the fascination with narcissism that has just exploded over the last eight years I mean that the number of searches the amount of videos on YouTube you'll find on narcissism and it really has become Something of an obsession. I think I released a video when I was in America So that must have been December saying stop watching narcissism videos online. I Probably should have said stop obsessively watching narcissism videos online. I I'm gonna say one of those catastrophic culture-ending things now, but you know take it with a pinch of salt We're gonna be okay Most people will be okay. Some people are fucked, but some people are always fucked When it comes to narcissism, I think we've hit a point where Narcissism light Self-obsession and culturally induced narcissism is now so high I'm no longer convinced that Narcissism is actually a relevant label anymore said in other words if Everybody's fundamentally a narcissist. Nobody's a narcissist. It's like if everybody wins a trophy the trophy is meaningless So if everybody's famous, nobody's famous, right? So I think we've hit that point now I don't think when you look at the traits of narcissism And entitlement arrogance and extremely confrontational and bullying demeanor Obsession with a with a false sense of self and so on I Don't think that you can really distinguish that anymore from the baseline of what your average person is like in Normal society now am I saying malignant narcissism has gotten into everything and everyone No, I Think what I'm saying is that the majority of what drives people online to look at narcissism as a topic is Failed romantic relationships Second and it's a fairly distant second by Relationships with family members that are fundamentally narcissistic So let's just break down those two subjects of narcissism and then we'll look at psychology as a whole If you look at the romance thing You have a bad relationship with a fella your relationship with you with your ex-wife in my case ex-girlfriends Really awful relationships where there's a lot of abuse. There's a lot of exploitation. There's a lot of gaslighting There's a lot of psychological manipulation and you say Why is this happening? Why is this person Handling me like this. What what are we doing here? And you come across the concept of Narcissism you come across the idea of narcissistic personality disorder and let's be clear. It's an idea These are models psychology only offers you models. There's no blood tests or Neurotransmitter sample we can take that indicates narcissism. There isn't a brain scan that shows you if somebody has a narcissistic personality disorder It's relational you can only detect the coordinates of narcissistic personality disorder in Relation to other people and the way in which that individual handles other people So when it comes to romantic relationships, I would say this Is the problem that you faced in the individual or is it in the culture if it's in the culture Then the idea that that person has Narcissistic personality disorder, which is a description of an individual fault Because disorder is a way of saying fault the machine's faulty the robot's not working properly. Are they ordered? Is there personality in order or is it in chaos? Is there personality in order or is it disordered? Well, who's to say what's ordered for one who's to say what's disordered? That's a perfectly valid question to ask psychologists can't answer that question meaningfully I don't believe because you can't extract Your subjective judgment of what is orders and what's disordered from your culture? So therefore you could say well, these are all Culture-bound syndromes.  You're just from a narcissistic culture Let me ask you another question a provocative question Can you see in culture in the dating scene or the relationship scene? coordinates in mainstream media social media Entertainment music that would Entrain or Inculcate or brainwash or hypnotize people passively to behave in a way in a relationship that was abusive That was exploitative that was boundary breaking or that was cruel Do you ever hear music that encourages? Let's say for example women to treat men like idiots Do you ever see adverts on TV that associate a woman treating a man? like an object to be discarded as a sign of strength do you ever see in Normal culture the idea that if a man can shag Tons of goals that means he's a real man and a man who doesn't shag tons of goals He's not a real man. This one's an alpha. This one's a simp. Do you see that? So what I'm saying is if the culture is fundamentally narcissistic I'm not denying that there are some people Who are very very sick and they and they do fulfill the coordinates for what the DSM would define as malignant narcissistic personality disorder But they're pretty rare like full-blown malignant narcissistic personality disorder. That's pretty rare But just treating people narcissistically is extremely common Especially in romance. Isn't that interesting? Isn't it interesting where? you know, there's a level of Politeness or boundaries or a social code that you would use if you went speak to your manager in the bank Not that we're allowed to speak to managers in banks anymore Everything's done online or you went to a hospital and was treated by a doctor or you went to a restaurant and spoke to somebody There's a level those boundaries you would treat people with basic respect and politeness But for some reason in relationships, that's not a thing When it's a man and a woman and it's the dating game. It's the seduction game. It's the relationship game Those rules don't seem to apply. Why? Why? How have we had these boundaries covertly eroded and what does it mean? Where's it gonna lead us to if somebody's being exploitative and Treating you as a commodity where can you see that they were trained to think that that was a good thing to do That's what a strong independent healthy human being does they acquire Multiple women they acquire multiple men and then they just pick them up because I'm strong I can do that. So this is a good thing for me to do. Do you see that? I see that I see it everywhere. I Have social media. It's a very unusual one. You won't have heard of it. It's called in Insta Instagram Instagram. That's the one it's called People are openly tick tock. There are people on there I can show you openly bragging about how abusive they are to the multiple partners They have and it gets tons of views and tons of likes. I would say in other language This is something that is socially rewarded behavior Okay So if that's the case and you come to me and you say my girlfriend wasn't very nice to me She has a problem.  He has a problem Maybe he does or maybe he's from a very very sick culture that thinks that that's okay I Think that's the majority of what drives the online obsession with narcissism Secondarily, you do have family relationships. So I would ask similar questions if a mother treats her children as Though they are extensions of her as though they are parts of her as though they are If effectively not separate from her is There anything in her culture or in her upbringing that caused her to believe that that was the right way to handle raising children Is there anything that makes her feel like she's entitled to speak to her children there that way or treat them that way If a father is doing it Is there anything in his culture that he modeled that made him think the right way to handle your children is as though They are things as though they are possessions as though they're things to extract money from or attention from or narcissistic Supply or whatever it is If the answer is yes Then I would say Narcissistic personality disorder is not a relevant diagnosis. That's a culture-bound phenomena now to psychology Psychology is the study of the individual mind. We have a term for a different field of study There is the study of culture and group mind. It's called sociology. That's a separate field of study What I think we're seeing right now for multiple reasons on multiple levels is kind of The late stages of psychology as we've known it up until now What's written into the source code of psychology? Well, you can't For various reasons you can't extract psychology now from Freud. You can't extract psychology from some very old-fashioned and often frankly sexist and Classist ideas That come from a different period of time a different way of looking at the world That is not the way we look at the world now And then you have the science issue the fact that psychology and psychologist will not let go of this obsession Of trying to pretend that there are science When a psychologist or somebody with a psychological degree or a masters or a phd or whatever it is says I have the final answer on this subject because I have been ordained By the high priests and priestesses of psychology and I have these letters after my name You have to say what does that mean? What does it mean? It's not a science. You don't have the final word on anything All of your presuppositions are culture bound. There aren't any of your suppositions that are culture bound The only area of psychology I can see That is purely scientific and would pass the test for what we considered We could consider to be science would be extremely limited and it would probably be uh, mr. Pavlov Making dog's dribble and mr. Skinner putting rats in t-shaped mazes But actually we have another field of of authentic science that that would fall into It's called neuroscience. It's called neurobiology they're not in that area offering Insights that is distinctively about human nature in the human mind. They're not really offering great insight As psychologists, they are as neuro biologists from a separate discipline But as psychologists, they're not offering great insight about for example How the human being responds to trauma what the nature of narcissism is what the nature of being abused by our narcissists and I think we've fallen inside of a kind of a black hole Or a snake eating its own tail And we've fallen into the mouse or the bum hole of the snake eating its own tail And now we're really struggling to get out and you stay trapped in this cycle when you insist on A fake scientific view and let me be absolutely clear To claim that psychology is a science or that you're doing science as a psychologist is pure Fraudulence it's it's charlatanism. It's charlatanism. No psychologist can ever say to you based on science I can tell you absolutely you have this personality disorder or this mental health issue without It falling into another discipline like medicine Where you can scan somebody and you can see you can observe You can draw blood for it and you can take tests or you could say this person is brain damaged Or you could say this person's hormonal system is out of whack We can see it and we can rebalance it Observably that's medicine. That would be medicine. That would be neuroscience. That would be neuro biology It's not psychology I just want to warn you two things be careful Be careful who you're listening to and to the psychologists out there You don't need to do this. There's no reason whatsoever for you to make claims to have powers that you don't have You can be open and honest and say hey look, these are just all models depression is a model and I don't know that it's better than a model of depression that we could find amongst I don't know The the Cherokee or Navajo they may have a way of saying what depression is and a way of treating it That actually under scientific conditions would be better than our one. I don't know So what I'm saying is these models that we have they are just models they work Kind of but it's not like psychologists are doing an amazing job of making people better right now It's not like the world is full of joyful happy switched on bright-eyed critically thinking emotionally regulated people getting on with good strong lives and enjoying themselves in the time they have on earth, is it? But there are plenty of people who are Paying psychologists or who have paid psychologists who really just didn't get any better And you know what happens they walk away and they blame it on themselves Because psychology encourages you to think in terms of the individual and it's a mistake And it's a counter scientific mistake. We are tribal creatures. We exist inside of cultures. There's been innumerate experiments done by psychologists that show That what people do in any environment even if they're total strangers massively impacts your behavior Massively impacts your thinking and massively impacts the way you feel internally hugely because we're tribal creatures So the idea that we're going to keep it on this individualistic level again. It's dangerous. It's false It's It's fraudulent the people who espouse this are need to be careful That they're not going to be called out for being charlatans because quite honestly They're making claims that they can't back up You you can't you can't state unequivocably like this is the way it is and this is the solution Which we know because they very they get real quiet on the solutions. They're big on telling you what's wrong This is the other thing i want to warn you about be very very careful with material that appeals to your intellectual vanity Be very very careful with sitting there Consuming and consuming and consuming material that tells you all the multifarious ways in which human beings are wrong That fills the dsm year on year with syndromes and symptoms and disorders Whilst you sit there going stroking your chin and going. Ah, yes, I understand more Things that appeal to your intellectual vanity. They're okay. It's okay It's not like you're doing anything dangerous by doing that But it's not real learning and you're not making any progress doing that You're basically having your ego stroked And it's actually encouraging narcissism. And this is why what we see now is broad scale Narcissism, narcissism light not malignant narcissistic personality disorder. So The final thing I wanted to say to you is if you are trying to recover from a narcissistically abusive relationship in your personal life as an adult or one with a family member It would be worth exploring other models because these are just Models you could say that the person I don't know is possessed of devils or they're evil or they have they're possessed by Wetticoe or I don't know and then work from that point of view That wouldn't be my favorite way of doing it. My favorite way of doing it would be to say, okay, what's happening systematically here? Let's stay out of why Psychology loves why you know what why gives you when you ask why I feel bad. Why do you feel bad? Well, I feel bad. I think because my mom didn't love me It just creates stories and if you feel bad and ask why questions, you're gonna create a whole load of sad stories Your story counts. You deserve to be heard whatever happened happened and you should explore that with another adult I think that's a healthy thing to do once Maybe twice You don't sit there and practice that over and over again It's a misunderstanding of what human beings are. We are quite machine-like We are quite repetitive in ways that offend our system and offend our egos We are not gods and goddesses We are machine-like creatures that repeat that which we are conditioned to do we will continue doing That which we are in the habit pattern of doing we will continue doing if you go once a week To tell your therapist a load of why stories of why you're sad and why your life doesn't work And then after 10 years you go, hey, I don't know why I didn't get better I would say well, what did you practice doing? What are you practicing doing? What are you conditioning yourself to do? Terrible things happen to people all the time But the correct response to that I would suggest is not practicing Sad stories around why that thing happened So you're just going to live a sad life You're creating more of the same thing that which you focus on is going to grow stronger Nobody's saying shove it to one side. I'm the guy who's trying to teach you emotional literacy I've been trying for five years now So they get blood out of the stone getting people to face their own emotions and how they actually feel You have to deal with how you feel you must grieve for what you've lost So that you can move on so that you can move on. That's so you stay there So be very very careful with this stuff ask yourself. What am I practicing? Don't bother with the why questions Beyond one session maybe Ask how how do you feel? I feel sad. I feel impotent. I feel like I can't move forward in my life. Okay How What do you mean? How What does that mean? How are you sad? How do you do sadness? How do you do impotence? How do you do frustration? What could you do differently?  We all want a magic pill We all want mummy and daddy to swoop down and save us or superman or superwoman to come down and save us But no one's coming. It's just you and your problems year on year on year What can you do do something even if it's the smallest thing? Do it every day focus on what you do want Do you want to be sad and impotent and frustrated in your own life? No, what do you want? Well, let's take the opposite. I would be more cheerful. I would be more optimistic I would be more potent and able to do things and instead of feeling frustrated I'd be fulfilled Okay, so what am I practicing? I'm practicing focusing on the things that make me happy cheerful Potent self-empowered and that make me feel fulfilled.  It's two by two. How deep is the hole?  It's you that means an internalized locus of control Do take action Nothing is going to change by you talking and talking and talking and thinking and thinking and thinking about it Nothing. I'm very pessimistic about that Those people I respect who differ with me on that particular point I don't see much use In talking about these things beyond a certain point, you know three hours four hours of chat if you've got a lot of trauma Yes, but every conversation has to move from there's the terrible thing It's in your past you're out of control of it We presume because if you're in control you wouldn't let it happen Past terrible out of control past terrible external locus of control Can we move to present? Can we move to future? Can we move to not terrible and internal locus of control?  I know people still have questions for me I'm I'm happy to talk about it But I think in future when people ask me about it I'm just going to say to them Could you go and watch this this video that you're watching right now first? So, you know exactly where I stand on it. I don't see much use in focusing on the problems and splitting them up all different ways I think it's uh I think it makes us feel good. It makes us feel like we're in control. It appeals to our intellectual vanity and basically what it is is um It's a coping mechanism that I can't remember the name of intellectualization we're intellectualizing problems that really need they can't be dealt with here They have to be dealt with here. We're moving around our grief. We're moving around our loss Be easier to just own the emotions have the emotional literacy Grieve for what's been lost and then move on Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for your time and for your attention and I look forward to being together soon Oh, by the way, if you haven't done it yet, please consider joining my membership site over on spartanlifecoach.com. Cheers


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This is game chat one episode 125 valve leaks monster numbers Now I'm gonna fix that game chat. We're gonna welcome to the show Now here's your host born on McCall all the gaming news of this week By the way, that's me We spoke to welcome to episode 125 of game chat with one of we got a great show lined up for you Sorry about the Intermented episodes again some things came up the holiday came around and After e3, you know, there was just not a lot of time for me to do the shows and I was bouncing back and forth between doing videos and other things and I think one week there was just one week where I just couldn't find any news And I didn't tell you all about that and that was actually a bad thing. Oh my part So this time I'll I'll actually do a show today Even though I did find like a few gyms out there. There's not a some some there's not a huge amount of I Guess you want to call big stories because we came off of e3 And it was kind of like a lull period because all the news outlets and all the gaming companies were pretty much recovering from e3 and Now some time has passed. I think the news is starting to kick up again Some juicy topics not necessarily super controversial things or you know click baby things but actual real stories. So Enjoy the show guys. Here's game chat. We're born that coming at you right now And for first story, we're gonna talk about warframe warframe as a game as I play For many years, it's probably my top stream game next to elite dangerous on my twitch stream at twitch.tv slash Buona you may have seen some videos over on my youtube channel as well about warframe and I got to tell you It's it's a game that changed the way I looked at free-to-play games for quite a while Now the reason why I'm bringing up warframe is because they had their annual conference called tenno con Tenno is a name of a character or a series of characters within warframe I don't want to throw too many spoilers out there But tenno con is the conference that they have every year in the summer up in London, Ontario, Canada And it's their platform for announcing their next Expansions new features. There's panels with art with sound teams and with the developers of digital extremes. There's partners I'm a warframe partner. So some of my fellow warframe partners were up there Up in London, Ontario. I couldn't make it this year, but hopefully I'll be able to make it next year To hold panels and to sign autographs and give away merchandise and all kinds of cool stuff Meet with developers meet with other people form partnerships. It's one of the typical conferences Now last tenno con Warframe announced a open-world initiative called Plains of Idle on big giant open area and this was a you know, if you don't know what warframe is It's a third person over-the-shoulder action RPG shooter With a with a very elaborate parkour movement system. So it's very fast and you know, very It's I don't know. It's unique from all the other games out there And they announced this big open world which was different from the typical diablo-esque tile base closed quarters Maps that were there before this is a big open area with just wide open planes that you can jump around move and Do quests and do bounties as they're called and fight these giant things called Idle on so it was a big big reveal So this year they had to kind of top that and we were trying to you know Trying to speculate as users what they were going to talk about so on Saturday on this past Saturday They took the stage and the first announcement Was kind of a surprise to me because I didn't I didn't see it coming They're bringing warframe to the Nintendo switch That's right. Nintendo's console slash mobile I guess you can call it mobile gaming device which can change into a console is Now going to be a platform for warframe and that kind of changes it from my perspective because Actually warframe would be a game that I will play on the switch I don't actually have a switch because all the games on there. I would probably play and After I'm done with the game. I would I would never play the switch again That's what I've done with my Wii and my Wii use I play the game and then I just haven't touched the console again So that was big news And I thought that was going to be the climax, but it's like no that that was that was the beginning They didn't win and they talked about you know Some of the highlights of the of the conference and their panels and you know showed some of the Concept art for some of the warframes that are coming up which are the classes if you want to know what they are And then they got to the big thing and this is where I want to focus a little bit more The next expansion is going to be an expansion called Fortuna Which is another open-world effort, but on a different planet Plains of Idle Ones was on earth this one is going to be on Venus and They opened with this chain gang song You know as and I really didn't expect it now I was listening as they were going through and I was like what is this and they just kept singing you know Do-do-do-do it was like this nice little tune that was going with it And it started to get catchier and catchier and then they had this climatic chorus That and they were singing we all live together Because it was a bunch of workers singing a song and it brought it gave me chills and I was like wow What is this and the the back story is that it's going to be centered around a bunch of indenture service or slaves of a Villain called Nefanyo and you're going to be helping them They're they're running an underground movement Called I think Solaris and you're going to be helping them with missions and stuff and the song is still trending to this day In the Warframe community people are talking about how good this song is and I it's just never really dawned on me that I would be leaving Tenokan from watching Tenokan with a song and Because that's that's never happened And now that's all everybody's talking about is that song but anyway going past the song which is really hard to do by the way The actual Venus content is going to be great. It's going to be much bigger than Plains of Ida Lan There's a new movement system of hoverboards, which looks completely awesome. There's some quality of life changes It's going to be different types of mobs different types of things and you know It was really it was a really good improvement over everything and you know it got applause for me I was like that looks really good. I'm very proud of you. Did you look streams? And they did a Steve Jobs on me They like oh we have this this one more thing. I'm like, oh and suddenly this ship flies out of the sky and Rebecca Danielle and Megan which are three of the community managers They were demoing and they all all three of them jumped on the ship and they flew out into outer space seamlessly and Begin to attack a mothership or a carrier using multi-crew Megan and Danielle were manning the guns while Rebecca was flying the ship and had different stations. I Couldn't believe my eyes. I literally couldn't believe my eyes. This was this is kind of what elite danger is trying to do This is what star citizen wants to do and it's like what it's like a combination of FTL elite danger star citizen and warframe And they put in warframe. I I couldn't believe my eyes that so much what's happening in this free-to-play game Free to play. So this was called Gunjack You guys gonna kick me. It's something Yes, nightjack nighthawk nightjack gunjack something Let me get the name for you hold on okay, it's actually called railjack I Apologize I had to go and actually go to the the media in the article and actually see what it's called It's called railjack. So they showed that off and it involved boarding crews as well so the enemy can board your ships and you can board theirs in different phases of the mission and That that got an immense applause from people from the event It was so good so good and then they ended the The the the ten or live event with a teaser for the next cinematic quest called the new war So I'm not gonna talk. I'm not gonna say anything about that because I'll be spoiler-ish if you haven't done any of the quest So all in all it was a very very successful event for ten o'conn I'm very proud of digital extremes. It just goes to show that just because a game is free to play doesn't mean Equality has to be low The song feel tuned Fortuna The different space stuff that you can do and it's just really expanded the game That was already a massive to begin with and the game has been trending well on twitch as well because a lot of big broadcasters are beginning to begin beginning to become addicted to Warframe now and a lot of smaller broadcasters are starting to try warframe again Because it's one of those games. That's really kind of hard to To master and I can be a little bit intimidating at first But after seeing these things at ten o'conn, I think a lot of people are willing to take that step To learn warframe check it out guys. I'll put a link to some of the videos that the other reveals In the show description so you can watch and listen to that song We all live together. It is quite quite amazing if our next story We're gonna talk about overwatch and their recent efforts for raising money for the breast cancer research foundation a Few weeks ago actually it's been over a month now They had a campaign where they were selling a pink mercy skin, which was very high quality by the way To benefit the breast cancer research foundation Blizzard has announced that that effort has raised 12.7 million U.S. Dollars this is from the article from their page Thanks to the overwhelming generosity of the overwatch community during the pink mercy charity campaign We've raised more than twelve point seven million U.S. Dollars to support the breast cancer research foundation This is the largest donation by a corporate partner within one year of the breast cancer research foundations 25 year history and it's all because of you So this is actually a very very Very very Successful effort by a blizzard in addition to picking up the charity scan players showed their support for the cause By purchasing thousands of limited edition pink mercy t-shirts Available for men and women the zombie community artists Vicki sigh So charity stream viewers rejoice in addition to the twelve point seven million raised through the sales of skin and t-shirts You separately raised $130,000 in donation In donations by watching 14 different overwatch stars Stream on twitch. So during the event not only what they sell in the pink skins. They had a bunch of streamers Stream on twitch and we're raising money for the effort and that raised an additional $130,000 in addition to the skins and shirts So well done blizzard. I some of these efforts are getting ridiculous like right now Guardian con is going on there they're there Their efforts for st. Jude and they've they're about to hit two million They just surpassed 1.8 million and now I think they've been going about two weeks now In just streamers just streaming for that two million and I remember it was a huge deal When when people were raising like a hundred thousand dollars or even fifty thousand dollars For these video game charity streams and now we're in the millions effortlessly So I wonder how that's gonna shift the public's perspective on video games If at all check it out guys over on play overwatch.com they got the details blizzard raised 12.7 million for breast cancer research foundation Next year may even be even more and for our next story We're gonna talk about monster hunter and monster on the world I should say which was a smashing success on the consoles when it released last year and You know, we were told that the PC version will be coming soon But we didn't know when exactly that was going to happen and we have just received via news That is going to be released on August 9th 2018 on the PC platform And apparently this version is going to be improved graphics wise I think we can kind of guess that monster hunter on PC will have Substantial graphical options that the consoles didn't have and obviously there will be a keyboard mouse input configuration And I think that second part is probably going to be my Area of interest when I monitored this story Because I think keyboard and mouse users want this game to be good with keyboard and mouse, but I suspect a lot of players Are going to start especially if they're familiar with monster hunter They're just going to start with a controller because that's how the games been played to them for so long. I For one hope that they can nail down a really really solid keyboard and mouse configuration much like Dauntless on PC Which I think probably I don't know if anybody can do it even better than Dauntless did on PC because Dauntless is a monster hunter like a game on PC that's been free to play and it's been out for a while and It has a keyboard and mouse configuration, which I think is much better than controller and you know monster hunter I played it on ps4 for a good two months and I Didn't particularly like the controls. I didn't like the controller controls on it You know precise aiming because I was playing with a bow So precise aiming and stuff like that was kind of frustrating sometimes especially if the the monster was moving around a lot So yeah, this is this article is over on PC gamer, but it was announced by the developers Originally down from fall autumn PC release, which Google informs we start September 23rd The series desktop introduction comes earlier than planned This is the first time we've taken a mainline monster hunter game to PC producer Ryozo Sugimoto's tells us in a written Q&A So we wanted to take the time to get it right and do the proper research in preparation So here's the official word from them in monster hunter world follow the journey of although actually I'm not gonna read all that but They claim that it will have parody It will have parody with the console version At launch so that the content that the console versions have right now We could expect to have on PC And they said that it could improve with future free future free future updates There doesn't seem to be any plans for mod support I know a lot of people want to know about my support when you mention PC, but there's no plans at launch For that and it should run on fairly old graphic cards with their system requirements So let me just read to you what the system requirements are for that real quick again. It's gonna be August 9th They're gonna be really really really soon So the OS Windows 7 is going to be the minimum OS all the way up. There's Windows 10 Intel Core i7 3770 or Intel Core i3 80 350 or AMD Ryzen 5 1500x This is the first time that I've seen my exact processor listed for anything. So this is the recommended Configuration so that's the exact processors that I have on my computer at 3770 memory they recommend a gigabytes of RAM Graphics card for recommended is a 1060 with three gigabytes of VRAM or Radeon RX 570 X with four gigabytes direct X 11 20 gigabytes of space, etc, etc The minimum configuration is going to be Windows 7 of course Intel Core i5 44 60 or AMD FX 6300 or above an 8 gigabytes of RAM as a GTX 760 video card or an AMD 7200 60 X With two gigabytes of VRAM and above for graphics card minimum configuration Direct X version 11, etc, etc 20 gigabytes of storage. So this is coming in very no It's gonna be less than a month from now That we'll be talking about monster on the world on PC exciting times exciting times. So let's Basically, let's talk about the opinionated part of this. I personally didn't like monster on the world on console I thought there was too much fluff and I actually wanted more hunting and nothing but hunting and I got gathering and I got all these little missions and side quests and stuff that Were basically just filler and I got frustrated because I got bored because I wanted to hunt monsters and And they were like nah, you need to do this to get through this and to get to the good stuff because the only reason why I was doing that stuff so I can get through the story so I can get to the good hunts and I just got I got I lost patience and I really do that And so I went to Dauntless on PC and that game was all about the hunts every single thing requires a hunt You know, so it's like it was like the opposite than what I wanted So if I and people look at me weird when I say this I'm like I had more fun with Dauntless on PC than I had with monster on the world And I really am I don't have any plans to even buy Monster on the world on PC that may be shocking to some of you. I have no plans to do it. I haven't on ps4. I Don't want to play it on that platform. So I don't know what would convince me to play it on the PC So unless they do something drastic and from what I read from this article, there's nothing drastic enough for me to change my mind I'm probably just gonna stick with Dauntless on PC And if I ever want to go back to Monster Hunter world, I have it on ps4 So there's no sense of me for buying the game twice if I don't like it, you know what I'm saying So check this story out guys over on PC gamer comm to get the details monster hunter world PC announced August 9th 2018 and the minimum system requirements have been revealed and for our final story We're gonna talk about valve and an actual leak in the valve It's probably steam coming out All right, enough of that joke. I just had to get out of my system Valve has had a leak on their steam game player counts via an API glitch that happened recently And they've already plugged the hole, but the data has already been revealed this article is over on ours technical comm and The caveat to this is that this data only shows games that have steam achievements So that's like about 13,000 of the 23,000 games on steam. So it's a big chunk of them So as you know, it's a sizable data amount But the numbers that you see on this data this stuff is kind of surprising I saw a few games in here that I didn't think it had that many players or downloads But they do and yes, you can probably guess free to play is Definitely strong At the top of their list of the CSV file team Fortress 2 hails in Excuse me team Fortress 2 hails in at 50 million players 50 million 191,347 players now it's a free to play game So you can bet that it's going to be a lot of duplicates and you know people creating alt accounts and farming accounts or whatever But still 50 million players is a lot. The next up is counter strike global offensive.  I'm not these are these are games there in the top tennis team all the time 46 million players For counter strike global offensive the next one. You shouldn't be surprised is as player unknowns on the grounds Battlegrounds. I'm sorry player unknowns battlegrounds 36 million players Ridiculous now number four on the list. I have forgot existed It's called unturned. It's this block base Daisy like game called unturned a survival shooter type thing and 27 million players are playing that Unreal the next is Left 4 Dead 2 with 23 million players paid a to with 18 million gary's mod with 18 million Warframe with 16 million Counter-strike source with 15 million and get this paladins from high-res studio with 14 million players Fairly new game by the way skyrim 13 million terraria 13 million Terraria portal to 13 million Civ 5 12 million civilization 5 Grand Theft Auto 5 12 million. I thought that would be higher I actually thought Grand Theft Auto would be higher on PC, but it's not Borderlands 2 11 million Robo craft 10 million and Rocket League with 10 million followed by portal with 9 million it keeps going But I'm not gonna keep reading but that top 10 list is kind of surprising But the number of players Very very surprising, so we won't see this data much You won't see a much we won't see this kind of data often because it was leaked again And this is like precise player counts, and they don't generally do that very often We usually see concurrence on the steam stats and like no peaks But they don't show like these precise number of accounts very often for probably for good reason So check this story out guys over in our state nigga.com. Can you believe it? Can it's kind of wild That TF2 has 50 million, but also unturned is sitting there at number five. I'm sorry number four Unturned amazing check it out guys details are over there, and that concludes our episode 125 of game chat with Buona, I'm not gonna talk like that anymore. I'm sorry. Thank you all for listening to the show Please follow my stream over at twitch.tv slides one a week stream every day except Wednesdays and Sundays We've been playing a lot of video games on there last week We had a couple of sponsor streams with the division and with Dauntless and this week. We've been playing Tomb Raider 2013 reboot and we finished that yesterday, and I plan to play it on Thursday of this week But I finished it so we're gonna find something else to play Some people were asking me to play Rise of Tomb Raider Which is the sequel because I haven't played that yet either but Tomb Raider was fun. It was actually really fun So check that out. That's over on twitch.tv slash one of the bod is up there as well If you want to watch it watch the recording of it. 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Look at the boil. Oh It's a huge one huge bass dude grab that net huge bass. This might be my pv out here If there's a big one Dude is that a bass it is a bit Yo, what's popping people welcome back to another video? Thank you guys so much for the support if you're new to the channel hit that subscribe button hit the notification Bell also hit the like button we're out on the Gichi River today you guys saw on the last episode We were out on Lake Lanier. We got some pretty good spotted bass had a good time in my family today I'm out with my boy Connor on the old Gichi probably seen Connor before on the episodes Let me tell you something about Connor So he was actually a supporter of the channel years ago. I don't see was that now like a good friend of mine But um, was it that was it that long five years ago is like the first supporter I took on the water and it was Connor and we're for he took me on the water technically We're fishing out of the little John boat last year It was actually yesterday a year ago pretty much a year ago from today We came out on the Gichi River and we caught some good fish.  It's a bass. I got him Mmm, that's a good one. Geez. That's a fat one But today we're gonna try to catch some big ones. It's a beautiful day outside. It's what 70 degrees or it's not that High right now, but it feels easy. It feels good though. It feels so good. What are you ready for it? Let's get it. Let's get on him. He said he hasn't been fishing in like six months. So don't watch me watch him We're gonna go out there have a good time and it's full the tide is high right now And we're gonna go hit a few spots in the marshlands We're gonna try some spots up there and then we're probably gonna head up river a little bit So I'm curious to see what the fish are gonna do today. We haven't been out here in a while It's gonna be a good one. So stay tuned also have a giveaway randomly in this video.  All right. We just made it to our first spot. So look at what we're in right now Look at this. It's beautiful all back here. This is brackish water And I honestly the tide's looking perfect if we catch it right here at Tokana We're gonna we should catch a couple really good fish, but we're gonna try this spot out We're gonna fish around here for a little bit I have a couple other spots I want to hit and what we're gonna do start off with some Texas rigs flip some of these current breaks See if these bass are set up right the water temp is 54 degrees right now. It's not 60 I'm hoping these bass are gonna bite good. But like I said, if they don't bite over here, we're gonna head up river So we're gonna give this a shot for a little bit cast around and hopefully we'll catch a really good one Yeah, so well right now, you know, the tide's going out. So all this water is getting flushed out So pretty much what you want to do is, you know, these fish are moving out. So you kind of want to follow them So, you know, and this water is pulling out these fish are pulling out, too Then when it hits low tide, you remember last time he came out We were fishing them the main river on low tide, you know, because all that water got flushed out You know the fish moved out with it No, oh no Dude you just started throwing it too Right on the end of that wasn't he? Oh, that's a good sign. He hammered it good Maybe they want to move him, baby. Maybe they just don't want anything on the bottom, you know I might need to try that fluke. I have it tied on I'm gonna try it Oh my god Dude look at the boil. Oh is a huge one huge bass dude grab that net Huge bass this might be my pv out here. Oh my god.  Oh, that was worth the wait. Oh That was worth the wait on the fluke homie. They want to move in bait.  Yeah, that's why we came out here crazy barely hooked. Oh Man What a way to start the day on the first fish brother Look at that. That's one of my biggest out here. That's probably my third.   Oh my gosh That is a big in we've only caught this one today. This is our first fish So I've been throwing this crawler for a while Connor switched up to a spinner bait. He was throwing around had two bites I picked up that fluke that I had on was working. It saw a massive boil behind that fluke and you know what I did I just killed it. I didn't touch it. I kind of waited I felt him eat it and I just jacked him right there I would have kept twitching it. He wouldn't ate this bait, but I just killed it And that is a four pound giant on the ogeechi. This is a freaking hot For this river and we're gonna try to catch some more He's a bad guy too, man. That is insane. We're actually gonna put him in the live Well me and Connor got to get a picture today, man fished in a while We got one last year and that's a good one for a picture brother. That's a Killer fish. So we're gonna throw her in the live. We'll put her on this side, but look at that bass That's a big ogeechi river bass Anybody who watches the ogeechi videos you guys know that the majority of the fish out here about a pound So if you catch one like that dang good fish That was big dude when he boiled I thought he was almost bigger. I thought it was like a five pounder. I mean a four pounder though. Heck holy cow Haven't caught one that big out of here in a long time and oh first fish Okay Well we fished over there in the brackish water we came up river first spot Digging dude that boil about made my heart hurt. I knew he was big dude. I was like that was just Dude you saw the boil I mean listen Dude you know what I did what you know when I go back and watch this clip I mean everybody just saw it, but I literally killed it like when you when I saw him boil I stopped twitching it. Yeah, you just let it let the current take it and I lifted up.  This is uh, I gotta lift the power poles It is one o'clock right now.  Just just just give it to me right there.  I probably that's probably my tenth cast realistically, but I Was only throwing it for a few minutes, bro, and I was just twitching it and that boil was just Outrageous, I wanted him to think that he heard it. You know what I mean? Like he hit the baitfish and he killed it and it was just floating down If there's a big one, oh don't come off Dude he was in the ditch now. I'm good You dude I casted Wait, oh, he's a decent one too Dude, that might be a good pattern brother That's a good that's a freaking go Okay, look at the colors on him, bro, right there we go guys second fish of the day We just came out here on the main river. We found this little tiny creek that's coming in It's got natural water flowing in here. It's got all this current coming out of this little tiny Pocket we call those little ditches out here on the river and this winter time can be really good in the ditches Do that crawl up there all the way back there and got a solid chunk right there Look how fat he is Got a beautiful lateral line on them these fish on the Ogichi River just have the prettiest markings in the world We're actually gonna put him in the liable the second one today We're getting somewhere one on a fluke one on a crawl now It's Connor's turn to pull a six-pounder up at our spinner bait Old mammoth in there, dude. I Want to put her over here Big girl my scare But let's get back in there if we can find ditches like that where you had that natural water coming out It kind of cradles down like that We're gonna throw back in there because what you got to learn about these places is with this current There's a lot of fish up in there not only that but we can come back to the spot in five minutes And there might be another fish were punished on this spot So we might need to duplicate that the something we need to pay attention to not throw a one with this Was that the one that's not the one is it? Oh, yeah? Now I'm stuck Nice She's gonna have to break nice All right Connor. I'm tagging you in Come on up here. All right, brother by the time I retire. I expect you to have a Know what I need the net type deal. So since we're sitting down I'm gonna talk about the rig that I'm throwing and we're gonna rig a brand new one up I actually broke off back there I tried to throw another cast and knotted up my line taking a good bit of floral off This is 17 pound fluorocarbon by the way when I'm flipping stuff like this I like to have some good hefty line. I actually don't have The weight that I need sadly what we're gonna do So like an eighth ounce I don't really want that but heck if we got to use up for right now That's fine.  We can go on YouTube and type in a Kicking their bass best fishing night and the video pop up and I show you exactly how to tie it But very strong knots even stronger than the polymer which 99% of bass anglers tie So I have this like little reaction bag I just have some random plastics and I had like a rage crawl in there.  I don't know if it's gonna be a key key player today But it's definitely gonna get us some bites in certain situations, you know with me fishing this current I wanted to be able to get in those current breaks and dangle something in front of their face And it's exactly what we did right there. So I think you caught what like probably seven. Oh Gosh, oh, it's a mudfish. It's a dinosaur Well, we hooked to something that we didn't really want to hook but guess what on a day like today Can't really complain anything anything that bites is fun Oh, he's got me all tangled up now. I'm probably have to reach up. Oh Oh, he's got my line in his teeth. Calm down, Becky Dude, you see the color of that fish too. They're usually not All right, we're these pliers. Dude.  I haven't been out with the pliers.  Let's give you guys some shoutouts. All right Here we go. Big shout out to Amanda Morgan Patrick Joshua Amy, thank you so much for purchasing some merch on the website if you guys like to check it out Go over to kickinthebass.com and you can copy yourself some merch and send me your photos And I will be more than happy to put them up on my kick in their bass Instagram page But let's go ahead and keep on fishing. That's three fish today one fish that we don't really want but We're getting closer to catching more and more fish. So I'm happy about that. It could be a lot worse Oh God some my fish my fish Dude that thing felt huge Dude, they're huge right now. Dude. Look how big they are I'm gonna have to cut it. I hate to do it, but I'm gonna have to That was another freaking four pounder brother. I saw his head. I Literally watched him come up and do this That was another four pounder in the same dang spot He might bite it again.   That was a Conner that fish was so big dude. I've never seen anything like that in my life I pulled it away from him out of the tree. Oh My god, why are there so many giants right here? Please There's a lot of fish right here Dude that was crazy right there brother. Nah It's a good one though. It's not Not what was biting me earlier, but there's stacks right there. Look at that It's a good fish though.  Yeah, they do this time of year.  We had some Crazy fish just come up and try to eat me multiple times on this fluke this spot right here.  I get it man. Look at that pretty fish Right, this might be one of those spots where they just keep they're coming out of here And they just keep riding this edge and it might replenish It's crazy because it's five foot from the from the boat. Let me show you what I'm doing here We got all this water coming out. It's gotten very shallow. My boat's actually like beached right now I'm hoping we're not gonna get stuck, but I'm just sitting right here throwing this fluke right here and there's a lot of fish Hanging right there on that stuff. I've had a lot of bites I think I had three or four bites and the same exact spot. So I'm gonna keep making casts I call that four pounder earlier right there Big fish in there. So I'm just touch me with their nose and boiled Dude, is that a bass? It is a bass. Holy cow.  There's no way. There's no way. This is happening Dude the saint look at that What is going on brother? I'm sorry Connor. I feel so bad. I'm trying to You we're gonna have a good day, bro, we still got a few hours.   He might bite it It's right there. You just throw parallel with this bank right on the left hand side. He had it Oh, I saw that he's got it and you got him this time, buddy Yes Let's go Dude it counts it touched the boat it touched the boat You got him.  I saw your line hop and you jacked his butt Oh, I got too excited right there That counts though. I mean you you you had him. All right guys me and Connor just took some pictures This is the beast today the biggest one. I actually just released a three-pounder, but that's that four-pounder and just about It's a freaking beast Well guys, thank you so much for watching this one if you guys want to see Connor back on the channel Let me know down below. I told him I said we're going out this week It's blessed to catch the fish that we did but it was tough We're gonna come out this next time and destroy them so make sure you're subscribed to the channel Hit the notification bell also hit the like button and I'll catch you guys in the next episode


One of the best kept secrets in life is that instead of trying to design a perfect life, trying to design a perfect day, because as the saying goes, your life is just comprised of days. And so if you can engineer your perfect day, your perfect life will come out of it. Now in this video, I wanna share a basic sequence you can use to design your perfect day. Hey, it's Alex Hine, author of the book, Master of the Day. Now the first thing below is for a free journaling worksheet to help you reinvent your life, design your perfect day, and plot out how to reach your wildest goals. So you can check it out, the first link right there below the video. And also you'll get an email every couple of days on how to use journaling to radically change the direction of your life. Now the first thing that I think is highly underrated is actually setting a deliberate mission or intention for the day.  And ironically, when you just say that in the morning, that's your mission, that's your intention, I'm just gonna try it for a day. What do I have to lose? Nothing can change, and you can really be a happier person. You could also say, you know what? I struggled with money, my intention today is I'm gonna spend no money, not one dollar today, nothing on Amazon, not a muffin in the morning, not a cup of coffee or afternoon snack, nothing. That intention will set the tone and set the deliberate direction of your life. And you can use that for pretty much any domain of your life. You know, the entire point of a deliberate mission is that you're choosing a different path in your life. If you've done the same thing every day, you can say, I'm gonna drive a different way to work, I'm gonna spend less money, or I'm gonna buy a healthy thing instead of an unhealthy thing. I'm gonna call my mom, I'm gonna meditate, I'm gonna get up 30 minutes earlier and read a book. Those intentions are highly underrated because they actually work when you begin your day with a concrete plan and a concrete focus. The second thing is to actually organize your day and your life around growth goals. You know, I was once interviewed in a podcast and somebody asked me at the end, what was the number one ritual or philosophy or belief that allowed you to reinvent some aspects of your life? And my answer was very simple. It was that I prioritize the projects I work on based on if they are growth goals or not. So going from a writer of a blog to suddenly producing YouTube videos was something I had never done. I had to learn all these new things, overcome all these new fears, change all these beliefs. Going from a writer to someone who published a book, I had to learn how to write a book, how to overcome fears of being an author, how to hire editors and hire designers. From there, I had to learn aspects of YouTube and course creation and coaching. Every single progression was a growth goal, was a growth mission. I either had to acquire new skills or new mindsets and beliefs. And every time I've acquired a new skill or a mindset and belief and every time I've achieved something new, I've always acquired a little bit more self-belief, a little bit more self-esteem, a little bit of a bigger believer that I can do things that were once impossible. So when you orient your life around growth goals, no matter what it is, you really need two essential things. The first is that it has to be something harder than what you've done. It has to be something that you don't know how to currently do. Or it has to be something where you will actually fundamentally change your belief about yourself in the process. Because the very act of figuring out something you've never done produces self-esteem. It produces confidence. And the more you do things that you have never done, the more in the future you'll continue to do things that previously scared you, that you've never done. And so when your life is oriented around growth and getting better, there is a level at which you realize not much really scares you anymore. Not much is really that intimidating.   Now the third thing for designing your perfect day is to really organize your calendar and schedule around your essential time blocks and your energy. So I share this metaphor a lot of this lesson, this analogy, because it's very important. What are the best tennis pros in the world do for hours a day? They play tennis. What are the best most successful writers do every day? They write. What do the best physicians or surgeons do every day? They see patients. So at the end of the day, the best in the world are honing a craft and a skill.  If you orient your day around your core skill set that you are developing and then you protect that time in an hour or two hour or three hour increments, whatever that goal is, you orient your day around skill development as well as what projects require the most energy. If you can do that, then you're gonna see a rapid progression in terms of your skill, your development and your success. So if you know that your highest period of energy is nine a.m. to 11 a.m., put all your core skill development, your hard project, your hard studying, that difficult client that you have to present for, orient it around the period of the highest energy of the day. And if your daily work is around some kind of specific skill, then actually take some time to plot out when you are drilling or training that skill during the highest energy time period of the day. So when you orient your daily life, your daily missions around skill development and energy, you're making the best use of your time to move the needle in a big way in the proper direction. So I hope that helps you guys. Before you go, check out the link below for a free journaling worksheet to help you figure out where to move the needle in your life for the best results to build out your dream life. You'll also get a free journaling email every few days on how to use journaling to totally reinvent your life. So you can check it out right there down there below and then I also have a recent video on this topic right over here.


Well, completely unplanned, but one of my favorite talks actually, who of you knows what Bitcoin is? What's that? Who knows how Bitcoin mining works? Well, few hands less actually. So maybe there's a part in the audience that's kind of a target for this talk. I always wonder whether there's kind of a way to explain in simple terms, what that means using Python, obviously, how Bitcoin mining works. Don't confuse this illustration with the real world there, but at least the algorithms and everything that is behind that are kind of really accessible by the use of Python actually. It all rests on hashing, what is hashing actually? A hash is a function, any function that can be used to map data of arbitrary size, with a text document thing of binary file or whatsoever to data of a fixed size. So it's kind of a mapping. The values returned have different names, so that might be a little bit of confusion, but it's all the same hash value, hash code, hash sum, or hash, simply a hash. Let's have a look what hashes are. Python fortunately provides us with hashlib, where you can do simple hashing. If we import that, we can use MD5. This is not what Bitcoin uses, so we will come to that in a second. And here as egocentric as I am, I'm using my name as an example. And you see, enlarge that a little bit, see it maybe a little better. Using hashlib, MD5, my name is a string object and do the hex digest. I see I get an output, so this is a fixed length actually. I change that, I add a number two to it, and I get another output. Same length. And then I make my complete name, Dr. E, if you're honest with me, it's kind of a long German name with a doctor in front of it, and the size of the output is still the same. So this all might look random, given the output, but be assured that this is kind of a deterministic procedure. And the clue behind that, and it's a reason this might already, the first two arrays might look like a password, and that's the way passwords are typically stored, but not with MD5 hopefully these days anymore. But it's pretty simple to get from the password itself to the hashcode or from any kind of input to the hashcode, but the opposite operation is a very hard one. To have the hashcode usually shouldn't allow you to recover what was used as the input. So that's the basic idea when it gets to storing passwords as a hashcode. So not even an administrator should be able to recover your password. But I use this as an example of how a password cracking with ProodForce might work. So I'm importing here the string library just to access the lowercase sets from A2Set. Actually, and I'm using this to here generate simple permutations of size one, which means I iterate from the first step to the last one. There are other ways to do that, but I will use permutations later on to generate passwords or to do the ProodForce. And you see A, B, C, D, the single characters lowercase, they all generate hashes of the same size. Again, it seems random, but it's a deterministic procedure. Now, if we do... Oh, well, I can leave it that way. It should be all enough. And now if you want to wire ProodForce, which means going through all thinkable combinations, we want to crack the password. If four characters lowercase, we need to check all the different permutations here. See, I'm starting with one character size password, go to four actually in this case. And you see there is one point in time where I'm successful. So going through all the possible combinations, I end up here with the correct hash code and I have cracked my simple easy password. Never use four character passwords, obviously. So here you see it's only with Python, which is not that fast, but here obviously fast enough is a third of a second. Now, let us enlarge the character set. I'm adding here now the numbers as well. So the space gets much larger. And this is actually what the second example is. We know already and I'm using this here in a sense that it's a little bit of a social hack. I know five and the combination is lowercase and numbers and I do the permutations. And this, as you can see, I run now until five characters, or this kind of a typo. And you see this already takes 30 seconds here in this proved force case, so a lot longer. And I'm using here already kind of meter information, which I typically wouldn't have a way with. There could be special characters, capital characters, and so forth, and this all increases. So when you read something or the website requires you to sort a path which has a minimum of one number, a minimum of one special character, and so forth, a minimum length of eight and so forth, you know now why this is the case. It makes it much harder to crack. The basic idea behind mining. Now I'm working with the SHA-256 code, which is actually the one that is used by the Bitcoin algorithm as well. So I see a lot more, which means twice as many characters for the output, 64 characters we have here. So it's considered to be much more secure when it gets to this cracking idea behind it. And yeah, same holds true. Different input, same length output. The idea behind mining now is, this doesn't fit anymore. Well, almost it fits. The idea behind mining now is to find a hash code. You don't see the left. I see it here. It is to find a hash code that is small enough. And small enough here means with a certain number of leading zeros. This is not completely correct, but for us human beings it's kind of the easiest way to crack the idea. The number of leading zeros, the more number of leading zeros, the smaller the hash code number actually. And here I'm working with C struct.  Think just in terms of numbers and leading zeros given the fixed size of the string. This is kind of the idea. This is easily illustrated that I'm looking for a hash code which is small enough. So here taking my hash code and this example from before, this is not small enough. So here I'm giving my target. I get back a false. Obviously my hash code number is not small enough. Now, and here you see already kind of a solution, one solution, not the only one. I'm now adding in front of Eve for characters. I'm adding a couple of numbers. And you see what I end up with is something that is now indeed small enough. So changing the input, changing the input step by step by step, or here I've figured it out and simply put it in here. I can find a combination which is indeed small enough. And in an application this would mean, so I presented the result so to say first, that I iterate over my string, my input string, adding numbers, numbers, numbers, increasing the numbers, it's called nouns in the algorithm. And I'm always checking by adding a number and recalculating the hash code, recalculating whether it's small enough or not. So it's simply a brute force algorithm. I see here I'm iterating 2.5 million times and so forth. And here you see this is the solution I presented first and I'll find the first one. And here you see there is another solution right after that. And later on below I have a third one and I end my algorithm here at 55 million iteration. I see this takes one minute, takes 10 seconds. So it's similar to the brute force algorithm. It's different but still similar in terms of that. It's just brute force that I use in order to come up with a solution here. Here the solution doesn't need to be exact. I just need something that is small enough. And this is actually the basic idea. There is no guarantee that this is finished after one minute, 10 seconds. So in the first example it was finished after one minute, 10 seconds and I got three solutions. I only need one to accomplish it but I got in one minute brute force input, I got three solutions here. I'm now changing the starting string to my first name and last name and you see I can go to 55 million and ending up with no solution at all. So again it's kind of, not only did I say well I always when I put in five minutes of effort to put it simple, I will find the solution. No, this is kind of an uncertain thing because there are so many combinations in this deterministic hash function that there is no guarantee that you will see anything anytime soon actually. These are already the basic, it's the basic idea behind mining a Bitcoin block. Now let us get to Bitcoin. I will skip over because of the lightning talk well too long already. I usually have like 10, 15 minutes for that. Skipping the unimportant parts. The important part here is the Bitcoin block which is comprised of certain inputs. Think of the whole thing as lots of components. Think of this whole thing with the transaction data below and so forth as kind of the input. Whether before, no matter how large the input we always end up with something of fixed length. My examples were simple strings with a couple of characters here. The input is a little bit larger. But this is the only difference if you like. Now the translation into Python codes. Again, details are not relevant but I translate the data into my Python world and do a little bit of number crunch. This is just to look up a couple of things not that important. And here, this is important for this particular block that I'm working with and I got this from a blog post I provided the reference here. The website. For this particular block, the target number was like that. Many, many leading zeros or many more than in my previous example. So this is kind of the threshold which we must pass. We must find a code that is smaller than this particular target hex string. This is just struct. This is more or less technique. This is the nouns I'm starting with. So typically what I would do is start at zero, and go through all the things. I did it before 55 million and so forth. Here we will find something below one billion and above 850. That's the reason why I'm starting here. Otherwise it takes so long on my machine with Python. And in principle now we have reached the point of the real mining procedure. This is indeed kind of how the algorithm looks. This is not more than what I presented before. Start with the nouns of zero. I increase the noun, not zero. Typically I would start with zero. Here in my example I started at 850 million. I increase it one by one. Do the packing of my new string, so to say if you like. Do the hashing and the hash algorithm here is two times char 256. You see here the header is first hashed and then hashed for a second time. So two layers if you like. And the rest is only to check whether the hash string is smaller than the target string. That's the complete idea. If my value is small enough then I'm successful. I have mined a bit cumplock. And you see here it goes from 850 million and I'm successful here. This is also not kind of a convergent way. The more I put in I see that something converges. In that sense the algorithm is kind of random, stochastic. Although the mechanism is deterministic and you see here at this particular iteration announce value I am successful and since I started kind of in a sophisticated fashion it's only 25 seconds. So this is all if you understand the hashing and what I presented before this is what this whole thing looks like. Finally the Merckler hash this is kind of an end note because it's the one thing is the mining, the other one is that all the transactions I pay you for something, get something from you and so forth is embedded in this block as well and you see in this block I think there have been 100 transactions embodied themselves by a SHA-256 code and they are all encoded in the Merckler hash and the Merckler hash works in a way that if you have 100 transactions you have 50 pairs and these two are put together and hashed. Then you have half the number, then again two pairwise things like a pyramid and you end up with a single thing but there are many many hash operations on one layer as well as layering up on top of that. Since the algorithm is already really hard to crack for a single input value you see through this layering it gets more and more complicated and the computational effort to reverse the procedure is kind of immense and huge and you see here with this function that you have seen it's a very small Python code you can aggregate all the transactions, be them 10, 50, 500 into a single hash and this is part of the block and gets hashed again. So we have every instance we have hashing and this is in principle how Bitcoin mining works and don't try it with Python they have now these ASICs available to circuits that are algorithm specific which means you can do a giga hash per second or multiple giga hashes per second where we are able here to do maybe a couple of 100,000 hashes per second but this is how Bitcoin mining works explained based on Python.


you guys doing girl? I still got these big twists in. Look, I got my mama uniform on. Y'all didn't know what these are. I got these in every design for every holiday. It's after four o'clock and so um I got I did a little beat on my face. I'll explain that later on. So hey you guys how you guys doing? This is another chit chat. Y'all know how we do this. We talk about what's going on in my person life when I'm watching on TV and what I'm watching on YouTube. Now I'm not really doing anything right now um normally I like to do my hair or something but I'm not.  It's Friday and I'm ready to swim. I got a list of things that we're gonna be discussing. I figured I'm gonna try to do these on a weekly basis you guys. I think that enough for you comment and like these type of videos and it's something that you can watch while you're at work, while you're at home, while you're chilling at the doctor's office girl. I don't know why you're chilling on a bus whatever. So y'all know how we do it. She's just right into it. Let me open this bag of chips. So it's been a crazy week and it's been a busy Friday. I am cooking um I cook a lot y'all. I do. I think I cook more. I'm gonna be bold enough to say I possibly cook more than I got to stay at home mom. I'm a work at home mom. So let's talk about what's going on in my person life. I'm a work at home mom um and so my husband has been off. Is that the camera? Sorry. There's nothing like a home cook meal right? And so I literally think I have cooked about I cook eight days straight. Yeah well let me just put it like this. I cooked well I didn't cook eight days straight. That's a lot. I cook for like six days straight and then for that six day we did leftovers and so well I think I need to be starting to do what I need to be doing is cook enough food to where we have enough food enough leftovers. The problem is my husband is greedy as hell. I think that he ate enough for three people. Sorry that was my coworker wish me a nice weekend. But anyway I'm gonna have to figure out a way because I cook I think that I cook enough food for like four people easily.  So what else is going on? The reason why my face is all made up I don't know if my makeup still looks good but today JB had a fall festival at his school so I went there and girl I went there and his teacher at his school he has two teachers well he has a teacher and a teacher's aide. The teacher aide got married last week so she's on her honeymoon and so when I got there I know his teacher you know and so she's good people and so I'm and I know like half the kids in the classroom so I'm there she's like is it a clay can you watch the kids? I'm like yeah I can watch them so I'm there 10 minutes 10 minutes watching them and then she comes back she's like are you okay you cool I gotta I gotta go I see a girl I was in that classroom for like 40 minutes for 40 minutes entertaining those babies and so we what did we do we play Simon says we um oh then I said okay we're gonna tell ghost stories and so we all told ghost stories um one of the other little kids I think from the first grade class trying to come over I'm not gonna baby you need to go back over there and so one of the parents saw me she's like oh you're this is your classroom you teach the kids I said no no no I said I'm a parent she's like she looked at me she's like you're a parent she's like why are they listening to you like this I said because I yell at them like the other teachers I was just kidding but um I love kids you guys honestly I do I absolutely in this age like the let me let me back up I like 10 and not 10 and under I don't do well with teenagers I think teenagers annoy me I'm just gonna be honest and I know my baby's gonna be a teenager soon but this age like the 10 and under age and especially third grade there's something about the eight nine ten year old I just love this age that they are getting some independence and they're learning more about themselves they have their personality um it's really hard at the four or five year mark not to say that they don't have personality at that age but it's really hard because they're still figuring things out at that age and so by eight or nine and ten they haven't figured out you know who they are as an individual I should say and so I just I just love children I really do and I love babies and I just love this and so oftentimes when I go to these functions and I'm interacting with the kids a lot of the parents assume that I am a teacher and I'm like no I'm not a teacher I'm not and kids gravitate towards me but so yeah I'm looking at myself in the mirror I think I have a I think that I have I'm looking myself in the mirror I think I have a my face like the way that my face is and even the way I wear my hair and stuff I think I have a very retro look about myself um I don't know what it is and it's so funny like my hairstylist and um and and Phoenix she made that comment she's coming to me once she's like you even she's like you have a very old school retro way she's like 50s 60s vintage way about you know I I have gotten that I'm just looking at myself in the mirror I have gotten that so anyway you guys that's what's going on in my personal life what I'm watching on YouTube not a lot still looking at some true crime videos um looking at divorce court y'all I love me some judge um Lynn Lynn Tyler yeah I love her I'm also am looking at some those you don't know YouTube is the number one platform for learning how to do something and so I am learning for my work I'm learning a new a new software for me at least call articulate rise and so I'm looking at videos on YouTube for that um but then I'm also looking at videos of just other people I love um a reaction video a reaction YouTuber his name is Carlos King he's actually out here in in Texas in Dallas actually because he's country too so that's basically what I'm watching on YouTube now what I'm watching on TV now I think I need to take my time I found that with my other chitchats I talk so much in my personal life in YouTube that I kind of rush through on the YouTube on the TV part so I'm gonna take my time on this so you guys I started rewatching cruel summer which is a really good and interesting series but it's so confusing but the reason why it's confusing is because it jumps in between three different types of time periods um but it's so good so I figure I'm gonna give it a chance again cruel summer on Hulu I believe I tried to watch y'all I'm I'm very teary-eyed I tried to watch the Janet Jackson documentary baby look after the first episode when she started tearing up I would say I'm not gonna be able to do this I am not going to be able to watch it like you know most of us I grew up with the Jackson's and um my family my family is full of musicians and so especially my father's is a musician and so um that's all we listen to is music and Janet I mean not Janet but the Jackson's in general was a big part of that and so she was just tearing up and getting upset you know just getting emotional I'm sorry in the series and so based off of that one thing I'll say oh this is a wrap I'm not gonna be able to do it I'm just not gonna be able to do it yeah not gonna be able to do it so let me back up for a second and talk about that speaking of being emotional a couple of days ago I think it's been four days now oh my god y'all I'm just getting upset thinking about it um four days ago we found out that Leslie Jordan passed away he had a new uh medical emergency wide driving I believe he lives out in LA Los Angeles and I'm gonna tell you I was so shocked to see that because myself much like a lot of people I tuned into Leslie and of course first of all I knew all about Leslie way before Instagram I knew about him from the help from Will and Grace because I used to watch Will and Grace well well well that's what he was saying when he was walking in well well well is it not um um and so yeah Will and Grace the help and then um he was on the one with Blossom I hate to call her Blossom I didn't watch that series though that series actually started up in the middle of COVID but Leslie was just someone who was apologetic true to himself I love that he was he was a great storyteller southern gentleman but I really do love that he was a great storyteller you could sit there and listen to him talk for hours I love that southern southern accent too um but he was very um transparent and I could tell he held back on some stuff but he was transparent I love when he shared stories about his father and how his father went out to find this Barbie for him I absolutely love that his parents accepted him for for who he was especially being from the south and especially being you know because the south is the bible belt um but I think that Leslie knew God he was seeing he he was um seeing uh gospel hymns and with other artists and country artists and he was talking about how he loved God and he was basically he was talking about his spiritual spirituality every now and then on his instagram was he was a joy and doing during the pandemic when the pandemic first happened and he was like well shit well shit guys I think in one video he was like is it still mine it was like it felt like it had been the same date for like three days and he was like why are we still in this month what the hell's going on and so he was that light that we needed in the midst of uncertain uncertainty and we were scared we were unsure and I'm pretty sure he was too and so he was able to share parts of his life without trying to be funny he was just naturally funny so when I thought that he passed away I was when I tell y'all I was crying boo-hooing and as soon as I got on Instagram if I saw anything else I just started crying again the thing that was very awesome about Leslie I'm going to wrap it up here about that the thing that was awesome to me is that he was able to touch so many people from so different backgrounds when I went to his page I saw everyone from Taraji Henson Taraji P. Henson excuse me Kim Fields um Ludacris um a couple other different rappers um Questlove Cindy Crawford it was like people on the fox next work people on it was cross for so many people showing their love for this man and that is amazing that he was able to I hope to be that type of person but I know I'm not like that but it's just so amazing for him to be able to have touched that many people in that short amount of time and I think that that made his life worthwhile you know what I mean you know what I'm saying so I may get off of that but I just wanted to speak about that because that that really did that really did bother that really did affect me this week in general all right you guys so um not watching Jen injections show at all reasonable doubt I haven't seen uh since I've talked to you guys let me see did I see girl yes y'all this show reasonable doubt is so damn grown and sexy and by grown and sexy I mean reasonable doubt is for your 35 and plus not 18 and over this is 35 and plus because you've had a couple of kids you're pretty much into your career your husband's getting on your nerves sometimes if not and so like I said Louis the man that plays her husband they're separated they're having some issues is child there was a scene there's been a couple of scenes that they were getting it on but it's done typically me because I could be a little conservative you guys typically me I don't like I don't like a lot of sex scenes but the way that they write it into this show is done in a tasteful way so there was getting to the point to where Michael Ely fine is hold on hold on hold on Michael Ely is talking to her her so he was like basically they went out to eat I think a couple in the same episode I believe and so what his card or something didn't work and she ended up paying for it and he was like give me your address I'm gonna pay you back he said she's like no it's okay no no no I never want to owe anyone so let me know and I'll pay you back so she's like okay here personally me out with even my address was on time ago but anyway so he just shows up all of a sudden he texts her he's like hey on my side with your money she goes downstairs she has her necklaging on and a coat you know she covers up and so they're talking and he gives her the money right and he gets up on her and he's like I don't know what happened but for your husband to leave you he's an effing idiot and she just looks at him I mean he gets up close to her and says that right and she just looks at him kind of breathing she's like okay now me I would have been like um what are you doing now no she does say that her she would invite him up for her kids are at home I would have been um Tina turn up your music because I got comfort no I was y'all blame it on the wine no I get it don't do that with your kids around so anyway baby fast forward so to this episode I saw recently he comes over and she's talking and baby they completely go in on the kitchen counting when I tell you that was the sexiest scene I've ever seen in a long time because they're adults they're grown but it could all be yes let me know I'm gonna let you know what I want and I need for you to fall suit you know what I mean and so that's what they did okay but the thing that's funny is that she kept spraying the counter off she later on in the episode she ends up having a girl's night out at her house and she's like well let me back up do you have anything for yeast infections and we all know what that means typically when you are with a new partner or I will say this if you're with a partner and that partner is sleeping out or sleeping around with other women you will get a yeast infection if they're not wearing if you're not wearing protection even if you are wearing protection sometimes um if you're not used to the friction we're going I don't know what you're wrong if you're not used to the friction of that person and their their girl I'm gonna be on I'm gonna be honest you can get a yeast infection okay it happens and so whatever and so her friend was like um hmm it's very interesting and I like that it has different layers of characters um it does have the actor that played and saved the last dance the uh very bougie brother from braber shop so he plays the billionaire that the main actress is defending so spoiler alert apparently um he had a he had a former uh someone who used to work for him who ended up accusing him of s a you know what I mean and so he's trying to say he didn't do it it was consensual right go back and forth and the lawyer's technically not sure she's saying I think that this woman is doing it for my money at one part of the series he's talking to his lawyer he's basically like I know what she wants I'm gonna give her what she wants honey the next day this woman ends up dead so then the case then automatically when you have something like that that scenario it turns into a uh homicide just a murder case come to find out that he was actually having was having um consensual sex with this woman who also worked for him and um I believe there was one part where he was scheduled to see uh all the attorneys were scheduled to meet together including his attorney and he's playing basketball and he reaches up to her and he basically says have you ever met someone who that you were absolutely infatuated with so like I said they were in a relationship so this woman was also married and he's married and so they were having an affair so like I said this series is very interesting it has this grown in sexy parts I'm back to watching the accident which is a British show it's basically exactly what it says there has been an accident at I still am I sure if this is a playground is this a amusement park but a couple of teenagers break into this amusement park and an accident occurs and a couple of people get hurt and someone gets killed and so I'm very curious to see how this show plays out um so yeah the patient looks very interesting I'm not sure if I want to watch it now yeah let me know if any of you who are watching the patient I believe that it's on Hulu too um so that is it you guys I'm not watching any I don't I'm not adding anything else because I think I'm watching quite a bit of shows I'm going back and revisiting the shows that I stopped watching like um cruel summer baby I didn't even get finished watching um what is up with the dragons and majors and shit what is that y'all what is that with the dragons and the little man and uh y'all been drinking and uh the queen is having sex with her brother and they have a child tearing in and all of them that bullshit I need to go back and watch that I need to go back and watch that so I I'm really bad about if I get bored I will stop a series and have no regrets and go on so yeah I'm all over the place I hope you guys enjoyed this video that is it for now thank you so much for watching and thank you as always to all of my new subscribers take care bye


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