Playoff time, the wild card round coming up this weekend with three games on Saturday and three games on Sunday. So we are here to break it down, talk some betting, talk some DFS and get you set for what should be a wild weekend. Welcome on into Fanduola Live Q&A where today we are breaking down the NFL playoffs and taking your questions live on the Fanduola YouTube, Twitch, Facebook and Periscope channels. My name is Jim Sonnis. I am a senior writer and analyst for numberfire.com. I'm joined here as always by JJ Zacharyson and Brandon Goduola, our usual Snake Draft crew here to talk about the NFL playoffs. We'll be here every Friday at 3.30 p.m. Eastern. JJ, happy playoffs to you. How are you doing today? I'm good. I'm good. I'm still very, very confused as to why Cool Beasley is second team all pro, but aside from that, things are going well, good enough, good enough. I wrote the explanation for it. It kind of made sense when I read it, like it was the person thought like, what receiver or something like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So like, I can get it. And as someone who has benefited financially from Cool Beasley this year, I can appreciate Cool Beasley. Probably would not have made the same choice personally, but you know that there is that. So JJ, I'm assuming you were third team then? But yeah, yes, yes. Okay, well, congratulations to you. Brandon Goduola is the managing editor for numberfire.com. Brandon, happy playoffs to you. How is your Friday? That's good. I think we've got some good games this week, some good bets. I feel pretty solid about these games. We talked in detail about all of them on Thursday. Just got to wait and see what the injury situations actually end up being, but I think it's gonna be a good six game slate of NFL games this week. And we got some good entry news post-recording on Thursday because Mike Evans seems like he'll be good to go, Stefan Diggs should be good. Second team all pro, Cool Beasley, may be good to go as well for the Buffalo Bills. So some positive injury news there. This is usually been our snake draft show and we wanted to get some competitiveness in there still. So we decided to, as opposed to a snake draft, we're gonna do bets. We each have five units to allocate across three bets for the weekend. And we're gonna go through those bets. We're gonna go through game by game, allocate our bets, let you know what we're thinking about these games and then answer your questions. So if you have questions about Wildcard Week at DFS, any bets you're thinking about, any problems you're thinking about, put those questions in the Fandall YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, or Periscope. Put those there, we'll get to those questions after we do our bets for today. Let you know our thoughts on this slate of games. Let's start things off here. With the colts at the Bills, total here is 51 and a half. The spread is the Bills minus six and a half. And Brandon, you wanna start things off here. One of your bets is for this game. What are you seeing with value between the colts and the Bills? I have the over 51 and a half. It mostly has to do with the Buffalo offense here. We saw them go off against the Dolphins. And again, that really didn't matter that much to Buffalo, but it was everything to the Dolphins. But the real reason I'm on this is just how good Josh Allen has been against tough opponents this year. The Colts rank eighth against the pass, according to Number Fires, schedule adjusted metrics, but Josh Allen against top 12 opponents in seven games, mind you, nearly half his schedule against top 12 adjusted past defenses. He's averaged 297 yards per game, 2.7 touchdowns, 0.42 passing that expected points per dropback, which is 0.38 over expected. So if he played at the level the defense is allowed, he'd have been at 0.04 with a 0.42. Very good. League average for context is just 0.13. So even in these really tough spots, he's been very good. He's been the best quarterback against top 12 past defenses this season. And on the other side of this game, Phillip Rivers has his flaws, but he's actually eighth among quarterbacks with at least eight games and passing that expected points per dropback over expectation, Buffalo's 14th against the pass, but 23rd against the rush. So I think there are reasons to like both offenses here and not necessarily to like the defenses. So I do like the over in this game, even though it is at 51 and a half. Okay, so you have five units. How many are you putting on the over for this game? I didn't think this through. I'll actually go three, because my next two are parlance. Okay, so I'm gonna put three. So you're putting three on this one over 51 and a half. I think the rationale there makes a lot of sense. Josh Allen, like you said, good against tough defenses. Also didn't have John Brown for all those, but John Brown now back. Cole Beasley might be there. Second team all pro, Cole Beasley might be there. Second team all pro, Cole Beasley maybe around two. So I like that one. I also have a bet in this game. This will be for one unit. I'm gonna go with the first touchdown score. You Jonathan Taylor, he is eight to one right now. And I kind of dig betting underdogs to be the first touchdown score, because sometimes you can get things over accounted for there. Jonathan Taylor eight to one. If you look at him ever since he became the lead back for the Colts, this is a six game sample for him. He is up to 35% of the team's red zone touches in that time and that number's actually been higher over their past three games. So I think that the red zone role is expanding. I think that there is a possibility that Jonathan Taylor winds up having a larger role in this offense and everything on the line. And you're giving me an eight to one to be the first touchdown score. I think that is enough. Taylor, in that time has basically been Derek Henry, 139.5 yards in scrimmage per game in that time. Derek Henry, 134 for the full season. So I think there's some value there in Jonathan Taylor to be the first touchdown score at eight to one. JJ, you are basically Jonathan Taylor's agent, I guess is I would say here. Any thoughts on Jonathan Taylor eight to one to be the first touchdown score? Yeah, I love that bet. Whenever we were talking about it earlier, you brought it up and I thought it made a ton of sense. Not only that, but Buffalo is a little bit more susceptible on the ground and their secondary is a little bit tougher to beat. I would expect Indianapolis to come with a ground and pound approach against them, whether they can really maintain that is up in the air. I don't know if they will be able to, but him getting the first touchdown makes a ton of sense to me. Nothing too is it's helpful that like the one concern you could have about Jonathan Taylor is if they fall behind, it might be more of an Ahim Heinz script, but for first touchdown score, that's less of a concern. So I am on board there. Okay, Rams and Seahawks, a lot of good injury news for the Rams heading into this game. Total is 42 and a half. The Seahawks three point favorites, Jared Goff, I'm guessing is gonna be good to go. He texted me, it was Mike Silver, a thumbs up emoji earlier this week, which is funny given that he broke his thumb, but he should be good to go. Cooper Cup is off the COVID list. The injury worth is off IR. So I actually have a couple of bets in this game. I'm gonna put three units on the over for this game, 42 and a half. And my instinct is to not go over on a third time matchup between two divisional teams, but I think with this number being as low as it is, with two, I'll say competent quarterbacks, I guess I don't know if we can say that about Goff given the injury, but two competent quarterbacks, a total of 42 and a half in 2021, seems a little bit low. So I think that the Rams offense, getting Whitworth back is a big thing for them. I think they moved the ball. So I like the over here at 42 and a half. I don't like it enough to bet the Rams plus three anymore. It was three and a half before. I thought that was fine, but three is a different scenario because you are losing the field goal there. So I'm good with the Rams, the over here. I also liked the first touchdown score to be Cam Acres. He is plus 750. If you look at the games where Cam Acres has been the Rams leadback, it's a four game sample. He has 51% of the team's red zone carries or touches in that time, that's a massive number. And he is now an additional week removed from his ankle injury. He was able to play a decent number as that's the week 17, despite that high ankle sprain having been just two weeks before that. So extra week of rest, I think the Rams offense should move the football here. I think plus 750 is more than enough. Seeing Chris Carson at plus 650 is mildly startling, but I think that there's a lot of value in acres there at plus 750. Brandon, we've got an additional injury news since we talked about this game yesterday. Are you feeling any better about this game now or are you still very down on this one relative to the other games on Saturday? I still don't, I would rank it third out of the three games. If I'm looking at it from like a daily fantasy standpoint, I still have paced concerns here. Jared Goff has not been throwing the ball downfield for a while now. I don't think that will get any better. These two teams, again, you mentioned is their third matchup obviously is the vision rivals. Not a whole lot of points in those games. Kind of weird market shares, weird stuff. I'm a little bit nervous about that game, but my betting model does have it hitting the over for what it's worth, but I still don't really have a whole lot of interest in that myself. Never doubt the numbers, Brandon.  So I'm actually done now. I've got all my bets in. I had three units on the over here. I had one you know, I can't make her first touchdown score and one on down at the Taylor first touchdown score. So I'll know how we're feeling pretty early on Saturday. After capture can makers plunges in 15 seconds into the game, I'll be feeling pretty good about this one. Let's move now to the Saturday night game because we actually have a lot of action here. I think you both you guys, yeah. Both of you have stuff here. I'll start things off with JJ as I pull up the Buccaneers and Washington 44 and a half the total Buccaneers, seven and a half point favorites. What are you feeling from a betting perspective in this one JJ? Yeah.  So I, the first bet that I have is Leonard Fournette's total yards prop is 41 and a half. And I'm going with the under and putting two units on the under. So he's hit this five times a season. And three of those instances came during the first half of the season when that backfield was very much more up in the air than it is now. The other two instances were when Ronald Jones was out. So over the second half of the season, the only time Fournette's really gotten close to this is when Ronald Jones hasn't been active. Ronald Jones, you know, it's the playoffs. I would assume they're going to run and roll with their, you know, objectively best back in that backfield. I'm not talking about Kishan Vaughn here. Obviously I'm talking about Ronald Jones. So they're going to roll out with Ronald Jones. A good bit, I would assume, then not only that, but like the matchups not great in general. I mean, it's a great defensive line that they're, that they're facing in Washington. So I think all that combined, it makes this Fournette bet. I think a fairly logical and easy one for me. And I think that the, what we see in the past, we talked about this on the heat check yesterday, but last year in the playoffs, we saw Derek Henry, Aaron Jones and Damian Williams play much larger snap rates than they did during the regular season. So basically, I think you want to look for situations where you can see which players may get expanded roles with everything on the line. Week 14 showed us that the Buccaneers think that Ronald Jones is their top guy when he's fully healthy. So I think that means to me that Ronald Jones is a candidate to have a larger snap rate in the playoffs during the regular season, which would have a negative effect on Leonard Fournette. So I think that one makes a lot of sense. What other one did you like from this game here, JJ? Yeah, so I'm going to do a same game parlay here. I have Chris Godwin over 70 and a half receiving yards that I'm putting that with JD McKistick over 32 and a half receiving yards for plus 244. And I'm going to put one unit on this. I'm not overly confident per se, but Godwin, as we know, he plays the majority of his snaps from the slot. He's played over two thirds of his snaps from the slot this year. Washington's been good at limiting overall production from that area of the field, but they are top 10 in the league and percentage of targets that go to the slot. So I think that's a little bit intriguing. Mike Evans banged up, obviously. I think he will play, it sounds like, but at the same time, we don't know how involved he's going to be. So Godwin's going to probably, I would assume, end up being the de facto top target in this game. So given the matchup, the individual matchup he has and given the Mike Evans injury, I do like Godwin in this matchup. And then I like the correlation with what that would mean then for JD McKistick in that backfield. So obviously he's been involved as a receiver in the backfield since Alex Smith took over. And I know that Alex Smith hasn't played every snap and he might not even play this weekend, we'll see. But regardless, since Alex Smith took over, JD McKistick has averaged almost a 20% target share per game in that offense. And the thing that I like about McKistick too in this game is that Tampa Bay generates a lot of pressure. They were second in the NFL this year in pressure rate behind only Pittsburgh.  So I like a potential negative game script, hopefully because of Chris Godwin doing well. I like the negative game script and then JD McKistick benefiting from that negative game script. Okay, so plus 251 on that one, if you parlay, Chris Godwin and JD McKistick for their overs and receiving yards. And the McKistick angle also makes sense because Washington has shown us that they think that McKistick is the better passing game back than Antonio Gibson. Whether or not that's accurate is questionable, but like they think that, it's like they've shown us that they think that. And also Tampa Bay is so good against the run that you're kind of more inclined to use your backs out of the back to as receivers rather than runners. So I think that one is logical there. How about you, Brandon? What are you seeing in this game? Because I think you have a bet here as well. Yeah, I also have the same game parlay, but I'm on the unders. I always like unders, just such a scrooge. Yeah, man, I like to have fun. Yeah, I like to root four guys, not against them. I don't like to win money. We like to have fun. Yeah. I'm always on unders. I've been doing the NBA betting guide on number fire and I think like 90% of my bets have been unders, but I have a same game parlay. Tampa Bay's money line. Okay. Tom Brady under 284 and a half passing yards. And then Terry McLaurin under 67 and a half receiving yards. I had it at plus 351 for those. Here's my reasoning. Number one, the Bucks are about 341 now, so you're right here. They're moving against you. Yeah, losing some money there. The Bucks are about 69% likely to win according to my simulations, which is obviously a very nice start to this three leg parlay. It's about 79% if I assume Taylor Heineke plays in his efficiency sticks. Second, Tom Brady's average negative 0.09, passing that expected points in five games against top 12, adjusted past defenses. Washington is fourth, savaging 243 yards in those games. It's also a night game and Tom Brady's been kind of tired at night, which maybe Tom, maybe Tom there there. Usually not something I dig into, but he goes to bed early and he's been quite bad in his four prime time games this year. Negative 0.10, passing that expected points for drop back, way off the expected pace based on if you adjust that for the opponents he's played. 239 passing yards per game in that sample. So he's really not, he's not quite himself against tough opponents this year. He's not himself at night and he gets both of those. So I like the under there, despite the fact that I like the Bucks to win this one. And then third, Terry McLaurin been limited in practice. He's not 100%. We basically know that since hitting the injury report on week 12 with an ankle injury, he's averaged 49.4 yards per game with a 21.5% target share. His eight dots, average depth of target is 8.9 yards. Receiver average is about 10.6 this season. He does have two games with at least 77 yards in that sample, but the three others were 40 or fewer despite at least six targets in all five of those games. Plenty of quarterback concerns, not the easiest matchup necessarily. That's the one, that's the one I worry about a little bit just because they could be chasing and throwing a lot, but he doesn't seem healthy and we haven't really seen them producing a lot, you know, through McLaurin in recent weeks. It's pretty wild that a 21% target share has led to 49.4 yards per game, but that is life in the Washington offense. Okay, so Brandon is at plus 341 for that same game Parley over on Fandall Sportsbook. Let's move now to the Sunday games. And we don't have anything for the first two games here, but I do still want to talk about them. First we have the Ravens against the Titans, total 54 and a half, Baltimore a three point favorite. I am mildly surprised that things have not shifted towards Tennessee more than they have. I guess people are riding high on the Ravens, which makes sense. I mean, they've played really well down the stretch.  I kind of thought when these lines first came out though that we'd see more movement towards Tennessee, but you can see right here, it's still plus 102 on Tennessee at plus three. So clearly there's not been a lot of optimism here. JJ, what are your thoughts on this game here, Baltimore and Tennessee? Yeah, I mean, I thought, one of my props that I almost went with was Lamar Jackson over on the, I think it's 208 yards passing. I could see a scenario where this ends up being, obviously it's projected to be the highest scoring game this weekend, but it's easy to see a scenario where there is somewhat of a negative script or at least a neutral to negative one for Baltimore and that's going to force them to throw the ball a little bit more. They were in some pretty advantageous scripts down the stretch to somewhat because of schedule, but just in general. And I don't know if that happens in this game, especially what happened last year in the playoffs, right? Where we saw Tennessee do what they did against Baltimore. They were able to actually defend Lamar Jackson, which no other team was able to do really last season. And as a result, he was forced to drop back and pass and he threw a lot in that game. So I could see that happening for sure. But I think that this is one of those games where you want to definitely stack. You want to look at these secondary players for DFS purposes. Like, I love Corey Davis in this game.  So yeah, I think that there's a lot of intrigue that this could be pretty high scoring. Yeah, the Corey Davis receiving your artist prop right now is 59.5. I find that pretty intriguing. Brandon, we talked about this game yesterday as being very into it across the board. And I've gotten no reason to think differently. However, AJ Brown, as JJ said, is banged up. Limited in practice Wednesday, did not practice Thursday, Friday. Is that all to your view of this game at all? Any concerns around this game if AJ Brown's not a full health or are we still a full go here? I mean, it would a little bit for sure. The offensive efficiency would dip. But thankfully, this is of Corey Davis who is not on AJ Brown's level, but they've actually used just as much, if not more, especially downfield than AJ Brown, which is very surprising to me. But I still think that even if AJ Brown is not 100%, which we have reason to believe he wouldn't be, if this is the status we have at this point, I still think this is the best game of the weekend. If you're playing the sixth game slate for daily fantasy, I feel really good about it. Specifically, Corey Davis, like JJ said, but obviously Derek Henry as well. Yeah, I think at Corey Davis with Lamar stack is a great place to start. If you're doing the sixth game slate, I think that's probably where I'll wind up. I've been doing that. It's been tough to get back up into the 6,000 range because I've been overindulgent at running back as Brandon I'm sure is shocked to hear, but trying to find ways to get though. Let's move now to the Bears at the Saints total here, 47 and a half, the Saints nine and a half point favorites and justifiably so because Mitchell Trabisky has had 315 drop-backs this year and none of them have come against a top 12 pass defense. The Saints are ranked third. I think the Bears are gonna get wiped. So you can find some alternate spreads here on this game and you can look at the Saints minus 35 and a half if you want. It's 50 to one odds on that might not be great, but that's kind of where my head's at with regards to this game. JJ, I've not talked to you about this game yet. So how are you seeing things here? Alvin Camero likely playing, Michael Thomas likely back on the Saints side of things. Yeah, I mean, I'm in the same boat. This is like the perfect example of not letting, you know that the public in general is likely looking at a Chicago Bears offense and seeing what they did over the last month and a half of the season and not giving their opponents enough credit or lack thereof in the case of the Bears. They faced easily the best schedule down the stretch. And as you noted, Mitchell Trabisky hasn't faced anyone really tough this game on the road and playing in New Orleans. You know, regardless of fans in the stadium, I just think that there's going to be somewhat of an advantage there. Yeah, it's not a good spot for the Chicago offense. The other thing too is, I don't think they're going to be able to run the ball, which I think is helpful when you have sort of a sporadic, high variance quarterback. So I don't think they're going to be able to run the ball at all and it could end up being fairly messy. And now I saw that Darnell Mooney didn't practice today. So there's just another weapon that they've been relying on more and more of my guy Darnell Mooney. And that's not great. I see some... Brandon's favorite wide receiver is Darnell Mooney. I love me some Darnell Mooney, man. He's not my favorite. We may or may not have made a bet in week 16 about who would score more Fando points between Darnell Mooney and Denzel Minns. And we've had bad bets. I think that's the worst. Denzel Minns had a donut that week. Yeah, but then there was that the game that Mooney scored with like 20 yards? Probably, that's usually him. He's the king of... It's basically his stat line anyway. He's the king of touchdowns but still not scoring 10 Fando points. Like that is the Darnell Mooney story except for last week when he had like 93 targets for negative seven air yards. I mean, I should say too, if something is going on with Darnell Mooney we should bump up Anthony Miller a little bit for what that's worth. I mean, it's Anthony Miller. He's incredibly inconsistent, but I still think the talent's there at least.  He's $4,700. Brandon, would you have interest in Anthony Miller with Darnell Mooney not practicing this entire week? Or Javon Wimms, let's talk about him too. He's, I think he's got six targets this year. I'm like 197 snaps. A lot of cardio. Yeah, King of cardio. Javon Wimms, any interest for you, Brandon? More so in Miller than Wimms. Miller has run 59% of the route since Trubisky returned in week 12. Not a great target share but it's at least, I mean, it's the same as Jimmy Graham's for what it's worth. In that sample at 9%. So I would have to lean Miller. And yeah, I'd have interest because there's not a whole lot of value at Receiver this week. I felt great with anyway. So the extra savings for Miller would definitely help me. Yeah, like I said, I was scrambling to get back in the 6,000 range of wide receiver. Anthony Miller across my mind couldn't quite get there but you know, I might buy the time we get to tomorrow or Sunday, depending on which slate I'm playing. Let's finish up here with the Browns and the Steelers. 47 and a half total here. The Steelers are six point favorites, the Browns. I don't think they practiced again today because of all their COVID issues. What could go wrong? You, JJ, do have a bet in this game. It is a player prop. What are you seeing with value for Brown Steelers? Yeah, so I am gonna put two units on Chase Claypole hitting is over 48 and a half yards. If you look at the yards, it's 50 and a half now. Oh boy.  I don't know. Dude, does Slack count? Like, does Slack count? I think so. Look, I was into this. Slack is the official record. Okay, so JJ locked this number in. Yeah, I think if this were the opposite and Jim's numbers got worse, he would have said that Slack counted. Yeah. But I run the show here, activate my own rules. Guys, it doesn't matter. Chase Claypole's going over 50 and a half anyway. He's going over 150. So weeks 14, 15 and 16, we saw Claypole's Snapshare rise by about 10-ish percent per game on average. And he averaged a 19 percent target share per game over that time. That was about 3 percent. They're using him more and more. They're not using James Washington like Big Ben wanted halfway through the season. But the other thing too with Chase Claypole, well, number one, face Cleveland twice this year in those games, he had 74 and 101 yards against them.  So he could hit the over on one play, realistically. And the other thing too with Pittsburgh, when you look at these player props and you look at the way game script might go because obviously Cleveland very banged up, whether it's because of injury or because of COVID. The other thing too is that Pittsburgh is incredibly pass friendly. They had the highest neutral script pass rate this season. So that at least gives you at least some cushion if there is this really high positive game script that they're at least fairly pass heavy. I don't think that they're going to go nuts per se. But if they do see a great positive game script, you can feel a little bit more confident in the passing attack. So I like Chase Claypole. I think they're going to unleash him in the playoffs a little bit more. Hopefully they do because it's smart too because he's very, very good. So I like the over. Look, if you guys want me to say 15 and a half, I'll take 15 and a half, but I walked in at 48 and a half. I don't care, personally. But I think with Chase Claypole, I'll take him again, 150 and a half because Mike Tomlin has said, they were cutting into his snaps to avoid the rookie wall. The reason you guys can to conserve guys to the playoffs and the playoffs are here. So I would expect a totally unleashed Chase Claypole. Baker may deal minus 184 to throw a pick. Brandon, you want a piece of that one or what are you seeing in this game? I was just sad when I pulled down and saw that. I mean, I'm worried now because I'm on an under. Okay. Okay. If Claypole gets the 150, it's going to be a little tight for Ben Rothesberger to go under 283 and a half yards, but I'm going to, of course, the two parlays I have, I think can all be bet is separate, but it's more fun, I think, to throw in a parlay. So we get through this competition. Okay. For this competition. No, for anyone listening, but I have the Steelers Moneyline parlayed with Ben Rothesberger under 283 and a half passing yards for plus 156. That's what I had. I don't know what it is now. Oh, that's right. That's still there. Okay. JJ's moving lines. You're not. Okay. Sorry. I thought I moved one last time I talked about it. The public has access to our Slack and you're the JJ one, like Chase Claypole's numbers. Whereas yours are like, oh no. Fade, Brandon. I could pair this one with the Steelers to cover, but I like the Steelers outright just fine. They're about 62% likely to win according to my simulations without a bunch of adjustments for what to expect from Cleveland. Frankly, Cleveland's offense was a little better than their points, their point total indicated last week. So when a factor that in two, I'm just going to play it safe, go with Steelers Moneyline. But the Steelers success hasn't been stemming from Rothesberger this year. He's just over the NFL average in per drop back efficiency based on number of fires metrics. His average depth of target is a full yard lower than the NFL average. He also, and this is something that Steelers do a lot over the years. They play down to their opponents. He's done that this year. He actually has seven games against bottom 10 past defenses. Cleveland's 29th, but in those games, he's averaging 247 yards per game while performing pretty much at the defensive level of expectations. So it's doing a whole lot on top of that. He does have five games with more than 268 yards and in all of those, he got to 300, but four of those games finished within six points either way. That's where the spread is, but I think you can make the case that this one gets out of hand. I think a lot of people would feel that that's very likely. And so in his four double digit wins, he's averaged 248 yards. One of those factored into this four game sample, he had 333 yards against the Bengals and he's still with that averaging 248 yards in the other three or the four total. So he had 163 yards against Cleveland when they blew him out earlier this year.  They should be able to throw efficiently, which is another concern, but we just haven't seen him piling up yardage whenever they play from ahead. And I think that could be the case again this week. The good thing for you is that I will have already wrapped up the competition by the time this game starts. You don't need to worry about it because all of my stuff wrapped up Saturday. You guys can relax on Sunday, just knowing that I've already won. So it's all good. That is all the time that we have for today. We're going to send you off now to Wild Card weekend to get in those DFS lineups, get in those bets as well over at Fanduil Sportsbook. We'll be back again next Friday, 3.30 PM Eastern on Fanduil, YouTube, Twitch, Facebook and Periscope. Make sure you are subscribed. Brandon will be with you on Tuesday to break down. PGA lunch next weekend's event. So make sure you're subscribed wherever you want to watch and get those questions in for next week for JJ Zacharyson and Brandon Godulla. I am Jim Sonnessy and so long and thank you to our video producer, Calvin Theobald for running the video side of things here today. Thank you all for tuning in. We'll talk to you again next week and enjoy the playoffs. This has been the Fanduil Live Q&A.


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I didn't know Shadow warrior 2 I like the only game I've heard positive things about I was gonna say vermin type That's the only one I've heard consistently. Yeah, that's just things about the first person melee combat All the rest I shadow warrior 2 is pretty similar I mean it's not as far as the cops to do. You just have to have decent mechanics.   Another thing I if I'd happened he just lands on top of the thing and stands on it I would have liked that result compared to this Nope Nope It makes me think I did something wrong that I do the exact same thing again later and it's like no it works this time Uh video games Video game I don't say fun And then you go into the possibly the most detailed events you've ever seen in the game like they're ridiculously detailed This game just kind of bounces back and forth between being wow, this is really artistic and interesting to like, oh man I really wish they didn't do any of this It's a it's a definitely mixed bag But I kind of I kind of agree with you more on the premise of that It's a very flawed game, but a very interesting one like I don't regret playing it at all And I'm I'm kind of to the point where after you play enough games you kind of It's hard to continue playing games that are just basically. Oh, yeah, this is just like that game that I played Before we've a lot of the major mechanics. We can't mention or analyze without mentioning a game that does it better Yeah But uh, this game is a weird enough mix of different games and and story wise and setting wise It's just a weird enough kind of different experience that I'd rather play A very very weird and interesting Five or six out of ten then then most eight or nine out of tens nowadays just because So many of them are so similar Get a little overrun on on the standard This game is going to be the game of the year because it's exactly what people want kind of game What kind of games thinking about when you say that? Honestly, you're going to hate me for it, but gotta gotta work wrong head of feeling We are lucky we are lucky to get stories like ragnarok told in video games No, I'm not going to be said about generic sevens not being as good as a very interesting five in a way Yeah, I could understand that Yeah, that's kind of where I'm at now not and I'm not this game story is Freaking bonkers compared to uh, well reasoned well Characterized like we haven't talked about it. We've like not talked at all about the story in this game. Really?  I think this game is getting away with it kind of Oh, we didn't get into the whole keys thing. I I almost wanted to go pay pay silvia on the freaking uh, Which the alpha keys the beta connectors and the alpha connectors and the master key. It's so complex They they chose to do this There's so many moving parts and people and do hickeys and watch them in woods It's in this plot and then they dump it all on you in these the these horrifically poorly paced narrative Dumps and then it's just like I can't keep up with this and I don't care about anybody in this universe Including myself. So I just don't even like I don't care Just stop talking about the story do something simple I I went through it Uh, after I played it. I went through it on my forge. So if anyone wants to hear that go there I'm not gonna do it here because it's gonna take like an hour and I don't want to right now I had to use like extra sources and just draw my own conclusions.  I played The system shock 2 on launch. I played You know the games you've worked on earlier and looking glass studios like thief and things like that So I'm like a big fan of this type of this type of game and one thing that uh, Ken Levine said that was very interesting about Uh system shock 2 and bioshock and the games like that I spent, you know, you can use bioshock as a reference if you didn't play system shock 2 but He has he had a very interesting point about betrayals and video game stories and he said that His biggest challenge in those kind of games were was figure out a way to betray the player Not the main character and that the difference between that is that You can see that P3 is being betrayed like 10 minutes into the game like you can tell that his boss is not Know this game's bioshock. Yeah, like we can tell that things are are He's like extremely gullible until like the very end and he just believes oh boss would never do that Even though the entire all of these robots are shooting lasers at me. Uh robots are safe. Why would they robots over attack people? Right? What this is not a very good betrayal of the player But bioshock was a really good betrayal of The actual player because you believed that you were doing you were helping the good guy And you were doing the right thing and you were kind of deceived the entire time Now is there a little bit of a trick there to kind of make that happen with the whole brainwashing thing? Sure, but there was still an effective twist in that you were Led to believe one thing But we're actually betrayed where I don't feel for a second that I'm kind of on the same page is as p3 I think p3 is Despite all they are even close p3 kind of p3 is trying to voice all of the The players complaints of like, oh, this is an annoying thing. Why am I going to do this?  I think everybody's super super sus and and everybody's gonna betray me and robots are actually super unsafe and they're gonna kill everybody Which is basically what everybody's thinking the entire game Well, yeah, because like my chat when I was getting close and close to the end is like, are you ready for the like loads of twists? I was just like, I don't know whatever Well, yeah, it's like you're you're it's having oh look bring everyone's names is already a big ask. So, yeah Moving the wheel actually got me unstuck Yeah I think I get stuck again though.  We killed him and now we press the button awesome now the day saved and it's the credits Like it's better. It's just they do have a they do have a big red button But it's it's a person and you have to hunt the guy which is patrof And then he decapitates himself of the robot and then you take his head and put it in the goop And I don't even I'm gonna begin to understand what all of that was in the story. It's weird Someone said like how do you get stuck here? And it's just like, I don't know man Just trying to walk around I guess My bad for walking around. Look at that. Look at that It's like, oh, there's a thing down there.  You broke the game.  There's space there No, supposedly for the transverse look at my little goopy legs.  I think that the test dummy is broken Let's have way too many times Looks like a skill issue to me Yeah This reminded me for some reason remember when the game tries to convince you that both p3 and charles interpreted the directly spoken words Combat mode as like just oh, I remember that that's for tardis. That's so funny It's like wait, it actually meant combat mode. Oh, okay. That'd be translation Uh, maybe I don't yeah, I just feel like that's the rest of everything.  It's way better than already trying to trick you All this madness in a weird way Yeah, like yeah, the framing actually probably makes it worse because it's modern video game thinking It's modern video game thinking is like oh anything that is kind of weird and and could create some sort of Ludo narrative dissonance has to be explained within the lore So let's just say this is a really complicated door code and only people are really smart Yeah It's like oh, I wasn't thinking about that but now that you pointed it out.  Oh boy. What does that come out? Uh, a few weeks. I think you when he first I think was it or something Or is it was a 20?  There you go On pc Our john wick four comes out on the 24. Yay. Oh, yeah Well, fritz grisco said it's the best one since the first one. He said it's better than two and three So, you know, maybe maybe but it's also almost three hours long. So that is time. I agree Are we gonna discover that all animals and cats and dogs are also assassins too? Hopefully Maybe they'll bring back girl john wick. Who knows maybe they'll bring back cats first dogs and it's a cinematic universe We've got to watch cats and dogs Look under your seat. That's right.   That is just the john wick five um So we're gonna go yeah, just rename it everyone has to kill keanu reeves one everyone has to kill keanu reeves two Well, I feel some left to right guests first and then host you're gonna talk about what you're up to in your day-to-day lives on your youtube And where people can find you. Okay. What's the nice thing that's allowed. Is that me then? That is you first. What are you doing? Tell people now I wasn't sure if it's the same sequence for everybody. Uh I'm in the middle of two videos Probably my big video is um for anybody who who likes the 80s I'm doing a big retrospective on miami vice and all the stuff that's inspired. So like GTA vice city Hotline miami things like that. So it's gonna be kind of like a probably an hour or so long video Really deep dive uh documentary thing like that another video i'm doing is um, uh, kind of Somewhat topical because diablo 4 is coming out as a sort of a Uh Diablo 3 what went wrong kind of thing like uh the Long and story development of diablo 3 and how they kind of basically Developed in house and kept on iterating iterating and iterating until it kind of became something like a monster So just kind of digging through a bunch of blizzcon footage and things like that for those people interested in that kind of game That's just going to be kind of a side video and then miami vice probably late in the year Well, yeah, that's cool That's indigo gaming. Yes Yep, see link in the description Mark, what are you doing? Hello, everybody. I'm mark the cyborg. I have a youtube channel called mark the cyborg and if you're um one of the um effap audience members who who like anime I know there's not tons of anime stuff that happens here, but uh The attack on titan is uh starting up again I believe uh dev was a little late for this episode because he was watching the episode It's probably what I'm gonna watch now And on monday evening at 7 p.m. Eastern We're gonna have a stream that'll be me my wife extra girl lofty pixels and my friend kj Who doesn't have a channel, but you know, he he knows the stuff when it comes to the uh Animated japanese motion picture series Yeah, that's all and thanks again for the invite At a good time as always and sorry about the growling puppies Muto what are you up to mate? Hey, hello. Hello. Uh, I'm just uh chugging along. I mean people might have noticed there was no forge this week What's what's going on? And it's probably no forge next week as well. Yours Because this is I'm I'm I'm working on something else right now. I'm not gonna tell what it is yet Uh, but I'm working on more scripted content Uh, that should hopefully come out faster in the future Of course, you're explaining that I get a face full of crotch on screen Yeah, I saw that as well Here's some scripted content Uh, but yeah, I'm uh, I'm working on that. Uh, we'll see maybe maybe I'll have more news next over the next week We'll see. So yeah next forge is probably going to be the john rick 4 one And yeah, I'm playing who long on stream though. I've still do some some gorming trombones So I've been playing it most of this show No, I look at you.  Yeah, that's that's it Uh, you know the deal with me uh writing convincing arguments that are well considered as hard, uh, stay away You can find theos videos in broken up script format on discord It's really it's really hard to be found you need to find an editor to just go through and just piece together the feel Like, yeah, seriously, there's some gold here We just got to get someone to copy and paste all the right things like three to four different Uh, google docs that just type in from time to time and I like the discipline to actually finish anything. So that's great Uh bringing rags. What about you lads? Um, gosh, um, I've got some things that I'm starting to work on in the background But uh, I won't really say what they are quite yet But I think everyone will uh, will like it once they start to come to fruition and get uh put out there I think people will like it Like fruit, uh I'm working but the I guess the the relevant update is uh, the EFAP tv for mando season three. I'm working on it They are going to be exclusively edited by fringy for the most part I imagine the finale we might do half and half because that's going to be like twice as long more than likely Yeah, so ideally the goal is going to be to make sure that those are those are done Um before the next episode comes out, but that's what that's what i'm working on right now. Um, so yeah Yeah, it's with because like I did the last of us one solely and so it's if he's working on Well, last month is still ongoing. Yeah, so There's no way to but I mean in terms of you guys, you're gonna be getting lots of EFAP tv. Well, why not announce it? If anyone watches real bbc, I was I was forced to watch the gartham night trailer and uh Like uh, I will be too busy to edit anything if we did that and fringy will be editing mando So it's impossibly unless of course and he has agreed meme repository to edit EFAP tv gartham nights But that will very likely be coming to your Viewing pleasure and and the obvious question. I think some people will highlight. We'll probably mention it in the first episode It's like, well, how could you be watching that not finishing batwoman? Batwoman is dash bullshit's realm and they are still being produced I I'm not going to say how many but there are things that there are batwomans available We've been keeping up a tradition almost of them being between each of the anniversary parts And that will likely continue until they're all finished and then we'll find a way to deliver them to you But you know batwoman will be finished eventually it will Um at the point the broader point is you're getting a lot of EFAP tvs. All right, so Well, and then the minis are all getting created as well and uh, we're still ahead We still need to take a gap and that's probably gonna happen when the last of us finishes up and I release the super cut I'll probably uh, yeah take a week off then and we might be back up to normal at that point, but Yeah, it's uh, I we've been doing pretty okay in terms of topics. We've been all over the place lately There's a lot of stuff and yeah, um lots of media coming out. So that's Oh and EFAP movies. Good god. You guys might be having the tidal wave of EFAP movies as soon as everything's in order I was about to say I'm also working on a little EFAP. They're little EFAP movies and EFAP movies Um, but I'll keep that one a surprise for now, which one that'll be so Plenty of things on the way, uh, but for now We're gonna we're gonna sign out and Like I said, as for super chats, we'll continue to release all of them at least once per week And they're gonna be between like two and five hour segments. I'd imagine It just seems to better work with segmenting everything that way, especially because it doesn't create more overflow Um, but obviously we appreciate every last kind message and for keeping us company this whole time We like to know I know a lot of you say it out there You want more gaming EFAPs and it's good to know that they are interested in it's just that uh We try and find them that fit here and there especially with games that we can Show some interest instead of just playing something that's out this new Like we like none of us gave a shit about hogwarts. I'm sorry. We just care Oh Shit about it, but actually played x-ray girls copy we're steam family sharing and I finished the whole game It's actually all right. Yeah, it's a lot like an arkham game It's it's an arkham game if you're a wizard instead of batman Oh, okay. Um, why is that batman isn't a wizard? All right. Well, yeah Besides that preparation exactly I think a lot of people need to also remember that watching a bad movie is a two hour investment And playing a game is a 15 18 20 hour investment So just consider that it's one of the reasons why there probably won't be as many gaming EFAPs as well It's just that it takes like 10 times the length to go through a game and play it and You know that sort of thing so just Oh, we got to pick them wisely. We got to really check those games I think we need to get good or there might just be a skill issue. Oh, yeah, that's right Yeah Yeah, I did scale its amic heart down from its highest difficulty once I saw how damaged spongy The enemies were with that initial melee weapon you get Yeah, that's the kind of thing I hate. I don't like the spongy enemies I started a normal and then I went up to maximum when I when I Basically maxed out most of the skill trees because I was grinding so much for items. I couldn't pick up So I eventually just cranked it up to the top. So I did like the last probably Two three hours on the maximum skill skill level which Basically made the guys a bit hit a bit harder and and a little more tanky, but wasn't a huge difference Really, um when it's movely dubly gonna play og re4 So if if new re4 is coming out in 19 days, then it'll probably do classic in like 10 days from now Yeah, oh, yeah Oh, yeah, I need to get on that as well then Um, I recommend the re4 hd project mod that texture pack is it's the intention the artistic intention of all the Original textures is there. It just it scales a lot better And I think I'm probably gonna stick to is the pc raw vision just so that the the change to the new one will be Oh, okay, it's possible, you know Uh I'll try and remember and learn everything so that we can see how it all changes and then we'll do an If I've episode on it soon after I imagine Anyway Thank you all for joining us. I hope you have a good evening Afternoon or morning, whatever it may be Take care now to the pip and cheerio Say goodbye everybody. We'll see you later And I'll give you one last crispy critters for the road No Oh boy them critters sure are crispy not me though. I'm fluffy It's been soft


So, today I have to talk about another Patreon request. This was another self-published thing on the Kindle Store requested by Evan Stagall, so thanks Evan. Also, it was 90 degrees yesterday and it is currently snowing outside, so I don't know if that has anything to do with what I'm about to talk about, but it is weird. This is the introduction song. It's not very good, but it's not too long. So today's book is called Galactic Entente and, man, I have weird feelings on this because, look, they pay me to be honest in my reviews and this one I will come right out and say it's not good, I didn't like it, but I can see, yeah, there's some aspects to it that if you just tweaked it a little it could be really cool and there's some aspects where you just need to expand on it and it would be a lot better. So the plot here is, I'm not 100% sure what the plot is because it goes in a couple of different directions and then it's also told in such a weird way that I had difficulty telling what was going on and it's interspersed with a couple of author's notes, almost like a fan fiction, so all I can say for certain is that it starts off with people getting onto a spaceship which is all outfitted for battle and everything and then while they're flying they get attacked by pirates and then there's a big battle with that and after that there was just a sequence of events, like there was someone got murdered I believe and there was some sort of competition with the main character Hans or the closest thing to a main character that Hans is and I feel kind of bad for not knowing what's going on but I genuinely could not tell what was going on for large chunks of this and part of that is just because it's written in a very strange way so part of it seems almost like a movie script, like this is supposed to be one of ten books or something and this one it starts off with like scene one and the name of the scene and then it'll have characters do things and scene two and that and at first I thought it was going to be the dialogue and everything was going to be written that way too but not really the dialogue doesn't have any quotes around it, it doesn't have tags so I can't really tell who's saying what a lot of time and a lot of the characters don't have much description like one or two of them have some but not much. The biggest thing that made it difficult to read and I feel bad hitting on this because it's a really cool idea is that whenever certain characters were talking or when it was describing their actions it would, the text would change font and it would also change color so like you know the average text is just I don't remember exactly it was like regular Times New Roman or something and it's just you know regular black text like you would see in anything but then when certain characters talk it'll get into this like cursive and it'll be bright pink and I think that's really cool and then there's others where it's like highlighted and it's blue and there's others where it's highlighted in black and then the letters are like these really thin squiggly red lines and I think that's really a neat idea because it does give a visual element to it and if you did it properly it would help to distinguish between characters but my god was difficult to read like you need to pick fonts that you can actually read because the the pink squiggly cursive for example I had to stop and really look at that to see what was going on and the one that was highlighted with black boxes and had red squiggly lines and I could not fucking read that to save my life like every like fifth or sixth word I could make out but a lot of it I genuinely just could not read it and no matter how I tried and it's not like I could highlight it and it would look different or anything it looks exactly the same so there's a lot of bits in this that even though again I think that's a cool idea adding a visual element to it and taking advantage of the fact that you know if there was a printed book you probably wouldn't be able to do all the different colors because that'd be a lot more expensive but just when it's on a screen yeah you can do that no problem so I think you're taking advantage of the format that you're using which is a neat idea and the visual aspect of it is just neat but you got to go back to the drawing board you got to make sure that people can actually tell what's going on and can actually read it because this was just kind of a mess in addition there are just a lot of typos and grammatical errors and parts where I'm pretty sure that the characters or what different character was talking and so their text should have been in a different color or something and there's parts where characters have conversations and rather than in addition to not having quotes around the dialogue rather than having a different paragraph for each person talking it'll have one person talking in this color and then right next to it another person in this color and then back to the other one so it took me a while to even figure out that yes that that it is dialogue and so you know it really is just a mess and this needed at least one or two more rewrites and that's part of why I couldn't tell what was going on with the story but another part of it is just that a lot of stuff is never really explained they just kind of put characters out there and then they start doing stuff but we don't know exactly what it is they're doing or why and at a few points we figure it out but and I'm sure it made perfect sense to the person writing it I'm I'm certain it did but this is why you have other people read it and not just your friends your mom or someone because they're gonna you know they're gonna tell you yeah it's good most likely but you know get some strangers and beta readers and editors and stuff like that because they they will be honest with you they will come right out and say yeah this is I have no idea what's going on here you should go back to the drawing board when it comes to positives I will say that the battle against the pirates while it does take up like a third of this book and it kind of comes out of nowhere we don't know exactly why people are fighting well I mean we know you know they're pirates they just attack stuff and steal things but we don't know exactly who they are we don't know quite who the good guys are I will say that it is kind of cool you know if it had been written a little in less of a confusing way I think I would have liked it a lot because you know I just like space battles I don't see them often enough and I will say that there's a lot of detail about the ship they're on and how it's run you know what officers run what and how things work it does but it doesn't go into a lot of like pseudo science stuff about how oh nanomachines blah blah blah and the mass effect fields and our nuclear reactor they don't go into all that but they still give a pretty good rundown of the ship and what it does what kind of weapons it has which I thought was cool and I can clearly tell that there was passion in here you know this wasn't just scribbled out and then thrown out in an attempt to make money like it it is something that someone wrote because they wanted to write it and in that regard I I can't I can't fault them for that you know you should be glad or excuse me you should be proud of yourself if you have the energy to do that the creativity to do that and you're willing to put that out there to be judged by the people so congratulations on that but that said this really is a mess I'm sorry I'm sorry to be that blunt but it is a mess and it needed a lot of rewriting before you could put it out there and especially because on on the Kindle store it's like $10 I think like I'll be honest it's not worth $10 like I would suggest dropping the price down to like $199 or something like that because then you might actually get some people buying it but that as it stands now congratulations on actually reading it congratulations on getting it out there but it's well it's it's just not good and so I don't know if I can really recommend this to anyone unless you're really intrigued by some sort of space opera-esque thing that has an avant-garde style of writing if you're interested in that then I guess go ahead and check 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and welcome to In The Studio. I'm your host, Martha Teter, and today we're going to be talking about the Aggie Reuse Center, as you see the banner back here, and I want to introduce you to my guests, Miukia Haleen over here, and Lauren Kavantec in the middle, and Vivian over here. Welcome, thank you so much for coming. I think that folks are going to be really excited about the things we talked about today. Well, tell me a little bit about the store, about the Aggie Reuse Store. Thank you for inviting us here today, Martha. Aggie Reuse Store, we are a thrift shop on campus at UC Davis. We sell clothing, accessories, upcycle, repurpose items, craft supplies, and much more, and we also hold craft workshops and outreach events throughout the year. Wow, great. Yeah, we're open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., so it's open to the public, not just students can come, but also members from the Davis community and any visitors onto campus. And also, we're entirely student run, and one of our major components of our program is our upcycling component, and upcycling is basically the act of taking something old and turning it to something of higher value, and so students take our donated supplies and turn them into a decoration that we use to decorate the store, as well as things that could be sold, as well. Great, I believe we have some slides that give a little bit of a tour of the of the Aggie Reuse Center, so let's see if we can check out a little bit of those. So what's this here? That's... Right, so that's our storefront. We have clothing items outside, as well as some house square and bags that are also located outside. Generally, we also have our sale items, so if you have a special sale going on, like this Friday we have our hauler for a dollar sale, so we'll have dollar clothing items outside for the viewers to look at. Great, great. Okay, let's see some of the other stuff that there is in the store, or this one's outside. Right, those are our party supplies that were actually donated to us by the student government, so they had leftover items from festivals that they had on campus, and then they give that to us so that we can distribute it back to the community. Okay. You know, those are our dollar water bottles. We get those from the donation sites around campus, like the lost and found, from the community centers around campus, as well as just donations from students as well. Okay, great. And right over there, we also have our clothing items, so we get shirts, t-shirts, dresses, books that you can see on the bottom shelf, as well as pants and skirts. And then we have a lot of office supplies and small electronics like chargers, old cell phones, and envelopes, stickers, craft supplies, pens. You name it, we've got it. And then we also have jewelry, so like rings and small accessories, as well as fabric swatches that are donated to us. Okay, yeah, great. Right, and that is also our seasonal section. So we also have bike helmets because we are the city of Davis. We just have a lot of bikes around the community. And also we have like our knits, like our beanies, as well as rain boots, too. Great, great. Well, that's great. Let's take a look at also what you have in the store because I think you have some examples of things that you've made in projects. Right, so our upcycling interns, like I said before, work on a lot of decoration. They also create items of utility, but oftentimes they create items that we display around the store that also accommodates the season. So right now it's fall, so we have a lot of faulty crafts. So we can actually look at our turkey over there, which is made by one of our interns. It's made out of one of our books that we have an ex-sister on the store. And we also have, and he made, he got some construction paper and used that to make the tail of the turkey. So it's a fun way to use books that you don't really use. And this was taught in a craft workshop. So we had plenty of students making book turkeys for the holiday season. Wow, wonderful. Okay, so there's a few other things here. What about this one here? Right, so our sales interns, part of the projects that they work on is selling items that we have an excess of. For example, we have a lot of these these color swatches that were donated to us. And what we did to make them more useful for the community was making them into these calendars. Right. So we had our interns make that. Yeah, so this is for the month of November. So you can count the days till Thanksgiving. Yeah, we have some for summer as well. Yeah, you can just fill them in. Oh, okay, that's great. Okay, well tell me about how you get the stock for the store. You mentioned some on university sources. Is that your only source or is that most of what you get? A lot of what we get is from the university, but we do accept items from the community. What people can do is go onto our website and fill out a donation form. We accept clothing items, accessory items, as well as housewares like towels. And also we accept like small furniture within like the dimensions of like two by two by two. Okay. Yeah. Okay. And what about books? Books. We have a lot of books already on hand, but we do accept books as well. Okay. Even textbooks? Yes, definitely. That's like in high demand. Okay. Okay. Great. Great. So how do people find out about the website and what's going on? So that is basically what the job of the marketing and outreach interns and social media interns do. The marketing and outreach interns, they table at the M Memorial Union Quad on campus every Wednesday. So we have a table out there and they're actively reaching out with the community and talking about our upcoming events and just shop opportunities at the store. And we also have our social media platforms on our website, our Facebook and our Instagram, which our social media are in charge of posting pictures of events and publicizing for our sales. Great. So I presume this is around lunch time or some time where there would be a lot of traffic around the Quad. And faculty and staff and stuff probably come to a lot of your tabling events as well. That's great. So what about the, you mentioned something about workshops. Are those open to just students or anybody? Right. So the workshops are open to the entire Davis community, but oftentimes it's students who do come. And the workshops are just a way to encourage people to come out and make crafts and also show that to be environmentally aware, you don't need to be artistically talented or anything. These projects are really simple to make and we just want to show that to differ items from landfill. You just really have to do, you don't really have to be an artist or anything and we teach these students how to make these crafts so they learn something from our workshops. So in other words, you're educating them about reuse and to kind of spark their own creativity. I remember I saw in the store also slides that come from the photography department. What do students do with those? The photo slides. We usually use those at our tabling events as a marketing strategy to get attention and have people approach our table because that's, we found that's actually a very popular way people approach us. We lay out the photo slides on the table and everyone approaches us and asks us, oh what is this for? And then that's our kind of way to get told them about the store and more about how they can reuse recycled items. Nice, nice. So how do you get your staff for the store? I guess this is mainly student run or all student run? Yeah, so we are part of the student government at UC Davis. So we are completely student run organization and our team consists of our management team with Nicole, our unit director, me, Lauren and Vivian and we also have the marketing outreach and social media interns and then Lauren is in charge of the sales staff and Vivian is in charge of the upcycling staff and they are all completely undergraduate students with a wide range of majors and professional interests. I see. And so how do people find out about the availability of the internships or the managerial positions in fact? Yeah, so we have on the ASUCD the student government website, they have job vacancies every time around the end of the quarter. We open job applications for all the staff and the sales and upcycling and marketing team that students can join and we also publicize at our outreach events. So during tabling when people ask us about job opportunities we tell them about it and you know more about what each intern does. Great, great. So how long are these positions for like the manager positions? Well the the manager positions it's usually for the whole school year but for the volunteers it's it's for a quarter but they can choose to return for the following quarter but we accept new interns every single quarter and they can apply online like a week before a week before the quarter starts. Great. So do you have a lot of participation and interest? It sounds like you've got a great system going where you can reach out. Let's see how many years has this been going now? So we opened in 2011 but we were in a different location prior but we moved to our location at the silo just recently beginning of last year. Wow because that's so central to campus. I mean you're really right and did the sales and everything go up then? Yes definitely. I personally thought the location at the MU was a little bit secluded and now that it's at the silo we're just at the center of campus and it's really nice because there's always people passing by checking out like what we have to offer. Yeah particularly as you're close to the food and also the internet what is it the intercultural center there? There's a lot of traffic there. Yeah and there's it I noticed there is a great map on your website. Yeah so if people want to know more they can go to your website which is aggyreuse.ucdavis.edu and get some information. I guess that's where your calendar is too? Yeah we have a calendar with all our scheduled events for the quarter and it's regularly updated and our website also links to our Instagram posts so if you check our website every time we upload a new Instagram photo it will be on there. Oh great does it also link to the Facebook? I believe we have it underneath the contact information. Yeah great so what ways can people in the community participate in this? You mentioned that they could come to workshops are there other ways if they were interested they could contribute to the center? Of course they can always donate to our store filling out a form on our online website and also visiting us and checking the store out and telling others about the store and bring more people to our store. That's great yeah so then you're and you so you accept donations where you kind of set up an arrangement using this online site and I guess they can buy and then they can also come to these workshops although as you say there are a lot of students who come to those. Yeah well what is it that you would like people to take away about the aggyreuse center what's the one thing you'd really like them to remember? For me it's not really just a store it's grown into a community because we're not just people who are you know we're not just tools of labor you know we're not just working but we're also developing skill sets together as a team and in the past few years I've they've come to become part of my family as well so it's actually really nice and I really come to and we're working at the store with a great set of people. And I think I remember hearing that there are meetings of the interns regularly so that must be how this community is built as well. Yes but we also have socials which is really integral to the cohesiveness of all the teams not just within one team but across all the teams. Great any other one brief phrase? Right well we're definitely not your average store store since we do promote the idea of reuse and sustainability we always have regulars come into the store showing us their crafts that they're working on. So you kind of inspire the population. Yeah they always give us updates on what crafts they're working on sometimes they even bring in what they're working on too and it's just enjoyable experience for the people working at the store and also like the customers who come in around the same time too. I agree with what Vivian and Lauren said we're definitely not your ordinary thrift shop. I remember one time I was helping clean up for the first crafts workshop we held and some two people they attended the workshop they approached me and they asked wow this is so amazing thank you so much for hosting this crafts workshop and I was very happy to hear that because I see that all the entire staff in a team we make a big impact on campus and I think it's that sense of community that really helps motivate me. Yeah that's great well it's an outstanding important principle reuse upcycling we have limited resources on the planet and I'm really grateful for this chance to chat with you about this and to tell our viewers about the existence of the Aggie Reuse Center. I'm so glad also that you're educating students about this because starting you can't start too early as they get out on their own this will be an outstanding value. Well I thank you for joining us today and we'll be back next time with more in the studio.


Hello internet, this is another video on the B-Sides Connecticut cap for the flag competition. In this case, I want to be looking at some of the steganography challenges in this category Stagger Done. Plopcat, sorry for 112 points will be the first one that we take a look at. Let's see if the challenge prompt will load. Classic internet connection. Okay, cool. So as he wants to get it out, help him. Answer is inside the curly braces key equals this thing. This challenge brought to you by this individual. Let him know if you enjoyed it. They had a cool feature to just offer a link to tweet to the like challenge author or the developer of that problem. And then you could just say, Oh, I like this challenge, etc. They're kind of neat. So cool to just be able to see these people on Twitter and see them in the same room, you know, at the same time. So all right, let's just jump in. I have this already downloaded. I think I was about to say dump in stag. Plopcat is the one that we're working on. I've got this all set up here. So let's see what we're working with. This is Plopcat. All right. So obviously it is just a thing here, we can go ahead and strings it right just a regular JPEG image. I'm going to run this through less. So I can see everything that I'm just going to hit page down a little bit to keep looking through this stuff because I do want to be thorough. And there we go. I find this giant binary string here. So okay, let's see what we can do with this. Let's go ahead and convert it into something else. I'm going to run Python. And then let's just say int with that paste it in base two.  Go ahead and paste that with quotes. Okay, cool. And then let's go ahead and take the hex of that. And let's carve it up. So slice from two. So we remove the zero x the start and the L the variance of negative one. And then we can go ahead and decode that from hex. And we get the key just like that. So okay, let's go ahead and actually, can I carve that? May as well just slice that too. Let's go 123455 in to negative one, right? Okay, sweet. And there is our flag. Let's go ahead and make a simple get flag script with that, right? May as well automate it just because we can. And that way we can save it. I hit the caps lock key. Just print that out. Yes. Mark as executable. Run it. And I think I had a typo must have hit an extra key in there at the very end. Just a random tab key. What? Oh my goodness, I made it a bash script. You guys should have told me wasting so much time in this video. All right. Sweet. That can be our flag and we would submit that for some points. Let's mark plop cat as complete. We've wasted like three minutes already. Let's jump into the note. This is a another challenge that had a couple solves, download this image and it has I have the dog just as a thing, you could do whatever reconnaissance that you wanted on it strings again, foremost, been walks, tech hide, etc. If it's a steganography challenge, what I want to do is go ahead and run steg solve on it. And if you don't have a steg solve, you can just go ahead and find online. Simple Google search should take you to a GitHub repository where you can download it. And it's a Java jar file. So let's run it from the current directory. So steg solve.jar hit open up a file and we've got ours already loaded in there. And you can just arrow through a couple different filters and forms here. We will see in red plane zero and some of the others, we have the key visible. So let's go ahead and just jot it down. I want to say nano flag dot text. I think I had a colon in there somehow. Let's go ahead and say x t three eight u q h v x two x you not a good way to for us to automate that. We can write a note like okay, hey, solution dot text, go ahead and just run steg solve on it. But that is that good to know that tool obviously in it comes in handy when it's necessary all cat 237 points. So the cat sees it will you we can download this. Let's just go ahead and get to that directory all cat. Looking at a JPEG image. Let's go ahead and take a look. It's a cat. Sweet. Run strings on this, right? The usual reconnaissance that we do looks like it has interesting data in it. Oh, a lot of blank stuff. Interesting. Don't see a whole lot in there. We can run XF tool on it. And okay, we see some interesting stuff here. This actually has a lot of data. Windows photo editor, color space this interesting that it has XP comment. I've never I don't normally see that and if it's got a comment that it's something interesting that looks like hex, right? So let's go ahead and check out what that is. Also has some binary data we can go ahead and decode. But it looks like that might just be a thumbnail image. Let's let's check it out. Let's just say this decode hex. Oh, okay, there's the key, right? Cool. Let's go ahead and slice that up five to negative one. And that will simply be our key or flag we can submit. Create a simple get flag script. Actually use the correction bang line when you're working in the Python language. Follow my lead. Don't make my mistakes. Those are counterintuitive things. I can't say both of those. Perfect. Let's move all cat to complete. Cool techniques, right? Next one is test pattern testing testing confirm message received, etc. Let's go ahead and check what what that is. Stag puzzle JPEG. It is another PNG image. Alright, interesting. Let's try and move that then to a PNG file. Can I use the eog that now? I've known, right? Yep, looks like it has interesting colors in here. We could again, if we wanted to just run stag solve. Whoop. A lot of results here. I should honestly just make like, put this in a directory that I know how to easily get to it. But open up the current thing. Let's open up the PNG file. Not a lot here. peculiar, right? But we've got other tools we can run this, right? Let's run z stag. Since it is a PNG file, we know that we can on PNG. Oh, let's actually it that's interesting. It says key key key key equals nine. Huh? Let's z stag tack a for everything. Wow, interesting stuff. Key equals text nine. GVJ. Looks like we can see it looks like it's trying to grow portions of it. Key. This is peculiar. GVJ six. Fp six. I'm trying to piece this together in my mind because let's go ahead and split this horizontally flag dot text. We see turn this down key nine.  Nine GVJ. I put a zero nine five p y f. Hmm. I think we actually had better luck when we didn't hadn't we didn't have it test all looks like key all this stuff repeats. Because we had nine GVJ and then six u a was another part that repeated over and over again. P y five is the next part that comes from it. And f y till day may just be a blind part. And that looks right that was the key. So if we wanted to we could go ahead and submit that go ahead and paste it in. But it should tell me okay, we've already solved this that was that challenge that is the flag. It's just coordinating and piecing together this parts that I don't know why they repeat an interesting way, but it is trying to hide some text in that. So now that we've got that flag written down, let's go ahead and mark that as complete. I'll close that window. Zoom in a little bit here. And that was that challenge. Alright, what do we have next? Should be bear cat. Let's just chime into that one. Bear cat. We have this image. The challenge from here is just if you want to get this flag out to figure out multiple ways to skin or shave a cat. Okay, you G bear cat. Nice, I dig it. Let's go ahead and do our low hanging fruit. Right strings on here. pipe that into actual less interesting stuff. Again, more kind of blank space. Nothing particularly sticks out. We could throw attack and argument on the strings if you wanted to just to get things longer than a certain length. Let's check out exit tool. exit tool gives us some interesting information. It even has an XP comment. Okay, again, just as we've seen before looks looks like base 64. Let's go ahead and decode that. pipe it to base 64 tack D. It says not a chance. Alright, let's just save that something dot text maybe that's a secret key or something we can use with steg hide, right? Steg hide extract tech SF on our file here. Maybe password can be not a chance. Nope, nothing. Okay, let's go for bin walk bin walk tacky on this. Oh, looks like it has some kind of archive in here. It didn't extract it though. Weird. Let's try and run foremost on it output. Looks like it just gets the image again. Okay, so I learned a new trick while I was doing this because during the competition bin walk did not extract when I use tack E on it. I think it was I might have to Google this it was deck DD man been walk D DD type CMD extract type signatures given the final extension of extra and execute CMD. I don't know what CMD is. Let's just use trying to remember what I read on stack overflow, you know, DD equals I think was star. It just said colon or period. I'm gonna do it. I'm sorry for having to have to bear with me guys. colon. Yeah. So bin walk extract everything don't do any command on it. But out of stag puzzle three dot jpeg, right? The file that we want to extract stuff from go ahead and carve stuff out. Didn't work. Alright, let's go ahead and Google bin walk extract didn't work. I don't remember what it was. Been walking not extracting files from binary. This is the link that I clicked on DD dot slash. Okay, so just a dot star. Weird. Solution is don't read the man page is just ask the internet. I cool it extracted everything. Let's go ahead and see what we got here. If I run file on all these it looks like the 65 dco is the sevens of archive. Let's try and move that to something dot seven Z. And let's run seven z on it to extract it something and this is where we need the password. Let's try not a chance with capital n capital C. Looks like it extracted not a secret transmission P cap. So during the competition, I had no idea that that comment was there from the exit data from the metadata. I never caught that whatsoever. And I was just trying to hammer the seven Z with with passwords from like rock you dot text, I use john the ripper to get like a seven z to john format and then I tried to crack it. Nothing worked. So eventually we caught our eyes on that. So very cool. Let's see what we've got here. We've got now just a regular P cap, right? Yep, we can go ahead and wire shark it if we wanted to. I say that because if we wanted to I like to go the easy route. Just simply get me back to my prompt please. It'll happen eventually wire shark will let go. All right, fine. I guess we'll just jump to a new shell. Of course, just as I say that. So let's run strings on that not a secret thing. Let's greptack I for key. And it looks like we've got key equals and password equals this stuff. Let's go ahead and decode this right URL decode. I'm just going to go for a lazy online one URL decode, paste this in. And we get this. So that is our flag. Cool. And I have one more that I can showcase from this challenge. It takes a little bit extra work. So I may save it to the next video. This video is getting long. And I have yet to solve this alt correct text iconography. It says email dot text. And it looks like it has very, very interesting stuff in here. But there's no like white space in it. There weren't any tabs or random spaces. I don't exactly know what I'm looking at just yet for this one. But I can cover this ogres are like onions that we solve after the competition. I learned something new with that. So hope you guys enjoyed this video. Hope you guys had some interesting cool insight with some of these and just I don't know maybe some things you learned if you haven't seen some of the stuff before or just knowing the tactics and knowing what to look for. So thanks for watching. Hey, before I go, I do want to give a quick shout out to the people that support me on Patreon. Thank you guys so much. 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So I can walk up to a girl and if she's given me eye contact as Adam Lyon said if she gave me a What is it a third-degree stare?   I'm Robbie I wanted to come meet you right? That won't work.  It just shows you don't get it. I have not tried that look like So I'll walk up and I'll just be like hey I'm Robbie Shake her hand hold on to her hand She knows why I'm there. I don't have to say it. That's a direct approach My words aren't necessarily direct. I'm not saying anything direct, but that's a direct approach Day versus night talked about that.  You're probably not having fun So if I see a woman I like I'll just walk up to her and I'll say so I was standing over there with my buddies They're not as interesting as you guys. What's up? I'm Robbie It's a direct approach. They like it and then I'll be like actually they're pretty interesting Come on over and I bring them over now. We're in an interaction. It's super easy super direct The other day when was it Friday? I was out with a couple of you guys doing some in-field work The guys I was out with saw a girl on a bike. They're like, how do you hit on a girl riding a bike? This is right over here So she was riding that through the intersection.  We saw you on the bike.  I risked my life to do this. I'm Robbie. She cracked up It was it. It was easy.  She said, yeah, I'm going to a pool party Where are you from? She asked me from New York. What do you do blah blah blah? Literally a maybe minute and a half interaction and I said I got to go. I got to get back to my friends. You got to go Let's see each other again. Give me your number if you don't like me. Give me a fake one When I ask for a number I say that every time it's just a fun little thing to do and you'll never get a fake number so And approach anxiety like I said if you approach in this manner You'll crush approach anxiety if you can walk up to a woman and tell her Exactly what you're doing and have the confidence to just lay your balls on the line risk rejection You will blast through approach anxiety in a matter of I'd say weeks if you do this three times a day You know five days a week for three weeks You will not have Approach anxiety you'll have approach excitement, which is different approach excitement is you're excited to talk to her You're still going to be nervous. You're always going to be nervous. You're never going to be completely like Desensitized to it and if you are it just means it's no longer something worth doing Right who wants to go on the teacup rides at Disneyland? No one who wants to go on one of the roller coasters everyone why because it's exciting it gets your blood going gets your heart pumping so Let's talk about how to keep the conversation going and how to read a woman Guys ask this question. How do I keep the conversation going? How do I read a woman or how do I sexually escalate? We'll talk about that next so girl on the seawall this happened few months ago Another example of a silly Direct say what I'm thinking opener. I'm walking with a buddy.  He's like let's talk to them. I said wait a second. We just ate dinner We had fish our breath is probably nasty Let's go get some tic-tacs to the store and then we'll come back and hit on them So what do we do? We get tic-tacs. We come back. I walk up to him. Hey, we're walking by like 15 minutes ago We saw you girls sitting here. We thought you look cute our breaths are disgusting We just had fish so we went to the store got some tic-tacs and now we're back to flirt with you What's up? I'm Robbie. They crack up. I sit down. He sits down Now immediately he started getting love from his girl They were talking she was into him. She was She turned to face him the two girls one was here one was here. My buddy sat here. I sat here So this girl immediately starts investing in him. I call that investment. She turns to him. She's giving him Her time her energy My girl not so much. She was nice. She was friendly, but she's sitting there She's sitting like this kind of facing away from me, but she's talking to me She's investing with her words. She's not investing with her body at all and From that at first I was like, okay, she's not into me yet But because my buddy was doing so well I Stuck around and it literally took 30 minutes for her to change her body position start facing me She offered me a drink of her. She was like drinking Uso out of a water bottle She was sharing that with me. So it literally took 30 minutes to get investment and during that time all I was doing was really vibing and light rapport Talking to her about Travel talking to her about where I live where she's from really just having what they call a boring interview conversation and a lot of people are like never have boring interview conversations, but if a girl is Interested in you and you ask her boring interview questions They won't be boring because you're interested and if she's interested she'll be interested in you too So this girl was interested. She was investing in me. She was asking me questions. She was sharing with me her life I was sharing with her, but I didn't know she was interested for sure because her body wasn't interested You can't trust women's words, but you can trust their body every time bodies don't lie words do So like I said it took 30 minutes To finally start getting some love from her And in that time like I said vibing and light rapport. We were in isolation meaning She was one-on-one with me her friend was one-on-one with my friend We weren't having a four-way discussion. This is a big mistake I see you guys make they go in with a wingman and they all talk together in one group It's not gonna go anywhere You have to get the girl alone and when I say alone it could literally just mean I'm here Someone's here the other two people are here could just mean hey check this out I point over here. I face my body over here. She likes me. She'll follow suit now We're in isolation talking having a one-on-one conversation not talking to the group very important to do that If you don't do that within the first five minutes first two minutes, you're probably not going to go very far with that interaction and Then once you're in isolation Deep rapport find out what she's passionate about what are her hopes? What are her dreams be genuinely curious? I mean you probably are already genuinely curious, but don't think of it as a pickup think of it as This is an amazing woman, and I want to learn more about her and If you have that attitude she'll really feel that authenticity and you guys share with each other your life It won't be hard to get her into bed once she feels really comfortable with you. She'll she'll get you into bed Fun games, I'll go back to those in a second so Actually, let me talk about those now, so let me finish this story girl in seawall after about those first 30 minutes where she wasn't giving me a lot of love suddenly she started giving me more love she started like I said turning her body and We needed to move we needed to go somewhere else So we went to a bar. We got some shots. We went to another bar We got some more drinks during that time. We're holding hands. We're walking together if a girl is willing to hold your hand She's probably willing to kiss you.   She's gonna get turned off She's expecting you to so you have to and So what I did in that in this one is I screwed up I didn't escalate and I missed the window there and I knew I had to get that window back I knew I couldn't just lunge in for the kiss because that'd be weird it didn't feel like the right time You know check in with yourself if it doesn't feel like the right time. It's not the right time So we played a fun game