Okay, we've had a number of sessions where we have gone through different aspects of the model, and I've interactively shown you the model as we've gone along, specifically to examine the different policies and functions, and most recently to take you through the ways of modifying an existing policy or adding a new policy. I'm now actually going to put it all together and walk you through the entire model. Sometimes I'll just give examples of, say, an income list or a tax unit, or indeed even a Ben Kalk within a policy. Sometimes I'll take you through a whole policy just to give a sense of the overall model. Okay, before I do anything, I'm going to park the 2012 system. Remember, we can move any selected system to the hidden systems box, which are done, and then close that, and that gives us simply the 2015 system, which we can move across to fully get a good view of the whole system. Before I start with the systems, however, can I just remind you of the tabs that are useful? Display tab, we don't use, but I did mention conditional formatting. I think in the last session when I talked about being able to highlight changes, but that's really the main display parameter that we sometimes use. Otherwise, these are ways of looking at single policies, showing the hidden systems boxes, etc., but usually we use the defaults. In terms of the country tools, I've mentioned the add system, delete system. I will remind you of uprating indices, which is something else that we use, and of course, databases is another important part of the country tools, which, again, for our particular data is not so interesting because the only database is the HBS. But that's which of the country tools are commonly used. If we look at administration tools, the most important there, I think, for us, is the variables administration tool. The add country, delete country, import country, etc., are much less important. But the variables, remember, from the last session, is where you add a variable in EuroMod format. If you need to introduce a new variable, either because you've created a new variable within the underlying dataset, or because you've introduced in a policy reform a new variable. Remember, new variables have to be in the format of the EuroMod format with the acronyms created. I'll open this so that we can be reminded of it. The acronyms created in the correct way, so that assets variables begin with A, benefit variables with B, tax variables with T, etc., etc., demographic with D, labour market with L. Here are the top level acronyms here, demographic D, labour market L, benefit pensions, B or P, income Y, tax T, assets A, expenditure X, in kind, beginning with K, and system with S. If you're introducing a new variable in your input dataset, as I say, or within the model itself, you have to make sure that it's in this list, or you need to create it using these acronyms, and you can create levels of acronyms using the acronym tab. You can, of course, and we have done within the model, introduce variables in the model by using the def var function, and I'll illustrate those when we go through the model. The def var, for example, we use extensively within TASmod to introduce intermediate variables, and we also use it for expenditure variables, because it's a different way of introducing variables to the model, and is particularly useful, as I say, for intermediate and expenditure variables. But otherwise, this variable's administration tool is vital. And the add-ons, these are yet not available for south models, special add-ons being developed for south models to enable straightforward calculations of both the numbers of beneficiaries and amounts relating to different benefits and taxes, but also to allow us to calculate poverty and inequality in straightforward and easy ways. Then the applications, I've told you that we use the Excel application often in order to check the outputs and doing what it says. I mentioned the summary statistics. There's another thing that the tool will be specifically helpful for, and then help and information, there's a help file and a version number, a version just simply gives us information as to which version of the executable we're using, and the help helps on understanding functions, parameters, etc. Though I have to say also with the TASmod training, there will be a training manual and that will specifically go into, in more detail, the functions and parameters used within TASmod. Okay, so let's press the country tool and go back to going through the model itself. Again, up-rate, remember this was when we did the session on definitional policies, we talked about operating. I showed you that within the country tool, we create an operating index that in the case of Tanzania is the overall CPI or various components of the CPI. Okay, and the CPI we've been using in TASmod is the one that was recently updated with a base at December 2015. I'll close that. But just to remind you, you declare the data set and then the default factor, which is the overall CPI, and then because we don't have any earnings factors, we use the overall factor for both YEM, Employment Income, and YSE, which is Self-Employment Income. Okay, now I didn't go through the expenditure and the expenditure excise policies when I took people through the definitional policies simply because it's slightly more complex, but I will briefly mention it now. So there's two, there's expenditure and expenditure excise. Expenditure is how we bring in the variables into TASmod that are used specifically for calculation of VAT. And we wanted to bring in the variables in as disaggregated a way as possible to enable all kinds of variations to VAT to be simulated in policy reforms should that be required. And if I can just show you the general structure of the expenditure, underscore TZ policy, you first of all define the variables that you want to bring in. This is so as you don't need to use the variables tool that I mentioned before, there's a way of bringing them in and defining the variables as a separate file. The reason that you don't use the variables tool is that there are 700 plus variables of expenditure items in TASmod that we want to bring in. And it's really time consuming to bring them in through the traditional variables route. So if I can just show you the def bar, we list all of the variables. And these variables are constructed in the form extra expenditure and then the koi-kop code. And you can see rice, paddy, bread, flatbread, etc. They're all brought in. There's a zero when they're initialised. And I think I'm right in thinking there were 700 plus. We can go right the way down and we will see how many there were brought in. And it's 781, okay? I'll take it up and then compact it, but compress it. But you can see that we brought in 781 variables through this file. So that's def bar to initialise those variables. Then the def input gives you the path of the input file that you're bringing in. Because we bring in a special file with just expenditure variables. So that file is put in the same folder as the more general input dataset. So it's in the TASmod version 1.0 slash input folder. So we state that there. We then state the name of that file, which in this case is TZ underscore 2012 underscore expenditure dot TST. And then the merge variable. And it's merged at the level of ID person. That's because though expenditure is a household level expenditure, we in the preparation of the syntax have allocated that household expenditure to the head of household. And so in a household, there's only one entry of expenditure and that's alongside the head of household. And then that's brought in as that expenditure against the head of household, but other members of the household just have a zero against them. But you therefore want to merge the, or you want TASmod to merge in that data against the head of household. Next thing to do is to define an income list and a way of uprating that income list. Because it's quite important with expenditure items if we can, because given this dataset is 2012, to uprate in as sophisticated a way as possible. And for TASmod, we've taken the decision to divide the expenditure variables into food and non-food and uprate the food by the food CPI and the non-food by the non-food CPI. We treat excise-dutyable items separately and try to be a little bit more sophisticated with them. So the income list for the food items, for convenience we've copied all of them into this list, the whole 781, but we put a plus against the food items. And against the non-food items we've put a not applicable. The reason we've done it this way is because it's relatively easy to cut and paste within the model. So we can actually cut and paste all of the variables, expenditure variables, both food and non-food, and then put a plus against the ones that should be added together to form the food income list and are not applicable against all of the items that are in the non-food income list in this particular case. So that's the food items. Then if we look at the next income list, exactly the same, but where we've got a plus is now not applicable. Where we've got a not applicable is now a plus. So that's now collapsed that. So basically we've defined two income lists, food expenditure variables and non-food expenditure variables. And those two income lists then get uprated, not under the up-rate policy, but separately uprated. And here we are. This is how we up-rate. The first income list, you'll remember the food. We gave the name of eel underscore exp underscore up-rate zero one. And the other one we gave up-rate zero two. But in order to up-rate we use the eel var op function. And eel var op means that the function performs a mathematical operation on an income list. So the income list in question is the up-rate zero one, i.e. the food. So that's the income list to be operated on. The operand, this is the up-rating index. So we want to take the income list up-rate zero one. And we want to do something to it involving the up-rating index for food. And what we want to do is use the operation multiply. So M-U-L multiply. We want to multiply the food income list by the CPI for food. And then the second one is to do the same with the non-food, which is zero two, and again multiply. And that indexes our expenditure. Okay, the excise duty is very similar. We define the variables for the excise duty in the same way. The only thing that's different with the excise duty for items is that for some of the excise duties, mainly actually, they're actually calculated on quantities. So we need a quantity variable brought in. So we define some Q variables. So Q zero two one one one zero zero, which is the spirits is brought in as quantity. So that's row three point one point one here in litres. We also have the expenditure brought in here, if I'm not mistaken, as X zero two triple one double zero. So again, we're using the Coycott codes for spirits and indeed for the other items to bring them in in this nuanced way. Again, sorry to carry on with that collapse there. We define the input. It's a different file, but it's in the same path again merged in the same way. We define the income list. This time, because we're only operating the expenditure, we're not operating the quantities. We produce income lists for the spirits and alcohol as one. The tobacco products is another and the fuel expenditure is another. So we've got three income lists that we're going to operate on. And we operate on them to operate them in using the CPI for alcohol for the alcoholic beverages income list. Tobacco for the tobacco income list and fuel for the fuel ones. Now they're really quite approximate these particular uprating factors because the CPI isn't that nuanced, but we have done the best we can, I think, given the breakdown of the CPI provided by the Statistics Bureau. So I'll collapse that whole policy. That takes us down to income lists more generally. I began to introduce income lists anyway because they were in the policy above, but there's an income list definitional policy. I talked about these in some detail and showed you some of these when we looked in Session 2 specifically at the definitional policies. So I just show an income list for other income other than YEM for the income tax policy. So the other income list contains other income, income from property, income from land and agricultural income. Similarly there's an original income which contains income from employment, other income income from property, income from land, income from self-employment, agricultural income and it includes even income from private transfers which aren't included in the income list for tax because they're not taxable.  I took you through some of the others I know when we did the income list definitional policy. But the one other I'd like to single out is the income list for standard rated VAT items. Because this is, again, rather like the income list before of all the expenditure items on which VAT is likely to be appropriate but we want standard VAT items. So in this we make not applicable those items of food for example which are zero rated for VAT which are things like rice and paddy but include ones that aren't. So basically the Tanzanian policy as you know is that in a sense the raw materials, the food raw materials are zero rated but the derived processed food tends to be standard rated. Okay so that's the income lists. That takes us to the tax unit definitions. Again I explained when we did tax units that there are really only three tax units that are applied here. There's a household which has a dependent child definition of less than or equal to 17 and greater than equal to zero. But all members of the household belong to the household unit. The family isn't actually, it's a subgroup of household but not used. The others that are used are individual and couple. Okay so we switch off the family because it isn't used. Okay constant definition. Well we've used this considerably in the exercises as well. A lot of the constants are put into the constant definition. These are the items like the monthly amounts of four different variable conditional cash transfer beneficiaries and the caps and so forth which we'll go through a bit when we look at those policies. And there's also the excise duty rates and VAT rate etc. What we haven't done and partly because we wanted to leave some work in for these exercises but partly because it hasn't just proved enough time to do it all is put everything into constants that could be put into constants. And one of the things as you go through this you'll see that there are other things that could have been put into constants that we haven't yet done. And indeed the exercise is for the last presentation involved putting into constants some of the parameters that aren't currently in constants. Okay so it's not it's not obligation to use the constant definition it's just easier really. Okay let me then take you through these other two policies and there's a pair of them really. I'll open them both out and then we can look at them. These are the policies that relate to employees in the formal sector and it's the National Health Insurance Fund and it's basically both the employee and the employer contribution. Both are at 3% it's mandatory for the public sector. It's not mandatory for all sectors but it's common in the formal sector generally. So we have implemented it for both employee and employer for people who have employment income that says they have YEM that's greater than zero and the LFO equals one. The LFO is a labour market variable which means labour formal. So and labour formal equals one if the occupations are in certain groupings like the employer is public sector or the employer is government sorry that's the same thing government and public sector but also private industry and so forth. Formal sector employees are given a flag of one in the original data set so we can make the condition that YEM is greater than naught and LFO equals one for being simulating this particular contribution. And this is simulated at 3% for both employer and employee so a total of 6% and the employee one goes into the variable T-S-C-E-E-H-L and the employer one goes into T-S-C-E-R-H-L and this is actually simulated quite well within the model slightly greater amount I think simulated than actually is collected but it's pretty good. Okay that takes us into the taxes or at least the direct taxes the indirect taxes are at the bottom here but the direct taxes are really two groups or two there's the presumptive income tax which is a turnover tax which as I said when we went through this particular policy I think in the second session or maybe no sorry the third session is a turnover tax for people who are really traders mainly in the informal sector with a turnover of less than 20 million Tanzanian shillings a year who aren't in employment informal employment and don't have any YEM or not in agriculture don't have any YAG and don't keep accounts it's payable at a lower rate than income tax because it's paid on turnover so let's just have a look at it the eligibility condition is that they have to have a turnover of greater than zero and that the turnover is less than the presumptive upper limit which I think I mentioned was 20 million and they don't have any formal employment income and they don't have any agricultural income but when you actually hover by the way on the constant it actually spells out what the constant is and as you can see in the small box there it tells you it's 20 million so I was right then that amount of turnover in those circumstances so using a tax base of YTN but only if you pass the eligibility test you move on to the calculation schedule where you're actually then taxed your total turnover is taxed depending on which bands it falls into so up to four million and one you don't pay any turnover tax and then up to seven and a half million it's at three percent between seven and a half million and eleven and a half million it's 3.75 percent eleven and a half to 16, 4.5 percent and then between 16 and 20 it's 5.25 and then the output variable is the turnover tax I think that should be pretty clear income tax a bit more complicated a bit more complicated because there's people on PAYE and there's also people from self-employment and indeed from agriculture and who have other income who are also considered in this policy so first of all there are some intermediate variables we calculate and they're defined as using the def bar function as I underscore PAYE and I underscore accounts and you'll be familiar now with the way that they are defined so it's PAYE income, EM that is for those informal sector actually and then self-employed income accounts cases i.e. not the people who are captured in the turnover tax so that's again why that TIN policy has to be after the turnover tax and then there's a couple of bencalcs an arithop and a shed calc which comprise the policy so the first bencalc is just to capture the yam of those people who are in the formal sector so the condition is that they're in the formal sector LFO equals 1 what is captured is eel taxably now eel taxably I will just show you it is actually just yam minus the NHII contribution so let me just find it here it is so it's yam minus so that's plus adding yam but minusing the NHIF employee contribution because tax is only payable on the net employment income after deduction of NHIF also deducted is pension contributions but we haven't yet modelled pension contributions when they are that will be added into that income list so let's go now back to the bencalc so I underscore PAYE is IEL underscore taxably for the persons in the formal sector so in other words it's yam minus the NHIF contribution so bear that in mind that's one source of income the other is if someone is in self-employment or and they're either their turnovers higher than the upper limit of presumptive tax or they have yam and the YSE is greater than naught or they have YAG i.e. agricultural income and the YSE is greater than naught because remember for presumptive tax not only do you have to have your turnover less than the upper limit you also have not to be in either employment or agriculture so this captures the people who have self-employment income who are either over the turnover limit or they have yam or they have YAG YSE is different than turnover YSE within the data set and calculated as net profit and these people one refers to as accounts cases so they are that's the eligibility condition that's the amount that's brought in YSE it has to have a lower limit of zero and the reason that that's the case is because the way that the HBS asks about the data there are some people whose costs of production if I can put it that way exceed the income that they've brought in so they have a negative profit and in those cases they're just a zeroed otherwise they can complicate the tax calculation in a way that's not necessarily reflective of their actual profits over a year and that's simply because the costs of production are only asked for over the last one month and it could just have been an expensive month that's something we're hoping that HBS will address in future versions so we've got I underscore PAYE and I underscore accounts as two output variables one reflecting PAYE income the other reflecting accounts income but of course we also have other income like the income from land and so forth that's contained in the income list you'll remember IL underscore taxably two so if we add up using a simple calculator I underscore PAYE plus I underscore accounts plus IL underscore taxably two we get the total tax base which is in the output variable TTB underscore S and that is then what enters into the shed calc where that tax is then taxed using the thresholds indicated here and the rates indicated so with the first annual now I can have quite calculated the numbers of zeros on these but I think the first two million of income at a zero rate of tax and then going up to a maximum of 30% tax and then the output variable is TIN underscore S I'm going to close all those up now so that's the income tax the next thing to talk about is the productive social safety net benefits first of all the fixed basic cash transfer which is fairly straightforward or is in the way that we've implemented it now the TASAF implement the PSSN benefits in quite a complex way which involves a proxy means test is worth saying here and it's all elaborated in the country report which I encourage you to read but basically the proxy means test aspect of the calculation uses is derived from the HBS itself by looking at the food poverty cases those households below the food poverty line in the HBS and then constructing a regression which looks at a combination of assets and attributes if I can put them that way which predict a household to be in food poverty we don't need to do that because we have the HBS and we have the food poverty line so we're able to categorically say whether a particular household is below the food poverty line or not we don't have to speculate or use a proxy means test to achieve it because we have if you want a dependent variable which was used in order to construct the proxy means test in the first place what we don't have is the series of community level screenings that are employed by TASAF before a household is awarded either the basic cash transfer or the variable conditional cash transfer so we can only implement the rule based part of this okay so let me show you how that's done first of all we have an intermediate variable which we call BSA underscore individual which is the individual BSA amount the next thing we do is that we have a two level you remember when I talked about bankouts I talked about them as being possibly quite complex I introduced a simple one level one with a comp con and a comp tax unit that's the eligibility condition that's the amount payable but this one has got two conditions which ends up with an output variable of the amount payable at individual level inserted into this temporary variable or intermediate variable I underscore BSA underscore individual so the first condition is as I said food poverty equals one that means that the household is in food poverty and actually that food poverty indicator is given to each individual in the household so everyone who is in a food poor household will have a one against their DFP variable so DFP equals one and the age is greater than equal to naught and less than equal to seventeen so the infants and children are captured and allocated this here which is two thousand you can just see in the little box two thousand a month at the individual level and then the second condition is for those greater than eighteen i.e. the adults and they're given five thousand a month and then the result is put into the intermediate variable and then the amounts allocated to the different individuals are then added up and allocated at the household level so here we have bringing in the condition that the i underscore BSA underscore individual is greater than naught so they've got to have something allocated at this level and the amount brought in is this for each individual level but it's calculated at household level and they're added up what this function effectively does is adds up all the individuals who have been awarded i underscore BSA underscore individual and assigns them to the head of household using that variable because the tax unit is household here I hope that's clear okay so that's the fixed basic cash transfer then I think we need to move on to the more complex a variable conditional cash transfer before we don't go any further there is a number of different intermediate variables declared here defined at the beginning they're all i underscore something and it's first of all the i BSA HH with ch as the households in receipt of BSA and containing one or more children is the first one children under seven are assigned their BSA amount there is a cap for the children under seven seven to thirteen are assigned their BSA amount but there's a cap for the seven to thirteen and finally the fourteen to seventeen so this will be clear when we look at the eligibility conditions relating to children I should say this B-chot the variable conditional cash transfer is in addition to the BSA but only where there are children so it's specifically for children so BSA underscore S is going to be greater than zero and the number of dependent children in tax unit have got to be greater than zero and the output variable becomes in a sense a flag which is that the household is in receipt of BSA and contains one or more children and then there's a Ben calc whereby the first of all the test is are you one of these i.e. household in receipt of BSA containing one or more children if yes and you've got your age is greater than zero and your age is less than or equal to six you get the amount four thousand and that goes into the temporary variable for children under seven to be assigned their variable cash transfer amount I suppose strictly we should have called this the variable cash transfer amount here and not BSA in this particular policy and that's just a matter of the comments being not as accurate as they could be but there's a cap so at household level there can be no more than four thousand paid out so basically you can only get this amount as a household for one child under six if you've got more than one child under six it's capped at four thousand so we bring in the fact that there's an output variable for children under seven assigned their amount but then the upper limit is the cap which is for the household so you add up them all in the household but you cap it at four thousand and as the individual child under seven is awarded four thousand that means that only one child under seven is included in the calculation at household level it's a bit different for the if I can just close up those two but expose the children who are greater than equal to seven and less than equal to thirteen because here they become awarded one thousand but the cap is four thousand so you can have four children seven to thirteen before you're capped and you're then capped at four thousand Ditto the last close enough see where I've got to I think we're at the fourteen to seventeen yeah the last okay I'll open those two up here with fourteen to seventeen the amount is two thousand and the cap is six thousand so you can have three up to three children age greater than equal to fourteen and less than equal to seventeen and then finally the Ben Kalk adds up all of the amount which is the capped amount and allocates it to the head of household right but also you'll remember from the earlier presentations and indeed the exercises that you can't have as a household more than nineteen thousand a month of both basic conditional transfer and the variable conditional cash transfer so here we have this BSA B-chot one that we worked on earlier where the condition is energy-ability condition is you've got to have either BSA or B-chot in fact if you've got BSA sorry if you've got B-chot you will have BSA but you could have BSA without B-chot but the total amount at household level which is the tax unit level is the BSA plus the B-chot and if that's greater than nineteen thousand it's capped at nineteen thousand and whatever it is is output to BSA double zero underscore S as we talked about earlier okay the final benefit is the eligibility for public works for the eligibility for public works what I have I've shown you this earlier as an example of something with just an elige without an arithop because we all we generate a flag as to whether someone's eligible and basically if you've got your fixed basic cash transfer then the head of the tax unit is eligible and this eligibility flag goes into BUN underscore S and now for this level of the training I'm not going to go into indirect taxes they are actually much more complex and though I've talked about how you import the variables for them I'm not at this stage going to go into the indirect taxes we can do that as kind of more advanced training I think I did actually talk about the output though and we have outputted almost all the variables both from the input data set and the simulated data set because we have outputted all these variable groups and we've also outputted income list groups what we haven't done deliberately is output the expenditure variables simply because there are 781 of them as you know and that would cause a havoc in the output file it would make a very big output file and would obscure things but we have of course output though we haven't gone through it the amount of excise duty and the amount of VAT and of course the income list which is the composite of all the expenditure but not the individual items ok now collapse everything by the collapse all policies and I think that's the end of this thank you


good morning everybody it's the first day of the trip with the whole family we got diesel in the back we got Chevy on the floor we got Frank over there with Britt the passengers we're on our way to Alberta actually we slept in here last night and it was a lot more roomy clearly than the western star last time Britt came along that we had two small dogs and one big dog now we got two big dogs and one little dog actually isn't that claustrophobic as long as everybody's in their spot and then if you want to go to a different spot you have to switch it's like musical chairs you just hope you have a spot at the end of it around the south end of Winnipeg right now I'm gonna head west from here to be in Saskatoon tonight maybe we'll go a little further in Saskatoon but we're at least gonna stop in Saskatoon for a shower we stopped in Brandon for another coffee and a bite to eat but this is our first real pit stop here at this rest area at the border with Manitoba and Saskatchewan let them the dogs stretch their legs for a little bit here it's a beautiful day hey diesel hey buddy what you doing yeah we got a decent rest area here I mean it's still not up to par with the US rest areas but it is pretty nice for Manitoba almost all the snow is melted we're officially crossed the line into Saskatchewan Saskatchewan we're getting to Saskatchewan gotta go past Regina first that's Regina Regina they always look at me funny when I say I'm I'm in Regina I don't know why you look at your funny yeah if I take a double take that's how you pronounce it ask any Canadian so we're gonna stop we're gonna stop in Saskatoon Saskatchewan for a shower and we'll see how we feel we might go a little further than that after our shower if we have energy and feel like it if not we'll just go to bed there just wake up a little earlier tomorrow I have to be at my delivery before 2 p.m. mountain time earlier the better because then we got our reload out of uh Meadow Lakes Saskatchewan and that'll get us home Thursday night that was a quick trip it actually worked out pretty good back Thursday night uh Friday we don't have any plans yet I might see if my friend wants to get together Saturday is my birthday dinner with my father-in-law it's a joint birthday dinner yep they're two days apart in birthdays yeah two days in like 27 years we're both turning 31 somehow Sunday what's Sunday no plans yet I'd like there to be no plans no plans on Sunday and then Monday's my birthday by the time you watch this it'll probably be past my birthday my birthday's actually on April 1st it's not a joke it's not an April Fool's joke everybody always asks in labs April 1st I'm turning 31 well into my 30s now I'm married to an older man I got some gray hairs I don't because I'm married a beautiful young woman inner 20s inner 20s yeah for a few more months anyway yeah you turn uh well it's your birthday is coming up in July right big 30 is on July 25th okay I was gonna let you tell them if you want to tell I was gonna tell them never reveal a woman's age oh I don't care they're still still look pretty young so yeah it's her big 30th birthday this year I'm gonna plan something big July 25th right right I'm just kidding I know her birthday so hey maybe I should ask you guys for ideas they get me probably not because if you give me all your ideas in the comment section she's gonna see them I'm not gonna read them my promise I won't I'm not like that I'm not sneaky when I know that there's presents in my house and stuff I never look for I'm not like that I don't like ruining surprises I love surprises just a perfectly normal family rolling down the highway Frankie's just laying on the floor going I thought they needed a new family how is it there diesel how is it doing good tastes good shabby how you doing bud how you doing you already had your meal can I go in there that's Frankie's safe space from you guys your big clumsy feet full house yeah that western star was not practical at all even for one person it was too small so we're in Davidson's Saskatchewan just waiting for diesel to finish his supper here and we're gonna run in get some timmies and then head up to Saskatoon grab a shower with the Flying J and then we'll decide if we want to continue on further or if we want to spend the night there I have a feeling we'll probably just spend the night there I'll push ourselves too too far too hard but uh it's not as cramped as you might think it would be I mean it's it's cozy and everyone sort of got their their own space come on chef come on up here come on we'll definitely have to do a little bit of cleaning tomorrow before the hair gets out of control right now it's fine but a little messier than I would like it but is what it is we get to go home to a nice clean house so it's okay and diesel is just the slowest eater on the face of the planet he's got a process he needs to arrange it properly and he takes kibbles out of his bowl and leaves them in specific spots nobody can disturb that he's a creature of habit he's a crazy dog but uh we just have the kennel in here just for Frankie just for when we leave the truck that uh we can put him safely in here otherwise the big guys might step on him and with his back surgery and everything we didn't want to risk that so just when we're out of the truck and it's his safe spot so he feels safe in there and in an unfamiliar environment where everything's shaking rattling and lots of noise all the time it's his little getaway you done diesel you done all right I guess it's time for us to go in and get some timmies then getting kind of tired I'm I think I'm ready to go to bed in Saskatoon I'm just getting bored nighttime driving not a fan uh-oh she's getting bored no I like the daytime stuff yeah you're just not a nighttime fan at all as soon as the sun goes down you're like ah this this isn't even at home I fade quick I'm I'm more of a daytime girl and I'm a night owl anyways let's go get our timmies I need a coffee well we got our timmies so at least we got that that place was gross yeah that was disgusting every garbage can in the place was overflowing and just surrounded by garbage even in the bath women's bathroom she said oh it was everything was broken the lock on the door instead of being an actual sliding lock it was a riveted screw that you can cut yourself on uh and then they had a garbage can for people to use on the counter where they serve you there's the only empty one in or half empty one in the place and it also took him well 10 minutes just to make a coffee and he got it wrong one employee could barely speak english he was so hard to understand yeah I couldn't understand him oh my gosh I felt bad for him to be honest he needed another person in there someone who could speak a little bit more fluently yeah and uh just to help him yeah someone he needs help to take out the garbages to clean the place all the counters were filthy as a former tim Wharton's employee I was completely disgusted yeah I would have gone in there and ripped my co-workers a new one I would have been fired if I'd walked in there or they would have been fired or they would have been yeah I wouldn't it should have been the yeah should be them getting fired but yeah I think the main cause this guy he needed help there's one guy he had to do the drive-through the counter and make all the sandwiches the food the coffees everything poor guy everything and he couldn't even speak the language to communicate with the customers he must have just been lost oh she must have been yeah he must be having one heck of a bad night I hope it's not like that for him all the time yikes anyways feel bad for the guy and at the same time I feel bad for us because you know we got the bad service but it wasn't really his fault completely so he's having a rough night should turn at least I got my coffee that's why I said at least I got my coffee right and he's gonna have his check at the end of the day so at the end of the day we both win there we go okay let's let's get going here all right you ready a little bit further to go good to go or about I think an hour and a little bit from Saskatoon I'm hoping we're gonna find a parking spot at that flying jay if not we can always go to the petro pass and grab a shower there it's not usually as many people park there but I would rather stop at the flying jay gotta go there for fuel anyway all right guys we're just playing musical chairs here and you guys just stay there Chevy you stay there we just got the mattress down from there setting it up down here for Brit it's pretty cozy Josh was right you like it yeah I wish I'd brought my third pillow along but some people think that that's excessive and they're probably right but it's the way I like to sleep three pillows so we'll move the rest of this a lot of this is her bedding and my bedding there and the rest of this goes onto the floor can you reach my quilt I'm a little short I could there's a big one here it's not big it's pretty small actually I think it's only a double quilt and then I'll sleep up there she can sleep down there diesel slept on the bed with Brit yesterday he is an excellent cuddler he doesn't get too close stays off to the side but he's there if I want to give him a kiss or a pat and then Frank sleeps in his house just said he's safe well he sleeps with either Brit or in his house just that he's safe for the night and Chevy gets the whole floor to himself gets to stretch on out and he has so much fur that he never gets cold yeah in fact we invite him to sleep on the bed at home with us he always jumps off like 10 15 minutes later he's he's off because he gets too hot he's got too much fuzz buddy you tired now we can see you so day number one was a success we didn't kill each other and we made it to where we wanted to it was actually really fun it's it you think that it would be packed I explained this a little bit before there's a lot more space in here than it seemed and as long as you know you have well trained dogs like we do and everybody sort of waits their turn it's a little cramped and you know you got to stop like we did earlier and let them run around and get their hearts pumping but uh it's fun for us yeah oh we will well i gotta stop by the gym on the way back might just go to the one in steinback or maybe we'll stop at the one here in saskatoon on the way back we have a lumber load that's waiting for us in meadow lakes a sketch one it's gonna take us right through saskatoon again so we might be able to stop in at the gym on the way home if not i will make sure to go every day while i'm at home and i'll hit the treadmill hard while i'm at home all right just need my pillows and then i can get the heck out of your way and start brushing my teeth is your pillow is it a pair oh no that's not the good one there's another one up there the 50 pound pillow oops holding the camera and climbing up here not a good idea this one thank you yeah and the key is organizing make sure you keep everything organized up there we are not very good at it well i think everything's very well organized that's what i was saying maybe you didn't see my cubby well the cubbies need to be organized but i mean up here i had everything organized with our my bedding is there her bedding is there and then our two clothing bags are in the center where you can reach them easily that's true and then the bed on the back on the top and then everything covered by this seat belt okay so now we're gonna get diesel to come lay on the bed i'm gonna go there to brush my teeth little guy can come lay on the bed for a while careful for a while okay diesel come on diesel on the bed bud there you go good can you stay here for a bit chev okay good boy i'll brush your teeth too just kidding anyways thanks for tagging along with us today on this crazy adventure hope to see you tomorrow don't forget to subscribe and hit the like button tomorrow 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So in studio we have a guest and people I think he has hired a crowd before Kami Gold said because people back on social media are really waiting to see how he's going to speak about his music, his musical journey and also coming up album known as Why would I say well he's here to mention all that so make sure you reach out to us at the right of our channel. His name is Nana other than Baraka. I like to call it Baraka Nation because he comes with a crowd. Karibu kwenye hashtag hip-hop Thursday. Thank you, thank you, I appreciate it. We are glad that you could make it. Awesome. Okay. So probably use camera 4 and introduce yourself and as radhism is sema when it comes to the willing and spinning it you have to put respect on it so we would like to equally equally respect your craft. So introduce yourself. So thank you. I go by the name Trey Baraka. So I'm a Christian rap artist. I'm excited to be here. Yeah, kinda awesome. Okay. So for guys back at home they would like to know for how long you've been into the game and what they should expect more. Before even we get into the reason why you're here. Because you know it's all about music and your new album coming through. Tu pile kwa tu rudinum makidogo tu wambi e konyume toka and how was music for your grind. So I'm from Dago Reddy, Waithaka. That's my hood. Definitely. That's where I'm from. So I've been there for a while. Kinda like began doing music over there. Through a while got to like link up with some few people. Got to understand what rap is all about. Before I even came to understand what God's plan was for me with my craft and whatever I'm doing. So I'm from Dago. Shout out to the people out there sending the support. I appreciate. It's really amazing. And the first time I heard of you it was after there was a call made in Oktopizu and he was speaking about his craft and the impact he has had into the industry because Oktopizu is a well-known artist all over globally and he comes from ours and we support his music and he has a new jam known as Stay. So you did a freestyle and you think about Oktopizu in the jam. So your thoughts are very hash in terms of not really hash thoughts and your opinions which basically states that you feel he could have done more to the industry or he could still do something way more into the industry and that is in terms of the music giving back to probably mentoring young artists who are coming through and so you address some of those particular issues that I've mentioned in your jam. Definitely. But just like I just need it for the love. We all majorly understand what hip-hop or rap is all about. For people who definitely have grown up listening to real hip-hop authentic we kind of identify the real from the fake. You get what I mean? On my point of view he came out real cool humble all the way I kind of used to look up to him but it reached to a position where I saw this guy this guy is kind of drifting off this is not the kind of person I grew up listening to and I came to understand maybe selling out or maybe the industry or that kind of perspective because you can really tell an artist personality through the kind of music they make. For example you can tell Jake Hall, Kendricks the kind of people they are because of the kind of music they make. If you keep on giving us talking about street bars cars, sex, drugs money, we definitely come to understand that's the kind of person you are. Definitely for me I come from Dago it's a broken kind of hood you kind of know the place crime, drugs, everything. If you're trying to reach up to the youth definitely come with something different you just don't have to keep on selling poison to us. We come from this kind of communities you know how it is. For your side you say you are mentioning the fact that you accept that he has an impact and that he has given back in terms of he has an organization that caters for refugees and provides mentorship for them. On my perspective there is more to that. We can all just like I believe it's good helping people out but most of the people who look up to this guy not even those refugees people are young people like me. Let's debate for Okcha Pizu now. Give me an artist who was giving back to the music industry even after having his own name out there. Are you talking about Kendricks? Let's go by Kendricks. He's kind of cool. He's music. I kind of met up with him in Paso. He's a cool person. He tell you it's not all about flashy lifestyle but he kind of tell you the real thing. Kaka Sungura is kind of cool. You get what I mean. To the states we had Nipsi was kind of cool.  Really showcase on your art. The kind of person you are. Let's dive in straight into it. Baraka the jam that you actually were known for. It was a song that actually did hit the street and people knew for it. Kind of met up with him. Just from your name definitely. People know me by Troy. The Baraka name came as a result of Baraka Baraka. Definitely I was 14 15, 16 I kind of met up with Othole. The guy who produced Nikona Rizo. I kind of had my demo CD. He came to listen to it and was like you can really rap. I was really young. He kind of took me on the times of mentorship. Drew the kind of relationship I had with him getting to know God mom. So I came to understand we work on something. I really never knew it would really give me a huge platform and recognition because people can really spot the talent. People can say that guy is really talented. It kind of gave me an opportunity to link up with people and at the same time be humbled by the culture. I love seeing the consistency that you have in terms of releasing audio after audio production of music. One of the main reason where we are here is on your album that is coming soon. It's already out. It's already out. It came out on June 16 was on my birthday. So you're officially launching it on hashtag HapopasDead. Most definitely I'm launching that. So tell us more about this new project that you got. So come back season was like I produced my music. That whole stuff. So for the come back season was just like the name states come back. It's a come back season. So for me it's like I was up from the game for a while so I felt let me just come back. Actually didn't know what to name the album. I was just chilling with my sister in the studio and I was like my small sister she's like that teen so she was like yo what you think I can call the album and she was like yo come back season so like my sister kind of gave me the idea yo this is some cool idea so I kind of popped out on it. The album majorly had 14 tracks. 14? Self produced by me. Something else that you should actually mention and we get into it. It's all about Baraka Nation. Do you work with any other artist platform do you actually sampling your own music producing your own songs and actually now an album do you work with any other artist do you have any other artist in the label? Definitely for me wouldn't be artist would be sound engineers I have friends from across Africa So here it is Baraka Nation is the company is hiring I wouldn't say it's a company for now I'm still young major but we kind of we kind of hoping within time we kind of grow so by God's grace maybe we can call it a company or something We should call it a company for real? Let's see what the fans think about it It's all about branding so now coming soon is here the album there's a video out for the first time 6 so maybe you could talk about YouTube actually people can actually look into 6 majorly was like the second track on the album the inspiration came towards being real as a young person and understanding that by the end of the day all that I do is for the glory of God so I kind of kept it that way a lot of people question me what you call the album 6 I'm like 6 6 days man was created on the 6th day let me just give for the first time in my life let me just give my song a number instead of just calling and if we can actually look into or you can change it to a 9 6 to a 9 which is just the same 6 becomes a 9 when it's flipped so what should people expect from you in terms of your work in this particular album do you have any collaborations or is it just Kevin came from the States so we have featured one artist there's only one artist I wanted to do it like a solo project because I felt as if I have so much to really speak about if I start working with artists all these artists they will really not keep up with the vision or maybe what I feel for the album because for me whenever I'm working on a project let's say it's a whole album everyone take it like an album like people take it for me it's something special like from the name, from the art, from everything everything just has to go the way it needs to go on my perspective because I'm like ah I gotta tell a story so on track 1 I have to talk about something that happened on track 12 I have to definitely give what I mean so I believe for me working on an album solo is because I want to tell my story or if I had a friend who was like yo we kinda going through the same kind of issue I can be like yo just pop in let's work on the same thing because we kind of vibe into the same vibe you get what I mean so definitely the vision is very important and the fact that if you are in your own zone before you feature any artist you have to what's the word you have to rank the energy definitely it has to be for me working with an artist I look for people who who we kinda we have all gone through the same thing in life we can identify towards something because for me let's just say for me for me I wouldn't work with an artist who is really praising a certain kind of lifestyle that I don't do I don't smoke, I don't drink so why should we get on a track and start doing that whole stuff so I believe whatever I'm going to let me get someone who can really identify with that yes and that value when the person comes in on a track so apart from that I would like you to give out your social media handles so people can reach out to you and maybe you can mention one or two artists you love to collaborate with though even now we know that you are investing more of your content in your creative work so maybe in future so official Troy Baraka IG Troy Baraka on Facebook and then we have Troy Baraka on Twitter and then also on YouTube Troy Baraka too so definitely for me artists I would like to work with would be like let's say for example I kinda like what he does looking forward to work with him because he's real towards his art he's really awesome addressing so for me and him I come from this kind of generation whereby it's like the younger generation we cannot get on work on something so someone else I'd like to definitely work with he in Kenya would be Juliani so Juliani Kalamoto is over there so Baraka gave you his two main artists he would love to collaborate in future launching his album known as comeback season and the first track known as 6 is officially out Digio Rajis got us on the wheel so thank you guys for staying tuned on hashtag keep up as they let's make time next as their time frame is 7 to 10 30 every single Thursday so Digio Rajis got us on that particular song


Hey everybody, I know I said I'd have a video about Neo and Neo 2 next, but instead I spent the last couple of weeks playing Destiny 2 and a small little indie game that's so good I think I should get up a quick video about it. Every time I do a video about a small little game It gets half the views I normally get except for that one time I made a very early video about dead cells. But if I convince even one person to spend $13 in this game I'll be pretty pleased. So yes I'm still working on the Neo video and the best RPGs of the generation And I feel like a video about Destiny 2's future is something I want to do But today let's talk about a small indie roguelite FPS from a first-time dev from Hong Kong The game is Gunfire Reborn and this is why you should buy it today And as always be like what I have to say or at least how I sound saying it do us both a favor and subscribe Yada yada yada after the logo. I buy a lot of games too many honestly And even so I've still got like 60 games on my wish list I've also got like an embarrassing pile of games I bought on sale and played for like an hour and a half when you count replaying old games They're just so many great games out that a title usually has to hook me very quickly This is especially true for indie games I assume I'm like most players in that I tend to purchase the big releases and only really go shopping on steam for Games when there's a month or more without a title coming out Well, we're in one of those months now and I went diving through steam trying to find something new Steam's recommendations, which have gotten much much better in the past year or so said that I seemed to enjoy games with the tags FPS roguelite and indie game That's all true So it recommended a game with only about 250 reviews that is an FPS roguelite indie game very clever steam The game's 1299 and that's about the price point where I can comfortably feel like it's no big deal if I waste my money I generally don't return a game unless I think it's terrible Like the first game I returned in ages was recently and it was Resident Evil 6 because I was blown away at how terrible it was But for the most part if I think a game is even reasonably decent I hold on to it. This means I have a massive pile of unfinished games in my library So I should really stop taking chance and buying new ones still again 13 bucks is the price point where I don't feel Guilt anymore. I mean hell I can't count the number of times I've either hated something I got at a restaurant for that much or had a few drinks and threw them up later So as it was priced right and because steam told me so I bought the game gunfire reborn and right off the bat There's something interesting just in the title. It's kind of clunky. Almost like there's a translation issue gunfire reborn That's kind of weird. Well gunfire reborn is exactly what it looks like It's an indie FPS roguelite that doesn't speak English very well Translations on items and tooltips is bad very bad so bad you occasionally can't figure out what the game's trying to communicate This would be a terrible first impression But luckily by the time you pick up an item and puzzle over what the hell is description means You'll have noticed something shocking That gunfire is a very very good shooter and that you're holding the gun with tiny little pause Because you're a Chinese cat or really a cat from Hong Kong, I guess I mean, I don't want China to kick me off YouTube So Hong Kong belongs to China and the destiny of the Chinese people cries out for one people in one nation Okay, let's move on by talking about that shooting for a little bit Shooting and looting Lots of times when I play shooters I kind of try and put my finger on what makes one shooter feel so much better than another It's a weird thing really I mean you put a gun on the screen and a little target reticle in the center and then you click on the bad man's head until he dies Any game that does those things should more or less feel like any other game that does those things But in practice, this is absolutely not the case One of the best examples of this is the difference between Borderlands 2 and Borderlands 3 These games have the same enemies the same art style many of the same guns And yet Borderlands 3 feels just thousands of times better to play. I recently played a demo of a game I've been waiting for it's called hellbound and it's basically a throwback to doom or quake similar aesthetic similar weapons no reloading circle strafing and yet the difference between this and this is massive Why? The answer to that question goes a long way to explain why gunfire feels so good Just as a shooter a great feeling shooter is a mixture of a bunch of little things Hado enemies react when you shoot them. Do the guns look good? Do they sound good? Do the animations look convincing? Do the arenas act as spaces that give the player options for combat or are they just a room? Gunfire reborn does almost all of those little things right. Let's start with the enemies First off each of the three levels currently in the game have enemies that require specific responses from the player And they all feel unique and interesting to deal with not only is the art design of the enemies just adorable But their attacks and roles are legitimately interesting and well-designed The game has enemies that will slow you down enemies that let you on fire Enemies that charge you that snipe you that teleport some that summon exploding minions It has little crabs that lob explosions at you and a tremendous tank like enemy That's called get this the arrogant lobster. I mean that is objectively awesome Gunfire borrows the damage matching system from Borderlands, and it works just as well here Enemies with the yellow armor bars are weak to corrosion Blue shield bars are weak to shock and health is weak to bullets and fire This means that players will constantly be switching between their two weapons enemies are fun to fight here because of a mix of their Animations their attack patterns and the sound it makes when you hit their weak spots Positive feedback goes a long way to making a shooter feel good things like an enemy staggering or hearing the ping sound when You shoot their heads or watching an enemy shield break after you shoot it a bunch or even something A seemingly banal is how the damage numbers pop out of your enemies All this contributes to how the game communicates to the player here crits and super crits Which the game calls lucky shots pop up on the screen and combined with sound and enemy reactions To make it feel really good when you're melting an enemy who gave you trouble in your last run You improve at the game by learning which enemies must go down first and using cover and the environments as well as your skills To take down threats with the right skill elemental effect and gun Each of the levels has about six or seven unique enemy types and the game combines those enemies in challenging ways and puts them in Interesting arenas so the combat is always satisfying Even when you progress enough that you're just face rolling the first level as far as the weapons that are already in the game There is definitely a meta and that some guns are immensely better than others But that is always going to be the case in games like this almost all the guns are original in art design feel and sound Let's check out some of that sound design animation watch Now I normally like my shooters to have fast movement and that is not the case here But the combat is fresh and the enemies are fun to fight and the arenas have enough going on Tactically that I'm okay with movement being very slow The game has a dash dodge that's useful in combat and just crucial in boss fights I only twice found this scroll that let me dash dodge three times in a row and it was amazing But it's relatively common to find items that increase movement speed by 30 percent Or cut the dash cooldown from three seconds to one second I still think the game would be better with the movement speed and dash cooldown being Defaulted to what these scrolls accomplish, but that's a matter of taste I suppose and it certainly makes finding those items exciting Speaking of which let's talk about the items and progression within each run It's definitely a roguelite There are two basic forms of roguelites out there There are the permanent death ones where each run ends progression completely And you eventually advance through skill and unlocking different items that can drop in future runs These are games like binding of isek enter the gun jinn nuclear throne Streets of rogue and risk of rain Then there are games that have that plus a layer of permanent progression thrown on top Having this second layer progression means that even when you fuck up you at least still have gotten more powerful for your future runs These are games like dead cells Hades rogue legacy And gunfire reborn I love all of these games and isek is one of my very favorites ever But I find the latter games easier to enjoy at the beginning because dying doesn't mean me throwing my keyboard out the window and scaring my dog Gunfire reborn perhaps more than any other roguelite.  It sounds great It looks cool and it applies the corroded status effects that slows enemies by 50 percent And you can get this thing with a 400 percent increase to crit damage And then 50 percent more to enemies who are in the corroded effect And then also makes them explode on death and apply corrosion to nearby enemies now to be clear You usually won't get that group of affixes But you can The amount of effects that can roll on guns is just large enough to make the powerful combos feel rare But not so rare that the pool is flooded with mostly garbage and is therefore frustrating So the game has a borderlands-like weapon system that rolls random effects on guns That's a huge part of each run's progress But then on top of the guns there are scrolls that affect your character And these scrolls use risk of rain system where finding the same one multiple times improves it So you'll find a scroll that adds two more grenades Then you'll find another that adds four more and then you'll find the final one that adds eight more So you have like 16 grenades and they now make enemies explode when they die There are scrolls that improve elemental damage Scrolls that improve or change your super ability, which for the cat is an energy ball that freezes mobs and then explodes And in a unique twist you can drop scrolls if you no longer want them Or if your teammate wants the one you've got from a chest like the guns There's not a huge variety of scrolls, but because there's three levels to each one There are more than enough so that each run is definitely different and it's rare to fully max a scroll out It's rare, but it happens In one run I ended up with maxing out both lightning and crit damage, which increases those elements by 120 OP builds are just common enough to keep you playing I'm not totally sure I love the idea of locking pure damage increases on a skill tree As I do think it devalues how well you play and makes the later levels pretty brutal early on But that's the way the game's made and in total it is very fun It's early access Gunfire reborn is an early access game This means it's likely to see changes to systems and hopefully some more content But to be honest what's already here is good enough Polished enough and has enough content and progression to keep you playing easily for 50 hours In my opinion it is well worth $25 and at 13 it's an example of an indie game being a tremendous value The fact that it's well-designed Fun and content and feature rich does not mean it's perfect. However Here's the part of every video where I nitpick a bunch of shit that annoys me Gunfire plays really really well as a two-person co-op game In fact, I would say that this is the optimal way to play it If you've got one other person to play with then you will have a great time However, when you use the matchmaking system, you'll be put into a four-person game And I don't think it actually works that well like this Many of the maps especially early on are very small and with four people enemy counts are ludicrously increased as well as the health of enemies I find that many things on the screen distracting So I think the game doesn't play as well with four people as it does solo or with two However, I find there are some solo issues as well The final boss is exceedingly chaotic especially in the final phase and feels like it's almost been totally balanced for multiple players This boss spawns adds has an aoe attack that engulfs an entire third of the arena And spams ridiculous amounts of projectiles and aoe poison orbs When you're playing with other people It is very rare to have every one of these attacks aggro on you And if you die in co-op your teammate can revive you There's even an entire skill tree devoted to improving the speed and survivability of reviving your teammates But playing solo it's kind of too much to keep track of It is asking a lot of a player to kill three mobs and a heavy and watch the floor for an insta kill boss attack And shoot the boss and shoot the big projectiles from the boss and dodge bullet health skulls And shoot poison orbs that slow and poison you it makes me mad man It's unlikely that this boss will be redesigned at this point So you're just gonna have to understand that unless you are running a very powerful build and weapon loadout that allows you to melt adds and orbs instantly This will be the source of repeated frustration In fact, I'm gonna go out on the limb here and say this fight is total bullshit solo unless you are running an awesome build at the time I'm aware that rogue lights should be difficult. I like them difficult But this final fight feels kind of ridiculous I mean it's impossible to look at the floor if it takes 15 seconds to kill the enemies that spawn because they are incredibly tanky A bunch of the items are very strangely categorized Some of the most common ones are ridiculously great while many of the rare legendary ones are garbage I just find it kind of crazy that one of the rare legendary scrolls increases your damage by 30 But eliminates your ability to crit like that is insane and terrible But then some of the common ones are amazingly good This isn't a translation issue. It's just a weird balance issue I mean, it's nothing huge or game breaking, but it's something to keep in mind In fact, it probably works in the favor of the player to be honest, but still it's pretty odd The translation problems are a serious serious problem I honestly don't understand what some of the things do because of how they are translated Also, I think the second class is clearly inferior to the cat After a while, you want to lock a little dog that you can play as The issue is he's completely less viable in solo and duo play because of his skills The dog is salvador from borderlands 2. His skill is gun-zirking This sounds cool But many weapons don't really work very well like this because a lot of them are single shot And playing with a mouse the weapon on the right is of course mapped to your left click But then when you dual wield you end up with a disorienting fact that suddenly your right hand is mapped to your left click And your left hand is mapped to your right click Maybe this isn't an issue for others, but I've always found it weird when games do this Now salvador is my main in borderlands 2 and dual wielding is fun But when you compare a brief dual wield and exploding grenades to an ability that completely freezes enemies in place for up to six seconds And then explodes as well as grenades that do damage over time and make enemies move 50 slower And applies corrosion which then lets you find guns that do double damage to enemies in corrosion It's obvious the cat is way more powerful as a class Finally the game has a bunch of like secret areas and most of them are very cool But several of them feature platforming challenges and they are awful Just absolutely terrible First person platforming is very hard to get right It requires smooth movement and this game while it is an excellent shooter does not have smooth responsive movement You move slow. It feels kind of off Sometimes you'll press the spacebar and the guy won't jump and then almost all of these platforming challenges require jumping and dashing But the dash is on a three second cooldown Which means that you jump dash land and then wait literally for three seconds then jump dash land Wait for three seconds. These areas are timed challenges. They're terrible. Just terrible Okay Guys, that's it for today. No deep analysis or literary references this time Just a heads up about a game that you should buy right now It's not perfect and it certainly has a bunch of room to grow But what's already here is just great With the right support and a few more levels This game could be as good as any of the other roguelite hits out there And I deeply hope that this game does become a hit if you like shooters or roguelites Check out gunfire reborn. All right. Thanks for watching. I'll see you next time. Bye


hardware okay big news circuit python 8 alpha 1 is released this is the start of the next version of circuit python please test it please give us feedback it's you know pretty stable but there's some fixes and there's going to be a bunch of stuff for the final revisions you could check out the entire list of things but and i'm going to get to the the big news i'm going to skip this part do you want me to talk about the what's the big changes yeah why don't you do that and then i'm going to talk about it's in front of you yeah um so when we go to a major revision change which is the first letter the first number from like five to six six or seven seven to eight it means that we've introduced breaking changes that means that code will have to be updated you know if it's a if it's a medium or a minor number change or a bug fix number change usually code doesn't break usually it's us fixing things this is actually where we're changing stuff so for example gamepad shift which was um uh deshi poos library to manage you know gamepads that use the shift register uh we're now using our more generic and powerful keypad library that has um it has more support for different configurations um the functionalities there but the code needs to change and also one wire has moved um from bus IO or bit bang IO into one wire IO that's because it is kind of like bit bang it's not really it doesn't only fit neither and also we had some space considerations um and also we're starting to add um dot end which is um environmental setting support and this is in prep for uh the wi-fi workflow that we're going to be adding in eight okay and i'm going to skip this other news here um i leave it's now available in the app store this is the easiest most fun way that you can get code from your ios ios device to a bluetooth device like the blue fruit or the clue uh check it out it makes it really fun and uh super easy kind of like circuit python if you think about how easy circuit python is even easier this is even easier and we know not everyone uses computers some only use phones so this is our first attempt of many to help people who are using their phones for their primary computing device okay pi ohio talks were announced um the board election dates for 2022 for the python software foundation you can do nominations you can um help out you can vote there's a lot of things coming up uh if this is important to you we have it all in one spot there's some new updates to python that might make it faster some people are really into that wow it's almost twice as fast yeah um and was on the circuit python show get tuned into that ten makes things had uh some streaming with circuit python and then just oh look at this rgb ball on ending projects with python on hardware if you jellyfish yeah if yeah there's there's a lot going on there's also um another ti calculator that uses python um in france it's pretty much well it is the national programming language this seems to be what's happening in the rest of the country in the world too but the big news that i want to talk about uh this week is is just a grand release this is the yeah this is the big deal so circuit python eight has a new poster we have a poster for every version of circuit python starting with version three and special thanks to expressive we reached out to them we said hey this this version of circuit pythons can have a bunch of stuff in it that works well with your chips and more and we're big fans so they sent us over the branding logo user guide guidelines we put together a couple different ideas that we thought that would uh be an homage to uh expressive and um you know they let us go with this one they let us do it it's pretty cool they let us do it so i wanted to zoom in in some of the features and some of the things on this so this is going to be a poster in our store and on our show later we'll talk about this as a coming soon product um but what i wanted to do is just give you an idea of uh just the history of some of the the posters just so you could see what um and i'm just gonna search for poster yeah i started from poster so let me go back to our um thing here and you can just see the thumbnail so this is uh circuit python eight we have um oh speaking of uh there's eight left of circuit python poster these are these are all limited we only do a small run um i think my favorite one is circuit python seven because it's the the great merge with micro python and circuit python um hot air balloon uh this is air lift five this is when we worked with nordic they were kind enough to give us permission to use their logo too it feels like it was just yesterday yeah and then um the circuit python three poster that's the first one i think yeah and then this is a poster that i did a long time ago make robot friend not robot enemy that was from the sony engineer who said tyron son very important don't make robot enemy make robot friends um and then we had a lot of robot posters 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Sometimes, we don't really need to upgrade our PC and what we really want is to make what we already have feel new again. Upgrading your keyboard is a great option if you're looking to feel refreshed with your PC setup without having to sell any organs in order to do so, well, depending on what keyboard you're getting. I'm Rafael from Hardware Sugar and this is our review of the Corsair K70 Mark II after 10 months of use. Corsair is a premium brand and the material used to form the K70 definitely reflects the price point. The top board is made out of brushed aluminum or a fancy way of saying that there are pink brush streaks across the metal frame. I like the lip above which juts out before its sharp edges that make the user feel as though he is gaming with the equivalent of a military-grade knife. A design choice you won't see in mini keyboards because they won't be minis or razors keyboards which prefer a more blockish and smooth shape. The bottom layer of the keyboard is made out of high quality matted black plastic and honestly I hadn't noticed it until I began formulating this review. While although plastic, it feels smooth to the touch as though I'm touching the delicately crafted wings of a stealth fighter. Weighing in at 2.65 pounds, the K70 feels substantial in the hands and every now and then I find myself picking it up just for the fun of it. The thick unbendable cable wire which connects to the computer is standard however I long for the day when all of these are replaced with more natural and flexible cables like the almost shoelace feel of the ROG Keras. I dislike the USB slot placed at the back of the K70 because it requires me to stand up whenever I want to plug something in. I very much prefer the way Razer has its USB ports placed on the side thus resulting in a quicker and more natural installation. However, it was pointed out to me by one of our viewers that this is to avoid any extensions from colliding with your mouse which makes sense. The length of the keyboard is just right. If you aren't into miniature keyboards and you really need the numpad on the right or if you just like seeing the additional numpad sort of like having a safety blanket which you never use then this keyboard size is for you. There is just enough distance for my fingers to travel which makes me feel as though I'm typing on the tech equivalent of a piano. This however may not be the most efficient outline for hardcore gamers who prefer a more compact system. If however you want the thicker version you should look into the K95 which has an additional 6 programmable keys on the far left for an additional $40 or 2000 pesos based on the local Philippine market rate. Personally, I wouldn't because the only difference between the K70 and the K95 is that there is an additional RGB light streak in front and the programmable keys both of which I can live without. What I can also live without are the optional textured extra keys for the WASD. They come free with the K70 which might appeal to a lot of gamers but not me because the grade detracts too much from the black design aesthetic. When it comes to more textures over a cohesive design I will always go with the latter. The height adjustment pads coupled with the wrist support provide an extremely comfortable typing experience. I don't feel a strain on my hand joints whatsoever. I definitely feel a strain though if I am using the wrist support without the height adjustment. If for any reason you prefer not to raise the height of your K70 then it would be best to enjoy the K70 naked for a more comfortable experience. The adjustment pads, wrist support and other key elements of the belly of the K70 have rubber layers which protect your table from scratches. Hey if you like what you're watching so far please consider liking and subscribing to Hardware Sugar where we generate regular tech content. The textured wrist support is made out of plastic instead of the usual fake leather which other keyboards provide. I however think that this is superior to fake leather because fake leather peels quite easily over a short period of time, maybe a year or two down the line. Peeling occurs due to the merging of body oil from your palms over time. Something which is impossible to avoid especially with an arm rest since your palms are meant to remain permanently on them throughout your use. The textured matted black plastic feels good to the touch and it acts as a form of grip to prevent sweaty palms from ruining your kill. It is worthy to note that the space bar shares the same texture design. I personally like a keyboard which gives me a diversity of different textures for me to touch. It breaks up the monotony of feeling the same things over prolonged work sessions. One major drawback of the wrist support is that it covers the RGB lighting of the bottom keys. I talked about this in great detail that the extremely more affordable ASUS TUF K3 keyboard's wrist rest got this done correctly. My only problem with that keyboard however is that the wrist support just had too much branding. However, if you are in the market for a good keyboard which doesn't cost too much but is great, you should take a look at that and I'll leave a link to our K3 review above. One of the biggest reasons why I will always have a large keyboard is because of dedicated media keys.  And volume, believe it or not, is always something that you need to tinker around with almost every time. There is also a mute button and the basic stop, pause and so forth buttons. However, it is the volume scroll wheel and the mute button which are essential. I am however very disappointed in the fact that the scroll wheel's input gets stuck permanently on either bringing the volume up all the way until 100% or down to 0%. The physical wheel will still move of course, it's just that the computer will just have it stuck in a single direction. The only solution would be to unplug the K70 entirely from the PC and plug it back in or to restart your PC. It doesn't happen all the time but it has happened easily at least 12 times. Nevertheless, the choice of a scroll wheel as opposed to volume buttons is very much appreciated. Again, different textures, like a fine dining meal, make using the K70 more enjoyable. A bonus I just discovered was that if I'm using Spotify on my phone while it is attached to my Bluetooth speakers, I can pause the song or skip back or forward to the next song through the K70's media keys. ASUS sent us over the ROG Falcon wireless keyboard and it has a different take on the media keys which is a touchscreen slider which glows a different color when it is in use. This is a novel alternative if you want a different kind of volume controller. Stay tuned for our upcoming review of this keyboard in the future. The K70 uses Cherry switches and you have your choice of getting the K70 in blue which mine is, silent, brown, speed and red. If you don't know the differences, the blue is loud and extremely tactile. If you have thin walls or if you have roommates, I strongly advise against this keyboard. When Anton comes over to use my keyboard sometimes, I can hear him two floors away with the door open. It is irritating for everyone else but music to my own ears when I use it. The red switches are what most professional gamers use because they require less feedback. The ROG Falcon which has Cherry switches and these are how they sound like. If you're coming from a Razer keyboard which uses green switches like how I was, then the most similar switches would be the blue switches. The RGB is controlled by Corsairs IQ, however I have discovered that the keyboard also responds to basic RGB profiles used by ASUS or ASync. There are three brightness settings for the RGB which you can control at one of the buttons above, I just leave it on the maximum setting. You can change profiles by tapping on the profile button. If you plan on taking the keyboard away from your computer, you can install three profiles which the keyboard will remember, even if it is plugged into a different system. Corsair has a lot of RGB profiles you can download, I'll leave a link in the description below. I won't delve much into how to use the Corsair IQ system but safe to say that I have a lot of Corsair hardware and I rarely encounter problems. So far, the only hardware giving me problems is my Corsair ironcloth mouse which is a different matter and which I house able to solve eventually. In terms of richness of color, I believe that the ROG Falcon 7 and even my old Black Widow Chroma version 2 gives brighter colors as opposed to the K70, however it isn't by much. The K70 retails for 8,500 pesos locally or 160 US dollars and if you take into regard that a lot of people would be happy to afford a Ryzen 3300G for 6,350 or even a Ryzen 5 3600 for 11,600 then in that case this keyboard is insanely expensive. But if you have a great gaming rig already and are in the budget for a premium experience, consider the Corsair K70. I would not however say that this is the best keyboard in this price range but it is definitely a great choice within it. In conclusion, the Corsair K70 is a sexy piece of hardware which is reliable, sleek and is something you should definitely consider if you have a lot of Corsair products already like myself. To me, what makes it stand out from the Razer keyboard is that Razer has failed me and my brother too many times to count over the duration of 10 years. And so I just don't trust the brand. The Asus K3 is a budget yet premium looking keyboard with the drawback of it being too brandy. If you are looking for a medium sized keyboard which is great to look at and type with, then the Corsair K70 is definitely something to consider. Just keep in mind that you are spending a little more for the name but also the durability. And we want to give a special shout out to our top fans, Liam Magnaje, Ian Meru, Richard Ronkinko, ITX Addict, John Ocea and Christian Espinosa. Again, thank you so much for your support. It really helps us out a ton. Thank you so much.


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