Box 13, with the Star of Paramount Pictures, Alan Ladd as Dan Holliday. Box 13, care of Star Times. I need your help desperately. Johnny Tide was released from the state penitentiary this morning with murder in his heart. I don't know any of the details, but I'm sure that he'll be back here in Watertown by nightfall at the latest. If you mean what you say in your ad in the Star Times, be at the Waterfront tonight.  And that would be wrong because there's lots of good in him. I know. I love him. Janice Reed. Yeah, that's the way it started. Just a girl worrying about a boy. But before it was all over, a lot of people were worrying about that boy. They had to, if they wanted to live. And now, back to Box 13 and Dan Holliday's newest adventure, Design for Danger. An ex-convict on the prowl in the tussle section of the city. Uh-huh. That part of the city doesn't get the carriage trade, as the expression goes. Well, do we accept the challenge, Susie? We? Oh, hey, I'm only your secretary, Mr. Holliday. I was using the editorial, we, Susie. Oh. Well, in that case, Mr. Holliday, I don't know what to say. Frankly, I'm Trumped. Susie, the word is stumped. The word is stumped. But maybe you've got something. What? I don't know. I'll tell you what. Suppose I get out of Watertown and it was around the corner. Why? Oh, I don't know. Maybe to see what's doing. It was called Watertown, not because it was a separate city, but because it was a separate and different order from the rest of the town. But tonight, there was none of the usual rowdy noises. None at all. Watertown was quiet. Too quiet. I could feel a peculiar tension in the air as I walked, as though Watertown was waiting for something to blow up. The people I saw hurried along, vanished from the dark doorways and shuttered houses, afraid. A place like Watertown lives within itself, a news travels fast. Then I heard two men talking. I stopped. I stopped in the shadows and listened to the sound of water. I know what I'm talking about, Fatty. Tide was sprung this morning. He headed straight for here. Maybe he ain't in Watertown. Maybe he'd be afraid to come back. Oh, Johnny Tide, afraid of what?  You know, he ain't afraid, and he had forgot.  You talk like I had to be afraid of Johnny. Don't you have to?  That punk's headed for someplace else. He ain't coming back to Watertown. Well, just the same.  I'll go on. Be right back. You ain't afraid much. Oh, not much. I ain't afraid of Johnny Tide. I ain't. Why not, Fatty? Or why should you be? Who are you? What are you doing here? I just wanted to ask you a question, Fatty. You don't know me. I don't know you. That's right.  I've got business here. I just want to know who is Johnny Tide. You had your ears open, didn't you? Yeah, wide open. So you want to know who is Johnny Tide? Who is Johnny Tide? Johnny Tide. Yeah, wide open. So you want to know who Johnny Tide is, huh? That's right. Oh, okay. You want it? Here it is. I'll say this for Fatty. He was quick with his fist. By the time I got my breath back, I saw his 300 pounds disappearing around a corner. So if I wanted to know anything about Johnny Tide, Fatty was the boy to ask. I got up and followed. Saw him duck into a place that had a sign above it. Fatty's pool room. I stepped inside. Stepped into a dark corner and waited. All right, everybody. Clear out. I'm closing up for the night. Eat it. You heard me. Look, look, look. Nobody owes me nothing. Now that ought to make everything all right. Clear out. Come on. Turning in early, aren't you, Fatty? Well, you again. You don't like lessons, do you? I don't like the way you teach. Now you're going to tell me about Johnny Tide. Was I? What makes you think that? I had an idea you might. There's another idea with detail starting with this cue ball. It's your window, Fatty. I'll beat it. Stay away from me. I asked you a question outside. I didn't like the way you answered it. You a cop? No. Stay away from me. Stay away. My arm. Let go. Sure. But who is Johnny Tide? The punk kid. That's all. Anybody can tell you that. I like the way you tell it. Come on. He's up with you. That's my arm. I know it is. It was my stomach outside.  Just finished a five-year stretch for sticking up my place. This place? Yeah. Yeah, he robbed me of four grand. $4,000? Try it again, Fatty. I doubt if you ever had $4,000 in this place. That's what it was. And why are you afraid? He robbed you and served time. Why should you be afraid now? He said he'd get me. Well, let me go. I'm sorry, Fatty, but your story doesn't make sense. In the first place, like I said, you never had $4,000. Not in this place.  Just medium. But I can smell a bad story. What's your stake in this anyway? Who are you? An hour ago, I was just a curious bystander. I wanted to know who and what is Johnny Tide. But I took a punch in the midsection, and now you're telling me a lie. So that makes me more than curious. It gives me a personal interest. Yeah. Let me go when I tell you. It all depends. Go on. All right. I've got to get out of here before Johnny gets here. Oh, so there is a reason for you to be afraid of him. Maybe. But Johnny was framed. Rick Martin. Rick Martin? The Rick Martin? Yeah, big shot. Also Watertown. He gave me $4,000, and he told Johnny I was a pushover for a stickup. Oh, and Rick Martin also told the police. Yeah, he did. Johnny was framed, like I said. Why should Rick Martin want to put that frame around Johnny Tide? Because Rick liked the girl. So did Johnny. So Rick took the easy way in love and war. Well, I told you everything. I've got to get out of here before Johnny comes. You were in on the frame? Maybe not exactly. But Johnny won't believe I wasn't. You know, Faddy, somehow I can't blame Johnny for that. How did Johnny find out he was framed? Somebody talked. Somebody that don't like Rick Martin. Uh-huh. Now, is the girl Janice Reed? Yeah, yeah, that's her. Johnny thinks she was in on the frame, too.  I've got to get out. Yeah. Yeah, sure, Faddy. You can go now. I've got to go far away because Johnny Tide will go for Rick Martin, and then me, and then Janice Reed. So that was it. Johnny Tide was coming back to subtle old scores. But where was he? How could I help? I was thinking about it. No! Stop! He did it. He broke my showcase window. Who did? That no-good Johnny Tide. I saw him. He broke my window and took a gun. So, now Johnny Tide had a gun, and he was close. Very close. But it was also out of my hands and into the hot little hands of Lieutenant Clinton. Now, look, Holiday, I know that Tide was released from prison this morning. I know that he's in Watertown tonight. I know he intends to kill Rick Martin before morning. But I also know that all of this, including that pawn shop he just knocked over, is none of your business. How do I make myself clear? Yes, you do. But before I go back to my typewriter, one question. What do you know about a girl named Janice Reed? Very little. Only that she's a singer up with a blue chip. Watertown's most exclusive nightclub. Now, anything else, Danny Boy? No, nothing else, Lieutenant. Good night. Maybe I made a mistake when I asked Kling about Janice Reed. Because up until then, I was convinced that the Lieutenant was right. I didn't belong in this mess. But now, well, I couldn't just step out and forget the whole thing. Not without talking to the girl anyway. I got a table at the blue chip without too much trouble, and ten minutes later, Janice joined me. She was younger, prettier, much more upset than I had expected. Mr. Holliday, what have you found out about Johnny?  Oh, and incidentally, you're on his list. I don't believe that. Look, Mr. Holliday, I know Johnny. I grew up with him right here in this neighborhood. But Johnny and I and Tyler Bennett were inseparable. Please, Mr. Holliday, you've got to believe me. Well, maybe I do, Janice. Let's start off slowly. First of all, who's Tyler Bennett? My boss. He owned this place. He and Johnny and I used to play together as kids. While we even had a secret clubhouse under the pier. All that kind of stuff. And how Johnny loved it. You know, that kid used to climb the old water tower over the clubhouse every day and pretend to sight pirate ships on the horizon. He'd get mad if we said they were just barges. Which adds up to what, Janice? That Johnny was never really a bad boy, Mr. Holliday. He just craved excitement, that's all. But what about Rick Martin? How do you explain that? Well, Rick meant action and fast money. And Johnny liked both. He was young and he made a mistake, but he's paid for it. He served his time. Don't you see, Mr. Holliday, he needs help. He needs it badly. You certainly got a lot of faith in him, Janice. But what about you and Rick Martin? Go out with him? Once in a while. I have to to keep my job. Don't forget, Rick Martin runs water tower. That might be hard to explain to Johnny time. No, it won't. Believe me, Mr. Holliday, if you can find him, you can talk sense into him. I know that. Well, I'm not so sure. But you'll try. Okay, I'll try. Oh, thank you. Thank you so much. Oh, pardon me, but you're on in a minute, Janice. All right, Tyler. Oh, Mr. Bennett, Mr. Holliday. How are you? Hello, how are you? Excuse me, I'll only be a few minutes. Janice was telling me how you two grew up with Johnny Tide and Mr. Bennett. Oh. Have any idea where he might be? Well, if I did, I'd go directly to the police with the information. Johnny was a good kid once, but that was a long time ago. He's dangerous now. He's very dangerous. Janice won't buy them. I know. She was in love with him five years ago. She can't believe he's changed.  I only hope he doesn't get to Janice. When I left the blue chip, I knew that in spite of both Kling and Tyler Bennett, I was on Janice's side. Now, my only problem was to stop Johnny Tide, if I could find him. I walked around aimlessly for the better part of an hour before I got a break. I stopped to look up at the sky, and I found myself staring at the remains of a rotted water tower. For a moment, the jumble of old boards didn't mean a thing, but suddenly it struck home. Johnny Tide used to play pire down that water tower, and there was a secret clubhouse below. It could be just the spot for a hideout. I felt my way through the blackness when...  Who are you? My name's Holiday, Dan Holiday. I'm not a policeman, and I don't work for Rick Martin. Your open is okay. I'll keep talking. All right. Here it is. You're Johnny Tide, aren't you? Maybe. Keep talking.  Yeah. You waste five precious years in prison, and on your first day out with a clean slate, you get into a jam to either mean the chair or a pine box. And what's that to you? Personally, nothing. But I'm around because a friend of mine believes in you. A girl named Janice Reed. Janice? You've seen her? That's why I'm here, leaning against that 45 in your hand. Tide, why don't you get smart? That girl's in love with you. What about Rick Martin? Oh, forget him. Sooner or later, the cops will catch up with Martin. They'll put him away for keeps. Sure. Sure. Meanwhile, watch to keep Martin and his boys from coming after me. I'll do what I can about that.  What's that? Holiday. Holiday, if this is a trap, you'll never leave here alive. Then we've got a deal. Because that was probably a stray cat. Now, listen to me, Johnny. Do what I say, will you? Forget Rick Martin. Get out of town for your own sake and for Janice. Yeah. Yeah, sure. Forget the whole thing. Forget I was framed and went up to five years. That's a long time, Holiday. An awful long time. I know it, Johnny, but it's done now. Yeah, done. Me with a record. You can't wipe that away. Suppose... Suppose we fix it so that everybody finds out about the frame. How? Well, first give me that gun. Then get out of town and let the police take care of Rick Martin. Patty Ralston can be made to talk. How? He talked to me because he was afraid of you. He'll talk, Johnny. And when he does, that record of yours will be wiped off.  Well... Eh... Here, I'm a sap. A gold-plated 14-carat sap, but... But here... No, that's a good boy. Now go someplace where you'll be out of the way. You leave this to the police. Sure. But so help me, Holiday. If I get another loop thrown around me, if anything slips, Johnny Tide will be back for you. When I left Johnny, I was sure everything was going to be all right. I put his gun in my pocket and started up the street for Rick Martin's place. I wanted to be sure that Martin would let Johnny get out of town under his own power. I took a shortcut through an alley. Brother, how foolish can you get? I hadn't gone 10 feet when I heard footsteps behind me. I tried to duck, but I wasn't quick enough. Uh-huh. It's the Dan Holiday in his usual position after sticking out his neck. Come on, see if he can get up. Oh, cleanly, I ought to do something about these buildings around here. They've fallen people. Yeah, under these slugs. You know I gathered them. That isn't all you gathered. What are you talking about? Three guesses, just take only one. That's all you'll need. I still don't know what you're talking about. But I know one thing. And that is? Don't worry about Johnny Tide anymore. I had a talk with him. So you talked Johnny Tide into being a good boy.  Tide got to Rick Martin and killed him. And now back to Design for Danger, another Box 13 adventure with Alan Ladd as Dan Holiday. The moment Lieutenant Kling told me that Rick Martin was shot to death, I plunged my hand into my pocket for the .45 I'd taken from Johnny Tide. But it was gone. Looking for this, maybe? The gun. Yeah, we found it next to it, Martin's body. Holiday, you've been taken in by a fast-talking punk.  Yeah, you're right. Johnny Tide sang a pretty lullaby and I went to sleep. Forget this, Kling. Before the sun comes up, I'm going to plant Rick Martin's murder right in your lap. Well, sunrise was only six hours away and that meant I had to move fast. I remembered Faddy's warning that he and Janice Reed would be next if Johnny Tide ever got to Rick. So I lost no time in getting to the girl's apartment. Mr. Holiday, what are you doing here? Rick Martin's just been murdered, Janice. Yes, I know. Tyler Bennett called me a few minutes after it happened. Look, Janice, that Johnny's off on a killing spree and you and Faddy are next in line. No, no, I don't believe that. Johnny isn't a killer. Rick Martin wouldn't say it that way, Janice. Now listen to me.  But I can't. I've got to be back at the club for the late show. Call Tyler Bennett when it's time. You'll take care of it. But where are you going? To find 300 pounds named Faddy Ralston. It cost me a $50 bill and a lot of legwork, but I finally located Faddy out on an old oil barge anchored off the end of a deserted pier. So I took off my shoes, stripped of the waist, and quietly summed out to the barge. Once on deck, I could hear the voices of two men coming from the cabin. One of them was Faddy. I couldn't see the other man. I edged closer and then banged against the steel drum and the noise it made shattered the silence. The light in the cabin went out. Who's that? Come on, who is it? Just an old friend, Faddy. Huh? You again? Let's go in the cabin, Faddy. I'm a little wet. Sure. Why not? Come on. Light the lamp. Anything to oblige. See better now? Not yet. Who was with you? Nobody. Where's Johnny Tide? I said where's Johnny? He ain't here. Don't get me that. Where did you look around? Put on that gun first. You're mixed up, fella. I give the orders. I got the gun. That's right. Give me a cigarette, will you? I don't smoke. No? Not even Egyptian cigarettes? Huh? This cabin's thick with smoke. From Egyptian cigarettes. Maybe you better go. Now. Hand me that towel, Faddy. I'm a little chilly. Here. Thanks. Hey! Drop that gun, Faddy. Drop it! Hey! Hey! You're breaking it. Drop that gun. All right. Move back. Okay. Now I give the orders. I've got the gun. Listen. Don't do nothing. Don't. Please. No, I'm not.  Yes! Whoever fired those shots couldn't have missed Faddy. And whoever it was got off the barge and into the boat that was tied on the opposite side. I ran over. I slipped once on the oil cover deck and the motor boat made for the shore. I had to stand and watch Johnny Tide get away. Get away after killing Faddy. And that made two down and one to go. And the one was Janice Reed. I swam back, slipped into my things, got to a phone, told the police about Faddy. Then I headed for Janice Reed's apartment. It was dark, deserted. I found an unlocked window and got inside. And I had this sickening feeling that I was just one step behind Johnny Tide in his gun. Then I knew it wasn't Janice. She'd use her key. I moved to the door quietly. What the...  I'm Mr. Bennett. I'm sorry I thought you were Johnny Tide. Obviously. I came to take Janice to the club. Where is she? I don't know. I was just going through the place when I heard you at the door. Here, I'll switch on the light. Come on, let's look in the bedroom. Well, there's nobody in here. I guess I'm too late again. Wait a minute. This memo pad. Here, near the phone. What about it? What does it say? It's written with an eyebrow pencil. Here, 42 at 130. Sure, that girl's just crazy enough to keep around if we were Johnny Tide. What time is it now? Uh, 10 after 1. Why? What are you going to do? Maybe 3 is a crowd, Mr. Bennett, but I'm going to be there when Johnny Tide and Janice get together. I'm going to... What is it, Holiday? What are you staring at? Look, they're on the rug. Those smudges. That's oil. Oil? I don't follow you. What does it mean? The tide's been here already. Those are his tracks. Yes, you see, he was out on the oil bar an hour ago, and the deck was slick with that stuff. I know, I slipped myself. Well then, couldn't those be your footprints? No, I left my shoes on the pier. I swam out. But why would Johnny make an appointment with Janice and still come up here? I don't know. Only Johnny can answer that. Just like he can tell me where he gets those smelly Egyptian cigarettes he smokes. I took a cab to within the block of Pier 42, then I got out, walked quietly to the rendezvous spot. Janice was already standing in the soft light of a street lamp waiting, so I ran back to the phone and called Lieutenant Cleen. But the girl set up like a clay pigeon I didn't want to take any chances. And I got back to Janice, it was 1.30 on the button, and a second later a man stepped from the side door of a warehouse. It was Johnny Tide. I moved closer as Johnny went up to Janice. Johnny, Johnny darling. Hello, Janice. Oh, Johnny, it's been such a long time. Yeah. I have five years. An awful long time, Janice. What's the matter, Johnny? Aren't you glad to see me? Sure. Sure, awful glad, Janice. Awful glad. But what's the matter? Johnny, why are you looking like that? I'm just trying to figure out something. Oh, never mind now, Johnny. Look, you've got to get away. Wait a minute. Listen. Cops. You did it again, didn't you? Johnny, no. I was going to give you a chance to explain. Hold her, Johnny. You. I'll get both of you later. I'll be back. Johnny, Johnny, don't run away anymore. Don't run away. Johnny, you there? Right here, Kling. Where is he? He ran into the warehouse. Okay, put a ring around that warehouse. Spotlights, here again. Don't let him alone, let him alone. Kling, be careful. Come on. It's no use, Johnny. The police are here. You're licked, kid. Come on, give up. Not me, honey. They just don't seem to get along. But, Johnny, it's your only chance. Will you give up? Answer me, Johnny. Look. You all right, Dan? Just in the shoulder moment. There he is. Up there on that raft. The Kennedy, you're right. Shand it up there. There he goes, Lieutenant. Get him. No, don't, Kling. Don't shoot. Are you crazy, Holliday? Not quite. Kennedy, shine your light up behind you. Yes, sir. Up there. Fire. There. There's your man, Kling. Who is that, Holliday? That Lieutenant is the man who killed Rick Martin and Fatty Ralston and tried to frame Johnny Tide for the whole thing. The name is Tyler Bennett. Well, Holliday, how are you this morning? Oh, pretty good, Kling. The doctors will be out in a couple of days. Good. Well, I'd like you to figure the whole thing was a scheme of Bennett's to kill Rick Martin and take over as number one man in Watertown. Yeah, and with Tide, frame for the murder. Tyler Bennett would also have had a clear field with Janice. And he was the one who knocked you out just before Rick Martin was shot, huh? Uh-huh. He must have followed me from the blue chip to Johnny's hideout where he heard me talk Johnny out of his gun. From there on out, he was in the driver's seat. But I still don't see why Bennett killed Fatty out on the barge. Well, Bennett's sidekick in this frame. I mean, it looked as though you might get the truth out of him Bennett was forced to shoot one of you. You were lucky. Fatty made a better target. But now I've got one for you, the jackpot question. When you were in the warehouse, how did you know that Johnny Tide was innocent? Well, I found that out the hard way. You see, I was facing Johnny when I was shot in the back. Gee, Mr. Holliday, you certainly had a long night in Watertown. But there's one thing I don't understand. And what's that, Susie? Why did Tyler Bennett follow you down to the pier? He had to because of the oily footprints in Janice's apartment. You see, once I got to Johnny Tide and found out that he didn't have oil on his shoes, I would have realized the footprints couldn't have come from anyone but Tyler himself. Besides, I would have also found out that Johnny didn't smoke Egyptian cigarettes. But what about Johnny? Now I mean... Always on probation for stealing the gun. Everyone knows he was spraying for the other deal. Gee, you know, Mr. Holliday, I wonder if I would have thought of that Egyptian cigarette thing. No, I guess I wouldn't. Why not? Because I don't know a single Egyptian. Oh, good night, Susie. Next week, same time, through the courtesy of Paramount Pictures, Alan Ladd stars as Dan Holliday in Box 13. Box 13 is directed by Richard Sanville with this week's original story by Gene Levitt and Bob Mitchell. Original music is composed and conducted by Rudy Schrager. The fire of Susie is played by Sylvia Picker, that of Lieutenant Kling by Edmund MacDonald. Production is supervised by Vern Carstensen. Box 13 is a Mayfair production from Hollywood. Watch for Alan Ladd in his latest Paramount Pictures.


Hey everyone, welcome back to Nintendo Prime! Oh my gosh, we got so many stories today. Seven big ones.  We got news on GoldenEye, 007. We got news on Pokemon, Scarlet and Violet. Oh my gosh, do we have a ton of news on that? We got something to do with a Square Enix IP coming to Nintendo Switch. Bandai Namco, I'm only gonna hack over here. Oh, and by the way, maybe there's a Nintendo Direct coming this month. Oh my gosh, we have a lot to talk about! So, before we jump in, I wanna remind you that we are on our road to 80,000 subscribers. And when we hit 80,000 subscribers, we are gonna make a brand new giveaway. That giveaway is gonna include a replica Hylian Shield, a replica Deku Shield and a life-size steel blade Master Sword based on the design from Breath of the Wild. I am so stoked to get that giveaway going, but it doesn't start now. You can't enter now. First you just gotta subscribe. We gotta get to 80K, and then we will begin that giveaway. Let's jump right into the news, by the way. Before we do the stories, timestamps. We timestamp everything. If you're not aware of that, you could just skip to the stories you care about. And hopefully you wanna watch all the stories because we're starting off with a banger, right? Oh wait, now you guys might remember that GoldenEye 007 was supposed to be releasing on Xbox, maybe even Nintendo Switch at some point this year. We know this because there were Xbox achievements on the official Xbox.com website. And these achievements were new achievements that have never previously existed for GoldenEye. On top of that, we know Nintendo obviously did a little bit of a lawsuit thing in Germany. I don't know, maybe a lawsuit isn't really the right way to call. They requested that Germany would overturn a previous ruling on GoldenEye they had back in the 90s to allow the game to release in Germany, showing that Nintendo actually still holds some rights to the game, which is where you get into the whole, hey, if Microsoft's gonna have it, maybe Nintendo's gonna have it. Anyways, we haven't really gotten this announced and a lot of people have a presumption on why it's not being announced. Jeff Grubb actually gives us some deeper insight to, I guess, reaffirm or confirm a lot of the gut feelings we had. And here is what he had to say about GoldenEye coming to Switch and or Xbox. GoldenEye is still in limbo because of the war. So that's basically what most of us thought, because GoldenEye has a major Russian theme in it. There's a war going on involving Russia. That's probably why it was delayed. But more than that, he says one versus 100 steam lead left Microsoft. I don't know what that means for the game. That's obviously dealing with Microsoft there. So that is really the update. It's not much, but it's more, Jeff Grubb is well-known in the industry. He's an industry veteran. He's a journalist. He does have some connections. So if he's saying that it's because of the war, it's probably what he's heard from Microsoft directly.  Actually, that's maybe a bit too harsh. They're just kindly, ever so kindly reminding us of why internet connections and online releases and DLC, that's only downloadable, all that stuff, they're just sort of reminding us digital purchases, why there is a massive pitfall to it. And unfortunately, a decision they have now announced is going to affect, well, a ton of their really popular games, even if you own them physically, you will be negatively impacted in some way. Let's get right to the news, and I'm getting this right off of IGN. Ubisoft has shut down multiplayer and online services for 15 games in September of 2022. Ubisoft is set to shut down multiplayer and online services for 15 games on September 1st of 2022, including five Assassin's Creed games, Far Cry 3, Splinter Cell Blacklist, Prince of Persia, The Forgotten Sands, and more. For games like Assassin's Creed 3, which was a 2012 release, and Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, the installation of access to DLC will be unavailable on that date. Closing the online services for some older games allows us to focus our resources on delivering great experiences for players who are playing newer and more popular titles, Ubisoft wrote on its support page. The full list of games and what services will be stopped is as follows. Assassin's Creed 2, PC and PlayStation 3, you will be unable to play multiplayer, link Ubisoft accounts in-game or use online features. Assassin's Creed 3, a 2012 release. The 2012 release, they're noting because there's been like a remaster since then. PC, you will be unable to play multiplayer, link Ubisoft accounts in-game or use online features. Additionally, the installation of access to downloadable content will be unavailable as well because that's always great. PlayStation 3, Wii U, Xbox 360, you will be unable to play multiplayer, link Ubisoft accounts in-game or use online features. So you still get DLC on those platforms, but that's about it. Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, you will be unable to play multiplayer, link Ubisoft accounts in-game or use online features. Additionally, the installation of access to DLC will be unavailable. Same basic thing for PlayStation 3, except you'll still have access to DLC. Assassin's Creed Liberation HD, on PC, you'll be unable to link the accounts, you won't get access to online features, DLC unavailable, you're kind of getting the idea here. For PC, you're getting doubly screwed because you're losing access to DLC, whereas the consoles don't seem to be losing that access to Assassin's Creed Revelations for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, you'll be unable to play multiplayer or use online features. Driver San Francisco, you'll be unable to play multiplayer, link Ubisoft accounts in-game, use online features, the installation access to DLC will be unavailable. Again, same difference with PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, but you'll still have DLC. Far Cry 3, the 2012 release, the exact same thing is happening. And then Tom Clancy, Ghost Recon, Future Soldier, will say the multiplayer for the game will be unavailable to play the solo campaign, you'll have to set your console in offline mode.   Ubisoft, just release a patch for the game. My Lord, Prince of Persia, The Forgotten Sands. Again, same thing, you won't be able to do anything online, including DLC downloads. Rayman Legends, PlayStation 3, Wii U and Xbox 360, you'll be unable to play the game or use online features. Silent Hunter 5, same thing on PC except you also lose access to DLC. Space Junkies for the HTC Vive and Oculus. As a multiplayer-only title, you will be unable to play the game going forward. So Space Junkies, goodbye, you just no longer exist. Splinter Cell Blacklist, you will be unable to play multiplayer, link Ubisoft accounts in-game or use online features, PlayStation 3's exact same thing. Zombie U, oh man, that's such a great game for Wii U. You will be unable to link Ubisoft accounts in-game or use online features, notably Zombie U is ported to Xbox One and such, and so that'll still work there. Important to note that the remastered versions of Far Cry 3 and Assassin's Creed 3 will not be shut down. Ubisoft did a similar move in 2021, showing no multiplayer functionality and online services for games such as Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas, Rainbow Six Vegas 2, Rainbow Six Lockdown, Far Cry 2 and Splinter Cell Conviction, AKA, they keep doing this and they're just, this is the biggest batch I guess they've done so far. This is obviously massively concerning in the video game industry, not just because I don't expect multiplayer support, I suppose, to go forever and it's always disappointing when you're gonna lose your multiplayer support. But what bothers me are the wide swath of games losing access to DLCs specifically on PC. Why is PC specifically being targeted for, sorry, you can't access DLC anymore? A lot of the DLC, especially in Assassin's Creed games, is single player content. And now you're just gonna lose access to it, by the way, doesn't matter if you own the game physically or digitally, this stuff still affects you, right? Still affects you whether you own the game physically or digitally, there's one game obviously for Oculus and the VR stuff that's just not gonna exist anymore, like that's just sad. So if you have that game, make sure you back it up somewhere because it's just gonna vanish. Oh, and you know what also really, really sucks? You know what also really, really sucks? How about being told that you could still play the single player in a certain game, but you have to make sure your console isn't connected online or it's gonna trigger an online check that's gonna prevent you from playing the single player.  Ubisoft. So look, I really enjoy Ubisoft games over the years and I'm looking forward to Sparks of Hope, but this is the reality of the online world. Anything that's available online through these games is not gonna be available online forever and that includes additional content. It would be nice if they would just re-release games that have all the additional content included so it'll be available forever in one single package. They're not saying you can't re-download your game digitally, they're not saying you're losing the download to the game, you're just losing everything else. It's a sad day and Ubisoft just reminds us how scary the world we live in is now because this is one of the largest major games shut down as we have seen from any of the companies and this is indeed scary. And it makes you wonder, you know, when I get a decade from now, how many of the games I own today are just gonna be unplayable because companies no longer wanna support the online because so much of it's tied to online.  Xbox is almost exclusively tied to online so when they decide to stop supporting that, what then? Maybe you won't care because you'll be on to the next thing but for those that wanna go back, it's a pretty big deal. Next up, we have to talk about Bandai Namco because it appears Bandai Namco has been hacked. Yes, I'm not kidding you, let's take a look. So here we are in Nintendo Life, it says video game publisher Bandai Namco appears to have been hacked reportedly in the latest victim of a ransomware attack. Major video game cyber attacks have been quite popular in recent years and it seems Bandai Namco is the latest victim. Ransomware group Black Cat has added the Japanese publisher and developer known for the series Pac-Man, Dragon Ball and Elden Ring to its list of victims. The group that monitors malware source code online known as VX Underground was the first to spot this and share the information on social media. The same source is previously reported on other attacks like the NVIDIA one before it was officially confirmed. So this person has a pretty good track record of reporting on leaks before it hits the major outlets. And it says alpha V ransomware group alternatively referred to as Black Cat ransomware group claims to have ransom Bandai Namco. Bandai Namco is an international video game publisher Bandai Namco video game franchise include Ace Combat, Dark Souls, Dragon Ball, Soul Calibur and more. Bandai Namco also is a company that helped work on Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. So they could have source files for that floating around their company too. Black Cat has reportedly been ramping up ransomware attacks over the past year and has previously shared private employee data online. That's always the worst when victims refuse to comply. So that is one of their major attacks that says, hey, you don't comply with us. We're gonna release personal information. That's kind of shitty, but yeah, this includes demands for millions of dollars. It's unknown at this stage, the extent of the latest incident. Some of the biggest attacks in video and companies recently included Video Leaks, CD Projekt Red, EA and fellow Japanese company Capcom, which saw the reveal of a number of under announced games and it released. I'm also surprised they didn't talk about Nintendo themselves had a massive leak like three years ago. So Nintendo isn't immune to any of this either. So this is obviously, you never wanna see a hacks go through like this because obviously it means a lot of data. Your data and employee data is at risk.  But that's not what a lot of these ransomwares are doing. They're called ransomwares for a reason. They wanna ransom. They're asking for millions of dollars and they're not afraid to share information. Now, will these people be caught someday? Will they be put in federal prison? Will they have to deal with severe consequences? Maybe. Maybe if they're ever caught, then yes. Some of the best hackers in the world don't get caught. So it's gonna be really interesting to see a Ben and Abko pays up or if they're just gonna say screw it, release all of our personal information, which is, you know, that's never good. So I'm very concerned on what this means moving forward. This company is clearly targeting the video game realm hard while it's cool that we might get some interesting things out of these leaks. And yeah, we'll probably cover if there's like any game announcements or anything. We have to at least note at this time that one, we don't condone this action. And two, any time that you're gonna do this, but you're doing it for profit with the threat of revealing personal information, I think that's just a super, super shitty thing to do. And it's one thing that they wanted to hack just to find out information on games. So that's not the end goal here. The end goal is they wanna be paid millions and millions of dollars and get rich quick.  Anyways, folks, let's get onto our next story. So it appears a classic Square Enix RPG is coming to Nintendo Switch. And of course we're talking about Saga Frontiers 2 because it has not been listed for Nintendo Switch online. Here we go, let's take a look. So this comes from Nintendo Life and it says it looks to be another remaster. Square Enix is pumping out new and old RPGs on a regular basis with games like the Diofield Chronicle and Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII. To look forward to later this year, if these games weren't already exciting enough, it seems yet another classic could be getting a remaster. As spotted on Twitter, my account Asian Game Prince via Nintendo Everything. A listing has recently appeared on Play Asia. Very popular site for buying things overseas in the US. Originally released by Squaresoft on the PlayStation in 1999 slash 2000. This includes a listing for the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 with the official release date scheduled for next month on the 25th of August. So this is coming up quick. And maybe this is something that we'll get put in the Nintendo Direct. I don't know what I'm just saying. Here's Play Asia's description. Saga Frontiers 2, oh, Sonic Frontiers, oh my gosh. Saga Frontiers, no, see, I still got a Sega and Saga, it's on my brain, guys. I literally was looking at a poster for that game today. Saga Frontiers 2 includes, oh my God, I can't even, all right. Saga Frontiers 2 introduces a complete renovation of the RPG genre. Traditional computer polygonal fixtures are replaced with lush hand-drawn watercolor graphics supported by awe-inspiring musical score. Landing both freedom and linearity, this title utilizes the multi-scenario system giving players unparalleled freedom in choosing which scenario they want to play while other scenarios crisscross with one another. Complimenting this feature are three innovative battle modes, dual, team, and strategic. Depending upon the model selected, the player can control an individual character, a team, or several units to fight in battles, bringing depth and precision to the combat. Sequences, so Renix has made an effort to build this classic RPG series back up in recent years with the last year seeing the arrival of Saga, not Sonic, Saga Frontier Remastered on Nintendo Switch. So wouldn't be shocking for the second one to come out since they already did the first one. This is obviously really cool news, and I'm super stoked that it appears we're getting this game. Well, first one was pretty good, the second one's pretty good, so let's go and move on to our next story. So Nintendo did something interesting today. They dropped a new Kirby game. No, I'm serious, they did. It's called Kirby's Dream Buffet. Here, let's have a look. So Kirby's Dream Buffet is arriving this summer, which is interesting because we're already in the middle of the summer and we don't have a release date. It's weird, it's going to be a digital only release and really not a whole lot's known about it beyond this trailer. And as this trailer goes on and on and on you're gonna see that it seems to definitely be drawing inspiration from another popular game that went free to play on Nintendo Switch back on June 21st. If you haven't guessed by now we're talking about Fall Guys. Although it's a little different because this isn't like a hundred players going at it. It appears to be limited to maybe four. So it's definitely a party style game but you can definitely see as the game plays going on here that there is some definite Fall Guys level of inspiration. It seems like you're trying to get to an end of a level. Maybe you're trying to eat as many treats, as much food as you can along the way and you'll see this cause you get to one of the end screens and at the end screen it's gonna be basically the fattest Kirby wins, which is right here. So definitely seems to be a unique take anyways on the Fall Guys formula, only with four players. Hopefully online. I hope it's an online playable game. If this is only local that would be disappointing especially since it's the download only title. We don't know if it's going to be free. They didn't announce any pricing structure with it. We hope it's free because these kind of experimental Kirby games they got a lot of fun and you could get millions and millions of players day one if it was free. So we'll have to see what Nintendo does but it was kind of a nice little dessert today. All right, so I need to give a warning right now. We are about to go over a boatload of Pokemon, Scarlet and Violet leaks. We can call this a rumor if you want since I guess I can't verify any of this so I suppose you could say it's unverified information but it's coming from highly reliable leakers and Pokemon games have a tendency to leak like crazy and you're gonna hear a lot of things. So again, if you wanna skip this story it's gonna be quite long. Use the timestamps because this is, we're going over all the information because it's out there and this is what we do. So here we go. Let's get into all the leaks and I'm getting all of this information off the central leaks Twitter account because they have it all nicely organized and summarized but let's just do this thing, shall we? Here we go over our central leaks and here's first off the one, the big one from yesterday and all of this came from Ku, Riddler Ku, he's a well-known leaker from France to the starter of Final Evils our grass dark, water fighting, fire ghost, Spragadio's Final Evolution has a God tier hidden ability will be bipedal and seems like it will be a humanoid slash wa fu like. Quaxley's Final Evolution is the leaker's favorite design of the three. Legendaries are dragon fighting and dragon electric. There's more than one object man this gen. There's at least four wa fu wa fu wa fu wa fu, I think it's gonna be wa fu and multiple husbandan, husbandoman. How do you even say that word? According to the leaker, I mean I can tell I'm not into that terminology. There will be new cross gen evolutions and evolution for Dune Space has been hinted. There will be new type combos, a new cool fish Pokemon. The gimmick is related in some way to three types. The gimmick is a new concept of that when referring to the Megas which we're gonna find out later that mega evolutions themselves are not in this game. But we'll find that out in a bit here. A regional form for a bull Pokemon, a regional form for a water ground Pokemon. Smolov's Evolution is the regional grass female Pokemon. Go Goat is back after having appeared in a Pokemon game since 2013. Leaker mentions that there's tons of cool new Pokemon. The regional bug Pokemon will be Japanese themed like Sword and Shield. Not every previous starter will be in the game. As far as the leaker knows, there will still be some Pokemon after SV, Scarlet Violet that haven't appeared in any Switch game. Lechonk's Evolution will be female looking but ugly. Something like Perugly possibly. It has been hinted that the legendaries have five or something forms. The legendaries are writable in some way. Note the information marked with the star was revealed via a riddle and hasn't been explicitly stated yet by the leaker. So it could be wrong or slightly wrong because it's an interpretation of a riddle. And then it says also, another note, we try to use the same terms used by the leaker when referring to designs like waifu, husbandando, objectman, so that the message isn't distorted by us, which makes a lot of sense. It's not their terminology. This came out two hours ago. Pokemon Scarlet Violet leaks part three. The region is called in Japanese Paldia from Pokemon and Aldia village in Spanish. This is a rough translation. The original Japanese text is in the attached image. Mega evolutions are not bad. It's where I was noting that mega evolutions are not in the game. So here's the, I don't know, in English. And this is the Japanese. All right. Dune Space has a new evolution. There's a new dolphin Pokemon. Merc Crow has a new evolution. Regional Dex is more than 400. Fukuoka Final Evolution is still an alligator. No new fossil Pokemon. Yesterday images already include two of the evolved starters. Hint of the gimmick. So, I don't know, the skull and bones thing there. Maybe it's a hint of a gimmick. New Flamingo Pokemon. Not all Hisuin Pokemon are in the game. The gimmick doesn't involve Pokemon getting an extra type. There are side quests in the game. Tadius, Kamala, Rotom, Gudra, and Sunflora are in the game. Sorry if I butcher any of the Pokemon names. Wubat is not. There are four pseudo legendary Pokemon. Well, he goes on to clarify that later. But there are four pseudo legendary Pokemon. Note about the four pseudo. This is the exact original leak. Can a native speaker verify? So that's the exact leak right there. All Pokemon can use the new gimmick. Lugia slash ho are not in. When asked about the champion, the leaker said both male slash female. When asked the gender, so maybe versions exclusive champions perhaps. Dune Spirace, Ivo does not fly. Apoem, Toucanon are not in. Misdreavius is in. There is no new Diderio form. Corridon, Amiridon do not have five forms. Furfo, Squavet, Minior are not in the game. I believe that he might game with the G-missing. Can't edit on Twitter unfortunately. HoundarLine is in the game. Weezing is in the game. This is a he slash him. And correcting the previous point, it's not four, yeah there you go. So it's not four pseudo legendary Pokemon, but a group of four legendaries. So there you go. Another correction, Skalvat is in the game, okay? We previously said it wasn't, that wasn't correct. The leaker said that the Gen 9 starters are the only starters in the game. At least in the main adventure, could be transfer capabilities. Looks like Wigglytuff may be getting a regional form but hasn't been explicitly stated with the leaker. The new gimmick, you can transform any Pokemon into that crystallized look by using a new item that looks like a ball that Nimona gives you. Gen 5 Pokemon gets a new evolution, okay? So there is that. We're not done though. You think we'd be done, but we are not. So this one says, now seems highly likely that this is Spragadio's evolution. The leaker specifically mentioned two of the Pokemon leaked yesterday are the evolved starters. And yeah, this one. And I think there was a tweet that said, can you imagine? Yeah, right here. You can see if that's maybe the top of that Pokemon, but obviously that is a guess because this image doesn't include the full shot. All right, let me just double check and make sure there was no other leaks that were missing here. Here we go. Again, another batch here. It says new Pokemon, Skalvat and Violet leaks. Today's new source. There are no new EV evolutions. Joltic, Militik, Wailord, Metagross, Jinx and Golark are not in the game. Pokemon will time travel. So time travels in the game, confirmed? The player will not, however. So Pokemon can time travel, but the player can't. It says that the story is very good, whatever that means. There will be three cities and nine towns in the region. So that's a decent amount right there. I wonder how big the towns are. 300 to 500 Pokemon in the regional decks. Garchop is in the game. Whatever the comment in the image means, that was when asked if the Gen 5 starters were in the game, but I think we now know that no, the only starters in the game are from it. The source also insists that there will be DLC, which I mean, of course there was gonna be DLC. This was apparently also posted by the same source. So another image here. So there's that. Why there's things cut out? I don't know. Maybe this is protecting copyrights or trying not to get the image claimed. Yo official artist drop, just because it was just me. So that's obviously fake leaks. Another leak from the apparent source that no longer exists. Wooper gets a poison type. It evolves into a brand new Pokemon. Oh, and then this. So this is the one I wanted to bring up because this pointed out some gym leaders. I also have images of different characters from the game where they can internet and then these are supposedly some of the gym leaders. I know it's gonna be a little bit blurry, but yes, I wanted to make sure that we got to these as well because this is one of the first leaks we had yesterday were gym leaders. So we got more here as well. Supposedly gym leaders are here, which sort of confirms gym leaders. So there's that. Now that was a lot of information to chew on. And if you would like to continue the conversation on this, I highly encourage you to join our Discord server because we have literally a gaming leaks section on our Discord server where you can go and freely talk about leaks without worrying about spoiling things for people because that channel literally is labeled leaks. You should not be in there talking about game leaks if you are not interested. All right, and then we need to get to our final story. And our final story deals with the fact we might be getting a Nintendo Direct this month. My Lord, this is a long episode, isn't it? Woo, let's go. So this comes from none other than Pierce Schneider, the co-founder of IGN. On the Nintendo Voice Cat, the Nintendo Voice Chat, whatever that Nintendo podcast they have last week, late last week on Thursday, he dropped this little nugget that he wanted everyone to know about a potential Nintendo Direct in July. I've heard that there's a first party Direct in July as well, and I don't know if it's true. No, stop, don't do this. There was a thing where Sir Ken Toto, who is known for being a Nintendo knower, did it too early, and then Takashi Mochizuki, who covers it for Bloomberg, did the eye of all emoji. That's right. Pierce Schneider just said he has sources that are saying there's gonna be a first party Nintendo Direct this month, and I doesn't tell us when, and there's been a lot of speculation on stuff this week. You can speculate away, but he's saying that it's going to be a thing that happens. Look, do with that information and what you will. I am getting a little bit exhausted. I've been here a long time for this episode, so we're gonna kind of call it there, but I do want to speculate more in the Nintendo Direct, and I think we'll just do that this week on our own podcast, so be sure to tune in on Wednesday because we, tomorrow, at 8 p.m. central time, because we're gonna have Andre's Restart On and Nintendo Academy along with Eric and myself, so it's gonna be a jam-packed four-person episode, because we gotta talk this Nintendo Direct, we gotta talk Hokeman leaks, we gotta talk a lot, so we'll obviously note during the podcast when we're about to get into spoiler territory or Hokeman leaks, but yeah, anyways, I love you guys, and I'll see you in the next episode. Bye.


Good morning, I'm Shobhik, I work for Red Hat. I work as an engineering architect and lead for the Red Hat developer group. My job is to lead teams to ensure that developers are empowered to build tooling and applications without having to worry about things that they shouldn't really be worrying about and should be done for them. For example, OpenShift and Kubernetes, we know it's powerful, but it's complex. There is a huge learning curve. If you knew how to use it well, if you had the right tools, you could build really powerful applications with that. My presentation will be on how you could develop on OpenShift using your VS Code IDE. So we don't have this problem often that, hey, this works fine when I ran it in my local, but then when I put it in a container and then when I ran it on OpenShift or Kubernetes, it didn't work quite well. So the problem we wanted to solve with containers and Kubernetes and OpenShift came back, which means you still have the problem of some things working locally because you didn't have the right tooling to emulate how a deployed environment would look like. And then yeah, you did have a problem of how to ensure my code changes can quickly be live on a cluster.  So for a small code change, you would actually have to do all these steps to be able to see it running live on OpenShift or Kubernetes for that matter. But then that looks like a solution which nobody would technically use because it's too long, so what they would potentially do is work on a project for three months and throw it over to the DevOps folks to try it out and run it on OpenShift or Kubernetes. So what we do is we actually work on multiple ways to take your source code and create a container out of it. One way is call the source to image which is effectively, we have a nice framework to say here is my source code and this is a Node.js source so we take out the Node.js builder image and then we smash those two together and we say here is your application container image that we just created for you which has all the checks and balances in place and that can be now deployed on your environment. So this framework lets us do versioned images just like you would do for anything else, like your code. And then what we did is we connected that with VS code so that you could potentially stay within your VS code and not have to leave the comfort of your developer tooling to be able to use this. So let's see how it goes. So what we effectively do is which I'm gonna show you in a minute is that you could either run your OpenShift somewhere else which is not on your local or on Minishift which is on your laptop. You could use like a Cube CTL or an OC command line to talk to it and then there is another tool on top of it which we built called OpenShift Do which abstracts out all the Kubernetes and OpenShift troubles for you which means to create a normal route or let's say to deploy an application and reach it in OpenShift you have to effectively do a build of that application you have to push it somewhere you have to have a deployment which needs to use that image and build pods for you and then you need to create a service and then you need to create a route out of it. That's really a lot of things for a developer who just wants to get started and get it running. So what we did is we built a solution where we said okay, you're in your VS Code you just say push to OpenShift and we do all that for you and then you say hey, get me a URL we create a service on a route and wire it up with your pod for that. Let's take a look at a demo for that. So the OpenShift connector sits nicely on your VS Code it's an extension you can install for free from the marketplace. It detects if you have a cluster you're already connected to if not you could connect to it using the general Kubernetes OpenShift ways of connecting to a cluster. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna start with creating a namespace or a project. Let's say call it Boston one and then what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna say I need a new application. Now we have the concept of applications and components and application is effectively let's say your Power Circuit Management application which can have tons of services inside it a billing service, a customer agreement service a maintenance service inside it. So an application is an aggregation of multiple microservices which together solve a business case I would say. So let's say I'm creating an application inside my project or namespace in Kubernetes. So I'll call this Power Circuit Management so I can see I have a new application here but this is just an abstraction and aggregation that this doesn't really have anything running yet. So what I do is I'll go and say, hey, I'd like to create a new component there which means now I'd really like to have a workload associated with it. So I'd say let's go for a Git repository you could do this from multiple ways but I'll start with a Git repository and I'll say I have a Node.js application which is on my version control and I'd like to deploy that. And it'll quickly ask me, okay, which brands do you really need to deploy?  So let's say this is the billing service of that bigger application and the component type it automatically gives me a list of, I mean, in technical terms it gives me a list of possible builder images that it could use to build my application. So I say it's a Node.js application, awesome. And then in the final we have the option to build multiple versions of Node applications. I said 10. And then it also asked me on the bottom right, do you want to really clone it locally or do you want to just deploy? And I said, I'm fine. I just go ahead with deploying the application which means, so what I'm doing which printed out here in the logs below is I'm effectively creating a component. What that effectively does is it checks out your code. It takes a source and creates an image out of it. You didn't have to worry about Docker build. You didn't have to worry about learning what containers do. You didn't have to worry about OCI or anything else. You just gave your source code. You said it's a Node.js source code and it's of version 10 and it did the rest for you. So let's quickly take a look at that namespace and the project in my OpenShift cluster. I can see it's something got deployed here. And if I click here, I can see that it's a billing service part, it's a billing service part circuit management. So it's a billing service inside this application. So which is why it appended the name. It has a pod. It is running a deployment config if you're familiar with Kubernetes. And if you see the resources, yeah, it has created a service as well in Kubernetes. That's it.  And now I want to try out how my application looks like. So what I'll do is I'll say I want to, I want a new URL. And then what that effectively does is it goes and creates a route for me. So I'll say, I want to call this customer facing URL so that I know that I could possibly have some ports which should be specifically being used internally and not for the customers. So I name it as a customer facing URL. And then right here, I could click here and it'll take me to the deployed application which I just took from source. I just, all I did was I want to deploy the source code and this is a Node.js project so you know and it's version 10. And then it created my deployment config or deployment that deployed the pods. It created a service out of it. And then I said, I want to be able to access it using a URL. What it did is it went and created a Kubernetes route for me or an OpenShift route for me. All good. And then now I can repeat the same thing again inside the same application which is, let's say I did the same thing. I deploy another different application here. And I could keep doing this on and on. Let's say this is a grievance service. And again, it's a Node.js application. And then I said, no, I'm not interested in making changes to the code. I just want to deploy it. So that's what it goes and does. It creates everything for me and then I can go in and say, hey, there is a second application which has showed up here. And then I could, if I'm a developer who also knows Kubernetes OpenShift but doesn't want to deal with it all day, I could use VS Code for deploying things and then go in here and dig deeper as much as you want in the world of Kubernetes. So there you go. I just demonstrated to you that you could take any source code inside your VS Code ID and deploy it on OpenShift without having to leave the comfort of your ID. So this is kind of more of the outer loop development, not exactly our outer loop. So we have two forms of development. One is inner loop and outer loop. Inner loop is effectively your making code changes and you want to see the changes live in some URL. Outer loop is effectively your making code commits that hits your CI solution, tells you your code code is good and then you choose to deploy it. That becomes your CD. But today we're focusing on the inner loop which means I have source code and I want to be able to quickly iterate on top of it. One of the first things that I want to do is I have a nice GitHub project. I want to be able to quickly deploy an OpenShift from my VS Code and see if it works. So we saw it works and now what we'll do is we'll try to wire things up, make some mistakes and then see how can we come back and get it still running. So let's say we create another application or let's say we have the grievance service here which we just deployed. And I think that needed a database. So let's see. We'll see how it goes here. Let me figure out a way to reach the application. Let's say, again, customer facing route. Yeah, it's a typical, you know, a fruit stock management app application which I tried to, let's add a fruit here called mango for and the moment I tried to save it, it says it gives us a weird error and if I went and dug into the logs of this, so let's say this one. Oh, it said that it had some trouble connecting to 127.0.1 and then with 543.2. So the typical guest would be trying to connect to a possibly SQL database and it doesn't have one. So let's see how a developer would go about fixing this. So let's say I am in my own namespace here. So let's say I just got a fresh namespace where I'll deploy things from the scratch. I'll probably go back here and let's say I have my project and I did a git clone so I have my source code with me now. I enter here, my code looks good and then as a developer I would open the code in this VS code. I have it here. I'll quickly look at my OpenShift cluster. Right, I could access OpenShift cluster which I was using in the other instance of VS code and what I do is let's say I'm in a developer namespace. It's like dev boss for example. And then I say, hey, I wanna create a new application which is nothing but workspace for my stuff to go in. Then I say, hey, I want a new component and I'd like to use the workspace directory for that which means I'm not going for GitHub URL. I have some source code in my local and I would wanna use that. That's it, it found out the source code which we used and the same thing, let's say fruit stock manager. It turned out to be a Node.js thing and I'd say the type version 10 and so what I'm doing is I'm actually starting with doing the initial deployment of my application in a separate workspace, see it fail and then I'll try going and fixing it. It's taken slightly longer because it's a slightly more complex application than the first one. In the meantime, let's visit the namespace which I just created. Yeah, I can see things moving here and then I go to the topology and I can see something has worked out, right. So it looks like the application has been deployed almost. In the meantime, I could go and look at what are the different resources associated with it. There's a pod here. Yeah, you could see a bunch of things mounted here. This is effectively your VS code plugin injecting a bunch of things there to actually make it quicker for you to write code locally and mount it to a volume on your cluster and instead of having to really build it push it to external registry and then pull it. So that's what it does. Right, let's say successfully all changes have been pushed to this component and let me simulate the production issue which we just saw and say dev URL and that should go in and create a way for me to access my application which I know doesn't work for now. So I said this and it doesn't work. So what do I do now? So I go in and I realize that I showed you that it's probably looking for database to connect to but it doesn't have one. So what I do is from within the comfort of my ID I'm going to quickly deploy on my PostgreSQL database. So go to my workspace. I say new service and there are a bunch of different service templates. I'll go for a PostgreSQL. Then I'll say this is the FruDev just so that we recognize what it is. So what it now is doing for you is it is taking an image of PostgreSQL and running it on your cluster and making it available for you to bind to your application. The next step what we'll do is bind it of course but we'll wait for the PostgreSQL service to come up. We can of course monitor that in our cluster. We could see there's something. There's a PostgreSQL which is showing up here. We could all again do some more advanced views. And we can see there's a pod and there's a service that is here. And it says successfully created which means my database is here. So I can see nice visualization here saying that this is a database. It's called FruDev. But then fair enough I have it but that doesn't solve my problems. I need to ensure that my service can talk to my database. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go here and say I want to link a service. Then it'll say which one? FruDev because that's the only one you have there. I said yes. And what it's effectively doing is it's creating environment variables in my pod for fruit stock manager so that it can connect to the database. So what we'll check is it says the link service. So it's trying to link it on the bottom right. You can say it's in progress. So behind the scenes, if you are a Kubernetes nerd what it's effectively doing is using an admission webhook. It is injecting your environment variables into your pod and restarting them so that next time your pod comes up that your fruit stock manager it has all those environment variables injected in them. And to do so it creates a secret and then it basically mounts that secret into your container and that's how you get to get your environment variables. But then I would expect stuff to work. Let's say now it says the binding is done and I, whoops, yeah, let me just hit the same URL again and I see still nothing shows up. Yeah, still nothing work. Let's go in and see what's going wrong here. Here is a pod. I could check logs here on my cluster or I could also go in here and say show log. And it could show me log right in my base code as well. I don't really have to go to the cluster but then I keep going there. So it tells me similar things that I couldn't connect to the database. Now I'm starting to wonder, probably I need some code changes here. It's awesome, that should not be a problem. So I go to my code and then I say, hey, this is looking for an environment variable called my database service host. It's looking for DB username. It's looking for DB password. It assumes that the database name is my data. There's a ton of assumptions the code is making. As a developer, this is where I start iterating on my code and I see changes. So the first thing I'll say is okay, what were the environment variables that got mounted because they have to match with this. So go to my cluster again. I just quickly do an nv or I do an nv, crep, pause grass and see what are the things. Yeah, so I see a bunch of these and environment variables have been mounted here. Awesome, so I should probably make some of my code changes based on that. Right, so it needs a possibly SQL service host. So I'll probably go and modify this. And yeah, it should be good because it should be able to read it. Let's try it out. So how do I now push my changes there?  But what I'll do is, since I'm using OpenShift Connector, I'll quickly go and say push and that's it. It's gonna take my code changes and push them into my cluster, get my pod up and running and I should be able to see those changes in which may or may not work, we will find out. Yeah, you could always go back to your cluster and see things happening in real times. So what this does is, yeah, it says it has successfully pushed my changes to the component. So I would not expect things to be working. Let's see, bunch of these here. Oops, still doesn't work. I do the same debugging dance again where I go in here and I say show me the logs. And it tells me, it doesn't complain about not being able to read your database. Now it's complaining about I can't read the database, but the authentication doesn't work. So I'm saying, hey, come on. What I do here is, so yeah, I'll probably again go back to my node and see, hey, you know, what are the environment variables you have given from a username password? So I say, hey, and then let's say there's something called username, it does look like, yeah, there's something called username and that's why I'm guessing there would be something like password as well. So the name of the environment variable except for its username and the rest is password. And in my connection string, I see there is another place where things can go really wrong, which is the name of the database. Let me try to find it. So let's say, I just name and something should, oh yeah, it says database name sample database, which means I need to read from this environment variable. So I say, probably I'll just do something messy here. I'll just copy paste this, sample db, awesome. The stuff you do when you're trying to get a code working. Let's say, awesome. So I made some more changes and then I'll try to again push them instead of doing five, six different steps of getting my application running on OpenShift. Because my focus is to get my code running, not to become an OpenShift export as part of this. So what this will again do is, this will mount the changes into the same container, do a build and get it running. And the reason it is quicker than usual is that it doesn't actually do a build behind the scenes on your local system. It does not do that. The main reason does it and do that is because that's time consuming, which means if you're using a Docker socket, it has to send it to the Docker socket, build the code and then you need to push it to a registry and then that has to pull from the registry. But all that didn't happen, which is why this is quicker. So let's say we did a bunch of changes and before getting the scare of whether it's working or not, I'll just quickly see a, do a show log. Yeah, it says database elitid, which means things should work this time. Yeah, things still don't work. Yeah, I could again go into my, I could say it uses a username, password. It has a sample DB, it has a PostgreSQL service. Oh, so yeah, things should work. Let's see, let's refresh the logs. That looks like there is still a problem with the authentication. So I could go back here and say, hey, come on, what is the password? So I say, this is my password, awesome. So the username looks good. The database host looks good. So probably going to make part directly. Let's say I was hitting a wrong URL. So I hit it and I see my data has now been picked up from the database and I can interact this as a create, read, update, delete application. So let's say I don't see a mango here. I'm gonna just, let's say 78 because I really love mangoes. And there you go. I could see stuff reflecting on my application. So what we just did is we debug the Node.js application which was having a hard time connecting to a database. We pushed those changes as I was working on inside the ID and my application is live and now those problems are gone. And I could see my Node.js application talking to a PostgreSQL database. So what we just did is in a few minutes we showed that within your VS code you could interact with your OpenShift clusters. You could deploy applications there. You could deploy services from the service catalog for example there and then you could link them together. So that's it from my demo. I'll move back to the slides. So yeah, the project is open source. So this is basically a common combination of two projects. The one is audio which is the short form of OpenShift do which is also CLI tool which means you could use it outside VS code as well. It's like draft to an extent I would say but the whole point it does is as a developer who doesn't want to learn OpenShift Kubernetes you can avoid doing that and still deploy your applications on OpenShift. And we have the OpenShift connector which effectively helps you connect to OpenShift clusters and underneath it uses the same open source project. You could go and submit issues if you find them. You could go and contribute them and you could go and see what our roadmap for the project is. Thank you. Any questions? Do you want to sign? Thank you. Hi, my name is Minisha. So as you are updating the configuration of your OpenShift cluster is it also gathering all those configuration files so that when you need to take this to production you already have all of that? Yes. So behind the scenes it used a builder image which is also production friendly which means those, I mean, Red Hat provides a bunch of builder images which are validated for and like they're constantly updated which means your builder image itself is secure and we use the same builder image to deploy here. So which means if tomorrow you take the source code to production, just say, hey, I use a node just builder image, let's just take this and we can deploy it. What we do not have as part of the configuration is here in this demo is we don't really export the configuration of routes and services here. The only thing you can take from here is how to build an image and run the same image on production. So it is gathering all those configuration files and whatever that is? Yeah, I mean, so it's actually not even a YAML file I would say. I mean, in a more production friendly scenario that's effectively in OpenShift or Kubernetes, it's basically a build config where you say, here's my source code, here's a builder image, now go build and deploy this. And that's the same thing we did here as well. Thanks. Thank you. Any more questions or should we call you today today? Thank you.


At this point, even my grandma knows that electronics tend to get hot. Let's say you're charging your phone. The block gets hot. And so does the battery. Say you want to play some games on your PC. Or even just watch a movie. Massive spikes in temperatures. But don't worry, I've got a solution. You see there's a video online that shows I think it's 13 different ways of cooling down electronics and I watched it and there's only one that I really cared about and that's water cooling, but not water cooling with a radiator and fans like you'd see in a computer. Water cooling where you literally take your electronic and you dip it in a tub of water or liquid. And out of curiosity I wanted to test this out so what I did first was take one of my boards and program it to flashlight over and over and over and then I dipped it in a tub of water for five minutes. This is faucet water so it's full of minerals and probably lead. The board starts off flashing but the second the first couple of pins touch the water it shorts out and dies. Interesting enough for the 30 minutes I had it sitting in the water the power LED actually stayed on but the board itself is long gone so it's pretty much the human equivalent of life support. Over time it was corroding and you can see that in some of these pictures I mean just look at the power port look at some of the the lines the resistors the main IC in the middle it's all yellow gunky and rusted and I have a picture here top down showing that it was actually smoking and burning inside of the water. Then we repeated the same experiment but we used mineral oil. Mineral oil doesn't conduct electricity so you could pretty much put your whole computer in it and it would just continue to work. So I poured out some mineral oil I put an identical board running the same code in the oil and as expected it continued to work for the next 30 minutes. Not only that but it actually is better at dispersing and dealing with heat than the air outside is that we breathe and walk around it. So a computer sitting outside with fans is going to be a lot cooler if it's sitting in a tub of mineral oil. And to be honest that stuff's not really expensive I have these what is this one gallon right here and it was about $35 I'd say. It's not too bad.  People like Rick Astley, people like Willy Wonka, Obama, Mr. Krabs and more. So I went and grabbed one of my displays or grabbed a little board and I programmed it to display these influential people on a beautiful slideshow and we took that we packaged it all together we slapped a battery on there and now it's time to put some mineral oil in the jar leave it in there display it for all the people to see and let's hope that by the time I make that next video this thing doesn't burn.  Is the battery dead? If you enjoyed thank you for being here thank you for watching just subscribe and like to help me out you don't gotta give me money you don't gotta give me anything and I'll see you in the next one.


There he is Okay, hey jibless. Are they talking yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah All right, that's one The other one is in Wild Spire Waste Okay bounty Well, it must have been one of the gathering ones Um Wild Spire Waste Actually, let's just go right the one I want which is the horn Coral Highlands Where it could be I'll just look for the Cat symbols on the map and follow those Thank you pox for the auto host man. I appreciate it so much welcome all pox viewers.  There we go. I Uh-uh-uh-uh-uh I might have to look this one up because I don't see any symbols. Why do thank you so much for a 240 bits man appreciate it. It's a lot of bits man Everybody's showing some love in the chat. Thank you so much for that contribution. I appreciate the support We gotta look this up This one's for the shields now. This one's for the coral orchestra so Coral orchestra Palico gadget location more bits Thanks, ma'am some more bits. Thank you so much dude area of 11 I have this I have this okay After attack the Sheamus that the Palico Trapper riding around on I think first you have to often find the three Gremon Kings patrol in area five Coral Highlands riding around the back of Sheamus at this point You can actually attack all the Sheamus that the Palico Trapper riding around on and they'll be just fine After you've slain all three Chamos chase the tribe using the scalp flies back to their camp Okay, so I got to find the patrolling An area five which is over here and then if they're riding around on the backs of things I got to kill them with my My hammer of doom get these points actually Kill them with my hammer of doom and then follow them back to the camp And then after that I don't know what I'm supposed to do and they'll give you the task of slaying two sick yakuus. Oh easy Okay, this one's definitely harder than the other ones But this is the one I wanted it gives your Palico a horn and he becomes jubilous Basically, it's a Palico jubilous that you get And you get buff songs all day at night Even though they probably don't even match what you need, but hey, whatever who doesn't want a Palico jubilous Um So I want that one the most Because you just hear what what what what what he plays a dubstep and it's just awesome So area five Should be getting close to it. All right, let's look for these little dudes They're supposed to be patrolling on the backs of the dudes the plunder blade Allows Palico to steal items from monsters all the items good though I saw that and I immediately thought the items probably stink the items are good and You know, I'll get it, but all right. We'll go for that one after this one though. That's Palomoon Flying rat. Oh, he's above me. I Was like, I don't know where he is. All right. That's that was awkward. All right. I'm looking for dudes Riding on things Are they riding on the flying things or are they riding on I? Assume the the things there they were riding on were Were the things that wall They're shamos, right? They're riding around on shamos what I remember shamos Are those? Tiger the cat looking things. They're not here yet You didn't see that Get another nose So sleep toad Sometimes those toes are hilarious man. What was that? What's that? Are they on the backs? That's a shamos, right? I think so Wait, what are you doing? I already talked to you I Wonder if they just don't spawn all the time That possibly could be it because this is pretty straightforward. I mean In terms of them being in zone 5 and zone 5 is not that difficult Let's let's look up shamos real quick Make sure I got the right creature.  I guess they want to fight I might be spinning to win a little bit here But where those dots? Falcon so that's a lot of shamos that just put the shame so maybe By me doing this, I'll trigger their spawn. I don't know. I could turn that shamoside into rations By the way, did you know that I knew that get these points as to that's not the right way I'm still looking for the dudes To trigger this All right, there's flashy boy This is where I saw a couple more like NPC indicators Like it like a show like two of them. I've already talked to her once. Oh, she gave me another one. Okay capture three wigglers If I know the wiggler is all right, let's go to let's go to map see if they can tell me what a wiggler is Probably small monsters Vest boys Raffinos I don't think they show up on the map. I think they're tiny. Oh, those are the wigglers the ones that want to get there. Okay No, no, no, no, you don't want none of this Okay, I remember the wiggler. So I used to capture those for that PlayStation event to use them as a helmet. I Need a watch color for them.  See see the indicators. There's three indicators down there. They bother me. Oh I found them. Are these the ones I'm supposed to follow They'll help for our investigation These are trap dudes the ones I just got so these aren't the right ones. I don't think Over there go over there. Oh Give me that. All right, so let me get these wigglers for this girl. They're at the beginning Should I put on oh, this isn't the right spot. This is the right spot That's that's how you press the wrong button chat Very cool. There we go. Okay, so I'm gonna hide and Get me a Are they right there? See no See what are you doing game II? See Again, no II see Click I miss I guess I wasn't close enough. All right Might have to Got one. There we go Please sir, this is not the time. Oh my gosh, can you go away? Are you gone? We find some more wigglers.  I killed your family. I know you'll have to harp on it. Oh, I'm in combat Now back to the wigglers. I see y'all over there. I see y'all over there. I am too low chat Even though it told me I could capture them. I Aimed a wee bit too low Got that one Hooray We're wigglers chat. All right back to the the task at hand Let's see if these guys are patrolling up here at area five Something I got to go up, right? Endemic life They're not wait Those are the bug trappers. I need to get the guys that are riding the other dudes They're not over there Why aren't they over there? I might reload it Mm-hmm Right off to see what frank wants Wasn't sure if I was supposed to do that Did that change things? Not really let's return Am I tired? Oh, yeah Hey so pal. How you doing, man? Oh, that must have been what I picked up 500 points. I needed that Okay Tailrider unity Bounty complete. Argosy is returned. I must say I got to get this horn, man. Hey Lily squid. All right So I'll have to complete delivery. It's already there and that was an extra bounty, so um Let's go back to if they spawn Let's go back to poor. Ohio and see if they spawn So now I don't see any different icons, you know I'll go up there and see if they're patrolling.  Oh good. That's good. I don't think the stream labs thing did I'm glad stream elements does Shows you local time Okay, this way Drop down Hi I gotta kill you once I talk to these dudes So hold that thought flashy boy What is this? What would that icon meant like he was carrying something Interesting Interesting You know what they might be underground the screenshot doesn't look like this Those are the bug trappers though No Maybe the screenshot was taken at night That could be it I don't like the noise they're making it bothers me It makes me very uncomfortable So I've already oh, hello I've already rezoned This face is broken That or the garden mama Seem everybody everybody seems everybody wants to come up here with me Do I think I will ever return to early streams? I don't know It's like twitch man. Where whichever way the wind blows This looks like the area the screenshot was taken in Um It's like twitch man. It's just things change You have to change with it.  I like eating. All right. They're not here Although I mean this really this is a screenshot. I'm talking about I'll get a better web server do Actually, that's not the screens in that screenshot. It's up here It seems darker than what I was just in


day of the reading rush challenge of 2020 and I am super excited. I debated on staying up until midnight last night but I haven't been sleeping well so I decided that no I am going to sleep before this readathon because I don't know how much sleep I'll be getting throughout the readathon. So I am super excited today. It's the first day. If you watched my TBR video then you know that I only own one physical copy of one of the books and that is The Secret Garden and this is also the book that I'm using for like four challenges I think for a majority of the challenges and it could qualify for more of them but I'm not just gonna do one book I am gonna actually try and do more than one because that would just be nice. In this video this since this is day one I'm also going to have all of the video challenges in this vlog as well and so one of the challenges the second one was actually to match your outfit to your book and I figured it'd be really hard to match my outfit to one of the audiobooks I'm listening to because they're on my phone and so it just wouldn't really get that same you know like actually matching something but I do not have a lot of bright yellow clothing items like the closest I had was like this mustard dress and I was like you know I'm good for a dress today so this is the best that I could do literally like this was the best that I could do was just this plain yellow dress to match this mostly yellow button I also don't have a lot of flower accessories so I tried but I think this challenge was a little bit of a failure for me but of course I had to choose a book with a bright yellow cover and I have nothing else yellow in my closet not even anything like wintery or warm like I just don't and of course I love drinking tea as do many other book dragons and so I will go ahead and put in a clip of me making tea as that is the first challenge and tea is good tea is great so here you go the last challenge is an interesting one because it's your favorite book memory share your favorite book memory and here's the thing is that I don't have a lot of book memories just because I have a horrible memory so I don't really remember most things but there is one interesting story that comes to mind and I'm warning you now it's a little bit of a deeper story so when I was growing up when I was a lot younger my parents loved listening to audiobooks but this was like before they could do it on their phone or before they either of them owned headphones so they would always get the CDs from the library and put them into our CD player and so when my mom is cleaning the house and listening to an audiobook everyone is listening to the audiobook because she's listening to it through our big old CD player and a lot of times she's moving throughout the house you know she's cleaning the upstairs bathroom she cleans downstairs bathroom she cleans this room so it's like if my mom's listening to an audiobook everyone is listening to an audiobook and in winter you know even before winter as soon as like November hits my mother starts listening to a Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens every single year and here's the thing she doesn't just listen to it once in November she listens to it on a loop until February I am not kidding here I've heard her listen to it in November and I have heard her listen to it in January and throughout all of December in between so I have listened to just bits and pieces and random orders of a Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens because of my mother's obsession with listening to the audiobook for three months and that was something that me and my brother were always like oh mom not again you do this every year and you do it for so long we're sick and tired we would always joke about that and we'd be like oh my word I am so sick of this I'm going to find headphones and plug it into something else and then so I am about to head into my sophomore year of university but before I was a freshman I took a gap year between high school and university and in this gap year I went to a foreign country for a year where I was an English teacher and so I went to Kyrgyzstan which is a small country in Central Asia it's underneath Kazakhstan which is a huge country which is underneath Russia and it's right next to China and it's like above India it's literally the most central country in Central Asia and it's not very big so I went there with who is now my fiance and we were English teachers and they speak Russian there I hadn't learned any Russian before going there but I was enrolled in Russian courses while I was there so we were there technically as like missionaries but doing missionary work was illegal in Kyrgyzstan so we were there officially as English teachers and as students but we were sent from a missionary group I am a Christian so I'm just going to clear that up but our main goal was not and I do want to be clear that even though I was a Christian missionary my main goal was not to convert people it was to support people because there would be kids and hard family situations because they were Christian rather than some other religion or even non-religious so I was there to support them not to evangelize or to press my faith upon people that's a huge like misconception that people have of missionaries is that all they do is they go out to the world to try and convert people to their religion not always sometimes yes I won't say that nobody does that sometimes yes but that's not what I was doing anyway back to the story so we were there and it was winter months I think it was November like the end of November early December and I decided to join the music team at my church in the capital city of Bishkek and it was an English speaking church it was a church made up of missionaries with a few local people but it was mostly for the foreigners passing through or missionaries who were there for a long term and so I decided to join the praise team during the music team but what I did not realize was that I needed to have a religious certificate or a religious visa to allow me to practice my religion the the church that we were in was on private property and we owned the property but it was it was still consider practicing your faith in a public or non-private area and I didn't know this so I and really no one really knew of this because it's not something that's talked about at all so one day I was and I was actually in training to be a music leader to lead my own team for Sundays one day but one day my mentor and I were leading our group in in the service and there was a morning service and then there is a second service and so in between those services we one of the secretaries of the church approached us and said you need to talk to some people right now and I looked at my mentor who's also from England like like I said this is an all like missionaries church like there's me an American there's my mentor who's from England there is our pastor from Canada our other pastor from Brazil and so like yeah so we're pulled aside into a room and we were then made aware that what we were doing was illegal and that we could be arrested and deported just for singing some songs in front of other people who are already Christians who went there of their own free will and we were held in that room for a little more than two hours and it was really hard because they didn't speak English and I didn't speak Russian so our secretary who was a local curgis was translating back and forth for us and we're all sitting here like I didn't know I need a religious visa I just have a student visa and so they were threatening us with deportation with arresting us and and acting these punishments on us and our pastor bless him just completely was like don't like do anything to them because they have student visas they're here to learn I was telling them to sing I was telling them to do these things and he just completely like threw himself under the bus for us and once he convinced them of that they let us go. Luckily all we got was a small fine all the church was with small find because we were in process of getting paperwork for some people I don't know it was like a whole thing but like we ended up being okay our pastor was okay no one was allowed to do any religious activity so no singing no praying no sermons nothing unless they were a local person and like I said there were very few local people in the church so we struggled for a little bit but it was okay but I was so completely frazzled by this experience I had traveled before but never for a long period of time and I'd never been threatened with being arrested or deportation and it and we were only halfway through a year there so I was like oh no what am I gonna do and I was just I was having a very hard time and so what I did as soon as I got home got and with getting home for me was half an hour walk and then an hour on a public bus to get to where I was living so the journey to get to the church wasn't exactly around the corner as I lived a couple cities away first thing that I did I was like oh someone told me that there was a library with English books books in English so I was like I'm gonna check that out and go to books for my comfort because I don't know what else to do and I went into that library and one of the biggest books I saw that caught my eye was a complete works of Charles Dickens which included a Christmas Carol so I was like you know what I really miss my family right now I can't talk to them about what happened in fear of my media being monitored I couldn't FaceTime with them and tell them this I couldn't send an email I couldn't do anything like that so this was just kind of sitting on my chest and when I saw Christmas Carol I immediately went I immediately remembered all those times that my mom played the audiobook around the house for three months during the Christmas season and it was hard enough because Christmas was coming up and I wasn't gonna be with my family for the first time for Christmas like that's always just a hard thing so I got that book and I read it for the first time all the way through on my own and it brought me so much comfort and it meant a lot to me in that moment and it still does and now every year I I don't know if I'm going to read it every year now that you know I'm in university and I'm away from my family but it definitely whenever I'm missing home that's always the book to turn to because it had such a presence in my upbringing and it just reminds me of home when the weather is cold so that that is I don't know why it's not exactly my favorite book memory but it also it's probably the most meaningful book memory that I have just cuz it definitely got me through this experience I my at the time at the time boyfriend but now fiancee and I were thinking you know what if we were to just ask to go home for Christmas and then never come back that didn't happen we did come back we were still able to actually go home for Christmas but we did end up coming back anyway um so yeah I don't that's that's kind of my most memorable most comforting book memory that I have I don't know it's anymore I have completed the three challenges now to the best of my ability and so I am going to make some phone calls and then I'm finally going to go outside and start reading as it's been raining quite a bit this past weekend so I'm hoping that like since it's not raining right now I can go outside and start reading this outside so yeah that's exactly what I'm gonna do I'm gonna start reading the secret garden in my own garden so I'll catch up with you guys later so I am on my way to a doctor's appointment and they asked me to be there 20 minutes early so I'm sitting here thinking I can get the paperwork done very quickly I'll have time to read so I'm gonna leave in just a couple minutes I'm gonna sit here on my front porch and do a little bit of reading until it's time to leave and then hopefully when I get there I can do some reading as I wait because I am mostly healthy except for exactly what I need the appointment for so hopefully the forms will be quick and easy I don't have COVID at least I haven't had any symptoms or been exposed to someone who has tested positive so hopefully that'll all go well and I can finally get some reading done so just like in my normal read-a-thon fashion it's six o'clock day one I have read 14 pages of the secret garden I was able to read like the first chapter and a half at the doctor's office so and I haven't listened to any of the audiobooks I got two audiobooks for this I haven't listened to either of those yet so I have not gotten off to a great start with this like I said it's six o'clock I'm going to I'm gonna eat dinner I'm going to really try and get last month's video up because my computer has just been refusing to get the video out of the editing program and onto the computer so I can upload it so I'm gonna try and do some work with that and then once the that's done I'm gonna upload this vlog so while day one isn't officially over I am saying that this is all for day one vlog and that I didn't do very much physical reading but I hope to listen to an audiobook more for the rest of today so I tried and I will catch up with you guys for tomorrow for a day two of this reading vlog if you want to follow my reading blogs if you want to follow my journey and follow these blogs feel free to click the subscribe button and even share to other people who love watching reading blogs like this like the video as I will continue to be doing the challenges I've yet to do the Instagram challenge so I'm hoping to do that tonight and yeah I'm gonna be doing one of their other video challenges was to make a video doing the rush to reading tag so I will be filming that hopefully in a day or so and get it edited and uploaded if I can figure out this whole problem so there we go that that's all I'm gonna say I will catch up with you guys tomorrow in another video happy reading