Level nine or level 19. These are two different levels that we currently consider the meta in stepping whenever you get to either of these levels You're going to face a big decision because it's probably going to cost you a few days of earnings in order to upgrade for level 10 It is 30 GST and 30 GMT and for level 20. It is 60 GST and 60 GMT So in today's video, we're going to break down both of these levels and settle it once and for all Which one should you upgrade to level 9 or level 19? What's up guys?  I'm here to show you guys everything that I know so that you avoid doing all the mistakes that I made So let's go ahead and jump right into it So if you guys have watched my previous video stepping fastest return on an investment strategy Then you know that the fastest current ROI if you want to break even as fast as possible is if you buy a level 9 jogger Now remember, I'm only focusing on joggers as it's right in the middle It's the shoe most desired by the overall community So if you use runners, you could probably get to ROI even faster than that since they earn more and they're cheaper However, you will also remember that level 9 was probably the next best bang for your buck when buying a sneaker and the difference in amount of times to break even wasn't that far apart So the question became what level shoe should you start with a level 9 or a level 19? So of course, I broke all the numbers down for you guys. I like to Visualize it in an Excel spreadsheet. So in these two scenarios, we're going to assume that one person bought a level 9 sneaker The other person bought a level 19 sneaker I looked for sneakers as close to floor prices as possible with decent base stats So the level 9 is sitting around 14.35. The level 19 is sitting around 25 sole So if you divide it by GST, the current prices are 271 for the level 9 and 472 for the level 19. So the level 9 sneaker has 36 Efficiency it's earning 11.1 GST per day. The repair costs are at around 2.05 Which gives us a net daily earnings of 9.05 per day on the other side of things the level 19 has 72 efficiency 15.7 daily earnings per day minus the 2.4 repair costs puts it at 13.3 net daily earnings per day in GST So as these two are off to the races, you can see I highlighted Exactly where both of them hit the break even mark on the level 9 shoe. You're breaking even on day 30 where you hit 271.5 GST earn remember what we needed was 271.39 So we actually break into profit on that day on the other side of things it takes 36 days for the level 19 sneaker to break even you see that on day 36 We hit 478.8 and our break even price is 472.81 so what we did is just continued it for an extra 30 days just to see the gap between the both of them So on day 60, the level 9 sneaker had earned 543 GST overall while the level 19 sneaker had earned 798 GST overall So on day 60 the level 9 shoe actually doubles your investment So you make a 100% return profit on your upfront investment by day 60 on the level 9 shoe on the level 19 sneaker by day 60 You've made a 69% profit on your upfront investment So although the level 9 has a higher profit percentage by day 60 the level 19 clearly outperformed by day 60 as it Makes 47% more GST within the 60-day period So what this decision comes down to on your starting sneaker is whether or not you have the upfront capital to pretty much spend Around a thousand dollars more to get to a level 19 sneaker Versus starting at a level 9 sneaker because even though the level 9 gets you to ROI a lot faster The level 19 is not far behind So in this next example, we're gonna take a look at two different case scenarios now since level 9 sneakers are cheaper I think it's more common that a lot more people will end up starting there So if you're one of those guys that start at the level 9 sneaker now, there's another choice Do you level up with your earnings to level 19 or do you stay at level 9? So in this scenario, what we're doing is using the same sneaker But in one scenario, we're assuming there's no upgrades in the second scenario We're assuming that we're upgrading every time that we have the amount of GST Available from what we've earned so on the left we have the sneaker that we're not upgrading at all We're just cashing in until we hit break even and you can see that it takes exactly 30 days here on day 30 We're breaking even with our level 9 sneaker that we did not upgrade now If we take a look at the same scenario except now we're upgrading every time that we have the funds available You will see that it will take five days before we can get that level 10 upgrade because remember it's 30 GST and 30 GMT The next day we get up to 11 on days 8 9 and 10 We're able to hit 12 13 and 14 two weeks in we're able to hit level 17 And by the 17th day we're able to finally hit level 19 So basically on day 17 we're only at 4 GST earned Because we've spent everything else and on the same day on a level 9 sneaker. That's not upgrading They would have 153 GST earned so on day 30 when the level 9 sneaker hits break even We are still not at break even but we have stacked 176.9 GST by then And if we continue down you will see that only about a week later on day 38 We're able to finally break even on our investment So on the day that we break even the level 9 sneaker has 343.9 GST earned versus our 283.3 Now if we continue down to see how many days it actually takes before the level 19 sneaker overtakes the level 9 sneaker you will see that that happens on day 53 On day 53 the level 9 sneaker is at 479 while the level 19 upgraded sneaker is at 482 So by the day you hit the second month the level 19 sneaker has already taken off And you just continue down to the third month you will see the difference 814 GST versus 974.9 GST And that gap just continues to get bigger and bigger and bigger So again it comes down to how much of a difference does that extra week before getting your break even make to you How important is that to you? Because in the longer term level 19 is definitely better than staying at level 9 Now the scenario where that can change is if you're trying to get to maybe 3 sneakers as fast as possible Alright guys so this is the last scenario that we're going to do And this one we're going to be assuming that again we're starting off at 1 level 9 sneaker in both scenarios 1 level 9 is not going to upgrade and is only focusing on getting to 3 sneakers as fast as possible The second level 9 sneaker is going to upgrade all the way to level 19 And then try to get to 3 sneakers as fast as possible Now before I show you which of these get to 3 sneakers faster Make sure to smash that subscribe button If you guys love making money and crypto through play to earn, move to earn, trading, passive income Or maybe you just want to stay up to date with the latest crypto trends Then smash that subscribe button I upload a video almost every single day about these topics So make sure to subscribe to never miss another opportunity to make money in crypto again In addition to that I try to answer every single DM that I get on Instagram And I also try to answer all the comments that I get on the YouTube channel So leave a comment below if you have any questions regarding anything in this video Also don't forget to follow me on Twitter where we're giving out activation codes almost daily Last week we gave away 13 activation codes So make sure to follow us on Twitter So as I've been making this video the prices have changed a little bit So bear with me Now the GST break even price for these examples are going to be at 286 vs 271 When we first started this video So this shows you how fast numbers can change Due to price fluctuations in the market These numbers will always be different from the time that I make this video to the time that you watch this video So this is just to give you a basic idea Alright so here we go So on the left side we're not upgrading at all We're keeping it level 9 and going straight for 3 shoes On the right side we're starting off at level 9 as well But we're upgrading to level 19 and then going to 3 shoes So as we start you can see right away the first one to hit a second sneaker Is indeed the level 9 that has not upgraded By day 32 he's hitting break even using that money to buy a second sneaker The second sneaker we're making sure that it has one mint only And we're assuming that the first sneaker has two mints Because two mints will be cheaper than one mint So next let's see what happens with the shoe on the right scenario that upgraded from 9 to 19 So you can see that not far after Actually only one week later on day 39 We're able to hit break even to get that second shoe with one mint on it So now both scenarios on day 39 We both have a two mint shoe and a one mint shoe Now what we're going to do is save up to mint the two shoes together And get that third shoe which gets us of course to 3 And doubles up our energy So now what we're going to do here to figure this out We're going to assume, I know that now we have a dynamic mint cost But we're going to just assume that the mint cost is 125 GST, 125 GMT So those two together brings the total of the mint cost in GST to 193.65 So that's the number that we're going to aim for So as we continue down You will see something very interesting indeed Both of the shoes are able to mint on the same day to get that third sneaker So on day 54, the level 9 shoe mints and gets its third sneaker And on day 54, the level 19 shoe mints and gets its third sneaker So now we update the earnings for that You can see that the level 9 with three sneakers now earning 18.1 per day While the level 19 with three sneakers is earning 26.6 per day Stretch that out until day 90 here Just so that we can get an idea of how big the gap becomes and how quickly You can see that by day nightly The level 9 three sneaker scenario has accumulated 651 GST While the level 19 three sneaker scenario has accumulated 957.6 GST Another crazy thing is that by day 90 the level 19 three sneaker scenario Has again outgained the level 9 sneaker by 47 percent So now to sum it up, if you're debating between a level 9 or level 19 to start You can see that days to break even is almost alike It's only basically a seven day one week difference And in the long term level 19 wins by a lot Now the only con about a level 19 is that it comes with a heftier price tag You might need to pay up maybe around $1,000 more than for a level 9 So if you don't have that extra thousand dollars You just want to start out at level 9 Then your next question will be Okay, should I just stay at level 9 and recoup my investment Or should I level up to level 19 and then recoup my investment So again when we broke it down It was about 30 days to recoup your investment on a level 9 If you did not upgrade and 38 days to recoup your investment If you did upgrade to level 19 By day 53 the level 19 sneaker surpasses the level 9 sneaker And by day 90 you can see that the level 19 sneaker is now far and beyond What the level 9 sneaker is making at that point So if you were to ask me should you level up or not For a seven day difference Yes, I am definitely going to be recommending to level up to level 19 One week is not really going to make much of a difference If you can survive a month I'm sure you can survive one extra week Then the final scenario, the final question is Should I just stay at level 9 and get to three sneakers as soon as possible Or should I get my level 9 sneaker upgraded up to level 19 And then get to three sneakers as soon as possible So looking at the numbers it will take you about 32 days to get your second sneaker And about 39 days to get your second sneaker on the level 19 So after running the numbers on the level 9 sneaker It will take you about 32 days to get to your second sneaker And on the level 9 that we upgrade to level 19 It will take you about 39 days to get to your second sneaker So again, it's only a seven day difference And then to get to our third sneaker which we are minting It takes both scenarios the same amount of time which is 54 days And then if you play it out for another month The scenario where you upgraded first to level 19 Before getting your three sneakers outperforms the scenario Where you just stayed at level 9 to get to three sneakers by 47% So again, the winner in this round is level 19 Now that I've run the numbers I don't think there's any reason for anyone to stay at level 9 The only reason to stay at level 9 is to get to break even as fast as possible But does a week really make a big difference to you? That's what you're going to have to decide So we've gone over all the numbers, we've gone over several different scenarios And the winner of this debate seems to be clear to me The winner between level 9 and level 19 is... Level 19 Leveling up to level 19 is by far the superior strategy Whether you start at level 19 or you buy at level 9 And upgrade as soon as possible to level 19 Then upgrade as soon as possible to three sneakers Level 19 wins time and time again Thank you so much for watching this video guys I hope you guys really enjoyed it I put a lot of time and effort into this Don't forget that on May 25th I am doing a live meetup event in Miami, Florida It is officially the first step in live event in the United States So I'm hoping to see all of you guys there and meet a bunch of you I've created some really sick t-shirts to give out We'll have music, refreshments, and we'll even be giving away some GST to a few lucky winners If you guys are new to stepping Don't forget to check all the other guides that I have created already for you guys If you click on playlist and click on the stepping guide playlist You will see every single guide that I have created for you guys right here This will literally take you from knowing nothing about stepping to being a stepping expert You won't know everything that I know If you still need an activation code, don't forget to go to the Twitter, BitcoinXDaily We are giving away activation codes every day Last week we gave away 13 activation codes This week we will be doing more of the same And if any of you guys want to donate your activation codes Just send me a DM with the activation codes so that we can give it away And last but not least, every Saturday morning we are now doing a step in community podcast We will be doing this on JamesWorks Twitch channel That's twitch.tv slash JamesWork We will be going live every Saturday morning around 10am EST Or after the end of the weekly AMAs So make sure to tune in and check us out there as well Alright guys, that's all I got for you today Thank you for tuning in I will see you guys on the next one As always, peace and love


First, what's next for the U.S. economy? Several indicators show the recovery is underway, albeit slow. What will it take to build up momentum, or could the economy slip again? Joining us now to go inside the research is Michael Brandel, assistant clinical professor of finance at Ohio State Fisher College of Business. Michael, thanks for joining us. Pleasure. A tall order that you have to answer to there. You know, January is always the state of things, the state of the union, the state of the state, the state of the economy, looking into 2012. What do you think? There's a lot of uncertainty, and that becomes the biggest problem. We've got uncertainty about what's going to happen in Europe. I mean, we talk about that we live in a global economy, and we're feeling the impact of it right now. So there's a lot of things that are really beyond our control and really be able to fully anticipate what's going to happen. So you've got to worry about what's going around the rest of the world, and we have to worry about those consumers. 70% of the U.S. economy, remember, is household spending. And consumers are on edge right now, worried about what's going to happen at their job, what's going to happen about the future. A lot of unknowns. Let's talk about where we've been and where we're heading. I don't think we want to go back to where we've been at some points, you know, here all the time that March of 2009 was kind of that low point, started in 2007, and then the spring of 2009 was kind of our low point. Since then, it's been a slow growth with hiccups along the way. Is it those hiccups that scare people off? It is, and we're seeing what's oftentimes referred to as the jobless recovery. The economy is growing. We're increasing the level of output, but we're really not seeing huge amounts of job creation. Also, what's happening is, yeah, we're getting these bumps that are coming from the rest of the world. So we have to worry about, well, just how exactly is the Eurozone going to deal with these credit problems that they have? And there can be these massive ripple effects. So we're also seeing that even when there are job openings, sometimes people don't have the skills to be able to fit the positions that are opening. So we also have to worry about these skill imbalances that exist. When we say the economy is growing, albeit slow, people out there may say, really, it is. Not in my book, but in your understanding and everything that you've seen in the indicators of 2011 looking into 2012, we are growing a little by little. We are, and remember, we've seen these green shoots before, where things look to be improving. We see some data improving. Just recently we saw the manufacturing sector looking like it's getting some life and that's very important for us here in Ohio. So we hope those things can continue and some of those green shoots can really take route and really result in a growing economy. But at this point it is very, very difficult to say with any amount of certainty that in 12 months from now we're going to be at X. But it is your thought that we need to do certain things to keep it going and one of your beliefs is that we do need to restructure our financial system, correct? Correct. What do you mean by that? One of the things we have to be careful of is when we look at the slowdown in the economy that we just don't worry about the symptoms. The lack of economic growth is a symptom. The cause, remember, is this financial crisis that we have. If you look at it, a lot of our financial system is still based in the world of the 1940s and 1950s. We don't live in 1947 anymore. But in many ways, a lot of the structure of our financial system is still based on a world that happened right after the Second World War. So we have to think about ways to get capital to entrepreneurs, to our middle-sized firms, as opposed to just continuing to subsidize the housing industry and things like that. So we're operating still under short-term fixes. Absolutely. Band-aids. This idea that the future is six months from now. It's not. What got us into this problem was a lot of that short-term thinking, just worrying about the next quarter, worrying about just what's going to happen over the next few weeks. And that is tough for a company that might be struggling out there. They have to think just about the next quarter. So what's your advice for them? And they get a lot of pressure from Wall Street to hit those earnings figures if they're a big, a publicly held company. But it becomes one of those things that what oftentimes strong leaders will do is they will avoid just trying to go along with what everyone else is doing and really think about the long-term impact of the decisions that they're making. What are some points of the long-term policy that maybe business owners out there can think about? Yeah, we've really got to think about how are we going to restructure those financial markets. The Frank Dodd Act was just a drop in the bucket and it's probably really not going to fix our problems. And we have to think about how we live in a global economy. We cannot simply just continue to change our policies without really coordinating those with what goes on around the rest of the world. Europe, Japan, Canada, Mexico, and we're all in this together. We've got to think about how our actions are going to impact everybody else. Yeah, you mentioned that global economy and things that are out of our control and what's so frustrating is that if there's an uprising of some sort from the financial sector in Greece, let's say, and then it affects our markets here in the U.S., how do we break out of that? Are we too reliant on even one country in Europe? Probably not. We need the Europeans to have a strong economy so that they can be an economic engine to help pull the rest of the world along. For so long it's just been us. The rest of the world is dependent upon the U.S. to pull the global economy. We need a strong Europe. We are all intertwined. But what that means is for a business leader is you've got to keep an eye on what's going on around the world because that will impact you here in the state of Ohio. Okay. 2012, looking forward, the biggest challenges facing companies you think maybe this year. Consumer confidence. We really have to look at what's going to happen to consumers. Are they going to be willing to undertake some of those big purchases? And the other thing we really have to worry about is the uncertainty that's coming out of Washington. A lot of uncertainty in terms of, well, what rules and regulations are we going to, our business is going to be facing over the next several years? If Congress can't agree or if Congress is going to try to completely change its focus every couple of years, creates massive amounts of uncertainty for firms, it becomes very, very difficult for business leaders. And here we have a presidential election year. A lot of people say that has a big effect on business. They have the economy. You agree. It absolutely does. And what it's doing is it's creating a huge amount of uncertainty. And market participants hate uncertainty. They'll pull back, won't undertake investments. Okay. Let's go glass half full now. The biggest opportunities for businesses in 2012. Costs are probably never going to get lower. So what firms and managers really have to think about are some of those very long-term projects. Go out and try to, if you can, get the capital now. Lock in those nice low costs because once the economy picks back up or we start to see pressure from inflation, costs of capital are going to just be going up and up and up. So think long-term. I know it's hard. It's easy to say, difficult to do. But now are some of the greatest buying opportunities and opportunities for long-term planning. All right. And we, I promise to end on a positive note. All right. Michael Brandl, thanks a lot. Thanks, Mike.


Breakfast is widely touted as not only the most important meal of the day in general, but specifically in relation to weight loss. This is not just a pop culture prescription from checkout aisle magazines, but an idea put forward by prestigious institutions, such as Johns Hopkins, NYU, Mayo Clinic, even the United States Surgeon General. Want to trim your waist? Read a headline, American Dietetic Association. Try eating breakfast. Referring to breakfast is perhaps the best-kept weight-trimming secret. But is it true? The Duke School of Medicine's health newsletter was skeptical. It's always been billed as the most important meal of the day until now. While it's widely presumed that eating breakfast protects against obesity, the belief is held up as a poster child of biased distortion of the scientific record. No one can argue that there is an association between body weight and breakfast. Studies have shown that obesity and breakfast skipping tend to go together beyond a shadow of the doubt. In fact, gratuitously so. By 1998, we already had what might be considered strong evidence of an association between breakfast skipping and obesity, but researchers continued to repeat such studies to the point of ridiculousness. This meta-analysis found that by 2011, the combined p-value had reached 10 to the negative 42. Okay, what does that mean? Why is that ridiculous? In science, p-value refers to the chance of getting a result that extreme if in fact there really was no such effect. How small a chance is 10 to the negative 42? This is how small that number is. In other words, the probability that the association between obesity and breakfast skipping was just a fluke is less than the chances of winning the lottery not once, but five times in a row and then subsequently getting struck and killed by lightning. Okay, so the association between breakfast skipping and obesity is indeed beyond question. We know the association is true. People who skip breakfast are more likely to be overweight. That's beyond a shadow of the doubt. The question, though, is whether that iron-clad relationship between breakfast skipping and obesity is actually cause and effect. To illustrate the difference between correlation and causation, let me share an example of the manipulation of science by the candy industry. The National Confectioners Association have the gall to warn parents that restricting candy may make their children fat. They justify this outlandish claim with this study that they funded, of course, that showed that candy-consuming children and adolescents were significantly less likely to be overweight and obese. The industry-funded researchers go on to imply that this exonerates candy, but what's more likely? That cutting down on candy led to obesity, or rather that obesity led to the cutting down on candy. In other words, the lower candy consumption may reflect the consequences of obesity, not the cause, as parents of obese children try to restrict treats. Similarly, the finding that those who skip breakfast tend to be heavier is equivalent to saying that those who are heavier tend to skip breakfast. It doesn't seem to be more likely that overweight individuals might just be skipping breakfast in an effort to eat less, rather than eating fewer meals somehow leading to weight gain. Now it's possible that skipping breakfast could slow your metabolism or cause you to overeat so much later in the day that you'd gain weight, but you can't know for sure until you put it to the test. Sometimes randomized controlled trials are infeasible, impossible, or unethical. I mean, to test to see if parachutes save lives, you can't exactly boot half the people off a plane without them, but you could easily randomize people to eat breakfast or not and just see what happens. And it turns out eating breakfast does not seem to affect your metabolism rate or sufficiently suppress your appetite. Most of these, 95%, found that eating breakfast tends to lead to the same or greater caloric intake over the day. Even when people ate more at lunch after skipping breakfast, they didn't tend to eat an entire breakfast worth of calories more, and so ended up eating fewer calories overall. For example, feed people about 500 calorie breakfast, and at lunch they eat about 150 calories less than those randomized to skip breakfast, but they would still end up with about a 350 calorie surplus over the breakfast skippers. Does this then translate into weight gain over time? Researchers at Brigham Young University randomized 49 women who habitually skip breakfast to either start eating breakfast or continue skipping. If breakfast somehow magically leads to weight loss, then the newly eating breakfast group should benefit. But no, compared to those who continued to skip breakfast, adding the extra meal led to hundreds more daily calories consumed and nearly a half a pound of weight gain a week. If you already eat breakfast and start skipping it, will you lose weight? We'll find out next. Where did this whole breakfast-as-a-mouth important meal of the day concept come from? The father of public relations, Edward Bernays, infamous for his torches of freedom campaign to get women to start smoking back in the 1920s, was paid by a bacon company to popularize the emblematic bacon and eggs breakfast. The role of public relations, he wrote in his book entitled Propaganda, is the, quote, conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses. Public relations specialists thereby constitute an invisible government, the true ruling power of our country. Breakfast is big business. Powerful corporate interests, such as breakfast cereal lobbying, are blamed for perpetuating myths about the importance of breakfast. This editorial in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition urged nutrition scientists to speak truth to power and challenge conventional wisdom when necessary, even when it looks like we're taking away motherhood and apple pie. Actually, the editorial concludes producing the portion size of apple pie might not be a bad idea, either. So should we break the feast and skip breakfast to lose weight? So advised to eliminate breakfast will surely pit nutrition scientists against the very strong and powerful food industry. Skipping breakfast has been described as a straightforward and feasible strategy to reduce daily calorie intake. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work. Most randomized controlled studies of breakfast skipping found no weight loss benefit to omitting breakfast. How is it possible if skipping breakfast means skipping calories? The Bath Breakfast Project, a famous series of experiments run not out of the tub, but the University of Bath in the UK, discovered a key to the mystery men and women randomized to either eat breakfast, defined as taking in at least 700 calories before 11 am or fast until noon every day. As in similar trials, the breakfast eating group ate a little less throughout the rest of the day, but still ended up with hundreds of excess daily calories over the breakfast skippers. Those who ate breakfast consume more than 500 calories a day more. I mean, over six weeks that would add up to over 20,000 extra calories, yet after six weeks both groups ended up with the exact same change in body fat. Wait, how could tens of thousands of calories just effectively disappear? If more calories were going in with no change in weight, there must have been more calories going out. And indeed, the breakfast group was found to spontaneously engage in more kind of light intensity physical activity in the mornings than the breakfast skipping group. Light intensity activities include things like casual walking, lighthouse cleaning activities, not structured exercise per se, but apparently enough extra activity to use up the bulk of those excess breakfast calories. There's a popular misconception that our body goes into energy conservation mode when we skip breakfast by slowing our metabolic rate. That does not appear to be true, but maybe our body does intuitively slow us down in other ways. When we skip breakfast, our body just doesn't seem to want to move around as much. The extra activity didn't completely make up for the added calories. We seem to still be missing about 100 daily calories, suggesting there may be another factor to account for the mystery of the MIA morning calories. Recent breakthroughs in the field of chronobiology, the study of our body's natural rhythms have unsuddled an even more sacred cow of nutrition, dogma, the concept that a calorie is a calorie. It's not just what we eat, but when we eat, same number of calories, different weight loss depending on meal timing. Just to give you a taste, the exact same number of calories at breakfast are significantly less fattening than the same number of calories eaten at supper. What? I mean that's just mind-blowing, right? A diet with a bigger breakfast causes more weight loss than the same diet with a bigger dinner, because of our circadian rhythms, morning calories don't appear to count as much as evening calories. So, maybe breakfast should indeed be the most important meal of the day, after all.


In many ways I call it a major milestone because for me, although we have signed several host country agreements, but the opening of an office in a particular country, this is the first. So it's a milestone and it coincides with my visit to Ethiopia. It also underscores the importance of Ethiopia in IFAS portfolio and offers us an opportunity to work in an agriculture related, livestock related institution where there are already many of our partners already hosted. So it creates greater opportunity for stronger partnership with the international community as well as the Government of Ethiopia.


in a highly feministic world, what does it look like to be an independent woman of God, but also have healthy submission in a relationship? I know it's so funny because I'm like, I don't see myself as highly feministic, you know what I mean? I kind of just go with him. But the world is so much that, and it can have its strengths and also its weaknesses. And so I think then again, it goes back to the first question of like dying to yourself, you know what I mean? Like, you two shall become one. Right, not individualistic. Right, exactly. And so yeah, you want, I feel like I'm a strong woman. Very strong. But also not feminine. I love the fact that he shuts the door. You know what I mean? Like these women, sometimes I'm like, why do you want to be a man? You know what I mean? Like it's awesome to have somebody take care of you. And maybe that's old school, I don't know. But so yeah, I think that the healthy submission just comes in your relationship, even with the Lord as you grow and mature and that, you know what I mean? Because you can start off so young and have all this, like I'm woman, hear me roar, kind of a thing. And then all of a sudden you get into a healthy relationship and even as you know the Lord more, it's kind of like, yeah, well, I'll roar, but I also want to roar with the believers that are around me. You know what I mean? Yeah, and I think one thing that I think I would love for you to speak into is most people I think would look at feminism and independent as like no one can tell me what to do, like I'm a woman. But I think one important thing is that you have your own individual relationship with the Lord. And you don't just write on the tail coats of your husband's relationship. And so what are ways that you have made sure that in the home and as a woman that you've established like I have a personal relationship with the Lord. And that is independent. And that is feminism. But it still like, yeah, goes into submission in a marriage. Right. And I think, yeah, having my own personal time, my own devotional time, and I've always, I've done that now as I've gotten older. I'm not up as early as I was when the kids were little because I don't have to, I can do it through the day. That sounds beautiful. She used to be up at like 4.30, 5 o'clock. Yeah, because I wanted to have that time before the kids got up and all that kind of stuff. But now it's, he's getting up earlier than I am. Because I'm old now. But yeah, so I think it's that. I think it's having friendships, not losing that part of it. But also not like going partying at the club or anything like that. But you're like, you just get healthy relationships, girlfriends, couple friends and all that kind of stuff. The only thing I would add to just expand what Jane was saying is the root word of that, feministic, the world has taken, you know, the root word of that is feminine. And the world has taken something that God created very uniquely to women of being feminine, which is a gender description and a role. And it has twisted that in a way to really communicate to a generation of women that you're not complete if you are submitted.  That doesn't mean that you can't have a career. There are women that have done that very successfully. But I do believe the priority has got to be family and it has got to be the marriage and it's got to be the home. And that's unique to the gender role that God has given to women and God has given leadership role to men. In our world, to say that is scandalous. But God said it and it hasn't changed. And a whole lot of the reasons why things are so screwed up in our world is because we're trying to stand in a place where God can say, no, I don't need to do things God's way. The greatest joy and the greatest comfort of our lives is to stand in our identity, who God's called us to be. And I have watched Jane. She is independent. I mean, she's strong. Everybody thinks she's quiet and doesn't like being on stage. That's true. But she has strong input, discernment, opinions. She pushes back when there's things that she disagrees with. Her opinion means and carries more weight with me than anybody else because she's part of me. We're one flesh and she sees things from a different perspective than I do. But yet she lets me lead and she lets me love her and she lets me do the things that God has designed a man to do which in a marriage, which is to protect, which is to provide and which is to lead. And we honor those unique roles in one another's lives and that creates synergy and it creates satisfaction. Because you need both of those to create a legacy. There is a responsibility on the man, but then the calling that the Lord has placed on women is vital to the health and peace of the home. It's huge to the family. I'm so grateful. Our kids are incredible kids. Well, they're not kids anymore. They're adults now, but they're incredible in large part because of Jane and her leadership in our home. Yep. I wouldn't ever let them not do something. You know what I mean? Like you're going to at least try it right out of fear. So, yeah. She's a great coach. Love that.


Thanks, Jen. Well, welcome again to a climate episode of the Science Circle. I seem to be developing a habit of coming back here. I wanted to talk a little bit today about natural cycles and where they fit in and where they don't fit in. And basically, currently, they don't fit in. But we'll see a little more why I go through this. One of the statements that I frequently encounter goes along the line of earth has always had climate cycles and change. And when people say that, the implication is generally, well, any climate change that occurs is just some natural happenstance. That's like saying, because you have vanilla, you can't have chocolate. The natural climate change and anthropogenic, meaning human cause climate change can both occur. Currently, it's the human cause climate change that's driving things. One of the important cycles is what's called the slow carbon cycle. And it's composed of volcanic emissions of CO2 or emissions from a mid-sea vault. So, again, it's volcanic activity. Over time, rainwater containing CO2 weathers rocks. And that weathering rocks, weathering silicate rocks, actually, brings the cations down into the ocean. It's some of the smaller sea life uses that to form calcium carbonate shells. And if you notice, the carbonate is in there. So, what we've done is removed carbon from the atmosphere-ocean system. When those perimeter die, they sink to the ocean floor. Over time, the shells are compressed to form limestone. And then ultimately, and we're talking time scales of 100 to 300 million years, that limestone is subducted along with whatever plate it's on into the mantle. I've added the comments that a colder ocean can dissolve more CO2. And ice sheets over land can slow down weathering. Basically, if you cover up the rocks, they're not accessible to the rain, which will remove part of the surface. And feel free to ask questions. I'll repeat them as I see them on the screen. I try to answer that. Basically, we've always lived in a greenhouse gas-affected world. If there were no greenhouse gases, then the atmosphere wouldn't interact at all with infrared radiation from the surface. And the temperature that would balance what the surface is currently absorbing is about minus 18 degrees centigrade. Water vapor is actually the strongest greenhouse gas, stronger than CO2 and methane. But the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere is controlled by the concentrations of carbon dioxide and methane. But you would call non-precipitating greenhouse gases. In 2010, LASA said, I'll perform dissimulation, which they zeroed out non-water greenhouse gases. The results are pretty dramatic. After 50 years, the global temperature stands at minus 21 degrees C. That's a global annual average. A decrease of 4.8 degrees C. Actually, that may be one year decrease. Atmospheric water vapor is at 10% of the control climate. Global cloud cover increases from its 58% control value to more than 75%. And the global sea ice fraction goes from 4.6% to 46.7%. Causing the planetary albedo of the Earth to also increase from approximately 29% to 41.8%. This has the effect of reducing the absorbed solar energy to further exacerbate the global cooling. At the current albedo, the radiative balance would be at minus 18 degrees C. So the increased albedo of the Earth cools at another 21 degrees C. That we live in a world with an average surface temperature of plus 15 degrees centigrade can be attributed to natural levels of non-precipitating greenhouse gases. And there's no physical reason to expect that the warming effect will disappear as we increase the concentrations of carbon dioxide. And the reference for the simulation of removing the greenhouse gases is here at the bottom by Lasus et al. Emission of infrared radiation to space occurs in the upper troposphere. And the troposphere is the part below the tropopies. So when we increase greenhouse gases, we make the atmosphere more opaque to infrared radiation. It's emitted to space from somewhat higher. And as you can see here, as you go higher in the troposphere, you go colder. So the emission of infrared radiation is strongly dependent on temperature. When you go colder, you emit less radiation. And if you were in radiative balance before with what the planet was absorbing, you're now emitting less than you're absorbing. And that could be defined as heating. It might be melting ice. It might be heating the deep ocean. But the Earth is taking on energy. To obtain balance, you have to make the new altitude, effective altitude, the same temperature as the prior altitude was. So now you need this to be that warm. And because the whole troposphere is connected by convection, you basically have to move the whole temperature profile to the right, to warmer temperatures. And that's the essence of global warming right there. If the atmosphere were isothermal, meaning all one temperature, you wouldn't have global warming from greenhouse gases. The temperature rises in the stratosphere. You're above the convective zone now. And you're into the ozone layer, which absorbs UV radiation protecting the surface of the Earth. And that absorbed radiation causes the stratosphere to heat. Now one of the interesting things with greenhouse gas warming of the troposphere is less radiation is upwelling from the troposphere into the stratosphere. And so while the troposphere heats, the stratosphere cools somewhat. Good question. Is that making sense to everyone so far? What do we have more questions? Yes, Mike. The collisions redistribute the energy is heat. The collisions also keep CO2 other than right near a source or a sink. Homogeneity is up to about 80 kilometers, which is called the homozone. And convection basically sets the temperature profile in a troposphere. Now the nitrogen and oxygen, although they're not greenhouse gases, do affect the greenhouse gas warming by broadening the lines, absorption lines due to collisions. So there is an effect from the other gases and the total pressure. There's always comments that, well, maybe it's just the sun warming the planet. Looking at this reconstruction of total solar irradiance from 1980 to nearly the present, you see the 11-year sunspot cycle or 11-year solar cycle. But there's no real trend. So the sun is not changing in a way that would be causing climate change, global warming. People have reconstructed back 400 years with much the same result based on correlation between total solar irradiance and sunspots. So basically any change at the present time is not substantially due to the or significantly due to the sun. Yes, Vic. The sun started out weaker, what they call the young sun paradox, and could very well be increasing slowly in magnitude, but like the 0.1% due to the solar cycle that Sisiji just mentioned. The Earth's orbit is not a constant. We think we just go around the sun, go around the sun. We don't really think in our time scale about the orbit of the Earth actually changes. It's perturbed mainly by Jupiter and Saturn over thousands of years. Over time, the Earth's eccentricity changes. That's high eccentricity means it's less round, low eccentricity means it's nearly round. If the eccentricity goes into sync with the precession, for instance, if the northern hemisphere summer is at the far point in a highly eccentric orbit, then you're going to get less radiation in the north hemisphere at about 60 to 65 degrees during the summer and that may be insufficient to melt the previous winter snow. If that continues each year, building up more snow over enough years, you get ice sheets. Shiloh, you had a question? Look at this top graph, which is the orbital eccentricity. Zero is about, current time is about here. In about 2,500 years we'll be reaching an eccentricity minimum, meaning the orbit will be very close to round. With a low eccentricity, you're not going to get extremes of cold or heat. The orbital basically damns out any orbital effect underneath a reconstruction and prediction of solar energy at 65 degrees north. That's an interesting effect because orbital forcing takes extremes and we aren't going to see any extremes for 50,000 years. In the paper I was reading by Berger Edel, the comment was that the last interglation that was similar to what we're in now was 400,000 years ago, not the more recent interglacials. What remains when we eliminate immediate solar variation and orbital forcing is forcing by carbon dioxide that the very rapid human cause increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration, which is a rate far faster than natural changes. CO2 makes the atmosphere more opaque, the infrared radiation. A more opaque atmosphere, meaning radiation to spaces from a higher altitude in the troposphere, it's the reverse of a satellite looking down to an inky atmosphere and basically asking how far can you see down. This is the atmosphere looking upward to space and saying at what atmosphere can I effectively see space. The higher altitude because we are still in the troposphere is colder, meaning less energy is radiated. That's your greenhouse effect right there and the surface and high altitude temperatures are tied together by convection. If you warm the upper atmosphere where you're radiating to come back into balance, you're also warming the surface and with natural CO2, this is where we've always lived, that the average temperature of the Earth has been about plus 15 degrees C and the radiative balance temperature is about minus 18 degrees C. So the natural greenhouse gases have basically kept us from freezing. Balance is regained when the whole vertical temperature profile moves to higher temperatures. So that's what I have in slides and I'm open to taking questions, comments and noting any commas. S is a G. The idea of polluting the air with reflective dust has actually been done naturally. I think that the last major event was the explosion and eruption of Pinatubo in 1991, June 1991 in the Philippines, which blew sulfate into the stratosphere with a half-life of about 13 months and increased the reflectivity of the atmosphere and a cooling, which was a natural experiment in looking at the effects of heating and cooling on cloud cover and also just the effect of a cooling that is different than the radiative heating. And thank you all for coming. It's been my pleasure.


Are things coming to an end if Frankie has his hair tied back like a complete sissy fairy boy without caring? Possibly so it's never been so obvious that the powers it be are rolling out something dangerous in the form of Faster Wi-Fi and whether we want to link these towers directly to the Toyota Corolla That's up in the air doesn't matter You know there's evidence for that and against that what logistically speaking a lot of these towers are getting rolled out now Under our noses when we're locked at home Popular petition to block rollout due to health theory Deleted to stop the spread of misinformation To stop the spread of misinformation this is absolutely Ridiculously comical if it was any more obvious we might actually have a shot at waking up the sheeple Just like those people saying non ionizing radiation isn't harmful. Hey, buddy It's radiation. All radiation is harmful British towers are being set on fire because of theories You know, it's funny the CIA actually created this term So if anyone tries to dismiss what you're saying using that term Just tell them who created it phone masks are being set alight in the UK After online theories have misleadingly linked the cell towers to the Toyota Corolla The BBC reports at least three towers were set alight within the last week And police and fire services were called to extinguish the flames if this was so wild and crazy Why are these mainstream news articles trying so hard to debunk it? Why is everyone trying so hard to convince people this is in dangerous? Thank you again for mentioning The stories I have got about that they play a role in the in the spread of the disease. That's just nonsense Dangerous nonsense as well. I'm hand over to Steve to say a little bit more about the vital importance of Knocking down this rubbish. Yes.  It's nonsense It's the worst kind of fake news The reality is that the mobile phone networks are absolutely critical to all of us particularly in a time when we are asking people to stay at home and to Not see relatives and friends But in particular those are also the phone networks that are used by our emergency services and our health workers And I'm absolutely outraged absolutely disgusted That people would be taking action against the very infrastructure that we need to respond to this health emergency It is absolute and utter rubbish infrastructure. You need to respond to this health emergency Really, is that the best you morons could come up with?  Every single cable company is working overtime to put this weaponry in place They're hiring massive amounts of technicians. Why do they need so many? Probably because these technicians are getting sick and dropping dead installing these weapons There is no justification for this being essential. Everyone already has Wi-Fi in their homes Super fast internet. Why in a time of need a time of crisis? Potential food shortage. No toilet paper. Are they installing these towers like it's nobody's business simple It's part of their surveillance system without these towers in place They can't monitor and control anyone who speaks out against the agenda and that is necessary for communism or socialism Who gives it there the same thing? Depending on how deep you look into this new technology, you'll see various negatives It could be the study where they killed a bunch of birds birds literally dropping dead out of the sky near these towers I heard cows were going crazy. They put these towers near a farm and the cattle were acting erratic Of course, you have the symptoms that resemble the Toyota Corolla dry cough fatigue General cold-like symptoms it bonkers my mind that the mainstream media is saying this new Wi-Fi isn't dangerous When every single study done on this has found the opposite I don't understand why people are saying that we should do more research When the research has been done and it's clearly dangerous this Non-ionizing argument is absolutely ridiculous because these frequencies are causing damage technology Why should we expect a shift from RF induced brain cancers to skin cancers the non ionizing RF EMF can behave like high-let ionizing radiations, which have the maximum energy deposition per unit distance It's worth noting that Yaka Manko at Al have reported that among 100 peer-reviewed studies regarding the oxidative effects of low-intensity radio frequency radiation that were available at the time of their study in general 93 confirmed that radio frequency radiation induced oxidative effects in biological systems the study literally says Non-ionizing EMF can behave like ionizing EMF and 93 out of 100 studies confirmed oxidative damage from allegedly Non-ionizing radiation here We have a study confirming that this type of radiation is associated with cancer Evaluation of the validity of a non-linear J-shaped dose response relationships in cancer induced by exposure to radio frequency electromagnetic fields there is some evidence indicating that in a similar pattern with ionizing radiation the carcinogenesis of non-ionizing RF EMF may have a non-linear dose response relationship in this paper the evidence which supports a non-linear J-shaped dose response Relationship is discussed in every single scenario more non-ionizing radiation equals more cancer Why do we have a bunch of clowns running around saying non-ionizing radiation isn't harmful? This doesn't even have to be related to the new higher frequencies Even our current cell phones are considered harmful risks to health and well-being from radio frequency Radiation emitted by cell phones and other wireless devices in the interim current knowledge provides justification for governments public health authorities and Physicians allied health professionals to warn the population that having a cell phone next to the body is harmful and to support measures to reduce all Exposures to RFR. You know, it's even more convincing There have been dozens of studies conducted on people living near the towers themselves Survey study of people living in the vicinity of cellular phone base stations The results that were obtained underline that certain complaints are experienced only in the immediate vicinity of base stations up to 10 meters for Nausea loss of appetite visual disturbances and others at greater distances from base stations up to 100 meters for irritability depressive tendencies lowering of libido and up to 200 meters for headaches sleep disturbances feeling of discomfort neurobehavioral effects among inhabitants around mobile phone base stations inhabitants living nearby mobile phone base stations are at risk for developing Neuropsychiatric problems and some changes in the performance of neurobehavioral functions either by facilitation or inhibition subjective symptoms sleeping problems and cognitive performance in subjects living near mobile phone base stations despite very low exposure to HFVMF effects on well-being and performance cannot be ruled out as shown by recently obtained experimental results however mechanisms of action at these low levels are unknown subjective symptoms related to GSM radiation for mobile phone base stations across sectional study the symptoms most related to exposure were lack of appetite lack of concentration irritability and trouble sleeping on top of this I bet I could bring up hundreds probably even thousands of studies associating various types of frequencies with different types of cancer electric magnetic Electromagnetic you name the field. We are getting cooked like chickens baked Microwaved our brains are getting fried even in our current society. This is what's happening Right now what we're being exposed to that power line a hundred feet away from me is emitting a magnetic field That is causing damage, but people are used to it that being said There's no coming back after these new towers are set up There's no need for them outside of the total control of the population to set up whatever type of crooked society They want when they turn these towers on whether it's three months from now or six months from now a year from now It's going to be very easy for them to cover up any problems with a mysterious Disease or sickness you see how easily people were convinced just by staying at home and watching the news all day No one went outside to question. What was going on the few that did are being silenced and Dismissed by the mainstream media. It's absolutely comical. We might as well be living in a fake 3d virtual world at this point So thank you guys for joining me if you could please you know support the channel like subscribe share the video as you know most people Well really no one wants to talk about this stuff So if you guys do want to support me further than that you can check out Frankie syringe meat for high quality animal foods That's always been my goal as you know animal nutrition is the key to us being you know the best physical versions of ourselves But with you know these towers set up No amount of steak is going to protect you from that type of stuff You can also go to organ supplements if you guys aren't in the u.s You can check out Frankie's naturals for minimal ingredients minimally processed hygiene and cosmetic products And you can go to Frank dash to find out calm if you guys would like to check out my book my carnivore course Or get a free carnivore diet meal plan. Thanks again for joining me guys. Hope you're doing okay


We're finally through the dog days of winter and spring where game releases are few and far between. So what do we have going on? Well, we've got 70 bucks for the excellent ratchet and client game and DLC for the Final Fantasy 7 remake and of course, there's Ghosts and goblins remake What about? No, that was delayed Yeah, there's there's nothing really at this rate. I'll have to talk to my family A year ago. We all thought 2021 was going to be insane instead now the Knicks are out of the playoffs I've got nothing going on at all There's one game though that I had my eye on all year and after playing in Necromunda hired gun I figured I make a video about it because let's be honest. We have nothing else going on When a game is great the video is really long and when game pisses me off because it's bad The video is also really long, but when a game is somewhere in between Well, then you get like 10 or 15 minutes. So let's hop to it Store Brands do maternal The last generation of games saw a steep decline in the number of mid-budget titles that got released games like I know Shadow Warrior 2 or Metro Last Light they just weren't getting made anymore Instead we moved into a period where all we get are massive safe triple-a games and Small cheap little indie games and that's a real shame because the double-a space still has a lot to offer games like Darksiders 3 Remnant from the ashes the surge to or hell blaze show that there's still a place for mid-budget titles From the moment I saw Necromunda, I figured it would be right up my alley because I like double-a games I like how they're often a tiny bit flawed I like how the lower budget makes them have to compromise because sometimes having restrictions leads to more focus in a design Necromunda is a worthy entrance into the double-a space It does a bunch of things really well and gets the big stuff right while still being janky enough to constantly remind you You're playing a game made for like 6% of what it's gonna cost to make Far Cry 6 Plus it's a pretty damn good shooter last month My son walked into living room and saw me editing video and said oh, there's the obligatory doom eternal reference And I made me realize that yeah, I do end up talking about doom eternal almost in every video It's replaced Dark Souls as the game I reference for quality doom eternal is one of the best games ever because it literally has no flaws And there are very few games we can say that about Necromunda is like a really cheap knockoff of doom eternal It's like eternal in quite a few ways aside from a fact that has many large glaring flaws But even with those flaws hired gun is a great shooter not because it does anything new But because it knows what to steal Necromunda plays like eternal and Titanfall 2 mixed with a tiny dash of destiny and a code of 40k paint sloshed over it Now Understand it is not nearly as good as any of those games because its production values are very low But if you're not going to be original at least rip off the good stuff The best way to describe it is Imagine this a team of developers in 2020 spend a week playing doom eternal Titanfall 2 and destiny 2 before using a time machine to go back to 2011 to develop a shooter for the Xbox 360 May have dated mission design and a bare bones story But it gets its gameplay right and it's surprisingly clever with its mechanics when I play games I find myself trying to work through what the thought process behind certain design decisions are for instance Despite sounding in my review like a hated Returnal I actually liked it quite a lot. In fact, I ended up getting the platinum trophy for it Which is very rare for me But so many design choices annoyed me in that game that I spent a good chunk of my time thinking about why they were even there And when you approach games like this sometimes things that aren't obvious start to make sense For instance, I'm pretty convinced that Returnal's glacial progression is less about making the game as good as possible And more about making the game last 30 hours because Sony decided they wanted to charge 70 bucks for it The beauty of Necromunda is that its design choices are all well considered It's clear the devs carefully thought through almost everything in the combat system and made choices that make sense for the problems They were trying to address It's got a bunch of very rough edges But when it comes to the actual minutes and minute combat, it's easy to see what they were going for There was a very deliberate effort to figure out exactly how to make a super high mobility FPS game work. Very few shooters really do high mobility combat There are several shooters that have wall running and long slides and Necromunda has those things Plus the Doom Eternal Dash Dodge But Necromunda pushes this forward because the developers made a conscious effort to work that high mobility Into every aspect of the combat. So that dash and wall run and double jump It's not just a means of traversal. They're actual combat mechanics The game has a few little tricks up its sleeve that makes it play fast even when you're shooting and Hired gun when you wall run or slide the game subtly throws aim assist on As you progress through the game you can level the character up to increase that aim assist even more Now aggressive aim assist normally feels shitty with a mouse But the devs here really deserve a ton of credit for hitting a perfect balance in the way it uses bullet magnetism To allow shooting while running to feel snappy and accurate The single best thing about the game is that the mobility isn't just for show The game makes enemies less accurate when you're sliding wall running jumping or dashing So using the mobility tools as often as possible is the most efficient way to avoid damage And that subtle aim assist makes it easy to shoot enemies Even when you're running on a wall or sliding across a room Those two things combine to push the player into speed and aggressiveness that are only matched by Eternal or ultra kill beyond that the game revolves around magic type abilities and managing cooldowns Tougher enemies have shields that can be broken with an electric blast groups of small enemies can be exploded with fireballs You can dash across the map and explode people and then of course there's a bullet time ability a soldier 76 auto-aim skill and a few others Each of these abilities feels like a solution to combat problems Now it's not nearly as rock-paper-scissors as something like doing maternal But it still uses the abilities in a way that requires more from the player than your average FPS game Finally necromunda takes a risk by not having regenerating health Since Halo 2 almost every shooter has moved to regenerating health with only a few exceptions Like the Wolfenstein reboot while this works in some games and others it ends up slowing the combat to a crawl and the slower Pace that comes from needing to get in cover and do nothing while you wait for your health to recharge has another side effect It makes defense and healing a passive waiting game rather than an active decision a player has to make then doom 2016 came along and completely upended shooter design by making healing Require the player to kill enemies rather than hide behind a rock or scour arenas for health packs Probably the most important decision necromunda makes is making the player actively heal at the beginning of each level You can buy a few health packs that you can use in a pinch, but the majority of healing is done by shooting things After taking damage your wrist will glow red, which means you can heal for percentage of the damage you do to enemies for a few seconds This is a pretty smart decision rather than relying on an active heal button or making the player kill enemies This system makes the game a constant back and forth You'll always be very low on health and then be forced to hunt an enemy to heal off of it It gives the combat a pretty unique sense of rhythm enemies in the game Almost all fire hitscan weapons and arrive in huge groups surrounding you from all sides This just would not work without the healing and mobility tools and the mobility tools Wouldn't work without the progression that allows you to snap your reticle on an enemy even when running on a wall It's one of the better shooters of the last few years and easily the best shooter made by a double-a developer since Bulletstorm the combat alone makes the game worth its asking price the flaws Okay, but now it's time to remember that as good as necromunda is it is not a triple-a game So I want to briefly explain the flaws so you know what you're getting into here while the game's influences are clear This is not doom eternal The game's levels are pretty great looking and they're surprisingly huge and interesting to explore But the mission design is extremely basic despite a fantastic setting You're given very little actual context for what you're doing each mission basically drops you in an awesome map And then has you shoot things on your way to the other end a bigger problem is that enemy variety is very limited While there are a bunch of different factions to fight They're all basically the same faceless dudes with guns and almost every encounter plays out about the same Because every enemy is basically the same aside from a few different heavies that you'll come across and the very rare Sniper the story is like lies very double a It's bare bones and it fails to really use the setting to tell the story of the 40k universe if you're a super fan of 40k I'm sure you'll get something out of this But with a simple manhunt plot and no text or audio logs What you have is a cool setting but very little to carry you through aside from the great combat I will say though that the story is at least carried along by good voice acting including your player character Who is pretty well done? I love this guy's voice check it out You've heard people talking about the silver talent First smartly designed as the movement and combat are and they are really smartly designed The game totally fails at some other things For instance the inventory and loot system are extremely difficult to deal with and the game does a piss-poor job Explaining it all to you like I literally did not know you can modify the guns until the third to the last mission And these mods are like super important the game could have told me that I could triple a guns magazine or Change scopes or make guns do elemental damage, but it does not do that It does not tell you all that stuff is not explains at all and is instead very deep in these confusing menus And those confusing menus are only available in one screen before you load into a mission That is the only time you can look at your inventory. I don't even understand why it's like that I had no idea how the charms and Archeo tech worked for the first ten missions I thought the loot selling screen was actually a loadout screen I thought I had a bunch of charms equipped But it turns out they actually attached to your guns and this screen here is just what you have in your inventory While this screen here is how you equip things the thing about necromunda is that everything needed for a badass Triple a FPS game is here, but it's all just like a little bit off and janky Progression is pretty well designed from a gameplay perspective But it's just clunky when it comes to actually using some of the skills and items the weapon mods system is surprisingly great But the game doesn't explain it and you have to do all of this stuff in one screen before missions It's the only time you can access your inventory Levels are huge and beautiful, but the missions you do in them are very average including the encounter design itself It's just like enemies thrown in at you The game has a bunch of replayable procedural side missions that are fun But they didn't better off working those into the campaign so they didn't feel so ancillary to the experience This game feels like at one time it was an attempt to make a dollar general brand Warhammer 40k version of destiny 2 like I'm not even sure why there is loot and stuff Combat is amazing, but the story aside from that good voice acting just isn't really very good Still necromunda is a really good little game It's so good I hope it gets THQ to take a chance of making a sequel and upping its budget Getting a top quality writing team on board and making a higher quality version of this game So here's a TLDR necromunda hired gun has a ton of flaws both big and small and The game has some weird choices, and it can be a bit confusing at times, but any game that lets me do this Well, that's a game. I'm happy I bought I'll even give you a grade for this one necromunda is a solid 75 It's well above average and its gameplay is great But it never lets you forget that you're playing a janky double-a game, and that's fine, man The world needs way more good double-a games All right I think I'm gonna do a video on the ratchet and clank game and why it proves that insomniac is now officially one of if not The best action game developer in the world, and I think I'm gonna do a video on Dungeons and Dragons dark alliance that I've been playing co-op with my son I got I got a good amount to say about that game And I'm definitely gonna do a video about why the idea of splitting America up into smaller conservative and liberal mini states is a terrible idea You don't dissolve the most powerful empire in world history because you disagree about the minimum wage or Waiting periods to buy a gun or 6% differences in the top marginal tax rate All right, that's it. Thanks for coming. I'll see you next time. Bye


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Mike Eat all starts this Saturday against Shrewsbury, must be really looking forward to it. Pre-season is all about obviously getting the minutes in, getting that togetherness there and starting to work on a few bits going towards how you intend to go about the season and we're confident that we've done that so we're looking forward to Saturday and it's obviously the first game of the season, there's that euphoria that's around it up and down the country so it's an exciting time for everybody but as I say we're confident, relaxed and calm going into it. And your squad's really looking good now, the new striker Owen Doyle is here. You must be happy now I guess getting close to your perfect 11 or your ideal 11. Obviously you do start naturally with the first game of the season on the horizon you start identifying what you see as your first 11 for that game and we've certainly had discussions around that as a staff and we're confident that whatever team we put out there on Saturday they'll go out and give a very good account themselves and a good account of the club and that's all we can ask, we make no secrets, we want to win football matches it's as simple as that but so does every other club up and down the country so how we're going to do that will be a determining factor in whether we have a successful season or not but that first game of the season is always a good kind of marker as to where you're at pre-season sometimes on both instances, both winning and losing can be a little bit false so as I say the good thing is that where Cam will compose going into that first game of the season because I've spent time with the lads now and we've gained that trust for each other a two-way thing of them to me and me to them, that reassures me going into Shrewsbury that we're in a good place, I like the feel that's around the place as I said the tempo's gone up this week in training, people look sharp there's a little bit more snapping in tackles, there's a little bit more snapping running so we're confident going into it and what challenge will Shrewsbury pose, they're a good team obviously they did very well last year and we've got a brand new team haven't we? A tough one I'll be honest, we've watched them extensively during pre-season and they're a very well organised side with a lot of threats going forward so we'll have to be aware of that, we've made the lads aware of their strengths but we've also focused a lot on ourselves because that'll be the determining factor and whether we win or lose football matches is how we go about things and what we do so we've done a lot of analysis around them but the main thing is that we've tried to work on the stuff that we see allowing us to win the game and that's what we'll do, we'll go into every game this season looking to win we'll certainly never go into a game looking for a draw or being not optimistic about what we think we can get out of it so we'll always be prepared going into games, this one's no different but going back to Shrewsbury, I think that they'll be up there again and obviously there's a couple of things happening this week that we can't control down there we can only focus on ourselves but from what I've seen of them in pre-season I expect them to have a strong season again Where will the game be won and lost on Saturday? So to be honest it's a little bit cliché but it'll be about how many times we can get into their box and create chances and score goals it's as simple as that and at the other end the same thing I think it's difficult and I don't want to give too much away at this stage obviously we've got a game plan in place we know how we intend to go and win the football match and that'll be kept under wraps and that'll be over to the players on Saturday to go and try and execute that during the game but as I said, we're well aware of the strength and what we deem as vulnerabilities of Shrewsbury like I said I don't want to give too much away but we've worked on that, they're ladding well prepared and we think we know where we can utilise areas that allow us to win the football match and if we do that then we'll come away with three points if we don't and obviously we're at the mercy of whatever happens but we're confident, that's the main thing and we're confident going into it and just lastly around 2,000 Bradford fans will make the trip in a 9,500 seat of stadium the atmosphere should be great and the support you've got is obviously what it's there to see isn't it already? Yeah absolutely and I expected nothing less regardless of who would have been sat in this seat the fans will always be there and that's the one thing that I've tried to get across to the players and I'm aware of it that as a coaching team and as players we come and go but the fans will always be there so you have a duty to represent the club in the best way possible and the best way that we can represent this club is by being hard working in everything that we do and that will certainly be shown out on the pitch and that we have the respect to the fans that we go into every game with the attitude that we're going to win that game it's as simple as that never take a backward step always driving forward and as I say at this stage I don't want to cover too much about how we will approach things you don't want to give too much away but the main thing is that we're confident and we will go down there to Shrewsbury looking to win it's as simple as that and we want to win football matches


Hey guys, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, or if you're watching this on a later date, Happy Thursday, or whatever Welcome to the third polyphonic Q&A. Before we get started I want to give a big shout out to all my patrons on Patreon. You guys help make this possible And I also want to shout out my merch. We have dope polyphonic posters if it's December 28th or whatever today is and you're still looking for Christmas presents Well, you know, but I have a polyphonic poster. They're great I've almost sold enough that I can start looking into doing a second line of posters, which would be a ton of fun So yeah, check out the posters. I put a lot of work into them. I'm really proud of them I think they look really cool. And yeah, it's a great way to support the channel. Uh once again I am off script. So this Q&A is going to be bumpy. So let's dive into the questions again Sorry if I didn't get to your question. There were a ton of questions I tried to answer a diverse set and tried to get stuff in there. So Yeah, enjoy and if you didn't get to me this time, you can always ask me stuff on twitter and I'll answer Or you can uh, hope for another Q&A, which I'll probably do in the future All right, 10 000 subs with no videos, please asked me to talk about my favorite bands I'll expand this to artists generally not just bands because a lot of my favorite artists aren't bands Bob Dylan is an all-time favorite for me Kendrick Lamar One of the bands that really influenced me and really was Seminole for me growing up was Led Zeppelin. I love Led Zeppelin Steely Dan are one of my favorites blue rodeo July talk the dead Kennedys Alexis on fire. Oh, I guess I got to put pink Floyd in my favorites David Bowie I there's there's a whole lot of artists that I like But if I needed to pick a few favorite it would probably be something like Bob Dylan Bowie Jack White Led Zeppelin Kendrick Lamar Miles Davis I don't know. There's a lot Matasia asks Do I plan on doing any videos on the following artists Frank Zappa Prince and Stevie Wonder? And I have gotten a lot of comments and questions to this effect. Yeah, probably I don't really know who I'm going to do a video on until I write the script until an angle approaches me So to answer everyone's always asking and I appreciate the request I like you guys letting me know what you want to see but generally I don't really know what I'm going to do until it's done But if they're a big interesting artist Probably someday Zambo 4816 asked if I could put together a dream group with any Instruments and members alive or dead. Who would they be? I I think the dream group is fun, but I also think that there's something to be said for how The chemistry of bands works together and the best instrumentalists playing together wouldn't necessarily be the best band So I I always find these tough to tough to listen to because if I was to put together a dream group It would probably be something like John Paul Jones on bass and keyboards Jimmy Page on guitar John Bonamond drums and I don't know maybe Robert plant as a frontman Why do I hate Brian Adams? He knows what he did. How do I think music is going to evolve from where it is now Where we're approaching a place where genre is disappearing It'll still always exist as a tool but more and more things are kind of Fading together and I think that's the future of music is It's it's not uncommon to hear acoustic guitars on a rap song to hear Metal thrown together with pop to hear all of this stuff kind of coming together and other than that I think it's hard to It's it's hard to predict where music is going to evolve to next The biggest thing is music tends to evolve With technology as new musical technologies come out They always always Kind of set the trend the electric guitar led to rock and roll The synthesizer led to the 80s the sampler helped hip hop a lot and then even digital music created the rise of edm So I think really it depends what technology comes out next so we might see More music playing with uh a eyes or things like that. I don't really know I think that's fun to speculate but impossible to tell Hendrix jimmy asks I always make videos about artists or songs that I like Are we gonna see one about something that I don't like? No, I have no desire to do anything on something. I don't like I don't think that's the role that polyphonic serves I'm not a music critic. I think music criticism is very important and I think it serves a vital role, but I think that My space is to look at the good sides of things to look at Why things are amazing and I think that Sometimes it's far too easy to say why you hate something and it's just not not for me not what I want to do with polyphonic I don't want to interject that kind of negativity into my videos. I would much rather just Celebrate good music just in good asked an interesting question Which is that I say all music has merit and he says are there examples where I think music has less merit He says say some of these newer rappers that are super generic and do it just for the money I think that it's a difficult question because I personally there's things that I personally don't enjoy But I think that saying music made for money doesn't have merit is really a problem I mean Paul McCartney and John Lennon used to sit down and say let's write a swimming pool Right and a lot of the Beatles songs were especially early Beatles is just kind of Generic pop at the time. It was really really good pop But it was pop written to make money And I think that the the idea that making music to make money You can't make good art is really really flawed because Most people won't admit it But money is a factor for a ton of musicians and a ton of musicians making great stuff So I think even these newer rappers that you say are super generic and just do it for the money. Um I've I've created things with with a commercial bend But still been proud of the work that I put in So No, I think I think if if these people are proud of what they do if they Enjoy what they do if even one person listens and thinks it's a good banger Then there's merit to it. Simon Jew asks I'm from Ottawa Was I involved in the punk scene here? If so, what are my favorite local artists? So yeah, kind of I I had a podcast that interviewed a lot of Ottawa bands For a while And I I wasn't super involved in the punk scene but I interviewed some punk bands and I went to some Ottawa punk shows and stuff I've got uh, I've got some friends that were in suits and tukes, which were a great Ottawa ska punk band shout out to them Uh, I also similar to ska really really loved the cardboard crowns. Yeah, I've got uh other other general local Ottawa groups I like um, I liked Monday. I retire a lot the adding machine. We're an amazing hip hop group from Ottawa Oh, also black denim. We're one of my favorite local Ottawa groups I never interviewed them for the podcast, but I really like black denim There's there's really a ton of great Ottawa bands. So You guys should you guys should check them out Juan Cruz Livio asks what's the definition of music for me? Is there a point in experimental music when it ceases to be music? Uh, that's a good question and again one that I don't really know the answer to I mean something like metal machine music by Lou Reed is really pushing the boundaries of what I Would consider music, but I also think that's the point of it I think it's meant to challenge our assumptions of what music is Even something like like 433. I don't actually really think is music. I think it's a really cool thought experiment Um, but I do think that for me to personally consider it music There needs to be some level of I guess for lack of a better word some level of musicality It's tough to say though. I don't know and I might cut this question Uh, kit Paulson asks do I think the album as a medium is dying or deteriorating? I think the album was dying for a while, but I think it's really starting to come back I think we're seeing uh in in hip hop a ton of artists doing really cool conceptual stuff That is undoubtedly an album stuff like what Kendrick Lamar has done and vint staples has done and things like that And then generally I think that for a while the album was dying Because of the rise of digital But now people have have understood that there's an issue there and even and even in things like even in The pop realm something like 1989 by Taylor Swift is an album in my mind. It's very cohesive and feels like an album So I think the album was dying for a little bit. Um, but I think it's really it's really coming back And I think there's people Doing cool stuff and pushing our ideas of of what the album is Gareth Fuller asks if I have any formal music training or did I just teach myself? I have some level of music training I had a great music teacher in high school that taught me a lot shout out to mr. Sheridan And I also took piano lessons Uh and have done a fair amount of reading. I did a bit of musicology in my undergrad But I'm not super formally trained in anything and a lot of the theory stuff that I do I'm kind of researching as as I go. I don't have a an intense knowledge of theory I have a cursory knowledge rock star 11 23 asked a bunch of questions But the one i'm gonna answer is he asked what are my thoughts on gredivan fleet and other bands with classic rock aesthetic Um, I think it's good. I think people are acting as if this is something new But there's always been blues rock based bands through the 80s 90s and 2000s There were ton of these classic rock uh aesthetic bands like what what was the white stripes if not that, right? Um, so I don't think it's necessarily anything new and I think they're good I think it's just continuing a long trend of of music influenced by this stuff, right? Matteo asks if I listen to classical music Sometimes I should listen to more classical music and the stuff I do listen to is Like I don't know classical that well, but there's there's some stuff. I like I like czechovsky a lot I like dvorak However, you you're supposed to pronounce his name. I always get it wrong I really like him And gustof holst is a favorite. I'm gonna do a video on the planets sometime But I don't listen to nearly enough classical if you have any good classical recommendations Let me know. Um, I want to listen to more kellen morose asks. Do I have a favorite supergroup? Yeah, the dead weather. Um, also the raconteurs also I liked them crooked vultures a lot. They were really good too And do led zeppelin count is a supergroup. I think they do Stefan asks have I thought to publish the audio track of my videos as a podcast? I don't know. Would you guys listen? Do you think there's an audience for that if I just Like straight up exported, uh, my audio tracks and put them somewhere I could do that I mean my worry there is there's weird rights with music sometimes But yeah, let me know if you guys think that you'd like that. Peter Lawson asks What's my favorite lyric of all time? Uh, it would be ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're trying to be so quiet? We sit here stranded though We're all doing our best to deny it from bob dillon's uh visions of joanna um, and then second would probably be uh Tell me what you want what you really really want. I'll tell you what I want what I really really want I really really really really want a zig a zig ah. Um, that's the spice girls So just beautiful poetry on both counts. Ethan blockster asks how do I decide on the style of my videos? I I use a lot of things a lot of the time one of my goals is to have The aesthetic contribute to the message Um, so this comes most clearly in like kind of the videos I've done on punk I have a very I try to create a diy punk style Um, I I always try to to make it so that the music I'm talking about somehow matches What I'm saying, so that's a goal and then I also there's a couple tools I use I use something called color mind to develop color schemes and it's it's a fantastic site shout out to them Uh, and I really a lot of the time I'll make a title card first like my thumbnail I'll make that first and then kind of reverse engineer that look into An aesthetic for a video. Um, and it's a lot of messing around a lot of just looking for inspiration online uh pulling from films pulling from aesthetics that I've just enjoyed before and trying to Uh, kind of imitate them myself and add my own spin on them Stephen Ross asked what am I thought on stan rogers and how the Leafs are doing The Leafs are doing great nilander signed Tavares is a leaf And is looking fantastic. I have more more subtle thoughts on this But I'm not going to get into them because there's probably like four people that are interested in my takes on the Leafs zone exits and such my thoughts on stan rogers are I'm a Drunken man on a Halifax pier the last of Barrett's privateers Uh, we'll we'll fire no guns shed no tears Etc Pierre Olivier Landry asks about favorite artists that are currently working on new stuff. Which next album release am I hype for? I I guess the biggest one. I don't even know if he's currently working, but Whatever Kendrick has coming next. He's on a run of some of the greatest albums of all time So I'm really excited to see if he can keep that going Aston Richardson asks will I be doing any more of the posters? Yes. I really want to make some more I want to make some limited runs, but also there's some logistical stuff. It'll happen eventually. I promise I'm just not sure when as people buy the original round of posters It makes it more likely that I'm going to bring new posters in sooner Oscar Mike asked a number of questions, but the one I'm going to answer is what's my most unpopular opinion about music in general Uh, I have a lot of opinions that I think would be unpopular generally Me I approach that I think all music has merit. Uh, I think is pretty unpopular But the take that the take that'll get people riled up probably is I am I am a staunch autotune defender I think I think autotune can be overused, but I think autotune is a really really cool technology That's been used to do some amazing stuff And I think people are too quick to write it off and act like it's killing music Or some bullshit I think that's all the questions that I'm going to do for today. Um, sorry if I didn't get to yours Again, hit me up on Twitter and I'll give you some answers I might try doing a live Q&A sometime if you guys would have Interest in that let me know. Um Again, just thank you guys so much for watching. I'm really excited to go into the new year of polyphonic I've hit I feel like I've hit a A new level in my editing. Um, and you're going to see that in some of the videos Coming out soon. So I'm really hyped about that. So keep an eye out for that. And in the meantime, thanks for watching liking Subscribing spreading the good word and again a huge shout out to all my patrons who help make this possible I'm a one man team So your guys financial aid really helps support me and helps pay bills and things like that Which which are important if I'm gonna keep making this content. Uh, so you guys are amazing. Thank you so much Go check out my merch and and thanks for watching. Uh, I love all of you guys. Happy holidays


And then it was just captain scoring runs. He's got it on the action with the home run in the fourth inning, his 25th of the season. There are now five guys on this team with 25 home runs. Did those numbers stand out to you?  You know, we don't rely just on one person. You know, it's a whole team. Everybody's putting the work in and trying to get better. You know, that's what shows you what we can do. Speaking of getting better, what have you thought of his development at the plate overall this season? Aaron Hicks. Oh, he's been he's been unbelievable. I think he has the most walk in the second half right now, if it's somewhere around there. But he didn't get it on base a lot. So, I mean, he shows you the plate discipline and whenever the pitch is right there, he doesn't miss it. So shows you what he's been doing this whole year. Well, guys, talked about this team is finally whole again for the first time in a long time. As far as the offense is concerned, are you starting to feel like you're closer to running on all cylinders? Oh, yeah, I mean, we're doing good.  So that's what we did today, too. You know, we just try to stay at the same rhythm and just keep going till till the end. What is having like Luke Boye time for this lineup? It seems like he's always gone up with big hits. Oh, it's awesome. You know, it's funny. He's a funny guy. It's he comes out really big, like you said. And he's hitting homers and getting good at bats in the right right situation. That's that's really good for us, too. Did he now has 24 RBIs in 31 games when he first came up here? Did you know anything about him? No, but that's what that's what teammates are for. You know, we get when he got here, we know he introduced himself. He started talking and and then we start talking about what numbers that he can put up and then he started putting numbers. So I mean, he trusts himself and he knows what he can do and he's capable of doing it. And he goes out there and work. So it's really good. How would you describe the energy you bring us? How do I describe? I mean, I mean, I only been to one NFL game, but I'll say NFL type of energy. Yeah.


what's going on guys it's your boy dpj here today with another destiny video and in today's destiny video we're going to check out what zer the agent of the nine brings to the table under 19th of june 2015 now if you guys are new to destiny and you do not know who zer is zer is a vendor who visits the tower or the wreath and with him brings along exotic armors and weapons which you can trade for strange coins and most of life now it's under wreath this week and as soon as you spoil into the wreath you want to head right and you'll see this door that's normally closed as opened and he's in the back corner let's see what he has this week now yesterday i did a prediction video i did predict he'll bring a few of the new house rules exotics let's say he thought i was all right okay oh damn i was right i got two things right not bad whatsoever i got the acd's and the kefir's things right so i'm not too bad whatsoever okay so for the titans got the acd slash the all feedback fences these will cost you 13 strange coins these ones offer 66 infrared and 46 strength mods are taking damage from a melee attack deals damage in an area around you and more super energy from melee kills increased melee speed also okay for the hunter we've got the kefir's sting these also cost him 13 strange coins these offering 96 strength sorry gain invisibility after correction in place for a short time melee attacking an enemy from behind while invisible deals deals four times the damage weird i thought that was six before must be me must be wrong uh okay increased reload speed of primary weapons and reduces melee cooldown each time you pick up an orbit of the light okay for the warlock we have starfire portal cull these offering 130 intellect also costing 13 strange coins by the way gain an additional fusion grenade k-more ammo for fusion rifles and k-more ammo for heavy weapons um weapon in a week we have the hard light exotic auto rifle not a great weapon to be honest now that named uh nerves auto rifles but still if you are a collector of exotic this is definitely one for the collection if you are struck for strange coins i probably would skip this okay we have an exotic shard costing seven strange coins this is used to upgrade your pre-existing exotic armors and weapons and we also have an exotic chest engrams this three weeks in a row now what the hell this costs in 23 months of light you'll buy this take it to the crypto and hopefully get something you want out of it but guys that is it that's what xer has brought on the 19th of june 2015 i haven't got much here i want um me personally i need the pilgrim grease for the titan i need the bones of e8 open a hunter and i need uh purified robes from the wall so for me it's just another shit week but what do you guys think is that anything you guys want let me know down below thanks for stopping by as always i hope you enjoyed the video do drop a like i do appreciate the support and please until next time post